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Thomas Rist 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 Thomas Rist sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 103 publications — 9th percentile

9% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Thomas Rist 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 Thomas Rist sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 31 D-Index — 6th percentile

6% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Thomas Rist is affiliated with Augsburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany. Their research spans multiple disciplines, with contributions in social sciences, computer science, and arts and humanities. This interdisciplinary approach is reflected in both their main fields of study and their specific subfields.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Computer Science
  • Arts and Humanities

Their subfields of research encompass:

  • Geography, Planning and Development
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Signal Processing
  • Philosophy
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Thomas Rist investigates a variety of topics that include:

  • Geographic Information Systems Studies
  • Data Visualization and Analytics
  • Data Management and Algorithms
  • Rhetoric and Communication Studies
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Reformation and Early Modern Christianity

The scholar has published recent research such as:

  • Confirmation bias studies: towards a scientific theory in the humanities (2023), published in SN Social Sciences

They have a frequent collaboration with Masood Masoodian. Their work has appeared mainly in the venue SN Social Sciences.

In addition to journal articles, Thomas Rist has contributed to book publications, including:

  • The Catholicism of literature in the age of the Book of Common Prayer (2025), published by Winchester University Press

Best Publications

  • Plan-based integration of natural language and graphics generation

    Wolfgang Wahlster;Elisabeth André;Wolfgang Finkler;Hans-Jürgen Profitlich

  • The automated design of believable dialogues for animated presentation teams

    Elisabeth André;Thomas Rist;Susanne van Mulken;Martin Klesen

  • A standard reference model for intelligent multimedia presentation systems

    M. Bordegoni;G. Faconti;S. Feiner;M. T. Maybury

  • The design of illustrated documents as a planning task

    Elisabeth André;Thomas Rist

  • Presenting through performing: on the use of multiple lifelike characters in knowledge-based presentation systems

    E. André;T. Rist

  • Employing ai methods to control the behavior of animated interface agents

    Elisabeth André;Thomas Rist;Jochen Müller

  • On the simultaneous interpretation of real world image sequences and their natural language description: the system soccer

    Elisabeth André;Gerd Herzog;Thomas Rist

  • Adding animated presentation agents to the interface

    Thomas Rist;Elisabeth André;Jochen Müller

  • Integrating reactive and scripted behaviors in a life-like presentation agent

    Elisabeth André;Thomas Rist;Jochen Müller

  • Coping with temporal constraints in multimedia presentation planning

    Elisabeth André;Thomas Rist

  • WIP: the automatic synthesis of multimodal presentations

    Elisabeth André;Wolfgang Finkler;Winfried Graf;Thomas Rist

  • WebPersona: a lifelike presentation agent for the World-Wide Web

    Elisabeth André;Thomas Rist;Jochen Müller

  • Authoring scenes for adaptive, interactive performances

    Patrick Gebhard;Michael Kipp;Martin Klesen;Thomas Rist

  • WIP: The Coordinated Generation of Multimodal Presentations from a Common Representation

    Wolfgang Wahlster;Elisabeth André;Som Bandyopadhyay;Winfried Graf

  • Designing illustrated texts: how language production is influenced by graphics generation

    Wolfgang Wahlster;Elisabeth André;Winfried Graf;Thomas Rist

  • Customizing Graphics for Tiny Displays of Mobile Devices

    Thomas Rist;Patrick Brandmeier

  • Generating coherent presentations employing textual and visual material

    Elisabeth André;Thomas Rist

  • Three RoboCup Simulation League Commentator Systems

    Elisabeth Andrè;Kim Binsted;Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii;Sean Luke

  • The PPP persona: a multipurpose animated presentation agent

    Elisabeth André;Jochen Müller;Thomas Rist

  • Rocco: A RoboCup Soccer Commentator System

    Dirk Voelz;Elisabeth André;Gerd Herzog;Thomas Rist

Frequent Co-Authors

Elisabeth André
Elisabeth André University of Augsburg
Wolfgang Wahlster
Wolfgang Wahlster German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence
Bernhard Nebel
Bernhard Nebel University of Freiburg
Andreas Butz
Andreas Butz Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Sean Luke
Sean Luke George Mason University
Bonnie Webber
Bonnie Webber University of Edinburgh
Antonio Krüger
Antonio Krüger German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence
Barbara J. Grosz
Barbara J. Grosz Harvard University

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