Keyword Co-occurrence Network of Library and Information Science Books Based on Book Citation Index

Word co-occurrence is a method for studying the intellectual structure of knowledge in various subjects. Experts in science assessment studies use it to map the relationship between concepts and ideas in basic and social sciences. The main goal of the present research is to draw the intellectual structure of library and information science books based on book citation index.

The present study is an applied research based on word co-occurrence and social network analysis. The statistical population of this research includes 16499 books indexed in the field of librarianship and information in Web of Science. BibExcel, UCINET, and NetDraw were used in this study to homogenize and analyze the data.

The most frequent co-word pairs were "ISO 9001-Quality Management Systems with a frequency of 12" and "Librarian-Web 2 with a frequency of 10." Cluster analysis showed six clusters of "scientific communication and digital publications," "library management and social participation," "information policy and technology management," "education and leadership in information services," "management and governance," and "digital network and development of the library and information science profession" in this study. Also, the keywords participation, library and information literacy had the highest degree centrality with 68, 55 and 47. The keywords research case, information and politics had the highest close centrality with 254, 253 and 252. Finally, the keywords participation, information literacy and library had the highest centrality index with 826/582, 518/835 and 512/802. The findings also indicate that about 16% of the books published in this subject area aligned with the fourth goal of sustainable development, quality education.

The keywords "participation," "library," "information literacy," "university library," and "librarian" play a significant and decisive role in social network of librarianship and information books in drawing the map of science.