Development of RMJ: A mirror of the development of the profession and discipline of record management

The purpose of this paper is to examine critically the history of Records Management Journal on its 20th anniversary; it aims to review and analyse its evolution and its contribution in the context of the development of the profession and the discipline of records management. The paper seeks to provide the context and justification for the selection of eight articles previously published in the journal to be reprinted in this issue

Special Libraries, December 1959

Volume 50, Issue 10https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1959/1009/thumbnail.jp

Special Libraries, November 1949

Volume 40, Issue 9https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1949/1008/thumbnail.jp

Special Libraries, December 1964

Volume 55, Issue 10https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1964/1009/thumbnail.jp

Special Libraries, December 1964

Volume 55, Issue 10https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1964/1009/thumbnail.jp

Special Libraries, October 1963

Volume 54, Issue 8https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1963/1007/thumbnail.jp

Special Libraries, December 1945

Volume 36, Issue 10https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1945/1009/thumbnail.jp

Special Libraries, May-June 1943

Volume 34, Issue 5https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1943/1004/thumbnail.jp

Bibliometric Analysis of the ASLIB Journal of Information Management from 2014 to 2021

The purpose of this study is to examine the papers published in the ASLIB Journal of Information Management between 2014 to 2021. The Scopus database was chosen for bibliographic data extraction. The VOSviewer software was used to visualize the research results using network maps. During the research period, 311 papers with 2534 citations were discovered. The publication trends of the ASLIB Journal of Information Management have been identified using a variety of bibliometric variables. The findings of the study revealed that, the most documents (n=52) were published in 2020, while the most citations (n=558) were recorded in 2015. In total, 827 authors from 51 nations contributed to the publications. The average number of citations per document (ACPD) is 8.15, with 22.65 (2014) being the most and 0.26 being the lowest (2021). The level of collaboration varies between 0.74 and 0.84. During the study period, the average degree of collaboration was 0.786. According to the findings, the ASLIB magazine of information management publishes high-quality research articles on a variety of library and information science topics. The Journal Citescore is 3.3, SJR is 0.558, and SNIP is 1.132, according to Scopus