Swiss Year of Scientometrics SYoS
a project funded by swissuniversities
Annette Guignard On 10th of September 2025, the sixth lecture of the Swiss Year of Scientometrics (SYoS) took place at ETH Zurich. Professor Juan Pablo Alperin attracted an interested audience of more than 50 participants with an inspiring talk on “Building Community Infrastructure for Collaborative Metadata Enrichment”. The presentation slides and a recording of his lecture are … Read more
We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of the journal Qualität in der Wissenschaft has just been published. Issue 4/2024 is dedicated to the topic “Bibliometrie im Fokus” (Bibliometrics in Focus) and features four articles published in English on SYoS and its sister project Towards Open Bibliometric Indicators (TOBI): Mutz, R., Johann, D. … Read more
On November, 13, 2024, the University of Fribourg hosted the 5th lecture of the Swiss Year of Scientometrics: Prof. Bart Thijs from the KU Leuven spoke on “Assessing quality of research: New approaches in response to changing expectations”. The video and slides of the talk are now available. The event took place in the lecture … Read more
On April 24, 2024, the 4th Lecture of the Swiss Year of Scientometrics took place in Zurich. Professor Ludo Waltman spoke to an audience of more than 40 participants on the topic of “Openness of research information – Democratizing the use of scientometrics”. The video recording of the lecture and the slides are now available. … Read more
On October 11, 2023, the second lecture in the series “Swiss Year of Scientometrics” took place at ETH Zurich. Over 50 participants gathered on a sunny autumn afternoon to listen to Professor Emanuel Kulczycki’s lecture on “Reframing scientometrics: How ontological understanding of science influences what we count and how we interpret it”. A video recording … Read more
Dr Stefanie Haustein began the event series for the Swiss Year of Scientometrics on 7 June 2023 with her stimulating lecture on the opportunities and challenges of scientometrics. The video of the lecture and the presentation are now available online. On 7 June 2023, a beautiful summer’s evening, some 40 people attended the first event … Read more
