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Researcher · The University of Melbourne · Australia

John Downs

John Downs publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Human-Computer Interaction and Information Systems, on topics such as Digital Games and Media, Innovative Human-Technology Interaction and Technology Use by Older Adults.

OpenAlex
World rank
#571,718
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#19,631
of 140,210
Works
31
Citations
814
Citations per work
26.3
h-index
14
i10-index 16Top 13% in Sociology and Political Science
John Downs

What does John Downs research?

John Downs's work is mostly in Social Sciences (34%), Computer Science (31%), Psychology (5%).

Social Sciences: 12 works · 39.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 11 works · 34.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 7 works · 24.1% of their workDemography: 2 works · 6.9% of their workEducation: 1 works · 3.4% of their workPsychology: 1 works · 4.6% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 works · 4.6% of their workPhysical Sciences: 10 works · 31.0% of their workComputer Science: 10 works · 31.0% of their workHuman-Computer Interaction: 7 works · 24.1% of their workInformation Systems: 2 works · 6.9% of their workEverything else: 9 works · 30.0% of their workTHEIR WORKJohn Downs31works
Physical Sciences31%Social Sciences39%

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. Social Sciences1134.4%
    2. Psychology14.6%
    1. Computer Science1031.0%
  3. Everything else930.0%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science24% of their works
  2. 2Human-Computer Interaction24% of their works
  3. 3Information Systems7% of their works
  4. 4Demography7% of their works
  5. 5Developmental and Educational Psychology5% of their works
  6. 6Education3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe John Downs's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Online Gaming, Video Games, Design Research, User Experience, Addiction, Older Adults, Social Media and Technology Use.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Online Gaming131 topic
  2. Video Games131 topic
  3. Design Research121 topic
  4. User Experience121 topic
  5. Addiction61 topic
  6. Older Adults61 topic
  7. Social Media61 topic
  8. Technology Use61 topic
  9. Agile Software Development31 topic
  10. Code Clone Detection31 topic
  11. Empirical Studies31 topic
  12. Human-Computer Interaction31 topic
  13. Interaction Techniques31 topic
  14. Refactoring31 topic
  15. Tangible User Interfaces31 topic
  16. Usability31 topic

Where does John Downs work?

John Downs's main affiliation in the publication record is The University of Melbourne, Australia.

How many publications and citations does John Downs have?

OpenAlex counts 31 works and 814 citations for John Downs, an h-index of 14, ranking #571,718 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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