ISSI 2007 - Madrid. Workshops
ISSI 2007 - Madrid. Workshops |
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Two proposals has been provisionally selected for the June 28th session focusing on relevant topics not well addressed at the main conference. Final programme will be available at the end of April.
Satellite Workshops Chair:
Prof. Peter Ingwersen, Royal School of Library & Information Science, Copenhagen, Denmark. E-mail: pi@db.dk
Both events have launched a Call that it is still open:
Taking CiteSpace to Science: new applications to visualization programming
The visualization freeware CiteSpace was developed by Chaomei Chen at Drexel University, US . Originally it was meant as an instrument for analyzing paradigmatic shifts in scientific specialties. In several articles Chen has shown the abilities of the program, but one of the weaknesses is the definition of a scientific field. We invite papers that discuss different approaches to this important problem. How reliable are strategies on the basis of keywords, on subject codes, or on selected sets of journals? If researchers normally are active in many different journals covering 15-20 different subject codes what does that say about using the ISI codes for definition of specialties? To what extent is burst of terms a strategy that is effective? What are the concurrent procedures of making identifiers and descriptors in the database and in journals?.
The strengths of the CiteSpace program are evident, but there might be areas of application that have not been discussed on scientific basis. Therefore, we organize this workshop at the Madrid ISSI conference and invite full or research-in-progress papers in order to discuss central features and new applications of the CiteSpace program. A main topic of the workshop is the continuous development of strategies for detecting and tracking research fronts and the evolution of a specialty. Especially, we are interested in ways of implementing the CiteSpace program for new questions. E.g. can CiteSpace be of any use for research group analysis? Can CiteSpace be applied to questions about funding policy for National Research Councils? Should CiteSpace be used for performance analysis? However, the workshop also encourages contributions that look at the CiteSpace program and its advantages and disadvantages in relation to bibliometric research methodology. These and other questions will be addressed during the workshop.
Methodological Issues in Using Curricula Vitae for Research Evaluation and Science Policy Analysis
A wealth of information is provided in most curricula vitae (CVs). Recently, research studies have demonstrated the utility of these data for a wide range of applications. Currently, policy-makers in Brazil , Spain , the United States , New Zealand and Argentina (among others) have begun to collect CVs for the express purpose of research evaluation or science policy analysis. Moreover, a second generation of CV studies has recently begun, using more powerful analysis tools and more comprehensive data.
Despite theoretical and methodological progress, the newness of CV analysis implies that many technical problems remain to be solved. For example, the coding of the information and its entry into a database is not at all straightforward.
We invite authors to submit short papers (maximum 2000 words) or presentations that contribute to the methodological discussion and progress in the use of CVs as a source of data. The workshop will particularly focus on assessing the current state-of-the-art in this recent and rapidly evolving field of inquiry. Substantively, the research focus will especially emphasize the use of CV's for research evaluation, analysis of career trajectories, assessing the impacts of grants and grants on researchers' productivity, collaboration, and mobility.