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Wilson, Concepción S.; Boell, Sebastian K.; Kennan, Mary Anne; Willard, Patricia (2012). Fifty years of LIS education in Australia: Research productivity and visibility of LIS educators in higher education institutions. Journal of Education in Library and Information Science. 53(1). 49-68.
Area: Visibility; Library and Information Science; Australia
This paper surveys aspects of the research productivity and visibility of Australian Library and Information Studies (LIS) educators as reflected in publications retrieved from eight relevant databases. Searching was restricted to educators serving for at least two years in Australian LIS programs from 1959 to 2008; the records obtained were downloaded and checked for accuracy. The results show that fewer than five percent of educators, generally with long service, produced over one-quarter of all journal articles, while nearly one-third of educators authored no articles. About three-quarters of all journal articles were singleauthored; however, multiple authorship has increased over time, especially since 2000. Nearly one-half of all articles were published in Australian national journals; as these journals were indexed only in national and LIS-specific databases, such databases must be included to obtain a reliable picture of Australian LIS research productivity.
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Wilson, Concepción S.; Boell, Sebastian K.; Kennan, Mary Anne; Willard, Patricia (2011). Publications of Australian LIS Academics in Databases. Australian Academic and Research Libraries. 43(3). 211-230.
Area: Database Coverage; Library and Information Science; Australia
This paper examines aspects of journal articles published from 1967 to 2008, located in eight databases, and authored or co-authored by academics serving for at least two years in Australian LIS programs from 1959 to 2008. These aspects are: inclusion of publications in databases, publications in journals, authorship characteristics of publications, productivity, and subject content of publications over time. Results indicate that national and LIS-specific databases provided adequate coverage; however, no single database provided over half of all publications. More than half of all articles were published in national journals focusing on aspects of LIS in Australia; however, there is a trend for increasing publications in international journals. Most of the earlier publications had one author, but multiple authorship in publications has increased since 1999. Overall the number of publications per LIS academic is low; however, per capita productivity has been increasing since the mid-1990s. Finally, titles of articles reveal a shift from library-related terms to information-related terms.
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Wilson, Concepción S.; Kennan, Mary Anne; Willard, Patricia; Boell, Sebastian K. (2010). Fifty years of LIS education in Australia: Academization of LIS educators in higher education institution. Library and Information Science Research. 32(4). 246-257.
Area: Library and Information Science; Australia;
This paper investigates the academization of library and information science (LIS) educators in Australia from 1959 to 2008. Extensive data document the distribution of these academics in Australian higher education institutions over fifty years: from a slow beginning in the 1960s, to rapid growth in the 1970s, relative stability in the 1980s, and a persistent decline from the 1990s. Results of other characteristics of Australian LIS educators over the fifty-year period are presented including: previous positions held before entering academia, what and where academic qualifications were obtained, academic positions/ranks by gender, mobility within Australian higher education institutions, and years spent as Australian LIS educators. Although there has been a steady decline in the number of Australian LIS educators since the 1990s, the level of academic qualifications and percentage with doctorates have risen, thus conforming to a major requirement of academia; however, the relative decline in junior academic positions is a worrying trend. The analysis of changed characteristics over time helps define who Australian LIS academics are, and additionally provides data that contributes to LIS academic workforce planning.
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Boell, Sebastian K.; Cecez-Kecmanovic, Dubravka (2010). Literature reviews and the hermeneutic circle. Australian Academic and Research Libraries. 41(2). 129-144.
Area: Literature Reviews; Information Seeking; Systematic Review;
Conducting a literature review is a vital part of any research. Library and information science (LIS) professionals often play a central role in supporting academics in their efforts to locate relevant publications and in teaching novice researchers skills associated with literature reviews. This paper examines literature review processes with the aim of contributing to a better understanding of their complexity and uncertainty and to propose a new approach to literature reviews: one capable of dealing with such complexity and uncertainty.
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Boell, Sebastian K. (2010). Informations und bibliothekswissenschaftliche Zeitschriften in Literaturdatenbanken. Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliografie. 57(1). 26-36.
