​A meeting place for Science of Science in the Chicago area - across different universities and campuses.

NICO talk
Tuesday, May 8th

Vincent Larivière
Associate Professor
Information Science, Universitè de Montrèal
 Using the Full-Text of Scholarly Documents to Understand the Structure of Science
Quantitative social studies of science historically relied on papers’ metadata. The ubiquity of electronic journals and increase in availability of large datasets of papers has allowed moving beyond metadata and delving into the full text of scholarly documents. Based on the full text of papers published in the PLOS series of journals, this talk will present the results of a series studies on the structure of science. Those will describe 1) how references are distributed across the text of scholarly articles, 2) the relation between the content of abstracts and the content of articles, 3) the citation context of scholarly articles, and 4) the analysis of contributorship statements. The talk will conclude with a discussion of challenges associated with full-text analysis and avenues for further research.


Vincent Larivière is associate professor of information science at the École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information, l’Université de Montréal, where he teaches research methods and bibliometrics. He is also the scientific director of the Érudit journal platform, associate scientific director of the Observatoire des sciences et des technologies and a regular member of the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie. He holds a B.A. in Science, Technology and Society (UQAM), an M.A. in history of science (UQAM) and a Ph.D. in information science (McGill), and has performed postdoctoral work at Indiana University’s Department of Information and Library Science.
 
Location
Chambers Hall, Lower Level
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
600 Foster Street, Evanston, IL 60208

5th Science of Science meeting: Jan 8th, 3-5pm

Program
3.00 - 3.05    Introduction

3.05 - 3.35    Zheng Tracy Ke​ (UChicago, Department of Statistics)
                            A spectral approach to optimal topic estimation

3.35 - 4.05   Thomas Stoeger (Northwestern, NICO &
                            Center for Genetic  Medicine, Luis Amaral lab)
                            Why are human genes studied?
                      note: originally scheduled speaker, Youyou Wu, unfortunately is sick
​                                (get well!)

4.05 - 4.25    Coffee Break

4.25 - 4.55    Molly Lewis (UChicago, Knowledge Lab)
                             Measuring and describing variability in cross-cultural semantics using second-language word embeddings 

4.55 - 5.00     Concluding Remarks


Location
Gray Seminar Room (Note: room change, same building)
Lurie Medical Research Center
303 East Superior Street

4th Science of Science meeting: Sept 25th, 3-5pm

Let's meet again after the summer break with some great science of science from the Jones, Rzhetsky, and Uzzi labs. 

Program
3.00 - 3.05     Introduction

3.05 - 3.35     Mohammad  Ahmadpoor (Northwestern, NICO, Ben Jones lab)
                            The dual frontier: Patented inventions and prior scientific advance

3.35 - 4.05     Julia Poncela-Casasnovas (Northwestern, NICO, Brian Uzzi lab)
                             Exploring academic collaboration patterns using Dropbox data

4.05 - 4.25    Break

4.25 - 4.55     Andrey Rzhetsky (University of Chicago,
​                        Department of Human Genetics)
                             Computational adventures with large datasets

4.55 - 5.00     Concluding Remarks

Location
Baldwin Auditorium
Lurie Medical Research Center
303 East Superior Street

Congratulations to Mohammad and Ben!

Their work on the relation between papers and patents has just been published in Science !

Link: science.sciencemag.org/content/357/6351/583

Congratulations to Jacopo and Stefano!

Their work on gender imbalance and nepotism in academic systems – which they presented in February – has just been published in P.N.A.S. !

