Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Recipients
The following is the complete list of the Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Award winners.
Listings include the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database number and/or URLs for full text in institutional repositories, as available.
Listings include the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database number and/or URLs for full text in institutional repositories, as available.
- 2021
- Stephen Abrams
Queensland University of Technology/San José State University
Dissertation Title: "A Communicological Critique of Evaluative Norms for Digital Preservation Success"
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Elizabeth Campbell
Drexel University
Dissertation Title: "A Framework for Measuring and Mitigating Bias in Electronic Health Record Data; A Case Study in Childhood Obesity Incident”
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Yi-Yun Cheng
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation Title: "Agreeing to Disagree: Applying a Logic Based Approach to Reconciling and Merging Multiple Taxonomies"
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Julaine Clunis
Kent State University
Dissertation Title: "Semantic Analysis Mapping Framework for Clinical Coding Schemes"
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Lo Lee
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation Title: "Exploring Information Behavior of Hobbyists and the Making Process of Arts and Crafts"
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Rongquian Ma
University of Pittsburgh
Dissertation Title: "Bridging Sight and Insight: Visualization in Action among Digital Humanists"
- 2020
- Houda El mimouni
Drexel University
Dissertation Title: Robotic Telepresence in the Classroom and Values
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Jiangen He
Drexel University
Dissertation Title: Predictive and Visual Analytics of Scientific Development”
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Wenqing Lu, Simmons University
Dissertation Title: Using Social Media Tools for Collaborative Learning: An Mixed-Method Study on Academic Group Work by Worldwide iSchool Students
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Lassana Magassa
University of Washington
Dissertation Title: "I am Not Computer Savy": A Look into the Everyday Digital Literacy Level of Formerly Incarcerated People Using a Novel Holistic Digital Literacy Framework”
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Martin Nord
University of Western Ontario
Dissertation Title: Documents and the Positioning of the Moral Self: The United Church of Canada's Reconciliation Documents
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Bonnie Tulloch
University of British Columbia
Dissertation Title: Do the Ends Justify the Memes? Exploring the Relationship between Youth, Internet Memes, and Digital Citizenship - 2019
- Jessica Lapp
University of Toronto
Dissertation Title: The Provenance of Protest: Conceptualizing Records Creation in Archives of Feminist Materials
ProQuest Number: 2466327785
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Emily Maemura
University of Toronto
Dissertation Title: Logics of Order and Aggregation in Web Archiving Systems
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J Elizabeth Mills
University of Washington
Dissertation Title: Never the Same Storytime Twice: An Exploration of the Nature and Role of Reflection in Public Library Storytime Assessment
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Adèle Paul-Hus
Université de Montréal
Dissertation Title: Acknowledgements and Their Functions within the Reward System of Science
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Laura Ridenour
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Dissertation Title: Examining the Notion of the Boundary Object in Information Systems: The Transdisciplinary Oeuvre of Cognitive Science
ProQuest Number: 28093899
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Megan Threats
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: Information Behaviors and Engagement Along the HIV Prevention and Care Continua
ProQuest Number: 27835055 - 2018
- Brian Dobreski
Syracuse University
Dissertation Title: Values in Knowledge Organization Standards: A Value Analysis of Resource Description and Access (RDA)
ProQuest Number: 2243194568
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Jamila Ghaddar
University of Toronto
Dissertation Title: Archives, third world futurities and the making of a global order: UNESCO in the Middle East
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Philipp Jordan
University of Hawaii
Dissertation Title: A Meta-Study and Content Analysis of Science Fiction in Computer Science Research
