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The Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) is a leading international forum for peer-reviewed research in information science. For more than half a century, JASIST has provided intellectual leadership by publishing original research that focuses on the production, discovery, recording, storage, representation, retrieval, presentation, manipulation, dissemination, use, and evaluation of information and on the tools and techniques associated with these processes.

The Journal welcomes rigorous work of an empirical, experimental, ethnographic, conceptual, historical, socio-technical, policy-analytic, or critical-theoretical nature that is positioned at the intersection of three dimensions: information, systems, and users. The ideal manuscript for JASIST would combine at least two of these critical dimensions in a novel, replicable, and generalizable way. Given the dynamic nature of the information science field, it is unproductive to be overly prescriptive about specific topical areas. However, manuscripts with themes that cover information representation, information organization, human-information interactions, and the impact of information use at individual and group levels are especially welcome. JASIST also encourages the submissions that focus on methodological innovations. However, a methods paper must demonstrate how the proposed method is unique, why it is significant, and what evidence the method may yield that otherwise is not possible to uncover with existing methods. Empirical studies concentrating on specific tools or techniques are welcome as well. A tool or a technique oriented paper, however, must meet certain specific standards: (1) the scope should not be a single software or a narrowly defined technique, (2) the study must include comparisons across multiple systems, techniques, or approaches, and finally, (3) the study must demonstrate that the core findings go beyond mere observations about a tool or a technique and it should provide conclusions that have broad implications. It is expected, in most cases, a tool or technique oriented paper will include rigorous examinations of the tool or technique in terms of the potential impact on humans, organizations, or communities. In-depth reviews of scholarly contributions in print and other media are also welcome (see “AIS Review” and “Book Review” sections).