2026 Nicholas J. Belkin: 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	51	5215	5071	2394	2313	239	17373

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Overview

Nicholas J. Belkin is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research spans multiple interdisciplinary fields, including Computer Science, Decision Sciences, and Social Sciences. Subfields of focus include Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems and Management, Demography, and Communication.

Their work covers a range of main topics, which include:

Recommender Systems and Techniques
Personal Information Management and User Behavior
AI in Service Interactions
Technology Use by Older Adults
Knowledge Management and Sharing
Educational Strategies and Epistemologies
Scientometrics and Bibliometrics Research

Nicholas J. Belkin has coauthored research alongside several frequent collaborators such as Ryen W. White, Indigo Holcombe-James, Mohammad Saiedur Rahaman, Jonathan Liono, and Johanne R. Trippas.

Their recent publications are distributed across prominent venues including arXiv (Cornell University), International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Aslib Journal of Information Management, and ACM SIGIR Forum. These papers reflect the range of their interest in human-computer interaction, task management, and information retrieval.

Selected recent papers include:

Imagining future digital assistants at work: A study of task management needs, 2022, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Exploring social aspects of task perception using cognitive sociology, 2020, Aslib Journal of Information Management
Report on the CHIIR 2021 third workshop on evaluation of personalisation in information retrieval (WEPIR 2021), 2021, ACM SIGIR Forum
Imagining Future Digital Assistants at Work: A Study of Task Management Needs, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
Taking Search to Task, 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)

Best Publications

Information filtering and information retrieval: two sides of the same coin?

Nicholas J. Belkin;W. Bruce Croft

2470
Citations
Ask for information retrieval: part I.: background and theory

N. J. Belkin;R. N. Oddy;H. M. Brooks

2013
Citations
INFORMATION CONCEPTS FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE

Nicholas J. Belkin

692
Citations
Cases, scripts, and information-seeking strategies: On the design of interactive information retrieval systems

Nicholas J. Belkin;Colleen Cool;Adelheit Stein;Ulrich Thiel

568
Citations
Retrieval techniques

Nicholas J. Belkin;W. Bruce Croft

545
Citations
Information science and the phenomenon of information

Nicholas J. Belkin;Stephen E. Robertson

532
Citations
A case for interaction: a study of interactive information retrieval behavior and effectiveness

Jürgen Koenemann;Nicholas J. Belkin

507
Citations
The cognitive viewpoint in information science

N. J. Belkin

499
Citations
A faceted approach to conceptualizing tasks in information seeking

Yuelin Li;Nicholas J. Belkin

453
Citations
Combining the evidence of multiple query representations for information retrieval

N. J. Belkin;P. Kantor;E. A. Fox;J. A. Shaw

409
Citations
Braque: design of an interface to support user interaction in information retrieval

N. J. Belkin;P. G. Marchetti;C. Cool

403
Citations
ASK FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL: PART II. RESULTS OF A DESIGN STUDY

Nicholas J. Belkin;Robert N. Oddy;Helen M. Brooks

386
Citations
Cognitive models and information transfer

N.J. Belkin

344
Citations
Interaction with Texts: Information Retrieval as Information-Seeking Behavior.

Nicholas J. Belkin

327
Citations
The effect multiple query representations on information retrieval system performance

Nicholas J. Belkin;C. Cool;W. Bruce Croft;James P. Callan

302
Citations
Display time as implicit feedback: understanding task effects

Diane Kelly;Nicholas J. Belkin

298
Citations
Challenges in information retrieval and language modeling: report of a workshop held at the center for intelligent information retrieval, University of Massachusetts Amherst, September 2002

James Allan;Jay Aslam;Nicholas Belkin;Chris Buckley

291
Citations
Knowledge elicitation using discourse analysis

N. J. Belkin;H. M. Brooks;P. J. Daniels

272
Citations
Understanding Judgment of Information Quality and Cognitive Authority in the WWW.

Soo Young Rieh;Nicholas J. Belkin

251
Citations
Reading time, scrolling and interaction: exploring implicit sources of user preferences for relevance feedback

Diane Kelly;Nicholas J. Belkin

239
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Diane Kelly University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Chirag Shah University of Washington

W. Bruce Croft University of Massachusetts Amherst

Jaap Kamps University of Amsterdam

Susan T. Dumais Microsoft (United States)

Christine L. Borgman University of California, Los Angeles

Joemon M. Jose University of Glasgow

Gabriella Pasi University of Milano-Bicocca

Norbert Fuhr University of Duisburg-Essen

Michael Cole University of East London

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