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Information Retrieval and Search Behavior

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Guglielmo Faggioli
University of Padua
2
Serhad Sarica
Singapore University of Technology and Design
3
Luyu Gao
Carnegie Mellon University
4
Negar Arabzadeh
University of California, Berkeley
5
Kailash Hambarde
Instituto de Telecomunicações
6
Alireza Salemi
University of Massachusetts Amherst
7
Nelson F. Liu
AstraZeneca (United States)
8
Yujia Zhou
Suzhou University of Technology
9
Srishti Palani
University of California San Diego
10
Suchana Datta
University College Dublin

Rising Stars Papers

1
Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics|2024
921 cit.
2
Evaluating Retrieval Quality in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Unknown Journal|2024
122 cit.
3
LaMP: When Large Language Models Meet Personalization
Unknown Journal|2024
73 cit.
4
Optimization Methods for Personalizing Large Language Models through Retrieval Augmentation
Unknown Journal|2024
42 cit.
5
Evolving Roles and Workflows of Creative Practitioners in the Age of Generative AI
Creativity and Cognition|2024
41 cit.
6
Who Determines What Is Relevant? Humans or AI? Why Not Both?
Communications of the ACM|2024
40 cit.
7
Metacognitive Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models
Unknown Journal|2024
31 cit.
8
Towards a Search Engine for Machines: Unified Ranking for Multiple Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models
Unknown Journal|2024
17 cit.
9
Cognitive Personalized Search Integrating Large Language Models with an Efficient Memory Mechanism
Unknown Journal|2024
16 cit.
10
The innovation paradox: concept space expansion with diminishing originality and the promise of creative artificial intelligence
Design Science|2024
10 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Manclar Mitra
Cornell University
2
Tobias Schnabel
Hof University of Applied Sciences
3
Lillie R. Jenkins
Online Computer Library Center
4
Henning Wachsmuth
Leibniz University Hannover
5
Lingfeng Bao
Zhejiang University of Science and Technology
6
Hamed Zamani
University of Massachusetts Amherst
7
Marzena Świgoń
Uniwersytecki Szpital Kliniczny w Olsztynie
8
Pascal Fleury
Google (Switzerland)
9
Qing Ke
City University of Hong Kong
10
Hengliang Luo
Samsung (China)

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Perspectives on Large Language Models for Relevance Judgment
Unknown Journal|2023
152 cit.
2
Evaluating Retrieval Quality in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Unknown Journal|2024
122 cit.
3
How does working from home affect developer productivity? — A case study of Baidu during the COVID-19 pandemic
Science China Information Sciences|2022
120 cit.
4
Conversational Information Seeking
Foundations and Trends® in Information Retrieval|2023
75 cit.
5
LaMP: When Large Language Models Meet Personalization
Unknown Journal|2024
73 cit.
6
Conversational Information Seeking
Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval|2022
64 cit.
7
Retrieval-Enhanced Machine Learning
Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval|2022
46 cit.
8
V-SZZ
Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering|2022
46 cit.
9
FiD-Light: Efficient and Effective Retrieval-Augmented Text Generation
Unknown Journal|2023
44 cit.
10
Large Language Model Augmented Narrative Driven Recommendations
Unknown Journal|2023
43 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
W. Bruce Croft
University of Massachusetts Amherst
2
Lawrence M. Page
Florida Museum of Natural History
3
ChengXiang Zhai
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
4
John Lafferty
Carnegie Mellon University
5
Susan Dumais
Microsoft (United States)
6
Chris Buckley
Villanova University
7
Hang Li
Southern University of Science and Technology
8
Justin Zobel
The University of Melbourne
9
Maarten de Rijke
Amsterdam University of the Arts
10
Paul Tarau
University of North Texas at Dallas

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine
Computer Networks and ISDN Systems|1998
16k cit.
2
Conditional Random Fields: Probabilistic Models for Segmenting and Labeling Sequence Data
Scholarly Commons (University of Pennsylvania)|2001
13k cit.
3
The PageRank Citation Ranking : Bringing Order to the Web
Unknown Journal|1999
12.7k cit.
4
Term-weighting approaches in automatic text retrieval
Information Processing & Management|1988
9.5k cit.
5
A solution to Plato's problem: The latent semantic analysis theory of acquisition, induction, and representation of knowledge.
Psychological Review|1997
6.1k cit.
6
Semi-supervised learning using Gaussian fields and harmonic functions
Unknown Journal|2003
3.4k cit.
7
TextRank: Bringing Order into Text
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing|2004
3.4k cit.
8
A Language Modeling Approach to Information Retrieval
ACM SIGIR Forum|2017
2.5k cit.
9
Dynamic topic models
Unknown Journal|2006
2.4k cit.
10
Learning to rank
Unknown Journal|2007
2k cit.

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