From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Mon Aug 2 13:02:37 2004 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 18:02:37 +0100 Subject: Implementing the US/UK recommendation to mandate OA Self-Archiving Message-ID: ** apologies for cross-posting ** Now that the the UK Parliament Science and Technology Committee http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/UKSTC.htm as well as the US House Appropriations Committee http://www.arl.org/sparc/core/index.asp?page=o31 have both recommended the OA self-archiving of funded research, it is time for universities and research institutions to start thinking about implementing that mandate -- and for those that have thought about it and done it to make their self-archiving policies known, so others can emulate them Here are 18 resources to help with this: (1) To indicate that your institution is committing itself to implementing an official Self-Archiving Policy and to briefly describe that policy for others: http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php (2) Registry of Institutions who have signed the above, and a description of their policies (5 so far): http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php (3) Registry of Institutional OA Eprint Archives (209 so far) http://archives.eprints.org/index.php?action=browse (4) Directory of Journals that have already given their official green light to author/institution self-archiving (84% so far): http://romeo.eprints.org/stats.php (5) OAIster: Harvester and search-engine for distributes Institutional OA Eprint Archives (307 so far): http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/ (6) Model Departmental Self-Archiving Policy: http://software.eprints.org/handbook/departments.php (7) Evidence for the Impact-Enhancing Effect of OA Self-Archiving: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june04/harnad/06harnad.html http://citebase.eprints.org/isi_study/ http://citebase.eprints.org/ http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cs http://citebase.eprints.org/analysis/correlation.php http://opcit.eprints.org/ http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/openaccess.ppt http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/impact.html (8) BOAI Self-Archiving FAQ: http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ (9) OSI Eprints Handbook: http://software.eprints.org/handbook/ (10) GNU Eprints Archive-Creating Software http://software.eprints.org/ (11) Standardized OAI CV template: http://paracite.eprints.org/cgi-bin/rae_front.cgi http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue35/harnad/ (12) Paracite Citation Seeker: http://paracite.eprints.org/ (13) Open Archives Initiative (OAI): http://www.openarchives.org/ (14) American Scientist Open Access Forum: http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html (15) Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI): http://www.soros.org/openaccess/ (16) Berlin Declaration: http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html (17) SPARC Repository Resources: http://www.arl.org/sparc/core/index.asp?page=m0 (18) Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/ Stevan Harnad UNIVERSITIES: If you have adopted or plan to adopt an institutional policy of providing Open Access to your own research article output, please describe your policy at: http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php UNIFIED DUAL OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY: BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a suitable open-access journal whenever one exists. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm#journals BOAI-1 ("green"): Otherwise, publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal and also self-archive it. http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM: A complete Hypermail archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online (1998-2004) is available at: http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html To join the Forum: http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html Post discussion to: american-scientist-open-access-forum at amsci.org From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Aug 2 13:58:36 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 13:58:36 -0400 Subject: Articles from Scientometrics 60(3) 2004 Message-ID: Frank Havemann : frank.havemann at ib.hu-berlin.de TITLE: Growth dynamics of German university enrolments and of scientific disciplines in the 19th century: Scaling behaviour under weak competitive pressure (Article, English) AUTHOR: Havemann, F; Heinz, M; Wagner-Dobler, R SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 60 (3). 2004. p.283-294 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: According to authors like H.E. Stanley and others, growth dynamics of university research displays a quantitative behaviour similar to the growth dynamics of firms acting under competitive pressure. Features of such behaviour are probability distributions of annual growth rates or the standard deviation of growth rates. We show that a similar statistical behaviour can be observed in the growth dynamics of German university enrolments or in the growth dynamics of physics and mathematics, both for the 19th century. Since competitive pressure was generally weak at that time, interpretations of statistical similarities as to pointing to a "firm-like behavior" are questionable. AUTHOR ADDRESS: F Havemann, Humboldt Univ, Inst Lib Sci, Dorotheenstr 26, D-10117 Berlin, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Henk Moed : Moed at cwts.leidenuniv.nl Eugene Garfield: garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu TITLE: In basic science the percentage of 'authoritative' references decreases as bibliographies become shorter (Article, English) AUTHOR: Moed, HF; Garfield, E SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 60 (3). 2004. p.295-303 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: The empirical question addressed in this contribution is: How does the relative frequency at which authors in a research field cite 'authoritative' documents in the reference lists in their papers vary with the number of references such papers contain? 'Authoritative' documents are defined as those that are among the ten percent most frequently cited items in a research field. It is assumed that authors who write papers with relatively short reference lists are more selective in what they cite than authors who compile long reference lists. Thus, by comparing in a research field the fraction of references of a particular type in short reference lists to that in longer lists, one can obtain an indication of the importance of that type. Our analysis suggests that in basic science fields such as physics or molecular biology the percentage of 'authoritative' references decreases as bibliographies become shorter. In other words, when basic scientists are selective in referencing behavior, references to 'authoritative' documents are dropped more readily than other types. The implications of this empirical finding for the debate on normative versus constructive citation theories are discussed. AUTHOR ADDRESS: HF Moed, Leiden Univ, Ctr Sci & Technol Studies, POB 9555, NL-2300 RB Leiden, Netherlands -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry Small: henry.small at thomson.com TITLE: Why authors think their papers are highly cited (Article, English) AUTHOR: Small, H SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 60 (3). 2004. p.305-316 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: A survey of authors of highly cited papers in 22 fields was undertaken in connection with a new bibliometric resource called Essential Science Indicators (ESI(R)). Authors were asked to give their opinions on why their papers are highly cited. They generally responded by describing specific internal, technical aspects of their work, relating them to external or social factors in their fields of study. These self-perceptions provide clues to the factors that lead to high citation rate, and the importance of the interaction between internal and external factors. Internal factors are revealed by the technical terminology used to describe the work, and how it is situated in the problem domain for the field. External factors are revealed by a different vocabulary describing how the work has been received within the field, or its implications for a wider audience. Each author's response regarding a highly cited work was analyzed on four dimensions: the author perception of its novelty, utility, significance, and interest. A co- occurrence analysis of the dimensions revealed that interest, the most socially based dimension, was most often paired with one of the other more internal dimensions, suggesting a synergy between internal and external factors. AUTHOR ADDRESS: H Small, Thomson ISI, 3501 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- W.P. Yue : wp.yue at unsw.edu.au TITLE: Measuring the citation impact of research journals in clinical neurology: A structural equation modelling analysis (Article, English) AUTHOR: Yue, WP; Wilson, CS SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 60 (3). 2004. p.317-332 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: This study develops and tests an integrated conceptual model of journal evaluation from varying perspectives of citation analysis. The main objective is to obtain a more complete understanding of the external factors affecting journal citation impact; that is, a theoretical construct measured by a number of citation indicators. Structural equation modelling (SEM) with partial least squares (PLS) is used to test the conceptual model with empirical data from journals in clinical neurology. Interrelationships among journal citation impact and four external factors (journal characteristics, journal accessibility, journal visibility and journal internationality) have been successfully explored, and the conceptual model of journal evaluation has been examined. AUTHOR ADDRESS: WP Yue, Univ New S Wales, Sch Informat Syst Technol & Management, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia -------------------------------------------------------------------------- M. Negishi: negishi at nii.ac.jp TITLE: Citation database for Japanese papers: A new bibliometric tool for Japanese academic society (Article, English) AUTHOR: Negishi, M; Sun, Y; Shigi, K SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 60 (3). 2004. p.333-351 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: The paper describes the construction and functions of the Citation Database for Japanese Papers (CJP) developed at the National Institute of Informatics, Japan (NII), and the Impact Factors of CJP's source journals. Then statistical analyses of multidimensional scaling on citation counts for the academic society journals to measure relationship among the societies are described. We also introduce a new citation navigation system, CiNii, which enables users to access various resources provided by NIL such as NACSIS Electronic Library Service (NACSIS-ELS) to get electronic full-text of journal articles through citation links. Recent political developments in Japan towards enhancement of scientific information infrastructure are also introduced with its implication to research evaluation systems incorporating citation analyses. AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Negishi, Natl Inst Informat, Chiyoda Ku, 2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Tokyo 1018430, Japan -------------------------------------------------------------------------- R.D. Shelton : rds at wtec.org TITLE: The US-EU race for leadership of science and technology: Qualitative and quantitative indicators (Article, English) AUTHOR: Shelton, RD; Holdridge, GM SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 60 (3). 2004. p.353-363 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: Both the United States and the European Union have set goals for worldwide leadership of science and technology. While the U. S. leads in most input quantitative indicators, output indicators may be more specific for determining present leadership. They show that the EU has taken the lead in important metrics and is challenging the U. S. in others. Qualitative indicators of fields of research and development, based on expert review studies organized by the authors, confirm that many EU labs are equal or better than those in the U.S. AUTHOR ADDRESS: RD Shelton, WTEC Inc, 2809 Boston St,Suite 441, Baltimore, MD 21224 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: China Scientific and Technical Papers and Citations (CSTPC): History, impact and outlook (Article, English) AUTHOR: Wu, YS; Pan, YT; Zhang, YH; Ma, Z; Pang, JG; Guo, H; Xu, B; Yang, ZQ SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 60 (3). 2004. p.385-397 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: This paper traces the history of China Scientific and Technical Papers and Citations database (CSTPC) since its founding in 1988. The fact that most Chinese scientists publish their research results in Chinese journals requires that China establish SCI counterparts dedicated to domestic S & T journals. The article describes the selection criteria for source journals, the approach used to adjust the structure of source journals, the criteria for selecting items to be included in the database, and the indexing method. Then it discusses the impact upon government R & D administration agencies and the science community in general by both CSTPC team and CSTPC database. Finally, the article analyzes the main factors that lead to the primary success of CSTPD. The authors encourages information workers in other non-English developing countries to build up similar databases. AUTHOR ADDRESS: YS Wu, ISTIC, 15 Fuxinglu, Beijing 100038, Peoples R China -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hildrun Kretschmer : hildrun.kretschmer at niwi.knaw.nl TITLE: Author productivity and geodesic distance in bibliographic co-authorship networks, and visibility on the Web (Article, English) AUTHOR: Kretschmer, H SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 60 (3). 2004. p.409-420 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: The increasing cooperation in science, which has led to larger co-authorship networks, requires the application of new methods of analysis of social networks in bibliographic co-authorship networks as well as in networks visible on the Web. In this context, a number of interesting papers on the "Erdos Number", which gives the shortest path (geodesic distance) between an author and the well-known Hungarian mathematician Erdos in a co-authorship network, have been published recently. This paper develops new methods concerning the position of highly productive authors in the network. Thus a relationship of distribution of these authors among the clusters in the co-authorship network could be proved to be dependent upon the size of the clusters. Highly productive authors have, on average, low geodesic distances and thus shorter length of paths to all the other authors of a specialism compared to low productive authors, whereas the influencing possibility of highly productive scientists gets distributed amongst others in the development of the specialism. A theory on the stratification in science with respect to the over random similarity of scientists collaborating with one another, previously covered with other empirical methods, could also be confirmed by the application of geodesic distances. The paper proposes that the newly developed methodology may also be applied to visible networks in future studies on the Web. Further investigation is warranted into whether co-authorship and web networks have similar structures with regards to author productivity and geodesic distances. AUTHOR ADDRESS: H Kretschmer, COLLNET, Borgsdorfer Str 5, D-16540 Hohen Neuendorf, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Olle Persson : olle.pesson at soc.umu.se TITLE: Inflationary bibliometric values: The role of scientific collaboration and the need for relative indicators in evaluative studies (Article, English) AUTHOR: Persson, O; Glanzel, W; Danell, R SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 60 (3). 2004. p.421-432 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: Several research studies and reports on national and European science and technology indicators have recently presented figures reflecting intensifying scientific collaboration and increasing citation impact in practically all science areas and at all levels of aggregation. The main objective of this paper is twofold, namely first to analyse if the number or weight of actors in scientific communication has increased, if patterns of documented scientific communication and collaboration have changed in the last two decades and if these tendencies have inflationary features. The second question is concerned with the role of scientific collaboration in this context. In particular, the question will be answered to what extent co-authorship and publication activity, on one hand, and co-authorship and citation impact, on the other hand, do interact. The answers found to these questions have strong implication for the application of bibliometric indicators in research evaluation, moreover, the construction of indicators applied to trend analyses and studies based on medium-term or long-term observations have to be reconsidered to guarantee the validity of conclusions drawn from bibliometric results. AUTHOR ADDRESS: O Persson, Umea Univ, Dept Sociol, Inforsk, SE-90187 Umea, Sweden -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fuyuki Yoshikane : fuyuki at niad.ac.jp TITLE: Comparative analysis of coauthorship networks of different domains: The growth and change of networks (Article, English) AUTHOR: Yoshikane, F; Kageura, K SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 60 (3). 2004. p.433-444 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: Many studies have tried to describe patterns of research collaboration through observing coauthorship networks. Those studies mainly analyze static networks, and most of them do not consider the development of networks. hi this study, we turn our attention to the development of personal collaboration networks. On the basis of an analysis from two viewpoints, i.e., growth in the number of collaborating partners and change in the relationship strength with partners, we describe and compare the characteristics of four different domains, i.e., electrical engineering, information processing, polymer science, and biochemistry. AUTHOR ADDRESS: F Yoshikane, Natl Inst Acad Degrees & Univ Evaluat, Fac Univ Evaluat & Res, 1-29-1 Gakuen Nishimachi, Tokyo 1878587, Japan -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jean-Charles Lamirel : lamirel at loria.fr TITLE: New classification quality estimators for analysis of documentary information: Application to patent analysis and web mapping (Article, English) AUTHOR: Lamirel, JC; Francois, C; AL Shehabi, S; Hoffmann, M SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 60 (3). 2004. p.445-462 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: The information analysis process includes a cluster analysis or classification step associated with an expert validation of the results. In this paper, we propose new measures of Recall/Precision for estimating the quality of cluster analysis. These measures derive both from the Galois lattice theory and from the Information Retrieval (IR) domain. As opposed to classical measures of inertia, they present the main advantages to be both independent of the classification method and of the difference between the intrinsic dimension of the data and those of the clusters. We present two experiments on the basis of the MultiSOM model, which is an extension of Kohonen's SOM model, as a cluster analysis method. Our first experiment on patent data shows how our measures can be used to compare viewpoint-oriented classification methods, such as MultiSOM, with global cluster analysis method, such as WebSOM Our second experiment, which takes part in the EICSTES EEC project, is an original Webometrics experiment that combines content and links classification starting from a large non-homogeneous set of web pages. This experiment highlights the fact that break-even points between our different measures of Recall/Precision can be used to determine an optimal number of clusters for web data classification. The content of the clusters obtained when using different break-even points are compared for determining the quality of the resulting maps. AUTHOR ADDRESS: JC Lamirel, LORIA, BP 239, F-54506 Vandoeuvre Les Nancy, France -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jun-Ping Qiu : jpqiu at whu.edu.cn TITLE: An analysis of backlink counts and Web Impact Factors for Chinese university websites (Article, English) AUTHOR: Qiu, JP; Chen, JQ; Wang, Z SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 60 (3). 2004. p.463-473 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: This article aims to study the total backlink counts, external backlink counts and the Web Impact Factors (WIFs) for Chinese university websites. By studying whether the backlink counts and WIFs of websites associate with the comprehensive ratings and the research ratings for Chinese universities, the article demonstrates that the external backlink count can be a better evaluation measure for university websites than WIF. The study also investigated issues about data collection by using different search engines. It shows that data collected by Alta Vista are more stable than AllTheWeb. AUTHOR ADDRESS: JP Qiu, Wuhan Univ, Res Ctr Chinese Sci, Wuhan 430072, Peoples R China -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tang R. : tangr at cua.edu M. Thelwall : m.thelwall at wlv.ac.uk TITLE: Patterns of national and international Web inlinks to US academic departments: An analysis of disciplinary variations (Article, English) AUTHOR: Tang, R; Thelwall, M SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 60 (3). 2004. p.475-485 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: An investigation of links to 89 US academic departments from three different disciplines gave insights into the kinds of international regions and national domains that linked to them. While significant correlations were found between total counts of international inlinks and total publication impact in Psychology and Chemistry, counts of international inlinks to History departments were too small to give a significant result. The correlations suggest that international links may reflect, to a certain extent, patterns of scholarly communication. Even though History departments attracted a significantly lower percentage of international inlinks than those of Chemistry and Psychology, the main source of links for all three disciplines was from Europe. Analyses of national inlinks, characterized by gTLDs (generic Top Level Domains), showed that the major source of links for all disciplines was .edu sites, followed by .com, .org, .net. As a whole, international regional differences in disciplines were stronger than gTLD differences, although in both cases discrepancies were not of a large scale. AUTHOR ADDRESS: R Tang, Catholic Univ Amer, Sch Lib & Informat Sci, 620 Michigan Ave NE, Washington, DC 20064 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LW Vaughan : lvaughan at uwo.ca TITLE: Links to commercial websites as a source of business information (Article, English) AUTHOR: Vaughan, LW; Wu, GZ SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 60 (3). 2004. p.487-496 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: Websites of China's top 100 information technology (IT) companies were examined. Link count to a company's website was found to correlate with the company's revenue, profit, and research and development expenses. This suggests that Web hyperlinks to commercial sites can be a business performance indicator and thus a source of business information. This information is useful for Web business intelligence and Web data mining. As a comparison to IT companies, China's top 100 privately owned companies were also studied. No relationship between link count and the business performance measure was found for these companies due probably to the heterogeneous nature of this group. Data collection issues for webometrics research were also explored in the study. AUTHOR ADDRESS: LW Vaughan, Univ Western Ontario, Fac Informat & Media Studies, London, ON N6A 5B7, Canada -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Leo Egghe : legghe at luc.ac.be TITLE: Positive reinforcement and 3-dimensional informetrics (Article, English) AUTHOR: Egghe, L SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 60 (3). 2004. p.497-509 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: We show that the composition of two information production processes (IPPs), where the items of the first IPP are the sources of the second, and where the ranks of the sources in the first IPP agree with the ranks of the sources in the second IPP, yields an IPP which is positively reinforced with respect to the first IPP. This means that the rank-frequency distribution of the composition is the composition of the rank-frequency distribution of the first IPP and an increasing function phi, which is explicitly calculable from the two IPPs' distributions. >From the rank-frequency distribution of the composition, we derive its size-frequency distribution in terms of the size-frequency distribution of the first IPP and of the function phi. The paper also relates the concentration of the reinforced IPP to that of the original one. This theory solves part of the problem of the determination of a third IPP from two given ones (so-called three-dimensional informetrics). In this paper we solved the "linear" case, i.e., where the third IPP is the composition of the other two IPPs. AUTHOR ADDRESS: L Egghe, Limburgs Univ Ctr, Univ Campus, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wolfgang Glanzel : h4324gla at ella.hu TITLE: Towards a model for diachronous and synchronous citation analyses (Article, English) AUTHOR: Glanzel, W SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 60 (3). 2004. p.511-522 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: This paper gives an overview of the diachronous (prospective) and synchronous (retrospective) approach to ageing studies of scientific literature from the perspective of technical reliability, visualising the different aspects that can be analysed by the two approaches. The main objective is to deepen the understanding of the mechanism and the theory underlying the two aproaches, and is to show that the difference between the diachronous and synchronous model is not "Just counting into opposite directions". In this context, a stochastic model is presented showing that one and the same model can be used to describe both diachronous and synchronous perspectives of citation processes. On the basis of this model, it is explained how some diachronous and synchronous citation-based indicators can be re-calculated for changing publication periods and citation windows underlying their construction. The paper is concluded by several applications such as the definition and calculation of diachronous (prospective) and synchronous (retrospective) journal impact measures and other citation indicators used in research evaluation. AUTHOR ADDRESS: W Glanzel, Katholieke Univ Leuven, Dekenstr 2, B-3000 Louvain, Belgium -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The multivariate Waring distribution and its application (Article, English) AUTHOR: Shan, S; Jiang, GH; Jiang, L SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 60 (3). 2004. p.523-535 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: The multivariate Waring distribution is developed and investigated. A special case, the bivariate Waring distribution, is considered. It is shown that the distributions have some nice properties as multivariate distribution. Some applications to the distribution of scientific productivity are discussed. AUTHOR ADDRESS: S Shan, Shanghai Univ, Dept Management & Informat Engn, Shanghai 201800, Peoples R China From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Aug 2 14:10:52 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 14:10:52 -0400 Subject: O'Neill, K; Balsiger, J; VanDeveer, SD "Actors, norms, and impact: Recent international cooperation theory and the influence of the agent-structure debate" ANNUAL REVIEW OF POLITICAL SCIENCE 7. 2004. p.149-175 Message-ID: koneill at nature.berkeley.edu TITLE: Actors, norms, and impact: Recent international cooperation theory and the influence of the agent-structure debate' (Review, English) AUTHOR: O'Neill, K; Balsiger, J; VanDeveer, SD SOURCE: ANNUAL REVIEW OF POLITICAL SCIENCE 7. 2004. p.149-175 ANNUAL REVIEWS, PALO ALTO ABSTRACT: This article reviews three recent developments in international cooperation theory: the introduction of nonstate actors, the study of norms and ideas, and increased examination of the effectiveness, or impact, of international cooperation. Through the lens of the agent-structure debate, we critique the literature that addresses these themes. We argue, first, for a view of structure that goes beyond material properties; second, that more attention could be paid to what distinguishes agency in actors; and third, that this would provide insights into how reflexivity and learning, as well as preference and identity formation, contribute to structural transformation in the international system through iterated processes of cooperation. We also develop ways of applying the agent-structure debate to empirical as well as metatheoretical. questions. The article concludes by discussing directions for further research. AUTHOR ADDRESS: K O'Neill, Univ Calif Berkeley, Div Soc & Environm, Dept Environm Sci Policy & Management, 135 Giannini Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA From quentinburrell at MANX.NET Mon Aug 2 14:15:08 2004 From: quentinburrell at MANX.NET (Quentin L. Burrell) Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 19:15:08 +0100 Subject: Articles from Scientometrics 60(3) 2004 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Just to add to Gene's email, this issue of Scientometrics is particularly noteworthy since it is made up of articles presented at the 9th Interanational Conference on Scientometrics and Informetircs held in Beijing, August 2003. Quentin ***************************************** Dr Quentin L Burrell Isle of Man International Business School The Nunnery Old Castletown Road Douglas IM2 1QB via United Kingdom 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 Eugene Garfield Sent: 02 August 2004 18:59 To: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Articles from Scientometrics 60(3) 2004 Frank Havemann : frank.havemann at ib.hu-berlin.de TITLE: Growth dynamics of German university enrolments and of scientific disciplines in the 19th century: Scaling behaviour under weak competitive pressure (Article, English) AUTHOR: Havemann, F; Heinz, M; Wagner-Dobler, R SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 60 (3). 2004. p.283-294 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: According to authors like H.E. Stanley and others, growth dynamics of university research displays a quantitative behaviour similar to the growth dynamics of firms acting under competitive pressure. Features of such behaviour are probability distributions of annual growth rates or the standard deviation of growth rates. We show that a similar statistical behaviour can be observed in the growth dynamics of German university enrolments or in the growth dynamics of physics and mathematics, both for the 19th century. Since competitive pressure was generally weak at that time, interpretations of statistical similarities as to pointing to a "firm-like behavior" are questionable. AUTHOR ADDRESS: F Havemann, Humboldt Univ, Inst Lib Sci, Dorotheenstr 26, D-10117 Berlin, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Henk Moed : Moed at cwts.leidenuniv.nl Eugene Garfield: garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu TITLE: In basic science the percentage of 'authoritative' references decreases as bibliographies become shorter (Article, English) AUTHOR: Moed, HF; Garfield, E SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 60 (3). 2004. p.295-303 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: The empirical question addressed in this contribution is: How does the relative frequency at which authors in a research field cite 'authoritative' documents in the reference lists in their papers vary with the number of references such papers contain? 'Authoritative' documents are defined as those that are among the ten percent most frequently cited items in a research field. It is assumed that authors who write papers with relatively short reference lists are more selective in what they cite than authors who compile long reference lists. Thus, by comparing in a research field the fraction of references of a particular type in short reference lists to that in longer lists, one can obtain an indication of the importance of that type. Our analysis suggests that in basic science fields such as physics or molecular biology the percentage of 'authoritative' references decreases as bibliographies become shorter. In other words, when basic scientists are selective in referencing behavior, references to 'authoritative' documents are dropped more readily than other types. The implications of this empirical finding for the debate on normative versus constructive citation theories are discussed. AUTHOR ADDRESS: HF Moed, Leiden Univ, Ctr Sci & Technol Studies, POB 9555, NL-2300 RB Leiden, Netherlands -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry Small: henry.small at thomson.com TITLE: Why authors think their papers are highly cited (Article, English) AUTHOR: Small, H SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 60 (3). 2004. p.305-316 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: A survey of authors of highly cited papers in 22 fields was undertaken in connection with a new bibliometric resource called Essential Science Indicators (ESI(R)). Authors were asked to give their opinions on why their papers are highly cited. They generally responded by describing specific internal, technical aspects of their work, relating them to external or social factors in their fields of study. These self-perceptions provide clues to the factors that lead to high citation rate, and the importance of the interaction between internal and external factors. Internal factors are revealed by the technical terminology used to describe the work, and how it is situated in the problem domain for the field. External factors are revealed by a different vocabulary describing how the work has been received within the field, or its implications for a wider audience. Each author's response regarding a highly cited work was analyzed on four dimensions: the author perception of its novelty, utility, significance, and interest. A co- occurrence analysis of the dimensions revealed that interest, the most socially based dimension, was most often paired with one of the other more internal dimensions, suggesting a synergy between internal and external factors. AUTHOR ADDRESS: H Small, Thomson ISI, 3501 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- W.P. Yue : wp.yue at unsw.edu.au TITLE: Measuring the citation impact of research journals in clinical neurology: A structural equation modelling analysis (Article, English) AUTHOR: Yue, WP; Wilson, CS SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 60 (3). 2004. p.317-332 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: This study develops and tests an integrated conceptual model of journal evaluation from varying perspectives of citation analysis. The main objective is to obtain a more complete understanding of the external factors affecting journal citation impact; that is, a theoretical construct measured by a number of citation indicators. Structural equation modelling (SEM) with partial least squares (PLS) is used to test the conceptual model with empirical data from journals in clinical neurology. Interrelationships among journal citation impact and four external factors (journal characteristics, journal accessibility, journal visibility and journal internationality) have been successfully explored, and the conceptual model of journal evaluation has been examined. AUTHOR ADDRESS: WP Yue, Univ New S Wales, Sch Informat Syst Technol & Management, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia -------------------------------------------------------------------------- M. Negishi: negishi at nii.ac.jp TITLE: Citation database for Japanese papers: A new bibliometric tool for Japanese academic society (Article, English) AUTHOR: Negishi, M; Sun, Y; Shigi, K SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 60 (3). 