Subject trends in Swedish knowledge organization master theses published between 1995-2005 : a content analysis

The aim of this study is to establish whether there are any specific trends in master theses concerning knowledge organization. To identify the past and current trends a method of content analysis has been applied to 110 theses over a time period of ten years. The results of this study show that there is an increasing interest in subjects concerning for example the evaluation of retrieval effectiveness in search engines on the Internet. A subject which was popular in the late 1990:s was information technology and its different applications. This subject has since that time decreased in popularity. The dominating area of study during the studied time period is classification research, which has received a relatively constant interest during the time period as a whole.Uppsatsnivå: