From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri May 2 14:16:23 2003 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 14:16:23 -0400 Subject: Jacobs N. "Co-term network analysis as a means of describing the information landscapes of knowledge communities across sectors" J. Doc. 58(5):548-562, 2002. Message-ID: Neil Jacobs : neil.jacobs at bristol.ac.uk Title Co-term network analysis as a means of describing the information landscapes of knowledge communities across sectors Author Jacobs N Journal JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION 58 (5): 548-562 2002 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 30 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Many and varied information sources are used by researchers and managers across sectors relevant to public policy development. When aggregated, these sources can be described in terms of sector-specific information landscapes. This paper describes results from a survey that investigated such landscapes and relates them to the working practices of those for whom they were relevant. This is achieved through the use of co-word or co-term analysis, a technique derived from actor-network theory. This technique allows for the production of graphic plots of normalised free text term pairs, which take into account inclusiveness. The results suggest that knowledge communities can be identified by this technique. Author Keywords: knowledge workers, information systems, public sector, voluntary organizations, universities KeyWords Plus: WORD ANALYSIS, ORGANIZATIONS, TECHNOLOGY Addresses: Jacobs N, Univ Bristol, Inst Learning & Res Technol, Regard, Bristol, Avon, England Univ Bristol, Inst Learning & Res Technol, Regard, Bristol, Avon, England Publisher: EMERALD, BRADFORD IDS Number: 599ZR ISSN: 0022-0418 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year AMIRAN E ADV LIBRARY AUTOMATI 4 25 1991 BIJKER W SHAPING TECHNOLOGY B 1992 BLOOMFIELD BP MANAGEMENT INFORMATI 143 CALLON M MAPPING DYNAMICS SCI 1986 CALLON M SCIENTOMETRICS 22 155 1991 CALLON M SOC SCI INFORM 22 191 1983 COYNE R INFORMATION TECHNOLO 11 338 1998 DAVID M SOCIOLOGICAL RES ONL 1 1996 DAVIES C INFORM PROCESS MANAG 33 377 1997 FINCH S P 14 ANN M COGN SCI 820 1992 JACOBS N ONLINE INFORM REV 26 19 2002 JACOBS N THESIS LOUGHBOROUGH 2001 KOMITO L J INFORM TECHNOL 13 235 1998 KRACKHARDT D CONNECTIONS 17 53 1994 LANCASTER FW TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMEN 1997 LASS A SCHOL COMM TECHN C E 1997 LATOUR B SOCIOLOGY MONSTERS E 103 LAW J ACTOR NETWORK THEORY 1999 MCGREEVY MW 110358 NASA 1995 ORLIKOWSKI WJ ACM T INFORM SYST 12 174 1994 ORLIKOWSKI WJ ORGAN SCI 3 398 1992 PFAFFENBERGER B ANTHR Q 61 39 1988 PHILLIPS DJ J INFORM TECHNOL 13 273 1998 POSTER M MODE INFORMATION POS 1990 SINCLAIR J CORPUS CONCORDANCE C 1991 STRATHERN M J ROY ANTHROPOL INST 2 517 1996 SWAN J KNOWLEDGE ARTICULATI 1999 TEIL G STANFORD HUMANITIES 4 1995 WHITELAW A SUMMATIVE EVALUATION 2001 WOOLGAR S SOCIOLOGY MONSTERS E 57 1991 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 M.Davis at UNSW.EDU.AU Mon May 5 21:31:48 2003 From: M.Davis at UNSW.EDU.AU (Mari Davis) Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 11:31:48 +1000 Subject: Research position available, BIRG at UNSW Message-ID: The Bibliometric & Informetric Research Group at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, is looking for a suitable applicant to assist in its research program. Please see the advertisement below. With apologies for any cross posting. ***************** Research Associate UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES SCHOOL OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS, TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT (SISTM) BIBLIOMETRIC AND INFORMETRIC RESEARCH GROUP (BIRG) REF. 2160EMAIL FIXED TERM: - Salary: $38,576 - $46,955 per year plus up to 17% employer superannuation plus leave loading) (Pro rata for part time). Salary levels are dependent on qualifications and experience. The Bibliometric and Informetric Research Group (BIRG) is one of the research groups in the School of Information Systems, Technology and Management (SISTM) and has a record for excellence in research in various aspects of Information Management and across quantitative and qualitative research methodologies. Research projects cover a wide range of areas including: literature measurement techniques, evaluation of subject literatures using social or economic perspectives, performance evaluation of scholarly units, analysis of publication and research activities, information seeking behaviour, information retrieval, citer motivation, flow of information in the web environment. The successful applicant will be expected to assist in various research in progress as well as join in the planning of new research projects. Essential criteria: a postgraduate degree in Information Management; high level communication skills (oral, written and interpersonal); ability to work on multiple on-going projects; knowledge of statistics; demonstrated experience in the use of statistical packages (eg SPSS), EXCEL and ACCESS to produce statistical analysis and reports; proven ability to construct and maintain information retrieval databases; proven ability to provide analytical reports on data collected; demonstrated ability to document research methods used; a knowledge of EEO/AA and OH&S principles. Desirable criteria: experience in information management research activities; familiarity with the local information management environment; online research skills; ability to provide critical annotated literature reviews; capacity to work well as part of a team. This is a full-time, fixed-term position for 12 months with prospects for renewal. Although the position is full-time, applicants available for at least four days a week will be considered. For further information contact Associate Professor Connie Wilson by telephone on (02) 9385 7134; facsimile on (02) 9662 4061; or preferably by email at c.wilson at unsw.edu.au To obtain further information