The Study of the Thematic Structure of Special Libraries: Co-word Analysis and Network Analysis

Specialized libraries have a significant role in the strategic position of the organization, need to meet the human resource information needs and provide tailored plans for the growth of the organization. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to examine the thematic structure of articles related to specialized libraries during the years 1999-2017 by the method of coword analysis. The present study, with a scientometric approach, has studied the co-occurrence thematic of articles in specialized libraries. A total of 1976 articles (1999-2017) was extracted from his web of science by searching for "Special librar * along with other searches related to specialized libraries." Data analysis after integration using software Netdraw, Ucinet, Ravar PreMap. The findings showed that according to indicators of closeness and betweenness centrality, concepts such as health care, information services, management of specialized libraries, competence, etc. are among the most used topics in this field and most of the scientific outputs related to the United States and England belongs. The results showed that the main focus of the articles on specialized libraries related to human issues in the library. In other words, more attention has been paid to the issues of librarians and library staff. The lack of topics such as resource storage and retrieval, performance measurement, library design, and construction, etc., is a sign of less attention by researchers in these areas.