Motivation

The ICORE (International CORE Conference Rankings) is a ranking of computer science conferences (A*, A, B, C). In JabRef, we want to add a new field that stores the ICORE ranking of a given conference. Users often want to know how highly ranked a paper's venue is. You can search conferences manually via the ICORE website, but this should be automated.

Example search result

📌 Goal

When a BibTeX entry includes a conference title like:

ACIS Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA)

The tool should:

• Extract the acronym in parentheses — SERA.
• Search the ICORE rankings for this acronym.
• If a match is found (e.g. SERA has rank C), populate the new icoreranking field with that value.
• If no exact match is found, fall back to fuzzy matching using similarity scoring (> 0.9).

🛠️ Tasks

• Move DuplicateCheck#similarity from org.jabref.logic.database to a new utility class: org.jabref.logic.util.strings.StringSimilarity.
• Add ICORE.csv to src/main/resources/
• Create a class that loads and indexes the ICORE data at instantiation.
• Implement the logic to detect and return the ranking from a full conference name.
• Create a new field: ICORANKING ('icoranking') and add it to org.jabref.model.entry.field.StandardField at the // JabRef-specific fields section.
• Create a new field editor ICoreRankingEditor (inspired by IdentifierEditor) and integrate it into the UI by modifying FieldEditors#getForField(...). - Tghe lookup button (like DOI lookup) to lookup the ranking in the CSV file
• Write unit tests for acronym matching and similarity fallback.

Test end-to-end behavior via TDD.

📚 Helpful resources

• Previous pull request: Add ICORE Ranking support #13512 - one can learn about an initial idea and review comments on it.
• How to contribute to JabRef
• JabRef Developer Documentation
• ICORE Rankings CSV: https://portal.core.edu.au/conf-ranks/ → Export CSV