Bibliometrics, the Great Beyond of Science?

Speaker:
Michele Lanza

Abstract:
In this seminar I will address a number of seemingly simple questions, such as: What is a publication? What is a conference? What is impact? What are rankings? Does anyone actually care about those questions? We will see that the questions matter, and not only to researchers.

Biography:
Michele Lanza is full professor at the Faculty of Informatics of USI, Lugano, which he co-founded in 2004. He is director of the Software Institute, which he founded, despite all odds, in 2017. For his doctoral dissertation, completed in 2003 at the University of Bern, Switzerland he received the European Ernst Denert award for best PhD thesis in software engineering. He received the Credit Suisse Award for best teaching in 2007 and 2009. Prof. Lanza leads the REVEAL research group since 2004. REVEALers work in the areas of software visualization, evolution, and analytics. Prof. Lanza co-authored more than enough peer-reviewed articles and the book ‘Object-Oriented Metrics in Practice’. Prof. Lanza has graduated 13 awesome PhD students so far.

Chair: Souhaila Serbout

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In February 2019, the Software Institute started its SI Seminar Series. Every Thursday afternoon, a researcher of the Institute will publicly give a short talk on a software engineering argument of their choice. Examples include, but are not limited to novel interesting papers, seminal papers, personal research overview, discussion of preliminary research ideas, tutorials, and small experiments.
On our YouTube playlist you can watch some of the past seminars. On the SI website you can find more details on the next seminar, the upcoming seminars, and an archive of the past speakers.