From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Dec 13 16:17:54 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Garfield, Eugene) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 16:17:54 -0500 Subject: comments on David King's "Scientific Impact of Nations" by Prabir Purkayastha Message-ID: People's Democracy (Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) _____ Vol. XXVIII No. 50 December 12, 2004 Scientific Capability And The Wealth Of Nations Prabir Purkayastha EVERY school of thought accepts that if a country wants to become a global player, Research and Development (R&D) is vital. Copying, body shopping, selling other people's products and technology can work for some time. But not for long. The ability to develop technology innovations continuously is what distinguishes technology leaders from followers. This means the ability not merely to copy innovations done elsewhere but to also to develop the next generation of technology. Just following behind the Joneses may have worked in a world where technology remained relatively stable. But not today, where computational power of a chip doubles every 18 months. SCIENTIFIC CAPABILITY Scientific capability and technology innovations are therefore the prerequisites to a country's development. In a recent paper, David King "The Scientific Impact of Nations", Nature, VOL 430, July 15, 2004) has plotted the scientific capability (citation index intensity) of a nation against the GDP intensity (per capita GDP) of 31 nations. The citation intensity is simply the number of such citations divided by the GDP of the countries. The wealth intensity of the countries is also a simple measurement: it is the per capita GDP of the country. It shows very clearly the importance of scientific capability for a nation: the citation intensity correlates very well with the wealth intensity of countries. More the citation intensity, wealthier the country. Of course, one can also argue that if a country is wealthy, it can devote more to research and therefore its citation index goes up. But if we look at the per capita GDP of many countries, for instance oil-producing countries, we will find that though their GDP is high, their scientific output is low. If we exclude the countries that are rich due to some primary product or a finite natural resource like oil, then the driving factor for wealth of a country does emerge as its capability to produce scientific and technological innovation While how to measure scientific capability is still being debated, some indicators are agreed upon as a basis for some form of ranking. The most common ones are amount of research papers produced and how many times they are cited by other authors: the citation index of the papers. While the number of papers that a country produces, may provide an indication of the quantity of its output, the citation index is supposed to reflect its quality. It is true that a simple analysis based on just citations is open to various distortions - papers in medicines are quoted more than papers in mathematics, papers in English are quoted more than in other languages, etc, - nevertheless, the citation index does provide a rough and ready reckoner for quality of the research produced by a country. How does India fare on this measure of citation index and citation intensity? The good news is that India and also China are still in the league of countries with significant science and technology capability. The bad news is that our quality is well below its quantity. The citation rate per paper puts us in the 29th position, well below that of countries such as Luxemburg, Israel, Singapore. For all publications in the time period 1997-2001, India had 2.13 per cent of all publications but a citation index of only 0.86 per cent. Countries at the top end have a reverse ratio; with a smaller number of papers, they have a higher citation index. CITATION INDEX Citation index is what King has used is one measure of scientific capability. There are others, which have been constructed. One of the better known one is the one by the Institute for Higher Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) in China. SHTU recently carried out an exercise to rank the world's universities, using an index of five criteria: the number of people who won a Nobel Prize (or Fields medal, its equivalent in mathematics), the number of highly cited researchers, articles published by university staff in the leading science journals Science and Nature, the number of articles included in the Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index and the average academic output of a faculty member. One can question the weightage and the methodology: after all Nobel prizes are given long after the people have done their actual work. However, even if one takes the ranking, not at its face value but just an indicator of broad trends, the picture that emerges for India is not very flattering. Amongst the first 500 top universities in the world, India has only 3. Even worse, there are only 3 universities from India in the top 100 Asia/Pacific universities. In 2003, the three universities/institutes were Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc.), Bangalore, IIT Kharagpur and IIT Delhi; this year it is IISc and Calcutta University. To quote the editor of Current Science, P. Balaram, "Sadly, the real universities in India are limping, research consigned to an unimportant role. Even as funding has increased for many of UGC's 'five star' universities there are evident problems, with faculty disinterested in research clearly outnumbering those with an academic bent of mind." (Current Science, VOL. 86, NO. 10, May 25 2004). This only reinforces what we have already noted, that Indian science is producing poor quality research, with its universities currently in decline. Even the specialised institutes that are supposed to have concentrated on research have yet to make their mark internationally. And if our institutes of higher learning do not deliver on building the right kind of skills, we cannot deliver innovation to the industry as well. DECLINE OF THE UNIVERSITIES The decline of the universities has taken place in a number of ways. The key has been the UGC denying funds to the university. While funds for the universities have declined, a number of newer institutes have sprung up, which are cornering the bulk of the funding for higher education. While this is a worldwide trend, the degree to which the top universities of India are being denied funds is perhaps unparalleled elsewhere. Even worse, there is a theory that while school education could be supported, the state should get out of funding higher education: the students should pay the true cost of higher education, reserving this only for the rich. The obvious connection is lost sight of between scientific capability and the wealth of nations. We need our best and brightest to build the nation's scientific capability irrespective of their income. This is not a welfare measure but an imperative in an age where science and technical capability spell development. The other issue is how do we go about building an R&D infrastructure that delivers technology innovation to the industry? Obviously, this has not happened in India except perhaps for three sectors, space, atomic energy and pharmaceuticals. The first two were forced upon us due to the embargo on nuclear and missile technologies. The pharmaceutical industry developed as changing of the Patent Act from product to process patents allowed Indian industry to innovate new processes and produce cheaper drugs. http://pd.cpim.org/2004/1212/12122004_snd.htm In all the three areas above, the state played the key role. In the first two - Atomic Energy and Space - the research, development and production are all carried out within the same organisation. In pharmaceuticals --- CDRI, Lukhnow and NCL, Pune --- the CSIR laboratories produced the process innovations. If we take out these three sectors, the record of the rest of the research institutions in developing technology is quite poor. WHY FAILURE Why did the Indian research institutions fail to make contributions in other areas while it did succeed in these three? In all the three areas, both the end user of research, the industry, and the producer of technology, the research institutions, worked together. Both had their contributions: if the process was developed in the CSIR laboratories, scaling up for manufacture was done by the industry. This is the vital gap that afflicts other sectors. If technology is available from a "collaborator," the Indian industry gets the entire package - from the design to the assembly line. Instead, if you get the same technology from a lab, you get merely the design. Scaling it up to the production level is a different ball game. The labs do this very poorly. If the industry expects the laboratories to give them a completely packaged technology, this is doomed to failure. And it is this missing link - from design to production - that has lead to the research institutions contributions in other sectors being relatively poor. The current paradigm of the neo-liberal economy is that the market will take care of everything including research. Well, the market does take care of research for little things, essentially small problems with current products and technologies. What it cannot address is new technologies. The dominant industry players rejected the most ubiquitous of technologies of today - the personal computers and mobile phones - when they were first proposed. IBM felt that the idea that people would want to own personal computers was ridiculous. It is state funding of science and technology (and also philanthropic funding) for completely esoteric ideas that produced the next generation technologies. WHAT IS TO BE DONE What do we need to do in order to develop an innovative society? The most important element here is a state funded and well-developed R&D infrastructure including a university system that produces high quality science and technology students. The second is the realisation in the industry that it cannot treat the research institution like its collaborator of yesteryears. It must be itself a partner in technology development and develop the production system for the technology. The third is that the research institutions must understand that the source of research ideas is the everyday world of industry. This is where the ideas for research must originate, not from reading papers to produce another one for journals abroad. The real world produces great ideas, the world of journals only report them. Lastly, expecting the market to develop technology is waiting for Godot: markets fail when it comes to research. Hiring out CSIR laboratories to MNCs --- the Mashelkar paradigm --- may help the CSIR generate some cash; in the long term it is helping MNCs develop their next generation of products for the global market. It will not help the Indian economy or the Indian industry, the primary purpose for which CSIR was set up. ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ruben at UCR.EDU Tue Dec 14 18:05:39 2004 From: ruben at UCR.EDU (Ruben Urbizagastegui) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 15:05:39 -0800 Subject: Paper In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hello guys, I will appreciate your help to get a copy of this paper, please. Cicmil, Bosiljka. Bibliometric analysis of the "Vojno delo" magazine (1970-1992). Vojno Delo, 4-5: ????? 