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    2026 edition · Top 35

    Search, retrieval & recommendation

    Information retrieval, web search, ranking and recommender systems.

    Retrieval & recommendation: 35 · N = 35, scaled from 92 candidates.

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    1. 1
      Retrieval & recommendation1998

      The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine

      Sergey Brin · 17,919 citations · Semantic Scholar

      Editor's note
    2. 2
      Retrieval & recommendation2008

      Factorization Meets the Neighborhood: a Multifaceted Collaborative Filtering Model

      Yehuda Koren · 3,856 citations · OpenAlex

      Award
    3. 3
      Retrieval & recommendation2020

      Dense Passage Retrieval for Open-Domain Question Answering

      Vladimir Karpukhin · 7,327 citations · Papers With Code

      Editor's note
    4. 4
      Retrieval & recommendation2003

      Amazon.com Recommendations: Item-to-Item Collaborative Filtering

      Greg Linden · 5,401 citations · OpenAlex

      Editor's note
    5. 5
      Retrieval & recommendation2001

      Item-based Collaborative Filtering Recommendation Algorithms

      Badrul Munir Sarwar · 9,135 citations · OpenAlex

    6. 6
      Retrieval & recommendation1994

      GroupLens: An Open Architecture for Collaborative Filtering of Netnews

      Paul Resnick · 5,058 citations · OpenAlex

      Editor's note
    7. 7
      Retrieval & recommendation2016

      Deep Neural Networks for YouTube Recommendations

      Paul Covington · 3,537 citations · OpenAlex

      Editor's note
    8. 8
      Retrieval & recommendation2017

      Neural Collaborative Filtering

      Xiangnan He · 7,434 citations · Papers With Code

    9. 9
      Retrieval & recommendation2016

      Wide & Deep Learning for Recommender Systems

      Heng-Tze Cheng · 4,338 citations · Papers With Code

    10. 10
      Retrieval & recommendation2018

      Self-Attentive Sequential Recommendation

      Wang-Cheng Kang · 4,361 citations · Papers With Code

    11. 11
      Retrieval & recommendation1994

      Okapi at TREC-3

      Stephen E. Robertson · 2,963 citations · Semantic Scholar

      Editor's note
    12. 12
      Retrieval & recommendation2020

      ColBERT: Efficient and Effective Passage Search via Contextualized Late Interaction over BERT

      Omar Khattab · 2,653 citations · Papers With Code

    13. 13
      Retrieval & recommendation2008

      Collaborative Filtering for Implicit Feedback Datasets

      Yifan Hu · 3,249 citations · OpenAlex

    14. 14
      Retrieval & recommendation2005

      Learning to Rank using Gradient Descent

      Christopher J. C. Burges · 2,805 citations · OpenAlex

      Editor's note
    15. 15
      Retrieval & recommendation2010

      Factorization Machines

      Steffen Rendle · 3,139 citations · OpenAlex

    16. 16
      Retrieval & recommendation2009

      BPR: Bayesian Personalized Ranking from Implicit Feedback

      Steffen Rendle · 6,977 citations · Papers With Code

    17. 17
      Retrieval & recommendation1975

      A Vector Space Model for Automatic Indexing

      Gerard Salton · 7,522 citations · OpenAlex

      Editor's note
    18. 18
      Retrieval & recommendation1990

      Indexing by Latent Semantic Analysis

      Scott Deerwester · 12,758 citations · OpenAlex

    19. 19
      Retrieval & recommendation1999

      Authoritative Sources in a Hyperlinked Environment

      Jon M. Kleinberg · 9,032 citations · OpenAlex

    20. 20
      Retrieval & recommendation2002

      Cumulated Gain-based Evaluation of IR Techniques

      Kalervo Järvelin · 4,776 citations · OpenAlex

    21. 21
      Retrieval & recommendation2019

      BERT4Rec: Sequential Recommendation with Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformer

      Fei Sun · 3,680 citations · Papers With Code

    22. 22
      Retrieval & recommendation2002

      Optimizing Search Engines Using Clickthrough Data

      Thorsten Joachims · 3,890 citations · OpenAlex

      Award
    23. 23
      Retrieval & recommendation2017

      DeepFM: A Factorization-Machine based Neural Network for CTR Prediction

      Huifeng Guo · 3,251 citations · Papers With Code

    24. 24
      Retrieval & recommendation1992

      Using collaborative filtering to weave an information tapestry

      David Goldberg · 4,071 citations · OpenAlex

    25. 25
      Retrieval & recommendation2007

      Probabilistic Matrix Factorization

      Andriy Mnih · 4,943 citations · Semantic Scholar

    26. 26
      Retrieval & recommendation2015 · published 2016

      Session-based Recommendations with Recurrent Neural Networks

      Balázs Hidasi · 3,206 citations · Papers With Code

    27. 27
      Retrieval & recommendation1998

      Empirical Analysis of Predictive Algorithms for Collaborative Filtering

      John S. Breese · 6,004 citations · Semantic Scholar

    28. 28
      Retrieval & recommendation1972

      A Statistical Interpretation of Term Specificity and Its Application in Retrieval

      Karen Spärck Jones · 4,526 citations · OpenAlex

      Editor's note
    29. 29
      Retrieval & recommendation2020

      LightGCN: Simplifying and Powering Graph Convolution Network for Recommendation

      Xiangnan He · 5,834 citations · Papers With Code

    30. 30
      Retrieval & recommendation2004

      Evaluating Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems

      Jonathan Herlocker · 5,798 citations · OpenAlex

    31. 31
      Retrieval & recommendation2019

      Neural Graph Collaborative Filtering

      Xiang Wang · 4,119 citations · Papers With Code

    32. 32
      Retrieval & recommendation1998

      A Language Modeling Approach to Information Retrieval

      Jay M. Ponte · 1,749 citations · OpenAlex

      Award
    33. 33
      Retrieval & recommendation2015

      Collaborative Deep Learning for Recommender Systems

      Hao Wang · 1,657 citations · OpenAlex

      Award
    34. 34
      Retrieval & recommendation1976

      Relevance Weighting of Search Terms

      Stephen E. Robertson · 2,093 citations · OpenAlex

    35. 35
      Retrieval & recommendation1988

      Term-weighting Approaches in Automatic Text Retrieval

      Gerard Salton · 9,798 citations · OpenAlex

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      The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web

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