Aslib Journal of Information Management: Volume 69 Issue 6

The acceptance of corporate wiki use for knowledge diffusion purposes

Fayez Hussain Alqahtani

Scholars and practitioners alike view knowledge as a crucial organisational asset. Over the past decade, several knowledge management (KM) technologies have emerged, such as…

Does KFC sell rat? Analysis of tweets in the wake of a rumor outbreak

Anjan Pal, Alton Y.K. Chua, Dion Hoe-Lian Goh

In the wake of a rumor outbreak, individuals exchange three types of messages: rumor messages, counter-rumor messages, and uncertainty-expressing messages. However, the properties…

The presence of academic journals on Twitter and its relationship with dissemination (tweets) and research impact (citations)

Jose Luis Ortega

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between dissemination of research papers on Twitter and its influence on research impact.

Web mining for the mayoral election prediction in Taiwan

Jia-Yen Huang

The prediction of pre-election polls is an issue of concern for both politicians and voters. The Taiwan nine-in-one election held in 2014 ended with jaw-dropping results;…

Gender and image sharing on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and WhatsApp in the UK: Hobbying alone or filtering for friends?

Mike Thelwall, Farida Vis

Despite the on going shift from text-based to image-based communication in the social web, supported by the affordances of smartphones, little is known about the new image sharing…

Cross-generational analysis of information seeking behavior of smartphone users

Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet, Maya Blau

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the predictive factors of information seeking behavior of smartphone users from the cross-generational perspective. Based on existing…

User evaluation of a task for shortlisting papers from researcher’s reading list for citing in manuscripts

Aravind Sesagiri Raamkumar, Schubert Foo, Natalie Pang

Although many interventional approaches have been proposed to address the apparent gap between novices and experts for literature review (LR) search tasks, there have been very…