Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to find out which research topics and methods in information science (IS) articles are used in other disciplines as indicated by citations.

Design/methodology/approach

The study analyzes citations to articles in IS published in 31 scholarly IS journals in 2015. The study employs content analysis of articles published in 2015 receiving citations from publication venues representing IS and other disciplines in the citation window 2015–2021. The unit of analysis is the article-citing discipline pair. The data set consists of 1178 IS articles cited altogether 25 K times through 5 K publication venues. Each citation is seen as a contribution to the citing document’s discipline by the cited article, which represents some IS subareas and methodologies, and the author team's disciplinary composition, which is inferred from the authors’ affiliations.

Findings

The results show that the citation profiles of disciplines vary depending on research topics, methods and author disciplines. Disciplines external to IS are typically cited in IS articles authored by scholars with the same background. Thus, the export of ideas from IS to other disciplines is evidently smaller than the earlier findings claim. IS should not be credited for contributions by other disciplines published in IS literature.

Originality/value

This study is the first to analyze which research topics and methods in the articles of IS are of use in other disciplines as indicated by citations.

中文翻译：

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谁引用了信息科学的贡献？

目的

本文的目的是找出信息科学（IS）文章中的哪些研究主题和方法被引用到其他学科中。

设计/方法论/途径

该研究分析了 2015 年 31 种 IS 学术期刊上发表的 IS 文章的引用情况。该研究对 2015 年发表的文章进行了内容分析，这些文章在 2015 年至 2021 年的引用窗口中收到了代表 IS 和其他学科的出版场所的引用。分析单位是文章-引用学科对。该数据集由 1178 篇 IS 文章组成，在 5000 个出版场所总共被引用了 25K 次。每次引用都被被引用的文章视为对引用文献学科的贡献，该文章代表了一些 IS 子领域和方法论，以及作者团队的学科构成（从作者的隶属关系推断出）。

发现

结果表明，学科的引用情况因研究主题、方法和作者学科而异。 IS 外部的学科通常在具有相同背景的学者撰写的 IS 文章中引用。因此，从信息系统向其他学科输出的思想显然比早期的调查结果声称的要小。 IS 文献中发表的其他学科的贡献不应被归功于 IS。

原创性/价值

本研究首次根据引文分析 IS 文章中的哪些研究主题和方法可用于其他学科。