From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Wed Feb 5 12:55:23 2003 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 17:55:23 +0000 Subject: Correlation between author citations and journal citations Message-ID: Dear All: Can anyone point me to data comparing author impact as measured directly by average and total citations for that author ves indirectly by papers weighted by journal's impact factor? Many thanks, Stevan Harnad -------------------------------------------------------------------- Stevan Harnad Chaire de Recherche du Canada Centre de Neurosciences de la Cognition (CNC) Universite du Quebec a Montreal Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3C 3P8 tel: 1-514-987-3000 2461# fax: 1-514-987-8952 harnad at uqam.ca http://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/ From subbiah_a at YAHOO.COM Wed Feb 5 23:52:27 2003 From: subbiah_a at YAHOO.COM (=?iso-8859-1?q?Subbiah=20Arunachalam?=) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 04:52:27 +0000 Subject: Publication and citation counts Message-ID: Friends in liblicense/ sigmetrics list: Is there anyone who can provide me data on the number of papers published from different countries yearwise and the number of citations received by these papers? As an example, say India published 12,000 papers in 1999 and these 12,000 papers were collectively cited 8,000 times till the end of 2001. ISI, Philadelphia, can provide such data from its Science Citation Index (or now web of Science/ Web of Knowledge) files. Are such data actually available in the public domain? The Second European Report on S&T Indicators has a table (Table 2c.6a) which gives publication and citation counts for the ten leading countries for four years in eight different fields. Thanks and best wishes. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] __________________________________________________ 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 isidro at CINDOC.CSIC.ES Fri Feb 7 11:16:48 2003 From: isidro at CINDOC.CSIC.ES (Isidro F. Aguillo) Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 17:16:48 +0100 Subject: Publication and citation counts Message-ID: Dear colleagues: Probably many of you already know this freely available site with original dat from ISI. The coverage is not exhaustive but it can be useful: http://www.in-cites.com/ See you in Beijing, Isidro F. Aguillo CINDOC-CSIC Editor of Cybermetrics http://cybermetrics.cindoc.csic.es > Friends in liblicense/ sigmetrics list: > > Is there anyone who can provide me data on the number > of papers published > from different countries yearwise and the number of > citations received by > these papers? As an example, say India published > 12,000 papers in 1999 and > these 12,000 papers were collectively cited 8,000 > times till the end of > 2001. ISI, Philadelphia, can provide such data from > its Science Citation > Index (or now web of Science/ Web of Knowledge) files. > Are such data > actually available in the public domain? > > The Second European Report on S&T Indicators has a > table (Table 2c.6a) which > gives publication and citation counts for the ten > leading countries for four > years in eight different fields. > > Thanks and best wishes. > > Arun > [Subbiah Arunachalam] > > > __________________________________________________ > 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 Garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Feb 10 00:11:47 2003 From: Garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Garfield, Eugene) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 00:11:47 -0500 Subject: Correlation between author citations and journal citations Message-ID: COUNTRY RANKINGS FOR "INDIA" Sorted by: Citations Papers Citations per Paper Field If you go to ISI's Essential Science Indicators you can find the following kind of information on each country. Is that what you are seeking? Best wishes. EG 1 - 20 (of 22) [ 1 | 2 ] Page 1 of 2 VIEW FIELD PAPERS CITATIONS CITATIONS PER PAPER 1 CHEMISTRY 38,195 134,539 3.52 2 PHYSICS 23,339 99,829 4.28 3 CLINICAL MEDICINE 14,280 49,059 3.44 4 BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY 9,700 36,968 3.81 5 MATERIALS SCIENCE 11,908 28,532 2.40 6 ENGINEERING 15,811 26,119 1.65 7 PLANT & ANIMAL SCIENCE 17,145 25,783 1.50 8 GEOSCIENCES 6,157 14,605 2.37 9 MOLECULAR BIOLOGY & GENETICS 2,120 12,105 5.71 10 SPACE SCIENCE 2,498 11,889 4.76 11 MICROBIOLOGY 2,372 10,302 4.34 12 ENVIRONMENT/ECOLOGY 4,143 10,251 2.47 13 AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES 9,526 9,926 1.04 14 PHARMACOLOGY & TOXICOLOGY 2,885 8,083 2.80 15 IMMUNOLOGY 994 7,017 7.06 16 NEUROSCIENCE & BEHAVIOR 1,668 5,813 3.49 17 MATHEMATICS 4,184 4,881 1.17 18 COMPUTER SCIENCE 2,292 3,760 1.64 19 SOCIAL SCIENCES, GENERAL 2,223 2,283 1.03 20 MULTIDISCIPLINARY 2,065 2,060 1.00 1 - 20 (of 22) [ 1 | 2 ] Page 1 of 2 Note: Access to Web of Science is available only to users at institutions with subscriptions to Web of Science. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Copyright ? 