2022
2022 CRKN Conference: Strength in Community
Online & in Montreal
October 03 - November 02, 2022
By Our Powers Combined: Bridging Collections Analysis and Bibliometrics, using Researcher Article Citations to Assess Collection Impact
Wednesday October 05, 2022
From 4:15pm to 4:30pm
Confronting the variety and breadth of journals available, as well as the potential of dismantling Big Deals can be overwhelming. Together, bibliometrics and collections analysis can help address these pressing topics and provide some clarity.
Confronting the variety and breadth of journals available, as well as the potential of dismantling Big Deals can be overwhelming. Together, bibliometrics and collections analysis can help address these pressing topics and provide some clarity.
Collections analysis addresses this problem by taking a data-informed perspective, such as using COUNTER journal usage data, to support collections management decisions. However, journal usage data tells us only part of the story, leaving out what type of user accessed the literature or how it has been used. Bibliometrics can fill this gap, and together, they provide a more holistic understanding of users’ needs. Librarians can employ bibliometrics in their effort to understand which journals have relevance to the research community, strengthen their digital collections and strive to unbundle the Big Deals.
In this presentation, I will highlight the intersections of bibliometrics and collections analysis to understand to what extent our journal collection addresses the research needs of our publishing community. I will focus on an ongoing project that analyzes citation data pulled from the Scopus API for three distinct years (2019-2021). The Scopus database is multidisciplinary, but focused on
STEM fields. A host of tools, such as Excel and OpenRefine are used to clean and analyze the data. I will share lessons learned as they pertain to my quest to understand our scholars’ research needs and look ahead to the potential applications for unbundling.
