Report on the 10th anniversary workshop on bibliometric-enhanced information retrieval (BIR 2020)

Abstract

The Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval workshop series (BIR) was launched at ECIR in 2014 [Mayr et al., 2014] and it was held at ECIR each year since then. This year we organized the 10th iteration of BIR as an all-virtual workshop with a peak of 97 participants. The workshop series at ECIR and JCDL/SIGIR tackles issues related to academic search, at the crossroads between Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing and Bibliometrics. In this report, we summarize the past workshops, present the workshop topics for 2020 [Cabanac et al., 2020] and reflect on some future steps for this workshop series.