Dr Laura Sbaffi

Journal articles

• Sbaffi L & Zhao X (2022) Evaluating a pedagogical approach to promoting academic integrity in higher education: An online induction program. Frontiers in Psychology.
• Sbaffi L, Walton J, Blenkinsopp J & Walton G (2020) Information overload in emergency medicine physicians: a multisite case study exploring the causes, impact, and solutions in four North England National Health Service Trusts. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22(7). View this article in WRRO
• Aylward K, Sbaffi L & Weist A (2020) Peer-led information literacy training: a qualitative study of students’ experiences of the NICE Evidence search Student Champion Scheme. Health Information and Libraries Journal. View this article in WRRO
• Millares Miller P & Sbaffi L (2019) Electronic health record and problem lists in Leeds, United Kingdom: Variability of general practitioners’ views. Health Informatics Journal. View this article in WRRO
• Cox A, Pinfield S, Kennan MA, Lyon L & Sbaffi L (2019) Maturing research data services and the transformation of academic libraries. Journal of Documentation. View this article in WRRO
• Cox AM, Kennan MA, Lyon EJ, Pinfield S & Sbaffi L (2019) Progress in research data services : an international survey of university libraries. International Journal of Digital Curation, 14(1), 126-135. View this article in WRRO
• Cox AM, Gadd E, Petersohn S & Sbaffi L (2019) Competencies for bibliometrics. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 51(3), 746-762. View this article in WRRO
• Sbaffi L & Bennett J (2019) Postgraduate students’ experience of a jointly-taught, distance learning degree : the example of a Russell Group university. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management. View this article in WRRO
• McKinney P, Cox AM & Sbaffi L (2019) Information literacy in food and activity tracking among three communities: parkrunners, people with type 2 diabetes and people with IBS. Journal of Medical Internet Research. View this article in WRRO
• Sbaffi L & Zhao C (2019) Modeling the online health information seeking process: Information channel selection among university students. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. View this article in WRRO
• (2019) Corrigendum. Information Development, 35(2), NP1-NP1.
• Joung KH, Rowley J & Sbaffi L (2019) Medical and health sciences academics’ behaviours and attitudes towards open access publishing in scholarly journals: a perspective from South Korea. Information Development, 35(2), 191-202. View this article in WRRO
• Ahmed W, Bath PA, Sbaffi L & Demartini G (2019) Novel insights into views towards H1N1 during the 2009 Pandemic: a thematic analysis of Twitter data. Health Information & Libraries Journal, 36(1), 60-72. View this article in WRRO
• Almanea A, Bath P & Sbaffi L (2019) Empowering people with type two diabetes through online support groups. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 171(Suppl), 3-3. View this article in WRRO
• Rowley J & Sbaffi L (2018) Academics' attitudes towards peer review in scholarly journals and the effect of role and discipline.. Journal of Information Science, 44, 644-657. View this article in WRRO
• Mazalan L, Bell AJ, Sbaffi L & Willett P (2018) Cross‐Classified Multilevel Modelling of the Effectiveness of Similarity‐Based Virtual Screening. ChemMedChem, 13(6), 582-587. View this article in WRRO
• Sbaffi L, Hallsworth E & Weist A (2018) Peer teaching and information retrieval: the role of the NICE Evidence search student champion scheme in enhancing students’ confidence. Health Information and Libraries Journal. View this article in WRRO
• Sbaffi L & Rowley J (2017) Trust and Credibility in Web-Based Health Information: A Review and Agenda for Future Research. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 19(6). View this article in WRRO
• Rowley J, Johnson F, Sbaffi L, Frass W & Devine E (2017) Academics' behaviors and attitudes towards open access publishing in scholarly journals. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 68(5), 1201-1211. View this article in WRRO
• Rowley J, Johnson F & Sbaffi L (2016) Gender as an influencer of online health information-seeking and evaluation behavior. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 68(1), 36-47. View this article in WRRO
• Johnson F, Rowley J & Sbaffi L (2016) Exploring information interactions in the context of Google. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 67(4), 824-840.
• Johnson F, Sbaffi L & Rowley J (2016) Students' approaches to the evaluation of digital information: Insights from their trust judgments. British Journal of Educational Technology, 47(6), 1243-1258.
• Rowley J, Johnson F, Sbaffi L & Weist A (2015) Peer-based information literacy training: Insights from the NICE Evidence Search Student Champion Scheme. Library & Information Science Research, 37(4), 338-345.
• Sbaffi L, Johnson F, Griffiths J, Rowley J & Weist A (2015) NICE Evidence Search: Student Peers' Views on their Involvement as Trainers in Peer-based Information Literacy Training. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 41(2), 201-206.
