Annual Progress in Knowledge Organization (KO)? Annual Progress in Thesaurus Research?

摘要

Earlier we had the publication Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, ARIST, published from 1966 to 2011. It belongs to a family of Annual Reviews that are very popular (and highly cited) in almost any discipline (and often such Annual Reviews exists in subfields too). I have always been interested in this kind of research synthesis (along with many other kinds). But it has struck me that they almost never live up to their names-or at least what I expect from publications with such titles. They almost never consider progress in the same field year by year (this is also true for my own contributions in this genre, Hjørland 2007; Hjør-land and Capurro 2003; Hjørland and Kyllesbech Nielsen 2001). (This does not make them an unnecessary scholarly genre, however; they are still very fruitful by presenting and reviewing publications in the field on a more or less regular basis).