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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Computer Science 94 489 476 17 16 570 31227

Jimmy Lin publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Jimmy Lin between 1978 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Jimmy Lin published across 48 years, from 1978 to 2025, averaging 15.1 papers a year. Output peaked at 64 publications in 2021. 92 of the 724 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
20 40 60
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1978 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 64. Peak 64 publications in 2021. 1978: 2 publications 1979: 0 publications 1980: 0 publications 1981: 0 publications 1982: 0 publications 1983: 0 publications 1984: 0 publications 1985: 0 publications 1986: 0 publications 1987: 0 publications 1988: 0 publications 1989: 0 publications 1990: 1 publication 1991: 0 publications 1992: 1 publication 1993: 0 publications 1994: 0 publications 1995: 0 publications 1996: 0 publications 1997: 0 publications 1998: 1 publication 1999: 1 publication 2000: 2 publications 2001: 6 publications 2002: 8 publications 2003: 14 publications 2004: 8 publications 2005: 11 publications 2006: 23 publications 2007: 21 publications 2008: 18 publications 2009: 25 publications 2010: 10 publications 2011: 12 publications 2012: 15 publications 2013: 26 publications 2014: 27 publications 2015: 19 publications 2016: 36 publications 2017: 33 publications 2018: 28 publications 2019: 57 publications 2020: 54 publications 2021: 64 publications 2022: 50 publications 2023: 59 publications 2024: 54 publications 2025: 38 publications
1978 2025

724 publications in total across all disciplines

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Jimmy Lin: publications per year, 1978 to 2025
Year Publications
1978 2
1979 0
1980 0
1981 0
1982 0
1983 0
1984 0
1985 0
1986 0
1987 0
1988 0
1989 0
1990 1
1991 0
1992 1
1993 0
1994 0
1995 0
1996 0
1997 0
1998 1
1999 1
2000 2
2001 6
2002 8
2003 14
2004 8
2005 11
2006 23
2007 21
2008 18
2009 25
2010 10
2011 12
2012 15
2013 26
2014 27
2015 19
2016 36
2017 33
2018 28
2019 57
2020 54
2021 64
2022 50
2023 59
2024 54
2025 38
Total 724
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Jimmy Lin publications per year - data summary

  • Jimmy Lin, a Computer Science scholar from University of Waterloo, has 724 publications recorded across 48 years, from 1978 to 2025.
  • The oldest publication on record dates to 1978 and the most recent to 2025.
  • The most productive year is 2021, with 64 publications.
  • The least productive years with any output are 1990, 1992, 1998 and 1999, with 1 publication each.
  • 17 of the 48 years in the span carry no publications at all (1979, 1980, 1981, 1982 and others).
  • The rate of publication averages 15.1 papers per year over the whole span, or 23.4 per year counting only the 31 years with at least one publication.
  • The last 5 years on the chart (2021-2025) hold 265 publications, 37% of the career total.
  • Split into equal eras - 1978-1993: 4 publications (0.3 per year); 1994-2009: 138 publications (8.6 per year); 2010-2025: 582 publications (36.4 per year).
  • Comparing the opening and closing eras, the overall trend of publication is rising.

