From wkoehler at OU.EDU Wed Nov 1 08:53:52 2000 From: wkoehler at OU.EDU (Wallace Koehler) Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 07:53:52 -0600 Subject: bibliometric analysis of select information science print and electronic journals in the 1990s In-Reply-To: Message-ID: A little self-serving advertising - a paper my research methods class produced: A bibliometric analysis of select information science print and electronic journals in the 1990s Wallace Koehler, Paulita Aguilar, Sharon Finarelli, Charles Gaunce, Susan Hatchette, Rebecca Heydon, Emily McEwen, Wendy Mahsetky-Poolaw, Charles T. Melson,Rory Patterson, Mark Stahl, Mary Ann Walker, JoAnna Wall, and Gabe Wingfield Information Research, Volume 6 No. 1 October 2000, http://www.shef.ac.uk/~is/publications/infres/paper88.html Abstract: This paper examines three e-journals and one paper journal begun in the 1990s within the information science genre. In addition, these journals are compared to what is perhaps the leading information science journal, one that has been published continuously for fifty years. The journals we examine are CyberMetrics, Information Research, the Journal of Internet Cataloging, Libres, and the Journal of the American Society for Information Science. We find that there are a number of important differences among the journals. These include frequency of publication, publication size, number of authors, and the funding status of articles. We also find differences among journals for distributions of authors by gender and corporate authors by region. Some of the regional differences can be explained by journal maturation -- the more mature the journal the greater the dispersion. We also find that women are more likely to publish in the newer journals than in JASIS. 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Send noted U.S. currency price by way of your bank assistant to: First Union Bank: via: ABA Routing #031201467 To: Account #1014198782047 From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Mon Nov 6 18:23:03 2000 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 18:23:03 -0500 Subject: ABS: Ebeling, Evolutionary models of innovation dynamics Message-ID: Andrea Scharnhorst : e-mail: as at medea.wz-berlin.de This paper is written by two of our colleagues from Germany and members of who are closely connected with the work of Manfred Bonitz of Dresden, Germany. TITLE: Evolutionary models of innovation dynamics (Article, English) AUTHOR: Ebeling, W; Scharnhorst, A SOURCE: TRAFFIC AND GRANULAR FLOW'99. 2000. p.43-56 SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, BERLIN SEARCH TERM(S): CJ SCIENTOMETRICS KEYWORDS+: DIFFUSION; SCIENCE; SUBSTITUTION; LOCALIZATION; CONSEQUENCE; LANDSCAPES ABSTRACT: We investigate the dynamics of social processes and, in particular, processes of innovation in socio-economical evolution, technological change, and scientific research in discrete and continuous state spaces. The discrete description is based on the occupation number formalism and transition probabilities (Master equation formalism). Our special attention is devoted to the creation and survival of the NEW (i.e., new behavior, new technologies, new ideas etc.). The second (continuous) model is based on the idea that evolution is hill-climbing in an adaptive landscape over a continuous characteristics space. The behavior of an individual, a technological product, or a scientific problem is described by a large number of characteristics covering behavioral aspects, technology-inherent and economic parameters, or thematic dimensions. Further, we define a real-valued multi-modal fitness function/functional and a population density over the characteristics space. The evolutionary dynamics including competition and innovations is modeled by reaction-diffusion equations of Fisher-Eigen or Lotka-Volterra type. AUTHOR ADDRESS: W Ebeling, Humboldt Univ, Inst Theoret Phys, Invalidenstr 110, D-10115 Berlin, Germany ------------------------------------------- (c) ISI, Reprinted with permission Please visit their website at www.isinet.com From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Mon Nov 6 18:26:34 2000 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 18:26:34 -0500 Subject: ABS: Schwartz, The rise and fall of uncitedness Message-ID: Author's e-mail address: Charles A. Schwartz : tony at delphinus.lib.umb.edu TITLE The rise and fall of uncitedness AUTHOR Schwartz CA JOURNAL COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES 58: (1) 19-29 JAN 1997 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 42 Times Cited: 4 Abstract: Large-scale uncitedness refers to the remarkable proportion of articles that do not receive a single citation within five years of publication. Equally remarkable is the brief and troubled history of this area of inquiry, which was prone to miscalculation, misinterpretation, and politicization. This