2026 Charles Oppenheim: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	53	4895	4760	294	292	347	9405
Social Sciences and Humanities	55	2054	1865	366	332	369	10026

Overview

Charles Oppenheim is affiliated with Robert Gordon University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple intersecting fields including Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science, Library and Information Sciences, Information Systems and Management, and Law.

The scientific work encompasses a range of topics such as:

Research Data Management Practices
Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
Library Science and Information Literacy
Academic Publishing and Open Access
Scientometrics and Bibliometrics Research
Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
Big Data and Business Intelligence

Several key papers involving Charles Oppenheim illustrate the breadth of their research. Notable recent publications include:

"Does education in library and information studies in the United Kingdom have a future?" (2020) in Education for Information
"Korea's national approach to Open Science: Present and possible future" (2022) in Journal of Information Science
"The Uptake of Open Science: Mapping the Results of a Systematic Literature Review" (2020) in ITM Web of Conferences
"A copyright overview" (2020) in El Profesional de la Informacion
"Identifying key factors and actions: Initial steps in the Open Science Policy Design and Implementation Process" (2023) in Journal of Information Science

Charles Oppenheim has collaborated frequently with several colleagues, including:

Naomi Korn
Adrienne Muir
Hanna Shmagun
Jae-Soo Kim
Jangsup Shim

Publication venues where their work is regularly featured include:

Information law
Journal of Librarianship and Information Science
Journal of Information Science
Education for Information
ITM Web of Conferences

In addition to journal articles, Charles Oppenheim has published books, including one titled Information Law (2020), published by Facet eBooks.

Best Publications

Comparing alternatives to the Web of Science for coverage of the social sciences’ literature

Michael Norris;Charles Oppenheim

771
Citations
The Access/Impact Problem and the Green and Gold Roads to Open Access☆

Stevan Harnad;Tim Brody;François Vallières;Les Carr

725
Citations
The Access/Impact Problem and the Green and Gold Roads to Open Access: An Update

Stevan Harnad;Tim Brody;François Vallières;Les Carr

355
Citations
The citation advantage of open-access articles

Michael Norris;Charles Oppenheim;Fytton Rowland

336
Citations
Highly cited old papers and the reasons why they continue to be cited

Charles Oppenheim;Susan P. Renn

241
Citations
Economic Implications of Alternative Scholarly Publishing Models Exploring the costs and benefits

John Houghton;Bruce Rasmussen;Peter Sheehan;Charles Oppenheim

232
Citations
The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

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216
Citations
Do citations matter

Laura M. Baird;Charles Oppenheim

212
Citations
A GENRE ANALYSIS OF SCIENTIFIC ABSTRACTS

Cate Cross;Charles Oppenheim

205
Citations
The correlation between citation counts and the 1992 research assessment exercise ratings for British research in genetics, anatomy and archaeology

Charles Oppenheim

204
Citations
The evaluation of WWW search engines

Charles Oppenheim;Anne Morris;Cliff McKnight;S. Lowley

187
Citations
Using the h‐index to rank influential British researchers in information science and librarianship

Charles Oppenheim

180
Citations
National Information Policy developments worldwide I: electronic government

Adrienne Muir;Charles Oppenheim

179
Citations
RoMEO Studies 1 : the impact of copyright ownership on academic author self-archiving

Elizabeth Gadd;Charles Oppenheim;Steve G. Probets

174
Citations
Authors’ awareness and attitudes toward open access repositories

Claire Creaser;Jenny Fry;Helen Greenwood;Charles Oppenheim

165
Citations
THE CORRELATION BETWEEN CITATION COUNTS AND THE 1992 RESEARCH ASSESSMENT EXERCISE RATINGS FOR BRITISH LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENTS

Charles Oppenheim

157
Citations
Citation counts and the Research Assessment Exercise V: Archaeology and the 2001 RAE

Michael Norris;Charles Oppenheim

153
Citations
What Is the Hybrid Library

Charles Oppenheim;Daniel Smithson

143
Citations
The h‐index: a broad review of a new bibliometric indicator

Michael Norris;Charles Oppenheim

140
Citations
Mandated online RAE CVs Linked to University Eprint Archives

Stevan Harnad;Les Carr;Tim Brody;Charles Oppenheim

134
Citations
RoMEO Studies 4: An analysis of Journal publishers' Copyright Agreements

Elizabeth Gadd;Charles Oppenheim;Steve G. Probets

129
Citations
Economic implications of alternative scholarly publishing models : exploring the costs and benefits. JISC EI-ASPM Project. A report to the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)

John Houghton;Bruce Rasmussen;Peter Sheehan;Charles Oppenheim

79
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Stevan Harnad University of Quebec at Montreal

Mike Thelwall University of Sheffield

Yves Gingras University of Quebec at Montreal

Klaus Hellgardt Imperial College London

Peter Willett University of Sheffield

Mark Sanderson RMIT University

Nigel Shadbolt University of Oxford

David I. Stuart University of Oxford

Yorick Wilks Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition

Tim Berners-Lee University of Oxford

External Links

Personal website of Charles Oppenheim

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