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CWTS Webinar on Doing Science in Times of Crisis: Science Studies Perspectives on COVID-19 | 27 May

CWTS Webinar on Doing Science in Times of Crisis: Science Studies Perspectives on COVID-19
When: Wednesday 27 May, 3-6 pm CEST (6:30-9:30 pm IST)
Register Online. You will receive a Zoom link upon registration.  
This webinar intends to gather representative examples of ongoing science studies research on COVID-19. Topics include delimiting and mapping COVID-19-related research, social media and altmetrics, societal questions such as gender and research funding. This webinar is organized and hosted by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University. The organizers are Giovanni Colavizza and Ludo Waltman. Note: The speakers in this webinar are not affiliated with CWTS. For those interested, more information on CWTS research on COVID-19 can be found online.

Agenda
Introduction from the organizers (3 pm)
Panel 1 (3:10 pm): Debates on social media
Mike Thelwall (University of Wolverhampton) "COVID-19 publications: Citation indexes and altmetrics"
Mike Taylor (Digital Science) "Media coverage of COVID-19 research"
Riccardo Gallotti (FBK, Trento) "Assessing the risks of "infodemics" in response to COVID-19 epidemics"
Q&A and discussion on panel 1  (3:40 pm), short 5m break
Panel 2 (4:10 pm): Societal questions
Lin Zhang (Wuhan University) "How scientific research reacts to international public health emergencies: a global analysis of response patterns"
Jens Peter Andersen (Aarhus University) "Early signals of a widening gender gap in publication frequency during the COVID-19 pandemic"
Title and speaker to be confirmed
Q&A and discussion on panel 2  (4:40 pm), short 5m break
Panel 3 (5:10 pm): Mapping COVID-19 research
Lucy Wang and Kyle Lo (Semantic Scholar, Allen Institute for AI) "The COVID-19 Open Research Dataset"
Nicholas Fraser (Leibniz Information Centre for Economics) "Tracking the growth of COVID-19 preprints".
Simon Porter (Digital Science) "COVID-19 and preprint publishing culture"
Q&A and discussion on panel 3  (5:40 pm)
Closing remarks

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