[Air-L] CFP: altmetrics12: tracking scholarly impact on the social Web.

[Jason Priem]

Call for Proposals:
altmetrics12: tracking scholarly impact on the social Web.

An ACM Web Science Conference 2012 Workshop
Evanston, IL • 21 June 2011

Increasing scholarly use of Web2.0 tools like CiteULike, Mendeley, Twitter,
and blog-style article commenting presents an opportunity to track
scholarly impact in novel ways. Metrics based on this diverse set of Web
sources could yield broader, richer, and more timely assessments of current
and potential scholarly impact. Realizing this, many authors have begun to
investigate these altmetrics.

altmetrics12 encourages continued investigation into the the properties of
these metrics: their validity, their potential value and flaws, and their
relationship to established measures. Submissions are invited from a
variety of areas:

* New metrics based on social media
* Tracking science communication on the Web
* Relation between traditional metrics and altmetrics
* Peer-review and altmetrics
* Tools for gathering, analyzing, disseminating altmetrics

This workshop is a follow-up to the successful altmetrics11 workshop hosted
by WebSci’11.


Important Dates

2-page abstracts due: May 18, 2012
Acceptance and abstract publication: May 22, 2012
Open pre-workshop discussion: May 22 – June 18, 2012
Workshop at WebSci 12 June 21, 2012
Discussion closed June 30, 2012
Invitations for post-workshop proceedings TBA

Submissions

Prospective authors should submit 2-page extended abstracts (max. 1000
words, not including references) via EasyChair. If necessary, the workshop
organizers will select the most relevant, original, and significant
abstracts for presentation. Experimental results will be given preference,
followed by technical reports on working altmetrics tools and position
papers. All selected submissions will be published online for open peer
review and discussion. Authors are encouraged to participate in the
discussions of their work. Based on the presentations and online
discussion, selected authors may be asked to submit full papers for
peer-reviewed proceedings.

Location

The workshop is hosted by the ACM Web Science Conference 2012 (Evanston,
Illinois). This interdisciplinary conference focuses on advances in
studying the full range of social-technical relationships on the Web.
Please visit the workshop website (http://altmetrics.org/altmetrics12) for
more information.

Organizers

Paul Groth –  VU University Amsterdam, NL
Jason Priem – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Dario Taraborelli – Wikimedia Foundation, USA

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Jason Priem
UNC Royster Scholar
School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill