Birger Hjørland

7.0k total citations
135 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Birger Hjørland is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Birger Hjørland has authored 135 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 34 papers in Information Systems and 14 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Birger Hjørland's work include Semantic Web and Ontologies (34 papers), Advanced Text Analysis Techniques (17 papers) and Information Retrieval and Search Behavior (17 papers). Birger Hjørland is often cited by papers focused on Semantic Web and Ontologies (34 papers), Advanced Text Analysis Techniques (17 papers) and Information Retrieval and Search Behavior (17 papers). Birger Hjørland collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, Mongolia and Pakistan. Birger Hjørland's co-authors include Hanne Albrechtsen, Rafael Capurro, Jeppe Nicolaisen, Jack Andersen, Jenna Hartel, Claudio Gnoli, Hans‐Jørgen Albrechtsen, Eric R. Scerri, Jonathan Furner and Casper Hvenegaard Rasmussen and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Information Processing & Management and Journal of Documentation.

In The Last Decade

Birger Hjørland

123 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Birger Hjørland Denmark 34 1.5k 1.1k 816 517 455 135 4.2k
Marcia J. Bates United States 30 2.5k 1.7× 1.3k 1.2× 592 0.7× 487 0.9× 712 1.6× 80 4.6k
Pertti Vakkari Finland 29 2.0k 1.4× 685 0.6× 388 0.5× 601 1.2× 600 1.3× 105 3.3k
Peter Ingwersen Denmark 32 3.3k 2.3× 1.4k 1.3× 406 0.5× 569 1.1× 672 1.5× 131 5.2k
Howard D. White United States 24 1.3k 0.9× 782 0.7× 470 0.6× 278 0.5× 274 0.6× 73 4.3k
Judit Bar‐Ilan Israel 39 2.3k 1.6× 619 0.6× 765 0.9× 691 1.3× 475 1.0× 166 5.5k
Michael K. Buckland United States 22 1.1k 0.8× 673 0.6× 456 0.6× 345 0.7× 254 0.6× 136 3.0k
Katherine W. McCain United States 22 1.0k 0.7× 513 0.5× 416 0.5× 214 0.4× 328 0.7× 53 3.7k
Blaise Cronin United States 39 1.9k 1.3× 592 0.5× 1.0k 1.3× 623 1.2× 804 1.8× 230 7.3k
John S. Edwards United Kingdom 34 702 0.5× 1.1k 1.0× 835 1.0× 546 1.1× 481 1.1× 169 5.7k
Charles Oppenheim United Kingdom 38 1.7k 1.2× 333 0.3× 610 0.7× 354 0.7× 874 1.9× 266 5.1k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Birger Hjørland

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hjørland, Birger. (2024). Bibliography (Field of Study). KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION. 51(8). 700–711. 3 indexed citations
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Hjørland, Birger. (2023). Hvad er almen psykologi?. Psyke & Logos. 3(2). 1 indexed citations
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Hjørland, Birger. (2022). TRÆK AF DANSK PSYKOLOGIS HISTORIE. Psyke & Logos. 21(1).
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Hjørland, Birger. (2021). Information Retrieval and Knowledge Organization: A Perspective from the Philosophy of Science. Information. 12(3). 135–135. 17 indexed citations
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Hjørland, Birger. (2018). Library and Information Science (LIS), Part 1. KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION. 45(3). 232–254. 24 indexed citations
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Hjørland, Birger. (2014). Classical databases and knowledge organization: A case for boolean retrieval and human decision‐making during searches. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 66(8). 1559–1575. 34 indexed citations
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Hjørland, Birger. (2013). Theories of knowledge organization — theories of knowledge:Keynote March 19, 2013. 13th Meeting of the German ISKO in Potsdam. Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen). 1 indexed citations
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Hjørland, Birger & Jeppe Nicolaisen. (2010). The social psychology of information use: seeking "friends", avoiding "enemies".. Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen). 15. 3 indexed citations
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Hjørland, Birger. (2008). Book review of: Rachel Cooper. Classifying Madness: A Philosophical Examination of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Berlin: Springer, 2005.. KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION. 7 indexed citations
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Hjørland, Birger. (2007). Semantic and Knowledge Organization.. 367–405. 5 indexed citations
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Hjørland, Birger. (2007). Arguments for 'the bibliographical paradigm' : some thoughts inspired by the new English edition of the UDC. UA Campus Repository (The University of Arizona). 8 indexed citations
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Hjørland, Birger & Jeppe Nicolaisen. (2004). Scientific and Scholarly Classifications are not "Naïve": a Comment to Begthol (2003). Knowledge Organization, 31(1), 55-61.. KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION. 3 indexed citations
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Hjørland, Birger. (2004). Arguments for Philosophical Realism in Library and Information Science. Library trends. 52(3). 488–506. 57 indexed citations
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Hjørland, Birger & Jenna Hartel. (2003). Introduction to the Special Issue of Knowledge Organization. KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION. 30. 4 indexed citations
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Hartel, Jenna & Birger Hjørland. (2003). Afterword: Ontological, Epistemological and Sociological Dimensions of Domains. KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION. 30. 26 indexed citations
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Hjørland, Birger. (2001). アバウトネス,主題,トピック,テーマ,領域,分野,コンテンツ等及び関連性に関する理論. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 52(9). 774–778. 14 indexed citations
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Hjørland, Birger. (2000). Information seeking behaviour: what should a general theory look like?. 1. 19–33. 12 indexed citations
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Hjørland, Birger & Hans‐Jørgen Albrechtsen. (1999). An analysis of some trends in classification research. Technical University of Denmark, DTU Orbit (Technical University of Denmark, DTU). 22 indexed citations
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Hjørland, Birger. (1998). The classification of psychology : A case study in the classification of a knowledge field. KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION. 25(4). 162–201. 46 indexed citations
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Hjørland, Birger. (1991). Det kognitive paradigme i biblioteks- og informationsvidenskaben. (In Danish; Translated title: The cognitive paradigm in Library and Information Science). UA Campus Repository (The University of Arizona). 3 indexed citations

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