David Nicholas

12.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
393 papers, 7.9k citations indexed

About

David Nicholas is a scholar working on Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. According to data from OpenAlex, David Nicholas has authored 393 papers receiving a total of 7.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 113 papers in Information Systems, 59 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 53 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. Recurrent topics in David Nicholas's work include scientometrics and bibliometrics research (53 papers), Information Retrieval and Search Behavior (32 papers) and Library Collection Development and Digital Resources (31 papers). David Nicholas is often cited by papers focused on scientometrics and bibliometrics research (53 papers), Information Retrieval and Search Behavior (32 papers) and Library Collection Development and Digital Resources (31 papers). David Nicholas collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Poland. David Nicholas's co-authors include Paul Huntington, Ian Rowlands, Hamid R. Jamali, Peter Williams, Anthony Watkinson, Eti Herman, Carol Tenopir, Barrie Gunter, Blanca Rodríguez Bravo and Richard Sennett and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Pain.

In The Last Decade

David Nicholas

361 papers receiving 6.7k citations

Hit Papers

The Google generation: the information behaviour of the r... 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 100 200 300

Peers

David Nicholas
Comparison fields: 5 of 181
  • Information Systems 2.8k
  • Sociology and Political Science 1.3k
  • Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty 1.3k
  • Information Systems and Management 1.2k
  • Communication 898
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Carol Tenopir United States
Blaise Cronin United States
Cassidy R. Sugimoto United States
Judit Bar‐Ilan Israel
Hamid R. Jamali Australia
Vincent Larivière Canada
T. D. Wilson United Kingdom
Paul Wouters Netherlands
Stefanie Haustein Canada
Anne‐Wil Harzing Australia
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Countries citing papers authored by David Nicholas

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Nicholas

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Nicholas

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David Nicholas. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David Nicholas 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 David Nicholas. David Nicholas 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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The economics of information
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Il contributo dell'epigrafia allo studio delle cinte murarie dell'Italia repubblicana
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Have digital repositories come of age? The views of library directors
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Is there a Google Generation?: Information Search Behaviour Developments and the Future Learner.
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Does e-journal investment lead to greater academic productivity?
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. Exploring the low representation of Black and Minority Ethnic staff in the library and information science profession: case study of London.
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Viewing and reading behaviour in a virtual environment: the full-text download.
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12 15
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E-books: how are users responding?
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The Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future
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An Ethnogeography of late Medieval Bruges: Evolution of the Corporate Milieu, 1280-1349
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Journal publishing: what do authors want?
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Digital consumer health information and advisory services in the UK: a user evaluation and sourcebook
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The changing information environment: the impact of the Internet on information seeking behaviour in the media
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The Medieval West, 400-1450 : a preindustrial civilization
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