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Researcher · East Carolina University · United States

William Joseph Thomas

William Joseph Thomas publishes mostly in Information Systems, Library and Information Sciences and Education, on topics such as Library Collection Development and Digital Resources, Web and Library Services and Library Science and Information Literacy.

ORCID 0000-0002-3503-6615 OpenAlex
World rank
#460,376
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#156,761
of 358,040
Works
34
Citations
33
Citations per work
1.0

What does William Joseph Thomas research?

Information Systems: 34.7%Library and Information Sciences: 8.2%Education: 6.1%General Health Professions: 6.1%other fields: 44.9%35%top field
Information Systems34.7%Library and Information Sciences8.2%Education6.1%General Health Professions6.1%other fields44.9%

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

  1. 1Information Systems35% of their works
  2. 2Library and Information Sciences8% of their works
  3. 3Education6% of their works
  4. 4General Health Professions6% of their works
  5. 5History and Philosophy of Science4% of their works
  6. 6Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William Joseph Thomas's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Academic Libraries, Digital Textbooks, E-Books, Social Media, Web 2.0, Digital Literacy, Information Literacy and Academic Writing.

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 Libraries163 topics
  2. Digital Textbooks81 topic
  3. E-Books81 topic
  4. Social Media51 topic
  5. Web 2.051 topic
  6. Digital Literacy31 topic
  7. Information Literacy31 topic
  8. Academic Writing21 topic
  9. Bibliometric Analysis21 topic
  10. Linked Data21 topic
  11. Research Evaluation21 topic
  12. Resource Description and Access21 topic
  13. Scholarly Publishing21 topic
  14. Agriculture11 topic
  15. Development11 topic
  16. Learning Object Repositories11 topic
  17. Open Educational Resources11 topic

Where does William Joseph Thomas work?

William Joseph Thomas's main affiliation in the publication record is East Carolina University, United States.

How many publications and citations does William Joseph Thomas have?

Science Explorer counts 34 works and 33 citations for William Joseph Thomas, ranking #460,376 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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