From jfurner at UCLA.EDU Mon Jan 6 15:46:01 2003 From: jfurner at UCLA.EDU (Jonathan Furner) Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 12:46:01 -0800 Subject: CFP: History & foundations of information science, at ASIS&T '03 Message-ID: [This message is cross-posted to several mailing lists. Please excuse any duplication.] _________________________________________ CALL FOR PROPOSALS: SIG/HFIS AT ASIST '03 _________________________________________ ASIS&T SIG/HFIS -- the American Society for Information Science and Technology's Special Interest Group on the History and Foundations of Information Science -- invites proposals for technical panel sessions at the society's next annual conference. The deadline for submission of proposals to SIG/HFIS is ***January 13, 2003***. Proposals are invited both for full sessions, and for individuals' participation in sessions. ASIS&T 2003 will be held in Long Beach, CA, on October 20-23, 2003. The conference theme is "Humanizing information technology: From ideas to bits and back," and a full call for papers is available at http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM03/am03cfp.html. The conference committee accepts submissions of three major types: contributed papers; posters; and proposals for technical panel sessions, which may be submitted through a sponsoring SIG. Proposals for SIG/HFIS-sponsored technical panel sessions are invited in any area of historical or theoretical interest, including (but in no sense limited to) the following: - politics of information - history of documentation - social epistemology - history of visualization - critical theory and information science - history of bibliometrics - pioneering women in information science - history of classification - philosophy of information - history of scholarly communication Proposals should be submitted by email to jfurner at ucla.edu no later than January 13, 2003, and should include the following: - a title; - your name, address, telephone, fax, and email address; - names and affiliations of presenters and any other session participants (moderators, reactors, etc.) besides yourself; and - a 500-word descriptive abstract of the session, or (if the proposal is for a single individual's participation in a session) a 100-word abstract of your proposed contribution. Notification of acceptance of technical panel sessions will be made by the ASIS&T conference committee by March 27, 2003. Camera-ready copy of a two-page description of the session will then be due by May 15, 2003. SIG/HFIS encourages and supports work on the history and theoretical development of information science. It serves as a forum for the interaction of all fields of study that have the potential for increasing the understanding of the history, theories, fundamental concepts, and models of information science, with the ultimate aim of improving information systems and services. The range of topics of interest to SIG/HFIS members is very broad: the group embraces philosophical, semiological, mathematical, physical, biological, psychological and sociological disciplines, and its members take historiographical, social, cultural, critical, and scientific approaches (among others) to the study of people, events, documents, and ideas. Jonathan Furner Chair, SIG/HFIS (2002-03) -- Jonathan Furner, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Information Studies University of California, Los Angeles Mail: 300 Young Drive North, Mailbox 951520, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1520 Tel: 310-825-5210 Fax: 310-206-4460 Email: jfurner at ucla.edu Web: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/jfurner/ From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Jan 7 14:05:46 2003 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 14:05:46 -0500 Subject: Montini T, Mangurian C, Bero LA "Assessing the evidence submitted in the development of a workplace smoking regulation: The case of Maryland" PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTS 117 (3): 291-298 MAY-JUN 2002 Message-ID: Lisa Bero : bero at medicine.ucsf.edu Title Assessing the evidence submitted in the development of a workplace smoking regulation: The case of Maryland Author Montini T, Mangurian C, Bero LA Journal PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTS 117 (3): 291-298 MAY-JUN 2002 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 57 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Objective. This study compared the characteristics of the basic science, biomedical, and socioeconomic literature submitted in 1993-1994 by supporters and opponents of the proposed workplace regulation of tobacco smoke developed by the Maryland Occupational Safety and Health (MOSH) Advisory Board. Methods. The authors retrospectively analyzed 544 written publications submitted to the MOSH Advisory Board regarding the proposed workplace regulation of tobacco smoke. Outcome measures included the type and year of publication and, for journal articles, the journal's peer review policy and impact factor. Results. Supporters of regulation submitted fewer documents (n = 164) than opponents (n = 380). Supporters of regulation submitted a lower proportion of conference proceedings and a higher proportion of government reports. The publications submitted to the regulators by the supporters of regulation were more recently published than the materials submitted by opponents. Journal articles represented more than half of the publications submitted; most were peer-reviewed. Supporters of regulation submitted articles from journals with higher impact factors (median impact factor 2.78) than did opponents of regulation (median 1.66; p=0.0005), and articles that were published more recently (median year of publication 1990) than those submitted by opponents (median 1989; p=0.0001). Conclusions. Public health advocates should highlight the scientific evidence base that supports tobacco control regulations. Public health advocates should encourage and support regulatory officials' use of the criteria of peer review, impact factor, and date of publication to prioritize their review of submitted documents in order to base policy on the best available evidence. KeyWords Plus: ENVIRONMENTAL TOBACCO-SMOKE, INDEX IMPACT FACTOR, PASSIVE SMOKING, MEDICAL JOURNALS, LUNG-CANCER, PUBLIC-HEALTH, NONSMOKING WOMEN, POLICY-MAKERS, SCIENCE, QUALITY Addresses: Bero LA, Univ Calif San Francisco, Dept Clin Pharm, 3333 Calif St,Suite 420, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA Univ Calif San Francisco, Dept Clin Pharm, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA Univ Calif San Francisco, Dept Social & Behav Sci, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA Univ Calif San Francisco, Inst Hlth Policy Studies, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA Univ Calif San Francisco, Sch Med, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA Publisher: US GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON IDS Number: 617LW ISSN: 0033-3549 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year *I SCI INF SCI CIT IND 1994 1994 *I SCI INF SOC SCI CIT IND 1994 1994 *NAT RES COUNC COM ENV TOB SMOK MEAS EX 1986 *OF SURG GEN US HLTH CONS INV SMOK R 1986 *OFF SURG GEN US HLTH CONS INV SMOK R 1986 *US EPA OFF HLTH E RESP HLTH EFF PASS S 1992 ANTMAN EM JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 268 240 1992 BARNABY DP ANN EMERG MED 31 78 1998 BARNES DE TOB CONTROL 6 19 1997 BENITEZBRIBIESCA L ARCH MED RES 30 161 1999 BERO LA ANN INTERN MED 127 37 1997 BERO LA JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 271 612 1994 BERO LA NEW ENGL J MED 327 1135 1992 BERO LA TOB CONTROL 10 329 2001 BERO LA TOB CONTROL 2 103 1993 BRODY S LANCET 346 1300 1995 BROWNSON RC AM J PUBLIC HEALTH 82 1525 1992 BUFFLER PA ENVIRON HEALTH PERSP 104 356 1996 CHO MK ANN INTERN MED 124 485 1996 CUMMINGS KM ARCH ENVIRON HEALTH 45 74 1990 DENZIN NK RES ACT THEORETICAL 1989 DOBSON AJ MED J AUSTRALIA 154 793 1991 DUNCAN DB JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 251 2658 1984 FONTHAM ETH CANCER EPIDEM BIOMAR 1 35 1991 FOSTER WR LANCET 346 1301 1995 GALLAGHER EJ ANN EMERG MED 31 83 1998 GARFIELD E SCIENCE 178 471 1972 GLANTZ SA CIRCULATION 83 1 1991 GLANTZ SA FEBRUARY 1994 UPDATE 1994 HANSSON S LANCET 346 906 1995 HECHT F CANCER GENET CYTOGEN 104 77 1998 HIRAYAMA T BRIT MED J 282 183 1981 HUSGAFVELPURSIA.K INT ARCH OCC ENV HEA 59 337 1987 JACOBSON PD J HEALTH POLIT POLIC 18 787 1993 LIGUORE A TOB CONTROL 5 37 1996 LINDE A EUR J ORAL SCI 106 525 1998 MONTINI T TOB CONTROL 10 218 2001 MURPHY P SCI TECHNOL HUM VAL 26 278 2001 OPTHOF T CARDIOVASC RES 33 1 1997 PARASCANDOLA M PUBLIC HEALTH REP 113 312 1998 PORTA M J EPIDEMIOL COMMUN H 50 606 1996 RENNIE D LANCET S2 352 18 1998 REPACE JL SCIENCE 208 464 1980 ROCHON PA JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 272 108 1994 SAPER CB J COMP NEUROL 411 1 1999 SCHILLINGS EM STATE LEGISLATED ACT 2001 SCHILLINGS EM STATE LEGISLATED ACT 2000 SEGLEN PO BRIT MED J 314 498 1997 SEGLEN PO J INTERN MED 229 109 1991 STEENLAND K JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 267 94 1992 STONE A INT ENCY PUBLIC POLI 4 1943 1998 TAGER IB NEW YORK STATE J MED 89 27 1989 TRICHOPOULOS D INT J CANCER 27 1 1981 VAUGHAN WM J AIR WASTE MANAGE 40 1012 1990 WELLS AJ ENVIRON INT 14 249 1988 WHITE J NEW ENGL J MED 302 720 1980 WHITE JR CHEST 100 39 1991 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Jan 7 14:13:52 2003 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 14:13:52 -0500 Subject: Montini T, Mangurian C, Bero LA "Assessing the evidence submitted in the development of a workplace smoking regulation: The case of Maryland" PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTS 117 (3): 291-298 MAY-JUN 2002 Message-ID: Lisa Bero : bero at medicine.ucsf.edu This is an interesting use of journal impact factors. "The journal articles the supporters submitted were more recently published and were in publications with higher impact factors, suggesting that they were of better "quality"." ________________________________________________________________ Title Assessing the evidence submitted in the development of a workplace smoking regulation: The case of Maryland Author Montini T, Mangurian C, Bero LA Journal PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTS 117 (3): 291-298 MAY-JUN 2002 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 57 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Objective. This study compared the characteristics of the basic science, biomedical, and socioeconomic literature submitted in 1993-1994 by supporters and opponents of the proposed workplace regulation of tobacco smoke developed by the Maryland Occupational Safety and Health (MOSH) Advisory Board. Methods. The authors retrospectively analyzed 544 written publications submitted to the MOSH Advisory Board regarding the proposed workplace regulation of tobacco smoke. Outcome measures included the type and year of publication and, for journal articles, the journal's peer review policy and impact factor. Results. Supporters of regulation submitted fewer documents (n = 164) than opponents (n = 380). Supporters of regulation submitted a lower proportion of conference proceedings and a higher proportion of government reports. The publications submitted to the regulators by the supporters of regulation were more recently published than the materials submitted by opponents. Journal articles represented more than half of the publications submitted; most were peer-reviewed. Supporters of regulation submitted articles from journals with higher impact factors (median impact factor 2.78) than did opponents of regulation (median 1.66; p=0.0005), and articles that were published more recently (median year of publication 1990) than those submitted by opponents (median 1989; p=0.0001). Conclusions. Public health advocates should highlight the scientific evidence base that supports tobacco control regulations. Public health advocates should encourage and support regulatory officials' use of the criteria of peer review, impact factor, and date of publication to prioritize their review of submitted documents in order to base policy on the best available evidence. KeyWords Plus: ENVIRONMENTAL TOBACCO-SMOKE, INDEX IMPACT FACTOR, PASSIVE SMOKING, MEDICAL JOURNALS, LUNG-CANCER, PUBLIC-HEALTH, NONSMOKING WOMEN, POLICY-MAKERS, SCIENCE, QUALITY Addresses: Bero LA, Univ Calif San Francisco, Dept Clin Pharm, 3333 Calif St,Suite 420, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA Univ Calif San Francisco, Dept Clin Pharm, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA Univ Calif San Francisco, Dept Social & Behav Sci, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA Univ Calif San Francisco, Inst Hlth Policy Studies, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA Univ Calif San Francisco, Sch Med, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA Publisher: US GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON IDS Number: 617LW ISSN: 0033-3549 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year *I SCI INF SCI CIT IND 1994 1994 *I SCI INF SOC SCI CIT IND 1994 1994 *NAT RES COUNC COM ENV TOB SMOK MEAS EX 1986 *OF SURG GEN US HLTH CONS INV SMOK R 1986 *OFF SURG GEN US HLTH CONS INV SMOK R 1986 *US EPA OFF HLTH E RESP HLTH EFF PASS S 1992 ANTMAN EM JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 268 240 1992 BARNABY DP ANN EMERG MED 31 78 1998 BARNES DE TOB CONTROL 6 19 1997 BENITEZBRIBIESCA L ARCH MED RES 30 161 1999 BERO LA ANN INTERN MED 127 37 1997 BERO LA JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 271 612 1994 BERO LA NEW ENGL J MED 327 1135 1992 BERO LA TOB CONTROL 10 329 2001 BERO LA TOB CONTROL 2 103 1993 BRODY S LANCET 346 1300 1995 BROWNSON RC AM J PUBLIC HEALTH 82 1525 1992 BUFFLER PA ENVIRON HEALTH PERSP 104 356 1996 CHO MK ANN INTERN MED 124 485 1996 CUMMINGS KM ARCH ENVIRON HEALTH 45 74 1990 DENZIN NK RES ACT THEORETICAL 1989 DOBSON