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METSTI 2023: Workshop on Informetric, Scientometric, and Scientific and Technical Information Research

Workshop sponsored by ASIS&T SIG/MET and SIG STI

ASIS&T 2023 Annual Meeting

Friday, October 27, 2023, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (BST), London, UK

The program of the workshop can be found here.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

The ASIS&T Special Interest Group for Metrics (SIG/MET) and the ASIS&T Special Interest Group for Scientific and Technical Information (SIG STI) invite contributions to the METSTI 2023: Workshop on Informetric, Scientometric and Scientific and Technical Information Research, which will be held prior to the 86th ASIS&T Annual Meeting.

Research in the field of science-of-science is extensive, covering several areas and topics, and thus, it is not only relevant for a specific research domain but rather concerns the research of a variety of researchers, the work of practitioners with various foci and further stakeholders within the science system; with the measurement of information production and use and the analysis of scientific and technical information being two major scopes of them.

We propose a full-day joint workshop, providing a platform for research presentations and discussions related to these topics by students, early-career and established researchers, information professionals, and librarians. Especially, consistent with the theme of ASIS&T Annual Meeting 2023, this joint workshop aims to strengthen the alignment between information research, practices and policies.

Extended abstracts describing empirical or theoretical work related but not limited to the following areas will be invited:

• Bibliometric-enhanced information retrieval
• Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the science of science
• Informetrics, bibliometrics, scientometrics or social media metrics (altmetrics)
• New indicators, methods and tools
• Open access and open science
• Patent analysis
• Research evaluation and research integrity
• Scholarly or science communication
• Science and technology policies
• Team science
• Scientific and technical information

SUBMISSIONS

The following types of submissions will be accepted: 

• Research presentations for completed or in-progress research, 
• posters* for work in the early stages, 
• tutorials for practical information on a tool or method,
• panels for discussions on a specific topic.

*Please note: As we were informed the workshop room will not have the possibility to host printed posters, the poster session will be not based on physical posters. Depending on the submission, we intend to have a short poster talk. Nevertheless, authors can consider creating a virtual poster as an addition to their short talk. 

Research presentations are planned for 10-15 minutes, with additional time for the discussion rounds, panels and tutorials are planned for a 30-minute slot including the discussion round.

Length and format for each contribution: 

• Two-page extended abstracts where references do not include length.
• References are made in APA style (7th edition).
• Submissions are formatted according to the AM23 Template.
• Except for panels, please do not include any author names or any evidence of your identity in the file you upload.
• Please, indicate in your submission if you participate in the student paper contest by inserting “student submission” in the keywords. Students are defined as undergraduate, graduate, or PhD students. At least one author of the submission has to be a student to be eligible.

Please submit your abstract as a PDF to the submission system: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=metsti2023 

Submissions will be peer-reviewed by two independent reviewers based on their technical soundness and their relevance to the metrics and STI community. Each submission will receive brief review feedback in narrative form. 

The abstracts of accepted papers and posters, as well as the presentation material, will be deposited on Zenodo to enhance the visibility and retrievability of the presented research. If you have any publishing concerns, please let us know. Please include in your submission and presentation material only material that you own the rights to or have permission to use.

AWARDS

• Presentation design: Is the presentation and the way the presenter(s) present it appealing?
• Quality of the presented topic: Does the presentation meet the standards of scientific work? Are the study design and methods carefully executed?
• Implications of the study: Are there implications for research, practice, or society?

KEYNOTE

We are honored to have Mike Thelwall as keynote speaker at METSTI 2023.

Prof. Dr. Mike Thelwall (University of Sheffield)
"Team science: increased quality, increased funding, or just increased citation impact?"

Team science is widely encouraged by funders and research managers in the belief that collaboration improves research outcomes or, more specifically, that interdisciplinary collaboration is necessary to address important societal challenges. Bibliometric data seems to back this up by consistently showing that articles with more authors tend to be more cited. Nevertheless, there have been suggestions that collaborative work tends to be more cited because of more self-citations or wider publicity through author networks. Funding may also be a factor if collaborative research tends to be better supported. This talk will discuss these issues from the perspective of the quality scores given to journal articles submitted to the UK Research Excellence Framework 2021.
This data can help to distinguish between citation indicators and expert evaluations of research quality. The results suggest that bigger teams tend to publish higher quality articles although there is also evidence that the higher citation rates of collaborative research are not entirely due to its higher quality. The results also show that funding associates with higher quality research even after taking into account team size.

