From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Mon Aug 1 07:39:25 2005 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 13:39:25 +0200 Subject: PhD vacancy, Amsterdam, at http://www2.fmg.uva.nl/ascor/vac1.html Message-ID: The Amsterdam School of Communications Research ( ASCoR) of the University of Amsterdam is located in the center of Amsterdam. With around 40 faculty members, the School hosts some 30 Ph.D. students. ?Communication and Innovation in the Dynamics of Science and Technology? is one of the topics of research carried out at ASCoR. Knowledge-based innovations can be considered as the results of interactions between these dynamics of knowledge production and control and the social and economic environments. Ph.D. vacancy ? Scientific Communication and Knowledge-based Innovations" Project description We envisage focusing on knowledge-based innovations like the introduction of new drugs or the development of vaccines. At the interface between communication studies and STS (science & technology studies) relevant questions can be raised about the codification of communication in different domains. Quality control in science, for example, requires peer review by competent colleagues; the originality of inventions as disclosed in patent applications is controlled by a legal system to the extent that the patents have to be upheld when litigated in court. At the interfaces with the public (e.g., in newspapers) scientific novelty can be absorbed using other symbolically generalized media of communication (e.g., moral concerns, purchasing power). The availability of on-line resources makes it possible to map the relevant knowledge domains in terms of co-occurrences of words and citations. Mappings can show the various contexts of codification over time and/or across contexts at specific moments of time. The networks are constructed in terms of relations among words, but the words are positioned in the maps. The maps can thus function as representations of semantic fields. These next-order structures can be compared in terms of their degree of codification. In this project, we would like to extend this approach with a dynamic and evolutionary perspective. During the last few years, we have automated the harvesting of large databases from on-line resources (like on-line editions of journals, newspapers, and patents), the mapping of these domains in terms of representations of semantic fields, the statistical analysis, and the visualization. For example, one can use the vector-space model. Additionally, the knowledge bases of these domains can be traced by using the words and co-words in the references. One can also envisage approaching the theme by using simulations. The dynamics of meaning across domains can be studied in relation to the institutional roles of academia, industry, and government agencies as carriers of these processes of science communication. Representatives of the agencies could be sent questionnaires or interviewed for validation purposes. The purpose is to refine the specification of how meaning is processed and codified, while at the same time developing new methodologies. The Ph.D. student has considerable leeway to further develop the theme in accordance with his/her theoretical interests. Supervision and intellectual environment There will be close supervision of the candidate by the project leader Dr. Loet Leydesdorff . Furthermore, the project will be part of the ASCoR research program, and the candidate can therefore participate in ASCoR?s Ph.D. training program in Communication Science. The candidate may also participate in classes offered by the Netherlands Graduate School of Science, Technology, and Modern Culture (WTMC). Duration of the project The project duration is for a maximum of 4 years full-time, and the candidate is expected to complete a dissertation within this time limit. The candidate will qualify for a grant from the University of Amsterdam. Currently, this grant is ? 1895,- per month. The start of the project is negotiable, but should preferably be no later than January 1, 2006. Requirements Candidates for this vacancy should: * have a Masters?degree in Science & Technology Studies, Communication Studies or another disicipline relevant to the project; * be motivated to pursue a Ph.D. and a scientific career; * have a good knowledge of statistical techniques, and preferably have some computer programming skills; * have a good command of English; * be willing to reside in the Netherlands (specify Amsterdam?) during the relevant period. More information A initial proposal for the project can be downloaded here. Please, consider this as a starting point for formulating one?s own proposal. More information about this vacancy can be obtained from the project leader Dr. Loet Leydesdorff. Email: loet at leydesdorff.net. More information about the ASCoR Ph.D. program can be obtained from the ASCoR website ( www.fmg.uva.nl/ascor) or the ASCoR secretariate: ascor-secr at uva.nl. Applications The application deadline is October 15, 2005. Applications should be accompanied by: o a CV o lists of classes attended and grades obtained o a research proposal relating to the project description given above (max. 3,000 words). Application letters can be sent to: Dr. Sandra Zwier ASCoR Research Manager Kloveniersburgwal 48 1012 CX Amsterdam Netherlands Applications can also be submitted via an email attachment to the email address: s.m.zwier at uva.nl This call for applications can also be found on www.fmg.uva.nl/ascor and www.uva.nl/actueel/vacatures.cfm _____ 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 eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Tue Aug 2 16:21:08 2005 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 16:21:08 -0400 Subject: Ryan, TP; Woodall, WH "The most-cited statistical papers" Journal of Applied Statistics, 32(5): 461-474, July 2005. Message-ID: E-mail : T. P. Ryan : tpr42345 at aol.com Author(s): Ryan, TP; Woodall, WH Title: The most-cited statistical papers Source: JOURNAL OF APPLIED STATISTICS, 32 (5): 461-474 JUL 2005 Cited References: 85 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: We attempt to identify the 25 most-cited statistical papers, providing some brief commentary on each paper on our list. This list consists, to a great extent, of papers that are on non-parametric methods, have applications in the life sciences, or deal with the multiple comparisons problem. We also list the most-cited papers published in 1993 or later. In contrast to the overall most-cited papers, these are predominately papers on Bayesian methods and wavelets. We briefly discuss some of the issues involved in the use of citation counts. 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ZADEH LA, 1965, INFORM CONTR, V8, P338. From eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Tue Aug 2 16:28:27 2005 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 16:28:27 -0400 Subject: Sarringhaus LA, McGrew WC, Marchant LF "Misuse of anecdotes in primatology: Lessons from citation analysis " American Journal of Primatology 65 (3): 283-288 MAR 2005 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: W.C. McGrew : mcgrewwc at muohio.edu Title: Misuse of anecdotes in primatology: Lessons from citation analysis Author(s): Sarringhaus LA, McGrew WC, Marchant LF Source: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY 65 (3): 283-288 MAR 2005 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 21 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: This study analyzes the accuracy of anecdotes cited in behavioral primatology publications. Anecdotes (n = 1 cases) recounting tool use were sought in the four main primatological journals. Citations of anecdotes in the scientific literature that met three criteria were systematically coded for recognition and accuracy. The results showed that 60% of the time, authors who cited anecdotes did not explicitly acknowledge them as such. To a lesser extent, the citations exaggerated the frequency of anecdotal events or misrepresented their status. For tool use specifically, the actor was misreported more often than the tool or its target. Multiple citations were incorrect more often than single citations. Overall, it seems that citation of anecdotes is problematic and may have far-reaching