The current economic conditions, especially in third-world countries like South Africa, requires a highly knowledgeable workforce. In South Africa, this is making knowledge production more relevant to the country’s social and economic needs. This study therefore employs bibliometric research techniques to examine knowledge production in Library and Information Science (LIS) from 2015 to 2019 in South Africa. The results suggest that the production of LIS research degrees has improved tremendously in recent times mainly because of the higher outputs from a few LIS schools. Overall, knowledge production in LIS has improved in recent years but mainly because of a few prolific authors who contributed a large number of publications.

当前的经济状况，尤其是在像南非这样的第三世界国家中，需要知识渊博的劳动力。在南非，这使知识生产与该国的社会和经济需求更加相关。因此，本研究采用文献计量研究方法来研究2015年至2019年南非图书馆与信息科学（LIS）中的知识生产。结果表明，LIS研究学位的产生近年来得到了极大的改善，这主要是由于少数LIS学校的产出较高。总体而言，LIS的知识生产近年来有所改善，但这主要是由于一些多产的作者贡献了大量的出版物。