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Researcher · Berea College · United States

Thomas G. Kirk

Thomas G. Kirk publishes mostly in Library and Information Sciences, Information Systems and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Library Science and Information Literacy, Web and Library Services and Library Science and Administration.

ORCID 0000-0002-6283-9755 OpenAlex
World rank
#2,695,622
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#786,512
of 1,627,098
Works
100
Citations
889
Citations per work
8.9
h-index
9
i10-index 8Top 19% in Library and Information Sciences
Thomas G. Kirk

What does Thomas G. Kirk research?

Thomas G. Kirk's work is mostly in Social Sciences (41%), Computer Science (13%), Arts and Humanities (7%).

Social Sciences: 48 works · 48.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 41 works · 41.1% of their workLibrary and Information Sciences: 15 works · 15.0% of their workSociology and Political Science: 13 works · 12.8% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 10 works · 10.0% of their workAnthropology: 3 works · 3.3% of their workArts and Humanities: 7 works · 7.2% of their workHistory: 7 works · 7.2% of their workEverything else: 39 works · 38.9% of their workPhysical Sciences: 13 works · 12.8% of their workComputer Science: 13 works · 12.8% of their workInformation Systems: 13 works · 12.8% of their workTHEIR WORKThomas G. Kirk100works
Physical Sciences13%Social Sciences48%

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. Social Sciences4141.1%
    2. Arts and Humanities77.2%
  2. Everything else3938.9%
    1. Computer Science1312.8%
  1. 1Library and Information Sciences15% of their works
  2. 2Information Systems13% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science13% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations10% of their works
  5. 5History7% of their works
  6. 6Anthropology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Thomas G. Kirk's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Academic Libraries, Digital Literacy, Information Literacy, Social Media, Web 2.0, Library Services, Social Inclusion and Local Turn.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Academic Libraries353 topics
  2. Digital Literacy171 topic
  3. Information Literacy171 topic
  4. Social Media131 topic
  5. Web 2.0131 topic
  6. Library Services101 topic
  7. Social Inclusion101 topic
  8. Local Turn71 topic
  9. Resilience Governance71 topic
  10. Civil War51 topic
  11. Democracy51 topic
  12. Digital Textbooks51 topic
  13. E-Books51 topic
  14. Development Policies41 topic
  15. Foreign Aid41 topic
  16. Ontology41 topic
  17. Semantic Web41 topic

Where does Thomas G. Kirk work?

Thomas G. Kirk's main affiliation in the publication record is Berea College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Thomas G. Kirk have?

OpenAlex counts 100 works and 889 citations for Thomas G. Kirk, an h-index of 9, ranking #2,695,622 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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