Scholar
James Allan
Google Scholar ID: -bLGeg0AAAAJ
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Citations & Impact
Citations
4,456
H-index
34
i10-index
98
Publications
20
Co-authors
16
list available
Contact
No contact links provided.
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Best Paper Awards at SIGIR in 2001 and 2006
- Best Student Paper Award at CHIIR in 2017
- Best Application Paper Award at ECIR 2019
- Best Workshop Paper Award at NAACL/TrustNLP 2021
- SIGIR Test of Time Award for 1998 paper on event detection and tracking
- ECIR Test of Time Award for 2009 paper on topic models in IR
- Elected to SIGIR Academy in 2021
- Elevated to ACM Fellow in 2021
- Elected to CRA Board of Directors in 2018, 2021, and 2024 (three-year terms)
- Served as CRA Treasurer (2019–2025) and Chair of the Board (until July 2027)
- Former Associate Editor of ACM TOIS and Elsevier IPM
- Former Editorial Board Member of Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval
- Former Chair of the SIGIR organization
- Longstanding service on organizing and program committees for SIGIR, CIKM, WSDM, etc.
