范圍：(1)闡明理論基礎(一般排序理論、知識及其工件的哲學基礎、分類、數據分析和約簡的理論基礎);(2)描述與標引和分類相關的實際操作，以及分類系統和敘詞表、手工標引和機器標引的應用;(3)追溯知識組織的歷史;(4)探討分類教育培訓問題;(五)術語的一般問題和特殊領域的問題。

Scope：Knowledge Organization publishes original research articles that: (1) clarify theoretical foundations (general ordering theory, philosophical foundations of knowledge and its artifacts, theoretical bases of classification, data analysis and reduction); (2) describe practical operations associated with indexing and classification, as well as applications of classification systems and thesauri, manual and machine indexing; (3) trace the history of knowledge organization; (4) discuss questions of education and training in classification; and (5) problems of terminology in general and with respect to special fields.