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Library Science and Information Systems

Library Science and Information Systems is a research topic within Information Systems. Science Explorer counts 11k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the management and standardization of name authority control in bibliographic repositories, emphasizing the transition to Resource Description and Access (RDA), implementation of Linked Data and Semantic Web technologies, and the evolution of cataloging standards. It also explores the challenges and benefits of adopting new metadata frameworks, such as BIBFRAME, and the impact on library linked data and metadata quality.

  • Resource Description and Access
  • Linked Data
  • Bibliographic Framework
  • Semantic Web
  • Cataloging Standards
  • Metadata Quality
  • Library Linked Data
  • FRBR Model
  • Name Identifiers
  • Digital Repositories
Research works
11k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+31%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
37% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Library Science and Information Systems

Which countries lead Library Science and Information Systems research?

By volume, the United States and Germany publish the most (529 and 347 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 529 works
  2. 2 Germany 347 works
  3. 3 Italy 125 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 123 works
  5. 5 France 65 works
  6. 6 Canada 55 works
  7. 7 Netherlands 48 works
  8. 8 India 48 works
  9. 9 Spain 44 works
  10. 10 Austria 39 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.

United States: 37.2%Germany: 24.4%Italy: 8.8%United Kingdom: 8.6%6 others listed: 21.0%37%largest
United States529 · 37.2%Germany347 · 24.4%Italy125 · 8.8%United Kingdom123 · 8.6%6 others listed298 · 21.0%

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

Which institutions lead Library Science and Information Systems research?

By volume in 2022-now, Medical Library Association publishes the most Library Science and Information Systems research, followed by Leibniz Association and Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Medical Library AssociationUnited States 69 works
  2. 2 Leibniz AssociationGermany 40 works
  3. 3 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 18 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 18 works
  5. 5 University of BolognaItaly 17 works
  6. 6 Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinGermany 13 works
  7. 7 National Research CouncilItaly 13 works
  8. 8 Russian State LibraryRussia 12 works
  9. 9 Deutsche NationalbibliothekGermany 11 works
  10. 10 Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and SciencesNetherlands 10 works

Who are the leading researchers in Library Science and Information Systems?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Library Science and Information Systems include Julie Glanville and V. Sharma.

  1. 1 Julie Glanville United Kingdom 179k citations
  2. 2 V. Sharma France 178k 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 Library Science and Information Systems?

The most cited paper in Library Science and Information Systems is "1. The power of databases: The RRUFF project" (Barbara Lafuente, R. T. Downs, Heng‐Li Yang et al., 2015), with 1,233 citations. Next come "Normalized names for clinical drugs: RxNorm at 6 years" (479) and "Bradford's Law and the Bibliography of Science" (462).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 1. The power of databases: The RRUFF project Barbara Lafuente, R. T. Downs, Heng‐Li Yang et al. Book chapter 11 Nov 2015 1,233
2 Normalized names for clinical drugs: RxNorm at 6 years Stuart J. Nelson, Kelly Zeng, John Kilbourne et al. · Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Open access 22 Apr 2011 479
3 Bradford's Law and the Bibliography of Science B. C. BROOKES · Nature Dec 1969 462
4 Linked data on the web (LDOW2008) Christian Bizer, Tom Heath, Kingsley Idehen et al. Conference paperOpen access 21 Apr 2008 394
5 The Scottish Record Linkage System. Stephen W. Kendrick, Jessica A. Clarke · PubMed Mar 1993 377
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Library Science and Information Systems research done?

The largest centres of Library Science and Information Systems research in 2022-now are Chicago (United States), Berlin (Germany), London (United Kingdom) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Chicago.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ChicagoUnited States 81 works
  2. 2 BerlinGermany 58 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 36 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 26 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 23 works
  6. 6 RomeItaly 22 works
  7. 7 ViennaAustria 21 works
  8. 8 MoscowRussia 21 works
  9. 9 HanoverGermany 20 works
  10. 10 Washington D.C.United States 20 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ChicagoUS · 80.6 works17×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

See Library Science and Information Systems on the map

Where is the best place to study Library Science and Information Systems?

Among universities, judged by research, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, University of Bologna and The Ohio State University 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%mean 7.34286%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →The Ohio State Unive…Humboldt-Universität…University of BolognaUniversity of Mannheim
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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
1Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinGermany 80.513.0%21.2×13 +94.8%
2University of BolognaItaly 74.310.0%11.9×17 +5.6%
3The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 50.014.4%4.0×8 +182.4%
4University of MannheimGermany 42.83.9%55.4×9 -
5KU LeuvenBelgium 38.01.6%5.8×9 +130.3%
6RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany 31.95.2%6.9×9 +100.6%
7Friedrich Schiller University JenaGermany 16.93.3%16.1×9 -32.8%

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 Library Science and Information Systems, country by country

Is Library Science and Information Systems research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 31% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Library Science and Information Systems.

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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 Library Science and Information Systems as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0066% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Library Science and Information Systems0.012% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Library Science and Information Systems 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%Library Science and Information Systems9.5% 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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