| 2025 | SIGIR | BM25 and all that - a look back. | Stephen Robertson |
| 2017 | SIGIR | Forward to the Past: Notes towards a Pre-history of Web Search. | Stephen Robertson |
| 2013 | ICTIR | On Using Fewer Topics in Information Retrieval Evaluations. | Andrea Berto, Stefano Mizzaro, Stephen Robertson |
| 2013 | ICTIR | Modelling Score Distributions Without Actual Scores. | Stephen Robertson, Evangelos Kanoulas, Emine Yilmaz |
| 2013 | WWW | Probabilistic group recommendation via information matching. | Jagadeesh Gorla, Neal Lathia, Stephen Robertson, Jun Wang |
| 2012 | ECIR | On Smoothing Average Precision. | Stephen Robertson |
| 2011 | ECIR | On the Contributions of Topics to System Evaluation. | Stephen Robertson |
| 2010 | CIKM | Expected browsing utility for web search evaluation. | Emine Yilmaz, Milad Shokouhi, Nick Craswell, Stephen Robertson |
| 2009 | CHI | Rethinking the ESP game. | Stephen Robertson, Milan Vojnovic, Ingmar Weber |
| 2009 | ICTIR | Score Distributions in Information Retrieval. | Avi Arampatzis, Stephen Robertson, Jaap Kamps |
| 2009 | SIGIR | Where to stop reading a ranked list?: threshold optimization using truncated score distributions. | Avi Arampatzis, Jaap Kamps, Stephen Robertson |
| 2009 | SIGIR | Deep versus shallow judgments in learning to rank. | Emine Yilmaz, Stephen Robertson |
| 2009 | SIGIR | Incorporating User Behavior Information in IR Evaluation. | Emine Yilmaz, Milad Shokouhi, Nick Craswell, Stephen Robertson |
| 2008 | ACL | Selecting Query Term Alternations for Web Search by Exploiting Query Contexts. | Guihong Cao, Stephen Robertson, Jian-Yun Nie |
| 2008 | CIKM | Comparing citation contexts for information retrieval. | Anna Ritchie, Stephen Robertson, Simone Teufel |
| 2008 | ECIR | Using Terms from Citations for IR: Some First Results. | Anna Ritchie, Simone Teufel, Stephen Robertson |
| 2008 | SIGIR | Selecting good expansion terms for pseudo-relevance feedback. | Guihong Cao, Jian-Yun Nie, Jianfeng Gao, Stephen Robertson |
| 2008 | SIGIR | A new interpretation of average precision. | Stephen Robertson |
| 2008 | SIGIR | A new rank correlation coefficient for information retrieval. | Emine Yilmaz, Javed A. Aslam, Stephen Robertson |
| 2008 | WSDM | SoftRank: optimizing non-smooth rank metrics. | Michael J. Taylor, John Guiver, Stephen Robertson, Tom Minka |
| 2007 | ECIR | The Last Half-Century: A Perspective on Experimentation in Information Retrieval. | Stephen Robertson |
| 2007 | ECIR | On Score Distributions and Relevance. | Stephen Robertson |
| 2007 | SIGIR | Hits hits TREC: exploring IR evaluation results with network analysis. | Stefano Mizzaro, Stephen Robertson |
| 2006 | CIKM | On GMAP: and other transformations. | Stephen Robertson |
| 2006 | CIKM | Optimisation methods for ranking functions with multiple parameters. | Michael J. Taylor, Hugo Zaragoza, Nick Craswell, Stephen Robertson, Chris Burges |
| 2006 | NAACL | Creating a Test Collection for Citation-based IR Experiments. | Anna Ritchie, Simone Teufel, Stephen Robertson |