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JASIST Volume 77, Issue 9, September 2026
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Beyond a number game: Flat team structures improve inclusion and performance in diverse scientific teams
Huimin Xu, Shujing Sun, Meijun Liu, Chenwei Zhang, Yi Bu, Yi Zhang, Daniel E. Acuna, Eric Meyer, Ying Ding
Data management plans as anticipatory discursive infrastructure
Megan Finn, Thomas Struett, Yubing Tian, Amelia Acker
Scientific collaboration in data-intensive research networks: PhD fellows' expectations and early experiences
Grischa Fraumann, Haakon Lund, Frans van der Sluis, Morten Hertzum
The hare and the tortoise: Open access publications' immediate impact and lasting advantage
Michael Taylor
How to make data valuable in digital humanities projects? Stages, archetypes, and guidelines for data practice
Hua Jian, Xilong Hou, Xiaoguang Wang, Wenshan Lv, Qingyu Duan
Beyond counting tweets: An exploration of scholarly conversations on Twitter
Yan Shen, Jonathan Dudek, Rodrigo Costas

JASIST Volume 77, Issue 10, October 2026
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Incremental refinement of relevance rankings: Balancing relevance depth and scope
Müge Akbulut, Yaşar Tonta
Phantom citations: An empirical study of non-existent and unverifiable references in scholarly literature
Chengcheng Han, Sathiamoorthy Manoharan, Xinfeng Ye, Ulrich Speidel
Mapping the lifecycle of scientific contributions: From generation and evaluation to impact diffusion
Liyue Chen, Donghuan Song, Jielan Ding, Huanan Wei, Zihao Qu
The role of editorial boards in shaping scholarly communication: A large-scale mapping of their composition and structure
Evangelina Becerra-Rodero, José Luis Ortega
A semantic geometry for uncovering paradigm dynamics via scientific publications
Jinchang Liu, Qingshan Zhou, Hongkan Chen, Yi Bu