Purpose: Peer reviewer evaluations of academic papers are known to be variable in content and overall judgements but are important academic publishing safeguards. This article introduces a sentiment analysis program, PeerJudge, to detect praise and criticism in peer evaluations. It is designed...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to test if there are biases in lexical sentiment analysis accuracy between reviews authored by males and females. Design/methodology/approach: This paper uses data sets of TripAdvisor reviews of hotels and restaurants in the UK written by UK residents to...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether machine learning induces gender biases in the sense of results that are more accurate for male authors or for female authors. It also investigates whether training separate male and female variants could improve the accuracy of...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore current practices, challenges and technological needs of different data repositories. Design/methodology/approach: An online survey was designed for data repository managers, and contact information from the re3data, a data repository registry,...

The spread of subject gateway sites can have an impact on the other major Web information retrieval tool: the commercial search engine. This is because gateway sites perturb the link structure of the Web, something used to rank matches in search engine results pages. The success of Google means...

Google is a highly regarded and widely used search engine, particularly in academia. In this short note we comment on its remarkable ability to find journal Web sites, using a case study of law.

The importance of the Web as a new medium for disseminating and promoting scholarly research is discussed. Particular attention is paid to its potential to provide evidence of wider impact for research than that which can be shown by citation analysis. Recommendations are made for basic...

The use of the Web by academic researchers is discipline‐dependent and highly variable. It is increasingly central for sharing information, disseminating results and publicising research projects. This pilot study seeks to identify the subjects that have the most impact on the Web, and look...

Invocations of pure and applied science journals in the Web were analysed, focussing on commercial sites, in order to assess whether the Web can yield useful information about university‐industry knowledge transfer. On a macro level, evidence was found that applied research was more highly...

Purpose – This paper aims to demonstrate how blog searching can be used as a retrospective source of public opinion. Design/methodology/approach – In this paper a variety of blog searching techniques are described and illustrated with a case study of the Danish cartoons affair. Findings –...