Scholarly Online Research Articles

Principais correlações do tabagismo com a COVID-19

O tabagismo está associado a desfechos desfavoráveis em COVID-19. Os fumantes são mais vulneráveis a vírus respiratórios que os não fumantes, sendo maior o risco de infecção grave por influenza em fumantes, que também apresentam quadros clínicos mais graves. Com isso, a presente pesquisa tem o objetivo de descrever os principais riscos da relação do tabagismo com a COVID-19. Trata-se de uma revisão integrativa. Para a realização desse estudo, foram consultadas as bases de dados: Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online (MEDLINE), Google Acadêmico e Scientific Eletronic Library Online (SCIELO). Utilizou-se os Descritores em Ciências da Saúde (DeCS) de forma associada: “Fumantes”, “Tabagismo”, “COVID-19” e “Complicações”. Após a aplicação dos critérios de inclusão, restaram 8 estudos. Os estudos incluídos foram tabelados e foram feitas revisões críticas e corroborativas entre cada um deles. O tabagismo aumenta o risco de complicações de inúmeras doenças, em especial as cardiovasculares, doenças respiratórias (bronquite e enfisema) e diversos tipos de câncer, além de causar diferentes tipos de inflamação prejudicando os mecanismos de defesa do organismo, o que certamente enfraquece o sistema imunológico, tornando-o menos capaz de responder efetivamente a infecções.

FEMALE AND MALES’ BRAIN TENDENCIES IN LEARNING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE

This research is about the female and males’ brain tendencies in learning English as a second language, and it was done at Universitas Kristen Indonesia. The purposes of conducting this research is to find out female and males’ brain tendencies in learning English as a second language. This research was a library research, where researchers as "key instruments" of the research that find any information deals with the topic discussed from books, journals and proceedings sourced from “Pubmed, Google Scholar, Research Gate and other online sources” in order to answer the question. The result is that learning English as a second language achievement of students is not influenced by the competence of the right brain or left brain of students, but the left and right brain provides an understanding of the structure and function of the brain. The division of brain function based on the brain hemisphere allows students to gain a deeper understanding of how the brain works to help them improve students' mastery of subjects.

Çalışanın Stres Düzeyi ile İş Performansı Arasında Bir İlişki Var mı? Eczacılık Mesleğine Yönelik Bir Literatür Taraması

Eczacılık mesleğindeki stres kavramının son yıllarda, özellikle iş yükünün artmasıyla birlikte, bilimsel çalışmaların dikkatini çekmeye başladığı söylenebilir. Stresin çalışan ve kuruluş üzerinde birçok olumlu veya olumsuz etkisi olabilir. Olumsuz etkisi olan bir stres, çalışanın enerji kaybetmesine ve hatta tükenmesine neden olabilir. Çalışanın iş performansını olumlu etkileyen stres “pozitif”, iş performansını olumsuz etkileyen stres “negatif” olarak değerlendirilebilir. Bu çalışmada, eczacının ya da eczane çalışanının stres düzeyi ile iş performansı arasındaki ilişkinin belirlenmesi amacıyla, ScienceDirect, Proquest ve Google Scholar online veri tabanları üzerinde bir literatür taraması yapılmıştır. Literatür taraması sonucunda, eczacılık mesleğindeki çalışanların stres düzeyi ile iş performansı arasındaki ilişkiyi doğrudan inceleyen çalışmalara rastlanılmamasına rağmen, yapılan diğer çalışma sonuçlarında eczacı ya da eczane çalışanındaki stresin iş performansını da azalttığına ilişkin ilişkileri ortaya koyan çok sınırlı sayıda çalışmaya rastlanılmıştır. Alan yazın incelendiğinde, eczacılık mesleğindeki çalışanların yoğun işlerinden ve beklenilen performans düzeyinden dolayı strese maruz kaldıkları ve bu durumun iş performans düzeyini de olumsuz yönde etkilediği belirlenmiştir. Bununla birlikte, stresin sadece iş performansı ile sınırlı kalmayıp, aynı zamanda yaptığı işten tatmin olamama, yaptığı işe göre kazancını düşük olarak görme, çalışma saatlerini fazla görüp bunu bir yük olarak değerlendirme gibi olumsuz olarak nitelendirilebilecek algıya da yol açtığı gözlenmiştir

The power of social cues in the battle for attention: Evidence from an online platform for scholarly commentary

