Journal of Librarianship and Information Science (JOLIS) from a bibliometric perspective (1991-2023)

Abstract

This study aimed at investigating into the bibliometric performance of the Journal of Library and Information Science (JOLIS) from 1991 to 2023. Data was extracted from Web of Science (WoS) and analyzed with Microsoft Excel 2016, VOSviewer 1,6,19,0, SPSS 27, SPSS Modeler and Tableau Public. The collaboration networks of active authors, contributing countries and productive institutions as well as the key-word co-occurrence network were depicted and visualized. Findings showed that out of 1794 documents published in JOLIS, research articles and book reviews were highly-produced items, respectively. Top productive countries were England and USA, respectively. The USA was the first-ranked country in making international collaboration. Top highly-ranked research institutes were Loughborough University and Sheffield University, respectively. Many highly-productive authors had no collaboration or low collaboration in the co-authorship network. Public libraries, academic libraries and information literacy were of most considerable subjects and higher education, information science, bibliometrics and open access were of hot topics. Data mining showed that the document type had the highest predicting effect on citation counts in JOLIS, followed by author numbers, being open access, having research funds and involving in an internal collaboration. In all, JOLIS has found its way in library and information field as a high prestige journal with its wide scope readers, authors and topics.