implications in terms of misleading overgeneralizations. Primatologists should take care in citing singular or rare events. (c) 2005 Wiley-Liss, Inc. Addresses: McGrew WC (reprint author), Miami Univ, Dept Anthropol, 70 Upham Hall, Oxford, OH 45056 USA Miami Univ, Dept Anthropol, Oxford, OH 45056 USA Miami Univ, Dept Zool, Oxford, OH 45056 USA E-mail Addresses: mcgrewwc at muohio.edu Publisher: WILEY-LISS, DIV JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN, NJ 07030 USA Subject Category: ZOOLOGY IDS Number: 916TC ISSN: 0275-2565 Cited References: BEATTY H, 1951, J MAMMAL, V32, P118. BOINSKI S, 1988, AM J PRIMATOL, V14, P177. BREWER SM, 1990, FOLIA PRIMATOL, V54, P100. BYRNE RW, 1997, ANTHROPOMORPHISM ANE, P134. FERNANDES MEB, 1991, PRIMATES, V32, P529. HARRIS B, 1979, AM PSYCHOL, V34, P151. HUFFMAN MA, 1993, PRIMATES, V34, P93. MCGREW WC, 1992, CHIMPANZEE MAT CULTU. MCGREW WC, 2004, CULTURED CHIMPANZEE. MITCHELL RW, 1997, ANTHROPOMORPHISM ANE, P3. PLOOIJ FX, 1978, CARNIVORE, V1, P103. REES A, 2001, SCI TECHNOL HUM VAL, V26, P227. RELETHFORD JH, 2003, HUMAN SPECIES INTRO. ROLLIN BE, 2000, NEW IDEAS PSYCHOL, V18, P109. SIEGEL S, 1956, NONPARAMETRIC STAT B. SUGIYAMA Y, 1997, EVOL ANTHROPOL, V6, P23. SUZUKI S, 1995, BEHAVIOUR, V132, P219. SWARTZ KB, 1997, ANTHROPOMORPHISM ANE, P296. URBANI B, 2002, ANTHROPOLOGIE, V40, P183. WHITEN A, 1988, BEHAV BRAIN SCI, V11, P233. WHITEN A, 1999, NATURE, V399, P682. From eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Tue Aug 2 16:47:48 2005 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 16:47:48 -0400 Subject: Kirby JA, Hoadley CM, Carr-Chellman AA " Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: ETRDarticle at tophe.net Title: Instructional systems design and the learning sciences: A citation analysis Author(s): Kirby JA, Hoadley CM, Carr-Chellman AA Source: ETR&D-EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 53 (1): 37-48 2005 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 27 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Learning sciences (LS) and instructional systems design (ISD) are two related fields that have shared interests in the application of technology for advancing human learning. While the two fields may have different values, boundaries, and in some cases methods, they also share significant overlap of content and purpose. We examine the relationship between the two fields through a citation analysis of three journals in each of the respective fields. The findings of the study indicate that the amount of cross-field publication is low, but there exists a trend for increased cross-field citation. As cross-field publication increases, we suggest that the existence of invisible colleges that link the fields will become more salient. Addresses: Hoadley CM (reprint author), Penn State Univ, Coll Educ, Learing & Performance Syst Dept, Instruct Syst Program, 314D Keller Bldg, University Pk, PA 16802 USA Penn State Univ, Coll Educ, Learing & Performance Syst Dept, Instruct Syst Program, University Pk, PA 16802 USA Penn State Univ, Sch Informat Sci & Technol, University Pk, PA 16802 USA E-mail Addresses: ETRDarticle at tophe.net Publisher: ASSOC EDUC COMMUNICATIONS & TECHNOLOGY, 1800 N STONELAKE DR, SUITE 2, BLOOMINGTON, IN 47404 USA Subject Category: EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH IDS Number: 910NC ISSN: 1042-1629 Cited References: *DES BAS RES COLL, 2003, ED RES, V32, P5. CARRCHELLMAN AA, 2004, EDUC TECHNOL, P44. CARRCHELLMAN AA, 2004, EDUC TECHNOL, V44, P40. CARRCHELLMAN AA, 2004, EDUC TECHNOL, V44, P57. CHUBIN DE, 1984, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V35, P360. COTTON MC, 1973, J COUNS PSYCHOL, V20, P272. CRANE D, 1972, INVISIBLE COLL DIFFU. GARFIELD E, 1972, SCIENCE, V178, P471. 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From Richard.Thornley at AHFMR.AB.CA Tue Aug 2 16:41:47 2005 From: Richard.Thornley at AHFMR.AB.CA (Richard Thornley) Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 14:41:47 -0600 Subject: Sarringhaus LA, McGrew WC, Marchant LF "Misuse of anecdotes in primatology: Lessons from citation analysis " American Journal of Primatology 65 (3): 283-288 MAR 2005 Message-ID: -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Eugene Garfield Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 2:28 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Sarringhaus LA, McGrew WC, Marchant LF "Misuse of anecdotes in primatology: Lessons from citation analysis " American Journal of Primatology 65 (3): 283-288 MAR 2005 E-mail Addresses: W.C. McGrew : mcgrewwc at muohio.edu Title: Misuse of anecdotes in primatology: Lessons from citation analysis Author(s): Sarringhaus LA, McGrew WC, Marchant LF Source: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY 65 (3): 283-288 MAR 2005 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 21 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: This study analyzes the accuracy of anecdotes cited in behavioral primatology publications. Anecdotes (n = 1 cases) recounting tool use were sought in the four main primatological journals. Citations of anecdotes in the scientific literature that met three criteria were systematically coded for recognition and accuracy. The results showed that 60% of the time, authors who cited anecdotes did not explicitly acknowledge them as such. To a lesser extent, the citations exaggerated the frequency of anecdotal events or misrepresented their status. For tool use specifically, the actor was misreported more often than the tool or its target. Multiple citations were incorrect more often than single citations. Overall, it seems that citation of anecdotes is problematic and may have far-reaching implications in terms of misleading overgeneralizations. Primatologists should take care in citing singular or rare events. (c) 2005 Wiley-Liss, Inc. Addresses: McGrew WC (reprint author), Miami Univ, Dept Anthropol, 70 Upham Hall, Oxford, OH 45056 USA Miami Univ, Dept Anthropol, Oxford, OH 45056 USA Miami Univ, Dept Zool, Oxford, OH 45056 USA E-mail Addresses: mcgrewwc at muohio.edu Publisher: WILEY-LISS, DIV JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN, NJ 07030 USA Subject Category: ZOOLOGY IDS Number: 916TC ISSN: 0275-2565 Cited References: BEATTY H, 1951, J MAMMAL, V32, P118. BOINSKI S, 1988, AM J PRIMATOL, V14, P177. BREWER SM, 1990, FOLIA PRIMATOL, V54, P100. BYRNE RW, 1997, ANTHROPOMORPHISM ANE, P134. FERNANDES MEB, 1991, PRIMATES, V32, P529. HARRIS B, 1979, AM PSYCHOL, V34, P151. HUFFMAN MA, 1993, PRIMATES, V34, P93. MCGREW WC, 1992, CHIMPANZEE MAT CULTU. MCGREW WC, 2004, CULTURED CHIMPANZEE. MITCHELL RW, 1997, ANTHROPOMORPHISM ANE, P3. PLOOIJ FX, 1978, CARNIVORE, V1, P103. REES A, 2001, SCI TECHNOL HUM VAL, V26, P227. RELETHFORD JH, 2003, HUMAN SPECIES INTRO. ROLLIN BE, 2000, NEW IDEAS PSYCHOL, V18, P109. SIEGEL S, 1956, NONPARAMETRIC STAT B. SUGIYAMA Y, 1997, EVOL ANTHROPOL, V6, P23. SUZUKI S, 1995, BEHAVIOUR, V132, P219. SWARTZ KB, 1997, ANTHROPOMORPHISM ANE, P296. URBANI B, 2002, ANTHROPOLOGIE, V40, P183. WHITEN A, 1988, BEHAV BRAIN SCI, V11, P233. WHITEN A, 1999, NATURE, V399, P682. From eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Tue Aug 2 16:53:28 2005 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 16:53:28 -0400 Subject: Miguel-Dasit A, Aleixandre R, Valderrama JC, Marti-Bonmati L, Sanfeliu P, "Hypothetical influence of non-indexed Spanish journals on the impact factor of radiological journals" European Journal of Radiology 54 (3): 321-326 JUN 2005 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: marti_lui at gva.es Title: Hypothetical influence of non-indexed Spanish journals on the impact factor of radiological journals Author(s): Miguel-Dasit A, Aleixandre R, Valderrama JC, Marti-Bonmati L, Sanfeliu P Source: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF RADIOLOGY 54 (3): 321-326 JUN 2005 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 21 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Objective: The aim of this study was to analyze the hypothetical changes in the 2001 impact factor of 52 radiological journals included in the Science Citation Index-Journal Citation Reports by also counting cites proceeding from 73 Spanish journals on different medical specialties. Also, to estimate the possible impact factor of the official