2026 David Mimno: 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	36	10986	10677	4569	4378	78	10979

Research.com Recognitions

2016 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

David Mimno is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and has an extensive body of work in computer science and social sciences. Their research prominently spans artificial intelligence, literature and literary theory, general social sciences, political science and international relations, and law.

The scientist's notable research topics include:

Topic Modeling
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Computational and Text Analysis Methods
Authorship Attribution and Profiling
Artificial Intelligence in Law
Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
Text Readability and Simplification

Mimno has published extensively, with 44 contributions in computer science and 22 in social sciences. The subfields of artificial intelligence and literature represent key areas of their research focus. Their frequent publication venues include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Journal of Cultural Analytics
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Poetics
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Mimno feature the following:

"Separating the wheat from the chaff: A topic and keyword-based procedure for identifying research-relevant text," 2020, Poetics
"Topic Modeling with Contextualized Word Representation Clusters," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
"Honest Students from Untrusted Teachers: Learning an Interpretable Question-Answering Pipeline from a Pretrained Language Model," 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
"Tags, Borders, and Catalogs," 2021, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
"Contextualized Topic Coherence Metrics," 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)

The scientist collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

Maria Antoniak
Matthew Wilkens
Rosamond Thalken
Gregory Yauney
Melanie Walsh

David Mimno has been recognized in the research community with the title of Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2016.

Best Publications

Optimizing Semantic Coherence in Topic Models

David Mimno;Hanna Wallach;Edmund Talley;Miriam Leenders

1760
Citations
Evaluation methods for topic models

Hanna M. Wallach;Iain Murray;Ruslan Salakhutdinov;David Mimno

1177
Citations
Rethinking LDA: Why Priors Matter

Hanna M. Wallach;David M. Mimno;Andrew McCallum

862
Citations
Evaluation methods for unsupervised word embeddings

Tobias Schnabel;Igor Labutov;David Mimno;Thorsten Joachims

694
Citations
Efficient methods for topic model inference on streaming document collections

Limin Yao;David Mimno;Andrew McCallum

545
Citations
A Practical Algorithm for Topic Modeling with Provable Guarantees

Sanjeev Arora;Rong Ge;Yonatan Halpern;David Mimno

474
Citations
Polylingual Topic Models

David Mimno;Hanna M. Wallach;Jason Naradowsky;David A. Smith

445
Citations
Topic models conditioned on arbitrary features with Dirichlet-multinomial regression

David Mimno;Andrew McCallum

402
Citations
Expertise modeling for matching papers with reviewers

David Mimno;Andrew McCallum

359
Citations
Mixtures of hierarchical topics with Pachinko allocation

David Mimno;Wei Li;Andrew McCallum

294
Citations
Applications of Topic Models

Jordan L. Boyd-Graber;Yuening Hu;David M. Mimno

292
Citations
Comparing grounded theory and topic modeling: Extreme divergence or unlikely convergence?

Eric P. S. Baumer;David Mimno;Shion Guha;Emily Quan

242
Citations
Evaluating the Stability of Embedding-based Word Similarities

Maria Antoniak;David Mimno

234
Citations
Significant themes in 19th-century literature

Matthew L. Jockers;David Mimno

232
Citations
Pulling Out the Stops: Rethinking Stopword Removal for Topic Models

Alexandra Schofield;Måns Magnusson;David M. Mimno

221
Citations
Comparing Apples to Apple: The Effects of Stemmers on Topic Models

Alexandra Schofield;David M. Mimno

206
Citations
Sparse Stochastic Inference for Latent Dirichlet allocation

David Mimno;Matt Hoffman;David Blei

175
Citations
Care and Feeding of Topic Models: Problems, Diagnostics, and Improvements

Edoardo M. Airoldi;David M. Blei;Elena A. Erosheva;Stephen E. Fienberg

166
Citations
Bibliometric impact measures leveraging topic analysis

David Mimno;Andrew McCallum;Gideon Mann

159
Citations
Computational historiography: Data mining in a century of classics journals

David Mimno

149
Citations
Database of NIH grants using machine-learned categories and graphical clustering

Edmund M Talley;David Newman;David Mimno;David Mimno;Bruce W Herr

116
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew McCallum University of Massachusetts Amherst

Hanna Wallach Microsoft (United States)

Lillian Lee Cornell University

David M. Blei Columbia University

Maria Liakata Queen Mary University of London

Jordan Boyd-Graber University of Maryland, College Park

Sanjeev Arora Princeton University

David Sontag MIT

Ankur Moitra MIT

Paul Dimaggio New York University

External Links

Personal website of David Mimno

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