The 2nd Nordic Bibliometric Infrastructure Spring Meeting

This event serves as the follow-up Spring Meeting for bibliometricians and policy analysts working to develop open infrastructures for bibliographic and research data to support policy and research.

The primary focus of this meeting is to explore opportunities and key steps for creating sustainable and viable infrastructure within a Nordic context. The overarching theme of the Spring Meeting 2025 centers on methodologies for building a Nordic research infrastructure using various open data sources and implementing it effectively across different organizational levels—from bibliometric units at universities to national initiatives and specific research disciplines.

Additionally, we will take this opportunity to establish a steering committee for a Nordic Bibliometric Infrastructure. This committee will contribute expertise, experience, and strategic action to advance a collaborative Nordic effort in this area.

Participation

We have prepared a program featuring invited presentations, but there will also be opportunities for participation in discussions, as well as an open session on the second day where participants can propose presentations. If you are interested in presenting an ongoing project or an idea for a service relevant to the community, please submit a title and a short description (max. 300 words) to the conference organizers by 23rd of March. You are welcome to come as you are or bring a brief presentation, coding material, or any other relevant resources for discussion in a workshop setting. We expect all participants to engage actively in discussions. Depending on the number of attendees, sessions will be conducted either in smaller groups or as a full gathering.

Organisation

The workshop operates under a no cost model. Water and some refreshments will be available at the localities, but we will pay for our own provisions (BYOM - Bring your own meals). On the evening of the 7th of April, we will find somewhere to eat dinner together.

Event Details

• Date: 7-8 April, 2025
• Location: Chalmers University of Technology, Sven Hultins Gata 6, 412 58 Gothenburg
• Venue: SB-L200 (Room #2204)
  
• Time: Commencing with registration at 10:00 on Monday, the 7th of April, and concluding not  later than 16:00 on Tuesday, the 8th of April.

Program Highlights:

1. Introduction Sessions with an international outlook
2. Sessions:
3. Panel Session with Nordic perspectives
4. Local solutions
5. Open Session – A Workspace
6. Final session: setting up the Steering committee and the way ahead

Full programme

(still in preparation, all confirmed speakers will attend the meeting in Gothenburg)

MONDAY

10.30 Reception desk opens 

11.00 Session 1: Keynote
The Barcelona declaration 
Ludo Waltman, CWTS, University of Leiden, NL

Followed by:
What does it take in practice: Goals – Actors – Tasks (group work)

12.30 Lunch

13.30 Session 2a: Keynote
Re-thinking scientometrics in a big open data world: Infrastructures, systems and framings
Cameron Neylon, Curtin University, AU

14.30 Session b: International Outlook
OpenAIRE's Open Infrastructure for Research Monitoring and Bibliometrics; Stefania Amodeo, OpenAIRE

15.00 Coffee break

15.30 Session 3: Panel discussion
From Barcelona to Gothenburg: Nordic cooperation on open data for research system analysis
- Denmark: Mogens Sandfær, Research Portal Denmark
- Norway: Jon Holm, Research Council Norway 
- Finland: Joonas Nikkanen, CSC - IT Center for Science
- Sweden: Peter Sjögårde, Karolinska Institutet
- Gustaf Nelhans, Swedish School of Library and Information Science - moderator

17.00 End of day 1

TUESDAY

9.00 Session 4: National perspectives: invited presentations
Open bibliometric infrastructures in the Nordic countries
- Open Alex with SUNET; Tobias Jeppsson, KTH, SUHF:s Bibliometrics Working group.
- The open Research Portal Denmark; NORA team
- Towards Open Sources: NIB - National Infrastructure for Bibliometrics; Jens Aasheim, Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research (SIKT)
- Investigating the added value of OpenAlex for the Norwegian publication indicator; Dag Aksnes, NIFU and Åshild Vik, Research Council Norway

10:30 Coffee break

11.00 Session 5: Open session: local workflows and bold assertions
OPEN presentations: 3-4 presentations
- Introducing Bifrost: An R-Based Tool for Bibliometric Research Analysis; Krian Niemi & Nadja Neumann, Karlstad University
- Unveiling research landscapes using open research information: challenges and opportunities; Berta Grimau and Sonia Veiga, SIRIS Academic

12.30 Lunch

13.30 Session 6
The road ahead
- Nordic Bibliometric Infrastructure Workshop Steering Committee

15.00 End

Registration

Please register by the 23rd of March, 2025

Registration - NBI spring meeting  Note: seats are full. Any registrations received will be put on a waiting list.

We look forward to your active participation and valuable contributions to make this event successful. Should you have any questions or require additional information, please do not hesitate to reach out to the organisers.

Best regards,
Gustaf Nelhans, Ivar Ternsell Torgersen and Jon Holm, for the Nordic Bibliometric Infrastructure (NBI) planning committee.

The event is supported by