ProQuest Number: 2316005382
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Hyoungjoo Park
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
Dissertation Title: The Impact of Research Data Sharing and Reuse on Data Citation in STEM Fields
ProQuest Number: 2170632801
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Jennifer Pierre
University of California, Los Angeles
Dissertation Title: Building a Digital Family: Examining Social Media and Social Support in the Development of Youth 'At-Risk'
ProQuest Number: 2246399012
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Mei Zhang
University of Wisconsin- Madison
Dissertation Title: What Counts as a Good Selection? eBook Product Selection in U.S. Academic Libraries
ProQuest Number: 2228839257
- 2017
- Kathy Brennan
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: Loan Me the Money: How Cognitive Abilities and Financial Knowledge Influence Consumers' Information Behaviors
ProQuest Number: 2108976565
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Karen Kaufmann
Queensland University of Technology (QUT)/San Jose State University (SJSU)
Dissertation Title: “Socio-Cognitive Relevance of Information Literacy: The Impact on Student Academic Work”
Available through QUT ePrints at: https://eprints.qut.edu.au/123999/
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Emily Lawrence
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation Title: Reading for Democratic Citizenship: A New Model for Readers' Advisory
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Andrea Thomer
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation Title: Site-Based Data Curation: Bridging Data Collection Protocols and Curatorial Processes at Scientifically Significant Sites
ProQuest Number: 2165572262
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Emily Vardell
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: Health Insurance Literacy: How People Understand and Make Health Insurance Purchase Decisions
ProQuest Number: 1952045721
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Yongjun Zhu
Drexel University
Dissertation Title: Graph-Based Interactive Bibliographic Information Retrieval Systems
ProQuest Number: 1884623840 - 2016
Sarah Buchanan
University of Texas
Dissertation Title: A Provenance Research Study of Archaeological Curation
ProQuest Number: 10390410
Rachel Clarke
University of Washington
Dissertation Title: It’s Not Rocket Library Science: Design Epistemology and American Librarianship
ProQuest Number: 10162188
Wei Jeng
University of Pittsburgh
Dissertation Title: Qualitative Data-Sharing Practices in Social Sciences
ProQuest Number: 1944514828
Jinseok Kim
University of Illinois
Dissertation Title: The Impact of Author Name Disambiguation on Knowledge Discovery from Large-Scale Scholarly Data
ProQuest Number: 2059835548
Robert Montoya
University of California, Los Angeles
Dissertation Title: Contingent Consensus: Documentary Control in Biodiversity Classifications
ProQuest Number: 10286986 - Min Sook Park
Florida State University
Dissertation Title: Exploring Social Semantic Relationships for Knowledge Representation in Health through Mining Social Data
ProQuest Number: 10161134
- 2015
Tiffany Chao
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation Title: Methods Metadata: Curating Scientific Research Data for Reuse
ProQuest Number: 3740417
Morgan Currie
University of California, Los Angeles
Dissertation Title: The Data-fication of Openness: The Practices and Policies of Open Government Data in Los Angeles
ProQuest Number: 10248323
Noah Lenstra
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation Title: The Community Informatics of an Aging Society: A Comparative Case Study of Senior Centers and Public Libraries
ProQuest Number: 10609911
Teresa Prendergast
University of British Columbia
Dissertation Title: Early Literacy in the Lives of Children with Disabilities: Exploring the Experiences and Perspectives of Parents and Public Library Children’s Librarians
Nicholas Weber
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation Title: A Framework for Analyzing the Sustainability of Science Commons
ProQuest Number: 3740582
Ayoung Yoon
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: Data Reuse and Users’ Trust Judgement: Toward Trusted Data Curation
ProQuest Number: 3719920
- 2014
Rhiannon Gainor
McGill University, Canada
Dissertation Title: Measuring Competitive Intelligence Outcomes
Available through McGill University Libraries at http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=127133
Katherine Howard
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Dissertation Title: The GLAM* Convergence: Implications for the Education of Cultural Heritage Information Professionals in Australia (*Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums)
