From delaney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Tue Jun 8 07:57:07 1999 From: delaney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Bruce Delaney) Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 07:57:07 -0400 Subject: test of new list Message-ID: HI - Have a nice day - Bruce From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Tue Jun 8 11:43:50 1999 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 11:43:50 -0400 Subject: test Message-ID: This is a test message <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Gretchen Whitney, PhD tel 423.974.7919 School of Information Sciences fax 423.974.4967 University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996 USA gwhitney at utk.edu http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/ From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Wed Jun 16 16:47:23 1999 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 16:47:23 -0400 Subject: Welcome again! Message-ID: Hi all, And welcome again to our virtual SIG. We're working on several projects for the SIG, including a regular scan of the literature and databases for relevant papers which will evolve into a database, news of resources, comments on articles, book reviews, chats with researchers, and other activities. As we evolve as a community, we also want to be conscious of building an archive of resources and discussions for ourselves and for future scholars and researchers. The SIG-Metrics archive http://listserv.utk.edu/archives/sigmetrics.html should form a valuable resource for those new to the field and those established in it. We are also going to be experimenting with a variety of ways to present information, as well as communication methods. So please expect a bump in the road now and again, and bear with us. We see this very much as an information-exchange SIG (as opposed to one that has specific objectives or a mission to accomplish). And we hope that it will be hospitable both for the established scholar and the new student. The description of the SIG indicates: SIGMETRICS is a listserv discussion group that covers bibliometrics, scientometrics and informetrics, but also metrics as related to the design and operation of Digital Libraries and other information systems interpreted broadly. We have two questions to get the conversation going: 1. How would you define what we are about? 2. What would you like to see a Virtual SIG do? Eugene Garfield Gretchen Whitney From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Wed Jun 16 17:18:10 1999 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 17:18:10 -0400 Subject: BIB: articles outside mainstream LIS-literature (fwd) Message-ID: -----Original Message----- From: Rousseau Ronald [mailto:ronald.rousseau at kh.khbo.be] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 1999 4:12 AM To: issi at crrm.univ-mrs.fr Subject: Interesting articles outside mainstream LIS-literature Interesting articles outside the mainstream LIS-literature Compiled by Ronald Rousseau Abt, Helmut A. Why some papers have long citation lifetimes. Nature (1998), 395, 756-757. Adams, Jonathan Benchmarking international research. Nature (1998), 396, 615-618. Bador, Pascal et Petit, Olivier Facteur d'impact et indexation dans les bases de donnes bibliographiques: comparaison de ces deux critres de qualit pour l'valuation des revues pharmaceutiques. Journal de Pharmacie Belge (1998), 53(2), 71-80 Barnaby, Douglas P. and Gallagher, E. John Alternative to the Science Citation Index impact factor as an assessment of emergency medicine's scientific contributions Annals of Emergency Medicine, (1998), 31(1), 78-86. Burch, Hal and Cheswick, Bill Mapping the Internet Computer (1999) 32(4), 97-102. see also http:/:www.cs.bell-labs.com/~ches/map Cheng, Chun Hung, Kumar, Ashok, Motwani Jaideep, Reisman, Arnoldf and Madan, Manu A citation analysis of the technology innovation management journals. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management (1999), 46(1) 4-13 Clever Project Team, including David Gibson, Jon Kleinberg and Prabhakar Raghavan Hypersearching the Web Scientific American, June 1999 Egghe, Leo An application of martingales in the limit to a problem in information science Mathematical and Computer Modelling (1999) 29, 13-18. Egghe, Leo The evolution of core collections can be described via Banach space valued stochastic processes. Mathematical and Computer Modelling (1998), 28(9), 11-17 Gallagher, E. John and Barnaby, Douglas P. Evidence of methodological bias in the derivation of the Science Citation Index impact factor Annals of Emergency Medicine (1998) 31(1), 83-86 Garcia-Lpez, J.A. Bibliometric analysis of Spanish scientific publications on tobacco use during the period 1970-1996 European Journal of epidemiology, (1999), 15, 23-28. Harris, Noel C. It's time to 'out' the selfish researchers Nature (1999) 398, p. 102 Huber, John C. Invention and inventivity as a special kind of creativity, with implications for general creativity Journal of Creative behavior (1998) 32, 58-72 Huber, John C. Invention and inventivity is a random, Poisson process: a potential guide to analysis of general creativity. Creativity Research Journal (1998) 11(3), 231-241. Marsili, Matteo and Zhang, Yi-Cheng Interacting individuals leading to Zipf's law Physical review Letters (1998) 80(12), 2741-2744 Nijssen, David; Rousseau, Ronald and Van Hecke, Piet The Lorenz curve: a graphical representation of evenness Coenoses (1998) 13(1) 33-38 Ormerod, Richard and Kiossis, Ioannis OR/MS publications: extension of the analysis of U.S. flagship journals to the United Kingdom Operations Research (1997) 45(2), 178-187. Ramsden, J.J. and Vohradsky, J. Zipf-like behavior in procaryotic protein expression Physical Review E (1998), 58(6), 7777-7780 Redner, Sydney How popular is your paper? An empirical study of the citation distribution The European Physical Journal B (1998) 4, 131-134 Rutkowski, Anthony Dimensioning the Internet: July 1998 data IEEE Internet Computing (1998) 2(5), p. 9 Shontz, David Effect of fines on length of checkout and overdues in a medical library Bulletin of the Medical Library Association (1999) 87(1), 82-84 Van Bakel, Bas; Boon, Reinier, Mars, Nicolaas; Nijhuis, Jeroen, Oltmans, Erik and Van der Vet, Paul The Condorcet project: indexing scientific documents In: Informatiewetenschap 1998 (E. De Smet, ed.), 77-87 Van der Meulen, Barend Science policy as principal-agent games. Internationalization and path dependency in the relation between government and science Research Policy (1998), 27, 397-414 **************************************************************** Ronald Rousseau dr mathematics, dr information science Associate Professor KHBO, Dep. Industrial Sciences and Technology Zeedijk 101, B-8400 Oostende Belgium e-mail: ronald.rousseau at kh.khbo.be home: ronald.rousseau at ping.be [n.b. Reprinted with permission. --gw] From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Thu Jun 17 12:30:21 1999 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 12:30:21 -0400 Subject: WEB: Bibliometrics site Message-ID: Of possible interest: Bibliometrics, Brought to you by the Grumpy Drivers (Graduate School of LIS, Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~astander/biblio.html The site contains a beginner's guide to bibliomeetrics, introductions to Lotka's Law, Bradford's Law, Garfield's Law and a glossary. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Gretchen Whitney, PhD tel 423.974.7919 School of Information Sciences fax 423.974.4967 University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996 USA gwhitney at utk.edu http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/ From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Thu Jun 17 12:48:30 1999 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 12:48:30 -0400 Subject: WEB: Colombia Society Message-ID: Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 01:50:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Sinisa Maricic The VOC Foundation for Communication Among Scientists It leads to a very successful "science-indicators" link(s) for Latin America. Also it includes links to a Latin American-STS bibliography, and to Ubiratan D'Ambrosio's and Loet Leydesdorfft's home pages, and to my (Prof. Maricic) CV + bibliography. [n.b. it also includes a discussion of the challenges of scientometrics in developed and developing countries. --gw] <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Gretchen Whitney, PhD tel 423.974.7919 School of Information Sciences fax 423.974.4967 University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996 USA gwhitney at utk.edu http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/ From jdownie at UIUC.EDU Thu Jun 17 07:50:30 1999 From: jdownie at UIUC.EDU (J. Stephen Downie) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 11:50:30 +0000 Subject: WEB: Bibliometrics site In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Greetings Colleagues: I got a chuckle out of the posting below. I am quite familiar with the "Grumpy Drivers"site mentioned by Gretchen. It is, in fact, a group-work submission from my LIS380 (Fall 1998) at GSLIS, UIUC. LIS380 is the introductory course on issues pertaining to Information Organization and Access. The assignmnet given to this group was to find and present materials that would enhance the then-upcoming lecture on bibliometrics/informetrics as a collection development and analysis tool(something I personally believe to be very important). I mention this because the material found in the site represents the students' understanding of the material *before* they had any formal introduction to the topic. In fact, they had been in the LIS programme only a few short weeks before they submitted this assignment. So, if you find any factual errors in the work, please be understanding. Also, if you find the site useful, I would appreciate hearing from you. As I mentioned before this is a student project and as such, is not archived anywhere. If you think it should be mounted permanently, I will try to contact the students involved. PS. The "Grumpy Drivers" is the name the group chose to use because each member of the group drove great distances each Friday morning to attend the lectures. Cheers, Stephen *********************** > Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 12:30:21 -0400 > Reply-to: ASIS Special Interest Group on Metrics > > From: Gretchen Whitney > Subject: [SIGMETRICS] WEB: Bibliometrics site > To: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu > Of possible interest: > > Bibliometrics, Brought to you by the Grumpy Drivers (Graduate School of > LIS, Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) > http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~astander/biblio.html > > The site contains a beginner's guide to bibliomeetrics, introductions to > Lotka's Law, Bradford's Law, Garfield's Law and a glossary. > > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> > Gretchen Whitney, PhD tel 423.974.7919 > School of Information Sciences fax 423.974.4967 > University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996 USA gwhitney at utk.edu > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/ > > ********************************************************** J. Stephen Downie PhD candidate Graduate Programmes in Library and Information Science Faculty of Information and Media Studies University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada and, Lecturer, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (217) 352-7422 From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Thu Jun 17 17:38:05 1999 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 17:38:05 -0400 Subject: ART: Hypersearching, Clever Project Message-ID: Of possible interest: IBM Clever Project Team Hypersearching the Web. http://www.sciam.com/1999/0699issue/0699raghavan.html The article describes the problems with the "traditional" search engines, outlines the Clever Project, and connects their work to citation analysis and Eugene Garfield's work. Provides links to related work. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Gretchen Whitney, PhD tel 423.974.7919 School of Information Sciences fax 423.974.4967 University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996 USA gwhitney at utk.edu http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/ From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Thu Jun 17 17:45:53 1999 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 17:45:53 -0400 Subject: ABST:Temporal diffs in self-citation rates Message-ID: TITLE: Temporal differences in self-citation rates of scientific journals AUTHOR: Rousseau R JOURNAL: SCIENTOMETRICS 44: (3) 521-531 MAR-APR 1999 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 31 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Temporal differences in self-citing and self-cited rates of journals are studied. It is concluded that the citation curve of a journal is composed of two curves with different characteristics: a self citation (or self-cited) curve and a curve representing external citations. KeyWords Plus: INFORMATION-SCIENCE, LIBRARY, INDICATORS Addresses: Rousseau R, KHBO, Fac Ind Sci & Technol, Zeedijk 101, B-8400 Oostende, Belgium. KHBO, Fac Ind Sci & Technol, B-8400 Oostende, Belgium. Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM ISSN: 0138-9130 Another contribution by a leading theoretician in the field. The abstract states a truism and does not give a clue to the keen insight provided in the pithy presentation. Somewhat mathematical, but gives interesting data from JCR on the most-cited journals like Nature and Science. Self-citation rates are of two kinds -- percentage of the references cited by a journal (self-citing) to itself in a given period. Review journals have very low rates. The percentage of all citations to that journal (self-cited) is a reflection of visibility. However, in the first year, self-citation for journals like Nature and Science may be high due to the large number of citations to letters -- whose role and impact ought to be more carefully studied. ------------------------------------------------------------- Eugene Garfield, Ph.D. Chairman Emeritus, ISI, 3501 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Publisher, THE SCIENTIST, 3600 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (www.the-scientist.com) Tel: 215-243-2205 // Fax: 215-387-1266 email: garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu Home Page: http://165.123.33.33/eugene_garfield ------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________ From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Fri Jun 18 12:56:40 1999 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 12:56:40 -0400 Subject: WEB, LIST: ADEST, France Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 15:58:45 +0200 (MET DST) From: Bruno Dauc? Bonjour, Il existe depuis quelques semaines une liste de diffusion francophone sur l'analyse de donn?es. L'objectif de cette liste est de favoriser l'?change d'informations sur l'analyse de donn?es et les outils statistiques ainsi que les discussions sur ce sujet. Les membres de la liste sont d'horizons tr?s divers (chercheurs en sciences humaines, responsables d'?tudes en entreprise, chercheurs au sein de laboratoires scientifiques). Un liste de r?f?rences bibliographiques est en cours de constitution. De m?me, diff?rents liens utiles sont disponibles ainsi qu'un calendrier d'?v?nements. Pour rejoindre la liste, envoyez un message vide ? : analyse-donnees-abonnement at club.voila.fr Cordialement Bruno Dauc? [n.b. The website for ADEST is at http://www.upmf-grenoble.fr/adest/ --gw] From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Fri Jun 18 12:59:24 1999 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 12:59:24 -0400 Subject: ABS&Comment: Indicators for India Message-ID: TITLE: Science publication indicators for India: Questions of interpretation AUTHOR: Basu A JOURNAL: SCIENTOMETRICS 44: (3) 347-360 MAR-APR 1999 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 10 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: We