From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Nov 5 18:32:26 2001 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 18:32:26 -0500 Subject: Hofbauer R, Gmeiner B, Kaye K, Kaye AD, Frass M "Wiener klinische Wochenschrift": Publication patterns 1990-2000"WIENER KLINISCHE WOCHENSCHRIFT 113 (15-16): 610-615 AUG 2001 Message-ID: Roland Hofbauer : roland.hofbauer at akh-wien.ac.at Title "Wiener klinische Wochenschrift": Publication patterns 1990-2000 Author Hofbauer R, Gmeiner B, Kaye K, Kaye AD, Frass M Journal WIENER KLINISCHE WOCHENSCHRIFT 113 (15-16): 610-615 AUG 2001 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 20 Times Cited: 1 Abstract: The impact factor (Institute for Scientific Information, ISI, Philadelphia, PA, USA) is a widespread used and acknowledged source for judging the quality of a researcher. In addition the "Science Citation Index (SCI)" [Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)] provides the scientific community with a citations database indicating the number of cited references in indexed articles. For several reasons, the SCI seems to be more relevant. To evaluate the quality of the journal "Wiener klinische Wochenschrift", we assessed how often contributors to this journal have been cited during the last decade and which contributions have ranked as top papers. Moreover, with the aim of a more objective type of scientific evaluation, we have employed a new score, the "Citation Per Time Score (CPT-Score - the SCI divided by the number of years of observation, starting one year after publication). We have evaluated the total SCI for the years 1990 to 1994 and for the years 1995 to 1999. The number of total citations between the appearance of an article and the year 2000 was analyzed. The highest ranked publication of the whole decade (1990-2000) was a paper by G. Stanek with 40 citations. Furthermore, we have evaluated the "Top Ten Papers" of the journal. Interestingly, a steady increase of the total citation index of the journal "Wiener klinische Wochenschrift" over the last decade could be demonstrated. This study clearly shows that the citation rate of an article is not determined by the impact factor of the journal but rather the quality of the contribution. Moreover, the citation analysis of papers published in the last ten years in the "Wiener klinische Wochenschrift" shows a satisfactory citation rate for articles published in this journal. It is therefore definitely attractive to submit an article to a journal such as the "Wiener klinische Wochenschrift". Author Keywords: Science citations index, Wiener klinfsche Wochenschrift, impact factor, highest citations, CPTS-core, new ranking index KeyWords Plus: JOURNAL IMPACT FACTORS, CITATION ANALYSIS, NONSENSE, SENSE Addresses: Hofbauer R, Dept Lab Med, Curr Opin Clin Expt Res, Level 5J,Waehringer Guertek 18-20, A-1097 Vienna, Austria Univ Vienna, Dept Internal Med 1, Vienna, Austria Univ Vienna, Dept Lab Diagnost, Vienna, Austria Univ Vienna, Inst Med Chem, Vienna, Austria Texas Tech Univ, Dept Pathol, Lubbock, TX 79409 USA Texas Tech Univ, Dept Anesthesiol, Lubbock, TX 79409 USA Publisher: SPRINGER-VERLAG WIEN, VIENNA IDS Number: 468GT ISSN: 0043-5325 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year BADOR P J PHARM BELG 53 71 1998 BAYLIS M NATURE 401 322 1999 BOLDT J ACTA ANAESTH SCAND 44 842 2000 BONATI MR NATURE 381 271 1996 CAVALLI F ANN ONCOL 10 1403 1999 GARFIELD E WIEN KLIN WOCHENSCHR 103 318 1991 GILLIS JM NAT NEUROSCI 2 101 1999 GISVOLD SE ACTA ANAESTH SCAND 43 971 1999 HANSSON S LANCET 346 1300 1995 HOFBAUER R CURR OPIN CLIN EXP R 2 171 2000 HOFBAUER R CURR OPIN CLIN EXP R 1 9 1999 KOTIAHO JS NATURE 398 19 1999 MOED HF NATURE 381 186 1996 OPTHOF T CARDIOVASC RES 33 1 1997 REDNER S EUR PHYS J B 4 131 1998 REEDIJK J NEW J CHEM 22 767 1998 RENNIE D JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 280 213 1998 SEGLEN PO ALLERGY 52 1050 1997 SEGLEN PO BRIT MED J 314 498 1997 ZUCKER LG P NATL ACAD SCI USA 93 12709 1996 When responding, please attach my original message ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Eugene Garfield, Ph.D. E-mail: mailto:garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu Web site: http://www.eugenegarfield.org Telephone: (215)243-2205 Fax: (215)387-1266 Past President, American Society for Information Science & Technology http://www.asis.org Chairman Emeritus, Institute for Scientific Information ( ISI), http://www.isinet.com 3501 Market St , Philadelphia, PA 19104-3389, Pres.,Ed.-in-Chief, The Scientist, http://www.the-scientist.com 3535 Market St , Philadelphia, PA 19104-3385, ______________________________________________________________ From kate.mccain at CIS.DREXEL.EDU Tue Nov 6 01:00:19 2001 From: kate.mccain at CIS.DREXEL.EDU (Kate McCain) Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 01:00:19 -0500 Subject: Kate McCain/Drexel_IST is out of the office. Message-ID: I will be out of the office starting 11/02/2001 and will not return until 11/09/2001. I will respond to your message when I return. From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Nov 6 10:25:28 2001 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 10:25:28 -0500 Subject: The Devilments of Style Message-ID: This article from The Chronicle of Higher Education (http://chronicle.com) was forwarded to you from: garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu _________________________________________________________________ The following message was enclosed: send to asist also later.eg _________________________________________________________________ From the issue dated November 9, 2001 The Devilments of Style By M. GARRETT BAUMAN Recently I received a complimentary copy of a textbook devoted to teaching the research paper. Oh, there was a perfunctory section on how to compose the paper, but most of the 420 pages focused on differences among citation formats: MLA (Modern Language Association), APA (American Psychological Association), CM (Chicago Manual of Style), and CBE (Council of Biology Editors). As the author of a textbook on writing, I have to keep up with my field, so I thumbed through to see if there was anything worth stealing for my next edition. I regret (as my readers must regret) that I can offer so few samples of the hundreds of variations. The text patiently explained that an author's first name should be spelled out (MLA and CM), reduced to initials with a period after each initial (APA), or reduced to initials with no period or space after each one (CBE). It told which format requires "and," which requires "&," and which avoids conjunctions; it explained when to use "pp" or "p" with page numbers and the three ways to indicate discontinuous pagination. The guidelines are more complex than they first appear. For instance, one group never uses "p," while others use it here but not there, and one uses it with no period, "unless it is the last item in an entry." This went on for hundreds of pages, and the text had "easy access" tabs so students could get lost faster. After 15 minutes, the book fell from my hands and I sat back -- appalled. Was it possible that I had published a textbook with only 16 pages on citation formats? The shame! I had simplified Rubik's Cube to a sugar cube and was spending hours in class teaching students how to evaluate sources and to reason, when I could have filled the time with date-placement and capitalization issues. I envision a new future for myself now. But I'm worried. I've heard rumors that some professors hope the MLA, APA, CBE, and CM will agree to create one format for all academic research. They think such a change will alleviate student and faculty anxieties, encourage professors and journal referees to focus on content rather than form, and demonstrate that academics are sane and consistent. These folks are well intentioned, but a unified, simplified format will violate three of academe's most sacred principles: culture, control, and confusion. Variety in format maintains academic cultures. Each group patriotically believes its format is superior. APA proudly emphasizes dates in citations like real scientists; MLA sniffs that only barbarians would omit quotation marks around article titles; CBE thumbs its nose at grammarians by eliminating punctuation; CM editors stand for traditionalism by allowing footnotes. We ought to relish this gallimaufry. We have learned to celebrate diversity in content; why not in citation formats? A reference list does not simply announce where materials come from; it expresses cultural values. The APA's history of its documentation guidelines is particularly touching. The editors, with subdued pride, relate how APA guidelines began in 1929 -- a mere seven pages long (born in a log cabin perhaps) -- and now have grown to well over 400 pages. Without years of nurturing this document, the APA says, "clear communication [would be] harder to achieve." This is rich cultural ground. One senses in the APA's rejection of capital letters in titles a latent rebellion against the MLA's early fatherly dominance. The CBE's scientific culture rejects linguistic paradigms when it rejects punctuation. "Just the nouns," the subtext suggests. "Damn the frilly connective tissue." The MLA, cast aside like a relic of a dead age, has lately made a subtle, poetic move toward modernism by dropping commas in citations. These living, indigenous cultures should be respected. Second, variations in format help professors control academic turf, signaling to the cognoscenti who is of us and who is not. Format flubs assist a journal referee to spot a junior professor's work: e.g., someone who, if rejected, will have no power to retaliate. More important, complex format variations keep students in their places. In an age when students run rings around most professors on computers and discover things we hoped to reveal in a puff of smoke during the next class, our rococo citation formats give us arcane knowledge. We can exasperate students the way grammar did before grammarcheck or math did before calculators. What wonders this does for sagging faculty morale! The APA has shown leadership in control issues -- offering two or three options for many situations and then suggesting students "ask their professors which form they prefer." That tactic shifts control to the local professor and interposes another challenging layer between the student and correctness. Third, the variety of formats fosters confusion, although students, in their simple way, never seem to appreciate why this must be. They do not see the philosophical implications. Modern documentation practice re-creates the world of Kafka's The Trial, in which rules seem to change arbitrarily. Like the beleaguered hero, students suspect the rules are simply rumors. In a few years, wrong will be right and right wrong -- and all deliciously justified in the name of common sense. This is the soul of our age! Our bureaucracy and elections! We live in virtual reality. Were documentation absolute and simple, we would risk creating cultural dissonance and alienation. But we have little to fear. The MLA says you should indent quotations 10 spaces if they are four lines or longer. The APA says indent five spaces if they are 40 words or longer. Such fearful asymmetry! If only Kafka had lived to see it. The logic of four systems with 617 variations will become clear if we take a short tour of the history of documentation. In the Age of Scrolls and Papyrus, there were no complex citations. Since only 37 books existed, when you referred to an author, scholars knew what you meant. But writing in Greek and Latin did plant the seeds of culture, control, and confusion. After a few intervening historical events, we come to my undergraduate days, in the late 1960s -- the Classical Age of Documentation. There were secret Latin passwords like op. cit., loc. cit., and ibid. Misjudging footnote space at the bottom of the page meant you had to retype. As a typical undergraduate, I achieved the proper level of confusion just trying to identify the publisher and the place of publication. However, after much hair-pulling and kissing up to professors, by the time I finished graduate school I could fill 6 of the required 15 pages for a paper with footnotes and bibliography. I was part of the club. But just as I learned the secret formula, footnotes were replaced with brief parenthetical citations, and we plunged into the Dark Age of Documentation. Op. cit., loc. cit., and ibid. vanished (except in CM, where ibid. lives like a furtive monk). Without a padding of footnotes, a 15-page paper now had to contain 12 or more pages of content. Only the Internet Renaissance spared higher education. Today, items in a reference list routinely extend three to four lines each. Entries bulk up by listing original sources, Web sources, service providers, search engines, and Web addresses. A Web address is wonderfully hieroglyphic. Those of us who are bored with the same old 26 letters and 10 numerals find hitting the exotic keyboard symbols liberating. This rich new language creates new culture. Who could ever have imagined typing "prettyboy#-- at .org" in a serious work? Latin was mere baby babble. And remember, each line filled with this exotica is one line less that you need to fill with data and insight. Today, publication dates are lovely labyrinths. There is no such thing as unchanging text when Web sites vanish behind you. So we list the date we viewed the site, the posting date, and the date the material was originally published. Checking sources is becoming impossible. Do you realize the potential here? The MLA, APA, CM, and CBE have led us to the gates of existential emptiness. Will we have the nerve to enter? As for the future, I believe the Posthuman Age of Documentation will be even more wonderful than our Modern Age, if we focus on the principles of culture, control, and confusion that have served us so well. Let me make a few proposals to point the way. First, create three levels of documentation: one for community colleges, one for four-year colleges, and one for universities. Second, all clearly defined cultural subgroups such as artists, physical-education instructors, and administrators should develop their own research formats. Third, we've been too tame. Computers allow us to box citations in the center of the page or around the edges in magenta ink. Online publications mean we can create hot links that update sources perpetually. The MLA and APA now have Web sites for the latest format changes between published editions of their guidelines. A noble first step! When the gatekeepers can manage daily changes in what is right and wrong, the Golden Age of Research will begin. M. Garrett Bauman is a professor of English at Monroe Community College (N.Y.) and the author of Ideas and Details (fourth edition, Harcourt, 2001). _________________________________________________________________ This article from The Chronicle is available online at this address: http://chronicle.com/weekly/v48/i11/11b00501.htm If you would like to have complete access to The Chronicle's Web site, a special subscription offer can be found at: http://chronicle.com/4free _________________________________________________________________ You may visit The Chronicle as follows: * via the World-Wide Web, at http://chronicle.com * via telnet at chronicle.com _________________________________________________________________ Copyright 2001 by The Chronicle of Higher Education From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Nov 6 14:15:41 2001 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 14:15:41 -0500 Subject: Axtell RL "Zipf distribution of US firm sizes" SCIENCE 293 (5536): 1818-1820 SEP 7 2001 Message-ID: R.L Axtell : raxtell at brookings.edu TITLE : Zipf distribution of US firm sizes AUTHOR : Axtell RL JOURNAL : SCIENCE 293 (5536): 1818-1820 SEP 7 2001 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 26 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Analyses of firm sizes have historically used data that included limited samples of small firms, data typically described by lognormal distributions. Using data on the entire population of tax-paying firms in the United States, I show here that the Zipf distribution characterizes firm sizes: the probability a firm is larger than size s is inversely proportional to s. These results hold for data from multiple years and for various definitions of firm size. KeyWords Plus: STABLE INTERMITTENT FLUCTUATIONS, POWER-LAW DISTRIBUTIONS, SCALING BEHAVIOR, GROWTH, SYSTEMS Addresses: Axtell RL, Brookings Inst, Ctr Social & Econ Dynam, 1775 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036 USA Brookings Inst, Ctr Social & Econ Dynam, Washington, DC 20036 USA Publisher: AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE, WASHINGTON IDS Number: 470WN ISSN: 0036-8075 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year ACS Z ARE SMALL FIRMS IMPO 1999 ACS Z INNOVATION SMALL FIR 1990 AMARAL LAN J PHYS I 7 621 1997 AXTELL RL UNPUB BIHAM O PHYS REV E A 58 1352 1998 BRESLAU L P IEEE INFOCOM 1 126 1999 BROWN C J POLIT ECON 97 1027 1989 BURGOS JD BIOSYSTEMS 39 227 1996 GABAIX X Q J ECON 114 739 1999 GELLMANN M QUARK JAGUAR 92 1994 GIBRAT R INEGALITIES EC APPL 1931 HART PE ECON J 106 1242 1996 HART PE J ROYAL STATISTICA A 119 150 1956 IJIRI Y SKEW DISTRIBUTIONS S 1977 JOHNSON NL CONTINUOUS UNIVARIAT 1994 KESTEN H ACTA MATH 131 207 1973 MALCAI O PHYS REV E A 60 1299 1999 MARSILI M PHYS REV LETT 80 2741 1998 RAMSDEN JJ PHYSICA A 277 220 2000 STANLEY MHR ECON LETT 49 453 1995 STANLEY MHR NATURE 379 804 1996 STEINDL J RANDOM PROCESSES GRO 1965 SUTTON J J ECON LIT 35 40 1997 TAKAYASU H FRACTALS 6 67 1998 WATANABE MS PHYS REV E B 53 4187 1996 ZIPF GK HUMAN BEHAV PRINCIPL When responding, please attach my original message ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Eugene Garfield, Ph.D. E-mail: mailto:garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu Web site: http://www.eugenegarfield.org Telephone: (215)243-2205 Fax: (215)387-1266 Past President, American Society for Information Science & Technology http://www.asis.org Chairman Emeritus, Institute for Scientific Information ( ISI), http://www.isinet.com 3501 Market St , Philadelphia, PA 19104-3389, Pres.,Ed.