OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Information Retrieval Journal is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Guest editorial: special issue on ECIR 2021	29
An in-depth study on adversarial learning-to-rank	22
Kernel density estimation based factored relevance model for multi-contextual point-of-interest recommendation	19
Tashaphyne0.4: a new arabic light stemmer based on rhyzome modeling approach	17
FarsNewsQA: a deep learning-based question answering system for the Persian news articles	15
Recommendations for item set completion: on the semantics of item co-occurrence with data sparsity, input size, and input modalities	12
Learning user preferences through online conversations via personalized memory transfer	10
Applying burst-tries for error-tolerant prefix search	8
On cross-lingual retrieval with multilingual text encoders	7
Constructing and meta-evaluating state-aware evaluation metrics for interactive search systems	7
Privacy-aware document retrieval with two-level inverted indexing	6
An in-depth analysis of passage-level label transfer for contextual document ranking	5
CEQE to SQET: A study of contextualized embeddings for query expansion	5
Multimodal video retrieval with CLIP: a user study	5
Efficient query processing techniques for next-page retrieval	4
Reinforcement online learning to rank with unbiased reward shaping	4
Sequence-aware news recommendations by combining intra- with inter-session user information	3
Investigating better context representations for generative question answering	3
Exploring latent connections in graph neural networks for session-based recommendation	3
Shallow pooling for sparse labels	3
Measurement of clustering effectiveness for document collections	3
Highlighting exact matching via marking strategies for ad hoc document ranking with pretrained contextualized language models	3
Shop by image: characterizing visual search in e-commerce	3