Scientometrics 62(1), January AND February 2005 issues Interesting papes by Weingart,, Van Raan, Wagner-Dobler, Bayers, Sommer, Wang, Kostoff, Pouris, Hassan, Moin, He, Kademani, Geilser, Somogyi, and Xekalaki
Eugene Garfield
garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU
Thu Apr 28 16:39:07 EDT 2005
E-mail Addresses: weingart at uni-bielefeld.de
TITLE: Impact of bibliometrics upon the science system:
Inadvertent consequences? (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Weingart, P
SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 62 (1). JAN 2005. p.117-131 SPRINGER,
DORDRECHT
ABSTRACT: The introduction of bibliometric (and other) ranking is
an answer to legitimation pressures on the higher education and research
system. After years of hesitation by scientists, science administrators and
even politicians in many of the industrialized countries, the implementation
of bibliometrics based (and other types of) rankings for institutions of
higher education and research is now being introduced on a full scale. What
used to be an irritation to the parties concerned has suddenly become a fad.
In contrast to this rather sudden enthusiasm, there is very little
reflection on the impacts of this practice on the system itself. So far
empirical data on the impact of bibliometric rankings seem to be available
only for two cases: Australia and the British research assessment exercise
(RA-E). Thus, the actual steering effects of bibliometric rankings, the
reactions of the system are largely unknown. Rankings are in urgent demand
by politics. The intended effect is to create competition among institutions
of higher learning and research and thereby to increase their efficiency.
The rankings are supposed to identify excellence in these institutions and
among researchers. Unintended effects may be 'oversteering', either by
forcing less competitive institutions to be closed down or by creating
oligopolies whose once achieved position of supremacy cannot be challenged
anymore by competitors. On the individual level the emergence of a kind of
'chart' of highly cited stars in science can already be observed (ISI
HighlyCited.com). With the spread of rankings the business administration
paradigm and culture is diffused through the academic system. The
commercialization of ranking is most pronounced in the dependence of the
entire practice on commercial providers of the pertinent data. As products
like IST's Essential Science Indicators become available, their use in the
context of evaluation tasks is increasing rapidly. The future of the higher
education and research system rests on two pillars: traditional peer review
and ranking. The goal must be to have a system of informed peer review which
combines the two. However, the politicized use of numbers (citations, impact
factors, funding etc.) appears unavoidable.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: P Weingart, Univ Bielefeld, Inst Sci & Technol Studies, POB
100131, D-33501 Bielefeld, Germany
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E-mail Addresses: vanraan at cwts.leidenuniv.nl
TITLE: Fatal attraction: Conceptual and methodological problems
in the ranking of universities by bibliometric methods
(Article, English)
AUTHOR: Van Raan, AFJ
SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 62 (1). JAN 2005. p.133-143 SPRINGER,
DORDRECHT
ABSTRACT:
Ranking of research institutions by bibliometric methods
is an improper tool for research performance evaluation, even at the level
of large institutions. The problem, however, is not the ranking as such. The
indicators used for ranking are often not advanced enough, and this
situation is part of the broader problem of the application of
insufficiently developed bibliometric indicators used by persons who do not
have clear competence and experience in the field of quantitative studies of
science. After a brief overview of the basic elements of bibliometric
analysis, I discuss the major technical and methodological problems in the
application of publication and citation data in the context of evaluation.
Then I contend that the core of the problem ties not necessarily at the side
of the data producer. Quite often persons responsible for research
performance evaluation, for instance scientists themselves in their role as
head of institutions and departments, science administrators at the
government level and other policy makers show an attitude that
encourages,quick and dirty' bibliometric analyses whereas better quality is
available. Finally, the necessary conditions for a successful application of
advanced bibliometric indicators as support tool for peer review are discussed.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: AFJ Van Raan, Leiden Univ, Ctr Sci & Technol Studies,
Wassenaarseweg 52,POB 9555, NL-2300 RB Leiden, Netherlands
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E-mail Addresses: rfw-d at t-online.de
TITLE: The system of research and development indicators: Entry
points for information agents (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Wagner-Dobler, R
SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 62 (1). JAN 2005. p.145-153 SPRINGER,
DORDRECHT
ABSTRACT: A system of input, output, and efficiency indicators is
sketched out, with each indicator related to basic research, applied
research, and experimental development. Mainly, this scheme is inspired by
empirical innovation economics (represented in Germany, e.g., by H.
