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Researcher · Palo Alto Research Center · United States

Les Nelson

Les Nelson publishes mostly in Human-Computer Interaction, Information Systems and Management and Information Systems, on topics such as Usability and User Interface Design, Personal Information Management and User Behavior and Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing.

OpenAlex
World rank
#403,689
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#142,247
of 358,040
Works
16
Citations
155
Citations per work
9.7

What does Les Nelson research?

Human-Computer Interaction: 18.2%Information Systems and Management: 13.6%Information Systems: 9.1%Communication: 9.1%other fields: 50.0%18%top field
Human-Computer Interaction18.2%Information Systems and Management13.6%Information Systems9.1%Communication9.1%other fields50.0%

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

  1. 1Human-Computer Interaction18% of their works
  2. 2Information Systems and Management14% of their works
  3. 3Information Systems9% of their works
  4. 4Communication9% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science9% of their works
  6. 6Computer Science Applications9% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Les Nelson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Usability, Human-Computer Interaction, Information Overload, Interruptions, Knowledge Sharing, Social Media, User-Centered Design and Crowdsourcing.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Usability42 topics
  2. Human-Computer Interaction31 topic
  3. Information Overload31 topic
  4. Interruptions31 topic
  5. Knowledge Sharing32 topics
  6. Social Media32 topics
  7. User-Centered Design31 topic
  8. Crowdsourcing21 topic
  9. Mechanical Turk21 topic
  10. Social Capital21 topic
  11. Virtual Communities21 topic
  12. Authentication11 topic
  13. Community Question Answering11 topic
  14. Design Research11 topic
  15. Expert Finding11 topic
  16. Neural Networks11 topic
  17. Security11 topic
  18. User Experience11 topic
  19. Word Representation11 topic

Where does Les Nelson work?

Les Nelson's main affiliation in the publication record is Palo Alto Research Center, United States.

How many publications and citations does Les Nelson have?

Science Explorer counts 16 works and 155 citations for Les Nelson, ranking #403,689 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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