| Event date | May 27, 2024 - May 29, 2024 |
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| Submission deadline | March 01, 2024 |
| Location | Italy |
| Host(s) | University of Turin |
| Event website/information | For more info, send an email to eugenio.petrovich@unito.it |
Philosophy of science and quantitative studies of science (scientometrics and bibliometrics) are currently distinct fields with limited interactions. However, they share numerous objects of investigation and areas of potential common interest. Recent works on disruption indicators for individuating scientific breakthroughs (Leibel & Bornmann, 2024), for instance, address classic philosophy of science topics, such as scientific revolutions and scientific progress, from a quantitative perspective. But also research evaluation, an area in which scientometric indicators play a central role in many countries, would benefit from closer collaboration between philosophers of science and quantitative researchers, especially to better understand how and to what extent metrics can accelerate or hinder the production of good science (Gillies, 2008; Müller & de Rijcke, 2017).
– Alberto Baccini (University of Siena, Italy)
– Pei-Shan Chi (KU Leuven, Belgium)
– Chaomei Chen (Drexel University, USA)
– Yves Gingras (Université de Montréal, Canada)
– Wolfgang Glänzel (KU Leuven, Belgium, winner of the Price Medal)
– Charles Pence (UC Louvain, Belgium)
– Andrea Scharnhorst (KNAW, the Netherlands)
– Henry Small (SciTech Strategies Inc., USA, winner of the Price Medal)
– Cassidy Sugimoto (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
– Paul Wouters (CWTS, Leiden University, the Netherlands)
– K. Brad Wray (Aarhus University, Denmark)
– Alesia Zuccala (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Call for Abstracts
• Indicators of scientific progress and scientific revolutions
• Epistemological interpretations of scientometric phenomena (e.g., bibliometric laws, skewness of science)
• Relationship between research quality, scientific progress, and science metrics
• Quantitative research evaluation and its effects on science (e.g., on scientific pluralism)
• Philosophy of science and science mapping
• Modeling the epistemological aspects of science dynamics
Please submit an abstract (max. 500 words) suitable for blind review.
The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2024.
Please send your abstracts to eugenio.petrovich[at]unito.it with the subject “Submission to the Workshop Philosophy of Science Meets Quantitative Studies of Science”.
March 15: Notifications
May 27-29: Workshop
Cited references
Gillies, D. (2008). How should research be organised? College Publications.
Müller, R., & de Rijcke, S. (2017). Thinking with indicators. Exploring the epistemic impacts of academic performance indicators in the life sciences. Research Evaluation, 26(3), 157–168. https://doi.org/10.1093/
Small, H. (2003). Paradigms, citations, and maps of science: A personal history. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 54(5), 394–399. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.