Aslib Journal of Information Management: Volume 66 Issue 4

A multidimensional analysis of Aslib proceedings – using everything but the impact factor

Stefanie Haustein, Vincent Larivière

The purpose of this paper is to show that the journal impact factor (IF) is not able to reflect the full impact of scholarly journals and provides an overview of alternative and…

Exploring employee perceptions of Web 2.0 virtual communities from the perspective of knowledge sharing

Yalan Yan, Xianjin Zha, Ming Yan

With the development of Web 2.0 virtual communities, the authors see a useful platform for knowledge sharing. However, knowledge sharing in virtual communities still remains a big…

The impact of users’ verbal/imagery cognitive styles on their Web search behavior

Nadjla Hariri, Maryam Asadi, Yazdan Mansourian

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of verbal-imagery cognitive styles of information searching behavior of users in using the Web.

An overview of knowledge management research viewed through the web of science (1993-2012)

Junping Qiu, Hong Lv

The purpose of this paper is to present a bibliometric analysis of scientific output of the knowledge management (KM), the aim being to offer an overview of research activity in…

A study on health care consumers’ diabetes term usage across identified categories

Jin Zhang, Yiming Zhao, Alexandra Dimitroff

The purpose of this paper is to investigate health care consumers’ diabetes term usage patterns based on Yahoo!Answers social question and answers (Q&A) forum, identified…

Developing People's Information Capabilities Fostering Information Literacy in Educational, Workplace and Community Contexts

Christine Irving

Comparative review

Dirk Lewandowski