From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Jun 1 17:01:21 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 17:01:21 -0400 Subject: Nicolaisen J. "Structure-based interpretation of scholarly book reviews: A new research technique" COLIS4: Emerging frameworks and Methods, 2002. p.123-135. Libraries Unlimited Inc. Englewood Message-ID: Jeppe Nicolaisen : jni at db.dk TITLE : Structure-based interpretation of scholarly book reviews: A new research technique AUTHOR: Jeppe NICOLAISEN SOURCE: COLIS4: Emerging frameworks and Methods, 2002. p.123-135. Libraries Unlimited Inc. Englewood Abstract: Scholarly book reviews contain evaluative parts, which, if decoded properly, hold great potential value for scholars, scientists, librarians, collection developers, information seekers, and LIS-researchers who are depending on access to valuated information and test collections. This paper introduces a new structure-based research technique for the interpretation of opinions reflected by authors of scholarly book reviews. The structure-based technique combines the strengths of two prevalent content analytical approaches, while additionally utilizing the typical rhetorical organization of book reviews as an enriched point of analytic departure. The validity of this research technique is established by statistically correlating results derived from the structure-based interpretation of 60 LIS book reviews, results of a quantitative content analysis of the same sample, and results obtained from questioning the actual reviewers about their genuine opinions of the books under study. From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Jun 2 12:15:23 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 12:15:23 -0400 Subject: Ming-yueh Tsay and Hui-min Yu. "Bibliometric analysis of indexing and abstracting literature. 1977-2000" COLIS4: Emerging frameworks and methods. 2002. p.327-331. Libraries Unlimited Inc. Englewood Message-ID: Ming-yueh Tsay : tsay at mail.tku.edu.tw TITLE : Bibliometric analysis of indexing and abstracting literature. 1977-2000 AUTHOR : Ming-yueh Tsay and Hui-min Yu SOURCE : COLIS4: Emerging frameworks and methods. 2002. p.327-331. Libraries Unlimited Inc, Englewood INTRODUCTION : Indexing and abstracting have become popular topics during recent decades, especially the focus on automatic and computer-aided indeing and abstracting. The early literature of indexing and abstracting rhrough 1976 was well analyzed in a study based on the first volume of Wellisch's bibliography (ABC-Clio, 1980) and published in Indexer by Tsay (1989). Modern information retrieval systems depend heavily on various indexing and abstracting methods. Thus it may be anticipated that literature dealing with this subject will be very abundant and that interesting phenomena can be observed through a bibliometric study. This motivates the present study, which explores some bibliometric phenomena of the literature of indeing and abstracting from 1977 to 2000. Using the computer as a tool and employing the bibliometric techniques, the present study intends to accomplish the following objectives: 1. to eplore the growth pattern of indexing and abstracting literature. 2. to determine a nucleus of primary journals that contains a substantial proportion of the totality of journal literature in indexing and abstracting and to investigate the features of these core journals. 3. to find the productivity distribution of authors in indexing and abstracting and to identify the most productive authors and their characteristics. It is expected that this information will provide useful insights into the nature and scope of the field of indexing and abstracting in 1977-2000. From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Jun 2 12:47:11 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 12:47:11 -0400 Subject: Liang LM "Evaluating China's research performance: how do SCI and Chinese indexes compare?" INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE REVIEWS 28 (1): 38-43 MAR 2003 Message-ID: Professor Liming Liang : liangliming1949 at sina.com PLEASE SEE MY COMMENTS BELOW: TITLE : Evaluating China's research performance: how do SCI and Chinese indexes compare? AUTHOR : Liang LM JOURNAL : INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE REVIEWS 28 (1): 38-43 MAR 2003 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 12 Times Cited: 0 Explanation Abstract: The aim of this paper is to compare the value of SCI (the Science Citation Index) and two domestic Chinese databases of scientific papers and citations, Chinese Scientific and Technical Papers and Citations (CSTPC) and the Chinese Science Citation Database (CSCD), as measures of China's research output and performance. The two main results of the study are (i) that the number of papers indexed. in SCI is more sensitive as an indicator of research activity than numbers of citations or papers indexed in CSCD or CSTPC, and (ii) that the number of papers indexed in SCI is also a much more volatile indicator than measures derived from the Chinese databases. Related to these findings is the fact that there is now fierce competition among different regions of China for the top research rankings as defined by papers indexed in SCI. KeyWords Plus: CITATION Addresses: Liang LM, Henan Normal Univ, Inst Sci Technol & Society, Xinxiang, Henan 453002, Peoples R China Henan Normal Univ, Inst Sci Technol & Society, Xinxiang, Henan 453002, Peoples R China Publisher: MANEY PUBLISHING, HUDSON RD, LEEDS LS9 7DL, ENGLAND IDS Number: 678WH ISSN: 0308-0188 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year CHINESE BASIC SCI 4 2001 *CHIN AC SCI DOC I CHIN SCI IND STAT PA 1998 *I SCI TECHN INF C ANN RES REP STAT AN 1988 JIN B INT J LIB INFORMATIO 51 225 2001 JIN BH SCIENTOMETRICS 45 325 1999 LIANG L J LIBR INF SCI 20 13 1994 LIANG LM RES EVALUAT 10 105 2001 MOED HF SCIENTOMETRICS 53 281 2002 PANG J GUANGMING DAILY 0118 2002 WANG S SCI TIMES 1113 1995 XU G CHINESE BASIC SCI 4 2001 ZHU L CHINA BASIC SCI 6 1999 MY COMMENTS: I asked Professor Liang to explain the difference between the two Chinese databases...CSTPC and CSCD. She informs me that the following paper, posted on the SIG-Metrics list in 2002 explains the difference... Item # 000863 02/04/22 15:38 110 Liang LM, Wu YS, Li J "Selection of databases, indicators and models for evaluating research performance of Chinese universities" In a nutshell, she explains... 1) The two databases have different size of source journal set. In China there are about 5000 scientific and technological journals. Both CSTPC and CSCD selected only a small part of the total. For example, 1286 journals were selected as the source journals of CSTPC, 582 as those of CSCD in 1998. There were 2.2 times as many source journals for CSTPC than for CSCD. That means CSTPC covered a wider scope of fields, while CSCD selects fewer source journals but with better quality. 2) The two databases have different discipline structure of source journals. In CSCD the share of the source journals involving basic research fields, including mathematics, physics, chemistry, earth science, and biology, is 34.5%, while the corresponding share in CSTPC is 17.8%. Thus journals of applied science, --agriculture, medicine, engineering and environmental science-- have a less important position in CSCD, accounting for 57.2% of the total source journals, which is lower than the corresponding share in CSTPC (75.2 %). The journals in engineering fields make up 25.8% in CSCD, but 44.2 % in CSTPC. Following is the relative table in that paper. Table 3 Discipline Structures of Source Journals of CSTPC and CSCD in 1998 Discipline CSTPC CSCD Journals Journals % % Mathematics 27 2.1 26 4.5 Physics 43 3.3 36 6.2 Chemistry 25 1.9 29 5 Earth Science 95 7.4 66 11.3 Biology 40 3.1 43 7.5 Agriculture 124 9.6 57 9.8 Medicine 246 19.1 110 18.9 Engineering 569 44.2 150 25.8 Environmental 29 2.3 16 2.7 Science Other 88 6.8 49 8.4 Total 1286 99.8 582 100.1 She also said ... I had only compared SCI and two Chinese databases in one aspect. In fact we may also make comparison in other aspects. Further more, in other countries there are also some domestic databases of S&T papers and citations, I wonder how to compare SCI and those databases in evaluating research performance. From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Jun 2 15:12:07 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 15:12:07 -0400 Subject: Ingwersen P. "Cognitive perspectives of document representation " COLIS4: Emerging frameworks and methods. 2002. p.327-331. Libraries Unlimited Inc, Englewood Message-ID: Peter Ingwersen : pi at db.dk TITLE : Cognitive perspectives of document representation AUTHOR : Ingwersen P. SOURCE : COLIS4: Emerging frameworks and methods. 2002. p.327-331. Libraries Unlimited Inc, Englewood ABSTRACT: The paper reviews and analyses the cognitive conception of polyrepresentation or multi-evidence applied to information retrieval. Three types of aboutness are discussed, i.e. author, indexer, and user aboutness, as well as isness of information objects, that is, other forms of metadata, also serving as document features. The assumption that highly relevant objects are found in the retrieval overlaps of cognitively and functionally different origin is analysed with reference to performed empirical tests, and the utility of clustering of objects by comple representations for navigation or visualisation purposes is briefly analysed. From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Jun 2 15:40:55 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 15:40:55 -0400 Subject: Stack S "Gender and scholarly productivity: The case of criminal justice" JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE 30 (3): 175-182 MAY-JUN 2002 Message-ID: Steven Stack : aa1051 at wayne.edu TITLE Gender and scholarly productivity: The case of criminal justice AUTHOR Stack S SOURCE JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE 30 (3): 175-182 MAY-JUN 2002 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 38 Times Cited: 0 Explanation Abstract: Research on scholarly productivity in science has consistently found that women scientists publish only 5060 percent as many scholarly papers as men. Common limitations of this work include a focus on the hard sciences to the neglect of other fields and lack of controls for type of location or employment. This study contributed to the literature by investigating a soft science (criminal justice) and focusing on a particular location: scientists in tenure track, academic positions. Further, it was contended that females were more integrated into the male research networks in criminal justice than in the hard sciences. This greater integration should narrow the gap between male and female productivity. Data were based on eighty-nine faculty in Master's-level criminal justice departments. The results of a multiple regression analysis indicated that gender was not significantly associated with either the number of articles or the impact (citations) of scholarly work. The leading predictors of scholarly productivity included faculty rank and year of PhD. The full model explained 37 percent of the variance in article production and 44 percent of the variance in scholarly impact. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. KeyWords Plus: SEX-DIFFERENCES, PUBLICATION PRODUCTIVITY, SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTIVITY, JOURNALS, LOCATION, CAREERS, SCIENCE Addresses: Stack S, Wayne State Univ, Dept Criminal Justice, 2305 Fac Adm Bldg, Detroit, MI 48202 USA Wayne State Univ, Dept Criminal Justice, Detroit, MI 48202 USA Publisher: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, THE BOULEVARD, LANGFORD LANE, KIDLINGTON, OXFORD OX5 1GB, ENGLAND IDS Number: 573WY ISSN: 0047-2352 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year *AM AC CRIM JUST S GUID GRAD DEP CRIM J 1997 ALLISON PD AM SOCIOL REV 55 469 1990 BALDI S AM SOCIOL REV 63 829 1998 BALDI S SOCIOL QUART 36 777 1995 CHUBIN D AM SOCIOL 83 83 1974 COHN EG J CRIM JUST 22 517 1994 COHN EG J CRIMINAL JUSTICE E 9 187 1998 COLE JR ADV MOTIVATION ACHIE 2 217 1984 COLE S OUTER CIRCLE WOMEN S 157 1991 COLE S OUTER CIRCLE WOMEN S 277 1991 CREAMER EG J HIGH EDUC 70 261 1999 CZAPSKI G SCIENTOMETRICS 40 437 1997 ENDERSBY JW SOC SCI QUART 77 375 1996 FAMIGHETTI R WORLD ALMANAC BOOK F 1996 FISHER BS J CRIMINAL JUSTICE E 9 19 1998 FOX MF OUTER CIRCLE WOMEN S 189 1991 FOX MF SOC STUD SCI 13 285 1983 FOX MF SOCIOL QUART 26 537 1985 GOLDBERGER M RES DOCTORATE PROGRA 40 1995 HARGENS LL SOC FORCES 57 154 1978 LONG JS AM SOCIOL REV 58 703 1993 LONG JS ANNU REV SOCIOL 21 45 1995 LONG JS SOC FORCES 71 159 1992 LONG JS SOC FORCES 68 1297 1990 LOTKA AJ J WASHINGTON ACADEMY 16 317 1926 MACKIE M SOCIOL SOC RES 61 277 1977 MAGRATH A AM BEST COLL 1999 MCCLENDON M MULTIPLE REGRESSION 1994 RESKIN BF AM J SOCIOL 83 1235 1978 SMITH D ANN M AM SOC ASS 1997 SORENSEN JR J CRIM JUST 22 535 1994 STACK S INT REV MOD SOCIOL 24 119 1994 STACK S SOCIOL FOCUS 27 81 1994 STACK S SOCIOLOGICAL SPECTRU 14 293 1994 WARD KB SOC PROBL 39 291 1992 XIE Y AM SOCIOL REV 63 847 1998 ZUCKERMAN H HDB SOCIOLOGY 511 1988 ZUCKERMAN H OUTER CIRCLE WOMEN S 27 1991 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Jun 2 15:49:22 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 15:49:22 -0400 Subject: Sigurd, B; Eeg-Olofsson, M; van de Weijer, J "Word length, sentence length and frequency - Zipf revisited" STUDIA LINGUISTICA 58 (1). APR 2004. p.37-52 BLACKWELL PUBL LTD, OXFORD Message-ID: B. Sigurd : Bengt.Sigurd at ling.lu.se M. Eeg-Olofsson : Mats.Eeg-Olofsson at ling.lu.se J. van de Weijer: vdweijer at ling.lu.se TITLE: Word length, sentence length and frequency - Zipf revisited (Article, English) AUTHOR: Sigurd, B; Eeg-Olofsson, M; van de Weijer, J SOURCE: STUDIA LINGUISTICA 58 (1). APR 2004. p.37-52 BLACKWELL PUBL LTD, OXFORD SEARCH TERM(S): ZIPF* item_title ABSTRACT: This paper examines data from English, Swedish and German in order to find a theoretical distribution that describes the observed relation between word length and frequency. In Swedish and English, most word tokens consist of three letters only, while shorter or longer words occur less frequently. We found that the equation with the general form f(exp) = a * L-b * c(L) (a variant of the so-called gamma distribution) approximates the observed frequencies reasonably well. This formula incorporates both the fact that the number of possible words increases with word length, and the fact that longer words tend to be avoided, presumably because they are uneconomic. To our knowledge this formula has not been proposed to describe word frequency data. We examined frequency distributions of word length in Swedish and English, and explored different variants of the equation by systematically varying the a, b and c parameters. Subsequently, we also applied the formula to the frequency distribution of sentence length in English, and found an almost perfect fit for a corpus consisting of different text genres. Moreover, the data showed that the formula can be used to distinguish between different kinds of text genres. AUTHOR ADDRESS: B Sigurd, Lund Univ, Dept Phonet & Linguist, Helgonabacken 12, S-22362 Lund, Sweden From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Jun 2 15:52:47 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 15:52:47 -0400 Subject: Cronin, B; La Barre, K "Mickey Mouse and Milton: book publishing in the humanities (Article, English)" LEARNED PUBLISHING 17 (2). APR 2004. p.85-98 ASSOC LEARNED PROFESSIONAL SOC. PUBL. W.SUSSEX Message-ID: BLAISE CRONIN : bcronin at indiana.edu TITLE: Mickey Mouse and Milton: book publishing in the humanities (Article, English) AUTHOR: Cronin, B; La Barre, K SOURCE: LEARNED PUBLISHING 17 (2). APR 2004. p.85-98 ASSOC LEARNED PROFESSIONAL SOC PUBL, W SUSSEX SEARCH TERM(S): CRONIN B rauth ABSTRACT: We report the results of a survey of tenure and promotion criteria in university departments of literature and language in the US. It is clear that the publication of a scholarly monograph remains a conditio sine qua non for the awarding of tenure. We analyze the language of institutional guidelines and standards: these range from the highly concrete to the intentionally vague. AUTHOR ADDRESS: B Cronin, Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Jun 2 16:08:29 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 16:08:29 -0400 Subject: Robinson AM. Schlegel K. "Student bibliographies improve when professors provide enforceable guidelines for citations" PORTAL-LIBRARIES AND THE ACADEMY 4 (2). APR 2004. p.275-290 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PRESS, BALTIMORE Message-ID: TITLE: Student bibliographies improve when professors provide enforceable guidelines for citations (Article, English) AUTHOR: Robinson, AM; Schlegl, K SOURCE: PORTAL-LIBRARIES AND THE ACADEMY 4 (2). APR 2004. p.275-290 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PRESS, BALTIMORE ABSTRACT: This paper uses bibliometric analysis to test the efficacy of in-class library instruction in relation to the quality of student term paper bibliographies and grades. It finds that: instruction alone has limited effect; instruction combined with academic penalties tied to the use of a minimum of scholarly sources has positive and significant effects; electronic citations are less scholarly, but not necessarily less valid than print citations; and papers with longer bibliographies tend to receive higher grades irrespective of the kinds of citations. The paper concludes that since academic penalties are important to the success of in-class librarian instruction, librarians should work closely with professors to design class assignments; the provision of minimal guidelines is preferable to banning Internet citations. AUTHOR ADDRESS: AM Robinson, Wilfrid Laurier Univ, Brantford, ON, Canada From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Jun 2 16:25:12 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 16:25:12 -0400 Subject: Smith, K; Marinova, D "Bibliometric modelling and policy making" MODSIM 2003: INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON MODELLING AND SIMULATION, VOLS 1-4ONOMIC SYSTEMS; VOL 4: GENERAL SYSTEMS. 