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Expert finding and Q&A systems

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Damai Dai
Microsoft Research (India)
2
Reza Jafari Ziarani
Islamic Azad University Central Tehran Branch
3
Mengyuan Jing
Key Laboratory of Guangdong Province
4
Nikhil N. Sharma
Johns Hopkins University
5
Yangjingjing Zhang
Xihua University
6
Weilin Cai
Xi'an Jiaotong University
7
Halime Khojamli
University of Tabriz
8
Muhammad Farrukh Bashir
Riphah International University
9
Deepak Kumar Panda
Indian Institute of Management Indore
10
Sohaib Mustafa
Beijing University of Technology

Rising Stars Papers

1
DeepSeekMoE: Towards Ultimate Expert Specialization in Mixture-of-Experts Language Models
Unknown Journal|2024
188 cit.
2
Generative Echo Chamber? Effect of LLM-Powered Search Systems on Diverse Information Seeking
Unknown Journal|2024
98 cit.
3
A Survey on Mixture of Experts in Large Language Models
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering|2025
97 cit.
4
Role of environmental awareness & self-identification expressiveness in electric-vehicle adoption
Transportation|2024
25 cit.
5
Exploring the Influence of AI Adoption and Technological Readiness on Sustainable Performance in Pakistani Export Sector Manufacturing Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
Sustainability|2025
20 cit.
6
Association between Pericoronary Fat Attenuation Index Values and Plaque Composition Volume Fraction Measured by Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography
Academic Radiology|2024
12 cit.
7
Review-Enhanced Hierarchical Contrastive Learning for Recommendation
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence|2024
10 cit.
8
Driving SME Sustainability via the Influence of Green Capital, HRM, and Leadership
Sustainability|2025
8 cit.
9
Differentiation of acute coronary syndrome with radiomics of pericoronary adipose tissue
British Journal of Radiology|2024
6 cit.
10
Maximum Utility Consensus with Inequity Aversion in Social Network Group Decision Making
Group Decision and Negotiation|2024
5 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Violeta Berdejo‐Espinola
The University of Queensland
2
Valeria Ramírez‐Castañeda
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
3
Marina Golivets
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
4
Juan David González‐Trujillo
Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia
5
Flavia Montaño‐Centellas
Louisiana State University
6
Kumar Paudel
NLR Nepal
7
Israel Borokini
University of California, Berkeley
8
Marzena Świgoń
Uniwersytecki Szpital Kliniczny w Olsztynie
9
Zahid Nawaz
Quaid-i-Azam University
10
Gord Lueck
Microsoft (United States)

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
A set of principles and practical suggestions for equitable fieldwork in biology
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2022
78 cit.
2
Multiple dimensions of extreme weather events and their impacts on biodiversity
Climatic Change|2023
38 cit.
3
Changes in Green Space Use During a COVID-19 Lockdown Are Associated With Both Individual and Green Space Characteristics
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution|2022
31 cit.
4
Global patterns and drivers of raptor phylogenetic and functional diversity
Global Ecology and Biogeography|2022
19 cit.
5
Alien flora of Nigeria: taxonomy, biogeography, habitats, and ecological impacts
Biological Invasions|2023
18 cit.
6
Virtual reality for nature experiences
Nature Human Behaviour|2024
18 cit.
7
Network structure of avian mixed-species flocks decays with elevation and latitude across the Andes
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences|2023
16 cit.
8
Well-being from nature exposure depends on socio-environmental contexts in Paraguay
Nature Cities|2024
12 cit.
9
Benzimidazole-based N-heterocyclic carbene silver complexes as catalysts for the formation of carbonates from carbon dioxide and epoxides
Molecular Catalysis|2022
7 cit.
10
Projecting community trophic structures for the last 120 000 years
Ecography|2024
7 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Maarten de Rijke
Amsterdam University of the Arts
2
Zhong Su
Beijing Information Science & Technology University
3
Susan Dumais
Microsoft (United States)
4
Mark S. Ackerman
University of Michigan
5
Dit‐Yan Yeung
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
6
Tat‐Seng Chua
National University of Singapore
7
W. Bruce Croft
University of Massachusetts Amherst
8
Alon Halevy
Google (United States)
9
Gilad Mishne
Mountain View Clinical Research
10
Stephen Robertson
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
A solution to Plato's problem: The latent semantic analysis theory of acquisition, induction, and representation of knowledge.
Psychological Review|1997
6.1k cit.
2
NUS-WIDE
Unknown Journal|2009
3k cit.
3
The Probabilistic Relevance Framework: BM25 and Beyond
Foundations and Trends® in Information Retrieval|2009
2.9k cit.
4
A Language Modeling Approach to Information Retrieval
ACM SIGIR Forum|2017
2.5k cit.
5
Okapi at TREC
Text REtrieval Conference|1994
2.2k cit.
6
ArnetMiner
Unknown Journal|2008
2.1k cit.
7
Relevance weighting of search terms
Journal of the American Society for Information Science|1976
2.1k cit.
8
SCA-CNN: Spatial and Channel-Wise Attention in Convolutional Networks for Image Captioning
Unknown Journal|2017
2.1k cit.
9
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data
IEEE Intelligent Systems|2009
1.8k cit.
10
A language modeling approach to information retrieval
Unknown Journal|1998
1.7k cit.

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