Biography
Will White is the Scholarly Communications Librarian at the University of New Mexico's Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center. He was previously the Health Sciences Librarian at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Will received his MSLIS from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and his BA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Personal Statement
I am passionate about working with health sciences researchers on making their research more visible and accessible, finding suitable journals to publish in, and promoting responsible and ethical research practices. My research interests focus on how the scientific publishing can be manipulated i.e. falsified research, predatory publishing practices, knowingly cited retracted research.
Areas of Specialty
Research metrics, ORCID, systematic reviews, Web of Science, PubMed
Gender
Male
Languages
- English
Research and Scholarship
“Guest Post: How Science Is Gamed.” [Blog post] Leslie McIntosh & Will White. The Scholarly Kitchen. August 4, 2025.
“Using AI to locate academic and government conversations on public health policy” [Lightning talk]. Medical Library Association Conference, Pittsburgh, PA and virtual, May 1, 2025.
“A taxonomy of scholarly disinformation to enhance research and integrity.”
Leslie McIntosh, Will White, Cynthia Hudson Vitale. Presented at the World Conference on Research Integrity, Athens, Greece, June 4, 2024.
“Disinformation and Scholarly Communications." Defence Strategic Communications, Vol. 11 (January 2023)
“Reviewing what is known about the citation, reuse, and spread of retracted science using the Empirical Retraction Lit database.” Jodi Schneider, Susmita Das, Will White, Yee Yan ‘Vivien’ Yip, Randi Proescholdt, The RISRS Team. Presented at the World Conference on Research Integrity, Cape Town, South Africa and virtual, May 29, 2022.