...Samuel Dodson; Brianna B. Buljung Purpose This article examines whether model organisms can be understood as documents in the life sciences and then develops a document theoretical account that explains how their use supports scientific knowledge production. Design/methodology/approach...

...David Bade Roy   Harris . The Semantics of Science . London : Continuum   2005 . 224 pp. , ISBN: 0826478476 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 --> Semantics Language Linguistics Science The use of the literature of linguistics in information...

...Dave Muddiman John Desmond Bernal (1901‐1970) was one of the most eminent scientists of his generation; he also became, in mid‐twentieth century Britain, an important political figure – the leading public spokesperson of “red” science. One remarkable but hitherto underexplored aspect of his career...

...Trine Fjordback Søndergaard; Jack Andersen; Birger Hjørland In 1971 UNISIST proposed a model for scientific and technical communication. This model has been widely cited and additional models have been added to the literature. There is a need to bring this model to the focus of information science...

...Tony Cawkell James G.   Paradis and Muriel L.   Zimmerman . The MIT Guide to Science and Engineering Communication (2nd ed.) . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press   2002 . , ISBN: ISBN 0 262 66127 6   £19.95   324 pp. © MCB UP Limited 2003 --> Written communications...

... … This is a most entertaining anthology, containing as it does pieces from Herschel to Lord Kelvin, and from Mark Twain to Wilkie Collins. Edited by L.   Otis . Literature and Science in the 19th Century: An Anthology . Oxford : Oxford University Press   2002 . 575 pp. , ISBN: 0‐19‐283979‐9...

... be (efficiently) automated?” Referring to McCrank’s exclusion of non‐American work, you will realise that the title of his book should really be “Historic American Information Science”. Important early work in the subject done in England is excluded. With regard to “information science”, criticism...

... from the Chinese Science Citation Database (CSCD). In 1998 42% of this databaseÒs source journals did not follow the expected trend. As a possible explanation we note that, contrary to intuition, in the CSCD the changes in the number of both publications and citations are largely independent...

.... The citation age of each journal in this study was based on the data listed in the Science Citation Index, Journal Citation Reports, 1993. The results of this study illustrate that the use age distribution for the mean of all the journals is an exponentially decaying curve. On the other hand, the citation age...

...Blaise Cronin; Debora Shaw A bibliometric profile of four information science journals is developed. Data on acknowledgements to funding sources, authors‘ nationalities and the citedness of published articles are analysed. The relationships among these variables are explored. Citedness appears...

... the responsibility towards the users of the JCR to analyse the reliability and validity of its measures thoroughly, to indicate pitfalls and to suggest possible improvements. In this article, ageing patterns are examined in ‘formal’ use or impact of all scientific journals processed for the Science Citation Index...

...Pertti Vakkari; Martti Kuokkanen The aim of the study is to analyse theory growth in information science by using a case from information seeking studies. Scientific growth is identified with the growth of theories. Three contexts of theoretical work are differentiated: unit theories, theoretical...