This study investigates the top authors,the most frequent keywords in selected top Chinese and international journals in academic librarian ship,and emergent themes by conducting network and cluster analysis.The resul...This study investigates the top authors,the most frequent keywords in selected top Chinese and international journals in academic librarian ship,and emergent themes by conducting network and cluster analysis.The results suggest that LIS researchers in China's Mainland were less active in publishing articles in international journals during the period examined.Chinese researchers fo cused more on reading promotion and new technology implementation in libraries,while international researchers discuss communications among diverse disciplines more.Drawing international subject librarians’practices could be an approach to transform Chinese academic libraries to cope with the library crisis by playing a role as a bridge among scholars from various disciplines.展开更多
文摘This study investigates the top authors,the most frequent keywords in selected top Chinese and international journals in academic librarian ship,and emergent themes by conducting network and cluster analysis.The results suggest that LIS researchers in China's Mainland were less active in publishing articles in international journals during the period examined.Chinese researchers fo cused more on reading promotion and new technology implementation in libraries,while international researchers discuss communications among diverse disciplines more.Drawing international subject librarians’practices could be an approach to transform Chinese academic libraries to cope with the library crisis by playing a role as a bridge among scholars from various disciplines.
