Asian and Pacific Region Authorship Characteristics in Leading Library and Information Science Journals

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2008

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Serials Review

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Authorship characteristics from the Asian and Pacific region in the top twenty journals in library and information science are studied. Data was collected searching the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Web of Science databases. Major findings of this study are: there are a total of 1,317 articles for the period 1967 to 2005; the most productive countries are, in rank order, Australia, China, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, New Zealand, Malaysia, Thailand and Philippines; and 77.6 percent of authors in the top twenty library and information science journals contributed a single article. Among the library science journals about 50 percent were written by multiple authors, while 73.1 percent of articles in the information science journals were written collaboratively. The most productive individual authors in the region are reported. The strongest collaboration within the region took place between Australia and China; China and Singapore; Australia and New Zealand.

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Park, Taemin Kim(2008). “Asian and Pacific Region Authorship Characteristics in Leading Library and Information Science Journals,” Serials Review, v. 34, no. 4: 243-251.http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00987913.2008.10765188

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