Citation Analysis and Content Analysis of the Persian books for the Recent Undergraduate Syllabus of Library and Information Science (2010) Based on their In-text Citations

پژوهشنامه کتابداری و اطلاع رسانی

Article 5, Volume 5, Issue 1 - Serial Number 9, June 2015, Pages 138-152   

Document Type: Research Article

DOI: 10.22067/riis.v5i1.25558

Authors

fatemeh neekzad^* ; farideh Osareh

SHAHID CHAMRAN UNIVERSITY OF AHVAZ

Abstract

Purpose: This study attempted to analyze the in-text citations of Persian books in the recent undergraduate syllabus of Library and Information Science (2010).
Methodology: The methodology used for this study was citation analysis and content analysis to determine the credibility of the cited sources. To achieve this end, from 103 books under study, 4,994 in-text citations were extracted.
Findings: The results showed that 53.72 percent of the citations were from the foreign sources and 38.68 percent of the citations were from the Persian ones. Of the total citations, books with 61.53 percent have the highest number of citations, and journals with 24.82 percent citations were in the second place. Half-life of the Persian sources was estimated 16 years and 9 months while half-life of the English sources was estimated 17 years and 6 months. “Thesaurus of Library and Information Science” with 80 citations and “Children’s Literature in the Elementary School” with 46 citations have been the most frequently cited Persian and English books, respectively. “Faslnameye Ketab” and “Academy Management Journal”, have been the most frequently cited Persian and English journals, respectively. Poori Soltani with 107 citations and Charles Samaran with 56 citations were also determined as the most cited authors in Persian and English. The results also indicated that the subject of “Bibliographic Records” with 7.78 percent have been the most cited

Keywords

Citation Analysis; Undergraduate syllabus of Library and Information Science; In-text citations; Content analysis

References

Jaff, Eugene D. (1997). International marketing textbooks: a citation analysis as an indicator of the discipline’s boundaries. International Marketing Review, 14(1), 9- 19.

Jones, Sarah k. (2010). A quantitative content analysis of in-text citations in choral pedagogy books published between 1989- 2009. MA dissertation, University of Kansas.

Kiyanmehr, Ehteram (2007). A citation analysis of articles published in journals in Library and Information Science (1996- 2003). national studies on librarianship and information organization, 18(2), 101-122. (In Persian)

Mohammadi, Mehdi ; Mottaghi Dadgar, Amir (2006). A citation analysis of articles published in 30 issues of Library and Information Science Journals" between the years 1997- 2005. Library and Information Science Quarterly, 10(2), 7-35. (In Persian)

Osareh, Farideh (1986). Study the status of Persian cited in medical journals, journals of Medical School, University of Tehran, Shahid Beheshti and Mashhad in 1975- 1986. MS Thesis, Tehran University. (In Persian)

Sen, P. K. (2000). Symbols and formulas for a number of bibliometric (Mahmoud Salari, Translator). Library and Information Quarterly, 3 (1), 129- 144. (In Persian)

Shichor, David (1982). An analysis of citations in introductory criminology textbooks: a research note. Journal of Criminal Justice, 10, 231- 237.