Medical Librarianship in Information-Seeking and Evidence-Based Practice Research: A Scopus-Based Bibliometric Mapping (1975–2025)

This study maps publication patterns, collaborative networks, and thematic relationships in a Scopus-indexed corpus retrieved at the intersection of medical librarianship and information-seeking research in health and evidence-based practice. A bibliometric performance and science-mapping analysis was applied to 422 records published between 1975 and 2025, using VOSviewer and Biblioshiny. The retrieved literature spans research on the information needs of health-information users, evidence-based clinical applications, librarian-supported searching and evidence synthesis, and library services. Publication activity increased markedly in the more recent period, while keyword co-occurrence analysis identified five thematic clusters. The findings describe the structure of an interdisciplinary retrieval set; they should not be interpreted as direct evidence of medical librarians’ individual information behavior or as proof of changes in professional practice. Because the corpus also contains clinical and user-centered publications, further record-level relevance and metadata validation is required before strong profession-specific claims can be drawn. The analysis offers a preliminary map to inform more focused investigations of medical librarians’ search practices, evidence-synthesis roles, and emerging digital competencies.