...Poonam Veer Ramjeawon; Jennifer Rowley Purpose Universities need to manage their knowledge assets, and, to work creatively to maximize the enablers and minimize the barriers associated with knowledge management processes. This research offers a comparative perspective on knowledge management...

...Andrew Martin Cox; Winnie Wan Ting Tam Purpose Visualisations of research and research-related activities including research data management (RDM) as a lifecycle have proliferated in the last decade. The purpose of this paper is to offer a systematic analysis and critique of such models. Design...

.... an economic and institutional regime that provides incentives for the efficient use of existing and new knowledge and the flourishing of entrepreneurship; 2. an educated and skilled population that can create, share, and use knowledge well; 3. an efficient innovation system of firms, research...

...Peter Willett; Inaam Idrees; Ana Cristina Vasconcelos; Andrew M. Cox Purpose New PhD researchers sometimes face challenges when attempting to follow Grounded Theory principles to conduct their studies. These challenges may lead them to change its features or even prevent them from using...

... research performance. Design/methodology/approach This paper searches citation of the Scopus and Web of Science databases. Findings Both publication and citation rates are low, although this is at least in part due to some Malaysian universities having only a teaching function. More...

.../methodology/approach The study was based on data collected from scholars belonging to the Science and Social Science faculties at the University of Kashmir. A pre‐defined, closed‐ended, 14‐item questionnaire was distributed among 84 research scholars. The selection of scholars was based on stratified...

...Frances Johnson; Jennifer Rowley; Frances Johnson; Jennifer Rowley Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce the special issue on research carried out at the Department of Information and Communications at Manchester Metropolitan University. Design/methodology/approach The paper...

... whose spatial scope conforms rather closely with Spanish geopolitical divisions. Papers involving international collaboration are written primarily with European Union and North and Latin American researchers. Greater visibility is attained with international co‐authorship than with any other type...

...Panayiota Polydoratou Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report research findings from interviews with chemistry researchers about the use and linkage of source and output repositories and the expectations of the chemistry research community about their use. Design/methodology/approach...

... papers describe software packages that play a key role in modern chemoinformatics research. Originality/value This is the first bibliometric study of chemoinformatics, and one of only a very few that consider the bibliometrics of computational chemistry more generally. Peter Willett can be contacted...

...Mike Thelwall; Xuemei Li; Franz Barjak; Simon Robinson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to claim that it is useful to assess the web connectivity of research groups, describe hyperlink‐based techniques to achieve this and present brief details of European life sciences research groups...

...Zhang Jie; Su Xinning; Deng Sanhong Purpose This paper is written as an attempt to employ the Chinese Social Science Citation Index (CSSCI) in the evaluation of Chinese humanities and social science research. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses statistics in the CSSCI (2000‐2004...

...David Bawden; Toni Weller; Jutta Haider Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the current situation of academic LIS research, specifically in the UK and to provide some thoughts considering the future of the discipline. According to the opinion of the authors, this situation...

...David Bawden; David Bawden Purpose The paper seeks to introduce a special issue of Aslib Proceedings, which contains a series of papers written by staff and research students at the Department of Information Science, City University London. Design/methodology/approach...

... volumes of information accessible over the internet. Design/methodology/approach A combination of primary and secondary data have been used. The primary data consists of a survey of UK SMEs, which explored how these companies use the internet as a research tool. The results of the survey are compared...

...Lucy A. Tedd; David Ellis; David Ellis; Christine Urquhart Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of research in the Department of Information Studies at the University of Wales Aberystwyth and an introduction to the papers in the special issue. Design/methodology/approach...

... by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) and led by Norwich City Council, which has developed a methodology to enable local authorities to encourage their citizens to use e‐channels. Design/methodology/approach The paper undertakes a comprehensive research programme to inform the national...

...Jonathan M. Levitt This article demonstrates a lateral approach to conducting research on searchable text presented in digital format and describes the potential for a multi‐faceted magpie approach to aid in the discovery and development of knowledge. It considers the potential impact...

...Grant Lewison Examines a set of over 27,000 UK papers in cancer research in order to identify the individual factors that influence the impact category of the journals in which they are published, using multiple regression analysis. The most important independent variables that have a positive...

...Grant Lewison Biomedical research evaluation has traditionally been based on analysis of outputs and their citations by other papers. However we should try to map the routes by which research actually improves patient care and reduces illness, and develop indicators for them. We must allow...