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Copyright of Journal of Library & Information Studies is the property of Department of Library & Information Science, National Taiwan University and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Copyright of Journal of Library & Information Studies is the property of Department of Library & Information Science, National Taiwan University and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

A series of debates about health, ecology, and livestock production have been erupted in Taiwanese society since August 2020, following a decision by Taiwan's government to allow the importation of pork containing ractopamine from the United States. It becomes necessary to understand how the academic research results on ractopamine have been quoted and interpreted as the basis for discussing the debates. In this systematic review of literature along with bibliometrics, we designed a coding scheme for judging the positive and negative effects of ractopamine on health and ecology reported in the academic papers. A total of 511 articles were found in the Scopus between 2000 and 2020. According to the literature review, human health and ecological concerns are not the focus of mainstream academia. The analyses reveal that the positions of academic communities are obviously divided and lack consensus on the health and ecological stance of ractopamine. The mutual use of systematic literature review and bibliometrics can effectively explore the research characteristics of a huge amount of academic literature with limited time and research manpower, create a common knowledge base for stakeholders, and practice low-cost democratic participation in science and technology issues. This research suggests that for any controversial and risk-related technology policies, or in the early stages of policy discussion, a large-scale academic literature review should be conducted by a third-party organization in order to achieve transparent governance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As the core of the national administration, the resolutions of the Executive Yuan Session are the basis for the subsequent actions of other executive authorities at all levels, and the relevant written records not only serve as the basis for the overall administration of the country, but are also important for the continuous development of the records of the past sessions, which are a reflection of the trajectory of the national development. In view of this, this study focuses on the Executive Yuan Session's Minutes of the National Government (...), and explores the functions, rules, and roles of Executive Yuan Session and the contents, structure, and characteristics of Executive Yuan Session's Minutes through documentary crawling and collation. This paper also discusses the editions, current conditions, and value of the Executive Yuan Session's Minutes held by National Archives Administration, National Development Council (NAA), and serves as a reference for the relevant institutions and subsequent research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses drawbacks of the percentile rank method for citation impact normalization which have hitherto been neglected in the bibliometrics literature. The transformation of citation counts to percentile ranks changes ratio scale data into ordinal scale data, for which the notions of the ratio between two values and of the magnitude of a difference between two values are not defined - a substantial loss of information. This distorts citation data particularly severely because the differences between citation counts adjacent in order in publication sets are greater for more highly cited publications and because highly cited publications are more scarce than non-highly cited ones. Moreover, arithmetic operations on ordinal scale data are not meaningful, which rules out arithmetic aggregations such as sums or averages for percentile rank data which are sometimes recommended in the literature. Distortion of citation data by aggregating percentile ranks for average impact indicators is demonstrated with several examples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Copyright of Journal of Library & Information Studies is the property of Department of Library & Information Science, National Taiwan University and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Copyright of Journal of Library & Information Studies is the property of Department of Library & Information Science, National Taiwan University and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Copyright of Journal of Library & Information Studies is the property of Department of Library & Information Science, National Taiwan University and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Copyright of Journal of Library & Information Studies is the property of Department of Library & Information Science, National Taiwan University and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

This study investigated researchers in criminology dealt with their research data and explored the potential factors that would influence their willingness to share and reuse others' research data through a qualitative approach. With a total 13 participants with two small focus group sessions as well as in-depth interviews, our findings unveiled three factors, trust, contract, and value, deeply rooted in researchers' attitudes and their data sharing and reuse patterns and behaviors. Through comprehending their concern behind sharing and reusing research data, we seek crucial insights that could be beneficial in developing a criminological research data repository, further consolidating the research data infrastructure in social science. Sharing and reusing data can advance scientific research and provide innovative possibilities for practice in criminology (e.g., new correctional methods, new crime prevention policies), providing sustained and thriving energy for the field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the Philippines, the need for librarians to conduct research is both statutory and personal. Despite the impetus, few Filipino librarians embark on research. This study attempts to describe the lived experiences of librarians focusing on the angle that limits them to conduct research. Interviews were conducted online with 7 academic librarians from 3 private universities in Iloilo City. Facts about the reality formed from the respondents' experiences answered the essential question why librarians are reluctant to conduct research. Five major themes emerged: (1) research competency; (2) inadequate formalized support from the administration for librarians; (3) research mentorship; (4) library routine work/multitasking functions; and (5) coping with self-pity and disappointment. The findings from this study, which is anchored on interpretivism, provide insights to a different perspective of investigating the realities in a developing country delving into a deeper discussion on the reasons behind their reluctance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research trend analysis gives the research community an essential chance to learn the past to support sustainable development. The topic of evolution analysis presents a chance to position the current research, linkages among research topics, and identify the research gap. In this study, the authors revisit a known mechanism, namely Girvan-Newman (GN) algorithm, and propose a new approach for research topic analysis. Based on the GN algorithm, author-keywords analysis approach, one-mode cluster, and duo GN algorithm analysis were suggested and applied to research topic analysis of Library and Information Science studies. The results show that the suggested approach could process major quantity materials and be able to avoid the possible distorted results gained by taking the small size of samples, or two-mode cluster, to ensure the validity of the results. The topics' hierarchy structure also suggests a different approach that could be used to deconstruct the linkages among research topics for future study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Copyright of Journal of Library & Information Studies is the property of Department of Library & Information Science, National Taiwan University and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Copyright of Journal of Library & Information Studies is the property of Department of Library & Information Science, National Taiwan University and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)