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Researcher · Aberystwyth University · United Kingdom

Allen Edward Foster

Allen Edward Foster publishes mostly in Information Systems, Library and Information Sciences and Communication, on topics such as Information Retrieval and Search Behavior, Knowledge Management and Sharing and Library Science and Information Literacy.

ORCID 0000-0002-1086-8837 OpenAlex
World rank
#583,508
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#50,079
of 367,258
Works
40
Citations
1.9k
Citations per work
47.1
h-index
16
i10-index 19Top 7.6% in Information Systems
Allen Edward Foster

What does Allen Edward Foster research?

Allen Edward Foster's work is mostly in Computer Science (32%), Social Sciences (27%), Decision Sciences (6%).

Everything else: 14 works · 34.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 13 works · 33.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 11 works · 27.1% of their workCommunication: 4 works · 10.4% of their workLibrary and Information Sciences: 4 works · 10.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 3 works · 6.3% of their workDecision Sciences: 3 works · 6.3% of their workInformation Systems and Management: 3 works · 6.3% of their workPhysical Sciences: 13 works · 32.3% of their workComputer Science: 13 works · 32.3% of their workInformation Systems: 10 works · 24.0% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 3 works · 8.3% of their workTHEIR WORKAllen EdwardFoster40works
Physical Sciences32%Social Sciences33%

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. Everything else1434.3%
    1. Social Sciences1127.1%
    2. Decision Sciences36.3%
    1. Computer Science1332.3%
  1. 1Information Systems24% of their works
  2. 2Library and Information Sciences10% of their works
  3. 3Communication10% of their works
  4. 4Artificial Intelligence8% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science6% of their works
  6. 6Information Systems and Management6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Allen Edward Foster's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Information Retrieval, Search Engines, Knowledge Sharing, Social Media, Knowledge Management, Digital Literacy, Information Literacy and Social Capital.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Information Retrieval131 topic
  2. Search Engines131 topic
  3. Knowledge Sharing122 topics
  4. Social Media122 topics
  5. Knowledge Management82 topics
  6. Digital Literacy71 topic
  7. Information Literacy71 topic
  8. Social Capital71 topic
  9. Virtual Communities71 topic
  10. Community Question Answering51 topic
  11. Expert Finding51 topic
  12. Information Overload51 topic
  13. Interruptions51 topic
  14. Archives31 topic
  15. Automatic31 topic
  16. Collaboration31 topic
  17. Digital Preservation31 topic
  18. Extraction31 topic
  19. Wikipedia31 topic

Where does Allen Edward Foster work?

Allen Edward Foster's main affiliation in the publication record is Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Allen Edward Foster have?

OpenAlex counts 40 works and 1,882 citations for Allen Edward Foster, an h-index of 16, ranking #583,508 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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