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Rafael Ball

Rafael Ball publishes mostly in Museology, Information Systems and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as Libraries and Information Services, Library Science and Information Systems and scientometrics and bibliometrics research.

World rank
#411,827
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Switzerland
#7,724
of 19,404
Works
56
Citations
15
Citations per work
0.3

What does Rafael Ball research?

Museology: 25.9%Information Systems: 20.4%Political Science and International Relations: 7.4%Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 7.4%other fields: 38.9%26%top field
Museology25.9%Information Systems20.4%Political Science and International Relations7.4%Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty7.4%other fields38.9%

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

  1. 1Museology26% of their works
  2. 2Information Systems20% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations7% of their works
  4. 4Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty7% of their works
  5. 5General Health Professions6% of their works
  6. 6Literature and Literary Theory4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rafael Ball's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Authorship, Literature, Museum, Bibliometric Analysis, Linked Data, Research Evaluation, Resource Description and Access and Academic Libraries.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Authorship162 topics
  2. Literature141 topic
  3. Museum141 topic
  4. Bibliometric Analysis41 topic
  5. Linked Data41 topic
  6. Research Evaluation41 topic
  7. Resource Description and Access41 topic
  8. Academic Libraries31 topic
  9. Web 2.031 topic
  10. Business Models21 topic
  11. Digital Transformation21 topic
  12. Governance21 topic
  13. Information Technology21 topic
  14. Intellectual Property21 topic
  15. Leadership21 topic
  16. Media Regulation21 topic
  17. Value Chains21 topic

Where does Rafael Ball work?

Rafael Ball's main affiliation in the publication record is Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration, Switzerland.

How many publications and citations does Rafael Ball have?

Science Explorer counts 56 works and 15 citations for Rafael Ball, ranking #411,827 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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