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Journal of Documentation

ISSN: 0022-0418
Ranked by Thomson Reuters (ISI)
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Editorial objective

This highly regarded journal, with its long and distinguished history, provides a forum for the dissemination of scholarly articles, research reports and critical reviews in the information sciences. It provides a link between research and scholarship and reflective professional practice so that all are informed and enhanced. The journal regularly achieves the highest citation ratings in ISI for comparable titles.

Editorial criteria

The Journal of Documentation has the unique perspective of focusing on theories, concepts, models, frameworks, and philosophies in the information sciences. The Journal also publishes research reports, where these have wide significance, and articles on the methodology of research, information history, the information disciplines - including educational issues, curricula and links with other disciplines - and relations between academic study and professional practical. Critical and scholarly reviews are welcome, as are reviews of the evidence base for professional practice.

Coverage

The scope of the Journal of Documentation is broadly information sciences, encompassing all of the academic and professional disciplines which deal with recorded information. These include, but are certainly not limited to:

• Information science, librarianship and related disciplines
• Information and knowledge management
• Information and knowledge organisation
• Information seeking and retrieval, and human information behaviour
• Information and digital literacies

Key journal audiences

• Educators, scholars, researchers and advanced students in the information sciences
• Reflective practitioners in the information professions
• Policy makers and funders in information-related areas
• The Journal's content will also be of value to scholars and students in many related subject areas.

Journal of Documentation is indexed and abstracted in:

• Cabell’s Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Management
• Computer Science Index Index
• Computers and Applied Sciences Complete
• Current Abstracts
• Current Contents®/Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Education Research
• Information Science and Technology Abstracts (ISTA)
• ISI Alerting Service
• Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition
• Library and Information Science Abstracts
• Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts
• Scopus
• Social Sciences Citation Index®
• Social Scisearch®
• The Informed Librarian
• zetoc

Journal of Documentation is available as part of an online subscription to the Emerald Library and Information Studies Subject Collection. For more information, please email collections@emeraldinsight.com.

This journal is a member of and subscribes to the
principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics.