Conference Programme

 

THURSDAY, 18 September 2008
09.00 – 09.45

OPENING
Edgar Schiebel and Juan Gorraiz

WELCOME
Georg Winckler, Rector
Christa Kranzl, Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology
Peter Kowalski, Federal Ministry of Science and Research
Christoph Kratky, Austrian Science Foundation
Heinrich Garn, Austrian Research Centers GmbH - ARC

09.45 – 11.00

MEASURING SCIENCE
Keynote: Anthony van Raan

MEASURING TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION
Keynote: Hariolf Grupp

THE GATEKEEPING INDICATOR FOR EVALUATING SCIENCE AND SCIENTISTS.
Keynote: Tibor Braun

11.00 – 11.30 COFFEE BREAK
11.30 – 12.30

Plenary Session 1
SELECTED TOPICS
Chaired by Henk Moed

Visser, Martijn; Moed, Henk F
COMPARING WEB OF SCIENCE AND SCOPUS ON A PAPER-BY-PAPER BASIS

Leydesdorff, Loet
ANIMATIONS OF JOURNAL MAPS: VISUALIZATIONS OF INTERDISCIPLINARY DEVELOPMENTS AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE

12.20 – 12.30 INTRODUCTION TO POSTER SESSION
Ralph Reimann and Bernhard Wallner
12.30 – 13.30 LUNCH
13.30 – 14.30

Poster Session 1
RESEARCH PERFORMANCE, POLICY AND NEW INDICES
Overview

14.30 – 16.00

A1 INSTITUTIONAL PERFORMANCE
Chaired by Linda Butler

Daraio, Cinzia; Bonaccorsi, Andrea
EXPLOITING THE POTENTIAL OF MICRO-BASED INDICATORS ON EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES

Leitner, Karl-Heinz; Schartinger, Doris
PERFORMANCE-BASED INDICATORS FOR AUSTRIAN UNIVERSITIES: INTENDED AND UNINTENDED EFFECTS

Thijs, Bart; Zimmerman, Eric; Bar-Ilan, Judit, Glänzel, Wolfgang
ISRAELI RESEARCH INSTITUTES: A DYNAMIC PERSPECTIVE

 

B1 MAPPING SCIENCE
Chaired by Edgar Schiebel

Van Eck, Nees J; Waltman, Ludo; Dekker, Rommert; Van den Berg, Jan
AN EXPERIMENTAL COMPARISON OF BIBLIOMETRIC MAPPING TECHNIQUES

Waltman, Ludo; Van Eck, Nees J; Noyons, Ed CM; Buter,
Renald K

AUTOMATIC TERM IDENTIFICATION FOR BIBLIOMETRIC MAPPING

Zitt, Michel; Lelu, Alain; Bassecoulard, Elise
HYBRID MAPS OF SCIENTIFIC FIELDS (TERMS AND CITATIONS): AN APPLICATION TO NANOSCIENCES

 

C1 FACTORS INFLUENCING EXCELLENCE
Chaired by Aparna Basu

Vrohlings, Melanie; Frietsch, Rainer; Haller, Inna; Grupp, Hariolf
GENDER-BASED METHOD FOR MEASURING ACTIVITIES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

De Filippo, Daniela; Sanz Casado, Elías; Gómez, Isabel
QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF MOBILITY AND SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION. THE CASE OF A SPANISH UNIVERSITY

Jovanović, Miloš; John, Marcus; Reschke, Stefan
EFFECTS OF CIVIL WAR: SCIENTIFIC COOPERATION IN THE REPUBLICS OF THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA AND THE PROVINCE OF KOSOVO

16.00 – 16.30 COFFEE BREAK
16.30 – 18.30

A2 (SUPRA) NATIONAL PERFORMANCE
Chaired by Thed Van Leeuwen

Lewison, Grant; Blamey, Roger
BREAST CANCER RESEARCH IN EUROPE: SUBJECT AREAS, CITATIONS AND THE BURDEN OF DISEASE

Shelton, Robert; Foland, Patricia
NATIONAL EFFICIENCIES IN PUBLISHING SCIENTIFIC PAPERS

Basu, Aparna
DOES A COUNTRY’S SCIENTIFIC ‘PRODUCTIVITY’ DEPEND CRITICALLY ON THE NUMBER OF COUNTRY JOURNALS INDEXED?

Klavans, Richard; Boyack, Kevin W
U.S. VULNERABILITIES IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

 

B2 NEW DATABASES AND THEIR INDICATORS
Chaired by Wolfgang Mayer

López-Illescas, Carmen; De Moya-Anegón, Felix; Moed, Henk F
DIFFERENCES AMONG THOMSON SCIENTIFIC'S WEB OF SCIENCE AND ELSEVIER'S SCOPUS IN THE COVERAGE AND CITATION IMPACT OF ONCOLOGICAL JOURNALS

Archambault, Éric; Campbell, David; Gingras, Yves; Larivière, Vincent
WOS VS. SCOPUS: ON THE RELIABILITY OF SCIENTOMETRICS

Schlögl, Christian; Gorraiz, Juan
COMPARISON OF CITATION AND USAGE INDICATORS: THE CASE OF ONCOLOGY JOURNALS

Rousseau, Ronald; Wan, Jin-Kun; Hua, Ping-Huan; Sun, Xiu-Kun
THE DOWNLOAD IMMEDIACY INDEX: EXPERIENCES USING A LARGE FULL-TEXT DATABASE

 

C2 METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF FIELD STUDIES
Chaired by Martin Fieder

Nederhof, Anton; Van Leeuwen, Thed N; Clancy, Paul
BOOM OR BUST IN SPACE EXPLORATION RESEARCH: A METHODOLOGICAL STUDY OF BIBLIOMETRIC MONITORING AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS

Lucio-Arias, Diana; Leydesdorff, Loet
MUTUAL INFORMATION AS AN INDICATOR OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT IN RESEARCH SPECIALTIES

Buter, Renald K; Noyons, Ed
CM THE IDENTIFICATION OF CONVERGING RESEARCH FIELDS USING PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Hung, Wen-Chi; Tsai, Min-Hua; Lee, Ling-Chu; Lee, Chun-Hsiang
CITATION ANALYSIS IN THE EMERGING FIELD: A CASE OF CARBON NANOTUBES

 

Immediately thereafter: Bus leaves from the University;
End at about 22.30

SOCIAL EVENT