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Research Scientist Position at Qatar Computing Research Institute working with a dynamic research team!
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Top 2% of Researchers Globally in Field
Jim Jansen, Soon-gyo Jung, and Joni Salminen (2021) Making better decisions with big data personas. MIT Technology Review. 11 March. https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/11/1020207/making-better-decisions-with-big-data-personas/
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2021 Book published, Jansen, B. J., Salminen, J., Jung, S.G., and Guan, K. (2021). Data-Driven Personas. Synthesis Lectures on Human-Centered Informatics,1 Carroll, J. (Ed). Morgan-Claypool: San Rafael, CA., 4:1, i-317. Data-Driven Personas book website.
2020 Tech Report: Data Quality in Website Traffic Metrics: A Comparison of 86 Websites Using Two Popular Analytics Services.
2020 Presentation, The Perilous Journey of Journal Publishing. Presented at Sungkyunkwan University, School of Convergence and Department of Interaction Science
2020 Paper Award (CHI2020 Honorable Mention): Salminen, J., Jung, S.G., Chowdhury, S. Şengün, S., and Jansen, B. J. (2020). Personas and Analytics: A Comparative User Study of Efficiency and Effectiveness for a User Identification Task. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI2020), Honolulu, HI, USA. 25–30 April.
2017 Paper Award: The article, The Seventeen Theoretical Constructs of Information Searching and Information Retrieval, published in Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology selected as a high impact article of the 2010s.
2017 Paper Award: The article, Twitter Power: Tweets as Electronic Word of Mouth, published in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology selected as a high impact article of the 2000s.
2017 Paper Award: The article, Real life, real users, and real needs: a study and analysis of user queries on the web, published in Information Processing & Management recognized of one the most cited articles of the 2000s.
2017 Paper Award: The article, How are we searching the World Wide Web? An analysis of nine search engine transaction logs, published in Information Processing & Management recognized by Google Classics as one of the most impactful; articles published in 2006
2016 2016 President's Award for Engagement with Students, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.
2015 Best Paper: Liu, Z. and Jansen, B. J. (2015) Subjective versus Objective Questions: Perception of Question Subjectivity in Social Q&A.
2015 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction (SBP15). Washington DC, p. 131-140. 31 Mar.-3 Apr.
2011 Teaching and Learning with Technology Fellow at Penn State (May 2011 – May 2012). Teaching research fellowship to develop subject-based learning apps that leverage cellular technology, the contextual (location-aware) attributes of mobile technology, and social media. See tlt.its.psu.edu/2011/07/24/jim-jansen/
2011 Paper Award: The article, The Seventeen Theoretical Constructs of Information Searching and Information Retrieval, published in Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology selected as John Wiley Best JASIST Paper Award 2011 (see http://www.asis.org/awards/jasis_paper.html).
2010 Emerald Literati Network 2010 Award for Excellence for Outstanding Reviewer for the journal Internet Research (http://info.emeraldinsight.com/authors/literati/index.htm)
2008 Best Paper, Jansen, B. J., Zhang, M., and Schultz, C. (2008) The Effect of Brand on the Evaluation of IT System Performance. Proceedings of the Southern Association for Information Systems Conference, Richmond, VA, USA 13-15 March 2008
2008 Presented with a Google Faculty Research Award ($50,000)
2007 Article selected as Highly Commended Winner at the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2007. Spink, A. and Jansen, B. J. (2006) Searching multiple federated content Web collections, Online Information Review. 30(5), 485-495.
2004 Worldwide press coverage for book Web Search: Public Searching of the Web, co-authored with Dr. Amanda Spink. Including AP, Yahoo! News, CNN, MSN, and numerous other television, radio, Web, and print outlets.
2003 Worldwide press coverage and interviews 6/30/2003-7/3/2003 reference article: Jansen, B. J., and Spink, A. (2003) An analysis of Web pages retrieved and viewed, IC’03: Internet Computing: Web Mining Session, Las Vegas, 4-6 June 2003. Including BBC, Irish Radio, Washington Times, Psychology Today, and several U.S. radio stations.
2003 ISI Most Highly Cited Articles in Field of Web Searching for the manuscript Jansen, B. J., Spink, A., and Saracevic, T. (2000) Real Life, Real Users, and Real Needs: A Study and Analysis of User Queries on the Web, Information Processing & Management. 38(2), 207-227.
