Hjorland B. "Epistemology and the socio-cognitive perspective in information science" JASIS&T 53(4):257-270, February 15, 2002

[Eugene Garfield]

The direct connection to Bibliometrics of this paper is the use of the SSCI
to produce analyses of core journals associated with four psychological
paradigms -- behavioristic, cognitivistic, neuroscientific, and
psychoanalytic.

For each of these, Hjorland provides a table showing the ranking of
information sources most cited.  By sampling the literature of Schizophrenia
in a Dialog ranked search, he supports his general thesis.

Figure 1 reprints an important table about the percentage of articles
published in flagship publications relevant to the four schools.  This is
taken from R.W. Robins et al 1999, American Psychologist 54(2):117-28.

In my opinion, the work of Birger Hjorland is "must reading" for information
scientists including informetricians.

Eugene Garfield


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B. Hjorland : Birger.Hjorland at hb.se

Title      Epistemology and the socio-cognitive perspective in
           information science
Author     Hjorland B
Journal    JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE
           AND TECHNOLOGY  53 (4): 257-270 FEB 15 2002

 Document type: Article  Language: English
Cited References: 48     Times Cited: 2


Abstract:
This article presents a socio-cognitive perspective in relation to
information science (IS) and information retrieval (IR). The differences
between traditional cognitive views and the socio-cognitive or
domain-analytic view are outlined. It is claimed that, given elementary
skills in computer-based retrieval, people are basically interacting with
representations of subject literatures in IR. The kind of knowledge needed
to interact with representations of subject literatures is discussed. It is
shown how different approaches or "paradigms" in the represented literature
imply different information needs and relevance criteria (which users
typically cannot express very well, which is why IS cannot primarily rely on
user studies). These principles are exemplified by comparing behaviorism,
cognitivism, psychoanalysis, and neuroscience as approaches in psychology.
The relevance criteria implicit in each position are outlined, and empirical
data are provided to prove the theoretical claims. It is further shown that
the most general level of relevance criteria is implied by epistemological
theories. The article concludes that the fundamental problems
of IS and IR are based in epistemology, which therefore becomes the most
important allied field for IS.

KeyWords Plus:
RELEVANCE, RETRIEVAL

Addresses:
Hjorland B, Royal Sch Lib & Informat Sci, DK-2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark
Royal Sch Lib & Informat Sci, DK-2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark

Publisher:
JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, NEW YORK

IDS Number:
526KT

ISSN:
1532-2882

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