| The Sydney ISSI 2001 Conference
(http://sistm.web.unsw.edu.au/conference/issi2001)
Location:
The
Scientia (G20) &
Quadrangle
Building (E15)
The University of New South Wales
Date: July
15 - 20, 2001
Venue: Scientia Foyer - Registration
& Tea Break
Leighton Hall - Main Conference
Ritchie Theatre - Concurrent Session
Macauley Theatre - Session 5 & Session 12
(First Floor, Quadrangle Building)
Tyree Room - Lunch Venue
| Sunday
15th July, 2001 |
| 03:00 -
05:00 PM |
Official Registration
for ISSI 2001 at the Scientia
Foyer, UNSW
Coffee/tea/juice served |
03:30 - 04:30 PM
|
Aboriginal Dance
and Welcome Ceremony
Yidaki Digeridoo and Dance Troupe
|
| DAY
ONE: Monday 16th July, 2001 |
| 08:00 - 08:45 AM |
Late Registration
for ISSI 2001
at the Scientia Foyer, UNSW |
| 09:00 - 09:30 AM |
Opening
Ceremony (Leighton Hall, The Scientia)
Chair: Mari Davis, ISSI 2001 Chair
Welcome Address: Professor John Niland,
Vice-Chancellor of the University of New South Wales |
| 09:30 - 10:30 AM |
Keynote
Address: Dr Henry Small, Director of Contract
Research, The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI),
Philadelphia, USA (Leighton Hall, The Scientia) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 AM |
Morning
Tea (Main Foyer) |
| 11:00 - 12:30 PM |
Leighton
Hall, The Scientia
Session
1 - Indicator Development
Chair: Paul Wouters (The Netherlands)
Robert Tijssen, Martijn Visser
& Thed N. van Leeuwen (The Netherlands) 'Searching
For Scientific Excellence: scientometric measurements and
citation analyses of national research systems'
Bihui Jin (China)
'Development of the Chinese Scientometric Indicators (CSI)'
Kevin Bryant &
Luciano
Lombardo (Australia) 'Broad-level Indicators for
National Systems of Science and Innovation: a new approach'
Isidro F. Aguillo
(Spain) 'Building Cybermetric Indicators for Describing EU
R&D Public Sector'
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Ritchie Hall,
The Scientia
Session
2 - Process of Scientific Communication
Chair: Blaise Cronin (USA)
Elise Bassecoulard, Suzy
Ramanana & Michel Zitt (France)
'Scientific
Communication: two aspects of globalisation at the journal
level'
Jochen Gläser
(Germany) 'Scientific Specialties as the (Currently Missing)
Link between Scientometrics and the Sociology of Science'
Ana María Ramírez Romero, E.O.
García Mandujano, H.D. Cortéz Gonzáles & J.S. del Rio
(Mexico) 'An Approach to Quantitatively Evaluating the
Relevance of Articles in Multidisciplinary Institutions'
Ed J. Rinia, Thed N. van
Leeuwen & A.F.J. van Raan
(The Netherlands)
'Measuring Knowledge Transfer between Fields of Science'
|
| 12:30 - 01:30 PM |
Lunch
(Tyree Room, The Scientia) |
| 01:30 - 03:00 PM |
Leighton
Hall, The Scientia
Session 3 -
Informetrics & Information Retrieval
Chair: Elise Bassecoulard (France)
Birger Larsen & Peter Ingwersen (Denmark) 'Synchronous and Diachronous Citation Analysis for Information
Retrieval: generating a boomerang effect from the network of
scientific papers'
Michael Nelson (Canada)
& J.
