First International Conference on Science & Technology Metrics (STMet 
2019)
Bangkok, Thailand
December 02-04, 2019
(www.socio.org.uk/stm)

Building metrics is the key to science and technology measurement and 
translating the measures to work better. Metric is not confined to draw 
numbers and analyze. Selecting a metric depends on synthesizing multiple 
directions and evidence-based data. Producing benchmarks and standards 
in science and technology evaluation and implementing them with real 
data, mark the full-fledged system. Quite recently, we are witnessing 
the emergence of new metrics-based models aiming to reflect science and 
technology growth.

The proposed Science and Technology Metrics (STMet 2019) conference is 
concerned with how the use of many metrics may involve the assessment of 
different aspects of science and technology which are best expressed 
using different approaches. Besides the standard conference track and 
the Doctoral Symposium, the STMetrics will host a number of workshops 
and tutorials related to the theme of the conference.  The purpose of 
the workshops is to provide participants with a friendly, interactive 
atmosphere for presenting novel ideas and discussing their application 
of metrics in Science and Technology System.  The goal of the tutorials 
is to enable the participants to familiarise themselves with theoretical 
as well as practical aspects and application of metrics.

The proposed conference consists of invited talks, presentations, 
tutorials, workshops and discussions. The STMet has tracks on 
specialized topics. The STMet address the below themes, not limited.
Citation-based metrics
Ranking Systems
Ranking of Journals, Institutions, and Countries
Discipline and Domain Analysis
Economic factors
Databases and datasets for evaluation
Evaluation Tools and Indicators
Web-based metrics
Visibility and impact
Internationalization
Text-based Metrics
Innovation indicators
Wearable Devices
Open data
Scientific Collaboration and cooperation analysis
National Evaluation Systems
Open access and open publishing
New indices for evaluation
Altmetrics
Web-based metrics
Data Science and Digital Repositories
Scientific Visualization
e-Science in the Cloud
Scientific Journalism
Scientific Publications
Track 1: Open Science
Science relies on the sharing of ideas, research results, data, and 
methods. Quite often many
scientific discoveries and innovations fail to reach the society because 
of the closed scientific
publications. If Science is built based on existing knowledge it needs 
to reach every one and hence
Open Science leads the knowledge transaction. This track addresses the 
challenges and issues and
pave the way to develop and nurture open science.

Track 2: Peer Review
Peer review is the process by which experts critically examine the 
research contributions using
standard metrics. Peer review helps maintain and enhance quality both 
directly by detecting
weaknesses and errors in specific works. These reviews enable to decide 
publication, research
grants, employment, promotion, and tenure. Peer review promotes 
accountability and improves the
quality of work.

Track 3: Content and Text mining based metrics
This track enables to present works that use numeric indices to process 
unstructured (textual)
information and to build various data mining (statistical and machine 
learning) algorithms.
Information can be extracted to derive summaries for the words contained 
in the documents or to
compute summaries for the documents based on the words contained in 
them. One can analyze
words, clusters of words used in documents, and we could analyze 
documents and determine
similarities between them or how they are related to other variables. 
The studies of text mining will
“turn text into numbers” (meaningful indices), which can then be 
incorporated in other analyses.

All submitted papers will be reviewed by a double-blind (at least three 
reviewers), and participative
peer review. The review process will enable the selection process of 
those that will be accepted for
their presentation at the international conference. Authors of accepted 
papers who registered in
the conference can have access to the evaluations and possible feedback 
provided by the reviewers
who recommended the acceptance of their papers, so they can accordingly 
improve the final version
of their papers.

Mentoring support is available to young researchers and authors of 
developing countries.

Track 4: Technology Transfer Metrics

The technology transfer enables the outreach of the research outcomes to 
a wider level. The technology transfer measures are of interest to 
practitioners, program managers, and policymakers in the evaluation of 
technology transfer programs. Building metrics can lead to a better 
measurement of effectiveness, efficiency, and return on investment. The 
introduction of newer metrics will be helpful to identify the 
benchmarking tools. The proposed track will discuss the currently 
existing metrics and the research on the development of new metrics as 
well as their applications.

Chair: Mohammad Hassanzadeh, Tarbiat Modares University, Iran

Track 5: Open Science Metrics

The primary goal of this track is to enable to construct, identify, and 
specify relevant metrics and indicators for open science. Measuring the 
extent of openness in science and creating or using metrics is 
important. Measuring Open science help to realize the innovation. We can 
thus find how collaboration and knowledge sharing occurs and how 
institutions work on it. Openness also yields enormous data and 
knowledge. This track gauge using available data about openness in 
science.

The post-conference modified versions of the papers will be published in 
the following journals.

1. Journal of Digital Information Management
2. Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
3. Special Section in Research Evaluation
4. Journal of Scientometric Research
5. Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science
6. International Journal of Computational Linguistics Research

Committee

General Chairs

Pit Pichappan, Digital Information Research Labs., UK & India
Han Woo PARK, YeungNam University, South Korea

Program Chairs

Ramesh Kundra, NISTADS, India
Daisy Jacobs, University of Zululand, South Africa

Program Co-Chairs

Kazuyuki, Motohashi, University of Tokyo, Japan
Amir Reza Asnafi, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran

Important Dates

Full Paper Submission	September 25, 2019
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection	October 20, 2019
Registration Due	November 20, 2019
Camera Ready Due	November 20, 2019
Workshops/Tutorials/Demos	December 03, 2019
Main conference	December 02-04, 2019

Paper submission:  http://socio.org.uk/stm/paper-submission/

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