comment on a letter to Nature in 1996 on the long term decline of Indian science pointing out methodological reasons why the (SCI) data used by the authors do not unambiguously lead to their stated conclusions. Our arguments are based on the contention that no valid statement on change in a country's output may be made for a period in which the journal coverage from that country in SCI has changed significantly. We have suggested that for longitudinal comparisons of country level performance, it should be verified that the journals from that country in SCI remained constant within the period. This could be ensured if the country of publication of journals could be included as a field in the SCI database. We define a Visibility Index as the cumulated impact and derive a relation to estimate change in visibility combining changes in output and average impact. In the period during which Indian journal coverage remained unchanged, a detailed analysis of output for two years (1990-94) leads us to conclude that, with the exception of Agriculture, there has been an increase in publication in virtually every field, with significant increase in the-overall mean Impact Factor. At least 25 subfields have been identified with statistically significant increase in mean Impact Factor and Visibility. The impact of foreign collaboration on visibility has also been considered. In conclusion we touch upon the question of citation as a performance indicator for Third World countries as high citation and relevance may be in conflict as objectives. KeyWords Plus: BRITISH SCIENCE, DECLINE Addresses: Basu A, Natl Inst Sci Technol & Dev Studies, Dr KS Krishnan Rd, New Delhi 110012, India. Natl Inst Sci Technol & Dev Studies, New Delhi 110012, India. Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM The author implicitly suggests that the "country of publication" field used to characterize journals in ISI's Journal Citation Reports be carried over to the "source" journal field since for his bibliometric purposes the country given in the address field is insufficient. While this would facilitate analyses of Third World journals, it would be irrelevant to a country like the Netherlands which publishes a large number of international journals edited in many different countries. The author's first table dramatically demonstrates that in spite of dropping many low impact Indian journals many years ago, SCI coverage of Indian science output has remained in excess of 10,000 articles for basic science fields, while agriculture has declined. Unfortunately, an e-mail address is not included. ____________________________________________________________________________ ___ Eugene Garfield, Ph.D. Chairman Emeritus, ISI, 3501 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Publisher, THE SCIENTIST, 3600 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (www.the-scientist.com) Tel: 215-243-2205 // Fax: 215-387-1266 email: garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu Home Page: http://165.123.33.33/eugene_garfield ------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________ From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Fri Jun 18 13:05:54 1999 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 13:05:54 -0400 Subject: ABS&Comment: Impact factor Message-ID: TITLE: Evaluating scientific performances by impact factors - the right for equal chances AUTHOR: Lehrl S JOURNAL: STRAHLENTHERAPIE UND ONKOLOGIE 175: (4) 141-+ APR 1999 Document type: Review Languate: German Cited References: 61 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Background: Regularly the Institute of Scientific Information publishes the impact factor (LF) that plays an increasing role when the scientific quality of scientific performances of journals, single publications, scientists, and research groups have to be evaluated in order to support them. Questions: How valid is the IF assigned to journals, single publications, scientists, and research groups? Have all these the same chance to be evaluated? How can fairness of evaluation be increased? Can its validity be improved? Results: The value of IF equals the average number of citations per article published in the preceding 2 calendar years in a journal. The criteria for selection of citing journals and of those with an "official" IF are not fully explicated. Although the citations have no equal units of measurement, empirical findings confirm their pragmatic applicability. IF of journals and even the citation rates of its articles are skewedly distributed to right hand. Additionally, the citation rates of the articles within a journal vary. Therefore, the IF of journals rarely equal the actual citation rates of their articles. Usually, IF overestimates the citation rate and quality of the articles. Its tendency not to recognize low and high quality even increases when IF is administered to individual scientists and small research groups, whereas it decreases in large research groups. Under the premise that the extent of scientific quality corresponds to the amount of information a paper adds to the state of science, language, actuality etc. are confounders because English, reviewing, biomedical, and actual articles have preferred citation rates. Conclusions: Evaluation of scientific performances by IF is to be restricted to journals and large research groups. Fairness demands comparisons to homogeneous journals with respect to confounders such as language, Principally, no journal should be excluded to obtain an IF if it fullfills the minimum criteria of an internationally communicating science. For this purpose they have to provide a title, key words, and an abstract in English, a peer review system etc. Often journals are the centre of science cultures that an able to generate research of highest levels. The users can contribute to increase the IF of "their" journal and to we for the valid application of this indicator. Author Keywords: impact factor, bibliometry, evaluation of scientific performance, quality of research, scientific journals KeyWords Plus: JOURNAL IMPACT, CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY, CITATION-CLASSICS, NUCLEAR-MEDICINE, SCIENCE, PUBLICATIONS, QUALITY, INDICATORS, ECONOMICS, PATTERNS Addresses: Lehrl S, Univ Erlangen Nurnberg, Abt Med Psychol & Psychopathometrie, Schwabachanlage 10, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany. Univ Erlangen Nurnberg, Abt Med Psychol & Psychopathometrie, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany. Publisher: URBAN & VOGEL, MUNICH ------------------------------Comment------------------------------- This article, unfortunately, is published in German thus limiting its readership. I have asked the author to provide a translation. It has an excellent literature review. As the abstract indicates, there seems to be a widespread practice in Europe of using journal impact factors as surrogates for actual citation frequencies of individual articles. As Seglen, myself, and others have pointed out, this can be dangerous. There is considerable variation in citation frequencies within journals. Using current journal impact data may distort analyses of individuals. The German word "aktuel" is mistranslated to "actual" when "current" is meant. The author's phone and fax numbers are : (+49/9131) 853-2095 phone (+49/9131) 853-6593 fax The author's e-mail address is not included. ____________________________________________________________________________ ___ ------------------------------------------------------------- Eugene Garfield, Ph.D. Chairman Emeritus, ISI, 3501 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Publisher, THE SCIENTIST, 3600 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (www.the-scientist.com) Tel: 215-243-2205 // Fax: 215-387-1266 email: garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu Home Page: http://165.123.33.33/eugene_garfield ------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________ From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Fri Jun 18 13:18:41 1999 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 13:18:41 -0400 Subject: CONF: Int Conf Sci Informetrics Message-ID: The seventh International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics is next month at the University of Colima, Colima Mexico. See http://www.ucol.mx/eventos/7ISSI/ I hope that attendees will contribute news from the conference here in SIGMETRICS. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Gretchen Whitney, PhD tel 423.974.7919 School of Information Sciences fax 423.974.4967 University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996 USA gwhitney at utk.edu http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/ From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Mon Jun 21 15:32:47 1999 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 15:32:47 -0400 Subject: SOFT:ResearchIndex (CiteSeer) Message-ID: -----Original Message----- From: Steve Lawrence [mailto:lawrence at research.nj.nec.com] Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 7:31 PM To: issi at crrm.univ-mrs.fr Subject: ResearchIndex (CiteSeer): Scientific Literature Digital Library ResearchIndex (formerly CiteSeer), a digital library of scientific literature that automatically performs citation indexing is available at: http://researchindex.com/ ResearchIndex aims to improve the dissemination and feedback of scientific literature, and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness. The ResearchIndex software is available without cost for non-commercial use. The demonstration service indexes over 200,000 computer science articles (containing over 2 million citations). Many digital libraries of scientific literature are available (e.g. LANL e-Print archive, ACM DL, IEEE DL, UCSTRI, CORR, ML Papers, NCSTRL, LTRS, HP Bib, CS Bibliographies, NZDL etc.). These services offer varying degrees of functionality, comprehensiveness, and freshness. Rather than creating just another digital library, ResearchIndex provides algorithms, techniques, and software that can be used in other digital libraries. ResearchIndex indexes Postscript and PDF research articles and provides: - Autonomous Citation Indexing (ACI). ResearchIndex uses ACI to autonomously create a citation index that can be used for literature search and evaluation. Compared to traditional citation indices, ACI provides improvements in cost, availability, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness. - Information on all cited documents, not just indexed documents. ResearchIndex computes citation statistics and related documents for all articles cited in the database, not just the indexed articles. - Reference linking. As with many online publishers, ResearchIndex allows browsing the database using citation links. - Citation context - ResearchIndex can show the context of citations to a given paper, allowing a researcher to quickly and easily see what other researchers have to say about an article of interest (useful for literature search and evaluation). - Awareness and tracking - ResearchIndex provides automatic notification of new citations to given papers, and new papers matching a user profile. Machine learning is used to automatically learn user profiles. - Related documents - ResearchIndex locates related documents using citation and word frequency measures and displays an active and continuously updated bibliography for each document. - Similar documents - ResearchIndex computes the percentage of matching sentences between documents, allowing, for example, the detection of minor revisions to a paper. - Full-text indexing - ResearchIndex indexes the full-text of the entire articles and citations. Full Boolean, phrase and proximity search is supported. - Query-sensitive summaries - ResearchIndex provides the context of how query terms are used in articles, instead of a generic summary, improving the efficiency of search. - Citation graph analysis - ResearchIndex analyzes the graph of citations, e.g. to identify authoritative and review style articles. - Page images - ResearchIndex allows quick and easy viewing of page images. - Up-to-date - ResearchIndex is continuously updated 24 hours a day. - Powerful search - e.g. ResearchIndex allows using author initials to narrow a citation search. - Autonomous location of articles - ResearchIndex uses search engines, crawling, and mailing list monitoring to efficiently locate papers on the Web. ResearchIndex can also be used on existing digital libraries. - Source code available - The full source code of ResearchIndex is available without cost for non-commercial use. A demonstration service is at: http://researchindex.com/ For more details or to obtain the software see http://www.neci.nec.com/~lawrence/researchindex.html http://www.neci.nec.com/~lawrence/aci.html The following papers contain details of the system: "Digital libraries and Autonomous Citation Indexing", Volume 32, Number 6, 67-71, 1999. "CiteSeer: An automatic citation indexing system", Digital Libraries, June 1998 [shortlisted for best paper]. "CiteSeer: An autonomous Web agent for automatic retrieval and identification of interesting publications", Autonomous Agents, May 1998. "CiteSeer: Autonomous Citation Indexing and Literature Browsing Using Citation Context", Technical Report, NEC Research, 1997. We currently only have a small capacity machine on our external network for demonstration. The demonstration service indexes over 200,000 computer science articles. Credits: We would like to thank Joshua Alspector, Jose Nelson Amaral, Anders Ardo, Shumeet Baluja, Arunava Banerjee, Eric Baum, Robert Cameron, Rich Caruana, Ingemar Cox, Scott Fahlman, Gary Flake, Eugene Garfield, Bill Gear, Paul Ginsparg, Eric Glover, Abby Goodrum, Alan Gottlieb, Steve Hanson, Eric Hellman, Haym Hirsh, Steve Hitchcock, Paul Kantor, Jon Kleinberg, Bob Krovetz, Andrea LaPaugh, Michael Lesk, Andrew McCallum, Steve Minton, Tom Mitchell, Michael Nelson, Craig Nevill-Manning, Andrew Ng, Max Ott, Brian Pinkerton, Alexandrin Popescul, Ben Schafer, Bruce Schatz, Terrence Sejnowski, Warren Smith, Dagobert Soergel, Amanda Spink, Harold Stone, Valerie Tucci, Lyle Ungar, David Waltz, Ian Witten, and Peter Yianilos for useful comments and suggestions. -- Steve Lawrence - http://www.neci.nec.com/~lawrence/ From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Mon Jun 21 15:35:44 1999 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 15:35:44 -0400 Subject: ABS&Comment:Editors & Impact Message-ID: TITLE: Gaining scientific recognition by position: Does editorship increase citation rates? AUTHOR: Lange LL, Frensch PA JOURNAL: SCIENTOMETRICS 44: (3) 459-486 MAR-APR 1999 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 40 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: We investigated three rival hypotheses concerning scientific communication and recognition: the performance hypothesis and two alternative assumptions, the reputation hypothesis and the resource hypothesis. The performance hypothesis reflects the norm of universalism in the sense given by Merton, the reputation hypothesis predicts a Matthew Effect (scientists receive communications and recognition on the basis of their reputation), and the resource hypothesis assumes that communication with other scientists is used as a form of asset to defend one's own research results. Using bibliometric methods, we assessed whether assuming an important scientific position enhances scientific impact and prestige. Specifically, we explored whether a person's assumption of editorship responsibilities of a psychology journal increases the frequency with which that person is cited in the Social Sciences Citation Index. The data base consisted of ten psychology journals, seven premier American and three German journals, covering the years 1981 to 1995. Citation rates for the years prior to, during, and following periods of editorship were compared for three groups: editors cited in the journal they edited, editors cited in a journal they did not edit, and non-editors. The results showed that during their editorship, editors showed an increased citation rate in the journal edited; this result was found for American journals, but not for German journals. These findings indicate that, for American journals, assuming editorship responsibilities for a major psychology journal increases one's scientific impact, at least as reflected by a measure of citation rate. A careful examination of ages of the non-editors' citations reveals that the post-editorship citation rates of editors and comparable non-editors do not differ significantly. The reputation hypothesis (Matthew Effect) is therefore preferred for interpreting the results, because it shows the cumulative nature of prestige-oriented citations. The results contradict the convention of using citation rates as pure performance measures. KeyWords Plus: MEDICAL JOURNALS, PSYCHOLOGY, IMPACT, PRODUCTIVITY, PATTERNS, RANKINGS, AUTHORS Addresses: Lange LL, Max Planck Inst Human Dev, Berlin, Germany. Max Planck Inst Human Dev, Berlin, Germany. Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM ------------------------------Comment------------------------ This is a very interesting study and contains an extensive bibliography including one of my most important essays on evaluation of faculty: (http://www.the-scientist.library.upenn.edu/eugene_garfield/essays/v6p354y19 83.pdf and http://www.the-scientist.library.upenn.edu/eugene_garfield/essays/v6p363y198 3.pdf). However, I doubt that the results would be the same in the hard sciences. Hopefully someone will test that by replicating the study in chemistry, physics. or biology. ------------------------------------------------------------- Eugene Garfield, Ph.D. Chairman Emeritus, ISI, 3501 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Publisher, THE SCIENTIST, 3600 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (www.the-scientist.com) Tel: 215-243-2205 // Fax: 215-387-1266 email: garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu Home Page: http://165.123.33.33/eugene_garfield ------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________ From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Mon Jun 21 15:45:02 1999 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 15:45:02 -0400 Subject: ART: Bio, H. Varmus Message-ID: ---Sara Jean Jackson wrote: > > My intent at this time is to recommend to those of you who may not have seen > it, a Profiles article in the June 7 issue of The New Yorker, p. 66. The > profilee is Harold Varmus, NIH director. As with many of you I served a > term on NLM's Biolmedical Library Review Committee and well recall the > budget implications of so much of what we did, as well as the impact on NLM > of every NIH budget. That was also during my days as chair of MLA's > Governmental Relations Committee. I lived and breathed that stuff then. > Well, I heartily recommend the New Yorker article. > > Greetings to all. Sara Jean > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com From ronald.rousseau at KH.KHBO.BE Tue Jun 22 08:57:35 1999 From: ronald.rousseau at KH.KHBO.BE (Rousseau Ronald) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 14:57:35 +0200 Subject: Zipf In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Last December I presented a talk on Zipf's life and ideas during the Beijing International Seminar of Quantitative Evaluation of R&D. If I understood correctly, a Chinese translation will be published in the conference proceedings. So for all of you who are impatient and/or can't read Chinese just send me an e-mail with your postal address and you will receive a copy of the talk. Zipf died in 1950, so next year it will be exactly 50 years since he died. Does anyone know of a conference or symposium devoted to Zipf on this occasion? Zipf is not only important for our field, but also for linguistics. Moreover I noticed that lately physicists use 'Zipf plots' more and more. So an interdisciplinary symposium would be most wellcome. Sincerely yours, Ronald Rousseau **************************************************************** Ronald Rousseau dr mathematics, dr information science Associate Professor KHBO, Dep. Industrial Sciences and Technology Zeedijk 101, B-8400 Oostende Belgium e-mail: ronald.rousseau at kh.khbo.be home: ronald.rousseau at ping.be From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Tue Jun 22 14:12:21 1999 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 14:12:21 -0400 Subject: ART&Comment:Journal quality Message-ID: TITLE: Editorial quality, diffusion and bibliometric indicators of the Revista Espanola de Enfermedades Digestivas AUTHOR: Lopez-Cozar ED, Ruiz-Perez R, Jimenez-Contreras E JOURNAL: REVISTA ESPANOLA DE ENFERMEDADES DIGESTIVAS 91: (1) 17-32 JAN 1999 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 47 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: AIM: to evaluate the editorial quality, diffusion, relevance of the scientific content, and the publication practices of the specialised journal Revista Espanola de Enfermedades Digestivas. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We checked 136 parameters based on ISO standards, the recommendations of scientific and editorial organisations, and studies of scientific editing and international publishing practices for biomedical journals. Diffusion was calculated using national and international databases, specialised libraries in Spain, and Internet sources. The analysis of the scientific content and publication practices was based on bibliometric indicators for the journal, authorship, and contributions. The sample for this study comprised six alternate issues of volume number 88 (1996), the last issue of this volume, and the first issue of volume 89 (1997). The samples used for the bibtiometric analysis varied depending on the characteristics of specific indicators and the availability of information. RESULTS: the overall mean value for compliance with standards was 46.1%, while the real mean was calculated at 72.21%. The editorial procedures at the journal are similar to those of analogous international journals. The Revista Espanola de Enfermedades Digestivas is included in international databases of biomedical journals, and in the interdisciplinary international database SCI. It was found to be present in 70% of the medical libraries of Spanish universities, and in 73% of the hospital libraries studied. Bibliometric indicators showed co-authorship to be 5.5%; the origin of the authors grouped by province and by type of institutional affiliations showed 27.8% of all authors to be from Madrid, and that more were affiliated with general hospitals than with university hospitals. The mean delay between initial receipt of a manuscript and its publication was 300 days. Cocitation analysis gave the journal a central position amongst the 38 Spanish biomedical journals considered representative of the field. The journal's impact factor for 1996 was 0.260. CONCLUSIONS: the Revista Espanola de Enfermedades Digestivas is a high-quality vehicle of research results, and has acceptable internal editorial procedures. The journal is widely distributed, though its visibility on the Internet should be improved. Co-authorship is similar to that seen in other medical journals. Steps should be taken to make this journal better known within Spain, and to reduce the delay between the initial receipt and the final publication of manuscripts. Its impact factor is increasing steadily. Author Keywords: Revista Espanola de Enfermedades Digestivas, scientific journal evaluation, editorial quality, diffusion, visibility, bibliometric analysis, standards KeyWords Plus: INFORMATIVE ABSTRACTS, STRUCTURED ABSTRACTS, SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS, MEDICINA-CLINICA, ARTICLES, PUBLICATION, STANDARDS, SCIENCES Addresses: Ruiz-Perez R, Univ Granada, Dept Biblioteconomia & Documentac, Campus Cartuja, E-18071 Granada, Spain. Univ Granada, Dept Biblioteconomia & Documentac, E-18071 Granada, Spain. Publisher: EDITORIAL GARSI, MADRID -------------------------Comment--------------------------------- This is a very professional analysis from the University of Granada. It would be relevant for every journal editor