Birger Larsen is Associate Professor and leader of the research group on Information Systems and Interaction Design at the Royal School of Library and Information Science, in Copenhagen, Denmark. In 2004 he received the first ever PhD degree given at the Royal School of LIS with a dissertation on References and citations in automatic indexing and retrieval systems: experiments with the boomerang effect. His PhD dissertation is available here in PDF format.

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 research evaluation. He teaches these subjects on all levels from Bachelor to PhD. 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 an active member of the TAPIR research group headed by professor Peter Ingwersen at the Royal School of LIS and a member of the following professional organisations: the ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR), the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI) and the British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group (BCS-IRSG), as well as BibliotekarForbundet (The Danish Union of Librarians, Information Specialists and Cultural Intermediaries), DFID (Danish Association for Information and Documentation) and DF (the Danish Research Library Association).

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 main journals and conferences within the areas covered by his research interests.

TEACHING

BSc level

• Information architecture and online information retrieval
• Advanced online searching
• Digital Libraries
• Web Content Managment systems in organisations

MSc level

• Information Retrieval
• Automatic indexing
• Unlocking CUltural Heritage
• Informetrics & Scientometrics

• Project supervisor for Jonas Fransson's project on 'Digital Information Behaviour'
• Project supervisor for Torsten Andreasen's project on 'CHAOS - the User Enriched Archive' (in the LARM project)
• Supervisior for Kim Tallerås' projekct on 'Linked metadata - interoperability across collections and material in archives, libraries and museums'
• Supervisor for upcomming PhD student in the ACUMEN and CoSound projects

MSc student thesis work

• Stine Hilker (2012): Presearch - Exploring opportunities for a media analysis system (IT University of Copenhagen; external supervisor)
• Danielle Chiosso Liu (2011): A Portfolio of indicators: Broadening the scope of bibliometric research evaluation of the humanities - a mixed methods exploration.
• Ayesha Jamil (2011): Integrated search
• Eva Dögg Diego Þorkelsdóttir (2011): The Possible Effects of a Bibliometrically-Based Evaluation System on Research Behaviour - the Case of the University of Iceland.
• Mette-Line Jakobsen (2010): Digitale kompetenser - en eksplorativ undersøgelse af novice-brugeres vanskeligheder [Digital Competences - an Explorative Study of Novice User Difficulties, in Danish].
• Anders Agerbæk Kjøller Nielsen (2009): The Objective Bibliometric Study - a View on Citation Analysis.
• Barbara Hammer-Aebi & Kirstine Wilfred Christensen (2008): An Interactive IR study of Evaluation Methods - Comparing Search Behavior of Older and Younger Searchers.
• Liv Mostad Jensen (2008): A Bibliometric Evaluation of the DARK Cosmology Center's Research Publications 2005-2007 - a Case Study.
• Barbara Marstrand (2008): Evaluering af metode til bibliometrisk forskningsevaluering [Evaluation of a method for Research Evaluation, in Danish].
• Jonas Ekedahl (2008): Danish Natural Language Processing in Automated Categorization. (External co-supervisor, Department of Computer Science, Lund University, Sweden).
• Jeanette Mai-Britt Jensen (2007): Er der relevans i øjet der ser? - en undersøgelse af anvendeligheden af eye tracking i forbindelse med implicit relevans feedback [Is There Relevance in the Gazing Eye? - an Investigation into the Applicability of Eye-Tracking in Relation to Implicit Relevance Feedback, in Danish].
• Xiaolong Yang (2007): Designing a text-based WWW image search engine.
• Anne Lund (2007): Bibliometrics, a Relevant Tool in Benchmarking Research?
• Jette Krarup Nicolaisen (2007): Find melodien - Indholdsbaseret indeksering af musik [Finding the Tune - Content Based Indexing of Music, in Danish].
• Stine Nielsen (2006): Linkmotiver på Weblogs - en eksplorativ analyse af linkmotiver på udvalgte weblogs [Link motives on weblogs - a explorative analysis of link motives on selected weblogs, in Danish].
• Anne Katrine Justenborg & Zara Weeke Larsen (2006): Brugere og Element Retrieval ? en eksplorativ undersøgelse af sammenhænge mellem browsningsadfærd og brugerkarakteristika [Users and Element Retrieval ? a explorative investigation of correlations between browsing behaviour and user characteristics, in Danish].
• Liselotte Nielsen & Nille Lundquist Wagner (2005): Danmarks og Øresundsregionens sundhedsvidenskabelige forsknings status i international sammenhæng [The International Research Status of Medical Research from Denmark and the Øresund University, in Danish]
• Mikkel Christoffersen (2005): An architecture for bibliographic descriptions of heterogeneous object types using semantic web technologies - principal considerations.

