From loet at leydesdorff.net Fri Mar 2 03:35:59 2018 From: loet at leydesdorff.net (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2018 08:35:59 +0000 Subject: [Sigmetrics] Self-organized Criticality as a Model of Scientific Revolutions and Change; preprint Message-ID: Discontinuities in Citation Relations among Journals: Self-organized Criticality as a Model of Scientific Revolutions and Change Using three-year moving averages of the complete Journal Citation Reports 1994-2016 of the Science Citation Index and the Social Sciences Citation Index (combined), we analyze links between citing and cited journals in terms of (1) whether discontinuities among the networks of consecutive years have occurred; (2) are these discontinuities relatively isolated or networked? (3) Can these discontinuities be used as indicators of novelty, change, and innovation in the sciences? We examine each of the N2 links among the N journals across the years. We find power-laws for the top 10,000 instances of change, which we suggest interpreting in terms of ?self-organized criticality?: co-evolutions of avalanches in aggregated citation relations and meta-stable states in the knowledge base can be expected to drive the sciences towards the edges of chaos. The flux of journal-journal citations in new manuscripts may generate an avalanche in the meta-stable networks, but one can expect the effects to remain local (for example, within a specialty). The avalanches can be of any size; they reorient the relevant citation environments by inducing a rewrite of history in the affected partitions. https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.00554 Loet Leydesdorff,*[1] <#_ftn1> Caroline S. 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The symposium will feature keynote presentations by leading bibliometrics researchers, poster sessions by librarians and information professionals showcasing their bibliometric activities, and training on gathering and analyzing bibliometric data. Registration, schedule, and additional event information will be available at: https://nihlibrary.nih.gov/bibsymp18. For questions about the event, contact bibsymp at nih.gov. Poster Submissions Being Accepted Now If you are a librarian or information professional already active in this area, we are now accepting proposals for the poster sessions. We welcome submissions on formal or informal bibliometric service programs, specific projects completed, or lessons learned in providing bibliometric services. The deadline for submission is May 1, 2018. Proposals will be peer-reviewed and notifications of accepted posters will be made by May 15, 2018. Poster submission: https://nihlibrary.nih.gov/services/bibliometrics/bibSymp18/poster-submission. 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Mark Neijssel, MSc, Bibliometric Consultant, Leiden University?s Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) Course Fee: ? 1535 (includes tuition, course materials, coffee breaks, lunches and dinners) Course Website: https://www.cwts.nl/training-education/bibliometrics-and-scientometrics-for-research-evaluation/northwestern-university After completing the course, you will be able to: ? Understand and interpret a wide range of publication- and citation-based statistics; ? Use the VOSviewer software developed at CWTS in a proficient manner to create your own professional bibliometric visualizations; and ? Reflect critically on proper and improper use of bibliometic and scientometric information in the evaluation of scientific research Registration: The registration link on the course website is open as of Wednesday, March 7, 2018 at 10:00 AM Central Time (CT) / 5:00 PM Central European Time (CET). Registration is first come, first serve. This course is hosted by Galter Health Sciences Library at Northwestern University. We hope you can join us! Karen Karen E. Gutzman Impact and Evaluation Librarian Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center 303 E. Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611 312.503.8121 office 312.503.1204 fax karen.gutzman at northwestern.edu orcid.org/0000-0001-6331-4451 feinberg.northwestern.edu galter.northwestern.edu [Feinberg School of Medicine] Remember to include a link to NUCATS grant UL1TR001422 in publications, grants and presentations, if you have used NUCATS services or resources. Learn how to link your research results here. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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KMi is located in Milton Keynes, 30 minutes by train from London. *Available PhD positions:* - Web-scale research analytics for identifying high performance and trends: data-driven approaches to scientometrics - Large-scale information extraction from unstructured textual resources - Large-scale real-time aggregation and synchronization of web & knowledge resources - Identifying and predicting research & innovation - Discovering facts to support or refute claims - Reproducibility of text and data mining workflows *Application deadline: 12**th** April* *We offer:* - A team of young, friendly and highly motivated colleagues, who are passionate about research. - A work environment that is well equipped with the newest hardware