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Information Science and Libraries

Information Science and Libraries is a research topic within Information Systems. Science Explorer counts 12k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics within the field of Information Science, including information policy, information mediation, society's access to information, information management, library science, archival studies, transparency, and cultural mediation. The papers explore the intersection of information with society, governance, education, and technology.

  • Information Science
  • Information Policy
  • Mediação da Informação
  • Sociedade da Informação
  • Acesso à Informação
  • Gestão da Informação
  • Biblioteconomia
  • Arquivologia
  • Transparência
  • Mediação Cultural
Research works
12k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-27%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Brazil
88% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Information Science and Libraries

Which countries lead Information Science and Libraries research?

By volume, Brazil and Portugal publish the most (2.2k and 98 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Brazil 2.2k works
  2. 2 Portugal 98 works
  3. 3 United States 66 works
  4. 4 Spain 46 works
  5. 5 Argentina 18 works
  6. 6 ?? 16 works
  7. 7 France 13 works
  8. 8 Mexico 13 works
  9. 9 Chile 10 works
  10. 10 Colombia 8 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Brazil: 88.4%Portugal: 3.9%United States: 2.7%Spain: 1.9%6 others listed: 3.1%88%largest
Brazil2,188 · 88.4%Portugal98 · 3.9%United States66 · 2.7%Spain46 · 1.9%6 others listed78 · 3.1%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Information Science and Libraries research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) publishes the most Information Science and Libraries research, followed by Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 100 works
  2. 2 Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 96 works
  3. 3 Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 83 works
  4. 4 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 81 works
  5. 5 Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e TecnologiaBrazil 74 works
  6. 6 Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 69 works
  7. 7 Universidade Federal de PernambucoBrazil 68 works
  8. 8 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 67 works
  9. 9 Universidade Federal da ParaíbaBrazil 65 works
  10. 10 Universidade Federal FluminenseBrazil 59 works

Who are the leading researchers in Information Science and Libraries?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Information Science and Libraries include Bárbara Niegia Garcia de Goulart.

  1. 1 Bárbara Niegia Garcia de Goulart Brazil 50k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Information Science and Libraries?

The most cited paper in Information Science and Libraries is "O Desafio do Conhecimento" (Senhora Silva Lima, Senhora Santos Costa e Silva, Senhora Arimateia Magalhães et al., 2014), with 1,577 citations. Next come "Engenharia de Software" (1,348) and "O manifesto da transdisciplinaridade" (810).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 O Desafio do Conhecimento Senhora Silva Lima, Senhora Santos Costa e Silva, Senhora Arimateia Magalhães et al. · LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) 5 May 2014 1,577
2 Engenharia de Software Jair Cavalcanti Leite · Computação Brasil. Open access Nov 2018 1,348
3 O manifesto da transdisciplinaridade Carlos Alberto Pereira Silva 7 Jul 2007 810
4 USE OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE MANAGER IN THE SELECTION OF PRIMARY STUDIES IN INTEGRATIVE REVIEWS Karina Dal Sasso Mendes, Renata Cristina de Campos Pereira Silveira, Cristina María Galvão · Texto & Contexto - Enfermagem Open access 2019 549
5 Retratos da Leitura no Brasil Maria de Fátima Tonin Lunardi Correa · Revista Contrapontos Open access 23 Aug 2010 507
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Information Science and Libraries research done?

The largest centres of Information Science and Libraries research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Brasília (Brazil) and Belo Horizonte (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in João Pessoa, Londrina and Brasília.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 275 works
  2. 2 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 202 works
  3. 3 BrasíliaBrazil 180 works
  4. 4 Belo HorizonteBrazil 138 works
  5. 5 FlorianópolisBrazil 112 works
  6. 6 Porto AlegreBrazil 96 works
  7. 7 RecifeBrazil 81 works
  8. 8 SalvadorBrazil 76 works
  9. 9 João PessoaBrazil 70 works
  10. 10 NiteróiBrazil 59 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. João PessoaBR · 69.9 works64×
  2. LondrinaBR · 33.7 works59×
  3. BrasíliaBR · 179.6 works56×
  4. FlorianópolisBR · 112.0 works52×
  5. NiteróiBR · 59.2 works51×
  6. MaceióBR · 32.6 works47×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Information Science and Libraries than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Information Science and Libraries?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) and Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%30%mean 12.03%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Pontifícia Universid…Universidade de São …Universidade Federal…Universidade Estadua…
above the meannear itbelow it

One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 69.210.7%48.0×81 +19.3%
2Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 63.69.7%56.1×100 -50.4%
3Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São PauloBrazil 62.227.3%34.3×15 +0.2%
4Universidade de São PauloBrazil 60.610.8%15.3×67 -34.3%
5Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 59.512.3%58.3×83 -48.0%
6Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 59.09.1%60.1×96 -40.4%
7Universidade Federal de PernambucoBrazil 58.58.5%63.4×68 +3.5%
8Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 58.19.7%55.8×69 -36.5%
9Universidade Federal de São CarlosBrazil 56.616.1%30.4×25 -59.1%
10Universidade Federal da BahiaBrazil 54.76.1%64.8×40 +15.9%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Information Science and Libraries, country by country

Is Information Science and Libraries research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 27% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2018.

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grewheldshrank

The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Information Science and Libraries as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.012% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Information Science and Libraries0.0098% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Information Science and Libraries over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Information Science and Libraries10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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