----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Richard Hill <rhill@asis.org> To: students-l@asis.org; asis-l@asis.org Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 7:02 PM Subject: [Asis-l] First CALL FOR DOCTORAL FORUM APPLICATIONS AT ISSI 2013 Dear colleagues, With this email we would like to draw your attention to the Doctoral Forum which takes place one day before the 14th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI 2013) on July 15th, 2013. The primary objective of the Doctoral Forum is to provide doctoral students with a forum to present and discuss their research projects with senior researchers and fellow students and to develop their relationships with other scientists (please see attachment for more details). If you are a doctoral student working on a scientometric topic, I would like to invite you to submit an application of up to 1500 words describing your doctoral research project. If you are a scholar at an institution which does research on scientometric issues, we would like to ask you to forward the enclosed call to the relevant persons. Thank you very much for your support. With kind regards, Ivana Roche and Christian Schloegl ___ CALL FOR DOCTORAL FORUM APPLICATIONS AT ISSI 2013 ISSI 2013 – 14th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics July 15th, 2013, Vienna, Austria www.issi2013.org ***Deadline for Doctoral Forum applications: February 4, 2013*** The biannual ISSI conference is the premier international venue for research within the areas of informetrics, scientometrics and bibliometrics. For more information on the scope of the conference and the areas of interest please visit the conference web site. For the fifth time a Doctoral Forum is offered at the ISSI conference. The primary objective of the Doctoral Forum is to provide doctoral students with a forum to present and discuss their research projects with senior researchers and fellow students and to develop their relationships with other scientists. The Doctoral Forum is a one-day event that will take place prior to the main conference on 15 July 2013. Due to the time consuming form of the Doctoral Forum, the number of participants is restricted. The doctoral forum is only open to the invited senior researchers and the accepted students. There is no separate fee for attending the doctoral forum, but participation requires the students to register for the conference Doctoral forum committee (senior researchers): To be announced later Doctoral Forum organizers Christian Schlögl (Institute of Information Science and Information Systems, University of Graz, Austria) Ivana Roche (Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, CNRS, France) Time & location: 9:00 – 16:00, University of Vienna, room: Hörsaal A, Vienna, Austria Doctoral forum applicants Applicants should be doctoral students, from any country, conducting ongoing PhD research on any of ISSI 2013 conference themes and related fields (see:http://www.issi2013.org/about.html). To apply to the Forum, please submit an application of up to 1500 words containing: • Description of doctoral research project - including research questions, theoretical background, planned methodology, current status and • Motivation for student participation at the Doctoral Forum and the issues you wish to receive feedback on from the senior researchers. The first page of the application must contain the name, affiliation and full address of the doctoral student including phone and fax numbers and email address, as well as the name of the supervisor(s). Applications should be submitted in RTF or PDF format to Christian Schlögl at: christian.schloegl@uni-graz.at. Important dates Submission deadline is February 4, 2013 and notification of acceptance April 4, 2013. Further information Please visit the conference website for additional information on the Doctoral Forum. Partners of the Doctoral Forum: - ASIST SIG/MET - European Student Chapter of ASIS&T - Center for Doctoral Studies, University of Vienna www.issi2013.org -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.