Celebrate Love Data Week with the KSU Libraries!

Join us for Love Data Week 2025 at Kennesaw State University Libraries with fun and informative events! Dive into interactive activities, discover resources to manage your research data, and learn how data impacts our world. Don't miss:
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Build Your Own Data Story with Legos

Transform your data into a creative masterpiece in this fun, hands-on workshop!

  • Sturgis Library (Kennesaw campus) Room 113 | February 10th from 1-3 PM
  • Johnson Library (Marietta campus) outside | February 13th from 2-4 PM 

RSVP here to secure your spot—drop-ins are welcome too!

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Institutional Repository Download Celebration

Celebrate our impressive Institutional Repository download statistics, including the most downloaded, most shared, and most cited works. Whether your work causes a ripple or a crater, the IR helps amplify your influence, ensuring your ideas are seen, shared, and cited across the globe.

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Who Owns your Data?

Curious about who really owns your data on social media? Take part in our quick data poll during Love Data Week and share your thoughts!

Data Poll

Complete the poll by Friday February 14th to be entered for a chance to win a prize.

 

Impact

What is impact? Impact is the reach your ideas have and the changes they trigger. Whether your work causes a ripple or a crater, the institutional repository helps increase your impact. 
 

Alternative Metrics (Altmetrics)

Downloads are only part of the data story on the institutional repository. Other ways of measuring impact is by tracking citations, social media shares, and news mentions. 

Most Downloaded Paper

A MA in American Studies capstone! Jacqueline Winters-Allen’s 2020 capstone entitled ‘Jewish Identity on American Television and Viewer Attitudes in an Era of Rising Anti-Semitism’ was downloaded 12,133 times!

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Most Cited Paper

A Faculty Article by Dr. Joseph F. Hair Jr. from Coles College of Business Dr. Hair and his co-authors’ 2011 article entitled ‘PLS-SEM: Indeed a Silver Bullet’ was cited 114,497 times!

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Most Mentioned Paper

A Faculty Article by Dr. Terry Powis from Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences Dr. Powis and his co-authors’ 2011 article entitled ‘The Use and Domestication of Theobroma cacao during the Mid-Holocene in the Upper Amazon’ was mentioned in blogs and news sites 95 times!

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Most Shared Paper

A Faculty Article by Dr. Ebony Glover from Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences Dr. Glover and her co-authors’ 2015 article entitled ‘Estrogen and Extinction of Fear Memories: Implications for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Treatment’ was shared across social media 185,932 times!

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