Jimmy Lin 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 Jimmy Lin sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600
Bar chart with 97 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 32–41 to 991+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 609. Most scientists, 609, have 142–151 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 562–571 publications, is where this scientist sits. 32–41 publications: 7 scientists 42–51 publications: 22 scientists 52–61 publications: 82 scientists 62–71 publications: 134 scientists 72–81 publications: 249 scientists 82–91 publications: 324 scientists 92–101 publications: 421 scientists 102–111 publications: 420 scientists 112–121 publications: 497 scientists 122–131 publications: 544 scientists 132–141 publications: 555 scientists 142–151 publications: 609 scientists 152–161 publications: 559 scientists 162–171 publications: 534 scientists 172–181 publications: 556 scientists 182–191 publications: 583 scientists 192–201 publications: 519 scientists 202–211 publications: 508 scientists 212–221 publications: 490 scientists 222–231 publications: 437 scientists 232–241 publications: 423 scientists 242–251 publications: 408 scientists 252–261 publications: 377 scientists 262–271 publications: 301 scientists 272–281 publications: 335 scientists 282–291 publications: 320 scientists 292–301 publications: 293 scientists 302–311 publications: 250 scientists 312–321 publications: 238 scientists 322–331 publications: 206 scientists 332–341 publications: 209 scientists 342–351 publications: 208 scientists 352–361 publications: 162 scientists 362–371 publications: 176 scientists 372–381 publications: 127 scientists 382–391 publications: 158 scientists 392–401 publications: 128 scientists 402–411 publications: 104 scientists 412–421 publications: 94 scientists 422–431 publications: 99 scientists 432–441 publications: 83 scientists 442–451 publications: 108 scientists 452–461 publications: 73 scientists 462–471 publications: 77 scientists 472–481 publications: 69 scientists 482–491 publications: 84 scientists 492–501 publications: 62 scientists 502–511 publications: 54 scientists 512–521 publications: 57 scientists 522–531 publications: 51 scientists 532–541 publications: 51 scientists 542–551 publications: 32 scientists 552–561 publications: 38 scientists 562–571 publications: 28 scientists 572–581 publications: 43 scientists 582–591 publications: 33 scientists 592–601 publications: 41 scientists 602–611 publications: 32 scientists 612–621 publications: 28 scientists 622–631 publications: 25 scientists 632–641 publications: 27 scientists 642–651 publications: 17 scientists 652–661 publications: 20 scientists 662–671 publications: 17 scientists 672–681 publications: 15 scientists 682–691 publications: 14 scientists 692–701 publications: 21 scientists 702–711 publications: 13 scientists 712–721 publications: 12 scientists 722–731 publications: 19 scientists 732–741 publications: 14 scientists 742–751 publications: 12 scientists 752–761 publications: 10 scientists 762–771 publications: 10 scientists 772–781 publications: 11 scientists 782–791 publications: 10 scientists 792–801 publications: 11 scientists 802–811 publications: 8 scientists 812–821 publications: 8 scientists 822–831 publications: 7 scientists 832–841 publications: 11 scientists 842–851 publications: 10 scientists 852–861 publications: 5 scientists 862–871 publications: 9 scientists 872–881 publications: 4 scientists 882–891 publications: 6 scientists 892–901 publications: 3 scientists 902–911 publications: 6 scientists 912–921 publications: 3 scientists 922–931 publications: 2 scientists 932–941 publications: 2 scientists 942–951 publications: 2 scientists 952–961 publications: 3 scientists 962–971 publications: 3 scientists 972–981 publications: 3 scientists 982–990 publications: 5 scientists 991+ publications: 100 scientists
32–41 publications 991+

This scientist: 570 publications — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Computer Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 14,188 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
32–41 7
42–51 22
52–61 82
62–71 134
72–81 249
82–91 324
92–101 421
102–111 420
112–121 497
122–131 544
132–141 555
142–151 609
152–161 559
162–171 534
172–181 556
182–191 583
192–201 519
202–211 508
212–221 490
222–231 437
232–241 423
242–251 408
252–261 377
262–271 301
272–281 335
282–291 320
292–301 293
302–311 250
312–321 238
322–331 206
332–341 209
342–351 208
352–361 162
362–371 176
372–381 127
382–391 158
392–401 128
402–411 104
412–421 94
422–431 99
432–441 83
442–451 108
452–461 73
462–471 77
472–481 69
482–491 84
492–501 62
502–511 54
512–521 57
522–531 51
532–541 51
542–551 32
552–561 38
562–571 28 570
572–581 43
582–591 33
592–601 41
602–611 32
612–621 28
622–631 25
632–641 27
642–651 17
652–661 20
662–671 17
672–681 15
682–691 14
692–701 21
702–711 13
712–721 12
722–731 19
732–741 14
742–751 12
752–761 10
762–771 10
772–781 11
782–791 10
792–801 11
802–811 8
812–821 8
822–831 7
832–841 11
842–851 10
852–861 5
862–871 9
872–881 4
882–891 6
892–901 3
902–911 6
912–921 3
922–931 2
932–941 2
942–951 2
952–961 3
962–971 3
972–981 3
982–990 5
991+ 100
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Jimmy Lin publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the publication count of all 14,188 Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 97 ranges running from 32–41 to 991+ publications.
  • Jimmy Lin, a Computer Science scholar from University of Waterloo, records 570 publications - the 95th percentile of the discipline.
  • 95% of ranked Computer Science scientists score the same or lower than Jimmy Lin, and about 5% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 202–211 publications range, and Jimmy Lin ranks above the median.
  • The most crowded range is 142–151 publications, holding 609 scientists (4% of the field).
  • 70% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 272–281 publications), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 991 publications or more, 100 scientists in all (<1% of the field).

