From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Feb 6 11:05:38 2002 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 11:05:38 -0500 Subject: Godin, B "Outline for a history of science measurement"SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & HUMAN VALUES 27 (1): 3-27 WIN 2002 Message-ID: Benoit Godin : e-mail: Benoit.Godin at inrs-ucs.uquebec.ca TITLE Outline for a history of science measurement Full text at http://www.ost.qc.ca/OST/Document/Outline_History_Measurement.pdf AUTHOR Godin B JOURNAL SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & HUMAN VALUES 27 (1): 3-27 WIN 2002 Document type: Review Language: English Cited References: 112 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: The measurement of science and technology (S&T) is now fifty years old. It owes a large part of its existence to the work of the National Science Foundation and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in the 1950s and 1960s. Given the centrality of S&T statistics in science studies, it is surprising that no history of the measurement exists in the literature. This article outlines such a history. The history is cast in the light of social statistics. Like social statistics. S&T indicators are produced mainly by governments but differ in a number of aspects. First, they, have not been developed to control individuals. Second, they have taken shape from the start at the international level. Third, they, reflect a consensus among states and their organizations. This article shows that this specificity is due to the sociopolitics that drives S&T measurement. KeyWords Plus: CONSTRUCTION, IDEOLOGIES, SCIENTISTS, TECHNOLOGY Addresses: Godin B, Univ Quebec, INRS, Montreal, PQ H3C 3P8, Canada Univ Quebec, INRS, Montreal, PQ H3C 3P8, Canada Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC, THOUSAND OAKS IDS Number: 504FF ISSN: 0162-2439 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year SCI FREEDOM 1955 SCI TECHNOLOGIE INDI 1999 SCIENCE 14 884 1993 SCIENCE 252 639 1991 *EUR RECH DEV STAT ANN 1998 *EUR UN EUR REP SCI TECHN IN 1997 *NSF 5936 NSF 1959 *NSF CAT SCI RES 1979 *NSF REP TASK FORC RES DE 1989 *NSF SCI ENG IND 2000 *OECD 19971 OECD 1997 *OECD COOP RECH SCI TECHN 1960 *OECD MAN NAT INN SYST 1999 *OECD MEAS R D HIGH ED SEC 1997 *OECD MEAS SCI TECHN ACT P 1993 *OECD MEAS SCI TECHN ACT P 1989 *OECD MEAS SCI TECHN ACT P 1981 *OECD MEAS SCI TECHN ACT P 1963 *OECD MIN TALK SCI 1965 *OECD NAT INN SYST 1997 *OECD STI REV 1994 *OECD TECHN EC KEY REL 1992 *STAT CAN EST RES DEV EXP HIGH 1997 *UNESCO RAPP MOND SCI 1998 ARENDT H CONDITION HOMME MODE 1983 ARROW K NBER C 609 1962 AVERCH HA STRATEGIC ANAL SCI T 1985 BALDWIN JR 120 STAT CAN 1998 BARFIELD CE SCI 21 CENTURY BUSH 1997 BEAUD JP REV SYNTHESE 4 419 1997 BRAUN D J PUBLIC POLICY 13 135 1993 BRIAN E HIST MESURE 4 201 1989 BRIAN E MESURE ETAT ADM GEOM 1994 BUSH V SCI ENDLESS FRONTIER 1995 DENISON EF AM ECON REV 54 720 1964 DESROSIERES A DISCOURSES SOC 195 1990 DESROSIERES A POLITIQUE GRANDS NOM 1993 DOLBY RGA SCI ESTABLISHMENTS H 267 1982 EDGE D HIST SCI 27 102 1979 ELKANA Y METRIC SCI ADVENT SC 1978 FORREST JE TECHNOL ANAL STRATEG 3 439 1991 FREEMAN C MEASUREMENT OUTPUT R 1970 FREEMAN C R D EFFORT W EUROPE 1965 GARFIELD E SCIENCE 178 471 1972 GIBBONS M NEW PRODUCTION KNOWL 1994 GIERYN TF AM SOCIOL REV 48 781 1983 GIERYN TF CULTURAL BOUNDARIES 1999 GILBERT GN SCI STUD 4 279 1974 GODIN B CAN J POLIT SCI 33 333 2000 GODIN B ETAT INDICATEURS SCI 1996 GODIN B INDICATEURS RECHERCH 1997 GODIN B L DAVIGNON KNOWLEDGE 1998 GODIN B MEASURING SCI IS THE 2000 GODIN B RECH SOCIOGRAPH 36 445 1995 GOLINSKI J SCI PUBLIC CULTURE C 1992 GOODMAN N WAYS WORLDMAKING 1978 GRILICHES Z J POLITICAL EC 66 419 1958 GUSTON DH FRAGILE CONTRACT U S 1994 HACKING I CAUSAL COGNITION MUL 351 1995 HACKING I HUM SOC 5 279 1982 HACKING I RECONSTRUCTING INDIV 222 1986 HENSLEY OD CLASSIFICATION RES 1989 HOLBROOK JAD SCI PUBLIC POLICY 19 1992 HOLTON G METRIC SCI ADVENT SC 52 1978 IRVINE J INVESTING FUTURE INT 1990 JOHNSTON SF SCI CONTEXT 9 387 1996 KENDRICK JW REV ECON STAT 38 248 1956 KLEINMAN DL POLITICS ENDLESS FRO 1995 KLINE R ISIS 86 194 1995 KLINE SJ RES MANAGEMENT JUL 36 1985 LATOUR B SCI ACTION FOLLOW SC 1987 LAUDAN L POSITIVISM RELATIVIS 210 1996 LAYTON ET TECHNOL CULT 17 688 1976 LAYTON ET TECHNOL CULT 15 31 1974 LOBKOWICZ N THEORY PRACTICE HIST 1967 LOTKA AJ J WASHINGTON ACADEMY 16 317 1926 MACAULAY JB INDICATEUR EXCELLENC 1985 MILLER P ACCOUNT ORG SOC 12 235 1987 MILLER P ECON SOC 19 1 1990 NELSON R J POLITICAL EC 67 297 1959 POLANYI M MINERVA 1 54 1962 PORTER TM RISE STAT THINKING 1 1986 PORTER TM SCI 20 CENTURY 97 1997 PRICE DJD DISCOVERY 17 240 1956 PRICE DS ARCH INT HIST SCI 5 85 1951 PRICE DS LITTLE SCI BIG SCI 1963 PRICE DS SCI BABYLON 1961 ROSE N HIST HUM SCI 1 179 1988 SAREN MA R&D MANAGE 14 11 1984 SAREWITZ D FRONTIERS ILLUSION S 1996 SCHAFFER S INVISIBLE CONNECTION 23 1992 SCHMOOKLER J J PATENT OFFICE SOC 32 123 1950 SCHMOOKLER J REV ECON STAT 183 1954 SCHUMPETER J THEORY EC DEV 1980 SHERMAN B SCI CONTEXT 7 515 1994 SMALL H SCI STUD 4 339 1974 SMITH BLR AM SCI POLICY WORLD 1990 SOLOW RM REV ECON STAT 39 312 1957 STEWART L RISE PUBLIC SCI RHET 1992 STIRNER HE METHODOLOGY STAT R D 31 1959 STOKES DE PASTEURS QUADRANT BA 1997 TAYLOR CA DEFINING SCI RHETORI 1996 TOULMIN S CLASSIFICATION RES 1988 TURNER FM ISIS 71 589 1980 TURNER SP THEORIES SCI SOC 1990 VANRAAN AFJ HDB QUANTITATIVE STU 1988 VANRAAN AFJ SCI TECHNOLOGY THEIR 1989 VANRAAN FJ RES EVALUATION 5 1995 WALKER K INDICATORS CANADIAN 1988 WEBER M SAVANT POLITIQUE 