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Librarians’ contribution to global scientific production: A case study of the Scopus database (2016-2020)
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Hashem Atapour *    , Asghar Nourmohammadi , Rasoul Zavarqi |
| Department of Knowledge and Information Science, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran , hashematapour@gmail.com |
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Abstract: (324 Views) |
Background and aim: Librarians, as practitioners of Library and Information Science (LIS), by playing various roles, can contribute to the promotion of research and expansion of human knowledge. The aim of the present study was to investigate librarians' scientific publications indexed in the Scopus database between 2016 and 2020 using the scientometric approach.
Materials and methods: The present study, which was conducted using a scientometric approach, is descriptive in terms of data collection and applied in terms of the objective. The research population was all articles indexed in the Scopus database in 2016-2020 in which the word "librarian" is included in at least one of the authors’ organizational affiliations. The number of these articles amounted to 2207 after review and screening by the researchers.
Findings: In general, librarians accounted for 1.5% of the worldwide scientific production in the field of LIS. Librarians were the first, second or third author in more than 60% of the articles analyzed. Totally, 61% of the articles by librarians were published in non-LIS disciplines such as biological sciences, medicine, and computer science, and the chi-square test showed that the participation of librarians was significantly higher in non-LIS disciplines than in LIS disciplines (p<0.001). A closer examination of the articles indexed by librarians in the Scopus database in the LIS subject area showed that scientometrics, library services, databases, archives, and knowledge management were the most interesting topics for librarians with a frequency of 134, 131, 84, 75 and 59 articles, respectively.
Conclusion: Librarians as research assistants have made an important contribution to the writing of articles from non-LIS fields in recent years. Moreover, scientometrics has been one of the main topics of their research in the LIS field. |
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| Keywords: Scopus, Scientometrics, Librarian, Contribution, Scientific outputs |
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Type of Study: Orginal |
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Scientific Production
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