2000. Thank you very much. Ruben Urbizagastegui University of California, Riverside University Libraries P.O. Box 5900 Riverside, California 92517-5900 From j.hartley at PSY.KEELE.AC.UK Wed Dec 15 04:16:27 2004 From: j.hartley at PSY.KEELE.AC.UK (James Hartley) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 09:16:27 -0000 Subject: Query Message-ID: Hi there, Does anyone know of any papers relating factors in scientific writing to publication lags, as measured by the dates of submission and later acceptance for articles that are povided in some journals? Please reply to me at j.hartley at psy.keele.ac.uk Many thanks Jim Hartley From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Thu Dec 16 02:58:22 2004 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 08:58:22 +0100 Subject: preprint version available of "The Two Faces of American Power" In-Reply-To: <41C05E8A.9080207@uni-bielefeld.de> Message-ID: ** apologies for cross-postings The Two Faces of American Power: Military and Political Communication during the Cuban Missile Crisis Kybernetes (forthcoming) > Micha?l Deinema & Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands Abstract ? Purpose: The mismatches between political discourse and military momentum in the American handling of the Cuban missile crisis are explained by using the model of the potential autopoiesis of subsystems. Under wartime conditions, the codes of political and military communications can increasingly be differentiated. ? Design/methodology/approach: The model of a further differentiation between political and military power is developed on the basis of a detailed description of the Cuban missile crisis. We introduce the concept of a ?semi-dormant autopoiesis? for the difference in the dynamics between peacetime and wartime conditions. ? Findings: Several dangerous incidents during the crisis can be explained by a sociocybernetic model focusing on communication and control, but not by using an organization-theoretical approach. The further differentiation of the military as a subsystem became possible in the course of the twentieth century because of ongoing learning processes about previous wars. ? Practical implications: Politicians should not underestimate autonomous military processes or the significance of standing orders. In order to continually produce communications within the military, communication partners are needed that stand outside of the hierarchy, and this role can be fulfilled by an enemy. A reflexively imagined enemy can thus reinforce the autopoiesis of the military subsystem. ? Originality/value: The paper shows that civilian control over military affairs has become structurally problematic and offers a sociocybernetic explanation of the missile crisis. The potential alternation in the dynamics under peacetime and wartime conditions brings historical specificity back on the agenda of social systems theory. _____ 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 David.Watkins at SOLENT.AC.UK Thu Dec 16 04:26:25 2004 From: David.Watkins at SOLENT.AC.UK (David Watkins) Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 09:26:25 +0000 Subject: SIGMETRICS Digest - 14 Dec 2004 to 15 Dec 2004 (#2004-161) Message-ID: Re: Publication Delays Please reply to list as well regarding James Hartley's question since I'd be interested to see what is known about this, particularly disciplinary differences. Probably of more general interest. Thanks. David Watkins ************************************************ Professor David Watkins Postgraduate Research Centre Southampton Business School East Park Terrace Southampton SO14 0RH David.Watkins at solent.ac.uk 023 80 319610 (Tel) +44 23 80 31 96 10 (Tel) 02380 33 26 27 (fax) +44 23 80 33 26 27 (fax) Automatic digest processor @LISTSERV.UTK.EDU> on 16/12/2004 05:00:12 Please respond to ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics Sent by: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics To: Recipients of SIGMETRICS digests cc: Subject: SIGMETRICS Digest - 14 Dec 2004 to 15 Dec 2004 (#2004-161) There is one message totalling 21 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Query ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 09:16:27 -0000 From: James Hartley Subject: Query Hi there, Does anyone know of any papers relating factors in scientific writing to publication lags, as measured by the dates of submission and later acceptance for articles that are povided in some journals? Please reply to me at j.hartley at psy.keele.ac.uk Many thanks Jim Hartley ------------------------------ End of SIGMETRICS Digest - 14 Dec 2004 to 15 Dec 2004 (#2004-161) ***************************************************************** From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Thu Dec 16 10:14:24 2004 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:14:24 +0000 Subject: UKCRC Web Site and Strategy Document In-Reply-To: <41C1A3B6.3080408@macs.hw.ac.uk> Message-ID: On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Rob Pooley wrote: > > That is rare enough not worry about. We are talking about averages, probability, > > predictions here, and the predominant reason for citing is positive, not negative. > > I rest my case. > > Of course the major reason some articles get cited is that the student > who made the reference list has seen them cited in all previous papers, > often not having actually read them before including them in the current > paper. Among the many helpful algorithms for detecting and correcting this are: (1) relevance measures (2) co-citation measures (who cited with/by whom? student or cited master?) (3) CiteRank measures (are the cited items much cited items? authors) (4) Self-citation index (5) Hubs/authorities (citing much-cited or much-citing articles, authors?) (6) Chronometrics (timeliness, recency) The way to capitalize on all these possibilities is to analyze them shrewdly, not to reject them out of hand. (And reject them in favour of what? re-exercise of individual judgment in every single case?) Stevan Harnad > ("goto considered Harmful" and Plotkin's Structured Operational > Semantics notes are two very common examples in fields where I read and > review. Both important, but neither often actually read!) > > From rigic at EXCITE.COM Fri Dec 17 16:29:02 2004 From: rigic at EXCITE.COM (Rajko) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 16:29:02 -0500 Subject: Paper Message-ID: Perhaps Sabine may help to you. I hope that she knows someone from Belgrade that you may contact. R. Igic --- On Tue 12/14, Ruben Urbizagastegui < ruben at UCR.EDU > wrote: From: Ruben Urbizagastegui [mailto: ruben at UCR.EDU] To: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 15:05:39 -0800 Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Paper Hello guys,

I will appreciate your help to get a copy of this paper, please.

Cicmil, Bosiljka. Bibliometric analysis of the "Vojno delo" magazine
(1970-1992). Vojno Delo, 4-5: ????? 2000.

Thank you very much.

Ruben Urbizagastegui
University of California, Riverside
University Libraries
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Cook : dcook at uark.edu Laura Hulett : lhulett at uark.edu Title: A multiyear citation analysis of three rehabilitation journals Author(s): Cook DW, Hulett L Source: REHABILITATION COUNSELING BULLETIN 48 (1): 51-53 FAL 2004 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 7 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Using citation analysis, 3 rehabilitation journals were compared on average number of articles published per year, average number of references per article, number of self-citations, and number of times published articles were cited by other journals for the 4-year periods of 1999 through 2002 and 1977 through 1980. These data were then related to establishing journal quality. Addresses: Cook DW (reprint author), Univ Arkansas, Dept Rehabil Human Resources & Commun Disorders, 153 Grad Educ, Fayetteville, AR 72701 USA Univ Arkansas, Dept Rehabil Human Resources & Commun Disorders, Fayetteville, AR 72701 USA Publisher: PRO-ED INC, 8700 SHOAL CREEK BLVD, AUSTIN, TX 78757-6897 USA IDS Number: 861EE ISSN: 0034-3552 CITED REFERENCES: COOK D, 1998, REHABILITATION ED, V12, P17 COOK DW, 1983, REHABIL COUNS BULL, V27, P94 COOK DW, 1998, REHABILITATION ED, V12, P309 GARFIELD E, 1972, SCIENCE, V178, P471 RASCH JD, 1978, REHABILITATION COUNS, V21, P346 THOMAS KR, 1972, REHABILITATION COUNS, V15, P171 THOMAS KR, 1995, ESSAYS RES DISABILIT, P399 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Dec 20 14:11:30 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 14:11:30 -0500 Subject: Huemer, GM; Bauer, T; Gurunluoglu, R; Sakho, C; Oehlbauer, M; Dunst, KM "Analysis of publications in three plastic surgery journals for the year 2002" PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY, 114 (5): 1147-1154 OCT 2004 Message-ID: E-mail Address: Georg M. Huemer : georg.huemer at uibk.ac.at Author(s): Huemer, GM; Bauer, T; Gurunluoglu, R; Sakho, C; Oehlbauer, M; Dunst, KM Title : Analysis of publications in three plastic surgery journals for the year 2002 Journal : PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY, 114 (5): 1147-1154 OCT 2004 Abstract : The goal of this study was to analyze the publications in the plastic surgery literature for the year 2002. Contents of these articles, authors' information (such as nationality affiliation of the first author), type of institution, presence of grant support, and previous presentation were analyzed. For inclusion in this study, the publications had to be original articles from the three most frequently read general plastic surgery journals: Annals of Plastic Surgery, British Journal of Plastic Surgery, and Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. With this approach, 533 articles were included in the study. To give a cross-sectional analysis of the content of all articles, 11 distinct categories were created in which all tire articles were subsummarized. The categories were based on anatomical regions and specific plastic surgical areas. A summary is given for each of the categories to provide an overview of the field in which most of the research in plastic surgery was taking place in 2002 and which topics were focused on. The authors found that only 7 percent of all articles had grant support, whereas 36 percent of articles were presented previously during a scientific meeting. Most of the articles came from university-based institutions (68 percent), followed by non-university-based institutions (29 percent) and private practice (3 pet-cent). Regarding nationality affiliation, most of the articles came from the United States (n = 229) and Europe (n = 128); in Asia, Turkey (n = 39) and Japan (n = 36) were the countries with the most published articles. Addresses: Leopold Franzens Univ, Ludwig Boltzmann Inst Qual Control Plast & Recons, Dept Plast & Reconstruct Surg, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria; Leopold Franzens Univ, Ludwig Boltzmann Inst Qual Control Plast & Recons, Dept Cardiac Surg, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria Reprint Address: Huemer, GM, Leopold Franzens Univ, Ludwig Boltzmann Inst Qual Control Plast & Recons, Dept Plast & Reconstruct Surg, Anichstr 35, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria. Cited References: ANGERMEYER MC, 2001, PSYCHIAT PRAX, V28, P368. CHUNG KC, 2002, PLAST RECONSTR SURG, V109, P1. HASBROUCK LM, 2003, AM J EPIDEMIOL, V157, P399. ISMAIL Y, 2002, BRIT J PLAST SURG, V55, P570. KANG N, 2002, BRIT J PLAST SURG, V55, P463. MELA GS, 2003, EUR RADIOL, V13, P657. Publisher: LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS Publisher Address: 530 WALNUT ST, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106-3621 USA ISSN: 0032-1052 ISI Document Delivery No.: 861DQ CITED REFERENCES: ANGERMEYER MC, 2001, PSYCHIAT PRAX, V28, P368 CHUNG KC, 2002, PLAST RECONSTR SURG, V109, P1 HASBROUCK LM, 2003, AM J EPIDEMIOL, V157, P399 ISMAIL Y, 2002, BRIT J PLAST SURG, V55, P570 KANG N, 2002, BRIT J PLAST SURG, V55, P463 MELA GS, 2003, EUR RADIOL, V13, P657 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Dec 20 14:28:43 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 14:28:43 -0500 Subject: Lukic IK, Lukic A, Gluncic V, Katavic V, Vucenik V, Marusic A "Citation and quotation accuracy in three anatomy journals" CLINICAL ANATOMY 17 (7): 534-539 OCT 2004 Message-ID: I.K. LUKIC : iklukic at mef.hr Title : Citation and quotation accuracy in three anatomy journals Author(s): Lukic IK, Lukic A, Gluncic V, Katavic V, Vucenik V, Marusic A Source : CLINICAL ANATOMY 17 (7): 534-539 OCT 2004 Abstract: Citation and quotation errors are common in medical journals. We assessed the prevalence of those errors in gross anatomy journals, where articles often cite old anatomical studies. The study included 199 randomly selected references from articles published in the first 2001 issue of three major gross anatomy journals: Annals of Anatomy, Clinical Anatomy, and Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy. The selected references were checked for accuracy against the original articles. Citation errors