technology - Strong support for your personal development and career planning - Ability to publish and attend key conferences - An attractive work environment both within the research group and beyond - Collaboration with industry partners and excellent prospects of getting your work integrated in real-world applications - No teaching duties, 100% focus on research and development - Budget for new kit (typically Mac Pro, large screen, etc.) - Competitive funding *You bring:* - Master?s degree in Computer Science or related field (Bachelor degree in programs highly related to the advertised topic might be sufficient in few cases) - Ability to communicate ideas clearly both orally as well as in writing and fluency in English. - Good theoretical foundation and some practical experience with at least two of the following: data analysis/statistics, machine learning, natural language processing, information retrieval, semantic web. - Ability to design and prototype software solutions. - Solid programming skills. - Ability to analyse data in Python, R or Matlab. - Good knowledge and experience of working with and querying databases. - Good knowledge of the Linux environment (deployment, essential scripting, configuration, logging, etc.). - Willingness to learn new things every day and seek solutions to complex problems. - You are able and willing to relocate to the UK and carry out your research from within the Open University campus. Prospective candidates fulfilling the above criteria are encouraged to contact me to receive further details prior to official application. -- Dr Petr Knoth Senior Research Fellow Knowledge Media institute, The Open University Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, BUCKS, United Kingdom phone: +44 (0)1908 654548, Web: http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/member/petr-knoth, Twitter: @petrknoth -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From stacy at altmetric.com Tue Mar 13 18:51:08 2018 From: stacy at altmetric.com (Stacy Konkiel) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 17:51:08 -0500 Subject: [Sigmetrics] 2018 Altmetric Research Grant Now Open for Applications Message-ID: ** With apologies for cross-posting ** Dear Colleagues, We?re pleased to announce that the 2018 Altmetric Research Grant is now open for applications! Awarded annually, the grant provides up to ?1,500 ($1,900) to support a research project in altmetrics or a related topic that impacts the scholarly ecosystem. Anyone who has an idea and would not otherwise receive funding for the research from their employer or organization is welcome to apply. Previous awardees Dr Lauren Cadwallader (2016) and Dr Evan Goldstein (2017) conducted studies that focused on where, how and why academic articles were referenced in public policy and on Wikipedia. More information and details of how to apply can be found at https://www.altmetric.com/research-grant/ The deadline for submitting an application is 11pm GMT on the 20th of April. All completed applications will be reviewed by our expert panel, and we aim to announce the winner on the 8th of May. We look forward to receiving your applications! 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This is the third BIRNDL workshop, second at SIGIR, following a series of successful BIR workshops at ECIR and other premier IR venues. In conjunction with the BIRNDL workshop, we will also hold the 4th CL-SciSumm Shared Task in Scientific Document Summarization. Reports from the shared task systems will be featured as part of a session at the workshop. === Important Dates === - Submissions deadline: May 4, 2018 - Notification: May 25, 2018 - Camera Ready Contributions: June 25, 2018 - Workshop: July 12, 2018 in Ann Arbor Michigan, USA === Aim of the Workshop === The goal of the BIRNDL workshop at SIGIR is to engage the IR community about the open problems in academic search. Academic search refers to the large, cross-domain digital repositories which index research papers, such as the ACL Anthology, ArXiv, ACM Digital Library, IEEE database, Web of Science and Google Scholar. Currently, digital libraries collect and allow access to papers and their metadata --- including citations --- but mostly do not analyze the items they index. The scale of scholarly publications poses a challenge for scholars in their search for relevant literature. Finding relevant scholarly literature is the key theme of BIRNDL and sets the agenda for tools and approaches to be discussed and evaluated at the workshop. We would also like to address the need for established, standardized baselines, evaluation metrics and test collections. We invite papers and presentations that incorporate insights from IR, bibliometrics and NLP to develop new techniques to address the open problems in Big Science, such as evidence-based searching, measurement of research quality, relevance and impact, the emergence and decline of research problems, identification of scholarly relationships and influences and applied problems such as language translation, question-answering and summarization. See the proceedings of the second BIRNDL workshop at SIGIR 2017 and and a recent report in SIGIR Forum . === Workshop Topics === We invite stimulating