From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Sep 4 15:18:46 2002 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 15:18:46 -0400 Subject: Dorn RI. Analysis of geomorphology citations in the last quarter of the 20th century, EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS 27 (6): 667-672 JUN 2002 Message-ID: Ronald I. Dorn - e-mail: ronald.dorn at asu.edu Full Text of article available at : http://geography.asu.edu/dorn/DornESPLv27p667.pdf Title Analysis of geomorphology citations in the last quarter of the 20th century Author Dorn RI Journal EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS 27 (6): 667-672 JUN 2002 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 26 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Three hundred and twenty-eight geomorphology articles published in the last quarter of the 20th century were cited 20 or more times in Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) indices, as of 15 May 2001. At the close of the 20th century, well-cited geomorphology is highly multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary with the most dominant fields being ill biological, civil engineering, earth science, geography, geological, and soils disciplines. The very strong English-language bias of well-cited journal articles creates a geographical bias in Study site selection, which May ill turn bias geomorphic theory. Water-based research (fluvial processes and landforms, riparian, drainage basin) dominates well-cited papers, with the 'hottest' subfield in the 1990s being riparian research with a biological emphasis. Over 90 journals publish well-cited papers, but Earth Surface Processes and Landforms hosts the largest number of well-cited papers. Copyright (C) 2002 John Wiley Sons, Ltd. Author Keywords: geomorphology, landform, earth surface processes, citation, bibliometric, temporal, time trends KeyWords Plus: PUBLICATIONS, AUTHORS, TIME Addresses: Dorn RI, Arizona State Univ, Dept Geog, Tempe, AZ 85287 USA Arizona State Univ, Dept Geog, Tempe, AZ 85287 USA Publisher: JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD, W SUSSEX IDS Number: 570BY ISSN: 0197-9337 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year BAKER VR NATURE 352 589 1991 BARSUKOV VL J GEOPHYS RES 91 D378 1986 BENSMAN SJ J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 52 714 2001 BOWLER JM EARTH-SCI REV 12 279 1976 COOKE R DESERT GEOMORPHOLOGY 1993 CRONIN B J INFORM SCI 27 1 2001 FROHLICH C J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 52 701 2001 GARFIELD E SCIENCE 122 108 1955 GOUDIE A CHEM SEDIMENTS GEOMO 1983 GRUPP H SCIENTOMETRICS 51 359 2001 HOOLINGS CS ECOL MONOGR 62 447 1992 HYLAND K ENGL SPECIF PURP 20 207 2001 JACKSON JA EARTH PLANET SC LETT 57 377 1982 JIMENEZCONTRERAS E SCIENTOMETRICS 36 81 1996 KIRKBY MJ HILLSLOPE HYDROLOGY 1978 MARK DM J INT ASS MATH GEOL 7 671 1984 MILLIMAN JD J GEOL 100 525 1992 MOORE ID HYDROL PROCESS 5 3 1991 NAIMAN RJ ECOL APPL 3 209 1993 PERSSON O SCIENTOMETRICS 50 339 2001 REDMAN J J APPL CRYSTALLOGR 3 34 375 2001 REED KL B MED LIBR ASSOC 83 503 1995 SALZARULO L SCIENTOMETRICS 50 289 2001 SCHWARTZ FW GROUND WATER 39 492 2001 WHITE HD J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 52 87 2001 WOLMAN MG EARTH SURF PROCESSES 3 189 1978 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Sep 4 16:16:45 2002 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 16:16:45 -0400 Subject: Egghe L, Rao IKR "Duality revisited: Construction of fractional frequency distributions based on two dual Lotka laws" JASIST 53(10):789-801, Aug. 2002. Message-ID: Leo Egghe - e-mail - leo.egghe at luc.ac.be Title Duality revisited: Construction of fractional frequency distributions based on two dual Lotka laws Author Egghe L, Rao IKR Journal JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 53 (10): 789-801 AUG 2002 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 15 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Fractional frequency distributions of, for example, authors with a certain (fractional) number of papers are very irregular and, therefore, not easy to model or to explain. This article gives a first attempt to this by assuming two simple Lotka laws (with exponent 2): one for the number of authors with n papers (total count here) and one for the number of papers with n authors, n is an element of N. Based on an earlier made convolution model of Egghe, interpreted and reworked now for discrete scores, we are able to produce theoretical fractional frequency distributions with only one parameter, which are in very close agreement with the practical ones as found in a large dataset produced earlier by Rao. The article also shows that (irregular) fractional frequency distributions are a consequence of Lotka's law, and are not examples of