From patricia at CT.UNT.EDU.AR Fri Aug 9 11:58:53 2002 From: patricia at CT.UNT.EDU.AR (Patricia Ploper) Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 12:58:53 -0300 Subject: Need Information (Degree in Scientometrics) Message-ID: My name is Patricia Napadensky. I work at the Science and Technology Office and also serve as Secretary to the Research Council of the University of Tucuman, Argentina. There is a group of people in this university, lead by Dr. Maximo Valentinuzzi who are planning to organize a Master Degree Program in SCIENTOMETRICS. We would like to know whether similar programs exists elsewhere. It will help us to get in contact with people who is envolved in such programs. Thanks Patricia Napadensky (patricia at ct.unt.edu.ar) Universidad Nacional de Tucuman - Argentina -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Fri Aug 9 14:45:01 2002 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 20:45:01 +0200 Subject: Need Information (Degree in Scientometrics) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Patricia, A European Guide to Science, Technology, and Innovation Studies (for the EU) can be found at http://www.chem.uva.nl/sts/guide/ . It includes the offerings in Scientometrics, but the inventory is from 1999. Keep us posted. With kind regards, Loet At 12:58 PM 8/9/02 -0300, you wrote: > My name is Patricia Napadensky. I work at the Science and >Technology Office and also serve as Secretary to the Research Council of >the University of Tucuman, Argentina. There is a group of people in this >university, lead by Dr. Maximo Valentinuzzi who are planning to organize a >Master Degree Program in SCIENTOMETRICS. We would like to know whether >similar programs exists elsewhere. It will help us to get in contact with >people who is envolved in such programs. Thanks Patricia Napadensky >(patricia at ct.unt.edu.ar) Universidad Nacional de Tucuman - Argentina ************************************************************* Loet Leydesdorff Science & Technology Dynamics, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam Tel.: +31-20-525 6598; fax: +31-20-525 3681 http://www.leydesdorff.net/ ; loet at leydesdorff.net http://www.upublish.com/books/leydesdorff.htm From Michel.Menou at WANADOO.FR Fri Aug 9 13:32:34 2002 From: Michel.Menou at WANADOO.FR (Michel J. Menou) Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 19:32:34 +0200 Subject: Need Information (Degree in Scientometrics) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hola Patricia, No conosco programas en Scientometria. Pero ha muchos programas acerca de vigilia competitiva, uso estrategico de la informacion etc. donde scientometria entra como herramienta. No vejo qual seria el mercado de trabajo, afuera del mundo academico, por scientometristas. Cordialmente Michel Menou Friday, August 9, 2002, 5:58:53 PM, you wrote: PP> My name is Patricia Napadensky. I work at the Science and Technology Office and also serve as Secretary to the Research Council of the University of Tucuman, Argentina. There is a group of people PP> in this university, lead by Dr. Maximo Valentinuzzi who are planning to organize a Master Degree Program in SCIENTOMETRICS. PP> We would like to know whether similar programs exists elsewhere. It will help us to get in contact with people who is envolved in such programs. PP> Thanks PP> Patricia Napadensky (patricia at ct.unt.edu.ar) PP> Universidad Nacional de Tucuman - Argentina =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Dr. Michel J. Menou Professor of Information Policy Department of Information Science City University Northampton Square London EC1V 0HB U.K. Email: menou at soi.city.ac.uk Michel.Menou at wanadoo.fr Http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/informatics/is/mjm.html ================================================== -- From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Aug 14 11:38:00 2002 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 11:38:00 -0400 Subject: Visa A. Toivonen J. Vanharanta H. Back B. "Contents matching defined by prototypes: Methodology " J. Management Information Systems 18(4):87-100 Spring 2002 Message-ID: Ari Visa : avisa at cs.tut.fi Title : Contents matching defined by prototypes: Methodology verification with books of the bible Author : Visa A, Toivonen J, Vanharanta H, Back B Journal : JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS 18 (4): 87-100 SPR 2002 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 21 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: It is common that text documents are characterized and classified by key words, index terms, or headings. We have developed a new methodology based on prototype matching. The prototype is an interesting document or a part of an extracted, interesting text. This prototype is matched with the existing document database or with the monitored document flow. The claim is that the new methodology is capable of extracting the contents of the document. To verify this hypothesis, a test with the Bible was designed. Different translations in English, Latin, Greek, and Finnish were selected to test materials. Verification tests that included the search of the ten nearest books to every book of the Bible were performed with a designed prototype version of the software application. The test results are reported in this paper. Author Keywords: bible, document classification, knowledge discovery, methodology, prototype matching, text mining, verification Addresses: Abo Akad Univ, Turku, Finland Publisher: M E SHARPE INC, ARMONK IDS Number: 532QG ISSN: 0742-1222 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year BACK B INT J ACCOUNTING 2 249 2001 BROWN G DISCOURSE ANAL 1983 CANGELOSI A IEEE T EVOLUT COMPUT 5 93 2001 DEWEY M CLASSIFICATION SUBJE 1876 DEWEY M US BUREAU ED SPECIAL 623 1876 DRETSKE FI KNOWLEDGE FLOW INFOR 1981 HARTER SP ONLINE INFORMATION R 1986 KIRBY S IEEE T EVOLUT COMPUT 5 102 2001 LAHTINEN T THESIS U HELSINKI FI 2000 LYONS J SEMANTICS 1 1977 MANNING CD FDN STAT NATURAL LAN 1999 OARD DW CSTR3643 1996 SALTON G AUTOMATIC TEXT PROCE 1989 SALTON G COMMUN ACM 18 613 1975 SAVAGERUMBAUGH ES BRAIN LANG 6 265 1978 SINCLAIR J COLLINS COBUILD ENGL 1987 SOUKHANOV AH WEBSTERS NEW RIVERSI 1984 SYKES JB CONCISE OXFORD DICT 1976 VISA A P 34 ANN HAW INT C S 2001 VISA A P SSGRR 2000 INT C A 2000 VISA A THEORY TOOLS TECHN 3 4384 149 2001 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Aug 14 12:56:55 2002 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 12:56:55 -0400 Subject: Mahlck P. "Mapping gender differences in scientific careers in social and bibliometric space" Science Technology & Human Values 26(2):167-190 Spring 2001 Message-ID: Paula M?hlck Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, Department for research cooperation SE- 105 25 Stockholm E-mail: Paula.mahlck at sida.se Title Mapping gender differences in scientific careers in social and bibliometric space Author Mahlck P Journal SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & HUMAN VALUES 26 (2): 167-190 SPR 2001 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 38 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Despite a growing interest in gender differences in scientific careers, few studies have focused an the impact of research organization on researchers. This article offers a new approach to this issue by introducing bibliometric maps combined with sociological data and interviews, taking both the research organization and the experiences of the individual researcher into account. The results indicate that gender blares operate at various levels of the research organization and are often imbedded in seemingly gender-neutral processes and practices in the everyday working life of researchers. KeyWords Plus: CITATIONS Addresses: Mahlck P, Umea Univ, Dept Sociol, S-90187 Umea, Sweden Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC, THOUSAND OAKS IDS Number: 414KB ISSN: 0162-2439 Paula M?hlck has been working at the department of Sociology at Ume? University Sweden. Her main research interests lie within the field of gender in higher education using a combination of sociological and bibliometric methods. She is currently working as a Senior Research Officer at the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, Department for research cooperation Paula M?hlck previously published Socio-bibliometric Mapping of intra-Departmental Networks in Scientometrics (2000) Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year ACKER J GENDERING ORG ANAL 248 1992 BEAVER D CZECHOSLOVAK J PHYSI 1 14 1986 BECHER T ACAD TRIBES TERRITOR 1989 CALLON M MAPPING DYNAMICS SCI 103 1986 CAPLAN PJ LIFTING TON FEATHERS 1994 COCKBURN C WAY WOMEN 1991 COLE J OUTER CIRCLE WOMEN S 159 1991 COLE JR OUTER CIRCLE WOMEN S 277 1991 COLLINSON D GENDER WORK ORG 1 1 1994 COZZENS SE SCIENTOMETRICS 15 437 1989 CRONIN B CITATION PROCESS ROL 1984 DAVIES C SOCIOLOGY 30 661 1996 ELGQUISTSALTZMA.I GENDER ED LIFE PERSP 7 1994 GARFIELD E CITATION INDEXING 1979 GERHOLM L DOKTORSHATTEN STUDIE 1992 GHERADI S GENDER SYMBOLISM ORG 1995 HALL S REPRESENTATION CULTU 1997 HICKS DM SCI TECHNOL HUM VAL 21 379 1996 KANTER RM MEN WOMEN CORPORATIO 1977 LATOUR B LAB LIFE CONSTRUCTIO 1986 LATOUR B SCI ACTION FOLLOW SC 1987 LINGREN G KAMRATER KOLLEGOR KV 1985 LINGREN G KVINNOVETENSKAPLIG T 1 4 1996 LONG JS I SCI INFORMATI 0311 259 1993 LUNDGREN B ATT ATSKILJA FORENA 1996 LUUKKONEN T SCIENTOMETRICS 38 27 1997 MELIN G THESIS UMEA U UMEA 1997 MERTON RK AGE AGING AGE STRUCT 1973 NARIN F SCIENTOMETRICS 25 321 1991 PETERS HPF SCIENTOMETRICS 20 235 1991 PRICE DJD AM PSYCHOL 21 1011 1966 SONNERT G GENDER DIFFERENCES S 1995 STERN P PRISONERS CRYSTAL PA 1996 STHALE B NORDISKA MINISTERRAD 39 327 1996 WAHL A IRONI SEXUALITET LED 1998 WAHL A KONSSTRUKTURER ORG K 1992 WEST C GENDER SOC 1 125 1987 ZIMAN J PROMETHEUS BOUND SCI 1994 From David.Watkins at SOLENT.AC.UK Thu Aug 15 20:00:34 2002 From: David.Watkins at SOLENT.AC.UK (David Watkins) Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 01:00:34 +0100 Subject: David Watkins/SBS/Southampton Institute is out of the office. Message-ID: I will be out of the office from 13/08/2002 until 04/09/2002. I will respond to your message when I return, if apprpriate. DSW From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Aug 16 17:17:11 2002 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 17:17:11 -0400 Subject: Noordenbos G. "Women in academies of sciences: from exclusion to exception. WOMENS STUDIES INTERNATIONAL FORUM 25 (1): 127-137 JAN-FEB 2002 Message-ID: Greta.noordenbos at hag.unimaas.nl Title Women in academies of sciences: From exclusion to exception Author Noordenbos G Journal WOMENS STUDIES INTERNATIONAL FORUM 25 (1): 127-137 JAN-FEB 2002 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 29 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: The development of women in academies of sciences can be historicized from exclusion to exception. Most national academies elected their first female members in the 20th century after the Second World War. Why were women elected so late? The most important explanations for the long-lasting exclusion of women discussed in this article are the professionalization and institutionalization of science, the restriction of members, the exclusion of women from universities, the diminishing power of the aristocracy, the increasing divergence between the public and the private sphere, male prejudice against women, fear of losing status, and social closure of male networks. In order to gather information about the first women elected as members, the number of female members elected since then, and the actual percentage of female members, a questionnaire was distributed to all European academies of sciences. Results from 47 academies and 431 female members are presented. Although there is a steady increase in the number of female members since 1970, the proportion of women is still very low between 1% and 15%. The article concludes with some suggestions for the improvement of the situation of women in higher scientific positions. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. Addresses: Noordenbos G, Leiden Univ, Joke Smit Inst Womens Studies, Wassenaarseweg 52, NL-2333 AK Leiden, Netherlands Leiden Univ, Joke Smit Inst Womens Studies, NL-2333 AK Leiden, Netherlands Publisher: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, OXFORD IDS Number: 558TR ISSN: 0277-5395 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year ACAR F GENDER GAP HIGHER ED 160 1994 ALIC M HIST WOMEN SCI ANTIQ 1986 BOSCH M GESLACHT WETENSCHAP 1994 BOTS H U GEMEENSCHAP ACADEM 1976 BRUINVELSBAKKER M NVON 7 291 1993 CHAMBERS D ITALIAN ACAD 16 CENT 1 1995 CROSLAND M SCI CONTROL FRENCH A 1992 DASHKOVA C MEMOIRS MON HIST AUT 1995 EASLEA B SCI SEXUAL OPPRESSIO 1981 JULIAN M CREATIVE COUPLES SCI 170 1996 JULIAN MM WOMEN SCI RIGHTING R 335 1990 KANT I METAPHYSIK SITTEN 1785 LANDES J IK DENK DUS ZIJ IS V 75 1994 LIE S GENDER GAP HIGHER ED 1994 