Aslib Journal of Information Management: Volume 75 Issue 6

Usability evaluation of two new presentation modes of scientific articles for academic reading

Lihui Niu, Shiyan Ou

This study developed two presentation modes of scientific articles and evaluated their usability with user experiments.

Who one is, whom one knows? Evaluating the importance of personal and social characteristics of influential people in social networks

Mehdi Hassanzadeh, Mohammad Taheri, Sajjad Shokouhyar, Sina Shokoohyar

This study examines opinion leadership's personal and social characteristics to see which one is more effective in opinion leadership in four different industries: fashion, travel…

The role of data platforms in COVID-19 crisis: a smart city perspective

Laura-Diana Radu, Daniela Popescul

The Covid-19 pandemic has profoundly affected urban communities, generating the need for an immediate response from local governance. The availability of urban data platforms in…

Analysis of the structure and time-series evolution of knowledge label network from a complex perspective

Xu Wang, Xin Feng, Yuan Guo

The research on social media-based academic communication has made great progress with the development of the mobile Internet era, and while a large number of research results…

Motivations for sharing personal information and self-disclosure in public and private Facebook groups of mentally ill people

Nava Rothschild, Noa Aharony

This study explores the motivations for sharing personal information and self-disclosure by mentally ill people in public and private Facebook groups. The purpose of the…

A large group hesitant fuzzy linguistic DEMATEL approach for identifying critical success factors in public health emergencies

Chaoyu Zheng, Benhong Peng, Xuan Zhao, Guo Wei, Anxia Wan, Mu Yue

How to identify the critical success factors (CSFs) of public health emergencies (PHEs) is of great practical significance to carry out a scientific and effective risk assessment…

Investigating users' sustained information seeking on academic social networking sites

Xiaoyu Chen

This study aims to investigate motivators, mediator and moderator of users' sustained information seeking on academic social networking sites (ASNSs).

Research on the influencing factors of the citizen adoption process of China's national integrated online government service platform

Jiaojiao Liu, Weidong Li, Qi Zou, Shuai Liu, Meng Wang, Jing Zheng

The Chinese government hopes to achieve the goal of benefiting citizens by building a National Integrated Online Government Service Platform (NIOGSP). However, citizens' low…

Factors influencing users' online information disclosure intention and the moderating effect of cultural background and platform type

Ning Wang, Yang Zhao, Ruoxin Zhou, Yixuan Li

Online platforms are providing diversified and personalized services with user information. Users should decide if they should give up parts of information for convenience, with…

A meta-analysis of online travel booking services adoption: the moderating effects of national or regional economic development level and culture differences

Tiantian Li, Zhangxiang Zhu

This study aims to provide a systematic review and meta-analysis to explore the strength of the path relationship in the proposed model for online travel booking service adoption…

Beyond technology in smart cities: a multivocal literature review on data governance

Petter Kvalvik, Mary Sánchez-Gordón, Ricardo Colomo-Palacios

Smart cities require data governance to articulate data sharing and use among relevant stakeholders. Given the lack of a comprehensive examination of this research topic, this…

Resilience through operational flexibility for crisis response: an international investigation of firm responses during COVID-19

Naser Shekarian, Ronald Ramirez, Jiban Khuntia

Crisis response has emerged as a salient concern for firms in the onset of COVID-19. While research suggests that resilience is critical during such disruptions, there remains a…

Practices for enhancing research visibility, citations and impact: review of literature

Sabitri Majhi, Lili Sahu, Kabita Behera

Letter to the editor: Should stricter regulations be set for the use or analysis of Twitter (and other social media) in academic publishing?

Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva, Serhii Nazarovets