AIMinScience 2020: 1st International Workshop on Assessing Impact and Merit in Science Lyon, France, August 25, 2020 |
Conference website | https://aiminscience.athenarc.gr/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiminscience2020 |
Submission deadline | April 30, 2020 |
AIMinScience 2020: 1st International Workshop on Assessing Impact and Merit in Science (https://aiminscience.athenarc.gr/)August 25, 2020, Lyon, FranceFollow us on Twitter for the latest news and updates: https://twitter.com/aiminscienceHeld in conjunction with the 24th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2020) and the 24th European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2020)
In the era of data-driven and open science, reliable and comprehensive assessment of scientific impact and merit is now more valuable than ever. The AIMinScience workshop aims to bring academics, researchers, and other professionals from diverse fields together to share ideas and experiences about research assessment, relevant technologies and applications.
Important Dates
DEADLINE extension: Due to the current situation regarding the ongoing coronavirus outbreak that affects the work of many researchers in these days, we have extended the submission deadline of the workshop:
- Paper submission:
April 4, 2020April 30, 2020 (23:59, AoE timezone) - Notification of acceptance:
May 5, 2020May 22, 2020 - Camera ready due: June 5, 2020
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The workshop solicits regular papers (up to 12 pages including references & appendices, LNCS format) and short papers (up to 6 pages including references & appendices).
The former should be descriptions of complete, original research/technical work. The latter should demonstrate interesting new software or data sets or describe interesting, innovative ideas, which nevertheless require more work to mature. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by program committee members. In order to ensure transparent evaluation and reproducibility of research, submissions whose results are based on research data or research software are required to refer/cite the original data/software as properly deposited in a data/software repository (e.g. Zenodo, Figshare, B2SHARE).
List of Topics
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Scientometrics & bibliometrics.
- Indicators & metrics of any kind (e.g., citation-based, altmetrics) to assess scientific impact or merit for publications, other research objects (e.g., software, data sets), or relevant entities (e.g., individual researchers, institutions, projects, funding organisations).
- Improved/scalable/efficient approaches to preprocess, analyse, and mine big scholarly data to facilitate research assessment.
- Insightful visualisation techniques that utilise or facilitate research assessment.
- Applications utilising scientific impact & merit to provide useful services to the research community and the industry (e.g., recommendation systems, ranking mechanisms, etc).
- Data integration/creation/cleaning/publishing projects to facilitate research assessment.
- Data mining & machine learning approaches to facilitate research assessment.
- Studies regarding the characteristics or the evolution of scientific impact or merit and/or their connection with other measures or phenomena
Invited Talks
- "Beyond the impact factor: possibilities of scientometrics to understand science and society", Dr. Rodrigo Costas (Leiden Univ., NL)
- "Quantifying the biases of scientific success", Prof. Roberta Sinatra (IT University of Copenhagen, DK)
- "Predicting the future evolution of scientific output", Prof. Yannis Manolopoulos (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, GR)
Committees
Program Committee (alphabetically)
- Alessia Bardi (ISTI-CNR, IT)
- Nikos Bikakis (Atypon Inc., GR)
- Lutz Bornmann (Max Planck Society, GE)
- Guillaume Cabanac (Univ. of Toulouse, FR)
- Rodrigo Costas (Leiden Univ., NL)
- Christos Giatsidis (LIX, École Polytechnique, FR)
- John P. A. Ioannidis (Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center, USA)
- Adam Jatowt (Kyoto Univ., JP)
- Ilias Kanellos (ATHENA RC, GR)
- Georgia Koutrika (ATHENA RC, GR)
- Anastasia Krithara (NCRC Democritos, GR)
- Yannis Manolopoulos (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, GR)
- Giannis Nikolentzos (LIX, École Polytechnique, FR)
- Paraskevi Raftopoulou (Univ. of the Peloponnese, GR)
- Maria Jose Rementeria (BSC, ES)
- Angelo A. Salatino (The Open University, UK)
- Roberta Sinatra (IT University of Copenhagen, DK)
- Cassidy R. Sugimoto (Indiana Univ. Bloomington, USA)
- Christos Tryfonopoulos (Univ. of the Peloponnese, GR)
- Giannis Tsakonas (Univ. of Patras, GR)
- Ludo Waltman (Leiden Univ., NL)
Organizing committee (alphabetically)
- Paolo Manghi (ISTI-CNR, IT & CTO of the OpenAIRE infrastructure)
- Dimitris Sacharidis (TU Wien, AU)
- Thanasis Vergoulis (ATHENA RC, GR)
Publication
Workshop proceedings will be published in the Springer CCIS series. Articles will be assigned a DOI, be associated with ORCID IDs and funding projects if any, for reporting to the European Commission or other funders.Best papers will be invited for submission to a special issue of the Quantitative Science Studies (QSS) open access journal launched by the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI).
Venue
The conference will be held in Lyon (France) in conjunction with the 24th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2020) and the 24th European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2020).
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to aiminscience@athenarc.gr