Målet med denna uppsats var att göra en bibliometrisk undersökning av forskningsområdet skogsvetenskap, närmare bestämt publiceringen inom denna. Jag valde att göra en bibliometrisk undersökning inte bara på grund av att jag tycker att det är intressant och jag ville lära mig mer om hur man går tillväga rent praktiskt utan också för att jag tror att det är en viktig kompetens för framtida biblioteksarbete. Ett sådant kunnande kanske främst är viktig om man vill jobba i ett universitets/forskningsbibliotek men även på folkbibliotek görs ibland mindre bibliometriska undersökningar. Även på företag med egna bibliotek eller informationscenter kan kunnande om bibliometriska metoder vara en viktig kompetens. Undersökningen gjordes genom analyser av material hämtat från Web of Science. Datan jag laddade ner var artiklar publicerade mellan åren 2007 och 2010 och som fanns i Web of Sciencekategorin forestry. Den ena delen av undersökningen syftade till att identifiera och operationalisera forskningsområden inom skogsvetenskap och den andra delen handlade om att identifiera och jämföra Umeås genomslag inom samma områden. Jag har identifierat vissa ämneskategorier inom skogsvetenskap vilket framgår i resultatdiskussionen. Vissa bryderier uppstod beroende på att några tidskrifter som kanske hade behövt vara en ”egen” kategori hamnat med andra beroende på var jag valde att skära i klusterträdet som var produkten av analyserande och bearbetning av grundmaterialet. Den andra frågan var också möjlig att besvara och visar var Umeåanknutna artiklar hamnar i för ämnesområden. Analyserna av materialet tycker jag visar på att Umeå verkar ha ett ganska högt genomslag. Det här arbetet skulle kunna kallas en beskrivande utvärdering, den beskriver forskningsområdet skogsvetenskap och utvärderar Umeås genomslag i forskningsområdet.

The aim of this study was to map the school library research field for the last 20 years.The research questions asked were:1. Which researchers and publications can be identified in the research base of school library research in the time period 1995-2014, and what relations can be identified between them?2. Which researchers and publications can be identified in the research front of school library research in the time period 1995-2014, and what relations can be identified between them?3. Which terms can be identified in school library research in the time period 1995-2014?To answer these questions, a bibliometric study of the research field was done through publications retrieved from the database Web of Science. The metadata of the documents were analyzed in VOSviewer, a software program used to find relations between publications, researchers and subject terms. The research methods used were co-citation analysis, bibliographic coupling and co-word analysis.The results indicate that Lance and Kuhlthau dominate the research base with their publications about information literacy, information searching and school library impact studies. The research front is focused on use of electronic resources, digital media and information literacy. Clyde and Montiell-Overall are the main researchers.

Dissertation--Åbo Akademi, 2005. / Bibliogr. p. 208-232.

At a national level, the performance at Swedish universities is evaluated using bibliometrics. A part of the research funding given to the universities from the government is distributed according to their bibliometric performance. In recent years, several Swedish universities have adopted similar systems in order to distribute funding between the different faculties at the own university according to the bibliometric performance at faculty level. The debate in media on this way of using bibliometrics indicates that scientists are negative to this quantitative method for research evaluation. The purpose of this study was to investigate the opinions among researchers about the use of bibliometrics in research evaluation. A web-based survey has been sent out to researchers at the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Gothenburg. In total 246 researchers from the two faculties answered the survey. The results presented here show that the opinions among the scientist are divided, but in generalare not as negative as it seems from the debate in media.

The objective of this study is to create an overview of the existing research on makerspaces in libraries. It examines what the publication patterns look like and which subjects the research covers. Eleven academic articles have been studied and analysed with regards to bibliometric data and also by means of thematic content analysis. The analysis builds on R. David Lankes' theory that the mission of the library is to create a better society by facilitating knowledge creation in the community. The results show that research on makerspaces in libraries is still very limited, although the field covers many different aspects of the subject. Most of the research comes from USA and most of it has been published in the research area of Social science. The most cited article among the studied articles is written by Groenendyk & Gallant, and the article most cited by the studied authors is written by Lauren Britton. The themes discovered in the content analysis consists of descriptions of makerspaces, accessibility, makerspaces and users, makerspaces and society, the future of libraries and makerspaces in practice. The study also shows that makerspaces can be a way for libraries to fulfill R. David Lankes' mission of knowledge creation.

