Seth Cooper

8.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
94 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Seth Cooper is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Sociology and Political Science and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Seth Cooper has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 31 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 29 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Seth Cooper's work include Artificial Intelligence in Games (39 papers), Educational Games and Gamification (29 papers) and Digital Games and Media (28 papers). Seth Cooper is often cited by papers focused on Artificial Intelligence in Games (39 papers), Educational Games and Gamification (29 papers) and Digital Games and Media (28 papers). Seth Cooper collaborates with scholars based in United States, Mexico and United Kingdom. Seth Cooper's co-authors include Zoran Popović, Adrien Treuille, David Baker, Firas Khatib, Foldit Players, Andrew Leaver‐Fay, J. Barbero, Jeehyung Lee, Michael D. Tyka and Justin B. Siegel and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Biotechnology.

In The Last Decade

Seth Cooper

84 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

Predicting protein structures with a multiplayer online game 2006 2026 2012 2019 2010 2006 2011 2011 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. Predicting protein structures with a multiplayer online game
    2010 869 citations Seth Cooper, Adrien Treuille et al. profile →
  2. Continuum crowds
    2006 566 citations Adrien Treuille, Seth Cooper et al. ACM Transactions on Graphics profile →
  3. Algorithm discovery by protein folding game players
    2011 370 citations Seth Cooper, Zoran Popović et al. profile →
  4. Crystal structure of a monomeric retroviral protease solved by protein folding game players
    2011 301 citations Seth Cooper, Zoran Popović 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
Seth Cooper United States 19 790 675 597 587 541 94 3.3k
Adrien Treuille United States 19 475 0.6× 1.2k 1.8× 335 0.6× 382 0.7× 679 1.3× 28 3.3k
Zoran Popović United States 49 1.0k 1.3× 5.2k 7.6× 1.5k 2.5× 563 1.0× 715 1.3× 207 10.8k
Uri Wilensky United States 41 2.9k 3.7× 154 0.2× 779 1.3× 588 1.0× 92 0.2× 185 7.1k
Mark Stefik United States 30 193 0.2× 704 1.0× 2.9k 4.9× 193 0.3× 98 0.2× 71 6.7k
Huamin Qu Hong Kong 46 477 0.6× 4.5k 6.7× 2.1k 3.5× 106 0.2× 80 0.1× 280 7.0k
Pingping Chen China 31 591 0.7× 362 0.5× 688 1.2× 191 0.3× 114 0.2× 239 4.7k
Peter Norvig United States 20 154 0.2× 452 0.7× 2.1k 3.5× 193 0.3× 57 0.1× 70 4.9k
Luis von Ahn United States 23 2.2k 2.8× 1.8k 2.6× 1.9k 3.2× 63 0.1× 112 0.2× 36 5.5k
Alan Bundy United Kingdom 17 214 0.3× 983 1.5× 2.3k 3.9× 199 0.3× 84 0.2× 92 4.7k
Fernanda Viégas United States 32 536 0.7× 2.4k 3.6× 2.7k 4.5× 286 0.5× 39 0.1× 51 6.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Seth Cooper

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Fields of papers citing papers by Seth Cooper

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Seth Cooper

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Seth Cooper. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Seth Cooper 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 Seth Cooper. Seth Cooper 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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Kosa, Mehmet, et al.. (2024). A Design Framework for Reflective Play. IT University Of Copenhagen (IT University of Copenhagen). 1–21. 3 indexed citations
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Martens, Chris, et al.. (2024). Authoring Games with Tile Rewrite Rule Behavior Trees. 1–4.
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Cooper, Seth, et al.. (2023). Latent Combinational Game Design. IEEE Transactions on Games. 16(3). 659–669.
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Cooper, Seth, et al.. (2022). An effective online platform for crowd classification of coastal wetland loss. Conservation Science and Practice. 5(1). 3 indexed citations
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Cooper, Seth. (2022). Sturgeon: Tile-Based Procedural Level Generation via Learned and Designed Constraints. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment. 18(1). 26–36. 9 indexed citations
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Cooper, Seth, et al.. (2019). Using a Disjoint Skill Model for Game and Task Difficulty in Human Computation Games. 661–669. 6 indexed citations
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Cooper, Seth, et al.. (2019). Inferring and Comparing Game Difficulty Curves using Player-vs-Level Match Data. PubMed. 2019. 1–4. 3 indexed citations
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Wylie, Sara, et al.. (2018). Does Flight Path Context Matter? Impact on Worker Performance in Crowdsourced Aerial Imagery Analysis.. ISCRAM. 1 indexed citations
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Cooper, Seth, et al.. (2017). Level Difficulty and Player Skill Prediction in Human Computation Games. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment. 13(1). 228–233. 4 indexed citations
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Cooper, Seth, et al.. (2017). On Variety, Complexity, and Engagement in Crowdsourced Disaster Response Tasks.. ISCRAM. 2 indexed citations
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Burns, Matthew, et al.. (2015). Nanocrafter: Design and Evaluation of a DNA Nanotechnology Game.. Foundations of Digital Games. 9 indexed citations
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Cooper, Seth, et al.. (2014). User behavior transformation through dynamic input mappings.. Foundations of Digital Games. 1 indexed citations
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Cooper, Seth. (2014). A Framework for Scientific Discovery through Video Games. 20 indexed citations
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Cooper, Seth, et al.. (2013). Automated redesign of local playspace properties.. Foundations of Digital Games. 190–197. 8 indexed citations
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Treuille, Adrien, Seth Cooper, & Zoran Popović. (2006). Continuum crowds. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 25(3). 1160–1168. 566 indexed citations breakdown →
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Evans, Mark D., S. Edward Law, & Seth Cooper. (1994). Fluorescent Spray Deposit Measurement via Light Intensified Machine Vision. Applied Engineering in Agriculture. 10(3). 441–447. 12 indexed citations

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