Introduction. To provide valuable services in the future, libraries will need to create better information systems and set up an infrastructure more in line with the current technologies. The Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records conceptual model provides a basis for this transformation, but there are still a number of unresolved issues connected to its actual implementation. Method...

Author bibliographic coupling is extended from bibliographic coupling concept and holds the view that two authors with more common references are more related and have more similar research interests. This study aims to examine the association between author bibliographic coupling strength and citation exchange in Information Science & Library Science and more specifically, in imetrics. The res...