2025

• Nikiforova, A., Lnenicka, M., Luterek, M., Milic, P. and Rodríguez, M.P.B., 2025. Theorizing the evolution of public data ecosystems: An empirically grounded multi-generational model and future research agenda. Government Information Quarterly, 42(3), p.102062, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2025.102062.
• Janssen, M., Zhang, H., Ojo, A., Nikiforova, A., Loukis, E., Viale Pereira, G., Scholl, H.J., Liu, H.K., Durkiewicz, J., Hughes, L., Zheng, L., Anthopoulos, L., Panagiotopoulos, P., Janowski, T., Dwivedi, Y.K., 2025. Reflections on the nature of digital government research: Marking the 50th anniversary of Government Information Quarterly, Government Information Quarterly, 42(4), p. 102086, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2025.102086.
• Nikiforova, A., Lnenicka, M., Melin, U., Valle-Cruz, D., Gill, A., Flores, C.C., Sirait, E., Luterek, M., Dreyling, R.M. and Tesarova, B. (2025) Responsible AI Adoption in the Public Sector: A Data-Centric Taxonomy of AI Adoption Challenges. In Proceedings of the 59th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
• Soosaar, K.R. and Nikiforova, A., 2025. Bridging the gap: Unravelling local government data sharing barriers in Estonia and beyond. Computer Law & Security Review, 56, p.106099, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clsr.2024.106099.
• Tamm, H.C. and Nikiforova, A., 2025, October. From data quality for AI to AI for data quality: A systematic review of tools for AI-augmented data quality management in data warehouses. In Perspectives in Business Informatics Research: 24th International Conference, BIR 2025, Riga, Latvia, September 17–19, 2025, Proceedings (p. 37). Springer Nature.
• Nikiforova, A., Staegemann, D., Gill, A. (2025). Sustainable and Trustworthy Digital andData Ecosystems for Societal Transformation. In Proceedings of the 59th Hawaii International Conference onSystem Sciences
• Simonofski, A., Nikiforova, A., Lnenicka, M. and Bono Rossello, N., 2025. Artificial Intelligence as a Catalyzer for Open Government Data Ecosystems: A Typological Theory Approach. In Proceedings of the 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 10.24251/HICSS.2025.267
• Nikiforova, A., Rodriguez Müller, A.P., Tangi, L., Martin-Bosch, J. (2026). Proactive Public Services in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Towards Post-Bureaucratic Governance. In: Lindgren, I., et al. Electronic Government. EGOV 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15944. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-01589-1_25
• Gill, A.Q., Nikiforova, A. (2025). Towards a Data Satellite Architecture for Federated Digital Ecosystems: Combating Data Pollution and Enhancing Trustworthiness. In: Pufahl, L., Rosenthal, K., España, S., Nurcan, S. (eds) Intelligent Information Systems. CAiSE 2025. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 557. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-94590-8_12
• Lnenicka, M., Nikiforova, A., Wang, D. and Bernardini, F., 2025. UX competitive analysis of smart city open data Portals: Usability Framework, design Recommendations, and a roadmap for sustainable data ecosystems. Telematics and Informatics, p.102284. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2025.102284
• Tseng, H. L., & Nikiforova, A. (2025). Navigating the High-Value Dataset Landscape From Determination to Impact: Lessons From Taiwan’s OGD Ecosystem. Information Polity, 15701255241297864.
• Giest, S., McBride, K., Nikiforova, A., Sikder, S. Digital and Data-driven Transformations in Governance: A Landscape Review, Data & Policy, Cambridge University Press, https://doi.org/10.1017/dap.2024.47
• Huseynov, R., Nikiforova, A., Symeonidis, D., Duenas-Cid, D. (2026). May the Data Be with You: Towards an AI-Powered Semantic Recommender for Unlocking Dark Data. In: Lindgren, I., et al. Electronic Government. EGOV 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15944. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-01589-1_15
• Azeroual, O., Nacheva, R., Nikiforova, A., Störl, U. (2025) A CRISP-DM and Predictive Analytics Framework for Enhanced Decision-Making in Research Information Management Systems. Informatica 49 (2025) 67–86
• Lusi, J., Nikiforova, A., Pappel, I. (2025). LLM-Augmented Curriculum Design: A Framework for Curriculum Innovation in Digital Public Infrastructure Education. In: Schmorrow, D.D., Fidopiastis, C.M. (eds) Augmented Cognition. HCII 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 15778. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-93724-8_15
• Symeonidis, D., & Nikiforova, A. (2025). Triple Transition Ecosystem As Catalyst of Public Value Generation. Conference on Digital Government Research, 1. https://doi.org/10.59490/dgo.2025.1008
• Shao, D., Ishengoma, F., Nikiforova, A. and Swetu, M., 2025. Comparative analysis of data protection regulations in East African countries. Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance, 27(4), pp.486-501.
• Symeonidis, Dimitrios and Nikiforova, Anastasija, “Integrating Generative AI with Private Data Ecosystems: Enhancing Decision-Making and Efficiency in the Service Industry of the Private Sector” (2025). SIG SVC Pre-ICIS Workshop 2024. 8. https://aisel.aisnet.org/sprouts_proceedings_sigsvc_2024/
• Kalmus, JE., Nikiforova, A. (2025). To Accept or Not to Accept? An IRT-TOE Framework to Understand Educators’ Resistance to Generative AI in Higher Education. In: Bellas, F., Fontenla-Romero, O. (eds) AI in Education and Educational Research. AIEER 2024. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2519. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-93409-4_9
• Nikiforova, A. (2025). Responsible AI Adoption in Higher Education: Beyond the Brick in the Digital Wall. In Rakic, S., Medić, N., & Popovic, L. (2025). 2nd International Conference on Trends and Challenges in Digital Education (DETC 2025). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17478797

