From krpowel at emory.edu Wed Aug 14 17:26:37 2013 From: krpowel at emory.edu (Powell, Kimberly Robin) Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 21:26:37 +0000 Subject: [Sigmet-officers] Student Paper Contest- need reviewers and a plan Message-ID: <6F3D5FCC9D154641BCC0FA412A03258E552CC5BE@e14mbx15n.Enterprise.emory.net> Hi All, The SIGMET Student Paper Contest submission window is now closed. We've received 6 papers that need to be reviewed and ranked. I think ideally there would be a small group willing to look at all six. And then rank with a score from 1-6... 1 being the top pick. We can then average the scores across as many complete reviewers and declare the lowest average the winner. Or does reviewing all six seem too much? It also sounded like we wanted to keep the review process amongst the officers. So... whose willing to be a reviewer? I'm including a list of the submitted titles under review. * Accessing Government Statistical Information * A Review of Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) that Examines Internet Based Smoking Reduction/Cessation Programs * Mendeley readership altmetrics for the social sciences and humanities: Research evaluation and knowledge flows * Multiple h index: A new Scientometric Indicator * Cognitive Distance and Peer Review: a study of a grant scheme in Infection Biology * Modelling Article Citation Impact Factors Using an Integrated Statistical Method Please let me know if anyone has any additional thoughts. Ideally we can pick a winner by the week of September 1st in order to allow as much time as possible for the student to make travel and/or visa arrangements. Thanks! ~Kim ----- Kimberly R Powell, MIS Life Sciences Informationist Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library 1462 Clifton Road, NE Atlanta GA 30322 (404) 727-3961 ________________________________ This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail message and destroy all copies of the original message (including attachments). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From krpowel at emory.edu Wed Aug 14 17:31:49 2013 From: krpowel at emory.edu (Powell, Kimberly Robin) Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 21:31:49 +0000 Subject: [Sigmet-officers] Student Paper Abstracts Message-ID: <6F3D5FCC9D154641BCC0FA412A03258E552CD5CC@e14mbx15n.Enterprise.emory.net> Okay, found were the submission system put the abstracts. See below... ~Kim Accessing Government Statistical Information As a governmental data resource, statistical information is an important and valued source of information. The United States Federal Government is the biggest supplier of statistical information in the country. Federal Government agencies produce statistics in the course of research, program management, making projections and through administration functions; these are used by government agencies and the general public. This research essay will cover the background of government statistics, accessing the most valuable resources for this information and how important of a resource and skill this is. This will mostly include open source resources but will also cover certain subscription databases. A Review of Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) that Examines Internet Based Smoking Reduction/Cessation Programs Consumer Health Informatics (CHI) includes the development and implementation of Internet based systems to deliver health risk management information, and health intervention applications to the public. The application of CHI to educational and interventional efforts for smoking reduction/cessation has recently garnered attention from both consumers and health researchers. Scientists believe that smoking avoidance or cessation before age 30 can prevent over 90% of smoking related cancers, and that individuals that stop smoking can prevent cancer as well as those that never start. Approaches to reducing smoking related cancer deaths include encouraging current smokers to stop and preventing people from developing this dangerous habit. This paper reviews Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) centered on Internet based smoking reduction/cessation interventions. A search of the University of North Texas EBSCO Host databases, PubMed, the Cochrane Library, and EMBASE identified 10 RCTs that summarized the outcomes of 14 Internet based smoking reduction/cessation programs (2006 - 2011). These studies demonstrated that Internet based smoking reduction/cessation programs are promising tools in the effort to reduce smoking/improve public health. Several programs effectively reduced smoking, and Internet based programs reach many people at low cost. An important area of future research is the identification of Internet based smoking reduction/cessation interventions that meet the needs of smokers with different personalities, motivations for quitting, social, and economic circumstances. Mendeley readership altmetrics for the social sciences and humanities: Research evaluation and knowledge flows Although there is evidence that counting the readers of an article in the social reference site, Mendeley, may help to capture its research impact, the extent to which this is true for different scientific fields is unknown. This study compares Mendeley readership counts with citations for different social sciences and humanities disciplines. The overall correlation between Mendeley readership counts and citations for the social sciences was higher than for the humanities. Low and medium correlations between Mendeley bookmarks and citation counts in all the investigated disciplines suggest that these measures reflect different aspects of research impact. Mendeley data was also used to discover patterns of information flow between scientific fields. Comparing information flows based on Mendeley bookmarking data and cross disciplinary citation analysis for the disciplines revealed substantial similarities and some differences. Thus, the evidence from this study suggests that Mendeley readership data could be used to help capture knowledge transfer across scientific disciplines, especially for people that read but do not author articles, as well as giving impact evidence at an earlier stage than is possible with citation counts. Multiple h index: A new Scientometric Indicator This study aimed to evaluate some of these indexes by using virtual data and propose a new index, named multiple h index, for removing the limits of these variants. Citation report for 40 researchers in Babol, Iran was extracted from Web of Science (WoS) and entered in a checklist together with their scientific lifetimes and published ages of their papers. Some statistical analyses, especially exploratory factor analysis and structural correlations were done in SPSS 19. Exploratory factor analysis revealed 3 factors with eigenvalues greater than 1 and explained variance over 96% in the studied indexes including multiple h index. Factors 1, 2 and 3 explained 44.38%, 28.19%, and 23.48% of variance in correlation coefficient matrix. M index (with coefficient of 90%) in factor 1, a index (with coefficient of 91%) in factor 2, and h and h2 indexes (with coefficients of 93%) in factor 3 had the highest factor loadings. Correlation coefficients and related comparative diagrams showed that multiple h index is more accurate than the other 9 variants in differentiating the scientific impact of researchers with the same h index. As the studied variants could not satisfied all limits of h index, scientific society needs an index which accurately evaluates individual researchers' scientific output. As multiple h index has some advantages over the other studied variants, it can be an appropriate alternative for them. Cognitive Distance and Peer Review: a study of a grant scheme in Infection Biology The aim of this paper is to discuss a methodology for measuring the cognitive distance between applicants and referees. Researchers' knowledge based cited papers and research contents are used to represent their scientific cognitions. Using two different methodologies: 1) author bibliographic coupling analysis and 2) author topic analysis, we apply these methods on a recent competition for grants from the Swedish Strategic Foundation (SSF). The