CORE Conference Ranking 2020 Removes JCDL and other Digital Library Conferences from its Database
The ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) is the premier conference in the field of digital libraries and, besides the ACM RecSys, a good choice for publishing work related to research-paper recommender systems, citation recommenders, venue recommendation systems, reviewer assignment problem etc.
Until recently, the CORE Conference Ranking listed JCDL as an A* conference.
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However, the recently released 2020 database does not list the JCDL conference anymore.
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It seems that CORE has decided to remove all conferences from its ranking that focus on (digital) libraries.
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This includes the JCDL as well as the International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL). This Google Sheet lists all the changes https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ntjh2_ehfcvrb6S2L-_mjmGyvbbTFK4R/view..
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In my opinion, this is a real pity. The JCDL is an excellent conference and a large proportion of the published research papers very clearly and very strongly relate to computer science. Excluding JCDL from CORE will make it less attractive to computer scientists.