LORIOT M I JOLIOTCURIE VROUW 1993 MASON J CAMBRIDGE WOMEN 12 P 113 1996 MIJNHARDT W HEIL MENSCHDOM CULTU 1987 MURPHY R SOCIAL CLOSURE THEOR 1988 NOORDENBOS G VROUWEN ACAD WETENSC 2000 PHILLIPS P SCI LADY SOCIAL HIST 1990 QUINN S M CURIE LIFE 1995 ROSE H LOVE POWER KNOWLEDGE 1994 ROSSITER M WOMEN SCI AM STRUGGL 1982 ROUSSEAU JJ OEUVRES COMPLETES 4 1959 1962 SAVIGNEAU J M YOURCENAR BIOGRAFI 1991 SCHIEBINGER L MIND HAS NO SEX WOME 1989 VANBALEN B VROUWEN WETENSCHAPPE 2001 WETTENGL K MM MERIAN 1647 1717 1998 ZUCKERMAN H SCI ELITE NOBEL LAUR 1977 When responding, please attach my original message _______________________________________________________________________ Eugene Garfield, PhD. email: garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu home page: www.eugenegarfield.org Tel: 215-243-2205 Fax 215-387-1266 President, The Scientist LLC. www.the-scientist.com Chairman Emeritus, ISI www.isinet.com Past President, American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) www.asis.org _______________________________________________________________________ From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Aug 16 17:44:41 2002 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 17:44:41 -0400 Subject: Author(s): Arkhipov DB; Berezkin VG Title: Development of analytical chemistry in the latter half of the 20th century (scientometric analysis) Source: JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY 2002, Vol 57, Iss 7, pp 581-585 Message-ID: Author(s): Arkhipov DB; Berezkin VG Title: Development of analytical chemistry in the latter half of the 20th century (scientometric analysis) Source: JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY 2002, Vol 57, Iss 7, pp 581-585 Language: English Document Type: Article No. cited references: 11 ISSN/ISBN: 1061-9348 Publisher: MAIK NAUKA/INTERPERIODICA Addresses: Arkhipov DB, Russian Acad Sci, Inst Analyt Instrument Making, Rizhskii Pr 26, St Petersburg 198103, Russia Russian Acad Sci, Inst Analyt Instrument Making, St Petersburg 198103, Russia Russian Acad Sci, AV Topchiev Petrochem Synth Inst, Moscow 119991, Russia Abstract: Based on publications in Analytical Chemistry and Zhurnal Analiticheskoi Khimii and abstracts of Pittsburgh conferences, changes in analytical chemistry in the latter half of the 20th century are followed. It is noted that interest in the development of separation techniques and the analysis of environmental and biological samples has considerably increased. A direct scientometric analysis of the contents of publications is used in these scientometric studies. Cited references: ARKHIPOV DB-1999-KRATKAYA-VSEMIRNAYA BEREZKIN VG-1976-VOPROSY-RAZVITIYA-GA BEREZKIN VG-1972-ZAVODSK-LAB-V38-P543 BEREZKIN VG-1997-ZH-ANAL-KHIM-V52-P798 BEREZKIN VG-1992-ZH-ANAL-KHIM-V47-P80 BRAUN T-1987-LIT-ANAL-CHEM-SCIENT MYASOEDOV BF-1990-ZH-ANAL-KHIM-V45-P1259 WEAVER MJ-2000-ANAL-CHEM-V72-P38 ZOLOTOV YA-1999-ANAL-KHIMIYA-FRAGMEN-P33 ZOLOTOV YA-1992-ANAL-KHIMIYA-PROBLEM ZOLOTOV YA-1990-ZH-ANAL-KHIM-V45-P1255 Times Cited: 0 Source item page count: 5 Publication Date: JUL IDS No.: 576QJ 29-char source abbrev: J ANAL CHEM-ENGL TR Publisher address: C/O KLUWER ACADEMIC-PLENUM PUBLISHERS, 233 SPRING ST, NEW YORK, NY 10013-1578 USA From ecollier at INTEC.EDU.DO Mon Aug 19 19:21:20 2002 From: ecollier at INTEC.EDU.DO (Emmanuel Collier) Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 16:21:20 -0700 Subject: e-journals citation rate Message-ID: Dear SIGMETRICS subscribers, i would like to know if there's a recent study about the rate of citation of e-journals, free or not, versus the printed journals. I would like to know as well, if there are some bibliometrics studies on this subject. All the articles that i've found are a little bit old. Thanks a lot for your answers. Emmanuel Collier Encargado de Servicios al Publico INTEC Av. Los Pr?ceres, Gal? Santo Domingo Rep?blica Dominicana Tel: (809) 567 - 9271 (304) http://www.intec.edu.do -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Sun Aug 25 10:28:55 2002 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 15:28:55 +0100 Subject: Scientometric OAI Search Engines Message-ID: Something revolutionary is in the making in the form of scientometric OAI search engines. Citebase http://citebase.eprints.org/ is a prototype OAI service http://www.openarchives.org/service/listproviders.html