Journal Articles

  • Kim, J., Lund, B., & Santana, N. (Accepted). From information to data literacy: Faculty readiness and alignment in the community college. Journal of Academic Librarianship. 
  • Lund, B., Hovious, A., & Kim, J. (2026). Discourses of data literacy: A critical literature review. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology Paper. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.70054 
  • Kim, J., Lund, B., & Hong, L. (2026). The value of data literacy: Insights from community college students. Library Trends, 74(3), 448-469. https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2026.a983008 
  • 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 
  • Kim, J., Evans, S., Hong, L., Rice-Oyler, 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 
  • 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 
  • Evans, S., Hong, L., Kim, J., Rice-Oyler, 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. https://doi.org/10.1108/ILS-06-2023-0065

 

Conference Papers & Abstracts

  • Kim, J., Hong, L., Evans, S., Rice-Oyler, 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**
  • Kim, J., & Berka, C. (2022). A comparative analysis of data literacy competency frameworks. ALISE 2022 Conference Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.21900/j.alise.2022.1046 Refer to poster in Presentations.
  • Kim, J., Hong, L., & Evans, S. (2021). Defining data literacy: An empirical study of data literacy dimensions. ALISE 2021 Conference Proceedings.  http://hdl.handle.net/2142/110887 Refer to poster in Presentations.

 

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