1959 WEINBERG AM AM SCI 58 612 1970 WOOLGAR S SCI PUBL POLICY 18 319 From gwhitney at UTK.EDU Fri Feb 8 08:58:08 2002 From: gwhitney at UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 08:58:08 -0500 Subject: Visualization of the Semantic Web Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 08:53:02 +0100 From: Ronald Rousseau ***************************************************************************** Second International Symposium of Visualisation of the Semantic Web, IV02-VSW *********** www.graphicslink.demon.co.uk/IV02/VSW.htm **************** ***************************************************************************** 10 - 11 - 12 July 2002 SOAS, University of London LONDON ENGLAND ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers, Videos and Participation Aims and Scope The Semantic Web is currently the most evolving area of the Internet development. 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Multimedia Interfaces for XML Documents and Ontologies ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: 15 March 2002 - Submission of papers 03 May 2002 - Submission of camera-ready and early registration closes Further details and registration form are available at the conference web-site: http://www.graphicslink.demon.co.uk/IV02/ ============================================= All IV02-VSW enquiries should be addressed to: Vladimir Geroimenko REF: IV02-VSW School of Computing University of Plymouth Plymouth, Devon PL4 8AA, UK Tel: (Int. +44) 1752 232612 Fax: (Int. +44) 1752 232540 Email: vladg at soc.plym.ac.uk URL: www.graphicslink.demon.co.uk/IV02/VSW.htm From gwhitney at UTK.EDU Sun Feb 10 20:51:43 2002 From: gwhitney at UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 20:51:43 -0500 Subject: Free Nalimov Scientometrics Issue Message-ID: Please DO NOT reply to this message; please follow directions below. Thanks. --gw Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 08:18:46 +0100 From: Dr. Manfred Bonitz ########################################################### The international journal SCIENTOMETRICS devoted a special issue (vol.52, No.2, 2001) to the memory of Vassily Vassilievich NALIMOV. Interested people are offered to order a copy of the issue free of charge directly from the Publishing Editor. First come first serve. Please, drop a signal to Kluwer Academic Publishers Drs. F. Robbert van Berckelaer M.Phil. Spuiboulevard 50 P.O.Box 17 3300 AA Dordrecht The Netherlands Phone: (+31) 78 639 21 87 Fax: (+31) 78 639 23 88 E-mail: fr.vanBerckelaer at wkap.nl From the guest editor's editorial: "Vassily Nalimov (VVN) is really beyond description. He is like a wandering star whose motion brought him for a short time in our constellation, giving us a special gift - the word Scientometrics; then he moved on to another level of consciousness. One can only be astonished at his productivity, and his visionary books on the evolution of contemporary sciences and on the necessity of cultural changes mankind must undertake in order to survive on the planet. Nalimov is truly an extra-terrestrial thinker. It was Tibor Braun's idea to dedicate a whole issue of this journal to the memory of VVN. The challenge was unusual. It could not be limited to the gathering of original papers from scientometicians. On the other hand, introducing the readership to the "whole" VVN would have meant that little was left for papers on scientometrics. So I tried to create a structure that reflects, at least in part, the main features of VVN's personality, his life and work, his universal, probabilistic thinking." ***************************************************************************** *** C O N T E N T S E d i t o r i a l s Tibor Braun, editor-in-chief (HUNGARY) Manfred Bonitz, guest editor (GERMANY) A b o u t N a l i m o v (by historians, friends, co-workers) Lyubov G. Gurjeva, Paul Wouters (RUSSIA, THE NETHERLANDS) Scientometrics in the context of probabilistic philosophy Yuriy V. Granovsky (RUSSIA) Is it possible to measure science? V.V. Nalimov's research in scientometrics Elena V. Markova (RUSSIA) He brought new meanings and new solutions Arkady I. Cherny, Ruggero S. Gilyarevsky (RUSSIA) The impact of V.V. Nalimov on information science Eugene Garfield (USA) Reminiscences of Vassily V. Nalimov Rustum Roy (USA) Vassily Nalimov - modern Russian high priest T e x t s b y N a l i m o v (reprinted and unpublished) Vassily V. Nalimov (RUSSIA) Return from Exile. The Development of Mathematical Experimental Design Vassily V. Nalimov (RUSSIA) Facing the mystery: A philosophical approach Vassily V. Nalimov (RUSSIA) Philosophy of Number: How metrical hermeneutics is possible O r i g i n a l p a p e r s Barbara Stefaniak (POLAND) International co-operation in science and in social sciences as reflected in multinational papers indexed in SCI and SSCI Marta Skalska-Zlat (POLAND) Nalimov and the Polish way towards science of science Anna Zbikowska-Migon (POLAND) Karl Heinrich Froemmichen (1736-1783) and Adrian Balbi (1782-1848) - The Pioneers of Biblio- and Scientometrics Subbiah Arunachalam (INDIA) Mathematics research in India today: What does the literature reveal? Leo Egghe, Ronald Rousseau (BELGIUM) Symmetric and asymmetric theory of relative concentration and applications William W. Hood, Concepcion S. Wilson (AUSTRALIA) The Literature of Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, and Informetrics Nikita A. Zorin, Aleksander V. Nemtsov, Vladimir V. Kalinin (RUSSIA) Formalised assessment of publication quality in Russian psychiatry Irina Marshakova-Shaikevich (RUSSIA) Scientometric perspectives of the analysis of chemical terminology T h e U n i v e r s e o f N a l i m o v Sam I. Shapiro (USA) The Universe Grasper Vassily V. Nalimov, Jeanna Drogalina-Nalimov, Konstantin Zuyev (RUSSIA) The Universe of Meanings ************************************************************************ Dr. Manfred Bonitz Halbkreisstrasse 17 D - 01187 Dresden E-mail: bonitz at fz-rossendorf.de Phone: (+49) 351 401 0760 ########################################################### From jacso at HAWAII.EDU Sun Feb 10 22:34:56 2002 From: jacso at HAWAII.EDU (Peter Jacso) Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 17:34:56 -1000 Subject: First Come First Served? