Online Information Review: Volume 44 Issue 7

Understanding content sharing on the internet: test of a cognitive-affective-conative model

Cheng-Chieh Hsiao

With the prevalence of user-generated content on the internet, this study aims to propose a cognitive-affective-conative model to examine how users create and share their content…

Determinants of e-government implementation at the local level: an empirical model

Gonçalo Paiva Dias

The empirical research of e-government at the local level has been the subject of many studies in the last two decades. The evidence collected by those studies constitutes a…

Determining the informativeness of comments: a natural language study of F1000Research open peer review reports

Kianoosh Rashidi, Hajar Sotudeh, Mahdieh Mirzabeigi, Alireza Nikseresht

Social comments are rich in information and useful in evaluating, ranking or retrieving different kinds of materials. However, their merits in representing or providing added…

The role of omnichannel tendency in digital information processing

Paula Rodríguez-Torrico, Sonia San-Martín, Rebeca San José Cabezudo

Nowadays some consumers consider themselves as “omnichannels” – they combine both physical and digital channels expecting a seamless shopping experience – since they view their…

A scale for credibility evaluation of scientific websites: findings from a cross-contextual approach

Hamid Keshavarz, Mohammadreza Esmaeili Givi

Due to the extreme importance of evaluating the credibility of information available on a huge number of scientific websites, the present research aimed to develop a measurement…

Independent publishers and social networks in the 21st century: the balance of power in the transatlantic Spanish-language book market

Ana Gallego-Cuiñas, Esteban Romero-Frías, Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado

The present paper uses Twitter to analyze the current state of the worldwide, Spanish-language, independent publishing market. The main purposes are to determine whether certain…

Effect of the model eye gaze direction on consumer information processing: a consideration of gender differences

Qiuzhen Wang, Lan Ma, Liqiang Huang, Lei Wang

The purpose of this paper aims to investigate the effect of a model's eye gaze direction on the information processing behavior of consumers varying based on their gender.

Effect of online political incivility on partisan attitude: role of issue involvement, moral identity and incivility accountability

Isha Sharma, Kokil Jain, Gurinder Singh

The study investigates the effect of an uncivil comment made by a party representative on social media and tests whether it can lead to a change in observers' attitude toward the…

Evaluating research performance of Coronavirus and Covid-19 pandemic using scientometric indicators

Sidhartha Sahoo, Shriram Pandey

This study is an attempt to evaluating the growth of scientific literature in the domain of coronavirus and Covid-19 pandemic research based on scientometric indicators: prolific…