2026 Hans Hagen: 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	54	4651	4521	208	201	417	9155

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

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Computer Science

4651

4521

208

201

417

9155

Overview

Hans Hagen is affiliated with the Technical University of Kaiserslautern in Germany. Their research spans key areas within computer science and engineering, with a particular focus on visualization and manufacturing processes.

The main fields of study for Hans Hagen include:

Computer Science
Engineering

The scientist's work touches on several subfields, including:

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Artificial Intelligence
Computational Mechanics
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

Hans Hagen has contributed to a range of topics, such as:

Data Visualization and Analytics
Manufacturing Process and Optimization
Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
Advanced Text Analysis Techniques
3D Shape Modeling and Analysis
Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation
Advanced Numerical Analysis Techniques

Among the recent papers authored by or involving Hans Hagen are:

"Insight Beyond Numbers: The Impact of Qualitative Factors on Visual Data Analysis" (2020), published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
"Uncertainty-aware visual analytics: scope, opportunities, and challenges" (2022), published in The Visual Computer
"ConceptGraph: A Formal Model for Interpretation and Reasoning During Visual Analysis" (2020), published in Computer Graphics Forum
"A Local Approach for Computing Smooth B-Spline Surfaces for Arbitrary Quadrilateral Base Meshes" (2021), published in Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering
"Decomposing deviations of scanned surfaces of sheet metal assemblies" (2021), published in Journal of Manufacturing Systems

Frequent coauthors in collaboration with Hans Hagen include:

Bernd Hamann
Felix Claus
Mikael Persson Sundqvist
Heike Leitte
Benjamin Karer

The venues where Hans Hagen has frequently published comprise:

TUGboat
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
The Visual Computer
Computer Graphics Forum
Computer-Aided Design

Best Publications

Data, Information, and Knowledge in Visualization

Min Chen;D. Ebert;H. Hagen;R.S. Laramee

458
Citations
Collaborative visualization: definition, challenges, and research agenda

Petra Isenberg;Niklas Elmqvist;Jean Scholtz;Daniel Cernea

370
Citations
Geometric Modelling

G. Farin;H. Hagen;H. Noltemeier;W. Knödel

292
Citations
Efficient Computation and Visualization of Coherent Structures in Fluid Flow Applications

C. Garth;F. Gerhardt;X. Tricoche;H. Hagen

247
Citations
FastBit: interactively searching massive data

K. Wu;S. Ahern;E. W. Bethel;E. W. Bethel;J. Chen

213
Citations
Scientific Visualization: Overviews, Methodologies, and Techniques

Gregory M. Nielson;Hans Hagen;Heinrich Müller

199
Citations
Visualization and Processing of Tensor Fields

Joachim Weickert;Hans Hagen

199
Citations
Methods for presenting statistical information: {The} box plot

Kristin Potter;Hans Hagen;Andreas Kerren;Peter Dannenmann

194
Citations
Sharp Feature Detection in Point Clouds

Christopher Weber;Stefanie Hahmann;Hans Hagen

194
Citations
Continuous topology simplification of planar vector fields

Xavier Tricoche;Gerik Scheuermann;Hans Hagen

186
Citations
A topology simplification method for 2D vector fields

Xavier Tricoche;Gerik Scheuermann;Hans Hagen

179
Citations
Dagstuhl Seminar 1997

Hans Hagen;Guido H. Brunnet;Heinrich Müller;Dieter Roller

170
Citations
A survey of topology-based methods in visualization

C. Heine;H. Leitte;M. Hlawitschka;F. Iuricich

168
Citations
Topology Tracking for the Visualization of Time-Dependent Two-Dimensional Flows

Xavier Tricoche;Thomas Wischgoll;Gerik Scheuermann;Hans Hagen

164
Citations
Surface interrogation algorithms

H. Hagen;S. Hahmann;T. Schreiber;Y. Nakajima

146
Citations
Functional composition algorithms via blossoming

Tony D. DeRose;Ronald N. Goldman;Hans Hagen;Stephen Mann

138
Citations
Automatic smoothing with geometric surface patches

Hans Hagen;Guido Schulze

128
Citations
Curve and surface design

Hans Hagen

119
Citations
Visualization of higher order singularities in vector fields

Gerik Scheuermann;Hans Hagen;Heinz Krüger;Martin Menzel

113
Citations
Streamball techniques for flow visualization

Manfred Brill;Hans Hagen;Hans-Christian Rodrian;Wladimir Djatschin

106
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernd Hamann University of California, Davis

Gerik Scheuermann Leipzig University

Kenneth I. Joy University of California, Davis

Charles Hansen University of Utah

Gregory M. Nielson Arizona State University

David S. Ebert University of Oklahoma

Jitendra Malik University of California, Berkeley

Mark D. Biggin Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

James Ahrens Los Alamos National Laboratory

Charless C. Fowlkes University of California, Irvine

External Links

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