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Explicating the trends of information literacy studies in the higher education context: A pilot study
Author(s) -
Kim Sung Un,
Lee Yong Gu
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
proceedings of the association for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.193
H-Index - 14
ISSN - 2373-9231
DOI - 10.1002/pra2.2017.14505401132
Subject(s) - period (music) , information literacy , context (archaeology) , literacy , higher education , sample (material) , library science , social science , psychology , sociology , pedagogy , geography , political science , computer science , archaeology , chemistry , physics , chromatography , acoustics , law
This study aims to explicate the trends of information literacy studies in the higher education context. As a pilot study of a larger study, 1,711 articles published from January 1988 to May 2017 were selected and analyzed in terms of publication year, themes, published journals and authorship. Analysis of publications by year demonstrates four distinct periods of information literacy research with different publication patterns: development period (1988–2001), 1 st proliferation period (2002–2008), maintenance (or stand‐still) period (2009–2012) and 2 nd proliferation period (2013–2017). Results on themes, published journals and authorship of the sample articles show not only the general patterns but also their possible association with the four periods of information literacy research. This study contributes to providing a holistic picture of information literacy research particularly in higher education.