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Researcher · British Library · United Kingdom

Ian Willison

Ian Willison publishes mostly in Literature and Literary Theory, Information Systems and Anthropology, on topics such as Library Science and Administration, Library Collection Development and Digital Resources and Library Science and Information Systems.

OpenAlex
World rank
#3,690,538
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#240,570
of 367,258
Works
31
Citations
417
Citations per work
13.5
h-index
5
i10-index 4Top 32% in Literature and Literary Theory
Ian Willison

What does Ian Willison research?

Ian Willison's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (31%), Social Sciences (31%), Computer Science (15%).

Social Sciences: 19 works · 61.6% of their workArts and Humanities: 10 works · 30.8% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 7 works · 23.1% of their workConservation: 2 works · 7.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 10 works · 30.8% of their workAnthropology: 4 works · 13.5% of their workLibrary and Information Sciences: 4 works · 11.5% of their workSociology and Political Science: 2 works · 5.8% of their workEverything else: 7 works · 23.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 5 works · 15.4% of their workComputer Science: 5 works · 15.4% of their workInformation Systems: 5 works · 15.4% of their workTHEIR WORKIan Willison31works
Physical Sciences15%Social Sciences62%

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. Arts and Humanities1030.8%
    2. Social Sciences1030.8%
  2. Everything else723.0%
    1. Computer Science515.4%
  1. 1Literature and Literary Theory23% of their works
  2. 2Information Systems15% of their works
  3. 3Anthropology14% of their works
  4. 4Library and Information Sciences12% of their works
  5. 5Conservation8% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ian Willison's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Library Services, Social Inclusion, Literary History, Archives, Digital Preservation, Digital Textbooks, E-Books and Linked Data.

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. Library Services61 topic
  2. Social Inclusion61 topic
  3. Literary History52 topics
  4. Archives41 topic
  5. Digital Preservation41 topic
  6. Digital Textbooks41 topic
  7. E-Books41 topic
  8. Linked Data41 topic
  9. Resource Description and Access41 topic
  10. Roman Economy41 topic
  11. Urban Workshops41 topic
  12. Artistic Expression31 topic
  13. Cultural Evolution31 topic
  14. Cultural History21 topic
  15. Digital Humanities21 topic
  16. Identity21 topic
  17. Text Analysis21 topic

Where does Ian Willison work?

Ian Willison's main affiliation in the publication record is British Library, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Ian Willison have?

OpenAlex counts 31 works and 417 citations for Ian Willison, an h-index of 5, ranking #3,690,538 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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