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Researcher · Boston College · United States

Gerald C. Kane

Gerald C. Kane publishes mostly in Communication, Sociology and Political Science and Computer Science Applications, on topics such as Knowledge Management and Sharing, Wikis in Education and Collaboration and Digital Marketing and Social Media.

ORCID 0000-0001-5239-1902 OpenAlex
World rank
#87,331
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#38,642
of 358,040
Works
26
Citations
305
Citations per work
11.7

What does Gerald C. Kane research?

Communication: 33.3%Sociology and Political Science: 16.7%Computer Science Applications: 10.0%Management Science and Operations Research: 3.3%other fields: 36.7%33%top field
Communication33.3%Sociology and Political Science16.7%Computer Science Applications10.0%Management Science and Operations Research3.3%other fields36.7%

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

  1. 1Communication33% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science17% of their works
  3. 3Computer Science Applications10% of their works
  4. 4Management Science and Operations Research3% of their works
  5. 5Safety Research3% of their works
  6. 6Information Systems3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gerald C. Kane's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Social Media, Collaboration, Crowdsourcing, User-Generated Content, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Sharing, Virtual Communities and Consumer Engagement.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Social Media72 topics
  2. Collaboration52 topics
  3. Crowdsourcing52 topics
  4. User-Generated Content52 topics
  5. Knowledge Management42 topics
  6. Knowledge Sharing41 topic
  7. Virtual Communities41 topic
  8. Consumer Engagement31 topic
  9. Electronic Word-of-Mouth31 topic
  10. Innovation32 topics
  11. Online Communities31 topic
  12. Wikipedia31 topic
  13. Community-Based Innovation21 topic
  14. Open Source Software21 topic
  15. Computer-Mediated Communication11 topic
  16. E-Learning11 topic
  17. Emoticons11 topic
  18. Extravehicular Activity11 topic
  19. Postdigital Education11 topic
  20. Space Suit11 topic
  21. Technology11 topic
  22. Technology-Enhanced Learning11 topic

Where does Gerald C. Kane work?

Gerald C. Kane's main affiliation in the publication record is Boston College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Gerald C. Kane have?

Science Explorer counts 26 works and 305 citations for Gerald C. Kane, ranking #87,331 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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