Allen Foster
- Information Systems top 1%
- Information Systems and Management top 2%
- Communication top 2%
- Sociology and Political Science top 10%
- Artificial Intelligence top 10%
- Co-authors
- Nigel FordDavid EllisT. D. WilsonAmanda SpinkAhmed ShehataChristine UrquhartPauline RaffertyFrank Houghton
- Topics
- Information Retrieval and Search Behavior (11 papers)Knowledge Management and Sharing (6 papers)Personal Information Management and User Behavior (5 papers)
- Journals
- Journal of DocumentationThe Journal of Academic LibrarianshipHealth Information & Libraries Journal
- Partner nations
- United KingdomUnited StatesIreland
In The Last Decade
Allen Foster
26 papers receiving 1.0k citations
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 97
- Information Systems 593
- Information Systems and Management 264
- Communication 245
- Sociology and Political Science 241
- Artificial Intelligence 199
Countries citing papers authored by Allen Foster
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Fields of papers citing papers by Allen Foster
This network shows the impact of papers produced by Allen Foster. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Allen Foster. The network helps show where Allen Foster may publish in the future.
Co-authorship network of co-authors of Allen Foster
This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Allen Foster. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Allen Foster based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Allen Foster. Allen Foster is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.
All Works
| # | Work | Indexed citations |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | |
| 2 | 4 | |
| 3 | 10 | |
| 4 | 10 | |
| 5 | 6 | |
| 6 | 1 | |
| 7 | 13 | |
| 8 | 5 | |
| 9 | 1 | |
| 10 | 225 | |
| 11 | 344 | |
| 12 | 112 | |
| 13 | 64 | |
| 14 | 108 | |
| 15 | 128 | |
| 16 | 41 | |
| 17 | Uncertainty and its correlates | 23 |
| 18 | Uncertainty in Information Seeking. | 8 |
| 19 | Individual Differences in Information Seeking: An Empirical Study. | 3 |
| 20 | 2 |
About Allen Foster
Allen Foster is a scholar working on Library and Information Sciences, Communication and Information Systems and Management, having authored 26 papers that have together received 1.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Information Retrieval and Search Behavior (11 papers), Knowledge Management and Sharing (6 papers) and Personal Information Management and User Behavior (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Library and Information Sciences (166 citations), Information Systems and Management (264 citations) and Communication (245 citations). Allen Foster has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Ireland. Frequent co-authors include Nigel Ford, David Ellis, T. D. Wilson, Amanda Spink, Ahmed Shehata, Christine Urquhart, Pauline Rafferty, Frank Houghton, Philippa Levy and Judith Broady‐Preston. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Documentation, The Journal of Academic Librarianship and Health Information & Libraries Journal.
Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.