Exploring Bibliographies for Research-related Tasks

Abstract

Bibliographies are fundamental tools for research communities. Besides the obvious uses as connection to previous research, citations are also widely used for evaluation purposes: the productivity of researchers, departments and universities is increasingly measured by counting their citations. Unfortunately, citations counters are just rough indicators: a deeper knowledge of individual citations -where, when, by whom and why -improves research evaluation tasks and supports researchers in their daily activity. Yet, such information is mostly hidden within repositories of scholarly papers and is still difficult to find, navigate and make use of.In this paper, we present a novel tool for exploring scientific articles through their citations. The environment is built on top of a rich citation network, encoded as a LOD, and includes a user-friendly interface to access, filter and highlight information about bibliographic data.

Authoring and Reviewing Bibliographies: Design and Development of a Visual Analytics Online Platform

“…Scholars are daily involved in operations on bibliographic references [31]; when they write, review or evaluate a paper, they take up different scientific roles, which require them to perform sets of specific tasks. We started from their analysis to identify the requirements that any bibliographic platform could satisfy.…”

Assisting researchers in bibliographic tasks: A new usable, real‐time tool for analyzing bibliographies

“…A relevant part of these activities falls in the research field dedicated to literature search and review that involves information seeking, sensemaking, comprehension and communication (Bethard & Jurafsky, 2010;Booth et al, 2016;Borgman & Furner, 2002;Zhang et al, 2008), and requires the retrieval, the exploration, the organization, the evaluation, and the sharing of papers, regrouped in bibliographies. Researchers spend a lot of time in exploring bibliographies (Di Iorio et al, 2015), when writing a paper, when navigating in a new research area, when evaluating papers, when searching for related work; often they start from few seed papers and apply a backward and forward search for finding interesting papers.…”

A Typology of Semantic Relations Dedicated to Scientific Literature Analysis

“…Citation links are extensively used to explore scientific communities [12,13]. [6] provides a list of usual tasks on bibliographies for different classes of users. The Citation Typing ontology (CiTo) [16] presents a typology of citations according to the relation between the research papers they express.…”