Dr. Jim Jansen is an Assistant Professor at the College of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Jansen has over 100 publications in the area of information technology and systems, with articles appearing in the Communications of the ACM, IEEE Computer, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Information Processing and Management, and Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, among others. Dr. Jansen's recently coauthored paper in IEEE Computer analyzing a 4-year trend in how users search the Web generated press coverage in over 100 news organizations worldwide, including wire services, cable and network television, radio, newspapers, and commercial web sites. His 2000 article published in Information Processing and Management has received over 100 citations in outlets such as Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Information Processing and Management, and Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, among others conferences and journals in a variety of fields. He has received several awards and honors, including an ACM Research Award, 6 application development awards, along with other writing, publishing, research, and leadership honors.
Dr. Jansen teaches or has taught basic and applied courses in micro-computing, office applications, information technology, databases, multimedia, the Internet and World Wide Web. Additionally, he has supervised and mentored students in a variety of capstone project courses, research programs and individual directed studies.
Jansen, Bernard J., Zhang, Mimi and Zhang, Ying (2007): Brand awareness and the evaluation of search results. In: Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on the World Wide Web 2007. pp. 1139-1140. Available online
Jansen, Bernard J., Booth, Danielle L. and Spink, Amanda (2007): Determining the user intent of web search engine queries. In: Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on the World Wide Web 2007. pp. 1149-1150. Available online
Jansen, Bernard J., Smith, Brian and Booth, Danielle L. (2007): Understanding web search via a learning paradigm. In: Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on the World Wide Web 2007. pp. 1207-1208. Available online
Jansen, Bernard J. (2007): Investigating the relevance of sponsored results for web ecommerce queries. In: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval 2007. pp. 857-858. Available online
Jansen, Bernard J., Smith, Brian and Booth, Danielle L. (2007): Viewing online searching within a learning paradigm. In: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval 2007. pp. 859-860. Available online
Eastman, Caroline M. and Jansen, Bernard J. (2003): Coverage, relevance, and ranking: The impact of query operators on Web search engine results. In ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 21 (4) pp. 383-411411
Jansen, Bernard J. (1999): A Software Agent for Performance Improvement of Existing Information Retrieval Systems. In: Maybury, Mark T. (ed.) International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces 1999 January 5-8, 1999, Redondo Beach, California, USA. p. 192. Available online
Jansen, Bernard J. (1998): The Graphical User Interface: An Introduction. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 30 (2) pp. 22-2626
Jansen, Bernard J., Spink, Amanda and Saracevic, Tefko (1998): Failure Analysis in Query Construction: Data and Analysis from a Large Sample of Web Queries. In: DL98: Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries 1998. pp. 289-290. Available online
Jansen, Bernard J. (1997): An Information Retrieval Application for Simulated Annealing. In: DL97: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries 1997. pp. 259-260. Available online
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