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Margaret Phillips

Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Established · publishing since 1965
Library Science and Information LiteracyEngineering Education and Curriculum DevelopmentLibrary Collection Development and Digital ResourcesLibrary Science and AdministrationEngineering Education and Pedagogy

Publications

222

Citations

2,014

Est. group size

~3

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

61

Publishing since 1965

Research summary
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Margaret Phillips works at the intersection of library science and engineering education, focusing on how engineers and engineering students find, evaluate, and use technical information such as standards and research literature. Her work includes developing and studying systematic and scoping review methods for engineering education research, information literacy instruction, and standards education, and she has also contributed as a co-author on several large multi-site clinical research studies related to COVID-19 treatments. Prospective students would engage with topics blending library/information science methods with engineering education and curriculum research.

Engineering information literacySystematic and scoping review methodology in engineering educationTechnical standards education and library collectionsEngineering education curriculum developmentCollaborative clinical/health research co-authorship

Publication output has declined from a peak of around 15-17 papers per year in 2017-2019 to a lower, more variable rate of 3-9 papers per year since 2020.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 3.2/year recently
2017: 17 publications17172018: 16 publications182019: 15 publications192020: 9 publications202021: 8 publications212022: 3 publications222023: 3 publications232024: 9 publications242025: 1 publication2526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Purdue e-Pubs (Purdue University)×14
  • Purdue e-Pubs (Purdue University System)×10
  • Oxford University Press eBooks×6
  • JAMA×3
  • Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship×3
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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