A scientometric analysis of 9 ACM SIGWEB cooperating conferences

Abstract

ACM SIGWEB is one of the ACM's special interest groups (SIG) supporting communities and researches focused in the areas of hypermedia, world wide web, hypertext, digital libraries, document engineering and social networks. In adition to seven sponsored conferences, ACM SIG-WEB cooperates with various computer science conferences called as the SIGWEB Cooperating Conference. Compared to ACM SIGWEB sponsored conference, cooperating conferences keep undergoing addition and removal of conference more often based on the topics of interest and themes. Similar to SIGWEB sponsored conferences, cooperating conferences also publish in a wide range of topics in hypermedia and multi-disciplinary domains. In this paper, we present a bibliometric analysis of scientific publications records of 9 SIGWEB cooperating conferences. We use DBLP bibliographical database as a base database and enhance the DBLP records of cooperating conferences using AMiner and Google Scholar. We perform and exploratory and scientometric analysis on publications, authors and conference database of 10 years (2006-2015) of SIGWEB cooperating conferences. We propose 4 research questions around the topics of research community in cooperating conferences such as authors participation, number of publications and relative comparison of google scholar h-index with overall citations received on each article published in an year in cooperating conferences. Our results reveal that over the past decade conferences like ASONAM and IWCMC have an increment in growth rate of the conference every year. These conferences have been publishing a large number of articles with maximum number of authors participation from the community. Further, despite having a large number of articles, h5-index and overall citation rate, RecSys covers only a limited range of topics and focused in the domain of base topics in recommender systems only. For example, matrix factorization and collaborative filtering. On a contrary, our empirical analysis reveal that due to the focused topics and domain, articles published in RecSys has received maximum number of citations over the past decade. While, conferences like Compute and RuleML has very low citation rate and h5-index upto 14 which is reasonably lower than the h5-index of other conferences (greater than 25). We further study the research community of ACM SIGWEB cooperating conferences and find that despite having a small number of papers in ACM-SCopC community, many researchers make among top 20 prolific authors receiving maximum number of citations on their articles published in ACM-SCopC.