Submissions to the workshop are open to researchers from any part of the world. Authors are solicited to initially submit an extended abstract (500-1000 words), present it in the workshop and then submit a full paper on the idea for consideration of publication in the special issues proposed. If you think you are ready with full length paper in any of the broad themes of the workshop, it would be better to submit them early. The submission may report research results, conceptual advances and experimental studies, describing significant advances in Information Retrieval, Informetrics and Scientometrics. Papers that describe concepts and ideas on the broad intersection of Information Retrieval, Scientometrics and Applied Informetrics would be most suitable for special issues. An indicative (but non-exhaustive) list of topics is as below:

Information Retrieval:

    • Document Representation and Content Analysis (text representation, document structure, linguistic analysis, NLP for IR, information extraction, sentiment analysis, clustering, classification, topic models, facets, text streams).
    • Queries and Query Analysis (query intent, query suggestion and prediction, query representation and reformulation, query log analysis, summarization, question answering).
    • Retrieval Models and Ranking (IR theory, language models, probabilistic retrieval models, learning to rank, combining searches, diversity and aggregated search).
    • Search Engine Architectures and Scalability (indexing, compression, distributed IR).
    • Filtering and Recommending (content-based filtering, collaborative filtering, recommender systems).
    • Evaluation (test collections, experimental design, effectiveness measures, session-based evaluation, simulation).
    • Web IR and Social Media Search (link analysis, click models/behavioral modeling, social tagging, social network analysis, blog and microblog search, forum search, community-based QA, adversarial IR and spam, vertical and local search).
    • IR and Structured Data (XML search, ranking in databases, desktop search, entity search).
    • IR for social good, including applications for non-profit organizations, governments, and social enterprises.
    • Other Applications (digital libraries, enterprise search, legal IR, patent search, text reuse, new retrieval problems)

Informetrics & Scientometrics:

    • Altmetrics
    • Bibliometric Networks
    • Burst detection and Keyword analysis
    • Citation and Co-citation analysis
    • Collaborations Patterns and Networks
    • Country Level Studies
    • Data Accuracy and Disambiguation
    • Data infrastructure for research metrics
    • Evaluation of individual researchers
    • Finding high quality scholarly articles
    • Gender and gendered research and innovation
    • How do indicators shape research agendas?
    • Identifying research themes, trends and fronts
    • Indicators for research quality and quantity
    • Innovation studies and measures
    • International benchmarking of innovation: challenges and adequacy
    • International Ranking Systems: analysis, critique and applications
    • Journal Rankings and Categorization
    • Journals, Databases and Electronic Publications
    • Mapping and Visualization
    • Measures of Impact of Research
    • Measuring diverse research “qualities”
    • Mobility and Internationalization
    • National Ranking systems
    • Patent Analysis
    • Ranking of Institutions
    • Recommendation of Reviewers, Researchers, Institutions etc.
    • Research Performance Indicators
    • Research Theme-based Analysis
    • Science participation and communication.
    • Science Policy and Research Assessment
    • Scientific fraud and dishonesty
    • Social media and alternative metrics.
    • Social sciences and the humanities
    • Text-based analysis of research data
    • Theory, Methods & Techniques
    • Visualization for policy and evaluation
    • Webometrics

Applications:

    • Collective Knowledge System
    • Digital Libraries
    • Evidence-based funding
    • High quality scholarly article recommendation
    • Information retrieval and Scientometrics meet together for new applications
    • Learning to rank
    • Mapping Innovation and analysis
    • Ranking Institutions
    • Ranking Research papers
    • Recommendation Systems for Paper Recommendation
    • Social media as enabler of research
    • Web-based scholarly article search systems
    • Other applications of IR and Informetrics in different areas


Papers/ extended abstracts can be submitted electronically through the easychair submission system ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iris20190). If you have an existing easychair account, you can log in using it. However, those who do not have an easychair account will be required to create an account (its free and a very simple process).


Important dates:

Submission of Abstract Closes on: 15th May 2019

Acceptance Notification: 20th May 2019

Final Version Due: 30th May 2019

Journal Special Issues:

Special Issues of following two journals on the theme of the workshop are confirmed:

Submissions to the special issue will primarily be drawn from papers presented in the workshop and few other open submissions. Deadlines for submissions will be notified after the workshop.