Academic Profile : Faculty

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Assoc Prof Sin Sei Ching Joanna
Associate Chair (Graduate and Continuing Education)
Associate Professor, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
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Journal Articles
(Not applicable to NIE
staff as info will be
pulled from PRDS)
Highly Cited:
Chen, X., Sin, S. C. J., Theng, Y. L., & Lee, C. S. (2015). Why students share misinformation on social media: Motivation, gender, and study-level differences. The journal of academic librarianship, 41(5), 583-592.

Sin, S. C. J., & Kim, K. S. (2013). International students' everyday life information seeking: The informational value of social networking sites. Library & Information Science Research, 35(2), 107-116.

Kim, K. S., Sin, S. C. J., & Tsai, T. I. (2014). Individual differences in social media use for information seeking. The journal of academic librarianship, 40(2), 171-178.

Kim, K. S., & Sin, S. C. J. (2011). Selecting quality sources: Bridging the gap between the perception and use of information sources. Journal of Information Science, 37(2), 178-188.

Sin, S. C. J. (2011). International coauthorship and citation impact: A bibliometric study of six LIS journals, 1980–2008. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 62(9), 1770-1783.

Sin, S. C. J., & Kim, K. S. (2008). Use and non-use of public libraries in the information age: A logistic regression analysis of household characteristics and library services variables. Library & information science research, 30(3), 207-215.

Kim, K. S., & Sin, S. C. J. (2007). Perception and selection of information sources by undergraduate students: Effects of avoidant style, confidence, and personal control in problem-solving. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 33(6), 655-665.

Sin, S. C. J. (2015). Demographic differences in international students' information source uses and everyday information seeking challenges. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 41(4), 466-474.

Kim, K. S., & Sin, S. C. J. (2008). Increasing ethnic diversity in LIS: Strategies suggested by librarians of color. The Library Quarterly, 78(2), 153-177.

Sin, S. C. J. (2011). Neighborhood disparities in access to information resources: Measuring and mapping US public libraries’ funding and service landscapes. Library & Information Science Research, 33(1), 41-53.

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Recent Publication:
Zheng, H., Kim, H. K., Sin, S.-C. J., & Theng, Y. L. (2021). A theoretical model of cyberchondria development: Antecedents and intermediate processes. Telematics and Informatics, 63, 101659, pp. 1-13.

Kim, K.-S., Sin, S.-C. J., & Yoo-Lee, E. (2021). Use and evaluation of information from social media: A longitudinal cohort study. Library & Information Science Research, 43(3), 101104, pp 1-11.

Zheng, H., Sin, S.-C. J., Kim, H. K., & Theng, Y. L. (2021). Cyberchondria: A systematic review. Internet Research, 31(2), 677-698.

Zhou, Q., Lee C. S., Sin, S.-C. J., Lin, S., Hu, H., & Fahmi Firdaus Bin Ismail, M. (2020). Understanding the use of YouTube as a learning resource: A social cognitive perspective. Aslib Journal of Information Management, 72(3), 339-359.

Aung, H. H., Zheng, H., Erdt, M., Aw, A. S., Sin, S.-C. J., & Theng, Y.-L. (2019). Investigating familiarity and usage of traditional metrics and altmetrics. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 70(8), 872-887.

Sin, S.-C. J., & Kim, K.-S. (2018). How are we the same or different: Information needs and barriers of domestic and international students. The Journal of Academic Librarianship , 44(6), 712-723.
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