2026 Alfred Kobsa: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	59	3407	3311	1652	1593	229	14956

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Overview

Alfred Kobsa is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research activity spans multiple domains, primarily focusing on social sciences, computer science, and decision sciences. The subfields within these areas include sociology and political science, information systems and management, artificial intelligence, information systems, and general health professions.

The main topics of Alfred Kobsa's work involve privacy, security, and data protection; technology adoption and user behaviour; privacy-preserving technologies in data; user authentication and security systems; digital marketing and social media; sharing economy and platforms; and customer service quality and loyalty.

Alfred Kobsa has published papers in a variety of academic venues. Key publication venues include:

Behaviour and Information Technology
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
CCF Transactions on Pervasive Computing and Interaction
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
International Journal of Healthcare

Some notable recent papers are:

"Cultural differences in the effects of contextual factors and privacy concerns on users' privacy decision on social networking sites" (2020, Behaviour and Information Technology)
"Don't Disturb My Circles! Boundary Preservation Is at the Center of Location-Sharing Concerns" (2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media)
"Preserving Privacy in Awareness Systems" (2020, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research))
"Antecedents of collective privacy management in social network sites: a cross-country analysis" (2022, CCF Transactions on Pervasive Computing and Interaction)
"Participatory decision-making for cancer care in a high-risk sample of low income Mexican-American breast cancer survivors: The role of acculturation" (2020, International Journal of Healthcare)

Frequent collaborators include Yao Li, Bart P. Knijnenburg, Eugenia Ha Rim Rho, Xinru Page, and Hichang Cho. These co-authors have contributed to multiple publications alongside Alfred Kobsa.

Best Publications

Generic user modeling systems

Alfred Kobsa

1289
Citations
The adaptive web: methods and strategies of web personalization

Peter Brusilovsky;Alfred Kobsa;Wolfgang Nejdl

982
Citations
Personalised hypermedia presentation techniques for improving online customer relationships

Alfred Kobsa;Jürgen Koenemann;Wolfgang Pohl

905
Citations
The Adaptive Web

Peter Brusilovsky;Alfred Kobsa;Wolfgang Nejdl

700
Citations
A Taxonomy of Beliefs and Goals for User Models in Dialog Systems

Alfred Kobsa

548
Citations
User Models in Dialog Systems

S. Carberry;J. G. Carbonell;D. N. Chin;R. Cohen

437
Citations
Expert-Finding Systems for Organizations: Problem and Domain Analysis and the DEMOIR Approach

Dawit Yimam-Seid;Alfred Kobsa

374
Citations
Adaptive HyperText and Hypermedia

Peter Brusilovsky;Alfred Kobsa;Julita Vassileva

366
Citations
User Interfaces for All

Alfred Kobsa;Constantine Stephanidis;Castulus Kolo;Michael Friedewald

365
Citations
A Review and Analysis of Commercial User Modeling Servers for Personalization on the World Wide Web

Josef Fink;Alfred Kobsa

357
Citations
Privacy-Enhanced Personalization.

Alfred Kobsa

333
Citations
User Modeling for Personalized City Tours

Josef Fink;Alfred Kobsa

268
Citations
Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Recommender systems

Alfred Kobsa;Michelle Zhou;Martin Ester;Yehuda Koren

256
Citations
Privacy through pseudonymity in user-adaptive systems

Alfred Kobsa;Jörg Schreck

251
Citations
Personalized hypermedia and international privacy

Alfred Kobsa

230
Citations
Privacy-enhanced web personalization

Alfred Kobsa

228
Citations
The user modeling shell system BGP-MS

Alfred Kobsa;Wolfgang Pohl

228
Citations
Adaptable and adaptive information provision for all users, including disabled and elderly people

Josef Fink;Alfred Kobsa;Andreas Nill

214
Citations
Impacts of User Privacy Preferences on Personalized Systems

Maximilian Teltzrow;Alfred Kobsa

212
Citations
Making Decisions about Privacy: Information Disclosure in Context-Aware Recommender Systems

Bart P. Knijnenburg;Alfred Kobsa

189
Citations
User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction

Alfred Kobsa

16
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Bart P. Knijnenburg Clemson University

Gene Tsudik University of California, Irvine

Peter Brusilovsky University of Pittsburgh

Bamshad Mobasher DePaul University

Dietmar Jannach University of Klagenfurt

Doree Duncan Seligmann NY Hatchlings LLC

Gloria Mark University of California, Irvine

Wendy Hall University of Southampton

Hongxia Jin Samsung (United States)

Wolfgang Wahlster German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence

External Links

Personal website of Alfred Kobsa Google Scholar page

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