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Researcher · University of Colorado Boulder · United States

Leysia Palen

Leysia Palen publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Communication and Human-Computer Interaction, on topics such as Public Relations and Crisis Communication, Disaster Management and Resilience and Usability and User Interface Design.

ORCID 0000-0003-3903-8041 OpenAlex
World rank
#9,009
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#3,102
of 1,627,098
Works
126
Citations
15k
Citations per work
117.3
h-index
61
i10-index 95Top 0.2% in Sociology and Political Science
Leysia Palen

What does Leysia Palen research?

Leysia Palen's work is mostly in Social Sciences (47%), Computer Science (18%), Physics and Astronomy (5%).

Social Sciences: 59 works · 47.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 59 works · 47.2% of their workSociology and Political Science: 29 works · 23.0% of their workCommunication: 25 works · 19.5% of their workGeography, Planning and Development: 6 works · 4.7% of their workEverything else: 37 works · 29.5% of their workPhysical Sciences: 29 works · 23.3% of their workComputer Science: 23 works · 18.3% of their workHuman-Computer Interaction: 13 works · 10.3% of their workInformation Systems: 10 works · 8.0% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 6 works · 5.0% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 6 works · 5.0% of their workTHEIR WORKLeysia Palen126works
Physical Sciences23%Social Sciences47%

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 Sciences5947.2%
  2. Everything else3729.5%
    1. Computer Science2318.3%
    2. Physics and Astronomy65.0%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science23% of their works
  2. 2Communication20% of their works
  3. 3Human-Computer Interaction10% of their works
  4. 4Information Systems8% of their works
  5. 5Statistical and Nonlinear Physics5% of their works
  6. 6Geography, Planning and Development5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Leysia Palen's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Social Media, Crisis Communication, Public Relations, Disaster, Resilience, Human-Computer Interaction, Usability and Design Research.

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. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Social Media673 topics
  2. Crisis Communication421 topic
  3. Public Relations421 topic
  4. Disaster361 topic
  5. Resilience361 topic
  6. Human-Computer Interaction161 topic
  7. Usability161 topic
  8. Design Research151 topic
  9. User Experience151 topic
  10. Community Structure141 topic
  11. Digital Divide141 topic
  12. Geospatial Crowdsourcing141 topic
  13. Network Dynamics141 topic
  14. Political Participation141 topic
  15. Volunteered Geographic Information141 topic
  16. Fake News111 topic
  17. Misinformation111 topic

Where does Leysia Palen work?

Leysia Palen's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Colorado Boulder, United States.

How many publications and citations does Leysia Palen have?

OpenAlex counts 126 works and 14,786 citations for Leysia Palen, an h-index of 61, ranking #9,009 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation 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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