BSc student thesis work

• Stine Netman & Mette Detlevsen (2012): Søgemaskineoptimering [Search engine optimisation, in Danish]
• Niels Toft Larsen (2012): Citationer, sanktioner og fusk [Citations, sanctions and fraud, in Danish]
• Yones EL Bana (2012): SEO-søgeoptimering [SEO - search optimisation, in Danish]
• Diana Ransgaard Sørensen (2011): Optimering af integreret søgning - eksperimenter emd dokumenttypevægtning og fusion [Optimizing integrated search – document type weighting and fusion experiments, in Danish]
• Maiken Bjerrum (2011): Patientforeninger for sjældne diagnoser ­– en uudnyttet kilde til viden? [Rare disease patient associations - an unexploited source of knowledge? In Danish]
• Jesper Nygaard Rasmussen (2011): Værdiskabende intranet [Value creating intranets, in Danish]
• Wendy Wenhui Ma (2011): Web 1.0 versus web 2.0 - analyse af the Dark Frontier website [Web 1.0 versus web 2.0 - analysis of the Dark Frontier website - in Danish]
• Laura Birk Steengaard (2011): Web of Science versus Scopus - a heuristic evaluation [in Danish].
• Laust Nicolai-Skinbjerg (2010): Søgemaskineevaluering - en komparativ undersøgelse af Google, Yahoo og Bing. [Search engine evaluation - an investigation of Google, Yahoo and Bing, in Danish]
• Matthias Møller Prægel (2010): Emneindeksering af lokalplaner [Subject indexing of district plans, in Danish] 
• Cammilla Breinholt Sloth & Lorna Elizabeth Wildgaard (2008): Expanding the boundaries - considering the potential of bibliometrics in the optimisation of medical PhD students' selection of information (in Danish) 
• Luhr Løvdahl Baggøe & Sean Bendtsen Powell (2008): Litteratursøgning i biblioteksportaler - en undersøgelse af funktionaliteter og features til understøttelse af studerendes litteratursøgning i universitetsbibliotekssystemerne REX, PRIMO & SUMMA - Cognitive Walkthrough Approach [Searching in library portals - an investigation of functionalities and features to support student searching in the university library systems REX, PRIMO & SUMMA - Cognitive Walkthrough Approach, in Danish]
• Bettina Farbicius Skov Christensen (2007): (søg OG du skal finde ELLER IKKE finde) - et casestudie af forskeres adfærd i forbindelse med litteratursøgning i bibliografiske databaser, foretaget på H. Lundbeck A/S, juni 2006 [search AND you shall Find OR NOT find - a case study of the information search behaviour of researchers in bibliographic online databases at H. Lundbeck A/S, in Danish]
• Per Juul Østergaard (2007): Brugerbehov i Information Architecture [User needs in Information Architecture, In Danish]
• Anne Kathrine Asser Møller, Peter Gjellerup Koch og Lars Bjørk Winkel (2007): Evaluering af Vidensskabsministeriets intranet: Koncernintranettet og Departementets Intranet [Evaluation of two Intranets at Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, in Danish]
• Barbara Hammer-Aebi & Kirstine Wilfred Christensen (2006): Using XML in Information Retrieval ? A study of user behaviour
• Peter Gjellerup Koch & Anders Kann (2006): Usability-evaluering af Io-Interactives virksomhedsportal: Project M [Usability evaluation of Io-Interactive's 'Project M' Enterprise Information Portal, in Danish]
• Anne Lisbeth Larsen (2004): Scientometrisk casestudy af psykiatrisk forskning i udvalgte nordeuropæiske lande 1994-2003 [Scientometics Case study of Psychriatric Research in Selected North European Countries 1994-2003, in Danish]

• Associate Professor (2006-) at Department of Information Studies at the Royal School of Library and Information Science (Copenhagen). 
• Assistant Professor (2004-2006) at Department of Information Studies at the Royal School of Library and Information Science (Copenhagen).
• PhD student (2000-2004) at Department of Information Studies at the Royal School of Library and Information Science (Copenhagen).
• Master of Library and Information Science (June 2000) from the Royal School of Library and Information Science.
• Degree in Librarianship (June 1998) from the Royal School of Library and Information Science.
• Part-time teacher (1998-2000) in, e. g. Informetrics at the Royal School of Library and Information Science.
• Teacher in Rex (1997-1999) at The Royal Library, Copenhagen.