From Garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Sat Dec 1 14:35:49 2001 From: Garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Garfield, Eugene) Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 14:35:49 -0500 Subject: Personal Citation Index Message-ID: Dear Judit: Let us assume that your example is typical for Informetrics, even though your definition of this literature is rather restricted. I don't think I have ever used this word in the title of one of my papers but I surely feel that I have written a lot in this field. What I am referring to, however, is whether this limited sample tells us anything about, e.g biochemistry, economics or any of the other disciplines.? In the field of Genomics is may turn out that web citations outnumber formal published citations, but their relative value for literature search needs to be investigated. For example, the two recently published hot papers on the sequencing of the human genome produced two citation classics in less than one year--papers by Venter in Science and Landers in Nature. Each was cited over 350 times in the journal literature. Perhaps you or someone else wishes to investigate how often those same cited papers turn up in web references, but the outcome will still not give us a complete answer on what is happening for the typical research paper. The www presents us with many new opportunities for research but we have a long way to go before we can make any valid statements about the percentages of web versus paper citations. Best wishes. Gene Garfield Eugene Garfield, PhD. Past President, American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) www.asis.org Chairman Emeritus, ISI www.isinet.com Publisher, The Scientist www.the-scientist.com email garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu tel 215-243-2205 fax 215-387-1266 home page: www.eugenegarfield.org -----Original Message----- From: Judit Bar Ilan [mailto:judit at CC.HUJI.AC.IL] Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 7:29 AM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Personal Citation Index Ronald Rousseau's numbers are not based on anecdotal evidence only. Although I was not looking for personal citations, I conducted a rather exhaustive search for "informetrics" in 1998. (The results are published in JASIS, 51(5) - The Web as an information source on informetrics? A content analysis). >From the collected pages I extracted 259 distinct references (to journal papers, papers in proceedings and to presentations in conferences). Since most of the references in the Web appeared without abstract (or full text), for 229 references, the term "informetrics" either appeared in the title (75) or in the name of the publication (154). These references were compared to data retrieved from commercial bibliographic databases: the largest number of items with informetrics in the title was retrieved from LISA (46 vs 76), and the largest number of items retrieved with informetrics in the name of the publication was retrieved from OCLC's PaperFirst Database (118 vs 184). These numbers seem to support Ronald Rousseau's 50% assumption. Judit Bar-Ilan At 12:03 27/11/2001 -0500, you wrote: Dear friends: I did not see this message when I responded a few minutes ago to Michel Menou and see that our good friend Ron Rousseau is the one who has made the assumption about 50%. I can see that this is a wild guess based upon some anecdotal perception of how much literature is covered by traditional abstracting and indexing services and what "may" appear in the non-indexed literature and in web sites. Since my valiant assistant traces references to my name on web sites I receive a list every week or two of about a dozen sites. Most of these are not true citations but rather mentions of my name for one reason or another as e.g. in a course listing. I agree with Ron and the others that it would be important for each individual to be aware of who is using their work, but don't get your hopes up too high. Gene When responding, please attach my original message ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Eugene Garfield, Ph.D. E-mail: garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu Telephone: (215)243-2205 Fax: (215)387-1266 Web site: www.eugenegarfield.org Past President, American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) - www.asis.org Chairman Emeritus,Institute for Scientific Information ( ISI), 3501 Market St , Philadelphia, PA 19104-3389, www.isinet.com Pres.,Ed.