2026 Niklas Elmqvist: 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	55	4386	4263	2045	1973	224	9751

Research.com Recognitions

2018 - ACM Distinguished Member
2013 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Niklas Elmqvist is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research domain predominantly spans computer science, with a focus on various subfields and topics in data visualization and analytics.

The main fields of study for Elmqvist include:

Computer Science

Within this broad field, their subfields of study cover:

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Human-Computer Interaction
Information Systems and Management
Sociology and Political Science

Elmqvist has contributed extensively to key topics such as:

Data Visualization and Analytics
Data Analysis with R
Video Analysis and Summarization
Scientific Computing and Data Management
Multimedia Communication and Technology
Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
Statistics Education and Methodologies

They have authored numerous papers in notable publication venues. Frequent venues where Elmqvist's work has appeared include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Information Visualization
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
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Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Elmqvist include:

ReLive: Bridging In-Situ and Ex-Situ Visual Analytics for Analyzing Mixed Reality User Studies (2022), published at CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Towards Understanding Sensory Substitution for Accessible Visualization: An Interview Study (2021), published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
The Reality of the Situation: A Survey of Situated Analytics (2023), published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Roslingifier: Semi-Automated Storytelling for Animated Scatterplots (2022), published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
StoryFacets: A design study on storytelling with visualizations for collaborative data analysis (2021), published in Information Visualization

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Elmqvist include:

Sungbok Shin
Peter Butcher
Panagiotis D. Ritsos
Andrea Batch
Pramod Chundury

Elmqvist has been recognized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), holding distinctions such as ACM Distinguished Member (2018) and ACM Senior Member (2013).

Best Publications

Rolling the Dice: Multidimensional Visual Exploration using Scatterplot Matrix Navigation

N. Elmqvist;P. Dragicevic;J.-D. Fekete

582
Citations
Hierarchical Aggregation for Information Visualization: Overview, Techniques, and Design Guidelines

N. Elmqvist;J.-D. Fekete

531
Citations
Collaborative visualization: definition, challenges, and research agenda

Petra Isenberg;Niklas Elmqvist;Jean Scholtz;Daniel Cernea

370
Citations
Graphical Perception of Multiple Time Series

W Javed;B McDonnel;N Elmqvist

364
Citations
Fluid interaction for information visualization

Niklas Elmqvist;Andrew Vande Moere;Hans-Christian Jetter;Daniel Cernea

329
Citations
Exploring the design space of composite visualization

Waqas Javed;Niklas Elmqvist

276
Citations
A Taxonomy of 3D Occlusion Management for Visualization

N. Elmqvist;P. Tsigas

259
Citations
ZAME: Interactive Large-Scale Graph Visualization

N. Elmqvist;Thanh-Nghi Do;H. Goodell;N. Henry

250
Citations
Graphdice: a system for exploring multivariate social networks

A. Bezerianos;F. Chevalier;P. Dragicevic;N. Elmqvist

215
Citations
Visualization beyond the Desktop--the Next Big Thing

Jonathan C. Roberts;Panagiotis D. Ritsos;Sriram Karthik Badam;Dominique Brodbeck

174
Citations
Patterns for visualization evaluation

Niklas Elmqvist;Ji Soo Yi

150
Citations
TimeMatrix: Analyzing Temporal Social Networks Using Interactive Matrix-Based Visualizations

Ji Soo Yi;Niklas Elmqvist;Seungyoon Lee

149
Citations
Visualizing for the Non-Visual: Enabling the Visually Impaired to Use Visualization

Jinho Choi;Sanghun Jung;Deok Gun Park;Jaegul Choo

131
Citations
Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction, 6th Edition

Ben Shneiderman;Catherine Plaisant;Maxine S. Cohen;Steven Jacobs

125
Citations
ReLive: Bridging In-Situ and Ex-Situ Visual Analytics for Analyzing Mixed Reality User Studies

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124
Citations
Supporting Comment Moderators in Identifying High Quality Online News Comments

Deokgun Park;Simranjit Sachar;Nicholas Diakopoulos;Niklas Elmqvist

122
Citations
Toward Visualization for Games: Theory, Design Space, and Patterns

B. Bowman;N. Elmqvist;T. J. Jankun-Kelly

118
Citations
The human touch: How non-expert users perceive, interpret, and fix topic models

Tak Yeon Lee;Alison Smith;Kevin D. Seppi;Niklas Elmqvist

117
Citations
PolyChrome: A Cross-Device Framework for Collaborative Web Visualization

Sriram Karthik Badam;Niklas Elmqvist

116
Citations
Distributed User Interfaces: State of the Art

Niklas Elmqvist

114
Citations
20 Years of Four HCI Conferences: A Visual Exploration

Nathalie Henry;Howard Goodell;Niklas Elmqvist;Jean-Daniel Fekete

108
Citations
DataMeadow: A Visual Canvas for Analysis of Large-Scale Multivariate Data

N. Elmqvist;J. Stasko;P. Tsigas

19
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Daniel Fekete French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA

Philippas Tsigas Chalmers University of Technology

Karthik Ramani Purdue University West Lafayette

David S. Ebert University of Oklahoma

Ross Maciejewski Arizona State University

Fanny Chevalier University of Toronto

Pierre Dragicevic French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA

Pourang Irani University of Manitoba

Nicholas Diakopoulos Northwestern University

Catherine Plaisant University of Maryland, College Park

External Links

Personal website of Niklas Elmqvist Google Scholar page

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