Our 2022 host - McMaster University Library - at the Continuing Education Centre

BRIC 2022

Yes - it happened! Our first in-person conference since 2019! A great success with over 50 persons in attendance from 5 Canadian provinces, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Norway! We are thankful for the contributions of our speakers, the participation of the attendees as well as the generous support of the McMaster University Library and our gold sponsors (Clarivate, Elsevier & Digital Science).

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Pre-conference workshops included:

  • 4th Annual InCites Forum Canada by Clarivate

  • Scopus Advanced Bibliometrics Workshop by Elsevier

  • Making the most of your Dimensions & Altmetric Subscription by Digital Science

Day 1 - fantastico launch!

  • Applied Bibliometric Mapping for Searching using Citation Gecko, Dimensions & VosViewer - Brett Williams (OMA) [View PDF]

  • Knights of the Round Table: mobilizing a proposal for institutional service and capacity support for research impact and engagement - Andrea Szwajcer (uManitoba)

  • Slaying the Dragon, Collaboratively: A National PID Strategy for Canada - John Aspler (CRKN) [View PDF]

  • Translating Information to Insights: Delivering Strategic Research Intelligence for Offices of Research & Innovation and Corporate Partnerships with Bibliometrics and Beyond - Connie Stovall (Virginia Tech)

  • Monitoring transitional agreements: the challenges and successes of implementing article-level metadata collection - a virtual presentation with Bethany Harris (JISC UK) [View PDF]

  • The Genome Citation Service: Capturing JGI data citations for comprehensive impact assessment with Neil Byers (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) [View PDF]

  • Changing Editorial Dynamics in Scholarly Publishing? - Kean Birch (York University)

  • Rags to riches: the teacher-scholar model in action at California Polytechnic State University from 1990-2020 for computing researchers - Mugizi Rwebangira (Cal Poly) [View PDF]

  • Leveraging the Leiden dataset for new insights into impact, gender, and diversity - Jeff Demaine (McMaster) [View PDF]

  • How the University of Waterloo lost and reclaimed her impact - a virtual presentation with Gunnar Sivertsen (NIFU - Oslo) [View PDF]

  • Tackling Disambiguation in Publication Output: A new, centralized Author Profile in Web of Science - Marisa Ruccolo (Clarivate) [View PDF]

Ending the day with lots of natural beauty - a reception at the Royal Botanical Gardens.

Day 2 - Another incredibilis Day

  • Have preprints woken up publishing? - Mike Taylor (Digital Science)

  • Connecting with departments through impact study: Nature Index analysis for the University of Rochester - Jieer Chen, Sarah Siddiqui (University of Rochester) [View PDF]

  • With Our Powers Combined: Bridging collections analysis and bibliometrics - Julie Morris (University of New Brunswick) [View PDF]

  • Unravelling and demystifying the SDGs - Bamini Jayabalasingham (Elsevier) & Tahseen Afroz Khanday  (Elsevier) [View PDF]

  • Supporting a collaborative grant proposal development project with Research Intelligence and Power BI - Laura Bredahl, Antonio Marquez, Neil McKay (University of Waterloo) 

  • The perspective from CARL (Canadian Association of Research Libraries) - Vivian Lewis (McMaster)

  • Introducing OpenAlex  - Jason Priem (OurResearch / OpenAlex) [View PDF]

  • Impact and Attention of Open Access COVID research at McMaster - Mike Taylor & Jeff Demaine

  • Impact and Attention of Open Access COVID research at McMaster - Jeffrey Demaine (McMaster University), Mike Taylor (Digital Science), & Shannon O’Reilly (Digital Science) [View PDF]

  • Tracking the impact of academic research disclosed in patent applications and cited in patents: What’s new in 2022? - Michael White (Queens)

  • Follow the Yellow Brick Road? Overcoming Beliefs in Wizard-conjured Data & Metrics - Rachel Miles (Virginia Tech) [View PDF]

  • MAGic made easy - Jeff Demaine (McMaster) [View PDF]

  • Closing and art gallery visit

bRIC 2022 organizers

Organizers for BRIC 2022 included:

  • Jeffrey Demaine, McMaster University

  • Lisa Pokrajac, Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology

  • Joanna Szurmak, University of Toronto

  • George Duimovich, Carleton University