Philipp Mayr-Schlegel is a Professor at the University of Göttingen’s Institute of Computer Science, leading the team 'Information & Data Retrieval' at GESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences. His research focuses on interactive information retrieval systems, scholarly recommendation mechanisms, and the integration of bibliometric methods with digital library technologies. University of Göttingen - Institute of Computer Science GESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences His work spans information retrieval , digital libraries , and applied informetrics , with particular emphasis on: Interactive search systems Non-textual ranking algorithms Scholarly document processing Knowledge representation Semantic search technologies User behavior analysis Recent research outputs (2025) include studies on LLMs for scholarly search, bibliometric reproducibility tools, scientific uncertainty annotation, and preprint adoption disparities. He has published extensively in Scientometrics , International Journal on Digital Libraries , and top conference proceedings like ACL and ECIR . As organizer of the International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR) and Scholarly Document Processing (SDP) series, he has shaped academic discourse through editorial roles at ISSI , JCDL , and SocInfo conferences. His projects have attracted significant national and European funding.