Aisha Johnson
Florida State University
Dissertation Title: Developing Southern Libraries to Influence the Life of the African-American User: An Exploratory, Archival Analysis
ProQuest Number: 3705842
Lorraine Dong
The University of Texas at Austin
Dissertation Title: The Social Ecologies of Mental Institution Records
Amelia Acker
University of California, Los Angeles
Dissertation Title: Born-Networked Records: A History of the Short Message Service
ProQuest Number: 3623371
Kyle Jones
University of Wisconsin
Dissertation Title: All the Data We Can Get: A Contextual Study of Learning Analytics and Student Privacy
ProQuest Number: 3740991
Kaitlin Costello
University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: Social Information Behaviors in the Context of Chronic Kidney Disease: Information Seeking and Disclosure in Online Support Groups
ProQuest Number: 3719734
- 2014
- 2013
Elisabeth Jones
University of Washington
Dissertation Title: Constructing the Universal Library
ProQuest Number: 3631849
Jinxuan Ma
Florida State University
Dissertation Title: Interacting with Health Information for Self-Care: An Exploratory Study of Undergraduates’ Health Information Literacy
ProQuest Number: 3625898
Claudia Serbanuta
University of Illinois
Dissertation Title: Voices from the Other Side of the Wall: The Case of Romanian Public Libraries of the 1970s and the 1980s
Miriam Sweeney
University of Illinois
Dissertation Title: Servants of Cyberspace: A Critical Analysis of Microsoft’s Ms. Dewey
ProQuest Number: 3632336
Adam Worrall
Florida State University
Dissertation Title: The Roles of Digital Libraries as Boundary Objects Within and Across Social and Information Worlds
ProQuest Number: 3638098
Erjia Yan
Indiana University
Dissertation Title: Towards a Systematic Approach for Studying Scholarly Communication through Scholarly Networks
ProQuest Number: 3587518
- 2013
- 2012
C. Sean Burns
University of Missouri
Dissertation Title: Free or Open Access to Scholarly Documentation: Google Scholar or Academic Libraries
ProQuest Number: 3576007
Laura Christopherson
University of North Carolina
Dissertation Title: Understanding Online Communication: Developing a Lexicon to Support Search, Capture, and Use
ProQuest Number: 3593227
Marianne Martens
Rutgers University The State University of New Jersey, School of Communication and Information
Dissertation Title: A Historical and Comparative Analysis of Multiplatform Books: Technologies of Production, User-Generated Content, and Economics of Immaterial and Affective Labor
ProQuest Number: 3550710
Xi Niu
University of North Carolina
Dissertation Title: Beyond Text Queries and Ranked Lists: Faceted Search in Library Catalogs
ProQuest Number: 3512668
Sarah Roberts
University of Illinois
Dissertation Title: Behind the Screen: The Hidden Digital Labor of Video Content Moderators
ProQuest Number: 3673833
Ji Yeon Yang
University of Michigan
Dissertation Title: A Dyadic Approach to Understanding Information Mediation in the Workplace
Available through the University of Michigan Libraries and online at http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/102380
- 2012
- 2011
Sofia Athenikos
Drexel University
Dissertation Title: Enabling Entity Retrieval by Exploiting Wikipedia as a Semantic Knowledge Source
ProQuest Number: 3484756
Amber Cushing
University of North Carolina
Dissertation Title: Possession and Self Extension in Digital Environments: Implications for Maintaining Personal Information
ProQuest Number: 3512616
Keisuke Inoue
Syracuse University
Dissertation Title: Investigation of the Linguistic Properties of Information-Seeking Computer-Mediated Communication, through Discourse Analysis of Digital Reference Interview Logs and Machine Learning Experiments.
ProQuest Number: 3561456
Amy VanScoy
University of North Carolina
Dissertation Title: Exploring the Meaning of Reference Work for Librarians in Academic Research Libraries
ProQuest Number: 3512790
Hollie White
University of North Carolina
Dissertation Title: Experimentally Influenced Study of the Organizing Issues Associated with Scientific Data Sets
ProQuest Number: 3512772
Yong Yi
Florida State University
Dissertation Title: Consumer Health Information Behavior in Public Libraries: A Mixed Methods Study
ProQuest Number: 3519396
- 2011
- 2010
Kim Anderson
UCLA Department of Information Studies
Dissertation title: Appraisal Learning Networks: How University Archivists Learn to Appraise Through Social Interaction
ProQuest Number: 3486608
Jeanette de Richemond
Rutgers University The State University of New Jersey, School of Communication and Information
Dissertation Title: What is “Enough Information?”
