Aslib Journal of Information Management: Volume 75 Issue 5

The exploration in the size of scientific collaboration team using kernel density estimation

Ran An, Wei Shan

Scientific collaboration is becoming a common pattern in the social organization of knowledge production. The paper tries to figure out the relationship between scientific…

Are the works that cite Beall's List accounting journals comparable to those that cite Scopus journals of similar citation impact?

William H. Walters

Th study evaluates the apparent quality of the 10 Beall's List accounting journals with the highest citation rates by investigating whether the works that cite those journals are…

Critical factors in awakening the slumbering collections: a study based on XGBoost

Xiaoxiao Zhang, Guoliang Shi, Qiupan Jin

The purpose is to explore the essential reasons for the differences between book awakening phenomena, to develop the critical factors in awakening the slumbering collections and…

Which structure of academic articles do referees pay more attention to?: perspective of peer review and full-text of academic articles

Chenglei Qin, Chengzhi Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to explore which structures of academic articles referees would pay more attention to, what specific content referees focus on, and whether the…

Cognitive differences between readers attentive and inattentive to task-related information: an eye-tracking study

Jing Chen, Lu Zhang, Wenhai Qian

Attentive to task-related information is the prerequisite for task completion. Comparing the cognition between attentive readers (AR) and inattentive readers (IAR) is of great…

Everyday life as an evolving context of information behaviour

Reijo Savolainen

The purpose of this paper is to elaborate the nature of everyday life as a context of information behaviour by examining how researchers have approached this issue. To this end…

Modeling the formation of the public's information needs in the early stage of the COVID-19 outbreak

Hongru Lu, Juan Xie, Ying Cheng, Ya Chen

This study aims to investigate how the public formed their need for information in the early stage of the COVID-19 outbreak. Exploring the formation of information needs can…