  The BIR workshop brings together experts in Bibliometrics and Information
Retrieval. While sometimes perceived as rather loosely related, these research
areas share various interests and face similar challenges. Our motivation as
organizers of the BIR workshop stemmed from a twofold observation. First, both
communities only partly overlap, albeit sharing various interests. Second, it
will be profitable for both sides to tackle some of the emerging problems that
scholars face today when they have to identify relevant and high quality
literature in the fast growing number of electronic publications available
worldwide. Bibliometric techniques are not yet used widely to enhance retrieval
processes in digital libraries, although they offer value-added effects for
users. Information professionals working in libraries and archives, however,
are increasingly confronted with applying bibliometric techniques in their
services. The first BIR workshop in 2014 set the research agenda by introducing
each group to the other, illustrating state-of-the-art methods, reporting on
current research problems, and brainstorming about common interests. The second
workshop in 2015 further elaborated these themes. This third BIR workshop aims
to foster a common ground for the incorporation of bibliometric-enhanced
services into scholarly search engine interfaces. In particular we will address
specific communities, as well as studies on large, cross-domain collections
like Mendeley and ResearchGate. This third BIR workshop addresses explicitly
both scholarly and industrial researchers.
