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 …

Social Justice in Library and Information Science addresses an urgent need for more credible, accurate, authoritative …, authentic, and current experiences about library and information science (LIS) research, practices, policies, and services in …

-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 …