Spanish radiology journal, Radiologia, not included in this database. Materials and methods: A modified 2001 impact factor of 52 radiological journals and Radiologia was obtained by adding the number of cites in 1999 and 2000 from the medical Spanish journals. Data were obtained by consulting the 2001 edition of the Journal Citation Reports in the "Web of Science" database. Results: The 16,985 bibliographical references were analysed (232 of them to radiological journals). The journal with the largest increase in its 2001 impact factor (from 1.83 to 1.90) was Radiologic Clinics of North America. European Journal of Radiology was the European journal with the hi- hest increase (from 1.084 to 1.110) in the difference between the 2001 modified and original impact factor. The modified 2001 impact factor of the 34 American journals was statistically higher (P = 0.016) than that of the 18 European journals (1.64 versus 0.93). Differences between the 2001 modified and original impact factor were slightly higher in the American journals (no statistically significant difference). The 2001 impact factor of Radiologia was 0.056. Discussion: Differences between the 2001 original and modified impact factor were small, but larger in the American journals. The 2001 impact factor of Radiologia was modest, although similar to other publications included in the Journal Citation Reports. (c) 2004 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved. Author Keywords: impact factor; science citation index; journal citation reports; Spanish journals; radiological journals KeyWords Plus: SCIENCE-CITATION Addresses: Marti-Bonmati L (reprint author), Dr Peset Univ Hosp, MR Sect, Dept Radiol, Ave Gaspar Aguilar 90, Valencia, E-46017 Spain Dr Peset Univ Hosp, MR Sect, Dept Radiol, Valencia, E-46017 Spain Cardenal Herrera CEU Univ, Valencia, Spain La Plana Vila Real Hosp, MR Sect, Castellon, Spain Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Hist Sci & Documentat Lopez Pinero, Valencia, Spain E-mail Addresses: marti_lui at gva.es Publisher: ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD, ELSEVIER HOUSE, BROOKVALE PLAZA, EAST PARK SHANNON, CO, CLARE, 00000, IRELAND Subject Category: RADIOLOGY, NUCLEAR MEDICINE & MEDICAL IMAGING IDS Number: 934GJ ISSN: 0720-048X Cited References: ALEIXANDRE R, 1994, MED CLIN-BARCELONA, V103, P246. ALEIXANDRE R, 2000, TRASTORNOS ADICTIVOS, V4, P264. BAERT AL, 2002, EUR RADIOL, V12, P1864. BAUIN S, 1992, REPRESENTATIONS SCI, P225. 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From eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Tue Aug 2 17:02:38 2005 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 17:02:38 -0400 Subject: Falagas ME, Bliziotis IA, Kasiakou SK, Samonis G, Athanassopoulou P, Michalopoulos A "Outcome of infections due to pandrug-resistant (PDR) Gram-negative bacteria" BMC Infectious Diseases 5: Art. No. 24 APR 8 2005 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: Correspondence to : matthew.falagas at tufts.edu Other Authors : j.bliziotis at alfahc.gr s.kasiakou at alfahc.gr georgsec at med.uoc.gr alfa.healthcare at alfahc.gr amichalopoulos at hol.gr Title: Outcome of infections due to pandrug-resistant (PDR) Gram-negative bacteria Author(s): Falagas ME, Bliziotis IA, Kasiakou SK, Samonis G, Athanassopoulou P, Michalopoulos A Source: BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES 5: Art. No. 24 APR 8 2005 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 27 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Background: The increasing problem of infections due to multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria has led to re-use of polymyxins in several countries. However, there are already clinical isolates of Gram-negative bacteria that are resistant to all available antibiotics, including polymyxins. Methods: We present a case series of patients with infections due to pathogens resistant to all antimicrobial agents tested, including polymyxins. An isolate was defined as pandrug-resistant (PDR) if it exhibited resistance to all 7 anti-pseudomonal antimicrobial agents, i.e. antipseudomonal penicillins, cephalosporins, carbapenems, monobactams, quinolones, aminoglycosides, and polymyxins. Results: Clinical cure of the infection due to pandrug-resistant ( PDR) Gram-negative bacteria, namely Pseudomonas aeruginosa or Klebsiella pneumoniae was observed in 4 out of 6 patients with combination of colistin and beta lactam antibiotics. Conclusion: Colistin, in combination with beta lactam antibiotics, may be a useful agent for the management of pandrug-resistant Gram-negative bacterial infections. The re-use of polymyxins, an old class of antibiotics, should be done with caution in an attempt to delay the rate of development of pandrug-resistant Gram-negative bacterial infections. KeyWords Plus: PSEUDOMONAS-AERUGINOSA; CYSTIC-FIBROSIS; POLYMYXIN RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANCE; OUTER-MEMBRANE; COLISTIN; INVOLVEMENT; RIFAMPIN; TAIWAN; UK Addresses: Falagas ME (reprint author), Alfa Inst Biomed Sci, Athens, Greece Alfa Inst Biomed Sci, Athens, Greece Tufts Univ, Sch Med, Boston, MA 02111 USA Alfa Healthcare, Athens, Greece Univ Crete, Sch Med, Univ Hosp, Dept Med, Iraklion, Greece Henry Dunant Hosp, Intens Care Unit, Athens, Greece E-mail Addresses: matthew.falagas at tufts.edu, j.bliziotis at alfahc.gr, s.kasiakou at alfahc.gr, georgsec at med.uoc.gr, alfa.healthcare at alfahc.gr, amichalopoulos at hol.gr Publisher: BIOMED CENTRAL LTD, MIDDLESEX HOUSE, 34-42 CLEVELAND ST, LONDON W1T 4LB, ENGLAND IDS Number: 922FL ISSN: 1471-2334 Cited References: *NAT COMM CLIN LAB, 1981, M2A2S2 NCCLS. BENGOECHEA JA, 2000, MOL MICROBIOL, V37, P67. CATCHPOLE CR, 1997, J ANTIMICROB CHEMOTH, V39, P255. CIOFU O, 2001, J ANTIMICROB CHEMOTH, V48, P391. DENTON M, 2002, PEDIATR PULM, V34, P257. FALAGAS ME, 2005, IN PRESS CLIN INFECT. GALES AC, 2001, J CLIN MICROBIOL, V39, P183. GARNACHOMONTERO J, 2003, CLIN INFECT DIS, V36, P1111. GAYNES RP, 1996, HOSP EPIDEMIOLOGY IN, P1. GIAMARELLOSBOURBOULIS EJ, 2002, DIAGN MICR INFEC DIS, V44, P259. GIAMARELLOSBOURBOULIS EJ, 2003, J CHEMOTHERAPY, V15, P235. GROISMAN EA, 1997, J BACTERIOL, V179, P7040. GUNDERSON BW, 2003, ANTIMICROB AGENTS CH, V47, P905. GUNN JS, 1998, MOL MICROBIOL, V27, P1171. HSUEH PR, 2002, EMERG INFECT DIS, V8, P827. ITOKAGAWA M, 1980, J ANTIBIOT TOKYO, V33, P1551. KUO LC, 2003, J FORMOS MED ASSOC, V102, P601. MANIKAL VM, 2000, CLIN INFECT DIS, V31, P101. MICHALOPOULOS AS, 2005, CLIN MICROBIOL INFEC, V11, P115. MOORE RA, 1984, ANTIMICROB AGENTS CH, V26, P539. MOORE RA, 1986, ANTIMICROB AGENTS CH, V30, P923. NICAS TI, 1980, J BACTERIOL, V143, P872. PITT TL, 2003, THORAX, V58, P794. RYNN C, 1999, CLIN MICROBIOL INFEC, V5, P32. SPENCE RP, 2002, J MED MICROBIOL, V51, P1107. TAMM M, 2000, SCHWEIZ MED WSCHR, V130, P1366. VALERO E, 2001, REV ESP QUIMIOTERAP, V14, P358. From eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Tue Aug 2 17:07:04 2005 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 17:07:04 -0400 Subject: Dul J, Karwowski W, Vinken J. "Objective and subjective rankings of scientific journals in the field of ergonomics: 2004-2005 " Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing 15 (3): 327-332 SUM 2005 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: J. Dul : jdul at rsm.nl Title: Objective and subjective rankings of scientific journals in the field of ergonomics: 2004-2005 Author(s): Dul J, Karwowski W, Vinken J Source: HUMAN FACTORS AND ERGONOMICS IN MANUFACTURING 15 (3): 327-332 SUM 2005 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 6 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Ergonomics journals and journals related to the field of ergonomics were ranked according to a method developed by Dul and Karwowski (2004) to create the Ergonomics Journal List 2005 (EJL2005). The EJL2005 was compared with the EJL2004. The rankings of the best ergonomics journals in EJL2005 were compared with the rankings based on perceived journal quality from a survey among 130 certified European ergonomists. The results show that in the EJL2005, the six primary ergonomics journals are the same as in the EJL2004, although some journals changed position. Eleven new journals showed up in the list of 61 related journals (non-ergonomics journals that