Journal of Documentation
SSCI-ISI SCOPUS (1945-2025)
0022-0418
1758-7379
Anh Quốc
Cơ quản chủ quản: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
Lĩnh vực:
Information SystemsLibrary and Information Sciences
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Understanding inverse document frequency: on theoretical arguments for IDF
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Experimental components for the evaluation of interactive information retrieval systems
Tập 56 Số 1 - Trang 71-90 - 2000
This paper presents a set of basic components which constitutes the experimental
setting intended for the evaluation of interactive information retrieval (IIR)
systems, the aim of which is to facilitate evaluation of IIR systems in a way
which is as close as possible to realistic IR processes. The experimental
setting consists of three components: (1) the involvement of potential users as
test per...
Interpersonal sources of health and maternity information for Somali women living in the UK
Tập 58 Số 3 - Trang 302-318 - 2002
Although the information needs of women receiving antenatal and postnatal care
are well understood, few studies have examined the use of information by
minority ethnic women. This paper describes a pilot study that aimed to identify
the main maternity information sources used by Somali women living in a northern
city in the UK. The study described here utilised unstructured exploratory focus
group...
THE AMBIGUITY OF BRADFORD'S LAW
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Recent discussion of Bradford's law of scatter has been founded on two
formulations that are not mathematically equivalent. A method of comparing the
two formulations against empirical data is developed, and the results using four
sets of existing data are discussed. The results show that one particular
formulation is more consistent with the practical situation.
Discourse structure differences in lay and professional health communication
Tập 68 Số 6 - Trang 826-851 - 2012
PurposeIn this paper the authors seek to compare lay (consumer) and professional
(physician) discourse structures in answers to diabetes‐related questions in a
public consumer health information website.Design/methodology/approachTen
consumer and ten physician question threads were aligned. They generated 26
consumer and ten physician answers, constituting a total dataset of 717
discourse units (i...
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Tập 50 Số 2 - Trang 134-141 - 1994
Ajiferuke showed that observed author distributions can best be described by a
shifted inverse Gaussian‐Poisson distribution. Yet, in the framework of a model
to explain observed fractional distributions of authors it is important to know
whether a simple one‐parameter distribution such as a geometric or a truncated
Poisson can adequately describe observed author distributions, at least in those
f...
Citing and referencing habits in medicine and social sciences journals in 2019
Tập 77 Số 6 - Trang 1321-1342 - 2021
PurposeThis article explores citing and referencing systems in social sciences
and medicine articles from different theoretical and practical perspectives,
considering bibliographic references as a facet of descriptive
representation.Design/methodology/approachThe analysis of citing and referencing
elements (i.e. bibliographic references, mentions, quotations and respective
in-text reference point...
Mapping knowledge domains on Wikipedia: an author bibliographic coupling analysis of traditional Chinese medicine
Tập 78 Số 2 - Trang 177-189 - 2022
PurposeWikipedia has the lofty goal of compiling all human knowledge. The
purpose of the present study is to map the structure of the Traditional Chinese
Medicine (TCM) knowledge domain on Wikipedia, to identify patterns of knowledge
representation on Wikipedia and to test the applicability of author
bibliographic coupling analysis, an effective method for mapping knowledge
domains represented in ...
A DOMESDAY BOOK OF SCIENTIFIC PERIODICALS
- 1956
The World list of scientific periodicals is almost a Domesday Book of scientific
activity. Its silent pages record both the volume of world literature and the
efforts which are being made to make it available in the United Kingdom. A
comparison of the entries in the second (1934) and third (1952) editions
provides some data as to how and to what extent the picture has changed between
1933 and 1950...
Knowledge of information behaviour and its relevance to the design of people‐centred information products and services
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is first to highlight some of the social
phenomena that are driving the design of people‐centred information solutions;
second, to develop a broad ontology of information behaviour research that
serves to identify factors that should be taken into account when designing such
solutions. Finally, the author illustrates how this knowledge is being applied
in the desig...