Pub Date : 2018-03-09DOI: 10.22452/MJLIS.VOL23NO1.1
F. Baji, Z. Bigdeli, A. Parsa, Carole Haeusler
The Big6 model is a systematic approach to information problem-solving that relies upon critical thinking skills. It is the most used model for information literacy instruction in schools worldwide. Since there is a lack of information literacy skills instruction in the educational system of Iran, especially in primary schools, this research evaluates an information literacy intervention in the Iranian 6thgrade science classroom. The study employs a mixed-method explanatory design using a true experimental method with pre-test and post-tests. The qualitative phase investigated the experiences and perceptions of the experimental group. Results show that integrating the Big6 model into the primary science curriculum helps the students to improve their information literacy skills as well as gain a deeper understanding of the research process. Overall, the research contributes evidence to show the effectiveness of a collaborative teaching approach in information literacy instruction. This approach promotes positive attitudes among students towards the school library and the school librarian’s role in the educational process.
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Pub Date : 2018-03-09DOI: 10.22452/MJLIS.VOL23NO1.5
Xing Wang
This study uses the quantile regression models to explore the relationship between SCI (Science Citation Index) editorial board representation and research output of universities in the field of computer science. Quantile regression allows the investigation of the variation of the relationship between editorial board representation and research output. A total of 447 journals and 14,442 editorial board members were analysed. The results suggest that the number of editorial board members is positively and significantly related to the quantity (number of articles) and impact (total number of citations and citations per paper) of the research output from their respective universities. A deeper analysis using quantile regression, indicates that the relationship between the number of editorial board members and the research output is stronger when the university is at the higher quartile of the conditional research output distribution. In addition, to speculate on possible mechanisms behind the relationship between editorial board representation and research output, two exploratory studies based on two small samples were conducted at the individual and journal level, respectively.
{"title":"The relationship between SCI editorial board representation and university research output in the field of computer science: A quantile regression approach","authors":"Xing Wang","doi":"10.22452/MJLIS.VOL23NO1.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/MJLIS.VOL23NO1.5","url":null,"abstract":"This study uses the quantile regression models to explore the relationship between SCI (Science Citation Index) editorial board representation and research output of universities in the field of computer science. Quantile regression allows the investigation of the variation of the relationship between editorial board representation and research output. A total of 447 journals and 14,442 editorial board members were analysed. The results suggest that the number of editorial board members is positively and significantly related to the quantity (number of articles) and impact (total number of citations and citations per paper) of the research output from their respective universities. A deeper analysis using quantile regression, indicates that the relationship between the number of editorial board members and the research output is stronger when the university is at the higher quartile of the conditional research output distribution. In addition, to speculate on possible mechanisms behind the relationship between editorial board representation and research output, two exploratory studies based on two small samples were conducted at the individual and journal level, respectively.","PeriodicalId":45072,"journal":{"name":"Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2018-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49008183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-11-24DOI: 10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO3.2
Nor Azilawati Mohd Azmi, A. Noorhidawati, M. Y. I. Aspura
This study reports a comparison study between perceived importance and actual practice of guidelines for chat reference service among academic librarians. Behavioral Performance of Reference and Information Service published by the Reference and User Service Association (RUSA) was used in the development of the survey instrument. The study employed a quantitative approach to address the following research objectives: i) to determine academic librarians’ perceived importance and current practices of behavioral performance in the interaction during the chat reference service; and ii) to assess the association between academic librarians’ perceived importance and actual practices of behavioral performance in the interaction during the chat reference service. A survey was administered to 92 librarians from six academic libraries in Malaysia which providing chat reference service to their users. A response rate of 84.8 percent was achieved resulting in 78 usable questionnaires to be analysed. The finding in general demonstrates majority of the respondents rated their perceived importance higher than actual practices. The mean gap difference between perceived importants of RUSA guideline and the level of practices among librarians is beneficial to identify areas in chat reference services that need improvement. The finding could provide an empirical benchmark for evaluating chat reference services.
