Professor David Nicholas

Visiting Research Academic

Personal Profile

Employment

Director, CIBER Research Ltd, http://ciber-research.eu/index.html, 2011 –
Professor of Information Science. Department of Mathematics and Information Science, Northumbria University, 2013-2015
Adjunct Professor, School of Communication and Information, University of Tennessee, 2012 -
Guest Professor, School of Information Management, Wuhan University 2018 - 2020
Professor, Department of Russian History, Tomsk State University, Siberia, 2014 -2017; Senior Research Fellow; 2018 -
Director of the Department of Information Studies, UCL and Director and founder of the UCL Centre for Publishing and Director of the research group CIBER. 2004- 2011
Head of Department and Professor of Library and Information Studies. City University, London. 1996 – 2004
Research Director, School of Librarianship, London Metropolitan University, 1988-1995

Research

David leads the CIBER research group, which specialises in scholarly communications research and has undertaken 50 research projects and published 400 journal articles. The group is also known for evaluating behaviours in the virtual space, especially in regard to the Google Generation, work which has featured in the media, including BBC TV (Virtual Revolution Series). David is currently a professor at the Universities of Tennessee and Wuhan.

David’s role at Brookes is to help develop an international scholarly communications research programme at the Oxford International Centre for Publishing.

Early career researchers: harbingers of change? Funded by the Publishers Research Consortium, 2015-2018
Business strategy for ISSN. Funded by ISSN International Center, Paris, 2015
Emerging reputational mechanisms. Funded by EC, 2014-15
P-medicine: evaluation of users and usage of e-cancer websites. Funded by EU, 2014-15
Beyond downloads: sharing in the digital environment. Funded by Elsevier, 2014-15
Trust and authority in scholarly communications in the light of the digital transition. Funded by Sloan Foundation, 2012-2013
Europeana: usage evaluation and analysis, 2011-2013. Funded by Europeana, 2012-2013
Online Research Communities. Funded by Emerald Publishing, 2012
Charleston Observatory study on digital repositories. Funded by Elsevier, IoPP, Emerald and, RIN). 2011-2012
Charleston Observatory study of the impact of social networks on researchers. Funded by Emerald, 2010.
The evolving Generation Y Workforce: implications for information technology and service provision - case study Fujitsu, 2010
Information, the elderly and health outcomes: case study preventing falls. Dunhill Trust/Royal College of Physicians, 2010 – 2011
Economic challenges facing UK University Libraries. Research Information Network, 2009-2010
The digital revolution: information seeking experiments with young people. With BBC Television, 2009 – 2010
PEER (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research): usage. Funded by the EC, 2009 – 2011
User driven development for Europeana. Funded by the European Commission, 2009-2010
Deep Log Analysis of Houses of Parliament Intranet. Funded by Parliament, 2009
Changing attitudes and behaviours in the digital world and their implications for intellectual property. Funded by SABIP, 2009
Monographs in the humanities. Funded by UCL Arts and Humanities Faculty. April - October 2008
Behaviour of the scholarly researcher. Funded by Taylor & Francis, 2008
Evaluating the usage and impact of e-journals in the UK. Funded by the Research Information Network, 2008-2010
UK National E-Books Observatory. Funded by JISC, 2008-2009
The Impact of Open Access Journal Publishing (Phase III). Funded by Oxford University Press, 2007-2008
Digital Lives, (with British Library). Funded by AHRC, 2007-2009

