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Researcher · University of the Witwatersrand · South Africa

Edward Swanson

Edward Swanson publishes mostly in Information Systems, Anthropology and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Library Science and Information Systems, Library Collection Development and Digital Resources and Mathematics, Computing, and Information Processing.

OpenAlex
World rank
#4,477,424
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#19,431
of 29,826
Works
53
Citations
21
Citations per work
0.4
h-index
2
i10-index 0Top 94% in Information Systems
Edward Swanson

What does Edward Swanson research?

Edward Swanson's work is mostly in Computer Science (38%), Social Sciences (13%), Arts and Humanities (4%).

Everything else: 22 works · 41.2% of their workPhysical Sciences: 20 works · 38.4% of their workComputer Science: 20 works · 38.4% of their workInformation Systems: 18 works · 34.6% of their workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 2 works · 3.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 11 works · 20.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 7 works · 12.8% of their workAnthropology: 3 works · 6.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 3 works · 6.4% of their workArts and Humanities: 2 works · 3.8% of their workMusic: 2 works · 3.8% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 works · 3.8% of their workManagement Information Systems: 2 works · 3.8% of their workTHEIR WORKEdward Swanson53works
Physical Sciences38%Social Sciences20%

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 else2241.2%
    1. Computer Science2038.4%
    1. Social Sciences712.8%
    2. Arts and Humanities23.8%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting23.8%
  1. 1Information Systems35% of their works
  2. 2Anthropology6% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science6% of their works
  4. 4Computational Theory and Mathematics4% of their works
  5. 5Music4% of their works
  6. 6Management Information Systems4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Edward Swanson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Linked Data, Resource Description and Access, Academic Libraries, Digital Textbooks, E-Books, Digital Humanities, Literary History and Math Search.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Linked Data161 topic
  2. Resource Description and Access161 topic
  3. Academic Libraries102 topics
  4. Digital Textbooks81 topic
  5. E-Books81 topic
  6. Digital Humanities31 topic
  7. Literary History31 topic
  8. Math Search31 topic
  9. Mathematical Information Retrieval31 topic
  10. Audio Signal Classification21 topic
  11. Conservation21 topic
  12. Content-Based Retrieval21 topic
  13. Environmental Movement21 topic
  14. Music Information Retrieval21 topic
  15. Social Media21 topic
  16. Video Summarization21 topic
  17. Web 2.021 topic

Where does Edward Swanson work?

Edward Swanson's main affiliation in the publication record is University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Edward Swanson have?

OpenAlex counts 53 works and 21 citations for Edward Swanson, an h-index of 2, ranking #4,477,424 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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