2004. p.333-351 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: The paper describes the construction and functions of the Citation Database for Japanese Papers (CJP) developed at the National Institute of Informatics, Japan (NII), and the Impact Factors of CJP's source journals. Then statistical analyses of multidimensional scaling on citation counts for the academic society journals to measure relationship among the societies are described. We also introduce a new citation navigation system, CiNii, which enables users to access various resources provided by NIL such as NACSIS Electronic Library Service (NACSIS-ELS) to get electronic full-text of journal articles through citation links. Recent political developments in Japan towards enhancement of scientific information infrastructure are also introduced with its implication to research evaluation systems incorporating citation analyses. AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Negishi, Natl Inst Informat, Chiyoda Ku, 2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Tokyo 1018430, Japan -------------------------------------------------------------------------- R.D. Shelton : rds at wtec.org TITLE: The US-EU race for leadership of science and technology: Qualitative and quantitative indicators (Article, English) AUTHOR: Shelton, RD; Holdridge, GM SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 60 (3). 2004. p.353-363 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: Both the United States and the European Union have set goals for worldwide leadership of science and technology. While the U. S. leads in most input quantitative indicators, output indicators may be more specific for determining present leadership. They show that the EU has taken the lead in important metrics and is challenging the U. S. in others. Qualitative indicators of fields of research and development, based on expert review studies organized by the authors, confirm that many EU labs are equal or better than those in the U.S. AUTHOR ADDRESS: RD Shelton, WTEC Inc, 2809 Boston St,Suite 441, Baltimore, MD 21224 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: China Scientific and Technical Papers and Citations (CSTPC): History, impact and outlook (Article, English) AUTHOR: Wu, YS; Pan, YT; Zhang, YH; Ma, Z; Pang, JG; Guo, H; Xu, B; Yang, ZQ SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 60 (3). 2004. p.385-397 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: This paper traces the history of China Scientific and Technical Papers and Citations database (CSTPC) since its founding in 1988. The fact that most Chinese scientists publish their research results in Chinese journals requires that China establish SCI counterparts dedicated to domestic S & T journals. The article describes the selection criteria for source journals, the approach used to adjust the structure of source journals, the criteria for selecting items to be included in the database, and the indexing method. Then it discusses the impact upon government R & D administration agencies and the science community in general by both CSTPC team and CSTPC database. Finally, the article analyzes the main factors that lead to the primary success of CSTPD. The authors encourages information workers in other non-English developing countries to build up similar databases. AUTHOR ADDRESS: YS Wu, ISTIC, 15 Fuxinglu, Beijing 100038, Peoples R China -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hildrun Kretschmer : hildrun.kretschmer at niwi.knaw.nl TITLE: Author productivity and geodesic distance in bibliographic co-authorship networks, and visibility on the Web (Article, English) AUTHOR: Kretschmer, H SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 60 (3). 2004. p.409-420 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: The increasing cooperation in science, which has led to larger co-authorship networks, requires the application of new methods of analysis of social networks in bibliographic co-authorship networks as well as in networks visible on the Web. In this context, a number of interesting papers on the "Erdos Number", which gives the shortest path (geodesic distance) between an author and the well-known Hungarian mathematician Erdos in a co-authorship network, have been published recently. This paper develops new methods concerning the position of highly productive authors in the network. Thus a relationship of distribution of these authors among the clusters in the co-authorship network could be proved to be dependent upon the size of the clusters. Highly productive authors have, on average, low geodesic distances and thus shorter length of paths to all the other authors of a specialism compared to low productive authors, whereas the influencing possibility of highly productive scientists gets distributed amongst others in the development of the specialism. A theory on the stratification in science with respect to the over random similarity of scientists collaborating with one another, previously covered with other empirical methods, could also be confirmed by the application of geodesic distances. The paper proposes that the newly developed methodology may also be applied to visible networks in future studies on the Web. Further investigation is warranted into whether co-authorship and web networks have similar structures with regards to author productivity and geodesic distances. AUTHOR ADDRESS: H Kretschmer, COLLNET, Borgsdorfer Str 5, D-16540 Hohen Neuendorf, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Olle Persson : olle.pesson at soc.umu.se TITLE: Inflationary bibliometric values: The role of scientific collaboration and the need for relative indicators in evaluative studies (Article, English) AUTHOR: Persson, O; Glanzel, W; Danell, R SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 60 (3). 2004. p.421-432 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: Several research studies and reports on national and European science and technology indicators have recently presented figures reflecting intensifying scientific collaboration and increasing citation impact in practically all science areas and at all levels of aggregation. The main objective of this paper is twofold, namely first to analyse if the number or weight of actors in scientific communication has increased, if patterns of documented scientific communication and collaboration have changed in the last two decades and if these tendencies have inflationary features. The second question is concerned with the role of scientific collaboration in this context. In particular, the question will be answered to what extent co-authorship and publication activity, on one hand, and co-authorship and citation impact, on the other hand, do interact. The answers found to these questions have strong implication for the application of bibliometric indicators in research evaluation, moreover, the construction of indicators applied to trend analyses and studies based on medium-term or long-term observations have to be reconsidered to guarantee the validity of conclusions drawn from bibliometric results. AUTHOR ADDRESS: O Persson, Umea Univ, Dept Sociol, Inforsk, SE-90187 Umea, Sweden -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fuyuki Yoshikane : fuyuki at niad.ac.jp TITLE: Comparative analysis of coauthorship networks of different domains: The growth and change of networks (Article, English) AUTHOR: Yoshikane, F; Kageura, K SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 60 (3). 2004. p.433-444 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: Many studies have tried to describe patterns of research collaboration through observing coauthorship networks. Those studies mainly analyze static networks, and most of them do not consider the development of networks. hi this study, we turn our attention to the development of personal collaboration networks. On the basis of an analysis from two viewpoints, i.e., growth in the number of collaborating partners and change in the relationship strength with partners, we describe and compare the characteristics of four different domains, i.e., electrical engineering, information processing, polymer science, and biochemistry. AUTHOR ADDRESS: F Yoshikane, Natl Inst Acad Degrees & Univ Evaluat, Fac Univ Evaluat & Res, 1-29-1 Gakuen Nishimachi, Tokyo 1878587, Japan -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jean-Charles Lamirel : lamirel at loria.fr TITLE: New classification quality estimators for analysis of documentary information: Application to patent analysis and web mapping (Article, English) AUTHOR: Lamirel, JC; Francois, C; AL Shehabi, S; Hoffmann, M SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 60 (3). 2004. p.445-462 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: The information analysis process includes a cluster analysis or classification step associated with an expert validation of the results. In this paper, we propose new measures of Recall/Precision for estimating the quality of cluster analysis. These measures derive both from the Galois lattice theory and from the Information Retrieval (IR) domain. As opposed to classical measures of inertia, they present the main advantages to be both independent of the classification method and of the difference between the intrinsic dimension of the data and those of the clusters. We present two experiments on the basis of the MultiSOM model, which is an extension of Kohonen's SOM model, as a cluster analysis method. Our first experiment on patent data shows how our measures can be used to compare viewpoint-oriented classification methods, such as MultiSOM, with global cluster analysis method, such as WebSOM Our second experiment, which takes part in the EICSTES EEC project, is an original Webometrics experiment that combines content and links classification starting from a large non-homogeneous set of web pages. This experiment highlights the fact that break-even points between our different measures of Recall/Precision can be used to determine an optimal number of clusters for web data classification. The content of the clusters obtained when using different break-even points are compared for determining the quality of the resulting maps. AUTHOR ADDRESS: JC Lamirel, LORIA, BP 239, F-54506 Vandoeuvre Les Nancy, France -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jun-Ping Qiu : jpqiu at whu.edu.cn TITLE: An analysis of backlink counts and Web Impact Factors for Chinese university websites (Article, English) AUTHOR: Qiu, JP; Chen, JQ; Wang, Z SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 60 (3). 2004. p.463-473 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: This article aims to study the total backlink counts, external backlink counts and the Web Impact Factors (WIFs) for Chinese university websites. By studying whether the backlink counts and WIFs of websites associate with the comprehensive ratings and the research ratings for Chinese universities, the article demonstrates that the external backlink count can be a better evaluation measure for university websites than WIF. The study also investigated issues about data collection by using different search engines. It shows that data collected by Alta Vista are more stable than AllTheWeb. AUTHOR ADDRESS: JP Qiu, Wuhan Univ, Res Ctr Chinese Sci, Wuhan 430072, Peoples R China -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tang R. : tangr at cua.edu M. Thelwall : m.thelwall at wlv.ac.uk TITLE: Patterns of national and international Web inlinks to US academic departments: An analysis of disciplinary variations (Article, English) AUTHOR: Tang, R; Thelwall, M SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 60 (3). 2004. p.475-485 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: An investigation of links to 89 US academic departments from three different disciplines gave insights into the kinds of international regions and national domains that linked to them. While significant correlations were found between total counts of international inlinks and total publication impact in Psychology and Chemistry, counts of international inlinks to History departments were too small to give a significant result. The correlations suggest that international links may reflect, to a certain extent, patterns of scholarly communication. Even though History departments attracted a significantly lower percentage of international inlinks than those of Chemistry and Psychology, the main source of links for all three disciplines was from Europe. Analyses of national inlinks, characterized by gTLDs (generic Top Level Domains), showed that the major source of links for all disciplines was .edu sites, followed by .com, .org, .net. As a whole, international regional differences in disciplines were stronger than gTLD differences, although in both cases discrepancies were not of a large scale. AUTHOR ADDRESS: R Tang, Catholic Univ Amer, Sch Lib & Informat Sci, 620 Michigan Ave NE, Washington, DC 20064 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LW Vaughan : lvaughan at uwo.ca TITLE: Links to commercial websites as a source of business information (Article, English) AUTHOR: Vaughan, LW; Wu, GZ SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 60 (3). 2004. p.487-496 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: Websites of China's top 100 information technology (IT) companies were examined. Link count to a company's website was found to correlate with the company's revenue, profit, and research and development expenses. This suggests that Web hyperlinks to commercial sites can be a business performance indicator and thus a source of business information. This information is useful for Web business intelligence and Web data mining. As a comparison to IT companies, China's top 100 privately owned companies were also studied. No relationship between link count and the business performance measure was found for these companies due probably to the heterogeneous nature of this group. Data collection issues for webometrics research were also explored in the study. AUTHOR ADDRESS: LW Vaughan, Univ Western Ontario, Fac Informat & Media Studies, London, ON N6A 5B7, Canada -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Leo Egghe : legghe at luc.ac.be TITLE: Positive reinforcement and 3-dimensional informetrics (Article, English) AUTHOR: Egghe, L SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 60 (3). 2004. p.497-509 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: We show that the composition of two information production processes (IPPs), where the items of the first IPP are the sources of the second, and where the ranks of the sources in the first IPP agree with the ranks of the sources in the second IPP, yields an IPP which is positively reinforced with respect to the first IPP. This means that the rank-frequency distribution of the composition is the composition of the rank-frequency distribution of the first IPP and an increasing function phi, which is explicitly calculable from the two IPPs' distributions. >From the rank-frequency distribution of the composition, we derive its size-frequency distribution in terms of the size-frequency distribution of the first IPP and of the function phi. The paper also relates the concentration of the reinforced IPP to that of the original one. This theory solves part of the problem of the determination of a third IPP from two given ones (so-called three-dimensional informetrics). In this paper we solved the "linear" case, i.e., where the third IPP is the composition of the other two IPPs. AUTHOR ADDRESS: L Egghe, Limburgs Univ Ctr, Univ Campus, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wolfgang Glanzel : h4324gla at ella.hu TITLE: Towards a model for diachronous and synchronous citation analyses (Article, English) AUTHOR: Glanzel, W SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 60 (3). 2004. p.511-522 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: This paper gives an overview of the diachronous (prospective) and synchronous (retrospective) approach to ageing studies of scientific literature from the perspective of technical reliability, visualising the different aspects that can be analysed by the two approaches. The main objective is to deepen the understanding of the mechanism and the theory underlying the two aproaches, and is to show that the difference between the diachronous and synchronous model is not "Just counting into opposite directions". In this context, a stochastic model is presented showing that one and the same model can be used to describe both diachronous and synchronous perspectives of citation processes. On the basis of this model, it is explained how some diachronous and synchronous citation-based indicators can be re-calculated for changing publication periods and citation windows underlying their construction. The paper is concluded by several applications such as the definition and calculation of diachronous (prospective) and synchronous (retrospective) journal impact measures and other citation indicators used in research evaluation. AUTHOR ADDRESS: W Glanzel, Katholieke Univ Leuven, Dekenstr 2, B-3000 Louvain, Belgium -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The multivariate Waring distribution and its application (Article, English) AUTHOR: Shan, S; Jiang, GH; Jiang, L SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 60 (3). 2004. p.523-535 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: The multivariate Waring distribution is developed and investigated. A special case, the bivariate Waring distribution, is considered. It is shown that the distributions have some nice properties as multivariate distribution. Some applications to the distribution of scientific productivity are discussed. AUTHOR ADDRESS: S Shan, Shanghai Univ, Dept Management & Informat Engn, Shanghai 201800, Peoples R China From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Aug 2 14:57:01 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 14:57:01 -0400 Subject: Pietroforte R, Stefani TP "ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management: Review of the years 1983-2000" JOURNAL OF CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT-ASCE 130 (3): 440-448 MAY-JUN 2004 Message-ID: Roberto Pietroforte : roberto at wpi.edu Title: ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management: Review of the years 1983-2000 Author(s): Pietroforte R, Stefani TP Source: JOURNAL OF CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT-ASCE 130 (3): 440-448 MAY-JUN 2004 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References:11 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: This study considers the contents of the papers published by the ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management which has witnessed a growth in terms of number and length of papers and breadth of participation, particularly of international origin, during the 1983-2000 period. The content is analyzed according to two main dimensions: the type of subject and its composing topics, and the institutional sources of the papers. The analysis shows the evolution of the construction engineering and management discipline as it is represented in the journal. Over the years traditional construction engineering topics have been complemented by an increasing interest in construction management topics, such as management of the firm, project delivery systems (Build-Operate-Transfer and Design/Build), project performance evaluation and project quality planning. This paper, in addition, identifies 30 institutional sources of the published papers and the extent of specialization of these institutions in terms of subjects relating the construction engineering and management discipline. Addresses: Pietroforte R (reprint author), Worcester Polytech Inst, Dept Civil & Environm Engn, 100 Inst Rd, Worcester, MA 01609 USA Worcester Polytech Inst, Dept Civil & Environm Engn, Worcester, MA 01609 USA Elect Board Corp, Groton, CT 06340 USA Publisher: ASCE-AMER SOC CIVIL ENGINEERS, 1801 ALEXANDER BELL DR, RESTON, VA 20191-4400 USA Subject Category: ENGINEERING, CIVIL; ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL; CONSTRUCTION & BUILDING TECHNOLOGY IDS Number: 823YU ISSN: 0733-9364 Cited Author Cited Work Year Volume Page BETTS M CONSTRUCTION MANAGEM 1993 11 221 BETTS M INT J PROJECT MANAGE 1995 13 207 CARR RI J CONSTR ENG M ASCE 1997 123 292 COURTIAL JP SOC STUD SCI 1989 19 301 HARRIS RB J CONSTR ENG M ASCE 1996 122 297 HUGHES W ARCOM NEWSLETTER 2000 15 4 MENTZER JT J BUSINESS LOGISTICS 1995 16 231 PETERS HPF RES POLICY 1993 22 23 PETERS HPF RES POLICY 1993 22 47 SHOGREN JF J ENVIRON ECON MANAG 1991 20 205 TIJSSEN RJW EVALUATION REV 1994 18 98 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Aug 2 15:20:47 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 15:20:47 -0400 Subject: Hjorland B. "Arguments for philosophical realism in library and information science" LIBRARY TRENDS 52 (3): 488-506 WIN 2004 Message-ID: Title: Arguments for philosophical realism in library and information science Author(s): Hjorland B Source: LIBRARY TRENDS 52 (3): 488-506 WIN 2004 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 44 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: THE BASIC REALIST CLAIM IS THAT A MIND-INDEPENDENT reality exists. It should be common sense knowledge to accept this claim,just as any theories that try to deny it soon become inconsistent because reality strikes back. In spite of this, antirealist philosophies flourish, not only in philosophy but also in the behavioral and cognitive sciences and in information science. This is highly problematic because it removes the attention from reality to subjective phenomena with no real explanatory power. Realism should not be confused with the view that all scientific claims are true or with any other kind of naivete concerning knowledge claims. The opposite of realism may be termed antirealism, idealism, or nominalism. Although many people confuse empiricism and positivism with realism, these traditions are by nature strongly antirealist, which is why a sharp distinction should be made between empiricism and realism. Empirical research should not be founded on assumptions about "the given" of observations, but should recognize the theory-laden nature of observations. Domain analysis represents an attempt to reintroduce a realist perspective in library and information science. A realist conception of relevance, information seeking, information retrieval, and knowledge organization is outlined. Information systems of all kinds, including research libraries and public libraries, should be informed by a realist philosophy and a realist information science. KeyWords Plus: DOMAIN-ANALYSIS; RELEVANCE Addresses: Hjorland B (reprint author), Royal Sch Lib & Informat Sci, 6 Birketinget, Copenhagen, DK-2300 S Denmark Royal Sch Lib & Informat Sci, Copenhagen, DK-2300 S Denmark Publisher: GSLIS PUBLICATIONS, 501 E DANIEL ST, CHAMPAIGN, IL 61820-6211 USA Subject Category: INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE IDS Number: 823FQ ISSN: 0024-2594 Cited Author Cited Work Year Volume Page AARSETH E DIGITAL MEDIA REVISI 2003 415 BADE D CREATION PERSISTENCE 2002 BEST S IS SCI MULTICULTURAL 1998 BHASKAR R REALIST THEORY SCI 1978 BHASKAR R RECLAIMING REALITY C 1989 BLISS HE SYSTEM BIBLIO CLASSI 1935 BOYD R STANFORD ENCY PHILOS 2002 BRISKMAN L NEW IDEAS PSYCHOL 1984 2 105 COLLIER A ROUTLEDGE ENCY PHILO 1998 CREAVEN S MARXISM REALISM MAT 2000 DOBSON PJ INFORM SYST FRONT 2001 3 199 DOBSON PJ INFORMATION RES 2001 7 GARFIELD E CURR CONTENTS 1975 5 GRAUBALLE H KLASSIFIKATIONSTEORI 1998 HAMLYN DW OXFORD COMPANION PHI 1995 386 HARDING S IS SCI MULTICULTURAL 1998 HJORLAND B ANN REV INFORMATION 2001 35 3 HJORLAND B AWARE RESPONSIBLE 2003 71 HJORLAND B J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 2002 53 960 HJORLAND B J AM SOC INFORM SCI 2000 51 209 HJORLAND B J AM SOC INFORM SCI 1995 46 400 HJORLAND B J DOC 2002 58 422 HJORLAND B J DOC 1992 48 172 HJORLAND B KNOWL ORGAN 1998 25 16 HJORLAND B NEW REV INFORMATION 2000 1 19 KUHN TS CRITICISM GROWTH KNO 1970 231 LAUDAN L POSITIVISM RELATIVIS 1996 LAUDAN L PROGR ITS PROBLEMS T 1977 LEONTYEV AN PROBLEMS DEV MIND 1981 MAKI U INT ENCY SOCIAL BEHA 2001 19 12815 MATHERON G ESTIMATING CHOOSING 1989 MAZE JR THEOR PSYCHOL 1991 1 163 NIGHTINGALE DJ SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONI 1999 NIINILUOTO I HDB METAPHYSICS ONTO 1991 2 761 PRODI G BASI MAT SIGNIFICAZI 1977 RICHARDSON EC CLASSIFICATION THEOR 1964 SAYERS WC CANONS CLASSIFICATIO 1915 SCHULTZ E PERSONLIGHEDSPSYKOLO 1988 SPANGHANSSEN H HUMAN IT 2001 1 125 SPASSER MA COMPUTER SUPPORTED C 2002 11 81 THIBAULT PJ SEMIOTIC REV BOOKS 1993 4 1 VINCI T CAMBRIDGE DICT PHILO 1999 828 WILSON P 2 HAND KNOWLEDGE INQ 1983 From rhill at ASIS.ORG Mon Aug 2 15:58:30 2004 From: rhill at ASIS.ORG (Dick Hill ASIST Exec) Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 15:58:30 -0400 Subject: JASIST citation improvement (fwd) Message-ID: [Forwarded with permission. Dick Hill] From: Stephen J Bensman 08/02/2004 10:34 AM To: "Dr. Don Kraft" cc: Subject: Re: JASIST citation improvement (fwd) Don, While one month does not a record make, you may be looking at a case of cumulative advantage or a success-breeds-success process. This is more famously known as Robert K. Merton's "Matthew Effect." JASIST is already the top information science journal in terms of total citations, and it is only natural for this process to continue at an exponential rate, unless the leftists want to impose a progressive citation tax and redistribute the citations to lower citation journals. >>From my studies of chemistry and other sciences, I can pinpoint one element of JASIST's growing advantage. JASIST is a US association journal, and these are the dominant journals in every field. One reason for this is that there appears to be a globalization of world science through the US scientific associations, and this is certainly evident in the submissions to JASIST, which are coming more and more from abroad. JASIST is attracting the best information scientists from abroad, who are trying to publish in it for reasons of professional advancement. Statements admitting this have made in the foreign submissions you have sent me to referee. In a certain sense JASIST is sucking the air and life out of the other information science journals. If you want to see how this process works in other scientistific disciplines, particularly chemistry, you can study the article at the web site below: http://www.lib.lsu.edu/collserv/lrts/index.html The section "The Social Bases of Scientific and Technical Value" is of special interest in this respect. I will let you make the decision on whether to distribute these words of wisdom to the others on your list. Stephen J. Bensman LSU Libraries Louisiana State University "Dr. Don Kraft" on 08/02/2004 09:21:48 AM To: JASIS Editorial Board , abdur at duvel.ir.iit.edu, adillon at gslis.utexas.edu, bcronin at indiana.edu, bollmann at cs.tu-berlin.de, borgman at gseis.ucla.edu, cabdur at aol.com, clairemc at scils.rutgers.edu, cliff at cni.org, conns at ync.net, cooper at socrates.berkeley.edu, covi at scils.rutgers.edu, dcase at pop.uky.edu, dwallace at ou.edu, e.davenport at napier.ac.uk, f.crestani at cs.strath.ac.uk, fidelr at u.washington.edu, g.ford at bristol.ac.uk, gluckmh at vmi.edu, h1533bra at ella.hu, harryb at u.washington.edu, hchen at bpa.arizona.edu, hsmall at isinet.com, itravis at austin.rr.com, kantor at scils.rutgers.edu, kantorp at cs.rutgers.edu, kate.mccain at cis.drexel.edu, losee at ils.unc.edu, lsbary at lsu.edu, Bert Boyce , m.sanderson at sheffield.ac.uk, march at ils.unc.edu, mjbates at ucla.edu, ophir at duvel.ir.iit.edu, padmini-srinivasan at uiowa.edu, peek at simmons.edu, pi at db.dk, ray at sims.berkeley.edu, rhill at asis.org, rrice at comm.ucsb.edu, schamber at unt.edu, ser at microsoft.com, tabrooks at u.washington.edu, victorr at umich.edu, watters at cs.dal.ca, Isabelle Cohen DeAngelis , Jo-Ann Wasserman , rhill at asis.org, notsjb at lsu.edu cc: Subject: JASIST citation improvement (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 23:45:17 +0100 From: "Thelwall, Mike (Prof)" To: 'Don Kraft ' Subject: JASIST citation improvement Don, probably you know already, but JASIST is the Social Sciences journal with the most improved citation rating for July: http://www.in-cites.com/most_imp/july2004.html It's triple good news for me because I'm in the same list and so is my university. It is a pity citations don't count for much in the UK. Mike From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Aug 2 16:24:13 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 16:24:13 -0400 Subject: Paul K. "Business and society and business ethics journals: A citation and impact analysis" Journal of Scholarly Publishing, 35(2):103-117 January 2004 Message-ID: Karen Paul is professor of Management and International Business at Florida International University in Miami, FL. and a Fullbright Fellow at Universidad Catolica Boliviana in La Paz, Bolivia. Karen Paul : E-mail: paulk at fiu.edu This study is based on use of ISI Journal Citation Reports for 2000 Author(s): Paul, K Title: Business and society and business ethics journals: A citation and impact analysis Source: JOURNAL OF SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING, 35 (2): 103-117 JAN 2004 Language: English Document Type: Article Abstract: Business & Society (B&S), Business Ethics Quarterly (BEQ) and the Journal of Business, Ethics (JBE) are leading journals in the, related fields of business ethics and business and society. Citations may be used as an indicator of relative influence. An analysis of their 2001 citations to one another and to the Academy of Management Journal and the Academy of Management Review is presented, showing that an argument could be made for ranking for any of the three journals first, depending on criteria used for judgement and the definition of the universe of those being influenced. The journal most widely recognized among management scholars in general is JBE; however, BEQ and B&S are favoured by experts in their respective sub-disciplines, with B&S citations indicating a closer relationship to the Academy of Management journals. Addresses: Florida Int Univ, Miami, FL 33199 USA Reprint Address: Paul, K, Florida Int Univ, Miami, FL 33199 USA. Cited References: ANDREWS PN, 1988, M AC MAN AN CA. EDLUND TW, 1991, M INT ASS BUS SOC. EDLUND TW, 1992, CONT ISSUES BUSINESS. GOMEZMEJIA LR, 1992, ACAD MANAGE J, V35, P921. HARZIG AW, 2000, UBMC J QUALITY LIST. HUNT CS, 2002, MANAGEMEN J SURVEY R. JENSEN MC, 2002, BUS ETHICS Q, V12, P235. MAHON JF, 1987, ACAD MANAGEMENT P, P344. PAUL K, 1993, J SCHOLARLY PUBL, V24, P171. SEN A, 1997, BUSINESS ETHICS Q, V7, P5. STARBUCK W, J RANKED CITATIONS A. TAHAI A, 1999, STRATEGIC MANAGE J, V20, P279. VANFLEET D, 1994, ACAD MANAGE J, V37, P1392. VANFLEET DD, 2000, J MANAGE, V26, P839. VIDAVERCOHEN D, 2002, UNPUB QUALITY ASSESS. WARTICK SL, 1984, BUSINESS FORUM SUM, P24. WICKS AC, 1996, BUSINESS ETHICS Q, V6, P359. Times Cited: 0 Publisher: UNIV TORONTO PRESS INC Publisher Address: JOURNALS DIVISION, 5201 DUFFERIN ST, DOWNSVIEW, TORONTO, ON M3H 5T8, CANADA ISSN: 1198-9742 Source Item Page Count: 15 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Aug 2 16:29:33 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 16:29:33 -0400 Subject: Linton JD "Research-Technology Management ranked number 3 in citation study" RESEARCH-TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT 47 (3): 5-6 MAY-JUN 2004 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: linton at rpi.edu Title: Research-technology management ranked no. 3 in citation study Author(s): Linton JD Source: RESEARCH-TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT 47 (3): 5-6 MAY-JUN 2004 Document Type: Editorial Material Language: English Cited References: 0 Times Cited: 0 Addresses: Linton JD (reprint author), Rensselaer Polytech Inst, Lally Sch Management & Technol, Troy, NY 12181 USA Rensselaer Polytech Inst, Lally Sch Management & Technol, Troy, NY 12181 USA Publisher: INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH INST INC, 1550 M ST., NW, WASHINGTON, DC 20005 USA Subject Category: ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL; BUSINESS; MANAGEMENT IDS Number: 815NK ISSN: 0895-6308 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Aug 2 16:35:14 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 16:35:14 -0400 Subject: Geary, J; Marriott, L; Rowlinson, M "Journal rankings in business and management and the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise in the UK" BRITISH JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT, 15 (2): 95-141 JUN 2004 Message-ID: E-mail Address: m.rowlinson at qmul.ac.uk Author(s): Geary, J; Marriott, L; Rowlinson, M Title: Journal rankings in business and management and the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise in the UK Source: BRITISH JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT, 15 (2): 95-141 JUN 2004 Language: English Document Type: Article Abstract: The public availability of detailed data from the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise in the UK allows an analysis of the publications cited in submissions to the Business and Management panel. Eighty per cent of the 9,942 publications submitted were journal articles. Submissions to the RAE can be scored in terms of the number of citations they make to journals that appear on various lists, such as the Financial Times list. The concentration of articles in a minority of journals, with 50% of all citations to just 126 journals, means that a core list of business and management journals can be compiled. The core list presented contains 562 journals out of the 1582 journal titles that were cited in Business and Management submissions. It includes all journals with more than two citations overall at least one citation in a 5(*), 5 or 4 rated submission. It also includes all journals cited in the RAE from Starbuck's ranked lists of journals and the Financial Times list. Addresses: London Metropolitan Univ, London E1 4NS, England; Univ London, Ctr Business Management, London E1 4NS, England Reprint Address: Rowlinson, M, London Metropolitan Univ, Mile End Rd, London E1 4NS, England. Cited References: 2003, FINANCIAL TIMES. *HIGH ED FUND COUN, 2004, RAE2008 RES ASS EX I. BADENFULLER C, 2000, LONG RANGE PLANN, V33, P621. BAKER MJ, 2002, INT J MANAGEMENT ED, V2, P3. BENCE V, 2001, SERIALS, V14, P265. BESSANT J, 2003, BRIT J MANAGE, V14, P51. COOPER C, 1998, BRIT J MANAGE, V9, P73. EASTON G, 2003, J MARKETING MANAGEME, V19, P5. GEARY J, 2002, 1 LOND METR U. HARLEY S, 2002, STUD HIGH EDUC, V27, P187. HARVEY J, 2002, J MANAGE STUD, V39, P747. HARZING AW, 2001, BRADFORD U SCH MANAG. KELEMEN M, 2002, BRIT J MANAGE, V13, P97. STAHL MJ, 1988, ACAD MANAGE J, V31, P707. STARBUCK WH, 2001, CITATIONS J RELATED. STARKEY K, 2001, BRIT J MANAGE, V12, P3. TAHAI A, 1999, STRATEGIC MANAGE J, V20, P279. TRANFIELD D, 1998, BRIT J MANAGE, V9, P341. Times Cited: 0 Publisher: BLACKWELL PUBL LTD Publisher Address: 108 COWLEY RD, OXFORD OX4 1JF, OXON, ENGLAND ISSN: 1045-3172 Source Item Page Count: 47 ISI Document Delivery No.: 822MX From bernies at UILLINOIS.EDU Mon Aug 2 16:38:11 2004 From: bernies at UILLINOIS.EDU (Sloan, Bernie) Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 15:38:11 -0500 Subject: "Average" number of citations? Message-ID: This may be a dumb question, but here goes... Is there a way to use Web of Science or Journal Citation Reports to determine the average (mean) number of citations for a given journal title, or for journals within a given subject category? Bernie Sloan Senior Library Information Systems Consultant, ILCSO University of Illinois Office for Planning and Budgeting 616 E. Green Street, Suite 213 Champaign, IL 61820 Phone: (217) 333-4895 Fax: (217) 265-0454 E-mail: bernies at uillinois.edu From notsjb at LSU.EDU Mon Aug 2 16:44:15 2004 From: notsjb at LSU.EDU (Stephen J Bensman) Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 15:44:15 -0500 Subject: "Average" number of citations? Message-ID: Impact factor is basically this measure, and it is in the JCR located at your library. Go talk to a reference librarian. -- SB "Sloan, Bernie" @LISTSERV.UTK.EDU> on 08/02/2004 03:38:11 PM Please respond to ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics Sent by: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU cc: (bcc: Stephen J Bensman/notsjb/LSU) Subject: [SIGMETRICS] "Average" number of citations? This may be a dumb question, but here goes... Is there a way to use Web of Science or Journal Citation Reports to determine the average (mean) number of citations for a given journal title, or for journals within a given subject category? Bernie Sloan Senior Library Information Systems Consultant, ILCSO University of Illinois Office for Planning and Budgeting 616 E. Green Street, Suite 213 Champaign, IL 61820 Phone: (217) 333-4895 Fax: (217) 265-0454 E-mail: bernies at uillinois.edu From bernies at UILLINOIS.EDU Mon Aug 2 17:07:52 2004 From: bernies at UILLINOIS.EDU (Sloan, Bernie) Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 16:07:52 -0500 Subject: "Average" number of citations? Message-ID: Is there a difference between the JCR located at my library and the JCR available online from ISI? -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Stephen J Bensman Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 3:44 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] "Average" number of citations? Impact factor is basically this measure, and it is in the JCR located at your library. Go talk to a reference librarian. -- SB "Sloan, Bernie" @LISTSERV.UTK.EDU> on 08/02/2004 03:38:11 PM Please respond to ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics Sent by: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU cc: (bcc: Stephen J Bensman/notsjb/LSU) Subject: [SIGMETRICS] "Average" number of citations? This may be a dumb question, but here goes... Is there a way to use Web of Science or Journal Citation Reports to determine the average (mean) number of citations for a given journal title, or for journals within a given subject category? Bernie Sloan Senior Library Information Systems Consultant, ILCSO University of Illinois Office for Planning and Budgeting 616 E. Green Street, Suite 213 Champaign, IL 61820 Phone: (217) 333-4895 Fax: (217) 265-0454 E-mail: bernies at uillinois.edu From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Aug 2 17:23:14 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 17:23:14 -0400 Subject: Papers from PNAS of the USA 101 (Suppl) April 6, 2004 Message-ID: FULL TEXT AVAILABLE AT : http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/101/suppl_1/5186 Monika Henzinger: E-mail Address: monika at google.com Author(s): Henzinger, M; Lawrence, S Title: Extracting knowledge from the World Wide Web Source: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 101: 5186-5191 Suppl. 