Four-facets study of scholarly communities: Artifact, producer, concept, and gatekeeper
✍ Scribed by Chaoqun Ni; Cassidy R. Sugimoto
- Publisher
- Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 214 KB
- Volume
- 48
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0044-7870
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✦ Synopsis
This short paper compares the clustering of journals through three elements identified by Borgman (1989) as the main variables for bibliometric research: artifacts, producers, and concepts. In addition, this work extends this framework by adding "gatekeepers" as a variable. Fifty-eight journals from Information Science and Library Science (IS/LS) category in Journal Citation Reports were studied and clustered according to these four variables: producer, artifact, concept and gate keeper. The results demonstrate difference in clustering through these variables and the degree of the relationship between the variables. The discussion argues for more holistic measurements of scholarly communication that take multiple variables into account. This work is highly relevant in our assessment-conscious and metricsdriven age.