Birger Hjørland

Research output

Research output per year 1977 1993 1994 1996 1997 2000 2002 2003 2004 2005 2007 2010 2011 2012 2019

• 121 Journal article
• 60 Book chapter
• 21 Literature review
• 15 Book
• 37 More
  • 11 Article in proceedings
  • 5 Letter
  • 3 Paper
  • 3 Editorial
  • 3 Net publication - Internet publication
  • 2 Compendium/lecture notes
  • 2 Comment/debate
  • 2 Other contribution
  • 1 Anthology
  • 1 Encyclopedia chapter
  • 1 Preface/postscript
  • 1 Conference abstract for conference
  • 1 Conference article
  • 1 Memorandum

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2019

  Citation indexing and indexes

  Araújo, P. C. D., Castanha, R. C. G. & Hjørland, B., 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Knowledge Organization.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

• Political versus Apolitical Epistemologies

  Hjørland, B., 2019, (Submitted) In: Knowledge Organization. 23 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

• The Foundation of Information Science: One World or Three? A Discussion of Gnoli (2018).

  Hjørland, B., 7 Jan 2019, In: Journal of Documentation. 75, 1, p. 164-171 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • Information science 100%
  • information science 71%
  • artifact 21%
  • methodology 12%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

  96 Downloads (Pure)
• 2018

  Bedömargruppens rapport, Treklöverutvärdering kluster 6: Linnéuniversitetet+Karlstad Universitetet + Mittuniversitetet

  Hjørland, B., Johansson, J., Karlsson, F., Henttonen, P., Christiansson, M-T., Nyström, C. A., Mirijamdotter, A., Nordsvahn, B. & Sannerstedt, M., 5 Sept 2018

  Research output: Memorandum/exposition › Memorandum

  36 Downloads (Pure)

• Data: (with Big Data and Database Semantics)

  Hjørland, B., Dec 2018, In: Knowledge Organization. 45, 8, p. 685-708 24 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • semantics 100%
  • holism 13%
  • epistemology 9%
  • knowledge 6%
  • organization 5%
  4 Citations (Scopus)

  30 Downloads (Pure)

• Epistemology of Classification with Emphasis on Emile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss

  Hjørland, B., 2018.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › Research

  176 Downloads (Pure)

• Indexing: Concepts and Theory

  Hjørland, B., 22 Oct 2018, In: Knowledge Organization. 45, 7, p. 609-639 31 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • indexing 100%
  • epistemology 8%
  • subjectivity 8%
  4 Citations (Scopus)

  180 Downloads (Pure)

• Library and Information Science (LIS), Part 1

  Hjørland, B., 18 May 2018, In: Knowledge Organization. 45, 3, p. 232-254 23 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • information science 100%
  • documentation 14%
  • paradigm 11%
  • history 9%
  11 Citations (Scopus)

  1074 Downloads (Pure)

• Library and Information Science (LIS), Part 2

  Hjørland, B., 1 Aug 2018, In: Knowledge Organization. 45, 4, p. 319-338 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • information science 100%
  • epistemology 28%
  • documentation 12%
  • paradigm 9%
  • history 7%
  4 Citations (Scopus)

  32 Downloads (Pure)
• 2017

  A rejoinder to Nicolaisen’s refutation of Hjørland’s relevance definition

  Hjørland, B., 24 Mar 2017, In: Information Research. 22, 1, 11 p., colis1628.html .

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  86 Downloads (Pure)

• Book review of Sonnenwald (2016). Theory Development in the Information Sciences. Edited by Diane H. Sonnenwald. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2016.

