[Sigmet-officers] rough idea for session at next year's SIGMET workshop

[Henneken, Edwin]

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

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On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 6:08 PM, Smalheiser, Neil R <neils at uic.edu> 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
>
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>
> 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.
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