The shifting balance of intellectual trade in information studies

  • Authors:

  • Blaise Cronin;Lokman I. Meho

  • Affiliations:

  • School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405;School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405

  • Venue:
  • Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The authors describe a large-scale, longitudinal citation analysis of intellectual trading between information studies and cognate disciplines. The results of their investigation reveal the extent to which information studies draws on and, in turn, contributes to the ideational substrates of other academic domains. Their data show that the field has become a more successful exporter of ideas as well as less introverted than was previously the case. In the last decade, information studies has begun to contribute significantly to the literatures of such disciplines as computer science and engineering on the one hand and business and management on the other, while also drawing more heavily on those same literatures. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.