2026 Birger Hjørland: 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	43	7866	7640	34	32	136	9799

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Computer Science

7866

7640

136

9799

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

1460
Citations
The concept of information

Rafael Capurro;Birger Hjørland

1065
Citations
Domain analysis in information science

Birger Hjørland

633
Citations
Theory and metatheory of information science: a new interpretation

Birger Hjørland

395
Citations
Library and information science: practice, theory, and philosophical basis

Birger Hjørland

377
Citations
Empiricism, rationalism and positivism in library and information science

Birger Hjørland

324
Citations
Epistemology and the socio-cognitive perspective in information science

Unknown

320
Citations
Information Seeking and Subject Representation: An Activity-Theoretical Approach to Information Science

Birger Hjørland

314
Citations
The concept of “subject” in information science

Birger Hjørland

273
Citations
The foundation of the concept of relevance

Birger Hjørland

260
Citations
Documents, memory institutions and information science

Birger Hjørland

255
Citations
Citation analysis: A social and dynamic approach to knowledge organization

Birger Hjørland

251
Citations
Concept theory

Birger Hjørland

249
Citations
What is Knowledge Organization (KO)

Birger Hjørland

230
Citations
The foundation of the concept of relevance

Unknown

218
Citations
Information: Objective or subjective-situational?

Birger Hjørland

213
Citations
Semantics and knowledge organization

Birger Hjørland

210
Citations
Documents and the communication of scientific and scholarly information: Revising and updating the UNISIST model

Trine Fjordback Søndergaard;Jack Andersen;Birger Hjørland

195
Citations
Facet analysis: The logical approach to knowledge organization

Birger HjøRland

190
Citations
Arguments for Philosophical Realism in Library and Information Science

Birger Hjørland

164
Citations
Evidence-based practice: An analysis based on the philosophy of science

Birger Hjørland

162
Citations
Concept theory

Unknown

159
Citations
Fundamentals of Knowledge Organization

Unknown

159
Citations
Towards a theory of aboutness, subject, topicality, theme, domain, field, content …and relevance

Birger Hjørland

134
Citations
Fundamentals of knowledge organization

Birger Hjorland

1
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Steve Fuller University of Warwick

External Links

Personal website of Birger Hjørland

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