mrksbrg / se-achievements

Gamification of software engineering research

Swe-SE-SCI

Navigating the academic Swedish software engineering landscape can be difficult. Swe-SE-SCI lists all Swedish Software Engineering (SE) scholars with permanent positions at Swedish non-profit research organizations. The ambition is to maintain an index of all Swedish SE scholars with first-authored publications in SCI-listed SE journals, i.e., "SSS scholars". Swe-SE-SCI mines DBLP publication lists to identify typical research topics of Swedish SE research organizations and apparent research interests of SSS scholars.

A reliable and updated index of academic SE in Sweden could bring several benefits. The primary goal is to constitute a gateway for industry to find expertise among researchers – hopefully supporting knowledge transfer, industry-academia collaboration, and more relevant research. Swe-SE-SCI can also be used to find academic partners in new research projects and suitable PhD committee members.

Affiliations are ranked by the number of first-authored SCI publications by SSS scholars. Individual SSS scholars are ranked by their SSS rating – our in-house metric. In contrast to non-decreasing citation-based metrics, the SSS rating fluctuates as it promotes active research with a focus to publish in SCI-listed SE journals. A detailed description is available at http://mrksbrg.com/swesesci/

se-achievements's Issues

Change order of scholars in the apparent interests table

Replace the SSS ordering with alphabetical ordering, either the name of the scholar or the affiliation.

Change apparent research interests to reflect last 10 years

I fully agree, only taking into account the most recent papers from N=10 years.

The list of words is based on frequency after removing NLTK stop words (with some additions) from all co-authored papers over the years. Restrict the list to cover titles from the last 10 years be better to reflect current interests.

Update TCs to match new ScholarReader class

Extract input list of scholars and venues to separate files

Finding where to propose changes to the input lists might be difficult. It would be better to extract them to separate config files.

Specific name gives wrong result

Running swe-se-sci.py with the argument "Martin Blom" returns a result with two publications, i.e., the incorrect Martin Blom is listed. Investigation needed.

Add internal html linking to webpage

Add IDs to the tables to allow internal links from an index section on the webpage.