PROGRAM
NWB 2026, November 4-6, 2026 in Copenhagen, Denmark
NWB 2026, November 4-6, 2026 in Copenhagen, Denmark
12:00 - 13.00 Registration
13:00 - 13:15 Opening and welcome
Birger Larsen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
13:15 - 14:35 Session 1: Open science (chair: Birger Larsen)
Monitoring research impact and Open Science practices in the SciLifeLab research infrastructure with OpenAIRE
Alessia Bardi (CNR - ISTI; OpenAIRE AMKE, Italy/Greece), Angeliki Adamaki (SciLifeLab, Sweden), Miriam Baglioni (CNR – ISTI, Italy), Harry Dimitropoulos (Athena Research Center; OpenAIRE AMKE, Greece), Suné Joubert (SciLifeLab, Sweden), Leonidas Pispiringas (OpenAIRE AMKE, Greece), Joanna Sendecka (SciLifeLab, Sweden), Konstantinos Triantafyllou (OpenAIRE AMKE, Greece) & Angeliki Tzouganatou (OpenAIRE MAKE, Greece)
How mature is the Finnish open research information landscape?
Laura Himanen (CSC - IT Center for Science, Finland), Laura Niemi (University of Turku, Finland) & Susanna Nykyri (Tampere University, Finland)
See You in Court! Judicial and Ombudsman remedies in research careers
Ginevra Peruginelli (Institute of Legal Informatics and Judicial Systems of the National Research Council (CNR-IGSG), Italy), Janne Pölönen (Federation of Finnish Learned Societies), Sebastiano Faro (Institute of Legal Informatics and Judicial Systems of the National Research Council (CNR-IGSG), Italy), Maria Pietilä (Tampere University, Finland) & Sakari Melander (University of Helsinki, Finland)
What drives Open Access Advantages, and what are the implications for scientometrics?
Michael Taylor (Digital Science & Wolverhampton University, United Kingdom)
14:35 - 15:00 Break
15:00 - 16:20 Session 2: Data and tools (chair: Gustaf Nelhans)
Credit where credit is due? Ideal and reality of co-author name ordering
Paul Donner (German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW)) & Marianne Gauffriau (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
FootnotesExtractor: An Open-Source, Interactive, Multi-Engine System for Bibliographic Reference Extraction and Parsing from Scholarly Book Publications
Michał Ulaniuk (National Information Processing Institute, Poland), Emanuel Kulczycki (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW)) & Przemyslaw Korytkowski (West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Poland)
What Do Author Self-Citations Do? A Citation Context Analysis of their Semantic Functions
Yutong FEI (ELICO Laboratory, CCSD(CNRS), France)
Exploring the Relevance and Societal Impact of Artistic Research using an LLM based RAG tool
Eiríkur Smári Sigurðarson (University of Iceland)
17:00 - 19:00 Welcome Reception at Copenhagen City Hall (Rådhuspladsen 1, 1550 Copenhagen V)
08:00 - 09:00 Registration
09:00 - 09:45 Sponsor presentation
From Register Data to Regional Impact: A Roadmap for Measuring the 4th Generation University's Contribution to Economy, Society, and Growth
Benedikt Schmal (Elsevier, Germany)
09:45 - 10:00 Break
10:00 - 11:00 Keynote talk (chair: Dag W. Aksnes)
Why should we care about paper mills?
