Comparison of Research Performance Between Domestic and International Library and Information Science Scholars

양기덕; 김선욱; 이혜경

doi:10.4275/KSLIS.2021.55.1.365

Abstract

In order to assess the state of library and information science (LIS) research in Korea, the study analyzed bibliometric data of papers published in past 18 years in Korea Citation Index (KCI) and Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) journals. The analysis of study data, which consisted of 6,301 KCI journal papers with 26,474 citations and 86,727 SSCI journal papers with 1,196,961 citations from 2002 to 2020, involved comparison of research productivity and impact, collaboration trends, and key areas of research between domestic and international LIS scholars with normalizations by units of analysis for size differences. Even with size normalization, the study found a marked difference in citation patterns between domestic and international LIS research. Korean LIS authors were twice as productive as international LIS authors but a little over a half as impactful. The results also showed a much higher level of skewness in international research, where a fraction of top authors, institutions, and journals received a lion’s share of citations. The trend of increasing co-authorship was much more pronounced among international publication, where the recent popularity of larger collaboration groups suggests multi-disciplinary and increasingly complex nature of modern LIS research in the world stage. The keyword analysis revealed a much more diverse subject area in international than domestic LIS research with a recent shift towards technology, such as big data, blockchain, and altmetrics. Keywords in SSCI journals also exhibited a less connection between popularity and impact than KCI keywords, where popular keywords did not necessarily correspond to impactful keywords.

keywords: 계량서지학, 연구성과, 공동연구, 문헌정보학, VOS뷰어, Bibliometrics, Research Performance, Collaborative Research, Library and Information Science, VOSviewer

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Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science

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Vol.55 No.1

Comparison of Research Performance Between Domestic and International Library and Information Science Scholars

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Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science