[ISSI] Call for Web Indicators for Innovation Systems papers (fwd)

[Gretchen Whitney]

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Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 06:44:43 -0600
From: Sylvan Katz <j.s.katz at SUSSEX.AC.UK>
To: ISSI at LISTSERV.REDIRIS.ES
Subject: [ISSI] Call for Web Indicators for Innovation Systems papers

Web Indicators for Innovation Systems

This is a call for papers by the WISER project (http://www.wiserweb.org/)
for Web Indicators for Innovation Systems to be published in a special
issue of Research Evaluation in August 2006.

Research Evaluation is a peer-reviewed, international journal. Papers in
this journal range from the evaluation of individual research project to
inter-country comparisons of research performance. Research projects,
researchers, research centres, and the types of research output are all
relevant. It includes public and private sectors, natural and social
sciences. The term 'evaluation' applies to all stages from priorities and
proposals, through the monitoring of on-going projects and programmes, to
the use of the results of research.

The focus of this special issue will be on the use of web based methods to
construct indicators that may assist analysts and policy makers to evaluate
research activities, structures and performance of e-science and innovation
systems.

Examples of areas of interest:

- Evaluation of the size, visibility, linkages, etc of academic and
research organization web sites
- Co-link analysis of a research area (biotechnology, public policy, etc.)
- Uses and abuses of search engines in evaluation processes
- Content analysis of web pages
- Downloads from digital libraries and open access research publication as
an indicator of the future impact of research publications

Time table
October 1, 2005 Deadline for extended abstracts
November 1, 2005        Notification to submit full papers
January 15, 2006        Deadline for submitting full papers
February 15, 2006       Notification of acceptance of papers
April 15, 2006  Submission of revised papers

Notes for authors are available at http://www.scipol.demon.co.uk/renotes.htm

Send abstracts and papers for the special issue or correspondence to the
guest editor, Sylvan Katz, at mailto:WebIndicators at sussex.ac.uk


NOTE: Authors are discouraged from submitting images of web pages

If you would like a free sample copy of Research Evaluation, contact Bill
Page at mailto:page at scipol.demon.co.uk. The journal is included in the
Social Science Citation Index and related products.

Visit  The Web Indicators Portal
http://www.webindicators.org/

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