Selected Publications
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Information disruptions and disruptive information sources in the practice of law: Obstacles in gathering information, through an Israeli lens
SummaryLawyers must provide their clients with competent legal services and professional representation. However, in many cases, lawyers find it difficult to attain the necessary information to resolve legal concerns under their inquiry. Disruptive sources of information and faulty information are understudied features of professional information behavior, especially in the information-rich legal profession. The current research aims to explore these complexities and promote a fuller and more realistic understanding of the information-gathering practices of legal practitioners. Israel was chosen as a case since it upholds a thriving and active legal sector. Data was collected through in-depth, semi-structured interviews with a purposive nationwide sampling of 25 practising lawyers in Israel, covering together over thirty different fields of legal practice with a fair diversity of other personal and professional attributes. The findings portray accessibility, content, and usability disruptions in lawyers’ information practices, as well as accentuate seven troublesome information sources in their use during legal work and their distinctive aspects of disruption. This study provides important insights regarding legal professionals’ erroneous information engagement and experience and reveals some of its inherent drawbacks; hence, supporting a more rounded understanding of the role of information in professional work behavior. Hopefully, the presented concepts and insights could also benefit other service-oriented information workers.
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Do blog citations correlate with a higher number of future citations? Research blogs as a potential for alternative metrics
SummaryThelwall, M Shema H Bar-Ilan J
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 65(5), 1018-1027.
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Bibliographical research in the study of Hebrew printing: a bibliometric analysis
SummaryScientometrics, 88
with E. Lapon-Kandelshein
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"Wisdom of the crowds" and online information reliability: A case study of Israeli real estate websites
SummaryOnline Information Review, 2014
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Folder vs. tag preference in personal information management
SummaryJournal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 64(10)
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New technologies for the collation of Hebrew texts
SummaryZutot : Perspectives on Jewish Culture
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Professional information disclosure on social networks: the case of Facebook and LinkedIn in Israel
SummaryJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2015
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The Manuscript Collection of the Séminaire Israélite de France
SummaryLa Bibliofilia, CXVII
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The effects of background information and social interaction on image tagging
SummaryJournal of the American Association for Information Science and Techology
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Spotting the latest version of a file with Old’nGray
SummaryBergman, O., Elyada, O., Dvir, N., Vaitzman, Y., Ben Ami, A. (in press). Spotting the latest version of a file with Old’nGray. Interacting with Computers.