agency used a two stage approach: in the first selection stage there were 57 main applicants with 136 co-applicants. For this stage there were 14 referees with a diversity of backgrounds, mostly Swedish but both university and industry, 11 of these had more than 10 publications during the period 2004-2011. In the second round, 28 applications were considered. At this stage 19 new international (non-Swedish) referees were taken into action (it is not known whether they were assembled from abroad or if they had a face-to-face meeting). Five out of the referees in the second round did not have any papers or very few papers <10 papers). The procedure resulted in a selection of nine proposals, nine teams that passed through the two-stage process with a large grant for studies in infection biology, out of which three were proposed by female researchers. This reflects the distribution over gender among main applicants. Therefore, we put this question aside this time and concentrate on other aspects of peer review and grant selection. Modelling Article Citation Impact Factors Using an Integrated Statistical Method This study uses an advanced statistical model to simultaneously assess a number of factors that may associate with increased citation impact: research collaboration; journal and reference impact and internationality; author and institutional impact; article size features; and readability of abstract in Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, Clinical Medicine and Social Sciences. Using a negative binomial-logit hurdle model, the results show that individual and international collaborations are significant determinants of increased citation counts and decreased zero citations in the four fields. Journal and reference impact and internationality also significantly associate with increased citations. Among article size attributes, title length is not an important factor of citations but other attributes associate with increased positive citations and decreased zero citations. In the all four models, the author impact is the only insignificant factor of citations. ----- Kimberly R Powell, MIS Life Sciences Informationist Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library 1462 Clifton Road, NE Atlanta GA 30322 (404) 727-3961 ________________________________ This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail message and destroy all copies of the original message (including attachments). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cassidysugimoto at gmail.com Wed Aug 14 23:33:06 2013 From: cassidysugimoto at gmail.com (Cassidy Sugimoto) Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 23:33:06 -0400 Subject: [Sigmet-officers] Student Paper Contest- need reviewers and a plan In-Reply-To: <6F3D5FCC9D154641BCC0FA412A03258E552CC5BE@e14mbx15n.Enterprise.emory.net> References: <6F3D5FCC9D154641BCC0FA412A03258E552CC5BE@e14mbx15n.Enterprise.emory.net> Message-ID: Great! I think this sounds like a great process and I'm happy to read/rank. On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Powell, Kimberly Robin wrote: > Hi All, > > The SIGMET Student Paper Contest submission window is now closed. We?ve > received 6 papers that need to be reviewed and ranked. I think ideally > there would be a small group willing to look at all six. And then rank > with a score from 1-6? 1 being the top pick. We can then average the > scores across as many complete reviewers and declare the lowest average the > winner. Or does reviewing all six seem too much? It also sounded like we > wanted to keep the review process amongst the officers. So? whose willing > to be a reviewer? > > > > I?m including a list of the submitted titles under review. > > > > > > > > > > > > ? Accessing Government Statistical Information > > ? A Review of Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) that Examines > Internet Based Smoking Reduction/Cessation Programs > > > > > > ? Mendeley readership altmetrics for the social sciences and > humanities: Research evaluation and knowledge flows > > > > > > ? Multiple h index: A new Scientometric Indicator > > > > > > ? Cognitive Distance and Peer Review: a study of a grant scheme > in Infection Biology > > > > > > ? Modelling Article Citation Impact Factors Using an Integrated > Statistical Method > > * * > > Please let me know if anyone has any additional thoughts. Ideally we can > pick a winner by the week of September 1st in order to allow as much time > as possible for the student to make travel and/or visa arrangements. > > Thanks! > > ~Kim > > > > ----- > > Kimberly R Powell, MIS > > Life Sciences Informationist > > Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library > > 1462 Clifton Road, NE > > Atlanta GA 30322 > > (404) 727-3961 > > > > ------------------------------ > > This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of > the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged > information. 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URL: From barilaj at mail.biu.ac.il Thu Aug 15 00:46:24 2013 From: barilaj at mail.biu.ac.il (Judit Bar-Ilan) Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 07:46:24 +0300 Subject: [Sigmet-officers] Sigmet-officers Digest, Vol 29, Issue 1 In-Reply-To: <26dc7cfbb68a471f8bfb40c9491d678e@FLAMINGO.ad.biu.ac.il> References: <26dc7cfbb68a471f8bfb40c9491d678e@FLAMINGO.ad.biu.ac.il> Message-ID: Dear All, I am willing to review papers, but won't be able to do six by September 1. Two or three are reasonable. Btw, the Mendeley submission seems to be identical to a paper presented at the ISSI conference in Vienna in July. Are we OK with that? Here's the abstract of that paper: ASSESSING THE MENDELEY READERSHIP OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH Ehsan Mohammadi1 and Mike Thelwall2 * 1e.mohammadi at wlv.ac.uk * Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group, School of Technology, University of Wolverhampton, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton WV1 1LY, UK. * 2 m.thelwall at wlv.ac.uk * Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group, School of Technology, University of Wolverhampton, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton WV1 1LY, UK. * Abstract * There is some evidence that counting the readers of an article in the social reference site, Mendeley, may help to capture the research impact of the article, but the extent to which this is true for different scientific fields is unknown. This study compares Mendeley readership counts with citation counts for different social sciences and humanities disciplines. Mendeley usage data is also used as a novel way to discover patterns of information flow between scientific subjects. The overall correlation between Mendeley readership counts and citations for the social sciences was higher than for the humanities. Low and medium correlations between Mendeley readership and citation counts in all the investigated disciplines suggest that these measures reflect different aspects of research impact. The information flow findings indicate that most users of social sciences and humanities papers are from within the same discipline but some less obvious relationships between scientific disciplines were also discovered. Thus, Mendeley readership can complement citation metrics in many disciplines to help measure broader research impact and to uncover relationships between scholarly disciplines from the reader?s perspective. Regards, Judit On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:32 AM, sigmet-officers-request at asis.org < sigmet-officers-request at asis.org> wrote: > Send Sigmet-officers mailing list submissions to > sigmet-officers at mail.asis.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigmet-officers > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > sigmet-officers-request at mail.asis.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > sigmet-officers-owner at mail.asis.