From christian.gumpenberger at univie.ac.at Wed Jun 1 03:14:51 2016 From: christian.gumpenberger at univie.ac.at (Christian Gumpenberger) Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2016 09:14:51 +0200 Subject: [Sigmetrics] The ecstasy and the agony of the altmetric score Message-ID: <1fae82ebf9aab66ed7571762c27c0258@webmail2016.univie.ac.at> Gumpenberger, C., Gl?nzel, W., Gorraiz, J. (2016). The ecstasy and the agony of the altmetric score. Scientometrics, 10.1007/s11192-016-1991-5. The article is available as 'Online First': http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-016-1991-5 Best regards, Christian ********************************************** Dr. Christian Gumpenberger, MSc University of Vienna Library and Archive Services Bibliometrics and Publication Strategies Coordinator of the Council of Austrian University Libraries (ubifo) Boltzmanngasse 5 A-1090 Vienna Austria T: +43-1-4277-27619 M: +43-664-60277-27619 mailto:christian.gumpenberger at univie.ac.at orcid.org/0000-0002-9188-8716 bibliometrie.univie.ac.at ********************************************** From christian.gumpenberger at univie.ac.at Wed Jun 1 06:34:28 2016 From: christian.gumpenberger at univie.ac.at (Christian Gumpenberger) Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2016 12:34:28 +0200 Subject: [Sigmetrics] esss 2016/ Final Call for Participation Message-ID: <16c328ffdd66430bea4d1e31b9799aa5@webmail2016.univie.ac.at> Dear?colleagues, We are happy to announce that this year's registration for the European Summer School for Scientometrics (esss) is still open but that currently only a few seats are left. The?event?will?take?place?in?Granada,?Spain?from?September?04?-09,?2016. Like in previous years the programme offers a Bibliometric Crash Course, lectures, seminars and practical exercises. New Metrics will be this year`s focus. For?further?information,?please?visit?our?website: http://www.scientometrics-school.eu/ If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact our esss office (mailto: office@ scientometrics-school.eu). We?are?looking?forward?to?seeing?you?in?Granada! Best?regards, Juan?Gorraiz?on?behalf?of?the esss?European?Summer?School?for?Scientometrics?office Boltzmanngasse?5 A-1090?Wien Tel.:?+43-1-4277-27618 Mobil:?+43-664-60277-27618 mailto: ursula.ulrych at univie.ac.at mailto: office at scientometrics-school.eu From petrknoth at gmail.com Thu Jun 2 04:34:38 2016 From: petrknoth at gmail.com (Petr Knoth) Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 09:34:38 +0100 Subject: [Sigmetrics] Fully funded PhD studentships in scientometrics at the Knowledge Media institute, UK Message-ID: The Knowledge Media institute, The Open University, UK is currently offering fully-funded PhD studentships. The following topic might be of a particular interest to the members of this list: - Web-scale research analytics for identifying high performance and trends: data-driven approaches to scientometrics. It is expected the research will use a combination of bibliometric, altmetric and article full-text data to develop new research metrics. The research will analyse how predictive they are with respect to peer-review judgements. A very large dataset of publication full-texts (millions of articles from all disciplines), a large citation network (500M+ citation links) and altmetric indicators, and peer-review judgements from across disciplines is readily available. Deadline for applications: 20th June 2016. The offered stipend of 14,057 GBP per annum plus waived student fees is offered for 3 years. Prospective applicants should contact me and Prof Zdrahal directly at petr.knoth at open.ac.uk and zdenek.zdrahal at open.ac.uk prior to application. Best wishes, ? Dr. Petr Knoth Research Fellow Knowledge Media institute The Open University Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, BUCKS, United Kingdom phone: +44 (0)1908 654548 Web: https://www.linkedin.com/in/petrknoth Twitter: @petrknoth From petr.knoth at open.ac.uk Thu Jun 2 04:32:39 2016 From: petr.knoth at open.ac.uk (Petr.Knoth) Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 08:32:39 +0000 Subject: [Sigmetrics] Fully funded PhD studentships in scientometrics at the Knowledge Media institute, UK Message-ID: The Knowledge Media institute, The Open University, UK is currently offering fully-funded PhD studentships. The following topic might be of a particular interest to the members of this list: - Web-scale research analytics for identifying high performance and trends: data-driven approaches to scientometrics. It is expected the research will use a combination of bibliometric, altmetric and article full-text data to develop new research metrics. The research will analyse how predictive they are with respect to peer-review judgements. A very large dataset of publication full-texts (millions of articles from all disciplines), a large citation network (500M+ citation links) and altmetric indicators, and peer-review judgements from across disciplines is readily available. Deadline for applications: 20th June 2016. The offered stipend of 14,057 GBP per annum plus waived student fees is offered for 3 years. Prospective applicants should contact me and Prof Zdrahal directly at petr.knoth at open.ac.uk and zdenek.zdrahal at open.ac.uk prior to application. Best wishes, - Dr. Petr Knoth Research Fellow Knowledge Media institute The Open University Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, BUCKS, United Kingdom phone: +44 (0)1908 654548 Web: https://www.linkedin.com/in/petrknoth Twitter: @petrknoth -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). The Open University is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Peter.Mutschke at gesis.org Fri Jun 3 08:03:48 2016 From: Peter.Mutschke at gesis.org (Mutschke, Peter) Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 12:03:48 +0000 Subject: [Sigmetrics] First CfP: How to deal with semantic heterogeneity in cross-domain information retrieval? Workshop at 6th International Conference on Integrated Information, Athens, September 19-22, 2016 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: First Call for Papers How to deal with semantic heterogeneity in cross-domain information retrieval? Workshop at 6th International Conference on Integrated Information, Athens, September 19-22, 2016 (http://www.icininfo.net/index.php) Due to the growing complexity of examined phenomena scientific progress is increasingly achieved at the boundaries of the established sciences and by cross-discipline cooperation. However, the way to interdisciplinary research is often hindered because of the difficulty of many researchers to understand a foreign language of science. By its nature, this problem affects cross-discipline information retrieval as well. A still challenging issue therefore is to improve search accuracy by understanding the contextual meaning of search terms in cross-domain information seeking scenarios. The workshop aims at bringing together researchers from different scientific application fields to discuss scenarios, approaches, applications, test beds and new ideas. The topics include, but are not limited to: ? Information Retrieval ? Information Extraction ? Text Mining ? Recommender Systems ? Information Seeking Behaviour ? Evaluation of interactive IR systems Important Dates (see conference page): * Abstract submission: Saturday, 06 August 2016 * Abstract acceptance: Saturday, 13 August 2016 * Paper submission: Wednesday, 10 August 2016 * Paper acceptance: Wednesday, 17 August 2016 * Conference date: September 19-22 * Workshop date: tba. Submissions: ? Full Papers (6 to 8 pages): Full papers, describing advanced or completed work ? Short Papers (4 pages): Position papers or work in progress ? Poster and Demonstrations (2 pages): Poster and Presentation of systems or prototypes Submissions have to follow instructions at conference page: http://www.icininfo.net/index.php Organizer: Peter Mutschke (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany) Kind regards, Peter Mutschke --- Acting Head of Department Dep. Knowledge Technologies for the Social Sciences (WTS) GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8 D-50667 K?ln Tel.: +49(0)221 / 47694 -500 Fax: +49(0)221 / 47694 -8500 Mail: peter.mutschke at gesis.org www.gesis.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mc.wilson at auckland.ac.nz Mon Jun 6 22:13:43 2016 From: mc.wilson at auckland.ac.nz (Mark C. Wilson) Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 14:13:43 +1200 Subject: [Sigmetrics] references for scientific document citation networks Message-ID: <71853650-FB8E-46AA-ACF1-21EEBF710A74@auckland.ac.nz> Dear Sigmetrists, It is relatively easy to find (via e.g. Google Scholar) research on collaboration networks, co-citation networks, journal to journal citation networks, etc. However I find surprisingly little on the obvious topic of article-to-article citation networks. I have a vague memory of seeing this done for something like arXiv.org or DBLP, but have not been able to find it. I did find one paper claiming to have built such a network with 236000 nodes by searching Journal Citation Reports - I have no idea how that could be done on a reasonable budget. Any hints to where to look would be greatly appreciated. Mark C. Wilson, Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The authors of the paper do not need to be members of ISSI. *Nomination*. Any paper on a topic in the field of scientometrics and informetrics can be nominated, without restriction to specific journals. *Only members of ISSI are eligible to nominate papers and nominations must be made by August 1, 2016*. *The nomination must include a short text (no more than 500 words) explaining the importance of the contribution. Nominations should be emailed to Dr. Cassidy R. Sugimoto, President of ISSI, at sugimoto at indiana.edu . Only one nomination will be accepted from each nominator. * *Selection*. The ISSI Board will appoint a subcommittee of no more than five members and chaired by the President of ISSI, to determine the validity of the nominations and to select ten papers to forward to the ISSI membership for voting. Selection will be based on the quality of the papers and the arguments made by the nominators in the nomination packet. *Voting*. Electronic ballots will be sent to all members of ISSI, who will be provided with the full bibliographic material as well as links to the nomination material for each of the ten selected papers. Each member will be allowed to cast three ranked votes across the set, with the top ranked choice receiving three points, the second ranked choice two points, and the three ranked choice one point. The paper receiving the most votes will be selected as the Paper of the Year. Two runner-up papers will also be selected. In the case that multiple papers receive the same highest score, all will be awarded as Paper of the Year. *Announcement and award*. Awardees will be notified no later than *November 1, 2016*. Awardees will be announced in the ISSI Newsletter and notification of the winners will be sent to the editors of *Scientometrics* and *Journal of Informetrics*, to encourage recognition in these venues. Notification will also be sent to the journal in which the work was published. Awardees will formally receive their award in ceremony at the 2017 ISSI conference in China and will be invited to present on their award winning work, if this work has not been previously presented at ISSI. Conference registration will be provided for one presenter. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vladimir.batagelj at fmf.uni-lj.si Mon Jun 6 22:31:11 2016 From: vladimir.batagelj at fmf.uni-lj.si (Vladimir Batagelj) Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2016 04:31:11 +0200 Subject: [Sigmetrics] references for scientific document citation networks In-Reply-To: <71853650-FB8E-46AA-ACF1-21EEBF710A74@auckland.ac.nz> References: <71853650-FB8E-46AA-ACF1-21EEBF710A74@auckland.ac.nz> Message-ID: <07d4c1b60414c00564e8d4909a6fbb56@fmf.uni-lj.si> On 07-06-2016 04:13, Mark C. Wilson wrote: > Dear Sigmetrists, > > It is relatively easy to find (via e.g. Google Scholar) research on > collaboration networks, co-citation networks, journal to journal > citation networks, etc. However I find surprisingly little on the > obvious topic of article-to-article citation networks. I have a vague > memory of seeing this done for something like arXiv.org or DBLP, but > have not been able to find it. I did find one paper claiming to have > built such a network with 236000 nodes by searching Journal Citation > Reports - I have no idea how that could be done on a reasonable > budget. > > Any hints to where to look would be greatly appreciated. > > Mark C. Wilson, Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland See chapters 3-6 in http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470714522.html Vlado -- Vladimir Batagelj ? IMFM - Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics ??Jadranska 19, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia and ??University of Primorska, Andrej Maru?i? Institute, Koper T: +386 1 4766 672 W:?http://vladowiki.fmf.uni-lj.si/doku.php?id=vlado From kboyack at mapofscience.com Tue Jun 7 00:07:18 2016 From: kboyack at mapofscience.com (Kevin Boyack) Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 22:07:18 -0600 Subject: [Sigmetrics] references for scientific document citation networks In-Reply-To: <71853650-FB8E-46AA-ACF1-21EEBF710A74@auckland.ac.nz> References: <71853650-FB8E-46AA-ACF1-21EEBF710A74@auckland.ac.nz> Message-ID: <037701d1c072$15d5c170$41814450$@mapofscience.com> Dear Mark, In the scientometrics world, article-to-article citation networks are known as 'direct citation' networks. There are indeed many examples. The largest such network of which I am aware is one that Dick Klavans and I have created using the entire Scopus database using the new methodology created by CWTS @ Leiden University. Relevant recent references with networks of 10M+ documents include: * Waltman L, van Eck NJ. A new methodology for constructing a publication-level classification system of science. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 2012;63(12):2378-92. * Boyack, K. W., & Klavans, R. (2014). Including non-source items in a large-scale map of science: What difference does it make? Journal of Informetrics, 8(3), 569-580. * Klavans, R. & Boyack, K. W. (2016). Which type of citation analysis generates the most accurate taxonomy of scientific and technical knowledge? JASIST forthcoming. Arxiv version at http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.05078. Best regards, Kevin Boyack -----Original Message----- From: SIGMETRICS [mailto:sigmetrics-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Mark C. Wilson Sent: Monday, June 06, 2016 8:14 PM To: sigmetrics at mail.asis.org Subject: [Sigmetrics] references for scientific document citation networks Dear Sigmetrists, It is relatively easy to find (via e.g. Google Scholar) research on collaboration networks, co-citation networks, journal to journal citation networks, etc. However I find surprisingly little on the obvious topic of article-to-article citation networks. I have a vague memory of seeing this done for something like arXiv.org or DBLP, but have not been able to find it. I did find one paper claiming to have built such a network with 236000 nodes by searching Journal Citation Reports - I have no idea how that could be done on a reasonable budget. Any hints to where to look would be greatly appreciated. Mark C. Wilson, Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland From loet at leydesdorff.net Tue Jun 7 01:12:51 2016 From: loet at leydesdorff.net (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 07:12:51 +0200 Subject: [Sigmetrics] references for scientific document citation networks In-Reply-To: <71853650-FB8E-46AA-ACF1-21EEBF710A74@auckland.ac.nz> References: <71853650-FB8E-46AA-ACF1-21EEBF710A74@auckland.ac.nz> Message-ID: <002a01d1c07b$3e1810d0$ba483270$@leydesdorff.net> Dear Mark, At http://www.leydesdorff.net/software/citnetw/index.htm , you can find the program citnetw.exe that generates a direct citation network in the Pajek format from WoS downloads. As you will know, the size of Pajek files (edgelist) are only limited. The program which was developed for various reasons is still under development and I am writing the paper. Best, Loet Loet Leydesdorff Professor, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ Associate Faculty, SPRU, University of Sussex; Guest Professor Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou; Visiting Professor, ISTIC, Beijing; Visiting Professor, Birkbeck, University of London; http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYAAAAJ&hl=en -----Original Message----- From: SIGMETRICS [mailto:sigmetrics-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Mark C. Wilson Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2016 4:14 AM To: sigmetrics at mail.asis.org Subject: [Sigmetrics] references for scientific document citation networks Dear Sigmetrists, It is relatively easy to find (via e.g. Google Scholar) research on collaboration networks, co-citation networks, journal to journal citation networks, etc. However I find surprisingly little on the obvious topic of article-to-article citation networks. I have a vague memory of seeing this done for something like arXiv.org or DBLP, but have not been able to find it. I did find one paper claiming to have built such a network with 236000 nodes by searching Journal Citation Reports - I have no idea how that could be done on a reasonable budget. Any hints to where to look would be greatly appreciated. Mark C. Wilson, Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland From jevinw at uw.edu Mon Jun 6 23:30:21 2016 From: jevinw at uw.edu (Jevin West) Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 03:30:21 +0000 Subject: [Sigmetrics] references for scientific document citation networks In-Reply-To: <71853650-FB8E-46AA-ACF1-21EEBF710A74@auckland.ac.nz> References: <71853650-FB8E-46AA-ACF1-21EEBF710A74@auckland.ac.nz> Message-ID: Hi Mark, We have built article-level citation networks for studies using JSTOR, Web of Science, arXiv, and DBLP. Here are a couple papers where we employed ranking and clustering at the level of articles. Happy to share others that involve article-level networks or answer any questions you have. 1. A recommendation system based on hierarchical clustering of an article-level citation network. [PDF] 2. Static Ranking of Scholarly Papers using Article-Level Eigenfactor. [PDF] 3. Finding Cultural Holes: How Structure and Culture Diverge in Networks of Scholarly Communication. [PDF] Best, Jevin Jevin West Assistant Professor Information School University of Washington On Jun 6, 2016, at 7:13 PM, Mark C. Wilson > wrote: Dear Sigmetrists, It is relatively easy to find (via e.g. Google Scholar) research on collaboration networks, co-citation networks, journal to journal citation networks, etc. However I find surprisingly little on the obvious topic of article-to-article citation networks. I have a vague memory of seeing this done for something like arXiv.org or DBLP, but have not been able to find it. I did find one paper claiming to have built such a network with 236000 nodes by searching Journal Citation Reports - I have no idea how that could be done on a reasonable budget. Any hints to where to look would be greatly appreciated. Mark C. Wilson, Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland _______________________________________________ SIGMETRICS mailing list SIGMETRICS at mail.asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigmetrics -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From loet at leydesdorff.net Wed Jun 8 00:33:33 2016 From: loet at leydesdorff.net (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 06:33:33 +0200 Subject: [Sigmetrics] "Open Innovation" and "Triple Helix" Models of Innovation: Can Synergy in Innovation Systems Be Measured? Message-ID: <002401d1c13e$eb288750$c17995f0$@leydesdorff.net> "Open Innovation" and "Triple Helix" Models of Innovation: Can Synergy in Innovation Systems Be Measured? Loet Leydesdorff [1] * & Inga Ivanova [2] The model of "Open Innovations" (OI) can be compared with the "Triple Helix of University-Industry-Government Relations" (TH) as attempts to find surplus value in bringing industrial innovation closer to public R&D. Whereas the firm is central in the model of OI, the TH adds multi-centeredness: in addition to firms, universities and (e.g., regional) governments can take leading roles in innovation eco-systems. In addition to the (transversal) technology transfer at each moment of time, one can focus on the dynamics in the feedback loops. Under specifiable conditions, feedback loops can be turned into feedforward ones that drive innovation eco-systems towards self-organization and the auto-catalytic generation of new options. The generation of options can be more important than historical realizations ("best practices") for the longer-term viability of knowledge-based innovation systems. A system without sufficient options, for example, is locked-in. The generation