2022 VOLUME 2 ISSUE 1
RESEARCH ARTICLE
A comparative study on the development of academic librarianship research published in China and international journals from 2016 to 2020
AUTHOR
Bing Nie, Ting Wang, Brady Lund
ABSTRACT
This study investigates the top authors, the most frequent keywords in selected top Chinese and international journals in academic librarianship, and emergent themes by conducting network and cluster analysis. The results suggest that LIS researchers in mainland China were less active in publishing articles in international journals during the period examined. Chinese researchers focused more on reading promotion and new technology implementation in libraries, while international researchers discuss communications among diverse disciplines more. Drawing international subject librarians' practices could be an approach to transform Chinese academic libraries to cope with the library crisis by playing a role as a bridge among scholars from various disciplines.
KEYWORDS
Academic librarianship in China; Academic librarianship international; Co-word analysis; Cluster analysis