AJ MED J AUSTRALIA 154 793 1991 DUNCAN DB JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 251 2658 1984 FONTHAM ETH CANCER EPIDEM BIOMAR 1 35 1991 FOSTER WR LANCET 346 1301 1995 GALLAGHER EJ ANN EMERG MED 31 83 1998 GARFIELD E SCIENCE 178 471 1972 GLANTZ SA CIRCULATION 83 1 1991 GLANTZ SA FEBRUARY 1994 UPDATE 1994 HANSSON S LANCET 346 906 1995 HECHT F CANCER GENET CYTOGEN 104 77 1998 HIRAYAMA T BRIT MED J 282 183 1981 HUSGAFVELPURSIA.K INT ARCH OCC ENV HEA 59 337 1987 JACOBSON PD J HEALTH POLIT POLIC 18 787 1993 LIGUORE A TOB CONTROL 5 37 1996 LINDE A EUR J ORAL SCI 106 525 1998 MONTINI T TOB CONTROL 10 218 2001 MURPHY P SCI TECHNOL HUM VAL 26 278 2001 OPTHOF T CARDIOVASC RES 33 1 1997 PARASCANDOLA M PUBLIC HEALTH REP 113 312 1998 PORTA M J EPIDEMIOL COMMUN H 50 606 1996 RENNIE D LANCET S2 352 18 1998 REPACE JL SCIENCE 208 464 1980 ROCHON PA JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 272 108 1994 SAPER CB J COMP NEUROL 411 1 1999 SCHILLINGS EM STATE LEGISLATED ACT 2001 SCHILLINGS EM STATE LEGISLATED ACT 2000 SEGLEN PO BRIT MED J 314 498 1997 SEGLEN PO J INTERN MED 229 109 1991 STEENLAND K JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 267 94 1992 STONE A INT ENCY PUBLIC POLI 4 1943 1998 TAGER IB NEW YORK STATE J MED 89 27 1989 TRICHOPOULOS D INT J CANCER 27 1 1981 VAUGHAN WM J AIR WASTE MANAGE 40 1012 1990 WELLS AJ ENVIRON INT 14 249 1988 WHITE J NEW ENGL J MED 302 720 1980 WHITE JR CHEST 100 39 1991 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Jan 7 14:47:55 2003 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 14:47:55 -0500 Subject: Shinn T. "The triple helix and new production of knowledge: Prepackaged thinking on science and technology" SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE 32 (4): 599-614 AUG 2002 Message-ID: Shinn T : shinn at msh-paris.fr Note the extensive use of SSCI to measure the impact of the highly cited "The new production of knowledge: The dynamics of science and research in contemporary societies" (Gibbons) and the lack of citations to the "Triple Helix" ______________________________________________________________ Title The triple helix and new production of knowledge: Prepackaged thinking on science and technology Author Shinn T Journal SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE 32 (4): 599-614 AUG 2002 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 34 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: This comment considers the approaches expressed in the books by Gibbons et al., The New Production of Knowledge (11994) and Nowotny et al., Re-Thinking Science (2001), and in the body of work pioneered over the last few years by Henry Etzkowitz and Loet Leydesdorff which expounds the 'Triple Helix' analysis of industry/ university/ government relations. Citation analyses and Internet search data are used to explore the geographical locations, audiences and 'impact' of this work. The strengths and weaknesses of these approaches are discussed, and the challenge of ensuring that they become more than fleeting fads, nourishing an unproductive frenzy, but develop so as to contribute something enduring to scholarship and practice. Author Keywords: citations, dynamics of research, endless transition, industry/university/government relations, innovation, Mode 1, Mode 2, policy, socially robust knowledge KeyWords Plus: INDUSTRY-GOVERNMENT RELATIONS, INNOVATION, MODE-2 Addresses: Shinn T, GEMAS, 54 Blvd Raspail, F-75006 Paris, France GEMAS, F-75006 Paris, France CNRS, F-75700 Paris, France Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, LONDON IDS Number: 614UB ISSN: 0306-3127 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year RES POLICY 39 2000 AUDETAT M SOC STUD SCI 31 950 2001 BOURDIEU P SOC SCI INFORM 14 19 1975 CRAWFORD E DENATIONALIZATION SC 1 1992 DIRIBARNE A 14 SEM EUR GROUP ORG 1998 DURKHEIM E REV METAPHYS MORALE 6 272 1898 ETZKOWITZ H EASST REV 15 20 1996 ETZKOWITZ H J TECHNOLOGY TRANSFE 24 111 1999 ETZKOWITZ H MINERVA 36 203 1998 ETZKOWITZ H RES POLICY 29 109 2000 ETZKOWITZ H U GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE E 1997 GIBBONS M NEW PRODUCTION KNOWL 1994 GODIN B RES POLICY 29 273 2000 GODIN B SOC STUD SCI 28 465 1998 HAGE J ORGAN STUD 21 971 2000 HORELLI L SCAND HOUS PLAN RES 14 105 1997 JOERGES B INSTRUMENTATION SCI 2001 KROHN W SELFORGANIZATION POR 1990 LEYDESDORFF L MONITOR 15 32 1998 LEYDESDORFF L SCI PUBL POLICY 25 195 1998 LEYDESDORFF L SCI PUBL POLICY 20 358 1998 LEYDESDORFF L SCI PUBL POLICY 23 279 1996 LEYDESDORFF L TRIPLE HELIX U IND G 1998 LUHMANN N SOCIAL SYSTEMS 1996 MATURANA H AUTOPOIESIS COGNITIO 1980 NELSON RR NATL INNOVATION SYST 1993 NOWOTNY H RETHINKING SCI KNOWL 2001 PESTRE D REV EC IND 79 163 1997 SALOMON JJ SURVIVRE SCI CERTAIN 1999 SHINN T SOC SCI INFORM 41 207 2002 SHINN T SOC SCI INFORM 38 149 1999 SHINN T SOCIOL SOC 32 43 2000 STALEY R SOC STUD SCI 32 469 2002 WEINGART P SOC SCI INFORM 36 591 1997 When responding, please attach my original message _______________________________________________________________________ Eugene Garfield, PhD. email: garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu home page: www.eugenegarfield.org Tel: 215-243-2205 Fax 215-387-1266 President, The Scientist LLC. www.the-scientist.com Chairman Emeritus, ISI www.isinet.com Past President, American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) www.asis.org _______________________________________________________________________ From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Jan 7 17:41:52 2003 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 17:41:52 -0500 Subject: Davis PM "Patterns in electronic journal usage: Challenging the composition of geographic consortia" COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES 63 (6): 484-497 NOV 2002 Message-ID: Philip M. Davis : pmd8 at cornell.edu Title Patterns in electronic journal usage: Challenging the composition of geographic consortia Author Davis PM Journal COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES 63 (6): 484-497 NOV 2002 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 36 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Annual electronic journal usage data for the NorthEast Research Library (NERL) consortium was analyzed for 2000 and 2001 for the Academic Press IDEAL aggregate package. Patterns indicated a high degree of skew in use of the journal collection: a small number of journals formed the majority of total use. Each institution illustrated a unique usage pattern, with some institutions using (proportionally) more or less of the collection. No institution used every title, and some titles were used very infrequently by the consortium as a whole. Title ranking showed high congruence between 2000 and 2001. Titles not subscribed in print received about ten times less use than locally subscribed titles. Cluster analysis revealed three distinct groups of institutions based on use of the journal package: large research institutions, medical institutions, and smaller liberal arts colleges and polytechnic institutes. Student enrollment is a good predictor of total usage, with medical institutions being an exception. It is recommended that institutions consider their consortial membership and organize themselves into groups of homogenous institutions with similar missions. KeyWords Plus: ACADEMIC-LIBRARIES, WEB, UNIVERSITY, RESOURCES Addresses: Davis PM, Cornell Univ, Albert R Mann Lib, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA Cornell Univ, Albert R Mann Lib, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA Publisher: ASSOC COLL RESEARCH LIBRARIES, CHICAGO IDS Number: 618LZ Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year BLACKWELL PUBLIS NOV 1 2001 BLECIC MEASUREMENT USE WEB BLECIC DD B MED LIBR ASSOC 87 20 1999 BLECIC DD COLL RES LIBR 62 434 2001 BORGHUIS MGM WHAT COUNT WHAT NOT 2000 BOSTICK SL J ACAD LIBR 27 128 2001 BRADFORD SC DOCUMENTATION 144 1948 BURRELL QL J DOC 41 24 1985 BURTON VT COMPUTERS COMPOSITIO 17 309 2000 CHRZASTOWSKI TE LIBR RESOUR TECH SER 41 101 1997 DAVIS COLL RES LIB 63 53 2002 DAVIS PM J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 52 309 2001 DAVIS PM PORTAL-LIBR ACAD 2 155 2002 DESPOSITO JE J ACAD LIBR 25 456 1999 EGGHE L J AM SOC INFORM SCI 44 369 1993 FIELDING AH CLUSTER ANAL WHAT IS 2002 FRAZIER K D LIB MAGAZINE MAR 7 2001 GARFIELD E SCIENTIST 10 13 1996 GOODMAN D LEARN PUBL 15 43 2002 GRIMES DJ COLL RES LIBR 62 11 2001 HERRING SD COLL RES LIBR 62 251 2001 MCBRIDE KB CHRON HIGHER EDUC 44 B6 1998 MCGRATH WE J ACAD LIBR 12 221 1986 MEDINA SO COLL RES LIBR 53 7 1992 MORSE DH ISSUES SCI TECHN FAL 2000 NABE J ISSUES SCI TECHN SPR 2001 ODER N LIBR J 125 48 2000 PETERS TA J ACAD LIBR 27 149 2001 POTTER LIB TRENDS 45 416 1997 POTTER WG LIBR RES 4 3 1982 ROGERS SA COLL RES LIBR 62 25 2001 SANVILLE TJ 67 IFLA COUNC GEN C 2001 SLOAN B LIBR J 125 57 2000 TENOPIR C COLL RES LIBR 61 234 2000 TENOPIR C ELECT J REALITIES SC 2000 TRUESWELL RL WILSON LIBRARY B 43 458 1969 ISSN: 0010-0870 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Jan 8 14:00:44 2003 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 14:00:44 -0500 Subject: Gaughan M, Bozeman B "Using curriculum vitae to compare some impacts of NSF research grants with research Center funding" RESEARCH EVALUATION 11 (1): 17-26 APR 2002 Message-ID: Monica Gaughan : monica.gaughan at pubpolicy.gatech.edu Barry Bozeman : barry.bozeman at pubplicy.gatech.edu Title Using curriculum vitae to compare some impacts of NSF research grants with research Center funding Author Gaughan M, Bozeman B Journal RESEARCH EVALUATION 11 (1): 17-26 APR 2002 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 24 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: While traditional grants remain central in US federal support of academic scientists and engineers, the role of multidisciplinary NSF Centers is growing. Little is known about how funding through these Centers affects scientific output or (as is an NSF aim) increases academic collaboration with industry. This paper tests the use of CVs to examine how Center funding affects researchers' publication rates and their obtaining industry grants. We find that CVs are indeed usable, but some ways of collecting them work much better than others, and that researchers who obtain Center grants are more likely to obtain grants from industry too, suggesting that this NSF aim is being met. We do not find that Centers improve publication rates. Addresses: Gaughan M, Georgia Inst Technol, Res Value Mapping Program, Sch Publ Policy, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA Georgia Inst Technol, Res Value Mapping Program, Sch Publ Policy, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA Publisher: BEECH TREE PUBLISHING, GUILDFORD IDS Number: 617ZA ISSN: 0958-2029 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year *NAT AC ENG GUID ENG RES CTR 1983 *NAT AC SCI NEW ENG RES CTR 1986 *NAT SCI BOARD SCI ENG IND 2000 2000 *NAT SCI FDN NSF00137 2000 BLOCH E NEW ENG RES CTR 28 1986 CHUBIN D PEERLESS SCI PEER RE 1990 CLARK B ACAD LIFE SMALL WORL 1987 COHEN IB SCI FOUNDING FATHERS 1995 COLE J SOCIAL STRATIFICATIO 1973 CORLEY E LEARNING SCU TECHNOL 2002 DIETZ JS SCIENTOMETRICS 49 419 2000 FARRAND M RECORDS FEDERAL CONV 1911 GEIGER R J HIGH EDUC 66 336 1995 GREENBERG D POLITICS PURE SCI 1968 GREENBERG D SCI MONEY POLITICS P 2001 KAISER J SCIENCE 1996 LIEBERT R AM J SOCIOL 82 664 1976 REAGAN M SCI FEDERAL PATRON 1969 ROGERS JD SCI TECHNOL HUM VAL 26 23 2001 SAVAGE J FUNDING SCI AM C U P 1999 SCHOOLER D SCI SCI PUBLIC POLIC 1971 STAHLER G RES MANAGEMENT REV 6 14 1992 USEEM M AM SOCIOL REV 41 613 1976 WALSH J SCIENCE 189 435 1975 When responding, please attach my original message _______________________________________________________________________ Eugene Garfield, PhD. email: garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu home page: www.eugenegarfield.org Tel: 215-243-2205 Fax 215-387-1266 President, The Scientist LLC. www.the-scientist.com Chairman Emeritus, ISI www.isinet.com Past President, American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) www.asis.org _______________________________________________________________________ From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Jan 8 14:13:05 2003 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 14:13:05 -0500 Subject: Verbeek A, Debackere K, Luwel M, Zimmermann E "Measuring progress and evolution in science and technology - I: The multiple uses of bibliometric indicators" INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT REVIEWS 4 (2): 179-211 JUN 2002 Message-ID: Koenraad Debackere : Koenraad.Debackere at lrd.kuleuven.ac.be Title Measuring progress and evolution in science and technology - I: The multiple uses of bibliometric indicators Author Verbeek A, Debackere K, Luwel M, Zimmermann E Journal INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT REVIEWS 4(2):179-211 JUN 2002 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 61 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Science and technology development have become critical instruments in the public policy arena given their demonstrated impact on economic progress. As a consequence, a vast array of indicators for measuring and mapping scientific and technological activity, their progress and their outcomes, has been developed over recent decades (see for instance, the EU Commission, 2nd Report on S&T Indicators 1997). The majority of them relate to measuring and mapping the published journal and patent literature. The first part of this review paper focuses on a state-of-the-art overview of bibliometric: indicators and their multiple uses in supporting the development of science and technology policy, The limitations and the pitfalls related to their use are also discussed. KeyWords Plus: UNIVERSITY-RESEARCH PERFORMANCE, CITATION ANALYSIS, BASIC RESEARCH, CO-CITATION, ECONOMICS, FLANDERS, POLICY, FIELD Addresses: Verbeek A, Catholic Univ Louvain, Fac ETEW, B-3000 