Call for papers - Quantifying Science Workshop in Conference on Complex Studies 2015 (CCS2015)

[lingfei wu]

Quantifying Science

Oct 1st 2015 - Tempe, Arizona

http://dashunwang.com/workshop/qs-ccs15/

A satellite to CCS’15: http://www.ccs2015.org/

The increasing availability of large-scale datasets that capture major activities in science—publications, patents, citations, grant proposals, as well as detailed meta-data associated with them—has created an unprecedented opportunity to explore in a quantitative manner the patterns of scientific production and reward. In contrast with standard bibliometric studies, the recent surge in quantitative studies of science is characterized by a few distinct flavors: (i) They typically rely on large-scale datasets to study science, ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions of authors, papers and their citations; (ii) Instead of evaluating metrics, they use models to more deeply probe the mechanisms driving science, from knowledge production to scientific impact, systematically distinguishing predictable from random patterns; (iii) More quantitative studies of science no longer hold the unique goal of evaluating and improving the system of science. Rather, researchers from a wide range of disciplines have begun to use science as an observatory to probe social phenomena that are more universal and widely applicable than the institutions of science themselves. As such, the tools and perspectives vary, involving social scientists, information and computer scientists, economists, physicists and mathematicians, with results published in venues with non-overlapping readership. 

The goal of this satellite is to bring together leading researchers from various disciplines and form discussions on the proliferating subject of quantifying science. We specifically look for contributions that satisfy one or more of the aforementioned flavors. 

Submission 

Submit a (max) one-page abstract including one descriptive figure and caption using easy chair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qsccs15 Selected submissions are invited to present a research talk. Note, as a focused workshop, we welcome submissions that may also be presented in the main conference. 

Areas of Interest include but are not limited to the following focused topics:

• Dynamical and structural properties of citations
• Patterns behind normal and successful scientific career 
• How institutions (e.g., universities) shape scientific production
• Collaborations and team science
• Emergence and life course of concepts 
• Extinction, evolution and emergence of knowledge 
• Prediction of future knowledge and impact
• Altmetrics 
• Peer review processes in science
• Crowdsourcing science

Submission Deadline: July 10, 2015** 

Acceptance Notification: July 17, 2015.

** We also honor expedite review of your submission if you demand a response prior to early registration deadline - please contact Dashun Wang <dashu...@gmail.com> upon submission. 

Confirmed Speakers as of June, 2015

Brian Uzzi, the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Filippo Radicchi, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University

C. Lee Giles, College of Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State University

Carl Bergstrom, University of Washington

Jacob Foster, Department of Sociology, UCLA

Roberta Sinatra, CCNR, Northeastern University

Luis A. Nunes Amaral, Northwestern University

Organized by: Dashun Wang, James A. Evans, Qing Jin, Lingfei Wu

College of Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

Center for Complex Network Research, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA

Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA