Academic Web Research Articles

Evaluating Usability of Academic Web Portals for Clearance Services

Evaluating Usability of Academic Web Portals for Clearance Services

Conceptualization and Research Progress on Web-Based Product Co-Design

Web-based stakeholders’ participation in product co-design is an emerging business model for companies. However, research on user’s online involvement in product co-design is limited. In this paper, we investigated the three major interdisciplinary academic databases Web of Science, Scopus, and ScienceDirect (data collected in May 2020), with the aim of explaining the meaning, core concepts, historical roots, and research trends of co-design. A total of 39 of the deemed relevant studies were emphatically analyzed, systematically discusses the concept implication and development status of co-design, and the key points of web-based product co-design research, as well as the future research direction.

Googling Allergy in Ireland: Content Analysis.

BackgroundInternet search engines are increasingly being utilized as the first port of call for medical information by the public. The prevalence of allergies in developed countries has risen steadily over time. There exists significant variability in the quality of health-related information available on the web. Inaccurately diagnosed and mismanaged allergic disease has major downstream effects on patients, general practitioners, and regional allergy services.ObjectiveThis study aimed to verify whether Ireland has a relatively high rate of web-based allergy-related searches, to establish the proportion of medically accurate web pages encountered by the public, and to compare current search results localized to Dublin, Ireland with urban centers elsewhere.MethodsGoogle Trends was used to evaluate regional interest of allergy-related search terms over a 10-year period using terms “allergy,” “allergy test,” “food allergy,” and “food intolerance.” These terms were then inputted into Google search, localizing them to cities in Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Output for each search was reviewed by two independent clinicians and deemed rational or nonevidence based, as per current best practice guidelines. Searches localized to Dublin were initially completed in 2015 and repeated in 2019 to assess for changes in the quality of search results over time.ResultsIreland has a persistently high demand for web-based information relating to allergy and ranks first worldwide for “allergy test,” second for “food allergy” and “food intolerance,” and seventh for “allergy” over the specified 10-year timeframe. Results for each of the four subsearches in Dublin (2015) showed that over 60% of websites promoted nonevidence-based diagnostics. A marginal improvement in scientifically robust information was seen in 2019, but results for “allergy test” and “food intolerance” continued to promote alternative testing 57% (8/14) of the time. This strongly contrasted with results localized to Southampton and Rochester, where academic and hospital-affiliated web pages predominantly featured. Government-funded Department of Health websites did not feature in the top five results for Dublin searches “allergy testing,” “food allergy,” or “food intolerance” in either 2015 or 2019.ConclusionsThe Irish public demonstrates a keen interest in seeking allergy-related information on the web. The proportion of evidence-based websites encountered by the Irish public is considerably lower than that encountered by patients in other urban centers. Factors contributing to this are the lack of a specialist register for allergy in Ireland, inadequate funding for allergy centers currently in operation, and insufficient promotion by the health service of their web-based health database, which contains useful patient-oriented information on allergy. Increased funding of clinical allergology services will more meaningfully impact the health of patients if there is a parallel investment by the health service in information and communication technology consultancy to amplify their presence on the web.

Strong and Weak Relations in the Academic Web

The web graph is the most popular model of real Web fragments used in Web science. The study of communities in the web graph contributes to a better understanding of the organization of the fragment of the Web and the processes occurring in it. It is proposed to allocate a communication graph in a web graph containing only those vertices (and arcs between them) that have counter arcs, and in it to investigate the problem of splitting into communities. By analogy with social studies, connections realized through edges in a communication graph are proposed to be called "strong" and all others "weak". Thematic communities with meaningful interpretations are built on strong connections. At the same time, weak links facilitate communication between sites that do not have common features in the field of activity, geography, subordination, etc., and basically preserve the coherence of the fragments of the Web even in the absence of strong links. Experiments conducted for a fragment of the scientific and educational Web of Russia show the possibility of meaningful interpretation of the results and the prospects of such an approach.

