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Program
When? Thursday, February 12 - Friday, February 13 2015
Where? Villa Hatt, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Thursday, February 12
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| 08:50 – 09:00 |
Frank Schweitzer: Opening Statement
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| 09:00 – 10:30 |
Session: Bibliometrics
Speakers: Mutz, Haunschild, Tunger
Guiding questions:
- What is the value of single citations? How does the web-based increase in references affect this value?
- Considering the algorithms/ranking/visualization methods you developed, what data would you wish for?
- How can we better measure interdisciplinary impact?
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| 10:30 – 11:00 |
Coffee Break
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| 11:00 – 12:30 |
Stakeholder Session: Ranking
Speakers: Berghoff, Juno, van Eck
Guiding questions:
- How do you determine the weights for ranking factors? How would you like to improve them?
- To what extent are current ranking indicators biased to certain scientific cultures?
- What are the risks and benefits of reputation surveys?
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| 12:30 – 14:00 |
Lunch Break
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| 14:00 – 15:30 |
Session: Social Sciences
Speakers: van den Besselaar, Squazzoni, Bar-Ilan
Guiding questions:
- How does ranking influence the behavior of scientists and institutions?
- Do services like Altmetric foster a tendency towards shallower research?
- Do citiation alert mechanisms foster reciprocity, do they change citation cultures?
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| 15:30 – 16:00 |
Coffee Break
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| 16:00 – 17:30 |
Session: Computer Science
Speakers: Radicchi, Rosvall, Scholtes
Guiding questions:
- What are the prospects of machine learning in rankings? Who decides about training data?
- How can the time dimension be included in network-based ranking?
- How can we improve name disambiguation methods?
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| 19:00 – 21:00 |
Joint Dinner in Restaurant Linde (paid individually)
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Friday, February 13
| Time |
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| 08:50 – 09:00 |
Frank Schweitzer: Opening Statement
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| 09:00 – 10:30 |
Stakeholder Session: Data
Speakers: Lipitakis, Fenner, Roelandse
Guiding questions:
- Given that you have the data, what kind of new quantitative indicators would you like to have?
- How can access statistics (of publications, websites) be incorporated in ranking? How to prevent manipulations?
- How do Open Access journals impact scientific quality? Is evaluation shifted from experts to the public?
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| 10:30 – 11:00 |
Coffee Break
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| 11:00 – 12:30 |
Session: Statistical Analysis of Science Networks
Speakers: Medo, Mryglod, Petersen
Guiding questions:
- How can we model the feedback of bibliometrics (IF) on scientists' (career, journal) decisions?
- Is fractional counting a solution to better capture the contribution of individuals?
- Are the implicite assumptions of centrality measures justified in scientometrics?
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| 12:30 – 14:00 |
Lunch Break
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| 14:00 – 15:45 |
Plenary discussion:
Moderators: Hugentobler, Schweitzer
Guiding questions:
- How should bibliometric indicators (not) be used by funding agencies/ hiring committees (DORA project)?
- Does bibliometric feedback lead to more specialized or more mainstream research?
- Do alternative ranking schemes (U-Multirank) improve the situation or just shift the problems?
- Can we use better quantitative approaches to ensure the quality of peer review/ institutional review?
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| 15:45 – 16:00 |
Frank Schweitzer: Closing Statement
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| 16:00 – 16:30 |
Coffee and Farewell
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