  Hjørland, B., 21 Jun 2017, In: Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology . 68, 7, p. 1796-1801 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Literature review › Research

  96 Downloads (Pure)

• Classification

  Hjørland, B., 14 Mar 2017, In: Knowledge Organization. 44, 2, p. 97-128 31 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • taxonomy 100%
  • Aristotle 67%
  • pluralism 50%
  • typology 44%
  • pragmatics 42%
  21 Citations (Scopus)

• Does Informetrics Need a Theory? A Rejoinder to Professor Anthony Van Raan

  Hjørland, B., Dec 2017, In: Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology . 68, 12, p. 2846 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter

• Domain analysis

  Hjørland, B., 18 Sept 2017, In: Knowledge Organization. 44, 6, p. 436-464 29 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • art studies 100%
  • information science 63%
  • criticism 52%
  • knowledge 42%
  • organization 38%
  25 Citations (Scopus)

  869 Downloads (Pure)

• Subject (of documents)

  Hjørland, B., 19 Jan 2017, In: Knowledge Organization. 44, 1, p. 55-64 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  12 Citations (Scopus)

• Theoretical development of information science: A brief history

  Hjørland, B., 2017, (Submitted) In: x. 70 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • Information Science 100%
  • History 53%
  • Information Theory 36%
  • Social Epistemology 20%
  • Bibliometrics 18%
  7266 Downloads (Pure)
• 2016

  Does the traditional thesaurus have a place in modern information retrieval?

  Hjørland, B., 18 Apr 2016, In: Knowledge Organization. 43, 3, p. 145-159 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • thesaurus 100%
  • information retrieval 86%
  • organization 46%
  • semantics 31%
  • knowledge 17%
  15 Citations (Scopus)

  691 Downloads (Pure)

• Informetrics needs a foundation in the theory of science

  Hjørland, B., 1 Jan 2016, Theories of Informetrics and Scholarly Communication. Sugimoto, C. R. (ed.). De Gruyter, p. 20-46 27 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

  • Metascience 100%
  • Subject Knowledge 93%
  • Logical Positivism 80%
  • Bibliometrics 70%
  • Philosophy of Science 56%
  17 Citations (Scopus)

  1367 Downloads (Pure)

• ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization

  Hjørland, B. (ed.), 1 Aug 2016

  Research output: Other contribution › Net publication - Internet publication › Research › peer-review

• Knowledge Organization (KO)

  Hjørland, B., 2 Aug 2016, In: Knowledge Organization. 43, 6, p. 476-485 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  31 Citations (Scopus)

• The Landscape Of Philosophy Of Science

  Nistrup Madsen, B., Hjørland, B., Brier, S., Johansson, K. E. L., Erdman Thomsen, H. & Selsøe Sørensen, H., Jul 2016. 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › Research › peer-review

  • Philosophy of Science 100%
  • Ontology 86%
  • Paradigm 77%
  • Knowledge Management 77%
  • Information Retrieval 68%
  645 Downloads (Pure)

• The paradox of atheoretical classification

  Hjørland, B., Jun 2016, In: Knowledge Organization. 43, 5, p. 313-323 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • mental disorder 100%
  • edition 87%
  • diagnostic 81%
  8 Citations (Scopus)

  6969 Downloads (Pure)
• 2015

  Are relations in thesauri "context-free, definitional, and true in all possible worlds"?

  Hjørland, B., 1 Jul 2015, In: Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 66, 7, p. 1367-1373 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • Thesaurus 100%
  • Semantic Relations 79%
  • Possible Worlds 70%
  • Subject Knowledge 67%
  • Paradigmatics 61%
  17 Citations (Scopus)

• Classical databases and knowledge organization: A case for Boolean retrieval and human decision-making during searches

  Hjørland, B., 1 Aug 2015, In: Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 66, 8, p. 1559-1575 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • Knowledge Organization 100%
  • Data Base 72%
  • Decision Making 69%
  • Information Science 51%
  • Information Retrieval 25%
  27 Citations (Scopus)

  472 Downloads (Pure)

• The concept of information - again and again

  Hjørland, B., 22 Aug 2015, In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing - A Journal of Second Order Cybernetics, Autopoiesis and Cyber-Semiotics. 22, 1, p. 67-69, 78-80 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › Research

  222 Downloads (Pure)

• Theories are knowledge organizing systems (KOS)

