Pub Date : 2019-09-22DOI: 10.22452/mjlis.vol24no2.7
Mohammadamin Erfanmanesh
Nowadays, Open Access Mega-Journals (OAMJs) represent a substantial part of the scholarly communication system. The current research is conducted with the aim of providing better insights into the increasingly important OAMJ phenomenon through investigation of eight reputable titles using established bibliometric methods. Results of the study showed that eight studied OAMJs were responsible for 1.87% of the total number of publication indexed in Web of Science during 2012-2016. Despite the decline in publication count of PLOS ONE over the past couple of years, it was the biggest journal in the world till 2017, when Scientific Reports overtook PLOS ONE as the most productive journal. Over 88% of the papers published in eight selected OAMJs were cited at-least once at the point in time of analysis. The highest proportions of cited and un-cited documents were seen in Scientific Reports and SpringerPlus, respectively. With regard to the three indicators, namely share of highly-cited papers, the category normalized citation impact as well as the JIF percentile, IEEE Access had by far the best performance among eight examined OAMJs. Results of the study revealed that Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Multidisciplinary Sciences, Neurosciences, Oncology and Immunology were the most commonly assigned subject categories to OAMJs’ content. The National Natural Science Foundation of China was the most important funding agency that supported the publication of around 26000 articles in eight studied OAMJs. Investigation of the geographic distribution of authors showed that the United States and China by far had the highest contribution in the content of eight studied OAMJs. There were, however, notable variations between different OAMJs.
如今，开放获取大型期刊(OAMJs)代表了学术交流系统的重要组成部分。目前的研究是为了更好地了解日益重要的OAMJ现象，通过使用既定的文献计量学方法调查八个著名的标题。研究结果表明，2012-2016年，8篇oamj收录的论文占Web of Science收录论文总数的1.87%。尽管在过去的几年里，PLOS ONE的出版数量有所下降，但在2017年之前，它一直是世界上最大的期刊，当时《科学报告》取代PLOS ONE成为最多产的期刊。在8个选定的oamj中发表的论文中，超过88%的论文在分析时至少被引用一次。被引文献和未被引文献的比例最高的分别是Scientific Reports和SpringerPlus。在高被引论文比例、类别标准化引用影响和JIF百分位数这三个指标上，IEEE Access在8个被调查的oamj中表现最好。研究结果显示，生物化学与分子生物学、多学科科学、神经科学、肿瘤学和免疫学是OAMJs内容中最常见的学科类别。中国国家自然科学基金是最重要的资助机构，在8个研究的oamj中支持了约26000篇文章的发表。对作者地理分布的调查表明，到目前为止，美国和中国在所研究的8个oamj的内容中贡献最大。然而，不同oamj之间存在显著差异。
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Pub Date : 2019-09-22DOI: 10.22452/mjlis.vol24no2.3
Y. Fassin, R. Rousseau
The objective of this paper is to show that the already existing h((3)) indicator, designed after the h-index and Kosmulski's h((2))-index, has some advantages with respect to the classical h- or h((2))-indices, when it comes to academic journal evaluation. The h((3))-index for journals is defined as the largest natural number h(3) such that the first h(3) publications each received at least (h(3))(3) citations. Because of its tough requirement it is difficult to have a high h((3))-index. Consequently, this index is more selective than the classic h and h((2))-indexes. It enjoys a greater stability and is simple to determine as it necessitates only a small number of most-cited articles of a journal and varies only every 2 to 5 years. We admit though that like many other indicators the h((3)) indicator is only PAC (Probably Approximately Correct). Yet, it is proposed as a simple and valuable alternative to the more complex and contested Journal Impact Factor.
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Pub Date : 2019-09-22DOI: 10.22452/mjlis.vol24no2.5
Jia-Fen Wu
A bibliometric analysis of scholarly articles on picture books between 1992 and 2017 portrays both the worldwide and Asian trends based on the development of picture book research for the past 26 years. The findings are based on an analysis of 21,450 references to 619 articles on picture books in 295 journals indexed by the Web of Science. Four composite themes consistently emerge from the analysis are: (a) Reading intervention for young children; (b) Toddlers' transference through picture book illustrations to the real world; (c) gender equity issues; and (d) Special education concerns. The first two themes centre on early childhood education, whereas the other two focus on human rights. The potential themes in 80 articles, taken from 65 journals, present the inherent characteristics/features found in picture book research among 12 Asian countries. Although results present four core themes that have formed worldwide on the topic over the past 26 years, there are five specific themes generated in the context of this topic in Asia, along with three common themes. Computer-assisted instruction and educational technology are seen to be a potential trend in future picture book research related to Asia.
