Online Information Review: Volume 45 Issue 7

The information-seeking behaviour of Egyptian parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): a descriptive study

Essam Mansour

The purpose of this study is to investigate the information-seeking behavior of Egyptian parents of autistic children.

Reasoning in social media: insights from Reddit “Change My View” submissions

Ayşe Öcal, Lu Xiao, Jaihyun Park

Complex social interactions such as argumentation and persuasion are increasingly common in online communications. To better understand these interactions and their impacts on…

Why people spread rumors on social media: developing and validating a multi-attribute model of online rumor dissemination

Yung-Cheng Shen, Crystal T. Lee, Ling-Yen Pan, Chung-Yuan Lee

Dealing with online rumors or fake information on social media is growing in importance. Most academic research on online rumors has approached the issue from a quantitative…

Understanding employees' response to work-related after-hours use of instant messaging apps: a stress and coping perspective

Hsiang-Lan Cheng, Tung-Ching Lin, Wee-Kheng Tan, Chao-Min Chiu

The purpose of this paper is to examine the complex relationships between permeability, work-family conflict, moral disengagement, behavioral disengagement, job strain and job…

What drives people's intention toward live stream broadcasting

Guan-Yu Lin, Yi-Shun Wang, Yu-Min Wang, Meng-Hsuan Lee

The study aims to examine the relationships among personality traits (i.e. the Big Five personality traits and locus of control), self-perceived facial attractiveness, motivations…

Analysis of the scientific literature's abstract writing style and citations

Haotian Hu, Dongbo Wang, Sanhong Deng

The citation counts are an important indicator of scholarly impact. The purpose of this paper is to explore the correlation between citations of scientific articles and writing…

A study of the roles of metadata standard and data repository in science, technology, engineering and mathematics researchers' data reuse

Youngseek Kim

This research investigates how the availabilities of both metadata standards and data repositories influence researchers' data reuse intentions either directly or indirectly as…

Multilevel analysis of factors affecting open-access institutional repository implementation in Nigerian universities

Samuel C. Avemaria Utulu, Ojelanki Ngwenyama

The study aims to identify novel open-access institutional repository (OAIR) implementation barriers and explain how they evolve. It also aims to extend theoretical insights into…

E-waste-word of mouth (EW-WOM) generation: a fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fs/QCA)

Sajad Rezaei, Ree Chan Ho

This study aims to examine the asymmetrical relationships among information-sharing desire, moral attitudes, lack of concern, relative advantage, market maven tendency and…

The role of customer engagement in cultivating relationships with automotive Facebook brand pages

Thanuka Mahesha de Silva

The study aims to provide a theoretical framework of how information, entertainment and social interaction value associated with automotive Facebook brand pages (FBPs) in Sri…

Developing a comprehensive framework for analyzing national scientific and technical information policy: application of HeLICAM in Iran

Leila Namdarian, Sirous Alidousti, Behrooz Rasuli

Strengthening and improving Scientific and Technical Information (S&Ti) flow in all nations require an effective national S&Ti policy (NS&TiP). The very first step in developing…