programme

Programme
ACADEMIA & PUBLISHING
May 31 – June 1st, 2012
Fondazione Luigi Einaudi
Palazzo D'Azeglio
Via Principe Amedeo n. 34,
Torino
Tel. 011-835656
Fax 011-8179093
[email protected]
An international conference organized by the Istituto POLIS, Dipartimento DiGSPES,Università del
Piemonte Orientale con il contributo della Fondazione CRT, Torino in collaborazione con la Fondazione
Luigi Einaudi Torino, il Dipartimento Cognetti De Martiis, Università di Torino e IEL, International
Programme in Institutions, Economics & Law and Associazione per la Promozionedell’Economia
Sperimentale in Piemonte - APESP.
Scientific Committee
Theodore Bergstrom, University of Claifornia Santa Barbara
Dietmar Harhoff. Ludwig Maximilian University
Giovanni B. Ramello, Università del Piemonte Orientale
Francesco Silva, Università di Milano Bicocca
POLIS
PROGRAMME
(45 minutes per paper; 30 minutes presenter, 15 minutes for discussion)
Thursday May 31
9.00 to 9.30
Welcome
Academia & Publishing: setting the agenda
Theodore Bergstrom, University of California Santa Barbara
Dietmar Harhoff, Ludwig Maximilian University
Giovanni Ramello, Università del Piemonte Orientale
Francesco Silva, Università di Milano Bicocca
9.30 to 11.00
Ranking
Chair: John McGinnis, Northwestern University
Ranking journals, Theodore Eisenberg, Cornell Law School
Counting is apparently easier than reading and division seems beyond our
capabilities, Stan Liebowitz, University of Texas, Dallas
11.00 to 11.15
11.15 to 12.45
Coffee break
Ranking & careers
Chair: Federico Revelli, Università di Torino
Rankings games, Bruno S. Frey and Margit Osterloh, University of Zurich
Scholarly impact, academic incentives and resource allocation, Johan
Bollen, Indiana University
12.45 to 14.00
14.00 to 15.30
Lunch
14.00 Authorship dynamics
Chair: Roberto Marchionatti, Università di Torino
On the emergence of the scientific author, Alex Csiszar, Harvard University
The role of gender in scholarly authorship, Jevin D. West, University of
Washington
15.30 to 15.45
15.45 to 18.00
Coffee break
Pricing
Chair: Francesco Silva, Università di Milano Bicocca
Watching your cards in the Big Deal, Theodore Bergstrom, University of
California Santa Barbara ,
Optimal pricing of academic journals in a two-sided model, Frank MüllerLanger, Max Planck Institute & Richard Watt, University of Canterbury
Optimal charges on an author in open access journals, Koji Domon, Waseda
University
20.00
Social Dinner (transfer from the conference site to the restaurant)
Friday June 1st
9.30 to 11.00
Plagiarism
Chair: Lorenzo Sacconi, Università di Trento
What can we learn from scientific plagiarsim?, Mario Biagioli, UC Davis
Publish, Perish or Plagiarize: the determinants and implications of the
production of false knowledge in academic publishing, Jeff Furman, Boston
University and Fiona Murray, MIT
11.00 to 11.15
11.15 to 12.45
Coffee break
The evolving boundaries of scholarly Publishing
Chair: Alberto Cassone, Università del Piemonte Orientale
Inertia, rapid technological change, and scholarly communication, Andrew
Odlyzko, University of Minnesota
The end of the Golden Era of subscriptions and the triumph of Open Access,
David C Prosser, RLUK
Micro-credit attributions and Open Metrics in the future of scientific
publications, Gloria Origgi, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales,
Paris
12.45 to 14.00
14.00 to 15.30
Lunch
Open Access and beyond (I)
Chair: Dietmar Harhoff, Ludwig Maximilian University
Open Access & academics’ behaviors, Giovanni B. Ramello & Matteo
Migheli, Università del Piemonte Orientale
The Open Access debate in science, Marc Scheufen, University of Hamburg
15.30 to 15.45
15.45 to 17.45
Coffee break
Open Access and beyond (II)
Chair: Vittorio Valli, Università di Torino
Self selection and the Open Access citation debate, Mark J. McCabe,
University of Michigan
Climbing the shoulders of giants: Open Access to data, Patrick AndreoliVersbach & Frank Müller-Langer, Max Planck Institute & Ludwig Maximilian
University, Munich