now available (free, of course) to give research authors, users, their institutions and their research-funders a foretaste of what is coming and what is possible. Citebase has just been incorporated as an experimental feature for all users of the Physics Archive http://arxiv.org -- the largest http://arxiv.org/show_monthly_submissions and most heavily used http://arxiv.org/show_weekdays_graph Eprint Archive to date. We are hoping that by demonstrating the remarkable possibilities that a full-text citation-linked open-access corpus opens up, citebase will help to accelerate the rate at which the refereed research literature is made openly accessible online through institutional self-archiving http://www.arl.org/sparc/IR/ir.html The mother of all hyperlinks is bibliographic citation. Google's spectacularly successful system of ranking digital content by the number of incoming links http://www7.scu.edu.au/programme/fullpapers/1921/com1921.htm is simply a generalized case of the pre-existing scholarly practice of following the links that authors provide by citing their reference. The number of incoming reference links has long been used for ranking scholarly/scientific content by, for example, the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) in the form of the citation impact factor http://www.isinet.com/isi/hot/essays/journalcitationreports/7.html http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/archive/00001697/index.html Here are the elements in the chain: (1) A manuscript (preprint) is submitted to a journal for evaluation in the form of peer review. (2) The manuscript is peer-reviewed, revised and, if successful, published under the journal's name, certifying that it has met that journal's quality standards. (3) The journal's name and track record for quality is then used by researchers, research-funders, and the author's own institution as one of the guides in evaluating whether the work should be read, used, cited and further funded, and whether the author should be rewarded through salary increases, promotion, or prizes. (4) In addition to the journal-name's established reputation for peer-review standards, its "citation impact factor" (the average number of citation links to its articles from other articles) is used an evaluative guide by potential users and funders. (5) Articles and authors can also be evaluated and ranked, not just by the name-brand and citation impact of the journal in which they appear, but by the individual citation impact of each individual article and/or author. (6) Journal reputations and journal/article/author citation impacts can also be supplemented by evaluations in review articles and commentaries and by various forms of promotion and self-promotion by journals, authors, alerting services, and the public press (although these evaluations themselves would need to be evaluated, if they were not simply to be counted as further citations). (7) A new potential measure of on-line impact, not available in the on-paper era, is usage, in the form of "hits." This measure is noisy (it can be inflated by automated web-crawlers, short-changed by intermediate caches, abused by deliberate self-hits from authors, and undiscriminating between nonspecific site-browsing and item-specific reading) yet it seems to have some signal-value too, partly correlated with and partly independent of citation impact: http://opcit.eprints.org/opcitresearch.shtml (8) Nor do citations and hits exhaust the potential of online performance indicators. They are just the beginning of a wealth of potential scientometric guides to users and evaluators, including co-citation analysis, time-series analysis, and other potentially predictive analyses of correlations and trends among citations, hits, and even articles' content-words that will no doubt be invented and discovered as more of this corpus comes online. So try out citebase, and don't forget to supplement your experience with your imagination: (a) Citebase content right now is preponderantly in physics, mathematics and computer science. Imagine what it would be like if the full-text open-access content http://www.soros.org/openaccess/ were up there in all the other disciplines too. (And remember that getting it up there depends on -- and waits on -- only