Indiana University continues to be a leader in the field of Library and Information Science research and scholarship. Thomson Scientific's website Sci-Bytes: What's New in Research featured the "Library & Information Science: Most Prolific U.S. Institutions, 2002-06" on November 26, 2007 [see excerpts below]. Indiana University was ranked as #2.
"Of U.S. institutions, those below contributed the greatest number of papers to the field of library & information science over a recent five-year period. This is based on each institution's percentage of the 8,995 papers published in Thomson Scientific-indexed library-science journals between 2002 and 2006."
- Pennsylvania State University
- Indiana University
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of Washington
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"SOURCE: University Science Indicators, 1981-2006. (Deluxe version contains complete listings of publication and citation statistics for the top U.S. institutions in 105 subfields corresponding to subject areas covered in the seven editions of Current Contents. Standard version features data covering 24 main fields. Both versions are available from the Research Services Group.) - Thomson Scientific"
"Why are citations so powerful?"
The Chief Scientist of the Research Services Group, Dr. Henry Small, states: "It has to do with the fact that science is a collective and collaborative process: a lot of independent and creative people around the world, sharing their work through open publication. The citation facilitates this by allowing one scholar to embed another's work in his or her own, creating an extended, collective argument." [Research Services Group website]
Indiana University maintained its previous #2 ranking from the What's New in Research: May 8, 2006 study of "Library & Information Science: High-Impact U.S. Universities, 2001-05". This study "ranked by average citations per paper, among the top 100 federally funded U.S. universities that published at least 75 papers in Thomson Scientific-indexed journals of library & information science between 2001 and 2005."
- Harvard University
- Indiana University
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Pennsylvania State University
- University of Washington
Posted December 12, 2007