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Virginia Dignum

Virginia Dignum

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
45
Citations
14021
World Ranking
7028
National Ranking
48

Virginia Dignum 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 Virginia Dignum sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 289 publications — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Virginia Dignum 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 Virginia Dignum sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Virginia Dignum is affiliated with Umeå University in Sweden and conducts research primarily in the fields of Computer Science and Social Sciences. Their scholarly work spans several subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science, Information Systems, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

Their research topics focus on areas such as Ethics and Social Impacts of AI, Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), COVID-19 epidemiological studies, Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations, Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education, COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing, and Complex Systems and Decision Making.

Selected recent publications by Virginia Dignum include:

  • "The role of artificial intelligence in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals" (2020, Nature Communications)
  • "A Research Agenda for Hybrid Intelligence: Augmenting Human Intellect With Collaborative, Adaptive, Responsible, and Explainable Artificial Intelligence" (2020, Computer)
  • "The role and challenges of education for responsible AI" (2021, London Review of Education)
  • "Towards ethical and socio-legal governance in AI" (2020, Nature Machine Intelligence)
  • "Accountability and Control Over Autonomous Weapon Systems: A Framework for Comprehensive Human Oversight" (2020, Minds and Machines)

Frequent coauthors of Virginia Dignum include Frank Dignum, Andreas Theodorou, Paul Lukowicz, Catholijn M. Jonker, and Fosca Giannotti.

Virginia Dignum has published extensively in various academic venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Minds and Machines
  • Nature
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Ethics and Information Technology

In addition to articles, Virginia Dignum has published a book titled Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence in 2023 under Springer Science+Business Media.

Best Publications

  • AI4People—An Ethical Framework for a Good AI Society: Opportunities, Risks, Principles, and Recommendations

    Luciano Floridi;Luciano Floridi;Josh Cowls;Josh Cowls;Monica Beltrametti;Raja Chatila

  • The role of artificial intelligence in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

    Ricardo Vinuesa;Hossein Azizpour;Iolanda Leite;Madeline Balaam

  • The General Data Protection Regulation: An Opportunity for the HCI Community?

    Eva Thelisson;Kshitij Sharma;Hanan Salam;Virginia Dignum

  • Ethics in artificial intelligence : introduction to the special issue

    Virginia Dignum

  • Responsible Artificial Intelligence: How to Develop and Use AI in a Responsible Way

    Virginia Dignum

  • A Research Agenda for Hybrid Intelligence: Augmenting Human Intellect With Collaborative, Adaptive, Responsible, and Explainable Artificial Intelligence

    Zeynep Akata;Dan Balliet;Maarten de Rijke;Frank Dignum

  • Role-assignment in open agent societies

    Mehdi Dastani;Virginia Dignum;Frank Dignum

  • Organizing Multiagent Systems

    Javier Vázquez-Salceda;Virginia Dignum;Frank Dignum

  • OMNI: introducing social structure, norms and ontologies into agent organizations

    Virginia Dignum;Javier Vázquez-Salceda;Frank Dignum

  • Towards Agent-Mediated Knowledge Management

    Ludger van Elst;Virginia Dignum;Andreas Abecker

  • Modelling Agent Societies: Co-ordination Frameworks and Institutions

    Virginia Dignum;Frank Dignum

  • The role and challenges of education for responsible AI

    Virginia Dignum

  • Designing a Deontic Logic of Deadlines

    Jan M. Broersen;Frank Dignum;Virginia Dignum;John-Jules Ch. Meyer

  • MAIA: a framework for developing agent-based social simulations

    Amineh Ghorbani;Pieter W. G. Bots;Virginia Dignum;Gerard P. J. Dijkema

  • Towards ethical and socio-legal governance in AI

    Andreas Theodorou;Virginia Dignum

  • An Organization-oriented Model for Agent Societies

    V. Dignum;J-J. Meyer;H. Weigand;F. Dignum

  • Handbook of Research on Multi-agent Systems: Semantics and Dynamics of Organizational Models

    Virginia. Virginia Dignum . Dignum

  • Formal Specification of Interaction in Agent Societies

    Virginia Dignum;John-Jules Ch. Meyer;Frank Dignum;Hans Weigand

  • Agent-Mediated Knowledge Management

    Ludger van Elst;Virginia Dignum;Andreas Abecker

  • Agent societies : Towards frameworks-based design

    Virginia Dignum;Hans Weigand;Lai Xu

  • Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Multi-Agent Systems

    Olivier Boissier;Julian Padget;Virginia Dignum;Gabriela Lindemann

  • Human-agent-robot teamwork

    J. M. Bradshaw;V. Dignum;C. Jonker;M. Sierhuis

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Dignum
Frank Dignum Umeå University
Catholijn M. Jonker
Catholijn M. Jonker Delft University of Technology
John-Jules Ch. Meyer
John-Jules Ch. Meyer Utrecht University
Stan Matwin
Stan Matwin Dalhousie University
Ciro Cattuto
Ciro Cattuto University of Turin
Raja Chatila
Raja Chatila Sorbonne University
Michael Winikoff
Michael Winikoff Victoria University of Wellington
Mehdi Dastani
Mehdi Dastani Utrecht University
Gennady Andrienko
Gennady Andrienko Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems
Frances M. T. Brazier
Frances M. T. Brazier Delft University of Technology

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