The cumulative characteristic of science has led to the practice of citation in scientific works. However, citations serve a dual purpose, not only as a means to acknowledge cumulative knowledge but also as a mechanism to substantiate empirical claims within scientific discourse. Over time, whom and what is cited among the increasing number of…

This study examines the evolution of current interests and emerging characteristics in library and information science (LIS) from Chinese iSchools, including an analysis of the LIS landscape, space distribution, citation, emerging characteristics, and collaborations. This study considers a non-parametric approach to outline the structure of the…

The importance of open access (OA) advocacy is well-documented in the literature of academic librarianship, but previous research shows that librarians' OA behaviors are less conclusive. This article compares the self-archiving practices of music librarians and musicologists to see how librarians rank in OA adoption. Availability of articles…

Although cited reference studies are common in the library and information science literature, they are rarely performed in nonacademic institutions or in the atmospheric and oceanic sciences. In this paper, we analyze more than 400,000 cited references made by authors affiliated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration between…

Although social stratification usually calls to mind the hierarchical ranking of individuals, sociology often broadly considers it the ranking of any social objects. The Treiman Socio-Economic Index (SEI), for example, provides a quantitative assessment of the hierarchical ranking of occupations. This dissertation considers the hierarchical…

Librarians regularly encounter students who struggle to understand and apply information literacy concepts. A qualitative survey administered to information literacy practitioners asked about troublesome content and analyzed results using the threshold concepts pedagogical framework first described by Jan Meyer and Ray Land. A threshold concept…

The first part of this paper traces the historical origins of two current practices of bibliographical description. There is a general lack of historical knowledge of the origins of modern practice as well as an absence of rational justification which is exemplified by today's use of quasi-facsimile transcription to represent title pages. The…

Pictorial and narrative history marking the seventy-fifth anniversary of the H. W. Wilson Company is presented in this article. (SJ)

Except where older documents are listed to preserve a series, the citations are restricted to current items. Publications of all faculty, students and staff of the Case Western Reserve School of Library Science are included. The scope of the research conducted by the personnel of the school and their interests in basic and applied approaches,…

The discussions during the two-day sessions on the ten working papers which had been previously submitted to the attendees are reported. The formal high point of the Conference came during the small group work sessions which were not recorded. Each group reported the results of its discussions, in the form of recommendations, to the final full…

The central focus of this research was to analyze the impact of ideas originating from within librarianship and information retrieval and those from other disciplines. Twelve most cited journals in librarianship and information retrieval (source specialties) were chosen for citation analysis. From these journals, 40 articles were randomly selected…

More than 2,000 documents about citations, citation analysis, citation indexes, and bibliometrics are cited in this bibliography. Some documents on communication in science, scientometrics, the science of science, and information retrieval have been included where they apply to citation indexing. Although most of the documents cited are in…

The literature of librarianship and documentation is evaluated concentrating on the periodicals looking toward a worldwide system for bibliographical control. (20 references) (Author/NH)

This work supplements a previous work, "Philosophical Aspects of Library Information Science in Retrospect." It explores Library Information Science, which deals with the facilitation of recorded knowledge, the metalibrarianship encompassing the theoretical aspects of a broad range of recorded communications, and the philosophies…

This report contains a 700 item bibliography of literature on statistical bibliography, arranged in author order. The areas covered are: citation studies, abstracts journals studies, direct literature studies with additional relevant material on user surveys, the history and sociology of science and citation structures. The period covered is from…