Journal of Documentation: Volume 57 Issue 3

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Morphological typology of languages for IR

Ari Pirkola

This paper presents a morphological classification of languages from the IR perspective. Linguistic typology research has shown that the morphological complexity of every language…

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Observations concerning the two‐ and three‐year synchronous impact factor, based on the Chinese science citation database

Ronald Rousseau, Bihui Jin, Ninghui Yang

Generally speaking, the three‐year synchronous impact factor is larger than the two‐year one. This follows from theoretical models derived from observations based on ISIÒs…

Document text characteristics affect the ranking of the most relevant documents by expanded structured queries

Eero Sormunen, Jaana Kekÿlÿinen, Jussi Koivisto, Kalervo Jÿrvelin

The increasing flood of documentary information through the Internet and other information sources challenges the developers of information retrieval systems. It is not enough…

A user study of the design issues of propie: a novel environment for enhanced interaction and value‐adding of electronic documents

Chern Li Liew, Schubert Foo, K.R. Chennupati

In this paper, we present a proposed information environment (PROPIE) for enhanced interaction and value‐adding of electronic documents (e‐documents). The design of PROPIE was…

Acknowledgement trends in the research literature of information science

Blaise Cronin

Data were gathered on acknowledgements in five leading information science journals for the years 1991‐1999. The results were compared with data from two earlier studies of the…

Economic aspects of a national electronic reserve service

Leah Halliday, Charles Oppenheim

Economic aspects of a national electronic reserve service (NERS) were explored using Ithink Analyst, a modelling software package. A model was developed and simulations were used…

Cover of Journal of Documentation

ISSN:

0022-0418

Online date, start – end:

1945

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof David Bawden