From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Tue Nov 2 02:48:43 2004 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 08:48:43 +0100 Subject: Science mapping on-line; beta-version Message-ID: ** apologies for cross-postings Dear colleagues, Maps of aggregated citation relations among journals can be based on a variety of multi-variate techniques. For various reasons, the vector-space model (based on the cosine) has become selected as the least problematic option in the literature. At http://www.leydesdorff.net/jcr03/citing I have now brought online the cosine-matrices for the 5714 journals which are processed from the citing side in the most recent Journal Citation Report of the Science Citation Index 2003. The files are organized in such a way that one can directly import them into Pajek, a freeware program for the visualization which is made by our colleagues of the Mathematics Department of the University of Ljubljana. Pajek can be downloaded at http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/pajek/ or by clicking from my page. Each of the journals is listed as a separate entry. By clicking on the journal name one obtains an ASCII file which contains the information about the journal's environment in the data-definition language which Pajek can read. There are some instructions on how one can produce a map of the journals with this tool. It should work quite easily. The advantage of this method above bringing the pictures on-line is, on the one side, that the user can now colour journals differently, resize labels, etc., as one would like it best. Using the cosine matrices, on the other side, protects ISI's copyrights on the original data because one is not able to reconstruct citation data from these (normalized) cosine values. The details of the parameters and the procedures are provided in the introductory text on the webpage. If one needs further clarification, please, feel free to contact me or to make suggestions so that I can improve this text also for the other users. Please, consider this as a beta-version. With kind regards, Loet _____ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ The Challenge of Scientometrics ; The Self-Organization of the Knowledge-Based Society -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Tue Nov 2 15:20:33 2004 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 20:20:33 +0000 Subject: Open Access and ISI-indexed journals and articles Message-ID: "Open Access Journals in the ISI Citation Databases: Analysis of Impact Factors and Citation Patterns" http://www.isinet.com/isihome/media/presentrep/essayspdf/openaccesscitations2.pdf ISI have reported (see excerpts below) that 395,052 (53%) of the 747,060 articles indexed in the 2003 Journal Citation Reports were published in non-OA journals for which it is known that their publishers have given their authors the green light to make them OA by self-archiving them (56% if we add the 22,095 articles published in the OA journals). (ISI rightly ignores the superfluous yellow/blue subdistinctions, counting them as green.) This means, at the very least, that 56% of those ISI-indexed articles could be made immediately OA if their authors simply performed the few keystrokes needed to self-archive them. But the data are far stronger than that: ISI report that from the sample of ISI-indexed publishers for which their author self-archiving policy is known, 3056/3403 (90%) of the journals are green (which agrees quite well with the figures from http://romeo.eprints.org/stats.php ). If we assume (reasonably) that this sample can also be taken as an estimate of the percentage green among the remaining 2504 journals (whose publishers' self-archiving policy is not known), then a total of about 5316/5907 (90%) of the ISI-indexed journals are probably green. (Reckoned in terms of ISI-indexed articles, 417147/489824 (85%) of those articles come from the known green-journal sample, hence 635001/747060 (85%) of them could already be self-archived by their authors with their publishers' blessing!) As neither (1) the publishers' green light nor (2) the growing evidence of the enhanced impact of OA vs. non-OA research http://citebase.eprints.org/isi_study/ yet seem sufficient to induce most of the authors of those articles to self-archive them (only about 20% are as yet doing so, according to our own estimates, gathered with the help of the ISI database), http://www.crsc.uqam.ca/lab/chawki/ch.htm even though, for example, 34,000 authors signed an Open Letter demanding OA http://www.plos.org/about/letter.html the time does appear to be ripe for a self-archiving mandate from researchers funders and employers in order to maximise the access and impact of their research output http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php particularly as authors themselves, when surveyed, have declared that they will self-archive willingly if it is mandated (but not otherwise!) (Swan & Brown 2004). http://www.keyperspectives.co.uk/OpenAccessArchive/Authors_and_open_access_publishing.pdf Stevan Harnad -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Open Access Journals in the ISI Citation Databases: Analysis of Impact Factors and Citation Patterns" http://www.isinet.com/isihome/media/presentrep/essayspdf/openaccesscitations2.pdf "The majority of publishers have only one or a few journals in the Thomson ISI citation databases, and were not listed on the Project Romeo site." http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php http://romeo.eprints.org/ "We found 133 publishers (and/or their subsidiaries) with information on author archiving policy. Of these publishers, 108 have a stated policy permitting some type of author archiving." "Along with the publishers of the covered OA journals, publishers supporting some form of author archiving produce nearly 52% of the journals in the 2003 JCR Science Edition. "It is possible that some of the publishers with no archiving policy yet listed on Project ROMEO would allow self-archiving by their authors, which would further increase the number of journals whose content is available for author archiving." "Because archiving is accomplished at the article level, we calculated the number of articles in journals that allow author archiving: 395,052 (53%) of 747,060 "citable items" in the 2003 Journal Citation Reports could be available, theoretically, for authors to post to individual or institutional archives. When the 22,095 articles and reviews in OA journals in 2003 are considered, the findings suggests that fully 56% of the article content indexed by Thomson could be deposited in one or more institutional archives." From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Mon Nov 8 08:49:33 2004 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 13:49:33 +0000 Subject: Guide for the Perplexed: Re: UK Select Committee Inquiry Message-ID: ** Apologies for cross-posting ** More analysis later, but here is a (relatively) quick Guide to the Perplexed about today's UK Government Response to the recommendations of the UK Select Committee on Science and Technology: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/1200/120002.htm http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/1200/1200.pdf Two steps forward, one step back: The first response of the UK government to the recommendations of its own Select Committee were quite predictable, and will of course be reconsidered (but this will take a little more time). Meanwhile, though, the UK Research Councils are free to act on the Committee's recommendations anyway, and they wisely will. (This is rather similar to what is happening in the US, where NIH is going ahead with implementing the House Appropriations Committee recommendation while the government's formal legislation is still being debated in the Senate.) Here is a synopsis of what has transpired in the UK so far: (1) The UK Committee on Science and Technology began in 2003 with a rather vaguely formulated mission to do something to solve the problem of access to scientific publications by reforming scientific publishing because it was so expensive and unaffordable. http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/science_and_technology_committee/scitech111203a.cfm (2) During the course of the deliberations it began to become clearer that the problem of access to scientific publications (articles in peer-reviewed journals) and the problem of reforming scientific publishing were not quite the same thing. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/UKSTC.htm (3) The Committee's formal report in 2004 accordingly only recommended one mandatory step and that was that all UK funded researchers should be required by their funders to self-archive all their published journal articles on their own institution's websites, thereby making them free for all users, worldwide. This part of the Report was very definite: "This Report recommends that all UK higher education institutions establish institutional repositories on which their published output can be stored and from which it can be read, free of charge, online. It also recommends that Research Councils and other Government funders mandate their funded researchers to deposit a copy of all of their articles in this way." http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/399/39903.htm (4) The Committee also recommended "further experimentation with" (but not "mandating"!) the "Open Access Journal" model in order to study its impact on journal publication. (An Open Access Journal makes all of its articles accessible online for free, and the author's institution or funder pays the publication costs.) Funding was recommended for authors who wished to try publishing in such journals. This part of the report was highly tentative: "Institutional repositories will help to improve access to journals but a more radical solution may be required in the long term. Early indications suggest that the author-pays publishing model could be viable. We remain unconvinced by many of the arguments mounted against it. Nonetheless, this Report concludes that further experimentation is necessary, particularly to establish the impact that a change of publishing models would have on learned societies and in respect of the "free rider" problem. In order to encourage such experimentation the Report recommends that the Research Councils each establish a fund to which their funded researchers can apply should they wish to pay to publish." http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/399/39903.htm (5) So the Report, although it originally set out to reform publishing, only recommended "further experimentation" with possible eventual publishing reform, whereas it recommended *mandating* immediate institutional self-archiving of all published articles reporting UK-funded research. (6) Nevertheless, much of the (lengthy) report went on to discuss (informally, not by way of formal recommendations) problems associated with journal publishing, affordability, pricing and accessibility. tp://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/399/39902.htm (7) The result was that many who read the Report -- including the press that reported on it -- missed its essence completely (the self-archiving mandate) and focussed almost exclusively on publishing reform. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3871.html (8) The present government response -- which comes mainly from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) -- likewise focusses on the hypothetical future publishing reform model and its hypothetical effects (as if the Report had recommended mandating Open Access Publishing, rather than just author self-archiving), and rejects of the Select Committee's recommendations on those grounds (though it does respond positively, in passing, to the idea of self-archiving!). (9) The present government response (no doubt influenced somewhat by lobbying publishers who likewise misunderstood the report) is accordingly based on the very same misunderstanding that (i) had made the Committee's original terms of reference focus on publishing reform rather than access-provision (subsequently remedied in its actual formal Report's recommendations ), that (ii) had made the press and general public (and most others) read the Report as mandating publishing reform rather than access-provision, and that (iii) has now made the government reject the Report's recommendation on the grounds that they mandate publishing reform (rather than access-provision). (10) The misunderstanding will be corrected (don't worry!), but it will again take time. (11) It will become clear that the Report did not (and could not) mandate publishing reform, nor that publishers must become Open Access publishers, nor adopt the "author pays" model! (13) UK research funders can only mandate that their fundees should *publish* their findings, so they can be used by others -- as they are already mandated to do, as a condition for receiving funding -- and this publishing mandate is now merely being naturally extended to requiring authors to self-archive those published findings, so that all their potential users can access and use them, even those whose institutions may not be able to afford access to the journal in which they were published. (14) Ninety-two percent of journals have already given their green light to author self-archiving, so that is not the sticking point either. http://romeo.eprints.org/stats.php (15) The sticking point is the persistent mixing up of the problem of access-provision with the problem of publishing reform. The first can and will be solved without the need to take any position on the latter, one way or the other. Pertinent Prior Threads from the American Scientist Open Access Forum: "Written evidence for UK Select Committee's Inquiry into Scientific Publications" (2003) http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3263.html "UK Select Committee Inquiry into Scientific Publication" (2004) http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3407.html "University policy mandating self-archiving of research output" (2003) http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3438.html "Mandating OA around the corner?" (2004) http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3829.html "The UK report, press coverage, and the Green and Gold Roads to Open Access" (2004) http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3871.html "Implementing the US/UK recommendation to mandate OA Self-Archiving" (2004) http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3891.html "AAU misinterprets House Appropriations Committee Recommendation" (2004) http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3930.html "Victory for the NIH open access plan in the House" (2004) http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3959.html Stevan Harnad AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM: A complete Hypermail archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online (1998-2004) is available at: http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/index.html To join or leave the Forum or change your subscription address: http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html Post discussion to: american-scientist-open-access-forum at amsci.org UNIVERSITIES: If you have adopted or plan to adopt an institutional policy of providing Open Access to your own research article output, please describe your policy at: http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php UNIFIED DUAL OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY: BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a suitable open-access journal whenever one exists. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm#journals BOAI-1 ("green"): Otherwise, publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal and also self-archive it. http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Nov 15 11:43:52 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 11:43:52 -0500 Subject: Cockerill MJ "Delayed impact : ISI's citation tracking choices are keeping scientists in the dark" BMC Bioinformatics 5: Art. No:93, July 12 2004. Message-ID: Matthew J. Cockerill : E-mail Addresses: matt at biomedcentral.com Full text of this article available at : http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2105-5-93.pdf Title: Delayed impact: ISI's citation tracking choices are keeping scientists in the dark Author : Cockerill MJ Source: BMC BIOINFORMATICS 5: Art. No. 93 JUL 12 2004 Document Type: Editorial Material Language: English Cited References: 3 Times Cited: 0 Addresses: Cockerill MJ (reprint author), BioMed Cent Ltd, 34-42 Middlesex House, London, W1T 4LB England BioMed Cent Ltd, London, W1T 4LB England Publisher: BIOMED CENTRAL LTD, MIDDLESEX HOUSE, 34-42 CLEVELAND ST, LONDON W1T 4LB, ENGLAND From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Nov 15 16:44:33 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:44:33 -0500 Subject: Ginestet C, "Citation Overload?" Psychologist 17(3):147, March 2004. Message-ID: Cedric Ginestet : cedric.ginestet at tvu.ac.uk Full text available at : http://www.bps.org.uk/publications/thepsychologist/0304rib.pdf scroll down to page 2 TITLE : Citation overload? AUTHOR : C. Ginestet SOURCE : Psychologist 17 (3). p.147. March 2004 British Psychological Soc., Leicester ADDRESS : C. Ginestet, Thames Valley Univ, London, England From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Nov 15 19:23:25 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:23:25 -0500 Subject: Richmond JP. "The new impact factor of 3.783 and immediacy index of 1.135 for advanced synthesis & catalysis surpass even the most optimistic predictions" ADVANCED SYNTHESIS & CATALYSIS 346 (8): 887-888 JUL 2004 Message-ID: Joe P. Richmond : E-mail Addresses: asc at Wiley-VCH.de Title: The new impact factor of 3.783 and immediacy index of 1.135 for advanced synthesis & catalysis surpass even the most optimistic predictions Author(s): Richmond JP Source: ADVANCED SYNTHESIS & CATALYSIS 346 (8): 887-888 JUL 2004 Document Type: Editorial Material Language: English Cited References: 0 Times Cited: 0 Addresses: Richmond JP (reprint author), Adv Synth & Catalysis, Otto Schuster Str 20, Ostfildern, D-73760 Germany Adv Synth & Catalysis, Ostfildern, D-73760 Germany Publisher: WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH, PO BOX 10 11 61, D-69451 WEINHEIM, GERMANY IDS Number: 848AB ISSN: 1615-4150 From gopal at ANNAUNIV.EDU Mon Nov 15 20:25:08 2004 From: gopal at ANNAUNIV.EDU (T.V.Gopal) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 06:55:08 +0530 Subject: Citation Indices & Impact Factor Information Needed Message-ID: Hello, Please let me know where to find the citation indices and impact factors of journals in Computer Science and Information Technology. Thanks in advance. Regards Gopal T V ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr. T V Gopal Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering College of Engineering Anna University Chennai - 600 025, INDIA Ph : (Off) 22351723 Extn. 3340 ; 22203340 (Res) 24454753 Home Page : http://annauniv.edu/staff/gopal ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From egarfield at ROCKETMAIL.COM Mon Nov 15 21:33:06 2004 From: egarfield at ROCKETMAIL.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 18:33:06 -0800 Subject: Citation Indices & Impact Factor Information Needed In-Reply-To: <200411160125.iAG1P8kh025131@ns.annauniv.edu> Message-ID: The information you seek is published in the IsI Journal /citation Reports. Thisis a subscrption service of ISI. For more info goto www.ISInet.com EG "T.V.Gopal" wrote:Hello, Please let me know where to find the citation indices and impact factors of journals in Computer Science and Information Technology. Thanks in advance. Regards Gopal T V ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr. T V Gopal Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering College of Engineering Anna University Chennai - 600 025, INDIA Ph : (Off) 22351723 Extn. 3340 ; 22203340 (Res) 24454753 Home Page : http://annauniv.edu/staff/gopal ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ --------------------------------------------------- Eugene Garfield,Past President, American Society for Information Science & Technology www.asis.orgChairman Emeritus, ISI,3501 Market St,Philadelphia, PA 19104 www.isinet.comPublisher,THE SCIENTIST,3600 Market St,Philadelphia,PA 19104 www.the-scientist.comTel: 215-243-2205 // Fax: 215-387-1266 // E-mail: garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu Personal Web site: www.eugenegarfield.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tjk0005 at UNT.EDU Tue Nov 16 00:56:34 2004 From: tjk0005 at UNT.EDU (Thomas J Kidenda) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 23:56:34 -0600 Subject: ICT GLOBAL MEASURES/INDICATORS INDEX OR ANTHOLOGY Message-ID: ---Please Help: About two months ago a new book, anthology or index of global ICT measurements, indices or indicators was advertised on the SIGMETRICS listserve. Unfortunately, I deleted the particular message and would appreciate any reminder as to the name of the author and/or actual title of the book. Any help/advice you can provide is highly appreciated. Thank you, Thomas J. Kidenda PhD. Candidate University of North,Texas. From PI at DB.DK Tue Nov 16 09:11:46 2004 From: PI at DB.DK (Ingwersen Peter) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 15:11:46 +0100 Subject: ISSI 2005 Conf - 2nd. CALL for PAPERS Message-ID: ???Focus of the conference The 10th biennial International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics is under the auspices of the International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI) and co-chaired by Ume? University, Sweden, and University College, Bor?s, Sweden. Time and place: Monday 25 to Thursday 28 of July 2005. Karolinska Institute - Stockholm The ISSI2005 web site: http://www.umu.se/inforsk/ISSI2005/ Conference Themes: * Dynamics of Scientific Fields - Growth, Diversification, Collaboration * Interdisciplinarity - Multidisciplinarity * History of Bibliometrics and Scientometrics * Mathematical Modelling of Informetric Laws * Citer and Linker Motivation * Webometrics * Evaluation of Science Research Performance * Development of Indicators for Science and Technology, e.g., Impact Factors * Mapping and Visualisation of Knowledge * Institutional and National Publication Productivity and Research Cooperation * Collection Management, e.g. Journal Evaluation and Digital Library Quality Control * Economic and Social Factors in Information Production and Dissemination * Science Policy Analysis and Forecasting Types of contributions accepted to ISSI 2005: Authors are requested to submit various contributions using the ISSI 2005 electronic submission form. Valid document formats are: Adobe PDF (pdf), Microsof Word (doc) and Rich Text (rtf). Papers must conform to the ISSI 2005 paper template! * Full papers - max. 4500 words. * Research-in-progress papers - max. 2000 words. * Poster presentations - abstract of max. 2 pages. All submissions will be peer reviewed and all accepted contributions published in the proceedings. The working language of the conference is English. Submission of applications for Doctoral Forum participation - go to the ISSI 2005 web site. Important dates: * Full paper and Research-in-progress paper submission deadline, 31st January 2005 * Notification of acceptance of paper submissions, 14th March 2005 * Poster submission, deadline, 1st March 2005 * Doctoral Forum application, deadline: 1st March 2005 * Notification of acceptance of posters, 4th April 2005 * Camera ready papers due in MS Word/RTF format, 18th April 2005 Many regards and see you in Stockholm 2005! Programme Chair: Professor, Peter Ingwersen, Royal School of Library & Information Science, Birketinget 6, DK 2300 Copenhagen S - Denmark. E-mail: pi at db.dk ******************************************** Peter Ingwersen, Professor, Ph.D. Department of Information Studies Royal School of Library and Information Science, Birketinget 6, DK 2300 Copenhagen S - Denmark Tel: +45 32 58 60 66; FAX: +45 32 84 02 01 http://www.db.dk/pi/ - e-mail: pi at db.dk Visiting Professor (Docent), Dept. of Information Studies ?bo University Akademi - Finland??? Member of the Editorial Boards of Information Processing & Management: and JASIS&T: ******************************************** From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Nov 16 12:42:11 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:42:11 -0500 Subject: Demleitner M; Kurtz M; Accomazzi A; Gunther E; Grant CS; Murray SS; "Automated resolution of noisy bibliographic references" Classification, Clustering, and Data Mining Applications. 2004, p.521-530 . Springer-Verlag Berlin, Berlin Message-ID: Markus Demleitner : msdemlei at cl.uni-heidelberg.de FULL TEXT AVAILABLE AT : http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/cs/pdf/0401/0401028.pdf Title : Automated resolution of noisy bibliographic references Author(s): Demleitner M; Kurtz M; Accomazzi A; Gunther E; Grant CS; Murray SS Source: Classification, Clustering, and Data Mining Applications. 2004, p.521-530 . Springer-Verlag Berlin, Berlin Language: English Author Address : Demeleitner M, Univ Heidelbergm Bergheimer Str 58, Heidelberg, Germany Summary : We describe a system used by the NASA Astrophysics Data System to identify bibliographic references obtained from scanned article pages by OCR methods with records in a bibliographic database. We analyse the process generating the noisy references and conclude that the three-step procedure of correcting the OCR results, parsing the corrected string and matching it against the database provides unsatisfactory results. Instead, we propose a method that allows a controlled merging of correction, parsing and matching, inspired by dependency grammars. We also report on the effectiveness of various heuristics that we have employed to improve recall. From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Nov 16 13:17:10 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 13:17:10 -0500 Subject: Boyack KW, Mane K, Borner K "Mapping medline papers, genes, and proteins related to melanoma research" Eighth International Conference on Information Visualization, Proceedings. IEEE Conference on Information Visualization - Proceedings 965-971, 2004. Message-ID: Kevin W. Boyack : boyack at viswave.com Ketan Mane : kmane at indiana.edu Katy Borner: katy at indiana.edu FULL TEXT AVAILABLE AT : http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=14963238 TITLE : Mapping medline papers, genes, and proteins related to melanoma research AUTHOR : Boyack KW, Mane K, Borner K SOURCE : EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION VISUALISATION, PROCEEDINGS Editors: Banissi E, Borner K, Chen C, Dastbaz M, Clapworthy G, Faiola A, Izquierdo E, Maple C, Roberts J, Moore C, Ursyn A, Zhang JJ IEEE CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION VISUALIZATION - PROCEEDINGS 965-971, 2004 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 12 Related Records ISI Web of Science for Citing Articles Conference Information: 8th International Conference on Information Visualisation London, ENGLAND, JUL 14-16, 2004 Abstract: What is the structure of the research reported on melanoma? How has it evolved over the last 40 years? Which parts of this research field are correlated with the study of genes and proteins? Are there sudden increases in the number of occurrences of certain gene or protein names, reflecting a surge of interest? How are genes, protein and papers interconnected via co-occurrence patterns? This paper aims to provide answers to these questions by analyzing a data set consisting of papers from Medline, genes from the Entrez Gene database, and proteins from UniProt. Word burst detection and co-occurrence analyses were both performed. The spatial layout algorithm VxOrd was applied to create the very first map that shows papers, genes, and proteins and their co-occurrence relationships. The results were validated by five domain experts leading to a number of interesting facts pertaining to structure and dynamics of the melanoma research field. KeyWords Plus: DISCOVERY Addresses: Boyack KW, VisWave LLC, Albuquerque, NM 87122 USA VisWave LLC, Albuquerque, NM 87122 USA Publisher: IEEE COMPUTER SOC, 10662 LOS VAQUEROS CIRCLE, PO BOX 3014, LOS ALAMITOS, CA 90720-1264 USA IDS Number: BAQ15 ISSN: 1093-9547 ISBN: 0-7695-2177-0 Cited References: ADAMIC LA, 2002, IEEE COMPUER SOC BIO, P1109 BORNER K, 2003, ANNU REV INFORM SCI, V37, P179 BOYACK KW, 2000, NEW PAR INF VIS MAN BOYACK KW, 2002, J AM SOC INF SCI TEC, V53, P764 CARD S, 1999, READINGS INFORMATION DAVIDSON GS, 2001, 7 IEEE S INF VIS INF, P23 KIM SK, 2001, SCIENCE, V293, P2087 KLEINBERG JM, 2002, 8 ACM SIGKDD INT C K, P91 MACK R, 2002, DRUG DISCOV TODAY S, V7, PS89 SWANSON DR, 2001, J AM SOC INF SCI TEC, V52, P797 WERNERWASHBURNE M, 2002, GENOME RES, V12, P1564 WYLIE BN, 2002, 6424965, US From kboyack at SANDIA.GOV Tue Nov 16 13:38:32 2004 From: kboyack at SANDIA.GOV (Boyack, Kevin W) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:38:32 -0700 Subject: Boyack KW, Mane K, Borner K "Mapping medline papers, genes, and proteins related to melanoma research" Eighth International Conference on Information Visualization, Proceedings. IEEE Conference on Information Visualization - Proceedings 9 Message-ID: Gene and friends, The Pubmedcentral URL listed below links to my PNAS article from this past spring. Two correct URLs for the IEEE IV article are http://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/iv/2004/2177/00/21770965abs.ht m OR http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy/paper/04-iv-melanoma.pdf rather than that given below. Best regards, Kevin -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Eugene Garfield Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 11:17 AM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Boyack KW, Mane K, Borner K "Mapping medline papers, genes, and proteins related to melanoma research" Eighth International Conference on Information Visualization, Proceedings. IEEE Conference on Information Visualization - Proceedings 965-9 Kevin W. Boyack : boyack at viswave.com Ketan Mane : kmane at indiana.edu Katy Borner: katy at indiana.edu FULL TEXT AVAILABLE AT : http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid =14963238 TITLE : Mapping medline papers, genes, and proteins related to melanoma research AUTHOR : Boyack KW, Mane K, Borner K SOURCE : EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION VISUALISATION, PROCEEDINGS Editors: Banissi E, Borner K, Chen C, Dastbaz M, Clapworthy G, Faiola A, Izquierdo E, Maple C, Roberts J, Moore C, Ursyn A, Zhang JJ IEEE CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION VISUALIZATION - PROCEEDINGS 965-971, 2004 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 12 Related Records ISI Web of Science for Citing Articles Conference Information: 8th International Conference on Information Visualisation London, ENGLAND, JUL 14-16, 2004 Abstract: What is the structure of the research reported on melanoma? How has it evolved over the last 40 years? Which parts of this research field are correlated with the study of genes and proteins? Are there sudden increases in the number of occurrences of certain gene or protein names, reflecting a surge of interest? How are genes, protein and papers interconnected via co-occurrence patterns? This paper aims to provide answers to