Stephen Downie (USA) 'Informetric Analysis of a Music
Database: distributions of intervals'
William W. Hood &
Concepción S. Wilson
(Australia) 'Distribution of
Phrases in the Fuzzy Set Literature in the Period 1965-1993'
|
Ritchie Hall,
The Scientia
Session 4 -
National Research Output I
Chair: I.K. Ravichandra Rao (India)
K.C. Garg (India)
'Scientometrics of Laser Research in India and China'
Shaoyi He (USA)
'Characteristics and Trends of Foreign Authorship in LIS
Journals: a bibliometric analysis of JASIS and Journal of
Documentation'
Dhruv Raina & B.M. Gupta
(India) 'From Geomagnetism to Solar and Stellar Magnetism: a
comparative scientometric study of two subdisciplines in India
(1850-1980)
S. Ravi
(India) 'Growth and Collaboration Trends in Nuclear Science Research
Literature: a case study of India, 1980-1994'
|
Macauley
Theatre, Quadrangle Building
Session
5 - Issues of Disciplinarity &
Interdisciplinarity
Chair:
Ed Noyons (The Netherlands)
Peter
van den Besselaar & Gaston Heimeriks
(The Netherlands) ‘Disciplinary, Multidisciplinary,
Interdisciplinary: concepts and indicators’
Bluma C. Peritz & Judit
Bar-Ilan (Israel) 'The Inside-Outside Looking of the
Field of Bibliometrics-Scientometrics as Reflected in
References'
Yuko
Fujigaki (Japan)
‘Analysis on Dynamics of Development in Research Themes in
Interdisciplinary Fields: analysis using personal distribution
versus papers’
S.
Sarasvady & P. Pichappan
(India)
‘Classification of Multidisciplinary Journals: the study of
the journal Nature’
|
| 03:00 - 04:00 PM |
Poster
Session and Afternoon Tea (Leighton Hall & Main Foyer) |
| 04:00 - 05:30 PM |
Leighton
Hall, The Scientia
Session 6 -
Visualisations I
Chair: Peter Ingwersen (Demark)
Ed Noyons & Renald Buter
(The Netherlands) 'Using an Interactive Clustering Tool to
Enhance Science Mapping'
P.S. Nagpaul
(India) 'Visualizing the Cooperation Networks of Elite
Institutions in India'
Irina
Marshakova-Shaikevich (Russia) 'Bibliometric Maps of
Science'
M. Mymoon & K.S.
Raghavan
(India) 'Mapping Biotechnology Research Using
Co-classification Analysis'
|
Ritchie Hall,
The Scientia
Session 7 -
Modeling of Informetric Distributions
Chair: Michel Zitt (France)
Leo Egghe & Ronald
Rousseau (Belgium) 'The Core of a Scientific Subject:
an exact definition using concentration and fuzzy sets'
Guohua Jiang, Shi
Shan & Xuesong Xu (China) 'A New Rank-size Distribution of Zipf's
Law and Its Applications'
Thierry Lafouge
(France) 'A Mathematical Model of Documents Circulation: use
distribution, utility distribution, content distribution:
example of scientific articles circulation in journals'
Anurag Saxena, B.M. Gupta
& M. Jauhari (India) 'Forecasting Growth of
Literature: all models are wrong, some are useful!' |
| 06:00
- 07:00 PM |
The
"Derek de Solla Price" Award Ceremony (Leighton
Hall, The Scientia) |
| |
Chair: Andras Schubert
Address: Ravichandra Rao (India)
- The Awarding of the Medals
- Response
Drinks and Finger Food served
|
DAY
TWO: Tuesday 17th July, 2001 (Special Day Session on Use of
Journal Impact Measures & Journal Impact Factors)
Chairs: Wolfgang Glänzel
(Germany/Hungary) & Henk F. Moed (The Netherlands)
(Leighton Hall, The Scientia) |
| 09:00 -
10:30 AM |
Wolfgang
Glänzel (Germany/Hungary) & Henk
F. Moed (The Netherlands) |
Journal
Impact Measures in Bibliometrics Research: a state-of-the-art
report |
| Linda Butler
(Australia) |
Identifying
"Highly-rated" Journals: an Australian case study |
| Grant Lewison
(UK) |
Researchers'
and Users' Perceptions of the Relative Standing of Papers in
Different Journals |
| 10:30 -
11:00 AM |
Morning
Tea (Main Foyer) |
| 11:00 -
12:30 AM |
Peter Ingwersen
(Denmark) |
The Web
Impact Factor |
| Mayur Amin
(UK) |
Journal
Publishers and Impact Factors |
| Peter Vinkler
(Hungary) |
Application of
Garfield Impact Factors in Practice |
| 12:30 -
01:30 PM |
Lunch
(Tyree Room, The Scientia) |
| 01:30
- 03:00 PM |
Andras Schubert
(Hungary) |
Impact Factor -
greater expectations? |
| Thed N.
van Leeuwen &
Henk F. Moed (The Netherlands) |
Overviews of
the Development and Application of Journal Impact Measures
within the Dutch Science System |
| E.J.
