...Shiwei Jia; Jia Tina Du; Hui Yan Purpose Measuring the extent of digital inclusion is a complex task. This study aims to monitor existing digital inclusion indices at the national level, compare their consistencies and differences and based on this, develop a more comprehensive measurement...

...Roozbeh Hesamamiri; Mohammad Mahdavi Mazdeh; Mostafa Jafari Purpose – As a way of assessing the ability of organizations to discover and manage unexpected failures in organizational capabilities of knowledge management (KM), this study aims to develop a measurement instrument that involves...

..., and Exalead). Users described the desired pages, and the results position of these was recorded. Measured success and mean reciprocal rank are calculated. Findings The performance of the major search engines Google, Yahoo!, and MSN was found to be the best, with around 90 per cent of queries answered...

.... Design/methodology/approach The paper puts forward an approach which utilizes traditional laboratory‐based evaluation measures such as average precision/precision at N documents, augmented with diagnostic measures such as link broken, etc., which are used to show why precision measures...

...Ian Rowlands; David Nicholas Purpose The aim of this short communication is to contribute to a growing debate about how we can measure the “quality” of journals. More specifically, the paper argues the need for a new range of standardized indicators based on reader (rather than author‐facing...

...Tove Faber Frandsen This paper shows that the measure of diffusion introduced by Ian Rowlands called the journal diffusion factor (JDF) is highly negatively correlated with the number of citations, leading highly cited journals to get a low JDF, whereas less cited journals get a high JDF...

...Ian Rowlands This paper introduces a new bibliometric tool, the journal diffusion factor. An argument is presented that the bibliometric indicators commonly used to measure the quality of research (journal impact factor, immediacy index and cited half‐life) offer little insight...