Tim Berners‐Lee

29.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
87 papers, 13.1k citations indexed

About

Tim Berners‐Lee is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Tim Berners‐Lee has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 13.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 28 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 24 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Tim Berners‐Lee's work include Semantic Web and Ontologies (30 papers), Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (12 papers) and Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services (11 papers). Tim Berners‐Lee is often cited by papers focused on Semantic Web and Ontologies (30 papers), Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (12 papers) and Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services (11 papers). Tim Berners‐Lee collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Tim Berners‐Lee's co-authors include James Hendler, Ora Lassila, Christian Bizer, Tom Heath, Nigel Shadbolt, Wendy Hall, Robert Cailliau, Daniel J. Weitzner, Ari Luotonen and Henrik Frystyk Nielsen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Communications of the ACM.

In The Last Decade

Tim Berners‐Lee

83 papers receiving 11.7k citations

Hit Papers

The Semantic Web 1994 2026 2004 2015 2001 2009 2006 1994 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Tim Berners‐Lee 8.3k 6.0k 3.2k 1.6k 1.5k 87 13.1k
James Hendler 12.1k 1.5× 8.1k 1.4× 4.3k 1.3× 1.5k 0.9× 1.7k 1.1× 335 18.6k
Deborah L. McGuinness 10.0k 1.2× 6.1k 1.0× 3.1k 1.0× 1.2k 0.7× 1.9k 1.3× 214 13.8k
Thomas Gruber 9.9k 1.2× 5.9k 1.0× 2.5k 0.8× 1.0k 0.7× 1.9k 1.2× 74 14.8k
Terry Winograd 8.3k 1.0× 5.7k 1.0× 2.8k 0.9× 997 0.6× 746 0.5× 161 21.9k
Ian Horrocks 11.4k 1.4× 6.5k 1.1× 4.0k 1.3× 983 0.6× 2.5k 1.6× 300 13.8k
Tim Finin 8.3k 1.0× 6.0k 1.0× 4.6k 1.4× 1.3k 0.8× 495 0.3× 405 15.0k
Christian Bizer 9.7k 1.2× 4.9k 0.8× 2.4k 0.8× 3.2k 2.0× 1.8k 1.2× 121 11.9k
Steffen Staab 7.4k 0.9× 4.6k 0.8× 2.0k 0.6× 878 0.5× 1.3k 0.9× 335 10.3k
Oren Etzioni 13.5k 1.6× 6.4k 1.1× 2.1k 0.7× 1.5k 0.9× 829 0.5× 192 17.7k
Alon Halevy 7.7k 0.9× 5.3k 0.9× 6.3k 2.0× 3.5k 2.2× 798 0.5× 175 13.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Tim Berners‐Lee

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tim Berners‐Lee

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Tim Berners‐Lee. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Tim Berners‐Lee. The network helps show where Tim Berners‐Lee may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tim Berners‐Lee

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Tim Berners‐Lee. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Tim Berners‐Lee 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 Tim Berners‐Lee. Tim Berners‐Lee 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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Berners‐Lee, Tim & Kieron O’Hara. (2013). The read–write Linked Data Web. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 371(1987). 20120513–20120513. 25 indexed citations
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Shadbolt, Nigel, Kieron O’Hara, Tim Berners‐Lee, et al.. (2012). Linked Open Government Data: Lessons from Data.gov.uk. IEEE Intelligent Systems. 27(3). 16–24. 166 indexed citations
3.
Berners‐Lee, Tim. (2010). Long Live The Web. Scientific American. 303(6). 80–85. 64 indexed citations
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Berners‐Lee, Tim & Nigel Shadbolt. (2009). Put in your postcode, out comes the data. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic. 55(2). 182–204. 4 indexed citations
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Hendler, James & Tim Berners‐Lee. (2009). From the Semantic Web to social machines: A research challenge for AI on the World Wide Web. Artificial Intelligence. 174(2). 156–161. 161 indexed citations
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Shadbolt, Nigel & Tim Berners‐Lee. (2008). La ciencia en la Red. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 48–54.
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Shadbolt, Nigel & Tim Berners‐Lee. (2008). Web Science Emerges. Scientific American. 299(4). 76–81. 29 indexed citations
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Weitzner, Daniel J., Harold Abelson, Tim Berners‐Lee, et al.. (2006). Transparent Accountable Data Mining: New Strategies for Privacy Protection. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 141. 39 indexed citations
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Berners‐Lee, Tim, Wendy Hall, & James Hendler. (2006). A Framework for Web Science (Foundations and Trends(R) in Web Science). now publishers, Inc. eBooks. 42 indexed citations
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Kagal, Lalana, Tim Berners‐Lee, Dan Connolly, & Daniel J. Weitzner. (2006). Using semantic web technologies for policy management on the web. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 1337–1344. 42 indexed citations
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Berners‐Lee, Tim. (2006). The World Wide Web - Past, Present and Future. Texas Digital Library (University of Texas). 1(1). 40 indexed citations
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Berners‐Lee, Tim & Dan Connolly. (2004). Delta: an ontology for the distribution of differences between RDF graphs. 23 indexed citations
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Berners‐Lee, Tim, et al.. (2002). Agent Technology on the Internet. 3. Integrating Applications on the Semantic Web.. The Journal of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan. 122(10). 676–680. 64 indexed citations
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Berners‐Lee, Tim & James Hendler. (2001). Scientific publishing on the 'semantic web'. Nature. 28 indexed citations
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Berners‐Lee, Tim & James Hendler. (2001). Publishing on the semantic web. Nature. 410(6832). 1023–1024. 160 indexed citations
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Berners‐Lee, Tim & Mark Fischetti. (2000). Tejiendo la red. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 8 indexed citations
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Berners‐Lee, Tim. (1999). Realising the Full Potential of the Web. Technical Communication: Journal of the Society for Technical Communication. 46(1). 79–82. 21 indexed citations
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Berners‐Lee, Tim. (1997). World-wide computer. Communications of the ACM. 40(2). 57–58. 11 indexed citations
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Berners‐Lee, Tim, et al.. (1995). The World-Wide Web. Human-Computer Interaction. 907–912. 3 indexed citations
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Berners‐Lee, Tim, et al.. (1992). World Wide Web: An Information infrastructure for high-energy physics. CERN Bulletin. 157–164. 21 indexed citations

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