regularly publish ergonomics articles). The total number of ergonomics articles in these journals increased from 605 in the EJL2004 to 623 in the EJL2005. There was a high congruence between the ranking of ergonomics journals in the EJL2005 and rankings based on perceived journal quality (Pearson r = 0.90). (c) 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Addresses: Dul J (reprint author), Erasmus Univ, RSM, Dept Management Technol & Innovat, POB 1738, Rotterdam, NL-3000 DR Netherlands Erasmus Univ, RSM, Dept Management Technol & Innovat, Rotterdam, NL-3000 DR Netherlands Univ Louisville, Ctr Ind Ergonom, Louisville, KY USA E-mail Addresses: jdul at rsm.nl Publisher: JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN, NJ 07030 USA Subject Category: ENGINEERING, MANUFACTURING; ERGONOMICS IDS Number: 934BV ISSN: 1090-8471 Cited References: DONOHUE JM, 2000, OMEGA-INT J MANAGE S, V28, P17. DUL J, 2004, APPL ERGON, V35, P301. DUL J, 2005, TYDSCHRIFT ERGONOMIE, V30, P12. SAHA S, 2003, J MED LIBR ASSOC, V91, P42. SELLERS SL, 2004, J SOC WORK EDUC, V40, P143. VINKEN J, 2004, MANUAL ESTABLISHING. From samorri at OKSTATE.EDU Thu Aug 4 16:07:43 2005 From: samorri at OKSTATE.EDU (Steven A. Morris) Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 15:07:43 -0500 Subject: References as concept symbols: life meets art in a Star Trek episode.... Message-ID: For bibliometricians that happen to be Star Trek fans, a double treat in an old episode of The Next Generation: Star Trek Episode 102 In "Darmok," a Star Trek episode from 1987, Captain Picard and his crew meet the Tamarians, an alien race whose language consists entirely of citations to literary references! Unfortunately, the humans have never read the Tamarian literature and don't know what concepts the references represent. The ensuing miscommunication almost leads to interstellar war.... This was one of the most popular episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation. It is a very entertaining view of the idea of "references as concept symbols." If you come across it on late night TV, don't miss it. A synopsis of the episode is here . A Wikipedia entry on the episode, with a partial Tamarian dictionary, is here . Cheers, S. Morris Oklahoma State University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From samorri at OKSTATE.EDU Wed Aug 10 09:19:26 2005 From: samorri at OKSTATE.EDU (Steven A. Morris) Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 08:19:26 -0500 Subject: PhD thesis: "Unified mathematical treatment of complex cascaded bipartite networks: the case of collections of journal papers Message-ID: Dear colleagues, I would like to post my PhD dissertation for anyone out there that might be interested: *Morris, S. A. (2005). Unified mathematical treatment of complex cascaded bipartite networks: The case of collections of journal papers. Unpublished Dissertation, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, U.S.A. * A copy of this work in pdf format can be accessed here (4.2 Mbyte). Summary: The work describes an entity-relationship model of collections of journal papers. This model describes a collection of papers as a system of coupled bipartite networks, which can be mathematically expressed using a series of matrices, and further allows many existing analysis techniques to be expressed and used in a very general way. Matrix based visualizations are particularly useful, allowing detailed visualization of structure and dynamics of research specialties. Reports on work derived from this research include: -Morris, S. A., Yen, G., Wu, Z., & Asnake, B. (2003). Timeline visualization of research fronts. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 55(5), 413-422 -Morris, S. A., & Yen, G. (2004). Crossmaps: visualization of overlapping relationships in collections of journal papers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States, 101(suppl. 1), 5291-5296. -Morris, S. A., (2004) Manifestation of emerging specialties in journal literature: a growth model of papers, references, exemplars, bibliographic coupling, co-citation, and clustering coefficient distribution, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. (in press) -Morris, S. A., Goldstein, M. L., & Deyong, C. F. (2004). Manifestation of research teams in journal literature: A growth model of papers, authors, collaboration, coauthorship, weak ties, and Lotka's law. (submitted). Thanks, Steven Morris -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From noyons at CWTS.LEIDENUNIV.NL Tue Aug 16 05:31:12 2005 From: noyons at CWTS.LEIDENUNIV.NL (Ed Noyons) Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 11:31:12 +0200 Subject: New Book: 'Citation Analysis in Research Evaluation' by Henk F. Moed Message-ID: It is a great pleasure to announce the publication of my monograph 'Citation Analysis in Research Evaluation' (Springer, 2005. 350 pp. ISBN: 1-4020-3713-9). Please find below a summary presenting its main lines and the table of contents. For further information I refer to the CWTS website (www.cwts.nl) and to www.springeronline.com/1-4020-3713-9 Henk F. Moed Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) Leiden University, the Netherlands Email: moed at cwts.leidenuniv.nl Citation Analysis in Research Evaluation. By Henk. F. Moed Springer, 2005. 350 pp. ISBN: 1-4020-3713-9. This book is written for members of the scholarly research community, and for persons involved in research evaluation and research policy. More specifically, it is directed towards the following four main groups of readers: - All scientists and scholars who have been or will be subjected to a quantitative assessment of research performance using citation analysis. - Research policy makers and managers who wish to become conversant with the basic features of citation analysis, and about its potentialities and limitations. - Members of peer review committees and other evaluators, who consider the use of citation analysis as a tool in their assessments. - Practitioners and students in the field of quantitative science and technology studies, informetrics, and library and information science. It deals with the evaluation of scholarly research performance, and focuses on the contribution of scholarly work to the advancement of scholarly knowledge. Its principal question is: how can citation analysis be used properly as a tool in the assessment of such a contribution? Citation analysis involves the construction and application of a series of indicators of the 'impact', 'influence' or 'quality' of scholarly work, derived from references cited in footnotes or bibliographies of scholarly research publications. It describes primarily the use of data extracted from the Science Citation Index and the Web of Science, published by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)/Thomson Scientific. But many aspects to which this book dedicates attention relate to citation analysis in general. It provides a wide range of important facts, and corrects a number of common misunderstandings about citation analysis. It introduces basic notions and distinctions, and deals both with theoretical and technical aspects, and with its applicability in various policy contexts, at the level of individual scholars, research groups, departments, institutions, national scholarly systems, disciplines or subfields, and scholarly journals. Although the major part of the analysis relates to the basic science - a domain in which citation analysis is used most frequently - this book also addresses its uses and limits in the applied and technical sciences, social sciences and humanities. It reveals the enormous potential of quantitative, bibliometric analyses of the scholarly literature for a deeper understanding of scholarly activity and performance, and highlights their policy relevance. But this book is also critical, underlines the limits of citation analysis in research evaluation, and issues warnings for potential misuse. It proposes criteria for proper use of citation analysis as a research evaluation tool. In order to be used properly as a research evaluation tool, it is essential that all participants have insight into the nature of citation analysis, how its indicators are constructed and calculated, what the various theoretical positions state about what they measure, and what