2026 Anders Drachen: 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	39	9779	9498	44	42	171	6320

Overview

Anders Drachen is affiliated with the University of Southern Denmark in Denmark. Their research spans several fields within the social sciences, computer science, and psychology, with a focus on interdisciplinary approaches incorporating sociology and political science, artificial intelligence, and clinical psychology.

Their primary research topics include digital games and media, artificial intelligence in games, gambling behavior and treatments, sports analytics and performance, the impact of technology on adolescents, mental health research, and multimedia communication and technology.

Anders Drachen has contributed to a variety of peer-reviewed publications and conferences. Notable recent papers include:

"DAX: Data-Driven Audience Experiences in Esports," 2020, ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences
"A Comparison of Methods for Player Clustering via Behavioral Telemetry," 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
"The Many Faces of Monetisation: Understanding the Diversity and Extremity of Player Spending in Mobile Games via Massive-scale Transactional Analysis," 2023, Games Research and Practice
"No evidence that Chinese playtime mandates reduced heavy gaming in one segment of the video games industry," 2023, Nature Human Behaviour
"Communication Sequences Indicate Team Cohesion: A Mixed-Methods Study of Ad Hoc League of Legends Teams," 2022, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Frequent co-authors with whom Anders Drachen has collaborated include:

Florian Block (11 collaborations)
Alan Pedrassoli Chitayat (10 collaborations)
Simon Demediuk (8 collaborations)
Alex R. Wade (8 collaborations)
Athanasios Kokkinakis (6 collaborations)

Key publication venues in Anders Drachen's research output are:

arXiv (Cornell University), with 4 publications
ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences, with 3 publications
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, with 3 publications
Games Research and Practice, with 2 publications
interactions, with 2 publications

The scientist's work integrates methodologies from social sciences, computer science, and psychology to investigate behavior and technology interactions, particularly in digital gaming contexts. Their research also incorporates advanced techniques in artificial intelligence to analyze player behavior and engagement patterns.

Best Publications

Correlation between heart rate, electrodermal activity and player experience in first-person shooter games

Anders Drachen;Lennart E. Nacke;Georgios Yannakakis;Anja Lee Pedersen

468
Citations
Player modeling using self-organization in Tomb Raider: Underworld

Anders Drachen;Alessandro Canossa;Georgios N. Yannakakis

375
Citations
Guns, swords and data: Clustering of player behavior in computer games in the wild

Anders Drachen;Rafet Sifa;Christian Bauckhage;Christian Thurau

236
Citations
Game Analytics : Maximizing the Value of Player Data

Magy Seif El-Nasr;Anders Drachen;Alessandro Canossa

226
Citations
Predicting player churn in the wild

Fabian Hadiji;Rafet Sifa;Anders Drachen;Christian Thurau

209
Citations
Methods for Evaluating Gameplay Experience in a Serious Gaming Context.

Lennart E. Nacke;Anders Drachen;Stefan Göbel

206
Citations
Introduction: Changing the Game

Anders Drachen;M. Seif El-Nasr;Alessandro Canossa

198
Citations
Playability and player experience research

Lennart E. Nacke;Anders Drachen;Kai Kuikkaniemi;Joerg Niesenhaus

175
Citations
Towards gameplay analysis via gameplay metrics

Anders Drachen;Alessandro Canossa

165
Citations
Predicting player behavior in Tomb Raider: Underworld

Tobias Mahlmann;Anders Drachen;Julian Togelius;Alessandro Canossa

149
Citations
Telemetry Sampling in Game Development

Anders Drachen;A. Gagne;M. Seif El-Nasr

142
Citations
Skill-based differences in spatio-temporal team behaviour in defence of the Ancients 2 (DotA 2)

Anders Drachen;Matthew Yancey;John Maguire;Derrek Chu

140
Citations
Clustering Game Behavior Data

Christian Bauckhage;Anders Drachen;Rafet Sifa

140
Citations
Analyzing spatial user behavior in computer games using geographic information systems

Anders Drachen;Alessandro Canossa

127
Citations
How players lose interest in playing a game: An empirical study based on distributions of total playing times

Christian Bauckhage;Kristian Kersting;Rafet Sifa;Christian Thurau

122
Citations
Game Analytics – The Basics

Anders Drachen;Anders Drachen;Magy Seif El-Nasr;Alessandro Canossa;Alessandro Canossa

119
Citations
Predicting Purchase Decisions in Mobile Free-To-Play Games

Rafet Sifa;Fabian Hadiji;Julian Runge;Anders Drachen

119
Citations
Game Data Mining

Anders Drachen;Anders Drachen;Christian Thurau;Julian Togelius;Georgios N. Yannakakis;Georgios N. Yannakakis

107
Citations
Esports Analytics Through Encounter Detection

Matthias Schubert;Anders Drachen;Tobias Mahlmann

97
Citations
Win Prediction in Multi-Player Esports: Live Professional Match Prediction

Victoria J. Hodge;Sam Michael Devlin;Nicholas John Sephton;Florian Oliver Block

96
Citations
Playability and Player Experience Research [Panel Abstracts].

Lennart E. Nacke;Anders Drachen;Kai Kuikkaniemi;Jörg Niesenhaus

6
Citations
Predicting Player Chum In the Wild

Fabian Hadiji;Rafet Sifa;Anders Drachen;Christian Thurau

2
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Lennart E. Nacke University of Waterloo

Christian Bauckhage University of Bonn

Diego Klabjan Northwestern University

Georgios N. Yannakakis University of Malta

Peter I. Cowling Queen Mary University of London

Kristian Kersting Technical University of Darmstadt

Katherine Isbister University of California, Santa Cruz

Julian Togelius New York University

Mark Hall University of Sydney

Karolien Poels University of Antwerp

External Links

Personal website of Anders Drachen

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