-in-Chief, The Scientist, 3535 Market St , Philadelphia, PA 19104-3385, www.the-scientist.com __________________________________________ Judit Bar-Ilan School of Library, Archive and Information Studies The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Room 208, Levy Building, Givat Ram P.O. Box 1255, Jerusalem, 90904 Israel Tel: 972-2-6584663 Fax: 972-2-6585707 email: judit at cc.huji.ac.il -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From smaritch at ROCKETMAIL.COM Mon Dec 3 06:45:46 2001 From: smaritch at ROCKETMAIL.COM (=?iso-8859-1?q?Sinisa=20Maricic?=) Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 11:45:46 +0000 Subject: PCI branching-out Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Bernie Sloan has asked for comments about his "Personal Citation Index" (http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/~b-sloan/pci2.html). Recent postings to the SIGMETRICS list left no doubt that it is an idea deserving serious consideration. The discussion has so far branched-out a good deal. Perhaps we could agree on labelling further contributions by the following "sub-section titles": 1. "ISI & PCI". Gene has amply indicated the ISI's stand, but maybe that "chapter" is still not exhausted. 2. "PCI & books", as proposed by Ronald appears to be of great interest in furthering the "cyber bibliometrics". The approach is somewhat specific and further elaborations may be expected. 3. "Individual PCIs" may appear as a tautology. What I have in mind is the use of the concept for practical needs exclusively by individuals. Even so, the software announced by Bernie would be of paramount help. Permit me to add yet another subsection of particular interest to scholars at the science periphery: 4. "Public PCIs". The ill-effects of the ISI's citation tools in science policy at the periphery (see - Maricic S: Mainstream-periphery science communication Learned Publishing 13/4 2000 266, available at http://www.alpsp.org.uk/volcont.htm) may be circumvented to a good deal by creating "Public PCIs" for particular scholarly communities. It goes without saying that here again a suitable software would be indispensible. Yours in discourse, Sinisa (Mac) Maricic ________________________________________________________________ Nokia 5510 looks weird sounds great. Go to http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/nokia/ discover and win it! The competition ends 16 th of December 2001. From gwhitney at UTK.EDU Mon Dec 3 13:44:16 2001 From: gwhitney at UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 13:44:16 -0500 Subject: ABS: Onodera, A bibliometric study on chemical information and compu ter sciences focusing on literature of JCICS Message-ID: N. Onodera : onodera at ulis.ac.jp TITLE A bibliometric study on chemical information and computer sciences focusing on literature of JCICS AUTHOR Onodera N JOURNAL JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL INFORMATION AND COMPUTER SCIENCES 41 (4): 878-888 JUL-AUG 2001 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 27 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: bibliometric approach was used to survey the state-of-the-art of research in the field of chemical information and computer sciences (CICS). By examining the CA database for the articles abstracted under the subsection "Chemical information, documentation, and data processing", Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences (JCICS) was identified to have been the top journal in this subsection for the last 30 years. Based on this result, CA subsections and controlled index terms given to JCICS articles were analyzed to see trends in subjects and topics in the CICS field during the last two decades. These analyses revealed that the subjects of research in CICS have diversified from traditional information science and computer applications to chemistry to "molecular information sciences". The SCISEARCH database was used to grasp interdependency between JCICS and other key journals and also the international nature of JCICS in its publications and citedness. KeyWords Plus: DATABASE TOMOGRAPHY, TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE, SUBJECT CONTENT, AIDS LITERATURE, LATIN-AMERICA, LEVEL, SCIENTOMETRICS, PRODUCTIVITY, TECHNOLOGY, ROADMAPS Addresses: Onodera N, Univ Lib & Informat Sci, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3058550, Japan Univ Lib & Informat Sci, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3058550, Japan Publisher: AMER CHEMICAL