He has published extensively in the filed of Information Retrieval producing a number of highly cited papers including a number in the field of evaluation. With Paul Clough, Dr. Sanderson initiated the successful ImageCLEF evaluation exercise and more recently jointly launched the geoCLEF evaluation with Fred Gey and Ray Larson at Berkeley. In recent years, Dr. Sanderson has focused his evaluation research interests to the efficient building of test collections, development of new evaluation measures and the study of query log data and last year worked at the research labs of a major search engine conducting analysis on one of their large log data sets. Research from that work has just been published at the European Conference on Information Retrieval