The ''Annual Review of Information Science and Technology'' was relaunched by the

Association for Information Science and Technology The Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) is a nonprofit membership organization for information professionals that sponsors an annual conference as well as several serial publications, including the '' Journal of the A ...

's Board of Directors in 2021, following a 10-year publishing hiatus. Previously, this annual

review journal A review article is an article that summarizes the current state of understanding on a topic within a certain discipline. A review article is generally considered a secondary source since it may analyze and discuss the method and conclusions ...

was published from 1966 to 2011. It was established in 1965 by the

American Documentation Institute The Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) is a nonprofit membership organization for information professionals that sponsors an annual conference as well as several serial publications, including the '' Journal of the A ...

and the

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, at the request of

Helen Brownson Helen Brownson (May 1, 1917 – August 5, 2017) was a United States federal government employee and a pioneer in the development of the field of information science. She is credited with popularizing the idea of the thesaurus as it applies to inf ...

. It published

review article A review article is an article that summarizes the current state of understanding on a topic within a certain discipline. A review article is generally considered a secondary source since it may analyze and discuss the method and conclusions ...

s rather than empirical research articles. Its last (2010)

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was 2.000. It was for 45 years "the main forum for scholarly review articles in information science."Bawden, David (2010). Alas poor ARIST: reviewing the information sciences. ''Journal of Documentation'', 66(5), 625-626.

Publishers and editors

The current editor is

Lisa M. Given Lisa Mae Given is a Canadian-Australian information studies academic. She is currently Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform and Professor of Information Sciences at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. She is Editor-in-Chief of ...

, Professor of Information Sciences at

RMIT University RMIT University, officially the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,, section 4(b) is a public university, public research university in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1887 by Francis Ormond, RMIT began as a night school offering cla ...

. The first

editor-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...

was Carlos A. Cuadra (

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). From Vol. 11 (1976) - vol. 35 (2001) editor-in-chief was Martha E. Williams; from Vol. 36 (2002) to Volume 45 (2011) the editor was

Blaise Cronin Blaise Cronin (born 1949) is an Irish-American information scientist and bibliometrician. He is the Rudy Professor Emeritus of Information Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he was Dean of the School of Library and Information Scienc ...

. The first publisher was

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; since Vol. 26 (1991) it was published by

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on behalf of

American Society for Information Science and Technology The Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) is a nonprofit membership organization for information professionals that sponsors an annual conference as well as several serial publications, including the '' Journal of the A ...

Publishers and editors

References

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