Catherine D’Ignazio

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
53 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Catherine D’Ignazio is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Human-Computer Interaction and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Catherine D’Ignazio has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 10 papers in Human-Computer Interaction and 9 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Catherine D’Ignazio's work include Innovative Human-Technology Interaction (10 papers), Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (8 papers) and Data Visualization and Analytics (5 papers). Catherine D’Ignazio is often cited by papers focused on Innovative Human-Technology Interaction (10 papers), Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (8 papers) and Data Visualization and Analytics (5 papers). Catherine D’Ignazio collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Denmark. Catherine D’Ignazio's co-authors include Lauren Klein, Rahul Bhargava, Ethan Zuckerman, Alexis Hope, Jennifer Roberts, Harini Suresh, Andrea G. Parker, Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, Kristin Veel and Christina Harrington and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, British Journal of Educational Technology and Environment and Planning D Society and Space.

In The Last Decade

Catherine D’Ignazio

51 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

Data Feminism 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 200 400 600
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.

  1. Data Feminism
    2020 720 citations Catherine D’Ignazio, Lauren Klein The MIT Press eBooks profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Catherine D’Ignazio United States 20 516 322 294 189 177 53 1.6k
Dawn Nafus United States 17 687 1.3× 385 1.2× 174 0.6× 74 0.4× 164 0.9× 35 1.5k
Lynn Dombrowski United States 23 815 1.6× 738 2.3× 144 0.5× 116 0.6× 203 1.1× 51 1.7k
Kenneth R. Fleischmann United States 22 831 1.6× 272 0.8× 198 0.7× 340 1.8× 309 1.7× 119 2.0k
Luke Stark United States 18 973 1.9× 260 0.8× 656 2.2× 321 1.7× 185 1.0× 40 2.1k
Yubo Kou United States 24 1.0k 2.0× 389 1.2× 127 0.4× 433 2.3× 208 1.2× 73 1.9k
Lauren Klein United States 8 309 0.6× 103 0.3× 192 0.7× 132 0.7× 90 0.5× 33 955
Mary L. Gray United States 18 928 1.8× 123 0.4× 315 1.1× 209 1.1× 132 0.7× 44 1.9k
David Beer United Kingdom 22 1.5k 2.9× 210 0.7× 419 1.4× 136 0.7× 257 1.5× 70 2.9k
Safiya Noble United States 10 859 1.7× 120 0.4× 526 1.8× 314 1.7× 263 1.5× 26 2.1k
Nick Seaver United States 11 444 0.9× 123 0.4× 371 1.3× 112 0.6× 128 0.7× 16 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Catherine D’Ignazio

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Fields of papers citing papers by Catherine D’Ignazio

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Catherine D’Ignazio

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Catherine D’Ignazio. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Catherine D’Ignazio 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 Catherine D’Ignazio. Catherine D’Ignazio 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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D’Ignazio, Catherine, et al.. (2024). Geographies of missing data: Spatializing counterdata production against feminicide. Environment and Planning D Society and Space. 43(1). 29–50. 1 indexed citations
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Harrington, Christina, Aditi Verma, Cynthia Breazeal, et al.. (2024). Building Spaces for Design Justice: A Case Study on the Design Justice Pedagogy Summit. 1 indexed citations
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Gabriel, Saadia, Eric Minwei Liu, Fotini Christia, et al.. (2024). Advancing Equality: Harnessing Generative AI to Combat Systemic Racism. 1 indexed citations
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D’Ignazio, Catherine, et al.. (2024). Entangled Amid Misaligned Seams: Limitations to Technology-Mediated Care for Repairing Infrastructural Breakdowns in a Youth Empowerment Program. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 8(CSCW2). 1–33. 1 indexed citations
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Ostrowski, Anastasia K., Stella Lee, Cynthia Breazeal, et al.. (2023). HOW AND WHY INSTRUCTORS INCLUDE AND EXCLUDE SOCIAL, POLICY, AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN DESIGN EDUCATION. Proceedings of the Design Society. 3. 2085–2094. 2 indexed citations
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Ostrowski, Anastasia K., et al.. (2023). Auditing design justice: The impact of social movements on design pedagogy at a technology institution. Design Studies. 86. 101183–101183. 6 indexed citations
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Ostrowski, Anastasia K., Stella Lee, Cynthia Breazeal, et al.. (2023). Incorporating Social, Policy, and Ethical Considerations in Engineering and Design Education: an Examination of Barriers and Resources. 2 indexed citations
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D’Ignazio, Catherine, et al.. (2022). Feminicide and counterdata production: Activist efforts to monitor and challenge gender-related violence. Patterns. 3(7). 100530–100530. 19 indexed citations
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D’Ignazio, Catherine, et al.. (2021). La práctica del feminismo de datos: Conversaciones con Catherine DʼIgnazio, Lauren Klein y Maya Livio. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations
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D’Ignazio, Catherine & Lauren Klein. (2020). Data Feminism. The MIT Press eBooks. 720 indexed citations breakdown →
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D’Ignazio, Catherine & Lauren Klein. (2020). Seven intersectional feminist principles for equitable and actionable COVID-19 data. Big Data & Society. 7(2). 3870714832–3870714832. 19 indexed citations
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D’Ignazio, Catherine & Rahul Bhargava. (2019). Creative Data Literacy: A Constructionist Approach to Teaching Information Visualization. Digital humanities quarterly. 12(4). 17 indexed citations
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Hope, Alexis, et al.. (2019). Hackathons as Participatory Design. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 1–14. 67 indexed citations
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D’Ignazio, Catherine, et al.. (2018). Public Lab: Community-Based Approaches to Urban and Environmental Health and Justice. Science and Engineering Ethics. 24(3). 971–997. 28 indexed citations
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D’Ignazio, Catherine. (2017). High School Yearbooks: Using and Preserving The Record. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. 141(3). 376–381. 1 indexed citations
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D’Ignazio, Catherine, et al.. (2016). A Feminist HCI Approach to Designing Postpartum Technologies. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 2612–2622. 94 indexed citations
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D’Ignazio, Catherine & Lauren Klein. (2016). Feminist Data Visualization. 38 indexed citations
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Bhargava, Rahul, et al.. (2016). Data Murals: Using the Arts to Build Data Literacy. The Journal of Community Informatics. 12(3). 40 indexed citations

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