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Researcher · Technical University of Denmark · Denmark

Jakob Nielsen

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

ORCID 0000-0002-1554-3062 OpenAlex
World rank
#105,109
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Denmark
#627
of 43,819
Works
193
Citations
42k
Citations per work
215.5
h-index
55
i10-index 107Top 0.8% in Human-Computer Interaction
Jakob Nielsen

What does Jakob Nielsen research?

Jakob Nielsen's work is mostly in Computer Science (47%), Business, Management and Accounting (9%), Social Sciences (5%).

Physical Sciences: 91 works · 47.4% of their workComputer Science: 91 works · 47.4% of their workHuman-Computer Interaction: 52 works · 26.7% of their workInformation Systems: 32 works · 16.4% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 8 works · 4.3% of their workEverything else: 74 works · 38.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 27 works · 14.0% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 17 works · 8.8% of their workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 9 works · 4.5% of their workManagement Information Systems: 8 works · 4.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 10 works · 5.2% of their workSociology and Political Science: 10 works · 5.2% of their workTHEIR WORKJakob Nielsen193works
Physical Sciences47%Social Sciences14%

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 Science9147.4%
  2. Everything else7438.6%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting178.8%
    2. Social Sciences105.2%
  1. 1Human-Computer Interaction27% of their works
  2. 2Information Systems16% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science5% of their works
  4. 4Management of Technology and Innovation4% of their works
  5. 5Artificial Intelligence4% of their works
  6. 6Management Information Systems4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Jakob Nielsen's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Usability, User-Centered Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Mobile Applications, Requirements Engineering, Knowledge Management, Agile Software Development and Empirical Studies.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Usability1022 topics
  2. User-Centered Design992 topics
  3. Human-Computer Interaction881 topic
  4. Mobile Applications881 topic
  5. Requirements Engineering332 topics
  6. Knowledge Management272 topics
  7. Agile Software Development221 topic
  8. Empirical Studies221 topic
  9. Information Architecture141 topic
  10. Knowledge Mapping141 topic
  11. Information Overload131 topic
  12. Interruptions131 topic
  13. Model-Driven Development131 topic
  14. Rich Internet Applications131 topic
  15. Interactive Television121 topic
  16. Social TV121 topic
  17. Business Process Management111 topic
  18. Data-Driven111 topic
  19. Personas111 topic
  20. Workflow Mining111 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?

OpenAlex counts 193 works and 41,585 citations for Jakob Nielsen, an h-index of 55, ranking #105,109 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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