Kaitlin Light Costello

705 total citations
28 papers, 489 citations indexed

About

Kaitlin Light Costello is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, General Health Professions and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, Kaitlin Light Costello has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 489 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 10 papers in General Health Professions and 8 papers in Communication. Recurrent topics in Kaitlin Light Costello's work include Health Literacy and Information Accessibility (9 papers), Social Media and Politics (6 papers) and Library Science and Administration (6 papers). Kaitlin Light Costello is often cited by papers focused on Health Literacy and Information Accessibility (9 papers), Social Media and Politics (6 papers) and Library Science and Administration (6 papers). Kaitlin Light Costello collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Canada. Kaitlin Light Costello's co-authors include Jason Priem, Diana Floegel, Adana A. M. Llanos, Kitaw Demissie, Tiffany C. Veinot, John D. Martin, Barbara M. Wildemuth, Sanghee Oh, Annie Chen and Jessica C. Bridgman and has published in prestigious journals such as Patient Education and Counseling, New Media & Society and Journal of Documentation.

In The Last Decade

Kaitlin Light Costello

25 papers receiving 459 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kaitlin Light Costello United States 10 194 122 113 108 93 28 489
Amalia Más-Bleda United Kingdom 9 93 0.5× 78 0.6× 45 0.4× 19 0.2× 107 1.2× 22 362
Tsahi Hayat Israel 13 235 1.2× 175 1.4× 48 0.4× 60 0.6× 23 0.2× 35 445
Kristi Holmes United States 11 61 0.3× 40 0.3× 48 0.4× 100 0.9× 91 1.0× 43 699
Beth St. Jean United States 18 165 0.9× 97 0.8× 50 0.4× 148 1.4× 186 2.0× 50 627
Dan‐Bright S. Dzorgbo Ghana 7 82 0.4× 58 0.5× 35 0.3× 36 0.3× 51 0.5× 11 320
Helene Snee United Kingdom 12 246 1.3× 120 1.0× 26 0.2× 39 0.4× 64 0.7× 25 458
Philip Mai Canada 10 350 1.8× 171 1.4× 51 0.5× 14 0.1× 41 0.4× 34 486
Amanda Wilk Canada 2 169 0.9× 130 1.1× 40 0.4× 17 0.2× 69 0.7× 2 345
Jinxuan Ma United States 11 89 0.5× 37 0.3× 51 0.5× 75 0.7× 64 0.7× 26 361
Bas Hofstra Netherlands 9 166 0.9× 62 0.5× 25 0.2× 36 0.3× 11 0.1× 18 294

Countries citing papers authored by Kaitlin Light Costello

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kaitlin Light Costello

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kaitlin Light Costello

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Costello, Kaitlin Light, et al.. (2025). Information snowballing: information practices in the context of sustainable food practices. Journal of Documentation. 81(2). 469–490.
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Costello, Kaitlin Light, et al.. (2023). Building a Bigger Table: Food Research, Methods, Policy, and Action in Library and Information Science. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 60(1). 766–769.
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Greyson, Devon & Kaitlin Light Costello. (2021). “Emotional strip-mining”: Sympathy sockpuppets in online communities. New Media & Society. 25(12). 3328–3349. 1 indexed citations
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Floegel, Diana & Kaitlin Light Costello. (2021). "Expanding on the Almost": Queer World-Building and Institutional Information Worlds. 3. 3 indexed citations
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Floegel, Diana & Kaitlin Light Costello. (2021). "Expanding on the Almost". 3(3). 6 indexed citations
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Costello, Kaitlin Light, et al.. (2021). The Information Practices of Parents of Transgender and Non-Binary Youth: An Exploratory Study. Library trends. 70(2). 105–132. 5 indexed citations
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Floegel, Diana & Kaitlin Light Costello. (2021). Methods for a feminist technoscience of information practice: Design justice and speculative futurities. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 73(4). 625–634. 11 indexed citations
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Costello, Kaitlin Light & Diana Floegel. (2021). The potential of feminist technoscience for advancing research in information practice. Journal of Documentation. 77(5). 1142–1153. 18 indexed citations
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Costello, Kaitlin Light & Diana Floegel. (2020). “Predictive ads are not doctors”: Mental health tracking and technology companies. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 57(1). 9 indexed citations
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Costello, Kaitlin Light. (2019). Social information behaviors in the context of chronic kidney disease: Information seeking and disclosure in online support groups. Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).
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Floegel, Diana & Kaitlin Light Costello. (2019). Entertainment media and the information practices of queer individuals. Library & Information Science Research. 41(1). 31–38. 31 indexed citations
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Costello, Kaitlin Light, et al.. (2017). Online disclosure of illicit information: Information behaviors in two drug forums. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 68(10). 2439–2448. 24 indexed citations
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Hawkins, Blake, Kaitlin Light Costello, Tiffany C. Veinot, Amelia N. Gibson, & Devon Greyson. (2017). Health information behavior research with marginalized populations. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 54(1). 562–565. 2 indexed citations
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Costello, Kaitlin Light, et al.. (2017). Designing Decision-Support Technologies for Patient-Generated Data in Type 1 Diabetes.. PubMed. 2017. 1645–1654. 5 indexed citations
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Costello, Kaitlin Light. (2016). Impact of patient‐provider communication on online health information behaviors in chronic illness. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 53(1). 1–10. 19 indexed citations
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Costello, Kaitlin Light, et al.. (2016). Leveraging Social Media to Promote Public Health Knowledge: Example of Cancer Awareness via Twitter. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. 2(1). e17–e17. 91 indexed citations
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Costello, Kaitlin Light, et al.. (2013). “I want your kidney!” Information seeking, sharing, and disclosure when soliciting a kidney donor online. Patient Education and Counseling. 94(3). 423–426. 9 indexed citations
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Costello, Kaitlin Light. (2013). Ethical implications of searching for a kidney donor online. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 50(1). 1–5. 2 indexed citations
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Priem, Jason & Kaitlin Light Costello. (2010). How and why scholars cite on Twitter. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 47(1). 1–4. 191 indexed citations
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Costello, Kaitlin Light. (2010). Digital Preservation Education in iSchools. Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). 2 indexed citations

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