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Frank van Harmelen 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 Frank van Harmelen sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 365 publications — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Frank van Harmelen 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 Frank van Harmelen sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 76 D-Index — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Computer Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2017 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2014 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Frank van Harmelen is affiliated with the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands and has contributed extensively to the field of computer science. Their research primarily focuses on artificial intelligence, with particular attention to areas such as hybrid intelligence, graph neural networks, semantic web, and machine learning.

They have published significant work across various topics, including:

  • Advanced Graph Neural Networks
  • Topic Modeling
  • Semantic Web and Ontologies
  • Data Quality and Management
  • Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
  • Machine Learning and Algorithms
  • Access Control and Trust

Van Harmelen's publications appear in a range of frequent venues, reflecting their active engagement with the research community. These venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
  • Machine Learning
  • Computer

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by van Harmelen are:

  • A Research Agenda for Hybrid Intelligence: Augmenting Human Intellect With Collaborative, Adaptive, Responsible, and Explainable Artificial Intelligence (2020, Computer)
  • Modular design patterns for hybrid learning and reasoning systems (2021, Applied Intelligence)
  • Combining Machine Learning and Semantic Web: A Systematic Mapping Study (2023, ACM Computing Surveys)
  • End-to-End Entity Classification on Multimodal Knowledge Graphs (2020, arXiv (Cornell University))
  • A publication in the VU Research Portal (2020)

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their most common co-authors include:

  • Joe Raad
  • Annette ten Teije
  • Peter Bloem
  • Shuai Wang
  • Zhisheng Huang

In addition to articles and conference papers, van Harmelen has published a book titled Narrative-based Understanding of Society, set for release in 2025 under the publisher Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

Van Harmelen's recognized contributions to their field are also reflected in honors such as membership in the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2017) and Academia Europaea (2014).

Best Publications

  • A semantic Web primer

    Grigoris Antoniou;Paul Groth;Frank van van Harmelen;Rinke Hoekstra

  • From SHIQ and RDF to OWL: the making of a Web Ontology Language

    Ian Horrocks;Peter F. Patel-Schneider;Frank van Harmelen

  • Sesame: A Generic Architecture for Storing and Querying RDF and RDF Schema

    Jeen Broekstra;Arjohn Kampman;Frank van Harmelen

  • Web ontology language: Owl

    Grigoris Antoniou;Frank van Harmelen

  • The Semantic Web: the roles of XML and RDF

    S. Decker;S. Melnik;F. van Harmelen;D. Fensel

  • OIL: an ontology infrastructure for the Semantic Web

    D. Fensel;F. van Harmelen;I. Horrocks;D.L. McGuinness

  • Web Ontology Language: OWL

    Grigoris Antoniou;Frank van Harmelen;Steffen Staab;Rudi Struder

  • Towards the Semantic Web: Ontology-driven Knowledge Management

    John Davies;Dieter Fensel;Frank van Harmelen

  • Towards the Semantic Web

    John Davies;Dieter Fensel;Frank Van Harmelen

  • Handbook of Knowledge Representation

    Frank van Harmelen;Vladimir Lifschitz;Bruce Porter

  • Web Ontology Language

    DL McGuinness;Frank van Harmelen

  • OIL in a Nutshell

    Dieter Fensel;Ian Horrocks;Frank van Harmelen;Stefan Decker

  • C-OWL: contextualizing ontologies

    Paolo Bouquet;Fausto Giunchiglia;Frank Van Harmelen;Luciano Serafini

  • A framework for handling inconsistency in changing ontologies

    Peter Haase;Frank van Harmelen;Zhisheng Huang;Heiner Stuckenschmidt

  • OWL Web Ontology Language Reference-W3C Recommen-dation

    Sean Bechhofer;Frank van Harmelen;James A. Hendler;Ian Horrocks

  • The semantic Web and its languages

    O. Lassila;F. van Harmelen;I. Horrocks;J. Hendler

  • Rippling: a heuristic for guiding inductive proofs

    Alan Bundy;Andrew Stevens;Frank van Harmelen;Andrew Ireland

  • It's a Streaming World! Reasoning upon Rapidly Changing Information

    E. Della Valle;S. Ceri;F. van Harmelen;D. Fensel

  • The Oyster-Clam system

    Alan Bundy;Frank van Harmelen;Christian Horn;Christian Horn;Alan Smaill

  • Scalable Distributed Reasoning Using MapReduce

    Jacopo Urbani;Spyros Kotoulas;Eyal Oren;Frank Harmelen

  • Contextualizing ontologies

    Paolo Bouquet;Fausto Giunchiglia;Frank van Harmelen;Luciano Serafini

Frequent Co-Authors

Heiner Stuckenschmidt
Heiner Stuckenschmidt University of Mannheim
Dieter Fensel
Dieter Fensel University of Innsbruck
Ian Horrocks
Ian Horrocks University of Oxford
Henri E. Bal
Henri E. Bal Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Michel C. A. Klein
Michel C. A. Klein Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Steffen Staab
Steffen Staab University of Stuttgart
Marta Sabou
Marta Sabou Vienna University of Economics and Business
Alan Bundy
Alan Bundy University of Edinburgh
Rudi Studer
Rudi Studer Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Fausto Giunchiglia
Fausto Giunchiglia University of Trento

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