Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication: Volume 72 Issue 4/5

Analysis of Bitcoin’s price spike in context of Elon Musk’s Twitter activity

Salma Zaman, Ussama Yaqub, Tauqeer Saleem

The purpose of this paper is to explore the effect of Elon Musk’s Twitter bio change on January 29, 2021 on the discourse around Bitcoin (BTC) on Twitter and to understand how…

Information-seeking behaviour of Tanzanians in the time of COVID-19

Emmanuel Frank Elia

This study aims to investigate on access and communication of COVID-19 information among Tanzanians.

Four typologies for understanding local information

Pussadee Nonthacumjane, Jan Michael Nolin

This study aims to propose the four different typologies for understanding local information.

Altmetrics and their relationship with citation counts: a case of journal articles in physics

Rishabh Shrivastava, Preeti Mahajan

The first purpose of the present study is to investigate the coverage of journal articles in Physics in various sources of altmetrics. Secondly, the study investigates the…

Library anxiety among undergraduates in Nigeria

Christy Olabisi Adeeko, Airen Adetimirin

Library anxiety is a phenomenon that is different from other academic anxiety, which has implication on physical use of libraries. This study aims to investigate the phenomenon of…

“I need some space!” deciphering space tourism discussions on social media

Shruti Gulati

Space tourism is fairly neglected in academic research and requires further exploration. Public reaction on social media offers great insights to understand the patterns of…

Open access publishing in India: trends and policy perspectives

Mohammad Nazim, Raj Kumar Bhardwaj, Anil Agrawal, Afroz Bano

This study aims to analyze Open Access (OA) publishing trends and policy perspectives in India. Different aspects, such as the growth of OA journals digital repositories, the…

Altmetrics analysis of selected articles in the field of social sciences

Mehri Sedighi

This study aims to measure the impact of the selected papers in the field of social sciences indexed in Scopus using altmetrics tools.

The extent of building and managing local contents in institutional repositories: a survey of tertiary institution libraries in Nigeria

Godwin Oberhiri-Orumah, Ebikabowei Emmanuel Baro

The purpose of this study is to investigate the development of institutional repositories (IR) in tertiary institution libraries in Nigeria.

Influence of aesthetics attributes of brand Web pages on customer brand engagement

Geeta Marmat

This paper aims to empirically explore the influence of website aesthetic attributes (classical and expressive) on customer brand engagement (CBE) intention.

Determinants of smallholders’ adoption of mobile phones for vegetable marketing in Vietnam

Hung Gia Hoang, Duc Van Nguyen

The purpose of this paper is to examine factors that shape the adoption of mobile phones for vegetable marketing by Vietnamese smallholders.

Comparing health consumer search behavior and scientific research productivity related to COVID-19 vaccines in the USA: an infodemiology study

Shohreh SeyyedHosseini, Brady D. Lund, Reza BasirianJahromi

While vaccines are an effective preventative measure to defend against the spread and harmful symptoms of COVID-19, information about COVID vaccines can be difficult to find and…