Abstract
Publication venues play an important role in the scholarly communication process. The number of publication venues has been increasing yearly, making it difficult for researchers to determine the most suitable venue for their publication. Most existing methods use citation count as the metric to measure the reputation of publication venues. However, this does not take into account the quality of citations. Therefore, it is vital to have a publication venue quality estimation mechanism. The ultimate goal of this research project is to develop a novel approach for ranking publication venues by considering publication history. The main aim of this research work is to propose a mechanism to identify the key Computer Science journals and conferences from various fields of research. Our approach is completely based on the citation network represented by publications. A modified version of the PageRank algorithm is used to compute the ranking scores for each publication. In our publication ranking method, there are many aspects that contribute to the importance of a publication, including the number of citations, the rating of the citing publications, the time metric and the authors’ reputation. Known publication venue scores have been formulated by using the scores of the publications. New publication venue ranking is taken care by the scores of Program Committee members which derive from their ranking scores as authors. Experimental results show that our publication ranking method reduces the bias against more recent publications, while also providing a more accurate way to determine publication quality.
Highlights
The Internet has opened up new ways for researchers to demonstrate research results and share their research findings at a rapid pace than the traditional methods
We propose a novel approach for ranking publication venues by considering publication history
Since our approach has been derived through above mentioned methods, we were able to make a comparison between our Adjusted PageRank (APR) method and other mentioned methods
Summary
The Internet has opened up new ways for researchers to demonstrate research results and share their research findings at a rapid pace than the traditional methods. Researchers tend to submit their findings to a wide variety of publication venues such as conferences, journals, and seminars. These publication venues play an important role in the scholarly communication process and the visibility that their work receives. Often researchers might be concerned in knowing about the most important publication venues for publishing their research [1]. The selection of publication venues is usually based on the researcher’s existing knowledge of the field of his/her discipline [2, 3]. Researchers may not be aware of more appropriate publication venues to which their publications could be submitted
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