期刊名称：Iranian Journal of Information Processing & Management
印刷版ISSN：2251-8223
电子版ISSN：2251-8231
出版年度：2014
卷号：28
期号：4
页码：971-987
出版社：Iranian Research Institute for Information and Technology
摘要：The aim of this research was to obtain a better understanding of the domain of human information behaviour and map the domain. For this, 51 theories were selected and their bibliographic information was obtained from Web of Science and then citation analysis and bibliographic coupling analysis were performed. Pajek, HistCite, Sci2 Tool and VOSViewer software were used for analysis and visualization. The results showed that most of the theories were proposed by Americans and by information scientists. A few of the theories were proposed by scientists from the fields of sociology, psychology, computer scientists and a few other disciplines. Citation analysis showed that the theories mainly cited library and information science sources, however, there were also citations to the sources of another 29 other fields especially to sociology, communication, psychology, management, educational sciences and computer science. Bibliographic coupling map showed that about four fifths of the theories were linked to each other as a whole network. Some works were more strongly coupled including Ellis and Bates, Ingwersen and Hjørland, Ingwersen and Sandstrom, and Hjørland and Kuhlthau. Historiography of the works showed that works by Chatman, Taylor and Kuhlthau has played an important role in linking older theories to more recent works. Within the 51 theories works by Taylor, Ellis, Bates and Kuhlthau received more citations than the others.
