From e.fernandez-polcuch at UNESCO.ORG Fri Apr 2 13:19:14 2004 From: e.fernandez-polcuch at UNESCO.ORG (Fernandez Polcuch Ernesto) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 13:19:14 -0500 Subject: UNESCO Institute for Statistics - position in S&T Statistics Message-ID: Dear colleagues, I'm happy to inform you that a new 'Statistician, Assistant Programme Specialist' position (P1/P2 level) in the S&T statistics team at the UNESCO Institute for Statistics in Montreal is now open for competition. You'll find details on the UNESCO website: http://recrutweb.unesco.org/postes/postes_visualisation.asp?AffLangue=gb&CATPOSTE=1 and in the attached file. Please note that the closing date is 29 April 2004. Thank you for distributing this to possible candidates, and sorry for cross-posting. Best regards, Ernesto Fern?ndez Polcuch Programme Specialist - Science and Technology UNESCO Institute for Statistics 5255, Decelles, 7th floor, Montr?al (Qu?bec) H3T 2B1 Canada ********* New direct telephone number: (1-514) 343-7610 ********* Fax: (1-514) 343-6872 Postal Address: C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre-Ville Montr?al (Qu?bec) H3C 3J7 Canada http://www.uis.unesco.org/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: CANUIS0597.pdf Type: application/octet-stream Size: 114960 bytes Desc: CANUIS0597.pdf URL: From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Apr 2 17:36:52 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 17:36:52 -0500 Subject: Budd JM, Christensen C "Social sciences literature and electronic information" Portal-Libraries and the Academy 3(4):643-651 October 2003 Message-ID: John M. Budd : buddj at missouri.edu Corrie Christensen : cchristensen at lindenwood.edu TITLE Social sciences literature and electronic information AUTHOR Budd JM, Christensen C JOURNAL PORTAL-LIBRARIES AND THE ACADEMY 3 (4): 643-651 OCT 2003 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 12 Times Cited: 0 Explanation Abstract: Most colleges and universities have expanded, and are expanding, access to electronic information resources. A question remains: to what extent are researchers making use of these resources as part of their inquiry and publishing activities? The present study investigates citation practices by authors of journal articles and includes a study of the potential incorporation of full-text and full-image resources into published work in eight social science disciplines. It also includes a brief survey of a sample of authors of the examined journal articles. KeyWords Plus: FACULTY, UNIVERSITY Addresses: Budd JM, Univ Missouri, Sch Informat Sci & Learning Technol, Columbia, MO 65201 USA Univ Missouri, Sch Informat Sci & Learning Technol, Columbia, MO 65201 USA Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PRESS, JOURNALS PUBLISHING DIVISION, 2715 NORTH CHARLES ST, BALTIMORE, MD 21218-4319 USA IDS Number: 754CX ISSN: 1531-2542 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Apr 2 17:22:04 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 17:22:04 -0500 Subject: Acosta M, Coronado D. "Science-technology flows in Spanish regions - An Analysis of Scientific Citations in Patents" Research Policy 32(10):1783-1803 December 2003 Message-ID: Manuel Acosta : manuel.acosta at uca.es TITLE Science-technology flows in Spanish regions - An analysis of scientific citations in patents AUTHOR Acosta M, Coronado D JOURNAL RESEARCH POLICY 32 (10): 1783-1803 DEC 2003 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 85 Times Cited: 0 Explanation Abstract: Many regions of the European Union with a high degree of autonomy have elected very clearly to stimulate scientific research and technological development (R&D) as a specific means of promoting economic growth and the welfare of their citizens. In Spain, several autonomous regions have organised their efforts in science and technology by means of the adoption of regional R&D plans. In some cases, particular concern is taken to link the scope of scientific research with that of technology, but even in these few cases, it is acknowledged that little is known of the mechanisms by which the results of scientific research are translated into technological development, and how this latter in turn influences the objectives of scientific research. Our aim in this article is to study in greater depth the relationship between science and technological development in the various regions of Spain. The methodology that we apply to investigate the links between science and technology is based on an analysis of scientific citations in patent documents (non-patent citation (NPC)). The results obtained from this study provide some relevant data on the interconnection between the scientific and technological systems from a regional perspective. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. Author Keywords: science-technology flows, scientific citations, patents, NPC methodology regional R&D planning KeyWords Plus: BASIC RESEARCH LITERATURE, INDUSTRIAL-INNOVATION, ACADEMIC RESEARCH, KNOWLEDGE FLOWS, PUBLIC SCIENCE, TRIPLE-HELIX, UNIVERSITY, LINKAGE, DISTRICTS, DETERMINANTS Addresses: Acosta M, Univ Cadiz, Dept Econ Gen, Fac Ciencias Econ & Empresariales, Duque Najera 6, Cadiz 11002, Spain Univ Cadiz, Dept Econ Gen, Fac Ciencias Econ & Empresariales, Cadiz 11002, Spain Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS IDS Number: 754TK ISSN: 0048-7333 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Apr 2 17:11:09 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 17:11:09 -0500 Subject: Morris EK, Smith NG, "Bibliographic processes and products, and a bibliography of the published primary-source works of B.F. Skinner" BEHAVIOR ANALYST 26 (1): 41-67 SPR 2003 Message-ID: E.K. Morris : ekm at ku.edu N.G. Smith : ngsmith at ukans.edu TITLE Bibliographic processes and products, and a bibliography of the published primary-source works of B. F Skinner AUTHOR Morris EK, Smith NG JOURNAL BEHAVIOR ANALYST 26 (1): 41-67 SPR 2003 Document type: Review Language: English Cited References: 555 Times Cited: 0 Explanation Abstract: This paper introduces the nature and practice of bibliography (e.g., definition, history, and genres); it reviews the extant B. E Skinner bibliographies (1958 to 2001); and it describes the methods used in constructing a new, comprehensive, and corrected bibliography of Skinner's primary-source published works. The bibliography includes 291 items from across 16 categories of publications (e.g., books, articles, chapters, monographs, book reviews, manuals, encyclopedia entries, letters to the editor) and lists them in chronological order (1930 to 1999). A discussion section addresses the bibliography's limitations, how it might be enlarged and expanded, its value for qualitative and quantitative historical inquiry, and the beginnings of a "Skinner industry.". Author Keywords: B. F Skinner, bibliography, historiography, behavior analysis KeyWords Plus: RADICAL BEHAVIORISM, EMINENT PSYCHOLOGISTS, VERBAL-BEHAVIOR, STIMULUS PAVLOV, EVOLUTION, SCIENCE, SELECTION, AGE, CONSEQUENCES, RESPONSES Addresses: Morris EK, Univ Kansas, Dept Human Dev & Family Life, Dole Human Dev Ctr 4001, 1000 Sunnyside Ave, Lawrence, KS 66045 USA Univ Kansas, Dept Human Dev & Family Life, Dole Human Dev Ctr 4001, Lawrence, KS 66045 USA Publisher: SOC ADVANCEMENT BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS, WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIV, 260 WOOD HALL, KALAMAZOO, MI 49008-5052 USA IDS Number: 679QA ISSN: 0738-6729 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Apr 2 17:15:48 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 17:15:48 -0500 Subject: Ackerson LG, Chapman K "Identifying the role of multidisciplinary journals in scientific research" College & Researach Libraries 64(6) p.468-478, November 2003 Message-ID: Linda G. Ackerson : lackerso at uiuc.edu Karen Chapman : kchapman at bruno.cba.ua.edu TITLE : Identifying the role of multidisciplinary journals in scientific research AUTHOR : Ackerson LG, Chapman K JOURNAL : COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES 64 (6): 468-478 NOV 2003 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 13 Times Cited: 0 Explanation Abstract: Scientists in focused research areas customarily use specialized journals, and yet multidisciplinary journals also are widely cited. Prior studies have investigated the characteristics of multidisciplinary journals, but none have considered the role this type of journal plays in scientific research. Citation data from Nature, Science, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences were used to profile the articles in the journals and the articles that cite them. In particular, when citation occurred across disciplines, the reason for the citation was investigated. KeyWords Plus: CITATION IMPACT, SCIENCE, INFORMATION Addresses: Ackerson LG, Univ Illinois, Lib Adm, Urbana, IL 61801 USA Univ Illinois, Lib Adm, Urbana, IL 61801 USA Univ Alabama, Angelo Bruno Business Lib, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 USA Publisher: ASSOC COLL RESEARCH LIBRARIES, 50 E HURON ST, CHICAGO, IL 60611 USA IDS Number: 747LE ISSN: 0010-0870 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Apr 2 17:47:31 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 17:47:31 -0500 Subject: Lewison G "The publication of cancer research papers in high impact journals" ASLIB Proceedings 55(5-6):379-387 2003 Message-ID: Grant Lewison : g.lewison at soi.city.ac.uk TITLE The publication of cancer research papers in high impact journals AUTHOR Lewison G JOURNAL ASLIB PROCEEDINGS 55 (5-6): 379-387 2003 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 25 Times Cited: 0 Explanation Abstract: Examines a set of over 27,000 UK papers in cancer research in order to identify the individual factors that influence the impact category of the journals in which they are published, using multiple regression analysis. The most important independent variables that have a positive effect are the numbers of authors and funding bodies, the research level (from clinical to basic), and the presence of certain universities, or of the USA, in the address field. Inter-lab co-operation was shown to have a negative effect on journal impact category, as was international co- authorship. It is because such partnerships usually involve more authors and funding for the research that they are perceived to lead to higher impact work. There is also a tendency for papers to be published in higher impact journals in later years, probably because of market forces, which means that such journals will tend to expand. Author Keywords: literature, research, cancer, journals KeyWords Plus: FUNDING SOURCES, UNITED-KINGDOM, INSTITUTE, SCIENCE, EUROPE Addresses: Lewison G, City Univ London, Dept Informat Sci, Bibliometr Res Grp, London EC1V 0HB, England City Univ London, Dept Informat Sci, Bibliometr Res Grp, London EC1V 0HB, England Publisher: EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED, 60/62 TOLLER LANE, BRADFORD BD8 9BY, W YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND IDS Number: 749LK ISSN: 0001-253X From flitner at MPIB-BERLIN.MPG.DE Sat Apr 3 06:19:22 2004 From: flitner at MPIB-BERLIN.MPG.DE (Flitner, Ursula) Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 13:19:22 +0200 Subject: Job opening Message-ID: Dear colleagues, we are happy to point out to you the following open position at our intitute in Berlin, Germany. Best regards Ursula Flitner --------------------------- Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development Division: Library and Research Information Unit *** Specialist in Bibliometrics/Informetrics/Scientometrics *** The position is open from June 1, 2004 The appointment is initially for 2 years, part-time (19,5 hrs/week) Main tasks: Analysis of the publishing activities and impact of European basic research in the social and behavioral sciences in international context. Quantitative analysis of science performance; identification, observation, and assessment of research development by means of bibliometric methods. Reporting to the Head of Library and Research Information, this position works closely with the other library staff to support the institute's researchers. Applicants should have a background in the field of social sciences. We expect significant knowledge of bibliometric methods and strong online retrieval skills. Job experience is of advantage. Knowledge of German language is highly desirable, knowledge of English is essential. Salary will be commensurate with training and experience and up to BAT IIa. Women are encouraged to apply. Severly disabled people who are equally qualified will be given preference. Deadline for applications: April 30, 2004. Please send your application to: Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development Ursula Flitner, Head of Library and Research Information Lentzeallee 94 14195 Berlin Tel: ++49 (0) 30 - 82406 230 E-mail: flitner at mpib-berlin.mpg.de From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Apr 5 12:28:58 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 12:28:58 -0400 Subject: Rousseau R, Zuccala A. "A classification of author co-citations: Definitions and search strategies(Article, English)" Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 55(6) p. 513-529, April 2004. Message-ID: Ronald Rousseau : ronald.rousseau at kh.khbo.be TITLE: A classification of author co-citations: Definitions and search strategies (Article, English) AUTHOR: Rousseau, R; Zuccala, A SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 55 (6). APR 2004. p.513-529 JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, HOBOKEN SEARCH TERM(S): INFORM PROCESS MANA* rwork; J DOC* rwork; SCIENTOMETR* rwork; AUTHOR* item_title KEYWORDS+: INTELLECTUAL SPACE; CITATION ANALYSIS; SCIENCE; COMMUNICATION; PERFORMANCE; ISSUES ABSTRACT: The term author co-citation is defined and classified according to four distinct forms: the pure first-author co-citation, the pure author co-citation, the general author co-citation, and the special co-author/co-citation. Each form can be used to obtain one count in an author co-citation study, based on a binary counting rule, which either recognizes the co-citedness of two authors in a given reference list (1) or does not (0). Most studies using author co-citations have relied solely on first-author co-citation counts as evidence of an author's oeuvre or body of work contributed to a research field. In this article, we argue that an author's contribution to a selected field of study should not be limited, but should be based on his/her complete list of publications, regardless of author ranking. We discuss the implications associated with using each co-citation form and show where simple first- author co-citations fit within our classification scheme. Examples are given to substantiate each author co-citation form defined in our classification, including a set of sample Dialog(TM) searches using references extracted from the SciSearch database. AUTHOR ADDRESS: R Rousseau, KHBO, Dept Ind Sci & Technol, B-8400 Oostende, Belgium From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Apr 5 13:15:02 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 13:15:02 -0400 Subject: Feitelson DG, Yovel U. "Predictive ranking of computer scientists using CiteSeer data" Journal of Documentation 60(1) p.44-61, 2004 Message-ID: D.G. Feitelson feit at cs.huji.ac.il Journal of Documentation / Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. http://fiordiliji.emeraldinsight.com/vl=1057472/cl=37/nw=1/rpsv/cw/www/mcb/0 0220418/contp1-1.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Predictive ranking of computer scientists using CiteSeer data (Article, English) AUTHOR: Feitelson, DG; Yovel, U SOURCE: JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION 60 (1). 2004. p.44-61 EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED, BRADFORD SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; MACROBERTS MH rauth; INFORM PROCESS MANA* rwork; J DOC* rwork; SCI WAT* rwork; SCIENTOMETR* rwork; J DOC source_abbrev_20 KEYWORDS: prediction; digital libraries KEYWORDS+: CITATION ANALYSIS; MODEL ABSTRACT: The increasing availability of digital libraries with cross-citation data on the Internet enables new studies in bibliometrics. The paper focuses on the list of 10,000 top-cited authors in computer science available as part of CiteSeer. Using data from several consecutive fists a model of how authors accrue citations with time is constructed By comparing the rate at which individual authors accrue citations with the average rate, predictions are made of how their ranking in the list wig change in the future. AUTHOR ADDRESS: DG Feitelson, Hebrew Univ Jerusalem, Sch Engn & Comp Sci, IL-91905 Jerusalem, Israel From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Apr 5 14:34:12 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 14:34:12 -0400 Subject: Cronin B. "Bowling alone together: Academic writing as distributed cognition" Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 55(6), p.557-560, april 2004. Message-ID: Blaise Cronin : bcronin at ucs.indiana.edu TITLE: Bowling alone together: Academic writing as distributed cognition (Article, English) AUTHOR: Cronin, B SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 55 (6). APR 2004. p.557-560 JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, HOBOKEN SEARCH TERM(S): CRONIN B rauth; SCIENTOMETR* rwork KEYWORDS+: COLLABORATION; HYPERAUTHORSHIP ABSTRACT: The twentieth century saw the progressive collectivization of science-dramatic growth in teamwork in general and large-scale collaboration in particular. Cognitive partnering in the conduct of research and scholarship has become commonplace, and this trend is reflected in rates of co-authorship and sub-authorship collaboration. The effects of these developments on academic writing are discussed and theorized in terms of distributed cognition. AUTHOR ADDRESS: B Cronin, Indiana Univ, Sch Lib & Informat Sci, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Apr 5 15:11:05 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 15:11:05 -0400 Subject: Frandsen TF "Journal diffusion factors - a measure of diffusion?" ASLIB Proceedings 56(1): 5-11, 2004 Message-ID: Tove Faber Frandsen : k99tofa at db.dk ------------------------------------- TITLE: Journal diffusion factors - a measure of diffusion? (Article, English) AUTHOR: Frandsen, TF SOURCE: ASLIB PROCEEDINGS 56 (1). 2004. p.5-11 EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED, BRADFORD SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; ASLIB* rwork; J INFORM SCI* rwork; SCIENTOMETR* rwork; JOURNAL item_title; ASLIB PROC source_abbrev_20; GARFIELD E LIBRI 48:67 1998 KEYWORDS: measurement; journal publishers; difffusion; research methods; quality indicators ABSTRACT: This paper shows that the measure of diffusion introduced by Ian Rowlands called the journal diffusion factor (JDF) is highly negatively correlated with the number of citations, leading highly cited journals to get a low JDF, whereas less cited journals get a high JDF. This property reduces the utility of the JDF as a tool for evaluation of research influence. The paper presents a new definition of the JDF in order to attempt to improve it. This new JDF corrects the strong correlation with the number cited, but has a strongly statistically positive correlation with journal impact factors (JIF). However, the new JDF may still be used as an evaluation tool since, for journals with similar JIF values, the new JDF can be used to differentiate between them. Thereby, journal evaluation will be based on more than one aspect of journal influence when assessing journal influence with similar journal impact factor values. AUTHOR ADDRESS: TF Frandsen, Royal Sch Lib & Informat Sci, Copenhagen, Denmark From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Apr 5 15:22:54 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 15:22:54 -0400 Subject: Balaram P. "Science, scientists and scientometrics" Message-ID: Editor : P. Balaram : pb at mbu.iisc.ernet.in Website for Current Science : http://tejas.serc.iisc.ernet.in/~currsci/ TITLE: Science, scientists and scientometrics (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Balaram, P SOURCE: CURRENT SCIENCE 86 (5). MAR 10 2004. p.623-624 CURRENT SCIENCE ASSN, BANGALORE -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Science Citation Index, co-citation and the scientists (Letter, English) AUTHOR: Dastidar, PG SOURCE: CURRENT SCIENCE 86 (5). MAR 10 2004. p.626 CURRENT SCIENCE ASSN, BANGALORE AUTHOR ADDRESS: PG Dastidar, ICMAM, Dept Ocean Dev, NIOT Campus,Velachery Tambaram Rd, Madras 601302, Tamil Nadu, India -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Web of science: Measuring and assessing science beyond SCI (Letter, English) AUTHOR: Satyanarayana, K; Jain, NC SOURCE: CURRENT SCIENCE 86 (5). MAR 10 2004. p.627-629 CURRENT SCIENCE ASSN, BANGALORE AUTHOR ADDRESS: NC Jain, Indian Council Med Res, Div Publicat & Informat, V Ramalingaswami, New Delhi 110029, India -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: On publication indicators (Letter, English) AUTHOR: Arunachalam, S SOURCE: CURRENT SCIENCE 86 (5). MAR 10 2004. p.629-632 CURRENT SCIENCE ASSN, BANGALORE KEYWORDS+: DECLINE; SCIENCE AUTHOR ADDRESS: S Arunachalam, Rajam Apartmetns,27-1 KB Dasan Rd, Madras 600018, Tamil Nadu, India (Letter, English) AUTHOR: Dastidar, PG SOURCE: CURRENT SCIENCE 86 (5). MAR 10 2004. p.626 CURRENT SCIENCE ASSN, BANGALORE AUTHOR ADDRESS: PG Dastidar, ICMAM, Dept Ocean Dev, NIOT Campus,Velachery Tambaram Rd, Madras 601302, Tamil Nadu, India -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Web of science: Measuring and assessing science beyond SCI (Letter, English) AUTHOR: Satyanarayana, K; Jain, NC SOURCE: CURRENT SCIENCE 86 (5). MAR 10 2004. p.627-629 CURRENT SCIENCE ASSN, BANGALORE AUTHOR ADDRESS: NC Jain, Indian Council Med Res, Div Publicat & Informat, V Ramalingaswami, New Delhi 110029, India -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: On publication indicators (Letter, English) AUTHOR: Arunachalam, S SOURCE: CURRENT SCIENCE 86 (5). MAR 10 2004. p.629-632 CURRENT SCIENCE ASSN, BANGALORE KEYWORDS+: DECLINE; SCIENCE AUTHOR ADDRESS: S Arunachalam, Rajam Apartmetns,27-1 KB Dasan Rd, Madras 600018, Tamil Nadu, India From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Apr 5 15:43:33 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 15:43:33 -0400 Subject: Jin, BH; Li, L; Rousseau, R "Long-term influences of interventions in the normal development of science: China and the cultural revolution" JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 55 (6). APR 2004. p.544-550 Message-ID: Ronald Rousseau : ronald.rousseau at kh.khbo.be -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Long-term influences of interventions in the normal development of science: China and the cultural revolution (Article, English) AUTHOR: Jin, BH; Li, L; Rousseau, R SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 55 (6). APR 2004. p.544-550 JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, HOBOKEN SEARCH TERM(S): SCIENTOMETRICS rwork; CITATION item_title,keyword,keyword_plus KEYWORDS+: SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTIVITY; CITATION DATABASE; AGE; PUBLICATION; ACHIEVEMENT; MODEL ABSTRACT: Intellectual and technological talents and skills are the driving force for scientific and industrial development, especially in our times characterized by a knowledge-based economy. Major events in society and related political decisions, however, can have a long-term effect on a country's scientific well-being. Although the Cultural Revolution took place from 1966 to 1976, its aftermath can still be felt. This is shown by this study of the production and productivity of Chinese scientists as a function of their age. Based on the 1995-2000 data from the Chinese Science Citation database (CSCD), this article investigates the year-by-year age distribution of scientific and technological personnel publishing in China. It is shown that the "Talent Fault" originating during the Cultural Revolution still exists, and that a new gap resulting from recent brain drain might be developing. The purpose of this work is to provide necessary information about the current situation and especially the existing problems of the S&T workforce in China. AUTHOR ADDRESS: BH Jin, Chinese Acad Sci, Documentat & Informat Ctr, Chinese Sci Citat Database, 33 Beisihuan Xilu,Zhongguancun, Beijing 100080, Peoples R China From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Mon Apr 5 16:13:18 2004 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 22:13:18 +0200 Subject: 5th Triple Helix Conference - call for papers Message-ID: ** apologies for cross-postings ** CALL FOR PAPERS 5th Triple Helix Conference "The Capitalization of Knowledge: cognitive, economic, social & cultural aspects " Turin-Milan, 18 -21 May 2005 The 5th Triple Helix Conference will bring together researchers interested in the interaction between University, Government and Industry. The theme in 2005 is the Capitalization of Knowledge and its economic, social, cognitive, and cultural aspects. The conference program will include 10 Track Sessions per day, made up of paper sessions dedicated to individual scientific contributions, workshops on selected specific themes and panels intended for industrial experts and policy makers. Paper Sessions: We invite contributions on issues related to the conference theme: economics of innovation, organizational sociology, regional policy, business & management, cognitive economics, finance, law & economics, industrial economics, scientific and technology policy, political science Any other contributions in line with the Triple Helix concept are welcome. The Conference?s International Scientific Committee will select papers based only on extended abstracts (approximately 1500 words). The paper should allow 20 minutes for presentation and 10 for discussion. Young researchers and PhD students are encouraged to participate. Grants will be available on request depending on resources available. The selection will be based on the quality of the paper. Special attention will be devoted to students and young researchers, particularly from developing countries. Workshops: We encourage university departments, research groups, academic associations and public institutions to submit proposals for 90 minutes workshops on themes of relevant interests Proposals (maximum 3 pages) illustrating contents, aims, methods, relevance of the theme and a draft list of the main contributors will be selected by the Scientific Committee. The deadline for submissions is 15 October 2004. On notification of acceptance, the institutions and research groups will be in charge of selecting their invited speakers and managing the workshop. Panels: The Panels will have an industrial approach and will be devoted to industrials, financial experts, policy makers and government representatives. They will be organized on invitation by the Steering Committee Program Structure The 5th Triple Helix Conference is organized in two main blocks: the first 3 days will be held in Turin and will mainly deal with academic and research topics, whereas the last day in Milan will be dedicated to financial issues and will involve more participation on the part of professionals, financial experts and policy makers. Please send submissions (in PDF or MS Word format) to: organization at triplehelix5.com DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF EXTENDED ABSTRACTS: 1st November 2004 DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF WORKSHOP PROPOSALS: 15 October 2004 NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: 1st December 2004 DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF FULL PAPERS: 1st February 2005 Convenors: Riccardo Viale, Fondazione Rosselli & Scuola Superiore Pubblica Amministrazione di Roma Jos? Manoel Carvalho de Mello, Engenharia de Produ?ao, Universidade Federal Fluminense Loet Leydesdorff, Amsterdam School of Communications Research Henry Etzkowitz, Science Policy Institute, State University of New York Merle Jacob, Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School Local Organizer: Chair: Riccardo Viale Scientific Secretariat: Mario Calderini, Fondazione Rosselli, Turin Organizing Secretariat: Paola Caretta (coordinator) paola.caretta at fondazionerosselli.it Rocio Ribelles Zorita (international relations) Elisabetta Nay (cultural organization) Laura Alessi (webmaster) webmaster at triplehelix5.com Conference Secretariat Fondazione Rosselli Via San Quintino, 18/c 10121 Torino Tel: +39 011 562 2510 Fax: +39 011 561 1748 http://www.fondazionerosselli.it http://www.triplehelix5.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Apr 5 17:47:22 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 17:47:22 -0400 Subject: White HD, Wellman B, Nazer N "Does citation reflect social structure? Longitudinal evidence from the "Globenet" interdisciplinary research group" JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 55 (2): 111-126 JAN 15 2004 Message-ID: Howard White : Howard.Dalby.White at drexel.edu TITLE Does citation reflect social structure? Longitudinal evidence from the "Globenet" interdisciplinary research group AUTHOR White HD, Wellman B, Nazer N JOURNAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 55 (2): 111-126 JAN 15 2004 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 36 Times Cited: 0 Explanation Abstract: Many authors have posited a social component in citation, the consensus being that the citers and citees often have interpersonal as well as intellectual ties. Evidence for this belief has been rather meager, however, in part because social networks researchers have lacked bibliometric data (e.g., pairwise citation counts from online databases), and citation analysts have lacked sociometric data (e.g., pairwise measures of acquaintanceship). In 1997 Nazer extensively measured personal relationships and communication behaviors in what we call "Globenet," an international group of 16 researchers from seven disciplines that was established in 1993 to study human development. Since Globenet's membership is known, it was possible during 2002 to obtain citation records* for all members in databases of the Institute for Scientific Information. This permitted examination of how members cited each other (intercited) in journal articles over the past three decades and in a 1999 book to which they all contributed. It was also possible to explore links between the intercitation data and the social and communication data. Using network- analytic techniques, we look at the growth of intercitation over time, the extent to which it follows disciplinary or interdisciplinary lines, whether it covaries with degrees of acquaintanceship, whether it,reflects Globenet's organizational structure, whether it is associated, with particular in-group communication patterns, and whether it is related to the cocitation of Globenet members. Results show cocitation to be a powerful predictor of intercitation in the journal articles, while being an editor or co-author is an important predictor in the book. Intellectual ties based on shared content did better as predictors than content-neutral social ties like friendship. However, interciters in Globenet communicated more than did noninterciters. KeyWords Plus: HYBRID PROBLEM AREA, SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION, SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE, ORGANIZATION, DYSLEXIA, AUTHORS, MODEL, TIES Addresses: White HD, Drexel Univ, Coll Informat Sci & Technol, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA Drexel Univ, Coll Informat Sci & Technol, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA Univ Toronto, Ctr Urban & Community Studies, NetLab, Toronto, ON M5S 2G8, Canada Bell Canada Enterprises, Toronto, ON, Canada Publisher: JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN, NJ 07030 USA IDS Number: 754UX ISSN: 1532-2882 From lopez_manest at GVA.ES Tue Apr 6 03:12:34 2004 From: lopez_manest at GVA.ES (Manuel Lopez Estornell) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 09:12:34 +0200 Subject: time distribution citations Message-ID: Dear colleagues: I am currently working on time distribution of citations after the publication of papers in scientific journals, it is, 1) the lag between publication and first citations and 2) the average frecuency of citations (in %) during the t+1, t+2...t+n years after the publication of papers. Please, may you give me your opinion about this issue?. Thank you very much in advance. Best regards Manuel Lopez-Estornell Advisor Council on S&T Regional Government of Valencia Juristas, 10 46001-Valencia lopez_manest at gva.es -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From samorri at OKSTATE.EDU Tue Apr 6 13:51:34 2004 From: samorri at OKSTATE.EDU (Steven A. Morris) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 13:51:34 -0400 Subject: time distribution citations Message-ID: Dear Manuel, I think there are quite a few studies on literature aging out there already. Do you have some hypothesis about an underlying model of citation aging that you're trying to test? That would be interesting to discuss. My own feeling is that you'll need to divide the references you study into two groups, "highly cited" and "normal" references. "Highly cited" would correspond to "concept symbols" as defined by Small, and could also be thought of as "exemplar references" for the specialty's paradigm. They may have citation rates that are fairly constant for long periods. (The literature equivalent of what "punctuated equilibria" is for biological evolution). "Normal references" are probably background noise, subject to predictable statistical distributions and aging. We've all read about preferential attachment models of citation networks, like the Barabasi-Albert model. Many of these models incorporate an initial "attractiveness" as well a "success breeds success" attractiveness of references to citations. I think it would be very interesting to attempt to measure this total (initial plus SBS) attractiveness as a function of time. I don't recall seeing empirical studies like this, though I recall one paper by a coworker of Barabasi (Jeung, "Measuring preferential attachment for evolving networks"). For a study like that my own inclination would be to stick