Journal of Documentation: Volume 79 Issue 5

Mapping research activities and societal impact by taxonomy of indicators: uniformity and diversity across academic fields

Marianne Lykke, Louise Amstrup, Rolf Hvidtfeldt, David Budtz Pedersen

Several frameworks have been developed to map and document scientific societal interaction and impact, each reflecting the specific forms of impact and interaction that…

Knowledge management in museums: enhancing organizational performance and public value

Neville Vakharia, Alex H. Poole

This study examines the enabling factors and practices that foster knowledge management in museums and the impact of those factors and practices on museums' performance and public…

A proposal of conceptual model for Brazilian popular music

Marcos Fragomeni Padron, Fernando William Cruz, Juliana Rocha De Faria Silva, Richard P. Smiraglia

The term “Brazilian popular music” refers to a varied repertoire of musical styles with a strong connection to local culture. The initiatives of representation of this domain of…

Terms in journal articles associating with high quality: can qualitative research be world-leading?

Mike Thelwall, Kayvan Kousha, Mahshid Abdoli, Emma Stuart, Meiko Makita, Paul Wilson, Jonathan M. Levitt

Scholars often aim to conduct high quality research and their success is judged primarily by peer reviewers. Research quality is difficult for either group to identify, however…

Perry Starlight, Ali Orbit and Kim Cosmos' alien encounter: creating a picturebook as information for children and parents participating in research

Katharine Smales, Annemaree Lloyd, Samantha Rayner

This study explored whether the creation of an illustrated picturebook could explain the terms and practicalities of participatory, multi-method qualitative research to children…

Risky (information) business: an informational risk research agenda

Alison Hicks

The purpose of this conceptual paper is to suggest that the growing sociocultural theorisation of risk calls for a more robust research focus on the role that information and in…

Health information behavior and related factors among Estonians aged ≥ 50 years during the COVID-19 pandemic

Marianne Paimre, Sirje Virkus, Kairi Osula

The purpose of the article is to introduce the outcomes of a study analyzing the relationships between willingness to use technology for health purposes, health information…

Scholarly communication: a concept analysis

Rachel Fleming-May

“Scholarly Communication” is a frequent topic of both the professional and research literature of Library and Information Science (LIS). Despite efforts by individuals (e.g…

Centered and decentered: toward a knowledge organization perspective on social reality

Jack Andersen

The purpose is to offer a discussion of how we can conceive of the organization of knowledge in digital culture and its changing nature. The article proposes to view of it as both…

Towards a vernacular aesthetics of liking for information studies

Cheryl Klimaszewski

Personal museums provide the conceptual catalyst for liking as a research approach and inclusivity around “idiosyncratic” knowledges within information research. An adapted…

Affective memories and perceived value: motivators and inhibitors of the data search-access process

Qiao Li, Chunfeng Liu, Jingrui Hou, Ping Wang

As an emerging tool for data discovery, data retrieval systems fail to effectively support users' cognitive processes during data search and access. To uncover the relationship…

The coverage of information science and knowledge organization in the Library of Congress Subject Headings

Jonathan Furner, Birger Hjørland

This article examines the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), which is the most used subject heading system in the world and an instance of a controlled vocabulary (CV).

A conceptual framework for motivation factors influencing researchers' use of academic web profiles

Iris Brun Galili, Mette Skov

This article provides insight into researchers' use of academic web profiles and an understanding of how the influencing factors highlighted in the literature interact with each…