2024

• Lnenicka, M., Nikiforova, A., Luterek, M., Milic, P., Rudmark, D., Neumaier, S., Santoro, C., Casiano Flores, C., Janssen, M., & Rodríguez Bolívar, M. P. (2024). Identifying patterns and recommendations of and for sustainable open data initiatives: A benchmarking-driven analysis of open government data initiatives among European countries. Government Information Quarterly, 41(1): 101898. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2023.101898
• Nikiforova, A., Lnenicka, M., Milić, P., Luterek, M., Rodríguez Bolívar, M.P. (2024). From the Evolution of Public Data Ecosystems to the Evolving Horizons of the Forward-Looking Intelligent Public Data Ecosystem Empowered by Emerging Technologies. In: Janssen, M., et al. Electronic Government. EGOV 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14841. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-70274-7_25
• Lnenicka, M., Nikiforova, A., Luterek, M., Milic, P., Rudmark, D., Neumaier, S., Kević, K., Zuiderwijk, A. and Bolívar, M.P.R., 2024. Understanding the development of public data ecosystems: from a conceptual model to a six-generation model of the evolution of public data ecosystems. Telematics and Informatics, p.102190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2024.102190
• Nikiforova, A., Simonofski, A., Zuiderwijk, A. and Bolivar, M.P.R. 2024. Towards sustainable public and open data ecosystems: An introduction to a special section. Information Polity, p.15701255241300620.
• M. Lnenicka, A. Nikiforova, A. Clarinval, M. Luterek, D. Rudmark, S. Neumaier, K. Kević, M. P. R. Bolívar, Sustainable open data ecosystems in smart cities: A platform theory-based analysis of 19 European cities, Cities, Volume 148, 2024, 104851, ISSN 0264-2751, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2024.104851
• Korobenko, D., Nikiforova, A., & Sharma, R. (2024, June). Towards a Privacy and Security-Aware Framework for Ethical AI: Guiding the Development and Assessment of AI Systems. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (pp. 740-753), https://doi.org/10.1145/3657054.3657141.
• Molodtsov, F., & Nikiforova, A. (2024, June). An Integrated Usability Framework for Evaluating Open Government Data Portals: Comparative Analysis of EU and GCC Countries. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (pp. 899-908), https://doi.org/10.1145/3657054.3657159.
• Tseng, H. L., & Nikiforova, A. (2024, June). Unlocking the Potential of Open Government Data: Exploring the Strategic, Technical, and Application Perspectives of High-Value Datasets Opening in Taiwan. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (pp. 278-287), https://doi.org/10.1145/3657054.3657089.
• Rajamae-Soosaar, K., & Nikiforova, A. (2024, June). Exploring Estonia’s Open Government Data Development as a Journey towards Excellence: Unveiling the Progress of Local Governments in Open Data Provision. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (pp. 920-931), https://doi.org/10.1145/3657054.3657161.
• Nikiforova, A., Tseng, H. L., Azmat Butt, S., Draheim, D., & Liu, L. C. (2024, June). Sociotechnical Transformation in the Decade of Healthy Ageing to empower the Silver Economy: Bridging the Silver Divide through Social and Digital Inclusion. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (pp. 977-980), https://doi.org/10.1145/3657054.3657166.
• Santoro, C., Flores, C.C., Nikiforova, A., Zuiderwijk, A. and Crompvoets, J., 2024. Exploring Governance Modes in Open Data Initiatives: Insights from France and Ireland, Proceedings of Ongoing Research, Practitioners, Workshops, Posters, and Projects of the International Conference EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2024.
• Kliimask, K. and Nikiforova, A., 2024. TAGIFY: LLM-powered Tagging Interface for Improved Data Findability on OGD portals. In Proceeding of the International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications (IDSTA2024)
• Kalmus, Jan-Erik and Nikiforova, Anastasija, “Generative AI Adoption in Higher Education: Exploring Educator Resistance in Estonian Universities” (2024). Proceedings of the 2024 Pre-ICIS SIGDSA Symposium. 13. https://aisel.aisnet.org/sigdsa2024/13
• Symeonidis, D, Nikiforova, A. (2024) Integrating Generative AI with Public Data Ecosystems: Enhancing Decision-Making and Efficiency in the Service Industry of the Private Sector. Pre-ICIS SIG Services Workshop on Synergizing Service Ecosystems with AI
• Quarati, A., Nikiforova, A. Automating the Identification of High-Value Datasets in Open Government Data Portals, arXiv:2406.10541
• Molodtsov, F., & Nikiforova, A. (2024). From an Integrated Usability Framework to Lessons on Usability and Performance of Open Government Data Portals: A Comparative Study of European Union and Gulf Cooperation Council Countries. arXiv preprint, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2406.08774
• Nikiforova, A., Clarinval, A., Zuiderwijk, A., Rudmark, D., Milic, P. and Rajamäe-Soosaar, K., 2024. Innovation Resistance Theory in Action: Unveiling Barriers to Open Government Data Adoption by Public Organizations to Unlock Open Data Innovation. arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.10883.