-in-Chief, The Scientist, http://www.the-scientist.com 3535 Market St , Philadelphia, PA 19104-3385, From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Nov 6 14:21:06 2001 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 14:21:06 -0500 Subject: Goodrum AA, McCain KW, Lawrence S, Giles CL "Scholarly publishing in the Internet age: a citation analysis of computer science literature" Information Processing & Management 37(5):661-675, September 2000 Message-ID: ABBY A. GOODRUM : goodruaa at drexel.edu TITLE : Scholarly publishing in the Internet age: a citation analysis of computer science literature AUTHOR : Goodrum AA, McCain KW, Lawrence S, Giles CL JOURNAL : INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT 37 (5): 661-675 SEP 2001 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 24 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: The Web is revolutionizing the entire scholarly communication process and changing the way that researchers exchange information. 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 (ACI), and a parallel citation analysis of the journal literature indexed by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) in SCISEARCH. Our goal is to establish a baseline profile of computer science "literature" as it appears in the published journals and as it appears on the publicly available Web. >From this starting point, we hope to identify additional research areas dealing with information dissemination and citation practices in computer science and the utility of autonomous citation indexing on the Web as an adjunct to commercial indexing. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. Author Keywords: citation analysis, computer science, scholarly publishing, World Wide Web KeyWords Plus: COMMUNICATION, WEB Addresses: Goodrum AA, Drexel Univ, Coll Informat Sci & Technol, 3141 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA Drexel Univ, Coll Informat Sci & Technol, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA NEC Res Inst, Princeton, NJ 08540 USA Publisher: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, OXFORD IDS Number: 454UD ISSN: 0306-4573 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year *DIAL CORP DIAL LAB WORKB 1999 CAMERON RD 1 MONDAY APR 1997 CHAKRABATI S SCI AM JUN 54 1999 CRAWFORD S PRINT ELECT TRANSFOR 1996 CULNAN M INFORMATION PROCESSI 14 395 1978 DROTT MC J AM SOC INFORM SCI 46 299 1995 GARFIELD E ESSAYS INFORMATION S 7 232 1984 GARFIELD E ESSAYS INFORMATION S 7 264 1984 GARFIELD E ESSAYS INFORMATION S 2 441 1978 GARFIELD E ESSAYS INFORMATION S 1 509 1977 GARVEY WD INFORMATION STORAGE 8 159 1972 GARVEY WD INFORMATION STORAGE 8 207 1972 GINSPARG P SERIALS LIBR 30 83 1997 HIRST G IEEE T PROFESSIONAL 20 233 1977 KLING R J AM SOC INFORM SCI 50 890 1999 LAWRENCE S COMPUTER 32 67 1999 LAWRENCE S NATURE 400 107 1999 LAWRENCE S P 3 INT C AUT AG 393 1999 LAWRENCE S SCIENCE 280 98 1998 LINDHOLMROMANTSCHUK Y J DOC 52 389 1996 MCCAIN KW KNOWLEDGE 15 285 1994 SALTON G IEEE T PROFESSIONAL 22 146 1979 SUBRAMANYAM K IEEE T PROFESSIONAL 19 22 1976 WHITE HD J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 52 87 2001 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Nov 6 14:31:36 2001 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 14:31:36 -0500 Subject: Harande YI "Author productivity and collaboration: An investigation of the relationship using the literature of technology" LIBRI 51(2):124-127, June 2001 Message-ID: Yahaya Ibrahim Harande: fepazeri at hotmail.com TITLE : Author productivity and collaboration: An investigation of the relationship using the literature of technology AUTHOR : Harande YI JOURNAL : LIBRI 51 (2): 124-127 JUN 2001 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 15 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Previous studies of author productivity and collaboration have established that productive, active and prolific authors, especially in the field of science, are also highly collaborative. The purpose of this study is to determine whether the most productive authors in the literature of technology for the three-year period 1993-1995, are also the most collaborative. The study used the weighted-average method to determine the extent of author collaboration and the Spearman rank correlation coefficient was employed to determine the correlation between productivity and collaboration. The study however, found that while the degree of collaboration in the literature of technology was very low, the productive authors correlated positively with the collaborative authors in the field. Addresses: Harande YI, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Univ, Lib Dept, Univ Lib, PMB 0248, Bauchi, Nigeria Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Univ, Lib Dept, Univ Lib, Bauchi, Nigeria Publisher: K G SAUR VERLAG KG, MUNICH IDS Number: 456GZ ISSN: 0024-2667 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year CLARKE BL SCIENCE 143 322 1964 FRAME JD SOC STUD SCI 9 481 1979 GOFFMAN W AAS SEL S 3 MAN FAC 3 7 1977 GUPTA DK SCIENCETOMETRICS 28 287 1986 HARANDE YI ASLIB P 49 61 1993 HIRSCH W UNPUB RES SUPPORT MU 1965 LAWANI SM IITA RES BRIEFS 1 6 1972 LAWANI SM SCIENTOMETRICS 9 13 1986 MULLINS NC AM SOC ASS BOST 1968 PAO ML J AM SOC INFORM SCI 33 38 1982 PRICE D AM PSYCHOL 21 101 1966 PRICE D LITTLE SCI BIG SCI 1963 SHAW WM P AM SOC INFORM SCI 33 32 1979 SUBRAMANYAM K J INFORM SCI 6 37 1983 WEINSIER RL NUTR INT 1 30 1985 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Nov 6 14:34:23 2001 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 14:34:23 -0500 Subject: Post DG, Eisen MB "How long is the coastline of the law? Thoughts on the fractal nature of legal systems" Journal of Legal Studies 29(1):545-584, Part 2, January 2000 Message-ID: DAVID G. POST : dpost at vm.temple.edu MICHAEL EISEN : mbeisen at lbl.gov TITLE : How long is the coastline of the law? Thoughts on the fractal nature of legal systems AUTHOR : Post DG, Eisen MB JOURNAL : JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES 29 (1): 545-584, Part 2 JAN 2000 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 56 Times Cited: 1 Abstract: Although citation to precedent in judicial opinions is a critical component of the network of rules that comprise "the law'' in any area, there have been surprisingly few systematic attempts to use the abundant data available on citation patterns to uncover general principles about the structure of the legal system. We examine data on the number of times judicial opinions cite to, and are subsequently cited as, precedent to test the hypothesis that legal arguments and legal doctrine have a kind of ''fractal'' structure. Our model provides a reasonable fit to the citation data that we examined. There do appear, however, to be significant sources of variability in the data that are not explained by our simple predictive framework, and it is clearly far too early to draw any robust conclusions about the hypothesis other than that additional work along these lines appears to be warranted. KeyWords Plus: CITATION ANALYSIS, EVOLUTION, FITNESS, COURTS, CHAOS Addresses: Post DG, Temple Univ, Sch Law, Philadelphia, PA 19122 USA Temple Univ, Sch Law, Philadelphia, PA 19122 USA Stanford Univ, Sch Med, Stanford, CA 94305 USA Publisher: UNIV CHICAGO PRESS, CHICAGO IDS Number: 339PD ISSN: 0047-2530 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year ADAMI C PHYS LETT A 203 29 1995 ALLIGOOD KT CHAOS INTRO DYNAMICA 1996 BAK P NATURE WORKS 12 1996 BAK P PHYS REV LETT 59 381 1989 BALKIN J TEX LAW REV 69 1835 1991 BALKIN JM TEX LAW REV 69 1831 1991 CANO V SCIENTOMETRICS 22 297 1991 CLINCH P J DOC 46 387 1990 DEVANEY RL CHAOS FRACTALS DYNAM 1990 FAIRTHORNE RA J DOC 25 319 1969 FLAKE GW COMPUTATIONAL BEAUTY 1998 FRIED MS JURIMETRICS 39 291 1999 FULLER LL P AM SOCY INT L 1 1960 GEU TE TENN L REV 61 933 1994 GIBBONS LJ CORNELL JL PUB POLY 6 475 1997 HAYES AW UMKC L REV 60 751 1992 HUBERMAN BA NATURE 401 131 1999 KAUFFMAN S J THEOR BIOL 149 489 1991 KAUFFMAN SA J THEOR BIOL 149 467 1991 KAUFFMAN SA ORIGINS ORDER 1993 KRUGMAN P DEV GEOGRAPHY EC THE 42 1997 LANDES WM J LAW ECON 19 249 1976 LANDES WM J LAW ECON 19 292 1976 LANDES WM J LEGAL STUD 22 99 1993 LANDES WM J LEGAL STUD 22 124 1993 LANDES WM J LEGAL STUD 9 367 1980 LANDES WM J LEGAL STUD 1 27 271 1998 LAUWERIER H FRACTALS ENDLESSLY R 1991 LEONARD J 1994 L LIB J 129 1994 MANDELBROT B FRACTAL GEOMETRY NAT 1983 MANDELBROT BB SCIENCE 155 636 1967 MARX SM JURIMETRICS J 10 121 1970 MAY RM SCIENCE 214 1441 1988 MEKJIAN AZ PHYS REV LETT 64 2125 1990 MERRYMAN JH SOUTHERN CALIF LAW R 50 381 1977 NARANAN S NATURE 227 631 1970 NEWMAN MEJ 980403 SANT FE I 2 1998 POST DG CHI KENT L REV 73 1055 1998 POST DG VANDERBILT LAW REV 49 1069 1996 POST DG VANDERBILT LAW REV 49 1077 1996 REKA A NATURE 401 130 1999 RICHARDSON LF GENERAL SYSTEMS YB 6 139 1961 ROE MJ HARVARD LAW REV 109 641 1996 ROGERS J VANDERBILT LAW REV 49 1001 1996 ROGERS JM VANDERBILT LAW REV 49 997 1996 RUHL JB HOUS L REV 34 933 1997 RUHL JB UC DAVIS L REV 30 405 1997 RUHL JB VANDERBILT LAW REV 49 1407 1996 SCHROEDER M FRACTALS CHAOS POWER 1991 SCOTT RE WM MARY L REV 35 329 1993 SCOTT RE WM MARY L REV 35 348 1993 SHAPIRO FR J AM SOC INFORM SCI 43 337 1992 SOLE RV J THEOR BIOL 173 31 1995 SOLE RV NATURE 388 764 1997 SUGIHARA G TRENDS ECOL EVOL 5 79 1990 WILLIAMS GP CHAOS THEORY TAMED 1997 From jrichard at UCLA.EDU Tue Nov 6 15:02:47 2001 From: jrichard at UCLA.EDU (Dr. John V. Richardson Jr.) Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 12:02:47 -0800 Subject: UNSUBSCRIBE Message-ID: --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.295 / Virus Database: 159 - Release Date: 11/1/2001 From CHunter at DTIC.MIL Tue Nov 6 16:11:53 2001 From: CHunter at DTIC.MIL (Hunter, Cheryl) Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 16:11:53 -0500 Subject: UNSUBSCRIBE Message-ID: CHeryl Hunter Chief, Special Programs Division (703) 767-8247 Fax: (703) 767-8228 From jrussell at SERVIDOR.UNAM.MX Wed Nov 7 10:43:36 2001 From: jrussell at SERVIDOR.UNAM.MX (Jane Russell) Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 09:43:36 -0600 Subject: Hofbauer R, Gmeiner B, Kaye K, Kaye AD, Frass M "Wiener klinische Wochenschrift": Publication patterns 1990-2000"WIENER KLINISCHE WOCHENSCHRIFT 113 (15-16): 610-615 AUG 2001 In-Reply-To: <200111052332.fA5NWVR29718@cheetah.mail.utk.edu> Message-ID: Ana Mar?a: Ayer recib? tanto el fax como el sobre que me enviaste. Muchas gracias. Te puede interesar el siguiente art?culo. Saludos Jane Russell At 06:32 PM 11/5/2001 -0500, you wrote: >Roland Hofbauer : roland.hofbauer at akh-wien.ac.at > >Title "Wiener klinische Wochenschrift": Publication patterns 1990-2000 >Author Hofbauer R, Gmeiner B, Kaye K, Kaye AD, Frass M >Journal WIENER KLINISCHE WOCHENSCHRIFT 113 (15-16): 610-615 AUG 2001 > >Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 20 Times >Cited: 1 > > >Abstract: >The impact factor (Institute for Scientific Information, ISI, Philadelphia, >PA, USA) is a widespread used and acknowledged source for judging the >quality of a researcher. In addition the "Science Citation Index (SCI)" >[Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)] provides the scientific >community with a citations database indicating the number of cited >references in indexed articles. For several reasons, the SCI seems to be >more relevant. > >To evaluate the quality of the journal "Wiener klinische Wochenschrift", we >assessed how often contributors to this journal have been cited during the >last decade and which contributions have ranked as top papers. Moreover, >with the aim of a more objective type of scientific evaluation, we have >employed a new score, the "Citation Per Time Score (CPT-Score - the SCI >divided by the number of years of observation, starting one year after >publication). We have evaluated the total SCI for the years 1990 to 1994 and >for the years 1995 to 1999. The number of total citations between the >appearance of an article and the year 2000 was analyzed. > >The highest ranked publication of the whole decade (1990-2000) was a paper >by G. Stanek with 40 citations. Furthermore, we have evaluated the "Top Ten >Papers" of the journal. Interestingly, a steady increase of the total >citation index of the journal "Wiener klinische Wochenschrift" over the last >decade could be demonstrated. > >This study clearly shows that the citation rate of an article is not >determined by the impact factor of the journal but rather the quality of the >contribution. Moreover, the citation analysis of papers published in the >last ten years in the "Wiener klinische Wochenschrift" shows a satisfactory >citation rate for articles published in this journal. It is therefore >definitely attractive to submit an article to a journal such as the "Wiener >klinische Wochenschrift". > >Author Keywords: >Science citations index, Wiener klinfsche Wochenschrift, impact factor, >highest citations, CPTS-core, new ranking index > >KeyWords Plus: >JOURNAL IMPACT FACTORS, CITATION ANALYSIS, NONSENSE, SENSE > >Addresses: >Hofbauer R, Dept Lab Med, Curr Opin Clin Expt Res, Level 5J,Waehringer >Guertek 18-20, A-1097 Vienna, Austria >Univ Vienna, Dept Internal Med 1, Vienna, Austria >Univ Vienna, Dept Lab Diagnost, Vienna, Austria >Univ Vienna, Inst Med Chem, Vienna, Austria >Texas Tech Univ, Dept Pathol, Lubbock, TX 79409 USA >Texas Tech Univ, Dept Anesthesiol, Lubbock, TX 79409 USA > >Publisher: >SPRINGER-VERLAG WIEN, VIENNA > >IDS Number: >468GT > >ISSN: >0043-5325 > > >Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year > > BADOR P J PHARM BELG 53 71 1998 > BAYLIS M NATURE 401 322 1999 > BOLDT J ACTA ANAESTH SCAND 44 842 2000 > BONATI MR NATURE 381 271 1996 > CAVALLI F ANN ONCOL 10 1403 1999 > GARFIELD E WIEN KLIN WOCHENSCHR 103 318 1991 > GILLIS JM NAT NEUROSCI 2 101 1999 > GISVOLD SE ACTA ANAESTH SCAND 43 971 1999 > HANSSON S LANCET 346 1300 1995 > HOFBAUER R CURR OPIN CLIN EXP R 2 171 2000 > HOFBAUER R CURR OPIN CLIN EXP R 1 9 1999 > KOTIAHO JS NATURE 398 19 1999 > MOED HF NATURE 381 186 1996 > OPTHOF T CARDIOVASC RES 33 1 1997 > REDNER S EUR PHYS J B 4 131 1998 > REEDIJK J NEW J CHEM 22 767 1998 > RENNIE D JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 280 213 1998 > SEGLEN PO ALLERGY 52 1050 1997 > SEGLEN PO BRIT MED J 314 498 1997 > ZUCKER LG P NATL ACAD SCI USA 93 12709 1996 > > > When responding, please attach my original message >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >---- >Eugene Garfield, Ph.D. E-mail: mailto:garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu Web site: >http://www.eugenegarfield.org >Telephone: (215)243-2205 Fax: (215)387-1266 >Past President, American Society for Information Science & Technology >http://www.asis.org >Chairman Emeritus, Institute for Scientific Information ( ISI), >http://www.isinet.com 3501 Market St , Philadelphia, PA 19104-3389, >Pres.,Ed.