Abstract

This study analyzed how the field study has been done in the aspects of the quantity of the research works, research subjects, researchers, the organizations which supported the research expenses and so on by going through the 2,165 research papers of the leading scholarly journals in the field of Library and Information Science published in the recent 10 years. The study shows that the number of the field studies is 691 and it comprises 31.9% of the total research papers. Classifying the field studies by the types of the subject libraries, the ones about the public libraries comprise the largest proportion(35.6%) of the total papers by the number of 246. Classifying the field works by the topics, the studies on the library administration comprise the largest proportion(47.5%) of the total field studies by the number of 328. They are followed by the research on the information services, information systems and digital libraries, and finally the reading education in the listed order. Classifying the field works by the authors, the professors have written the most papers whose number is 329 and which comprise 47.6% of the total research papers. When it comes to supporting the research expenses, 145 studies were supported by the universities. and they comprise the definitely largest proportion(74.4%) of the total 195 articles supported from some organizations.