2026 Bijan Parsia: 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	57	3743	3638	224	222	249	21886

Overview

Bijan Parsia is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields, notably within computer science and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a focus on topics linking semantic web technologies and biomedical contexts.

Parsia's work particularly concentrates on the following fields of study:

Computer Science
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Their research subfields include:

Artificial Intelligence
Molecular Biology
Applied Psychology
Sociology and Political Science
Computer Networks and Communications

Key topics in Parsia's research cover:

Semantic Web and Ontologies
Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Behavioral Health and Interventions
Advanced Database Systems and Queries
Digital Mental Health Interventions
Diabetes Management and Research

They have contributed to various recent publications, including:

"Passive social sensing with smartphones: a systematic review" (2022) in Computing
"Modular Structures and Atomic Decomposition in Ontologies" (2020) in Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
"A comparative study of methods for a priori prediction of MCQ difficulty" (2020) in Semantic Web
"Digital Phenotypes for Understanding Individuals' Compliance With COVID-19 Policies and Personalized Nudges: Longitudinal Observational Study" (2021) in JMIR Formative Research
"Tracking social behaviour with smartphones in people with Parkinson's: a longitudinal study" (2023) in Behaviour and Information Technology

Parsia frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

Ulrike Sattler
Simon Harper
Christian Kindermann
Ellen Poliakoff
Heng Zhang

Their work is often published in venues such as:

Computing
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Semantic Web
JMIR Formative Research
Behaviour and Information Technology

Best Publications

Pellet: A practical OWL-DL reasoner

Evren Sirin;Bijan Parsia;Bernardo Cuenca Grau;Aditya Kalyanpur

4043
Citations
OWL 2: The next step for OWL

Bernardo Cuenca Grau;Ian Horrocks;Boris Motik;Bijan Parsia

1208
Citations
Bringing semantics to web services: the OWL-S approach

David Martin;Massimo Paolucci;Sheila McIlraith;Mark Burstein

1141
Citations
OWL 2 Web Ontology Language: structural specification and functional-style syntax

B. Motik;P.F. Patel-Schneider;B. Parsia;C. Bock

1138
Citations
HTN planning for Web Service composition using SHOP2

Evren Sirin;Bijan Parsia;Dan Wu;James Hendler

1082
Citations
Semi-automatic Composition ofWeb Services using Semantic Descriptions

Evren Sirin;James A. Hendler;Bijan Parsia

718
Citations
Trust Networks on the Semantic Web

Jennifer Golbeck;Bijan Parsia;James A. Hendler

691
Citations
Automating DAML-S web services composition using SHOP2

Dan Wu;Bijan Parsia;Evren Sirin;James Hendler

612
Citations
Swoop: A Web Ontology Editing Browser

Aditya Kalyanpur;Bijan Parsia;Evren Sirin;Bernardo Cuenca Grau

467
Citations
Finding all justifications of OWL DL entailments

Aditya Kalyanpur;Bijan Parsia;Matthew Horridge;Evren Sirin

449
Citations
Pellet: An OWL DL Reasoner

Evren Sirin;Bijan Parsia

440
Citations
A Systematic Review of Automatic Question Generation for Educational Purposes

Ghader Kurdi;Jared Leo;Bijan Parsia;Uli Sattler

430
Citations
The National Cancer Institute's Thesaurus and Ontology

Jennifer Golbeck;Gilberto Fragoso;Frank W Hartel;James A Hendler

419
Citations
SPARQL-DL: SPARQL Query for OWL-DL

Evren Sirin;Bijan Parsia

408
Citations
OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Primer (Second Edition)

Pascal Hitzler;Markus Krotzsch;Bijan Parsia;Peter F. Patel-Schneider

358
Citations
Debugging unsatisfiable classes in OWL ontologies

Aditya Kalyanpur;Bijan Parsia;Evren Sirin;James Hendler

337
Citations
Debugging OWL ontologies

Bijan Parsia;Evren Sirin;Aditya Kalyanpur

330
Citations
Laconic and Precise Justifications in OWL

Matthew Horridge;Bijan Parsia;Ulrike Sattler

305
Citations
Filtering and selecting semantic Web services with interactive composition techniques

E. Sirin;B. Parsia;J. Hendler

302
Citations
Analyzing web access control policies

Vladimir Kolovski;James Hendler;Bijan Parsia

282
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulrike Sattler University of Manchester

Evren Sirin University of Maryland, College Park

James A. Hendler Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Bernardo Cuenca Grau University of Oxford

Aditya Kalyanpur Elemental Cognition

Jennifer Golbeck University of Maryland, College Park

Peter F. Patel-Schneider Palo Alto Research Center

Ian Horrocks University of Oxford

Grigoris Antoniou University of Huddersfield

Dimitris Plexousakis University of Crete

External Links

Personal website of Bijan Parsia Google Scholar page

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