SOC, WASHINGTON IDS Number: 456RC ISSN: 0095-2338 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year AKSNES DW SCIENTOMETRICS 49 7 2000 BHATTACHARYA S SCIENTOMETRICS 47 131 2000 BHATTACHARYA S SCIENTOMETRICS 43 359 1998 DELOOZE MA SCIENTOMETRICS 34 267 1997 FALKINGHAM LT SCIENTOMETRICS 42 97 1998 GARG KC SCIENTOMETRICS 46 19 1999 GARG KC SCIENTOMETRICS 45 251 1999 GARG KC SCIENTOMETRICS 43 443 1998 GUPTA VK SCIENTOMETRICS 44 17 1999 GUZMAN MV SCIENTOMETRICS 43 189 1998 KARKI MMS J CHEM INF COMP SCI 37 157 1997 KOSTOFF RN INFORM PROCESS MANAG 34 69 1998 KOSTOFF RN J AM SOC INFORM SCI 50 427 1999 KOSTOFF RN J CHEM INF COMP SCI 40 19 2000 KOSTOFF RN SCIENTOMETRICS 40 103 1997 LINDSAY RK J AM SOC INFORM SCI 50 574 1999 MACIASCHAPULA CA SCIENTOMETRICS 46 563 1999 MACIASCHAPULA CA SCIENTOMETRICS 41 41 1998 MACIASCHAPULA CA SCIENTOMETRICS 38 295 1997 MEYER M SCIENTOMETRICS 42 195 1998 NOYONS ECM J AM SOC INFORM SCI 49 68 1998 PRASAD A SCIENTOMETRICS 48 27 2000 SCHWECHHEIMER H SCIENTOMETRICS 44 547 1999 SEGLEN PO SCIENTOMETRICS 49 125 2000 TSAY MY J CHEM INF COMP SCI 29 156 1989 WORMELL I SCIENTOMETRICS 48 203 2000 WORMELL I SCIENTOMETRICS 48 237 2000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- (c) ISI Reprinted with permission; Please visit their website at www.isinet.com ______________________________________________________________ From gwhitney at UTK.EDU Mon Dec 3 13:50:40 2001 From: gwhitney at UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 13:50:40 -0500 Subject: Personal Citiation Index and ASCA (fwd) Message-ID: Forwarded on behalf of Bernie Sloan --gw ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 10:13:56 -0600 From: "Sloan, Bernie" Gene, You said: > As regards the Personal Citation Index I am somewhat dumbfounded. > Perhaps whoever suggested that excellent idea has never heard of the > Personal Citation Alert that ISI has been providing commercially for 35 > years. Every week I receive a list of the papers covered in ISI that cite > my work, among others. As the person who "suggested that excellent idea" I thought I'd make a clarification or two. I've had a business relationship with ISI since 1993. I've also been a Current Contents user since then, and began using Web of Science when it became available. I am aware of the Personal Citation Alert function. I started working on my personal citiation index largely because I was aware of the products and services offered through ISI. I knew that the scope of coverage of the ISI indices was narrower than what I was attempting to do. This is not a criticism of ISI. I wanted to explore what one might call the "undiscovered influence of ideas", and this included some rather grey areas, e.g., resources that wouldn't necessarily be classified as "scholarly". I also wanted to include resources that one wouldn't expect to be covered by the ISI indices, e.g., course syllabi, conference papers, certain international resources, etc. And I have consciously chosen not to limit the entries in my personal citation index solely to citations from scholarly works. As the LIS field has a strong practitioner-oriented component, I am also interested in studying the influence of my papers on LIS professionals. In other words, the Personal Citiation Alert is a very nice feature, and the ISI indices are very helpful to me. But ISI is just one of many tools I need to use to cover the broader scope of my project. Thanks, Bernie Sloan Senior Library Information Systems Consultant University of Illinois Office for Planning and Budgeting 338 Henry Administration Building 506 S. Wright Street Urbana, IL 61801 Phone: (217) 333-4895 Fax: (217) 265-0454 E-mail: bernies at uillinois.edu From Garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Dec 3 14:59:11 2001 From: Garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Garfield, Eugene) Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 14:59:11 -0500 Subject: Personal Citation Index and ASCA (fwd) Message-ID: I am delighted to have this clarification. Alas in my personal experience it is a constant source of amazement how many users are not aware of these capabilities. Indeed, teaching certain classes of users to use the Personal Alert is problematic in that some of them interpret such a service as catering to their vanity, which completely misses the point. Its main use is to learn about work that might otherwise be missed. Naturally, as authors most of us like to see our work cited, but in my case I find it exciting to learn about