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The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of critical perspectives in information literacy whose importance has been recognized by a number of authors in the field. This paper is a preliminary report on a research project that aims to describe the field of critical information literacy (CIL) based on a comprehensive descriptive statistical analysis of the qualities of CIL literature. The analysis was undertaken on a sample of 102 full-text scientific and professional articles. The sample was created based on a preliminary analysis of Google Scholar, SCOPUS and WOS databases. The authors present findings on the established authorship, publication and research patterns in the field.
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The basis for analysis was GS data because it encompassed all WOS and the majority of Scopus search entries. Added entries from Scopus make up for 4.6 % of the analyzed search entries.
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GS data consisted of different types of documents like editorials, tag archives, bibliographies, biltens, blogs, etc. Our study focuses on scientific and proffesional articles published in journals or as book chapters.
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The language criterion was introduced later in the study, as the last measure of exclusion, since 92.42 % of search results were in English. Only 3.6 % non-English articles were excluded based on language criteria, while the rest was excluded based on other criteria.
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Published in Accardi, Drabinski, Kumbier (eds.): Critical library instruction - Theories and Methods, and Gregory, Higgins (eds.): Information literacy and social justice - Radical Proffesional Praxis.
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Reference Services Review was chosen as one of the most productive journals in the IL field.
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Definitions for each type of contributions are available online.
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Kos, D., Špiranec, S. (2015). Understanding the Field of Critical Information Literacy: A Descriptive Analysis of Scientific Articles. In: Kurbanoglu, S., Boustany, J., Špiranec, S., Grassian, E., Mizrachi, D., Roy, L. (eds) Information Literacy: Moving Toward Sustainability. ECIL 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 552. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28197-1_58
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