Simon Wakeling

851 total citations
48 papers, 472 citations indexed

About

Simon Wakeling is a scholar working on Information Systems, Library and Information Sciences and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Wakeling has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 472 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Information Systems, 18 papers in Library and Information Sciences and 14 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. Recurrent topics in Simon Wakeling's work include Library Science and Administration (15 papers), scientometrics and bibliometrics research (14 papers) and Academic Publishing and Open Access (8 papers). Simon Wakeling is often cited by papers focused on Library Science and Administration (15 papers), scientometrics and bibliometrics research (14 papers) and Academic Publishing and Open Access (8 papers). Simon Wakeling collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. Simon Wakeling's co-authors include Stephen Pinfield, Valérie Spezi, Peter Willett, Jenny Fry, Claire Creaser, Hamid R. Jamali, Jane Garner, Philip Hider, Yazdan Mansourian and Holly Randell‐Moon and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Journal of Documentation.

In The Last Decade

Simon Wakeling

39 papers receiving 440 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Simon Wakeling Australia 12 218 147 140 74 59 48 472
Valérie Spezi United Kingdom 15 277 1.3× 200 1.4× 179 1.3× 58 0.8× 58 1.0× 23 522
Rachel Volentine United States 12 253 1.2× 201 1.4× 151 1.1× 81 1.1× 32 0.5× 22 581
Cristóbal Urbano Spain 12 130 0.6× 151 1.0× 52 0.4× 34 0.5× 35 0.6× 53 366
Raym Crow United States 6 155 0.7× 312 2.1× 109 0.8× 28 0.4× 22 0.4× 14 535
Danny Kingsley Australia 9 104 0.5× 120 0.8× 66 0.5× 42 0.6× 23 0.4× 29 312
Kathryn La Barre United States 7 203 0.9× 117 0.8× 50 0.4× 39 0.5× 16 0.3× 23 410
Sheridan Brown United Kingdom 10 291 1.3× 284 1.9× 169 1.2× 23 0.3× 25 0.4× 14 542
Xiaotian Chen United States 11 83 0.4× 146 1.0× 59 0.4× 29 0.4× 37 0.6× 38 363
Ann C. Weller United States 14 225 1.0× 286 1.9× 90 0.6× 38 0.5× 154 2.6× 28 701
Preeti Mahajan India 10 58 0.3× 107 0.7× 49 0.3× 84 1.1× 42 0.7× 56 347

Countries citing papers authored by Simon Wakeling

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Fields of papers citing papers by Simon Wakeling

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Wakeling

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

All Works

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Carroll, Mary, et al.. (2025). Documenting a profession: an exploration of the published history of school libraries and teacher librarians in Australia. History of Education Review. 54(1-2). 17–37. 1 indexed citations
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Wakeling, Simon, et al.. (2025). How to Train Your Librarian: The Inclusion of Pedagogy and Learning Theory in LIS Degrees. Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association. 74(4). 517–532.
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Wakeling, Simon, et al.. (2025). An Analysis of the Design Characteristics of New Public Library Buildings. Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association. 75(1). 143–179.
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Hider, Philip, Simon Wakeling, Hamid R. Jamali, & Jane Garner. (2025). Planning and Using Library Codesign: Towards a Toolkit for Public Libraries. Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association. 75(1). 66–84.
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Wakeling, Simon, et al.. (2025). Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Public Library Codesign Workshop Process. Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association. 75(1). 110–142. 1 indexed citations
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Jamali, Hamid R. & Simon Wakeling. (2025). Roles, Challenges, and Sustainability of Australian Journals: A Survey of Editors. Charles Sturt University Research Output (CRO). 9(1). 2 indexed citations
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Carroll, Mary, et al.. (2022). Building a Knowledge Bank of Critical Literature for Australian and New Zealand Teacher-librarians and School Libraries. Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association. 71(4). 356–366. 1 indexed citations
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Garner, Jane, et al.. (2021). The Experience of Disaster and Crisis Management in Libraries. Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association. 70(3). 239–242. 1 indexed citations
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Pinfield, Stephen, Simon Wakeling, David Bawden, & Lyn Robinson. (2020). Open access in theory and practice : the theory-practice relationship and openness. White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York). 9 indexed citations
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Pinfield, Stephen, Simon Wakeling, David Bawden, & Lyn Robinson. (2020). Open Access in Theory and Practice. BiblioBoard Library Catalog (Open Research Library). 18 indexed citations
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Wakeling, Simon, Claire Creaser, Stephen Pinfield, et al.. (2019). Motivations, understandings, and experiences of open‐access mega‐journal authors: Results of a large‐scale survey. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 70(7). 754–768. 18 indexed citations
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Wakeling, Simon, Valérie Spezi, Claire Creaser, et al.. (2017). Open access megajournals: The publisher perspective (Part 2: Operational realities). Learned Publishing. 30(4). 313–322. 19 indexed citations
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Spezi, Valérie, Simon Wakeling, Stephen Pinfield, et al.. (2017). Open-access mega-journals. Journal of Documentation. 73(2). 263–283. 73 indexed citations
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Wakeling, Simon, Valérie Spezi, Jenny Fry, et al.. (2017). Open access megajournals: The publisher perspective (Part 1: Motivations). Learned Publishing. 30(4). 301–311. 18 indexed citations
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Spezi, Valérie, Simon Wakeling, Stephen Pinfield, et al.. (2017). “Let the community decide”? The vision and reality of soundness-only peer review in open-access mega-journals. Journal of Documentation. 74(1). 137–161. 39 indexed citations
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Wakeling, Simon, Peter Willett, Claire Creaser, et al.. (2017). Transitioning from a Conventional to a ‘Mega’ Journal: A Bibliometric Case Study of the Journal Medicine. Publications. 5(2). 7–7. 20 indexed citations
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Wakeling, Simon, Peter Willett, Claire Creaser, et al.. (2016). Open-Access Mega-Journals: A Bibliometric Profile. PLoS ONE. 11(11). e0165359–e0165359. 51 indexed citations
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Wakeling, Simon, et al.. (2015). Graph Literacy and Business Intelligence: Investigating User Understanding of Dashboard Data Visualizations. White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York). 9 indexed citations

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