Online Information Review: Volume 36 Issue 5

The influence of journal self‐citations on journal impact factor and immediacy index

Mu‐Hsuan Huang, Wen‐Yau Cathy Lin

The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between journal self‐citation and journal impact factor (JIF)/journal immediacy index (JII).

The sustainability and stabilization of tag vocabulary in CiteULike: An empirical study of collaborative tagging

Jin Ma

The purpose of this study is to examine the growth patterns of tag vocabulary in collaborative tagging systems to verify the sustainability and stabilization of tag distributions…

Communicating Spanish banks' identities: the role of websites

Rafael Bravo, José M. Pina, Jorge Matute

This paper aims to reveal the key elements of corporate identity through the information provided by entities' websites, and to study the differences in the information…

Predicting intention to purchase on group buying website in Taiwan: Virtual community, critical mass and risk

Shu‐Yun Cheng, Ming‐Tien Tsai, Nai‐Chang Cheng, Kun‐Shiang Chen

This study proposes integrating the perceived risk and social influence literatures on online group buying (OGB) intentions with the basic TAM variables (perceived usefulness and…

Empirical challenges and solutions in constructing a high‐performance metasearch engine

Hamid Sadeghi

This paper seeks to disclose the important role of missing documents, broken links and duplicate items in the results merging process of a metasearch engine in detail. It aims to…

Smart combination of web measures for solving semantic similarity problems

Jorge Martinez‐Gil, José F. Aldana‐Montes

Semantic similarity measures are very important in many computer‐related fields. Previous works on applications such as data integration, query expansion, tag refactoring or text…

Tag‐based retrieval of images through different interfaces: a user study

Judit Bar‐Ilan, Maayan Zhitomirsky‐Geffet, Yitzchak Miller, Snunith Shoham

The purpose of this study was to compare the ease of use and the effectiveness of several interfaces for retrieving tagged images.

The problems with the subject categories schema in the EigenFactor database from the perspective of ranking journals by their prestige and impact

Péter Jacsó

EigenFactor service went through some changes in 2011 before issuing the most current edition (EF‐2010) following the release of the 2010 edition of the Journal Citation Reports…

Crisis Information Management: Communication and Technologies

Mae Keary

Information Users and Usability in the Digital Age

Maryam Nazari

Knowledge Sharing in Professions: Roles and Identity in Expert Communities

Mae Keary

M‐libraries 3: Transforming Libraries with Mobile Technology

Madely du Preez

Going for Gold, or is it Green? The Open Access debate continues

G.E. Gorman

Reviews of recent research literature – 5

Maryam Nazari, G.E. Gorman