article reassesses large-scale uncitedness as both a general phenomenon in the scholarly communication system and a case study of library and information science, where its rate is 72 percent. KeyWords Plus: LIBRARIES, JOURNALS, SCIENCE, INDEX Addresses: Schwartz CA, UNIV MASSACHUSETTS, COLLECT MANAGEMENT & TECHN SERV, AMHERST, MA 01003. Publisher: ASSOC COLL RESEARCH LIBRARIES, CHICAGO IDS Number: WE465 ISSN: 0010-0870 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year NEW SCI 131 3 1993 SCIENCE 251 1408 1991 SSCI J CITATION REPO ABT HA SCIENCE 251 1408 1991 ATKINSON RD TORPEDO NETWORKED AC 1995 BAILEY CW E COMMUNICATION 0614 1996 BAILEY CW NETWORK BASED ELECT 1995 BARRY J HYPERTEXT MARKUP LAN 1994 BEGLEY S NEWSWEEK 125 44 1991 BOTT DM AM SOCIOLOGY 22 147 1991 BROOKS TA J AM SOC INFORM SCI 36 223 1985 BUDD JM COLL RES LIBR 52 290 1991 CHUBIN DE SOCIOLOGY SCI ANNOTA 3 1983 COLE JR SCIENCE 178 368 1972 EAGLY RV J ECON LIT 13 878 1975 ERNST E NATURE 352 560 1991 FEEHAN PE LIBR INFORM SCI RES 9 173 1987 GAREAU W INT J COMP SOCIOL 24 248 1983 GARFIELD SURG NEUROL 37 69 1992 GARFIELD E ESSAYS INFORMATION S 14 390 1991 GARFIELD E ESSAYS INFORMATION S 12 123 1989 GASSET JOY REVOLT MASSES 84 1932 HAMILTON DP SCIENCE 250 1331 1990 HARGENS LL CONTEMP SOCIOL 20 343 1991 HARTER SP PUBLIC ACCESS COMPUT 7 1966 HOLZNER B KNOWLEDGE APPL 226 1979 JENKINS AH COLL RES LIB NEWS 55 368 1994 KIM MT LIBR INFORM SCI RES 14 75 1992 METZ P COLL RES LIBR 50 42 1989 PATTERSON SC PS POLITICAL SCI DEC 765 1991 PENDLEBURY D COMMUNICATION 1208 1994 PENDLEBURY DA SCIENCE 251 1410 1991 PERITZ BC SCIENTOMETRICS 20 121 1991 PRICE DD SCIENCE 149 512 1965 RICE RE SCHOLARLY COMMUNICAT 138 1990 SALANCIK GR ADMIN SCI QUART 31 194 1986 SCHWARTZ CA COLL RES LIBR 55 101 1994 SCOTT P USING HYTELNET ACCES 1992 SEGLEN PO J AM SOC INFORM SCI 43 628 1992 SIEKEVITZ P FASEB J 5 139 1991 STERN RE J AM SOC INFORM SCI 41 193 1990 STERN RE SCIENCE 251 25 1991 Author's "Concluding Observations: The publication of ISI numbers showing high rates of uncitedness for major disciplines in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities attracted widespread attention and reaction. However, it also led to a problem. Although measurement of uncitedness at the major discipline level was technically feasible, it generated findings that had only limited meaning, were misinterpreted, and would be challenged by anyone's "reality check" of a few select journals. At the same time, the promised new work in uncitednessat the subdiscipline level was by no means certain to prove technically feasible or to generate more palatable results. Although disagregating marginalia and foreign authors was easy for ISI to do, rescaling its databases to calculate scores (or hundreds) of subdisciplinary uncitedness rates would have been a huge engineering task. As other research shows, it would have been highly subjective as well. To conceptualize and delineate what are variously termed research specialties, fields, communities, invisible colleges, networks, etc., is a severely ambiguous problem. Further, ISI's decision not to embark on the promised new project may well have included an understandable concern that politicization of large-scale uncitedness might have an adverse effect on federal funding programs, impairing its relations with the rest of the scholarly community. Nevertheless, large-scale uncitedness was an important discovery signifying a far more loosely coupled, noninteractive scholarly communication system than anyone had suggested. LIS for example, has only two salient patterns of influence or interaction between subdisciplines; both are unidirectional and establish C&RL's central-most position in the LIS system, as a storer of Library Journal messages (from librarianship) and as a feeder of messages to Library Quarterly (in information science). There is no two-way (congruent) co-citation pattern between any of the subdisciplines; they are largely autonomous. (Perhaps the lack of any pattern linking information science and librarianship reflects the proverbial gap between theory and practice.) Although such general patterns of noninteractiveness are useful for visualizing uncitedness, they do not "prove" or "disprove" ISI's findings. At any rate, uncitedness is an elusive concept and rates of uncitedness have a widely differing significance or meaning among units of the scholarly communication system. Also, noteworthy, uncitedness is less informative than the extreme variance of citedness among articles within the same journal. Comparative analysis in this area might prove interesting. Is the variance within C&RL (ranging for volume 50 from one-quarter of articles being uncited after five years, to half being cited once and a fifth being cited a few times, to a twentieth being heavily cited) a stable of erratic phenomenon? Is that similar to the variance within other LIS