The Nordic Landscape of LIS Research: A New Approach for Co-Word Analysis of Reserch in Three Nordic Countries

This study used a co-word analysis to map the landscape of library and information science in three Nordic countries:Denmark,SwedenandFinland. The results indicated that there are some strong similarities between LIS research in the studied countries and that mainstream LIS research still has a strong foothold, but newer areas of research, such as Library 2.0 and digital libraries, are gaining increasing interest. Furthermore the study showed that the new approach of self-generated co-words can be a fruitful method in mapping current research but also that the collection of data may sometimes be a problem.