Grupp) and by "advanced bibliometrics" and scientometrics (profiled by van
Raan and others). After considering strengths and weaknesses of some of the
indicators, possible additional "entry points" for institutions of
information delivery are examined, such contributing to an enrichment of
existing indicators. And to a "Nationalokonomik des Geistes", requested from
librarians in the twenties of the last century by A. von Harnack.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: R Wagner-Dobler, Univ Augsburg, Inst Philosophie, Univ Str
10, D-86159 Augsburg, Germany
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E-mail Addresses: Nancy.bayers at thomson.com
TITLE: Using ISI data in the analysis of German national and
institutional research output (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Bayers, NK
SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 62 (1). JAN 2005. p.155-163 SPRINGER,
DORDRECHT
ABSTRACT: This paper discusses the Thomson ISI Research Services
Group approaches to analyzing the world research environment, particularly
in terms of comparing research performance among nations and institutions.
This discussion concentrates on the recent research environment -1998-
2002- beginning first with comparisons among selected nations overall, in
terms of publications-an indicator of research output and productivity; and
citations-an indicator of research impact and influence. The second part
addresses the German research landscape and concludes with an analysis of
the contributions of specific German institutions to Germanys' research
performance.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: NK Bayers, Thomson ISI, Res Serv Grp, 3501 Market St,
Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
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E-mail Addresses: sommer at volkswagenstiftung.de
TITLE: Bibliometric analysis and private research funding
(Article, English)
AUTHOR: Sommer, S
SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 62 (1). JAN 2005. p.165-171 SPRINGER,
DORDRECHT
ABSTRACT: This paper outlines how private institutions and
particularly foundations contribute to the furtherance of higher education
and research, and it depicts what role bibliometric analysis can or cannot
play in foundations' private research funding and in the process of
strategic realignment under financial constraints.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: S Sommer, VolkswagenStiftung, Kastanjenallee 35, D-30519
Hannover, Germany
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E-mail Addresses: wangyan at istic.ac.cn
TITLE: Scientific collaboration in China as reflected in co-
authorship (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Wang, Y; Wu, YS; Pan, YT; Ma, Z; Rousseau, R
SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 62 (2). FEB 2005. p.183-198 SPRINGER,
DORDRECHT
ABSTRACT: Co-authorship patterns derived from 1997-2001 data in the
CSTPC Database (Chinese Science and Technology Papers and Citations
Database) are analyzed to show the status of science and technology
collaboration in China. Four different collaborative types, namely papers
co-authored by the authors in the same institution (SI), in different
institution located in the same region (SR), in different regions (DR) of
China, and in different countries or regions of the world (DC) are
discussed, The regional and subject distributions of co-authored papers as
well as the general status of collaboration in science and technology in
China are studied. It is concluded that, for all four collaborative types,
collaboration in science and technology has increased in China. Different
regions have different collaborative patterns corresponding to economic,
technological and scientific development levels. Differences in
collaborative patterns in terms of subjects are explained by different
characteristics of the subjects themselves.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: Y Wang, Inst Sci & Tech Informat China, 15 Fuxing Rd,
Beijing 100038, Peoples R China
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E-mail Addresses: kostofr at onr.navy.mil
TITLE: CAB: Citation-assisted background (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Kostoff, RN; Shlesinger, MF
SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 62 (2). FEB 2005. p.199-212 SPRINGER,
DORDRECHT
ABSTRACT: A chronically weak area in research papers, reports, and
reviews is the complete identification of background documents that formed
the building blocks for these papers. A method for systematically
determining these seminal references is presented. Citation-Assisted
Background (CAB) is based on the assumption that seminal documents tend to
be highly cited. CAB is being applied presently to three applications
studies, and the results so far are much superior to those used by the first
author for background development in any other study. An example of the
application of CAB to the field of Nonlinear Dynamics is outlined. While CAB
is a highly systematic approach for identifying seminal references, it is
not a substitute for the judgement of the researchers, and serves as a
supplement.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: RN Kostoff, Off Naval Res, 800 N Quincy St, Arlington, VA
22217 USA
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E-mail Addresses: anastassios.pouris at up.ac.za
TITLE: An assessment of the impact and visibility of South
African journals (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Pouris, A
SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 62 (2). FEB 2005. p.213-222 SPRINGER,
DORDRECHT
ABSTRACT: The assessment of scientific journals is of particular
interest to South Africa's higher education institutions as their research
is partly funded according to the number of publications of their members of
staff. This article has two objectives. The first one is to identify the
effects of the government's withdrawal of financial support on these
journals' impact factors. The second objective is to provide an assessment
of the visibility of the South African journals indexed in the Journal
Citation Report (JCR) of the 2002.