you!) http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#researcher/authors-do (b) Notice how natural and useful it feels to navigate the literature via citation links, guided by author or article ranking in terms of citation impact or hit impact. Imagine how much more useful it will feel when all the research literature is up there, gap-free, and spawns still newer and more powerful online scientometric guides. http://opcit.eprints.org/opcitpapers.shtml Stevan Harnad Harnad, S. (2001) "Research access, impact and assessment." Times Higher Education Supplement 1487: p. 16. http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/16/83/index.html NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open access to the refereed journal literature online is available at the American Scientist September Forum (98 & 99 & 00 & 01): http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/september98-forum.html or http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html Discussion can be posted to: september98-forum at amsci-forum.amsci.org See also the Budapest Open Access Initiative: http://www.soros.org/openaccess and the Free Online Scholarship Movement: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/timeline.htm From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Aug 26 12:41:41 2002 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 12:41:41 -0400 Subject: Rousseau R. Journal evaluation: Technical and practical issues. LIBRARY TRENDS 50 (3): 418-439 WIN 2002 Message-ID: Ronald Rousseau: ronald.rousseau at pandora.be Title Journal evaluation: Technical and practical issues Author Rousseau R Journal LIBRARY TRENDS 50 (3): 418-439 WIN 2002 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 80 Times Cited: 1 Abstract: THIS ESSAY PROVIDES AN OVERVIEW of journal evaluation indicators. It highlights the strengths and weaknesses of different indicators, together with their range of applicability. The definition of a "quality journal," different notions of impact factors, the meaning of ranking journals, and possible biases in citation databases are also discussed. Attention is given to using the journal impact in evaluation studies. The quality of a journal is a multifaceted notion. Journals can be evaluated for different purposes, and hence the results of such evaluation exercises can be quite different depending on the indicator(s) used. The impact factor, in one of its versions, is probably the most used indicator when it comes to gauging the visibility of a journal on the research front. Generalized impact factors, over periods longer than the traditional two years, are better indicators for the long-term value of a journal. As With all evaluation studies, care must be exercised when considering journal impact factors as a quality indicator. It seems best to use a whole battery of indicators (including several impact factors) and to change this group of indicators depending on the purpose of the evaluation study. Nowadays it goes without saying that special attention is paid to e-journals and specific indicators for this type of journal. KeyWords Plus: SCIENCE CITATION DATABASE, IMPACT FACTORS, SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS, INFORMATION-SCIENCE, BIBLIOMETRIC DATA, LIBRARY, INDEX, PUBLICATIONS, OBSOLESCENCE, RELIABILITY Addresses: Rousseau R, KHBO, Dept Ind Sci & Technol, Zeedijk 101, B-8400 Oostende, Belgium KHBO, Dept Ind Sci & Technol, B-8400 Oostende, Belgium Publisher: GSLIS PUBLICATIONS, CHAMPAIGN IDS Number: 565MM ISSN: 0024-2594 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year ABBOTT A NATURE 398 740 1999 ADLER S SLASHDOT EFFECT 1999 BONITZ M SCIENTOMETRICS 44 361 1999 BONITZ M SCIENTOMETRICS 40 407 1997 BRIN S P WORLD WID WEB 98 W 1998 BROOKES BC J AM SOC INFORM SCI 21 320 1970 CHRISTENSON JA SOC SCI QUART 66 964 1985 DEBRUIN RE RES EVALUATION 3 25 1993 DEBRUIN RE SCIENTOMETRICS 26 65 1993 DIERICK J HET OUDE NIEUWE BOEK 593 1988 EGGHE L INTRO INFORMETRICS Q 1990 EGGHE L J AM SOC INFORM SCI 51 1004 2000 EGGHE L MATH COMPUT MODEL 29 13 1999 EGGHE L MATH COMPUT MODEL 28 11 1998 EGGHE L SCIENTOMETRICS 36 97 1996 GARFIELD E AM DOC 14 195 1963 GARFIELD E CURR CONTENTS 22 5 1990 GARFIELD E CURR SCI INDIA 73 639 1997 GARFIELD E SCIENTIST 12 10 1998 GARFIELD E SCIENTOMETRICS 1 359 1979 GLANZEL W SCIENTOMETRICS 44 427 1999 GOMEZ I MED