Workshop: General and Tutorial Session for Scientometrics
Bibliometrics for Research and Policy: From Measurement to Insight
19 November 2026
2:30–5:00 PM
Venue: Universitas Trisakti, Jakarta
Participation will be limited to 20 participants.
Registration will be through the official conference website. Details will be provided therein.
Bibliometrics has primarily evolved from being used as a method to evaluate research into a powerful analytical tool and methodological framework for conducting research.
This shift has expanded bibliometrics from a tool for measuring research to a means of uncovering the structure, dynamics, and emerging directions of a field.
Yet, its potential as a research tool and methodological approach is still not fully understood or utilised. This tutorial addresses that gap. It introduces participants to the use of bibliometric data not only for measuring research, but also for identifying patterns, relationships, structures, and emerging directions in a field. Particular attention will be given to how bibliometric analysis can be complemented by social network analysis to understand collaboration and knowledge relationships.
The tutorial will help participants to understand and uncover for example:
- Which topics are growing, which are plateauing, and which are being abandoned?
- Which papers are the intellectual anchors of the field and the ones every subsequent study builds on?
- Which themes cluster together, and which are isolated from each other?
- Where are the gaps, including questions the field has not yet asked or has addressed only in narrow contexts?
- Who is producing this knowledge, and from where?
- What geographies and disciplines are missing?
- How are researchers and institutions connected, and what does the structure of these networks tell us about collaboration and knowledge production?
- How can bibliometric analysis tools such as NodeXL be used in practice?
- What academic and practical implications can be drawn from the analysis of illustrative datasets?
- How can the results of such analyses be developed into academic publications?
By the end of the tutorial, participants will be able to:
Search, retrieve, and export bibliometric data
Clean and prepare raw bibliometric data for analysis
Conduct a systematic and well-documented literature review
Translate a literature map into a conceptual framework and a justified research methodology
Construct and interpret a co-authorship or collaboration network using social network analysis
Identify at least one practical application of these methods to their own research or policy work
Tutorial Faculty:
The tutorial is designed for a mixed audience: early-career and established researchers across disciplines, and policy practitioners.
Prof. Sujit Bhattacharya
Amrita University · Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Scientometric Research · Former Chief Scientist, CSIR-NIScPR
Prof. Ki-Seok Kwon
Department of Public Policy, Hanbat National University, South Korea