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Pub Date : 2019-09-22DOI: 10.22452/mjlis.vol24no2.4
M. Ashiq, S. Rehman, Syeda Hina Batool
The aim of the study is to investigate the conceptions of academic library leaders’ about library leadership, library management, the best attributes for academic library leaders and the ways to develop leadership skills. A qualitative approach was used and data were collected through in-depth interviews from 15 experienced academic library leaders in Pakistan. Phenomenology was used to explore the common conceptions of the participants about library leadership, library management, smart leaders’ attributes and significant ways to develop leadership. Academic library leaders perceived that a library leader is all about being visionary and innovative, being bold, and being a knowledge worker. Majority of the participants differentiated between library leader and library manager however, others had similar conceptions about both roles. The best attributes of academic library leaders conceived by professionals are having a humanistic and charismatic personality, being a team leader, and having building relationship skills or social outreach. Humanist aspect of a leader prevails among participants’ voices and this might be an addition to the existing literature. Continuous professional development, mentorship, and being in a competitive environment are the best ways for library leadership skills development. The study would be helpful for library leaders, university management, library associations and library schools in policy making and offering of professional training and education of library leaders.
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Pub Date : 2019-09-22DOI: 10.22452/mjlis.vol24no2.1
A. Zainab, K. Kiran, Thurasamy Ramayah, N. Karim
Open source library systems are markedly a less expensive alternative to licensed library systems, but the uptake by libraries in the developing countries has been slower than expected. Focusing on the user, this study employs a human behavior analysis approach to ascertain what factors drive librarians to accept an open source library information system, specifically the Koha library system. This exploratory study is guided by two important components of technology acceptance, the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology and the User Acceptance Test. Using a survey questionnaire, data was collected from 245 librarians from five public and private university libraries and analyzed using the PLS-SEM method. Librarians’ attitude towards using technology and social influence are the key determinants of open source library system acceptance. At the same time, system quality and information quality are also two other significant predictors of librarians’ acceptance of open source technology. This study is the first to conceptually integrate technology acceptance predictors and open system success indicators, as used in user acceptance tests, to understand open source library system acceptance and use among university librarians. The identified major predictors can be used by library management to devise strategies to improve librarians’ involvement and use of open source systems.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-16DOI: 10.22452/MJLIS.VOL24NO1.7
Muhammad Ashraf Fauzi, C. Tan, R. Thurasamy, A. O. Ojo
Academics are the pillars of Institutions of Higher Learning (IHLs) where knowledge is created and shared. Willing academics will determine the quality of knowledge being shared between themselves and their students. In this research, a pilot study is conducted among academics in public IHLs, whereby the theory of planned behaviour(TPB) is adapted to study the academics’ intention to share. Responses are obtained from 45 academics out of 399 survey questionnaires sent via email. This study uses the partial least square (PLS) method where variance-based structural equation modelling (SEM) is applied. The analysed data showed that social network, attitude, management support, social media, and perceived behavioural control (PBC) are significant factors for academics’ intention to share while commitment, trust and subjective norms are not significant. Perceived cost and facilitating conditions are significant but have a negative relationship with their knowledge sharing intention. Several limitations were observed, such as the use of cross-sectionalstudy and the lack of moderating factors. This study would facilitate IHLsin identifying the relevant conditions to be addressed when appointing academics in warranting that academics would be sharing their knowledge for the benefits of the whole community, within and outside the IHLs
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Pub Date : 2019-04-16DOI: 10.22452/MJLIS.VOL24NO1.3
Peerasak Intarapaiboon, Chainarong Kesamoon
Many students usually use the unknown-item search strategies, including subject and keyword searches, to retrieve books or other materials provided in library catalogs. However, the success rates for unknown-item searching is relatively low compared with the known-item search strategies, i.e., title or author searches. In this paper, a framework for improving the unknown-item search is proposed. The main contributions of our framework concern both user's keywords and book indexing: (i) To enhance a user's keyword, the framework will select other relevant terms in a domain-related ontology; (ii) Topics expressed in course description are used as book indexing. A preliminary experiment shows that the proposed framework gives satisfactory results in terms of the numbers and the precision scores of retrieved books. Furthermore, the proposed interesting-score measure can facilitate to lift the precision levels.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-16DOI: 10.22452/MJLIS.VOL24NO1.1
Bidyarthi Dutta
This biobibliometric study highlights the major aspects of the career of the Indian librarian and information scientist, Bimal Kanti Sen. As a professional librarian, he took major initiatives toenhance practical scientometric programs in India. He has contributed 390 writings since 1964 to 2018, i.e. over 55 years,including his service and retirement period. He authored seven writings per year on an average. Of the 390 writings, 184 are research articles, which means he contributed about three papers per year consistently over hisentire career period. Other than research articles, his contributions include technical and popular articles (55, 14%), writings on terminology (48, 13%), course materials (37, 10%), books (12, 3%), letters (12, 3%), book reviews (9, 2.5%), catalogue (9, 2.5%), review articles (5, 1.3%), reports (5, 1.3%) and bibliographies (4, 1%). The year-wise distribution of authorship pattern, collaborative authors and degree of collaboration, author productivity, core journals and highly cited publications are identified in this paper. Different academic indicators of Bimal Kanti Sen are calculated on the basis of citation data available from Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar. His academic and research activitiessteadily increased with his age. His most notable research work was normalization of the Impact Factor and identifying Impact Factor of non-SCI journal. His other notable works include biobibliometric analysis, history of science, lexicography, etc. He is still academically active and continues to add to the knowledge repository.
