Citedness, uncitedness, and the murky world between

We test a recent claim in an opinion piece (interactions, May/June 2008, pp. 45-47) that publications by HCI researchers have little or no impact. The alleged "phenomenon of uncitedness" was not supported. An examination of all 443 papers in the CHI Proceedings (1991-1995), ACM TOCHI (1994-1999), and HumanComputer Interaction (19911995) found an average of 93.8, 106.7, and 80.4 citations per paper, respectively. H-index as an impact measure is explained, with values given for members of the CHI Academy. The mean of 34.3 suggests that the group, taken as a whole, have had a significant impact on human-computer interaction. Keywords Citation analyses, H index, research impact ACM Classification Keywords H5.m. Miscellaneous.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: CHI
• Authors: I. Scott MacKenzie
• Keywords: CHI 2009, Human Computer Interaction, Impact Acm Classification, Impact Measure, Significant Impact