A new German-language article provides a visualisation of the connections between authors in the information literacy field. BibExcel was used to extract the data and do the co-citation mapping etc. and VOSviewer provided the visualisation function. The analysis was carried out on 1589 articles on information literacy (identified by searching "information literacy" or "information literacies" on Web of Science and restricting to articles, reviews or proceedings (Jaklitsch, 2015). As well as showing the connections between authors, Jaklitsch identifies clusters which he identifies with research fields and disciplinary knowledge bases. Thus I am in the cluster of "Information Literacy in sociocultural context" and "phenomenography". I was drawn to it both because my name is in it and because I can speak German, but even without German skills you may find it interesting for the network diagrams and tables, which don't require much translation (and there's always Google Translate!).
Jaklitsch, M. (2016).
Informationsvisualisierung am Beispiel des Begriffs Informationskompetenz: eine szientometrische Untersuchung unter Verwendung von BibExcel und VOSviewer. [Information visualisation: a scientometric investigation using BbExcle and VOSviewer: the example of information Literacy]
Young Information Scientist, 1, 31–43.
https://yis.univie.ac.at/index.php/yis/article/view/1417/1251
The dissertation upon which this article is based is: Jaklitsch, M. (2015)
Informationsvisualisierung am Beispiel des Begriffs Informationskompetenz : eine szientometrische Untersuchung unter Verwendung von BibExcel und VOSviewer. Masters thesis, University of Graz.
http://unipub.uni-graz.at/obvugrhs/content/titleinfo/789574
Young Information Scientist is a new open-access peer-reviewed journal published by the Austrian information science association:
Verein zur Förderung für Informationswissenschaft (VFI)
Photo by Sheila Webber: Kaffee und Kuchen in Tamper, July 2016
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