TY - GEN
T1 - Analyzing the Intellectual Structure of World Information Literacy Literature through Citations and Co-citations
AU - Taşkin, Zehra
AU - Doǧan, Güleda
AU - Şencan, Ipek
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Information literacy is one of the emerging topics for many fields in recent years. This paper aims to evaluate the field of information literacy by using bibliometrics and scientific visualization techniques. To achieve this aim, a total of 1.218 papers related to information literacy on Web of Science (Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index) were identified. Searches were carried out using the term "information literacy" and all data were unified and standardized to be able to make reliable evaluations. Publication and citation counts, their distribution to journals, authors, document types etc. and co-citation networks were used for evaluations. Findings of this study are important to reveal the pioneers and interdisciplinarity of the field of information literacy.
AB - Information literacy is one of the emerging topics for many fields in recent years. This paper aims to evaluate the field of information literacy by using bibliometrics and scientific visualization techniques. To achieve this aim, a total of 1.218 papers related to information literacy on Web of Science (Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index) were identified. Searches were carried out using the term "information literacy" and all data were unified and standardized to be able to make reliable evaluations. Publication and citation counts, their distribution to journals, authors, document types etc. and co-citation networks were used for evaluations. Findings of this study are important to reveal the pioneers and interdisciplinarity of the field of information literacy.
KW - Information literacy
KW - citation analysis
KW - co-citation analysis
KW - mapping
KW - visualization
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84904756182
UR - https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=performanshacettepe&SrcAuth=WosAPI&KeyUT=WOS:000363261900006&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-03919-0_6
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-03919-0_6
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84904756182
SN - 9783319039183
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 54
EP - 60
BT - Worldwide Commonalities and Challenges in Information Literacy Research and Practice - European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2013, Revised Selected Papers
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 1st European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2013
Y2 - 22 October 2013 through 25 October 2013
ER -