2002 Thomson ISI 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: Stevan Harnad [mailto:harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK] Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 12:55 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Correlation between author citations and journal citations Dear All: Can anyone point me to data comparing author impact as measured directly by average and total citations for that author ves indirectly by papers weighted by journal's impact factor? Many thanks, Stevan Harnad -------------------------------------------------------------------- Stevan Harnad Chaire de Recherche du Canada Centre de Neurosciences de la Cognition (CNC) Universite du Quebec a Montreal Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3C 3P8 tel: 1-514-987-3000 2461# fax: 1-514-987-8952 harnad at uqam.ca http://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/ From egackerma at RADFORD.EDU Thu Feb 13 09:50:50 2003 From: egackerma at RADFORD.EDU (Ackermann, Eric) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 09:50:50 -0500 Subject: Use of Immediacy Index in studies Message-ID: Does anyone know of any studies that have used ISI's Immediacy Index? It is (if I remember correctly) part of their Journal Citation Reports package. I have been unsuccessful so far in finding any. My interest lies in their possible use in the study of fast moving literatures in science. Regards, Eric ********************************** Eric Ackermann Reference/Instruction Librarian McConnell Library Radford University PO Box 6881 Radford, VA 24142 Email: egackerma at radford.edu Phone: 540-831-5688 - From Garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Feb 18 17:55:03 2003 From: Garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Garfield, Eugene) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 17:55:03 -0500 Subject: Use of Immediacy Index in studies Message-ID: Here are three references I found on a simple title word search of "immediacy and journal*" in the WEBOFSCIENCE If you expand the search to include abstracts there are another 18 articles that may be relevant. Magri M, Solari A The SCI Journal Citation Reports: A potential tool for studying journals? .1. Description of the JCR journal population based on the number of citations received, number of source items, impact factor, immediacy index and cited . . . SCIENTOMETRICS 35 (1): 93-117 JAN 1996 VLACHY J PHYSICS JOURNALS TYPOLOGY, GROUP RANKINGS BY CITATION AND IMMEDIACY CZECH J PHYS 35 (5): 589-592 1985 VLACHY J PHYSICS JOURNALS TYPOLOGY, CITATION IMPACT AND IMMEDIACY CZECH J PHYS 35 (4): 473-476 1985 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 3535 Market St., Phila. PA 19104-3389 Chairman Emeritus, ISI www.isinet.com 3501 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-3302 Past President, American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) www.asis.org -----Original Message----- From: Ackermann, Eric [mailto:egackerma at RADFORD.EDU] Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 9:51 AM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Use of Immediacy Index in studies Does anyone know of any studies that have used ISI's Immediacy Index? It is (if I remember correctly) part of their Journal Citation Reports package. I have been unsuccessful so far in finding any. My interest lies in their possible use in the study of fast moving literatures in science. Regards, Eric ********************************** Eric Ackermann Reference/Instruction Librarian McConnell Library Radford University PO Box 6881 Radford, VA 24142 Email: egackerma at radford.edu Phone: 540-831-5688 - From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Thu Feb 20 02:07:40 2003 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 08:07:40 +0100 Subject: No subject Message-ID: Dear colleagues, About a month ago, Eugene drew attention to a debate between Peter van den Besselaar and me in JASIST entitled "Empirical Evidence of Self-Organization." In an off-line conversation Peter and I agreed that using chi-square as a non-parametric measure can perhaps provide a means to evaluate the effects of the discriminant analysis. One can compare the matrices for the EU/USA/Japan (N = 3) versus the (245) title words on the basis of the geographical addresses and/or on the basis of the classification of the cases by discriminant analysis, respectively. Similarly, one can compare the matrices of 14 EU nations versus these title words with the results based on classification of these records in 14 groups. (Fourteen because there were no records included with an address in Luxembourg.) The results are as follows: 1. The matrix of geographical addresses in the EU/USA/Japan (N = 3) versus title words. In this case the zero-hypothesis is not rejected when using the strongest test of chi-square with so-called Yates correction (p <= 0.30). This means that the word distributions are not significantly different among these three groups. 2. The matrix of the discrimant classifications in three groups versus title words. In this case the zero-hypothesis is rejected: p <= 0.00 (same test). 