1 APR 6 2004 Language: English Document Type: Article Abstract: The World Wide Web provides a unprecedented opportunity to automatically analyze a large sample of interests and activity in the world. We discuss methods for extracting knowledge from the web by randomly sampling and analyzing hosts and pages, and by analyzing the link structure of the web and how links accumulate over time. A variety of interesting and valuable information can be extracted, such as the distribution of web pages over domains, the distribution of interest in different areas, communities related to different topics, the nature of competition in different categories of sites, and the degree of communication between different communities or countries. Addresses: Google Inc, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA Reprint Address: Henzinger, M, Google Inc, 2400 Bayshore Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA. Cited References: ALBERT R, 1999, NATURE, V401, P130. ALBERT R, 2000, PHYS REV LETT, V85, P5234. BARABASI AL, 1999, PHYSICA A, V272, P173. BARABASI AL, 1999, SCIENCE, V286, P509. BARYOSSEF Z, 2000, P 26 INT C VER LARG, P535. BHARAT K, 1998, P 21 ANN INT ACM SIG, P104. BHARAT K, 2001, P 2001 IEEE INT C DA, P51. 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Times Cited: 1 Publisher: NATL ACAD SCIENCES Publisher Address: 2101 CONSTITUTION AVE NW, WASHINGTON, DC 20418 USA ISSN: 0027-8424 Source Item Page Count: 6 ISI Document Delivery No.: 812EO _______________________________________ FULL TEXT AVAILABLE AT : http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/101/suppl_1/5192 E-mail Address: kboyack at sandia.gov Author(s): Boyack, KW Title: Mapping knowledge domains: Characterizing PNAS Source: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 101: 5192-5199 Suppl. 1 APR 6 2004 Language: English Document Type: Article Abstract: A review of data mining and analysis techniques that can be used for the mapping of knowledge domains is given. Literature mapping techniques can be based on authors, documents, journals, words, and/or indicators. Most mapping questions are related to research assessment or to the structure and dynamics of disciplines or networks. Several mapping techniques are demonstrated on a data set comprising 20 years of papers published in PNAS. Data from a variety of sources are merged to provide unique indicators of the domain bounded by PNAS. By using funding source information and citation counts, it is shown that, on an aggregate basis, papers funded jointly by the U.S. Public Health Service (which includes the National Institutes of Health) and non-U.S. government sources outperform papers funded by other sources, including by the U.S. Public Health Service alone. Grant data from the National Institute on Aging show that, on average, papers from large grants are cited more than those from small grants, with performance increasing with grant amount. A map of the highest performing papers over the 20-year period was generated by using citation analysis. Changes and trends in the subjects of highest impact within the PNAS domain are described. 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Times Cited: 1 Publisher: NATL ACAD SCIENCES Publisher Address: 2101 CONSTITUTION AVE NW, WASHINGTON, DC 20418 USA ISSN: 0027-8424 Source Item Page Count: 8 ISI Document Delivery No.: 812EO ___________________________________________________ FULL TEXT AVAILABLE AT : http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/101/suppl_1/5200 E-mail Address: mejn at umich.edu Author(s): Newman, MEJ Title: Coauthorship networks and patterns of scientific collaboration Source: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 101: 5200-5205 Suppl. 1 APR 6 2004 Language: English Document Type: Article Abstract: By using data from three bibliographic databases in biology, physics, and mathematics, respectively, networks are constructed in which the nodes are scientists, and two scientists are connected if they have coauthored a paper. We use these networks to answer a broad variety of questions about collaboration patterns, such as the numbers of papers authors write, how many people they write them with, what the typical distance between scientists is through the network, and how patterns of collaboration vary between subjects and over time. We also summarize a number of recent results by other authors on coauthorship patterns. Addresses: Univ Michigan, Ctr Study Complex Syst, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA; Univ Michigan, Dept Phys, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA Reprint Address: Newman, MEJ, Univ Michigan, Ctr Study Complex Syst, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA. Cited References: BARABASI AL, 1999, SCIENCE, V286, P509. BARABASI AL, 2002, PHYSICA A, V311, P590. BATAGELJ V, 2000, SOC NETWORKS, V22, P173. BORDENS M, 2000, WEB KNOWLEDGE FESTSC. CORMEN TH, 2001, INTRO ALGORITHMS. CRANE D, 1972, INVISIBLE COLL DIFFU. DECASTRO R, 1999, MATH INTELL, V21, P51. DING Y, 1999, INT INF LIBR REV, V30, P367. EGGHE L, 1990, INTRO INFORMETRICS. 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We examine a large real-world data set: the NEC CiteSeer database, a linked network of >250,000 papers. Tracking changes over time requires a clustering algorithm that produces clusters stable under small perturbations of the input data. However, small perturbations of the CiteSeer data lead to significant changes to most of the clusters. One reason for this is that the order in which papers within communities are combined is somewhat arbitrary. However, certain subsets of papers, called natural communities, correspond to real structure in the CiteSeer database and thus appear in any clustering. By identifying the subset of clusters that remain stable under multiple clustering runs, we get the set of natural communities that we can track over time. We demonstrate that such natural communities allow us to identify emerging communities and track temporal changes in the underlying structure of our network data. Addresses: Cornell Univ, Dept Comp Sci, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA; Google Inc, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA; Univ Texas, Dept Comp Sci, Austin, TX 78712 USA Reprint Address: Selman, B, Cornell Univ, Dept Comp Sci, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA. Cited References: ADLER RJ, 1998, PRACTICAL GUIDE HEAV. AGGARWAL CC, 2001, LECT NOTES COMPUTER, P420. BARABASI AL, 2002, LINKED NEW SCI NETWO. BORNER K, 2004, P NATL ACAD SCI U S1, V101, P5266. BRIN S, 1998, COMPUT NETWORKS ISDN, V30, P107. COHEN W, 2000, P AS SCOMP MACH SPEC, V6, P255. DUDA RO, 1973, PATTERN CLASSIFICATI. ERDOS P, 1960, PUBL MATH I HUNG, V5, P17. FLAKE GW, 2000, P ASS COMP MACH SPEC, V6, P255. GIBSON D, 1998, P HYP 1998 C, V9, P225. GILES CL, 1998, P INT C DIG LIB, V3, P89. HOPCROFT J, 2003, P ASS COMP MACH SPEC, V9, P541. JAIN AK, 1998, ALGORITHMS CLUSTERIN. KESSLER MM, 1963, AM DOC, V14, P10. KLEINBERG JM, 1999, J ACM, V46, P604. NG AY, 2001, P ASS COMP MACH SPEC, V24, P258. NG AY, 2001, P INT JOINT C ART IN, V17, P903. PASULA H, 2003, ADV NEURAL INFORMATI, V15, P1401. POPESCUL A, 2000, ADV DIGITAL LIB ADL, P173. SALTON G, 1989, AUTOMATIC TEXT PROCE. SMALL H, 1973, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V24, P265. SMALL H, 1974, SCI STUD, V4, P17. WATTS D, 2003, 6 DEGREES SCI CONNEC. WATTS DJ, 1998, NATURE, V393, P440. Times Cited: 1 Publisher: NATL ACAD SCIENCES Publisher Address: 2101 CONSTITUTION AVE NW, WASHINGTON, DC 20418 USA ISSN: 0027-8424 Source Item Page Count: 5 ISI Document Delivery No.: 812EO _______________________________________ FULL TEXT AVAILABLE AT : http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/101/suppl_1/5261 E-mail Address: fil at indiana.edu Author(s): Menczer, F Title: Evolution of document networks Source: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 101: 5261-5265 Suppl. 1 APR 6 2004 Language: English Document Type: Article Abstract: How does a network of documents grow without centralized control? This question is becoming crucial as we try to explain the emergent scale-free topology of the World Wide Web and use link analysis to identify important information resources. Existing models of growing information networks have focused on the structure of links but neglected the content of nodes. Here I show that the current models fail to reproduce a critical characteristic of information networks, namely the distribution of textual similarity among linked documents. I propose a more realistic model that generates links by using both popularity and content. This model yields remarkably accurate predictions of both degree and similarity distributions in networks of web pages and scientific literature. Addresses: Indiana Univ, Sch Informat, Bloomington, IN 47408 USA Reprint Address: Menczer, F, Indiana Univ, Sch Informat, Bloomington, IN 47408 USA. Cited References: ADAMIC LA, 2000, SCIENCE, V287, P2115. ALBERT R, 1999, NATURE, V401, P130. ALDOUS D, 2003, ARXIVCONDMAT0304701. BARABASI AL, 1999, SCIENCE, V286, P509. BELEW R, 2000, FINDING OUT COGNITIV. BORNER K, 2003, ANNU REV INFORM SCI, V37, P179. BORNER K, 2004, P NATL ACAD SCI U S1, V101, P5266. BRIN S, 1998, COMPUT NETWORKS ISDN, V30, P107. BRODER A, 2000, COMPUT NETW, V33, P309. COOPER C, 2001, LECT NOTES COMPUTER, V2161, P500. DOROGOVTSEV S, 2003, EVOLUTION NETWORKS B. DOROGOVTSEV SN, 2000, PHYS REV LETT, V85, P4633. FABRIKANT A, 2002, LECT NOTES COMPUT SC, V2380, P110. GANESAN P, 2003, ACM T INFORM SYST, V21, P64. GIRVAN M, 2002, P NATL ACAD SCI USA, V99, P8271. HENZINGER M, 2004, P NATL ACAD SCI U S1, V101, P5186. HOPCROFT J, 2004, P NATL ACAD SCI U S1, V101, P5249. HUBERMAN BA, 1999, NATURE, V401, P131. KLEINBERG J, 1999, LECT NOTES COMPUTER, V1627, P1. KLEINBERG J, 2001, SCIENCE, V294, P1849. KLEINBERG JM, 1999, J ACM, V46, P604. KUMAR S, 2000, P 41 ANN IEEE S FDN, P57. LANDAUER TK, 2004, P NATL ACAD SCI U S1, V101, P5214. MENCZER F, 2002, P NATL ACAD SCI USA, V99, P14014. MENDELZON A, 2000, IEEE DATA ENG B, V23, P9. NEWMAN MEJ, 2004, P NATL ACAD SCI U S1, V101, P5200. PENNOCK DM, 2002, P NATL ACAD SCI USA, V99, P5207. PRICE DJD, 1965, SCIENCE, V149, P510. SALTON G, 1983, INTRO MODERN INFORMA. VAZQUEZ A, 2003, PHYS REV E 2, V67. Times Cited: 2 Publisher: NATL ACAD SCIENCES Publisher Address: 2101 CONSTITUTION AVE NW, WASHINGTON, DC 20418 USA ISSN: 0027-8424 Source Item Page Count: 5 ISI Document Delivery No.: 812EO __________________________________ FULL TEXT AVAILABLE AT : http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/101/suppl_1/5266 E-mail Address: katy at indiana.edu Author(s): Borner, K; Maru, JT; Goldstone, RL Title: The simultaneous evolution of author and paper networks Source: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 101: 5266-5273 Suppl. 1 APR 6 2004 Language: English Document Type: Article Abstract: There has been a long history of research into the structure and evolution of mankind's scientific endeavor. However, recent progress in applying the tools of science to understand science itself has been unprecedented because only recently has there been access to high-volume and high-quality data sets of scientific output (e.g., publications, patents, grants) and computers and algorithms capable of handling this enormous stream of data. This article reviews major work on models that aim to capture and recreate the structure and dynamics of scientific evolution. We then introduce a general process model that simultaneously grows coauthor and paper citation networks. The statistical and dynamic properties of the networks generated by this model are validated against a 20-year data set of articles published in PNAS. Systematic deviations from a power law distribution of citations to papers are well fit by a model that incorporates a partitioning of authors and papers into topics, a bias for authors to cite recent papers, and a tendency for authors to cite papers cited by papers that they have read. In this TARL model (for topics, aging, and recursive linking), the number of topics is linearly related to the clustering coefficient of the simulated paper citation network. Addresses: Indiana Univ, Sch Lib & Informat Sci, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA; Indiana Univ, Dept Comp Sci, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA; Indiana Univ, Dept Psychol, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA Reprint Address: Borner, K, Indiana Univ, Sch Lib & Informat Sci, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA. Cited References: ADAMS J, 1996, P NATL ACAD SCI USA, V93, P12664. ALBERT R, 2000, NATURE, V406, P378. ALBERT R, 2002, REV MOD PHYS, V74, P47. AMARAL LAN, 2000, P NATL ACAD SCI USA, V97, P11149. BANKS DL, 1996, J MATH SOCIOL, V21, P173. BARABASI AL, 1999, SCIENCE, V286, P509. BARABASI AL, 2000, PHYSICA A, V281, P69. BARABASI AL, 2002, PHYSICA A, V311, P590. BATAGELJ V, 1998, CONNECTIONS, V21, P47. BORNER K, 2003, ANNU REV INFORM SCI, V37, P179. DOROGOVTSEV SN, 2002, ADV PHYS, V51, P1079. ERDOS P, 1960, HUNGARIAN ACAD SCI, V5, P17. GARFIELD E, 1964, USE CITATION DATA WR. GARFIELD E, 1989, INNOVATION CROSSROAD. GILBERT N, 2003, SOCIOLOGICAL RES ONL, V2. KLEINBERG J, 1999, LECT NOTES COMPUTER, V1627, P26. MENCZER F, 2004, P NATL ACAD SCI U S1, V101, P5261. MORRIS SA, 2003, J AM SOC INF SCI TEC, V54, P413. NEWMAN MEJ, 2001, P NATL ACAD SCI USA, V98, P404. NEWMAN MEJ, 2001, PHYS REV E 2, V64. NEWMAN MEJ, 2001, PHYS REV E 2, V64. PRICE DJD, 1976, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V27, P292. REDNER S, 1998, EUR PHYS J B, V4, P131. SNIJDERS TAB, 2001, SOCIOL METHODOL, P361. VANRAAN AFJ, 1997, SCIENTOMETRICS, V38, P205. VANRAAN AFJ, 2000, SCIENTOMETRICS, V47, P347. WATTS DJ, 1998, NATURE, V393, P440. WATTS DJ, 1999, SMALL WORLDS DYNAMIC. WHITE HD, 1989, ANNU REV INFORM SCI, V24, P119. WILLINGER W, 2002, P NATL ACAD SCI U S1, V99, P2573. Times Cited: 2 Publisher: NATL ACAD SCIENCES Publisher Address: 2101 CONSTITUTION AVE NW, WASHINGTON, DC 20418 USA ISSN: 0027-8424 Source Item Page Count: 8 ISI Document Delivery No.: 812EO ________________________________ FULL TEXT AVAILABLE AT : http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/101/suppl_1/5291 E-mail Address: samorri at okstate.edu Author(s): Morris, SA; Yen, GG Title: Crossmaps: Visualization of overlapping relationships in collections of journal papers Source: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 101: 5291-5296 Suppl. 1 APR 6 2004 Language: English Document Type: Article Abstract: A crossmapping technique is introduced for visualizing multiple and overlapping relations among entity types in collections of journal articles. Groups of entities from two entity types are crossplotted to show correspondence of relations. For example, author collaboration groups are plotted on the x axis against groups of papers(research fronts)on the y axis. At the intersection of each pair of author group/research front pairs a circular symbol is plotted whose size is proportional to the number of times that authors in the group appear as authors in papers in the research front. Entity groups are found by agglomerative hierarchical clustering using conventional similarity measures. Crossmaps comprise a simple technique that is particularly suited to showing overlap in relations among entity groups. Particularly useful crossmaps are: research fronts against base reference clusters, research fronts against author collaboration groups, and research fronts against term co-occurrence clusters. When exploring the knowledge domain of a collection of journal papers, it is useful to have several crossmaps of different entity pairs, complemented by research front timelines and base reference cluster timelines. Addresses: Oklahoma State Univ, Stillwater, OK 74078 USA Reprint Address: Morris, SA, Oklahoma State Univ, 202 Engn S, Stillwater, OK 74078 USA. Cited References: BORNER K, 2002, ANN REV INFORMATION, V37, P179. BRADFORD SC, 1934, ENGINEERING-LONDON, V137, P85. CALLON M, 1991, SCIENTOMETRICS, V22, P155. CHEN PPS, 1976, ACM T DATABASE SYST, V1, P9. CRANE D, 1972, INVISIBLE COLL DIFFU. GARFIELD E, 1979, CITATION INDEXING IT. KESSLER MM, 1963, AM DOC, V14, P10. KRETSCHMER H, 1997, SCIENTOMETRICS, V40, P579. KUHN TS, 1970, STRUCTURE SCI REVOLU. LOTKA AJ, 1926, J WASHINGTON ACADEMY, V16, P317. MORRIS SA, 2003, J AM SOC INF SCI TEC, V55, P413. MOTHE J, 2003, J AM SOC INF SCI TEC, V54, P650. NARANAN S, 1971, J DOC, V27, P83. PERSSON O, 1994, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V45, P31. SALTON G, 1989, AUTOMATIC TEXT PROCE. SHNEIDERMAN B, 2000, 5 ACM C DIG LIB ASS, P57. SMALL H, 1973, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V24, P265. SMALL H, 1997, SCIENTOMETRICS, V38, P275. SMALL HG, 1978, SOC STUD SCI, V8, P327. SUBRAMANYAM K, 1983, J INFORM SCI, V6, P33. WHITE HD, 1981, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V32, P163. WHITE HD, 1989, ANNU REV INFORM SCI, V24, P119. WHITE HD, 1998, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V49, P327. ZIEGLER E, 2002, P IEEE 6 INT C INF V, P361. ZIPF GK, 1949, HUMAN BEHAV PRINCIPL. Times Cited: 0 Publisher: NATL ACAD SCIENCES Publisher Address: 2101 CONSTITUTION AVE NW, WASHINGTON, DC 20418 USA ISSN: 0027-8424 Source Item Page Count: 6 ISI Document Delivery No.: 812EO ______________________________________________ FULL TEXT AVAILABLE AT : http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/101/suppl_1/5297 E-mail Address: whitehd at drexel.edu Author(s): White, HD; Lin, X; Buzydlowski, JW; Chen, CM Title: User-controlled mapping of significant literatures Source: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 101: 5297-5302 Suppl. 1 APR 6 2004 Language: English Document Type: Article Abstract: We apply a version of our web-based literature-mapping system to PNAS for 1971-2002, as indexed by the National Library of Medicine and the Institute for Scientific Information. Given a single input term from a user, a medical subject heading, a cocited author, or a cocited journal, PNASLINK rapidly displays views in which that term and the other 24 terms that most frequently co-occur with it in a bibliographic database are interrelated in ways suggesting fruitful combinations for document retrieval. The interrelationships are produced by two algorithms, pathfinder networks and Kohonen-style self-organizing maps. PNASLINK displays are themselves interactive interfaces that can retrieve documents from digital libraries (e.g., PNAS Online). This style of visualizing knowledge domains is called "localized" because it does not attempt to map the indexing of literatures in full but concentrates on the top terms in an "associative thesaurus" reflecting user interests. It also permits swift remappings, as the user recognizes terms worth pursuing. PNASLINK is illustrated with maps drawn from the literature of population genetics. Some comparative and evaluative comments are added, one from a domain expert indicating that the face validity of the system may be tempered by insufficient specificity in the indexing terms being mapped. Addresses: Drexel Univ, Coll Informat Sci & Technol, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA Reprint Address: White, HD, Drexel Univ, Coll Informat Sci & Technol, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA. Cited References: BORNER K, 2003, ANNU REV INFORM SCI, V37, P179. BUZYDLOWSKI JW, 2003, LECT NOTES COMPUTER, V2539, P133. BUZYDLOWSKI JW, 2003, THESIS DREXEL U PHIL. CHEN C, 2003, MAPPING SCI FRONTIER. CHEN CM, 1998, J VISUAL LANG COMPUT, V9, P267. CHEN CM, 1999, INFORM PROCESS MANAG, V35, P401. CHEN HC, 1998, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V49, P582. CHEN HC, 2003, J AM SOC INF SCI TEC, V54, P683. DING Y, 2000, INFORM PROCESS MANAG, V37, P817. DODGE M, 2001, ATLAS CYBERSPACE. FOWLER RH, 1990, PATHFINDER ASS NETWO, P165. FOWLER RH, 1991, P 14 ANN INT ACM SIG, P142. FOWLER RH, 1992, NAG9551921 U TEX PAN. HEARST MA, 1999, MODERN INFORMATION R, P257. IBEKWESANJUAN F, 2002, KNOWL ORGAN, V29, P181. JANSEN BJ, 2000, INFORM PROCESS MANAG, V36, P207. KAMADA T, 1989, INFORM PROCESS LETT, V31, P7. KOHONEN T, 1997, SELFORGANIZING MAPS. LIN X, 1991, P 14 ANN INT ACM SIG, P262. LIN X, 2003, INFORM PROCESS MANAG, V39, P689. MCGREEVY MW, 1995, RELATIONAL METRIC IT. ROUSSINOV D, 1998, COMMUN COGNITION, V15, P81. SCHATZ B, 1996, P 1 ACM INT C DIG LI, P126. SCHVANEVELDT RW, 1990, PATHFINDER ASS NETWO. TVERSKY A, 1982, PSYCHOL REV, V89, P123. WHITE HD, 1990, SCHOLARLY COMMUNICAT, P84. WHITE HD, 1997, ANNU REV INFORM SCI, V32, P99. Times Cited: 0 Publisher: NATL ACAD SCIENCES Publisher Address: 2101 CONSTITUTION AVE NW, WASHINGTON, DC 20418 USA ISSN: 0027-8424 Source Item Page Count: 6 ISI Document Delivery No.: 812EO _______________________________________ FULL TEXT AVAILABLE AT : http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/101/suppl_1/5303 E-mail Address: chaomei.chen at cis.drexel.edu Author(s): Chen, CM Title: Searching for intellectual turning points: Progressive knowledge domain visualization Source: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 101: 5303-5310 Suppl. 1 APR 6 2004 anguage: English Document Type: Article Abstract: This article introduces a previously undescribed method progressively visualizing the evolution of a knowledge domain's cocitation network. The method first derives a sequence of cocitation networks from a series of equal-length time interval slices. These time-registered networks are merged and visualized in a panoramic view in such away that intellectually significant articles can be identified based on their visually salient features. The method is applied to a cocitation study of the superstring field in theoretical physics. The study focuses on the search of articles that triggered two superstring revolutions. Visually salient nodes in the panoramic view are identified, and the nature of their intellectual contributions is validated by leading scientists in the field. The analysis has demonstrated that a search for intellectual turning points can be narrowed down to visually salient nodes in the visualized network. The method provides a promising way to simplify otherwise cognitively demanding tasks to a search for landmarks, pivots, and hubs. Addresses: Drexel Univ, Coll Informat Sci & Technol, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA Reprint Address: Chen, CM, Drexel Univ, Coll Informat Sci & Technol, 3141 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA. Cited References: AHLGREN P, 2003, J AM SOC INF SCI TEC, V54, P550. ALBERT R, 2002, REV MOD PHYS, V74, P47. BARABASI AL, 2002, PHYSICA A, V311, P590. BATAGELJ V, 1998, CONNECTIONS, V21, P47. BOOKSTEIN FL, 1989, IEEE T PATTERN ANAL, V11, P567. BRANDES U, 2003, INF VISUAL, V2, P40. CARROLL JD, 1970, PSYCHOMETRIKA, V35, P283. CHEN C, 2003, IEEE S INF VIS INF V, P67. CHEN C, 2003, MAPPING SCI FRONTIER. CHEN CM, 1999, INFORM PROCESS MANAG, V35, P401. CHEN CM, 2001, COMPUTER, V34, P65. CHEN CM, 2001, IEEE T SYST MAN CY C, V31, P518. CHEN CM, 2002, J AM SOC INF SCI TEC, V53, P678. CHEN CM, 2003, J AM SOC INF SCI TEC, V54, P435. DOROGOVTSEV SN, 2000, PHYS REV LETT, V85, P4633. ERTEN C, 2003, TR0304 U AR. GARFIELD E, 1989, INNOVATION CROSSROAD, P51. GOWER JC, 1975, PSYCHOMETRIKA, V40, P33. 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Times Cited: 1 Publisher: NATL ACAD SCIENCES Publisher Address: 2101 CONSTITUTION AVE NW, WASHINGTON, DC 20418 USA ISSN: 0027-8424 Source Item Page Count: 8 ISI Document Delivery No.: 812EO From notsjb at LSU.EDU Tue Aug 3 09:55:07 2004 From: notsjb at LSU.EDU (Stephen J Bensman) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 08:55:07 -0500 Subject: "Average" number of citations? Message-ID: No. I must warn you, though, that impact factor is a very complex measure, and you better study up on it before applying it. There is a lot of controversy surrounding this measure, and, if you are applying it for purposes of evaluating the UIUC faculty, you run the risk of losing your life. Some chemistry professor may jump out from behind a bush and get you. You might want go over to the ROTC building to obtain some training in escape-and-evasion as well as duck-and-roll in case they try a drive-by shooting. However, I do think that the UIUC faculty is too egocentric to do a suicide bombing. I will forward to you something I did for the JASIST on the validity of total citations impact factor as qualilty measure just to show you what you are getting into. Steve B. "Sloan, Bernie" @LISTSERV.UTK.EDU> on 08/02/2004 04:07:52 PM Please respond to ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics Sent by: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU cc: (bcc: Stephen J Bensman/notsjb/LSU) Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] "Average" number of citations? Is there a difference between the JCR located at my library and the JCR available online from ISI? -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Stephen J Bensman Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 3:44 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] "Average" number of citations? Impact factor is basically this measure, and it is in the JCR located at your library. Go talk to a reference librarian. -- SB "Sloan, Bernie" @LISTSERV.UTK.EDU> on 08/02/2004 03:38:11 PM Please respond to ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics Sent by: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU cc: (bcc: Stephen J Bensman/notsjb/LSU) Subject: [SIGMETRICS] "Average" number of citations? This may be a dumb question, but here goes... Is there a way to use Web of Science or Journal Citation Reports to determine the average (mean) number of citations for a given journal title, or for journals within a given subject category? Bernie Sloan Senior Library Information Systems Consultant, ILCSO University of Illinois Office for Planning and Budgeting 616 E. Green Street, Suite 213 Champaign, IL 61820 Phone: (217) 333-4895 Fax: (217) 265-0454 E-mail: bernies at uillinois.edu From geeth.vijay-rao.b at BAYER.COM Tue Aug 3 10:03:39 2004 From: geeth.vijay-rao.b at BAYER.COM (Geeth Vijay-Rao) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 10:03:39 -0400 Subject: Geeth Vijay-Rao/ELK/DIAG/US/BAYER is out of the office. Message-ID: I will be out of the office starting 07/14/2004 and will not return until 08/12/2004. I will respond to your message when I return. From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Aug 3 12:55:03 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 12:55:03 -0400 Subject: Roth RL "Chemistry Journals: Cost-effectiveness, seminal titles and exchange rate profiteering" Science & Technology Libraries 22(3-4):59-70, 2002(published in 2004) Message-ID: Dana L. Roth : dzrlib at library.caltech.edu TITLE : Chemistry Journals: Cost-effectiveness, seminal titles and exchange rate profiteering (Article, English) AUTHOR: D.L. Roth SOURCE: Science & Technology Libraries 22(3-4):59-70, 2002 (published in 2004) Haworth Press Inc. Binghamton Author Address: D.L. Roth, 1200 E. Calif. Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91125 Abstract: The cost-effectiveness of STM journals has been compared within several subject areas, beginning with Henry Barschall's work with the physics literature in the late 1980s. A new use-independent cost-effectiveness metric is proposed and calculated for journals in several chemistry subdisciplines. Publisher and year-of-publication data for seminal journal articles assigned in a graduate-level organic synthesis class are presented. The effects of publisher policies in establishing and enforcing differential subscription prices for European and non-European customers on the rise of journal subscription costs and also on possible exchange-rate profiteering are discussed. From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Aug 3 12:58:57 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 12:58:57 -0400 Subject: Abstract and Cited References for : Roth DL "Chemistry Journals: Cost-effectiveness, seminal titles and exchange rate profiteering " Science & Technology Libraries 22(3-4):59-70, 2002 (2004) Message-ID: Dana L. Roth : dzrlib at library.caltech.edu TITLE : Chemistry Journals: Cost-effectiveness, seminal titles and exchange rate profiteering (Article, English) AUTHOR: D.L. Roth SOURCE: Science & Technology Libraries 22(3-4):59-70, 2002 (published in 2004) Haworth Press Inc. Binghamton Author Address: D.L. Roth, 1200 E. Calif. Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91125 Abstract: The cost-effectiveness of STM journals has been compared within several subject areas, beginning with Henry Barschall's work with the physics literature in the late 1980s. A new use-independent cost-effectiveness metric is proposed and calculated for journals in several chemistry subdisciplines. Publisher and year-of-publication data for seminal journal articles assigned in a graduate-level organic synthesis class are presented. The effects of publisher policies in establishing and enforcing differential subscription prices for European and non-European customers on the rise of journal subscription costs and also on possible exchange-rate profiteering are discussed. Cited References: cited references ... 1a. H.H. Barschall, "The Cost of Physics Journals," Physics Today 39(12) :34-36, December 1986. http://barschall.stanford.edu/ (accessed 2/15/03) 1b. H.H. Barschall, "The Cost-Effectiveness of Physics Journals," Physics Today 41 (7):56-59, July 1988. http://barschall.stanford.edu/ (accessed 2/15/03) 1c. H.H. Barschall, "Cost-Effectiveness of Physics Journals," Physics Today 42 (3):15-16, March 1989. http://barschall.stanford.edu/ (accessed 2/15/03) 2a. M.M. Case, " Measuring the Cost Effectiveness of Journals: The Wisconsin Experience," http://www.arl.org/newsltr/205/wisconsin.html (accessed 2/6/03). 2b. G. Soete, "Measuring the Cost-Effectiveness of Journals: Ten Years After Barschall," http://www.library.wisc.edu/projects/glsdo/cost.html (accessed 2/6/03). This reference includes links to "The Article," as well as data tables for physics, economics and neuroscience. Selected Sources (for other studies) are listed at the end of "The Article." 2c. J.G. Christensen, "Chemistry Journal Costs at One University," Serials Review 18 (3): 19-34, Fall 2000. 2d. K. Rouse, " Chemistry Journal Cost Study," http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/Chemistry/cost.htm (accessed 2/6/03) 2e. K.L. Hahn and L.A. Faulkner, "Evaluative Usage-based Metrics for he Selection of E-journals," College and Research Libraries 63 (3):215-227, May 2002. 3a. R. Poynder, "A True Market Failure: Professor Mark McCabe talks about problems in the STM publishing industry," Information Today 19 (11):1, 56, 58, December 2002. http://www.infotoday.com/it/dec02/poynder.htm (accessed 2/6/03). 3b. M. Cornet and B. Vollard, "Tackling the Journal Crisis," CPB Working Paper 121, March 2000. http://www.cpb.nl/eng/pub/werkdoc/121 (CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, The Hague, The Netherlands) (accessed 2/6/03) 4a. D. Bradley, "Journal Publishers to Police Themselves," Information Today 16(21) October 28, 2002, http://www.the-scientist.com/yr2002/oct/prof2_021028.html (accessed 2/6/03). 4b. Reed-Elsevier Financial Highlights (for the six months ending June 30, 2001) http://www.reedelsevier.com/investors/2001/interim2001.pdf (accessed 2/6/03). 4c. R. Morais, "Double Dutch No longer; Amid a media recession, Crispin Davis is coining money at Reed Elsevier. How did he pull that off?" 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California Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91125 626-395-6423 fax 626-792-7540 dzrlib at library.caltech.edu http://library.caltech.edu/collections/chemistry.htm From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Aug 3 13:34:04 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 13:34:04 -0400 Subject: Aksnes DW. "Characteristics of highly cited papers" RESEARCH EVALUATION 12 (3): 159-170 DEC 2003 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: Dag.W.Aksnes at nifu.no Title: Characteristics of highly cited papers Author(s): Aksnes DW Source: RESEARCH EVALUATION 12 (3): 159-170 DEC 2003 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 29 Times Cited:0 Addresses: Aksnes DW (reprint author), Norwegian Inst Studies Res & Higher Educ, NIFU, Hegdehaugsveien 31, Oslo, NO-0352 Norway Norwegian Inst Studies Res & Higher Educ, NIFU, Oslo, NO-0352 Norway Abstract: Highly cited articles are very different from 'ordinary' cited articles. Typically, they are authored by a large number of scientists, often involving international collaboration. The majority of the papers represent regular journal articles (81%), although review articles (12%) are over-represented compared to the national average. The citation curves of highly cited papers follow a typical pattern of rise and decline. However, different types of citation curves can be identified, reflecting possible differences in the cognitive function of the articles. Highly cited papers typically obtain citations from a large number of different journals and from papers representing both close and remote fields. However, this pattern is not very different from the average distribution for all papers. We discuss how the findings can be explained by introducing a conceptual distinction between quality dynamics and visibility dynamics. Addresses: Aksnes DW (reprint author), Norwegian Inst Studies Res & Higher Educ, NIFU, Hegdehaugsveien 31, Oslo, NO-0352 Norway Norwegian Inst Studies Res & Higher Educ, NIFU, Oslo, NO-0352 Norway EXCERPT SELECTION CRITERIA (p.160) A small scientific nation such as Norway has a rather limited annual production of papers being very highly cited. For that reason alone, we have analysed the scientific production over a longer period of time: the 15-year period 1981-1996. We applied a five-year citation window as basis for our analyses. That is, for an article published in e.g. 1991 we counted the citations to this article in the five-year period 1991-1995. A five-year interval was selected because it is often used in bibliometric analyses and is intermediate with respect to a short- and a long-term citation window. Since the variability of citedness is expected to increase with the size of the citation window, a five-year interval is sufficient long term for a distinct polarisation pattern to occur. By applying such a methodology, articles with a very slow or "delayed" citation growth, may, however, be missed - but such articles are rather unusual. DISCUSSION: (.167-168) In our study we have examined the bibliometric characteristics of articles by Norwegian researchers that are highly cited within their fields.Although limited in scope, the papers analysed represent the very top of a publication set of more than 45,000 publications. Various hypotheses concerning highly cited papers have been examined. We have found that these papers typically are authored by a large number of scientists, often involving international collaboration. The citation curves of the papers generally follow a typical pattern of rise and decline, with a steep decline in citedness five years after publication. Nevertheless, there are large differences in the citation pattern of the individual papers. Although most of the papers are published in high impact journals, there are also papers present in poorly cited journals. The large majority of the highly cited papers represent regular journal articles, although the share of review articles is higher than in the overall national subset. On several issues, our results have confirmed findings of former studies. This suggests that highly cited papers have certain recurrent common characteristics. Still, the question of generality remains uncertain. First our study is based on a particular definition of highly cited. Another definition or set of criteria would give a different sample and thereby partly change the characteristics identified. Second, our analysis is carried out for one nation only -- Norway (although two-thirds of the highly cited articles were co-authored by foreign scientists). Norway is well integrated into the international scientific arena, and Norwegian researchers collaborate extensively with researchers abroad. As a scientific nation Norway is rather small and is among the less R&D intensive countries in the OECD. The country has research activities in a broad range of scientific specialities, but is specialising in research related to its natural resources. Because of the high share of international co-authorship among the highly cited papers and the relatively low percentage of citations from Norwegian authors (also for all papers), we still think the peculiarities of Norway as a research nationl should not be given too much emphasis when interpreting the results. In our study there are several intriguing findings, which allows a further step: explanation of patterns in highly cited papers. In the last part we will discuss how these findings can be explained by introducing a conceptual distinction between quality dynamics and visibility dynamics. Publisher: BEECH TREE PUBLISHING, 10 WATFORD CLOSE,, GUILDFORD GU1 2EP, SURREY, ENGLAND Subject Category: INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE IDS Number: 779LY ISSN: 0958-2029 Cited References : *EUR COMM, 2001, KEY FIG 2001 SPEC ED. AKSNES DW, 2000, SCIENTOMETRICS, V49, P7. AKSNES DW, 2003, SCIENTOMETRICS, V56, P235. AKSNES DW, 2004, IN PRESS SCIENTOMETR. ARUNACHALAM S, 1984, J INFORM SCI, V8, P93. AVERSA ES, 1985, SCIENTOMETRICS, V7, P383. CANO V, 1991, SCIENTOMETRICS, V22, P297. COLE S, 1992, MAKING SCI NATURE SO. COLE S, 2000, WEB KNOWLEDGE FESTSC. CRONIN B, 1984, CITATION PROCESS ROL. GILBERT GN, 1977, SOC STUD SCI, V7, P113. GLANZEL W, 1992, RES EVALUAT, V2, P135. GLANZEL W, 1995, RES EVALUAT, V5, P113. LAWANI SM, 1986, SCIENTOMETRICS, V9, P13. LINE MB, 1984, J INFORM SCI, V9, P90. MACROBERTS MH, 1989, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V40, P342. MARTIN BR, 1983, RES POLICY, V12, P61. MELIN G, 1997, COPRODUCTION SCI KNO. MERTON RK, 1968, SCIENCE, V159, P56. 