Jim Jansen

Biographical Information

Dr. Bernard J. (Jim) Jansen is an assistant professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State.

Jansen has more than 150 publications in the area of information technology and systems, with articles appearing in a multi-disciplinary range of journals and conferences. His specific areas of expertise are Web searching, sponsored search, and personalization for information searching. He is co-author of the book Web Search: Public Searching of the Web and co-editor of the book Handbook of Weblog Analysis.

Jansen is a member of the editorial boards of six international journals. He has received several awards and honors, including an ACM Research Award and six application development awards, along with other writing, publishing, research, and leadership honors. Several agencies and corporations have supported his research.

He is actively involved in teaching both undergraduate and graduate level courses, as well as mentoring students in a variety of research and educational efforts. He also has successfully conducted numerous consulting projects. Jansen resides with his family in Charlottesville, Virginia.

 

Research and Teaching

Dr. Jansen's research focus is at the convergence of people, information, and technology, with the overall goal of improving the effectiveness and efficiency of human – system interaction during information searching. His research projects have dealt with agents, information retrieval, human-computer interaction, and computational intelligence. Dr. Jansen's current research projects are exploring the process in which real users interact with Web information systems and devising new development strategies to build advanced information systems.

Dr. Jansen has taught a wide variety of information technology courses including information technology, the Internet, the World Wide Web, databases, microcomputers, multimedia development and office application systems. His primary teaching interest is in courses that take academic theories and applying them in novel ways to solve real world issues. As such, he has instructed capstone design courses, advised for student research projects, and sponsored independent directed studies.

Publications:

Reddy, M. and Jansen, B. J. (2007) A model for understanding collaborative information behavior in context: A study of two healthcare teams, Information Processing & Management. 44 (1), 256-273.

Jansen, B. J., Brown, A., and Resnick, M. (2007) Factors relating to the decision to click-on a sponsored link, Decision Support Systems. 44(1), 46-59.

Jansen, B. J. and Spink, A. (2007) Sponsored search: Is money a motivator for providing relevant results?, IEEE Computer. 40(8), 50-55.

Jansen, B. J. (2007) Click fraud. IEEE Computer. 40(7), 85-86.

Jansen, B. J. (2007) The Comparative Effectiveness of Sponsored and Non-sponsored Results for Web Ecommerce Queries. ACM Transactions on the Web. 1(1), Article 3.

Jansen, B. J., Spink, A., Blakely, C., and Koshman, S. (2007) Defining a session on Web search engines. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 58(6), 862-871.

Jansen, B. J., Spink, A., and Koshman, S. (2007) Web searcher interactions with the Dogpile.com meta-search engine. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 58(5), 744-755.

Jansen, B. J., Mullen, T., Spink, A., and Pederson, J. (2006) Automated gathering of Web information: An in-depth examination of agents interacting with search engines. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology. 6(4), 442-464.

Jansen, B. J. and Eastman, C. Forthcoming. Limitations of advanced searching techniques on Web search engines. Journal of Electronic Resources in Law Librarianship.

Jansen, B. J. and Resnick, M. 2006. An examination of searcher's perceptions of non-sponsored and sponsored links during ecommerce Web searching. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 57(14), 1949-1961.

Spink, A., and Jansen, B. J. 2006. Searching multiple federate content Web collections. Online Information Review. 30(5), 485-495.

Koshman, S. Spink, A., Jansen, B. J., Park, M. and Fields, C. 2006. Web Searching on the Vivisimo Search Engine. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.57(14), 1875-1887.

Jansen, B. J. 2006. Paid Search. IEEE Computer. 39(7), 88-90.

Spink, A., Jansen, B. J., Blakely, C., and Koshman, S. 2006. A study of results overlap and uniqueness among major Web search engines. Information Processing & Management.

Jansen, B. J. 2006. Search log analysis: What is it; what's been done; how to do it. Library and Information Science Research, 28(3), 407-432.

Jansen, B. J. 2006. Using Temporal Patterns of Interations to Design Effective Automated Searching Assistance Systems.  Communications of the ACM. 49(4), 72-74.

Jansen, B. J. and Molina, P. 2006.  The Effectiveness of Web Search Engines for Retrieving Relevant e-Commerce Links.  Information Processing & Management. 42(4), 1075-1098. 

Jansen, B. J. and McNeese, M.D. 2005.  Evaluating the Effectiveness of and Patterns of Interactions with Automated Assistance in IR Systems.  Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 56(14), 1480-1503.

Jansen, B. J. and Spink, A. 2005. How are We Searching the World Wide Web?: An Analysis of Nine Search Engine Transaction Logs. Information Processing & Management. 42(1), 248-263.

Jansen, B. J., Spink, A., and Pederson, J. 2005. A Temporal Comparison of AltaVista Web Searching. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 56(6), 559-570.

Jansen, B. J., Jansen, K. J., and Spink, A. 2005. Using the Web to Look for Work: Implications for Online Job Seeking and Recruiting. Journal of Internet Research: Electronic Networking Applications and Policy. 15(1), 49-66. 

Jansen, B. J. 2005. Seeking and Implementing Automated Assistance During the Search Process. Information Processing and Management. 41(4), 909-928.

Jansen, B. J. and Spink, A. 2004. An Analysis of Web Searching by European Alltheweb.com Users. Information Processing & Management. 41(2), 361-381. 

Jansen, B. J. and Pooch, U. 2004. Assisting the searcher: utilizing software agents for Web search systems. Journal of Internet Research: Electronic Networking Applications and Policy. 14(1), 19 - 33.
 
Eastman, C. and Jansen, B. J. 2003. Coverage, relevance, and ranking: the impact of query operators on Web search engine results. ACM Transactions on Information Systems. 21(4), 383 - 411. 

Spink, A., Jansen, B. J., Wolfram, D., and Saracevic, T. 2002. From E-sex to E-commerce: Web Search Changes. IEEE Computer. 35(3), 107 - 111.

Jansen, B. J. and Pooch, U. 2001. Web user studies: A review and framework for future work. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 52(3), 235 - 246.
 
Brown, G., Fisher, M., Stoll, N., Beeksma, D., Black, M., Taylor, R., Choe, S., Williams, A., Bryant, W., and Jansen, B. J. 2000. Leveraging a Y2K evaluation to improve information systems architecture. Communications of the ACM, 43(10), 90-97.
 
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. 36(2), 207-227.
 
Jansen, B. J., Goodrum, A., and Spink. A. 2000. Searching for multimedia: video, audio, and image Web queries. World Wide Web Journal, 3(4), 249 - 254.
 
Jansen, B. J., Spink, A., Bateman, J., and Saracevic, T. 1998. Real life information retrieval: A study of user queries on the web. SIGIR Forum, 32(1), 5 -17.