CFP

PUBMET2024: PUBMET2024

II Palaces

Zadar, Croatia, September 10-13, 2024

Conference website	https://pubmet2024.unizd.hr/#
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pubmet2024

THE 11TH PUBMET CONFERENCE on Scholarly Communication in the Context of Open Science

After a successful first decade of the PUBMET conference, we are thrilled to announce exciting changes for this year.

Since the PUBMET conference has grown, we decided to offer our participants the opportunity to learn about current topics related to the quality of scholarly communication in the first Summer School on Scholarly Communication, followed by the PUBMET2024 conference.

Following the Summer School, this year’s PUBMET2024 Conference will explore the core of open scholarly communication by focusing on the central theme of research assessment. We invite participants to examine the challenges ingrained in this process, including openness and transparency, bias mitigation, robustness, cost-effectiveness, and efficiency optimisation. Moreover, we aim to continue discussions on enhancing the peer review process, encompassing reviewer diversity, role clarification, capacity building, and technological advancements.

Ensuring integrity in assessment practices remains essential in this era of rapidly evolving research landscapes. PUBMET2024 seeks to address the ethical dimensions of research assessment, emphasising the recognition of diverse scientific outputs and advocating for the responsible utilisation of proxies and metrics. We recognise the value of content-based evaluation methodologies while supporting transformative initiatives that propel scholarly communication towards greater inclusivity and efficacy.

Submission Guidelines

We are pleased to invite you to submit your abstract to the 11th PUBMET2024 Conference on Scholarly Communication in the Context of Open Science, which will be held at the University of Zadar, Croatia from 12 to 13 September 2024.

This year’s PUBMET2024 will explore the core of open scholarly communication by focusing on the central theme of research assessment. We invite speakers and presenters to examine the challenges ingrained in this process, including transparency, bias mitigation, robustness, cost-effectiveness and efficiency optimisation. Moreover, we aim to continue discussions on enhancing peer review mechanisms, encompassing reviewer diversity, role clarification, capacity building, technological advancements and promoting openness.

Accepted submissions should be presented at the conference venue in Zadar, either as:

a short talk up to 10 min presented live, or
a poster presentation (printed poster 70x100cm + up to 3 min talk).

All types of presentations are delivered in the English language.

The organisers of the PUBMET2024 conference invite you to submit an abstract that describes the main idea of your work, its scholarly or practical relevance, and innovative scientific and/or societal impact on the topics.

List of Topics

Submissions on Research Assessment will be presented as short talks or posters after acceptance. Here are some possible Research Assessment topics:

challenges for research assessment processes (transparency, bias, reviewers pool, robustness, cost and efficiency),
responsible use of proxies and metrics,
recognising the value of a broad range of scientific outputs,
content-based research assessment, how to “measure” intrinsic value,
peer review (roles, capacity building – training, technology, enhancement, openness),
equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging,
transformative initiatives.

Other Open Science topics will be presented as posters after acceptance:

open publications, data, databases, code, software, preprints, patents, commercial products, instruments, practice developments, educational materials, policy publications,
open infrastructures and services, repositories,
quality of scholarly publishing, best practices,
research integrity in open science, EDIB (equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging), multilingualism,
open education, capacity building,
OS policies and strategies, diamond model of scholarly publishing
citizen science.

Invited Speakers

Publication

Accepted abstracts will be published in the PUBMET2024 Book of Abstracts, and indexed by major scholarly databases, aggregators and search engines.

Depending on the topic, validity and significance of the content, authors are invited to submit a full paper for publication in international, peer reviewed, diamond open access journals European Science Editing or Libellarium. The papers will be published under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0).

All accepted abstracts, corresponding posters, short talk presentations, and recordings will be published on the conference website. Posters and short talk presentations must be licensed at least as CC-BY 4.0.

Venue

The conference will be held in Zadar, Croatia:

10-12 Sep | PUBMET2024 Summer School - SEP, Šime Vitasovića 1

12-13 Sep | PUBMET2024 Conference - II Palaces, Petra Zoranića 1

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to pubmet@unizd.hr