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"An assessment system for rating scientific journals in the field of ergonomics and human factors" Applied Ergonomics 35(3):301-310 May 2004 Message-ID: E-mail Address: j.dul at fbk.eur.nl Author(s): Dul, J; Karwowski, W Title: An assessment system for rating scientific journals in the field of ergonomics and human factors Source: APPLIED ERGONOMICS, 35 (3): 301-310 MAY 2004 Language: English Document Type: Article Publisher: ELSEVIER SCI LTD Publisher Address: THE BOULEVARD, LANGFORD LANE, KIDLINGTON, OXFORD OX5 1GB, OXON, ENGLAND ISSN: 0003-6870 ISI Document Delivery No.: 826FD Abstract: A method for selecting and rating scientific and professional journals representing the discipline of ergonomics and human factors is proposed. The method is based upon the journal list, impact factors and citations provided by the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI), and the journal list published in the Ergonomics Abstracts. Three groups of journals were distinguished. The,ergonomics journals' focus exclusively on ergonomics and human factors. The 'related journals' focus on other disciplines than ergonomics and human factors, but regularly publish ergonomics/human factors papers. The 'basic journals' focus on other technical, medical or social sciences than ergonomics, but are important for the development of ergonomics/human factors. Journal quality was rated using a maximum of four categories: top quality (A-level), high quality (B-level), good quality (C-level)) and professional (P-level). The above methods were applied to develop the Ergonomics Journal List 2004. A total of 25 'ergonomics journals', 58 'related journals' and 142 'basic journals' were classified. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Addresses: Erasmus Univ, Erasmus Sch Business, Rotterdam Sch Management, Dept Management Technol & Innovat, NL-3000 DR Rotterdam, Netherlands; Univ Louisville, Ctr Ind Ergon, Louisville, KY 40208 USA Reprint Address: Dul, J, Erasmus Univ, Erasmus Sch Business, Rotterdam Sch Management, Dept Management Technol & Innovat, POB 1738,Room F2-59, NL-3000 DR Rotterdam, Netherlands. Cited References: 2003, ERG ABSTR. 2003, ERGOWEB. AMIN M, 2000, PERSPECTIVES PUBLISH, V1, P1. BOYER EL, 1990, SCHOLARSHIP RECONSID. GLASSICK CE, 1997, SCHOLARSHIP ASSESSED. GORIS G, 2003, COMMUNICATION. JOSWICK KE, 1997, COLL RES LIBR, V58, P48. LUCZAK H, 1999, OCCUPATIONAL ERGONOM, P27. MEIER G, 2002, ZEITSCHRIFTENRATING. MORRIS TA, 1998, J AM MED INFORM ASSN, V5, P448. From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Aug 3 14:20:59 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 14:20:59 -0400 Subject: Cao C. "Chinese science and the Nobel Prize complex" MINERVA, 42 (2): 151-172 2004 Message-ID: E-mail Address: eaicaoc at nus.edu.sg Author(s): Cao, C Title: Chinese science and the 'Nobel Prize complex' Source: MINERVA, 42 (2): 151-172 2004 Language: English Document Type: Article Abstract: China's scientists have so far failed to win a Nobel Prize. Political interference, certain aspects of cultural heritage, and a problematic value system have arguably been major contributing factors. This essay examines the ways in which these factors have operated, and discusses why there is a growing 'Nobel Prize mania' in China today. EXCERPT : Furthermore, while there has been a steady increase in the number of international papers published by China's scientists -- China ranked eighth in the Science Citation Index (SCI) in 2001 (Table 1), an improvement from twenty-sixth place in 1984 -- the total number of China's papers in SCI-index journals in 2000 was only one-quarter of Britain's and Japan's, and one-eighth that of the United States. Although scientists at Beijing University published 1105 SCI papers in 2000, this was less than one-eighth of the number produced by scientists at Harvard. The impact Factor associated with journals in which Chinese publish also tends to be lower, and fewer Chinese papers are cited. Indeed, the number of SCI citations of Chinese papers is 0.94, while that of papers by Japanese, Taiwanese, and South Korean scientists are 2.99, 1.45 and 1.24, respectively. Papers that Chinese scientists publish in Science and Nature, and which may well be highly cited, are mainly within the fields of paleontology and geology, and are therefore outside the scope of the Nobel Prize. Addresses: Natl Univ Singapore, E Asian Inst, Singapore 117571, Singapore Reprint Address: Cao, C, Natl Univ Singapore, E Asian Inst, AS5 Level 4,7 Arts Link, Singapore 117571, Singapore. 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Croatian Medical Journal 45(3):344-345 June 2004 Message-ID: FULL TEXT AVAILAABLE AT : http://www.cmj.hr/index.php?D=/45/3/344 Author(s): Fatovic-Ferencic, S Title: On judgment, impact factor and feelings: What can we learn from the impact factor? Source: CROATIAN MEDICAL JOURNAL, 45 (3): 344-345 JUN 2004 Language: English Document Type: Editorial Material Addresses: Croatian Acad Sci & Arts, Dept Hist Med, Div Hist & Philosophy Sci, Zagreb, Croatia Reprint Address: Fatovic-Ferencic, S, Croatian Acad Sci & Arts, Dept Hist Med, Div Hist & Philosophy Sci, Zagreb, Croatia. Cited References: DAVIES J, 2003, NATURE, V421, P210. ERILL S, 2003, LANCET, V362, P1864. GARFIELD E, 1963, AM DOC, V14, P195. GARFIELD E, 2000, CROAT MED J, V41, P368. JELLINEK NJ, 2004, J AM ACAD DERMATOL, V50, P470. KOVACIC N, 2004, CROAT MED J, V45, P13. MOED HF, 1999, SCIENTOMETRICS, V46, P575. Times Cited: 0 Publisher: MEDICINSKA NAKLADA Publisher Address: VLASKA 69, HR-10000 ZAGREB, CROATIA ISSN: 0353-9504 Source Item Page Count: 2 ISI Document Delivery No.: 823JS From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Aug 3 14:55:29 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 14:55:29 -0400 Subject: Paxton P, Bollen KA "Perceived quality and methodology in graduate department ratings: Sociology, political science, and economics" Sociology of Education 76(1):71-88 January 2003 Message-ID: E-mail Address: paxton.36 at osu.edu Author(s): Paxton, P; Bollen, KA Title: Perceived quality and methodology in graduate department ratings: Sociology, political science, and economics Source: SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION, 76 (1): 71-88 JAN 2003 Language: English Document Type: Article Abstract: Graduate department ratings help to shape the power and privilege of a graduate department at its home university, as well as with respect to other departments in its discipline. Ideally, such ratings would reflect the perceived quality of a department. Yet frequent critiques suggest that the ratings fall far short of this ideal. The authors analyzed subjective ratings in three related disciplines-sociology, political science, and economics-and from two rating sources: the National Research Council and U.S. News and World Report. They hypothesized three major components to the ratings: (1) perceived departmental quality, (2) systematic error owing to the method of data collection, and (3) random measurement error. Using structural equation modeling, they found that 20 percent to 30 percent of the variation in ratings derives from systematic error, most of the rest comes from perceived quality, and the smallest component is random measurement error. 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COMMENTARY I FULL TEXT AVAILABLE AT : http://springerlink.metapress.com/media/D48VWNYHQME1HFPUUPVN/Contributions/E/A/6/K/EA6KX972BK1UHXTJ.pdf E-mail: mporta at imim.es Author(s): Porta, M; Fernandez, E; Murillo, J; Alguacil, J; Copete, JL Title: Commentary I - The bibliographic "impact factor", the total number of citations and related bibliometric indicators: the need to focus on journals of public health and preventive medicine Source: SOZIAL-UND PRAVENTIVMEDIZIN, 49 (1): 15-18 2004 Language: English Document Type: Editorial Material Addresses: Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Inst Municipal Invest Med, Clin & Mol Epidemiol Canc Unit, E-08003 Barcelona, Spain Reprint Address: Porta, M, Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Inst Municipal Invest Med, Clin & Mol Epidemiol Canc Unit, Carrer Dr Aiguader 80, E-08003 Barcelona, Spain. Cited References: DECKER O, 2004, SOZ PRAVENTIV MED, V49, P10. GARFIELD E, 1972, SCIENCE, V178, P471. GARFIELD E, 1976, NATURE, V264, P609. JOSEPH KS, 2003, BRIT MED J, V326, P283. MOED HF, 1995, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V46, P461. PORTA M, 1993, REVISIONES SALUD PUB, V3, P313. PORTA M, 1996, J EPIDEMIOL COMMUN H, V50, P606. PORTA M, 2003, BRIT MED J, V326, P931. PORTA M, 2003, IN PRESS CADERNOS SA. SEGLEN PO, 1991, J INTERN MED, V229, P109. SEGLEN PO, 1992, RES EVALUAT, V2, P143. SEGLEN PO, 1997, BRIT MED J, V314, P498. Cited Reference Count: 12 Times Cited: 1 Publisher: BIRKHAUSER VERLAG AG Publisher Address: VIADUKSTRASSE 40-44, PO BOX 133, CH-4010 BASEL, SWITZERLAND ISSN: 0303-8408 Source Item Page Count: 4 ISI Document Delivery No.: 808GC COMMENTARY II FULL TEXT AVAILABLE AT : http://springerlink.metapress.com/media/M1B672MTXM5TUYVNYD9L/Contributions/6/3/0/Y/630YETDHYHX28XLV.pdf E-mail: egger at ispm.unibe.ch Author(s): Zwahlen, M; Junker, C; Egger, M Title: Commentary II - The journal impact factor in the evaluation of research quality: villain, scapegoat or innocent bystander? Source: SOZIAL-UND PRAVENTIVMEDIZIN, 49 (1): 19-22 2004 Language: English Document Type: Editorial Material Addresses: Univ Bern, Dept Social & Prevent Med, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland; Univ Bristol, Dept Social & Prevent Med, Bristol BS8 1TH, Avon, England Reprint Address: Egger, M, Univ Bern, Dept Social & Prevent Med, Finkenhubelweg 11, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland. Cited References: ADAM D, 2002, NATURE, V415, P726. BROOKS TA, 1985, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V36, P223. DECKER O, 2004, SOZ PRAVENTIV MED, V49, P10. EGGER M, 1998, BRIT MED J, V316, P61. EGGER M, 2001, SYSTEMATIC REV HLTH, P23. EGGER M, 2001, SYSTEMATIC REV HLTH, P43. FLANDERS WD, 1989, AM J PUBLIC HEALTH, V79, P1301. GARFIELD E, 1972, SCIENCE, V178, P471. GARFIELD E, 1984, ESSAYS INFORMATION S, P354. GARFIELD E, 1996, BRIT MED J, V313, P411. GRANADOS JAT, 1997, J CLIN EPIDEMIOL, V50, P891. JUNI P, 2002, INT J EPIDEMIOL, V31, P155. LAST JM, 2001, DICT EPIDEMIOLOGY. LEE KP, 2002, JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC, V287, P2805. SCHUBERT A, 1996, SCIENTOMETRICS, V36, P311. SEGLEN PO, 1992, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V43, P628. SEGLEN PO, 1997, BRIT MED J, V314, P497. TOMLINSON S, 2000, BRIT MED J, V320, P636. Cited Reference Count: 18 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: BIRKHAUSER VERLAG AG Publisher Address: VIADUKSTRASSE 40-44, PO BOX 133, CH-4010 BASEL, SWITZERLAND ISSN: 0303-8408 Source Item Page Count: 4 ISI Document Delivery No.: 808GC COMMENTARY III FULL TEXT AVAILABLE AT : http://springerlink.metapress.com/media/3AA8LWYUQG4UKDHUKGUR/Contributions/W/1/P/J/W1PJU1R08DK8GV7M.pdf E-mail: kaltenbo at med.uni-marburg.de Author(s): Kaltenborn, KF Title: Commentary III - Validity and fairness of the impact factor - a comment on the article by Decker et al. Source: SOZIAL-UND PRAVENTIVMEDIZIN, 49 (1): 23-24 2004 Language: English Document Type: Editorial Material Addresses: Univ Marburg, Inst Med Informat, Med Ctr Methodol & Hlth Res, D-35037 Marburg, Germany Reprint Address: Kaltenborn, KF, Univ Marburg, Inst Med Informat, Med Ctr Methodol & Hlth Res, Bunsenstr 3, D-35037 Marburg, Germany. Cited References: DECKER O, 2004, SOZ PRAVENTIV MED, V49, P10. GIESSLER A, 2000, DEUT MED WOCHENSCHR, V125, P979. JANSZ MCN, 2000, SCIENTOMETRICS, V47, P253. KALTENBORN KF, 2002, QUALITATSMANAGEMENT, P1. LANGENBECK U, 1998, MED GENETIK, V10, P504. LEWISON G, 2000, WEB KNOWLEDGE FESTSC, P361. LEWISON G, 2002, SCIENTOMETRICS, V53, P229. RASPE H, 1999, MED KLIN, V94, P702. SEGLEN PO, 1997, BRIT MED J, V314, P498. Cited Reference Count: 9 Times Cited: 1 Publisher: BIRKHAUSER VERLAG AG Publisher Address: VIADUKSTRASSE 40-44, PO BOX 133, CH-4010 BASEL, SWITZERLAND ISSN: 0303-8408 Source Item Page Count: 2 ISI Document Delivery No.: 808GC COMMENTARY IV FULL TEXT AVAILABLE AT : http://springerlink.metapress.com/media/F016900L4DCRVHFB1Q0V/Contributions/N/2/Y/1/N2Y15AM35C87B16M.pdf E-mail: ulrich.stoessel at medsoz.uni-freiburg.de Author(s): von Troschke, J; Stossel, U Title: Commentary IV - New horizons for impact discussions needed Source: SOZIAL-UND PRAVENTIVMEDIZIN, 49 (1): 25-26 2004 Language: English Document Type: Editorial Material Addresses: Univ Freiburg, Med Soziol Abt, Fak Med, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany Reprint Address: Stossel, U, Univ Freiburg, Med Soziol Abt, Fak Med, Hebelstr 29, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany. Cited Reference Count: 0 Times Cited: 1 Publisher: BIRKHAUSER VERLAG AG Publisher Address: VIADUKSTRASSE 40-44, PO BOX 133, CH-4010 BASEL, SWITZERLAND ISSN: 0303-8408 Source Item Page Count: 2 ISI Document Delivery No.: 808GC From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Aug 3 15:38:42 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 15:38:42 -0400 Subject: Decker, O; Beutel, ME; Brahler, E "Deep impact - evaluation in the sciences" SOZIAL-UND PRAVENTIVMEDIZIN, 49 (1): 10-14 2004 Message-ID: FULL TEXT AVAILABLE AT : http://springerlink.metapress.com/media/5GQNVHWQUFF317HP9G7T/Contributions/5/G/J/R/5GJRBK5LD1GBQWHV.pdf E-mail: brae at medizin.uni-leipzig.de Author(s): Decker, O; Beutel, ME; Brahler, E Title: Deep impact - evaluation in the sciences Source: SOZIAL-UND PRAVENTIVMEDIZIN, 49 (1): 10-14 2004 Language: English Document Type: Editorial Material Abstract: The purpose of the paper is to evaluate the psychometric properties of the impact factor as an assessment procedure. Detailed criteria regarding theoretical underpinnings, test administration, scoring and interpretation are applied. The impact factor appears to be of limited use for deciding which journals to subscribe. It is not suitable for evaluating achievements of individual scientists and research groups. The impact factor contains serious sources of errors and flaws resulting in strong biases against culture- and language-bound medical subspecialties and non-Anglo-American countries. Possible alternatives are discussed. Addresses: Univ Leipzig, Sch Med, Dept Med Psychol & Med Sociol, D-7010 Leipzig, Germany; Univ Giessen, Sch Med, Dept Psychosomat & Psychotherapy, Giessen, Germany; Univ Leipzig, Sch Med, Dept Med Psychol & Med Sociol, D-7010 Leipzig, Germany Reprint Address: Brahler, E, Univ Klinikum Leipzig, Stephanstr 11, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany. Cited References: ADAM D, 2002, NATURE, V415, P726. ADAMS J, 1998, NATURE, V396, P615. BONITZ M, 2002, WISSENSCHAFT INNOVAT, P85. BRAHLER E, 2001, PSYCHE, V54, P1245. BRAHLER E, 2002, J DTSCH GESELLSCHAFT, V14, P9. DECKER O, 2001, PSYCHOTHER PSYCH MED, V51, P288. DECKER O, 2001, Z KLIN PSYCHOL PSYCH, V49, P235. FROMTER E, 1999, DEUT MED WOCHENSCHR, V124, P910. GARFIELD E, 1985, CURRENT CONTENT 1010, P3. KOTIAHO JS, 1999, NATURE, V400, P307. KRELL FT, 2002, NATURE, V415, P957. MASOOD E, 1997, NATURE, V387, P537. MERTON RK, 1968, SCIENCE, V159, P56. MOED HF, 2002, NATURE, V415, P731. SCHUMACHER J, 1997, PRAXIS PSYCHOTHERAPI, P47. SEGLEN PO, 1997, BRIT MED J, V314, P497. Cited Reference Count: 16 Times Cited: 4 Publisher: BIRKHAUSER VERLAG AG Publisher Address: VIADUKSTRASSE 40-44, PO BOX 133, CH-4010 BASEL, SWITZERLAND ISSN: 0303-8408 Source Item Page Count: 5 ISI Document Delivery No.: 808GC From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Aug 3 17:02:22 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Garfield, Eugene) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 17:02:22 -0400 Subject: "Average" number of citations? Message-ID: The JCR is published every year, but in two different formats. Unless you give the year of the JCR you are using it is difficult to answer your question. The product is described at http://www.isinet.com/products/evaltools/jcr/ Formats & Delivery Options Web-via JCR? on the Web; published annually in the summer following the year of coverage CD-ROM-via JCR? on CD-ROM; published annually in the summer following the year of coverage; networking options available It used to be published on microfiche and before that for over a decade in print as the last volume of the SCI or SSCI. Gene Garfield __________________________________________________ Eugene Garfield, PhD. email: garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu home page: www.eugenegarfield.org Tel: 215-243-2205 Fax 215-387-1266 -----Original Message----- From: Sloan, Bernie [mailto:bernies at UILLINOIS.EDU] Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 5:08 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] "Average" number of citations? Is there a difference between the JCR located at my library and the JCR available online from ISI? -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Stephen J Bensman Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 3:44 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] "Average" number of citations? Impact factor is basically this measure, and it is in the JCR located at your library. Go talk to a reference librarian. -- SB "Sloan, Bernie" @LISTSERV.UTK.EDU> on 08/02/2004 03:38:11 PM Please respond to ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics Sent by: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU cc: (bcc: Stephen J Bensman/notsjb/LSU) Subject: [SIGMETRICS] "Average" number of citations? This may be a dumb question, but here goes... Is there a way to use Web of Science or Journal Citation Reports to determine the average (mean) number of citations for a given journal title, or for journals within a given subject category? Bernie Sloan Senior Library Information Systems Consultant, ILCSO University of Illinois Office for Planning and Budgeting 616 E. Green Street, Suite 213 Champaign, IL 61820 Phone: (217) 333-4895 Fax: (217) 265-0454 E-mail: bernies at uillinois.edu ________________________________________________________________________ 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 pamelabossom at YAHOO.COM Tue Aug 3 19:23:39 2004 From: pamelabossom at YAHOO.COM (Pamela Bossom) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 16:23:39 -0700 Subject: Abstract and Cited References for : Roth DL "Chemistry Journals: Cost-effectiveness, seminal titles and exchange rate profiteering " Science & Technology Libraries 22(3-4):59-70, 2002 (2004) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Can you please remove me from this e-mail listing? My thanks. Pam __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail From subbiah_a at YAHOO.COM Wed Aug 4 00:11:19 2004 From: subbiah_a at YAHOO.COM (=?iso-8859-1?q?Subbiah=20Arunachalam?=) Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 05:11:19 +0100 Subject: An editorial on open archives Message-ID: Friends: The following editorial in The Hindu (a leading Indian newspaper with its headquarters in Chennai) of 3 August2004 supports open archives. Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam] FOR ACCESS TO SCIENCE PUBLICATIONS IN JULY, THE movement for `open access' got an important boost when the Appropriations Committee of the United States' House of Representatives and the Science & Technology Committee of the United Kingdom's House of Commons recommended measures that would help make scientific journal publications available more freely online. Scientists are judged by their research output. Each year they publish more than a million papers in approximately 16,000 science, technology and medical journals put out by more than 2,000 publishers worldwide. Commercial publishers have a dominant presence, with Reed Elsevier having a 28 per cent market share. There has been a growing feeling that neither the public, which pays for much of the science that is published, nor the scientists, who receive no payment either for their papers or for carrying out the `peer review' that ensures that quality is maintained in journals, benefit by limiting access to the papers through journal subscriptions. Not only are journals expensive; there is mounting criticism that journal costs have been rising exorbitantly. The Commons' S&T Committee noted that commercial scientific journal publishers enjoyed "substantially higher" profit margins than the academic, educational and professional publishing sector as a whole. And this was happening at a time libraries were obliged to cut down on journal subscriptions in order to keep within budgets. The problem is particularly acute for scientific institutions in developing countries such as India. Another issue that has been raised is that the larger public has little access to the scientific research that their tax money makes possible. The limitations of the `subscriber pays' system has led some to attempt an `author pays' model for scientific journals. BioMed Central, which was established in 2001, has now over 100 journals in biology and medicine. [Public Library of Science] PLoS Biology, launched in October 2003, has the ambition of joining the front ranks of scientific journals; PLoS Medicine is to be launched soon. Prominent public and private research sponsors such as the Wellcome Trust in the U.K., the Max Planck Society in Germany, and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France, have announced their support for such a system of open access. But `author pays' publishing currently accounts for merely five per cent of the total journal market. The Commons' S & T Committee recommended that another alternative needs to be explored and supported - storing published work electronically in institutional archives. Just a month before the Committee published its report, Elsevier announced that scientists publishing in its journals would be allowed to post the final text of their articles on a personal or institutional website. Over 80 per cent of the journal publishers allow such archiving. The House Appropriations Committee suggested that copies of articles published from research supported by the National Institutes of Health be deposited within six months of publication in PubMed Central, a free digital archive of life science literature. The Commons' Committee recommended that "all U.K. higher education institutions establish institutional repositories on which their published output can be stored and from which it can be read, free of charge, online"; and that "Research Councils and other Government funders mandate their funded researchers to deposit a copy of all of their articles in this way." It is an idea that India - where research is overwhelmingly supported by the Government - must adopt with conviction and enthusiasm. The software for such archiving is available free of cost and has been used to establish an e-print archive at the Indian Institute of Science. Not only must more such institutional repositories be established; scientists need to take the lead in ensuring that their papers are suitably archived. ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Wed Aug 4 08:21:49 2004 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 13:21:49 +0100 Subject: Editorial in The Hindu on Free Access to science Publications In-Reply-To: <014BE5562FB3D511BA7A00508BCC23D46FF5BC@swami.mssrf.res.in> Message-ID: Arun, A splendid article (though it dwells a bit too long on the journal affordability problem, which is not what the UK and US recommended mandates pertain to, and this hence diverts attention from the *costs* -- in research usage, impact, productivity and progress -- of *not* having OA, and the demonstrated *benefits* of providing that OA through the self-archiving whose mandating is being recommended). It also calls for scientists "to take the lead in ensuring that their papers are suitably archived" but it does not connect this with the actual recommendation of the two Committees, which is that their universities and research-funders should *mandate* that their scientists self-archive! (Clearly many of the scientists themselves would hardly even publish if publishing were not mandated and they were instead simply asked "to take the lead in ensuring that their papers are suitably published." A publish-or-perish condition on funding was needed there, and it is needed with self-archiving too! And that is precisely what the two Committees recommended. So the message needs to be: "Research institutions and funders: in order to maximise the impact of your research output, implement the UK and US recommendations by mandating that that output is not only published, but also made OA through self-archiving!") Never mind. This is still the best journal article I have yet seen on the outcome! Cheers, Stevan On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Subbiah Arunachalam wrote: > Friends: > > The following editorial in The Hindu (a leading Indian newspaper with its > headquarters in Chennai) of 3 August2004 supports open archives. > > Arun > [Subbiah Arunachalam] > > > FOR ACCESS TO SCIENCE PUBLICATIONS > > IN JULY, THE movement for `open access' got an important boost when the > Appropriations Committee of the United States' House of Representatives > and the Science & Technology Committee of the United Kingdom's House of > Commons recommended measures that would help make scientific journal > publications available more freely online. Scientists are judged by > their research output. Each year they publish more than a million papers > in approximately 16,000 science, technology and medical journals put out > by more than 2,000 publishers worldwide. Commercial publishers have a > dominant presence, with Reed Elsevier having a 28 per cent market share. > There has been a growing feeling that neither the public, which pays for > much of the science that is published, nor the scientists, who receive > no payment either for their papers or for carrying out the `peer review' > that ensures that quality is maintained in journals, benefit by limiting > access to the papers through journal subscriptions. Not only are > journals expensive; there is mounting criticism that journal costs have > been rising exorbitantly. The Commons' S&T Committee noted that > commercial scientific journal publishers enjoyed "substantially higher" > profit margins than the academic, educational and professional > publishing sector as a whole. And this was happening at a time libraries > were obliged to cut down on journal subscriptions in order to keep > within budgets. The problem is particularly acute for scientific > institutions in developing countries such as India. Another issue that > has been raised is that the larger public has little access to the > scientific research that their tax money makes possible. > The limitations of the `subscriber pays' system has led some to attempt > an `author pays' model for scientific journals. BioMed Central, which > was established in 2001, has now over 100 journals in biology and > medicine. [Public Library of Science] PLoS Biology, launched in October > 2003, has the ambition of joining the front ranks of scientific > journals; PLoS Medicine is to be launched soon. Prominent public and > private research sponsors such as the Wellcome Trust in the U.K., the > Max Planck Society in Germany, and the Centre National de la Recherche > Scientifique (CNRS) in France, have announced their support for such a > system of open access. But `author pays' publishing currently accounts > for merely five per cent of the total journal market. The Commons' S & T > Committee recommended that another alternative needs to be explored and > supported - storing published work electronically in institutional > archives. Just a month before the Committee published its report, > Elsevier announced that scientists publishing in its journals would be > allowed to post the final text of their articles on a personal or > institutional website. Over 80 per cent of the journal publishers allow > such archiving. The House Appropriations Committee suggested that copies > of articles published from research supported by the National Institutes > of Health be deposited within six months of publication in PubMed > Central, a free digital archive of life science literature. > The Commons' Committee recommended that "all U.K. higher education > institutions establish institutional repositories on which their > published output can be stored and from which it can be read, free of > charge, online"; and that "Research Councils and other Government > funders mandate their funded researchers to deposit a copy of all of > their articles in this way." It is an idea that India - where research > is overwhelmingly supported by the Government - must adopt with > conviction and enthusiasm. The software for such archiving is available > free of cost and has been used to establish an e-print archive at the > Indian Institute of Science. Not only must more such institutional > repositories be established; scientists need to take the lead in > ensuring that their papers are suitably archived. > > > From e.fernandez-polcuch at UNESCO.ORG Wed Aug 4 11:18:07 2004 From: e.fernandez-polcuch at UNESCO.ORG (Fernandez Polcuch Ernesto) Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 11:18:07 -0400 Subject: Editorial in The Hindu on Free Access to science Publications Message-ID: Stevan, Arun, This shows again the different perspectives on a similar problem coming from developed and developing countries. Coming from Argentina, I can understand that while OA is in very important in contexts such as the UK or US for reasons much different than the *cost*, in many developing countries it can be a matter of survival, and much more due to the cost factor than to others. As soon as OA is generalized world-wide, it will give researchers from developing countries real tools for conducting their research (this is, access to up-to-date science, which is not always given!), and at the same time obtaining higher international visibility. As for scientists vs. universities taking the lead, it is difficult to imagine some under funded universities trying to enforce such things as OA, when they cannot enforce most of their other bylaws. Therefore, as in many other situations, it is the scientific community that will have to take the lead in OA by showing how important this is for themselves (ourselves) and their (our) science. Cheers Ernesto -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu]On Behalf Of Stevan Harnad Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 8:22 AM To: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Editorial in The Hindu on Free Access to science Publications Arun, A splendid article (though it dwells a bit too long on the journal affordability problem, which is not what the UK and US recommended mandates pertain to, and this hence diverts attention from the *costs* -- in research usage, impact, productivity and progress -- of *not* having OA, and the demonstrated *benefits* of providing that OA through the self-archiving whose mandating is being recommended). It also calls for scientists "to take the lead in ensuring that their papers are suitably archived" but it does not connect this with the actual recommendation of the two Committees, which is that their universities and research-funders should *mandate* that their scientists self-archive! (Clearly many of the scientists themselves would hardly even publish if publishing were not mandated and they were instead simply asked "to take the lead in ensuring that their papers are suitably published." A publish-or-perish condition on funding was needed there, and it is needed with self-archiving too! And that is precisely what the two Committees recommended. So the message needs to be: "Research institutions and funders: in order to maximise the impact of your research output, implement the UK and US recommendations by mandating that that output is not only published, but also made OA through self-archiving!") Never mind. This is still the best journal article I have yet seen on the outcome! Cheers, Stevan On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Subbiah Arunachalam wrote: > Friends: > > The following editorial in The Hindu (a leading Indian newspaper with its > headquarters in Chennai) of 3 August2004 supports open archives. > > Arun > [Subbiah Arunachalam] > > > FOR ACCESS TO SCIENCE PUBLICATIONS > > IN JULY, THE movement for `open access' got an important boost when the > Appropriations Committee of the United States' House of Representatives > and the Science & Technology Committee of the United Kingdom's House of > Commons recommended measures that would help make scientific journal > publications available more freely online. Scientists are judged by > their research output. Each year they publish more than a million papers > in approximately 16,000 science, technology and medical journals put out > by more than 2,000 publishers worldwide. Commercial publishers have a > dominant presence, with Reed Elsevier having a 28 per cent market share. > There has been a growing feeling that neither the public, which pays for > much of the science that is published, nor the scientists, who receive > no payment either for their papers or for carrying out the `peer review' > that ensures that quality is maintained in journals, benefit by limiting > access to the papers through journal subscriptions. Not only are > journals expensive; there is mounting criticism that journal costs have > been rising exorbitantly. The Commons' S&T Committee noted that > commercial scientific journal publishers enjoyed "substantially higher" > profit margins than the academic, educational and professional > publishing sector as a whole. And this was happening at a time libraries > were obliged to cut down on journal subscriptions in order to keep > within budgets. The problem is particularly acute for scientific > institutions in developing countries such as India. Another issue that > has been raised is that the larger public has little access to the > scientific research that their tax money makes possible. > The limitations of the `subscriber pays' system has led some to attempt > an `author pays' model for scientific journals. BioMed Central, which > was established in 2001, has now over 100 journals in biology and > medicine. [Public Library of Science] PLoS Biology, launched in October > 2003, has the ambition of joining the front ranks of scientific > journals; PLoS Medicine is to be launched soon. Prominent public and > private research sponsors such as the Wellcome Trust in the U.K., the > Max Planck Society in Germany, and the Centre National de la Recherche > Scientifique (CNRS) in France, have announced their support for such a > system of open access. But `author pays' publishing currently accounts > for merely five per cent of the total journal market. The Commons' S & T > Committee recommended that another alternative needs to be explored and > supported - storing published work electronically in institutional > archives. Just a month before the Committee published its report, > Elsevier announced that scientists publishing in its journals would be > allowed to post the final text of their articles on a personal or > institutional website. Over 80 per cent of the journal publishers allow > such archiving. The House Appropriations Committee suggested that copies > of articles published from research supported by the National Institutes > of Health be deposited within six months of publication in PubMed > Central, a free digital archive of life science literature. > The Commons' Committee recommended that "all U.K. higher education > institutions establish institutional repositories on which their > published output can be stored and from which it can be read, free of > charge, online"; and that "Research Councils and other Government > funders mandate their funded researchers to deposit a copy of all of > their articles in this way." It is an idea that India - where research > is overwhelmingly supported by the Government - must adopt with > conviction and enthusiasm. The software for such archiving is available > free of cost and has been used to establish an e-print archive at the > Indian Institute of Science. Not only must more such institutional > repositories be established; scientists need to take the lead in > ensuring that their papers are suitably archived. > > > From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Aug 4 12:35:28 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Garfield, Eugene) Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 12:35:28 -0400 Subject: comparing web links to citation analysis is fallacious http://www .miislita.com/searchito/business-scene.html Message-ID: http://www.miislita.com/searchito/business-scene.