ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to contribute to the question, "Is there a convergence between information and communication?'' by focusing narrowly on citation relations between the disciplines of communication and library and information science, but focusing in greater depth on the context and content of those citation relations. In the past decade, increasing attention has been paid to possible areas of commonality between the concepts, subdisciplines, research methodologies, and researchers concerned with "information" and "communication." The chapter argues that the concepts of information and communication are converging on the basis of three commonalities: common language; common technologies; and common scholarly fields. It discusses a small but growing trend toward cross-disciplinary citation, provided primarily by articles in library and information science journals citing articles in communication journals. The chapter summarizes the difference between the year of each cross-disciplinary citing article and the year of each of its respective cited articles and examines for statistical significance.
