Assessing the quality of scientific conferences based on bibliographic citations

Scientometrics

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 133-155

  Martins, Waister Silva ^a   Gonçalves, Marcos André ^a   Laender, Alberto H F ^a   Ziviani, Nivio ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; Citation analysis; Classification; Ranking

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952322762     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-009-0078-y     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Amin, M., & Mabe, M. (2000). Impact factors: Use and abuse. Perspectives in Publishing, 1, 1-6.
2. Bollen, J., & de Sompel, H. V. (2008). Usage impact factor: The effects of sample characteristics on usage-based impact metrics. JASIST, 59, 136-149.
3. Bollen, J., de Sompel, H. V., & Rodriguez, M. A. (2008). Towards usage-based impact metrics: first results from the MEASUR project. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE joint conference on digital libraries, ACM, New York, USA, pp. 231-240.
4. Bollen, J., de Sompel, H. V., Smith, J. A., & Luce, R. (2005). Toward alternative metrics of journal impact: A comparison of download and citation data. Information Processing and Management, 41, 1419-1440.
5. Bollen, J., Rodriguez, M. A., & de Sompel, H. V. (2006). Journal status. Scientometrics, 69, 669-687.
6. Braun, T., Glänzel, W., & Schubert, A. (2006). A hirsch-type index for journals. Scientometrics, 69, 169-173.
7. Brin, S., & Page, L. (1998). The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine. Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, 30, 107-117.
8. Clausen, H., & Wormell, I. (2001). A bibliometric analysis of IOLIM conferences 1977-1999. Journal of Information Science, 27, 157-169.
9. Hirsch, J. E. (2005). An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102, 16569-16572.
10. Kendall, M. G. (1938). A new measure of rank correlation. Biometrika, 30, 81-93.
11. Laender, A. H. F., de Lucena, C. J. P., Maldonado, J. C., Silva, E. S., & Ziviani, N. (2008). Assessing the research and education quality of the top Brazilian computer graduate programs. ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, 40, 135-145.
12. Larsen, B., & Ingwersen, P. (2006). Using citations for ranking in digital libraries. In Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE joint conference on digital libraries, Chapel Hill, NC, p. 370.
13. Martins, W. S., Gonçalves, M. A., Laender, A. H. F., & Pappa, G. L. (2009). Learning to assess the quality of scientific conferences: A case study in computer science. In Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on digital libraries, Austin, TX, pp. 193-202.
14. Patterson, D. A. (2004). The Health of Research Conferences and the Dearth of Big Idea Papers. Communications of the ACM, 47, 23-24.
15. Rahm, E., & Thor, A. (2005). Citation analysis of database publications. SIGMOD Record, 34, 48-53.
16. Saha, S., Saint, S., & Christakis, D. A. (2003). Impact factor: A valid measure of journal quality?. Journal of the Medical Library Association, 1, 42-46.
17. Seglen, P. O. (1997). Why the impact factor of journals should not be used for evaluating research. British Medical Journal, 314, 498-502.
18. Sidiropoulos, A., & Manolopoulos, Y. (2006). Generalized comparison of graph-based ranking algorithms for publications and authors. Journal of Systems and Software, 79, 1679-1700.
19. Souto, M. A. M., Warpechowski, M., & de Oliveira, J. P. M. (2007). An ontological approach for the quality assessment of computer science conferences. Proceedings of the 2007 workshop on quality of information systems, 4802, 202-212.
20. Yan, S., & Lee D. (2007). Toward alternative measures for ranking venues: a case of database research community. In Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE joint conference on digital libraries, ACM, New York, USA, pp. 235-244.
21. Zhuang, Z., Elmacioglu, E., Lee, D., & Giles, C. L. (2007). Measuring conference quality by mining program committee characteristics. In Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE joint conference on digital libraries, ACM, New York, USA, pp. 225-234.