2003. p.1177-1182 UNIV WESTERN AUSTRALIA, NEDLANDS Message-ID: Kerry Smith : K.Smith at curtin.edu.au TITLE: Bibliometric modelling and policy making (Article, English) AUTHOR: Smith, K; Marinova, D SOURCE: MODSIM 2003: INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON MODELLING AND SIMULATION, VOLS 1-4ONOMIC SYSTEMS; VOL 4: GENERAL SYSTEMS. 2003. p.1177-1182 UNIV WESTERN AUSTRALIA, NEDLANDS SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; BIBLIOMETR* item_title; GARFIELD E LIBRI 48:67 1998 KEYWORDS: bibliometric modelling; policy setting; research performance KEYWORDS+: SCIENCE ABSTRACT: Bibliometric methods for analysing and describing research output have been in existence and usage for over half a century. This has been supported internationally by the establishment and operations of organisations such as the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and the continual release and calculations of journal lists, bibliometric indicators and rankings. More recently bibliometric analyses have responded to the changes posed by the growing field of Internet publishing by incorporating some electronic versions of journals. Policy makers in Australia have been relying on such bibliometric information and analyses in making funding decisions and encouraging the development of research potential and strengths. This raises a number of concerns. Does bibliometric modelling of research productivity reflect the real impact research has for Australia's future? Is the electronic word in all its varieties overpowering the printed word? Is the grey literature as important as the officially recognised prestigious publications? Are the expectations policy makers, policy executives and managers draw from bibliometric modelling justified? The paper attempts to provide some answers to these questions based on a study of three Australian research centres in the field of the geosciences. The analysis reveals a number of anomalies in the generalisations made when ISI models are used for policy decisions. AUTHOR ADDRESS: K Smith, Murdoch Univ, Inst Sustainabil & Technol Policy, Perth, WA, Australia From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Jun 2 16:30:51 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 16:30:51 -0400 Subject: Smith, K; Marinova, D "Academic publishing in the Australian changing funding environment: An Analysis of Journal Rankings in the geosciences" MODSIM 2003: Message-ID: Subject : Smith, K; Marinova, D "Academic publishing in the Australian changing funding environment: An Analysis of Journal Rankings in the geosciences" MODSIM 2003: INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON MODELLING AND SIMULATION, VOLS 1-4ONOMIC SYSTEMS; VOL 4: GENERAL SYSTEMS. 2003. p.1200- 1205 UNIV WESTERN AUSTRALIA, NEDLANDS Kerry Smith : K.Smith at curtin.edu.au TITLE: Academic publishing in the Australian changing funding environment: An analysis of journal rankings in the geosciences (Article, English) AUTHOR: Smith, K; Marinova, D SOURCE: MODSIM 2003: INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON MODELLING AND SIMULATION, VOLS 1-4ONOMIC SYSTEMS; VOL 4: GENERAL SYSTEMS. 2003. p.1200-1205 UNIV WESTERN AUSTRALIA, NEDLANDS SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNAL item_title KEYWORDS: bibliometric modelling; journal publications; journal rankings; research performance ABSTRACT: The 1990s observed continual change in the funding environment of Australian universities and research organizations. A major component of this was a closer collaboration with industry through the establishment of research centres. The field of geosciences is one example of success in developing and maintaining links with industry partners. The paper assesses whether the close collaboration with industry has changed the publication patterns of geoscience researchers based on the case study of three Australian centres: a key centre for teaching and research, a special research centre and a cooperative research centre. The focus of the analysis is on: (1) the choice of journals when publishing in the geosciences; and (2) the importance of journal rankings, such as the ones produced by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and officially recognised by the Australian federal government for funding purposes. The analysis confirms the importance of ISI journal titles for the Australian geoscience community as far as refereed journal publications are concerned. Nevertheless, the researchers use a very selected number of titles which is determined by the specifics of their work (research topics and geographical areas) and the requirements of their environment, including university, industry and government. AUTHOR ADDRESS: K Smith, Murdoch Univ, Inst Sustainabil & Technol Policy, Perth, WA, Australia From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Jun 2 16:36:16 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 16:36:16 -0400 Subject: Haycock LA "Citation analysis of education dissertations for collection development " LIBRARY RESOURCES & TECHNICAL SERVICES 48 (2). APR 2004. p.102-106 AMER LIBRARY ASSOC, CHICAGO Message-ID: L. A. Haycock : hayco001 at tc.umn.edu TITLE: Citation analysis of education dissertations for collection development (Article, English) AUTHOR: Haycock, LA SOURCE: LIBRARY RESOURCES & TECHNICAL SERVICES 48 (2). APR 2004. p.102-106 AMER LIBRARY ASSOC, CHICAGO ABSTRACT: The reference lists of forty-three education dissertations on curriculum and instruction completed at the University of Minnesota during the calendar years 2000-2002 were analyzed to inform collection development. As one measure of use of the academic library collection, the citation analysis yielded data to guide journal selection, retention, and cancellation decisions. The project aimed to ensure that the most frequently cited journals were retained on subscription. The serial monograph ratio for citation also was evaluated in comparison with other studies and explored in the context of funding ratios. Results of citation studies can provide a basis for liaison conversations with faculty in addition to guiding selection decisions. This research project can serve as a model for similar projects in other libraries that look at literature in education as well as other fields. AUTHOR ADDRESS: LA Haycock, Univ Minnesota Libs, Minneapolis, MN USA From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Jun 2 16:41:41 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 16:41:41 -0400 Subject: Caridad IG, Munoz MTF, Gangas MB, Ariza EM "Spanish scientific output in Medicine in the years 1994-1999" REVISTA CLINICA ESPANOLA 204 (2). FEB 2004. p.75-88 EDICIONES DOYMA S/L, BARCELONA Message-ID: TITLE: Spanish scientific output in Medicine in the years 1994- 1999 (Article, Spanish) AUTHOR: Caridad, IG; Munoz, MTF; Gangas, MB; Ariza, EM SOURCE: REVISTA CLINICA ESPANOLA 204 (2). FEB 2004. p.75-88 EDICIONES DOYMA S/L, BARCELONA ABSTRACT: Objectives.. A study through bibliometric indicators of the 1994-1999 Spanish international medical scietific output is presented. Method. The international bibliographic databases Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index were used as data source. Results. The Spanish production in Health Sciences rose in the period studied to 53,878 documents, distributed between Basic Medicine (54016), Clinical Medicine (53%) and Social Medicine (2.7%). Among the Spanish communities with greater production Madrid (31%) and Catalonia (29%) pointed out, followed by Andalusia (12%) and Valencia (9%). The principal institutional sectors involved in research were hospitals (51%) and university (44%). An important increase in the publications from foundations and companies was observed. The disciplines of Biochemistry/Molecular biology, Internal/General medicine and Pharmacology/Pharmacy pointed out by their high production. With regard to the centers of greater production its increase during the period studied, the clinical or basic character of research and the average impact factor of their documents shown to detect <>. Conclusions. The analysis carried out shows the growth of clinical and social Medicine, makes possible to identify the principal actors in Health Sciences, detect centers of excellence in the disciplines, and analyze the specialization of Spain in the European context. The publications are more abundant in the journals of the first quartile of each specialty. AUTHOR ADDRESS: IG Caridad, CSIC, CINDOC, C Joaquin Costa 22, E-28002 Madrid, Spain From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Jun 2 16:51:18 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 16:51:18 -0400 Subject: Papers from Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 101 (Suppl) April 6 2004 Message-ID: All of the following articles are available in full text at : http://www.pnas.org/content/vol101/suppl_1/ TITLE: Extracting knowledge from the World Wide Web (Article, English) AUTHOR: Henzinger, M; Lawrence, S SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 101 (SUPPL). APR 6 2004. p.5186-5191 NATL ACAD SCIENCES, WASHINGTON ABSTRACT: The World Wide Web provides a unprecedented opportunity to automatically analyze a large sample of interests and activity in the world. We discuss methods for extracting knowledge from the web by randomly sampling and analyzing hosts and pages, and by analyzing the link structure of the web and how links accumulate over time. A variety of interesting and valuable information can be extracted, such as the distribution of web pages over domains, the distribution of interest in different areas, communities related to different topics, the nature of competition in different categories of sites, and the degree of communication between different communities or countries. AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Henzinger, Google Inc, 2400 Bayshore Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Mapping knowledge domains: Characterizing PNAS (Article, English) AUTHOR: Boyack, KW SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 101 (SUPPL). APR 6 2004. p.5192-5199 NATL ACAD SCIENCES, WASHINGTON ABSTRACT: A review of data mining and analysis techniques that can be used for the mapping of knowledge domains is given. Literature mapping techniques can be based on authors, documents, journals, words, and/or indicators. Most mapping questions are related to research assessment or to the structure and dynamics of disciplines or networks. Several mapping techniques are demonstrated on a data set comprising 20 years of papers published in PNAS. Data from a variety of sources are merged to provide unique indicators of the domain bounded by PNAS. By using funding source information and citation counts, it is shown that, on an aggregate basis, papers funded jointly by the U.S. Public Health Service (which includes the National Institutes of Health) and non-U.S. government sources outperform papers funded by other sources, including by the U.S. Public Health Service alone. Grant data from the National Institute on Aging show that, on average, papers from large grants are cited more than those from small grants, with performance increasing with grant amount. A map of the highest performing papers over the 20-year period was generated by using citation analysis. Changes and trends in the subjects of highest impact within the PNAS domain are described. Interactions between topics over the most recent 5-year period are also detailed. AUTHOR ADDRESS: KW Boyack, Sandia Natl Labs, Computat Comp Informat & Math Ctr, POB 5800, Albuquerque, NM 87185 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Coauthorship networks and patterns of scientific collaboration (Article, English) AUTHOR: Newman, MEJ SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 101 (SUPPL). APR 6 2004. p.5200-5205 NATL ACAD SCIENCES, WASHINGTON ABSTRACT: By using data from three bibliographic databases in biology, physics, and mathematics, respectively, networks are constructed in which the nodes are scientists, and two scientists are connected if they have coauthored a paper. We use these networks to answer a broad variety of questions about collaboration patterns, such as the numbers of papers authors write, how many people they write them with, what the typical distance between scientists is through the network, and how patterns of collaboration vary between subjects and over time. We also summarize a number of recent results by other authors on coauthorship patterns. AUTHOR ADDRESS: MEJ Newman, Univ Michigan, Ctr Study Complex Syst, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Tracking evolving communities in large linked networks (Article, English) AUTHOR: Hopcroft, J; Khan, O; Kulis, B; Selman, B SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 101 (SUPPL). APR 6 2004. p.5249-5253 NATL ACAD SCIENCES, WASHINGTON ABSTRACT: We are interested in tracking changes in large-scale data by periodically creating an agglomerative clustering and examining the evolution of clusters (communities) over time. We examine a large real- world data set: the NEC CiteSeer database, a linked network of >250,000 papers. Tracking changes over time requires a clustering algorithm that produces clusters stable under small perturbations of the input data. However, small perturbations of the CiteSeer data lead to significant changes to most of the clusters. One reason for this is that the order in which papers within communities are combined is somewhat arbitrary. However, certain subsets of papers, called natural communities, correspond to real structure in the CiteSeer database and thus appear in any clustering. By identifying the subset of clusters that remain stable under multiple clustering runs, we get the set of natural communities that we can track over time. We demonstrate that such natural communities allow us to identify emerging communities and track temporal changes in the underlying structure of our network data. AUTHOR ADDRESS: B Selman, Cornell Univ, Dept Comp Sci, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Evolution of document networks (Article, English) AUTHOR: Menczer, F SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 101 (SUPPL). APR 6 2004. p.5261-5265 NATL ACAD SCIENCES, WASHINGTON ABSTRACT: How does a network of documents grow without centralized control? This question is becoming crucial as we try to explain the emergent scale-free topology of the World Wide Web and use link analysis to identify important information resources. Existing models of growing information networks have focused on the structure of links but neglected the content of nodes. Here I show that the current models fail to reproduce a critical characteristic of information networks, namely the distribution of textual similarity among linked documents. I propose a more realistic model that generates links by using both popularity and content. This model yields remarkably accurate predictions of both degree and similarity distributions in networks of web pages and scientific literature. AUTHOR ADDRESS: F Menczer, Indiana Univ, Sch Informat, Bloomington, IN 47408 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The simultaneous evolution of author and paper networks (Article, English) AUTHOR: Borner, K; Maru, JT; Goldstone, RL SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 101 (SUPPL). APR 6 2004. p.5266-5273 NATL ACAD SCIENCES, WASHINGTON ABSTRACT: There has been a long history of research into the structure and evolution of mankind's scientific endeavor. However, recent progress in applying the tools of science to understand science itself has been unprecedented because only recently has there been access to high-volume and high-quality data sets of scientific output (e.g., publications, patents, grants) and computers and algorithms capable of handling this enormous stream of data. This article reviews major work on models that aim to capture and recreate the structure and dynamics of scientific evolution. We then introduce a general process model that simultaneously grows coauthor and paper citation networks. The statistical and dynamic properties of the networks generated by this model are validated against a 20-year data set of articles published in PNAS. Systematic deviations from a power law distribution of citations to papers are well fit by a model that incorporates a partitioning of authors and papers into topics, a bias for authors to cite recent papers, and a tendency