2026 Norbert Fuhr: 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	50	5581	5424	260	252	292	11079

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Overview

Norbert Fuhr is affiliated with the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany and specializes in Computer Science. Their research spans several subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, Management Science and Operations Research, Sociology and Political Science, and Signal Processing.

The scientist's work primarily addresses topics such as Information Retrieval and Search Behavior, Semantic Web and Ontologies, Recommender Systems and Techniques, Topic Modeling, Advanced Text Analysis Techniques, Advanced Graph Neural Networks, and Expert Finding and Q&A Systems.

Norbert Fuhr has contributed to multiple research papers, with recent publications including:

Towards Meaningful Statements in IR Evaluation: Mapping Evaluation Measures to Interval Scales (2021, DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
Report on the Dagstuhl Seminar on Frontiers of Information Access Experimentation for Research and Education (2023, ACM SIGIR Forum)
Report from Dagstuhl Seminar 23031: Frontiers of Information Access Experimentation for Research and Education (2023, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl))
Response to Moffat's Comment on "Towards Meaningful Statements in IR Evaluation: Mapping Evaluation Measures to Interval Scales" (2022, arXiv (Cornell University))
Towards Meaningful Statements in IR Evaluation: Mapping Evaluation Measures to Interval Scales (2021, IEEE Access)

The main venues where Norbert Fuhr's work has appeared include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
ACM SIGIR Forum
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
IEEE Access

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

Timo Breuer
Philipp Schaer
Nicola Ferro
Sameh Frihat
Christine Bauer

Best Publications

Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management

Otthein Herzog;Hans-Jörg Schek;Norbert Fuhr;Abdur Chowdhury

930
Citations
A probabilistic relational algebra for the integration of information retrieval and database systems

Norbert Fuhr;Thomas Rölleke

549
Citations
Probabilistic models in information retrieval

Norbert Fuhr

537
Citations
XIRQL: a query language for information retrieval in XML documents

Norbert Fuhr;Kai Großjohann

504
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A probabilistic learning approach for document indexing

Norbert Fuhr;Chris Buckley

359
Citations
Evaluation of digital libraries

Norbert Fuhr;Giannis Tsakonas;Trond Aalberg;Maristella Agosti

328
Citations
Models for retrieval with probabilistic indexing

Norbert Fuhr

301
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
A decision-theoretic approach to database selection in networked IR

Norbert Fuhr

261
Citations
AIR/X - A rule-based multistage indexing system for Iarge subject fields.

Norbert Fuhr;Stephan Hartmann;Gerhard Lustig;Michael Schwantner

220
Citations
Optimum polynomial retrieval functions based on the probability ranking principle

Norbert Fuhr

204
Citations
Probabilistic Datalog—a logic for powerful retrieval methods

Norbert Fuhr

195
Citations
Digital Libraries: A Generic Classification and Evaluation Scheme

Norbert Fuhr;Preben Hansen;Michael Mabe;András Micsik

188
Citations
Advances in XML Information Retrieval and Evaluation

Norbert Fuhr;Mounia Lalmas;Saadia Malik;Gabriella Kazai

181
Citations
Some Common Mistakes In IR Evaluation, And How They Can Be Avoided

Norbert Fuhr

179
Citations
A probability ranking principle for interactive information retrieval

Norbert Fuhr

178
Citations
Focused Access to XML Documents: 6th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2007 Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, December 17-19, 2007. Selected Papers

Norbert Fuhr;Jaap Kamps;Mounia Lalmas;Andrew Trotman

177
Citations
A Probabilistic Framework for Vague Queries and Imprecise Information in Databases

Norbert Fuhr

171
Citations
Retrieval effectiveness of proper name search methods

Ulrich Pfeifer;Thomas Poersch;Norbert Fuhr

166
Citations
Probabilistic Datalog: implementing logical information retrieval for advanced applications

Norbert Fuhr

166
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Mounia Lalmas Spotify

Gabriella Kazai Microsoft (United States)

Jaap Kamps University of Amsterdam

Gerhard Weikum Max Planck Institute for Informatics

Ian Soboroff National Institute of Standards and Technology

Wessel Kraaij Leiden University

Ralf Schenkel University of Trier

Gregory Grefenstette Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition

Benno Stein Bauhaus University, Weimar

Allan Hanbury TU Wien

External Links

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