{"title":"Librarians’ behavioral performance on chat reference service in academic libraries: Perceived importance vs actual practices","authors":"Nor Azilawati Mohd Azmi, A. Noorhidawati, M. Y. I. Aspura","doi":"10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO3.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO3.2","url":null,"abstract":"This study reports a comparison study between perceived importance and actual practice of guidelines for chat reference service among academic librarians. Behavioral Performance of Reference and Information Service published by the Reference and User Service Association (RUSA) was used in the development of the survey instrument. The study employed a quantitative approach to address the following research objectives: i) to determine academic librarians’ perceived importance and current practices of behavioral performance in the interaction during the chat reference service; and ii) to assess the association between academic librarians’ perceived importance and actual practices of behavioral performance in the interaction during the chat reference service. A survey was administered to 92 librarians from six academic libraries in Malaysia which providing chat reference service to their users. A response rate of 84.8 percent was achieved resulting in 78 usable questionnaires to be analysed. The finding in general demonstrates majority of the respondents rated their perceived importance higher than actual practices. The mean gap difference between perceived importants of RUSA guideline and the level of practices among librarians is beneficial to identify areas in chat reference services that need improvement. The finding could provide an empirical benchmark for evaluating chat reference services.","PeriodicalId":45072,"journal":{"name":"Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2017-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43004106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-11-24DOI: 10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO3.3
M. Naveed, K. Ameen
This study investigated the psychometric properties of Information Seeking Anxiety Scale (ISAS) of postgraduate students in a Pakistani university. A 47-item ISAS was administered to 297 students, selected through stratified convenient sampling procedure, by visiting each department at the university. An eighty-five percent response rate was achieved through usable returned questionnaires. The principal component analysis (PCA) using varimax rotation yielded six-factor solution to the Information Seeking Anxiety Scale (ISAS), namely, (1) Resource Anxiety; (2) ICT Anxiety; (3) Library Anxiety; (4) Search Anxiety; (5) Mechanical Anxiety; and, (6) Thematic Anxiety. This six factors corresponded to those of Erfanmanesh, Abrizah, and Karim (2012) but differed somewhat with regard to the statements loaded on each factor. Moreover, these six-factors combined together accounted for 52.7 percent of the total variance explained. Seven item were dropped as a result of reliability analysis resulting 40-item instrument. Also, the values of Cronbach’s internal reliability coefficient alpha for overall ISAS and its sub-scales were found satisfactory as recommended by Nunnally and Bernstein (1994). These results demonstrated the psychometric soundness and stability of ISAS when tested with Pakistani postgraduate students recruited from a research-intensive university. More psychometric studies are required before drawing any sound conclusions regarding adequacy of ISAS in assessing information seeking anxiety in Pakistani information users.
{"title":"A cross-cultural evaluation of the psychometric properties of information seeking anxiety scale in Pakistani environment","authors":"M. Naveed, K. Ameen","doi":"10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO3.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO3.3","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigated the psychometric properties of Information Seeking Anxiety Scale (ISAS) of postgraduate students in a Pakistani university. A 47-item ISAS was administered to 297 students, selected through stratified convenient sampling procedure, by visiting each department at the university. An eighty-five percent response rate was achieved through usable returned questionnaires. The principal component analysis (PCA) using varimax rotation yielded six-factor solution to the Information Seeking Anxiety Scale (ISAS), namely, (1) Resource Anxiety; (2) ICT Anxiety; (3) Library Anxiety; (4) Search Anxiety; (5) Mechanical Anxiety; and, (6) Thematic Anxiety. This six factors corresponded to those of Erfanmanesh, Abrizah, and Karim (2012) but differed somewhat with regard to the statements loaded on each factor. Moreover, these six-factors combined together accounted for 52.7 percent of the total variance explained. Seven item were dropped as a result of reliability analysis resulting 40-item instrument. Also, the values of Cronbach’s internal reliability coefficient alpha for overall ISAS and its sub-scales were found satisfactory as recommended by Nunnally and Bernstein (1994). These results demonstrated the psychometric soundness and stability of ISAS when tested with Pakistani postgraduate students recruited from a research-intensive university. More psychometric studies are required before drawing any sound conclusions regarding adequacy of ISAS in assessing information seeking anxiety in Pakistani information users.","PeriodicalId":45072,"journal":{"name":"Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2017-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45098505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-11-24DOI: 10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO3.1
Chaoying Tang, Guiyang Zhang, Stefanie E. Naumann
Do central country authors of an international co-authored publication network obtain a high research impact from their international co-authored publications? This study addressed the issue by examining countries’ quantity of scientific publications. We proposed that countries with fewer scientific publications would gain more benefits from their central positions (both degree centrality and betweenness centrality) because their authors’ limited domestic scientific knowledge motivated them to share and access more knowledge during the collaborations. Data from international co-authored publications in the creativity field from 29 countries during 2000-2014 provided support for the hypotheses. Suggestions for international research collaboration policy making are discussed.
