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  1. Comparing conventional and alternative mechanisms of discovering and accessing the scientific literature

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 2025, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr. William H. Walters

  2. Gauging scholars’ acceptance of Open Access journals by examining the relationship between perceived quality and citation impact

    Article • Journal of Data and Information Science, November 2024, De Gruyter

    Dr. William H. Walters

  3. Finding Free OER Textbooks Online: Untangling the Web

    Article • Publications, October 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr. William H. Walters

  4. Fabrication and errors in the bibliographic citations generated by ChatGPT

    Article • Scientific Reports, September 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. William H. Walters

  5. Assessing Diversity in Academic Library Book Collections: Diversity Audit Principles and Methods

    Article • Open Information Science, January 2023, De Gruyter

    Dr. William H. Walters

  6. The Effectiveness of Software Designed to Detect AI-Generated Writing: A Comparison of 16 AI Text Detectors

    Article • Open Information Science, January 2023, De Gruyter

    Dr. William H. Walters

  7. Are the works that cite Beall's List accounting journals comparable to those that cite Scopus journals of similar citation impact?

    Article • Aslib Journal of Information Management, October 2022, Emerald

    Dr. William H. Walters

  8. Scholarly journals are sometimes regarded as substitutes even though each provides unique content

    Article • Learned Publishing, August 2022, Wiley

    Dr. William H. Walters

  9. Evaluating journals in business and related fields: A guide for faculty

    Article • Business Information Review, June 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr. William H. Walters

  10. Can differences in publisher size account for the relatively low prices of the journals available to master’s universities through commercial publishers’ databases? The importance of price discrimination and substitution effects

    Article • Scientometrics, January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. William H. Walters

  11. The citation impact of the Open Access accounting journals that appear on Beall's List of potentially predatory publishers and journals

    Article • The Journal of Academic Librarianship, January 2022, Elsevier

    Dr. William H. Walters

  12. Using Conventional Bibliographic Databases for Social Science Research: Web of Science and Scopus are not the Only Options

    Article • Scholarly Assessment Reports, August 2021, Levy Library Press

    Dr. William H. Walters

  13. Survey design, sampling, and significance testing: Key issues

    Article • The Journal of Academic Librarianship, May 2021, Elsevier

    Dr. William H. Walters

  14. A two-stage approach to serials review: minimizing journal costs through title-by-title selection with package-based acquisition

    Article • Insights the UKSG journal, January 2021, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Dr. William H. Walters

  15. Comparing the Prices of Commercial and Nonprofit Journals: A Realistic Assessment

    Article • portal Libraries and the Academy, January 2021, Project Muse

    Dr. William H. Walters

  16. Zero-based serials review: An objective, comprehensive method of selecting full-text journal resources in response to local needs

    Article • The Journal of Academic Librarianship, September 2020, Elsevier

    Dr. William H. Walters

  17. Characteristics of the Most Productive U.S. Sociology Faculty and Departments: Institution Type, Gender, and Journal Concentration

    Article • Sociological Quarterly, August 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. William H. Walters

  18. Data journals: incentivizing data access and documentation within the scholarly communication system

    Article • Insights the UKSG journal, January 2020, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Dr. William H. Walters

  19. A Multi-Method Information Literacy Assessment Program: Foundation and Early Results

    Article • portal Libraries and the Academy, January 2020, Project Muse

    Dr. William H. Walters

  20. Library Book Selection Decisions and Selectors’ Effectiveness: Differences among Librarians, Faculty, and Students

    Article • College & Research Libraries, January 2020, American Library Association

    Dr. William H. Walters

  21. Beg, borrow, and steal: Formal and informal access to the scholarly literature at U.S. master's universities

    Article • The Journal of Academic Librarianship, November 2019, Elsevier

    Dr. William H. Walters

  22. Publishing Productivity of Sociologists at American Colleges and Universities: Institution Type, Gender, and Other Correlates of Book and Article Counts

    Article • Sociological Perspectives, September 2019, SAGE Publications

    Dr. William H. Walters

  23. Do faculty journal selections correspond to objective indicators of citation impact? Results for 20 academic departments at Manhattan College

    Article • Scientometrics, December 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. William H. Walters

  24. Quantifying Scholarly Output: Contribution Studies and Productivity Studies in Sociology Since 1970

    Article • The American Sociologist, November 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. William H. Walters

  25. The Death and Migration of Book Collections in Academic Libraries

    Article • portal Libraries and the Academy, January 2018, Project Muse

    Dr. William H. Walters

  26. Composite journal rankings in library and information science: A factor analytic approach

    Article • The Journal of Academic Librarianship, September 2017, Elsevier

    Dr. William H. Walters

  27. Do subjective journal ratings represent whole journals or typical articles? Unweighted or weighted citation impact?

    Article • Journal of Informetrics, August 2017, Elsevier

    Dr. William H. Walters

  28. Key questions in the development and use of survey-based journal rankings

    Article • The Journal of Academic Librarianship, July 2017, Elsevier

    Dr. William H. Walters

  29. Citation-Based Journal Rankings: Key Questions, Metrics, and Data Sources

    Article • IEEE Access, January 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. William H. Walters

  30. Beyond use statistics: Recall, precision, and relevance in the assessment and management of academic libraries

    Article • Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, July 2016, SAGE Publications

    Dr. William H. Walters

  31. Faculty status of librarians at U.S. research universities

    Article • The Journal of Academic Librarianship, March 2016, Elsevier

    Dr. William H. Walters

  32. Information Sources and Indicators for the Assessment of Journal Reputation and Impact

    Article • The Reference Librarian, January 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. William H. Walters

  33. Evaluating Online Resources for College and University Libraries: Assessing Value and Cost Based on Academic Needs

    Article • Serials Review, January 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. William H. Walters

  34. The Faculty Subculture, the Librarian Subculture, and Librarians’ Scholarly Productivity

    Article • portal Libraries and the Academy, January 2016, Project Muse

    Dr. William H. Walters

  35. The Research Contributions of Editorial Board Members in Library and Information Science

    Article • Journal of Scholarly Publishing, January 2016, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Dr. William H. Walters

  36. Do Editorial Board Members in Library and Information Science Publish Disproportionately in the Journals for Which They Serve as Board Members?

    Article • Journal of Scholarly Publishing, July 2015, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Dr. William H. Walters

  37. Disciplinary, national, and departmental contributions to the literature of library and information science, 2007–2012

    Article • Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, April 2015, Wiley

    Dr. William H. Walters

  38. Worldwide contributors to the literature of library and information science: top authors, 2007–2012

    Article • Scientometrics, December 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. William H. Walters

  39. Do Article Influence scores overestimate the citation impact of social science journals in subfields that are related to higher-impact natural science disciplines?

    Article • Journal of Informetrics, April 2014, Elsevier

    Dr. William H. Walters

  40. E-books in Academic Libraries: Challenges for Discovery and Access

    Article • Serials Review, June 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. William H. Walters

  41. E-books in Academic Libraries: Challenges for Discovery and Access

    Article • Serials Review, June 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. William H. Walters

  42. E-books in Academic Libraries: Challenges for Acquisition and Collection Management

    Article • portal Libraries and the Academy, April 2013, Project Muse

    Dr. William H. Walters

  43. E-books in academic libraries: Challenges for sharing and use

    Article • Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, January 2013, SAGE Publications

    Dr. William H. Walters

  44. Patron-Driven Acquisition and the Educational Mission of the Academic Library

    Article • Library Resources and Technical Services, June 2012, American Library Association

