On Thursday the 9th of July, the 4th RISIS POLICYMAKERS SESSION entitled “Mapping R&D to policy goals and societal challenges” took place online on the GoToMeeting platform with the participation of 40 people among experts, policy analysts, and academics. The conference began with an Opening of Dr. Alessia Fava, Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth, National Research Council of Italy, mainly focused on RISIS dissemination and communication ongoing activities. The 4th Policymakers Session focused…
The 4th RISIS Policymakers Session will take place on the 9th of July in an online format (2 pm – 4 pm). RISIS will focus on the added value of advanced bibliometric analyses in the context of science policy, beyond its conventional uses in research evaluation with a presentation of Ed Noyons, Alfredo Yegros Yegros, and Ismael Rafols, (CWTS Centre for Science and Technology Studies Leiden University). The team took into consideration the example of cancer research to illustrate the…
The 3rd RISIS Policymakers Session will take place on the 29th of May in an online format (2 pm - 4 pm) due to the Covid-19 emergency. RISIS will focus on European and US scientific production, with a presentation of Benedetto Lepori, of Università della Svizzera italiana (USI). A recent study titled “Scientific output scales with resources. A comparison of US and European universities” and published on PlosOne, is focused on the association between university incomes and international…
Publications, daily bread of researchers. To study, consult, or share information, publication databases are populated every single day. And what about RISIS core dataset on publications? “The dataset is called CWTS publications, and previously it was referred to as Leiden Ranking dataset. Initially it was introduced in RISIS as a dataset with key bibliometric statistics for the most prominent universities. Later on, this (aggregate) dataset was rather an entry to the detailed info at publication…
