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Researcher · Indiana University Bloomington · United States

Blaise Cronin

Blaise Cronin publishes mostly in Information Systems, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty and Library and Information Sciences, on topics such as scientometrics and bibliometrics research, Library Science and Information Literacy and Web visibility and informetrics.

OpenAlex
World rank
#128,404
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#48,768
of 1,627,098
Works
324
Citations
11k
Citations per work
33.7
h-index
47
i10-index 124Top 0.3% in Information Systems
Blaise Cronin

What does Blaise Cronin research?

Blaise Cronin's work is mostly in Social Sciences (17%), Computer Science (16%), Decision Sciences (10%).

Everything else: 166 works · 51.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 107 works · 33.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 56 works · 17.3% of their workLibrary and Information Sciences: 26 works · 7.9% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 15 works · 4.7% of their workSociology and Political Science: 15 works · 4.7% of their workDecision Sciences: 31 works · 9.7% of their workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 31 works · 9.7% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 19 works · 6.0% of their workStrategy and Management: 19 works · 6.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 51 works · 15.7% of their workComputer Science: 51 works · 15.7% of their workInformation Systems: 51 works · 15.7% of their workTHEIR WORKBlaise Cronin324works
Physical Sciences16%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 else16651.3%
    1. Social Sciences5617.3%
    2. Decision Sciences319.7%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting196.0%
    1. Computer Science5115.7%
  1. 1Information Systems16% of their works
  2. 2Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty10% of their works
  3. 3Library and Information Sciences8% of their works
  4. 4Strategy and Management6% of their works
  5. 5Political Science and International Relations5% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Blaise Cronin's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Bibliometric Analysis, Research Evaluation, Academic Libraries, Digital Literacy, Information Literacy, Social Media, Virtual Communities and Hyperlink Analysis.

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. Bibliometric Analysis641 topic
  2. Research Evaluation641 topic
  3. Academic Libraries542 topics
  4. Digital Literacy351 topic
  5. Information Literacy351 topic
  6. Social Media312 topics
  7. Virtual Communities292 topics
  8. Hyperlink Analysis271 topic
  9. Webometrics271 topic
  10. Library 2.0191 topic
  11. Library Services191 topic
  12. Social Inclusion191 topic
  13. Web 2.0191 topic
  14. Competitive Intelligence171 topic
  15. Information Architecture171 topic
  16. Information Management171 topic
  17. Knowledge Mapping171 topic
  18. Knowledge Sharing121 topic
  19. Social Capital121 topic

Where does Blaise Cronin work?

Blaise Cronin's main affiliation in the publication record is Indiana University Bloomington, United States.

How many publications and citations does Blaise Cronin have?

OpenAlex counts 324 works and 10,911 citations for Blaise Cronin, an h-index of 47, ranking #128,404 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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