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  1. Automating the identification of High-Value Datasets in open government data portals: A US municipalities case study

    Article • Telematics and Informatics, June 2026, Elsevier

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  2. Reducing Administrative Burden by Automating the Translation of Administrative Law Into Digital Twins of Legislation

    Article • January 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  3. From Data Quality for AI to AI for Data Quality: A Systematic Review of Tools for AI-Augmented Data Quality Management in Data Warehouses

    Article • September 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  4. May the Data Be with You: Towards an AI-Powered Semantic Recommender for Unlocking Dark Data

    Article • August 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    David Duenas-Cid, Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  5. Proactive Public Services in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Towards Post-Bureaucratic Governance

    Article • August 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  6. UX competitive analysis of smart city open data portals: usability framework, design recommendations, and a roadmap for sustainable data ecosystems

    Article • Telematics and Informatics, July 2025, Elsevier

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  7. Triple Transition Ecosystem As Catalyst of Public Value Generation

    Article • Conference on Digital Government Research, May 2025, Delft University of Technology

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  8. Bridging the gap: Unravelling local government data sharing barriers in Estonia and beyond

    Article • Computer Law & Security Review, April 2025, Elsevier

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  9. Digital & data-driven transformations in governance: a landscape review

    Article • Data & Policy, January 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  10. LLM-Augmented Curriculum Design: A Framework for Curriculum Innovation in Digital Public Infrastructure Education

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  11. To Accept or Not to Accept? An IRT-TOE Framework to Understand Educators’ Resistance to Generative AI in Higher Education

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  12. Towards a Data Satellite Architecture for Federated Digital Ecosystems: Combating Data Pollution and Enhancing Trustworthiness

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  13. Navigating the High-Value Dataset Landscape From Determination to Impact: Lessons From Taiwan's OGD Ecosystem

    Article • Information Polity, November 2024, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  14. Towards sustainable public and open data ecosystems: An introduction to a special section

    Article • Information Polity, November 2024, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova, Full Professor Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar

  15. Comparative analysis of data protection regulations in East African countries

    Article • Digital Policy Regulation and Governance, October 2024, Emerald

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  16. Understanding the development of public data ecosystems: From a conceptual model to a six-generation model of the evolution of public data ecosystems

    Article • Telematics and Informatics, October 2024, Elsevier

    Full Professor Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar, Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  17. TAGIFY: LLM-powered Tagging Interface for Improved Data Findability on OGD portals

    Article • September 2024, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  18. Unlocking the Potential of Open Government Data: Exploring the Strategic, Technical, and Application Perspectives of High-Value Datasets Opening in Taiwan

    Article • June 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  19. Sociotechnical Transformation in the Decade of Healthy Ageing to empower the Silver Economy: Bridging the Silver Divide through Social and Digital Inclusion

    Article • June 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  20. Exploring Estonia's Open Government Data Development as a Journey towards Excellence: Unveiling the Progress of Local Governments in Open Data Provision

    Article • June 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  21. An Integrated Usability Framework for Evaluating Open Government Data Portals: Comparative Analysis of EU and GCC Countries

    Article • June 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova, Fillip Molodtsov

  22. Towards a Privacy and Security-Aware Framework for Ethical AI: Guiding the Development and Assessment of AI Systems

    Article • June 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova, Daria Korobenko

  23. Sustainable open data ecosystems in smart cities

    Article • Cities, May 2024, Elsevier

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova, Full Professor Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar

  24. A benchmarking-driven analysis of OGD initiatives among European countries

    Article • Government Information Quarterly, March 2024, Elsevier

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova, Full Professor Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar

  25. From the Evolution of Public Data Ecosystems to the Evolving Horizons of the Forward-Looking Intelligent Public Data Ecosystem Empowered by Emerging Technologies

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Full Professor Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar, Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  26. Framework for understanding quantum computing use cases and future research directions

    Article • Futures, December 2023, Elsevier

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova, Professor Heikki Karjaluoto

  27. Community-driven governance of FAIRness assessment: an open issue, an open discussion

    Article • Open Research Europe, September 2023, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova, Dr Eva M. Mendez