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Sigmet-officers digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Student Paper Contest- need reviewers and a plan > (Powell, Kimberly Robin) > 2. Student Paper Abstracts (Powell, Kimberly Robin) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 21:26:37 +0000 > From: "Powell, Kimberly Robin" > To: "sigmet-officers at mail.asis.org" > Subject: [Sigmet-officers] Student Paper Contest- need reviewers and a > plan > Message-ID: > < > 6F3D5FCC9D154641BCC0FA412A03258E552CC5BE at e14mbx15n.Enterprise.emory.net> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hi All, > The SIGMET Student Paper Contest submission window is now closed. We've > received 6 papers that need to be reviewed and ranked. I think ideally > there would be a small group willing to look at all six. And then rank > with a score from 1-6... 1 being the top pick. We can then average the > scores across as many complete reviewers and declare the lowest average the > winner. Or does reviewing all six seem too much? It also sounded like we > wanted to keep the review process amongst the officers. So... whose > willing to be a reviewer? > > I'm including a list of the submitted titles under review. > > > > > > > > > > > > * Accessing Government Statistical Information > > * A Review of Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) that Examines > Internet Based Smoking Reduction/Cessation Programs > > > > > > > * Mendeley readership altmetrics for the social sciences and > humanities: Research evaluation and knowledge flows > > > > > > > * Multiple h index: A new Scientometric Indicator > > > > > > > * Cognitive Distance and Peer Review: a study of a grant scheme in > Infection Biology > > > > > > > * Modelling Article Citation Impact Factors Using an Integrated > Statistical Method > > > Please let me know if anyone has any additional thoughts. Ideally we can > pick a winner by the week of September 1st in order to allow as much time > as possible for the student to make travel and/or visa arrangements. > Thanks! > ~Kim > > ----- > Kimberly R Powell, MIS > Life Sciences Informationist > Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library > 1462 Clifton Road, NE > Atlanta GA 30322 > (404) 727-3961 > > > ________________________________ > > This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of > the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged > information. If the reader of this message is not the intended > recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution > or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly > prohibited. > > If you have received this message in error, please contact > the sender by reply e-mail message and destroy all copies of the > original message (including attachments). > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://mail.asis.org/pipermail/sigmet-officers/attachments/20130814/541fc789/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 21:31:49 +0000 > From: "Powell, Kimberly Robin" > To: "sigmet-officers at mail.asis.org" > Subject: [Sigmet-officers] Student Paper Abstracts > Message-ID: > < > 6F3D5FCC9D154641BCC0FA412A03258E552CD5CC at e14mbx15n.Enterprise.emory.net> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > Okay, found were the submission system put the abstracts. See below... > ~Kim > > > > Accessing Government Statistical Information > > > > > > As a governmental data resource, statistical information is an important > and valued source of information. The United States Federal Government is > the biggest supplier of statistical information in the country. Federal > Government agencies produce statistics in the course of research, program > management, making projections and through administration functions; these > are used by government agencies and the general public. This research essay > will cover the background of government statistics, accessing the most > valuable resources for this information and how important of a resource and > skill this is. This will mostly include open source resources but will also > cover certain subscription databases. > > > > A Review of Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) that Examines Internet > Based Smoking Reduction/Cessation Programs > > Consumer Health Informatics (CHI) includes the development and > implementation of Internet based systems to deliver health risk management > information, and health intervention applications to the public. The > application of CHI to educational and interventional efforts for smoking > reduction/cessation has recently garnered attention from both consumers and > health researchers. Scientists believe that smoking avoidance or cessation > before age 30 can prevent over 90% of smoking related cancers, and that > individuals that stop smoking can prevent cancer as well as those that > never start. Approaches to reducing smoking related cancer deaths include > encouraging current smokers to stop and preventing people from developing > this dangerous habit. > This paper reviews Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) centered on > Internet based smoking reduction/cessation interventions. A search of the > University of North Texas EBSCO Host databases, PubMed, the Cochrane > Library, and EMBASE identified 10 RCTs that summarized the outcomes of 14 > Internet based smoking reduction/cessation programs (2006 - 2011). These > studies demonstrated that Internet based smoking reduction/cessation > programs are promising tools in the effort to reduce smoking/improve public > health. Several programs effectively reduced smoking, and Internet based > programs reach many people at low cost. An important area of future > research is the identification of Internet based smoking > reduction/cessation interventions that meet the needs of smokers with > different personalities, motivations for quitting, social, and economic > circumstances. > > Mendeley readership altmetrics for the social sciences and humanities: > Research evaluation and knowledge flows > Although there is evidence that counting the readers of an article in the > social reference site, Mendeley, may help > to capture its research impact, the extent to which this is true for > different scientific fields is unknown. This study > compares Mendeley readership counts with citations for different social > sciences and humanities disciplines. The > overall correlation between Mendeley readership counts and citations for > the social sciences was higher than for > the humanities. Low and medium correlations between Mendeley bookmarks and > citation counts in all the > investigated disciplines suggest that these measures reflect different > aspects of research impact. Mendeley data > was also used to discover patterns of information flow between scientific > fields. Comparing information flows > based on Mendeley bookmarking data and cross disciplinary citation > analysis for the disciplines revealed > substantial similarities and some differences. Thus, the evidence from > this study suggests that Mendeley > readership data could be used to help capture knowledge transfer across > scientific disciplines, especially for > people that read but do not author articles, as well as giving impact > evidence at an earlier stage than is possible > with citation counts. > > > Multiple h index: A new Scientometric Indicator > > This study aimed to evaluate some of these indexes by using virtual data > and propose a new index, named multiple h index, for removing the limits of > these variants. Citation report for 40 researchers in Babol, Iran was > extracted from Web of Science (WoS) and entered in a checklist together > with their scientific lifetimes and published ages of their papers. Some > statistical analyses, especially exploratory factor analysis and structural > correlations were done in SPSS 19. Exploratory factor analysis revealed 3 > factors with eigenvalues greater than 1 and explained variance over 96% in > the studied indexes including multiple h index. Factors 1, 2 and 3 > explained 44.38%, 28.19%, and 23.48% of variance in correlation coefficient > matrix. M index (with coefficient of 90%) in factor 1, a index (with > coefficient of 91%) in factor 2, and h and h2 indexes (with coefficients of > 93%) in factor 3 had the highest factor loadings. Correlation coefficients > and related comparative diagrams show! > ed that multiple h index is more accurate than the other 9 variants in > differentiating the scientific impact of researchers with the same h index. > As the studied variants could not satisfied