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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.

World rank
#38,950
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Finland
#195
of 8,199
Works
41
Citations
253
Citations per work
6.2

What does Pertti Vakkari research?

Information Systems: 46.2%Library and Information Sciences: 19.2%Artificial Intelligence: 7.7%Developmental and Educational Psychology: 7.7%other fields: 19.2%46%top field
Information Systems46.2%Library and Information Sciences19.2%Artificial Intelligence7.7%Developmental and Educational Psychology7.7%other fields19.2%

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

  1. 1Information Systems46% of their works
  2. 2Library and Information Sciences19% of their works
  3. 3Artificial Intelligence8% of their works
  4. 4Developmental and Educational Psychology8% of their works
  5. 5Computer Science Applications4% of their works
  6. 6History4% 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, Academic Libraries, Social Media, Community Question Answering 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.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Information Retrieval71 topic
  2. Search Engines71 topic
  3. Information Literacy52 topics
  4. Online Research52 topics
  5. Academic Libraries42 topics
  6. Social Media42 topics
  7. Community Question Answering31 topic
  8. Digital Literacy31 topic
  9. Expert Finding31 topic
  10. Information Behavior31 topic
  11. Automatic21 topic
  12. Epistemological Beliefs21 topic
  13. Extraction21 topic
  14. Library Services21 topic
  15. Metacognition21 topic
  16. Social Inclusion21 topic
  17. Learning Object Repositories11 topic
  18. Library 2.011 topic
  19. Open Educational Resources11 topic
  20. Web 2.011 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?

Science Explorer counts 41 works and 253 citations for Pertti Vakkari, ranking #38,950 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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