Journal:Information management in context of scientific disciplines
| Full article title | Information management in context of scientific disciplines |
|---|---|
| Journal | Journal of Systems Information |
| Author(s) | Buřita, Ladislav |
| Author affiliation(s) | University of Defense in Brno |
| Primary contact | Email: Ladislav dot Burita at unob dot cz |
| Year published | 2018 |
| Volume and issue | 9(1) |
| Page(s) | 58–67 |
| DOI | 10.20470/jsi.v9i1.314 |
| ISSN | 1804-2724 |
| Distribution license | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Czech Republic |
| Website | http://www.si-journal.org/index.php/JSI/article/view/314 |
| Download | http://www.si-journal.org/index.php/JSI/article/view/314/328 (PDF) |
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Abstract
This paper aims to analyze publications with the theme of information management (IM), cited on Web of Science (WoS) or Scopus. The frequency of publishing about IM has approached linear growth, from a few articles in the period 1966–1970 to 100 at the WoS and 600 at Scopus in the period 2011–2015. From this selection of publications, this analysis looked at 21 of the most cited articles on WoS and 21 of the most cited articles on Scopus, published in 31 different journals, oriented to informatics and computer science; economics, business, and management; medicine and psychology; art and the humanities; and ergonomics. The diversity of interest in IM in various areas of science, technology, and practice was confirmed. The content of the selected articles was analyzed in its area of interest, in relation to IM, and whether the definition of IM was mentioned. One of the goals was to confirm the hypothesis that IM is included in many scientific disciplines, that the concept of IM is used loosely, and it is mostly mentioned as part of data or information processing. Another goal concerned the application of information and communication technologies within IM. The hypothesis was confirmed. In analyzed articles was used the concept of IM in the broader context of activities, with focus on various aspects of IM. The most frequent area of IM application was business support. This article explains the definition of IM, describes the research methodology, and presents the results of analyzing the selected articles. Described in detail is the focus on the term "information management" and understanding it.
Keywords: Information management, analysis, Web of Science, Scopus, scientific disciplines, system integration
Introduction
The topic of information management (IM) is frequently used in informatics as well as in management. IM is a concept of information activities in the company. It involves operation in a special department to support the acquisition, processing, reporting, and distribution of information within an organization. The aim of IM is to provide the quickest and best support for the workers of an organization with information requirements for managing the quality performance of the organization.
According to this concept there are information activities that are part of management functions: planning, management, administration, and control. Other information activities relate to specifically working with data and information: acquisition, storing, retrieval, processing, and distribution. The main task of these information activities is not only the preparation of information as such, but more often to prepare information systems (IS) and knowledge resources to support those information activities.
One of the goals of this paper is to confirm the hypothesis that the concept of IM is used in other journal articles loosely, discussing only partially data/information processing and the application of information and communication technologies (ICT).
This article is a response to a discussion held after the presentation of the paper[1] at the International Conference on Military Technologies, which was originally oriented to the analysis of IM in papers indexed solely on Web of Science (WoS). The paper was updated to include papers indexed on Scopus and added the correlation between both sources.
The article describes and compares definitions of IM, explains the research methodology, presents statistics on the analyzed papers, shows the focus of selected articles in relation to other scientific disciplines and their understanding of the IM, presents a detailed analysis of the selected articles using Tovek software, and ends with conclusions.
References
- ↑ "Information Management in Articles on WoS". Conference Proceedings of ICMT'17. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. 2017. pp. 335–339. doi:10.1109/MILTECHS.2017.7988780. ISBN 9781538619889.
Notes
This presentation is faithful to the original, with only a few minor changes to presentation. Grammar was updated—heavily at times—as necessary for better understanding. In some cases important information was missing from the references, and that information was added. The original article lists references alphabetically, but this version — by design — lists them in order of appearance.
