Investigation on the statistical methods in research studies of library and information science
PurposeThe statistical method plays an extremely important role in quantitative research studies in library and information science LIS. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the status of statistical methods used in the field, their application ...
Distinctive organisational business imperatives of Big Data: a literature review
PurposeThe purpose of this study was to identify the business imperatives characteristic of an organisation that will benefit from the use of Big Data, to give business managers, knowledge workers and librarians guidance as to whether their business ...
Factors affecting LIS Israeli students' mobile phone use: an exploratory study
PurposeAlthough the mobile phone is a popular gadget, only a few studies have examined the relationships between personality characteristics and mobile phone use. This study aims to integrate and extend the literature by focusing on various personality ...
Publications by faculty members indexed in Science Citation Index and Scopus: an Iranian case study
PurposeThe paper aims to report an investigation that was conducted to identify the scholarly publications by faculty members of the Allameh Tabataba'i University that were indexed in two international databases, Science Citation Index SCI and Scopus, ...
Magnetism of WhatsApp among veterinary students
PurposeInstant messaging IM apps like WhatsApp have given an impetus to rapid sharing of information through multimedia messages in this information age and their clear impact has been noticed in the academic sector. The present study is conducted with ...
Assessment of global law and psychiatry research in the period of 1993-2012
PurposeThe purpose of the present study is to analyze highly cited articles and global research emphases and trends of law and psychiatry L&P research during the period of 1993 to 2012 from the Web of Science WOS database. Besides the analysis of highly ...
Factors influencing the adoption of digital reference services among the university librarians in Pakistan
PurposeThis study aims to explore the factors affecting the adoption of digital reference services DRS among the university librarians in Pakistan.Design/methodology/approachBased on the adapted unified theory of acceptance and use of technology UTAUT ...
Semantic text-based image retrieval with multi-modality ontology and DBpedia
PurposeThe purpose of this study is to reduce the semantic distance by proposing a model for integrating indexes of textual and visual features via a multi-modality ontology and the use of DBpedia to improve the comprehensiveness of the ontology to ...
Engineering researchers' data reuse behaviours: a structural equation modelling approach
PurposeThe purpose of this research is to investigate the factors that influence engineering researchers' data reuse behaviours.Design/methodology/approachThe data reuse behaviour model of engineering researchers was investigated by using a survey ...
Applications of collaborative annotation system in digital curation, crowdsourcing, and digital humanities
PurposeCollaboratively annotating digital texts allow users to add valued information, share ideas and create knowledge. Most importantly, annotated content can help users obtain a deeper and broader understanding of a text compared to digital content ...
Information security behaviors of smartphone users in China: an empirical analysis
PurposeUnderstanding user behavior is increasingly critical for information security in the use of smartphones. There is, however, lack of empirical studies about the behavior of smartphone users for information security in China. The purpose of this ...
Using author tri-citation analysis to map knowledge domains in knowledge representations
PurposePrevious commonly used author co-citation analysis ACA methods have limited the ability to deal with accidental co-citation in constructing a raw co-citation matrix. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to propose a new method, called author ...