It proposes the study of the influences of the physical, cognitive and social paradigms in researches on Information Subject Treatment from 1966 to 1995, based on review articles published in the Annual Review of Information Science (Arist). The research is characterized as exploratory and employs the literature review method umbrella review. The research corpus is composed of 13 state of the art reviews on Information Subject Treatment published in Arist in the decades of 1966-1995. The three paradigms are present in the TTI surveys reported in the review articles and there is more evidence of the physical and physical-cognitive paradigms. The cognitive and social paradigms were evidenced in only one article each. It concludes that the TTI accompanies the predominant visions in Information Science regarding epistemological influences.