From timothy.d.bowman at wayne.edu Tue Aug 1 15:36:40 2017 From: timothy.d.bowman at wayne.edu (Timothy Bowman) Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2017 19:36:40 +0000 Subject: [Sigmetrics] =?utf-8?q?Call_for_Abstracts=3A_METRICS_2017_?= =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=93_ASIS=26T_WORKSHOP_ON_INFORMETRICS_AND_SCIENTOMETRICS_?= =?utf-8?q?RESEARCH=2C_Oct_27=2C_2017=2C_Hyatt_Regency=2C_Arlington=2C_VA?= Message-ID: METRICS 2017 ? ASIS&T WORKSHOP ON INFORMETRICS AND SCIENTOMETRICS RESEARCH Workshop sponsored by ASIS&T SIG/MET ASIS&T 2017 Annual Meeting Friday, October 27, 2017, 9:00am?5:00pm at the Hyatt Regency, Arlington, VA CALL FOR ABSTRACTS The ASIS&T Special Interest Group for Metrics (SIG/MET) invites contributions to the METRICS 2017 workshop, which will be held in Washington D.C. (Crystal City, Virginia) prior to the ASIS&T Annual Meeting in October. The workshop will provide an opportunity to present and discuss metrics-related research, including the latest theories, methods, case studies, and tools relevant to the fields of informetrics, scientometrics, bibliometrics, altmetrics, as well as information retrieval. The workshop continues the successful SIG/MET workshop series held annually since 2011 and is envisioned as a combination of short presentations, posters, and open discussions among experienced researchers, young academics, and practitioners. We invite abstracts related, but not limited to: * New indicators and methods * Applications of indicators * Theories of the publication process, citations, and social media in scholarly communication * Metrics in a library setting * Open access, open science, and metrics * Tool development * Limitations, misuses, and adverse effects of metrics * Interdisciplinarity * Visualizations of scholarly impact measures and analyses SIG/MET is the Special Interest Group for the measurement of information production and use. It encourages the development and networking of all those interested in the measurement of information and, thus, encompasses not only bibliometrics and scientometrics, but informetrics in a larger sense including measurement of the (social) Web and the Internet, applications running on these platforms, and metrics related to network analysis, visualization, and scholarly communication. Submissions Submissions should be in the form of a two-page extended abstract using APA style. Conceptual, empirical, and works-in-progress will be accepted for submission. Where appropriate, up to three figures/tables can be provided. Two types of submissions will be accepted: posters and presentations. Please indicate the type of submission in bold at the beginning of your submission. The requirements for both formats are the same. Posters will provide scholars with a format for presenting works-in-progress and works that are best presented visually. Every poster will be introduced in a poster pitch-format. The presentations will be an opportunity for researchers and professionals to present and discuss research that is more fully developed. The abstracts of accepted papers and posters, as well as the presentation slides, will be published on figshare (http://figshare.com). Figshare allocates DOIs to uploaded content and each publication will be linked from the SIG/MET website to enhance visibility and retrievability of presented research. Please submit as a PDF to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigmet2017 Each submission will be reviewed and brief feedback will be given in narrative format. Awards This year we are proud to announce sponsorships by Elsevier (https://www.elsevier.com/), Altmetric.com (www.altmetric.com), and Figshare (https://figshare.com/). Altmetric.com and Figshare have kindly offered to award cash prize for the best overall paper. The best paper will be selected by a committee from all accepted (non-student) workshop papers regardless of their topic. Elsevier has kindly offered to award a cash prize for the best student papers. The first author of the paper entered into this contest must be a full-time student at the time of submission, irrespective of ASIS&T or SIG/MET membership. NOTE: If you qualify and you want to be eligible for the student paper award, please add the ?STUDENTPAPER? keyword to your EasyChair submission form in the KEYWORDS form field. The winners of both awards will be decided by a double-blind peer review process from the accepted submissions that are to be presented in Washington D.C. The awards will be decided before presentations take place, but the authors must present at the workshop to qualify. Please submit as a PDF to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigmet2017 Important Dates Submissions due: August 31, 2017 Notifications: September 15, 2017 Workshop: Friday, October 27, 2017, 9:00am ?5:00pm Registration fees The registration fee (early bird) includes wifi and coffee breaks: $215 (ASIS&T members) - $240 (non-members) early-bird price Organizers (see our website at: https://www.asist.org/groups/metrics-met/) Timothy D. Bowman (Wayne State University, Detroit, USA) Neil Smalheiser (University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA) Stefanie Haustein (University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada) With questions, please contact Timothy D Bowman (Chair, SIG/MET) timothy.d.bowman at wayne.edu -- Timothy D Bowman Assistant Professor, SLIS Wayne State University [cid:image001.png at 01D30ADB.F7A9C3D0] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 19901 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: From susanna.nykyri at helsinki.fi Wed Aug 2 09:45:20 2017 From: susanna.nykyri at helsinki.fi (Nykyri, Susanna K) Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 13:45:20 +0000 Subject: [Sigmetrics] 22nd Nordic Workshop on Bibliometrics and Research Policy - CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS now open Message-ID: Hi all, I am glad to inform you that call for papers of NWB 2017 is now open. Deadline for abstract and poster submissions is 1st of September 2017. Hope to see you in Helsinki! Kind regards, Susanna Nykyri, on behalf of organizing committee CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS (http://blogs.helsinki.fi/nwb-2017/call-for-papers/) 22nd Nordic Workshop on Bibliometrics and Research Policy Helsinki, Finland 9-10 November 2017 Pre-workshop: Researcher Visibility 8 November 2017 Abstract and poster submission The participants who wish to present a research paper or a poster are called for a max. 250-word abstract of their presentation. We are in particular seeking novel ideas or work-in-progress of interest to a Nordic audience and if possible policy-related. You can offer either a paper or a poster. Papers will be presented over a workshop presentation (ca. 20 min.), while posters will be showcased in a poster booster session followed by a free-form discussion. The posters will be on display in the hallways of the workshop site. Please send your abstract by filling this form. Deadline for submission of abstracts is the 1st of September 2017. The authors will be notified of acceptance by the 30th of September 2017. For further information, please contact: Reetta Muhonen reetta.muhonen (at) uta.fi ABOUT THE WORKSHOP http://blogs.helsinki.fi/nwb-2017/ Keynote speakers o Stefanie Haustein (University of Ottawa, Canada) Open science, social media and the scientific reward system o Kim Holmberg (University of Turku, Finland) Measuring researchers? online visibility o Jesper Schneider (Aarhus University, Denmark) ?Science in Crisis?? The current challenges of research integrity in the ?soft? empirical sciences and how to study them The conference venue The House of Science and Letters (in Finnish: Tieteiden talo) Kirkkokatu 6, Helsinki, Finland Workshop organizers o NWB?2017 is organised by a consortium consisting of the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies (TSV), o Helsinki University Library (HULib) and o University of Tampere Research Centre for Knowledge, Science, Technology and Innovation Studies (TaSTI) . Steering Group o Gunnar Sivertsen (gunnar.sivertsen(at)nifu.no) o Birger Larsen (birger(at)hum.aau.dk) o Camilla Hertil Lindel?w (camilla.hertil.lindelow(at)sh.se) o Susanna Nykyri (susanna.nykyri(at)helsinki.fi) o Sigur?ur ?li Sigur?sson (sigurdur.sigurdsson(at)rannis.is) Registration Deadline for registration is the 23rd October. Please note that at least one of the authors has to register to the conference. You can register here. The workshop is also open to participants without a presentation. Costs of participation, travel and accommodation Participation to the workshop is free. Travel and accommodation have to be arranged and financed by the participants themselves. Susanna Nykyri PhD, Information Specialist Research Services Helsinki University Library Tel/Mobile: +358 504489047 http://www.helsinki.fi/library -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Philipp.Mayr-Schlegel at gesis.org Wed Aug 2 11:53:36 2017 From: Philipp.Mayr-Schlegel at gesis.org (Mayr-Schlegel, Philipp) Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 15:53:36 +0000 Subject: [Sigmetrics] CFP 2nd Workshop on Mining Scientific Papers: Computational Linguistics and Bibliometrics (CLBib-2017) @ISSI2017 Message-ID: == Call for Papers == You are invited to participate in the upcoming Second Workshop on Mining Scientific Papers: Computational Linguistics and Bibliometrics (CLBib-2017), to be held as part of the 16th International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics Conference (ISSI-2017, October 16-20, Wuhan, China, http://www.issi2017.org/). The call for papers is available at: https://easychair.org/cfp/CLBib2017 === Important Dates === - Abstract registration deadline: September 3, 2017 - Submission deadline: September 10, 2017 - Notification of acceptance: September 30, 2017 - Camera-ready papers: October 6, 2017 - Workshop: October 16-20, 2017 (exact date to be confirmed), Wuhan, China === Scope and Aim of the Workshop === The open access movement in scientific publishing and search engines like Google Scholar have made scientific articles more broadly accessible. During the last decade, the availability of scientific papers in full text has become more and more widespread thanks to the growing number of publications on online platforms such as ArXiv and CiteSeer. The efforts to provide articles in machine-readable formats and the rise of Open Access publishing have resulted in a number of standardized formats for scientific papers (such as NLM-JATS, TEI, DocBook), full-text datasets for research experiments (PubMed, JSTOR, etc.) and corpora (iSearch, etc.). At the same time, research in the field of Natural Language Processing have provided a number of open source tools for versatile text processing (e.g. NLTK, Mallet, OpenNLP, CoreNLP, Gate, CiteSpace). Scientific