Report on the 7th International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR 2018)
Incremental; it reports on a workshop for IR researchers focusing on bibliometrics and scientific knowledge.
This report summarizes the accepted papers at the 7th BIR workshop, which addresses information retrieval tasks on scientific corpora and bibliometrics, but does not present new research results or concrete numbers.
The Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR) workshop series has started at ECIR in 2014 and serves as the annual gathering of IR researchers who address various information-related tasks on scientific corpora and bibliometrics. We welcome contributions elaborating on dedicated IR systems, as well as studies revealing original characteristics on how scientific knowledge is created, communicated, and used. This report presents all accepted papers at the 7th BIR workshop at ECIR 2018 in Grenoble, France.