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The shifting balance of intellectual trade in information studies

Cronin, Blaise and Meho, Lokman I. (2008) The shifting balance of intellectual trade in information studies. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59(4):pp. 551-564.

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Abstract

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.

EPrint Type:Journal (Paginated)
Keywords:Intellectual trade, citation analysis, scholarly communication, bibliometrics, interdisciplinarity
Subjects:Bibliometrics
Scholarly Communication
Interdisciplinarity
Informetrics
Citation Analysis
Knowledge Structures
ID Code:2254
Deposited On:15 March 2008
Alternative Locations:http://www.slis.indiana.edu/faculty/meho/cronin-meho-03.pdf
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