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preliminary programme 2013


The esss 2013 starts with a Tutorial day. Then two conference-like introductory days addressing a broader audience are followed by three days with seminars, individual hands-on sessions and teamwork in small groups.


Programme Overview

 
September 8th

Tutorial Day


  Conference
September 9th Conference day 1:
Introduction to Scientometrics:
Theoretical and Practical Aspects
September 10th Conference day 2
Individual and Institutional Evaluation

  Seminars
September 11th Seminars day 1

September 12th

Seminars day 2

September 13th Seminars day 3
Workshop Research Evaluation





Programme

September 8th:
Tutorial Day
13.00-14.30

Bibliometric Crash Course
Wolfgang Glänzel, Centre for R&D Monitoring (ECOOM), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,  Belgium / Juan Gorraiz, Bibliometrics Department, University of Vienna, Austria / Christian Gumpenberger, Bibliometrics Department, University of Vienna, Austria / Stefan Hornbostel, Institute for Research Information and Quality Assurance (iFQ), Germany / Sybille Hinze, Institute for Research Information and Quality Assurance (iFQ), Germany


Database Tutorials:

14.30-15.15 WoS Tutorial
Tihomir Tsenkulovski, Customer Education Specialist TR

15.15-16.00 Scopus: a Tool for Bibliometricians
Arthur Eger, Elsevier


September 9th:
Introduction to Scientometrics: Theoretical and Practical Aspects
09.00-09.10 Welcome and Opening Remarks
09.10-09.55 History and Institutionalization of Scientometrics
Stefan Hornbostel, Institute for Research Information and Quality Assurance (iFQ), Germany / Wolfgang Glänzel, Centre for R&D Monitoring (ECOOM), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,  Belgium

09.55-10.40 Scientometric indicators in use: an overview
Sybille Hinze, Institute for Research Information and Quality Assurance (iFQ), Germany

10.40-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-12.00

Mathematical Foundation of Scientometrics
Wolfgang Glänzel, Centre for R&D Monitoring (ECOOM), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,  Belgium


12.00-13.00 Lunch break
13.00-13.45 Journal-level classifications - current state of the art
Éric Archambault, Science-Metrix, Canada


13.45-14.30

Bibliometric methods for subject delineation
Wolfgang Glänzel, Centre for R&D Monitoring (ECOOM), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,  Belgium / Bart Thijs, Centre for R&D Monitoring (ECOOM), Dept MSI, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium


14.30-15.00 Coffee break
15.00-15.45 The application of Network analysis in science studies: Common theoretical background for broad applications
Bart Thijs, Centre for R&D Monitoring (ECOOM), Dept MSI, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

15.45-16.30 Policy use of bibliometric evaluation and its repurcussions on the scientific community
Koenraad Debackere, Katholieke Universiteit (K.U.) Leuven

September 10th:
Individual and Institutional Evaluation
09.00-09.45

Evaluating research-performing people and institutions: bibliometrics in context
Erik Arnold,
Technopolis, Germany


09.45-10.30

Advanced bibliometric methods for evaluation of research groups, ranking and benchmarking of universities, and mapping of research related to socio-economic issue
Anthony van Raan, CWTS - Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University, The Netherlands


10.30-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-11.45 New developments in bibliometrics and research assessment
Henk Moed, Senior Scientific Advisor, Elsevier

11.45-12.30

Institutional Profiles
Jeff Clovis, Senior Director, Customer Education & Sales Support, Scientific & Scholarly Research, Scientific, Thomson Reuters


12.30-13.30 Lunch break
13.30-14.15

Research Evaluation at the University of Zurich
Hans Peter Daniel, University of Zurich, Switzerland

14.15-15.00

Off to new horizons: the crucial role of libraries in bibliometric analyses
Juan Gorraiz, Bibliometrics Department, University of Vienna, Austria / Christian Gumpenberger, Bibliometrics Department, University of Vienna, Austria

15.00-15.30 Coffee break
15.30-16.15 The role of indicators in informed peer review: practical observations
Rainer Lange, German Council of Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat), Germany

16.15-17.00

Bibliometric Agora
Chair: Stefan Hornbostel, Institute for Research Information and Quality Assurance (iFQ), Germany
Panelists: Rainer Lange, Hans Peter Daniel

September 11th:
Seminars Day 1
09.00-10.00 Data cleaning and Processing
Matthias Winterhager, Bielefeld University, Institute of Science and Technology Studies (IWT), Germany
10.00-11.00 Author Identification
Wolfgang Glänzel, Centre for R&D Monitoring (ECOOM), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,  Belgium

11.00-11.15 Coffee break
11.15-12.30 Validating publication data: objectives, tools, processes and results
Marion Schmidt, Institute for Research Information and Quality Assurance (iFQ), Germany

12.30-13.30 Lunch break
13.30-17.00 Impact Measures - Hands-on Session
Wolfgang Glänzel, Centre for R&D Monitoring (ECOOM), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,  Belgium / Juan Gorraiz, Bibliometrics Department, University of Vienna, Austria

18.00-
19.30
Social Event
 
September 12th:
Seminars Day 2
09.00-10.00 Subject normalization for citation analysis
Wolfgang Glänzel, Centre for R&D Monitoring (ECOOM), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,  Belgium

10.00-11.00 The funding acknowledgements in the Thomson Reuters database: potentials and problems of a new bibliometric data source
Daniel Sirtes, Institute for Research Information and Quality Assurance (iFQ), Germany
11.00-12.00

Research collaboration measured by co-authorship
Wolfgang Glänzel, Centre for R&D Monitoring (ECOOM), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,  Belgium


12.00-13.00 Lunch break
13.00-16.30 Mapping Science (on the basis of Bibexcel Software)
Olle Persson, Sociology Department, Umeå universitet, Sweden

19.00 Conference Dinner

 
September 13th:
Seminars Day 3
09.00-12.15 Workshop: Research Evaluation in Practice 1
12.15-13.30 Lunch break
13.30-16.00 Workshop: Research Evaluation in Practice 2