Publications

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Journal articles

  • Sin, S.-C. J., & Kim, K.-S. (2025). Undergraduates’ appraisal and coping responses to dis/misinformation issues on social media: Implications for information literacy education. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 51(2), 1-11, Article 103019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2025.103019
  • Zheng, H., Kim, H. K., Sin, S.-C. J., & Theng, Y. L. (2022). Exploring developmental trajectory of cyberchondria over time: A three-wave panel study. Telematics and Informatics, 75, 101892, pp. 1-12.
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  • Zhou, Q., Lee, C. S., & Sin, S.-C. J. (2021). When social media use for formal learning is voluntary: A study of students’ use of self-regulated learning strategies. Libres-Library and Information Science Research Electronic Journal, 31(1), 12-26.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Zheng, H., Sin, S.-C. J., Kim, H. K., & Theng, Y. L. (2021). Cyberchondria: A systematic review. Internet Research, 31(2), 677-698.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Sin, S.-C. J., & Kim, K.-S. (2018). How are we the same or different: Information needs and barriers of domestic and international students. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 44 (6), 712-723.
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  • Sin, S.-C. J., & Vakkari, P. (2017). Information repertoires: Media use patterns in various gratification contexts. Journal of Documentation, 73 (6), 1102-1118.
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  • Sin, S.-C. J., & Kwon, N. (2017). Displacement or complementarity? Assessing the relationship between social media and public library usage in the U.S., South Korea, and Singapore. Library & Information Science Research, 39 (3), 169-179.
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  • Erdt, M., Nagarajan, A., Sin, S.-C. J., & Theng, Y. L. (2016). Altmetrics: An analysis of the state-of-the-art in measuring research impact on social media. Scientometrics, 109 (2), 1117-1166.
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  • Sin, S.-C. J. (2016). Social media and problematic everyday life information seeking outcomes: Differences across usage frequency, gender, and problem solving styles. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology,67 (8), 1793-1807.
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  • Vakkari, P., Aabo, S., Audunson, R., Huysmans, F., Kwon, N., Oomes, M., & Sin, S.-C. J. (2016). Patterns of perceived public library outcomes in five countries. Journal of Documentation, 72 (2), 342-361.
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  • Kim, K.-S., & Sin, S.-C. J. (2016). Use and evaluation of information from social media in the academic context: Analysis of gap between students and librarians. The Journal of Academic Librarianship,42 (1), 74-82.
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  • Sin, S.-C. J. & Vakkari, P. (2015). Perceived outcomes of public libraries in the U.S. Library & Information Science Research, 37 (30), 209-219.
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  • 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.
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  • Guo, Y. R., Goh, D. H.-L., Luyt, B., Sin, S.-C. J., & Ang, R. P. (2015). The effectiveness and acceptance of an affective information literacy tutorial. Computers & Education, 87 , 368-384.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Kim, K.-S., Sin, S.-C. J., & Yoo, E.-Y. (2014). Undergraduates’ use of social media as information sources. College & Research Libraries, 75 (4), 442-457.
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  • Foo, S., Zhang, X., Chang, Y.-K., Majid, S., Mokhtar, I. A., Sin, S.-C. J., & Theng, Y.-L. (2013). Information literacy skills of humanities, arts, and social science tertiary students in Singapore. Reference & User Services Quarterly, 53 (1), 40-50.
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  • 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.
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  • Sin, S.-C. J. (2012). Modeling the impact of individuals’ characteristics and library service levels on high school students’ public library usage: A national analysis. Library & Information Science Research, 34 (3), 228-237.
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  • 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.
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  • Sin, S.-C. J. (2011). Longitudinal trends in internationalisation, collaboration types, and citation impact: A bibliometric analysis of seven LIS journals (1980–2008). Journal of Library and Information Studies, 9 (1), 27-49.
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  • 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), 182-192.
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  • Sin, S.-C. J. (2011). Neighborhood disparities in access to information resources: Measuring and mapping U.S. public libraries’ funding and service landscapes. Library & Information Science Research, 33 (1), 41-53.
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  • 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.
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  • Kim, K.-S., & Sin, S.-C. J. (2008). Increasing ethnic diversity in LIS: Strategies suggested by librarians of color. Library Quarterly, 78 (2), 153-177.
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  • 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.
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  • Kim, K.-S., Chiu, M.H., Sin, S.-C. J., & Robbins, L. (2007). Recruiting a diverse workforce for academic/research librarianship: Career decisions of subject specialists and librarians of color. College & Research Libraries, 68 (6), 533-552.
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  • Kim, K.-S., & Sin, S.-C. J. (2006). Recruiting and retaining students of color in LIS programs: Perspectives of library and information professionals. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 47 (2), 81-95.
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  • Eschenfelder, K. R., Desai, A. C., Alderman, I., Sin, S.-C. J., & Shen, Y. (2005). The limits of DeCSS posting: A comparison of Internet posting of DVD circumvention devices in the European Union and China. Journal of Information Science, 31 (4), 317-331.
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Conference proceedings