Anna Abalkina, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)
11:00 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 12:35 Session 3: Funding and research portfolios (chair: Reynir Örn Jóhannsson)
From Principles to Design: Linking Research Assessment and Funding in National Systems from Nine Countries
Ioana Spanache (UEFISCDI, Romania), Adrian Curaj (UEFISCDI, Romania), Ioana Trif (UEFISCDI, Romania), Mihaela Iorgulescu-Aioanei (UEFISCDI, Romania) & Mariana Chioncel (University of Bucharest, Romania)
What counts as a funder? Developing and applying an empirical typology of organisational acknowledgements
Brian Kirkegaard Lunn (Digital Science, Denmark) & Birger Larsen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
The data behind funding impact: evaluating the discrepancies of funding–publication linkages across data sources
Soohong Eum (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
The Diversification Paradox: Research Portfolio Evolution in UK Universities
Holly Ann Baldwin (Clarivate, United Kingdom), Ryan Beardsley (Clarivate, United Kingdom), Jonathan Adams (Clarivate, United Kingdom) & Andrei Mikhailov (Clarivate, Germany)
12:35 - 13:15 Lunch
13:15 - 14:35 Session 4: Publishing and SSH (chair: Susanna Nykyri)
Extension of the funding model for Norwegian-language diamond open-access journals
Vidar Røeggen (Universities Norway)
Repurposing National ISBN Agency Registers to Analyse Book Production Ecosystems
Eleonora Dagienė (Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania)
Perspecti: Introducing a comprehensive research and citation database for the Arts and Humanities
Joshua Eykens (Brepols Publishers, Belgium)
When Metrics Fall Short: Building a Values-Based Evaluation Framework
Silvia Dobre (Elsevier, United Kingdom), Andrew Plume (Elsevier, United Kingdom), Jingwen Mu (Hong Kong Baptist University, China), Alvin Ding (Elsevier, China), Christopher Chan (Hong Kong Baptist University, China), Pragya Singh (Elsevier, Netherlands), Stuart Christie (Hong Kong Baptist University, China), Ahti-Viekko Pietarinen (Hong Kong Baptist University, China) & Noelle Gracy (Elsevier, Netherlands)
14:35 - 15:05 Break
15:05 - 16:25 Session 5: Policy (chair: Vidar Røeggen)
Recent trends in the global landscape of scientific publishing
Dag W. Aksnes (Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovations, Research and Education (NIFU), Norway)
The Policy Impact of Author First Name Genderedness
Maxime Holmberg Sainte-Marie (University of Southern Denmark) & Vincent Larivière (Université de Montréal, Canada)
Nordic research in the policy sphere: insights into policy citations
Jakaria Rahman, Patrik Bergvall & Marco Schirone (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Do Policymakers Cite or Mention? Investigating Formal vs Informal Engagement in Policy Documents and the Implications for Responsible Research Assessment
Katherine Hart & Nathalie Cornée (Overton, United Kingdom)
16:25 - 18:00 Poster minute madness & poster session (chair: Birger Larsen)
19:00 - Dinner at Madklubben Vesterbro (Vesterbrogade 62. 1620 Copenhagen V)
08:00 - 09:00 Registration
09:00 - 09:45 Sponsor presentation: Clarivate
Anatomy of research data for robust bibliometric analysis using mega datasets and AI assistance
Andrei Mikhailov (Clarivate, United Kingdom) and Oliver Burnham (Clarivate, United Kingdom)
09:45 - 10:00 Break
10:00 - 11:00 Keynote talk (chair: Jakaria Rahman)
Pasteur’s Quadrant beyond STEM: How academics engage with society, and whether it matters
HC Kongsted, Copenhagen Business School (Denmark)
11:00 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 12:15 Panel
Changing landscapes of academic career assessment
Moderator: Janne Pölönen, Federation of Finnish Learned Societies
Panelists
Kathrine Bjerg Bennike (Aalborg University Library, Denmark)
Mira Söderman (Federation of Finnish Learned Societies)
Baldvin M. Zarioh (University of Iceland)
Ragnar Lie (Universities Norway)
Johan Blaus (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
12:15 - 13:15 Lunch
13:15 - 14:35 Session 6: Mobility, gender and sustainability (chair: Henrik Karlstrøm)
Cancer Research Immigrants to the Five Nordic Countries: Where Are They From, and What Contribution Do They Make?
