Journal of Documentation
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| Discipline | Information Science |
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| Language | English |
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| History | 1945-present |
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| Frequency | Bimonthly |
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| ISO 4 | JDoc |
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| ISSN | 0022-0418 |
The Journal of Documentation is a double-blind peer-reviewed, academic journal publishing on theories, concepts, models, frameworks, and philosophies in information science. The journal provides a forum for the dissemination of scholarly articles, research reports and critical reviews. 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, library science, and related disciplines, information and knowledge management, information and knowledge organization, information seeking, information retrieval, human information behaviour, and information and digital literacy. The main audience for the journal is educators, scholars, researches, and policy-makers in information-related areas. It published quarterly between 1945 - 1996, expanding to five issues per year between 1997-1999. Since 2000, it continues to publish six issues per year. It is currently edited by Professor David Bawden of the City University London. The journal's editorial board consists of researchers from Europe and the United States.