Dominance Index of Top 1% Researchers in Library and Information Science

The purpose of this study was to investigate the number of times the names of the top 1% authors in the field of library and information sciences were placed in the first position of authorship and to determine the level of their excellence index in 2022 based on the number of publications and previous authorship. The present research has been done with the scientometrics approach. The statistical population of the study was the top 1% researchers in the field of library and information science (LIS) in 2022. The top 1% researchers include Vincent Larivière, Cassidy Sugimoto, Stefanie Haustein, Mike Thelwall, Nees Jan Van Eck, and Ludo Waltman and Margareta Sampson, from the Social Sciences. Each researcher's name was searched in the Web of Science Core of Clarivate to retrieve their articles, and the status of single authorship, multi-authorship, and the first and the last authorship was checked. The results of the present study showed that the top 1% researchers in LIS are more inclined to multiple authorship rather than single-authorship. They have mostly registered their names in the first and last positions of authorship. Considering the dominance of a researcher as a virtue of research contribution and responsibility, researchers should register their names in the order of authorship. According to the dominance index (DI), the first place of authorship can show the dominance and superiority of researchers. The dominance index can be used as a complement to the citation impact of researchers and can be used to identify the top 1% LIS researchers.