The ''Journal of Information Science'' is a bimonthly

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covering research on information science,

information management Information management (IM) is the appropriate and optimized capture, storage, retrieval, and use of information. It may be personal information management or organizational. Information management for organizations concerns a cycle of organiz ...

and some aspects of

knowledge management Knowledge management (KM) is the set of procedures for producing, disseminating, utilizing, and overseeing an organization's knowledge and data. It alludes to a multidisciplinary strategy that maximizes knowledge utilization to accomplish organ ...

Publication history

The ''Journal of Information Science'' was established in 1979 by the

Institute of Information Scientists The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP, pronounced ) is a professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge managers in the United Kingdom. It was established in 2002 as a merger of th ...

(IIS). It was edited until 2004 (volume 29) by Alan Gilchrist. The current

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are Allen Foster and Pauline Rafferty. The journal is published by

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on behalf of the

Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP, pronounced ) is a professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge management, knowledge managers in the United Kingdom. It was established in 20 ...

(CILIP), which assumed the ownership of the title in 2002 following the merger of IIS with the Library Association to form CILIP. The journal was preceded by the ''Bulletin of the Institute of Information Scientists'' (until 1967) and ''The Information Scientist'' (until 1979)

Abstracting and indexing

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's category of ''Library & Information Science'', the journal ranks #4 with a h5-index of 32 as of 2021. In addition, the ''Journal of Information Science'' is abstracted and indexed in

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and the

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. According to the ''

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'', its 2021

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is 3.282, ranking it 30 out of 86 journals in the category "Information Science & Library Science".

References

External links

* {{Official website, 1=http://jis.sagepub.com SAGE Publishing academic journals Bimonthly journals Academic journals established in 1979 English-language journals Information science journals