as well as unpublished submissions on topics including - but not limited to - full-text analysis, multimedia and multilingual analysis and alignment as well as the application of citation-based NLP or information retrieval and information seeking techniques in digital libraries. Specific examples of fields of interests include (but are not limited to): - Infrastructure for scientific mining and IR - Semantic and Network-based indexing, navigation, searching and browsing in structured data - Information extraction and parsing tasks in scientific papers - Population of a science knowledge base and performing inference on it - Discourse structure identification and argument mining from scientific papers - Summarisation and question-answering for scholarly DLs; - Bibliometrics, citation analysis and network analysis for IR - Task based user modelling, interaction, and personalisation - Recommendation for scholarly papers, reviewers, citations and publication venues - Measurement and evaluation of quality and impact - Metadata and controlled vocabularies for resource description and discovery; Automatic metadata discovery, such as language identification - Disambiguation issues in scholarly DLs using NLP or IR techniques; Data cleaning and data quality - Evaluation baselines, metrics and test collections for research problems in IR For the paper session, we especially invite descriptions of running projects and ongoing work as well as contributions from industry. Papers that investigate multiple themes directly are especially welcome. === The CL-SciSumm Shared Task === The CLSciSumm18 corpus is expected to be of interest to a broad community including those working in computational linguistics and natural language processing, text summarization, discourse structure in scholarly discourse, paraphrase, textual entailment and text simplification. The task constitutes automatic scientific paper summarization in the Computational Linguistics (CL) domain. The output summaries will be of two types: faceted summaries of the traditional self-summary (the abstract) and the community summary (the collection of citation sentences ?citances?). We also propose to group the citances by the facets of the text that they refer to. At SIGIR 2018, we will hold the 4th Computational Linguistics (CL) Scientific Summarization Shared Task http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/~cl-scisumm2018/ which is sponsored by Microsoft Research Asia. This task follows up on the successful CLSciSumm-2017 @ SIGIR 2017, CLScisumm-2016 task @ JCDL 2016, Newark, NJ, USA and a Pilot Task conducted as a part of the BiomedSumm Track at the Text Analysis Conference 2014 (TAC 2014). In this task, a training corpus of ten topics from CL research papers was released. Participants were invited to enter their systems in a task-based evaluation. === Submission Information === - Research track: All submissions must be written in English, following the Springer LNCS author guidelines (max. 6 pages for short and 12 pages for full papers; exclusive of unlimited pages for references) and should be submitted as PDF files to EasyChair . 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. In case of no-show the paper (even if accepted) will be deleted from the proceedings and from the program submissions and reviewing will be managed by the EasyChair conference management system. - Poster track: We welcome submissions detailing original, early findings, works in progress and industrial applications of bibliometrics and IR for a special poster session, possibly with a 2-minute presentation in the main session. Some research track papers will also be invited to the poster track instead, although there will be no difference in the final proceedings between poster and research track submissions. These papers should follow the same format as the research track papers. - Shared Task: Teams that wish to participate in the CL Shared Task track at BIRNDL 2018 are invited to register on EasyChair by April 15th with a title and a tentative abstract describing their approach. Participants are advised to register as soon as possible in order to receive timely access to evaluation resources, including development and testing data. Registration for the task does not commit you to participation - but is helpful to know for planning. All participants who submit system runs are welcome to present their system at the BIRNDL Workshop in the poster session, while the best performing system will be invited to present their paper in the main session. Dissemination of CL-SciSumm work and results other than in the workshop proceedings is welcomed, but the conditions of participation specifically preclude any advertising claims based on these results. 