regarding BIRG and SISTM please consult the following websites http://birg.web.unsw.edu.au/ and http://www.sistm.unsw.edu.au/ Applications close 16 May 2003. APPLICATION PROCEDURE Applicants should submit written applications systematically addressing the selection criteria, QUOTING REFERENCE NUMBER. Include business and private telephone numbers; a complete resume, (copies of academic transcript and qualifications where appropriate); and the names, addresses (and preferably email addresses or facsimile numbers) of at least two referees to: The Recruitment Officer, Human Resources, UNSW Sydney 2052, email: recruitment at unsw.edu.au or facsimile (02) 9662 2832 by applications close date. www.unsw.edu.au From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue May 6 12:53:10 2003 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 12:53:10 -0400 Subject: Wemple, E. "Footloose" Washington City Paper, April 18-24, 2003 Message-ID: Title : Footloose Author : Wemple, Erik Journal : Washington City Paper, April 18-24, 2003 Full Text Available At : http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/archives/media/2003/media0418.html An interesting article for those of us who are interested in and involved with "Footnotes". Eugene Garfield 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 May 6 14:54:16 2003 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 14:54:16 -0400 Subject: Godin B. "The emergence of S&T indicators: why did governments supplement statistics with indicators? " Research Policy 32 (4):679-691, April 2003 Message-ID: Benoit Godin : benoit.godin at inrs-urb.uquebec.ca Full Text Available At : http://www.inrs-urb.uquebec.ca/inc/CV/godin/indicators.pdf Title The emergence of S&T indicators: why did governments supplement statistics with indicators? Author Godin B Journal RESEARCH POLICY 32 (4): 679-691 APR 2003 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 64 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Science and technology (S&T) indicators are widely used in policy documents as well as in science and technology studies. This paper traces their origins and shows that it was the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) that first imagined and developed science and technology indicators. In the 1960s, the debate on technological gaps between the United States and Europe gave the OECD the opportunity to develop the first world-wide indicators on science and technology. The National Science Foundation (NSF) followed in the 1970s and improved the methodology of indicators on science and technology with its publication entitled Science Indicators. Science and technology indicators remain contested however, because centered on inputs rather than outputs, and because preoccupied mainly with the economic dimension of science and technology. (C) 2002 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. Author Keywords: S&T indicators, OECD, NSF Addresses: Godin B, Observ Sci & Technol, INRS, 3465 Rue Durocher, Montreal, PQ H2X 2C6, Canada Observ Sci & Technol, INRS, Montreal, PQ H2X 2C6, Canada Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM IDS Number: 664HB ISSN: 0048-7333 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year SCIENTOMETRICS 2 1980 *DEP HLTH ED WELF SOC REP 1970 *GAO SCI IND IMPR NEED DE 1979 *NAT SCI BOARD 133 SESS 19 20 NOV 1970 *NAT SCI BOARD 136 SESS 18 19 FEBR 1971 *NAT SCI BOARD 140 SESS 15 16 JUL 1971 *NAT SCI BOARD 141 SESS 9 10 SEPT 1971 *NAT SCI BOARD 144 SESS 20 21 JAN 1972 *NAT SCI BOARD 145 SESS 16 MARCH 1972 *NAT SCI BOARD 149 SESS 7 8 SEPT 1972 *NAT SCI BOARD 151 SESS 16 17 NOV 1972 *NAT SCI BOARD 158 SESS 20 21 SEPT 1973 *NAT SCI BOARD 159 SESS 18 19 OCT 1973 *NAT SCI BOARD NAT SCI BOARD HIST H 2001 *NAT SCI BOARD SCI IND 1972 1973 *NAT SCI BOARD SCI IND 1974 1975 *NSF FED FUNDS SCI RES DE 1953 *OECD COND SUCC TECHN INN 1971 *OECD DSTISPR7643 OECD 1976 *OECD DSTISPR7652 OECD 1976 *OECD DSTISPR7839 OECD 1978 *OECD GAPS TECHN 1968 *OECD M NESTI 1979 *OECD NESTI M 1988 *OECD OV LEV STRUCT R D EF 1967 *OECD SPT786 OECD 1978 *OECD SPT7926 OECD 1979 *PRES RES COMM SOC REC SOC TRENDS US 1933 *USGPO MEAS EV RES FED SUPP 1976 *USGPO NAT SCI BOARD SCI PO 1983 BAUER R SOCIAL INDICATORS 1966 BENDAVID J FUNDAMENTAL RES U SO 1968 CAMIC C AM SOCIOLOGICAL REV 59 1992 COGNARD P PROGR SCI 76 1 1964 COZZENS S SCI INDICATORS DESCR 1991 ELKANA Y METRIC SCI ADVENT SC 1978 ELLWOOD DW REBUILDING EUROPE W 154 1992 ENGLAND JM PATRON PURE SCI NSF 1982 FALK C COMMUNICATION 0524 2000 FALK C SCI PUBLIC POLIC FEB 37 1984 FREEMAN C RES DEV EFFORT W EUR 1965 GODIN B IN PRESS MINERVA 40 2002 GODIN B NEGLECTED SCI ACTIVI 2001 HEYNS RW NSB71158 1971 HOGAN MJ MARSHALL PLAN AM BRI 238 1987 HOLMFELD JD 4S B 3 36 1978 HOLTON G METRIC SCI 39 1978 KING A IN PRESS LET CAT TUR CH27 LEVINE AJ MISSILE SPACE RACE 1994 MACAULAY J 4S B 3 30 1978 MACKENZIE D STAT BRITAIN 1865 19 1981 MCGINNIS R SOC INDIC RES 6 163 1979 PARKE R MEASURING EVALUATING 48 1976 PORTER TM RISE STAT THINKING 1 1986 Price DDS METRIC SCI ADVENT SC 72 1978 SALOMON JJ ESPRIT DEC 902 1967 SALOMON JJ ESPRIT NOV 755 1967 SALOMON JJ REV HIST CNRS 3 2000 SERVANSCHREIBER JJ DEFI AM 1967 SHELDON EB INDICATORS SOCIAL CH 1968 SHELDON EB SCIENCE 188 693 1975 WATERMAN AT SCIENCE 131 1341 1960 WOLFE D SCIENCE 126 335 1957 WOOLF S COMP STUD SOC HIST 31 588 1989 Acceptable Use Policy Copyright ? 2003 Thomson ISI From bernies at UILLINOIS.EDU Tue May 6 15:16:15 2003 From: bernies at UILLINOIS.EDU (Sloan, Bernie) Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 14:16:15 -0500 Subject: Current Data and Key Literature on UnCited Scholarship Message-ID: Thought some of you might be interested in this... -----Original Message----- From: Gerry Mckiernan [mailto:gerrymck at iastate.edu] Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2003 1:23 PM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: [WEB4LIB] Current Data and Key Literature on UnCited Scholarship _Current Data and Key Literature on UnCited Scholarship_ I am greatly interested in current data and key literature on UnCited Scholarship. I have searched Google and found several select items, for example: David P. Hamilton (1990). "Publishing by and for?