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Researcher · The Ohio State University · United States

Brenda L. Dervin

Brenda L. Dervin publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Communication and Information Systems, on topics such as Social Media and Politics, Knowledge Management and Sharing and Library Science and Information Literacy.

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World rank
#92,300
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#35,524
of 1,627,098
Works
129
Citations
6.7k
Citations per work
52.0
h-index
32
i10-index 56Top 1.8% in Sociology and Political Science
Brenda L. Dervin

What does Brenda L. Dervin research?

Brenda L. Dervin's work is mostly in Social Sciences (42%), Computer Science (12%), Business, Management and Accounting (4%).

Social Sciences: 60 works · 46.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 55 works · 42.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 23 works · 17.9% of their workCommunication: 23 works · 17.6% of their workLibrary and Information Sciences: 9 works · 6.9% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 5 works · 3.8% of their workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 5 works · 3.8% of their workEverything else: 54 works · 42.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 15 works · 11.7% of their workComputer Science: 15 works · 11.7% of their workInformation Systems: 9 works · 7.2% of their workHuman-Computer Interaction: 6 works · 4.5% of their workTHEIR WORKBrenda L. Dervin129works
Physical Sciences12%Social Sciences46%

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 Sciences5542.4%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting53.8%
  2. Everything else5442.1%
    1. Computer Science1511.7%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science18% of their works
  2. 2Communication18% of their works
  3. 3Information Systems7% of their works
  4. 4Library and Information Sciences7% of their works
  5. 5Human-Computer Interaction4% of their works
  6. 6Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Brenda L. Dervin's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Social Media, Digital Divide, Deliberative Democracy, Political Participation, Knowledge Sharing, Virtual Communities, Design Science and Digital Literacy.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Social Media272 topics
  2. Digital Divide222 topics
  3. Deliberative Democracy141 topic
  4. Political Participation141 topic
  5. Knowledge Sharing131 topic
  6. Virtual Communities131 topic
  7. Design Science121 topic
  8. Digital Literacy121 topic
  9. Information Literacy121 topic
  10. Sociomateriality121 topic
  11. Agenda Setting101 topic
  12. Media Framing101 topic
  13. Information Retrieval81 topic
  14. Library Services81 topic
  15. Search Engines81 topic
  16. Social Inclusion81 topic
  17. Student Participation81 topic
  18. Teacher Immediacy81 topic

Where does Brenda L. Dervin work?

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

How many publications and citations does Brenda L. Dervin have?

OpenAlex counts 129 works and 6,708 citations for Brenda L. Dervin, an h-index of 32, ranking #92,300 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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