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D-Index
42
Citations
15790
World Ranking
4573
National Ranking
2175

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Geoffrey C. Bowker is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their recent research outputs span various aspects of data sciences, human-computer interaction, and information systems. Bowker's scholarly work is documented in a range of journals and conference venues.

Recent papers by Bowker include:

  • "Numbers or no numbers in science studies," 2020, Quantitative Science Studies
  • "Working with Olga Kuchinskaya and Katie Vann," 2022, Science Technology & Human Values

Additional notable publications where Bowker contributed as a co-author or was cited include research such as:

  • "Prospecting (in) the data sciences," 2020, Big Data & Society
  • "Humanistic infrastructure studies: hyper-functionality and the experience of the absurd," 2020, Information Communication & Society
  • "Phenotyping as disciplinary practice: Data infrastructure and the interprofessional conflict over drug use in California," 2021, Big Data & Society

Bowker frequently collaborates with several researchers. Among the most frequent co-authors are:

  • John S. Seberger
  • Stephen C. Slota
  • Andrew Hoffman
  • David Ribes
  • Mustafa Hussain

Their work is often published in these venues:

  • Big Data & Society
  • The MIT Press eBooks
  • Information Communication & Society
  • Quantitative Science Studies
  • Science Technology & Human Values

Bowker's research engages multiple subfields of study with emphasis on:

  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Management Information Systems
  • Information Systems
  • Information Systems and Management

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
  • Big Data and Business Intelligence
  • Research Data Management Practices
  • Scientific Computing and Data Management
  • Information Systems Theories and Implementation
  • Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
  • Ethics in Clinical Research

In 2010, Bowker was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences

    Geoffery C. Bowker;Susan Leigh Star

  • Toward Information Infrastructure Studies: Ways of Knowing in a Networked Environment

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  • Introduction: An Agenda for Infrastructure Studies

    Paul N. Edwards;Geoffrey C. Bowker;Steven J. Jackson;Robin Williams

  • The multiple bodies of the medical record : Toward a sociology of an artifact

    Marc Berg;Geoffrey Bowker

  • Understanding Infrastructure: Dynamics, Tensions, and Design

    Paul N. Edwards;Steven J. Jackson;Geoffrey C. Bowker;Cory Philip Knobel

  • Promoting Access to Public Research Data for Scientific, Economic, and Social Development

    Peter W. Arzberger;Peter Schroeder;Anne Beaulieu;Geoffrey C. Bowker

  • Knowledge Infrastructures: Intellectual Frameworks and Research Challenges

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

  • How to Infrastructure

    Susan Leigh Star;Geoffrey C. Bowker

  • Science on the Run: Information Management and Industrial Geophysics at Schlumberger, 1920-1940

    Edward W. Constant;Geoffrey C. Bowker

  • An International Framework to Promote Access to Data

    Peter Arzberger;Peter Schroeder;Anne Beaulieu;Geof Bowker

  • Understanding infrastructure: History, heuristics and cyberinfrastructure policy

    Steven J. Jackson;Paul N. Edwards;Geoffrey C. Bowker;Cory P. Knobel

  • Human capital heterogeneity, collaborative relationships, and publication patterns in a multidisciplinary scientific alliance: a comparative case study of two scientific teams

    Joseph F Porac;James B Wade;Harald M Fischer;Joyce Brown

  • Social science, technical systems, and cooperative work: beyond the great divide

    G.C. Bowker;S.L. Star;W. Turner;L. Gasser

  • Values in design

    Cory Knobel;Geoffrey C. Bowker

  • Infrastructure and Organizational Transformation: Classifying Nurses’ Work

    Geoffrey C. Bowker;Stefan Timmermans;Susan Leigh Star

  • Unsupervised by any other name: Hidden layers of knowledge production in artificial intelligence on social media

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  • Out of machine age?: complexity, sociotechnical systems and actor network theory

    William N. Kaghan;Geoffrey C. Bowker

  • Enacting silence: Residual categories as a challenge for ethics, information systems, and communication

    Susan Leigh Star;Geoffrey C. Bowker

  • The logic of domains

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  • Collaborative rhythm: temporal dissonance and alignment in collaborative scientific work

    Steven J. Jackson;David Ribes;Ayse Buyuktur;Geoffrey C. Bowker

  • Information Infrastructures for Distributed Collective Practices

    William Turner;Geoffrey Bowker;Les Gasser;Manuel Zacklad

  • Invisible Mediators of Action: Classification and the Ubiquity of Standards

    Geoffrey C. Bowker;Susan Leigh Star

  • How things (actor-net) work: Classification, magic and the ubiquity of standards

    Geoffrey C. Bowker;Susan Leigh Star

  • Science on the run : information management and industrial geophysics at Schlumberger, 1920-1940

    Geoffrey C. Bowker

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan Leigh Star
Susan Leigh Star University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Caroline Haythornthwaite
Caroline Haythornthwaite Syracuse University
Joseph F. Porac
Joseph F. Porac New York University
Bertram C. Bruce
Bertram C. Bruce University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nicholas C. Burbules
Nicholas C. Burbules University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ash Amin
Ash Amin University of Cambridge
Mike Featherstone
Mike Featherstone Goldsmiths University of London
Stefan Timmermans
Stefan Timmermans University of California, Los Angeles
William H. Dutton
William H. Dutton University of Oxford
Peter van den Besselaar
Peter van den Besselaar Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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