Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Journal of Documentation<\/em><\/p>\n ISSN<\/strong>: 0022-0418 (Print) and\u00a01758-7379 (Online)1<\/sup><\/p>\n Purpose, objective, or mission:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cThe\u00a0Journal of Documentation\u00a0<\/em>(JDoc) is one of the longest established academic journals in library and information science, providing a unique focus on theories, concepts, models, frameworks and philosophies.\u201d2<\/sup><\/p>\n Website:\u00a0<\/strong>Journal of Documentation<\/em> Overview<\/a><\/p>\n Target audience:<\/strong>\u00a0Primary readership includes educators, scholars, researchers, and advanced scholars in information science fields.3<\/sup><\/p>\n Publisher:<\/strong>\u00a0Emerald Publishing Limited4<\/sup><\/p>\n Peer reviewed?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes5<\/sup><\/p>\n Type:<\/strong>\u00a0LIS scholarly,6<\/sup>\u00a0as indicated by the target audience, a \u201crigorous peer review process,\u201d and the focal areas of the content: \u201ctheories, concepts, models, frameworks, and philosophies in the information sciences.\u201d7<\/sup>\u00a0Many of the articles are highly research oriented and follow a typical format, including sections for literature review, methods, results, discussion, and conclusion.\u00a0Journal of Documentation<\/em>\u00a0is an ISI ranked journal.8<\/sup><\/p>\n Medium:<\/strong>\u00a0Print and online9<\/sup><\/p>\n Content:<\/strong>\u00a0The journal publishes research papers, critical and scholarly reviews, and short speculative articles.10<\/sup><\/p>\n Frequency of publication:<\/strong>\u00a0Bi-monthly11<\/sup><\/p>\n Location of submission guidelines:<\/strong> Journal of Documentation<\/em> Overview<\/a> (click on the tab “Author guidelines”)<\/p>\n Types of contributions accepted:<\/strong>\u00a0Research papers, critical and scholarly reviews, short speculative articles12<\/sup><\/p>\n Submission and review process:<\/strong>\u00a0Article length is restricted to 4,000 \u2013 10,000 words. Title must be 16 words or less, and the submission must include a structured abstract following their \u201cHow to . . . Write an Abstract\u201d guide. All articles are subject to a double blind peer review.13<\/sup><\/p>\n Editorial tone:<\/strong>\u00a0Scholarly14<\/sup><\/p>\n Style guide used:<\/strong>\u00a0Harvard style references15<\/sup><\/p>\n The\u00a0Journal of Documentation<\/em> is a highly regarded journal of research, review, and evidence-based practice. It claims a rigorous peer-review process and would be a credit to an LIS writer seeking to publish for tenure and career advancement. Potential works may take the forms of research reports, scholarly reviews, articles on research methodology, historical articles, and \u201creviews of the evidence base for professional practice.\u201d16<\/sup><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Publication circulation:<\/strong>\u00a0Circulation not listed.<\/p>\n Audience location and language or cultural:<\/strong>\u00a0Journal of Documentation<\/em>\u00a0is published in English in the United Kingdom.17<\/sup>\u00a0A\u00a0good amount of professional jargon will be familiar to most readers, depending more upon their professional discipline than upon their native tongue.<\/p>\n Reader characteristics:<\/strong>\u00a0Given the content of the journal, it is likely that its readers work in a variety of library settings. This readership expects\u00a0thoughtful, well-articulated conceptual work alongside evidence-driven research and practical approaches to problem-solving.18<\/sup><\/p>\n Knowledge of LIS subject matter:<\/strong>\u00a0Indications are that LIS subject matter knowledge among this readership is very high, and often specific to a particular area of practice or research. Readers may be experts in some other domain but interested in its relationship to LIS disciplines and have a high degree of comfort dealing with that material.19<\/sup><\/p>\n These readers will be knowledgeable about most LIS concepts and experts in specific areas. They will be critical readers and will want thoughtfulness in presentation along with evidence and sound reasoning in discussions and conclusions.<\/p>\n Last updated:<\/strong>\u00a0May 15, 2017<\/p>\n Publication analysis About the publication Title:\u00a0Journal of Documentation ISSN: 0022-0418 (Print) and\u00a01758-7379 (Online)1 Purpose, objective, or mission:\u00a0\u201cThe\u00a0Journal of Documentation\u00a0(JDoc) is one of the longest established academic journals in library and information science, providing a unique focus on theories, concepts, models, frameworks and philosophies.\u201d2 Website:\u00a0Journal of Documentation Overview Target audience:\u00a0Primary readership includes educators, scholars, researchers, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":772,"featured_media":0,"parent":2013,"menu_order":34,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2129","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2129"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3486,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2129\/revisions\/3486"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}About the publication\u2019s submission guidelines<\/h3>\n
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