3. In the case of the EU-matrices I had to use the log-likelihood chi-square (G2) because the matrix is sparse (N = 14). In both cases (geographical addresses and results of the discriminant analysis), the zero-hypothesis cannot be rejected (p <= 1.00 and p <= 0.25, respectively). 4. In all cases and using all test (Pearson chi-square, Yates correction, and log-likelihood G2), the summation of the chi-square is considerably higher using the discriminant classification when compared to using the geographical addresses (400 to 500 points added to the summation). Thus, the discriminant analysis improves on the distinction among the groupings (as expected). What does this mean? 1. The discriminant analysis considerably improves on the distinction in the case of N= 3 (EU/US/Japan) to such an extent that the grouping passes the threshold of a severe significance test (chi-square with Yates correction). 2. The geographical addresses are not a sufficient basis for distinguishing between the records in terms of word-occurrences. There is also interaction among the repertoires, that is, an interactive (next-order) repertoire. Remember that this interaction between local and global repertoires was our initial research question ('self-organization'?). 3. At the European level, there is interaction among the repertoires to such an extent that it was no longer possible to sort the records apart using discriminant analysis so that the results pass the log-likelihood chi-square test. (Remember that the discriminant functions were significant in all cases. The latter operate on individual records, while the chi-square is tested between the groupings. The within-group variation is then no longer used.) 4. In my opinion, these results further legitimate our decision in the article to discard the records initially flagged by the discriminant analysis as misplaced from the second-order analysis. Note that these results do not affect the simulation results. One cannot expect that a randomized attribution of the cases leads to groupings that pass this significance test. With kind regards, Loet _____ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ The Challenge of Scientometrics ; The Self-Organization of the Knowledge-Based Society -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Feb 21 15:08:11 2003 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 15:08:11 -0500 Subject: Butler L. "Explaining Australia's increased share of ISI publications " Research Policy 32(1):143-155, January 2003. Message-ID: Linda Butler : linda.butler at anu.edu.au TITLE Explaining Australia's increased share of ISI publications - the effects of a funding formula based on publication counts AUTHOR Butler L JOURNAL RESEARCH POLICY 32 (1): 143-155 JAN 2003 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 21 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Australia's share of publications in the Science Citation Index (SCI) has increased by 25% in the last decade. The worrying aspect associated with this trend is the significant decline in citation impact Australia is achieving relative to other countries. It has dropped from sixth position in a ranking of 11 OECD countries in 1988, to 10th position by 1993, and the distance from ninth place continues to widen. The increased publication activity came at a time when publication output was expected to decline due to pressures facing the higher education sector, which accounts for over two-thirds of Australian publications. This paper examines possible methodological and contextual explanations of the trends in Australia's presence in the SCI, and undertakes a detailed comparison of two universities that introduced diverse research management strategies in the late 1980s. The conclusion reached is that the driving force behind the Australian trends appears to lie with the increased culture of evaluation faced by the sector. Significant funds are distributed to universities, and within universities, on the basis of aggregate publication counts, with little attention paid to the impact or quality of that output. In onsequence, journal publication productivity has increased significantly in the last decade, but its impact has declined. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. Author Keywords: research funding, bibliometrics, effects of evaluation, university research, productivity Addresses: Butler L, Australian Natl Univ, Res Sch Social Sci, Res Evaluat & Policy Project, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia Australian Natl Univ, Res Sch Social Sci, Res Evaluat & Policy Project, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM IDS Number: 634PY ISSN: 0048-7333 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year *ABS 12970 ABS 1998 *AUSTR SEN EMPL WO U CRISIS 2001 *CTEC SEL HIGH ED STAT 1986 *CTEC SEL U STAT 1979 *DEET STAFF SEL HIGH ED ST 1988 *ISI SCI WATCH 4 1993 ANDERSON D 51 NAT BOARD EMPL ED 1996 BOURKE P PERFORMANCE INDICATO 1 1993 BOURKE P QUALITY MEASURES U 1985 BUTLER L MONITORING AUSTR SCI 2001 CONSIDINE M COMP PERFORMANCE AUS 2001 FOX MF SOC STUD SCI 13 285 1983 GALLAGHER M DETYA OCC PAP SER 20 2000 GEUNA A SPRU ELECT WORKING P 71 2001 GRIGG L IMPACT AUSTR