Johannes Pfau

456 total citations
33 papers, 262 citations indexed

About

Johannes Pfau is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Artificial Intelligence and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Johannes Pfau has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 262 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 20 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 15 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Johannes Pfau's work include Digital Games and Media (23 papers), Artificial Intelligence in Games (16 papers) and Educational Games and Gamification (15 papers). Johannes Pfau is often cited by papers focused on Digital Games and Media (23 papers), Artificial Intelligence in Games (16 papers) and Educational Games and Gamification (15 papers). Johannes Pfau collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Netherlands. Johannes Pfau's co-authors include Rainer Malaka, Jan David Smeddinck, Magy Seif El‐Nasr, Antonios Liapis, Georgios N. Yannakakis, Jichen Zhu, Georgios N. Yannakakis, Dmitry Alexandrovsky, Erica Kleinman and Karsten Sohr and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Semantic Web and IEEE Transactions on Games.

In The Last Decade

Johannes Pfau

29 papers receiving 255 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Johannes Pfau United States 10 176 139 106 48 42 33 262
Tobias Mahlmann Denmark 9 192 1.1× 167 1.2× 76 0.7× 50 1.0× 62 1.5× 12 283
Giel van Lankveld Netherlands 7 114 0.6× 108 0.8× 83 0.8× 14 0.3× 32 0.8× 18 222
Joseph Osborn United States 9 121 0.7× 184 1.3× 86 0.8× 9 0.2× 42 1.0× 34 279
Joris Dormans Netherlands 8 249 1.4× 253 1.8× 179 1.7× 11 0.2× 80 1.9× 14 422
Chong-U Lim United States 7 157 0.9× 111 0.8× 34 0.3× 18 0.4× 48 1.1× 18 204
Erica Kleinman United States 10 71 0.4× 116 0.8× 80 0.8× 8 0.2× 37 0.9× 29 198
Andy Nealen United States 10 217 1.2× 137 1.0× 78 0.7× 42 0.9× 33 0.8× 28 262
Peter Mawhorter United States 8 194 1.1× 135 1.0× 42 0.4× 10 0.2× 77 1.8× 20 246
Adam Summerville United States 11 234 1.3× 136 1.0× 50 0.5× 18 0.4× 110 2.6× 29 273
Steve Sutphen Canada 5 196 1.1× 69 0.5× 41 0.4× 67 1.4× 65 1.5× 8 291

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Fields of papers citing papers by Johannes Pfau

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Johannes Pfau

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All Works

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Pfau, Johannes. (2024). The Real MVP: Quantifying Individual Performances in Multiplayer Online Games. 1–8. 1 indexed citations
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Kleinman, Erica, et al.. (2024). "Trust the Process": An Exploratory Study of Process Visualizations for Self-Reflection in League of Legends. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 8(CHI PLAY). 1–28.
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Kleinman, Erica, Magy Seif El‐Nasr, Johannes Pfau, et al.. (2024). Ethics and Transparency in Game Data. IT University Of Copenhagen (IT University of Copenhagen). 466–470.
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Pfau, Johannes & Magy Seif El‐Nasr. (2023). Player-Driven Game Analytics: The Case of Guild Wars 2. 1–14. 15 indexed citations
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Pfau, Johannes & Magy Seif El‐Nasr. (2023). Balancing Video Games: A Player-Driven Instrument. 187–195. 3 indexed citations
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Pfau, Johannes, et al.. (2023). Grinding to a Halt: The Effects of Long Play Sessions on Player Performance in Video Games. 36–42. 8 indexed citations
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Pfau, Johannes, et al.. (2023). A Visual Ethnographic Study at Cultural Spaces to Identify Character Creation Opportunities. 1–12. 2 indexed citations
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Pfau, Johannes, et al.. (2023). Under Pressure: A Multi-Modal Analysis of Induced Stressors in Games for Resilience. 1–10. 5 indexed citations
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Porzel, Robert, et al.. (2022). Deep understanding of everyday activity commands for household robots. Semantic Web. 13(5). 895–909. 1 indexed citations
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Pfau, Johannes, et al.. (2022). “I Didn’t Catch That, But I’ll Try My Best”: Anticipatory Error Handling in a Voice Controlled Game. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 1–13. 10 indexed citations
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Pfau, Johannes, et al.. (2020). Dungeons & Replicants: Automated Game Balancing via Deep Player Behavior Modeling. 431–438. 35 indexed citations
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Pfau, Johannes & Rainer Malaka. (2019). Can You Rely on Human Computation?. 605–610. 1 indexed citations
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Pfau, Johannes, et al.. (2019). Player Types and Achievements -- Using Adaptive Game Design to Foster Intrinsic Motivation. 747–754. 7 indexed citations
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Pfau, Johannes, Jan David Smeddinck, & Rainer Malaka. (2019). Deep Player Behavior Models. 1–6. 12 indexed citations
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Pfau, Johannes, et al.. (2018). Do You Think This is a Game?. 1–6. 2 indexed citations
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Pfau, Johannes, Jan David Smeddinck, & Rainer Malaka. (2018). Towards Deep Player Behavior Models in MMORPGs. Newcastle University ePrints (Newcastle Univesity). 381–392. 30 indexed citations
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Pfau, Johannes, Jan David Smeddinck, & Rainer Malaka. (2017). Automated Game Testing with ICARUS. 153–164. 34 indexed citations

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