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URL: From Gosselck at demogr.mpg.de Thu Mar 15 12:07:00 2018 From: Gosselck at demogr.mpg.de (Gosselck, Antje) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 16:07:00 +0000 Subject: [Sigmetrics] Job Offer: 2-3 highly qualified Post-Docs / Research Scientists Message-ID: <54e4e47a7f74403fb22ca797eafad45b@demogr.mpg.de> +++ Apologies for cross postings +++ The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) is recruiting 2-3 highly qualified Post-Docs / Research Scientists to join the newly established Laboratory of Digital and Computational Demography. The MPIDR is one of the leading demographic centers in the world. It is part of the Max Planck Society, a network of over 80 institutes that form Germany's premier basic-research organization. Max Planck Institutes have an established record of world-class, foundational research in the sciences, technology, and the humanities, and they offer a unique environment that combines the best aspects of an academic setting and a research laboratory. The Laboratory of Digital and Computational Demography, headed by MPIDR Director Emilio Zagheni, is looking for candidates with a background in Demography, Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, Sociology, Geography, Applied Mathematics, or related disciplines. The successful candidate must have a PhD (or receive it soon) and is expected to conduct cutting-edge research in the field of Digital and Computational Demography. Priority areas for the Laboratory include: 1. Using Web and Social Media data to study demographic processes, like migration, fertility, health indicators, intergenerational relationships, and gender disparities. 2. Developing innovative forms of data collection for demographic research (e.g., surveys via Web and Social Media advertisement platforms or data collected via sensors, tracking devices, or Web Apps). 3. Leveraging agent-based models and microsimulation to understand individual- and population-level processes. 4. Evaluating the impact of the digitalization of our lives on demographic behavior and population processes. Depending on interest and fit, the successful candidate would have the opportunity to participate in ongoing collaborative initiatives with leading scholars in digital and computational demography based at other institutions. These include Ingmar Weber (Qatar Computing Research Institute) and Francesco Billari (Bocconi University). Applications have to be submitted in English online via https://www.demogr.mpg.de/go/apply-dcdrs/ and include the following documents: 1. A Curriculum Vitae 2. A letter of interest (Max 1 page) Briefly state why you are interested in joining the MPIDR, how the MPIDR could foster your professional development and career trajectory, and in which ways your interests fit the research strengths of the MPIDR. 3. A Research Statement (Max 2 pages) Briefly describe your research accomplishments as well as ongoing and future research plans. Please also describe your technical skills, areas of expertise, as well as the type of advanced training that you would like to receive as a research scientist. 4. The names and contact information for 3 academic references 5. One or two writing samples or copies of publications To receive full consideration, applications should be received by April 8, 2018. The starting date is flexible but no later than Fall 2018. Successful applicants will be offered a 3-year contract, with remuneration commensurate to experience (starting from approx. 50,000 EUR gross per year) and based on the salary structure of the German public sector (?ffentlicher Dienst, TV?D Bund). For inquiries about the positions, please contact sekzagheni at demogr.mpg.de. The Institute values diversity and is committed to increasing the representation of minorities, women, and people with physical disabilities. Individuals from minorities thus are especially welcome to apply. 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We are pleased to inform you that Vol. 14, No. 1 & 2 of Webology, an OPEN ACCESS bi-annual journal, is published and available ONLINE now. ======= Webology: Volume 14, Number 2, 2017 ======= TOC: http://www.webology.org/2017/v14n2/toc.html This issue contains: ------------------------- Editorial ------------------------- - Hot Papers in Library and Information Science from the Point of View of Research Methods -- Alireza Noruzi -- Keywords: Hot papers; Library and information science; Research methods -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2017/v14n2/editorial24.pdf ------------------------- Articles ------------------------- - Systematic Literature Review on Opinion Mining of Big Data for Government Intelligence -- Akshi Kumar, & Abhilasha Sharma -- Keywords: Opinion mining; Big data; Digital governance; Systematic literature review -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2017/v14n2/a156.pdf - The Role of Responsive Design in Web Development -- Fernando Almeida, & Jos? Monteiro -- Keywords: Web development; Responsive design; Web designing; User experience -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2017/v14n2/a157.pdf - Highly-alted articles in Library and Information Science -- Mohammadamin Erfanmanesh -- Keywords: Altmetrics; Alternative metrics; Altmetric Explorer; Altmetric score; Social media; Research impact -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2017/v14n2/a158.pdf - Tell Me Why Bob Dylan and the Beatles Song Titles Are Used in Biomedical Literature -- Ger T. Rijkers, Anya Luscombe, & Carla Sloof -- Keywords: Bibliometric analysis; Popular culture; Web of Science; Medline; Citations -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2017/v14n2/a159.pdf - Open Access Health and Medicine Journals - An Informative Study -- Rabiya Mushtaq, Fayaz Ahmad Loan, & Mufazil Ali -- Keywords: Health Science; Medicine; Open access; Open access journals -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2017/v14n2/a160.pdf =======Webology: Volume 14, Number 1, 2017 ======= TOC: http://www.webology.org/2017/v14n1/toc.html This issue contains: ------------------------- Editorial ------------------------- - YouTube in scientific research: A bibliometric analysis -- Alireza Noruzi -- Keywords: YouTube, Social network, Open access, Citation analysis, Scopus -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2017/v14n1/editorial23.pdf ------------------------- Articles ------------------------- Charting the Landscape of Open Access Journals in Library and Information Science -- Emmanuel Edward Te, Frances Owens, Megan Lohnash, Janice Christen-Whitney, & Kristen Radsliff Rebmann -- Keywords: Open access; Scholarly communication; Publishing; Journals; Library and Information Science -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2017/v14n1/a152.pdf - Scientific Publication Behavior versus Information Seeking Behavior: An Infodemiological Study on Stomach Cancer -- Shohreh SeyyedHosseini, Asefeh Asemi, Ahmad Shabani, & Mozafar CheshmehSohrabi -- Keywords: Infodemiology; Health information supply; Health information demand; Health information need -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2017/v14n1/a153.pdf - Designing a Predictive Analytics Solution for Evaluating the Scientific Trends in Information Systems Domain -- Babak Sohrabi, Iman Raeesi Vanani, & Mohsen Baranizade Shineh -- Keywords: Text analytics; Text clustering; Document classification; Natural language processing (NLP), Information systems -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2017/v14n1/a154.pdf - Instruction of Citation Management Tools by Academic Librarians: The Need for Training the Trainers -- Maryam Sarrafzadeh, & Narges Khaleghi -- Keywords: Citation management software; Reference management software; Bibliographic management software; Citation tools; Information literacy instruction; Academic libraries -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2017/v14n1/a155.pdf ------------------------- Call for Papers ------------------------- -- http://www.webology.org/callforpapers.html ================================== Best regards, Alireza Noruzi, Ph.D. -------------------- Editor-in-Chief of Webology: Alireza Noruzi, Ph.D. Website: http://www.webology.org ~ The great aim of Open Access journals is knowledge sharing. ~ ~ Scientific knowledge is the result of the knowledge sharing and exchange of experiences. ~ From ipe at informatik.uni-kiel.de Wed Mar 21 03:44:46 2018 From: ipe at informatik.uni-kiel.de (Isabella Peters) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 08:44:46 +0100 Subject: [Sigmetrics] Friendly reminder: CfP: Challenges of Social Media Data for Bibliometrics. Special Track at STI Conference 2018. Deadline April 1. Message-ID: <004a01d3c0e8$7daaaf40$79000dc0$@informatik.uni-kiel.de> CfP: Challenges of Social Media Data for Bibliometrics. Special Track at STI Conference 2018. Deadline April 1. Dear colleagues, as part of the STI Conference 2018 ( http://sti2018.cwts.nl) we will be organizing a special track on the ?Challenges of Social Media Data for Bibliometrics? (#sti18challenge). This specialized track focuses on the ongoing challenges for using data from social media platforms and from third party aggregators as sources for research metrics and scientometric indicators. These challenges include but are not limited to: --> platform-based restrictions in accessing social media data and potential biases resulting from limited access (also: biases introduced by data aggregators) --> black boxes, hidden algorithms, and lack of information about collection processes and context affecting the use of social media data and data aggregators -->lack of understanding of user activities (e.g. motivations to retweet, like, share) and user groups in academic contexts -->incomplete data (e.g. due to missing DOIs or identifiers not tracked by aggregators) and noise (e.g.due to bot-activity) We invite the following types of submissions: a) original research studying the quality of social media data and data aggregators for measuring scholarly communication b) short (hands-on) introductions and best practices for using data from one or more specific social media platforms or aggregators. Please submit your work as short papers (max 3,000 words) until April 1, 2018. See http://sti2018.cwts.nl/submissions for templates, EasyChair access and additional submission information. Looking forward to your submissions Katrin Weller, Astrid Orth, Isabella Peters -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE INFORMATION -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 23rd Science and Technology Indicators Conference (STI 2018) September 12-14, 2018 Leiden, The Netherlands. Website: http://sti2018.cwts.nl -------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Deadline for submissions: April 1, 2018 - Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2018 - Early-bird registration: June 15 ? July 15, 