Journal of Documentation: Volume 77 Issue 2

Classifying economics for the common good: a note on the links between sustainable development goals and JEL codes

Jussi T.S. Heikkilä

This brief note sheds light on the links between Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) codes and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations.

Tag analysis as a tool for investigating information behaviour: comparing fan-tagging on Tumblr, Archive of Our Own and Etsy

Ludi Price, Lyn Robinson

This article describes the third part of a three-stage study investigating the information behaviour of fans and fan communities, the first stage of which is described in the…

Image-based information: paintings in Wikipedia

Trilce Navarrete, Elena Villaespesa

This study aimed at understanding the use of paintings outside of an art-related context, in the English version of Wikipedia.

Modelling the information seeking and searching behaviour of users with impairments: are existing models applicable?

Gerd Berget, Andrew MacFarlane, Nils Pharo

A substantial number of models have been developed over the years, with the purpose of describing the information seeking and searching of people in various user groups and…

Organizing personal digital information: an analysis of faculty member activities

Jerry Jacques, Sabine Mas, Dominique Maurel, Jonathan Dorey

The objective of this paper is to document and analyze the organizational activities of faculty members using a personal information management (PIM) framework developed by…

The steering effects of citations and metrics

Lai Ma

This paper aims to understand the nature of citations and metrics in the larger system of knowledge production involving universities, funding agencies, publishers, and indexing…

Reading by listening: conceptualising audiobook practices in the age of streaming subscription services

Elisa Tattersall Wallin

The purpose of this paper is to clarify issues related to the contemporary study of audiobook practices, in order to aid subsequent research on topics related to reading, digital…

The paratext of digital documents

Roswitha Skare

The purpose of this study is to provide a discussion on how to apply Genette's concept of the paratext to analyze digital documents. The article argues that the concept, despite…

Acting hot or not? Testing the citing to show-off hypothesis

Jeppe Nicolaisen, Tove Faber Frandsen

Citation analysis as a method for studying scientific communication is frequently criticized for being based on biased citation practices. Questionable motives for the reference…

Information experiences of Bangladeshi immigrants in Canada

Nafiz Zaman Shuva

Studies on the information behaviour of immigrants including refugees across the globe show a significant dependency of immigrants on their informal networks for meeting various…

An emerging genre of contemporary fact-checking

Amalia Juneström

By exploring the social features of contemporary fact-checking this study aims to increase our understanding of fact-checking as a genre and shed light on some of the aspects that…

Information cultures and strategies for coping with information overload: case of Estonian higher education institutions

Liia Lauri, Sirje Virkus, Mati Heidmets

This paper focuses on the links between information culture and the perception of the information overload on the example of higher education institutions in Estonia. The aim of…

“Outside the industry, nobody knows what we do” SEO as seen by search engine optimizers and content providers

Sebastian Schultheiß, Dirk Lewandowski

In commercial web search engine results rankings, four stakeholder groups are involved: search engine providers, users, content providers and search engine optimizers. Search…

Social aspects of personal information organization

Kyong Eun Oh

The purpose of this paper is to examine how individuals' personal information organization reflects their social environments in order to understand social aspects of personal…

Research data sharing behaviour of engineering researchers in Norway and the UK: uncovering the double face of Janus

Mari Louise Mallasvik, Jorge Tiago Martins

In a context of growing policy pressures to increase the societal impact of Higher Education Institutions (HEI), open access to research data has gained increased significance, in…

Research on discipline development and discipline difference of intelligence science in China

Shuqing Li, Li Ding, Xiaowei Ding, Huan Hu, Yu Zhang

With the continuous change of research contents and methods of intelligence science, its integration with other disciplines is also deepening. The purpose of this paper is to…