these questions by analyzing a data set consisting of papers from Medline, genes from the Entrez Gene database, and proteins from UniProt. Word burst detection and co-occurrence analyses were both performed. The spatial layout algorithm VxOrd was applied to create the very first map that shows papers, genes, and proteins and their co-occurrence relationships. The results were validated by five domain experts leading to a number of interesting facts pertaining to structure and dynamics of the melanoma research field. KeyWords Plus: DISCOVERY Addresses: Boyack KW, VisWave LLC, Albuquerque, NM 87122 USA VisWave LLC, Albuquerque, NM 87122 USA Publisher: IEEE COMPUTER SOC, 10662 LOS VAQUEROS CIRCLE, PO BOX 3014, LOS ALAMITOS, CA 90720-1264 USA IDS Number: BAQ15 ISSN: 1093-9547 ISBN: 0-7695-2177-0 Cited References: ADAMIC LA, 2002, IEEE COMPUER SOC BIO, P1109 BORNER K, 2003, ANNU REV INFORM SCI, V37, P179 BOYACK KW, 2000, NEW PAR INF VIS MAN BOYACK KW, 2002, J AM SOC INF SCI TEC, V53, P764 CARD S, 1999, READINGS INFORMATION DAVIDSON GS, 2001, 7 IEEE S INF VIS INF, P23 KIM SK, 2001, SCIENCE, V293, P2087 KLEINBERG JM, 2002, 8 ACM SIGKDD INT C K, P91 MACK R, 2002, DRUG DISCOV TODAY S, V7, PS89 SWANSON DR, 2001, J AM SOC INF SCI TEC, V52, P797 WERNERWASHBURNE M, 2002, GENOME RES, V12, P1564 WYLIE BN, 2002, 6424965, US From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Nov 16 14:07:32 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:07:32 -0500 Subject: Miranda GF, Vercellesi L, Bruno F. "Information sources in biomedical science and medical journalism:: methodological approaches and assessment" Pharmacological Research 50(3):267-272, September 2004. Message-ID: Giovanna F. Miranda : E-mail Addresses: giovanna.miranda at sanofi-synthelabo.com Title: Information sources in biomedical science and medical journalism: methodological approaches and assessment Author : Miranda GF, Vercellesi L, Bruno F Source : PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH 50 (3): 267-272 SEP 2004 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 31 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Throughout the world the public is showing increasing interest in medical and scientific subjects and journalists largely spread this information, with an important impact on knowledge and health. Clearly, therefore, the relationship between the journalist and his sources is delicate: freedom and independence of information depend on the independence and truthfulness of the sources. The new "precision journalism" holds that scientific methods should be applied to journalism, so authoritative sources are a common need for journalists and scientists. We therefore compared the individual classifications and methods of assessing of sources in biomedical science and medical journalism to try to extrapolate scientific methods of evaluation to journalism. In journalism and science terms used to classify sources of information show some similarities, but their meanings are different. In science primary and secondary classes of information, for instance, refer to the levels of processing, but in journalism to the official nature of the source itself. Scientists and journalists must both always consult as many sources as possible and check their authoritativeness, reliability, completeness, up-to-dateness and balance. In journalism, however, there are some important differences and limits: too many sources can sometimes diminish the quality of the information. The sources serve a first filter between the event and the journalist, who is not providing the reader with the fact, but with its projection. Journalists have time constraints and lack the objective criteria for searching, the specific background knowledge. and the expertise to fully assess sources. To assist in understanding the wealth of sources of information in journalism, we have prepared a checklist of items and questions. There are at least four fundamental points that a good journalist, like any scientist, should know: how to find the latest information (the sources), how to assess it (the quality and authoritativeness), how to analyse and filter it (selection), how to deal with too many sources of information, sometimes case biased by conflicting interests (balance). The journalist must, in addition, know how to translate it to render it accessible and useful to the general public (dissemination), and how to use it best. (C) 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Author Keywords: information dissemination; mass media; scientific information; joumalism Addresses: Miranda GF (reprint author), Sanofi Synthelabo Spa, Res Ctr Sanofi Midy, Via Piranesi 38, Milan, I-20137 Italy Sanofi Synthelabo Spa, Res Ctr Sanofi Midy, Milan, I-20137 Italy Univ Milan, Ctr Drug Commun Studies, Dept Pharmacol, Milan, Italy Publisher: ACADEMIC PRESS LTD ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 24-28 OVAL RD, LONDON NW1 7DX, ENGLAND IDS Number: 851FL ISSN: 1043-6618 Cited References : 2001, EUROBAROMETER *FDN CENS, 2001, COM INF SAL *NHS, NHS DIR ONL *SIRC, 2001, GUID SCI HLTH COMM ABRUZZO F, 1992, GUIDA GIORNALISTA, P686 CASSELS A, 2003, CAN MED ASSOC J, V168, P1133 CRANBERG L, 1989, J ED WIN, P46 DEANGELIS CD, 2000, JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC, V284, P2237 EYSENBACH G, 2000, CURR OPIN IMMUNOL, V12, P499 FINER D, 1997, PATIENT EDUC COUNS, V30, P71 FONTANAROSA PB, 2000, JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC, V284, P2929 FOX S, 2000, ONLINE HLTH CARE REV GARFIELD E, 1972, SCIENCE, V178, P471 GASTEL B, 1998, HLTH WRITERS HDB GERETTO P, 1991, LINEAMENTI BIBLIOTEC GOODMAN NW, 2000, BRIT MED J, V320, P914 HAYES DP, 1992, NATURE, V356, P739 JUDGE K, 1992, BRIT MED J, V304, P892 KORN D, 2000, JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC, V284, P2234 MCCRARY SV, 2000, NEW ENGL J MED, V343, P1621 MEYER P, 2001, NEW PRECISION JOURNA MOYNIHAN R, 2000, NEW ENGL J MED, V342, P1645 OXMAN AD, 1993, J CLIN EPIDEMIOL, V46, P987 PAPUZZI A, 1998, PROFESSIONE GIORNALI, P29 PERESSON G, 2002, GIORNALE LIBRERIA, V115, P34 PITKIN RM, 1999, JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC, V281, P1110 RANSOHOFF DF, 2001, EFF CLIN PRACT, V4, P185 SANTORO A, 2002, GIORNALE MED, V18, P21 SHUCHMAN M, 2002, JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC, V287, P776 WILKIE T, 1996, LANCET, V347, P1308 WOLOSHIN S, 2002, JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC, V287, P2856 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Nov 16 14:18:47 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:18:47 -0500 Subject: Eriksson, E. "Impact factors and publication times" Knee Surgery Sports Traumatology Arthroscopy 124):261. July 2004. Message-ID: Ejnar Eriksson : eriksson.werner at telia.com FULL TEXT AVAILABLE AT : http://www.springerlink.com/media/D62YFA1M3G1VTKA1BQ9X/Contributions/B/R/M/F/BRMFL937NY4BEJJ5.pdf TITLE : Impact factors and publication times AUTHOR: Eriksson, E SOURCE: Knee Surgery Sports Traumatology Arthroscopy 12 (4):261. July 2004. Springer, New York. Author Address : E. Eriksson, Karolinska Hospital, Sect. Sports Medicine S-17176, Stockholm, Sweden From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Nov 16 14:41:25 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:41:25 -0500 Subject: Perneger TV. "Relation between online "hit counts" and subsequent citations: prospective study of research papers in the BMJ" British Medical Journal 329(7465):546-547 September 4, 2004 Message-ID: Thomas V. Perneger : thomas.perneger at hcuge.ch To see full text, scroll to page 2 at following url: http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/reprint/329/7465/546 Title : Relation between online "hit counts" and subsequent citations: prospective study of research papers in the BMJ Author : Perneger TV Source : BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 329 (7465): 546-547 SEP 4 2004 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 4 Times Cited: 0 Addresses: Perneger TV (reprint author), Univ Geneva, Inst Social & Prevent Med, Geneva, CH-1211 Switzerland Univ Geneva, Inst Social & Prevent Med, Geneva, CH-1211 Switzerland Publisher: B M J PUBLISHING GROUP, BRITISH MED ASSOC HOUSE, TAVISTOCK SQUARE, LONDON WC1H 9JR, ENGLAND IDS Number: 853DE ISSN: 0959-535X Cited References : CR 2001, EUROBAROMETER *FDN CENS, 2001, COM INF SAL *NHS, NHS DIR ONL *SIRC, 2001, GUID SCI HLTH COMM ABRUZZO F, 1992, GUIDA GIORNALISTA, P686 CASSELS A, 2003, CAN MED ASSOC J, V168, P1133 CRANBERG L, 1989, J ED WIN, P46 DEANGELIS CD, 2000, JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC, V284, P2237 EYSENBACH G, 2000, CURR OPIN IMMUNOL, V12, P499 FINER D, 1997, PATIENT EDUC COUNS, V30, P71 FONTANAROSA PB, 2000, JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC, V284, P2929 FOX S, 2000, ONLINE HLTH CARE REV GARFIELD E, 1972, SCIENCE, V178, P471 GASTEL B, 1998, HLTH WRITERS HDB GERETTO P, 1991, LINEAMENTI BIBLIOTEC GOODMAN NW, 2000, BRIT MED J, V320, P914 HAYES DP, 1992, NATURE, V356, P739 JUDGE K, 1992, BRIT MED J, V304, P892 KORN D, 2000, JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC, V284, P2234 MCCRARY SV, 2000, NEW ENGL J MED, V343, P1621 MEYER P, 2001, NEW PRECISION JOURNA MOYNIHAN R, 2000, NEW ENGL J MED, V342, P1645 OXMAN AD, 1993, J CLIN EPIDEMIOL, V46, P987 PAPUZZI A, 1998, PROFESSIONE GIORNALI, P29 PERESSON G, 2002, GIORNALE LIBRERIA, V115, P34 PITKIN RM, 1999, JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC, V281, P1110 RANSOHOFF DF, 2001, EFF CLIN PRACT, V4, P185 SANTORO A, 2002, GIORNALE MED, V18, P21 SHUCHMAN M, 2002, JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC, V287, P776 WILKIE T, 1996, LANCET, V347, P1308 WOLOSHIN S, 2002, JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC, V287, P2856 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Nov 16 15:38:54 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 15:38:54 -0500 Subject: Sevinc A. "Manipulating impact factor: an unethical issue or an Editor's choice?" Swiss Medical WEekly 134(27-28): 410, July 10 2004 Message-ID: Alper Sevinc : E-mail Addresses: sevinc at gantep.edu.tr FULL TEXT AT : http://www.smw.ch/pdf200x/2004/27/smw-10761.PDF Title : Manipulating impact factor: an unethical issue or an Editor's choice? Author : Sevinc A Source: SWISS MEDICAL WEEKLY 134 (27-28): 410-410 JUL 10 2004 Document Type: Letter Language: English Cited References: 9 Times Cited: 0 Addresses: Sevinc A (reprint author), Gaziantep Univ, Sch Med, Dept Internal Med, Sahinbey Med Ctr, Gaziantep, TR-27310 Turkey Gaziantep Univ, Sch Med, Dept Internal Med, Sahinbey Med Ctr, Gaziantep, TR-27310 Turkey Publisher: E M H SWISS MEDICAL PUBLISHERS LTD, STEINENTORSTRASSE 13, CH-4-10 BASEL, SWITZERLAND Subject Category: MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL IDS Number: 846LP ISSN: 1424-7860 Cited Author Cited Work Year Volume Page FASSOULAKI A BRIT J ANAESTH 2000 84 266 GARFIELD E CAN MED ASSOC J 1999 161 979 GARFIELD E SCIENCE 1955 122 108 HACHINSKI V STROKE 2001 32 2729 JONES AW FORENSIC SCI INT 2003 133 MILLER JB SCIENTIST 2002 16 11 NEUBERGER J EUR J GASTROEN 2002 14 209 Hepat From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Nov 16 15:56:50 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 15:56:50 -0500 Subject: Tang R. "Visualizing interdisciplinary citations to and from information and library science publications" EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION VISUALISATION, PROCEEDINGS - 972-977, 2004 Message-ID: Rong Tang : tang at cua.edu TITLE : Visualizing interdisciplinary citations to and from information and library science publications AUTHOR : Tang R SOURCE : EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION VISUALISATION, PROCEEDINGS - Editors: Banissi E, Borner K, Chen C, Dastbaz M, Clapworthy G, Faiola A, Izquierdo E, Maple C, Roberts J, Moore C, Ursyn A, Zhang JJ IEEE CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION VISUALIZATION - PROCEEDINGS 972-977, 2004 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 4 Conference Information: 8th International Conference on Information Visualisation London, ENGLAND, JUL 14-16, 2004 Abstract: Empirical investigations of citations to and from 150 journal articles published in the field of Information and Library Science (ILS) has enabled cross-mapping of the interdisciplinary evolution of the field. The publications were randomly drawn in six years between 1975 and 2000, with 25 articles each from the selected years. ANOVA tests reveal that although raw counts of self- and extradisciplinary- citations are not significantly different by year, they are different depending on whether it is from or to ILS. Nearly 30 disciplines hold mutual citations with ILS, and Computer Science, Communication, Management Science, Education, and Psychology are among those highly impact disciplines. Visualization further depicts the clustering of the citing and cited disciplines. In general out-degree citations contain richer set of nodes than those of in-degree, but overall, the mapping of the interdisciplinary scope of the ILS field provides convincing evidence for the interdisiciplinary nature of Library and Information Science. Addresses: Tang R, Catholic Univ Amer, Sch Lib & Informat Sci, Washington, DC 20064 USA Catholic Univ Amer, Sch Lib & Informat Sci, Washington, DC 20064 USA Publisher: IEEE COMPUTER SOC, 10662 LOS VAQUEROS CIRCLE, PO BOX 3014, LOS ALAMITOS, CA 90720-1264 USA IDS Number: BAQ15 ISSN: 1093-9547 ISBN: 0-7695-2177-0 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year BRACKEN JK COLL RES LIBR 50 665 1989 BROADUS RN INT SOC SCI J 23 236 1971 BUTTLAR L LIBR INFORM SCI RES 21 227 1999 PERITZ BC LIB RES 3 55 1981 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Nov 16 16:27:39 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 16:27:39 -0500 Subject: Buter RK, Noyons ECM, Van Raan AFJ "A combination of quantitative and qualitative maps in an evaluative bibliometric context" Eighth Intnl Conf on Information Visualization . Proceedings. IEEE Conf. on Information Visualization 978-982, 2004 Message-ID: R.K. Buter : buter at cwts.leidenuniv.nl noyons at cwts.leidenuniv.nl vanraan at cwts.leidenuniv.nl TITLE : A combination of quantitative and qualitative maps in an evaluative bibliometric context AUTHOR : Buter RK, Noyons ECM, Van Raan AFJ SOURCE : EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION VISUALISATION, PROCEEDINGS Editors: Banissi E, Borner K, Chen C, Dastbaz M, Clapworthy G, Faiola A, Izquierdo E, Maple C, Roberts J, Moore C, Ursyn A, Zhang JJ IEEE CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION VISUALIZATION - PROCEEDINGS 978-982, 2004 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 17 Conference Information: 8th International Conference on Information Visualisation London, ENGLAND, JUL 14-16, 2004 Abstract: Maps of science provide visualizations of scientific knowledge domains by quantitatively grouping elements from scientific papers. In evaluative bibliometric studies these quantitative maps have proven a useful tool. Representation schemes such as mental maps or cognitive maps provide a tool to structure qualitative reasoning about, for instance, strategies, learning and politics. A combination of bibliometric maps with these qualitative structures may provide new ways for attacking science-policy related problems using bibliometric data. A design is presented on how to create, visualize and use the correspondence between elements in both types of maps. Addresses: Buter RK, Leiden Univ, Ctr Sci & Technol Studies, CWTS, Leiden, Netherlands Leiden Univ, Ctr Sci & Technol Studies, CWTS, Leiden, Netherlands Publisher: IEEE COMPUTER SOC, 10662 LOS VAQUEROS CIRCLE, PO BOX 3014, LOS ALAMITOS, CA 90720-1264 USA IDS Number: BAQ15 ISSN: 1093-9547 ISBN: 