Frequency of personality types based on enneagram in a Turkish sample: A web-based cross-sectional study

Objectives: Although the Enneagram is known for hundreds of years, research in this area is scarce. The purpose of this study was to analyze the frequency of personality types of a Turkish-‎speaking sample and compare the rates of different personalities with demographic ‎data.‎ Methods: The Tastan Personality Types Inventory, an instrument based on Enneagram, was hosted at Google Forms and made available via the university’s academic web page. Online responses were collected between ‎08.04.2015 ‎and ‎‎22.8.2019. Participants of the study were Turkish speaking people aged adolescents and adults. Results: Results for 1646 participants were analyzed. The mean (±SD) age was 29.48±11.03 years. The most commonly encountered main personality type was number 2, “the helper,” (n=‎335, 20.4‎%), while ‎number 8, “the challenger” was the most frequently encountered personality wing (‎284, 17.3%). The frequency of type 8 ‎personality was decreasing with increasing age, while the reverse was true for type 3 ‎personality (‎χ2=130.623‎, p‎<0.001). While the type 1 personality was more common among males (‎‎n=51‎ (9.5%) vs. n=63‎ (5.7%‎)), the type 4 was almost ‎twice common among females (‎n=‎48 (‎8.9% vs. ‎n=183‎ (16.5‎%)) (‎χ2=28.835, p<0.001). Also, the probability of type 1 personality was increasing as ‎the level of education increased (‎χ2=67.316, p‎<0.001). Conclusion: There are differences in the personality types of the studied population concerning demographic variables. These findings imply that personality is not a lifelong constant entity, but it can change with age and education. Further studies should investigate the relationship of the Enneagram personality types with certain disease entities in defined populations.

INFRASTRUCTURE FOR LARGE SCALE HARVESTING OF WEBOMETRIC INDICATORS

The main purpose of scientific rankings is not only comparison, but also stimulating the development of universities and research institutes, improving the effectiveness of their educational and research processes. However, existing webometric ratings are not suitable for this task because of the lack of the possibility of their analysis and verification. The solution is to change the approach to webometric measurements, to perform them based on the principles of regular collection and openness of source data. The article discusses the indicators used in the tasks of academic webometrics, their reliability and stability, substantiates the need for regular collection of the values of these indicators to improve the quality of data and analyze their dynamics. Based on the experience of implementing a project to research the Russian academic web space (http://www. webometrix.ru), problems are analyzed that arise when collecting the values of webometric indicators of sites of research organizations and institutions of higher education on a global scale with a frequency of at least 1 time per month.The author describes a distributed system for collecting values of webometric indicators and evaluates the necessary degree of parallelization of the process. The developed approach is universal for the tasks of collecting large amounts of information by the method of extracting data from website pages, and the collection of webometric data is also relevant for the tasks of analyzing other thematic segments of web space, such as library websites.

AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP: SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION ANALYSIS AND MEASUREMENT SCALES

ABSTRACT Purpose: This paper analyzes the publications on the “authentic leadership” construct, based on systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis techniques, and aims to identify and analyze data regarding the chronology of publications, the identification of the most prolific journals and authors, research approaches, and the existence of authentic leadership measurement/assessment tools and its applications, besides analyzing the construction of these tools. Originality/value: Of the 431 articles analyzed, those dealing with reviews of literature do not present bibliometric data associated with the analysis of the construct measurement instruments. Design/methodology/approach: A literature review was performed systematically, using the query “authentic leadership” on the Academic Search Premier (Ebsco), Scopus, and Web of Science databases, with no starting date delimitation, with the deadline of December 2018, which resulted in the identification of 1390 articles. After eliminating duplicates and three filters, 431 documents remained for analysis. Findings: Three specific construct measurement/assessment tools were identified: the Authentic Leadership Questionnaire (ALQ), the Authentic Leadership Inventory (ALI), and the Authentic Leadership Integrated Questionnaire (AL-IQ). There is a predominance of quantitative studies from 2008, with a wide application of ALQ. Instruments of quantitative measurement of authentic leadership did not emerge, only tools that evidence the presence of authenticity of leaders.

Electronic civil surveillance: review oriented to communications for monitoring and a case

This article, in the context of documentary research carried out and interpreted for that was taken as baseline in investigations on electronic security and their themes for the ORCA group, it´s describe the state of the art of electronic surveillance focused in communications for monitoring stations. It’s set up chronologically in the last decade, in Latin America, and Colombia particularly. The subject has been categorized and subcategorized in such a way that keys are established sources extraction: university digital repositories, online academic magazines and corporate web page. As a product produced by the review, a particular communication model is presented for a case of a monitoring center and a equipment for tracking people.

Computerized Quality of Life Assessment: A Randomized Experiment to Determine the Impact of Individualized Feedback on Assessment Experience.

