Research Methods in Information Science/Theoretical approaches

Many papers in Library and Information Science take theoretical approaches that synthesizes prior research. Chu (2015) found that almost 40% of the articles published between 2001 and 2010 in the Journal of Documentation represented a theoretical, rather than an empirical method Elsevier 2015 Heting Chu Research methods in library and information science: A content analysis Library and Information Science Research 37 1 . Conceptual analysis Model building Theory development References