  Hjørland, B., 14 May 2015, In: Knowledge Organization. 42, 2, p. 113-128 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • organization 100%
  • knowledge 54%
  • information science 41%
  • artifact 36%
  • neglect 36%
  23 Citations (Scopus)

  1796 Downloads (Pure)

• The phrase “information storage and retrieval” (IS&R): A historical note

  Hjørland, B., 1 Jun 2015, In: Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 66, 6, p. 1299-1302 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • Historical Note 100%
  • History 26%
  • Information Science 24%
  • Information Retrieval 24%
  • Phrasing 24%
  3 Citations (Scopus)
• 2014

  Curating research data: The potential roles of libraries and information professionals

  Nielsen, H. J. & Hjørland, B., Mar 2014, In: Journal of Documentation. 70, 2, p. 221-240 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • Data curation 100%
  • qualification 36%
  • typology 36%
  • criticism 34%
  • Communication 29%
  32 Citations (Scopus)

  2212 Downloads (Pure)

• Guest Editorial: Introduction to the special issue: perspectives on research libraries

  Hjørland, B., Nielsen, H. J. & Høyrup, H., 11 Feb 2014, In: Journal of Documentation. 70, 2, p. 198-201 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial

  1 Citation (Scopus)

  790 Downloads (Pure)

• Information science and its core concepts: Levels of disagreement

  Hjørland, B., 2014, Fundamental notions of information communication and knowledge: lts affect on scientific research and interdisciplinarity. lbekwe-SanJuan, F. & Dousa, T. (eds.). Dordrecht: Springer Science+Business Media, p. 205-235 31 p. (Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research

  • Information Science 100%
  • Metatheory 23%
  • Cognitive Science 20%
  • Centripetal 20%
  • Academic Discipline 19%
  7188 Downloads (Pure)

• Is facet analysis based on rationalism? A discussion of Satija (1992), Tennis (2008), Herre (2013), Mazzocchi (2013b), and Dousa & Ibekwe-SanJuan (2014)

  Hjørland, B., 2014, In: Knowledge Organization. 41, 5, p. 369-376 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • rationalism 100%
  • knowledge 48%
  • worldview 30%
  • epistemology 28%
  • organization research 20%
  4 Citations (Scopus)

  1886 Downloads (Pure)
• 2013

  A fascinating field and a pragmatic enterprise: Education in the information field

  Hjørland, B., 2013, Libraries, black metal and corporate finance: Current research in Nordic Library and Information Science: Selected articles from the 40th anniversary conference of the Swedish School of Library and Information Science. Nilsson, S. K. & Frenander, A. (eds.). Boraas: University of Boraas, Vol. Report no. 2013:23. p. 37-45 9 p. (Science for the professions / Vetenskap för profession.; No. 23).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Communication

  • pragmatics 100%
  • education 37%
  1175 Downloads (Pure)

• Citation analysis: A social and dynamic approach to knowledge organization

  Hjørland, B., 2013, In: Information Processing & Management. 49, 6, p. 1313-1325 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • Citation Analysis 100%
  • Knowledge Organization 79%
  • Bibliometrics 46%
  • knowledge 41%
  • organization 37%
  72 Citations (Scopus)

• Facet analysis: The logical approach to knowledge organization

  Hjørland, B., 15 Jan 2013, In: Information Processing & Management. p. 545-557 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • Knowledge Organization 100%
  • Logic 60%
  • knowledge 51%
  • organization 47%
  • Information science 26%
  55 Citations (Scopus)

  2146 Downloads (Pure)

• Litteratursøgningens metodik

  Munch Kristiansen, H. & Hjørland, B., 17 Oct 2013, Evidens og systematiske reviews: En introduktion. Johannsen, C. G. & Pors, N. O. (eds.). Samfundslitteratur, p. 59-71 13 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Theories of knowledge organization — theories of knowledge: Keynote March 19, 2013. 13th Meeting of the German ISKO in Potsdam

  Hjørland, B., May 2013, In: Knowledge Organization. 40, 3, p. 169-181

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  47 Citations (Scopus)

