How important is software to library and information science research? A content analysis of full-text publications |
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| Authors: | Xuelian Pan Erjia Yan Ming Cui Weina Hua |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Information Management, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China;2. College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA |
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| Abstract: | We investigate the contributions of scientific software to library and information science (LIS) research using a sample of 572 English language articles published in 13 journals in 2008, 2011, 2014, and 2017. In particular, we examine the use and citation of software freely available for academic use in the LIS literature; we also explore the extent to which researchers follow software citation instructions provided by software developers. Twenty-seven percent of the LIS journal articles in our sample explicitly mention and use software. Yet although LIS researchers are becoming increasingly reliant on software that is freely available for academic use, many still fail to include formal citations of such software in their publications. We also find that a substantial proportion of researchers, when documenting software use, do not cite the software in the manner recommended by its developers. |
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| Keywords: | Software citation Citation analysis Software Bibliometrics Scholarly communication |
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