Area: Bibliometrics; Scientometrics; Infometrics; Journal Ranking;
Article in German
Fachzeitschriften spielen für Wissenschaftler und Praktiker bei der Verbreitung von Forschungsergebnissen und Erfahrungsberichten eine wichtige Rolle. Der vorliegende Artikel gibt eine kurze Einführung in das Feld der Informetrie, um auf dieser Grundlage eine Zeitschriftenliste auf dem Gebiet der Informations- und Bibliothekswissenschaft (IuB) einzuführen. Durch Kombination von zehn verschiedenen Zeitschriftenlisten aus Datenbanken, die relevante Literatur auf dem Gebiet der IuB erfassen, wird eine umfassende Liste von 1205 relevanten Fachzeitschriften erstellt. Anhand ihrer Erscheinungshäufigkeit wird die Bedeutung einzelner Zeitschriften für das Gebiet der IuB eingeordnet, wobei vier verschiedene Kategorien von Zeitschriften unterschieden werden: fünfzehn Kernzeitschriften, 88 zentrale Zeitschriften, 173 selektive Zeitschriften und 672 Randzeitschriften. Betrachtet werden darüber hinaus auch Publikationssprache und geografische Verteilung der Zeitschriften sowie die Überschneidung von verschiedenen Datenbanken untereinander.
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Boell, Sebastian K.; Wilson, Concepción S. (2010). Journal Impact Factors for evaluating scientific performance: use of h-like indicators. Scientometrics. 82(3). 613-626.
Area: Scientometrics; Impact Factor; Cancer Research;
This article introduces the Impact Factor squared or IF2-index, an h-like indicator of research performance. This indicator reflects the degree to which large entities such as countries and/or their states participate in top-level research in a field or subfield. The IF2-index uses the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) of research publications instead of the number of citations. This concept is applied to other h-type indexes and their results compared to the IF2-index. These JIF-based indexes are then used to assess the overall performance of cancer research in Australia and its states over 8 years from 1999 to 2006. The IF2-index has three advantages when evaluating larger research units: firstly, it provides a stable value that does not change over time, reflecting the degree to which a research unit participated in top-level research in a given year; secondly, it can be calculated closely approximating the publication date of yearly datasets; and finally, it provides an additional dimension when a full article-based citation analysis is not feasible. As the index reflects the degree of participation in top-level research it may favor larger units when units of different sizes are compared.
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White, Howard D.; Boell, Sebastian K.; Yu, Hairong; Davis, Mari; Wilson, Concepción S.; Cole, Fletcher T. H. (2009). Libcitations: A Measure for Comparative Assessment of Book Publications in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 60(6). 1083-1096.
Area: Bibliometrics; Research Evaluation; Libcitations;
Bibliometric measures for evaluating research units in the book-oriented humanities and social sciences are underdeveloped relative to those available for journaloriented science and technology. We therefore present a new measure designed for book-oriented fields: the "libcitation count." This is a count of the libraries holding a given book, as reported in a national or international union catalog. As librarians decide what to acquire for the audiences they serve, they jointly constitute an instrument for gauging the cultural impact of books. Their decisions are informed by knowledge not only of audiences but also of the book world (e.g., the reputations of authors and the prestige of publishers). From libcitation counts, measures can be derived for comparing research units. Here,we imagine a match-up between the departments of history, philosophy, and political science at the University of New South Wales and the University of Sydney in Australia.We chose the 12 books from each department that had the highest libcitation counts in the Libraries Australia union catalog during 2000 to 2006. We present each book's raw libcitation count, its rank within its Library of Congress (LC) class, and its LCclass normalized libcitation score.The latter is patterned on the item-oriented field normalized citation score used in evaluative bibliometrics. Summary statistics based on these measures allow the departments to be compared for cultural impact. Our work has implications for programs such as Excellence in Research for Australia and the Research Assessment Exercise in the United Kingdom. It also has implications for data mining in OCLC's WorldCat.
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Boell, Sebastian K.; Wilson, Concepción S.; Cole, Fletcher T. H. (2008). Usage of different Web Impact Factors for Ranking Australian Universities. COLLNET journal of Scientometrics and Information Management. 2(2). 57-70.
