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Kalervo Järvelin

Kalervo Järvelin

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Computer Science

D-Index
47
Citations
19734
World Ranking
6295
National Ranking
43

Overview

Kalervo Järvelin is affiliated with Tampere University in Finland and has contributed extensively to the fields of Computer Science and Decision Sciences. Their research covers a range of topics primarily centered around scientometrics and bibliometrics, with additional focus on research data management practices, information retrieval and search behavior, expert finding and question-answering systems, computational and text analysis methods, advanced text analysis techniques, and natural language processing techniques.

Their recent published papers include:

  • LIS research across 50 years: content analysis of journal articles (2021), Journal of Documentation
  • Characteristics of LIS research articles affecting their citation impact (2023), Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

Some of the frequent co-authors contributing to their work are:

  • Pertti Vakkari
  • Yu-Wei Chang
  • Elizaveta Zimina
  • Jaakko Peltonen
  • Aarne Ranta

Järvelin's research has been published in various venues such as:

  • Journal of Documentation
  • Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
  • Scientometrics
  • Journal of Librarianship and Information Science
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Their primary fields of study encompass:

  • Computer Science
  • Decision Sciences

Within these fields, subfields of focus include:

  • Information Systems
  • Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • General Social Sciences
  • Communication

Best Publications

  • Cumulated gain-based evaluation of IR techniques

    Kalervo Järvelin;Jaana Kekäläinen

  • IR evaluation methods for retrieving highly relevant documents

    Kalervo Järvelin;Jaana Kekäläinen

  • IR evaluation methods for retrieving highly relevant documents

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  • Task complexity affects information seeking and use

    Katriina Byström;Kalervo Järvelin

  • The Turn: Integration of Information Seeking and Retrieval in Context (The Information Retrieval Series)

    Peter Ingwersen;Kalervo Järvelin

  • Collaborative Information Retrieval in an information-intensive domain

    Preben Hansen;Kalervo Järvelin

  • The evolution of library and information science 1965–1985: a content analysis of journal articles

    Kalervo Järvelin;Pertti Vakkari

  • Using graded relevance assessments in IR evaluation

    Jaana Kekäläinen;Kalervo Järvelin

  • Content Analysis of Research Articles in Library and Information Science.

    Kalervo Jarvelin;Pertti Vakkari

  • On conceptual models for information seeking and retrieval research.

    Kalervo Järvelin;T. D. Wilson

  • Information Seeking Research Needs Extension towards Tasks and Technology.

    Kalervo Järvelin;Peter Ingwersen

  • Stemming and lemmatization in the clustering of finnish text documents

    Tuomo Korenius;Jorma Laurikkala;Kalervo Järvelin;Martti Juhola

  • Dictionary-Based Cross-Language Information Retrieval: Problems, Methods, and Research Findings

    Ari Pirkola;Turid Hedlund;Heikki Keskustalo;Kalervo Järvelin

  • Evolution of library and information science, 1965-2005: Content analysis of journal articles

    Otto Tuomaala;Kalervo Järvelin;Pertti Vakkari

  • Discounted cumulated gain based evaluation of multiple-query IR sessions

    Kalervo Järvelin;Susan L. Price;Lois M. L. Delcambre;Marianne Lykke Nielsen

  • Information retrieval in context: IRiX

    Peter Ingwersen;Kalervo Järvelin

  • The impact of query structure and query expansion on retrieval performance

    Jaana Kekäläinen;Kalervo Järvelin

  • Dictionary-Based Cross-Language Information Retrieval: Learning Experiences from CLEF 2000–2002

    Turid Hedlund;Eija Airio;Heikki Keskustalo;Raija Lehtokangas

  • ExpansionTool: Concept-Based Query Expansion and Construction

    Kalervo Järvelin;Jaana Kekäläinen;Timo Niemi

  • Report on the SIGIR 2010 workshop on the simulation of interaction

    Leif Azzopardi;Kalervo Järvelin;Jaap Kamps;Mark D. Smucker

  • Creating and exploiting a comparable corpus in cross-language information retrieval

    Tuomas Talvensaari;Jorma Laurikkala;Kalervo Järvelin;Martti Juhola

  • Proceedings of the 25th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval

    Kalervo Järvelin;Micheline Beaulieu;Ricardo Baeza-Yates;Sung Hyon Myaeng

  • Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval

    Efthimis N. Efthimiadis;Susan Dumais;David Hawking;Kalervo Järvelin

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Ingwersen
Peter Ingwersen University of Copenhagen
Pertti Vakkari
Pertti Vakkari Tampere University
Mark Sanderson
Mark Sanderson RMIT University
Leif Azzopardi
Leif Azzopardi University of Strathclyde
Alan F. Smeaton
Alan F. Smeaton Dublin City University
Peter Bruza
Peter Bruza Queensland University of Technology
James Allan
James Allan University of Massachusetts Amherst
Norbert Fuhr
Norbert Fuhr University of Duisburg-Essen
Aiden R. Doherty
Aiden R. Doherty University of Oxford
Susan T. Dumais
Susan T. Dumais Microsoft (United States)

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