2018 - Conference: September 12 - 14, 2018 *** Prof. Dr. Isabella Peters Professorin f?r Web Science Christian-Albrechts-Universit?t zu Kiel (CAU Kiel) Institut f?r Informatik AG Web Science (R. 506) Hermann-Rodewald-Str. 3 24118 Kiel T: +49 431 880-7286 E: ipe at informatik.uni-kiel.de Web: http://www.ws.informatik.uni-kiel.de/de ZBW Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft D?sternbrooker Weg 120 24105 Kiel T: +49-431-8814-623 E: i.peters at zbw.eu Web: http://www.zbw.eu/de/forschung/web-science/isabella-peters -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sti2018 at CWTS.leidenuniv.nl Mon Mar 26 02:33:17 2018 From: sti2018 at CWTS.leidenuniv.nl (CWTS - Sti2018) Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 06:33:17 +0000 Subject: [Sigmetrics] Deadline approaching: CFP - 23rd Science and Technology Indicators conference - September 12-14, 2018 Message-ID: <60BAC10D57B68146B4AE7D5CB5BA03F81BDB9A7C@SPMXM07.VUW.leidenuniv.nl> Call For Papers: deadline approaching 23rd Science and Technology Indicators conference - September 12-14, 2018. Leiden, The Netherlands. Website: http://sti2018.cwts.nl In collaboration with the European Network of Indicator Developers (ENID), the 2018 STI conference will be held during 12-14 September 2018 in Leiden (The Netherlands). This edition will have a special focus on the discussion of "indicators in transition" as a driving force for more comprehensive, broader and socially oriented forms of Science, Technology and Innovation indicators and evaluations. We welcome contributions on the general topics covered by the conference as well as contributions to the special tracks. ? Contributions on, but not limited to, the following general topics: * Altmetrics & social media (theoretical foundations, validation studies, Data sources, etc.) * Careers in science (Gender and diversity, careers outside academia, early career researcher experience, etc.) * Indicators of Science and Technology (responsible use of indicators, societal impact of research, systemic and behavioral effects of indicators, etc.) * Innovation (gendered innovations, public-private interactions, industrial R&D dynamics, etc.) * Open Science (Open access, Open data, Open science and the academic reward system, etc.) * Research evaluation (responsible research evaluation, methods in research evaluation, case studies, etc.) * Research integrity (policies promoting research integrity and their effects, misconducts in scientific , publishing, studies of other types of misconduct in research, etc.) ? Special tracks (convenors and a brief description of the special tracks can be found here: http://sti2018.cwts.nl) 1. A closer look into corporate science and publishing 2. Challenges in establishing macro-level effects of macro-level interventions 3. Reproducibility in scientometrics 4. Research assessments as participatory explorations on content, missions, methods and indicators 5. Assessment of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) - beyond indicator development 6. Studies in the sociology and history of the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities 7. Scientific and technological novelty: impact and determinants 8. Determining and steering research quality in practice: the institutional research perspective 9. Open scholarship 10. Public-private interactions in business innovation 11. Challenges of social media data for bibliometrics 12. Rethinking the research agenda on the internationalization of the scientific workforce Submission types: * Short paper (max 3,000 words) with a comprehensive description of a completed study * Poster (max 1,000 words) with an abstract of the study Schedule of dates and submission deadlines * Deadline for submissions: April 1, 2018 * Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2018 * Early-bird registration: June 15 - July 15, 2018 * Conference: September 12 - 14, 2018 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ STI2018 organising committee Centre for Science & Technology Studies (CWTS) University Leiden PO Box 905 2300 AX LEIDEN Visiting Address Willem Einthoven Building Kolffpad 1 2333 BN Leiden The Netherlands e. mailto:STI2018 at cwts.leidenuniv.nl ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Leiden, The Netherlands.* > > Website: http://sti2018.cwts.nl > -- ************************************************************** 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 *************************************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From isidro.aguillo at cchs.csic.es Mon Mar 26 04:16:27 2018 From: isidro.aguillo at cchs.csic.es (Isidro F. Aguillo) Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 10:16:27 +0200 Subject: [Sigmetrics] Deadline approaching: CFP - 23rd Science and Technology Indicators conference - September 12-14, 2018 In-Reply-To: <60BAC10D57B68146B4AE7D5CB5BA03F81BDB9A7C@SPMXM07.VUW.leidenuniv.nl> References: <60BAC10D57B68146B4AE7D5CB5BA03F81BDB9A7C@SPMXM07.VUW.leidenuniv.nl> Message-ID: <940c66c8-41c8-6b27-5429-4d145c77967a@cchs.csic.es> Dear colleagues, Could you clarify what is the format requested for the the papers? - EasyChair asks for a pdf - Templates recommend Word Thanks in advance, El 26/03/2018 a las 8:33, CWTS - Sti2018 escribi?: > > *Call For Papers:deadline approaching* > > *23rd Science and Technology Indicators conference - September 12-14, > 2018. Leiden, The Netherlands.