papers are highly structured texts and display specific properties related to their references but also argumentative and rhetorical structure. Recent research in this field has concentrated on the construction of ontologies for citations and scientific articles (e.g. CiTO, LinkedScience1) and studies of the distribution of references . However, up to now full-text mining efforts are rarely used to provide data for bibliometric analyses. While bibliometrics traditionally relies on the analysis of metadata of scientific papers (see e.g. a recent special issue on Combining Bibliometrics and Information Retrieval, Mayr & Scharnhorst, 2015), we will explore the ways full-text processing of scientific papers and linguistic analyses can play. With this workshop we like to discuss novel approaches and provide insights into scientific writing that can bring new perspectives to understand both the nature of citations and the nature of scientific articles. The possibility to enrich metadata by the full-text processing of papers offers new fields of application to bibliometrics studies. Working with full text allows us to go beyond metadata used in bibliometrics. Full text offers a new field of investigation, where the major problems arise around the organization and structure of text, the extraction of information and its representation on the level of metadata. Furthermore, the study of contexts around in-text citations offers new perspectives related to the semantic dimension of citations. The analyses of citation contexts and the semantic categorization of publications will allow us to rethink co-citation networks, bibliographic coupling and other bibliometric techniques. The workshop aims to bring together researchers in bibliometrics and computational linguistics in order to study the ways bibliometrics can benefit from large-scale text analytics and sense mining of scientific papers, thus exploring the interdisciplinarity of Bibliometrics and Natural Language Processing. How can we enhance author network analysis and bibliometrics using data obtained by text analytics? What insights can NLP provide on the structure of scientific writing, on citation networks, and on in-text citation analysis? === Goals of the workshop === The workshop aims to bring together researchers in bibliometrics and computational linguistics in order to study the ways bibliometrics can benefit from large-scale text analytics and sense mining of scientific papers, thus exploring the interdisciplinarity of Bibliometrics and Natural Language Processing. The first edition of this workshop, co-located with ISSI 2015, attracted more than 70 participants and six full paper contributions, showing a large interest in these topics in the community. The goal of this second edition of the workshop is to continue to encourage the collaboration between these two domains and to answer questions like: How can we enhance author network analysis and Bibliometrics using data obtained by text analytics? What insights can NLP provide on the structure of scientific writing, on citation networks, and on in-text citation analysis? See the proceedings of the first edition of the workshop: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1384/. === Submission Guidelines === All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. All submissions must be written in English up to 6 pages and following the ISSI 2017 Template for full papers. Submissions require registration as a user in the EasyChair system. Please go to to register. All submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Please be aware of the fact that at least one author per paper needs to register for the workshop and attend the workshop to present the work. The accepted papers will be invited for a publication in a special issue of the Journal Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics . === Workshop Topics === Topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - Linguistic modeling and discourse analysis for scientific texts - User interfaces, text representations and visualizations - Structure of scientific articles (discourse / argumentative / rhetorical / social) - Scientific corpora and paper standards - Act of citations, in-text citations and Content Citation Analysis - Co-citation and bibliographic coupling - Text enhanced bibliographic coupling - Terminology extraction - Text mining and information extraction - Scientific information retrieval - Ontological descriptions of scientific content - Knowledge extraction The workshop will involve research project reports, system demonstrations and a panel discussion on the perspectives for the development of new text analytics approaches for bibliometrics. === Organizing committee === Iana Atanassova, Centre Tesni?re - CRIT, Universit? de Bourgogne Franche-Comt?, France Marc Bertin, ELICO, Universit? Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France Philipp Mayr, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany === Programme Committee (to be confirmed) === Lee Giles (College of Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State University, USA) Yves Gingras (CIRST, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al, Canada) Vincent Lariviere (EBSI, Universit? de Montr?al, Canada) Stefanie Haustein (EBSI, Universit? de Montr?al, Canada) Timothy Bowman (EBSI, Universit? de Montr?al, Canada) Cassidy R. Sugimoto (School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, USA) Sylviane Cardey (Centre Tesniere - CRIT, Universit? de Bourgogne Franche-Comte, France) Sherifa Boukacem (Elico, Universit? Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France) Guillaume Cabanac (IRIT, Universit? de Toulouse, France) Beatrice Milard (Universit? de Toulouse 2, France) Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton, England) Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton, England) Tomi Kauppinen (Aalto University, Finland) Roman Kern (Know-Center, Austria) Angelo Di Iorio (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy) === Contact === All questions about submissions should be emailed to iana.atanassova (at) univ-fcomte.fr. -- 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In this brief communication, we demonstrate these options using the papers of Eugene Garfield (1925-2017) in Scopus for main-path analysis. The two historiograms are considerably different: unlike the WoS set, the networked connections between the time lines are sparse in the representation of the Scopus data; the secondary documents (e.g., editorials in Current Contents) not processed in Scopus, but included in WoS enrich the representation. Furthermore, HistCite? has an option to export the citation network as a Pajek file that can be read by most network analysis and visualization programs. Garfield?s texts are centered by him as a personality and entrepreneur in different domains more than intellectually, although there are a number of recurring themes. Our own main paths are shaped along a line along which components indicate longer-term projects. 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URL: From ipe at informatik.uni-kiel.de Mon Aug 7 02:14:50 2017 From: ipe at informatik.uni-kiel.de (Isabella Peters) Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2017 08:14:50 +0200 Subject: [Sigmetrics] 2nd CFP: Springer CCIS Series Workshop - Altmetrics for Research Outputs Measurement and Scholarly Information Management (AROSIM 2018) Message-ID: <001d01d30f44$7b8d31c0$72a79540$@informatik.uni-kiel.de> [Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS 2018 Workshop on Altmetrics for Research Outputs Measurement and Scholarly Information Management (AROSIM 2018) AROSIM 2018 is a full day workshop taking place on Friday January 26, 2018 in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Workshop website: http://www.altmetrics.ntuchess.com/AROSIM2018 Paper submission link: https://ocs.springer.com/ocs/home/AROSIM2018 Important Dates: * Submissions Due - August 25, 2017 * Notification - October 24, 2017 * Camera Ready Version of Papers Due - November 17, 2017 * AROSIM 2018 Full Day Workshop - January 26, 2018 The main objective of the AROSIM 2018 workshop is to create a forum to disseminate the latest works on altmetrics for measuring research impact and scholarly information management. The workshop will investigate how social media based metrics along with traditional and non-traditional metrics can advance the state-of-the-art in measuring research outputs. The goals of the workshop are: * To promote the exchange of ideas and encourage potential collaborations amongst scholars from both computer science and information science disciplines, as well as with librarians and industry * To investigate challenges and explore solutions for cross-metric exploration and validation, while considering disciplinary differences related to measuring research outputs * To showcase innovative altmetric tools, methods, and datasets * To provide a discussion platform for the academic communities, librarians, policy makers, publishers, as well as grant funding agencies We hope this workshop will help to inspire new research ideas as well as encourage future collaborations amongst the different disciplines and industry stakeholders. A Best Paper Award, sponsored by Altmetric, will be given to the author(s) of the most outstanding work. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Altmetrics, informetrics, scientometrics, webometrics * Non-traditional metrics * Article-level metrics * Traditional bibliometric approaches and metrics * Scholarly information management * Design of Altmetrics systems and tools * Tools and methods for cross-metric validation and visualization * Altmetrics data modelling and datasets * Bibliometrics/Altmetrics-based information retrieval and recommender systems * Altmetrics-related information analysis * Models and theories of scholarly communication * Social network analysis of scholarly communication * Impact metrics for diverse research outputs, e.g., source code, research datasets * Altmetrics for university/school libraries * Advances in digital repositories * Altmetrics and digital libraries * Altmetrics and big scholarly data * Critical discussions on (alt)metrics and research evaluation * Perspectives from policy makers, grant funding agencies, libraries, and publishers Keynote Speakers: 1) Mike Thelwall, Professor of Information Science, University of Wolverhampton, UK 2) TBC Submission Instructions: We invite submission of ten pages (including references), representing original research, preliminary findings, new research proposals, position papers and also opinion papers. Student papers are also invited. All papers will be peer reviewed (double-blind) by the program committee and judged by their relevance to the workshop, especially to the main themes identified