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W. Bruce Croft

Active 1975–2025

424
Papers
42,847
Citations
100
h-index
326
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Citations

Citations per year for W. Bruce Croft1953: 2 citations1967: 3 citations1969: 2 citations1972: 2 citations1973: 1 citations1977: 5 citations1978: 2 citations1979: 6 citations1980: 10 citations1981: 13 citations1982: 7 citations1983: 10 citations1984: 18 citations1985: 21 citations1986: 46 citations1987: 39 citations1988: 72 citations1989: 103 citations1990: 82 citations1991: 125 citations1992: 135 citations1993: 187 citations1994: 154 citations1995: 233 citations1996: 268 citations1997: 295 citations1998: 348 citations1999: 392 citations2000: 496 citations2001: 454 citations2002: 557 citations2003: 681 citations2004: 923 citations2005: 951 citations2006: 1,014 citations2007: 1,249 citations2008: 1,208 citations2009: 1,360 citations2010: 1,484 citations2011: 1,524 citations2012: 1,696 citations2013: 1,421 citations2014: 1,387 citations2015: 1,405 citations2016: 1,273 citations2017: 1,272 citations2018: 1,476 citations2019: 1,586 citations2020: 1,479 citations2021: 1,567 citations2022: 1,030 citations2023: 963 citations2024: 1,078 citations2025: 676 citations2026: 198 citations1954–1966: no citations, so these years are not shown1968: no citations, so this year is not shown1970–1971: no citations, so these years are not shown1974–1976: no citations, so these years are not shown

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Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 5,870 citing papers, 25.6% of this breakdownChina: 3,345 citing papers, 14.6% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 1,493 citing papers, 6.5% of this breakdownGermany: 928 citing papers, 4% of this breakdownAustralia: 850 citing papers, 3.7% of this breakdownCanada: 813 citing papers, 3.5% of this breakdownFrance: 715 citing papers, 3.1% of this breakdownNetherlands: 704 citing papers, 3.1% of this breakdownIndia: 647 citing papers, 2.8% of this breakdownItaly: 644 citing papers, 2.8% of this breakdownJapan: 585 citing papers, 2.5% of this breakdownSpain: 509 citing papers, 2.2% of this breakdown
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Institutions

Fields

  • Computer Science88.7%
  • Social Sciences2.6%
  • Decision Sciences2.1%
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.8%
  • Physics and Astronomy1.4%
  • Business, Management and Accounting0.9%
  • Other2.5%

Topics

  • Topic Modeling13.3%
  • Information Retrieval and Search Behavior8%
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques7%
  • Web Data Mining and Analysis6%
  • Semantic Web and Ontologies4.6%
  • Advanced Text Analysis Techniques4.4%
  • Other56.7%

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  1. A Deep Relevance Matching Model for Ad-hoc Retrieval

    Authors: Jiafeng Guo, Yixing Fan, Qingyao Ai, W. Bruce Croft - International on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2016 cited by 851

  2. A Deep Look into Neural Ranking Models for Information Retrieval

    Authors: Jiafeng Guo, Yixing Fan, Liang Pang, Liu Yang, Qingyao Ai, Hamed Zamani, Chen Wu, W. Bruce Croft, Xueqi Cheng - Information Processing & Management, Inf. Process. Manag. 2019 cited by 333

  3. Asking Clarifying Questions in Open-Domain Information-Seeking Conversations

    Authors: Mohammad Aliannejadi, Hamed Zamani, Fabio Crestani, W. Bruce Croft - SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval 2019 cited by 198

  4. Towards Conversational Search and Recommendation: System Ask, User Respond

    Authors: Yongfeng Zhang, Xu Chen, Qingyao Ai, Liu Yang, W. Bruce Croft - International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2018 cited by 327

  5. From Neural Re-Ranking to Neural Ranking: Learning a Sparse Representation for Inverted Indexing

    Authors: Hamed Zamani, Mostafa Dehghani, W. Bruce Croft, Erik G. Learned-Miller, Jaap Kamps - International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2018 cited by 179

