Programme

Programme overview

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Programme subject to change.

graphic reading 'measuring what matters'

Wednesday October 5th

Deborah Stone,
Brandeis University
‘A Number is a Snake Eating Its Tail: Some Thoughts on Measurement for Bibliometricians’

15:00 – 15:10 BST Break

15:10 – 15:40 BST Panel discussion: Developing practices that matter: from local to global
Julia Robinson & Aimee Watson-Cook, Newcastle University, Cesar Orlando Pallares Delgado, Colombian Association of Research Managers (Corema), Lai Ma, University College Dublin
Chair: Liam Bullingham, LIS-Bibliometrics Committee

15:40 – 15:50 BST Break

15:50 – 16:30 BST Breakout sessions
• You can’t measure what you can’t define. Why do we get research impact so wrong? Jorge Gomez Magenti, Alzheimers Research UK

• A practitioner’s guide to measuring what matters: introducing the INORMS SCOPE Framework. Elizabeth Gadd, Loughborough University

16:30 – 17:00 BST Poster presentations
– Bilal Hayat Butt, D.H.A. Suffa University, Aiman Fatima, Hatim Khuzema, and Muhammad Azmi Umer, Codex LLC: Karachi
‘Categorising in-text Citations’
– Domenic Rosati, scite.ai and Philippe Mongeon, Dalhousie University
‘Impact of in-text citations on journal rankings’
– William H Mischo and Mary C. Schlembach, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (UIUC) Library
‘Bibliometric and Research Impact activities at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign‘

17:00 – 17:10 BST Break

17:10 – 17:40 BST Lightning talks
Conference quality: How is it measured now and how else could it be measured? Julian Franken, Leibniz Information Center for Technology and Natural Sciences and University Library
Demonstrating Librarian Research Impact through Bibliometrics, Janice Kung, University of Alberta
Discovering what matters: reflections from new starters in bibliometrics, Beth Norgrove, John Hynes & Mikey Tang, University of Manchester

17:40 – 17:50 BST Wrap up

Wednesday October 12th

14:00 – 14:05 BST Welcome

14:05 – 15:00 BST Keynote Address

Bianca Kramer,
Sesame Open Science:
‘Measuring what matters – open to interpretation?‘

15:00 – 15:10 BST Break

15:10 – 15:40 BST Lightning talks
Research to be e-visible or invisible? Leslie Adriaanse, University of South Africa
“Counting Back”: What kind of bibliodiversity does the Impact Factor brand reflect ? A case study of IF journals included in the 2021 Journal Citations Report. Christophe Dony & Marjorie Bardiau, University of Liège

15:40 – 15:50 BST Break

15:50 – 16:30 BST Breakout sessions
• Bibliometric competencies and the promotion of responsible use of metrics at Stellenbosch University Library. Marié Roux, Stellenbosch University
• Developing an institutional toolkit for implementing responsible research assessment recognising Open Research. Thomas Evans, UK Reproducibility Network
• Assessing Research Impact – what does it mean in today’s dynamic world? Gali Halevi, Clarivate

16:30 – 17:00 BST Networking
Six virtual rooms set up for discussion among delegates