W. Boyd Rayward

1.3k total citations
44 papers, 687 citations indexed

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W. Boyd Rayward is a scholar working on Library and Information Sciences, Information Systems and Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, W. Boyd Rayward has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 687 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Library and Information Sciences, 10 papers in Information Systems and 8 papers in Conservation. Recurrent topics in W. Boyd Rayward's work include Library Science and Administration (12 papers), Digital Humanities and Scholarship (8 papers) and Digital and Traditional Archives Management (8 papers). W. Boyd Rayward is often cited by papers focused on Library Science and Administration (12 papers), Digital Humanities and Scholarship (8 papers) and Digital and Traditional Archives Management (8 papers). W. Boyd Rayward collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Netherlands. W. Boyd Rayward's co-authors include Michael B. Twidale, Christine Jenkins, Paul F. Marty, Caroline Haythornthwaite, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Robert M. Graham and John Unsworth and has published in prestigious journals such as Information Processing & Management, Library & Information Science Research and College & Research Libraries.

In The Last Decade

W. Boyd Rayward

36 papers receiving 447 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
W. Boyd Rayward United States	15	231	134	133	128	81	44	687
Anne J. Gilliland‐Swetland United States	14	235 1.0×	209 1.6×	81 0.6×	50 0.4×	40 0.5×	37	558
Wendy Duff Canada	17	335 1.5×	504 3.8×	146 1.1×	130 1.0×	88 1.1×	64	937
Helen R. Tibbo United States	13	428 1.9×	212 1.6×	60 0.5×	88 0.7×	92 1.1×	59	777
Lorcan Dempsey United Kingdom	16	425 1.8×	120 0.9×	44 0.3×	48 0.4×	115 1.4×	67	682
David Bearman United States	13	205 0.9×	259 1.9×	72 0.5×	56 0.4×	16 0.2×	91	603
Mary Niles Maack United States	6	139 0.6×	39 0.3×	126 0.9×	51 0.4×	102 1.3×	18	585
Adrienne Muir United Kingdom	11	156 0.7×	112 0.8×	90 0.7×	24 0.2×	51 0.6×	51	447
Luciana Duranti Canada	19	357 1.5×	507 3.8×	100 0.8×	78 0.6×	11 0.1×	51	875
Jesse H. Shera United States	13	230 1.0×	52 0.4×	127 1.0×	84 0.7×	221 2.7×	46	629
Heather MacNeil Canada	14	114 0.5×	292 2.2×	84 0.6×	53 0.4×	10 0.1×	35	482

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Rayward, W. Boyd, et al.. (2011). Facing interfaces: Paul Otlet's visualizations of data integration. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 62(12). 2313–2326. 17 indexed citations

Rayward, W. Boyd. (2010). Mundaneum: Archives of Knowledge. Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). 8 indexed citations

Rayward, W. Boyd. (2008). European Modernism and the Information Society : Informing the Present, Understanding the Past. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 25 indexed citations

Rayward, W. Boyd. (2004). When and Why Is a Pioneer: History and Heritage in Library and Information Science. Library trends. 52. 671–682. 6 indexed citations

Rayward, W. Boyd. (2004). Libricide: The Regime-Sponsored Destruction of Books and Libraries During the Twentieth Century. Library & Information Science Research. 26(4). 516–520. 1 indexed citations

Rayward, W. Boyd. (1999). The Noble Brow of History: The History and Heritage of Science Information Systems. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 25(2). 19–22. 2 indexed citations

Rayward, W. Boyd & Michael B. Twidale. (1999). From Docent to Cyberdocent: Education and Guidancein the Virtual Museum. Archives and Museum Informatics. 13(1). 23–53. 39 indexed citations

Rayward, W. Boyd. (1999). H.G. Wells's idea of a World Brain: A critical reassessment. Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 50(7). 557–573. 31 indexed citations

Rayward, W. Boyd. (1996). The history and historiography of information science: Some reflections. Information Processing & Management. 32(1). 3–17. 54 indexed citations

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Rayward, W. Boyd. (1994). Visions of Xanadu: Paul Otlet (1868-1944) and hypertext. Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 45(4). 235–250. 91 indexed citations

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Rayward, W. Boyd. (1991). The case of Paul Otlet, pioneer of information science, internationalist, visionary: reflections on biography. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science. 23(3). 135–145. 24 indexed citations

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Rayward, W. Boyd. (1987). Central and Other Mysteries in Librarianship: The Writings of John Wallace Metcalfe.. The Australian Library Journal. 36(4). 1 indexed citations

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Rayward, W. Boyd. (1986). Research and Education for Library and Information Science: Waples in Retrospect. The Library Quarterly. 56(4). 348–359. 3 indexed citations

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Rayward, W. Boyd. (1984). The problem of connections: education for and the practice of librarianship 1. Journal of librarianship. 16(3). 151–169. 3 indexed citations

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Rayward, W. Boyd. (1983). Conflict, Interdependence, Mediocrity: Librarians and Library Educators.. Library journal. 108(13). 8 indexed citations

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Rayward, W. Boyd. (1982). Access to Information and the Public Library.. 53(7). 2 indexed citations

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Rayward, W. Boyd. (1980). Publishing Library Research. College & Research Libraries. 41(3). 210–219. 1 indexed citations

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Rayward, W. Boyd. (1976). Librarianship in the New World and the Old: Some Points of Contact.. Library trends. 2 indexed citations

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Rayward, W. Boyd, et al.. (1976). The Variety of librarianship : essays in honour of John Wallace Metcalfe. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 11 indexed citations

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Rayward, W. Boyd. (1969). Libraries as Organizations. College & Research Libraries. 30(4). 312–326. 6 indexed citations

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