are their potentialities and limitations, particularly in relation to peer review. This book aims at providing such insight. Table of Contents Preface ix Executive Summary 1 Part 1 General Introduction and Main Conclusions 9 1 General Introduction 11 2 Basic Notions and General Conclusions 25 3 Synopsis 35 Part 2 Empirical and Theoretical Chapters 69 Part 2.1 Assessing Basic Science Research Departments and Scientific Journals 69 4 Citation Analysis of Basic Science Research Departments 71 5 Citation Analysis of Scientific Journals 91 Part 2.2 The ISI Citation Indexes 107 6 Basic Principles, Citation Links and Terminology 109 7 ISI Coverage by Discipline 119 8 Implications for the Use of the ISI Citation Indexes in Research Evaluation 137 Part 2.3 Assessing Social Sciences and Humanities 145 9 Differences between Science, Social Sciences and Humanities 147 10 Expanded Citation Analysis: A Case Study in Economics 153 11 A Case Study of Research Performance in Law 159 Part 2.4 Accuracy Aspects 167 12 Introductory Notes on Accuracy Issues 169 13 Accuracy of Citation Counts 173 14 Problems with the Names of Authors and Institutions, and with the Delimitation of Subfields 181 Part 2.5 Theoretical Aspects 191 15 What Do References and Citations Measure? 193 16 Towards a Theory of Citation: Some Building Blocks 209 17 Implications for the Use of Citation Analysis in Research Evaluation 221 Part 2.6 Citation Analysis and Peer Review 227 18 Peer Review and the Use and Validity of Citation Analysis 229 19 Analysis of Peer Assessments of Research Departments 239 20 Analysis of a National Research Council 247 Part 2.7 Macro Studies 259 21 Did Global Scientific Publication Productivity Increase during the 1980s and 1990s? 261 22 Measuring Trends in National Publication Output 271 23 Does International Scientific Collaboration Pay? 285 24 Do US Scientists Overcite Papers from their Own Country? 291 Part 2.8 New Developments 301 25 Development of New Indicators 303 26 Electronic Publishing, New Databases and Search Engines 313 27 Further Research 319 References 323 Index of Keywords, Cited Works and Cited Authors 337 From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Sun Aug 21 22:04:09 2005 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 03:04:09 +0100 Subject: Open Letter to Research Councils UK: Rebuttal of ALPSP Critique Message-ID: ** Apologies for cross-posting ** This letter is co-signed by: Professor Tim Berners-Lee (University of Southampton) Professor Dave De Roure (University of Southampton) Professor Stevan Harnad (University of Southampton) Professor Nigel Shadbolt (University of Southampton) Professor Derek Law (University of Strathclyde) Dr. Peter Murray-Rust (University of Cambridge) Professor Charles Oppenheim (Loughborough University) Professor Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield) [ Note: A hyperlinked version of this letter is available at http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/18-guid.html and there is a longer, more detailed version at: http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/20-guid.html ] Professor Ian Diamond Chair, RCUK Executive Group Research Councils UK Secretariat Polaris House , North Star Ave Swindon SN2 1ET Date: 22 August Dear Professor Diamond, We are responding to the public letter, addressed to yourself, by Sally Morris (Executive Director of ALPSP, the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers), concerning the RCUK's proposed research self-archiving policy. http://www.alpsp.org/news/rcuk/default.htm http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/access/statement.pdf ALPSP says that the RCUK policy would have 'disastrous consequences' for journals, yet all objective evidence is precisely contrary to this dire prediction. In the point-by-point rebuttal attached (below) to this letter, we document this on the basis of the actual data and a careful logical analysis. Here is a summary: ALPSP argues that a policy of mandated self-archiving of research articles in freely accessible repositories, when combined with the ready retrievability of those articles through search engines (such as Google Scholar) and interoperability (facilitated by standards such as OAI-PMH), "will accelerate the move to a disastrous scenario". The disastrous scenario predicted by ALPSP is that an RCUK mandate would cause libraries to cancel subscriptions, which would in turn lead to the financial failure of scholarly journals, and so to the collapse of the quality control and peer review process that publishers manage. Not only are these claims unsubstantiated, but all the evidence to date shows the reverse to be true: not only do journals thrive and co-exist alongside author self-archiving, but they can actually benefit from it -- both in terms of more citations and more subscriptions. Moreover, there is a logical contradiction in the position adopted by ALPSP. On the one hand, ALPSP maintains that learned societies must be allowed to operate in a free market ("each publisher must have the right to establish the best way of expanding access to its journal content that is compatible with continuing viability"). Yet on the other hand, ALPSP is in effect asking RCUK to protect learned societies from the consequences of a free market -- specifically the right of those who have funded and produced research to make their product readily accessible for uptake by its intended users. What no one denies is that today many researchers are unable to access all the research they need to do their work. As ALPSP itself acknowledges, researchers already have to make use of author self-archived articles in order to gain access to "otherwise inaccessible published articles," since no research institution can afford to subscribe to all the journals its researchers need. In short, due to the current constraints on the accessibility of research results, the potential of British scholarship is not being maximised currently. Yet the constraints on accessibility can now, in the digital age, be eliminated completely, to the benefit of the UK economy and society, exactly in the way RCUK has proposed. For this reason, we believe that RCUK should go ahead and implement its immediate-self-archiving mandate, without further delay. That done, RCUK can meet with ALPSP and other interested parties to discuss and plan how the UK Institutional Repositories can collaborate with journals and their publishers in sharing the newfound benefits of maximising UK research access and impact. (A point-by-point rebuttal is attached below. A longer analysis, signed also by some non-UK supporters, is at http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/alpsp.doc ) Yours faithfully, Professor Tim Berners-Lee (University of Southampton) Professor Dave De Roure (University of Southampton) Professor Stevan Harnad (University of Southampton) Professor Nigel Shadbolt (University of Southampton) Professor Derek Law (University of Strathclyde) Dr. Peter Murray-Rust (University of Cambridge) Professor Charles Oppenheim (Loughborough University) Professor Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Point-by-point rebuttal: > ALPSP: a policy of mandated self-archiving of research articles > in freely accessible repositories, when combined with the ready > retrievability of those articles through search engines (such as > Google Scholar) and interoperability (facilitated by standards such > as OAI-PMH), will accelerate the move to a disastrous scenario. This hypothesis has already been tested and the actual evidence affords not the slightest hint of any 'move to a disastrous scenario.' Self-archiving is most advanced in physics, hence that is the strongest test of where it is moving: Since 1991, hundreds of thousands of articles have been made freely accessible and readily retrievable by physicists using the open archive called arXiv; those articles have been extensively accessed, retrieved, used and cited by other researchers exactly as their authors intended. Yet when asked, both of the large physics learned societies (the Institute of Physics Publishing in the UK and the American Physical Society) responded very explicitly that they cannot identify any loss of subscriptions to their journals as a result of this critical mass of self-archived and readily retrievable physics