...Efren Torres Jr; Christine Abrigo; Zipporah Dery Purpose This study aims to map information literacy ( IL ) research conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020–2023), focusing on productivity patterns, trends, collaborative structures and dominant themes across the IL-COVID literature. Design...

... A total of 3,000 highly cited articles on COVID-19 were obtained from the WoS at two-day intervals, with four samples collected each month, resulting in a total of 72,000 records across 24 samples. This study excluded one sample due to incomplete information, leaving a total of 69,000 articles. The final...

...Anup Anurag Soren Purpose As situational changes result in changing consumption patterns, this study aims to understand the entertainment consumption shifts during and after the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. Particularly, how users ’ habits and use behavior have changed and how these constructs...

...Robin Roy; Ateeque Shaikh Purpose This paper aims to explore consumers’ post-pandemic (COVID-19) motivations for an e-retailer preference in an emerging market like India. Design/methodology/approach This study applied qualitative methodology to explore the research question, and 44 in-depth...

...Sima Magatef; Tala Abuhussein; Laila Ashour; Shafique Ur Rehman; Manaf Al-Okaily Purpose This study aims to focus on exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the students’ academic performance in Jordanian higher education during the outbreak of the pandemic, evaluating the e-learning...

...Bohee So; Ki Han Kwon Purpose This study, a narrative literature review, aims to examine the combined benefits of the active and passive use of social media (SM) for well-being (WB), physical and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach A search strategy has been...

...Marzieh Ghasemi; Akram Karimi-Shahanjarini; Maryam Afshari; Leili Tapak Purpose Understanding the factors that influence individuals’ adherence to social distancing is critical to effective policymaking in respiratory pandemics such as COVID-19. This study aims to explore the role of social...

...Haitham Nobanee; Ahmad Yuosef Alodat; Dipanwita Chakraborty Purpose The purpose of this study is to evaluate the progress and scholarly contributions concerning the effects of COVID-19 on transportation. Design/methodology/approach Using the SCOPUS database, an analysis was conducted...

...Jayesh Pandey; Shubh Majumdarr; Rayees Farooq; Santushti Gupta; Pallav Bose Purpose This study aims to conduct a bibliometric analysis of knowledge sharing during COVID-19 and highlight prominent contributors, diverse trends and themes followed with provisions of future research avenues. Design...

...Bharti Pandya; BooYun Cho; Louise Patterson Purpose During the COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of digital infrastructure in higher education surged. This study aims to analyze how a country’s digital capabilities influence pedagogical transitions in business schools and compare the impacts...

...Sivankutty V.S.; Jinu Sudhakaran Purpose Covid-19 pandemic created a series of challenges for all professions, and libraries and library professionals were not spared. This study aims to attempt to analyze how qualified library professionals in India responded to the pandemic period and seeks...

...M.M. Mohamed Mufassirin; M.I. Rifkhan Ahamed; M.S. Mohamed Hisam; Mansoor Mohamed Fazil Purpose Restrictions imposed on freedom of movement and interaction with others due to the COVID-19 pandemic have had the effect of causing many people, especially students, to become addicted to social media...

... to the technology acceptance model through some contextual variable such as “various food choices (VFC),” “trust (TRR),” “perception of COVID-19-related risks (PCR)” and “convenience (CONV)” during the pandemic. Design/methodology/approach A cross-sectional data of 407 was collected in the Indian context...

... and identifies the social media message as pre, during, post-disaster or irrelevant. To demonstrate the effectiveness of iStage, it is applied on cyclonic and COVID-19 disasters. The considered disaster data sets are cyclone Fani, cyclone Titli, cyclone Amphan, cyclone Nisarga and COVID-19. Findings...

... Nisarga are presented. In addition, the framework is implemented on catastrophic events of different natures, i.e. COVID-19. The research study can assist disaster managers in effectively maneuvering disasters during distress. RQ1. How can DL be used to determine the relevance of an SM...

... analysis of survey data using actual fact-checked COVID-19 vaccine and political misinformation: people who believe that some misinformation is true are more likely to spread it than those who do not believe in its truthfulness; people with lower media and information literacy are more likely to spread...

...-based interface to visualize the structured information. Originality/value The architecture of DisDSS is analyzed based on the practical case study, i.e. COVID-19. The proposed DL-based model is embedded into a Web-based interface for decision support. To the best of the authors’ knowledge...

...Maali Alghnimi; Humoud Alqashan Purpose Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a new disease that has led to rapid and dramatic global changes. This study aims to investigate how Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) citizens and noncitizens search for necessary information and assess available...

...Hossein Motahari-Nezhad; Aslan Sadeghdaghighi Purpose No comprehensive statistical assessment of publication bias has been conducted in remdesivir-based intervention research for COVID-19 patients. This study aims to examine all meta-analyses of the efficacy of remdesivir interventions in COVID-19...

...Tsukasa Tanihara; Shinichi Yamaguchi Purpose This study aims to reveal how the COVID-19 vaccine was accepted in the Japanese Twitter-sphere. This study explores how the topics related to the vaccine promotion project changed on Twitter and how the topics that were likely to spread changed during...