SCI 1996 HICKS D SCI PUBL POLICY 23 39 1996 LINKE R PERFORMANCE INDICATO 1991 MARTINBIOSCA Y J BIOCHEM BIOPH METH 29 1 1994 MOED H MEASUREMENT RES PERF 1983 RAMSDEN P 2 DEP EMPL ED TRAIN 1992 VANRAAN AFJ SCI PUBL POLICY 24 290 1997 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Feb 24 12:17:36 2003 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 12:17:36 -0500 Subject: NYTimes.com Article: Robert K. Merton, Versatile Sociologist and Father of the Focus Group, Dies at 92 Message-ID: This article from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu. To Manfred Kochen and all friends of Prof. Merton it is my sad task to inform you of his death. I visited him in the hospital about ten days ago. EG Here is the obituary from the NY Times garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu Robert K. Merton, Versatile Sociologist and Father of the Focus Group, Dies at 92 February 24, 2003 By MICHAEL T. KAUFMAN Robert K. Merton, one of the most influential sociologists of the 20th century, whose coinage of terms like "self-fulfilling prophecy" and "role models" filtered from his academic pursuits into everyday language, died yesterday. He was 92 and lived in Manhattan. Mr. Merton gained his pioneering reputation as a sociologist of science, exploring how scientists behave and what it is that motivates, rewards, and intimidates them. By laying out his "ethos of science" in 1942, he replaced the entrenched stereotypical views that had long held scientists to be eccentric geniuses largely unbound by rules or norms. It was this body of work that contributed to Mr. Merton's becoming the first sociologist to win a National Medal of Science in 1994. But his explorations over 70-odd years extended across an extraordinary range of interests that included the workings of the mass media, the anatomy of racism, the social perspectives of "insiders" vs. "outsiders," history, literature and etymology. Though carried out with the detachment he admired in Emile Durkheim, the French architect of modern sociology, Mr. Merton's inquiries often bore important consequences in real life as well as in academics. His studies on an integrated community helped shape Kenneth Clark's historic brief in Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court case that led to the desegregation of public schools. His adoption of the focused interview to elicit the responses of groups to texts, radio programs and films led to the "focus groups" that politicians, their handlers, marketers and hucksters now find indispensable. Long after he had helped devise the methodology, Mr. Merton deplored its abuse and misuse but added, "I wish I'd get a royalty on it." He spent much of his professional life at Columbia University, where along with his collaborator of 35 years, Paul F. Lazarsfeld, who died in 1976, he developed the Bureau of Applied Social Research, where the early focus groups originated. The course of his career paralleled the growth and acceptance of sociology as a bona fide academic discipline. As late as 1939 there were fewer than a 1,000 sociologists in the United States, but soon after Mr. Merton was elected president of the American Sociological Association in 1957, the group had 4,500 members. Mr. Merton was sometimes called "Mr. Sociology," and Jonathan R. Cole, a former student and the provost at Columbia, once said, "If there were a Nobel Prize in sociology, there would be no question he would have gotten it." (Mr. Merton's son, Robert C. Merton, won a Nobel Prize in economics in 1997.) Another of Mr. Merton's contributions to sociology was his emphasis on what he termed "theories of the middle range." By these he meant undertakings that steered clear of grand speculative and abstract doctrines while also avoiding pedantic inquiries that were unlikely to yield significant results. What he preferred were initiatives that might yield findings of consequence and that open lines of further inquiry. In his own writings he favored the essay form, "which provides scope for asides and correlatives," he said, over the more common and streamlined scientific paper. He was often came up with clearly phrased observations that combined originality with seeming simplicity. Eugene Garfield, an information scientist, wrote that much of Mr. Merton's work was "so transparently true that one can't imagine why no one else has bothered to point it out." One early example of such illuminating insight appeared in a paper called "Social Structure and Anomie" that he wrote as a graduate student at Harvard in 1936 and then kept revising over the next decade. Mr. Merton had asked himself what it was that brought about anomie, a state in which, according to Mr. Durkheim, the breakdown of social standards threatened social cohesion. In a breakthrough that spawned many lines of inquiry, Mr. Merton suggested that anomie was likely to arise when society's members were denied adequate means of achieving the very cultural goals that their society projected, like wealth, power, fame or enlightenment. Among the spinoffs of this work were Mr. Merton's own writings on the ranges of deviant