Abstract Theories of information behavior have been developed and used in a variety of disciplines to describe the needs, seeking/search/sharing behaviors, and uses of information among individuals and groups in a variety of contexts. While the development of a theory is a complex, evolutionary process, often involving many thinkers over a long period of time, there is generally a single or small group of publications that can be pointed to as the genesis of a theory. The genesis publications for information behavior theories were examined to determine the information behavior theories receiving the most direct citations in scholarly literature. The findings of this study may be beneficial to library and information science researchers in identifying influential and growing theories of information behavior for incorporation as the foundation of their own research.

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信息行为理论在学术文献中的引用影响

摘要 信息行为理论已被开发并用于各种学科，以描述个人和群体在各种环境中的需求、寻求/搜索/共享行为以及信息的使用。虽然理论的发展是一个复杂的进化过程，通常涉及许多思想家在很长一段时间内，但通常只有一个或一小群出版物可以作为理论的起源。检查信息行为理论的创世纪出版物，以确定在学术文献中获得最直接引用的信息行为理论。