• Sbaffi L & Rowley J (2015) Public libraries and non-users: A comparison between Manchester and Rome. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 47(2), 104-116.
• Rowley J, Johnson F & Sbaffi L (2015) Students’ trust judgements in online health information seeking. Health Informatics Journal, 21(4), 316-327.
• Johnson F, Rowley J & Sbaffi L (2015) Modelling trust formation in health information contexts. Journal of Information Science, 41(4), 415-429.
• (2009) Constraints on the magnitude and patterns of ocean cooling at the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature Geoscience, 2(2), 127-132.
• Heap AD & Sbaffi L (2008) Composition and distribution of seabed and suspended sediments in north and central Torres Strait, Australia. Continental Shelf Research, 28(16), 2174-2187.
• Post AL, Sbaffi L, Passlow V & Collins DC (2007) Benthic foraminifera as environmental indicators in Torres Strait-Gulf of Papua. Special Paper - Geological Association of Canada(47), 329-347.
• Hayes A, Kucera M, Kallel N, Sbaffi L & Rohling EJ (2005) Glacial Mediterranean sea surface temperatures based on planktonic foraminiferal assemblages. Quaternary Science Reviews, 24(7-9), 999-1016.
• Marchal O, Cacho I, Stocker TF, Grimalt JO, Calvo E, Martrat B, Shackleton N, Vautravers M, Cortijo E, Van Kreveld S , Anderson C et al (2002) Apparent long-term cooling of the sea surface in the northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean during the Holocene. GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA, 66(15A), A482-A482.
• Marchal O, Cacho I, Stocker TF, Grimalt JO, Calvo E, Martrat B, Shackleton N, Vautravers M, Cortijo E, van Kreveld S , Andersson C et al (2002) Apparent long-term cooling of the sea surface in the northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean during the Holocene. Quaternary Science Reviews, 21(4-6), 455-483.
• Sbaffi L, Wezel FC, Kallel N, Paterne M, Cacho I, Ziveri P & Shackleton N (2001) Response of the pelagic environment to palaeoclimatic changes in the central Mediterranean Sea during the Late Quaternary. Marine Geology, 178(1-4), 39-62.
• Cacho I, Grimalt JO, Canals M, Sbaffi L, Shackleton NJ, Schönfeld J & Zahn R (2001) Variability of the western Mediterranean Sea surface temperature during the last 25,000 years and its connection with the Northern Hemisphere climatic changes. Paleoceanography, 16(1), 40-52.
• McKenzie JA, Sbaffi L, Wezel FC & Tamburini F (1998) Late Quaternary climatic variations on the Latium and Campanian Margin of the Tyrrhenian Sea. Rendiconti Lincei, 9(4), 293-313.
• Sbaffi L, Wezel FC & Shackleton NJ (1998) Paleoclimatologia dell’ultima deglaciazione nel Bacino di Cefalù — Mar Tirreno meridionale. Rendiconti Lincei, 9(3), 177-200.
• Marincowitz C, Hodkinson P, McAlpine D, Fuller G, Goodacre S, Bath P, Sbaffi L, Hasan M, Omer Y & Wallis L () LMIC-PRIEST: Derivation and validation of a clinical severity score for acutely ill adults with suspected COVID-19 in a middle-income setting. PLoS ONE.
• Sbaffi L, Zamani E & Kalua K () Addressing the information needs of informal carers in Malawi: a healthcare intervention based on co-creation. Journal of Documentation.
• Marincowitz C, Sbaffi L, Hasan M, Hodkinson P, McAlpine D, Fuller G, Goodacre S, Bath P, Omer Y & Wallis L () External validation of triage tools for adults with suspected COVID-19 in a middle-income setting: an observational cohort study. Emergency Medicine Journal.
• Ives G, Sbaffi L & Bath P () Can all healthy adults use the current evidential breath alcohol analysers? An investigation using a large spirometry database.. Medico-Legal Journal.
• Sbaffi L, Zamani E & Kalua K () Promoting wellbeing among informal caregivers of people with HIV/AIDS in rural Malawi: a community-based participatory research approach (Preprint). Journal of Medical Internet Research.
• Sbaffi L, Hargreaves S & Ford N () Information seeking amongst informal caregivers of people with dementia: a qualitative study. Journal of Documentation.
• Huang Y, Cox A & Sbaffi L () Research Data Management Policy and Practice in China. International Journal of Digital Curation, 15(1), 18-18. View this article in WRRO
• Huang Y, Cox A & Sbaffi L () Research Data Management policy and practice in Chinese University Libraries. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology.
• Sbaffi L, Rowley J, Sugden M & Gilbert A () Factors influencing researchers’ journal selection decisions. Journal of Information Science.
• Sbaffi L & King K () Living with endometriosis: the role of the Internet in supporting the diagnosis and treatment process. Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet.
• Sbaffi L, Rowley J, Gilbert A & Sugden M () Investigating gender differences in journal selection decisions: a survey of academic researchers. Learned Publishing.
• Sbaffi L & Hargreaves S () The information trust formation process for informal caregivers of people with dementia: a qualitative study. Journal of Documentation.

