Editorial Team

Editor-in-Chief

Prof. Crystal Fulton, Editor-in-Chief, is an Emeritus Professor (RTA) in the School of Information and Communication Studies (ICS) at University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland.  Her research explores the interactions among people, information, and communication in social settings. She received her PhD and MLIS in Library and Information Science from The University of Western Ontario, Canada. Home page

Associate Editor

Dr. Wout Dillen, Associate Editor

Wout is a Senior Lecturer in LIS at the University of Borås, Sweden, with a focus on Knowledge Organization and Digital Environments. As part of the Swedish School of Library and Information Science (SSLIS), he co-coordinates the local node of Huminfra, the national Swedish DH infrastructure project. In 2015, he completed his PhD in Literature at the University of Antwerp, where his dissertation focussed on Digital Scholarly Editing. For this project, he also developed the Lexicon for Scholarly Editing, an Open Access, lexicographical resource. In 2016, he held an Experienced Researcher fellowship in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie ITN ‘DiXiT’, where he investigated digitization processes at national libraries across Europe. Besides being the deputy editor of Information Research, he is also the General Editor of Variants, the journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS), and on the editorial board of the Journal of the DH Benelux.

Regional Editors

The journal's team of Regional Editors consists of international experts in the field who are appointed for a period of three years, with option to renew.

Dr. Amanda Cossham, Editor, Australasia and S.E. Asia, is the Research Development Leader, Learning Delivery, Open Polytechnic (and previously a Principal Academic Staff Member in Library and Information Studies). Her professional and research interests include knowledge organization, research methods, continuing professional development, community and small archives, and information management. Amanda is Regional Editor of Global Knowledge, Memory, and Communication, and a member of the Editorial Boards of the IFLA Journal and Digital Library Perspectives.

Dr. Jesse Dinneen, Editor, Middle East

Jesse is a Senior Lecturer in the Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås. His research interests include information ethics and personal information management, especially issues surrounding AI and the appropriate handling of digital legacy. An ASIS&T Distinguished Member and frequent consultant on AI ethics, he has previously served on the editorial boards of ARIST, ACM Journal on Responsible Computing, Open Information Science, and Data Science & Informetrics. Before joining the University of Borås he held faculty positions in information science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Victoria University of Wellington.

Dr. Sunniva Evjen, Editor, Eastern Asia

Sunniva is an associate professor at the dept. of Archives, Library and Information Studies at Oslo Metropolitan University. Her research and research interests revolves around library research, particularly public library use and development, in addition to librarianship and the library profession, culture and library policy. She received her PhD from The Royal School of Library and Information Science (now Copenhagen University) in 2012.

Dr. Bhakti (bhak·​ti) Gala, Editor, India

Bhakti is an Assistant Professor at the School of Library and Information Science, Central University of Gujarat, India. Her research lies at the intersection of cultural heritage resource discovery, metadata, information literacy, public libraries, digital libraries, and open and equitable access to information. She is currently on the Board of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) for the term 2023-2026 as Director at Large and is a member of Education Committee of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. Since 2023, she is an Editorial Advisory Board member of the journal The Electronic Library. Home

Dr. J. Tuomas Harviainen, Joint Editor, Western Europe 

Tuomas is Professor of Information Studies and Interactive Media at Tampere University, Finland. His areas of interest include interorganizational information sharing, games as information and business phenomena, information practices on the Dark Web, strategy and service design, and the information behaviour of people in marginalized communities. Tuomas has published several books and over eighty peer reviewed works. He is a member of the editorial board of the Nordic Journal of Library and Information Studies and edits the journal of the Finnish Association for Sexology.

Dr. Aylin Imeri, Editor, North America 

Aylin is a Research Associate at the Institute of General Practice and Family Medicine (Medical Faculty) at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. Her areas of interest include digital health, health information behaviour, social media, and health information literacy. She holds a PhD in Information Science from the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany. From 2022 to 2025 (November) she sat on the ASIS&T Board of Directors and is currently a Director At Large (Special Interest Groups).

