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Researcher · Simon Fraser University · Canada

Ron Wakkary

Ron Wakkary publishes mostly in Human-Computer Interaction, Mechanical Engineering and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Innovative Human-Technology Interaction, Interactive and Immersive Displays and Design Education and Practice.

ORCID 0000-0003-2073-715X OpenAlex
World rank
#190,969
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#6,428
of 183,316
Works
246
Citations
5.5k
Citations per work
22.4
h-index
40
i10-index 107Top 2.8% in Human-Computer Interaction
Ron Wakkary

What does Ron Wakkary research?

Ron Wakkary's work is mostly in Computer Science (50%), Engineering (7%), Social Sciences (6%).

Physical Sciences: 140 works · 56.8% of their workComputer Science: 123 works · 50.2% of their workHuman-Computer Interaction: 105 works · 42.6% of their workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 11 works · 4.6% of their workInformation Systems: 7 works · 3.0% of their workEngineering: 16 works · 6.6% of their workMechanical Engineering: 16 works · 6.6% of their workEverything else: 83 works · 33.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 23 works · 9.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 15 works · 5.9% of their workSociology and Political Science: 15 works · 5.9% of their workArts and Humanities: 9 works · 3.6% of their workMuseology: 9 works · 3.6% of their workTHEIR WORKRon Wakkary246works
Physical Sciences57%Social Sciences9%

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 Science12350.2%
    2. Engineering166.6%
  2. Everything else8333.7%
    1. Social Sciences155.9%
    2. Arts and Humanities93.6%
  1. 1Human-Computer Interaction43% of their works
  2. 2Mechanical Engineering7% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science6% of their works
  4. 4Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition5% of their works
  5. 5Museology4% of their works
  6. 6Information Systems3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ron Wakkary's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Participatory Design, Design Research, User Experience, User-Centered Design, Interaction Techniques, Tangible User Interfaces, Design Thinking and Engineering Design.

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. Participatory Design1622 topics
  2. Design Research1481 topic
  3. User Experience1481 topic
  4. User-Centered Design642 topics
  5. Interaction Techniques541 topic
  6. Tangible User Interfaces541 topic
  7. Design Thinking411 topic
  8. Engineering Design411 topic
  9. Human-Computer Interaction331 topic
  10. Usability331 topic
  11. Data-Driven311 topic
  12. Personas311 topic
  13. Craftivism151 topic
  14. Handicraft151 topic
  15. Open Innovation141 topic
  16. User-Centric Design141 topic
  17. Online Gaming131 topic
  18. Video Games131 topic

Where does Ron Wakkary work?

Ron Wakkary's main affiliation in the publication record is Simon Fraser University, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Ron Wakkary have?

OpenAlex counts 246 works and 5,505 citations for Ron Wakkary, an h-index of 40, ranking #190,969 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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