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A Domain Analysis of the Influence of The Five Laws of Library Science

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Title A Domain Analysis of the Influence of The Five Laws of Library Science
 
Creator Martínez-Ávila, Daniel
Almeida, Patrícia de
Savegnago de Mira, Bianca
Cláudia Cabrini Grácio, Maria
 
Subject SR Ranganathan
The Five Laws of Library Science
Domain analysis
 
Description 92-104
The Five Laws of Library Science1 is not only regarded as one of the most relevant and influential works by Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan, but also as a classic of the history of Library and Information Science. This book was the result of Ranganathan’s search for a philosophical foundation of the area and also was the seed of much of his later legacy, as its objectives were developed and realised in some of his other most well-known works such as the Colon Classification, Classified Catalogue Code, Library Administration, and Prolegomena to Library Classification. The Five Laws of Library Science is the most cited work by Ranganathan according to the Google Scholar profile created by the Indian Documentation Research and Training Centre; moreover it has been translated into several languages and it is taught in library schools around the world. In this sense, complementing previous domain analyses of Ranganathan such as Smiraglia’s2, based on the Web of Science, and inspired by the methodology of Guimarães et al.3, who studied the influence of several works by Jesse Shera and Margaret Egan according to citations in Scopus, we conducted a search on the Web of Science Core Collection of all works citing Ranganathan. With the 306 citing documents, we conducted a domain analysis of the work mainly drawing on the bibliometric and epistemological approaches to characterise the domain of influence of The Five Laws of Library Science.
 
Date 2024-03-11T04:42:49Z
2024-03-11T04:42:49Z
2024-03
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-2404 (Online); 0972-5423 (Print)
http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/63554
https://doi.org/10.56042/alis.v71i1.8992
 
Language en
 
Publisher NIScPR-CSIR, India
 
Source ALIS Vol.71(1) [March 2024]