Jakob Nielsen

41.0k citations
129 papers · 21.6k indexed · 9 hit papers · h-index 43
Topics
Usability and User Interface Design (52 papers)Software Engineering Techniques and Practices (15 papers)Personal Information Management and User Behavior (10 papers)
Journals
SHILAP Revista de lepidopterologíaCommunications of the ACMComputer

In The Last Decade

Jakob Nielsen

122 papers receiving 18.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Jakob Nielsen
Comparison fields: 5 of 200
  • Human-Computer Interaction 9.8k
  • Information Systems 6.1k
  • Sociology and Political Science 3.5k
  • Information Systems and Management 3.4k
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2.5k
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All Works

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Hearing Aid Personalization
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3 9
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Eyetracking web usability
247
5 286
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Usability for the masses
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A Review Of: Beyond ALT Text: Making the Web Easy to Use for Users with Disabilities
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Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed
206
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Information Appliances and Beyond
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Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicitybreakdown →
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International users interface
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Advances in human-computer interaction (vol. 5)
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Guerrilla HCI: using discount usability engineering to penetrate the intimidation barrier
197
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Evaluating the thinking-aloud technique for use by computer scientists
50
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Paper versus computer implementations as mockup scenarios for heuristic evaluation
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Usability testing of international interfaces
22
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Usability engineering at a discount
132
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Two Field Studies of Hypermedia Usability.
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A User Interface Case Study of the Macintosh.
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About Jakob Nielsen

Jakob Nielsen is a scholar working on Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors and Ergonomics and Information Systems, having authored 129 papers that have together received 21.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Usability and User Interface Design (52 papers), Software Engineering Techniques and Practices (15 papers) and Personal Information Management and User Behavior (10 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Human-Computer Interaction (9.8k citations), Information Systems and Management (3.4k citations) and Human Factors and Ergonomics (828 citations). Jakob Nielsen has collaborated with scholars based in Denmark, United States and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Rolf Molich, Thomas K. Landauer, Jonathan Levy, Susan Dumais, Robert L. Mack, John Morkes, Donald A. Norman, Victoria Phillips, Carolyn Snyder and Susan Farrell. Their work appears in journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Communications of the ACM and Computer.

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