Aims and Scope

Aim

The Asian Journal of Information Science and Technology (AJIST) aims to advance scholarly knowledge and professional practice in information science, library and information science, information systems, and related digital information environments. The journal provides an international platform for rigorous theoretical, empirical, methodological, and practice-oriented research. It publishes studies that improve the understanding, organisation, management, discovery, use, preservation, and evaluation of information resources, systems, services, and infrastructures. AJIST encourages research addressing digital transformation, knowledge organisation, information behaviour, scholarly communication, digital libraries, research analytics, data management, and responsible applications of emerging technologies. Interdisciplinary research is welcomed where the principal contribution clearly advances information science, information systems, or information-related professional practice. The journal seeks to disseminate methodologically sound, scientifically relevant, and practically significant research to an international academic and professional readership.

Scope of the Journal

AJIST publishes original research articles, review articles, and case studies in areas including:

  • Digital libraries, institutional repositories, digital preservation, and digital collections
  • Information organisation, knowledge organisation, knowledge management, and knowledge systems
  • Information literacy, information behaviour, user studies, and information-seeking research
  • Library automation, digital library technologies, information services, and technology-enabled library practice
  • Bibliometrics, scientometrics, informetrics, research analytics, and research evaluation
  • Information retrieval, search technologies, discovery systems, and information access
  • Information systems development, management, evaluation, and digital infrastructures
  • Database systems, data management, information architecture, metadata, and knowledge representation
  • Cloud and distributed technologies for information systems and digital information environments
  • Cybersecurity, privacy, and information assurance in information and knowledge environments
  • Web technologies, semantic web, linked data, and knowledge representation
  • Responsible artificial intelligence and machine learning applications in information science, libraries, and information systems
  • Big data analytics and data science for information management, research analytics, and information services
  • Scholarly communication, open access, research data management, and open science
  • Information policy, digital inclusion, ICT for development, digital transformation, and knowledge economy studies

Interdisciplinary Research

AJIST welcomes interdisciplinary research where the work demonstrates a clear and substantive contribution to information science, library and information science, information systems, information management, or digital information environments. Studies primarily focused on another discipline without a meaningful information-science or information-systems contribution are outside the principal scope of the journal.

Readership

The journal serves an international readership of researchers, academics, librarians, information professionals, information scientists, educators, practitioners, research administrators, and policy-oriented scholars working in the areas covered by the journal.

Types of Articles

  • Original Research Articles
  • Review Articles
  • Case Studies

Originality and Relevance

Submitted manuscripts must present original scholarly work relevant to the stated aims and scope of AJIST and demonstrate theoretical, empirical, methodological, technological, or professional significance. Manuscripts should make a clear contribution to information science, library and information science, information systems, or the management and use of information in digital and technology-enabled environments. Purely descriptive studies without a substantive scholarly or professional contribution may be considered outside the journal's editorial scope.