{"title":"Do central country authors of international co-authored publication networks obtain a high research impact?","authors":"Chaoying Tang, Guiyang Zhang, Stefanie E. Naumann","doi":"10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO3.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO3.1","url":null,"abstract":"Do central country authors of an international co-authored publication network obtain a high research impact from their international co-authored publications? This study addressed the issue by examining countries’ quantity of scientific publications. We proposed that countries with fewer scientific publications would gain more benefits from their central positions (both degree centrality and betweenness centrality) because their authors’ limited domestic scientific knowledge motivated them to share and access more knowledge during the collaborations. Data from international co-authored publications in the creativity field from 29 countries during 2000-2014 provided support for the hypotheses. Suggestions for international research collaboration policy making are discussed.","PeriodicalId":45072,"journal":{"name":"Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2017-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43360287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-11-24DOI: 10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO3.6
Nordiana Ahmad Kharman Shah, A. Cox
The potential of social media such as Twitter has been dubbed transformational. However, most of these effects have been studied in the political, social or technological sphere. Its impact on scholarship remains under-researched. The paper explores how academics use Twitter as part of their scholarly activities. A qualitative approach based on an interpretative methodology was adopted for the study, and data gathered through 28 semi-structured interviews with academic staff who regularly use Twitter for academic and non-academic purposes. The findings uncover the rich benefits that enthusiasts gain from use of Twitter as an information source for scholarly communication – in the context of creation, usage and sharing of scholarly information. This was manifested in academics’ information-seeking behaviour in with links to networking and collaboration as part of scientific practice.
{"title":"Uncovering the scholarly use of Twitter in the academia: Experiences in a British University","authors":"Nordiana Ahmad Kharman Shah, A. Cox","doi":"10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO3.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO3.6","url":null,"abstract":"The potential of social media such as Twitter has been dubbed transformational. However, most of these effects have been studied in the political, social or technological sphere. Its impact on scholarship remains under-researched. The paper explores how academics use Twitter as part of their scholarly activities. A qualitative approach based on an interpretative methodology was adopted for the study, and data gathered through 28 semi-structured interviews with academic staff who regularly use Twitter for academic and non-academic purposes. The findings uncover the rich benefits that enthusiasts gain from use of Twitter as an information source for scholarly communication – in the context of creation, usage and sharing of scholarly information. This was manifested in academics’ information-seeking behaviour in with links to networking and collaboration as part of scientific practice.","PeriodicalId":45072,"journal":{"name":"Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2017-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49578889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-11-24DOI: 10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO3.4
G. Dukic, D. Dukic, G. Kozina
The purpose of this study is to examine how professionals employed in libraries, museums and archives assess changes and effectiveness of change management in their organisations. The intention is also to determine the underlying factor structure of the items representing their attitudes, and to explore the relationship between the perceived success in managing change and explanatory variables. This study involved a survey of 242 employees of Croatian information institutions. Descriptive statistics, factor analysis and ordinal logistic regression were employed to answer the research questions. The results show that respondents had a mildly positive attitude towards the changes that occurred in their institutions. They are largely aware of the importance and necessity of changes. However, the responses indicate that changes are not adequately managed. Three factors, which represent the underlying dimensions of the employees’ perceptions, were determined in the analysis. It was also found that the factors reflecting attitudes towards change management practice and impact of change positively influence the assessment of the institution's success in managing change, while employees’ awareness of the necessity of change, as well as gender, age, institution type and position in the management structure appear not to be strongly related to the outcome variable. Since only a few papers have examined the perception of change management by information professionals, the present study fills the gap in this area and contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of change management theory and practice.
