Content Analysis of Research Articles in Library and Information Science.

Abstract

A content analysis of the research of library and information science (LIS) is reported. The aim of the study is to find out how international research in LIS is distributed over various topics and what approaches and methods have been used to investigate these topics. The study sample consists of 833 articles published during 1985 in 37 core journals in LIS. Complete articles of the journals were analyzed according to 11 variables covering their topic, approach, and mehtod