Richard Withey

915 total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 606 citations indexed

About

Richard Withey is a scholar working on Health, General Health Professions and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Withey has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 606 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Health, 3 papers in General Health Professions and 3 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Richard Withey's work include Mobile Health and mHealth Applications (3 papers), Social Media in Health Education (3 papers) and Health Literacy and Information Accessibility (3 papers). Richard Withey is often cited by papers focused on Mobile Health and mHealth Applications (3 papers), Social Media in Health Education (3 papers) and Health Literacy and Information Accessibility (3 papers). Richard Withey collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Poland. Richard Withey's co-authors include David Nicholas, Paul Huntington, Barrie Gunter, Peter Williams, Tom Dobrowolski, Maggie Fieldhouse, Ian Rowlands, Hamid R. Jamali and Carol Tenopir and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Documentation, Business Information Review and UCL Discovery (University College London).

In The Last Decade

Richard Withey

13 papers receiving 500 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.

The Google generation: the information behaviour of the researcher of the future

2008 372 citations Ian Rowlands, David Nicholas et al. Aslib Proceedings profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Richard Withey United Kingdom	8	255	152	105	100	96	14	606
Tom Dobrowolski United Kingdom	8	357 1.4×	145 1.0×	122 1.2×	37 0.4×	126 1.3×	14	682
Jannica Heinström Finland	13	225 0.9×	199 1.3×	140 1.3×	52 0.5×	169 1.8×	35	745
Kimmo Tuominen Finland	8	272 1.1×	161 1.1×	279 2.7×	59 0.6×	181 1.9×	17	725
Joanna Richardson Australia	12	210 0.8×	68 0.4×	48 0.5×	49 0.5×	47 0.5×	69	567
June Abbas United States	13	234 0.9×	187 1.2×	116 1.1×	32 0.3×	168 1.8×	58	642
Noorhidawati Abdullah Malaysia	16	350 1.4×	117 0.8×	93 0.9×	27 0.3×	56 0.6×	62	773
Snunith Shoham Israel	15	184 0.7×	88 0.6×	190 1.8×	39 0.4×	128 1.3×	62	597
Yazdan Mansourian Australia	13	229 0.9×	120 0.8×	81 0.8×	24 0.2×	70 0.7×	56	560
Sylvia L. Edwards Australia	15	223 0.9×	137 0.9×	205 2.0×	38 0.4×	65 0.7×	56	749
Wendy Duff Canada	17	335 1.3×	146 1.0×	88 0.8×	20 0.2×	95 1.0×	64	937

Countries citing papers authored by Richard Withey

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Fields of papers citing papers by Richard Withey

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Richard Withey. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Richard Withey. The network helps show where Richard Withey may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richard Withey

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

All Works

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14 of 14 papers shown

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Dobrowolski, Tom, Maggie Fieldhouse, Barrie Gunter, et al.. (2008). Digital Consumers: Reshaping the information professions. UCL Discovery (University College London). 2 indexed citations

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Rowlands, Ian, David Nicholas, Peter Williams, et al.. (2008). The Google generation: the information behaviour of the researcher of the future. Aslib Proceedings. 60(4). 290–310. 372 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gunter, Barrie, et al.. (2004). Broadband in Britain: how does it compare with narrowband?. Aslib Proceedings. 56(2). 89–98. 2 indexed citations

4.

Huntington, Paul, et al.. (2004). The general public's use of (and attitudes towards) interactive, personal digital health information and advisory services. Journal of Documentation. 60(3). 245–265. 16 indexed citations

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Huntington, Paul, et al.. (2004). Consumer trust in health information on the web. Aslib Proceedings. 56(6). 373–382. 27 indexed citations

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Nicholas, David, et al.. (2003). Digital information consumers, players and purchasers: information seeking behaviour in the new digital interactive environment. Aslib Proceedings. 55(1/2). 23–31. 28 indexed citations

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Nicholas, David, et al.. (2003). The British and their use of the Web for health information and advice: a survey. Aslib Proceedings. 55(5/6). 261–276. 65 indexed citations

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Withey, Richard. (2003). (Mis)understanding the digital media revolution. Aslib Proceedings. 55(1/2). 18–22. 2 indexed citations

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Gunter, Barrie, et al.. (2003). The British Life and Internet Project: inaugural survey findings. Aslib Proceedings. 55(4). 203–216. 4 indexed citations

10.

Withey, Richard. (2001). The convergence of convergence. Aslib Proceedings. 53(4). 120–123. 10 indexed citations

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Nicholas, David, et al.. (1999). Developing and testing methods to determine the use of web sites: case study newspapers. Aslib Proceedings. 51(5). 144–154. 31 indexed citations

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Nicholas, David, et al.. (1999). Cracking the code: web log analysis. 23(5). 263–269. 45 indexed citations

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Withey, Richard. (1998). The Web and the death of cultural imperialism. Aslib Proceedings. 50(8). 203–207. 1 indexed citations

14.

Withey, Richard. (1986). How managers use online information. Business Information Review. 3(1). 12–19. 1 indexed citations

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