Analysing the evolution of computer science events leveraging a scholarly knowledge graph: a scientometrics study of top-ranked events in the past decade

Arthur Lackner, Said Fathalla (), Mojtaba Nayyeri, Andreas Behrend, Rainer Manthey, Sören Auer, Jens Lehmann and Sahar Vahdati
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Arthur Lackner: University of Bonn
Said Fathalla: University of Bonn
Mojtaba Nayyeri: University of Bonn
Andreas Behrend: TH Köln
Rainer Manthey: University of Bonn
Sören Auer: University of Hannover
Jens Lehmann: University of Bonn
Sahar Vahdati: Nature-Inspired Machine Intelligence, Institute for Applied Informatics (InfAI)

Scientometrics, 2021, vol. 126, issue 9, No 34, 8129-8151

Abstract: Abstract The publish or perish culture of scholarly communication results in quality and relevance to be are subordinate to quantity. Scientific events such as conferences play an important role in scholarly communication and knowledge exchange. Researchers in many fields, such as computer science, often need to search for events to publish their research results, establish connections for collaborations with other researchers and stay up to date with recent works. Researchers need to have a meta-research understanding of the quality of scientific events to publish in high-quality venues. However, there are many diverse and complex criteria to be explored for the evaluation of events. Thus, finding events with quality-related criteria becomes a time-consuming task for researchers and often results in an experience-based subjective evaluation. OpenResearch.org is a crowd-sourcing platform that provides features to explore previous and upcoming events of computer science, based on a knowledge graph. In this paper, we devise an ontology representing scientific events metadata. Furthermore, we introduce an analytical study of the evolution of Computer Science events leveraging the OpenResearch.org knowledge graph. We identify common characteristics of these events, formalize them, and combine them as a group of metrics. These metrics can be used by potential authors to identify high-quality events. On top of the improved ontology, we analyzed the metadata of renowned conferences in various computer science communities, such as VLDB, ISWC, ESWC, WIMS, and SEMANTiCS, in order to inspect their potential as event metrics.

Keywords: Scientific Events; Ontology; Metadata Analysis; Scholarly Communication; Metric Suite (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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