connections that I would otherwise miss. Even in my page by page scanning of certain journals I may miss such connections. ISI is well aware that WOS does not and cannot cover everything. I believe that is implied by their recent announcements about connections to BIOSIS, INSPEC and other data bases. Best wishes. Gene Garfield When responding, please attach my original message ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Eugene Garfield, Ph.D. E-mail: garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu Telephone: (215)243-2205 Fax: (215)387-1266 Web site: www.eugenegarfield.org Past President, American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) - www.asis.org Chairman Emeritus,Institute for Scientific Information ( ISI), 3501 Market St , Philadelphia, PA 19104-3389, www.isinet.com Pres.,Ed.-in-Chief, The Scientist, 3535 Market St , Philadelphia, PA 19104-3385, www.the-scientist.com -----Original Message----- From: Gretchen Whitney [mailto:gwhitney at UTK.EDU] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 1:51 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Personal Citiation Index and ASCA (fwd) Forwarded on behalf of Bernie Sloan --gw ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 10:13:56 -0600 From: "Sloan, Bernie" Gene, You said: > As regards the Personal Citation Index I am somewhat dumbfounded. > Perhaps whoever suggested that excellent idea has never heard of the > Personal Citation Alert that ISI has been providing commercially for 35 > years. Every week I receive a list of the papers covered in ISI that cite > my work, among others. As the person who "suggested that excellent idea" I thought I'd make a clarification or two. I've had a business relationship with ISI since 1993. I've also been a Current Contents user since then, and began using Web of Science when it became available. I am aware of the Personal Citation Alert function. I started working on my personal citiation index largely because I was aware of the products and services offered through ISI. I knew that the scope of coverage of the ISI indices was narrower than what I was attempting to do. This is not a criticism of ISI. I wanted to explore what one might call the "undiscovered influence of ideas", and this included some rather grey areas, e.g., resources that wouldn't necessarily be classified as "scholarly". I also wanted to include resources that one wouldn't expect to be covered by the ISI indices, e.g., course syllabi, conference papers, certain international resources, etc. And I have consciously chosen not to limit the entries in my personal citation index solely to citations from scholarly works. As the LIS field has a strong practitioner-oriented component, I am also interested in studying the influence of my papers on LIS professionals. In other words, the Personal Citiation Alert is a very nice feature, and the ISI indices are very helpful to me. But ISI is just one of many tools I need to use to cover the broader scope of my project. Thanks, Bernie Sloan Senior Library Information Systems Consultant University of Illinois Office for Planning and Budgeting 338 Henry Administration Building 506 S. Wright Street Urbana, IL 61801 Phone: (217) 333-4895 Fax: (217) 265-0454 E-mail: bernies at uillinois.edu From bernies at UILLINOIS.EDU Tue Dec 4 11:33:08 2001 From: bernies at UILLINOIS.EDU (Sloan, Bernie) Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 10:33:08 -0600 Subject: Word frequency analysis of electronic reference questions Message-ID: I'm considering doing a word frequency analysis of library reference questions submitted to a chat-based collaborative online reference service, and I was wondering if anyone might be able to point me to a good general overview of word frequency analysis? I have about five hundred reference questions, as they were typed by the users of this chat-based service. I've run a sample of about 100 of these questions through a word frequency analysis program, and I have the resulting word frequency list in an Excel spreadsheet. I'd like to play around with this sample a bit and determine whether I want to spend time on a more in-depth analysis. My literature searches have turned up a number of papers on word frequency analysis, but most seem to require that one already has a good working knowledge of the topic. I'm looking for something that would help me get up to speed. And if anyone would like to see my preliminary word frequency list, I'd be happy to share. Thanks! Bernie Sloan Senior