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Researcher · Royal Danish Library · Denmark

Birger Hjørland

Birger Hjørland publishes mostly in Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science and Artificial Intelligence, on topics such as Semantic Web and Ontologies, Education, Healthcare and Sociology Research and Academic Research and Education Studies.

World rank
#18,798
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Denmark
#127
of 10,734
Works
64
Citations
452
Citations per work
7.1

What does Birger Hjørland research?

Information Systems: 11.7%Sociology and Political Science: 11.7%Artificial Intelligence: 10.6%Social Psychology: 8.5%other fields: 57.5%12%top field
Information Systems11.7%Sociology and Political Science11.7%Artificial Intelligence10.6%Social Psychology8.5%other fields57.5%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Information Systems12% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science12% of their works
  3. 3Artificial Intelligence11% of their works
  4. 4Social Psychology8% of their works
  5. 5Communication6% of their works
  6. 6Global and Planetary Change5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Birger Hjørland's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Tacit Knowledge, Virtual Communities, Ethical Guidelines, Interactional Expertise, Ontology, Semantic Web, Environmental History and Global Crisis.

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.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Tacit Knowledge102 topics
  2. Virtual Communities72 topics
  3. Ethical Guidelines61 topic
  4. Interactional Expertise61 topic
  5. Ontology61 topic
  6. Semantic Web61 topic
  7. Environmental History51 topic
  8. Global Crisis51 topic
  9. Automatic41 topic
  10. European Union41 topic
  11. Extraction41 topic
  12. Governance41 topic
  13. Information Retrieval41 topic
  14. Knowledge Sharing41 topic
  15. Search Engines41 topic
  16. Social Capital41 topic
  17. Information Architecture31 topic
  18. Knowledge Mapping31 topic

Where does Birger Hjørland work?

Birger Hjørland's main affiliation in the publication record is Royal Danish Library, Denmark.

How many publications and citations does Birger Hjørland have?

Science Explorer counts 64 works and 452 citations for Birger Hjørland, ranking #18,798 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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