Sean Rife

Sean Rife is a Professor in the Psychology Department at Murray State University's College of Humanities and Fine Arts. His research bridges traditional psychology with digital scholarship and academic publishing practices.

Dr. Rife's primary research areas include:

• Citation analysis and academic publishing
• Machine learning applications in scholarly communication
• Psychology education and teaching methodologies
• Digital media's impact on social behavior

His publication history reveals an evolving research trajectory from educational psychology (2016-2019) toward computational approaches to academic publishing (2021). The recent collaboration with scite.ai represents innovative work applying machine learning to extract meaningful citation context.

Dr. Rife's work demonstrates consistent interest in improving research evaluation practices and educational outcomes through evidence-based approaches.

He has contributed to scholarly discourse through multiple publications in psychology education and digital scholarship, with increasing focus on computational methods for analyzing academic communication.