Hot Papers in Library and Information Science from the Point of View of Research Methods
Journal Title: Webology - Year 2017, Vol 14, Issue 2
Abstract
A hot paper is an article that has received more citations than usual, soon after its publication, with respect to other works included in the same field and age. The purpose of this bibliometric study was to examine the research methods of hot papers published in the subject area of library and information science (LIS). The data were collected from the Web of Science (WoS) citation database. Bibliometric techniques were applied in this study to gather hot papers in the LIS subject area. Then, the research methods of these papers were examined. The results show six hot papers for the LIS subject area. The results of the analysis of research methods indicates that two papers out of six were conducted based on bibliometric, two papers have been done by using survey method, one paper used the content analysis method, and one of them was an empirical analysis in the field of bibliometrics.
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Alireza Noruzi
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