breakdowns of this famous historical law. KeyWords Plus: COUNTS, ATTRIBUTION, AUTHORSHIP Addresses: Egghe L, Limburgs Univ Ctr, Univ Campus, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium Limburgs Univ Ctr, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium Univ Instelling Antwerp, B-2610 Wilrijk, Belgium DRTC, ISI, Bangalore, Karnataka, India LUC, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium Publisher: JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, NEW YORK IDS Number: 578GG ISSN: 1532-2882 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year AJIFERUKE I J AM SOC INFORM SCI 42 279 1991 BLOM G PROBABILITY STAT THE 1989 BURRELL Q J AM SOC INFORM SCI 46 97 1995 CHUNG KL COURSE PROBABILITY T 1974 EGGHE L ELEMENTARY STAT EFFE 2001 EGGHE L INTRO INFORMETRICS Q 1990 EGGHE L J INFORM SCI 16 17 1990 EGGHE L MATH COMPUT MODEL 18 63 1993 EGGHE L SCIENTOMETRICS 53 371 2002 EGGHE L SCIENTOMETRICS 48 345 2000 EGGHE L THESIS CITY U LONDON 1989 LOTKA AJ J WASHINGTON ACADEMY 16 317 1926 RAO IKR P 5 INT C INT SOC SC 455 1995 ROUSSEAU R J AM SOC INFORM SCI 43 645 1992 ROUSSEAU R J DOC 50 134 1994 FROM JASIST.... Duality Revisited Construction of Fractional Frequency Distributions Based on Two Dual Lotka Laws L. Egghe and I.K. Ravichandra Rao Published online 11 June 2002 Egghe and Rao are able to present evidence that frequency distributions of author productivity, where productivity is fractionally assigned from multiple author papers, are a consequence of Lotka's law rather than exceptions to it. Occurrences of fractional scores will be influenced by low frequency of papers with a higher number of authors, and the higher frequency of papers with a low number of authors, while multiple combinations of papers with different numbers of authors can produce the same score. Calculation of the fractional frequency distribution is very difficult since any positive rational number is a possible frequency and the shapes of simulated and of empirically derived fractional distributions have been shown to be quite irregular. By grouping data and allowing for only a limited number of fractional scores, an analytical formula is produced for the probability of each allowed score, which nicely fits the grouped empirical data. From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Sep 11 16:12:19 2002 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 16:12:19 -0400 Subject: Herring SD "Use of electronic resources in scholarly electronic journals: A citation analysis" College & Research Libraries 63(4):334-340, July 2002 Message-ID: Susan D. Herring : herrings at email.uah.edu Title Use of electronic resources in scholarly electronic journals: A citation analysis Author Herring SD Journal COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES 63 (4): 334-340 JUL 2002 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 12 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Although information gathering and use patterns in the traditional print environment have been studied for many years, the electronic environment presents a new and relatively unexplored area for such study This article describes a citation analysis of research articles from scholarly electronic journals published in 1999-2000. The analysis focused on the extent to which scholars are using electronic resources and the types and subject areas of online resources that are being referenced. Results indicate a growing reliance on electronic resources by scholars, a high occurrence of nontraditional types of resources, and a relatively high use of interdisciplinary references. KeyWords Plus: INFORMATION-SEEKING, COMMUNICATION, IMPACT Addresses: Herring SD, Univ Alabama, M Louis Salmon Lib, Huntsville, AL 35899 USA Univ Alabama, M Louis Salmon Lib, Huntsville, AL 35899 USA Publisher: ASSOC COLL RESEARCH LIBRARIES, CHICAGO IDS Number: 578MK ISSN: 0010-0870 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year CRONIN B J AM SOC INFORM SCI 49 1319 1998 CRONIN B J DOC 51 388 1995 DAVIES M OPERA 50 358 1999 ELLIS D LIBR QUART 63 469 1993 HARTER SP J AM SOC INFORM SCI 49 507 1998 HARTER SP MIDY M AM SOC INF SO 1996 HARTER SP PUBLIC ACCESS COMPUT 7 1996 LECKIE GJ LIBR QUART 66 161 1996 MACKIEMASON JK DLIB MAGAZINE JUL 5 1999 RUDNER L DLIB MAGAZINE MAY 6 2000 SUGAR W ANNU REV INFORM SCI 30 77 1995 ZHANG Y J INFORM SCI 24 241 1998 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 Chaomei.Chen at CIS.DREXEL.EDU Thu Sep 19 11:36:45 2002 From: Chaomei.Chen at CIS.DREXEL.EDU (Chaomei Chen) Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:36:45 -0400 Subject: Information Visualization Message-ID: Information Visualization http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ivs/index.html Information Visualization (IVS) is a peer-reviewed international journal, launched