Conceptions of library and information science: historical, empirical, and theoretical perspectives
Conceptions of library and information science: historical, empirical, and theoretical perspectives
The evolution of library and information science 1965–1985: a content analysis of journal articles
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Visualizing a discipline: an author co-citation analysis of information science, 1972–1995
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Do deans publish what they preach?
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Bibliometric overview of library and information science research in Spain
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Aspects of JASIS authorship through five decades
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue on the 50th anniversary of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science: part 1: the journal, its society, and the future of print
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue on the 50th anniversary of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science: part 1: the journal, its society, and the future of print
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Bibliometric cartography of information retrieval research by using co-word analysis
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Scholarly use of the web: what are the key inducers of links to journal web sites?
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Information science research agenda in Slovakia: history and emerging vision
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Visible, less visible, and invisible work: patterns of collaboration in 20th century chemistry
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Towards mapping library and information science
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue: Informetrics
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Assessing the value of a journal beyond the impact factor
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Timelines of creativity: A study of intellectual innovators in information science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
The shifting balance of intellectual trade in information studies
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
The sociological turn in information science
Journal of Information Science
Conference proceedings as a source of scientific information: A bibliometric analysis
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Webometric analysis of departments of librarianship and information science: a follow-up study
Journal of Information Science
The decline in the concentration of citations, 1900–2007
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Citation levels and collaboration within library and information science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of Information Science
Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences
Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of Information Science
Journal clustering through interlocking editorship information
Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem - Volume 47
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of Information Science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
International coauthorship and citation impact: A bibliometric study of six LIS journals, 1980–2008
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
The cognitive structure of Library and Information Science: Analysis of article title words
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Biobibliometric profiling: An examination of multifaceted approaches to scholarship
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Intellectual diversity and the faculty composition of ischools
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
'So wide and varied': The origins and character of British information science
Journal of Information Science
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This paper presents a condensed history of Library and Information Science (LIS) over the course of more than a century using a variety of bibliometric measures. It examines in detail the variable rate of knowledge production in the field, shifts in subject coverage, the dominance of particular publication genres at different times, prevailing modes of production, interactions with other disciplines, and, more generally, observes how the field has evolved. It shows that, despite a striking growth in the number of journals, papers, and contributing authors, a decrease was observed in the field's market-share of all social science and humanities research. Collaborative authorship is now the norm, a pattern seen across the social sciences. The idea of boundary crossing was also examined: in 2010, nearly 60% of authors who published in LIS also published in another discipline. This high degree of permeability in LIS was also demonstrated through reference and citation practices: LIS scholars now cite and receive citations from other fields more than from LIS itself. Two major structural shifts are revealed in the data: in 1960, LIS changed from a professional field focused on librarianship to an academic field focused on information and use; and in 1990, LIS began to receive a growing number of citations from outside the field, notably from Computer Science and Management, and saw a dramatic increase in the number of authors contributing to the literature of the field. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.