Analyzing EC-TEL 2006-2010!W. Reinhardt, C. Meier, H. Drachsler, P. Sloep!University of Paderborn and Open University of the Netherlands

Fragmented community!The analysis shows a very fragmented community that is not strongly coherent; we identified 103 weakly connected clusters and an overall density of only .007.

Number of papers per author

Top internal publications

co-citation

bibliographic coupling co-authorship

Domination by prolific authors!EC-TEL is strongly dominated by a few prolific authors. The authors with 5 or more publications (2.3%) account for 24.5% of all papers. The largest co-authorship cluster above accounts for 14.4% of all papers.

Most publishing authors

Top external publications

Frequency of co-author network size

Number of papers, authors and references

largest co-authorship cluster (75 authors)

Tailored recommenders needed!To overcome fragmentation of the community and foster collaboration tailored recommender systems should be built on top of this data and given to the community.

A detailed look at the data!In the first 5 years of EC-TEL, 229 full and short papers have been published. They have been written by 574 unique authors. On average, there were 46 papers from 148 unique authors each year. The authors cited 3,401 unique references. Single papers have 17 references on average (min=1, max=70). 77.4% (444 authors) have only published a single paper in EC-TEL; less than 5% have more than 3 papers. 43 papers from the first 4 years received a total of 52 references.

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