Top-Read 'Science & Technology Libraries' Articles Written by University of Arkansas Librarians

According to Science & Technology Libraries, the premier scholarly journal for science, engineering, agricultural and clinical librarians, the most-read of all the articles published in the journal's 30-year history is now "The Affiliations of U.S. Academic Librarians in the Most Prominent Journals of Science, Engineering, Agriculture, and Medical Librarianship, 2000-2010" by Amy Hardin and Tony Stankus.

This article is an analysis by Stankus and Hardin, both librarians at the University of Arkansas, of the substantive papers of research and professional practice published by subject specialist librarians in leading journals from 2000 to 2010. Stankus and Hardin then rank each school in each field or subject specialty, according to the number of articles published.

Arkansas' strongest showing by far was from the librarians serving the Dale Bumpers School of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences with an output that ranks them nationally second only to Michigan State University. Stankus and Hardin's article is a science-oriented follow-up to "Producing Articles for Academic Special Librarians" in the July/August issue of Information Outlook: The Magazine of the Special Libraries Association, Vol. 15, No. 5, which ranked subject specialist librarians at U.S. universities across a wider variety of fields, including those librarians serving programs in business, law, music, fine arts, rare books and archives, in which Arkansas placed 19th in the nation overall, tied with Yale and the University of Arizona, Tucson.

The second most-read article is "Reviews of Science for Science Librarians: Graphene" by Kathleen Lehman, head of the Physics Library at the University of Arkansas. Lehman's article gives an introduction to graphene, a simple substance made of a single atomic layer of carbon, an overview of its growing importance in the field of physics, and an analysis of when and where graphene has appeared in scholarly literature.