in March 2002. The journal is published quarterly by Palgrave-Macmillan. The journal has an ambitious goal to serve as a dedicated forum for researchers and practitioners throughout the world on all topics related to information visualization. The journal publishes articles on fundamental research and applications of information visualization, including theories, methodologies, techniques and evaluations of information visualization and its applications. The journal has the support of distinguished associated editors and dedicated editorial board members. The entire first issue is now freely accessible from the journal's website, where you can also find additional information about the journal, instructions for authors, sample copy request forms, and subscription forms. For readers, the journal is available in both printed and online versions. For authors, figures can be printed in color at a very competitive rate. All color figures are published in the online version free of charge. On behalf the editorial board, I'd like to invite you to visit the journal's website and consider submitting your next manuscript on information visualization to this young and ambitious journal. Chaomei Chen Editor in Chief Information Visualization http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ivs/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Information Visualization Volume 1 Issue 1, March 2002 Editorial Chen C. Information Visualization----------1-4 Commentary Shneiderman B. Inventing discovery tools: combining information visualization with data mining----------5-12 Spence R. Rapid, Serial and Visual: a presentation technique with potential----------13-19 Research Keim D.A., Hao M.C., Dayal U., Hsu M. Pixel bar charts: a visualization technique for very large multi-attribute data sets----------20-34 Good L., Bederson B.B. Zoomable user interfaces as a medium for slide show presentations----------35-49 Robertson G., Cameron K., Czerwinski M., Robbins D. Animated visualization of multiple intersecting hierarchies----------50-65 Bartram L., Ware C. Filtering and brushing with motion----------66-79 Peuquet D.J., Kraak M-J. Geobrowsing: creative thinking and knowledge discovery using geographic visualization----------80-91 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Information Visualization Volume 1 Issue 2, June 2002 Editorial Chen C. Aesthetics versus Functionality----------93-94 Commentary Marcus A. Information visualization for advanced vehicle displays----------95-102 Research Ware C., Purchase H., Colpoys L., McGill M. .Cognitive measurements of graph aesthetics----------103-110 Sangole A., Knopf G.K. Representing high-dimensional data sets as closed surfaces----------111-119 Spence R. Sensitivity encoding to support information space navigation: a design guideline----------120-129 Sammouda M., Sammouda R., Niki N., Mukai K. Liver cancer detection system based on the analysis of digitized color images of tissue samples obtained using needle biopsy----------130-138 Eibl M. DEViD: a media design and software ergonomics integrating visualization for document retrieval----------139-157 ====================================== Editorial Board ====================================== Editor-in-Chief: Chaomei Chen, Drexel University, USA Advisory Editor: Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland, USA Associate Editors: Mark Apperley, University of Waikato, New Zealand Matthew Chalmers, Glasgow University, UK Peter Eades, University of Sydney, Australia Stephen Eick, Visintuit, USA Daniel Keim, AT&T Lab, USA Alan MacEachren, Penn State University, USA George Robertson, Microsoft Research, USA Henry Small, Institute for Scientific Information, USA Robert Spence, Imperial College, UK John Stasko, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Jim Thomas, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Colin Ware, University of New Hampshire, USA Graham Wills, SPSS, USA Editorial Board Keith Andrews, Graz University of Technology, Austria Ebad Banissi, South Bank University, UK Ben Bederson, University of Maryland, USA Kenneth Brodlie, University of Leeds, UK Mary Czerwinski, Microsoft Research, USA Martin Dodge, University College London, UK Steve Draper, Glasgow University, UK Paul Kahn, Dynamic Diagrams, USA Jasna Kuljis, Brunel University, UK Xia Lin, Drexel University, USA Sougata Mukherjea, Verity Inc., USA Catherine Plaisant, University of Maryland, USA From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Thu Sep 26 19:29:59 2002 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 00:29:59 +0100 Subject: Locating Cited References on the Web Message-ID: Dear Colleagues: I have yet another remarkable (experimental) resource from Southampton to draw to your attention. (These things take my breath away, and I can