Bonnie Nardi publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Bonnie Nardi between 1979 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Bonnie Nardi published across 47 years, from 1979 to 2025, averaging 6.6 papers a year. Output peaked at 23 publications in 2015. 8 of the 310 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications

5 10 15 20

1979 2025

310 publications in total across all disciplines

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Bonnie Nardi: publications per year, 1979 to 2025
Year	Publications
1979	1
1980	0
1981	2
1982	1
1983	2
1984	2
1985	0
1986	0
1987	0
1988	0
1989	0
1990	3
1991	1
1992	3
1993	12
1994	4
1995	7
1996	9
1997	5
1998	8
1999	13
2000	5
2001	4
2002	6
2003	1
2004	7
2005	5
2006	17
2007	3
2008	6
2009	4
2010	12
2011	10
2012	13
2013	19
2014	11
2015	23
2016	20
2017	13
2018	14
2019	11
2020	7
2021	6
2022	8
2023	4
2024	5
2025	3
Total	310

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Bonnie Nardi publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bonnie Nardi sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists

100 200 300 400

44–53 publications 570+

This scientist: 275 publications — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
Publications	Scientists	This scientist
44–53	28
54–63	61
64–73	161
74–83	225
84–93	301
94–103	390
104–113	406
114–123	474
124–133	453
134–143	434
144–153	407
154–163	411
164–173	391
174–183	313
184–193	319
194–203	304
204–213	285
214–223	246
224–233	213
234–243	170
244–253	167
254–263	162
264–273	138
274–283	138	275
284–293	113
294–303	106
304–313	95
314–323	101
324–333	81
334–343	69
344–353	56
354–363	36
364–373	42
374–383	41
384–393	44
394–403	27
404–413	30
414–423	20
424–433	29
434–443	29
444–453	25
454–463	19
464–473	21
474–483	11
484–493	17
494–503	7
504–513	6
514–523	12
524–533	10
534–543	7
544–553	6
554–563	12
564–569	8
570+	100

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Bonnie Nardi D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bonnie Nardi sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists

100 200 300

30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 65 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
D-Index	Scientists	This scientist
30	177
31	210
32	222
33	188
34	181
35	243
36	261
37	272
38	278
39	300
40	297
41	308
42	313
43	300
44	269
45	260
46	228
47	251
48	203
49	186
50	187
51	166
52	138
53	141
54	131
55	137
56	109
57	129
58	95
59	105
60	106
61	86
62	94
63	77
64	79
65	59	65
66	68
67	51
68	49
69	40
70	43
71	40
72	50
73	46
74	43
75	45
76	45
77	30
78	25
79	31
80	29
81	18
82	21
83	26
84	15
85	15
86	19
87	19
88	12
89	7
90	19
91	20
92	13
93	9
94	13
95	8
96	7
97	6
98	6
99	6
100+	97

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Overview

Bonnie Nardi is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research spans several fields within the social sciences, with a focus on technology and its intersection with human behavior and society.

The main fields of study associated with Nardi include Social Sciences, supported by extensive work in subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Management of Technology and Innovation, Information Systems and Management, and Human Factors and Ergonomics.

Their work covers a variety of topics, notably Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development, Innovative Human-Technology Interaction, Social and Cultural Dynamics, Creativity in Education and Neuroscience, Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods, Green IT and Sustainability, and Personal Information Management and User Behavior.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Nardi include Beth Ferholt, Alfredo Jornet, Antti Rajala, Ivana Guarrasi, and Julian Williams.

Nardi often publishes in venues such as Mind Culture and Activity, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, interactions, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, and Ecology and Society.

Some recent papers by or including Nardi are:

Post-growth Human-Computer Interaction (2023), ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
Moving forward with activity theory in a digital world (2021), Mind Culture and Activity
Citational justice and the politics of knowledge production (2022), interactions
Humanity's leading activity: survival, of the humanity of our species (2020), Mind Culture and Activity
"There Should Be More Than One Voice in A Healthy Society": Infrastructural Violence and Totalitarian Computing in China (2021), Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Bonnie Nardi also has publications in book form, notably through Princeton University Press. Among them are titles under the same name, Ethnography and Virtual Worlds, both published in 2024.

Best Publications

Context and consciousness: activity theory and human-computer interaction

Bonnie A. Nardi

3229
Citations
Acting with Technology: Activity Theory and Interaction Design

Victor Kaptelinin;Bonnie A. Nardi

2746
Citations
Information ecologies: using technology with heart

Bonnie A. Nardi;Vicki L. O'Day

2135
Citations
Why we blog

Bonnie A. Nardi;Diane J. Schiano;Michelle Gumbrecht;Luke Swartz

1805
Citations
Interaction and outeraction: instant messaging in action

Bonnie A. Nardi;Steve Whittaker;Erin Bradner

1780
Citations
Studying context: a comparison of activity theory, situated action models, and distributed cognition

Bonnie A. Nardi

1613
Citations
Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method

Tom Boellstorff;Bonnie Nardi;Celia Pearce;T.L. Taylor

1413
Citations
A Small Matter of Programming: Perspectives on End User Computing

Bonnie A. Nardi

1269
Citations
Blogging as social activity, or, would you let 900 million people read your diary?

Bonnie A. Nardi;Diane J. Schiano;Michelle Gumbrecht

1058
Citations
My Life as a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft

Bonnie A. Nardi

1008
Citations
Activity theory and human-computer interaction

Bonnie A. Nardi

824
Citations
Finding and reminding: file organization from the desktop

Deborah Barreau;Bonnie A. Nardi

808
Citations
Strangers and friends: collaborative play in world of warcraft

Bonnie Nardi;Justin Harris

674
Citations
Materiality and Organizing: Social Interaction in a Technological World

Paul M. Leonardi;Bonnie A. Nardi;Jannis Kallinikos

535
Citations
Methods & tools: The activity checklist: a tool for representing the “space” of context

Victor Kaptelinin;Bonnie A. Nardi;Catriona Macaulay

497
Citations
System and method for performing an action on a structure in computer-generated data

James R. Miller;Thomas Bonura;Bonnie Nardi;David Wright

432
Citations
System and method for analyzing communications

Ellen Isaacs;Bonnie A. Nardi;Stephen Whittaker

423
Citations
NetWORKers and their Activity in IntensionalNetworks

Bonnie A. Nardi;Steve Whittaker;Heinrich Schwarz

403
Citations
It's not what you know it's who you know

Bonnie A. Nardi;Steve Whittaker;Heinrich Schwarz

370
Citations
Activity Theory in HCI: Fundamentals and Reflections

Victor Kaptelinin;Bonnie Nardi

335
Citations
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Bonnie Nardi;Gerrit C. van der Veer;Michael J. Tauber

215
Citations
Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart - Chapter Two: Framing Conversations about Technology

Bonnie Nardi;Vicki O'Day

2
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Steve Whittaker University of California, Santa Cruz

Paul M. Leonardi University of California, Santa Barbara

Jannis Kallinikos London School of Economics and Political Science

Michael Cole University of East London

Nicolas Ducheneaut Quantic Foundry

Nick Yee Palo Alto Research Center

Daniel Stokols University of California, Irvine

Henry Lieberman MIT

Piero Fraternali Polytechnic University of Milan

Gloria Mark University of California, Irvine

External Links

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