Benjamin B. Bederson

18.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
242 papers, 11.8k citations indexed

About

Benjamin B. Bederson is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Human-Computer Interaction and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin B. Bederson has authored 242 papers receiving a total of 11.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 54 papers in Human-Computer Interaction and 48 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Benjamin B. Bederson's work include Data Visualization and Analytics (40 papers), Interactive and Immersive Displays (32 papers) and Atomic and Molecular Physics (31 papers). Benjamin B. Bederson is often cited by papers focused on Data Visualization and Analytics (40 papers), Interactive and Immersive Displays (32 papers) and Atomic and Molecular Physics (31 papers). Benjamin B. Bederson collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Benjamin B. Bederson's co-authors include Allison Druin, Alexander J. Quinn, James D. Hollan, Catherine Plaisant, Amy Karlson, Ben Shneiderman, Jason Stewart, Thomas M. Miller, Andy Cockburn and Jon Meyer and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, The Journal of Chemical Physics and Reviews of Modern Physics.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin B. Bederson

235 papers receiving 10.8k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Technology probes

2003 978 citations Benjamin B. Bederson, Allison Druin et al. profile →
Advances in atomic and molecular physics

1965 916 citations Benjamin B. Bederson et al. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) profile →
Human computation

2011 511 citations Benjamin B. Bederson et al. profile →
A review of overview+detail, zooming, and focus+context interfaces

2009 416 citations Amy Karlson, Benjamin B. Bederson et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Benjamin B. Bederson	3.9k	3.7k	2.2k	1.5k	1.4k	242	11.8k
Max Mühlhäuser	1.2k 0.3×	1.5k 0.4×	373 0.2×	1.4k 0.9×	1.3k 1.0×	583	6.3k
Kentaro Toyama	5.6k 1.4×	1.3k 0.4×	94 0.0×	2.4k 1.6×	618 0.5×	176	10.1k
David Theo Goldberg	1.2k 0.3×	552 0.2×	127 0.1×	2.2k 1.5×	1.3k 1.0×	148	9.5k
Jeffrey Heer	9.6k 2.5×	1.3k 0.3×	76 0.0×	1.9k 1.3×	4.4k 3.3×	177	15.5k
Pushmeet Kohli	8.0k 2.0×	1.2k 0.3×	259 0.1×	440 0.3×	3.4k 2.5×	201	15.9k
Paul Resnick	1.7k 0.4×	681 0.2×	128 0.1×	6.4k 4.4×	3.9k 2.9×	159	13.9k
Bernardo A. Huberman	769 0.2×	165 0.0×	695 0.3×	2.3k 1.5×	3.4k 2.5×	215	17.4k
Terry Winograd	3.3k 0.9×	3.6k 1.0×	38 0.0×	5.7k 3.9×	8.3k 6.1×	161	21.9k
Richard Howard	4.5k 1.2×	292 0.1×	1.6k 0.7×	403 0.3×	4.1k 3.0×	173	15.6k
Joshua B. Tenenbaum	9.2k 2.3×	404 0.1×	245 0.1×	875 0.6×	13.9k 10.2×	413	34.1k

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Elmqvist, Niklas, et al.. (2017). Raising the Bars: Evaluating Treemaps vs. Wrapped Bars for Dense Visualization of Sorted Numeric Data. Graphics Interface. 41–49. 4 indexed citations

Hu, Chang, et al.. (2011). The Value of Monolingual Crowdsourcing in a Real-World Translation Scenario: Simulation using Haitian Creole Emergency SMS Messages. Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation. 399–404. 13 indexed citations

Dearman, David, Amy Karlson, Brian Meyers, & Benjamin B. Bederson. (2010). Multi-modal text entry and selection on a mobile device. Graphics Interface. 19–26. 13 indexed citations

Resnik, Philip, et al.. (2010). Improving Translation via Targeted Paraphrasing. Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 127–137. 26 indexed citations

Karlson, Amy, et al.. (2006). Target size study for one-handed thumb use on small touchscreen devices. 203–210. 216 indexed citations

Herrnson, Paul S., Richard G. Niemi, Michael J. Hanmer, et al.. (2006). The importance of usability testing of voting systems. 3–3. 13 indexed citations

Lee, Bongshin, et al.. (2006). TreePlus: Interactive Exploration of Networks with Enhanced Tree Layouts. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 12(6). 1414–1426. 87 indexed citations

Lee, Bongshin, Mary Czerwinski, George Robertson, & Benjamin B. Bederson. (2004). Understanding Eight Years of InfoVis Conferences Using PaperLens. 216. 15 indexed citations

Bederson, Benjamin B., et al.. (2004). For a Fair Election, Ensure Usability. Communications of the ACM. 47(12). 11. 1 indexed citations

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Parr, Cynthia, et al.. (2004). Visualizations for taxonomic and phylogenetic trees. Bioinformatics. 20(17). 2997–3004. 21 indexed citations

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Bederson, Benjamin B. & Ben Shneiderman. (2003). The Craft of Information Visualization: Readings and Reflections. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc. eBooks. 124 indexed citations

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Druin, Allison, Glenda Revelle, Benjamin B. Bederson, et al.. (2003). A Collaborative Digital Library for Children: A Descriptive Study of Children's Collaborative Behavior and Dialogue. Diabetes. 41(6). 685–90. 13 indexed citations

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Hightower, Ron R., Laura Ring, Jonathan I. Helfman, Benjamin B. Bederson, & James D. Hollan. (1998). PadPrints. 121–122. 18 indexed citations

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Bederson, Benjamin B. & Allison Druin. (1995). Computer-augmented environments: new places to learn, work, and play. Ablex Publishing Corp. eBooks. 37–65. 8 indexed citations

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Bederson, Benjamin B. & James D. Hollan. (1995). Advances in the Pad++ zoomable graphics widget. Critical Care Medicine. 46(5). 4–4. 4 indexed citations

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Bederson, Benjamin B., et al.. (1969). Atomic physics : proceedings of the First International Conference on Atomic Physics, June 3-7, 1968, New York City. Plenum Press eBooks. 3 indexed citations

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Bederson, Benjamin B., W. L. Fite, & L. Marton. (1968). Atomic and electronic physics. Atomic interactions. Academic Press eBooks. 3 indexed citations

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Bederson, Benjamin B., et al.. (1965). Low-Energy Electron Scattering by Atomic Oxygen. 130.

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Bederson, Benjamin B., et al.. (1965). Advances in atomic and molecular physics. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 916 indexed citations breakdown →

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Perel, Julius, et al.. (1962). Measurement of Total Cross Sections for the Scattering of Low-Energy Electrons by Lithium, Sodium, and Potassium. Physical Review. 128(3). 1148–1154. 60 indexed citations

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