articles (footnote 1). > ALPSP: Librarians will increasingly find that 'good enough' versions > of a significant proportion of articles in journals are freely > available; in a situation where they lack the funds to purchase all > the content their users want, it is inconceivable that they would not > seek to save money by cancelling subscriptions to those journals. As > a result, those journals will die. First, neither research topics nor research journals have national boundaries. RCUK-funded researchers publish articles in thousands of journals, and those articles represent the output of only a small fraction of the world's research population. It is therefore extremely unlikely that a 'significant proportion' of the articles in any particular journal will become freely available as a consequence of the RCUK policy. Second, as we know, some physics journals already do contain a 'significant proportion' of articles that have been self-archived in the physics repository, arXiv -- yet librarians have not cancelled subscriptions: the journals continue to survive and thrive. > ALPSP: The consequences of the destruction of journals' viability > are very serious. Not only will it become impossible to support > the whole process of quality control, including (but not limited to) > peer review, but in addition, the research community will lose all > the other value and prestige which is added, for both author and > reader, through inclusion in a highly rated journal with a clearly > understood audience and rich online functionality Wherever authors and readers value the rich online functionality added by publishers they will still wish to have access to the journal, either through personal subscriptions or through their libraries. This is obviously the case for the physics journals. Publishers who add significant value create a product that users and their institutions will pay for. Researchers who cannot access the journal version, however -- because their institutions 'lack the funds to purchase all the content their users want' -- should not be denied access to the basic research results, which have always been given away for free by their authors (to their publishers, as well as to all requesters of reprints). Nor should those authors be denied the usage and impact of those users. Such limitations on access have always hampered the impact and progress of British scholarship. > ALPSP: We absolutely reject unsupported assertions that self-archiving > in publicly accessible repositories does not and will not damage > journals. Indeed, we are accumulating a growing body of evidence > that the opposite is the case, even at this early stage. For example: > [1] Increasingly, librarians are making use of COUNTER-compliant > (and therefore comparable) usage statistics to guide their decisions > to renew or cancel journals. The Institute of Physics Publishing is > therefore concerned to see that article downloads from its site are > significantly lower for those journals whose content is substantially > replicated in the ArXiV repository than for those which are not. And what is the evidence supporting the assertion that 'the opposite is the case' and journals are damaged? None. As we know, the Institute of Physics Publishing (like the American Physical Society) has already stated publicly that it cannot identify any loss of subscriptions as a result of 14 years of self-archiving by physicists (footnote 1). Moreover, institutional repository software developers are now working with publishers on ways to ensure that the usage of articles in repositories is credited to the publisher. > ALPSP: [2] Citation statistics and the resultant impact factors > are of enormous importance to authors and their institutions; they > also influence librarians' renewal/cancellation decisions. Both > the Institute of Physics and the London Mathematical Society are > therefore troubled to note an increasing tendency for authors to > cite only the repository version of an article, without mentioning > the journal in which it was later published. Librarians' decisions to cancel or subscribe to journals are made on the basis of a variety of measures, citation statistics being just one of them (footnote 2). But self-archiving increases citations, so journals carrying self-archived articles will perform better under this measure. Citing the canonical version of an article wherever possible is a matter of author best-practice; it is misleading to cite momentary lags in scholarliness as if they were an argument against self-archiving. All of this can and will be quite easily and naturally adjusted, partly through updated scholarly practice and partly through institutional and publisher repositories collaborating in a system of pooled and shared citation statistics -- all credited to the official published version, as proper scholarliness dictates. These are all just natural adaptations to the new medium. > ALPSP: [3] Evidence is also growing that free availability of content > has a very rapid negative effect on subscriptions. Oxford University > Press made the contents of Nucleic Acids Research freely available > online six months after publication; subscription loss was much > greater than in related journals where the content was free after > a year... > [4] The BMJ Publishing Group has noted a similar effect... > [5] In the USA, the Institute for Operations Research and the > Management Sciences ... made freely available on the Web... noted > a subscriptions decline In all three examples whole journals were made freely available, in their entirety, with all the added value and rich online functionality that a journal provides. This is not at all the same as the self-archiving of authors' drafts, which are simply the basic research results, provided by the author on a single-article basis. The latter, not the former, is the target of the proposed RCUK policy. It is hence highly misleading to cite the effects of the former as evidence of negative effects of the latter. (And although the RCUK is not proposing to mandate whole-journal open access, it is worth noting that there is also plenty of evidence that journals have benefited from being made freely available: Molecular Biology of the Cell's (MBC's) subscriptions have grown steadily after free access was provided by its publisher, The American Society for Cell Biology (footnote 3). MBC also enjoys a high impact factor and healthy submissions by authors encouraged by the increased exposure their articles receive. The same has happened for journals published by other societies [footnote 4].) > ALPSP: In addition, it is increasingly clear that this is exactly > how researchers are already using search engines such as Scirus > and Google Scholar... 'At this point, my main use of both [Scirus > and Google Scholar] is for finding free Web versions of otherwise > inaccessible published articles... Both Scirus and Scholar were > also useful for finding author-hosted article copies, preprints, > e-prints, and other permutations of the same article.' Scirus, Google Scholar and the other search engines that retrieve open access articles serve the research community by enabling researchers to find and access articles they would otherwise be unable to read because they are hidden behind subscription barriers. These services help to maximise research access, usage and impact, all to the benefit of British science and scholarship, exactly as their authors and their institutions and funders wish them to do. > ALPSP: In the light of this growing evidence of serious and > irreversible damage, each publisher must have the right to establish > the best way of expanding access to its journal content that is > compatible with continuing viability. So far no evidence of serious and irreversible damage inflicted by self-archiving has been presented by ALPSP. This is unsurprising, because none exists. Publishers should do what they can to expand access and remain viable. But they certainly have no right to prevent researchers, their institutions and their funders from expanding access to their research findings either -- nor to expect them to wait and see whether their publishers will one day maximise access for them. > ALPSP: This is not best achieved by mandating the earliest possible > self-archiving, and thus forcing