The findings indicate that the termination of the government interference in
the affairs of the journals had on average a beneficial effect on the impact
factors of the journals. South Africa is found to have a good representation
in the JCR, similar or better to that of the scientifically small countries
in Europe, and represents approximately 90% of the African continent
journals in the JCR. ne visible scientific disciplines are identified and
the journals are assessed according to their impact factors, to the impact
factors of journals citing them, and the self-citing and self-cited rates.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Pouris, Univ Pretoria, Inst Technol Innovat, Engn 2
Bldg,Main Campus, ZA-0002 Pretoria, South Africa
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E-mail Addresses: emmanuel.hassan at cec.eu.int
TITLE: The evolution of the knowledge structure of fuel cells
(Article, English)
AUTHOR: Hassan, E
SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 62 (2). FEB 2005. p.223-238 SPRINGER,
DORDRECHT
ABSTRACT: Recognizing the critical role played by science and
technology in the development of fuel cells, this article aims to
characterize the evolution of the S&T knowledge bases of fuel cells over the
nineties, using data on patents and scientific publications. The field of
fuel cells is particularly heterogeneous. It covers diverse sub- fields that
are marked by idiosyncratic characteristics (e.g. actors, demand, and input)
and different historical developments. Although this heterogeneity of the
field of fuel cells is reflected in the dynamics of S&T knowledge generation
within and across its sub-fields too, this article shows that it does not
entail the absence of cognitive interrelations between their S&T knowledge
bases. For that purpose, the article uses "simultaneous mapping" approach of
their S&T knowledge bases by means of textual analysis.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: E Hassan, Commiss European Communities, Directorate Gen
Res, SDME 9-55, B-1049 Brussels, Belgium
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E-mail Addresses: mahmoodi_maryam at yahoo.com
TITLE: Scientific output of Iran at the threshold of the 21st
century (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Moin, M; Mahmoudi, M; Rezaei, N
SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 62 (2). FEB 2005. p.239-248 SPRINGER,
DORDRECHT
ABSTRACT: This study evaluates the scientific output of Iran over
the past two decades. The information has been extracted by searching ISI in
December 2003. Science production in Iran has been reviewed (1967-
2003) and compared with 15 countries in the year 2000. During these years
Iran's relative share in the scientific output in the world increased from
0.0003% in 1970 to 0.29% in 2003. Comparing the ratio of science output to
GNP, Iran stands on thirteenth place among 16 countries in the year 2000. ne
present article discusses that Iran has had an increasing growth in
presenting articles after the Iraq-Iran war, which marks the period of
stability and development.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Moin, Tehran Univ Med Sci, IAARI, Childrens Med Ctr, 62
Gharib St,Keshavarz Blvd,POB 14185-863, Tehran 14194, Iran
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E-mail Addresses: tenglirong at mail.jlu.edu.cn
TITLE: Basic research in biochemistry and molecular biology in
China: A bibliometric analysis (Article, English)
AUTHOR: He, TW; Zhang, JL; Teng, LR
SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 62 (2). FEB 2005. p.249-259 SPRINGER,
DORDRECHT
ABSTRACT: Using the method of bibliometrics, a 1999-2002
biochemistry and molecular biology database was constructed for China from
the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-Expanded). Based on this database,
the author quantitatively analyzed the current research activity in
biochemistry and molecular biology in China. Results show that almost half
the publications were published in Chinese journals. The percentage of
articles published by Chinese authors in the total articles from the world
is increasing. The number of articles published in high influence journals
is continuously increasing. The research outputs are mainly located in
Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong. The sites of the China Science Academy and
National Universities are the important locations for these studies. The
collaboration rate of Chinese output is low as compared to results from
other countries. USA and Japan are the main international collaborating
