Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), New Delhi is organising two days National Workshop on Using Different Metrics for Assessing Research Productivity during February 16-17, 2012, at Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), New Delhi Campus. This workshop intends to bring together scientists, policy makers and information scientists/librarians to discuss the various issues related to the topic.
The workshop is intended to take stock of present methods of evaluating research productivity of a country and an individual scientist. An endeavour will be made to examine the methods which are followed in different scientometrics/bibliometrics studies which are generally used in the assessment of research productivity by various agencies .
The speakers would include eminent scientists and practitioners. The target audience are scientists, librarians and policy makers from leading institutions. This workshop will include both invited and contributed papers, and state-of-the-art lectures by eminent keynote speakers. Only a limited number of papers will be accepted for presentation. Later on an edited volume with ISBN No. will be published with presented papers.
Major Topics to be covered in the Workshop are :
(i) Evaluating research productivity. (ii) Tools for measuring the productivity. (iii) Using metrics for arriving at conclusions: Best Practices. (iv) Quality versus quantity- Two sides of the coins of research productivity. (v) Moving beyond the existing practices: Search for value addition parameters.
Local hospitality will be provided by the organisers to the participants from outside Delhi. This announcement is available on our website http://www.isid.ac.in/
