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Researcher · Pennsylvania State University · United States

Alan M. MacEachren

Alan M. MacEachren publishes mostly in Geography, Planning and Development, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, on topics such as Geographic Information Systems Studies, Data Visualization and Analytics and Data Management and Algorithms.

ORCID 0000-0002-0356-7323 OpenAlex
World rank
#26,769
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#10,033
of 1,627,098
Works
258
Citations
13k
Citations per work
51.5
h-index
58
i10-index 151Top 0.1% in Geography, Planning and Development
Alan M. MacEachren

What does Alan M. MacEachren research?

Alan M. MacEachren's work is mostly in Computer Science (39%), Social Sciences (25%), Medicine (4%).

Physical Sciences: 102 works · 39.4% of their workComputer Science: 102 works · 39.4% of their workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 40 works · 15.5% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 36 works · 14.0% of their workSignal Processing: 18 works · 6.9% of their workHuman-Computer Interaction: 8 works · 3.0% of their workEverything else: 81 works · 31.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 66 works · 25.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 66 works · 25.4% of their workGeography, Planning and Development: 66 works · 25.4% of their workHealth Sciences: 10 works · 3.8% of their workMedicine: 10 works · 3.8% of their workEpidemiology: 10 works · 3.8% of their workTHEIR WORKAlan M.MacEachren258works
Physical Sciences39%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences25%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Computer Science10239.4%
  2. Everything else8131.4%
    1. Social Sciences6625.4%
    1. Medicine103.8%
  1. 1Geography, Planning and Development25% of their works
  2. 2Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition16% of their works
  3. 3Artificial Intelligence14% of their works
  4. 4Signal Processing7% of their works
  5. 5Epidemiology4% of their works
  6. 6Human-Computer Interaction3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alan M. MacEachren's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Semantic Web, Citizen Science, Geospatial Crowdsourcing, Volunteered Geographic Information, Information Visualization, Visual Analytics, GPS Trajectories and Trajectory Data Mining.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Semantic Web1592 topics
  2. Citizen Science1532 topics
  3. Geospatial Crowdsourcing1361 topic
  4. Volunteered Geographic Information1361 topic
  5. Information Visualization741 topic
  6. Visual Analytics741 topic
  7. GPS Trajectories421 topic
  8. Trajectory Data Mining421 topic
  9. Linked Data231 topic
  10. Markov Decision Processes231 topic
  11. Ontology231 topic
  12. Spoken Dialogue Systems231 topic
  13. Digital Epidemiology211 topic
  14. Disease Surveillance211 topic
  15. STEM Education181 topic
  16. Spatial Ability181 topic
  17. Climate Change171 topic
  18. Species Distribution Modeling171 topic

Where does Alan M. MacEachren work?

Alan M. MacEachren's main affiliation in the publication record is Pennsylvania State University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Alan M. MacEachren have?

OpenAlex counts 258 works and 13,284 citations for Alan M. MacEachren, an h-index of 58, ranking #26,769 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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