2026 Barry Smyth: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	82	976	945	2	2	510	24083

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

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Computer Science

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24083

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Computer Science in Ireland Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Ireland Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Ireland Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Ireland Leader Award
2011 - Member of the Royal Irish Academy

Overview

Barry Smyth is affiliated with University College Dublin in Ireland and conducts research primarily in the field of Computer Science, with a particular focus on Artificial Intelligence. Their work spans several subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research, Information Systems, and Orthopedics and Sports Medicine.

The scientist's research covers multiple key topics, notably:

Sports Performance and Training
Stock Market Forecasting Methods
Recommender Systems and Techniques
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
Sports Analytics and Performance
Topic Modeling

Barry Smyth has contributed to a range of publications and has frequently published in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), IEEE Access, Sports Medicine, PLoS ONE, and Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Their recent papers include:

"Calculation of Critical Speed from Raw Training Data in Recreational Marathon Runners," 2020, Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
"Correction: Collaboration in the time of COVID: a scientometric analysis of multidisciplinary SARS-CoV-2 research," 2021, PubMed
"NumHTML: Numeric-Oriented Hierarchical Transformer Model for Multi-Task Financial Forecasting," 2022, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
"Decoupling of Internal and External Workload During a Marathon: An Analysis of Durability in 82,303 Recreational Runners," 2022, Sports Medicine
"Recommendations for marathon runners: on the application of recommender systems and machine learning to support recreational marathon runners," 2021, User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction

Their collaborative network includes frequent co-authors such as Ruihai Dong, Aonghus Lawlor, Mark T. Keane, Derek Greene, and Rian Dolphin.

Barry Smyth was recognized as a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2011.

Best Publications

Trust in recommender systems

John O'Donovan;Barry Smyth

1249
Citations
Advances in Case-Based Reasoning

Ian Smith;Boi Faltings

993
Citations
Retrieval, reuse, revision and retention in case-based reasoning

Ramon Lopez De Mantaras;David McSherry;Derek Bridge;David Leake

821
Citations
Recommending twitter users to follow using content and collaborative filtering approaches

John Hannon;Mike Bennett;Barry Smyth

666
Citations
Similarity vs. Diversity

Barry Smyth;Paul McClave

631
Citations
Using twitter to recommend real-time topical news

Owen Phelan;Kevin McCarthy;Barry Smyth

589
Citations
Recommendation to groups

Anthony Jameson;Barry Smyth

580
Citations
Case-based recommender systems

Derek Bridge;Mehmet H. Göker;Lorraine McGinty;Barry Smyth

394
Citations
Remembering to forget: a competence-preserving case deletion policy for case-based reasoning systems

Barry Smyth;Mark T. Keane

361
Citations
A personalized television listings service

Barry Smyth;Paul Cotter

314
Citations
Improving recommendation diversity

Barry Smyth

313
Citations
Case-based recommendation

Barry Smyth

302
Citations
Understanding the intent behind mobile information needs

Karen Church;Barry Smyth

292
Citations
PTV: Intelligent Personalised TV Guides

Paul Cotter;Barry Smyth

283
Citations
Exploiting Query Repetition and Regularity in an Adaptive Community-Based Web Search Engine

Barry Smyth;Evelyn Balfe;Jill Freyne;Peter Briggs

279
Citations
A personalised TV listings service for the digital TV age

B. Smyth;P. Cotter

264
Citations
Adaptation-guided retrieval: questioning the similarity assumption in reasoning

Barry Smyth;Mark T. Keane

257
Citations
Mobile information access: A study of emerging search behavior on the mobile Internet

Karen Church;Barry Smyth;Paul Cotter;Keith Bradley

232
Citations
Modelling the Competence of Case-Bases

Barry Smyth;Elizabeth McKenna

229
Citations
On the role of diversity in conversational recommender systems

Lorraine McGinty;Barry Smyth

216
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Pádraig Cunningham University College Dublin

Mark T. Keane University College Dublin

Alan F. Smeaton Dublin City University

Dermot Diamond Dublin City University

Cathal Gurrin Dublin City University

David B. Leake Indiana University

Noel E. O'Connor Dublin City University

Peter Brusilovsky University of Pittsburgh

Gregory M. P. O'Hare Trinity College Dublin

Pearl Pu École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

External Links

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