Oh, S. & Syn, S.Y. (accepted). Perceived Risks and Use of Social Media for COVID-19 Information. Library Hi Tech.
Syn, S. Y. (accepted). Gaze movement analysis examined how people view and interact with health information on Facebook pages. Health Information & Libraries Journal.
Lee, J., Syn, S. Y., & Kim, S. (2025). Global Research Trends in Research Data Management: A Bibliometrics Approach. Journal of Librarianship & Information Science, 57(3), 719-732.
Yoon, J. & Syn, S. Y. (2023). The effects of visual formats on Facebook health-related posts: evidence from eye movement analysis. Library Hi Tech, 41(3), 833-852.
Syn, S. Y., Sinn, D., & Kim, S. (2023). Innovative public library services during the COVID-19 pandemic: Application and revision of social innovation typology. Library and Information Science Research, 45(3), 101248.
Syn, S. Y. & Kim, S. (2022). Characterizing the research data management (RDM) practices of NIH biomedical researchers indicates the need for better support at the laboratory level. Health Information & Libraries Journal, 39(4), 347-356.
Syn, S. Y. & Yoon, J. (2021). Investigation on reading behaviors and cognitive outcomes of Facebook health information. Online Information Review, 45(6), 1097-1115.
Kim, S. & Syn, S. Y. (2021). Practical consideration for a library's research data management services: the case of the National Institutes of Health Library. Journal of Medical Library Association, 109(3), 450-458.
Yoon, J. & Syn, S. Y. (2021). How do Formats of Health Related Facebook Posts Effect on Eye Movements and Cognitive Outcomes? Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science, 55(3), 219-237. (Published in Korean)
Syn, S. Y. (2021). Health Information Communication during a Pandemic Crisis: Analysis of CDC Facebook Page during COVID-19. Online Information Review: Special Issue on COVID-19 and Information, 45(4), 672-686.
Syn, S. Y., Sinn, D., & Kim, S. (2020). Impact of contexts, resource types and perceptions on information management within the personal domain among college students. Aslib Journal of Information Management, 72(6), 909-927.
Kim, S., Sinn, D., & Syn, S. Y. (2020). Personal health information management by college students: Patterns of inaction. Information Research, 25(1), paper 851.
Sinn, D., Kim, S. & Syn, S. Y. (2019). Information activities within information horizons: A case for college students' personal information management. Library & Information Science Research, 41(1), 19-30.
Kim, S., Sinn, D. & Syn, S. Y. (2018). Analysis of College Students' Personal Health Information Activities: Online Survey. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 20(4), e132.
Bruhn, C. & Syn, S. Y. (2018). Pragmatic thought as a philosophical foundation for collaborative tagging and the Semantic Web. Journal of Documentation, 74(3), 575-587.
Kim, S., Syn, S. Y. & Sinn, D. (2018). Exploratory study of personal health information management using health literacy model. Aslib Journal of Information Management, 70(1), 104-122.
Oh, S. & Syn, S. Y. (2017). Motivations for sharing photos and videos on YouTube and Flickr. Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management, 34(4), 227-247. (Published in English)
Sinn, D., Kim, S. & Syn, S. Y. (2017). Personal digital archiving: Influencing factors and challenges to practices. Library Hi Tech, 35(2), 222-239.
Kim, S. U. & Syn, S. Y. (2016). Credibility and usefulness of health information on Facebook: A survey study with U.S. college students. Information Research, 21(4), paper 727.
Syn, S. Y. & Kim, S. U. (2016). College students' health information activities on Facebook: Investigating the impacts of health topic sensitivity, information sources, and demographics. Journal of Health Communication, 21(7), 743-754.
Choi, Y. & Syn, S. Y. (2016). Characteristics of tagging behavior in a digitized humanities online collection. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 67(5), 1089-1104.
Syn, S. Y. & Sinn, D. (2015). Repurposing Facebook for documenting personal history: How do people develop a secondary system use? Information Research, 20(4), paper 698.
Oh, S. & Syn, S. Y. (2015). Motivations for sharing information and social support in social media: A comparative analysis of Facebook, Twitter, Delicious, YouTube, and Flickr. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 66(10), 2045-2060.
Syn, S. Y. & Oh, S. (2015). Why do social network site users share information on Facebook and Twitter? Journal of Information Science, 41(5), 553-569.
Sinn, D. & Syn, S. Y. (2014). Personal documentation on a social network site: Facebook, a collection of moments from your life? Archival Science, 14(2), 95-124.
Kim, S. U. & Syn, S. Y. (2014). Research trends in teens' health information behaviour: A review of the literature. Health Information and Libraries Journal, 31(1), 4-19.
Syn, S. Y. & Spring, M. B. (2013). Finding subject terms for classificatory metadata from user generated social tags. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 64(5), 964-980.
Sinn, D., Syn, S. Y., & Kim, S.-M. (2011). Personal records on the web: Who's in charge of archiving, Hotmail or archivists? Library & Information Science Research, 33(4), 320-330.
Syn, S. Y. & Kim, S.-M. (2010). The Expected Role of Librarian 2.0 in the Library 2.0 Era. Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management, 27(2), pp. 201-216. (published in English)
Syn, S. Y. & Spring, M. B. (2008). Can a System Make Novice Users Experts?: Analysis of Metadata Created by Novices and Experts with Varying Levels of Assistance. International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 3(2), pp.122-131.
Syn, S. Y. (2018). Social tags for linked data with Resource Description Framework (RDF). In D. Pennington & L. Spiteri (Eds.), Social Tagging in a Linked Data Environment: A new approach to discovering information online (pp. 39-58). Facet Publishing.
Sinn, D., Kim, S., & Syn, S. Y. (2023). Public Library Innovations Inside Out. ASIS&T 2023 Annual Meeting, October 27-31, 2023, London, UK.
Syn, S. Y. & Kim, S. (2019). Professional and Institutional Support for RDM: A Case of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). ASIS&T 2019 Annual Meeting, October 19-23, 2019, Melbourne, Australia.
Yoon, J., Syn, S. Y., & Tippett, A. (2019). How Do People Perceive Facebook Features on Health-related Facebook Posts? iConference 2019, March 31-April 3, 2019, Washington, D.C.
Syn, S. Y., Sinn, D. & Kim, S. (2017). College students' personal information management: From a perspective of information horizon theory. Proceedings of the ASIS&T 2017 Annual Meeting. October 27-November 1, 2017, Washington, DC.
Syn, S. Y. (2016). What do users see when health information with different levels of sensitivity is presented on Facebook?: Preliminary findings with eye tracking techniques. Proceedings of the ASIS&T 2016 Annual Meeting. October 14-18, 2016, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Syn, S. Y. (2015). A comparison of user engagement in CDC Facebook Page during health crisis and ordinary periods. In R. B., Allen, J., Hunter, & M. l., Zeng (Eds.), Digital Libraries: Providing Quality Information – The 17th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL2015) (pp. 258-263). Published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI series. December 9-12, 2015, Seoul, Korea.
Syn, S. Y. (2014). Dealing with the long tail: Providing uniformity to compound tags. Proceedings of the ASIS&T 2014 Annual Meeting. October 31-November 5, 2014, Seattle, WA.
Syn, S. Y. & Kim, S. U. (2013). The impact of source credibility on young adults' health information activities on Facebook: Preliminary findings. Proceedings of the ASIS&T 2013 Annual Meeting. November 1-6, 2013, Montreal, Canada.
Choi, Y. & Syn, S. Y. (2012). An examination of user tags in a digitized humanities online collection. Proceedings of the ASIS&T 2012 Annual Meeting. October 26-30, 2012, Baltimore, MD.
Syn, S. Y. (2011). From Variety to Uniformity: A Preliminary Analysis on Compound Tags. Proceedings of the ASIS&T 2011 Annual Meeting. October 9-13, 2011, New Orleans, LA.
Syn, S. Y. & Oh, S. (2011). Web Resource Selection Behavior Patterns of Social Media Users in Health: A Comparison of Yahoo! Answers and Delicious. Proceedings of the ASIS&T 2011 Annual Meeting. October 9-13, 2011, New Orleans, LA.
Syn, S. Y. & Spring, M. B. (2009). Tags as Keywords - Comparison of the Relative Quality of Tags and Keywords. Proceedings of ASIS&T 2009 Annual Meeting, 46(1). November 6-11, 2009, Vancouver, BC, Canada. (first place recipient of the Catherine Ofiech Orner Award from School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh)
Syn, S. Y. & Spring, M. B. (2007). Can a System Make Novice Users Experts?: Important Factors for Automatic Metadata Generation Systems. Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Application (DC2007). August 27-31, 2007, Singapore, pp.140-150.
Ahn, J., Brusilovsky, P., Grady, J., He, D. & Syn, S. Y. (2007). Open User Profile for Adaptive News Systems: Help or Harm? Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on the World Wide Web (WWW2007). May 8-12, 2007, Banff, Canada, pp.11-20.
Choi, Y. & Syn, S. Y. (2014). Exploring social tags in a digitized humanities online collection. Journal of Digital Humanities, 3(1), Spring 2014.
Syn, S. Y. (2009). Web Resource Categorization Using Social Annotations as Metadata. Bulletin of IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries, 5(3), Winter 2009.
"A Feasibility Study of AI-Generated Resources for K-12 Information Literacy," at the Association for Library and Information Science Education 2024 Annual Meeting (ALISE 2024), Portland, OR, October 15, 2024.
"Public Library Innovations Inside Out," at the the Association for Information Science and Technology 2023 Annual Meeting (ASIS&T 2023), London, UK, October 30, 2023.