Dr. Francisco Javier Martinez Mendez, Editor, the Luso-Espanic Region

Javier is Professor of information technologies, Department of Information Sciences, University of Murcia, Spain. He received his PhD in Information Science from the University of Murcia in 2002, researching the effectiveness of information retrieval in web search engines. He has been director of the department, dean of the faculty, vice-rector of Quality Assessment, Culture and Communication and, most recently, he leads his research group on information technologies and management. He is also part of the Standing Committee of the ISIC conference. He has more than 50 scientific publications in journals, books and conference proceedings. His research interests include information retrieval, information seeking behavior and open access to information as an indispensable element for open science. Since 1995, he has been collaborating with Professor Rodríguez Muñoz in the UNESCO Chair of Information Management in Organizations.

Dr. Abebe Rorissa, Editor, Africa

Abebe is a Professor and Director of the School of Information Sciences, College of Communication and Information at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Before his current position, he worked in the United States, Ethiopia, Lesotho, and Namibia as an educator, researcher, administrator, and practitioner. He served as a consultant for academic institutions, national governments, and international organizations on various topics and projects. He has published extensively in leading international information science journals. He is the immediate Past President and was a member of the Board of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) and its Executive Committee, and a recipient of the ASIS&T Watson Davis Award for Service, Distinguished Member, and SIG Member of the Year Awards.

Dr. Jonas Söderholm, Editor, Eastern and Central Europe

Jonas is a senior lecturer in Library and Information Science at the University of Borås. Previous assignments include assistant editor for the journal Human IT for ten years. His main research focus is the societal role of libraries from a multitude of perspectives such as community, materiality, sustainability, and civil defense. He received his PhD in 2020 with a dissertation on the community-role of American tool lending libraries. He is currently studying to become a nurse.

Book Reviews Editor

Prof. Lisa Hussey, Book Reviews Editor

Lisa has been faculty at the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) since Fall 2008. She received her MLIS from the University of Arizona in 1998 and her Ph.D. from the School of Information Science and Learning Technology at the University of Missouri in 2006. Lisa has experience in academic, public, and special libraries, as well as serving as the program manager for the University of Arizona’s graduate LIS program. Her research interests include DEI in LIS, mentoring and professional identity in the LIS professions, and management and leadership. Hussey is the 2022 recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award from ALISE. Hussey has contributed publications to International Journal of Information, Diversity, and Inclusion, Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, Journal of Library Administration, Library Journal, JASIST, and the Journal of Library Administration. She is an active in professional organizations, including ALISE, ASIS&T, ALA, and Beta Phi Mu, and has served in both appointed and elected positions. Hussey serves as the coordinator of International programs for SLIS. She has led travel courses to Seoul as part of SLIS’ partnership with Yonsei University and Rwanda in collaboration with the Maranyundo Institute in Boston.

Production Team

Anton Carlander Borgström, Managing Editor

Anton is a lecturer at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science at the University of Borås, Sweden. His specialization is in knowledge organization. Anton's background is as a public librarian.

Ty Nilsson, Editorial Assistant

Ty is a lecturer at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science at the University of Borås, Sweden. Ty’s specialization is in teaching coding and programming in the Bachelor programme Digital information design and development.

Emeriti

Prof. Tom Wilson, Founder and Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

Tom is Professor Emeritus of the University of Sheffield, and of the University of Borås. Tom's principal research areas are information seeking behaviour and information management, in which he has researched and published extensively. He is one of the most cited authors in the field of information behaviour. He founded Information Research in 1995 and self-published it until 2017, when he transferred ownership to the University of Borås. He acted as Editor-in-Chief throughout this period. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Gothenburg in 2005, and a second Honorary Doctorate by the University of Murcia, Spain, in 2010. He was the recipient in 2017 of the Award of Merit of the Association for Information Science and Technology, and in 2020 he was given the Jason Farradane Award by the UK e-information Group of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals.

