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Brenda Dervin

Brenda Dervin publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Library and Information Sciences and Information Systems, on topics such as Library Science and Information Literacy, Information Retrieval and Search Behavior and Communication in Education and Healthcare.

World rank
#37,786
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#17,485
of 358,040
Works
32
Citations
591
Citations per work
18.5

What does Brenda Dervin research?

Sociology and Political Science: 22.2%Library and Information Sciences: 14.8%Information Systems: 14.8%Communication: 11.1%other fields: 37.1%22%top field
Sociology and Political Science22.2%Library and Information Sciences14.8%Information Systems14.8%Communication11.1%other fields37.1%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Sociology and Political Science22% of their works
  2. 2Library and Information Sciences15% of their works
  3. 3Information Systems15% of their works
  4. 4Communication11% of their works
  5. 5Social Psychology7% of their works
  6. 6Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Brenda Dervin's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Academic Libraries, Digital Literacy, Information Behavior, Information Literacy, Information Retrieval, Search Engines, Student Participation and Teacher Immediacy.

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.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Academic Libraries42 topics
  2. Digital Literacy42 topics
  3. Information Behavior31 topic
  4. Information Literacy31 topic
  5. Information Retrieval21 topic
  6. Search Engines21 topic
  7. Student Participation21 topic
  8. Teacher Immediacy21 topic
  9. Technology Integration22 topics
  10. Digital Storytelling11 topic
  11. Digital Textbooks11 topic
  12. E-Books11 topic
  13. Education11 topic
  14. Embodiment11 topic
  15. Information Architecture11 topic
  16. Knowledge Mapping11 topic
  17. Multimodal Literacy11 topic
  18. New Literacies11 topic
  19. Presence11 topic

Where does Brenda Dervin work?

Brenda Dervin's main affiliation in the publication record is The Ohio State University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Brenda Dervin have?

Science Explorer counts 32 works and 591 citations for Brenda Dervin, ranking #37,786 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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