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
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Detailed program with abstracts & speaker bios now available (updated June 6th). Awesome posters listed further below.
PRE-CONFERENCE Sessions
Well attended and expert led workshops held during our pre-conference June 4th - thanks to our presenters!
Annual InCites Forum Canada by with Marisa Rucculo from Clarivate (and community contributors)
Bibliometric Analysis with OpenAlex with Kyle Demes from OurResearch
Elsevier Research Intelligence Showcase - From Interface to APIs with Cal Murgu & Sally Murray-Walsh from Elsevier
Dimensions & Altmetric Workshop: Exploring Collaborations and SDG impact through Big Data Analysis with Carlos Areia from Digital Science
SOCIAL EVENT — Schol Comm Social at BRIC with COPPUL crew - June 4th from 6:00 - 9:00 pm — View details
Wednesday, June 5th
All talks in Fletcher Challenge Theatre
8:00 - 8:45 Arrivals (Badge pick-up, intros, directions, housekeeping)
8:45 - 9:00 Welcome and land acknowledgement with Gwen Bird, University Librarian and Dean of Libraries, Simon Fraser University
9:00 - 9:40 Keynote: 60 years of closed research assessment infrastructure with Stefanie Haustein (University of Ottawa & scholcommlab.ca)
9:40 - 10:00 Unfairly Ranked? An Online Tool to Reveal True Scientific Standing with Balázs Győrffy (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) & Shannon O’Reilly (Digital Science)
11:10 - 11:30 Canadian research security and collaboration: The impact of decoupling partnerships with Ann Beynon & Milovan Kovac, Ross Porter & Marisa Rucculo (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), Germana Barata (ScholCommLab & Unicamp Brazil), Natascha Chtena (SFU) & Mariana Hafiz (Unicamp Brazil)
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) & Laura Bredahl (University of Waterloo)
1:50 - 2:10 Investigating the Ripple Effect of Mentorship on Open Access Publishing with Carlos Areia, Mike Taylor & Kathryn Weber Boer (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….And we’ve got a great Menu)
Thursday June 6th
8:00 - 8:45 Arrival - posters, networking and meeting
8:45 - 9:00 Welcome / BRIC Conference Planning Committee
9:00 - 9:40 Keynote: 60 years of open research assessment Infrastructure? 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 & Danielle Rabb (Canada’s Drug Agency / 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
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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!
PPT / presentation file due June 3rd (ideally so we can pre-load) send to info@bric-conference.ca
PDF for archives: week after event; persistent repository link (preferred) or PDF / PDF/a copy of presentation that we can post in our archives.
VENUE
Note: This is an in-person event; no virtual attendance option planned at this time.
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