Pertti Vakkari

Dr. Soc.Sc., Professor

Deparment of Information Studies

University of Tampere

33014 University of Tampere, Finland
Kanslerinrinne 1

Tel: +358-31-215 6968 (office) tel: +358-50-5288354 (mobile)
Fax: +358-31-215 6560
Email: pertti.vakkari@uta.fi

Professional activities
Research Interests
Selected publications

  


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  1. Poikonen, T. & Vakkari, P. (2009) Lay persons' and professionals' nutrition-related vocabularies and their matching to a general and a specific thesaurus. Journal of Information Science 35(2): 232-243. [Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0165551508098602]
  2. Trends and approaches in information behavior research. Keynote speech at ISIC 2008 in Vilnius. Information Research 13(4). [Available at http://informationr.net/ir/13-4/paper361.html]
  3. Perceived influence of the use of electronic information resources on scholarly work and publication productivity. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59(4): 602-612. 2008.
  4. Talja, S. & Vakkari, P. & Fry, J. & Wouters, P. Research cultures and e-journal use. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 58(11): 1674-1685, 2007
  5. Huuskonen, S. & Vakkari, P. (2008) Students' search process and outcome in Medline in writing an essay for a class on evidence based medicine. Journal of Documentation 64(2): 287-303. Preprint
  6. Eerola, J. & Vakkari, P. (2008) Eerola, J. & Vakkari, P. How a general and a specific thesaurus covers expressions in patients' questions and physicians' answers. Journal of Documentation 64(1): 131-142.
  7. Trends in the use of digital libraries by scientists in 2000-2005. A case study of FinELib. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology 2006. [Available at http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00008278/]
  8. Huuskonen, S. & Vakkari, P. Situational relevance and task outcome. In: Ruthven, I. & al. (eds.) Information Interaction in Context. Copenhagen: ACM Press, pp. 24-32. 2006.
  9. Vakkari, P. & Talja, S. Searching for electronic journal articles to support academic tasks. A case study of the use of the Finnish National Electronic Library (FinELib). Information Research 12 (1) (paper 285. 2006 [Available at http://InformationR.net/ir/12-1/paper285.html]
  10. Vakkari, P. & Järvelin, K. Explanation in Information Seeking and Retrieval. In: Spink, A. & Cole, C. (ed.), New Directions in Cognitive Information Retrieval. Berlin: Springer, The Information Retrieval Series, Vol.19, 2005, pp. 113-138. [pdf]
  11. Vakkari, P. & Talja, S. The influence of the scatter of literature on the use of electronic resources across disciplines: A case study of FinELib. In Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Digital Libraries. Berlin & Heidelberg: Springer, 2005, 207-217. [Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11551362_19]
  12. Serola, S. & Vakkari, P. The anticipated and assessed contribution of information types in references retrieved for preparing a research proposal. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 56(4): 373-381. 2005.
  13. Sihvonen, A. & Vakkari, P. Subject knowledge improves interactive query expansion assisted by a thesaurus. Journal of Documentation 60(6): 673-690. 2004.
  14. Törmä, S., Vakkari, P. Discipline, Availability of Electronic Resources and the Use of Finnish National Electronic Library - FinELib. Information Research 10 (2004) paper 204 [Available at http://informationr.net/ir/10-1/paper204.html].
  15. Sihvonen, A. & Vakkari, P. Subject knowledge, thesaurus-assisted query expansion and search success. In Proceedings of the RIAO 2004 Conference. Paris: C.I.D., 2004, 393-404. (pdf)
  16. Vakkari, P. & Sormunen, S., The influence of relevance levels on the effectiveness of interactive information retrieval. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 55(11): 963-969. 2004.
  17. Vakkari, P. & Jones, S. & MacFarlane, A. & Sormunen, E. Query exhaustivity, relevance feedback and search success in automatic and interactive query expansion. Journal of Documentation 60(2): 109-127, 2004.
  18. Pennanen, M. & Vakkari, P. Students’ conceptual structure, search process and outcome while preparing a research proposal. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 54(8): 759-770, 2003.
  19. Vakkari, P. & Pennanen, M. & Serola, S., Changes of search terms and tactics while writing a research proposal. Information Processing & Management 39: 445-463, 2003.
  20. Task-based information searching. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 2003, vol. 37 (B. Cronin, Ed.) Information Today: Medford, NJ, 2002, 413-464.
  21. Subject knowledge, source of terms and terms selection in query expansion: An analytical study. In: Proceedings of the 24 European Colloquium on IR Research. Springer: Berlin, 2002, 110-123.
  22. A Theory of the Task-based Information Retrieval Process. Journal of Documentation 57 (1): 44-60, 2001.
  23. Vakkari, P. & Hakala, N. Changes in Relevance Criteria and problem Stages in Task Performance. Journal of Documentation 56 (5), 540-562, 2000
  24. Cognition, Sources and Contributory Information of Documents in Writing a Research Proposal. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 2000. (Donald Kraft, Ed.) Information Today: Medford, NJ, 352-361, 2000.
  25. Relevance and Contributory Information Types of Searched Documents in Task Performance. Proceedings of SIGIR2000 Conference, Athens 2000. New York: ACM, 2-9, 2000.
  26. Cognition and Changes of Search Terms and Tactics during Task Performance: A Longitudinal Study. Proceedings of the RIAO'2000 Conference. Paris: C.I.D., 894-907, 2000. html pdf
  27. Task Complexity, Problem Structure and Information Actions. Information Processing & Management 35 (6): 819-837, 1999.
  28. Growth of Theories on Information Seeking. Information Processing & Management 34(3/4): 361-382, 1998.
  29. Vakkari, P. & Kuokkanen, M. Theory Growth in Information Science: Applications of the Theory of Science to a Theory of Information Seeking. Journal of Documentation 53(5), 497-519, 1997.
  30. Vakkari, P. & Savolainen, R. & Dervin, B. (Eds), Information Seeking in Context. Taylor Graham: London & Los Angeles 1997.
  31. Information Seeking in Context: A Challenging Metatheory. In: Vakkari, P. & Savolainen, R. & Dervin, B. (Eds), Information Seeking in Context. Taylor Graham: London & Los Angeles, 451-464, 1997.
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