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Johan Bollen

Computational Social Science Social Complexity Health Informatics Well-Being Analytics Informetrics

About

Johan Bollen is a professor of Informatics and Cognitive Science at Indiana University. He was formerly a staff scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 2005-2009, and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science of Old Dominion University from 2002 to 2005. He obtained his PhD in Experimental Psychology from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in 2001. He has published more than 80 articles on computational social science, social complexity, health, well-being, machine learning, and informetrics. His research has been funded by the NIH, NSF, DARPA, IARPA, EDA, NASA, and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Johan lives in Bloomington, Indiana. In his free time he enjoys running and weightlifting, and making people dance.

Research Performance Summary

177
Total Papers
23325
Total Citations
50
H-Index
1990-2025
Active Research Span

First Recorded Paper

1.21. SENTIMENT ANALYSIS 91

Year: 1990

Citations: 0

Venue: Natural Language Processing

Latest Recorded Paper

How Do We Collaborate?

Year: 2025

Citations: 0

Venue: N/A

Last 10 Years Publication Activity

This timeline shows the professor's yearly publication activity.

2025
10
2024
4
2023
9
2022
8
2021
9
2020
5
2019
1
2018
4
2017
4
2016
4
2015
5

Publication Venues and Collaboration

Journal, Conference, and Book Publication Breakdown

Conference 44
Journal 28
Book 2

Top Coauthors

Bollen Van de Sompel

Research Impact by Period

2025-2026

Period Stats
Papers 10
Citations 14
Avg. Citations / Paper 1.4
H-Index 2

2020-2024

Period Stats
Papers 35
Citations 3575
Avg. Citations / Paper 102.1
H-Index 13

2015-2019

Period Stats
Papers 18
Citations 1415
Avg. Citations / Paper 78.6
H-Index 14

2010-2014

Period Stats
Papers 30
Citations 12088
Avg. Citations / Paper 402.9
H-Index 19

2005-2009

Period Stats
Papers 45
Citations 5235
Avg. Citations / Paper 116.3
H-Index 22

2000-2004

Period Stats
Papers 24
Citations 489
Avg. Citations / Paper 20.4
H-Index 12

1995-1999

Period Stats
Papers 14
Citations 509
Avg. Citations / Paper 36.4
H-Index 6

1990-1994

Period Stats
Papers 1
Citations 0
Avg. Citations / Paper 0
H-Index 0

Contact and Professional Links

Contact Information

jbollen@iu.edu
8128561833

Detected Research Keywords

Einstein Meets Magritte Covid 19 Pandemic World Wide Web More Distorted Thinking Distorted Thinking Social Thinking Social Media Evaluation Digital Library Funding Agencies Scientific Agencies Scientific Agency Research Trends Digital