Carolyn Hank
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: Scholars and their Blogs: Characteristics, Preferences and Perceptions Impacting Digital Preservation
ProQuest Number: 3456270
Kyungwon Koh
Florida State University
Dissertation Title: Proposing a Theoretical Framework for Digital Age Youth Information Behavior Building upon Radical Change Theory
ProQuest Number: 3483577
Ellen Pozzi
Rutgers University The State University of New Jersey, School of Communication and Information
Dissertation Title: The Public Library in an Immigrant Neighborhood: A Case Study of Italian Immigrants’ Literacies in Newark (NJ), 1889-1919
ProQuest Number: 3606593
Ellen Rubenstein
University of Illinois
Dissertation Title: Ethnography of an Online Breast Cancer Support Group
ProQuest Number: 3496660
- 2010
- 2009
Bradley Wade Bishop
Florida State University
Dissertation Title: Chat Reference and Location-Based Questions: A Multi-Method Evaluation of a Statewide Chat Reference Consortium
ProQuest Number: 3442102
Jennifer Crispin
University of Missouri
Dissertation Title: Discovering the Social Organization of School Library Work
ProQuest Number: 3458968
Linda R. Most
Florida State University
Dissertation Title: The Rural Public Library as Place in North Florida: A Case Study
ProQuest Number: 3400213
Zhixian (George) Yi
Texas Woman’s University
Dissertation Title: The Management of Change in the Information Age: Approaches of Academic Library Directors in the United States
ProQuest Number: 3414408
- 2009
- 2008
Serhiy Polyakov
University of North Texas
Dissertation Title: Enhancing User Search Experience in Digital Libraries with Rotated Latent Semantic Indexing
ProQuest Number: 10034369
Xiaoli Huang
University of Maryland – College Park
Dissertation Title: Topicality Reconsidered: A Conceptual Analysis of Topical Relevance Relationships
ProQuest Number: 3372863
Yong-Mi Kim
University of Michigan
Dissertation Title: Topicality Reconsidered: The Role of Tags in Information Retrieval Interaction
ProQuest Number: 3492916
Maria Souden
University of Michigan
Dissertation Title: Information Work in the Context of the Experience of Chronic Illness
ProQuest Number: 3458827
Mary Jo Venetis
University of North Texas
Dissertation Title: Identification of Remote Leadership Patterns in the LIS Field
ProQuest Number: 3352149
Pengyi Zhang
University of Maryland – College Park
Dissertation Title: Supporting Sense-Making with Tools for Structuring a Conceptual Space
ProQuest Number: 3409887
- 2008
- 2007
Donghua Tao
University of Missouri – Columbia
Dissertation Title: Using Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) in Understanding Selection and Use of Information
Available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10355/6736
- 2007
- 2006
Bethany Letalien
University of Texas at Austin
Dissertation Title: Vexations, Volumes, and Volunteers: Institutionalization and the Veneration of Information at a Small International NGO
ProQuest Number: 3372626
- 2006
- 2005
Brian Arbogast de Hubert Miller
Florida State University
Unfortunately, Brian Miller succumbed to cancer in April, 2006 before completing his dissertation. He was a respected member of the information architecture community and participated in the first seven IA Summits sponsored by ASIS&T. He, along with his potential further contributions to the field, are missed.
- 2005
- 2004
Arif Dagli
Florida State University
Dissertation Title: Culture and Information Needs in Web-Based Learning
ProQuest Number: 3183054
Bin Li
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: The Social Construction of Web Appropriation and Use in American Libraries: An Interpretive and Longitudinal Approach
ProQuest Number: 3190280
Jianqiang Wang
University of Maryland – College Park
Dissertation Title: Matching Meaning for Cross-Language Information Retrieval
ProQuest Number: 3202413
Mia Liza A. Lustria
University of Kentucky
Dissertation Title: Can Interactivity Make a Difference? Effects of Interactivity on Young Adults’ Comprehension of Online Health Content
ProQuest Number: 3227398
Xiaojun Yuan
Rutgers University The State University of New Jersey, School of Communication and Information
Dissertation Title: Supporting Multiple Information-Seeking Strategies in a Single System Framework
ProQuest Number: 3349604
Jinwon Ho
University at Albany/SUNY
Dissertation Title: A Comprehensive Model for Assessing Information Values: Toward a Theory for Valuing Information Technology Investment
ProQuest Number: 3196112
- 2004
- 2003
Darius Mahdjoubi
University of Texas at Austin
Dissertation Title: Knowledge, Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Business Plans, Capital, Technology and Growth of New Ventures in Austin, Texas
ProQuest Number: 3143305
Yungrang Cheng
Indiana University
Dissertation Title: Thoughts, Feelings, and Actions: Quantitative Comparisons of Interactions and Relationships Among Three Factors in College Students’ Information Seeking
ProQuest Number: 3156319
Amgad Elgohary
Florida State University
Dissertation Title: Educational Preparation of Entry-Level Professional Librarians Employed by Florida Research Libraries
ProQuest Number: 3109500
- 2003
- 2002
Kelly L. Maglaughlin
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: An Exploration of Interdisciplinary Academic Scientific Collaboration Factors
ProQuest Number: 3112048
Jeffrey Pomerantz
Syracuse University
Dissertation Title: Question Taxonomies for Digital Reference
ProQuest Number: 3251480
Heiko Haubitz
University of Texas at Austin
Dissertation Title: The Use of Public Web Portals by Undergraduate Students
ProQuest Number: 3215469
Jinmook Kim
University of Maryland at College Park
Dissertation Title: Relevance Judgments and Query Reformulation by Users Interacting with a Speech Retrieval System
ProQuest Number: 3212625
Diane Kelly
Rutgers University The State University of New Jersey, School of Communication and Information
Dissertation Title: Understanding Implicit Feedback and Document Preference: A Naturalistic User Study
ProQuest Number: 3117613
Ciaran B. Trace
UCLA Department of Information Studies
Dissertation Title: Documenting School Life: Formal and Informal Imprints of a Fifth Grade Classroom
ProQuest Number: 3142537
- 2002
- 2001
Laura Slaughter
University of Maryland – College Park
Dissertation Title: Semantic Relationships in Health Consumer Questions and Physicians’ Answers: A Basis for Representing Medical Knowledge and for Concept Exploration Interfaces.
