Events

Upcoming seminar: Sándor Soós

April 14, 2015 from 15h in PTI conference room.

Address: MTA TK PTI Conference room, H-1014 Budapest, Országház u. 30.

Abstract:

"Scientometrics as network science: the latent face of a misperceived research field”

A common (mis)perception within the academia pictures scientometrics as a “quantitative ritual” of research evaluation, or, the measurement of scientific performance, at best. In contrast with this attitude, scientometrics as a research field is defined as the quantitative study of scholarly communication, or, in the broad sense, the empirical study of the cognitive and institutional organization of science. Modelling this phenomenon, among the dominant methodological frameworks of the state-of-the-art is the theory and analysis of complex networks. The main aims of this presentation are (1) to provide an overview of the various models of social and information networks applied in scientometrics, with a special emphasis on the less salient types called “science maps”, and (2) to show how evaluative scientometrics – that is, seeking for proper measures of research performance – is fundamentally linked to this hidden subfield, driven by network science, and sometimes called “structural scientometrics”.

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Contact: soos.sandor@konyvtar.mta.hu

Sándor Soós, PhD
Head of Department

Dept. Science Policy and Scientometrics, Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences personal

homepage: http://www.mtakszi.hu/perso/sandor_soos_en.html