Area: Webometrics; Web Mining; University Rankings;
This study describes how search engines (SE) can be employed for automated, efficient data gathering for Webometric studies using well defined query specfic URLs in SE (predictable URLs). It then compares the usage of staff-related Web Impact Factors (WIFs) to web impact factors for a ranking of Australian universities, showing that rankings based on staff-related WIFs correlate much better with an established ranking from the Melbourne Institute than commonly used WIFs. In fact WIFs do not correlate with the Melbourne ranking at all. It also compares WIF data for Australian Universities provided by Smith [1] for a longitudinal comparison of the WIF of Australian Universities over the last decade. It shows that size-dependent WIF values declined for most Australian universities over the last ten years, while staffdependent WIFs shows a riding trend.
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Refereed conference papers (full papers)
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Boell, Sebastian K; Cecez-Kecmanovic, Dubravka (2011). Theorizing Information – From Signs to Sociomaterial Practices. Australasian Conference on Information Systems 2011 (ACIS 2011 Proceedings). Paper 53.
Awarded 'Best Theoretical Paper' at ACIS 2011
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Boell, Sebastian K; Cecez-Kecmanovic, Dubravka (2011). Are Systematic Reviews better, less biased and of higher quality?. European Conference on Information Systems 2011 (ECIS 2011). Paper 223. [online] http://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2011/223
Area: Literature Reviews; Database Searches; Systematic Review
Literature reviews are central to any academic research. Whether journal article, conference presentation or research thesis it is necessary for all of them to provide an overview of earlier research in order to contextualize one’s own findings. More fundamentally, the beginning of any research is crucially dependent on an appropriate literature review. In recent years a supposedly new form of literature review has emerged, so called, systematic reviews. The aim of this paper is to question the key premises of systematic reviews and demonstrate that the claims they are less biased and more rigorous than so called narrative reviews do not hold. This paper briefly introduces the origin of systematic reviews and explains how they are undertaken. Based on this introduction the paper shows that key premises of systematic reviews cannot be fulfilled and that they by no means guaranty the creation of 'better' literature reviews. In contrast, to systematic reviews which put importance on the literature identification and selection process, it argues that reading is central to reviewing literature. Reading enables academics to improve their understanding of the subject area and therefore to further advance their searches. Better literature reviews can only be achieved through better understanding of the subject area. Proper understanding of search techniques will then allow researchers to identify further relevant literature. Reviewing literature is therefore better described as a hermeneutic process.
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Boell, Sebastian K.; Cecez-Kecmanovic, Dubravka (2010). Attributes of information. AMCIS 2010. Paper 129. [online] http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2010/129.
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Boell, Sebastian K.; Wilson, Concepción S.; Cole, Fletcher T. H. (2008). A Webometric Analysis of Australian Universities using Staff and Size dependent Web Impact Factors (WIF). In: Kretschmer, Hildrun; Havemann, Frank (Eds.). Proceedings of WIS 2008. Berlin : Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Institute for Library and Information Science.
Area: Webometrics; Web Mining; University Rankings;
This study describes how search engines (SE) can be employed for automated, efficient data gathering for Webometric studies using predictable URLs. It then compares the usage of staffrelated Web Impact Factors (WIFs) to sizerelated impact factors for a ranking of Australian universities, showing that rankings based on staffrelated WIFs correlate much better with an established ranking from the Melbourne Institute than commonly used sizedependent WIFs. In fact sizedependent WIFs do not correlate with the Melbourne ranking at all.
It also compares WIF data for Australian Universities provided by Smith (1999) for a longitudinal comparison of the WIF of Australian Universities over the last decade. It shows that sizedependent WIF values declined for most Australian universities over the last ten years, while staffdependent WIFs rose.
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Wilson, Concepción S.; Boell, Sebastian K.; Kennan, Mary Anne; Willard, Patricia (2011) Discovering Australian LIS Research in Literature Reference Databases. Research Applications in Information and Library Studies (RAILS) Conference, 10. May 2011. Brisbane : QUT.
Area: Database Coverage; Library and Information Science; Australia;
This presentation examines the visibility of LIS research undertaken by Australian LIS academics in eight databases. It uses a list of 382 LIS academics from Australia who worked as academics for more than 2 years over the last 50 years.
