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Evolving taxonomies: Fifty years of taxonomy development in Library and Information Science

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Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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Abstract

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, Volume 58, Issue 1, Page 597-618, March 2026.
This study provides a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of taxonomy development in Library and Information Science (LIS), covering 50 years (1974–2024) and examining 268 articles indexed in Scopus. It identifies three phases of research evolution: an ...