Yan Zhang

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Journal Papers

Zhang, Y. (2008). Undergraduate students' mental models of the Web as an information retrieval system. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59(13), 2087-2098.

Zhang, Y. (2008). The influence of mental models on undergraduate students' searching behavior on the Web. Information Processing & Management 44(3): 1330-1345.

Tenpoir, C., Wang, P., Zhang, Y., Simmons, B., & Pollard, R. (2008) Academic users' interactions with ScienceDirect in search tasks: Affective and cognitive behaviors. Information Processing & Management, 44(1): 105-121.

Tenopir, C., King, D., Grayson, M., Zhang, Y., & Ebuen, M. (2003). Patterns of journal use by scientists through three evolutionary phases. D-Lib Magazine, 9(5).

Book Chapters

Zhang, Y. , & Wildemuth, B. M. (2009). Qualitative analysis of content. In B. Wildemuth (Ed.), Applications of Social Research Methods to Questions in Information and Library. PDF

Zhang, Y. , & Wildemuth, B. M. (2009). Unstructured interviews. In B. Wildemuth (Ed.), Applications of Social Research Methods to Questions in Information and Library Science. PDF

Conference Papers

Wang, P., Dervos, D. A., Zhang, Y., & Wu, L. (2007). Information-seeking and communication behaviors of academic researchers in the Internet Age: A cross-cultural study. ASIST 2007 (SIG USE Best Research Paper Runnerup)

Capra, R., Marchionini, G., Oh, J. S., Stutzman, F., Zhang, Y. (2007). Effects of structure and interaction style on distinct search tasks. Proceedings of ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) (pp. 442-451).

Zhang, Y., & Godwin, I. (2005). Preserving regional historical and cultural heritages: A case study in building local digital image libraries. The International Conference on Universal Digital Library. Zhejiang University Press. PDF

Tenopir, C., Wang, P., Pollard, R., Zhang, Y., & Simmons, B. (2004). Use of electronic science journals in the undergraduate curriculum: An observational study. Proceedings of the 67th Annual Meeting of the ASIS&T (pp. 64-71). Medford, NJ: Information Today. PDF

Wang, P., Bales, S., Reiger, J., & Zhang, Y. (2004). Survey of learners' knowledge structures: Rationales, methods and instruments. Proceedings of the 67th Annual Meeting of the ASIS&T (pp. 218-228). Medford, NJ: Information Today. PDF

Short papers & Posters

Zhang, Y., Fan, X., & Mostafa, J. (2009). Evaluating automatic medical concepts association with human judgments. The Fourth Annual iSchools Conference: iSociety: Research, Education, Engagement. Chapel Hill, NC, February, 2009. Short paper and Poster

Zhang, Y. (2009). Mediating effects of mental models on search performance and experience in the web environment. ALISE 2009. Denver, CO, January.

Zhang, Y. (2008). Visiting human errors in interacting with IR systems from decision making perspective. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Columbus, OH, October. Short paper and Poster

Lillie, S. E., Brewer, N. T., Zhang, Y., & Sheridan, S. L. (2007). Tables or bar charts? Optimizing personal electronic health records. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 33, S119. (Abstract)

Wildemuth, B. M., Blake, C. L., Spurgin, K., & Oh, S. Zhang, Y. (2006) Patients' perspectives on personal health records: An assessment of needs and concerns. Critical Issues in eHealth Research 2006. (Abstract and poster)

Zhang, Y., & Wang, P. (2005). Measuring mental models: Rational and instruments. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 42 (1). (Short paper and poster)


Last updated: 10/1/2009