Grant Lewison (King's College London, United Kingdom), Philip Roe (Evaluametrics Ltd, United Kingdom), Philippe Vincent-Lamarre (Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Canada) & Richard Webber (Originsinfo Ltd, United Kingdom)
Beyond the Child Penalty: Parenthood, Partnership, and Career Advancement in Academia
Peter Holmström (Lund University, Sweden)
Mapping National SDG 12 Research Profiles: Evidence from Nordic and European Countries
Barbara S. Lancho Barrantes (University of Brighton, United Kingdom)
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on international researcher mobility
Andrey Lovakov (German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW))
14:35 - 15:00 Closing & handover to NWB'2027 (chair: Birger Larsen)
A Checklist-Based Approach to Identifying Problematic Practices
Leena Wahlfors, Anna-Kaarina Linna & Janne Pölönen (Federation of Finnish Learned Societies)
A Quantitative Portrait of Diamond Open Access Publishing in the Nordics
Simone Angioni, Miriam Baglioni, Alessia Bardi, Andrea Mannocci & Gina Pavone (CNR – ISTI, Italy)
Alphabetical but Unequal: Co-Author Contribution Patterns
Paul Donner (German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW)) & Przemyslaw Korytkowski (West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Poland)
Beyond DORA: Toward Transparent Quantitative Indicators for AI-Assisted Research Evaluation
Sung-Jong Lee (National Research Foundation of Korea), Taeyoung Yang (Korea-Nordics Science and Technology Cooperation Center (KNTEC), Sweden) & Seoklae Lee (National Research Foundation of Korea)
Beyond Norway: Discoverability and International Reach of Norwegian Diamond Open Access Journals
Francesca Soldati, Anna Karpova, Christine Dybwad, Ragnhild Bjørkås & Jan Erik Frantsvåg (The Arctic University of Norway)
Creating Training Data for Research Quality Prediction: A Bibliometric Pseudo-Labelling Feasibility Study
Yunhan Yang & Judita Preiss (The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)
Does performance-based research funding curb national-language publishing?
Janne Pölönen (Federation of Finnish Learned Societies)
Evaluating structural effects of the Excellence Initiative through organizational co-publication networks in the German research field
Lorenz Meyer-Burgdorff, Daniel Gotthardt, Olaf Kellermeier, Tino Schoellhorn & Achim Oberg (University of Hamburg, Germany)
FIN-CAM: A Tool for Researcher Assessment
Mira Söderman (Federation of Finnish Learned Societies), Janne Pölönen (Federation of Finnish Learned Societies), Laura Niemi (University of Turku, Finland) & Anne-Mari Järvelin (Lapland University of Applied Sciences, Finland)
From Citations to Societal Impact: How Highly Cited Research Contributes to the Sustainable Development Goals
Valentin Bogorov (Clarivate, United Kingdom)
From Invisible Work to Recognised Contribution: The Potential of Utilising Expert Activities
Eeva-Maria Suojärvi & Anne Hytönen (South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences)
Funding Acknowledgements and Citation Stratification: The Case of Bibliometrics (2000–2024)
Marco Schirone & Therese Tikkanen (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
How bumpy is the road from a national research indicator to an institutional research and innovation indicator?
Poul Meier Melchiorsen, Birger Larsen & Kathrine Bjerg Bennike (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Impact of the number of authors in University of Helsinki publications
Petri Turunen & Terhi Sandgren (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Improving the bibliometric analysis of research’s impact on society: Combining data from the Norwegian KUDOS database and NVA repository
Ingjerd Legreid Ødemark, Camilla Holm Soelseth, Tordis Korvald & Camilla Thorvik (OsloMet - University Library, Norway)
Introducing a New and Comprehensive Dataset for Estimating Global Publication Output in the Norwegian Publication Indicator
Vidar Røeggen (Universities Norway) & Dag W. Aksnes (Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovations, Research and Education (NIFU), Norway)
Is citing research data equivalent to citing publications? - based on selected OSH examples
Witold Sygocki (Central Institute for Labour Protection-National Research Institute, Poland) & Aneta Drabek (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland)
18. The Dark Side of Science: Mapping the Literature on Academic Misconduct across Different Research Systems
Sabine Wollscheid, Henrik Karlstrøm & Ida Svege (Nordic Institute for Studies in Research Innovation and Education (NIFU), Norway)
19. The Influence of Publication Age on Relative Citation Impact: Evidence from an Institutional Case Study
Jacob Johansson, Tobias Jeppsson & Agne Larsson (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden)
20. The Open Science Awards - implementation of the Open Access, Open Data and Open Outreach indicator
Thea Marie Drachen, Evgenios Vlachos, Regine Ejstrup & Bertil Dorch (The University Library of Southern Denmark)
21. What Counts as Infrastructure? Definitional Consequences for Evaluating Research Infrastructures
Eiríkur Smári Sigurðarson (University of Iceland)
22. What Shapes Attention to Retracted Research? Publication Context, Retraction Profiles, and Altmetric Platforms
Ashraf Maleki & Kim Holmberg (University of Turku, Finland)
23. When Open Access Becomes a Quality Benchmark: Evidence from Czech Research Evaluation
Eva Špillingová & Monika Kuchlei Sieberová (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)
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