were classified as major, intermediate, and minor. Quotation errors were classified as major and minor. Citations errors were found in 27% (54/199) of the references and 38% of them were major errors. Errors occurred in 19% (52/272) of quotations and nearly all (94%) were major. Furthermore, 24% of the quotations were indirect references to a secondary, instead of original, source. There was no statistically significant difference in the rates of citation or quotation errors between the references published before or after the introduction of MEDLINE (chi(2) test, P > 0.05) in 1963, and the prevalence of these errors in gross anatomy journals was similar to that found in other medical fields. A high proportion of major citation errors, a very high proportion of major quotation errors, and the substantial number of indirect quotations call for serious editorial action in anatomy journals. (C) 2004 Wiley-Liss, Inc. Addresses: Lukic IK (reprint author), Univ Zagreb, Sch Med, Dept Anat, Salata 11, Zagreb, HR-10000 Croatia Univ Zagreb, Sch Med, Dept Anat, Zagreb, HR-10000 Croatia Yale Univ, Sch Med, Neurobiol Sect, New Haven, CT USA Publisher: WILEY-LISS, DIV JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN, NJ 07030 USA IDS Number: 859KR ISSN: 0897-3806 Cited References : 2001, CLIN ANAT, V14, P396 *I SCI INF, 2001, J CITATION REPORT *US NAT LIB MED, 2003, MEDL CIT PRIOR 1966 ANDERSEN NB, 2001, SURG RADIOL ANAT, V23, P97 ASANO M, 1995, ANAESTHESIA, V50, P1080 ASANO M, 1995, CAN J ANAESTH, V42, P370 BALL P, 2002, NATURE, V420, P594 DELACEY G, 1985, BRIT MED J, V291, P884 DYER GSM, 2000, ACAD MED, V75, P969 EVANS JT, 1990, JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC, V263, P1353 FENTON JE, 2000, CLIN OTOLARYNGOL, V25, P40 GAVRAS H, 2002, AM J HYPERTENS, V15, P831 GOLDBERG R, 1993, ANN EMERG MED, V22, P1450 HANNA SJ, 2002, CLIN ANAT, V15, P377 HOLT S, 2000, NEW ZEAL MED J, V113, P416 KEE WDN, 1997, HKMJ, V3, P377 LEE SY, 1999, INT J DERMATOL, V38, P357 LOK CKW, 2001, J ADV NURS, V34, P223 LUKIC IK, 2003, IN PRESS LANCET, V361 MARUSIC A, 1999, CROAT MED J, V40, P508 MURDOCH J, 1998, STAT TABLES, P54 OCONNOR AE, 2002, EMERGEN MED, V14, P139 PAALMAN MH, 2000, ANAT REC, V261, P1 PEAT J, 2002, SCI WRITING EASY WHE, P101 ROACH VJ, 1997, AM J OBSTET GYNECOL, V177, P973 SCHULMEISTER L, 1998, J NURS SCHOLARSH, V30, P143 SHARP D, 2002, CROAT MED J, V43, P262 SIEBERS R, 2000, J ALLERGY CLIN IMMUN, V105, P837 SIEBERS R, 2000, LANCET, V356, P1445 SIMKIN MV, 2002, READ BEFORE YOU CITE SUTHERLAND AG, 2000, J BONE JOINT SURG B, V82, P9 VARGASORIGEL A, 2001, ARCH DIS CHILD, V85, P497 VIEBAHN C, 2001, ANN ANAT, V183, P97 WAGER E, 2001, P 4 INT C PEER REV B, P48 WAGER E, 2002, JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC, V287, P2821 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Dec 20 14:36:01 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 14:36:01 -0500 Subject: Estabrooks, CA; Winther, C; Derksen, L "A bibliometric analysis of the research utilization literature in nursing" NURSING RESEARCH, 53 (5): 293-303 SEP-OCT 2004 Message-ID: E-mail Address: Carole Estabrooks : carole.estabrooks at ualberta.ca Author : Estabrooks, CA; Winther, C; Derksen, L Title : A bibliometric analysis of the research utilization literature in nursing Source : NURSING RESEARCH, 53 (5): 293-303 SEP-OCT 2004 Abstract: Background: Research utilization is the use of research to guide clinical practice. However, little is known about the characteristics of the research utilization literature in nursing, including the development and organization of this field of study. This article addresses the knowledge gap in this field of study by bibliometrically analyzing the research utilization literature in nursing. Objective: To map research utilization as a field of study in nursing using bibliometric methods, and to identify the structure of this scientific community, including the current network of researchers. Method: A search of electronic and hard copy databases resulted in bibliographic data for 630 articles on research utilization in nursing published between 1972 and 2001. Bibliometric techniques used included a statistical analysis of publication counts, co-word analysis, and co-citation analysis. Results: The analyses showed a trend of increased productivity since the early 1990s. Most publications were authored by a single author, with no tendency toward increased collaboration over time. Most references cited in the articles were nursing references, indicating that there is very little flow into nursing from other fields. Only 4% of the references cited were actual research articles about research utilization, consistent with applied fields in which clinicians most commonly cite other clinicians. The 630 articles were published in a total of 194 different journals, with the Journal of Advanced Nursing identified as a key journal in the field. Conclusions: According to the analysis, tremendous growth has occurred in the field of research utilization. However, the limited amount of collaborative research and the repeated citation of a few references indicate that the field is underdeveloped. The research utilization field would benefit from more substantive conceptual and empirical work, and more collaboration among emerging scholars. Addresses: Univ Alberta, Fac Nursing, Edmonton, AB T6G 2G3, Canada; Univ Alberta, Knowledge Utilizat Studies Program, Edmonton, AB T6G 2M7, Canada; Univ Alberta, Ctr Knowledge Transfer, Edmonton, AB T6G 2M7, Canada; Malaspina Univ Coll, Dept Sociol, Nanaimo, BC, Canada Reprint Address: Estabrooks, CA, Univ Alberta, Fac Nursing, 3rd Floor Clin Sci Bldg, Edmonton, AB T6G 2G3, Canada. 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Stieg s 1981 article published in College & Research Libraries. It examines which materials historians consider to be the most important and how they discover them. Their attitudes toward and use of electronic materials were also studied. Many characteristics of historians information needs and use have not changed in a generation: informal means of discovery like book reviews and browsing remain important, as does the need for comprehensive searches. Print continues to be the principal format. What has changed is that the advent of electronic resources has increased historians use of catalogs and indexes in their efforts to identify appropriate primary and secondary sources of information. Addresses: Univ Alabama, Sch Lib & Informat Studies, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 USA; Jacksonville State Univ, Houston Cole Lib, Jacksonville, AL 36265 USA Reprint Address: Dalton, MS, Univ Alabama, Sch Lib & Informat Studies, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 USA. 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Eppler : e-mail: Martin.Eppler at lu.unisi.ch AUTHOR : Eppler, MJ Mengis, J TITLE : The concept of information overload: A review of literature from organization science, accounting, marketing, MIS, and related disciplines JOURNAL : INFORMATION SOCIETY, 20 (5): 325-344 NOV-DEC 2004 ABSTRACT: Based on literature from the domains of organization science, marketing, accounting, and management information systems, this review article examines the theoretical basis of the information overload discourse and presents an overview of the main definitions, situations, causes, effects, and countermeasures. It analyzes the contributions from the last 30 years to consolidate the existing research in a conceptual framework and to identify future research directions. Address : Univ Lugano, Inst Corp Commun, CH-6900 Lugano, Switzerland. RP Eppler, MJ, Univ Lugano, Inst Corp Commun, Via G Buffi 13, CH-6900 Lugano, Switzerland. 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Faberson) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 15:20:51 -0500 Subject: please remove me from list! Message-ID: I'm not sure how I landed on this list, but please remove me! Thanks! Tanya A. Faberson Department of Anthropology 250 South Stadium Hall University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN 37996-0720 home: 865-558-9229 e-mail: tanya at utk.edu From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Dec 20 15:30:08 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 15:30:08 -0500 Subject: Schloegl C, Stock WG "Impact and relevance of LIS journals: A scientometric analysis of international and German-language LIS journals - Citation analysis versus reader survey" JASIST 55 (13): 1155-1168 NOV 2004 Message-ID: E-Mail: Christian Schloegl : christian.schloegl at uni-graz.at Wolfgang G. Stock : Stock stocknmw at aol.com Title : Impact and relevance of LIS journals: A scientometric analysis of international and German-language LIS journals - Citation analysis versus reader survey Author(s): Schloegl C, Stock WG Source : JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 55 (13): 1155-1168 NOV 2004 Abstract: The goal of the scientometric analysis presented in this article was to investigate international and regional (i.e., German-language) periodicals in the field of library and information science (LIS). This was done by means of a citation analysis and a reader survey. For the citation analysis, impact factor, citing half-life, number of references per article, and the rate of self-references of a periodical were used as indicators. In addition, the leading LIS periodicals were mapped. For the 40 international periodicals, data were collected from ISI's Social Sciences Citation Index Journal Citation Reports (JCR); the citations of the 10 German-language journals were counted manually (overall 1,494 source articles with 10,520 citations). Altogether, the empirical base of the citation analysis consisted of nearly 90,000 citations in 6,203 source articles that were published between 1997 and 2000. The expert survey investigated reading frequency, applicability of the journals to the job of the reader, publication frequency, and publication preference both for all respondents and for different groups among them (practitioners vs. scientists, librarians vs. documentalists vs. LIS scholars, public sector vs. information industry vs. other private company employees). The study was conducted in spring 2002. A total of 257 questionnaires were returned by information specialists from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Having both citation and readership data, we performed a comparative analysis of these two data sets. This enabled us to identify answers to questions like: Does reading behavior correlate with the journal impact factor? Do readers prefer journals with a short or a long half-life, or with a low or a high number of references? Is there any difference in this matter among librarians, documentalists, and LIS scholars?. Addresses: Schloegl C (reprint author), Graz Univ, Inst Sci Informat, Univ Str 15, Graz, A-8010 Austria Graz Univ, Inst Sci Informat, Graz, A-8010 Austria Univ Dusseldorf, Dept Informat Sci, Dusseldorf, D-40225 Germany E-mail Addresses: christian.schloegl at uni-graz.at, stocknmw at aol.com Publisher: JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN, NJ 07030 USA Subject Category: COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE IDS Number: 860SY ISSN: 1532-2882 Cited Author Cited Work Year Volume Page *I SCI INF JOURN CIT REP 2000 2001 GARFIELD E CURRENT CONTENT 0620 1994 3 GARFIELD E PASSWORD 2002 6 22 GARFIELD E SCIENCE 1972 178 471 GLAENZEL W SCIENTOMETRICS 2002 53 171 GRAZIA C INFORMATIONSWISSENSC 2002 GRAZIA C PASSWORD 2002 9 23 HARTER SP J AM SOC INFORM SCI 1993 44 543 HE SY J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 2002 53 953 HOOYDONK GV SERIALS LIBR 1995 27 45 JUCHEM K BIBLIOTHEKSDIENST 2002 36 1732 KLEINBERG JM J ACM 1999 46 604 KOEHLER W SCIENTOMETRICS 2001 51 117 KRAFT DH J AM SOC INFORM SCI 1999 50 1 MERTON RK WEB KNOWLEDGE FESTSC 2000 435 NISONGER TE 5 INT C INT SOC SCI 1995 393 NISONGER TE COLL RES LIBR 2000 61 263 NISONGER TE J AM SOC INFORM SCI 1999 50 1004 NISONGER TE LIBR ACQUIS PRACT TH 1994 18 447 SCANLAN BD SERIALS LIB 1987 13 57 SCHLOEGL C P 7 INT S INF SCI 20 2000 89 SEN BK J DOC 1999 55 325 SEN BK J DOC 1989 45 139 SMITH LC J AM SOC INFORM SCI 1999 50 965 STOCK WG KOELNER ARBEITSPAPIE 2001 STOCK WG PASSWORD 2002 14 STOCK WG PASSWORD 2001 24 STOCK WG PASSWORD 1999 21 TESTA J ISI DATABASE JOURNEL 