2026 Eytan Adar: 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	57	3750	3645	1790	1726	159	19549

Research.com Recognitions

2018 - ACM Distinguished Member

Overview

Eytan Adar is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within computer science, with a focus on fields such as artificial intelligence, computer vision and pattern recognition, statistical and nonlinear physics, mechanical engineering, and human-computer interaction.

Their work covers a range of topics including data visualization and analytics, complex network analysis techniques, design education and practice, ethics and social impacts of AI, innovative human-technology interaction, opinion dynamics and social influence, and topic modeling.

Among the recent papers involving their research are:

TaleBrush: Sketching Stories with Generative Pretrained Language Models (2022), CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The Party Is Over Here: Structure and Content in the 2010 Election (2021), Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
Memes Online: Extracted, Subtracted, Injected, and Recollected (2021), Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
Affective Learning Objectives for Communicative Visualizations (2022), IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Sensible AI: Re-imagining Interpretability and Explainability using Sensemaking Theory (2022), 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

Eytan Adar has frequently published in several venues, including:

arXiv (Cornell University)
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

They have collaborated multiple times with the following researchers:

Elsie Lee-Robbins
Colleen M. Seifert
John Joon Young Chung
Qingyi Wang
Yan Chen

In 2018, Eytan Adar was recognized as an ACM Distinguished Member.

Best Publications

Friends and neighbors on the Web

Lada A Adamic;Eytan Adar

3830
Citations
Free riding on Gnutella

Eytan Adar;Eytan Adar;Bernardo A. Huberman

2769
Citations
How to search a social network

Lada A. Adamic;Eytan Adar

967
Citations
Tracking Information Epidemics in Blogspace

Eytan Adar;Lada A. Adamic

616
Citations
Personalized search

James Pitkow;Hinrich Schütze;Todd Cass;Rob Cooley

606
Citations
A social network caught in the Web

Lada A. Adamic;Orkut Buyukkokten;Eytan Adar

559
Citations
Implicit Structure and the Dynamics of Blogspace

E. Adar

451
Citations
Tycoon: An implementation of a distributed, market-based resource allocation system

Kevin Lai;Lars Rasmusson;Eytan Adar;Li Zhang

407
Citations
Information re-retrieval: repeat queries in Yahoo's logs

Jaime Teevan;Eytan Adar;Rosie Jones;Michael A. S. Potts

400
Citations
GUESS: a language and interface for graph exploration

Eytan Adar

344
Citations
Valuating privacy

B.A. Huberman;E. Adar;L.R. Fine

311
Citations
Large scale analysis of web revisitation patterns

Eytan Adar;Jaime Teevan;Susan T. Dumais

310
Citations
Relating web page change with revisitation patterns

Eytan Adar;Jaime B. Teevan;Susan T. Dumais;Daniel J. Liebling

276
Citations
The Party Is Over Here: Structure and Content in the 2010 Election

Avishay Livne;Matthew P. Simmons;Eytan Adar;Lada A. Adamic

272
Citations
A Deeper Understanding of Sequence in Narrative Visualization

Jessica Hullman;Steven Drucker;Nathalie Henry Riche;Bongshin Lee

271
Citations
Haystack: per-user information environments

Eytan Adar;David Karger;Lynn Andrea Stein

268
Citations
DataTone: Managing Ambiguity in Natural Language Interfaces for Data Visualization

Tong Gao;Mira Dontcheva;Eytan Adar;Zhicheng Liu

250
Citations
TaleBrush: Sketching Stories with Generative Pretrained Language Models

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247
Citations
Benefitting InfoVis with Visual Difficulties

J. Hullman;E. Adar;P. Shah

208
Citations
The web changes everything: understanding the dynamics of web content

Eytan Adar;Jaime Teevan;Susan T. Dumais;Jonathan L. Elsas

207
Citations
User profile classification by web usage analysis

Eytan Adar;Lada A. Adamic;Francine R. Chen

185
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Lada A. Adamic Facebook (United States)

Jaime Teevan Microsoft (United States)

Bernardo A. Huberman CableLabs

Daniel S. Weld University of Washington

Susan T. Dumais Microsoft (United States)

Nicholas Diakopoulos Northwestern University

Michael Cafarella MIT

Paul Resnick University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

James Fogarty University of Washington

Priti Shah University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

External Links

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