Browsing Brage INN by Author "Khosrowjerdi, Mahmood"

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    • Cultural Patterns of Information Source Use: A Global Study of 47 Countries 

      Khosrowjerdi, Mahmood; Sundqvist, Anneli; Byström, Katriina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between national culture and information source use (ISU) on a global level. A secondary analysis was carried out on three different data sets. They were (a) ...

    • Good Governance and National Information Transparency: A Comparative Study of 117 Countries 

      Khosrowjerdi, Mahmood (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Information transparency is a major building block of responsible governments. We explored factors influencing the information transparency of 117 world nations. After controlling for the effects of confounding variables ...

    • Good Governance and National Information Transparency: A Comparative Study of 117 Countries 

      Khosrowjerdi, Mahmood (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Information transparency is a major building block of responsible governments. We explored factors influencing the information transparency of 117 world nations. After controlling for the effects of confounding variables ...

    • Is culture related to strong science? An empirical investigation 

      Khosrowjerdi, Mahmood; Bornmann, Lutz (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      National culture is among those societal factors which could influence research and innovation activities. In this study, we investigated the associations of two national culture models with citation impact of nations ...

    • LAM professionals' roles and attitudes to user participation in Norway and Sweden 

      Johnston, Jamie; Huvila, Isto; Jochumsen, Henrik; Khosrowjerdi, Mahmood; Mierzecka, Anna; Pálsdóttir, Ágústa (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Recent studies provide insights into library, archive and museum (LAM) professionals' attitudes toward user participation, yet they do not address how the diversity of roles LAM professionals assume may influence their ...

    • Online information seeking during COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-country analysis 

      Khosrowjerdi, Mahmood; Black Fylking, Cecilia; Zeraatkar, Neda (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-01-04)
      The aim of this study was to investigate the coronavirus-related web-searching patterns of people from the 10 most affected nations in September 2020. The authors extracted all searches for the sample nations, consisting ...

    • Public libraries as public sphere institutions A comparative study of perceptions of the public library’s role in six European countries 

      Audunson, Ragnar Andreas; Aabø, Svanhild; Blomgren, Roger; Hobohm, Hans Christoph; Jochumsen, Henrik; Khosrowjerdi, Mahmood; Mumenthaler, Rudolf; Schuldt, Karsten; Rasmussen, Casper Hvenegaard; Rydbeck, Kerstin; Toth, Mate; Vårheim, Andreas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Abstract Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to analyze the role of public libraries as institutions underpinning ademocratic public sphere as reasons legitimizing libraries compared to reasons that are more traditional ...

    • Social Reading and the Public Sphere in Nordic Public Libraries: A Comparative Study 

      Rydbeck, Kerstin; Johnston, Jamie; Pálsdóttir, Ágústa; Khosrowjerdi, Mahmood; Vårheim, Andreas; Audunson, Ragnar Andreas; Hvenegaard Rasmussen, Casper; Jochumsen, Henrik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      ntroduction. This paper presents research on how public librarians in Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden view the importance of social reading and related professional roles. Method. Previous research findings from a ...