0-7695-2177-0 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year ANICK PG P 22 ANN INT ACM SIG 153 1999 BUTER RK SCIENTOMETRICS 51 55 2001 CALLON M MAPPING DYNAMICS SCI 1986 CHEN CM INFORM PROCESS MANAG 35 401 1999 FURNAS GW COMMUN ACM 30 964 1987 HARMAN DK P ASS COMP MACH SPEC 321 1988 HASSAN E J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 54 462 2003 HENNINGER S CHI COMPANION 95 DEN 401 1995 HUFF A MAPPING STRATEGIC TH 1990 MIRRIS S CROSSMAPS VISUALIZAT 2004 NEWBY GB J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 52 1026 2001 NOYONS E THESIS U LEIDEN LEID 1999 NOYONS ECM J AM SOC INFORM SCI 50 115 1999 SRINIVAS V ACCOUNTING MANAGEMEN 7 87 1997 VONRAAN A PSYCHOTHER RES 13 511 2003 XU JX ACM T INFORM SYST 18 79 2000 YOUNG MD J CONFLICT RESOLUT 40 395 1996 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Nov 16 16:34:43 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 16:34:43 -0500 Subject: Chen CM. "Detecting and mapping thematic changes in transient networks" Eighth Intnl Conf on Information Visualization . Proceedings. IEEE Conf. o Message-ID: Chaomei Chen : chaomei.chen at cis.drexel.edu TITLE : Detecting and mapping thematic changes in transient networks AUTHOR : Chen CM SOURCE : EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION VISUALISATION, PROCEEDINGS Editors: Banissi E, Borner K, Chen C, Dastbaz M, Clapworthy G, Faiola A, Izquierdo E, Maple C, Roberts J, Moore C, Ursyn A, Zhang JJ IEEE CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION VISUALIZATION - PROCEEDINGS 1023-1032, 2004 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 24 Conference Information: 8th International Conference on Information Visualisation London, ENGLAND, JUL 14-16, 2004 Abstract: Research fronts are the forefront of a scientific field Timely identifying emerging trends and abrupt changes in scientific literature is not only beneficial for users of digital libraries, but also instrumental for users to trace the movement of a research front. A research front can be seen as a dynamic and transient mapping from the state of the art to its immediate prior art - the intellectual base. Citation and co-citation analysis primarily focuses on the structure and dynamics of the intellectual base, information retrieval and related research mainly focuses on intrinsic properties of text documents. In this article, we describe a novel approach that enables us to detect and visualize the transient relationship over time. Temporal associations between content words connected to a surge of interest in scientific papers and high-impact articles in the intellectual base are identified and visualized as a time-variant network. We apply the approach to the detection of thematic changes over time in information visualization and research in terrorism. KeyWords Plus: SCIENCE Addresses: Chen CM, Drexel Univ, Coll Informat Sci & Technol, 3141 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA Drexel Univ, Coll Informat Sci & Technol, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA Publisher: IEEE COMPUTER SOC, 10662 LOS VAQUEROS CIRCLE, PO BOX 3014, LOS ALAMITOS, CA 90720-1264 USA IDS Number: BAQ15 ISSN: 1093-9547 ISBN: 0-7695-2177-0 Cited Author Cited Work Volume Page Year AIZEN J PNAS 2004 ALLAN J ACM SIGIR 1998 BRAAM RR J AM SOC INFORM SCI 42 233 1991 BRANDES U INF VISUAL 2 40 2003 CALLON M MAPPING DYNAMICS SCI 1986 CHEN C MAPPING SCI FRONTIER 2003 CHEN CM J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 53 678 2002 CHEN CM P NATL ACAD SCI U S1 101 5303 2004 CHI EH CHI 98 1998 ERTEN C C VIS DAT AN VDA 2004 GARFIELD E SCIENCE 122 1955 HAVRE S IEEE T VIS COMPUT GR 8 9 2002 KLEINBERG J P 8 ACM SIGKDD INT C 2002 KONTOSTATHIS A COMPREHENSIVE SURVEY 2003 LERMAN S P BRIT SOC RES LEARI 23 43 2003 LEYDESDORFF L CHALLENGES SCIENTOME 2001 PRICE DJD SCIENCE 149 510 1965 ROY S P TEXTM 02 WORKSH 2 2002 SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 50 799 1999 SMALL H SCI STUD 4 17 1974 SMALL HG SOC STUD SCI 7 139 1977 SWAN R 8 INT C INF KNOWL MA 1999 TIJSSEN RJW EVALUATION REV 18 98 1994 YANG Y 21 ACM INT C RES DEV 1998 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Nov 16 17:17:19 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 17:17:19 -0500 Subject: Varadarajan, S. "Public peer review - An alternative to impact factors" Curr. Sci. 87(4):419-420, August 25 2004 - Faculty of 1000 touted by Indian scientist Message-ID: Sujata Varadarajan : svar_001 at hotmail.com Full Text available at : http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/aug252004/419.pdf Faculty of 1000 touted by Indian Scientist TITLE : Public peer review - An alternative to impact factors AUTHOR: Varadarajan, S. SOURCE: Current Science 87(4):419-420, August 25 2004. Current Science Assn. Bangalore Author Address: S. Varadarajan, Indian Inst. Sci. Bangalore 560012, Karnataka, India. From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Nov 16 17:42:40 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 17:42:40 -0500 Subject: Mojon-Azzi SM, Jiang XY, Wagner U, Mojon DS "Redundant publications in scientific ophthalmologic journals - the tip of the iceberg?" Ophthalmology 111(5): 863-866 May 2004 Elsevier Science Inc. NY Message-ID: Daniel S. Mojon - e-mail: daniel.mojon at kssg.ch TITLE : Redundant publications in scientific ophthalmologic journals - the tip of the iceberg? AUTHOR : Mojon-Azzi SM, Jiang XY, Wagner U, Mojon DS SOURCE : Ophthalmology 111(5): 863-866 May 2004 Elsevier Science Inc. NY Author Address : DS Mojon, Kantonsspital, Dept. Ophthalmol, CH-9007 St. Gallen, Switzerland Objective: The number of scientific publications is often used to measure scientific achievement. This practice can motivate unethical conduct, such as redundant or duplicate publications, defined as publication of the same scientific contents in more than 1 journal. The aim of this study was to estimate the amount of redundant publications in ophthalmologic journals. Design: Retrospective analysis of published literature. Methods: We developed an electronic search engine for redundancies to estimate the amount of duplicate publications in scientific journals. When redundancies reached a given degree (matching score), the articles were screened manually based on authors, titles, and abstracts. We applied this method to the 22 433 articles that were published between 1997 and 2000 in 70 ophthalmologic journals indexed by MEDLINE. Main Outcome Measures: The number of duplicate publications with a matching score of 0.6 or more, the number of involved journals, and the number of authors. Results: Redundancies reached a matching score of 0.6 or more in 13 967 pairs of articles. Out of them, a sample of 2210 was reviewed manually. We found 60 redundant articles and estimated that 1.39% of the publications were redundant. Thirty-two journals and an estimate of 1092 authors were involved. In 5% of cases, the scientific conclusions were modified. Conclusions: Because of the restrictive selection process, the practicability of detecting all redundant publications, and the estimated amount of duplicates increases with lower matching scores, we regard our estimate to be the tip of the iceberg. Duplicate publications have several negative impacts, but neither peer reviewers nor editors can protect their journal from them completely. Several deterrents for duplicate publications are possible, but as long as publications remain the central requirement for academic advancement, a solution seems unlikely. Nevertheless, it is the responsibility of all those who care about objective research and evidence-based medicine to address this problem?not only in ophthalmology. Ophthalmology 2004;111: 863?866 ? 2004 by the American Academy of Ophthalmology. From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Nov 16 17:52:41 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 17:52:41 -0500 Subject: Schreiber K, Girard T, Kindler CH. "Bibliometric analysis of original molecular biology research in anaesthesia " Anaesthesia 59(10) p.1002-1007, October 2004. Message-ID: Dr. C.H. Kindler _ e-mail: ckindler at uhbs.ch TITLE : Bibliometric analysis of original molecular biology research in anaesthesia AUTHOR: Schreiber K, Girard T, Kindler CH SOURCE: Anaesthesia 59(10) p.1002-1007, October 2004. Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Oxford AUTHOR ADDRESS: CH Kindler, Kantonsspital, Univ. Clin Basel, Dept. Anaesthesia, CH-4031 Basel, Switzerland SUMMARY: Summary Molecular biology has expanded the horizons of anaesthesia during the last 20 years and has led to an increase of basic science articles that are published in the specialised anaesthetic journals or originate in anaesthetic institutions. We searched for and analysed the specific features, such as year of publication, publishing journal, and country of origin, of all such molecular biology articles stored in the MEDLINE database during the period 1986?2002. We identified 1265 original articles that used molecular biology techniques; 223 (18%) of these articles were published in anaesthetic journals and 1042 (82%) articles in 556 other biomedical journals. While in the late 1980s only a few molecular biology articles were published each year by anaesthetic institutions, worldwide this number reached approximately 200 basic science articles by the end of 2002. The USA clearly dominates the field of anaesthesia with respect to molecular biology research with 839 (66%) such articles. From katy at INDIANA.EDU Tue Nov 16 18:20:42 2004 From: katy at INDIANA.EDU (Katy Borner) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 18:20:42 -0500 Subject: Boyack KW, Mane K, Borner K "Mapping medline papers, genes, and proteins related to melanoma research" Eighth International Conference on Information Visualization, Proceedings. IEEE Conference on Information Visualization - Proceedings 9 In-Reply-To: <46EAC19F3066C14BB20DF799A649C5F40843DA@ES23SNLNT.srn.sandia.gov> Message-ID: Boyack, Kevin W wrote: >Gene and friends, > >The Pubmedcentral URL listed below links to my PNAS article from this >past spring. > >Two correct URLs for the IEEE IV article are >http://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/iv/2004/2177/00/21770965abs.ht >m > This IEEE entry misspells Indiana University When will we ever be able to take better care of our data? >OR >http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy/paper/04-iv-melanoma.pdf >rather than that given below. > The corresponding poster can be found at http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy/gallery/04p-melanoma.pdf :) I would like to hear about other research that correlates paper, gene, and protein data. Regards, k > >Best regards, >Kevin > > >-----Original Message----- >From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics >[mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Eugene Garfield >Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 11:17 AM >To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU >Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Boyack KW, Mane K, Borner K "Mapping medline >papers, genes, and proteins related to melanoma research" Eighth >International Conference on Information Visualization, Proceedings. IEEE >Conference on Information Visualization - Proceedings 965-9 > > >Kevin W. Boyack : boyack at viswave.com >Ketan Mane : kmane at indiana.edu >Katy Borner: katy at indiana.edu > >FULL TEXT AVAILABLE AT : >http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid >=14963238 > >TITLE : Mapping medline papers, genes, and proteins related to >melanoma > research >AUTHOR : Boyack KW, Mane K, Borner K > >SOURCE : EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION >VISUALISATION, > PROCEEDINGS >Editors: Banissi E, Borner K, Chen C, Dastbaz M, Clapworthy G, Faiola A, >Izquierdo E, Maple C, Roberts J, Moore C, Ursyn A, Zhang JJ IEEE >CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION VISUALIZATION - PROCEEDINGS 965-971, 2004 > >Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 12 >Related Records > ISI Web of Science for Citing Articles > >Conference Information: >8th International Conference on Information Visualisation London, >ENGLAND, JUL 14-16, 2004 > >Abstract: >What is the structure of the research reported on melanoma? How has it >evolved over the last 40 years? Which parts of this research field are >correlated with the study of genes and proteins? Are there sudden >increases in the number of occurrences of certain gene or protein names, >reflecting a surge of interest? How are genes, protein and papers >interconnected via co-occurrence patterns? > >This paper aims to provide answers to these questions by analyzing a >data set consisting of papers from Medline, genes from the Entrez Gene >database, and proteins from UniProt. Word burst detection and >co-occurrence analyses were both performed. The spatial layout algorithm >VxOrd was applied to create the very first map that shows papers, genes, >and proteins and their co-occurrence relationships. The results were >validated by five domain experts leading to a number of interesting >facts pertaining to structure and dynamics of the melanoma research >field. > >KeyWords Plus: >DISCOVERY > >Addresses: >Boyack KW, VisWave LLC, Albuquerque, NM 87122 USA >VisWave LLC, Albuquerque, NM 87122 USA > >Publisher: >IEEE COMPUTER SOC, 10662 LOS VAQUEROS CIRCLE, PO BOX 3014, LOS ALAMITOS, >CA 90720-1264 USA > >IDS Number: >BAQ15 > >ISSN: >1093-9547 > >ISBN: >0-7695-2177-0 > >Cited References: > ADAMIC LA, 2002, IEEE COMPUER SOC BIO, P1109 > BORNER K, 2003, ANNU REV INFORM SCI, V37, P179 > BOYACK KW, 2000, NEW PAR INF VIS MAN > BOYACK KW, 2002, J AM SOC INF SCI TEC, V53, P764 > CARD S, 1999, READINGS INFORMATION > DAVIDSON GS, 2001, 7 IEEE S INF VIS INF, P23 > KIM SK, 2001, SCIENCE, V293, P2087 > KLEINBERG JM, 2002, 8 ACM SIGKDD INT C K, P91 > MACK R, 2002, DRUG DISCOV TODAY S, V7, PS89 > SWANSON DR, 2001, J AM SOC INF SCI TEC, V52, P797 > WERNERWASHBURNE M, 2002, GENOME RES, V12, P1564 > WYLIE BN, 2002, 6424965, US > > -- Katy Borner, Assistant Professor Information Science & Cognitive Science Indiana University, SLIS 10th Street & Jordan Avenue Phone: (812) 855-3256 Fax: -6166 Main Library 019 E-mail: katy at indiana.edu Bloomington, IN 47405, USA WWW: ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy Check out the new InfoVis Lab Gallery at http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy/gallery/ From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Nov 17 14:38:55 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:38:55 -0500 Subject: Ramos-Rodriguez AR, Ruiz-Navarro J "Changes in the intellectual structure of strategic management research: A bibliometric study of the Strategic Management Journal, 1980-2000" STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 25 (10): 981-1004 OCT 2004 Message-ID: Antonio-Rafael Ramos-Rodriguez : rafael.ramos at uca.es "...a statistical record of ideas.... would allow us to identify the precise moment in history that ideas emerge, chronicle their growth and spread, determine the exact duration of their validity in the collective mind and afterwards trace their path towards decline, erosion into mere cliche and ultimate disappearance beyond the horizon of time. - Ortega y Gasset, 1967" Title: Changes in the intellectual structure of strategic management research: A bibliometric study of the Strategic Management Journal, 1980-2000 Author(s): Ramos-Rodriguez AR, Ruiz-Navarro J Source: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 25 (10): 981-1004 OCT 2004 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 86 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: The aim of this paper is to identify the works that have had the greatest impact on strategic management research and to analyze the changes that have taken