On evaluating the quality of a computer science/computer engineering conference

Loizides, Orestis-Stavros; Koutsakis, P.

doi:10.1016/j.joi.2017.03.008

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“…Measures such as the acceptance rate of conferences are sometimes used as a proxy of quality, but cannot be compared with the Impact Factor of journals. Although Impact Factor is commonly calculated for journals only, recent studies developed proposals for a widely adoptable quality evaluation and ranking system for conferences, which could be equivalent to the Impact Factor Li et al (2018), Meho (2019), Loizides and Koutsakis (2017). Besides, He and Han observe that conference papers, whose main objective is communication, have a stronger correlation with altmetrics than journal papers.…”

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Does the venue of scientific conferences leverage their impact? A large scale study on Computer Science conferences

Bedogni

Cabri

Poggi

2022

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PurposeConferences bring scientists together and provide one of the most timely means for disseminating new ideas and cutting-edge works. The importance of conferences in many scientific areas is testified by quantitative indexes. The main goal of this paper is to investigate a novel research question: is there any correlation between the impact of scientific conferences and the venue where they took place?Design/methodology/approachTo measure the impact of conferences, the authors conducted a large scale analysis on the bibliographic data extracted from 3,838 Computer Science conference series and over 2.5 million papers spanning more than 30 years of research. To quantify the “touristicity'' of a venue, the authors exploited indexes about the attractiveness of a venue from reports of the World Economic Forum, and have extracted four country-wide and two city-wide touristic indexes, which measure the attractiveness and the touristicity of any country or city.FindingsThe authors found out that the two aspects are related, and the correlation with conference impact is stronger when considering country-wide touristic indexes, achieving a correlation value of more than 0.5 when considering the average citations, and more than 0.8 when considering the total citations. Moreover the almost linear correlation with the Tourist Service Infrastructure index attests the specific importance of tourist/accommodation facilities in a given country.Research limitations/implicationsThere are two main limitations of this work: (1) the use of citations to evaluate the attractiveness of the conferences and (2) the difficulty to formally define the touristic attractiveness of a venue.Practical implicationsStarting from the results concerning the correlation between different touristicity indicators and the outcome of a conference in terms of citations, it would be possible to support conference organizers in their decisions. For instance, they could plan in advance conference venues considering the same touristicity indicators, comparing different options and selecting cities which have high scores. This will allow for rapid planning of a conference venue, encompassing the easiness of travel and the attractivity of a venue, hence increasing the potential outcomes of the conference.Social implicationsRegarding the social implications, this study will enable the possibility for municipalities and conference organizers to understand what it can be improved in a specific venue to make it more attractive. This may include better transport connections or selecting cities which show a high potential regarding the touristicity index. Regarding the willingness of a researcher to submit a paper to a specific conference, it would be unaltered, meaning that what the results show is that there is already a mental process, before submitting a paper to a conference, which considers these indicators.Originality/valueThis is the first attempt to focus on the relationship of venue characteristics to conference papers. The results open up new possibilities, such as supporting conference organizers in their organization efforts.

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Does the venue of scientific conferences leverage their impact? A large scale study on Computer Science conferences

Bedogni

Cabri

Poggi

2022

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“…Measures such as the acceptance rate of conferences are sometimes used as a proxy of quality, but cannot be compared with the Impact Factor of journals. Although Impact Factor is commonly calculated for journals only, recent studies developed proposals for a widely adoptable quality evaluation and ranking system for conferences, which could be equivalent to the Impact Factor (Li et al (2018); Loizides and Koutsakis (2017)). Besides, He and Han observe that conference papers, whose main objective is communication, have a stronger correlation with altmetrics than journal papers.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does the Venue of Scientific Conferences Leverage their Impact? A Large Scale study on Computer Science Conferences

Bedogni,

Cabri,

Martoglia

et al. 2021

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Background: Conferences bring scientists together and provide one of the most timely means for disseminating new ideas and cutting-edge works. The importance of conferences in scientific areas is testified by quantitative indicators. In Computer Science, for instance, almost two out of three papers published on Scopus are conference papers.Objective/Purpose: The main goal of this paper is to investigate a novel research question: is there any correlation between the impact of a scientific conference and the venue where it took place?Approach: In order to measure the impact of conferences we conducted a large scale analysis on the bibliographic data extracted from 3,838 Computer Science conference series and over 2.5 million papers spanning more than 30 years of research. To quantify the "touristicity" of a venue we exploited some indicators such as the size of the Wikipedia page for the city hosting the venue and other indexes from reports of the World Economic Forum.Results/Findings: We found out that the two aspects are related, and the correlation with conference impact is stronger when considering country-wide touristic indicators, such as the Travel&Tourism Competitiveness Index. Moreover the almost linear correlation with the Tourist Service Infrastructure index attests the specific importance of tourist/accommodation facilities in a given country.Conclusions: This is the first attempt to focus on the relationship of venue characteristics to conference papers. The results open up new possibilities,

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The impact of conference ranking systems in computer science: a comparative regression analysis

Rong

Shi

et al. 2018

Scientometrics

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On evaluating the quality of a computer science/computer engineering conference

Cited by 10 publications

References 18 publications

Does the venue of scientific conferences leverage their impact? A large scale study on Computer Science conferences

Does the venue of scientific conferences leverage their impact? A large scale study on Computer Science conferences

Does the Venue of Scientific Conferences Leverage their Impact? A Large Scale study on Computer Science Conferences

The impact of conference ranking systems in computer science: a comparative regression analysis

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