Sara Lafia

Computer Science · University of Michigan

Mid career · publishing since 2014

Research Data Management Practices Data Quality and Management Geographic Information Systems Studies Semantic Web and Ontologies Scientific Computing and Data Management

Publications

Citations

202

Est. group size

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

Publishing since 2014

In context

Among 784 mid career Computer Science PIs within our index

Citations: 202cohort median 434

Publications / year (recent): 5.0cohort median 3.8

Typically publishes in teams of ~4 · 46% small-team papers (≤3 authors) · across 19 venues

Publication cadence

Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 5.0/year recently

Collaborators per year

Distinct co-authors at University of Michigan each year — a rough indication of whether the group around this researcher has been growing or contracting. An estimate from co-authorship, not a roster: collaborators are not necessarily lab members, and recent years can be under-counted while indexing catches up.

Recent publications

Building a Test Collection for Social Science Dataset Retrieval
2026
Data, not documents: Moving beyond theories of information‐seeking behavior to advance data discovery
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology · 2024
A dataset for measuring the impact of research data and their curation
Scientific Data · 2024
Exploratory and directed search strategies at a social science data archive
IASSIST Quarterly · 2024
Review for "Hyperauthored papers disproportionately amplify important egocentric network metrics"
2024
<scp>DataChat</scp> : Prototyping a Conversational Agent for Dataset Search and Visualization
Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology · 2023
<em>How and Why Do Researchers Reference Data</em>? A Study of Rhetorical Features and Functions of Data References in Academic Articles
Data Science Journal · 2023
Digitizing and parsing semi-structured historical administrative documents from the G.I. Bill mortgage guarantee program
Journal of Documentation · 2023
Direct, Orienting, and Scenic Paths: How Users Navigate Search in a Research Data Archive
2023
DataChat: Prototyping a Conversational Agent for Dataset Search and Visualization
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023
How and Why do Researchers Reference Data? A Study of Rhetorical Features and Functions of Data References in Academic Articles
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023
Data, not documents: Moving beyond theories of information-seeking behavior to advance data discovery
Deep Blue (University of Michigan) · 2023
Review for "Hyperauthored papers disproportionately amplify important egocentric network metrics"
2023
The Craft and Coordination of Data Curation: Complicating Workflow Views of Data Science
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction · 2022
How do properties of data, their curation, and their funding relate to reuse?
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology · 2022

Publishes in

arXiv (Cornell University)×4
DROPS (Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics)×3
Deep Blue (University of Michigan)×3
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology×2
Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology×2

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Last updated Jul 25, 2026.

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