Ranking the Barriers of Theorizing the Knowledge and Information Science field from the Graduate Students of Tehran Public Universities

The purpose of this study is to rank the barriers to theorizing in the field of information science and epistemology. In terms of the purpose of applied research, in terms of data collection method, the present study is a library research that has also used field techniques. This research is in the category of descriptive-survey research in terms of method. The data of this study were collected through a researcher-made questionnaire. Students of information science and science at the master's and doctoral levels of Tehran state universities have formed the statistical population of this research. In this study, sequential integrated sampling method was used. Questionnaires were distributed among 80 students in the field and 51 questionnaires were returned. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The findings of this study show that the seven barriers identified in the theory of theory, respectively, individual barriers with an average rank of 6.84 in the first priority, cultural barriers with an average rank of 5.85 in the second priority, political barriers with Average ranking of 4.62 in the third priority, Managerial barriers with an average rank of 3.95 in the fourth priority, social barriers with an average rank of 2.73 in the fifth priority, educational barriers with an average rank of 2.23 in the sixth priority and economic barriers with an average rank of 78 / 1 are in the seventh priority.