Leaderboards/Digital and Traditional Archives Management

Digital and Traditional Archives Management

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Yuntao Lian
Nanjing Forestry University
2
Rafiq Ahmad
Bacha Khan University
3
Lise Jaillant
Loughborough University
4
Iryna Siliutina
Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian National University
5
Sarah Oberbichler
Universität Innsbruck
6
Mashilo Modiba
University of South Africa
7
Marissa Rybstein
Long Island University
8
Alexandra Ortolja-Baird
King's College London
9
Riley Linebaugh
University of Potsdam
10
Ziyun Fan
University of York

Rising Stars Papers

1
The Evolution of Digital Cultural Heritage Research: Identifying Key Trends, Hotspots, and Challenges through Bibliometric Analysis
Sustainability|2024
108 cit.
2
Cultural preservation and digital heritage: challenges and opportunities
Revista Amazonia Investiga|2024
59 cit.
3
How can we improve the diversity of archival collections with AI? Opportunities, risks, and solutions
AI & Society|2025
14 cit.
4
Developing smart archives in society 5.0: Leveraging artificial intelligence for managing audiovisual archives in Africa
Information Development|2024
9 cit.
5
AI to review government records: new work to unlock historically significant digital records
AI & Society|2025
6 cit.
6
Investigating applications of internet of things in medical libraries of Pakistan: An empirical study
The Journal of Academic Librarianship|2024
5 cit.
7
Adoption of artificial intelligence to enhance records management practices at Gauteng Department of Education in South Africa
Collection and Curation|2024
5 cit.
8
Emplotting Climate Change: Rhetorical History and Imagined Accountability
Academy of Management Perspectives|2025
5 cit.
9
Exploring Religious Practice in Crisis: A non-Western tension-centred approach to meaningful work
Organization Studies|2024
4 cit.
10
Introduction: When data turns into archives: making digital records more accessible with AI
AI & Society|2025
3 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Christopher D. O’Sullivan
National Institutes of Health
2
Marika Cifor
University of Washington
3
Mario H. Ramírez
California State University Los Angeles
4
Patricia Hepworth
Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education
5
Adam Kreisberg
Simmons University
6
Michael Edson
University Health Network
7
Patricia Condon
University of New Hampshire
8
Makutla Mojapelo
University of South Africa
9
Stacy Wood
University of California, Los Angeles
10
Amos Saurombe
University of South Africa

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Inclusion of digital records in the archives and records management curricula in a comprehensive open distance e-learning environment
Information Development|2022
74 cit.
2
Mediating Queer and Trans Pasts: The Homosaurus as Queer Information Activism
Information Communication & Society|2022
23 cit.
3
Advancing data literacy: Mapping business data literacy competencies to the ACRL framework
Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship|2022
21 cit.
4
Research data integrity: A cornerstone of rigorous and reproducible research
IASSIST Quarterly|2022
10 cit.
5
Cultivating a Data Literate Workforce: Considerations for Librarians
portal Libraries and the Academy|2023
7 cit.
6
“I Hope We Leave More of a Record”
Feminist Media Histories|2023
4 cit.
7
Data Literacy in the Social Sciences: Findings from a Local Study on Teaching with Quantitative Data in Undergraduate Courses
Evidence Based Library and Information Practice|2023
4 cit.
8
Data Literacy Skills: Industry Perspectives and Professional Practice
portal Libraries and the Academy|2025
4 cit.
9
On Digital Models: Responding to Viral Metaphors in Pandemic Times
Catalyst Feminism Theory Technoscience|2022
2 cit.
10
Librarians and Research Integrity Committees: Finding professional joy and fulfillment in practice and service
Journal of eScience Librarianship|2023
2 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Patrick Ngulube
University of South Africa
2
Ian Hodder
Koç University
3
Elizabeth Shepherd
University College London
4
Mpho Ngoepe
University of South Africa
5
John Westbrook
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
6
Michelle Caswell
University of California, Los Angeles
7
Sue McKemmish
Monash University
8
Andreas Rauber
TU Wien
9
Michael K. Buckland
University of California, Berkeley
10
Carl Lagoze
University of Michigan

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Information as thing
Journal of the American Society for Information Science|1991
1.1k cit.
2
The relationship between Recall and Precision
Journal of the American Society for Information Science|1994
960 cit.
3
The interpretation of documents and material culture.
Unknown Journal|1994
901 cit.
4
Symbols in Action. Ethnoarchaeological Studies of Material Culture
The South African Archaeological Bulletin|1983
715 cit.
5
Reading the Past: Current Approaches to Interpretation in Archaeology.
Man|1992
668 cit.
6
The Protein Data Bank and the challenge of structural genomics.
Nature Structural Biology|2000
580 cit.
7
The growing hierarchical self-organizing map: exploratory analysis of high-dimensional data
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks|2002
489 cit.
8
What is a ?document??
Journal of the American Society for Information Science|1997
459 cit.
9
Pottery in the Roman World: An Ethnoarchaeological Approach.
Man|1983
410 cit.
10
The Protein Data Bank and structural genomics
Nucleic Acids Research|2003
405 cit.

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