在2012年第1期的JASIST上发表的《Intellectual Diversity and the Faculty Composition of iSchools》，分析了2009年21家ischool的网站，发现：在所研究学院中计算机科学占有重要比重，但同时多样性（diversity）与跨学科性（Interdisciplinarity）也发挥着重要作用，并且各个学院各具特色。该项研究建议iSchools将更倾向于通过引进新的人才领域（intellectual areas ）来发现有价值的新视角来源，从而获得成长；同时应继续珍惜他们借以成功的传统领域的重要贡献。

该文主要分析了各个iSchool教师的博士学位，以及2007－2009教师数量的变化等，重要数据如下：

TABLE 2. iSchools’ intellectual demographics in 2009.

Computing   233   30%

Information  88   11%

Library     79    10%

Social & Behavioral  78  10%

Management & Policy  70   9%

Science & Engineering  69   9%

Education   58   8%

Humanities   54   7%

Communication  40   5%

Total   769   100%

 

TABLE 1. Classification of disciplinary areas for the 2009 iCaucus school’s faculty.
                Area N (%) Component areas
Computing 233 (30%) Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics
Information 88 (11%) Information Science, Information Studies, Information Transfer, Communication Information and Library Studies
Library 79 (10%) Library Science, Information and Library Science, Library and Information Science
Social & Behavioral 78 (10%) Psychology, Sociology, Social Sciences
Management & Policy 70 (9%) Business, Management, Policy, Economics
Science & Engineering 69 (9%) Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Statistics, Engineering (not electrical)
Education 58 (8%) Education
Humanities 54 (7%) History, Philosophy, Literature, Multi & Interdisciplinary Studies
Communication 40 (5%) Communication

 

TABLE 4. Inductively generated clustering heuristics.
 Cluster                                      Heuristic
Computational                 60% to 80% Computing with Science & Engineering as only additional area over 10%
Library & Information       More than 50% Library, Information, and Humanities together
Library:                          Library+Information+Humanities>70%
Information:                  70%>Library+Information+Humanities>50%
Sociotechnical             24% to 40% Computing with 3+ additional social science areas (Social & Behavioral, Management & Policy, Library,
                                   Information) but no more than 34% from combined Library and Information areas
Niche                         Dominant areas are not strongly represented elsewhere, or combines strongest areas (e.g., Computing) with unique set of
                                 secondary fields

 

参考文献： Wiggins，A. & Sawyer, S. Intellectual Diversity and the Faculty Composition of iSchools. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 63(1):8–21, 2012