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- 05-13-GOOGLE- #1 Google Employee: Is PageRank Dead? Ask Craig Silverstein and he will dismiss the whole issue with a royal dumb statement a-la-Donald-Rumsfeld "The point of view that PageRank is dead is kind of a very static view of the world." Oh, really? Bah! The fact is that (a) the Web is a dynamical system, (b) the PageRank metric was full of fallacies from the start ("users never click back", "this metric is nearly impossible to deceive", "a link is a vote of importance", "users behaviors can be modeled as a random walker", "the probability a user visits a page is its PageRank", etc), and (c) SEOs and bloggers have proved that their metric is easy to deceive. As we have mentioned for the last two years, PageRank has been the biggest theoretical blunder from Stanford DB. With regards to links as votes, read Mi Islita.com's 05-07 post. The common analogy in the sense that "a link is a vote of importance" similar to literature citation, is just a fallacy. Equating link popularity or links in general to citation analysis is preposterous and a shame. Anyone familiar with Dr Eugene Garfield's Citation Analysis Theory knows that citation analysis is driven by peer-review examination, editorial policies and topic-specific categorized publications. On the Web, where anyone can say almost anything at any time, or add, remove and update links at will (or do keyword spamming in links, pay for link advertisement or trade links) peer review is almost absent. The shear volume of links on the Web is driven by commercial interests. Period. The marketing analogy used by Google and SEO/SEM firms with vested interests in the sense that "a link is a vote of importance" is just that, a mere marketing line with no mathematical basis. The fact that unethical bloggers and others have been able to "bomb" Google and unethical SEOs are still gaming Google confirms the obvious. Yes. We do feel sorry for Stanford DB theoretical patch makers and the Craigs of the World. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- 05-07-GOOGLE - IT Researchers: "PageRank is a Broken Model" Two years after Mi Islita.com pointed out the many fallacies of the PageRank metric, here and also here, IT researchers are now agreeing in one thing: PageRank is a broken model. Back in 2002, we pointed out the obvious but many "seo/sem" experts from UK to USA to elsewhere preferred to attack our grammar (or "grammer"?) and play with their now useless "pagerank calculators". The very same "experts" are now crying foul. Duh! As for the common analogy in the sense that "a link is a vote of citation importance" similar to literature citation, this is also a fallacy. Equating link popularity or links in general to citation analysis is preposterous and a shame. Anyone familiar with Dr Eugene Garfield's Citation Analysis Theory and ICI knows that citation analysis is driven by peer-review examination, editorial policies and topic-specific categorized publications. On the web, where anyone can say almost anything at any time, or add, remove and update links at will (or do keyword spamming in links, pay for link advertisement or trade links) peer review is almost absent;links are mostly driven by commercial interests. Thus the marketing analogy used by SEO/SEM firms with vested interests in the sense that "a link is a vote of importance" is just that, a mere marketing line with no mathematical basis. The fact that unethical bloggers and others have been able to "bomb" Google and unethical SEOs are still gaming Google confirms the obvious. We feel sorry for Stanford DB theoretical patch makers. R.I.P. (Note. This post, updated on 05-09) ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ From bernies at UILLINOIS.EDU Wed Aug 4 17:07:35 2004 From: bernies at UILLINOIS.EDU (Sloan, Bernie) Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 16:07:35 -0500 Subject: Are citations to unpublished papers a form of peer review? Message-ID: In checking the status of some of my publications in the ISI citation indices, I've run across something that's piqued my curiosity. I have a brief essay on the Web where I discuss looking at Web links (in addition to citations in the ISI indices) as a way of viewing the impact/influence of publications. I've always considered the essay to be more or less a rough draft of my thoughts at the time...a record of my thoughts that I could expand later. I was poking around in the Web of Science the other day and was surprised to see that this rough draft Web essay has been cited five times (twice in Online Information Review, and once each in JASIST, Journal of Information Science, and College & Research Libraries). This started me thinking...could citations to unpublished papers ("unpublished" in a more traditional sense) be considered a form of peer review? I'm thinking "peer review" in the sense that citations from peer-reviewed documents to unpublished, non-peer-reviewed documents on the Web might constitute some sort of validation of the unpublished documents? Has anyone done any research in this area? Bernie Sloan Senior Library Information Systems Consultant, ILCSO University of Illinois Office for Planning and Budgeting 616 E. Green Street, Suite 213 Champaign, IL 61820 Phone: (217) 333-4895 Fax: (217) 265-0454 E-mail: bernies at uillinois.edu From jni at DB.DK Thu Aug 5 02:28:55 2004 From: jni at DB.DK (Nicolaisen Jeppe) Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 08:28:55 +0200 Subject: SV: [SIGMETRICS] comparing web links to citation analysis is fall acious http://www .miislita.com/searchito/business-scene.html Message-ID: -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Garfield, Eugene [mailto:garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU] Sendt: 4. august 2004 18:35 Til: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu Emne: [SIGMETRICS] comparing web links to citation analysis is fallacious http://www .miislita.com/searchito/business-scene.html http://www.miislita.com/searchito/business-scene.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- 05-13-GOOGLE- #1 Google Employee: Is PageRank Dead? Ask Craig Silverstein and he will dismiss the whole issue with a royal dumb statement a-la-Donald-Rumsfeld "The point of view that PageRank is dead is kind of a very static view of the world." Oh, really? Bah! The fact is that (a) the Web is a dynamical system, (b) the PageRank metric was full of fallacies from the start ("users never click back", "this metric is nearly impossible to deceive", "a link is a vote of importance", "users behaviors can be modeled as a random walker", "the probability a user visits a page is its PageRank", etc), and (c) SEOs and bloggers have proved that their metric is easy to deceive. As we have mentioned for the last two years, PageRank has been the biggest theoretical blunder from Stanford DB. With regards to links as votes, read Mi Islita.com's 05-07 post. The common analogy in the sense that "a link is a vote of importance" similar to literature citation, is just a fallacy. Equating link popularity or links in general to citation analysis is preposterous and a shame. Anyone familiar with Dr Eugene Garfield's Citation Analysis Theory knows that citation analysis is driven by peer-review examination, editorial policies and topic-specific categorized publications. On the Web, where anyone can say almost anything at any time, or add, remove and update links at will (or do keyword spamming in links, pay for link advertisement or trade links) peer review is almost absent. The shear volume of links on the Web is driven by commercial interests. Period. The marketing analogy used by Google and SEO/SEM firms with vested interests in the sense that "a link is a vote of importance" is just that, a mere marketing line with no mathematical basis. The fact that unethical bloggers and others have been able to "bomb" Google and unethical SEOs are still gaming Google confirms the obvious. Yes. We do feel sorry for Stanford DB theoretical patch makers and the Craigs of the World. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- 05-07-GOOGLE - IT Researchers: "PageRank is a Broken Model" Two years after Mi Islita.com pointed out the many fallacies of the PageRank metric, here and also here, IT researchers are now agreeing in one thing: PageRank is a broken model. Back in 2002, we pointed out the obvious but many "seo/sem" experts from UK to USA to elsewhere preferred to attack our grammar (or "grammer"?) and play with their now useless "pagerank calculators". The very same "experts" are now crying foul. Duh! As for the common analogy in the sense that "a link is a vote of citation importance" similar to literature citation, this is also a fallacy. Equating link popularity or links in general to citation analysis is preposterous and a shame. Anyone familiar with Dr Eugene Garfield's Citation Analysis Theory and ICI knows that citation analysis is driven by peer-review examination, editorial policies and topic-specific categorized publications. On the web, where anyone can say almost anything at any time, or add, remove and update links at will (or do keyword spamming in links, pay for link advertisement or trade links) peer review is almost absent;links are mostly driven by commercial interests. Thus the marketing analogy used by SEO/SEM firms with vested interests in the sense that "a link is a vote of importance" is just that, a mere marketing line with no mathematical basis. The fact that unethical bloggers and others have been able to "bomb" Google and unethical SEOs are still gaming Google confirms the obvious. We feel sorry for Stanford DB theoretical patch makers. R.I.P. (Note. This post, updated on 05-09) ______________________________________________________________________ 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 Sun Aug 8 23:19:31 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Garfield, Eugene) Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 23:19:31 -0400 Subject: FW: Google News Alert - citation analysis Message-ID: Journal of Nuclear Medicine Vol. 45 No. 8 1273 ? 2004 by Society of Nuclear Medicine Comments and Perspectives Heinrich R. Schelbert, MD, PhD, Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Nuclear Medicine The growing recognition of JNM has been especially rewarding. The science edition of the Thomson ISI Journal Citation Reports for 2003 lists an impact factor of 4.899 for JNM, so that it now ranks third among 83 journals on radiology, nuclear medicine, or medical imaging. This achievement under the stewardship of my predecessor, Dr. Martin Sandler, represents the challenge of, but even more so an incentive for, guiding the journal through the coming years. ______________________________________________________________________ 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 Mon Aug 9 17:34:20 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 17:34:20 -0400 Subject: Monev V. "Introduction to similarity searching in chemistry" MATCH-COMMUNICATIONS IN MATHEMATICAL AND IN COMPUTER CHEMISTRY, (51): 7-38 APR 2004 Message-ID: E-mail Address: vmonev at orgchm.bas.bg Reprints in pdf format are available on request from the author The author has cited a paper by Eugene Garfield.... "Reaction Similarity and Retrieval" Current Contents #5, p.3-5, January 30, 1995. The url for this paper has changed. The correct url is : http://www.isinet.com/essays/chemicalliterature/15.html/ Author(s): Monev, V Title: Introduction to similarity searching in chemistry Source: MATCH-COMMUNICATIONS IN MATHEMATICAL AND IN COMPUTER CHEMISTRY, (51): 7-38 APR 2004 Abstract: The similarity concept and its database implementation - similarity searching, are overviewed in the context of chemoinformatics. Similarity is defined in terms of matches/overlap, dissimilarity in terms of mismatches/difference, for qualitative/quantitative characteristics. Similarity, dissimilarity and composite measures are constructed from similarity or/and dissimilarity components. Asymmetric measures are constructed by unequal weighting of dissimilarity components. Whole objects or local regions of them are compared, yielding global or local similarity. Asymmetric local similarity is obtained by treating the objects in the comparison unequally, e.g. by ignoring parts of them. Global characteristics provide overall descriptions of objects, local characteristics provide sufficient locational information for object alignment/superposition to be effected. Similar objects are likely to have similar properties - similar property principle. In chemical similarity searching, molecules, fragments of molecules, reactions, mixtures, journal articles, etc. are selected as objects of interest. The selection of characteristics and their encoding is illustrated using the atom pair and topological torsion descriptors, as well as their variants of increased fuzziness. Similarity measure selection is still very much a matter of trial and error. Standard query object specification is made easier by using query by example, multiple searches using a single query yield a highly informative hyperlinked screen, and joint queries involve more than one object. Similarity scores illustrate results from similarity searches and measures of their effectiveness. Areas of application include direct and reverse property prediction, data mining, virtual screening, diversity analysis, pharmacophore searching, ligand docking, structure elucidation, pattern matching, and signature analysis. Addresses: Bulgarian Acad Sci, Inst Organ Chem, BU-1113 Sofia, Bulgaria Reprint Address: Monev, V, Bulgarian Acad Sci, Inst Organ Chem, BU-1113 Sofia, Bulgaria. Cited References: 2001, SPSS REFERENCE MANUA. *FT T, 2003, 9 INT C FUZZ THEOR T. *MDDR, 2002, MOL DES DRUG DAT REP. AMAT L, 2001, J CHEM INF COMP SCI, V41, P978. BILGIC T, 1999, HDB FUZZY SETS SYSTE, V1, P195. BRADSHAW J, 1997, INTRO TVERSKY SIMILA. BRADSHAW J, 2001, EUROMUG01. 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WILLETT P, 1998, ENCY COMPUTATIONAL C, P2748. WILLIAMS A, 2000, CURR OPIN DRUG DISC, V3, P298. Cited Reference Count: 70 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: UNIV BAYREUTH, DEPT MATHEMATICS Publisher Address: C/O PROF DR A KERBER, D-95440 BAYREUTH, GERMANY ISSN: 0340-6253 29-char Source Abbrev.: MATCH-COMMUN MATH COMPUT CHEM ISO Source Abbrev.: Match-Commun. Math. Cmput. Chem. Source Item Page Count: 32 Subject Category: CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY; COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS; MATHEMATICS, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS ISI Document Delivery No.: 833JD From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Aug 10 15:10:30 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 15:10:30 -0400 Subject: Scientometrics 60(1) pp1-120 May 2004 Dedicated to Robert K. Merton Message-ID: This issue of Scientometrics is dedicated to Robert K. Merton Scientometrics 60(1): 1-120, May 2004 The following articles appear in this issue: E-mail Address: snizek at vt.edu Author(s): Snizek, WE Title: A view from sociology Source: SCIENTOMETRICS, 60 (1): 11-12 2004 Addresses: Virginia Tech, Coll Liberal Arts & Human Sci, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA Reprint Address: Snizek, WE, Virginia Tech, Coll Liberal Arts & Human Sci, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA. Times Cited: 0 Publisher: KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL Publisher Address: VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 0138-9130 Source Item Page Count: 2 ISI Document Delivery No.: 819TE _________________________________________ E-mail Address: kate.mccain at cis.drexel.edu Author(s): McCain, K Title: A view from information science Source: SCIENTOMETRICS, 60 (1): 12-18 2004 Addresses: Drexel Univ, Coll Informat Sci & Technol, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA Reprint Address: McCain, K, Drexel Univ, Coll Informat Sci & Technol, 3141 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA. Cited References: BONITZ M, 1995, SCIENTOMETRICS, V34, R3. BRICKLEY P, 2003, SCI DAILY NEWS 0225. WHITE HD, 1982, J DOC, V38, P255. WHITE HD, 1998, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V49, P327. WHITE HD, 2003, J AM SOC INF SCI TEC, V54, P423. Times Cited: 0 Publisher: KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL Publisher Address: VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 0138-9130 Source Item Page Count: 7 ISI Document Delivery No.: 819TE _________________________________________ E-mail Address: bonitz at fz-rossendorf.de Author(s): Bonitz, M Title: Self-emancipation proclamation and a light-hearted but nevertheless deeply-felt exception Source: SCIENTOMETRICS, 60 (1): 19-24 2004 Reprint Address: Bonitz, M, Halbkreisstr 17, D-01187 Dresden, Germany. Cited References: BONITZ M, 1995, SCIENTOMETRICS, V34, R3. BONITZ M, 2003, SCIENTOMETRICS, V57, P151. SCHARNHORST A, COMMUNICATION. Times Cited: 0 Publisher: KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL Publisher Address: VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 0138-9130 ISI Document Delivery No.: 819TE ____________________________________________ E-mail Address: cbrown at ou.edu Author(s): Brown, C Title: The Matthew effect of the Annual Reviews series and the flow of scientific communication through the World Wide Web Source: SCIENTOMETRICS, 60 (1): 25-36 2004 Abstract: Authors of the well-regarded Annual Reviews series incorporate URLs to in the text, figures, tables, and reference sections of their articles. Despite the lack of peer review, the number of pointers to scientific information on the World Wide Web in the biomedical and physical science reviews increased five fold between 1997 and 2001. However, only 34% and 76% of the URLs from 1997 and 2001, respectively, remain viable in 2003. This is disconcerting as the stability of the highly cited Annual Reviews series is integral to the flow of scientific information. In fact, the citation rate for the URL containing Annual Reviews articles was found to be less than half that observed for all the review articles analyzed. Taken together these data suggest that the viability of web information may influence the citation rate of authors who have previously basked in the halo of R.K. Merton's Matt hew Effect. Addresses: Univ Oklahoma, Sch Lib & Informat Studies, Norman, OK 73019 USA Reprint Address: Brown, C, Univ Oklahoma, Sch Lib & Informat Studies, 401 W Brooks,Room 120, Norman, OK 73019 USA. Cited References: 2003, ANN REV. *I SCI INF, 2003, J CIT REP. *I SCI INF, 2003, WEB SCI. AVERSA ES, 1985, SCIENTOMETRICS, V7, P383. BROWN C, 2001, J AM SOC INF SCI TEC, V52, P187. BROWN C, 2003, J AM SOC INF SCI TEC, V54, P362. BROWN C, 2003, J AM SOC INF SCI TEC, V54, P926. BROWN CM, 2001, ISSUES SCI TECHNOLOG, V31. GUTTMACHER AE, 2001, ANNR EV GENOMICS HUM, P213. HILGARTNER S, 1995, SCI COMMUN, V17, P240. HURD JM, 1992, P ASIS ANNU MEET, V29, P136. KING DW, 1982, PHYSICS TODAY OCT, P44. MCCAIN KW, 2000, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V51, P1321. MERTON RK, 1968, SCIENCE, V159, P56. MOED HF, 1998, J DOC, V54, P387. TSAY MY, 1999, J DOC, V55, P543. WALLACE DP, 1986, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V37, P136. WARR WA, 2003, J CHEM INF COMP SCI, V43, P362. WEINBERG RA, 1993, RESPONSIBLE SCI ENSU, V2, P66. YOUNGEN GK, 1998, COLL RES LIBR, V59, P448. Times Cited: 0 Publisher: KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL Publisher Address: VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 0138-9130 ISI Document Delivery No.: 819TE _________________________________________ E-mail Address: jrc5 at columbia.edu Author(s): Cole, JR Title: Robert K. Merton, 1910-2003 Source: SCIENTOMETRICS, 60 (1): 37-40 2004 Addresses: Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA Reprint Address: Cole, JR, Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA. Times Cited: 0 Publisher: KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL Publisher Address: VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 0138-9130 Source Item Page Count: 4 ISI Document Delivery No.: 819TE ____________________________________________ E-mail Address: bcronin at indiana.edu Author(s): Cronin, B Title: Normative shaping of scientific practice: The magic of Merton Source: SCIENTOMETRICS, 60 (1): 41-46 2004 Addresses: Indiana Univ, Sch Lib & Informat Sci, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA Reprint Address: Cronin, B, Indiana Univ, Sch Lib & Informat Sci, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA. Cited References: BALDI S, 1998, AM SOCIOL REV, V63, P829. CRONIN B, 1984, CITATION PROCESS ROL. CRONIN B, 1995, SCHOLARS COURTESY RO. CRONIN B, 2002, SCIENTOMETRICS, V54, P31. FRANCK G, 1999, SCIENCE, V286, P53. LEYDESDORFF L, 1998, SCIENTOMETRICS, V43, P5. MERTON RK, 1965, SHOULDERS GIANTS SHA. MERTON RK, 1976, SOCIOLOGY SCI THEORE. MERTON RK, 1979, CITATION INDEXING IT, R7. MERTON RK, 2000, WEB KNOWLEDGE FESTSC, P435. MERTON RK, 2004, TRAVELS ADVENTURES S. MITROFF II, 1974, AM SOCIOL REV, V39, P579. RYLE G, 1949, CONCEPT MIND. VANHOUSE N, 2003, ANN REV INFORMATION, V38, P3. WHITE HD, 1990, SCHOLARLY COMMUNICAT, P84. WHITE HD, 1998, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V49, P327. Times Cited: 0 Publisher: KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL Publisher Address: VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 0138-9130 ISI Document Delivery No.: 819TE ___________________________ E-mail Address: mary.fox at hts.gatech.edu Author(s): Fox, MF Title: R.K. Merton - Life time of influence Source: SCIENTOMETRICS, 60 (1): 47-50 2004 Abstract: In this article, "Life time of influence" refers to Robert K. Merton's impact broadly, and emblematically, to his influence upon my work. The article discusses 1) the scope and influence of Merton's ideas about social structure and explanations of social processes; 2) his vast scholarship establishing the study of science as a social institution, with implications for theory and research; and 3) his fostering of the social study of science through immense published work, and through impact upon an inter-generational network of scholars. Addresses: Georgia Inst Technol, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA Reprint Address: Fox, MF, Georgia Inst Technol, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA. Cited References: ADLER F, 1995, LEGACY ANOMIE THEORY. FOX MF, 1981, SOCIOL EDUC, V54, P71. FOX MF, 1999, HDB SOCIOLOGY GENDER, P441. HUNT M, 1961, NEW YORKER 0628, V36, P39. LONG JS, 1995, ANNU REV SOCIOL, V21, P45. MERTON RK, 1938, AM SOCIOL REV, V3, P672. MERTON RK, 1949, SOCIAL THEORY SOCIAL. MERTON RK, 1957, AM SOCIOL REV, V22, P635. MERTON RK, 1968, SCIENCE, V159, P56. MERTON RK, 1973, SOCIOL SCI, P371. MERTON RK, 1988, ISIS, V79, P607. Times Cited: 0 Publisher: KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL Publisher Address: VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 0138-9130 Source Item Page Count: 4 ISI Document Delivery No.: 819TE ________________________________ E-mail Address: garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu Author(s): Garfield, E Title: The intended consequences of Robert K. Merton Source: SCIENTOMETRICS, 60 (1): 51-61 2004 Addresses: Inst Sci Informat, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA Reprint Address: Garfield, E, Inst Sci Informat, 3501 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA. Cited References: 1976, INT CLASSIFICATION, V3, P35. BERNAL JD, 1939, SOCIAL FUNCTION SCI. BRAUN T, 2001, ANAL CHEM, V73, A667. COLE FJ, 1917, SCI PROGR, V11, P578. COLE JR, 1975, IDEA SOCIAL STRUCTUR, P139. FAIRFIELD RP, 1982, CHRON HIGHER EDUC, P24. FOSTER A, 2003, J DOC, V59, P321. GARFIELD E, IN PRESS SOCIAL STUD. GARFIELD E, 1967, J CHEM DOCUMENTATION, V7, L147. GARFIELD E, 1974, CURRENT CONTENT 0213, P5. GARFIELD E, 1977, CURR CONTENTS, P5. 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NALIMOV VV, 1969, NAUKOMETNRIYA IZUCHE. OTLET P, 1934, TRAITE DOCUMENTATION. PRICE DD, 1976, INT FORUM INFORMATIO, V1, P17. PRICE DJD, 1961, SCI BABYLON. PRICE DJD, 1963, LITTLE SCI BIG SCI. PRICE DJD, 1976, INT FORUM INFORMATIO, V1, P19. PRICE DJD, 1986, LITTLE SCI BIG SCI. PRITCHARD A, 1969, J DOC, V25, P348. ROUSSEAU R, TIMELINE BIBLIOMETRI. SMITH JF, 1964, CHEM ENG NEWS, V42, P55. THACKRAY A, 1978, METRIC SCI ADVENT SC, P11. WHITE HD, 1997, ANNU REV INFORM SCI, V32, P99. ZUCKERMAN H, 1971, MINERVA, V9, P66. Times Cited: 0 Publisher: KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL Publisher Address: VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 0138-9130 ISI Document Delivery No.: 819TE __________________________________ E-mail Address: hargens at u.washington.edu Author(s): Hargens, LL Title: What is Mertonian sociology of science? Source: SCIENTOMETRICS, 60 (1): 63-70 2004 Abstract: In order to investigate the nature of Merton's contribution to the sociology of science, I examine how his work has been cited by groups of authors who are highly co-cited with Merton. The groups differ substantially both in terms of which of Merton's publications they cite,and how they cite them. This implies that subsequent scholars have found Merton's sociology of science work valuable for many different reasons. This pattern is probably true for Merton's sociological oeuvre as a whole, and suggests that scholarly preeminence in the social sciences consists of making contributions that many different groups of scholars judge to be useful in justifying the importance of their own research. Addresses: Univ Washington, Dept Sociol, Seattle, WA 98195 USA Reprint Address: Hargens, LL, Univ Washington, Dept Sociol, Seattle, WA 98195 USA. Cited References: BAZERMAN C, 1988, SHAPING WRITTEN KNOW, P278. BENDAVID J, 1971, SCI ROLE SOC. COLE JR, 1973, SOCIAL STRATIFICATIO. COLLINS HM, 1983, ANNU REV SOCIOL, V9, P267. CRANE D, 1972, INVISIBLE COLL DIFFU. CRONIN B, 1984, CITATION PROCESS. GARFIELD E, 1979, CITATION INDEXING IT, R14. GARVEY WD, 1979, COMMUNICATION ESSENC. GIERYN TF, 1982, SOC STUD SCI, V12, P279. HAGSTROMW O, 1965, SCI COMMUNITY. KUHN TS, 1970, STRUCTURE SCI REVOLU, P176. KUHN TS, 1977, ESSENTIAL TENSION, P115. LATOUR B, LAB LIFE SOCIAL CONS, P24. LATOUR B, SCI ACTION FOLLOW SC, P263. LATOUR B, 2000, BRIT J SOCIOL, V51, P111. LIN X, 2003, INFORM PROCESS MANAG, V39, P689. LONG JS, 1995, ANNU REV SOCIOL, V21, P45. MACROBERTS MH, 1996, SCIENTOMETRICS, V36, P439. MCMILLIAN GS, 2000, RES POLICY, V29, P3. MERTON RK, 1938, OSIRIS STUDIES HIST. MERTON RK, 1945, 20 CENTURY SOCIOLOGY. MERTON RK, 1957, AM SOCIOL REV, V22, P635. MERTON RK, 1961, P AM PHILOS SOC, V105, P483. MERTON RK, 2000, WEB KNOWLEDGE FESTSC. MERTONR K, 1973, SOCIOLOGY SCI THEORE. PRICE DJD, 1986, LITTLE SCI BIG SCI. SHAPIN S, 1988, ISIS, V79, P594. SHAPIN S, 1995, ANNU REV SOCIOL, V21, P295. SHAPIN S, 1996, SCI REVOLUTION. SMALL HG, 1978, SOC STUD SCI, V8, P327. STIGLER S, 1999, STAT TABLE, P277. ZUCKERMAN H, 1971, MINERVA, V9, P66. ZUCKERMAN H, 1972, AGING SOC, V3. ZUCKERMAN H, 1977, SCI ELITE NOBEL LAUR. Times Cited: 0 Publisher: KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL Publisher Address: VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 0138-9130 ISI Document Delivery No.: 819TE __________________________________ E-mail Address: henry.small at thomson.com Author(s): Small, H Title: On the shoulders of Robert Merton: Towards a normative theory of citation Source: SCIENTOMETRICS, 60 (1): 71-79 2004 Abstract: In a series of seminal studies Robert K. Merton created a coherent theoretical view of the social system of science that includes the salient features of the formal publication system, thereby providing a theoretical basis for scientometrics and citationology. A fundamental precept of this system is the view of citations as symbolic payment of intellectual debts. When this concept is merged with a complementary theory of the conceptual symbolism of citations, the possibility for a rapprochement of the normative and constructivist theories is achieved, where the dual function of citations as vehicles of peer recognition and constructed symbols for specific original achievements in science is realized. This new synthesis is embodied in a citation classification system,the citation cube, with dimensions of normative compliance, symbolic consensus, and disinterestedness (self-citation). Addresses: Thomson ISI, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA Reprint Address: Small, H, Thomson ISI, 3501 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA. Cited References: BALDI S, 1998, AM SOCIOL REV, V63, P829. BIAGIOLI M, 2003, SCI AUTHORSHIP CREDI. COLE JR, 1973, SOC STRATIFICATION S. COZZENS SE, 1988, KNOWLEDGE CREATION D, V9, P511. CRANE D, 1976, AM BEHAV SCI, V19, P719. CRONIN B, 2000, J DOC, V56, P440. GARFIELD E, 1998, SCIENTOMETRICS, V43, P69. GRIFFITH BC, 1997, PHYS TODAY, V50, P11. KAPLAN N, 1965, AM DOC, V16, P179. LATOUR B, 1987, SCI ACTION. MERTON RK, 1942, J LEGAL POLITICAL SO, V1, P115. MERTON RK, 1957, AM SOCIOL REV, V22, P635. MERTON RK, 1961, P AM PHILOS SOC, V105, P470. MERTON RK, 1963, EUR J SOCIOL, V4, P237. MERTON RK, 1963, EUR J SOCIOL, V4, P250. MERTON RK, 1968, SCIENCE, V159, P56. MERTON RK, 1969, AM SCI, V58, P1. MERTON RK, 1977, SOCIOLOGY SCI EPISOD. MERTON RK, 1979, CITATION INDEXING IT. MERTON RK, 1988, ISIS, V79, P606. MERTONR K, 1965, SHOULDERS GIANTS SHA. MORAVCSIK MJ, 1975, SOC STUD SCI, V5, P86. PALEVITZ BA, 1997, SCIENTIST, V11, P8. PRICE DJD, 1965, SCIENCE, V149, P510. SMALL H, 1974, SCI STUD, V4, P17. SMALL H, 1984, SELECTIVITY INFORMAT, P83. SMALL H, 2003, AM SOC INFORMATION S, V54, P394. SMALL HG, 1978, SOC STUD SCI, V8, P327. STENT GS, 1972, SCI AM, V227, P84. Times Cited: 0 Publisher: KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL Publisher Address: VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 0138-9130 ISI Document Delivery No.: 819TE __________________________________ E-mail Address: pstephan at gsu.edu Author(s): Stephan, PE Title: Robert K. Merton's perspective on priority and the provision of the public good knowledge Source: SCIENTOMETRICS, 60 (1): 81-87 2004 Abstract: This essay examines Robert K. Merton's perspective on how priority relates to the provision of the public good knowledge. Economists have long been interested in the provision of the class of goods that are referred to as "public." By definition, public goods are not used up when consumed and are goods from which it is difficult to exclude potential users. The provision of public goods presents special challenges to the market that do not exist in the provision of private goods. Scientific research has properties of a public good. Merton recognized the public nature of science. In this he was not alone. The genius of Merton is that he not only recognized that science has properties of a public good but stood the public-private distinction on its head, proposing that the reward structure of science, based on priority, functioned to make a public good private. In economic terms,Merton recognized that it is the public nature of knowledge that facilitates establishing the idea as the private property of the scientist. Addresses: Georgia State Univ, Andrew Young Sch Policy Studies, Dept Econ, Atlanta, GA 30303 USA Reprint Address: Stephan, PE, Georgia State Univ, Andrew Young Sch Policy Studies, Dept Econ, Atlanta, GA 30303 USA. Cited References: ARROW KJ, 1962, RATE DIRECTION INVEN, P609. ARROW KJ, 1987, ARROW ASCENT MODERN, P685. CALLON M, 1994, SCI TECHNOL HUM VAL, V19, P395. COASE RH, 1974, J LAW ECON, V17, P357. DASGUPTA P, 1987, ARROW ASCENT MODERN, P519. DASGUPTA P, 1987, ECON J, V97, P581. FRANK RH, 1995, WINNER TAKE ALL SOC. HARDIN G, 1968, SCIENCE, V162, P1243. JEFFERSON T, 1967, JEFFERSON CYCLOPEDIA, V1. JOHNSON HG, 1972, MIENRVA, V10, P10. MERTON RK, 1957, AM SOCIOL REV, V22, P635. MERTON RK, 1961, P AM PHILOS SOC, V105, P470. MERTON RK, 1968, SCIENCE, V159, P56. MERTON RK, 1969, AM SCI, V57, P1. MERTON RK, 1988, ISIS, V79, P606. MILL JS, 1921, PRINCIPLES POLITICAL. MUSGRAVE R, 1969, PUBLIC EC, P124. MUSGRAVE RA, 1987, HDB PUBLIC EC, V1, P1. OAKLAND WH, 1987, HDB PUBLIC EC, V2, P485. SAMUELSON PA, 1955, REV ECON STAT, V37, P350. SMITH A, 2004, INQUIRY WEALTH NATIO. STEPHAN PE, 1996, J ECON LIT, V34, P1199. STEPHAN PE, 1996, SMALL BUS ECON, V8, P177. Times Cited: 0 Publisher: KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL Publisher Address: VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 0138-9130 Source Item Page Count: 7 ISI Document Delivery No.: 819TE _________________________________ E-mail Address: stigler at galton.uchicago.edu Author(s): Stigler, SM Title: Robert K. Merton: Memorial Source: SCIENTOMETRICS, 60 (1): 89-92 2004 Addresses: Univ Chicago, Dept Stat, Chicago, IL 60637 USA Reprint Address: Stigler, SM, Univ Chicago, Dept Stat, Chicago, IL 60637 USA. Cited References: MERTON RK, PUBLICATION LIST. Times Cited: 0 Publisher: KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL Publisher Address: VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 0138-9130 Source Item Page Count: 4 ISI Document Delivery No.: 819TE __________________________________________________ E-mail Address: whitehd at drexel.edu Author(s): White, HD Title: Reward, persuasion, and the Sokal Hoax: A study in citation identities Source: SCIENTOMETRICS, 60 (1): 93-120 2004 Abstract: A citation identity is a list of an author's citees ranked by how frequently that author has cited them in publications covered by the Institute for Scientific Information. The same Dialog software that creates identities can simultaneously show the overall citation counts of citees,which indicate their reputations. Using identities for 28 authors in several disciplines of science and scholarship, I show that the reputational counts of their citees always have an approximately log-normal distribution:citations to very famous names are roughly balanced by citations to obscure ones, and most citations go to authors of middling reputation. These results undercut claims by constructivists that the main function of citation is to marshal "big-name" support for arguments at the expense of crediting lesser-known figures. The results are better explained by Robert K. Merton's norm of universalism, which holds that citers are rewarding use of relevant intellectual property, than by the constructivists' particularism, which holds that citers are trying to persuade through manipulative rhetoric. A universalistic citation pattern appears even in Alan Sokal's famous hoax article, where some of his citing was deliberately particularistic. In fact, Sokal's basic adherence to universalism probably helped his hoax succeed, which suggests the strength of the Mertonian norm. In specimen cases, the constructivists themselves are shown as conforming to it. Addresses: Drexel Univ, Coll Informat Sci & Technol, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA Reprint Address: White, HD, Drexel Univ, Coll Informat Sci & Technol, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA. Cited References: *LING FRANC, 2000, SOK HOAX SHAM SHOOK. BALDI S, 1998, AM SOCIOL REV, V63, P829. BLOOR D, 1976, KNOWLEDGE SOCIAL IMA. BROOKS TA, 1985, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V36, P223. BROOKS TA, 1986, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V37, P34. BROWN JR, 2001, WHO RULES SCI OPINIO. COLE JR, 1973, SOCIAL STRATIFICATIO. COLE S, 1992, MAKING SCI NATURE SO. COZZENS SE, 1989, SCIENTOMETRICS, V15, P437. CRONIN B, 2002, SCIENTOMETRICS, V54, P31. EDGE D, 1979, HIST SCI, V17, P103. GARFIELD E, 2003, J AM SOC INF SCI TEC, V54, P400. GIERYN T, 2003, SOCIOLOGY SCI. GILBERT GN, 1977, SOC STUD SCI, V7, P113. GRIFFITH BC, 1990, SCHOLARLY COMMUNICAT, P31. HAGSTROM WO, 1965, SCI COMMUNITY. HESS DJ, 1997, SCI STUDIES ADV INTR. HOERMAN HL, 1995, LIBR QUART, V65, P415. KAPLAN N, 1965, AM DOC, V16, P179. KNORRCETINA K, 1981, MANUFACTURE KNOWLEDG. LANGHAM T, 1995, J DOC, V51, P360. LATOUR B, 1979, LAB LIFE SOCIAL CONS. LATOUR B, 1987, SCI ACTION FOLLOW SC. LAW J, 1982, SOC STUD SCI, V12, P535. LIU MX, 1993, J DOC, V49, P370. LLOYD C, 1997, SALON. LUUKKONEN T, 1990, THESIS U TAMPERE TAM. LUUKKONEN T, 1997, SCIENTOMETRICS, V38, P27. MACROBERTS MH, 1987, SCIENTOMETRICS, V12, P293. MACROBERTS MH, 1987, SCIENTOMETRICS, V12, P293. MACROBERTS MH, 1996, SCIENTOMETRICS, V36, P435. MCINNES RG, 1988, COLL RES LIB, V12, P240. MERTON RK, 1942, J LEGAL POLITICAL SO, V1, P115. MERTON RK, 1957, AM SOCIOL REV, V22, P635. MERTON RK, 1968, SCIENCE, V159, P56. MERTON RK, 1988, ISIS, V79, P606. MERTONR K, 1979, CITATION INDEXING IT, R5. MITROFF II, 1974, SUBJECTIVE SIDE SCI. NICOLAISEN J, 2003, P AM SOC INFORM SCI, V40, P12. PAGLIA C, 1999, SALON. POTTER J, 1996, REPRESENTING REALITY. SOKAL A, 1996, SOCIAL TEXT, V46, P217. SOKAL A, 1998, FASHIONABLE NONSENSE. STORER NW, 1966, SOCIAL SYSTEM SCI. THORNE FC, 1977, J CLIN PSYCHOL, V33, P1157. WHITE HD, 1998, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V49, P327. WHITE HD, 2000, WEB KNOWLEDGE FESTSC, P475. WHITE HD, 2001, J AM SOC INF SCI TEC, V52, P87. WHITE HD, 2001, SCIENTOMETRICS, V51, P607. WHITE HD, 2003, J AM SOC INF SCI TEC, V54, P423. WHITE HD, 2004, APPL LINGUIST, V25, P89. WILLIS E, 1996, SOKAL HOAX SHAM SHOO, P133. WOOLGAR S, 1988, SCI VERY IDEA. ZUCKERMAN H, 1987, SCIENTOMETRICS, V12, P329. ZUCKERMAN H, 1988, HDB SOCIOLOGY, P511. Times Cited: 0 Publisher: KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL Publisher Address: VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 0138-9130 ISI Document Delivery No.: 819TE From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Aug 10 15:20:32 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 15:20:32 -0400 Subject: Fedunok S. "Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society 225:U560-U560 069-CINF Part 1, March 2003 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: suzanne.fedunok at nyu.edu Title: Citation linking - How important is it? Author(s): Fedunok S Source: ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 225: U560-U560 069-CINF Part 1, MAR 2003 Document Type: Meeting Abstract Language: English Cited References: 0 Times Cited: 0 Addresses: NYU, Bobst Lib, New York, NY 10012 USA Publisher: AMER CHEMICAL SOC, 1155 16TH ST, NW, WASHINGTON, DC 20036 USA Subject Category: CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY IDS Number: 761PU ISSN: 0065-7727 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Aug 10 15:27:21 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 15:27:21 -0400 Subject: Nosaka M "An analysis of the selection criteria of the Brandon/Hill list: for the establishment of evaluation criteria for medical journals in medical libraries" LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE (48). 