A complete list of publications can be found in my curriculum vita.
Book
Zeng, M.L. and J. Qin. (2022). Metadata. 3rd ed. New York: Neal-Schuman. ISBN: 978-0-8389-4875-0. Table of contents is available at https://www.alastore.ala.org/metadata3. The book website: https://metadataetc.org/book-website3rd/index.html.
Refereed Journal Articles (2013-)
Qin, J., Hemsley, J., & Bratt, S. (2022). The structural shift and collaboration capacity in GenBank networks: A longitudinal study. Quantitative Science Study, 1-20. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00181; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9012484/
Dobreski, B., J. Qin, & M. Resnick. (2020). Depicting historical persons and identities: A faceted approach. Knowledge Organization, 47(8): 668-679. https://www.ergon-verlag.de/isko_ko/downloads/ko_47_2020_8_5.pdf
Qin, J. (2020). Knowledge organization and representation under the AI lens. Journal of Data and Information Science. 5(1): 3–17. DOI: 10.2478/jdis-2020-0002
Qin, J., Crowston, K., & Kirkland, A. (2017). Pursuing best performance in research data management by using the capability maturity model and rubrics. Journal of eScience Librarianship, http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/vol6/iss2/3/.
Qin, J., B. Dobreski, & D. Brown. (2016). Metadata and reproducibility: A case study of gravitational wave data management. International Journal of Digital Curation, 11(1): 218-231. doi:10.2218/ijdc.v11i1.399
Qin, J. & J. D’Ignazio. (2016). Enhancing scientific data literacy in college students: Experience and lessons learned. Journal of InfoLib and Archives, 8(1): 1-27. DOI: 10.6575/JILA.2016.88.01
Costa, M., J. Qin, & S. Bratt. (2016). Emergence of collaboration networks around large scale data repositories: A study of the genomics community using GenBank. Scientometrics, 108(1): 21-40. DOI: 10.1007/s11192-016-1954-x.
Liu, X. & J. Qin. (2014). An interactive metadata model for structural, descriptive, and referential representation of scholarly output. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 65(5): 964-983.
Steinhart, G. & Qin, J. (2013). Mentoring for emerging careers in eScience librarianship: An iSchool – Academic Library Partnership. Journal of eScience Librarianship, http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/vol1/iss3/1/.
Refereed Conference Papers (2013-)
Qin, J., Bratt, S., Hemsley, J., & Smith, A.O. (2023). Metadata analytics: A methodological discussion. In: International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI) 2023 Conference, Bloomington, IN, July 3-5, 2003.
Hemsley, J., Qin, J., Bratt, S., & Smith, A. (2022). Collaboration Networks and Career Trajectories: What Do Metadata from Data Repositories Tell Us? In: Proceedings of 85th ASIST Annual Meeting, October 28-November 1, 2022, Pittsburgh, PA. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.608
Honick, B., Polley, K., & Qin, J. (2022). Entification of Metadata for Knowledge-Graph-Guided Discovery. In: Proceedings of 85th ASIST Annual Meeting, October 28-November 1, 2022, Pittsburgh, PA. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.609
Tompkins, V., Honick, B., Polley, K., & Qin, J. (2021). MetaFAIR: A metadata application profile for managing research data. In: Proceedings of 84th ASIST Annual Meeting, October 30-November 2, 2021, Salt Lake City, UT. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.461
Polley, K., Tompkins, V., Honick, B., & Qin, J. (2021). Named entity disambiguation for archival collections: Metadata, Wikidata, and Linked data. In: Proceedings of 84th ASIST Annual Meeting, October 30-November 2, 2021, Salt Lake City, UT. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.490
Hemsley, J., J. Qin, & S. Bratt. (2020). Data to knowledge in action: A longitudinal analysis of GenBank metadata. In: Proc. Assoc. Info. Sci. Tech., https://doi-org.libezproxy2.syr.edu/10.1002/pra2.253.
Qin, J. (2019). Paradigmatic similarities in knowledge representation between AI and ontological systems. In: International Society for Knowledge Organization, UK Chapter (ISKO-UK) Biennial Conference, July 15-16, London.
