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84
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32841
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841
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457

Jeffrey Heer 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 Jeffrey Heer sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 198 publications — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jeffrey Heer 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 Jeffrey Heer sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 84 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% 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

  • 2016 - ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award For developing visualization languages that have fundamentally changed the way people build and interact with charts and graphs across the Web.
  • 2012 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Jeffrey Heer is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States and specializes in computer science with a focus on data visualization and analytics. Their scholarly work spans several subfields including computer vision and pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, information systems and management, and computer science applications.

Their research topics include:

  • Data Visualization and Analytics
  • Data Analysis with R
  • Scientific Computing and Data Management
  • Video Analysis and Summarization
  • Software Engineering Research
  • Topic Modeling
  • Statistics Education and Methodologies

They have published scholarly work in various venues with a notable concentration in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University) - 20 publications
  • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics - 10 publications
  • CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - 2 publications
  • ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction - 2 publications
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes - 1 publication

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Jeffrey Heer include:

  • Same data, different conclusions: Radical dispersion in empirical results when independent analysts operationalize and test the same hypothesis, 2021, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
  • Boba: Authoring and Visualizing Multiverse Analyses, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
  • Gemini: A Grammar and Recommender System for Animated Transitions in Statistical Graphics, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
  • Communicating with Interactive Articles, 2020, Distill
  • Urban Accessibility as a Socio-Political Problem, 2021, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Tim Althoff
  • Alex Kale
  • Yang Liu
  • Eunice Jun
  • René Just

Jeffrey Heer has received recognitions such as the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award in 2016 for work on visualization languages that influence web-based interaction with charts and graphs. They were also named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2012.

Best Publications

  • D³ Data-Driven Documents

    M. Bostock;V. Ogievetsky;J. Heer

  • Narrative Visualization: Telling Stories with Data

    E Segel;J Heer

  • prefuse: a toolkit for interactive information visualization

    Jeffrey Heer;Stuart K. Card;James A. Landay

  • Crowdsourcing graphical perception: using mechanical turk to assess visualization design

    Jeffrey Heer;Michael Bostock

  • Vizster: visualizing online social networks

    J. Heer;D. Boyd

  • Vega-Lite: A Grammar of Interactive Graphics

    Arvind Satyanarayan;Dominik Moritz;Kanit Wongsuphasawat;Jeffrey Heer

  • Wrangler: interactive visual specification of data transformation scripts

    Sean Kandel;Andreas Paepcke;Joseph Hellerstein;Jeffrey Heer

  • Interactive dynamics for visual analysis

    Jeffrey Heer;Ben Shneiderman

  • A tour through the visualization zoo

    Jeffrey Heer;Michael Bostock;Vadim Ogievetsky

  • Animated Transitions in Statistical Data Graphics

    J. Heer;G.G. Robertson

  • Voyager: Exploratory Analysis via Faceted Browsing of Visualization Recommendations

    Kanit Wongsuphasawat;Dominik Moritz;Anushka Anand;Jock Mackinlay

  • Termite: visualization techniques for assessing textual topic models

    Jason Chuang;Christopher D. Manning;Jeffrey Heer

  • Enterprise Data Analysis and Visualization: An Interview Study

    S. Kandel;A. Paepcke;J. M. Hellerstein;J. Heer

  • Protovis: A Graphical Toolkit for Visualization

    M. Bostock;J. Heer

  • Profiles as Conversation: Networked Identity Performance on Friendster

    D. Boyd;J. Heer

  • imMens : real-time visual querying of big data

    Zhicheng Liu;Biye Jiang;Jeffrey Heer

  • Graphical Histories for Visualization: Supporting Analysis, Communication, and Evaluation

    J. Heer;J. Mackinlay;C. Stolte;M. Agrawala

  • The Effects of Interactive Latency on Exploratory Visual Analysis

    Zhicheng Liu;Jeffrey Heer

  • Sizing the horizon: the effects of chart size and layering on the graphical perception of time series visualizations

    Jeffrey Heer;Nicholas Kong;Maneesh Agrawala

  • Research directions in data wrangling: visuatizations and transformations for usable and credible data

    Sean Kandel;Jeffrey Heer;Catherine Plaisant;Jessie Kennedy

Frequent Co-Authors

Maneesh Agrawala
Maneesh Agrawala Stanford University
Christopher D. Manning
Christopher D. Manning Stanford University
Joseph M. Hellerstein
Joseph M. Hellerstein University of California, Berkeley
Bill Howe
Bill Howe University of Washington
Martin Wattenberg
Martin Wattenberg Harvard University
Fernanda B. Viégas
Fernanda B. Viégas Harvard University
Ed H. Chi
Ed H. Chi Google (United States)
Jock D. Mackinlay
Jock D. Mackinlay Tableau Software (United States)
Stuart K. Card
Stuart K. Card Stanford University
Andreas Paepcke
Andreas Paepcke Stanford University

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