A Bibliometric Assessment of Canadian Software Engineering Scholars and Institutions (1996-2006)

Garousi, Vahid; Varma, Tan

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“…Numerous bibliometric studies have been published in different disciplines such as, in cancer research (Campbell et al, 2010), fisheries (Science-Metrix Inc., 2011b), computer science/engineering (D. Katsaros, V. Matsoukas, & Y. Manolopoulos, 2008), software engineering (Garousi & Varma, 2010;Glass & Chen, 2002;2003;Ren & Taylor, 2007b), electrical engineering (Tsay, Jou, & Ma, 2000), across all engineering disciplines (Eckel, 2009), and obesity research (Canadian Institutes of Health Research, 2011). It is clear to observe that the number of bibliometric studies has been on the rise in recent years.…”

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“…It is clear to observe that the number of bibliometric studies has been on the rise in recent years. Bibliometric studies also differ in covering different geographical areas/scales, e.g., world-wide bibliometric assessments, e.g., (Glass & Chen, 2002, 2003, or assessments only across a nation or between several nations, e.g., in Canada (Campbell et al, 2010;Garousi & Varma, 2010;Science-Metrix Inc., 2011a;2011b;2011c), the USA (Gaughan & Bozeman, 2002), China (Rong, Hua, & Hong, 2009) and Greece (Katsaros et al, 2008).…”

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“…By reviewing the existing literature on bibliometric studies, e.g., (Archambault, Campbell, Gingras, & Larivière, 2009;Elsevier, 2006;Garousi & Varma, 2010;Gorraiz & Schloegl, 2008), it was clear that the "Web of Science" (WoS) (Thomson, 2011b) and Scopus (Elsevier, 2011) databases are among the most widely-used data sources for bibliometric studies.…”

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“…There are numerous bibliometric studies in SE, e.g., (Garousi & Varma, 2010;Glass, 1995;Glass & Chen, 2001;2003;Ren & Taylor, 2007b;Tse, Chen, & Glass, 2006) are just a selection. The SE discipline and community is so mature in this regard that even ranking of scholars on an annual basis is quite usual and there is virtually no controversy in the community around this type of sensitive rankings (i.e., of scholars).…”

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“…We conducted a recent study (Garousi & Varma, 2010) which ranks the Canadian SE scholars and institutions from 1996-2006. This study found Carleton University as the top institutions in the area, and identified Lionel Briand (formerly with Carleton University) and Gail Murphy from UBC the as top-ranked scholars based on either of the two metrics (impact factor and h-index).…”

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A Bibliometrics Analysis of Canadian Electrical and Computer Engineering Institutions (1996-2006) Based on IEEE Journal Publications

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2012

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This paper presents a bibliometric assessment of Canadian institutions in the discipline of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) from 1996 to 2006. The paper is a first step in identifying the top institutions over a 10-year period in Canada. The rankings are calculated using three metrics: (1) simple count of papers, (2) journal impact factors, and (3) journal impact factor of each institution normalized by its faculty size. The venues/journals considered are 71 flagship IEEE Transaction journals in different areas of ECE which are perceived as the most prestigious venues in the discipline. Using the three metrics, the top-ranked institutions are identified as: the University of Waterloo (by two metrics), and Queen's University's (by one metric). Our study also reveals other interesting results, such as: (1) Researchers from the universities of Waterloo and Toronto, combined, authored about a third of all the Canadian papers published in the IEEE Transaction journals during the time period under study (691 of 2,540 papers). (2) Canadian provinces have different levels of ECE research productivity and efficiency, and (3) ECE ranking of the Canadian institutions has similarities and differences versus a recently-published software engineering ranking of the same institutions. While this study is in the context of Canadian ECE institutions, our approach can be easily adapted to rank the institutions of any other nation and/or in any other discipline.

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Scientific Collaboration, Citation and Topic Analysis of International Conference on Agile Software Development Papers

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The International Conference on Agile Software Development (XP) was established almost sixteen years ago. Based on data from Scopus database, a total of 789 papers have been published in between years of 2002 and 2018. We employed bibliometrics analysis and topic modeling with R/RStudio to analyze these published papers from various dimensions, including the most active authors, collaboration of authorship, most cited papers, used keywords and trends of probable topics from the titles and abstracts of those papers. The results show that the first five years of XP conference cover nearly 40% of the papers published until now and almost 62% of the XP papers have been cited at least once. Mining of XP conference paper titles and abstracts result in these hot research topics: "Coordination", "Technical Debt", "Teamwork", "Startups" and "Agile Practices", thus strongly focusing on practical issues and problems faced by the practitioners in the industry. The results high-light the most influential researchers and institutions, and the collaboration between the authors in the conference papers. The approach applied in this study can be extended to other software engineering venues and can be applied to large-scale studies.

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A bibliometric analysis of the Turkish software engineering research community

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This paper presents a bibliometric analysis of the Turkish software engineering (SE) community (researchers and institutions). The bibliometric analysis has been conducted based on the number of papers published in the software-engineering-related venues and indexed in the Scopus academic search engine until year 2014. According to the bibliometric analysis, the top-ranked institution is Middle East Technical University, and the top-ranked scholar is Ayşe Başar Bener (formerly with Bogaziçi University and now with Ryerson University in Canada). The analysis reveals other important findings and presents a set of implications for the Turkish SE community and stakeholders (e.g., funding agencies and decision makers) such as the followings: (1) Turkey produces only about 0.49 % of the world-wide SE knowledge, as measured by the number of papers in Scopus, which is very negligible unfortunately. To take a more active role in the global SE community, the Turkish SE community has to increase their outputs. (2) We notice a lack of diversity in the general SE spectrum, e.g., we noticed very little focus on requirements engineering, software maintenance and evolution, and architecture. This denotes the need to further diversification in SE research topics in Turkey. (3) In total, 89 papers in the pool (30.8 % of the total) are internationally-authored SE papers. Having a good level of international collaborations is a good sign for the Turkish SE community. The highest international collaborations have been with researchers from United States, Canada and Netherlands. (4) In general, the involvement of industry in SE search is low. All stakeholders (e.g., government, industry and academia) should aim at increasing the level of industry-academia collaboration in the Turkish SE community, (5) Citation to Turkish SE papers, in general, are significantly lower than a set of three representative pools of SE papers. This is an area of concern which needs further investigation, and (6) In general, there is a need to increase both the quantity and quality of the Turkish SE papers, in the & Vahid Garousi global stage. The approach we use in this study could be replicated in other countries to provide insights and trends about the SE research performance in other countries.

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A Bibliometric Assessment of Canadian Software Engineering Scholars and Institutions (1996-2006)

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A Bibliometrics Analysis of Canadian Electrical and Computer Engineering Institutions (1996-2006) Based on IEEE Journal Publications

A Bibliometrics Analysis of Canadian Electrical and Computer Engineering Institutions (1996-2006) Based on IEEE Journal Publications

Scientific Collaboration, Citation and Topic Analysis of International Conference on Agile Software Development Papers

A bibliometric analysis of the Turkish software engineering research community

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