2023

• Guerra-García, C., Nikiforova, A., Jiménez, S., Perez-Gonzalez, H. G., Ramírez-Torres, M., & Ontañon-García, L. (2023). ISO/IEC 25012-based methodology for managing data quality requirements in the development of information systems: Data quality by design. Data & Knowledge Engineering, 102152, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.datak.2023.102152
• McBride, K., Nikiforova, A., and Lnenicka, M. (2023) ‘The Role of Open Government Data and Co-creation in Crisis Management: Initial Conceptual Propositions from the COVID-19 Pandemic’. Information Polity, 28(2), 219-238, http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/IP-220057
• Ukpabi, D.C., Karjaluoto, H., Botticher, A., Nikiforova, A., Petrescu, D.I., Schindler, P., Valtenbergs, V., Lehmann, L., Framework for Understanding Quantum Computing Use Cases From A Multidisciplinary Perspective and Future Research Directions, Futures, 2023, 103277, ISSN 0016-3287, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2023.103277
• Nikiforova, A., Flores, M.A.A. and Lytras, M.D. (2023), “The Role of Open Data in Transforming the Society to Society 5.0: A Resource or a Tool for SDG-Compliant Smart Living?“, Lytras, M.D., Housawi, A.A. and Alsaywid, B.S. (Ed.) Smart Cities and Digital Transformation: Empowering Communities, Limitless Innovation, Sustainable Development and the Next Generation, Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 219-252. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80455-994-920231011
• Nikiforova, A., Rizun, N., Ciesielska, M., Alexopoulos, C., Miletić, A. (2023). Towards High-Value Datasets Determination for Data-Driven Development: A Systematic Literature Review. In: Lindgren, I., et al. Electronic Government. EGOV 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14130. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41138-0_14
• Nikiforova, A., Alexopoulos, C., Rizun, N., Ciesielska, M. (2023) Identification of High-Value Dataset determinants: is there a silver bullet for efficient sustainability-oriented data-driven development? In Proceedings of the 24th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (pp. 676-678), 10.1145/3598469.3598556
• Nikiforova, A. (2023). Open Data Hackathon as a Tool for Increased Engagement of Generation Z: To Hack or Not to Hack?. In: Ortiz-Rodríguez, F., Tiwari, S., Sicilia, MA., Nikiforova, A. (eds) Electronic Governance with Emerging Technologies. EGETC 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22950-3_13
• Nikiforova, A., Draheim, D., Taveter, K., Bharosa, N. (2023). PPPS’2023 – Proactive and Personalised Public Services: Searching for Meaningful Human Control in Algorithmic Government. EGOV-CeDEM-ePart2023, September,5-7, 2023, Budapest, Hungary
• Lacagnina, C., David, R., Nikiforova, A., Kuusniemi, M. E., Cappiello, C., Biehlmaier, O., Wright, L., Schubert, C., Bertino, A., Thiemann, H., & Dennis, R. (2023). Towards a data quality framework for EOSC. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7515816
• Wilkinson MD, Sansone SA, Méndez E., David R., Dennis R., Hecker D., Kleemola M., Lacagnina C., Nikiforova A., Castro L. (2023) Community-driven governance of FAIRness assessment: an open issue, an open discussion [version 2; peer review: 2 approved with reservations]. Open Res Europe 2023, 2:146 (https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.15364.2)