这项生物计量学研究突出了印度图书管理员和信息科学家Bimal Kanti Sen职业生涯的主要方面。作为一名专业图书管理员，他采取了重大举措来加强印度的实用科学计量学项目。自1964年至2018年，即超过55年，包括服务期和退休期，他已经贡献了390篇作品。他平均每年写七篇文章。在390篇文章中，184篇是研究文章，这意味着在他的整个职业生涯中，他每年都会贡献大约三篇论文。除了研究文章外，他的贡献还包括技术和流行文章（55.14%）、术语著作（48.13%）、课程材料（37.10%）、书籍（12.3%）、信件（12.3%。本文确定了作者模式、合作作者和合作程度、作者生产力、核心期刊和高引用出版物的年度分布。Bimal Kanti Sen的不同学术指标是根据Web of Science、Scopus和Google Scholar的引文数据计算得出的。随着年龄的增长，他的学术和研究活动稳步增加。他最著名的研究工作是对影响因子进行规范化，并对非SCI期刊的影响因子进行识别。他的其他著名作品包括生物计量学分析、科学史、词典编纂等。他在学术上仍然活跃，并继续为知识库添砖加瓦。
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Pub Date : 2019-04-16DOI: 10.22452/MJLIS.VOL24NO1.5
A. Abrizah, Nordiana Ahmad Kharman Shah, D. Nicholas
Publication ethics are rarely taught. This paper presents research into the knowledge of scholarly publishing ethics among Malaysian early-career researchers (ECRs). This research comes from year two of a projected three-year-long study of ECRs from seven countries (China, France, Malaysia, Poland, Spain, the UK, and the US), for which semi-structured indepth interviews were conducted with study participants. For the findings reported in this paper, 12 ECRs from science and social science disciplines at five Malaysian researchintensive universities were interviewed during the period from February to June 2017. The interview record was compared with the previous year’s (2016) record to identify changes in interviewees’ responses to a set of questions on their knowledge of ethics in scholarly communication. In addition, contextual data were obtained from the CVs of the ECRs. Our findings indicate that the attitudes and behaviours of Malaysian ECRs in relation to scholarly communication ethics have changed in the passage of one year. We observed noteworthy changes in ECRs’ knowledge of unethical behaviours. As compared with data from 2016, the ECRs are more verbose in their responses on what is generally regarded as ethical and unethical in research and/or publishing practices. Authorship policies, the academic evaluation system, and the scrutiny which will keep the lid on any unethical behaviours are the most important factors bringing about the changes we observed. This paper suggests that ECRs’ manifestation of publishing ethics is gauged through their publishing practices.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-16DOI: 10.22452/MJLIS.VOL24NO1.2
Yu-Wei Changa, Mu-Hsuan Huang, Min-Jy Chiu
The number of hyperauthored articles has increased in certain disciplines; yet, little research has been conducted on hyperauthorship. Because genetics and high-energy physics are fields that exhibit hyperauthorship, this study focused on the differences and trends in the characteristics and influence of hyperauthored articles in these fields, for which articles published between 2004 and 2013 were used. The findings show that the percentage of hyperauthored articles in high-energy physics was higher than that of those in genetics. Although low small proportions of hyperauthored articles were identified in the two fields, increasing trends were observed in the annual percentages of hyperauthored articles. The average numbers of authors, institutions, and countries per hyperauthored article in high-energy physics were higher than those in genetics. Furthermore, increasing trends were identified in the annual average numbers of authors and institutions per hyperauthored article in both fields. The average numbers of citations received by hyperauthored articles were significantly greater than those of other coauthored articles in both fields. A higher percentage of hyperauthored articles in high-energy physics received more than 100 citations than did multiauthored articles. A similar phenomenon did not occur in genetics.
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