BackgroundQuality of life (QoL) assessments, or patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), are becoming increasingly important in health care and have been associated with improved decision making, higher satisfaction, and better outcomes of care. Some physicians and patients may find questionnaires too burdensome; however, this issue could be addressed by making use of computerized adaptive testing (CAT). In addition, making the questionnaire more interesting, for example by providing graphical and contextualized feedback, may further improve the experience of the users. However, little is known about how shorter assessments and feedback impact user experience.ObjectiveWe conducted a controlled experiment to assess the impact of tailored multimodal feedback and CAT on user experience in QoL assessment using validated PROMs.MethodsWe recruited a representative sample from the general population in the United Kingdom using the Oxford Prolific academic Web panel. Participants completed either a CAT version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life assessment (WHOQOL-CAT) or the fixed-length WHOQOL-BREF, an abbreviated version of the WHOQOL-100. We randomly assigned participants to conditions in which they would receive no feedback, graphical feedback only, or graphical and adaptive text-based feedback. Participants rated the assessment in terms of perceived acceptability, engagement, clarity, and accuracy.ResultsWe included 1386 participants in our analysis. Assessment experience was improved when graphical and tailored text-based feedback was provided along with PROMs (Δ=0.22, P<.001). Providing graphical feedback alone was weakly associated with improvement in overall experience (Δ=0.10, P=.006). Graphical and text-based feedback made the questionnaire more interesting, and users were more likely to report they would share the results with a physician or family member (Δ=0.17, P<.001, and Δ=0.17, P<.001, respectively). No difference was found in perceived accuracy of the graphical feedback scores of the WHOQOL-CAT and WHOQOL-BREF (Δ=0.06, P=.05). CAT (stopping rule [SE<0.45]) resulted in the administration of 25% fewer items than the fixed-length assessment, but it did not result in an improved user experience (P=.21).ConclusionsUsing tailored text-based feedback to contextualize numeric scores maximized the acceptability of electronic QoL assessment. Improving user experience may increase response rates and reduce attrition in research and clinical use of PROMs. In this study, CAT administration was associated with a modest decrease in assessment length but did not improve user experience. Patient-perceived accuracy of feedback was equivalent when comparing CAT with fixed-length assessment. Fixed-length forms are already generally acceptable to respondents; however, CAT might have an advantage over longer questionnaires that would be considered burdensome. Further research is warranted to explore the relationship between assessment length, feedback, and response burden in diverse populations.

Evaluation of Websites for the Universities in Tamil Nadu: An Analytical Study

India is a computer-literate and Internet-savvy country. In general, the academic community in the country has pioneered the establishment and use of the Internet. Additionally, Tamil Nadu universities have been the leading institutions in the country in creating Web sites. As a result of these developments, academic institutions have been in a more privileged position to set up Web sites than other types of institutions. Their presence on the Web implies the desire of academic institutions in Tamil Nadu to provide better and more services to their students, faculty and Public. Although much of the resources have been committed to create and maintain academic institutions Web sites, there has been so little effort in evaluating the sites. The present evaluation paradigm is developed and designed against the background of general evaluation criteria of Web sites. These criteria are accuracy, authority, currency, relevancy, and stability of information. Since there is a lack of effort to examine the quality of information, a number of general criteria such as author’s qualifications, objectivity, and coverage should be further used in evaluating information content provided by academic institution Web sites.

Evidencing the Applicability of Physiological Monitoring For Health Management within Occupational Settings: Protocol for a Systematic Review

Background: The resulting interaction between occupational stress and individual susceptibility to illness demands careful management. This represents a dual challenge to organizations responsible for the well-being of personnel who engage in strenuous physical exertion, imposing requirements to be vigilant for, or even curtail, situations that may result in high physiological strain in healthy personnel and also to identify and protect vulnerable individuals. The emergence of wearable physiological and medical monitoring technologies could prove advantageous in this regard.&#x0D; Objectives: A systematic review is proposed to summarize current progress in the development of physiological monitoring systems for occupational applications. Thus, adhering with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Protocols (PRISMA-P) Statement, this systematic review protocol aims to present adequate guidelines to develop research that can provide appropriate results to the sought objective.&#x0D; Data sources: Five databases will be accessed (SCOPUS, PubMed, Science Direct, Academic Search Complete and Web of Science) and a total of 12 keywords will be combined.&#x0D; Study eligibility and criteria: Working-age study participants will be included. Assessment procedures will be considered when they do not interfere with normal tasks development and involve harmless procedures for participants.&#x0D; Study appraisal and synthesis methods: Two authors will independently screen titles and abstracts against the eligibility criteria at first, and full-texts of potentially eligible records at a second phase, followed by extraction of data from qualifying studies. Two review authors will also assess the risk of bias and the quality of evidence, taking as a reference the Cochrane Collaboration’s Tool.

