This preface summarizes the 12th Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR). BIR 2022 was held as hybrid event at April 10th, 2022, co-located with the 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2022). These are the proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR 2022)1. Due to the pandemic situation, BIR 2022 was held as a hybrid event at the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) in Stavanger, Norway. The aim of the Bibliometricenhanced Information Retrieval workshop series is to bring together researchers from diferent communities, especially scientometrics/bibliometrics and information retrieval. In doing so, BIR has a long-established tradition. It was launched at ECIR in 2014 [1] and has been held at ECIR each year since then. As the topic of our workshop lies at the intersection between IR and NLP, we also ran BIR as a joint workshop called BIRNDL (Bibliometric enhanced IR and NLP for Digital Libraries) at the JCDL and SIGIR conferences, respectively.
This year five submissions were accepted as full papers. The submissions have been peerreviewed and presented at the workshop. In addition, the workshop featured two keynote talks. All workshop contributions are documented on the workshop website2. The following section briefly lists the various contributions. The respective extended abstracts and papers are contained in these proceedings.
We had two keynote speakers this year.
Frédérique Bordignon (École des Ponts ParisTech, France) Pitfalls and promises of BIR in science studies: A case study of mapping scientific articles to SDGs.
Mike Thelwall (University of Wolverhampton, UK) Can AI-estimated article quality be used to rank scholarly documents?
The following research papers were presented in 2 sessions. ▷ Session 1 ▷ Session 2 • Subhash Chandra Pujari, Fryderyk Mantiuk, Mark Giereth, Jannik Strötgen and Annemarie Friedrich:
Evaluating Neural Multi-Field Document Representations for Patent Classification • Swayatta Daw and Vikram Pudi:
Long Tailed Entity Extraction of Model Names using Distant Supervision • Michael Färber, Christoph Braun, Nicholas Popovic, Tarek Saier and Kristian Noullet: Which Publications’ Metadata Are in Which Bibliographic Databases? A System for Exploration • Houcemeddine Turki, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Chris Chinenye Emezue, Mohamed Ali Hadj Taieb, Mohamed Ben Aouicha, Hanen Ben Hassen and Afif Masmoudi: MeSH2Matrix: Machine learning-driven biomedical relation classification based on the MeSH keywords of PubMed scholarly publications • Francisco Bolaños:
Mapping the Trending Topics of Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval
In 2020, the BIR organizers have edited a Special issue on “Scholarly literature mining with
Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing”3 in the journal Scientometrics (Springer).
In total, fourteen papers on all aspects of academic search were accepted, see an overview [
Since 2016 we maintain the “Bibliometric-enhanced-IR Bibliography”4 that collects scientific papers which appeared in collaboration with the BIR/BIRNDL organizers.
The organizers wish to thank all those who contributed to this workshop series: the researchers who contributed papers, the many reviewers who generously ofered their time and expertise, our keynote speakers, and the participants of the BIR and BIRNDL workshops.
We also like to thank the ECIR 2022 organisers for providing an environment that made BIR 2022 an enjoyable and exciting event.