-in-Chief, The Scientist, http://www.the-scientist.com 3535 Market >St , Philadelphia, PA 19104-3385, >______________________________________________________________ From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Nov 7 14:48:42 2001 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 14:48:42 -0500 Subject: Curran PJ "Competition in UK higher education: applying Porter's diamond model to geography departments" STUDIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 26 (2): 223-251 JUN 2001 Message-ID: P.J. Curran : P.curran at soton.ac.uk TITLE Competition in UK higher education: applying Porter's diamond model to geography departments AUTHOR Curran PJ JOURNAL STUDIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 26 (2): 223-251 JUN 2001 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 64 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: In a linked paper (Curran, 2000) Porter's diamond model of competitive advantage was proposed as a framework with which to evaluate the research performance of departments in UK higher education institutions. This article discusses the application of this model to an initial dataset of thirty-six departmental and institutional variables (later reduced to eight) for sixty-eight departments of geography. Approximately two-thirds of the variability in the results of the 1996 research assessment exercise (RAE) was accounted for using quantitative measures, leaving approximately one-third of the variability accounted for by the judgement of the RAE panel. These quantitative and qualitative measures were used to locate departments of geography along a spectrum of development from factor-driven (similar performance to that of institution as only factor conditions in place) to investment-driven (heavy investment leading to an upgrade of factor conditions, demand conditions and departmental strategy, structure and rivalry) to innovation-driven (four corners of diamond in place leading to continuous innovation/upgrading) and finally wealth-driven (seeking advantage through accumulated wealth leading to gradual decline). The most research successful departments were those in the innovation-driven stage. UK geography was seen to have a large proportion of its departments in the investment-driven stage with several in, or moving into, the innovation-driven stage. This bodes well for the future vitality of the discipline. KeyWords Plus: PERFORMANCE INDICATORS, BRITISH Addresses: Curran PJ, Univ Southampton, Dept Geog, Southampton SO17 1BJ, Hants, England Univ Southampton, Dept Geog, Southampton SO17 1BJ, Hants, England Publisher: CARFAX PUBLISHING, BASINGSTOKE IDS Number: 444BF ISSN: 0307-5079 From GARFIELD at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Nov 7 14:59:33 2001 From: GARFIELD at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 14:59:33 -0500 Subject: Nemery B "What happens to the manuscripts that have not been accepted for publication in Occupational and Environmental Medicine?" Occupational and Environmental Medicine 58(9):604-607, September 2001 Message-ID: Dr. B. Nemery : ben.nemery at med.kuleuven.ac.be TITLE : What happens to the manuscripts that have not been accepted for publication in Occupational and Environmental Medicine? AUTHOR : Nemery B JOURNAL : OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE 58 (9): 604-607 SEP 2001 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 4 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Objectives-To evaluate the fate of manuscripts rejected by Occupational and Environmental Medicine (OEM). Methods-A Medline search was conducted, up to March 2001, to find out whether and where articles submitted to OEM in 1995, 1996, and 1997, but not accepted for publication, were published. The articles were matched by authors and title, sometimes using the abstract to help decide whether the published article was the one that had been previously submitted to OEM. Results-Out of 405 manuscripts rejected (44% of those submitted), 218 articles (54%) were traced in 72 different journals, with more than half being published in seven other major journals dealing with occupational and environmental health (rather than in specialty journals). Most papers were published within 2 years of their initial submission to OEM. Only a small proportion (10%) were published in a journal with a higher impact factor than OEM (1.96 in 1999). Conclusion-More than half the articles rejected by OEM found their way into the scientific literature covered by Medline. This figure is comparable with the few available data from other journals. It would be interesting to know the fate of articles published by OEM before they were submitted to our journal. Author Keywords: journalology, bibliometry, impact factor KeyWords Plus: FATE Addresses: Nemery B, Katholieke Univ Leuven, Lab Longtoxicol, Herestr 49, B-3000 Louvain, Belgium Katholieke Univ Leuven, Lab Longtoxicol, B-3000 Louvain, Belgium Publisher: BRITISH MED JOURNAL PUBL GROUP, LONDON IDS Number: 464UQ ISSN: 1351-0711 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year ANIM M PERSPECTIVES PUBLISH 1 2000 KOENE HR NED TIJDSCHR GENEESK 138 2443 1994 OPTHOF T CARDIOVASC RES 45 255 2000 RAY J AM J MED 109 131 2000 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Nov 8 09:44:34 2001 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 09:44:34 -0500 Subject: Hamilton JC, Sparrow V, Waxmonsky J,Deemer HN "Citation patterns in social psychology and clinical psychology articles in 1986 and 1996: Good news for the social-clinical interface" JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY 20 (2): 130-146 SUM 2001 Message-ID: James C Hamilton : jchamilt at bama.ua.edu TITLE Citation patterns in social psychology and clinical psychology articles in 1986 and 1996: Good news for the social-clinical interface AUTHOR Hamilton JC, Sparrow V, Waxmonsky J, Deemer HN JOURNAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY 20 (2): 130-146 SUM 2001 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 13 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: An ongoing concern of scientists who promote the integration of clinical and social psychology is the question of whether social/personality approaches to clinical problems have an impact on mainstream clinical research and practice. We attempted to answer this question by surveying the extent to which clinical psychology articles contain citations from social psychology journals and vice versa. We examined every citation that appeared in 1986 and 1996 volumes of three prominent clinical/counseling psychology journals and two prominent social/personality psychology journals and coded the citation source as a clinical, social, social-clinical, medical, or "other" journal. Social psychology articles show considerable attention to clinical issues; there were few differences between 1986 and 1996. Citations in clinical journals revealed significant growth in references to articles from social/personality psychology journals. journals and review articles explicitly concerned with the social-clinical interface were cited much more frequently in social psychology articles than in clinical psychology articles. Clinical/counseling articles, but not social/personality articles, showed increased attention to medical issues, whereas both types of target articles showed increases in the number of citations from other disciplines. The results are interpreted as good news for advocates of the social-clinical interface, and for the intellectual vitality of both social/personality and clinical/counseling psychology. KeyWords Plus: COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY, PERSONALITY Addresses: Hamilton JC, Univ Alabama, Dept Psychol, Box 870348, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 USA Univ Alabama, Dept Psychol, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 USA Publisher: GUILFORD PUBLICATIONS INC, NEW YORK IDS Number: 456GQ ISSN: 0736-7236 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year BLASS T J PERS SOC PSYCHOL 47 1013 1984 CARLSON R J PERS SOC PSYCHOL 47 1304 1984 FEINGOLD A AM PSYCHOL 44 961 1989 FORSYTH DR PERGAMON GEN PSYCHOL 162 757 1991 HENDRICK C J SOC CLIN PSYCHOL 1 66 1983 KENRICK DT J PERS SOC PSYCHOL 50 839 1986 KRAHE B PERSONALITY SOCIAL P 1992 LEARY MR AM PSYCHOL 42 904 1987 LEARY MR J SOC CLIN PSYCHOL 5 168 1987 LEARY MR J SOC CLIN PSYCHOL 2 333 1984 SNYDER CR J SOC CLIN PSYCHOL 16 231 1997 SNYDER CR PERGAMON GERN PSYCHO 162 757 1991 WEINER B J PERS SOC PSYCHOL 52 316 1987 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Nov 8 09:49:45 2001 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 09:49:45 -0500 Subject: Herrero-Solana V, Moya-Anegon F "Bibliographic displays of web-based OPACs: Multivariate analysis applied to Latin-American catalogues" LIBRI 51 (2): 75-85 JUN 2001 Message-ID: Felix de Moya-Anegon : Felix de felix at ugr.es Victor Herrero-Solana : victorhs at ugr.es TITLE Bibliographic displays of web-based OPACs: Multivariate analysis applied to Latin-American catalogues AUTHOR Herrero-Solana V, Moya-Anegon F JOURNAL LIBRI 51 (2): 75-85 JUN 2001 Document type:Article* Language:English* Cited References:18*Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Library online public access catalogues (OPACs) are automated information retrieval systems that constitute the most readily available source of information for non-professional users. Web-based OPACs represent a huge step forward in the development of user interfaces for catalogues. The present study evaluates Latin American OPACs against a checklist for full bibliographic display in web-based OPACs, developed at the University of Toronto. The checklist contains four sections that cover the most important facets of the OPAC: 1) labels, 2) text, 3) instructional information, and 4) page layout. Finally,multivariate analysis methods are applied to the results. Such techniques include 1) cluster analysis, 2) principal components analysis (PCA), and 3) multidimensional scaling (MDS). KeyWords Plus: GUIDELINES, LIBRARY, DESIGN, USER Addresses: Herrero-Solana V, Univ Granada, Fac Biblioteconom, Lib & Informat Sci Dept, Granada, Spain Univ Granada, Fac Biblioteconom, Lib & Informat Sci Dept, Granada, Spain Publisher: K G SAUR VERLAG KG, MUNICH IDS Number: 456GZ ISSN: 0024-2667 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year ASHTON J PROGRAM-ELECTRON LIB 32 1 1998 CHAN J EVALUATION DISPLAYS 1995 CHERRY J P 24 ANN C CAN ASS I 1996 CHERRY JM INFORM TECHNOL LIBR 17 124 1998 DENNIS NK LIBR HI TECH 15 159 1997 FAYYAD U COMMUN ACM 39 24 1996 FERNANDEZMOLINA JC CATALOGOS ACCESO PUB 1998 HERREROSOLANA V B ABABAD 49 309 1998 HERREROSOLANA V INFORMACION CULTURA 1 49 1999 KINNUCAN M ANN REV INFORMATION 221 147 1987 MATTHEWS JR LIBR TRENDS 35 555 1987 MOSCOSO P REV ESPANOLA DOCUMEN 21 57 1998 MOYAANEGON F B ANABAD 44 171 1994 MOYAANEGON F SCIENTOMETRICS 42 229 1998 TUFTE E VISUAL DISPLAY QUANT 1990 TUFTE E VISUAL EXPLANATION 1996 YEE M GUIDELINES OPACS DIS 1998 YEE MM J AM SOC INFORM SCI 42 78 1991 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Nov 8 09:56:35 2001 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 09:56:35 -0500 Subject: Balestri MG, Mangiaracina S, Nobili D "Bibliometric S&T indicators to comply with users' needs" RESEARCH EVALUATION 10 (1): 5-12 APR 2001 Message-ID: Maria Grazia Balestri : balestri at area.bo.cnr.it Silvana Mangiaracina : mangiaracina at area.bo.cnr.it Dario Nobili : nobili at lamel.bo.cnr.it TITLE Bibliometric S&T indicators to comply with users' needs AUTHOR Balestri MG, Mangiaracina S, Nobili D JOURNAL RESEARCH EVALUATION 10 (1): 5-12 APR 2001 Document type: Article* Language: English* Cited References: 8* Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Homogeneous and easy to update scientometric indicators for a wide spectrum of problems were obtained by making use of the bibliographic database Current Contents. The procedures adopted and the major factors which can affect the accuracy of the results are reported and discussed. Case studies are presented concerning: international co-operation, foreign policy, and vocation for industrial settlements, all of which provide examples of how these indicators cart comply with a variety of needs. Addresses: Balestri MG, CNR, Res Area Bologna, Cent Lib, Informat Retrieval & Oncline Reference Serv, Via Gobetti 101, I-40129 Bologna, Italy CNR, Res Area Bologna, Cent Lib, Informat Retrieval & Oncline Reference Serv, I-40129 Bologna, Italy Publisher: BEECH TREE PUBLISHING, GUILDFORD IDS Number: 448PN ISSN: 0958-2029 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year BALESTRI MG C P TEACH AC LIB FIR 1998 BOEKHOLT P INNOVATION EC DEV 119 1997 DODGSON M RES EVALUAT 8 101 2000 GOMEZ I P 6 INT C SCI TECHN 2000 LEYESDORFF L CHALLENGE SCIENTOMET 1995 MANGIARACINA S P 8 DEL WORKSH US IN 45 1998 MOED HF USE BIBLIO INDICATOR 1989 NAUWELAERS C INNOVATION EC DEV 217 1997 Acceptable Use Policy Copyright ? 2001 Institute for Scientific Information From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Nov 8 09:57:51 2001 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 09:57:51 -0500 Subject: Butler L, "Revisiting bibliometric issues using new empirical data" Research Evaluation 10(1):59-65, April 2001. Message-ID: Linda Butler : linda.butler at anu.edu.au TITLE : Revisiting bibliometric issues using new empirical data AUTHOR : Butler L JOURNAL : RESEARCH EVALUATION 10 (1): 59-65 APR 2001 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 8 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Using research funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, the classification of the grant that funded the! research which led to the publication was contrasted with the use of a common proxy, journal set classification. Frequently, the two measures produce very similar results but major differences can occur. Acknowledgments data appear to accurately reflect a funding body's total research output, but lack the ability to identify, individual funding schemes within such bodies. In contrast to the output funded by long-term grants, publications from research funded on a limited, three-year cycle exhibit a very fast publication turn-around - considerably faster than the often-quoted four years. The accuracy with which researchers report links between publications and the grants from which they emanate is examined. Addresses: Butler L, Australian Natl Univ, Res Sch Social Sci, Res Evaluat & Policy Project, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia Australian Natl Univ, Res Sch Social Sci, Res Evaluat & Policy Project, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia Publisher: BEECH TREE PUBLISHING, GUILDFORD IDS Number: 448PN ISSN: 0958-2029 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year *NAT HLTH MED RES 1999 GRANTS BOOK 1999 BOURKE P BIBLIO ANAL BIOL SCI 1999 BUTLER L AUSTR BIOMEDICAL RES 1998 GRANT J SCIENCE 278 878 1997 JESCHIN D P 5 BIENN C INT SOC 1995 LEWISON G P 5 BIENN C INT SOC 1995 NARIN F EVALUATIVE BIBLIO US 1976 ROLAND CG NEW ENGL J MED 292 1273 1975 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Nov 9 16:26:06 2001 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 16:26:06 -0500 Subject: Chu HT "Research in image indexing and retrieval as reflected in the" JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 52 (12): 1011-1018 OCT 2001 Message-ID: Heting Chu hchu at liu.edu TITLE : Research in image indexing and retrieval as reflected in the Heting Chu hchu at liu.edu TITLE : Research in image indexing and retrieval as reflected in the literature AUTHOR : Chu HT JOURNAL: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 52 (12): 1011-1018 OCT 2001 Document type: Editorial Material Language: English Cited References: 16 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Documents relevant to the subject of image indexing and retrieval, obtained from the SCI and SSCI databases, were examined and analyzed. The study confirms that there exist in this rapidly growing field two distinctive research groups employing the content-based and description-based approaches, respectively. However, research in the content-based domain is currently dominating in the field, while the other approach has less visibility. Although researchers using the content-based approach actively communicated with colleagues from the same group, collaboration between the different clusters of scientists should be further promoted and encouraged to advance research and development in image indexing and retrieval. KeyWords Plus: SCIENTIFIC LITERATURES Addresses: Chu HT, Long Isl Univ, Palmer Sch Lib & Informat Sci, 720 No Blvd, Brookville, NY 11577 USA Long Isl Univ, Palmer Sch Lib & Informat Sci, Brookville, NY 11577 USA Publisher: JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, NEW YORK IDS Number: 473NL ISSN: 1532-2882 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year CAWKELL AE J INFORM SCI 18 179 1992 CHANG SF COMMUN ACM 40 63 1997 CHU H THESIS DREXEL U PHIL 1991 EAKINS JP CONTENT BASED IMAGE 1999 GARFIELD E USE CITATION DATA WR 1964 GRAHAM ME DESCRIPTION INDEXING 1999 GRIFFITH BC SCI STUD 4 339 1974 HARPER DJ SIGIR FORUM 33 20 1999 LUNIN LF OPTICAL INFORMATION 10 114 1990 MCCAIN KW J AM SOC INFORM SCI 41 433 1990 MCCAIN KW SCIENTOMETRICS 41 389 1998 PERSSON O IMAGE INDEXING FIRST 2000 RASMUSSEN EM ANNU REV INFORM SCI 32 169 1997 SMALL HG SCI STUD 4 17 1974 TURNER JM P 20 NAT ONL M MEDF 477 1999 WHITE HD J AM SOC INFORM SCI 32 163 1981 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Nov 9 16:28:09 2001 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 16:28:09 -0500 Subject: Sanz-Menendez L, Bordons M, Zulueta MA "Interdisciplinarity as a multidimensional concept: its measure in three different research areas" RESEARCH EVALUATION 10 (1): 47-58 APR 2001 Message-ID: Luis Sanz-Menendez : lsanz at iesam.csic.es Maria Bordons : mbordons at cindoc.csic.es M.Angeles Zulueta : ma.zulueta at uah.es Title : Interdisciplinarity as a multidimensional concept: its measure in three different research areas Author : Sanz-Menendez L, Bordons M, Zulueta MA Journal: RESEARCH EVALUATION 10 (1): 47-58 APR 2001 Document type: Article Language: English .Cited References: 35 Eugen Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Interdisciplinarity is analyzed in three different research areas: pharmacology and pharmacy, cardiovascular system and materials science, using data from a survey to Spanish scientists. The study focuses on three complementary dimensions: diversity in personal training and research specialization of scientists; research practices and behavior of the groups; and the cognitive inputs and outputs of the research activity. Interdisciplinarity emerges as a double- edged process: of jumping into a new area with people of different disciplines, in coherence with the traditional disciplinary research teams; and of specialization in a field traditionally dominated by a single group of disciplinary backgrounds, in which researchers from different areas join the teams. Thus specialization fragmentation-hybridization all come together. KeyWords Plus: SCIENCE, COLLABORATION, KNOWLEDGE, UNIVERSITY, INDICATORS Addresses: Sanz-Menendez L, CSIC, Unidad Polit Comparadas, SPRITTE, Alfonso XII 18, E- 28014 Madrid, Spain CSIC, Unidad Polit Comparadas, SPRITTE, E-28014 Madrid, Spain CSIC, Ctr Informac & Documentac Cient, CINDOC, E-28002 Madrid, Spain Univ Alcala de Henares, Fac documentac, Alcala De Henares 28801, Spain Publisher: BEECH TREE PUBLISHING, GUILDFORD IDS Number: 448PN ISSN: 0958-2029 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year *EC 5 FRAM PROGR 1998 20 1998 *EC EUR RES AR 2000 *EC GREEN PAP INN 1995 BORDONS M SCIENTOMETRICS 46 383 1999 BOURKE P RES POLICY 26 711 1998 CARACOSTAS P SOC ENDLESS FRONTIER 1998 CRANE D INVISIBLE COLL DIFFU 1972 DAVIS M RES EVALUAT 2 177 1992 DOGAN M CREATIVE MARGINALITY 1990 DOGAN M LIBR TRENDS 45 296 1996 GIBBONS M NEW PRODUCTION KNOWL 1994 GIERYN TF AM SOCIOL REV 48 781 1983 HAGSTROM WO SCI COMMUNITY 1965 HAYASHI T SCIENTOMETRICS 46 73 1999 HINZE S SCIENTOMETRICS 46 457 1999 JASANOFF S SCI TECHNOLOGY HDB S 1995 KATZ JS P 5 INT C SCI INF 245 1995 KLEIN JT LIBR TRENDS 45 134 1996 MORILLO F IN PRESS SCIENTOMETR 2001 MULKAY M SOCIOLOGY SCI SOCIOL 51 1975 NISSANI M SOC SCI J 34 201 1997 PALMER CL J AM SOC INFORM SCI 50 242 1999 PIERCE SJ J AM SOC INFORM SCI 50 271 1999 PORTER AL SCIENTOMETRICS 8 161 1985 QIN J J AM SOC INFORM SCI 48 893 1997 RIP A HIGH EDUC 28 3 1994 RIVAS AL SCIENTOMETRICS 37 63 1996 SANZMENENDEZ L DYNAMICS EUROPEAN SC 2001 SMALL H LIBR TRENDS 48 72 1999 STORER NW FDN ACCESS KNOWLEDGE 101 1968 TIJSSEN RJW RES POLICY 21 27 1992 TOMOV DT SCIENTOMETRICS 37 267 1996 WHITE HD ANN REV INFORMATION 24 192 1989 YOUNGLOVEWEBB J REV HIGH EDUC 22 425 1999 ZULUETA MA RES EVAL 8 111 1999 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Nov 9 16:30:47 2001 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 16:30:47 -0500 Subject: Lascar C, Mendelsohn LD "An analysis of journal use by structural biologists with applications for journal collection development decisions" COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES 62 (5): 422-433 SEP 2001 Message-ID: Claudia Lascar : clascar at ccny.cuny.edu Loren D. Mendelsohn: lmend at ccny.cuny.edu Title : An analysis of journal use by structural biologists with applications for journal collection development decisions Author: Lascar C, Mendelsohn LD Journal: COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES 62 (5): 422-433 SEP 2001 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 13 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: This paper defines and examines structural biology as a subdiscipline of molecular biology. Using bibliometric methodologies, it analyzes the publication and citation patterns of a sample group of structural biologists from multiple institutions. The citations analyzed covered a very large subject range, demonstrating the multidisciplinary nature of this subfield. The results were consistent with several models for journal selection. These models were used to compile a short list of specialized titles supporting structural biology. Although the research was performed on a relatively small group of local researchers, it has broader applications for other institutions attempting to develop similar collections. KeyWords Plus: FACULTY Addresses: Lascar C, CUNY, New York, NY 10021 USA CUNY, New York, NY 10021 USA Publisher: ASSOC COLL RESEARCH LIBRARIES, CHICAGO IDS Number: 474HM ISSN: 0010-0870 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year BYRD GD B MED LIBR ASSOC 87 312 1999 CAMPBELL MBM RES LIBRARIANSHIP 5 39 1974 DHAWAN SM J DOC 36 24 1980 DYKEMAN A LIBR ACQUIS PRACT TH 18 137 1994 GARFIELD G IMPACT FACTOR 1994 HALL SS SCIENCE 267 621 1995 HUGHES J LIBR ACQUIS PRACT TH 19 403 1995 HURD JM COLL RES LIBR 60 31 1999 KENDREW JC BIOCH SOC S 30 5 1970 PAN E COLLECTION MANAGEMEN 2 29 1978 PHILLIPS DC SCI AM 215 78 1966 SMITH CM SCIENTIST 14 26 2000 WHITE HD ANNU REV INFORM SCI 24 119 1989 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Nov 9 16:35:38 2001 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 16:35:38 -0500 Subject: van Raan AFJ "Two-step competition process leads to quasi power-law income distributions - Application to scientific publication and citation distributions " PHYSICA A 298 (3-4): 530-536 SEP 15 2001 Message-ID: AFJ van Raan: vanraan at cwts.leidenuniv.nl Title :Two-step competition process leads to quasi power-law income distributions - Application to scientific publication and citation distributions Author: van Raan AFJ Journal : PHYSICA A 298 (3-4): 530-536 SEP 15 2001 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 4 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: We apply a two-step competition process as a model to explain the distribution of citations ('income') over publications ('work'), The first step is the competition amongst scientists to get their work published in better journals, and the second to get this work cited in these journals. Generally, citation distributions are supposed to follow a power law, like most other 'income' distributions. So far, no satisfactory theoretical model of citation distribution has been developed. On the basis of two Boltzmann type distribution functions of source publications, we derive a distribution function of citing publications over source publications. This distribution function corresponds very well to the empirical data. It is not a power law, but a modified Bessel-function. In our view, the model presented in this article has a more generic value, particularly in economics to explain observed income distributions. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. KeyWords Plus: SCIENCE Addresses: van Raan AFJ, Leiden Univ, Ctr Sci & Technol Studies, Wassenaarseweg 52,POB 9555, NL-2300 RB Leiden, Netherlands Leiden Univ, Ctr Sci & Technol Studies, NL-2300 RB Leiden, Netherlands Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM IDS Number: 474AL ISSN: 0378-4371 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year NARANAN S J DOC 27 83 1971 SEGLEN PO J AM SOC INFORM SCI 43 628 1992 VANRAAN AFJ SCIENTOMETRICS 51 347 2001 VANRAAN AFJ SCIENTOMETRICS 36 397 1996 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Nov 9 16:39:39 2001 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 16:39:39 -0500 Subject: Joswick KE "A profile of police administration resources: using textbook citations to determine collecting parameters" LIBRARY COLLECTIONS ACQUISITIONS & TECHNICAL SERVICES 25 (2): 159-169 SUM 2001 Message-ID: K.E. Joswick : Kate_Joswick at ccmail.wiu.edu Title A profile of police administration resources: using textbook citations to determine collecting parameters Author Joswick KE Journal LIBRARY COLLECTIONS ACQUISITIONS & TECHNICAL SERVICES 25 (2): 159-169 SUM 2001 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 17 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Cited references and suggested readings from undergraduate textbooks can help collection development librarians define parameters of newly emerging fields of study. This study examined the citations from four heavily used textbooks in police administration in order to gain an overview of the resources experts use to introduce their subject to undergraduates. Books were cited more than journals. Government publications, court cases, and association publications contributed substantially to the field. Monographic and serial resources in business, management, public affairs, labor relations, sociology, and law were cited frequently, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of the field. Materials from the 70s and 80s were cited more often than current resources. Using the compiled data as a base, the author suggests implications for building collections geared toward students in the field. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. Author Keywords: citation analysis, textbooks, police administration, collection development KeyWords Plus: MOST-CITED SCHOLARS, CRIMINOLOGY, JOURNALS Addresses: Joswick KE, Western Illinois Univ, Univ Lib, Reference Unit, 1 Univ Circle, Macomb, IL 61455 USA Western Illinois Univ, Univ Lib, Reference Unit, Macomb, IL 61455 USA Publisher: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, OXFORD IDS Number: 441PP ISSN: 1464-9055 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Nov 12 13:04:32 2001 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 13:04:32 -0500 Subject: New MEJ "Scientific collaboration networks. I. Network construction and fundamental results - art. no. 016131" PHYSICAL REVIEW E 6401 (1): 6131-+, Part 2 JUL 2001 Message-ID: Mark Newman : mark at santafe.edu TITLE Scientific collaboration networks. I. Network construction and fundamental results - art. no. 016131 AUTHOR Newman MEJ JOURNAL PHYSICAL REVIEW E 6401 (1): 6131-+, Part 2 JUL 2001 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 67 Times Cited: 3 Abstract: Using computer databases of scientific papers in physics, biomedical research, and computer science, we have constructed networks of collaboration between scientists in each of these disciplines. In these networks two scientists are considered connected if they have coauthored one or more papers together. We study a variety of statistical properties of our networks, including numbers of papers written by authors, numbers of authors per paper, numbers of collaborators that scientists have, existence and size of a giant component of connected scientists, and degree of clustering in the networks. We also highlight some apparent differences in collaboration patterns between the subjects studied. In the following paper, we study a number of measures of centrality and connectedness in the same networks. KeyWords Plus: SMALL-WORLD NETWORKS, DEGREE SEQUENCE, PERCOLATION, MODEL, INTERNET, GRAPH, WEB Addresses: Newman MEJ, Santa Fe Inst, 1399 Hyde Pk Rd, Santa Fe, NM 87501 USA Santa Fe Inst, Santa Fe, NM 87501 USA Cornell Univ, Ctr Appl Math, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA Publisher: AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC, COLLEGE PK IDS Number: 453GC ISSN: Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year ABELLO J P 6 EUR S ALG SPRING 1998 ALBERT R NATURE 406 378 2000 ALBERT R NATURE 401 130 1999 AMARAL LAN P NATL ACAD SCI USA 97 11149 2000 BARABASI AL COMMUNICATION BARABASI AL CONDMAT0104162 BARABASI AL PHYSICA A 272 173 1999 BARABASI AL SCIENCE 286 509 1999 BARRAT A EUR PHYS J B 13 547 2000 BARTHELEMY M PHYS REV LETT 82 3180 1999 BATAGELJ V SOC NETWORKS 23 173 2000 BERNARD HR ETHNOLOGY 2 155 1988 BOLLOBAS B RANDOM GRAPHS 1985 BRODER A COMPUT NETW 33 309 2000 CALLAWAY DS PHYS REV LETT 85 5468 2000 COHEN R PHYS REV LETT 85 4626 2000 DAVIS A DEEP S 1941 DAVIS GF AM J SOCIOL 103 1 1997 DECASTRO R MATH INTELL 21 51 1999 DEMENEZES MA EUROPHYS LETT 50 574 2000 DING Y INT INF LIBR REV 30 367 1999 DOROGOVTSEV SN EUROPHYS LETT 50 1 2000 DOROGOVTSEV SN PHYS REV LETT 85 4633 2000 EGGHE L INTRO INFORMETRICS 1990 ERDOS P AM J MATH 26 738 1940 ERDOS P PUBL MATH I HUNG 5 17 1960 FARARO TJ STUDY BIASED FRIENDS 1964 FOSTER CC BEHAV SCI 8 56 1963 GALASKIEWICZ J SOC SCI RES 7 89 1978 GROSSMAN JW C NUMERANTIUM 108 129 1995 HOFFMAN P MAN LOVED ONLY NUMBE 1998 KLEINBERG JM NATURE 406 845 2000 KRAPIVSKY PL PHYS REV LETT 85 4629 2000 KRETSCHMER H Z SOZIALPSYCHOL 29 307 1998 KULKARNI RV PHYS REV E B 61 4268 2000 KUMAR R P IEEE S FDN COMP SC 2000 LOTKA AJ J WASHINGTON ACADEMY 16 317 1926 MARIOLIS P SOCIAL SCI Q 56 425 1975 MELIN G SCIENTOMETRICS 36 363 1996 MOLLOY M COMB PROBAB COMPUT 7 295 1998 MOLLOY M RANDOM STRUCT ALGOR 6 161 1995 MOORE C PHYS REV E B 62 7059 2000 MOORE C PHYS REV E B 61 5678 2000 MOUKARZEL CF PHYS REV E A 60 R6263 1999 NEWMAN MEJ CONDMAT0007235 NEWMAN MEJ CONDMAT0104209 NEWMAN MEJ J STAT PHYS 101 819 2000 NEWMAN MEJ P NATL ACAD SCI USA 98 404 2001 NEWMAN MEJ PHYS LETT A 263 341 1999 NEWMAN MEJ PHYS REV E 2 6401 6132 2001 NEWMAN MEJ PHYS REV E B 60 7332 1999 NEWMAN MEJ PHYS REV LETT 85 4104 2000 NEWMAN MEJ PHYS REV LETT 84 3201 2000 OCONNELL HB PHYSICS0007040 PADGETT JF AM J SOCIOL 98 1259 1993 PAO ML J AM SOC INFORM SCI 37 26 1986 PERSSON O SCIENTOMETRICS 33 351 1995 PRICE DJD SCIENCE 149 510 1965 REDNER S COMMUNICATION REDNER S EUR PHYS J B 4 131 1998 SCOTT J SOCIAL NETWORK ANAL 2000 STROGATZ SH NATURE 410 268 2001 VOOS H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 25 270 1974 WASSERMAN S SOCIAL NETWORK ANAL 1994 WATTS DJ NATURE 393 440 1998 WELLMAN B ANNU REV SOCIOL 22 213 1996 ZIFF RM PHYS REP C 32 169 1977 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Nov 12 13:10:18 2001 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 13:10:18 -0500 Subject: Popescul A, Flake GW, Lawrence S, Ungar LH, Giles CL "Clustering and identifying temporal trends in document databases" IEEE Advances in Digital Libraries 2000, Proceedings, p.173-182, 2000 Message-ID: Alexandrin Popescul : popescul at unagi.cis.upenn.edu TITLE: Clustering and identifying temporal trends in document databases AUTHOR Popescul A, Flake GW, Lawrence S, Ungar LH, Giles CL SOURCE IEEE Advances in Digital Libraries 2000, Proceedings, p.173-182, 2000 IEEE Computer Soc. Los Alamitos ABSTRACT We introduce a simple and efficient method for clustering and identifying temporal trends in hyper-linked document databases. Our method can scale to large databases because it exploits the underlying regularity often found in hyper-linked document databases. Because of this scalability, we can use our method to study the temporal trends of individual clusters in a statistically meaningful manner. As an example of our approach, we give a summary of the temporal trends found in a scientific literature database with thousands of documents. AUTHOR ADDRESS A. Popescul, Univ. Penn, Dept. Comp & Informat Sci, 200 S. 