Charles Cole

1.9k total citations
73 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Charles Cole is a scholar working on Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Charles Cole has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Information Systems, 23 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 13 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Charles Cole's work include Information Retrieval and Search Behavior (36 papers), Advanced Text Analysis Techniques (14 papers) and Educational Strategies and Epistemologies (9 papers). Charles Cole is often cited by papers focused on Information Retrieval and Search Behavior (36 papers), Advanced Text Analysis Techniques (14 papers) and Educational Strategies and Epistemologies (9 papers). Charles Cole collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Australia. Charles Cole's co-authors include Amanda Spink, Jamshid Beheshti, Andrew Large, Mary J. Waller, Susan Carter, Carol Collier Kuhlthau, Kimiz Dalkir, Bernard J. Jansen, Melvin H. Marx and Jo W. Tombaugh and has published in prestigious journals such as Information Processing & Management, Library & Information Science Research and Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology.

In The Last Decade

Charles Cole

67 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Charles Cole Canada 18 534 247 215 201 193 73 1.2k
Allen Foster United Kingdom 13 593 1.1× 199 0.8× 241 1.1× 264 1.3× 245 1.3× 26 1.2k
Katriina Byström Norway 14 789 1.5× 246 1.0× 272 1.3× 455 2.3× 480 2.5× 46 1.6k
Michael S. Nilan United States 11 689 1.3× 315 1.3× 474 2.2× 463 2.3× 232 1.2× 23 1.8k
Jamshid Beheshti Canada 19 632 1.2× 144 0.6× 202 0.9× 113 0.6× 191 1.0× 94 1.4k
Kyung‐Sun Kim United States 20 614 1.1× 218 0.9× 509 2.4× 225 1.1× 428 2.2× 70 1.7k
Sanda Erdelez United States 15 327 0.6× 126 0.5× 294 1.4× 299 1.5× 318 1.6× 80 1.1k
Adeyinka Tella Nigeria 19 390 0.7× 196 0.8× 218 1.0× 301 1.5× 132 0.7× 128 1.6k
Diane Nahl United States 17 302 0.6× 101 0.4× 238 1.1× 136 0.7× 176 0.9× 34 832
Ann Peterson Bishop United States 19 467 0.9× 130 0.5× 322 1.5× 155 0.8× 333 1.7× 78 1.3k
Harry Bruce United States 21 783 1.5× 234 0.9× 230 1.1× 888 4.4× 370 1.9× 51 1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Charles Cole

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Fields of papers citing papers by Charles Cole

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Charles Cole

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Cole, Charles. (2014). Google, tear down this wall to exploratory search!. 40(5). 50–54. 1 indexed citations
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Cole, Charles. (2012). Information Need: A Theory Connecting Information Search to Knowledge Formation. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 17 indexed citations
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Cole, Charles, et al.. (2011). Collaboration Tools in Virtual Educational Communities : A Case of the Paulo Freire Project for Critical Pedagogy. The New Educational Review. 24(2). 271–280. 1 indexed citations
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Cole, Charles, et al.. (2010). An associative index model for the results list based on Vannevar Bush's selection concept. Information Research. 15(3). 3. 1 indexed citations
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Spink, Amanda, Charles Cole, & Mary J. Waller. (2008). Multitasking behavior. 42(1). 93–118. 58 indexed citations
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Spink, Amanda & Charles Cole. (2007). Information Behavior: A Socio-Cognitive Ability. Evolutionary Psychology. 5(2). 9 indexed citations
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Beheshti, Jamshid, et al.. (2006). User search behavior of domain‐specific information retrieval systems: An analysis of the query logs from PsycINFO and ABC‐Clio's Historical Abstracts/America: History and Life. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 57(9). 1208–1220. 25 indexed citations
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Spink, Amanda & Charles Cole. (2005). New Directions in Cognitive Information Retrieval (The Information Retrieval Series). Springer eBooks. 5 indexed citations
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Cole, Charles, et al.. (2005). Putting it together online: Information need identification for the domain novice user. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 56(7). 684–694. 10 indexed citations
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Cole, Charles, et al.. (2005). Investigating the Anomalous States of Knowledge hypothesis in a real‐life problem situation: A study of history and psychology undergraduates seeking information for a course essay. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 56(14). 1544–1554. 9 indexed citations
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Spink, Amanda, et al.. (2004). Sexual Information Seeking on Web Search Engines. CyberPsychology & Behavior. 7(1). 65–72. 14 indexed citations
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Spink, Amanda & Charles Cole. (2004). A human information behavior approach to a philosophy of information. Library trends. 52(3). 617–628. 25 indexed citations
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Spink, Amanda & Charles Cole. (2004). Introduction. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 55(8). 657–659. 6 indexed citations
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Spink, Amanda & Charles Cole. (2001). Information and poverty: information-seeking channels used by African American low-income households. Library & Information Science Research. 23(1). 45–65. 95 indexed citations
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Cole, Charles & Carol Collier Kuhlthau. (2000). Information and information seeking of novice versus expert lawyers: how experts add value. 1. 103–115. 20 indexed citations
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Cole, Charles. (2000). Interaction with an enabling information retrieval system: Modeling the user's decoding and encoding operations. Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 51(5). 417–426. 11 indexed citations
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Cole, Charles, et al.. (1999). The false focus in online searching : The particular case of undergraduates seeking information for course assignments in the humanities and social sciences. Reference & User Services Quarterly. 38(3). 267–273. 25 indexed citations
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Cole, Charles. (1999). Activity of understanding a problem during interaction with an ?enabling? information retrieval system: Modeling information flow. Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 50(6). 544–552. 14 indexed citations
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Cole, Charles, et al.. (1991). Wade-Giles or Hanyu Pinyin:. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly. 12(2). 105–124. 6 indexed citations
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Marx, Melvin H., et al.. (1963). Persistence of nonreinforced responding as a function of the direction of a prior-ordered incentive shift.. Journal of Experimental Psychology. 66(6). 542–546. 9 indexed citations

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