CLIN-BARCELONA 109 497 1997 HARTER SP J AM SOC INFORM SCI 49 507 1998 HIRST G J AM SOC INFORM SCI 29 171 1978 HOLLING CS CONSERV ECOL 3 16 1999 INGWERSEN P CHINESE SCI BULL 46 524 2001 JIN BH SCIENTOMETRICS 45 325 1999 KLEINBERG JM J ACM 46 604 1999 LEWISON G P 6 C INT SOC SCIENT 229 1997 LINE MB EURIM 2 51 1977 LINE MB LIBR TRENDS 41 665 1993 LUWEL M INDICATORS RES PERFO 1999 MCGRATH WE LIBR QUART 63 192 1993 MERTON RK SCIENCE 159 56 1968 MOED HF NATURE 381 186 1996 MOED HF RES POLICY 14 131 1985 NAKAMOTO H INFORMETRICS 87 88 157 1988 NIEUWENHUYSEN P SCIENTOMETRICS 13 45 1988 PAO ML INFORMETRICS 89 90 229 1990 PERITZ BC J INFORM SCI 21 63 1995 PERITZ BC SCIENTOMETRICS 5 211 1983 PINSKI G INFORMATION PROCESSI 12 297 1976 PRICE DJD COMMUNICATION SCI EN 3 1970 RAISIG LM SCIENCE 131 1417 1960 RAO IKR LIB SCI SLANT DOCUME 10 297 1973 ROUSELL DH EXPLOR MIN GEOL 6 1 1997 ROUSSEAU R CIENCIA INFORMACAO 27 149 1998 ROUSSEAU R CYBERNETICS 1 1997 ROUSSEAU R INFORMATION GLOBAL C 120 1993 ROUSSEAU R INFORMETRICS 87 88 249 1988 ROUSSEAU R J AM SOC INFORM SCI 47 775 1996 ROUSSEAU R J DOC 57 349 2001 ROUSSEAU R J DOC 52 449 1996 ROUSSEAU R SCIENTOMETRIC STUDY 1998 ROUSSEAU R SCIENTOMETRIC STUDY 1995 ROUSSEAU R SCIENTOMETRICS 44 521 1999 RUSSELL J IN PRESS ENCY LIFE S SCHOONBAERT D NATURE 391 222 1998 SCHUBERT A SCIENTOMETRICS 26 21 1993 SCHUBERT A SCIENTOMETRICS 5 59 1983 SEN BK J DOC 45 139 1989 SPAVENTI J INFORMATOLOGIA YUGOS 11 11 1979 SPINAK E B PAHO 29 352 1995 SPRUYT EHJ HIGHER ED MANAGEMENT 8 141 1996 STEGMANN J J DOC 55 310 1999 STEGMANN J NATURE 390 550 1997 TESTA J CIENCIA INFORMACAO 27 233 1998 TIJSSEN RJW J AM SOC INFORM SCI 41 296 1990 TODOROV R J INFORM SCI 14 47 1988 TSAY MY B MED LIBR ASSOC 86 31 1998 TSAY MY J DOC 55 543 1999 VALDECASAS AG NATURE 403 698 2000 VANFLEET DD J MANAGE 26 839 2000 VANHOOYDONK G SCIENTOMETRICS 30 65 1994 VANHOOYDONK G SERIALS LIBR 27 45 1995 VANRAAN AFJ WEB KNOWLEDGE FESTSC 301 2000 WORMELL I J DOC 54 584 1998 WOUTERS P THESIS U AMSTERDAM 1999 YANOVSKY VI SCIENTOMETRICS 3 223 1981 ZWEMER RL FED PROC 29 1595 1970 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Aug 26 12:42:55 2002 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 12:42:55 -0400 Subject: Rogers JD, Bozeman B, Chompalov I. Obstacles and opportunities in the application of network analysis to the evaluation of R&D. RESEARCH EVALUATION 10 (3): 161-172 DEC 2001 Message-ID: Juan D. Rogers : juan.rogers at pubpolicy.gatech.edu Title Obstacles and opportunities in the application of network analysis to the evaluation of R&D Author Rogers JD, Bozeman B, Chompalov I Journal RESEARCH EVALUATION 10 (3): 161-172 DEC 2001 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 54 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: A comprehensive review of studies that apply the network approach to investigating the development of S&T identifies obstacles characterizing current network research and impeding the revelation of its potential fruitfulness in research assessment. It is argued that, in order to fulfill its promise, network analysis needs to: reformulate the 'quintessential bureaucratic evaluation question',; examine more closely untidy networks; focus on the content of network links rather than their formal aspects; and develop a concept of 'network effectiveness' in terms of the network's ability to expand the uses of ST knowledge. KeyWords Plus: SOCIAL RESOURCES, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGIES, INFORMATION, INNOVATORS, PATTERNS, TIES Addresses: Rogers JD, Georgia Inst Technol, Sch Publ Policy, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA Georgia Inst Technol, Sch Publ Policy, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA Publisher: BEECH TREE PUBLISHING, GUILDFORD IDS Number: 578QZ ISSN: 0958-2029 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year ALDRICH HE HDB ORG DESIGN 385 1981 ALLEN TJ MANAGING FLOW INFORM 1977 BALDI S AM SOCIOL REV 63 829 1998 BLAU J RES SOCIOLOGY KNOWLE 191 1978 BONACICH P AM SOCIOL REV 55 448 1990 BOZEMAN B IN PRESS RES POLICY 2001 BOZEMAN B R D VALUE MAPPING PR 1998 BREIGER RL AM SOCIOL REV 41 117 1976 BURT R STRUCTURAL HOLES SOC 1992 BURT R STRUCTURAL THERY ACT 1982 CALLON M SOCIOL REV MONOGR 132 1992 CALLON M STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT 1997 CHUBIN D SOCIOLOGICAL Q 17 448 