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Nov 12 13:14:03 2001 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 13:14:03 -0500 Subject: Gagnon RE, Macnab AJ, Blackstock D "An inventory of Canadian anesthesiology. Human research from 1995 through 1999" CAN J OF ANAESTH-JOURNAL CANADIEN D ANESTHESIE 48 (5): 452-458 MAy 2001 Message-ID: R.E. Gagnon: regagnon at interchange.ubc.ca TITLE An inventory of Canadian anesthesiology. Human research from 1995 through 1999 AUTHOR Gagnon RE, Macnab AJ, Blackstock D JOURNAL CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ANAESTHESIA-JOURNAL CANADIEN D ANESTHESIE 48 (5): 452-458 MAY 2001 Document type: Article language: English Cited References: 7 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Purpose: The year 2000 provides a symbolic opportunity to assess the past initiatives in anesthesia research. As in many other fields, medical research has benefited from utilizing computerized data bases to facilitate enumerating areas of interest. We have created a baseline survey of past research in the fields of anesthesia,anesthetics, analgesia. and analgesics to highlight Canadian studies. Methods: The survey was undertaken using the Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System (MEDLARS) medical literature archive for the years 1995 through 1999. The principal categories and subcategories of MEDLARS' anesthesia classifications were counted for 70 countries contributing to the archive. Results: Canadian contributions ranged from 141 (1992) to 185 (1999) and represented annually 3% of the world total in the anesthesia categories. The greatest number of studies (30-38%) were about adults aged 19 to 44 yr, and there were between 4% and 14% more studies of females than males. "Pharmacology" and "therapeutic use" were the most frequent topics. lidocaine, fentanyl, and propofol were the most studied anesthetics, and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories, opium,morphine, and fentanyl were the most studied analgesics. Among the types of studies, those classified as "quality of health care" occurred most frequently (16%). Canadian trends closely follow world trends. Conclusion: The collected counts provide a comprehensive overview of research trends for the past five years. KeyWords Plus: IMPACT, JOURNALS, BIAS Addresses: Macnab AJ, Childrens & Womens Hlth Ctr, Dept Paediat, Crit Care Res Off, Room L317,Mail Box 80,4480 Oak St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3V4, Canada Childrens & Womens Hlth Ctr, Dept Paediat, Crit Care Res Off, Vancouver, BC V6H 3V4, Canada Childrens & Womens Hlth Ctr, Dept Anaesthesia, Vancouver, BC V6H 3V4, Canada Publisher: CANADIAN ANESTHESIOLOGISTS SOC, TORONTO IDS Number: 436BZ ISSN: 0832-610X Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year BUDD JM JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 280 296 1998 CAMPBELL FM B MED LIBR ASSOC 78 376 1990 GAGNON RE CAN MED ASSOC J 162 37 2000 GALLAGHER EJ ANN EMERG MED 31 83 1998 GARFIELD E ANN INTERN MED 105 313 1986 GARFIELD E BRIT MED J 313 411 1996 LARSON JS MED CARE 31 1057 1993 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Nov 12 13:16:06 2001 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 13:16:06 -0500 Subject: Forgionne GA, Kohli R "A multiple criteria assessment of decision technology system journal quality" INFORMATION & MANAGEMENT 38 (7): 421-435 AUG 2001 Message-ID: Guisseppi A. Forgionne : forgionn at umbc7.umbc.edu TITLE A multiple criteria assessment of decision technology system journal quality AUTHOR Forgionne GA, Kohli R JOURNAL INFORMATION & MANAGEMENT 38 (7): 421-435 AUG 2001 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 32 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Over the years, a number of researchers have assessed the quality of information systems (IS) journals. Most of these studies have assessed general IS journals, but few have specifically examined journals that focus on decision making support systems. Furthermore, even though there are many factors that measure journal quality, very few gauges have been used in the previous evaluations. This paper offers a multiple criteria quality assessment of decision making support journals. Initially, the article presents the criteria and a methodology for consolidating the multiple criteria into an integrated measure of journal quality. Next, there is a discussion of the data collection process and the resulting multiple criteria evaluation. The paper concludes with a summary of the evaluation and the implications for information systems theory and practice. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. Author Keywords: information systems meta study, decision support systems, AHP applications, multiple criteria decision making, journal ratings, journal rankings, journal quality KeyWords Plus: CITATION ANALYSIS, RATINGS Addresses: Forgionne GA, Univ Maryland Baltimore Cty, Dept Informat Syst, Catonsville, MD 20228 USA Univ Maryland Baltimore Cty, Dept Informat Syst, Catonsville, MD 20228 USA Lehigh Univ, Coll Business & Econ, Bethlehem, PA 18015 USA Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM IDS Number: 451AT ISSN: 0378-7206 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year *EXP CHOIC INC EXP CHOIC ADV DEC SU 1997 BAIRD LM J INFORM SCI 20 2 1994 BARMAN S J OPERATIONS MANAGEM 10 194 1991 CABELL DW CABELLS DIRECTORY PU 1994 DAVIS GB P 1 INT C INF SYST P 206 1980 DONOHUE JM OMEGA-INT J MANAGE S 28 17 2000 EOM SB DECIS SUPPORT SYST 10 19 1993 EOM SB DECIS SUPPORT SYST 9 237 1993 EOM SB RANKING I CONTRIBUTI 35 1994 GILLENSON ML MIS Q 447 1991 HAMILTON S P 1 INT C INF SYST P 220 1980 HOLLINSWORTH PM READING IMPROVEMENT 31 2 1994 HOLSAPPLE CW DECIS SUPPORT SYST 14 359 1995 HOLSAPPLE CW DECIS SUPPORT SYST 9 311 1993 HOLSAPPLE CW INFORM MANAGE 25 231 1993 HOLSAPPLE CW J MANAGEMENT INFORMA 11 131 1994 IGBARIA M J MANAGEMENT INFORMA 10 131 1993 KLEIJNEN JPC INFORM PROCESS MANAG 36 551 2000 NISONGER T SERIALS REV 18 13 1994 NORD JH INFORM MANAGE 29 29 1995 NUNAMAKER JF P 1 INT C INF SYST P 217 1980 OMAR MH INTERFACE 13 18 1991 ROWLEY TH J INFORMATION SYSTEM 5 50 1991 SAATY TL FUNDAMENTALS DECISIO 1994 SMITH MC AM J PHARM EDUC 58 284 1994 STABELL CB DECIS SUPPORT SYST 3 243 1987 VINCENT A DECISION LINE 31 4 2000 WALSTROM KA COMMUN ACM 38 93 1995 WALSTROM KA J COMPUTER INFOR FAL 23 1993 WHITMAN ME UPDATE ACAD ISSUES M 1997 WOLFGANG AP AM J PHARM EDUC 57 34 1993 ZINK M SCIENTOMETRICS 30 333 1994 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Nov 12 13:19:53 2001 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 13:19:53 -0500 Subject: Pollmann T, Baayen RH "Computing historical consciousness. A quantitative inquiry into the presence of the past in newspaper texts"COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES 35 (3): 237-253 AUG 2001 Message-ID: Thijs Pollmann : thijs.pollmann at let.uu.nl R.Harald Baayen : baayen at mpi.nl TITLE : Computing historical consciousness. A quantitative inquiry into the presence of the past in newspaper texts AUTHORS: Pollmann T, Baayen RH SOURCE : COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES 35 (3): 237-253 AUG 2001 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 22 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: In this paper, some electronically gathered data are presented and analyzed about the presence of the past in newspaper texts. In ten large text corpora of six different languages, all dates in the form of years between 1930 and 1990 were counted. For six of these corpora this was done for all the years between 1200 and 1993. Depicting these frequencies on the timeline, we find an underlying regularly declining curve, deviations at regular places and culturally determined peaks at irregular points. These three phenomena are analyzed. Mathematically spoken, all the underlying curves have the same form. Whether a newspaper gives much or little attention to the past, the distribution of this attention over time turns out to be inversely proportional to the distance between past and present. It is shown that this distribution is largely independent of the total number of years in a corpus, the culture in which it is published, the language and the date of origin of the corpus. The phenomenon is explained as a kind of forgetting: the larger the distance between past and present, the more difficult it is to connect something of the past to an item in the present day. A more detailed analysis of the data shows a breakpoint in the frequency vs. distance from the publication date of the texts. References to events older than approximately 50 years are the result of a forgetting process that is distinctively different from the forgetting speed of more recent events. Pandel's classification of the dimensions of historical consciousness is used to answer the question how these investigations elucidate the historical consciousness of the cultures in which the newspapers are written and read. Addresses: Pollmann T, Utrecht Inst Linguist OTS, Drift 8, NL-3512 BS Utrecht, Netherlands Utrecht Inst Linguist OTS, NL-3512 BS Utrecht, Netherlands Max Planck Inst Psycholinguist, NL-6525 XD Nijmegen, Netherlands Univ Nijmegen, Interfac Res Unit Language & Speech, NL-3512 BS Utrecht, Netherlands Publisher: KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT IDS Number: 448UH ISSN: 0010-4817 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Nov 12 13:29:12 2001 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 13:29:12 -0500 Subject: Nasierowski, W; Arcelus, FJ "On the stability of countries' national technological systems (Article, English" Decision Making: Recent Developments and Worldwide applications 45.2000. p.97-111 Kluwer Academic Pulishing, Dordrecht Message-ID: Wojciech Nasierowski: nasierow at unb.ca Francisco J. Arcelus: arcelus at unb.ca TITLE : On the stability of countries' national technological systems (Article, English) AUTHOR : Nasierowski, W; Arcelus, FJ SOURCE : Decision Making: Recent Developments and Worldwide applications 45.2000. p.97-111 Kluwer Academic Pulishing, Dordrecht ABSTRACT: This paper considers the hypothesis that globalisation of business practices has led to the harmonisation of policies dealing with the acquisition and development of technology throughout the years and across countries. The data set includes the countries listed in the World Competitiveness Report (WCR) and covers the 1993-1997 period. The paper (1) describes the elements of a country's National Technological System (NTS) and of the variables used for their measurement; (ii) identifies commonalities in NTSs across countries, across time and across NTS elements; and (iii) assesses the predictive value of the model as a validation tool, by ranking countries across several dimensions related to their NTS and contrasting these rankings against their counterparts obtained from the WCR's factor of Science and Technology. From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Nov 12 13:41:43 2001 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 13:41:43 -0500 Subject: Ding Y, Chowdhury GG, Foo S "Bibliometric cartography of information retrieval research by using co-word analysis"INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT 37 (6): 817-842 NOV 2001 Message-ID: Ying Ding : ying at cs.vu.nl Title Bibliometric cartography of information retrieval research by using co-word analysis Author Ding Y, Chowdhury GG, Foo S Source INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT 37 (6): 817-842 NOV 2001 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 34 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: The aim of this study is to map the intellectual structure of the field of Information Retrieval (IR) during the period of 1987-1997. Co-word analysis was employed to reveal patterns and trends in the IR field by measuring the association strengths of terms representative of relevant publications or other texts produced in IR field. Data were collected from Science Citation Index (SCI) and Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) for the period of 1987-1997. In addition to the keywords added by the SCI and SSCI databases, other important keywords were extracted from titles and abstracts manually. These keywords were further standardized using vocabulary control tools. In order to trace the dynamic changes of the IR field, the whole 11-year period was further separated into two consecutive periods: 1987-1991 and 1992-1997. The results show that the IR field has some established research themes and it also changes rapidly to embrace new themes. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. Author Keywords: co-word analysis, information retrieval research, research trends, science citation index, social science citation index KeyWords Plus: NEURAL-NETWORK RESEARCH, SCIENCE MAPS, SCIENTOMETRICS, TECHNOLOGY, REPRESENTATIONS, MODEL Addresses: Ding Y, Nanyang Technol Univ, Sch Comp Engn, Div Informat Studies, Nanyang Ave, Singapore 639798, Singapore Nanyang Technol Univ, Sch Comp Engn, Div Informat Studies, Singapore 639798, Singapore Publisher: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, OXFORD IDS Number: 466JP ISSN: 0306-4573 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year ARABIE P 3 WAY SCALING CLUSTE 1987 BHATTACHARYA S SCIENTOMETRICS 43 359 1998 CALLON M SCIENTOMETRICS 22 153 1991 CAMBROSIO A SCIENTOMETRICS 27 119 1993 COULTER N J AM SOC INFORM SCI 49 1206 1998 COURTIAL JP SCIENTOMETRICS 31 173 1994 COURTIAL JP SCIENTOMETRICS 31 251 1994 COURTIAL JP SCIENTOMETRICS 26 231 1993 DING Y 7 C INT SOC SCI INF 139 1999 DING Y J INFORM SCI 25 67 1999 DING Y SCIENTOMETRICS 47 2000 HINZE S SCIENTOMETRICS 29 353 1994 HONKELA T A32 HELS U TECHN LAB 1996 KING J J INFORM SCI 13 261 1987 KOHONEN T SELF ORG MAPS 1995 KOPCSA A J AM SOC INFORM SCI 49 7 1998 LAW J SCIENTOMETRICS 23 417 1992 LOOZE MD SCIENTOMETRICS 39 267 1997 NORUSIS MJ SPSS 7 5 GUID DAT AN 1997 NOYONS ECM COMMUNICATION 1998 NOYONS ECM J AM SOC INFORM SCI 49 68 1998 NOYONS ECM SCIENTOMETRICS 41 61 1998 NOYONS ECM SCIENTOMETRICS 30 157 1994 PETERS HPF RES POLICY 22 23 1993 PETERS HPF RES POLICY 22 47 1993 POLANCO X SCIENTOMETRICS 41 69 1998 RIKKEN F SCIENTOMETRICS 33 367 1995 RIP A SCIENTOMETRICS 6 381 1984 SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24 265 1973 TIJSSEN RJW SCIENTOMETRICS 28 111 1993 VANRAAN AFJ SCIENTOMETRICS 38 205 1997 VANRAAN AFJ SCIENTOMETRICS 26 169 1993 VOUTILAINEN A P WORKSH VER LARG CO 1993 WIDHALM C COMMUNICATION NOV 1999 From Paul.Wouters at NIWI.KNAW.NL Fri Nov 16 08:34:31 2001 From: Paul.Wouters at NIWI.KNAW.NL (Paul Wouters) Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 14:34:31 +0100 Subject: Challenging Research Jobs in Amsterdam Message-ID: PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY JOB ANNOUNCEMENT THE NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION SERVICES Internet and ICT are radically changing the way in which academic research is carried out. This is having far-reaching consequences on information and communication processes in the sciences and humanities. The Netherlands Institute of Scientific Information Services (NIWI), located in Amsterdam, has recently begun a programme of research to chart these changes. To increase the scope of its research domains, our research group of presently three full-time researchers is seeking 2 research associates (M/F) Vacancy number PZ 167 (40 hours full-time *1) to fulfill new positions. NIWI is an institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. NIWI aims at providing scientific information in the fields of biomedicine, the social sciences, history and Dutch language and literature. In addition, NIWI provides information on research and researchers throughout the Netherlands. NIWI's main office is situated in Amsterdam. Recently, NIWI has formed a new research department to respond to the transformation of scientific publishing, communication and information. The successful applicants will be part of our team that will ultimately consist of ten people. NIWI's research goals are laid down in our research programme (http://www.niwi.knaw.nl/nerdi). Our present team members are concentrating on: ethnographic research on the role of trust in data-sharing the function of digital data in research quantitative research on Web based scientific information modelling and simulating of innovation processes quality control in science and scholarship access to scientific information We hope that the two new members will be able to address one of th following questions: 1 How do scientists experience ICT-mediated collaboration and how are virtual scientific communities being built? 2 What influence are the new virtual research institutes and networks of research institutes - which rely heavily on communication through the Internet - having on the production of knowledge? 