Louvain, Belgium Catholic Univ Louvain, Fac ETEW, B-3000 Louvain, Belgium Minist Sci & Innovat Policy, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium Publisher: BLACKWELL PUBL LTD, OXFORD IDS Number: 573XX ISSN: 1460-8545 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year *DIOD DICT BIBL 1994 *EUR COMM 17639 EUR EN EUR COM 1997 ARROW K EC GROWTH TECHNICAL 1994 BRAAM RR SCI TECHNOLOGY INDIC 307 1989 BRAAM RR THESIS RIJKSUNIVERSI 1991 CALLON M MAPPING DYNAMICS SCI 1986 CALLON M SOC SCI INFORM 22 191 1983 DEBACKERE K RES POLICY 24 137 1995 DEBRUIN RE SCIENTOMETRICS 26 65 1993 EGGHE L QUANTITATIVE METHODS 203 1990 FREEMAN C CAMBRIDGE J ECON 18 463 1994 GARFIELD E CITATION INDEXING IT 1979 GAUTHIER E ST9808 OBS SCI TECHN 1998 GIBBONS M NEW PRODUCTION KNOWL 1994 GLANZEL W FDN EC INNOVATION 1998 GLANZEL W SCIENTOMETRICS 35 167 1996 GLANZEL W SCIENTOMETRICS 30 375 1994 HEALEY P RES POLICY 15 233 1986 HICKS D R&D MANAGE 16 211 1986 HICKS D SOC STUD SCI 17 295 1987 HINZE S THESIS RIJKSUNIVERSI 1997 KATZ JS RES POLICY 26 1 1997 KOREVAAR JC CWTS9208 1992 LUWEL M BIBLIOMETRISCH PROFI 1999 LUWEL M R&D MANAGE 29 133 1999 LUWEL M SCIENTOMETRICS 46 549 1999 MARTIN B RELATIONSHIP PUBLICL 1996 MARTIN BR RES POLICY 12 61 1983 MARTIN BR SCIENTOMETRICS 36 343 1996 MCCULLOCH R SCIENTOMETRICS 2 5 1980 MEYERKRAHMER F ISI C FRAUNH KARLSR 2000 MOED HF J INFORM SCI 15 283 1989 MOED HF RES POLICY 14 131 1985 MOED HF SCIENTOMETRICS 35 177 1996 MOED HF SCIENTOMETRICS 33 381 1995 MOED HF THESIS RIJKSUNIVERSI 1989 MOMBERS C SCIENTOMETRICS 7 341 1985 NARIN F EVALUATIVE BIBLIOMET 1976 NARIN F SCIENTOMETRICS 36 293 1996 NEDERHOF AJ RES EVALUAT 1 49 1991 NEDERHOF AJ RES POLICY 22 353 1993 NELSON RR EC GROWTH TECHNICAL 1994 NOYONS ECM J AM SOC INFORM SCI 50 115 1999 NOYONS ECM RES POLICY 27 285 1998 NOYONS ECM RES POLICY 23 443 1994 PRICE DJD LITTLE SCI BIG SCI 1963 PRITCHARD A J DOC 25 348 1969 RAPPA MA R&D MANAGE 22 209 1992 RAPPA MA TECHNOL FORECAST SOC 42 133 1992 SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24 265 1973 SMITH LC BIBLIOMETRICS LIB TR 30 1981 STEINMUELLER WE HDB IND INNOVATION 54 1994 STEINMUELLER WE INT ENCY SOCIAL BEHA 2000 STONEMAN P EC ANAL TECHNOLOGY P 1987 TIJSSEN RJW THESIS RIJKSUNIVERSI 1992 VANDENBERGHE H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 49 59 1998 VANRAAN AFJ CWTS9305 LEID U CTR 1993 VANRAAN AFJ SCIENTOMETRICS 38 205 1997 VANRAAN AFJ SCIENTOMETRICS 15 607 1989 VANRRAN AFJ SCI TECHNOLOGY INDIC 1989 ZIMAN J PROMETHEUS BOUND SCI 1994 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Jan 8 14:20:47 2003 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 14:20:47 -0500 Subject: Debackere K, Verbeek A, Luwel M, Zimmermann E "Measuring progress and evolution in science and technology - II:The multiple uses of technometric indicators" INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT REVIEWS 4 (3): 213-231 SEP 2002 Message-ID: Koenraad Debackere : Koenraad.Debackere at lrd.kuleuven.ac.be Title Measuring progress and evolution in science and technology - II: The multiple uses of technometric indicators Author Debackere K, Verbeek A, Luwel M, Zimmermann E Journal INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT REVIEWS 4 (3): 213-231 SEP 2002 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 47 Abstract: Science and technology development have become critical instruments in the public policy arena given their demonstrated impact on economic progress, As a consequence, a wide array of indicators for measuring and mapping scientific and technological activity, their progress and their outcomes, has been developed over recent decades (see for instance, European Commission, 2nd Report on S&T Indicators, 1997). The majority of these indicators relate to measuring and mapping the published journal and patent literature. In the second part of this review, we focus on a tate-of-the-art overview of patent indicators and their multiple uses in supporting the development of science and technology policy. We also discuss the limitations and the pitfalls related to their use. KeyWords Plus: PATENT STATISTICS, INNOVATIONS, LINKAGE, PERFORMANCE, CITATIONS Addresses: Debackere K, Katholieke Univ Leuven, Fac ETEW, Naamsestr 69, B-3000 Louvain, Belgium Katholieke Univ Leuven, Fac ETEW, B-3000 Louvain, Belgium Minist Sci & Innovat Policy, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium Publisher: BLACKWELL PUBL LTD, OXFORD IDS Number: 617AB ISSN: 1460-8545 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year *EUR COMM 17639 EUR EN EUR COM 1997 *OECD MAIN DEF CONV MEAS R 1994 *OECD MEAS SCI TECHN ACT U 1994 ARROW K EC GROWTH TECHNICAL 1994 ARUNDEL A RES POLICY 27 127 1998 CANIELS MCJ GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUT 1997 ENGELSMAN EC MAPPING TECHNOLOGY 1 1991 ENGELSMAN EC RES POLICY 23 126 1994 GIBBONS M NEW PRODUCTION KNOWL 1994 GRANSTRAND O EC MANAGEMENT INTELL 1999 GRILICHES Z EC POLICY TECHNOLOGI 124 1987 GRILICHES Z J ECON LIT 28 1661 1990 GRILICHES Z R D PATENTS PRODUCTI 1984 GRUPP H DYNAMICS SCI BASED I 73 1992 GRUPP H FDN EC INNOVATION 1998 GRUPP H KNOWLEDGE INTERFACE 1990 GRUPP H RES POLICY 23 175 1994 GRUPP H SCI TECHNOLOGY INDIC 1989 GRUPP H WISSENSCHAFTSBINDUNG 1992 MANSFIELD E EC TECHNOLOGICAL CHA 1969 MANSFIELD E RES POLICY 20 1 1991 MANSFIELD E TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER 1981 MEYER M RES POLICY 29 409 2000 MEYER M SCIENTOMETRICS 48 151 2000 MEYERKRAHMER F ISI FRAUNH KARLSR C 2000 NARIN F RES POLICY 26 317 1997 NARIN F RES POLICY 21 237 1992 NARIN F RES POLICY 16 143 1987 NARIN F SCI TECHNOLOGY INDIC 1989 NARIN F SCIENTOMETRICS 41 51 1998 NARIN F SCIENTOMETRICS 36 293 1996 NARIN F SCIENTOMETRICS 7 369 1985 NELSON RR EC GROWTH TECHNICAL 1994 NONAKA I KNOWLEDGE CREATING C 1995 PAKES A ECONOMETRICA 54 755 1986 PAKES A R D PATENTS PRODUCTI 1984 PAVITT K SCIENTOMETRICS 7 77 1985 SCHANKERMAN M REV ECON 36 917 1985 SCHERER FM PATENTS DO WE KNOW M 1996 SOETE LG SCIENTOMETRICS 5 31 1983 STEINMUELLER WE HDB IND INNOVATION 54 1994 STEINMUELLER WE SPRU ELECT WORKING P 44 2000 STONEMAN P EC ANAL TECHNOLOGY P 1987 TRAJTENBERG M 3187 TEL AV U FOERD 1987 TRAJTENBERG M RAND J ECON 21 172 1990 VERSPAGEN B 94004 MERIT IPCISIC 1994 VERSPAGEN B EC GROWTH TECHNICAL 1994 From quentinburrell at MANX.NET Wed Jan 8 16:21:12 2003 From: quentinburrell at MANX.NET (Quentin L. Burrell) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 21:21:12 -0000 Subject: Montini T, Mangurian C, Bero LA "Assessing the evidence submitted in the development of a workplace smoking regulation: The case of Maryland" PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTS 117 (3): 291-298 MAY-JUN 2002 In-Reply-To: <200301071915.h075334P011248@cheetah.mail.utk.edu> Message-ID: Gene's highlighted quote (see below) from the paper by Montini et al is certainly interesting. It suggests that one or other (or both in combination) of the aspects (i) being more recently published (ii) being in publications with higher impact factors are indicative of articles being "of better "quality"". The assessment of "quality" is always difficult. Is it accepted or has it been demonstrated that these particular quantitative aspects of articles can indeed be interpreted in terms of their quality? Quentin Burrell -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU]On Behalf Of Eugene Garfield Sent: 07 January 2003 19:14 To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Montini T, Mangurian C, Bero LA "Assessing the evidence submitted in the development of a workplace smoking regulation: The case of Maryland" PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTS 117 (3): 291-298 MAY-JUN 2002 Lisa Bero : bero at medicine.ucsf.edu This is an interesting use of journal impact factors. "The journal articles the supporters submitted were more recently published and were in publications with higher impact factors, suggesting that they were of better "quality"." ________________________________________________________________ Title Assessing the evidence submitted in the development of a workplace smoking regulation: The case of Maryland Author Montini T, Mangurian C, Bero LA Journal PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTS 117 (3): 291-298 MAY-JUN 2002 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 57 Times Cited: 0 From M.Davis at UNSW.EDU.AU Wed Jan 8 21:35:37 2003 From: M.Davis at UNSW.EDU.AU (Mari Davis) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 13:35:37 +1100 Subject: Special Rate for Scientometrics subscriptions Message-ID: International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI) Dear ISSI Members, In July 2002, I met Dr F.R. van Berckelaer of Kluwer Academic Publishers at the CoLIS4 Conference at the University of Washington in Seattle. I asked him about whether it would be possible for ISSI members to be given a special subscription rate to the journal, Scientometrics, given that our members are responsible for writing many of the articles published in the journal. I am happy to announce that through these discussions, we have been offered a special annual subscription rate of $US100.00 by Kluwer. This subscription rate is being made available to all currently financial member of ISSI who wish to begin subscribing in 2003 (volumes 56-58 or 9 issues). This is a greatly reduced cost to ISSI members given that the scheduled subscription price for individual subscriptions is EURO670.00 or USD$728.00. If you wish to take advantage of this personal subscription for 2003, please send your request stating that you are a current ISSI member directly to: Dr F.R. van Berckelaer, Publishing Editor, Information Studies at: fr.vanberckelaer at wkap.nl. Your membership details will be checked with our ISSI membership database held by Dr Wolfgang Gl?nzel. This is yet another reason to renew your ISSI membership before 31 January 2003; the first one being able to nominate or be nominated, and to vote in the upcoming ISSI Elections in 2003. Sincerely Mari Davis ISSI President, 2001-2003 John Metcalfe Research Fellow BIRG, Bibliometric & Informetric Research Group The University of New South Wales Quadrangle Level 2 Sydney NSW 2052 Australia m.davis at unsw.edu.au http://birg.web.unsw.edu.au/ Tel: +61 2 9385 7127 Fax: +61 2 9662 4061 From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Thu Jan 9 03:26:08 2003 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 09:26:08 +0100 Subject: Montini T, Mangurian C, Bero LA "Assessing the evidence submitted in the development of a workplace smoking regulation: The case of Maryland" PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTS 117 (3): 291-298 MAY-JUN 2002 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: > The assessment of "quality" is always difficult. Is it > accepted or has it been demonstrated that these particular > quantitative aspects of articles can indeed be interpreted in > terms of their quality? > > Quentin Burrell Dear Quentin and colleagues, Olga Amsterdamska and I unpacked the notion of measuring "quality" by citation in an extensive study entitled "Dimensions of Citation Analysis," (Science, Technology and Human Values 15, 1990, 305-335). I brought a preprint version (without the pictures) on-line at http://www.leydesdorff.net/sthv90 for your convenience. With kind regards, Loet From manolo.lopez at PRESIDENCIA.M400.GVA.ES Thu Jan 9 09:21:00 2003 From: manolo.lopez at PRESIDENCIA.M400.GVA.ES (Manolo Lopez Estornell) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 09:21:00 GMT+0100 Subject: countries statistics Message-ID: Dear colleagues: I am interested in statistics about scientific production breakdown by countries, mainly on the field of peer review papers located in ISi databases. Could anyone inform me about related works or webs where those statistics are collected and avalaible?. Thanks in advance. Best regards. Manuel L?pez Estornell Hihg Advisor Council on R&D Presidencia de la Generalitat Valenciana Regional Government of Valencia Caballeros, 9 46001- Valencia Spain phone. 34-96-38-63-685 fax: 34-96-38-66-137 manolo.lopez at presidencia.m400.gva.es From t.opthof at MED.UU.NL Fri Jan 10 04:26:37 2003 From: t.opthof at MED.UU.NL (Tobias Opthof) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:26:37 +0200 Subject: countries statistics In-Reply-To: <"24454 03/01/09*manolo.lopez"@presidencia.m400.gva.es> Message-ID: > Dear colleagues: > > I am interested in statistics about scientific production breakdown by > countries, > mainly on the field of peer review papers located in ISi databases. Could > anyone > inform me about related works or webs where those statistics are collected and > avalaible?. > > Thanks in advance. > Best regards. > > Manuel L?pez Estornell > Hihg Advisor Council on R&D > Presidencia de la Generalitat Valenciana > Regional Government of Valencia > Caballeros, 9 > 46001- Valencia > Spain > > phone. 34-96-38-63-685 > fax: 34-96-38-66-137 > manolo.lopez at presidencia.m400.gva.es Dear Dr. Esternell, You may be interested in reading Cardiovasc Res 2002; 56: 339-346. I also attach my list of papers in which you may find papers in previous years on this issue. Please concentrate on the years 1996 and after. Tobias Opthof -- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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If the text doesn't display correctly, save the attachment to disk, and then open it using a viewer that can display the original character set. From M.Bonitz at FZ-ROSSENDORF.DE Sun Jan 12 12:56:28 2003 From: M.Bonitz at FZ-ROSSENDORF.DE (Dr. Manfred Bonitz) Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 18:56:28 +0100 Subject: Yearbooks of Society for Science Studies Message-ID: The following four yearbooks (Jahrbuecher) of the Gesellschaft fuer Wissenschaftsforschung (Society for Science Studies) are now available from the Website of the society. You are welcome to download the papers as pdf-files. Just go to www.wissenschaftsforschung.de and click on Jahrbuecher 1. Wissenschaft und Innovation: Wissenschaftsforschung Jahrbuch 2001. Hrsg. v. Heinrich Parthey u. Guenter Spur. 2. Organisationsinformatik und Digitale Bibliothek in der Wissenschaft: Wissenschaftsforschung Jahrbuch 2000. Hrsg. v. Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski, Heinrich Parthey, Walther Umstaetter u. Roland Wagner-Doebler. 3. Wissenschaft und Innovation: Wissenschaftsforschung Jahrbuch 1999. Hrsg. v. Siegfried Greif u. Manfred Woelfling. 4.Wissenschaft und Digitale Bibliothek. Jahrbuch Wissenschaftsforschung 1998. Hrsg. v. Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski, Hubert Laitko, Heinrich Parthey u. Walther Umstaetter. ########################## Manfred Bonitz Dr. rer. nat. habil. Halbkreisstrasse 17 01187 Dresden / Germany phone: ++49 351 401 0760 email: bonitz at fz-rossendorf.de ########################## From Garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Sun Jan 12 15:30:36 2003 From: Garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Garfield, Eugene) Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 15:30:36 -0500 Subject: FW: Old articles live on ... Message-ID: I think members of SIGMETRICS listserv will be interested in the posting of Dana Roth and my response. Best wishes. EG -----Original Message----- From: Garfield, Eugene Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 3:29 PM To: 'CHEMICAL INFORMATION SOURCES DISCUSSION LIST' Subject: RE: Old articles live on ... Dana: All of this is quite interesting and belies the oft expressed view of self-styled experts who claim that no self-respecting physicist would be citing literature that is older than five years. In any case this will open possibilities for many interesting studies. One future study should determine whether all these new readerships affect citation of the older literature. The ease of access to the older literature might also increase the accuracy of citations to that literature since we know that there is a lot of bibliographic borrowing in lieu of having access to the originals. I would remind our colleagues that there is a statistical report in each annual issue of the printed SCI which gives the distribution of citations to each year of the literature. I don't know whether these Guides are supplied to subscribers to the electronic versions. Best wishes. 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: dzrlib at LIBRARY.CALTECH.EDU [mailto:dzrlib at LIBRARY.CALTECH.EDU] Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 8:17 PM To: CHMINF-L at LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU Subject: FW: Old articles live on ... This is taken from several recent SLA-PAM list-serv messages ... Whereas in the past it often took a trip to the back stacks of a library to find older material, today such access is just a click away -------------- In looking at downloads from PROLA which contains Physical Review, Physical Review Letters and Reviews of Modern Physics going back to 1893, the journal downloads per article dropped from the current year back for about four or five years and then leveled off to a plateau which seems to go back indefinately at a fairly stable level. There does not appear to be any year back to 1893 in which the number of downloads is less than the two or three times the number of articles published. ------------------- Data shows that of over 350,000 different articles online on AIP's OJPS system, over 175,000 different articles are downloaded each month. Dana L. Roth Millikan Library / Caltech 1-32 1200 E. California Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91125 626-395-6423 fax 626-792-7540 dzrlib at library.caltech.edu http://library.caltech.edu/collections/chemistry.htm CHMINF-L Archives (also to join or leave CHMINF-L, etc.) http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/chminf-l.html Search the CHMINF-L archives at: http://listserv.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=chminf-l Sponsors of CHMINF-L: http://www.indiana.edu/~cheminfo/chminf-l_support.html From subbiah_a at YAHOO.COM Sun Jan 12 23:57:00 2003 From: subbiah_a at YAHOO.COM (=?iso-8859-1?q?Subbiah=20Arunachalam?=) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 04:57:00 +0000 Subject: Yearbooks of Society for Science Studies In-Reply-To: <200301121856.28780.bonitz@fz-rossendorf.de> Message-ID: Dear Manfred: Are the articles mostly in English? I am accessin from a public booth in Tokyo. Arun --- "Dr. Manfred Bonitz" wrote: > The following four yearbooks (Jahrbuecher) of the > Gesellschaft fuer Wissenschaftsforschung > (Society for Science Studies) are now available from > the Website of > the society. You are welcome to download the papers > as pdf-files. > Just go to > www.wissenschaftsforschung.de > and click on > Jahrbuecher > > 1. Wissenschaft und Innovation: > Wissenschaftsforschung Jahrbuch 2001. > Hrsg. v. Heinrich Parthey u. Guenter Spur. > > 2. Organisationsinformatik und Digitale Bibliothek > in der Wissenschaft: > Wissenschaftsforschung Jahrbuch 2000. > Hrsg. v. Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski, Heinrich Parthey, > Walther Umstaetter u. Roland > Wagner-Doebler. > > 3. Wissenschaft und Innovation: > Wissenschaftsforschung Jahrbuch 1999. > Hrsg. v. Siegfried Greif u. Manfred Woelfling. > > 4.Wissenschaft und Digitale Bibliothek. Jahrbuch > Wissenschaftsforschung 1998. > Hrsg. v. Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski, Hubert Laitko, > Heinrich Parthey u. Walther > Umstaetter. > > ########################## > Manfred Bonitz > Dr. rer. nat. habil. > Halbkreisstrasse 17 > 01187 Dresden / Germany > phone: ++49 351 401 0760 > email: bonitz at fz-rossendorf.de > ########################## __________________________________________________ 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 Tue Jan 14 13:48:12 2003 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 13:48:12 -0500 Subject: Godin B. "The numbers makers: Fifty years of science and technology official statistics" Minerva 40(4):375-397, 2002 Message-ID: Benoit Godin : Benoit.Godin at INRS-UCS.Uquebec.Ca Url: for Kluwer Online subscribers: http://www.kluweronline.com/jrnltoc.htm/0026-4695 Title The numbers makers: Fifty years of science and technology official statistics Author Godin B Journal MINERVA 40 (4): 375-397 2002 Document type: Review Language: English Cited References: 114 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Official science and technology statistics are fifty years old. Among industrial countries, the forerunners were the United States, Canada and Great Britain. This paper traces the development and the construction of S&T statistics in these three countries, and their subsequent standardization, mainly by the OECD, in the 1960s. It shows how military and science policy needs drove the construction of statistics, until economic considerations came to dominate their development. It also discusses how statistics interacted with politics by way of studies that documented gaps between OECD Member countries and between the OECD and the USSR. 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"Editorial independence at medical journals owned by professional associations: A survey of editors" Science & Engineering Ethics 8(4):513-528, October 2002 Message-ID: R.M. Davis : rdavis1 at hfhs.org M. Mullner : marcus.muellner at univie.ac.at This paper illustrates a very common use of Journal Citation Reports's category listing. Two journals from each category were selected as indicated in the quoted passage. "We derived a sample of specialist journals as follows. First we obtained a list of the categories of scientific journals used by the Institute for Scientific Information (www.isinet.com) in its Journal Citation Reports. We identified 37 of these categories as being most relevant to medicine and health. We excluded the category "Medicine, General & Internal," because it overlapped with the journals represented on the ICMJE, and we then randomly selected 12 of the remaining 36 categories. Within each of these 12 categories, we selected two journls for inclusion in the sample: the North American journal and the non-North American journal with the highest "impact factor," a measure used to rank journals according to the number of citations to the articles they publish. See the addendum for more information on sampling" Eugene Garfield _______________________________________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________________________________ Title Editorial independence at medical journals owned by professional associations: A survey of editors Author Davis RM, Mullner M Journal SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ETHICS 8 (4): 513-528 OCT 2002 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 44 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: The purpose of this study was to assess the degree of editorial independence at a sample of medical journals and the relationship between the journals and their owners. We surveyed the editors of 33 medical journals owned by not-for-profit organizations ("associations"), including 10 journals represented on the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (nine of which are general medical journals) and a random sample of 23 specialist journals with high impact factors that are indexed by the Institute for Scientific Information. The main outcome measures were the authority to hire, fire, and oversee the work of the editor; the editor's tenure and financial compensation; control of the journal's budget; publication of material about the association; and the editor's perceptions about editorial independence and pressure over editorial content. Of the 33 editors, 23 (70%) reported having complete editorialfreedom, and the remainder reported a high level of freedom (a score of greater than or equal to 8, where 10 equals complete editorial freedom and 1 equals no editorial freedom). Nevertheless, a substantial minority of editors reported having received at least some pressure in recent years over editorial content from the association's leadership (42%), senior staff (30%), or rank-and-file members (39010). The association's board of directors has the authority to hire (48%) or fire (55%) the editor for about half of the journals, and the editor reports to the board for 10 journals (30%). Twenty-three editors (70%) are appointed for a specific term (median term = 5 years). Three-fifths of the journals have no control over their profit, and the majority of journals use the association's legal counsel and/or media relations staff. Stronger safeguards are needed to give editors protection against pressure over editorial content, including writte guarantees of editorial freedom and governance structures that support those guarantees. Strong safeguards are also needed because editors may have less freedom than they believe (especially if they have not yet tested their freedom in an area of controversy). Author Keywords: editors, editorial independence, editorial freedom, medical journals, scientific journals KeyWords Plus: KASSIRER,JEROME,P., GOVERNANCE, DEPARTURE, LUNDBERG, JAMA, NEJM Addresses: Davis RM, Henry Ford Hlth Syst, Ctr Hlth Promot & Dis Prevent, 1 Ford Pl,5C, Detroit, MI 48202 USA Henry Ford Hlth Syst, Ctr Hlth Promot & Dis Prevent, Detroit, MI 48202 USA Univ Vienna, Sch Med, Vienna Gen Hosp, Dept Emergency Med, A-1090 Vienna, Austria Publisher: OPRAGEN PUBLICATIONS, GUILDFORD IDS Number: 624YB ISSN: 1353-3452 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year BOSTON GLOBE 0728 A12 1999 *I SCI INF J CIT REP CD ROM 199 1997 ANGELL M BOSTON GLOBE 0121 A15 1999 ANGELL M NEW ENGL J MED 341 752 1999 BOLOGNA M JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 281 1789 1999 BOOTH B AM MED NEWS 0816 19 1999 BOOTH B AM MED NEWS 1206 19 1999 BOOTH B AM MED NEWS 1206 22 1999 DAVIDOFF F ANN INTERN MED 130 774 1999 DAVIDOFF F E COMMUNICATION 0328 2000 DAVIES HTO JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 281 2344 1999 DICKEY NW COMMUNICATION 0122 1999 EVJY JT NEW ENGL J MED 341 1312 1999 GARCEAU AJ NEW ENGL J MED 341 1310 1999 GARFIELD E BRIT MED J 313 411 1996 GLASS RM JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 281 460 1999 HOEY J CAN MED ASSOC J 160 507 1999 HORTON R LANCET 354 358 1999 HORTON R LANCET 353 252 1999 KASSIRER JP NEW ENGL J MED 341 1312 1999 KASSIRER JP NEW ENGL J MED 340 466 1999 KASSIRER JP NEW ENGL J MED 340 1671 1999 KNOX RA BOST GLOBE 1217 A3 1999 KNOX RA BOSTON GLOBE 0306 B1 1999 MCCORMICK B AM MED NEWS 0201 1999 MCNAMARA E BLOSTON GLOBE 1208 B1 1999 MITKA M JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 282 622 1999 MITKA M JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 282 1609 1999 NYLENNA M BRIT MED J 318 394 1999 PELLEGRINO ED JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 282 984 1999 RELMAN AS BOSTON GLOBE 1212 D3 1999 RENNIE D JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 282 783 1999 ROBERTS J BRIT MED J 318 406 1999 ROSENBERG RN JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 281 2239 1999 SANDERS SA JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 281 275 1999 SMITH R BALANCING ACT ESSAYS 36 1991 SMITH R BR MED J 324 2002 SMITH R BRIT MED J 319 272 1999 SMITH R BRIT MED J 318 210 1999 SMITH R COULD IT HAPPEN HERE 1999 SQUIRES B COMMUNICATION 0907 1999 TYE L BOSTON GLOBE 0119 A1 1999 VANDERWEYDEN MB MED J AUSTRALIA 170 151 1999 WENZEL RP BOSTON GLOBE 0728 A13 1999 From bernies at UILLINOIS.EDU Wed Jan 15 13:31:52 2003 From: bernies at UILLINOIS.EDU (Sloan, Bernie) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 12:31:52 -0600 Subject: Studying author affiliations in journals Message-ID: I am looking for some representative examples of papers/studies where the researcher has studied the institutional affiliation of authors publishing in specific journals, in an effort to determine the mix of academic disciplines contributing to the journal. Thanks, Bernie Sloan Senior Library Information Systems Consultant, ILCSO University of Illinois Office for Planning and Budgeting 616 E. Green Street, Suite 213 Champaign, IL 61820 Phone: (217) 333-4895 Fax: (217) 265-0454 E-mail: bernies at uillinois.