The shifting balance of intellectual trade in information studies

The authors describe a large‐scale, longitudinal citation analysis of intellectual trading between information studies and cognate disciplines. The results of their investigation reveal the extent to which information studies draws on and, in turn, contributes to the ideational substrates of other a...

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Published in:Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 2008-02, Vol.59 (4), p.551-564
Main Authors: Cronin, Blaise, Meho, Lokman I.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bibliometrics. Scientometrics
Bibliometrics. Scientometrics. Evaluation
Citation analysis
Domains
Exact sciences and technology
Information and communication sciences
Information science. Documentation
Intellectuals
Library and information science. General aspects
Library science
Scholarly publishing
Sciences and techniques of general use
Studies
Substrates
Use and user studies. Information needs
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Summary:The authors describe a large‐scale, longitudinal citation analysis of intellectual trading between information studies and cognate disciplines. The results of their investigation reveal the extent to which information studies draws on and, in turn, contributes to the ideational substrates of other academic domains. Their data show that the field has become a more successful exporter of ideas as well as less introverted than was previously the case. In the last decade, information studies has begun to contribute significantly to the literatures of such disciplines as computer science and engineering on the one hand and business and management on the other, while also drawing more heavily on those same literatures.
ISSN:1532-2882
2330-1635
1532-2890
2330-1643
DOI:10.1002/asi.20764