Link: www.pnas.org/content/114/29/7600.abstract

​NICO Summer Seminar
Jun 23rd, 11am

Ludo Waltman
Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS)
Leiden University in the Netherlands

Revealing the Fine-Grained Structure of Science
In this talk, I provide an overview of my research on studying the fine-grained structure of science. I discuss the clustering techniques that I have developed for identifying research topics at a highly detailed level of granularity. These techniques clusters scientific publications based on data from large-scale bibliometric databases. Recent algorithmic advances make it possible to identify many thousands of research topics throughout all fields of science in computing times of less than one hour. I also discuss a new methodology for determining the relative accuracy of different approaches for identifying research topics. Finally, I show practical examples illustrating how a fine-grained analysis of the structure of science allows us to address many types of policy relevant questions, for instance related to the identification of emerging research topics and the detection of interdisciplinary connections between research fields.

Ludo Waltman is affiliated with the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University in the Netherlands. He is deputy director of the center and he leads the Quantitative Science Studies research group. Ludo is one of the developers of the popular VOSviewer software for bibliometric visualization. He also manages the CWTS Leiden Ranking, a bibliometric ranking of major universities worldwide. Ludo is Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Informetrics.

More information can be found here.

If you are interested in meeting Ludo Waltman before or after the talk contact Martin Gerlach.


Location
Chambers Hall, Lower Level
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
600 Foster Street, Evanston, IL 60208

3rd Science of Science meeting:
May 23rd, 3-5pm (Tuesday)

Program
3.00 - 3.05     Introduction

3.05 - 3.35     Laura Trouille (Adler Planetarium, Zooniverse)
                            Zooniverse: Lessons Learned and Frontier Efforts in Unlocking
                            Data through Citizen Science with 1.5 Million Volunteers

3.35 - 4.05     Valentin Danchev (UChicago, Knowledge lab)
                             Credibility of Scientific Claims (Note: updated topic)

4.05 - 4.25     Coffee Break

4.25 - 4.55     Qing Jin (Northwestern, NICO, Dashun Wang lab)
                             Emergence of Scaling in Substitutive Systems

4.55 - 5.00     Concluding Remarks


Location
Baldwin Auditorium
Lurie Medical Research Center
303 East Superior Street

2nd Science of Science meeting: Feb 27th, 3-5pm

Program
3.00 - 3.05     Introduction

3.05 - 3.35     Yang Yang (Brian Uzzi lab)
                            The Inner Circles of Women’s Networks Predict their Job
                            Attainment in STEM Leadership Positions​
3.35 - 4.05     João Moreira (Luís Amaral lab)
                             Historical Trends of Female Discrimination in the US Movie
                             Industry 

4.05 - 4.25     Coffee Break

4.25 - 4.55     Jacopo Grilli (Stefano Allesina lab)
                             What's in a Last Name? Mobility, Gender Imbalance and
                             Nepotism across Academic Systems

4.55 - 5.00     Concluding Remarks

Location
Baldwin Auditorium
Lurie Medical Research Center
303 East Superior Street

First Science of Science meeting
on Dec 5th

Program
3.00 - 3.15     Introduction (James Evans)
3.15 - 3.40     Konrad Kording
3.40 - 4.05     Dashun Wang
4.05 - 4.25     Coffee Break
4.25 - 5.00     Flash Talks
                          Frank Vernon (Team Science lab)
                          Mohammad Ahmadpoor (Ben Jones lab)
                          Titipat Achakulvisut (Konrad Kording lab)
                          Ling Fei (James Evans lab)
                          Ehsan Mohammadi (Kristi Holmes lab)
                          Yang Wang (Dashun Wang lab)
​                          Yifang Ma (Brian Uzzi lab)

Location
Hughes Auditorium
Lurie Medical Research Center
303 East Superior Street
About

These meetings at Northwestern's Medical Campus are for people who are interested in research on Science of Science in the Chicago area. We hope to create a shared regular meeting place for scientific exchange and discussion across different universities, and university campuses, and different methodological approaches, and scientific backgrounds.

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Whether you do active research on Science of Science or are just interested in that area, please feel welcome. Science of Science is a young discipline whose perspectives may be sociological, economic, data-scientific, team-scientific, bibliometric, network-scientific, genomic, or historic. ​​
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