9:00 – 9:30 am

Welcome – Dr. Ronald Rousseau, President of ISSI

Introduction – Dr. Eugene Garfield, Founder & Chairman Emeritus 
Institute for Scientific Information

9:30 – 10:30 am

Database & Journal Studies I

Rankings of Information and Library Science Journals by JIF and by h-type Indices  
Judit Bar-Ilan, Bar-Ilan University, Israel  

Public Sharing of Research Datasets: A Pilot Study of Associations
Heather Piwowar & Wendy Chapman, University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.  

10:30 – 11:00 am

Break

11:00 am -12:30 pm

Disciplinary Studies

Core Journal Literatures and Persistent Research Themes in an Emerging Interdisciplinary Field: Exploring the Literature of Evolutionary Developmental Biology 
Katherine McCain, Drexel University, U.S.A.

Diffusion of Latent Semantic Analysis as a Research Tool: A Social Network Analysis Approach 
Yasar Tonta & Hamid R. Darvish, Hacettepe University, Turkey

A Theoretical Discussion of Prathap’s h2-index for Institutional Evaluation with an Application in the Field of HIV Infection and Therapy  
Ronald Rousseau, KHBO (Association K.U.Leuven), Industrial Sciences and Technology, Belgium
Lying Yang & Ting Yue, National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Science, China 

12:30 – 1:30 pm

Lunch on your own

1:30 – 3:00 pm

Visualization & Clustering

Academic Spectrum: A Visualizing Method for Research Assessment
Fred Y. Ye, Zhejiang University, China

North America Academic Web Space: Multicultural Canada vs. The United States Homogeneity   
José Luis Ortega, VICYT-CSIC, Spain
Isidro F. Aguillo, CVHS-CSIC, Spain

Subject Clustering Analysis Based on ISI Category Classification
Lin Zhang, Xinhai Liu, Frizo Janssens & Wolfgang Glänzel, K.U. Leuven, Belgium

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Break

3:30 – 4:30 pm

Database & Journal Studies II

Combining Commercial and Open Access Citation Databases to Delimit Highly Interdisciplinary Research Fields for Citation Analysis 
Andreas Strotmann & Dangzhi Zhao, University of Alberta, Canada

Measuring a Journal’s Input Rhythm Based on its Publication-reference Matrix  
Liming Liang, Institute for Science, Technology and Society, Henan Normal University, China
Ronald Rousseau, KHBO (Association K.U.Leuven), Industrial Sciences and Technology, Belgium

4:30 – 5:00 pm

Discussion – Next Steps, Future Symposia

5:30 pm

Dutch Treat Dinner – Location TBA