Please see the following journal publication for a more advanced description of this research:
Wilson, Concepción S.; Boell, Sebastian K.; Kennan, Mary Anne; Willard, Patricia (2011). Publications of Australian LIS Academics in Databases. Australian Academic and Research Libraries. 42(X). XXX-xxx.
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Boell, Sebastian K.; Cecez-Kecmanovic, Dubravka (2010) Systematic review and the hermeneutic circle of literature reviews. Research Applications in Information and Library Studies (RAILS) Conference, 22. January 2010. Canberra : CSU.
Area: Literature Reviews; Information Seeking; Systematic Review;
This presentation argued that systematic reviews are insufficient for undertaking literature reviews in the social sciences. Instead literature reviews can be better understood as hermeneutic process.
Please see the following journal publication for a more advanced description of this research:
Boell, Sebastian K.; Cecez-Kecmanovic, Dubravka (2010). Literature reviews and the hermeneutic circle. Australian Academic and Research Libraries. 41(2). 129-144.
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Wilson, Concepción S.; Willard, Patricia; Kennan, Mary Anne; Boell, Sebastian K. (2009). Charting the history of Australian LIS education from 1959-2008: Problems and issues arising from data sources. Research Applications in Information and Library Studies (RAILS) Conference, 23. January 2009. Sydney : UTS.
Area: Library and Information Science; Australia;
This presentation reported on the work in progress on a project charting LIS education in Australia since the first library school at an university was establisehd in 1958.
Please see the following journal publication for a more advanced description of this research:
Wilson, Concepción S.; Kennan, Mary Anne; Willard, Patricia; Boell, Sebastian K. (2010). Fifty years of LIS education in Australia: Academization of LIS educators in higher education institution. Library and Information Science Research. 32(4). 246-257.
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Wilson, Concepción S.; Boell, Sebastian K.; Kennan, Mary Anne; Willard, Patricia (2009). Productivity of Australian LIS academics. Research Applications in Information and Library Studies (RAILS) Conference, 23. January 2009. Sydney : UTS.
Area: Library and Information Science; Australia; Visibility in Databases;
This presentation reported on the work in progress on a project charting LIS education in Australia since the first library school at an university was establisehd in 1958.
Please see the following journal publication for a more advanced description of this research:
Wilson, Concepción S.; Kennan, Mary Anne; Willard, Patricia; Boell, Sebastian K. (2010). Fifty years of LIS education in Australia: Academization of LIS educators in higher education institution. Library and Information Science Research. 32(4). 246-257.
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Boell, Sebastian K.; Wilson, Concepción S. (2008) Use of h-like indicators based on Journal Impact Factors for evaluating scientific performance: Australian cancer research case study. In: Excellence and Emergence. A New Challenge for the Combination of Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches. 10th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators. Vienna, Austria 17-20 September 2008. p 250-253.
Area: Scientometrics; Research Evaluation; Impact Factor;
This presentation introduced how journal impact factors can be used similar to the h-index for comparing the participation in top-level research between different larger entities. In this case cancer research by different Australian states.
Please see the following journal publication for a more advanced description of this research:
Boell, Sebastian K.; Wilson, Concepción S. (2010). Journal Impact Factors for evaluating scientific performance: use of h-like indicators. Scientometrics. 82(3). 613-626.
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Wilson, Concepción S.; Kennan, Mary Anne; Boell, Sebastian K.; Willard, Patricia (2012) From Practice to Academia: 50 Years of LIS Education in Australia. In: Amanda Spink, Diljit Singh (ed.) Library and Information Science Trends and Research: Asia-Oceania, Bingley : Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.15-45
Area: Visibility; Library and Information Science; Australia
The central place that education has in the strength and well-being of any profession is widely accepted. Australia presents an interesting case study of a country where LIS education moved from being conducted by practitioners under the guidance of the professional association to being provided in institutions of higher education in 1959. The 50 years (1959-2008) saw substantial changes in Australian LIS education with a rapid proliferation of schools which was later followed by closures, mergers and changes of focus. This chapter charts LIS education during this period focusing on organizational and structural aspects of the placement of LIS education in tertiary institutions, on the academization of LIS educators who had in the early days mainly been drawn from practice, and on the development of LIS educators as academic researchers and authors as represented by their productivity and visibility in national and international databases. In addition to giving an account of these areas of LIS education over the 50 years the chapter seeks to offer explanations for what has occurred and some views of strategies which may assist the development of LIS education in Australia and in other countries which possess similar characteristics.
