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Information seeking behavior

Known as: Information seeking behaviour 
Information seeking behavior refers to the way people search for and utilize information. The term was coined by Wilson in his 1981 paper, on the… 
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Highly Cited
2015
Highly Cited
2015
Information Seeking Behavior and Technology Adoption: Theories and Trends
With the increasingly complex and ubiquitous data available through modern technology, digital information is being utilized… 
Review
2013
Review
2013
Patterns of graduate students' information seeking behavior: a meta-synthesis of the literature
Purpose – The purpose of this review is to draw out patterns of information seeking behavior of graduate students as described in… 
Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Negative urgency and risky sexual behaviors: A clarification of the relationship between impulsivity and risky sexual behavior ☆
Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
E-textbook use, information seeking behaviour and its impact: Case study business and management
This paper evaluates the e-book usage and information seeking and reading behaviour of thousands of business and management… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Collaborative information behaviour--exploring Kuhlthau's Information Search Process model in a group-based educational setting
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
The many faces of accessibility: engineers' perception of information sources
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Information and information sources in tasks of varying complexity
This article presents the research findings of a study on task complexity and information-seeking activities in real-life work… 
Review
1999
Review
1999
Information Seeking Behavior of Scientists in the Electronic Information Age: Astronomers, Chemists, Mathematicians, and Physicists
The information seeking behavior of astronomers, chemists, mathematicians, and physicists at the University of Oklahoma was… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Theory and metatheory of information science: a new interpretation
This paper analyses the theoretical and the epistemological assumptions of information science (IS). Different views of knowledge… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Intelligent Information Retrieval: Whose Intelligence?
The concept of 'intelligent' information retrieval was first mooted in the late 1970s, but had lost currency within the… 
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