Abstract:

This research applies content analysis to the scholar papers from Library and Information Science, revealing the development of Library and Information Science from the perspective of research method. Firstly, by referring to others’ research methods classification system and summarizing the papers’research methods of the past ten years papers’, we formulate the classification system of the Library and Information Science scholar papers' research methods. Then, we analyze the content of scholar papers from the Journal of the China Society for Scientific and Technical Information and the Journal of Library Science in China in the past ten years, classifying the research methods of these papers. We find that the research methods of Library and Information Science pay more and more attention to quantitative research methods,and the research methods of the Journal of China Society for Scientific and Technical Information based on qualitative research majorly from the beginning, but recently, the data-driven quantitative research dominate and the qualitative research subordinates. The main research methods of the Journal of Library Science in China are qualitative research methods, but in recent years, the proportion of quantitative research methods has increased, but the qualitative research is still the main method.

Key words: Library and Information Science, Research methods, Scholar papers, Evolution analysis, Content analysis