ProQuest Number: 3080292
Eun Park
UCLA Department of Information Studies
Dissertation Title: Developing a Framework for Authenticity Requirements in University Student Records Systems: An Exploratory Study
ProQuest Number: 3089005
Anthony Tse
University of Maryland – College Park
Dissertation Title: Identifying and Characterizing a “Consumer Medical Vocabulary”
ProQuest Number: 3094547
Kiduk Yang
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: Combining Text-, Link-, and Classification-Based Retrieval Methods to Enhance Information Discovery on the Web
ProQuest Number: 3061740
Shawne D. Miksa
Florida State University
Dissertation Title: Pigeonholes and Punchcards: Identifying the Division between Library Classification Research and Onformation Retrieval Research, 1952—1970
ProQuest Number: 3057561
Seung-Lye Kim
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Workshop on Collaboration and Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
ProQuest Number: 3129745
Julie Griffith
University of Alabama
Dissertation Title: A Rhizomatic Inquiry into Legal Classification: “Taking Differences”, Discourse, and Domestic Violence
ProQuest Number: 3115053
- 2001
- 2000
Denise E. Agosto
Rutgers University The State University of New Jersey, School of Communication and Information
Dissertation Title: Sound, Color, and Action: Bounded Rationality and Satisficing in Young People’s Examination of World Wide Web Resources
ProQuest Number: 3027977
Boryung Ju
Florida State University
Dissertation Title: Assessing Usability of Menu-Driven Interfaces: The User-Process Model Approach
ProQuest Number: 3042023
Wen-chin Lan
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: From Document Clues to Descriptive Metadata: Document Characteristics Used by Graduate Students in Judging the Usefulness of Web Documents
ProQuest Number: 3061699
Emily Marsh
University of Maryland at College Park
Dissertation Title: Rhetorical Relationships between Images and Text in Web Pages
ProQuest Number: 3078324
Kyunghye Yoon
Syracuse University
Dissertation Title: Certainty, Uncertainty and the Role of Topic and Comment in Interpersonal Information Seeking Interactions
ProQuest Number: 3107863
- 2000
- 1999
Anne Diekema
Syracuse University
Dissertation Title: Translation Events in Cross-Language Information Retrieval: Lexical Ambiguity, Lexical Holes, Vocabulary Mismatch, and Correct Translations
ProQuest Number: 3099726
William B. Edgar
University of Alabama
Dissertation Title: Corporate Library Resource Selection and Corporate Core Competencies: Exploring the Connections
ProQuest Number: 9996470
Anita Komlodi
University of Maryland – College Park
Dissertation Title: Search History for User Support in Information-Seeking Interfaces
ProQuest Number: 3055587
Shin-jeng Lin
Rutgers University The State University of New Jersey, School of Communication and Information
Dissertation Title: Modeling and Supporting Multiple Information Seeking Episodes over the Web
ProQuest Number: 3062480
Rong Tang
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: Use of Relevance Criteria across Stages of Document Evaluation: A Micro Level and Macro Level Analysis
ProQuest Number: 9954723
Youngok Choi
University of Pittsburgh
Dissertation Title: The Characteristics of Users’ Queries and Users’ Relevance Criteria in Image Retrieval in American History
ProQuest Number: 9974413
- 1999