William Goffman

1.3k total citations
26 papers, 951 citations indexed

About

William Goffman is a scholar working on Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Modeling and Simulation. According to data from OpenAlex, William Goffman has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 951 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Information Systems, 5 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 4 papers in Modeling and Simulation. Recurrent topics in William Goffman's work include COVID-19 epidemiological studies (4 papers), Semantic Web and Ontologies (3 papers) and Healthcare Systems and Technology (2 papers). William Goffman is often cited by papers focused on COVID-19 epidemiological studies (4 papers), Semantic Web and Ontologies (3 papers) and Healthcare Systems and Technology (2 papers). William Goffman collaborates with scholars based in United States. William Goffman's co-authors include Vaun A. Newill, Kenneth S. Warren, Glynn Harmon, Jack Belzer, Michael Katz and John T. Bruer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Communications of the ACM and Journal of Theoretical Biology.

In The Last Decade

William Goffman

25 papers receiving 782 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William Goffman United States 16 224 215 162 154 137 26 951
Pierre Deville Belgium 6 237 1.1× 127 0.6× 100 0.6× 361 2.3× 145 1.1× 9 1.4k
Miranda Lee Pao United States 14 62 0.3× 207 1.0× 142 0.9× 292 1.9× 67 0.5× 23 860
Junming Huang China 14 446 2.0× 166 0.8× 196 1.2× 184 1.2× 225 1.6× 33 1.3k
Martin Szomszor United Kingdom 16 61 0.3× 333 1.5× 214 1.3× 133 0.9× 179 1.3× 42 965
Jürgen Lerner Germany 17 431 1.9× 110 0.5× 216 1.3× 32 0.2× 369 2.7× 42 1.1k
Zhesi Shen China 15 553 2.5× 66 0.3× 151 0.9× 190 1.2× 107 0.8× 41 981
Jiang Li China 21 131 0.6× 134 0.6× 124 0.8× 461 3.0× 113 0.8× 100 1.2k
Jeffrey R. Travers United States 7 481 2.1× 96 0.4× 121 0.7× 13 0.1× 258 1.9× 15 1.1k
Francisco Grimaldo Spain 18 104 0.5× 141 0.7× 85 0.5× 357 2.3× 109 0.8× 71 1.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by William Goffman

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Goffman

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Goffman, William, et al.. (2005). Quality assessment of schistosomiasis literature. Document Server@UHasselt (UHasselt). 1 indexed citations
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Bruer, John T., William Goffman, & Kenneth S. Warren. (1981). Selective Medical Libraries and Library Networks for Developing Countries. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 30(5). 1133–1140. 4 indexed citations
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Goffman, William & Kenneth S. Warren. (1980). Scientific information systems and the principle of selectivity. 43 indexed citations
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Goffman, William, et al.. (1975). Quasi-metric spaces and information systems. Ciência da Informação. 4(2).
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Goffman, William & Glynn Harmon. (1971). Mathematical Approach to the Prediction of Scientific Discovery. Nature. 229(5280). 103–104. 42 indexed citations
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Goffman, William, et al.. (1970). Bradford's Law and Library Acquisitions. Nature. 226(5249). 922–923. 61 indexed citations
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Goffman, William. (1970). INFORMATION SCIENCE: DISCIPLINE OR DISAPPEARANCE. Aslib Proceedings. 22(12). 589–596. 29 indexed citations
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Goffman, William & Kenneth S. Warren. (1969). Dispersion of Papers among Journals based on a Mathematical Analysis of Two Diverse Medical Literatures. Nature. 221(5187). 1205–1207. 73 indexed citations
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Goffman, William. (1968). An indirect method of information retrieval. Information Storage and Retrieval. 4(4). 361–373. 34 indexed citations
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Goffman, William & Vaun A. Newill. (1967). Communication and epidemic processes. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 298(1454). 316–334. 41 indexed citations
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Goffman, William. (1966). Mathematical Approach to the Spread of Scientific Ideas—the History of Mast Cell Research. Nature. 212(5061). 449–452. 94 indexed citations
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Goffman, William. (1966). A mathematical model for describing the compatibility of infectious diseases. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 11(3). 349–361. 7 indexed citations
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Goffman, William. (1966). Stability of Epidemic Processes. Nature. 210(5038). 786–787. 18 indexed citations
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Goffman, William & Vaun A. Newill. (1966). A methodology for test and evaluation of information retrieval systems. Information Storage and Retrieval. 3(1). 19–25. 25 indexed citations
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Goffman, William. (1965). On the logic of information retrieval. Information Storage and Retrieval. 2(4). 217–220. 3 indexed citations
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Belzer, Jack & William Goffman. (1964). Theoretical considerations in information retrieval systems. Communications of the ACM. 7(7). 439–442. 2 indexed citations
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Goffman, William & Vaun A. Newill. (1964). Generalization of Epidemic Theory: An Application to the Transmission of Ideas. Nature. 204(4955). 225–228. 267 indexed citations
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Goffman, William. (1964). On relevance as a measure°. Information Storage and Retrieval. 2(3). 201–203. 46 indexed citations
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Goffman, William, et al.. (1964). Use of meta‐language in information retrieval systems. American Documentation. 15(1). 14–22. 5 indexed citations
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Goffman, William, et al.. (1961). Inefficiency of the use of Boolean functions for information retrieval systems. Communications of the ACM. 4(12). 557–558. 36 indexed citations

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