Andreas Niekler

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 616 citations indexed

About

Andreas Niekler is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, General Social Sciences and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Andreas Niekler has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 616 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 6 papers in General Social Sciences and 3 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Andreas Niekler's work include Computational and Text Analysis Methods (6 papers), Topic Modeling (6 papers) and Advanced Text Analysis Techniques (6 papers). Andreas Niekler is often cited by papers focused on Computational and Text Analysis Methods (6 papers), Topic Modeling (6 papers) and Advanced Text Analysis Techniques (6 papers). Andreas Niekler collaborates with scholars based in Germany and Switzerland. Andreas Niekler's co-authors include Gregor Wiedemann, Daniel Maier, Gerhard Heyer, Thomas Häußler, Hannah Schmid-Petri, Annie Waldherr, Peter Miltner, Barbara Pfetsch, Ueli Reber and Silke Adam and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Language Resources and Evaluation and Evaluation.

In The Last Decade

Andreas Niekler

14 papers receiving 579 citations

Hit Papers

Applying LDA Topic Modeling in Communication Research: To... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 100 200 300 400 500
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Applying LDA Topic Modeling in Communication Research: Toward a Valid and Reliable Methodology
    2018 531 citations Daniel Maier, Annie Waldherr et al. Communication Methods and Measures profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Andreas Niekler Germany 6 257 236 205 180 38 18 616
Peter Miltner Germany 6 247 1.0× 257 1.1× 167 0.8× 206 1.1× 40 1.1× 10 616
Daniel Maier Germany 8 266 1.0× 279 1.2× 193 0.9× 226 1.3× 47 1.2× 21 690
Gregor Wiedemann Germany 10 292 1.1× 299 1.3× 245 1.2× 226 1.3× 49 1.3× 25 814
Thomas Häußler Switzerland 8 249 1.0× 351 1.5× 162 0.8× 280 1.6× 31 0.8× 16 698
Hannah Schmid-Petri Germany 10 253 1.0× 428 1.8× 158 0.8× 314 1.7× 36 0.9× 24 790
Annie Waldherr Germany 12 290 1.1× 350 1.5× 203 1.0× 302 1.7× 53 1.4× 36 854
Olessia Koltsova Russia 13 127 0.5× 249 1.1× 347 1.7× 176 1.0× 98 2.6× 46 798
Maël Kubli Switzerland 7 85 0.3× 190 0.8× 272 1.3× 163 0.9× 58 1.5× 11 669
Ryan Wesslen United States 10 43 0.2× 108 0.5× 126 0.6× 45 0.3× 35 0.9× 22 409
Carsten Schwemmer Germany 11 34 0.1× 315 1.3× 76 0.4× 144 0.8× 23 0.6× 21 549

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All Works

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Niekler, Andreas, et al.. (2023). An Evaluation of a Zero-Shot Approach to Aspect-Based Sentiment Classification in Historic German Stock Market Reports. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 37. 51–60.
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Niekler, Andreas, et al.. (2022). Revisiting Uncertainty-based Query Strategies for Active Learning with Transformers. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022. 2194–2203. 23 indexed citations
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Niekler, Andreas, et al.. (2022). Conceptual Forays: A Corpus-based Study of “Theory” in Digital Humanities Journals. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7(4).
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Potthast, Martin, Sebastian Günther, Janek Bevendorff, et al.. (2021). The Information Retrieval Anthology. 2550–2555. 6 indexed citations
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Niekler, Andreas, et al.. (2020). Language Model CNN-driven Similarity Matching and Classification for HTML-embedded Product Data.. elib (German Aerospace Center). 2 indexed citations
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Maier, Daniel, et al.. (2020). How Document Sampling and Vocabulary Pruning Affect the Results of Topic Models. HOPE (Hauptbibliothek Open Publishing Environment) (University of Zurich). 2(2). 139–152. 20 indexed citations
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Maier, Daniel, Annie Waldherr, Peter Miltner, et al.. (2018). Applying LDA Topic Modeling in Communication Research: Toward a Valid and Reliable Methodology. Communication Methods and Measures. 12(2-3). 93–118. 531 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wiedemann, Gregor & Andreas Niekler. (2017). Hands-On: A Five Day Text Mining Course for Humanists and Social Scientists in R.. 57–65. 9 indexed citations
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Niekler, Andreas, et al.. (2015). Content Analysis between Quality and Quantity. Datenbank-Spektrum. 15(1). 7–14. 5 indexed citations
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Haenig, Christian, et al.. (2014). PACE Corpus: a multilingual corpus of Polarity-annotated textual data from the domains Automotive and CEllphone. Language Resources and Evaluation. 2219–2224. 1 indexed citations
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Niekler, Andreas, Gregor Wiedemann, & Gerhard Heyer. (2014). Leipzig Corpus Miner - A Text Mining Infrastructure for Qualitative Data Analysis. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 1 indexed citations
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Wiedemann, Gregor, Matthias Lemke, & Andreas Niekler. (2013). Postdemokratie und Neoliberalismus: zur Nutzung neoliberaler Argumentationen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1949-2011; ein Werkstattbericht. Social Science Open Access Repository (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences). 4(1). 99–115. 5 indexed citations
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Rohrdantz, Christian, Andreas Niekler, Annette Hautli-Janisz, Miriam Butt, & Daniel A. Keim. (2012). Lexical Semantics and Distribution of Suffixes - A Visual Analysis. KOPS (University of Konstanz). 7–15. 7 indexed citations

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