ACUMEN Open Seminar
The 8th of March, 10am to 1pm
Royal School of Library and Information Science
Festsalen, Building B, Birketinget 6, 2300 Copenhagen S
Programme
10.00 Welcome, Birger Larsen and Lorna Wildgaard, RSLIS.
10.05 Daniel Spichtinger, EC Policy officer, introduces the Horizon 2020 EU Framework
Programme for Research and Innovation. See http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020/
for more information about the programme.
10.30 Professor Paul Wouters, ACUMEN principal investigator, introduces the ACUMEN project.
See http://research-acumen.eu/ for more information about the project.
10.55 Sune Auken, Head of the Faculty of Humanities' PhD School at University of Copenhagen,
discusses how bibliometrics look from the Humanities in his presentation Measuring the
Spirit? Bibliometrics and the Humanities.
11.20 Coffee break
11.45 Andrea Scharnhorst and Frank van der Most from The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts
and Sciences and the ACUMEN group investigating the impact of evaluation on the individual
researcher present a study on the semantics of research information systems in Genericity
versus expressivity – reflections about the semantics of interoperable research information
systems.
Abstract: The web does not only enable new forms of science, it also creates new possibilities
to study science and new digital scholarship. In this presentation we bring together multiple
perspectives: from individual researchers seeking the best options to display their activities
and market their skills on the academic job market; to academic institutions, national
funding agencies, and countries needing to monitor the science system and account for public
money spending. We report about the current state of European Research Information
systems, and discuss possibilities of semantic web applications in this area. In particular,
we discuss which levels of complexity are needed to provide a globally, interoperable, and
expressive data infrastructure for research information.
12.10 Fredrik Åström, Bibliometrician at Lund University Library, questions funding agencies
suggesting that grant applicants include their h-index (or similar citation indices) in their CV
when there are grant programmes that gather applications from different research fields.
The background is a program (http://www.wallenberg.com/kaw/instruktion-nominering-avwallenberg-academy-fellows-2013) where LU applicants from law studies as well as high
energy physics have been asking questions on what they should do. It will be a presentation
more focused on asking the questions rather than coming up with any answers or even any
structured suggestion of analysis.
12.35 Kayvan Kousha, from Wolverhampton University and the ACUMEN group investigating Web
Presence presents their work on Google Books Citations Revisited: A large-scale automatic
citations analysis of online book sources.
Abstract: Books are the main research outputs in many social sciences and humanities fields
and hence many have criticized the absence of citations from books in research assessments.
A previous study showed that Google Books citations were 31% to 212% as common as WoS
citations and numerous enough to supplement ISI citations in the social sciences and
humanities . Nevertheless, this was based on manual searching and a huge manual data
cleaning effort, which is not practical for large-scale impact studies by individuals or research
assessment bodies. We report the development of a method to automatically conduct
searches in Google Books and refine the results to report more accurate citations from online
books to either journal papers or other types of publications (e.g., books and monographs) in
different fields.
13.00 Thank you for coming.