Jonathan Furner

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
60 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Jonathan Furner is a scholar working on Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Jonathan Furner has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Information Systems, 16 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 11 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Jonathan Furner's work include Information Retrieval and Search Behavior (10 papers), Semantic Web and Ontologies (10 papers) and Advanced Text Analysis Techniques (6 papers). Jonathan Furner is often cited by papers focused on Information Retrieval and Search Behavior (10 papers), Semantic Web and Ontologies (10 papers) and Advanced Text Analysis Techniques (6 papers). Jonathan Furner collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Ireland. Jonathan Furner's co-authors include Christine L. Borgman, Peter Willett, Ramesh Srinivasan, Robin Boast, David Ellis, David J. Harper, Joemon M. Jose, David Ellis, Gregory H. Leazer and Nigel Ford and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, ACM Computing Surveys and The Information Society.

In The Last Decade

Jonathan Furner

51 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Scholarly communication and bibliometrics

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jonathan Furner United States	16	481	292	265	256	173	60	1.6k
Peiling Wang United States	18	831 1.7×	309 1.1×	206 0.8×	338 1.3×	212 1.2×	73	1.7k
Víctor Herrero-Solana Spain	17	337 0.7×	375 1.3×	108 0.4×	157 0.6×	138 0.8×	80	1.4k
Andrea Scharnhorst Netherlands	19	294 0.6×	358 1.2×	187 0.7×	268 1.0×	79 0.5×	89	1.4k
Benjamín Vargas‐Quesada Spain	19	295 0.6×	480 1.6×	109 0.4×	155 0.6×	104 0.6×	80	1.4k
Isabella Peters Germany	19	560 1.2×	666 2.3×	263 1.0×	308 1.2×	241 1.4×	71	1.6k
Terrence A. Brooks United States	13	310 0.6×	328 1.1×	129 0.5×	253 1.0×	86 0.5×	59	1.0k
Andrew Tsou United States	13	251 0.5×	372 1.3×	274 1.0×	114 0.4×	153 0.9×	23	1.0k
Michael D. Gordon United States	20	479 1.0×	148 0.5×	348 1.3×	795 3.1×	128 0.7×	62	1.9k
Stephen P. Harter United States	21	1.1k 2.3×	298 1.0×	102 0.4×	666 2.6×	114 0.7×	47	1.8k
F. W. Lancaster United States	23	1.1k 2.2×	244 0.8×	202 0.8×	556 2.2×	177 1.0×	133	2.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jonathan Furner

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Furner, Jonathan, et al.. (2022). From words to actions: assessing the impact of antiracist declarations in library and information science. Information Research an international electronic journal. 27.

Furner, Jonathan. (2021). From the ‘four faculties’ to YKL: a brief history of library classification in the Nordic countries, Part 1: Denmark, Norway, and Iceland. 37(1). 1–34. 1 indexed citations

Furner, Jonathan. (2019). The Ontology of Documents, Revisited. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

Furner, Jonathan. (2017). Philosophy of data: Why?. Education for Information. 33(1). 55–70. 9 indexed citations

Feinberg, Melanie, Jens‐Erik Mai, Jonathan Furner, & Joseph T. Tennis. (2012). Humanistic information science. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 49(1). 1–3. 2 indexed citations

Furner, Jonathan. (2011). Fundamental research questions in information science. 2 indexed citations

Furner, Jonathan. (2010). Philosophy and information studies. 44(1). 159–200. 52 indexed citations

Furner, Jonathan. (2010). Advances in Information Science. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 61(9). 1733–1733. 2 indexed citations

Srinivasan, Ramesh, et al.. (2009). Blobgects: Digital museum catalogs and diverse user communities. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 60(4). 666–678. 19 indexed citations

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Furner, Jonathan. (2009). Interrogating “Identity”: A Philosophical Approach to an Enduring Issue in Knowledge Organization. KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION. 36(1). 3–16. 12 indexed citations

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Furner, Jonathan. (2007). User tagging of library resources: Toward a framework for system evaluation. 37(3). 47–51. 20 indexed citations

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Furner, Jonathan. (2004). A brilliant mind: Margaret Egan and social epistemology. Library trends. 52(4). 792–809. 24 indexed citations

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Furner, Jonathan. (2004). Information Studies Without Information. Library trends. 52(3). 427–446. 54 indexed citations

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Leazer, Gregory H., et al.. (2003). Three social distance measures for film rankings. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 40(1). 21–27.

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Leazer, Gregory H. & Jonathan Furner. (1999). Topological Indices of Textual Identity Networks.. Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting. 36. 13 indexed citations

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Ellis, David, Jonathan Furner, & Peter Willett. (1996). On the creation of hypertext links in full-text documents: Measurement of retrieval effectiveness. Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 47(4). 287–300. 3 indexed citations

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Ellis, David, Jonathan Furner, & Peter Willett. (1996). On the creation of hypertext links in full‐text documents: Measurement of retrieval effectiveness. Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 47(4). 287–300. 11 indexed citations

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Furner, Jonathan & Peter Willett. (1995). A survey of hypertext-based public-access point-of information systems in UK libraries. Journal of Information Science. 21(4). 243–255. 4 indexed citations

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Ellis, David, Jonathan Furner, & Peter Willett. (1994). On the measurement of inter-linker consistency and retrieval effectiveness in hypertext databases. International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. 51–60. 14 indexed citations

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Furner, Jonathan & Peter Willett. (1994). The use of hypertext in libraries in the United Kingdom. VINE. 24(4). 45–49. 2 indexed citations

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