Library Information Systems Consultant University of Illinois Office for Planning and Budgeting 338 Henry Administration Building 506 S. Wright Street Urbana, IL 61801 Phone: (217) 333-4895 Fax: (217) 265-0454 E-mail: bernies at uillinois.edu From leo.egghe at LUC.AC.BE Wed Dec 5 08:03:07 2001 From: leo.egghe at LUC.AC.BE (Leo Egghe) Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 14:03:07 +0100 Subject: Word frequency analysis of electronic reference questions In-Reply-To: <8DD31AE07607D511B1E70002B31FCB049B5411@eagle.pb.uiuc.edu> Message-ID: Dear colleague, incidentally, I bought a new book on word frequencies which arrived last week. It is a very good book. The reference is : R. HARALD BAAYEN. WORD FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS. (CD-ROM included). Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2001. ISBN : 0-7923-7017-1. Regards, Leo Egghe -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: ASIS Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU]Namens Sloan, Bernie Verzonden: dinsdag 4 december 2001 17:33 Aan: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Onderwerp: [SIGMETRICS] Word frequency analysis of electronic reference questions I'm considering doing a word frequency analysis of library reference questions submitted to a chat-based collaborative online reference service, and I was wondering if anyone might be able to point me to a good general overview of word frequency analysis? I have about five hundred reference questions, as they were typed by the users of this chat-based service. I've run a sample of about 100 of these questions through a word frequency analysis program, and I have the resulting word frequency list in an Excel spreadsheet. I'd like to play around with this sample a bit and determine whether I want to spend time on a more in-depth analysis. My literature searches have turned up a number of papers on word frequency analysis, but most seem to require that one already has a good working knowledge of the topic. I'm looking for something that would help me get up to speed. And if anyone would like to see my preliminary word frequency list, I'd be happy to share. Thanks! Bernie Sloan Senior Library Information Systems Consultant University of Illinois Office for Planning and Budgeting 338 Henry Administration Building 506 S. Wright Street Urbana, IL 61801 Phone: (217) 333-4895 Fax: (217) 265-0454 E-mail: bernies at uillinois.edu From Garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Dec 6 22:00:46 2001 From: Garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Garfield, Eugene) Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 22:00:46 -0500 Subject: ChaoMei Chen and RJ Paul article in March 2001 Computer magazine Message-ID: The first author has recently emigrated from the UK at Brunel University to the USA at Drexel University. He has provided full documentation and full text of this interesting article on visualization of intellectual structures. He can be reached at: Chaomei.Chen at cis.drexel.edu Eugene Garfield, PhD. -----Original Message----- Chaomei Chen and Ray J. Paul (MAR 2001) Visualizing a knowledge domain's intellectual structure. COMPUTER, 34 (3): 65-71. http://dlib.computer.org/co/books/co2001/pdf/r3065.pdf Abstract: To make knowledge visualizations clear and easy to interpret, we have developed a method that extends and transforms traditional author co citation analysis by extracting structural patterns from the scientific literature and representing them in a 3D knowledge landscape. (See attached file: ieeecomputer2001.pdf) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: CfP JASIS&T.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 15454 bytes Desc: not available URL: From Garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Sat Dec 15 13:30:31 2001 From: Garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Garfield, Eugene) Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 13:30:31 -0500 Subject: Citation Analysis of Chemistry Doctoral Dissertations Message-ID: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/01-fall/refereed.htm This is the URL for the full text provided with the permission of the author. Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship Fall 2001 Citation Analysis of Chemistry Doctoral Dissertations: An Ohio State University Case Study Angela M. Gooden Head, Geology/Physics Library University of Cincinnati angela.gooden at uc.edu formerly Chemical Sciences Librarian Science & Engineering Library Ohio State University <<...OLE_Obj...