Jimmy Lin 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 Jimmy Lin sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600 800
Bar chart with 52 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30–31 to 131+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 990. Most scientists, 990, have 36–37 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 94–95 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30–31 D-Index: 879 scientists 32–33 D-Index: 983 scientists 34–35 D-Index: 918 scientists 36–37 D-Index: 990 scientists 38–39 D-Index: 968 scientists 40–41 D-Index: 907 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 821 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 763 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 689 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 543 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 543 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 518 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 500 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 458 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 400 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 337 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 308 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 292 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 249 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 213 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 192 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 189 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 165 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 139 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 119 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 121 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 113 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 88 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 87 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 75 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 69 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 57 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 46 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 38 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 34 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 36 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 27 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 37 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 18 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 31 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 19 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 16 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 12 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 20 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 15 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 5 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 20 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 8 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 5 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 7 scientists 130 D-Index: 3 scientists 131+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30–31 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 94 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

View D-Index distribution as a table
Number of Computer Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 14,188 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30–31 879
32–33 983
34–35 918
36–37 990
38–39 968
40–41 907
42–43 821
44–45 763
46–47 689
48–49 543
50–51 543
52–53 518
54–55 500
56–57 458
58–59 400
60–61 337
62–63 308
64–65 292
66–67 249
68–69 213
70–71 192
72–73 189
74–75 165
76–77 139
78–79 119
80–81 121
82–83 113
84–85 88
86–87 87
88–89 75
90–91 69
92–93 57
94–95 46 94
96–97 38
98–99 34
100–101 36
102–103 27
104–105 37
106–107 18
108–109 31
110–111 19
112–113 16
114–115 12
116–117 20
118–119 15
120–121 5
122–123 20
124–125 8
126–127 5
128–129 7
130 3
131+ 98
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Jimmy Lin D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the discipline H-index (D-index) of all 14,188 Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 52 ranges running from 30–31 to 131+ D-Index.
  • Jimmy Lin, a Computer Science scholar from University of Waterloo, records 94 D-Index - the 97th percentile of the discipline.
  • 97% of ranked Computer Science scientists score the same or lower than Jimmy Lin, and about 3% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 44–45 D-Index range, and Jimmy Lin ranks above the median.
  • The most crowded range is 36–37 D-Index, holding 990 scientists (7% of the field).
  • 71% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 54–55 D-Index), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more, 98 scientists in all (<1% of the field).

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Jimmy Lin is affiliated with the University of Waterloo in Canada and specializes in computer science with a notable focus on artificial intelligence. Their scholarly work encompasses a broad range of topics within computer science, including artificial intelligence, computer vision and pattern recognition, and information systems.

Their research agenda extends into specialized subfields such as management science and operations research, and signal processing. Among the central topics addressed in their publications are topic modeling, natural language processing techniques, multimodal machine learning applications, domain adaptation and few-shot learning, information retrieval and search behavior, advanced image and video retrieval techniques, and data quality and management.

Jimmy Lin has contributed extensively to academic literature with key recent papers including:

  • The proper care and feeding of CAMELS: How limited training data affects streamflow prediction, 2020, Environmental Modelling & Software
  • Pretrained Transformers for Text Ranking: BERT and Beyond, 2021, Synthesis lectures on human language technologies
  • Pretrained Transformers for Text Ranking: BERT and Beyond, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • A Few Brief Notes on DeepImpact, COIL, and a Conceptual Framework for Information Retrieval Techniques, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Rapidly Bootstrapping a Question Answering Dataset for COVID-19, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)

They have published heavily on arXiv (Cornell University) with 133 publications, while other notable frequent publication venues include:

  • Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
  • ACM Transactions on Information Systems
  • Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

Jimmy Lin has collaborated repeatedly with several coauthors, notably:

  • Xueguang Ma
  • Ronak Pradeep
  • Sheng-Chieh Lin
  • Rodrigo Nogueira
  • Nandan Thakur

In addition to articles, Jimmy Lin has authored books published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers, including the title Pretrained Transformers for Text Ranking released in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Evaluation of PICO as a Knowledge Representation for Clinical Questions

    Xiaoli Huang;Jimmy J. Lin;Dina Demner-Fushman

  • Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce

    Jimmy Lin;Chris Dyer

  • Searching for SNPs with cloud computing

    Ben Langmead;Ben Langmead;Michael C Schatz;Jimmy Lin;Mihai Pop

  • WTF: the who to follow service at Twitter

    Pankaj Gupta;Ashish Goel;Jimmy Lin;Aneesh Sharma

  • Cloud Computing and Information Policy: Computing in a Policy Cloud?