praise them without any blushing or self-reference because they have nothing to do with me: These are the fruits of the dazzling convergence of raw talent that there is at Southampton -- in this case, doctoral candidate Mike Jewell, with the collaboration of that already well-demonstrated wizard, doctoral candidate-to-be Chris Gutteridge.) Paracite is a piece of magic for identifying, and where possible finding, cited references from a variety of potential sources on the Web, on the basis of a very raw input: It is described below in the magicians' own words. (The purpose, as always, is to keep increasing the incentives for the self-archiving of research output -- pre and post peer review -- in interoperable OAI Archives, so that benefits like these, and much, much more, can be shared by the research community, across disciplines and around the world.) -------------------------------------------------------------------- "What is ParaCite?" http://paracite.eprints.org ParaCite is an experimental service, being designed at the University of Southampton, for the location of articles from raw references. When a reference is passed to the service, it is split into its component parts (e.g. author, title, year), and transferred to the search resource. Based on the subject area, and the data provided, a set of resources is presented that the system believes have the highest probability of providing the full text article at no charge. "How is the reference parsed?" The reference parsing is currently achieved using a custom built reference handler. This uses a chain of regular expressions, combined with a set of templates for common reference styles. The parser is still in an experimental status, but once it is stable we plan to release the Perl modules as open source. "How is the resource ranking decided?" At present the resources are ranked depending on the following factors: * Full Text/Abstract: If a full text version is available, a higher score is awarded * Free/Toll Free: If the document is free, the score is increased * Pre-selected ranking: If the resource is one that we feel is reliable and of good quality, a reward point can be added. Obviously this does not provide a realistic weight at the current time, and we are working on adding the following weights: * Subject area: If the reference is known to be in a certain subject area, resources of that type can be promoted. * Search results: Some search engines now provide search results in a parsable form. We hope to use this to judge whether the results are useful. * Popularity: By logging which resources are most frequently used, they can be promoted within the system. "How do I add my resource to your collection?" At present ParaCite is not accepting new resources, but we hope to have a form set up for this purpose soon. "Doesn't OpenURL do this already?" http://www.sfxit.com/openurl/ OpenURL is able to resolve a URL that contains reference information, but is not (to our knowledge) able to parse references directly. Also, OpenURL requires information regarding the type of material (e.g. whether the item is a book), whereas ParaCite does not need this information. "I used this reference, and it didn't work - why?" The ParaCite parser is still highly experimental - please email your reference to us at paracite at ecs.soton.ac.uk, and we will ensure the parser can handle it. "Where can I get more information?" If you have any further questions, please email paracite at ecs.soton.ac.uk and we will try to answer them. http://paracite.eprints.org From Andrea.Scharnhorst at NIWI.KNAW.NL Fri Sep 27 04:49:13 2002 From: Andrea.Scharnhorst at NIWI.KNAW.NL (Andrea Scharnhorst) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:49:13 +0200 Subject: EASST 2002, The challenge of measuring the web, paper on-line Message-ID: Papers presented during the past EASST 2002 Conference (University of York, United Kingdom 31st July - 3rd August 2002) in a Session titled: The challenge of measuring the web (chaired by Paul Wouters & Andrea Scharnhorst) are now available as pdf files at http://www.niwi.knaw.nl/nerdi/conferences/easst/easst.htm#session1 Content of the session Isidro Aguillo (CINDOC-CSIC) E-mail: isidro at cindoc.csic.es Measuring informal scientific publication in the Web Gaston Heimeriks (U of Amsterdam) and Peter van den Besselaar (NIWI-KNAW) E-mail: Gaston at swi.psy.uva.nl The role of electronic communications in research - a case study Andrea Scharnhorst (Nerdi, NIWI-KNAW) E-mail: Andrea.Scharnhorst at niwi.knaw.nl The Web as an evolving non-linear system * consequences from statistical physics and non-linear dynamics research for S&T studies of the Web Mike Thelwall (U of Wolverhampton) E-mail: m.Thelwall at wlv.ac.uk Analysing the link structure of the web sites of national university systems Paul Wouters (Nerdi, NIWI-KNAW) E-mail: Paul.Wouters at niwi.knaw.nl Internet based Indicators for Research Evaluation? Dr. Andrea Scharnhorst NERDI Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services (NIWI) KNAW Joan Muyskenweg 25 Postbus 95110 1090 HC Amsterdam The Netherlands Tel: +20 4628 670 www.niwi.knaw.nl/nerdi -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Fri Sep 27 07:20:32 2002 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 12:20:32 +0100 Subject: Locating Cited References on the Web In-Reply-To: <20020927070613.15941.qmail@web11308.