1997 TODOROV R J INFORM SCI 1988 14 47 VARLEJS J J AM SOC INFORM SCI 1999 50 1032 VICKERY BC 50 YEARS INFORMATION 1994 ZHANG Y J INFORM SCI 1998 24 241 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Dec 20 15:46:53 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 15:46:53 -0500 Subject: Antelman K "Do open-access articles have a greater research impact?" COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES 65 (5): 372-382 SEP 2004 Message-ID: Kristin Antelman : kristin_antelman at ncsu.edu Title : Do open-access articles have a greater research impact? Author(s): Antelman K Source : COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES 65 (5): 372-382 SEP 2004 Abstract: Although many authors believe that their work has a greater research impact if it is freely available, studies to demonstrate that impact are few. This study looks at articles in four disciplines at varying stages of adoption of open access-philosophy, political science, electrical and electronic engineering and mathematics-to see whether they have a greater impact as measured by citations in the ISI Web of Science database when their authors make them freely available on the Internet. The finding is that, across all four disciplines, freely available articles do have a greater research impact. Shedding light on this category of open access reveals that scholars in diverse disciplines are adopting open-access practices and being rewarded for it. Addresses: Antelman K (reprint author), N Carolina State Univ Lib, Raleigh, NC 27695 USA N Carolina State Univ Lib, Raleigh, NC 27695 USA E-mail Addresses: kristin_antelman at ncsu.edu Publisher: ASSOC COLL RESEARCH LIBRARIES, 50 E HURON ST, CHICAGO, IL 60611 USA IDS Number: 860RT ISSN: 0010-0870 Cited Author Cited Work Year Volume Page WHATS NEW IEEE STUDE 2004 6 *INT FED LIB ASS I IFLA STAT OP ACC SCH 2003 BJORK BC INFORMATION RES 2004 9 BJORK BC J ELECT PUBLISHING 2000 6 BORGMAN CL COMMUN RES 1989 16 589 BROCH E P 24 ANN INT ACM SIG 2001 446 BROWN C J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 2003 54 362 COLE JR WEB KNOWLEDGE FESTSC 2000 281 CRONIN B J INFORM SCI 2001 27 1 GARFIELD E AM SCI OP ACC FOR 18 2004 HARNAD S D LIB MAGAZINE JUN 2004 10 HITCHCOCK S D LIB MAGAZINE OCT 2002 8 HITCHCOCK S SERIALS 2003 16 HOERMAN HL LIBR QUART 1995 65 415 KIERNAN V CHRONICLE HIGHE 0312 2004 LAWRENCE S NATURE 2001 411 521 MALAKOFF D SCIENCE 2003 302 552 MORRISEY LJ SCI TECH LIBR 2002 22 149 OBST O HLTH INFO LIB J 2003 20 22 ODLYZKO A LEARN PUBL 2002 15 7 RINDFLEISCH TC WHITHER HLTH SCI LIB 2001 SEGLEN PO BRIT MED J 1997 314 498 SHIN EJ J INFORM SCI 2003 29 527 SIMKIN MV STOCHASTIC MODELING 2004 TAMBER PS LANCET 2003 362 1576 TENOPIR C LEARN PUBL 2002 15 259 VANDESOMPEL H INFO URI SCHEME INFG 2003 WALKER T AM SCI OP ACC FOR MA 2004 WALKER TJ LEARN PUBL 2002 15 279 YOUNGEN GK COLL RES LIBR 1998 59 448 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Dec 20 15:53:13 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 15:53:13 -0500 Subject: Siebenberg TR, Galbraith B, Brady EE " Print versus electronic journal use in three Sci/Tech disciplines: What's going on here?" College & Research Libraries 65(5): 427-438 September 2004 Message-ID: E-Mail: Tammy R. Siebenberg : tammy_siebenberg at byu.edu Betty Galbraith : bettyg at wsu.edu Eileen E. Brady : brady at wsu.edu Title: Print versus electronic journal use in three Sci/Tech disciplines: What's going on here? Author(s): Siebenberg TR, Galbraith B, Brady EE Source: COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES 65 (5): 427-438 SEP 2004 Abstract: In 2003, an evaluation of journal use statistics at Washington State University was undertaken to determine if the selection of electronic journals in the Owen Science and Engineering Library was changing student and researchers choice of journals. Use statistics showed that most print journals were being used more than they were prior to the advent of electronic journals. Generally, electronic journals were used heavily and the availability of electronic format greatly enhanced the total use of most titles. However, some electronic journals were used little or not at all, and there was a substantial increase in the use of some print titles. Addresses: Siebenberg TR (reprint author), Brigham Young Univ, Harold B Lee Lib, Provo, UT 84602 USA Brigham Young Univ, Harold B Lee Lib, Provo, UT 84602 USA Washington State Univ, Owen Sci & Engn Lib, Pullman, WA 99164 USA E-mail Addresses: tammy_siebenberg at byu.edu, bettyg at wsu.edu, brady at wsu.edu Publisher: ASSOC COLL RESEARCH LIBRARIES, 50 E HURON ST, CHICAGO, IL 60611 USA Subject Category: INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE IDS Number: 860RT ISSN: 0010-0870 CITED REFERENCES : BISHOP AP, 1998, J ELECT PUBLISHING, V4 BLECIC DD, 2001, COLL RES LIBR, V62, P434 BUCKHOLTZ A, 1999, ACADEME, V85, P65 DEGROOTE SL, 2001, B MED LIB ASS, V84, P372 GALBRAITH B, 2002, COLLECTION MANAGEMEN, V27, P79 GOODMAN D, 2002, LEARN PUBL, V15, P43 HILLER S, 2002, ISSUES SCI TECHN WIN KARDONG KV, 2003, THESIS WASHINGTON ST MORSE DH, 2000, ISSUES SCI TECHN FAL PULLINGER D, 1999, J INFORM SCI, V25, P164 ROGERS SA, 2001, COLL RES LIBR, V62, P25 From krichel at OPENLIB.ORG Mon Dec 20 16:02:20 2004 From: krichel at OPENLIB.ORG (Thomas Krichel) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 15:02:20 -0600 Subject: Antelman K "Do open-access articles have a greater research impact?" COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES 65 (5): 372-382 SEP 2004 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Eugene Garfield writes > Title : Do open-access articles have a greater research impact? > > Author(s): Antelman K Also available in e-lis, the premier eprint archive for library and information science http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00002309/ Cheers, Thomas Krichel mailto:krichel at openlib.org http://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Dec 20 15:59:29 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 15:59:29 -0500 Subject: Turban E, Zhou DN, Ma H "A group decision support approach to evaluating journals" INFORMATION & MANAGEMENT 42 (1): 31-44 DEC 2004 Message-ID: Jian MA: isjian at cityu.edu.hk Title: A group decision support approach to evaluating journals Author(s): Turban E, Zhou DN, Ma H Source: INFORMATION & MANAGEMENT 42 (1): 31-44 DEC 2004 Abstract: One of the most important decisions made in academic institutions, research organizations, and government agencies is the grading or ranking of journals for their academic values. Current methods for evaluating journals use either a subjective (e.g., experts' judgments on journals) or objective approach (e.g., impact factors of journals), or an informal mix of the two. This paper presents a formal procedure that integrates objective and subjective judgments to provide a comprehensive method. The procedure is based on a fuzzy set approach that deals with the imprecise and missing information inherent in the evaluation process. The system was tested in Hong Kong in an assessment of faculty research productivity. Similar assessments exist in the UK, Singapore, and other countries. The proposed model can also be used for similar decisions that involve subjective and objective information. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Addresses: Ma H (reprint author), City Univ Hong Kong, Dept Informat Syst, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong Peoples R China City Univ Hong Kong, Dept Informat Syst, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong Peoples R China Eastern Washington Univ, Accounting & Informat Syst Dept, Spokane, WA USA E-mail Addresses: isjian at cityu.edu.hk Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS IDS Number: 862KO ISSN: 0378-7206 Cited References : BEATLEY T, 2001, ALTERN J, V27, P32 CHENG CH, 1999, IEEE T ENG MANAGE, V46, P4 DALKEY NC, 1969, DELPHI METHOD EXPT S DIAZ J, 1996, REAL ESTATE ECON, V24, P551 DOYLE JR, 1998, OMEGA-INT J MANAGE S, V26, P461 EXTEJT MM, 1990, J MANAGE, V16, P539 FLORES LY, 1999, COUNS PSYCHOL, V27, P73 FORGIONNE GA, 2001, INFORM MANAGE, V38, P421 GILLENSON ML, 1991, MIS QUART, V15, P447 HOLSAPPLE CW, 1993, INFORM MANAGE, V25, P231 HOLSAPPLE CW, 1994, J MANAGEMENT INFORMA, V11, P131 JESSUP LM, 1993, GROUP SUPPORT SYSTEM KWOK RCW, 2001, INFORM MANAGE, V39, P243 KWOK RCW, 2002, IEEE T SYST MAN CY C, V32, P54 KWOK RCW, 2002, J MANAGE INFORM SYST, V19, P185 LIEBOWITZ SJ, 1984, J ECON LIT, V22, P77 MA J, 1996, IEEE T EDUC, V39, P388 MA J, 2000, IEEE T EDUC, V43, P237 SAATY TL, 1995, RWS PUBLICATION SOTERIOU AC, 1999, J OPER MANAG, V17, P225 VOGEL D, 1990, J MANAGEMENT INFORMA, V6, P25 WALSTROM KA, 1995, COMMUN ACM, V38, P93 WALSTROM KA, 2001, INFORM MANAGE, V39, P117 WING C, 1997, CONSTRUCTION MANAGEM, V15, P387 ZADEH LA, 1965, FUZZY SETS INFORMATI, V8, P338 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Dec 20 16:12:52 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 16:12:52 -0500 Subject: Clyde LA "Evaluating the quality of research publications: A pilot study of school librarianship" JASIST 55(13):1119-1130 Nov. 2004. Message-ID: LAUREL A. CLYDE : anne at hi.is Title : Evaluating the quality of research publications: A pilot study of school librarianship Author(s) : Clyde LA Source : JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 55 (13): 1119-1130 NOV 2004 Cited References: 57 Abstract: Evaluation of research quality is becoming more important in the field of library and information science, as in other fields. This pilot study is a preliminary attempt to address issues associated with determining the quality of the published research in one area of library and information science, specifically school librarianship. The main aims were (1) to test the extent to which experienced evaluators agreed in their rankings of published research articles on the basis of quality and (2) to investigate the approaches to evaluation used by the experienced evaluators. A qualitative, naturalistic research design was used. On the basis of a comprehensive literature review, four approaches to evaluation were identified; they were generally supported through an analysis of the responses of the experienced evaluators. However, although the majority of the evaluators agreed on the article ranked lowest, basic statistical analyses showed less agreement about the other articles. Although subject knowledge (of the field of school librarianship in this case) may have some influence on the evaluations, cluster analysis suggests that there may be differences in the value perceptions of the evaluators that also carry weight. More research would be needed to gain a better understanding of these value perceptions and their relationship, if any, to the four approaches to evaluation that were identified through the literature. Addresses: Clyde LA (reprint author), Univ Iceland, Fac Social Sci, Reykjavik, IS-101 Iceland Univ Iceland, Fac Social Sci, Reykjavik, IS-101 Iceland E-mail Addresses: anne at hi.is Publisher: JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN, NJ 07030 USA Subject Category: COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE IDS Number: 860SY ISSN: 1532-2882 CITED REFERENCES: CR *I SCI INF, 2002, ISI MASTER JOURNAL L *I SCI INF, 2002, J SEL CRIT ASHER W, 1973, INFORMATION QUALITY AVKIRAN NK, 1997, SCIENTOMETRICS, V39, P173 BAHR AH, 2000, COLL RES LIBR, V61, P410 BLAKE VLP, 1996, EDUC INFORM, V14, P157 BOON JA, 1990, S AFRICAN J LIBR INF, V58, P155 CALVERT PJ, 2001, LIBR MANAGEMENT, V22, P205 CHEN HM, 2001, J AM SOC INF SCI TEC, V52, P888 CHUNG F, 2001, CARDIOPULMONARY PHYS, V12 CLYD LA, 2001, INSPIRING CONNECTION, P65 CLYDE LA, 1996, SUSTAINING VISION CO CLYDE LA, 2002, SCH LIBR KNOWLEDGE S, P55 CLYDE LA, 2003, IFLA J, V29, P18 CRACE J, 2003, PEER TROUBLE HOW FAI GARFIELD EE, 1979, CITATION INDEXING IT GEHANNO JF, 2000, OCCUP ENVIRON MED, V57, P706 GILES MW, 1989, P S, V22, P613 GOLDBECKWOOD S, 1999, BRIT MED J, V318, P44 HANSEN HF, 1996, BIBLIOTEKSARBEJDE, V48, P7 HART RL, 2000, COLL RES LIBR, V61, P410 HARTER SP, 1996, PUBLIC ACCESS COMPUT, V7, P5 HAYCOCK K, 1994, P 23 ANN C INT ASS S, P94 HENRI J, 1998, ACCESS, V12, P29 HERNON P, 1999, J ACAD LIBR, V25, P263 JOHNSON SC, 1967, PSYCHOMETRIKA, V32, P241 JUSTICE AC, 1998, JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC, V280, P240 KATZER