RefResh 2020
2nd Workshop on Reframing Research
(@ SocInfo 2020)
6 Oct. 2020, Pisa, Italy
Over the last decade, research scaled up tremendously in terms of publications, research data, authors, contributing institutions, projects, and funding opportunities. Nowadays scientific progress, with its estimated 150 million literature corpus, an annual increase rate of around 1.5 million publications, and as many (open) research data, promoted research to a multifaceted, high-frequency, global-scale phenomenon that can be approached computationally thanks to the vast amount of data available.
It is therefore of paramount importance to study such an articulated, evolving system in order to understand its dynamics, patterns, internal equilibria, and interactions among the diverse scientific actors and entities. In particular, recent studies have proved that a holistic study of research as a complex phenomenon inserted in a delicate socioeconomic and geopolitical context, rather than as an isolated, context-unaware system, can provide a deeper understanding on how research and researchers influence and are influenced by the world outside academia. An analysis as such can provide answers to socio-economic questions, frame academic research on a geopolitical canvas, provide insight on the factors that generate successful science, allocate better the available resources, and therefore benefit from greater impact and efficacy.
Workshop goal
The main objective of the proposed workshop is to bring together researchers from both quantitative and qualitative studies, practitioners and policy-makers working in the field of academic research, scholarly communication, and knowledge production in order to reframe research in relation to the underlying socioeconomic and geopolitical canvas.
In particular, we intend to encourage interdisciplinary analysis that considers research as a complex system that influences and is influenced by society, economics, culture, and politics. This would include (computational) analysis of academic social networks and interactions among different communities, exploration of factors influencing or preventing scientific collaboration and knowledge dissemination, exploration of trends, polarisations and biases in research, methodologies, indicators and measures for assessing research impact on society and industry, policies and practices fostering better scientific progress, and so on.
Topics
- Mutual influence of research, politics, and society
- The societal impact of research
- Research equality, fair opportunities and access to funding streams
- Gender, racial, geographical trends and biases
- Analysis of researchers mobility and careers trajectories
- Predatory publishing and bogus conferences
- Misrepresentation of science and public opinion mining
- Research and fake (scientific) news
- Acceleration of scientific progress
- Structure and evolution of research
- Evolution and diffusion of research concepts across research areas
- Impact of interdisciplinary research
- Analysis of patterns and trends in academia
- Application and analysis of the FAIR data principles
- Impact of Open Access and Open Science mandates
- Policymaking and strategic decisions for research
- Traditional publishing caveat, critiques and alternative models
- Novel peer review practices
Call for Extended Abstracts
Important dates
Submission guidelines
RefResh 2020 looks for extended abstracts around the listed topics summarising the work to be presented.
We encourage researchers to also submit abstracts of work that has already been published and/or
submit work
in progress.
Submissions have to be up to
3 pages (in English) including references, pictures and tables in
Springer
LNCS format.
Extended abstracts should be submitted as
pdf files through
EasyChair conference management system
here.
The submissions will be evaluated according to their significance, originality, technical content, style,
clarity, and relevance to
the workshop.
Please give a sufficiently detailed description of your work and your methods so we can adequately
assess its
relevance.
Please consider that reviewers will be from an interdisciplinary community.
RefResh also supports the
Linked Research principles; we
applaud authors having care to consider them when preparing their papers.
It is our intention to publish the accepted abstracts on this website and as a Open Access post-print collection on Zenodo.
For any other question, feel free to contact us at refresh20@easychair.org
Program
RefResh 2020 is a co-located event of the
12th International Conference on Social
Informatics
(SocInfo 2020), 6-9 October, 2020, Pisa, Italy.
The workshop will take place on the 6th of October.
Welcome + introduction
Venue: Zoom (link will be provided by SocInfo organisers on October the 5th).
Keynote
Speaker: Prof. Ludo Waltman
Title: Reframing research: The need for openness, pluralism, and humility in science studies
research
Abstract
TBA
Coffee break
Session 1
10:15 - 10:30 "Modeling and analysis
of migration and mobility among scholars using bibliometric data"
Samin Aref, Andrea Miranda-Gonzalez, Alexander Subbotin, Tom Theile, Emilio Zagheni and Jevin West
10:30 - 10:45 "Scholarly Technology
and the Fallacy of Profitability"
Luc Boruta and Damien Vannson
10:45 - 11:00 "Metadata Inheritance:
New Research Paper, New Data, New Metadata?"
Tobias Weber
Coffee break
Session 2
11:15 - 11:30 "Matthew Effects in
Open Science and RRI"
Thomas Klebel, Ilaria Fava and Tony Ross-Hellauer
11:30 - 11:45 "In Search of
Outstanding Research Advances - Exploring Editorial Recommendations
"
Jasmin Sadat and Alexis-Michel Mugabushaka
11:45 - 12:00 "Scientific production
by universities"
Angelika Tsivinskaya
12:00 - 12:15 "A Visual Analytics
Environment for Developing Data Quality-aware Performance Models"
Marco Angelini and Cinzia Daraio
Closing
Workshop organisation
Workshop Chairs
Andrea Mannocci
Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione (ISTI)
Consiglio
Nazionale delle
Ricerche (CNR)
Pisa, Italy
Francesco Osborne
Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University
Milton Keynes,
UK
Paolo Manghi
Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione (ISTI)
Consiglio
Nazionale delle
Ricerche (CNR)
Pisa, Italy
Program committee
- Vincent Traag (CWTS, Leiden University, NL 🇳🇱)
- Pedro Principe (University of Minho, PT 🇵🇹)
- Ginny Hendricks (CrossRef, UK 🇬🇧)
- Thanasis Vergoulis (Athena Research Center, Athens, EL 🇬🇷)
- Giovanni Colavizza (CWTS, Leiden University, NL 🇳🇱)
- Jodi Schneider (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, US 🇺🇸)
- Angelo Salatino (Knowledge Media Institute, Open University, UK 🇬🇧)
- Leonardo Candela (ISTI-CNR, IT 🇮🇹)
- Patricia Feeney (CrossRef, UK 🇬🇧)
- Marilena Daquino (University of Bologna, IT 🇮🇹)
- Cameron Neylon (Centre for Culture and Technology, Curtin University, AU 🇦🇺)
- Sahar Vahdati (University of Oxford, UK 🇬🇧)