3 How does the use of ICT in science affect social stratification processes (including gender and centre-periphery relationships) and how does stratification in its turn shape the use of ICT in research? We will also welcome any novel ideas by the applicants. Our hypothesis is that the sciences, social sciences and humanities are in the midst of an informational turn. This has important, yet largely uncharted implications for the researcher. Studying these implications is the main objective of our research programme. For this reason, we wish to characterise the informational turn, study its properties, in particular its implications for the use and creation of scientific information by the individual research group and scholar. Although this means that many aspects of the development and of the social impact of information and communication technologies will be involved in our research, our programme differs from existing research efforts, in that it puts the researcher in central place. Many research projects in information and library science are related to the development of specific technologies or information sources. There has been far less research on how the development of ICT affects the conduct of scientific research. Yet, it is the combination of technological and social developments at research group or individual scholar level, which is largely responsible for shaping the future of scientific information and communication patterns and needs. We have therefore chosen to concentrate our research on the changing role and needs of the researcher in scientific information and communication. As well as research aimed at creating new knowlege about the interaction between the researcher and ICT, we are also developing applied research. This is aimed at providing solutions to problems emerging from the practice of library and information services. Applicants should hold a PhD (or be awarded their PhD shortly) and be available to start work in the short term. They should moreover have acquired research experience in a relevant field. Job responsibilities The research associates will be responsible for their own research project (one of the two mentioned above). They will be responsible for the acquisition of funding for additional research projects and submit grant applications. In collaboration with university researchers, some supervision of PhD students may be required. The members of NIWI Research act in an advisory capacity with respect to applied research projects within the institute. The main output of NIWI Research consists of journal publications, books, lectures and conference presentations. NIWI Research will also organise workshops and conferences on a regular basis. Research associates will be expected to share in these activities. Education and experience 1. Demonstrable relevant research experience, attested by a PhD degree and a list of publications in peer reviewed journals. 2. An excellent knowledge of the English language, both oral and written. 3. Experience in either qualitative or quantitative methods of research, preferably both. 4. Candidates should have a particular interest in transformations of academic research and be able to work independently and in a project-orientated manner 5. Candidates with creativity and who are inclined towards/ interested in groundbreaking work are encouraged to apply. Location: Amsterdam, the Netherlands Salary: Maximum full-time gross salary of 8.390 Dutch guilders per month in accordance with salary scale 11 in the academic sector Starting date: With immediate effect For further information please contact: r. Paul Wouters e-mail:paul.wouters at niwi.knaw.nl Please send applications accompanied by a C.V. and marked with vacancy number PZ 167 to: NIWI Personnel Department PO Box 95110 1090 HC Amsterdam the Netherlands email: henry.duindam at niwi.knaw.nl *1: The reduction in working hours ruling applies here NIWI is an institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences From gwhitney at UTK.EDU Mon Nov 19 16:23:41 2001 From: gwhitney at UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 16:23:41 -0500 Subject: ART: Hawkins, Bibliometrics of electronic journals in information science Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 04:43:31 -0800 (PST) From: Philip Hunter To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: [WEB4LIB] Bibliometrics for e-journals ('Information Research', Sept 2001) *apologies for cross posting* The current issue of Information Research contains an interesting article on the 'Bibliometrics of electronic journals in information science' by Donald T. Hawkins, Editor-in-Chief, Information Science Abstracts, Information Today, Inc. http://informationr.net/ir/7-1/paper120.html. The article analyses some of the measurable characteristics of e-journals in the field of Information Science, including D-Lib, First Monday, Journal of Digital Information, LIBRES, etc., and the UKOLN magazines Ariadne and Cultivate Interactive. It contains statistical data about contributing authors, their geographical locations and institutions, subject area coverage within the field, etc. The data covers the period 1995 to the present. ******************************************************* Philip Hunter, Information Officer at UKOLN, and Editor of Ariadne Magazine, UKOLN, c/o Library, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY Tel: +44 (0) 1225 826 354 Fax: +44 (0) 1225 826838 email: p.j.hunter at ukoln.ac.uk http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ http://homes.ukoln.ac.uk/~lispjh/ ******************************************************* From subbiah_a at YAHOO.COM Tue Nov 20 05:17:40 2001 From: subbiah_a at YAHOO.COM (=?iso-8859-1?q?Subbiah=20Arunachalam?=) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 10:17:40 +0000 Subject: Challenging Research Jobs in Amsterdam In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Paul: The research questions your group is addressing are interesting. I wonder if I could be a part of your team. Unfortunately, because of current commitments, I will not be able to leave my present assignments for the next four or five months. However, we can collaborate in cyberspace with an occasional meetings at Amsterdam. Regards. Arun --- Paul Wouters wrote: > PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY > JOB ANNOUNCEMENT > > THE NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION > SERVICES > > Internet and ICT are radically changing the way in > which academic > research is carried out. This is having far-reaching > consequences on > information and communication processes in the > sciences and > humanities. The Netherlands Institute of Scientific > Information > Services (NIWI), located in Amsterdam, has recently > begun a programme > of research to chart these changes. To increase the > scope of its > research domains, our research group of presently > three full-time > researchers is seeking > > 2 research associates (M/F) > > Vacancy number PZ 167 (40 hours full-time *1) > > to fulfill new positions. > > NIWI is an institute of the Royal Netherlands > Academy of Arts and > Sciences. NIWI aims at providing scientific > information in the fields > of biomedicine, the social sciences, history and > Dutch language and > literature. In addition, NIWI provides information > on research and > researchers throughout the Netherlands. NIWI's main > office is situated > in Amsterdam. > > Recently, NIWI has formed a new research department > to respond to the > transformation of scientific publishing, > communication and > information. The successful applicants will be part > of our team that > will ultimately consist of ten people. NIWI's > research goals are laid > down in our research programme > (http://www.niwi.knaw.nl/nerdi). > > Our present team members are concentrating on: > ethnographic research on the role of trust in > data-sharing > the function of digital data in research > quantitative research on Web based scientific > information > modelling and simulating of innovation processes > quality control in science and scholarship > access to scientific information > > We hope that the two new members will be able to > address one of th > following questions: > > 1 How do scientists experience ICT-mediated > collaboration and how are > virtual scientific communities being built? > > 2 What influence are the new virtual research > institutes and networks > of research institutes - which rely heavily on > communication through > the Internet - having on the production of > knowledge? > > 3 How does the use of ICT in science affect social > stratification > processes (including gender and centre-periphery > relationships) and > how does stratification in its turn shape the use of > ICT in research? > > We will also welcome any novel ideas by the > applicants. > > Our hypothesis is that the sciences, social sciences > and humanities > are in the midst of an informational turn. This has > important, yet > largely uncharted implications for the researcher. > Studying these > implications is the main objective of our research > programme. For this > reason, we wish to characterise the informational > turn, study its > properties, in particular its implications for the > use and creation of > scientific information by the individual research > group and > scholar. Although this means that many aspects of > the development and > of the social impact of information and > communication technologies > will be involved in our research, our programme > differs from existing > research efforts, in that it puts the researcher in > central > place. Many research projects in information and > library science are > related to the development of specific technologies > or information > sources. There has been far less research on how the > development of > ICT affects the conduct of scientific research. Yet, > it is the > combination of technological and social developments > at research group > or individual scholar level, which is largely > responsible for shaping > the future of scientific information and > communication patterns and > needs. We have therefore chosen to concentrate our > research on the > changing role and needs of the researcher in > scientific information > and communication. As well as research aimed at > creating new knowlege > about the interaction between the researcher and > ICT, we are also > developing applied research. This is aimed at > providing solutions to > problems emerging from the practice of library and > information > services. Applicants should hold a PhD (or be > awarded their PhD > shortly) and be available to start work in the short > term. They should > moreover have acquired research experience in a > relevant field. > > Job responsibilities > > The research associates will be responsible for > their own research > project (one of the two mentioned above). They will > be responsible for > the acquisition of funding for additional research > projects and submit > grant applications. In collaboration with university > researchers, some > supervision of PhD students may be required. The > members of NIWI > Research act in an advisory capacity with respect to > applied research > projects within the institute. The main output of > NIWI Research > consists of journal publications, books, lectures > and conference > presentations. NIWI Research will also organise > workshops and > conferences on a regular basis. Research associates > will be expected > to share in these activities. > > Education and experience > > 1. Demonstrable relevant research experience, > attested by a PhD degree > and a list of publications in peer reviewed > journals. > > 2. An excellent knowledge of the English language, > both oral and > written. > > 3. Experience in either qualitative or quantitative > methods of > research, preferably both. > > 4. Candidates should have a particular interest in > transformations of > academic research and be able to work > independently and in a > project-orientated manner > > 5. Candidates with creativity and who are inclined > towards/ interested > in groundbreaking work are encouraged to apply. > > Location: Amsterdam, the Netherlands > > Salary: Maximum full-time gross salary of 8.390 > Dutch guilders per > month in accordance with salary scale 11 in the > academic sector > > Starting date: With immediate effect > > > For further information please contact: r. Paul > Wouters > === message truncated === __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com From Paul.Wouters at NIWI.KNAW.NL Tue Nov 20 06:00:35 2001 From: Paul.Wouters at NIWI.KNAW.NL (Paul Wouters) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:00:35 +0100 Subject: Challenging Research Jobs in Amsterdam Message-ID: Arun, Thanks for your interest. Unfortunately, we will be looking for people who are actually moving to the Netherlands as soon as possible. But maybe we can create a collaborative project apart from the call we published? Is there any area you want to focus on? regards Paul Wouters >>> subbiah_a at YAHOO.COM 11/20/01 11:15 AM >>> Dear Paul: The research questions your group is addressing are interesting. I wonder if I could be a part of your team. Unfortunately, because of current commitments, I will not be able to leave my present assignments for the next four or five months. However, we can collaborate in cyberspace with an occasional meetings at Amsterdam. Regards. Arun --- Paul Wouters wrote: > PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY > JOB ANNOUNCEMENT > > THE NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION > SERVICES > > Internet and ICT are radically changing the way in > which academic > research is carried out. This is having far-reaching > consequences on > information and communication processes in the > sciences and > humanities. The Netherlands Institute of Scientific > Information > Services (NIWI), located in Amsterdam, has recently > begun a programme > of research to chart these changes. To increase the > scope of its > research domains, our research group of presently > three full-time > researchers is seeking > > 2 research associates (M/F) > > Vacancy number PZ 167 (40 hours full-time *1) > > to fulfill new positions. > > NIWI is an institute of the Royal Netherlands > Academy of Arts and > Sciences. NIWI aims at providing scientific > information in the fields > of biomedicine, the social sciences, history and > Dutch language and > literature. In addition, NIW provides information > on research and > researchers throughout the Netherlands. NIWI's main > office is situated > in Amsterdam. > > Recently, NIWI has formed a new research department > to respond to the > transformation of scientific publishing, > communication and > information. The successful applicants will be part > of our team that > will ultimately consist of ten people. NIWI's > research goals are laid > down in our research programme > (http://www.niwi.knaw.nl/nerdi). > > Our present team members are concentrating on: > ethnographic research on the role of trust in > data-sharing > the function of digital data in research > quantitative research on Web based scientific > information > modelling and simulating of innovation processes > quality control in science and scholarship > access to scientific information > > We hope that the two new members will be able to > address one of th > following questions: > > 1 How do scientists experience ICT-mediated > collaboration and how are > virtual scientific communities being built? > > 2 What influence are the new virtual research > institutes and networks > of research institutes - which rely heavily on > communication through > the Internet - having on the production of > knowledge? > > 3 How does the use of ICT in science affect social > stratification > processes (including gender and centre-periphery > relationships) and > how does stratification in its turn shape the use of > ICT in research? > > We will also welcome any novel ideas by the > applicants. > > Our hypothesis is that the sciences, social sciences > and humanities > are in the midst of an informational turn. This has > important, yet > largely uncharted implications for the researcher. > Studying these > implications is the main objective of our research > programme. For this > reason, we wish to characterise the informational > turn, study its > properties, in particular its implications for the > use and creation of > scintific information by the individual research > group and > scholar. Although this means that many aspects of > the development and > of the social impact of information and > communication technologies > will be involved in our research, our programme > differs from existing > research efforts, in that it puts the researcher in > central > place. Many research projects in information and > library science are > related to the development of specific technologies > or information > sources. There has been far less