What is he best known for?
The fields of study he is best known for:
- Social science
- The Internet
- Social psychology
Reijo Savolainen mainly focuses on Information seeking, Social psychology, Context, The Internet and Information needs.
His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Information science, Information literacy and Knowledge management.
In his study, Information behavior and Action is inextricably linked to Social constructionism, which falls within the broad field of Social psychology.
His work deals with themes such as Empirical research and Data science, which intersect with Context.
His The Internet research incorporates elements of Perception, Information source and Internet privacy.
His Information needs research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Consumption and Popularity.
His most cited work include:
- Everyday life information seeking: Approaching information seeking in the context of “way of life” (677 citations)
- Information Literacy as a Sociotechnical Practice. (244 citations)
- “Isms” in information science: constructivism, collectivism and constructionism (243 citations)
What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?
Reijo Savolainen mostly deals with Information seeking, Context, Social psychology, Knowledge management and The Internet.
The various areas that Reijo Savolainen examines in his Information seeking study include Cognitive psychology, Information behavior, Information needs, Information sharing and Internet privacy.
Reijo Savolainen combines subjects such as Public relations, Qualitative research, Empirical research, Data science and Conceptualization with his study of Context.
The various areas that he examines in his Social psychology study include Social constructionism and Mass media.
His Knowledge management research includes themes of Field and Construct.
His The Internet study which covers Information source that intersects with Preference and Usability.
He most often published in these fields:
- Information seeking (45.45%)
- Context (23.14%)
- Social psychology (19.01%)
What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2016-2020)?
- Information seeking (45.45%)
- Information sharing (8.26%)
- Knowledge management (18.18%)
In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:
Reijo Savolainen mostly deals with Information seeking, Information sharing, Knowledge management, Context and Information needs.
His studies in Information seeking integrate themes in fields like Information behavior, Originality, Relevance, Cognitive science and Internet privacy.
His work focuses on many connections between Information sharing and other disciplines, such as Dialogical self, that overlap with his field of interest in Discussion group, Pedagogy, Online discussion and Conversation analysis.
His research integrates issues of Quality, Field and Reliability engineering in his study of Knowledge management.
The concepts of his Context study are interwoven with issues in Spatial contextual awareness, Conversation, Information practices, Analogy and Conceptualization.
His Information needs study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Motion, Information quality and Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
Between 2016 and 2020, his most popular works were:
- Everyday Life Information Seeking (81 citations)
- Information need as trigger and driver of information seeking: a conceptual analysis (24 citations)
- Information Sharing and Knowledge Sharing as Communicative Activities. (9 citations)
In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:
- Social science
- The Internet
- Social psychology
Information seeking, Knowledge management, Artificial intelligence, Originality and Elaboration are his primary areas of study.
His work carried out in the field of Information seeking brings together such families of science as Context, Object, Social psychology and Information needs.
His Information needs research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Popularity, The Internet and Internet privacy.
His study on Knowledge sharing is often connected to Information theory as part of broader study in Knowledge management.
His Artificial intelligence study combines topics in areas such as Information searching, Exploratory search, Machine learning, Information retrieval and Information foraging.
His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Motion, Information quality and Data science.
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