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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
35
Citations
5799
World Ranking
6712
National Ranking
1074

Best Publications

  • The Google generation: the information behaviour of the researcher of the future

    Ian Rowlands;David Nicholas;Peter Williams;Paul Huntington

  • Social media use in the research workflow

    Ian Rowlands;David Nicholas;Bill Russell;Nicholas Canty

  • What do faculty and students really think about e‐books?

    Ian Rowlands;David Nicholas;Hamid R. Jamali;Paul Huntington

  • Scholarly communication in the digital environment: what do authors want?

    Ian Rowlands;David Nicholas;Paul Huntington

  • Scholarly e-books: the views of 16,000 academics Results from the JISC National E-Book Observatory

    R M Hamid Jamali;David Nicholas;Ian Rowlands

  • Science journal editors’ views on publication ethics: results of an international survey

    E. Wager;S. Fiack;C. Graf;A. Robinson

  • UK scholarly e‐book usage: a landmark survey

    David Nicholas;Ian Rowlands;David J. Clark;Paul Huntington

  • Understanding information policy: concepts, frameworks and research tools

    Ian Rowlands

  • Google Generation II: web behaviour experiments with the BBC

    David Nicholas;Ian Rowlands;David J. Clark;Peter Williams

  • E-textbook use, information seeking behaviour and its impact: Case study business and management

    David Nicholas;Ian Rowlands;Hamid R. Jamali

  • Student digital information‐seeking behaviour in context

    David Nicholas;Paul Huntington;Hamid R. Jamali;Ian Rowlands

  • The role and future of the monograph in arts and humanities research

    Peter Williams;Iain Stevenson;David Nicholas;Anthony Watkinson

  • Scholarly communication in the digital environment: The 2005 survey of journal author behaviour and attitudes

    Ian Rowlands;David Nicholas

  • Open access journal publishing: the views of some of the world's senior authors

    David Nicholas;Paul Huntington;Ian Rowlands

  • Viewing and reading behaviour in a virtual environment: The full‐text download and what can be read into it

    David Nicholas;Paul Huntington;Hamid R. Jamali;Ian Rowlands

  • Researchers' e-journal use and information seeking behaviour

    David Nicholas;Peter Williams;Ian Rowlands;Hamid R. Jamali

  • Digital Libraries: Assumptions and Concepts

    David Bawden;Ian Rowlands

  • Social media use in the research workflow

    David Nicholas;Ian Rowlands

  • The changing scholarly communication landscape : an international survey of senior researchers

    Ian Rowlands;David Nicholas

  • The impact of the economic downturn on libraries: With special reference to university libraries

    David Nicholas;Ian Rowlands;Michael Jubb;Hamid R. Jamali

  • The Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future

    I Rowlands;D Nicholas;P Huntington

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David Nicholas CIBER Research
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Barrie Gunter University of Leicester

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