Bibliometric-enhanced information retrieval (bir): A scientometrics assessment of global publications output during 1989-2020

Abstract

The study examines quantitative and qualitative features of global research output (557) in the domain of Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR), an upcoming field of research in the discipline of library and information science. The data for the study was sourced from the Scopus database for the period 1989-2020. The BIR research at the global level registered (22.17%) annual average growth and averaged research impact of (21.69%) citations per paper since publication. Although a total of 60 countries had participated in the subject, the distribution of research by country of publication is highly skewed. The top 10 most productive countries in the world alone account for the largest (92.64%) global publications share and (93.16%) global citations share in the subject. At the institutional level, the distribution of research in the subject is scattered across a total of 290 global organizations. The top 10 most productive organizations alone account for (22.62%) global publication share and a (15.55%) global citation share. The top 10 authors contributed (21.36%) global publication share and (6.57%) global citation share respectively during the period. The most productive institute in the subject is the Leibniz Institute of Social Sciences, Germany (30 papers). The Indiana University Bloomington, USA (74.25% and 3.42%) is the most cited institute in the world. P. Mayr (30 papers) is the most prolific author in the world and Y. Ding (126% and 1.71%) the most cited author in the subject. The Journal of the Medical Library Association (24 papers) and Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (18 papers) are the most productive journals on this theme.