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D-Index
43
Citations
9799
World Ranking
7865
National Ranking
34

Birger Hjørland 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 Birger Hjørland sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 136 publications — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Birger Hjørland 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 Birger Hjørland sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Birger Hjørland is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Their scholarly work spans several subfields, including artificial intelligence, conservation, history and philosophy of science, language and linguistics, and molecular biology.

Their research covers a range of main topics, such as:

  • Semantic Web and Ontologies
  • Advanced Text Analysis Techniques
  • Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
  • Digital and Traditional Archives Management
  • Linguistics and Terminology Studies
  • Digital Humanities and Scholarship
  • 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage

Frequent publication venues where Birger Hjørland has contributed include:

  • KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION
  • Em Questão
  • Psyke & Logos
  • Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
  • Journal of Documentation

Collaborations have been established with multiple coauthors, notably:

  • Thiago Henrique Bragato Barros
  • Casper Hvenegaard Rasmussen
  • Marco Lardera
  • Paula Carina de Araújo
  • Renata Cristina Gutierres Castanha

Selected recent papers by Birger Hjørland include:

  • "Information Retrieval and Knowledge Organization: A Perspective from the Philosophy of Science," 2021, published in Information
  • "Political Versus Apolitical Epistemologies in Knowledge Organization," 2020, published in KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION
  • "Social Epistemology," 2024, published in KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION

In addition, Casper Hvenegaard Rasmussen and Marco Lardera have coauthored papers in related venues, illustrating the interdisciplinary character of the research environment.

Best Publications

  • Toward a new horizon in information science: domain-analysis

    Birger Hjørland;Hanne Albrechtsen

  • The concept of information

    Rafael Capurro;Birger Hjørland

  • Domain analysis in information science

    Birger Hjørland

  • Theory and metatheory of information science: a new interpretation

    Birger Hjørland

  • Library and information science: practice, theory, and philosophical basis

    Birger Hjørland

  • Empiricism, rationalism and positivism in library and information science

    Birger Hjørland

  • Epistemology and the socio-cognitive perspective in information science

    Unknown

  • Information Seeking and Subject Representation: An Activity-Theoretical Approach to Information Science

    Birger Hjørland

  • The concept of “subject” in information science

    Birger Hjørland

  • The foundation of the concept of relevance

    Birger Hjørland

  • Documents, memory institutions and information science

    Birger Hjørland

  • Citation analysis: A social and dynamic approach to knowledge organization

    Birger Hjørland

  • Concept theory

    Birger Hjørland

  • What is Knowledge Organization (KO)

    Birger Hjørland

  • The foundation of the concept of relevance

    Unknown

  • Information: Objective or subjective-situational?

    Birger Hjørland

  • Semantics and knowledge organization

    Birger Hjørland

  • Documents and the communication of scientific and scholarly information: Revising and updating the UNISIST model

    Trine Fjordback Søndergaard;Jack Andersen;Birger Hjørland

  • Facet analysis: The logical approach to knowledge organization

    Birger HjøRland

  • Arguments for Philosophical Realism in Library and Information Science

    Birger Hjørland

  • Evidence-based practice: An analysis based on the philosophy of science

    Birger Hjørland

  • Concept theory

    Unknown

  • Fundamentals of Knowledge Organization

    Unknown

  • Towards a theory of aboutness, subject, topicality, theme, domain, field, content …and relevance

    Birger Hjørland

  • Fundamentals of knowledge organization

    Birger Hjorland

Frequent Co-Authors

Steve Fuller
Steve Fuller University of Warwick

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