Gunilla Widén

748 total citations
47 papers, 470 citations indexed

About

Gunilla Widén is a scholar working on Communication, Sociology and Political Science and Library and Information Sciences. According to data from OpenAlex, Gunilla Widén has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 470 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Communication, 14 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 12 papers in Library and Information Sciences. Recurrent topics in Gunilla Widén's work include Knowledge Management and Sharing (15 papers), Social Media and Politics (8 papers) and Misinformation and Its Impacts (7 papers). Gunilla Widén is often cited by papers focused on Knowledge Management and Sharing (15 papers), Social Media and Politics (8 papers) and Misinformation and Its Impacts (7 papers). Gunilla Widén collaborates with scholars based in Finland, United Kingdom and Sweden. Gunilla Widén's co-authors include Farhan Ahmad, Isto Huvila, Preben Hansen, Shahrokh Nikou, Kim Holmberg, Md. Anwarul Islam, Hazel Hall, Stefan Ek, Jannica Heinström and Malin Brännback and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, International Journal of Information Management and Journal of the Association for Information Systems.

In The Last Decade

Gunilla Widén

42 papers receiving 428 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gunilla Widén Finland 12 151 130 125 84 82 47 470
Rita Marcella United Kingdom 15 231 1.5× 177 1.4× 156 1.2× 98 1.2× 57 0.7× 89 665
Liangzhi Yu China 12 133 0.9× 128 1.0× 182 1.5× 91 1.1× 65 0.8× 27 524
Chung Joo Chung South Korea 14 242 1.6× 248 1.9× 150 1.2× 32 0.4× 40 0.5× 29 624
Joanna Richardson Australia 12 47 0.3× 68 0.5× 210 1.7× 48 0.6× 90 1.1× 69 567
G.E. Gorman New Zealand 13 101 0.7× 89 0.7× 284 2.3× 195 2.3× 79 1.0× 94 705
Gunilla Widén‐Wulff Finland 13 367 2.4× 278 2.1× 155 1.2× 48 0.6× 108 1.3× 19 669
David Streatfield United Kingdom 12 61 0.4× 74 0.6× 179 1.4× 167 2.0× 48 0.6× 56 552
Lori Baker-Eveleth United States 12 88 0.6× 181 1.4× 125 1.0× 23 0.3× 294 3.6× 31 543
Philip Hider Australia 13 97 0.6× 94 0.7× 268 2.1× 198 2.4× 44 0.5× 84 576
Simon Burnett United Kingdom 12 134 0.9× 120 0.9× 103 0.8× 20 0.2× 40 0.5× 37 399

Countries citing papers authored by Gunilla Widén

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gunilla Widén

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gunilla Widén

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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McKenzie, Pamela J., Alison Hicks, Jenny Bronstein, et al.. (2024). The Shape(s) of Information Practice: Using Radial Mapping Qualitatively. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 61(1). 593–597. 1 indexed citations
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Hicks, Alison, Pamela J. McKenzie, Jenny Bronstein, et al.. (2024). Collaborative Interpretation as Craft: Slow Theory Development in Library and Information Science. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Islam, Md. Anwarul, et al.. (2024). Navigating the infodemic maze: Does information literacy reduce the infodemic?. IFLA Journal. 50(3). 547–561. 1 indexed citations
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Hicks, Alison, Pamela J. McKenzie, Jenny Bronstein, et al.. (2024). Information avoidance: A critical conceptual review. An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 76(1). 326–346. 3 indexed citations
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Huvila, Isto, et al.. (2023). Seeking innovation: The research protocol for SMEs' networking. Heliyon. 9(4). e14689–e14689. 3 indexed citations
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Hicks, Alison, Jenny Bronstein, Jette Seiden Hyldegård, et al.. (2022). We thought we knew what we were talking about: The (de)conceptualisation of LIS.. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations
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Islam, Md. Anwarul, et al.. (2022). Sustainable Development Goals and Public Libraries: An Exploratory Study in a Developing Country. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 59(1). 715–717. 1 indexed citations
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Widén, Gunilla, Farhan Ahmad, & Isto Huvila. (2021). Connecting information literacy and social capital to better utilise knowledge resources in the workplace. Journal of Information Science. 49(6). 1481–1492. 10 indexed citations
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Islam, Md. Anwarul & Gunilla Widén. (2021). Bibliometric analysis of the VINE Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems: 2000–2020. VINE Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems. 53(3). 467–490. 8 indexed citations
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Widén, Gunilla, Farhan Ahmad, Shahrokh Nikou, Bruce A. Ryan, & Peter Cruickshank. (2021). Workplace information literacy. Journal of Information Literacy. 15(2). 9 indexed citations
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Nikou, Shahrokh, et al.. (2021). The role of youths’ perceived information literacy in their assessment of youth information and counselling services. Information Research an international electronic journal. 26(2).
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Nikou, Shahrokh, et al.. (2020). Effect of Digital Literacy on the Use of Digital Technology: Micro-Entrepreneurs in the Creative Industries. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 6. 6 indexed citations
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Widén, Gunilla, et al.. (2020). Understanding generational differences in knowledge sharing. Åbo Akademi University Research Portal. 841–849. 1 indexed citations
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Widén, Gunilla, et al.. (2020). Adding the information literacy perspective to refugee integration research discourse: a scoping literature review. Åbo Akademi University Research Portal. 2 indexed citations
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Nikou, Shahrokh, Malin Brännback, & Gunilla Widén. (2019). THE IMPACT OF DIGITALIZATION ON LITERACY: DIGITAL IMMIGRANTS VS. DIGITAL NATIVES. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 9 indexed citations
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Widén, Gunilla, et al.. (2019). Influence of demographics and information literacy self-efficacy on information avoidance propensity among youth.. Information Research. 24. 11 indexed citations
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Widén, Gunilla, Farhan Ahmad, & Isto Huvila. (2017). Workplace information sharing : a generational approach. KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology). 22(1). 3 indexed citations
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Widén, Gunilla, et al.. (2017). Understanding big data in librarianship. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science. 51(2). 561–576. 25 indexed citations
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Widén, Gunilla, et al.. (2014). Conceptual modelling of workplace information practices: a literature review.. Information Research. 19. 11 indexed citations
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Widén, Gunilla & Preben Hansen. (2012). Managing collaborative information sharing: bridging research on information culture and collaborative information behaviour. Åbo Akademi University Research Portal. 17(4). 21 indexed citations

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