Are We on the Same Page about Data Sharing? A Bibliometric Comparison Between Biomedicine and Information Science Literature

Abstract

ABSTRACTData sharing has been an extensively discussed subject in both the information science and biomedicine communities. However, the two communities do not seem to speak to each other. Such an absence of exchange of perspectives can lead to siloed knowledge, duplicated work, and hindered collaboration. To uncover existing knowledge gaps, this poster depicts the bibliometric relationships between relevant literature in the fields of information science and library science (ISLS) and biomedicine and health sciences (BMHS). The findings demonstrate stronger bibliographic couplings within ISLS publications and between ISLS and multidisciplinary science publications, compared to the BMHS group. In addition, the examined ISLS and BMHS publications exhibit distinct topical foci on open science. This poster is expected to serve as a first step toward stimulating more conversations in the information science community, as well as bringing the discussions to the biomedicine community in the near future.