The GII-GRIN Conference Rating 2015


Download The GII-GRIN Conference Rating 2015 (Excel .xlsx file) - last updated: January, 24th 2015

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Goals

Conference papers are important to computer scientists. Research evaluation is important to Universities and policy makers. This initiative is sponsored by GII (Group of Italian Professors of Computer Engineering) and GRIN (Group of Italian Professors of Computer Science). The goal of this initiative is to develop a unified rating of computer science conferences. The process is organized in two stages.

  • Stage 1: a joint committee of GII and GRIN members (see below) was asked to put together a rating algorithm based on well-known, existing international classifications.
  • Stage 2: the rating generated by the algorithm will be submitted to the two communities (GII and GRIN), to be revised and corrected based on their feedbacks.

This site reports the result of Stage 1 of the process.

The Stage 1 GII-GRIN Joint Committee

  • Rita Cucchiara (GII)
  • Gerardo Canfora (GII)
  • Giansalvatore Mecca (GII)
  • Stefano Paraboschi (GII)
  • Vincenzo Piuri (GII)
  • Pierangela Samarati (GRIN)
  • Carlo Blundo (GRIN)
  • Luca Chittaro (GRIN)
  • Alessandro Mei (GRIN)
  • Davide Sangiorgi (GRIN)

Disclaimer

We realize that using bibliometric indicators may introduce distortions in the evaluation of scientific papers. We also know that the source rankings may have flaws and contain errors. It is therefore unavoidable that the unified rating that we publish in turn contains errors or omissions. Our goal was to limit these errors to the minimum, by leveraging all of the indicators that were available at the sources, and by combining them in such a way to reduce distortions. We expect that in the majority of cases our algorithm classifies conferences in a way that reflecs quite closely the consideration of that conference within the international scientific community. There might be cases in which this is not true, and these may be handled in Stage 2 using public feedback from the community.

Changelog

  • March, 1st 2015 - added references to a collection of comments to this proposal sent to the Joint Committee by GII and GRIN members, and to the response to these comments prepared by the Committee;