8-11 September, 2010: 11th International Conference on STI 'Creating Value for Users'
Science and Technology indicators have become an increasingly important instrument for science policy and research management.
'Creating Value for Users'
S&T indicators
Science and Technology (S&T) indicators have become an increasingly important instrument for science policy and research management. The assessment of strengths and weaknesses of a country’s science system, ranking, benchmarking and classification of universities, finding excellence in research, identification of emerging and often interdisciplinary research themes, measuring knowledge transfer between academia and industry, all these examples show the value of S&T indicators for users.
New challenges
New challenges appear: the influence of Open Access on the construction of S&T indicators, research performance on the basis of Web of Science data versus Scopus data, the role of the social sciences and the humanities, mapping, data-mining and networking in ever-growing electronic resources. At the same time it has become clear that we have to rethink the fundamentals of S&T indicators: their conceptual basis, statistical properties, consistency, explanatory power, predictive power, and appropriateness in a given context such as fields of science, time periods, and units of assessment.
The conference's announcement (pdf).
Target group
The conference will be of interest to:
- Policy makers concerned with design and implementation of national and international S&T policy;
- Directors of research in funding agencies, universities and research institutes; R&D managers in the business sector;
- Information scientists and statisticians, especially those interested in S&T data;
- Researchers in the field of S&T studies;
- Science publishers and editors, writers and journalists and database vendors;
- Librarians;
- Researchers in all fields of science concerned with S&T data system for monitoring scientific developments in their own field.
Deadline abstracts
Deadline for abstracts: 16 April, 2010
Language
The working language of the conference will be English.
Previous STI Conferences
Previous conferences have been held in Leiden (1988), Bielefeld (1990), Leiden (1991), Antwerp (1995), Cambridge (1998), Leiden (2000), Karlsruhe (2002), Leiden (2004), Leuven (2006), and Vienna (2008).
More information
For more information please contact the conference manager mrs. Maria Klijn-Wuisman (e-mail).