WIS2013 (15-17.08.2013)

9th International Conference on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics

and 14th COLLNET Meeting

August 15-17, 2013 Tartu, Estonia

 

Hosted by Estonian Research Council, Estonian Ministry of Education and Research and COLLNET

 

The broad focus of the conference is on collaboration and communication in science and technology; science policy; quantitative aspects of science of science; and combination and integration of qualitative and quantitative approaches in study of scientific practices.

The conference thus aims to contribute to evidence-based and informed knowledge about scientific research and practices which in turn may further provide input to institutional, regional, national and international research and innovation policy making.

Conference Programme

9th International Conference on Webometrics and 14th COLLNET meeting programme

9th International Conference on Webometrics. Conference booklet

Important Dates:

 

Speakers

  • Wolfgang Glänzel (Belgium, Hungary): Characteristics of co-authorship patterns of individual scientists
  • Hildrun and Theo Kretschmer (Germany, China): Growth and Special Change of Collaboration Patterns Obtained from the Journal of Experimental Medicine and from PNAS
  • Jean-Charles Lamirel (France): The exploitation of feature maximization metric in scientometrics: a global survey
  • Bernd Markscheffel (Germany): Introduction of COLLNET 2014: 10th International Conference on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics (WIS) & 15th COLLNET Meeting, September 2014, Germany
  • V.A.Markusova (Russia), Libkind A.N. (Russia), Mindeli L.E. (Russia), Jansz M. (The Netherlands): Bibliometric performance in two main research domains: the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Higher Education sector
  • Ronald Rousseau (Belgium):´The outgrow index and related indicators – including a dedicated software program
  • Ravichandra Rao (India): Weak Relations among the Impact Factors, Number of Citations, References and Authors

Conference venue

All Conference sessions take place in the

Dorpat Convention Centre

Turu 2, TASKU

Previous Conferences

Previous WIS  conferences took place in Nancy (2006), New Delhi (2007), Berlin (2008), Dalian (2009), Mysore (2010), Istanbul (2011), Seoul (2012)

 

Contacts

Estonian Research Council

Soola 8, 51013, Tartu, Estonia

wis2013@etag.ee