[Students-l] Fwd: [SIGMETRICS] Student Paper Contest - further information and deadline

Fri Apr 1 07:15:52 EDT 2011

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Subject: 	[SIGMETRICS] Student Paper Contest - further information and
deadline
Date: 	Thu, 31 Mar 2011 03:17:04 -0700
From: 	Jonathan Levitt <jonathan at LEVITT.NET>
Reply-To: 	ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics
<SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU>
To: 	<SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU>

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*Hi,*

**

*I am writing as Chair of the Metrics SIG (SIG/MET) to give you further
information on our Student Paper Contest and to remind you that our
deadline is midnight EST on the 10^th April.*

**

*SIG/MET (http://www.asis.org/SIG/met.html,
http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGMET) encourages the development and
networking of all those interested in informetrics. For the past decade
the Metrics SIG has been a virtual SIG.Its main activity was the
SIGMETRICS list.However in 2010, on the initiative of Drs. Cassidy
Sugimoto and Stasa Milojevic from Indiana University, over fifty ASIST
endorsed the conversion ofSIG/MET into a fully functioning ASIST SIG and
in October 2010 SIG/MET was formed into a fully functioning ASIST SIG.*

**

*One of our main initiatives, the Student Paper Contest
(http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGMET/paper_contest.shtml), is designed to
provide feedback on promising doctoral research in informetrics. Our
contest is open to all doctoral students and the judging will not take
into account whether the sturdy is a member of ASIST or lives in North
America.Entrants will receive narrative feedback on matters such as the
potential for publication and quality of the writing.In addition, each
paper will be graded by our reviewers for potential for publication and
quality of the writing and a winner and runner-up (and depending on the
quality of the entrants, commended paupers) selected from the most
highly rated papers.We plan to give a cash prize of $250 to the winner
and one year’s student membership of ASIST to both the winner and
runner-up.*

**

*Our team of expert reviewers (Judit Bar Illan, Kevin Boyack, Jonathan
Levitt, Kate McCain, Stasa Milojevic, Ronald Roussueau, Cassidy
Sugimoto, Mike Thelwall and Dietmar Wolfram) have a wealth of expertise
in both reviewing and conducting informetric research.I paste below the
call posted by Chaoqun Ni, our Officer for the Student Paper Contest.*

**

*Best regards,*

*Jonathan Levitt,*

*Chair of SIG/MET.*

*2011 ASIS&T SIG/MET Student Paper Contest*

The Special Interest Group for the measurement of information production
and use(http://www.asis.org/SIG/met.html) of the American Society for
Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T <http://www.asis.org/>) is
pleased to announce its first student paper contest. The contest is
designed, not only to recognize promising student research relating to
the SIG, but also to provide feedback from specialists in the
measurement of information production and use. Students will receive
this feedback well before the deadline for submissions to theASIS&T
<http://www.asis.org/> Annual Meeting, so they can take the feedback
into account prior to submitting to the 2011 Annual Meeting to be held
in New Orleans, Louisiana in October 2011.

*_Purpose_*

SIG/MET seeks to encourages the development and networking of all those
interested in the measurement of information. It is holding this contest
in order to promote amongst students the generation of new ideas and the
conduct of new research in metric-related topics, including
bibliometrics, scientometrics, informetrics, webometrics and related
domains.

*_Eligibility_*

The primary author must be a full-time student at the time the paper is
submitted, irrespective of whether they are members of ASIS&T. Faculty
advisors may be listed as co-authors, but the presentation must be made
by the primary author. SIGMET reserves the right to request proof of
enrollment as part of the submission and evaluation process. All
submissions should be original and not have been published in a journal,
or been accepted by a journal, or be in the process of being considered
by a journal at the time they are submitted to this contest.

*_Theme_*

Papers could discuss theories, methods, policies and case studies on
different aspects of measurement of information production and use.
Topics include, but are not limited to, the following core areas:
· Metric-Related Theory
· Methods and techniques
· Citation and co-citation analysis
· Indicators
· Webometrics
· Mapping & visualization
· Research policy
· Productivity & publications
· Journals, databases and electronic publications
· Collaboration/Co-authorship
· Patent analysis
· Knowledge and topic diffusion

*_Selection_*

There will be a winner, runner-up and, depending on the quantity of
strong papers, a number of commended papers. The reviewers will
particularly reward well-written, original research that has potential
for publication in a peer-reviewed journal or for presentation at a
refereed conference.

*_Prizes_*

The winner and runner-up will be awarded a one-year individual
membership to ASIS&T and the winner will also be awarded a cash prize.
In the case of multiple authors, the primary author will be awarded the
ASIS&T membership. Primary authors of highly rated papers will be
invited to submit a short biographical piece to the SIG/MET Newsletter.
In addition, if SIG/MET holds a pre-conference workshop at the 2011
Annual Meeting, these primary authors will be invited to present their
research at the poster session of this workshop.

*_Format_*

The SIG/MET student paper contest committee requires that submissions
are no longer than ten pages (including figures, tables and references)
and follow the template of 2011 ASIS&T annual conference. Detailed
information about the template is available at:
http://www.asis.org/asist2010/cfp-papers.html.

*_Submission and Deadline_*

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts by *midnight**EST on Sunday,
the 10th April 2011*, to the following website:

https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=sigmetspc2011

We expect to have provided feedback on the submissions by the end of
April 2011 and to have selected the winner and runner-up soon
afterwards. If you have any queries, please email Chaoqun Ni
(chni at indiana.edu
<http://uk.mc12.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=chni@indiana.edu>).

Chaoqun Ni
Ph.D student in Information Science
School of Library & Information Science, Indiana University
1320 East 10th Street, Herman B Wells Library
Bloomington, IN 47405, USA

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