all limits of h index, > scientific society needs an index which accurately evaluates individual > researchers' scientific output. As multiple h index has some advantages > over the other studied variants, it can be an appropriate alternative for > them. > > Cognitive Distance and Peer Review: a study of a grant scheme in Infection > Biology > The aim of this paper is to discuss a methodology for measuring the > cognitive distance between applicants and referees. Researchers' knowledge > based cited papers and research contents are used to represent their > scientific cognitions. Using two different methodologies: 1) author > bibliographic coupling analysis and 2) author topic analysis, we apply > these methods on a recent competition for grants from the Swedish Strategic > Foundation (SSF). The agency used a two stage approach: in the first > selection stage there were 57 main applicants with 136 co-applicants. For > this stage there were 14 referees with a diversity of backgrounds, mostly > Swedish but both university and industry, 11 of these had more than 10 > publications during the period 2004-2011. In the second round, 28 > applications were considered. At this stage 19 new international > (non-Swedish) referees were taken into action (it is not known whether they > were assembled from abroad or if they had a face-to-face meeting). ! > Five out of the referees in the second round did not have any papers or > very few papers <10 papers). The procedure resulted in a selection of nine > proposals, nine teams that passed through the two-stage process with a > large grant for studies in infection biology, out of which three were > proposed by female researchers. This reflects the distribution over gender > among main applicants. Therefore, we put this question aside this time and > concentrate on other aspects of peer review and grant selection. > > Modelling Article Citation Impact Factors Using an Integrated Statistical > Method > This study uses an advanced statistical model to simultaneously assess a > number of factors that may associate with increased citation impact: > research collaboration; journal and reference impact and internationality; > author and institutional impact; article size features; and readability of > abstract in Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, Clinical Medicine and Social > Sciences. Using a negative binomial-logit hurdle model, the results show > that individual and international collaborations are significant > determinants of increased citation counts and decreased zero citations in > the four fields. Journal and reference impact and internationality also > significantly associate with increased citations. Among article size > attributes, title length is not an important factor of citations but other > attributes associate with increased positive citations and decreased zero > citations. In the all four models, the author impact is the only > insignificant factor of citations. > > ----- > Kimberly R Powell, MIS > Life Sciences Informationist > Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library > 1462 Clifton Road, NE > Atlanta GA 30322 > (404) 727-3961 > > > ________________________________ > > This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of > the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged > information. 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URL: From sheble at live.unc.edu Thu Aug 15 10:20:30 2013 From: sheble at live.unc.edu (Sheble, Laura) Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 14:20:30 +0000 Subject: [Sigmet-officers] Student Paper Contest- need reviewers and a plan In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I'd be happy to help read and rank too! Laura From: "Cassidy Sugimoto (cassidysugimoto at gmail.com)" > Date: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 11:33 PM To: "Powell, Kimberly Robin" > Cc: "sigmet-officers at mail.asis.org" > Subject: Re: [Sigmet-officers] Student Paper Contest- need reviewers and a plan Great! I think this sounds like a great process and I'm happy to read/rank. On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Powell, Kimberly Robin > wrote: Hi All, The SIGMET Student Paper Contest submission window is now closed. We've received 6 papers that need to be reviewed and ranked. I think ideally there would be a small group willing to look at all six. And then rank with a score from 1-6... 1 being the top pick. We can then average the scores across as many complete reviewers and declare the lowest average the winner. Or does reviewing all six seem too much? It also sounded like we wanted to keep the review process amongst the officers. So... whose willing to be a reviewer? I'm including a list of the submitted titles under review. ? Accessing Government Statistical Information ? A Review of Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) that Examines Internet Based Smoking Reduction/Cessation Programs ? Mendeley readership altmetrics for the social sciences and humanities: Research evaluation and knowledge flows ? Multiple h index: A new Scientometric Indicator ? Cognitive Distance and Peer Review: a study of a grant scheme in Infection Biology ? Modelling Article Citation Impact Factors Using an Integrated Statistical Method Please let me know if anyone has any additional thoughts. Ideally we can pick a winner by the week of September 1st in order to allow as much time as possible for the student to make travel and/or visa arrangements. Thanks! ~Kim ----- Kimberly R Powell, MIS Life Sciences Informationist Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library 1462 Clifton Road, NE Atlanta GA 30322 (404) 727-3961 ________________________________ This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail message and destroy all copies of the original message (including attachments). _______________________________________________ Sigmet-officers mailing list Sigmet-officers at mail.asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigmet-officers -- Cassidy R. Sugimoto, PhD Assistant Professor School of Informatics and Computing Indiana University Bloomington http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~sugimoto -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dwolfram at uwm.edu Thu Aug 15 10:29:05 2013 From: dwolfram at uwm.edu (Dietmar Wolfram) Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 09:29:05 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [Sigmet-officers] Sigmet-officers Digest, Vol 29, Issue 1 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <1120679132.2791278.1376576944985.JavaMail.root@uwm.edu> Hi, I agree with Judit about trying to review six by 9/1 given the end of summer and beginning of semester deadlines and related activities. I think three would be manageable. The ranks could still be averaged. Any t ies could be resolved through group consensus. Dietmar ----- Original Message ----- From: "Judit Bar-Ilan" To: sigmet-officers at asis.org Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 11:46:24 PM Subject: Re: [Sigmet-officers] Sigmet-officers Digest, Vol 29, Issue 1 Dear All, ? I am willing to review papers, but won't be able to do six by September 1. Two or three are reasonable. Btw, the Mendeley submission seems to be identical to a paper presented at the ISSI conference in Vienna in July. Are we OK with that? Here's the abstract of that paper: ASSESSING THE MENDELEY READERSHIP OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH Ehsan Mohammadi 1 and Mike Thelwall 2 1 e.mohammadi at wlv.ac.uk Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group, School of Technology, University of Wolverhampton, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton WV1 1LY, UK. 2 m.thelwall at wlv.ac.uk Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group, School of Technology, University of Wolverhampton, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton WV1 1LY, UK. Abstract There is some evidence that counting the readers of an article in the social reference site, Mendeley, may help to capture the research impact of the article, but the extent to which this is true for different scientific fields is unknown. This study compares Mendeley readership counts with citation counts for different social sciences and humanities disciplines. Mendeley usage data is also used as a novel way to discover patterns of information flow between scientific subjects. The overall correlation between Mendeley readership counts and citations for the social sciences was higher than for the humanities. Low and medium correlations between Mendeley readership and citation counts in all the investigated disciplines suggest that these measures reflect different aspects of research impact. The information flow findings indicate that most users of social sciences and humanities papers are from within the same discipline but some less obvious relationships between scientific disciplines were also discovered. Thus, Mendeley readership can complement citation metrics in many disciplines to help measure broader research impact and to uncover relationships between scholarly disciplines from the reader?s perspective. ? Regards, Judit ? On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:32 AM, sigmet-officers-request at asis.org < sigmet-officers-request at asis.org > wrote: Send Sigmet-officers mailing list submissions to ? ? ? ? sigmet-officers at mail.asis.