Experts’ views and commentary have been highly respected in every discipline. However, unlike traditional disciplines like medicine, mathematics and engineering, Information System (IS) expertise is difficult to define. Despite seeking expert advice and views is common in the areas of IS project management, system implementations and evaluations. This research-in-progress paper attempts to unde...

Three experiments investigate the role of expertise as a moderator of the relationship between implicit and explicit measures of attitudes. Prior research seems to suggest that greater expertise with an attitude object should lead to stronger implicit-explicit correlations. However, a cognitive view of expertise can also predict a weaker implicit-explicit relation. We lay out a framework that h...

Blog advertising, which refers to the paid sponsorship of bloggers to review, promote, or sell products in their blog writing, is becoming prevalent. This paper investigates the impact of three critical factors on blog advertising effectiveness: communicator expertise, advertising intent, and product involvement. An experiment with a 2×2×2 factorial design was used to test their interaction eff...

Research with the largest impact on practice and science is often conducted by teams with diverse substantive, clinical, and methodological expertise. Team and interdisciplinary research has created authorship groups with varied expertise and expectations. Co-authorship among team members presents many opportunities and challenges. Intentional planning, clear expectations, sensitivity to differ...

BACKGROUND Media coverage of medical research influences the views and behaviours of clinicians, scientists and members of the public. We examined how frequently commenters in news stories about medical research have relevant expertise and have academic and financial conflicts, how often such conflicts are reported and whether there are associations between the conflicts and the disposition of ...

Making is considered to be democratizing technology design and production. Yet, in many cases, in order to be a successful maker or have a rewarding maker experience, participants/makers need to bring in some form of expertise, creating both implicit and explicit barriers for differentiated publics to take part. We explore the literature and existing scholarship regarding expertise and making, ...

Expertise retrieval has been largely explored on a few collections crawled from the intranets of organizations. In contrast, only limited external information has been used and studied. In this paper, we have a research on the approaches and effectiveness of expertise retrieval using search engine results. Using appropriate queries, we search for each expert his or her relevant information from...

We present an approach for identifying people with expertise in certain areas from online research-oriented shared workspaces in three steps: a) Content analysis of stored documents (mainly scientific deliverables) within shared workspaces; b) Log files analysis; and c) Assigning relevant expertise to users using dynamic SPARQL queries.

Laura Bassi Centre of Expertise – THERAPEP, Research Program for Receptor Biochemistry and Tumor Metabolism, Department of Pediatrics, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria Correspondence: Barbara Kofler, PhD, Laura Bassi Centre of Expertise – THERAPEP, Department of Pediatrics, Paracelsus Medical University, M€ ullner-Hauptstrasse 48, Salzburg, Austria, Tel.: +43-662-4482-4741, Fax:...