Analyzing the dynamics of information and knowledge landscapes
PEERE Meeting on “Taking stock of peer review” and the 2nd Workshop on Simulating the Social Processes of Science (SSPOS II) takes place 8th – 11th March 2016 in Valencia. In this interesting event we looking forward to keynotes (Warren Thorngate (Carleton University, Canada) will talk on “Social processes of…
Future of Peer Review and Open Access, Mainz A report about the “2016 Annual EA Conference: “Innovating the Gutenberg Galaxis. The role of peer review and open access in university knowledge dissemination and evaluation” By Andrea Scharnhorst Science in transition is the name of an initiative of scientists from Dutch…
Instead of the suspended workshop in Brighton 2015, Srinivas Raghavendra, Peter Richmond and Oleg Yordanov organise a WG 2 meeting in Galway, March 14-16, 2016 about Money, Uncertainty and the Macroeconomy. This workshop builds on knowledge exchange and work done at events in Milano 2015 and Sevilla 2014. If you…
As part of this STSM, in the period from 07.12.2015 to 17.12.2015, I worked at the Department of Theoretical Physics at The Jozef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Bosiljaka Tadic. During this time, we manage to finish the work according to the proposed goals of…
Report on the workshop “Topic detection or topic construction?”, Berlin Humboldt University, August 28-29, 2015 Once more a small but dedicated group met in autumn in Berlin to further discuss methodological problems when it comes to a metric based definition of a topic. The academic discourse started long before TD1210…
Report of my STSM at the Institute of Physics Belgrade during August 16-22, 2015, hosted by Dr. Marija Mitrović Dankulov First of all, I have to say that the week of my STSM was far beyond my already very high expectations. I arrived on Sunday 16th of August at Belgrade, and…
Call for Posters The workshop will investigate the role of peer review and open access in university knowledge dissemination and evaluation. Day 1 will address peer review, with a particular attention to its role in ensuring quality and efficiency of knowledge dissemination and evaluation. Day 2 will address open access…
Istanbul Monday, 29. June – Friday, 3. July 2015 The one week STSM visit at Professor Ali Salah’s group (Cognitive Science Program) at the Department of Computer Engineering at Boğaziçi university in Istanbul gave me very interesting new insights not only for my current research on reconstructing research topics in…
Training School of KnowEscape – COST Action TD1210 Simulating Knowledge Dynamics – Training and Work in Progress Federico II University, Naples, Italy, 19–22 May 2015 This four day event combined the presentation and discussion of progress in simulating knowledge dynamics with a summer school on SKIN concepts, methods and operational…
Report on COST TD1210 Workshop Quantifying scienti c impact: networks, measures, insights? February 12-13, 2015 Villa Hatt, Zurich, Switzerland Prof. Dr. Dr. Frank Schweitzer Chair of Systems Design ETH Zurich Switzerland fschweitzer@ethz.ch Scientometrics, and quantitative studies of science in general, attract significant attention both from researchers and stakeholders. Importantly, they already…