{"title":"Change management in information institutions","authors":"G. Dukic, D. Dukic, G. Kozina","doi":"10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO3.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO3.4","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study is to examine how professionals employed in libraries, museums and archives assess changes and effectiveness of change management in their organisations. The intention is also to determine the underlying factor structure of the items representing their attitudes, and to explore the relationship between the perceived success in managing change and explanatory variables. This study involved a survey of 242 employees of Croatian information institutions. Descriptive statistics, factor analysis and ordinal logistic regression were employed to answer the research questions. The results show that respondents had a mildly positive attitude towards the changes that occurred in their institutions. They are largely aware of the importance and necessity of changes. However, the responses indicate that changes are not adequately managed. Three factors, which represent the underlying dimensions of the employees’ perceptions, were determined in the analysis. It was also found that the factors reflecting attitudes towards change management practice and impact of change positively influence the assessment of the institution's success in managing change, while employees’ awareness of the necessity of change, as well as gender, age, institution type and position in the management structure appear not to be strongly related to the outcome variable. Since only a few papers have examined the perception of change management by information professionals, the present study fills the gap in this area and contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of change management theory and practice.","PeriodicalId":45072,"journal":{"name":"Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2017-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46536269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-11-24DOI: 10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO3.5
A. Abrizah, Jie Xu, D. Nicholas
The study is a follow up of CIBER’s exploratory research on Trust and Authority in Scholarly Communications conducted in 2012-2013, investigating Malaysia, a country currently on the ‘periphery’ of the scholarly endeavor and comparing with China, now stands 2nd globally to the USA in terms of scientific output. Over 500 Malaysian researchers were surveyed about the opinions on trustworthiness when it came to their scholarly use/reading, citing and publishing. A high proportion of respondents were affiliated to research-intensive universities, with the early career researchers and physical sciences being very well-represented. The attitudes and behaviours of Malaysian researchers were compared with an earlier study of more than 660 Chinese, the methods and questions of which were replicated from the CIBER study. Results indicate that the measures of establishing trust and authority in scholarly communication do not seem to have differed profoundly in Malaysia and China.
{"title":"Scholarly communication and matters of trust and authority: A comparative analysis of Malaysian and Chinese researchers","authors":"A. Abrizah, Jie Xu, D. Nicholas","doi":"10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO3.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO3.5","url":null,"abstract":"The study is a follow up of CIBER’s exploratory research on Trust and Authority in Scholarly Communications conducted in 2012-2013, investigating Malaysia, a country currently on the ‘periphery’ of the scholarly endeavor and comparing with China, now stands 2nd globally to the USA in terms of scientific output. Over 500 Malaysian researchers were surveyed about the opinions on trustworthiness when it came to their scholarly use/reading, citing and publishing. A high proportion of respondents were affiliated to research-intensive universities, with the early career researchers and physical sciences being very well-represented. The attitudes and behaviours of Malaysian researchers were compared with an earlier study of more than 660 Chinese, the methods and questions of which were replicated from the CIBER study. Results indicate that the measures of establishing trust and authority in scholarly communication do not seem to have differed profoundly in Malaysia and China.","PeriodicalId":45072,"journal":{"name":"Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2017-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46040640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-05-31DOI: 10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO2.5
M. Jabeen, M. Imran, Kamal Badar, Muhammad Rafiq, M. Jabeen, Liu Yun
The present study is the first of its kind as it attempts to ascertain the current status of library and information science (LIS) research from the Chinese perspective, by focusing on English research contributions by Chinese LIS scholars. Leading contributors; individual (author) contributors; institutional contributors, and research collaborations were examined. The review comprises 564 articles published in international journals indexed by Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) from 2012-2013. Co-authorship analysis and co-citation analysis were used to draw the results. The results revealed two major findings; first, the Chinese research community is engaged in focusing on cross-national collaboration to establish their existence in international literature and establish colleague relationship with foreigner researchers. USA, UK, and Belgium are the primary counterparts of international collaborative papers. Chinese institutions have eminent professors in the LIS field who incorporate international-oriented scholarly researches (48.04%) around the globe. Secondly, Chinese researchers have enough knowledge to conduct research, both as single authors (26.24%) and through internal academic collaboration between senior and junior researchers. The Chinese LIS research community has not paid much attention to conducting research on inter-institutional level (7.20%) and on inter-regional level (6.73%). Nevertheless, Wuhan University, City University Hong Kong, and Chinese Academy of Sciences have emerged as the leading institutions in producing LIS publications. Chinese immigrant scholars also have contributed to LIS China’s international scientific collaboration. It is a worthwhile and unique study as it examines the collaboration trends networks analysis of international publications by Chinese scholars
