[Sigmetrics] Fully funded PhD studentships in scientometrics at the Knowledge Media institute, UK

[Petr Knoth]

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,

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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