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Sheizaf Rafaeli

Sheizaf Rafaeli

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
38
Citations
10641
World Ranking
5800
National Ranking
36

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
38
Citations
10562
World Ranking
7888
National Ranking
56

Overview

Sheizaf Rafaeli is affiliated with the University of Haifa in Israel and has contributed to research primarily in the social sciences, with a focus on communication, developmental and educational psychology, sociology and political science, human-computer interaction, and statistical and nonlinear physics.

Their recent publications include:

  • Creativity Is Connecting Things: The Role of Network Topology in Fostering Collective Creativity in Multi-Participant Asynchronous Online Discussions (2020), published in the Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
  • How 'Networked' are Online Collaborative Concept-Maps? Introducing Metrics for Quantifying and Comparing the 'Networkedness' of Collaboratively Constructed Content (2020), published in Education Sciences
  • The effects of online interruption pace and richness on task performance (2024), published in Atlantic Journal of Communication
  • Non-Take-Up of Benefits and Rights: The Universality-Selectivity Debate as Reflected in Online Information and User Patterns (2023), published in Health & Social Care in the Community
  • Associative linking for collaborative thinking: Self-organization of content in online Q&A communities via user-generated links (2024), published in PLoS ONE

Frequently collaborating researchers include Noa Sher, Frida Elek-BenMoshe, Yoram M. Kalman, Seth Lewis, and Avner Kantor.

Sheizaf Rafaeli has published notably in venues such as:

  • Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
  • Atlantic Journal of Communication
  • Education Sciences
  • Health & Social Care in the Community
  • PLoS ONE

Their work covers a range of topics, including:

  • Social Media and Politics
  • Knowledge Management and Sharing
  • Complex Network Analysis Techniques
  • Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
  • E-Government and Public Services
  • Expert Finding and Q&A Systems
  • Personal Information Management and User Behavior

Overall, their research emphasizes themes of connectivity, collaboration, and the analysis of social and technical systems, focusing on how networks facilitate creativity, knowledge sharing, and public service interaction.

Best Publications

  • Why Communication Researchers Should Study the Internet: a Dialogue

    John E. Newhagen;Sheizaf Rafaeli

  • Networked Interactivity

    Sheizaf Rafaeli;Fay Sudweeks

  • Information Overload and the Message Dynamics of Online Interaction Spaces: A Theoretical Model and Empirical Exploration

    Quentin Jones;Gilad Ravid;Sheizaf Rafaeli

  • Predictors of answer quality in online Q&A sites

    F. Maxwell Harper;Daphne Raban;Sheizaf Rafaeli;Joseph A. Konstan

  • The Electronic Bulletin Board: A Computer-Driven Mass Medium:

    Sheizaf Rafaeli

  • Studying Gamification: The Effect of Rewards and Incentives on Motivation

    Ganit Richter;Daphne R. Raban;Sheizaf Rafaeli

  • De-lurking in virtual communities: a social communication network approach to measuring the effects of social and cultural capital

    S. Rafaeli;G. Ravid;V. Soroka

  • On-line question-posing and peer-assessment as means for web-based knowledge sharing in learning

    Miri Barak;Sheizaf Rafaeli

  • Electronic Bulletin Boards and “Public Goods” Explanations of Collaborative Mass Media

    Sheizaf Rafaeli;Robert J. LaROSE

  • Interactivity in online discussions and learning outcomes

    Carmel Kent;Esther Laslo;Sheizaf Rafaeli

  • Time to Split, Virtually: 'Discourse Architecture' and 'Community Building' Create Vibrant Virtual Publics

    Quentin Jones;Sheizaf Rafaeli

  • Assessing interactivity in computer-mediated research

    Sheizaf Rafaeli;Yaron Ariel

  • Interactivity on the Nets

    Sheizaf Rafaeli;Fay Sudweeks

  • Online Pauses and Silence: Chronemic Expectancy Violations in Written Computer-Mediated Communication:

    Yoram M. Kalman;Sheizaf Rafaeli

  • Psychological Aspects of Cyberspace: Online Motivational Factors: Incentives for Participation and Contribution in Wikipedia

    Sheizaf Rafaeli;Yaron Ariel

  • QSIA: a web-based environment for learning, assessing and knowledge sharing in communities

    Sheizaf Rafaeli;Miri Barak;Yuval Dan-Gur;Eran Toch

  • Pauses and Response Latencies: A Chronemic Analysis of Asynchronous CMC

    Yoram M. Kalman;Gilad Ravid;Daphne R. Raban;Sheizaf Rafaeli

  • Network and Netplay: virtual groups on the Internet

    Fay Sudweeks;Margaret McLaughlin;Sheizaf Rafaeli

  • Wikibooks in higher education

    Gilad Ravid;Yoram M Kalman;Sheizaf Rafaeli

  • Investigating ownership and the willingness to share information online

    Daphne R. Raban;Sheizaf Rafaeli

  • Information sharing online: a research challenge

    Sheizaf Rafaeli;Daphne R. Raban

Frequent Co-Authors

Judit Bar-Ilan
Judit Bar-Ilan Bar-Ilan University
Joseph A. Konstan
Joseph A. Konstan University of Minnesota
Dani Ben-Zvi
Dani Ben-Zvi University of Haifa
Paul A. Kirschner
Paul A. Kirschner Open University in the Netherlands
Oded Nov
Oded Nov New York University
Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos
Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos University of Oviedo
Robert LaRose
Robert LaRose Michigan State University
Weiguo Fan
Weiguo Fan University of Iowa
Dror L. Angel
Dror L. Angel University of Haifa

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