J, 1989, LIB INFORMATION SCI, V11, P83 KATZER J, 1998, EVALUATING INFORMATI KOHL DF, 1985, COLL RES LIBR, V46, P40 KOSTOFF RN, 1998, SCIENTOMETRICS, V43, P27 LEE KP, 2002, JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC, V287, P2805 LOWI TJ, 1998, AM POLIT SCI REV, V86, P210 MACAULEY D, 1994, BRIT J GEN PRACT, V44, P83 MACLEOD D, 2001, GUARDIAN ED, V11, P10 MACLEOD D, 2003, GUARDIAN ED, V17, P39 MACROBERTS MH, 1989, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V40, P342 MARSHALL JG, 2003, INFORMATION OUTLOOK, V7, P40 MCCLURE CR, 1989, COLL RES LIBR, V50, P127 MILLER PA, 2003, PHYS THER, V83, P123 MOED HF, 2002, NATURE, V415, P731 MURPHY PS, 1994, AUSTR U REV, V37, P14 NICOLAISEN J, 2002, J DOC, V58, P383 NKEREUWEM EE, 1997, ASIAN LIB, V6, P71 OPTHOF T, 1997, CARDIOVASC RES, V33, P1 PALSDOTTIR G, 1997, PUBLICATED RES LIBR, P85 PIRSIG RM, 1975, ZEN ART MOTORCYCLE M SEGLEN PO, 1997, BRIT MED J, V314, P498 SMITH A, 2001, NEVER MINS WIDTH FEE THOMAS O, 2000, J INFORM SCI, V26, P421 TJOUMAS R, 1992, J EDUC LIBR INF SCI, V33, P173 TJOURMAS R, 1994, SERIALS LIBR, V25, P65 TODD R, 2001, TRANSITIONS PREFERRE VAUGHAN L, 2002, ASLIB PROC, V54, P356 WANDT E, 1965, CROSS SECTION ED RES WARNER J, 2000, J INFORM SCI, V26, P453 WHITE C, 2003, BRIT MED J, V326, P241 From abarrett at SJCNET.COM Mon Dec 20 16:12:47 2004 From: abarrett at SJCNET.COM (abarrett@sjcnet.com) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 16:12:47 -0500 Subject: Please remove me from this list Message-ID: I mean, c'mon. I'm not even in ASIS&T any longer. In fact please consider sending change_address/remove_from_list instructions out in the footer of each message, as do other lists. -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Dec 21 13:08:50 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:08:50 -0500 Subject: Ajayi, AAL "Impact factor misleading: citing all references" Journal of the National Medical Association 96(10):1374 October 2004. National Medical Association, Washington Message-ID: Dr. Adesuyi A. Leslie Ajayi : adeajayi at aol.com Full text available at : http://www.nmanet.org/LTE1374.pdf TITLE : Impact factor misleading; citing all references (Letter) AUTHOR : Ajayi, AAL JOURNAL : Journal of the National Medical Association 96(10):1374 October 2004. National Medical Association, Washington ADDRESS : AAL Ajayi, Texas So Univ. Ctr Cardiovasc Dis, 3100 Cleburne Ave, Houston, TX 77004 USA. From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Dec 22 14:03:12 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 14:03:12 -0500 Subject: Van Dalen, HP; Henkens, KE "Demographers and their journals: Who remains uncited after ten years?" Population and Development Review 30(3): September 2004, p.489-506, 576 Blackwell Publishing Inc, Malden Message-ID: H.P. VanDalen : Dalen at nidi.nl FULL TEXT AVAILABLE AT : http://www.seor.nl/ecri/pdf/demographers%20and%20their%20journals.pdf The author has kindly provided a url to the following site where related articles can be found and which might interest members of the SIG-Metrics list http://www.seor.nl/ecri/staff/harry.html TITLE : Demographers and their journals: Who remains uncited after ten years? AUTHOR : Van Dalen, HP; Henkens, KE SOURCE : Population and Development Review 30(3): September 2004 p.489-506, 576 Blackwell Publishing Inc, Malden ADDRESS : HP VanDalen, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demograph Inst. Social Demog Dept. The Hague, Netherlands From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Dec 22 15:09:35 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:09:35 -0500 Subject: Papers in Scientometrics 61(3):285-299 2004 Message-ID: Scientometrics Vol:61 #3, 2004 has several articles of interest to members of the SIG-Metrics list. I have posted them below. TITLE: Information management or knowledge management? An informetric view of the dynamics of Academia (Article, English) AUTHOR: Gu, Y SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 61 (3). 2004. p.285-299 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: This study analyzes the similarities and differences of performance of information management (IM) and knowledge management (KM) research publication indexed by the SCI-EXPANDED, SSCI and A&HCI databases since 1994 with informetric methods in order to explore a developing tendency in the near future. The bibliographic search supplied 1199 IM and 1063 KM records. A very few of IM and KM authors contributed two or more articles. Four countries dominated global IM and KM research productivity, while a few institutions played remarkable roles in scholarly activity. IM journals distributed widespread and 84 per cent just published one or two articles; KM publications were rather concentrated to core and borderline periodicals, fitting Bradford's law of scattering and. The result of Pearson's correlation coefficients analysis indicates that the higher the journal impact factor, the more times the published article is cited. The author concludes that KM has been leading IM in both publication productivity and academic population and the tendency is overwhelmingly growing. AUTHOR ADDRESS: Y Gu, Tsing Hua Univ, E 4-2-402, Beijing 100084, Peoples R China [ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Reconsidering Price's model of scientific growth: An overview (Article, English) AUTHOR: Fernandez-Cano, A; Torralbo, M; Vallejo, M SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 61 (3). 2004. p.301-321 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: This paper presents an overview of the general model of scientific growth proposed by D. J. de Solla Price. Firstly, the formulation of the model is examined using the seminal sources. Later, forerunners, offshoots and criticisms to the model are discussed. Finally, an integrative review using retrieved empirical studies exposes the complexity and diversity of models of scientific growth and the absence of consistent patterns. AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Fernandez-Cano, Univ Granada, Fac Educ, Dpt Metodos Invest Educ, Campus Cartuja, E-18071 Granada, Spain [ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A comparative study of patenting activity in US and Brazilian scientific institutions (Article, English) AUTHOR: Pinheiro-Machado, R; Oliveira, PL SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 61 (3). 2004. p.323-338 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: Patents generated from scientific research indicate academic involvement in technology development. Academic patenting activity is recent, even in developed countries. This study compares patenting activity of Brazilian and American universities. Brazilian universities had 29.5-fold increase in applications and 4.01-fold in grants (1990-2001), about twice the increase presented by American universities in this period. However, a significant fraction of Brazilian academic applications are abandoned due to the lack of specialized staff to help in writing and to shepherd the application through the patenting process in universities. The participation of research institutes in technological innovation is increasing steadily, even without financial incentives. AUTHOR ADDRESS: R Pinheiro-Machado, INPI, Directoria Patentes, Div Quim Organ & Biotechnol, Ctr Rio de Janeiro, BR-20081240 Rio De Janeiro, Brazil -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A comparative study of research performance in computer science (Article, English) AUTHOR: Guan, JC; Ma, N SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 61 (3). 2004. p.339-359 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: The paper compares the research performance in computer science of four major Western countries, India and China, based on the data abstracted from INSPEC database during the period 1993-2002. A total of 9,632 computer science papers recorded in INSPEC database were used for the comparison. The findings indicate that, on the one hand, the number of papers produced in China has considerably increased in the past few years. Particularly, in recent years, China occupies a remarkable high position in terms of counts of papers indexed by the INSPEC database. On the other hand, Chinese scientists preferred to publish in domestic journals and proceedings and shares of SCI-papers to the total journal papers for China have still remained the lowest. This indicates that the research activities of Chinese scientists in computer science are still rather "local" and suffer from a low international visibility. Various scientometric indicators, such as Normalized Impact Factor, ratio of papers in high quality journals are further adopted to analyze research performance and diverse finding are obtained. Nevertheless, for these surrogate indicators, China has optimistically achieved great progress, characterized with "low level of beginning and high speed of developing". The policy implication of the findings lies in that China, as well as other less developed countries in science, can earn relative competitive advantages in some new emerging or younger disciplines such as computer science by properly using catch-up strategy. AUTHOR ADDRESS: JC Guan, Beijing Univ Aeronaut & Astronaut, Sch Management, Beijing 100083, Peoples R China -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Mapping inventive activity and technological change through patent analysis: A case study of India and China (Article, English) AUTHOR: Bhattacharya, S SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 61 (3). 2004. p.361-381 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: The characteristics of Indian and Chinese patenting activity in the US patent system are examined by delineating two categories of patents; 'nationally assigned', and 'invented not nationally assigned' patents (not-nationally assigned patents in short). Further within the above two categories, patents are distinguished and analysed in terms of patent types: utility, design, and plant patents. Indian patents are mainly of utility type whereas China's activity falls in both utility and design. In the `nationally assigned' patents, the different types of institutions involved and linkages are much higher for China. However, 'not-nationally assigned' patents of both the countries are dominated by industry and inter-institutional collaborations are sparse. Patents addressing technology sectors (analysis based on utility patents) do not exhibit major differences between the two categories in Chinese patents and address with varying degree all technology sectors. Unlike China, India's `nationally assigned' patents are concentrated in chemical and drugs & medical whereas their 'not-nationally assigned' patents are similar to that of China in addressing technology sectors. In design patents, Chinese `nationally assigned' patents mainly cover ornamental design of lighting equipments whereas their 'not-nationally assigned' patents are mainly in design equipment for production, distribution or transformation of energy. Further, few firms are active in design patents in both the categories. India's design activity is insignificant in both the categories. The paper concludes by examining the results in the policy context. AUTHOR ADDRESS: S Bhattacharya, Natl Inst Sci Technol & Dev Studies, Pusa Gate,KS Krishnan Marg, New Delhi 110012, India -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Identifying core documents with a multiple evidence relevance filter (Article, English) AUTHOR: Christoffersen, M SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 61 (3). 2004. p.385-394 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: A method to identify core documents within a given subject domain has been developed by the author. The method builds on the concept of polyrepresentation by using different search rationales in several databases and isolating the overlaps between them. This paper delineates the ideas behind the method and describes the study done to measure its effectiveness. AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Christoffersen, DACEHTA, Natl Board Hlth, Isl Brygge 67, DK-2300 Copenhagen, Denmark [ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Does co-authorship inflate the share of self-citations? (Article, English) AUTHOR: Glanzel, W; Thijs, B SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 61 (3). 