Aslib Journal of Information Management: Volume 71 Issue 1

Evaluating the effectiveness of information retrieval systems using effort-based relevance judgment

Prabha Rajagopal, Sri Devi Ravana, Yun Sing Koh, Vimala Balakrishnan

The effort in addition to relevance is a major factor for satisfaction and utility of the document to the actual user. The purpose of this paper is to propose a method in…

Is it possible to rank universities using fewer indicators? A study on five international university rankings

Güleda Doğan, Umut Al

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the similarity of intra-indicators used in research-focused international university rankings (Academic Ranking of World Universities…

The learnability of the dimensional view of data and what to do with it

Dušan Vujošević, Ivana Kovačević, Milena Vujošević-Janičić

The purpose of this paper is to examine the usability of the dimensional view of data in the context of its presumed learnability.

Website removal from search engines due to copyright violation

Artur Strzelecki

The purpose of this paper is to clarify how many removal requests are made, how often, and who makes these requests, as well as which websites are reported to search engines so…

Mixed language queries in online searches: A study of intra-sentential code-switching from a qualitative perspective

Hengyi Fu

With the increasing number of online multilingual resources, cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) has drawn much attention from the information retrieval (IR) research…

Influence of selected factors in journals’ citations

Rabishankar Giri

The purpose of this paper is to explore the influence of selected factors in journal citations. Various factors can affect citations distribution of journals. Among them, skewness…

Determinants and academic achievement effect of Facebook use in educational communication among university students

Chin Fei Goh, Amran Rasli, Owee Kowang Tan, Sang Long Choi

The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors that drive students to use Facebook for educational communication and explore the impact of Facebook use for educational…

Exploratory analysis of Publons metrics and their relationship with bibliometric and altmetric impact

Jose Luis Ortega

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the metrics provided by Publons about the scoring of publications and their relationship with impact measurements (bibliometric and…