place in the intellectual structure of this discipline. The methodology is based on the bibliometric techniques of citation and co-citation analysis which are applied to all the articles published in the Strategic Management Journal from its first issue in 1980 through 2000. Copyright (C) 2004 John Wiley Sons, Ltd. Author Keywords: strategic management research; bibliometrics; co-citation analysis KeyWords Plus: AUTHOR COCITATION ANALYSIS; RESOURCE-BASED VIEW; COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE; DIVERSIFICATION STRATEGY; LOCAL SEARCH; FIRM; KNOWLEDGE; INDUSTRY; PERFORMANCE; IMPACT Addresses: Ramos-Rodriguez AR (reprint author), Univ Cadiz, Fac Econ & Management Sci, Duque Najera 8, Cadiz, 11002 Spain Univ Cadiz, Fac Econ & Management Sci, Cadiz, 11002 Spain E-mail Addresses: rafael.ramos at uca.es Publisher: JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD, THE ATRIUM, SOUTHERN GATE, CHICHESTER PO19 8SQ, W SUSSEX, ENGLAND Subject Category: BUSINESS; MANAGEMENT IDS Number: 854CH ISSN: 0143-2095 Cited References : CR ACKOFF RL, 1970, CONCEPT CORPORATE PL ALDRICK HE, 1979, ORG ENV ALMEIDA P, 1996, STRATEGIC MANAGE J, V17, P155 ANDREWS KR, 1971, CONCEPT CORPORATE ST ANSOFF HI, 1965, CORPORATE STRATEGY BARNEY J, 1991, J MANAGE, V17, P99 BARNEY JB, 1986, MANAGE SCI, V32, P1231 BAUM JAC, 1998, ADV STRAT M, V15, P1 BOWER JL, 1970, MANAGING RESOURCE AL BURNS T, 1961, MANAGEMENT INNOVATIO BUZZELL RD, 1975, HARVARD BUS REV, V53, P97 CALLON M, 1993, CIENCIOMETRIA MEDICI CAVES RE, 1977, Q J ECON, V91, P241 CHANDLER AD, 1962, STRATEGY STRUCTURE C CHILD J, 1972, SOCIOLOGY, V6, P2 CHRISTENSEN HK, 1981, STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, V2, P327 COHEN WM, 1990, ADMIN SCI QUART, V35, P128 COULTER N, 1998, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V49, P1206 CUERVO A, 1999, REV ASTURIANA EC, V16, P43 CULNAN MJ, 1987, MIS QUART, V11, P341 CULNAN MJ, 1990, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V41, P453 CYERT RM, 1963, BEHAV THEORY FIRM DECAROLIS DM, 1999, STRATEGIC MANAGE J, V20, P953 DIERICKX I, 1989, MANAGE SCI, V35, P1504 DING Y, 1999, J INFORM SCI, V25, P67 DIODATO V, 1994, DICT BIBLIO FROST TS, 2001, STRATEGIC MANAGE J, V22, P101 GASSET JOY, 1967, MISION BIBLIO HAMBRICK DC, 1984, ACAD MANAGE REV, V9, P193 HANNAN MT, 1977, AM J SOCIOL, V82, P929 HANNAN MT, 1984, AM SOCIOL REV, V49, P149 HOFER CW, 1978, STRATEGY FORMULATION HOFFMAN DL, 1993, J CONSUM RES, V19, P505 HOSKISSON RE, 1999, J MANAGE, V25, P417 JENSEN MC, 1976, J FINANC ECON, V3, P305 KERLINGER FN, 1973, FDN BEHAV RES KRUSKAL JB, 1964, PSYCHOMETRIKA, V29, P1 LAWRENCE P, 1967, ORG ENV MANAGING DIF LIPPMAN SA, 1982, BELL J ECON, V13, P418 MARCH JG, 1958, ORGANIZATIONS MCCAIN KW, 1986, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V37, P111 MCCAIN KW, 1990, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V41, P433 MCMILLAN GS, 2000, TECHNOL ANAL STRATEG, V12, P465 MILES RE, 1978, ORG STRATEGY STRUCTU MINTZBERG H, 1976, ADM SCI Q, V21, P246 MINTZBERG H, 1978, MANAGE SCI, V24, P934 MOWERY DC, 1996, STRATEGIC MANAGE J, V17, P77 NELSON RR, 1982, EVOLUTIONARY THEORY NOYONS ECM, 1999, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V50, P151 PALEPU K, 1985, STRATEGIC MANAGE J, V6, P239 PASADEOS Y, 1998, J ADVERTISING, V27, P53 PENROSE E, 1959, THEORY GROWTH FIRM PETERAF MA, 1993, STRATEGIC MANAGE J, V14, P179 PFEFFER J, 1978, EXTERNAL CONTROL ORG PILKINGTON A, 1999, INT J OPER PROD MAN, V19, P7 PONZI LJ, 2002, SCIENTOMETRICS, V55, P259 PORTER ME, 1980, COMPETITIVE STRATEGY PORTER ME, 1985, COMPETITIVE ADVANTAG PORTER ME, 1987, HARVARD BUS REV, V65, P43 PRAHALAD CK, 1990, HARVARD BUS REV, V68, P79 QUINN JB, 1980, STRATEGIES CHANGE LO RAMOSRODRIGUEZ AR, 2000, 10 C NAC AS CIENT EC ROSENKOPF L, 2001, STRATEGIC MANAGE J, V22, P287 RUMELT RP, 1974, STRATEGY STRUCTURE E RUMELT RP, 1982, STRATEGIC MANAGE J, V3, P359 RUMELT RP, 1984, COMPETITIVE STRATEGI, P556 RUMELT RP, 1991, STRATEGIC MANAGE J, V12, P167 RUMELT RP, 1994, FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES S SAEZ JM, 1999, REV ESPANOLA DOCUMEN, V23, P348 SCHENDEL DE, 1979, STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT SCHERER FM, 1980, IND MARKET STRUCTURE SCHOEFFLER S, 1974, HARVARD BUS REV, V12, P137 SMALL H, 1973, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V24, P265 STUART TE, 1996, STRATEGIC MANAGE J, V17, P21 TAHAI A, 1999, STRATEGIC MANAGE J, V20, P279 TEECE DJ, 1982, J ECON BEHAV ORGAN, V3, P39 THOMPSON JD, 1967, ORG ACTION TUSHMAN ML, 1986, ADMIN SCI QUART, V31, P439 USDIKEN B, 1995, ORGAN STUD, V16, P503 WEICK KE, 1969, SOCIAL PSYCHOL ORG WERNERFELT B, 1984, STRATEGIC MANAGE J, V5, P171 WHITE HD, 1981, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V32, P163 WHITE HD, 1998, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V49, P327 WILLIAMSON OE, 1975, MARKETS HIERARCHIES WILLIAMSON OE, 1985, EC I CAPITALISM FIRM WRIGLEY L, 1970, THESIS HARVARD BUSIN From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Nov 18 13:18:25 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:18:25 -0500 Subject: Schloegl C, Stock WG "Impact and relevance of LIS journals: A scientometric analysis of international and German-language LIS journals - Citation analysis versus reader survey" JASIST 55 (13): 1155-1168 NOV 2004 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: christian.schloegl at uni-graz.at, stocknmw at aol.com Full Text Available At : http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/infowiss/admin/public_dateien/files/1/1100171700jasist_55_.pdf Title: Impact and relevance of LIS journals: A scientometric analysis of international and German-language LIS journals - Citation analysis versus reader survey Author(s): Schloegl C, Stock WG Source: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 55 (13): 1155-1168 NOV 2004 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 33 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: The goal of the scientometric analysis presented in this article was to investigate international and regional (i.e., German-language) periodicals in the field of library and information science (LIS). This was done by means of a citation analysis and a reader survey. For the citation analysis, impact factor, citing half-life, number of references per article, and the rate of self-references of a periodical were used as indicators. In addition, the leading LIS periodicals were mapped. For the 40 international periodicals, data were collected from ISI's Social Sciences Citation Index Journal Citation Reports (JCR); the citations of the 10 German-language journals were counted manually (overall 1,494 source articles with 10,520 citations). Altogether, the empirical base of the citation analysis consisted of nearly 90,000 citations in 6,203 source articles that were published between 1997 and 2000. The expert survey investigated reading frequency, applicability of the journals to the job of the reader, publication frequency, and publication preference both for all respondents and for different groups among them (practitioners vs. scientists, librarians vs. documentalists vs. LIS scholars, public sector vs. information industry vs. other private company employees). The study was conducted in spring 2002. A total of 257 questionnaires were returned by information specialists from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Having both citation and readership data, we performed a comparative analysis of these two data sets. This enabled us to identify answers to questions like: Does reading behavior correlate with the journal impact factor? Do readers prefer journals with a short or a long half-life, or with a low or a high number of references? Is there any difference in this matter among librarians, documentalists, and LIS scholars? KeyWords Plus: FOR-INFORMATION-SCIENCE; LIBRARY; RANKINGS; JASIS Addresses: Schloegl C (reprint author), Graz Univ, Inst Sci Informat, Univ Str 15, Graz, A-8010 Austria Graz Univ, Inst Sci Informat, Graz, A-8010 Austria Univ Dusseldorf, Dept Informat Sci, Dusseldorf, D-40225 Germany Publisher: JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN, NJ 07030 USA Subject Category: COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE IDS Number: 860SY ISSN: 1532-2882 CITED REFERENCES: *I SCI INF, 2001, JOURN CIT REP 2000 GARFIELD E, 1972, SCIENCE, V178, P471 GARFIELD E, 1994, CURRENT CONTENT 0620, P3 GARFIELD E, 2002, PASSWORD, V6, P22 GLAENZEL W, 2002, SCIENTOMETRICS, V53, P171 GRAZIA C, 2002, INFORMATIONSWISSENSC GRAZIA C, 2002, PASSWORD, V9, P23 HARTER SP, 1993, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V44, P543 HE SY, 2002, J AM SOC INF SCI TEC, V53, P953 HOOYDONK GV, 1995, SERIALS LIBR, V27, P45 JUCHEM K, 2002, BIBLIOTHEKSDIENST, V36, P1732 KLEINBERG JM, 1999, J ACM, V46, P604 KOEHLER W, 2001, SCIENTOMETRICS, V51, P117 KRAFT DH, 1999, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V50, P1 MERTON RK, 2000, WEB KNOWLEDGE FESTSC, P435 NISONGER TE, 1994, LIBR ACQUIS PRACT TH, V18, P447 NISONGER TE, 1995, 5 INT C INT SOC SCI, P393 NISONGER TE, 1999, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V50, P1004 NISONGER TE, 2000, COLL RES LIBR, V61, P263 SCANLAN BD, 1987, SERIALS LIB, V13, P57 SCHLOEGL C, 2000, P 7 INT S INF SCI 20, P89 SEN BK, 1989, J DOC, V45, P139 SEN BK, 1999, J DOC, V55, P325 SMITH LC, 1999, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V50, P965 STOCK WG, 1999, PASSWORD, P21 STOCK WG, 2001, KOELNER ARBEITSPAPIE STOCK WG, 2001, PASSWORD, P24 STOCK WG, 2002, PASSWORD, P14 TESTA J, 1997, ISI DATABASE JOURNEL TODOROV R, 1988, J INFORM SCI, V14, P47 VARLEJS J, 1999, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V50, P1032 VICKERY BC, 1994, 50 YEARS INFORMATION ZHANG Y, 1998, J INFORM SCI, V24, P241 _____________________________________________________ From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Nov 18 13:22:22 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:22:22 -0500 Subject: Stock WG "International and German language library and information science journals. Testing the Garfield Hypothesis" E.Pipp. (Ed.), Ein Jahrzehnt World Wide Web. Tagungsberichte ODOK'03. Wien, Phoibos, 2004, p. 53-62. Message-ID: e-mail: Wolfgang G. Stock : stock at phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/infowiss/admin/public_dateien/files/1/1098104327internatio.pdf AUTHOR : Wolfgang G. Stock TITLE: International and German Language Library and Information Science Journals. Testing the Garfield Hypothesis. (In German). SOURCE: In: E.Pipp (Ed.), Ein Jahrzehnt World Wide Web. Tagungsberichte ODOK'03. Wien, Phoibos, 2004, p. 53-62. Abstract: Eugene Garfield asserts, that national journals (e.g. German language journals) consist of different scientometric characteristics in comparison to international English language periodicals. Especially, the impact factors were lower. We tested this "Garfield Hypothesis" for German LIS journals. The citation analysis of 40 international and ten German journals confirms the Garfield hypothesis. The impact factor of German LIS journals is lower (about half as much), the half-life of the references is shorter (less than half as much), the number of references per article is lower (less than half as much). There is hardly an information flow between international and German LIS journals. Additionally, we discuss the presentation of journal clusters by Grazia Colonia (2002) and by Loet Leydesdorff (2004). From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Thu Nov 18 22:51:09 2004 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 03:51:09 +0000 Subject: Google's Scholarly Search Service and Institutional OA Self-Archiving In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Leslie Carr wrote: > Google's new... http:///scholar.google.com [delivers]... a search > service... [that is selective for] scholarly and scientific resources... > from all web sites... across the complete spectrum of scholarly enquiry... > [plus] a basic level of citation analysis.. An extremely valuable and welcome new service (and about time!): "Re: proposed collaboration: google + open citation linking" (2001) http://www.openarchives.org/pipermail/oai-general/2001-June/000035.html > [But] Google is not offering increased Open Access, just improved resource > discovery of current ad-hoc OA. To advance we still need to offer carrot > and stick, policies and mandates... > > [The] Google scholarly search engine is a welcome addition to > the arsenal of services that researchers use to mine the literature - > but it is still OA Institutional Repositories that provide the best > chance of getting readable copies of those papers into Google! In other words, please don't imagine that Google will now provide OA full-texts for you! Google is now selectively gathering and making them visible, and even providing some citation impact counts -- but it can only do that with those full-texts that have been made OA by putting them on the Web! Our estimates across disciplines indicate that currently at most only 20% of the journal articles being published today are being made OA: http://citebase.eprints.org/isi_study/ http://www.crsc.uqam.ca/lab/chawki/ch.htm http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html This wonderful new service from google should (as Les Carr indicates) be taken as yet another strong incentive for authors' institutions and research funders to mandate and reward OA -- and authors to do -- self-archiving of the remaining 80%! "What Provosts Need to Mandate" (2003) "http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3420.html" "University policy mandating self-archiving of research output" (2004) http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3438.html "Mandating OA around the corner?" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3829.html "Guide for the Perplexed: Re: UK Select Committee Inquiry" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4131.html "Critique of PSP/AAP Critique of NIH Proposal" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4146.html "Critique of STM Critique of NIH Proposal" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4174.html Stevan Harnad Relevant Prior Amsci Forum Topic Threads: "Citation-Linking" (1999) http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0284.html "Economic effects of link-based search engines on e-journals" (2000) http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0894.html "A Search Engine for Searching Across Distributed Eprint Archives" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0927.html "Testing the citation-ranking search engine: Citebase" (2002) http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2121.html "Scientometric OAI Search Engines" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2237.html "Need for systematic scientometric analyses of open-access data" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2521.html "How to compare research impact of toll- vs. open-access research" (2003) http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2858.html "Measuring cumulating research impact loss across fields and time" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3212.html "Do Open-Access Articles Have a Greater Research Impact?" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3975.html "Early Download Impact Predicts Later Citation Impact" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3950.html "Self-Archiving Incentives: Download Impact Counts" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4085.html From Michel.Menou at WANADOO.FR Fri Nov 19 12:43:07 2004 From: Michel.Menou at WANADOO.FR (Michel J. Menou) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 18:43:07 +0100 Subject: ICT GLOBAL MEASURES/INDICATORS INDEX OR ANTHOLOGY In-Reply-To: <1100584594.41999692d467f@eaglemail.unt.edu> Message-ID: Thomas, See in the European chapter web the workshop on that subject prior to AoIR conference. See also on the development gateway the section on IT evaluation. What are you after? Sorry just back from ASIS&T Annual and tired Best regards Michel J. Menou Mail to: Michel.Menou at wanadoo.fr Tuesday, November 16, 2004, 6:56:34 AM, you wrote: TJK> ---Please Help: TJK> About two months ago a new book, anthology or index of global ICT measurements, TJK> indices or indicators was advertised on the SIGMETRICS listserve. TJK> Unfortunately, I deleted the particular message and would appreciate TJK> any reminder as to the name of the author and/or actual title of the book. TJK> Any help/advice you can provide is highly appreciated. TJK> Thank you, TJK> Thomas J. Kidenda TJK> PhD. Candidate TJK> University of North,Texas. ========================================================================== Dr. Michel J. Menou Consultant in Information and Knowledge Management Visiting Professor of Information Policy, City University London, U.K. B.P. 15 49350 Les Rosiers sur Loire, France Email: Michel.Menou at wanadoo.fr Phone: +33 (0)2 41518165 Fax: +33 (0)2 41511043 http://ciber.soi.city.ac.uk/peoplemenou.php ========================================================================== From flibuste at ROCKETMAIL.COM Fri Nov 19 16:00:26 2004 From: flibuste at ROCKETMAIL.COM (Jean Émile Archambeault) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:00:26 -0800 Subject: ICT GLOBAL MEASURES/INDICATORS INDEX OR ANTHOLOGY In-Reply-To: <1963098596.20041119184307@wanadoo.fr> Message-ID: Thomas could be referring to this handbook: Handbook of Quantitative Science and Technology Research http://www.isi.fhg.de/ti/Info-US-Handbuch.htm Jean Archambeault Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information Jean.Archambeault at cnrc-nrc.gc.ca --- "Michel J. Menou" wrote: > Thomas, > See in the European chapter web the workshop on that subject prior to > AoIR conference. > See also on the development gateway the section on IT evaluation. > What are you after? > Sorry just back from ASIS&T Annual and tired > Best regards > > Michel J. Menou Mail to: Michel.Menou at wanadoo.fr > > Tuesday, November 16, 2004, 6:56:34 AM, you wrote: > > TJK> ---Please Help: > > TJK> About two months ago a new book, anthology or index of global > ICT measurements, > TJK> indices or indicators was advertised on the SIGMETRICS > listserve. > TJK> Unfortunately, I deleted the particular message and would > appreciate > TJK> any reminder as to the name of the author and/or actual title of > the book. > > TJK> Any help/advice you can provide is highly appreciated. > > TJK> Thank you, > > TJK> Thomas J. Kidenda > TJK> PhD. Candidate > TJK> University of North,Texas. > > > ========================================================================== > Dr. Michel J. Menou > Consultant in Information and Knowledge Management > Visiting Professor of Information Policy, City University London, > U.K. > B.P. 15 > 49350 Les Rosiers sur Loire, France > Email: Michel.Menou at wanadoo.fr > Phone: +33 (0)2 41518165 > Fax: +33 (0)2 41511043 > http://ciber.soi.city.ac.uk/peoplemenou.php > ========================================================================== > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Sat Nov 20 05:51:56 2004 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 11:51:56 +0100 Subject: preprint version now available Message-ID: ** apologies for cross-postings Can the Sciences be Classified in terms of Aggregated Journal-Journal Citation Relations using the Journal Citation Reports? The aggregated citation relations among journals included in the Science Citation Index provide us with a huge matrix which can be analyzed in various ways. Using principal component analysis or factor analysis, the factor scores can be used as indicators of the position of the cited journals in the citing dimensions of the database. Unrotated factor scores are exact, and the extraction of principal components can be made stepwise since the principal components are independent. Rotation is necessary for the designation, but a model is then necessarily assumed. This assumption can be legitimated on pragmatic or theoretical grounds, but the resulting outcomes remain sensitive to the assumptions in the model. This is elaborated for the case of 'biochemistry'. The analytic solutions allow us to test classifications in terms of the quality of the representation against the structures contained in the database. at http://www.leydesdorff.net/classif03/index.htm _____ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ The Challenge of Scientometrics ; The Self-Organization of the Knowledge-Based Society -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: clip_image001.gif Type: image/gif Size: 1101 bytes Desc: not available URL: From ronald.rousseau at KHBO.BE Sat Nov 20 11:57:54 2004 From: ronald.rousseau at KHBO.BE (Ronald Rousseau) Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 17:57:54 +0100 Subject: BMC Bioinformatics' delayed impact Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Matthew J. Cockerill?s editorial in BMC Bioinformatics [1] (brought to this List?s attention by Eugene Garfield) is certainly to the point. Yet, I would like to make some remarks. The unofficial impact factor of BMC Bioinformatics as calculated by Cockerill is slightly different from those with which it is compared. Indeed, all other ones include journal self-citations while for BMC Bioinformatics, these journal self-citations are not included. On the other hand, when adding BMC Bioinformatics to the pool of source journals all other citation totals, and hence, impact factors possible change (if these other journals are cited by articles published by BMC Bioinformatics, and this, of course, within the time window considered). So, BMC Bioinformatics? impact factor is indeed an estimate. May I also stress the fact that this estimate is with respect to the ?ISI Universe?. There exist many journals, even important ones, outside this universe, as BMC Bioinformatics? editor knows very well. These journals are ? by definition - not considered in ISI?s impact factor calculations. Finally our colleague Johannes Stegmann is given credit for this estimation method. Yet, to the best of my knowledge, Spaventi et al. [2] were the first to propose this approach (in 1979). It was later re-invented by B.K. Sen et al. [3]. Johannes Stegmann certainly deserves credit for bringing this method to the attention of a wider audience [4], and, is, moreover, the person who made the most fundamental studies of the constructed impact factors (see e.g. [5]). Yet, BMC Bioinformatics? editor joins the crowd, conveniently, disregarding studies on impact factors published in information sciences journals. Ronald Rousseau 2004, November 20 [1]. Cockerill, M.J. (2004). Delayed impact: ISI?s citation tracking choices are keeping scientists in the dark. BMC Bioinformatics, 5:93. [2]. Spaventi, J., Tudor-Silovic, N., Maricic, S. & Labus, M. (1979). Bibliometric analysis of scientific journals from Yugoslavia. Informatologia Yugoslavica, 11(3), 11-23. [3]. Sen, B.K., Karanjai, A., & Munshi, U.M. (1989). A method for determining the impact factor of a non-SCI journal. Journal of Documentation, 45(2), 139- 141. [4]. Stegmann, J. (1997). How to evaluate journal impact factors. Nature, 390, 550. [5]. Stegmann, J. (1999). Building a list of journals with constructed impact factors. Journal of Documentation, 55(3), 310-324. ********************************************************** Ronald Rousseau KHBO - Industrial Sciences and Technology Zeedijk 101 B-8400 Oostende Belgium Guest Professor at the Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Honorary Professor Henan Normal University (Xinxiang, China) E-mail: ronald.rousseau at khbo.be web page: users.pandora.be/ronald.rousseau From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Sun Nov 21 01:54:43 2004 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 07:54:43 +0100 Subject: BMC Bioinformatics' delayed impact In-Reply-To: <1100969874.419f7792a8815@imp.khbo.be> Message-ID: Dear Ronald and colleagues, Why would one bring the main diagonal to zero in this case? In my opinion, there are two components which are confused here: self-citations and within-journal citations. Self-citations can also occur across journal borders. Within-journal citations do not have to be self-citations. Within-journal citations in most cases provide an outlier in the distribution, but similarly do citations with journals in the cognitive environment of the journal, particularly in the case of specialist journals. Would one like to bring all these values to zero because they deviate from the distributional expectation? If one looks at the distribution of citations of a journal by other journals, one typically finds the negative powerlaw distribution beyond a certain number of citing/cited journals (Katz, 1999, 2000). When one plots the powerlaw, however, a hook is visible. The first 10-100 journals follow another distribution. This deviation from the powerlaw includes the journal itself. For those of you who receive this email in html, I provide the graph for six journals below (using the Journal Citation Reports of the SCI 2003): Figure 1: citation distribution (citing) of six journals over the full journal set journals included in the JCR 2003. This first part of the distribution is an interesting one, in my opinion, because it informs us precisely about how the journal deviates from the (expected) powerlaw distribution for reasons other than the distributional expectations (Poisson, etc.). In other words, it informs us about a specific structure in the data that operates upon the powerlaw distribution. This selection mechanism can be appreciated as the cognitive structure of the specialty or field. Thus, it should not be brought to zero by an a priori normalization. I agree that the main diagonal values seem to imply an effect beyond the relevance of within-journal citations. Price (1981) and Noma (1982) have proposed normalization procedures which do not reduce the main diagonal to zero, but try to estimate another value for it. The expectation, however, is that the additional effect is field-specific, that is, it may vary among fields of science. Since we have no knowledge about these field-specific effects, one should perhaps refrain from a priori normalization because one may be throwing away the child with the bathwater. A reduction to zero for the main diagonal, however, is in any case far too drastic unless one is specifically interested in an impact factor of a journal as a black box. I would then like to hear theoretical reasons why this measure might be interesting to the research program. With kind regards, Loet References: Katz, J. S. (1999). The Self-Similar Science System. Research Policy, 28, 501-517. Katz, J. S. (2000). Scale Independent Indicators and Research Evaluation. Science & Public Policy, 27(1), 23-36. Noma, E. (1982). An Improved Method for Analyzing Square Scientometric Transaction Matrices,. Scientometrics 4, 297-316. Price, D. J. de Solla. (1981). The Analysis of Square Matrices of Scientometric Transactions,. Scientometrics 3, 55-63. _____ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ The Challenge of Scientometrics ; The Self-Organization of the Knowledge-Based Society > -----Original Message----- > From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics > [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Ronald Rousseau > Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 5:58 PM > To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU > Subject: [SIGMETRICS] BMC Bioinformatics' delayed impact > > Dear Colleagues, > > Matthew J. Cockerill's editorial in BMC Bioinformatics [1] > (brought to this List's attention by Eugene Garfield) is > certainly to the point. Yet, I would like to make some remarks. > > The unofficial impact factor of BMC Bioinformatics as > calculated by Cockerill is slightly different from those with > which it is compared. Indeed, all other ones include journal > self-citations while for BMC Bioinformatics, these journal > self-citations are not included. On the other hand, when > adding BMC Bioinformatics to the pool of source journals all > other citation totals, and hence, impact factors possible > change (if these other journals are cited by articles > published by BMC Bioinformatics, and this, of course, within > the time window considered). > > So, BMC Bioinformatics' impact factor is indeed an estimate. > > May I also stress the fact that this estimate is with respect > to the 'ISI Universe'. There exist many journals, even > important ones, outside this universe, as BMC Bioinformatics' > editor knows very well. These journals are - by definition - > not considered in ISI's impact factor calculations. > > Finally our colleague Johannes Stegmann is given credit for > this estimation method. Yet, to the best of my knowledge, > Spaventi et al. [2] were the first to propose this approach > (in 1979). It was later re-invented by B.K. Sen et al. [3]. > Johannes Stegmann certainly deserves credit for bringing this > method to the attention of a wider audience [4], and, is, > moreover, the person who made the most fundamental studies of > the constructed impact factors (see e.g. > [5]). Yet, BMC Bioinformatics' editor joins the crowd, > conveniently, disregarding studies on impact factors > published in information sciences journals. > > > Ronald Rousseau > 2004, November 20 > > > [1]. Cockerill, M.J. (2004). Delayed impact: ISI's citation > tracking choices are keeping scientists in the dark. BMC > Bioinformatics, 5:93. > > [2]. Spaventi, J., Tudor-Silovic, N., Maricic, S. & Labus, M. (1979). > Bibliometric analysis of scientific journals from Yugoslavia. > Informatologia Yugoslavica, 11(3), 11-23. > > [3]. Sen, B.K., Karanjai, A., & Munshi, U.M. (1989). A method > for determining the impact factor of a non-SCI journal. > Journal of Documentation, 45(2), 139- 141. > > [4]. Stegmann, J. (1997). How to evaluate journal impact > factors. Nature, 390, 550. > > [5]. Stegmann, J. (1999). Building a list of journals with > constructed impact factors. Journal of Documentation, 55(3), 310-324. > > ********************************************************** > Ronald Rousseau > KHBO - Industrial Sciences and Technology > Zeedijk 101 B-8400 Oostende Belgium > Guest Professor at the Library of the Chinese Academy of > Sciences Honorary Professor Henan Normal University (Xinxiang, China) > E-mail: ronald.rousseau at khbo.be > web page: users.pandora.be/ronald.rousseau > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Benavent : E-mail Addresses: aleixand at uv.es Title : National and international impact factor of NEUROLOGIA Author(s): Benavent RA, Zurian JCV, Melendez RS, Molina CN Source : NEUROLOGIA 19 (6): 283-284 JUL-AUG 2004 Document Type: Editorial Material Language: Spanish Cited References: 6 Addresses: Benavent RA (reprint author), Univ Valencia, Fac Med Valencia, Inst Hist Ciencia & Documentac Lopez Pinero, Consejo Super Invest Cient, Av Blasco Ibanez 15, Valencia, 46010 Spain Univ Valencia, Fac Med Valencia, Inst Hist Ciencia & Documentac Lopez Pinero, Consejo Super Invest Cient, Valencia, 46010 Spain Publisher: S T M EDITORES, S A, PASEO DE GRACIA 25, 3, 08007 BARCELONA, SPAIN IDS Number: 844QK ISSN: 0213-4853 Cited References: Cited Author Cited Work Year Volume Page ALEIXANDRE R TRASTORNOS ADICTIVOS 2000 1 264 BORDONS M REV ESP CARDIOL 1999 52 790 BUELACASAL G ANAL MODIFICACION CO 2002 28 455 GARFIELD E INT J CLIN HLTH PSYC 2003 3 363 PORCEL A PSIQUIATRIA BIOL 2000 7 242 TORRENS AP ADICCIONES 2003 15 309 TRANSLATION PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS: National and international impact factor of "NEUROLOG?A" Institute of History of Science and Documentation Lopez Pi?ero Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient?ficas - University of Valencia R. Aleixandre Benavent J. C. Valderrama Zurian, R. Simo Melendez, C. Navarro Molina. Correspondence: Rafael Aleixandre Benavent Instituto de Historia de la Ciencia y Documentaci?n L?pez Pi?ero Facultad de Medicina de Valencia Av. Blasco Iba?ez, 15 46010 Valencia. Spain E-mail: aleixand at uv. es Received on 15-4-04 Accepted on 15-4-04 The potential impact factor study of the Spanish medical journals financed by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports has made it possible to obtain the national and international value in 2001 of this indicated in a selection of 87 Spanish medical journals1, among them "NEUROLOG?A." Although what the impact factor (IF) really measures is the mean frequency of citation of each journal in the previous two years, it has presently become a quality index of the publications, since it is based on the recognition of their value by the scientific community through citations2-4 and has noticeably increased the interest of the editors of the journals in obtaining a good IF or in increasing it5-7. For the analysis of the citations of the mentioned study, 87 source journals included in the national bibliographic data based Spanish Medical Index (IME) and also in some international data base (Medline, Science citation Index [SCI], Excerpta Medica, Biosis) were selected. In these journals, the citable articles (research articles in a strict sense, reviews and notes according to the ISI methodology) were obtained. In them, 3,547 references corresponding to 1999, 2000 and 2001 that cited some of the source journals were identified. The national IF was calculated by dividing the citations that the articles published in "NEUROLOG?A" in the previous two years (1999 and 2000) had received in 2001 divided by the articles published during these two years. The immediacy index, which measures the earliness in the citation, was calculated by dividing the citations of 2001 by the articles published this year. To obtain the international IF, the citations from the 87 Spanish source journals were added to those that these same journals had received in the foreign journals included in the SCI. Thus, this international IF corresponds to the hypothetical one that the 87 source journals would have if all were included as sources in the SCI. Table 1 shows the national and international FI and immediacy index of "NEUROLOG?A" as well as the citation amounts, citable articles and operations performed for its calculation. The journal obtained a national IF of 0.365 and international IF of 0.477. The immediacy index was 0.035. Both the national and international IF were superior to that of the "Revista de Neurolog?a" (national IF of 0.294 points and international IF of 0.373) and "Neurocirug?a" (national IF of 0.13 and international IF of 0.16). In spite of having obtained a moderate IF, "NEUROLOG?A" is consolidated as the Spanish journal of its speciality that has obtained repercussion indicators having the greatest magnitude, both in number of citations received as well as in the national and international impact factor, circumstances that justify its deserved inclusion as source journal in the SCI. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT This study was carried out with the help of the Studies and Analysis Program (announcement 2003) of the General Direction of Universities of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports. actor de impacto nacional e internacional de Neurologia From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Nov 22 16:01:41 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 16:01:41 -0500 Subject: Malchesky PS "Artificial Organs receives 2003 impact factor" Artificial Organs 28(10):859-859, October 2004. Message-ID: The author and Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Artificial Organs" has very kindly given us permission to post the full text of this editorial. E-mail Addresses: Paul Malchesky, Editor-in-Chief : Paulsmalchesky at aol.com Title : Artificial Organs receives 2003 impact factor Author : Malchesky PS Source : ARTIFICIAL ORGANS 28 (10): 859-859 OCT 2004 Document Type: Editorial Material Language: English Cited References: 0 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: BLACKWELL PUBLISHING INC, 350 MAIN ST, MALDEN, MA 02148 USA Subject Category: ENGINEERING, BIOMEDICAL IDS Number: 852LP ISSN: 0160-564X Artificial Organs 28(10):859, Blackwell Publishing, Inc. ?? 2004 International Center for Artificial Organs and Transplantation Editorial Artificial Organs Receives 2003 Impact Factor Recently, the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) released the 2003 Impact Factors and rankings for various journals in the sciences and social sciences. For 2003, the Impact Factor for Artificial Organs increased from 0.926 to 1.278, making it one of the top rankings of its peer category! While Impact Factor is considered by some to be an important rating for a journal, with evidence in existence suggesting that Impact Factors continue to have an increasing influence on researchers and librarians, it is still only one measure of importance. Additional measures include: the frequency with which articles from a given journal are cited by other journals (Artificial Organs again is at the top of the field in receiving citations), the average number of times each article is viewed online (from January-June 2004, each article published in 2004 in Artificial Organs has been viewed an average of 322 times), and the total number of online accesses the journal receives in a given period (from January-June 2004, there were 117 015 full text views of Artificial Organs articles). Artificial Organs continues to excel in all of the areas that matter most to researchers and clinicians alike. We thank you for your enduring support, contributions, and readership. Paul S. Malchesky, D.Eng. Editor-in-Chief E-mail: Paulsmalchesky at aol.com From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Nov 22 16:11:36 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 16:11:36 -0500 Subject: Akizawa T. "The Impact Factor" Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis 8(5):353, 2004 Message-ID: The author and Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis" has kindly permitted us to send a full-text version of this editorial. Tadao Akizawa Editor-in-Chief Email: akizawa at wakayama-med.ac.jp TITLE : The Impact Factor AUTHOR: Akizawa T. SOURCE: Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis 8(5):353, 2004 Blackwell Publishing, Inc. 2004 International Society for Apheresis Editorial The Impact Factor The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) has released the 2003 Impact Factors and rankings for various journals in the sciences and social sciences. The very first Impact Factor for our Journal, Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, was 1.229, making it one of the top rankings of its peer category! From the beginning of publication of our Journal, we have expected that it will grow and receive an Impact Factor. It took seven and a half years to realize that goal. During this period, our Journal name changed from Therapeutic Apheresis to Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis and the Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy (JSDT) chose Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis as its official English language journal, joining the International Society for Apheresis (ISFA) and the Japanese Society for Apheresis (JSFA). We deeply appreciate these society members for their cooperation and contributions towards the publication of Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis. The Impact Factor of 1.229 is a very good result considering that this is the first Impact Factor for the Journal. It is comparable to other journals in the apheresis field and in the field of artificial organs. The Impact Factor is one method to evaluate a journal. The Impact Factor for a given year is defined as the total number of citations received in that year to articles published in the previous two years divided by the total number of citable items published in those two years. Impact Factor 2003 = Citations received in 2003 to article published in 2001/2002 _________________________________ Number of source items published in 2001 & 2002 While Impact Factor is considered by some to be an important rating for a journal, with evidence in existence suggesting that Impact Factors continue to have increasing influence on researchers and librarians, it is still only one measure of importance. Additional measures include: the frequency with which articles from a given journal are cited by other journals, the average number of times each article is viewed online (each of the 431 articles published in Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis in 2003 has been viewed an average of 83 times), and the total number of online accesses the Journal receives in a given period (in 2003, there were 18 585 full text views of Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis articles). We must put forth much effort to realize the goal of being the top journal in the field. I ask all the ISFA, JSFA and JSDT members and researchers in this field to contribute to the further development of our Journal. Tadao Akizawa Editor-in-Chief Email: akizawa at wakayama-med.ac.jp From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Nov 22 16:47:42 2004 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 16:47:42 -0500 Subject: Resch A. Schlogl C. " Business informatics from the perspective of its main publication organ. A scientometric analysis of the journal Wirtschaftsinformatik/ Angewandte Informatik" WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK 46 (4): 302-310 AUG 2004 Message-ID: The authors have provided a translation of the summary in English. SUMMARY IN ENGLISH: Summary [This paper presents a scientometric analysis of the journal ???Wirtschaftsinformatik??? (business information systems) / ???Angewandte Informatik??? (applied computer science). For this purpose, a total of 23 volumes of the journal (years 1980 ??? 2002) were analysed manually. The analysis focuses on the level of the journal, the articles and the authors, as well as the institutions of the authors and the references.] The results of this article can be summarized as follows: The author???s analysis has shown that the writers of the journal ???Wirtschaftsinformatik??? / ???Angewandte Informatik??? are very heterogeneous. 80% of the authors published only one article. Like the authors the referenced journals are diversified. The 2,165 references to journals list 524 different periodicals. The heterogeneity of the authors and the cited journals might be primarily due to the interdisciplinary nature of business information systems. As expected the majority of the authors comes from the German-speaking countries (93%) and here again from Germany. However it was a little surprising that six of the eight most referenced journals are published in German, too. Together with the circumstance that scholars publish primarily in their native language, this is an indication that business information systems has developed independently (from management information systems or MIS) in German-speaking countries. The journal changed continuously in the period investigated. However, as was demonstrated by several indicators, renaming ???Angewandte Informatik??? into ???Wirtschaftsinformatik??? (in 1990) did not result in the assumed changes. The renaming can be seen most clearly both in a stronger quotation of journals in the fields of business administration and MIS and in a different subject orientation of the authors. While several scholars from computer science rank top amongst the authors in the eighties, there are only writers from business information systems in the following years. Furthermore, the distribution of the referenced document types has changed. Since the end of the nineties more and more Web documents have been referenced while the proportion of cited journal articles has declined at the same time. It is also worth mentioning that there was a smaller share of quoted grey literature in comparison to the eighties. The structure of the referenced document types shows that the topicality of the used sources is relatively high. In this respect there is more common ground with computer science than with business administration. In addition, also ???Wirtschaftsinformatik??? (besides ???Angewandte Informatik???) references journals from computer science more frequently than those from business administration. Author E-mail Address : a-resch at chello.at, Christian.schoegl at uni-graz.at Title : Business informatics from the perspective of its main publication organ. A scientometric analysis of the journal Wirtschaftsinformatik/ Angewandte Informatik Author(s: Resch A, Schlogl C Source : WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK 46 (4): 302-310 AUG 2004 Document Type: Article Language: German Cited References: 14 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: This paper presents a scientometric analysis of the journal WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK / Angewandte Informatik. For this purpose, a total of 23 volumes of the journal were analysed manually. The analysis focuses on the level of the journal, the articles and the authors, as well as the institutions of the authors and the references. Author Keywords: journal analysis; Wirtschaftsinformatik; business informatics; Angewandte informatik; applied informatics; scientometrics; citation analysis Addresses: Resch A (reprint author), Graz Univ, Inst Informat Wissensch, Dipl Ing, Univ Str 15-F3, Graz, A-8010 Austria Graz Univ, Inst Informat Wissensch, Dipl Ing, Graz, A-8010 Austria Publisher: VIEWEG, ABRAHAM-LINCOLN-STRABE 46, POSTFACH 15 47, D-65005 WIESBADEN, GERMANY IDS Number: 850UN ISSN: 0937-6429 CITED REFERENCES: Cited Author Cited Work Year Volume Page ALBRECHT T SBR 2002 54 372 ALBRECHT T WIST 1999 6 319 BONNEVIE E J INFORM SCI 2003 29 11 HEINRICH LJ STUDIENFUHRER WIRTSC 2002 45 HEINRICH LJ WIRTSCHAFTSINF 1995 37 3 HOLSAPPLE CW INFORM MANAGE 1993 25 231 MERTENS P STUDIENFUHRER WIRTSC 1995 25 MERTENS P WIRTSCHAFTSINF 1995 25 MERTENS P WIST 1998 4 170 NISONGER TE J AM SOC INFORM SCI 1999 50 1004 NORD JH INFORM MANAGE 1995 29 29 SCHLOGL C INFORMATIONS- KOMPETEN 2000 89 SCHUBERT A ORG STRATEGIES ASTRO 2001 2 179 VANRAAN AFJ SCIENTOMETRICS 1997 38 205 From samorri at OKSTATE.EDU Tue Nov 23 00:42:24 2004 From: samorri at OKSTATE.EDU (Steven A. Morris) Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 00:42:24 -0500 Subject: Reference per year increase with time question. Message-ID: I have noticed that in a lot of specialties, the average number of references listed per paper increases over time. In a collection of papers I have on anthtrax research, for example, the mean number of references per paper is 12 during the 1940's through the 1970's and increases to about 30 references per paper for the 1980's to the present. Has anyone studied this effect? Does it mean that authors cite a wider body of knowledge as the specialty evolves? Or is it just that social conventions of citing are changing? Or maybe it's an artifact of trends in the Science Citation Index journal coverage over time? Can anyone point me to any papers that discuss this effect? Thanks, Steven Morris Oklahoma State University From jni at DB.DK Tue Nov 23 03:00:08 2004 From: jni at DB.DK (Nicolaisen Jeppe) Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 09:00:08 +0100 Subject: SV: [SIGMETRICS] Reference