| 2012 | SIGIR | On per-topic variance in IR evaluation. | Stephen E. Robertson, Evangelos Kanoulas |
| 2012 | SIGIR | On real-time ad-hoc retrieval evaluation. | Stephen E. Robertson, Evangelos Kanoulas |
| 2010 | SIGIR | Extending average precision to graded relevance judgments. | Stephen E. Robertson, Evangelos Kanoulas, Emine Yilmaz |
| 2006 | FQAS | XML-Structured Documents: Retrievable Units and Inheritance. | Stephen E. Robertson, Wei Lu, Andrew MacFarlane |
| 2005 | SIGIR | Relevance weighting for query independent evidence. | Nick Craswell, Stephen E. Robertson, Hugo Zaragoza, Michael J. Taylor |
| 2004 | CIKM | Simple BM25 extension to multiple weighted fields. | Stephen E. Robertson, Hugo Zaragoza, Michael J. Taylor |
| 2004 | SIGIR | Parsimonious language models for information retrieval. | Djoerd Hiemstra, Stephen E. Robertson, Hugo Zaragoza |
| 2004 | SIGIR | Exploiting hyperlink recommendation evidence in navigational web search. | Trystan Upstill, Stephen E. Robertson |
| 2003 | ECIR | Parallel Computing for Term Selection in Routing/Filtering. | Andy MacFarlane, Stephen E. Robertson, Julie A. McCann |
| 2003 | SIGIR | Building a filtering test collection for TREC 2002. | Ian Soboroff, Stephen E. Robertson |
| 2002 | SIGIR | Using self-supervised word segmentation in Chinese information retrieval. | Fuchun Peng, Xiangji Huang, Dale Schuurmans, Nick Cercone, Stephen E. Robertson |
| 2002 | SIGIR | Relative and absolute term selection criteria: a comparative study for English and Japanese IR. | Tetsuya Sakai, Stephen E. Robertson |
| 2001 | SIGIR | Effective Site Finding Using Link Anchor Information. | Nick Craswell, David Hawking, Stephen E. Robertson |
| 2001 | SIGIR | Flexible Pseudo-Relevance Feedback Using Optimization Tables. | Tetsuya Sakai, Stephen E. Robertson |
| 2000 | SIGIR | Salton Award Lecture: On theoretical argument in information retrieval. | Stephen E. Robertson |
| 2000 | SPIRE | Parallel Search Using Partitioned Inverted Files. | Andrew MacFarlane, Julie A. McCann, Stephen E. Robertson |
| 1999 | ECIR | Clustering Information Retrieval Search Outputs. | Yasemin Kural, Stephen E. Robertson, Susan Jones |
| 1998 | ECIR | Evaluation of Interfaces for IRS: Modelling End-User Searching Behaviour. | Victoria Manglano, Micheline Beaulieu, Stephen E. Robertson |
| 1997 | SIGIR | On Relevance Weights with Little Relevance Information. | Stephen E. Robertson, Steve Walker |
| 1994 | SIGIR | Some Simple Effective Approximations to the 2-Poisson Model for Probabilistic Weighted Retrieval. | Stephen E. Robertson, Steve Walker |
| 1982 | SIGIR | The Unified Probabilistic Model for IR. | Stephen E. Robertson, Melvin Earl Maron, William S. Cooper |
| 1981 | SIGIR | Term Frequency and Term Value. | Stephen E. Robertson |
| 1980 | SIGIR | Probabilistic Models of Indexing and Searching. | Stephen E. Robertson, C. J. van Rijsbergen, Martin F. Porter |