Journal of Documentation: Volume 80 Issue 7

“They act like we are going to heaven”: pre-arrival information experiences, information crafting and settlement of immigrants in Canada

Nafiz Zaman Shuva

Although there is a growing body of work on immigrants' information behavior, little is known about the pre-arrival information experiences of immigrants who consult formal…

Algorithmic recommendations enabling and constraining information practices among young people

Ville Jylhä, Noora Hirvonen, Jutta Haider

This study addresses how algorithmic recommendations and their affordances shape everyday information practices among young people.

Curiosity and information-seeking behaviour: a review of psychological research and a comparison with the information science literature

Thomas D. Wilson

The aim of this paper is to review the psychological literature on curiosity and its relationship to information-seeking behaviour, and compare this with the information science…

What characterizes LIS as a fragmenting discipline?

Pertti Vakkari

The purpose of this paper is to characterize library and information science (LIS) as fragmenting discipline both historically and by applying Whitley’s (1984) theory about the…

Fact-checking of political information about the Russo-Ukrainian conflict

Reijo Savolainen

To elaborate the nature of fact-checking in the domain of political information by examining how fact-checkers assess the validity of claims concerning the Russo-Ukrainian…

Who cites the contributions by information science?

Kalervo Järvelin, Pertti Vakkari

The purpose of this paper is to find out which research topics and methods in information science (IS) articles are used in other disciplines as indicated by citations.

Assessing knowledge organization systems from a gender perspective: Wikipedia taxonomy and Wikidata ontologies

Miquel Centelles, Núria Ferran-Ferrer

Develop a comprehensive framework for assessing the knowledge organization systems (KOSs), including the taxonomy of Wikipedia and the ontologies of Wikidata, with a specific…