Bibliometrics and research Impact community
BRIC 2024
program: June 5-6, 2024
pre-conference: June 4
Building Bridges to Impact: Exploring Bibliometrics and Beyond
Our 2024 host location - Simon Fraser University - Harbour Centre
2024 Program details
Detailed program in fancy format with abstracts & speaker bios coming soon. More pre-conference event details soon.
PRE-CONFERENCE Sessions - June 4th
Free & open pre-conference workshops led by experts (details on rooms & times tbd shortly):
Annual InCites Forum Canada by Clarivate / 9am-noon - Room 1520
Elsevier Research Intelligence Showcase - From Interface to APIs with Cal Murgu & Sally Murray-Walsh from Elsevier / 1-3pm Room 1530 Register here
Dimensions & Altmetric Workshop: Exploring Collaborations and SDG impact through Big Data Analysis with Digital Science Room 3-5 pm Room 1530 Register here
Bibliometric Analysis with OpenAlex - Register here
Wednesday, June 5th
8:00 - 9:00 Welcome (Badge pick-up, intros, directions, housekeeping)
9:00 - 9:40 Keynote: Stefanie Haustein (University of Ottawa)
9:40 - 10:00 Unfairly Ranked? An Online Tool to Reveal True Scientific Standing with Balazs Gyorffy (Semmelweis University)
10:00 - 10:20 Terms of Inclusion: Mapping the concepts used to describe bias in the research lifecycle with Sheila Craft-Morgan (Ohio State University)
10:20 - 10:50 BREAK and Poster sessions
10:50 - 11:10 Aspirational Growth – Taking on Bigger Projects with Help from your Friends with Emily Hart (Syracuse University)
11:10 - 11:30 Canadian research security and collaboration: The impact of decoupling partnerships with Ann Beynon (Clarivate)
11:30 - 12:00 VOICES – Analyzing the Value and Effects of Openness, Inclusion, Communication, and Engagement for Science During and Past the Pandemic with Isabelle Dorsch (Leibniz Information Centre for Economics)
Noon - 1:25 LUNCH
1:30 - 1:50 Persistent Identifiers in Canada: ORCID Use Cases and a National PID Strategy with John Aspler (CRKN)
1:50 - 2:10 Altmetric; Investigating the Ripple Effect of Mentorship on Open Access Publishing with Carlos Areia (Digital Science)
2:10 - 2:30 Tracing the Genealogies of Darwinian Ideas with Sentence Embeddings with Lucian Li (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign)
2:30 - 3:00 Demand side bibliometrics: Mapping university outputs to government research priorities with Euan Adie (Overton/Open Policy)
3:00 - 3:20 BREAK and Poster sessions
3:20 - 3:40 Linking grants to OpenAlex to gain insight on research funding by topic with Jason Portenoy (OurResearch)
3:40 - 4:00 Retractions: Analyzing the Role of Misconduct and Plagiarism in Chemistry Manuscripts with Yulia Sevryugina (University of Michigan)
4:00 - 4:30 We paid how much? Case studies of APC expenditure at the University of British Columbia and the University of Ottawa with Maddie Hare (UOttawa), Stephanie Savage (UBC), Erin Fields (UBC) and Leigh-Ann Butler (UOttawa)
4:30 - 4:45 Wrap-up
6 pm Evening Reception at The Polygon (see venue)
Thursday June 6th
8:00 - 9:00 Welcome (Badge pick-up, intros, directions, housekeeping)
9:00 - 9:40 Keynote: Juan Pablo Alperin (Simon Fraser University)
9:40 - 10:00 Assessing Named Research Organization Risk using Elsevier Bibliographic Data with Cal Murgu (Elsevier)
10:00 - 10:20 “Dean’s Button” Use Case with Lenore Bajona (Dalhousie University)
10:20 - 10:50 BREAK and Poster sessions
10:50 - 11:10 Finding a path towards reconciling Indigenous research with research assessment with Thane Chambers (University of Alberta)
11:10 - 11:30 The linguistic landscape of scholarly publishing: Quantifying language bias through Multiple Systems Estimation with Collin Drummond (UNC, Chapel Hill)
11:30 - noon Global science overlay maps with Robin Haunschild (Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research)
12:00 - 1:25 LUNCH
1:30 - 1:50 Tracking Citation Impact – Exploring bibliometrics in Health Technology Assessment with Robyn Butcher (CADTH)
1:50 - 2:10 Leaving a paper trail: tracking scholarly legacy with bibliometrics with Christina Gattone (Northwestern University)
2:10 - 2:30 Insights into Research Performance: A Comprehensive Bibliometric Analysis for Hong Kong RAE 2026 with Jesse Xiao (Hong Kong Baptist University)
2:30 - 3:00 Navigating the Open Access Landscape: Insights and Opportunities for Stanford Libraries with Jacob Hill (Stanford University LIbraries)
3:00 - 3:20 BREAK and Poster sessions
3:20 - 3:40 Data-driven approaches to Research-Creation: Prospects and Challenges for the Arts and Humanities with Ely Lyonblum (University of Toronto)
3:40 - 4:00 Beyond the metrics: What do Wikipedia citations mean? with Olivia MacIsaac (Indiana University)
4:00 - 4:20 How Bibliometric Coupling became a Sleeping Beauty: a Historiography with Jeffrey Demaine
4:30 - 4:45 Wrap-up
Presenter Guidelines
For presenters - we will have a pretty standard setup with internet/WiFi, PC / laptop, and sound. If you’re new to BRIC as a presenter, we’re a pretty chill group. No stress!
POSTERS - We had such a difficult time with selections that for the first time, we’ve offered up a poster option to those we couldn’t fit in.
VENUE
Note: This is an in-person event; no virtual attendance option planned at this time.
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