Rinia, Thed N. van Leeuwen, H.G. van Vuren & A.F.J. van
Raan (The Netherlands) |
Impact
Measures of Interdisciplinary Research Programs in Physics |
| Discussion
with Expert Panel |
| 03:00 -
03:30 PM |
Afternoon
Tea (Main Foyer) |
| 03:30 - 05:30 PM |
Poster Session
(Leighton Hall & Main Foyer) |
| 06:15 PM |
Buses
leave UNSW for the Conference Dinner |
| 07:15 - 11:00 PM |
ISSI 2001 Conference
Dinner - Hotel InterContinental, Macquarie Street, Sydney
Following the Dinner, a
bus will be available to bring guests and delegates back to
the UNSW campus. Others may wish to see the city of
Sydney and get home by their own means.
|
| DAY
THREE: Wednesday 18th July, 2001 |
| 09:00 - 10:30 AM |
Leighton
Hall, The Scientia
Session 8 -
Citation Analysis I
Chair: Michael Koenig (USA)
Blaise Cronin &
Deborah Shaw (USA) 'Identity-creators and
Image-makers: using citation analysis and thick description to
put authors in their place'
Chiladda Chennawasin &
Chaomei
Chen
(UK) 'An Integrated Approach to Author
Co-citation Analysis'
P. Pichappan & S.
Sarasvady
(India) 'Other Side of the Coin: the
intricacies of author self-citations'
|
Ritchie
Hall, The Scientia
Session 9 -
Collaboration
Chair: Jane
Russell (Mexico)
Wolfgang Glänzel
(Germany/Hungary) & Cornelius De Lange (The Netherlands) 'A
Distributional Approach to Multinationality Measures of
International Scientific Collaboration'
Grant Lewison
(UK) & Ülle Must (Estonia) 'Estonian
International Co-operation in Science in the 1990s: new
politics, new methods'
Liming Liang, Yongzheng
Guo (China) & Mari Davis (Australia)
'How do Scientists of Different Ages Collaborate in China: the
case of computer science and control theory'
|
| 10:30 - 11:00 AM |
Morning Tea
(Main Foyer) |
| 11:00 - 12:30 PM |
Leighton
Hall, The Scientia
Session 10 -
Analysis of Patents
Chair: Sybille
Hinze (Germany)
Jean-Charles Lamirel, Yannick
Toussaint, Claire
Francois & Xavier Polanco (France) 'Using
Artificial Neural Networks for Mapping of Science and
Technology: application to patents analysis'
Éric Archambault (Canada) 'Methods
for Using Patents in Cross-Country
Comparisons'
Arnold Verbeek, Koenraad Debackere,
Marc Luwel, Bart van Looy, Petra Andries, Marc van Hulle &
Filip
Deleus (Belgium) 'Linking
Science to Technology: using bibliographic references in
patents to build linkage schemes'
Shyama V. Ramani & Marie-Angčle
De Looze
(France) 'Using Patent Statistics as
Competition Indicators in the Biotechnology Sectors: an
application to France, Germany and the UK'
|
Ritchie
Hall, The Scientia
Session 11 -
Citation Analysis II
Chair: Hildrun Kretschmer (Germany)
I.K. Ravichandra Rao
(India) 'An Analysis of Distributions of First Citation Data'
Shalini Urs & K.C.
Raghavan (India) 'Private
Choices and Public links: toward a cognitive theory of
citation'
Diana Reader (UK)
'The Intellectual Structure of Entrepreneurship: an author
co-citation analysis'
Peter Vinkler
(Hungary) 'The Dynamic Change of the Chance for Citedness'
|
Macauley
Theatre, Quadrangle Building
Session 12
- Visualisation II
Chair: Linda
Butler (Australia)
Hervé Rostaing, V.
Léveillé & Badia Yacine (France) 'Bibliometric
Study as an Objective Picture of the Algerian Scientific
Research Practices'
Gilberto
Sotolongo-Anguilar, M. Guzmán-Sánchez, O.
