Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - UC3M

Brief Profile

Birger Larsen has been associate professor at the Royal School of Library and Information Science, in Copenhagen, Denmark since 2006. He received a PhD degree from the same institution with a dissertation on References and citations in automatic indexing and retrieval systems: experiments with the boomerang effect in 2004.

His main research interests include Information Retrieval (IR), structured documents in IR, XML IR and user interaction, exploiting context in IR, Informetrics/Bibliometrics, citation analysis and quantitative research evaluation. He teaches these subjects on all levels from Bachelor to PhD. In addition he is an active consultant carrying out scientometric evaluations for Universities and governmental agencies. From 2004 to 2007 he co-organised the Interactive Track at the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX) together with Dr. Anastasios Tombros (UK) and Saadia Malik (Germany). He is co-programme chair together with Jacqueline Leta (Brazil) for the 12th International Conference on Scientometrics and Bibliometrics (ISSI 2009) to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is an active member of the TAPIR research group headed by professor Peter Ingwersen.

His publications include journal articles, conference and workshop papers and book chapters, published both internationally and nationally and often co-authored with collaborators from a widespread network of researchers. He is broadly engaged in program committees and reviewing in the main journals and conferences within the areas covered by his research interests as well as professional organisations nationally and internationally.

Selected publications

Schneider, J., Larsen, B. and Ingwersen, P. (2009): A comparative study of first and all-author co-citation counting, and two different matrix generation approaches applied for author co-citation analyses. Scientometrics, 80(1), p. 103-123.

Ali, M. S., Consens, M. P. and Larsen, B. (2009): Representing User Navigation in XML Retrieval with Structural Summaries. In: Advances in Information Retrieval - Proceedings of the 31th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2009, Toulouse, France, April 6-9, 2009. Berlin: Springer, p. 719-723.

Ingwersen, P., Lund, B. and Larsen, B. (2009): Data fusion according to the principle of polyrepresentation. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 60(4), p. 646-654.

Skov, M., Larsen, B. and Ingwersen, P. (2008): Inter and intra-document contexts applied in polyrepresentation for best match IR. Information Processing & Management, 44(5), 1673-1683.

Jørgensen, H. L., Larsen, B., Ingwersen, P. and Rehfeld, J. F. (2008): Forskningsaktiviteten for speciallæger i klinisk biokemi [Research Activity in Clinical Biochemistry]. Ugeskrift for Læger, 170(36), 2798-2802. (Article in Danish)

Larsen, B., Björneborn, L. and Ingwersen, P. (2007): The 12th Nordic Workshop on Bibliometrics and Research Policy in Copenhagen. ISSI Newsletter, 3(3), 41-43.

Ingwersen, P. and Larsen, B. (2007): Evaluation of strategic research programs: the case of Danish environmental research 1993-2002. Research Evaluation, 16(1), 47-57.

Kirkegaard Moe, K., Jensen, J M. and Larsen, B. (2007): A qualitative look at eye-tracking for implicit relevance feedback. In: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Context-Based Information Retrieval, held in conjunction with Context’07. Roskilde: Computer Science, p. 36-47. (Computer Science Research Report ; 114)