Interview with Pádraig Cunningham and Barry Smyth

PC: We are aware that other research communities have done this kind of thing. Particularly in the information retrieval community and in the database community they have done this kind of study and we are also aware of citation type analysis, for instance, in genomics there is some famous citation analysis that has been done there. But we thought, because we belong to this small community that has several subthemes within it, and we have come to this fifteen-year milestone, it would be useful to do a systematic analysis of our community in those terms. There are some aspects of the community that we believe are unusual, particularly that some research is overlapping and that a contribution can belong to more than one theme. So that was interesting to see if we could uncover that with the type of analysis that we did.