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Knowledge Organization (KO)

Knowledge Organization (ISSN 0943-7444) is the official journal of ISKO.

Founded in 1973 by Dr. Ingetraut Dahlberg, the first president of ISKO, the journal was established with a consulting board of editors representing various global regions, classification fields, and subject areas. The journal began publication in 1974 with the title International Classification; in 1989, it became the official organ of ISKO; and in 1993 (Volume 20), the title was changed to its present form. From 1974 to 1980, it was published by K. G. Saur Verlag of München; from 1981 to 1997, by Indeks Verlag of Frankfurt; from 1998 to 2024 by Ergon Verlag of Würzburg (merged in Nomos Verlag in 2017); and from 2025 by IMR Press (Hong Kong).

The contents of the journal are indexed and abstracted in Social Sciences Citation Index, Web of Science, Information Science Abstracts, INSPEC, Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA), Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (EBSCO), Library Literature and Information Science (Wilson), PASCAL, Referativnyi Zhurnal Informatika, and Sociological Abstracts. The journal impact factor (JIF) for 2023 was 0.6.

Scope

Knowledge Organization (KO) publishes original research articles that: (1) clarify theoretical foundations (general ordering theory, philosophical foundations of knowledge and its artifacts, theoretical bases of classification, data analysis and reduction); (2) describe practical operations associated with indexing and classification, as well as applications of classification systems and thesauri, manual and machine indexing; (3) trace the history of knowledge organization; (4) discuss questions of education and training in classification; and (5) problems of terminology in general and with respect to special fields. KO publishes original research articles, concept reviews, book reviews, editorials, conference reports, letters to the editor, and biographical notes.

Submission of manuscripts

Instructions for authors intending to submit manuscripts to Knowledge Organization are available at https://www.imrpress.com/journal/KO/instructions

Manuscripts must use a DOCX template and be submitted through the IMR ProPub System. All inquiries about submission of manuscripts should be directed to the editors <editors@isko.org>.

All articles published by Knowledge Organization are made immediately available worldwide under an open-access license. This means everyone has free and unlimited access to the full-text of all articles published in Knowledge Organization. The journal is free for readers, with a comparatively low Article Processing Charge (APC) paid by authors or their funding bodies or institutions.

All members affiliated with the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) are entitled to publish articles in Knowledge Organization free of charge, subject to a limit of 25 articles per membership year. For articles exceeding this limit, members will receive a 40% discount on the applicable publication fees.

Editors

email: editors@isko.org

  • Natália Tognoli (Fluminense Federal University, Brazil)
    Editor-in-Chief
     
  • Lu An (Wuhan University, China)
    Deputy Editor
     
  • Thiago Barros (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
    Deputy Editor
     
  • Maja Žumer (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
    Deputy Editor
     
  • Birger Hjørland (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
    Series Editor for Reviews of Concepts in Knowledge Organization
     

Editors Emerita

  • Hope A. Olson (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA)

Former editors-in-chief: Ingetraut Dahlberg (1974-1996), Charles T. Gilreath (1997-1998), Francis Miksa (1998), Clare Beghtol (1999), Hope A. Olson (2000-2004), Richard Smiraglia (2005-2020), Vanda Broughton (2021-2023).

Editorial Board

  • Aida Slavic (UDC Consortium, The Hague, Netherlands)
  • Alireza Noruzi (University of Tehran, Iran)
  • Besiki Stvilia (Florida State University, USA)
  • Carlos Henrique Marcondes (Fluminense Federal University, Brazil)
  • Chengzhi Zhang (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China)
  • Claudio Gnoli (University of Pavia, Italy)
  • Daniel Martínez-Ávila (University of León, Spain)
  • David Haynes (Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom)
  • Devika Madalli (Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, India)
  • Elaheh Hosseini (Alzahra University, Iran)
  • Gianluca Bonifazi (Marche Polytechnic University, Italy)
  • H. Peter Ohly (Bonn, Germany)
  • Isto Huvila (Uppsala University, Sweden)
  • Jane Greenberg (Drexel University, USA)
  • Joachim Schöpfel (University of Lille, France)
  • Joan Lu (University of Huddersfield, England)
  • Jodi Schneider (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
  • John M. Budd (University of Missouri, USA)
  • Jonathan Furner (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
  • José Augusto Chaves Guimarães (São Paulo State University, Brazil)
  • K. S. Raghavan (Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, India)
  • Kathryn La Barre (University of Illinois, Champaign, USA)
  • Kulthida Tuamsuk (Khon Kaen University, Thailand)
  • Marco Polignano (University of Bari, Italy)
  • María J. López-Huertas (University of Granada, Spain)
  • Maziar Amirhosseini (National University of Malaysia, Malaysia)
  • M. Cristina Pattuelli (Pratt Institute, New York, USA)
  • M. P. Satija (Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India)
  • Maja Žumer (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
  • Mayukh Bagchi (University of Trento, Italy)
  • Melodie J. Fox (Institute for Knowledge Organization and Structure, Shorewood, USA)
  • Michael Kleineberg (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany)
  • Rebecca Green (Library of Congress, USA)
  • Renato R. Souza (Getulio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
  • Rick Szostak (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada)
  • Thomas Dousa (The University of Chicago Libraries, USA)
  • Widad Mustafa el Hadi (Charles de Gaulle Lille 3 University, France)

Information about members of the Editorial Board can be consulted here: https://www.imrpress.com/journal/KO/about/editorial_board.

Annual Best Paper in KO Awards

  • vol. 44 (2017): Michael Kleineberg. "Integrative levels" Knowledge Organization 44, no. 5: 349-379 [IEKO version of fulltext]
  • vol. 43 (2016): Elaine Ménard, Nouf Khashman, Svetlana Kochkina, Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno, Patricia Velazquez-Morales, Fen Zhou, Pierre Jourlin, Priyanka Rawat, Peter Peinl, Elvys Linhares Pontes and Ilaria Brunetti. "A Second Life for TIIARA: From Bilingual to Multilingual!" Knowledge Organization 43, no. 1: 22-34 [abstract]
  • vol. 42 (2015): Philip Hider. 2015. "Survey of the Coverage and Methodologies of Schemas and Vocabularies used to Describe Information Resources". Knowledge Organization 42, no. 3: 154-63 [abstract]
  • vol. 41 (2014): M. P. Satija, Devika P. Madalli and Biswanath Dutta. "Modes of Growth of Subjects". Knowledge Organization 41, no. 3: 195-204 [abstract]
  • vol. 40 (2013): Birger Hjørland. "Theories of knowledge organization — Theories of knowledge". Knowledge Organization 40, no. 3: 169-81 [abstract], and Jens-Erik Mai. "Ethics, values and morality in contemporary library classifications". Knowledge Organization 40, no. 4: 242-53 [abstract]

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