• Azeroual O., Nacheva R., Nikiforova A., Störl U., Fraisse A. (2023) Predictive Analytics intelligent decision-making framework and testing it through sentiment analysis on Twitter data. In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies (CompSysTech ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 42–53. https://doi.org/10.1145/3606305.3606309
• O. Azeroual, A. Nikiforova and K. Sha, “Overlooked Aspects of Data Governance: Workflow Framework For Enterprise Data Deduplication,” 2023 International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Communication, Networking and Services (ICCNS), Valencia, Spain, 2023, pp. 65-73, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICCNS58795.2023.10193478.
• Nikiforova, A., Daskevics, A. and Azeroual, O. (2023), “NoSQL Security: Can My Data-driven Decision-making Be Influenced from Outside?“, Visvizi, A., Troisi, O. and Grimaldi, M. (Ed.) Big Data and Decision-Making: Applications and Uses in the Public and Private Sector (Emerald Studies in Politics and Technology), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 59-73. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80382-551-920231005
• Nikiforova, A. (2023). Data Security as a Top Priority in the Digital World: Preserve Data Value by Being Proactive and Thinking Security First. In: Visvizi, A., Troisi, O., Grimaldi, M. (eds) Research and Innovation Forum 2022. RIIFORUM 2022. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19560-0_1
• Shao, D., Ishengoma, F.R., Alexopoulos, C., Saxena, S., Nikiforova, A. and Matheus, R., 2023. Integration of IoT into e-government, Foresight, https://doi.org/10.1108/FS-04-2022-0048
• Chang, V., Marshall, R., Xu, Q. A., & Nikiforova, A. (2023). E-commerce assistant application incorporating machine learning image classification. International Journal of Business and Systems Research, 17(1), 1-26, https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBSR.2023.127711
• Kante N., Nikiforova A., Kaleja K., Svandere A., Mežinska S., Pečulis R., Rovite V. Dynamic informed consent system, citizen science data management, quality control and integration for Latvian Genome Database, Abstracts from the 55th European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG) Conference: Hybrid Posters. Eur J Hum Genet 31 (Suppl 1), 345–709 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41431-023-01338-4
• Azeroual, O., Schöpfel, J., Pölönen, J., Nikiforova, A. (2023). FAIRification of CRIS: A Review. In: Coenen, F., et al. Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management. IC3K 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1842. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43471-6_13
• Daase, C.; Staegemann, D.; Nikiforova, A.; Chang, V.; Hintsch, J.; Volk, M. and Turowski, K. (2023). Towards the Creation of a Holistic Video Analytics Platform for Retail Environments. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Smart Business Technologies – ICSBT; ISBN 978-989-758-667-5; ISSN 2184-772X, SciTePress, pages 216-225. DOI: 10.5220/0012148600003552
• Chang V., Xiao L., Nikiforova A., Xu Q., Liu B. (2023) The Study of PGP Web of Trust Based on Social Network Analysis, International Journal of Business Information Systems, 44(2), pp.285-302, https://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJBIS.2023.134956
• Bötticher A., Nikiforova A., Ruhland J., Kettemann M. (2023), Reframing Political Power in the Digital Constellation: Taking Technopolitics Seriously, Future Law Working Paper 2023-2, Department of Theory and Future of Law, University of Innsbruck, Austria