• Distribution of attention across communication of economic policy research is unequal. • Author status and institutional prestige foster readership and diffusion. • Visual factors influence searching, reading, and sharing behaviors. Because humans have limited resources and capacities to digest and comprehend the unprecedented amount of information bombarding today’s world, human attention is a scarce resource and the problem of information overload is becoming increasingly serious. In this study we aim to contribute to an understanding of how humans make decisions about the value of complex sources of information, specifically in the context of online scholarly platforms, online news, and social media. We thus use almost 5000 research-based VoxEU texts, together with the corresponding authors’ characteristics, to test whether, as an evolutionary approach would suggest, author success, skills, and prestige serve as strong cues in readers’ attentional decisions, by analyzing reading, sharing, and searching behaviors. In addition to finding strong support for this assumption, we also show that readers respond to such visual cues as article title, number of words in the abstract, and/or text content, with a clear favoring of figures over tables.

Laboratory module design for Biology Students: A Systematic review

Module design for students’ laboratory activities plays an important role in the effective implementation of scientific investigation in the laboratory. The purpose of this review is to examine the types, topics, competencies, and approaches to develop laboratory module for biology students. The review of the literature was conducted systematically. Eighteen research articles were selected from 41 articles published within 2009 and 2019. The systematic review followed 5 steps. The research articles were searched using Google Scholar's online database and then traced back from the relevant international and national journals. The articles collected were selected by two reviewers who rated the quality. The results of the analysis showed that the laboratory modules are designed using the following basis: online, research, quantitative skills, inquiry, and traditional. The biology topics focused are Genetics, Ecology, Phylogenetics, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Evolution, Biotechnology, and Tissue Culture. The methods used for laboratory module development by Indonesian researchers are 4D, ADDIE, R & D, Dick & Carey, and Borg & Gall, while international researchers generally do not specify the name of the method used. Generally, the need analysis which focuses on the novelty of the developed concept is conducted in the beginning. It continues with module designing, validation, implementation, and response survey from the students as the module users.

Challenges in Integrating New Teacher Development Program in Schools: A Systematic Literature Review

Education transformation will be more effective if a particular focus is placed on efforts to improve student achievement and at the same time emphasis is placed on initiatives to continually build teacher capacity throughout their careers. In line with this, the National Key Result Areas (NKRA) Teacher Quality, ruled that the New Teacher Development Program (NTDP) was one of fifteen initiatives to be implemented to ensure excellence in the teaching profession. The New Teacher Development Program (NTDP) is a school based structured learning program to support the development of new teacher professionalism to improve teacher quality in the teaching profession. The NTDP is also a socialization process for the teaching profession that helps new teachers to make adjustment between existing knowledge and skills with procedures, school systems and effective teaching skills and classroom management skills. However, there are many obstacles and challenges in integrating New Teacher Development Program in school. This study provides an overview of the challenges faced by the schools in integrating the program for new teacher's professional development. Selected research papers, published from 2012 to 2019, were downloaded from Springer Link, Science Direct, Google Scholar, Taylor & Francis Online, SAGE, JSTOR, Web of Science and Emerald. Findings from this review showed that the new teacher commitment is the main challenge to initiate, develop and integrate New Teacher Development Program in schools. It is also beneficial to school administrators and educators to cater and understand the teacher attitude and readiness, both before and during the implementation phase of the program.

Program Online Scholarship Competition Sebagai Wujud Partisipasi Penciptaan Generasi Emas Indonesia 2045

This study aims to evaluate the OSC Program in terms of the mechanism of obtaining scholarships through the online scholarship competition program, and the obstacles faced when screening scholarship candidates. Field observations and interviews are used to collect data, and PESTEL and SWOT techniques are collaborated to identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. The results show that this program has legitimacy and is officially supported by the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education. Futhermore, OSC has a very clear, segmented and national target market. For private universities and sponsorships that are incorporated can raise the brand image of PTS and scholarship fund companies.