2004. p.395-404 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: In recent papers, the authors have studied basic regularities of author self-citations. The regularities are related to the ageing, to the relation between self-citations and foreign citations and to the interdependence of self-citations with other bibliometric indicators. The effect of multi-authorship on citation impact has been shown in other bibliometric studies, for instance, by PERSSON et al. (2004). The question arises whether those regularities imply any relation between number of co-authors and the extent of author self-citations. The results of the present paper confirm the common notion of such effects only in part. The authors show that at the macro level multi-authorship does not result in any exaggerate extent of self-citations. AUTHOR ADDRESS: W Glanzel, Katholieke Univ Leuven, Steunpunt O&O Stat, Dekenstr 2, B-3000 Louvain, Belgium -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Visibility of collaboration on the Web (Article, English) AUTHOR: Kretschmer, H; Aguillo, IF SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 61 (3). 2004. p.405-426 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: The emerging influence of new information and communication technologies (ICT) on collaboration in science and technology has to be considered. In particular, the question of the extent to which collaboration in science and in technology is visible on the Web needs examining. Thus the purpose of this study is to examine whether broadly similar results would occur if solely Web data was used rather than all available bibliometric co-authorship data. For this purpose a new approach of Web visibility indicators of collaboration is examined. The ensemble of COLLNET members is used to compare co-authorship patterns in traditional bibliometric databases and the network visible on the Web. One of the general empirical results is a high percentage (78%) of all bibliographic multi-authored publications become visible through search of engines in the Web. One of the special studies has shown Web visibility of collaboration is dependent on the type of bibliographic multi-authored papers. The social network analysis (SNA) is applied to comparisons between bibliographic and Web collaboration networks. Structure formation processes in bibliographic and Web networks are studied. The research question posed is to which extent collaboration structures visible in the Web change their shape in the same way as bibliographic collaboration networks over time. A number of special types of changes in bibliographic and Web structures are explained. AUTHOR ADDRESS: H Kretschmer, Royal Netherlands Acad Arts & Sci, NIWI, POB 95110, NL-1090 HC Amsterdam, Netherlands -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Using a compound approach based on elaborated neural network for Webometrics: An example issued from the EICSTES project (Article, English) AUTHOR: Lamirel, JC; Al Shehabi, S; Francois, C; Polanco, X SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 61 (3). 2004. p.427-441 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: This paper present a compound approach for Webometrics based on an extension the self-organizing multimap MultiSOM model. The goal of this new approach is to combine link and domain clustering in order to increase the reliability and the precision of Webometrics studies. The extension proposed for the MultiSOM model is based on a Bayesian network-oriented approach. A first experiment shows that the behaviour of such an extension is coherent with its expected properties for Webometrics. A second experiment is carried out on a representative Web dataset issued from the EISCTES IST project context. In this latter experiment each map represents a particular viewpoint extracted from the Web data description. The obtained maps represented either thematic or link classifications. The experiment shows empirically that the communication between these classifications provides Webometrics with new explaining capabilities. AUTHOR ADDRESS: JC Lamirel, LORIA, BP 239, F-54506 Vandoeuvre Les Nancy, France [ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Commonalities and differences between scholarly and technical collaboration - An exploration of co-invention and co- authorship analyses (Article, English) AUTHOR: Meyer, M; Bhattacharya, S SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 61 (3). 2004. p.443-456 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: Co-authorship analysis is a well-established tool in bibliometric analysis. It can be used at various levels to trace collaborative links between individuals, organisations, or countries. Increasingly, informetric methods are applied to patent data. It has been shown for another method that bibliometric tools cannot be applied without difficulty. This is due to the different process in which a patent is filed, examined, and granted and a scientific paper is submitted, refereed and published. However, in spite of the differences, there are also parallels between scholarly papers and patents. For instance, both papers and patents are the result of an intellectual effort, both disclose relevant information, and both are subject to a process of examination. Given the similarities, we shall raise the question as to which extent one can transfer co-authorship analysis to patent data. AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Meyer, Univ Sussex, Freeman Ctr, SPRU Sci & Technol Policy Res, Brighton BN1 9QE, E Sussex, England -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Assessing internationality of scholarly journals through foreign authorship patterns: the case of major journals in information science, and scientometrics (Article, English) AUTHOR: Uzun, A SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 61 (3). 2004. p.457-465 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: This article reports findings from a study of patterns of foreign authorship of articles, and international composition of journal editorial boards in five leading journals in the field of information science, and scientometrics. The study covers an American journal and four European journals. Bibliographic data about foreign authors and their national affiliation from five selected years of publication were analyzed for all journals. The foreign input of articles were extremely high in Information Processing & Management, and Scientometrics, and were relatively low in the other three journals. The number of foreign countries contributing in all journals have increased rapidly since 1996. Canada, England, Belgium, Netherlands, China, and Spain were the countries with high contributions in JASIST. The authors from the USA have dominated the foreign-authored articles in all European journals. A simple linear regression analysis showed that 60% of variation in the proportion of foreign-authored articles in the set of five journals over the selected years could be explained by the percentage of foreign members on the editorial boards of the journals. AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Uzun, Middle E Tech Univ, Dept Stat, TR-06531 Ankara, Turkey -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Exploring website features for business information (Article, English) AUTHOR: Vaughan, LW SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 61 (3). 2004. p.467-477 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: Two previous webometrics studies found a relationship between the number of inlinks to a commercial site and the company's business performance measures. Thus inlink counts to commercial sites could be a potential source of business information. However, those studies examined top ranking information technology companies in the U.S. and China. Whether the above-mentioned relationship holds for all companies regardless of ranking and in other countries is unknown. The study reported in this paper investigated this question. The study includes all information technology companies in the U.S. and Canada and gathered both business performance data and website data for these companies. It found significant correlation between business performance measures and inlinks to the company websites. The correlation was still significant even after the size of the company and the website age were accounted for. The conclusion is robust to the search engine used for data collection. Data collection issues for webometrics research were also explored. AUTHOR ADDRESS: LW Vaughan, Univ Western Ontario, Fac Informat & Media Studies, London, ON N6A 5B7, Canada -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Dec 22 15:37:20 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:37:20 -0500 Subject: Thelwall M. and Vaughan L. "Webometrics: An introduction to the special issue" JASIST 55 (14). DEC 2004. p.1213-1215 Message-ID: M. Thelwall : M.Thelwall at wlv.ac.uk TITLE: Webometrics: An introduction to the special issue (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Thelwall, M; Vaughan, L SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 55 (14). DEC 2004. p.1213-1215 JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, HOBOKEN ABSTRACT: Webometrics, the quantitative study of Web phenomena, is a field encompassing contributions from information science, computer science, and statistical physics. Its methodology draws especially from bibliometrics. This special issue presents contributions that both push forward the field and illustrate a wide range of webometric approaches. AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Thelwall, Wolverhampton Univ, Sch Comp & Informat Technol, 35-49 Lichfield St, Wolverhampton WV1 1EQ, England From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Dec 22 15:40:26 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:40:26 -0500 Subject: Bjorneborn L and Ingwersen P. "Toward a basic framework for webometrics " JASIST 55(14): 1216-1227 December 2004 Message-ID: L. Bjorneborn : lb at db.dk TITLE: Toward a basic framework for webometrics (Article,English) AUTHOR: Bjorneborn, L; Ingwersen, P SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 55 (14). DEC 2004. p.1216-1227 JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, HOBOKEN ABSTRACT: In this article, we define webometrics within the framework of informetric studies and bibliometrics, as belonging to library and information science, and as associated with cybermetrics as a generic subfield. We develop a consistent and detailed link typology and terminology and make explicit the distinction among different Web node levels when using the proposed conceptual framework. As a consequence, we propose a novel diagram notation to fully appreciate and investigate link structures between Web nodes in webometric analyses. We warn against taking the analogy between citation analyses and link analyses too far. AUTHOR ADDRESS: L Bjorneborn, Royal Sch Lib & Informat Sci, Dept Informat Studies, DK-2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Dec 22 15:46:38 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:46:38 -0500 Subject: Cothey V. "Web-crawling reliability" JASIST 55 (14). DEC 2004. p.1228-1238 Message-ID: Viv Cothey : viv.cothey at wlv.ac.uk TITLE: Web-crawling reliability (Article, English) AUTHOR: Cothey, V SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 55 (14). DEC 2004. p.1228-1238 JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, HOBOKEN ABSTRACT: In this article, I investigate the reliability, in the social science sense, of collecting informetric data about the World Wide Web by Web crawling. The investigation includes a critical examination of the practice of Web crawling and contrasts the results of content crawling with the results of link crawling. It is shown that Web crawling by search engines is intentionally biased and selective. I also report the results of a large-scale experimental simulation of Web crawling that illustrates the effects of different crawling policies on data collection. It is concluded that the reliability of Web crawling as a data collection technique is improved by fuller reporting of relevant crawling policies. AUTHOR ADDRESS: V Cothey, Wolverhampton Univ, Sch Comp & Informat Technol, Lichfield