- the numbers _Science_, New Series, 250 (4986) (December 7): 1331-1332. [ http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/hamilton1.html ] David P. Hamilton (1991). "Research papers: who's uncited now?," _Science_, New Series, 251 (4989) (January 4): 25. [http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/hamilton2.html ] John A. Tainer; Helmut A. Abt; Lowell L. Hargens; David M. Bott; F. W. Lancaster; James H. Pannell; Edward B. Nuhfer; Charles L. McGehee; William A. Banks; David A. Pendlebury (1991) "Science, citation, and funding," _Science_ 251 (5000) (March 22):1408-1411. [http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/pendlebury.html ] Eugene Garfield (1998). "Commentary: I had a dream ... about uncitedness," _The Scientist_ 12 (14) (July 6): 10. [http://www.the-scientist.com/yr1998/July/comm_980706.html ] Quentin L.Burrell (2002). "Will this paper ever be cited?," _Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology_ 53(3)(February): 232-2002 For a homogenous set of papers given the average rate at which a paper attracts citations, Burrell calculates the probability that a paper will ever be cited assuming it has not been cited in a given time. The longer the elapsed time without citation the greater the likelihood it will never be cited. [ http://www.asis.org/Publications/JASIS/vol53n03.html ] Charles A. Schwartz (1997). "The rise and fall of uncitedness," _College & Research Libraries_ 58: (January): 19-29. Large-scale uncitedness refers to the remarkable proportion of articles that do not receive a single citation within five years of publication. Equally remarkable is the brief and troubled history of this area of inquiry, which was prone to miscalculation, misinterpretation, and politicization. This article reassesses large-scale uncitedness as both a general phenomenon in the scholarly communication system and a case study of library and information science, where its rate is 72 percent. [http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/ACRL/Publications/Journals_Monogr aphic_Series/College_and_Research_Libraries/Back_Issues_1997/January97/CandR L_January_1997_abstracts.htm ] *********************************************************** I am also (particularly) interested in Any and All articles / reports /studies / documents relating to the value of conventional Peer Review within the context of Uncitedness of Peer Viewed publications [Please do not crucify me for raising the issue]:-) *********************************************************** As Always, Any and All contributions, comments, questions, critiques, Government Rebuilding Contracts, and/or Cosmic Insights are Most Welcome. Regards, /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Current and Key Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck at iastate.edu From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue May 6 16:56:47 2003 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 16:56:47 -0400 Subject: Baumgartner, H; Pieters, R "The structural influence of marketing journals: A citation analysis of the discipline and its subareas over time" Journal of Marketing 67(2):123-139 April 2003. Message-ID: Hans Baumgartner : jxb14 at psu.edu TITLE: The structural influence of marketing journals: A citation analysis of the discipline and its subareas over time (Article, English) AUTHOR: Baumgartner, H; Pieters, R SOURCE: JOURNAL OF MARKETING 67 (2). APR 2003. p.123-139 AMER MARKETING ASSOC, CHICAGO KEYWORDS+: ECONOMICS JOURNALS; CONSUMER RESEARCH; IMPACT; MANAGEMENT; NETWORK; HISTORY; INDEX ABSTRACT: The authors investigate the overall and subarea influence of a comprehensive set of marketing and marketing-related journals at three points in time during a 30-year period using a citation-based measure of structural influence. The results show that a few journals wield a disproportionate amount of influence in the marketing journal network as a whole and that influential journals tend to derive their influence from many different journals. Different journals are most influential in different subareas of marketing; general business and managerially oriented journals have lost influence, whereas more specialized marketing journals have gained in influence overtime. The Journal of Marketing emerges as the most influential marketing journal in the final period (1996-97) and as the journal with the broadest span of influence across all subareas. Yet the Journal of Marketing is notably influential among applied marketing journals, which themselves are of lesser influence. The index of structural influence is significantly correlated with other objective and subjective measures of influence but least so with the impact factors reported in the Social Sciences Citation Index. Overall, the findings demonstrate the rapid maturation of the marketing discipline and the changing role of key journals in the process. AUTHOR ADDRESS: H Baumgartner, Penn State Univ, Smeal Coll Business, University Pk, PA 16802 USA From kate.mccain at CIS.DREXEL.EDU Wed May 7 04:01:45 2003 From: kate.mccain at CIS.DREXEL.EDU (Kate McCain) Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 04:01:45 -0400 Subject: Kate McCain/Drexel_IST is out of the office. Message-ID: I will be out of the office starting 05/07/2003 and will not return until 05/13/2003. "I am out of the office from May 7 through May 12, 2003. I will respond to messages when I return. Administrative questions can be referred to Associate Dean Raymond Campbell (Raymond.Campbell at cis.drexel.edu)" If it is absolutely necessary to reach me, you can try my cell phone 610-357-2990 From quentinburrell at MANX.NET Wed May 7 05:28:54 2003 From: quentinburrell at MANX.NET (Quentin L. Burrell) Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 10:28:54 +0100 Subject: Current Data and Key Literature on UnCited Scholarship In-Reply-To: <8DD31AE07607D511B1E70002B31FCB0401DD5ECB@eagle.pb.uiuc.edu> Message-ID: Readers interested in these aspects of the citation process should note that the paper of mine mentioned in Gerry's list is a taster for a much more substantial piece: "Predicting future citation behaviour" JASIS&T 54(5), 372-378, 2003. Both papers are theoretical and demand to be tested against what is actually observed. The basic research idea is to replicate earlier studies on circulations of library books in the context of citations.The invitation is still open! Quentin Burrell [mailto:q.burrell at ibs.ac.im] -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU]On Behalf Of Sloan, Bernie Sent: 06 May 2003 20:16 To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Current Data and Key Literature on UnCited Scholarship Thought some of you might be interested in this... -----Original Message----- From: Gerry Mckiernan [mailto:gerrymck at iastate.edu] Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2003 1:23 PM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: [WEB4LIB] Current Data and Key Literature on UnCited Scholarship _Current Data and Key Literature on UnCited Scholarship_ I am greatly interested in current data and key literature on UnCited Scholarship. I have searched Google and found several select items, for example: David P. Hamilton (1990). "Publishing by and for?- the numbers _Science_, New Series, 250 (4986) (December 7): 1331-1332. [ http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/hamilton1.html ] David P. Hamilton (1991). "Research papers: who's uncited now?," _Science_, New Series, 251 (4989) (January 4): 25. [http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/hamilton2.html ] John A. Tainer; Helmut A. Abt; Lowell L. Hargens; David M. Bott; F. W. Lancaster; James H. Pannell; Edward B. Nuhfer; Charles L. McGehee; William A. Banks; David A. Pendlebury (1991) "Science, citation, and funding," _Science_ 251 (5000) (March 22):1408-1411. [http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/pendlebury.html ] Eugene Garfield (1998). "Commentary: I had a dream ... about uncitedness," _The Scientist_ 12 (14) (July 6): 10. [http://www.the-scientist.com/yr1998/July/comm_980706.html ] Quentin L.Burrell (2002). "Will this paper ever be cited?," _Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology_ 53(3)(February): 232-2002 For a homogenous set of papers given the average rate at which a paper attracts citations, Burrell calculates the probability that a paper will ever be cited assuming it has not been cited in a given time. The longer the elapsed time without citation the greater the likelihood it will never be cited. [ http://www.asis.org/Publications/JASIS/vol53n03.html ] Charles A. Schwartz (1997). "The rise and fall of uncitedness," _College & Research Libraries_ 58: (January): 19-29. Large-scale uncitedness refers to the remarkable proportion of articles that do not receive a single citation within five years of publication. Equally remarkable is the brief and troubled history of this area of inquiry, which was prone to miscalculation, misinterpretation, and politicization. This article reassesses large-scale uncitedness as both a general phenomenon in the scholarly communication system and a case study of library and information science, where its rate is 72 percent. [http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/ACRL/Publications/Journals_Monogr aphic_Series/College_and_Research_Libraries/Back_Issues_1997/January97/CandR L_January_1997_abstracts.htm ] *********************************************************** I am also (particularly) interested in Any and All articles / reports /studies / documents relating to the value of conventional Peer Review within the context of Uncitedness of Peer Viewed publications [Please do not crucify me for raising the issue]:-) *********************************************************** As Always, Any and All contributions, comments, questions, critiques, Government Rebuilding Contracts, and/or Cosmic Insights are Most Welcome. Regards, /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Current and Key Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck at iastate.edu From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Wed May 7 07:38:04 2003 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 13:38:04 +0200 Subject: No subject Message-ID: * apologies for crosspostings The papers of the Fourth Triple Helix Conference in Copenhagen, 6-9 November 2002, are now available at http://www.leydesdorff.net/th4cd/th4cd.zip After downloading (appr. 10 Mbyte) and unzipping, the files can be read using the file th2002.exe which is also included. With kind regards, Loet _____ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ The Challenge of Scientometrics ; The Self-Organization of the Knowledge-Based Society -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From palvarez at UNEX.ES Thu May 8 03:24:03 2003 From: palvarez at UNEX.ES (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Pedro_=C1lvarez_Mart=EDnez?=) Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 09:24:03 +0200 Subject: Abstracts, Introductions and Discussions Message-ID: I will appreciate very much if you can send me an electronic preprint of the paper: Abstracts, introductions and discussions: How far do they differ in style? Tank you very much Allthe best Pedro Alvarez Faculty of Economics University of Exreemadura Badajoz (Spain) ----- Original Message ----- From: "J. Hartley" To: Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 1:07 PM Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Abstracts, Introductions and Discussions > Colleagues may be interested in a paper which we have just had accepted for > publication in Scientometrics. > > Please e-mail me (not the list) if you would like a printed or electronic > preprint. > > j.hartley at psy.keele.ac.uk > > The title and abstract follow below. > > James Hartley > Department of Psychology > Keele University > Staffordshire > ST5 5BG UK > > Abstracts, introductions and discussions: How