{"id":103,"date":"2011-08-31T17:14:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T05:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/?p=103"},"modified":"2011-08-31T17:14:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T05:14:00","slug":"bibliographic-analysis-for-fun-and-collection-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/bibliographic-analysis-for-fun-and-collection-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Bibliographic analysis for fun and collection development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know how you get a brand new hammer and suddenly you notice all these nails sticking out?<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve been working more with Ref2RIS.  And in the meantime some of my colleagues and I were talking about analysing researchers&#8217; bibliographies for <strike>nefarious<\/strike> purposes, and I suddenly realised that doing such a thing might also help me get the handle I desperately need on one of the subject areas I&#8217;m attempting to be a liaison librarian for without having had any handover or background in.<\/p>\n<p>And then I realised that, instead of staring glumly at some PhD thesis bibliography and having my eyes glaze over, I could just run it through Ref2RIS, pull all the references into Endnote, and sort by journal title.<\/p>\n<p>It did take me two hours to create the conversion file, but on the other hand I&#8217;m getting quicker at that.  And then I sorted, and did a quick count, and came up with the following data:<\/p>\n<p>The bibliography for this thesis contained 133 references, of which 1 was a website, 9 were books\/reports\/manuals, and the bulk of 123 were journal articles from 27 different journals.<\/p>\n<p>16 journals were used for only 1 reference each;<br \/>2 journals for 2 references;<br \/>2 journals for 3 references;<br \/>1 journal for 4;<br \/>2 journals for 5;<br \/>1 journal for 12;<br \/>1 journal for 18;<br \/>1 journal for 19;<br \/>1 journal for 34 references (over a quarter of the entire bibliography)<\/p>\n<p>I also discovered that this last journal is one that our library doesn&#8217;t hold&#8230;.  (We do hold everything that was used 4 or more times; I got bored before checking the less-used journal titles.)<\/p>\n<p>Obviously more research is required<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>to find out if this is a significant gap in our collection or a fluke of this particular thesis; and <\/li>\n<li>to figure out if there are any other interesting patterns in usage; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>but if the researchers have had the courtesy to all use the same citation style then it should be pretty quick research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know how you get a brand new hammer and suddenly you notice all these nails sticking out? So I&#8217;ve been working more with Ref2RIS. And in the meantime some of my colleagues and I were talking about analysing researchers&#8217; bibliographies for nefarious purposes, and I suddenly realised that doing such a thing might also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[113,86,114,112],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}