| Summary: | 碩士 === 淡江大學 === 資訊與圖書館學系碩士班 === 104 === Although a few studies have investigated the Library and Information Science (LIS) publication patterns in Taiwan, no study has selected journal articles published by LIS faculty as subject to examine publication patterns. This study aims to examine the journal article publication patterns of LIS in Taiwan. Seventy-four LIS faculty members and 1,528 journal articles published by them between 2000 and 2014 were selected as subject. Content analysis was conducted by two groups with a background in information organization to classify the categories of 1,528 journal articles; the Kappa value was 76% and attained to level of substantial (between 61% and 80%). Furthermore, clique analysis of social network analysis (SNA) and UCINet software and Gephi software were also used to examine the co-authorship clusters among LIS faculty in terms of individual faculty and LIS institute level. In addition to study across 15 years, this study also separated 15 years into three individual periods of 5 years each to investigate the evolutional pattern of journal articles published by LIS faculty in Taiwan.
The results of this study are summarized as follows:
●The theories and foundation of LIS is the main research topic studied by LIS faculty in Taiwan.
●The categories studied by LIS faculty have gradually converged into a few LIS topics.
●Coauthorship has become the main publication model used by LIS faculty.
●The authorship pattern of LIS faculty is mainly composed of two models as follows: single author or coauthorship made up of two individuals.
●Within the coauthorship pattern, LIS students (either undergraduate or graduate) and an LIS faculty member has become the most popular collaboration pattern.
●Among coauthorships between LIS faculty, Professor Mu-Hsuan Huang has become the most productive coauthor.
●Each LIS category of research has its own key productive persons.
●The category of the theories and foundation of LIS has gained the majority of study attention from the LIS faculty.
●Within coauthorships between LIS faculty, the LIS department of National Taiwan University has published the most coauthored articles.
●In terms of institute level, the Department and Graduate Institute of LIS of National Taiwan University had the most coauthored articles published. After the amount of coauthored publications was normalized by number of faculty members, the Graduate of Library,Information and Archival Studies of National Chengchi University had the most published coauthored articles.
●In terms of coverage of seven main categories of LIS research topics,publications published by the Department and Graduate Institute of LIS of National Taiwan University covered the most research categories (i.e., 4) in Taiwan.
●In terms of coauthorship cluster, Professor Mu-Hsuan Huang is the most popular collaborator with other LIS faculty (i.e., 4 clusters) according to SNA clique analysis.
●In terms of coauthorship cluster, coauthorship papers published by Professor Hao-Ren Ke have covered the most LIS research categories (i.e., 4) according to SNA clique analysis.
●In terms of coauthorship cluster, the most popular coauthorship was the collaboration between the Department and Graduate Institute of LIS of National Taiwan University and the Department of Information and Library Science of Tamkang University according to SNA clique analysis.
●In terms of coauthorship coverage of 7 LIS categories, the highest number of categories covered is 4 by collaboration between the Department and Graduate Institute of LIS of National Taiwan University, the Graduate Institute of National Taiwan Normal University and the Department and Graduate Institute of Information
and Communications of Shih Hsin University according to SNA clique analysis.
●In terms of co-occurrence of coauthorship between LIS institute, the Department and Graduate Institute of LIS of National Taiwan University and the Department of Information and Library Science of Tamkang University have become the most popular coauthship partners in Taiwan LIS according to SNA clique analysis
Lastly, the results of this study are a useful decision-making reference for LIS graduate students, faculty, department and graduate institute, and research policy.
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