The Elsevier Bibliometric Research Program - Call for proposals

[Moed, Henk (ELS-AMS)]

The Elsevier Bibliometric Research Program - Call for proposals

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ELSEVIER BIBLIOMETRIC RESEARCH PROGRAM (EBRP)
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The program aims to enable external research groups or individual
researchers in the field of bibliometrics and quantitative research
assessment, to carry out strategic research using Elsevier data, and to
present the outcomes in peer-reviewed journal papers and at
international conferences.

External groups and/or individual researchers will submit research
proposals via a submission system to the EBRP Secretariat.

A Scientific Board of internationally recognized experts and chaired by
Henk F. Moed (scientific Director at Elsevier), will evaluate the
proposals and decide whether or not they should be granted.

When a positive final decision is reached, Elsevier will create a
specific dataset based on the proposal's specifications and send it free
of charge to the applicants who are allowed to use it in their research.



Learn More About the Program:
http://ebrp.elsevier.com/index.asp
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Call For Proposals
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The program covers all topics in the field of bibliometrics and research
assessment, but preferred themes for 2012 proposals are:

*Communication, publication, citation, usage (full text article
downloading) and evaluation processes in the humanities and social
sciences.

*Scientific mobility and collaboration: its measurement and use in
policy oriented studies.

* What do usage (full text article downloads)-based indicators measure?

* The usefulness of basic science for engineering and innovation.

* The creation and assessment of subject classification systems of
scientific-scholarly research that account for multi-disciplinarity.

* Determinants of research performance: which factors hamper or enhance
the research performance of research groups or institutions in the
various domains of science and scholarship?

* Assessing the effectiveness of research policies: the use of S&T
indicators to test assumptions and effects of particular institutional
or national research policies.


Learn More About Submitting a Proposal:
http://ebrp.elsevier.com/submit.asp
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Key Dates
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February 17th 2012: Official Launch of the Program & First Call for
Proposals

March 19th 2012: Close of Submissions

March 29th-30th: The First Board meeting, Beijing China

April 30th: Final granting decisions announced

Check our website for important dates and updates Elsevier Bibliometric
Research Program http://ebrp.elsevier.com/submit.asp 

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About the EBRP Scientific Board
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Elsevier has established a Scientific Board consisting of 7 permanent
members:

*Prof. Katy Borner, Victor H. Yngve Professor of Information Science,
School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University,
Bloomington, USA; 
*Prof Diana Hicks, Chair, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of
Technology, Atlanta, USA; 
*Dr Marc Luwel, Director, Hercules Foundation, Brussels, Belgium; and
CWTS, Leiden University, the Netherlands.
*Prof. Ulrich Schmoch, Extraordinary professor at the Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology (KIT), and Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and
Innovation Research (ISI), Karlsruhe, Germany; 
*Prof Yishan Wu, Vice-Director, ISTIC (Institute for Scientific and
Technological Information of China), Beijing, China.
*Dr Andrew Plume, Research & Academic Relations, Elsevier, Oxford, UK.
*Dr Henk F. Moed, Senior Scientific Advisor, Elsevier, Amsterdam, the
Netherlands, and Chairman of the Board

Dr Gali Halevi, Director Government Marketing, Elsevier, New York USA,
is managing director of the Program and Secretary of the Board.


Learn More About the EBRP Scientific Board:
http://ebrp.elsevier.com/boardMembers.asp
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QUESTIONS?
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If you have any questions or comments please contact:
Dr. Gali Halevi
Email: mailto:g.halevi at elsevier.com?subject=Question
Phone: +1 646 248 9464

OR

Use Our Query Form:
http://ebrp.elsevier.com/contactUs.asp 

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