Leveraging Knowledge Graph Technologies to Assess Journals and Conferences at Springer Nature

Abstract

Research publishing companies need to constantly monitor and compare scientific journals and conferences in order to inform critical business and editorial decisions. Semantic Web and Knowledge Graph technologies are natural solutions since they allow these companies to integrate, represent, and analyse a large quantity of information from heterogeneous sources. In this paper, we present the AIDA Dashboard 2.0, an innovative system developed in collaboration with Springer Nature to analyse and compare scientific venues, now also available to the public. This tool builds on a knowledge graph which includes over 1.5B RDF triples and was produced by integrating information about 25M research articles from Microsoft Academic Graph, Dimensions, DBpedia, GRID, CSO, and INDUSO. It can produce sophisticated analytics and rankings that are not available in alternative systems. We discuss the advantages of this solution for the Springer Nature editorial process and present a user study involving 5 editors and 5 researchers, which yielded excellent results in terms of quality of the analytics and usability.

AIDA-Bot 2.0: Enhancing Conversational Agents with Knowledge Graphs for Analysing the Research Landscape

“…In 2020, we generated AIDA KG by integrating multiple data sources in order to offer a very granular representation of research articles in terms of both research topics and the industrial sectors. The AIDA Dashboard, a web application to assess and compare journals and conferences, was the first tool to take advantage of this new resource [2].…”

“…One of the key objectives is to integrate AIDA-Bot 2.0 with other tools at SN to provide a seamless and more comprehensive data exploration experience. For instance, AIDA-Bot 2.0 will be fully integrated into the AIDA Dashboard [2], which currently allows editors to explore and compare research venues. The main objective is to foster more contextual and refined data explorations by allowing users to ask additional questions to expand or clarify the analytics.…”

“…The AIDA Dashboard relies on the Academia/Industry DynAmics (AIDA) Knowledge Graph 5 [3], a knowledge base which integrates multiple data sources (e.g., OpenAlex, DBLP, DBpedia, CSO) and describes over 25 million scientific papers. A freely available version of the AIDA Dashboard was first launched at ISWC 2022 [2].…”