countries.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: LR Teng, Jilin Univ, Coll Life Sci, 123 Jiefang Rd,
Changchun 130021, Peoples R China
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E-mail Addresses: bsk at magnum.barc.ernet.in
TITLE: Nobel laureates: Their publication productivity,
collaboration and authorship status (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Kademani, BS; Kalyane, VL; Kumar, V; Mohan, L
SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 62 (2). FEB 2005. p.261-268 SPRINGER,
DORDRECHT
ABSTRACT: This paper attempts to highlight the scientific
productivity, productivity age, collaboration trend, domains of
contributions of eight Nobel laureates of past and present belonging to
different domains of research in science. Also attempts to document the
various factors that affect productivity of scientists. No Nobel laureates
can be compared with other Nobel laureates as they are an altogether
different class of scientific elites and each piece of research is unique by
itself.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: BS Kademani, Bhabha Atom Res Ctr, Sci Informat Resource
Div, Bombay 400085, Maharashtra, India
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E-mail Addresses: geisler at stuart.iit.edu
TITLE: The measurement of scientific activity: Research
directions in linking philosophy of science and metrics of
science and
technology outputs (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Geisler, E
SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 62 (2). FEB 2005. p.269-284 SPRINGER,
DORDRECHT
ABSTRACT: The application of the measurement of scientific and
technical activities has been a lengthy process of the appropriate metrics
and the assignment of the standards and benchmarks for their usage. Although
some studies have addressed issues of the management of science and
technology and their relation to scientometrics and infometrics, there is
nevertheless a need to consider the linkages between the conceptual
background of scientific generation and progress - and the measurement of
its process and outcomes.
This paper first reviews the three main approaches to the generation and
progress of human knowledge in general and scientific activity in
particular. These approaches are reviewed in terms of the demands they would
make on the measurement of scientific process and outputs.
The paper then examines the currently used categories of metrics, and
arrives at several conclusions. The paper provides an analysis of these
conclusions and their implications to the generation and utilization of
metrics of science and its outcomes. The review of the conceptual or
philosophical foundations for the measurement of science offers an in- depth
examination, resulting in the correlation of these foundations with the
metrics we now use to measure science and its outcomes. The paper suggests
research directions for a much needed link between theories of science and
knowledge, and the application of metrics used to measure them. Finally, the
paper offers several hypotheses and proposes potential empirical studies.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: E Geisler, IIT, Stuart Grad Sch Business, 565 W Adams St,
Chicago, IL 60661 USA
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E-mail Addresses: somogyi at bel2.sote.hu
TITLE: Correlation between national bibliometric and health
indicators: The case of diabetes (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Somogyi, A; Schubert, A
SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 62 (2). FEB 2005. p.285-292 SPRINGER,
DORDRECHT
ABSTRACT: Correlation between diabetes-related publication output
and diabetes prevalence was sought and found in a sample of world countries
and in the states of the US. Various correlation patterns ("demand driven
research", "research driven prevention", no correlation) were distinguished
and interpreted.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Somogyi, Semmelweis Univ Med, Dept Internal Med 2,
Szentkiralyi 46, H-1088 Budapest, Hungary
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E-mail Addresses: exek at aueb.gr
TITLE: Comments on the paper of Shan et al.: The multivariate
Waring distribution (Letter, English)
AUTHOR: Xekalaki, E
SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 62 (2). FEB 2005. p.293-296 SPRINGER,
DORDRECHT
AUTHOR ADDRESS: E Xekalaki, Athens Univ Econ & Business, Dept Stat, 76
Patision St, Athens 10434, Greece
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