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Stern, Richard E. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1990
Describes a study that examined the characteristics of uncited papers in the biomedical literature. The variables examined included number of authors; number of words in title; number of references; journal age, price, and circulation; research support from the National Institute of Health; and biomedical research level. (18 references) (CLB)
Descriptors: Biomedicine, Citations (References), Predictor Variables, Scholarly Journals

McGrath, William E. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1979
Two methods are presented by which the librarian can forecast book circulation by subject. The shelflist model treats the number of library books as a control variable, while the other defines the dependent variable as the proportion of the shelflist circulated. (FM)
Descriptors: Libraries, Library Circulation, Library Research, Methods

Fidel, Raya; Soergel, Dagobert – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1983
Presents conceptual framework for organization of factors (independent variables) affecting online bibliographic retrieval. Roles that variables play in research studies are described and examples considering various elements--setting, user, request, database, search system, searcher, search process, search outcome--are provided. Twenty-one…
Descriptors: Databases, Information Retrieval, Online Systems, Performance Factors

Mokhtarian, Patricia L.; Bagley, Michael N.; Salomon, Ilan – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1998
Discussion of telecommuting motivations and constraints focuses on a study that analyzed differences in variables due to gender, occupation, and presence of children for 583 employees of the city of San Diego. Research hypotheses are discussed, and implications for forming policies to support telecommuting are suggested. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Hypothesis Testing, Motivation, Occupational Surveys

Auster, Ethel; Choo, Chun Wei – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1993
A study investigating variables in Canadian Chief Executive Officers' use of information sources to scan external business environments is reported. Findings show that frequency of source use correlates to perceived uncertainty and that source quality is more important than source accessibility--a finding that contradicts past user studies. (28…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Administrators, Business, Correlation