David C. Blair

1.6k total citations
16 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

David C. Blair is a scholar working on Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Management Science and Operations Research. According to data from OpenAlex, David C. Blair has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Information Systems, 7 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 4 papers in Management Science and Operations Research. Recurrent topics in David C. Blair's work include Information Retrieval and Search Behavior (9 papers), Personal Information Management and User Behavior (3 papers) and Semantic Web and Ontologies (3 papers). David C. Blair is often cited by papers focused on Information Retrieval and Search Behavior (9 papers), Personal Information Management and User Behavior (3 papers) and Semantic Web and Ontologies (3 papers). David C. Blair collaborates with scholars based in United States. David C. Blair's co-authors include M. E. Maron and Michael D. Gordon and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, Information & Management and Information Processing & Management.

In The Last Decade

David C. Blair

16 papers receiving 880 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David C. Blair United States 12 590 507 117 104 104 16 1.1k
Robert N Oddy United States 9 634 1.1× 747 1.5× 65 0.6× 150 1.4× 91 0.9× 12 1.2k
Daniel E. Rose United States 10 472 0.8× 641 1.3× 100 0.9× 89 0.9× 121 1.2× 18 1.1k
Stephen P. Harter United States 21 666 1.1× 1.1k 2.2× 68 0.6× 152 1.5× 124 1.2× 47 1.8k
Efthimis N. Efthimiadis United States 16 457 0.8× 643 1.3× 142 1.2× 62 0.6× 80 0.8× 54 1.2k
Maristella Agosti Italy 19 567 1.0× 515 1.0× 179 1.5× 141 1.4× 87 0.8× 108 1.1k
Stuart Weibel United States 15 351 0.6× 443 0.9× 171 1.5× 100 1.0× 57 0.5× 43 885
Harry Halpin United Kingdom 13 586 1.0× 485 1.0× 154 1.3× 49 0.5× 99 1.0× 75 1.0k
Andreas Abecker Germany 16 547 0.9× 397 0.8× 143 1.2× 127 1.2× 79 0.8× 89 1.1k
Nikos Manouselis Greece 15 546 0.9× 885 1.7× 154 1.3× 61 0.6× 126 1.2× 77 1.5k
Nicholas Gibbins United Kingdom 18 664 1.1× 543 1.1× 324 2.8× 146 1.4× 135 1.3× 73 1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David C. Blair

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All Works

16 of 16 papers shown
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Blair, David C.. (2006). The data-document distinction revisited. ACM SIGMIS Database the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems. 37(1). 77–96. 7 indexed citations
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Blair, David C.. (2002). Some thoughts on the reported results of TREC. Information Processing & Management. 38(3). 445–451. 14 indexed citations
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Blair, David C.. (2002). Knowledge management: Hype, hope, or help?. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 53(12). 1019–1028. 129 indexed citations
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Blair, David C.. (2002). The challenge of commercial document retrieval, Part II: a strategy for document searching based on identifiable document partitions. Information Processing & Management. 38(2). 293–304. 16 indexed citations
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Blair, David C.. (1996). STAIRS redux: Thoughts on the STAIRS evaluation, ten years after. Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 47(1). 4–22. 24 indexed citations
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Blair, David C.. (1996). STAIRS redux: Thoughts on the STAIRS evaluation, ten years after. Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 47(1). 4–22. 37 indexed citations
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Blair, David C.. (1992). Information Retrieval and the Philosophy of Language. The Computer Journal. 35(3). 200–207. 20 indexed citations
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Blair, David C. & Michael D. Gordon. (1991). The management and control of written information. Information & Management. 20(4). 239–246. 2 indexed citations
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Blair, David C.. (1990). Language and Representation in Information Retrieval. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 167 indexed citations
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Blair, David C. & M. E. Maron. (1990). Full-text information retrieval: Further analysis and clarification. Information Processing & Management. 26(3). 437–447. 50 indexed citations
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Blair, David C.. (1987). The Nature of Scientific Theory : Human Systems Management. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 2(4). 488. 1 indexed citations
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Blair, David C. & M. E. Maron. (1985). An evaluation of retrieval effectiveness for a full-text document-retrieval system. Communications of the ACM. 28(3). 289–299. 476 indexed citations
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Blair, David C. & M. E. Maron. (1985). AN EVALUATION OF RETRIEVAL EFFECTIVENESS FOR A FULL-TEXT DOCulwvT-l?ETl?lEviiL SYSTEM. 1 indexed citations
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Blair, David C.. (1980). Searching biases in large interactive document retrieval systems. Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 31(4). 271–277. 40 indexed citations
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Blair, David C.. (1979). Information Retrieval, 2nd ed. C.J. Van Rijsbergen. London: Butterworths; 1979: 208 pp. Price: $32.50. Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 30(6). 374–375. 59 indexed citations

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