Katy Börner

13.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
166 papers, 7.8k citations indexed

About

Katy Börner is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Katy Börner has authored 166 papers receiving a total of 7.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 36 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 30 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Katy Börner's work include Data Visualization and Analytics (57 papers), scientometrics and bibliometrics research (29 papers) and Complex Network Analysis Techniques (25 papers). Katy Börner is often cited by papers focused on Data Visualization and Analytics (57 papers), scientometrics and bibliometrics research (29 papers) and Complex Network Analysis Techniques (25 papers). Katy Börner collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and United Kingdom. Katy Börner's co-authors include Kevin W. Boyack, Chaomei Chen, Richard Klavans, Weimao Ke, Alessandro Vespignani, Richard M. Shiffrin, Michael Schoon, Marco A. Janssen, Joann Keyton and Brian Uzzi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Katy Börner

158 papers receiving 7.3k citations

Hit Papers

Visualizing knowledge dom... 2003 2026 2010 2018 2003 2018 2005 2010 400 800 1.2k
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. Visualizing knowledge domains
    2003 1.2k citations Katy Börner, Chaomei Chen et al. profile →
  2. Science of science
    2018 781 citations Katy Börner et al. profile →
  3. Mapping the backbone of science
    2005 682 citations Kevin W. Boyack, Katy Börner et al. profile →
  4. Approaches to understanding and measuring interdisciplinary scientific research (IDR): A review of the literature
    2010 531 citations Kevin W. Boyack, Katy Börner et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Katy Börner 1.8k 1.3k 1.3k 1.2k 1.2k 166 7.8k
Kevin W. Boyack 2.5k 1.4× 1.2k 0.9× 1.3k 1.0× 1.0k 0.8× 885 0.7× 92 7.8k
Henry Small 2.6k 1.4× 1.6k 1.2× 1.8k 1.4× 1.1k 0.9× 1.1k 0.9× 67 9.0k
Ying Ding 1.4k 0.8× 2.5k 1.9× 2.1k 1.6× 1.4k 1.1× 810 0.7× 392 10.6k
Ronald Rousseau 4.0k 2.2× 1.1k 0.9× 1.9k 1.5× 1.6k 1.3× 827 0.7× 333 9.7k
Richard Klavans 1.5k 0.9× 778 0.6× 759 0.6× 696 0.6× 535 0.4× 54 4.8k
Dashun Wang 1.7k 1.0× 741 0.6× 616 0.5× 1.4k 1.2× 912 0.8× 70 5.6k
Filippo Radicchi 1.3k 0.7× 1.7k 1.3× 706 0.6× 5.6k 4.6× 737 0.6× 100 9.3k
Johan Bollen 1.1k 0.6× 2.3k 1.7× 1.7k 1.3× 1.6k 1.3× 1.8k 1.5× 85 7.6k
Wolfgang Glänzel 7.1k 4.0× 1.2k 0.9× 2.7k 2.1× 1.3k 1.1× 914 0.8× 324 13.2k
Howard D. White 1.3k 0.7× 782 0.6× 1.3k 1.0× 601 0.5× 470 0.4× 73 4.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Katy Börner

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Fields of papers citing papers by Katy Börner

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Katy Börner

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Katy Börner. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Katy Börner 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 Katy Börner. Katy Börner is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Gallant, Michael, Bruce W. Herr, Jon Sánchez-Valle, et al.. (2025). myAURA : a personalized health library for epilepsy management via knowledge graph sparsification and visualization. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 33(1). 167–181.
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Harvey, Francis, Tamara Mchedlidze, Sara Irina Fabrikant, et al.. (2024). Uncertainty in humanities network visualization. Frontiers in Communication. 8. 4 indexed citations
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Herr, Bruce W., et al.. (2024). Visual Analytics for Data-Driven Understanding of the Substance Use Disorder Epidemic. INQUIRY The Journal of Health Care Organization Provision and Financing. 61. 2876820748–2876820748. 1 indexed citations
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Heimlich, Joe E., et al.. (2023). Museum Visitor Comfort When Sharing Personal Information for Evaluation. Journal of Museum Education. 48(2). 136–152. 1 indexed citations
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Lee, Sujin, Rajeev Malhotra, Marc K. Halushka, et al.. (2023). Anatomical structures, cell types, and biomarkers of the healthy human blood vasculature. Scientific Data. 10(1). 452–452. 6 indexed citations
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Herr, Bruce W., Josef Hardi, Ellen M. Quardokus, et al.. (2023). Specimen, biological structure, and spatial ontologies in support of a Human Reference Atlas. Scientific Data. 10(1). 171–171. 5 indexed citations
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Ghose, Soumya, Elizabeth McDonough, Jonhan Ho, et al.. (2023). 3D reconstruction of skin and spatial mapping of immune cell density, vascular distance and effects of sun exposure and aging. Communications Biology. 6(1). 718–718. 9 indexed citations
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Jain, Yashvardhan, Ellen M. Quardokus, Andreas Bueckle, et al.. (2023). Segmentation of human functional tissue units in support of a Human Reference Atlas. Communications Biology. 6(1). 717–717. 5 indexed citations
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Miller, Wendy R., et al.. (2023). Understanding Contexts and Challenges of Information Management for Epilepsy Care. PubMed. 2023. 1–15. 6 indexed citations
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Jain, Yashvardhan, et al.. (2023). Segmenting functional tissue units across human organs using community-driven development of generalizable machine learning algorithms. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4656–4656. 6 indexed citations
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Börner, Katy, Andreas Bueckle, Bruce W. Herr, et al.. (2022). Tissue registration and exploration user interfaces in support of a human reference atlas. Communications Biology. 5(1). 1369–1369. 7 indexed citations
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Bueckle, Andreas, et al.. (2021). 3D virtual reality vs. 2D desktop registration user interface comparison. PLoS ONE. 16(10). e0258103–e0258103. 12 indexed citations
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Börner, Katy, et al.. (2019). Data visualization literacy: Definitions, conceptual frameworks, exercises, and assessments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(6). 1857–1864. 175 indexed citations
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Fletcher, George, et al.. (2004). Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks: Topological Properties and Search Performance. TU/e Research Portal (Eindhoven University of Technology). 2 indexed citations
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Boyack, Kevin W., et al.. (2004). Mapping Medline papers, genes, and proteins related to melanoma research. Proceedings. Eighth International Conference on Information Visualisation, 2004. IV 2004.. 8. 965–971. 12 indexed citations
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Börner, Katy & Chaomei Chen. (2003). Visual User Interfaces: Challenges and Opportunities.. 1. 1 indexed citations
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Börner, Katy & Chaomei Chen. (2002). Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries [JCDL 2002 Workshop]. 2 indexed citations
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Börner, Katy & Chaomei Chen. (2001). Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries - The first International Workshop at the first ACM+IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. D-Lib Magazine. 7. 2 indexed citations

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