The Annual Review of Information Science and Technology was relaunched by the Association for Information Science and Technology's Board of Directors in 2021, following a 10-year publishing hiatus. Previously, this annual review journal was published from 1966 to 2011 during which it was established in 1965 by the American Documentation Institute and the National Science Foundation, at the request of Helen Brownson. It published review articles rather than empirical research articles. Its last (2010) impact factor was 2.000.2010 JCR Social Science Edition in Journal Citation Reports It was for 45 years "the main forum for scholarly review articles in information science."Bawden, David (2010). Alas poor ARIST: reviewing the information sciences. Journal of Documentation, 66(5), 625–626.
Publishers and editors The current editor is Lisa M. Given, Professor of Information Sciences at RMIT University. The first editor-in-chief was Carlos Cuadra (System Development Corporation). It won the Best Information Science Book of the Year from the Association for Information Science and Technology in 1966.Awards and Honors Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T). From Vol. 11 (1976) - vol. 35 (2001) editor-in-chief was Martha E. Williams; from Vol. 36 (2002) to Volume 45 (2011) the editor was Blaise Cronin.
The first publisher was Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.; since Vol. 26 (1991) it was published by Information Today, Inc. on behalf of American Society for Information Science and Technology.
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Further reading ASIST (2021), ARIST relaunches following 10-year hiatus ASIST (2010), ARIST to cease publication following 2011 volume Bawden, David (2010). Alas poor ARIST: reviewing the information sciences. Journal of Documentation, 66(5), 625–626. Cronin, B. (2010), "Advances in information science", Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 61 No. 4, p. 639 Heilprin, L. B. (1988). Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST): Early historical perspectives. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 39(4), 273–280. Smith, Linda C. (2024). “Reviews and Reviewing: Approaches to Research Synthesis. An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) Paper.” Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology 75 (3): 245–67. doi:10.1002/asi.24851.