  • Kim, K.-S., & Sin, S.-C. J. (2024). Twitter as knowledge commons: What Twitter users think and do about managing misinformation issues. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 61(1), 971-973. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.1157
  • Sin, S.-C. J. & Kim, K.-S. (2023). Strategies for coping with Twitter’s “dark side”: A Transactional Model of Stress and Coping analysis. 2023 ASIS&T Mid-Year Conference, 1-6. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7757345
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  • Lee, C. S., Goh, D. H.-L., Zhou, Q., Sin, S.-C. J., & Theng, Y. L. (2020). Integrating motives and usability to examine community crowdsourcing. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology 83rd Annual Meeting, 57(1), e353.
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  • Kim, K.-S., & Sin, S.-C. J. (2020). One-approach-fits-all? Use and evaluation of social media information for different goals. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology 83rd Annual Meeting, 57(1), e380.
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  • Zhou, Q., Lee, C. S., & Sin, S.-C. J. (2019). When social media use for formal learning is voluntary: A study of students’ use of self-regulated learning strategies. In Proceedings of the 9th Asia-Pacific Conference on Library & Library Education and Practice (4-7 November 2019, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) (pp. 273-286).
  • Lee, C. S., Goh, D. H.-L., Sin, S.-C. J., Osop, H., & Theng, Y. L. (2019). A crowdsourcing approach to explore helping motives in a smart city: A preliminary analysis. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 56 (1), 701-702.
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  • Sin, S.-C. J., & Chen, X. (2019). Take one for the team: Social-emotional interactions and outcomes on social question and answers sites. In Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR) (pp. 295-299). New York: ACM.
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  • Sin, S.-C. J., Lee, C. S., & Chen, X. (2018). Rewarding, but not for everyone: Interaction acts and perceived post quality on social Q&A sites. In M. Dobreva, A. Hinze & M. Žumer (Eds.), ICADL 2018: Maturity and Innovation in Digital Libraries (pp. 136-141). Cham: Springer.
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  • Sin, S.‐C. J., Lee, C. S., & Theng, Y.‐L. (2018). Tracing social question and answer users’ interaction patterns. In L. Freund (Ed.), Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology (pp. 892– 893.) Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
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  • Kim, K.‐S. & Sin, S.‐C. J. (2018). Evaluating social media information: impact of academic background, purpose of use, and perceived importance of information quality. In L. Freund (Ed.), Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology (pp. 845– 846.) Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
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  • Zhou, Q., Lee, C. S., & Sin, S.‐C. J. (2018). Beyond mandatory use: probing the affordances of social media for formal learning in the voluntary context. In L. Freund (Ed.), Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology (pp. 608– 617.) Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
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  • Zhou, Q., Lee, C. S., & Sin, S.-C. J. (2017). Using social media in formal learning: Investigating learning strategies and satisfaction. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 54(1), 472-482.
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  • Lee, C. S., Goh, D. H.-L., Osop, H., Sin, S.-C. J., & Theng, Y. L. (2017). Public services or private gains: Motives behind participation on a mobile crowdsourcing application in a smart city. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 54(1), 495-498.
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  • Kim, K.-S., & Sin, S.-C. J. (2017). Perceived usefulness of social media features/elements: Effects of coping style, purpose and system. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 54(1), 722-723.
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  • Sin, S.-C. J., Lee, C. S., & Theng, Y.-L. (2016). Social Q&A question-and-comments interactions and outcomes: A social sequence analysis. In. A. Morishima, A. Rauber & C. L. Liew (Eds.), Digital libraries: Knowledge, information, and data in an open access society (pp. 325-338). Cham: Springer.
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  • Lee, C. S., & Sin, S.-C. J. (2016). Why do people view photographs on Instagram? In. A. Morishima, A. Rauber & C. L. Liew (Eds.), Digital libraries: Knowledge, information, and data in an open access society (pp. 339-350). Cham: Springer.
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  • Lee, C. S., Abu Bakar, N. A., Muhammad Dahri, R., & Sin, S.-C. J. (2015). Instagram this! Sharing photos on Instagram. In R. B. Allen, J. Hunter & M. L. Zeng (Eds.), Lecture notes in computer science (Vol. 9469, pp. 132-141). Cham: Springer.
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  • Sin, S.-C. J., & Lee, C. S. (2015). Hypotheses of information-seeking satisfaction gaps: Demographics, sources usage, and person-source fit. Proceedings of the 78th ASIS&T Annual Meeting.
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  • Chen, X., Sin, S.-C. J., Theng, Y. L., & Lee, C. S. (2015). Deterring the spread of misinformation on social network sites: A social cognitive theory-guided intervention. Proceedings of the 78th ASIS&T Annual Meeting.
