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Ian Ruthven publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ian Ruthven sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 199 publications — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Ian Ruthven D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ian Ruthven sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 38 D-Index — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Overview

Ian Ruthven is affiliated with the University of Strathclyde in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within the social sciences, with a focus on sociology and political science, communication, philosophy, information systems, and health as key subfields.

Their recent publications demonstrate engagement with topics related to information behavior and information science. These include:

  • An information behavior theory of transitions (2021), published in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
  • Resonance and the experience of relevance (2020), published in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Ian Ruthven frequently publishes in journals such as the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Journal of Documentation, and Information Research an international electronic journal, among others.

Their research covers a range of topics, including:

  • Media, Religion, Digital Communication
  • Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Library Science and Administration
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Technology Use by Older Adults
  • Information Retrieval and Search Behavior

Co-authorship is an important aspect of their work. Frequent collaborators include Alison Hicks, Pamela J. McKenzie, Jenny Bronstein, Jette Seiden Hyldegård, and Gunilla Widén, each having co-authored multiple papers.

Ian Ruthven's work has appeared in publication venues such as:

  • Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
  • Journal of Documentation
  • Information Research an international electronic journal
  • Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology
  • Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

Among their notable research outputs are studies examining information behavior transitions and the experience of relevance within information science contexts. Their contributions align with their broader interests in how individuals and groups interact with information systems and media.

Best Publications

  • A survey on the use of relevance feedback for information access systems

    Ian Ruthven;Mounia Lalmas

  • Re-examining the potential effectiveness of interactive query expansion

    Ian Ruthven

  • How users assess web pages for information seeking

    Anastasios Tombros;Ian Ruthven;Joemon M. Jose

  • A classification scheme for content analyses of YouTube video comments

    Amy Madden;Ian Ruthven;David McMenemy

  • A task-oriented study on the influencing effects of query-biased summarisation in web searching

    Ryen W. White;Joemon M. Jose;Ian Ruthven

  • Towards task-based personal information management evaluations

    David Elsweiler;Ian Ruthven

  • Evaluating implicit feedback models using searcher simulations

    Ryen W. White;Ian Ruthven;Joemon M. Jose;C. J. Van Rijsbergen

  • Finding relevant documents using top ranking sentences: an evaluation of two alternative schemes

    Ryen W. White;Ian Ruthven;Joemon M. Jose

  • The Use of Implicit Evidence for Relevance Feedback in Web Retrieval

    Ryen White;Ian Ruthven;Joemon M. Jose

  • Searcher’s Assessments of Task Complexity for Web Searching

    David J. Bell;Ian Ruthven

  • A study of factors affecting the utility of implicit relevance feedback

    Ryen W. White;Ian Ruthven;Joemon M. Jose

  • Interactive information retrieval

    Ian Ruthven

  • The everyday life information seeking behaviours of first-time mothers

    Katherine Loudon;Steven Buchanan;Ian Ruthven

  • An implicit feedback approach for interactive information retrieval

    Ryen W. White;Joemon M. Jose;Ian Ruthven

  • Incorporating user search behavior into relevance feedback

    Ian Ruthven;Mounia Lalmas;Keith Van Rijsbergen

  • Towards memory supporting personal information management tools

    David Elsweiler;Ian Ruthven;Christopher Jones

  • Exploring memory in email refinding

    David Elsweiler;Mark Baillie;Ian Ruthven

  • An eye-tracking approach to the analysis of relevance judgments on the Web: The case of Google search engine

    Panos Balatsoukas;Ian Ruthven

  • Comparing explicit and implicit feedback techniques for Web retrieval: TREC-10 interactive track report

    Ryen W. White;Joemon M. Jose;I. Ruthven

  • Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

    Raffaele Perego;Fabrizio Sebastiani;Javed Aslam;Ian Ruthven

  • Representing and retrieving structured documents using the Dempster‐Shafer theory of evidence: modelling and evaluation

    Mounia Lalmas;Ian Ruthven

  • A Simulated Study of Implicit Feedback Models

    Ryen W. White;Joemon M. Jose;C. J. van Rijsbergen;Ian Ruthven

  • The Loupe: tangible augmented reality for learning to look at Ancient Greek art

    Areti Damala;Eva Hornecker;Merel van der Vaart;Dick van Dijk

Frequent Co-Authors

Ryen W. White
Ryen W. White Microsoft (United States)
Joemon M. Jose
Joemon M. Jose University of Glasgow
Fabio Crestani
Fabio Crestani Universita della Svizzera Italiana
C. J. van Rijsbergen
C. J. van Rijsbergen University of Glasgow
Leif Azzopardi
Leif Azzopardi University of Strathclyde
Eva Hornecker
Eva Hornecker Bauhaus University, Weimar
Dawei Song
Dawei Song The Open University
Iadh Ounis
Iadh Ounis University of Glasgow
Craig Macdonald
Craig Macdonald University of Glasgow

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