Bibliometric Services for the Flemish Region
ECOOM, an interuniversity consortium in the Flemish Region, provides R&D, Innovation, and economic indicators for the government. They offer IT services, data collection, scientific research, and academic activities. KU Leuven, as part of ECOOM, focuses on bibliometrics, technometrics, and IP innovation studies with various research topics and databases utilized. ECOOM also offers bibliometric services to Flanders with bibliometric profiling, annual KPIs, and research performance assessments.
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bibliometric services for the Flemish Region
ECOOM: the institute Mission: ECOOM is an interuniversity consortium with participation of all Flemish universities (KU Leuven, UGent, VUB, UA and UHasselt). Originally established as Steunpunt (2002 2006: O&O Statistieken, 2007 2008: O&O Indicatoren), it was transformed into the permanent ECOOM institute in 2009. Its mission is to develop a consistent system of R&D, Innovation and economic (RDIE) indicators for the Flemish government. This indicator system has to assist the Flemish Government in mapping and monitoring the RDIE efforts in the Flemish region.
ECOOM: the institute Main Tasks: Each group has the following activity domains Creation and maintenance of IT platform Collection, processing, cleaning and administration of data Services for the Flemish government (recurrent, long-term, and ad-hoc services) Scientific research Additional academic activities (including teaching, PhD supervision, (co-)organisation of (inter)national scientific meetings etc.)
ECOOM: KU Leuven Structure, Data and Infrastructure Bibliometrics Technometrics & IP Innovation Studies Economic Studies Main (research) topics Prof. dr. W. Gl nzel Prof. dr. B. Van Looy Prof. dr. D. Czarnitzki Prof. dr. J. Konings Promotor Bibliographic data: WOS, Scopus, PubMed OpenAlex, Patent, Trademark databases: CIS & R&D Surveys Data Infrastructure & Sources Inhouse survey platform; SQL-based databases; shared storage; Code repository for versioning & Continuous implementation & deployment; Web-applications Linking databases; Add. data source: Geocoding; Open Access; Research Org.Rep; Integration of CRIS; Data Enrichments and linking
ECOOM: Bibliometrics Some figures: 4 Databases: Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed, OpenAlex WoS: 1991-2023; 70.6M publications: Journals, Proceedings, Books, Book Chapters 1.2M Belgian Addresses since 1991; 800k Assigned to individual institutes 9 Recurrent work packages (62 Months FTE workload) 2 Indicators proposed in additional work package on IDR: Disparity & Variety 14 international partners in research network 5 Language Models: Doc2Vec, BERT (sciBERT), GPT3, GPT4, 118 peer-reviewed international journal publication in 2018-2022 12 editions of the European Summer School for Scientometrics (since 2010) >400 participants & >450 contributors at the 2021 ISSI conference
ECOOM-STORE: Bibliometrics Facts on services to Flanders (deliverables) Distribution parameters for university-wide research funding. Bibliometric profiling of possible panel members of funding agency Annual KPIs for regionally funded research institutes Bibliometric assessment of research performance of regional research institutes (5 years) Indicator book, Statistics Flanders, Support for the Flanders Research Information System Domain Studies (Circular Economy)
ECOOM: Bibliometrics Facts on research areas The research activities cover methodological theoretical research, applied research and policy-relevant and policy-supporting research The main objective of research is to develop/enhance the theoretical-methodological groundwork for performing ECOOM s tasks and to contribute to the advancement of the respective research subjects at the highest international level.
ECOOM: Bibliometrics Facts on research topics Creation and improvement of bibliometric indicators Bibliometrics in the social sciences and humanities Advanced methods for the classification and delineation of subjects Combination of text- and citation-based components in network analysis Bibliometrics in the evaluation of university and institutional research performance Bibliometrics in the evaluation of individual researchers Pre-bibliometric data processing, author identification and data disambiguation Diversity in science Interdisciplinarity and Impact Impact of funding on research The use of new metrics ( altmetrics )
ECOOM: Bibliometrics Future topics Bibliometrics on Social Sciences & Humanities using Book Citation index study validity and applicability of bibliometric indicators tools for the study of research practices Interdisciplinarity validation on micro and nano scale Open Science & Open Bibliometrics Advanced Research Assessment Next Generation Indicators Reward & Recognition Discipline assignments via neighbourhood characterization using citation links and text mining Representations of network dynamics for detection of emerging and declining topics