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Boell, Sebastian K. (2007). A Scientometric Method to Analyze Scientific Journals as Exemplified by the Area of Information Science. Saarbrücken : Saarland University, Master Thesis. (Awarded with the VFI price 2008.)
Area: Bibliometrics; Scientometrics; Infometrics; Journal Ranking;
Background In most academic disciplines journals play an important role in disseminating findings of research among the disciplinary community members. Furthermore, based on Bradford's Law of scattering, one can assume that previous research in many journals, but also that there are some 'core' journals.
Aim This thesis aims to compile a comprehensive list of journals of relevance to Library and Information Science (LIS). A method to rank journals is introduced; key characteristics of the disciplines journals are discussed; and databases are compared.
Method A list of LIS journals was created by combining the journal listings of secondary sources indexing the field's literature. These sources were: INFODATA, Current Contents, Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA), Library Information Science Technology Abstracts (LISTA), Information Science and Technology Abstracts (ISTA), Library Literature and Information Science (LLIS), Social Science Citation Index (SSCI), Academic Search Premier, and Expanded Academic ASAP, and the Elektronische Zeitschriften Bibliothek. Journals were ranked by the number of occurrences in multiple databases.
Results A comprehensive list of 1,205 journals was compiled. 968 journals are active, mostly published in English in the USA and UK. Fifteen core journal could be identified. Databases have between five to 318 journals in common. Overlap with a wide range of subjects exist, especially Computing Studies, and Business and Economics.
Conclusion The extensive journal list can contribute to understanding of scholarly communication within the LIS discipline and provide academics and practitioners with a better understanding of journals within the discipline. Journal could be ranked by occurance in databases.
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Wilson, Concepción S.; Boell, Sebastian K.; Lo, Margaret (2011). Systematic review of the quantity and quality of cancer research publications in New South Wales: 2007 to 2009. Sydney : University of New South Wales, School of Information Systems, Technology and Management.
Area: Bibliometrics; Scientometrics; Cancer Research;
The main aim of the project is to determine the quantity and quality of recent publications on cancer research produced in New South Wales vis-à-vis the other States of Australia. Subsidiary aims are to determine the relative contribution of Australia to research on cancer world-wide, and to compare the quantity and quality of Australian.
Analyses in this report are based on two censuses of the cancer literature, from SCI-SSCI and from Medline, with primary focus on SCI-SSCI. The Medline database also provided a census of the medical literature.
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Welberry, Heidi; Edwards, Carmel; Weston, Adele; Harvey, Charles; Wilson, Concepción S.; Boell, Sebastian K.; Lo, Margaret; Bishop, James K. (2008). Cancer research in New South Wales 2001-2006. Sydney : Cancer Institute NSW.
Area: Bibliometrics; Scientometrics; Cancer Research;
This report provides an overview of cancer research in New South Wales (NSW). The report is presented in two sections. Part One draws on information gathered in two separate surveys of cancer research in NSW covering the periods 2001-2003 and 2004-2006. Part Two of the report provides an alternate view of the impact of the cancer research activity by assessing the research publications between 1999 and 2006.
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Wilson, Concepción S.; Boell, Sebastian K.; Lo, Margaret (2007). Systematic review of the quantity and quality of cancer research publications in New South Wales: 1999 to 2006. Sydney : University of New South Wales, School of Information Systems, Technology and Management.
Area: Bibliometrics; Scientometrics; Cancer Research;
The main aim of the project is to determine the quantity and quality of recent publications on cancer research produced in New South Wales vis-à-vis the other States of Australia. Subsidiary aims are to determine the relative contribution of Australia to research on cancer world-wide, and to compare the quantity and quality of Australian.
Analyses in this report are based on two censuses of the cancer literature, from SCI-SSCI and from Medline, with primary focus on SCI-SSCI. The Medline database also provided a census of the medical literature.
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Refereed conference contributions (Abstracts)