SLIS News regularly reports on the research, publications, and achievements of SLIS Faculty and Students.

A week by week listing of Publications, Presentations, and Events as reported by SLIS faculty is also available.

Areas of SLIS Faculty Research

In 2006, SLIS ranked #1 in the nation in research productivity for the second successive time (Adkins & Budd, 2006). Thomson Scientific's (2006) analysis of library and information science journals (2001-2005) ranked IU second in the impact of its publications, behind Harvard University. SLIS tenured and tenure-track faculty (Bloomington and Indianapolis) conduct cutting-edge research in the following broad areas:

Information Research

• Philosophy of Information: Day, Jacob
• Complex Systems: Börner, Ekbia
• Scientometrics: Börner
• Informetrics: Cronin, Shaw
• Scholarly Communication: Copeland, Cronin, Milojević, Shaw
• Citation Analysis: Cronin, Milojević, Shaw
• Serials and Journal Ranking:
• Discourse Analysis: Herring
• Quantitative Methods:
• Evaluation and Outcomes Assessment: Applegate, Fichman
• Teaching and Learning: Applegate, Rosenbaum
• Information Seeking Behavior: Robbin, Schilling

Information Tools and Technologies

• Information Visualization: Börner, Chen
• Spatial Information: Ekbia, Xia
• Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery: Börner, Ding
• Agent-based Modeling: Ekbia
• Natural Language Processing:
• Categorization, Classification, and Concept Maps: Jacob, Milojević, Walsh
• Metadata: Jacob, Walsh
• Ontologies: Jacob
• Semantic Web Technologies: Ding, Walsh
• Cyberinfrastructure Development: Börner

Information in Digital Environments

• Digital Libraries: Chen, Walsh
• Digital Media: Herring, Walsh
• Digital Arts and Humanities: Day, Walsh
• Virtual Reference Sources and Services: Fichman
• Electronic Business: Ding, Rosenbaum

Information in Organizations

• Organizational Informatics: Fichman, Robbin, Rosenbaum
• Strategic Intelligence: Cronin
• Knowledge Management: Copeland, Day, Hara
• Government Information: Robbin

Information Institutions

• Management of Information Organizations: Applegate
• Academic Libraries and Librarianship: Applegate, Xia
• Public Libraries and Librarianship: Copeland, Preer
• Health Sciences Libraries and Librarianship: Schilling
• International and Comparative Librarianship:
• Reference Services: Applegate, Copeland
• Collection Development and Management:
• Disability-related Resources and Services: Irwin
• Bibliographic Instruction and Information Literacy: Copeland, Schilling
• History of Libraries, Librarianship, and the Book: Preer
• European Documentation Movement: Day

Social Informatics

• Distributed Cognition: Ekbia
• Social Networks and Network Science: Börner, Herring, Rosenbaum
• Community Networks: Copeland, Rosenbaum
• Collaboratories and Communities of Practice: Fichman, Hara, Herring
• Computer-Mediated Communication: Fichman, Hara, Herring
• Gender and Technology: Herring
• Political Economy of Information: Day
• ICT Policy: Robbin
• Censorship and Intellectual Freedom: Preer
• Privacy: Robbin
• Ethics: Preer

Students have opportunities to work on research projects with faculty members. If you are interested in a particular area of research, please feel free to contact the appropriate SLIS faculty member.