of redundancy-the Triple Helix indicator-can be used as a measure of unrealized but technologically feasible options given a historical configuration. Different coordination mechanisms (markets, policies, knowledge) provide different perspectives on the same information and thus generate redundancy. Increased redundancy not only stimulates innovation in an eco-system by reducing the prevailing uncertainty; it also enhances the synergy in and innovativeness of an innovation system. ** apologies for cross-postings Preprint available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2791914 _____ Loet Leydesdorff Professor, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ Associate Faculty, SPRU, University of Sussex; Guest Professor Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou; Visiting Professor, ISTIC, Beijing; Visiting Professor, Birkbeck, University of London; http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYAAAAJ&hl=en _____ [1] University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), PO Box 15793, 1001 NG Amsterdam, The Netherlands; email: loet at leydesdorff.net; * corresponding author [2] Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge, National Research University Higher School of Economics (NRU HSE), 20 Myasnitskaya St., Moscow, 101000, Russia; and School of Economics and Management, Far Eastern Federal University, 8, Sukhanova St., Vladivostok 690990, Russia; inga.iva at mail.ru -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From j.s.katz at sussex.ac.uk Wed Jun 8 16:29:50 2016 From: j.s.katz at sussex.ac.uk (Sylvan Katz) Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 14:29:50 -0600 Subject: [Sigmetrics] What is a complex innovation system? Message-ID: <21cbb27c-5449-a164-78df-07ee7f06782c@sussex.ac.uk> What is a complex innovation system? J. Sylvan Katz Innovation systems are sometimes referred to as complex systems, something that is intuitively understood but poorly defined. A complex system dynamically evolves in non-linear ways giving it unique properties that distinguish it from other systems. In particular, a common signature of complex systems is scale-invariant emergent properties. A scale-invariant property can be identified because it is solely described by a power law function, f(x) = kx^? , where the exponent, ?, is a measure of scale-invariance. The focus of this paper is to describe and illustrate that innovation systems have properties of a complex adaptive system. In particular scale-invariant emergent properties indicative of their complex nature that can be quantified and used to inform public policy. The global research system is an example of an innovation system. Peer-reviewed publications containing knowledge are a characteristic output. Citations or references to these articles are an indirect measure of the impact the knowledge has on the research community. Peer-reviewed papers indexed in Scopus and in the Web of Science were used as data sources to produce measures of sizes and impact. These measures are used to illustrate how scale-invariant properties can be identified and quantified. It is demonstrated that the distribution of impact has a reasonable likelihood of being scale-invariant with scaling exponents that tended toward a value of less than 3.0 with the passage of time and decreasing group sizes. Scale-invariant correlations are shown between the evolution of impact and size with time and between field impact and sizes at points in time. The recursive or self-similar nature of scale-invariance suggests that any smaller innovation system within the global research system is likely to be complex with scale-invariant properties too. Katz, J. Sylvan. (2016). What Is a Complex Innovation System? PLoS ONE, 11(6), e0156150. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156150 http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0156150 -- Sylvan Katz Associate Faculty http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/sylvank/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Registration is free for all participants, although space is limited. We look forward to seeing you in Leiden! Sarah de Rijcke, Bj?rn Hammarfelt & Alex Rushforth -- Bj?rn Hammarfelt, PhD Lektor / Senior lecturer Biblioteksh?gskolan / Swedish School of Library and Information Science H?gskolan i Bor?s / University of Bor?s Visiting scholar at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) Leiden University E-mail:bjorn.hammarfelt at hb.se;b.m.s.hammarfelt at cwts.leidenuniv.nl Work: 033-435 40 00 Cell: (0046)-737277921 http://www.hb.se/Forskning/Forskare/Hammarfelt-Bjorn/ www.bibliometri.