for authors to cite papers cited by papers that they have read. In this TARL model (for topics, aging, and recursive linking), the number of topics is linearly related to the clustering coefficient of the simulated paper citation network. AUTHOR ADDRESS: K Borner, Indiana Univ, Sch Lib & Informat Sci, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Crossmaps: Visualization of overlapping relationships in collections of journal papers (Article, English) AUTHOR: Morris, SA; Yen, GG SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 101 (SUPPL). APR 6 2004. p.5291-5296 NATL ACAD SCIENCES, WASHINGTON ABSTRACT: A crossmapping technique is introduced for visualizing multiple and overlapping relations among entity types in collections of journal articles. Groups of entities from two entity types are crossplotted to show correspondence of relations. For example, author collaboration groups are plotted on the x axis against groups of papers(research fronts)on the y axis. At the intersection of each pair of author group/research front pairs a circular symbol is plotted whose size is proportional to the number of times that authors in the group appear as authors in papers in the research front. Entity groups are found by agglomerative hierarchical clustering using conventional similarity measures. Crossmaps comprise a simple technique that is particularly suited to showing overlap in relations among entity groups. Particularly useful crossmaps are: research fronts against base reference clusters, research fronts against author collaboration groups, and research fronts against term co-occurrence clusters. When exploring the knowledge domain of a collection of journal papers, it is useful to have several crossmaps of different entity pairs, complemented by research front timelines and base reference cluster timelines. AUTHOR ADDRESS: SA Morris, Oklahoma State Univ, 202 Engn S, Stillwater, OK 74078 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: User-controlled mapping of significant literatures (Article, English) AUTHOR: White, HD; Lin, X; Buzydlowski, JW; Chen, CM SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 101 (SUPPL). APR 6 2004. p.5297-5302 NATL ACAD SCIENCES, WASHINGTON ABSTRACT: We apply a version of our web-based literature-mapping system to PNAS for 1971-2002, as indexed by the National Library of Medicine and the Institute for Scientific Information. Given a single input term from a user, a medical subject heading, a cocited author, or a cocited journal, PNASLINK rapidly displays views in which that term and the other 24 terms that most frequently co-occur with it in a bibliographic database are interrelated in ways suggesting fruitful combinations for document retrieval. The interrelationships are produced by two algorithms, pathfinder networks and Kohonen-style self-organizing maps. PNASLINK displays are themselves interactive interfaces that can retrieve documents from digital libraries (e.g., PNAS Online). This style of visualizing knowledge domains is called "localized" because it does not attempt to map the indexing of literatures in full but concentrates on the top terms in an "associative thesaurus" reflecting user interests. It also permits swift remappings, as the user recognizes terms worth pursuing. PNASLINK is illustrated with maps drawn from the literature of population genetics. Some comparative and evaluative comments are added, one from a domain expert indicating that the face validity of the system may be tempered by insufficient specificity in the indexing terms being mapped. AUTHOR ADDRESS: HD White, Drexel Univ, Coll Informat Sci & Technol, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA [ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Searching for intellectual turning points: Progressive knowledge domain visualization (Article, English) AUTHOR: Chen, CM SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 101 (SUPPL). APR 6 2004. p.5303-5310 NATL ACAD SCIENCES, WASHINGTON ABSTRACT: This article introduces a previously undescribed method progressively visualizing the evolution of a knowledge domain's cocitation network. The method first derives a sequence of cocitation networks from a series of equal-length time interval slices. These time- registered networks are merged and visualized in a panoramic view in such away that intellectually significant articles can be identified based on their visually salient features. The method is applied to a cocitation study of the superstring field in theoretical physics. The study focuses on the search of articles that triggered two superstring revolutions. Visually salient nodes in the panoramic view are identified, and the nature of their intellectual contributions is validated by leading scientists in the field. The analysis has demonstrated that a search for intellectual turning points can be narrowed down to visually salient nodes in the visualized network. The method provides a promising way to simplify otherwise cognitively demanding tasks to a search for landmarks, pivots, and hubs. AUTHOR ADDRESS: CM Chen, Drexel Univ, Coll Informat Sci & Technol, 3141 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA [ From gwhitney at UTK.EDU Wed Jun 2 19:41:08 2004 From: gwhitney at UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 19:41:08 -0400 Subject: ART: de Granda-Orive et al, Analysis and evolution of bibliometric indicators... Message-ID: Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 15:36:26 -0400 From: "Mistry, Meher" SUBJECT : de Granda-Orive JI, Rio FG, Jimenez TG, Ruiz CAJ, Reina SS, Valls RS "Analysis and evolution of bibliometric indicators of productivity and readership of articles on smoking appearing in ARCHIVOS DE BRONCONEUMOLOGIA from 1970 to 2000. A comparison to others topics in respiratory medicine" ARCHIVOS DE BRONCONEUMOLOGIA 38 (11): 523-529 NOV 2002 Dr. J. Ignacio de Granda-Orive : jgou01m at saludalia.com TITLE : Analysis and evolution of bibliometric indicators of productivity and readership of articles on smoking appearing in ARCHIVOS DE BRONCONEUMOLOGIA from 1970 to 2000. A comparison to others topics in respiratory medicine AUTHOR : de Granda-Orive JI, Rio FG, Jimenez TG, Ruiz CAJ, Reina SS, Valls RS SOURCE : ARCHIVOS DE BRONCONEUMOLOGIA 38 (11): 523-529 NOV 2002 Document type: Article Language: Spanish Cited References: 30 Times Cited: 0 Explanation Abstract: OBJECTIVES: To analyze the evolution of bibliometric indexes for research on smoking published in ARCHIVOS DE BRONCONEUMOLOGIA (AB) from 1970 through 2000, to compare indexes for each of the three decades under study, and to compare the indexes for smoking research with those of other topics in respiratory medicine. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We reviewed all articles published by AB between 1970 and 2000, recording data on 13 characteristics. RESULTS: Of 2,198 documents reviewed, 45 (2.04%) were about smoking; 71% of them were published in the last five years. The research came mainly from the most productive four provinces and five hospitals, which produced 68.1% and 50% of the reports, respectively. The first authors were pneumologists in 78.4% of the articles. The productivity index was 1.65, and the mean number of authors per document (collaboration index) was 4 +/- 3. The total number of references was 1,230 and the number of references per paper was 27.3 +/- 26. AB was the most cited journal. We found no change in obsolescence indexes. Insularity and self citation indexes tended to increase. Topics with productivity indexes that were higher than the index for smoking research were asthma (p < 0.05), respiratory insufficiency and sleep disorders, non-tuberculosis infection, oncology and pleural and interstitial diseases (p < 0.001). The insularity index was higher for tuberculosis than for smoking (p < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Smoking research increased considerably during the period studied. Pulmonologists predominated among the authors of studies on smoking. Bibliometric indexes for smoking evolved as did the indexes for other research. The most frequently cited journal was AB. Author Keywords: smoking, bibliometrics, scientific information KeyWords Plus: SPANISH SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION, JOURNALS, SPAIN, PUBLICATION, CONSUMPTION, INFORMATION, LANGUAGE, AUTHORS, NUMBER Addresses: de Granda-Orive JI, Hosp Mil Cent Gomez Ulla, Serv Neumol, Planta 14,Control B,Glorieta Ejercito S-N, Madrid 28047, Spain Hosp Mil Cent Gomez Ulla, Serv Neumol, Madrid 28047, Spain Univ Madrid, Hosp La Paz, Madrid 3, Spain Hosp Princesa, Madrid, Spain Univ Madrid, Hosp Gen Gregorio Maranon, Madrid 3, Spain Publisher: EDICIONES DOYMA S/L, TRAV DE GRACIA 17-21, 08021 BARCELONA, SPAIN IDS Number: 621XP ISSN: 0300-2896 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year ALVAREZSALA R ARCH BRONCONEUMOL 31 45 1995 BECONA E SUBST USE MISUSE 35 433 2000 BORDONS M REV ESP CARDIOL 52 790 1999 BRACHORIQUELME RL REV INVEST CLIN 49 369 1997 CAMI J MED CLIN-BARCELONA 109 481 1997 CAMI J MED CLIN-BARCELONA 109 515 1997 DEDIOS JG ESP PEDIAT 47 235 1997 GARCIABELLIDO J J HIGH ENERGY PHYS 2000 GARCIALOPEZ JA EUR J EPIDEMIOL 15 23 1999 GASCON ME MED CLIN-BARCELONA 87 444 1986 GOMEZ I RES POLICY 24 459 1995 GRANDAORIVE JI ARCH BRONCONEUMOL S 38 118 2002 GRANDAORIVE JI REV PATHOL RESP S1 5 51 2002 PESTALA A MUNDO CIENTIFICO 10 1200 1990 PESTANA A MUNDO CIENTIFICO 12 508 1992 PINERO JML MED CLIN-BARCELONA 102 104 1994 PINERO JML MED CLIN-BARCELONA 98 64 1992 PINERO JML MED CLIN-BARCELONA 98 101 1992 PINERO JML MED CLIN-BARCELONA 98 142 1992 PULIDO M MED CLIN-BARCELONA 103 770 1994 RIO FG ARCH BRONCONEUMOL 33 20 1997 RIO FG ARCH BRONCONEUMOL S 35 27 1999 RIO FG MANUAL NEUMOLOGIA CI 2 1945 1998 RIO FG MED CLIN-BARCELONA 115 287 2000 RIO FJG ARCH BRONCONEUMOL 32 327 1996 SOLAR MA MED CLIN-BARCELONA 111 529 1998 SOTERAS F REV CLIN ESP 186 29 1990 VILLAR J MED CLIN-BARCELONA 91 23 1988 WOLFARTH S AMINO ACIDS 19 79 2000 ZULUETA MA REV ESP CARDIOL 52 751 1999 When responding, please attach my original message _______________________________________________________________________ Eugene Garfield, PhD. email: garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu home page: www.eugenegarfield.org Tel: 215-243-2205 Fax 215-387-1266 President, The Scientist LLC. www.the-scientist.com Chairman Emeritus, ISI www.isinet.com Past President, American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) www.asis.org _______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ From anouruzi at YAHOO.COM Fri Jun 4 05:01:09 2004 From: anouruzi at YAHOO.COM (AliReza NORUZI) Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 02:01:09 -0700 Subject: Search Engines Coverage Message-ID: Dear all, I need statistical coverage of Search Engines (2004 and 2003). Is there anybody who could help me to find such statistics? Thanks. Regards, AliReza Noruzi Ph.D. Student of Information Science University of Aix-Marseille III, France Homepage : http://www.nouruzi.itgo.com/ --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hck at LRZ.UNI-MUENCHEN.DE Fri Jun 4 10:58:15 2004 From: hck at LRZ.UNI-MUENCHEN.DE (Heinrich C. Kuhn) Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 16:58:15 +0200 Subject: Search Engines Coverage In-Reply-To: <20040604090109.46303.qmail@web40807.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: anouruzi at yahoo.com wrote: > I need statistical coverage of Search Engines (2004 and 2003). > Is there anybody who could > help me to find such statistics? Perhaps yes, perhaps no. What exactly are you looking for? data on how many documents where indexed by which engine? how often document A on server B is hit by Engine C? percentages of the shallow web indexed by the engines? Best wishes Heinrich C. Kuhn +--------------------------------------------------------- | Dr. Heinrich C. Kuhn | Seminar fuer Geistesgeschichte der Renaissance | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen | D-80539 Muenchen / Ludwigstr. 31/IV | T.: +49-89-2180 2018, F.: +49-89-2180 2907 | inst. URL: http://www.phil-hum-ren.uni-muenchen.de/ +--------------------------------------------------------- From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Sat Jun 5 08:43:33 2004 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 13:43:33 +0100 Subject: Impact Factor, Open Access & Other Statistics-Based Quality In-Reply-To: <200406050416.i554GnUS024912@quickgr.its.yale.edu> Message-ID: Citation counts do not measure quality directly, but they are correlated with it. So are download counts, and no doubt other digitometric measures that are under development, and that will be derived from a growing OA corpus. See http://citebase.eprints.org/ and http://citebase.eprints.org/analysis/correlation.php Some studies on the correlation: Lee KP, Schotland M, Bacchetti P, Bero LA (2002) Association of journal quality indicators with methodological quality of clinical research articles. AMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 287 (21): 2805-2808 "High citation rates... and low manuscript acceptance rates... appear to be predictive of higher methodological quality scores for journal articles" Ray J, Berkwits M, Davidoff F (2000) The fate of manuscripts rejected by a general medical journal. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE 109 (2): 131-135. "The majority of the manuscripts that were rejected... were eventually published... in specialty journals with lower impact factor..." Donohue JM, Fox JB (2000) A multi-method evaluation of journals in the decision and management sciences by US academics. OMEGA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE 28 (1): 17-36 "perceived quality ratings of the journals are positively correlated with citation impact factors... and negatively correlated with acceptance rate." Yamazaki S (1995) Refereeeng System of 29 Life-Science Journals Preferred by JapanesE Scientists SCIENTOMETRICS 33 (1): 123-129 "There was a high correlation between the rejection rate and the impact factor" Source: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/1111.html Stevan Harnad On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, Jan Velterop wrote: > There is of course a distortion. If one is looking to measure quality, an > impact factor is unlikely to be the right tool. Two equivalent papers, one > OA and the other in a subscription journal, should have the same or a very > similar IF. If not, they're not equivalent (or, more to the point in the > current situation, their impact isn't measured properly, e.g. by arbitrary > exclusion from the count by the 'impact factory'). > > But impact factors do not measure quality; they measure impact. Not nearly > the same thing. The OA paper of two equivalent ones is likely to have the > best impact (when measured, of course). > > Everybody is playing the impact factor game. Authors and publishers > (including BioMed Central with some pretty nice impact factors) do, > because most funders and tenure committees do (though often deny it), so > careers and business prospects depend on it. But it shouldn't be confused > with quality. > > On quality flaws in high impact journals, this may be illustrative > reading, too: > http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2288-4-13.pdf > > Jan Velterop > > > On 1 Jun 2004, at 06:34, Sally Morris ((ALPSP)) wrote: > > > I'm concerned that there's possibly a built-in distortion here. Impact > > factors (or any other 'qualitative' measures) need to be equally > > applicable across the entire literature, both open and closed-access. > > However, both 'big deals' and OA may have an inbuilt distortion factor > > which has everything to do with availability and nothing (necessarily) > > to do with quality. > > > > Can anyone suggest how we can solve this dilemma? I'm assuming our > > aim is to 'measure' quality, not to skew perceptions in favour of any > > particular business model ;-) > > > > Sally Morris, Chief Executive > > E-mail: chief-exec at alpsp.org > From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Jun 11 12:54:49 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 12:54:49 -0400 Subject: Norris M. Oppenheim C. Citation counts and the Research Assessment Exercise V - Archaeology and the 2001 RAE - Journal of Documentation 59(6):709-730 2003. Message-ID: Charles Oppenheim : C.Oppenheim at lboro.ac.uk The full-text version of this paper is available at : http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/oppenheim.pdf TITLE Citation counts and the Research Assessment Exercise V - Archaeology and the 2001 RAE AUTHOR Norris M, Oppenheim C JOURNAL JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION 59 (6): 709-730 2003 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 35 Abstract: A citation study of the 692 staff that makes up unit of assessment 58 (archaeology), in the 2001 UK Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) was undertaken. Unlike earlier studies, which were obliged to make assumptions on who and what had been submitted for assessment, these were, for the first time available from the RAE Web site. This study, therefore, used the specific submission Mails of authors and their publications. Using the Spearman rank-order correlation coefficient, all results showed high statistically significant correlation between the