Call for Papers 14th International Conference on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics (WIS) & 19th COLLNET Meeting December 5 - 8, 2018 Macau (China) http://socio.org.uk/collnet2018/ Hosted by Department of Computer and Information Science Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, Macau (China) & COLLNET Scope: The broad focus of the conference is on collaboration and communication in science and technology; science policy; quantitative aspects of science; and combination and integration of qualitative and quantitative approaches in study of scientific practices. The conference thus aims to contribute to evidence-based and informed knowledge about scientific research and practices which in turn may further provide input to institutional, regional, national and international research and innovation policy making. Theoretical, methodological and applied aspects, for example: - Emerging issues in Scientometrics / Informetrics /webometrics and history - Science Policy and collaboration - New Metrics (Altmetrics), their Potential Value and their Relationship to Established Measures - Collaboration Studies for Science & Society - Collaboration, Knowledge Management & Industrial Partnership - Collaborative Bridge between Academic Research and Industry - Techniques for Collaboration Studies - Visualization Techniques in Collaboration Studies - Quantitative Analysis of S&T Innovations - Informetrics Laws and Distributions, Mathematical Models of Communication and Collaboration - Nature and Growth of Science and of Collaboration in Science and its Relation with Technological Output - Evaluation Indicators - Collaboration in Science and in Technology from both Quantitative and Qualitative Points of View Please, note that these examples listed above give a broad outline of the scope of the workshop theme but do not limit it. Important Dates July 15th, 2018 (Deadline) September 15th, 2018 Acceptance Notification November 15th, 2018 (Deadline) Full Paper (Camera-ready version, maximum 10 pages including tables, figures, references) Extended Abstract for Oral Presentation, (two pages). Please send your extended abstracts to: Hildrun Kretschmer (kretschmer.h@onlinehome.de) Please send also a copy to: Bernd Markscheffel (bernd.markscheffel@tu-ilmenau.de) The extended abstracts will be peer reviewed by the Programme Committee. The accepted full papers will be published in the proceedings.COLLNET 2018: General Chair: Hildrun Kretschmer (Germany) General Co-Chair: Bernd Markscheffel (Germany)Steering Committee Chair: Pit Pichappan (India & UK) Technical Program Chair: Bernd Markscheffel (Germany) Organizing Chair Simon Fong, University of Macau, Macau (China) Regional Chair of Africa, America, Australia and Europe: Valentina Markusova (Russia) Regional Chair of China: Liang Liming (China) Regional Chair of India: Team: P.K. Jain (India) N.K. Wadhwa (India), Sujit Bhattacharya (India) R. Kundra (India, USA), Divya Srivastava (India) Organizing Committee Theo Kretschmer, GermanyDaniela Büttner, GermanyN.K. Wadhwa, IndiaDaisy Jacobs, South AfricaJ.K. Vijayakumar, Saudi Arabia More details available at conference website: http://socio.org.uk/collnet2018/, or at COLLNET website http://www.collnet.de/