Kolaborasi Pengarang dan Alasan Berkolaborasi pada Artikel Jurnal Bidang Library and Information Science Terbitan Negara Belanda Tahun 2021

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate authors‘ collaborative works and reasons for collaborating in writing journal articles in the field of Library and Information Science in 2021 published by journals from the Netherlands. This study focused on 6 journals, namely Journal of Informatics, Ethics and Information Technology, Scientometrics, Education for Information, Information Retrieval, and Archival Science. This descriptive study employed the documentation method that was applied by collecting all articles from the Internet. The population of this study included 730 articles. However, the number of authors who collaborated and included their email addresses in their articles was 548. Nonprobability sampling using the Slovin formula was used to select 91 authors, but only 20 authors were able to take the time to reply to the researchers‘ e- mails. To determine the level of collaboration, C=Nm/(Nm+Ns) formula was used. Then, to calculate the reasons, P=F/N x 100% formula was applied. The results of the research show that the level of author collaboration in writing in journals on Library and Information Science which belong to Q1 category in 2021 is 0.75. Therefore, it can be concluded that there are more journal articles written collaboratively than individually. Then, in terms of reasons for collaborating, 4 authors mentioned that they worked at the same institution (20%), 5 authors said that there was a division of working with different skills (25%), 1 author mentioned that he needed assistance (5%), 7 authors said that they were students and mentors (35%), 1 author stated that they were friends (5%), 1 author mentioned that the article required in-depth expertise (5%), and 1 author said that he liked to collaborate with the other author (5%). Moreover, the reason why the authors carried out collaboration to focus on topics that have never been researched is because it required in-depth research and their likes of collaborating.