* > > Website: http://sti2018.cwts.nl > > In collaboration with the European Network of Indicator Developers > (ENID), the 2018 STI conference will be held during 12-14 September > 2018 in Leiden (The Netherlands). This edition will have a special > focus on the discussion of ?indicators in transition? as a driving > force for more comprehensive, broader and socially oriented forms of > Science, Technology and Innovation indicators and evaluations. > > We welcome contributions on the *general topics* covered by the > conference as well as contributions to the *special tracks*. > > ?Contributions on, but not limited to, the following *general topics*: > > ?Altmetrics & social media (theoretical foundations, validation > studies, Data sources, etc.) > > ?Careers in science (Gender and diversity, careers outside academia, > early career researcher experience, etc.) > > ?Indicators of Science and Technology (responsible use of indicators, > societal impact of research, systemic and behavioral effects of > indicators, etc.) > > ?Innovation (gendered innovations, public-private interactions, > industrial R&D dynamics, etc.) > > ?Open Science (Open access, Open data, Open science and the academic > reward system, etc.) > > ?Research evaluation (responsible research evaluation, methods in > research evaluation, case studies, etc.) > > ?Research integrity (policies promoting research integrity and their > effects, misconducts in scientific , publishing, studies of other > types of misconduct in research, etc.) > > ?*Special tracks *(convenors and a brief description of the special > tracks can be found here: http://sti2018.cwts.nl)** > > 1.A closer look into corporate science and publishing > > 2.Challenges in establishing macro-level effects of macro-level > interventions > > 3.Reproducibility in scientometrics > > 4.Research assessments as participatory explorations on content, > missions, methods and indicators > > 5.Assessment of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) ? beyond > indicator development > > 6.Studies in the sociology and history of the sciences, social > sciences, arts and humanities > > 7.Scientific and technological novelty: impact and determinants > > 8.Determining and steering research quality in practice: the > institutional research perspective > > 9.Open scholarship > > 10.Public-private interactions in business innovation > > 11.Challenges of social media data for bibliometrics > > 12.Rethinking the research agenda on the internationalization of the > scientific workforce > > *Submission types:* > > ?Short paper (max 3,000 words) with a comprehensive description of a > completed study > > ?Poster (max 1,000 words) with an abstract of the study > > *Schedule of dates and submission deadlines* > > ?Deadline for submissions: April 1, 2018 > > ?Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2018 > > ?Early-bird registration: June 15 ? July 15, 2018 > > ?Conference: September 12 - 14, 2018 > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > STI2018 organising committee > > Centre for Science & Technology Studies (CWTS) > > University Leiden > > PO Box 905 > > 2300 AX LEIDEN > > Visiting Address > > Willem Einthoven Building > > Kolffpad 1 > > 2333 BN Leiden > > The Netherlands > > e. mailto:STI2018 at cwts.leidenuniv.nl > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > _______________________________________________ > SIGMETRICS mailing list > SIGMETRICS at mail.asis.org > http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigmetrics -- ************************************************************** 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 *************************************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sti2018 at CWTS.leidenuniv.nl Mon Mar 26 05:23:17 2018 From: sti2018 at CWTS.leidenuniv.nl (CWTS - Sti2018) Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 09:23:17 +0000 Subject: [Sigmetrics] Deadline approaching: CFP - 23rd Science and Technology Indicators conference - September 12-14, 2018 In-Reply-To: <99d73a1b-ca1f-bf2d-98d6-f0372f38c3f6@cchs.csic.es> References: <60BAC10D57B68146B4AE7D5CB5BA03F81BDB9A7C@SPMXM07.VUW.leidenuniv.nl> <99d73a1b-ca1f-bf2d-98d6-f0372f38c3f6@cchs.csic.es> Message-ID: <60BAC10D57B68146B4AE7D5CB5BA03F81BDB9A94@SPMXM07.VUW.leidenuniv.nl> Dear Isidro, dear all, Please use the Word template and submit it as a pdf. Best regards ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ STI2018 organising committee Centre for Science & Technology Studies (CWTS) University Leiden PO Box 905 2300 AX LEIDEN Visiting Address Willem Einthoven Building Kolffpad 1 2333 BN Leiden The Netherlands e. mailto:STI2018 at cwts.leidenuniv.nl ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Isidro F. Aguillo [mailto:isidro.aguillo at cchs.csic.es] Sent: maandag 26 maart 2018 10:21 To: CWTS - Sti2018 ; sigmetrics at mail.asis.org Subject: Re: [Sigmetrics] Deadline approaching: CFP - 23rd Science and Technology Indicators conference - September 12-14, 2018 Dear colleagues, Could you clarify what is the