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Researcher · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · United States

F. Wilfrid Lancaster

F. Wilfrid Lancaster publishes mostly in Information Systems, Library and Information Sciences and Artificial Intelligence, on topics such as Library Collection Development and Digital Resources, Library Science and Information Literacy and Library Science and Administration.

OpenAlex
World rank
#473,563
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#165,705
of 1,627,098
Works
208
Citations
3.5k
Citations per work
17.0
h-index
26
i10-index 60Top 2.2% in Information Systems
F. Wilfrid Lancaster

What does F. Wilfrid Lancaster research?

F. Wilfrid Lancaster's work is mostly in Computer Science (39%), Social Sciences (12%), Business, Management and Accounting (4%).

Everything else: 85 works · 40.8% of their workPhysical Sciences: 82 works · 39.3% of their workComputer Science: 82 works · 39.3% of their workInformation Systems: 57 works · 27.5% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 17 works · 8.1% of their workComputer Science Applications: 8 works · 3.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 41 works · 19.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 25 works · 12.0% of their workLibrary and Information Sciences: 25 works · 12.0% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 9 works · 4.2% of their workManagement Information Systems: 9 works · 4.2% of their workDecision Sciences: 8 works · 3.7% of their workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 8 works · 3.7% of their workTHEIR WORKF. WilfridLancaster208works
Physical Sciences39%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 else8540.8%
    1. Computer Science8239.3%
    1. Social Sciences2512.0%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting94.2%
    3. Decision Sciences83.7%
  1. 1Information Systems28% of their works
  2. 2Library and Information Sciences12% of their works
  3. 3Artificial Intelligence8% of their works
  4. 4Management Information Systems4% of their works
  5. 5Computer Science Applications4% of their works
  6. 6Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe F. Wilfrid Lancaster's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Academic Libraries, Digital Textbooks, E-Books, Digital Literacy, Information Literacy, Library Services, Social Inclusion and Information Retrieval.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Academic Libraries793 topics
  2. Digital Textbooks331 topic
  3. E-Books331 topic
  4. Digital Literacy251 topic
  5. Information Literacy251 topic
  6. Library Services241 topic
  7. Social Inclusion241 topic
  8. Information Retrieval221 topic
  9. Search Engines221 topic
  10. Social Media211 topic
  11. Web 2.0211 topic
  12. Ontology161 topic
  13. Semantic Web161 topic
  14. Analytics141 topic
  15. Bibliometric Analysis141 topic
  16. Big Data141 topic
  17. Research Evaluation141 topic

Where does F. Wilfrid Lancaster work?

F. Wilfrid Lancaster's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States.

How many publications and citations does F. Wilfrid Lancaster have?

OpenAlex counts 208 works and 3,545 citations for F. Wilfrid Lancaster, an h-index of 26, ranking #473,563 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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