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COLLNET 2014, 10th International Conference on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics, 3-5 September 2014, Ilmenau, Germany

Umut Al , İrem Soydal, Umut Sezen & Orçun Madran

{umutal, soydal, u.sezen, omadran}@hacettepe.edu.tr

The Impact of Turkey in the Library

and Information Science Literature

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Outline

 LIS in Turkey

 Related literature

 Methodology

 Findings

 Contribution of Turkey to the LIS literature

 Publishing journals

 Citing journals

 Citing countries

 Conclusion

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LIS in Turkey

 Reports affected the development of LIS in Turkey

 John Dewey (1924)

 Lawrence S. Thompson (1952)

 Report of Libraries Committee (1961)

 1954 => First LIS Bachelor’s program in Turkey

 Ankara University

 Librarianship => Information Management (2002)

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LIS in Turkey

 Departments of Information Management

 Ankara (1954)

 Atatürk (1994)

 Çankırı Karatekin (2010)

 Hacettepe (1972)

 İstanbul (1963)

 Kastamonu (2007)

 Marmara (1987)

 Yıldırım Beyazıt (2011)

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Related Literature

 Bibliometric characteristics of single LIS journal

(Bonnevie, 2003; Furner, 2009; Ginn, 2003; Mukherjee, 2009; Ramesh & Nagaraju, 2000; Schubert, 2002; Tsay & Shu, 2011)

 Comparisons among different LIS journals

(Harter, Nisonger & Weng, 1993; He & Spink, 2002; Kajberg, 1996; Kim, 1991)

 Bibliometric studies on LIS journals of Turkey

(Çakın, 1980; Gürdal, 2002; Kurbanoğlu, 1996; Tonta 2002; Yılmaz, 2000)

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Method

Data source: Social Sciences Citation Index

 Coverage: 1974-2013

 Data obtained: February 20, 2014

 Document type: Articles

 “Data rehabilitation”

 Turkey addressed articles published in LIS

journals

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Three Important Points

 Authors’ nationalities are ignored

 The research is based on the classification of Thomson Reuters

 The study doesn’t cover all articles of the information science researchers in Turkey

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Research Questions

 In which journals do Turkish LIS scholars publish more often?

 How many articles, which are indexed in the citation indexes, are produced by the scholars of LIS discipline?

 What percentage of articles authored by Turkish LIS scholars receive citations?

 What are the country origins of the authors who cited the Turkey addressed

information science articles?

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Findings

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Turkey and World - LIS Articles

Periods N (Turkey) N (World) %

1974-1978 3 7,445 0.04

1979-1983 1 9,431 0.01

1984-1988 8 9,643 0.08

1989-1993 7 10,407 0.07

1994-1998 16 11,648 0.14

1999-2003 22 11,536 0.19

2004-2008 73 12,799 0.57

2009-2013 89 16,498 0.54

Total 219 89,407 0.24

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The Percentage of Turkey Addressed LIS articles

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0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6

%

Periods

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In Which Journals Do Turkish LIS Scholars Publish More Often?

Journals N

Information Processing & Management 25

Scientometrics 25

JASIST 18

Libri 13

Journal of Academic Librarianship 10

Government Information Quarterly 9

Journal of Information Science 9

International Information & Library Review 8

Telecommunications Policy 8

Other journals 94

Total 219

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Authors

 Total number of different authors

contributing to 219 articles was 341

 80% (273 authors) of all authors

contributed to the literature with only a single publication!

 There were three authors (Özmutlu, S;

Tonta, Y; Özmutlu, HC) published 12 or more contributions in LIS journals

 64 out of 219 articles (29%) were produced by the scholars / graduates of LIS discipline

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Number of Authors

34%

33%

19%

14%

1 2 3

4 and more

Publications with multiple authors constituted two-third of all articles

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Average Number of Authors

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The average number of authors per article was two

0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3

M ean

Periods

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Citations

 219 articles that were published in the

information science journals received 1304 citations in total

 60 of 219 did not receive citations

 20 of these 60 articles published in 2013

 The oldest article that did not receive citations was published in 1978

 The most frequently cited publication was cited

77 times

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Journals Citing Turkey Addressed LIS Articles

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Journals N

JASIST 91

Scientometrics 84

Information Processing & Management 58

Online Information Review 32

Experts Systems with Applications 31

Journal of Academic Librarianship 20

Journal of Documentation 19

Journal of Information Science 19

Telecommunications Policy 19

Interdisciplinary nature of the field

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Countries Citing Turkey Addressed LIS Articles

Countries N

Turkey 354

USA 241

China 108

England 95

Spain 72

Taiwan 64

Australia 53

Canada 48

India 37

354 citations (27% of all citations) were country self-citations

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Wide Geographical Impact of Turkey Addressed LIS Articles

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Conclusion

 Visibility of the Turkey addressed LIS articles

 Effect of the academic promotion criteria in Turkey

 One fourth of Turkey addressed LIS articles received no citations

 Turkey addressed LIS articles were used by the researchers from 69 different

countries

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COLLNET 2014, 10th International Conference on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics, 3-5 September 2014, Ilmenau, Germany

Umut Al , İrem Soydal, Umut Sezen & Orçun Madran

{umutal, soydal, u.sezen, omadran}@hacettepe.edu.tr

The Impact of Turkey in the Library

and Information Science Literature

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