Altmetrics, a subfield of informetrics, is still in development. The aim of this thesis is to explore; the significance altmetrics may have in the LIS field, and to define the new perspectives altmetrics offer in comparison to traditional metrics. The research questions are:- How can altmetrics affect research assessment?- How does altmetrics position itself towards traditional metrics?- How could altmetrics influence the LIS field?A qualitative content analysis was used as a method. The analysis of a sample of ten peer reviewed articles was based on a coding scheme with eleven codes. The sample was selected using Web of Science, Scopus, the Altmetrics Bibliography and chain search model. Kuhns paradigm concept was used as a theoretic framework together with the concepts Technologies of control (traditional metrics) and Technologies of narcissism (altmetrics) developed by Wouters and Costas.The results show a beginning of a paradigm shift in the research assessment field. Technologies of control with traditional metrics as measure of quality co-exist with the Technologies of narcissim using altmetrics for measuring a researchers impact on society. Altmetrics can be regarded as a complement to traditional metrics capable of evaluating research in four new perspectives: To evaluate the whole readership Potentially benefiting narrower fields Evaluation in realtime Evaluation of research productsThe significance altmetrics may have for the LIS field is to be used as an instrument for information mediation. / Program: Bibliotekarie

The aim of this thesis is to map the intellectual base, and identify the general research interests, of Cultural Policy studies. In addition to this the thesis also aims to trace the uses of theoretical and conceptual approaches within the identified research interests. This is done by analysing citations from 130 articles published in the leading scientific journal International Journal of Cultural Policy between the years 2002-2007 using the bibliometric method author cocitation analysis (ACA). The results of the ACA confirm the overall notion that the research field of cultural policy studies is an ambiguous one, even when it’s studied with a quantitative method specialised in uncovering hidden structures within a given field as ACA. Theoretical and conceptual approaches proved, with the sole exception to the concept of policy, very difficult to discover by only using ACA. Five general research interests in Cultural Policy studies have been identified from the MDS-map created trough the ACA; these are:o Cultural/Creative industries.o Cultural planning, cultural cities.o Traditional cultural policy (British).o Traditional cultural policy (French).o Democracy, public sphere and culture. / Uppsatsnivå: D

The aim of this study is to analyze and describe the research front within information science. To reach this purpose we ask the following research question: Which research themes can be identified within the subject field of information science by using bibliographic coupling in combination with cluster analysis.The data for our study consists of articles from the journals Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology and Journal of Documentation throughout the years 2004-2006. The bibliographic information from the articles was analyzed with the combined methods of bibliographic coupling and cluster analysis. This gave fifteen clusters within which we identified research themes. When analyzing these results we found four main fields of research within the research front of information science: Information retrieval, bibliometrics, knowledge organization and information science as research discipline. Information retrieval proved to be the largest field of research followed by bibliometrics and thereafter the two significantly smaller fields of research knowledge organization and information science as research discipline. When comparing our results with previous research we found that despite different choice of methods and data, there were some similarities. / Uppsatsnivå: D

The aim of this thesis is to use the bibliometric method author cocitation analysis (ACA) and investigate the cognitive structure in a research field, which is called the intellectual base. The research field in this investigation is social psychology. The main question is: what is the nature of the cognitive structure, which contains of the intellectual base. This question is divided in two sub questions: • Which are the most prominent authors in the research field? • Which sub areas, based on groups of the most cocited authors in the research field, can be identified?An investigation with ACA is used to describe the general experience of consensus of later authors in a research field. It is assumed that if two authors are cited cumulatively together (cocited), it’s an indication of an intellectual relationship between them. The investigation is made by gathering data from ISI’s database SSCI from the period 1999-2007. The authors with most cocitations in the field during this period were identified and considered the most prominent authors in the field. These author cocitation frequencies were analysed with MDS-techniques and visualised in a map in two dimensions. Three sub areas of the research field were then identified, based on groups of authors on the map and their subject matter:Sub area 1: Theories about social cognitionSub area 2: Theories about emotions and social influenceSub area 3: Theories about characteristic feature (trait) / Uppsatsnivå: D

The purpose of this study was to bibliometrically investigate and describe the research area called “extrasolar planets”. The research questions were: Which authors were mostly cited within the area when the first authors (and their co-authors) were considered? Which authors were found in most co-occurrences? Did particular author collaborations emerge?To which institutions were most authors affiliated and did the size of the institution have an influence on whether an author was cited?What was the geographic distribution of authors and institutions and were there any patterns of collaboration?Did the image of dominating institutions and countries depend on the viewpoint?How applicable was Lotka’s law on the collected data? The data was collected from citation lists in documents from the database Arxiv.org. The documents were extracted by using the search term “extrasolar planets”. By using citation analysis and the method a)”first author counting”, complimented by the method b)”fractional counting” used on a material screened by method a), for accrediting publications to authors and countries, an image of the research area was depicted. Method b) was also used for extracting information about author collaboration and geographic distributions. The most quoted first author, also found in most co-occurrences, was attached to the largest institution, located in USA. Most quoted authors, almost 60%, were attached to USA. However, the results were inconclusive when the viewpoints were changed. Apart from the fact that 57.8% of the quoted documents originated from 9.5% of the first authors, Lotka’s law was not applicable.