The academic web profile as a genre of “self-making”

PurposeThe activities of academic researchers are increasingly regulated by neo-liberal ideals, including expectations that researchers are visible online and actively promote their output. The purpose of this paper is to explore how researchers take on this responsibility. It uses the concepts of genre, authorship and self-writing in order to understand how the story of an academic life is constructed on academic web profiles.Design/methodology/approachA qualitative content analysis was conducted of material on 64 profiles belonging to 20 researchers on institutional and personal websites, as well as on ResearchGate, Academica.edu and Google Scholar.FindingsThe study shows that while institutional websites primarily contain researcher-produced material, content on commercial platforms is often co-constructed through distributed authorship by the researcher, the platform and other platform users. Nine different ways in which the profile of an “academic self” may be said to highlight the particular strengths of a researcher are identified. These include both metrics-based strengths and qualitative forms of information about the academic life, such as experience, the importance of their research and good teaching.Social implicationsThis study of academic web profiles contributes to a better understanding of how researchers self-govern the story of their academic self, or resist such governance, in online environments.Originality/valueThe study furthers the knowledge of how researchers make use of and respond to digital tools for online visibility opportunities and how the story of the “academic self” is “made” for such public presentation.

Cloud-Based Access Control to Preserve Privacy in Academic Web Application

Emerging cloud computing has introduced new platforms for developing enterprise academic web applications, where software, platforms and infrastructures are published to the globe as services. Software developers can build their systems by multiple invocations of these services. This research is devoted to investigating the management and data flow control over enterprise academic web applications where web services and developed academic web application are constructing infrastructure-networking scheme at the application level. Academic web services are invoked over http port and using REST based protocol; thus traditional access control method is not enough to control the follow of data using host and port information. The new cloud based access control rules proposed here are to be designed and implemented to work at this level. The new proposed access control architecture will be a web service gateway, and it published itself as a service (SaaS). We used three case studies to test our moodle and then we apply JSON parsers to perceive web service description file (WSDL file) and supply policies according to data are to be allowed or denied based on user roll through our parsing.

Identifying named entities in academic biographies with supervised learning

Personal webpages of researchers or faculty members make up a percentage of the academic web. These webpages contain semi-structured or plain text information, and research has shown the importance of combining information extracted from multiple academic websites to create a unified database that can help in expert finding, and thus improve information retrieval for end users. This research identifies the kind of named entities that could be present in academic biographies by manually examining the biographies extracted from ORCID public profiles, and describes a method that uses natural language processing techniques and supervised machine learning to automatically extract these named entities from the plain text biographies. Up to 86% accuracy was achieved with support vector machines, demonstrating that the method used in this research can be suitable for creating a reusable trained model that extracts useful academic information from researchers' personal profiles in webpages or other data sources.

SEO for an open access scholarly information system to improve user experience

PurposeThis paper aims to introduce a case of search engine optimization (SEO), especially designed for a national scholarly open access information website in the field of STEM.Design/methodology/approachKorea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) collaborated with the Google Scholar team to open and share the research outcomes of STEM in Korea worldwide. KoreaScience is a reference-linking platform for open access scientific and technical journals in Korea, operated by KISTI. KISTI worked with the Google Scholar team to embed machine-readable bibliographic metadata into its journal pages and to create an XML Sitemap to help Google find pages on KoreaScience.FindingsAs a result of implementation of metadata and creation of an XML Sitemap, the KoreaScience Web pages have noticeably increased the relevance of a search results’ list on Google and Google Scholar. In addition to this, the KoreaScience platform has received an increasing amount of its traffic from around the world.Originality/valueNot much research has sought to understand SEO in the aspect of users and how it may be facilitated in “visible” academic Web environments such as search systems and open access information systems. For this project, the motivation for investigating SEO comes from its association with positive outcomes that range from personal benefits to global rewards, e.g. increased satisfaction in search user experience and, further, academic progress and scientific development by sharing and accessing scientific knowledge in the fast-growing field of STEM.

