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Qatar
2026

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Computer Science

D-Index
76
Citations
29145
World Ranking
1322
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Computer Science in Qatar Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Qatar Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Qatar Leader Award
  • 2017 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Bernard J. Jansen is affiliated with the Qatar Computing Research Institute in Qatar. Their research spans multiple disciplines including computer science, social sciences, and business, management, and accounting. The focus areas of their work involve human-computer interaction, marketing, artificial intelligence, sociology and political science, as well as demography.

They have extensively contributed to topics such as persona design and applications, innovative human-technology interaction, service and product innovation, technology use by older adults, digital marketing and social media, hate speech and cyberbullying detection, and social media and politics.

Bernard J. Jansen has coauthored many publications with frequent collaborators including Joni Salminen, Soon-gyo Jung, Hind Almerekhi, Soon-Gyo Jung, and Kathleen Guan.

Some notable recent papers include:

  • Employing large language models in survey research (2023) published in Natural Language Processing Journal
  • Creating and detecting fake reviews of online products (2021) published in Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services
  • A Survey of 15 Years of Data-Driven Persona Development (2021) published in International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
  • Developing an online hate classifier for multiple social media platforms (2020) published in Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences
  • Data-Driven Personas for Enhanced User Understanding: Combining Empathy with Rationality for Better Insights to Analytics (2020) published in Data and Information Management

Bernard J. Jansen's work has appeared frequently in specific publication venues, including:

  • Data and Information Management
  • International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
  • Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
  • International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
  • Behaviour and Information Technology

They have also authored books, including titles published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers and Synthesis lectures on human-centered informatics. These include "Understanding Audiences, Customers, and Users via Analytics" (2023) and "Data-Driven Personas" (2021).

Their scholarly contributions have been recognized with an ACM Senior Member award in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Twitter power: Tweets as electronic word of mouth

    Bernard J. Jansen;Mimi Zhang;Kate Sobel;Abdur Chowdury

  • Real life, real users, and real needs: a study and analysis of user queries on the web

    Bernard J. Jansen;Amanda Spink;Tefko Saracevic

  • How are we searching the world wide web?: a comparison of nine search engine transaction logs

    Bernard J. Jansen;Amanda Spink

  • Detecting rumors from microblogs with recurrent neural networks

    Jing Ma;Wei Gao;Prasenjit Mitra;Sejeong Kwon

  • Real life information retrieval: a study of user queries on the Web

    Bernard J. Jansen;Amanda Spink;Judy Bateman;Tefko Saracevic

  • From e-sex to e-commerce: Web search changes

    A. Spink;B.J. Jansen;D. Wolfram;T. Saracevic

  • A review of web searching studies and a framework for future research

    Bernard J. Jansen;Udo Pooch

  • Determining the informational, navigational, and transactional intent of Web queries

    Bernard J. Jansen;Danielle L. Booth;Amanda Spink

  • Search log analysis: What it is, what's been done, how to do it

    Bernard J. Jansen

  • A model for understanding collaborative information behavior in context: A study of two healthcare teams

    Madhu C. Reddy;Bernard J. Jansen

  • An examination of searcher's perceptions of nonsponsored and sponsored links during ecommerce Web searching

    Bernard J. Jansen;Marc Resnick

  • Sponsored search: an overview of the concept, history, and technology

    Bernard J. Jansen;Tracy Mullen

  • Determining the user intent of web search engine queries

    Bernard J. Jansen;Danielle L. Booth;Amanda Spink

  • An analysis of web documents retrieved and viewed

    Bernard J. Jansen;Amanda Spink

  • Micro-blogging as online word of mouth branding

    Bernard J. Jansen;Mimi Zhang;Kate Sobel;Abdur Chowdury

  • Defining a session on Web search engines

    Bernard J. Jansen;Amanda Spink;Chris Blakely;Sherry Koshman

  • Determining the informational, navigational and transactional intent of web queries

    Danielle Booth;Bernard Jansen;Amanda Spink

  • Developing an online hate classifier for multiple social media platforms

    Joni Salminen;Joni Salminen;Maximilian Hopf;Shammur A. Chowdhury;Soon gyo Jung

  • An analysis of web searching by European AlltheWeb.com users

    Bernard J. Jansen;Amanda Spink

  • A temporal comparison of AltaVista Web searching

    Bernard J. Jansen;Amanda Spink;Jan O. Pedersen

  • Web searcher interaction with the Dogpile.com metasearch engine

    Bernard J. Jansen;Amanda Spink;Sherry Koshman

Frequent Co-Authors

Amanda Spink
Amanda Spink Queensland University of Technology
Haewoon Kwak
Haewoon Kwak Indiana University
Tefko Saracevic
Tefko Saracevic Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Partha P. Mukherjee
Partha P. Mukherjee Purdue University West Lafayette
Daniel Zeng
Daniel Zeng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Prasenjit Mitra
Prasenjit Mitra Pennsylvania State University
C. Lee Giles
C. Lee Giles Pennsylvania State University
John Yen
John Yen Pennsylvania State University
Yaser Jararweh
Yaser Jararweh Jordan University of Science and Technology
Jan O. Pedersen
Jan O. Pedersen Microsoft (United States)

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