From neils at uic.edu Wed Dec 13 18:08:24 2017 From: neils at uic.edu (Smalheiser, Neil R) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 23:08:24 +0000 Subject: [Sigmet-officers] rough idea for session at next year's SIGMET workshop Message-ID: I am working with Halil Kaliglou (NIH) to create a session for next year's workshop, on issues related to metrics of individual published articles, with an emphasis on ways to measure aspects of an article that reflect its rigor, quality, robustness and reproducibility. The idea is still rough, but I imagine that we can invite one keynote speaker on this topic and have an open call for submissions, as well as perhaps inviting a few specific individuals to participate who might not normally attend ASIST. Ideally the workshop presentations would be linked to papers that could be published as a group, but again, that depends on how mature and how many the presentations are. Here is a handful of topics that I think might be relevant and interesting to ASIST attendees: Metrics of novelty, quality, transformativeness, etc. associated with individual articles. Predictors of impact or citations based on intrinsic features present at the time an article is published. Studies of journal quality (editorial board, adherence to stated policies, peer review processes). Studies of citation behavior, identifying reasons for citing an article, citation recommender systems, detecting citation distortions, omissions and inaccuracies. Tools to identify research gaps. Thoughts? Reactions? Ideas for keynote speakers? I don't think that keynoters have been reimbursed for registration and/or travel expenses in the past, but I think we could do so given our finances, and this might allow us to invite some big name. (The same applies to keynoters for other sessions at SIGMET, too.) Neil Below, I am sharing our rough-idea sketchpad, listing a large and heterogeneous collection of possible speakers and topics, which I took the handful from. If you see any other topics that grab your attention, please let me know. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ehenneken at cfa.harvard.edu Thu Dec 14 07:58:14 2017 From: ehenneken at cfa.harvard.edu (Henneken, Edwin) Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 07:58:14 -0500 Subject: [Sigmet-officers] rough idea for session at next year's SIGMET workshop In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Neil I think that's a great set of topics. I would have a hard time trying to pick just one for an abstract :-) Inviting people people who normally don't attend ASIST is a great idea too; I definitely have had positive reactions from people who never attended but were enthusiastic when I showed the program to them. Citation recommender systems is an interesting topic, but I would just open it up to "recommender systems" in general and the challenge of introducing serendipity in recommendations. As pat of talking about predicting impact, it is also important about quality of predictions and how meaningful they are; earlier this year Michael Kurtz and I published a paper "Measuring Metrics" in JASIST ( http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.23689/abstract) - shameless self-promotion! Usage-based metrics are interesting too. Happy Holidays --Edwin -- ============================================================= Edwin Henneken ehenneken at cfa.harvard.edu NASA Astrophysics Data System IT Specialist Harvard - Smithsonian http:// adslabs.org Center for Astrophysics http://ads.harvard.edu 60 Garden St. MS 83, Cambridge, MA 02138 Room P-129 ORCID 0000-0003-4264-2450 ============================================================= On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 6:08 PM, Smalheiser, Neil R wrote: > I am working with Halil Kaliglou (NIH) to create a session for next year?s > workshop, on issues related to metrics of individual published articles, > with an emphasis on ways to measure aspects of an article that reflect its > rigor, quality, robustness and reproducibility. The idea is still rough, > but I imagine that we can invite one keynote speaker on this topic and have > an open call for submissions, as well as perhaps inviting a few specific > individuals to participate who might not normally attend ASIST. Ideally the > workshop presentations would be linked to papers that could be published as > a group, but again, that depends on how mature and how many the > presentations are. > > > > Here is a handful of topics that I think might be relevant and interesting > to ASIST attendees: > > Metrics of novelty, quality, transformativeness, etc. associated with > individual articles. > > Predictors of impact or citations based on intrinsic features present at > the time an article is published. > > Studies of journal quality (editorial board, adherence to stated policies, > peer review processes). > > Studies of citation behavior, identifying reasons for citing an article, > citation recommender systems, detecting citation distortions, omissions and > inaccuracies. > > Tools to identify research gaps. > > > > Thoughts? Reactions? Ideas for keynote speakers? I don?t think that > keynoters have been reimbursed for registration and/or travel expenses in > the past, but I think we could do so given our finances, and this might > allow us to invite some big name. (The same applies to keynoters for other > sessions at SIGMET, too.) > > > > Neil > > > > Below, I am sharing our rough-idea sketchpad, listing a large and > heterogeneous collection of possible speakers and topics, which I took the > handful from. If you see any other topics that grab your attention, please > let me know. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sigmet-officers mailing list > Sigmet-officers at mail.asis.org > http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigmet-officers > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From neils at uic.edu Thu Dec 14 11:28:21 2017 From: neils at uic.edu (Smalheiser, Neil R) Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 16:28:21 +0000 Subject: [Sigmet-officers] getting permission for presentations for next year's workshop Message-ID: If we can remember it, let's tell prospective presenters that their presentations will be posted UNLESS they opt out. This ought to increase participation relative to asking after the fact. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: