Dr. Eungi Kim is a professor in the Department of Library and Information Science at Keimyung University in Daegu, South Korea. He earned his PhD in information science from the University of North Texas. His research focuses on scientometrics, scholarly communication, and social sciences. Dr. Kim has studied journal indexing, open access trends, and research collaboration. His work examines the growth in Scopus-indexed journals in Africa, differences in journal production between BRICS and G7 countries, and AI policies in library and information science journals. He also explores multilingual LIS journals, journal coverage in databases, and changes in open-access publishing. In addition to his research, Dr. Kim is the managing editor of the Journal of Information Science: Theory and Practice (JISTaP). His publications appear in journals like Scientometrics and the Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, focusing on publishing trends and knowledge dissemination.