D3: A Massive Dataset of Scholarly Metadata for Analyzing the State of Computer Science Research

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Main Authors: Wahle, Jan Philip, Ruas, Terry, Mohammad, Saif M., Gipp, Bela
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Published: 2022
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author Wahle, Jan Philip
Ruas, Terry
Mohammad, Saif M.
Gipp, Bela
author_facet Wahle, Jan Philip
Ruas, Terry
Mohammad, Saif M.
Gipp, Bela
contents DBLP is the largest open-access repository of scientific articles on computer science and provides metadata associated with publications, authors, and venues. We retrieved more than 6 million publications from DBLP and extracted pertinent metadata (e.g., abstracts, author affiliations, citations) from the publication texts to create the DBLP Discovery Dataset (D3). D3 can be used to identify trends in research activity, productivity, focus, bias, accessibility, and impact of computer science research. We present an initial analysis focused on the volume of computer science research (e.g., number of papers, authors, research activity), trends in topics of interest, and citation patterns. Our findings show that computer science is a growing research field (approx. 15% annually), with an active and collaborative researcher community. While papers in recent years present more bibliographical entries in comparison to previous decades, the average number of citations has been declining. Investigating papers' abstracts reveals that recent topic trends are clearly reflected in D3. Finally, we list further applications of D3 and pose supplemental research questions. The D3 dataset, our findings, and source code are publicly available for research purposes.
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spellingShingle D3: A Massive Dataset of Scholarly Metadata for Analyzing the State of Computer Science Research
Wahle, Jan Philip
Ruas, Terry
Mohammad, Saif M.
Gipp, Bela
Digital Libraries
Computation and Language
DBLP is the largest open-access repository of scientific articles on computer science and provides metadata associated with publications, authors, and venues. We retrieved more than 6 million publications from DBLP and extracted pertinent metadata (e.g., abstracts, author affiliations, citations) from the publication texts to create the DBLP Discovery Dataset (D3). D3 can be used to identify trends in research activity, productivity, focus, bias, accessibility, and impact of computer science research. We present an initial analysis focused on the volume of computer science research (e.g., number of papers, authors, research activity), trends in topics of interest, and citation patterns. Our findings show that computer science is a growing research field (approx. 15% annually), with an active and collaborative researcher community. While papers in recent years present more bibliographical entries in comparison to previous decades, the average number of citations has been declining. Investigating papers' abstracts reveals that recent topic trends are clearly reflected in D3. Finally, we list further applications of D3 and pose supplemental research questions. The D3 dataset, our findings, and source code are publicly available for research purposes.
title D3: A Massive Dataset of Scholarly Metadata for Analyzing the State of Computer Science Research
topic Digital Libraries
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.13384