The Reference Librarian

1.4k papers and 6.6k indexed citations i.

About

The 1.4k papers published in The Reference Librarian in the last decades have received a total of 6.6k indexed citations. Papers published in The Reference Librarian usually cover Library and Information Sciences (702 papers), Information Systems (668 papers) and Education (146 papers) specifically the topics of Library Science and Information Literacy (645 papers), Web and Library Services (440 papers) and Library Science and Administration (298 papers). The most active scholars publishing in The Reference Librarian are Joan C. Durrance, Harry E. Pence, Loriene Roy, Jody Condit Fagan, William Badke, Steve Black, Eileen Allen, Mengxiong Liu, Steven Bell and Ingrid Hsieh‐Yee.

In The Last Decade

Fields of papers published in The Reference Librarian

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers published in The Reference Librarian. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers published in The Reference Librarian.

Countries where authors publish in The Reference Librarian

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This map shows the geographic impact of research published in The Reference Librarian. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by papers published in The Reference Librarian with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites The Reference Librarian more than expected).

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar’s output or impact.

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