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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - ACM Fellow For contributions to research on human interaction with information systems, data practices, and information policy.
  • 1989 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Christine L. Borgman is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on decision sciences and computer science. Within these broad domains, their work concentrates on subfields such as information systems, information systems and management, management science and operations research, education, and geography, planning and development.

The main topics addressed in their scholarly output include research data management practices, scientific computing and data management, data quality and management, geographic information systems studies, big data and business intelligence, scientometrics and bibliometrics research, and privacy-preserving technologies in data.

Christine L. Borgman has contributed to several peer-reviewed publications. Recent papers include:

  • "Collaborative qualitative research at scale: Reflections on 20 years of acquiring global data and making data global," 2021, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
  • "From Data Creator to Data Reuser: Distance Matters," 2025, Harvard Data Science Review

Other significant publications where they are not the primary author but closely related to their research interests include:

  • "Library cultures of data curation: Adventures in astronomy," 2020, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
  • "Do the stars align?: Stakeholders and strategies in libraries' curation of an astronomy dataset," 2020, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
  • "Thorny problems in data (-intensive) science," 2020, Communications of the ACM

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Christine L. Borgman include Peter T. Darch, Milena S. Golshan, Paul Groth, Ashley E. Sands, and Amy Brand.

Their body of work is published mainly in:

  • Harvard Data Science Review
  • Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Quantitative Science Studies
  • Science

Throughout their career, Christine L. Borgman has received professional recognition including *

  • ACM Fellow, 2013, for contributions to research on human interaction with information systems, data practices, and information policy
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1989

Best Publications

  • Scholarly Communication and Bibliometrics

    Christine L. Borgman;Jonathan Furner

  • The Conundrum of Sharing Research Data

    Christine L. Borgman

  • From Gutenberg to the global information infrastructure: access to information in the networked world

    Christine L. Borgman

  • Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World

    Christine L. Borgman

  • What are digital libraries? Competing visions

    Christine L. Borgman

  • Science friction: data, metadata, and collaboration

    Paul N. Edwards;Matthew S. Mayernik;Archer L. Batcheller;Geoffrey C. Bowker

  • Why are Online Catalogs Hard to Use? Lessons Learned from Information=Retrieval Studies

    Christine L. Borgman

  • If we share data, will anyone use them? Data sharing and reuse in the long tail of science and technology.

    Jillian C. Wallis;Elizabeth Rolando;Christine L. Borgman

  • The user's mental model of an information retrieval system: an experiment on a prototype online catalog

    C L Borgman

  • Why are online catalogs still hard to use

    Christine L. Borgman

  • Children's searching behavior on browsing and keyword online catalogs: the Science Library Catalog project

    Christine L. Borgman;Andrea L. Gallagher;Sandra G. Hirsh;Virginia A. Walter

  • The Digital Future is Now: A Call to Action for the Humanities

    Christine L. Borgman

  • Knowledge Infrastructures: Intellectual Frameworks and Research Challenges

    Paul N. Edwards;Steven J. Jackson;Melissa K. Chalmers;Geoffrey C. Bowker

  • All users of information retrieval systems are not created equal: an exploration into individual differences

    C. L. Borgman

  • Little science confronts the data deluge: habitat ecology, embedded sensor networks, and digital libraries

    Christine L. Borgman;Jillian C. Wallis;Noel Enyedy

  • Ten simple rules for the care and feeding of scientific data.

    Alyssa Goodman;Alberto Pepe;A.W. Alexander W. Blocker;C.L. Christine L. Borgman

  • Why are online catalogsstill hard to use

    Christine L. Borgman

  • Digital libraries and the continuum of scholarly communication

    Christine L. Borgman

  • On the Reuse of Scientific Data

    Irene V. Pasquetto;Bernadette M. Randles;Christine L. Borgman

  • Scholarship in the Digital Age

    Christine L. Borgman

  • Scholarly Communication and Bibliometrics.

    Edward J. Hackett;Christine L. Borgman

  • Big Data, Little Data, No Data: The Contested Landscape of Data Sharing and Reuse

    Christine L Borgman

Frequent Co-Authors

Deborah Estrin
Deborah Estrin Cornell University
Herbert Van de Sompel
Herbert Van de Sompel Ghent University
Ronald E. Rice
Ronald E. Rice University of California, Santa Barbara
Nicholas J. Belkin
Nicholas J. Belkin Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Richard E. Mayer
Richard E. Mayer University of California, Santa Barbara
Geoffrey C. Bowker
Geoffrey C. Bowker University of California, Irvine
Alyssa A. Goodman
Alyssa A. Goodman Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Ramesh Govindan
Ramesh Govindan University of Southern California
Mani Srivastava
Mani Srivastava University of California, Los Angeles
Susan T. Dumais
Susan T. Dumais Microsoft (United States)

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