and publisher to apply this methodology to their journals. REED= Spanish Journal of Digestive Disorders. We should be grateful that this national journal has published the study in English. Their co-citation map of Spanish journals is intriguing. This is an excellent paper for LIS students to read. All that is missing is an e-mail / fax address. ____________________________________________________________________________ ___ From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Tue Jun 22 14:36:51 1999 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 14:36:51 -0400 Subject: ART:Sciento. in Russia Message-ID: Scientometrics by Hand The Ups and Downs of Scientometrics in Russia Paul Wouters mailto:pwouters at xs4all.nl Department of Science and Technology Dynamics University of Amsterdam http://melpo2.upmf-grenoble.fr/adest/seminaires/wouters.html >From the intro: The story of Russian scientometrics is an intriguing one. It tells as much about the nature of scientometrics and its relationships with science policy, as about Russian science and science policy in general. In this presentation I will try to address the main features of Russian and Ukrainian scientometrics and give a preliminary answer to the question why socialist scientometrics was a failure. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Gretchen Whitney, PhD tel 423.974.7919 School of Information Sciences fax 423.974.4967 University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996 USA gwhitney at utk.edu http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/ From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Tue Jun 22 14:47:37 1999 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 14:47:37 -0400 Subject: ORGS: Astronomy Message-ID: Working Group on the Socio-dynamics of Astronomy (SDA) http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/~heck/sda.htm Colloquium on Quantitative Socio-Dynamics of Astronomy, Nov 99 http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/~heck/socio99.htm Abstract due 31 July 99 Bibliography on the topic http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/~heck/sda-pap.htm <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Gretchen Whitney, PhD tel 423.974.7919 School of Information Sciences fax 423.974.4967 University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996 USA gwhitney at utk.edu http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/ From ronald.rousseau at KH.KHBO.BE Wed Jun 23 09:05:17 1999 From: ronald.rousseau at KH.KHBO.BE (Rousseau Ronald) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 15:05:17 +0200 Subject: E-mail address In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Recently Eugene Garfield discussed an article by Mrs. Aparna Basu and noticed no E-mail address was provided. For those among you who want to contact Mrs. Basu at NISTADS, New Delhi, her e-mail address is: aparna at csnistad.ren.nic.in Ronald **************************************************************** Ronald Rousseau dr mathematics, dr information science Associate Professor KHBO, Dep. Industrial Sciences and Technology Zeedijk 101, B-8400 Oostende Belgium e-mail: ronald.rousseau at kh.khbo.be home: ronald.rousseau at ping.be home page www.ping.be/~ping4708 From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Wed Jun 23 15:55:55 1999 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 15:55:55 -0400 Subject: Conf:STS in Japan Message-ID: A Future Perspective on STS and Scientometrics: Exchange and Integration between Different Research Traditions in STS by Yuko Fujigaki, National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP), Nagata-cho,Chiyoda-ku,Tokyo A Report from the international STS conference in Japan (March 1998) http://spof.chem.uva.nl/easst/easst982_2.html The report begins about a third of the way into the issue of EAAST - use your browser "find" command for the author name. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Gretchen Whitney, PhD tel 423.974.7919 School of Information Sciences fax 423.974.4967 University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996 USA gwhitney at utk.edu http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/ From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Wed Jun 23 16:07:04 1999 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 16:07:04 -0400 Subject: SOC:Soc. Science Studies Message-ID: Society for Science Studies, Germany http://hub.ib.hu-berlin.de/~wumsta/sssa.html >From their intro: The SSS "Gesellschaft f?r Wissenschaftsforschung e.V. Berlin" is an association of scientists concerned with questions and discussions aboutscientometric, informetric, and bibliometric methods to analyze the changefrom little science to the big business of big science in the post-industrial society. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Gretchen Whitney, PhD tel 423.974.7919 School of Information Sciences fax 423.974.4967 University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996 USA gwhitney at utk.edu http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/ From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Wed Jun 23 16:15:46 1999 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 16:15:46 -0400 Subject: ART:Universal Citation Database Message-ID: Robert D. Cameron A Universal Citation Database as a Catalyst for Reform in Scholarly Communication http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue2_4/cameron/ <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Gretchen Whitney, PhD tel 423.974.7919 School of Information Sciences fax 423.974.4967 University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996 USA gwhitney at utk.edu http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/ From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Wed Jun 23 17:42:16 1999 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 17:42:16 -0400 Subject: ABS:Bibliometric LIS, Spain Message-ID: General Search Results--Full Record Article 1 of 1 in search of the WebofScience -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bibliometric overview of Library and Information Science research in Spain Cano V JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE 50: (8) 675-680 JUN 1999 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 24 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: with permission of American Society for Information Science This paper reviews 17 years of research in Library and Information Science in Spain. The total production of two major Spanish periodical publications in the field were analyzed from 1977-1994 according to productivity variables and thematic content, A total of 354 articles were analyzed using as a framework the conceptual and methodological model of L&IS research proposed by Jarvelin and Vakkari (1990), The Spanish research output seems to concentrate in the areas of information retrieval, description of services, and studies of scientific communication. However, there are differences in the concentration of topics per journal studied. The Spanish L&IS community seems straddled between a professional and a research orientation. Descriptive and discursive methods amount to 36% of the articles studied, while empirical methods amount to 33% of the articles. Authorship patterns suggest a prevalence for individual authorship (68%) and isolated instances of publication in non-Spanish language journals indexed by Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA). KeyWords Plus: RESEARCH ARTICLES, DOCUMENTATION, AUTHORSHIP, PATTERNS, JOURNALS Addresses: Cano V, Queen Margaret Coll, Dept Commun & Informat Studies, Clerwood Terrace, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. Publisher: JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, NEW YORK IDS Number: 196WR ISSN: 0002-8231 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- With permission of and ? 