2022

• Lnenicka, M., Nikiforova, A., Luterek, M., Azeroual, O., Ukpabi, D., Valtenbergs, V., Machova, R. (2022) Transparency of open data ecosystems in smart cities: definition and assessment of the maturity of transparency in 22 smart cities, Sustainable Cities and Society, 103906, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2022.103906
• Lněnička, M., Nikiforova, A., Saxena, S. and Singh, P. (2022), Investigation into the adoption of open government data among students: the behavioural intention-based comparative analysis of three countries, Aslib Journal of Information Management, Vol. 74 No. 3, pp. 549-567. https://doi.org/10.1108/AJIM-08-2021-0249
• Nikiforova A., Zuiderwijk A. (2022) Barriers to openly sharing government data: towards an open data-adapted innovation resistance theory, In 15th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV 2022). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 215–220, https://doi.org/10.1145/3560107.3560143 – best paper award nominee
• Azeroual O., Schöpfel J., Pölönen J., and Nikiforova N. (2022). Putting FAIR principles in the context of research information: FAIRness for CRIS and CRIS for FAIRness. In Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management – Vol. 3: KMIS, pp. 63-71. 10.5220/0011548700003335 – best paper award
• Nikiforova A. (2022) Gen Z open data hackathon – civic innovation with digital natives: to hack or not to hack, In Proceedings of Ongoing Research, Practitioners, Workshops, Posters, and Projects of the International Conference EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2022, pp. 251-253, September 5-8, Linkoping, Sweden
• Lnenicka M., Luterek M., Nikiforova A. (2022) Benchmarking open data efforts through indices and rankings: Assessing development and contexts of use, Telematics and Informatics, 2021, 101745, ISSN 0736-5853, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2021.101745
• Saxena, S., Shao, D., Nikiforova, A. and Thapliyal, R. (2022), Invoking blockchain technology in e-government services: a cybernetic perspective, Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance, Vol. 24 No. 3, pp. 246-258. https://doi.org/10.1108/DPRG-10-2021-0128
• Azeroual, O., Jha, M., Nikiforova, A., Sha, K., Alsmirat, M., & Jha, S. (2022). A Record Linkage-Based Data Deduplication Framework with DataCleaner Extension. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 6(4), 27, https://doi.org/10.3390/mti6040027
• Azeroual, O., Schöpfel, J., Ivanović, D., & Nikiforova, A. (2022). Combining Data Lake and Data Wrangling for Ensuring Data Quality in CRIS. Procedia Computer Science, Vol. 211, pp. 3-16, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2022.10.171.
• Tékouabou, Stéphane C. K., Jérôme Chenal, Rida Azmi, Hamza Toulni, El Bachir Diop, and Anastasija Nikiforova. 2022. Identifying and Classifying Urban Data Sources for Machine Learning-Based Sustainable Urban Planning and Decision Support Systems Development, Data 7, no. 12: 170. https://doi.org/10.3390/data7120170
• Salminen J., Mustak M., Rizun N., Revina A., Nikiforova A., Almerekhi H., Jung S., Jansen B.J. (2022) Integrating AI into Customer Service: Improving the Actionability of Customer Feedback Analysis Using Machine Learning, in Proceedings of the 4th international conference on AIRSI2022 Technologies 4.0 in Tourism, Services & Marketing (AIRSI – Artificial Intelligence, Immersive Technologies, Social Networks and Internet of Things) (web-based), July 2022 (extended abstract)
• Azeroual, O., Nikiforova, A. Apache Spark and MLlib-Based Intrusion Detection System or How the Big Data Technologies Can Secure the Data. Information 2022, 13, 58. https://doi.org/10.3390/info13020058
• Nikiforova A., Rovite V., Tiwari S., Klovins J., Kante N., Evaluation and visualization of healthcare semantic models, Editor(s): Sanju Tiwari, Fernando Ortiz Rodriguez, M.A. Jabbar, In Intelligent Data-Centric Systems, Semantic Models in IoT and Ehealth Applications, Academic Press, 2022, pp. 39-68, ISBN 9780323917735, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-32-391773-5.00009-1.
• Ishengoma, F.R., Shao, D., Alexopoulos, C., Saxena, S. and Nikiforova, A. (2022), “Integration of artificial intelligence of things (AIoT) in the public sector: drivers, barriers and future research agenda“, Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance, Vol. 24 No. 5, pp. 449-462. https://doi.org/10.1108/DPRG-06-2022-0067
• Govoruhina A., Nikiforova A. (2022) Digital health shopping assistant with React Native: a simple technological solution to a complex health problem, 2022 International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications (IDSTA), 2022, pp. 34-40, doi: 10.1109/IDSTA55301.2022.9923047.
• Kumar N., Jilani A. K., Kumar P., Nikiforova A. (2022). Improved YOLOv3-tiny Object Detector with Dilated CNN for Drone-Captured Images, 2022 International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications (IDSTA), 2022, pp. 89-94, doi: 10.1109/IDSTA55301.2022.9923041.
• Wilkinson, M. D., Sansone, S. A., Méndez, E., David, R., Dennis, R., Hecker, D., Lacagnina, C. ., Nikiforova, A., & Castro, L. J. (2022). Community-driven Governance of FAIRness Assessment: An Open Issue, an Open Discussion. Open Research Europe 2022, 2:146 (https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.15364.1)