the adoption of untried and uncosted > publishing practices. Self-archiving -- and what the RCUK is mandating -- is not a publishing practice at all: it is an author practice. And it has been tried and tested -- with great success -- for over 15 years without 'forcing the adoption' of any 'untried and uncosted publishing practices.' What UK research needs now is more self-archiving, not more delay and counterfactual projections. > ALPSP: This in turn will deprive learned societies of an important > income stream, without which many will be unable to support their > other activities -- such as meetings, bursaries, research funding, > public education and patient information -- which are of huge benefit > both to their research communities and to the general public. Please contrast this double-doomsday scenario ('self-archiving will not only destroy journals but all the other good works of learned societies') with the following quote from Dr Elizabeth Marincola, Executive Director of the American Society for Cell Biology, a sizeable but not huge society (10,000 members; many US scientific and medical societies have over 100,000): "I think the more dependent societies are on their publications, the farther away they are from the real needs of their members. If they were really doing good work and their members were aware of this, then they wouldn't be so fearful...... When my colleagues come to me and say they couldn't possibly think of putting their publishing revenues at risk, I think 'why haven't you been diversifying your revenue sources all along and why haven't you been diversifying your products all along?' The ASCB offers a diverse range of products so that if publications were at risk financially, we wouldn't lose our membership base because there are lots of other reasons why people are members." (footnote 3) This perfectly encapsulates why we should not be taking too seriously the dire warnings from those learned societies who warn that self-archiving will damage research and its dissemination. The dissemination of research findings should be a high-priority service for learned societies, but not a commercial end-in-itself that generates profit to subsidise other activities, at the expense of British research itself. RCUK should go ahead and implement its immediate-self-archiving mandate, without any further delay, and then meet with ALPSP and other interested parties to discuss and plan how the UK Institutional Repositories can collaborate with journals and their publishers in pooling download and citation statistics, and in other other ways of sharing the benefits of maximising UK research access and impact. References 1. Swan, A (2004). American Scientist Open Access Forum 3 February, 2005 2. Personal communication from a UK University Library Director: 'I know of no HE library where librarians make cancellation or subscription decisions. Typically they say to the department/faculty 'We have to save ?X,000" from your share of the serials budget, what do you want to cut?'. These are seen as academic -- not metrics-driven -- judgements, and no librarian makes those academic judgements, as they are indefensible in Senate... [S]uch decisions are almost always wholly subjective, not objective, and have nothing to do with the existence or otherwise of repositories.' 3. The society lady: an interview with Elizabeth Marincola (2003) Open Access Now, October 6, 2003 4. Walker, T (2002) Two societies show how to profit by providing free access. Learned Publishing 15, 279-284. Copies also sent to: The Lord Sainsbury of Turville Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Science and Innovation Department of Trade and Industry Professor Sir Keith O'Nions Director General of Research Councils, Office of Science and Technology Dr. Astrid Wissenburg, RCUK Secretariat Professor Colin Blakemore, Medical Research Council Frances Marsden, Arts and Humanities Research Council Professor Julia Goodfellow, Biotechnology and Biological Research Council Professor Richard Wade, Particle Physics & Astronomy Research Council Professor Alan Thorpe, Natural Environment Research Council Professor John O'Reilly, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Professor John Wood, Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils Andrea Powell, Chair of ALPSP Council (Director of Publishing, CAB International) From eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Tue Aug 23 15:15:13 2005 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 15:15:13 -0400 Subject: Price DJD and Beaver DD. =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=93Collaboration_in_an_Invisible_College,=94?= American Psychologist 21(11):1011-18 (1966). Message-ID: Most of you should be familiar with the classic work _Little Science, Big Science_ by Derek John de Solla Price, and the second edition _Little Science, Big Science And Beyond,_ with a foreward by Robert K. Merton and Eugene Garfield At the recent International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI) meeting in Stockholm, it came to my attention that the book?s acknowledgements section failed to acknowledge that Donald deB. Beaver was the co-author of the paper ?Collaboration in an Invisible College,? which was correctly entered in the Science Citation Index and cited 179 times. Chapter 6 is essentially identical to that paper. The complete reference follows: Price DJD and Beaver DD. ?Collaboration in an Invisible College,? American Psychologist 21(11):1011-18 (1966). Until there is an electronic version of the book, I thought it important to call this omission to your attention. Eugene Garfield When responding, please attach my original message __________________________________________________ Eugene Garfield, PhD. email: garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu home page: www.eugenegarfield.org Tel: 215-243-2205 Fax 215-387-1266 Chairman Emeritus, ISI www.isinet.com 3501 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-3302 President, The Scientist LLC. www.the-scientist.com 400 Market Street, Suite 1250, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2501 Past President, American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) www.asis.org From eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Tue Aug 23 15:32:29 2005 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 15:32:29 -0400 Subject: Choi, JS; Kim, K; Yoon, SM; Chang, KH; Lee, CC. "Zipf's Law distributions in Korean financial markets" Journal of the Korean Physical Society 47 (1). p.171-173. July 2005. Message-ID: Full text available at : http: //icpr.snu.ac.kr/resource/wop.pdf/J01/2005/047/R01/J012005047R010171.pdf TITLE: Zipf's law distributions in Korean financial markets (Article, English) AUTHOR: Choi, JS; Kim, K; Yoon, SM; Chang, KH; Lee, CC SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY 47 (1). JUL 2005. p.171-173 KOREAN PHYSICAL SOC, SEOUL SEARCH TERM(S): ZIPF* item_title; J KOREAN PHYS SOC source_abbrev_20 KEYWORDS: Zipf's law; power law; KSE; KOSDAQ KEYWORDS+: SCALING BEHAVIOR; COMPANIES; GROWTH; INCOME ABSTRACT: We investigate the rank distribution and the cumulative probability for stock prices, and the probability density of price returns for stocks traded the Korean Stock Exchange (KSE) and the Korean Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (KOSDAQ) market. We show that the upper tails of the distributions can be fitted with a power-law and find that, the rank distribution scales approximately as a, power law with exponents alpha = - 0.99 (p -> small) and -1.33 (p -> large) for the KSE and alpha = -1.31 for the KOSDAQ These values are similar to those of stock prices traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). In addition, the cumulative probability distribution follows a power law with the scaling exponent beta = -1.23 (KSE) or -1.45 (KOSDAQ). In particular, the evidence shows that the probability density of normalized price returns for two kinds of assets almost has the form of an exponential function, which is similar to the result for the TSE and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). AUTHOR ADDRESS: JS Choi, Pukyong Natl Univ, Dept Phys, Pusan 608737, South Korea From eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Tue Aug 23 16:01:57 2005 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 16:01:57 -0400 Subject: Hu, XH; Yoo, I; Rumm, P; Atwood, M "Mining candidate viruses as potential bio-terrorism weapons from biomedical literature " Intelligence and Security Informatics, Proceedings. 