CHARACTERISTICS OF JOURNAL AUTHORSHIP BY ACADEMIC LIBRARIANS

A widely held belief that academic librarians are strongly encouraged to publish in order to retain employment may exist. The present study examines authorship in thirty-six library and information science journals over a five-year period and finds that a small proportion of four-year institutions is responsible for formal contributions to the literature. Furthermore, of those individuals contributing to the literature, the vast majority make only one contribution in the five-year period.