Carolin Michels studied information engineering and management at the University of Karlsruhe (TH), graduating with a German Diplom. From March 2006 until September 2009 she worked as a student researcher at the Institute for Information Systems and Management at the University of Karlsruhe (TH). From September 2009 until October 2010 she was employed as a research assistant at the Institute for Applied Computer Science and Formal Description Methods and at the Karlsruhe Service Research Institute in the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). She has been working since October 2010 as a researcher in the Competence Center Policy and Regions at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI and is a doctoral candidate at the Institute for Applied Computer Science and Formal Description Methods at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

• Bibliometric indicators and methods

• Trend/topic detection

Schubert, T./Michels, C. (forthcoming): Placing Articles in the large Publisher Nations: Is there a "free lunch" in terms of higher impact? Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.22759.

Michels, C./Fu, J. (2013): Systematic Analysis of Coverage and Usage of Conference Proceedings in Web of Science. Subproject in the Kompetenzzentrum Bibliometrie (Discussion Papers Innovation Systems and Policy Analysis No. 33). Karlsruhe: Fraunhofer ISI.

Schmoch, U./Michels, C./Schulze, N./Neuhäusler, P. (2012): Performance and Structures of the German Science System 2011, Germany in an international comparison, China's profile, behaviour of German authors, comparison of the Web of Science and SCOPUS (= Studien zum deutschen Innovationssystem No. 9-2012). Berlin: Expertenkommission Forschung und Innovation (EFI).

Michels, C. (2012) Something old, something new, something borrowed ... and a new scientific topic in her shoe?, 17th Nordic Workshop on Bibliometrics and Research Policy, NBW 2012, Helsinki, Finland, 11-12 October, 2012 (forthcoming).

Michels, C./Schmoch, U. (2012): The growth of science and database coverage, Scientometrics (forthcoming), http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-012-0732-7.

Michels, C./Rettinger, A. (2012): The Tell-Tale Title: How to Track Topics over Time with a Two-Step Approach, STI Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada September 5-8, 2012.

Michels, C./Lösch, U. (2011) Creating a journal classification schema via citation analysis, 16th Nordic Workshop on Bibliometrics and Research Policy, NBW 2011, Aalborg, Denmark, September 22-23 2011.

Michels, C./Schmoch, U. (2011): Growth of Science and Database Coverage, ISSI 2011 Conference, Durban, South Africa, 4.-7.07.2011.

Schmoch, U. /Mallig, N./Michels, C./Neuhäusler, P./Schulze, N. (2011): Performance and structures of the german science system in an international comparison 2010 with a special analysis of public non-university research institutions (= Studien zum deutschen Innovationssystem No. 8-2011). Berlin: Expertenkommission Forschung und Innovation (EFI).

Michels, C./Agarwal, S. (2010): Elicitation of Preferences for Web Service Compositions. Proceedings of Informatik 2010. Reihe: GI-Edition: Lecture Notes in Informatics. Bonn: Köllen Verlag.