David Nicholas
Impact in
- Library and Information Sciences top 0.05%
- Library Science and Information Literacy
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- scientometrics and bibliometrics research
Papers in
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- Information Retrieval and Search Behavior 32
- Library Collection Development and Digital Resources 30
- Expert finding and Q&A systems 20
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- Digital Marketing and Social Media 25
- Co-authors
- Paul Huntington (95 shared papers)Ian Rowlands (46 shared papers)Hamid R. Jamali (75 shared papers)Peter Williams (64 shared papers)Anthony Watkinson (54 shared papers)Eti Herman (57 shared papers)Carol Tenopir (32 shared papers)Barrie Gunter (26 shared papers)
- Journals
- Learned Publishing (48 papers)The American Historical Review (22 papers)Journal of Information Science (18 papers)Journal of Documentation (12 papers)El Profesional de la Informacion (10 papers)
- Partner nations
- United KingdomUnited StatesPoland
In The Last Decade
David Nicholas
359 papers receiving 6.7k citations
David Nicholas's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 178
- Library and Information Sciences 682
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty 1.2k
- Information Systems and Management 1.2k
- Communication 865
- Information Systems 2.7k
Countries citing papers authored by David Nicholas
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Fields of papers citing papers by David Nicholas
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Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside David Nicholas, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
Showing the 20 most-cited of 386 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Google generation: the information behaviour of the researcher of the future Hit paper breakdown → | 2008 | 380 |
| 2 | 2011 | 225 | |
| 3 | 1995 | 196 | |
| 4 | 1985 | 158 | |
| 5 | 2014 | 151 | |
| 6 | 2007 | 128 | |
| 7 | 1976 | 122 | |
| 8 | 2017 | 105 | |
| 9 | 2002 | 103 | |
| 10 | 2001 | 101 | |
| 11 | 2009 | 99 | |
| 12 | 2008 | 91 | |
| 13 | The Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future | 2007 | 85 |
| 14 | 2001 | 85 | |
| 15 | 2017 | 77 | |
| 16 | 2011 | 75 | |
| 17 | 2013 | 75 | |
| 18 | 2005 | 75 | |
| 19 | 2010 | 66 | |
| 20 | 2003 | 65 |
About David Nicholas
David Nicholas is a scholar working on Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Information Systems and Management and General Health Professions, having authored 386 papers that have together received 7.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include scientometrics and bibliometrics research (53 papers), Information Retrieval and Search Behavior (32 papers), Library Collection Development and Digital Resources (30 papers), Digital Marketing and Social Media (25 papers), Health Literacy and Information Accessibility (23 papers), Knowledge Management and Sharing (22 papers), Library Science and Information Literacy (22 papers) and Expert finding and Q&A systems (20 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Library and Information Sciences (682 citations), Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty (1.2k citations), Information Systems and Management (1.2k citations), Communication (865 citations) and Information Systems (2.7k citations). David Nicholas has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Poland. Frequent co-authors include Paul Huntington, Ian Rowlands, Hamid R. Jamali, Peter Williams, Anthony Watkinson, Eti Herman, Carol Tenopir, Barrie Gunter, Blanca Rodríguez Bravo and Richard Sennett. Their work appears in journals such as Learned Publishing, The American Historical Review, Journal of Information Science, Journal of Documentation and El Profesional de la Informacion.
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