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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To ensure a high quality of GESIS services WTS is carrying out research in applied Computer Science, in particular in the fields Web Science, Semantic Web, Linked Open Data and Information Retrieval. In the DFG-funded project "Extraction of Citations from PDF Documents (EXCITE)" [1] we develop together with our project partner the WeST institute at University Koblenz-Landau (Prof. Steffen Staab) a platform to extract literature references from full texts and further process this data into linked data. For the department WTS at our location in Cologne, we are looking for a Research Associate (Doctoral candidate) (f/m) in Information Extraction/ Information Filtering (salary group TV-L EG 13, 100%, limited to 24 month) starting on September 1, 2016. Your tasks will be: * Development of data extraction techniques (extraction of literature references/citations) from PDF files, * Conception and development of web service APIs for citation extraction, * Implementation of information filtering and data linking methods, * Integration of the extracted data in productive information systems, * Publication of project results as Linked Data and * Evaluation of the techniques / process pipeline and publication of the project results. Your profile: * Excellent university degree in computer science or comparable field, * Solid experience in software development in Java, Web- and XML-technologies, data-base and search technologies, * Very good knowledge and experience in text mining technologies and recent search engine technologies (e.g. SOLR) and with Digital Libraries, * Knowledge in Perl Programming Language desired, * Knowledge in the development of portal and discovery systems desired, * Knowledge in the further development of Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques desired, * High degree of problem solving skills and distinct communication skills and team capabilities and * Good knowledge in spoken and written German and English. GESIS guarantees that guidelines regarding employment laws for the disabled and handicapped as well as laws and regulations governing part-time employment will be observed. GESIS promotes the professional equality for women and men and is certified by the European work & family audit. For further information concerning job description please contact Dr. Philipp Mayr under telephone +49 (0)221-47694-533 or via Email philipp.mayr at gesis.org. We only process online applications. Please apply her until July 04, 2016 The number is WTS-37. [1] http://www.gesis.org/forschung/drittmittelprojekte/projektuebersicht-drittmittel/excite/ -- Dr. Philipp Mayr Team Leader GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8, D-50667 K?ln, Germany Tel: + 49 (0) 221 / 476 94 -533 Email: philipp.mayr at gesis.org Web: http://www.gesis.org Become a sowiport user! Register here: http://sowiport.gesis.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ipe at informatik.uni-kiel.de Mon Jun 13 15:24:51 2016 From: ipe at informatik.uni-kiel.de (Isabella Peters) Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 21:24:51 +0200 Subject: [Sigmetrics] #eosc Call for Evidence: Next-generation altmetrics - Responsible metrics and evaluation for open science Message-ID: <002b01d1c5a9$4385c480$ca914d80$@informatik.uni-kiel.de> Next-generation altmetrics: responsible metrics and evaluation for open science *************************************************************** Call for evidence #eosc #opensciencecloud - Please distribute widely! *************************************************************** As a contribution to its Open Science Policy Platform (http://ec.europa.eu/research/openscience/index.cfm?pg=open-science-policy-p latform), the European Commission has recently established an expert group to advise on the role of metrics and altmetrics in the development of its agenda for open science and research. This group is keen to consult widely and draw on the knowledge and experience of a range of stakeholders. This call is an invitation for you to contribute evidence, insights and analysis that can inform the group?s work, and strengthen its findings and recommendations, which will be published towards the end of 2016. This website https://ec.europa.eu/research/openscience/index.cfm?pg=altmetrics_eg sets out a brief rationale for the expert group?s work, within the context of the Open Science agenda, details its members and terms of reference, and highlights some specific questions and topics, on which it would welcome input. Please send responses to RTD-Open-Science at ec.europa.eu by 16:00 on 13 July 2016. We will consider all responses received by this deadline. Evidence should be provided in the form of a short position statement (3 pages maximum). Please make it clear whether you are responding as an individual or on behalf of an organisation, and your role within the open science agenda. If you have any queries about the work of the group, please also contact us at RTD- Open-Science at ec.europa.eu. Thank you for any contribution you can make to our deliberations. Yours sincerely, Professor James Wilsdon Chair, European Commission Expert Group on Altmetrics (and Judit Bar-Ilan, Robert Frodeman, Elisabeth Lex, Isabella Peters, and Paul Wouters) *** Prof. Dr. Isabella Peters Professor of Web Science Kiel University (CAU Kiel) Institute for Computer Science Department Web Science (R. 1105) Christian-Albrechts-Platz 4 D-24118 Kiel T: +49 431 880-7286 E: ipe at informatik.uni-kiel.de Web: http://www.ws.informatik.uni-kiel.de/en/research ZBW Leibniz Information Center for Economics D?sternbrooker Weg 120 D-24105 Kiel T: +49-431-8814-623 E: i.peters at zbw.eu Web: http://www.zbw.eu/en/research/web-science -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From anupdas2072 at gmail.com Thu Jun 16 06:04:44 2016 From: anupdas2072 at gmail.com (anup kumar das) Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 