per year increase with time question. Message-ID: Dear Steven A. Morris, There are some references in my PhD dissertation, which maybe could be of interest. See the attached extract from the dissertation. (The attached reference list is the full list from my dissertation). Kind regards, Jeppe Nicolaisen Assistant Professor Royal School of Library & Information Science, Denmark http://www.db.dk/jni -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Steven A. Morris [mailto:samorri at OKSTATE.EDU] Sendt: 23. november 2004 06:42 Til: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Emne: [SIGMETRICS] Reference per year increase with time question. I have noticed that in a lot of specialties, the average number of references listed per paper increases over time. In a collection of papers I have on anthtrax research, for example, the mean number of references per paper is 12 during the 1940's through the 1970's and increases to about 30 references per paper for the 1980's to the present. Has anyone studied this effect? Does it mean that authors cite a wider body of knowledge as the specialty evolves? Or is it just that social conventions of citing are changing? Or maybe it's an artifact of trends in the Science Citation Index journal coverage over time? Can anyone point me to any papers that discuss this effect? Thanks, Steven Morris Oklahoma State University -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Extract.doc Type: application/msword Size: 27136 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Morris" To: Sent: 23 November 2004 05:42 Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Reference per year increase with time question. > I have noticed that in a lot of specialties, the average number of > references listed per paper increases over time. In a collection of papers > I have on anthtrax research, for example, the mean number of references per > paper is 12 during the 1940's through the 1970's and increases to about 30 > references per paper for the 1980's to the present. > > Has anyone studied this effect? Does it mean that authors cite a wider body > of knowledge as the specialty evolves? Or is it just that social > conventions of citing are changing? Or maybe it's an artifact of trends in > the Science Citation Index journal coverage over time? > > Can anyone point me to any papers that discuss this effect? > > Thanks, > > Steven Morris > Oklahoma State University From johannes.stegmann at CHARITE.DE Tue Nov 23 07:18:06 2004 From: johannes.stegmann at CHARITE.DE (Johannes Stegmann) Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 13:18:06 +0100 Subject: BMC Bioinformatics' delayed impact Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, I take this opportunity to point you to my personal homepage (http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~johasteg/) which I recently (today) set up and which contains also material on impact factor of journals not listed in the JCR. At the beginning of my work in bibliometrics I had some (now gone) enthusiasm to create long lists of impact factors for non-ISI journals, constructed from data retrieved online. This is, of course (as I know now) not possible to do for one (or two) person(s) alone. Despite of that I will try to proceed with this kind of work, at least at a low level. I must say, however, that in the (bio) medical fields ISI-non-source journals obviously receive only few cites from the source journals. We could show that German medical faculties publish between 10 and 20 percent of their papers in non-JCR journals, but those papers receive well below 10 percent of all cites (we presented some of our investigation - but not with emphasis on non-JCR items - as a poster at the 8th S&T conference 2004 in Leiden, and a full paper will hopefully appear in 2005). See also in this context the excellent presentation by Martijn Visser and Henk Moed ("Measuring the impact of non-ISI source items", http://conference.cwts.nl/Downloads/ppt/128_Visser.pdf). So, the overall picture for high levels of aggregation would presumably not change even if the ISI-non-source titles had impact factors and the source titles had a re-calculated impact factor. Nevertheless, I'd like to bring to your attention the CIF data we collected during our studies (see the CIF pages on my homepage). We identified nearly 400 distinct non-IS journals, and for roughly the top ten percent we calculated the impact factors for each of the years 1995 to 2001 (unless titles are included in the JCR). When I sent that correpsondence letter to Nature in September 1997, I was not aware of all the work done before by others (and had indeed only a crude image of what bibliometrics is); I hope I fixed that - at least in part - in my JoD paper 1999 and our Scientometrics papers 2001 where I cited most of the relevant papers, including the paper published 1979 by Spaventi, J., Tudor-Silovic, N., Maricic, S. & Labus, M. (which I was pointed to by Sinisa Maricic) and the paper published 1989 by Sen, B.K., Karanjai, A., & Munshi, U.M. Matthew Cockerill should really have cited those papers and, of course, the paper by Christensen, F.H., Ingwersen, P. and Wormell, I., "Online determination of the journal impact factor and its international properties". Scientometrics, 40 (3), 1997, 529-540. Kind regards, Johannes Stegmann ------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Johannes Stegmann Charit? - University Medicine Berlin Joint Facility of Free University and Humboldt-University Campus Benjamin Franklin, Medical Library 12203 Berlin, Germany johannes.stegmann at charite.de Tel.: +49 30 8445 2035 Fax: +49 30 8445 4454 Personal homepage: http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~johasteg/ From jrussell at SERVIDOR.UNAM.MX Tue Nov 23 12:42:50 2004 From: jrussell at SERVIDOR.UNAM.MX (Jane Russell) Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:42:50 -0600 Subject: ELPUB 2005 First Call for Papers Message-ID: Elpub2005 - 9th ICCC International Conference on Electronic Publishing 8 to 10 June 2005, Leuven-Heverlee (Belgium) http://www.elpub.net =-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS - ELPUB 2005 ICCC 9th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, to be organised by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 8-10 June 2005, keynote speaker: Lou Burnard, Oxford University Computing Services ELPUB 2005 - From Author to Reader: Challenges for the Digital Content Chain The conference will be hosted by the Research Group on Document Architectures of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium's oldest and largest university. It will take place in the picturesque Arenberg Castle (Leuven-Heverlee, Belgium). This 9th ELPUB conference will keep the tradition of the eight previous international conferences on electronic publishing, held in the United Kingdom (in 1997 and 2001), Hungary (1998), Sweden (1999), Russia (2000), the Czech Republic (2002), Portugal (2003) and Brazil (2004), which is to bring together researchers, lecturers, librarians, developers, businessmen, entrepreneurs, managers, users and all those interested on issues regarding electronic publishing in widely differing contexts. These include the human, cultural, economic, social, technological, legal, commercial and other relevant aspects that such an exciting theme encompasses. Three distinguished features of this conference are: -- broad scope of topics which creates a unique atmosphere of active exchange and learning about various aspects of electronic publishing; -- combination of general and technical tracks; -- condensed procedure of submission, revision and publication of proceedings which guarantees presentations of most recent work. Elpub 2005 offers a variety of activities, such as workshops, tutorials, panel debates etc. Thus, the conference attendees will benefit from: -- The communication of scientific papers specially prepared for the conference; all papers are to be reviewed and accepted by the international ELPUB Programme Committee; -- Workshops and tutorials that aim to provide opportunity for attendants to update themselves in topics of high interest within this community of experts; -- Plenary sessions that aim to summarise the main ideas presented and discussed during the presentation of the conference papers; -- Panel debates on selected topics; possible topics include news item publishing or new methods, including Open Access, for publishing scientific literature; -- Demonstration sessions and presentation of posters. The keynote speech of ELPUB 2005 will be presented by Lou Burnard. He is co-editor of the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines, Assistant Director of Oxford University Computing Services and has an impressive experience in text encoding and humanities computing which play key role in electronic publishing. A special session on institutional repositories will be organised by Leslie Chan, University of Toronto at Scarborough (Canada). CONTRIBUTIONS The ELPUB 2005 conference invites contributions for papers, tutorials, workshops, posters and demonstrations on the following topics: GENERAL TRACK: -- Open archiving and institutional repositories: organisation, administration, faculty involvement, content policies, technical options -- Integrated and personalized digital information services -- Digital preservation and access: reliability and quality issues -- The libraries as content providers -- The publication cycle of electronic publications: manuscript handling, reviewing, production and distribution in multiple formats, publication on demand, customisation of publications -- Metadata use and interoperability -- The Semantic Web: how to cope with lacking metadata? -- Copyright issue in electronic publishing -- Multilingual and multimodal interfaces -- Electronic publishing for users with disabilities -- The publishers of today and tomorrow: training needs and approaches -- New services and products for academics, executives, governors, media communicators -- New media use by authorities: advantages and pitfalls -- Infocracy / info-exclusion / digital divide -- Paperless society: myth or (future) reality -- Security, privacy and other issues regarding information availability on the web -- Digital libraries for different communities of users -- Electronic publishing in eLearning applications -- Business impact of electronic publishing TECHNICAL TRACK -- The use of XML and its related technologies; XML applications and retrieval models -- Web services in electronic publishing systems -- Internet publishing with content portals and content syndication -- Image data bases in electronic publishing -- Electronic books, magazines and newspaper -- Electronic publishing tools serving virtual communities -- Electronic publishing in edutainment -- Large scale technical documents and manuals -- Electronic publishing for mobile services -- Development and use of codification mechanisms, technologies and tools for the metadata encoding process: MHP/OAI, RDF, DC, etc. -- Open source tools -- Content search, analysis and retrieval on the Web -- Electronic peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies -- Interoperability and scalability of Web publishing applications -- Coupling of textual and graphical information sources (SVG) -- Ontologies and classification -- Development and use of technologies for security, preservation and quality assurance of information sources and information access channels -- Electronic publishing of music -- Technologies for the integration of recommendations, guidelines, standards, and standards proposals Please, note that the list of topics is not exhaustive. Therefore, submissions on any topic within the overall conference theme will be considered. AUTHOR GUIDELINES Contributions are invited for the following categories: -- Single papers (abstract max of 1500 words) -- Tutorial (abstract max of 1500 words) -- Workshop (abstract max of 1500 words) -- Poster (abstract max of 500 words) -- Demonstration (abstract max of 500 words) Deadlines for abstracts' submission: -- Workshops and tutorials: December 15, 2004 -- Papers, posters and demonstrations: January 17, 2005 The abstracts (text only, simple formatting, please, mention the type of submission - workshop, tutorial, paper, poster or demonstration before the title) should be sent following the instructions on the conference website http://www.elpub.net. The Programme Committee will notify the authors of the acceptance of submitted papers by February 28, 2005. Authors then will have to submit their full papers by April 30, 2005, following specific instructions that will be available at that time. Speakers will be given 20 minutes for their presentation, plus 10 minutes max. for discussion. All Full Papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Posters (total surface app. 1m2) and demonstration materials must be brought by their authors at the conference time and only abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings. Workshops and tutorials proposals will be discussed with authors in due course. GENERAL INFORMATION Host: Research Group on Document Architectures of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven General Chair: Jan J. Engelen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium jan.engelen at esat.kuleuven.ac.be Programme Chair: Milena Dobreva, Institute for Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia, Bulgaria dobreva at math.bas.bg MEMBERS OF THE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Baker Thomas (Fraunhofer Institut Sankt Augustin, Germany) Baptista Ana Alice (University of Minho, Portugal) Borbinha Jose Luis (National Library of Portugal, Portugal) Bormans Geert (Stilo Europe, Belgium) Cetto Ana Maria (International Atomic Energy Agency, Austria) Chan Leslie (University of Toronto at Scarborough, Canada) Costa Sely M. S. (University of Brasilia, Brazil) Delgado Jaime (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) Diocaretz Myriam (ECDC/Infonomics, The Netherlands) Dobreva Milena (Inst. of Mathematics and Informatics, Acad. Sciences, Bulgaria) Engelen Jan (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) Gradmann Stefan (University of Hamburg, Germany) Hermans Paul (Pro Text, an Amplexor Company, Belgium) Ikonomov Nikola (Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgaria) Iyengar Arun (IBM Research, USA) Jezek Karel (University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic) Juhola Helene (Federation of the Finnish Media Industry, Finland) Knoll Adolf (Czech National Library, Czech Republic) Kreulich Klaus (Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany) Krottmaier Harald (University of Technology, Graz, Austria) Linde Peter (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden) Mac an Airchinnigh Micheal (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Martens Bob (Technical University Vienna, Austria) Moens Marie-Francine (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) Paepen Bert (Kath. Univ. Leuven-Docarch, Belgium) Perantonis Stavros (Inst. of Informatics and Telecommunications, NCSR "Demokritos", Greece) Russell Jane (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico) Schranz Markus (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Smith John W. T. (University of Kent at Canterbury, UK) Sousa Pinto Joaquim (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal) Tonta Yasar (Dept. of Information Management, Hacettepe University, Turkey) For additional information and this call for papers, please contact the Programme Chair: dobreva at math.bas.bg. For general enquiries, please send information requests to elpub2005 at elpub.net. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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