DaSSWeb – Data Science and Statistics Webinar
Tuesday, 27 April, 14:30
Speaker: Jorge Silva University of Porto
Title: Bibliometrics: studying the present to make the best decisions for the future
Zoom link: videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/83875914782
Abstract: For several years bibliometrics have been used to help researchers understanding science and aid with decision making processes that pave the way for future research (e.g. funding allocation). Due to the exponential growth in research in recent years, bibliometric tools have become even more important and there is an increasing necessity for these tools to couple with large scale databases. In this talk, I will focus on three bibliometrics problems: publication similarity, author profiling and author ranking. Publication similarity is the task of measuring how similar two publications are. Author profiling is the problem of categorizing the knowledge of researchers. Author ranking is the task of estimating the scientific impact of researchers. For each one of these problems I will discuss their applications, research challenges, current state of the art and present our line of work. In more detail, I will discuss how complex networks (structures that are widely used to model and study complex systems) offer a unique way to study relations and patterns in bibliographic data and how this information can be used to improve bibliometric studies in the three mentioned problems.

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