An index-based ranking of conferences in a distinctive manner

Abstract

Purpose Bibliometrics is one of the research fields in library and information science that deals with the analysis of academic entities. In this regard, to gauge the productivity and popularity of authors, publication counts and citation counts are common bibliometric measures. Similarly, the significance of a journal is measured using another bibliometric measure, impact factor. However, scarce attention has been paid to find the impact and productivity of conferences using these bibliometric measures. Moreover, the application of the existing techniques rarely finds the impact of conferences in a distinctive manner. The purpose of this paper is to propose and compare the DS-index with existing bibliometric indices, such as h-index, g-index and R-index, to study and rank conferences distinctively based on their significance. Design/methodology/approach The DS-index is applied to the self-developed large DBLP data set having publication data over 50 years covering more than 10,000 conferences. Findings The empirical results of the proposed index are compared with the existing indices using the standard performance evaluation measures. The results confirm that the DS-index performs better than other indices in ranking the conferences in a distinctive manner. Originality/value Scarce attention is paid to rank conferences in distinctive manner using bibliometric measures. In addition, exploiting the DS-index to assign unique ranks to the different conferences makes this research work novel.

Identifying Attractive Research Fields for New Scientists

“…In this regard, different focuses have been made by the researchers including co-citation approaches to find the trending research areas [6] and different sort of ranking algorithms to rank the important research areas [7]. Similarly, researchers also ranked Conferences on the basis of index and other properties [8] and also used other kind of indexes to rank the authors and journals like Ds index [9]. The researchers also proposed solutions for emerging researchers to help them find the useful topics that produce impactful research papers [2].…”

Author-related factors predicting citation counts of conference papers: focusing on computer and information science

“…The study suggested that the citation counts of papers presented at elite conferences are approximately equal to the citation counts of articles published in journals at a fair level. The significance of conference papers stems from the fact that, in the fast-moving research of the discipline, publishing papers at conferences takes significantly less time than in journals (Farooq, 2019; Freyne et al , 2010).…”

“…However, few bibliometric studies of conference papers have been conducted, and these have mostly concentrated on the differences in journal articles (Freyne et al , 2010; Wainer et al , 2011) to prove the value of conference papers as ancillary sources of bibliometric data. For instance, studies have explored differences in citation counts between journal articles and conference papers (Freyne et al , 2010), patterns of reproducing conference papers for journal publication (Wainer et al , 2011), patterns of citing references between both types of publications (Wainer and Valle, 2013) and the development of a widely acceptable conference ranking system, compared to journals’ impact factors (Farooq, 2019; Li et al , 2018).…”