  6. Unbiased Learning to Rank with Unbiased Propensity Estimation

    Authors: Qingyao Ai, Keping Bi, Cheng Luo, Jiafeng Guo, W. Bruce Croft - The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval 2018 cited by 187

  7. Learning a Deep Listwise Context Model for Ranking Refinement

    Authors: Qingyao Ai, Keping Bi, Jiafeng Guo, W. Bruce Croft - The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval 2018 cited by 139

  8. Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

    Authors: K. Tamsin Maxwell, Jon Oberlander, W. Bruce Croft - The Association for Computational Linguistics 2013 cited by 279

  9. Query performance prediction in web search environments

    Authors: Yun Zhou, W. Bruce Croft - SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval 2007 cited by 264

  10. Information Filtering and Information Retrieval: Two Sides of the Same Coin?

    Authors: Nicholas J. Belkin, W. Bruce Croft - Communications of the ACM, Commun. ACM 1992 cited by 1,291

  11. A Markov random field model for term dependencies

    Authors: Donald Metzler, W. Bruce Croft - SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval 2005 cited by 849

  12. Predicting query performance

    Authors: Stephen Cronen-Townsend, Yun Zhou, W. Bruce Croft - SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval 2002 cited by 669

  13. Open-Retrieval Conversational Question Answering

    Authors: Chen Qu, Liu Yang, Cen Chen, Minghui Qiu, W. Bruce Croft, Mohit Iyyer - SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval 2020 cited by 80

  14. The History of Information Retrieval Research

    Authors: Mark Sanderson, W. Bruce Croft - IEEE, Proc. IEEE 2012 cited by 196

  15. BERT with History Answer Embedding for Conversational Question Answering

    Authors: Chen Qu, Liu Yang, Minghui Qiu, W. Bruce Croft, Yongfeng Zhang, Mohit Iyyer - SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval 2019 cited by 149

  16. Analyzing and Characterizing User Intent in Information-seeking Conversations

    Authors: Chen Qu, Liu Yang, W. Bruce Croft, Johanne R. Trippas, Yongfeng Zhang, Minghui Qiu - The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval 2018 cited by 107

  17. Quality-biased ranking of web documents

    Authors: Michael Bendersky, W. Bruce Croft, Yanlei Diao - fourth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining, WSDM 2011 cited by 155

  18. Learning a Hierarchical Embedding Model for Personalized Product Search

    Authors: Qingyao Ai, Yongfeng Zhang, Keping Bi, Xu Chen, W. Bruce Croft - SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval 2017 cited by 140

  19. SIGIR '98: Proceedings of the 21st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, August 24-28 1998, Melbourne, Australia

    Authors: W. Bruce Croft, Alistair Moffat, C. J. van Rijsbergen, Ross Wilkinson, Justin Zobel - ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval 1998 cited by 265

  20. I3R: A new approach to the design of document retrieval systems

    Authors: W. Bruce Croft, R. H. Thompson - Journal of the American Society for Information Science, J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci. 1987 cited by 335

  21. Neural Ranking Models with Weak Supervision

    Authors: Mostafa Dehghani, Hamed Zamani, Aliaksei Severyn, Jaap Kamps, W. Bruce Croft - SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval 2017 cited by 309

  22. A Non-Factoid Question-Answering Taxonomy

    Authors: Valeria Bolotova, Vladislav Blinov, Falk Scholer, W. Bruce Croft, Mark Sanderson - SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval 2022 cited by 35

  23. A Language Modeling Approach to Information Retrieval

    Authors: Jay M. Ponte, W. Bruce Croft - ACM SIGIR Forum 1998 cited by 2,544

  24. Joint Representation Learning for Top-N Recommendation with Heterogeneous Information Sources

    Authors: Yongfeng Zhang, Qingyao Ai, Xu Chen, W. Bruce Croft - on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2017 cited by 319