Measuring relevance judgements
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
A re-examination of relevance: toward a dynamic, situational definition
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
User-defined relevance criteria: an exploratory study
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue: relevance research
An evaluation of interactive Boolean and natural language searching with an online medical textbook
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Exploring the relationship between user satisfaction and relevance in information systems
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue: history of information science
Users' criteria for relevance evaluation: a cross-situational comparison
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval
Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval
TREC: Experiment and Evaluation in Information Retrieval (Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing)
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
A review of factors influencing user satisfaction in information retrieval
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
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The purpose of this study is to investigate how information users view the concept of relevance and make their judgement(s) on relevant information through the framework of social representations theory. More specifically, this study attempts to address the questions of what users view as the constituent concepts of relevance, what are core and peripheral concepts of relevance, and how these concepts are structured by applying a structural analysis approach of social representations theory. We employ a free word association method for data collection. Two hundred and forty four information users of public and academic libraries responded to questionnaires on their relevance judgement criteria. Collected data were content analysed and assessed using weighted frequency, similarity measure, and core/periphery measurements to identify key elements of relevance and to differentiate core and periphery elements of relevance. Results show that four out of 26 emerged elements (concepts) are core and 22 are periphery elements of the concept of relevance. The findings of this study provide a quantitative measure of weighing various elements of relevance and the internal structure of the concept of relevance from users' perspectives providing enhancements for search algorithms with quantitative metadata support.