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D-Index
41
Citations
7948
World Ranking
8765
National Ranking
3748

Brent Hecht 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 Brent Hecht sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 120 publications — 15th percentile

15% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Brent Hecht 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 Brent Hecht sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 40th percentile

40% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Brent Hecht is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Computer Science and Social Sciences, with a focus on subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science Applications, Communication, Information Systems, and Sociology and Political Science.

The main topics covered in Brent Hecht's work include:

  • Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
  • Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing
  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Topic Modeling
  • Wikis in Education and Collaboration

They have published extensively in various venues. Prominent publication venues for their work include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • Nature Human Behaviour
  • 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Brent Hecht include:

  • "The effects of remote work on collaboration among information workers," 2021, Nature Human Behaviour
  • ""Blissfully Happy" or "Ready to Fight": Varying Interpretations of Emoji," 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • "SearchBuddies: Bringing Search Engines into the Conversation," 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • "Behavioral Use Licensing for Responsible AI," 2022, 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency
  • "Learning Causal Effects on Hypergraphs," 2022, Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Frequent collaborators identified in Brent Hecht's research are:

  • Jaime Teevan
  • Longqi Yang
  • Hanlin Li
  • Nicholas Vincent
  • Mengting Wan

Best Publications

  • Falling asleep with Angry Birds, Facebook and Kindle: a large scale study on mobile application usage

    Matthias Böhmer;Brent Hecht;Johannes Schöning;Antonio Krüger

  • Tweets from Justin Bieber's heart: the dynamics of the location field in user profiles

    Brent Hecht;Lichan Hong;Bongwon Suh;Ed H. Chi

  • How Work From Home Affects Collaboration: A Large-Scale Study of Information Workers in a Natural Experiment During COVID-19

    Longqi Yang;Sonia Jaffe;David Holtz;Siddharth Suri

  • “Blissfully Happy” or “Ready toFight”: Varying Interpretations of Emoji

    Hannah Jean Miller;Jacob Thebault-Spieker;Shuo Chang;Isaac L. Johnson

  • On the "localness" of user-generated content

    Brent J. Hecht;Darren Gergle

  • A Tale of Cities: Urban Biases in Volunteered Geographic Information

    Brent J. Hecht;Monica Stephens

  • The Geography of Pokémon GO: Beneficial and Problematic Effects on Places and Movement

    Ashley Colley;Jacob Thebault-Spieker;Allen Yilun Lin;Donald Degraen

  • The tower of Babel meets web 2.0: user-generated content and its applications in a multilingual context

    Brent Hecht;Darren Gergle

  • Understanding emoji ambiguity in context: The role of text in emoji-related miscommunication

    Hannah Jean Miller;Daniel Kluver;Jacob Thebault-Spieker;Loren G. Terveen

  • Avoiding the South Side and the Suburbs: The Geography of Mobile Crowdsourcing Markets

    Jacob Thebault-Spieker;Loren G. Terveen;Brent Hecht

  • The Sharing Economy in Computing: A Systematic Literature Review

    Tawanna R. Dillahunt;Xinyi Wang;Earnest Wheeler;Hao Fei Cheng

  • Omnipedia: bridging the wikipedia language gap

    Patti Bao;Brent Hecht;Samuel Carton;Mahmood Quaderi

  • Large Scale Analysis of Multitasking Behavior During Remote Meetings

    Hancheng Cao;Chia-Jung Lee;Shamsi Iqbal;Mary Czerwinski

  • Measuring self-focus bias in community-maintained knowledge repositories

    Brent Hecht;Darren Gergle

  • The substantial interdependence of Wikipedia and Google: A case study on the relationship between peer production communities and information technologies

    Connor McMahon;Isaac L. Johnson;Brent J. Hecht

  • Toward a Geographic Understanding of the Sharing Economy: Systemic Biases in UberX and TaskRabbit

    Jacob Thebault-Spieker;Loren Terveen;Brent Hecht

  • NewsViews: an automated pipeline for creating custom geovisualizations for news

    Tong Gao;Jessica R. Hullman;Eytan Adar;Brent Hecht

  • The Geography of Pok'emon GO: Beneficial and Problematic Effects on Places and Movement

    Ashley Colley;Jacob Thebault-Spieker;Allen Yilun Lin;Donald Degraen

  • SearchBuddies: Bringing Search Engines into the Conversation

    Brent J. Hecht;Jaime Teevan;Meredith Ringel Morris;Daniel J. Liebling

  • Improving interaction with virtual globes through spatial thinking: helping users ask "why?"

    Johannes Schöning;Brent Hecht;Martin Raubal;Antonio Krüger

Frequent Co-Authors

Johannes Schöning
Johannes Schöning University of St. Gallen
Loren Terveen
Loren Terveen University of Minnesota
Jaime Teevan
Jaime Teevan Microsoft (United States)
Darren Gergle
Darren Gergle Northwestern University
Antonio Krüger
Antonio Krüger German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence
Michael Rohs
Michael Rohs University of Hannover
Joseph A. Konstan
Joseph A. Konstan University of Minnesota
Martin Raubal
Martin Raubal ETH Zurich
Siddharth Suri
Siddharth Suri Microsoft (United States)
Mary Czerwinski
Mary Czerwinski Microsoft (United States)

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