Research Preprint: “Publication Patterns of U.S. Academic Librarians and Libraries from 2003 to 2012”

The following article (accepted for publication, preprint) will be published in the July 2017 issue of College & Research Libraries (C&RL).
Title
Publication Patterns of U.S. Academic Librarians and Libraries from 2003 to 2012
Authors
Deborah D. Blecic
University of Illinois at Chicago
Stephen E. Wiberley Jr.
University of Illinois at Chicago
Sandra L. DeGroote
University of Illinois at Chicago 
John Cullars
University of Illinois at Chicago 
Mary Shultz
University of Nevada School Of Medicine
Vivian Chan
Student
Source
via C&RL Website
Abstract

This study investigated contributions to the peer‐reviewed library and information science (LIS) journal literature by U.S. academic librarian (USAL) authors over a ten‐year period (2003‐2012). The results were compared to those of two previous five‐year studies that covered the time periods of 1993‐1997 and 1998‐2002 to examine longitudinal trends. For USAL authors as a group, publication productivity, the proportion of peer‐reviewed articles contributed to the LIS literature, and sole‐authorship declined. Among USALs who did publish, productivity patterns remained similar over twenty years, with a slight increase in the percentage of USAL authors who published three or more articles in five years. The top‐twenty high‐publication libraries from 2003‐2012 were from public research universities, unlike two earlier studies which found private university libraries among the top twenty.

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Filed under: Academic Libraries, Libraries, News, Productivity