Publication Patterns of Science, Technology, and Medical Librarians: Review of the 2008-2012 Published Research

摘要

This article reviews science librarianship research from 2008-2012 by using the following four Library and Information Science (LIS) journals: Health Information & Libraries Journal, Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship, Journal of the Medical Library Association, and Science & Technology Libraries. The texts of 574 articles were analyzed and classified as research versus non-research. Articles, such as news, commentary, book reviews, editorials, meeting announcements and opinion pieces were excluded from the analysis. 311 (54.18 percent) research articles were examined in order to collect data on numerous variables including but not limited to authorship, affiliation, topic, type of research, data collection, data and analysis techniques.