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit ? ? ? ? http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigmet-officers or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to ? ? ? ? sigmet-officers-request at mail.asis.org You can reach the person managing the list at ? ? ? ? sigmet-officers-owner at mail.asis.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Sigmet-officers digest..." Today's Topics: ? ?1. Student Paper Contest- need reviewers and a plan ? ? ? (Powell, Kimberly Robin) ? ?2. Student Paper Abstracts (Powell, Kimberly Robin) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 21:26:37 +0000 From: "Powell, Kimberly Robin" < krpowel at emory.edu > To: " sigmet-officers at mail.asis.org " < sigmet-officers at mail.asis.org > Subject: [Sigmet-officers] Student Paper Contest- need reviewers and a ? ? ? ? plan Message-ID: ? ? ? ? < 6F3D5FCC9D154641BCC0FA412A03258E552CC5BE at e14mbx15n.Enterprise.emory.net > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi All, The SIGMET Student Paper Contest submission window is now closed. ?We've received 6 papers that need to be reviewed and ranked. ?I think ideally there would be a small group willing to look at all six. ?And then rank with a score from 1-6... 1 being the top pick. ?We can then average the scores across as many complete reviewers and declare the lowest average the winner. ?Or does reviewing all six seem too much? ?It also sounded like we wanted to keep the review process amongst the officers. ?So... whose willing to be a reviewer? I'm including a list of the submitted titles under review. * ? ? ? ? Accessing Government Statistical Information * ? ? ? ? A Review of Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) that Examines Internet Based Smoking Reduction/Cessation Programs * ? ? ? ? Mendeley readership altmetrics for the social sciences and humanities: Research evaluation and knowledge flows * ? ? ? ? Multiple h index: A new Scientometric Indicator * ? ? ? ? Cognitive Distance and Peer Review: a study of a grant scheme in Infection Biology * ? ? ? ? Modelling Article Citation Impact Factors Using an Integrated Statistical Method Please let me know if anyone has any additional thoughts. ?Ideally we can pick a winner by the week of September 1st in order to allow as much time as possible for the student to make travel and/or visa arrangements. 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URL: < http://mail.asis.org/pipermail/sigmet-officers/attachments/20130814/541fc789/attachment-0001.html > ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 21:31:49 +0000 From: "Powell, Kimberly Robin" < krpowel at emory.edu > To: " sigmet-officers at mail.asis.org " < sigmet-officers at mail.asis.org > Subject: [Sigmet-officers] Student Paper Abstracts Message-ID: ? ? ? ? < 6F3D5FCC9D154641BCC0FA412A03258E552CD5CC at e14mbx15n.Enterprise.emory.net > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Okay, found were the submission system put the abstracts. ?See below... ~Kim Accessing Government Statistical Information As a governmental data resource, statistical information is an important and valued source of information. The United States Federal Government is the biggest supplier of statistical information in the country. Federal Government agencies produce statistics in the course of research, program management, making projections and through administration functions; these are used by government agencies and the general public. This research essay will cover the background of government statistics, accessing the most valuable resources for this information and how important of a resource and skill this is. This will mostly include open source resources but will also cover certain subscription databases. A Review of Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) that Examines Internet Based Smoking Reduction/Cessation Programs Consumer Health Informatics (CHI) includes the development and implementation of Internet based systems to deliver health risk management information, and health intervention applications to the public. The application of CHI to educational and interventional efforts for smoking reduction/cessation has recently garnered attention from both consumers and health researchers. Scientists believe that smoking avoidance or cessation before age 30 can prevent over 90% of smoking related cancers, and that individuals that stop smoking can prevent cancer as well as those that never start. Approaches to reducing smoking related cancer deaths include encouraging current smokers to stop and preventing people from developing this dangerous habit. This paper reviews Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) centered on Internet based smoking reduction/cessation interventions. A search of the University of North Texas EBSCO Host databases, PubMed, the Cochrane Library, and EMBASE identified 10 RCTs that summarized the outcomes of 14 Internet based smoking reduction/cessation programs (2006 - 2011). These studies demonstrated that Internet based smoking reduction/cessation programs are promising tools in the effort to reduce smoking/improve public health. Several programs effectively reduced smoking, and Internet based programs reach many people at low cost. An important area of future research is the identification of Internet based smoking reduction/cessation interventions that meet the needs of smokers with different personalities, motivations for quitting, social, and economic circumstances. Mendeley readership altmetrics for the social sciences and humanities: Research evaluation and knowledge flows Although there is evidence that counting the readers of an article in the social reference site, Mendeley, may help to capture its research impact, the extent to which this is true for different scientific fields is unknown. This study compares Mendeley readership counts with citations for different social sciences and humanities disciplines. The overall correlation between Mendeley readership counts and citations for the social sciences was higher than for the humanities. Low and medium correlations between Mendeley bookmarks and citation counts in all the investigated disciplines suggest that these measures reflect different aspects of research impact. Mendeley data was also used to discover patterns of information flow between scientific fields. Comparing information flows based on Mendeley bookmarking data and cross disciplinary citation analysis for the disciplines revealed substantial similarities and some differences. Thus, the evidence from this study suggests that Mendeley readership data could be used to help capture knowledge transfer across scientific disciplines, especially for people that read but do not author articles, as well as giving impact evidence at an earlier stage than is possible with citation counts. Multiple h index: A new Scientometric Indicator This study aimed to evaluate some of these indexes by using virtual data and propose a new index, named multiple h index, for removing the limits of these variants. Citation report for 40 researchers in Babol, Iran was extracted