Call for Nominations - 2021 Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Scholarship - deadline April 10

[Birger Larsen]

EUGENE GARFIELD
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION SCHOLARSHIP
2021

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

1. NATURE OF THE AWARD
The Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Scholarship consists of an award of
EUR 3,000 (donated by the Eugene Garfield Foundation) to cover any research
related expenses (including traveling) of the grant recipient, contingent
upon the recipient's attending ISSI2021, the next ISSI biennial conference.
This conference will be held online, July 12-15, 2021.

2. PURPOSE OF THE AWARD
The purpose of this scholarship is to foster research in informetrics,
including bibliometrics, scientometrics, webmetrics and altmetrics by
encouraging and assisting doctoral students in the field with their
dissertation research.

3. ELIGIBILITY
The scholarship recipient must meet the following qualifications:
(a) Be an active doctoral candidate pursuing research using informetric,
bibliometric, scientometric, webmetric or altmetric methodology in a
degree-granting institution;
(b) Have a doctoral dissertation proposal accepted by the institution or
by their dissertation advisor.
Clarification: an active doctoral student is someone who has not yet
obtained the doctoral degree at the moment he/she receives the award.
Moreover, the applicant need not be a member of ISSI to be considered for
this scholarship.

4. ADMINISTRATION
The award is sponsored by the Eugene Garfield Foundation with the
cooperation of the Chemical Heritage Foundation, and is administered by
the Board of the International Society for Scientometrics and
Informetrics (ISSI).

5. NOMINATIONS
Submission should include the following:
(a) The doctoral research proposal, including a description of the research,
methodology, and significance, 5 pages or less in length, double-spaced,
and in English;
(b) A copy of the paper submitted for presentation at the ISSI Conference;
(c) A cover letter from the dissertation advisor endorsing the proposal
and confirming that the contents of this proposal are accepted by the
institute, or at least by the advisor;
(d) An up-to-date curriculum vitae.

6. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS AND DEADLINE
Deadline for submission is April 10, 2019. All proposals should be submitted
in PDF by e-mail to professor Birger Larsen at egdds...@gmail.com
An acknowledgement of receipt will be sent to candidates.

7. SELECTION
All the submitted material, in particular the doctoral research proposal, and
the paper submitted to this year's ISSI conference, will be taken into
consideration in the evaluation. The evaluation committee will consist of a
subcommittee of no more than four individuals, with one ISSI Board member.

8. CONFERENCE PRESENTATION
The recipient of the award will be given the opportunity to present
his/her work either during a normal session (if his/her paper has been
accepted for presentation), either as a special lecture on the same level
as research in progress. This presentation will be referred to as the
special Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Scholarship Lecture.

Some further clarifications
a) The candidate must have the intention to attend the conference, as
shown by a submitted paper.
b) The awardee is free to use the award money as he/she pleases. The award
does not have to (but of course may) be used for registration or travelling
to the conference.
c) The awardee is not automatically entitled to an (extra) travel grant
from the conference organizers or from ISSI. Of course he/she may apply
for such a grant (if such grants are made available by the organizers)
like any other conference participant.

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Birger Larsen, PhD
Professor
Head of Science, Policy and Information Studies
Department of Communication
Aalborg University
A.C. Meyers Vænge 15
DK-2450 Copenhagen SV
Denmark

Email: bir...@hum.aau.dk
Phone: +45 22767042