A contemporary science map through the lens of IEEE and ACM periodicals
George Margaritis, Dionysios Kritsas, Dimitrios Katsaros, Yannis Manolopoulos
TLDR
This paper qualitatively maps contemporary science trends by analyzing recent IEEE and ACM periodical titles, revealing key shifts in publication and focus.
Key contributions
- Identified a growing preference for open access publication across both IEEE and ACM.
- Observed ACM's strong orientation towards AI-focused periodicals in recent titles.
- Revealed significant thematic overlap among periodicals within both IEEE and ACM associations.
Why it matters
This paper maps contemporary science trends in computing and engineering. It highlights shifts like open access, ACM's AI focus, and thematic overlaps in periodicals. These insights help researchers and publishers adapt.
Original Abstract
ACM and IEEE are the two premier associations on computing and electrical/electronics engineering which publish and organize the great majority of periodicals and conferences, respectively, serving these disciplines. Science is a constantly evolving process, and these publication fora are expected to follow the trends. In this article, we focus on the periodicals published by the two associations and seek to detect and/or confirm any contemporary science trends as these are reflected to the periodical titles established recently. Our study is rather qualitative than quantitative, aiming at revealing patterns immediately comprehensible and validatable by the reader. Among the most notable patterns, we see a growing preference of both associations for the open access mode of publication; we also observe ACM's orientation toward AI-focused periodicals, and most importantly, a significant theme overlap among periodicals of the same association and this is valid for both ACM and IEEE.
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