Schloegl C, Stock WG "Impact and relevance of LIS journals: A scientometric analysis of international and German-language LIS journals - Citation analysis versus reader survey" JASIST 55 (13): 1155-1168 NOV 2004

[Eugene Garfield]

E-mail Addresses: christian.schloegl at uni-graz.at, stocknmw at aol.com

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Title: Impact and relevance of LIS journals: A scientometric analysis of
international and German-language LIS journals - Citation analysis versus
reader survey

Author(s): Schloegl C, Stock WG

Source: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY 55 (13): 1155-1168 NOV 2004

Document Type: Article
Language: English
Cited References: 33      Times Cited: 0

Abstract:
The goal of the scientometric analysis presented in this article was to
investigate international and regional (i.e., German-language) periodicals
in the field of library and information science (LIS). This was done by
means of a citation analysis and a reader survey. For the citation analysis,
impact factor, citing half-life, number of references per article, and the
rate of self-references of a periodical were used as indicators. In
addition, the leading LIS periodicals were mapped. For the 40 international
periodicals, data were collected from ISI's Social Sciences Citation Index
Journal Citation Reports (JCR); the citations of the 10 German-language
journals were counted manually (overall 1,494 source articles with 10,520
citations). Altogether, the empirical base of the citation analysis
consisted of nearly 90,000 citations in 6,203 source articles that were
published between 1997 and 2000. The expert survey investigated reading
frequency, applicability of the journals to the job of the reader,
publication frequency, and publication preference both for all respondents
and for different groups among them (practitioners vs. scientists,
librarians vs. documentalists vs. LIS scholars, public sector vs.
information industry vs. other private company employees). The study was
conducted in spring 2002. A total of 257 questionnaires were returned by
information specialists from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Having both
citation and readership data, we performed a comparative analysis of these
two data sets. This enabled us to identify answers to questions like: Does
reading behavior correlate with the journal impact factor? Do readers prefer
journals with a short or a long half-life, or with a low or a high number of
references? Is there any difference in this matter among librarians,
documentalists, and LIS scholars?

KeyWords Plus: FOR-INFORMATION-SCIENCE; LIBRARY; RANKINGS; JASIS

Addresses: Schloegl C (reprint author), Graz Univ, Inst Sci Informat, Univ
Str 15, Graz, A-8010 Austria
Graz Univ, Inst Sci Informat, Graz, A-8010 Austria
Univ Dusseldorf, Dept Informat Sci, Dusseldorf, D-40225 Germany

Publisher: JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN, NJ 07030 USA
Subject

Category: COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SCIENCE &
LIBRARY SCIENCE

IDS Number: 860SY
ISSN: 1532-2882

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