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Jakob Nielsen

Jakob Nielsen publishes mostly in Human-Computer Interaction, Sociology and Political Science and Information Systems, on topics such as Usability and User Interface Design, Software Engineering Techniques and Practices and Business Process Modeling and Analysis.

World rank
#20,507
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Denmark
#140
of 10,734
Works
38
Citations
1.3k
Citations per work
33.6

What does Jakob Nielsen research?

Human-Computer Interaction: 28.6%Sociology and Political Science: 8.6%Information Systems: 8.6%Management Information Systems: 5.7%other fields: 48.5%29%top field
Human-Computer Interaction28.6%Sociology and Political Science8.6%Information Systems8.6%Management Information Systems5.7%other fields48.5%

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

  1. 1Human-Computer Interaction29% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science9% of their works
  3. 3Information Systems9% of their works
  4. 4Management Information Systems6% of their works
  5. 5Cognitive Neuroscience6% of their works
  6. 6Economics and Econometrics6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Jakob Nielsen's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Human-Computer Interaction, Usability, User Experience, Agile Software Development, Business Process Management, Disability Divide, Empirical Studies and Interactive Television.

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. Human-Computer Interaction81 topic
  2. Usability81 topic
  3. User Experience32 topics
  4. Agile Software Development21 topic
  5. Business Process Management21 topic
  6. Disability Divide21 topic
  7. Empirical Studies21 topic
  8. Interactive Television21 topic
  9. Social TV21 topic
  10. Web Accessibility21 topic
  11. Workflow Mining21 topic
  12. Auditory Cortex11 topic
  13. Cognitive Decline11 topic
  14. Design Research11 topic
  15. Hearing Loss11 topic
  16. Interaction Design11 topic
  17. Temporal Processing11 topic

Where does Jakob Nielsen work?

Jakob Nielsen's main affiliation in the publication record is Technical University of Denmark, Denmark.

How many publications and citations does Jakob Nielsen have?

Science Explorer counts 38 works and 1,277 citations for Jakob Nielsen, ranking #20,507 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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