    Paul T. Jaeger;Jimmy Lin;Justin M. Grimes

  • Distilling Task-Specific Knowledge from BERT into Simple Neural Networks

    Raphael Tang;Yao Lu;Linqing Liu;Lili Mou

  • Web question answering: is more always better?

    Susan Dumais;Michele Banko;Eric Brill;Jimmy Lin

  • Multi-Perspective Sentence Similarity Modeling with Convolutional Neural Networks

    Hua He;Kevin Gimpel;Jimmy Lin

  • Quantitative evaluation of passage retrieval algorithms for question answering

    Stefanie Tellex;Boris Katz;Jimmy Lin;Aaron Fernandes

  • Data-intensive Question Answering

    Eric Brill;Jimmy J. Lin;Michele Banko;Susan T. Dumais

  • Information network or social network?: the structure of the twitter follow graph

    Seth A. Myers;Aneesh Sharma;Pankaj Gupta;Jimmy Lin

  • End-to-End Open-Domain Question Answering with BERTserini

    Wei Yang;Yuqing Xie;Aileen Lin;Xingyu Li

  • Document Ranking with a Pretrained Sequence-to-Sequence Model

    Rodrigo Nogueira;Zhiying Jiang;Jimmy Lin

  • Rainfall–runoff prediction at multiple timescales with a single Long Short-Term Memory network

    Martin Gauch;Martin Gauch;Frederik Kratzert;Daniel Klotz;Grey Nearing;Grey Nearing

  • Overview of the TREC 2007 Question Answering Track

    Hoa Trang Dang;Diane Kelly;Jimmy J. Lin

  • Anserini: Enabling the Use of Lucene for Information Retrieval Research

    Peilin Yang;Hui Fang;Jimmy Lin

  • Answering Clinical Questions with Knowledge-Based and Statistical Techniques

    Dina Demner-Fushman;Jimmy Lin

  • DeeBERT: Dynamic Early Exiting for Accelerating BERT Inference

    Ji Xin;Raphael Tang;Jaejun Lee;Yaoliang Yu

  • PubMed related articles: a probabilistic topic-based model for content similarity.

    Jimmy J. Lin;Jimmy J. Lin;W. John Wilbur

  • Pairwise Document Similarity in Large Collections with MapReduce

    Tamer Elsayed;Jimmy Lin;Douglas Oard

  • Pyserini: A Python Toolkit for Reproducible Information Retrieval Research with Sparse and Dense Representations

    Jimmy Lin;Xueguang Ma;Sheng-Chieh Lin;Jheng-Hong Yang

  • Document Expansion by Query Prediction.

    Rodrigo Nogueira;Wei Yang;Jimmy Lin;Kyunghyun Cho

  • Simple BERT Models for Relation Extraction and Semantic Role Labeling.

    Peng Shi;Jimmy Lin

  • Multi-Stage Document Ranking with BERT.

    Rodrigo Nogueira;Wei Yang;Kyunghyun Cho;Jimmy Lin

  • Elements of a computational model for multi-party discourse: The turn-taking behavior of Supreme Court justices

    Timothy Hawes;Jimmy Lin;Philip Resnik

  • Proceedings of the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

    Hua He;Jimmy Lin;Adam Lopez

Frequent Co-Authors

Dina Demner-Fushman
Dina Demner-Fushman National Institutes of Health
Bonnie J. Dorr
Bonnie J. Dorr University of Florida
Charles L. A. Clarke
Charles L. A. Clarke University of Waterloo
Craig Macdonald
Craig Macdonald University of Glasgow
Donald Metzler
Donald Metzler Google (United States)
Douglas W. Oard
Douglas W. Oard University of Maryland, College Park
Iadh Ounis
Iadh Ounis University of Glasgow
Diane Kelly
Diane Kelly University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Kyunghyun Cho
Kyunghyun Cho New York University

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