Olivia Aguiar

This September, the 26th International Conference on Science, Technology
and Innovation Indicators ([STI
2022](https://sti2022.org/){rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank"})
was held in Granada, Spain and the ScholCommLab left its mark at the
first in-person edition of the conference since the COVID-19 pandemic.

**Seven lab members**---Anton Ninkov, Chantal Ripp, Isabella Peters,
Kathleen Gregory, Leigh-Ann Butler, Marc-André Simard, and Stefanie
Haustein---attended, presented and chaired
[sessions](https://sti2022.org/program/){rel="noreferrer noopener"
target="_blank"} at the conference. For some of them, this was the first
time they met in person. "I was especially excited to meet Kathleen,
Anton, Chantal and Leigh-Ann," says Isabella Peters, professor at CAU
Kiel University. "We have been working together on the [Meaningful Data
Counts](https://www.scholcommlab.ca/research/data-citation/#:~:text=The%20Meaningful%20Data%20Counts%20research,datasets%20play%20in%20scholarly%20communication.){rel="noreferrer noopener"
target="_blank"} projects for almost two years and haven't met
personally until the conference. It was a blast to finally meet the
people you spend so much time with on Zoom."

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  <figcaption>Anton Ninkov presenting on “Mapping Metadata – Improving
  Dataset Discipline Classification” at the 2022 STI
  conference.</figcaption>
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  alt="Marc-André Simard presenting at the 2022 STI conference." />
  <figcaption>Marc-André Simard presenting on “Geographic differences in
  the uptake of diamond open access and APCs” at the 2022 STI
  conference.</figcaption>
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  <figcaption>Leigh-Ann Butler presenting on “The Oligopoly’s Shift to
  Open Access Publishing: How For-Profit Publishers Benefit from Gold and
  Hybrid Article Processing Charges” at the 2022 STI
  conference.</figcaption>
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  alt="Kathleen Gregory presenting at the 2022 STI conference." />
  <figcaption>Kathleen Gregory presenting on “Surveying practices of data
  citation and reuse across disciplines” at the 2022 STI
  conference.</figcaption>
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The conference, first held in 1988 at Leiden University, is one of the
core conferences for researchers and practitioners in bibliometrics and
research evaluation. Kathleen and Anton presented findings from the
[Meaningful Data
Counts](https://www.scholcommlab.ca/research/data-citation/){target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer noopener"} project, Stefanie gave a talk on developing
an [open science
dashboard](https://www.scholcommlab.ca/2022/03/02/turning-policy-into-practice-the-biomedical-research-open-science-dashboard-project/){target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer noopener"} for biomedical institutions, while
Marc-André's and Leigh-Ann's presented their respective doctoral and
Master's research projects in the same session on open access. 

When interviewed about their experience at the conference, many lab
members noted
[Leigh-Ann](https://www.scholcommlab.ca/2020/12/30/3qs-with-leigh-ann/){rel="noreferrer noopener"
target="_blank"}'s presentation on the oligopoly of academic publisher's
shift to open access publishing was a
[highlight](https://twitter.com/stefhaustein/status/1567498440061456384){rel="noreferrer noopener"
target="_blank"}. "I loved seeing people's reaction when they realized
that we have been [paying
billions](https://zenodo.org/record/7158818#.Y3aV_OzMJhF){rel="noreferrer noopener"
target="_blank"} in article processing charges to private for-profit
publishers," says Marc-André Simard, a PhD student at the University of
Montreal and ScholCommLab, and co-author of the new study. "It sparked
some really interesting discussions among the people in the room and on
Twitter."

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<p>We find that authors paid the oligopoly of academic publishers $1.06
billion for publishing gold and hybrid articles in a period of 4 years
(2015-2018). <a
href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/STI2022GRX?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#STI2022GRX</a>
<a href="https://t.co/U59xq2zVax">pic.twitter.com/U59xq2zVax</a></p>
<p>— Stefanie Haustein (@stefhaustein) <a
href="https://twitter.com/stefhaustein/status/1567502607291146241?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September
7, 2022</a></p>
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Despite many captivating talks and workshops at STI 2022, members of the
lab were most excited to (re)connect in-person and chat over coffee.
"The STI conference is always a pleasure to visit since it is really a
meeting of friends," says Isabella.

"After spending so much time working online with some colleagues,
getting the opportunity to spend time in person with them makes you
realize just how much we are missing out by working remotely," says
Marc-André. "It allowed me to have so many deep or informal 'coffee
break' conversations with so many different people, including some that
have led to new research projects and opportunities."

