2026 David Carmel: 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	54	4616	4487	73	69	213	10464

Research.com Recognitions

2016 - ACM Distinguished Member

Overview

David Carmel is affiliated with Amazon (Israel) in Israel and has contributed to research primarily in the field of Computer Science, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, and Cognitive Neuroscience. Their work also intersects with Computer Science Applications and Sociology and Political Science.

Their research topics encompass:

Topic Modeling
Advanced Graph Neural Networks
Expert finding and Q&A systems
Information Retrieval and Search Behavior
Spam and Phishing Detection
Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing
Psychology of Social Influence

David Carmel has published in various venues, including:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
Nature Neuroscience
ACM SIGWEB Newsletter
Journal of Vision

Their recent papers include:

"What makes a theory of consciousness unscientific?" (2025), Nature Neuroscience
"Alexa, Let's Work Together: Introducing the First Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge on Conversational Task Assistance" (2022), arXiv (Cornell University)
"WSDM'21" (2021), ACM SIGWEB Newsletter
"IR Evaluation and Learning in the Presence of Forbidden Documents" (2022), Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
"Analyzing the Support Level for Tips Extracted from Product Reviews" (2022), Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Their research collaborations frequently involve co-authors such as Yoelle Maarek, Liane Lewin-Eytan, Eugene Agichtein, Simone Filice, and Guy Horowitz.

David Carmel was recognized as an ACM Distinguished Member in 2016.

Best Publications

Efficient query evaluation using a two-level retrieval process

Andrei Z. Broder;David Carmel;Michael Herscovici;Aya Soffer

532
Citations
Social media recommendation based on people and tags

Ido Guy;Naama Zwerdling;Inbal Ronen;David Carmel

437
Citations
Searching XML documents via XML fragments

David Carmel;Yoelle S. Maarek;Matan Mandelbrod;Yosi Mass

388
Citations
Blocking blog spam with language model disagreement

Gilad Mishne;David Carmel;Ronny Lempel

371
Citations
Personalized social search based on the user's social network

David Carmel;Naama Zwerdling;Ido Guy;Shila Ofek-Koifman

363
Citations
Personalized recommendation of social software items based on social relations

Ido Guy;Naama Zwerdling;David Carmel;Inbal Ronen

355
Citations
Static index pruning for information retrieval systems

David Carmel;Doron Cohen;Ronald Fagin;Eitan Farchi

305
Citations
What makes a query difficult

David Carmel;Elad Yom-Tov;Adam Darlow;Dan Pelleg

288
Citations
Learning to estimate query difficulty: including applications to missing content detection and distributed information retrieval

Elad Yom-Tov;Shai Fine;David Carmel;Adam Darlow

276
Citations
System, method and computer program product for performing unstructured information management and automatic text analysis, and providing multiple document views derived from different document tokenizations

Andrei Z Broder;David Carmel;Arthur C Ciccolo;David Ferrucci

249
Citations
Estimating the Query Difficulty for Information Retrieval

David Carmel;Elad Yom-Tov

231
Citations
Predicting Query Performance by Query-Drift Estimation

Anna Shtok;Oren Kurland;David Carmel;Fiana Raiber

231
Citations
Learning models of intelligent agents

David Carmel;Shaul Markovitch

224
Citations
Enhancing cluster labeling using wikipedia

David Carmel;Haggai Roitman;Naama Zwerdling

215
Citations
System, method and computer program product for performing unstructured information management and automatic text analysis, including a search operator functioning as a weighted and (WAND)

Andrei Z Broder;David Carmel;Michael Herscovici;Aya Soffer

210
Citations
Information search using knowledge agents

Yariv Aridor;David Carmel;Michael Herscovici;Yoelle Maarek-Smadja

189
Citations
Estimating the validity of the guilty knowledge test from simulated experiments: the external validity of mock crime studies

David Carmel;Eran Dayan;Ayelet Naveh;Ori Raveh

180
Citations
The connectivity sonar: detecting site functionality by structural patterns

Einat Amitay;David Carmel;Adam Darlow;Ronny Lempel

174
Citations
ERD'14: entity recognition and disambiguation challenge

David Carmel;Ming-Wei Chang;Evgeniy Gabrilovich;Bo-June (Paul) Hsu

150
Citations
Unconscious orientation processing depends on perceptual load

Bahador Bahrami;David Carmel;Vincent Walsh;Geraint Rees

149
Citations
Social recommender systems

Ido Guy;David Carmel

140
Citations
The Connectivity Sonar: Detecting Site Functionality by Structural Patterns

Ronny Lempel;Einat Amitay;David Carmel;Adam Darlow

16
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Elad Yom-Tov Microsoft (United States)

Yoelle Maarek Amazon (United States)

Shaul Markovitch Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Andrei Z. Broder Google (United States)

Eugene Agichtein Emory University

Ronald Fagin IBM (United States)

Evgeniy Gabrilovich Google (United States)

Ming-Wei Chang Google (United States)

Donna Harman National Institute of Standards and Technology

Kuansan Wang Microsoft (United States)

External Links

Personal website of David Carmel Google Scholar page

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