2026 Sara Irina Fabrikant: 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	35	11667	11333	198	197	141	5494

Overview

Sara Irina Fabrikant is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland and has conducted extensive research within the field of Computer Science, focusing on subfields including Automotive Engineering, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Geography, Planning and Development, Human-Computer Interaction, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The scientist's research spans several main topics which incorporate:

Spatial Cognition and Navigation
Geographic Information Systems Studies
Data Visualization and Analytics
Gaze Tracking and Assistive Technology
Child and Animal Learning Development
Augmented Reality Applications
Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis

Frequent coauthors collaborating with the scientist include Christopher Hilton, Sara Lanini-Maggi, Armand Kapaj, Bingjie Cheng, and Ian T. Ruginski.

Publications from this researcher commonly appear in several established venues:

Cartography and Geographic Information Science
Abstracts of the ICA
Journal of Location Based Services
Frontiers in Communication
UC Santa Barbara

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by the scientist include:

"Digital health and the COVID-19 epidemic: an assessment framework for apps from an epidemiological and legal perspective" (2020), published in Swiss Medical Weekly
"Adapting mobile map application designs to map use context: a review and call for action on potential future research themes" (2022), published in Cartography and Geographic Information Science
"The effect of landmark visualization in mobile maps on brain activity during navigation: A virtual reality study" (2022), published in Frontiers in Virtual Reality
"Effects of Uncertainty Visualization on Map-Based Decision Making Under Time Pressure" (2020), published in Frontiers in Computer Science
"Toward flexible visual analytics augmented through smooth display transitions" (2021), published in Visual Informatics

Best Publications

Space, time and visual analytics

Gennady Andrienko;Natalia Andrienko;Urska Demsar;Doris Dransch

600
Citations
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Interactive Map Interface Designs: A Case Study Integrating Usability Metrics with Eye-Movement Analysis

Arzu Coltekin;Benedikt Heil;Simone Garlandini;Sara Irina Fabrikant

291
Citations
Spatialization Methods: A Cartographic Research Agenda for Non-geographic Information Visualization

André Skupin;Sara Irina Fabrikant

285
Citations
Thinking about the weather: How display salience and knowledge affect performance in a graphic inference task.

Mary Hegarty;Matt S. Canham;Sara I. Fabrikant

265
Citations
Evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of visual variables for geographic information visualization

Simone Garlandini;Sara Irina Fabrikant

243
Citations
Geovisualization of dynamics, movement and change: key issues and developing approaches in visualization research

Gennady Andrienko;Natalia Andrienko;Jason Dykes;Sara Irina Fabrikant

217
Citations
Formalizing Semantic Spaces For Information Access

Sara Irina Fabrikant;Barbara P. Buttenfield

212
Citations
Exploring the efficiency of users' visual analytics strategies based on sequence analysis of eye movement recordings

A. Coltekin;S. I. Fabrikant;Martin Lacayo

196
Citations
Cognitively Inspired and Perceptually Salient Graphic Displays for Efficient Spatial Inference Making

Sara Irina Fabrikant;Stacy Rebich Hespanha;Mary Hegarty

190
Citations
The Role of Map Animation for Geographic Visualization

Mark Harrower;Sara Fabrikant

170
Citations
Novel Method to Measure Inference Affordance in Static Small-Multiple Map Displays Representing Dynamic Processes

Sara Irina Fabrikant;Stacy Rebich-Hespanha;Natalia Andrienko;Gennady Andrienko

160
Citations
Testing the First Law of Cognitive Geography on Point-Display Spatializations

Daniel R. Montello;Sara Irina Fabrikant;Marco Ruocco;Richard S. Middleton

132
Citations
THEMATIC RELEVANCE AND PERCEPTUAL SALIENCE OF DYNAMIC GEOVISUALIZATION DISPLAYS

Sara Irina Fabrikant;Kirk Goldsberry

108
Citations
Bundled Visualization of DynamicGraph and Trail Data

Christophe Hurter;Ozan Ersoy;Sara Irina Fabrikant;Tijmen R. Klein

106
Citations
Introduction: Cognitive Issues in Geographic Information Visualization

Sara Irina Fabrikant;Amy Lobben

102
Citations
Cognitively Plausible Information Visualization

Sara Irina Fabrikant;André Skupin

99
Citations
Spatialized Browsing in Large Data Archives

Sara Irina Fabrikant

92
Citations
Making Useful and Useable Geovisualization: Design and Evaluation Issues.

Sven Fuhrmann;Paula Ahonen-Rainio;Robert M. Edsall;Sara I. Fabrikant

83
Citations
How does navigation system behavior influence human behavior

Annina Brügger;Kai-Florian Richter;Sara Irina Fabrikant

82
Citations
The Distance–Similarity Metaphor in Network-Display Spatializations

Sara Irina Fabrikant;Daniel R. Montello;Marco Ruocco;Richard S. Middleton

77
Citations
Digital health and the COVID-19 epidemic: an assessment framework for apps from an epidemiological and legal perspective.

Kerstin Noelle Vokinger;Vasileios Nittas;Claudia M Witt;Sara Irina Fabrikant

68
Citations
Space and time

G. Andrienko;N. Andrienko;H. Schumann;C. Tominski

3
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel R. Montello University of California, Santa Barbara

Gennady Andrienko Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems

Natalia Andrienko Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems

Michael Hässig University of Zurich

Kay W. Axhausen ETH Zurich

Jason Dykes City, University of London

Stephen G. Kobourov University of Arizona

Mary Hegarty University of California, Santa Barbara

Daniel Erni University of Duisburg-Essen

Menno-Jan Kraak University of Twente

External Links

Personal website of Sara Irina Fabrikant

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