  The Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval workshop series (BIR) at ECIR
tackled issues related to academic search, at the crossroads between
Information Retrieval and Bibliometrics. BIR is a hot topic investigated by
both academia (e.g., ArnetMiner, CiteSeerx, DocEar) and the industry (e.g.,
Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic Search, Semantic Scholar). This report
presents the 8th iteration of the one-day BIR workshop held at ECIR 2019 in
Cologne, Germany.