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  • Chen, X., Sin, S.-C. J., Theng, Y.-L., & Lee, C. S. (2015). Why do social media users share misinformation? JCDL ’15. Proceedings of the 15th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries.
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  • Sin, S.-C. J. (2015). Ecological modelling of individual and contextual influences: a person-in-environment framework for hypothetico-deductive information behaviour research. Proceedings of ISIC, the Information Behaviour Conference, Leeds, 2-5 September, 2014. In Information Research, 20 (1). https://www.informationr.net/ir/20-1/isic2/isicsp12.html
  • Kim, K.-S., Sin, S.-C. J. (2015). Use of social media in different contexts of information seeking: effects of sex and problem-solving style. Proceedings of ISIC, the Information Behaviour Conference, Leeds, 2-5 September, 2014. In Information Research, 20 (1). https://www.informationr.net/ir/20-1/isic2/isic24.html
  • Sin, S.-C. J. & Kim, K.-S. (2014). Impacts of social media usage on the outcomes of students’ everyday life information seeking. Proceedings of the 77th ASIS&T Annual Meeting.
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  • Chen, X., & Sin, S.-C. J. (2013). ‘Misinformation? What of it?’ Motivations and individual differences in misinformation sharing on social media. Proceedings of the 76th ASIS&T Annual Meeting.
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  • Kim, K.-S., Sin, S.-C. J., & He, Y. (2013). Information seeking through social media: Impact of user characteristics on social media use. Proceedings of the 76th ASIS&T Annual Meeting.
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  • Rao, P., Theng, Y. L., Sin, S.-C. J., & Pang, N. (2013). Web searching for health information: An observational study to explore users’ emotions. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 8005, 181-188.
  • Theng, Y. L., & Sin, S.-C. J. (2012). Analysing the effects of individual characteristics and self-efficacy on users’ preferences for system features in relevance judgment. Information Research, 17 (4). https://informationr.net/ir/17-4/paper536.html
  • Theng, Y.-L. & Sin, S.-C. J. (2012). Evaluating usability and efficaciousness of e-learning systems: A quantitative, model-driven approach. 2012 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, Rome, Italy.
  • Sin, S.-C. J., Kim, K.-S., Yang, J., Park, J.-A., & Laugheed, Z. T.(2011). International students’ acculturation information seeking: Personality, information needs and uses. Proceedings of the 74th ASIS&T Annual Meeting.
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  • Kim, K.-S., Yoo-Lee, E.-Y., & Sin, S.-C. J. (2011). Social media as information source: Undergraduates’ use and evaluation behavior. Proceedings of the 74th ASIS&T Annual Meeting.
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  • Sin, S.-C. J. (2010). Modeling individual-level information behavior: A Person-in-Environment (PIE) framework. Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting.
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  • Kim, K.-S., Yoo, E.-Y., Kwon, N., & Sin, S.-C. J. (2009). Individual differences in source selection behavior: Profile analyses via multidimensional scaling.Proceedings of the 72nd ASIS&T Annual Meeting.
  • Sin, S.-C. J. (2008). Disparities in public libraries’ service levels based on neighborhood income and urbanization levels: a nationwide study. Proceedings of the 71st ASIS&T Annual Meeting.
  • Kim, K.-S., Sin, S.-C. J., Park, S., Zhu, X. & Polparsi, J. (2006). Facet analyses of categories used in Web directories: A comparative study. Proceedings of the 72nd IFLA General Conference and Council.
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  • Sin, S.-C. J., Eschenfelder, K. R., & Lin, C.-S. (2006). National differences in librarians’ reception to the open access movement: A comparison of the professional library literatures of China, Taiwan, and the United States. Proceedings of the 69th ASIS&T Annual Meeting.
  • Kim, K.-S., & Sin, S.-C. J. (2006). Source and user characteristics affecting the source selection behavior. Proceedings of the 69th ASIS&T Annual Meeting.
  • Sin, S.-C. J. (2005). Are library and information science journals becoming more internationalized? A longitudinal study of authors’ geographical affiliations in 20 LIS journals from 1981 to 2003. Proceedings of the 68th ASIS&T Annual Meeting.
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  • Eschenfelder, K. R., Desai, A. C., Alderman, I., Sin, S.-C. J., & Shen, Y. (2005). Global copyright protest? A comparison of DeCSS posting in the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong, and the European Union. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS’05) – Track 5 – Volume 05.    

Book chapter

  • Sin, S.-C. J., & Kim, K.-S. (2025). How to manage issues on Twitter: Perspectives from Twitter users concerned about mis/dis-information. In M. R. Sanfilippo & M. G. Ocepek (Eds.), Governing misinformation in everyday knowledge commons (pp. 214-238). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009255165.010
  • Tandoc, E. C., Lee, J. C. B., Lee, C. S., Sin, S.-C. J., & Seet, S. K. (2023). No “me” in misinformation: The role of social groups in the spread of, and fight against, fake news. In C. Soon (Ed.), Mobile communication and online falsehoods in Asia: Trends, impact and practice (pp. 131-147). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-2225-2_8
  • Sin, S.-C. J. (2011). Towards agency‐structure integration: A Person‐in‐Environment (PIE) framework for modelling individual‐level information behaviours and outcomes. In A. Spink & J. Heinstrom (Eds.) New directions in information behaviour (pp. 181-209). United Kingdom: Emerald Group Publishing.
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Dissertation