Schedule
- Location: University of Maastricht (exact location will be announced later)
- Morning: Opening remarks and 4 invited talks (25 minutes talk + 5 minutes Q&A)
- Networking lunch: 1 hour “going-Dutch” network lunch to bond the participants
- Afternoon: 5 contributed talks (15 minutes talk + 5 minutes Q&A), 6 lightning talks (5 minutes talk)
| Time | Speakers | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Vincent Traag | Opening remarks |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Ana Maria Jaramillo | The persistent underrepresentation of minority groups in Academia: a systematic analysis of the scientific rankings rigidity and core/periphery structure in scientific networks |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Lucila Alvarez Zuzek | Understanding the interplay between science and misinformation in societal debates during the COVID-19 era |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Bas Hofstra | Limits to gender equity in science communication |
| 11:30 am - 11:50 pm | TBD | TBA |
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Networking lunch | |
| 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Break | |
| 2:00 am - 2:20 pm | Jun Sun | Emergence of group size disparity in growing networks with adoption |
| 2:20 pm - 2:40 pm | Yasaman Asgari (student paper) | From revolution to research: Interplay between funding, migration, and scholarly attention post-Arab Spring |
| 2:40 pm - 3:00 pm | Prashant Garg (student paper) | Causal Claims in Economics |
| 3:00 pm - 3:20 pm | Henry Price (student paper) | Dynamics of technology emergence in innovation networks |
| 3:20 pm - 3:40 pm | Dorian Quelle (student paper) | The Twitter/X-odus: Quantifying the forces behind the academic platform migration to Bluesky |
| 3:40 pm - 4:10 pm | Coffee break | |
| 4:10 pm - 4:15 pm | Ria Timm (student paper) | Exploring gender’s impact on co-authorship and citation Networks in cancer research |
| 4:15 pm - 4:20 pm | Jinyu Gao (student paper) | Distinguishing types of scientific innovation capacity: exploring the patterns and dynamics of knowledge combinations and impacts on innovation in biomedical literature |
| 4:20 pm - 4:25 pm | Mark Wittek | Balancing conventionality and unconventionality elevates scientific impact in biomedical research |
| 4:25 pm - 4:30 pm | Katy Börner | Science macroscopes: Interactive data visualizations for exploring multiscale networks in a global society |
| 4:40 pm - 5:00 pm | Concluding remarks |
Please refer to the NetSci 2025 program for the full conference schedule.