    Dr. William H. Walters

  45. Comparative Recall and Precision of Simple and Expert Searches in Google Scholar and Eight Other Databases

    Article • portal Libraries and the Academy, October 2011, Project Muse

    Dr. William H. Walters

  46. Characteristics of Open Access Journals in Six Subject Areas

    Article • College & Research Libraries, July 2011, American Library Association

    Dr. William H. Walters

  47. The impact of free access to the scientific literature: a review of recent research

    Article • Journal of the Medical Library Association JMLA, July 2011, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh

    Dr. William H. Walters

  48. Bibliographic index coverage of open‐access journals in six subject areas

    Article • Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, May 2011, Wiley

    Dr. William H. Walters

  49. Open Access Journals in College Library Collections

    Article • The Serials Librarian, July 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. William H. Walters

  50. Geographic Information Services in the Undergraduate College: Organizational Models and Alternatives

    Article • Cartographica The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization, December 2008, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Dr. William H. Walters

  51. Journal Prices, Book Acquisitions, and Sustainable College Library Collections

    Article • College & Research Libraries, November 2008, American Library Association

    Dr. William H. Walters

  52. A Fund Allocation Formula Based on Demand, Cost, and Supply

    Article • The Library Quarterly, July 2008, University of Chicago Press

    Dr. William H. Walters

  53. A Regression-based Approach to Library Fund Allocation

    Article • Library Resources and Technical Services, October 2007, American Library Association

    Dr. William H. Walters

  54. Google Scholar coverage of a multidisciplinary field

    Article • Information Processing & Management, July 2007, Elsevier

    Dr. William H. Walters

  55. The Cost Implications of Open-access Publishing in the Life Sciences

    Article • BioScience, July 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. William H. Walters

  56. Institutional journal costs in an open access environment

    Article • Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, November 2006, Wiley

    Dr. William H. Walters

  57. Expertise and evidence in the assessment of library service quality

    Article • Performance Measurement and Metrics, December 2003, Emerald

    Dr. William H. Walters

  58. Disciplinary Perspectives on Later-Life Migration in the Core Journals of Social Gerontology

    Article • The Gerontologist, October 2003, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. William H. Walters

  59. Video Media Acquisitions in a College Library

    Article • Library Resources and Technical Services, October 2003, American Library Association

    Dr. William H. Walters

  60. Bibliographic index coverage of a multidisciplinary field

    Article • Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, July 2003, Wiley

    Dr. William H. Walters

  61. Later-Life Migration in the United States: A Review of Recent Research

    Article • Journal of Planning Literature, August 2002, SAGE Publications

    Dr. William H. Walters

  62. Place Characteristics and Later-Life Migration

    Article • Research on Aging, March 2002, SAGE Publications

    Dr. William H. Walters

  63. Assessing the impact of place characteristics on human migration: the importance of migrants' intentions and enabling attributes

    Article • Area, March 2000, Wiley

    Dr. William H. Walters

  64. Types and Patterns of Later-life Migration

    Article • Geografiska Annaler Series B Human Geography, January 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. William H. Walters

  65. Building and maintaining a numeric data collection

    Article • Journal of Documentation, August 1999, Emerald

    Dr. William H. Walters

  66. Climate Indices for Use in Social and Behavioural Research

    Article • IASSIST Quarterly, July 1999, University of Alberta Libraries

    Dr. William H. Walters

  67. Ethnic and Religious Components of the Jewish Income Advantage, 1969 and 1989

    Article • Sociological Inquiry, July 1998, Wiley

    Dr. William H. Walters

  68. American Jewish household income, 1969 and 1989

    Article • Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, August 1997, SAGE Publications

    Dr. William H. Walters

  69. A Digital Map of Public-Use Microdata Areas in the 1990 U.S. Census

    Article • The Cartographic Journal, June 1997, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. William H. Walters

  70. CLIMATE AND U.S. ELDERLY MIGRATION RATES

    Article • Papers of the Regional Science Association, July 1994, Elsevier

    Dr. William H. Walters