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 with abstracts & speaker bios now available. Awesome posters listed further below.
PRE-CONFERENCE Sessions - June 4th
Free & open pre-conference workshops led by experts:
Annual InCites Forum Canada by Clarivate / 9am-noon - Room 1520 Register here
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 with Kyle Demes from OurResearch - Room 1530 & 10-noon Register here
Wednesday, June 5th
All main event talks in Fletcher Challenge Room - registration required
8:00 - 8:50 Welcome (Badge pick-up, intros, directions, housekeeping)
8:50 - 9:00 Kick off
9:00 - 9:40 Keynote: Stefanie Haustein (University of Ottawa & scholcommlab.ca)
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 (catered)
1:30 - 1:50 Persistent Identifiers in Canada: ORCID Use Cases and a National PID Strategy with John Aspler (CRKN)
1:50 - 2:10 Investigating the Ripple Effect of Mentorship on Open Access Publishing with Carlos Areia (Digital Science/Altmetric)
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 Katie Shamash (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 - 9:50 Welcome (Badge pick-up, intros, directions, housekeeping)
8:50 - 9:00 Kick off
9:00 - 9:40 Keynote: Juan Pablo Alperin (Simon Fraser University & scholcommlab.ca)
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) & Cal Murgu (Elsevier)
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 & Lutz Bornmann (Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research)
12:00 - 1:25 LUNCH (catered)
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, Karen Gutzman & Mao Soulakis (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 & Jere Odell (Indiana University)
4:00 - 4:20 How Bibliometric Coupling became a Sleeping Beauty: a Historiography with Jeffrey Demaine (Bibliometrician)
4:30 - 4:45 Wrap-up
Posters
Citation and content analysis of scholarly productivity at a Major University’s Healthcare and Research Settings: Lessons Learned, Neetu Rajpal and Manuel de la Cruz Gutierrez (University of Pennsylvania)
Using research metrics to explore influence of a large, networked science programme, Monica Morrison (University of Saskatchewan)
Tip of the Iceberg: Pythonic insights from a large XML bibliometric collection, Sarah Siddiqui, University of Rochester
Transitioning from bepress's Selected Works to Elsevier's Pure: A Cautionary Tale, Christopher Sweet, Illinois Wesleyan University
Mapping skills and tools needed for researcher impact reports at Stellenbosch University, Marié Roux, Stellenbosch University, Library and Information Service
Mapping the Phage Therapy Innovation Landscape : A Big Data and Machine Learning Approach, Maxime Descartes, Mbogning Fonkou, Jude Dzevela Kong, York University
Measuring the impact of the 2013 US federal public access memos: research toward a Ph.D., Andrea Medina-Smith, Manchester Metropolitan University
Mapping the Landscape of Medical Research in the Arab World Countries: A Comprehensive Bibliometric Analysis, Shadan Almuhaidib, Rawan Alqahtani, Haifa F. Alotaibi, Asma Saeed, Sahar Alnasrallah, Fayez Alshamsi, Saleh A. Alqahtani, and Waleed Alhazzani
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!
VENUE
Note: This is an in-person event; no virtual attendance option planned at this time.
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