The Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval workshop series (BIR/BIRNDL) tackles issues related to academic search, at the crossroads between Information Retrieval and Bibliometrics. BIR is a hot topic investigated by both academia (e.g., ArnetMiner, CiteSeerX) and industry (e.g., Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic Search, and Semantic Scholar). Broadening its scope, BIR continues as the International Workshop on Scholarly Information Access (SCOLIA).
Searching for scientific information is a long-lived information need. In the early 1960s, Salton was already striving to enhance information retrieval by including clues inferred from bibliographic citations. The development of citation indexes pioneered by Garfield proved determinant for such a research endeavor at the crossroads between the nascent fields of Information Retrieval (IR) and Bibliometrics. The pioneers who established these fields in Information Science—such as Salton and Garfield—were followed by scientists who specialised in one of these, leading to the two loosely connected fields we know of today.
The purpose of the BIR workshop series founded in 2014 is to tighten up the link between IR and Bibliometrics. We strive to get the ‘retrievalists’ and ‘citationists’ active in both academia and the industry together, who are developing search engines and recommender systems.
BIR/BIRNDL and SCOLIA have been held at different prestigious venues such as SIGIR, ECIR, JCDL. A list of past BIR/BIRNDL and SCOLIA events is below.
First International Workshop on Scholarly Information Access. April, 2025.
Collocated with the 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2025)
14th International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR 2024). March, 2024.
Collocated with the 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2024)
13th International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR 2023). April, 2023.
Collocated with the 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2023).
12th International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR 2022). April, 2022. Proceedings
Collocated with the 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2022).
11th International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR 2021). Online event, April, 2021. Proceedings
Collocated with the 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2021).
10th International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR 2020). Lisbon, Portugal. April, 2020. Proceedings
Collocated with the 42nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2020).
BIRNDL 2019
9th BIR workshop held as 4th BIRNDL workshop. Paris, France. July, 2019. Proceedings
Collocated with the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2019).
8th International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR 2019). Cologne, Germany. April, 2019. Proceedings
Collocated with the 41st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2019).
7th International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR 2018). Grenoble, France. March, 2018. Proceedings
Collocated with the 40th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2018).
BIRNDL 2017
6th BIR workshop hold as 2nd BIRNDL workshop. Tokio, Japan. August, 2017. Proceedings
Collocated with the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2017).
5th International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR 2017). Aberdeen, UK. April, 2017. Proceedings
Collocated with the 39th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2017).
BIRNDL 2016
4th BIR workshop hold as 1st BIRNDL workshop. Newark, USA. June, 2016. Proceedings
Collocated with the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2016 (JCDL 2016).
3rd International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR 2017). Padua, Italy. March, 2016. Proceedings
Collocated with the 38th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2016).
2nd International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR 2015). Vienna, Austria. March, 2015. Proceedings
Collocated with the 37th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2015).
1st International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR 2014). Amsterdam, the Netherlands. April, 2014. Proceedings
Collocated with the 36th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2014).
Central publications of the BIR group, describing the BIR idea and activities, are listed below:
Cabanac, G., Frommholz, I., & Mayr, P. (2020). Scholarly literature mining with Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing: Preface. Scientometrics, 125(3), 2835–2840. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03763-4
Cabanac, G., Frommholz, I., & Mayr, P. (2020). Bibliometric-Enhanced Information Retrieval 10th Anniversary Workshop Edition. In J. M. Jose, E. Yilmaz, J. Magalhães, P. Castells, N. Ferro, M. J. Silva, & F. Martins (Eds.), Advances in Information Retrieval (Vol. 12036, pp. 641–647). Springer International Publishing. http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-45442-5_85
Mayr, P., Scharnhorst, A., Larsen, B., Schaer, P., & Mutschke, P. (2014). Bibliometric-Enhanced Information Retrieval. In M. et al. de Rijke (Ed.), 36th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2014, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 13-16, 2014. Proceedings (pp. 798–801). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06028-6_99
Note: All presented papers at the BIR workshops are documented in the "Bibliometric-enhanced-IR Bibliography". See bibtex files [birYYYY.bib].