Preliminary Results of a Scientometric Analysis of the German Information Retrieval Community 2020-2023

TL;DR

This paper presents a scientometric analysis of the German Information Retrieval community from 2020 to 2023, focusing on both information science and computer science sub-fields, with a publicly available dataset.

Contribution

It provides the first comprehensive scientometric study of the German IR community across sub-fields, including data collection, analysis, and a mapping use case.

Findings

Data set of 401 IR-related publications released publicly

Analysis at institutional and researcher levels conducted

Demonstration of a mapping use case

Abstract

The German Information Retrieval community is located in two different sub-fields: Information and computer science. There are no current studies that investigate these communities on a scientometric level. Available studies only focus on the information scientific part of the community. We generated a data set of 401 recent IR-related publications extracted from six core IR conferences from a mainly computer scientific background. We analyze this data set at the institutional and researcher level. The data set is publicly released, and we also demonstrate a mapping use case.