The field of science mapping has shown the power of citation-based clusters for literature
analysis, yet this technique has barely been used for information retrieval tasks. This work …

This special issue brings together eight papers from experts of communities which often
have been perceived as different once: bibliometrics, scientometrics and informetrics on the …

Systematic reviews are essential for evaluating biomedical treatment options, but the
growing size and complexity of the available biomedical literature combined with the rigor of …

Literature search is a critical step in scientific research. Most of the current literature search
tools present the search results as a list of documents. These tools fail to show the structure …

Recommender-system datasets are used for recommender-system evaluations, training
machine-learning algorithms, and exploring user behavior. While there are many datasets …

There is a need for enhanced context-based document relevance assessment and ranking
to facilitate the retrieval of more relevant information for supporting environmental decision …

The 11th Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval Workshop (BIR 2021) was held online
on April 1st, 2021, at ECIR 2021 as a virtual event. The interdisciplinary BIR workshop series …

These proceedings contain the full papers, short papers, and demonstrations selected for
presentation at the 37th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2015). The …

The BIRDS workshop aimed to foster the cross-fertilization of Information Science (IS),
Information Retrieval (IR) and Data Science (DS). Recognising the commonalities and …

This workshop brought together experts of communities which often have been perceived as
different: bibliometrics/scientometrics/informetrics on the one side and information retrieval …