ABS: Rowlands, Patterns of scholarly communication in information policy

[Gretchen Whitney]

I. ROWLANDS: ir at is.city.ac.uk

TITLE   :       Patterns of scholarly communication in information policy: A
bibliometric study
AUTHOR  Rowlands I
JOURNAL LIBRI  49: (2) 59-70 JUN 1999

 Document type: Article    Language: English    Cited References: 35
Times Cited: 0

Abstract: This paper reports on a bibliometric investigation into the
structure and dynamics of the information policy journal literature. The
unit of analysis is a document test collection of 771 articles published
between 1972 and 1996. This test collection was compiled from records in
the multidisciplinary database Social Sciences Citation Index(R). The
investigation focuses on patterns of growth, knowledge accumulation,
ageing and obsolescence, documentary scatter and knowledge production. It
concludes that the structure and dynamics of the information policy
journal literature diverges in several respects from typical social
science literatures. Information policy is characterised by very rapid
growth, high immediacy (in Price's sense), rapid reception and ageing
processes and relatively low documentary scatter. These findings are put
in the context of related work in bibliometrics and in the sociology of
science wherever possible.

KeyWords Plus:
COCITATION ANALYSIS, CITATION ANALYSIS, SCIENCE, AUTHORSHIP, LIBRARY

Addresses:
Rowlands I, City Univ London, Dept Informat Sci, Informat Sci Programme,
Northampton Sq, London EC1V 0HB, England.
City Univ London, Dept Informat Sci, Informat Sci Programme, London EC1V
0HB, England.

Publisher:
MUNKSGAARD INT PUBL LTD, COPENHAGEN

IDS Number:
216TK

ISSN:
0024-2667

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