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International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries

ECDL 2003: Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries pp 24–28Cite as

Detecting Research Trends in Digital Library Readership

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The research interests and preferences of the reader communities associated to any given digital library may change over the course of years. It is vital for digital library services and collection management to be informed of such changes, and to determine how they may point to future trends. We propose the Impact Discrepancy Ratio metric for the detection of research trends in a large digital library by comparing a reader-defined metric of journal impact to the Institute for Scientific Information Impact Factor (ISI IF) over the course of three years. An analysis for the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Research Library (RL) comparing reader impact to the ISI IF for 1998 and 2001 indicates journals relating to climatology have undergone a sharp increase in local impact. This evolution pinpoints specific shifts in the local strategies and reader interests of the LANL RL which were qualitatively validated by LANL RL management.

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  1. Computer Science Department, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, 23529, USA

    Johan Bollen, Somasekhar Vemulapalli & Weining Xu

  2. Research Library, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 8754, USA

    Rick Luce

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  1. NetLab, Knowledge Technologies Group, Lund University Libraries, P.O. Box 134, 22100, Lund, Sweden

    Traugott Koch

  2. Dept. of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology,  

    Ingeborg Torvik Sølvberg

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Bollen, J., Luce, R., Vemulapalli, S., Xu, W. (2003). Detecting Research Trends in Digital Library Readership. In: Koch, T., Sølvberg, I.T. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. ECDL 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2769. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45175-4_3

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