1998 Institute for Scientific Information -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cited References Bibliometric overview of Library and Information Science research in Spain Cano V JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE 50: (8) 675-680 JUN 1999 Explanation -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AGUADO GL RIV ESPANOLA DOCUMEN 11 335 1988 ATKINS SE LIBR TRENDS 36 633 1988 BOTTLE RT J INFORM SCI 9 107 1984 BRAUN T TALANTA 30 161 1983 BUCKLAND MK J AM SOC INFORM SCI 46 235 1995 CANO V SCIENTOMETRICS 34 121 1995 CUNNINGHAM SJ SCIENTOMETRICS 39 19 1997 DAVENPORT E LIB INFORMATION WORK 159 1998 FEEHAN PE LIBR INFORM SCI RES 9 173 1987 FERNANDEZ FS J AM SOC INFORM SCI 48 369 1977 FERNANDEZ MT SCI INDICATORS DEV C 373 1992 HARTER SP J AM SOC INFORM SCI 43 583 1992 HOUSER L LIBR INFORM SCI RES 10 3 1988 JARVELIN K LIBR INFORM SCI RES 12 395 1990 KEEFER A PROGRAM-AUTOM LIBR 26 225 1992 MAYOL C IFLA J-INT FED LIBR 19 131 1993 NOUR MM LIBR INFORM SCI RES 7 261 1985 PERITZ B LIB RES 2 251 1981 RAYWARD WB J AM SOC INFORM SCI 48 289 1997 RIEUSSETLEMARIE I J AM SOC INFORM SCI 48 301 1997 SANCHO R 45 FID C CEL LA HAB 1990 SIDDIQUI MA INT FORUM INFORM DOC 22 3 1997 SYNELLIS C LIB NETWORKING EUROP 11 1994 WERSIG G INFORMATION SCI 9 127 1976 Eugene Garfield, PhD. Chairman Emeritus, ISI http://www.isinet.com Publisher, The Scientist http://www.the-scientist.com email garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu tel 215-243-2205 fax 215-387-1266 home page http://165.123.33.33/eugene_garfield From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Wed Jun 23 17:59:25 1999 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 17:59:25 -0400 Subject: ABS&Comment: Indicators for India Message-ID: This is being re-posted to connect this message with the original in the archive. Sorry for the duplication. --gw -------------- Recently Eugene Garfield discussed an article by Mrs. Aparna Basu and noticed no E-mail address was provided. For those among you who want to contact Mrs. Basu at NISTADS, New Delhi, her e-mail address is: aparna at csnistad.ren.nic.in Ronald **************************************************************** Ronald Rousseau dr mathematics, dr information science Associate Professor KHBO, Dep. Industrial Sciences and Technology Zeedijk 101, B-8400 Oostende Belgium e-mail: ronald.rousseau at kh.khbo.be home: ronald.rousseau at ping.be home page www.ping.be/~ping4708 From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Thu Jun 24 14:49:58 1999 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:49:58 -0400 Subject: CITE:Zipf and growth of cities Message-ID: These three references may be of interest since each of them has cited one or more of the many references in my personal Research Alert weekly Profile published by the Institute for Scientific Information http://www.isinet.com Eugene Garfield . [n.b. AER is available in electronic full text at some universities for local users. Please check local holdings. --gw] Record 1 of 3 Author(s): Gabaix X Title: Zipf's law and the growth of cities Source: AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW 1999, Vol 89, Iss 2, pp 129-132 Addresses: Gabaix X, Harvard Univ, 50 Mem Dr, Cambridge, MA 02142 USA. Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA 02142 USA. MIT, Dept Econ, Cambridge, MA 02142 USA. Source item page count: 4 Publication Date: MAY IDS No.: 198RT 29-char source abbrev: AMER ECON REV -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright ? 1998 Institute for Scientific Information From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Thu Jun 24 18:02:50 1999 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 18:02:50 -0400 Subject: CITE:Gender & promotion in economics Message-ID: These three references mayh be of interest since each of them has cited one or more of the many references in my personal Research Alert weekly Profile published by the Institute for Scientific Information http://www.isinet.com Eugene Garfield . [n.b. AER is available in full text electronic/Web form in some university libraries. Check local holdings. --gw] Record 2 of 3 Author(s): McDowell JM; Singell LD; Ziliak JP Title: Cracks in the glass ceiling: Gender and promotion in the economics profession Source: AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW 1999, Vol 89, Iss 2, pp 392-396 Addresses: McDowell JM, Arizona State Univ, Coll Business, Dept Econ, Tempe, AZ 85287 USA. Arizona State Univ, Coll Business, Dept Econ, Tempe, AZ 85287 USA. Univ Oregon, Dept Econ, Eugene, OR 97403 USA. KeywordsPlus: CAREERS Source item page count: 5 Publication Date: MAY IDS No.: 198RT 29-char source abbrev: AMER ECON REV -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright ? 1998 Institute for Scientific Information From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Thu Jun 24 18:05:15 1999 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 18:05:15 -0400 Subject: CITE:Creativity over life course Message-ID: These three references may be of interest since each of them has cited one or more of the many references in my personal Research Alert weekly Profile published by the Institute for Scientific Information http://www.isinet.com Eugene Garfield -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Record 3 of 3 Author(s): Hendricks J Title: Creativity over the life course - A call for a relational perspective Source: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AGING & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT 1999, Vol 48, Iss 2, pp 85-111 Addresses: Hendricks J, Oregon State Univ, Honors Coll, Corvallis, OR 97331 USA. Oregon State Univ, Honors Coll, Corvallis, OR 97331 USA. KeywordsPlus: CYCLE RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY; DIVERGENT THINKING; OLD-AGE; SPAN; SCIENTISTS; PROFILES; CAREERS; SELF Source item page count: 27 IDS No.: 199BD 29-char source abbrev: INT J AGING HUMAN DEVELOP -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright ? 1998 Institute for Scientific Information From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Fri Jun 25 15:45:31 1999 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 15:45:31 -0400 Subject: ORGS: CWTS, The Netherlands Message-ID: Centre for Science- and Technology Studies (CWTS) Leiden University - The Netherlands http://sahara.fsw.LeidenUniv.nl/cwts/cwtshome.html >From the intro: he Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) has been established within Leiden University as a centre for scientific research, independent analysis and advice in matters concerning scientific and technological development. In particular, CWTS specializes in advanced quantitative analysis of science and technology performance and the cognitive and organizational structure of science and technology. [work also in the area of "scientific intensity," bibliometric mapping; links to S&T indicators for the Netherlands for 1998. --gw] <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Gretchen Whitney, PhD tel 423.974.7919 School of Information Sciences fax 423.974.4967 University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996 USA gwhitney at utk.edu http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/ From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Fri Jun 25 15:50:51 1999 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 15:50:51 -0400 Subject: ORGS: CSSHS, Bulgaria Message-ID: CENTRE FOR SCIENCE STUDIES AND HISTORY OF SCIENCE (CSSHS) BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (BAS) Sofia, Bulgaria http://www.cl.bas.bg/Library/LINKS/csshs/ >From the intro: The Centre was founded in 1968 as a research group attached to the central administration of the Academy but soon after became an autonomous unit pursuing conceptual and empirical research in the growing field of Science Studies. Later on the Centre enlarged the scope of its activity by incorporating a History of Science and Scientometrics sectors. Since March 1995 it is established as CSSHS - the only unit devoted to Science Studies. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Gretchen Whitney, PhD tel 423.974.7919 School of Information Sciences fax 423.974.4967 University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996 USA gwhitney at utk.edu http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/ From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Mon Jun 28 16:23:57 1999 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 16:23:57 -0400 Subject: ART:Bibliometrics of the WWW Message-ID: Bibliometrics of the World Wide Web: An Exploratory Analysis of the Intellectual Structure of Cyberspace Ray R. Larson ASIS 1996 http://sherlock.berkeley.edu/asis96/asis96.html This exploratory study examines the explosive growth and the "bibliometrics" of the World Wide Web based on both analysis of over 30 gigabytes of web pages collected by the Inktomi "Web Crawler" and on the use of the DEC AltaVista search engine for cocitation analysis of a set of Earth Science related WWW sites. The statistical characteristics of web documents and their hypertext links are examined, along with examination of the characteristics of highly cited web documents. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Gretchen Whitney, PhD tel 423.974.7919 School of Information Sciences fax 423.974.4967 University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996 USA gwhitney at utk.edu http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/ From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Mon Jun 28 18:10:17 1999 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 18:10:17 -0400 Subject: ART:European National Bib. Databases Message-ID: Feasibility of Exploiting Bibliometric Data in European National Bibliographic Databases UTE SCHWENS IFLA 1998 http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla64/022-141e.htm >From the intro: The proposal aimed at the following objectives: 1.to define and agree a common format for the holding of bibliometric data relevant to European national bibliographic databases, 2.to test the feasibility and functionality that could be derived from the format using data extracted and converted from the participating libraries, 3.to test the practicability of combining national data sets to give bibliometric data on a multinational basis. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Gretchen Whitney, PhD tel 423.974.7919 School of Information Sciences fax 423.974.4967 University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996 USA gwhitney at utk.edu http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/ From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Mon Jun 28 20:31:01 1999 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 20:31:01 -0400 Subject: WEB:infometrics.com Message-ID: See Infometrics Incorporated (CA) http://www.infometrics.net/ [n.b. This is another one of those "complete solutions" outfits. They appear to be specializing in Y2K issues. At least on my system, the site is practically impossible to read, even with Preferences set to 14pt type. But it's an interesting use of a term that I think we might use differently. --gw] <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Gretchen Whitney, PhD tel 423.974.7919 School of Information Sciences fax 423.974.4967 University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996 USA gwhitney at utk.edu http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/ From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Tue Jun 29 17:06:19 1999 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 17:06:19 -0400 Subject: ART:Teaching Bibliometrics Message-ID: Applications in teaching bibliometrics ara von Ungern-Sternberg, PhD, Senior lecturer, Abo Akademi University, Department of Library and Information Science, FINLAND 61st IFLA General Conference - Conference Proceedings - August 20-25, 1995 http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla61/61-ungs.htm <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Gretchen Whitney, PhD tel 423.974.7919 School of Information Sciences fax 423.974.4967 University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996 USA gwhitney at utk.edu http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/ From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Tue Jun 29 17:12:39 1999 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 17:12:39 -0400 Subject: SOC:ISSI, France Message-ID: International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics http://crrm.univ-mrs.fr/issi/issi-home.html >From the intro: The aim of the association is: the advancement of the theory, methods and explanations with regard to the following areas: quantitative studies of: - scientific, technological and other scolarly substantive information; - the science of science and technology, social sciences, arts and humanities; - generation, diffusion and use of information; - information system including libraries, archives and databases; Mathematical, statistical and computational modelling and analysis of information processes. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Gretchen Whitney, PhD tel 423.974.7919 School of Information Sciences fax 423.974.4967 University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996 USA gwhitney at utk.edu http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/ From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Tue Jun 29 17:24:38 1999 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 17:24:38 -0400 Subject: WEB:Cybermetric Technologies Message-ID: See Cybermetric Technologies http://www.cybermetric.com/ [n.b. Another different use of the term - this time for a web site design company. --gw] <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Gretchen Whitney, PhD tel 423.974.7919 School of Information Sciences fax 423.974.4967 University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996 USA gwhitney at utk.edu http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/ From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Wed Jun 30 17:48:19 1999 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 17:48:19 -0400 Subject: PROJ:fapesp/bireme project, Brazil Message-ID: fapesp/bireme project on electronic periodicals http://www.scielo.br/fbpe/projeto/emain >From the intro: A project sponsored by the Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo - FAPESP (a governmental foundation aimed at supporting scientific research), in association with the Centro Latino-Americano e do Caribe de Informacao em Ciencias da Saude - BIREME (the Latin American and the Caribbean Centre on Health Sciences Information). [n.b.The project involved not only building a database and markup for articles, it involved setting up the resources for bibliometric analysis for science policy. --gw] <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Gretchen Whitney, PhD tel 423.974.7919 School of Information Sciences fax 423.974.4967 University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996 USA gwhitney at utk.edu http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/ From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Wed Jun 30 17:54:42 1999 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 17:54:42 -0400 Subject: ART:Intro to bibliometrics (French) Message-ID: Bibliotheque de l'Institut Pasteur Introduction a la bibliometrie http://www.pasteur.fr/units/biblio/Metrie/ <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Gretchen Whitney, PhD tel 423.974.7919 School of Information Sciences fax 423.974.4967 University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996 USA gwhitney at utk.edu http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/ From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Wed Jun 30 18:08:48 1999 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 18:08:48 -0400 Subject: SOC:SFBA, France Message-ID: La Societe Francaise de Bibliometrie Appliquee http://crrm.univ-mrs.fr/sfba/home.html [n.b. Looks like conference papers can be delivered in English, but the major language of course is French. --gw] <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Gretchen Whitney, PhD tel 423.974.7919 School of Information Sciences fax 423.974.4967 University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996 USA gwhitney at utk.edu http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/