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: The gentleman at Kluwer who is to be approached for the special issue (also in the sense of special because it is free) of Scientometrics is away from his e-mail until the 18th of February. Depending on the default sort option of his e-mail first come may be last served. peter On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Gretchen Whitney wrote: > Please DO NOT reply to this message; please follow directions > below. Thanks. --gw > > > Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 08:18:46 +0100 > From: Dr. Manfred Bonitz > > ########################################################### > > The international journal SCIENTOMETRICS devoted a special issue (vol.52, > No.2, 2001) to the memory of Vassily Vassilievich NALIMOV. Interested people > are offered to order a copy of the issue free of charge directly from the > Publishing Editor. First come first serve. Please, drop a signal to > > Kluwer Academic Publishers > Drs. F. Robbert van Berckelaer M.Phil. > Spuiboulevard 50 > P.O.Box 17 > 3300 AA Dordrecht > The Netherlands > > Phone: (+31) 78 639 21 87 > Fax: (+31) 78 639 23 88 > E-mail: fr.vanBerckelaer at wkap.nl > > > From the guest editor's editorial: > > "Vassily Nalimov (VVN) is really beyond description. He is like a > wandering > star whose motion brought him for a short time in our constellation, giving > us a special gift - the word Scientometrics; then he moved on to another > level > of consciousness. One can only be astonished at his productivity, and his > visionary books on the evolution of contemporary sciences and on the > necessity > of cultural changes mankind must undertake in order to survive on the planet. > Nalimov is truly an extra-terrestrial thinker. > > It was Tibor Braun's idea to dedicate a whole issue of this journal to the > memory of VVN. The challenge was unusual. It could not be limited to the > gathering of original papers from scientometicians. On the other hand, > introducing the readership to the "whole" VVN would have meant that little > was > left for papers on scientometrics. So I tried to create a structure that > reflects, at least in part, the main features of VVN's personality, his life > and work, his universal, probabilistic thinking." > > > ***************************************************************************** > *** > > C O N T E N T S > > > E d i t o r i a l s > > > Tibor Braun, editor-in-chief (HUNGARY) > > Manfred Bonitz, guest editor (GERMANY) > > > A b o u t N a l i m o v (by historians, friends, co-workers) > > Lyubov G. Gurjeva, Paul Wouters (RUSSIA, THE NETHERLANDS) > Scientometrics in the context of probabilistic philosophy > Yuriy V. Granovsky (RUSSIA) > Is it possible to measure science? V.V. Nalimov's research > in scientometrics > Elena V. Markova (RUSSIA) > He brought new meanings and new solutions > Arkady I. Cherny, Ruggero S. Gilyarevsky (RUSSIA) > The impact of V.V. Nalimov on information science > Eugene Garfield (USA) > Reminiscences of Vassily V. Nalimov > Rustum Roy (USA) > Vassily Nalimov - modern Russian high priest > > > T e x t s b y N a l i m o v (reprinted and unpublished) > > > Vassily V. Nalimov (RUSSIA) > Return from Exile. The Development of Mathematical Experimental > Design > Vassily V. Nalimov (RUSSIA) > Facing the mystery: A philosophical approach > Vassily V. Nalimov (RUSSIA) > Philosophy of Number: How metrical hermeneutics is possible > > > O r i g i n a l p a p e r s > > > Barbara Stefaniak (POLAND) > International co-operation in science and in social sciences as > reflected in multinational papers indexed in SCI and SSCI > Marta Skalska-Zlat (POLAND) > Nalimov and the Polish way towards science of science > Anna Zbikowska-Migon (POLAND) > Karl Heinrich Froemmichen (1736-1783) and Adrian Balbi (1782-1848) > - The Pioneers of Biblio- and Scientometrics > Subbiah Arunachalam (INDIA) > Mathematics research in India today: What does the literature > reveal? > Leo Egghe, Ronald Rousseau (BELGIUM) > Symmetric and asymmetric theory of relative concentration and > applications > William W. Hood, Concepcion S. Wilson (AUSTRALIA) > The Literature of Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, and Informetrics > Nikita A. Zorin, Aleksander V. Nemtsov, Vladimir V. Kalinin (RUSSIA) > Formalised assessment of publication quality in Russian psychiatry > Irina Marshakova-Shaikevich (RUSSIA) > Scientometric perspectives of the analysis of chemical terminology > > > T h e U n i v e r s e o f N a l i m o v > > Sam I. Shapiro (USA) > The Universe Grasper > Vassily V. Nalimov, Jeanna Drogalina-Nalimov, Konstantin Zuyev (RUSSIA) > The Universe of Meanings > > ************************************************************************ > > Dr. Manfred Bonitz > Halbkreisstrasse 17 > D - 01187 Dresden > E-mail: bonitz at fz-rossendorf.de > Phone: (+49) 351 401 0760 > > ########################################################### > From Garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Feb 15 12:50:07 2002 From: Garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Garfield, Eugene) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 12:50:07 -0500 Subject: FW: colloque ile rousse Message-ID: from ISSI. EG -----Original Message----- From: Henri Dou [mailto:dou at crrm.u-3mrs.fr] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 10:26 AM To: issi at crrm.u-3mrs.fr Subject: colloque ile rousse ILE ROUSSE 14 Octobre 18 Octobre 2002 Appel ? communication LES SYSTEMES D'INFORMATION ELABOREE Bibliom?trie Linguistique Information Strat?gique Veille Technologique Intelligence Economique Journ?es d'?tudes organis?es par La Soci?t? Fran?aise de Bibliom?trie Appliqu?e Avec le soutien de: La Municipalit? d'?le Rousse L'Universit? d'Aix Marseille (CRRM) L'Universit? de Marne la Vall?e Le Centre d'Etudes Scientifiques de D?fense (CESD) Sous le patronage de: la Municipalit? d'Ile Rousse, l' Universit? d'Aix-Marseille III, le Centre d'Etudes Scientifiques de D?fense, l'Universit? de Marne-la-Vall?e, le Conservatoire National des Arts et M?tiers COMITE SCIENTIFIQUE Mr. DALLEMAGNE Mr. LACOSTE Mr HUOT Mr. DOU Mr. LAURENT Mr. PAOLI Mr JE. DUBOIS Mr. DOUSSET Mr. LE COADIC Mr. QUONIAM Mme MASSARI COELHO Mr. DUMAS Mme. 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"On-line or non-line" Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports 11(6), p.319-320, December 2001 Message-ID: TITLE "On-line or non-line" AUTHOR Kjaer M JOURNAL SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE & SCIENCE IN SPORTS 11 (6): 319-320 DEC 2001 Document type: Editorial Material Language: English Cited References: 4 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: MUNKSGAARD INT PUBL LTD, COPENHAGEN IDS Number: 502MN ISSN: 0905-7188 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year GARFIELD E NATURE 411 522 2001 HARNAD S NATURE 410 1024 2001 LAWRENCE S NATURE 411 521 2001 ODLYZKO AM TECHNOLOGY SCHOLARLY 380 1998 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Feb 19 14:40:09 2002 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 14:40:09 -0500 Subject: Alonso WJ, Fernandez-Juricic E "Regional network raises profile of local journals" NATURE 415 (6871): 471-472 JAN 31 2002 Message-ID: Wladimir Alonso : wladimir.alonso at zoo.ox.ac.uk; Esteban Fernandez: esteban.fernandez-juricic at zoo.ox.ac.uk TITLE Regional network raises profile of local journals AUTHORS Alonso WJ, Fernandez-Juricic E JOURNAL NATURE 415 (6871): 471-472 JAN 31 2002 Document type: Letter Language: English Cited References: 3 Times Cited: 0 Addresses: Alonso WJ, Univ Oxford, Dept Zool, S Parks Rd, Oxford OX1 3PS, England Univ Oxford, Dept Zool, Oxford OX1 3PS, England Publisher: MACMILLAN PUBLISHERS LTD, LONDON IDS Number: 516PQ ISSN: 0028-0836 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year CURTI M HAEMATOLOGICA 86 1015 2001 HARNAD S NATURE 410 1024 2001 VOHORA SB NATURE 412 583 2001 From Chaomei.Chen at CIS.DREXEL.EDU Tue Feb 19 14:41:12 2002 From: Chaomei.Chen at CIS.DREXEL.EDU (Chaomei Chen) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 14:41:12 -0500 Subject: FYI: Chen, C., Kuljis, J., Paul, R.J. Visualizing latent domain knowledge. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C. Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, The fulltext version of the following article is now available at: http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~cc345/papers/ieeesmc2001.pdf Chen, C., Kuljis, J., Paul, R.J. Visualizing latent domain knowledge. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews, 31(4)(November 2001), 518 - 529. Best wishes, Chaomei From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Feb 19 14:43:40 2002 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 14:43:40 -0500 Subject: Alonso WJ, Fernandez-Juricic E "Regional network raises profile of local journals" NATURE 415 (6871): 471-472 JAN 31 2002 Message-ID: Wladimir Alonso : wladimir.alonso at zoo.ox.ac.uk; Esteban Fernandez: esteban.fernandez-juricic at zoo.ox.ac.uk FULL TEXT OF THIS ARTICLE AVAILABLE AT : http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/Dynapage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v415/n6871/f ull/415471c_fs.html TITLE Regional network raises profile of local journals AUTHORS Alonso WJ, Fernandez-Juricic E JOURNAL NATURE 415 (6871): 471-472 JAN 31 2002 Document type: Letter Language: English Cited References: 3 Times Cited: 0 Addresses: Alonso WJ, Univ Oxford, Dept Zool, S Parks Rd, Oxford OX1 3PS, England Univ Oxford, Dept Zool, Oxford OX1 3PS, England From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Feb 20 17:43:17 2002 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:43:17 -0500 Subject: Pardo C, Reolid M, Delicado MV, Mallebrera E, Garcia-Meseguer MJ "Nursing research in Spain: bibliometrics of references of research papers in the decade 1985-1994" JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING 35 (6): 933-943 SEP 2001 Message-ID: Carmen Pardo : cpardo at enf-ab.uclm.es TITLE Nursing research in Spain: bibliometrics of references of research papers in the decade 1985-1994 AUTHOR Pardo C, Reolid M, Delicado MV, Mallebrera E, Garcia-Meseguer MJ JOURNAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING 35 (6): 933-943 SEP 2001 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 44 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Background. Spain