ASIST 2002: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 65TH ASIST ANNUAL MEETING, VOL 39, 2002 39. 2002.
Eugene Garfield
garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU
Wed Jan 29 15:19:03 EST 2003
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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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