Workshop: Philosophy of Science Meets Quantitative Studies of Science
LLC Workshop
Monday 27 - Wednesday 29 May 2024
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE MEETS QUANTITATIVE STUDIES OF SCIENCE
Palazzetto Gorresio
Via Giulia di Barolo 3/a, aula 9
Monday 27
9:40-10:00 Eugenio Petrovich – Andrea Iacona, Introduction and greetings
Mapping science and scientific change
10:10-11:00 Yves Gingras (Université du Québec à Montréal) - How to map the changing conceptual space of the sciences?
11.40-12.30: Chaomei Chen (Drexel University) - Visual Analytic Studies of Science
14.30-15.00: Arno Simons (Technische Universität Berlin), Adrian Wüthrich (Technische Universität Berlin), Michael Zichert (Technische Universität Berlin) - The “styles project” meets contextualized semantic shift detection
Research evaluation and its effects
15.10-16.00 Paul Wouters (University of Leiden) – Towards responsible next generation metrics
16.40-17.30 Giovanni Abramo (Universitas Mercatorum) - The CoARA initiative for reforming research assessment: Does it make sense?
18.00-18.50: Mario Biagioli (UCLA) - From truth to Impact: How metrics is changing the framework for the evaluation of science
Tuesday 28
Studying science: philosophy of science and scientometrics in dialogue
10.00-10.50: Cassidy Sugimoto (Georgia Institute of Technology) – Metasciences: threading the past and imagining an interwoven future
11.30-12.20: Charles Pence (Université Catholique de Louvain) - Studying Science and Studying Science: Metascience and the Philosophy of Science
14.00-14.50: Andrea Scharnhorst (KNAW) - Measuring a moving target - Innovation studies in practice
14.50-15.40: Henry Small (SciTech Strategies, Inc.) Qualitative Bayes: Procedure for applying Bayes’ rule to theory confirmation using estimates of likelihoods and concepts from information theory
16.20-17.10: K. Brad Wray (Aarhus University) - The Key Journals in Philosophy of Science: An Update
17.10-17.40: Lucas Gautheron (University of Wuppertal and École Normale Supérieure) - A dialogue between philosophy of science and computational studies of science illuminates the crisis of fundamental physics
Wednesday 29
Interdisciplinarity and isolation in scientific progress
10.00-10.50: Wolfgang Glänzel (KU Leuven) – The scientometrics of interdisciplinarity. From concepts to measurement
11.30-12.20: Pei-Shan Chi (KU Leuven) - Duality Phenomena in Scholarly Communication: Exploring Isolation through Scientometric Analysis in the Field of Philosophy
14.00-14.30: Stijn Conix (Université Catholique de Louvain) - Understanding the societal relevance of humanities research through peer-review: a quantitative study
Power and social capital in science and academia
14.40-15.30: Alesia Zuccala (University of Copenhagen) - Social capital in academia: measuring individual researchers' collaboration preferences versus habits
15.30-16.20: Alberto Baccini (Università di Siena) – Who are the gatekeepers of economics? Geographic diversity, gender composition, and interlocking editorship of journal boards
Funding and scientific progress
17.00-17.30: Matteo Michelini (Technical University of Eindhoven and Ruhr University Bochum), Javier Osorio (Universitat Autonoma de Madrid) - Diversity in Evaluative Criteria Enhances Scientific Inquiry. An Epistemic Landscape Model
17.30-18.00: Thomas Feliciani (Polytechnic University of Milan), Chiara Franzoni (Polytechnic University of Milan) - Overcoming conservativism in funding decisions: the selection procedure as a promising area of intervention
18.00-18.10: Closing of the workshop