Enrico Motta and Francesco Osborne, Making Sense of Research with Rexplore, in Proceedings of the ISWC 2012 Posters & Demonstrations Track, Boston, US, November, 2012. [PDF(local)], [PDF(online)]

Abstract:
While there are many tools and services which support the exploration of research data, by and large these tend to provide a limited set of functionalities, which cover primarily ranking measures and mechanisms for relating authors, typically on the basis of simple co-authorship relations. To try and improve over the current state of affairs, we are developing a novel tool for exploring research data, which is called Rexplore. Rexplore builds on an intelligent algorithm for automatically identifying hierarchical and equivalence relations between research areas, to provide a variety of functionalities and visualizations to help users to make sense of a research area. These include visualizations to detect trends in research; ways to cluster authors according to several dynamic similarity measures; and fine-grained mechanisms for ranking authors, taking into account parameters such as ranking criterion, career stage, calendar years, publication venues, etc.

BibTex:

    @InProceedings { iswc2012paper-poster-demo-39,
      author = { Enrico Motta and Francesco Osborne },
      title = { Making Sense of Research with Rexplore },
      booktitle = { Proceedings of the ISWC 2012 Posters & Demonstrations Track },
      address = {Boston, US},
      month = { November },
      year = { 2012 },
    }

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