15:34:44 +0530 Subject: [Sigmetrics] Journal of Scientometric Research - JSCIRES 5(1), 2016 issue is now online. Message-ID: [Apologies for the cross-posting] *Journal of Scientometric Research, Vol 5, Issue 1, Jan-Apr, 2016* *http://jscires.org/v5/i1 * *(An Open Access Journal, indexed with DOAJ)* *Editorial* *JSCIRES is now Published by EManuscript (A Publishing division of Phcog.Net) & Manuscript Submission made easy * Mueen Ahmed KK *Editorial Note by Editor-in-Chief* Sujit Bhattacharya *Research Articles* *What is the Required Level of Data Cleaning? A Research Evaluation Case* Peter van den Besselaar and Ulf Sandstr?m *A Longitudinal Metric Analysis of Course-subjects to Reveal the Evolution of a Discipline: Changes in the Teaching Frequency and Ratio of Courses in Law Schools in the United States over 80 years * Peter A. Hook *Annual Journal Citation Indices: A Comparative Study* Abdul Khaleque, Arnab Chatterjee, Parongama Sen *Ebola virus: A Scientometric Study of World Research Publications* Raj Kumar Bhardwaj *North-South BioDiscovery Research Collaboration of Indonesian Sponge and Soft Coral : A Bibliographic Analysis of Publications Over the Last Two Decades * Hedi Indra Januar *Emerging Structure of Stem Cell Research in India: An Analysis of Publication Output, 1990-2014 * Arpana Pandey and Pranav N. Desai *Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science: A Scientometric Profile* Chandran Velmurugan and Natarajan Radhakrishnan *A Scientometric Analysis of Research in Recommender Systems* Pranav Waila, Vivek Kumar Singh and Manoj Kumar Singh *Research Note* *A New Method for Evaluating Author?s Scientific Impact by using an Eigenfactor Derived Scoring system Sorin Hostiuc and Ionu Negoi* *Book Review* *Research Evaluation Metrics* Raj Kumar Bhardwaj *Nucleus and Nation: Scientists, International Networks, and Power in India* Hemant Kumar *Understanding the Development of Scholarly Metrics in a Networked Society* Anup Kumar Das *Commentary* *Evaluation of Content Pertinence through Citation Count* Adeleke Victor Adedayo -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From isidro.aguillo at cchs.csic.es Fri Jun 17 02:27:24 2016 From: isidro.aguillo at cchs.csic.es (Isidro F. Aguillo) Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 08:27:24 +0200 Subject: [Sigmetrics] Bibliometrics of a Spanish Journal as a tool for survival In-Reply-To: <2402b7b5-85c4-b39f-8f0f-6a0588621096@cchs.csic.es> References: <2402b7b5-85c4-b39f-8f0f-6a0588621096@cchs.csic.es> Message-ID: ARDEOLA, A SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY: COOPERATIVE SURVIVORSHIP WITHIN THE RED QUEEN GAME Mario D?AZ, Eulalia MORENO, Juan A. AMAT, Beatriz ARROYO, Emilio BARBA, Jacob GONZ?LEZ-SOL?S, Paola LAIOLO, Florentino DE LOPE, Santiago MERINO, Jos? Ram?n OBESO and Alberto VELANDO Ardeola 63(1), 2016, 3-14 DOI: 10.13157/arla.63.1.2016.ed1 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303897672_ARDEOLA_A_SCIENTIFIC_JOURNAL_OF_ORNITHOLOGY_COOPERATIVE_SURVIVORSHIP_WITHIN_THE_RED_QUEEN_GAME Ardeola is the scientific journal of the Spanish Ornithological Society. We analyze historical changes in citation, topics and foreign authorship of articles published in Ardeola from its first publication in 1954 up to last year, 2015, to test to what extent the persistence of the journal during the last 61 years has been due to support of authors, Society members, readers, editors or the whole ornithological community. Analyses were done within the context of the Red Queen game played by scientific journals competing for the best and more cited articles. The impact factor of Ardeola has increased from 1985 onwards both in absolute and relative terms. Thematic changes have followed trends of the general ornithological literature, without the journal specializing in particular topics or geographical regions. Foreign authorship decreased from 1954 up to the end of the 20th century, subsequently increasing again, a trend fueled by coverage by Current Contents and the JCR, the establishment of English as the language of publication and recent Internet access though the BioOne platform. Ardeola is a traditional scientific journal, backed by a scientific society, whose future will be guaranteed by a reputation for rigor and quality sought by authors, reviewers and editors, supported by the members of the Spanish Ornithological Society and retaining its original objective: ?to be a journal at the level of the best?, looking for a strong collaboration with foreign authors to promote the benefit of the Ornithology? -- ************************************************************** Isidro F. Aguillo Dr. Honoris Causa Universitas Indonesia Dr. Honoris Causa National Research Nuclear University Moscow Editor Rankings Web Cybermetrics Lab - Scimago Group, IPP-CSIC Madrid. SPAIN isidro.aguillo at csic.es ORCID 0000-0001-8927-4873 ResearcherID: A-7280-2008 Scholar Citations SaCSbeoAAAAJ Twitter @isidroaguillo Rankings webometrics.info *************************************************************** --- El software de antivirus Avast ha analizado este correo electr?nico en busca de virus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus From obinnaojemeni at yahoo.com Fri Jun 17 10:02:03 2016 From: obinnaojemeni at yahoo.com (obinna Ojemeni) Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 14:02:03 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Sigmetrics] State of Open Access in Nigeria: The Science Open Interview 2016 References: <504198248.236667.1466172123243.JavaMail.yahoo.