The intellectual base and research fronts of JASIS 1986–1990
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Predictive aspects of a stochastic model for citation processes
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Visualizing a discipline: an author co-citation analysis of information science, 1972–1995
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue on the 50th anniversary of the Journal of The American Society for Information Science: part 2: paradigms, models and methods of information science
Predicting future citation behavior
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Time line visualization of research fronts
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
The Turn: Integration of Information Seeking and Retrieval in Context (The Information Retrieval Series)
The sociological turn in information science
Journal of Information Science
Using field cocitation analysis to assess reciprocal and shared impact of LIS-MIS fields
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Co-citations as citation endorsements and co-links as link endorsements
Journal of Information Science
Journal of Information Science
On the map: Nature and Science editorials
Scientometrics
Visualizing and mapping the intellectual structure of information retrieval
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
A bibliometric chronicling of library and information science's first hundred years
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Intellectual structure of Korean theology 2000-2008: Presbyterian theological journals
Journal of Information Science
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Based on articles published in 1990–2004 in 21 library and information science (LIS) journals, a set of cocitation analyses was performed to study changes in research fronts over the last 15 years, where LIS is at now, and to discuss where it is heading. To study research fronts, here defined as current and influential cocited articles, a citations among documents methodology was applied; and to study changes, the analyses were time-sliced into three 5-year periods. The results show a stable structure of two distinct research fields: informetrics and information seeking and retrieval (ISR). However, experimental retrieval research and user oriented research have merged into one ISR field; and IR and informetrics also show signs of coming closer together, sharing research interests and methodologies, making informetrics research more visible in mainstream LIS research. Furthermore, the focus on the Internet, both in ISR research and in informetrics—where webometrics quickly has become a dominating research area—is an important change. The future is discussed in terms of LIS dependency on technology, how integration of research areas as well as technical systems can be expected to continue to characterize LIS research, and how webometrics will continue to develop and find applications. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.