Br. Boyce et C. Hendren, AUTHORSHIP AS A MEASURE OF THE PRODUCTIVITY OF SCHOOLS OF LIBRARY ANDINFORMATION-SCIENCE, Journal of education for library and information science, 37(3), 1996, pp. 250-271
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21
Categorie Soggetti
Information Science & Library Science","Education & Educational Research
Rankings of schools of library and information science (LIS) by variou
s measures of author productivity are consistent. The presence of a do
ctoral program, of an Association of Research Libraries (ARL) library,
and the fact that a school exists in a Carnegie I research university
all are related to a high author-productivity ranking. The presence o
f a certificate program is not. The faculty designated as full-time in
fifty-seven schools listed in the 1992-93 Journal of Education for Li
brary and Information Science directory issue were searched online in
the Library Literature database on Wilsonline. The search results incl
uded the sum of the postings in Library Literature for each of the ful
l-time faculty in a school, total authorships (excluding book reviews)
for the school, the number of book reviews produced by the school, an
d the count of the union of the posting sets for each of the full-time
faculty reflecting the number of unique items credited to authors in
the school. Each of these counts was also normalized by the number of
full-time faculty. The measures utilized reflect a limited time period
, do not account for publication outside traditional library literatur
e, and are but one of several suggested quantitative indications of sc
hool productivity.