Changing of the guard.

The article focuses on information science, bibliographic citations, and peer review. It states that information science has evolved since the 1950s and includes such concepts as knowledge representation, information retrieval, user needs and behavior, information theory, bibliometrics, and scholarly communication. It comments on article submissions and on the metrics concerning the quality of an article. It mentions that while the number of citations a paper receives after its publication can be a useful metric of the value of a paper, quality is not synonymous with a high number of citations. It comments on various forms of peer review, including web-based open peer review and single-blind peer review.