format requested for the the papers? - EasyChair asks for a pdf - Templates recommend Word Thanks in advance, El 26/03/2018 a las 8:33, CWTS - Sti2018 escribi?: Call For Papers: deadline approaching 23rd Science and Technology Indicators conference - September 12-14, 2018. Leiden, The Netherlands. Website: http://sti2018.cwts.nl -- ************************************************************** 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 *************************************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From loet at leydesdorff.net Wed Mar 28 00:25:08 2018 From: loet at leydesdorff.net (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 04:25:08 +0000 Subject: [Sigmetrics] measurement of interdisciplinarity; preprint version Message-ID: Diversity and Interdisciplinarity: How Can One Distinguish and Recombine Disparity, Variety, and Balance? >The dilemma which remained unsolved using Rao-Stirling diversity, >namely of how variety and balance can be combined into "dual concept >diversity" (Stirling, 1998, pp. 48f.) can be clarified by using Nijssen >et al.'s (1998) argument that the Gini coefficient is a perfect >indicator of balance. However, the Gini coefficient is not an indicator >of variety; this latter term can be operationalized independently as >relative variety. The three components of diversity--variety, balance, >and disparity--can thus be clearly distinguished and independently >operationalized as measures varying between zero and one. The new >diversity indicator ranges with more resolving power in the empirical >case. https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.09317 ** apologies for cross-postings ** a software routine is available at http://www.leydesdorff.net/software/diverse -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Loet Leydesdorff Professor emeritus, 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 Fellow, Birkbeck , University of London; http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYAAAAJ&hl=en -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kschudamani at rediffmail.com Wed Mar 28 02:25:04 2018 From: kschudamani at rediffmail.com (chudamani kuppahalli) Date: 28 Mar 2018 06:25:04 -0000 Subject: [Sigmetrics] =?utf-8?q?measurement_of_interdisciplinarity=3B_prep?= =?utf-8?q?rint_version?= Message-ID: <1522218015.S.78374.autosave.drafts.1522218304.9818@webmail.rediffmail.com> I have used the Lorenz curve approach in my paper " Lorenz curve approach to classification; a case study of nanotechnology" included in isko conference Sent from RediffmailNG on Android From: "Loet Leydesdorff" <loet at leydesdorff.net> Sent: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 10:57:00 GMT+0530 To: SIGMetrics <sigmetrics at mail.asis.org> Subject: [Sigmetrics] measurement of interdisciplinarity; preprint version Diversity and Interdisciplinarity:  How Can One Distinguish and Recombine Disparity, Variety, and Balance? The dilemma which remained unsolved using Rao-Stirling diversity, namely of how variety and balance can be combined into "dual concept diversity" (Stirling, 1998, pp. 48f.) can be clarified by using Nijssen et al.'s (1998) argument that the Gini coefficient is a perfect indicator of balance. However, the Gini coefficient is not an indicator of variety; this latter term can be operationalized independently as relative variety. The three components of diversity--variety, balance, and disparity--can thus be clearly distinguished and independently operationalized as measures varying between zero and one. The new diversity indicator ranges with more resolving power in the empirical case. https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.09317** apologies for cross-postings** a software routine is available at http://www.leydesdorff.net/software/diverse  Loet Leydesdorff Professor emeritus, 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 Fellow, Birkbeck, University of London; http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYAAAAJ&hl=en _______________________________________________ SIGMETRICS mailing list SIGMETRICS at mail.asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigmetrics -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Although highly multinational research (10 or more authors) is growing more rapidly than total research output, it actually remains scarce (about 1% of all collaboration) among the established research economies. Analysis also shows that the ?citation bonus? contributed by international collaboration is in fact both specific and limited; it should, therefore, be interpreted with some care. For example, citation impact trends look different for two-country and multi-country collaborations involving the same countries. Impact also increases but then plateaus with increasing numbers of partners. Further, we find that massively multinational papers are of such a different kind that we suggest they should be excluded from standard citation analysis. The paper is avalable at https://doi.org/10.3389/frma.2018.00012 Jonathan Adams Director, ISI (a part of Clarivate Analytics) Visitng Professor, King's College London -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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