[Asis-l] JASIST TOC: Volume 53, Number 12
Richard Hill
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Mon Sep 16 11:09:17 EDT 2002
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
JASIST
VOLUME 53, NUMBER 12
[Note: URLs for viewing contents of JASIST from past issues are at the
bottom. Immediately below, the contents of Bert Boyce's "In This Issue"
and from Claire McInerney and Ronald Day's introduction to the special
issue on Knowledge Management has been cut into the Table of Contents.]
Volume 53, Issue 12, 2002.
EDITORIAL
In This Issue
Bert R. Boyce
973
RESEARCH
An Exploratory Study of Malaysian Publication Productivity in Computer
Science and Information Technology
Yinian Gu
Published online 7 August 2002
974
Gu characterizes the publication activity of computer science and
information technology researchers in Malaysia by data collected through
searches restricted to 1990-1999 in COMPENDX, IEEE Electronic Library, and
INSPEC. These searches supplied 461 records. The first four years
contributed 20% with growth to 80% in the last six years. University
researchers contribute 93%, and 56% are contributed by the three most
productive institutions. Nearly 60% are conference papers.
Dynamic and Evolutionary Updates of Classificatory Schemes in
Scientific Journal Structures
Loet Leydesdorff
Published online 7 August 2002
987
In order to determine ``central tendency journals,'' Leydesdorff
suggests the use of factor analysis on both the cited and citing halves of
a journal-journal citation matrix drawn from citations to and from a
journal of interest with the use of a threshold. A test using JASIST
produces different clusters with changing journals for different time
periods. Such changing classifications of journals are seen as a means of
generating a hypothesis for the next state. The use of fixed sets of
journals to indicate a topical class for analysis of work in a subject will
not reflect reality over time.
Conceptualizing Documentation on the Web: An Evaluation of Different
Heuristic-Based Models for Counting Links between University Web Sites
Mike Thelwall
Published online 8 August 2002
995
Thelwall considers three possible levels of aggregation for counting
links between entities by comparing the incoming links at four levels to
each of 108 United Kingdom university sites. There is no clear generally
accepted definition for a Web page, or a Web document, but a Web site is
normally associated with a domain name, or perhaps the domain name and the
same first few directories. A working definition for a Web document is ``a
body of work with a consistent identifiable theme produced by a single
author or collaborating team. It may consist of any number of partial or
whole unrestricted access electronic files retrievable over the Web.''
Thelwall suggests developing heuristics for aggregating a Web document
either by content and link structure, or by URL analysis, and he evaluates
four URL-based heuristics; individual page, directory, domain name, and
University, where all domain names belonging to a University are treated as
a document. Using the UK's Research Assessment Exercise which assessed
research contributions of individual universities as a standard, and a
crawler created database of the 108 university sites using only those links
found on the home page with duplicates removed, link counts and research
productivity show significant correlation at the 0.1% level using Spearman
for all four definitions. Link counts between pairs of universities and the
product of their productivity suggest that the domain model is the most
robust and the directory model also meaningfully reduces outliers. Link
counts strongly correlate with productivity.
SPECIAL TOPIC SECTION: KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
Guest Editors: Claire McInerney and Ronald Day
Introduction to the JASIST Special Section on Knowledge Management
Claire McInerney and Ronald Day
Published online 6 August 2002
1008
Our task in editing this issue has been to reinvigorate the Knowledge
Management debate by a collection of articles that theoretically and
practically investigate Knowledge Management from an extended professional
context and from a social context. We have, therefore, included articles
that extend and challenge Knowledge Management as both a theoretical
discourse and as a practical activity. Although the articles included here
might create controversy both by their content and their inclusion in the
Knowledge Management debate, we feel that only by a reevaluation of
Knowledge Management will its central terms be more fully explored and will
its relevance be historically extended and socially engaged.
Thus, this special issue of JASIST on Knowledge Management includes
conceptual and empirical studies covering a broad discursive and social
spectrum over three continents. It is certainly not meant to be
comprehensive of every aspect of KM, nor is it meant to include research
that simply extends the current parameters of KM. Instead, it is an attempt
to assemble a group of interesting, largely interdisciplinary scholarly
readings and research articles that account for KM's past historical
significance and for its future promise as a source of theory and practice
across a variety of fields.
Knowledge Management and the Dynamic Nature of Knowledge
Claire McInerney
Published online 25 July 2002
1009
The issue begins with a general overview of Knowledge Management by
Claire McInerney, touching upon some of the central themes of Knowledge
Management and new directions for its development.
Knowledge Management: Hype, Hope, or Help?
David C. Blair
Published online 26 July 2002
1019
David Blair's article takes a comprehensive view of Knowledge
Management, following its relationship to data or information management
and its still promising possibilities.
Knowledge Integration in Virtual Teams: The Potential Role of KMS
Maryam Alavi and Amrit Tiwana
Published online 19 July 2002
1029
Maryam Alavi and Amrit Tiwana identify four challenges to knowledge
integration in virtual team environments and propose knowledge management
system (KMS) approaches to meet these challenges.
Mundane Knowledge Management and Microlevel Organizational Learning:
An Ethological Approach
Elisabeth Davenport
Published online 25 July 2002
1038
Elisabeth Davenport explores the concepts of mundane knowledge
management and organizational ethology in a case study of a project to
promote virtual enterprise formation.
Knowledge Management in Three Organizations: An Exploratory Study
F. C. Gray Southon, Ross J. Todd, and Megan Seneque
Published online 25 July 2002
1047
F.C. Gray Southon, Ross Todd, and Megan Seneque, report on a study in
Australia that examined knowledge structures in three organizations: a law
firm, an educational institution, and a government council.
Organizational Measures as a Form of Knowledge Management: A
Multitheoretic, Communication-Based Exploration
Jennifer K. Lehr and Ronald E. Rice
Published online 19 July 2002
1060
Jennifer Lehr and Ronald Rice explore Knowledge Management in terms of
four approaches to measurement.
Social Capital, Value, and Measure: Antonio Negri's Challenge to
Capitalism
Ronald E. Day
Published online 6 August 2002
1074
Ronald Day explores the notion of social capital in terms of the
problem of measure and value, particularly through the work of the Italian
philosopher and political economist, Antonio Negri.
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