Call for Papers for Special Issue: Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Information Science

2025-08-29

Guest Editor: Professor Tom Wilson

Artificial Intelligence continues to transform our interaction with information, as individuals and organisations increasingly adopt this new and quickly evolving technology.  The technology promises to have an impact on multiple aspects of our daily and work lives, although there are also ethical and resource implications surrounding AI. We have only begun to realise the impact of AI on Information Science.

A Special Issue  on the topic of AI in Information Science will be published in Spring 2026. We welcome original research that addresses theoretical, methodological, practical, and ethical aspects of AI in the context of Information Science. Authors should clearly articulate the relevance of their work to both AI and the field of Information Science.

Topics

Topics of interest include the following, but are not limited to:
  • AI in knowledge organization and metadata generation
  • Information retrieval and recommendation systems
  • Natural language processing for digital curation and archiving
  • Ethical and responsible AI in information systems
  • AI’s role in misinformation, disinformation, and information literacy
  • Human-centred AI design in information services
  • AI applications in libraries, archives, and digital repositories
  • Data governance, privacy, and algorithmic transparency
  • AI and the future of scholarly communication
  • Sociotechnical analysis of AI systems in information environments
  • Impact of AI on information professions and education

Submission Guidelines

  • Submissions should follow Information Research guidelines for authors, including use of the journal template, available on the Information Research website.
  • Papers should be submitted through the Information Research website at https://publicera.kb.se/ir 
  • Authors should select the category, “Special Issue,” when submitting their work.
  • All submissions will be peer reviewed.  Authors are invited to suggest suitable referees for their papers.

Key Dates

  • Submission Deadline: December 22, 2025
  • Notification of Acceptance: March 12, 2026
  • Submission of Revised Papers: March 27, 2026
  • Author sign off on copy edited papers: April 10, 2026
  • Publication of Special Issue: May 15, 2026