St, Wolverhampton WV1 1SB, England From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Dec 22 15:50:53 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:50:53 -0500 Subject: Jepsen, ET; Seiden, P; Ingwersen, P; Bjorneborn, L "Characteristics of scientific web publications: Preliminary data gathering and analysis" JASIST 55 (14). DEC 2004 Message-ID: L. Bjorneborn : lb at db.dk TITLE: Characteristics of scientific web publications: Preliminary data gathering and analysis (Article, English) AUTHOR: Jepsen, ET; Seiden, P; Ingwersen, P; Bjorneborn, L SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 55 (14). DEC 2004. p.1239-1249 JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, HOBOKEN ABSTRACT: Because of the increasing presence of scientific publications on the Web, combined with the existing difficulties in easily verifying and retrieving these publications, research on techniques and methods for retrieval of scientific Web publications is called for. In this article, we report on the initial steps taken toward the construction of a test collection of scientific Web publications within the subject domain of plant biology. The steps reported are those of data gathering and data analysis aiming at identifying characteristics of scientific Web publications. The data used in this article were generated based on specifically selected domain topics that are searched for in three publicly accessible search engines (Google, AllTheWeb, and AltaVista). A sample of the retrieved hits was analyzed with regard to how various publication attributes correlated with the scientific quality of the content and whether this information could be employed to harvest, filter, and rank Web publications. The attributes analyzed were inlinks, outlinks, bibliographic references, file format, language, search engine overlap, structural position (according to site structure), and the occurrence of various types of metadata. As could be expected, the ranked output differs between the three search engines. Apparently, this is caused by differences in ranking algorithms rather than the databases themselves. In fact, because scientific Web content in this subject domain receives few inlinks, both AltaVista and AllTheWeb retrieved a higher degree of accessible scientific content than Google. Because of the search engine cutoffs of accessible URLs, the feasibility of using search engine output for Web content analysis is also discussed. AUTHOR ADDRESS: ET Jepsen, Royal Sch Lib & Informat Sci, Dept Informat Studies, Birketinget 6, DK-2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Dec 22 15:54:52 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:54:52 -0500 Subject: Wouters P. Menczer, F. Amitay E. Prime-Claverie, C; Beigbeder, M... Papers in JASIST 55(14) December 2004 Message-ID: The following appeared in the December issue of JASIST. I thought they might be of interest to members of the SIG-Metrics List. TITLE: Formally citing the web (Article, English) AUTHOR: Wouters, P; de Vries, R SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 55 (14). DEC 2004. p.1250-1260 JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, HOBOKEN ABSTRACT: How do authors refer to Web-based information sources in their formal scientific publications? It is not yet well known how scientists and scholars actually include new types of information sources, available through the new media, in their published work. This article reports on a comparative study of the lists of references in 38 scientific journals in five different scientific and social scientific fields. The fields are sociology, library and information science, biochemistry and biotechnology, neuroscience, and the mathematics of computing. As is well known, references, citations, and hyperlinks play different roles in academic publishing and communication. Our study focuses on hyperlinks as attributes of references in formal scholarly publications. The study developed and applied a method to analyze the differential roles of publishing media in the analysis of scientific and scholarly literature references. The present secondary databases that include reference and citation data (the Web of Science) cannot be used for this type of research. By the automated processing and analysis of the full text of scientific and scholarly articles, we were able to extract the references and hyperlinks contained in these references in relation to other features of the scientific and scholarly literature. Our findings show that hyperlinking references are indeed, as expected, abundantly present in the formal literature. They also tend to cite more recent literature than the average reference. The large majority of the references are to Web instances of traditional scientific journals. Other types of Web-based information sources are less well represented in the lists of references, except in the case of pure e-journals. We conclude that this can be explained by taking the role of the publisher into account. Indeed, it seems that the shift from print-based to electronic publishing has created new roles for the publisher. By shaping the way scientific references are hyperlinking to other information sources, the publisher may have a large impact on the availability of scientific and scholarly information. AUTHOR ADDRESS: P Wouters, NIWI KNAW, Nerdi, POB 95110, NL-1090 HC Amsterdam, Netherlands ISSN: 1532-2882 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Lexical and semantic clustering by web links (Article, English) AUTHOR: Menczer, F SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 55 (14). DEC 2004. p.1261-1269 JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, HOBOKEN ABSTRACT: Recent Web-searching and -mining tools are combining text and link analysis to improve ranking and crawling algorithms. The central assumption behind such approaches is that there is a correlation between the graph structure of the Web and the text and meaning of pages. Here I formalize and empirically evaluate two general conjectures drawing connections from link information to lexical and semantic Web content. The link-content conjecture states that a page is similar to the pages that link to it, and the link-cluster conjecture that pages about the same topic are clustered together. These conjectures are often simply assumed to hold, and Web search tools are built on such assumptions. The present quantitative confirmation sheds light on the connection between the success of the latest Web-mining techniques and the small world topology of the Web, with encouraging implications for the design of better crawling algorithms. AUTHOR ADDRESS: F Menczer, Indiana Univ, Sch Informat, Dept Comp Sci, Bloomington, IN 47408 USA ISSN: 1532-2882 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Trend detection through temporal link analysis (Article, English) AUTHOR: Amitay, E; Carmel, D; Herscovici, M; Lempel, R; Soffer, A SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 55 (14). DEC 2004. p.1270-1281 JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, HOBOKEN ABSTRACT: Although time has been recognized as an important dimension in the co-citation literature, to date it has not been incorporated into the analogous process of link analysis on the Web. In this paper, we discuss several aspects and uses of the time dimension in the context of Web information retrieval. We describe the ideal case where search engines track and store temporal data for each of the pages in their repository, assigning timestamps to the hyperlinks embedded within the pages. We introduce several applications which benefit from the availability of such timestamps. To demonstrate our claims, we use a somewhat simplistic approach, which dates links by approximating the age of the page's content. We show that by using this crude measure alone it is possible to detect and expose significant events and trends. We predict that by using more robust methods for tracking modifications in the content of pages, search engines will be able to provide results that are more timely and better reflect current real-life trends than those they provide today. AUTHOR ADDRESS: E Amitay, IBM Res Lab Haifa, IL-31905 Haifa, Israel [ ISSN: 1532-2882 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Transposition of the cocitation method with a view to classifying web pages (Article, English) AUTHOR: Prime-Claverie, C; Beigbeder, M SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 55 (14). DEC 2004. p.1282-1289 JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, HOBOKEN ABSTRACT: The Web is a huge source of information, and one of the main problems facing users is finding documents which correspond to their requirements. Apart from the problem of thematic relevance, the documents retrieved by search engines do not always meet the users' expectations. The document may be too general, or conversely too specialized, or of a different type from what the user is looking for, and so forth. We think that adding metadata to pages can considerably improve the process of searching for information on the Web. This article presents a possible typology for Web sites and pages, as well as a method for propagating metadata values, based on the study of the Web graph and more specifically the method of cocitation in this graph. AUTHOR ADDRESS: C Prime-Claverie, Ecole Natl Super Mines, Lab RIM G2I, 158 Cours Fauriel, F-42023 St Etienne, France ISSN: 1532-2882 From jzus at ZJU.EDU.CN Thu Dec 23 02:54:21 2004 From: jzus at ZJU.EDU.CN (Helen(Yuehong) ZHANG) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 02:54:21 -0500 Subject: Article in Message-ID: Author's E-mail adress: jzus at zju.edu.cn Author(s): Helen ZHANG Title : Foreseeing the Prospects of China??s Scientific and Technical Periodicals from the Output of Chinese and Foreign Scientific and Technical Articles Author(s) : (1) ZHANG Yuehong(Helen) ; (2) QI Zhiying Source :A Report in The 12th Conference of the International Federation of Science Editors in 2004 (12th-IFSE in Mexico) Abstract: Does a country??s publication of excellent international recognized science and technology (S&T) articles have any relation to its status as a giant in S&T? And how to grow concern about the health of the country??s scientific publications and how to strengthen the dissemination of scientific information? These questions need the attention of the government and science journal editors. Some help in answering some these questions can be gained by comparing some existing data: (1) The exponential growth of scientific publications has paralleled to the development of the science and education for the last two hundred years in the world. (2) World S&T article output increased by almost 40 percent from 1988 to 2001, and has been largely driven by growth in Western Europe, Japan, and several emerging East Asian S&T centers (South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan region, and China). (3) The output of academic articles in China over the past six years grew in parallel to the input of science and technology. Relevant data shows that the Chinese authors?? S&T papers collected by SCI grew at an average rate of 19 per cent each year from 1997 to 2002. The ratio of scientific and technological input to China??s gross domestic product (GDP) in the past six years (1997-2002) increased at an average rate of 0.92 per cent. And over the last 14-year period S&T article output rose almost 5- fold in China but on a per capita output basis of worldwide trends in S&T article output, China remains well below the world average. Through a market survey of Chinese & foreign scientific publications and market demand and in the view of Chinese high ratio of R&D investment to GDP, the authors foresee bright prospects for Chinese scientific and technical periodicals in the future and also offer some suggestions to achieve these accomplishments. Key words: Scientific journals, Publication market, Output of academic papers Address: ZHANG Yuehong( Helen),managing editor Journal of Zhejiang University SCIENCE 20 Yugu Road, Hangzhou 310027, China http://www.zju.edu.cn/jzus jzus at zju.edu.cn From jzus at ZJU.EDU.CN Thu Dec 23 03:45:07 2004 From: jzus at ZJU.EDU.CN (JZUS) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 16:45:07 +0800 Subject: Fw: Article in the List Message-ID: To send a