journals? Would citation analysis of a whole set of heavily cited articles yield reliable generalizations about such significant influence or interaction in our profession's research literature? On a final note, one other unexplored area warrants future research. It involves the issue of uncitedness versus usefulness for practitioner-oriented articles or journals. We know, for example, that C&RL News (which is not even included in ISI's database) is more "valued" than C&RL by the membership of the Association of College and Research Libraries. Also, at least a few electronic articles have been retrieved many thousands of times, although articles in electronic journals generally have a negligible impact in the scholarly communication system, as measured by citation analysis. Of course, retrieval (downloading or printing) is no more a measure of usefulness than citation is a signifier of scholarly quality. Nevertheless, research in this area might enable us to put in better perspective the phenomenon of large-scale uncitedness, as well as the image of LIS as a fragmented discipline with discrete journal networks operating in small, bounded subdisciplines." ------------------------------------------------------------- (c) ISI, Reprinted with permission Please visit their website at www.isinet.com From ronald.rousseau at KH.KHBO.BE Tue Nov 7 02:16:50 2000 From: ronald.rousseau at KH.KHBO.BE (Rousseau Ronald) Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 08:16:50 +0100 Subject: uncitedness In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, As a comment on the subject of the following article TITLE The rise and fall of uncitedness > AUTHOR Schwartz CA > JOURNAL COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES 58: (1) 19-29 JAN 1997 I want to point out that there is another way of studying uncitedness. Indeed, in a number of articles Leo Egghe, B. Gupta and I studied the first-citation distribution. As a corrollary one obtains information about uncitedness, because those articles that never obtain a first citation are simply those that are not cited. One important point though: the term 'uncited' has no meaning. One should always add with respect to which database and which time period. 'Uncited in the ISI database over the last 5 years' means something totally different than 'uncited by your own department'. Yours sincerely, Ronald Rousseau Rousseau R. (1994). Double exponential models for first-citation processes. Scientometrics 30, 213-227. Gupta B.M. & Rousseau R. (1999). Further investigations into the first-citation process: the case of population genetics. Libres 9(2) [freely available e- journal] aztec.lib.utk.edu/libres/libre9n2/fc.htm Egghe L. (2000). A heuristic study of the first-citation distribution. Scientometrics 48, 345-359. From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Thu Nov 9 13:23:21 2000 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 13:23:21 -0500 Subject: ABS: Goodrum, Scholarly Publishing in the Internet Age Message-ID: Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 15:35:39 -0500 From: abby.goodrum at cis.drexel.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following paper is to be published in Information Processing and Management. Scholarly Publishing in the Internet Age: A Citation Analysis of Computer Science Literature Abby A. Goodrum, Katherine W. McCain, Steve Lawrence, & C. Lee Giles. ABSTRACT: In this paper we analyze two views of information production and use in computer-related research based on citation analysis of PDF and Postcript formatted publications on the web using Autonomous Citation Indexing, and a parallel citation analysis of the journal literature indexed by ISI in SCISEARCH. From Benoit_Godin at INRS-URB.UQUEBEC.CA Mon Nov 13 18:17:12 2000 From: Benoit_Godin at INRS-URB.UQUEBEC.CA (Benoît Godin) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 18:17:12 -0500 Subject: Invitation Message-ID: In May 2001, NESTI (OECD) will meet in Rome to prepare the next edition of the Frascati Manual. In papallel to the meeting, I organise a conference on the history of S&T statistics (see attached file). I, with Alison Young, have started working on the project more than a year ago (some of the papers produced so far can be found at www.ost.qc.ca). The conference will also host a small event in honor of people active in the field forty years ago, among them A. King and C. Freeman. The aim of the present E-mail is to personally invite you to submit a short proposal for a communication at the conference. I would greatly appreciate to see you in Rome. If you are interested, please let me know as soon as possible and I will contact you directly. You can also pass the invitation to anyone you think might be interested. Program: French version: http://www.ost.qc.ca/OST/HTML/Nouvelles/ConfRome_2001.htm English version: http://www.ost.qc.ca/OSTE/HTML/Nouvelles/ConfRome_2001.htm ---------------------------------------- Beno?t Godin Professeur INRS Observatoire des sciences et des technologies e-mail: benoit_godin at inrs-urb.uquebec.ca http://www.ost.qc.ca From subbiah_a at YAHOO.COM Mon Nov 13 22:14:07 2000 From: subbiah_a at YAHOO.COM (=?iso-8859-1?q?Subbiah=20Arunachalam?=) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 19:14:07 -0800 Subject: Invitation Message-ID: Dear Dr Benoit Godin: Thanks very much for informing me about the conference on the history of S&T statistics to be held in Rome in May 2001 (through the SIGMETRICS list). I would like to attend the meeting and present a paper. Will it be Ok if I write a paper on quantifying international cooperation in science or on correlating disease burden (in selected diseases) and the research efforts mounted by selected countries? Please let me know. Regards. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Distinguished Fellow M S Swaminathan Research Foundation Taramani Third Cross Street CHENNAI 600 113, India __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/ From linda.marion at CIS.DREXEL.EDU Tue Nov 14 01:00:22 2000 From: linda.marion at CIS.DREXEL.EDU (Linda Marion) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 01:00:22 -0500 Subject: Linda Marion/Drexel_IST is out of the office. Message-ID: I will be out of the office starting 11/10/2000 and will not return until 11/17/2000. If you need assistance from an Academic Advisor before I return please email: ISTAdvising at cis.drexel.edu. Another Advisor will respond. Thank you. From Benoit_Godin at INRS-URB.UQUEBEC.CA Tue Nov 14 16:42:08 2000 From: Benoit_Godin at INRS-URB.UQUEBEC.CA (Benoît Godin) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 16:42:08 -0500 Subject: Invitation Message-ID: Thanks for your reply. The conference is on the HISTORY of S&T indicators. Papers has to deal with one of the four topics listed in the announcement. Above all, they have to be HISTORICAL, that is to cover historical aspects of the development of indicators between 1950 and 1990s. I wait for your suggestion. ---------------------------------------- Beno?t Godin Professeur INRS Observatoire des sciences et des technologies e-mail: benoit_godin at inrs-urb.uquebec.ca http://www.ost.qc.ca -----Original Message----- From: Subbiah Arunachalam [mailto:subbiah_a at YAHOO.COM] Sent: 13 novembre, 2000 22:14 To: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Invitation Dear Dr Benoit Godin: Thanks very much for informing me about the conference on the history of S&T statistics to be held in Rome in May 2001 (through the SIGMETRICS list). I would like to attend the meeting and present a paper. Will it be Ok if I write a paper on quantifying international cooperation in science or on correlating disease burden (in selected diseases) and the research efforts mounted by selected countries? Please let me know. Regards. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] Distinguished Fellow M S Swaminathan Research Foundation Taramani Third Cross Street CHENNAI 600 113, India __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/ From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Mon Nov 20 18:09:35 2000 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 18:09:35 -0500 Subject: ABS:Landes, Citations, age, fame, and the Web Message-ID: William M. Landes : E-mail: william_landes at law.uchicago.edu TITLE Citations, age, fame, and the Web AUTHOR Landes WM, Posner RA JOURNAL JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES 29: (1) 319-344, Part 2 JAN 2000 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 3 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: This paper focuses on the role of age in explaining the ranking of legal scholars by the number of citations to their scholarship and the relationship between scholarly and " popular" reputations, with the latter being proxied by the number of "hits" on the World Wide Web or newspaper citations. As predicted by human capital theory, nearly 40 percent of the top 100 legal scholars were between 60 and 86 in 1998. When we turn to popular reputations, we find that compared to really famous people (such as President Clinton and former presidents), top legal scholars are not famous at all. The data also suggest that fame among the larger public is more unequally distributed than scholarly reputation. We use regression analysis to study scholarly and public reputation. We find that being a Supreme Court justice (but not being a judge of any other court) and having had another high government position (such as solicitor general of the United States) has a statistically significant effect on one's public but not scholarly reputation. Overall, we find a small though statistically significant link between scholarly and public reputation. Addresses: Landes WM, Univ Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637 