Analisis Evaluasi Usability Web Akademik Fakultas Teknik Unsika dengan Model UWIS

Abstract— Utilization of information and communication technology (ICT) in education becomes an absolute thing to do, in order to improve the quality of education, service effectiveness and become a strength for higher education institutions. One application of aspects of ICT in college is academic web. In the Faculty of Engineering University Singaperbangsa Karawang, academic information system is known by the web SIAKAD (Academic Information System) Faculty of Engineering Unsika. Web SIAKAD FT Unsika aims to manage data and facilitate the integration associated with academic information, but on its application may occur mismatch between procedures established in the web with its implementation. Therefore, please note the behavior of SIAKAD web users, also conducted testing of the academic web interface. This is considering that the web SIAKAD FT Unsika is still in development stage. Stages in this study started from a preliminary study of the use of the web SIAKAD and continued with research on the usability of the web SIAKAD. From the results of the study note that there are five dimensions that affect web usability SIAKAD FT Unsika that must be repaired by the web developers, namely Responsiveness (RS), Web design (WD), Assurance (A), Readability (RD), and Navigation (N).Keywords— academic web; usability; university

Evaluation of Web content accessibility in an Israeli institution of higher education

Nowadays, the Web constitutes an integral part of higher education and offers an unprecedented level of access to information and services. The increasing number of students with disabilities in higher education emphasizes the need of universities and colleges to make the necessary adjustments to ensure their Web content accessibility. Despite the development of technical standards and accessibility legislation, studies around the world have consistently shown that Web content accessibility remains a concern in higher education. Mandatory Web accessibility in Israel is at an early stage. The scope of the legal requirements applicable to higher education is not entirely resolved. The aim of this research is to explore the current implementation of Web accessibility in the Israeli higher education context, during a period of evolving legal changes in this regard. An automated evaluation tool was used to measure the adherence of the sample Web pages to the technical standards. Results show that all examined Web pages presented accessibility barriers and were non-compliant with the most basic conformance level. “Contrast” and “missing alternative text” errors were the most frequent problems identified in the evaluation. The library’s Web pages exhibit relatively better level of accessibility compared to the other examined Web pages of the university. The research highlights the need for clear and enforceable legislation to encourage academic Web accessibility. Additionally, technical training and awareness raising could be key elements in improving accessibility.

Visibility of disciplines in academic web space

ABSTRACTIn academic web space, only a small portion of hyperlinks point to topic‐related contents, while most of them are designed for general use. In this study, a hierarchy affiliation model (department‐school‐university) is proposed to extract discipline structure from linkage network and then to evaluate the discipline visibility on academic web. The case study of the Chinese academic web shows that this hierarchy model performs better in detecting disciplines on academic web over that was applied previously to a similar sample set.

Game-Theoretic Methods for Finding Communities in Academic Web

We consider the problem of community detection for the graph which is a fragment of the academic Web. The nodes of the graph are the sites of the scientific organizations, and its arcs are hyperlinks. We propose a new approach based on the methods of coalition game theory to derive the Nash-stable coalition partition. This is determined by a function of preferences for any pair of vertices in the graph. The problem of finding a stable partition is connected with finding a maximum of potential function. The algorithm for searching stable partitioning and evaluating its complexity is presented. The proposed method was compared with two well-known methods of finding communities. The efficiency of the new method is demonstrated on the fragment of the Web which consists of the official sites of the Siberian and Far East branches of RAS.

Accessibility Analysis of Some Indian Educational Web Portals

Web portals are being considered as excellent means for conducting teaching and learning activities electronically. The number of online services such as course enrollment, tutoring through online course materials, evaluation and even certification through web portals is increasing day by day. However, the effectiveness of an educational web portal depends on its accessibility to a wide range of students irrespective of their age, and physical abilities. Accessibility of web portals largely depends on their userfriendliness in terms of design, contents, assistive features, and online support. In this paper, we have critically analyzed the web portals of thirty Indian Universities of different categories based on the WCAG 2.0 guidelines. The purpose of this study is to point out the deficiencies that are commonly observed in web portals and help web designers to remove such deficiencies from the academic web portals with a view to enhance their accessibility.