Journal Evaluation of the Library and Information Science Field Taiwan

This study employed a combination of subjective and objective measures to evaluate eleven library and information science (LIS) journals, each of which published at least two LIS-related articles in each issue. A questionnaire was sent to LIS scholars to obtain their subjective evaluations of the studied journals. The citations of the eleven journals studied were also analyzed to reveal how each was cited by its peer LIS journals, thereby objectively assessing the journal's quality and importance. The final ranking of the journals was based on the T scores of the subjective and objective measures. Using cluster analysis, the 11 journals were then categorized into three classes, which contained 4, 5, and 2 journals respectively. Cronbach alpha and regression analysis confirmed the reliability and validity of the measures employed in this study.