Saavedra-Fernández & H. Carillo-Calvet (Cuba)
'Mining Informetric Data with Self-Organizing Maps
C. Widhalm, U. Gigler, A.
Kops & E. Schiebel (Austria) 'Co-occurrence and
Knowledge Mapping to Identify Hot Topics and Key Players in
the Fields Mobility and Transport'
Borsheng Tsai
(USA) 'Information Mapping, Charting and Visualization for
Total Quality Knowledge Management: constructing and assessing
a web-coordinated experts map-chart / depository /
query-report system through citation data mining and
information landscaping' |
| 12:30 - 01:30 PM |
Lunch
(Tyree Hall, The Scientia) |
| 01:30 - 03:00 PM |
Leighton
Hall, The Scientia
Session
13 - Informetrics for Policy - Global Contexts
Chair: Leo Egghe (Belgium)
Grant Lewison
(UK) 'The Determinants of High Quality Biomedical Research'
Valentina Markusova, V.
Minin, A.N. Libkind, M.V. Arapov (Russia), M.
Jancz & R. Tijssen (The Netherlands) 'Russian
Science in Transition: the effects of new granting systems on
research activity and output'
Thomas E. Nisonger
(USA) 'Does International Composition on a Journal's
Editorial Board Correlate with Better Quality? A citation
study of political science, business and genetics journals'
|
Ritchie Hall,
The Scientia
Session
14 - Informetrics of Health & Medicine I
Chair: César Macías-Chapula (Mexico)
Subbiah Arunachalam & S.
Gunarsekaran (India) 'Cardiovascular Diseases Research
in India and China in the 1990s'
Sri Hartinah
(Indonesia), Mari Davis (Australia), A.
Hydari (Indonesia) & Philip Kent
(Australia) 'Indonesian Nutrition Research Papers 1979-2000: a
bibliometric analysis'
A. Amudhavalli & G.
Krishnamoorthy
(India) 'Medical Research and
Development Output in India'
|
| 03:15 PM |
Board
Buses at the Scientia for Harbour Cruise |
| 04:15
- 06:15 PM |
Twilight
Sydney Habour Cruise
Disembark at Circular
Quay - participants at their leisure (on the town) or take bus
back to UNSW |
| DAY
FOUR: Thursday 19th July, 2001 |
| 09:00 -
10:00 AM |
Keynote
Speaker: Dr Grant Lewison, ISSI 2001 Program Chair (Leighton Hall) |
| 10:00 -
10:30 AM |
Morning Tea
(Main Foyer) |
| 10:30 - 12:30 PM |
Leighton
Hall, The Scientia
Session
15 - Informetrics of Health & Medicine II
Chair: Stephen Lawani (Nigeria)
Peter Ingwersen
(Demark) 'Visibility and Impact of Research in Psychiatry for
North European Countries in EU, US and World Contexts'
César Macías-Chapula
& A. Mijango-Nolasco (Mexico) 'Bibliometric
Analysis of AIDS Literature in Central Africa'
Peter Whan
(Australia) 'Where to Look for Evidence about Palliative,
Symptomatic and Supportive Care: a journey through
bibliographic space and time'
|
Ritchie Hall,
The Scientia
Session
16 - Informetrics of Science & Technology
Chair: Peter Vinkler (Hungary)
Santanu Roy &
P.S. Nagpaul (India)
'A Quantitative Evaluation of Relative Efficiencies of
Research and Development Laboratories: a data envelopment
analysis approach'
Sybille Hinze (Germany)
'Research under Microgravity Conditions - its past and its
future'
Dangzhi Zhao &
Elisabeth Logan
(USA) 'Citation Analysis of Scientific Publications on the
Web: a case study on the research area of XML'
|
| 12:30 - 01:30 PM |
Lunch
(Tyree Hall, The Scientia) |
| 01:30 - 03:00 PM |
Leighton
Hall, The Scientia
Session
17 - National Research Outputs II
Chair: Bluma C. Peritz (Israel)
Michel Zitt, S. Ramanana
& Elise Bassecoulard (France) 'On Journal Sets and
countries Benchmarking: some thoughts on robustness of SCI'
Farideh Osareh
(Iran) & Concepción S. Wilson (Australia)
'Iranian Scientific Publications: collaboration, growth and
development from 1985 - 1999'
Dag Aksnes & G.
Sivertsen (Norway) 'The Effect of Highly Cited Papers
on National Citation Indicators'
Nirmal Haritash & B.M.
