How Is Knowledge Management Represented in Library and Information Science Research? Md Anwarul Islam University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh anwar@du.ac.bd Naresh Kumar Agarwal Simmons University, Boston, USA agarwal@simmons.edu ABSTRACT Research published during the last two decades has fre- quently discussed how Knowledge Management (KM) is important for libraries. However, we do not know the extent to which KM forms a part of Library and Information Science (LIS) research. In this study, we looked for KM articles pub- lished in top LIS journals since 2000. We analyzed publica- tion trends, and the distribution of articles by KM-related terms used, region/country and information-setting type. We also identified the top-cited KM articles published in these LIS journals. 672 KM-related articles (only 3.84%) were found within the 17,491 articles published in these LIS journals. This low percentage shows that while it might seem like LIS people are advocating for KM in libraries and other information settings, we find that despite the synergies, KM is yet to find a broader place within other LIS concerns. KEYWORDS Library and Information Science journals; Knowledge Management research; research publications; bibliometrics; Google Scholar journal ranking ASIS&T THESAURUS Information Science; Library Science; Knowledge Management INTRODUCTION AND LITERATURE REVIEW Knowledge management (KM) has gained much attention during the last three decades. Nonaka and Takeuchi (1995) define KM as the capability of ‘a company as a whole to create new knowledge, disseminate it throughout the organization, and embody it in products, services and systems’ (p. 3). Dalkir (2017) describes KM as a highly multidisciplinary field span- ning organizational science, cognitive science, library and information science, anthropology, sociology, etc. Consider- ing the multidisciplinary nature of KM, many researchers in the past two decades have worked on the intersection of LIS and KM fields and discussed how KM is important for LIS, LIS professional associations (Agarwal & Islam, 2016) and for libraries. While there have been many studies conducted on KM in libraries, we do not know the extent to which knowl- edge management forms a part of LIS research. Agarwal and Islam (2018) tried to ascertain the place of LIS in KM research and found that only 1.8 % of all articles in the top ten KM jour- nals published since the year 2000 related to LIS. In this paper, we take an opposite lens and investigate the place of KM in LIS research. Even though we know that individual researchers and practitioners have called to incorporate KM in LIS settings because of the obvious benefits of KM for libraries, this research is important as it helps provide a bench- mark on the overall level of acceptance of KM in LIS research. Librarians and other LIS practitioners stand to gain from the benefits of KM for service innovation and efficiency, should they have greater awareness about KM. METHODOLOGY We analyzed the top 20 publications from 2000 to 2018 as listed by Google Scholar Metrics (2019) in ‘Library and Infor- mation Science’ (as on January 6, 2019). The ranking can change over time. Of these, we excluded those that pertained to conference proceedings and were not journals. We excluded one journal (arXiv Digital Libraries – cs.DL), as it was specif- ically focused on digital libraries in different domains, includ- ing machine learning, physics, etc. This left us with a list of top 17 peer-reviewed journals among the 20 top publications iden- tified by Google Scholar, where the Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology (JASIST) was the top journal. From the journals identified, we accessed the individ- ual issues of each journal from the years 2000 – 2018. For each issue, we scanned the title, abstract and keywords of articles looking for any relationship with knowledge management. We carried out the work of journal selection, combing of all articles and analysis of identified KM-related articles over a three month period from January – March, 2019. DATA ANALYSIS AND FINDINGS When analyzing the gathered data, we found that of the 17,491 articles published by the top 17 LIS journals from 2000-2018, 672 were KM-related. In total, since 2000, 3.84% of the LIS articles were KM related. The year 2017 had the most number of KM articles (4.7%) in LIS journals (see Figure 1). From Figure 2, we can see that The Journal of Information Science published the most number of articles in the KM area (8.36%) from 2000-2018. 82nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science & Technology | Melbourne, Australia | 19–23 October, 2019 Author(s) retain copyright, but ASIS&T receives an exclusive publication license DOI: 10.1002/pra2.00129 ASIS&T Annual Meeting 2019 674 Posters