ISSI 2007 - Madrid. Doctoral forum

Aim
The Doctoral Forum is an invitation to doctoral students to present their research projects, and in return receive constructive feedback. The primary objective of the Doctoral Forum is to provide doctoral students with a forum to present and discuss their research projects with senior researchers and fellow students and to develop their relationships with other scientists.

The Doctoral Forum is a one-day event that takes place prior to the ISSI 2007 conference. Students are to give a 20 minute presentation of their research project. Each presentation is followed by 20-25 minutes of discussion with senior researchers that are experts in one or more of the ISSI 2007 conference themes.

Due to the time consuming form of the Doctoral Forum, the number of participants is restricted. From a pool of 22 applications in total, 12 students have been selected to present their projects. Note that the doctoral forum is only open to the invited senior researchers and the accepted students. There is no separate fee for attending the doctoral forum, but participation requires the students register for the conference.

Time
Sunday, June 24, 2007 between 9.00-17.00

Location
Residencia de Estudiantes (Just behind CSIC Central building, ISSI 2007 main hall)
Pinar, 21-23.
28006 Madrid

Doctoral Forum Committee
Dr. Bluma Peritz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Dr. Ed Noyons, Leiden University, the Netherlands
Ms. Linda Butler, The Australian National University, Australia
Dr. Mike Thelwall, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Dr. Peter Ingwersen, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark
Dr. Ronald Rousseau, Catholic School for Higher Education Bruges-Ostend (KHBO), Belgium

Doctoral Forum Chairs - see homepages for contact information
Associate professor, Rickard Danell, Umeå University, Umeå - Sweden
Associate professor, Birger Larsen, Royal School of Library & Information Science, Copenhagen - Denmark

Accepted Students
Emma Angus (United Kingdom): An Investigation into Image Tagging
Isabel Galina Russell (United Kingdom): The role of Electronic Resources in Scholarly Communication and Publishing
Luba Gornstein (Israel): Mapping of Research in Information and Library Science: Influences, New Directions and Changes that Occurred During the Years 1985-2003: A Bibliometric Study
Kim Holmberg (Finland): Link analysis: Methods to Map Cooperation and Geopolitical Relationships
Milos Jovanovic (Germany): Footprints Through Science - Using Citations to Assess the Path Towards Applicability
Paula Leite (Brazil): Productivity and Prestige among Brazilian Scientists
Luna María Elena (Mexico): The Maturing of Mexican Science: an Historic and Bibliometric Analysis of its Development from 1980-2004
Alba Martinez Ruiz (Spain): Partial Least Square Path Modelling for Technological Information Valuation (TIV)
Philipp Mayr (Germany): Applying Bradford’s Law of Scattering in Digital Libraries
Stasa Milojevic (United States): Mapping the Intellectual Structure of Nanotechnology Using Bibliometrics, Social Network Analysis and Ethnography
Hanna-Mari Pasanen (Finland): Modeling Scholarly Publishing Patterns in Social Sciences and Humanities
Tina Ruschenburg (Germany). The Webometric Analysis of International Connectivity within Science