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Wilson, Concepcion S. – Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), 1999
Examines the status and scope of informetrics. Research in the field is selectively reviewed, drawing mainly from journal articles in English that have been published since the "ARIST" review of bibliometrics by H.D White & McCain (1989). Greater prominence is given to the informetric laws than to other topics. Finally, some very…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Futures (of Society), Information Processing, Information Science
Bruce, Harry, Ed.; Fidel, Raya, Ed.; Ingwersen, Peter, Ed.; Vakkari, Pertti, Ed. – 2002
These proceedings are the fourth in the series of international conferences whose general aim is to provide a broad forum for critically exploring and analyzing library and information science as a discipline and as a field of research from historical, theoretical, philosophical, and empirical perspectives. The papers in this volume cover a wide…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Conference Proceedings, Information Processing, Information Retrieval
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Brier, Soren – Journal of Documentation, 1996
Explains an interdisciplinary framework for library information science, especially information retrieval, which considers sociocultural context of search terms in a way that the cognitivist information processing paradigm does not. Limitations of cognitivist information processing conceptions are discussed, as well as the possible effects of the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Context Effect, Cultural Context, Information Processing