Medical Faculty’s Perception of the Use of Altmetrics

In recent years, Academia is increasingly engaging with online scholarly tools (e.g., Mendeley) and social media platforms (e.g., Twitter), providing potentially impactful alternative pathways for research dissemination and engagement. These platforms flatten access to knowledge with online platforms fostering easier access by both peers and the broader community alike. Termed altmetrics, or “alternative metrics”, these platforms carry with them novel methods for tracking scholarly impact and reach whose potential is not yet fully understood. These non‐traditional Altmetrics capture quantitative data indicative of social media shares, clicks and plays. The use of altmetrics as indicators of scholarly/societal impact is garnering increased attention over the last decade. However, the degree to which faculty demographics, career stage, professional roles, and areas of research focus influence perceptions and use of altmetrics within academia is yet to be characterized. This study examined the perceptions of medical faculty regarding their use of altmetrics, exploring how factors, such as career focus and social media use, influence these opinions.Medical faculty responded to a Qualtrics survey distributed through social media platforms and organizational listservs. The survey collected demographic information, and data on social media usage, the likelihood of disseminating altmetric outcomes in academic documents (e.g., CV), and perceptions on the value/utility of altmetrics.Of the 48 respondents, 23 were male and most were from North America or Oceania (81%). All age groups and career levels were represented. While only 17% indicated their institution endorses altmetrics, slightly more than half (54%) indicated altmetrics were ‘moderately’ to ‘extremely valuable’. A Pearson’s correlation revealed that frequent social media usage was strongly and positively correlated with favorable perceptions of altmetrics (r=0.512, p<0.001). Neither age range, career level, nor years of experience explained one’s level of social media usage (p>0.402) or one’s favorable perceptions of altmetrics (p>0.200). Irrespective of respondents’ primary professional roles, areas of research focus, or whether their institution endorsed altmetrics, no significant differences (p>0.05) in social media usage or altmetric perceptions scores were detected.This study suggests that more favorable perceptions of altmetrics are associated with higher social media use. Even though institutions may not endorse altmetrics for promotion and tenure purposes, many medical faculty still regard them to be valuable. These results also indicate that favorable perceptions of altmetrics traverse career level, age ranges, and years of experiences, supporting a more universal appreciation for these non‐traditional evaluations of impact. Future work will explore, through qualitative inductive interviews, motivations for those engaging (or not) in social media platforms and altmetrics.

Crowdsourcing: A Critical Reflection on This New Frontier of Participant Recruiting in Nutrition and Dietetics Research

Crowdsourcing: A Critical Reflection on This New Frontier of Participant Recruiting in Nutrition and Dietetics Research

Categorically Provisional

Feminist Literary History Balances Commitment to a Different Future, One Better Than the Present with Respect to Gender, with an orientation toward the past, whose ways of knowing it seeks to supersede even as it engages with them. The revision of our cultural past through the lens of gender has, by drawing on past categorizations of authors as female, necessarily invoked problematic paradigms in the service of critique and epistemological change. The relation of the digital humanities (DH) to category work is similarly fraught. I offer here my take on the power and peril of classification based on category making in the pursuit of digital feminist literary history through the Orlando Project, an ongoing experiment in using semantic markup for online scholarship. Orlando is known for its online textbase, published with Cambridge University Press, but the team has produced a number of exploratory interfaces and translations of the material into other forms. Over the course of a quarter century of grappling with “the digital as difference” (Wernimont and Flanders 430) alongside other feminist projects, I have changed my understanding of classification as my collaborators and I have tried to represent the difference that gender analysis makes when undertaken in a computational environment. I here argue that category work, always vexed, always provisional, is crucial to realizing the potential of DH for representing, analyzing, and fostering difference.

Water insecurity and urban poverty in the Global South: Implications for health and human biology.

Over half of the world's population (4 billion people) experience severe water scarcity at least one month per year, while half a billion people experience severe water scarcity throughout the year. Despite progress from national and global interventions, a staggering proportion of the Global South remains water insecure. Rapid urban growth and associated demographic changes, climate change, and governance failure have also fostered the growth and expansion of urban informal settlements and slums where widespread poverty and environmental hazards exacerbate the impact of water insecurity on health. This article reflects on the interactions between water insecurity and urban poverty in the Global South across four categories of health outcomes: gastrointestinal diseases, mosquito-borne diseases, injuries, and mental illness. These examples highlight the mechanisms through which urban poverty exacerbates the adverse health effects of water insecurity. The four selected health outcomes were chosen a priori to represent two communicable conditions with well-developed literatures, and two noncommunicable conditions with newer literatures that have emerged over the last decade. We conducted a narrative literature review of scholarly and gray literature appearing between January 2000 and April 2019 using several online scholarly databases. Gastrointestinal diseases, mosquito-borne diseases, injuries, and mental illness all exemplified the relationship between water insecurity and urban poverty through human biological pathways. For each of the four health categories, we identified frontiers for human biology research contributions to the water-poverty-health nexus. We discuss our findings in the context of three crosscutting themes that merit innovative research approaches: stressor interactions and trade-offs, exposure thresholds, and intervention efficacy. We reiterate that the global burden of disease associated with water insecurity cannot be addressed in isolation from efforts to alleviate extreme poverty.

