Information seeking behavior of domestic and foreign academic scientists in medical field:A review / 中华医学图书情报杂志

ABSTRACT

The studies in medical field both at home and abroad in the past 10 years were reviewed from the as-pects of information seeking behavior of academic scientists ( including information needs, information source selec-tion, information retrieval, information interaction, information use), influencing factors and patterns of informa-tion seeking behavior, and the problems were pointed out, namely the number of studies on information seeking be-havior and patterns was small, and the methods used in studies were simplistic.