Online/Virtual Event
Wednesday, April 10th 2024 from 1:00pm
to 2:00pm
See a recording of this webinar here.
Bibliometrics, also known as an analysis of scientific literature, is one of the most popular data analysis techniques used among librarians. Although it originated in the library and information science field, these days it is commonly used among many others to assess and evaluate certain literature or trends within a specific context, helping researchers measure the impact a work has on academic literature as a whole. The proliferation of web-based indexes, particularly Scopus and Web of Science, has made it easy to retrieve and analyze large volumes of bibliometric data. This webinar introduces major bibliometric techniques that make use of such indexes, and showcases some examples of published work that demonstrates its use in LIS.
By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Evaluate individual author's, institutions’, or countries’ scientific productivity
- Examine the scientific growth or trend of any given research field
- Investigate the scientific impact of any given publication
About our presenter:
Selenay Aytac, PhD., MA, MBA, MS is Professor of University Libraries at Long Island University, New York. She received a Senior Fulbright Scholarship to conduct research at the Bogazici University Telecommunication and Information Technologies Research Center in Istanbul. She was a library research fellow at the Princeton University Library for the AY 2019-2020. She was the recipient of 2007 ALISE/Bohdan S. Wynar Research Paper Award with the paper Recent Library Practitioner Research: A Methodological Analysis and Critique.