The Consistency of the Research Field Data: A Case Study of Library and Information Science in Slovenia

Jan Pisanski

ABSTRACT
SICRIS (Slovenian Current Research Information System) pro-
vides a service listing top Slovenian researchers in a particular
research field. In Web od Science (WOS) each journal is assigned
one or more categories (research fields). When comparing these
data for the research field of library and information science (LIS),
we found that several of the top authors in the field according
to SICRIS rarely or never published in the journals deemed to
belong to LIS in Web of Science. Several other authors, who were
not assigned the research field of LIS in SICRIS, were among the
most published Slovenian authors in LIS in Web of Science. This
is an indication that results of any analysis of LIS in Slovenia will
depend greatly on the criterion/criteria used.