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Moreover, the application of the existing techniques rarely finds the impact of conferences in a distinctive manner. The purpose of this paper is to propose and compare the DS-index with existing bibliometric indices, such as h-index, g-index and R-index, to study and rank conferences distinctively based on their significance.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>The DS-index is applied to the self-developed large DBLP data set having publication data over 50 years covering more than 10,000 conferences.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Findings<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>The empirical results of the proposed index are compared with the existing indices using the standard performance evaluation measures. The results confirm that the DS-index performs better than other indices in ranking the conferences in a distinctive manner.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Originality\/value<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Scarce attention is paid to rank conferences in distinctive manner using bibliometric measures. In addition, exploiting the DS-index to assign unique ranks to the different conferences makes this research work novel.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1108\/el-03-2018-0064","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,2,28]],"date-time":"2019-02-28T08:31:43Z","timestamp":1551342703000},"page":"67-80","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["An index-based ranking of conferences in a distinctive manner"],"prefix":"10.1108","volume":"37","author":[{"given":"Muhammad","family":"Farooq","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"COMSATS University Islamabad Department of Computer Science, , Wah Campus, Wah Cantt, Punjab,","place":["Pakistan"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hikmat Ullah","family":"Khan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"COMSATS University Islamabad Department of Computer Science, , Wah Campus, Wah Cantt, 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