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Researcher · Norwegian University of Science and Technology · Norway

Dirk Ahlers

Dirk Ahlers publishes mostly in Geography, Planning and Development, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Information Systems, on topics such as Geographic Information Systems Studies, Data Management and Algorithms and Smart Cities and Technologies.

ORCID 0000-0002-6508-8184 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,116,010
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Norway
#7,073
of 33,005
Works
111
Citations
1.1k
Citations per work
10.3
h-index
18
i10-index 24Top 7.5% in Geography, Planning and Development
Dirk Ahlers

What does Dirk Ahlers research?

Dirk Ahlers's work is mostly in Computer Science (20%), Social Sciences (19%), Engineering (18%).

Everything else: 47 works · 42.5% of their workPhysical Sciences: 43 works · 38.3% of their workComputer Science: 22 works · 20.2% of their workInformation Systems: 11 works · 10.1% of their workSignal Processing: 11 works · 10.1% of their workEngineering: 20 works · 18.1% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 13 works · 11.4% of their workMedia Technology: 7 works · 6.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 21 works · 19.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 21 works · 19.2% of their workGeography, Planning and Development: 13 works · 11.8% of their workTransportation: 8 works · 7.4% of their workTHEIR WORKDirk Ahlers111works
Physical Sciences38%Social Sciences19%

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. Everything else4742.5%
    1. Computer Science2220.2%
    2. Engineering2018.1%
    1. Social Sciences2119.2%
  1. 1Geography, Planning and Development12% of their works
  2. 2Electrical and Electronic Engineering11% of their works
  3. 3Information Systems10% of their works
  4. 4Signal Processing10% of their works
  5. 5Transportation7% of their works
  6. 6Media Technology7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Dirk Ahlers's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Semantic Web, Geospatial Crowdsourcing, Volunteered Geographic Information, GPS Trajectories, Trajectory Data Mining, Smart Cities, Urban Innovation and GPS Data.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Semantic Web472 topics
  2. Geospatial Crowdsourcing341 topic
  3. Volunteered Geographic Information341 topic
  4. GPS Trajectories291 topic
  5. Trajectory Data Mining291 topic
  6. Smart Cities201 topic
  7. Urban Innovation201 topic
  8. GPS Data181 topic
  9. Human Mobility181 topic
  10. Web Crawling161 topic
  11. Web Data Extraction161 topic
  12. Linked Data131 topic
  13. Ontology131 topic
  14. Open Innovation81 topic
  15. User-Centric Design81 topic
  16. Resilience71 topic
  17. Sustainability Transitions71 topic

Where does Dirk Ahlers work?

Dirk Ahlers's main affiliation in the publication record is Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway.

How many publications and citations does Dirk Ahlers have?

OpenAlex counts 111 works and 1,139 citations for Dirk Ahlers, an h-index of 18, ranking #1,116,010 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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