A Review of Six Years of Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference

Abstract

We conduct a bibliometric and scientific publication mining based study to understand how the APSEC conference has evolved over the recent past 6 years (year 2010 to 2015). Our objective is to perform an in-depth examination of the state of APSEC so that the APSEC community can identify strengths, areas of improvements and future directions for the conference. Our empirical analysis is based on various perspectives such as: paper submission acceptance rate trends, scholarly productivity and contributions from various countries, identification of prolific authors, computation of citation impact of papers and contributing authors, internal and external collaboration, university and industry participation and collaboration, measurement of gender imbalance, yearly author churn and program committee characteristics.