  507 Downloads (Pure)

• Uncovering Epistemological Assumptions underlying Research in Information Studies

  Fuller, S., Hjørland, B., Ibekwe-SanJuan, F., Ma, L., Mai, J-E., Tennis, J. & Warner, J., 2013.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference abstract for conference › Research › peer-review

  • Epistemological 100%
  • Epistemology 66%
  • Interdisciplinarity 38%
  • Eclecticism 33%
  • Applied Research 29%
  7 Citations (Scopus)

• User-based and Cognitive Approaches to Knowledge Organization: A Theoretical Analysis of the Research Literature.

  Hjørland, B., Jan 2013, In: Knowledge Organization. 40, 1, p. 11-27 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  30 Citations (Scopus)

  788 Downloads (Pure)
• 2012

  Foreword: A fascinating field and a pragmatic enterprise

  Hjørland, B., 1 Aug 2012, Introduction to Information Science. Bawden, D. & Robinson, L. (eds.). 1 ed. London: Facet Publishing, Vol. 1. p. xxi-xxiii 3 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Preface/postscript › Research

  542 Downloads (Pure)

• Informations- og dokumentformidlingens teoretiske grundlag

  Hjørland, B., Nov 2012, Viden i spil: Forskningsbibliotekers funktioner i forandring. Høyrup, H., Nielsen, H. J. & Hjørland, B. (eds.). Frederiksberg C: Samfundslitteratur, p. 93-122 30 p. (Medier, Kommunikation, Journalistik , Vol. 6).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Is classification necessary after Google?

  Hjørland, B., 21 Apr 2012, In: Journal of Documentation. 68, 3, p. 299-317 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  37 Citations (Scopus)

  1056 Downloads (Pure)

• Knowledge Organization = Information Organization?

  Hjørland, B., 6 Aug 2012. 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › Research › peer-review

  • knowledge 100%
  • organization 91%
  9 Citations (Scopus)

  1883 Downloads (Pure)

• Metadata i spil

  Hjørland, B., Nov 2012, Viden i spil: Forskningsbibliotekers funktioner i forandring. Høyrup, H., Nielsen, H. J. & Hjørland, B. (eds.). Frederiksberg C: Samfundslitteratur, p. 194-210 17 p. (Medier, Kommunikation, Journalistik , Vol. 6).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Methods for evaluating information sources: An annotated catalogue

  Hjørland, B., 12 Jun 2012, In: Journal of Information Science. 38, 3, p. 258-268 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  21 Citations (Scopus)

  929 Downloads (Pure)

• Om problemformuleringer i biblioteks-, dokumentations- og informationsvidenskab

  Hjørland, B., Oct 2012, In: Dansk Biblioteksforskning. 1, 3, p. 63-74 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  983 Downloads (Pure)

• Viden i spil: Forskningsbibliotekers funktioner i forandring

  Høyrup, H. (ed.), Nielsen, H. J. (ed.) & Hjørland, B. (ed.), Nov 2012, 1. ed. Frederiksberg: Samfundslitteratur. 355 p. (Medier, Kommunikation, Journalistik , Vol. 6).

  Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › Research › peer-review

• Канцэпцыя інфармацыйнага Канцэпцыя інфармацыйнага

  Hjørland, B., 2012

  Research output: Other contribution › Net publication - Internet publication › Communication
• 2011

  Evaluation of an Information Source Illustrated by a Case Study: Effect of Screening for Breast Cancer

  Hjørland, B., Oct 2011, In: Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 62, 10, p. 1892–1898 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  10 Citations (Scopus)

• Evidence based practice: An analysis based on the philosophy of science

  Hjørland, B., Jul 2011, In: Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 62, 7, p. 1301–1310 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  49 Citations (Scopus)

• Evidensbaseret praksis i videnskabsteoretisk belysning

  Hjørland, B., 2011, In: Dansk Biblioteksforskning. 6, 2/3, p. 35-47 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review