USA. Univ Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637 USA. Publisher: UNIV CHICAGO PRESS, CHICAGO IDS Number: 339PD ISSN: 0047-2530 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year LANDES WM J LAW ECON 36 385 1993 LANDES WM J LAW ECON 19 249 1976 LANDES WM J LEGAL STUD 27 271 1998 WHEN RESPONDING PLEASE ATTACH THIS MESSAGE ------------------------------------------------------------- (c) ISI, Reprinted with permission Please visit their website at www.isinet.com ------------------------------------------------------------- From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Mon Nov 20 18:15:30 2000 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 18:15:30 -0500 Subject: ART: Kleinberg, Hubs, authorities, and communities Message-ID: Jon M. Kleinberg : E-Mail : kleinber at CS.Cornell.EDU TITLE : Hubs, authorities, and communities (Article, English) AUTHOR : Kleinberg, JM JOURNAL : ACM Computing Surveys, 31(4) (Suppl) December 1999 KEYWORDS : algorithms, human factors, hypertext structure, world wide web, link analysis, graph algorithms AUTHOR ADDRESS: JM Kleinberg, Cornell Univ. Dept Comp Sci, Ithaca, NY The entire paper can be accessed at : http://www.cs.brown.edu/memex/ACMCSHT/10/10.html EXCERPT FROM THE PAPER : In the field of citation analysis, a number of methods have been proposed for measuring the importance of scientific journals 1990]. Perhaps the most widely used is Garfield's impact factor, which provides a quantitative ``score'' for each journal proportional to the average number of citations per paper published in the previous two years [Garfield 1972]. This measure encodes the fundamental intuition that more heavily-cited journals have more overall impact on a field, and it has been applied to rank journals in the Journal Citation Reports of the Institute for Scientific Information. Beginning with this measure, we could picture enhancing our estimate of the important journals as follows. Suppose we have concluded, by counting citations, that the journals Science and Nature are highly prominent. Then if we are comparing two more obscure journals which have received roughly the same number of citations as one another, and we discover that one of these journals has received many citations from Science and Nature, we may wish to elevate its ranking. In other words, it is better to receive citations from an important journal than from an unimportant one. We can see this phenomenon on the WWW as well: counting the number of links to a page can give us a general estimate of its prominence on the Web, but a page with very few incoming links may also be prominent, if two of these links come from the home pages of Yahoo! and Netscape. Defining such a richer notion of importance, or prominence, contains an intrinsic element of circularity: it arises from the fragile intuition that a node is important if it receives links from other important nodes. Several measures incorporate this basic circular notion, and each contains a method for capturing the implicit equilibrium that this circularity encodes. Two early approaches to embrace this theme in the study of social networks are the measures of Katz [Katz 1953] and Hubbell [Hubbell 1965]. (See also the discussion in Wasserman and Faust [Wasserman 1994].) In Hubbell's formulation, each node has an internal, a priori weight that is given at the outset. We are also given a specified connection strength between each pair of nodes. We seek to assign a global weight, or prominence value, to each node in such a way that a node's global weight is equal to the sum of its internal weight and the global weights of all nodes that link to it, scaled by their connection strengths. This can be represented as a collection of linear equations; its solution captures a version of the equilibrium discussed above. The solution has some of the key features we were seeking; if a node has large weight, the nodes it links to will tend to have large weights as well. In the field of citation analysis, Pinski and Narin [Pinski 1976] developed a similar notion of influence weights, using a somewhat different mathematical model. First, they define the strength of the connection from one journal to another to be the percentage of the citations in the first journal that refer to the second. They then seek a set of weights that obey the following equilibrium: the weight of each journal J should be equal to the sum of the weights of all journals citing J, scaled by the strengths of their connections to it. Again, we can see desirable features of this definition; if a journal receives regular citations from other journals of large weight, it too will acquire large weight. From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Fri Nov 24 09:26:03 2000 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 09:26:03 -0500 Subject: CFP: ISSI, Sydney 2001 Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 