{"title":"Scientific collaboration of Library & Information Science research in China (2012-2013)","authors":"M. Jabeen, M. Imran, Kamal Badar, Muhammad Rafiq, M. Jabeen, Liu Yun","doi":"10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO2.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO2.5","url":null,"abstract":"The present study is the first of its kind as it attempts to ascertain the current status of library and information science (LIS) research from the Chinese perspective, by focusing on English research contributions by Chinese LIS scholars. Leading contributors; individual (author) contributors; institutional contributors, and research collaborations were examined. The review comprises 564 articles published in international journals indexed by Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) from 2012-2013. Co-authorship analysis and co-citation analysis were used to draw the results. The results revealed two major findings; first, the Chinese research community is engaged in focusing on cross-national collaboration to establish their existence in international literature and establish colleague relationship with foreigner researchers. USA, UK, and Belgium are the primary counterparts of international collaborative papers. Chinese institutions have eminent professors in the LIS field who incorporate international-oriented scholarly researches (48.04%) around the globe. Secondly, Chinese researchers have enough knowledge to conduct research, both as single authors (26.24%) and through internal academic collaboration between senior and junior researchers. The Chinese LIS research community has not paid much attention to conducting research on inter-institutional level (7.20%) and on inter-regional level (6.73%). Nevertheless, Wuhan University, City University Hong Kong, and Chinese Academy of Sciences have emerged as the leading institutions in producing LIS publications. Chinese immigrant scholars also have contributed to LIS China’s international scientific collaboration. It is a worthwhile and unique study as it examines the collaboration trends networks analysis of international publications by Chinese scholars","PeriodicalId":45072,"journal":{"name":"Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2017-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44722712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-05-31DOI: 10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO2.4
I. Shehatta, K. Mahmood
The present study examines Egyptian publications and research collaboration in health sciences using Thomson Reuters InCitesTM over the period of 1980-2014. Egypt, in clinical, pre-clinical and health, is ranked 44 among all countries according to the Web of Science documents (quantity) and total citations (quality). It is ranked at 40 and 55 respectively for international collaboration and the total number of highly cited papers. The total publications of Egyptian scientists in health sciences were 31 382, of which 27 693 articles were multi-authored, indicating a co-authorship ratio of 88 percent. It reveals that Egyptian scientists have a great tendency to collaborate. The collaborated papers show a greater citation impact, category normalized citation impact, and journal normalized citation impact and h-index compared to single authored papers. This reveals that the visibility and impact of co-authored papers are higher than that of single authored ones, as well as the visibility and impact of internationally co-authored publications are higher than the single authored or domestic papers. Egyptian scientists, in clinical, pre-clinical and health, had joint publications with their colleagues in 166 countries during the period under study. These countries were grouped according to geographic position, scientific capacity and economic development rate. The results show that Egypt’s main partners were USA, Saudi Arabia, Germany, England and Japan. In addition, Egyptian researchers mostly co-published with colleagues in Europe, scientifically advanced countries and high income countries. The findings could inform policy makers to develop research policies aiming to foster and support collaborations at all levels -researchers, institutions and countries.
{"title":"Bibliometric patterns and indicators of research collaboration of Egyptian health scientists: 1980","authors":"I. Shehatta, K. Mahmood","doi":"10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO2.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/MJLIS.VOL22NO2.4","url":null,"abstract":"The present study examines Egyptian publications and research collaboration in health sciences using Thomson Reuters InCitesTM over the period of 1980-2014. Egypt, in clinical, pre-clinical and health, is ranked 44 among all countries according to the Web of Science documents (quantity) and total citations (quality). It is ranked at 40 and 55 respectively for international collaboration and the total number of highly cited papers. The total publications of Egyptian scientists in health sciences were 31 382, of which 27 693 articles were multi-authored, indicating a co-authorship ratio of 88 percent. It reveals that Egyptian scientists have a great tendency to collaborate. The collaborated papers show a greater citation impact, category normalized citation impact, and journal normalized citation impact and h-index compared to single authored papers. This reveals that the visibility and impact of co-authored papers are higher than that of single authored ones, as well as the visibility and impact of internationally co-authored publications are higher than the single authored or domestic papers. Egyptian scientists, in clinical, pre-clinical and health, had joint publications with their colleagues in 166 countries during the period under study. These countries were grouped according to geographic position, scientific capacity and economic development rate. The results show that Egypt’s main partners were USA, Saudi Arabia, Germany, England and Japan. In addition, Egyptian researchers mostly co-published with colleagues in Europe, scientifically advanced countries and high income countries. The findings could inform policy makers to develop research policies aiming to foster and support collaborations at all levels -researchers, institutions and countries.","PeriodicalId":45072,"journal":{"name":"Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2017-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42426688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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