Mapping evidence of the concomitant management of schistosomiasis by traditional health practitioners and health care professionals in communities with high prevalent infections: a systematic scoping review protocol

BackgroundSchistosomiasis is one of the most prevalent parasitic diseases in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), being regarded as a neglected tropical disease in sub-Saharan Africa. Praziquantel is the conventional treatment recommended for schistosomiasis in mainstream healthcare systems. In many poor settings, while many people reportedly use both traditional medicine and public sector mainstream healthcare systems, little is known if those infected with schistosomiasis use both African traditional and prescribed antischistosomal medicines. This review aims to map evidence of the concomitant management of schistosomiasis by traditional health practitioners (THPs) and health care professionals (HCPs) in communities with a high prevalence schistosomiasis infection in LMICs.Methods/designGuided by Arksey and O’Malley scoping review framework and Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA), we will map the evidence from relevant studies dating from 2007 to 2019 published in LMICs. An electronic keyword search of the following databases will be conducted: PubMed, Cochrane Library, the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), and MEDLINE via EBSCOhost, Google Scholar, and WILEY online Library. Peer-reviewed articles, gray literature sources, and reference lists will be included to identify eligible studies. Following title screening, two reviewers will independently screen the abstracts and full texts. Any study that focuses on managing schistosomiasis will be included. The data will be analyzed using thematic analysis with the help of NVIVO software version 12, with the Mixed Method Appraisal Tool (MMAT) being used to assess the quality of the included studies.DiscussionThis review will map the evidence in the literature of the concomitant management of schistosomiasis by THPs and HCPs in communities with a high prevalent infection in LMICs. The review findings will be important for policy makers across the healthcare continuum and be used to inform stakeholders’ consensus process to explore the development of a generic set of patient-centered quality indicators that are applicable to multiple care settings. It will also identify research gaps in schistosomiasis management in LMICs and provide direction for future research. The results will be disseminated through a peer-reviewed publication and presented in relevant conferences.Systematic review registrationPROSPERO CRD42017078198

Interventions for the Management of Respiratory Distress in Late Preterm and Term Infants Experiencing Delayed Respiratory Transition: A Systematic Review.

To examine the best available evidence for interventions used to manage mild to moderate respiratory distress in late preterm and term infants experiencing delayed respiratory transition. EMBASE, MEDLINE, Cochrane Review, Joanna Briggs, PubMed, CINAHL, and Google Scholar online databases were searched for articles related to delayed respiratory transition. Reference lists were reviewed to identify additional articles for inclusion. Randomized, blinded, placebo-controlled, randomized prospective, prospective observational, and retrospective cohort studies published in English-language, peer-reviewed journals between 2007 and August 2017 were reviewed for inclusion. Studies were included if they examined respiratory focused interventions that could potentially prevent admission to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of the term or late preterm infant transitioning to extrauterine life. The CASP tools were utilized for appraisal of individual studies. Data were extracted from the 5 studies included in this review. In 4 of the 5 studies, prevention of NICU admission was the primary aim. The observational study observed videos of newborn resuscitations and described the effect of early intervention with continuous positive-airway pressure (CPAP) ventilation on prevention of NICU admission for respiratory distress. One randomized controlled trial used adrenaline injections to prevent development of respiratory distress. The 3 remaining randomized controlled trials used prophylactic CPAP or sustained inflation as a method for preventing development of delayed respiratory transition. Three of the 5 studies focused exclusively on cesarean born infants. Among the interventions studied, early or prophylactic CPAP shows the most promise for prevention of NICU admission in late preterm and term infants with mild to moderate respiratory distress. The lack of safety and efficacy data for either adrenaline injections or prophylactic CPAP precludes either method for current use in the prevention of respiratory distress for the late preterm or term infant transitioning to extrauterine life. Two randomized trials, both using prophylactic CPAP, had a significant decrease in NICU admissions. Both studies were conducted at a single center and exclusive to infants born by cesarean delivery. A single study using sustained lung inflation showed no significant difference in the need for respiratory support or NICU admission. A single study using adrenaline also showed no benefit to the prevention of respiratory distress related to transition. Further multicenter randomized controlled trials are needed before broad adoption of early or prophylactic CPAP can be recommended.

