A nonlinear model of information-seeking behavior

By Allen Foster. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2004

367 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Information Systems, Library and Information Sciences

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How researchers see this paper

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In Communication

1. Lyn Robinson
2. David Bawden
3. Yan Zhang
4. Barbara M. Wildemuth
5. Carmen G. Loiselle
6. Sylvie D. Lambert

In Information Systems

1. Lyn Robinson
2. David Bawden
3. Yan Zhang
4. Barbara M. Wildemuth
5. Carmen G. Loiselle
6. Sylvie D. Lambert
7. Kirsti Ala-Mutka
8. Ryen W. White

In Library and Information Sciences

1. Lyn Robinson
2. David Bawden
3. Yan Zhang
4. Barbara M. Wildemuth
5. Carmen G. Loiselle
6. Sylvie D. Lambert
7. Kirsti Ala-Mutka

Citations in the corpus

• The dark side of information: overload, anxiety and other paradoxes and pathologies (2009, background): “While this view is useful for organising training [6, 57, 58], it does not respect the true complexity of information behaviour, even of the core stages of information seeking and retrieval: see, for example, Foster [ 59 ] and Ingwersen and Jarvelin [60]).”
• Qualitative Analysis of Content by (2005, methodology): “The transferability of the present study was ensured by “rich description and reporting of the research process” (Foster, 2004, p.230).”
• Health Information—Seeking Behavior (2007, background): “, 1989) is suggested to be more appropriate (Case, 2002; Foster, 2004).”