Bibliometric-Enhanced Information Retrieval: 5th International BIR Workshop

TL;DR

The paper introduces the BIR workshop series, highlighting its focus on bibliometric-enhanced information retrieval techniques for scientific corpora and summarizing selected past contributions.

Contribution

It presents the scope and significance of the BIR workshops, emphasizing original IR approaches and studies on scientific knowledge communication.

Findings

Overview of BIR workshop series and its thematic focus

Summary of innovative IR methods presented at past workshops

Insights into scientific knowledge creation and dissemination

Abstract

Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR) workshops serve as the annual gathering of IR researchers who address various information-related tasks on scientific corpora and bibliometrics. The workshop features original approaches to search, browse, and discover value-added knowledge from scientific documents and related information networks (e.g., terms, authors, institutions, references). We welcome contributions elaborating on dedicated IR systems, as well as studies revealing original characteristics on how scientific knowledge is created, communicated, and used. In this paper we introduce the BIR workshop series and discuss some selected papers presented at previous BIR workshops.