Aslib Journal of Information Management: Volume 66 Issue 1

A note on the interpolated or real-valued h-index with a generalization for fractional counting

Ronald Rousseau

– The purpose of this paper is to extend the h-index framework to the case that articles are counted fractionally.

The potential use of online tools for scientific collaboration by biology researchers

Fintan Bracken, Daniel Earls, Catherine Madders, Faye O'Leary, Stephanie Ronan, Ciara Ward, Paul Tolan, Judith Wusteman

The purpose of this paper is to discover the research practices of biology researchers and to assess the suitability of the OJAX++ Virtual Research Environment (VRE) for these…

The moderating roles of academic age and institutional sector on the relationship between co-authorship network centrality and academic research performance

Kamal Badar, Julie M. Hite, Yuosre F. Badir

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether potentially disadvantaged groups of researchers derive more research performance benefits from co-authorship network centrality…

Information literacy skills of secondary school students in Singapore

Schubert Foo, Shaheen Majid, Intan Azura Mokhtar, Xue Zhang, Yun-Ke Chang, Brendan Luyt, Yin-Leng Theng

– This study aimed to acquire knowledge about Singapore secondary school (ages 13 to 16 years old) students' skills in searching, evaluating and using information.

Assessing information competences of translation and interpreting trainees: A study of proficiency at Spanish universities using the InfoliTrans Test

Maria Pinto, Javier García-Marco, Ximo Granell, Dora Sales

The purpose of this paper is to report the findings of a study about Information Literacy instruction addressed to the user community of translators and interpreters through the…

Influence of language and file type on the web visibility of top European universities

Enrique Orduña-Malea, Jose Luis Ortega, Isidro F. Aguillo

The purpose of this paper is to detect whether both file type (a set of rich and web files) and language (English, Spanish, German, French and Italian) influence the web…