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43
Citations
12637
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7786
National Ranking
3369

David W. McDonald 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 David W. McDonald sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 177 publications — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

David W. McDonald 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 David W. McDonald 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

David W. McDonald is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States and conducts research primarily in computer science and social sciences. Their work spans interdisciplinary areas, focusing on topics that intersect technology, biology, and social dynamics.

The main fields of study in McDonald's research include:

  • Computer Science
  • Social Sciences

Their subfields of study further detail their research interests:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Communication
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Epidemiology

Key research topics covered in McDonald's publications are:

  • Wikis in Education and Collaboration
  • Computational Drug Discovery Methods
  • Semantic Web and Ontologies
  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • Open Source Software Innovations
  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks

McDonald has contributed to a variety of peer-reviewed journals and conferences, with frequent publications in these venues:

  • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • Journal of Cheminformatics
  • ACM Transactions on Social Computing

Recent representative papers authored or coauthored by McDonald include:

  • Perception Differences between the Depressed and Non-Depressed Users in Twitter, 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • Wikipedian Self-Governance in Action: Motivating the Policy Lens, 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • Tissue factor expression in monocyte subsets during human immunothrombosis, endotoxemia and sepsis, 2023, Thrombosis Research
  • Cobdock: an accurate and practical machine learning-based consensus blind docking method, 2024, Journal of Cheminformatics
  • Conflicts of Control: Continuous Blood Glucose Monitoring and Coordinated Caregiving for Teenagers with Type 1 Diabetes, 2023, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Frequent collaborators in McDonald's research are:

  • Mark Zachry
  • Shan He
  • Taryn Bipat
  • Julian Hocker
  • Sadettin Y. Ugurlu

Best Publications

  • Activity sensing in the wild: a field trial of ubifit garden

    Sunny Consolvo;David W. McDonald;Tammy Toscos;Mike Y. Chen

  • PHOAKS: a system for sharing recommendations

    Loren Terveen;Will Hill;Brian Amento;David McDonald

  • Theory-driven design strategies for technologies that support behavior change in everyday life

    Sunny Consolvo;David W. McDonald;James A. Landay

  • Expertise recommender: a flexible recommendation system and architecture

    David W. McDonald;Mark S. Ackerman

  • Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing

    Dan Cosley;Andrea Forte;Luigina Ciolfi;David McDonald

  • Flowers or a robot army?: encouraging awareness & activity with personal, mobile displays

    Sunny Consolvo;Predrag Klasnja;David W. McDonald;Daniel Avrahami

  • Answer Garden 2: merging organizational memory with collaborative help

    Mark S. Ackerman;David W. McDonald

  • Social matching: A framework and research agenda

    Loren Terveen;David W. McDonald

  • Just talk to me: a field study of expertise location

    David W. McDonald;Mark S. Ackerman

  • Dissecting a Social Botnet: Growth, Content and Influence in Twitter

    Norah Abokhodair;Daisy Yoo;David W. McDonald

  • Goal-setting considerations for persuasive technologies that encourage physical activity

    Sunny Consolvo;Predrag Klasnja;David W. McDonald;James A. Landay

  • Challenge: ubiquitous location-aware computing and the "place lab" initiative

    Bill N. Schilit;Anthony LaMarca;Gaetano Borriello;William G. Griswold

  • Recommending collaboration with social networks: a comparative evaluation

    David W. McDonald

  • Incorporating ideas from computer-supported cooperative work

    Wanda Pratt;Madhu C. Reddy;David W. McDonald;Peter Tarczy-Hornoch

  • Articulations of wikiwork: uncovering valued work in wikipedia through barnstars

    Travis Kriplean;Ivan Beschastnikh;David W. McDonald

  • Community, consensus, coercion, control: cs*w or how policy mediates mass participation

    Travis Kriplean;Ivan Beschastnikh;David W. McDonald;Scott A. Golder

  • Systems and methods for filtering and/or viewing collaborative indexes of recorded media

    Laurent Denoue;Tohru Fuse;Patrick Chiu;Lynn D. Wilcox

  • Perception Differences between the Depressed and Non-Depressed Users in Twitter

    Minsu Park;David W. McDonald;Meeyoung Cha

  • Augmenting the social space of an academic conference

    Joseph F. McCarthy;David W. McDonald;Suzanne Soroczak;David H. Nguyen

  • Learning how: the search for craft knowledge on the internet

    Cristen Torrey;Elizabeth F. Churchill;David W. McDonald

  • Just talk to me

    David W. McDonald;Mark S. Ackerman

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Erickson
Thomas Erickson Independent Scientist / Consultant, US
Wanda Pratt
Wanda Pratt University of Washington
Mark S. Ackerman
Mark S. Ackerman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Sunny Consolvo
Sunny Consolvo Google (United States)
James A. Landay
James A. Landay Stanford University
John H. Gennari
John H. Gennari University of Washington
Bill N. Schilit
Bill N. Schilit Google (United States)
Chunhua Weng
Chunhua Weng Columbia University
Predrag Klasnja
Predrag Klasnja University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Eric B. Hekler
Eric B. Hekler University of California, San Diego

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