Swiss Year of Scientometrics SYoS
a project funded by swissuniversities
We are delighted to introduce the panelists for the panel discussion on the challenges and perspectives of responsible research assessment, which will take place on September 16, 5:00–6:30 p.m., at the Felix Frey Auditorium (Freiburgstrasse 3) in Bern. Bringing together experts from research, university management and research support, as well as research funding organizations, the … Read more
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 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