is one of the few European countries to have recently totally incorporated the study of nursing into the university sector. Bibliometric studies may be of a great help for the consolidation of nursing research. Aim of the study. The aim of this paper is to describe bibliographic references in Spanish nursing research papers and their evolution over a decade. Method. The method consists of a retrospective bibliometric study of a sample (cluster sampling) of 622 research papers (original papers and review papers), which were contained in the Spanish nursing journals Enfermeria Cientifica, Revista ROL de Enfermeria, Enfermeria Clinica and Enfermeria Integral, and published from 1985 to 1994. The journal Nursing Research was selected for qualitative comparative purposes. A series of classic bibliometric indexes were used. Results. The mean of references per paper is 10.64 +/- 10.42; this increased over time (P < 0.001). Review papers have more references (P < 0.001). Price index(percentage of references published during the last 5 years) is 44% and the Insularity (percentage of references published in same country as the article) is 55%.References to journals predominate (58.6%), with a growing tendency for references to Spanish nursing journals, although they are still scarce (18.1% of the references to journals). Spanish is the language of most of the references (60.3%), the second language being English (36.1%). Conclusions. Bibliographic references in Spanish nursing research papers are scarce and not very specific: this happens both in regard to Nursing Research and to publications in other national and international science areas. However, there is an increasing tendency of references (including references to nursing journals) in the period analysed. The age of the references places Spanish nursing in ail intermediate position between the 'hard' sciences and the humanities; and, according to the type of documentation used, we find it halfway between experimental and natural sciences, and technologies and social sciences. There has been a slight increase in references in English in recent years. Author Keywords: bibliometrics, Spanish nursing research, analysis of references, bibliographic references Addresses: Pardo C, Escuela Univ Enfermeria, Campus Univ,Edificio Benjamin Palencia, Albacete 02071, Spain Univ Castilla La Mancha, Dept Nursing, Albacete, Spain Primary Care Ctr 4, Albacete, Spain Publisher: BLACKWELL SCIENCE LTD, OXFORD IDS Number: 474VZ ISSN: 0309-2402 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year *FOR CIENT 3 JORN DOC CIENT CIU 1997 ALEIXANDRE R ATENCION PRIMARIA 17 321 1995 ALVAREZ M ATEN PRIMARIA 18 229 1996 ARCAS P MED CLIN-BARCELONA 102 584 1994 BAIGET T MED CLIN-BARCELONA 87 500 1986 BRADFORD SC ENGINEERING-LONDON 137 85 1934 CABRERO J ENFERMERIA CIENTIFIC 122 37 1992 CABRERO J ENFERMERIA CIENTIFIC 116 44 1991 CARTAGENA E 20 C CUADR ENF MADR 60 1993 DELBURGO JL ATENCION PRIMARIA 9 39 1992 FAWCETT J ANAL EVALUATION CONC 1994 GALVEZ A ENFERMERIA CIENTIFIC 202 68 1999 GARFIELD E CURRENT CONTENTS CLI 43 3 1984 GARFIELD E METRIC SCI 1978 GONZALEZ A INDEX ENFERMERIA 5 85 1996 GONZALEZ M ENFERMERIA CLIN 7 63 1997 HUTCH EJ COMO ESCRIBIR PUBLIC 1992 ICART MT ENFERMERIA CIENTIFIC 116 33 1991 ICART MT ENFERMERIA CLIN 4 36 1994 ICART MT ENFERMERIA CLIN 4 42 1994 JIMENEZVILLA J ANTENCION PRIMARIA 12 9 1993 KILBY SA NURS OUTLOOK 39 82 1991 KRAGH H INTRO HIST CIENCIA 1987 LOPEZ JM MED CLIN-BARCELONA 98 101 1992 LOPEZ JM MED CLIN-BARCELONA 98 142 1992 LOPEZ P INTRO BIBLIOMETRIA 1996 LOPEZPINERO JM MED CLIN-BARCELONA 98 64 1992 MOODY LE NURS RES 37 374 1988 MORAVCSIK MJ REV ESP DOC CIENT 12 313 1989 MORENOTORRES R ACT C TES DOCT 36 671 1986 NARVAIZA MJ INVESTIGACION LUGAR 81 1995 PARDO C 20 C CUADR ENF MADR 60 1993 PRITCHARD A J DOC 25 348 1969 RICHART M ENFERMERIA CLIN 4 118 1994 RICHART M IMPORTANCIA DESARROL 22 1996 ROMERA MJ REV ED 297 459 1992 SANCHEZPRIETO JM INVESTIGACION DIALOG 17 1997 SANCHO R REV ESPANOLA DOCUMEN 13 842 1990 SCHLOMAN BF HEALTH EDUC RES 7 117 1992 SILVA LC CULTURA ESTADISTICA 1997 SMITH JP NURSING SCI NURSING 1981 SOLER JM ATENCION PRIMARIA 16 331 1995 TORRA JE ENFERMERIA CLIN 4 291 1994 TORRA JE REV ROL ENFERMERIA 218 33 1996 Copyright ? 2002 Institute for Scientific Information From jfurner at UCLA.EDU Fri Feb 22 14:16:25 2002 From: jfurner at UCLA.EDU (Jonathan Furner) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 11:16:25 -0800 Subject: Rousseau's law Message-ID: Dear SIGMETRICS list members: I wonder if one of you might be able to help me out with a small bibliographical question, about "Rousseau's law." In his article "American Philosophy Today" (Review of Metaphysics 46, no. 4, June 1993), Rescher mentions in a footnote "the principle known in the social sciences as Rousseau's Law, which maintains that in a population of size n the number of high-visibility members stands as [the square root of n]." Rescher cites another work of his own, Scientific Progress (1978), which is also cited by Diodato in his Dictionary of Bibliometrics (1994): "[The formula stating that] the volume of really 'important' production stands as the square root of the total production ... is in fact a rather well known formula in the study of elites ... Such a relationship was initially mooted by Jean Jacques Rousseau ..." Diodato also cites Zipf's Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort (1949): "This statement that is so frequently imputed to J. J. Rousseau seems to evade specific reference although its sense is apparent in his Contrat Social." Of course, the relationship between the size of a population and its square root is remarked upon by Price in Little Science, Big Science (1963). Price does not mention Rousseau; yet, in an article in IP&M, Nicholls (1988) notes that Price's law has its roots in Rousseau's law, which had "long been known in the social sciences." My (two-part) question is: Who was responsible for the first imputation of Rousseau's law to Rousseau? What evidence is there for believing that Rousseau was indeed responsible for expressing Rousseau's law? Thanks, Jonathan From subbiah_a at YAHOO.COM Fri Feb 22 20:33:53 2002 From: subbiah_a at YAHOO.COM (=?iso-8859-1?q?Subbiah=20Arunachalam?=) Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 01:33:53 +0000 Subject: Rousseau's law In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear friends: Jonathan Furner has raised an important question. We information scientists deal with references and citations all the time, but are often slack in giving appropriate references! Like in medicine we should also insist on evidence-based writing and research. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] --- Jonathan Furner wrote: > Dear SIGMETRICS list members: > > I wonder if one of you might be able to help me out > with a small > bibliographical question, about "Rousseau's law." > > In his article "American Philosophy Today" (Review > of Metaphysics 46, > no. 4, June 1993), Rescher mentions in a footnote > "the principle > known in the social sciences as Rousseau's Law, > which maintains that > in a population of size n the number of > high-visibility members > stands as [the square root of n]." Rescher cites > another work of his > own, Scientific Progress (1978), which is also cited > by Diodato in > his Dictionary of Bibliometrics (1994): "[The > formula stating that] > the volume of really 'important' production stands > as the square root > of the total production ... is in fact a rather well > known formula in > the study of elites ... Such a relationship was > initially mooted by > Jean Jacques Rousseau ..." Diodato also cites Zipf's > Human Behavior > and the Principle of Least Effort (1949): "This > statement that is so > frequently imputed to J. J. Rousseau seems to evade > specific > reference although its sense is apparent in his > Contrat Social." > > Of course, the relationship between the size of a > population and its > square root is remarked upon by Price in Little > Science, Big Science > (1963). Price does not mention Rousseau; yet, in an > article in IP&M, > Nicholls (1988) notes that Price's law has its roots > in Rousseau's > law, which had "long been known in the social > sciences." > > My (two-part) question is: Who was responsible for > the first > imputation of Rousseau's law to Rousseau? What > evidence is there for > believing that Rousseau was indeed responsible for > expressing > Rousseau's law? > > Thanks, > Jonathan __________________________________________________ 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 ronald.rousseau at KH.KHBO.BE Sat Feb 23 02:35:27 2002 From: ronald.rousseau at KH.KHBO.BE (Ronald Rousseau) Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 08:35:27 +0100 Subject: Rousseau's law In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Jonathan, In his Contrat Social J.J. Rousseau gives, as an example, the number of people that should form 'a government'. He does that by taking the square root (racine carr?e in French)of the number of people that form the state (l'?tat). So, indeed, according to this example, in a population of size n the number of high- visibility members stands as the square root of n. See http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/rousseau/jjr_cont.rtf Book III, chapter 1. Rousseau ******************************************************** > Dear SIGMETRICS list members: > > I wonder if one of you might be able to help me out with a small > bibliographical question, about "Rousseau's law." > > In his article "American Philosophy Today" (Review of Metaphysics 46, > no. 4, June 1993), Rescher mentions in a footnote "the principle > known in the social sciences as Rousseau's Law, which maintains that > in a population of size n the number of high-visibility members > stands as [the square root of n]." Rescher cites another work of his > own, Scientific Progress (1978), which is also cited by Diodato in > his Dictionary of Bibliometrics (1994): "[The formula stating that] > the volume of really 'important' production stands as the square root > of the total production ... is in fact a rather well known formula in > the study of elites ... Such a relationship was initially mooted by > Jean Jacques Rousseau ..." Diodato also cites Zipf's Human Behavior > and the Principle of Least Effort (1949): "This statement that is so > frequently imputed to J. J. Rousseau seems to evade specific > reference although its sense is apparent in his Contrat Social." > > Of course, the relationship between the size of a population and its > square root is remarked upon by Price in Little Science, Big Science > (1963). Price does not mention Rousseau; yet, in an article in IP&M, > Nicholls (1988) notes that Price's law has its roots in Rousseau's > law, which had "long been known in the social sciences." > > My (two-part) question is: Who was responsible for the first > imputation of Rousseau's law to Rousseau? What evidence is there for > believing that Rousseau was indeed responsible for expressing > Rousseau's law? > > Thanks, > Jonathan > Ronald Rousseau dr. mathematics, dr. information science KHBO - Industrial Sciences and Technology Zeedijk 101 B-8400 Oostende Belgium Honorary Professor Henan Normal University (Xinxiang, China) E-mail: ronald.rousseau at kh.khbo.be web page: users.pandora.be/ronald.rousseau From ronald.rousseau at KH.KHBO.BE Sat Feb 23 03:04:30 2002 From: ronald.rousseau at KH.KHBO.BE (Ronald Rousseau) Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 09:04:30 +0100 Subject: Price and Rousseau In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear SIGMETRICS members, May I quote from "Introduction to Informetrics": p.362 Price (1971,1976) states that, if there are N sources in a 'bibliography' then the square root of N of the top sources will have 50% of the items. This phenomenon is related to the occurrence of invisible colleges, i.e. the hierarchical elites in fields. As it is with the 80/20 rule 'Price's law' too is 'too simple', as was already shown by Allison et al. (1976) and Nicholls (1988). Then follows the formulation and main results of the articles Leo Egghe and I wrote about this. On p.377 we further wrote: Price's square root law is sometimes called 'Rousseau's law (J.J. not R.!) as J.J. Rousseau mentions this explicitly in his 'Contrat Social' concerning the size of the 'elite' ('elite' refers here to participating in the government). More information about this early sociometric statement can be found in Zipf (1949) and Rescher (1978). References Price, D.J. de Solla (1971). Some remarks on elitism in information and the invisible college phenomenon in science. JASIS, 22, 74-75. Price, D.J. de Solla (1976). A general theory of bibliometric and other cumulative advantage processes. JASIS, 27, 292-306. Allison, P.D., Price, D.J. de Solla, Griffith, B.C., Moravcsik, M.J. and Stewart, J.A. (1976). Lotka's law: a problem in its interpretation and application. Social studies of Science, 6, 269-276. Nicholls, P.T. (1988). Price's square root law: empirical validity and relation to Lotka's law. IP&M, 24, 469-477. Egghe, L. (1986). On the 80/20 rule. Scientometrics, 10, 55-68. Egghe, L. (1987). An exact formulation of Price's law for the law of Lotka. Scientometrics, 11, 81-97. Egghe, L. and Rousseau, R. (1986). A characterization of distributions which satisfy Price's law and consequences for the laws of Zipf and Mandelbrot. Journal of Information Science, 12, 193-197. Zipf, G.K. (1949). Human behavior and the principle of least effort. Addison- Wesley, Cambridge. Rescher, N. (1978). Scientific progress. A philosophical essay on the economics of research in natural science (Blackwell, Oxford). See also: Gl?nzel, W. and Schubert, A. (1985). Price distribution. An exact formulation of Price's 'square root law'. Scientometrics, 7, 211-219. Ronald Rousseau dr. mathematics, dr. information science KHBO - Industrial Sciences and Technology Zeedijk 101 B-8400 Oostende Belgium Honorary Professor Henan Normal University (Xinxiang, China) E-mail: ronald.rousseau at kh.khbo.be web page: users.pandora.be/ronald.rousseau From jfurner at UCLA.EDU Sun Feb 24 13:25:35 2002 From: jfurner at UCLA.EDU (Jonathan Furner) Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 10:25:35 -0800 Subject: Rousseau's law In-Reply-To: <1014449727.3c77463fd28af@imp.khbo.be> Message-ID: Dear Ronald and SIGMETRICS: Thank you, Ronald, for the precise reference to the Contrat Social, and thanks also for the extracts from your book. (I still wish I could find a copy of that book!) I had to refer to an English translation (Cranston's, Penguin, 1968) of J. J. Rousseau's work, and, after doing so, I'm afraid my questions still remain. Here's why. As Ronald says, in Book III, Chapter I, of the Social Contract, J. J. develops his tripartite distinction between the state (the people as subjects), the government (the executive), and the sovereign (the people as the legislature). He is concerned to demonstrate that, if order is to be maintained, the power of the government should equal the power of the people (who are the state in one sense and the sovereign in another). Thus, as the power of the state increases (e.g., as the number of subjects increases), the power of the government to control the state should increase correspondingly -- as, indeed, should the power of the sovereign to control the government. In Cranston's translation (p. 104): "... for the government to be good, its strength must be increased to the extent that the people is more numerous." The only passage in this chapter in which J. J. explicitly considers the size (as opposed to the power) of the government, and the only passage in which he uses the term "racine carr?e," is translated as follows (p. 105): "If anyone, wishing to ridicule this system, suggested that in order to find the geometrical mean and construct the body of the government one need only on my view take the square root of the number of the people, I should reply that I am here using that number only as an example; and the ratios of which I speak are not measured merely by the number of men but more generally by the amount of activity, which results from the occurrence of innumerable causes; I should add that although I have borrowed momentarily for the sake of expressing myself in fewer words, the language of geometry, I am still well aware that geometrical precision has no place in moral calculations." Here, J. J. seems to be saying (i) that any attempt to derive, from his broad assertions about balancing the powers of people and government, a formula for determining the