C. Sean Burns

624 total citations
31 papers, 402 citations indexed

About

C. Sean Burns is a scholar working on Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Sociology and Political Science and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, C. Sean Burns has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 402 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, 8 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 8 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in C. Sean Burns's work include scientometrics and bibliometrics research (10 papers), Meta-analysis and systematic reviews (5 papers) and Research Data Management Practices (4 papers). C. Sean Burns is often cited by papers focused on scientometrics and bibliometrics research (10 papers), Meta-analysis and systematic reviews (5 papers) and Research Data Management Practices (4 papers). C. Sean Burns collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Bangladesh. C. Sean Burns's co-authors include Charles W. Fox, Jennifer Meyer, Jenny Bossaller, Youngseek Kim, John M. Budd, Robert M. Shapiro, Jeffrey T. Huber, Denice Adkins, Amy VanScoy and Heather Lea Moulaison and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

C. Sean Burns

27 papers receiving 375 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
C. Sean Burns United States 10 172 99 81 65 53 31 402
Nadine Desrochers Canada 8 263 1.5× 60 0.6× 100 1.2× 31 0.5× 47 0.9× 19 450
Adrian Mulligan Netherlands 8 198 1.2× 69 0.7× 96 1.2× 26 0.4× 35 0.7× 14 448
Mahshid Abdoli United Kingdom 11 172 1.0× 76 0.8× 54 0.7× 17 0.3× 30 0.6× 21 340
Kristin Hoffmann Canada 10 53 0.3× 217 2.2× 65 0.8× 19 0.3× 38 0.7× 23 476
Serhat Kurt Türkiye 9 95 0.6× 79 0.8× 61 0.8× 24 0.4× 19 0.4× 17 435
Lisa Christian United States 10 195 1.1× 308 3.1× 248 3.1× 5 0.1× 37 0.7× 23 552
Xiao Han T. Zeng United States 8 172 1.0× 25 0.3× 33 0.4× 147 2.3× 21 0.4× 9 458
Diane Harley United States 11 100 0.6× 167 1.7× 74 0.9× 5 0.1× 19 0.4× 24 451
Tara Tobin Cataldo United States 7 38 0.2× 137 1.4× 34 0.4× 12 0.2× 21 0.4× 22 267
Neil Jacobs United Kingdom 9 60 0.3× 110 1.1× 48 0.6× 6 0.1× 11 0.2× 28 264

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Fields of papers citing papers by C. Sean Burns

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of C. Sean Burns

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of C. Sean Burns. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of C. Sean Burns 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 C. Sean Burns. C. Sean Burns is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Burns, C. Sean, et al.. (2024). Learning by Doing: An Online, Open-Source Course Design Approach to Systems Librarianship. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science. 66(2). 157–173. 1 indexed citations
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Burns, C. Sean, et al.. (2024). Text summarization for pharmaceutical sciences using hierarchical clustering with a weighted evaluation methodology. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 20149–20149. 3 indexed citations
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Burns, C. Sean & Md. Anwarul Islam. (2024). A citation analysis examining geographical specificity in article titles. Scientometrics. 129(7). 4317–4328.
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Burns, C. Sean, et al.. (2023). Exploring the Impact of Ungrading on Student Learning. 1 indexed citations
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Burns, C. Sean. (2023). The Issues with Journal Issues: Let Journals Be Digital Libraries. Publications. 11(1). 7–7.
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Burns, C. Sean, et al.. (2021). MEDLINE search retrieval issues: A longitudinal query analysis of five vendor platforms. PLoS ONE. 16(5). e0234221–e0234221. 10 indexed citations
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Burns, C. Sean. (2021). What Documents Cannot Do: Revisiting Michael Polanyi and the Tacit Knowledge Dilemma. Information & Culture. 56(1). 90–104. 3 indexed citations
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Burns, C. Sean, et al.. (2019). Search results outliers among MEDLINE platforms. Journal of the Medical Library Association JMLA. 107(3). 364–373. 7 indexed citations
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Burns, C. Sean, et al.. (2019). Codifying discrepancies among MEDLINE platforms to advance instruction and practice. IDEALS (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign). 1 indexed citations
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VanScoy, Amy, Jenny Bossaller, & C. Sean Burns. (2018). Problems and Promises of Qualitative Secondary Analysis for Research in Information Science. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS / Actes du congrès annuel de l ACSI. 1 indexed citations
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Burns, C. Sean & Charles W. Fox. (2017). Language and socioeconomics predict geographic variation in peer review outcomes at an ecology journal. Scientometrics. 113(2). 1113–1127. 16 indexed citations
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Fox, Charles W., et al.. (2016). Author‐suggested reviewers: gender differences and influences on the peer review process at an ecology journal. Functional Ecology. 31(1). 270–280. 28 indexed citations
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Bossaller, Jenny, C. Sean Burns, & Amy VanScoy. (2016). Re-conceiving time in reference and information services work: a qualitative secondary analysis. Journal of Documentation. 73(1). 2–17. 10 indexed citations
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Fox, Charles W. & C. Sean Burns. (2015). The relationship between manuscript title structure and success: editorial decisions and citation performance for an ecological journal. Ecology and Evolution. 5(10). 1970–1980. 63 indexed citations
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Fox, Charles W., et al.. (2015). Gender differences in patterns of authorship do not affect peer review outcomes at an ecology journal. Functional Ecology. 30(1). 126–139. 41 indexed citations
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Kim, Youngseek & C. Sean Burns. (2015). Norms of data sharing in biological sciences: The roles of metadata, data repository, and journal and funding requirements. Journal of Information Science. 42(2). 230–245. 32 indexed citations
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Burns, C. Sean & Jenny Bossaller. (2012). Communication overload: a phenomenological inquiry into academic reference librarianship. Journal of Documentation. 68(5). 597–617. 25 indexed citations
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Moulaison, Heather Lea & C. Sean Burns. (2012). Organization or conversation in Twitter: A case study of chatterboxing. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 49(1). 1–11. 2 indexed citations
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Burns, C. Sean. (2011). Social justice and an Information Democracy with Free and Open Source software. UKnowledge (University of Kentucky). 4(2). 1 indexed citations
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