RAE result and citation counts. The results were significant at 0.01 per cent. The findings confirm earlier studies. Given the comparative cost and ease of citation analysis, it is recommended that, correctly applied, it should be the initial tool of assessment for the RAE. Panel members would then exercise their judgement and skid to confirm final rankings. Author Keywords: archaeology, research, libraries, United Kingdom KeyWords Plus: LIBRARY, SCIENCE, AUTHORS, RATINGS Addresses: Norris M, Univ Loughborough, Dept Informat Sci, Loughborough, Leics, England Univ Loughborough, Dept Informat Sci, Loughborough, Leics, England Publisher: EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED, 60/62 TOLLER LANE, BRADFORD BD8 9BY, W YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND IDS Number: 749JM ISSN: 0022-0418 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year *HEFCE RAE 2001 SUBM 2001 *HEFCE REV RES REP CONS MAR 2001 BAIRD LM J INFORM SCI 20 2 1994 BENCE V SERIALS 14 265 2001 BERNSTEIN PL J PORTFOLIO MANAGE 26 1 2000 BRAUN T WEB KNOWLEDGE FESTSC 251 2000 CAMPBELL K J LAW SOC 26 470 1999 CRONIN B J DOC 53 263 1997 CRONIN B WEB KNOWLEDGE FESTSC 2000 GARFIELD E CITATION INDEXING IT 1979 HARNAD S ARIADNE 35 2003 HENKEL M HIGH EDUC 38 105 1999 HOLMES A INFORMATION RES 6 2001 JOHNSON I INFORMATION RES 6 2001 LANGE LL SCIENTOMETRICS 52 457 2001 LIU SX ACTA CRYSTALLOGR C 49 4 1993 MACROBERTS MH J AM SOC INFORM SCI 40 342 1989 MARTIN BR SCIENTOMETRICS 36 343 1996 MEADOWS AJ COMMUNICATING RES 1998 MYNOTT J HIST HUM SCI 12 127 1999 NAYLOR B SERIALS 14 149 2001 OPPENHEIM C J DOC 53 477 1997 OPPENHEIM C J DOC 51 18 1995 OPPENHEIM C SERIALS 9 155 1996 PUBLICATIONS R GUIDE 2001 RES ASSES 2002 ROBERTS G RES ASSESSMENT 2003 ROGERS J HIST HUMAN SCI 13 2000 SARWAR S THESIS SHEFFIELD U S 2000 SEGLEN PO J AM SOC INFORM SCI 43 628 1992 SENG LB J INFORM SCI 21 68 1995 SMITH A CORRELATION RAE RATI 2002 SNYDER H J INFORM SCI 24 431 1998 VANRAAN AFJ SCIENTOMETRICS 36 397 1996 WALFORD L LEARN PUBL 13 49 2000 WARNER J J INFORM SCI 26 453 2000 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Jun 11 14:46:22 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 14:46:22 -0400 Subject: Opthof T, Coronel R, Janse MJ. The significance of the peer review process against the background of bias: priority ratings of reviewers and editors and the prediction of citation, the role of geographical bias . Message-ID: Tobias Opthof: t.opthof at med.uu.nl TITLE "The significance of the peer review process against the background of bias: priority ratings of reviewers and editors and the prediction of citation, the role of geographical bias " AUTHOR Opthof T, Coronel R, Janse MJ JOURNAL CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH 56 (3): 339-346 DEC 2002 Document type: Editorial Material Language: English Cited References: 17 Times Cited: 0 KeyWords Plus: SUBMISSIONS, FATE Addresses: Opthof T, Univ Utrecht, Med Ctr, Dept Med Physiol, POB 85060, NL-3508 AB Utrecht, Netherlands Univ Utrecht, Med Ctr, Dept Med Physiol, NL-3508 AB Utrecht, Netherlands Univ Utrecht, Med Ctr, Dept Med Physiol, NL-3508 AB Utrecht, Netherlands Univ Utrecht, Med Ctr, Dept Cardiol, Utrecht, Netherlands Univ Amsterdam, Acad Med Ctr, Expt & Mol Cardiol Grp, NL-1105 AZ Amsterdam, Netherlands Univ Amsterdam, Acad Med Ctr, Editorial Off Cardiovasc Res, NL-1105 AZ Amsterdam, Netherlands Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS IDS Number: 623ER ISSN: 0008-6363 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year ID BURNHAM JC JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 263 1323 1990 CORONEL R CARDIOVASC RES 43 261 1999 GILBERT JR JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 272 139 1994 KRONICK DA JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 263 1321 1990 LINK AM JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 280 246 1998 OPTHOF T CARDIOVASC RES 55 215 2002 OPTHOF T CARDIOVASC RES 45 255 2000 OPTHOF T CARDIOVASC RES 33 1 1997 PETERS DP BEHAV BRAIN SCI 5 187 1982 RENNIE D JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 287 2759 2002 RENNIE D JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 280 213 1998 RENNIE D JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 272 91 1994 RENNIE D JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 263 1317 1990 SCHARSCHMIDT BF J CLIN INVEST 93 1877 1994 SIEGELMAN SS RADIOLOGY 178 637 1991 WENNERAS C NATURE 387 341 1997 WILSON JD J CLIN INVEST 61 1697 1978 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Jun 11 14:52:50 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 14:52:50 -0400 Subject: Davis M, Wilson CS "Research contributions in ophthalmology: Australia's productivity CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL OPHTHALMOLOGY 31 (4): 286-293 AUG 2003" Message-ID: Mari Davis : m.davis at unsw.edu.au TITLE Research contributions in ophthalmology: Australia's productivity AUTHORS Davis M, Wilson CS JOURNAL CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL OPHTHALMOLOGY 31 (4): 286-293 AUG 2003 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 13 Times Cited: 2 Abstract: Background: In 2000, the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Ophthalmology (ANZJO ) changed title to Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology. At this time, a review of Australia's contributions to the literature over the previous 21 years appears timely. Bibliometric indicators are used extensively to assess research performance as they offer views of a field that might not otherwise be apparent. The aim of this study was to explore publication output data to construct a picture of ophthalmology that may be of benefit to researchers and ophthalmologists. Methods: Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index databases were used to collate data on ophthal-mology research literature from 1980 to 2000. Subsequent analysis particularly focused on Australia's contribution to this literature, including publication frequency vis-a-vis the world, collaboration, and the journals in which Australian researchers frequently publish. These data were also compared with other countries of similar scientific stature or language. Results: Since 1980, Australia has ranked in the top 10 nations contributing to world ophthalmology research. Its contribution was close to world average in the 1980s, but increasing numbers of researchers and papers show Australia exceeding the world average during the 1990s. Most ophthalmology research collaboration by Australians is within Australia. Although fewer in number, collaborative papers with overseas researchers include 28 other countries. Data on the journals in which Australians publish show that Australian researchers continue to exhibit a preference for publication in their own regional journals. Conclusions: This paper, one of a series on the literature of the vision sciences, provides some initial benchmarks on Australia's standing and contribution to the field of ophthalmology research. Author Keywords: collaboration, comparative national productivity, journals, ophthalmological literature, research performance KeyWords Plus: JOURNALS, FIELDS Addresses: Davis M, Univ New S Wales, Sch Informat Syst Technol & Management, Bibliometr & Informetr Res Grp, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia Univ New S Wales, Sch Informat Syst Technol & Management, Bibliometr & Informetr Res Grp, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia Publisher: BLACKWELL PUBLISHING ASIA, 54 UNIVERSITY ST, P O BOX 378, CARLTON, VICTORIA 3053, AUSTRALIA IDS Number: 705FY ISSN: 1442-6404 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year ID *AUSTR SCI TECHN C PROF AUSTR SCI STUD 1989 *BOWK ULR INT PER DIR *DIAL INF SYST DIAL HOM PAG *DIAL INF SYST DIAL RANK COMM *I SCI INF IN CIT ED COMP ISI E 2002 *I SCI INF SCI CIT IND SOC SCI 2002 DAVIS M P 2 BERL WORKSH SCI 47 2001 DAVIS M SCIENTOMETRICS 52 395 2001 DAVIS M SCIENTOMETRICS 46 399 1999 KIMBAR M LIB SCI SLANT DOC IN 35 201 1998 SCHUBERT A SCIENTOMETRICS 16 3 1989 SIMS JL CLIN EXP OPHTHALMOL 31 14 2003 UGOLINI D SCIENTOMETRICS 52 45 2001 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Jun 11 14:54:34 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 14:54:34 -0400 Subject: Cobb M. "Impact factors: letting everyone have their say" Nature 424, 487, July 31, 2003 Message-ID: mcobb at man.ac.uk FULL TEXT AVAILABLE AT : http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v424/n6948/full/424487b_r.html TITLE mpact factors: letting everyone have their say AUTHOR Cobb M JOURNAL NATURE 424 (6948): 487-487 JUL 31 2003 Document type: Letter Language: English Cited References: 4 Times Cited: 0 Addresses: Cobb M, Univ Manchester, Sch Biol Sci, Oxford Rd, Manchester M13 9PT, Lancs, England Univ Manchester, Sch Biol Sci, Manchester M13 9PT, Lancs, England Publisher: NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, MACMILLAN BUILDING, 4 CRINAN ST, LONDON N1 9XW, ENGLAND IDS Number: 706LG ISSN: 0028-0836 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year NATURE 424 14 2003 LAWRENCE PA NATURE 423 479 2003 LAWRENCE PA NATURE 423 585 2003 LAWRENCE PA NATURE 422 259 2003 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Jun 11 14:56:51 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 14:56:51 -0400 Subject: Fava GA, Breno E, Guardabasso V, Stefanelli M Encouraging academic competition in Europe SCIENCE 298 (5599): 1715-1716 NOV 29 2002 Message-ID: G.A. FAVA : fava at psibo.unibo.it. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE AT : http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:DjQiNCtNGO8J:www.crui.it/lettera%2520crui/novembre/documenti /Lettera.rtf+FAVA+UNIVERSITY+OF+BOLOGNA+ENCOURAGING+ACADEMIC+COMPETITION+IN+EU ROPE&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 TITLE Encouraging academic competition in Europe AUTHORS Fava GA, Breno E, Guardabasso V, Stefanelli M JOURNALS SCIENCE 298 (5599): 1715-1716 NOV 29 2002 Document type: Letter Language: English Cited References: 1 Times Cited: 0 Addresses: Fava GA, Univ Bologna, Dept Psychol, Vle Berti Pichat 5, I-40127 Bologna, Italy Univ Bologna, Dept Psychol, I-40127 Bologna, Italy CRUI Fdn Italian Univ, I-00186 Rome, Italy Univ Catania, Univ Hosp, I-95123 Catania, Italy Univ Pavia, Dept Comp Sci & Syst, I-27100 Pavia, Italy Publisher: AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE, 1200 NEW YORK AVE, NW, WASHINGTON, DC 20005 USA IDS Number: 619UA ISSN: 0036-8075 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year BRENO E RICERCA SCI U ITALIA 2002 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Jun 11 15:05:07 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 15:05:07 -0400 Subject: Medina FX, Sanchez R The last decade of anthropological journals in Spain (1990-2000):An Evaluation Revista de Dialectologia Y Tradiciones Populares 57(1):11-28, 2002 Message-ID: F. Xavier-Medina : Xavier-medina at terra.es TITLE The last decade of anthropological journals in Spain (1990-2000): An evaluation AUTHOR Medina FX, Sanchez R JOURNAL REVISTA DE DIALECTOLOGIA Y TRADICIONES POPULARES 57 (1): 11-28 2002 Document type: Article Language: English Cited references: 12 Abstract: The authors analyze the characteristics of the anthropology journals in Spain in the last decade of the 20th century; they also discuss the situation, problems and survival conditions of these journals as well as the appearance of new ones, in addition, they reflect on the topic covered and avoided in accordance with the trends of the times. Author Keywords: journals, anthropology, bibliometrics, Spain, last decade of the 20th century Addresses: Medina FX, Inst Europeu Mediterrania, Barcelona, Spain Inst Europeu Mediterrania, Barcelona, Spain Univ Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Spain Publisher: CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACINVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS, INSTITUTO DE FILOLOGIA, DUQUE MEDINACELI, 6, 28014 MADRID, SPAIN IDS Number: 612TC ISSN: 0034-7981 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year ID BOURDIEU P USOS SOCIALES CIENCI 2000 CALVO L HIST ANTROPOLOGIA CA 1997 CALVO L REV ETNOLOGIA CATALU 1992 LUHMANN N CIENCIA SOCIEDAD 1996 MEDINA FX REV ETNOLOGIA CATALU 18 2001 MEDINA FX REV ETNOLOGIA CATALU 13 1998 MEDINA FX REV ETNOLOGIA CATALU 9 1996 MEDINA FX REV ETNOLOGIA CATALU 5 1994 PRAT J ESPANOLES VISTOS ANT 1991 PRAT J ETHNOLOGIE FRANCAISE 30 221 2000 PRAT J INVESTIGATORES INVES 1999 PRAT J TRENTA ANYS LITERATU 1987 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Jun 11 15:12:02 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 15:12:02 -0400 Subject: Lin GCS Changing discourses in China geography: a narrative evaluation. Environment and Planning A 34(10):1809-1831 October 2002 Message-ID: George C S Lin : GCSLIN at hkucc.hku.hk TITLE Changing discourses in China geography: a narrative evaluation AUTHOR Lin GCS JOURNAL ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING A 34 (10): 1809-1831 OCT 2002 Document type: Review Language: English Cited References: 130 times Cited: 5 Abstract: Existing literature on the status of the field of China geography has been focused either on what has been written or on the internal advancement of knowledge in the field, without considering its relationship to the broader social context and academic environment. In this study I adopt a contextual approach to analyzing two interrelated issues: (1) the changing position held by China geography in the grand geographic discipline; and (2) the evolution of discourses formulated by China geographers as a result of interactions with the broader academic environment. A systematic survey of research papers published in leading international journals has placed China geography in a peripheral position, with a volume of research output disproportionate to the size and importance of the nation. Nevertheless, several encouraging trends are observed, including the dramatic growth of research output since the 1990s and the broadening of the field beyond physical geography to encompass human geography and urban studies. A narrative investigation of the professional experience of a leading China geographer reveals a process of discourse (re)construction conditioned by both the changing political economy of China and the shifting emphases in the geographic discipline. Four periods of discourse formation are identified in this case study, namely the conception of the Chinese city as the center of change in the 1970s, interpretation of the uniqueness of Chinese urbanism in the 1980s, modeling of spontaneous town-based urbanization and regional development in the 1990s, and, most recently, the use of the notions of space, place, and transnationalism to construct the Chinese diaspora as a geographic system. Discourse formation in China geography can be understood as the consequence both of the rapidly changing material conditions in China and of discursive practices in the geographic discipline. Much needs to be done by China geographers to go beyond the empirical arena of area studies and become more actively engaged in the ongoing theoretical debates in the mainstream of geography and China studies. KeyWords Plus: POST-MAO CHINA, REGIONAL-DEVELOPMENT, TRANSITIONAL ECONOMY, URBAN-GEOGRAPHY, GUANGDONG PROVINCE, TOWN DEVELOPMENT, STATE POLICY, URBANIZATION, EVOLUTION, GLOBALIZATION Addresses: Lin GCS, Univ Hong Kong, Dept Geog, Pokfulam Rd, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Peoples R China Univ Hong Kong, Dept Geog, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Peoples R China Publisher: PION LTD, 207 BRONDESBURY PARK, LONDON NW2 5JN, ENGLAND IDS Number: 607WA ISSN: 0308-518X From g7070150 at TKGIS.TKU.EDU.TW Mon Jun 14 05:26:04 2004 From: g7070150 at TKGIS.TKU.EDU.TW (Jennifer) Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 05:26:04 -0400 Subject: Jennifer Message-ID: An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: warning1.txt URL: -------------- next part -------------- OFREAD! From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Jun 15 12:40:19 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 12:40:19 -0400 Subject: Vaughan L. "Web hyperlinks reflect business performance: A study of US and Chinese IT companies" CANADIAN JOURNAL OF INFORMATION AND LIBRARY SCIENCE-REVUE CANADIENNE DES SCIENCES DE L INFORMATION ET DE BIBLIOTHECONOMIE 28(1):17-31 March 2004 Message-ID: Liwen Vaughan : lvaughan at uwo.ca TITLE Web hyperlinks reflect business performance: A study of US and Chinese IT companies AUTHOR Vaughan L JOURNAL CANADIAN JOURNAL OF INFORMATION AND LIBRARY SCIENCE-REVUE CANADIENNE DES SCIENCES DE L INFORMATION ET DE BIBLIOTHECONOMIE 28 (1): 17-31 MAR 2004 Abstract: Hyperlinks to Web sites of information technology (IT) companies in the US and China were examined. The count of links to a company's Web site was found to correlate significantly with the company's revenue and profit. The two sets of correlation coefficients for the two countries were remarkably similar although the two groups of Web sites had very different characteristics. The correlation found is useful for Web data mining and for furthering our understanding of the nature of Web hyperlinks. Various measures were taken to improve the reliability of the data collected. Data collection issues for