Hamid Jamali

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Professor Hamid R. Jamali

BSc, MLIS, PhD (University College London, UK)

Professor in Information Studies
Wagga Wagga
Building 5, Room 117

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I am a Professor of Information Studies in the School of Information and Communication Studies. I received my PhD in Information Science from University College London (UCL, UK). I hold a BSc in Medical Library and Information Science (LIS) and an MA in LIS from Iran. I was an academic in the LIS Department at Kharazmi University in Iran for eight years (2008–2016) before moving to CSU. During my time in Iran, I served at different periods as Head of Department, Associate Dean (Academic), and Director of a research centre. At CSU, I served as Acting Head of School for about two years and Associate Head of School for more than two years. I have published more than 150 articles on various LIS topics.

My research interests focus on two broad areas: scholarly communication and libraries.

My work in scholarly communication examines how scholars in different fields create, use, and disseminate information through formal and informal channels. This includes the growth and organisation of scholarly information, the information needs and behaviours of specific user groups, and the evaluation of research through bibliometrics. I apply quantitative methods to study the processes, outputs, and structures of scholarly communication - particularly formal communication - and am especially interested in the factors that shape the impact of research activities.

I have conducted qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods research on topics including open access, repositories, scholars’ publishing and depositing behaviour, collaboration, article writing, the use of social media in research, reputation building, and the impact of interdisciplinary research. I have led a series of studies on journal publishing in Australia and contributed to international projects examining the scholarly communication practices of early-career researchers.

My research on libraries focuses on library services, information use and user behaviour. I was an investigator on an ARC Linkage project on the co-design of public libraries (2023–2025).

My current teaching is mainly focused on subjects related to metadata and information organisation. However, my teaching portfolio so far includes undergraduate and postgraduate subjects such as research methods, information architecture, information retrieval, XML, describing information resources, information behaviour, and data analytics.

I have supervised the following PhD students to completion:

  • Principal supervisor: Dilini Bodhinayakai, Commencing undergraduate students' prior understanding of academic libraries in Sri Lanka, completed in 2024 at CSU.
  • Second supervisor: Hossein Beydokhti, Relationship between the level of evidence in therapeutic articles and citation impact, completed in 2019 at Kharazmi University of Tehran.
  • Principal supervisor: Masoome Niknia, Implementation of CIDOC CRM for Iranian Archaeology, Completed in 2019 at Kharazmi University of Tehran.
  • Principal supervisor: Zhaleh Salimifar, Relation of Hofstead’s cultural dimensions with trust in information resources as an influencing factor in information seeking behaviour, completed in 2018 at Kharazmi University of Tehran.
  • Principal supervisor: Delneshin Danaei-Moghaddam, Children's interaction with augmented reality story books, completed in 2018 at Kharazmi University of Tehran.
  • Principal supervisor: Sara Behimehr, Cognitive biases in scientific information behaviour of graduate students, completed in 2018 at Kharazmi University of Tehran.
  • Principal supervisor: Mahmood Sangari, Digital library users` collaborative information seeking (CIS) and its relationship with users` learning style and information systems experience, completed in 2018 at Kharazmi University of Tehran.
  • Principal supervisor: Fariborz Forootan, Ethnographic study of information practices of Bakhtiari nomads of Khozestan province (Iran), completed in 2018 at Kharazmi University of Tehran.
  • Principal supervisor: Ghasem Azadi Ahmadabadi, identifying patterns of convergence of nano, bio, info and cognitive sciences based on interdisciplinary relationship in Iranian scientific output, completed in 2017 at Kharazmi University of Tehran.
  • Principal supervisor: Majid Nabavi, Adding value to Iranian national current research information system (SEMAT) using customisation of its data model, completed in 2016 at Iranian Research Institute for Information Science and Technology (IRANDOC).

I am a life member of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, and a member of the editorial board of the following journals:

  • International Journal of Information Science and Management
  • Journal of Data and Information Science
  • Journal of Information Science
  • Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
  • Scientometrics