research on how the > development of > ICT affects the conduct of scientific research. Yet, > it is the > combination of technological and social developments > at research group > or individual scholar level, which is largely > responsible for shaping > the future of scientific information and > communication patterns and > needs. We have therefore chosen to concentrate our > research on the > changing role and needs of the researcher in > scientific information > and communication. As well as research aimed at > creating new knowlege > about the interaction between the researcher and > ICT, we are also > developing applied research. This is aimed at > providing solutions to > problems emerging from the practice of library and > information > services. Applicants should hold a PhD (or be > awarded their PhD > shortly) and be available to start work in the short > term. They should > moreover have acquired research experience in a > relevant field. > > Job responsibilities > > The research associates will be responsible for > their own research > project (one of the two mentioned above). They will > be responsible for > the acquisition of funding for additional research > projects and submit > grant applications. In collaboration with university > researchers, some > supervision of PhD students may be required. The > members of NIWI > Research act in an advisory capacity with respect to > applied research > projects within the institute. The ain output of > NIWI Research > consists of journal publications, books, lectures > and conference > presentations. NIWI Research will also organise > workshops and > conferences on a regular basis. Research associates > will be expected > to share in these activities. > > Education and experience > > 1. Demonstrable relevant research experience, > attested by a PhD degree > and a list of publications in peer reviewed > journals. > > 2. An excellent knowledge of the English language, > both oral and > written. > > 3. Experience in either qualitative or quantitative > methods of > research, preferably both. > > 4. Candidates should have a particular interest in > transformations of > academic research and be able to work > independently and in a > project-orientated manner > > 5. Candidates with creativity and who are inclined > towards/ interested > in groundbreaking work are encouraged to apply. > > Location: Amsterdam, the Netherlands > > Salary: Maximum full-time gross salary of 8.390 > Dutch guilders per > month in accordance with salary scale 11 in the > academic sector > > Starting date: With immediate effect > > > For further information please contact: r. Paul > Wouters > === message truncated === __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com From gwhitney at UTK.EDU Mon Nov 26 20:54:25 2001 From: gwhitney at UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 20:54:25 -0500 Subject: Personal Citation Index (fwd) Message-ID: Perhaps this will prompt some discussion on this list. It's an interesting concept. Will it scale up? What if we all do this, and what might be the end result? --gw <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Gretchen Whitney, PhD tel 865.974.7919 School of Information Sciences fax 865.974.4967 University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996 USA gwhitney at utk.edu http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/ jESSE:http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/jesse.html SIGMETRICS:http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 14:11:26 -0600 From: "Sloan, Bernie" Reply-To: Open Lib/Info Sci Education Forum To: JESSE at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Personal Citation Index About a year ago I posted a note calling attention to my "personal cititation index", asking for comments. This Web page highlights publications and Web pages I have authored that have been cited in other books, papers, conference proceedings, LIS course reading lists, and Web sites. This resource was, and continues to be, very much a work in progress. I've been playing around wirth the concept again recently, narrowing the focus to two published papers and a Web-based bibliography. I've written a short paper that's available at: http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/~b-sloan/pci2.html I'd appreciate some feedback on the concept (not necessarily on the paper itself). Could the personal citation index become a part of every scholar's "tool kit", as an attempt to measure the influence of his or her ideas? What might be a good direction to take for further research? Or is the concept flawed, and simply an interesting exercise based on one person's idle curiosity? By the way, if you are interested in my older, more broadly based personal citiation index from last year, here it is: http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/~b-sloan/pci.html Thanks for any and all comments! 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 ronald.rousseau at KH.KHBO.BE Tue Nov 27 04:08:21 2001 From: ronald.rousseau at KH.KHBO.BE (Ronald Rousseau) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:08:21 +0100 Subject: Personal Citation Index In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Personal Citation Index Since 'always' I have been trying to collect citations to my works (just out of personal curiosity). If everyone did this and results were put together, this could give an idea about the real coverage of the Web of Science. My guess is that it is certainly less than 50% of all citations. Such studies would show which types of articles end up in books (more than in published articles), or on webpages (more than in published articles). Which ones are popular among students (ending up in master's theses, or homeworks published on the Internet). The possibilities for comparisons and investigations are immense. I guess no one (in the West) knows how often he or she is cited in local Russian, Japanese or Chinese articles or books. At the moment data collection for 'personal citations' can only be done on a personal basis (but groups of persons can look out for each other's citations, especially in printed-only works). I hope that in the future, this kind of investigations will be much easier ('everything' becoming electronic). It certainly is one of the promises of the semantic web. Ronald Rousseau Belgium From Michel.Menou at WANADOO.FR Tue Nov 27 04:40:30 2001 From: Michel.Menou at WANADOO.FR (Michel J. Menou) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:40:30 +0100 Subject: Personal Citation Index In-Reply-To: <1006852101.3c03580528a74@imp.khbo.be> Message-ID: This is a very interesting idea. Folks in the various ASIS&T SIGs may wish to embark in its implementation. One requisite is perhaps that those citing notify the person cited. A request to do in electronic and other publications might help. Michel Menou Tuesday, November 27, 2001, 10:08:21 AM, Ronald Rousseau wrote: RR> Personal Citation Index RR> Since 'always' I have been trying to collect citations to my works (just out of RR> personal curiosity). RR> If everyone did this and results were put together, this could give an idea RR> about the real coverage of the Web of Science. My guess is that it is certainly RR> less than 50% of all citations. snip From Eric.Archambault at VIDEOTRON.CA Tue Nov 27 10:01:24 2001 From: Eric.Archambault at VIDEOTRON.CA (Eric Archambault) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:01:24 -0500 Subject: Personal Citation Index In-Reply-To: <1006852101.3c03580528a74@imp.khbo.be> Message-ID: I fully agree with Ronald. Eric >Personal Citation Index > >Since 'always' I have been trying to collect citations to my works >(just out of >personal curiosity). > >If everyone did this and results were put together, this could give an idea >about the real coverage of the Web of Science. My guess is that it >is certainly >less than 50% of all citations. > >Such studies would show which types of articles end up in books (more than in >published articles), or on webpages (more than in published articles). Which >ones are popular among students (ending up in master's theses, or homeworks >published on the Internet). The possibilities for comparisons and >investigations are immense. I guess no one (in the West) knows how often he or >she is cited in local Russian, Japanese or Chinese articles or books. > >At the moment data collection for 'personal citations' can only be done on a >personal basis (but groups of persons can look out for each other's citations, >especially in printed-only works). I hope that in the future, this kind of >investigations will be much easier ('everything' becoming electronic). It >certainly is one of the promises of the semantic web. > >Ronald Rousseau >Belgium From Garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Nov 27 11:55:09 2001 From: Garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Garfield, Eugene) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 11:55:09 -0500 Subject: Personal Citation Index and ASCA Message-ID: It seems that we have at last found something controversial to discuss on this listserv. Of course Michel has absolutely no evidence that what he says is true in information science or any other field. In all my forty years of citation related work I have never seen any evidence or claim like that. I can imagine that Michel is extrapolating from the number of source journals covered by ISI, but I will leave it to him to explain his assumption. 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. This used to be called ASCA--Automatic Subject Citation Alert. Since the founding of the Web of Science this is also something you can do with a personal profiling system. What is missing is coverage of source books, although it is not widely known that ISI does cover quite a few monographic series including those published by and for ASIST. 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: Michel J. Menou [mailto:Michel.Menou at wanadoo.fr] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 4:41 AM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Personal Citation Index This is a very interesting idea. Folks in the various ASIS&T SIGs may wish to embark in its implementation. One requisite is perhaps that those citing notify the person cited. A request to do in electronic and other publications might help. Michel Menou Tuesday, November 27, 2001, 10:08:21 AM, Ronald Rousseau wrote: RR> Personal Citation Index RR> Since 'always' I have been trying to collect citations to my works (just out of RR> personal curiosity). RR> If everyone did this and results were put together, this could give an idea RR> about the real coverage of the Web of Science. My guess is that it is certainly RR> less than 50% of all citations. snip -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wkoehler at VALDOSTA.EDU Tue Nov 27 11:50:48 2001 From: wkoehler at VALDOSTA.EDU (Wallace C. Koehler) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 11:50:48 -0500 Subject: Personal Citation Index Message-ID: Ronald et al are right. I too have been collecting citations to my own work for curiosity's sake (as well as promotion and salary -- unimportant stuff). I am particularly interested in citations that occur on the Web. Citations on the WWW open new vistas/horizons/whatever for analysis. For example, I have noted that some of my stuff appears in reading lists, resource lists, syllabi, and such ... resources "classic" bibliometrics would not be able to find. I suspect inclusion of one's work in a syllabus may "rank" higher than a citation in an article for (1) there are many reasons for article citations, but (2) certainly syllabus citation is done to train the neophyte. I know that Olle Persson has begin to look at these kinds of things ... with some very interesting results...perhaps he could weigh in with some of his observations wally koehler Eric Archambault wrote: > I fully agree with Ronald. > > Eric > > >Personal Citation Index > > > >Since 'always' I have been trying to collect citations to my works > >(just out of > >personal curiosity). > > > >If everyone did this and results were put together, this could give an idea > >about the real coverage of the Web of Science. My guess is that it > >is certainly > >less than 50% of all citations. > > > >Such studies would show which types of articles end up in books (more than in > >published articles), or on webpages (more than in published articles). Which > >ones are popular among students (ending up in master's theses, or homeworks > >published on the Internet). The possibilities for comparisons and > >investigations are immense. I guess no one (in the West) knows how often he or > >she is cited in local Russian, Japanese or Chinese articles or books. > > > >At the moment data collection for 'personal citations' can only be done on a > >personal basis (but groups of persons can look out for each other's citations, > >especially in printed-only works). I hope that in the future, this kind of > >investigations will be much easier ('everything' becoming electronic). It > >certainly is one of the promises of the semantic web. > > > >Ronald Rousseau > >Belgium -- ******* Wallace Koehler Associate Professor/Associate Director Master of Library and Information Science Program Odum Library Valdosta State University 1500 N. Patterson St Valdosta, GA 31698-0150 email - wkoehler at valdosta.edu voice: 229 245 3732 fax 229 259 5055 From Garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Nov 27 12:03:09 2001 From: Garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Garfield, Eugene) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 12:03:09 -0500 Subject: Personal Citation Index Message-ID: 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 -----Original Message----- From: Eric Archambault [mailto:Eric.Archambault at VIDEOTRON.CA] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 10:01 AM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Personal Citation Index I fully agree with Ronald. Eric >Personal Citation Index > >Since 'always' I have been trying to collect citations to my works >(just out of >personal curiosity). > >If everyone did this and results were put together, this could give an idea >about the real coverage of the Web of Science. My guess is that it >is certainly >less than 50% of all citations. > >Such studies would show which types of articles end up in books (more than in >published articles), or on webpages (more than in published articles). Which >ones are popular among students (ending up in master's theses, or homeworks >published on the Internet). The possibilities for comparisons and >investigations are immense. I guess no one (in the West) knows how often he or >she is cited in local Russian, Japanese or Chinese articles or books. > >At the moment data collection for 'personal citations' can only be done on a >personal basis (but groups of persons can look out for each other's citations, >especially in printed-only works). I hope that in the future, this kind of >investigations will be much easier ('everything' becoming electronic). It >certainly is one of the promises of the semantic web. > >Ronald Rousseau >Belgium -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gwhitney at UTK.EDU Tue Nov 27 12:44:33 2001 From: gwhitney at UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 12:44:33 -0500 Subject: Personal Citation Index Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:46:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Stevan Harnad See http://cite-base.ecs.soton.ac.uk/help/index.php3 and http://opcit.eprints.org/ as examples of things to come along these lines. Stevan Harnad Harnad, S. (2001) "Why I think research access, impact and assessment are linked." Times Higher Education Supplement 1487: p. 16. http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/thes1.html On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Wallace C. Koehler wrote: > Ronald et al are right. I too have been collecting citations to my own work for > curiosity's sake (as well as promotion and salary -- unimportant stuff). I am > particularly interested in citations that occur on the Web. Citations on the WWW > open new vistas/horizons/whatever for analysis. For example, I have noted that some > of my stuff appears in reading lists, resource lists, syllabi, and such ... > resources "classic" bibliometrics would not be able to find. I suspect inclusion of > one's work in a syllabus may "rank" higher than a citation in an article for (1) > there are many reasons for article citations, but (2) certainly syllabus citation > is done to train the neophyte. > > I