Journal of Documentation: Volume 77 Issue 6

Lifestyle information from YouTube influencers: some consumption patterns

Mike Thelwall

Despite lifestyle information needs being an important part of our daily lives, little is known about the role of common sources. Whilst magazines and television are traditional…

Named-entity recognition for early modern textual documents: a review of capabilities and challenges with strategies for the future

Marco Humbel, Julianne Nyhan, Andreas Vlachidis, Kim Sloan, Alexandra Ortolja-Baird

By mapping-out the capabilities, challenges and limitations of named-entity recognition (NER), this article aims to synthesise the state of the art of NER in the context of the…

Health information-seeking behavior in the time of COVID-19: information horizons methodology to decipher source path during a global pandemic

Margaret S. Zimmerman

To determine the differences, as represented by information horizons mapping, in the health information-seeking behavior from a group of participants between March 2019 and April…

Investigation and analysis of digital poverty among adolescents in China

Jing Yuan, Lingyu Guo

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the status quo of digital poverty among adolescents in China, analyze the characteristics and the causes, then propose countermeasures…

“Data stickiness” in interagency government data sharing: a case study

Lihong Zhou, Longqi Chen, Yingying Han

The provision of high-quality e-Government services requires efficient and collaborative sharing of data across varied types of government agencies. However, interagency…

Do they practice what they preach? The presence of problematic citations in business ethics research

Alexander Serenko, John Dumay, Pei-Chi Kelly Hsiao, Chun Wei Choo

In scholarly publications, citations play an essential epistemic role in creating and disseminating knowledge. Conversely, the use of problematic citations impedes the growth of…

Citing and referencing habits in medicine and social sciences journals in 2019

Erika Alves dos Santos, Silvio Peroni, Marcos Luiz Mucheroni

This article explores citing and referencing systems in social sciences and medicine articles from different theoretical and practical perspectives, considering bibliographic…

Workplace information literacy: a bridge to the development of innovative work behaviour

Lyndsey Middleton, Hazel Hall

Organisational culture and leadership, employee skills and aptitudes, access to resources, and training are regularly cited as important determinants of the development of…

Rereading, art-making and other joys: toward a theory of information, repetition and the good life

Tim Gorichanaz

This paper offers a conceptual discussion of repetition and joy in the context of information and their relation to the good life.

A thematic analysis of library association policies on services to persons with disabilities

Heather Hill

Library association policies and guidelines are important to study because they reflect consensus values of the profession. As such, they can shape the association, itself, and…

Role of gatekeeping on Facebook in creating information benefits for vulnerable, pregnant women in the rural United States

Devendra Dilip Potnis, Macy Halladay

The purpose of this study is to investigate why and how gatekeepers on social networking sites (SNS) create what types of information benefits for gated, vulnerable, pregnant…

Linking science to technology: the “patent paper citation” and the rise of patentometrics in the 1980s

Björn Hammarfelt

In this article, the ideas and methods behind the “patent-paper citation” are scrutinised by following the intellectual and technical development of approaches and ideas in early…

Non-synchronism in theoretical research of information science

Fang Wang, Jing Yang, Yejun Wu

This paper aims to reveal the global non-synchronism that exists in the theoretical research of information science (IS) by analyzing and comparing the distribution of theory use…