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, [identity removed] wrote: > Can Paracite eventually make Science Citation Index > redundant? Can it be a free 'citation index' as > eprints can replace subscription journals? No, Paracite http://paracite.eprints.org is a reference-finder. It can (and will) be used to enhance archived full-texts by automatically linking the references they cite, where possible, to their archived full-texts already on the Web. The idea is that it can be used either by the author, to automatically locate and link the linkable items in his reference list, or by an Eprints Archive, automatically helping to locate and link link references on submission, or by a harvesting service, returning enhanced full-texts, with tentative reference links -- that were absent from the original document -- automatically inserted. Rather than making the ISI Science Citation Index or Web of Science http://wos.mimas.ac.uk/ redundant, Paracite is a free tool that ISI too can use to enhance its own reference-matching capacity, both internally (as ISI has a certain proportion of internal reference matches, among the citing and cited items that it does index, that fail to be made because of garbled reference lists) and externally (as ISI too can enhance its indexed items with links to non-indexed cited papers that are available elsewhere on the Web (both free and toll-based). Besides, the services that are homologous (hence, also potential "competitors") to ISI's Science Citation Index are services like (1) Laurence, Giles & Bollacker's remarkable citeseer at NEC http://www.neci.nec.com/~lawrence/researchindex.html which both finds, harvests and reference-links web-archived papers in computers science autonomously http://www.neci.nec.com/~lawrence/aci.html and (2) Southampton's own Tim Brody's citebase http://citebase.eprints.org which harvests and reference-links the contents of OAI-compliant Archives -- so far effective only with the Physics Archive http://arxiv.org (because it is the only archive so far that has a complete enough set of papers to be usefully reference-linked internally) but soon to be enhanced by Paracite, which will add external reference links to texts (full-texts or abstracts) found elsewhere on the Web (free or toll-based), just as it can enhance linkage for ISI. Will competing free services like citeseer and citebase ever supersede ISI's Science Citation Index? It cannot be denied that there is such a possibility, but it is conditional on something else that the research community would need to do first -- something very easy to do, but still undone as years of doability slip away -- namely, researchers would first need to make a critical mass of their full-text research output openly accessible online by self-archiving it. Only then could tools like paracite, citebase and citeseer be used to reference-link the full-texts. http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ (An intermediate step, but one that would be no more effortless than self-archiving the full-texts in OAI compliant Archives, would be to self-archive the abstracts and reference lists only! But navigating those textless teasers only might be, for its would-be users, a bit like (G.B. Shaw's?) hell, where one's desired reproductive partners are present in the flesh, but lack the requisite concavities or convexities -- to put Shaw's (?) metaphor in a suitably PC way for contemporary consumption.) So secondary publishers like ISI can probably rest at least as secure as primary journal publishers in the fact that the world research community has so far proved glacially sluggish in moving toward the optimal and the inevitable, despite all the potential benefits... Stevan Harnad NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online is available at the American Scientist September Forum (98 & 99 & 00 & 01 & 02): 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 the Free Online Scholarship Movement: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/timeline.htm the SPARC position paper on institutional repositories: http://www.unites.uqam.ca/src/sante.htm the OAI site: http://www.openarchives.org and the free OAI institutional archiving software site: http://www.eprints.org/