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Researcher · University College London · United Kingdom

Alison Hicks

Alison Hicks publishes mostly in Library and Information Sciences, Information Systems and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Library Science and Information Literacy, Library Science and Administration and Web and Library Services.

ORCID 0000-0002-2124-1730 OpenAlex
World rank
#366,626
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#32,431
of 367,258
Works
134
Citations
856
Citations per work
6.4
h-index
18
i10-index 27Top 2.6% in Library and Information Sciences
Alison Hicks

What does Alison Hicks research?

Alison Hicks's work is mostly in Social Sciences (44%), Computer Science (14%), Arts and Humanities (6%).

Social Sciences: 66 works · 49.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 59 works · 43.9% of their workLibrary and Information Sciences: 25 works · 19.0% of their workSociology and Political Science: 14 works · 10.7% of their workEducation: 11 works · 8.0% of their workCommunication: 8 works · 6.2% of their workArts and Humanities: 7 works · 5.5% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 7 works · 5.5% of their workEverything else: 50 works · 37.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 18 works · 13.5% of their workComputer Science: 18 works · 13.5% of their workInformation Systems: 18 works · 13.5% of their workTHEIR WORKAlison Hicks134works
Physical Sciences14%Social Sciences49%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences5943.9%
    2. Arts and Humanities75.5%
  2. Everything else5037.1%
    1. Computer Science1813.5%
  1. 1Library and Information Sciences19% of their works
  2. 2Information Systems14% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science11% of their works
  4. 4Education8% of their works
  5. 5Communication6% of their works
  6. 6Literature and Literary Theory6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alison Hicks's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Academic Libraries, Digital Literacy, Information Behavior, Information Literacy, Technology Integration, Social Media, Library Services and Social Inclusion.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Academic Libraries532 topics
  2. Digital Literacy432 topics
  3. Information Behavior321 topic
  4. Information Literacy321 topic
  5. Technology Integration322 topics
  6. Social Media302 topics
  7. Library Services231 topic
  8. Social Inclusion231 topic
  9. Library 2.0211 topic
  10. Web 2.0211 topic
  11. Knowledge Management122 topics
  12. Multimodal Literacy111 topic
  13. New Literacies111 topic
  14. Fake News91 topic
  15. Misinformation91 topic
  16. Blended Learning71 topic
  17. Online Learning71 topic
  18. Collaboration61 topic
  19. Evidence-Based Practice61 topic
  20. Healthcare Professionals61 topic
  21. Wikipedia61 topic

Where does Alison Hicks work?

Alison Hicks's main affiliation in the publication record is University College London, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Alison Hicks have?

OpenAlex counts 134 works and 856 citations for Alison Hicks, an h-index of 18, ranking #366,626 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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