2026 Ralf Schenkel: 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	39	9855	9574	491	479	234	5557

Overview

Ralf Schenkel is affiliated with the University of Trier in Germany. Their research is centered in the field of Computer Science, with a significant focus on several specialized areas.

The main subfields of study include:

Artificial Intelligence
Information Systems
Management Science and Operations Research
Computer Networks and Communications
Molecular Biology

Their primary topics of work encompass:

Topic Modeling
Semantic Web and Ontologies
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Data Quality and Management
Advanced Text Analysis Techniques
Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation
Software Engineering Research

Frequent publication venues for Schenkel's work include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Datenbank-Spektrum
International Journal on Digital Libraries
Scientometrics

Selected recent publications illustrate the scope and direction of their research:

"Scientific paper recommendation systems: a literature review of recent publications," 2022, International Journal on Digital Libraries
"Towards an Argument Mining Pipeline Transforming Texts to Argument Graphs," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
"SchenQL: in-depth analysis of a query language for bibliographic metadata," 2021, International Journal on Digital Libraries
"Evaluating semantometrics from computer science publications," 2020, Scientometrics
"Same Side Stance Classification Task: Facilitating Argument Stance Classification by Fine-tuning a BERT Model," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)

Their frequent collaborators in research include:

Christin Katharina Kreutz
Lorik Dumani
Premtim Sahitaj
Ralph Bergmann
Tobias Zeimetz

Best Publications

FedX: optimization techniques for federated query processing on linked data

Andreas Schwarte;Peter Haase;Katja Hose;Ralf Schenkel

436
Citations
Top-k query evaluation with probabilistic guarantees

Martin Theobald;Gerhard Weikum;Ralf Schenkel

340
Citations
Efficient top-k querying over social-tagging networks

Ralf Schenkel;Tom Crecelius;Mouna Kacimi;Sebastian Michel

218
Citations
HOPI: An efficient connection index for complex XML document collections

Ralf Schenkel;Anja Theobald;Gerhard Weikum

203
Citations
IO-Top-k: index-access optimized top-k query processing

Holger Bast;Debapriyo Majumdar;Ralf Schenkel;Martin Theobald

201
Citations
An efficient and versatile query engine for TopX search

Martin Theobald;Ralf Schenkel;Gerhard Weikum

194
Citations
The SphereSearch engine for unified ranked retrieval of heterogeneous XML and web documents

Jens Graupmann;Ralf Schenkel;Gerhard Weikum

160
Citations
YAWN: A Semantically Annotated Wikipedia XML Corpus

Ralf Schenkel;Fabian M. Suchanek;Gjergji Kasneci

155
Citations
Partout: a distributed engine for efficient RDF processing

Luis Galárraga;Katja Hose;Ralf Schenkel

144
Citations
RankReduce - processing K-nearest Neighbor Queries on Top of MapReduce

Aleksandar Stupar;Sebastian Michel;Ralf Schenkel

139
Citations
Efficient creation and incremental maintenance of the HOPI index for complex XML document collections

R. Schenkel;A. Theobald;G. Weikum

139
Citations
TopX: efficient and versatile top-k query processing for semistructured data

Martin Theobald;Holger Bast;Debapriyo Majumdar;Ralf Schenkel

137
Citations
Language-model-based ranking for queries on RDF-graphs

Shady Elbassuoni;Maya Ramanath;Ralf Schenkel;Marcin Sydow

121
Citations
WARP: Workload-aware replication and partitioning for RDF

K. Hose;R. Schenkel

120
Citations
FedX: a federation layer for distributed query processing on linked open data

Andreas Schwarte;Peter Haase;Katja Hose;Ralf Schenkel

118
Citations
Exploiting social relations for query expansion and result ranking

M. Bender;T. Crecelius;M. Kacimi;S. Michel

116
Citations
Exploiting Structure, Annotation, and Ontological Knowledge for Automatic Classification of XML Data

Martin Theobald;Ralf Schenkel;Gerhard Weikum;Vassilis Christophides

106
Citations
Efficient text proximity search

Ralf Schenkel;Andreas Broschart;Seungwon Hwang;Martin Theobald

102
Citations
Searching RDF Graphs with SPARQL and Keywords

Shady Elbassuoni;Maya Ramanath;Ralf Schenkel;Gerhard Weikum

94
Citations
Efficient and self-tuning incremental query expansion for top-k query processing

Martin Theobald;Ralf Schenkel;Gerhard Weikum

89
Citations
The SphereSearch Engine for Unified Ranked Retrieval of Heterogeneous XML and Web Documents

Jens Graupmann;Ralf Schenkel;Gerhard Weikum;Klemens Böhm

86
Citations
IO-Top-k: Index-Access Optimized Top-k Query Processing

Holger Bast;Debapriyo Majumdar;Ralf Schenkel;Martin Theobald

5
Citations
Top-k Query Evaluation with Probabilistic Guarantees

Martin Theobald;Gerhard Weikum;Ralf Schenkel;Mario A. Nascimento

2
Citations
An Efficient and Versatile Query Engine for TopX Search

Martin Theobald;Ralf Schenkel;Gerhard Weikum;Klemens Böhm

1
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerhard Weikum Max Planck Institute for Informatics

Jaap Kamps University of Amsterdam

Gabriella Kazai Microsoft (United States)

Thomas Neumann Technical University of Munich

Norbert Fuhr University of Duisburg-Essen

Andreas Harth University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Mounia Lalmas Spotify

Fabian M. Suchanek Télécom ParisTech

Marko Grobelnik Jožef Stefan Institute

Ioana Manolescu French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA

External Links

Personal website of Ralf Schenkel Google Scholar page

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