25 May 2012 Seminar presentation by Cornelis van Bochove: Science and Prosperity
About the role of R&D in endogenous growth theory, and an alternative to disentangle the roles of basic and applies research
News
Developing quality test for new open access journals
SURF (the national higher education and research partnership for ICT), Amsterdam University Press , and CWTS are taking the initiative to develop an international quality measure for young Open Acess journals
11 May 2012: "In the Interest of Disinterestedness: the Intellectual Properties of Marie Curie". Seminar presentation by Eva Hemmungs Wirtén
Marie Curie, refusing to patent her discoveries, promoted the idea that Science should benefit all.
26 April 2012: PhD Thesis defence by Renald Buter
On this Thurday at 16:15 Renald Buter will defend his thesis 'Scientific structures in context'
27 April 2012: Detecting scientific revolutions. Seminar presentation by Dick Klavans, Chairman and Director of SciTech Strategies, Inc.
How can scientometrics help in the detection of transformative research?
12 April 2012: Faculty of 1000 - Community review and opinion-based metrics. Seminar presentation by Jane Hunter, F1000 managing director
Faculty of 1000 (F1000) is a post-publication review service in Biology and Medicine that identifies and evaluates the most interesting and important papers published worldwide.
Several CWTS contributions to latest issue of ' Research Evaluation'
Its new publisher, Oxford University Press, warmly welcomes this journal with many CWTS contributors.
23 March: Mining, Mapping, and Accelerating Science and Technology. Seminar presentation by Katy Borner
Recent developments in data mining, information visualization, and science of science studies make it possible to study science and technology (S&T) at multiple levels using a systems science approach.
Individual researchers benefit from online impact assessment
Online measuring of impact not yet suited for research assessment exercises
Vacancies at CWTS
Work in a dynamic environment ? Interesting vacancies at CWTS !
2 March 2012: Researchers' views on the impact of evaluations on their careers. Seminar presentation by Frank van der Most
How do the many visible and less visible evaluations affect the courses of individual careers in academic research?
17 February 2012: Societal quality: to a more comprehensive evaluation of scientific research. Seminar presentation by Ingeborg Meijer
The ever increasing demands from society, politics, and economics for benefits from science calls for new instruments to demonstrate the societal quality of science.
27 January 2012: Publication pressure, perception of scientific culture, and burn out among Dutch medical professors. Seminar presentation by Joeri Tijdink
Has publication pressure grown too large to handle for medical professors? This study shows the relations between the degree of publication pressure and burnout symptoms at Dutch medical professors.
6 January 2012: Similarities and Differences Between Citation Distributions. Seminar presentation by Javier Ruiz-Castillo
It is well known that, due to vastly different publication and citation practices, the distributions of references made and citations received by scientific articles have very different characteristics across scientific fields.
US still dominates high impact publications in science
The US are still the dominant scientific world power, but new centres of science are emerging. MIT is the university which has the highest citation impact of its publications in the world. Princeton and Harvard take positions two and three.
7 December 2011: bookpresentation and discussion at Atheneum bookshop Amsterdam about the erosion of authority in science
The authority of scientific knowledge is regularly called into question. This has worried prominent researchers. Those worries go beyond the fraude of a Tilburg social psychologist or the presumed conflict of interest of a Rotterdam virologist
2 December 1012: The new Leiden Ranking. Presenter Paul Wouters
Dutch universities are a 'scientific highland' in science: Above average quality, without too many quality differences compared with the rest of the world. This is one of the conclusions that can be drawn from the new 2011 Leiden Ranking.
18 November, 2011: Beyond Open Access: A framework for openness in scholarly communication. Seminar presentation by Clifford Tatum
In spite of broad support across disciplines, only a small percentage of scientific and scholarly publications are available through open access.
25 November, 2011: Regional scientific production in Europe. The role of HERD funds. Seminar presentation by Esther Ferrándiz
Despite the high amount of public funds allocated to academic research and development (R&D), only a few studies have provided systematic evidence on the effects of such investment at regional scale.
16 November, 2011: Symposium 'Dynamics of Academic Leadership'
' ACUMEN: Academic Careers Understood by Measurement and Norms' will be the symposium contribution of Paul Wouters.
