Visual representation of knowledge in the field of Library and Information Science of IRAN

Sabetpour, Afsoon; Fadaie, Gholamreza; Naghshineh, Nader; Ghobadpour, Vafa

doi:10.35050/JIPM010.2015.026

Visual representation of knowledge in the field of Library and Information Science of IRAN

Authors

Afsoon Sabetpour

Gholamreza Fadaie

Nader Naghshineh

Vafa Ghobadpour

10.35050/JIPM010.2015.026

Abstract

Purpose: The present research has been done to visual representation of knowledge and determination vacuum and density points of scientific trends of faculty members of state universities of IRAN in Library & Information Science field. Method: Curriculum Vitae of each faculty member with census method were collected and its content analyzed. Then using a checklist, the rate scientific tendencies were extracted. NodeXL software was deployed to map out the levels. Results: The results showed that the trends are concentrated in Scientometrics, Research method in Library & Information Science, information organization, information resources, psychology, Education, Management, the Web, Knowledge management, Academic Libraries, Information services, Information Theories and collection management. Apparently, the Library & Information Science community of experts pays little or no attention to the Library & Information Science applications in the fields of chemistry, Cartography, museum, law, art, school libraries as well as to independent subject clusters such as minorities in library, information architecture, mentoring in library science, library automation, preservation, oral history, cybernetics, copyright, information marketing and information economy. Lack of efforts on these areas is remarkable.

Keywords

Information visualization

Knowledge visualization

Knowledge map of Library and information science

Knowledge base communities

scientific communities