>> Abstract A citation analysis of dissertations accepted in the Department of Chemistry at The Ohio State University between 1996-2000 was performed as a way to determine material use. The 30 dissertations studied generated a total of 3,704 citations. Types of materials cited, currency of literature, and dissertation topics were all analyzed. The current results corroborate past research by other authors. Journal articles were cited more frequently than monographs: 85.8% of the citations were journal articles and 8.4% of the citations were monographs. The results of this study may be used to assist OSU and other universities in chemistry collection development. Introduction Diadoto (1994) defines citation analysis as "a wide ranging area of bibliometrics that studies the citations to and from documents. Such studies may focus on the documents themselves or on such matters as: their authors; the journals (if the documents are journal articles) in which the articles appear." Strohl's (1999) definition of citation checking is also on point for the current study: "a sample of citations from textbook bibliographies, journal articles, student dissertations or other sources are checked against holdings to see what proportion is owned." One type of in-house evaluation often used by librarians to assist in collection maintenance is citation analysis. This technique provides insight on emerging and obsolescent research areas. Citation analysis is an excellent unobtrusive method to determine which resources doctoral students are using (Buttlar 1999). According to Buchanan & Herubel (1994), "regular in-house collection evaluation enhances the management of collections in any research library's public service and collection development efforts for short and long term objectives". The purpose of this study was to analyze the citations in local chemistry dissertations during the period 1996-2000 to assist the Ohio State University Science & Engineering Library chemical sciences librarian in determining which materials are most heavily used and which materials are needed to improve the collection. Material type cited most, journals cited most, and currency of literature cited most were all examined. Background The Science & Engineering Library (SEL) of The Ohio State University (OSU) serves faculty and students interested in Architecture, Astronomy, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering, Geodetic Science, Mathematics and Physics. The collection of over 350,000 volumes includes journals, monographs, theses, dissertations, patents, and numerous microfilm materials. Included within the collection is 24-hour access to SciFinder Scholar and Beilstein Crossfire. Additionally, the CRC Handbook of Physics and Chemistry, Dictionary of Organic Compounds, and Dictionary of Inorganic Compounds are just a few of the heavily used handbooks in the Chemistry collection. The Department of Chemistry at OSU is fully accredited by The American Chemical Society and consistently ranks in the top twenty schools for excellent graduate programs. (See .) Roughly 350 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows make up the department. They conduct research in analytical, biological, environmental, inorganic, organic, physical, or theoretical and computational chemistry. Approximately 27 chemistry Ph.Ds are granted each year. References Barry, C.A. 1997. Information skills for an electronic world: training doctoral research students. Journal of Information Science 23(3):225-238. Boyer, C. J. 1972. The Ph.D. dissertation; an analysis of the doctoral dissertation as an information source. [Austin, Tex.] Buchanan, A. L. and Herubel, J.P.V.M. 1994. Profiling PhD dissertation bibliographies: serials and collection development in political science. Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian 13(1):1-10. Buttlar, L. 1999. Information sources in library and information science doctoral research. Library & Information Science Research 21(2):227-245. Chambers, G.R. and Healey, J.S. 1973. Journal citations in master's theses: one measurement of a journal collection. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 24 (September):397-401. Diadoto, V. 1994. Dictionary of bibliometrics. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press. Edwards, S. 1999. Citation analysis as a collection development tool: a bibliometric study of polymer science theses and dissertations. Serials Review 25(1):11-20. Gross, P.L.K. and Gross, E.M. 1927. College libraries and chemical education. Science 66 (October):385-389. Henkle, Herman H. 1938. The periodical literature of biochemistry. Medical Library Association Bulletin 27, 2 (December):139-147. Hurd, Julie M. 1992. Interdisciplinary research in the sciences: implications for library organization. College & Research Libraries 53:283-97. Lal, A and Panda, K.C. 1996. Research in plant pathology: a bibliometric analysis. Library Science 33(3):135-147. Lee, Wade M. 2000. Publication trends of doctoral students in three fields from 1965-1995. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 51(2):139-44. McCain, K. W. and Bobick, J. E. B. 1981. Patterns of journal use in a department library: a citation analysis. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 32(4):257-267. Mercer, Linda S. 2000. Measuring the use and value of electronic journals and books. Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship. [Online.] Available: [May 24, 2001]. Rusch-Feja, Diann and Siebeky, Uta. 1999. Evaluation of usage and acceptance of electronic journals. D-Lib Magazine. [Online.] Available: [May 24, 2001]. Strohl, B. 1999. Collection evaluation techniques : a short, selective, practical, current, annotated bibliography, 1990-1998. Chicago : Reference and User Services Association, American Library Association. Walcott, R. 1991. Characteristics of citations in geoscience doctoral dissertations accepted at United States academic institutions 1981-1985. Science & Technology Libraries 12(2):5-16. Walcott, R. 1994a. Local citation studies--a shortcut to local knowledge. Science & Technology Libraries 14(3):1-14. Walcott, R. 1994b. Serials cited by Marine Sciences Research Center faculty, University at Stony Brook, 1986-1991. Science & Technology Libraries 14(3):15-33. Youngen, G.K. 1998. Citation patterns to electronic preprints in the astronomy and astrophysics literature. Library and Information Services in Astronomy III. [Online]. Available: [March 8, 2001] Eugene Garfield, PhD. Past President, American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) www.asis.org Chairman Emeritus, ISI www.isinet.com Publisher, The Scientist www.the-scientist.com email garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu tel 215-243-2205 fax 215-387-1266 home page: www.eugenegarfield.org From bernies at UILLINOIS.EDU Sat Dec 15 16:06:49 2001 From: bernies at UILLINOIS.EDU (Sloan, Bernie) Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 15:06:49 -0600 Subject: Citation analysis as an assessment tool in the UK Message-ID: FYI.....for those interested in citation analysis: http://www.education.guardian.co.uk/RAE/0,7348,400428,00.html Bernie Sloan Senior Library Information Systems Consultant University of Illinois Office for Planning and Budgeting 338 Henry Administration Building 506 S. Wright Street Urbana, IL 61801 Phone: (217) 333-4895 Fax: (217) 265-0454 E-mail: bernies at uillinois.edu From harnad at COGPRINTS.SOTON.AC.UK Sat Dec 15 19:34:30 2001 From: harnad at COGPRINTS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 00:34:30 +0000 Subject: Citation analysis as an assessment tool in the UK In-Reply-To: <8DD31AE07607D511B1E70002B31FCB049B5533@eagle.pb.uiuc.edu> Message-ID: See also: Harnad, S. (2001) "Research access, impact and assessment". Times Higher Education Supplement 1487: p. 16. longer version: http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/thes1.html On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Sloan, Bernie wrote: > FYI.....for those interested in citation analysis: > > http://www.education.guardian.co.uk/RAE/0,7348,400428,00.html > > Bernie Sloan > Senior Library Information Systems Consultant > University of Illinois Office for Planning and Budgeting > 338 Henry Administration Building > 506 S. Wright Street > Urbana, IL 61801 > Phone: (217) 333-4895 > Fax: (217) 265-0454 > E-mail: bernies at uillinois.edu > From Chaomei.Chen at CIS.DREXEL.EDU Mon Dec 17 01:00:55 2001 From: Chaomei.Chen at CIS.DREXEL.EDU (Chaomei chen) Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 01:00:55 -0500 Subject: Chaomei Chen/Drexel_IST is out of the office. Message-ID: I will be out of the office starting 12/15/2001 and will not return until 01/02/2002. I will respond to your message when I return. From Sybille.Hinze at ISI.FHG.DE Wed Dec 19 08:49:02 2001 From: Sybille.Hinze at ISI.FHG.DE (Hinze, Sybille) Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 14:49:02 +0100 Subject: 7th