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Researcher · Institute of Development Studies · United Kingdom

Rachel Playforth

Rachel Playforth publishes mostly in Information Systems, History and Philosophy of Science and Library and Information Sciences, on topics such as Web and Library Services, ICT in Developing Communities and Academic Writing and Publishing.

OpenAlex
World rank
#5,790,696
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#329,710
of 367,258
Works
21
Citations
24
Citations per work
1.1
h-index
3
i10-index 1Top 83% in Information Systems
Rachel Playforth

What does Rachel Playforth research?

Rachel Playforth's work is mostly in Computer Science (21%), Arts and Humanities (12%), Social Sciences (12%).

Everything else: 9 works · 44.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 5 works · 23.6% of their workArts and Humanities: 2 works · 11.8% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 2 works · 11.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 2 works · 11.8% of their workLibrary and Information Sciences: 2 works · 11.8% of their workPhysical Sciences: 4 works · 20.6% of their workComputer Science: 4 works · 20.6% of their workInformation Systems: 3 works · 14.7% of their workComputer Science Applications: 1 works · 5.9% of their workHealth Sciences: 2 works · 11.8% of their workHealth Professions: 1 works · 5.9% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 1 works · 5.9% of their workMedicine: 1 works · 5.9% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 works · 5.9% of their workTHEIR WORKRachel Playforth21works
Physical Sciences21%Health Sciences12%Social Sciences24%

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 else944.0%
    1. Arts and Humanities211.8%
    2. Social Sciences211.8%
    1. Computer Science420.6%
    1. Health Professions15.9%
    2. Medicine15.9%
  1. 1Information Systems15% of their works
  2. 2History and Philosophy of Science12% of their works
  3. 3Library and Information Sciences12% of their works
  4. 4Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health6% of their works
  5. 5Computer Science Applications6% of their works
  6. 6General Health Professions6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rachel Playforth's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Academic Libraries, Digital Literacy, Peer Review, Open Access, Academic Writing, Information Behavior, Information Literacy and Library Services.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Academic Libraries42 topics
  2. Digital Literacy42 topics
  3. Peer Review42 topics
  4. Open Access32 topics
  5. Academic Writing21 topic
  6. Information Behavior21 topic
  7. Information Literacy21 topic
  8. Library Services21 topic
  9. Mobile Technology21 topic
  10. Publication21 topic
  11. Rural Communities21 topic
  12. Scholarly Publishing21 topic
  13. Scientific Writing21 topic
  14. Social Inclusion21 topic
  15. Social Media21 topic
  16. Web 2.021 topic
  17. Distributed Systems11 topic
  18. E-Learning11 topic
  19. Fault Tolerance11 topic
  20. Innovation11 topic

Where does Rachel Playforth work?

Rachel Playforth's main affiliation in the publication record is Institute of Development Studies, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Rachel Playforth have?

OpenAlex counts 21 works and 24 citations for Rachel Playforth, an h-index of 3, ranking #5,790,696 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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