Paper year
2025
Paper dossier
Beyond a Western Center of Music Information Retrieval: A Bibliometric Analysis of the First 25 Years of ISMIR Authorship
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Citations
1
Authors
5
Topic labels
3
Source readout
Source and corpus status
Venue
Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval
Source slug
tismir
Corpus placement
Core corpus
Similarity rows
6
Ranking readout
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Run shadow-generalization-product-candidate-ranking-v1Top 50 surfaced
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Families present
3
Top 50
3
Run label
shadow-generalization-product-candidate-ranking-v1
Snapshot
source-snapshot-shadow-generalization-v1-20260521
Scope: family global | run rank-83787b91ef
Emerging
In top 50 at rank 22
Emerging: embedding slice fit vs included-corpus centroid (title+abstract), plus citation velocity and topic growth; not universal relevance. Bridge signal not used here.
Signals: semantic=0.8041, citation_velocity=0.0600, topic_growth=0.9050, diversity_penalty=0.0000
Why this surfaced | 3 used | 1 penalty | 1 not computed
Embedding slice fit (corpus centroid)used
Embedding slice fit (corpus centroid): high; used in final ranking (contribution to score: 0.1608)
Recent attentionused
Recent attention: low; used in final ranking (contribution to score: 0.0300)
Topic momentumused
Topic momentum: high; used in final ranking (contribution to score: 0.2715)
Cross-cluster signalnot computed
Cross-cluster signal: not computed for this run
Similarity penaltypenalty
Similarity penalty: reduces score when non-zero (contribution to score: 0.0000)
Bridge
In top 50 at rank 8
Multi-topic paper in active topics; no cluster_version on this run so bridge_score was not computed.
Signals: citation_velocity=0.0600, topic_growth=0.9050, diversity_penalty=0.0000
Why this surfaced | 2 used | 1 penalty | 2 not computed
Semantic matchnot computed
Semantic match: not computed for this run
Recent attentionused
Recent attention: low; used in final ranking (contribution to score: 0.0210)
Topic momentumused
Topic momentum: high; used in final ranking (contribution to score: 0.5882)
Cross-cluster signalnot computed
Cross-cluster signal: not computed for this run
Topic breadth penaltypenalty
Topic breadth penalty: reduces score when non-zero (contribution to score: 0.0000)
Under-cited
In top 50 at rank 20
Low-cite candidate pool (see docs/candidate-pool-low-cite.md v0): core corpus, recency floor, citation ceiling, title+abstract gate; popularity penalty among pool members only. Semantic and bridge not yet modeled.
Signals: citation_velocity=0.0600, topic_growth=0.9050, diversity_penalty=0.2789
Why this surfaced | 2 used | 1 penalty | 2 not computed
Semantic matchnot computed
Semantic match: not computed for this run
Recent attentionused
Recent attention: low; used in final ranking (contribution to score: 0.0180)
Topic momentumused
Topic momentum: high; used in final ranking (contribution to score: 0.6335)
Cross-cluster signalnot computed
Cross-cluster signal: not computed for this run
Pool popularity penaltypenalty
Pool popularity penalty: reduces score when non-zero (contribution to score: -0.0697)
Abstract
Over the past two decades, the music information retrieval (MIR) community has grown significantly in both the volume and diversity of research contributions. However, questions remain about who is represented within the community-and who is not. The influence of Western views shapes MIR research, affecting author representation, topic selection, cross-cultural considerations, and reproducibility. While discussions on the impact of Western centricity have gained traction in adjacent fields, there remains a need to critically assess its presence and limitations within MIR. This study analyzes the corpus of 2,458 ISMIR conference papers published from 2000-2024 to examine the geographic and institutional distribution of authors. Our findings indicate that International Society for Music Information Retrieval research remains Western-centric, with disproportionate representation from the Global North yet with increasing cross-institutional collaborations. We provide design suggestions to support a more geographically diverse authorship. In support of our findings and to facilitate future research, we release the aggregated data as an open dataset, ISMIR25Meta, along with a topic-based visualizer, ISMIR25Viz.
Authors
Neighborhood labels
Topics
3 labels
Topic labels are imported metadata and can be noisy; use them as coarse navigation hints, not authoritative classifications.
Music and Audio ProcessingDiverse Musicological StudiesInformation Retrieval and Search Behavior
Neighbor surface
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6 total neighborsEmbedding v1-title-abstract-1536-cleantext-r3
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