Abstract

Information World (Bilgi Dünyası) is one of the most important scientific and professional journals in library and ınformation science (information management) in Turkey. It has been supporting the librarianship and profession with its publishing life for 20 years. The aim of this study is to make a quantitative analysis of Information World in terms of publication types, author and subject elements between 2000-2019. Within the scope of the study carried out with the description method, refereed articles, reviews and opinion papers published in 40 issues along 20 years were examined. As a result of the study, a total of 436 articles, 229 of which were refereed articles, 97 were reviews, 88 were opinion papers, and 22 were other articles, between 2000 and 2019. An average of 5.5 refereed articles were published in each issue. It has been understood that the annual changes in the number of articles in the journal are not in a certain balance, and the annual subject changes vary largely depending on the authors’ expertise and emerging issues in the field of librarianship. At the end of the study, it was proposed to professionalize and institutionalize the journal management structure as a strategic goal.

Keywords: Information World journal, Library and information science, Information management, Turkey

References

  1. Atılgan, D., Atakan, C. ve Bulut, B. (2008). Türkçe kütüphanecilik dergilerinin atıf analizi. Türk Kütüphaneciliği, 22(4), 392 – 413.
  2. Bahşişoğlu, H. K., Duran, Z. C. ve Yıldızeli, A. (2007). Mesleki ve bilimsel bir dergi: Bilgi Dünyası. Aytaç Yıldızeli ve Hatice Kübra Bahşişoğlu (Ed.), Adile Günden Anısına Armağan: Bilgiye Erişimde Değişen Yollar ve II. Tıbbi Bilgi Yönetimi ve Teknolojileri Sempozyumu içinde (ss.78-88). Ankara: ÜNAK.
  3. Bilgi Dünyası. (2019). Ana sayfa. http://bilgidunyasi.xyz/index.php/bd adresinden erişildi.
  4. Bilgi Dünyası. (2019a). Hakkında. http://bilgidunyasi.xyz/index.php/bd/about adresinden erişildi.
  5. Bilgi Dünyası. (2019b). Dergi tarihçesi. http://bilgidunyasi.xyz/index.php/bd/about/history adresinden erişildi.
  6. Taşkın, Z. ve Çakmak, T. (2010). Başlangıcından bugüne Bilgi Dünyası dergisinin bibliyometrik profili. Bilgi Dünyası, 11(2), 332-348.
  7. Tonta, Y. (2002). Türk Kütüphaneciliği dergisi, 1987-2001. Türk Kütüphaneciliği, 16(3), 282-320.

License

Copyright (c) 2020 The author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.

How to Cite

Yılmaz, B. (2020). Information World Journal: A Quantitative Evaluation in Terms of Articles, Authors and Subjects for the Period of 2000-2019. Information World, 21(2), 403-419. https://doi.org/10.15612/BD.2020.595