Intellectual structure of Phenomenographics studies of information literacy: citation and co-citation analysis

Abstract

The citation and co-citation analyze are indicators that provide objective data to understand the intellectual structure of knowledge domain. Its potentialities have global recognition to assess Science and Technology of several countries. This research aimed to characterize, through citation and co-citation, the intellectual structure of information literacy studies based in phenomenographic or relational approach. Specifically, it aimed to map the most productive and cited authors, their institutional filiation and countries that publish more about this subject, and through Ucinet software was created the co-citation network. The collecting data was carried out in an international database ”“ SCOPUS, using the following search expression: ("information literacy") AND ("phenomenographic" OR "relational*"). The research resulted in 18 valid articles, all published in English, especially by Australian researchers, where were produced the seminal works about phenomenographic approach of information literacy. This shows that this theoretical and methodological approach still looking for international penetration. It concludes that is necessary to carry out future studies that include other international databases to understand the global context about this subject.