Psychological Intervention in Traumatic Brain Injury Patients.

Objective To provide a brief and comprehensive summary of recent research regarding psychological interventions for patients surviving a traumatic brain injury. Methods A bibliographical search was performed in PubMed, Cochrane Library, PsycNET, Scopus, ResearchGate, and Google Scholar online databases. Analysis included distribution by year of publication, age stage of participants (paediatric, adult), location of the research team, study design, type of intervention, and main outcome variables. Results The initial search eliciting 1541 citations was reduced to 62 relevant papers. Most publications had adult samples (88.7%). The United States outstands as the country with more research (58.1%); Latin America countries provided no results. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) was the most widely used approach for treatment of (sub)clinical mental disturbances (41.9%). Neuropsychological interventions were scarce (4.8%). Outcome measures included psychiatric disorders (e.g., posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and anxiety) (37.1%), postconcussive symptoms (16.1%), cognitive and functional deficits (48.1%), and social and psychological dimensions (62.9%). Conclusions CBT outstands as the preferred therapeutic approach for treating behavioural and emotional disturbances. Also, other related therapies such as dialectical behaviour, mindfulness, and acceptance and commitment therapies have been proposed, and probably in the years to come, more literature regarding their effectiveness will be available. On the other hand, evidence showed that interventions from the field of neuropsychology are minimal if compared with its contribution to assessment. Future research should be aimed at performing studies on more diverse populations (e.g., nonmilitary communities and paediatric and Latin American populations) and at controlling designs to examine the therapeutic efficacy of psychotherapeutic and neurocognitive rehabilitation interventions and compare amelioration by injury severity, age of patients, and clinical profile, in the hopes of creating better guidelines for practitioners.

Endocrine and Therapeutic Basis of Diabetes Mellitus Therapy


 This review article describes the role of hormones, microvascular complications, pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments and precautions of diabetes therapy. Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic, lifelong condition that affects ability to use the energy found in food. According to World Health Organization (WHO), it is estimated 422 million adults are suffered with DM up to latest 2016 data. It occurs throughout the world but is more common in the more developed countries. Increase in prevalence is occurring in low- and middle-income countries including in Asia and Africa, where most patients will probably be found by 2030. The WHO estimates that diabetes resulted in 1.5 million deaths in 2012, making it the 8th leading cause of death. We summarized the published scientific data and new development in the field of diabetes with a search of PubMed, Google scholar, med know and other online resources. Various hormones play an important role in which insulin has a more importance in DM. Pharmacological treatment included various side effects while herbal drugs are found to be safe. Diet and exercise are the excellent key points to cure the disease. Avoid high sugar diet and various foods whose sugar levels are high should be avoided at the age 40. Overall, better knowledge, balanced life style, and daily exercise are the excellent treatment of diabetes and effective glucose control.

Access, preservation and analysis in a consortial journal archive: the evolution of Scholars Portal Journals

This article discusses Scholars Portal Journals (SP Journals), a library consortium-run platform that aggregates and archives licensed scholarly journal content in the province of Ontario, Canada. Born in the early days of e-journals out of a need to provide consistent and long-term access to scholarly materials in the sometimes volatile world of online publishing, SP Journals has evolved into a major digital repository and archive. With over 55 million full-text articles and serving a student population of just under half a million, SP Journals represents a major investment in access to online scholarship. This article explains the lifecycle of content on the platform, from initial publisher negotiations to delivering usage reports, and discusses considerations of running a locally hosted journal platform.

Exploring Strategies to Enhance Scholarly Writing for RN-BSN Students Using an Online Tutorial

Scholarly writing has been documented in the rearch as crucial to nursing education and professional development. However, there remains a lack of clarity on the best standardized guidelines regarding tutorials and resources in nursing education. The purpose of this quantitative, non-experimental study was to further explore the impact of a scholarly writing tutorial on writing assignment rubric scores in an online, RN-BSN completion program. Statistical significance was found between a pre and post-intervention group when comparing the difference in median rubric scores of RN-BSN nursing students which supports the use of an interactive, online scholarly writing tutorial.

