Rebekah Willson

759 total citations
39 papers, 426 citations indexed

About

Rebekah Willson is a scholar working on Education, Sociology and Political Science and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Rebekah Willson has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 426 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Education, 12 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 12 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Rebekah Willson's work include Library Science and Information Literacy (10 papers), Knowledge Management and Sharing (7 papers) and Information Retrieval and Search Behavior (7 papers). Rebekah Willson is often cited by papers focused on Library Science and Information Literacy (10 papers), Knowledge Management and Sharing (7 papers) and Information Retrieval and Search Behavior (7 papers). Rebekah Willson collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Australia and United States. Rebekah Willson's co-authors include Lisa M. Given, Heidi Julien, Brian Detlor, Alexander Serenko, Susan Danby, Christina Davidson, Karen Thorpe, Pamela J. McKenzie, Donald O. Case and Gary Burnett and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, International Journal of Qualitative Methods and Journal of Documentation.

In The Last Decade

Rebekah Willson

35 papers receiving 399 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Rebekah Willson Canada 12 136 117 117 113 54 39 426
Miriam L. Matteson United States 10 114 0.8× 82 0.7× 105 0.9× 124 1.1× 52 1.0× 32 451
Amy J. Catalano United States 11 165 1.2× 57 0.5× 133 1.1× 172 1.5× 43 0.8× 27 465
Pat Gannon‐Leary United Kingdom 12 89 0.7× 58 0.5× 67 0.6× 141 1.2× 73 1.4× 47 374
Konstantina Martzoukou United Kingdom 11 218 1.6× 90 0.8× 86 0.7× 128 1.1× 47 0.9× 26 483
Denice Adkins United States 12 153 1.1× 80 0.7× 224 1.9× 102 0.9× 56 1.0× 66 484
Muhammad Asim Qayyum Australia 10 113 0.8× 132 1.1× 151 1.3× 59 0.5× 142 2.6× 28 410
Muhammad Asif Naveed Pakistan 14 102 0.8× 121 1.0× 183 1.6× 81 0.7× 99 1.8× 67 493
Sandra Hughes‐Hassell United States 12 162 1.2× 189 1.6× 169 1.4× 241 2.1× 128 2.4× 35 625
Lara Zwarun United States 11 81 0.6× 294 2.5× 40 0.3× 117 1.0× 153 2.8× 17 595
J. Patrick Biddix United States 11 89 0.7× 139 1.2× 29 0.2× 177 1.6× 108 2.0× 38 415

Countries citing papers authored by Rebekah Willson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rebekah Willson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rebekah Willson

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Rebekah Willson. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Rebekah Willson 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 Rebekah Willson. Rebekah Willson 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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Ferguson, R., Rebekah Willson, & Karyn Moffatt. (2025). “Am I being responsible?”: Navigating coming‐of‐age transitions through personal financial information management. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 77(3). 455–472. 1 indexed citations
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Willson, Rebekah, et al.. (2024). “You need to step back when you're contract faculty”: Information Practices and Care in Casual Academic Work. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 61(1). 685–690.
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Willson, Rebekah, et al.. (2024). Isolated, individualised, and immobilised: information behaviour in the context of academic casualisation. Information Research an international electronic journal. 29(2). 652–668. 1 indexed citations
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Willson, Rebekah, et al.. (2023). Academic Casualization, Precarity, and Information Practices: Initial Findings. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 60(1). 1182–1184. 1 indexed citations
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Willson, Rebekah, et al.. (2022). Information Intermediaries and Information Resilience: Working to Support Marginalised Groups. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 59(1). 469–473. 6 indexed citations
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Willson, Rebekah, et al.. (2022). Precarity and progression during a pandemic. Preliminary findings from a study of early career academics’ information behaviour during COVID-19. Information Research an international electronic journal. 27. 1 indexed citations
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Willson, Rebekah, et al.. (2022). Academic Casualization, Precarity, and Information Practices: A Scoping Review. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 59(1). 833–836. 3 indexed citations
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Willson, Rebekah, Heidi Julien, & Gary Burnett. (2022). JASIS&T special issue on information behavior and information practices theory. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 73(4). 491–493. 5 indexed citations
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Willson, Rebekah & Heidi Julien. (2020). Precarious Academics: Information Practices and Challenges. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS / Actes du congrès annuel de l ACSI. 5 indexed citations
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Willson, Rebekah, George Buchanan, Gary Burnett, et al.. (2020). My favorite unreliable source? Information sharing and acquisition through informal networks. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 57(1). 2 indexed citations
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Willson, Rebekah. (2019). Analysing Qualitative Data. 385–387. 22 indexed citations
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Willson, Rebekah. (2019). Transitions theory and liminality in information behaviour research. Journal of Documentation. 75(4). 838–856. 41 indexed citations
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Willson, Rebekah. (2018). “Bouncing ideas”: When participants use this phrase, what do they really mean?. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 55(1). 929–930. 2 indexed citations
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Given, Lisa M., Rebekah Willson, Lauren Albrecht, & Shannon D. Scott. (2016). Information in crisis: Health & technology‐related information behaviors of parents in emergency departments. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 53(1). 1–10. 3 indexed citations
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Given, Lisa M., et al.. (2015). Bracing for impact: The role of information science in supporting societal research impact. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 52(1). 1–10. 19 indexed citations
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Willson, Rebekah & Lisa M. Given. (2014). Student search behaviour in an online public access catalogue: an examination of 'searching mental models' and 'searcher self-concept'. Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology). 19(3). 1–19. 10 indexed citations
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Given, Lisa M., et al.. (2014). Documenting young children's technology use: Observations in the home. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 51(1). 1–9. 8 indexed citations
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Given, Lisa M., Deborah Hicks, Theresa J. Schindel, & Rebekah Willson. (2014). The informing nature of talk & text: Discourse analysis as a research approach in information science. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 51(1). 1–4.
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Willson, Rebekah. (2012). Independent Searching During One-Shot Information Literacy Instruction Sessions: Is It an Effective Use of Time?. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7(4). 52–67. 9 indexed citations
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Willson, Rebekah & Lisa M. Given. (2010). The effect of spelling and retrieval system familiarity on search behavior in online public access catalogs: A mixed methods study. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 61(12). 2461–2476. 16 indexed citations

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