Abstract
Science’s development occurs rapidly, so that the literature with the latest information has been created and causes the old literature to become obsolete. This is one of the impacts of the development of science known as literature obsolescence. This article analyzes the obsolescence of literature from Jurnal Kajian Informasi & Perpustakaan (JKIP) Universitas Padjadjaran in 2015-2019. The method used is bibliometrics with citation analysis. Literature obsolescence can be determined by analyzing the half-life of the article. The data was obtained from the JKIP website, then the citations from each article were analyzed to obtain the half-life of the article. The results of the citation analysis on 14 articles with total of 1.254 citations obtained that the half-life of JKIP in 2015-2019 was 7,012 years. From the half-life of JKIP articles, the obsolescence of JKIP literature in 2015-2019 is 63% with 789 new citations and 464 obsolete citations.
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