Swiss Year of Scientometrics SYoS
a project funded by swissuniversities
Many institutions currently struggle with the appropriate and responsible use of quantitative scientometric indicators (QSI) while they are trying to implement the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) or an action plan for the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA). The 6th workshop of the Swiss Year of Scientometrics (SYoS) brought together 27 stakeholders and experts … Read more
The attendants of the 5th SYoS workshop at the University of Fribourg (ETH Zurich, Annette Guignard)
The 5th Workshop of the Swiss Year of Scientometrics was held on November 14 at the University of Fribourg. The workshop focused on assessing research quality using bibliometric indicators. It was co-moderated by Simon Willemin and David Johann from the ETH Library of ETH Zurich. This was the last event of the series of workshops … Read more
Participants of the 4th Workshop of the Swiss Year of Scientometrics (ETH Zurich / Annette Guignard)
The 4th Workshop of the Swiss Year of Scientometrics (SYoS) took place at ETH Zurich on 25 April 2024. The diverse audience included 25 participants from different European universities and Swiss institutions (Universities of Bern, Fribourg, St. Gallen and Zurich, ZHAW, Eawag-Empa, EPFL, ETH Zurich and ETH Board, Armasuisse, Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries, and … Read more
The third workshop of the Swiss Year of Scientometrics took place on February 8th, 2024, on the EPFL campus, and was divided into two streams. The “Open Science” stream addressed how to develop metrics for research assessment that consider the impact and value of Open Science outputs. The workshop stream started off with a general … Read more
The second SYoS workshop, which took place on 12 October 2023 at ETH Zurich, was dedicated to the topic of “reflexive bibliometrics”. The term “reflexive bibliometrics” may not be familiar to many, but it addresses an important phenomenon, namely, that many actors in the science system (e.g. Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) or individual researchers) adapt … Read more
On 8 June 2023, the first SYoS Workshop took place at ETH Zurich. It followed Dr Stefanie Haustein’s opening lecture entitled “Opportunities and challenges of scientometrics: Diversification of data sources and applications”. The workshop was moderated by Sven Hug from the Swiss Science Council. In addition to Dr Stefanie Haustein (University of Ottawa), the workshop … Read more
