A general overview and bibliometric analysis of seven ACM hypertext and web conferences. (2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Agarwal, Swati; Mittal, Nitish; Sureka, Ashish
• Is Part Of: International journal of Web engineering and technology. Volume 12:Number 3(2017)
• Page Start: 190
• Page End: 233
• Publication Date: 2017
• Subjects: ACM SIGWEB -- bibliometric analysis -- DBLP -- gender imbalance -- computer science research -- CSR -- hypertext and hypermedia -- conference assessment -- publication analysis -- topic evolution -- academia-industry collaboration -- scholarly output -- web engineering; World Wide Web -- Periodicals; Web site development -- Periodicals; Application software -- Development -- Periodicals; 006.7
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1476-1289

Abstract

Bibliometric analysis of published scientific papers is a widely used practice to conduct quantitative evaluations and assessments of conferences. In this study, we performed an in-depth bibliometric, scientometric and exploratory analysis of ACM SIGWEB sponsored conferences by visually analysing the DBLP database. We conducted a series of experiments and empirical analysis to answer several questions. Our results showed that the articles published in SIGWEB conferences stem from a variety of countries while the degree of cross-country collaboration is relatively low and that most co-authors of publications are by researchers who all reside in the same country. Collectively, SIGWEB conferences have a higher hosting rate and local community participation in places where the USA and Europe make the greatest conference contributions. Our results showed that the participation of female authors in SIGWEB conferences is increasing while in contrast, there is a huge gender imbalance in leadership and official conference positions.