Peter Pirolli

15.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
137 papers, 9.6k citations indexed

About

Peter Pirolli is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Pirolli has authored 137 papers receiving a total of 9.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 36 papers in Information Systems and 23 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Peter Pirolli's work include Data Visualization and Analytics (20 papers), Advanced Text Analysis Techniques (20 papers) and Information Retrieval and Search Behavior (17 papers). Peter Pirolli is often cited by papers focused on Data Visualization and Analytics (20 papers), Advanced Text Analysis Techniques (20 papers) and Information Retrieval and Search Behavior (17 papers). Peter Pirolli collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and United Kingdom. Peter Pirolli's co-authors include Stuart Card, James E. Pitkow, Ed H., Stuart K. Card, Bongwon Suh, Ramana Rao, Lichan Hong, John R. Anderson, Vinod Goel and Daniel M. Russell and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Psychological Review.

In The Last Decade

Peter Pirolli

136 papers receiving 8.7k citations

Hit Papers

Information foraging. 1995 2026 2005 2015 1999 2010 1995 250 500 750
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. Information foraging.
    1999 853 citations Peter Pirolli, Stuart Card profile →
  2. Want to be Retweeted? Large Scale Analytics on Factors Impacting Retweet in Twitter Network
    2010 822 citations Bongwon Suh, Peter Pirolli et al. profile →
  3. A focus+context technique based on hyperbolic geometry for visualizing large hierarchies
    1995 533 citations Peter Pirolli et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Peter Pirolli United States 46 3.2k 2.5k 1.8k 1.6k 1.1k 137 9.6k
Loren Terveen United States 47 5.2k 1.7× 2.8k 1.1× 2.1k 1.1× 1.6k 1.0× 1.8k 1.6× 174 10.5k
Ed H. United States 49 3.8k 1.2× 3.3k 1.3× 1.8k 1.0× 1.8k 1.1× 1.7k 1.5× 174 9.8k
Paul Resnick United States 40 6.4k 2.0× 3.9k 1.6× 4.4k 2.4× 1.7k 1.0× 1.9k 1.6× 159 13.9k
Bernard J. Jansen United States 56 5.9k 1.9× 3.7k 1.5× 3.7k 2.1× 880 0.5× 1.3k 1.2× 432 14.1k
Dan Cosley United States 38 1.8k 0.6× 1.4k 0.6× 2.0k 1.1× 556 0.3× 1.5k 1.3× 108 6.5k
Mark S. Ackerman United States 50 3.1k 1.0× 2.0k 0.8× 2.1k 1.2× 559 0.3× 1.5k 1.3× 183 8.6k
Thomas W. Malone United States 47 2.8k 0.9× 2.6k 1.0× 3.2k 1.8× 556 0.3× 1.4k 1.3× 148 16.5k
Geri Gay United States 46 2.1k 0.7× 1.1k 0.4× 2.0k 1.1× 799 0.5× 1.0k 0.9× 145 7.8k
Ryen W. White United States 52 5.2k 1.6× 2.7k 1.1× 1.3k 0.7× 1.2k 0.7× 409 0.4× 255 9.1k
Jaime Teevan United States 43 3.7k 1.2× 2.5k 1.0× 1.1k 0.6× 792 0.5× 613 0.5× 152 7.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Peter Pirolli

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Fields of papers citing papers by Peter Pirolli

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Pirolli

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Peter Pirolli. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Peter Pirolli 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 Peter Pirolli. Peter Pirolli 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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Bhatia, Archna, et al.. (2024). Psychologically-Valid Generative Agents: A Novel Approach to Agent-Based Modeling in Social Sciences. Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium Series. 2(1). 340–348. 6 indexed citations
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Lebière, Christian, et al.. (2024). Cognitive Models for Machine Theory of Mind. Topics in Cognitive Science. 17(2). 268–290. 1 indexed citations
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Miyatsu, Toshiya, et al.. (2023). Resting-state heart rate variability after stressful events as a measure of stress tolerance among elite performers. Frontiers in Physiology. 13. 1070285–1070285. 7 indexed citations
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Pirolli, Peter. (2019). Interpretable AI for Well-Being Using Mobile Health.. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 1 indexed citations
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Springer, Aaron, et al.. (2018). Leveraging Self-Affirmation to Improve Behavior Change: A Mobile Health App Experiment. JMIR mhealth and uhealth. 6(7). e157–e157. 15 indexed citations
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Pirolli, Peter, et al.. (2017). Implementation Intention and Reminder Effects on Behavior Change in a Mobile Health System: A Predictive Cognitive Model. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 19(11). e397–e397. 36 indexed citations
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Pirolli, Peter, et al.. (2012). Cognitive Biases in a Geospatial Intelligence Analysis Task: An ACT-R Model. Cognitive Science. 34(34). 2 indexed citations
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Canini, Kevin Robert, Bongwon Suh, & Peter Pirolli. (2011). Finding Credible Information Sources in Social Networks Based on Content and Social Structure. 1–8. 92 indexed citations
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H., Ed, Peter Pirolli, Bongwon Suh, et al.. (2008). Augmented Social Cognition.. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 11–17. 11 indexed citations
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Pirolli, Peter. (2008). A Probabilistic Model of Semantics in Social Information Foraging.. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 72–77. 2 indexed citations
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Pirolli, Peter, et al.. (2007). Modeling Navigation in Degree-of-Interest Trees. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 29(29). 3 indexed citations
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Fu, Wai‐Tat & Peter Pirolli. (2007). SNIF-ACT: A Cognitive Model of User Navigation on the World Wide Web. Human-Computer Interaction. 22(4). 355–412. 181 indexed citations
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Hutchins, Susan G., Peter Pirolli, & Stuart Card. (2003). Use of Critical Analysis Method to Conduct a Cognitive Task Analysis of Intelligence Analysts. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting. 47(3). 478–482. 2 indexed citations
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Pitkow, James E. & Peter Pirolli. (1999). Mining longest repeating subsequences to predict world wide web surfing. 13–13. 200 indexed citations
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Huberman, Bernardo A., Peter Pirolli, James E. Pitkow, & Rajan M. Lukose. (1998). Strong Regularities in World Wide Web Surfing. Science. 280(5360). 95–97. 475 indexed citations
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Hearst, Marti A., Jan Pedersen, Peter Pirolli, et al.. (1995). Xerox site report : Four TREC-4 tracks. Text REtrieval Conference. 97–119. 9 indexed citations
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Russell, Daniel M., Mark Stefik, Peter Pirolli, & Stuart K. Card. (1993). The cost structure of sensemaking. 269–276. 498 indexed citations
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Goel, Vinod & Peter Pirolli. (1992). The structure of Design Problem Spaces. Cognitive Science. 16(3). 395–429. 386 indexed citations
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Pirolli, Peter. (1985). Problem solving by analogy and skill acquisition in the domain of programming. UMI Dissertation Information Service eBooks. 10 indexed citations

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