期刊名称：INFORMATION RESEARCH-AN INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONIC JOURNAL ISSN： 1368-1613 出版频率： Quarterly 出版社： UNIV SHEFFIELD DEPT INFORMATION STUDIES, UNIV SHEFFIELD, WESTERN BANK, SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND, S YORKS, S10 2TN   出版社网址： http://informationr.net/ir/ 期刊网址： http://informationr.net/ir/ 影响因子： 0.482(2015年) 0.370(2014年) 0.66(2013年) 0.520 (2012年) 0.775(2011年) 主题范畴： INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE 期刊简介(About the journal)    投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)    编辑部信息(Editorial Board)    About the journal This is an experimental 'wiki' version of the Instructions for Authors - please let me know if you exerience any problems in using these instructions. You can navigate by clicking on the items in the top menu, or by following the links at the bottom of each 'tiddler' or by clicking on one of the tags in the right side-bar - click on the small downward pointing arrow to get the appropriate information.   Information Research accepts original research papers: papers that have been published elsewhere or that have been submitted elsewhere for publication are not acceptable. Conference papers that have appeared in published proceedings are not acceptable, but papers that have undergone significant further development after publication or presentation, may be eligible for publication.   The scope of "Information Research" is wide and perhaps the best way of determining whether or not your paper fits is to check out the subject index. However, the scope can also be represented as a tag cloud, taken from a sample of papers published in the journal: Instructions to Authors   Information Research attracts high usage - currently averaging about 6,000 hits a month on the top page and, more than 500,000 hits a year on the site as a whole. Most papers attract several hundred hits a month and average more than 1,300 hits a year. Items appearing in the journal are cited in other, print and electronic publications and the journal is indexed in ISI's Social Science Citation Index, LISA and Information Science Abstracts.   Information Research has a world-wide readership. Here's a picture of the distribution of recent hits on the top page of the journal: Information Research is a fully peer-reviewed journal, although we also publish Working Papers, and we have an Editorial Board representative of all areas covered by the journal. According to ISI's Journal Citation Reports, in 2005 the journal had an Impact Factor of 0.701, ranking it 20th out of 55 journals in its subject group. In a sub-set of 16 similar, 'general purpose' journals it ranked 6th. By 2008 its 5-year impact factor had increased to 1.445.   These Instructions for Authors are published so that submissions may be prepared to a standard format and style, you can Save this file (it is just a single Web page) to your own computer, USB drive, or whatever, by right-clicking on 'Save this file' on the top menu and then on 'Save link as...' or 'Save target as...' (depending on your browser - we recommend Firefox) and assign a file name and location for your copy. You then have access to it whether or not you are connected to the Internet. Editorial Board Information Research is published by Professor Tom Wilson, who is also Editor-in-Chief: he is assisted by Dr. Terrence A. Brooks, Associate Editor, North America; Dr. Elena Maceviciute, Associate Editor, Eastern and Central Europe and Book Reviews Editor; Nils Pharo, Associate Editor (Layout); Dr. José Vicente Rodríguez, Associate Editor for the Luso-Hispanic countries; Salam Baker Shanawa is Associate Editor, Technology and Dr. Diane Sonnenwald, Associate Editor, "Rest of the World". There is also an international Editorial Board. Dr. Terrence A. Brooks is an Associate Professor at the Information School, University of Washington. His current interests are the design and presentation of information on the Web, and the use of Web scripting and programming technologies. Other interests include the effects of orthography in information retrieval and the assessement of relevance. He is the author of The Bibliometrics Toolbox, a set of computer programs that measure the bibliometric aspects of a literature such as Bradford curves, productivity ranks, degree of clustering, and indices of concentration. Home page Professor Elena Maceviciute is Professor in the Faculty of Communication, Vilnius University, Lithuania and Senior Lecturer at the Swedish School of Library and Information Studies, Gothenburg University/Boras University College, Sweden. Her research areas include reference work, information and communication needs, international and intercultural communication, and information management. In addition to her academic work, Elena has worked as a consultant to the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture, the Lithuanian National Commission for UNESCO, the Committee of Europe and others. She teaches distance courses in International Communication studies, co-edits the scholarly journal Knygotyra (Book Science), is a member of the editorial of The Serials Librarian (USA), and a member of the Advisory Board for ICIMSS (Torun, Poland). She has published four books and almost sixty articles, and, has produced a number of translations of English language works (e.g., A. Conan-Doyle, The white company; P. Cornwell, The body of evidence; J. Fiske, Introduction to communication studies; and Blackwell's Encyclopedia of political science). Dr. Nils Pharo Dr. Nils Pharo is an associate professor at the Faculty for Journalism, Library and Information Science at Oslo University College. His main research areas are interactive information retrieval and information behaviour studies. Currently he is engaged in the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval - INEX - where he co-chairs the interactive track. Professor José Vicente Rodríguez is Professor in the Information and Documentation Department, Faculty of Information Science, University of Murcia, Spain. Graduate in Chemistry, PhD in Computing Science. Guest Professor in the University of La Habana, Cuba. Co-ordinator of the UNITWIN Chair in 'Information Management in Organizations', sponsored by UNESCO. Member of the 50th Committee, Documentation, of AENOR (Spanish Association of Normalization and Certification). Scientific Consultant to several projects of the Regional Government of Murcia. Chief of the Information Technology Research Group of the University of Murcia. His research area, projects and publications, covers information management, information retrieval and evaluation of Web searching. Currently Dean of the Faculty of Information Science. Salam Baker Shanawa holds an MSc in Electronic Engineering and for the last ten years has been working as a system developer for various digital library projects in Denmark and Sweden. Since 2001 he has been the main developer of the Electronic Library Information Navigator ELIN at Lund University Libraries and since 2004 in charge of development and responsible for the technical maintenance of the Directory of Open Access Journals project DOAJ Professor Diane Sonnenwald is a Professor at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science at Göteborg University and University College of Borås, and an adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina (USA). She conducts research on collaboration, collaboration technology and human information behavior in a variety of contexts. Previously she worked at Bell Labs and Bell Communications Research doing long-range strategic planning for the U.S. public telecommunications infrastructure and telephone industry. She has led various research projects, including the Design and Evaluation of the nanoManipulator Collaboratory Research Project funded by the National Institutes of Health, and the Collaboration Effort at the National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center for Environmentally Responsible Solvents and Processes. She currently leads a project funded by the US National Library of Medicine to investigate the potential of 3D telepresence technology for emergency medical consultation. Dr Sue Williams is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Economics & Business and the coordinator of the Information Policy & Practice Research Group at The University of Sydney. Her research uses theories of situated action, socio-technical change and policy to make sense of complex, changing business information landscapes. Recent projects have applied this work in both the public and private sectors and include studies of e-government information service provision, public e-procurement, document retention and the design of corporate digital information services. Professor Tom Wilson is Professor Emeritus in Information Management at Sheffield where he served as Head of the Department of Information studies from 1982 to 1997. Tom's principal research areas are information seeking behaviour and information management in which he has researched and published extensively. He is currently Visiting Professor at the Högskolan i Borås, Sweden, and Visiting Professor at the Leeds University Business School, where he is working with Dr. David Allen in directing the AIMTech research group in the field of information management, specializing in mobile information systems. One recently completed project has been in the area of mobile data systems in the Police forces of England and Wales. His study on information overload, was supported by the consultancy company, Accenture. He is one of the most cited authors in the field of information behaviour. Information Research is the third journal he has established: it was preceded by the print journals, Social Science Information Studies and the International Journal of Information Management.