Prof. Elena Maceviciute, Associate Editor Emeritus

Elena is Professor at the Swedish School of Library and Information Studies, University of Boras, Sweden and Professor in the Faculty of Communication, Vilnius University, Lithuania. Her research areas include reference work, information and communication needs, international and intercultural communication, and information management. In addition to her academic work, Elena has worked as a consultant to the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture, the Lithuanian National Commission for UNESCO, the Committee of Europe and others. She teaches distance courses in International Communication studies, co-edits the scholarly journal Knygotyra (Book Science), and is a member of the editorial board of The Serials Librarian (USA). She has published four books and almost sixty articles and has produced a number of translations of English language works (e.g., A. Conan-Doyle, The white company; P. Cornwell, The body of evidence; J. Fiske, Introduction to communication studies; and Blackwell's Encyclopedia of political science).

Copy Editors

Joanna Adewunmi is a PhD student in the School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests include women studies, race and technology, information behavior, digital divide, and community informatics. Her current research explores the information behavior and STEM participation of Black women, and their experiences with the use of digital contexts. She is married with two kids.

Dr. Hamed Ahmadinia is a Senior Researcher in Economic Sociology at the Department of Social Research, University of Turku, Finland. He holds a PhD in Information Studies from Åbo Akademi University. His research focuses on information behaviour, immigrant health, integration, migration, health information needs, and the role of digital and media environments in shaping access to information. His current work examines unreliable scientific information, media misrepresentation, and the societal impact of retracted scientific articles on public perceptions, attitudes, and evidence-informed decision-making.

Jennifer Brotherton is a Customer Services Librarian at University of Wolverhampton. After graduating with a BA (Hons) in History, Jennifer spent one year volunteering at public libraries, gaining experience to enrol on an MA in Information and Library Science at Loughborough University. Her final year dissertation was nominated for the Library and Information Research Group’s Student Award. She is a Chartered Member of CILIP and Secretary of ARLG WM (Academic & Research Libraries Group, West Midlands).

Pavithra Gurushankar is a Senior Technical Staff at TANUH AI and a researcher affiliated with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, where she completed her M.Tech. in Artificial Intelligence in 2026. She earned her B.Tech. (Honours) in Computer Science and Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli (NIT Trichy) as a rank holder. Her research spans computer vision, medical image analysis, image restoration, optimization, interpretable deep learning, and 3D vision, focusing on mathematically grounded, efficient AI for healthcare. Her recent work explores convex regularization for deep image restoration, bridging classical optimization and deep learning. She has authored multiple peer-reviewed journal publications in cryptography and blockchain, received three Best Paper Awards, and presented at MIDL 2026 and several IEEE conferences. She has served as a Teaching Assistant at IISc and reviews journals published by Oxford University Press, Elsevier, and IGI Global. Her long-term goal is to develop trustworthy, interpretable, and resource-efficient AI systems with real-world impact in medical imaging and scientific computing.

Lara Hierro holds a DLitt et Phil in Political Studies. Her research focuses on EU–Africa relations, particularly EU foreign policy and interregional frameworks. Her interests include power relations, policy discourse, and non-human animal protection policy.

Katherine F. Raymond holds a PhD in Public Health with a focus on Behavioral and Community Health and is a lecturer at the University of Maryland. She is an interdisciplinary health behavior and health literacy researcher with over a decade of experience creating or supporting programs that improve the patient experience. Her background also includes volunteer and professional service in community organizing and journalism. She enjoys hiking, reading, and spending time with family.

Mrs. Krishna Samal is Deputy Librarian at Siksha 'O' Anusandhan Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, India, and a part-time doctoral researcher in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the same university. Her research interests include bibliometrics, scientometrics, scholarly communication, research evaluation, library and information science, and health informatics. She has published research in national and international journals and is committed to advancing scholarly communication through research, editorial service, and academic publishing.