  28. Identification of High-Value Dataset determinants

    Article • July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Charalampos Alexopoulos, Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  29. Overlooked Aspects of Data Governance: Workflow Framework For Enterprise Data Deduplication

    Article • June 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova, Dr. Otmane Azeroual

  30. Predictive Analytics intelligent decision-making framework

    Article • June 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Otmane Azeroual, Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova, Radka Nacheva

  31. The Role of Open Data in Transforming the Society to Society 5.0

    Article • June 2023, Emerald

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  32. Open government data and co-creation in crisis management

    Article • Information Polity, May 2023, IOS Press

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  33. ISO/IEC 25012-based methodology for managing data quality in the development of IS

    Article • Data & Knowledge Engineering, May 2023, Elsevier

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  34. Dynamic informed consent system, citizen science data management, quality control and integration

    Article • European Journal of Human Genetics, May 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  35. Integration of IoT into e-government

    Article • foresight, March 2023, Emerald

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  36. NoSQL Security: Can My Data-driven Decision-making Be Influenced from Outside?

    Article • January 2023, Emerald

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova, Dr. Otmane Azeroual

  37. Data Security as a Top Priority in the Digital World

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  38. FAIRification of CRIS: A Review

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova, Dr. Otmane Azeroual

  39. Towards High-Value Datasets Determination for Data-Driven Development

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  40. E-commerce assistant application incorporating machine learning image classification

    Article • International Journal of Business and Systems Research, January 2023, Inderscience Publishers

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  41. Towards the Creation of a Holistic Video Analytics Platform for Retail Environments

    Article • January 2023, Scitepress

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  42. The study of PGP web of trust based on social network analysis

    Article • International Journal of Business Information Systems, January 2023, Inderscience Publishers

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  43. Community-driven governance of FAIRness assessment

    Article • Open Research Europe, December 2022, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova, Dr Eva M. Mendez

  44. Urban Data Sources for ML-Based Sustainable Urban Planning and DSS Development

    Article • Data, November 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  45. Barriers to Openly Sharing Government Data via Open Data-adapted Innovation Resistance Theory

    Article • October 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova, Dr Anneke Zuiderwijk

  46. Integration of artificial intelligence of things (AIoT) in the public sector: drivers, barriers and future research agenda

    Article • Digital Policy Regulation and Governance, September 2022, Emerald

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  47. Improved YOLOv3-tiny Object Detector with Dilated CNN for Drone-Captured Images

    Article • September 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. PAVAN KUMAR, Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  48. Digital health shopping assistant with React Native: a simple technological solution to a complex health problem

    Article • September 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  49. Definition and assessment of the maturity of transparency of open data ecosystems in smart cities

    Article • Sustainable Cities and Society, July 2022, Elsevier

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova, Dr. Otmane Azeroual

  50. A Record Linkage-Based Data Deduplication Framework with DataCleaner Extension

    Article • Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, April 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova, Dr. Otmane Azeroual

  51. Invoking blockchain technology in e-government services: a cybernetic perspective

    Article • Digital Policy Regulation and Governance, April 2022, Emerald

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  52. Benefits of Open Government Data Initiatives in Saudi Arabia and Barriers to Their Implementation

    Article • Journal of Global Information Management, February 2022, IGI Global

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  53. Apache Spark and MLlib-Based Intrusion Detection System

    Article • Information, January 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova, Dr. Otmane Azeroual

  54. The behavioural intention-based comparative analysis into the adoption of OGD in three countries

    Article • Aslib Journal of Information Management, January 2022, Emerald

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  55. Benchmarking open data efforts through indices and rankings

    Article • Telematics and Informatics, January 2022, Elsevier

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  56. E-Commerce Assistant Application incorporating Machine Learning Image Classification

    Article • International Journal of Business and Systems Research, January 2022, Inderscience Publishers

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  57. Evaluation and visualization of healthcare semantic models

    Article • January 2022, Elsevier

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  58. Open Data Hackathon as a Tool for Increased Engagement of Generation Z: To Hack or Not to Hack?

