The bibliographic reference collection GRC2014 for the Online Laboratory Research community

Online Laboratories are becoming more and more appealing in many educational scenarios due to technology advancements and the rising of pedagogical interests. Therefore, the scientific community that orbits around them is growing as well. Proper qualitative and quantitative analyses are needed to profile publications and their authors, to highlight trends and most promising research areas, to identify leading authors, to drive the scientific community towards the right publication targets. Since no tools are currently available to achieve such purposes, the authors propose a data processing pipeline capable of producing a dataset of cleaned and normalized bibliographic references (namely, GRC2014). The description of both design and implementation phases of such a solution is provided in this paper, as well as a thorough evaluation of the dataset and its contents. In addition, reports that highlight core features of this scientific domain are provided, thus characterizing the proposed solution as a useful tool for researchers and authors.