Anders Drachen

5.4k total citations
124 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Anders Drachen is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Artificial Intelligence and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Anders Drachen has authored 124 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 80 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 60 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 33 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Anders Drachen's work include Digital Games and Media (74 papers), Artificial Intelligence in Games (60 papers) and Educational Games and Gamification (31 papers). Anders Drachen is often cited by papers focused on Digital Games and Media (74 papers), Artificial Intelligence in Games (60 papers) and Educational Games and Gamification (31 papers). Anders Drachen collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, United Kingdom and Germany. Anders Drachen's co-authors include Alessandro Canossa, Rafet Sifa, Magy Seif El‐Nasr, Christian Bauckhage, Lennart E. Nacke, Georgios N. Yannakakis, Christian Thurau, Michael Hitchens, Tobias Mahlmann and Kristian Kersting and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Anders Drachen

118 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Anders Drachen Denmark 30 1.5k 1.1k 926 542 506 124 3.0k
Magy Seif El‐Nasr United States 26 884 0.6× 816 0.7× 733 0.8× 576 1.1× 157 0.3× 146 2.6k
Eric Zimmerman United States 8 1.6k 1.1× 499 0.4× 1.4k 1.5× 227 0.4× 126 0.2× 30 3.1k
Alessandro Canossa Denmark 19 687 0.4× 567 0.5× 481 0.5× 293 0.5× 193 0.4× 47 1.3k
Michael Mateas United States 36 2.2k 1.4× 3.1k 2.8× 1.1k 1.2× 1.2k 2.3× 122 0.2× 218 4.7k
Helene Hembrooke United States 19 863 0.6× 660 0.6× 334 0.4× 381 0.7× 218 0.4× 29 3.4k
Baltasar Fernández‐Manjón Spain 31 840 0.5× 640 0.6× 1.8k 2.0× 186 0.3× 46 0.1× 181 3.2k
Emiel Krahmer Netherlands 36 366 0.2× 3.0k 2.7× 1.1k 1.2× 459 0.8× 137 0.3× 359 5.8k
René F. Kizilcec United States 27 449 0.3× 783 0.7× 988 1.1× 95 0.2× 164 0.3× 92 4.3k
Daniel Burgos Spain 27 422 0.3× 493 0.4× 871 0.9× 149 0.3× 132 0.3× 205 3.6k
Jeff Huang United States 24 450 0.3× 495 0.4× 151 0.2× 441 0.8× 66 0.1× 92 2.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Anders Drachen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Anders Drachen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Anders Drachen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Anders Drachen based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Anders Drachen. Anders Drachen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wallner, Günter & Anders Drachen. (2024). Visualization of Player Movement Patterns with Line Integral Convolution and Alpha Shapes. University of Southern Denmark Research Portal (University of Southern Denmark). 1–10.
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Block, Florian, et al.. (2024). How Could They Win? An Exploration of Win Condition for Esports Narratives in Dota 2. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 8(CHI PLAY). 1–22.
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Block, Florian, et al.. (2024). From Passive Viewer to Active Fan: Towards the Design and Large-Scale Evaluation of Interactive Audience Experiences in Esports and Beyond. University of Southern Denmark Research Portal (University of Southern Denmark). 94–107. 2 indexed citations
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Gow, Jeremy, et al.. (2023). An Ecosystem Framework for the Meta in Esport Games. University of Southern Denmark Research Portal (University of Southern Denmark). 1(1). 2 indexed citations
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Drachen, Anders, et al.. (2023). Artificial Intelligence in MOBA Games: A Multivocal Literature Mapping. IEEE Transactions on Games. 16(2). 250–269. 6 indexed citations
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Canossa, Alessandro, et al.. (2018). Like a DNA string: Sequence-based player profiling in Tom Clancy’s the Division. University of Southern Denmark Research Portal (University of Southern Denmark). 152–157. 8 indexed citations
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Stafford, Tom, Sam Devlin, Rafet Sifa, & Anders Drachen. (2017). Exploration and Skill Acquisition in a Major Online Game. Cognitive Science. 9 indexed citations
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Spronck, Pieter, et al.. (2017). Predicting Victory in a Hybrid Online Competitive Game: The Case of Destiny. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment. 13(1). 207–213. 4 indexed citations
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Runge, Julian, et al.. (2016). Play With Me? Understanding and Measuring the Social Aspect of Casual Gaming. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment. 12(2). 115–121. 10 indexed citations
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Sifa, Rafet, Anders Drachen, & Christian Bauckhage. (2015). Large-Scale Cross-Game Player Behavior Analysis on Steam. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment. 11(1). 198–204. 32 indexed citations
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Sifa, Rafet, Fabian Hadiji, Julian Runge, et al.. (2015). Predicting Purchase Decisions in Mobile Free-to-Play Games. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment. 11(1). 79–85. 53 indexed citations
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Hadiji, Fabian, Rafet Sifa, Anders Drachen, et al.. (2014). Predicting player churn in the wild. University of Southern Denmark Research Portal (University of Southern Denmark). 1–8. 106 indexed citations
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Drachen, Anders & Matthias Schubert. (2013). Spatial game analytics and visualization. 1–8. 17 indexed citations
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Nacke, Lennart E., Anders Drachen, & Stefan Göbel. (2010). Methods for Evaluating Gameplay Experience in a Serious Gaming Context.. 9(2). 89 indexed citations
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Canossa, Alessandro & Anders Drachen. (2009). Patterns of Play: Play-Personas in User-Centred Game Development. 27 indexed citations
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Drachen, Anders, et al.. (2009). Role-Playing Games: The State of Knowledge [Panel Abstracts]. 5. 1 indexed citations
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Drachen, Anders, Michael Hitchens, Arnav Jhala, & Georgios N. Yannakakis. (2009). Towards Data-Driven Drama Management: Issues in Data Collection and Annotation. 1 indexed citations
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Drachen, Anders, Michael Hitchens, Ruth Aylett, & Sandy Louchart. (2009). Modeling the story facilitation of Game Masters in multi-player Role-Playing Games. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 24–31. 1 indexed citations
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Drachen, Anders, et al.. (2009). Role-playing games: the state of knowledge. IT University Of Copenhagen (IT University of Copenhagen). 1–5. 6 indexed citations
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Dras, Mark, et al.. (2005). An Overview of Training Simulation Research and Systems. Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agents Systems. 3–10. 9 indexed citations

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