size of the government would be to "ridicule" his position; (ii) that, in general, neither the power of the people nor the power of the government may be measured simply by counting individuals; and (iii) that to use the square root of the number of people in such a formula would be on the advice of another, not J. J. In short, I would submit that, on this account, the current answer to my second question -- What evidence is there for believing that Rousseau was indeed responsible for expressing Rousseau's law? -- is "None." That question still stands, then; and my first question might be clarified as follows: Who (before Zipf, 1949) was responsible for the first expression of Rousseau's law (as that law is understood in the modern literature of bibliometrics) as "Rousseau's law" -- i.e., who (before Zipf, 1949) was responsible for the first imputation of Rousseau's law to Rousseau? I would, in fact, be interested in *any* pointers to evidence supporting the various claims made since 1949 to the effect that Rousseau's law is "so frequently imputed to J. J. Rousseau," has "long been known in the social sciences," etc. All the best, Jonathan >Dear Jonathan, > >In his Contrat Social J.J. Rousseau gives, as an example, the number of people >that should form 'a government'. He does that by taking the square >root (racine >carr?e in French)of the number of people that form the state (l'?tat). So, >indeed, according to this example, in a population of size n the >number of high- >visibility members stands as the square root of n. > >See http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/rousseau/jjr_cont.rtf > >Book III, chapter 1. > >Rousseau > >******************************************************** >> Dear SIGMETRICS list members: >> >> I wonder if one of you might be able to help me out with a small >> bibliographical question, about "Rousseau's law." >> >> In his article "American Philosophy Today" (Review of Metaphysics 46, >> no. 4, June 1993), Rescher mentions in a footnote "the principle >> known in the social sciences as Rousseau's Law, which maintains that >> in a population of size n the number of high-visibility members >> stands as [the square root of n]." Rescher cites another work of his >> own, Scientific Progress (1978), which is also cited by Diodato in >> his Dictionary of Bibliometrics (1994): "[The formula stating that] >> the volume of really 'important' production stands as the square root >> of the total production ... is in fact a rather well known formula in >> the study of elites ... Such a relationship was initially mooted by >> Jean Jacques Rousseau ..." Diodato also cites Zipf's Human Behavior >> and the Principle of Least Effort (1949): "This statement that is so >> frequently imputed to J. J. Rousseau seems to evade specific >> reference although its sense is apparent in his Contrat Social." >> >> Of course, the relationship between the size of a population and its >> square root is remarked upon by Price in Little Science, Big Science >> (1963). Price does not mention Rousseau; yet, in an article in IP&M, >> Nicholls (1988) notes that Price's law has its roots in Rousseau's >> law, which had "long been known in the social sciences." >> >> My (two-part) question is: Who was responsible for the first > > imputation of Rousseau's law to Rousseau? What evidence is there for >> believing that Rousseau was indeed responsible for expressing > > Rousseau's law? >> >> Thanks, >> Jonathan >> > > > >Ronald Rousseau >dr. mathematics, dr. information science >KHBO - Industrial Sciences and Technology >Zeedijk 101 B-8400 Oostende Belgium >Honorary Professor Henan Normal University (Xinxiang, China) >E-mail: ronald.rousseau at kh.khbo.be >web page: users.pandora.be/ronald.rousseau From gwhitney at UTK.EDU Tue Feb 26 19:37:53 2002 From: gwhitney at UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 19:37:53 -0500 Subject: Jonathan - Ronald - discussion (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 20:08:27 +0100 From: Dr. Manfred Bonitz Subject: Jonathan - Ronald - discussion Dear Jonathan, Ronald, and SIGMETRICS, thank you for your illuminating discussion. There is a similar story sitting in the back of my mind showing that sometimes well-educated people are using metaphorically their mathematical knowledge in order to support their concepts of understanding social processes and systems. They do not claim to have found mathematical laws or theories of these processes. Friedrich Engels published in 1844 a paper entitled "Umrisse zu einer Kritik der Nationaloekonomie" (in: Deutsch-franzoesische Jahrbuecher. Eds. A. Ruge and K. Marx. Reprinted by Reclam, Leipzig, 1973, pp. 180-214). Here you find (on page 210) Engels in the controversy with Malthus who favoured an over-population concept. Engels: "... science is progressing in proportion to the mass of knowledge handed over by the preceding generation ... and what is impossible to science?" (my translation.M.B.) Actually from this follows the "exponential law of science". I elaborated the Engels story in my book "Scientific Research and Scientific Information", (in German), Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1979, pp. 35 - 38.) But Engels himself never claimed to have discovered the "exponential law of science". Derek de Solla Price is standing on the shoulders of giants, too. Manfred Bonitz Dr. rer. nat. habil. Halbkreisstrasse 17 01187 Dresden / Germany Phone: #49 351 4010760 Email: bonitz at fz-rossendorf.de #################################################################