Chapters

• Zamani ED & Sbaffi L (2020) Embracing uMunthu: How Informal Caregivers in Malawi Use ICTs, Information and Communication Technologies for Development (pp. 93-101). Springer International Publishing
• Ahmed W, Bath PA, Sbaffi L & Demartini G (2020) Zika Outbreak of 2016: Insights from Twitter, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 447-458). Springer International Publishing

Conference proceedings papers

• Cai A, Bentley CM, Zamani E, Naiseh M & Sbaffi L (2023) Intersectional Analysis of the Challenges and Opportunities of Equitable Remote Operation in the UK Maritime Sector. Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems
• Cao C, Sbaffi L, Zhao X & Hopfgartner F (2022) Using a Narrative-based Gamified Teaching Approach to Improve International Students' Sense of Belonging. Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2
• Pretlove L, Cox A, Sbaffi L & Hopfgartner F (2020) Using a 360° camera as a mobile data collection method towards understanding information types and use in running. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 57(1), 25 October 2020 - 29 October 2020. View this article in WRRO
• Cameron D, Sarda Gou M & Sbaffi L (2020) Trust in robot-mediated health information. The 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication Ro-man, Workshop on Trust, Acceptance and Social Cues in Human-Robot Interaction (SCRITA)
• Bates J, Cameron D, Checco A, Clough P, Hopfgartner F, Mazumdar S, Sbaffi L, Stordy P & de la Vega de León A (2020) Integrating fate/critical data studies into data science curricula: Where are we going and how do we get there?. FAT* 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (pp 425-435) View this article in WRRO
• Almanea A, Bath P & Sbaffia L (2019) Online support groups as a source of empowerment for people with type 2 diabetes. MEDINFO 2019: Health and Wellbeing e-Networks for All, Vol. 264 (pp 1893-1894). Lyons, France, 25 August 2019 - 30 August 2019. View this article in WRRO
• Ahmed W, Bath PA, Sbaffi L & Demartini G (2018) Moral Panic through the Lens of Twitter. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society
• Ahmed W, Bath PA, Sbaffi L & Demartini G (2018) Using Twitter for Insights into the 2009 Swine Flu and 2014 Ebola outbreaks. iConference 2018 Poster Descriptions, 25 March 2018 - 28 March 2018. View this article in WRRO
• Ahmed W, Bath PA, Sbaffi L & Demartini G (2018) Measuring the Effect of Public Health Campaigns on Twitter: The Case of World Autism Awareness Day (pp 10-16) View this article in WRRO
• Sbaffi L, Wezel FC, Curzi G & Zoppi U (2004) Millennial- to centennial-scale palaeoclimatic variations during Termination I and the Holocene in the central Mediterranean Sea. Global and Planetary Change, Vol. 40(1-2) (pp 201-217)
• Almanea A, Bath PA & Sbaffi L () The Benefits of Using Online Health Support Groups for Information Acquisition for People with Type 2 Diabetes in the UK. Proceedings of the 18th international symposium on health information management research

Datasets

• Cox A, Kennan MA, Lyon L, Pinfield S & Sbaffi L International survey of research data management in libraries.

Preprints

• Sbaffi L, Zamani E & Kalua K (2022) Promoting wellbeing among informal caregivers of people with HIV/AIDS in rural Malawi (Preprint), JMIR Publications Inc..
• Marincowitz C, Sbaffi L, Hodkinson P, McAlpine D, Fuller G, Goodacre S, Bath PA, Hasan M, Omer Y & Wallis L (2022) Prognostic accuracy of triage tools for adults with suspected COVID-19 in a middle-income setting: an observational cohort study, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
• Cameron D, Gou MS & Sbaffi L (2020) Trust in robot-mediated health information, arXiv.
• Zhao X & Sbaffi L () Evaluating a Pedagogical Approach to Promoting Academic Integrity in Higher Education: An Online Induction Program, Center for Open Science.
• Sbaffi L, Walton J, Blenkinsopp J & Walton G () Information Overload in Emergency Medicine Physicians: A Multisite Case Study Exploring the Causes, Impact, and Solutions in Four North England National Health Service Trusts (Preprint), JMIR Publications Inc..
• McKinney P, Cox AM & Sbaffi L () Information literacy in food and activity tracking among three communities: parkrunners, people with type 2 diabetes and people with IBS (Preprint).