"Garfield's conjecture: Do international journal s have a higher impact factor than German-language journals? "

[Garfield, Eugene]

Dear Johannes: Thank you for your help in identifying this article. Now that
you have posted the source to the listserv I will have to determine whether
I should call attention to it again or in part.

We just concluded the Annual meeting of the ASIS&T. With best wishes. Gene

Eugene Garfield, PhD. email garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu
tel 215-243-2205   fax 215-387-1266
President, The Scientist   www.the-scientist.com
Chairman Emeritus, ISI  www.isinet.com
home page: www.eugenegarfield.org
Past President, American Society for Information Science and Technology
(ASIS&T)  www.asis.org





-----Original Message-----
From: Johannes Stegmann [mailto:johannes.stegmann at MEDIZIN.FU-BERLIN.DE]
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 3:54 AM
To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU
Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] "Garfield's conjecture: Do international
journals have a higher impact factor than German-language journals?"


At 15:21 19.11.2002 -0500, you wrote:
>This article appeared in German.  Unfortunately I cannot find the original
>german article, nor do I have the full citation for it.  If anyone can
>identify the author or the original publication, please let me know.
>
>The translated version  follows:
>
>Garfield's conjecture: Do international journals have a higher impact
factor
>than German-language journals?
>

Gene,

this is chapter 5.3 of volume 33 of "Kölner Arbeitspapiere zur Bibliotheks-
und Informationswissenschaft".
The title of this volume 33 is

                     "Informationswissenschaftliche Zeitschriften in
szientometrischer Analyse"
("information science journals in scientometric analysis" - my translation).

The "author" is "Grazia Colonia" and means a project performed by students
of the Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Austria, and of the Fachhochschule
(university of applied sciences) Cologne, Germany.
The volume 33 comprises 126 pages and can be downloaded as pdf from

    http://www.fbi.fh-koeln.de/fachbereich/papers/kabi/volltexte/band033.pdf

Best whishes and regards,

Johannes


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