Content Analysis of Articles on Reading Culture and Habits: A Case of LIS Journals Indexed in Science Direct And ISC

This study aims to analyze the content of reading culture, reading development strategies, and the application of technology to expand reading habits published in LIS journals indexed in ScienceDirect and ISC. This study is an applied-descriptive study in terms of its objectives. This study is also a part of Scientometrics and employs content analysis. A total of 363 articles from the ScienceDirect database and 82 articles from the ISC database were selected using purposive sampling, in which "word" was taken as the registration unit and "article" as the unit of analysis. The data were collected using a researcher-made checklist whose validity was reviewed and confirmed by experts, and its reliability was measured using the kappa coefficient (κ) with an interrater agreement of 0.7. The findings of this study showed that out of 445 articles reviewed, about 120 articles addressed the reading culture, 273 articles focused on reading development strategies, and 52 articles assessed the application of technology to expand reading skills. The research method most frequently used in the reviewed articles was the descriptive method. Besides, students constituted the most extensive research population. Encouraging students to engage in reading, teaching, and promoting effective reading methods and access to free digital books and publications wherever possible had the highest rankings among the extracted categories related to the reading culture, reading development strategies, and the application of technology to promote reading habits. Besides, the reviewed articles addressed practical methods of promoting reading habits. Our data highlighted the importance of reading and belief in its value in societies. Thus, there is no way to achieve scientific, cultural, and economic growth and prosperity other than expanding the community's constant and goal-directed reading habits. To this end, establishing school libraries and developing reading habits in children and adolescents need to receive more attention. In recent years, due to fundamental changes in social institutions, improving the quality of education has also received special attention.