Advances in Information Foraging Research

Abstract:

Information Foraging Theory (IFT) explains and predicts how people navigate in response to the information in their environment. It has proven particularly helpful in both behavior prediction and practical utility for Web design. We gleaned from science citation index expanded (SCI-EXPANED) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) database on web of science, concerning advances in information foraging research. The result indicates that the main research territory is USA accounting for 64.706%, then followed by IRELAND of 11.765%. Accordingly, the organizations are Indiana Univ Natl Univ Ireland Univ Coll Cork, Oregon State Univ Parc and Univ Memphis. The number of publication literature on this topic mainly distributes in recently 7 years, reaching climax of 6 in 2013. And from the analysis of research area, research on computer science accounts for 70.588%. Accordingly the percentage of source title as decision support systems is 11.765%. Overall, the related research topics can be classified in four areas: long tail research, software engineering research, information search behaviour and emergency response. New opportunities for future research are discussed in the end.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 701-702)
• Pages: 1376-1379
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.701-702.1376
• Online since: December 2014
• Authors: Bing Wu*, Chen Yan Zhang
• Keywords: Information Foraging, Information Search Behavior, Long Tail, Software Engineering

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