above, and their potential to generate discussion. All submissions must be formatted according to the latest Springer CCIS template available at http://www.springer.com/series/7899. Please submit your paper(s) in PDF format. Submissions must describe work that is not previously published, not accepted for publication elsewhere, and not currently under review elsewhere. All submissions must be in English. The submissions can be made at this link https://ocs.springer.com/ocs/home/AROSIM2018 Please note that at least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register for the workshop and present the paper in-person. Organizers: * Yin-Leng Theng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore * Edie Rasmussen, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada * Yonggang Wen, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore * Robert J?schke, The University of Sheffield, UK * Isabella Peters, ZBW Leibniz Information Center for Economics and Christian Albrechts University Kiel, Germany * Yew Boon Chia, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore * Samantha Ang, Lee Wee Nam Library, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore * Mojisola Erdt, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore * Aravind Sesagiri Raamkumar, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Workshop Program Committee: * Anup Kumar Das, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India * Aparna Basu, South Asian University, India * Ehsan Mohammadi, Northwestern University, USA * Hamed Alhoori, Northern Illinois University, USA * Joanna Sin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore * Juan Gorraiz, University of Vienna, Austria * Judit Bar-Ilan, Bar-Ilan University, Israel * Kazunari Sugiyama, National University of Singapore, Singapore * Kim Holmberg, University of Turku, Finland * Kuang-hua Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan * Li Xuemei, York University, Canada * Lutz Bornmann, Max Planck Society, Germany * Michael Khor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore * Mike Taylor, Digital Science, UK * Mike Thelwall, University of Wolverhampton, UK * Paul Groth, Elsevier Labs, USA * Philipp Mayr-Schlegel, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany * Schubert Foo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore * Stefanie Haustein, University of Montreal, Canada * Sun Aixin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore * Sybille Hinze, DZHW GmbH, Germany * Victoria Uren , Aston University, UK * Vincent Larivi?re , Universit? de Montr?al * Winson Peng, Michigan State University, USA * Xiao Xiaokui, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore` * Xin Shuai, Indiana University Bloomington, USA * Ying-Hsang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Contact: Please direct all your queries to Moji ( Mojisola.Erdt at ntu.edu.sg) and Aravind ( aravind002 at ntu.edu.sg) for help. Workshop website: http://www.altmetrics.ntuchess.com/AROSIM2018 *** Prof. Dr. Isabella Peters Professor of Web Science (CAU Kiel University) 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 Kiel University (CAU Kiel) Institute for Computer Science Department Web Science (R. 506) Hermann-Rodewald-Str. 3 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ipe at informatik.uni-kiel.de Sat Aug 12 04:22:28 2017 From: ipe at informatik.uni-kiel.de (Isabella Peters) Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2017 10:22:28 +0200 Subject: [Sigmetrics] Impact School: Science Transfer in the 21st century, 29 November - 1 December, Berlin Message-ID: <007801d31344$244daad0$6ce90070$@informatik.uni-kiel.de> ***apologies for crossposting*** Dear colleagues, the Leibniz Research Alliance Science 2.0 invites you to apply for our ?Impact School: Science Transfer in the 21st century?. The impact school is a three-days training programme tailored to up-and-coming researchers that want to learn the skills to maximize their research impact. It responds to the development that in times of digitization, ever-shorter innovation cycles, and increasing doubt in the scientific authority, the question appears what scientist can do to foster knowledge transfer und thus to increase the impact of their research. The sessions will be held by experts in their respective fields and cover the three dimensions societal impact, economic impact, and political impact. The impact school takes place from 29 November to 1 December 2017 at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin. It is organised by mStats DS GmbH, the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), and the ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics. Further information for application can be found in the attached PDF or on our website: http://www.leibniz-science20.de/impactschool/ The deadline for the application is 30 September 2017. Please share this in your network. 