IMPORTANT DATES

• Deadline for submission: 23rd July 2023 [anywhere on earth time]
• Acceptance decision: 8th August 2023 [anywhere on earth time] 
• Workshop during the 86th Annual Meeting of ASIS&T: 27th October 2023 (9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., BST)

REGISTRATION

The registration includes the workshop, lunch, and two coffee breaks. 

Workshop rates will increase by $25 each after 11 August and again after 14 October. The first 15 Student/Non-Member Student registrations will receive a discount of -$130. Therefore, please use the code MET2023ST when you register.

Registration via: https://www.asist.org/am23/23registration/

ORGANIZERS

• Dorsch, Isabelle, ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, Germany (i.dorsch@zbw-online.eu)
• Liu, Meijun, Fudan University, China (meijunliu@fudan.edu.cn)
• Li, Kai, University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA (kli16@utk.edu)
• Zhang, Chenwei, University of Hong Kong, China (chwzhang@hku.hk)
• Chen, Pei-Ying, Indiana University Bloomington, USA (peiychen@iu.edu)
• Bu, Yi, Peking University, China (buyi@pku.edu.cn)

SPONSORS

Last updated: 17th October 2023

Metrics 2022: ASIS&T Virtual Workshop on Informetrics and Scientometrics Research

Its papers/posters and presentation slides are deposited on Zenodo at Metrics 2022 Workshop | Zenodo

Metrics 2022 Virtual Workshop CFP

Virtual workshop sponsored by ASIS&T SIG/MET and International Center for the Study of Research (ICSR)

ASIS&T 2022 Annual Meeting

• Part I: Saturday, October 8, 2022, 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. EDT
• Part II: Sunday, October 9, 2022, 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. EDT

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

The ASIS&T Special Interest Group for Metrics (SIG/MET) invites contributions to the METRICS 2022 workshop, which will be held prior to the 85th ASIS&T Annual Meeting.

The workshop continues the successful SIG/MET workshop series held annually since 2011 by providing an opportunity to present and discuss research related to the measurement of knowledge production, dissemination, and use among experienced researchers, young academics, and practitioners. We invite abstracts describing empirical or theoretical work related, but not limited to:

• Altmetrics
• Bibliometric-enhanced information retrieval
• Bibliometrics
• Informetrics
• Open access
• Open science
• Patent analysis
• Quantitative science studies
• Research evaluation
• Scholarly communication
• Science communication
• Science of science
• Scientometrics

SUBMISSIONS

The following four types of submission are accepted:

• Research presentations, for completed or in-progress research. [Presentation]
• Posters for work in early stages or best presented visually. [Poster]
• Tutorials for practical information on a tool or method. [Tutorial]
• Panels for discussions on a specific topic. [Panel]

Please indicate the type of submission by naming the file in the following format: Metrics22_First Author’s Last Name + First Name Initials_Submission Type (e.g., Metrics22_ChenPY_Presentation). All submissions should be in the form of a two-page extended abstract using APA style and formatted according to the AM22 Proposal Template Instructions. Where appropriate, up to three figures/tables can be provided. Do not include any author names on the file you upload.

The abstracts of accepted papers and posters, as well as the presentation slides, will be deposited on Zenodo to enhance visibility and retrievability of presented research.

Please submit your abstract as a PDF to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=metrics2022

Submissions will be evaluated by at least two independent reviewers based on their relevance to the workshop and their methodological soundness (where applicable), and brief feedback will be given in narrative format.

AWARDS

Thanks to the generous sponsorship from the International Center for the Study of Research (ICSR), the workshop will present the Best Student Paper Awards and Best Paper Award this year to recognize the excellence of the presenting work (excluding posters).

Up to three awardees will be selected for the Best Student Paper Awards. To be considered for the best student paper, 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. Please also indicate Student on the name of the submitted file, e.g., Metrics22_ChenPY_Presentation_Student, even if the co-authors are non-student.

One best paper will also be selected from all accepted papers regardless of their topic. However, to ensure fairness, a paper cannot be awarded both as best paper and best student paper at the same time. In other words, if a student paper is selected to be the best paper, it will not be considered for the best student paper awards.

The winners of both awards will be decided by a double-blind peer review process from the eligible accepted submissions. The awards will be decided before the presentations take place, but the authors must present at the workshop to qualify. We offer a cash prize of $500 for the Best Paper Award and $250 for the Best Student Paper Award.