know that Olle Persson has begin to look at these kinds of things ... with some > very interesting results...perhaps he could weigh in with some of his observations > > wally koehler > > Eric Archambault wrote: > > > I fully agree with Ronald. > > > > Eric > > > > >Personal Citation Index > > > > > >Since 'always' I have been trying to collect citations to my works > > >(just out of > > >personal curiosity). > > > > > >If everyone did this and results were put together, this could give an idea > > >about the real coverage of the Web of Science. My guess is that it > > >is certainly > > >less than 50% of all citations. > > > > > >Such studies would show which types of articles end up in books (more than in > > >published articles), or on webpages (more than in published articles). Which > > >ones are popular among students (ending up in master's theses, or homeworks > > >published on the Internet). The possibilities for comparisons and > > >investigations are immense. I guess no one (in the West) knows how often he or > > >she is cited in local Russian, Japanese or Chinese articles or books. > > > > > >At the moment data collection for 'personal citations' can only be done on a > > >personal basis (but groups of persons can look out for each other's citations, > > >especially in printed-only works). I hope that in the future, this kind of > > >investigations will be much easier ('everything' becoming electronic). It > > >certainly is one of the promises of the semantic web. > > > > > >Ronald Rousseau > > >Belgium > > -- > ******* > Wallace Koehler > Associate Professor/Associate Director > Master of Library and Information Science Program > Odum Library > Valdosta State University > 1500 N. Patterson St > Valdosta, GA 31698-0150 > email - wkoehler at valdosta.edu > voice: 229 245 3732 fax 229 259 5055 > From harnad at COGPRINTS.SOTON.AC.UK Tue Nov 27 12:56:44 2001 From: harnad at COGPRINTS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:56:44 +0000 Subject: Personal Citation Index In-Reply-To: <545FBF6566286E45A9573ED3C4E4EFE6018F1479@ISI-MAIL.isinet.com> Message-ID: See http://cite-base.ecs.soton.ac.uk/help/index.php3 and http://opcit.eprints.org/ as examples of things to come along these lines. Stevan Harnad Harnad, S. (2001) "Why I think research access, impact and assessment are linked." Times Higher Education Supplement 1487: p. 16. http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/thes1.html On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Garfield, Eugene 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 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Archambault [mailto:Eric.Archambault at VIDEOTRON.CA] > Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 10:01 AM > To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU > Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Personal Citation Index > > > I fully agree with Ronald. > > Eric > > > >Personal Citation Index > > > >Since 'always' I have been trying to collect citations to my works > >(just out of > >personal curiosity). > > > >If everyone did this and results were put together, this could give an idea > >about the real coverage of the Web of Science. My guess is that it > >is certainly > >less than 50% of all citations. > > > >Such studies would show which types of articles end up in books (more than > in > >published articles), or on webpages (more than in published articles). > Which > >ones are popular among students (ending up in master's theses, or homeworks > >published on the Internet). The possibilities for comparisons and > >investigations are immense. I guess no one (in the West) knows how often he > or > >she is cited in local Russian, Japanese or Chinese articles or books. > > > >At the moment data collection for 'personal citations' can only be done on > a > >personal basis (but groups of persons can look out for each other's > citations, > >especially in printed-only works). I hope that in the future, this kind of > >investigations will be much easier ('everything' becoming electronic). It > >certainly is one of the promises of the semantic web. > > > >Ronald Rousseau > >Belgium > From Michel.Menou at WANADOO.FR Tue Nov 27 16:33:32 2001 From: Michel.Menou at WANADOO.FR (Michel J. Menou) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 22:33:32 +0100 Subject: Personal Citation Index and ASCA In-Reply-To: <545FBF6566286E45A9573ED3C4E4EFE6018F1478@ISI-MAIL.isinet.com> Message-ID: OK Gene, you're forgiven :-) BTW my personal inclination for liking Ronald Rousseau's proposal is more related to the building of virtual communities of people quoting each other, or using each other works, than to bibliometrics. Michel From davisc at INDIANA.EDU Tue Nov 27 17:22:29 2001 From: davisc at INDIANA.EDU (charles h. davis) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:22:29 -0500 Subject: Personal Citation Index and ASCA In-Reply-To: <94482360.20011127223332@wanadoo.fr> Message-ID: There is also the old-fashioned and well-established tradition of simply "acknowledging" people, revisited among others by Blaise Cronin. On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Michel J. Menou wrote: > OK Gene, you're forgiven :-) > BTW my personal inclination for liking Ronald Rousseau's proposal is more > related to the building of virtual communities of people quoting each other, or > using each other works, than to bibliometrics. > Michel > =============================================== Senior Fellow, SLIS, Indiana University (812) 331-1322 Fax: (812) 855-6166 http://php.indiana.edu/~davisc/ =============================================== From gwhitney at UTK.EDU Tue Nov 27 18:19:33 2001 From: gwhitney at UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 18:19:33 -0500 Subject: Personal Citation Index Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 18:00:19 -0500 From: Mike Koenig The idea is interesting, but I concur with Gene on his point of "don't get your hopes up too high". Most of us don't have a "valiant assistant" to check our citations, and we know who is citing us only in very incomplete and haphazard fashion. Furthermore, of the people who do have a valiant assistant and do know who is citing them, they would hardly be a representative sample. There is probably a high correlation between those with valiant assistants, and those who are often cited not just for their specific contributions, but also as exemplars of a field or activity or concept, and their citation pattern would have far greater dispersion than typical (a low "K" number in the Bradford scatter, i.e. an usually large proportion of citations out toward the fringe). best, Mike Koenig From judit at CC.HUJI.AC.IL Wed Nov 28 07:29:29 2001 From: judit at CC.HUJI.AC.IL (Judit Bar Ilan) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 14:29:29 +0200 Subject: Personal Citation Index In-Reply-To: <545FBF6566286E45A9573ED3C4E4EFE6018F1479@ISI-MAIL.isinet.c om> Message-ID: 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 wkoehler at VALDOSTA.EDU Wed Nov 28 08:29:23 2001 From: wkoehler at VALDOSTA.EDU (Wallace C. Koehler) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 08:29:23 -0500 Subject: non-self-citation Message-ID: I have very much enjoyed the exchange on building personal citation collections, I thought I might share a little pre-pub forthcoming by (guess who) in RUSQ: Nightmares in Citation Analysis Wallace Koehler Department of Information Studies Valdosta State University wkoehler at valdosta.edu Abstract: The following is fabricated to make a point: name and single initial for author identification are inadequate. More to the point, the citations are real but the attributions are not. There are no self-citations. Introduction There are any number of citation formats. Some of these formats provide extensive information about authors, titles, and so on, and many that limit that information. Some systems, like those used in physics may not give the article title and severely abbreviate the journal title (Wallon & Koehler 1955). Citation analysis is performed for all sorts of purposes: To track in the intellectual development of ideas (Koehler 1925), to attribute the primary source of ideas (Koehler 1882), or to stimulate new thinking (Creighton & Koehler 1935). Citations can be used to facilitate information retrieval (Koehler 1947). They might also be used to help familiarize and train neophytes in any given field (Koehler 1962, Koehler 1972). Discussion We have become aware that citation inflation has ballooned (Koehler et al 1908), that the distribution of citations has become inequitable (Koehler 1996), and that far too many junior scholars find it necessary to ?sing for their supper? through exaggerated citations and other forms of flattery (Koehler 2000). Indeed, some have observed that the problem has reached epidemic and indeed pathogenic levels (Koehler 1998). Methodology In order to test these hypotheses, we undertook the team approach described by Koehler and Lehner (1974). Unfortunately we discovered a great deal of vacillation among our co-workers, as was predicted by Koehler, Patankar, and Ibele (1991, 1994). It appears that competition for citations raises maturity issues (or rather challenges of immaturity) such as those described by Koehler and Loftin (1994). To correct for these problems, we employed the Kristof configuration algorithm (Kristof, Clusmann, Koehler, Schramm, & Fink 1998) to increase the overall satisfaction coefficient (Koehler, Fottler & Swan 1992). We were therefore able to minimize the carolingean affect (Koehler & M?therich 1930). Findings Our analysis resulted in the following findings: citations can be rendered virtually useless if they contain insufficient data, confirming earlier conclusions by Teichmann et al (2000). Insufficient data are simply insufficiently infectious. In fact, inadequate citation data can be eyed as unreasonable (Lammerding-Koppel et al 1991) or undo the glue of intellectual discourse (Seibel, Burt, & Koehler 1986). A discussion of issue localization has found its way into the literature (Snowden at al 2000), but the issue has yet to be fully resolved. An automated solution may soon be forthcoming (Weber et al 1999). Conclusions This paper demonstrates several things. One, I may have had a phenomenal career, stemming from the mid-1880s through the present. If so, it would appear that I have published across a myriad of subject areas and have gained some degree of fame in a few of them ? which is to say, that by aping my peers, I have sought a revolutionary and perhaps nuclear place in the literature. Or maybe some citation systems leave a little to be desired. In the end, there are problems created not for those who craft the citations (the shorter the better) and those who publish the citations (again, the shorter the better), but rather for those who are cited and those who need to use those citations. References Creighton, H., Koehler, W. (1935) Principles and applications of electrochemistry New York: J. Wiley & Sons. Koehler, W (1882) Johannes der T?ufer nach den synoptischen Evangelien und nach Josephus. Weimar. Koehler, W. (1925). The Mentality of Apes. New York: Harcourt and Brace Koehler, W. (1947) Rola ptactwa w gospodarce lesnej. Krak?w, Instytut badawczy lesnictwa. Ulotki i wydawnictwa popularne. Seria C., nr. 21; [economic forestry] Koehler, W. (1962). The Koehler method of dog training. New York, Howell Book House. Koehler W (1972). Providing for Timely Curricular Changes in Master Level Programs Journal of Engineering Education 62, 8: 911-914. Koehler, W. (1996) A K-12 Faculty Salary-Growth Model That Provides Equitable Strategic Increments. Journal of Personnel Evaluation in Education 10 1: 37-51 Koehler, W. (1998) The Search for the Scarlet Fever Pathogen, Immunit?t und Infektion. no. 5/6: 180 Koehler, W. (2000). The politics of song: the German Workers' Choral Association as a cultural and sociopolitical entity in comparative perspective, 1918-1933. Dissertation: Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brandeis University. Koehler, W., Bierbaum, O., Lienhard, F.(1908) Koehler's Zeppelin-Kalender. Gera-Untermhaus und Leipzig, Koehler. Koehler, W., Fottler, M., Swan, J. (1992) Physician-patient satisfaction: Equity in the health... Medical Care Research & Review 49, 4: 455-84. Koehler, W; Lehner, G. (1974). Team Effectiveness Training. Training and Development Journal 28, 10: 3. Koehler, W., Loftin, M. (1994) Proactive Strategies for Managing the Behavior of Children with Neurodegenerative Diseases and Visual Impairment. Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness 88, 4: 317-29. Koehler, W., M?therich, F (1930). Die karolingischen Miniaturen : im Auftrage des Deutschen Vereins f?r Kunstwissenschaft. Berlin : Cassirer. Koehler, W., Patankar, S., Ibele, W. (1991, 1994) Numerical prediction of turbulent oscillating flow and associated heat.Cleveland, Ohio: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Lewis Research Center. Kristof, R., Clusmann, H ; Koehler, W ; Schramm, J ; Fink, K (1998) Treatment of accidental high dose intraventricular mezlocillin application by cerebrospinal fluid exchange Journal Of Neurology, Neurosurgery, And Psychiatry 64, 9803: 379 Lammerding-Koppel, M., Thier, P., Koehler, W. (1991) Morphology and Mosaics of VIP-Like Immunoreactive Neurons in the Retina of the Rhesus Monkey. Journal of comparative neurology 312: 251-263 Seibel, C, Burt, W., Koehler, W. (1986) Joint sealants for pavements and bridges. ASTM Standardization News v. 14 (Nov.): 52-4 Snowdon R.J., Friedt, W., Koehler, A., and Koehler, W. (2000): Molecular cytogenetic localisation and characterisation of 5S and 25S rDNA loci for chromosome identification in oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.). Ann. Bot. 86: 201-204. Teichmann, D., Grobusch, M., G?bels, K., M?ller, H., Koehler, W., Suttorp, N. (2000) Acute Fascioliasis with Multiple Liver Abscesses. Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases 32, 5. Weber, A., Hoffmann, M., Wolters, V., Koehler, W. (1999) Ein Habitateignungsmodell fuer die Feldlerche (Alauda arvensis) basierend auf einem zellulaeren Automaten Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft f?r ?kologie: 329 Wollan, E. and Koehler, W., Phys. Rev. 100 545, 1955. -- ******* Wallace Koehler Associate Professor/Associate Director Master of Library and Information Science Program Odum Library Valdosta State University 1500 N. Patterson St Valdosta, GA 31698-0150 email - wkoehler at valdosta.edu voice: 229 245 3732 fax 229 259 5055 From jrussell at SERVIDOR.UNAM.MX Wed Nov 28 11:18:59 2001 From: jrussell at SERVIDOR.UNAM.MX (Jane Russell) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 10:18:59 -0600 Subject: Seminario Internacional Message-ID: Se extiende una cordial invitaci?n para participar en el SEMINARIO INTERNACIONAL SOBRE ESTUDIOS CUANTITATIVOS Y CUALITATIVOS DE LA CIENCIA Y LA TECNOLOGIA, evento que se realizar? el 25 de abril de 2002, dentro del programa de trabajo de INFO?2002 , en la Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ALCI%20Call%20for%20papers.pdf.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 16097 bytes Desc: not available URL: From ronald.rousseau at KH.KHBO.BE Thu Nov 29 03:35:00 2001 From: ronald.rousseau at KH.KHBO.BE (Ronald Rousseau) Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 09:35:00 +0100 Subject: feasibility of a book citation index In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Feasibility of a book citation index ------------------------------------ In relation to the 'Personal Citation' concept, I wonder if there is nowadays any practical reason why a book citation index (= index of book references) is not feasible. When the SCI started almost all references had to be retyped by hand. Moreover, the SCI was basically meant as a retrieval tool. This were good reasons for not including books (at least not on a large scale). The situation, however, has changed considerably nowadays. If publishers are willing to co-operate (and why shouldn't they: it is a form of promotion of their activities) I think a book citation index is quite feasible. Such an index would be very interesting for bibliometric studies. Indeed, it is clear that the purpose of book references differs (or at least may differ) from that of journal references. Of course, a classification in types of books should be made: research monographs are quite different from undergraduate textbooks ; review type of books are different from conference proceedings, and so on. Again, the possibilities for research are legion. Who takes the challenge? Ronald Rousseau Belgium