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From delooze at WANADOO.FR Thu Jan 16 09:42:30 2003 From: delooze at WANADOO.FR (delooze) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 15:42:30 +0100 Subject: a scientometric paper in Nature Biotechnology Message-ID: "Decoding the literature on genetic variation" By: Roger Coronini, Marie-Ang?le de Looze, Pierre Puget, G?rard Bley, and Shyama V. Ramani coronini at grenoble.inra.fr, delooze at wanadoo.fr, shyamar at grenoble.inra.fr Nature Biotechnology, January 2003, volume 21, Pages :21-29. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are DNA sequence variations among individuals. Publicly funded laboratories and private businesses are attempting to associate specific SNPs (or sets of SNPs) with various medical conditions and to study the differences in SNP patterns among various human populations. Ultimately, it is hoped that knowledge of SNPs will improve medical treatment by enabling prediction of disease risk and response to therapies. In the following article, we present an analysis of the patent and scientific literature on SNPs (up to the end of 2001) to identify the key academic researchers and centers of excellence in the area, assess the major commercial developers of SNP technology, and understand the nature and progress of work currently underway. To assess the creation of new knowledge, we conducted a detailed study of papers published in the scientific literature. We have also measured SNP technological innovation by assessing patent applications filed at the major patent offices. The survey covers the scientific and patent literature over the period 1987 to 2001. Our central results reveal the dominance of research centers in the United States and the prolific patenting of SNP technology by a select group of biotechnology companies. Roger Coronini, Marie-Ang?le de Looze, and Shyama V. Ramani are researchers at INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique) in UPMF (Universit? Pierre Mend?s France), BP 47, Grenoble cedex 9, France 38040, and Pierre Puget and G?rard Bley are researchers at the CEA (Commissariat ? l'Energie Atomique) in LETI (Laboratoire d'Electronique et des Technologies de l' Information), Grenoble cedex 9, France 38054 The first three authors have also recently founded a start up offering services in competitive intelligence and knowledge management with specific application to the biotechnology sectors. 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URL: From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Jan 16 13:43:13 2003 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 13:43:13 -0500 Subject: Opthof T, Coronel R, Janse MJ "Submissions, impact factor, reviewer's recommendations and geographical bias within the peer review system (1997-2002): Focus on Germany Message-ID: Tobias Opthof : t.opthof at med.uu.nl Title Submissions, impact factor, reviewer's recommendations and geographical bias within the peer review system (1997-2002): Focus on Germany Author Opthof T, Coronel R, Janse MJ Journal CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH 55 (2): 215-219 AUG 1 2002 Document type: Editorial Material Language: English Cited References: 7 Times Cited: 1 KeyWords Plus: PUBLICATIONS, EUROPE Addresses: Opthof T, Acad Med Ctr, Editorial Off Cardiovascular Res, Rm J-127,Meibergdreef 9, NL-1105 AZ Amsterdam, Netherlands Acad Med Ctr, Editorial Off Cardiovascular Res, NL-1105 AZ Amsterdam, Netherlands Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM IDS Number: 582MQ ISSN: 0008-6363 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year OPTHOF T CARDIOVASC RES 51 202 2001 OPTHOF T CARDIOVASC RES 50 1 2001 OPTHOF T CARDIOVASC RES 48 1 2000 OPTHOF T CARDIOVASC RES 47 203 2000 OPTHOF T CARDIOVASC RES 43 265 1999 OPTHOF T CARDIOVASC RES 42 1 1999 OPTHOF T CARDIOVASC RES 41 1 1999 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 quentinburrell at MANX.NET Thu Jan 16 17:19:08 2003 From: quentinburrell at MANX.NET (Quentin L. Burrell) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 22:19:08 -0000 Subject: Peer review Message-ID: Members might be interested in this piece. ****************************** Research Trial by peers comes up short Sophie Petit-Zeman examines the 200-year practice of peer review http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/research/story/0,9865,875363,00.html For more research news: http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/research/ ****************************** Quentin Burrell From scott at SCOTTNICHOLSON.COM Sat Jan 18 22:25:07 2003 From: scott at SCOTTNICHOLSON.COM (Scott Nicholson) Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 19:25:07 -0800 Subject: Call for submissions - Bibliomining: Data Mining for Libraries Message-ID: Call for Participation ? Special Issue of Information Technology and Libraries on Bibliomining: Data Mining for Libraries The December 2004 issue of Information Technology and Libraries (http://www.lita.org/ital/), the peer-reviewed journal sponsored by the ALA?s Library and Information Technology Association, will be dedicated to the bibliomining process and will be guest edited by Scott Nicholson, faculty member at Syracuse University?s School of Information Studies. Bibliomining is the combination of data mining, bibliometrics, statistics, and reporting tools used to extract patterns of behavior-based artifacts from library systems. The bibliomining process involves the larger issues of data warehousing, standards for library transactions, and privacy of patron information. More information about bibliomining can be found at http://bibliomining.org. ITAL is seeking articles about data warehousing in libraries, data mining in libraries (theory or application), or applicable works about privacy of transactional library data from ethical or legal standpoints in either traditional or digital library settings. Scholars, practitioners, and library school students are all welcome to submit articles. Authors interested should submit a title and abstract no longer than 100 words by March 15th. Full articles (typically 3000-5000 words in length) are due by June 15th. Questions and submissions should be directed to Scott Nicholson at srnichol at syr.edu. ===== --------------------------------------------------------- Reply to scott at scottnicholson.com http://www.scottnicholson.com Scott's blog is at snicholson.livejournal.com --------------------------------------------------------- From Benoit.Godin at INRS-UCS.UQUEBEC.CA Tue Jan 21 13:33:44 2003 From: Benoit.Godin at INRS-UCS.UQUEBEC.CA (Benoit Godin) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 13:33:44 -0500 Subject: Peer review Message-ID: I search in vain for days for the study itself. Any idea of where it can be found? Beno?t Godin Professeur - INRS Canadian Science and Innovation Indicators Consortium (CSIIC)/ Consortium canadien sur les indicateurs de science et d'innovation (CSIIC) www.csiic.ca Project on the History and Sociology of S&T Statistics www.inrs-ucs.uquebec.ca/inc/CV/godinpub.htm e-mail: -----Original Message----- From: Quentin L. Burrell [mailto:quentinburrell at MANX.NET] Sent: 16 janvier, 2003 17:19 To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Peer review Members might be interested in this piece. ****************************** Research Trial by peers comes up short Sophie Petit-Zeman examines the 200-year practice of peer review http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/research/story/0,9865,875363,00.html For more research news: http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/research/ ****************************** Quentin Burrell From quentinburrell at MANX.NET Tue Jan 21 18:20:39 2003 From: quentinburrell at MANX.NET (Quentin L. Burrell) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 23:20:39 -0000 Subject: Peer review In-Reply-To: <61794A23442ACB459EBD74B5E8387EE425469A@mercure.inrs-urb.uquebec.ca> Message-ID: Typing "Tom Jefferson peer review" (without the quotes) in Google came up with several possibilities - and contact details. Quentin -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU]On Behalf Of Benoit Godin Sent: 21 January 2003 18:34 To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Peer review I search in vain for days for the study itself. Any idea of where it can be found? Beno?t Godin Professeur - INRS Canadian Science and Innovation Indicators Consortium (CSIIC)/ Consortium canadien sur les indicateurs de science et d'innovation (CSIIC) www.csiic.ca Project on the History and Sociology of S&T Statistics www.inrs-ucs.uquebec.ca/inc/CV/godinpub.htm e-mail: -----Original Message----- From: Quentin L. Burrell [mailto:quentinburrell at MANX.NET] Sent: 16 janvier, 2003 17:19 To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Peer review Members might be interested in this piece. ****************************** Research Trial by peers comes up short Sophie Petit-Zeman examines the 200-year practice of peer review http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/research/story/0,9865,875363,00.html For more research news: http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/research/ ****************************** Quentin Burrell From M.Davis at UNSW.EDU.AU Tue Jan 21 23:58:27 2003 From: M.Davis at UNSW.EDU.AU (Mari Davis) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 15:58:27 +1100 Subject: Studying author affiliations in journals Message-ID: A study published in by Davis, Wilson & Hood provides information on institutional affiliations of authors of papers from 1991-95 in Ophthalmology and in Optics - see Table 6 on p. 408. This study does not addressing a specific journals but the data are field specific limited to the ISI-selected set of journals for each of these fields. However, the affiliations were categorised by type rather than by academic disciplines. Reference: Davis M, Wilson CS, Hood WW. Ophthalmology and Optics: an informetric study of Australia's contribution to fields in the Vision Science domain, 1991-95. Scientometrics v.46, 1999: 399-416. Mari Davis PhD John Metcalfe Research Fellow BIRG, Bibliometric & Informetric Research Group The University of New South Wales Quadrangle Level 2 Sydney NSW 2052 Australia m.davis at unsw.edu.au http://birg.web.unsw.edu.au/ Tel: +61 2 9385 7127 Fax: +61 2 9662 4061 "Sloan, Bernie" cc: Sent by: ASIS&T Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Studying author Special Interest affiliations in journals Group on Metrics 16/01/2003 05:31 AM Please respond to ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics I am looking for some representative examples of papers/studies where the researcher has studied the institutional affiliation of authors publishing in specific journals, in an effort to determine the mix of academic disciplines contributing to the journal. Thanks, Bernie Sloan Senior Library Information Systems Consultant, ILCSO University of Illinois Office for Planning and Budgeting 616 E. Green Street, Suite 213 Champaign, IL 61820 Phone: (217) 333-4895 Fax: (217) 265-0454 E-mail: bernies at uillinois.edu From kretschmer.h at T-ONLINE.DE Thu Jan 23 11:07:00 2003 From: kretschmer.h at T-ONLINE.DE (Hildrun Kretschmer) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 16:07:00 GMT Subject: 9th Intern. Conf. on Scient.&Inform, Beijing 2003, Special Session Message-ID: Dear colleague, We have the pleasure in information you a Special Session under the title "Collaboration in Science and in Technology" is organised on AUGUST 30 under the umbrella of the 9th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics, Beijing 2003. You can find a list of contributions in alphabetical order in the attachment. Some of these papers will be published in the Beijing Conference Proceedings. See also the COLLNET website www.collnet.de WELCOME TO YOU ON AUGUST 30! With best wishes, Hildrun Kretschmer -- -------------------------------- Hildrun Kretschmer Dr. oec., Dr. sc. phil., Dipl.-psych. 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Name: peking.doc Type: application/msword Size: 42496 bytes Desc: not available URL: From mhsorens at POST9.TELE.DK Thu Jan 23 18:19:45 2003 From: mhsorens at POST9.TELE.DK (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Mogens_Henrik_S=F8rensen?=) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 00:19:45 +0100 Subject: Peer review In-Reply-To: <61794A23442ACB459EBD74B5E8387EE425469A@mercure.inrs-urb.uquebec.ca> Message-ID: This is probably the reference you are looking for: Effects of Editorial Peer Review - A Systematic Review Tom Jefferson, MD; Philip Alderson, MBChB; Elizabeth Wager, MA; Frank Davidoff, MD JAMA, Vol. 287 No. 21, June 5, 2002 http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v287n21/abs/jrv10095.html Mogens Henrik S?rensen -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU]On Behalf Of Benoit Godin Sent: 21. januar 2003 19:34 To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Peer review I search in vain for days for the study itself. Any idea of where it can be found? Beno?t Godin Professeur - INRS Canadian Science and Innovation Indicators Consortium (CSIIC)/ Consortium canadien sur les indicateurs de science et d'innovation (CSIIC) www.csiic.ca Project on the History and Sociology of S&T Statistics www.inrs-ucs.uquebec.ca/inc/CV/godinpub.htm e-mail: -----Original Message----- From: Quentin L. Burrell [mailto:quentinburrell at MANX.NET] Sent: 16 janvier, 2003 17:19 To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Peer review Members might be interested in this piece. ****************************** Research Trial by peers comes up short Sophie Petit-Zeman examines the 200-year practice of peer review http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/research/story/0,9865,875363,00.html For more research news: http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/research/ ****************************** Quentin Burrell From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Jan 24 14:45:29 2003 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 14:45:29 -0500 Subject: Vaughan L., Thelwall M. "Scholarly use of the Web: What are the key inducers of links to journal Web sites? JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 54 (1): 29-38 JAN 1 2003 Message-ID: Liwen Vaughan : lvaughan at uwo.ca Mike Thelwall : m.thelwall at wlv.ac.uk Title Scholarly use of the Web: What are the key inducers of links to journal Web sites? Author Vaughan L, Thelwall M Journal JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 54 (1): 29-38 JAN 1 2003 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 45 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Web links have been studied by information scientists for at least six years but it is only in the past two that clear evidence has emerged to show that counts of links to scholarly Web spaces (universities and departments) can correlate significantly with research measures, giving some credence to their use for the investigation of scholarly communication. This paper reports on a study to investigate the factors that influence the creation of links to journal Web sites. An empirical approach is used: collecting data and testing for significant patterns. The specific questions addressed are whether site age and site content are inducers of links to a journal's Web site as measured by the ratio of link counts to Journal Impact Factors, two variables previously discovered to be related. A new methodology for data collection is also introduced that uses the Internet Archive to obtain an earliest known creation date for Web sites. The results show that both site age and site content are significant factors for the disciplines studied: library and information science, and law. Comparisons between the two fields also show disciplinary differences in Web site characteristics. Scholars and publishers should be particularly aware that richer content on a journal's Web site tends to generate links and thus the traffic to the site. KeyWords Plus: IMPACT FACTORS, CITATION ANALYSIS, SEARCH ENGINE, INFORMATION, COMMUNICATION, WEBOMETRICS, INTERNET, SCIENCE Addresses: Vaughan L, Univ Western Ontario, Fac Informat & Media Studies, London, ON N6A 5B7, Canada Univ Western Ontario, Fac Informat & Media Studies, London, ON N6A 5B7, Canada Wolverhampton Univ, Sch Comp & Informat Technol, Wolverhampton WV1 1EQ, England Publisher: JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, HOBOKEN IDS Number: 626ZQ ISSN: 1532-2882 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year *ALT VIST ALT VIST ADV SEARCH 2002 *NORTHL NORTHL LIGH GEN HELP 2002 ADAM D NATURE 415 726 2002 ALMIND TC J DOC 53 404 1997 BARILAN J SCIENTOMETRICS 50 7 2001 BJORNEBORN L SCIENTOMETRICS 50 65 2001 BRIN S COMPUT NETWORKS ISDN 30 107 1998 CHAVEZDEMOULIN VC WEB ARCHIVES TIME MA 2000 CHU H IN PRESS J ED LIB IN COLE JR ASIS MONOGRAPH SERIE 281 2000 CRONIN B J INFORM SCI 27 1 2001 DAVENPORT E ASIS MONOGRAPH SERIE 517 2000 GARFIELD E CURRENT CONTENT 0620 1994 GOODRUM AA INFORM PROCESS MANAG 37 661 2001 HARTER SP J AM SOC INFORM SCI 51 1159 2000 HOWELL D STAT METHODS PSYCHOL 2002 INGWERSEN P J DOC 54 236 1998 KIM HJ J AM SOC INFORM SCI 51 887 2000 KLING R J AM SOC INFORM SCI 51 1306 2000 KLING R J AM SOC INFORM SCI 50 890 1999 KOMAN R WAYBACK MACHINE WORK 2002 LARSON RR BIBLIOMETRICS WORLD 1999 LAWRENCE S NATURE 411 521 2001 LAWRENCE S NATURE 400 107 1999 LEYDESDORFF L CYBERNETICS 4 2000 MOED HF NATURE 145 731 2002 ROUSSEAU R CYBERMETRICS 2 1998 ROUSSEAU R CYBERMETRICS 1 1997 SANDVIK H BRIT MED J 319 29 1999 SMITH A SCIENTOMETRICS 54 363 2002 SMITH AG J DOC 55 577 1999 SNYDER H J DOC 55 375 1999 SOUALMIA LF ST HEAL T 90 178 2002 SPINK A J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 53 65 2002 THELWALL M IN PRESS J AM SOC IN THELWALL M INTERNET RES 12 124 2002 THELWALL M J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 52 1157 2001 THELWALL M J DOC 58 60 2002 THELWALL M J DOC 57 177 2001 THELWALL M J DOC 56 185 2000 THELWALL M RESPONSIVENESS SEARC 2001 THOMAS O J INFORM SCI 26 421 2000 VAUGHAN L ASIST MONOGRAPH SERI 2001 VAUGHAN L IN PRESS ASLIB P VAUGHAN L IN PRESS P ANN C AM 2002 When responding, please attach my original message _______________________________________________________________________ Eugene Garfield, PhD. email: garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu home page: www.eugenegarfield.org Tel: 215-243-2205 Fax 215-387-1266 President, The Scientist LLC. www.the-scientist.com Chairman Emeritus, ISI www.isinet.com Past President, American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) www.asis.org _______________________________________________________________________ From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Jan 24 15:17:15 2003 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 15:17:15 -0500 Subject: van den Besselaar "Empirical evidence of self-organization?" JASIST 54(1):87-90, 2003 Message-ID: Peter van dan Besselaar : peter.van.den.besselaar at niwi.knaw.nl Title Empirical evidence of self-organization? Author van den Besselaar P Journal JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 54 (1): 87-90 JAN 1 2003 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 6 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: In a recent paper in this journal, Loet Leydesdorff and Gaston Heimeriks (2001, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 52, 1262-1294.) argue that biotechnology develops in a self-organizational mode, through interaction between the intellectual structure and the institutional network of the research field. This claim is empirically supported by a multivariate analysis of documents from core biotechnology journals. One unexpected finding in this paper is the relationship between the title words of documents and the region of their origin. This claim requires examination because, as will be shown, it seems to be an artifact of the method used. If this is so, it undermines the authors' theoretical claim that the production of knowledge is a self-organizing process. Addresses: van den Besselaar P, Royal Netherlands Acad Arts & Sci NIWI KNAW, Dept Social Sci, POB 95110, NL-1000 HC Amsterdam, Netherlands Royal Netherlands Acad Arts & Sci NIWI KNAW, Dept Social Sci, NL-1000 HC Amsterdam, Netherlands Publisher: JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, HOBOKEN IDS Number: 626ZQ ISSN: 1532-2882 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year BATTACHARYA S SCIENTOMETRICS 43 359 1998 KLECKA WR DISCRIMINANT ANAL 1980 LEYDESDORFF L J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 52 1262 2001 LEYDESDORFF L J AM SOC INFORM SCI 48 418 1997 NORUSIS MJ SPSS PC PLUS PROFESS 1992 VANDENBESSELAAR P SCIENTOMETRICS 47 169 2000 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Jan 24 15:36:37 2003 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 15:36:37 -0500 Subject: Davis P. "Where to spend our E-journal money: Defining a university" Portal-Libraries and the Academy 2(1):155-166, January 2002 Message-ID: P. Davis : pmd8 at cornell.edu The data and methodology used in the journal frequency and price analysis can be found at : http://people.cornell.edu/pages/pmd8/ Title Where to spend our E-journal money: Defining a university library's core collection through citation analysis Author Davis P Journal Portal-Libraries and the Academy 2 (1): 155-166 JAN 2002 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 33 Times Cited: 1 Abstract: This paper identifies core journals in the life sciences for Cornell University researchers by analyzing the frequency of Cornell-authored citations in Biosis Previews between 1996 and 2001. The distribution frequency of journals confirms Bradford's Law of Scatter or the 80/20 Rule. The top 240 journals, providing 80 percent of the citations, were analyzed by publisher type and institutional subscription price. In general, journals from society and associations received the highest number of citations and were priced considerably lower than commercial journals. The methodology described is a fast, low-cost, and scalable procedure that can be adapted to various subject databases, and may be used to provide guidance on which titles to purchase for electronic access. KeyWords Plus: LISTS, COST, LAW Addresses: Davis P, Cornell Univ, Albert R Mann Lib, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA Cornell Univ, Albert R Mann Lib, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PRESS, BALTIMORE IDS Number: 626UA ISSN: 1531-2542 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year ARL BIMONTHLY REPORT 205 1999 *BIOS BIOS PREV 2001 *COLL AGR SCI FAC J PRIC STUD COR AGR 1998 BARSCHALL HH PHYS TODAY 39 34 1986 BRADFORD SC DOCUMENTATION 144 1948 BROOKES BC LIBR TRENDS 22 18 1973 BROOKES BC NATURE 232 458 1971 BROOKES BC NATURE 224 953 1969 BURRELL QL J DOC 41 24 1985 CHRZASTOWSKI TE COLLECTION MANAGEMEN 14 85 1991 CHRZASTOWSKI TE LIBR RESOUR TECH SER 41 101 1997 DROTT MC J AM SOC INFORM SCI 29 238 1978 DYKEMAN A LIBR ACQUIS PRACT TH 18 137 1994 FRAZIER K D LIB MAGAZINE 7 2001 GARFIELD E CURRENT CONTENT 0528 5 1990 GARFIELD E CURRENT CONTENT 0620 3 1994 GARFIELD E CURRENT CONTENT 0620 3 1994 GARFIELD E SCIENTIST 10 13 1996 GOFFMAN W NATURE 226 922 1970 GYESZLY SD COLLECT BUILD 20 5 2001 HEINE MH J DOC 54 303 1998 HUGHES J LIBR ACQUIS PRACT TH 19 403 1995 KUSHKOWSKI JD J DOC 54 477 1998 LANCASTER EW COLLECT BUILD 11 19 1990 LASCAR C COLL RES LIBR 62 422 2001 LOCKETT MW LIBR INFORM SCI RES 11 21 1989 MCCAIN KW J AM SOC INFORM SCI 32 257 1981 MCGINNIS SD RES COLLECTIONS DIGI 31 63 2000 PAN E COLLECTION MANAGEMEN 2 29 1978 ROGERS M LIB J 124 107 1999 SOETE G MEASURING COST EFFEC 17 1999 TRUESWELL RL WILSON LIBRARY B 43 458 1969 WINDSOR DA SPECIAL LIB 64 446 1973 From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Sat Jan 25 02:54:16 2003 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 08:54:16 +0100 Subject: van den Besselaar "Empirical evidence of self-organization?" JASIST 54(1):87-90, 2003 In-Reply-To: <200301242017.h0OGM4uM012178@panther.mail.utk.edu> Message-ID: Dear Gene: Unfortunately, my reply could not be published as a rejoinder, but in the meantime it was accepted as a Letter to the Editor of JASIST. I take the liberty to provide the preprint version below, since it is relatively short. With kind regards, Loet ==================================================================== Letter to the Editor In his paper entitled "Empirical evidence of self-organization?," Peter van den Besselaar argued that the results of Leydesdorff & Heimeriks (2001) are based on unreliable statistics. Two arguments were brought against the use of discriminant analysis in our case: 1. The predictive power of 50% of the sample in relation to the other 50% is not significant; 2. Using simulations, discriminant analysis exhibits a prediction for random data that can be as high as for the bibliometric data. ad 1. Dividing the sample In the case of different samples which are representative of a population, one can use the eigenstructure of the first 50% for the prediction of the eigenstructure in the other 50% as a test. However, we were studying journal publications which are not representative of a population, but selected according to very specific criteria. The eigenstructures of these selections are sample-specific. In a selected sample, the prediction can be expected to deteriorate rapidly as one extends beyond the original sample by adding new cases. The negative results reported by Van den Besselaar (2002) are therefore not surprising. His test does not work because one cannot expect any significant correlation between the eigenstructures of highly specific samples. To pursue this line of reasoning, a better strategy might have been to proceed stepwise by iteratively recalculating the eigenstructure after each addition of a new case. (I have suggested this heuristic to Van den Besselaar in a previous exchange.) ad 2. The simulations Van den Besselaar claims that our results are also invalid because we disregarded his simulation results. This is simply not true: we were thoroughly familiar with his results when writing our paper. Our paper contains a reference to Van den Besselaar & Heimeriks (2000) that was published first. Furthermore, we replicated the simulations and found precisely the same results. These results were the sole ground for making the inference on p. 1266 of our paper that "(...) the weak structure in the network of words does also not significantly correlate with the geographical division." The second-order analysis of "self-organization" that follows after this conclusion was therefore not based on the results of the first-order discriminant analysis, as the reader can easily check. Van den Besselaar has misread and selectively quoted our paper. We repeated the argument that we had discarded the first-order results in the conclusion section (at p. 1272): "The two types of analysis are of a different nature. Whereas no statistical significance could be retrieved inductively in the initial analysis of word patterns, these negative results did not prevent us from using word patterns in testing the second-order hypothesis. (...) (S)econd-order theorizing has a more elusive character, because one proceeds on the basis of hypothetical "what-if"-types of questions." We used the results of the discriminant analysis only in order to remove records that had initially been flagged as misplaced. In our opinion, this deletion was prudent because the analytical causes of the simulation results were not clear. In my opinion, the simulated data are also different from the real ones. For example, the simulation results usually did not pass the significance tests provided by SPSS (because they were based on randomness), while our results using bibliometric data did pass these tests. Conclusion The focus of our paper was not on data collection, but on developing a new methodology. However, our results are not invalid in terms of the statistics used for the two reasons mentioned by Van den Besselaar. His first argument is not applicable to our case, and his second argument was used by us as a reason for moving from a first-order to a second-order analysis. References: Leydesdorff, L., & Heimeriks, G. (2001). The Self-Organization of the European Information Society: The Case of "Biotechnology". Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology 52(14), 1262-1274. Van den Besselaar, P. (2002). Empirical evidence of self-organization? Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology 54(1), 87-90. Van den Besselaar, P., & Heimeriks, G. (2000). Codification and self-organization in the European STI system. Final report to the European Commission. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam. _____ Loet Leydesdorff Science & Technology Dynamics, University of Amsterdam http://www.leydesdorff.net/ > -----Original Message----- > From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics > [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Eugene Garfield > Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 9:17 PM > To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU > Subject: [SIGMETRICS] van den Besselaar "Empirical evidence > of self-organization?" JASIST 54(1):87-90, 2003 > > > Peter van dan Besselaar : peter.van.den.besselaar at niwi.knaw.nl > > > Title Empirical evidence of self-organization? > Author van den Besselaar P > Journal JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION > SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 54 (1): 87-90 JAN 1 2003 > > Document type: Article Language: English > Cited References: 6 Times Cited: 0 > > > Abstract: > In a recent paper in this journal, Loet Leydesdorff and > Gaston Heimeriks (2001, Journal of the American Society for > Information Science and Technology, 52, 1262-1294.) argue > that biotechnology develops in a self-organizational mode, > through interaction between the intellectual structure and > the institutional network of the research field. This claim > is empirically supported by a multivariate analysis of > documents from core biotechnology journals. One unexpected > finding in this paper is the relationship between the title > words of documents and the region of their origin. This claim > requires examination because, as will be shown, it seems to > be an artifact of the method used. If this is so, it > undermines the authors' theoretical claim that the production > of knowledge is a self-organizing process. > > Addresses: > van den Besselaar P, Royal Netherlands Acad Arts & Sci NIWI > KNAW, Dept Social Sci, POB 95110, NL-1000 HC Amsterdam, > Netherlands Royal Netherlands Acad Arts & Sci NIWI KNAW, Dept > Social Sci, NL-1000 HC Amsterdam, Netherlands > > Publisher: > JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, HOBOKEN > > IDS Number: > 626ZQ > > ISSN: > 1532-2882 > > > Cited Author Cited Work Volume > Page Year > > BATTACHARYA S SCIENTOMETRICS 43 > 359 1998 > KLECKA WR DISCRIMINANT ANAL > 1980 > LEYDESDORFF L J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 52 > 1262 2001 > LEYDESDORFF L J AM SOC INFORM SCI 48 > 418 1997 > NORUSIS MJ SPSS PC PLUS PROFESS > 1992 > VANDENBESSELAAR P SCIENTOMETRICS 47 > 169 2000 > From Paul.Wouters at NIWI.KNAW.NL Mon Jan 27 12:04:29 2003 From: Paul.Wouters at NIWI.KNAW.NL (Paul Wouters) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 18:04:29 +0100 Subject: New Nerdi Website Message-ID: New Nerdi Website and WISER project We have started a new European project on Web Indicators last year, called Wiser. More information about WISER can be found at our updated Website http://www.niwi.knaw.nl/nerdi. You will find additional information about our activities there, that may be useful to internet researchers and science and technology studies. regards Paul Wouters Dr. P. F. Wouters Programme Leader Networked Research and Digital Information (Nerdi) NIWI-KNAW The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences PO Box 95110 1090 HC Amsterdam The Netherlands T 3120 4628654 F 3120 6658013 http://www.niwi.knaw.nl/nerdi paul.wouters at niwi.knaw.nl From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Mon Jan 27 13:15:54 2003 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 18:15:54 +0000 Subject: Potential Metric Abuses (and their Potential Metric Antidotes) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, [identity removed] wrote: > In an editorial (citing *all* the articles in the journal to help increase > the impact factor), the Editor of the Journal of Allergy and Immunology > apparently insists that all accepted articles cite as many as possible (at > least 20, I understand) articles from the journal itself in order to > increase the impact factor. This strategy has also been adopted by American > Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and for revised > manuscripts authors are urged to cite as many relevant articles from the > journal in the last two years as possible. > > Just illustrating the level of 'objectivity' in some of these metrics. Deliberate auto-citation (whether by an author citing himself, or journal-articles citing their own journal) is the easiest trick to pull -- agreed -- but also, in a digital database (like the open-access OAI harvester across the entire institutionally self-archived peer-reviewed journal literature), the easiest one to detect, check against baseline data (auto/allo-citation ratios in other journals) and accordingly factor out (or even penalize), if it proves to have been inflated! (If you're worried about early detection, that's what time-series analysis is for.) Never underestimate the potential power of digitometric analysis on a digital database! After all, we're only (!) talking about 20,000 journals, or 2,000,000 annual articles here! Stevan Harnad From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Wed Jan 29 13:26:12 2003 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 18:26:12 +0000 Subject: Reference Parsing ParaTools v1.00 Released (fwd) Message-ID: Forwarding a tool for parsing a reference and then finding out whether it is available somewhere on the Web. It could be used by authors putting links into their bibliographies, by users trying to find cited works, and perhaps even by software engines, automatically inserting links into reference lists. (Well done, Mike!) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 17:53:17 +0000 From: Mike Jewell Reply-To: September 1998 American Scientist Forum To: SEPTEMBER98-FORUM at LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG Subject: Reference Parsing ParaTools v1.00 Released Resent-Subject: Reference Parsing ParaTools v1.00 Released ParaTools Version 1.00 Released January 29th 2003 ParaTools v1.00 has been released and is available from: http://paracite.eprints.org/developers/downloads.html Created at Southampton University as an offshoot of the OpCit and EPrints projects, ParaTools is a set of Perl modules for the handling of references. It includes: - Reference parsing modules and templates - Document parsing modules (Experimental) - OpenURL creation/processing routines - Parsing examples - Web Service examples The toolkit is available under the GNU Public License, which ensures that ParaTools remains entirely free and open-source, and has been designed to be easily expandable. The parsing functionality in ParaTools is already in use in the ParaCite system (http://paracite.eprints.org), and the project is under active development. [ParaTools can also be integrated into EPrints 2 - see: http://software.eprints.org/docs/php/howto.php#how%20to:%20make%20the%20referencetext%20field%20link%20to%20the%20items%20referenced for more information] We are very interested in user feedback, and the ParaTools website provides information on submitting bugs and suggestions, as well as contributing code to the project. Documentation is available at: http://paracite.eprints.org/developers/documentation.html And a mailing list has been created at: http://paracite.eprints.org/developers/maillist.html A more detailed summary of ParaTools follows this announcement. Mike Jewell moj at ecs.soton.ac.uk --- What is ParaTools? ParaTools, or the ParaCite ToolKit, provides a set of Perl modules that aim to extract references from bibliographies in documents and then parse these references into their component parts (such as author, year, volume, and title). Take, for example, a document that contains the following: ... and so I think my theory should work. REFERENCES Jewell, M (2002) A useful paper. Journal of Useful Papers, 5:10-20 Bloggs, J (2001) The art of anonymity. Journal of Alias Creation, 10:5-6 ... The ParaTools 'DocParser' modules aim to strip out everything but the references, and return these as plain text. i.e. ("Jewell, M (2002) A useful paper. Journal of Useful Papers, 5:10-20", "Bloggs, J (2001) The art of anonymity. Journal of Alias Creation, 10:5-6") Once the references are extracted, the ParaTools 'CiteParser' modules can pull out the individual parts of the reference. For example, applied to the first reference, 'Jewell' is extracted as the author's surname, 'Journal of Useful Papers' as the publication, and '2002' as the year, as well as other useful fields including the title, issue, and page range. Finally, ParaTools provides an 'OpenURL' module, which can use the information extracted from the reference to create an OpenURL link. The OpenURL for the above paper would be: sid=paracite&spage=10&date=2002&aufirst=M&aulast=Jewell&issue=5&title=Journal%20of%20Useful%20Papers,&pages=10-20&atitle=A%20useful%20paper&epage=20&year=2002 This can then be appended to an OpenURL resolver's base URL to provide an interface to an OpenURL-enabled resource. e.g. http://paracite.eprints.org/cgi-bin/openurl.cgi?sid=paracite&spage=10&date=2002&aufirst=M&aulast=Jewell&issue=5&title=Journal%20of%20Useful%20Papers,&pages=10-20&atitle=A%20useful%20paper&epage=20&year=2002 The ParaTools package has many applications, including: # Converting reference lists into valid OpenURLs # Converting existing metadata into valid OpenURLs # Collecting metadata from references to carry out internal searches # Extracting reference lists from documents -- Mike Jewell | A clash of doctrine is not a disaster -- http://www.mikesroom.org | it is an opportunity. | http://paracite.eprints.org | http://www.beautifier.org | From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Jan 29 15:19:03 2003 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 15:19:03 -0500 Subject: ASIST 2002: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 65TH ASIST ANNUAL MEETING, VOL 39, 2002 39. 2002. Message-ID: The following papers appeared in ASIST 2002: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 65TH ASIST ANNUAL MEETING, VOL 39, 2002 39. 2002. The meeting was held November 18-21, 2002 in Philadelphia, PA. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Linda S. Marion : linda.marion at drexel.edu TITLE: A tri-citation analysis exploring the citation image of Kurt Lewin (Article, English) AUTHOR: Marion, LS SOURCE: ASIST 2002: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 65TH ASIST ANNUAL MEETING, VOL 39, 2002 39. 2002. p.3-13 INFORMATION TODAY INC, MEDFORD ABSTRACT: This paper presents the initial phase of a comparison of cocitation and social network analysis methods for the study of scholarly communication. The subject is a case study of the intellectual contributions of the social psychologist, Kurt Lewin. Lewin's "citation image" is examined with an analysis of intellectual "fellow travelers" as viewed by writers who cite both Lewin and other authors. In this paper I report the findings of an author tri-citation analysis that explores the relationships among authors linked to Lewin by citations in the three ISI databases. Lists of the sixty authors most highly cocited with Lewin in two time periods (1972-1986 and 1987-2001) were derived and then explored with two multivariate techniques: cluster analysis and multidimensional scaling. Findings indicate the continuing diffusion of Lewin's ideas. Group Dynamics and Social Psychology clusters show a shift in members from the early period to the late. The later map shows the growing dominance of organizational development and business management. Although psychology remains a prominent arena for Lewin's ideas there is increasing divergence between the disciplines of psychology and organizational development. AUTHOR ADDRESS: LS Marion, Drexel Univ, Coll Informat Sci & Technol, 33rd & Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alexander Pudovkin: aipud at online.ru Vladimir Istomin : Vi at mail.wsu.edu Eugene Garfield : garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu Full text article available at : http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/asis2002presentation.html TITLE: Algorithmic citation-linked historiography - Mapping the literature of science (Article, English) AUTHOR: Garfield, E; Pudovkin, AI; Istomin, VS SOURCE: ASIST 2002: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 65TH ASIST ANNUAL MEETING, VOL 39, 2002 39. 