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The Conference is intended for higher education faculty and research administration and support professionals, including: - Funding Agencies - Research Officers - Librarians - Publishers - Administrators The confirmed programme is now available online at www.transformingresearch.org and the following speakers have been confirmed: - George Santangelo, National Institutes of Health - Rachel Witsaman, PCORI - Robert Frodeman, University of North Texas - Kari Wojtanik, Susan G. Komen Foundation - Steve Fuller, Warwick University (UK) - J Britt Holbrook, New Jersey Institute of Technology Register now and join the discussion in Baltimore! Sincerely, Stacy Konkiel on behalf of the larger Transforming Research organizing committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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(Crystal City, Virginia) prior to the ASIS&T Annual Meeting in October. The workshop will provide an opportunity to present and discuss metrics-related research, including the latest theories, methods, case studies, and tools relevant to the fields of informetrics, scientometrics, bibliometrics, altmetrics, as well as information retrieval. The workshop continues the successful SIG/MET workshop series held annually since 2011 and is envisioned as a combination of short presentations, posters, and open discussions among experienced researchers, young academics, and practitioners. We invite abstracts related, but not limited to: * New indicators and methods * Applications of indicators * Theories of the publication process, citations, and social media in scholarly communication * Metrics in a library setting * Open access, open science, and metrics * Tool development * Limitations, misuses, and adverse effects of metrics * Interdisciplinarity * Visualizations of scholarly impact measures and analyses SIG/MET is the Special Interest Group for the measurement of information production and use. It encourages the development and networking of all those interested in the measurement of information and, thus, encompasses not only bibliometrics and scientometrics, but informetrics in a larger sense including measurement of the (social) Web and the Internet, applications running on these platforms, and metrics related to network analysis, visualization, and scholarly communication. Submissions Conceptual, empirical, and works-in-progress will be accepted for submission. Where appropriate, up to three figures/tables can be provided. Two types of submissions will be accepted: posters and presentations. Please indicate the type of submission in bold at the beginning of your submission. The requirements for both formats are the same. Posters will provide scholars with a format for presenting works-in-progress and works that are best presented visually. Every poster will be introduced in a poster pitch-format. The presentations will be an opportunity for researchers and professionals to present and discuss research that is more fully developed. The abstracts of accepted papers and posters, as well as the presentation slides, will be published on figshare (http://figshare.com). Figshare allocates DOIs to uploaded content and each publication will be linked from the SIG/MET website to enhance visibility and retrievability of presented research. Please submit as a PDF to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigmet2017 Each submission will be reviewed and brief feedback will be given in narrative format. Awards This year we are proud to announce sponsorships by Elsevier (https://www.elsevier.com/), Altmetric.com (www.altmetric.com), and Figshare (https://figshare.com/). Altmetric.com and Figshare have kindly offered to award cash prize for the best overall paper. The best paper will be selected by a committee from all accepted (non-student) workshop papers regardless of their topic. Elsevier has kindly offered to award a cash prize for the best student papers. The first author of the paper entered into this contest must be a full-time student at the time of submission, irrespective of ASIS&T or SIG/MET membership. NOTE: If you qualify and you want to be eligible for the student paper award, please add the ?STUDENTPAPER? keyword to your EasyChair submission form in the KEYWORDS form field. The winners of both awards will be decided by a double-blind peer review process from the accepted submissions that are to be presented in Washington D.C. The awards will be decided before presentations take place, but the authors must present at the workshop to qualify. Please submit as a PDF to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigmet2017 Important Dates Submissions due: August 31, 2017 Notifications: September 15, 2017 Workshop: Friday, October 27, 2017, 9:00am ?5:00pm Registration fees The registration fee (early bird) includes wifi and coffee breaks: $215 (ASIS&T members) - $240 (non-members) early-bird price Organizers (see our website at: https://www.asist.org/groups/metrics-met/) Timothy D. Bowman (Wayne State University, Detroit, USA) Neil Smalheiser (University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA) Stefanie Haustein (University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada) With questions, please contact Timothy D Bowman (Chair, SIG/MET) timothy.d.bowman at wayne.edu -- Timothy D Bowman Assistant Professor, SLIS Wayne State University [cid:image001.png at 01D31748.02E73F70] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 19901 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: From noyons at cwts.leidenuniv.nl Tue Aug 29 05:42:20 2017 From: noyons at cwts.leidenuniv.nl (Noijons, E.) Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 09:42:20 +0000 Subject: [Sigmetrics] CWTS Vacancy: bibliometric analyst Message-ID: <0F2C5B643FE2684D99E5B2BCCC1F631E7BDBE810@SPMXM07.VUW.leidenuniv.nl> Dear all, CWTS is looking for a new colleague. 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