"Panel on Artificial Intelligence and Higher Education," Center for Teaching Excellence, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, Virtual, March 27, 2023.
"R for Data Science," at Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea, Virtual, January 24-28, 2022.
"What is Data in Library and Information Science?," Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, Korea, Virtual, December 9, 2021.
"Cooperation & Collaboration: How can young researchers start an international research project?," at ICADL2021 & AP-iConference, Virtual, December 3, 2021.
"Professional and Institutional Support for RDM: A Case of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)," at the Association for Information Science and Technology 2019 Annual Meeting (ASIS&T 2019), Melbourne, Australia, October 21, 2019.
"How Do People Perceive Facebook Features on Health-related Facebook Posts?," at iConference 2019, Washington, D.C., April 2, 2019.
“Thoughts on Linked Data for humanities resources,” at the Metadata Research Meeting, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, February 11, 2019.
"Information Source Horizon for Personal Archiving Practices: An Empirical Study with College Students," at the Research Forum, the 82nd Annual Conference of Society of American Archivist (SAA 2018). Washington, DC, August 14, 2018.
"College students' personal information management: From a perspective of information horizon theory," at the Association for Information Science and Technology 2017 Annual Meeting (ASIS&T 2017). Washington, DC, October 30, 2017.
"What do users see when health information with different levels of sensitivity is presented on Facebook?: Preliminary findings with eye tracking techniques," at the Association for Information Science and Technology 2016 Annual Meeting (ASIS&T 2016). Copenhagen, Denmark, October 17, 2016.
"A comparison of user engagement in CDC Facebook Page during health crisis and ordinary periods," at the 17th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL2015), Seoul, Korea, December 11, 2015.
"Dealing with the long tail: Providing uniformity to compound tags," at Association for Information Science and Technology 2014 Annual Meeting (ASIS&T 2014), Seattle, WA, November 3, 2014.
"Wearing different hats for the context of communities and topics: Health information activities in Facebook communities," at the 14th SIG/USE Research Symposium: Context in Information Behavior Research at Association for Information Science and Technology 2014 Annual Meeting (ASIS&T 2014), Seattle, WA, November 1, 2014.
“Understanding users and user created information on social media,” at the 1st International Conference on Research Trends in Library & Information Science in Korea and the United States (RTLIS2014), Milwaukee, WI, July 2, 2014.
"The impact of source credibility on young adults' health information activities on Facebook: Preliminary findings," at the Association for Information Science and Technology 2013 Annual Meeting (ASIS&T 2013), Montreal, Canada. November 4, 2013.
"Digital Humanities: What are the benefits of a digital portfolio? How should one incorporate the digital humanities in one's teaching and scholarship?," at CUA Graduate Student Association Conference on The Next Big Step: Understanding Your Degree and How to Use it in the World, Washington, DC. April 11, 2013.
"Exploring social tags in a digitized humanities online collection," at Digital Humanities 2013 (DH 2013). Lincoln, NE, July 17, 2013.
"Being and Learning to be Information Professionals," at Research Center for Knowledge Communities Colloquium, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. December 18, 2012.
"User Generated Information to Resource Description," at International Symposium on Knowledge Communities 2012: Linking Resources and People across Communities and over Time, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. December 15, 2012.
"An examination of user tags in a digitized humanities online collection," at the American Society for Information Science and Technology 2012 Annual Meeting (ASIS&T 2012), Baltimore, MD. October 29, 2012.
"From Variety to Uniformity: A Preliminary Analysis on Compound Tags," at the American Society for Information Science and Technology 2011 Annual Meeting (ASIS&T 2011), New Orleans, LA. October 10, 2011.
"Web Resource Selection Behavior Patterns of Social Media Users in Health: A Comparison of Yahoo! Answers and Delicious," at the American Society for Information Science and Technology 2011 Annual Meeting (ASIS&T 2011), New Orleans, LA. October 10, 2011.
"Generation of Classificatory Metadata for Web Resources Using Social Tags," at Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE2010) Annual Conference, Boston, MA. January 13, 2010.
"Tags as Keywords - Comparison of the Relative Quality of Tags and Keywords," at the American Society for Information Science and Technology 2009 Annual Meeting (ASIS&T 2009), Vancouver, BC, Canada. November 10, 2009.
"Web Resource Categorization Using Social Annotations as Metadata," at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2009 (JCDL2009) Doctoral Consortium, Austin, TX. June 15, 2009.
"User Perception of Archiving Personal Historical Data from Web-based Emails and Blogs," at the Association for Library and Information Science Education 2008 (ALISE2008) Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA. January 8, 2008.
"Can a System Make Novice Users Experts?: Important Factors for Automatic Metadata Generation Systems," at the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Application (DC2007), Singapore. August 30, 2007.
"Open User Profile for Adaptive News Systems: Help or Harm?," at the 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007), Banff, Alberta, Canada, May 9, 2007.