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the top ten in terms of usage.

Table 5. Literature ranked top ten in usage count among research articles in the discipline of Library and
Information Science included by SSCI in 2013
No. Top articles in usage Usage Citation
Social media brand community and consumer behavior: Quantifying the relative impact of user-
1 392 22
and marketer-generated content
Bibliometrics and research data management services: Emerging trends in library support for
2 354 8
research
3 Influences of media on social movements: Problematizing hyperbolic inferences about impacts 307 2
Putting research into practice: An exploration of Sheffield ischool approaches to connecting
4 296 0
research with practice
Knowledge management through the lens of Library and Information Science: A study of job
5 276 2
advertisements
6 Doctoral dissertations of Library and Information Science in China: A co-word analysis 264 5
7 Visualization of patents and papers in terahertz technology: A comparative study 263 2
An empirical examination of the antecedents and consequences of contribution patterns in crowd-
8 211 8
funded markets
9 To be or not to be in social media: How brand loyalty is affected by social media? 203 20
10 Community resilience and the role of the public library 192 2

Table 5 shows that in the discipline of Library and Information Science, most of the literature
with the highest usage count has a much less prominent citation count.Literature with high usage
counts can be summarized into the following three types:
1) Research on social media. The Library and Information Science article with the highest usage
count is a research study on social media’s brand communities and consumer behavior. The article
also has a relatively high citation count (ranked in the 13th place). The article ranked in the third
place in usage count investigates the influence of new media technology on social movements
(cultural, political, economic, etc.) in African countries; however, its citation count is very low (only
2). The article ranked in the ninth place in usage count explores how social media influences brand
loyalty, and, similarly to the article ranked in the first place, has a relatively high citation count (20;
ranked in the 20th place).
2) Research on public library topics. The article ranked in the second place in usage count
discusses the innovative responses of libraries to bibliometrics, data management and so forth.
The article ranked in the tenth place probes into the role played by public libraries when society
faces threats from climate change, energy, food and other scenarios. The citation counts of the two
articles are respectively 8 and 2, which are relatively low.
3) Research using the featured methods of Library and Information Science. The article ranked
in the sixth place in usage count adopts co-word analysis, cluster analysis and other methods
to investigate the knowledge structure of Chinese doctoral dissertations. The article ranked in