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

peer-reviewed Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...

academic journal covering research on information science,

information management Information management (IM) concerns a cycle of organizational activity: the acquisition of information from one or more sources, the custodianship and the distribution of that information to those who need it, and its ultimate disposal throug ...

and some aspects of knowledge management.

Publication history

The ''Journal of Information Science'' was established in 1979 by the Institute of Information Scientists (IIS). It was edited until 2004 (volume 29) by Alan Gilchrist. The current editors-in-chief are Allen Foster and Pauline Rafferty. The journal is published by

SAGE Publications SAGE Publishing, formerly SAGE Publications, is an American independent publishing company founded in 1965 in New York by Sara Miller McCune and now based in Newbury Park, California. It publishes more than 1,000 journals, more than 800 books ...

on behalf of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (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

In Google Scholar'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 Scopus and the

Social Sciences Citation Index The Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) is a commercial citation index product of Clarivate Analytics. It was originally developed by the Institute for Scientific Information from the Science Citation Index. The Social Sciences Citation Index is ...

. According to the '' Journal Citation Reports'', its 2021 impact factor 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 Publications established in 1979 English-language journals Information science journals