The article was identified in May 2003 by ISI Essential Science Indicators to be one of the most cited papers in the research area of Web Searching Behavior.
2002 Highly Commended Article invited for journal publication. Jansen, B. J. (2002) Towards Implementing a Cognitive Model of Searching, Proceedings of the E-Learning 2002 Conference (Web Track), Montreal, Canada. 15-19 October.
2002 Two Crystal Awards of Excellence for outstanding software development in the communications field.
2002 Worldwide press coverage and interviews 3/31/02- 4/5/02 reference article: Spink, A., Jansen, B. J., Wolfram, D., and Saracevic, T. (2002). From e-sex to e-commerce: Web search changes, IEEE Computer, 35(3), 133-135.
Including: Associated Press, BBC, CBC, MSNBC, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, PC World, CNN, Chinese People’s Daily, Toronto Star, US News and World Report, San Francisco Chronicle, The Independent (UK), Business Week, Washington Post, Financial Times (UK), Information Week, Web, TV, newspaper (200+) and magazine media.
2002 Award of Distinction for interactive Web site development.
2002 Two Awards of Excellence for exceptional multimedia application development.
2002 US Army War College Team of the Year for outstanding contributions as team manager.
2001 U.S. Army Visual Information Award for multimedia development.
2000 Highly Commended Award by MCB Publishers, for Spink, A., Bateman, J., and Jansen, B. J. (1999) Searching the Web: A survey of Excite users, Journal of Internet Research: Electronic Networking Applications and Policy, 9(2), 117-128.
1998 Top Paper Award for Spink, A., Bateman, J., and Jansen, B. J. (1998) Users’ searching behavior on the Excite Web search engine, 1999 World Conference on the WWW and Internet, Orlando, Florida.
1997 ACM Student Research Award for Jansen, B. J. (1997) Simulated Annealing for Query Results Ranking, Computer Science Education Conference, San Jose, CA. 28 – 30 February.
1992 Writing and Research Award, U.S. Marine Corps University.
(Current as of 2023)
Research Scientist Position at Qatar Computing Research Institute working with a dynamic research team!
IP&M Journal Submission Process
APG Persona Profile Infographic
APG Persona Reach Feature Infographic
APG Persona Comparison Feature Infographic
APG Persona Products Feature Infographic
APG Persona Timeline Feature Infographic
Top 2% of Researchers Globally in Field
Jim Jansen, Soon-gyo Jung, and Joni Salminen (2021) Making better decisions with big data personas. MIT Technology Review. 11 March. https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/11/1020207/making-better-decisions-with-big-data-personas/
Information Processing & Management Infographic
Infographic for Data-Driven Personas book!
2021 Book published, Jansen, B. J., Salminen, J., Jung, S.G., and Guan, K. (2021). Data-Driven Personas. Synthesis Lectures on Human-Centered Informatics,1 Carroll, J. (Ed). Morgan-Claypool: San Rafael, CA., 4:1, i-317. Data-Driven Personas book website.
2020 Tech Report: Data Quality in Website Traffic Metrics: A Comparison of 86 Websites Using Two Popular Analytics Services.
2020 Presentation, The Perilous Journey of Journal Publishing. Presented at Sungkyunkwan University, School of Convergence and Department of Interaction Science
2020 Paper Award (CHI2020 Honorable Mention): Salminen, J., Jung, S.G., Chowdhury, S. Şengün, S., and Jansen, B. J. (2020). Personas and Analytics: A Comparative User Study of Efficiency and Effectiveness for a User Identification Task. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI2020), Honolulu, HI, USA. 25–30 April.
2017 Paper Award: The article, The Seventeen Theoretical Constructs of Information Searching and Information Retrieval, published in Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology selected as a high impact article of the 2010s.
2017 Paper Award: The article, Twitter Power: Tweets as Electronic Word of Mouth, published in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology selected as a high impact article of the 2000s.
2017 Paper Award: The article, Real life, real users, and real needs: a study and analysis of user queries on the web, published in Information Processing & Management recognized of one the most cited articles of the 2000s.
2017 Paper Award: The article, How are we searching the World Wide Web? An analysis of nine search engine transaction logs, published in Information Processing & Management recognized by Google Classics as one of the most impactful; articles published in 2006
2016 2016 President's Award for Engagement with Students, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.
