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Researcher · Tampere University · Finland

Pertti Vakkari

Pertti Vakkari publishes mostly in Information Systems, Library and Information Sciences and Artificial Intelligence, on topics such as Information Retrieval and Search Behavior, Expert finding and Q&A systems and Library Science and Information Literacy.

ORCID 0000-0002-4441-5393 OpenAlex
World rank
#84,263
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Finland
#412
of 37,370
Works
160
Citations
4.9k
Citations per work
30.4
h-index
35
i10-index 80Top 0.9% in Information Systems
Pertti Vakkari

What does Pertti Vakkari research?

Pertti Vakkari's work is mostly in Computer Science (45%), Social Sciences (20%), Decision Sciences (4%).

Physical Sciences: 72 works · 44.7% of their workComputer Science: 72 works · 44.7% of their workInformation Systems: 59 works · 36.6% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 13 works · 8.1% of their workEverything else: 51 works · 32.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 37 works · 23.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 31 works · 19.6% of their workLibrary and Information Sciences: 16 works · 10.2% of their workEducation: 9 works · 5.5% of their workCommunication: 6 works · 3.9% of their workDecision Sciences: 6 works · 3.7% of their workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 6 works · 3.7% of their workTHEIR WORKPertti Vakkari160works
Physical Sciences45%Social Sciences23%

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 Science7244.7%
  2. Everything else5132.0%
    1. Social Sciences3119.6%
    2. Decision Sciences63.7%
  1. 1Information Systems37% of their works
  2. 2Library and Information Sciences10% of their works
  3. 3Artificial Intelligence8% of their works
  4. 4Education6% of their works
  5. 5Communication4% of their works
  6. 6Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Pertti Vakkari's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Information Retrieval, Search Engines, Information Literacy, Online Research, Community Question Answering, Expert Finding, Academic Libraries and Digital Literacy.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Information Retrieval721 topic
  2. Search Engines721 topic
  3. Information Literacy322 topics
  4. Online Research322 topics
  5. Community Question Answering301 topic
  6. Expert Finding301 topic
  7. Academic Libraries211 topic
  8. Digital Literacy211 topic
  9. Library Services181 topic
  10. Qualitative Research181 topic
  11. Social Inclusion181 topic
  12. Social Sciences181 topic
  13. Automatic171 topic
  14. Extraction171 topic
  15. Bibliometric Analysis131 topic
  16. Research Evaluation131 topic
  17. Epistemological Beliefs111 topic
  18. Metacognition111 topic

Where does Pertti Vakkari work?

Pertti Vakkari's main affiliation in the publication record is Tampere University, Finland.

How many publications and citations does Pertti Vakkari have?

OpenAlex counts 160 works and 4,868 citations for Pertti Vakkari, an h-index of 35, ranking #84,263 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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