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Alberto H. F. Laender publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alberto H. F. Laender sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 241 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Alberto H. F. Laender D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alberto H. F. Laender sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Overview

Alberto H. F. Laender is affiliated with Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on computer science, decision sciences, and physics and astronomy. Within these broad fields, their work frequently addresses several subfields including artificial intelligence, statistical and nonlinear physics, management science and operations research, information systems, and political science and international relations.

The scientist's primary research topics cover an array of areas related to data and computational methods. Specific topics include data quality and management, natural language processing techniques, topic modeling, complex network analysis techniques, opinion dynamics and social influence, scientometrics and bibliometrics research, and authorship attribution and profiling.

They have contributed to numerous scholarly articles and publications, with significant works published in recognized venues such as Scientometrics, Journal of Information and Data Management, Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society, arXiv (Cornell University), and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). Notable recent papers include:

  • On interdisciplinary collaborations in scientific coauthorship networks: the case of the Brazilian community, 2020, Scientometrics
  • Automatic Disambiguation of Author Names in Bibliographic Repositories, 2020, Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services
  • The rise of hyperprolific authors in computer science: characterization and implications, 2023, Scientometrics
  • An analysis of the collaboration network of the International Conference on Conceptual Modeling at the Age of 40, 2020, Data & Knowledge Engineering
  • A network-driven study of hyperprolific authors in computer science, 2024, Scientometrics

In addition to articles, Alberto H. F. Laender has published books, including "Automatic Disambiguation of Author Names in Bibliographic Repositories" released in 2020 by Morgan & Claypool Publishers.

Collaboration has been an important aspect of their research, with frequent coauthors including Marcos André Gonçalves, Anderson A. Ferreira, Thiago Magela Rodrigues Dias, Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo, and Thiago H. Silva.

Best Publications

  • A brief survey of web data extraction tools

    Alberto H. F. Laender;Berthier A. Ribeiro-Neto;Altigran S. da Silva;Juliana S. Teixeira

  • Automatic web news extraction using tree edit distance

    D. C. Reis;P. B. Golgher;A. S. Silva;A. F. Laender

  • A brief survey of automatic methods for author name disambiguation

    Anderson A. Ferreira;Marcos André Gonçalves;Alberto H.F. Laender

  • DEByE - Date extraction by example

    Alberto H. F. Laender;Berthier Ribeiro-Neto;Altigran S. da Silva

  • OMT-G: An Object-Oriented Data Model for Geographic Applications

    Karla A. V. Borges;Clodoveu A. Davis;Alberto H. F. Laender

  • A source independent framework for research paper recommendation

    Cristiano Nascimento;Alberto H.F. Laender;Altigran S. da Silva;Marcos André Gonçalves

  • Conceptual Modeling — ER 2000

    Alberto H. F. Laender;Stephen W. Liddle;Veda C. Storey

  • An unsupervised heuristic-based hierarchical method for name disambiguation in bibliographic citations

    Ricardo G. Cota;Anderson A. Ferreira;Cristiano Nascimento;Marcos André Gonçalves

  • Automatic generation of agents for collecting hidden web pages for data extraction

    Juliano Palmieri Lage;Altigran S. da Silva;Paulo B. Golgher;Alberto H. F. Laender

  • Using web information for author name disambiguation

    Denilson Alves Pereira;Berthier Ribeiro-Neto;Nivio Ziviani;Alberto H.F. Laender

  • Conceptual Modeling - ER 2009

    Alberto H. F. Laender;Silvana Castano;Umeshwar Dayal;Fabio Casati

  • Effective self-training author name disambiguation in scholarly digital libraries

    Anderson A. Ferreira;Adriano Veloso;Marcos André Gonçalves;Alberto H.F. Laender

  • An unsupervised heuristic-based hierarchical method for name disambiguation in bibliographic citations

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  • A Genetic Programming Approach to Record Deduplication

    M. G. de Carvalho;A. H. F. Laender;M. A. Goncalves;A. S. da Silva

  • Spatial data integrity constraints in object oriented geographic data modeling

    Karla A. V. Borges;Alberto H. F. Laender;Clodoveu A. Davis

  • Discovering geographic locations in web pages using urban addresses

    Karla A. V. Borges;Alberto H. F. Laender;Claudia B. Medeiros;Clodoveu A. Davis

  • Extracting semi-structured data through examples

    Berthier Ribeiro-Neto;Alberto H. F. Laender;Altigran S. da Silva

  • A hierarchical approach to the automatic categorization of medical documents

    Luciano R. S. de Lima;Alberto H. F. Laender;Berthier A. Ribeiro-Neto

  • Assessing the research and education quality of the top Brazilian Computer Science graduate programs

    Alberto H. F. Laender;Carlos J. P. de Lucena;José Carlos Maldonado;Edmundo de Souza e Silva

  • Multiple representations in GIS: materialization through map generalization, geometric, and spatial analysis operations

    Clodoveu A. Davis;Alberto H. F. Laender

  • Cost-effective on-demand associative author name disambiguation

    Adriano Veloso;Anderson A. Ferreira;Marcos André Gonçalves;Alberto H. F. Laender

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcos André Gonçalves
Marcos André Gonçalves Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Berthier Ribeiro-Neto
Berthier Ribeiro-Neto Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Nivio Ziviani
Nivio Ziviani Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Adriano Veloso
Adriano Veloso Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Fabrício Benevenuto
Fabrício Benevenuto Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Wagner Meira
Wagner Meira Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Edleno Silva de Moura
Edleno Silva de Moura Federal University of Amazonas
Edward A. Fox
Edward A. Fox Virginia Tech
Umeshwar Dayal
Umeshwar Dayal Hitachi (Japan)
Silvana Castano
Silvana Castano University of Milan

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