Five faculty members of The Florida State University School of Library & Information Studies are among the authors of the top 25 research articles cited in the journal Library & Information Science Research since 2007, according to Elsevier. Articles by Drs. Melissa Gross, Don Latham, Besiki Stvilia, Corinne Jörgensen, and Gary Burnett are named in the “Most Cited Library & Information Science Research Articles,” extracted from SciVerse Scopus. Two FSU-SLIS doctoral program graduates, Drs. Paul Jaeger and Kim Thompson, are also on the list.

Their highly cited research articles include:

• Attaining information literacy: An investigation of the relationship between skill level, self-estimates of skill, and library anxiety, Gross, M. and Latham, D.

• Normative behavior and information: The social aspects of information access, Burnett, G., Jaegar, P.T., and Thompson, K.M.

• User-generated collection-level metadata in an online photo-sharing system, Stvilia, B. and Jörgensen, C.

Library & Information Science Research is “a cross-disciplinary and refereed journal” that “focuses on the research process in library and information science as well as research findings and, where applicable, their practical applications and significance,” according to Elsevier, “all papers are subject to a double-blind reviewing process.”