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Harith Alani 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 Harith Alani sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 207 publications — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Harith Alani 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 Harith Alani sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Harith Alani is affiliated with The Open University in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the fields of Computer Science and Social Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Sociology and Political Science, Information Systems, Safety Research, and Health Informatics.

Their research topics cover various aspects of misinformation and its impacts, hate speech and cyberbullying detection, spam and phishing detection, ethics and social impacts of AI, explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), sentiment analysis and opinion mining, and topic modeling.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Bias in data-driven artificial intelligence systems-An introductory survey (2020), Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
  • Demographics and topics impact on the co-spread of COVID-19 misinformation and fact-checks on Twitter (2021), Information Processing & Management
  • Semantic Web technologies and bias in artificial intelligence: A systematic literature review (2022), Semantic Web
  • Bias in Data-driven AI Systems -- An Introductory Survey (2020), arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Pro-Environmental Campaigns via Social Media: Analysing Awareness and Behaviour Patterns (2020), Forschungszentrum L3S

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Harith Alani include Miriam Fernández, Grégoire Burel, T. Frey, Paula Reyero Lobo, and Enrico Daga.

The scientist has published across several venues, with multiple contributions to the Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, arXiv (Cornell University), Forschungszentrum L3S, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, and Information Processing & Management.

Harith Alani has also contributed to book publications, notably through Springer Science+Business Media with the title The Semantic Web - ISWC 2021 published in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Bias in data-driven artificial intelligence systems—An introductory survey

    Eirini Ntoutsi;Pavlos Fafalios;Ujwal Gadiraju;Vasileios Iosifidis

  • Automatic ontology-based knowledge extraction from Web documents

    H. Alani;Sanghee Kim;D.E. Millard;M.J. Weal

  • Semantic sentiment analysis of twitter

    Hassan Saif;Yulan He;Harith Alani

  • Data Driven Ontology Evaluation

    Christopher Brewster;Harith Alani;Srinandan Dasmahapatra;Yorick Wilks

  • Contextual semantics for sentiment analysis of Twitter

    Hassan Saif;Yulan He;Miriam Fernandez;Harith Alani

  • Ranking ontologies with AKTiveRank

    Harith Alani;Christopher Brewster;Nigel Shadbolt

  • The Semantic Web - ISWC 2011: 10th International Semantic Web Conference, Bonn, Germany, October 23-27, 2011, Proceedings, Part I

    Lora Aroyo;Chris Welty;Harith Alani;Jamie Taylor

  • Evaluation Datasets for Twitter Sentiment Analysis: A survey and a new dataset, the STS-Gold.

    Hassan Saif;Miriam Fernández;Yulan He;Harith Alani

  • On Stopwords, Filtering and Data Sparsity for Sentiment Analysis of Twitter

    Hassan Saif;Miriam Fernandez;Yulan He;Harith Alani

  • Alleviating Data Sparsity for Twitter Sentiment Analysis

    Hassan Saif;Yulan He;Harith Alani

  • Geographical Information Retrieval with Ontologies of Place

    Christopher B. Jones;Harith Alani;Douglas Tudhope

  • Exploring Misogyny across the Manosphere in Reddit

    Tracie Farrell;Miriam Fernandez;Jakub Novotny;Harith Alani

  • Ontology ranking based on the analysis of concept structures

    Harith Alani;Christopher Brewster

  • TGVizTab: An Ontology Visualisation Extension for Protégé

    Harith Alani

  • Automatically Extracting Polarity-Bearing Topics for Cross-Domain Sentiment Classification

    Yulan He;Chenghua Lin;Harith Alani

  • Exploiting synergy between ontologies and recommender systems

    Stuart E. Middleton;Harith Alani;Nigel R. Shadbolt;David C. De Roure

  • Identifying communities of practice through ontology network analysis

    H. Alani;S. Dasmahapatra;K. O'Hara;N. Shadbolt

  • Semantic Modelling of User Interests Based on Cross-Folksonomy Analysis

    Martin Szomszor;Harith Alani;Ivan Cantador;Kieron O'Hara

  • Folksonomies, the semantic web, and movie recommendation

    Martin Szomszor;Ciro Cattuto;Harith Alani;Kieron O’Hara

  • The Semantic Web - ISWC 2013

    Harith Alani;Lalana Kagal;Achille Fokoue;Paul Groth

  • Exploiting Synergy Between Ontologies and Recommender Systems

    Stuart E. Middleton;Harith Alani;David C. De Roure

Frequent Co-Authors

Nigel Shadbolt
Nigel Shadbolt University of Oxford
Yulan He
Yulan He King's College London
Ciro Cattuto
Ciro Cattuto University of Turin
Wendy Hall
Wendy Hall University of Southampton
Christopher B. Jones
Christopher B. Jones Cardiff University
Mark J. Weal
Mark J. Weal University of Southampton
Steffen Staab
Steffen Staab University of Stuttgart
Lora Aroyo
Lora Aroyo Google (United States)
Alain Barrat
Alain Barrat Centre de Physique Théorique
Gerd Stumme
Gerd Stumme University of Kassel

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