Stephen Bales

693 total citations
30 papers, 476 citations indexed

About

Stephen Bales is a scholar working on Library and Information Sciences, Organic Chemistry and Polymers and Plastics. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen Bales has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 476 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Library and Information Sciences, 7 papers in Organic Chemistry and 6 papers in Polymers and Plastics. Recurrent topics in Stephen Bales's work include Library Science and Information Literacy (7 papers), Library Science and Administration (6 papers) and Web and Library Services (4 papers). Stephen Bales is often cited by papers focused on Library Science and Information Literacy (7 papers), Library Science and Administration (6 papers) and Web and Library Services (4 papers). Stephen Bales collaborates with scholars based in United States and India. Stephen Bales's co-authors include Reuben D. Rieke, Robert A. Bubeck, Hyomin Lee, Peiling Wang, Maurice J. Marks, Patrick B. Smith, Robert Gulotty, Sundaram Suresh, John Newton and M. Inbasekaran and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Macromolecules and The Journal of Physical Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Stephen Bales

28 papers receiving 428 citations

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Stephen Bales 137 96 71 69 60 30 476
Chuanfu Chen 444 3.2× 396 4.1× 13 0.2× 140 2.0× 48 0.8× 62 888
Steve O’Connor 54 0.4× 41 0.4× 48 0.7× 94 1.4× 106 1.8× 33 570
Robert Tomaszewski 288 2.1× 3 0.0× 37 0.5× 19 0.3× 72 1.2× 48 590
Elizabeth Brown 91 0.7× 14 0.1× 24 0.3× 174 2.5× 38 0.6× 28 450
Thomas C. Wright 540 3.9× 5 0.1× 10 0.1× 58 0.8× 16 0.3× 32 719
R. C. Wilson 189 1.4× 54 0.6× 2 0.0× 123 1.8× 6 0.1× 38 458
Laura E. Pence 265 1.9× 30 0.3× 3 0.0× 372 5.4× 12 0.2× 38 988
Prateeti Chakraborty 307 2.2× 25 0.3× 5 0.1× 284 4.1× 8 0.1× 38 1.1k
Cynthia B. Powell 159 1.2× 45 0.5× 46 0.7× 14 0.2× 26 375

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stephen Bales

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen Bales

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bales, Stephen, et al.. (2020). Matters of scale: small-scale intensive outreach to graduate students. Public & Access Services Quarterly. 16(3). 147–160. 1 indexed citations
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Bales, Stephen, et al.. (2019). The use of departmental journal lists in promotion and tenure decisions at American research universities. The Journal of Academic Librarianship. 45(2). 153–161. 11 indexed citations
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Bales, Stephen, et al.. (2018). Format Aside: Applying Beall's Criteria to Assess the Predatory Nature of both OA and Non-OA Library and Information Science Journals. College & Research Libraries. 79(1). 51 indexed citations
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Bales, Stephen, et al.. (2012). New Academic Librarians and Their Perceptions of the Profession. portal Libraries and the Academy. 12(2). 179–203. 30 indexed citations
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Bales, Stephen, et al.. (2010). Seeking Full Citizenship: A Defense of Tenure Faculty Status for Librarians. College & Research Libraries. 71(5). 406–420. 34 indexed citations
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Bales, Stephen. (2009). Tracing the Archetypal Academic Librarian. Library philosophy and practice. 1 indexed citations
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Bales, Stephen & Peiling Wang. (2005). Consolidating user relevance criteria: A meta‐ethnography of empirical studies. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 42(1). 10 indexed citations
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Bales, Stephen, et al.. (2004). The Future Engineer Force: Projecting the Capabilities of the Regiment. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Peiling, et al.. (2004). Survey of learners' knowledge structures: Rationales, methods and instruments. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 41(1). 218–228. 6 indexed citations
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Suresh, Sundaram, et al.. (2003). A novel polycarbonate for high temperature electro-optics via azo bisphenol amines accessed by Ullmann coupling. Polymer. 44(18). 5111–5117. 24 indexed citations
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Marks, Maurice J., et al.. (1997). Synthesis and thermochemistry of phenylmaleimide- and phenylnadimide-terminated bisphenol A polycarbonates. Journal of Polymer Science Part A Polymer Chemistry. 35(2). 385–390. 7 indexed citations
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Gulotty, Robert, Charles A. Langhoff, & Stephen Bales. (1990). Nonlinear optical activity of bisphenol A polycarbonate and related copolymers. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 1337. 258–258. 2 indexed citations
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Smith, Patrick B., Robert A. Bubeck, & Stephen Bales. (1988). Deuteron NMR analysis of the molecular origin of the thermal relaxations in polycarbonates. Macromolecules. 21(7). 2058–2063. 11 indexed citations
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Bubeck, Robert A., Stephen Bales, & Hyomin Lee. (1984). Changes in yield and deformation of polycarbonates caused by physical aging. Polymer Engineering and Science. 24(14). 1142–1148. 60 indexed citations
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Rieke, Reuben D., et al.. (1974). Ring strain effects. IV. Electron spin resonance study of the radical anions of a series of strained naphthalene hydrocarbons. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 39(15). 2276–2281. 6 indexed citations
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Rieke, Reuben D. & Stephen Bales. (1974). Ion association between naphtho[b]cyclobutene radical anion and alkali metal ions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 78(7). 723–727. 1 indexed citations
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Rieke, Reuben D. & Stephen Bales. (1973). Activated metals. The effect of added metal salts on magnesium reactivity. Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications. 879–879. 27 indexed citations
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Rieke, Reuben D. & Stephen Bales. (1972). Benzocyclobutene radical anion II. Ion-pairing effects in potassium-THF and cesium-DME. Chemical Physics Letters. 12(4). 631–633. 3 indexed citations
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Rieke, Reuben D., et al.. (1972). Iodine oxidation of unsaturated bunte salts. Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications. 974–974. 3 indexed citations
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Rieke, Reuben D. & Stephen Bales. (1972). Ion-pairing studies of naphtho[b]cyclobutene. Tetrahedron Letters. 13(24). 2439–2441. 1 indexed citations

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