2021

• Nikiforova, A., Bicevskis, J., Bicevska, Z., & Oditis, I. (2020). Data Quality Model-based Testing of Information Systems: the Use-case of E-scooters. In 2020 7th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS 2020)
• Nikiforova, A. (2020, October). Timeliness of Open Data in Open Government Data Portals Through Pandemic-related Data: a long data way from the publisher to the user. In 2020 Fourth International Conference on Multimedia Computing, Networking and Applications (MCNA) (pp. 131-138). IEEE.
• Nikiforova, A., Bicevskis, J., Karnitis, G. (2020). Towards a Concurrence Analysis in Business Processes. In 2020 7th International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security (SNAMS 2020)
• Bicevskis, J., Bicevska, Z., Nikiforova, A., & Oditis, I. (2020, September). Data Quality Model-based Testing of Information Systems. In 2020 15th Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) (pp. 595-602). IEEE – best paper award
• Nikiforova, A. (2020). Comparative analysis of national open data portals or whether your portal is ready to bring benefits from open data. In IADIS International Conference on ICT, Society and Human Beings (pp. 21-23)
• Nikiforova, A. (2020). Assessment of the usability of Latvia’s open data portal or how close are we to gaining benefits from open data. In IADIS 14th International Conference on Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction (pp. 51-28).
• Nikiforova, A. (2020). Definition and Evaluation of Data Quality: User-Oriented Data Object-Driven Approach to Data Quality Assessment. Baltic Journal of Modern Computing, 8(3), 391-432
• Nikiforova, A., & Bicevskis, J. (2020). Towards a Business Process Model-based Testing of Information Systems Functionality. In ICEIS (2) (pp. 322-329)
• Nikiforova, A., Bicevskis, J., Bicevska, Z., & Oditis, I. (2020). User-Oriented Approach to Data Quality Evaluation. J. UCS, 26(1), 107-126

2019

• Bicevskis, J., Nikiforova, A., Bicevska, Z., Oditis, I., & Karnitis, G. (2019, October). A Step Towards a Data Quality Theory. In 2019 Sixth International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security (SNAMS) (pp. 303-308). IEEE.
• Bicevskis, J., Bicevska, Z., Nikiforova, A., & Oditis, I. (2019, September). Towards Data Quality Runtime Verification. In 2019 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) (pp. 639-643). (Scopus, Web of Science)
• Nikiforova, A. (2019). Analysis of Open Health Data Quality Using Data Object-Driven Approach to Data Quality Evaluation: Insights from a Latvian Context. In IADIS International Conference e-Health (pp. 119-126).
• Nikiforova, A., & Bicevskis, J. (2019). An Extended Data Object-driven Approach to Data Quality Evaluation: Contextual Data Quality Analysis. In ICEIS (1) (pp. 274-281).

2018

• Bicevskis, J., Bicevska, Z., Nikiforova, A., & Oditis, I. (2018, October). An Approach to Data Quality Evaluation. In 2018 Fifth International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security (SNAMS) (pp. 196-201). IEEE.
• Bicevskis, J., Bicevska, Z., Nikiforova, A., & Oditis, I. (2018). Data quality evaluation: a comparative analysis of company registers’ open data in four European countries. In FedCSIS (Communication Papers) (pp. 197-204).
• Nikiforova, A., & Bicevska, Z. (2018). Application of LEAN Principles to Improve Business Processes: a Case Study in Latvian IT Company. Baltic Journal of Modern Computing, 6(3), 247-270.
• Nikiforova, A. (2018). Open Data Quality Evaluation: A Comparative Analysis of Open Data in Latvia. Baltic Journal of Modern Computing, 6(4), 363-386.
• Nikiforova, A. (2018). Open Data Quality, CEUR