Dobreski, B., J. Park, A. Leathers, & J. Qin. (2019). Remodeling Archival Metadata Descriptions for Linked Archives. In: The Dublin Core International Conference DC-2019.
Dobreski, B., M. Resnick, & J. Qin. (2019). Side by side: The use of multiple subject languages in capturing shifting contexts around historical collections. In: International Society for Knowledge Organization: Chapter for Canada and United States, June 13-14, Philadelphia, PA, June 13-14, 2019 (NASKO 2019).
Qin, J., B. Yu, & L. Wang. (2018). Knowledge node and relation detection. Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop at the Dublin Core International Conference DC-2018, Porto, Portugal, September 13, 2018.
Qin, J. (2018). A relation typology in knowledge organization systems: Case studies in the research data management domain. In: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International ISKO Conference, Porto, Portugal, July 9-11, 2018. (Abstract peer reviewed)
Qin, J., J. Hemsley, & S. Bratt. (2018). Collaboration capacity: Measuring the impact of cyberinfrastructure-enabled collaboration networks. In: Science of Team Science (SCITS) 2018 Conference, Galveston, Texas, May 21-24, 2018.
Bratt, S., Hemsley, J., Qin, J., & Costa, J. (2017). Big Data, big metadata, and quantitative study of science: A workflow model for big scientometrics. In: Proceedings of Association for Information Science and Technology Annual Conference (ASIST 2017), Washington, DC, October 28-31.
Qin, J. & N. Zou. (2017). Structures and relations of knowledge nodes: Exploring a knowledge network of disease from precision medicine research publications. iConference 2017, Wuhan, China.
Qin, J., B. Dobreski, & D. Brown. (2016). Metadata and reproducibility: A case study of gravitational wave data management. In: Proceedings of the 11th International Digital Curation Conference, 22 – 25 February 2016, Amsterdam, Netherlands. http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/view/11.1.218
Liu, X., M. Chen, & J. Qin, (2014). Interlinking cross language metadata using heterogeneous graphs and Wikipedia. In: Proceedings of Dublin Core International Conference DC-2014, Austin, Texas, USA, October 8-11, 2014.
Costa, M.R., J.Qin, & J. Wang, (2014). Research networks in data repositories. In: JCDL ’14 14th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, London, England, September 22 – 26, 2014.
Qin, J. & K. Li. (2013). How portable are the metadata standards for scientific data? A proposal for a metadata infrastructure. In: Proceedings of Dublin Core International Conference DC-2013, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2-6, 2013.
Refereed Conference Posters (2013-)
Qin, J., A. Leathers, & V. Tompkins. (2020). Linking Mechanisms in Data Repositories: A Case Study of BioSample Database. In: Proc. Assoc. Info. Sci. Tech. (online), October 23-26, 2020.
Bratt, S.E., Hemsley, J., & Qin, J. (2019). A closer look at the data co-authorship: Trends in team size in “big science”. In: The 17th International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics Conference, Rome, Italy, September 2-5, 2019.
Bratt, S.E., Costa, M., Hemsley, J., & Qin, J. (2016). Validating science’s power players: Scientometric mixed methods for data verification in identifying influential scientists in a genetics collaboration community. iConference, Philadelphia, PA, March 2016.
Qin, J. & Dobreski, B. (2016). Modeling domain metadata beyond metadata standards. iConference, Philadelphia, PA, March 2016.
Qin, J., M. Costa, J. Wang. (2015). Methodological and technical challenges in big scientometric data analytics. iConference 2015, Newport Beach, CA, March 24-27, 2015.
Curty, R. & J. Qin. (2014). Towards a model for research data reuse behavior. In: Proceedings of 75th Annual Conference of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, October 31-November 5, 2014, Seattle, WA.
Qin, J., M. Costa, & J. Wang. (2014). Attributions from data authors to publications: Implications for data curation.In: The 9th International Digital Curation Conference, 24-27 February 2014, San Francisco.