1976 CHUBIN DE SCIENTOMETRICS 7 221 1985 CRANE D INVISIBLE COLLEGES 1972 DEBRESSON C RES POLICY 20 363 1991 FREEMAN C RES POLICY 20 499 1991 FRIEDKIN NE AM J SOCIOL 83 1444 1978 GIBBONS M NEW PRODUCTION KNOWL 1994 GRANOVETTER M SOCIAL STRUCTURE NET 105 1982 GRANOVETTER MS AM J SOCIOL 78 1360 1973 HAGEDOORN J RES POLICY 24 207 1995 HAGEDOORN J RES POLICY 21 163 1992 HICKS DM SCI TECHNOL HUM VAL 21 379 1996 LAHLOU S STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT 1997 LATOUR B LAB LIFE SOCIAL CONS 1979 LATOUR B SCI ACTION 1986 LECLERC M SCI PUBL POLICY 19 15 1992 LEONCINI R RES POLICY 25 415 1996 LEYDESDORFF L SCI TECHNOL 15 305 1990 LEYDESDORFF L SCIENTOMETRICS 11 295 1987 LIN N AM SOCIOL REV 46 393 1981 LUUKKONEN T SCI TECHNOL 17 101 1992 MARSDEN PV ANNU REV SOCIOL 16 435 1990 MARSDEN PV SOC FORCES 66 1038 1988 MARTIN BR RES POLICY 12 61 1983 MILGRAM S PSYCHOL TODAY 2 60 1967 MOED HF SCIENTOMETRICS 15 473 1989 MULLINS N THEORIES THEORY GROU 1973 MULLINS NC AM SOCIOL REV 42 552 1977 MURRAY SO SOCIOL WORK OCCUP 8 119 1981 NOHRIA N NETWORKS ORG 1992 OLIVER AL ORGAN STUD 19 549 1998 PARKHE A ACAD MANAGE REV 18 227 1993 POWELL WW ADMIN SCI QUART 41 116 1996 POWELL WW HDB EC SOCIOLOGY 368 1994 ROGERS E DIFFUSION INNOVATION 1995 SHRUM W HDB QUANTITATIVE STU 107 1988 SHRUM W ORG TECHNOLOGY NETWO 1985 TIJSSEN RJW RES POLICY 21 27 1992 TRAVERS J SOCIOMETRY 32 425 1969 VALENTE T NETWORK MODELS DIFFU 1995 WATTS DJ AM J SOCIOL 105 493 1999 ZIMAN J PROMETHEUS BOUND SCI 1994 From Garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Aug 26 16:39:49 2002 From: Garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Garfield, Eugene) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 16:39:49 -0400 Subject: FW: Moving Biotech Research to Profitable Commercialization Message-ID: fyi best wishes. 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URL: From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Aug 30 11:29:27 2002 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 11:29:27 -0400 Subject: Barabasi AL, Jeong H, Neda Z, Ravasz E, Schubert A, Vicsek T. "Evolution of the social network of scientific collaborations" PHYSICA A 311 (3-4): 590-614 AUG 15 2002 Message-ID: A.L. Barabasi: Albert.L.Barabasi.1 at nd.edu Title Evolution of the social network of scientific collaborations Author Barabasi AL, Jeong H, Neda Z, Ravasz E, Schubert A, Vicsek T Journal PHYSICA A 311 (3-4): 590-614 AUG 15 2002 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 42 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: The co-authorship network of scientists represents a prototype of complex evolving networks. In addition, it offers one of the most extensive database to date on social networks. By mapping the electronic database containing all relevant journals in mathematics and neuro-science for an 8-year period (1991-98), we infer the dynamic and the structural mechanisms that govern the evolution and topology of this complex system. Three complementary approaches allow us to obtain a detailed characterization. First, empirical measurements allow us to uncover the topological measures that characterize the network at a given moment, as well as the time evolution of these quantities. The results indicate that the network is scale-free, and that the network evolution is governed by preferential attachment, affecting both internal and external links. However, in contrast with most model predictions the average degree increases in time, and the node separation decreases. Second, we propose a simple model that captures the network's time evolution. In some limits the model can be solved analytically, predicting a two-regime scaling in agreement with the measurements. Third, numerical simulations are used to uncover the behavior of quantities that could not be predicted analytically. The combined numerical and analytical results underline the important role internal links play in determining the observed scaling behavior and network topology. The results and methodologies developed in the context of the co-authorship network could be useful for a systematic study of other complex evolving networks as well, such as the world wide web, Internet, or other social networks. (C) 2002 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. 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