2015 Best Paper: Liu, Z. and Jansen, B. J. (2015) Subjective versus Objective Questions: Perception of Question Subjectivity in Social Q&A.
2015 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction (SBP15). Washington DC, p. 131-140. 31 Mar.-3 Apr.
2011 Teaching and Learning with Technology Fellow at Penn State (May 2011 – May 2012). Teaching research fellowship to develop subject-based learning apps that leverage cellular technology, the contextual (location-aware) attributes of mobile technology, and social media. See tlt.its.psu.edu/2011/07/24/jim-jansen/
2011 Paper Award: The article, The Seventeen Theoretical Constructs of Information Searching and Information Retrieval, published in Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology selected as John Wiley Best JASIST Paper Award 2011 (see http://www.asis.org/awards/jasis_paper.html).
2010 Emerald Literati Network 2010 Award for Excellence for Outstanding Reviewer for the journal Internet Research (http://info.emeraldinsight.com/authors/literati/index.htm)
2008 Best Paper, Jansen, B. J., Zhang, M., and Schultz, C. (2008) The Effect of Brand on the Evaluation of IT System Performance. Proceedings of the Southern Association for Information Systems Conference, Richmond, VA, USA 13-15 March 2008
2008 Presented with a Google Faculty Research Award ($50,000)
2007 Article selected as Highly Commended Winner at the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2007. Spink, A. and Jansen, B. J. (2006) Searching multiple federated content Web collections, Online Information Review. 30(5), 485-495.
2004 Worldwide press coverage for book Web Search: Public Searching of the Web, co-authored with Dr. Amanda Spink. Including AP, Yahoo! News, CNN, MSN, and numerous other television, radio, Web, and print outlets.
2003 Worldwide press coverage and interviews 6/30/2003-7/3/2003 reference article: Jansen, B. J., and Spink, A. (2003) An analysis of Web pages retrieved and viewed, IC’03: Internet Computing: Web Mining Session, Las Vegas, 4-6 June 2003. Including BBC, Irish Radio, Washington Times, Psychology Today, and several U.S. radio stations.
2003 ISI Most Highly Cited Articles in Field of Web Searching for the manuscript Jansen, B. J., Spink, A., and Saracevic, T. (2000) Real Life, Real Users, and Real Needs: A Study and Analysis of User Queries on the Web, Information Processing & Management. 38(2), 207-227.
The article was identified in May 2003 by ISI Essential Science Indicators to be one of the most cited papers in the research area of Web Searching Behavior.
2002 Highly Commended Article invited for journal publication. Jansen, B. J. (2002) Towards Implementing a Cognitive Model of Searching, Proceedings of the E-Learning 2002 Conference (Web Track), Montreal, Canada. 15-19 October.
2002 Two Crystal Awards of Excellence for outstanding software development in the communications field.
2002 Worldwide press coverage and interviews 3/31/02- 4/5/02 reference article: Spink, A., Jansen, B. J., Wolfram, D., and Saracevic, T. (2002). From e-sex to e-commerce: Web search changes, IEEE Computer, 35(3), 133-135.
Including: Associated Press, BBC, CBC, MSNBC, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, PC World, CNN, Chinese People’s Daily, Toronto Star, US News and World Report, San Francisco Chronicle, The Independent (UK), Business Week, Washington Post, Financial Times (UK), Information Week, Web, TV, newspaper (200+) and magazine media.
2002 Award of Distinction for interactive Web site development.
2002 Two Awards of Excellence for exceptional multimedia application development.
2002 US Army War College Team of the Year for outstanding contributions as team manager.
2001 U.S. Army Visual Information Award for multimedia development.
2000 Highly Commended Award by MCB Publishers, for Spink, A., Bateman, J., and Jansen, B. J. (1999) Searching the Web: A survey of Excite users, Journal of Internet Research: Electronic Networking Applications and Policy, 9(2), 117-128.
1998 Top Paper Award for Spink, A., Bateman, J., and Jansen, B. J. (1998) Users’ searching behavior on the Excite Web search engine, 1999 World Conference on the WWW and Internet, Orlando, Florida.
1997 ACM Student Research Award for Jansen, B. J. (1997) Simulated Annealing for Query Results Ranking, Computer Science Education Conference, San Jose, CA. 28 – 30 February.
1992 Writing and Research Award, U.S. Marine Corps University.
(Current as of 2023)