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Research

Manuscript in revision

Luo, J. (2026). Making sense of datasets: A user-centered evaluation of metadata in academic library discovery systems. Revise and resubmit, College & Research Libraries.

Peer-reviewed journal articles

  1. Luo, J. (2025). Data policies in top social science journals: Findings and opportunities for academic libraries. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 51(6), 103163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2025.103163
  2. Luo, J., & Brissett, A. (2025). Decoding virtual chats: NLP insights into academic library services. Library & Information Science Research, 47(1). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2025.101344
  3. Luo, J., & Tang, R. (2024). Data competency for academic librarians: Evaluating present trends and future prospects. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 50(4), 102897. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2024.102897
  4. Luo, J., & Williams, A. (2023). Analyzing the relationship between citation-based impact metrics and electronic journal usage: A case study. Collection Management, 48(4), 360–374. https://doi.org/10.1080/01462679.2023.2230166
  5. Tang, R., Jiang, J., Zhang, Y., & Luo, J. (2023). Open government data sites and the sharing of country-specific real-time pandemic information. Information Processing & Management, 60(6), 103489. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2023.103489
  6. Luo, J., O'Connor, J., Melton, S., & Kowal, K. C. (2022). A statistical analysis of the campus-based open access fund at Boston College. Library Trends, 70(3), 430–444. https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2022.0003
  7. Delaney, A. E., Fu, M. R., McTernan, M. L., Marshall, A. C., Lindberg, J., Thiagarajan, R. R., Zhou, Z., Luo, J., & Glazer, S. (2022). The associations between resilience and socio-demographic factors in parents who care for their children with congenital heart disease. International Journal of Nursing Sciences, 9(3), 321–327. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnss.2022.06.003
  8. Luo, J. (2021). A statistical analysis of patrons' information consumption behaviors of print materials. College & Research Libraries, 82(6), 863–878. https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.82.6.863
  9. Luo, J. (2018). Habitual wayfinding in academic libraries: Evidence from a liberal arts college. Library & Information Science Research, 40(3–4), 285–295. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2018.09.011
  10. Luo, J. (2018). Using Google Apps to manage embargo records: Automating institutional repository reminders. College & Research Libraries News, 79(3), 137–140. https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.79.3.137
  11. Luo, J. (2017). Shall we chat? A statistical case study of chat reference utilization. The Bottom Line, 30(2), 163–184. https://doi.org/10.1108/BL-02-2017-0003

Refereed Conference Proceedings

  • Luo, J., & Oh, K. E. (2026). Mapping evidence work in academic libraries: Preliminary findings from an ongoing content analysis. In Proceedings of the 26th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (pp. 1–3). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3805696.3846491

Book chapters

  • Luo, J., & Brissett, A. (2025). Utilizing Prodigy: Collaborative library assessment projects with advanced natural language processing in Python. In Text and Data Mining Literacy for Librarians, 265–282. ACRL.
  • Zhang, A., & Luo, J. (2025). NLP driven citation analysis of legal scholarship: Challenges and opportunities. In Handbook of Trends and Innovations in Library and Information Science, 177–202. De Gruyter Saur. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111443003-008
  • Luo, J., & Xu, Y. (2022). Building data literacy through scaffolded workshops: Experiences and challenges. In The Data Literacy Cookbook, 241–243. ACRL.

Other publication

Luo, J. (2022). Book review: Research data management and data literacies. Journal of eScience Librarianship, 11(2). https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.644