from Web of Science (WoS) and entered in a checklist together with their scientific lifetimes and published ages of their papers. Some statistical analyses, especially exploratory factor analysis and structural correlations were done in SPSS 19. Exploratory factor analysis revealed 3 factors with eigenvalues greater than 1 and explained variance over 96% in the studied indexes including multiple h index. Factors 1, 2 and 3 explained 44.38%, 28.19%, and 23.48% of variance in correlation coefficient matrix. M index (with coefficient of 90%) in factor 1, a index (with coefficient of 91%) in factor 2, and h and h2 indexes (with coefficients of 93%) in factor 3 had the highest factor loadings. Correlation coefficients and related comparative diagrams show! ?ed that multiple h index is more accurate than the other 9 variants in differentiating the scientific impact of researchers with the same h index. As the studied variants could not satisfied all limits of h index, scientific society needs an index which accurately evaluates individual researchers' scientific output. As multiple h index has some advantages over the other studied variants, it can be an appropriate alternative for them. Cognitive Distance and Peer Review: a study of a grant scheme in Infection Biology The aim of this paper is to discuss a methodology for measuring the cognitive distance between applicants and referees. Researchers' knowledge based cited papers and research contents are used to represent their scientific cognitions. Using two different methodologies: 1) author bibliographic coupling analysis and 2) author topic analysis, we apply these methods on a recent competition for grants from the Swedish Strategic Foundation (SSF). The agency used a two stage approach: in the first selection stage there were 57 main applicants with 136 co-applicants. For this stage there were 14 referees with a diversity of backgrounds, mostly Swedish but both university and industry, 11 of these had more than 10 publications during the period 2004-2011. In the second round, 28 applications were considered. At this stage 19 new international (non-Swedish) referees were taken into action (it is not known whether they were assembled from abroad or if they had a face-to-face meeting). ! ?Five out of the referees in the second round did not have any papers or very few papers <10 papers). The procedure resulted in a selection of nine proposals, nine teams that passed through the two-stage process with a large grant for studies in infection biology, out of which three were proposed by female researchers. This reflects the distribution over gender among main applicants. Therefore, we put this question aside this time and concentrate on other aspects of peer review and grant selection. Modelling Article Citation Impact Factors Using an Integrated Statistical Method This study uses an advanced statistical model to simultaneously assess a number of factors that may associate with increased citation impact: research collaboration; journal and reference impact and internationality; author and institutional impact; article size features; and readability of abstract in Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, Clinical Medicine and Social Sciences. Using a negative binomial-logit hurdle model, the results show that individual and international collaborations are significant determinants of increased citation counts and decreased zero citations in the four fields. Journal and reference impact and internationality also significantly associate with increased citations. Among article size attributes, title length is not an important factor of citations but other attributes associate with increased positive citations and decreased zero citations. In the all four models, the author impact is the only insignificant factor of citations. ----- Kimberly R Powell, MIS Life Sciences Informationist Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library< health.library.emory.edu > 1462 Clifton Road, NE Atlanta GA 30322 (404) 727-3961 ________________________________ This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail message and destroy all copies of the original message (including attachments). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From sean.burns at uky.edu Thu Aug 15 10:53:38 2013 From: sean.burns at uky.edu (Burns, Christopher S) Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 14:53:38 +0000 Subject: [Sigmet-officers] Sigmet-officers Digest, Vol 29, Issue 1 In-Reply-To: References: <1120679132.2791278.1376576944985.JavaMail.root@uwm.edu> Message-ID: <1376578420.3822.36.camel@slis-burns> I would like to help, but I third this. Sean > From: Dietmar Wolfram > Date: Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 10:29 AM > Subject: Re: [Sigmet-officers] Sigmet-officers Digest, Vol 29, Issue 1 > To: Judit Bar-Ilan > Cc: sigmet-officers at asis.org > > > Hi, > > > > I agree with Judit about trying to review six by 9/1 given the end of > summer and beginning of semester deadlines and related activities. I > think three would be manageable. The ranks could still be averaged. > Any ties could be resolved through group consensus. > > > > Dietmar > > ________________________________ > > From: "Judit Bar-Ilan" > To: sigmet-officers at asis.org > Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 11:46:24 PM > Subject: Re: [Sigmet-officers] Sigmet-officers Digest, Vol 29, Issue 1 > > > Dear All, > > I am willing to review papers, but won't be able to do six by > September 1. Two or three are reasonable. From smilojev at indiana.edu Thu Aug 15 13:30:58 2013 From: smilojev at indiana.edu (Stasa Milojevic) Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 19:30:58 +0200 Subject: [Sigmet-officers] Sigmet-officers Digest, Vol 29, Issue 1 In-Reply-To: <1376578420.3822.36.camel@slis-burns> References: <1120679132.2791278.1376576944985.JavaMail.root@uwm.edu> <1376578420.3822.36.camel@slis-burns> Message-ID: <2F19CC8D-7250-44F4-A487-BEC29AEE6C79@indiana.edu> I would be happy to help. Stasa Sent from my iPad On Aug 15, 2013, at 4:53 PM, "Burns, Christopher S" wrote: > I would like to help, but I third this. > > Sean > >> From: Dietmar Wolfram >> Date: Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 10:29 AM >> Subject: Re: [Sigmet-officers] Sigmet-officers Digest, Vol 29, Issue 1 >> To: Judit Bar-Ilan >> Cc: sigmet-officers at asis.org >> >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I agree with Judit about trying to review six by 9/1 given the end of >> summer and beginning of semester deadlines and related activities. I >> think three would be manageable. The ranks could still be averaged. >> Any ties could be resolved through group consensus. >> >> >> >> Dietmar >> >> ________________________________ >> >> From: "Judit Bar-Ilan" >> To: sigmet-officers at asis.org >> Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 11:46:24 PM >> Subject: Re: [Sigmet-officers] Sigmet-officers Digest, Vol 29, Issue 1 >> >> >> Dear All, >> >> I am willing to review papers, but won't be able to do six by >> September 1. Two or three are reasonable. > > _______________________________________________ > Sigmet-officers mailing list > Sigmet-officers at mail.asis.org > http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigmet-officers From cassidysugimoto at gmail.com Thu Aug 15 15:17:03 2013 From: cassidysugimoto at gmail.com (Cassidy Sugimoto) Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 15:17:03 -0400 Subject: [Sigmet-officers] Fwd: [Sig-l] ASIST-AM programme now online! Reminder: Sign up for business meetings! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear All: Just a quick note that our workshop is on Friday, rather than Saturday. Will this be a problem for anyone? My concern is that this might limit some people, particularly those traveling internationally. Would you like me to see if I can have us put on Saturday (it might not be a possibility, but I can try). I signed us up for the business meeting at 9am on Monday. Let me know if this is a problem for anyone. Best, Cassidy ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kathryn La Barre Date: Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 7:04 PM Subject: [Sig-l] ASIST-AM programme now online! Reminder: Sign up for business meetings! To: sig-l at asis.org See the Final ASIST 2013 conference programme here: https://www.asis.org/asist2013/program.html Then sign your SIG up for a business meeting room (11/4 or 11/5) here: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D4CA4A82BA6FB6-am13 Early bird registration closes on September 20th! _______________________________________________ Sig-l mailing list Sig-l at asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sig-l -- Cassidy R. Sugimoto, PhD Assistant Professor School of Informatics and Computing Indiana University Bloomington http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~sugimoto -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Therefore, I need two things from you: 1) Indication if you are willing to serve on the nominating committee. 2) Indication if you are willing to continue in your current roles and/or if you are interested in running for another position. Thank you! Cassidy -- Cassidy R. Sugimoto, PhD Assistant Professor School of Informatics and Computing Indiana University Bloomington http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~sugimoto -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cassidysugimoto at gmail.com Fri Aug 16 09:14:52 2013 From: cassidysugimoto at gmail.com (Cassidy Sugimoto) Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 09:14:52 -0400 Subject: [Sigmet-officers] workshop Message-ID: Dear All: Our submission system closed last night with 9 presentation submissions and 3 poster submissions. I would have liked to have seen more. Should we extend the deadline a week and see if this results in increased submissions? Or go with what we have? Cassidy -- Cassidy R. 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Best, Dietmar ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cassidy Sugimoto" To: "SIG MET" Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 8:14:52 AM Subject: [Sigmet-officers] workshop Dear All: Our submission system closed last night with 9 presentation submissions and 3 poster submissions. I would have liked to have seen more. Should we extend the deadline a week and see if this results in increased submissions? Or go with what we have? Cassidy -- Cassidy R. Sugimoto, PhD Assistant Professor School of Informatics and Computing Indiana University Bloomington http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~sugimoto _______________________________________________ Sigmet-officers mailing list Sigmet-officers at mail.asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigmet-officers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cassidysugimoto at gmail.com Fri Aug 16 11:39:53 2013 From: cassidysugimoto at gmail.com (Cassidy Sugimoto) Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 11:39:53 -0400 Subject: [Sigmet-officers] workshop In-Reply-To: <32020298.3306161.1376665917968.JavaMail.root@uwm.edu> References: <32020298.3306161.1376665917968.JavaMail.root@uwm.edu> Message-ID: We received one request and I granted it. We could also consider inviting someone to do a tutorial as part of the workshop this year, if we don't have sufficient presentations. The workshop could be: presentations in the morning, tutorial and Elsevier presentation after lunch. On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Dietmar Wolfram wrote: > Hi Cassidy, > > > > The iConference paper submissions deadline was yesterday as well. Perhaps > competing deadlines distracted some potential authors. Are you aware of any > requests that may have been made by prospective authors for extensions? If > so, I think it would be worthwhile to give them some additional time for > their submissions. Otherwise, my gut feeling is that providing an extra > week is not likely to produce more submissions if people had > already decided they weren't going to make the original deadline. > > > > Best, > > Dietmar > ------------------------------ > > *From: *"Cassidy Sugimoto" > *To: *"SIG MET" > *Sent: *Friday, August 16, 2013 8:14:52 AM > *Subject: *[Sigmet-officers] workshop > > > Dear All: > > Our submission system closed last night with 9 presentation submissions > and 3 poster submissions. I would have liked to have seen more. Should we > extend the deadline a week and see if this results in increased > submissions? Or go with what we have? > > Cassidy > > -- > Cassidy R. Sugimoto, PhD > Assistant Professor > School of Informatics and Computing > Indiana University Bloomington > http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~sugimoto > > _______________________________________________ > Sigmet-officers mailing list > Sigmet-officers at mail.asis.org > http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigmet-officers > > -- Cassidy R. Sugimoto, PhD Assistant Professor School of Informatics and Computing Indiana University Bloomington http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~sugimoto -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From barilaj at mail.biu.ac.il Fri Aug 16 12:55:13 2013 From: barilaj at mail.biu.ac.il (Judit Bar-Ilan) Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 19:55:13 +0300 Subject: [Sigmet-officers] Sigmet-officers Digest, Vol 29, Issue 4 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear All Now we also have to review the workshop submissions in addition to the student paper contest. The CFP says that we will send notifications by September 1. So we should start working on both. Personally, I am OK with the workshop on Friday, although Saturday is probably better. Regards Judit --------------------- Sent from my iPhone Judit Bar-Ilan Dept. Information Science Bar-Ilan University On Aug 16, 2013, at 6:39 PM, "sigmet-officers-request at asis.org" wrote: > Send Sigmet-officers mailing list submissions to > sigmet-officers at mail.asis.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigmet-officers > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > sigmet-officers-request at mail.asis.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > sigmet-officers-owner at mail.asis.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Sigmet-officers digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Sigmet-officers Digest, Vol 29, Issue 1 (Burns, Christopher S) > 2. Re: Sigmet-officers Digest, Vol 29, Issue 1 (Stasa Milojevic) > 3. Fwd: [Sig-l] ASIST-AM programme now online! Reminder: Sign up > for business meetings! (Cassidy Sugimoto) > 4. Annual Report (Cassidy Sugimoto) > 5. workshop (Cassidy Sugimoto) > 6. Re: workshop (Dietmar Wolfram) > 7. Re: workshop (Cassidy Sugimoto) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 14:53:38 +0000 > From: "Burns, Christopher S" > To: SIG-MET Officers > Subject: Re: [Sigmet-officers] Sigmet-officers Digest, Vol 29, Issue 1 > Message-ID: <1376578420.3822.36.camel at slis-burns> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > I would like to help, but I third this. > > Sean > >> From: Dietmar Wolfram >> Date: Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 10:29 AM >> Subject: Re: [Sigmet-officers] Sigmet-officers Digest, Vol 29, Issue 1 >> To: Judit Bar-Ilan >> Cc: sigmet-officers at asis.org >> >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I agree with Judit about trying to review six by 9/1 given the end of >> summer and beginning of semester deadlines and related activities. I >> think three would be manageable. The ranks could still be averaged. >> Any ties could be resolved through group consensus. >> >> >> >> Dietmar >> >> ________________________________ >> >> From: "Judit Bar-Ilan" >> To: sigmet-officers at asis.org >> Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 11:46:24 PM >> Subject: Re: [Sigmet-officers] Sigmet-officers Digest, Vol 29, Issue 1 >> >> >> Dear All, >> >> I am willing to review papers, but won't be able to do six by >> September 1. Two or three are reasonable. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 19:30:58 +0200 > From: Stasa Milojevic > To: "Burns, Christopher S" > Cc: SIG-MET Officers > Subject: Re: [Sigmet-officers] Sigmet-officers Digest, Vol 29, Issue 1 > Message-ID: <2F19CC8D-7250-44F4-A487-BEC29AEE6C79 at indiana.