Les actualit�s de l'OST

1990-2010 : The OST has 20 years!

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:58:00 +0100

To celebrate its 20^th anniversary, OST organizes an anniversary symposium on 20^th and October 21^st, 2010. All the actors of the research and innovation community are invited to participate. The conference will be organized into two parts :

�OST has 20 years� : this 1^st part will present the history of the OST and its place in the national research and innovation system, today and tomorrow
�Indicators: precautions for use� : this 2^nd part will provide a critical analysis of the indicators and their uses

Book your dates now!

Date: October 20^th(9h00-18h30) and October 21^st (8h30-13h00)
Location: Minist�re de l�Enseignement sup�rieur et de la Recherche, 1 rue Descartes 75006 Paris
Room: Amphith��tre Poincar�
Program: Available Soon

The detailed program and registration procedures soon available on this page.

Presentation of a work on the impact of scientific journals

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:10:00 +0100

The work focuses on an experimental measure of journal impact, based on a novel normalization of Garfield�s Journal Impact Factor (Thomson-Reuters). The field-dependence of impact levels is corrected on the citing side (the propensity and immediacy to cite) rather than on the cited side as usual ex post field-normalization. The AF measure shown here does not depend on a particular field-nomenclature
Presentation of work:

French version (PDF)
English version (PDF) Results on Audience Factors (AF):

Journals ranked by decreasing AF (PDF)
Journals ranked by alphabetical order of journal titles (PDF)
Journals with incomplete information (PDF)
More about the OST�s studies available on line : click here

Happy new year for 2010

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:09:00 +0100

Follow-up to the IPERU project: "Production indicators for the LOLF's P150 programme�

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:32:00 +0200

At the request of the General Direction for Higher Education of the Ministry for Education and Research, OST supplies every higher learning institution in France with indicators showing its scientific and technological production.
The seven indicators, of which four are concerned with scientific production while one covers technology transfer and two measure the institution's participation in the EC's Framework Programmes for Research and Development, are the same indicators that OST makes available for the P150 programme of the Interministerial Task Force for Research and Higher Learning (MIRES).
The indicators enable each institution to grasp in quantitative terms its position in French, European and world scientific and technological production. Detailed progress report on this project (available in French)

OST to collaborate with IHE, the institute responsible for the �Shanghai ranking�

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:28:00 +0200

The agreement was signed into effect by Jean-Jacques Duby, President of OST, and Nian Cai Liu, IHE Director and author of the academic ranking of world universities known as the �Shanghai ranking�, for a period of five years. The signing came at the end of a seminar on "Changes in scientific publication" organised by the French Academy of Sciences, represented at the ceremony by the two permanent secretaries of the Acadamy, Jean-Fran�ois Bach and Jean Dercourt.
This collaborative arrangement will take practical shape on October 2007 when a post-doctoral researcher from Professor Liu's research team will arrive in Paris.
Read the AEF bulletin in either french or english

Follow-up to the "NormAdresses" Project

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:23:00 +0200

The goal of the project NormAdresses is to improve the way French addresses are recorded in the Web of Science database of scientific publication, the definitive database worldwide. Detailed progress report on this project

Country Report "China"

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:34:00 +0200

The Country Report on China was revised and updated in 2006 in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The goal of this study is to provide an analysis of scientific research and technological development in China, a country considered as one of France's major partners. Consult the complete China report and a description