Webometrics research were also explored. KeyWords Plus: IMPACT FACTORS, SITES, LINKS Addresses: Vaughan L, Univ Western Ontario, Fac Informat & Media Studies, London, ON N6A 5B7, Canada Univ Western Ontario, Fac Informat & Media Studies, London, ON N6A 5B7, Canada Publisher: CANADIAN ASSOC INFORMATION SCIENCE, PO BOX 6174, STATION J, OTTAWA, ONTARIO K2A 1T2, CANADA IDS Number: 808RE ISSN: 1195-096X Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year BUSINESSWEEK 0624 92 2002 *MIN INF TECHN IND TOP 100 INF TECHN CO 2002 BAUER C INTERNET RES 10 31 2000 CHU H J ED LIB INFORMATION 43 110 2002 FLEISHER CS MANAGING FRONTIERS C 2001 GRAEF JL COMPETITIVE INTELLIG 8 41 1997 INGWERSEN P J DOC 54 236 1998 LIU B P 7 ACM SIGKDD INT C 2001 MADNICK S MIS QUART S 1 35 2002 MCGONAGLE JJ INTERNET AGE COMPETI 1999 NEL D INTERNET RES 9 109 1999 NORDSTROM RD COMPETITIVE INTELLIG 10 54 1999 NOTESS GR SEARCH ENG STAT RELA 2002 NOTESS GR SEARCH ENGINES SEARC 2002 ROUSSEAU R CYBERMETRICS 2 1998 SMITH A SCIENTOMETRICS 54 363 2002 SMITH AG J DOC 55 577 1999 SNYDER H J DOC 55 375 1999 THELWALL M INTERNET RES 10 150 2000 THELWALL M J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 52 1157 2001 THELWALL M LIB INFORMATION SCI VAUGHAN L ASLIB PROC 54 356 2002 VAUGHAN L J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 54 29 2003 VAUGHAN L P 9 INT C SCIENT INF 321 2003 WHITE GK INTERNET RES 8 32 1998 ZANASI A COMPETITIVE INTELLIG 9 44 1998 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Jun 15 12:48:10 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 12:48:10 -0400 Subject: Is grey literature ever used? Using citation analysis to measure the impact of GESAMP, an international marine scientific advisory body " Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science 28(1):49-69 March 2004 Message-ID: Ruth Cordes : rcordes at dal.ca TITLE Is grey literature ever used? Using citation analysis to measure the impact of GESAMP, an international marine scientific advisory body AUTHOR Cordes R JOURNAL CANADIAN JOURNAL OF INFORMATION AND LIBRARY SCIENCE-REVUE CANADIENNE DES SCIENCES DE L INFORMATION ET DE BIBLIOTHECONOMIE 28 (1): 49-69 MAR 2004 Abstract: Citation analysis was used to measure the impact of GESAMP, the Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection, which since 1969 has published reports for the United Nations and seven of its agencies. Web of Science was used to search for citations to 114 publications, of which 15 are Journal articles or books. Citations to grey literature can be difficult to locate and interpret, but two-thirds of the 1436 citations, in 1178 citing papers, are to grey literature items. The distribution of citations and self-citation are examined. Journal versions were cited more than corresponding reports. Core journals for GESAMP citations include seven environmental science journals and a social science journal. This paper confirms that citation searching can successfully measure the impact of organizations producing grey literature. Such publications can be very influential, diffusing widely from their source. KeyWords Plus: ENVIRONMENTAL-PROTECTION, PUBLICATIONS Addresses: Cordes R, Dalhousie Univ, Sch Lib & Informat Studies, Halifax, NS, Canada Dalhousie Univ, Sch Lib & Informat Studies, Halifax, NS, Canada Publisher: CANADIAN ASSOC INFORMATION SCIENCE, PO BOX 6174, STATION J, OTTAWA, ONTARIO K2A 1T2, CANADA IDS Number: 808RE ISSN: 1195-096X Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year *GESAMP GESAMP PUBL 2002 *GESAMP STAT MAR ENV 1991 *I SCI INF CIT REF SEARCH TUT 2002 *I SCI INF IN CIT CIT THRESH 2003 *JOINT IMCO FAO UN WATER RES 3 995 1969 *UN JOINT GROUP EXP SCI 2001 *UNEP REG SEAS REP STUD PU 2003 ALBERANI V INSPEL 29 240 1995 AUGER CP INFORMATION SOURCES 1998 BROWN C J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 52 187 2001 DUCE RA GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEM CY 5 193 1991 FARACE DJ PUBLISH RES Q 13 69 1997 FOWLER SW MAR ENVIRON RES 29 1 1990 GRAY JS BIODIVERS CONSERV 6 153 1997 GRAY JS MAR POLLUT BULL 22 432 1991 KIM MJ J INFORM SCI 26 111 2000 LISS PS SEA SURFACE GLOBAL C CH1 1997 PRAVDIC V GESAMP 1 DOZEN YEARS 1981 REDMAN J J APPL CRYSTALLOGR 3 34 375 2001 SEKIMIZU K ORIGIN GESAMP 1999 SENG LB J INFORM SCI 21 68 1995 SIMKIN MV READ YOU CITE COND M 2002 WARNICK W TAILORING ACCES SUBS 2001 WELLS PG OCEAN COAST MANAGE 45 77 2002 WELLS PG SCI TOTAL ENVIRON 238 329 1999 WINDOM HL GESAMP 2 DECADES ACC 1991 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Jun 15 13:18:35 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 13:18:35 -0400 Subject: Yue WP, Wilson CS, Rousseau R "The immediacy index and the journal impact factor: Two highly correlated derived measures" CANADIAN JOURNAL OF INFORMATION AND LIBRARY SCIENCE-REVUE " 28 (1): 33-48 MAR 2004 Message-ID: Ronald Rousseau : ronald.rousseau at khbo.be TITLE The immediacy index and the journal impact factor: Two highly correlated derived measures AUTHOR Yue WP, Wilson CS, Rousseau R JOURNAL CANADIAN JOURNAL OF INFORMATION AND LIBRARY SCIENCE-REVUE CANADIENNE DES SCIENCES DE L INFORMATION ET DE BIBLIOTHECONOMIE 28 (1): 33-48 MAR 2004 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 26 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: This article investigates the relationship between the Journal "impact factor" (IF) and the "immediacy index" (II) in the sciences, as well as the social sciences. It is found that there are highly positive correlations between the IF and the II in most sciences and social sciences disciplines although the correlation strengths vary across disciplines. Moreover, it is found that the II of year Y is also a good predictor for the IF of year Y + 1. These results are strongest for rapidly developing fields, such as biomedicine. Based on the assumption that the citation-age distribution has a Poisson distribution, our empirical data are clarified by a simulation. Addresses: Yue WP, Univ New S Wales, Sch Informat Syst Technol & Management, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia Univ New S Wales, Sch Informat Syst Technol & Management, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia KHBO, Dept Ind Sci & Technol, B-8400 Oostende, Belgium UA, IBW, B-2610 Wilrijk, Belgium Publisher: CANADIAN ASSOC INFORMATION SCIENCE, PO BOX 6174, STATION J, OTTAWA, ONTARIO K2A 1T2, CANADA IDS Number: 808RE ISSN: 1195-096X Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year BARNETT GA COMMUN RES 16 510 1989 BROWN P J AM SOC INFORM SCI 31 61 1980 BURRELL QL SCIENTOMETRICS 55 273 2002 EGGHE L CAN J INFORM LIB SCI 27 29 2002 EGGHE L INFORM PROCESS MANAG 28 201 1992 EGGHE L INTRO INFORMETRICS Q 1990 EGGHE L J AM SOC INFORM SCI 51 158 2000 FAVALORO EJ MED J AUSTRALIA 169 617 1998 GARFIELD E CAN MED ASSOC J 161 979 1999 GLANZEL W P 9 INT C SCIENT INF 68 2003 GORDON MD J AM SOC INFORM SCI 33 55 1982 INGWERSEN P CHINESE SCI BULL 46 524 2001 MATTRICIANI E IEEE T PROFESSIONAL 34 7 1991 MIDORIKAWA N INFORMATION SERVICES 4 417 1984 MOED HF J AM SOC INFORM SCI 46 461 1995 RAMIREZ AM SCIENTOMETRICS 47 3 2000 REN S J LIBR INF SCI 28 4 2002 ROUSSEAU R INFORMETRICS 87 88 249 1988 ROUSSEAU R J DOC 57 349 2001 SMART JC SCIENTOMETRICS 4 349 1982 STEWART JA INFORM PROCESS MANAG 30 239 1994 TODOROV R J INFORM SCI 14 47 1988 TOMER C INFORM PROCESS MANAG 22 251 1986 WELKOWITZ J INTRO STAT BEHAV SCI 1991 WILSON CS ANNU REV INFORM SCI 34 107 1999 YUE WP P 8 INT C SCI INF SY 893 2001 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Jun 15 13:28:50 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 13:28:50 -0400 Subject: Pearce FR. Citation measures and impact within astronomy / Astrpmp,u & Geophysics 45(2):15-17 Apr 2004 Message-ID: Frazer Pearce : frazer.Pearce at nottingham.ac.uk TITLE Citation measures and impact within astronomy AUTHOR Pearce FR JOURNAL ASTRONOMY & GEOPHYSICS 45 (2): 15-17 APR 2004 ABSTRACT : By using the inbuilt citation counts from NASA's astrophysics data system (ADS) I derive how many citations refereed articles receive as a function of time since publication. After five years, one paper in a hundred has accumulated 91 or more citations, a figure which rises to 145 citations after 10 years. By adding up the number of citations active researchers have received over the past five years, I have estimated their relative impact upon the field both for raw citations and citations weighted by the inverse of the number of authors per paper. Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year ABT HA PASP 93 207 1981 AHMAD QR PHYS REV LETT 87 2001 ANDERS E GEOCHIM COSMOCHIM AC 53 197 1989 BONDI H MON NOT R ASTRON SOC 104 273 1944 CHANDRASEKHAR S REV MOD PHYS 15 1 1943 DRAINE BT ASTROPHYS J 285 89 1984 FREEDMAN WL ASTROPHYS J 1 553 47 2001 KURTZ MJ IN PRESS J AM SOC IN 2004 KURUCZ RL ASTROPHYS J SUPPL 40 1 1979 LANDOLT AU ASTRON J 104 340 1992 PEARCE FR MON NOT R ASTRON SOC 317 1029 2000 SANCHEZ SF IN PRESS ASTRON NACH 2004 SAVAGE BD ANNU REV ASTRON ASTR 17 73 1979 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Jun 15 13:40:47 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 13:40:47 -0400 Subject: Linton JD, Thongpapanl N "PERSPECTIVE: Ranking the technology innovation management journals" Journal of Product Innovation Management 21(2):123-139 March 2004. Message-ID: Jonathan D. Linton : linton at rpi.edu TITLE PERSPECTIVE: Ranking the technology innovation management journals AUTHORS Linton JD, Thongpapanl N JOURNAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCT INNOVATION MANAGEMENT 21 (2): 123-139 MAR 2004 Document type: Article Language: English Cited References: 26 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: A citation analysis of the 10 leading technology and innovation management (TIM) specialty journals is conducted to gain insights into the relative ranking of the journals. The journals are ranked based on number of citations, citations adjusted for publication frequency, citations corrected for age, citations corrected for self-citation, and an overall score. The top 50 journals in management of technology based on citation analysis are listed. Overall, the top 10 journals based on citation analysis are Journal of Product Innovation Management, Research Policy, Research-Technology Management, Harvard Business Review, Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, Administrative Science Quarterly, R&D Management, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, and Academy of Management Review. The top 10 specialty journals in the technology innovation management specialty are Journal of Product Innovation Management, Research Policy, Research-Technology Management, R&D Management, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, International Journal of Technology Management, Technovation, Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, and Journal of Engineering and Technology Management. It is found that many of the TIM journals, although focused on TIM, have additional foci based on traditional management disciplines. Each of the 10 leading TIM specialty journals is considered from the perspective of traditional management disciplines; how the journals relate to each other and the related implications of these findings are considered. KeyWords Plus: CITATION ANALYSIS, DECISION Addresses: Linton JD, Rensselaer Polytech Inst, Lally Sch Management & Technol, Troy, NY 12180 USA Rensselaer Polytech Inst, Lally Sch Management & Technol, Troy, NY 12180 USA Publisher: BLACKWELL PUBLISHERS, 350 MAIN STREET, STE 6, MALDEN, MA 02148 USA IDS Number: 809VQ ISSN: 0737-6782 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year BAPNA R OR MS TODAY 12 2002 BROWN LD J ACCOUNTING RES 23 84 1985 CHENG CH AI MAG 17 87 1996 CHENG CH IEEE T ENG MANAGE 46 4 1999 CHUA C J ASS INFORMATION SY 3 145 2002 COE RK J FINANC RES 6 345 1983 COOPER RB INFORM PROCESS MANAG 29 113 1993 DONOHUE JM OMEGA-INT J MANAGE S 28 17 2000 DUBOIS FL J INT BUS STUD 31 689 2000 EOM SB DECIS SUPPORT SYST 9 237 1993 GARFIELD E CITATION INDEXING IT 1979 GOH C J OPERATIONS MANAGEM 15 123 1997 GOMEZMEJIA LR ACAD MANAGE J 35 921 1992 HENDERSON G J ECON BUS 42 325 1990 HOLSAPPLE CW INFORM MANAGE 25 231 1993 HOLSAPPLE CW J MANAGEMENT INFORMA 11 131 1994 JOBBER D INT J RES MARK 5 137 1988 KIRKPATRICK SA GROUP ORGAN MANAGE 17 5 1992 KOCAOGLU D IEEE T ENG MANAGE 41 331 1994 LIKER J TIM NEWSLETTER 7 5 1996 MABRY RH J FINANC RES 8 287 1985 MYLONOPOULOS NA COMMUN ACM 44 29 2001 STAHL MJ ACAD MANAGE J 31 707 1988 VOKURKA RJ J OPERATIONS MANAGEM 14 345 1996 WEBSTER DS MEASURING FACULTY RE 43 1986 ZINKHAN GM J ADVERTISING 28 51 1999 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Jun 15 13:53:21 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 13:53:21 -0400 Subject: Hoefer ML, Warnick E, Knapp TJ "Contributions to the history of psychology: CXV11. Who's Who in American Psychology: A Citation Study of Introductory Psychology Textbooks" Psychol Rep. 93(1):186-190 August 2003 Message-ID: Terry J. Knapp : terryk at unlv.edu AUTHOR : Hoefer ML, Warnick E, Knapp TJ TITLE : Contributions to the history of psychology: CXVII. Who's who in American psychology: A citation study of introductory psychology textbooks JOURNAL : PSYCHOL REP 93 (1): 186-190 AUG 2003 SUMMARY : The author indexes of 15 introductory psychology textbooks were surveyed to identify the authorities cited most frequently. The five names cited most often in descending order were Freud, Bandura, Skinner, Piaget, and James. Differences from earlier comparable citation studies are discussed. Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year ATKINSON RL HILGARDS INTRO PSYCH 2000 BERNSTEIN DA ESSENTIALS PSYCHOL 1999 COON D ESSENTIALS PSYCHOL 2000 CREWS F MEMORY FREUDS LEGACY 1995 GORENFLO DW TEACH PSYCHOL 18 8 1991 GRIGGS RA TEACH PSYCHOL 29 203 2002 HAGGBLOOM SJ REV GEN PSYCHOL 6 139 2002 KAESS WA AM PSYCHOL 9 144 1954 KALAT JW INTRO PSYCHOL 1999 KASSIN S PSYCHOLOGY 2001 KNAPP TJ TEACH PSYCHOL 12 15 1985 LAHEY BB PSYCHOL INTRO 2001 LEFTON LA PSYCHOLOGY 2000 MACMILLAN M FREUD EVALUATED COMP 1991 MATLIN MW PSYCHOLOGY 1999 MYERS DG EXPLORING PSYCHOL 2001 NAIRNE JS ADAPTIVE MIND 2000 NISSIMSABAT D TEACH PSYCHOL 16 74 1989 PERLMAN D AM PSYCHOL 35 104 1980 PLOTNIK R INTRO PSYCHOL 1999 RATHUS SA ESSENTIALS PSYCHOL 2001 ROECKBLEIN JE DICT THEORIES LAWS C 1998 ROECKELEIN JE PSYCHOL REP 78 243 1996 ROECKELEIN JE PSYCHOL REP 77 163 1995 SMITH EE FUNDAMENTALS PSYCHOL 2001 STERNBERG RJ PSYCHOL SEARCH HUMAN 2001 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Jun 15 18:10:34 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 18:10:34 -0400 Subject: Garfield E. "Historiographic mapping of knowledge domains literature" Journal of Information Science 30(2): 119-145, 2004 Message-ID: Eugene Garfield : garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu FULL TEXT AVAILABLE AT : http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/jis30(2)p119-145y2004.pdf TITLE: Historiographic mapping of knowledge domains literature (Article, English) AUTHOR: Garfield, E SOURCE: JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE 30 (2). 2004. p.119-145 SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, LONDON SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; ZUCKERMAN H rauth; ISI rp_organization,rp_suborganization,rs_organization,r s_suborganization; GARFIELD E P ASIST ANNU 39:14 2002; GARFIELD E J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 54:400 2003; GARFIELD E primaryauthor,author KEYWORDS: mapping; knowledge domains; small world concept; DNA structure; citation analysis; historiography; information visualization; software; HistCite KEYWORDS+: SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY ABSTRACT: To better understand the topic of this colloquium, we have created a series of databases related to knowledge domains (dynamic systems [small world/Milgram], information visualization [Tufte], co- citation [Small], bibliographic coupling [Kessler], and scientometrics [Scientometrics]). I have used a software package called HistCite(TM) which generates chronological maps of subject (topical) collections resulting from searches of the ISI Web of Science(R) or ISI citation indexes (SCI, SSCI, and/or AHCI) on CD-ROM. When a marked list is created on WoS, an export file is created which contains all cited references for each source document captured. These bibliographic collections, saved as ASCII files, are processed by HistCite in order to generate chronological and other tables as well as historiographs which highlight the most-cited works in and outside the collection. HistCite also includes a module for detecting and editing errors or variations in cited references as well as a vocabulary analyzer which generates both ranked word lists and word pairs used in the collection. Ideally the system will be used to help the searcher quickly identify the most significant work on a topic and trace its year-by-year historical development. In addition to the collections mentioned above, historiographs based on collections of papers that cite the Watson-Crick 1953 classic paper identifying the helical structure of DNA were created. Both year-by-year as well as month-by-month displays of papers from 1953 to 1958 were necessary to highlight the publication activity of those years. AUTHOR ADDRESS: E Garfield, ISI, 3501 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA From leo.egghe at LUC.AC.BE Wed Jun 16 10:13:18 2004 From: leo.egghe at LUC.AC.BE (Leo Egghe) Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 16:13:18 +0200 Subject: SPECIAL ISSUE OF INFORMATION PROCESSING AND MANAGEMENT ON INFORMETRICS Message-ID: SPECIAL ISSUE OF INFORMATION PROCESSING AND MANAGEMENT ON INFORMETRICS CALL FOR PAPERS The journal Information Processing and Management (IPM) will publish, early 2005, a special issue on the general topic "informetrics". Issue guest editor is Leo Egghe of the Limburgs Universitair Centrum in Belgium (see coordinates below). There is no restriction on informetric topics, for reasons explained in the second part of this call but one seeks papers of high quality on either one or both of the following aspects: * professional data gathering * explanation of regularities found in the data (mathematical modelling). As such we expect informetric papers on the following possible topics: * bibliographies (authors, journals) * indexing and information retrieval * libraries and other information centres * citation analysis and performance indicators * growth and aging (obsolescence) of literature * scientific communication (incl. collaboration), social networks among which the Internet, incl. webometrics * links (topical as well as methodological) with other -metrics fields such as sociometrics, econometrics, biometrics, quantitative linguistics and the study of complex, self-organising systems. The deadline for submission is September 30, 2004. The papers should be sent to Prof. Dr. Leo Egghe Issue guest editor IPM Limburgs Universitair Centrum Universitaire Campus B-3590 Diepenbeek Belgium tel.: +32 11 26.81.21 fax: +32 11 26.81.26 e-mail: leo.egghe at luc.ac.be Papers should be sent, preferably, by e-mail. If sent by airmail we expect that 3 copies are submitted. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------- It is intended that this should be the first of a growing series of issues on this theme that will become the core collection of work in this field. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From willieezi at YAHOO.COM Thu Jun 17 07:54:28 2004 From: willieezi at YAHOO.COM (Williams Nwagwu) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 04:54:28 -0700 Subject: SPECIAL ISSUE OF INFORMATION PROCESSING AND MANAGEMENT ON INFORMETRICS In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Leo, Will you publish empirical studies that drew data from specific countries' scientific activties? Willie --- Leo Egghe wrote: > > SPECIAL ISSUE OF INFORMATION PROCESSING AND > MANAGEMENT ON INFORMETRICS > > CALL FOR PAPERS > > The journal Information Processing and Management > (IPM) will publish, early > 2005, a special issue on the general topic > "informetrics". Issue guest > editor is Leo Egghe of the Limburgs Universitair > Centrum in Belgium (see > coordinates below). There is no restriction on > informetric topics, for > reasons explained in the second part of this call > but one seeks papers of > high quality on either one or both of the following > aspects: > > * professional data gathering > * explanation of regularities found in the > data (mathematical > modelling). > > As such we expect informetric papers on the > following possible topics: > > * bibliographies (authors, journals) > * indexing and information retrieval > * libraries and other information centres > * citation analysis and performance indicators > * growth and aging (obsolescence) of > literature > * scientific communication (incl. > collaboration), social networks > among which the Internet, incl. webometrics > * links (topical as well as methodological) > with other -metrics fields > such as sociometrics, econometrics, biometrics, > quantitative linguistics and > the study of complex, self-organising systems. > > The deadline for submission is September 30, 2004. > > The papers should be sent to > > Prof. Dr. Leo Egghe > Issue guest editor IPM > Limburgs Universitair Centrum > Universitaire Campus > B-3590 Diepenbeek > Belgium > tel.: +32 11 26.81.21 > fax: +32 11 26.81.26 > e-mail: leo.egghe at luc.ac.be > > Papers should be sent, preferably, by e-mail. If > sent by airmail we expect > that 3 copies are submitted. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------------- > > It is intended that this should be the first of a > growing series of issues > on this theme that will become the core collection > of work in this field. > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail From leo.egghe at LUC.AC.BE Thu Jun 17 08:08:36 2004 From: leo.egghe at LUC.AC.BE (Leo Egghe) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:08:36 +0200 Subject: SPECIAL ISSUE OF INFORMATION PROCESSING AND MANAGEMENT ON INFORMETRICS In-Reply-To: <20040617115428.40288.qmail@web12825.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Dear Colleague, country studies are not the main topic of the special issue unless some mathematical modelling is involved. Your can always send in a paper and I let the referees decide. Yours sincerely, Leo Egghe -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU]On Behalf Of Williams Nwagwu Sent: donderdag 17 juni 2004 13:54 To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] SPECIAL ISSUE OF INFORMATION PROCESSING AND MANAGEMENT ON INFORMETRICS Dear Leo, Will you publish empirical studies that drew data from specific countries' scientific activties? Willie --- Leo Egghe wrote: > > SPECIAL ISSUE OF INFORMATION PROCESSING AND > MANAGEMENT ON INFORMETRICS > > CALL FOR PAPERS > > The journal Information Processing and Management > (IPM) will publish, early > 2005, a special issue on the general topic > "informetrics". Issue guest > editor is Leo Egghe of the Limburgs Universitair > Centrum in Belgium (see > coordinates below). There is no restriction on > informetric topics, for > reasons explained in the second part of this call > but one seeks papers of > high quality on either one or both of the following > aspects: > > * professional data gathering > * explanation of regularities found in the > data (mathematical > modelling). > > As such we expect informetric papers on the > following possible topics: > > * bibliographies (authors, journals) > * indexing and information retrieval > * libraries and other information centres > * citation analysis and performance indicators > * growth and aging (obsolescence) of > literature > * scientific communication (incl. > collaboration), social networks > among which the Internet, incl. webometrics > * links (topical as well as methodological) > with other -metrics fields > such as sociometrics, econometrics, biometrics, > quantitative linguistics and > the study of complex, self-organising systems. > > The deadline for submission is September 30, 2004. > > The papers should be sent to > > Prof. Dr. Leo Egghe > Issue guest editor IPM > Limburgs Universitair Centrum > Universitaire Campus > B-3590 Diepenbeek > Belgium > tel.: +32 11 26.81.21 > fax: +32 11 26.81.26 > e-mail: leo.egghe at luc.ac.be > > Papers should be sent, preferably, by e-mail. If > sent by airmail we expect > that 3 copies are submitted. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------------- > > It is intended that this should be the first of a > growing series of issues > on this theme that will become the core collection > of work in this field. > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Jun 17 13:33:41 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 13:33:41 -0400 Subject: Thelwall, M. "Weak benchmarking indicators for formative and semi-evaluative assessment of research (Article, English) " Research Eval. 13(1):63-68, April 2004 Message-ID: Mike Thelwall : m.thelwall at wlv.ac.uk TITLE: Weak benchmarking indicators for formative and semi- evaluative assessment of research (Article, English) AUTHOR: Thelwall, M SOURCE: RESEARCH EVALUATION 13 (1). APR 2004. p.63-68 BEECH TREE PUBLISHING, GUILDFORD ABSTRACT: Scientometric indicators are traditionally split into two types: evaluative and relational. The purpose of the former is to evaluate research-related activities whereas the latter are used to describe or explore research relationships. In practice, however, there are many indicators that are of an assessing nature but do not satisfy the reliability or validity criteria required for use in an evaluative role. The phrase 'weak bench-marking' is introduced for this kind, applicable to indicators for which yardstick values can be calculated. Applications include flagging potential causes for concern when benchmark figures are not met and identifying areas of apparent good practice. This can be either in the context of a monitoring role, to assess whether remedial action is needed, or in the context of providing partial evidence as part of a larger formal evaluation. AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Thelwall, Wolverhampton Univ, Sch Comp & Informat Technol, Wulfruna St, Wolverhampton WV1 1SB, England From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Jun 17 14:39:53 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:39:53 -0400 Subject: Kraus JR "Citation patterns of advanced undergraduate students in biology, 2000-2002" Science & Technology Libraries 22(3-4):161-179 2002 Message-ID: Joseph R. Kraus :jokraus at du.edu TITLE Citation patterns of advanced undergraduate students in biology, 2000-2002 AUTHOR Kraus JR JOURNAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LIBRARIES 22 (3-4): 161-179 2002 Abstract: Thirty-three undergraduate student papers in biology that were presented at an annual symposium of undergraduate research at the University of Denver from 2000 through 2002 were evaluated. There were a total of 770 citations with an average of 23.3 citations per paper. It was determined that 76.2% of the citations came from journal articles, 16.4% came from books or book chapters, 6.4% were to other miscellaneous sources, and only 1.0% were to Web sites. Other findings include the top cited journals, the oldest cited journal articles, the average age and range of books and journals, the types of miscellaneous sources cited, and the stability of the cited Web sites. Author Keywords: biology literature, life science literature, information-seeking patterns, bibliometric analysis, undergraduate students KeyWords Plus: INFORMATION-SEEKING BEHAVIOR, WEB, LIBRARY, FACULTY, COMMUNICATION, UNIVERSITY, COLLECTIONS, ASTRONOMERS, PERSISTENCE, PHYSICISTS Addresses: Kraus JR, Univ Denver, Denver, CO 80208 USA Univ Denver, Denver, CO 80208 USA Publisher: HAWORTH PRESS INC, 10 ALICE ST, BINGHAMTON, NY 13904-1580 USA IDS Number: 777RP ISSN: 0194-262X ited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year ACAD LIB CAN INFLUEN 2002 BROWN C J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 52 187 2001 BROWN CM J AM SOC INFORM SCI 50 929 1999 COVI LM J AM SOC INFORM SCI 51 1284 2000 CROTTEAU M SCI TECH LIBR 17 67 1997 CURTIS KL B MED LIBR ASSOC 85 402 1997 DAVIS PM COLL RES LIBR 63 53 2002 DAVIS PM J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 52 309 2001 DAVIS PM PORTAL-LIBR ACAD 3 41 2003 DELENDICK TJ J AM SOC INFORM SCI 41 535 1990 FRIEDLANDER A DIMENSIONS USE SCHOL 2002 GRIMES DJ COLL RES LIBR 62 11 2001 HARPER JA SCI TECH LIBR 20 39 2001 HERRING SD COLL RES LIBR 62 251 2001 HUGHES J LIBR ACQUIS PRACT TH 19 403 1995 HURD JM COLL RES LIBR 60 31 1999 HURD JM CROSS DIV P 10 ACRL 312 2001 HURD JM J AM SOC INFORM SCI 51 1279 2000 JOHNSON WT LIBRES LIB INFORMATI 9 2002 JONES S INTERNET GOES COLL S 1 2002 KELLAND JL COLLECTION MANAGE 19 81 1994 KOEHLER W J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 53 162 2002 KOEHLER W J AM SOC INFORM SCI 50 162 1999 KRAUS JR CITATION ANAL UNDERG 2000 LAWRENCE S COMPUTER 34 26 2001 LEIBOVICH L NY TIMES 0810 G1 2000 LOMBARDO SV COLL RES LIBR 64 6 2003 LOMBARDO SV REFERENCE SERVICES R 29 327 2001 MAGRILL RM COLLECTION MANAGEMEN 12 25 1990 MCCAIN KW J AM SOC INFORM SCI 32 257 1981 MORSE DH ISSUES SCI TECHN FAL 2000 NORDSTROM LO SCIENTOMETRICS 12 381 1987 PRABHA CG CHARACTERISTICS ARTI 1996 QUIGLEY J ISSUES SCI TECHNOLOG 2002 ROGERS SA COLL RES LIBR 62 25 2001 SCHMIDT D SERIALS REV 20 45 1994 STANKUS T COLLECTION MANAGEMEN 4 95 1982 STCLAIR G COLLECT BUILD 11 2 1992 TAYLOR MK REF USER SERV Q 39 273 2000 WALCOTT R SCI TECHNOLOGY LIB 14 1 1994 WALKER RD CHANGING GATEWAYS IM 67 1995 WIBLE JG IAMSLIC CROSSR INT A 109 1989 WILLIAMS DC IAMSLIC CROSSR INT A 123 1989 ZIPP LS LIBR RESOUR TECH SER 40 335 1996 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Jun 17 14:49:41 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:49:41 -0400 Subject: Morrisey LJ "Bibliometric and bibliographic analysis in an era of electronic scholarly communication" Science & Technology Libraries 22(3-4): 149-160 2002 Message-ID: Locke J. Morrisey : morrisey at usfca.edu TITLE Bibliometric and bibliographic analysis in an era of electronic scholarly communication AUTHOR Morrisey LJ JOURNAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LIBRARIES 22 (3-4): 149-160 2002 Abstract: Bibliometric analysis of citation data is important to scientist and librarian alike. With alternate means of scientific scholarly communication proliferating, it's important to be able to accurately link publications and their references. This article highlights some of the current problems that arise when doing citation analysis of different kinds of scientific scholarly Communication. A combination of better bibliographic control, interactive systems, and adherence to standardized electronic publishing protocols would improve the accuracy and reliability of the citation data retrieved. Author Keywords: bibliometrics, citation analysis, bibliographic control, scholarly communication KeyWords Plus: REFERENCES, ACCURACY, AUTHORS Addresses: Morrisey LJ, Univ San Francisco, Gleeson Lib, Geschke Ctr, Reference & Res Serv, 2130 Fulton St, San Francisco, CA 94117 USA Univ San Francisco, Gleeson Lib, Geschke Ctr, Reference & Res Serv, San Francisco, CA 94117 USA Publisher: HAWORTH PRESS INC, 10 ALICE ST, BINGHAMTON, NY 13904-1580 USA IDS Number: 777RP ISSN: 0194-262X Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year LIB J 0206 2003 NATURE 420 253 2002 NATURE 415 101 2002 NATURE 227 219 1970 *MEMB CLEV PROJ SCI AM COM 0619 1999 *NEC RES I CIT SCI LIT DIG LIB 2002 *SPEC LIB ASS CHEM TRIS SUND JUN 9 2002 2002 *US NAT LIB MED UN MED LANG SYST UML 2003 BALL P NATURE 420 594 2002 BROCH E P 24 ANN INT ACM SIG 2001 EICHORN P AM J PUBLIC HEALTH 77 1011 1987 FRAZIER K D LIB MAGAZINE 7 2001 GARFIELD E APPL CITATION INDEXI 1994 GARFIELD E SCIENCE 122 108 1955 GILES CL DIGITAL LIB 98 1998 LASCAR C COLL RES LIBR 62 422 2001 LAWRENCE S IEEE COMPUT 32 67 1999 LAWRENCE S NATURE 411 521 2001 MARTINO JP AFOSR RES CURRENT RE 1967 NEEDHAM JL COMMUNICATION 0213 2003 ODLYZKO A LEARN PUBL 15 7 2002 RUDOLPH J CHRON HIGHER EDUC 36 A56 1990 SIMKIN MV ARXIV ORG E PRINT AR 2002 STULL GA RES Q EXERCISE SPORT 62 245 1991 SWEETLAND JH LIBR QUART 59 291 1989 SYLVIA MJ COLLECT BUILD 17 20 1998 WALKER J NEW LIB WORLD 103 83 2002 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Jun 17 15:26:21 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:26:21 -0400 Subject: Resh VH, Kobzina NG. A perspective on the key citations in freshwater benthic science, and the studies that influenced them" JOURNAL OF THE NORTH AMERICAN BENTHOLOGICAL SOCIETY 22 (3): 341-351 SEP 2003 Message-ID: Vincent H. Resh : vresh at nature.berkeley.edu TITLE A perspective on the key citations in freshwater benthic science, and the studies that influenced them AUTHOR Resh VH, Kobzina NG JOURNAL JOURNAL OF THE NORTH AMERICAN BENTHOLOGICAL SOCIETY 22 (3): 341-351 SEP 2003 Abstract: Articles and books cited greater than or equal to12 times in the Journal of the North American Benthological Society (J-NABS) between 1995 and 2000 were searched in the Science Citation Index (SCI), to determine the most-cited articles in benthic science, both within a specialized journal (J-NABS) and the general scientific literature (SCI). Both searches indicated that the river continuum concept (Vannote, R. L. et al. 1980. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 37:130-137) was the most-cited article. General statistics texts, and methods and identification manuals, constituted most of the heavily cited books. Authors of the 10 most-cited J-NABS articles provided commentaries about key influences on their classic articles. Author Keywords: benthic science, citation analysis, literature KeyWords Plus: STREAM INVERTEBRATES, TROPHIC STRUCTURE, ECOSYSTEM, ECOLOGY, COMMUNITIES, DISTURBANCE, DIVERSITY, POTASSIUM, DYNAMICS, BIOLOGY Addresses: Resh VH, Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Environm Sci Policy & Management, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Environm Sci Policy & Management, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA Univ Calif Berkeley, Marian Koshland Biosci & Nat Resources Lib, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA Publisher: NORTH AMER BENTHOLOGICAL SOC, 1041 NEW HAMSPHIRE STREET, LAWRENCE, KS 66044 USA IDS Number: 719PN ISSN: 0887-3593 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year ID *APHA STAND METH EX WAT WA 1998 *OH EPA BIOL CRIT PROT AQ LI 1 1987 ALLAN JD STREAM ECOLOGY STRUC 1995 BARBOUR MT 841B99002 EPA OFF WA 1999 BARRETT GW BIOSCIENCE 52 282 2002 BORMANN FH SCIENCE 155 424 1967 CARTER JL J N AM BENTHOL SOC 20 658 2001 CONNELL JH SCIENCE 199 1302 1978 CUMMINS KW ANNU REV ECOL SYST 10 147 1979 CUMMINS KW ANNU REV ENTOMOL 18 183 1973 CUMMINS KW BIOSCIENCE 39 24 1989 CUSHING CE B N AM BENTHOLOGICAL 11 225 1994 ELLIOTT JM SCI PUBLICATION FRES 25 1977 FISHER SG ECOL MONOGR 52 93 1982 FISHER SG ECOL MONOGR 43 421 1973 FISHER SG INT REV GESAMTEN HYD 62 710 1977 FOMENKO NV AQUATIC OLIGOCHAETA 105 1972 FORBES SA B PEORIA SCI ASS 77 1887 FRISSELL CA ENVIRON MANAGE 10 199 1986 GARFIELD E CURRENT CONTENTS 38 5 1980 GORDON ND STREAM HYDROLOGY INT 1992 GROSSMAN GD AM NAT 120 423 1982 HAGEN JB ENTANGLED BANK ORIGI 1992 HART JF ANN ASSOC AM GEOGR 72 1 1982 HILSENHOFF WL GREAT LAKES ENTOMOL 20 31 1987 HILSENHOFF WL J N AM BENTHOL SOC 7 65 1988 HILSENHOFF WL TECHNICAL B WISCONSI 132 1982 HUGHES RM ENVIRON MANAGE 10 629 1986 HUGHES RM IN PLACE RESOURCE IN 877 1982 HUSTON M AM NAT 113 81 1979 HYNES HBN 16 P INT C ZOOL WASH 4 324 1963 HYNES HBN ECOLOGY RUNNING WATE 1970 KARR JR FISHERIES 6 21 1981 KARR JR SPECIAL PUBLICATION 5 1986 LIKENS GE ECOLOGY 48 772 1967 MARGALEF R INT REV GESAMTEN HYD 45 133 1960 MARGALEF R PRESPECTIVES ECOLOGY 1968 MCINTOSH RP Q REV BIOL 64 31 1989 MERRITT RW INTRO AQUATIC INSECT 1996 MERRITT RW INTRO AQUATIC INSECT 1984 MINSHALL GW ECOL MONOGR 53 1 1983 MINSHALL GW ECOLOGY 48 139 1967 MINSHALL GW J N AM BENTHOL SOC 7 263 1988 NEWBOLD JD OIKOS 38 266 1982 ODUM EP P 16 INT C ZOOL 4 336 1963 ODUM EP SCIENCE 164 262 1969 ODUM HT ECOL MONOGR 27 55 1957 OMERNIK JM ANN ASSOC AM GEOGR 77 118 1987 OMERNIK JM EPA600377105 ENV RES 1977 OMERNIK JM IN PLACE RESOURCE IN 199 1982 PICKETT STA ECOLOGY NAT DISTURBA 1985 PLAFKIN JL 440489001 EPA OFF WA 1989 POFF NL CAN J FISH AQUAT SCI 46 1805 1989 RESH VH B ENTOMOL SOC 88 145 1988 RESH VH FRESHWATER BIOL 32 613 1994 RESH VH FRESHWATER BIOL 15 757 1985 RESH VH J N AM BENTHOL SOC 7 433 1988 ROSS HH ARCH HYDROBIOL 59 235 1963 SOUSA WP ANNU REV ECOL SYST 15 353 1984 VANNOTE RL CAN J FISH AQUAT SCI 37 130 1980 WARREN CE EPA600379059 ENV RES 1979 WEBSTER JR ECOL MONOGR 49 51 1979 WEBSTER JR J N AM BENTHOL SOC 16 3 1997 ZAR JH BIOSTATISTICAL ANAL 1974 From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Fri Jun 18 13:19:12 2004 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 18:19:12 +0100 Subject: On not conflating the give-away and non-give-away literature In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Jan Velterop wrote: > It may be good to move away from this notion of 'give-away' with its > associations of philanthropy. Yes, scientists 'give away' their research > articles. Would we also say that advertisers 'give away' their ads, even > though they clearly do? Yes, we would, and have, many times: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2417.html > There is a strong element of well-understood self-interest in the equation > and that's just fine... Publish or perish. Yup, that's why we keep talking about maximizing access in order to maximizing impact and its rewards -- to the researcher, the researcher's institution, the research-funder, the research-funder's funder (the tax-payer) and to research itself.... > Some of that self-interest is vested in 'prestige' metrics such as impact > factors and that is where established journals have the edge. No, it is OA that has the edge. OA is not about OA journal vs. non-OA journal, it is about OA-article vs. non-OA article. For commensurability purposes, it is best that articles being compared be in the same journal and issue! See the following preprint, to appear in a few days in D-Lib Magazine: http://www.dlib.org/ http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/isi-impact2.html It originally appeared in this Forum. Follow these threads: "Re: How to compare research impact of toll- vs. open-access research" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3707.html > Funding bodies that favour open access will surely not frown upon a > good article published by a grant applicant in an open access journal, > even if it has no impact factor. Agreed. And if it is OA, the article itself will have a citation count, perhaps also a download count, which predicts eventual citations: http://citebase.eprints.org/analysis/correlation.php > [Journal] Impact factors, when they are high enough, impart the perception > of prestige to authors, but good authors impart prestige to journals > as well Journal names impart prestige, but not quality. The quality comes from the journal's peer-review standards (including rejection rate). But these too are correlated with citation counts -- which are far more informative if reckoned on an article basis rather than just on the basis of the journal the article appeared in! > And as soon as new open access journals have a decent impact factor, the > benefits for the author of publishing in those journals are clear. The success and value of peer-reviewed journals will continue to come from what they always came from: from the quality standards for the journal's content, i.e., its peer-review standards (and, of course, a healthy flow of submissions that eventually meet those standards!) It takes time for new journals to establish a track-record for quality, but if they are OA journals they need not wait as long as new non-OA journals, for their usage counts and citation counts will be available far earlier (and they will be higher for being OA too). (Having said that: an author need not publish in an OA journal for the benefits of OA: They are there for the having if the author self-archives his non-OA journal articles too!) > On the basis of healthy self-interest, not 'give-away'. The give-away has always been out of self-interest: to maximize usage and impact (and their rewards) by maximizing access! Stevan Harnad NOTE: A complete archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online (1998-2004) is available at the American Scientist Open Access Forum: To join the Forum: http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html Post discussion to: american-scientist-open-access-forum at amsci.org Hypermail Archive: http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html Unified Dual Open-Access-Provision Policy: BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a suitable open-access journal whenever one exists. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm#journals BOAI-1 ("green"): Otherwise, publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal and also self-archive it. http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml http://www.eprints.org/signup/ From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Tue Jun 22 07:05:50 2004 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 12:05:50 +0100 Subject: New data showing that Open Access increases research impact Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:38:57 +0100 From: Peter Suber To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM at LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG Reposted [by S.H.] from Open Access News http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_06_20_fosblogarchive.html#a108786958702922366 New data showing that OA increases impact http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june04/harnad/06harnad.html Stevan Harnad and Tim Brody, Comparing the Impact of Open Access (OA) vs. Non-OA Articles in the Same Journals, D-Lib Magazine, June 2004. Excerpt: "The way to test the impact advantage of Open Access (OA) is not to compare the citation impact factors of OA and non-OA journals but to compare the citation counts of individual OA and non-OA articles appearing in the same (non-OA) journals. Such ongoing comparisons are revealing dramatic citation advantages for OA....The earlier Lawrence (2001) study on the impact-enhancing effects of OA in computer science needed to be replicated in other fields to check whether it was merely an artifact of the fact that computer science is conference-based rather than journal-based, and whether the advantage really reflected OA vs. non-OA rather than just online access vs. paper access. Fortunately, thanks to the ISI database licensed to the Observatoire des Sciences et des Technologies (OST) and a special contract generously provided by ISI to conduct the study, our research team at the Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al, Southampton University and Universit?t Oldenburg is in the process of testing the OA advantage across all disciplines in a 10-year ISI sample of 14 million articles. The physics analyses up to 2001 are already completed (Brody et al. 2004), http://opcit.eprints.org/feb19prog.html and they reveal even larger effects than those reported by Lawrence, with OA/non-OA citation ratios of 2.5 - 5.8." (PS: This is an important article. It's the first major study since the famous Lawrence paper documenting the proposition that OA increases impact. It's also the first to go beyond Lawrence in scope and method in order to answer doubts raised about his thesis. By confirming that OA increases impact, it gives authors the best of reasons to provide OA to their own work.) Originally posted by Peter Suber at 9:43 PM, Monday June 21 2004 From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Sun Jun 27 09:02:08 2004 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 14:02:08 +0100 Subject: June 27 2004: The 1994 "Subversive Proposal" at 10 Message-ID: ** Apologies for cross-posting ** THE 1994 "SUBVERSIVE PROPOSAL FOR ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING" AT 10 Stevan Harnad Today, June 27 2004, is the 10th anniversary of the "Subversive Proposal" which was first posted June 27 1994: http://www.arl.org/scomm/subversive/sub01.html and then published as: Harnad, S. (1995) A Subversive Proposal. In: Ann Okerson & James O'Donnell (Eds.) Scholarly Journals at the Crossroads; A Subversive Proposal for Electronic Publishing. Washington, DC., Association of Research Libraries, June 1995. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/subvert.html http://www.arl.org/scomm/subversive/toc.html This seems a good moment to take a critical look at where the Proposal stands today: where it was on target, and where it missed the mark: > I. OVERTURE: The Subversive Proposal > > esoteric 213 aj .es-o-'ter-ik > > 1 a aj designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone > 1 b aj of or relating to knowledge that is restricted to a small group > 2 a aj limited to a small circle <~ pursuits> > 2 b aj [mini PRIVATE], [mini CONFIDENTIAL] > (From the networked Merriam Webster Dictionary at Princeton University) This "esoteric/exoteric" distinction turns out to have been just an out-of-focus first-approximation. The relevant distinction is not esoteric vs. exoteric writing but *give-away vs. non-giveaway* writing (a better approximation) and, in particular, peer-reviewed journal articles -- written solely for research impact, not for royalty outcome -- vs. most other forms of writing. That is what gradually came into focus in the ensuing years as the true target of what eventually came to be called "Open Access" (OA). http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml > We have heard many sanguine predictions about the demise of paper > publishing, but life is short and the inevitable day still seems a > long way off. Since then, just about all of peer-reviewed journal publishing has become hybrid, with both a paper and an online edition (and a still-small but growing number of online-only journals). But paper has not died yet. Nor was converting to online-only the real issue: The real issue was (and always had been) toll-free online access to the full-text of peer-reviewed journal articles, i.e., Open Access (OA), in order to maximise their usage and impact. > This is a subversive proposal that could radically hasten that day. It > is applicable only to ESOTERIC (non-trade, no-market) scientific and > scholarly publication (but that is the lion's share of the academic > corpus anyway), namely, that body of work for which the author does > not and never has expected to SELL the words. The day in question is not the day when all is online-only, but the day when all is OA. And the "all" is the give-away articles published in peer-reviewed journals -- which is not the lion's share of the "academic corpus," but all of the peer-reviewed journal portion of it (hence an important subset). It is still not yet clear to how much more writing the OA model applies. It looks applicable to some monographs too. The decisive questions still seem to be: "Is the text an author give-away? Is it written for royalty income or for research impact?" > The scholarly author wants only to PUBLISH them, that is, to reach > the eyes and minds of peers, fellow esoteric scientists and scholars > the world over, so that they can build on one another's contributions > in that cumulative, collaborative enterprise called learned inquiry. This still seems correct, though now it is clear that the somewhat crasser career-based desire for "usage and impact" http://citebase.eprints.org/analysis/correlation.php (and its objective scientometric performance indicators) http://citebase.eprints.org/ better describes what the authors of peer-reviewed journal articles are really after than just the coyer and more idealistic "eyes and minds" metaphor. For "esoteric scientists and scholars" just substitute "qualified fellow-researcher users." > For centuries, it was only out of reluctant necessity that authors of > esoteric publications entered into the Faustian bargain of allowing > a price-tag to be erected as a barrier between their work and its > (tiny) intended readership, for that was the only way they could > make their work public at all during the age when paper publication > (and its substantial real expenses) was their only option. This is still true: The authors of refereed journal articles want to maximize the impact of their work on the work of their fellow researchers, and the way to do this is to maximize user access to it. Anything that denies access to would-be users of a piece of research denies the researcher and the research part of its potential impact. Access-tolls (subscriptions, licenses) certainly do this, for tolls mean that researchers whose institutions cannot afford them, cannot have access, and that therefore their potential contribution to that research's impact is lost. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/impact.html In the Gutenberg (on-paper) era, there was no way to supplement toll-based access with toll-free access for those would-be users whose institutions could not afford the tolls: in the PostGutenberg (on-line) era there is, at last. > But today there is another way, and that is PUBLIC FTP: The Web already existed at the time of the Subversive Proposal's writing (1994), so this was already obsolescent then! Since then ftp has faded and http has taken over. But even back then, the proposal should have referred more prominently to self-archiving on the author's website, not just the author's ftp site! On the other hand, the proposal was made before the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) (1999), with its shared metadata-tagging standard, allowing all distributed OAI-compliant web archives to be jointly interoperable, harvestable and searchable. Compared to that, both anonymous ftp sites and arbitrary websites are more like common graves, insofar as searching the peer-reviewed literature is concerned. http://www.openarchives.org/ > If every esoteric author in the world this very day established a > globally accessible local ftp archive for every piece of esoteric > writing from this day forward, the long-heralded transition from paper > publication to purely electronic publication (of esoteric research) > would follow suit almost immediately. Again, the real issue was not online publication, but online access, toll-free for all (OA), maximizing research impact by maximizing user access. And although self-archiving in an arbitrary ftp or web site would indeed have done the trick, the interoperability and searchability of this special subset of cyberspace -- the peer-reviewed journal literature -- still awaited agreement on the OAI standard in order to become truly efficient and useful for researchers. http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/ And of course today, a decade later, the level of self-archiving has only reached about 20%; but all signs now are that with the research community's growing awareness of both the possibility and the benefits of OA, self-archiving is poised for a growth spurt. It is likely, however, that this growth spurt will have to be facilitated -- just as academic publication of all forms is facilitated -- by some publish-or-perish pressure from researchers' universities and research funders in the form of mandated OA provision for journal articles. http://software.eprints.org/handbook/departments.php > This is already beginning to happen in the physics community, thanks > to Paul Ginsparg's HEP preprint network, with 20,000 users worldwide > and 35,000 "hits" per day, and Paul Southworth's CICnet is ready to > help follow suit in other disciplines. It has since become clear that although the physicists had -- and continue to maintain -- the head-start in self-archiving, their growth rate remains steadily linear from year to year, and that means their self-archiving will not reach 100% for another decade or more via that route. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0043.gif The reason may be related to the reason why CICnet never got off the ground: Central, discipline-based self-archiving is not the fastest and most effective way to reach 100% OA. Since the advent of OAI-interoperability, self-archiving in distributed institutional OAI-compliant Eprint archives http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=browse looks more promising, because: (1) it is at the individual institutional level, not at the central discipline-level, that the rewards of maximizing institutional research impact are shared by the researcher and his institution in the form of grants, prestige, promotion, and prizes; and (2) it is also at the institutional level that OA provision policies can be mandated, and compliance monitored and rewarded (via a natural extension of publish-or-perish policies, which are already rewarding not just the quantity of publications, but their importance and impact). http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php Distributing the (small) archiving costs per article is another advantage of institutional over central self-archiving. Moreover, journals -- 80% of which have already given their official green light to author self-archiving -- sometimes prefer institutional self-archiving to central self-archiving out of concerns about 3rd-party rival publishers free-riding on their content. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/Romeo/romeosum.html > The only two factors standing in the way of this outcome at this > moment are (1) quality control (i.e., peer review and editing), > which today happens to be implemented almost exclusively by paper > publishers, and (2) the patina of paper publishing, which results > from this monopoly on quality control. This was expressed badly: Peer review does not stand in the way of self-archiving, for it is the self-archiving of peer-reviewed articles that OA is all about! Nor is peer review a matter of mere "patina." And inasmuch as journals compete for articles, no journal has a monopoly on quality control! Only the peer-review system itself has (and there is nothing wrong with that): http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#7.Peer What I should have said then was that peer review continues to be an essential component of research publishing, even if the on-paper edition will soon cease to be. And publishers would only be obstacles to the extent that they tried to prevent self-archiving. But, as noted, publishers have since proved very responsive to the interests of research and to the research community's expressed desire for OA, with over 80% of journals now already officially "green" on author self-archiving and many of the remaining "gray" 20% ready to agree if asked. http://romeo.eprints.org/ There is even a perfectly legal way to self-archive in the rare case when the journal does not agree to the self-archiving of the peer-reviewed final draft: Self-archive the unrefereed preprint before submission and link a list of corrections to it after peer review and acceptance: http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#copyright1 This strategy was already implicit in the Subversive Proposal: > If all scholars' preprints were universally available to all > scholars by anonymous ftp (and gopher, and World-Wide Web, and > the search/retrieval wonders of the future), NO scholar would ever > consent to WITHDRAW any preprint of his from the public eye after > the refereed version was accepted for paper "PUBLICation." Instead, > everyone would, quite naturally, substitute the refereed, published > reprint for the unrefereed preprint. Either substitute/add the refereed published version -- now called the "postprint" http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#What-is-Eprint -- or link to the list of corrigenda: http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#copyright-transfer-forbids > Paper publishers will then either restructure themselves > (with the cooperation of the scholarly community) so as to arrange > for the much-reduced electronic-only page costs (which I estimate > to be less than 25% of paper-page costs, contrary to the 75% figure > that appears in most current publishers' estimates) to be paid out > of advance subsidies (from authors' page charges, learned society > dues, university publication budgets and/or governmental publication > subsidies) or they will have to watch as the peer community spawns > a brand new generation of electronic-only publishers who will. This speculative prediction was both premature and unnecessary: Self-archiving (SA) provides OA, which is an end in itself, by supplementing Toll Access (TA): OA = SA + TA That is what has since come to be called the "green" road to OA. http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/21.html The other road to OA is the "golden" road of OA journal publishing: It is the transition to OA journal publishing that I was describing above, but it is clear that this is neither the fastest nor the surest road to OA: For the research community to achieve 100% OA, there is no need for their TA journals to convert to gold; it is sufficient that they become green. Then TA + SA provides OA. If/when that should ever eventually lead to a transition to gold is a speculative matter (and what research needs now is not more speculation but more OA!) http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/#31.Waiting > The subversion will be complete, because the (esoteric -- no-market) > peer-reviewed literature will have taken to the airwaves, where it > always belonged, and those airwaves will be free (to the benefit of us > all) because their true minimal expenses will be covered the optimal > way for the unimpeded flow of esoteric knowledge to all: In advance. This is all true, but just as "esoteric" turned out to be not quite on-the-mark, so "subversion" too misses the mark: The objective of OA is not to subvert or reform the publication system (either toward online-only or toward OA publishing). It is to maximise research impact by maximising research access, right now: To put an end to all further needless research impact loss, once and for all, at last. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/self-archiving_files/Slide0025.gif If OA via TA + SA eventually leads to an evolution toward OA publication, then so be it. http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/Articles/harnad.html#B1 But that is not and should not be the objective of the OA movement. An attempt to go directly from TA to OA publishing will only retard the growth of OA for another needless decade. The "Subversive Proposal" should have been called, non-contentiously, the "Self-Archiving Proposal." Stevan Harnad Here are some selected references. For a fuller history, see Peter Suber's excellent "Timeline of the Open Access Movement" http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/timeline.htm Brody, T., Stamerjohanns, H., Vallieres, F., Harnad, S. Gingras, Y., & Oppenheim, C. (2004) The effect of Open Access on Citation Impact. Presented at: National Policies on Open Access (OA) Provision for University Research Output: an International meeting, Southampton, 19 February 2004. http://opcit.eprints.org/feb19prog.html http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/OATAnew.pdf Cox, J. & Cox, L. (2003) Scholarly Publishing Practice: The ALPSP report on academic publishers' policies and practices in online publishing. Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers. http://www.alpsp.org/2004pdfs/SFpub210104.pdf Harnad, S. (1990) Scholarly Skywriting and the Prepublication Continuum of Scientific Inquiry. Psychological Science 1: 342 - 343 (reprinted in Current Contents 45: 9-13, November 11 1991). http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/15/81/index.html Harnad, S. (1991) Post-Gutenberg Galaxy: The Fourth Revolution in the Means of Production of Knowledge. Public-Access Computer Systems Review 2 (1): 39 - 53 (also reprinted in PACS Annual Review Volume 2 1992; and in R. D. Mason (ed.) Computer Conferencing: The Last Word. Beach Holme Publishers, 1992; and in: M. Strangelove & D. Kovacs: Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters, and Academic Discussion Lists (A. Okerson, ed), 2nd edition. Washington, DC, Association of Research Libraries, Office of Scientific & Academic Publishing, 1992); and in Hungarian translation in REPLIKA 1994; and in Japanese in "Research and Development of Scholarly Information Dissemination Systems" 1994-1995. http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/15/80/index.html Harnad, S. (1995) Electronic Scholarly Publication: Quo Vadis? Serials Review 21(1) 70-72 (Reprinted in Managing Information 2(3) 1995) http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/archive/00001691/00/harnad95.quo.vadis.html Harnad, S. (1998) For Whom the Gate Tolls? Free the Online-Only Refereed Literature. American Scientist Forum. http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html Harnad, S. (2001/2003) For Whom the Gate Tolls? http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/resolution.htm Published as: Harnad, S. (2003) Open Access to Peer-Reviewed Research Through Author/Institution Self-Archiving: Maximizing Research Impact by Maximizing Online Access. In: Law, Derek & Judith Andrews, Eds. Digital Libraries: Policy Planning and Practice. Ashgate Publishing 2003. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/digital-libraries.htm [Shorter version: Harnad S. (2003) Open Access to Peer-Reviewed Research through Author/Institution Self-Archiving: Maximizing Research Impact by Maximizing Online Access. Journal of Postgrad Medicine 49: 337-342. http://www.jpgmonline.com/article.asp?issn=0022-3859;year=2003;volume=49;issue=4;spage=337;epage=342;aulast=Harnad] and in: (2004) Historical Social Research (HSR) 29:1 [French version: Harnad, S. (2003) Ci?lographie et ci?lolexie: Anomalie post-gutenbergienne et comment la r?soudre. In: Origgi, G. & Arikha, N. (eds) Le texte ? l'heure de l'Internet. Bibliotheque Centre Pompidou: Pp. 77-103. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/cielographie.pdf http://www.text-e.org/conf/index.cfm?ConfText_ID=7 http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/texte2.pdf ] Harnad, S. (2001) The Self-Archiving Initiative. Nature 410: 1024-1025 Nature WebDebatesversion: http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/Articles/harnad.html Fuller version: http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/16/42/index.html Harnad, S. (2003) Electronic Preprints and Postprints. Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science Marcel Dekker, Inc. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/eprints.htm Harnad, S. (2003) Online Archives for Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications. International Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. John Feather & Paul Sturges (eds). Routledge. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/archives.htm Harnad, S., Brody, T., Vallieres, F., Carr, L., Hitchcock, S., Gingras, Y, Oppenheim, C., Stamerjohanns, H., & Hilf, E. (2004) The green and the gold roads to Open Access. Nature Web Focus. http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/21.html Longer version to appear in Serials Review: The Access/Impact Problem and the Green and Gold Roads to Open Access http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/impact.html Harnad, S., Carr, L., Brody, T. & Oppenheim, C. (2003) Mandated online RAE CVs Linked to University Eprint Archives: Improving the UK Research Assessment Exercise whilst making it cheaper and easier. Ariadne 35 (April 2003). http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue35/harnad/ Hitchcock, S., Woukeu, A., Brody, T., Carr, L., Hall, W., and Harnad, S. (2003) Evaluating Citebase, an open access Web-based citation-ranked search and impact discovery service http://opcit.eprints.org/evaluation/Citebase-evaluation/evaluation-report.html Kurtz, Michael J.; Eichhorn, Guenther; Accomazzi, Alberto; Grant, Carolyn S.; Demleitner, Markus; Murray, Stephen S.; Martimbeau, Nathalie; Elwell, Barbara. (2003) The NASA Astrophysics Data System: Sociology, Bibliometrics, and Impact. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~kurtz/jasis-abstract.html Kurtz, M.J. (2004) Restrictive access policies cut readership of electronic research journal articles by a factor of two, Michael J. Kurtz, Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA http://opcit.eprints.org/feb19oa/kurtz.pdf Lawrence, S. (2001) Online or Invisible? Nature 411 (6837): 521. http://www.neci.nec.com/~lawrence/papers/online-nature01/ Odlyzko, A.M. (2002) The rapid evolution of scholarly communication." Learned Publishing 15: 7-19 http://www.catchword.com/alpsp/09531513/v15n1/contp1-1.htm Smith, A. & Eysenck, M. (2002) The correlation between RAE ratings and citation counts in psychology. Technical Report, Psychology, University of London, Royal Holloway. http://psyserver.pc.rhbnc.ac.uk/citations.pdf Swan, A. & Brown, S.N. (2004) JISC/OSI Journal Authors Survey Report. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/JISCOAreport1.pdf http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3628.html Swan, A. & Brown, S.N. (2004) Authors and open access publishing. Learned Publishing http://www.ingentaselect.com/rpsv/cw/alpsp/09531513/v17n3/s7/ From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Jun 29 13:44:26 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 13:44:26 -0400 Subject: J. Swygart-Hobaugh "A citation analysis of the quantitative/qualitative methods debate's reflection in sociology research: Implications for library collection development" Message-ID: Amanda J. Swygart-Hobaugh: aswygart at cornellcollege.edu AUTHOR Amanda J. Swygart-Hobaugh TITLE A citation analysis of the quantitative/qualitative methods debate's reflection in sociology research: Implications for library collection development SOURCE Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services, Volume 28, Issue 2, Summer 2004, Pages 180-195 Abstract This study examines how the social sciences' debate between qualitative and quantitative methods is reflected in the citation patterns of sociology journal articles. Citation analysis revealed that quantitative articles were more likely to cite journal articles than monographs, while qualitative articles were more likely to cite monographs than journals. Quantitative articles cited other articles from their own quantitative-dominated journals but virtually excluded citations to articles from qualitative journals, while qualitative articles cited articles from the quantitative-dominated journals as well as their own qualitative-specialized journals. Discussion and conclusions include this study's implications for library collection development. From rhill at ASIS.ORG Wed Jun 30 12:10:53 2004 From: rhill at ASIS.ORG (Richard Hill) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 12:10:53 -0400 Subject: ASIS&T Annual, Nov 12-17, Providence, RI Message-ID: ASIST&T Annual Meeting November 12-17, 2004, Providence, Rhode Island "Managing and Enhancing Information: Cultures and Conflicts" Program and registration now online at http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM04/ PLENARIES: Monday, November 14: Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and director of the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium). Sunday, November 13: JC Hertz, principal of Joystick Nation, Inc., a consultancy that applies the principles of complex systems and game design to products, services and learning systems, is recognized as one of the World Economic Forum's "Global Leaders of Tomorrow." Herz's focus is networked interaction design and systems that leverage the intrinsic characteristics of networked communication. PROGRAM: The theme "Managing and Enhancing Information: Cultures and Conflicts," raises awareness of the role of information science in fostering integration and cooperation in the global information society. We have sorted sessions into seven major tracks: (1) Disciplinary Issues, (2) Digital Libraries, (3) User Behavior, (4) System Design, (5) Information Organization, (6) Knowledge Management and Use, and (7) Resources and Services. The first four tracks continue all the way through the conference. Overall, the technical program contains 46 panel sessions, 20 contributed papers sessions (61 papers), and 3 poster sessions (85 posters). PRECONFERNECES Friday, November 12 * Managing User-Centered Design Projects * Taxonomy for Indexing - A Hands on Approach - Introduction Saturday, November 13 * Building an Institutional Repository Using DSpace * Collaborating with Colleagues Across Disciplinary, Organizational and Geographic Boundaries: Lessons Learned * Essential Pre-Implementation Planning for Successful Web Content Management * Taxonomy for Indexing - A Hands on Approach - Intermediate * SIG CR Workshop * SIG USE Workshop Sunday, November 14 * Personal Information Management in Theory and in Practice * Social Informatics Workshop for Library and Information Science Research Executive Director American Society for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900