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|b Purpose – The study intends to explore the multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity, and disciplinarity factors among Information Management (IM) and Knowledge Management (KM), anticipating to what subject fields constitute both endeavors regarding the two disciplines, and whether both are sharing or integrating with each other in building one discipline of knowledge, or in determining as to whether or not knowledge is considered as an advanced step to information as data and thus constitutes an advanced step to information.. Emphasis was laid on social sciences as a subject area as it is more related to information science. Moreover, the study tends to find out the bibliographically coupled journals within the two disciplines (IM and KM), analyze their evaluation factors, and explore the relationship among them. \ Design/methodology/approach – To investigate the multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity, and disciplinarity among IM and KM, Scopus database was employed as being the source for data collection and the bibliometric analysis approach applied to measure IM and KM starting from the wide boarder (Multidisciplinarity), the linked boarder (Interdisciplinarity), integrated boarder (disciplinarity), and the content interrelationship. \ Findings - The results show that there is a similarity between the two disciplines when judging multidisciplinarity but in the second zone of the subject covered by the two disciplines and not in the first zone. With IM, Engineering is basically considered to be the first supportive subject field while both computer science and Business Management and Accounting. The social sciences field, though, appears in the second zone of priority with both IM and KM to insure the multidisciplinarity approach among the two fields. However, In the case of interdisciplinarity, two broad subject fields; Business, Management and Accounting and Social Sciences are interacted and combined to build the IM and KM knowledge; moreover, three bibliographically coupled journals were found within the core journals of the two disciplines to reflect the subject similarity and interrelationship between the works of the two disciplines. \ Originality/value - The research provides an comprehensive analysis of the disciplines, IM and KM to find the interrelationships among them within the environment of multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity, and disciplinarity environment with the benefit of using factual information based on citations and self cited data. Such analysis will add value to the fields of information science and knowledge management as being integrated fields of study and ensure the interdisciplinarity field of study. \
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