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. Trends and approaches in information behavior research. Keynote speech at ISIC 2008 in Vilnius. To appear in Information Research (Preprint).
  2. 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.
  3. 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
  4. 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(xxx): xxx-xxx. To appear. Preprint
  5. 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.
  6. 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/]
  7. 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.
  8. 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]
  9. 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.
  10. 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]
  11. 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.
  12. Sihvonen, A. & Vakkari, P. Subject knowledge improves interactive query expansion assisted by a thesaurus. Journal of Documentation 60(6): 673-690. 2004.
  13. 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].
  14. 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)
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. Vakkari, P. & Pennanen, M. & Serola, S., Changes of search terms and tactics while writing a research proposal. Information Processing & Management 39: 445-463, 2003.
  19. Task-based information searching. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 2003, vol. 37 (B. Cronin, Ed.) Information Today: Medford, NJ, 2002, 413-464.
  20. 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.
  21. A Theory of the Task-based Information Retrieval Process. Journal of Documentation 57 (1): 44-60, 2001.
  22. Vakkari, P. & Hakala, N. Changes in Relevance Criteria and problem Stages in Task Performance. Journal of Documentation 56 (5), 540-562, 2000
  23. 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.
  24. Relevance and Contributory Information Types of Searched Documents in Task Performance. Proceedings of SIGIR2000 Conference, Athens 2000. New York: ACM, 2-9, 2000.
  25. 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
  26. Task Complexity, Problem Structure and Information Actions. Information Processing & Management 35 (6): 819-837, 1999.
  27. Growth of Theories on Information Seeking. Information Processing & Management 34(3/4): 361-382, 1998.
  28. 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.
  29. Vakkari, P. & Savolainen, R. & Dervin, B. (Eds), Information Seeking in Context. Taylor Graham: London & Los Angeles 1997.
  30. 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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