Online Information Review: Volume 47 Issue 6

Understanding the relationship between social media use and depression: a review of the literature

Wenlong Zhu, Jian Mou, Morad Benyoucef, Jongki Kim, Taeho Hong, Sihua Chen

This paper analyzes the existing body of work on the relationship between depression and social media use in the information system field, including the impact of social media use…

Data sharing and reuse practices: disciplinary differences and improvements needed

Nushrat Khan, Mike Thelwall, Kayvan Kousha

This study investigates differences and commonalities in data production, sharing and reuse across the widest range of disciplines yet and identifies types of improvements needed…

Factors influencing researchers to publish in open-access: Is it a self-decision or a self-reinforcing cycle?

Shlomit Hadad, Noa Aharony

The current study examined Israeli researchers from various disciplines concerning their perceptions, attitudes and awareness of scientific publications in open access (OA…

The effect of YouTube comment interaction on video engagement: focusing on interactivity centralization and creators' interactivity

Unji Byun, Moonkyoung Jang, Hyunmi Baek

This study aims to reveal the effect of comment interactions on video engagement of users in video-sharing platforms.

Web search to access health information by adults with intellectual disability

Theja Kuruppu Arachchi, Laurianne Sitbon, Jinglan Zhang, Stewart Koplick, Maria Hoogstrate, Margot Brereton

This study explored the current and desired use of web-search, particularly for health information, by adults with intellectual disability.

User profiling and role evaluation of government microbloggers in the context of public emergencies

Lu An, Yan Shen, Yanfang Tao, Gang Li, Chuanming Yu

This study aims to profile the government microbloggers and evaluate their roles. The results can help improve the governments' response capability to public emergencies.

YouTube self-directed learning in the US and Taiwan: an application of the personal responsibility orientation model

Claire Youngnyo Joa, Mohammad Abuljadail, Louisa S. Ha

To facilitate the use of YouTube as an important global video portal for self-directed learning (SDL), it is important to understand YouTube users' distinctive learning…

Comment-enriched index terms improve the relevance and novelty of the ranking of the commented medical articles retrieved by an NLP system

Kianoosh Rashidi, Hajar Sotudeh, Alireza Nikseresht

This study aimed to investigate how the enrichment of medical documents' index terms by their comments improves the relevance and novelty of the top-ranked results retrieved by an…

The “gender affinity effect” behind female politicians' social media support: facebook civil talk during Israel's 2021 elections

Tal Samuel-Azran, Moran Yarchi

The study aims to examine the validity of the gender affinity effect on social media throughout election campaigns.

From #iononriapro to #ioapro: analysing hashtag activism in the Italian restaurant Twittersphere during the 2020 lockdown

Gevisa La Rocca, Giovanni Boccia Artieri, Francesca Greco

In this article, the authors analyse the impact of the 2020 lockdown and the subsequent measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 in Italy in the hospitality industry by looking…

Access and impact barriers to academic publications: a global study of thesis and dissertation embargo policies

Behrooz Rasuli, Joachim Schöpfel, Michael Boock, Brenda Van Wyk

Many Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) allow students or their advisors to restrict access to theses/dissertations (TDs) by applying embargoes. This study aims to identify why…