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2008
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Smoother pebbles and the shoulders of giants: the developing foundations of information science
Some developments in the information science discipline over a period of thirty years are discussed, by selecting topics covered in the early issues of Journal of Information Scie...
David Bawden
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2008
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A three-year study on the freshness of web search engine databases
This paper deals with one aspect of the index quality of search engines: index freshness. The purpose is to analyse the update strategies of the major Web search engines Google, Y...
Dirk Lewandowski
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2008
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Judgements during information seeking: a naturalistic approach to understanding the assessment of enough information
In this article, theories of human judgement and decision making are reviewed and their use by library and information science researchers examined. A different perspective on jud...
Jennifer M. Berryman
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2008
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Bibliometrics to webometrics
Bibliometrics has changed out of all recognition since 1958; becoming established as a field, being taught widely in library and information science schools, and being at the core...
Mike Thelwall
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2008
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The quality of evidence in knowledge management research: practitioner versus scholarly literature
The fragmentation of knowledge management (KM) as a field and as an area of research poses serious theoretical challenges for researchers. The viability of KM rests on how the com...
Hamid R. Ekbia, Noriko Hara
JIS
2008
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A uniform conceptual model for knowledge management of international copyright law
is.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/34/1/93 The online version of this article can be found at: Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: Chartered Institute of L...
Wenhuan Lu, Mitsuru Ikeda
JIS
2008
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A bibliometric analysis of pharmacology and pharmacy journals: Scopus versus Web of Science
Our study aims at examining the suitability of Scopus for scientometric analyses in comparison with the Web of Science. The major research questions are:
Juan Gorraiz, Christian Schlögl
JIS
2008
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Fifty years of UK research in information science
An attempt is made to discern the main research themes in British information science over the past half-century. Within these themes, emphasis is placed on research in the UK tha...
Jack Meadows
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2008
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On the history of evaluation in IR
This paper is a personal take on the history of evaluation experiments in information retrieval. It describes some of the early experiments that were formative in our understandin...
Stephen Robertson