Krisztian Balog

5.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
131 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Krisztian Balog is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems and Computer Science Applications. According to data from OpenAlex, Krisztian Balog has authored 131 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 91 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 87 papers in Information Systems and 30 papers in Computer Science Applications. Recurrent topics in Krisztian Balog's work include Topic Modeling (65 papers), Expert finding and Q&A systems (40 papers) and Information Retrieval and Search Behavior (36 papers). Krisztian Balog is often cited by papers focused on Topic Modeling (65 papers), Expert finding and Q&A systems (40 papers) and Information Retrieval and Search Behavior (36 papers). Krisztian Balog collaborates with scholars based in Norway, Netherlands and United Kingdom. Krisztian Balog's co-authors include Maarten de Rijke, Leif Azzopardi, Filip Radlinski, Wouter Weerkamp, Faegheh Hasibi, Svein Erik Bratsberg, Shuo Zhang, Arjen P. de Vries, Gilad Mishne and Marc Bron and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, ACM Computing Surveys and Poultry Science.

In The Last Decade

Krisztian Balog

121 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

Formal models for expert finding in enterprise corpora 2006 2026 2012 2019 2006 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Formal models for expert finding in enterprise corpora
    2006 369 citations Krisztian Balog, Leif Azzopardi et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Krisztian Balog Norway 28 1.9k 1.9k 615 321 171 131 2.7k
Ian Soboroff United States 30 2.0k 1.0× 2.1k 1.1× 355 0.6× 265 0.8× 179 1.0× 113 3.0k
Jaap Kamps Netherlands 22 1.2k 0.6× 1.8k 1.0× 385 0.6× 254 0.8× 71 0.4× 209 2.6k
Rosie Jones United States 26 1.7k 0.9× 1.8k 1.0× 225 0.4× 243 0.8× 144 0.8× 62 3.1k
Rion Snow United States 10 624 0.3× 3.3k 1.8× 783 1.3× 398 1.2× 98 0.6× 10 3.9k
Ben Carterette United States 27 1.6k 0.9× 1.4k 0.8× 299 0.5× 377 1.2× 40 0.2× 109 2.5k
Falk Scholer Australia 24 1.3k 0.7× 1.3k 0.7× 261 0.4× 215 0.7× 53 0.3× 153 2.3k
Peter Mika Spain 21 1.0k 0.5× 1.2k 0.7× 135 0.2× 270 0.8× 343 2.0× 87 2.0k
Pavel Serdyukov Russia 22 939 0.5× 818 0.4× 200 0.3× 153 0.5× 205 1.2× 102 1.9k
Yunbo Cao China 24 989 0.5× 1.6k 0.9× 224 0.4× 111 0.3× 86 0.5× 79 2.0k
Omar Alonso United States 18 503 0.3× 594 0.3× 446 0.7× 178 0.6× 86 0.5× 81 1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Krisztian Balog

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Fields of papers citing papers by Krisztian Balog

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Krisztian Balog

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Krisztian Balog. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Krisztian Balog based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Krisztian Balog. Krisztian Balog is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Balog, Krisztian, Donald Metzler, & Zhen Qin. (2025). Rankers, Judges, and Assistants: Towards Understanding the Interplay of LLMs in Information Retrieval Evaluation. ArXiv.org. 3865–3875.
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Schaer, Philipp, et al.. (2025). Second SIGIR Workshop on Simulations for Information Access (Sim4IA 2025). ArXiv.org. 4172–4175. 1 indexed citations
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Spina, Damiano, et al.. (2024). Explainability for Transparent Conversational Information-Seeking. arXiv (Cornell University). 1040–1050. 4 indexed citations
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Balog, Krisztian & ChengXiang Zhai. (2024). User Simulation for Evaluating Information Access Systems. 18(1-2). 1–261. 6 indexed citations
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Balog, Krisztian, et al.. (2024). A Surprisingly Simple yet Effective Multi-Query Rewriting Method for Conversational Passage Retrieval. 2271–2275. 4 indexed citations
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Balog, Krisztian, et al.. (2023). Generating Usage-related Questions for Preference Elicitation in Conversational Recommender Systems. 2(2). 1–24. 2 indexed citations
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Chaganty, Arun Tejasvi, et al.. (2023). Beyond Single Items: Exploring User Preferences in Item Sets with the Conversational Playlist Curation Dataset. 2754–2764. 4 indexed citations
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Balog, Krisztian, et al.. (2023). Recommending tasks based on search queries and missions. Natural Language Engineering. 30(3). 577–601. 1 indexed citations
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Balog, Krisztian & ChengXiang Zhai. (2023). Tutorial on User Simulation for Evaluating Information Access Systems. 5200–5203. 5 indexed citations
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Hasibi, Faegheh, et al.. (2018). Identifying and exploiting target entity type information for ad hoc entity retrieval. Information Retrieval. 22(3-4). 285–323. 9 indexed citations
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Balog, Krisztian, et al.. (2017). Towards building a knowledge base of monetary transactions from a news collection. arXiv (Cornell University). 209–218. 5 indexed citations
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Balog, Krisztian. (2013). Collection and Document Language Models for Resource Selection.. Text REtrieval Conference. 4 indexed citations
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Smirnova, Elena & Krisztian Balog. (2011). A User-Oriented Model for Expert Finding. Lecture notes in computer science. 580–592. 25 indexed citations
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Bron, Marc, Krisztian Balog, & Maarten de Rijke. (2009). Related Entity Finding Based on Co-Occurrence. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 7 indexed citations
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Balog, Krisztian, Paul Thomas, Nick Craswell, et al.. (2008). Overview of the TREC 2008 Enterprise Track. Text REtrieval Conference. 51 indexed citations
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Balog, Krisztian, Katja Hofmann, Wouter Weerkamp, & Maarten de Rijke. (2008). Query and Document Models for Enterprise Search. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 5 indexed citations
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Azzopardi, Leif, Krisztian Balog, & Maarten de Rijke. (2005). Language Modeling Approaches for Enterprise Tasks. Strathprints: The University of Strathclyde institutional repository (University of Strathclyde). 18 indexed citations

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