CSIndexbr
A Brazilian Computer Science Index
csindexbr.org
Marco Tulio Valente,
ASERG/DCC/UFMG
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Scholarly Communication Tools
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Kramer, Bianca; Bosman, Jeroen (2015): 101 Innovations in Scholarly Communication -
the Changing Research Workflow. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1286826.v1
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CSIndexbr is a experimental scholarly
communication tool, with two goals:
- Discovery
e.g. What are the "best" Brazilian papers in my area?
- Assessment
e.g. What are the "best" Brazilian CS depts in my area?
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Index of recent papers published by Brazilian CS
professors in selected conferences and journals
in the last five years (2014-today)
- Transparent
- Open
- but "unofficial"
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Primary data source: DBLP (dblp.org)
- High-quality metadata about CS papers
- Covers all relevant CS venues
- Open-license
- Very reliable API
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Journals
- 15 journals / area (max)
- Criteria:
- Indexed by JCR
- h5-index > 25
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Top-Journals
- 3 top-journals / area (max)
- Criteria:
- ACM Transactions or IEEE Transactions (or similar)
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Goal 1: Discovery
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Papers / Conference [always in the last 5 yrs]
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Papers / Journal
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Papers (Conferences & Journals)
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Professors with Papers (in a Research Area)
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Author Pages
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Goal 2: Assessment
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Department Rankings
- 1.0: paper in top-conference or top-journal
- 0.40: paper in journals
- 0.33: paper in
- conference
- magazines
- journals with short papers
- mega-journals
- journals with normalized-h5-index < 0.2
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Dept Rankings: per Research Area
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More details: FAQ
https://csindexbr.org/faq.html
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Beyond rankings: a repository for scientometrics
studies on Brazilian scientific production in CS
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Source code and data is public on GitHub
https://github.com/aserg-ufmg/CSIndex
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Documentation (in progress)
https://github.com/aserg-ufmg/CSIndex 32
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First CSIndexbr-based study:
Brazilian Workshop on Software Visualization, Evolution and Maintenance, 2018
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Research Topics
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This paper (workshop, portuguese) is a good
opportunity for remembering that
not at CSIndexbr ≠ "irrelevant"
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Another Example: most common words in
paper's titles (5-min analysis)
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Other features:
arXiv links & citations
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Links to arXiv preprints (if available)
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Only 5% of papers have preprints on arXiv
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arXiv popularity (worldwide): 23%
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Popularity of arXiv.org within Computer Science. Charles Sutton and Linan Gong,
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.05225.pdf
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Another feature: citations
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CrossRef Citations
- Crossref is an official DOI registration agency
- They maintain a database of citations
- used by ACM DL, IEEE DL, Dimensions etc
- Has a public API (unlike Google Scholar)
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Future Work
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Future Work
1. Internal improvements, scripts, refactorings etc
2. Update conferences and journals statistics (2018)
3. Extend data collection to more than 5 years
4. Integration with CNPq: link to Lattes
5. (?) "Global" depts ranking (all areas)
6. (?) Adjust scores by number of authors
7. Other countries
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Quiz [para incentivar acesso ao sistema]
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1. Em qual área o DCC tem mais pesquisadores?
2. Em qual área o DCC tem menos pesquisadores?
3. Qual o paper do DCC tem mais citações?
4. Qual o journal aceita o maior número de papers BR?
5. Em qual área o BR tem mais pesquisadores?
6. Qual o dept BR tem mais pesquisadores?
7. Qual o paper BR tem mais citações?
8. Qual a participação BR nos papers da área X?