Open AccessSIG/MET: METRICS 2015: Workshop on Informetric and Scientometric Research
Author(s) -
Haustein Stefanie
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
bulletin of the association for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
ISSN - 2373-9223
DOI - 10.1002/bul2.2016.1720420308
Subject(s) - acknowledgement , session (web analytics) , altmetrics , bibliometrics , context (archaeology) , computer science , relation (database) , citation , library science , data science , information retrieval , world wide web , data mining , geography , computer security , archaeology
EDITOR'S SUMMARY At the fifth SIG/MET workshop, held during the 2015 ASIS&T Annual Meeting, the group shared papers, posters and discussions exploring developments in information measurement. The opening session on bibliometric case studies examined interdisciplinarity among consumers of academic research, increased funding for coauthors of previously funded authors and a classification of acknowledgement types. A session on information retrieval in relation to bibliometrics included studies on overcoming the limits of computational linguistics in very large corpora, an interactive context explorer of bibliographic data called Ariadne and comparative approaches to visualizing the structure of a very large dataset. The alternative metrics session covered application of altmetrics for analyzing public policy documents, a novel usage indicator promoting article discovery, the basis for connections among faculty members using Twitter and the heavy use of Twitter among academics. The daylong workshop included awards for best papers, best student papers and two featured presentations on the application and use of metrics.