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Researcher · Simmons University · United States

Peter Hernon

Peter Hernon publishes mostly in Library and Information Sciences, Information Systems and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as Library Science and Information Literacy, Library Science and Administration and Library Collection Development and Digital Resources.

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World rank
#266,851
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#97,639
of 1,627,098
Works
399
Citations
5.4k
Citations per work
13.6
h-index
38
i10-index 94Top 0.1% in Library and Information Sciences
Peter Hernon

What does Peter Hernon research?

Peter Hernon's work is mostly in Social Sciences (36%), Computer Science (14%), Decision Sciences (3%).

Everything else: 189 works · 47.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 155 works · 38.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 145 works · 36.3% of their workLibrary and Information Sciences: 71 works · 17.8% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 27 works · 6.7% of their workEducation: 25 works · 6.3% of their workSociology and Political Science: 22 works · 5.5% of their workDecision Sciences: 10 works · 2.6% of their workInformation Systems and Management: 10 works · 2.6% of their workPhysical Sciences: 55 works · 13.8% of their workComputer Science: 55 works · 13.8% of their workInformation Systems: 55 works · 13.8% of their workTHEIR WORKPeter Hernon399works
Physical Sciences14%Social Sciences39%

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 else18947.3%
    1. Social Sciences14536.3%
    2. Decision Sciences102.6%
    1. Computer Science5513.8%
  1. 1Library and Information Sciences18% of their works
  2. 2Information Systems14% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations7% of their works
  4. 4Education6% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science6% of their works
  6. 6Information Systems and Management3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Peter Hernon's research?

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

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Academic Libraries1573 topics
  2. Digital Literacy861 topic
  3. Information Literacy861 topic
  4. Social Media632 topics
  5. Library Services581 topic
  6. Social Inclusion581 topic
  7. Digital Textbooks381 topic
  8. E-Books381 topic
  9. Library 2.0331 topic
  10. Web 2.0331 topic
  11. E-Government301 topic
  12. Transparency301 topic
  13. Linked Data141 topic
  14. Resource Description and Access141 topic
  15. Customer Satisfaction111 topic
  16. Service Quality111 topic
  17. Hypersonic Effect101 topic
  18. Ultrasonic Perception101 topic

Where does Peter Hernon work?

Peter Hernon's main affiliation in the publication record is Simmons University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Peter Hernon have?

OpenAlex counts 399 works and 5,436 citations for Peter Hernon, an h-index of 38, ranking #266,851 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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