The Knowledge Import and Export of LIS: The Destinations, Citation Peak Lag, and Changes

Abstract

The objective of our paper is to present the overview of knowledge trade between LIS and other categories. Based on the related citation data of LIS from JCR ranging from 2003 to 2018, we not only focus on LIS's knowledge destinations and knowledge balance, but also propose Citation Peak Lag (CPL) as an emerging indicator to measure the speed of knowledge exchange. We have proved that LIS is one of the pivots which integrate knowledge coming from both hard science and soft science, while its ratios of export to import are quite different in all sorts of categories. By analyzing the changes of LIS's Citing CPL and Cited CPL over time, we found that the former is generally bigger than the latter, and we observed the different patterns of CPL in related categories of LIS. Moreover, we also discovered that hard science (e.g. Computer Science) has lower CPL than soft science (e.g. Business, Management) and the concrete patterns of knowledge waves vary from fields to fields. This study fills the research gap in analyzing bi-directional knowledge flows of LIS, and measuring the velocity of knowledge diffusion.

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