IMPORTANT DATES

• Submissions due: Friday, July 22th, 2022 EDT
• Notifications: Friday, August 19th, 2022 EDT

REGISTRATION

In an effort to provide an open venue for communication and discussion on metrics-related research, we are offering free registration for ASIS&T members and discounted registration fees for non-members this year.

More information on registration rates can be found at https://www.asist.org/am22/22registration/.

ORGANIZERS

• Pei-Ying Chen, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA (peiychen@iu.edu)
• Isabelle Dorsch, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany (isabelle.dorsch.hhu.de)
• Fei Shu, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, China; Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada (fei.shu@mail.mcgill.ca)

SPONSORS

International Center for the Study of Research

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Dear members of the SIG Metrics community,

It is with great sorrow that we learned that Professor Judit Bar-Ilan passed away on July 16th. Judit was an active member of the international informetrics community and she was a longtime supporter of SIG Metrics, having served as an Officer of the SIG and a regular contributor to the annual SIG Metrics workshop. Judit was awarded the ASIS&T SIG Member of the Year Award in 2013 for her efforts. Her contributions to information science research included informetrics and information retrieval. She was also a prominent contributor to altmetrics research and served as the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Altmetrics. Prof. Bar-Ilan was recognized for her research contributions by being awarded the ASIS&T Research in Information Science Award in 2018 and the Derek de Solla Price Memorial Medal in 2017.

We extend our deepest condolences to Judit’s family and colleagues. She will be greatly missed by friends and colleagues.

The SIG Metrics Officers

Call for Proposals

We are happy to announce the winners of this year’s best paper award and best student paper award:

Best paper award (sponsored by Altmetric.com and Dimensions):

Bradford Demarest, Indiana University Bloomington, for his talk entitled “Drawing into focus: Methodological enhancements for discourse epistemetrics”

Best student paper award (sponsored by Elsevier):

Shubhanshu Mishra, Brent D Fegley, Jana Diesner and Vetle I Torvik, for their talk entitled “Expertise as an aspect of author contributions”

The winners were selected by a jury of SIGMET officers who evaluated presentations on the basis of the following criteria:

• Design of the study
• Originality
• Relevance to the workshop
• Adherence to research ethics

Congratulations to the winners and thank you again to our sponsors!

METRICS 2018: ASIS&T WORKSHOP ON INFORMETRICS AND SCIENTOMETRICS RESEARCH

Workshop sponsored by ASIS&T SIG/MET
ASIS&T 2018 Annual Meeting
Saturday, November 10, 2018
9:00am–5:00pm at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver, Canada

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

The ASIS&T Special Interest Group for Metrics (SIG/MET) invites contributions to the METRICS 2018 workshop, which will be held in Vancouver prior to the ASIS&T Annual Meeting in November.

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. Further, this year’s workshop will have a special focus on metrics for reproducibility in science.

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
• Metrics for reproducibility in science

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.

Different types of submissions will be accepted: posters, presentations, tutorials and one panel. Please indicate the type of submission in bold at the beginning of your submission. The requirements for all 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.

Through tutorials, authors can propose practical solutions and transfer knowledge in an interactive form.

Finally, a panel discussion will allow a fruitful discussion of a specific metrics-related topic.

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 your abstract as a PDF to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigmet2018

Each submission will be reviewed and brief feedback will be given in narrative format.

AWARDS AND SPONSORSHIPS

The best paper will be selected by a committee from all accepted (non-student) workshop papers regardless of their topic. It will be awarded with a cash prize sponsored by Altmetric.com and Dimensions.

Similarly, the best student paper will be awarded with a cash prize sponsored by Elsevier. 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.

Please submit as a PDF to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigmet2018

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 Vancouver. The awards will be decided before presentations take place, but the authors must present at the workshop to qualify.

After the workshop, you are invited to submit your work to Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, a peer reviewed open access journal. Presenters who indicate their plan to submit to the journal within three month of the workshop date and submit within six month will be offered a 50% discount sponsored by Frontiers.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submissions due: August 14, 2018 (extended!)
Notifications: August 21, 2018 
Workshop: Saturday, November 10, 2018, 9:00am –5:00pm

REGISTRATION FEES

The registration fee includes wifi and coffee breaks:

All students who are not yet ASIS&T members will be offered a one-year free ASIS&T membership by registering for the workshop!

ORGANIZERS

Neil Smalheiser (University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA)
Timothy D. Bowman (Wayne State University, Detroit, USA)