{"title":"Toward measuring data literacy for higher education: Developing and validating a data literacy self-efficacy scale","authors":"Jeonghyun Kim, Lingzi Hong, Sarah Evans","doi":"10.1002/asi.24934","DOIUrl":"10.1002/asi.24934","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Data literacy, a multifaceted competency in working with data, has emerged as an essential skill that holds significance in both personal and professional lives. Nonetheless, there is a lack of a precise definition of data literacy, and individuals' perceptions of their data literacy have not been thoroughly investigated. This study aims to develop and validate a scale designed for measuring self-efficacy in data literacy within the context of higher education. Both exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to determine construct validity and reliability. The resulting data literacy self-efficacy scale comprises 31 items organized into three factors: data identification, data processing, and data management and sharing. These factors represent distinct yet interconnected dimensions, highlighting the multifaceted nature of data literacy.</p>","PeriodicalId":48810,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology","volume":"75 8","pages":"916-931"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141500640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elizabeth Yakel, Ixchel M. Faniel, Lionel P. Robert Jr
{"title":"An empirical examination of data reuser trust in a digital repository","authors":"Elizabeth Yakel, Ixchel M. Faniel, Lionel P. Robert Jr","doi":"10.1002/asi.24933","DOIUrl":"10.1002/asi.24933","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Most studies of trusted digital repositories have focused on the internal factors delineated in the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model—organizational structure, technical infrastructure, and policies, procedures, and processes. Typically, these factors are used during an audit and certification process to demonstrate a repository can be trusted. The factors influencing a repository's designated community of users to trust it remains largely unexplored. This article proposes and tests a model of trust in a data repository and the influence trust has on users' intention to continue using it. Based on analysis of 245 surveys from quantitative social scientists who published research based on the holdings of one data repository, findings show three factors are positively related to data reuser trust—integrity, identification, and structural assurance. In turn, trust and performance expectancy are positively related to data reusers' intentions to return to the repository for more data. As one of the first studies of its kind, it shows the conceptualization of trusted digital repositories needs to go beyond high-level definitions and simple application of the OAIS standard. Trust needs to encompass the complex trust relationship between designated communities of users that the repositories are being built to serve.</p>","PeriodicalId":48810,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology","volume":"75 8","pages":"898-915"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/asi.24933","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141500642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Local impact of books: A comparison of libcitations from research-oriented and public libraries","authors":"Eline Vandewalle, Raf Guns, Tim C. E. Engels","doi":"10.1002/asi.24937","DOIUrl":"10.1002/asi.24937","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We explore the potential of libcitations from local research-oriented and public library catalogues for a study of the societal and cultural impact of books authored by academics from the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH). The study relies on data from the bibliographic database VABB-SHW, the Flemish public library catalogue Cultuurconnect, and the Belgian research library catalogue UniCat. We find that whereas a majority of academically authored SSH books appear in research-oriented libraries, the holdings in public libraries are limited. However, libcitations in public libraries are indicative of societal and cultural impact, particularly for books written in the domestic language (in this case Dutch) and books that are not primarily aimed at academic peers (and are not peer-reviewed). Additionally, we find that the books held in local libraries include different genres and dissemination types, as SSH scholars contribute to the creation of societal and cultural impact in a variety of ways. An overview of the types of books attaining high scores in public and research-oriented libraries showcases avenues for the creation of societal impact through popularized literature.</p>","PeriodicalId":48810,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology","volume":"75 9","pages":"972-987"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141500641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shuqi Zhu, Xiaohui Xie, Ziyi Ye, Qingyao Ai, Yiqun Liu
{"title":"Comparing point-wise and pair-wise relevance judgment with brain signals","authors":"Shuqi Zhu, Xiaohui Xie, Ziyi Ye, Qingyao Ai, Yiqun Liu","doi":"10.1002/asi.24936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24936","url":null,"abstract":"<p>How to collect relevance judgment has long been an important problem in Information Retrieval (IR). A popular method is to collect relevance judgment in a point-wise manner, in which assessors examine and give an absolute relevance score for each item independently of the others. As an alternative, pair-wise relevance judgment, also named preference judgment, allows an assessor to compare two items side-by-side and express their preference for one over the other. Previous work has explored the differences between these two paradigms of relevance judgments from many different aspects. Most of these works are conducted through explicit/implicit feedback. However, few works investigate the underlying neurological mechanisms of the two paradigms. In this paper, we conduct a lab study to investigate and compare point-wise and pair-wise relevance judgment in image search scenarios. We study the neurological mechanisms of the two paradigms through an event-related potential (ERP) analysis of the users' brain signals while viewing images during a search process. We have obtained several observations, such as search engine users tend to pay more attention to preferred items in the point-wise paradigm but unpreferred items in the pair-wise paradigm. Furthermore, we test the adoption of brain signals as implicit feedback for predicting pair-wise relevance judgment, highlighting the feasibility of leveraging brain signals to understand users' relevance judgments.