Brenda Dervin

6.7k citations
86 papers · 4.2k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 27
Topics
Social Media and Politics (7 papers)Information Systems Theories and Implementation (6 papers)Information Retrieval and Search Behavior (6 papers)

In The Last Decade

Brenda Dervin

79 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Peers

Brenda Dervin
Comparison fields: 5 of 145
  • Information Systems 1.3k
  • Sociology and Political Science 1.1k
  • Communication 1.1k
  • Library and Information Sciences 545
  • Information Systems and Management 535
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All Works

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Leadership 2.0 in Action: a Journey from Knowledge Management to
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Researchers and practitioners talk about users and each other: making user and audience studies matter
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Beyond communication: research as communicating. Making user and audience studies matter¿paper 2
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Researchers and practitioners talk about users and each other. Making user and audience studies matter¿paper 1
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Libraries reaching out with health information to vulnerable populations: guidance from research on information seeking and use.
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Human studies and user studies: a call for methodological inter-disciplinarity (Brenda Dervin)
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Human studies and user studies: a call for methodological interdisciplinarity (Invited paper).
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Sense-Making as a Methodology to Inform Interdisciplinary Communication of Science
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Why Information Systems Fail: A Case Study Approach
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Technology Gamble: Informatics and Public Policy - a Study of Technological Choice
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Useful Theory for Librarianship: Communication, Not Information.
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The U.S. Low-Income Urban Village: An Information Vacuum?.
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About Brenda Dervin

Brenda Dervin is a scholar working on Library and Information Sciences, Communication and Human-Computer Interaction, having authored 86 papers that have together received 4.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Social Media and Politics (7 papers), Information Systems Theories and Implementation (6 papers) and Information Retrieval and Search Behavior (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Library and Information Sciences (545 citations), Communication (1.1k citations) and Information Systems and Management (535 citations). Brenda Dervin has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and Finland. Frequent co-authors include Michael S. Nilan, Lois Foreman‐Wernet, Patricia Dewdney, Franklin J. Boster, William D. Richards, Gerhard J. Hanneman, Arthur Asa Berger, George A. Barnett, Melvin J. Voigt and James Lull. Their work appears in journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and Journal of Communication.

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