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  59. Putting FAIR Principles in the Context of Research Information

    Article • January 2022, Scitepress

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova, Dr. Otmane Azeroual

  60. Combining Data Lake and Data Wrangling for Ensuring Data Quality in CRIS

    Article • Procedia Computer Science, January 2022, Elsevier

    Dr. Otmane Azeroual, Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  61. IoTSE-based open database vulnerability inspection in three Baltic countries: ShoBEVODSDT sees you

    Article • December 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  62. ShoBeVODSDT: Shodan and Binary Edge based vulnerable open data sources detection tool or what Internet of Things Search Engines know about you

    Article • November 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  63. Stakeholder-centred Identification of Data Quality Issues: Knowledge that Can Save Your Business

    Article • November 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  64. Towards enrichment of OGD: a stakeholder-centered determination of High-Value Data sets for Latvia

    Article • October 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  65. A multi-perspective knowledge-driven approach for analysis of the demand side of the Open Government Data portal

    Article • Government Information Quarterly, October 2021, Elsevier

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  66. Risks of Concurrent Execution in E-Commerce Processes

    Article • September 2021, Polish Information Processing Society PTI

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  67. Transparency-by-design: What is the role of open data portals?

    Article • Telematics and Informatics, August 2021, Elsevier

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  68. Smarter Open Government Data for Society 5.0: Are Your Open Data Smart Enough?

    Article • Sensors, July 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  69. Open government data portal usability: A user-centred usability analysis of 41 open government data portals

    Article • Telematics and Informatics, May 2021, Elsevier

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  70. Data Quality Model-Based Testing of Information Systems: Two-Level Testing of the Insurance System

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  71. Digitalization in Sports to Connect Child’s Sport Clubs, Parents and Kids: Simple Solution for Tackling Social and Psychological Issues

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  72. Analysis of Concurrent Execution of Business Processes

    Article • Baltic Journal of Modern Computing, January 2021, University of Latvia

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  73. Data Quality Model-based Testing of Information Systems: the Use-case of E-scooters

    Article • December 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  74. Towards a Concurrence Analysis in Business Processes

    Article • December 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  75. Timeliness of Open Data in Open Government Data Portals Through Pandemic-related Data: a long data way from the publisher to the user

    Article • October 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  76. Definition and Evaluation of Data Quality: User-Oriented Data Object-Driven Approach to Data Quality Assessment

    Article • Baltic Journal of Modern Computing, September 2020, University of Latvia

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  77. Data Quality Model-based Testing of Information Systems

    Article • September 2020, Polish Information Processing Society PTI

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  78. User-Oriented Approach to Data Quality Evaluation

    Article • JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science, January 2020, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  79. The Study of PGP Web of Trust Based on Social Network Analysis

    Article • International Journal of Business Information Systems, January 2020, Inderscience Publishers

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  80. Towards a Business Process Model-based Testing of Information Systems Functionality

    Article • January 2020, Scitepress

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  81. A Step Towards a Data Quality Theory

    Article • October 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  82. Towards Data Quality Runtime Verification

    Article • September 2019, Polish Information Processing Society PTI

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  83. ANALYSIS OF OPEN HEALTH DATA QUALITY USING DATA OBJECT-DRIVEN APPROACH TO DATA QUALITY EVALUATION: INSIGHTS FROM A LATVIAN CONTEXT

    Article • July 2019, IADIS - International Association for the Development of the Information Society

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  84. An Approach to Data Quality Evaluation

    Article • October 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  85. Data quality evaluation: a comparative analysis of company registers’ open data in four European countries

    Article • September 2018, Polish Information Processing Society PTI

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  86. Application of LEAN Principles to Improve Business Processes: a Case Study in a Latvian IT Company

    Article • Baltic Journal of Modern Computing, January 2018, University of Latvia

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova

  87. Open Data Quality Evaluation: A Comparative Analysis of Open Data in Latvia

    Article • Baltic Journal of Modern Computing, January 2018, University of Latvia

    Dr. Anastasija Nikiforova