16:38:02 +1000 From: issi2001 at UNSW.EDU.AU CALL FOR PAPERS 8TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS 16-20TH JULY 2001 TO BE HELD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA Submissions are being accepted for review now for potential contributions at the important conference in the field of Scientometrics, informetrics, bibliometrics and webmetrics. Contributors are requested to submit an extended abstract of no more than 1000 words to the Australian Organising Committee Chair, Dr Mari Davis. References to literature that supports the submission can be appended; references need not be counted in the text allowance of 1000 words. Extended abstracts should be received no later than Friday 12th January 2001. For speedy distribution purposes, it is requested that extended abstracts are sent by email as a file attachment using Microsoft Word, in RTF format, or other well-known word-processsing package. Those who are not able to present their submissions by email should post them to arrive in Australia by 12 January 2001. Extended abstracts should include author's names, organisations, and complete physical mailing address with telephone, facsimile, email on a separate page so that we are able to ensure anonymity in the review process. Contributors will be notified no later than Friday 6th April 2001 by the ISSI 2001 Conference Organising Chair if their abstract has been selected for a paper presentation or as a poster. Full papers in the correct format ready for publication in the Conference Proceedings must be received by the Conference Secretariat - UNSW, School of Information Systems, Technology and Management, Sydney 2052 AUSTRALIA - no later than Friday 8th June 2001. Please Note: Earlier Submissions Accepted Countries that require longer time to apply for funding to attend, such as India, may send their submissions to the Australian Organising Committee earlier than the above deadline to allow for early reviewing and acceptances to be given. Dr Mari Davis Chair, Australian Organising Committee 8th International Conference on Scientometrics & Informetrics The University of New South Wales Sydney Australia 2052 Tel: +61 2 9385 7127 Fax: +61 2 9662 4061 Email: issi2001 at unsw.edu.au URL: http://sistm.web.unsw.edu.au/conference/issi2001/ From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Tue Nov 28 18:11:55 2000 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 18:11:55 -0500 Subject: ABS: Bashkirov Information entropy and power-law distributions for chaotic systems Message-ID: Bashkirov AG : e-mail : abas at orig.ipg.msk.su TITLE Information entropy and power-law distributions for chaotic systems AUTHOR Bashkirov AG, Vityazev AV JOURNAL PHYSICA A 277: (1-2) 136-145 MAR 1 2000 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 27 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: The power law is found for density distributions for the chaotic systems of most different nature (physical, geophysical, biological, economical, social, etc.) on the basis of the maximum entropy principle for the Renyi entropy. Its exponent q is expressed as a function q(beta) of the Renyi parameter beta. The difference between the Renyi and Boltzmann-Shannon entropies (a modified Lyapunov functional Lambda(R)) for the same power-law distribution is negative and as a function of beta has a well-defined minimum at beta* which remains within the narrow range from 1.5 to 3 when varying other characteristic parameters of any concrete systems. Relevant variations of the exponent q(beta*) are found within the range 1-3.5. The same range of observable values of q is typical for the various applications where the power-law distribution takes glace. It is known under the following names: "triangular or trapezoidal" (in physics and technics), "Gutenberg-Richter law" (in geophysics), "Zipf-Pareto law" (in economies and the humanities), "Lotka low" (in science of science), etc. As the negative Lambda(R) indicates self-organisation of the system, the negative minimum of Lambda(R) corresponds to the most self-organised state. Thus, the comparison between the calculated range of variations of q(beta*) and observable values of the exponent q testifies that the most self-organised states are as a rule realised regardless of the nature of a chaotic system. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. Author Keywords: maximum entropy principle, power-law distribution, Renyi entropy KeyWords Plus: STATISTICAL-MECHANICS, SELF-ORGANIZATION Addresses: Bashkirov AG, RAS, Inst Dynam Geospheres, Leninskii Prosp 38, Bldg 6, Moscow 117979, Russia. RAS, Inst Dynam Geospheres, Moscow 117979, Russia. Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM IDS Number: 292VJ ISSN: 0378-4371 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year BASHKIROV AG NONEQUILIBRIUM STAT 1995 BASHKIROV AG PLANET SPACE SCI 44 909 1996 BECK C THERMODYNAMICS CHAOT 1993 BINZEL RP ASTEROIDS 2 1989 CHAME A J PHYS A-MATH GEN 27 3663 1994 CHAME A PHYSICA A 255 423 1998 HAKEN H INFORMATION SELF ORG 1988 JAYNES ET BRANDIES LECT 3 160 1963 JAYNES ET PHYS REV 106 620 1957 KASAHARA K EARTHQUAKE MECH 1981 KATZ A PRINCIPLES STAT MECH 1967 KHINCHIN AY MATH FDN INFORMATION 1957 KLIMONTOVICH YL CHAOS SOLITON FRACT 5 1985 1995 KLIMONTOVICH YL PHYSICA A 142 390 1987 KLIMONTOVICH YL STAT THEORY OPEN SYS 1994 LOSEE RM SCI INFORMATION 1990 MANDELBROT B J POLIT ECON 71 421 1963 PLASTINO AR PHYSICA A 222 347 1995 PRICE D LITTLE SCI BIG SCI 1963 RAMSHAW JD PHYS LETT A 175 171 1993 RENYI A PROBABILITY THEORY 1970 SHORE JE IEEE T INFORM THEORY 26 26 1980 SHRODINGER E STAT THERMODYNAMICS 1946 TSALLIS C J STAT PHYS 52 479 1988 VITYAZEV AV TERRESTIAL PLANETS O 1990 ZAKHAROV VE SOV PHYS JETP-USSR 24 455 1967 ZUBAREV DN NONEQUILIBRIUM STAT 1974 WHEN RESPONDING PLEASE ATTACH THIS MESSAGE ------------------------------------------------------------- (c) ISI, Reprinted with permission Please visit their website at www.isinet.com ------------------------------------------------------------- From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Tue Nov 28 18:24:00 2000 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 18:24:00 -0500 Subject: ABS: Phelan, Is Australian educational research worthwhile? Message-ID: T.J. Phelan : e-mail : phelan at ucla.edu TITLE Is Australian educational research worthwhile? AUTHOR Phelan TJ JOURNAL AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION 44: (2) 175-194 AUG 2000 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 83 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: This research examines publication and citation data to assess the contribution of Australian educational research to major international journals. Additionally a set of highly cited articles is reviewed to assess the relevance of educational research to teaching practice and policy making. Australia makes a significant contribution to international educational research, although its share of publications has been increasing over time, whereas its share of citations has remained relatively constant. Substantial turnover in leading research institutions is found over time. It might be possible to explain this turnover by the productivity of a small number of academic staff members. Finally it is found that Australian educational research is extremely relevant to educational practice. Author Keywords: academic staff publishing, educational research, publications, citations, evaluation, research tools KeyWords Plus: HIGH-SCHOOL SCIENCE, TEACHER-EDUCATION, SELF-CONCEPTS, STUDENTS EVALUATIONS, CLASSROOM PRACTICE, TERTIARY STUDENTS, LEARNING OUTCOMES, CITATION ANALYSIS, SEX-DIFFERENCES, SINGLE-SEX Addresses: Phelan TJ, Univ Calif Los Angeles, Sci & Technol Project, Los Angeles, CA 90025 USA. Univ Calif Los Angeles, Sci & Technol Project, Los Angeles, CA 90025 USA. Publisher: AUSTRALIAN COUNCIL EDUCATIONAL RES LIMITED, CAMBERWELL IDS Number: 369NW ISSN: 0004-9441 Cited References Is Australian educational research worthwhile? 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The visiting scholar program is centred on the following areas: Informetrics (including bibliometrics & scientometrics), web-related communications, information retrieval issues and specialized information services. Ideally, Visiting Researchers would participate in and contribute to current and proposed studies in the above fields or more broadly in information management related topics; they will also work collaboratively on publications related to completed studies or projects. The Visiting Research Program is for periods between 2 -------------- next part -------------- ?6 months duration. This opportunity would be suited to those looking for appropriate sabbatical leave or study leave placement. The financial support offered is accommodation in a fully furnished apartment close to the campus, and on campus, an office with attendant academic infrastructure support. Honorariums may be offered for public or academic lectures given by the Visitor, as well as for presentations to university workshops or seminars. Applicants should have research experience that falls within the general field of information science / studies and its various sub-disciplines. Applications from prospective Visiting Researchers should indicate research experience in the relevant areas above and willingness to participate in collaborative research. Applicants should send (via email or snail mail) a current curriculum vita with information relating to their academic record, publications and other details of experience and skills. Two referees should be nominated together with appropriate contact information for them. Expressions of interest in the Visiting Research program should be addressed to: Dr. C. S. (Connie) Wilson, Associate