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Researcher · University of Cape Town · South Africa

Irwin Brown

Irwin Brown publishes mostly in Information Systems, Management Information Systems and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Technology Adoption and User Behaviour, ICT Impact and Policies and Information Systems Theories and Implementation.

ORCID 0000-0001-5321-0771 OpenAlex
World rank
#204,664
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#713
of 29,826
Works
149
Citations
3k
Citations per work
20.4
h-index
29
i10-index 53Top 1.6% in Information Systems
Irwin Brown

What does Irwin Brown research?

Irwin Brown's work is mostly in Business, Management and Accounting (19%), Computer Science (14%), Social Sciences (14%).

Social Sciences: 65 works · 43.3% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 29 works · 19.2% of their workManagement Information Systems: 21 works · 14.3% of their workStrategy and Management: 7 works · 4.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 21 works · 14.0% of their workSociology and Political Science: 21 works · 14.0% of their workDecision Sciences: 15 works · 10.1% of their workInformation Systems and Management: 15 works · 10.1% of their workEverything else: 49 works · 33.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 35 works · 23.7% of their workComputer Science: 21 works · 14.3% of their workInformation Systems: 21 works · 14.3% of their workEngineering: 14 works · 9.4% of their workMedia Technology: 14 works · 9.4% of their workTHEIR WORKIrwin Brown149works
Physical Sciences24%Social Sciences43%

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. Business, Management and Accounting2919.2%
    2. Social Sciences2114.0%
    3. Decision Sciences1510.1%
  2. Everything else4933.0%
    1. Computer Science2114.3%
    2. Engineering149.4%
  1. 1Information Systems14% of their works
  2. 2Management Information Systems14% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science14% of their works
  4. 4Information Systems and Management10% of their works
  5. 5Media Technology9% of their works
  6. 6Strategy and Management5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Irwin Brown's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Information Systems, Online Shopping, Technology Acceptance Model, Economic Development, Knowledge Sharing, Telecommunications, Social Media and Design Science.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Information Systems682 topics
  2. Online Shopping401 topic
  3. Technology Acceptance Model401 topic
  4. Economic Development371 topic
  5. Knowledge Sharing372 topics
  6. Telecommunications371 topic
  7. Social Media292 topics
  8. Design Science281 topic
  9. Sociomateriality281 topic
  10. Business Strategy221 topic
  11. IT Alignment221 topic
  12. Analytics201 topic
  13. Big Data201 topic
  14. Agile Software Development151 topic
  15. Empirical Studies151 topic
  16. Social Capital151 topic
  17. Virtual Communities151 topic
  18. Consumer Engagement141 topic
  19. Electronic Word-of-Mouth141 topic

Where does Irwin Brown work?

Irwin Brown's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Cape Town, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Irwin Brown have?

OpenAlex counts 149 works and 3,035 citations for Irwin Brown, an h-index of 29, ranking #204,664 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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