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19A COMPARISON OF THE INFORMATION SEEKING PATTERNS OF RESEARCHERS IN THE PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCESJournal of Documentation1993364
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23Domain analysis in information scienceJournal of Documentation2002328
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26FOUNDATION OF EVALUATIONJournal of Documentation1974235
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31INFORMATION RETRIEVAL BASED ON CONCEPTUAL DISTANCE IN IS‐A HIERARCHIESJournal of Documentation1993212
32Experimental components for the evaluation of interactive information retrieval systemsJournal of Documentation2000212
33Developing the information literacy self‐efficacy scaleJournal of Documentation2006210
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35ASK FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL: PART II. RESULTS OF A DESIGN STUDYJournal of Documentation1982199
36Information literacy landscapes: an emerging pictureJournal of Documentation2006197
37INFORMATION CONCEPTS FOR INFORMATION SCIENCEJournal of Documentation1978192
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39CO‐CITATION CONTEXT ANALYSIS AND THE STRUCTURE OF PARADIGMSJournal of Documentation1980184
40HUMANITIES SCHOLARS: INFORMATION NEEDS AND USESJournal of Documentation1982183
41Empirical Hyperbolic Distributions (Bradford‐Zipf‐Mandelbrot) for Bibliometric Description and PredictionJournal of Documentation1969182
42INFORMATION RETRIEVAL THROUGH MAN‐MACHINE DIALOGUEJournal of Documentation1977178
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