Program

The 23rd International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators seeks to give a platform to the discussion of “indicators in transition” as a driving force for more comprehensive, broader and socially oriented forms of indicators and evaluations.

The keynote speakers for the conference will be:

• Prof. Paul Wouters
• Prof. Paula Stephan
• Prof. Cameron Neylon

Special tracks

The conference will cover a wide array of topics covered in 21 clusters that range from topic delineation and new analytical methods to effects of indicators.

Further, there are 12 special tracks that focus on comprehensive and contextualized STI indicators:

• Track 1 - A closer look into corporate science and publishing
• Track 2 - Challenges in establishing macro-level effects of macro-level interventions
• Track 3 - Reproducibility in Scientometrics
• Track 4 - Research assessments as participatory explorations on content, missions, methods and indicators
• Track 5 - Assessment of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) – beyond indicator development
• Track 6 - Studies in the sociology and history of the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities
• Track 7 - Scientific and Technological Novelty: Impact and Determinants
• Track 8 - Determining and steering research quality in practice: the institutional research perspective
• Track 9 - Evaluation of Open Scholarship
• Track 10 - Public-private interactions in business innovation
• Track 11 - Challenges of Social Media Data for Bibliometrics
• Track 12 - Rethinking the Research Agenda on the Internationalization of the Scientific Workforce

Schedule

The final program can be consulted here (11 September 2018). Please note there might be some last-minute changes.

Registration opens on Wednesday at 8:00 and is available during the whole conference.

Wednesday 12 September

Thursday 13 September

Friday 14 September