message to all the people currently subscribed to the list, just send mail to SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU. This is called "sending mail to the list," <************************ Author's E-mail adress: jzus at zju.edu.cn > >Author(s): Helen ZHANG > >Title : Foreseeing the Prospects of China?s Scientific and Technical > Periodicals from the Output of Chinese and Foreign Scientific > and Technical Articles >Author(s) : (1) ZHANG Yuehong(Helen) ; (2) QI Zhiying > >Source :A Report in The 12th Conference of the International > Federation of Science Editors in 2004 (12th-IFSE in Mexico) > >Abstract: >Does a country?s publication of excellent international recognized science >and technology (S&T) articles have any relation to its status as a giant in >S&T? And how to grow concern about the health of the country?s scientific >publications and how to strengthen the dissemination of scientific >information? These questions need the attention of the government and >science journal editors. Some help in answering some these questions can be >gained by comparing some existing data: (1) The exponential growth of >scientific publications has paralleled to the development of the science >and education for the last two hundred years in the world. (2) World S&T >article output increased by almost 40 percent from 1988 to 2001, and has >been largely driven by growth in Western Europe, Japan, and several >emerging East Asian S&T centers (South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan region, and >China). (3) The output of academic articles in China over the past six >years grew in parallel to the input of science and technology. Relevant >data shows that the Chinese authors? S&T papers collected by SCI grew at >an average rate of 19 per cent each year from 1997 to 2002. The ratio of >scientific and technological input to China?s gross domestic product (GDP) >in the past six years (1997-2002) increased at an average rate of 0.92 per >cent. And over the last 14-year period S&T article output rose almost 5- >fold in China but on a per capita output basis of worldwide trends in S&T >article output, China remains well below the world average. Through a >market survey of Chinese & foreign scientific publications and market >demand and in the view of Chinese high ratio of R&D investment to GDP, the >authors foresee bright prospects for Chinese scientific and technical >periodicals in the future and also offer some suggestions to achieve these >accomplishments. >Key words: Scientific journals, Publication market, Output of academic >papers > >Address: ZHANG Yuehong( Helen),managing editor > Journal of Zhejiang University SCIENCE > 20 Yugu Road, Hangzhou 310027, China > http://www.zju.edu.cn/jzus jzus at zju.edu.cn = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Best wishes, Zhan Fan, Assistant Editor of JZUS jzus at zju.edu.cn www.zju.edu.cn/jzus +86-571-87952276 2004-12-23 From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Thu Dec 23 13:32:52 2004 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 19:32:52 +0100 Subject: No subject Message-ID: Are the contributions of China and Korea upsetting the world system of science? Scientometrics (forthcoming) click here for the pdf Loet Leydesdorff & Ping Zhou Abstract Institutions and their aggregates are not the right units of analysis for developing a science policy with cognitive goals in view. Institutions, however, can be compared in terms of their performance with reference to their previous stages. King's (2004) 'The scientific impact of nations' has provided the data for this comparison. Evaluation of the data from this perspective along the time axis leads to completely different and hitherto overlooked conclusions: a new dynamic can be revealed which points to a group of emerging nations. These nations do not increase their contributions marginally, but their national science systems grow endogenously. In addition to publications, their citation rates keep pace with the exponential growth patterns, albeit with a delay. The center of gravity of the world system of science may be changing accordingly. ** 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: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Dec 23 14:53:45 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 14:53:45 -0500 Subject: Piek, S; Kroling, P; Ammer, K; Stucki, G "PMR-relevant journals - A list of journals for physical med and Rehab and Related Fields" Physikalische Medizin Rehabilitationsmedizin Kuroptmedizin 14(5) p.254-262 October 2004 Message-ID: TITLE: PMR-relevant journals - A list of journals for physical medicine and rehabilitation and related fields (Article, German) AUTHOR: Piek, S; Kroling, P; Ammer, K; Stucki, G SOURCE: PHYSIKALISCHE MEDIZIN REHABILITATIONSMEDIZIN KURORTMEDIZIN 14 (5). OCT 2004. p.254-262 GEORG THIEME VERLAG KG, STUTTGART SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNALS item_title KEYWORDS: journal list; physical medicine; rehabilitation; physiotherapy; impact factor ABSTRACT: This article aims to provide the reader with a list of journals in english or german language, that are relevant to Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PMR) and accessible by Internet. Impact Factor and other characteristics such as the editor and organisation have been included. The list will enable the reader to make an initial evaluation of the journals scientific value in terms of the principles of Evidence Based Medicine. Typical for PMR is the overlapping with other medical fields such as orthopaedics, neurology, rheumatology, geriatrics, epidemiology and public health. Journals from related medical fields, that frequently publish articles of relevance to PMR, are therefore also included. The list of 132 titles presented in this article has been selected from a comprehensive list of approximately 6000 titles that are potentially relevant to PMR. The presented list will also be available on the Website of the German Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (DGPMR: www.dgpmr.de). AUTHOR ADDRESS: P Kroling, Univ Munich, Inst Med Balneol & Klimatol, Marchioninistr 17, D-81377 Munich, Germany TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS LIST, GO TO : http://listserv.utk.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=sigmetrics&A=1 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Dec 23 15:10:42 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 15:10:42 -0500 Subject: Manuel Cardona and Werner Marx "Confused, forgotten, rediscovered - References, the deficient memory of science" Physik Journal 3 (11): 27-29 November 2004 Message-ID: Werner Marx : W.Marx at fkf.mpg.de Full text available at: http://www.pro-physik.de/Phy/External/PhyH/1,7058,2-3-0-0-1-phy_toc_content_page-0-21221,00.html Title : Confused, forgotten, rediscovered - References, the deficient memory of science Authors : Manuel Cardona and Werner Marx Address : Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Heisenbergstr. 1, D-70569 Stuttgart (Germany) Journal : Physik Journal 3 (11): 27-29 November 2004 Publisher: Wiley-VCH (Weinheim) Document type: Article Language: German Cited References: 19 Abstract: Incorrect references are more than annoying scribal errors but serious faults in the scientific archives. Due to lack of standardization of journal titles sometimes papers are cited in hundreds of variants. Analyzing the reference variants of highly-cited papers shows that about 5 percent of all citations are erroneous with respect to the reference numerical data. Several highly-cited papers were found to be cited to about 90 percent with incorrect volume and/or starting page. Such incorrect citations seem to have been copied from prominent early citing papers causing or amplifying the errors. The earlier the cited papers the higher the probability that reference ?mutations? occur. Sometimes different early papers of the same authors are confused. Occasionally, the author names of scholars were replaced by those of their prominent teachers. Specific errors allow an estimation of the percentage of cited papers actually read by the citing authors. Non-English 19th-century journals like ?Annalen der Physik? are difficult to acquire and to read for many present day scientists. Thus, confused papers are sometimes not rectified, if at all, until decades after the errors were introduced. Some early papers are now seen by experts as seminal works. However, when their disciplines started to boom they obviously were forgotten. Other papers from the end of the 19th or the beginning of the 20th century were rediscovered and are increasingly and highly cited until present. Such papers obviously need to be originally cited by prominent carrier papers to be reintroduced into the citation network. Typical examples are given for each of the error variants mentioned. \\\ TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS LIST, GO TO : http://listserv.utk.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=sigmetrics&A=1 From rigic at EXCITE.COM Thu Dec 23 17:08:08 2004 From: rigic at EXCITE.COM (Rajko) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 17:08:08 -0500 Subject: International cooperation Message-ID: Dear Coleagues, Long time ago, Dr. E. Garfield stated that the scientists all over the world ?are one intellectual community? (Current Contents, No. 16, pp. 3-7, April, 1988), and he suggested that we should help to the scientists in poor and developing countries in our best interest. The war, like a cancer, destroys the normal function of a society, including the scientific production in the affected areas. Thus, we studied the influence of the civil war in Yugoslavia on publishing in peer-reviewed journals, and suggested to the researchers from various countries to survey scientific activities in Bosnia & Herzegovina and Serbia, and help restore and upgrade research and publication (Scientist 1997, 11:11; Scientometrics 1999, 44:183-192, and 2002, 53: 447-452). To motivate scientists for international cooperation, it might be a good approach to look at some previous examples. Thus, I am preparing a presentation for the Historic Section at the Experimental Biology 2005 and the 35th International Congress of Physiological Sciences, San Diego, CA (abstract enclosed). I invite you all to e-mail me publications related to the topic of international cooperation ? examples when at present an individual scientist is helping to his colleagues in developing or devastating countries. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. Happy New Year! Rajko Igic, MD, PhD Ulf Svante von Euler: Distinguished Swedish Physiologist Who Gladly Encouraged and Supported the Scientists in a Small Country Rajko Igic Anesthesiology & Pain Management, John H Stroger Jr Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, IL 60612, USA Ulf Svante von Euler-Chelpin (1905?1983) received the 1970 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine, for his discoveries. Later he was a member and then the president of the Nobel Committee. Von Euler was educated in his country (Medical School, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm), where he was assistant professor of pharmacology (1930?1933), physiology (1933?1939), professor of physiology (1939?1971), and professor emeritus (1971). From 1931 to 1947, he made several study-tours in top laboratories where he worked and built-up many international contacts, in the U.K. (H.H. Dale, 1930 and 1937; de B. Daly, 1931; A.V. Hill, 1934), Germany (G. Embden, 1931), Holland (C. Heymans, 1932), and Argentina (B.A. Houssay, 1946?1947). This extensive international cooperation and experience allowed him to both evolve scientifically to realize many ideas and to become a person who is ready to share his knowledge and enthusiasm for research with the scientists all over the world (including tho! se from small and poor countries). To illustrate his support to the researchers in a small country, we depicted his three visits to the former Yugoslavia: Sarajevo (1961), Belgrade (1968), and Tuzla (1982). The author of this presentation luckily was his host in Tuzla, and he is going to present some details of that visit. . _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Abstract EB and IUPS 2005.doc Type: application/msword Size: 22016 bytes Desc: not available URL: