C. Sean Burns, PhD

Below you will find some recent updates about and basic descriptions of my professional work. For more details and links to my publications (and to open access versions, when possible), see my CV.

Research Updates

I am working on an information retrieval project related to bibliographic and abstracting/indexing databases. Other recent activities include:

Chuck Fox and I concluded our three year project, and our fifth paper together, on bias in peer review with a publication in Scientometrics. Our previous work on peer review largely focused on gender bias, but this work focused on language, geography, and socioeconomics.
Jenny Bossaller, Amy VanScoy, and I published some work using qualitative secondary analysis as a methodology. This can be found in the Journal of Documentation.
Chuck Fox, Anna Muncy, Jennifer Meyer, and I published our third paper on gender bias in peer review. This one related to author suggested reviewers. The paper was published in Functional Ecology.

Research Interests and Teaching

My research and publications focus on scholarly communication and systems, the history of library science, qualitative methodology, and academic libraries.

I teach in two academic programs: information communication technology (ICT) and library science (LS). My current rotation of courses include:

Topic	Level	Program	Delivery
Electronic resource management	Graduate	LS	Online
Knowledge management	Graduate	LS/ICT	Online
Linux systems administration	Undergraduate	ICT	Face to face
Personal knowledge management	Undergraduate	ICT	Online
Semantic web development	Undergraduate	ICT	Face to face

About

Full name: Christopher Sean Burns (published as C. Sean Burns)
Title: PhD
Position: Assistant Professor
Affiliation: University of Kentucky, School of Information Science
Office email: sean.burns@uky.edu
Office phone: 859-218-2296