Purpose The purpose of this paper is to find out which research topics and methods in information science (IS) articles …

Purpose The article aims to give an overview of the history and the achieved status of information science in the … German Democratic Republic (GDR) with an emphasis on the organisation of information science and practice in the GDR and on … the theoretical foundations of information science. Design/methodology/approach Primarily, this article is based upon …

information-seeking behaviour, and compare this with the information science literature on the same subject. Design … personality characteristics. There is very little citation of the information science literature in the psychological papers, and … only a little more citation of the psychological literature in the information science papers. Originality/value The author …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to characterize library and information science (LIS) as fragmenting discipline …

Purpose This paper analyses the research in Library and Information Science (LIS) and reports on (1) the status of LIS …

-scientific domains including Big Data, Geographic Information Science and Systems, and Data Science-which collectively constitute an …

-scientific domains including Big Data, Geographic Information Science and Systems, and Data Science-which collectively constitute an …

Purpose This paper offers a definition of the core of information science, which encompasses most research in the field …. The definition provides a unique identity for information science and positions it in the disciplinary universe. Design … is related to other definitions of information science before controversial discourse aspects are briefly addressed …

Information Science. The new title does justice to the fact that there is an increasing need to theorize how we deal with …