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Robert B. Downs

Robert B. Downs publishes mostly in Library and Information Sciences, Political Science and International Relations and Information Systems, on topics such as Library Science and Administration, Library Science and Information Literacy and Web and Library Services.

World rank
#329,864
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#121,745
of 358,040
Works
36
Citations
7
Citations per work
0.2

What does Robert B. Downs research?

Library and Information Sciences: 30.0%Political Science and International Relations: 15.0%Information Systems: 15.0%Economics and Econometrics: 5.0%other fields: 35.0%30%top field
Library and Information Sciences30.0%Political Science and International Relations15.0%Information Systems15.0%Economics and Econometrics5.0%other fields35.0%

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

  1. 1Library and Information Sciences30% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations15% of their works
  3. 3Information Systems15% of their works
  4. 4Economics and Econometrics5% of their works
  5. 5Religious studies5% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Robert B. Downs's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Academic Libraries, Library Services, Social Inclusion, Digital Literacy, Information Literacy, Digital Libraries, 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.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Academic Libraries43 topics
  2. Library Services41 topic
  3. Social Inclusion41 topic
  4. Digital Literacy21 topic
  5. Information Literacy21 topic
  6. Digital Libraries11 topic
  7. Digital Textbooks11 topic
  8. E-Books11 topic
  9. Fault Detection11 topic
  10. Hypersonic Effect11 topic
  11. Nuclear Fuel11 topic
  12. Process Monitoring11 topic
  13. Radiation Protection11 topic
  14. Scientific Communication11 topic
  15. Social Media11 topic
  16. Ultrasonic Perception11 topic
  17. Web 2.011 topic

Where does Robert B. Downs work?

Robert B. Downs's main affiliation in the publication record is Association of Research Libraries, United States.

How many publications and citations does Robert B. Downs have?

Science Explorer counts 36 works and 7 citations for Robert B. Downs, ranking #329,864 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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