A Bibliometric Analysis of the Scholarly Publications of Librarians at the University of Mississippi, 2008–2013

This article uses bibliometric tools to analyze the peer-reviewed publications of tenure and tenure track librarians at the University of Mississippi from 2008 to 2013. The purpose of this article is to gain a better understanding of the role of academic librarians including the role that tenure plays in librarian publications and the usage of the collection by librarians for research. Analysis found that 59% of librarians publishing peer-reviewed literature were tenure track and 81% of sources cited from all librarians' peer-reviewed publications were held by the University of Mississippi's J.D. Williams library.