Here is my basic philosophy as a peer-reviewer: Assume the work should be published (even if not in this outlet or current form), review in order to identify what the essay needs to be published (rather than why it is insufficient), never lower standards but always extend grace.

First up for those of you interested in #journalism "Social media mining for journalism" by Arkaitz Zubiaga, Bahareh Heravi, Jisun An & Haewoon Kwak, in our 2019 Vol. 43 Issue: 1, doi.org/10.1108/OIR-02…

Next "What municipal websites supply and citizens demand: a search engine optimisation approach" by Carlos Serrano-Cinca & Jose Felix Muñoz-Soro in our 2019 Vol. 43 Issue: 1, doi.org/10.1108/OIR-02…

Six academic writing habits that will boost productivity #acwri blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial…

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Another recently published article from us in our 2019 Vol. 43 Issue: 1 "A bibliometric analysis of event detection in social media" by Xieling Chen, Shan Wang, Yong Tang, Tianyong Hao doi.org/10.1108/OIR-03…

Apt for the platform! Ahmed Al-Rawi, Jacob Groshek, & Li Zhang's article "What the fake? Assessing the extent of networked political spamming and bots in the propagation of #fakenews on Twitter" in our 2019 Vol. 43 Issue: 1 doi.org/10.1108/OIR-02…

Check out Suliman Aladhadh, Xiuzhen Zhang & Mark Sanderson's article "Location impact on source and linguistic features for information credibility of social media", in our 2019 Vol. 43 Issue: 1 doi.org/10.1108/OIR-03…

Interested in user generated videos? Why not read "A corpus of debunked and verified user-generated videos" by Olga Papadopoulou, Markos Zampoglou, Symeon Papadopoulos & Ioannis Kompatsiaris in our first issue of 2019 (Vol. 43 Issue: 1) doi.org/10.1108/OIR-03…

Another article from our latest issue: Radhia Toujani & Jalel Akaichi, (2019) "Event news detection and citizens community structure for disaster management in social networks" Vol. 43 Issue: 1 doi.org/10.1108/OIR-03…

Sujin Choi's article "An exploratory approach to the computational quantification of journalistic values" investigates news algorithms and textual indices. Read it here doi.org/10.1108/OIR-03…

Interested in analytics? And social media? Check out Wasim Ahmed & Sergej Lugovic's article "Social media analytics: analysis and visualisation of news diffusion using NodeXL" doi.org/10.1108/OIR-03…

It's the last day in our 10 days of tweeting about our recently published articles! Last but definitely by no means least: "The moderating effect of technology optimism: How it affects students’ weblog learning" by Cheng-Min Chao & Tai-Kuei Yu doi.org/10.1108/OIR-11…

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After today we're taking a little bit of a spring break here at OIR. Any queries we will get back to you as soon as we return. In the mean time thank you to everyone who's been submitting fantastic work to us!

How to write a blogpost from your journal article in eleven easy steps. wp.me/p4m9em-6GE

Literati awards for our best article of 2019 and commended articles emeraldgrouppublishing.com/authors/litera…

Congratulations to Jungwon Yeo, Louise Comfort, Kyujin Jung for their article "Timely assessment of disaster and emergency response networks in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, 2012" ... best OIR article of 2019

Thank you to Dr Snehasish Banerjee... best reviewer of 2019, Online Information Review... emeraldgrouppublishing.com/authors/litera…