to well-focused collections of papers covering specific specialties, rather than try to study some other huge heterogeneous collection of papers. Hope this helps. S. Morris On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 09:12:34 +0200, Manuel Lopez Estornell wrote: >Dear colleagues: > >I am currently working on time distribution of citations after the publication of papers in scientific journals, it is, 1) the lag between publication and first citations and >2) the average frecuency of citations (in %) during the t+1, t+2...t+n years after the publication of papers. > >Please, may you give me your opinion about this issue?. > >Thank you very much in advance. > >Best regards > >Manuel Lopez-Estornell > Advisor Council on S&T >Regional Government of Valencia >Juristas, 10 >46001-Valencia > >lopez_manest at gva.es > From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Apr 6 15:54:31 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 15:54:31 -0400 Subject: Thelwall M, Harries G. "Do the web sites of higher rated scholars have significantly more online impact?" JASIST 55(2):149-159 January 15, 2004 Message-ID: E-MAIL: THELWALL M. - m.thelwall at wlv.ac.uk TITLE Do the Web sites of higher rated scholars have significantly more online impact? AUTHOR Thelwall M, Harries G JOURNAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 55 (2): 149-159 JAN 15 2004 Document type: Review Language: English Cited References: 101 Times Cited: 0 Explanation Abstract: The quality and impact of academic Web sites is of interest to many audiences, including the scholars who use them and Web educators who need to identify best practice. Several large-scale European Union research projects have been funded to build new indicators for online scientific activity, reflecting recognition of the importance of the Web for scholarly communication. In this paper we address the key question of whether higher rated scholars produce higher impact Web sites, using the United Kingdom as a case study and measuring scholars' quality in terms of university-wide average research ratings. Methodological issues concerning the measurement of the online impact are discussed, leading to the adoption of counts of links to a university's constituent single domain Web sites from an aggregated counting metric. The findings suggest that universities with higher rated scholars produce significantly more Web content but with a similar average online impact. Higher rated scholars therefore attract more total links from their peers, but only by being more prolific, refuting earlier suggestions. It can be surmised that general Web publications are very different from scholarly journal articles and conference papers, for which scholarly quality does associate with citation impact. This has important implications for the construction of new Web indicators, for example that online impact should not be used to assess the quality of small groups of scholars, even within a single discipline. KeyWords Plus: WORLD-WIDE-WEB, CITATION ANALYSIS, BIBLIOMETRIC METHODS, SEARCH ENGINE, SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY, LINKS, INFORMATION, DEPARTMENTS, COMMUNICATION Addresses: Thelwall M, Wolverhampton Univ, Sch Comp & Informat Technol, Wulfruna St, Wolverhampton WV1 1SB, England Wolverhampton Univ, Sch Comp & Informat Technol, Wolverhampton WV1 1SB, England Publisher: JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN, NJ 07030 USA IDS Number: 754UX Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ED GUARDIAN 2001 *MAYF U CONS LONDON TIMES HI 0414 2 2000 *SIBIS STAT IND BENCHM INF 2003 ABT HA SCIENTOMETRICS 48 65 2000 AGUILLO IF ONLINE INFORMATION 9 239 1998 ALMIND TC J DOC 53 404 1997 AMENTO B CHI 99 C P 552 1999 ARASU A ACM T INTERNET TECHN 1 2 2001 BARABASI AL SCIENCE 286 509 1999 BAYER AE SOCIOL EDUC 39 381 1966 BJORNEBORN L P 12 ACM C HYP HYP 133 2001 BJORNEBORN L SCIENTOMETRICS 50 65 2001 BORGMAN C SCHOLARLY COMMUNICAT 1990 BORGMAN CL ANNU REV INFORM SCI 36 3 2002 BRIN S COMPUT NETWORKS ISDN 30 107 1998 BRODY T P ACM HYP NY 74 2002 BURNETT R WEB THEORY 2003 CHU H J ED LIB INFORMATION 43 110 2002 COLE S AM SOCIOL REV 32 377 1967 COULSTON C P ACM HYP 2001 NY 243 2001 CRONIN B CITATION PROCESS 1984 CRONIN B J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 53 1267 2002 CRONIN B J AM SOC INFORM SCI 49 1319 1998 CRONIN B J INFORM SCI 27 1 2001 DAVENPORT E ASIS MONOGRAPH SERIE 517 2000 FURNAS G C P HUM FACT COMP SY 367 1997 GAIRIN JMR REV ESPANOLA DOCUMEN 20 175 1997 GARFIELD E CITATION INDEXING IT 1979 GARG KC SCIENTOMETRICS 56 169 2003 GLANZEL W SCIENTOMETRICS 50 199 2001 GOODRUM AA INFORM PROCESS MANAG 37 661 2001 HALAVAIS A CYBERACTIVISM ONLINE 165 2003 HARTER SP J AM SOC INFORM SCI 51 1159 2000 HOLMES A USE CITATION ANAL PR 6 2001 INGWERSEN P ASIS MONOGRAPH SERIE 373 2000 INGWERSEN P J DOC 54 236 1998 JAFFE S SCIENTIST 16 54 2002 JIMENEZCONTRERAS E NATURE 417 898 2002 KLEINBERG JM J ACM 46 604 1999 KLING R J AM SOC INFORM SCI 51 1306 2000 LANDES WM J LEGAL STUD 2 29 319 2000 LARSON R P 59 ANN M AM SOC IN 71 1996 LATOUR B LAB LIFE CONSTRUCTIO 1986 LAWANI SM J AM SOC INFORM SCI 34 59 1983 LAWRENCE S NATURE 411 521 2001 LAWRENCE S NATURE 400 107 1999 LI XM SCIENTOMETRICS 57 239 2003 LOTKA AJ J WASHINGTON ACADEMY 16 317 1926 MAREK K LIBRI 52 220 2002 MCNAY I SCI PUBL POLICY 30 47 2003 MIDDLETON I J INFORM SCI 25 219 1999 MILESBOARD T P 13 ACM C HYP HYP H 76 2002 MOED HF NATURE 415 731 2002 MOED HF RES POLICY 14 131 1985 NEDERHOF AJ SCIENTOMETRICS 24 393 1992 NEL D INTERNET RES 9 109 1999 NICHOLLS PT INFORM PROCESS MANAG 22 417 1986 PAGE L 6285999 US 2001 PENNOCK DM P NATL ACAD SCI USA 99 5207 2002 QUANHAAS A IN PRESS IT SOCIAL C REES M NEW SCI 2370 27 2002 REHM G P 35 HAW INT C SYST 2002 ROGERS R PUBLIC UNDERST SCI 9 141 2000 ROUSSEAU R CYBERMETRICS 2000 ROUSSEAU R CYBERMETRICS 1 1997 SCHUBBE JJ COMPOS STRUCT 45 185 1999 SENG LB J INFORM SCI 21 68 1995 SHNEIDERMANN B DESIGNING USER INTER 1998 SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 50 799 1999 SMITH A SCIENTOMETRICS 54 363 2002 SMITH AG J DOC 55 577 1999 SMITH LC LIBR TRENDS 30 83 1981 TANG R IN PRESS LIBR INFORM TASHAKKORI A MIXED METHODOLOGY 1998 TERVEEN L ACM T COMPUTER HUMAN 6 67 1999 THELWALL M INTERNET RES 8 2003 THELWALL M J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 54 594 2003 THELWALL M J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 54 706 2003 THELWALL M J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 53 995 2002 THELWALL M J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 52 1157 2001 THELWALL M J AM SOC INFORM SCI 54 489 2003 THELWALL M J DOC 58 563 2002 THELWALL M J DOC 56 185 2000 THELWALL M J INFORM SCI 27 319 2001 THELWALL M ONLINE INFORM REV 26 413 2002 THELWALL M PUBLICITY ACCESSIBLE 8 2003 THELWALL M PUBLICITY ACCESSIBLE 2001 THELWALL M SCIENTOMETRICS 56 417 2003 THELWALL M SCIENTOMETRICS 55 363 2002 THOMAS O J INFORM SCI 26 421 2000 VANRAAN A SCIENTOMETRICS 45 417 1999 VANRAAN AFJ ASIS MONOGRAPH SERIE 301 2000 VAUGHAN L ASLIB PROC 54 356 2002 VAUGHAN L IN PRESS J AM SOC IN VAUGHAN L J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 54 29 2003 VINKLER P CURR SCI INDIA 79 602 2000 VIRGO JA LIBRARY Q 47 415 1977 WILKINSON D J INFORM SCI 29 59 2004 WILKINSON D J INFORM SCI 29 59 2003 WILKINSON D SOC SCI COMPUT REV 21 340 2003 ZITT M SCIENTOMETRICS 47 627 2000 From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Wed Apr 7 16:07:00 2004 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 21:07:00 +0100 Subject: Ulrichsweb: Request for journal list if you have access Message-ID: I apologize for cross-posting this! I would like to ask anyone who has access to Ulrich's online (so they can easily do this automatically) http://www.ulrichsweb.com/ulrichsweb/ if they would be kind enough to send me the list of (peer-reviewed) journal titles published by each of the 86 publishers below. The reason for my request is that I am trying to expand the new SHERPA/Romeo list of publishers' self-archiving policies to cover individual journals rather than just publishers. (A publisher may produce 1 journal or 1700!) The current SHERPA/Romeo page is: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php?all=yes I have reformatted and recoded this (to eliminate all the inessential and confusing color codes) into the following: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/Romeo/romeo.html It would be extremely helpful to users to have this information by journal-name, not just publisher-name, both for individual journals and their summary data: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/Romeo/romeosum.html Below are the 86 publisher names. (I will of course acknowledge publicly the help of whoever is kind enough to extract the publishers' journal lists from Ulirich's!) Many thanks, Stevan Harnad 86 SHERPA/Romeo Publishers: Academic Press (now owned by Elsevier) Academy of Management American Association for the Advancement of Science American Chemical Society American Economics Association American Geophysical Union American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics American Institute of Physics American Mathematical Society American Medical Association American Meteorological Society American Physical Society American Physiological Society American Psychological Association American Public Health Association American Society for Clinical Investigation American Society for Microbiology American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics American Society of Civil Engineers American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) American Sociological Association Arnold Publishers Association for Computing Machinery Association of Applied Biologists BMJ Publishing Group BioMed Central Blackwell Publishing British Institute of Non-destructive Testing CAB International Publishing Cambridge University Press Clinical Laboratory Science Company of Biologists Elsevier Science (and all publishers owned by Elsevier: 1700+ journals) Emerald Endocrine Society Georgetown University Law Center Haworth Press IOS Press Imperial College Press Institute of Biology Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Institute of Electrical, Information and Communication Engineers Institute of Mathematical Statistics Institute of Physics Institution of Chemical Engineers Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry Internet Journal of Chemistry John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Kluwer Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins Marcel Dekker Mary Ann Liebert Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press Massachusetts Medical Society Michigan Law Review Nature Publishing Group Oxford University Press Physicians Postgraduate Press Portland Press Professional Engineering Publishing (Institutional of Resilience Alliance Rockefeller University Press Royal College of General Practitioners Royal Society of Chemistry Royal Society of Medicine Sage Publications Ltd (UK) School of Management, University of Bath Sheffield Academic Press Society for Endocrinology Society for General Microbiology Society for In-Vitro Biology Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Society of Dyers and Colourists Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers Springer Verlag (Germany) Stanford University Law School Taylor & Francis The Geological Society The Royal Meteorological Society The Royal Society University of Chicago Press W.B.Saunders (Now Elsevier) Wiley-VCH Verlag Berlin Yale Law School From quentinburrell at MANX.NET Sat Apr 10 03:23:11 2004 From: quentinburrell at MANX.NET (Quentin L. Burrell) Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 08:23:11 +0100 Subject: time distribution citations In-Reply-To: <00a501c41ba6$88cb1c30$3159a8c0@PRESIDENCIA.AD> Message-ID: Manuel The following papers of mine may be of interest:- Stochastic modelling of the first-citation distribution. Scientometrics, 52 (2001), 3-12. On the nth-citation distribution and obsolescence. Scientometrics, 53 (2002), 309-323. They include references to other approaches by such as Egghe, Glanzel and Rousseau that you should see. Glanzel's data are of particular interest. Predictive aspects of the model are developed in:- Will this paper ever be cited? Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 53 (2002), 232-235. Predicting future citation behaviour. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 54 (2003), 372-378. I hope this is of help. If you would like preprint versions of any of these, please let me know. Best wishes Quentin Burrell Dr Quentin L Burrell Isle of Man International Business School The Nunnery Old Castletown Road Douglas Isle of Man IM2 1QB email 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 Manuel Lopez Estornell Sent: 06 April 2004 08:13 To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: [SIGMETRICS] time distribution citations Importance: High Dear colleagues: I am currently working on time distribution of citations after the publication of papers in scientific journals, it is, 1) the lag between publication and first citations and 2) the average frecuency of citations (in %) during the t+1, t+2...t+n years after the publication of papers. Please, may you give me your opinion about this issue?. Thank you very much in advance. Best regards Manuel Lopez-Estornell Advisor Council on S&T Regional Government of Valencia Juristas, 10 46001-Valencia lopez_manest at gva.es -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Mon Apr 12 15:12:00 2004 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 21:12:00 +0200 Subject: Similarity Measures, Author Cocitation Analysis, and Information Theory, JASIST (forthcoming) Message-ID: The preprint version is now available at http://www.leydesdorff.net/jasist04 The use of Pearson's correlation coefficient in Author Cocitation Analysis was compared with Salton's cosine measure in a number of recent contributions. Unlike the Pearson correlation, the cosine is insensitive to the number of zeros. However, one has the option of applying a logarithmic transformation in correlation analysis. Information calculus is based on both the logarithmic transformation and provides a non-parametric statistics. Using this methodology one can cluster a document set in a precise way and express the differences in terms of bits of information. The algorithm is explained and used on the data set which was made the subject of this discussion. _____ 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 egackerma at RADFORD.EDU Mon Apr 12 21:16:07 2004 From: egackerma at RADFORD.EDU (Ackermann, Eric) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 21:16:07 -0400 Subject: SCI self-cites and half-life? Message-ID: Hi, Apologies for cross-posting. Does anyone know of any studies that report the average author self-citation rate and/or average citation half-life of the Science Citation Index(tm) for 1962-1974 (or any part thereof)? Actually the date range is a bit negotiable. I need it for comparative purposes (it will function as the values for normal growth science) 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 lopez_manest at GVA.ES Tue Apr 13 03:36:50 2004 From: lopez_manest at GVA.ES (Manuel Lopez Estornell) Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 09:36:50 +0200 Subject: time distribution citations Message-ID: Dear Dr. Burrell: Thank you very much for your useful information. As I am working at this moment out of my University, it would be a great advantage to dispose of papers you have mentioned in your e-mail. Please, I'd be very grateful if you could send them to me. Thanks again. Very kind of you. Best regards. Manuel Lopez-Estornell lopez_manest at gva.es ----- Original Message ----- From: "Quentin L. Burrell" To: Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 10:23 AM Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] time distribution citations > Manuel > > The following papers of mine may be of interest:- > > Stochastic modelling of the first-citation distribution. > Scientometrics, 52 (2001), 3-12. > > On the nth-citation distribution and obsolescence. Scientometrics, 53 > (2002), 309-323. > > They include references to other approaches by such as Egghe, Glanzel and > Rousseau that you should see. Glanzel's data are of particular interest. > > > > Predictive aspects of the model are developed in:- > > Will this paper ever be cited? Journal of the American Society for > Information Science and Technology, 53 (2002), 232-235. > > > Predicting future citation behaviour. Journal of the American Society > for Information Science and Technology, 54 (2003), 372-378. > > > > I hope this is of help. If you would like preprint versions of any of these, > please let me know. > > > > Best wishes > > Quentin Burrell > > > > Dr Quentin L Burrell > Isle of Man International Business School > The Nunnery > Old Castletown Road > Douglas > > Isle of Man IM2 1QB > > email 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 Manuel Lopez Estornell > Sent: 06 April 2004 08:13 > To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU > Subject: [SIGMETRICS] time distribution citations > Importance: High > > > Dear colleagues: > > I am currently working on time distribution of citations after the > publication of papers in scientific journals, it is, 1) the lag between > publication and first citations and > 2) the average frecuency of citations (in %) during the t+1, t+2...t+n > years after the publication of papers. > > Please, may you give me your opinion about this issue?. > > Thank you very much in advance. > > Best regards > > Manuel Lopez-Estornell > Advisor Council on S&T > Regional Government of Valencia > Juristas, 10 > 46001-Valencia > > lopez_manest at gva.es > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > > > > > > > >
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From: ASIS&T Special Interest > Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU]On Behalf Of > Manuel Lopez Estornell
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> From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Wed Apr 14 20:12:59 2004 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 01:12:59 +0100 Subject: How to compare research impact of toll- vs. open-access research Message-ID: Prior Topic Thread: "How to compare research impact of toll- vs. open-access research" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2858.html ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 23:11:59 +0100 From: "Garfield, Eugene" To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM at LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG Fyi and posting. Gene Eugene Garfield, PhD. http://www.eugenegarfield.org/ President, The Scientist LLC. http://www.the-scientist.com/ Chairman Emeritus, ISI http://www.isinet.com/ Attached is the news release regarding Open Access journals covered by Web of Science. <> Rodney Yancey, Manager, Corporate Communications, Thomson Scientific [Amsci Forum Moderator's Note: The ISI press release says: "Today, Thomson ISI... announced that journals published in the new Open Access (OA) model are beginning to register impact in the world of scholarly research... Of the 8,700 selected journals currently covered in Web of Science, 191 are OA journals... [A study on] whether OA journals perform differently from other journals in their respective fields [found] that there was no discernible difference in terms of citation impact or frequency with which the journal is cited." http://www.isinet.com/oaj But if you want to get a better idea of the effect of OA on impact, don't just compare the 2% of ISI journals that are OA journals with the 98% that are not, to find that they are equal in impact (for this may well be comparing apples with oranges). Compare the much higher percentage of *articles* from the 98% non-OA journals that have been made OA by their authors -- by self-archiving them -- with articles (from the very same journals and volumes) that have *not* been made OA by their authors: You will find that there is indeed a discernible difference in terms of frequency with which the *article* is cited, and that that difference is from 250%-550% in favor of the articles that their authors have made OA! That is what an ongoing series of comparisons based on a 10-year sample of the same ISI database across all disciplines is revealing (in computer science and physics so far): http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/OA-TAadvantage.pdf Stevan Harnad.] ______________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: OpenAccess.doc Type: application/msword Size: 57344 bytes Desc: URL: From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Apr 14 21:46:29 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Garfield, Eugene) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 21:46:29 -0400 Subject: How to compare research impact of toll- vs. open -access research Message-ID: The results obtained for computer science by analysis of CiteSeer are distorted for a variety of reasons. They cannot be compared with the literature of e.g. life sciences. Computer science is heavily dependent upon conference literature. I cannot comment upon the physics literature, but there are other studies which seem to indicate that readership increases will not necessarily be followed by increased citation impact. In one study of a single chemical journal that I refereed there were about 100 readerships for each citation of that journal, but there did not seem to be any perceptible increase of citation by the research literature. Undoubtedly the web will increase apparent readership of literature, but that will not necessarily change the population of relevant researchers who are in a position to cite particular studies. I do not think the ISI study is definitive but it is not irrelevant. Gene Eugene Garfield, PhD. email garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu tel 215-243-2205 fax 215-387-1266 President, The Scientist www.the-scientist.com Chairman Emeritus, ISI www.isinet.com home page: www.eugenegarfield.org Past President, American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) www.asis.org -----Original Message----- From: Stevan Harnad [mailto:harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK] Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 8:13 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] How to compare research impact of toll- vs. open-access research Prior Topic Thread: "How to compare research impact of toll- vs. open-access research" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2858.html ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 23:11:59 +0100 From: "Garfield, Eugene" To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM at LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG Fyi and posting. Gene Eugene Garfield, PhD. http://www.eugenegarfield.org/ President, The Scientist LLC. http://www.the-scientist.com/ Chairman Emeritus, ISI http://www.isinet.com/ Attached is the news release regarding Open Access journals covered by Web of Science. <> Rodney Yancey, Manager, Corporate Communications, Thomson Scientific [Amsci Forum Moderator's Note: The ISI press release says: "Today, Thomson ISI... announced that journals published in the new Open Access (OA) model are beginning to register impact in the world of scholarly research... Of the 8,700 selected journals currently covered in Web of Science, 191 are OA journals... [A study on] whether OA journals perform differently from other journals in their respective fields [found] that there was no discernible difference in terms of citation impact or frequency with which the journal is cited." http://www.isinet.com/oaj But if you want to get a better idea of the effect of OA on impact, don't just compare the 2% of ISI journals that are OA journals with the 98% that are not, to find that they are equal in impact (for this may well be comparing apples with oranges). Compare the much higher percentage of *articles* from the 98% non-OA journals that have been made OA by their authors -- by self-archiving them -- with articles (from the very same journals and volumes) that have *not* been made OA by their authors: You will find that there is indeed a discernible difference in terms of frequency with which the *article* is cited, and that that difference is from 250%-550% in favor of the articles that their authors have made OA! That is what an ongoing series of comparisons based on a 10-year sample of the same ISI database across all disciplines is revealing (in computer science and physics so far): http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/OA-TAadvantage.pdf Stevan Harnad.] ______________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs Email Security System. ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Thu Apr 15 08:04:28 2004 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 13:04:28 +0100 Subject: How to compare research impact of toll- vs. open -access research In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Garfield, Eugene wrote: > The results obtained for computer science by analysis of CiteSeer are > distorted for a variety of reasons. They cannot be compared with the > literature of e.g. life sciences. Computer science is heavily dependent upon > conference literature. I cannot comment upon the physics literature, but > there are other studies which seem to indicate that readership increases > will not necessarily be followed by increased citation impact. Gene Garfield, the father of citation analysis as well as ISI, is quite right that the Lawrence (2001) study on the impact enhancing effects of open access in computer science needed to be replicated in other fields to check whether it was merely an artifact of the fact that computer science is conference- rather than journal-based. Lawrence, S. (2001) Online or Invisible? Nature 411 (6837): 521. http://www.neci.nec.com/~lawrence/papers/online-nature01/ But, thanks to the ISI database licensed to OST and a special contract generously provided by ISI to conduct the study, we are in the process of testing the Lawrence effect across all disciplines in a 10-year ISI sample of 14 million articles. The physics analyses up to 2001 are already done, and they reveal even larger effects than those reported by Lawrence, with OA/non-OA citation ratios of 2.5 - 5.8. All indications are that 2002 will raise them even further, as the biggest effects occur within the first 3 years of publication in scientific disciplines (and both OA and the awareness and visibility of OA articles are also increasing yearly). Brody, T., Stamerjohanns, H., Harnad, S. Gingras, Y. & Oppenheim, C. (2004) The effect of Open Access on Citation Impact. Presented at: National Policies on Open Access (OA) Provision for University Research Output: an International meeting, Southampton, 19 February 2004. http://opcit.eprints.org/feb19prog.html http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/OATAnew.pdf > In one study of a single chemical journal that I refereed there were about > 100 readerships for each citation of that journal, but there did not seem to > be any perceptible increase of citation by the research literature. The ratio of "reads" to "cites" will no doubt vary by field. Kurtz and co-workers report it as 17:1 and even 12:1 in astrophysics. Kurtz, Michael J.; Eichhorn, Guenther; Accomazzi, Alberto; Grant, Carolyn S.; Demleitner, Markus; Murray, Stephen S.; Martimbeau, Nathalie; Elwell, Barbara. (2003) The NASA Astrophysics Data System: Sociology, Bibliometrics, and Impact. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~kurtz/jasis-abstract.html Kurtz, M.J. (2004) Restrictive access policies cut readership of electronic research journal articles by a factor of two, Michael J. Kurtz, Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA http://opcit.eprints.org/feb19oa/kurtz.pdf Tim Brody's remarkable download/citation correlator/predictor gives the size of the correlation by field, and can be used to predict citation 6-24 months later from downloads today (with an adjustable time-window): http://citebase.eprints.org/analysis/correlation.php > Undoubtedly the web will increase apparent readership of literature, but > that will not necessarily change the population of relevant researchers who > are in a position to cite particular studies. Not necessarily, but very probably! And also actually, in the fields tested so far. After all, access is a necessary if not a sufficient precondition for citation. And since Open Access (OA) dramatically increases the number of would-be users who would otherwise have been denied access to the article (maximises it, in fact, for all who have access to the web) it stands to reason that it can only increase both usage and impact. The way to test this, however, is not just to compare apples and oranges (i.e., OA and non-OA journals). The right way is to compare OA and non-OA articles in the *same* journals (and years). That is what our study with the ISI data is doing. (As Gene himself has often stressed, it is the article [and author] citation counts that should be weighed, and not just the average citation counts of the journals in which the article appears!) > I do not think the ISI study is definitive but it is not irrelevant. It is certainly not irrelevant to have shown "that there was no discernible difference in terms of citation impact or frequency" between the 191 OA journals and the 8509 non-OA journals indexed by ISI, equating for comparable journals as closely as possible: http://www.isinet.com/oaj But obviously there is a certain risk of circularity in this! It does show that the skeptics are wrong (for these OA journals): OA journals *are* indexed by ISI, and they *do* have comparable citation impacts. But the real test of the effect of OA on citation (and download) impact is on an article basis, where the journals can be equated exactly (by being the *same* journal and year!). And there the impact-maximising effects of OA are proving to be very dramatic indeed. Stevan Harnad > > Stevan Harnad wrote: > > > > The ISI press release says: > > > > "Today, Thomson ISI... announced that journals published in the > > new Open Access (OA) model are beginning to register impact in > > the world of scholarly research... Of the 8,700 selected journals > > currently covered in Web of Science, 191 are OA journals... [A > > study on] whether OA journals perform differently from other > > journals in their respective fields [found] that there was no > > discernible difference in terms of citation impact or frequency > > with which the journal is cited." http://www.isinet.com/oaj > > > > But if you want to get a better idea of the effect of OA on impact, > > don't just compare the 2% of ISI journals that are OA journals > > with the 98% that are not, to find that they are equal in impact > > (for this may well be comparing apples with oranges). Compare the > > much higher percentage of *articles* from the 98% non-OA journals > > that have been made OA by their authors -- by self-archiving > > them -- with articles (from the very same journals and volumes) > > that have *not* been made OA by their authors: You will find that > > there is indeed a discernible difference in terms of frequency > > with which the *article* is cited, and that that difference > > is from 250%-550% in favor of the articles that their authors > > have made OA! That is what an ongoing series of comparisons > > based on a 10-year sample of the same ISI database across all > > disciplines is revealing (in computer science and physics so far): > > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/OA-TAadvantage.pdf From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Apr 15 15:11:56 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Garfield, Eugene) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:11:56 -0400 Subject: HistCite collection of works by DJD Price and 3000 citing papers Message-ID: Re: HistCite collection of works by DJD Price and 3000 citing papers Dear listserv reader: The importance of the work of Derek deSolla Price is widely recognized in the history of information science. In order to help visualize his impact on the scientific literature we have searched the ISI WebofScience (WOS) to find all papers that have cited any of his works. The output of that search was run through the HistCite(tm) program. The result is a chronological file of over 3046 items. The file also includes 61 items by Derek Price himself. You will find the HistCite collection at: http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/histcomp/price-djd_all2-1/index-lcs.html If this is your first encounter with HistCite then please refer to the HistCite Guide in the top right corner. Note that we have manually created source records for Derek's books and combined a number of variations in citations. There are four historiographs provided, each of which can be viewed separately. In the next phase we will add a group of the papers and books appearing in the "outer references", the works which are most co-cited by the 3046 items in the main "inner" collection. These maps can be created at varying thresholds based on the local collection (LCS) or the (GCS),that is, the Global literature covered by the entire WOS.(SCI/SSCI/AHCI) If you find these displays interesting and would like to test the HistCite software, you can join a group of volunteer evaluators. We will then send you an evaluation copy of the program. If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact me or Soren Paris, who compiled this file. Eugene Garfield. For further reading about HistCite please consult the following references: Garfield E, Pudovkin AI, Istomin VI, "Mapping the Output of Topical Searches in the Web of Knowledge and the case of Watson-Crick" Information Technology and Libraries; 22 (4): 183-187 December 2003. http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/casewatsoncrick2003.pdf Garfield E, Pudovkin AI, Istomin VS. "Why do we need Algorithmic Historiography?" Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) 54(5):400-412, March 2003. http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/jasist54(5)400y2003.pdf Garfield E, Pudovkin AI, Istomin VS. "Algorithmic Citation-Linked Historiography -- Mapping the Literature of Science" Presentation at : ASIST 2002: Information, Connections and Community, 65th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T). Philadelphia, PA. November 18-21, 2002. http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/asis2002/asis2002presentation.html When responding, please attach my original message __________________________________________________ Eugene Garfield, PhD. email: garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu home page: http://www.eugenegarfield.org/ Tel: 215-243-2205 Fax 215-387-1266 President, The Scientist LLC. http://www.the-scientist.com/ 3535 Market St., Phila. PA 19104-3389 Chairman Emeritus, ISI http://www.isinet.com/ 3501 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-3302 Past President, American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) http://www.asis.org/ ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Apr 16 14:03:49 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:03:49 -0400 Subject: Full Text of Proceedings of the International Conference on Scientific Information, 1958 - Available from NAS free of charge. Message-ID: Full Text of Proceedings of the International Conference on Scientific Information, 1958 - Available from NAS free of charge. INTRODUCTION: When I was a young researcher at the Welch Medical Library in 1951, my bible was the Proceedings of the Royal Society Scientific Information Conference held in London, June 21 to July 2, 1948. (see online summary by J.H. McNinch, Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 37:136-141 (1949). http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/pagerender.fegi?artid=194801&pageindex=1 The four sections and their respective editors-in-chief were : I. Publication and Distribution of Papers Reporting Original Work. Professor J.D. Bernal, F.R.S. II Abstracting services. Sir David Chadwick III Indexing and Other Library Services. Dr. J.E. Holmstrom IV. Reviews, Annual Reports, etc. Professor H. Munro Fox, F.R.S. Just seven years later, I was to participate in the 1958 ICSI Conference in Washington. While 20,000 copies of the proceedings were printed, it has become increasingly difficult to locate copies of the two- volume set which is out of print. On November 7, 2003 I wrote to President Bruce Alberts of the National Academy of Sciences to ask for permission to scan and OCR these volumes so that they could be posted to the Web. On November 11, 2003 he wrote that we ?should have the document up on our website within weeks?. This, in fact happened but the format adopted was the usual one of the NAS Press. I pointed out that it was impractical to print out 1662 pages one at a time. Under the direction of Michael Jensen, NAS created individual PDF files for each chapter. It is now possible to view each document both in HTML and PDF format. All of us in the information community should be grateful to NAS Press for this generous cooperation. In order to scan the complete contents, including author names, please go to : http://books.nap.edu/books/NI000518/html/R19.html#pagetop Eugene Garfield garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu (Introduction and contents pages listed below) ________________________________________________________________________ Proceedings of the International Conference on Scientific Information -- Two Volumes Sponsors of the Conference: National Science Foundation, National Academy of Sciences, American Documentation Institute, National Research Council 1662 pages, 6x9, 1959. ISBN 10866 ___________________________________________________________________________ The launch of Sputnik caused a flurry of governmental activity in science information. The 1958 International Conference on Scientific Information (ICSI) was held in Washington from Nov.16-21 1958 and sponsored by NSF, NAS, and American Documentation Institute, the predecessor to the American Society for Information Science. In 1959, 20,000 copies of the two volume proceedings were published by NAS and included 75 papers (1600 pages) by dozens of pioneers from seven areas such as: ? Literature and reference needs of scientists ? Function and effectiveness of A & I services ? Effectiveness of Monographs, Compendia, and Specialized Centers ? Organization of information for storage and search: comparative characteristics of existing systems ? Organization of information for storage and retrospective search: intellectual problems and equipment considerations ? Organization of information for storage and retrospective search: possibility for a general theory ? Responsibilities of Government, Societies, Universities, and industry for improved information services and research. It is now an out of print classic in the field of science information studies. VOLUME 1 Table of Contents Front Matter - pp. i-xxiv Opening Session Address - pp. 1-8 Area 1: Literature and Reference Needs of Scientists: Knowledge now available and methods of ascertaining requirements - pp. 9-12 Proposed Scope of Area 1 - pp. 13-18 Study on the Use of Scientific Literature and Reference Services by Scandinavian Scientists and Engineers Engaged in Research and Development Elin Tornudd - pp. 19-76 The Transmission of Scientific Information J.D. Bernal - pp. 77-96 An Operations Research Study of the Dissemination of Scientific Information Michael H. Halbert and Russell Lackoff - pp. 97-130 Information and Literature Use in a Research and Development Organization I.H.HOGG and J.ROLAND SMITH - pp. 131-162 Methods by which Research Workers Find Information R.M. Fishenden pp. 163-180 Determining Requirements for Atomic Energy Information from Reference Questions Saul Herner and Mary Herner - pp. 181-188 Systematically Ascertaining Requirements of Scientists for Information Jiri Spirit and Ladislav Kofnovec - pp. 189-194 How Scientists Actually Learn of Work Important to Them Bentley Glass and Sharon H. Norwood - pp. 195-198 Planned and Unplanned Scientific Information Herbert Menzel - pp. 199-244 The Use of Technical Literature by Industrial Technologists Christopher Scott - pp. 245-266 Requirements of Forest Scientists for Literature and Reference Services Stephen H. Spurr - pp. 267-276 The Information-Gathering Habits of American Medical Scientists Saul Herner - pp. 277-286 Use of Scientific Periodicals D. J. Urquhart - pp. 287-300 Summary of Discussion 301-312 Area 2: The Function and Effectiveness of Abstracting and Indexing Services - 313-316 Proposed Scope of Area 2 - 317-320 An Evaluation of Abstracting Journals and Indexes Maurice H. Smith - pp. 321-350 Analytical Study of a Method for Literature Search in Abstracting Journals Paul S. Lykoudis, P.E. Liley, and Y.S. Touloukian - pp 351-376 The Relation Between Completeness and Effectiveness of a Subject Catalogue C.S. Sabel - pp. 377-380 Cost Analysis of Bibliographies or Bibliographic Services Malcolm Rigby and Marian K. Rigby - pp 381-392 The Efficiency of Metallurgical Services Nerio Gaudenzi - pp. 393-406 Subject Slanting in Scientific Abstracting Publications Saul Herner - pp. 407-428 The Importance of Peripheral Publications in the Documentation of Biology Mildred A. Doss - pp. 429-434 Current Medical Literature: A Quantitative Survey of Articles and Journals Estelle Brodman and Seymour I. Taine - pp. 435-448 A Combined Indexing-Abstracting System Isaac D. Welt - pp. 449-460 A Unified Index to Science Eugene Garfield - pp. 461-474 Lost Information: Unpublished Conference Papers Feli Liebesny - pp. 475-480 International Cooperation in Physics Abstracting B. M. Crowther - pp. 481-490 International Cooperative Abstracting on Building: An Appraisal A. B. Agard Evans - pp. 491-496 Cooperation and Coordination in Abstracting and Documentation Otto Frank - pp. 497-510 On the Functioning of the All-Union Institute for Scientific and Technical Information of the USSR Academy of Sciences A. I. Mikhailov - pp. 511-522 Summary of Discussion 523-536 Area 3: Effectiveness of Monographs, Compendia, and Specialized Centers: Present trends and new and proposed techniques and types of services 537- 540 Proposed Scope of Area 3 541-544 Review Literature and the Chemist 545-570 The Place of Analytical and Critical Reviews in Any Growing Biological Science and the Service They May Render to Research Isabella Leitch - pp. 571-588 Recent Trends in Scientific Documentation in South Asia: Problems of Speed and Coverage P. Sheel - pp. 589-604 Scientific Documentation in France J. Wyaart - pp. 605-612 Scientific, Technical, and Economic Information in a Research Organization MAREK CIG?NIK - pp 613-648 Summary of Discussion 649-660 Area 4: Organization of Information for Storage and Search: Comparative characteristics of existing systems 661-664 Proposed Scope of Area 4 - pp. 665-670 Conventional and Inverted Grouping of Codes for Chemical Data Eugene Miller, Delbert Ballard, John Kingston, and Mortimer Taube. - pp. 671-686 The Evaluation of Systems Used in Retrieval Systems on Large Electronic Computers CYRIL CLEVERDON - pp. 687-698 Experience in Developing Information Retrieval Systems ASCHER OPLER and NORMA BAIRD 699-710 Printing Chemical Structures Electronically: Encoded Compounds Searched Generically with IBM-702 W.H.WALDO and M.DE BACKER 711-730 Evolution of Document Control in a Materials Deterioration Information Center CARL J.WESSEL and WALTER M.BEJUKI - pp. 731-762 Retrieval Questions from the Use of Linde's Indexing and Retrieval System FRED R.WHALEY - pp. 763-770 Classification with Peek-a-boo for Indexing Documents on Aerodynamics: An Experiment in Retrieval R.C.WRIGHT and C.W.J.WILSON - pp. 771-802 Summary of Discussion 803-812 VOLUME 2 Area 5: Organization of Information for Storage and Retrospective Search: Intellectual problems and equipment considerations in the design of new systems 813-816 Proposed Scope of Area 5 817-822 The Basic Types of Information Tasks and Some Methods of Their Solution V.P.CHERENIN - pp. 823-854 Subject Analysis for Information Retrieval B.C.VICKERY - pp. 855-866 The Construction of a Faceted Classification for a Special Subject D.J.FOSKETT - pp. 867-888 On the Coding of Geometrical Shapes and Other Representations, with Reference to Archaeological Documents J. C. Gardin - pp. 889-902 Subject-Word Letter Frequencies with Applications to Superimposed Coding HERBERT OHLMAN - pp. 903-916 The Analogy between Mechanical Translation and Library Retrieval M.MASTERMAN, R.M.NEEDHAM, and K.SP?RCK JONES - pp. 917-936 Linguistic Transformations for Information Retrieval Z.S.HARRIS - pp. 937-950 Linguistic and Machine Methods for Compiling and Updating the Harvard Automatic Dictionary A.G.OETTINGER, W.FOUST, V.GIULIANO, K.MAGASSY, and L.MATEJKA - pp. 951-974 The Feasability of Machine Searching of English Texts VICTOR H.YNGVE - pp. 975-996 Semantic Matrices G.PATRICK MEREDITH - pp. 997-1026 Interlingual Communication in the Sciences JOSHUA WHATMOUGH - pp. 1027-1046 An Overall Concept of Scientific Documentation Systems and Their Design E.J.CRANE and C.L.BERNIER - pp. 1047-1070 The Possibilities of Far-Reaching Mechanization of Novelty Search of the Patent Literature G.J.KOELEWIJN - pp. 1071-1096 Descriptive Documentation CHARLES G.SMITH - pp. 1097-1116 Variable Scope Search System: VS8 JACOB LEIBOWITZ, JULIUS FROME, and DON D.ANDREWS - pp. 1117-1142 The Haystaq System: Past, Present, and Future HERBERT R.KOLLER, ETHEL MARDEN, and HAROLD PFEFFER - pp. 1143-1180 A Proposed Information Handling System for a Large Research Organization W.K.LOWRY and J.C.ALBRECHT - pp. 1181-1202 Information Handling in a Large Information System P.R.P.CLARIDGE - pp. 1203-1220 Tabledex: A New Coordinate Indexing Method for Bound Book Form Bibliographies ROBERT S.LEDLEY - pp. 1221-1244 The Comac: An Efficient Punched Card Collating System for the Storage and Retrieval of Information MORTIMER TAUBE - pp. 1245-1254 Summary of Discussion 1255-1268 Area 6: Organization of Information for Storage and Retrospective Search: Possibility for a general theory 1269-1272 Proposed Scope of Area 6 1273-1274 The Structure of Information Retrieval Systems B.C. Vickery - pp. 1275-1290 The Descriptive Continuum: A FREDERICK JONKER - pp. 1291-1312 Algebraic Representation of Storage and Retrieval Languages R.A.FAIRTHORNE 1313-1326 A Mathematical Theory of Language Symbols in Retrieval Calvin N. Mooers - pp. 1327-1364 Abstract Theory of Retrieval Coding Clifford J. Maloney - pp. 1365-1382 Maze Structure and Information Retrieval GERALD ESTRIN - pp. 1383-1394 Summary of Discussion 1395-1410 Area 7: Responsibilities of Government, Professional Societies, Universities 1411-1414 Proposed Scope of Area 7 1415-1416 Responsibilities for Scientific Information in Biology: Proposal for Financing a Comprehensive System Milton O. Lee1417-1428 Responsibility for the Development of Scientific Information as a National Resource Hazel Mews - pp. 1429-1434 Differences in International Arrangements for Financial Support of Information Services N.F.GRELL - pp. 1435-1440 Training for Activity in Scientific Documentation Work George Bonn - pp. 1441-1488 Training the Scientific Information Officer A.B.AGARD EVANS and J.FARRADANE - pp. 1489-1494 Training for Scientific Information Work in Great Britain B.I.PALMER and D.J.FOSKETT - pp. 1495-1502 The ICSU Abstracting Board: The Story of a Venture in International Cooperation G.-A.BOUTRY - pp. 1503-1516 Creation of an International Center of Scientific Information PAUL BOQUET - - pp. 1517-1522 An International Institute for Scientific Information WALDO CHAMBERLIN- pp. 1523-1534 Summary of Discussion 1535-1548 Closing Session 1549-1562 Financial Support 1563-1564 Exhibitors 1565-1566 Roster of Registrants 1567-1606 Index 1607-1638 The Open Book page image presentation framework is not designed to replace printed books. Rather, it is a free, browsable, nonproprietary, fully and deeply searchable version of the publication which we can inexpensively and quickly produce to make the material available worldwide. For most effective printing, use the "printable PDF page" link available on each OpenBook page's tool block. The 300 x 150 dpi PDF linked to it is printable on your local printer. From lopez_manest at GVA.ES Thu Apr 22 03:33:40 2004 From: lopez_manest at GVA.ES (Manuel Lopez Estornell) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 09:33:40 +0200 Subject: time distribution citations Message-ID: Dear Doctor Morris: Excuse me for the delay. I have been out of my office for several days. Thank you very much for your useful advises and for your time. The contents of your message is impresive. I'll take it in account for my work. Thanks again. Best regards, Manuel Lopez-Estornell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven A. Morris" To: Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 7:51 PM Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] time distribution citations > Dear Manuel, > > I think there are quite a few studies on literature aging out there already. > Do you have some hypothesis about an underlying model of citation aging > that you're trying to test? That would be interesting to discuss. > > My own feeling is that you'll need to divide the references you study into > two groups, "highly cited" and "normal" references. > > "Highly cited" would correspond to "concept symbols" as defined by Small, > and could also be thought of as "exemplar references" for the specialty's > paradigm. They may have citation rates that are fairly constant for long > periods. (The literature equivalent of what "punctuated equilibria" is for > biological evolution). > > "Normal references" are probably background noise, subject to predictable > statistical distributions and aging. > > We've all read about preferential attachment models of citation networks, > like the Barabasi-Albert model. Many of these models incorporate an initial > "attractiveness" as well a "success breeds success" attractiveness of > references to citations. I think it would be very interesting to attempt to > measure this total (initial plus SBS) attractiveness as a function of time. > I don't recall seeing empirical studies like this, though I recall one > paper by a coworker of Barabasi (Jeung, "Measuring preferential attachment > for evolving networks"). > > For a study like that my own inclination would be to stick to well-focused > collections of papers covering specific specialties, rather than try to > study some other huge heterogeneous collection of papers. > > Hope this helps. > > S. Morris > > On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 09:12:34 +0200, Manuel Lopez Estornell > wrote: > > >Dear colleagues: > > > >I am currently working on time distribution of citations after the > publication of papers in scientific journals, it is, 1) the lag between > publication and first citations and > >2) the average frecuency of citations (in %) during the t+1, t+2...t+n > years after the publication of papers. > > > >Please, may you give me your opinion about this issue?. > > > >Thank you very much in advance. > > > >Best regards > > > >Manuel Lopez-Estornell > > Advisor Council on S&T > >Regional Government of Valencia > >Juristas, 10 > >46001-Valencia > > > >lopez_manest at gva.es > > From gwhitney at UTK.EDU Thu Apr 22 11:48:00 2004 From: gwhitney at UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:48:00 -0400 Subject: [ISSI] ISSI Website (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 17:10:05 +0200 From: "Glanzel, Wolfgang" Reply-To: "Scientometrics, Informetrics and Cybermetrics" To: ISSI at LISTSERV.REDIRIS.ES Subject: [ISSI] ISSI Website Dear ISSI Member, We have the pleasure to inform you that the official website of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI) is now available. The URL is http://www.issi-society.info/. Yours sincerely, Wolfgang Gl?nzel Secretary/Treasurer, ISSI Bal?zs Schlemmer Webmaster ---------------------------------------------------- The ISSI articles are distributed thanks to the support and technical collaboration of RedIRIS - Spanish Academic Network (http://www.rediris.es) ------------------------------------------------------ From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Thu Apr 22 16:54:49 2004 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 21:54:49 +0100 Subject: Please Register All OA Institutional Archives Message-ID: *Apologies for cross-posting* Tim Brody has created a Registry of Institutional OA Archives that lists the known archives by Country, Type, and Software (Eprints, Dspace, or other), harvested from celestial. http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=browse It also displays the all-important graph of the number of items in each archive, and tracks the growth of each archive across time. But there are more OA Archives out there! Please register yours, or any you know of at: http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=add Graphs charting the growth of total number of archives and total number of archive items are also available: http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=analysis If you want your archive counted, please register it! All 146 registered archives can be viewed, or they can be browsed by Country, Archive Type, or Archive Software. (Note that the category "Undefined" among countries -- with 59 archives in it! -- occurs because these archives were harvested before the Registry was created, and the country data was not explicit. These 59 archives will be hand-reclassified. All new archives will have the country tag at registration.) Suggestions and corrections are welcome: http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=about Country * Undefined (59) (will be hand-classified) * United States (17) * United Kingdom (12) * France (10) * Canada (7) * Sweden (5) * NA/Other (5) * Australia (4) * Germany (3) * Educational (3) * Brazil (3) * Non-Profit Making Organisations (2) * China (2) * Network (2) * Belgium (2) * Italy (2) * South Africa (1) * Austria (1) * Slovenia (1) * Denmark (1) * Netherlands (1) * India (1) * Japan (1) * Ireland (1) Repository Type * Research Institutional (83) * Research Subject Specific (17) * Demonstration (17) * e-Theses (15) * Non-Research/Other (7) * e-Journal/Publication (6) * Undefined (1) Software * GNU EPrints v2 (105) * GNU EPrints v1 (19) * DSpace (12) * other (9) * (1) Stevan Harnad From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Wed Apr 28 10:31:04 2004 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 15:31:04 +0100 Subject: Paper on "merit/fame" correlation Message-ID: A news report entitled "Physics and fame" in PhysicsWeb http://physicsweb.org/article/news/8/4/12 summarizes a preprint by James P. Bagrow, Hernan D. Rozenfeld, Erik M. Bollt, Daniel ben-Avraham entitled "How Famous is a Scientist?..." http://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/0404515 This paper is related to one that Tim Brody is now preparing for submission based on his download.citation correlator: http://citebase.eprints.org/analysis/correlation.php Equating "merit" with number of papers published and equating "fame" with number of google links risks circularity. Google's PageRank does not count usage "hits" (i.e. downloads), it counts links, modulated by hub/authority weightings using PageRank, etc. And the correlation is almost tautological: More total items (whether or not by the same author) will lead to more total links to (any of) those items. "Same author" is merely a way of bundling items. The control comparisons (not performed by the authors of the merit/fame study) would require also calculating the correlations between. I don't think google's PageRank algorithm controls for this: (1) total number of an author's published papers and the average number of citations to that author's work (as calculated by citebase http://citebase.eprints.org/ or by ISI, not by google), (2) total number of an author's papers and average number of links to that author's papers (i.e., google PageRanking), (3) total number of arbitrary google items from the same producer (not research papers) and average number of links to (any of) those items (i.e., google ranking), and (4) total number of arbitrary google items, bundled arbitrarily, and average number of links to (any of) those items (i.e., google ranking), and then to *partial out* the pure item-quantity effect (perhaps in a multiple regression equation) to see whether there is any significant portion of the variance left that predicts "importance," even after the mere correlation between the quantity of items and quantity of links is removed. (Something similar needs to be done with download data too, to partial out the effects of baseline quantity and co-bundling from the specific merits of the material.) (The Bagrow et al. paper makes comparisons with the time-course of ace pilots' "fame," but it seems to me that would require more detailed time-course analyses of downloads, citations, and links in order to draw any conclusions.) Stevan Harnad Chaire de Recherche du Canada Centre de Neuroscience de la Cognition (CNC) Universite du Quebec a Montreal Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3C 3P8 tel: 1-514-987-3000 2461# fax: 1-514-987-8952 harnad at uqam.ca http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/