Scientometrics and Information Retrieval - weak-links revitalized

TL;DR

This special issue explores the integration of scientometrics and information retrieval, aiming to bridge the gap between these fields and enhance knowledge transfer through eight expert papers.

Contribution

It consolidates research from both communities, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and demonstrating the potential benefits of combining bibliometrics with information retrieval.

Findings

Enhanced understanding of bibliometric methods in IR

Proposed frameworks for integrating scientometrics and IR

Identified challenges and opportunities for cross-disciplinary research

Abstract

This special issue brings together eight papers from experts of communities which often have been perceived as different once: bibliometrics, scientometrics and informetrics on the one side and information retrieval on the other. The idea of this special issue started at the workshop "Combining Bibliometrics and Information Retrieval" held at the 14th International Conference of Scientometrics and Informetrics, Vienna, July 14-19, 2013. Our motivation as guest editors started from the observation that main discourses in both fields are different, that communities are only partly overlapping and from the belief that a knowledge transfer would be profitable for both sides.