Panel Discussion on Scholarly Metrics in Research Assessment at Boston March Meeting

Scholarly Metrics in Research Assessment

Date: Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Time: 5:45 p.m. - 7:15 p.m.

Location: Boston Convention and Exhibition Center (BCEC) Room 253A

Website: https://www.aps.org/meetings/march/metrics.cfm

Description: Scholarly Metrics in Research Assessment Scholarly metrics play a significant role in the way scientists and their research are assessed for funding, hiring, and promotion. www.aps.org Scholarly metrics play a significant role in the way scientists and their research are assessed for funding, hiring, and promotion. The APS editors will host a special session in which three panelists with experience in university administration, bibliometrics research, computational social science, and science policy will present their perspectives on scholarly metrics and research assessment.

Panelists:

Johan Bollen, Professor of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Title: "From scholarly metrics to self-organized, peer-to-peer science funding”

Vincent Larivière, Associate Professor of Information Science, University of Montréal, Canada Title: "Measuring research: What every physicist should know”

Rashid Zia, Dean of the College, Brown University Title: "Academia as a Public Profession: Opportunities and Challenges of Feedback from Public Data”