Stefanie agrees that, while online talks and Zoom meetings are
practical, the informal exchanges at in-person events are extremely
valuable. "They remind me that there's people behind the research and
that makes our work so much more fun."

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<figcaption>ScholCommLab members connecting over tapas with colleagues
from Denmark, Canada and Germany. From left to right: Isabella Peters,
Leigh-Ann Butler, Anton Ninkov, Chantal Ripp, Jens-Peter Andersen,
Philippe Mongeon, Maddie Hare, Marc-André Simard, Maria Henkel and
Kristin Biesenbender.</figcaption>
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Stefanie recalls attending her first STI conference in Vienna, Austria
in 2008, when she had just started her PhD: "I still remember how
overwhelming it was to take in all of those different, often very
technical presentations and also to see those big authors for the first
time whose papers I had been reading." 

That same conference 14 years ago  paved the way for Stefanie to move to
Canada in 2013. "I randomly ended up at the same table as Eric
Archambault, at the time CEO of Science-Metrix, and Vincent Larivière,
then still a PhD student. We stayed in touch over the years until they
asked me to come work for them in Montreal after I had finished my PhD,"
she says.

Fast forward to 2022---Stefanie attended the conference for the first
time as a professor, reconnecting with her "people" at STI and
introducing her fellow ScholCommLab members to the bibliometrics
community. "The whole experience was amazing," says Chantal Ripp, who
had just started her PhD in the ScholCommLab with Stefanie. "I also met
in person people that I had attended a summer school with, the Science
of Science Summer School
[(S4)](https://s4.scienceofscience.org/){target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer noopener"}, and that was great."

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<figcaption>ScholCommLab members—Chantal Ripp, Anton Ninkov, Leigh-Ann
Butler, Stefanie Haustein, Kathleen Gregory, and Isabella Peters (from
left to right)—smiling outside the conference hall in
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"I met a lot of researchers who I had read and cited for many years
which was pretty inspiring," says Anton Ninkov, assistant professor at
the University of Montreal. "There were so many intelligent and kind
people there and it was just really great to swap our experiences and
knowledge that came from all over the world," he continues. "There were
lots of ideas on how to approach the challenge of classification that I
hadn't considered before and inspired me in thinking about our [lab's
own
research](https://zenodo.org/communities/meaningfuldatacounts?page=1&size=20){target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer noopener"} on mapping different classification systems
together." 

Kathleen Gregory, a postdoctoral research fellow at the ScholCommLab and
the University of Vienna, was excited to attend the conference as part
of a larger group. "I realized that I usually go to conferences by
myself and meet people on my own," she says. "Attending the conference
as part of the ScholCommLab was a completely different experience. I had
an automatic community to reflect on things with, have breakfast with,
ask questions of, and use as a jumping off point to make new
connections."

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As STI 2022 came to a close, each lab member felt recharged, inspired,
and grateful for the quality time spent with familiar and new
colleagues. "I came back from the conference so energized about my work,
and in a new way that has somehow been missing in pandemic years. Now
the challenge is to carry that energy through to the next conference,"
says Kathleen.

The next International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation
Indicators (STI 2023)
[returns](https://www.enid-europe.eu/index.php?id=confSeries){target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer noopener"} to where it originated and was first hosted
in 1988---Leiden, the Netherlands. As Marc-André exclaims, "I'm already
looking forward to the 2023 edition!"

***For more on the conference, check out the STI 2022***
[***website***](https://sti2022.org/){rel="noreferrer noopener"
target="_blank"} ***and***
[***program***](https://sti2022.org/program/){rel="noreferrer noopener"
target="_blank"}***. Conference proceedings can be found on***
[***Zenodo***](https://zenodo.org/communities/sti2022grx/?page=1&size=20){rel="noreferrer noopener"
target="_blank"}***.*** ***Read our
[preprint](https://zenodo.org/record/7158818#.Y2122uzMJhG){rel="noreferrer noopener"
target="_blank"} to learn more on ***open access fees paid by the global
academic community to the oligopoly of five academic publishers***, or
check out the
[dataset](https://www.google.com/url?q=https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7086420&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1670357324822024&usg=AOvVaw1FKsCcCBckMDMxO-g7Rbym){rel="noreferrer noopener"
target="_blank"} on Zenodo.***


This September, the 26th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (STI 2022) was held in Granada, Spain and the ScholCommLab left its mark at the first in-person edition of the conference since the COVID-19 pandemic.

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