International Science and Technology Indicators Conference - Conference Announcement and Call for Papers Message-ID: Dear colleagues, attached you will find the announcement and call for papers for the 7th International Science and Technology Indicators Conference <> which will be held from September 25 to September 28, 2002, in Karlsruhe, Germany. The conference website www.indicators-conference.isi.fhg.de giving up-to-date information on the conference will be running from January 10. Online registration will be available using this website. For further information you can also contact us using the following email address: indicators-conference at isi.fhg.de Sincerely yours, -------------------------------------------- Dr. Sybille Hinze Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research Breslauer Str. 48 76139 Karlsruhe Germany phone: ++49 721 6809303 fax: ++49 721 6809176 email: Sybille.Hinze at isi.fhg.de internet: http://www.isi.fhg.de -------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: indicators_conference.pdf Type: application/octet-stream Size: 114623 bytes Desc: not available URL: From Garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Dec 31 16:30:46 2001 From: Garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Garfield, Eugene) Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 16:30:46 -0500 Subject: Gastel and Fassoulaki articles in Canad. J. Anesthesia Nov. 200 1 Message-ID: The following two items appeared in the same issue of the Canadian Journal of Anesthesia. The PDF's have been supplied by the editor and or authors of the journal for posting to the SIGMETRICS listserv. E-mail: b-gastel at tamu.edu >>TITLE: Assessing the impact of investigators' work: beyond >> impact factors (Editorial Material, English) >>AUTHOR: Gastel, B >>SOURCE: CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ANAESTHESIA-JOURNAL CANADIEN D >> ANESTHESIE 48 (10). NOV 2001. p.941-942,944-945 CANADIAN >> ANESTHESIOLOGISTS SOC, TORONTO >> >>SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; IMPACT FACTOR* item_title >> >>KEYWORDS+: JOURNALS >> >>AUTHOR ADDRESS: B Gastel, Texas A&M Univ, Dept Journalism, TAMU Coll Stn >> 4111, College Stn, TX 77843 USA >> >>-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>TITLE: Academic anesthesiologists' views on the importance of >> the impact factor of scientific journals: a North American >>and European >> survey (Article, English) >>AUTHOR: Fassoulaki, A; Sarantopoulos, C; Papilas, K; Patris, K; >> Melemeni, A email: afassoul at otenet.gr >>SOURCE: CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ANAESTHESIA-JOURNAL CANADIEN D >> ANESTHESIE 48 (10). NOV 2001. p.953-957 CANADIAN >> ANESTHESIOLOGISTS SOC, TORONTO >> >>SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; IMPACT FACTOR* item_title >> >>KEYWORDS+: MEDICAL JOURNALS >> >>ABSTRACT: Purpose: To investigate the views of North American and >>European anesthesiologists on the value of the impact factor (IF). >> >>Method: Four hundred thirty-eight anesthesiologists in Canada, the United >>States of America (USA), and Europe were polled about the importance of >>the IF regarding hiring, promotions, funding of research and to express >>their personal views. >> >>Results: IF of a candidate's publications is a criterion in 38% of >>academic appointments in Canada and USA vs 81% in Europe (P < 0.0001). >>The importance of IF to obtain funding is greater in Europe (46%) than in >>North America (17%) (P < 0.0001). Twenty-three percent and 50% of >>Canadian and American anesthesiologists respectively believe that IF >>affects financial support (P = 0.0389). European anesthesiologists value >>the IF more than the North Americans (67% vs 31%, P < 0.0001). Forty-five >>percent, 67%, and 56% of the Canadian, American and European >>anesthesiologists respectively estimate that IF reflects journal quality. >>Sixty-four percent of anesthesiologists in North America vs 81% in Europe >>(P = 0.0175) pursue to publish in high IF journals. Eighty-six percent, >>85% and 90% of the Canadian, American and European anesthesiologists >>believe that the IF of a journal can be manipulated. Finally, 79%, 67%, >>and 81% of the Canadian, American, and European anesthesiologists believe >>that IF should be improved but 33%, 35%, and 30% believe that it should >>be abandoned. >> >>Conclusions: IF for academic appointments and funding is more important >>in Europe than in North America. 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