It is increasingly difficult for researchers to navigate and reach an understanding of a
growing body of literature in a field of research. While past works in HCI and data …

Exploratory search is an intuitive concept in interactive information retrieval. While many
definitions for Exploratory Search have been proposed, the main dimensions involve high …

Academic search engines have been widely used to access academic papers, where users'
information needs are explicitly represented as search queries. Some modern recommender …

While the search interfaces used by common academic digital libraries provide easy access
to a wealth of peer‐reviewed literature, their interfaces provide little support for exploratory …

Finding relevant publications is a common task. Typically, a researcher browses through a
list of publications and traces additional relevant publications. When relevant publications …

Academic digital library searchers often employ exploratory search strategies when faced
with the complex search task of finding academic literature on a topic that is new to them …

Purpose How to provide the most useful papers for searchers is a key issue for academic
search engines. A lot of research has been carried out to address this problem. However …

The rapid growth in the number of scholarly documents on the Web and in other digital
platforms makes it challenging for researchers to find research publications most relevant to …

As search tasks move beyond targeted search and into the domain of complex search, a
substantial cognitive burden is placed on the searcher to craft and refine their queries …

When searching within an academic digital library, a variety of information seeking
strategies may be employed. The purpose of this study is to determine whether graduate …