2002. p.14-24 INFORMATION TODAY INC, MEDFORD ABSTRACT: There is a large literature on mapping and visualizing the scholarly literature (White McCain, 1997; Buter & Noyons, 2001). However, none of these methods have been used to create historical displays of works on a given subject. The authors have developed a process and software called HistCite for generating chronological maps of collections resulting from searching the ISI Web of Science (WOS), SCI/SSCI/AHCI on CD-ROM or SciSearch on Dialog. Export files are created in which all cited references for source documents are captured. These files are processed by HistCite to generate tables of the most-cited works. Real time demonstrations of several topics such as bibliographic- coupling, co-citation analysis, gene flow, etc. will be provided. The HistCite software includes an expert system for detecting and editing errors or variations in cited references. Export Files of 1,000 or more records are processed in minutes on a PC. Ideally the system will be used to help the searcher quickly identify the most significant work on a topic and trace its year-by-year development. AUTHOR ADDRESS: E Garfield, ISI, 3501 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chaomei Chen : chen at cis.drexel.edu Katherine McCain: kate.mccain at cis.drexel.edu Howard White : howard.white at cis.drexel.edu Xia Lin : xia.lin at cis.drexel.edu Full Text of paper available at : http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~cc345/papers/asis2002.pdf TITLE: Mapping Scientometrics (1981-2001) (Article, English) AUTHOR: Chen, CM; McCain, K; White, H; Lin, X SOURCE: ASIST 2002: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 65TH ASIST ANNUAL MEETING, VOL 39, 2002 39. 2002. p.25-34 INFORMATION TODAY INC, MEDFORD ABSTRACT: We investigate an integrated approach to scientometric studies with emphasis to the use of information visualization and animation techniques. This study draws upon citation and co-citation patterns derived from articles published in the journal Scientometrics (19812001). The modeling and visualization takes an evolutionary and historical perspective. The design of the visualization model adapts a virtual landscape metaphor with document co-citation networks as the base map and annual citation rates as the thematic overlay. The growth of citation rates is presented through an animation sequence of the landscape model. Issues concerning the visual-spatial design are discussed from a citation analysis point of view. AUTHOR ADDRESS: CM Chen, Drexel Univ, Coll Informat Sci & Technol, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Theodore Allan Morris : tamorris at kent.edu TITLE: Medical informatics: Market for IS/IT (Article, English) AUTHOR: Morris, TA SOURCE: ASIST 2002: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 65TH ASIST ANNUAL MEETING, VOL 39, 2002 39. 2002. p.35-43 INFORMATION TODAY INC, MEDFORD ABSTRACT: Following on the lead from earlier pilot studies, the present work uses co-occurrence analysis of INSPEC classification codes and thesaurus terms assigned to Medical Informatics journal articles and proceedings papers to reveal a more complete perspective of how information science and information technology authors view Medical Informatics. An important underlying dimension to this perspective portrays a continuum of interest from biophysics through biomechanics to biomedicine to (presumably) biology (which is noticeable in its absence). Medical Informatics may be described as the application of information science and information technology to the theoretical and practical problems of biomedical research, clinical practice, and medical education. However, study results suggest IS/IT considers its relationship to Medicine within Medical Informatics as that of supplier vs. market. AUTHOR ADDRESS: TA Morris, Kent State Univ, Sch Lib & Informat Sci, Columbus Program, 124 Mt Hall,1050 Carmack Rd, Columbus, OH 43210 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rong Tang : tangr at albany.edu Mike Thelwall : m.thelwall at wlv.ac.uk TITLE: Exploring the pattern of links between Chinese university Web sites (Article, English) AUTHOR: Tang, R; Thelwall, M SOURCE: ASIST 2002: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 65TH ASIST ANNUAL MEETING, VOL 39, 2002 39. 2002. p.417-424 INFORMATION TODAY INC, MEDFORD ABSTRACT: This study compares the links between 76 Chinese university Web sites with ranks obtained from the NetBig lists, using a specialized Web crawler to collect the link data. In addition to providing a background to the higher education system in mainland China, we describe the NetBig ranking scheme. We then explain some of the site crawling problems encountered, including viruses and slow download times. The results show a significant correlation between link counts and research ranks from four different perspectives, although further research found that university size could be a possible cause. The extensive interlinking between Chinese university Web sites also indicates that these sites may serve as important information sources for researchers within or outside China. AUTHOR ADDRESS: R Tang, SUNY Albany, Sch Informat Sci & Policy, 113 Draper Hall,135 Western Ave, Albany, NY 12222 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ronny Lempel : rlempel at cs.technion.ac.il Shlomo Moran : moran at cs.technion.ac.il TITLE: Introducing regulated bias into co-citation ranking schemes on the web (Article, English) AUTHOR: Lempel, R; Moran, S SOURCE: ASIST 2002: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 65TH ASIST ANNUAL MEETING, VOL 39, 2002 39. 2002. p.425-435 INFORMATION TODAY INC, MEDFORD ABSTRACT: Link structure analysis is widely recognized as an important tool in WWW information retrieval and is extensively used in the retrieval and ranking algorithms of major WWW search engines. Common extensions of link analyses involve changing the Web subgraphs that are analyzed. In this work, we present two techniques which bias co-citation based link analyses towards favorable pages and away from undesired pages. Both techniques are integrated seamlessly into existing link- analyzing algorithms. Our first technique extends the notion of hubs by introducing pseudo hubs, which represent any trait of Web pages that is desirable to users. Pseudo hubs are added as pseudo nodes to the Web-graph and are linked to those pages which exhibit the desirable traits. The ensuing co-citation analysis then treats these pseudo nodes as if they were regular pages. This results in the rankings of pages with favorable traits being boosted. The second technique incorporates negative relevance judgments into the analysis, causing the results to shift away from the surroundings of undesired pages. AUTHOR ADDRESS: R Lempel, Technion Israel Inst Technol, Dept Comp Sci, IL-32000 Haifa, Israel -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Liwen Vaughan : lvaughan at uwo.ca Mike Thelwall : m.thelwall at wlv.ac.uk TITLE: Web link counts correlate with ISI impact factors: Evidence from two disciplines (Article, English) AUTHOR: Vaughan, L; Thelwall, M SOURCE: ASIST 2002: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 65TH ASIST ANNUAL MEETING, VOL 39, 2002 39. 2002. p.436-443 INFORMATION TODAY INC, MEDFORD ABSTRACT: This paper reports on a study that compares counts of links to the home pages of academic journals with the citation based Impact Factor for two disciplines: library and information science; and law. A significant correlation between these two measures was found for both subjects covered with law showing a weaker relationship, although neither relationship was particularly strong. The weakness may be attributable to journal specific factors that encourage more linking such as: computing-related content or particularly well developed Web sites; and wide distribution, perhaps including to a non-academic audience that may link to the journal but would not be citing it. It is also possible that insularity in a discipline may inhibit link counts but not Impact Factors. This exercise can be seen as (a) a useful way to re-examine the journal Impact Factors and (b) investigating a technique that is a potential source of additional information about the impact of a journal, particularly in terms of reaching out beyond a purely academic audience. The technical issues discussed show, however, the need for careful data collection and interpretation of results. AUTHOR ADDRESS: L Vaughan, Univ Western Ontario, Fac Informat & Media Studies, London, ON N6A 5B7, Canada -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dietmar Wolfram : dwolfram at uwm.edu Isola Ajiferuke : iajiferu at uwo.ca J. Stephen Downie: jdownie at uiuc.edu Michael J. Nelson: mnelson at julian.uwo.ca Jin Zhang : jzhang at uwm.edu TITLE: Informetric applications for information retrieval research (Article, English) AUTHOR: Wolfram, D; Ajiferuke, I; Downie, JS; Nelson, MJ; Zhang, J SOURCE: ASIST 2002: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 65TH ASIST ANNUAL MEETING, VOL 39, 2002 39. 2002. p.473-474 INFORMATION TODAY INC, MEDFORD ABSTRACT: Informetric aspects of information retrieval system content and use are introduced and discussed. Examples of research that employ informetric methodologies for information retrieval research are presented along with applications for system design, evaluation, and usage. AUTHOR ADDRESS: D Wolfram, Univ Wisconsin, Sch Informat Studies, Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Katherine W. McCain : kate.mccain at cis.drexel.edu Roger A. McCain, III : mccainra at drexel.edu TITLE: Mapping "A beautiful mind": A comparison of the author cocitation PFNets for John Nash, John Harsanyi, and Reinhard Selten - The three winners of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Economics (Article, English) AUTHOR: McCain, KW; McCain, RA III SOURCE: ASIST 2002: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 65TH ASIST ANNUAL MEETING, VOL 39, 2002 39. 2002. p.552-553 INFORMATION TODAY INC, MEDFORD ABSTRACT: We present the results of an Author Cocitation Analysis focusing on Nash, Harsanyi, and Selten and the top 24-27 authors with which each is cocited in the five years prior to their (1994) receipt of the Nobel Prize for Economics (1989:1993) and the five years following (1995:1999). We explore the different impacts that these three authors' work had on scholarship in these two time periods. Preliminary results show a substantial core of game theory authors anchoring the center of all three PFNets and unique sets of "penumbral" authors frequently cocited with each of the three winners. AUTHOR ADDRESS: KW McCain, Drexel Univ, Coll Informat Sci & Technol, 3141 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Jan 31 12:08:31 2003 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 12:08:31 -0500 Subject: Eichhorn G; Accomazzi A; Grant CS; Kurtz MJ; Murray SS "The NASA Astrophysics Data System: Free access to the astronomical literature on-line and through email" ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE 2002, Vol 282, Iss 1, pp 299-340 Message-ID: Guenther Eichhorn : gei at cfa.harvard.edu NASA Astrophysical Database available at : http://ads.harvard.edu Excerpt ....... "2.4 Citations and References: The use of citation histories is a well known and effective tool for academic research ([Garfield 1979]). In 1996 the American Astronomical Society purchased a subset of the Science Citation Index from the Institute for Scientific Information, to be used in the ADS; this was updated in 1998. This subset only contains references which were already in the ADS, thus it is seriously incomplete in referring to articles in the non-astronomical literature. This citation information from ISI spans January 1982-September 1998. The electronic journals all have machine readable, web accessible, reference pages. The ADS points to these with a hyperlink where possible. Several publishers allow us to use these to maintain citation histories; we do this using our reference resolver software. The same software is also used by some publishers to check the validity of their references, pre-publication. Additionally we use optical character recognition to create reference and citation lists for the historical literature, after it is scanned ([Demleitner, et al. 1999]). This process has handled over 10 million references and added over 6 million parsed references to the ADS citation database." _________________________________________________________________________ Author(s): Eichhorn G; Accomazzi A; Grant CS; Kurtz MJ; Murray SS Title: The NASA Astrophysics Data System: Free access to the astronomical literature on-line and through email Source: ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE 2002, Vol 282, Iss 1, pp 299-340 Language: English Document Type: Article Number of cited references: 46 ISSN/ISBN: 0004-640X Publisher: KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL Addresses: Eichhorn G, Harvard Smithsonian Ctr Astrophys, 60 Garden St, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA Harvard Smithsonian Ctr Astrophys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA Abstract: The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) provides access to the astronomical literature through the World Wide Web. It is a NASA funded project and access to all the ADS services is free to everybody world-wide. The ADS Abstract Service allows the searching of four databases with abstracts in Astronomy, Instrumentation, Physics/Geophysics, and the LANL Preprints with a total of over 2.2 million references. The system also provides access to reference and citation information, links to on-line data, electronic journal articles, and other on-line information. The ADS Article Service contains the full articles for most of the astronomical literature back to volume 1. It contains the scanned pages of all the major journals (Astrophysical Journal, Astronomical Journal, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, and Solar Physics), as well as most smaller journals back to volume 1. The ADS can be accessed through any web browser without signup or login. Alternatively an email interface is available that allows our users to execute queries via email and to retrieve scanned articles via email. This might be interesting for users on slow or unreliable links, since the email system will retry sending information automatically until the transfer is complete. There are now 9 mirror sites of the ADS available in different parts of the world to improve access. The ADS is available at: http://ads.harvard.edu. 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