2002. p.25-41 Message-ID: E-mail Address: mie at tokyo-med.ac.jp TITLE: An analysis of the selection criteria of the Brandon/Hill list: for the establishment of evaluation criteria for medical journals in medical libraries(Article, English) AUTHOR: Nosaka, M SOURCE: LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE (48). 2002. p.25-41 MITA SOC LIBRARY INFORMATION SCIENCE, TOKYO SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; JOURNALS item_title; GARFIELD E BRIT MED J 313:411 1996 KEYWORDS+: BOOKS ABSTRACT: This paper examines whether journals covered by the Brandon/Hill List (B/H List journals) could be sorted out by specific evaluation items based on data that can be obtained publicly. Suppose B/H List journals were positioned in the higher rank by specific evaluation items or combinations of items, then B/H List journals could be predicted to some extent using the evaluation items. That is, it would enable us to guess the selection criteria of the B/H List based on those evaluation items. Although it would not be possible to know the real criteria, reasonable equivalents to the selection criteria of the B/H List could be attained using those evaluation items. Impact factor, cited number, citing number, number of articles, cited number/citing number rate, first-publication year, price, price per issue, number of libraries archiving the journal were used as the evaluation items. Data concerning these items were gained from public information resources. Cardiovascular system, internal medicine, and surgery were determined as sample fields from 46 fields of the B/H List 2001 edition. Journals from each field were selected from the journal list of the 2000 edition of Journal Citation Reports on CD-ROM Science edition (JCR). There were 63 cardiovascular journals (7 were B/H list journals), 94 were internal medicine (14 were B/H list journals), and 132 were surgery journals (7 were B/H list journals). In the evaluation items scamined in this study, it became clear that "number of libraries archiving the journal" and "impact factor" can sort out the B/H List journals to some extent. However, B/H List journals were not completely sorted out by the evaluation items used in this research. This result suggests the need for seasoning with the additional factors such as experience, the intuition and other personal knowledge of the librarian, which cannot be expressed as an objective numerical value, to create journal selection criteria. AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Nosaka, Tokyo Med Univ Lib, Shinjuku Ku, Nishi Shinjuku 6-7-1, Tokyo 1600023, Japan Cited References: 1995, LIB INFORMATION SCI, V33, P39. *STATS INC, 1996, STATISTICA, P3056. ALLYN R, 1973, ANN INTERN MED, V79, P293. BLECIC DD, 1999, B MED LIBR ASSOC, V87, P178. BRANDON A, 1967, B MED LIB ASS, V55, P141. BRANDON A, 1969, B MED LIB ASS, V57, P130. BRANDON A, 1991, B MED LIB ASS, V79, P204. BRANDON AN, 1965, B MED LIB ASS, V53, P329. BRANDON AN, 1971, B MED LIB ASS, V59, P266. BRANDON AN, 1973, B MED LIB ASS, V61, P179. BRANDON AN, 1975, B MED LIBR ASSOC, V63, P149. BRANDON AN, 1977, B MED LIB ASS, V65, P191. BRANDON AN, 1979, B MED LIBR ASSOC, V67, P185. BRANDON AN, 1981, B MED LIB ASS, V69, P185. BRANDON AN, 1983, B MED LIBR ASSOC, V71, P147. BRANDON AN, 1985, B MED LIBR ASSOC, V73, P176. BRANDON AN, 1987, B MED LIBR ASSOC, V75, P133. BRANDON AN, 1989, B MED LIBR ASSOC, V77, P139. BRANDON AN, 1993, B MED LIBR ASSOC, V81, P141. BRANDON AN, 1995, B MED LIBR ASSOC, V83, P151. BRANDON AN, 1997, B MED LIBR ASSOC, V85, P111. GARFIELD E, 1990, CURRENT CONTENT 0528, P5. GARFIELD E, 1996, BRIT MED J, V313, P411. GROSS PLK, 1927, SCIENCE, V66, P385. HILL DR, 1999, B MED LIBR ASSOC, V87, P145. HILL DR, 2001, B MED LIBR ASSOC, V89, P131. NARIN F, 1976, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V27, P25. PAOLA F, 1995, J MED ETHICS, V21, P84. STEGMANN J, 2000, J CITATION REPO 0715. Times Cited: 0 Publisher: MITA SOC LIBRARY INFORMATION SCIENCE Publisher Address: KEIO UNIV 2-15-45 MITA, SCHOOL LIBRARY INFO SCIENCE, MINATO-KU, TOKYO, 108-8345, JAPAN ISSN: 0373-4447 Source Item Page Count: 17 ISI Document Delivery No.: 834RW From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Aug 10 15:35:55 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 15:35:55 -0400 Subject: Hogenboom, K. "Has government information on the Internet affected citation patterns? A case study of population studies journals" JOURNAL OF GOVERNMENT INFORMATION, 29 (6): 392-401 NOV-DEC 2002 Message-ID: E-mail Address: hogenboo at uiuc.edu Author(s): Hogenboom, K Title: Has government information on the Internet affected citation patterns? A case study of population studies journals Source: JOURNAL OF GOVERNMENT INFORMATION, 29 (6): 392-401 NOV-DEC 2002 Abstract: To examine scholars' use of government information in electronic format, the author studied issues of four population studies journals for the years 1990 and 2000 to determine citation patterns to government information. The total number of citations to government documents increased during this 10-year period, although the proportion of government citations decreased in relationship to the total number of citations. Only one journal studied showed an increase in citations to government information sources; it was also the only journal with a significant number of citations to electronic government information. (C) 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Addresses: Univ Illinois, Govt Documents Lib, Urbana, IL 61801 USA Reprint Address: Hogenboom, K, Univ Illinois, Govt Documents Lib, 200-D Lib,MC 522,1408 W Gregory, Urbana, IL 61801 USA. Cited References: *US GEN ACC OFF, 2001, INF MAN EL DISS GOVT. *US SUP DOC, 2001, DISS DISTR POL FED D. CASWELL TR, 1997, GOV INFORM Q, V14, P363. GORIN M, 2001, ANOTHER STUDY ALL MA. HANER BE, 1990, GOV PUBL REV PT A, V17, P341. HERRING SD, 2001, J ACAD LIBR, V27, P213. LOPRESTI R, 2001, IS ALL MAT SENT DEPO. METOYERDURAN C, 1995, LIBR INFORM SCI RES, V17, P49. NILSEN K, 1999, IASSIST Q FAL, P4. PASQUARIELLA S, 1978, UNION LIST POPULATIO. PASQUARIELLA S, 1981, LIT POPULATION STUDI. POSTEMA B, 1991, GOV PUBL REV PT A, V18, P223. WEECH TL, 1978, GOV PUBL REV, V5, P177. ZHANG Y, 2001, J AM SOC INF SCI TEC, V52, P628. Times Cited: 0 Publisher: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD Publisher Address: THE BOULEVARD, LANGFORD LANE, KIDLINGTON, OXFORD OX5 1GB, ENGLAND ISSN: 1352-0237 Source Item Page Count: 10 ISI Document Delivery No.: 831KM From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Aug 10 16:14:29 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:14:29 -0400 Subject: Navarro A, Martin M, "Scientific production and international collaboration in occupational health, 1992-2001" SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF WORK ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH, 30 (3): 223-233 JUN 2004 Message-ID: E-mail Address: albert.navarro at uab.es Author(s): Navarro, A; Martin, M Title: Scientific production and international collaboration in occupational health, 1992-2001 Source: SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF WORK ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH, 30 (3): 223-233 JUN 2004 Abstract: Objectives The objectives of the present study were twofold, to describe international scientific production in occupational health and to examine international collaboration in this discipline. Methods A bibliometric study was carried out, using Science Citation Index, in order to evaluate the articles published during the period 1992-2001 in eight representative occupational health journals. Scientific production, collaborative profiles for each country, and the significant relationships established between countries are reported. Results One or more institutions in the United States had contributed to over 40% of the articles examined. The United States was followed by the United Kingdom (9.15%) and then Sweden (8.65%). When population size effects were eliminated, the Scandinavian countries proved to be the leading producers. After correction for gross domestic product, there was an increase in the ranking of apparently scientifically modest countries. The Scandinavian countries remained high. In terms of international collaboration in general, there was an inverse relationship between the production of a country and the proportion of articles co-authored with institutions in other countries. Finally, the significant relationships between countries permitted the identification of up to six large collaboration nuclei. Conclusions The high absolute and relative Scandinavian production is suggestive of the great importance of occupational health in these countries. Access to publication by more modest countries, scientifically speaking, is observed to occur through collaboration with the high-production countries. In this sense, it would seem necessary to study the basis underlying these relationships. Finally, the characterization of the collaborative nuclei does not differ greatly from what was expected. Addresses: Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Fac Med, Lab Bioestadist & Epidemiol, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain Reprint Address: Navarro, A, Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Fac Med, Lab Bioestadist & Epidemiol, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain. Cited References: *UNESCO I STAT, 2001, STAT SCI TECHN WORLD. *WHO, 1993, HLTH ALL TARG HLTH P. *WORLD BANK, 2003, WORLD DEV IND CD ROM. BARRE R, 1993, INFORME MUNDIAL CIEN. BEAVER DB, 1998, SCIENTOMETRICS, V1, P65. BELLAVISTA J, 1997, EVALUACION INVESTIGA. CAKALO D, 1999, ARH HIG RADA TOKSIKO, V50, P437. CAMI J, 1993, PRODUCCION CIENTIFIC. CAMI J, 2002, PRODUCCION CIENTIFIC. GEHANNO JF, 2000, OCCUP ENVIRON MED, V57, P706. LARSSON KS, 1995, J INTERN MED, V238, P445. LUUKKONEN T, 1993, SCIENTOMETRICS, V28, P15. MCCUNNEY RJ, 1992, J OCCUP MED, V34, P279. MIQUEL JF, 1994, SCIENTOMETRICS, V29, P271. MONTINI T, 2002, PUBLIC HEALTH REP, V117, P291. NEMERY B, 2001, OCCUP ENVIRON MED, V58, P604. RADOSEVICVIDACE.B, 1999, ARH HIG RADA TOKSIKO, V50, P423. SCHUBERT A, 1990, SCIENTOMETRICS, V19, P3. SIMEONRUDOLF V, 1995, ARH HIG RADA TOKSIKO, V46, P359. TAKAHASHI K, 1996, OCCUP ENVIRON MED, V53, P433. YU TS, 2000, ASIA PAC J PUBLIC HL, V12, P34. Times Cited: 0 Publisher: SCAND J WORK ENV HEALTH Publisher Address: TOPELIUKSENKATU 41A, SF-00250 HELSINKI, FINLAND ISSN: 0355-3140 Source Item Page Count: 11 ISI Document Delivery No.: 834UO From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Aug 10 16:17:30 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:17:30 -0400 Subject: Maaswinkel P "An informetric investigation into the potential for change in Belgian art education at the beginning of the twentieth century" INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ART & DESIGN EDUCATION, 23 (2): 207-216 2004 Message-ID: E-mail Address: pmaaswinkel at wanadoo.be Author(s): Maaswinkel, P Title: An informetric investigation into the potential for change in Belgian art education at the beginning of the twentieth century Source: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ART & DESIGN EDUCATION, 23 (2): 207-216 2004 Abstract: The beginning of the twentieth century was a period of pedagogical enthusiasm and renewal in the field of education. Based on a list of articles concerning at, education published in Belgian periodicals between 1903 and 1923, the author undertakes an analysis of the title words in order to study how the subject was able to evolve. For this purpose, the pertinent title words are grouped into content categories. It can be seen that those content categories demonstrate specificity compared to other periods. The specificity of the subject at a given moment implies that the transformation of the subject consists of the emergence, the decline or the exchange of categories, which can also be demonstrated. The connections of these variations to historical facts a e substantiated. It can therofore be stated that these variations represent the historical evolution of the subject. However, such emergence, decline and exchange of categories is only Possible on condition that each category is able to vary independently of the others. This is shown by an autonomy index as well as by an 2-test. Thus, art education did not drop from the sky as a ready-to-teach school subject. Art education is always what the people make of it, which makes reflection on what it could be or has to be so important at any given moment too. Addresses: Padagog Hsch, B-4700 Eupen, Belgium Reprint Address: Maaswinkel, P, Padagog Hsch, Monschauer St 26, B-4700 Eupen, Belgium. Cited References: 1912, ECOLE NATL, P458. *NN, 1911, ART EC FOYER, P71. ALEWAETERS G, 1988, OUDE HET NIEUWE BOEK, P539. AXTERS H, 1898, COMMENTAIRE LOI ORG, P247. BAUDSON P, 1980, ART AFFICHE BELGIQUE, P7. BAUWENS L, 1924, COMMENTAIRE, V3, P1. BAUWENS L, 1924, LOI ORGANIQUE, V2, P1. BAUWENS L, 1924, MANUEL LEGISLATION S, V1, P1. BORTZ J, 1993, STAT SOZIALWISSENSCH, P163. BOUGHTON D, 1986, J ART DESIGN EDUC, V5, P125. COUSIN V, 1853, VRAI BEAU BIEN, P147. DARCHEVILLE E, 1928, ENSEIGNEMENT DESSIN, P21. DECOSTER GH, 1880, ELEMENTS ESTHETIQUE, P359. DUNCUM P, 2002, J ART DESIGN EDUC, V21, P14. EGGHE L, 1990, INTRO SCIENTOMETRICS, P53. GESSLER J, 1906, ED FAMILIALE, P57. GESSLER J, 1911, ART ECOLE FOYER, P26. GROSEMANS H, 1914, HET TECHNISCHE ONDER, P26. KERBS D, 1976, BEITRAGE SOZIALGESCH, V1, P47. LORENZ B, 1992, DATENANALYSE KLASSIF, P189. MAASWINKEL P, 1976, ED TRIBUNE LIBRE, P47. MAASWINKEL P, 1984, INSEA NEWS, P2. MAASWINKEL P, 1996, IMAGE REEL REFLEXION. MAASWINKEL P, 1998, DIDAKTIK VISUELLEN G, P25. MIRGUET V, 1911, REV PEDAGOGIQUE 0401, V10, P387. MIRGUET V, 1911, REV PEDAGOGIQUE 1001, P8. MOMMAERT J, 1905, BELGIQUE I IND COMME, P62. MONTFORT L, 1909, COIMPOSITION DECORAT, P12. MONTFORT L, 1923, PREMIERE PARTIE PEDA, P12. POULLET P, 1912, ED ESTHETIQUE MANUEL, P107. REBLE A, 1987, GESCH PADAGOGIK, P270. SHUMAKER EA, 1985, HIST ART ED, P315. SLUYS A, 1910, ENSEIGNEMENT EXPOSIT, P323. VANHAECHT A, 1985, ENSEIGNEMENT RENOVE, P117. WHITTAKER J, 1989, SOC STUD SCI, V19, P473. ZAR JH, 1999, BIOSTAT ANAL, P505. Times Cited: 0 Publisher: BLACKWELL PUBL LTD Publisher Address: 108 COWLEY RD, OXFORD OX4 1JF, OXON, ENGLAND ISSN: 1476-8062 Source Item Page Count: 10 ISI Document Delivery No.: 834BR From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Aug 10 17:18:44 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:18:44 -0400 Subject: Lewison, G; Paraje, G "The classification of biomedical journals by research level" SCIENTOMETRICS, 60 (2): 145-157 2004 Message-ID: E-mail Address: g.lewison at soi.city.ac.uk Author(s): Lewison, G; Paraje, G Title: The classification of biomedical journals by research level Source: SCIENTOMETRICS, 60 (2): 145-157 2004 Abstract: A new method of classification of biomedical research journals by research level (RL) into clinical or basic, or somewhere in between, is described that updates the system developed by CHI Research Inc. nearly 30 years ago. It is based on counting articles that have one of about 100 "clinical" title words, or one of a similar number of "basic" title words, or both. It allows over 3000 journals in the Science Citation Index (or other databases) to be classified rapidly and transparently, for changes in their research level with time, and for many individual papers in "mixed" journals to be categorised as clinical or basic. Addresses: City Univ London, Dept Informat Sci, London EC1V 0HB, England; WHO, Dept Res Policy & Cooperat, Geneva, Switzerland Reprint Address: Lewison, G, City Univ London, Dept Informat Sci, Northampton Sq, London EC1V 0HB, England. Cited References: DAWSON G, 1998, 9 WELLC TRUST. DEBRUIN RH, 1993, SCIENTOMETRICS, V40, P423. LEWISON G, 1996, RES EVALUAT, V6, P25. LEWISON G, 1998, SCIENTOMETRICS, V41, P17. LEWISON G, 1999, RHEUMATOLOGY, V38, P13. LEWISON G, 1999, SCIENTOMETRICS, V46, P529. MARSHALL DB, 2001, CURR OPIN SOLID ST M, V5, P283. NARIN F, 1976, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V27, P25. NARIN F, 1996, SCIENTOMETRICS, V36, P293. SCHWARTZ S, 1996, SCIENTOMETRICS, V35, P119. VANHOOYDONK G, 1994, SCIENTOMETRICS, V30, P65. Times Cited: 0 Publisher: KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL Publisher Address: VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 0138-9130 Source Item Page Count: 13 ISI Document Delivery No.: 820LE From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Aug 10 17:21:16 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:21:16 -0400 Subject: Sombatsompop, N; Markpin, T; Premkamolnetr, N "A modified method for calculating the Impact Factors of journals in ISI Journal Citation Reports: Polymer Science Category in 1997-2001" SCIENTOMETRICS, 60 (2): 217-235 2004 Message-ID: E-mail Address: narongrit.som at kmutt.ac.th Author(s): Sombatsompop, N; Markpin, T; Premkamolnetr, N Title: A modified method for calculating the Impact Factors of journals in ISI Journal Citation Reports: Polymer Science Category in 1997-2001 Source: SCIENTOMETRICS, 60 (2): 217-235 2004 Abstract: This article introduces a new modified method for calculating the impact factor of journals based on the current ISI practice in generating journal impact factor values. The impact factor value for a journal calculated by the proposed method, the so-called Cited Half-Life Impact Factor (CHAL) method, which is based on the ratio of the number of current year citations of articles from the previous X years to that of articles published in the previous X years, the X value being equal to the value of the cited half-life of the journal in the current year. Thirty-four journals in the Polymer Science Category from the ISI Subject Heading Categories were selected and examined. Total citations, impact factors and cited half-life of the 34 journals during the last five years (19972001) were retrieved from the ISI Journal Citation Reports and were used as the data source for the calculations in this work, the impact factor values from ISI and CHAL methods then being compared. The positions of the journals ranked by impact factors obtained from the ISI method were different from those from the CHAL method. It was concluded that the CHAL method was more suitable for calculating the impact factor of the journals than the existing ISI method. Addresses: KMUTT, P PROF Grp, Sch Energy & Mat, Bangkok 10140, Thailand; KMUTT, KMUTT Cent Lib, Bangkok, Thailand Reprint Address: Sombatsompop, N, KMUTT, P PROF Grp, Sch Energy & Mat, Bangkok 10140, Thailand. Cited References: ADAM D, 2002, NATURE, V415, P726. AMIN M, 2000, PERSPECTIVES PUBLISH, V1, P1. ASAI I, 1981, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V32, P172. BORDONS M, 2002, SCIENTOMETRICS, V53, P195. COLQUHOUN D, 2003, NATURE, V423, P479. GARFIELD E, 1972, SCIENCE, V178, P471. GARFIELD E, 1986, CURRENT CONTENTS, V3, P3. GLANZEL W, 1995, J INFORM SCI, V21, P37. GLANZEL W, 2002, SCIENTOMETRICS, V53, P171. GOWRISHANKAR J, 1999, NATURE, V401, P321. HIRST G, 1978, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V29, P171. JIMENEZCONTRERAS E, 2002, NATURE, V417, P898. MOED HF, 1998, SCIENTOMETRICS, V43, P231. SOMBATSOMPOP N, 2002, SCIENTOMETRICS, V55, P445. VANLEEUWEN TN, 2002, SCIENTOMETRICS, V53, P249. VINKLER P, 1991, SCIENTOMETRICS, V20, P145. VINKLER P, 2002, SCIENTOMETRICS, V53, P267. Times Cited: 0 Publisher: KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL Publisher Address: VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 0138-9130 Source Item Page Count: 19 ISI Document Delivery No.: 820LE From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Aug 10 17:32:57 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:32:57 -0400 Subject: Wulff, JL; Nixon, ND "Quality markers and use of electronic journals in an academic health sciences library " JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 92 (3). JUL 2004. p.315-322 MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOC, CHICAGO Message-ID: Judith L. Wulff: wulff at louisville.edu; Neal D. Nixon: nixon at louisville.edu FULL TEXT AVAILABLE AT : http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=442173 TITLE: Quality markers and use of electronic journals in an academic health sciences library (Article, English) AUTHOR: Wulff, JL; Nixon, ND SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 92 (3). JUL 2004. p.315-322 MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOC, CHICAGO SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNALS item_title; J MED LIBR ASSOC source_abbrev_20 KEYWORDS+: BRANDON/HILL SELECTED LIST; ONLINE JOURNALS; PRINT; DESELECTION; UNIVERSITY; IMPACT; BOOKS; USAGE ABSTRACT: Objectives: Patterns of use of electronic versions of journals supplied by an academic health sciences library were examined to determine whether they differed from patterns of use among corresponding print titles and to relate the applicability of print collection development practices to an electronic environment. Methods: Use data supplied by three major vendors of electronic journals were compared to reshelving data for corresponding print titles, impact factors, and presence on Brandon/Hill Lists. Results: In collections where one-click access from a database record to the full text of articles was possible, electronic use correlated with print use across journal pairs. In both versions, Brandon/Hill titles were used more frequently than non-Brandon/Hill titles, use had modest correlations with journals' impact factors, and clinical use appeared to be higher than research use. Titles that had not been selected for the library's print collections, but which were bundled into publishers' packages, received little use compared to electronic titles also selected in print. Conclusions: Collection development practices based on quality and user needs can be applied with confidence to the electronic environment. Facilitating direct connections between citation databases and the corresponding journal articles regardless of platform or publisher will support scholarship and quality health care. From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Aug 10 17:36:20 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:36:20 -0400 Subject: Jenuwine, ES; Floyd, J "Comparison of Medical Subject Headings and text-word searches in MEDLINE to retrieve studies on sleep in healthy individuals" JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 92 (3). JUL 2004. p.349-353 MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOC, CHICAGO Message-ID: Elizabeth S. Jenuwine: aa8696 at wayne.edu; Judith A. Floyd: ab9208 at wayne.edu FULL TEXT AVAILABLE AT : http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=442177 TITLE: Comparison of Medical Subject Headings and text-word searches in MEDLINE to retrieve studies on sleep in healthy individuals (Article, English) AUTHOR: Jenuwine, ES; Floyd, JA SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 92 (3). JUL 2004. p.349-353 MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOC, CHICAGO SEARCH TERM(S): J INFORM SCI* rwork; J MED LIBR ASSOC source_abbrev_20 KEYWORDS+: RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED-TRIALS; STRATEGY ABSTRACT: Objective: The objective was to investigate the performance of two search strategies in the retrieval of primary research papers containing descriptive information on the sleep of healthy people from MEDLINE. Methodology: Two search strategies-me based on the use of only Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), the second based on text-word searching-were evaluated as to their specificity and sensitivity in retrieving a set of relevant research papers published in the journal Sleep from 1996 to 2001 that were preselected by a hand search. Results: The subject search provided higher specificity than the text- word search (66% and 47%, respectively) but lower sensitivity (78% for the subject search versus 88% for the text-word search). Each search strategy gave some unique relevant hits. Conclusions: The two search strategies complemented each other and should be used together for maximal retrieval. No combination of MeSH terms could provide comprehensive yet reasonably precise retrieval of relevant articles. The text-word searching had sensitivity and specificity comparable to the subject search. In addition, use of text words "normal..... healthy," and "control" in the title or abstract fields to limit the final sets provided an efficient way to increase the specificity of both search strategies. AUTHOR ADDRESS: ES Jenuwine, Wayne State Univ, 5557 Cass Ave,Room 300, Detroit, MI 48202 USA From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Aug 10 17:41:51 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:41:51 -0400 Subject: Hirschauer S. "Peer review research - Reviewed - Sociological shortcomings of academic evaluation" ZEITSCHRIFT FUR SOZIOLOGIE 33 (1). FEB 2004. p.62-83 LUCIUS LUCIUS VERLAG MBH, STUTTGART Message-ID: TITLE: Peer review research - Reviewed - Sociological shortcomings of academic evaluation (Review, German) AUTHOR: Hirschauer, S SOURCE: ZEITSCHRIFT FUR SOZIOLOGIE 33 (1). FEB 2004. p.62-83 LUCIUS LUCIUS VERLAG MBH, STUTTGART ABSTRACT: Peer review research is the sphere of science studies dealing with the central mechanism of the self-evaluation of scholarly practice. This article offers a critical review of this research. It seems that peer review research is deeply involved in the selfsame evaluative process which it should be observing with professional distance. The reason is a lack of sociological conceptualization of this activity. The article pleads for a theoretical reorientation from persons to social processes, from measures of reliability to acknowledgement of dissent, from cognition to speech and writing practices, and from publication Counts to research in communication. Peer review is not a scientific measurement of the quality of publications, but a social institution for the calibration of reading time within a discipline. AUTHOR ADDRESS: S Hirschauer, Univ Munich, Inst Soziol, Konradstr 6, D-80801 Munich, Germany From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Aug 11 16:06:02 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 16:06:02 -0400 Subject: "JBHE's Annual Citation Ranking of Black Scholars in the Social Sciences and Humanities" Journal of Blacks in Higher Education #43, Spring 2004 Message-ID: FULL TEXT AVAILABLE AT : http://www.jbhe.com/news_views/43_citation_rankings.html TITLE : JBHE's Annual Citation Ranking of Black Scholars in the Social Sciences and Humanities SOURCE: Journal of Blacks in Higher Education #43, Spring 2004 ABSTRACT: For the tenth consecutive year, the leader in the JBHE citation rankings of black scholars in the social sciences is Harvard's University Professor William Julius Wilson. Among black scholars in the humanities category, Princeton University's Toni Morrison had the most citations in academic journals. Citation rankings of scholarly papers no longer carry the academic weight they once enjoyed. Nevertheless, university tenure committees and development officers often rely on these rankings of citation counts. For the tenth consecutive year, the leader in the JBHE citation rankings of black scholars in the social sciences is Harvard's University Professor William Julius Wilson. Among black scholars in the humanities category, Princeton University's Toni Morrison had the most citations in academic journals, narrowly edging out last year's leader, Paul Gilroy of Yale. From samorri at OKSTATE.EDU Thu Aug 12 12:23:30 2004 From: samorri at OKSTATE.EDU (Steven A. Morris) Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 12:23:30 -0400 Subject: question about author groups Message-ID: Does anyone out there know of any study that tries to identify what percentage of papers are authored by university groups (professors and their students), compared to percentage of papers from corporate and government authors? Thanks, S. Morris From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Thu Aug 12 13:38:28 2004 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 19:38:28 +0200 Subject: question about author groups In-Reply-To: Message-ID: SCI 2002 Number UI UG IG UIG Univers Industry Govt All 683222 17095 116782 4626 5664 556370 41840 234843 USA 238676 7274 40650 1777 2732 206813 18193 68835 EU 250395 4586 54617 1400 2187 204531 11011 99830 UK 66544 1569 14263 360 763 53972 3617 26673 Germany 59630 1181 14986 405 703 50319 2925 24364 France 39973 431 12214 422 585 26663 1826 25721 Scand 30437 592 8757 170 411 26283 1431 13064 Italy 29795 374 7609 79 321 26680 956 10863 Netherlands 17865 328 4663 78 307 15927 859 6762 S. Korea 14931 533 3115 118 183 13163 996 4904 Japan 68338 4303 13297 1113 1481 57345 9892 22776 PR China 28913 381 6408 111 173 24328 728 11103 Taiwan 9572 183 2772 15 59 8608 295 3757 Singapore 3411 110 622 16 53 2978 202 1085 Russia 20723 81 6637 134 157 11486 443 15960 India 12570 109 2180 92 67 7140 459 7486 Brazil 10888 189 2054 45 81 9584 386 3368 Dear Steven, This is an update 2002 of the figures for 2000 provided in my paper "The Mutual Information of University-Industry-Government Relations: An Indicator of the Triple Helix Dynamics," Scientometrics 58(2), 2003, 445-467. See that paper for similar figures for 2000 and for the methodology. The data is statistical (i.e., with errors). With kind regards, Loet _____ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ The Challenge of Scientometrics ; The Self-Organization of the Knowledge-Based Society > -----Original Message----- > From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics > [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Steven A. Morris > Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 6:24 PM > To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU > Subject: [SIGMETRICS] question about author groups > > Does anyone out there know of any study that tries to > identify what percentage of papers are authored by university > groups (professors and their students), compared to > percentage of papers from corporate and government authors? > > Thanks, > > S. Morris > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Thu Aug 12 13:53:53 2004 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 19:53:53 +0200 Subject: question about author groups In-Reply-To: Message-ID: ps. Precise data for Canada can be found in: Godin & Gingras, Research Policy 29 (2000), 273-278, at p. 275. SCI 2002 Number UI UG IG UIG Univers Industry Govt All 683222 17095 116782 4626 5664 556370 41840 234843 USA 238676 7274 40650 1777 2732 206813 18193 68835 EU 250395 4586 54617 1400 2187 204531 11011 99830 UK 66544 1569 14263 360 763 53972 3617 26673 Germany 59630 1181 14986 405 703 50319 2925 24364 France 39973 431 12214 422 585 26663 1826 25721 Scand 30437 592 8757 170 411 26283 1431 13064 Italy 29795 374 7609 79 321 26680 956 10863 Netherlands 17865 328 4663 78 307 15927 859 6762 S. Korea 14931 533 3115 118 183 13163 996 4904 Japan 68338 4303 13297 1113 1481 57345 9892 22776 PR China 28913 381 6408 111 173 24328 728 11103 Taiwan 9572 183 2772 15 59 8608 295 3757 Singapore 3411 110 622 16 53 2978 202 1085 Russia 20723 81 6637 134 157 11486 443 15960 India 12570 109 2180 92 67 7140 459 7486 Brazil 10888 189 2054 45 81 9584 386 3368 Dear Steven, This is an update 2002 of the figures for 2000 provided in my paper "The Mutual Information of University-Industry-Government Relations: An Indicator of the Triple Helix Dynamics," Scientometrics 58(2), 2003, 445-467. See that paper for similar figures for 2000 and for the methodology. The data is statistical (i.e., with errors). With kind regards, Loet _____ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ The Challenge of Scientometrics ; The Self-Organization of the Knowledge-Based Society > -----Original Message----- > From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics > [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Steven A. Morris > Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 6:24 PM > To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU > Subject: [SIGMETRICS] question about author groups > > Does anyone out there know of any study that tries to > identify what percentage of papers are authored by university > groups (professors and their students), compared to > percentage of papers from corporate and government authors? > > Thanks, > > S. Morris > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Aug 13 13:39:38 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 13:39:38 -0400 Subject: Prathap G. "Cost of research index: What is an SCI paper worth? " Current Science 86(11):1469 June 10 2004 and 84(3):258 February 10 2003 Message-ID: Rupees 13,000 crores is equivalent to U..S. Dollars 2,860,000,000 Full text available at: http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/jun102004/1469.pdf E-mail Address: gp at cmmacs.ernet.in Author(s): Prathap, G Title: Cost of research index: What is an SCI paper worth? Source: CURRENT SCIENCE, 86 (11): 1469-1469 JUN 10 2004 Language: English Document Type: Letter Reprint Address: Prathap, G, E-12,NAL Campus, Bangalore 560017, Karnataka, India. Cited References: *NAT SCI FDN NAT S, SCI ENG IND 2004. BIYANI AK, 2002, CURR SCI INDIA, V83, P1302. PRATHAP G, 2003, CURR SCI INDIA, V84, P258. PRICE DJD, 1967, JOURNEYS SCI. Cited Reference Count: 4 Publisher: CURRENT SCIENCE ASSN Publisher Address: C V RAMAN AVENUE, PO BOX 8005, BANGALORE 560 080, INDIA ISSN: 0011-3891 Source Item Page Count: 1 ISI Document Delivery No.: 829SK _____ Full text available at: http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/feb102003/258.pdf Record 2 of 2 Author(s): Prathap, G Title: :258 Source: CURRENT SCIENCE, 84 (3): 258-258 FEB 10 2003 Language: English Document Type: Letter Reprint Address: Prathap, G, E-12,NAL Campus, Bangalore 560017, Karnataka, India. Cited References: ARUNACHALAM S, 2002, CURR SCI INDIA, V83, P107. BIYANI AK, 2002, CURR SCI INDIA, V83, P1302. PRATHAP G, 1995, CURR SCI, V68, P983. PRICE DJD, 1967, JOURNEYS SCI. Cited Reference Count: 4 Publisher: CURRENT SCIENCE ASSN Publisher Address: C V RAMAN AVENUE, PO BOX 8005, BANGALORE 560 080, INDIA ISSN: 0011-3891 Source Item Page Count: 1 ISI Document Delivery No.: 662MJ From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Sun Aug 15 22:49:42 2004 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 03:49:42 +0100 Subject: Scottish Open Access Declaration (Draft) Message-ID: Here (with thanks to Colin Steele for the link) are highlights from the Scottish Science Information Strategy Working Group's [Open Access] Declaration (Draft) http://scurl.ac.uk/WG/SSISWGOA/declaration.htm We believe that the interests of Scotland ... will be best served by the rapid adoption of open access. There are two main routes to achieving open access, and we wish to register our support for both...