Forum TU Vision 2025+: Gastvortrag von Jean-François Molinari

Im Rahmen des Forum TU Vision 2025+ findet am Montag, 6. Juni 2016, ein Gastvortrag von Jean-François Molinari (Civil Engineering Institute, Institute of Materials Science, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL) mit anschließender Diskussion statt. Alle Angehörigen der TU Wien sind dazu herzlich eingeladen. Scientometrics: Evaluating institutions and the limits of evaluating individuals - We begin this talk with a quick overview of the presenter's research activities in numerical tribology. While no one would argue that the old science of friction, Tribology, is fundamental to life, science and engineering, funding in this field has been in the recent decades uncertain as it has often been considered "traditional" in contrast to the appeal of "new sciences". We will highlight some exciting developments that have yet to translate in high-citation impact as a case in point to discuss scientometrics, that we define here as the study of measuring the impact of scientific publications. The topic is certainly controversial, but it is a given that scientists and research institutions (i.e. departments, centers, universities) will not see a decrease of scrutiny in the foreseeable future by their peers, administrations and tax payers.