Simon Buckingham Shum

12.0k total citations · 5 hit papers
232 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

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Simon Buckingham Shum is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science Applications and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Buckingham Shum has authored 232 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 86 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 80 papers in Computer Science Applications and 50 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Simon Buckingham Shum's work include Online Learning and Analytics (62 papers), Semantic Web and Ontologies (48 papers) and Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods (45 papers). Simon Buckingham Shum is often cited by papers focused on Online Learning and Analytics (62 papers), Semantic Web and Ontologies (48 papers) and Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods (45 papers). Simon Buckingham Shum collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. Simon Buckingham Shum's co-authors include Rebecca Ferguson, Roberto Martínez‐Maldonado, Simon Knight, Allison Littlejohn, Ruth Deakin Crick, Ν. G. L. Hammond, Enrico Motta, John Domingue, Dragan Gašević and Anna De Liddo and has published in prestigious journals such as Computers in Human Behavior, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences and International Journal of Human-Computer Studies.

In The Last Decade

Simon Buckingham Shum

222 papers receiving 5.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Ethics of AI in Education: Towards a Community-Wide Framework

2021 405 citations Simon Buckingham Shum et al. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education profile →
Social learning analytics

2012 342 citations Rebecca Ferguson, Simon Buckingham Shum Open Research Online (The Open University) profile →
Explainable Artificial Intelligence in education

2022 292 citations Simon Buckingham Shum, Simon Knight et al. profile →
Rethinking the entwinement between artificial intelligence and human learning: What capabilities do learners need for a world with AI?

2022 167 citations Simon Knight, Roberto Martínez‐Maldonado et al. profile →
Comparing Generative AI and teacher feedback: student perceptions of usefulness and trustworthiness

2025 22 citations Michael Henderson, Margaret Bearman et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Simon Buckingham Shum	2.9k	1.9k	1.5k	1.3k	1.2k	232	6.3k
Carolyn Penstein Rosé	2.0k 0.7×	3.3k 1.8×	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	1.8k 1.6×	300	6.6k
Erik Duval	2.8k 1.0×	1.4k 0.7×	782 0.5×	1.3k 1.0×	793 0.7×	195	4.4k
Ronghuai Huang	1.2k 0.4×	846 0.5×	1.5k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	776 0.7×	200	4.6k
Nian‐Shing Chen	1.7k 0.6×	928 0.5×	3.7k 2.5×	2.4k 1.9×	2.2k 1.8×	230	7.9k
Hendrik Drachsler	2.5k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	976 0.7×	1.3k 1.0×	1.0k 0.9×	163	4.5k
George Siemens	6.0k 2.1×	1.4k 0.8×	3.7k 2.5×	2.0k 1.5×	1.7k 1.5×	85	9.3k
Katrien Verbert	2.6k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	945 0.6×	1.6k 1.2×	1.0k 0.9×	177	5.0k
Kinshuk Kinshuk	2.2k 0.8×	1.1k 0.6×	3.0k 2.0×	2.5k 2.0×	2.2k 1.9×	315	7.9k
Yannis Dimitriadis	1.7k 0.6×	662 0.4×	1.4k 0.9×	940 0.7×	1.5k 1.3×	222	3.9k
Eric Wiebe	1.7k 0.6×	571 0.3×	1.1k 0.7×	856 0.7×	1.3k 1.1×	222	4.9k

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Echeverría, Vanessa, Linxuan Zhao, Riordan Alfredo, et al.. (2025). TeamVision: An AI-powered Learning Analytics System for Supporting Reflection in Team-based Healthcare Simulation. 1–22.

Shum, Simon Buckingham, et al.. (2024). Co-producing AIED Ethics Under Lockdown: an Empirical Study of Deliberative Democracy in Action. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education. 34(3). 670–705. 7 indexed citations

Leong, Tuck Wah, et al.. (2024). "This is the kind of experience I want to have": Supporting the experiences of queer young men on social platforms through design. Designing Interactive Systems Conference. 1681–1700. 2 indexed citations

Echeverría, Vanessa, Lixiang Yan, Linxuan Zhao, et al.. (2024). TeamSlides: a Multimodal Teamwork Analytics Dashboard for Teacher-guided Reflection in a Physical Learning Space. 112–122. 10 indexed citations

Fawns, Tim, Michael Henderson, Kelly Matthews, et al.. (2024). Gen AI and student perspectives of use and ambiguity. ASCILITE Publications. 132–134. 6 indexed citations

Knight, Simon, Antonette Shibani, & Simon Buckingham Shum. (2023). A reflective design case of practical micro‐ethics in learning analytics. British Journal of Educational Technology. 54(6). 1837–1857. 7 indexed citations

Lim, Lisa-Angelique, et al.. (2023). “Belonging analytics”: A proposal. 1 indexed citations

Shum, Simon Buckingham, Lisa-Angelique Lim, David Boud, Margaret Bearman, & Phillip Dawson. (2023). A comparative analysis of the skilled use of automated feedback tools through the lens of teacher feedback literacy. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education. 20(1). 13 indexed citations

Martínez‐Maldonado, Roberto, Vanessa Echeverría, Gloria Milena Fernandez-Nieto, et al.. (2023). Lessons Learnt from a Multimodal Learning Analytics Deployment In-the-Wild. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. 31(1). 1–41. 25 indexed citations

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Martínez‐Maldonado, Roberto, et al.. (2020). Where is the teacher? Digital analytics for classroom proxemics. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning. 36(5). 741–762. 18 indexed citations

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Martínez‐Maldonado, Roberto, et al.. (2019). Making the Design of CSCL Analytics Interfaces a Co-design Process: the Case of Multimodal Teamwork in Healthcare. Computer Supported Collaborative Learning. 859–860. 3 indexed citations

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Knight, Simon, Golnaz Arastoopour Irgens, David Williamson Shaffer, Simon Buckingham Shum, & Karen Littleton. (2014). Epistemic Networks for Epistemic Commitments. Open Research Online (The Open University). 10 indexed citations

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Shum, Simon Buckingham & Rebecca Ferguson. (2012). Social learning analytics. Educational Technology & Society. 15(3). 3–26. 256 indexed citations

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Shum, Simon Buckingham, et al.. (2008). Ontological Foundations for Scholarly Debate Mapping Technology. Open Research Online (The Open University). 61–72. 15 indexed citations

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Okada, Alexandra, et al.. (2008). Knowledge Cartography: Software Tools and Mapping Techniques. Springer eBooks. 540–540. 68 indexed citations

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Shum, Simon Buckingham. (2006). Sensemaking on the Pragmatic Web: A Hypermedia Discourse Perspective. 22–37. 18 indexed citations

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Sierhuis, Maarten, William J. Clancey, Daniel C. Berrios, et al.. (2005). NASA's Mobile Agents Architecture: A Multi-Agent Workflow and Communication System for Planetary Exploration. 603. 62. 9 indexed citations

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Vargas-Vera, María, Enrico Motta, John Domingue, Simon Buckingham Shum, & Mattia Lanzoni. (2001). Knowledge extraction by using an ontology-based annotation tool. Open Research Online (The Open University). 52 indexed citations

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Shum, Simon Buckingham. (1996). Analysing the Usability of a Design Rationale Notation. ACM Transactions on Applied Perception. 29 indexed citations

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Sumner, Tamara & Simon Buckingham Shum. (1996). Open Peer Review & Argumentation: Loosening the Paper Chains on Journals. Ariadne. 16 indexed citations

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