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > I would be happy to help. > > Stasa > > Sent from my iPad > > On Aug 15, 2013, at 4:53 PM, "Burns, Christopher S" wrote: > >> I would like to help, but I third this. >> >> Sean >> >>> From: Dietmar Wolfram >>> Date: Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 10:29 AM >>> Subject: Re: [Sigmet-officers] Sigmet-officers Digest, Vol 29, Issue 1 >>> To: Judit Bar-Ilan >>> Cc: sigmet-officers at asis.org >>> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> >>> >>> I agree with Judit about trying to review six by 9/1 given the end of >>> summer and beginning of semester deadlines and related activities. I >>> think three would be manageable. The ranks could still be averaged. >>> Any ties could be resolved through group consensus. >>> >>> >>> >>> Dietmar >>> >>> ________________________________ >>> >>> From: "Judit Bar-Ilan" >>> To: sigmet-officers at asis.org >>> Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 11:46:24 PM >>> Subject: Re: [Sigmet-officers] Sigmet-officers Digest, Vol 29, Issue 1 >>> >>> >>> Dear All, >>> >>> I am willing to review papers, but won't be able to do six by >>> September 1. Two or three are reasonable. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sigmet-officers mailing list >> Sigmet-officers at mail.asis.org >> http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigmet-officers > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 15:17:03 -0400 > From: Cassidy Sugimoto > To: SIG MET > Subject: [Sigmet-officers] Fwd: [Sig-l] ASIST-AM programme now online! > Reminder: Sign up for business meetings! > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Dear All: > > Just a quick note that our workshop is on Friday, rather than Saturday. > Will this be a problem for anyone? My concern is that this might limit some > people, particularly those traveling internationally. Would you like me to > see if I can have us put on Saturday (it might not be a possibility, but I > can try). > > I signed us up for the business meeting at 9am on Monday. Let me know if > this is a problem for anyone. > > Best, > Cassidy > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Kathryn La Barre > Date: Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 7:04 PM > Subject: [Sig-l] ASIST-AM programme now online! Reminder: Sign up for > business meetings! > To: sig-l at asis.org > > > See the Final ASIST 2013 conference programme here: > https://www.asis.org/asist2013/program.html > > Then sign your SIG up for a business meeting room (11/4 or 11/5) here: > http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D4CA4A82BA6FB6-am13 > > Early bird registration closes on September 20th! > > _______________________________________________ > Sig-l mailing list > Sig-l at asis.org > http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sig-l > > > > > -- > Cassidy R. Sugimoto, PhD > Assistant Professor > School of Informatics and Computing > Indiana University Bloomington > http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~sugimoto > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 20:58:24 -0400 > From: Cassidy Sugimoto > To: SIG MET > Subject: [Sigmet-officers] Annual Report > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Dear All: > > The new system is fully online, so no document is generated in the > submission of the Annual Report. I did, however, want to thank you all for > your hard work over the last year. In filling out the report, I was > reminded of all the fabulous things we have done in the last year and how > much we have planned for this year. You are such a wonderful group and I'm > so pleased to see the energy and passion that all of you give this SIG. > > One of the things we have to do in the upcoming weeks is to create a > nominating committee and create a ballot for elections. Therefore, I need > two things from you: > > 1) Indication if you are willing to serve on the nominating committee. > 2) Indication if you are willing to continue in your current roles and/or > if you are interested in running for another position. > > Thank you! > Cassidy > > -- > Cassidy R. Sugimoto, PhD > Assistant Professor > School of Informatics and Computing > Indiana University Bloomington > http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~sugimoto > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 09:14:52 -0400 > From: Cassidy Sugimoto > To: SIG MET > Subject: [Sigmet-officers] workshop > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Dear All: > > Our submission system closed last night with 9 presentation submissions and > 3 poster submissions. I would have liked to have seen more. Should we > extend the deadline a week and see if this results in increased > submissions? Or go with what we have? > > Cassidy > > -- > Cassidy R. Sugimoto, PhD > Assistant Professor > School of Informatics and Computing > Indiana University Bloomington > http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~sugimoto > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 10:11:58 -0500 (CDT) > From: Dietmar Wolfram > To: Cassidy Sugimoto > Cc: SIG MET > Subject: Re: [Sigmet-officers] workshop > Message-ID: <32020298.3306161.1376665917968.JavaMail.root at uwm.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > > Hi Cassidy, > ? > The iConference paper submissions deadline was yesterday as well. Perhaps competing deadlines distracted some potential authors. Are you aware of any requests that may have been made by prospective authors for extensions? If so,?I think it would be?worthwhile to give them some additional time for their submissions. Otherwise, my gut feeling is that providing an extra week is not likely to produce more submissions if people had already?decided they weren't going to make the original deadline. > ? > Best, > Dietmar > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Cassidy Sugimoto" > To: "SIG MET" > Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 8:14:52 AM > Subject: [Sigmet-officers] workshop > > > > Dear All: > > Our submission system closed last night with 9 presentation submissions and 3 poster submissions. I would have liked to have seen more. Should we extend the deadline a week and see if this results in increased submissions? Or go with what we have? > > Cassidy > > > > -- > > Cassidy R. Sugimoto, PhD > Assistant Professor > School of Informatics and Computing > Indiana University Bloomington > http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~sugimoto > _______________________________________________ > Sigmet-officers mailing list > Sigmet-officers at mail.asis.org > http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigmet-officers > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 11:39:53 -0400 > From: Cassidy Sugimoto > To: Dietmar Wolfram > Cc: SIG MET > Subject: Re: [Sigmet-officers] workshop > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > We received one request and I granted it. > > We could also consider inviting someone to do a tutorial as part of the > workshop this year, if we don't have sufficient presentations. The workshop > could be: presentations in the morning, tutorial and Elsevier presentation > after lunch. > > > On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Dietmar Wolfram wrote: > >> Hi Cassidy, >> >> >> >> The iConference paper submissions deadline was yesterday as well. Perhaps >> competing deadlines distracted some potential authors. Are you aware of any >> requests that may have been made by prospective authors for extensions? If >> so, I think it would be worthwhile to give them some additional time for >> their submissions. Otherwise, my gut feeling is that providing an extra >> week is not likely to produce more submissions if people had >> already decided they weren't going to make the original deadline. >> >> >> >> Best, >> >> Dietmar >> ------------------------------ >> >> *From: *"Cassidy Sugimoto" >> *To: *"SIG MET" >> *Sent: *Friday, August 16, 2013 8:14:52 AM >> *Subject: *[Sigmet-officers] workshop >> >> >> Dear All: >> >> Our submission system closed last night with 9 presentation submissions >> and 3 poster submissions. I would have liked to have seen more. Should we >> extend the deadline a week and see if this results in increased >> submissions? Or go with what we have? >> >> Cassidy >> >> -- >> Cassidy R. 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