2007 ICSTI Public Conference

21-22 June 2007

INIST-CNRS - Nancy, France

The next ICSTI Public Conference will be held in Nancy at INIST-CNRS, June 21-22 on the theme:

Assessing the quality and impact of research: practices and initiatives in scholarly information

Program : Thursday 21 June | Friday 22 June
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Scientific and Technical Information plays a key role in research assessment and valuation processes. The advent of the information society, and its accompanying information and communication technologies, has generated new practices in knowledge production and knowledge sharing alike. As a consequence to this paradigm shift, alternatives to the traditional publishing model have emerged and have paved the way for the major players, i.e. the researchers, to regain control over scholarly communication.

Because of such a changing environment, research quality assessment and its objectives are brought to the forefront. The very notion of scientific quality is being questioned as today the quality of an article is often based on the impact factor of the journal that publishes it rather than on its inherent value, whereas the new digital environment allows for alternative, usage-based metrics.

The aim of this conference will be not only to review current practices in assessing and qualifying research but also to go further and investigate the impact of initiatives such as ‘open peer review’ and collaborative filtering. More generally, it will investigate what changes the processes and objectives of science evaluation are likely to undergo as a consequence of the new communication vectors.

Speakers list:

  Richard Akerman, CISTI
  Johan Bollen, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  Tim Brody, University of Southampton
  Christine Chichester, Knewco Inc.
  Jean Dercourt, Académie des Sciences
  Lee Dirks, Microsoft
  Bruno Granier, Université de Brest
  Stefan Hornbostel, DFG, Institute for Research Information and Quality Assurance
  Denis Jérome, CNRS, Académie des Sciences
  Donald W. King, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Catriona MacCallum, Public Library of Science
  Adrian Mulligan, Elsevier
  Ulrich Pöschl, Max Planck Society
  Jerry Sheehan, National Library of Medicine
  Peter Shepherd, Project Counter
  Pritpal S. Tamber, Faculty of 1000 Medicine
  Mary Van Allen, Thomson Scientific

  Bernard Dumouchel - ICSTI Vice President

9.30 am : Introduction

  Jean Dercourt - Académie des Sciences

10.00 am : Quality, certification and peer review, Part 1

  Adrian Mulligan - Elsevier
"Perceptions and misperceptions - attitudes to peer review"

  Richard Akerman - CISTI
"Web tools for peer reviewers...and everyone"

Questions & answers

Coffee break

11.20 am : Quality, certification and peer review, Part 2

  Bruno Granier - Université de Brest
"Impact of research assessment on scientific publication in earth sciences"

  Pritpal S. Tamber - Faculty of 1000 Medicine
"Faculty of 1000 Medicine: Post-publication peer selection"

  Ulrich Pöschl - Max Planck Society
"Interactive open access publishing and collaborative peer review for improved scientific communication and quality assurance"

Questions & answers

1.00 pm : Lunch

2.00 pm : Tools and metrics, Part 1

Keynote speech

  Donald W. King - School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Alternative metrics from a publisher’s and a librarian’s perspective"


  Denis Jérome - CNRS, Académie des Sciences
"Evaluation based on scientific publications: experiences in physics"

  Mary Van Allen - Thomson Scientific
"Bibliometric approaches to evaluation, with an overview of French scientific research"

Questions & answers

Coffee break

4.00 pm : Tools and metrics, Part 2

  Peter Shepherd - Project Counter
"Usage Factor: a new insight into the value of journals"

  Johan Bollen - Los Alamos National Laboratory
"Scholarly impact: from ranking to assessment"

Questions & answers

5.30 pm : Cocktail

8.30 am : Registration and coffee

9.00 am : Practices and perspectives of research evaluation, Part 1

  Jerry Sheehan - National Library of Medicine
"Research Evaluation: Evolving policies and practices for assessing impact"

  Stefan Hornbostel - DFG, Institute for Research and Quality Assurance
"From ad hoc evaluation to monitoring systems"

  Tim Brody - University of Southampton
"Institutions, repositories and research assessment"

Questions & answers

Coffee break

10.45 am : Practices and perspectives of research evaluation, Part 2

  Christine Chichester - Knewco Inc.
"Community peer review in Wiki environment"

  Catriona MacCallum - Public Library of Science
"Ratings, reviews and repercussions: PLoS meets Web 2.0"

Questions & answers

Final keynote

  Lee Dirks - Microsoft
"Open access, data-driven science & the impact on research communication"

12.30 pm : Summary and close

  Raymond Duval - INIST Director

1.00 pm : Lunch

2:00 pm : Additional session

  Presentation of the WorldWideScience.org portal prototype

by Walter Warnick - OSTI, US Department of Energy

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See also :

• INIST at IFLA
• INIST at Online Information
• ICSTI Public Conference: Speakers’ abstracts, profiles and presentations
• INIST at Bibliostar
• INIST at GL 11
• Paris Bookfair
• INIST at I EXPO 2009
• INIST at ILDS conference