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Knowledge Organization (journal)

Knowledge Organization: International Journal devoted to Concept Theory, Classification, Indexing, and Knowledge Representation is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering knowledge organization, including concept theory, classification, indexing, and knowledge representation. It is published by Ergon Verlag on behalf of the International Society for Knowledge Organization and was published under the title International Classification between 1974 and 1993. It was established in 1974 with Ingetraut Dahlberg as founding editor-in-chief.

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Knowledge Organization
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DisciplineInformation science
LanguageEnglish
Edited byNatália Bolfarini Tognoli
Publication details
Former name
International Classification
History1974-present
Publisher
IMR Press (2025-). Previously Ergon Verlag on behalf of the International Society for Knowledge Organization
Frequency8/year
0.559 (2018)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4 (alt· Bluebook (alt)
NLM (alt· MathSciNet (alt Paid subscription required)
ISO 4Knowl. Organ.
Indexing
CODEN (alt · alt2· JSTOR (alt· LCCN (alt)
MIAR · NLM (alt· Scopus · W&L
CODENKNOREM
ISSN0943-7444
LCCN94652101
OCLC no.27958157
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Knowledge Organization: International Journal devoted to Concept Theory, Classification, Indexing, and Knowledge Representation is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering knowledge organization, including concept theory, classification, indexing, and knowledge representation. It is published by Ergon Verlag on behalf of the International Society for Knowledge Organization and was published under the title International Classification between 1974 and 1993. It was established in 1974 with Ingetraut Dahlberg as founding editor-in-chief.1

Since 2025 it has been published by IMR Press.2

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and or indexed in Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences, Social Sciences Citation Index, Inspec, Library and Information Science Abstracts, PASCAL, Referativny Zhurnal Informatika, and Sociological Abstracts. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 0.559.3

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References

References

  1. Thomas Hapke (2002-09-25). "Ingetraut Dahlberg". Technical University Hamburg Harburg. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
  2. Knowledge Organization (KO)
  3. "Knowledge Organization". 2017 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Clarivate Analytics. 2018.
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