Gupta
(India) 'Mapping of S&T Issues in Indian
Parliament: a scientometric analysis of questions raised in
both The Houses of Parliament'
|
Ritchie Hall,
The Scientia
Session
18 - Informetrics for Policy - National Contexts
Chair: Archie Dick (South Africa)
Linda Butler
(Australia) 'What is behind Australia's Increased Share of ISI
Publications?'
Nora Narvaez-Berthelemot,
Jane Russell (Mexico), R. Arvantis, R. Waast
& J. Gaillard (France) 'Science in Africa: an
overview of mainstream scientific output'
Daisy Jacobs
(South Africa) 'A Bibliometric Study of the Publication
patterns of Scientists in South Africa 1992-96, with Special
Reference to Gender Difference'
Judith Licea de Arenas, J.
Valles & J. Arenas-Licea
(Mexico) 'Women Pioneers
of Mexican Health Sciences Research'
|
| 03:00 - 03:30
PM |
Afternoon
Tea (Main Foyer) |
| 03:30
- 05:00 PM |
Leighton
Hall, The Scientia
Session
19 - Author-Related Informetrics
Chair: Liming Liang (China)
Fujuki Yoshikane (Japan)
'Comparative Analysis of Author Productivity of Different
Domains: in consideration of the effect of sample size
dependency of the statistical measures'
Hildrun Kretschmer
(Germany) 'Distribution of Co-Author Couples in Journals:
"continuation" of Lotka's Law on the 3rd Dimension'
C.R. Karisidappa &
B.M. Gupta (India) 'A Study of Scientific Productivity
of Authors in Theoretical Population Genetics'
Grit Laudel
(Germany) 'What do we Measure by Co-authorships?'
|
Ritchie Hall,
The Scientia
Session
20 - Analysis of Words & Phrases
Chair: Concepción S. Wilson (Australia)
Ronald Rousseau
(Belgium) "Evolution in Time of the Number of Hits in
Keyword Searches on Internet During One Year, with Special
Attention to the Use of the Word Euro'
Aparna Basu
(India) & Grant Lewison (UK) 'Evaluation
of Astronomy & Astrophysics Research Output Using a
Title-word Search in Place of Journal Classification'
Moshe Yitzhaki
(Israel) 'Relation of Title Length of Journal Article to
Length of Article'
|
| 05:00 -
06:00 PM |
The
Closing Ceremony (Leighton Hall)
Handing over to next Host - Beijing, China
Chair: Mari Davis
(Australia)
- Acknowledgements & Thanks to Sponsors, Contributors,
Organisers and Volunteers
|
DAY
FIVE: Friday 20th July, 2001 (Special Section on Cybermetrics/Webometrics)
Chairs: Isidro Aguillo (Spain) & Ronald
Rousseau (Belgium)
(Ritchie Hall, The Scientia) |
| 09:00 - 10:30 AM |
Isidro Aguillo
(Spain) |
Cybermetrics/
Webometrics: an emerging discipline |
| Judit Bar-Ilan
(Israel) |
How Much Information
Search Engines Disclose on the Links to a Web Page - a
case study of the "cybermetrics" home page |
| Sally Jo
Cunningham (New Zealand) |
The Birth of a
Discipline: an analysis of the 1994-2000 ACM digital libraries
conferences |
| Heting Chu
(USA) |
A Webometric
Analysis of the ALA Accredited LIS Schools' Websites |
| 10:30 - 11:00 AM |
Morning Tea
(Main Foyer) |
| 11:00 - 12:30 PM |
Alastair Smith
(New Zealand) &
Mike Thelwall (UK) |
Web Impact Factors
and University Research Links |
Paul Wouters
& Repke de Vries
(The Netherlands) |
Formally Citing the
Web |
| Ronald
Rousseau (Belgium) |
Concluding Address |
| |
Discussion with
Expert Panel |
| 12:30 - 02:00 PM |
Closed
Meeting for ISSI Board (Dean's Conference Room, Quadrangle
Building) |
| 02:00 - 05:00 PM |
3rd
COLLNET Workshop on "Collaboration
in Science and Technology"
Chair: Hildrun Kretschmer (Germany)
COLLNET Principal Investigators
(Room 2102, Quadrangle
Building) |
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