Annual Review of Information Science and Technology

Summary

The Annual Review of Information Science and Technology was relaunched by the Association for Information Science and Technology's Board of Directors in 2021, following a 10-year publishing hiatus. Previously, this annual review journal was published from 1966 to 2011 during which it was established in 1965 by the American Documentation Institute and the National Science Foundation, at the request of Helen Brownson.[1] It published review articles rather than empirical research articles. Its last (2010) impact factor was 2.000.[2] It was for 45 years "the main forum for scholarly review articles in information science."[3]

Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
DisciplineInformation science
LanguageEnglish
Edited byLisa M. Given
Publication details
History1965–2011; 2021–present
Publisher
FrequencyAnnually
2.000 (2010)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Annu. Rev. Inf. Sci. Technol.
Indexing
CODENARISCB
ISSN0066-4200 (print)
1550-8382 (web)
LCCN66025096
OCLC no.01481502
Links
  • Journal homepage

Publishers and editors edit

The current editor is Lisa M. Given, Professor of Information Sciences at RMIT University. The first editor-in-chief was Carlos Cuadra (System Development Corporation).It won the Best Information Science Book of the Year from the Association for Information Science and Technology in 1966.[4] From Vol. 11 (1976) - vol. 35 (2001) editor-in-chief was Martha E. Williams; from Vol. 36 (2002) to Volume 45 (2011) the editor was Blaise Cronin.

The first publisher was Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.; since Vol. 26 (1991) it was published by Information Today, Inc. on behalf of American Society for Information Science and Technology.

References edit

  1. ^ Jayroe, Tina J. (2012). "Homage to Helen Brownson: Information science pioneer". Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 49 (1): 4–1. doi:10.1002/meet.14504901264. S2CID 52018105.
  2. ^ 2010 JCR Social Science Edition in Journal Citation Reports
  3. ^ Bawden, David (2010). Alas poor ARIST: reviewing the information sciences. Journal of Documentation, 66(5), 625–626.
  4. ^ Awards and Honors Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T).

Further reading edit

  • ASIST (2021), ARIST relaunches following 10-year hiatus
  • ASIST (2010), ARIST to cease publication following 2011 volume
  • Bawden, David (2010). Alas poor ARIST: reviewing the information sciences. Journal of Documentation, 66(5), 625–626.
  • Cronin, B. (2010), "Advances in information science", Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 61 No. 4, p. 639
  • Heilprin, L. B. (1988). Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST): Early historical perspectives. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 39(4), 273–280.