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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Our study aims at examining the suitability of Scopus for scientometric analyses in comparison with the Web of Science. The major research questions are:
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...
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...