Indiana University tops ScienceWatch's ranking of most prolific U.S. Institutions in Information Science and Library Science
Indiana University tops ScienceWatch's ranking of the most prolific U.S. Institutions in Information Science and Library Science for the years 2009-2013. ScienceWatch lists the colleges and universities which contributed the highest numbers of papers to the Web of Science field of Information Science & Library Science. The ranking is based on each university's percentage of the 16,205 papers published in Thomson Reuters-indexed Information Science journals between 2009 and 2013, and the figures are derived from Thomson Reuters InCites, a subset of the Web of Science.
Indiana University took the top spot followed by Harvard University, Pennsylvania State University, University of Maryland-College Park, and the University of Washington.
"We are proud to be a part of the Indiana University community, where research in our field is so valued. Dr. Pnina Fichman, chairperson of the Department of Information and Library Science noted: "My colleagues both within our department and school, and throughout the campus, who publish in this discipline help provide an environment that leads to creative research and teaching. The ranking and the effort by the scholars at Indiana University are not an anomaly. This is a good place to be."
Indiana's ILS department has a rich tradition of being among the most productive in the United States. Studies from 2000 and 2006 covering more than two decades of data ranked IU No. 1 in the country in terms of scholarly productivity, far outdistancing its nearest competitor when it came to publication and citation data.
The Web of Science Core Collection allows researchers, faculty, administrators, and students to quickly and powerfully access the leading citation databases around the world. The collection covers more than 12,000 journals worldwide, and it provides access to more than 150,000 conference proceedings from the past 100-plus years.
Indiana's ILS also ranked eighth in the country according to U.S. News and World Report.