[i] open access journals [where costs are] covered by author fees rather than subscriptions... [and] [ii]?self-archiving?, where authors deposit electronic versions of their articles in an institutional, or subject-based, repository. There is growing evidence to suggest that open access increases the reach and impact of research. More people can and do view and read open access articles, and there are indications that these articles are cited more frequently and earlier than is the case for articles not available in this way [7]. In the light of these developments, and recognising the huge potential gains to Scotland in terms of impact, comparative advantage, and return on public investment if open access to our research can be established quickly... Action: Research funders Require as a condition of grant that publications resulting from funding are available on open access, either by means of self-archiving or through publication in an open access journal. Allocate funds for author fees for publication within research grants. Encourage research publishers to offer open access publishing streams with fair pricing. Universities/research institutions Set up institutional repositories, and/or liaise with other organisations to establish a joint repository. Encourage, and in due course mandate, researchers to deposit copies of their outputs (articles, reports, conference papers, etc) in an institutional or co-operative repository. Take a leading role by working with other national governments in promoting open access. References [7] See, for example, Hitchcock, S. et al ?The impact of OAI-based search on access to research journal papers?, Serials Vol 16, No 3, November 2003, 255-260 [http://opcit.eprints.org/serials-short/serials11.html] From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Mon Aug 16 01:43:02 2004 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 07:43:02 +0200 Subject: KrKwic: A computer program for the analysis of Korean text Message-ID: Understanding the KrKwic: A computer program for the analysis of Korean text Han Woo PARK (YeungNam University) Loet LEYDESDORFF (University of Amsterdam) The program and manuals are available at http://www.leydesdorff.net/KrKwic Abstract This paper (in Korean) examines the KrKwic (Korean Key Word In Context) which is a computer-based content analysis software. The KrKwic is a social network computer program for analyzing a Korean text. The software is able to count how many times a word occurs in the text and produces a list of words in the order of frequency. The most frequently occurring words can be defined as key words and a co-occurrence (or cosine) matrix among the words can be produced. The matrix can be used as an input file to social network analysis softwares such as UciNet or Pajek (at http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/pajek/) for a wide variety of analytic techniques (e.g., centrality, density, cluster analysis, multi-dimensional scaling, network diagram). This paper illustrates how to use the KrKwic using ten news stories about "regional innovation." The sampled articles were collected at http://www.daum.net which is the most comprehensive search engine in South Korea. The program is derived from a similar one for English available at http://www.leydesdorff.net/software/fulltext . ** apologies for cross-postings _____ 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 zimmee at MAIL.BIU.AC.IL Wed Aug 18 08:02:49 2004 From: zimmee at MAIL.BIU.AC.IL (Eric Zimmerman) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 15:02:49 +0300 Subject: The "impact" of foreign students on the United States In-Reply-To: <200408040400.i73HVNcQ002527@panther.mail.utk.edu> Message-ID: All, Can someone point me to studies on the positive "impact" of foreign students on the United States? This could be on economic impact, world leaders who studied in The States, Nobel Prize winners who previously studied at a US university, and so on... I realize this is a complex issue, but any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Eric Zimmerman From cw2165 at COLUMBIA.EDU Wed Aug 18 09:28:53 2004 From: cw2165 at COLUMBIA.EDU (C. Wang) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 09:28:53 -0400 Subject: The "impact" of foreign students on the United States Message-ID: Institute on Internatinal Education published lots of data and findings in "Open Doors", http://opendoors.iienetwork.org/. It may be helpful. Good luck. Chengzhi Eric Zimmerman wrote: > All, > > Can someone point me to studies on the positive "impact" of foreign > students on the United States? This could be on economic impact, world > leaders who studied in The States, Nobel Prize winners who previously > studied at a US university, and so on... > > I realize this is a complex issue, but any help will be greatly > appreciated. > > Thanks, Eric Zimmerman From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Aug 18 16:22:22 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:22:22 -0400 Subject: Xu J, Marshall B, Kaza S, Chen HC "Analyzing and visualizing criminal network dynamics: A case study" INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY INFORMATICS, PROCEEDINGS LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE 3073: 359-377 2004 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: J. Xu : jxu at eller.arizona.edu B. Marshall : byronm at eller.arizona.edu S. Kaza : sidd at eller.arizona.edu H.C.Chen : hchen at eller.arizona.edu Title: Analyzing and visualizing criminal network dynamics: A case study Author(s): Xu J, Marshall B, Kaza S, Chen HC Source: INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY INFORMATICS, PROCEEDINGS LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE 3073: 359-377 2004 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 42 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Dynamic criminal network analysis is important for national security but also very challenging. However, little research has been done in this area. In this paper we propose to use several descriptive measures from social network analysis research to help detect and describe changes in criminal organizations. These measures include centrality for individuals, and density, cohesion, and stability for groups. We also employ visualization and animation methods to present the evolution process of criminal networks. We conducted a field study with several domain experts to validate our findings from the analysis of the dynamics of a narcotics network. The feedback from our domain experts showed that our approaches and the prototype system could be very helpful for capturing the dynamics of criminal organizations and assisting crime investigation and criminal prosecution. Addresses: Xu J (reprint author), Univ Arizona, Dept Management Informat Syst, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA Univ Arizona, Dept Management Informat Syst, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA Publisher: SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, HEIDELBERGER PLATZ 3, D-14197 BERLIN, GERMANY IDS Number: BAH47 ISSN: 0302-9743 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year BAKER WE AM SOCIOL REV 58 837 1993 BRAAM RR J AM SOC INFORM SCI 42 252 1991 BURKHARDT ME ADMIN SCI QUART 35 104 1990 CARLEY KM CONNECTIONS 24 79 2002 CARLEY KM P 8 INT COMM CONTR R 2003 CHEN C IEEE COMPUT 34 65 2001 CHEN C P 10 ACM C HYP HYP 1989 CHEN C P IEEE S INF VIS INF 1999 CHEN CM IEEE T SYST MAN CY C 31 518 2001 CHEN CM J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 53 678 2002 CHEN CM J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 52 315 2001 CULNAN MJ MANAGE SCI 32 156 1986 DOMBROSKI MJ COMPUTATIONAL MATH O 8 235 2002 DOREIAN P EVOLUTION SOCIAL NET 1 1997 DOREIAN P EVOLUTION SOCIAL NET 129 1997 FENNEMA M SOC NETWORKS 1 297 1978 FREEMAN LC SOC NETWORKS 1 215 1979 FRUCHTERMAN TMJ SOFTWARE PRACT EXPER 21 1129 1991 HALLINAN MT SOC NETWORKS 1 193 1978 HUMMON NP SOC NETWORKS 22 221 2000 KAMADA T INFORM PROCESS LETT 31 7 1989 KLERKS P CONNECTIONS 24 53 2001 KREBS VE CONNECTIONS OFFICIAL 24 43 2001 LEE RCT IEEE T COMPUT 26 288 1977 LEENDERS R EVOLUTION SOCIAL NET 1997 MCANDREW D GROUPS TEAMS NETWORK 3 1999 NAKAO K SOC NETWORKS 15 109 1993 NEWCOMB TM ACQUAINTANCE PROCESS 1961 NOYONS ECM J AM SOC INFORM SCI 49 68 1998 ORNSTEIN MD SOC NETWORKS 4 3 1982 SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 50 799 1999 SMALL HG SOC STUD SCI 7 139 1977 SNIJDERS TAB EVOLUTION SOCIAL NET 1997 SNIJDERS TAB SOCIOL METHODOL 31 361 2001 SPARROW MK SOC NETWORKS 13 251 1991 SULLIVAN D SOC STUD SCI 7 223 1977 VANDENBESSELAAR P J AM SOC INFORM SCI 47 415 1996 WASSERMAN S SOCIAL NETWORK ANAL 1994 WELLMAN B SOCIAL STRUCTURES NE 1988 WHITE HD J AM SOC INFORM SCI 49 327 1998 XU J IN PRESS DECISION SU XU J P NSF NIJ S INT SEC 2003 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Aug 18 16:32:34 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:32:34 -0400 Subject: Dandona L. "Enhancing the evidence base for HIV/AIDS control in India" NATIONAL MEDICAL JOURNAL OF INDIA 17 (3): 160-166 MAY-JUN 2004 Message-ID: Dandona L : E-mail Addresses: dandona at asci.org.in Title: Enhancing the evidence base for HIV/AIDS control in India Author(s): Dandona L Source: NATIONAL MEDICAL JOURNAL OF INDIA 17 (3): 160-166 MAY-JUN 2004 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 37 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: An optimum evidence base is necessary for the effective control of HIV/AIDS in India, as the lack of an adequate evidence base on critical issues leads to controversy and hurdles. To assess the trends in the HIV/AIDS evidence base for India, a PubMed literature search for publications from India in 2002 and 2003 on HIV/AIDS was done, and abstracts from, India in one major international HIV/AIDS conference in 2002, and presentations at one major HIV/AIDS conference in India in 2003 were reviewed. The PubMed search revealed,145 papers with abstracts on HIV/AIDS from India during this period, which was 1.4% of the worldwide HIV/AIDS publications. Of these 145 publications, 124 (85.5%) were based on original research and, of these, 27.4% were in the basic sciences, 62.9% in the clinical sciences, and 9.7% in the public health sciences; 53.2% of the original research papers were published in journals with impact factors ranging from 0 to 1. Many vital issues for HIV control, such as validation of the methods used to assess HIV burden in the population, large-scale impact assessment of HIV prevention programmes, cost-effectiveness of HIV interventions, and critical evidence-to-policy issues, were not covered. Of the 8824 abstracts accepted for presentation at them XIV International AIDS Conference 2002 at Barcelona, 8% were from India-a fair representation given that India has about 10% of the world's HIV burden. However, the utility of this information is severely limited with the majority of it not getting translated into detailed papers in the peer-reviewed literature for widespread scrutiny and use. The views expressed by many experts at the Fourth International Conference on AIDS India 2003 at Chennai were impressive, but the presentation and discussion on original research data from India were sparse. From these various sources, it is estimated that the available evidence base for HIV/ AIDS control in India is suboptimal. Using certain assumptions, it is estimated that to provide an adequate evidence base for the control of HIV/AIDS in India, quality original HIV/AIDS research in India would have to double in the basic and clinical sciences, and increase by more than 5 times for the public health sciences. Enhancing this evidence base to an optimum level would require optimizing its demand, systematically planning its supply locally in India and creating an environment suitable for its development. To effectively control HIV/AIDS in India, strategic planning is needed to develop an evidence base that covers all critical areas where information is needed. Formation of a Society for HIV/AIDS Research in India by involving all the major stakeholders could help build up momentum towards establishing a comprehensive, relevant, dynamic and long term evidence base that provides rigorous and timely information needed for HIV/AIDS control. KeyWords Plus: HEALTH; POPULATION; PREVALENCE Addresses: Dandona L (reprint author), Adm Staff Coll India, Ctr Publ Hlth Res, Raj Bhavan Rd, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh 500082 India Adm Staff Coll India, Ctr Publ Hlth Res, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh 500082 India Publisher: ALL INDIA INST MEDICAL SCIENCES, ANSARI NAGAR, NEW DELHI 110 029, INDIA Subject Category: MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL IDS Number: 831XJ ISSN: 0970-258X Cited References: 2002, 14 INT AIDS C BARC 7. 2002, HINDU. 2003, 4 INT C AIDS CHENN 9. 2003, 4 INT C AIDS IND CHE. *DEP IND SYST MED, HOM PAG. *I SCI INF, 2003, J CIT REP IMP FACT. *ICMR, 2002, 10 PLAN DOC 2002 200. *JOINT UN PROGR HI, 2003, AIDS EP UPD DEC 2003. *NACO, EST HIV AIDS IND. *NACO, INV JOIN PARTN FOR H. *NACO, 1999, NAT AIDS CONTR PROGR. *NAT LAB MED, PUBM. *UK DEP INT DEV, 2004, LAUNCH UKS NEWS STRA. *UN WIR, 2003, CLINT FDN HELPS CUT. *UN WIR, 2003, FDN DOUBL HIV AIDS G. *UN WIR, 2003, IND PRIM MIN CALLS U. *UNAIDS, TREAT 3 MILL 2005 3. *UNDP, 2003, HUM DEV REP 2003. BOERMA JT, 2003, LANCET, V362, P1929. CHANGALUCHA J, 2002, AIDS, V16, P661. DANDONA L, 1998, LANCET, V352, P328. DANDONA L, 2002, LANCET, V360, P1789. DANDONA L, 2002, NATL MED J INDIA, V15, P226. DANDONA L, 2004, BRIT MED J, V328, P47. DASA A, 2003, GAY LESBIAN VAISHNAV. GARFIELD E, 1999, CAN MED ASSOC J, V161, P979. GLYNN JR, 2001, AIDS, V15, P1717. JOHNSON WD, 2003, COCHRANE DATABASE SY, V1. LEE JW, 2003, LANCET, V362, P2083. LEVI GC, 2002, AIDS, V16, P2373. MISRA R, 2003, IND HLTH REP. MOHAMMED SK, 2003, NATL MED J INDIA, V16, P262. NARRAIN S, 2004, FRONTLINE. NEHRU J, 2000, COMMUNICATION 0108. PRIYA R, 2003, EC POLITICAL WE 1213. SHARMA DC, 2002, LANCET, V360, P1576. SHARMA DC, 2003, LANCET, V362, P1988. From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Aug 19 10:08:09 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Garfield, Eugene) Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 10:08:09 -0400 Subject: use of citation analysis in science policy by King of UK Message-ID: RESEARCH, SCOREBOARD Stop press! EU producing most science results EUROPA - Brussels,Belgium ... preferential US citing of US papers may distort the analysis," King observed ... the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland had a combined citation intensity higher ... ______________________________________________________________________ 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 Thu Aug 19 16:34:46 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 16:34:46 -0400 Subject: Robert E. Mercer, Chrysanne Di Marco and Frederick W. Kroon "The Frequency of Hedging Cues in Citation Contexts in Scientific Writing" Advances in Artificial Intelligence 3060. p.75-88, 2004 Message-ID: E-mail: Robert E. Mercer : mercer at csd.uwo.ca Chrysanne Di Marco: cdimarco at uwaterloo.ca Frederick W. Kroon: fwkroon at waterloo.ca TITLE : The Frequency of Hedging Cues in Citation Contexts in Scientific Writing AUTHOR : Robert E. Mercer, Chrysanne Di Marco and Frederick W. Kroon SOURCE : Advances in Artificial Intelligence 3060. p.75-88, 2004 ADRESS : (1) University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 5B7, (2) University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Abstract Citations in scientific writing fulfill an important role in creating relationships among mutually relevant articles within a research field. These inter-article relationships reinforce the argumentation structure that is intrinsic to all scientific writing. Therefore, determining the nature of the exact relationship between a citing and cited paper requires an understanding of the rhetorical relations within the argumentative context in which a citation is placed. To determine these relations automatically in scientific writing, we have suggested that stylistic and rhetorical cues will be significant. One type of cue that we have studied is the discourse cue, which provides cohesion among textual components. Another form of rhetorical cue involves hedging to modify the affect of a scientific claim. Hedging in scientific writing has been extensively studied by Hyland, including cataloging the pragmatic functions of the various types of cues. In this paper we show that the hedging cues proposed by Hyland occur more frequently in citation contexts than in the text as a whole. With this information we conjecture that hedging cues are an important aspect of the rhetorical relations found in citation contexts and that the pragmatics of hedges may help in determining the purpose of citations. From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Fri Aug 20 01:38:01 2004 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 07:38:01 +0200 Subject: use of citation analysis in science policy by King of UK In-Reply-To: Message-ID: from: Is the European Union Becoming a Single Publication System? Scientometrics 47(2) (2000) 265-280. With kind regards, Loet _____ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ The Challenge of Scientometrics ; The Self-Organization of the Knowledge-Based Society > -----Original Message----- > From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics > [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Garfield, Eugene > Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 4:08 PM > To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU > Subject: [SIGMETRICS] use of citation analysis in science > policy by King of UK > > RESEARCH, SCOREBOARD Stop press! 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The results showed that the correlation between the JIF and external link counts was borderline significant or inconclusive while the correlation between the JIF and the WIF was statistically significant. Addresses: An L (reprint author), Wuhan Univ, Informat Management Sch, Wuhan, 430072 Peoples R China Wuhan Univ, Informat Management Sch, Wuhan, 430072 Peoples R China Wuhan Univ, Res Ctr Evaluat Chinese Sci, Wuhan, 430072 Peoples R China Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 360 PARK AVE SOUTH, NEW YORK, NY 10010-1710 USA Subject Category: INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE IDS Number: 831CS ISSN: 0099-1333 Cited Author Cited Work Year Volume Page CRONIN B J INFORM SCI 2001 27 1 GARFIELD E CMAJ 1999 161 INGWERSEN P J DOC 1998 54 236 SMITH AG J DOC 1999 55 577 THELWALL M CONNECTION RES U COU THELWALL M J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 2002 53 995 THELWALL M J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 2001 52 1157 THELWALL M J DOC 2002 58 66 THELWALL M J DOC 2000 56 185 VAUGHAN L ASLIB PROC 2002 54 356 VAUGHAN L J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 2003 54 29 VAUGHAN L P ANN C AM SOC IF SC 2002 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Aug 20 15:01:11 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 15:01:11 -0400 Subject: van der Steen, LPE., Hage, J. J, et al , "Full Publicati Message-ID: J.J. Hage : j.jorishage at inter.nl.net Author : van der Steen, Lydia P. E. B.Sc.(Math.); Hage, J. Joris M.D., Ph.D.; Loonen, Martijn P. J. M.D.; Kon, Moshe M.D., Ph.D. Title : Full Publication of Papers Presented at the 1995 through 1999 European Association of Plastic Surgeons Annual Scientific Meetings: A Systemic Bibliometric Analysis. Source: Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery. 114(1):113-120, July 2004. Abstract: >From the multitude of oral presentations at major medical meetings, the most informative and highest-quality studies make it to full publication in peer-reviewed journals. The rate of publication may be regarded as an indicator of the scientific level of the meeting. Study of the publication rates of consecutive annual meetings allows for the evaluation of the consistency of the scientific level of these meetings and for comparison From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Aug 20 15:16:48 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 15:16:48 -0400 Subject: Spivey CA, Wilks SE "Reference list accuracy in social work journals" RESEARCH ON SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE 14 (4): 281-286 JUL 2004 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: CA SPIVEY : caspivey at juno.com Title: Reference list accuracy in social work journals Author(s): Spivey CA, Wilks SE Source: RESEARCH ON SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE 14 (4): 281-286 JUL 2004 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 19 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: This exploratory study investigated the rate of citation errors in the reference lists of five social work journals. High error rates have been found in journals infields such as medicine and psychology but have not yet been investigated in social work journals. A stratified, computer-generated random sample was selected (N = 500, 100 per journal), and each reference was verified against the original work for accuracy in six fields: article title, author name(s), journal title, pagination, volume, and year In examining the total sample of 500 references across the five journals, 206 references (41.2%) contained at least one error. Suggestions for reduction of error rates are discussed, as are suggestions for future study in this area. EXCERPT : 'SUMMARY AND RESULTS: To iterate, the percentage of references in the sample with at least one error was about 41%. This number is relatively high when compared to reference lists from journals in other professions, as mentioned earlier in the literature review. Descriptive statistics from the sample indicated that CSWJ contained the highest percentage of references with at least one error (57%); in contrast, SSR contained the lowest (29%). Based on analysis of variance, Hypothesis 1 in the current study was empirically supported. In the study's sample, ther was a significant difference in the error rates among the five social work journals. Post hoc analyses indicated that CSWJ contained the highest number of errors in its reference lists. A Pearson chi-square test showed no empirical support for Hypothesis 2. No relationship existed between the age of the reference and existence of error in that reference. Another chi-square test showed hypothesis 2 to be inaccurate, as well. Error rates of references from multiple-authored articles were not significantly different from error rates of references from single-authored articles." Addresses: Spivey CA (reprint author), 130 Chateau Terrace Apt 25, Athens, GA 30606 USA Univ Georgia, Athens, GA 30602 USA Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC, 2455 TELLER RD, THOUSAND OAKS, CA 91320 USA Subject Category: SOCIAL WORK IDS Number: 826OV ISSN: 1049-7315 Cited References: 1997, AUTHORS GUIDE SOCIAL. *AM PSYCH ASS, 2001, PUBL MAN AM PSYCH AS. ASAI T, 1995, CANADIAN J ANAESTHES, V42, P1063. ASANO M, 1995, CAN J ANAESTH, V42, P370. BENNING SP, 1993, B MED LIBR ASSOC, V81, P56. BEVAN DR, 1995, CANADIAN J ANAESTHES, V42, P367. EICHORN P, 1987, AM J PUBLIC HEALTH, V77, P1011. EVANS JT, 1990, JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC, V263, P1353. FAUNCE GJ, 2001, AM PSYCHOL, V56, P829. FENTON JE, 2000, CLIN OTOLARYNGOL, V25, P40. FOREMAN MD, 1987, RES NURS HEALTH, V10, P177. GOLDBERG R, 1993, ANN EMERG MED, V22, P1450. KEY JD, 1977, ARCH PHYSICAL MED RE, V58, P136. KRISTOF C, 1994, THESIS KENT STATE U. PEDEN BF, 1991, TEACH PSYCHOL, V18, P102. POYER RK, 1979, MED LIB ASS B, V67, P396. SWEETLAND JH, 1989, LIBR QUART, V59, P291. TAYLOR MK, 1998, NURS RES, V47, P300. WHITE A, 1987, COUNS EDUC SUPERV, V26, P286. Cited Reference Count: 19 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Aug 20 16:32:35 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 16:32:35 -0400 Subject: Quinones-Vidal .E, Lopez-Garc=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=EDa_JJ_Penaranda-Ortega_M,_Tortosa-Gil_F._"The_Nature_of_Social_and_Personality_Psychology_as_Reflected_in_JPSP,_1965=962000?= "Journal of Personality and social Psychology 86 (3) Mar. 2004. p.435-452 Amer. Message-ID: Elena Qui?ones-Vidal - quinones at um.es AUTHOR : Elena Qui?ones-Vidal, Juan Jos? L?pez-Garc?a, Mar?a Pe?aranda-Ortega, and Francisco Tortosa-Gil TITLE : The Nature of Social and Personality Psychology as Reflected in JPSP, 1965?2000 SOURCE : Journal of Personality and social Psychology 86 (3) Mar. 2004. p.435-452 Amer. Psychological Assoc. Washington A bibliometric analysis of the first 36 years (1965-2000) of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JPSP) is presented. The authors analyzed the structure of JPSP on the basis of contents and other aspects related to productivity such as growth in the number of articles and authors, and "invisible colleges". In 2001, JPSP articles were cited over 23000 times. An increasing number of older, classic articles are cited, suggesting that there are an accumulating number of citations whose influence endures over time. JPSP articles have grown in length, number of studies included, number of references, and number of authors and have become more international with an increasing proportion of authors from outside the United States. The pattern of findings suggests an increasingly complex and mature science. From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Aug 20 16:43:52 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 16:43:52 -0400 Subject: Swygart-Hobaugh, AJ "A citation analysis of the quantitative/qualitative methods debate's reflection in sociology research: Implications for library collection development" LIBRARY COLLECTIONS ACQUISITIONS & TECHNICAL SERVICES, 28 (2): 180-195 2004 Message-ID: E-mail Address:A.J. Swygart-Hobaugh : aswygart at cornellcollege.edu Author(s): Swygart-Hobaugh, AJ Title: A citation analysis of the quantitative/qualitative methods debate's reflection in sociology research: Implications for library collection development Source: LIBRARY COLLECTIONS ACQUISITIONS & TECHNICAL SERVICES, 28 (2): 180-195 2004 Language: English Abstract: This study examines how the social sciences' debate between qualitative and quantitative methods is reflected in the citation patterns of sociology journal articles. Citation analysis revealed that quantitative articles were more likely to cite journal articles than monographs, while qualitative articles were more likely to cite monographs than journals. Quantitative articles cited other articles from their own quantitative-dominated journals but virtually excluded citations to articles from qualitative journals, while qualitative articles cited articles from the quantitative-dominated journals as well as their own qualitative-specialized journals. Discussion and conclusions include this study's implications for library collection development. (C) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. EXCERPT : METHODS: Articles from the following sociology journals were analyzed: American Journal of Sociology (AJS)m /anerucab /sicuikigucak /revuew (ASR), Juornal of Contemporary Ethnography (JCE) and Qualitative Sociology (QS). The ASR and the AJS are considered "elite publications [26] within the field and are consistently ranked by impact factor as among the top five sociological journals by the Institute of Scientific Information's Journal Citation Reports. Social Sciences Edition [43-46]. JCE and QS publish exclusively qualitative studies: Due to the literature's suggesting that the ASR and AJS tend to be dominated by quantitative studies versus qualitative [21,25,26,33], selecting articles from the field's two specialized qualitative journals was necessary for comparative analyses. Addresses: Cornell Coll, Russell D Cole Lib, Consulting Lib Social Sci, Mt Vernon, IA 52314 USA Reprint Address: Swygart-Hobaugh , AJ, Cornell Coll, Russell D Cole Lib, Consulting Lib Social Sci, 600 1st St W, Mt Vernon, IA 52314 USA. 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HARGENS LL, 1991, CONTEMP SOCIOL, V20, P343. JAYARATNE TE, 1991, METHODOLOGY FEMINIST, P85. KELLER EF, 1985, REFLECTIONS GENDER S. KIDDER LH, 1997, CRITICAL PSYCHOL INT, P34. KRANTZ DL, 1995, EVAL PROGRAM PLANN, V18, P89. LIN N, 1969, AM SOCIOL, V4, P47. LINDHOLMROMANTSCHUK Y, 1996, J DOC, V52, P389. LINE MB, 1981, SOC SCI INFORM, V1, P67. NOCK DA, 2001, CAN J SOCIOL, V26, P469. OROMANER M, 1977, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V28, P34. PERITZ BC, 1983, SCIENTOMETRICS, V5, P211. PIERCE SJ, 1992, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V43, P477. PIERCE SJ, 1999, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V50, P271. RABINOWITZ VC, 1997, J SOC ISSUES, V53, P605. SALE JEM, 2002, QUAL QUANT, V36, P43. SATARIANO WA, 1978, LIBRARY Q, V48, P293. SCHMUTTERMAIER JR, 2001, SOCIOLOGICAL RES ONL, V6. SECHREST L, 1995, EVAL PROGRAM PLANN, V18, P77. SHADISH WR, 1995, EVAL PROGRAM PLANN, V18, P47. SILVERMAN D, 1998, CORE SOCIOLOGICAL DI, P78. SMALLEY TN, 1981, BEHAV SOCIAL SCI LIB, V2, P1. SMITH CW, 1989, QUAL QUANT, P29. SULLIVAN TA, 1994, EDITORS GATE KEEPERS, P159. WARD KB, 1992, SOC PROBL, V39, P291. YITZHAKI M, 1998, SCIENTOMETRICS, V41, P243. Cited Reference Count: 50 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD Publisher Address: THE BOULEVARD, LANGFORD LANE, KIDLINGTON, OXFORD OX5 1GB, ENGLAND ISSN: 1464-9055 Source Item Page Count: 16 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Aug 20 16:54:04 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 16:54:04 -0400 Subject: Tho QT, Hui SC, Fong A Web mining for identifying research trends, DIGITAL LIBRARIES: TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT OF INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE FOR GLOBAL ACCESS LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE 2911: 290-301 2003 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: QT Tho : PA0218164B at ntu.edu.sg SC Hui : asschui at ntu.edu.sg A. Fong : acmfong at ntu.edu.sg Title: Web mining for identifying research trends Author(s): Tho QT, Hui SC, Fong A Source: DIGITAL LIBRARIES: TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT OF INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE FOR GLOBAL ACCESS LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE 2911: 290-301 2003 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 13 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: This paper proposes a web mining approach for identifying research trends. The proposed approach comprises a number of data mining techniques. To perform web mining, the Indexing Agents search and download scientific publications from web sites that typically include academic web pages, then they extract citations and store them in a Web Citation Database. The Temporal Document Clustering technique and Journal Co-Citation Clustering technique are applied to the Web Citation Database to generate temporal document clusters and journal clusters respectively. The Multi-Clustering technique is then proposed to mine the document and journal clusters for their interrelationships. Finally, the knowledge that is mined from the inter-relationships is used for the detection Of trends and emergent trends for a specified research area. In this paper, we will discuss the proposed web mining approach, and the performance of the proposed approach. Addresses: Tho QT (reprint author), Nanyang Technol Univ, Sch Comp Engn, Singapore, 2263 Singapore Nanyang Technol Univ, Sch Comp Engn, Singapore, 2263 Singapore Publisher: SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, HEIDELBERGER PLATZ 3, D-14197 BERLIN, GERMANY IDS Number: BY20Q ISSN: 0302-9743 Cited Author Cited Work Year Volume Page BLANK GD P 6 ANN C INN TECHN 2001 BOLACKER K P 3 ACM C DIG LIB PI 1998 116 BOLEY D DATA MIN KNOWL DISC 1998 2 325 CIOS KJ DATA MINING METHODS 1998 EVERITT B CLUSTER ANAL 1993 HE Y APPL ARTIF INTELL 2002 16 283 HE YL INFORM PROCESS MANAG 2002 38 491 KONTOSTHATHIS A SURVEY EMERGING TREN 2003 POPESCUL A IEEE ADV DIGITAL LIB 2000 173 POTTENGER WM DETECTING EMERGING C 2001 ROY S P TEXTM 02 WORKSH 2 2002 SWAN R P 6 ACM SGKDD INT C 2003 VANRIJSBERGEN C INFORMATION RETRIEVA 1979 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Aug 20 17:04:14 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 17:04:14 -0400 Subject: Anseel, F; Duyck, W; De Baene, W; Brysbaert, M "Journal impact factors and self-citations: Implications for psychology journals" AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST, 59 (1): 49-51 JAN 2004 Message-ID: E-mail Address: Frederik Anseel : frederik.anseel at UGent.be Author(s): Anseel, F; Duyck, W; De Baene, W; Brysbaert, M Title: Journal impact factors and self-citations: Implications for psychology journals Source: AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST, 59 (1): 49-51 JAN 2004 Language: English Keywords Plus: QUALITY Addresses: State Univ Ghent, Dept Personnel Management & Work & Org Psychol, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium; Univ London, Royal Holloway & Bedford New Coll, London, England Reprint Address: Anseel, F, State Univ Ghent, Dept Personnel Management & Work & Org Psychol, Henri Dunantlaan 2, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium. Cited References: 2002, NATURE, V415, P101. *AM PSYCH ASS, 2001, PUBL MAN AM PSYCH AS. ADAIR JG, 2003, AM PSYCHOL, V58, P15. AKSNES DW, 2003, SCIENTOMETRICS, V56, P235. BOOR M, 1982, AM PSYCHOL, V37, P975. GOTTFREDSON SD, 1978, AM PSYCHOL, V33, P920. LAWRENCE PA, 2003, NATURE, V422, P259. MCGARTHY C, 2000, CURRENT RES SOCIAL P, V5, P1. MOED HF, 1999, SCIENTOMETRICS, V46, P575. Cited Reference Count: 9 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC Publisher Address: 750 FIRST ST NE, WASHINGTON, DC 20002-4242 USA ISSN: 0003-066X From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Aug 23 14:10:42 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 14:10:42 -0400 Subject: Tho QT, Hui SC, Fong A "Web mining for identifying research trends " DIGITAL LIBRARIES: TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT OF INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE FOR GLOBAL ACCESS LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE 2911: 290-301 2003 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: Tho QT : PA0218164B at ntu.edu.sg Hui SC : asschui at ntu.edu.sg Fong A : acmfong at ntu.edu.sg Title : Web mining for identifying research trends Author(s): Tho QT, Hui SC, Fong A Source : DIGITAL LIBRARIES: TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT OF INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE FOR GLOBAL ACCESS LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE 2911: 290-301 2003 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 13 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: This paper proposes a web mining approach for identifying research trends. The proposed approach comprises a number of data mining techniques. To perform web mining, the Indexing Agents search and download scientific publications from web sites that typically include academic web pages, then they extract citations and store them in a Web Citation Database. The Temporal Document Clustering technique and Journal Co-Citation Clustering technique are applied to the Web Citation Database to generate temporal document clusters and journal clusters respectively. The Multi-Clustering technique is then proposed to mine the document and journal clusters for their interrelationships. Finally, the knowledge that is mined from the inter-relationships is used for the detection Of trends and emergent trends for a specified research area. In this paper, we will discuss the proposed web mining approach, and the performance of the proposed approach. Addresses: Tho QT (reprint author), Nanyang Technol Univ, Sch Comp Engn, Singapore, 2263 Singapore Nanyang Technol Univ, Sch Comp Engn, Singapore, 2263 Singapore Publisher: SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, HEIDELBERGER PLATZ 3, D-14197 BERLIN, GERMANY IDS Number: BY20Q ISSN: 0302-9743 Cited Author Cited Work Year Volume Page BLANK GD P 6 ANN C INN TECHN 2001 BOLACKER K P 3 ACM C DIG LIB PI 1998 116 BOLEY D DATA MIN KNOWL DISC 1998 2 325 CIOS KJ DATA MINING METHODS 1998 EVERITT B CLUSTER ANAL 1993 HE Y APPL ARTIF INTELL 2002 16 283 HE YL INFORM PROCESS MANAG 2002 38 491 KONTOSTHATHIS A SURVEY EMERGING TREN 2003 POPESCUL A IEEE ADV DIGITAL LIB 2000 173 POTTENGER WM DETECTING EMERGING C 2001 ROY S P TEXTM 02 WORKSH 2 2002 SWAN R P 6 ACM SGKDD INT C 2003 VANRIJSBERGEN C INFORMATION RETRIEVA 1979 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Aug 23 14:37:54 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 14:37:54 -0400 Subject: Simonton DK. "Psychology's status as a scientific discipline: Its empirical placement within an implicit hierarchy of the sciences" REVIEW OF GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY, 8 (1): 59-67 MAR 2004 Message-ID: E-mail Address: dksimonton at ucdavis.edu Author(s): Simonton, DK Title : Psychology's status as a scientific discipline: Its empirical placement within an implicit hierarchy of the sciences Source : REVIEW OF GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY, 8 (1): 59-67 MAR 2004 Language: English Document Type: Article Abstract: Psychology's standing within a hypothesized hierarchy of the sciences was assessed in a 2-part analysis. First, an internally consistent composite measure was constructed from 7 primary indicators of scientific status (theories-to-laws ratio, consultation rate, obsolescence rate, graph prominence, early impact rate, peer evaluation consensus, and citation concentration). Second, this composite measure was validated through 5 secondary indicators (lecture disfluency, citation immediacy, anticipation frequency, age at receipt of Nobel Prize, and rated disciplinary hardness). Analyses showed that the measures reflected a single dimension on which 5 disciplines could be reliably ranked in the following order: physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, and sociology. Significantly, psychology placed much closer to biology than to sociology, forming a pair of life sciences clearly separated from the other sciences. Addresses: Univ Calif Davis, Dept Psychol, Davis, CA 95616 USA Reprint Address: Simonton, DK, Univ Calif Davis, Dept Psychol, 1 Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616 USA. Cited References: ASHAR H, 1990, J HIGH EDUC, V61, P123. BARKOW JH, 1992, ADAPTED MIND EVOLUTI. BEST LA, 2001, BEHAV PROCESS, V54, P155. BRUNER JS, 1940, PSYCHOL BULL, V37, P757. CLEVELAND WS, 1984, AM STAT, V38, P261. COAN RW, 1968, AM PSYCHOL, V23, P715. COLE S, 1983, AM J SOCIOL, V89, P111. COMTE A, 1855, POSITIVE PHILOS A CO. FRIMAN PC, 1993, AM PSYCHOL, V48, P658. HAGSTROM WO, 1974, AM SOCIOL REV, V39, P1. HEDGES LV, 1987, AM PSYCHOL, V42, P443. KIMBLE GA, 1984, AM PSYCHOL, V39, P833. KOCH S, 1959, PSYCHOL STUDY SCI. KUHN TS, 1970, STRUCTURE SCI REVOLU. MCDOWELL JM, 1982, AM ECON REV, V72, P752. OVER R, 1981, AM PSYCHOL, V36, P744. ROBINS RW, 1999, AM PSYCHOL, V54, P117. ROECKELEIN JE, 1996, PSYCHOL REP 1, V79, P979. ROECKELEIN JE, 1997, PSYCHOL REP, V80, P131. ROSENTHAL R, 1990, AM PSYCHOL, V45, P775. SCHACHTER S, 1991, J PERS SOC PSYCHOL, V60, P362. SIMONTON DK, 2000, REV GEN PSYCHOL, V4, P1. SIMONTON DK, 2002, GREAT PSYCHOL THEIR. SMITH LD, IN PRESS AM PSYCHOL. SMITH LD, 2000, SOC STUD SCI, V30, P73. SNYDER CR, 2002, HDB POSITIVE PSYCHOL. STEPHAN PE, 1993, SCIENTOMETRICS, V28, P387. SULS J, 1983, J PERS SOC PSYCHOL, V44, P575. THAGARD P, 1992, CONCEPTUAL REVOLUTIO. Cited Reference Count: 29 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING FOUNDATION Publisher Address: 750 FIRST ST, NE, WASHINGTON, DC 20002-4242 USA ISSN: 1089-2680 ISI Document Delivery No.: 801KS From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Aug 23 14:59:59 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 14:59:59 -0400 Subject: Deleu D, Northway MG, Hanssens Y "Geographical distribution of biomedical publications from the Gulf Corporation Council countries" SAUDI MEDICAL JOURNAL 25: S59-S61 Suppl. 1, JAN 2004 Message-ID: Full Text of the article is available at : http://www.smj.org.sa/DetailArticle.asp?ArticleId=52 E-mail Addresses: dtodeleu at squ.edu.om Title: Geographical distribution of biomedical publications from the Gulf Corporation Council countries Author(s): Deleu D, Northway MG, Hanssens Y Source: SAUDI MEDICAL JOURNAL 25: S59-S61 Suppl. 1, JAN 2004 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 6 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Objective: It was our purpose to perform a geographical analysis for the number of biomedical and clinical research publications from the six countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council over the past decade (1990-1999). Methods: Medline was searched with the aid of the Internet provider PubMed. By using the advanced search option, entries were based on the country name for each of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries and the time period considered. Results: The number of Medline-listed biomedical research papers published in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries over the last 10 years totaled 6,960 and increased by 14% over the past decade. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia followed by Kuwait was by far the most prolific and accounted for 67 and 16% of publications. The research output from the United Arab Emirates and Oman grew steadily over the past decade, while it appeared to plateau for both Bahrain and Qatar. Conclusion: Taking into account that Gulf Cooperation Council countries have a relatively short history of research, the data show that the Gulf Cooperation Council countries are very prolific in terms of Medline-indexed biomedical research publications. KeyWords Plus: IMPACT Addresses: Deleu D (reprint author), Sultan Qaboos Univ, Coll Med, Drug Informat Serv, POB 35, Muscat, 123 Oman Sultan Qaboos Univ, Coll Med, Drug Informat Serv, Muscat, 123 Oman Sultan Qaboos Univ, Hosp Pharm, Dept Pharmacol & Therapeut, Muscat, 123 Oman Publisher: SAUDI MED J, ARMED FORCES HOSPITAL, PO BOX 7897,, RIYADH 11159, SAUDI ARABIA Subject Category: MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL IDS Number: 780QQ ISSN: 0379-5284 Cited Author Cited Work Year Volume Page GARFIELD E CAN MED ASSOC J 1999 161 979 GARFIELD E SCIENCE 1972 178 471 HEFLER L LANCET 1999 353 1856 LAMMERS WJEP ANN SAUDI MED 1996 16 666 ROSSELLI D LANCET 1999 354 517 THOMPSON DF NEW ENGL J MED 1999 340 817 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Aug 23 15:09:24 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 15:09:24 -0400 Subject: Lewison, G; Lipworth, S; Rippon, I; Roe, P; Cottrell, R "Geographical equity between outputs of biomedical research grants and research capability as an indicator of the peer-review process for grant applications"Res Eval, 12 (3): 225-230 DEC 2003 Message-ID: g.lewison at soi.city.ac.uk Author(s): Lewison, G; Lipworth, S; Rippon, I; Roe, P; Cottrell, R Title : Geographical equity between outputs of biomedical research grants and research capability as an indicator of the peer-review process for grant applications Source : RESEARCH EVALUATION, 12 (3): 225-230 DEC 2003 Language: English Document Type: Article Abstract: A function of the known citation impact factor of journals in which papers are published is likely to affect funding decisions by committees of award. A comparison of the goodness of fit between the geographical distributions within a country of the 'inputs' to the funding decision and the 'outputs'. as revealed by the locations of later papers that acknowledge the support of the funding body, can reveal the form of this function. Hence it can describe the decision-making process of a funder - 'egalitarian' ' valuing all papers the same, or 'elitist'. giving much more weight to papers in highly citedjournals. The analysis has been applied to two sets of UK papers, in cancer research and cardiology, and yields realistic and consistent results for this function for several different funding bodies. Addresses: City Univ London, Ctr Informat Behav & Evaluat Res, London EC1V 0HB, England; SRL Consulting, London NW8 8UF, England; Software Solut, St Albans AL3 4DW, Herts, England Reprint Address: Lewison, G, City Univ London, Ctr Informat Behav & Evaluat Res, London EC1V 0HB, England. Cited References: BODEN M, 1990, PEER REV REPORT ADVI. COLLINS PMD, 1991, SEPSU POLICY STUDY, V5. DAWSON G, 1998, 9 WELLC TRUST. GILLETT R, 1993, BRIT MED J, V306, P1672. HORROBIN DF, 1996, LANCET, V348, P1293. LEWISON G, 1994, SCIENTOMETRICS, V31, P125. LEWISON G, 1998, SCIENTOMETRICS, V41, P5. LEWISON G, 1999, RES EVALUAT, V8, P47. LEWISON G, 1999, SCIENTOMETRICS, V46, P529. LEWISON G, 2002, AUSTRIAN BIOMEDICAL. LEWISON G, 2002, SCIENTOMETRICS, V53, P229. LEWISWILLIAMS JD, 1995, CAMB ARCHAEOL J, V5, P3. MOXHAM H, 1992, SCI TECHNOLOGY POLIC, P7. SEGLEN PO, 1997, BRIT MED J, V314, P498. WENNERAS C, 1997, NATURE, V387, P341. Cited Reference Count: 15 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: BEECH TREE PUBLISHING Publisher Address: 10 WATFORD CLOSE,, GUILDFORD GU1 2EP, SURREY, ENGLAND ISSN: 0958-2029 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Aug 23 16:35:15 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 16:35:15 -0400 Subject: Kovacic N, Misak A "What can be learned from impact factor of Croatian Medical Journal, 1994-2003?" CROATIAN MEDICAL JOURNAL 45 (1): 13-17 FEB 2004 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: natasa at amef.hr Title : What can be learned from impact factor of Croatian Medical Journal, 1994-2003? Author(s): Kovacic N, Misak A Source: CROATIAN MEDICAL JOURNAL 45 (1): 13-17 FEB 2004 Document Type: Editorial Material Language: English Cited References: 10 Times Cited: 1 Abstract: We calculated the impact factor (IF) of the Croatian Medical Journal (CMJ) for the 1994-2003 period, ie, including the years before its inclusion into the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) database in 1999. There was a latency period of several years from the inclusion of the Journal in indexing databases to the IF increase. According to the ISI Journal of Citation Report, IF of the CMJ in 2001 and 2002, was 0.43 and 0.71 and journal was ranked 70 and 56, respectively, out of 107 journals under the category "Medicine, general and internal". The analysis of distribution and type of citations that contributed to the IF of the CMJ revealed that its increase mainly resulted from the increase in the number of fully independent citations and author auto-citations in journals other than CMJ. The factors that probably accounted for the IF increase were better international visibility, full-text free-of-charge online availability, and large number of international contributions, especially in some thematic issues. Author Keywords: Croatia; impact factor; publications Addresses: Kovacic N (reprint author), Univ Zagreb, Sch Med, Dept Anat, Salata 3B, Zagreb, 10000 Croatia Univ Zagreb, Sch Med, Dept Anat, Zagreb, 10000 Croatia Univ Zagreb, Sch Med, Croatian Med Journal, Zagreb, 10000 Croatia Publisher: MEDICINSKA NAKLADA, VLASKA 69, HR-10000 ZAGREB, CROATIA Subject Category: MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL IDS Number: 780EL ISSN: 0353-9504 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Aug 23 16:50:47 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 16:50:47 -0400 Subject: Porter AL, Newman NC, Myers WW, Schoeneck D "Projects and publications: interesting patterns in US Environmental Protection Agency research" RESEARCH EVALUATION 12 (3): 171-182 DEC 2003 Message-ID: E-mail: Alan Porter : alan.porter at isye.gatech.edu N.C. Newman : newman at iisco.com W.W. Myers : webb at iisco.com David Schoeneck: david_schoeneck at hotmail.com Title: Projects and publications: interesting patterns in US Environmental Protection Agency research Author(s): Porter AL, Newman NC, Myers WW, Schoeneck D Source: RESEARCH EVALUATION 12 (3): 171-182 DEC 2003 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 5 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: We analyze samples of EPA research projects concerning endocrine disruptors and ecosystem indicators. Prior collaboration among researchers predicts effective teaming well. The projects are quite productive in terms of resulting publications and citations. We assess project-related publication in two ways: in the context of overall publication by the researchers over a decade, and with respect to general activity patterns in these two research domains. Most intriguing is a disparity between research program focus, and the emphases of resulting research publications. Addresses: Porter AL (reprint author), Res Search Technol Inc, 4960 Peachtree Ind Blvd, Norcross, GA 30071 USA Res Search Technol Inc, Norcross, GA 30071 USA Publisher: BEECH TREE PUBLISHING, 10 WATFORD CLOSE,, GUILDFORD GU1 2EP, SURREY, ENGLAND Subject Category: INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE IDS Number: 779LY ISSN: 0958-2029 Cited Author Cited Work Year Volume Page BORNER K ANN REV INFORMATION 2003 37 LOSIEWICZ P J INTELL INF SYST 2000 15 99 PORTER AL SCIENTOMETRICS 2002 53 351 VANRAAN AFJ HDB QUANTITATIVE STU 1988 VANRAAN AFJ RES EVALUAT 2000 9 81 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Aug 23 16:54:25 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 16:54:25 -0400 Subject: Projects and publications: interesting patterns in US Environmental Message-ID: The authors of made an extensive use of Medline, SCI and SSCI on Web of Science E-mail: Alan Porter : alan.porter at isye.gatech.edu N.C. Newman : newman at iisco.com W.W. Myers : webb at iisco.com David Schoeneck: david_schoeneck at hotmail.com Title: Projects and publications: interesting patterns in US Environmental Protection Agency research Author(s): Porter AL, Newman NC, Myers WW, Schoeneck D Source: RESEARCH EVALUATION 12 (3): 171-182 DEC 2003 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 5 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: We analyze samples of EPA research projects concerning endocrine disruptors and ecosystem indicators. Prior collaboration among researchers predicts effective teaming well. The projects are quite productive in terms of resulting publications and citations. We assess project-related publication in two ways: in the context of overall publication by the researchers over a decade, and with respect to general activity patterns in these two research domains. Most intriguing is a disparity between research program focus, and the emphases of resulting research publications. Addresses: Porter AL (reprint author), Res Search Technol Inc, 4960 Peachtree Ind Blvd, Norcross, GA 30071 USA Res Search Technol Inc, Norcross, GA 30071 USA Publisher: BEECH TREE PUBLISHING, 10 WATFORD CLOSE,, GUILDFORD GU1 2EP, SURREY, ENGLAND Subject Category: INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE IDS Number: 779LY ISSN: 0958-2029 Cited Author Cited Work Year Volume Page BORNER K ANN REV INFORMATION 2003 37 LOSIEWICZ P J INTELL INF SYST 2000 15 99 PORTER AL SCIENTOMETRICS 2002 53 351 VANRAAN AFJ HDB QUANTITATIVE STU 1988 VANRAAN AFJ RES EVALUAT 2000 9 81 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Aug 23 17:26:52 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:26:52 -0400 Subject: Ioannidis JPA "Global Estimates of High-Level Brain Drain and Deficit" FASEB Journal 18(9) p.936-939, June 2004 Message-ID: John P.A. Ioannides : E-mail Address: jioannid at cc.uoi.gr Author(s): Ioannidis, JPA Title: Global estimates of high-level brain drain and deficit Source: FASEB JOURNAL, 18 (9): 936-939 JUN 2004 Language: English Document Type: Article Abstract: Brain drain, the international migration of scientists in search of better opportunities, has been a long-standing concern, but quantitative measurements are uncommon and limited to specific countries or disciplines. We need to understand brain drain at a global level and estimate the extent to which scientists born in countries with low opportunities never realize their potential. Data on 1523 of the most highly cited scientists for 1981-1999 are analyzed. Overall, 31.9% of these scientists did not reside in the country where they were born (range 18.1-54.6% across 21 different scientific fields). There was great variability across developed countries in the proportions of foreign-born resident scientists and emigrating scientists. Countries without a critical mass of native scientists lost most scientists to migration. This loss occurred in both developed and developing countries. Adjusting for population and using the U. S. as reference, the number of highly cited native-born scientists was at least 75% of the expected number in only 8 countries other than the U. S. It is estimated that similar to94% of the expected top scientists worldwide have not been able to materialize themselves due to various adverse conditions. Scientific deficit is only likely to help perpetuate these adverse conditions. Addresses: Univ Ioannina, Sch Med, Dept Hyg & Epidemiol, GR-45110 Ioannina, Greece; Fdn Res & Technol Hellas, Inst Biomed Res, Ioannina, Greece; Tufts Univ, Sch Med, Dept Med, Boston, MA 02111 USA Reprint Address: Ioannidis, JPA, Univ Ioannina, Sch Med, Dept Hyg & Epidemiol, GR-45110 Ioannina, Greece. 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Cited Reference Count: 19 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: FEDERATION AMER SOC EXP BIOL Publisher Address: 9650 ROCKVILLE PIKE, BETHESDA, MD 20814-3998 USA ISSN: 0892-6638 ISI Document Delivery No.: 833HJ From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Aug 24 15:30:00 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 15:30:00 -0400 Subject: Senn, S; Lee, S "The analysis of the AB/BA cross-over trial in the medical literature" PHARMACEUTICAL STATISTICS, 3 (2): 123-131 APR-JUN 2004 Message-ID: Stephen Senn : E-mail Address: stephen at stats.gla.ac.uk Author(s): Senn, S; Lee, S Title : The analysis of the AB/BA cross-over trial in the medical literature Source : PHARMACEUTICAL STATISTICS, 3 (2): 123-131 APR-JUN 2004 Language: English Document Type: Article Abstract: The evolution of opinion as to how to analyse the AB/BA cross-over trials is described by examining the recommendations of three key papers. The impact of these papers on the medical literature is analysed by looking at citation rates as a function of various factors. It is concluded that amongst practitioners there is a highly impel fect appreciation of the issues raised by the possibility of carry-over. Copyright (C) 2004 John Wiley Sons Ltd. EXCERPT FROM PAPER : PURPOSE OF THIS PAPER: PURPOSE OF THIS PAPER: The AB/BA cross-over trial has a poor reputation and a controversial history, which we cover below. That is not, however, the main purpose of this paper. The evolution of the analysis of cross-over trials in practice has not necessarily followed that of recommendations in the statistical literature. This evolution is currently being investigated by one of us (SL) in a number of ways: first, changing recommendations in textbooks of medical statistics; second, current practice in analysis within the pharmaceutical industry third, the actual analysis of cross-over trials in papers in the medical press, and finally, citation of key statistical papers in the medical literature. It is the last of these that forms the subject of this paper. We consider the pattern of citations over time for the three key papers: Grizzle [4-6], Hills and Armitage [7] and Freeman [8]. However, because this is the first of the series of proposed papers investigating the way in which cross-over trial are analysed in practice, we devote considerable space to covering the history of the controversy. This will be done in the sections that follow before proceeding to the citation analysis itself. Addresses: Univ Coll London, Dept Epidemiol & Publ Hlth, London, England; Univ Coll London, Dept Stat Sci, London, England Reprint Address: Senn, S, Univ Coll London, Dept Epidemiol & Publ Hlth, London, England. Cited References: BALAAM LN, 1968, BIOMETRICS, V24, P61. COTTON JD, 1998, ANAL WITHIN SUBJECT. FREEMAN PR, 1989, STAT MED, V8, P1421. GARFIELD E, 1971, CURR CONTENTS, P224. GARFIELD E, 1992, SCI PUBL POLICY, V19, P321. GRIEVE AP, 1982, BIOMETRICS, V38, P517. GRIZZLE JE, 1965, BIOMETRICS, V21, P467. GRIZZLE JE, 1974, BIOMETRICS, V30, P727. HILLS M, 1979, BRIT J CLIN PHARMACO, V8, P7. JONES B, 2003, DESIGN ANAL CROSS OV. LARSON HJ, 1963, BIOMETRIKA, V50, P391. MCCULLAGH P, 1989, GENERALIZED LINEAR M. NELDER JA, 1972, J ROYAL STAT SOC A, V132, P107. PRICE DJD, 1965, SCIENCE, V149, P510. RATKOWSKY DA, 1993, CROSS OVER EXPT DESI. REDMAN J, 2001, J APPL CRYSTALLOGR 3, V34, P375. SENN S, 1994, STAT METHODS MED RES, V3, P303. SENN S, 1998, ENCY BIOSTATISTICS, V2, P1033. SENN SJ, 1991, BRIT J CLIN PHARMACO, V32, P133. SENN SJ, 2000, ENCY BIOPHARMACEUTIC, P142. SENN SJ, 2002, CROSS OVER TRIALS CL. Cited Reference Count: 21 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: JOHN WILEY & SONS INC Publisher Address: 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN, NJ 07030 USA ISSN: 1539-1604 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Aug 24 15:39:23 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 15:39:23 -0400 Subject: Kostoff, RN; Bedford, CD; del Rio, JA; Cortes, HD; Karypis, G "Macromolecule mass spectrometry: Citation mining of user documents" JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY, 15 (3): 281-287 MAR 2004 Message-ID: Ronald N. Kostoff : e-mail : kostofr at onr.navy.mil Author(s): Kostoff, RN; Bedford, CD; del Rio, JA; Cortes, HD; Karypis, G Title: Macromolecule mass spectrometry: Citation mining of user documents Source: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY, 15 (3): 281-287 MAR 2004 Language: English Document Type: Article Abstract: Identifying research users, applications, and impact is important for research performers, managers, evaluators, and sponsors. Identification of the user audience and the research impact is complex and time consuming due to the many indirect pathways through which fundamental research can impact applications. This paper identified the literature pathways through which two highly-cited papers of 2002 Chemistry Nobel Laureates Fenn and Tanaka impacted research, technology development, and applications. Citation Mining, an integration of citation bibliometrics and text mining, was applied to the >1600 first generation Science Citation Index (SCI) citing papers to Fenn's 1989 Science paper on Electrospray Ionization for Mass Spectrometry, and to the >400 first generation SCI citing papers to Tanaka's 1988 Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry paper on Laser Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry. Bibliometrics was performed on the citing papers to profile the user characteristics. Text mining was performed on the citing papers to identify the technical areas impacted by the research, and the relationships among these technical areas. (C) 2004 American Society for Mass Spectrometry. Addresses: Off Naval Res, Arlington, VA 22217 USA; Univ Nacl Mexico, Ctr Invest Energia, Mexico City, DF, Mexico; Univ Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN USA Reprint Address: Kostoff, RN, Off Naval Res, 800 N Quincy St, Arlington, VA 22217 USA. Ronald N. 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KOSTOFF RN, SCI TECHNOLOGY TEXT. KOSTOFF RN, 1997, J INFORM SCI, V23, P4. KOSTOFF RN, 1998, SCIENTOMETRICS, V43, P27. KOSTOFF RN, 2000, J AIRCRAFT, V37, P727. KOSTOFF RN, 2001, J AM SOC INF SCI TEC, V52, P1148. KOSTOFF RN, 2003, ENCY LIB INFORMATION, V4, P2789. KOSTOFF RN, 2003, INT HDB INNOVATION, P388. KOSTOFF RN, 2003, MED HYPOTHESES, V61, P265. KOSTOFF RN, 2004, FRACTALS, V12, P1. KOSTOFF RN, 2004, INT J BIFURCAT CHAOS. LOO JA, 1989, ANAL BIOCHEM, V179, P404. LOO JA, 1990, SCIENCE, V248, P201. LOSIEWICZ P, 2000, J INTELL INF SYST, V15, P99. MACROBERTS MH, 1996, SCIENTOMETRICS, V36, P435. MANN M, 1989, ANAL CHEM, V61, P1702. NARIN F, 1976, MONOGRAPH NSF. NARIN F, 1994, EVALUATION REV, V18, P65. PRECHELT L, 2002, J UNIVERS COMPUT SCI, V8, P1016. RASMUSSEN E, 1992, INFORMATION RETRIEVA. SCHUBERT A, 1987, SCIENTOMETRICS, V12, P267. SMITH RD, 1990, ANAL CHEM, V62, P882. STEINBACH M, 2000, 00034 U MINN DEP COM. SWANSON DR, 1986, PERSPECT BIOL MED, V30, P7. SWANSON DR, 1997, ARTIF INTELL, V91, P183. TANAKA K, 1987, P 2 JAP CHIN JOINT S, P185. TANAKA K, 1988, RAPID COMMUN MASS SP, V2, P151. VIATOR JA, 2001, J ACOUST SOC AM 1, V109, P1779. WHITEHOUSE CM, 1985, ANAL CHEM, V57, P675. WILLETT P, 1988, INFORMATION PROCESSI, V24, P577. WISE MJ, 1992, STRING SIMILARITY GR. WONG SF, 1988, J PHYS CHEM-US, V92, P546. YAMASHITA M, 1984, J PHYS CHEM-US, V88, P4451. YAMASHITA M, 1984, J PHYS CHEM-US, V88, P4671. YOSHIDA T, 1988, MASS SPECTROSC JAPAN, P36. ZAMIR O, 1998, P 21 ANN INT ACM SIG, P46. ZHAO Y, 2003, IN PRESS CRITERION F. ZHU DH, 2002, TECHNOL FORECAST SOC, V69, P495. Cited Reference Count: 59 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC Publisher Address: 360 PARK AVE SOUTH, NEW YORK, NY 10010-1710 USA ISSN: 1044-0305 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Aug 24 16:11:41 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 16:11:41 -0400 Subject: Fava, GA; Ottolini, F "International trends in psychiatric research. A citation analysis" CURRENT OPINION IN PSYCHIATRY, 17 (4): 283-287 JUL 2004 Message-ID: Giovanni A. Fava : E-mail Address: fava at psibo.unibo.it Author(s): Fava, GA; Ottolini, F Title: International trends in psychiatric research. A citation analysis Source: CURRENT OPINION IN PSYCHIATRY, 17 (4): 283-287 JUL 2004 Language: English Document Type: Article Abstract: Purpose of review The state of research in psychiatry of different countries can be assessed using a database of the Institute for Scientific Information, which includes publications and citations taken from the peer-reviewed journals that are indexed. The aim of this paper was to comment on the international trends that result from a citation analysis of the psychiatric field. Recent findings The US and the UK were the leading countries both in terms of the number of papers and impact. However, in recent years, several European countries have displayed an impressive growth. Summary Citation analysis discloses very different patterns in the growth of research in psychiatry between different countries. Substantial differences in performances may reflect a number of phenomena, such as the efficiency of academic or research institutions and priorities in investments. EXCERPT FROM PAPER : "CONCLUSION: The citation analysis of individual countries in psychiatry has yielded important observations. While in the 1980s there wa s a clear Anglo-American superiority, this predominance appeared to be challenged in the 1990s. The US is still the top country for impact, and Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand show remarkable progress. However, the UK is only 13th for change in impact. There has been an impressive growth of several European countries (Belgium, The Netherlands, Austrial, Germany) and a decline in some Scandinavian countries (Sweden and Denmark). Substantial differences in performances may reflect a number of phenomena, such as the tradition of fields of excellence, different levels of priorities in investment, efficiency of academic or research institutions, and local trend within academic psychiatry. If international trends emerging from citation analyses are supplemented by analyses performed at a national level - as occurred, for instance, in Italy [13], with particular reference to mental health [14] - several questions of crucial value for research may be addressed. What are the characteristics of the publications from the countries with the greater impact? Do the most-cited researchers tend to publish in high-impact journals or simply use methodologies and address issues that have greater influence among clinical scientists? Are there differences in the structure of the clinical studies in high-impact countries (e.g. do they tend to support larger, multicenter studies rather than smaller trials; are there differences in funding and review processes; what are the mechanisms of the academic career)? The answers to these types of questions may yield important insights for psychiatric research. Another interesting implication is the separation between the quantity of research published and its impact. The psychiatric literature is overburdened with huge quantities of publications of little relevance, which are never cited [11]. Understanding the nature of high-impact research might help scientists and funding agencies better target their efforts across international boundaries." Addresses: Univ Bologna, Dept Psychol, I-40127 Bologna, Italy; Univ Modena, Dept Psychiat & Mental Hlth, Modena, Italy Reprint Address: Fava, GA, Univ Bologna, Dept Psychol, Viale Berti Pichat 5, I-40127 Bologna, Italy. E-mail Address: fava at psibo.unibo.it Cited References: 2004, TIME 0119, P32. ANTONUCCIO DO, 2003, AM PSYCHOL, V58, P1028. BIGNAMI G, 2000, EPIDEMIOL PSICHIATRI, V9, P11. FAVA GA, 1996, PSYCHOTHER PSYCHOSOM, V65, P281. FAVA GA, 1997, PSYCHOTHER PSYCHOSOM, V66, P169. FAVA GA, 2000, PSYCHOTHER PSYCHOSOM, V69, P285. FAVA GA, 2002, SCIENCE, V298, P1715. FAVA GA, 2004, PSYCHOTHER PSYCHOSOM, V73, P1. GARFIELD E, 1992, SCI PUBL POLICY, V19, P321. HANSSON S, 1995, LANCET, V346, P906. LAWRENCE PA, 2003, NATURE, V422, P259. MAY RM, 1997, SCIENCE, V275, P793. MOLL C, 2003, BMC PSYCHIAT, V3, P18. SEGLEN PO, 1997, ALLERGY, V52, P1050. Cited Reference Count: 14 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS Publisher Address: 530 WALNUT ST, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106-3621 USA ISSN: 0951-7367 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Aug 25 15:03:13 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 15:03:13 -0400 Subject: Amin M. and Mabe M. "Impact Factors: Use and Abuse" Medicina-Buenos Aires 63(4):347-354 2003 Message-ID: Full text available at : http://www.medicinabuenosaires.com/vol63-03/4/Impact%20factors-use%20and%20abuse.pdf Mayur Amin : E-mail : m.amin at elsevier.co.uk Michael Mabe:E-mail : m.mabe at elsevier.co.uk TITLE Impact factors: Use and abuse AUTHOR Amin M. and Mabe M. JOURNAL MEDICINA-BUENOS AIRES 63 (4): 347-354 2003 Document Type: Editorial Material Language: English Cited References: 0 Times Cited: 2 Addresses: Amin M (reprint author), Elsevier Sci, Blvd,Langford Lane, Oxford, England Elsevier Sci, Oxford, England Publisher: MEDICINA (BUENOS AIRES), DONATO ALVAREZ 3150, 1427 BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA Subject Category: MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL IDS Number: 723ZT ISSN: 0025-7680 From cag at AUA.GR Sat Aug 28 08:55:25 2004 From: cag at AUA.GR (Constantinos A. Georgiou) Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 15:55:25 +0300 Subject: REMOVE In-Reply-To: <200408121738.TAA09672@hebe.uva.nl> Message-ID: ==================================== Constantinos A. Georgiou Associate Professor of Analytical Chemistry Agricultural University of Athens 75 Iera Odos, 118 55 Athens, Greece. Phone: +30210 52 94 248 Fax: +30210 52 94 265 Email: cag at aua.gr URL: http://www.aua.gr/georgiou -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu] On Behalf Of Loet Leydesdorff Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 8:38 PM To: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] question about author groups SCI 2002 Number UI UG IG UIG Univers Industry Govt All 683222 17095 116782 4626 5664 556370 41840 234843 USA 238676 7274 40650 1777 2732 206813 18193 68835 EU 250395 4586 54617 1400 2187 204531 11011 99830 UK 66544 1569 14263 360 763 53972 3617 26673 Germany 59630 1181 14986 405 703 50319 2925 24364 France 39973 431 12214 422 585 26663 1826 25721 Scand 30437 592 8757 170 411 26283 1431 13064 Italy 29795 374 7609 79 321 26680 956 10863 Netherlands 17865 328 4663 78 307 15927 859 6762 S. Korea 14931 533 3115 118 183 13163 996 4904 Japan 68338 4303 13297 1113 1481 57345 9892 22776 PR China 28913 381 6408 111 173 24328 728 11103 Taiwan 9572 183 2772 15 59 8608 295 3757 Singapore 3411 110 622 16 53 2978 202 1085 Russia 20723 81 6637 134 157 11486 443 15960 India 12570 109 2180 92 67 7140 459 7486 Brazil 10888 189 2054 45 81 9584 386 3368 Dear Steven, This is an update 2002 of the figures for 2000 provided in my paper "The Mutual Information of University-Industry-Government Relations: An Indicator of the Triple Helix Dynamics," Scientometrics 58(2), 2003, 445-467. See that paper for similar figures for 2000 and for the methodology. The data is statistical (i.e., with errors). With kind regards, Loet _____ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ The Challenge of Scientometrics ; The Self-Organization of the Knowledge-Based Society > -----Original Message----- > From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics > [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Steven A. Morris > Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 6:24 PM > To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU > Subject: [SIGMETRICS] question about author groups > > Does anyone out there know of any study that tries to > identify what percentage of papers are authored by university > groups (professors and their students), compared to > percentage of papers from corporate and government authors? > > Thanks, > > S. Morris > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Perhaps we could meet to discuss it further when I am in Mumbai in a few weeks time (sept 5): http://www.jpgmonline.com/gc_pdetails2.asp For now I would only point out that the physics arxiv contains both preprints (i.e. pre-refereeing) and postprints (refereed) and that preprints of course get cited earlier, because they become accessible earlier. And both preprints and postprints get cited more, because they are Open Access (and also because physicists tend to use arxiv as their preferred means of access, as it contains so much in certain areas such as HEP and astro). It is interesting that the eprints are cited by high-impact journals (but they also tend to have been self-archived by high-impact authors!). You may be interested to see this recent article: Harnad, S. & Brody, T. (2004) Comparing the Impact of Open Access (OA) vs. Non-OA Articles in the Same Journals, D-Lib Magazine 10 (6) June http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june04/harnad/06harnad.html And these associated scientometric data and tools: http://citebase.eprints.org/isi_study/ http://citebase.eprints.org/ http://citebase.eprints.org/analysis/correlation.php More recent papaers are listed at: http://opcit.eprints.org/ Best wishes, Stevan Harnad On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Venkatrao Kalyane wrote: > Honourable Sir, > Kindly go through following and provide your critical > comments, guidelines > eprints.rclis.org/archive/00002200/ > > thanking u, > Yours most obediently, > (V. L. Kalyane) > E-LIS Editor for India > > ===== > V.L. Kalyane, > Scientific Officer (E), > Scientific Information Resource Division, > Knowledge Management Group, > Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, > Trombay, Mumbai - 400 085, INDIA. > Ph. No. (091) (022) 2559 2710, (091) (022) 2559 0826 (Office); > (091) (022) 2555 5930 (Residence) > Residential Address: 55 Venkatgiri, Anushaktinagar, Mumbai - 400 094, INDIA, Visit: http://www.geocities.com/vkalyane/ > http://asia.geocities.com/vkalyane/CV30-08-04.doc