Study on Scientific Products in music information retrieval in Scopus (1995-2014)

Field of music information retrieval (MIR) is the interdisciplinary science in which has developed significantly in ten years ago. This study is going to represent a comprehensive picture from scientific activities of the field.
The research has been done by quantitative method and scientometric indicators. Data were analysed in SPSS, using the descriptive and analytical statistical methods which were indexed in Scopus citation database in MIR area from beginning til end of 2014.
from the beginning (1995) until end of 2014, 1822 document has been indexed in Scopus, but after 2004 scientific products of MIR has been significant and in 2011 has been reached to its maturity. USA and Johannes Kepler University were respectively the active country and university. More than 99 percent of the scientific products were written in English and most of them respectively were in the computer, human science and engineering.
The study shows that there is a positive and significant correlation between H-index and the number of the coauthors. Content analysis of the produced papers of MIR can result in better understanding of dominant discourse in MIR. So, doing researches like this and others have been suggested for future studies.