• ‘Ethnography on/from the Sidelines’ a blog project on institutional situatedness of knowledge production

by Frank van der Most 6 Jul 2012

Within the ‘Savage minds’ blog, Deepa S. Reddy and a number of other anthropologists inside and outside of academia launched a blog-project on the relation between the conceptualization of ethnographic projects and the institutional and rea…

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Plea for assessments, against bean counting – part 1

by Paul Wouters 6 Jul 2012

“Above all, universities should stand firm in defending the long-term value of their research activity, which is not easy to assess in a culture where return on investment is measured in very short time spans.” This is the main motif of a new posit…

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CWTS Course – Measuring Science and Research Performance: Leiden, 24-28 September 2012

by Clifford Tatum 5 Jul 2012

The next international 5-day CWTS Course ‘Measuring Science and Research Performance’ will be held in Leiden, The Netherlands, from September 24-28 2012. The aim of the course is to provide a serious grounding in the role of quantitative analyses in research evaluation. The course will consider relevant aspects of the larger context of research evaluation, [...]

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New Publication- Gender bias in journals of gender studies

by Clifford Tatum 5 Jul 2012

Abstract The causes of gender bias favoring men in scientific and scholarly systems are complex and related to overall gender relationships in most of the countries of the world. An as yet unanswered question is whether in research publication gender bias is equally distributed over scientific disciplines and fields or if that bias reflects a [...]

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Video – Thelwall’s Keynote at the Oii Symposium: Social Science and Digital Research: Interdisciplinary Insights

by Clifford Tatum 5 Jul 2012

In March, Mike Thelwall gave a keynote lecture at the Oxford Internet Institute’s Symposium “Social Science and Digital Research: Interdisciplinary Insights“, held in Oxford on 12 March 2012. The keynote, Webometrics: The Evolution of a Digital Social Science Research Field, is now available on video. Abstract: The research field of webometrics encompasses various forms of [...]

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ACUMEN keynote at Academic Career Development Workshop, St. Petersburg, RU

by Clifford Tatum 4 Jul 2012

The workshop, Career Development in Academia, is being held this week in St. Petersburg, Russia. Proceedings will begin with a keynote address by Paul Wouters, ACUMEN Principle Investigator. In his talk, Wouters will introduce ACUMEN’s conceptual approach and provide impressions from progress in the collaborative research program, now in its 16th month. The workshop addresses contemporary theory [...]

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New Publication- Research Blogs and the Discussion of Scholarly Information

by Clifford Tatum 29 Jun 2012

Abstract: The research blog has become a popular mechanism for the quick discussion of scholarly information. However, unlike peer-reviewed journals, the characteristics of this form of scientific discourse are not well understood, for example in terms of the spread of blogger levels of education, gender and institutional affiliations. In this paper we fill this gap by [...]

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• R&D evaluation course, 1 to 4 October 2012, STəPS, University of Twente

by Frank van der Most 21 Jun 2012

The Science Technology, and Policy Studies (STəPS) group at the University of Twente will provide the course for the 15th time, this time directed by Stefan Kuhlmann and Gonzalo Ordóñez Matamoros. The course’s audience includes professional re…

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Prospects of humanities bibliometrics? – Part 2

by Paul Wouters 14 Jun 2012

In the empirical chapters of this PhD thesis Following the Footnotes,  Björn Hammarfelt tries out several methodological innovations. In a particularly interesting chapter, Hammarfelt traces the citations to one book, Illuminations by Walter Benjam…

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• Vacancy: (senior) researcher in quantitative studies of science at Rathenau Institute (the Netherlands)

by Frank van der Most 12 Jun 2012

The department of Science System Assessment of the Dutch Rathenau Institute has a vacancy for a researcher/project researcher in quantitative studies of science. The researcher will investigate the relation between the new emerging fields of science an…

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