Research synthesis and ILS Shared research problems, limited

diffusionLaura Sheble22 Nov 2013

ILS & research synthesis

Information and library science (ILS) is a “meta-discipline,” a discipline that interfaces with the subject matter of other disciplines in ways that have value for society (Bates, 1999).

This characteristic of ILS is especially important in the context of research synthesis methods (RSM), a family of methods that has altered practices in, and evaluation of research in medicine, public health, psychology, education, and other fields (Bastian, Glasziou, & Chalmers, 2010; Cooper & Hedges, 1994).

Bates, M.J. (1999). The invisible substrate of information science. JASIS, 50(12), 1043-1050.

Bastian, H., Glasziou, P., & Chalmers, I. (2010). Seventy-five trials and eleven systematic reviews a day: How will we ever keep up? PLoS Medicine, 7(9).

Cooper, H., & Hedges, L.V. (1994). Handbook of research synthesis and meta-analysis. NY: Russell Sage.

Intersection of ILS & research synthesis

USE research synthesis

CONTRIBUTE to research synthesis in OTHER FIELDS

RESEARCH TOPICS of ILS central to synthesisIR

Scholarly communicationLiterature fragmentation

Social, cognitive patterns, biases, evaluation

Writing & publishing practices

Access to literature, data (ownership, representation)

Availability, access over time (archives, curation of literature, data, study reports)

Information systems, infrastructure

About the study data

Number and locations of research synthesis publications

ISLS

Journal locations

ISLS(primary articles)

Citing PublicationsReferenced Publications

ISLS(primary articles)

ReferencedPublications

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Citing PublicationsReferenced Publications

N publications = 5855w/o Venkatesh et al.

Diff = citing − cited