Scholarly event characteristics in four fields of science: a metrics-based analysis

Said Fathalla (), Sahar Vahdati (), Christoph Lange () and Sören Auer ()
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Said Fathalla: University of Bonn
Sahar Vahdati: University of Oxford
Christoph Lange: RWTH Aachen University
Sören Auer: Leibniz University of Hannover

Scientometrics, 2020, vol. 123, issue 2, No 6, 677-705

Abstract: Abstract One of the key channels of scholarly knowledge exchange are scholarly events such as conferences, workshops, symposiums, etc.; such events are especially important and popular in Computer Science, Engineering, and Natural Sciences. However, scholars encounter problems in finding relevant information about upcoming events and statistics on their historic evolution. In order to obtain a better understanding of scholarly event characteristics in four fields of science, we analyzed the metadata of scholarly events of four major fields of science, namely Computer Science, Physics, Engineering, and Mathematics using Scholarly Events Quality Assessment suite, a suite of ten metrics. In particular, we analyzed renowned scholarly events belonging to five sub-fields within Computer Science, namely World Wide Web, Computer Vision, Software Engineering, Data Management, as well as Security and Privacy. This analysis is based on a systematic approach using descriptive statistics as well as exploratory data analysis. The findings are on the one hand interesting to observe the general evolution and success factors of scholarly events; on the other hand, they allow (prospective) event organizers, publishers, and committee members to assess the progress of their event over time and compare it to other events in the same field; and finally, they help researchers to make more informed decisions when selecting suitable venues for presenting their work. Based on these findings, a set of recommendations has been concluded to different stakeholders, involving event organizers, potential authors, proceedings publishers, and sponsors. Our comprehensive dataset of scholarly events of the aforementioned fields is openly available in a semantic format and maintained collaboratively at OpenResearch.org.

Keywords: Scholarly events; Metadata analysis; Scholarly communication; Publishing paradigms; Metrics suite; OpenResearch.org (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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