behavior and crime. A tall, pipe-smoking scholar, Mr. Merton often used the trajectory of his life story, from slum to academic achievement, as material illustrating the workings of serendipity, chance and coincidence, which so long fascinated him. Robert King Merton was born Meyer R. Schkolnick on July 4, 1910, in South Philadelphia; he carried that name for the first 14 years of his life. He was the son of immigrants from Eastern Europe and lived in an apartment above his father's milk, butter and egg store until the building burned down. As a teenager performing magic tricks at birthday parties, he adopted Robert Merlin as a stage name, but when a friend convinced him that his choice of the ancient wizard's name was hackneyed, he modified it, adopting Merton with the concurrence of his Americanizing mother after he won a scholarship to Temple University. In a lecture to the American Council of Learned Societies in 1994, Mr. Merton said that thanks to the libraries, schools, orchestras to which he had access, and even to the youth gang he had joined, his early years had prepared him well for what he called a life of learning. "My fellow sociologists will have noticed," he said, "how that seemingly deprived South Philadelphia slum was providing a youngster with every sort of capital - social capital, cultural capital, human capital, and above all, what we may call public capital - that is, with every sort of capital except the personally financial." It is not difficult to see connections between such views and Mr. Merton's insights into the causes of anomie. In a 1961 New Yorker magazine profile by Morton Hunt, Mr. Merton was described as displaying "a surprising catholicity of interests and a talent for good conversation, impaired only slightly by the fact that he is alarmingly well informed about everything from baseball to Kant and is unhesitatingly ready to tell anybody about any or all of it." Indeed, what is Mr. Merton's most widely known book, "On the Shoulders of Giants," went far beyond the confines of sociology. Referred to by Mr. Merton as his "prodigal brainchild," it reveals the depth of his curiosity, the breadth of his prodigious research and the extraordinary patience that also characterize his academic writing. The effort began in 1942, when, in an essay called "A Note on Science and Democracy," Mr. Merton referred to a remark by Isaac Newton: "If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." He added a footnote pointing out that "Newton's aphorism is a standardized phrase which has found repeated expression from at least the 12th century." But Mr. Merton did not stop there. Intermittently during the next 23 years he tracked the aphorism back in time, following blind alleys as well as fruitful avenues and finally finished the book in 1965, writing in a discursive style that the author attributed to his early reading and subsequent rereadings of Laurence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy." Denis Donoghue, the critic and literary scholar, wrote of the book admiringly as "an eccentric and yet concentric work of art, a work sufficiently flexible to allow a digression every 10 pages or so." He admitted, "I wish I had written `On the Shoulders of Giants.' " More recently, over the last three and a half decades, Mr. Merton had been gathering information about the idea and workings of serendipity, and thinking about it in the same spirit in which he had written the earlier book, which he liked to call by its acronym, OTSOG. As he had done with all his investigations, he collated and pondered data he had entered on index cards. Most days he started work at 4:30 a.m., with some of his 15 cats keeping him company. During the last years of his life, as he fought and overcame six different cancers, his Italian publisher, Il Mulino, prevailed on him to allow them to issue his writings on serendipity as a book. And four days before his death, his wife, the sociologist Harriet Zuckerman, received word that Princeton University Press had approved publication of the English version under the title, "The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity." In addition to Ms. Zuckerman and his son, Mr. Merton is survived by two daughters, Stephanie Tombrello of Pasadena, Calif., and Vanessa Merton of Hastings-on-Hudson; nine grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/24/obituaries/24MERT.html?ex=1047107055&ei=1&en=47e9df45822af05a HOW TO ADVERTISE --------------------------------- For information on advertising in e-mail newsletters or other creative advertising opportunities with The New York Times on the Web, please contact onlinesales at nytimes.com or visit our online media kit at http://www.nytimes.com/adinfo For general information about NYTimes.com, write to help at nytimes.com. Copyright 2002 The New York Times Company From quentinburrell at MANX.NET Wed Feb 26 05:23:22 2003 From: quentinburrell at MANX.NET (Quentin L. Burrell) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 10:23:22 +0000 Subject: This message was sent to you by a Telegraph user Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: