| This study profiles the characteristics of the scholarship published in one of the central journals in the field of Records Management in order to identify salient aspects of the evolution of that field. Through a bibliometric analysis of the contents of the first twenty-five years of Records Management Journal (RMJ), the study presents a multi-dimensional view of published research and opinion articles in Records Management in the period 1989-2013. Key aspects examined are: the nature of authorship (including gender, country and institutional affiliations, and degree of collaboration); and citation practices (including commonly cited authors, commonly cited journals, and degree of cross-disciplinarity). Records Management scholarship provides a structural framework for Records Management as a discipline, which in turn influences Records Management practice. The publication patterns found in RMJ can therefore serve as a mirror of the history of the scholarship of Records Management as it was presented to practitioners in the field during the examined time period. |
