Responsible use of Bibliometrics in Practice

The next LIS-BIBLIOMETRICS EVENT WILL FOCUS on responsible metrics and aims to provide a forum for practitioners to hear, share, discuss and debate how responsible metrics can be introduced, developed and used. The event will include presentations from Euan Adie, Founder of Altmetric; Professor David Price, former Chair of the Forum for Responsible Metrics and Chair of REF Panel B; and Jenni Stergiou from the University of Leeds, who will talk about using Snowball metrics in practice. In the afternoon there will be presentations from practitioners, discussion groups and lightning talks. _PROGRAMME_ _   9:00-9:45 – Registration and refreshments_   9:45-10:00 – Welcome 10:00-10:30 – “RESPONSIBLE METRICS: HOW CAN ALTMETRICS PLAY THEIR PART?” - Euan Adie, Founder, Altmetric 10:30-11:00 – “SNOWBALL METRICS IN PRACTICE: A CASE STUDY FROM THE RUSSELL GROUP.” - Jenni Stergiou, Head of Performance, Governance & Operations, Research and Innovation Service, University of Leeds 11:00-12:00 – “RESPONSIBLE METRICS FORUM: WHAT WILL IT DO AND WHAT WILL IT MEAN FOR PRACTITIONERS?” -  Professor David Price, UCL Vice-Provost (Research), former Chair of the Forum for RESPONSIBLE METRICS, and Chair of REF Panel B _12:00-13:00 – Networking lunch _ 13:00-13:45 – Implementing responsible metrics: the practitioners' view * “'BUILDING BLOCKS OF RESPONSIBLE METRICS AT THE LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY." - Katherine Stephan, Research Support Librarian * “RESPONSIBLE METRICS AS PART OF A PUBLICATION FRAMEWORK: THE EXPERIENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM.” - Katie Fraser, Senior Research Librarian * “RESPONSIBLE METRICS – EASIER SAID THAN DONE?  IMPLEMENTING LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY’S RESPONSIBLE METRICS POLICY.” - Elizabeth Gadd, Research Policy Manager 13:45-14:30 – Birds of a feather group discussions 14:30-15:00 – Feedback from discussion _15:00-15:20 – Refreshments_ 15:20-16:20 – Lightning talks * "USING THE BIBLIOMETRIC COMPETENCIES TO ASSESS EXISTING KNOWLEDGE AND CREATE A TRAINING PROGRAMME” - Karen Rowlett, University of Reading Library * “HOW RESPONSIBLE ARE RANKINGS?” - Alicia Gómez-Sánchez, University of Hertfordshire * “RESPONSIBLE METRICS NEED TRANSPARENT DATA” - Rachael Lammey, Crossref * “LEIDEN MANIFESTO AS A CONSUMER LABEL?” - Marianne Gauffriau, Heidi Holst Madsenb and Lorna Wildgaard, University of Copenhagen  16:20-16:30 – Questions and summing up Please note that PLACES ARE LIMITED TO ONE PLACE PER INSTITUTION OR COMPANY. Although Eventbrite will confirm your place, if there is already one person booked from your institution or company we will be in touch to let you know that we have placed your name on a waiting list, and will be in touch if a place becomes available. THIS EVENT IS KINDLY SPONSORED BY ALTMETRIC.