Peter Ingwersen

Professor, PhD

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Professional profile

Peter Ingwersen became Research Professor 2001 and Full professor from January 2006 in Information Retrieval. He is Affiliate Professor (Docent) at Åbo Akademi University, Finland, from 1997 and 2004-08 member of the Executive Board of the Nordic Research School in LIS (NORSLIS), sponsored by NORDFORSK.

Research expertise:
He has carried out experimental research on cognitive aspects of task-based user-system interaction and served in several Esprit projects as expert consultant to the EU Commission. He was research fellow at ESA-IRS, Frascati, Italy, 1981-84. He participated in the three-year ESPRIT Long Term Research Workshop: MIRA on multimedia IR and evaluation. From 1996-2000 he was leading partner of the Centre for Informetric Studies. In 1997-98 he initiated the field of Webometrics together with the late Thomas C. almind. Lately, he heads the TAPIR research group at the Royal School of LIS on text accessibility in interactive Information Retrieval as well as continuing the study of scientific communication patterns through citation analyses. He organized the 1992 ACM-SIGIR Conference in Denmark and has served as PC Chair twice. He is among the initiators of the CoLIS and IIIX Conferences.

Awards and Honors:
2010    D.Phil. Honoris Causa, University of Tampere, Finland
2009    ASIST Los Angeles Chapter Contributions to Information Science & Technology Award
          (CISTA), USA.
2009    Lazarow Memorial Lecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA,
           Sponsored by Eugene Garfield Foundation
2007    ASIST Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award, to recognize the unique
           teaching contribution to Information Science education.
2005    Derek de Solla Price Medal for his research in Scientometrics and Webometrics.
2005    Thomson Award of excellence in Denmark, being the internationally most highly cited
            Danish researcher in the social sciences.
2003    ASIST Award for Research in Information Science for his work on cognitive
            perspectives of Information Retrieval.
2002    Lazarow Memorial Lecture, The Information school, University of Washington,
            Seattle, USA, sponsored by Thomson-Scientific
1994    ASIS, New Jersey Chapter Distinguish Lectureship Award.
1993    Jason Farradane Award (UK) for his contributions to Information Science.
1992    Anne V. Marinelli Lecture Series, Texas Woman's University, Denton, USA

Publications - see also below:
He has published several books, among which two have received much international recognition: The Turn: Integration of Information Seeking and Retrieval in Context, co-authored by Kalervo Järvelin; Springer, 2005, and Information Retrieval Interaction, Taylor Graham, 1992, and more than 90 journal articles and conference papers, in addition to editing work, for which he has received more than 1,000 citations excl. self-citations in Web of Science. He is member of several editorial boards of internationally reputed journals of the fields of IR and Information Science.

Visiting professorships, research education activities:
He has been visiting scholar in Italy, The European Space Agency, Online Service Division, 1980-84, USA, 1987, Japan, 1996 and South Africa, 1997. From 1998-2000 he co-chaired a DANIDA sponsored PhD-network in South Africa. In 1999-2002 he served as NORFA Affiliate Professor at the Dept. of Information Studies, Tampere University, Finland. He has been member of 20 professorial evaluation committees in 5 countries and external opponent in 20 doctoral examinations in 7 countries worldwide. He has supervised 6 doctoral students as well as visiting Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and UK professorial, post-doctoral and doctoral researchers. Since 1992 he gives frequently lectures at tutorials and in doctoral fora at conferences and at the European research school (ESSIR) on IR and Users in Context. He has organized many doctoral seminars in a Nordic context, sponsored first by NordisNet and presently by NORSLIS.

Research

Research monograph by SPRINGER:
The TURN: Integration of Information Seeking and Retrieval in Context
by P. Ingwersen & Kalervo Järvelin ,
The Turn analyzes the research of information seeking and retrieval (IS&R) and proposes a new direction of integrating research in these two areas. Central themes in The Turn include:
Research models, frameworks and theories; search and work tasks & situations in context; interaction between humans and machines; information acquisition, relevance and information use; research design and methodology - based on a structured set of explicitly discussed variables ? all set into the holistic cognitive approach. NOTE: click to download the Table of Contents and/or extracts from the Introduction.
Euro 59,95
Ingwersen/Järvelin: 1-4020-3850-X
Contact Springer, email: SDC-bookorder@springer-sbm.com

Information Retrieval Interaction (1992) In Open Access:
- always available in full text for FREE download chapter by chapter or in total!

The TAPIR Project Web site

Current research

The RIX Project: Relevance of Information in Context, sponsored by the Research Council of the Ministery of Culture, Denmark. RIX involves empirical investigations of:

Datafusion following the principles for polyrepresentation in IR
Polyrepresentation of information space
Polyrepresentation of the cognitive space of the searcher

Also currently researched:

Research evaluation analyses

Administrative functions

Member of the Executive Board of the Nordic Research School in Library and Information Science (NORSLIS) sponsored by NORDFORSK 2004-2008. Member of the Consistorium of the Royal School of Library and Information Science, 1987-2008.

Curriculum Vitae

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Publications

Search procedures in the library : analysed from a cognitive point of view .
In: Journal of Documentation , 38(3), 1982, pp. 165-191.
A cognitive view of three selected online search facilities .
In: Online Review, 8(5), 1984, pp. 465-492.
Distributed expert-based information systems: an interdisciplinary approach . With N.J. Belkin et al.
In: Information Processing and Management , 23(5), 1987, pp. 395-409.
Information Retrieval Interaction .
London: Taylor Graham, 1992 (0-947568-54-9), x,246 p.
Reviewed in all leading LIS journals in the world, including Computing Review
Full text available for download - Japanese translation. Tokyo, Toppan Publ., 1995 (4-8101-8917-1), ix, 373 p.
An introduction to algorithmic and cognitive approaches for information retrieval . Peter Ingwersen and Peter Willett. In: Libri, 45(3/4), 1995, pp. 160-177.
Cognitive perspectives of information retrieval interaction: elements of a cognitive IR theory. In: Journal of Documentation , 52(1), 1996, pp. 3-50. Full text.
Online citation analysis: a methodological approach. Finn Hjortgaard Christensen and Peter Ingwersen. In: Scientometrics , 37(1), 1996, pp. 39-62. Full text
Data set isolation for bibliometric online analysis of research publications: fundamental methodological issues. Peter Ingwersen and Finn Hjortgaard Christensen.
In: Journal of the American Society for Information Science , 48(3), 1997, pp. 205-217. Full text
The development of a method for the evaluation of interactive information retrieval systems. Pia Borlund and Peter Ingwersen. In: Journal of Documentation , 53(3), 1997, pp. 225-250. Full-text
Informetric analysis on the World Wide Web: A methodological approach to "webometrics". Tomas C. Almind and Peter Ingwersen. In: Journal of Documentation , 53(4), 1997, pp. 404-426. Full-text
The Calculation of Web Impact Factors. In: Journal of Documentation , 54(2), 1998, pp. 236-243. Full text.
Measures of relative relevance and ranked half-life: Performance indicators for interactive IR. Borlund, P. & Ingwersen, P. In: Croft, B.W., Moffat, A., van Rijsbergen, C.J., Wilkinson, R. and Zobel, H. (eds). Proceedings of the 21 st ACM SIGIR Conference on research and development of information retrieval. Melbourne, Australia: ACM Press. (324-331). Full text
Dimensions of Relevance. Erica Cosijn & Peter Ingwersen. - Information Processing and Management, 36, 2000, p. 533-550. Full text.
Perspectives of webometrics. Lennart Björneborn & Peter Ingwersen. Scientometrics, 50(1), 2001, 65-82. Full text.
Dækningsgraden i Science Citation Index af dansk sundhedsvidenskabelig forskning 1998. Ingwersen, Peter & Lynge, Elsebeth. Ugeskrift f. Læger , vol. 166, no. 40 (2004), p. 3493-3497. Full text.
Towards a basic framework for Webometrics. Björneborn, L. & Ingwersen, P. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (2004), 55(14): 1216-1227. Full text.
On the holistic cognitive theory for information retrieval. Ingwersen, P. & Järvelin, K. In: Dominich, S. & Kiss, F. (eds.) Studies in Theory of Information Retrieval. Budapest: Foundation for Information Society, 2007: 135-147.
Inter and intra-document contexts applied to polyrepresentation. Skov, M., Larsen, B. & Ingwersen, P. Information Processing & Management, 2008, 44: 1673-1683.
Data fusion according to the principle of polyrepresentation. Ingwersen, P. Lund, B. & Larsen, B. Journal of American Society for Information Science & Technology, 2009, 60(4): 646-654.