Head of School School of Information Systems, Technology and Management The University of New South Wales UNSW SYDNEY NSW 2052 AUSTRALIA Phone: + 61 ( 2) 9385 7134 Fax: +61 ( 2) 9662 4061 Email: c.wilson at unsw.edu.au From gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU Wed Nov 29 17:57:08 2000 From: gwhitney at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 17:57:08 -0500 Subject: Informetrics sabbatical/visit, NSW Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 11:31:46 +1000 From: Connie Wilson Reply-To: Open Lib/Info Sci Education Forum Subject: "Applications Invited" -- John Metcalfe Visiting Research Grant Dear Colleagues, John Metcalfe Visiting Research Grant The University of New South Wales, School of Information Systems, Technology and Management (SISTM) is offering support for visiting researchers to participate and contribute to collaborative research with academic staff and postgraduate research candidates in the Information Management Program of SISTM. The visiting scholar program is centred on the following areas: Informetrics (including bibliometrics & scientometrics), web-related communications, information retrieval issues and specialized information services. Ideally, Visiting Researchers would participate in and contribute to current and proposed studies in the above fields or more broadly in information management related topics; they will also work collaboratively on publications related to completed studies or projects. The Visiting Research Program is for periods between 2 From C.Wilson at UNSW.EDU.AU Thu Nov 30 00:28:37 2000 From: C.Wilson at UNSW.EDU.AU (Connie Wilson) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 15:28:37 +1000 Subject: "Applications Invited" -- John Metcalfe Visiting Research Grant Message-ID: To: sigmetrics at listserv.utk.edu cc: From: Connie Wilson/Commerce/UNSW/AU @ UNSW Date: 11/30/2000 03:28:37 PM Subject: "Applications Invited" -- John Metcalfe Visiting Research Grant Dear Colleagues, The initial message sent earlier did not contain all the announcement; hence I will resend it. I have already heard from some of you saying that the message was not complete. Regards, Connie John Metcalfe Visiting Research Grant The University of New South Wales, School of Information Systems, Technology and Management (SISTM) is offering support for visiting researchers to participate and contribute to collaborative research with academic staff and postgraduate research candidates in the Information Management Program of SISTM. The visiting scholar program is centred on the following areas: Informetrics (including bibliometrics & scientometrics), web-related communications, information retrieval issues and specialized information services. Ideally, Visiting Researchers would participate in and contribute to current and proposed studies in the above fields or more broadly in information management related topics; they will also work collaboratively on publications related to completed studies or projects. The Visiting Research Program is for periods between 2 to 6 months duration. This opportunity would be suited to those looking for appropriate sabbatical leave or study leave placement. The financial support offered is accommodation in a fully furnished apartment close to the campus, and on campus, an office with attendant academic infrastructure support. Honorariums may be offered for public or academic lectures given by the Visitor, as well as for presentations to university workshops or seminars. Applicants should have research experience that falls within the general field of information science / studies and its various sub-disciplines. Applications from prospective Visiting Researchers should indicate research experience in the relevant areas above and willingness to participate in collaborative research. Applicants should send (via email or snail mail) a current curriculum vita with information relating to their academic record, publications and other details of experience and skills. Two referees should be nominated together with appropriate contact information for them. Expressions of interest in the Visiting Research program should be addressed to: Dr. C. S. (Connie) Wilson, Associate Head of School School of Information Systems, Technology and Management The University of New South Wales UNSW SYDNEY NSW 2052 AUSTRALIA Phone: + 61 ( 2) 9385 7134 Fax: +61 ( 2) 9662 4061 Email: c.wilson at unsw.edu.au From palvarez at UNEX.ES Fri Nov 17 23:39:50 2000 From: palvarez at UNEX.ES (Pedro Alvarez) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 20:39:50 -0800 Subject: Fw: Statistics and information/text retrieval Message-ID: Dear Sir, The statistical methodo de veloped in the paper "Measuring information through topical subheadings of the Medline database:a case study", Journal of Information Science, 25 (5) 1999, pp. 395-402, would help. Pedro Alvarez Professor