Austin Stroud holds a Ph.D. in Information Studies from Dominican University and is a lecturer in the MLIS program at Indiana University Indianapolis. A former public library director, his teaching and research focus on library technology, public libraries, artificial intelligence, and staff development.

Dr. Silvia-Adriana Tomescu is a researcher and librarian at the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA), Romania. Her research lies at the intersection of digital humanities, knowledge organization, semantic technologies, and cultural heritage. She has contributed to national research projects on Open Science, digital research infrastructures, and cultural heritage data, with previous experience in ontology engineering and semantic modelling for digital libraries. Her current research focuses on knowledge graphs, Linked Data, metadata, documentary heritage, early modern print culture, and digital scholarly editing, including the use of Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) methods for historical documentary sources. She serves as a peer reviewer for several international digital humanities initiatives and conferences and is particularly interested in semantic interoperability and computational approaches to cultural memory.

Lucy Tsun works part-time at Auckland Libraries as a Council and Library Services Assistant and at Watercare as a Records Administrator for Asset Information. After graduating with a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical and Electronic), Lucy worked as an electrical engineer in Auckland then as an automation software engineer in Manchester and Auckland. Later she graduated with a Bachelor of Applied Science (Library and Information Studies). She is a registered member of the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa. Her interests include community libraries, records management for local government, pay inequity, and the use of automation.

 

Editorial Board

Crystal Fulton, University College Dublin (Ireland).

Denise E. Agosto, Rutgers University (USA)

Judith Licea de Arenas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, retired (Mexico)

Jenny Bronstein, Bar-Ilan University, (Israel)

Simon Burnett, Robert Gordon University (Scotland)

Chun Wei Choo, University of Toronto (Canada)

Andrew Cox, School of Information, Journalism and Communication, University of Sheffield (UK)

Marija Dalbello, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick (USA)

Andrew Dillon, The iSchool, University of Texas at Austin (USA)

Sanjica Faletar, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University J. J. Strossmayer in Osijek (Croatia)

Karen E. Fisher, Information School, University of Washington (USA)

Ina Fourie, University of Pretoria (South Africa)

Jonathan Furner, UCLA (USA)

Elke Greifeneder, Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany)

Jason Griffey, Open Science Hardware Foundation (USA)

Björn Hammarfelt, University of Borås (Sweden)

Suliman Hawamdeh, University of North Texas (USA)

Isto Huvila, Uppsala University (Sweden)

Viktor Kaptelinin, Umeå University (Sweden)

Christopher Kimble, retired (France)

Petros Kostagiolas, Ionian University (Greece)

Maja Krtalić, Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand)

Zinaida Manžuch, Centre for Quality Assessment on Higher Education (Lithuania)

Camilla Moring, University of Copenhagen (Denmark)

Marek Nahotko, Jagiellonian University (Poland)

Gustaf Nelhans, Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås (Sweden)

Heather O'Brien, School of Information, University of British Columbia (Canada)

Melissa Ocepek, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois (USA)

Gillian Oliver, Monash University (Australia)

Nils Pharo, Oslo Metropolitan University (Norway)

Ola Pilerot, the Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås (Sweden)

Jaya Raju, University of Cape Town (South Africa)

Sri Devi Ravana, Department of Information Systems, Universiti Malaya (Malaysia)

Peter Reid, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen (United Kingdom)

Ronald Rousseau, KU Leuven and University of Antwerp (Belgium)

Ian Ruthven, University of Strathclyde (UK)

Sophie Rutter, University of Sheffield (UK)

Ricardo Cesar Gonçalves Sant'Ana, São Paulo State University - UNESP (Brazil)

Reijo Savolainen, Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Tampere University (Finland)

Rimvydas Skyrius, Vilnius university, (Lithuania)

Jela Steinerová, Comenius University Bratislava (Slovakia)

Brenton Stewart, Cultural Heritage Informatics, University of Arizona (USA)

Polona Vilar, Department of Library and Information Science and Book Studies, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)

Dietmar Wolfram, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, (USA)

Fredrik Åström, Lund University (Sweden)