Networks in Science of Science 

Call for Papers: Networks in Science of Science, a NetSci25 Satellite Workshop

Dear Colleagues,

Please join us in beautiful Maastricht, the Netherlands this June 2-6 for the 3nd Annual NetSci satellite workshop “Networks in Science of Science.” We invite researchers and practitioners to share their latest work in network methods applied to the study of science. We particularly encourage submissions from junior researchers, including graduate students, postdocs, and pre-tenure professors. The Best Student Paper Award will recognize the best submission led by a graduate student. A Networking Lunch/Dinner will follow the workshop. 

Scope

We welcome submissions that explore the use of network approaches applied to studies in science of science. This includes (but not limited to) topics such as: citation network analysis, collaboration networks, semantic networks, knowledge graphs, time-varying graphs, hypergraphs, link prediction, graph mining, and graph embedding, and topic modeling in science. We seek submissions in the developing areas of exploration concerned with the impact of diverse voices, intellectual backgrounds, and intelligences (including Artificial Intelligence) on scientific advancements.

This workshop will not archive the submissions. Therefore, we welcome submissions of work at all stages: new contributions, work published in 2024 or 2025, work under peer review, and work in progress (as long as they are not presented at the main NetSci conference). 

Format

- For work published in 2024 or 2025, please submit a PDF file of your publication. 

- For work under peer review, please either submit a PDF file of your preprint or if without a preprint, an abstract (more details below).

- For work in progress, please submit an abstract (more details below).

About the abstract: The file should be a PDF. We suggest 1 to 3 pages, but you are free to go beyond 3 pages. You have unlimited pages for references and figures and are free to use any template of your choice. 

Submission Portal

Enter your submission on EasyChair (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=netscisci2025). The portal and any updates to CFP can be found on the workshop website: https://netscisci.github.io/cfp 

Important Dates

We will conduct two rounds of submissions. If you want to take advantage of NetSci’s early bird registration rate, please submit to Round 1, and we will let you know our decision by February 21, 2025. 

January 10: Call for abstracts is released

February 8: Round 1 deadline

February 21: Round 1 acceptance notice

February 24: Deadline for early bird registration rate (-€100 from the regular rate, https://netsci2025.github.io/registration/)

March 15: Round 2 deadline

March 29: Round 2 acceptance notice

June 2 or 3 (depending on NetSci’s arrangement): Workshop

Sincerely,

The Organizing Committee

Yuanxi Fu (contact), School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA

Akrati Saxena (local host), LIACS, Leiden University, Netherlands

Sarah Bratt, School of Information, University of Arizona, USA

Juan Pablo Bascur, PhD student, Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University, Netherlands

Harlin Lee, School of Data Science and Society, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Satyaki Sikdar, Computer Science, Loyola University Chicago, USA

Eun Lee, Pukyong National University, South Korea

Liubov Tupikina, ITMO, Bell Labs, Paris Descartes LPI, France

Dongyi Wang, Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University, Netherlands

The Program Committee

Vincent Traag, Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University, Netherlands

Bart Thijs, KU Leuven, Belgium

Lucila Gisele Alvarez Zuzek, Bruno Kessler Foundation

Jian Du, Peking University, China