Digital Art History and the Museum: The Online Scholarly Collection Catalogues at the Art Institute of Chicago

This article considers the various ways that the Art Institute of Chicago’s digital scholarly collection catalogues engage with art history in the digital realm. Since 2009, when the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) was invited by the Getty Foundation to participate with a group of other museums to create a platform for museum collection catalogues online, the AIC has been a leader in this growing field. The digital platform we designed has proven to be the ideal vehicle to present our research in a dynamic manner. Through several case studies, we will demonstrate how these publications have not only made contributions to the field of digital art history through the presentation of primary archival source material online, but have also facilitated the incorporation of digital art history into our methodological toolbox. This paper also discusses the challenges of digital publishing as compared to more traditional, print-based workflows.

The respiratory microbiota: new insights into pulmonary tuberculosis

BackgroundPrevious studies demonstrated that the diversity and composition of respiratory microbiota in TB patients were different from healthy individuals. Therefore, the aim of the present analysis was to estimate the relative proportion of respiratory microbiota at phylum and genus levels among TB cases and healthy controls.MethodsThe PubMed and Google Scholar online databases were searched to retrieve relevant studies for the analysis. The statistical analysis was done using STATA version 11, pooled estimates are presented using graphs. The summary of findings in included studies is also presented in Table 1.ResultsThe phylum level analysis shows that the pooled proportions of Firmicutes, Proteobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Actinobacteria, and Crenarchaeota were determined among tuberculosis patients and healthy controls. In brief, Firmicutes, and Proteobacteria were the most abundant bacterial phyla in both TB cases and healthy controls, composing 39.9 and 22.7% in TB cases and 39.4 and 19.5% in healthy controls, respectively. The genus level analysis noted that Streptococcus (35.01%), Neisseria (27.1%), Prevotella (9.02%) and Veillonella (7.8%) were abundant in TB patients. The Prevotella (36.9%), Gammaproteobacteria (22%), Streptococcus (19.2%) and Haemophilus (15.4%) were largely seen in healthy controls. Interestingly, Veillonella, Rothia, Leuconostoc were unique to TB cases, whereas Lactobacillus, and Gammaproteobacteria, Haemophilus, and Actinobacillus were identified only in healthy controls.ConclusionThe composition of the respiratory microbiota in TB patients and healthy controls were quite different. More deep sequencing studies are needed to explore the microbial variation in the respiratory system in connection with TB.

“When You Use Social Media You Are Not Working”: Barriers for the Use of Metrics in Social Sciences

The Social Sciences have long been struggling with quantitative forms of research assessment – insufficient coverage in prominent citation indices and overall lower citation counts than in STM subject areas have led to a widespread weariness regarding bibliometric evaluations among social scientists. Fueled by the rise of the social web, new hope is often placed on alternative metrics that measure the attention scholarly publications receive online, in particular on social media. But almost a decade after the coining of the term altmetrics for this new group of indicators, the uptake of the concept in the Social Sciences still seems to be low. Just like with traditional bibliometric indicators, one central problem hindering the applicability of altmetrics for the Social Sciences is the low coverage of social science publications on the respective data sources – which in the case of altmetrics are the various social media platforms on which interactions with scientific outputs can be measured. Another reason is that social scientists have strong opinions about the usefulness of metrics for research evaluation which may hinder broad acceptance of altmetrics too. We conducted qualitative interviews and online surveys with researchers to identify the concerns which inhibit the use of social media and the utilization of metrics for research evaluation in the Social Sciences. By analyzing the response data from the interviews in conjunction with the response data from the surveys, we identify the key concerns that inhibit social scientists from (1) applying social media for professional purposes and (2) making use of the wide array of metrics available. Our findings show that aspects of time consumption, privacy, dealing with information overload, and prevalent styles of communication are predominant concerns inhibiting Social Science researchers from using social media platforms for their work. Regarding indicators for research impact we identify a widespread lack of knowledge about existing metrics, their methodologies and meanings as a major hindrance for their uptake through social scientists. The results have implications for future developments of scholarly online tools and show that researchers could benefit considerably from additional formal training regarding the correct application and interpretation of metrics.