</p>","PeriodicalId":48810,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology","volume":"75 9","pages":"957-971"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141967989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding users' dynamic perceptions of search gain and cost in sessions: An expectation confirmation model","authors":"Ben Wang, Jiqun Liu","doi":"10.1002/asi.24935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24935","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Understanding the roles of <i>search gain</i> and <i>cost</i> in users' search decision-making is a key topic in interactive information retrieval (IIR). While previous research has developed user models based on <i>simulated</i> gains and costs, it is unclear how users' actual <i>perceptions of search gains and costs</i> form and change during search interactions. To address this gap, our study adopted expectation-confirmation theory (ECT) to investigate users' perceptions of gains and costs. We re-analyzed data from our previous study, examining how contextual and search features affect users' perceptions and how their expectation-confirmation states impact their following searches. Our findings include: (1) The point where users' actual dwell time meets their constant expectation may serve as a reference point in evaluating perceived gain and cost; (2) these perceptions are associated with in situ experience represented by usefulness labels, browsing behaviors, and queries; (3) users' current confirmation states affect their perceptions of Web page usefulness in the subsequent query. Our findings demonstrate possible effects of expectation-confirmation, prospect theory, and information foraging theory, highlighting the complex relationships among gain/cost, expectations, and dwell time at the query level, and the reference-dependent expectation at the session level. These insights enrich user modeling and evaluation in human-centered IR.</p>","PeriodicalId":48810,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology","volume":"75 9","pages":"937-956"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141967977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The enhanced research impact of self-archiving platforms: Evidence from bioRxiv","authors":"Hongxu Liu, Guangyuan Hu, Yin Li","doi":"10.1002/asi.24932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24932","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The proliferation of online self-archiving platforms has greatly facilitated the dissemination of new research findings. However, the extent to which these platforms have increased the impact of research remains uncertain, especially considering the potential bias of researchers favoring the deposition of higher-quality preprints. To determine the causal relationship between self-archiving platforms and research impact, we conducted an investigation using a sample of 5423 published articles from 2018 that had preprints deposited on bioRxiv. These articles were compared to a control group of 7862 similar articles without preprints, identified through text-mining algorithms. By modeling the differences in forward citations over time between the two groups, we established a positive causal effect of self-archiving platforms on research impact. However, the effect observed in this study was smaller than that reported in previous studies (18.7% vs. 36%), indicating a more accurate and unbiased result. Additionally, the study explored the underlying mechanisms that contribute to the enhancement of research impact, including early dissemination and increased exposure through social networks facilitated by self-archiving platforms. Overall, this study expands our understanding of how research is disseminated in the era of Internet platforms.</p>","PeriodicalId":48810,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology","volume":"75 8","pages":"883-897"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141730224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Information and library professionals' roles and responsibilities in an AI-augmented world","authors":"Gary Marchionini","doi":"10.1002/asi.24930","DOIUrl":"10.1002/asi.24930","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48810,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology","volume":"75 8","pages":"865-868"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141366896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Diego Kozlowski, Thema Monroe-White, Vincent Larivière, Cassidy R. Sugimoto
{"title":"The Howard-Harvard effect: Institutional reproduction of intersectional inequalities","authors":"Diego Kozlowski, Thema Monroe-White, Vincent Larivière, Cassidy R. Sugimoto","doi":"10.1002/asi.24931","DOIUrl":"10.1002/asi.24931","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The production of research and faculty in the US higher education system is concentrated within a few institutions. Concentration of research and resources affects minoritized scholars and the topics with which they are disproportionately associated. This paper examines topical alignment between institutions and authors of varying intersectional identities, and the relationship between research topics and identities with institutional prestige and scientific impact. Our results show statistically significant differences between minoritized scholars and White men in citations and journal impact. The aggregate research profile of prestigious US universities is highly correlated with the research profile of White men, and negatively correlated with the research profile of minoritized women. Furthermore, authors affiliated with more prestigious institutions are associated with increasing inequalities in both citations and journal impact. These results suggest a relationship—which we coin as the Howard-Harvard effect—in which the topical profile of minoritized scholars is further marginalized in prestigious institutions as compared to mission-driven institutions. Academic institutions and funders should create policies to mitigate the systemic barriers that prevent the United States from achieving a fully robust scientific ecosystem.</p>","PeriodicalId":48810,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology","volume":"75 8","pages":"869-882"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/asi.24931","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141193395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Handbook of digital inequality. By Eszter Hargittai (Ed.), Cheltenham: Elgar. 2021. pp. Xii, 386 (Elgar handbooks on inequality)","authors":"Gunilla Widén","doi":"10.1002/asi.24901","DOIUrl":"10.1002/asi.24901","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48810,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology","volume":"75 7","pages":"859-862"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141102806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The myth of artificial intelligence: Why computers can't think the way we do. Erik J. Larson. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. 320 pp. $29.95 (hardcover). (ISBN 9780674983519)","authors":"Andrew Cox","doi":"10.1002/asi.24903","DOIUrl":"10.1002/asi.24903","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48810,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology","volume":"75 9","pages":"1018-1021"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141105245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}