Open Access Scientometrics: Doctoral and Postdoctoral Positions

** Apologies for cross-posting ** Dear Colleagues, I am looking for strong candidates to do doctoral and postdoctoral research on Open Access Scientomentrics with me and Prof. Yves Gingras at University of Quebec in Montreal and would be very grateful if you could draw this to the attention of qualified candidates, who can contact me at: harnad [AT] uqam.ca (1) The postdoctoral candidate must have strong programming skills, as well as expertise in scientometric and statistical analysis -- especially in research impact evaluation. The doctoral candidate should have skills and interest in the same direction. (2) In particular, the expertise to conduct analyses using the ISI citation index database, web-based impact data (google scholar, web metrics) alongside ISI analyses is required. (3) The expertise to conduct download and web-log analyses alongside citation analyses is also needed, especially with respect to deposit dates and download analysis of papers deposited in OAI-compliant Institutional Repositories as well as other kinds of websites. (4) Some demonstrable mastery of French would also be helpful, both because this is a French-language university, and to facilitate the visa process, but it is not absolutely essential. We have funding for a major research project in developing new scientometric measures for evaluating research impact using the ISI database as well as Open Access web content. The project is very timely and exciting and the research will have a high profile. Here is an article for describing some directions this research will take: Harnad, S. (2007) Open Access Scientometrics and the UK Research Assessment Exercise. Invited Keynote, 11th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics. Madrid, Spain, 25 June 2007 http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.IR/0703131 I would be very grateful if you could share this information with suitable candidates. With many thanks Stevan Harnad Canada Research Chair Institute of Cognitive Sciences Universite du Quebec a Montreal Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3C 3P8 harnad [AT] uqam.ca http://www.crsc.uqam.ca/en/index2_en.html