far do they differ in style? > > James Hartley, James W. Pennebaker and Claire Fox > > Two computer-based style programs were used to analyse the Abstracts, > Introductions and Discussions of 80 educational psychology journal articles. > Measures were made of the overall readability of the texts as well as of > sentence lengths, difficult and unique words, articles, prepositions and > pronouns. The results showed that the Abstracts scored worst on most of > these measures of readability, the Introductions came next and the > Discussions did best of all. However, although the mean scores between the > different sections differed, the authors wrote in stylistically consistent > ways across the sections. Thus readability was variable across the sections > but consistent within the authors. From egackerma at RADFORD.EDU Fri May 9 08:37:12 2003 From: egackerma at RADFORD.EDU (Ackermann, Eric) Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 08:37:12 -0400 Subject: Translations and publication counts Message-ID: I am gathering data for a bibliometric study that includes original publications in non-English languages and their translations into English. For the purposes of publication and citation counts, what is the preferred method: treat them as individual documents or as one document, including combining their citations into one count? I have noticed that both the original and the translation tend to exhibit distinct citation histories. Any suggestions? Many thanks! Eric ********************************** Eric Ackermann Reference/Instruction Librarian McConnell Library Radford University PO Box 6881 Radford, VA 24142 Email: egackerma at radford.edu Phone: 540-831-5688 From lponzi at MINDSPRING.COM Fri May 9 12:44:13 2003 From: lponzi at MINDSPRING.COM (Leonard J. Ponzi) Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 12:44:13 -0400 Subject: KM Dissertation Message-ID: My bibliometric dissertation on KM titled, "The Evolution & Intellectual Development of Knowledge Management" is publicly available. You can down load a copy from the following link: http://www.mindspring.com/~lponzi/Dissertation/PonziKMDissertationFinal.PDF If you have any questions please feel free to contact me. Len Ponzi Abstract Knowledge Management (KM), a concept perceived by academics and practitioners as an emerging field, has little empirical lead evidence to support claims about its origin, growth, or constructs. The purpose of this research was to analyze systematically the 1991 to 2001 academic and industry literature to provide a better understanding of KM's evolution and intellectual development. Given the limitation of the methodological approach in this study, the analysis presents an archival view of KM. The findings of this research illuminate the emergence of KM, and in so doing, this study unpacked the KM concept by employing seven different bibliometric techniques and analyses (Discourse Life Cycle, Co-Term Occurrence, Author Co-citation Analysis, Disciplinary Activity & Breadth, Author Influence Index, and Disciplinary Influence) to explore the main conceptual shifts in KM's discourse, interdisciplinary nature, and intellectual structure. This methodological approach statistically analyzed data gathered from the occurrence and co-occurrence of key search phrases, cited authors, and cited references. Discourse life cycle and co-term occurrence analyses reveal that KM is still developing and that it has had three distinct evolutionary stages. The period 1991 to 1995 reflect KM's origin and formation. The foundation of KM occurred in 1995, when Nonaka and Takeuchi's seminal work, The Knowledge-Creating Company, was published. This work marked the tipping point to the growth stage as well as the birth of KM. Starting in 1996 and continuing through 1999 is a growth period, in which the KM literature reached exponential growth rates. During 2000-2001, the KM literature experienced a contraction and rebound. Disciplinary Activity measures show that KM's rapid growth, contraction, and rebound was in large part a computer industry driven phenomenon. The intellectual development analyses support claims that KM has emerged from the organizational sciences and is predominantly a social science phenomenon. The intellectual structure supports the four proposed constructs of: 1) Creating a Knowledge-based Business Strategy; 2) Developing a Learning Organization; 3) Managing Intellectual Capital; and 4) Leveraging Information Technology. Future study of KM's evolution and intellectual development is needed. KEYWORDS: Knowledge Management, Bibliometrics, Evolution, Discourse, Intellectual Structure -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Andrea.Scharnhorst at NIWI.KNAW.NL Mon May 12 11:32:18 2003 From: Andrea.Scharnhorst at NIWI.KNAW.NL (Andrea Scharnhorst) Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 17:32:18 +0200 Subject: look at: Message-ID: look at: http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/?0305150 Condensed Matter, abstract cond-mat/0305150 From: Mikhail Simkin Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 03:06:50 GMT (110kb) Copied citations create renowned papers? Authors: M.V. Simkin, V.P. Roychowdhury Subj-class: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks; Physics and Society Recently we discovered (cond-mat/0212043) that the majority of scientific citations are copied from the lists of references used in other papers. Here we show that a model, in which a scientist picks three random papers, cites them,and also copies a quarter of their references accounts quantitatively for empirically observed citation distribution. Simple mathematical probability, not genius, can explain why some papers are cited a lot more than the other. Dr. Andrea Scharnhorst NERDI Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services (NIWI) KNAW Joan Muyskenweg 25 Postbus 95110 1090 HC Amsterdam The Netherlands Tel: +20 4628 670 www.niwi.knaw.nl/nerdi -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Mon May 12 14:07:33 2003 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 19:07:33 +0100 Subject: Graphic needed to illustrate the effect of access on impact Message-ID: Many thanks to Andrew Odlyzko for pointing out the valuable NASA study on the relation between usage impact and citation impact in astrophysics at http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~kurtz/jasist-submitted.ps (converted to PDF at http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/jasist.pdf). This very rich and informative NASA/ADS study confirms what Tim Brody has also been finding in our analyses of the Physics Arxiv: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/time-course.gif http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/usage-citation.gif and his citation and co-citation analyses with citebase: http://citebase.eprints.org/cgi-bin/search See especially Tim Brody's correlator at: http://citebase.eprints.org/analysis/correlation.php Tim is now working on making this into a variable time-window correlator, so he can look at correlations in relation to time at different latencies. We are studying the systematic relationship between usage and citations, across time. We are also making Steve-Lawrence-like controlled comparisons with usage/citation patterns for comparable (1) toll-access paper-only or paper+online articles versus (2) self-archived open-access articles http://www.neci.nec.com/~lawrence/papers/online-nature01/ in order to demonstrate graphically to all researchers in all disciplines the strong causal relationship that exists between research access and research impact, and how and why delay in self-archiving is losing them all substantial quantities of research impact daily: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/self-archiving.ppt Stevan Harnad ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 15:19:56 -0500 (CDT) From: Andrew Odlyzko To: harnad at ecs.soton.ac.uk Subject: benefits of free electronic distribution Stevan, A colleague has just sent me a pointer to what appears to be an important study that carefully documents quantitatively the benefits of open access to scientific literature. It is a paper by M. J. Kurtz, G. Eichorn, A. Accomazzi, C. Grant, M. Demleitner, S. S. Murray, N. Martimbeau, and B. Elwell, "The NASA astrophysics data system: Sociology, bibliometrics, and impact." It is available at Message-ID: I'd like to draw your attention to the forthcoming issue of Information Visualization. This is a collection of the best papers from the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization. The guest editor is Pak Chung Wong of PNNL. The journal is available in both print and online versions. The journal's homepage is at: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ivs/index.html Information Visualization Volume 2, Issue 1. 2003 Guest Editor's introduction: special issue on IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2002 Pak Chung Wong Space-optimized tree: a connection+enclosure approach for the visualization of large hierarchies Quang Vinh Nguyen, Mao Lin Huang InterRing: a visual interface for navigating and manipulating hierarchies Jing Yang, Matthew O Ward, Elke A Rundensteiner, Anilkumar Patro Beamtrees: compact visualization of large hierarchies Frank van Ham, Jarke J van Wijk Visual unrolling of network evolution and the analysis of dynamic discourse Ulrik Brandes, Steven R Corman Metric 3D structure in visualizations Mats Lind, Geoffrey P Bingham, Camilla Forsell Visualizing geographic information: VisualPoints vs CartoDraw Daniel A Keim, Stephen C North, Christian Panse, Jorn Schneidewind Fast multidimensional scaling through sampling, springs and interpolation Alistair Morrison, Greg Ross, Matthew Chalmers Book Review: Data Mining and Uncertain Reasoning: an Integrated Approach, by Z Chen Reviewed by Xiaohua Hu Best wishes, Chaomei Chen Editor-in-Chief Information Visualization -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Thu May 22 02:38:46 2003 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 08:38:46 +0200 Subject: "The knowledge base" of social systems Message-ID: "The Construction and Globalization of the Knowledge Base in Inter-human Communication Systems", Canadian Journal of Communication 28(3), (2003, forthcoming) Abstract: The relationship between the "knowledge base" and the "globalization" of communication systems is discussed from the perspective of communication theory. I argue that inter-human communication takes place at two levels. At the first level information is exchanged and provided with meaning and at the second level meaning can reflexively be communicated. Human language can be considered as the evolutionary achievement which enables us to use these two channels of communication simultaneously. Providing meaning with hindsight is a recursive operation: a meaning that makes a difference can be considered as knowledge. If the production of knowledge is socially organized, the perspective of hindsight can further be codified. This adds globalization to the historically stabilized patterns of communications. Globalization can be expected to transform the communications in an evolutionary mode. However, the self-organization of a knowledge-based society remains an expectation with the status of a hypothesis. _____ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ The Challenge of Scientometrics ; The Self-Organization of the Knowledge-Based Society -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon May 26 20:56:41 2003 From: Garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Garfield, Eugene) Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 20:56:41 -0400 Subject: FW: counting citation using the Web of Science Message-ID: 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: haya regev [mailto:hayar at BGUMAIL.BGU.AC.IL] Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 4:47 PM To: CHMINF-L at LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU Subject: counting citation using the Web of Science Can you please tell me how to get the number of citations of an author, (using the Web of Science), without the self citations? I need an automatic way, if there is one. thank you, Dr. Haya Regev, librarian Aranne Library Tel. 972-8-6461422 Ben-Gurion University Fax 972-8-6472940 P.O.Box 653 Beer-Sheva 84105 ISRAEL 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 Garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon May 26 20:59:34 2003 From: Garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Garfield, Eugene) Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 20:59:34 -0400 Subject: FW: counting citation using the Web of Science Message-ID: If you wish to reply to this message or the original one from Haya Regev you must be a member of the CHEMINFO Listserv or you should write directly to the authors and send a copy to the SIGMETRICS listserv. EG 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: Chuck Huber [mailto:huber at LIBRARY.UCSB.EDU] Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 6:47 PM To: CHMINF-L at LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU Subject: Re: counting citation using the Web of Science Dr. Regev If you have the current version of Web of Science, which allows you to combine answer sets, you can do the following: 1) Do a Cited Reference search on your author as the Cited Author. Note that you may have to do some weeding to get just the desired author if there is more than one author in the database with the same last name and initials. Note too, that Web of Science will only list a paper for a given cited author if he/she is the first author OR if the cited paper was itself indexed in Web of Science so that they can cross-reference it from the first author. 2) In General Search, do an Author search on your Author. 3) Click on Combine Searches and search #1 NOT #2 The number of hits in answer set #3 will be the best version of the answer you want that is obtainable in Web of Science. You can do a somewhat more sophisticated and accurate version of this search using SciSearch (and possibly CAPLUS and other databases) on STN, but you'll have to pay by the search and that can get expensive. Chuck Huber Davidson Library University of California Santa Barbara huber at library.ucsb.edu On Sun, 25 May 2003, haya regev wrote: > Can you please tell me how to get the number of citations of an > author, (using the Web of Science), without the self citations? > I need an automatic way, if there is one. > > thank you, > > Dr. Haya Regev, librarian > Aranne Library Tel. 972-8-6461422 > Ben-Gurion University Fax 972-8-6472940 > P.O.Box 653 > Beer-Sheva 84105 > ISRAEL > > 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 > 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 athman at TITAN.NVC.CS.VT.EDU Thu May 29 18:42:38 2003 From: athman at TITAN.NVC.CS.VT.EDU (athman) Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 18:42:38 -0400 Subject: Call for Papers: 1st International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (IC-SOC) Message-ID: 1st International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (IC-SOC) Trento, Italy, December 15-18, 2003 Theme and Objectives: Service Oriented Computing (SOC) is the new emerging paradigm for distributed computing and e-business processing that has evolved from object-oriented and component computing to enable building agile networks of collaborating business applications distributed within and across organizational boundaries. Services are autonomous platform-independent computational elements that can be described, published, discovered, orchestrated and programmed using XML artifacts for the purpose of developing massively distributed interoperable applications. The application of the service-oriented computing model to Web resources to provide a loosely coupled model for distributed processing is manifested by Web services. Services are more than just software components; their platform neutral and self-describing nature and particularly their ability to enable business collaborations provides significant competitive advantages. Combined with recent developments in the area of distributed systems, workflow management systems, business protocols and languages, services can provide the automated support needed for e-business integration both at the data and business logic level. They also provide a sound support framework for developing complex business transaction sequences and business collaboration applications. Before the service oriented computing paradigm becomes reality, there is a number of challenging issues that need to be addressed including among other things service modeling and design methodologies, architectural approaches, service development, deployment and composition, programming and evolution of services and their supporting technologies, methodologies and infrastructure. This conference aims to bring together researchers and developers from diverse areas of computing and developers to explore and address these challenging research issues in order to develop a common research agenda and vision for service oriented computing. List of topics Topics that are addressed by this conference include: Core service activities and technologies - Service description and advertisement - Service discovery, and selection - Service delivery - Service monitoring and management - Service quality - Service composition - Service technologies and platforms - Service security issues & concerns - Business process modeling and specification - Business protocols & transactions Software engineering techniques for service-based development - Service lifecycle - Service analysis techniques - Service design principles - Service design patterns - Requirements for service-oriented processes - Testing & verification Service & AI Computing - Intelligent services - Multi-agent based service models - Knowledge-management & services - Service brokering & composition-panning - Non-conventional planning techniques for services (non- deterministic, interleaved, reactive planning) Service & P2P/Grid Computing - Open/dynamic grid service architectures - Grid computing & services on-demand - Communication protocols & policy based management mechanisms - Publish-Subscribe schemes - Real-time supply chain integration - Performance analysis & evaluation Service & Mobile Computing - Location-based services - Proximity-based notification - Mobile e-business - Services for 3G+ Networks - Disaster Recovery and Continuous Operation Service Computing & Applications - e-Business - e-Learning - e-Tourism - e-Government - Telecommunication service provisioning - Banking and insurance service based applications CONFERENCE COMMITTEES General Chairs: Fabio Casati, HP Labs, Palo Alto (US) casati at hpl.hp.com Bernd Kraemer, Univ. of Hagen (D) bernd.kraemer at fernuni-hagen.de PC Chairs: Americas Sanjiva Weerawarana, IBM, TJ Watson Res. Center sanjiva at us.ibm.com Europe Mike P. Papazoglou, Univ. Tilburg, (NL) mikep at uvt.nl Australasia Maria Orlowska, DSTC/Univ. of Queensland, (AUS) maria at dstc.edu.au Tutorial Chairs: Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano (I) Barbara.pernici at polimi.it Panel Chairs: Paul Grefen, Univ. of Twente, (NL) grefen at cs.utwente.nl Stefan Tai, IBM TJ Watson Research Center stai at us.ibm.com Industrial Papers Chair: Chris Bussler, Oracle Corporation, (US) chris.bussler at oracle.com Publicity Chair: Athman Bouguettaya, Virginia Tech., (US) athman at titan.nvc.cs.vt.edu Willem-Jan van den Heuvel, Univ. Tilburg, (NL) W.J.A.M.vdnHeuvel at uvt.nl Proceedings Chair:Jian Yang, Univ. of Tilburg (NL) jian at uvt.nl International Liaison Chairs: Charles Petrie, Stanford Univ. (US) petrie at snrc.stanford.edu Thomas Risse, Fraunhofer Gesselsch. IPSI (D) risse at ipsi.fhg.de Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki Univ. (JP) taki at takilab.k.dendai.ac.jp Organizing Chairs:Vincenzo d'Andrea, Univ. of Trento (I) dandrea at dit.unitn.it Marco Aiello, Univ. of Trento (I) aiellom at dit.unitn.it Program Committee Nabil Adam, Rutgers Univ. (USA) Marco Aiello, Univ. of Trento (I) Mikio Aoyama, Nanzan Univ. (J) Carlo Batini, AIPA (I) Boualem Benatallah, UNSW (AU) Tiziana Catarci, Univ. of Rome (I) Vincenzo D'Andrea, Univ. of Trento (I) Veleria de Antonellis, Politechn. di Milano (I) Alex Delis, Univ. of Athens (GR) Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology (A) David Edmond, QUT (AU) Ian Foster, Univ. of Chicago (USA) Brent Hailpern, IBM Thomas J Watson Research Center (USA) Paul Johannesson, Stockholm Univ. (S) Rania Khalaf, IBM TJ Watson Research Center (USA) Craig Knoblock, University of Southern California (USA) Manolis Koubarakis, Technical University of Crete (GR) Winfried Lamersdorf, Hamburg Univ. (D) Paul Layzell, UMIST (UK) Frank Leymann IBM Software Group (D) Maurizio Marchese, Univ. Trento (I) Fabio Massacci, Univ. of Trento (I) Massimo Mecella, Univ. of Rome (I) Giacomo Piccinelli, Univ. College (UK) Dimitris Plexousakis, Univeristy of Crete (GR) Michael Rosemann, QUT (AU) Wasim Sadiq, SAP Corporate Research (AU) Karsten Schultz, SAP Corporate Research (AU) Santosh Shrivastava, Univ. of Newcastle (UK) Maarten Steen, Telematica Instituut (NL) Patrick Strating, Telematica Instituut (NL) Eleni Stroulia, Univ. of Alberta (CA) Satish Thatte, Microsoft (USA) Paolo Traverso, IRST (I) Aad van Moorsel, Hewlett-Packard (USA) Carlos Varela, Rensselaer Poly. Inst. (USA) Benkt Wangler, University of Skoevde (S) Steve Vinoski, Iona (USA) Yanchun Zhang, Univ. of Southern Queensland (AU) Important Dates Tutorial and panel submission May 30, 2003 Abstract submission June 20, 2003 Full paper submission June 27, 2003 Notification of final acceptance September 5, 2003 Final manuscript due September 30, 2003 Tutorials December 15, 2003 Main conference December 15-18, 2003 PAPER SUBMISSION One of the goals of the conference is to bring the academic and industrial research communities closer. To this end the conference solicits two kinds of submissions, research and industrial papers, and places emphasis on the SOC industrial program. Research Papers The conference is soliciting only original high quality research papers on all aspects of service-oriented computing. Submitted papers will be evaluated on significance, originality, technical quality, and exposition. They should clearly establish the research contribution, its relevance to service-oriented computing and its relation to prior research. Industrial & Applications Papers The conference also encourages high quality submissions covering innovative service based implementations and novel applications of service oriented technology, or major improvements to the state-of-practice. Actual case studies from practitioners emphasizing applications, service technology, system deployment, organizational ramifications, or business impact are especially welcomed. Submissions that do not relate to commercial software and standards or industrial prototypes in wide use are not encouraged. These submissions will be forwarded to the Industrial Track Chairs and evaluated by an Industrial Committee. Paper Submission Guidelines Research papers are not to exceed 5000 words (or 16 pages in the LNCS style) and should be submitted in PDF. Industrial papers are not to exceed 3000 words (or 10 pages in the LNCS style) and should likewise be submitted in PDF. Acceptance of a paper means an obligation for at least one of the authors to attend the conference and present the paper. There are plans to invite several authors to provide paper revisions for special issues in acknowledged scientific journals. Conference Proceedings The ICSCOC'03 proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag under Lecture Notes in Computer Science (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html). Conference Web-site: http://icsoc03.dit.unitn.it/ For more information about the conference please send and e-mail to: icsoc03 at dit.unitn.it ------ Athman Bouguettaya Phone:703-538-8403 Dept of Computer Science Fax :703-538-8348 Virginia Tech email:athman at cs.vt.edu 7054 Haycock Rd http://www.cs.vt.edu/~athman Falls Church, VA 22043