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Mikael Gunnarsson is a Program Manager at the University of Borås within the Faculty of Librarianship, Information, Education and IT, specifically the Department of Library and Information Science. He supervises doctoral students, including Tor Henriksen as a main supervisor and co-supervises other students, though their names are not explicitly mentioned in the text.
His research focuses on genre theory as a sociotechnical framework for document classification and information seeking, as well as altmetrics for analyzing the visibility of academic literature. He emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration, particularly between Library and Information Science and sociologically informed linguistics.
Publications: His 2011 doctoral thesis, Classification along genre dimensions, established theoretical foundations for genre-based document classification. In 2018, he authored a thesis on Tracing the Visibility of Swedish LIS Research Articles by Using Altmetrics, examining social media-driven scholarly impact.
As a program leader, he oversees the Master's Program in Library and Information Science (Distance Education). Contact details include email mikael.gunnarsson@hb.se and room C509.