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <504198248.236667.1466172123243.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Dear ALL, Please check out my interview on the state of Open Access in Nigeria by Science Open. The state of Open Access in Nigeria: Let?s stop talking, and start doing! ? Obinna Ojemeni | | | | | | | | | | | The state of Open Access in Nigeria: Let?s stop talking, and start doing! ?... Open Science is a global issue. This series has so far highlighted perspectives from our open science stars from... | | | | -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Some evidence and a call for information Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Some of you might find interest in our latest post on the CWTS blog, in which we discuss journal citation cartels and citation stacking: https://www.cwts.nl/blog?article=n-q2w2b4 We hope this post stirs up some discussions and we encourage you to share any information or opinions you may have on the topic. Philippe Mongeon PhD candidate ?cole de biblioth?conomie et des sciences de l'information Universit? de Montr?al philippe.mongeon at umontreal.ca http://crc.ebsi.umontreal.ca/equipe/philippe-mongeon/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Call for Participation and Save the Date for Bibliometrics and Research Assessment: A Symposium for Librarians and Information Professionals: Co-sponsored by the NIH Library and SLA Maryland Chapter Join us on October 31 and November 1, 2016 for Bibliometrics and Research Assessment: A Symposium for Librarians and Information Professionals at the main National Institutes of Health (NIH) campus in Bethesda, MD for a two-day symposium on research assessment by librarians and information professionals. This symposium intends to bring together librarians and information professionals from academic, corporate, and government institutions to share ideas and best practices around the production and delivery of research assessment services. Day 1 will feature keynote speakers discussing current trends in the fields of bibliometrics and research assessment, a poster session featuring librarians and information professionals who provide these services, and a group discussion on the role of librarians in research assessment. Day 2 will feature a hands-on training session where participants will learn how to perform basic bibliometric analyses, including measuring citation impact and creating various kinds of bibliometric networks. If you are a librarian or information professional already active in this area, please submit a proposal for the poster session. Send the title and abstract of your proposed poster to Chris Belter (christopher.belter at nih.gov) and Ya-Ling Lu (ya-ling.lu at nih.gov) by July 1, 2016. Proposals will be peer-reviewed and notifications of accepted posters will be made by July 15. Registration and additional information about the symposium will be provided over the next couple of months. If you have any questions about this event, please contact Chris Belter (christopher.belter at nih.gov) and Ya-Ling Lu (ya-ling.lu at nih.gov). Chris Belter, MLS Bibliometrics Informationist National Institutes of Health Library Division of Library Services Office of Research Services Bldg 10, Rm 1L09G, MSC 1150 Bethesda, MD 20892 USA Tel: (301) 451-5861 Email: Christopher.Belter at nih.gov Stay connected with the NIH Library NIH Library: http://nihlibrary.nih.gov Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nihlibrary Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/nihlib ___________________________________ Your Partner in Research -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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For further detail see: http://www.his.se/en/about-us/Job-opportunities/job-opportunities/Postdocs/Post-Doctor-in-Informatics-with-Specialization-in-Machine-Learning-HS-2016600-application-deadline-August-12th-2016/ Best regards, Alexander -- Alexander Karlsson, PhD in Computer Science, University of Sk?vde, P.O. Box 408, SE-541 28 Sk?vde, Sweden, Telephone: +46 500 44 83 32, Email: alexander.karlsson at his.se -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From julia.barrett at ucd.ie Tue Jun 28 07:24:03 2016 From: julia.barrett at ucd.ie (Julia Barrett) Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 12:24:03 +0100 Subject: [Sigmetrics] Scholarly Communications Librarian Vacancy in University College Dublin (UCD) Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, UCD Library has a vacancy for a Scholarly Communications Librarian; please see details at: http://www.ucd.ie/hr/jobvacancies/ This is a permanent position for which the closing date for applications is 5pm on Friday 15th July. If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact me. Best regards, Julia ************************************** Julia Barrett, Research Services Manager, UCD Library, Belfield, Dublin 4 Tel: +353 (01 )716 7356 Email: julia.barrett at ucd.ie -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: