Evaluation of Journals and Researchers in Library and Information Science: Perspectives from Citations by Taiwan LIS Scholars

This article uses bibliometric analysis to study the evaluation of journals and researchers in the field of library and information science in Taiwan. For journal evaluation, the results show no statistically significant difference between the rankings of the citations cited by top LIS journals and by THCI journals. This suggests that the citation numbers of top LIS journals can be used to evaluate all the LIS journals. The results also show that the relationship between the rankings of JCR LIS journals and the rankings of the JCR LIS journals cited by top LIS journals is not statistically significant. This indicates that the rankings of the JCR LIS journals can not totally show their impacts on Taiwan LIS journals. For researcher evaluation, the results reveal that the correlation between the rankings of researchers cited by top LIS journals and the number of the research projects of National Science Council (NSC) conducted by the researchers is not significant. This suggests using citation analyses as the only method to evaluate LIS researchers should be viewed with more prudence with the results.