Assessing the quality of scientific conferences based on bibliographic citations

作者：Martins Waister Silva; Goncalves Marcos Andre^*; Laender Alberto H F; Ziviani Nivio

来源：Scientometrics, 2010, 83(1): 133-155.

DOI：10.1007/s11192-009-0078-y

• Bibliometrics
• Citation analysis
• Ranking
• Classification

Assessing the quality of scientific conferences is an important and useful service that can be provided by digital libraries and similar systems. This is specially true for fields such as Computer Science and Electric Engineering, where conference publications are crucial. However, the majority of the existing quality metrics, particularly those relying on bibliographic citations, has been proposed for measuring the quality of journals. In this article we conduct a study about the relative performance of existing journal metrics in assessing the quality of scientific conferences. More importantly, departing from a deep analysis of the deficiencies of these metrics, we propose a new set of quality metrics especially designed to capture intrinsic and important aspects related to conferences, such as longevity, popularity, prestige, and periodicity. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed metrics, we have conducted two sets of experiments that contrast their results against a "gold standard" produced by a large group of specialists. Our metrics obtained gains of more than 12% when compared to the most consistent journal quality metric and up to 58% when compared to standard metrics such as Thomson's Impact Factor.

• 出版日期2010-4