Journal Articles

Nicholas, D. New ways of building, showcasing, and measuring scholarly reputation in the digital age. Information services & use 03/2017; 37(1):1-5., DOI:10.3233/ISU-160792
Nicholas, D., Boukacem-Zeghmouri, C., Rodríguez-Bravo, B., Xu, J., Watkinson, A., Abdullah, A., Herman, E., ?wigon, M. Where and how early career researchers ?nd scholarly information. Learned Publishing01/2017; 30(1)., DOI:10.1002/leap.1087
Nicholas, D., Clark, D., Herman, E. ResearchGate: Reputation uncovered. Learned Publishing 06/2016; 29(3)., DOI:10.1002/leap.1035
Nicholas, D. and Herman, E. (2016). Digital networks will transform how academics build reputations. Research Fortnight, May, 20-21.
Nicholas, D., Herman, E. and Clark, D. (2016). Scholarly reputation building: how does ResearchGate fare? International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology. 6(2):67-92., DOI:10.5865/IJKCT.2016.6.2.067
Nicholas, D., Herman, E. Boukacem-Zeghmouri, C. Rodríguez-Bravo, B. Xu, J., ?wigo?, M., Abdullah, A.ResearchGate was a disruptor... now it’s becoming a mainstay. Research Fortnight, 20, 2016.
Nicholas, D., Rodríguez-Bravo, B., Watkinson, A., Boukacem-Zeghmouri, C., Herman, E., Xu, J. Abdullah, A., ?wigon, M. Early career researchers and their publishing and authorship practices. Learned Publishing03/2017; DOI:10.1002/leap.1102
Nicholas, D., Watkinson, A., Boukacem-Zeghmouri, C., Rodríguez-Bravo, B., Xu, J., Abdullah A., ?wigo?, M., Herman, E. Early career researchers: Scholarly behaviour and the prospect of change: Early career researchers. Learned Publishing 02/2017; DOI:10.1002/leap.1098
Nicholas, D., Watkinson, A., Herman, E., Boukacem-Zeghmouri, C., Rodríguez-Bravo, B., Xu, J., Abdullah, A., Swigon, M. Publish or perish thwarts young researchers’ urge to innovate. Research Europe 6/7, 2016
Nicholas, D., Xu, J., Xu, L., Su, J. and Watkinson, A. (2016). Chinese researchers, scholarly communication behaviour and trust. Learned Publishing. DOI: 10.1002/leap.1003, 31-38
Nicholas D. Using, Citing and Publishing Scholarly Content in the Digital Age: Case Study of Humanities Researchers. Zagadnienia Informacji Naukowej. 1, 2015
Nicholas, D. Reputation mechanisms and platforms: views of an expert panel on their future use, role and influence. CIBER Working Paper. 2015
Nicholas, D and Clark, D. Finding stuff. In Is digital different? London: Facet, 2015
Nicholas, D., Clark, D. and Herman, E. (2016). ResearchGate: Reputation uncovered. Learned Publishing 17 June . doi: 10.1002/leap.1035
Nicholas, D., Xu, J., Xu, L., Su, J. and Watkinson, A. (2016). Chinese researchers, scholarly communication behaviour and trust. Learned Publishing. doi: 10.1002/leap.1003
Nicholas, D. and Herman, E. (2016). Digital networks will transform how academics build reputations. Research Fortnight, 11 May 2016, 20-21.
Nicholas, D., Herman, E., and Jamali, H.R. Analysis of emerging reputation mechanisms for scholars. In Vuorikari, R. And Punie, Y. (eds), Analysis of Emerging Reputation and Funding Mechanisms in the Context of Open Science 2.0, European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, pp. 3–72. 2015. Http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.iilr.2012.04.006
Nicholas D., Herman E., Jamali HR., Rodríguez-Bravo B., Boukacem-Zeghmouri C., Dobrowolski t., Pouchot S. New ways of building, showcasing, and measuring scholarly reputation Learned Publishing, 28:169–183. July 2015 [doi: 10.1087/20150303]
Nicholas D., Herman E., Jamali, HR., Emerging reputation mechanisms for scholars. European Commission Joint Research Centre, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (Report EUR 27174 EN) 2015 [doi:10.2791/891948]
Nicholas, D., Jamali, H.R., Watkinson, A., Herman, E., Tenopir, C., Volentine, R., Allard, S. & Levine, K. Do younger researchers assess trustworthiness differently when deciding what to read and cite and where to publish? International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology 5 (2), 2015
Nicholas D, Watkinson A, Jamali HR, Herman E, Tenopir C, Volentine A, Allard S, Levine K. Peer review: Still king in the Digital age. Learned Publishing 28 (1) 2015
Nicholas, D., Xu, J., Xu, L., Su, J. and Watkinson, A. Chinese researchers, scholarly communication behaviour and trust. Learned Publishing 28(4) December, 2015