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JASIST Volume 76, Issue 12, December 2025

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Valuing curation infrastructures

Morgan F. Wofford, Andrea K. Thomer, Libby Hemphill, Katherine Polasek, Elizabeth Yakel

Classifying ultra-short scientific texts using a hybrid hierarchical multi-label classification framework

Dengsheng Wu, Huidong Wu, Fan Meng, Jianping Li

In search of existential authenticity: Information behaviors during a time of personal transformation

Ian Ruthven

Is OpenAlex suitable for research quality evaluation and which citation indicator is best?

Mike Thelwall, Xiaorui Jiang

Quantifying spatial–temporal citation diffusion of individual papers in knowledge space

Shuang Zhang, Feifan Liu, Haoxiang Xia

Small-scale fishing community's information needs and access in Bangladesh: An information ecosystem perspective

Md Khalid Hossain, Misita Anwar, Gillian Oliver, Viviane Frings-Hessami, Tanjila Kanij, Rafiul Alam, Gourab Saha, Umme Humayra

Quantifying the dynamics of research teams' academic diversity

Alex J. Yang, Star X. Zhao, Sanhong Deng, Meijun Liu, Yi Bu, Ying Ding

JASIST Volume 76, Issue 13, December 15, 2025

RESEARCH ARTICLES

The elusive essence: A philosophical interrogation of phenomenon-based knowledge organization

Martin Thellefsen

Open research data integration in universities: How data stewards adapt global policies to local contexts

Stefan Stepanovic, Auriane Marmier, Tobias Mettler

Towards a conversational information seeking process model: Characterizing mixed-initiative user–agent interaction

Shiting Fu, Tingting Jiang

Using generative AI to co-design data-driven stories

Angelica Lo Duca

Problems with archiving and replaying current web advertisements

Travis Reid, Alex H. Poole, Hyung Wook Choi, Christopher Rauch, Mat Kelly, Michael L. Nelson, Michele C. Weigle

Parents information behavior: Typology of vaccine attitudes in the context of information source use

Anna Mierzecka, Marcin Łączyński

Cultural aspects of research data sharing: A consumer culture theories perspective

Antti M. Rousi, Joonas Rokka

Exploring the dynamics of external and self-citations and their role in shaping scientific impact

Maciej J. Mrowinski, Aleksandra Buczek, Agata Fronczak

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