The 6th lecture of the Swiss Year of Scientometrics: Together for better research representation

SYoS Lecture 06: Professor Juan Pablo Alperin presenting to an audience

Professor Juan Pablo Alperin talking about meta data enrichment (ETH Zurich / Lea Bollhalder)

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

Sixth lecture on 10 September 2025 – Building Community Infrastructure for Collaborative Metadata Enrichment

Portrait Juan Pablo Alperin

Professor Juan Pablo Alperin

We are delighted to welcome Professor Juan Pablo Alperin as speaker for the sixth SYoS lecture. He will talk about “Building Community Infrastructure for Collaborative Metadata Enrichment” on 10 September 2025 at ETH Zurich (Campus Zentrum, Leonhardstrasse 21, 8092 Zürich, Room: LEE E 101). Juan Pablo Alperin is Associate Professor in the School of Publishing … Read more

The 5th lecture of the Swiss Year of Scientometrics: Reflecting on the assessment of quality of research

Professor Bart Thijs lecturing (Photo: Tanja Matic)

Professor Bart Thijs lecturing (Photo: Tanja Matic)

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

Fifth lecture on 13 November 2024 – Assessing quality of research. New approaches in response to changing expectations

Portrait of Prof. Bart Thijs

Professor Bart Thijs

The fifth SYoS lecture on “Assessing quality of research. New approaches in response to changing expectations” is organised in collaboration with the University of Fribourg. It will take place on 13 November 2024 at the University of Fribourg (MIS 03 3113, Avenue de l’Europe 20, 1700 Fribourg). We are extremely pleased to welcome Professor Bart … Read more

The 4th lecture of the Swiss Year of Scientometrics: A plea for the openness of research information

Prof Ludo Waltman speaking to the audience at the SYoS lecture

Professor Ludo Waltman speaking to the audience (ETH Zurich / Alessandro Della Bella)

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

The third lecture of the Swiss Year of Scientometrics explored the relationships between Open Science and Research Assessment

View of the speakers notebook with the audience in the background

The audience following Elizabeth Gadd's lecture (EPFL / Alain Herzog)

On 7 February 2024, the third Swiss Year of Scientometrics (SYoS) lecture took place at EPFL bringing together over 40 participants. After a welcome address by David Johann (Project Lead of SYoS) and a short introductory talk by Gilles Dubochet (Head of Open Science at EPFL), Elizabeth Gadd gave an inspiring lecture on the relationships … Read more

Fourth lecture on 24 April 2024 – Openness of research information: Democratizing the use of scientometrics

Portrait Prof Ludo Waltman

Professor Ludo Waltman

The fourth SYoS lecture on “Openness of research information – Democratizing the use of scientometrics” is organised in collaboration with the Centre for Higher Education and Science Studies (CHESS). It will take place on 24 April 2024 at ETH Zurich (Campus Zentrum, Leonhardstrasse 21, 8092 Zürich, LEE E 101) We are extremely pleased to welcome … Read more

Third Lecture on 7 February 2024 – The responsible assessment of open science

Portrait of Elizabeth Gadd

Dr Elizabeth Gadd

The third SYoS lecture on “The responsible assessment of open science” is organised in collaboration with EPFL. It will take place on 7 February 2024 at EPFL, Lausanne/Ecublens. We are delighted to welcome Dr Elizabeth Gadd as a speaker. Dr Elizabeth (Lizzie) Gadd chairs the International Network of Research Management Societies INORMS Research Evaluation Group … Read more

The Swiss Year of Scientometrics gains momentum with the second lecture

Prof Emanuel Kulczycki presenting the second SYoS lecture

Professor Emanuel Kulczycki speaking to the audience at the second SYoS lecture (ETH Zurich / Mahmoud Hemila)

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

Second Lecture on 11 October 2023 – Reframing scientometrics: How ontological understanding of science influences what we count and how we interpret it

Emanuel Kulczycki speaker of SYoS Lecture no 2

The second SYoS lecture on “Reframing scientometrics: How ontological understanding of science influences what we count and how we interpret it” is organised in collaboration with the Centre for Higher Education and Science Studies (CHESS). It will take place on 11 October 2023 at ETH Zurich (Campus Zentrum, Leonhardstrasse 21, 8092 Zürich, LEE E 101). … Read more