Alper Bilge

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
44 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Alper Bilge is a scholar working on Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Marketing. According to data from OpenAlex, Alper Bilge has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Information Systems, 19 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 9 papers in Marketing. Recurrent topics in Alper Bilge's work include Recommender Systems and Techniques (36 papers), Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data (14 papers) and Advanced Bandit Algorithms Research (7 papers). Alper Bilge is often cited by papers focused on Recommender Systems and Techniques (36 papers), Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data (14 papers) and Advanced Bandit Algorithms Research (7 papers). Alper Bilge collaborates with scholars based in Türkiye, United States and Mexico. Alper Bilge's co-authors include Cihan Kaleli, Hüseyin Polat, Ali Yürekli, Zeynep Batmaz, İhsan Güneş, Zeynep Güven Özdemir, Holly A. Taylor, Kemal Özkan, Ömer Nezih Gerek and Francesco Ianì and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Expert Systems with Applications and IEEE Access.

In The Last Decade

Alper Bilge

42 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

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  1. A review on deep learning for recommender systems: challenges and remedies
    2018 330 citations Zeynep Batmaz, Ali Yürekli et al. Artificial Intelligence Review profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alper Bilge Türkiye 17 885 573 204 171 163 44 1.1k
Derek Bridge Ireland 15 717 0.8× 685 1.2× 178 0.9× 126 0.7× 231 1.4× 54 1.2k
Cihan Kaleli Türkiye 12 666 0.8× 457 0.8× 178 0.9× 123 0.7× 103 0.6× 29 854
Hui Fang China 14 563 0.6× 466 0.8× 137 0.7× 119 0.7× 107 0.7× 45 928
Jianxun Lian China 16 897 1.0× 814 1.4× 247 1.2× 110 0.6× 161 1.0× 42 1.2k
Folasade Olubusola Isinkaye Nigeria 6 619 0.7× 318 0.6× 230 1.1× 94 0.5× 95 0.6× 33 893
Pipei Huang China 7 654 0.7× 549 1.0× 299 1.5× 125 0.7× 120 0.7× 10 952
Weizhi Ma China 20 1.1k 1.3× 1.1k 2.0× 238 1.2× 109 0.6× 251 1.5× 76 1.6k
Yetunde Folajimi United States 5 600 0.7× 318 0.6× 217 1.1× 90 0.5× 92 0.6× 15 872
Josep Lluís de la Rosa Spain 12 453 0.5× 299 0.5× 174 0.9× 107 0.6× 85 0.5× 77 842

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alper Bilge

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alper Bilge

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bilge, Alper, et al.. (2025). : Dynamic User-oriented re-Ranking calibration strategy for popularity bias treatment of recommendation algorithms. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. 203. 103578–103578. 1 indexed citations
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Bilge, Alper, et al.. (2024). A Novel Pre-Processing Technique to Combat Popularity Bias in Personality-Aware Recommender Systems. IEEE Access. 12. 183230–183251. 2 indexed citations
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Bilge, Alper, et al.. (2024). A novel target item-based similarity function in privacy-preserving collaborative filtering. The Journal of Supercomputing. 80(13). 19433–19461. 2 indexed citations
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Bilge, Alper, et al.. (2023). Robustness of privacy-preserving collaborative recommenders against popularity bias problem. PeerJ Computer Science. 9. e1438–e1438. 4 indexed citations
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Gerek, Ömer Nezih, et al.. (2022). A Graph-Based Recommendation Algorithm on Quaternion Algebra. SN Computer Science. 3(4).
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Bilge, Alper, et al.. (2021). Novel automatic group identification approaches for group recommendation. Expert Systems with Applications. 174. 114709–114709. 18 indexed citations
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Yürekli, Ali, Cihan Kaleli, & Alper Bilge. (2021). Alleviating the cold-start playlist continuation in music recommendation using latent semantic indexing. International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval. 10(3). 185–198. 6 indexed citations
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Bilge, Alper, et al.. (2020). A PERSONALITY-BASED AGGREGATION TECHNIQUE FOR GROUP RECOMMENDATION. 21(4). 486–498. 8 indexed citations
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Özkan, Kemal, et al.. (2019). A Similarity-Inclusive Link Prediction Based Recommender System Approach. Elektronika ir Elektrotechnika. 25(6). 62–69. 3 indexed citations
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Bilge, Alper, et al.. (2019). Genetic Algorithm-Based Privacy Preserving Collaborative Filtering. 1–5. 2 indexed citations
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Yılmazel, Özgür, Alper Bilge, & Cihan Kaleli. (2019). Privacy-Aware Detection of Shilling Profiles on Arbitrarily Distributed Recommender Systems. IEEE Access. 7. 28863–28885. 1 indexed citations
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Bilge, Alper, et al.. (2018). A Robust Multi-Criteria Collaborative Filtering Algorithm. 1–6. 1 indexed citations
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Bilge, Alper, et al.. (2018). Robustness analysis of multi-criteria collaborative filtering algorithms against shilling attacks. Expert Systems with Applications. 115. 386–402. 32 indexed citations
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Batmaz, Zeynep, Ali Yürekli, Alper Bilge, & Cihan Kaleli. (2018). A review on deep learning for recommender systems: challenges and remedies. Artificial Intelligence Review. 52(1). 1–37. 330 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bilge, Alper & Holly A. Taylor. (2016). Framing the figure: Mental rotation revisited in light of cognitive strategies. Memory & Cognition. 45(1). 63–80. 15 indexed citations
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Bilge, Alper & Hüseyin Polat. (2013). A scalable privacy-preserving recommendation scheme via bisecting k-means clustering. Information Processing & Management. 49(4). 912–927. 44 indexed citations
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Bilge, Alper & Hüseyin Polat. (2012). A comparison of clustering-based privacy-preserving collaborative filtering schemes. Applied Soft Computing. 13(5). 2478–2489. 41 indexed citations
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Bilge, Alper & Hüseyin Polat. (2011). An improved privacy-preserving DWT-based collaborative filtering scheme. Expert Systems with Applications. 39(3). 3841–3854. 23 indexed citations
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Bilge, Alper, Cihan Kaleli, & Hüseyin Polat. (2010). ON BINARY SIMILARITY MEASURES FOR PRIVACY-PRESERVING TOP-N RECOMMENDATIONS. 299–304. 1 indexed citations
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Bilge, Alper & Holly A. Taylor. (2010). Where is “Here” in Nested Environments? Location Accessibility from Different Sources. Spatial Cognition and Computation. 10(2-3). 157–183. 3 indexed citations

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