Publications

Lund, B., Hovious, A., & Kim, J. (Accepted). Discourses of data literacy: A critical literature review. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology. [Journal]
Kim, J., Lund, B., & Hong, L. (In press). The value of data literacy: Insights from community college students. Library Trends, 74(3). [Journal]
Kim, J., Lund, B., & Hong, L. (2025). Survey questionnaire: Survey on student perceptions of data literacy competencies . UNT Digital Library. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2478445 [Measurement instrument]
Kim, J., Hong, L., & Yoon, A. (2025). University students' self-assessment of data literacy: A validation study. PLoS One 20(4): e0322104. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0322104 [Journal]
Kim, J., Hong, L., & Yoon, A. (2025). Data literacy self-efficacy scale (DLSES). UNT Digital Library. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2478439/ [Measurement instrument]
Kim, J., Hong, L., & Yoon, A. (2024). Assessment of data literacy among university students. UNT Digital Library. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2358197/ [Dataset]
Kim, J., Evans, S., Hong, L., Olyer-Rice, E., & Oladapo, L. (2024). Data literacy in flux: Perspectives of community college librarians on evolving educational demands and library capacities. Library & Information Science Research, 46(4). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2024.101327 [Journal]
Kim, J., Hong, L., & Evans, S. (2024). Towards measuring data literacy for higher education: Developing and validating a data literacy self-efficacy scale. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 75(8), 916-931. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24934 [Journal]
Evans, S., Hong, L., Kim, J., Oyler-Rice, E., & Ali, I. (2023). Community college students' self-assessment of data literacy: Exploring differences amongst demographic, academic, and career characteristics. Information and Learning Sciences. 125(3/4), 232-251. DOI 10.1108/ILS-06-2023-0065 [Journal]
Kim, J., Hong, L., Evans, S., Oyler-Rice, E., & Ali, I. (2023). Development and validation of a data literacy assessment scale. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 60(1), 620-624. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.827 ** This paper was recognized as being among the top 10% most-viewed papers in 2024** [Proceedings]

Presentations

The poster titled "Capacity building for data literacy leadership among community college librarians" was presented by Drs. Kim, Hong, and Lund, and Kwon at the ACRL 2025.
Dr. Kim hostd a Winter institute titled "Empowering information professionals through data literacy: Skills, applications, and ethics" at JCDL 2024.
Dr. Kim participated in the panel titled "Data literacy in supporting an inclusive information environment" at iConference 2023.
The poster titled "Toward an understanding of data literacy needs in community colleges: A conceptual framework" was presented by Dr. Kim, Dr. Hong, Dr. Evans, Ali, and Rice-Oyler at the ACRL 2023.
The poster titled " A comparative analysis of data literacy competency framework" was presented by Dr. Kim and Catrina Berka at the ALISE 2022 Annual Meeting .
The poster titled "Defining data literacy: An empirical study of data literacy dimension" was presented by Drs. Kim, Hong, and Evans at the ALISE 2021 Annual Meeting .