3495. 2005. p.60-71 Springer-Verlag, Berlin Message-ID: E-mail: xiaohua.hu at drexel.edu TITLE: Mining candidate viruses as potential bio-terrorism weapons from biomedical literature (Article, English) AUTHOR: Hu, XH; Yoo, I; Rumm, P; Atwood, M SOURCE: INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY INFORMATICS, PROCEEDINGS 3495. 2005. p.60-71 SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, BERLIN ABSTRACT: In this paper we present a semantic-based data mining approach to identify candidate viruses as potential bio-terrorism weapons from biomedical literature. We first identify all the possible properties of viruses as search key words based on Geissler's 13 criteria; the identified properties are then defined using MeSH terms. Then, we assign each property an importance weight based on domain experts' judgment. After generating all the possible valid combinations of the properties, we search the biomedical literature, retrieving all the relevant documents. Next our method extracts virus names from the downloaded documents for each search keyword and identifies the novel connection of the virus according to these 4 properties. If a virus is found in the different document sets obtained by several search keywords, the virus should be considered as suspicious and treated as candidate viruses for bio-terrorism. Our findings are intended as a guide to the virus literature to support further studies that might then lead to appropriate defense and public health measures. AUTHOR ADDRESS: XH Hu, Drexel Univ, Coll Informat Sci & Technol, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA From eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Tue Aug 23 16:18:56 2005 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 16:18:56 -0400 Subject: Reid, E and Chen HC. "Mapping the contemporary terrorism research domain: Researchers, publications, and institutions analysis" Intelligence and Security Informatics, Proceedings. 3495. 2005. p.322-339 Sprinter-Verlag Berlin, berlin Message-ID: E-mail : ednareid at eller.arizona.edu TITLE: Mapping the contemporary terrorism research domain: Researchers, publications, and institutions analysis (Article, English) AUTHOR: Reid, E; Chen, HC SOURCE: INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY INFORMATICS, PROCEEDINGS 3495. 2005. p.322-339 SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, BERLIN ABSTRACT: The ability to map the contemporary terrorism research domain involves mining, analyzing, charting, and visualizing a research area according to experts, institutions, topics, publications, and social networks. As the increasing flood of new, diverse, and disorganized digital terrorism studies continues, the application of domain visualization techniques are increasingly critical for understanding the growth of scientific research, tracking the dynamics of the field, discovering potential new areas of research, and creating a big picture of the field's intellectual structure as well as challenges. In this paper, we present an overview of contemporary terrorism research by applying domain visualization techniques to the literature and author citation data from the years 1965 to 2003. The data were gathered from ten databases such as the ISI Web of Science then analyzed using an integrated knowledge mapping framework that includes selected techniques such as self-organizing map (SOM), content map analysis, and co-citation analysis. The analysis revealed (1) 42 key terrorism researchers and their institutional affiliations; (2) their influential publications; (3) a shift from focusing on terrorism as a low-intensity conflict to an emphasis on it as a strategic threat to world powers with increased focus on Osama Bin Laden; and (4) clusters of terrorism researchers who work in similar research areas as identified by co-citation and block-modeling maps. AUTHOR ADDRESS: E Reid, Univ Arizona, Dept Management Infomat Syst, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA From eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Tue Aug 23 16:26:04 2005 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 16:26:04 -0400 Subject: LaBonte KB, "Citation Analysis: A Method for Collection Development for a Rapidly Developing Field" Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, Summer 2005. Message-ID: Full text available at : http://www.istl.org/05-summer/refereed.html e-mail: kristen.labonte at csuci.edu AUTHOR : Kristen B. LaBonte TITLE : Citation Analysis: A Method for Collection Development for a Rapidly Developing Field SOURCE : Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship Summer 2005 Abstract Citation analysis was used to determine if the Sciences-Engineering Library at the University of California at Santa Barbara is meeting the needs of an interdisciplinary group of 60 faculty members at the new California NanoSystems Institute. The latest three publications of each faculty member (published within the last two years) were analyzed in two ways using the Science Citation Index: 1) the journals they were published in, and 2) the journals where cited articles were published. The results indicate that the library subscribes to 98 percent of the journals in which faculty members are published or are citing frequently. This information is useful to map the citation patterns of a new interdisciplinary field and can be used for future collection management decisions. ADDRESS : Kristen B. LaBonte Digital Resources and GIS Librarian California State University, Channel Islands Camarillo, CA kristen.labonte at csuci.edu From eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Tue Aug 23 16:52:50 2005 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 16:52:50 -0400 Subject: Shiue YC, Guo GM "A Method to Build Core Article Ranked Lists in Interdisciplinary Department and Journal" Journal of Educational Media & Library Sciences. vol. 42 No. 3,Marc 2005, pp. 313-328. Message-ID: E-mail: sambuela at gmail.com Full Text Available at : http://www.openfind.idv.tw/core/core_index.htm - Click on (Full Text - pdf) AUTHOR : Yih-Chearng Shiue & Gen-Ming Guo TITLE : "A Method to Build Core Article Ranked Lists in Interdisciplinary Department and Journal" SOURCE : Journal of Educational Media & Library Sciences" vol. 42 No. 3,Marc 2005, pp. 313-328. Address: No.300, Jung-da Rd., Jung-li City, Taoyuan, Taiwan 320, R.O.C. Department of Information Management, School of Management, National Central University, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan. Email: openfind at mgt.ncu.edu.tw From eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Wed Aug 24 16:28:01 2005 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:28:01 -0400 Subject: Nisonger TE, Davis CH. "The perception of library and information science journals by LIS education deans and ARL library directors: A replication of the Kohl-Davis study " College and Research Libraries 66 (4): 341-377. July 2005. Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: nisonge at indiana.edu, davisc at indiana.edu Title: The perception of library and information science journals by LIS education deans and ARL library directors: A replication of the Kohl-Davis study Author(s): Nisonger TE, Davis CH Source: COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES 66 (4): 341-377 JUL 2005 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 48 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Analyzing the collective opinion of presumed experts, often termed a perception study, is a frequently used approach for rating journals or evaluating education programs. Replicating the 1985 Kohl-Davis study, seventy-one library and information science (LIS) journals are ranked according to their mean rating on a 1 to 5 ordinal scale by deans of ALA- accredited education programs and by the directors of ARL libraries (surveyed during the summer of 2003). Comparison of the results with the 1985 study found considerable continuity in journal perceptions over the past two decades, but more so by directors than deans. A weak to moderate correlation was found between deans' ratings and Journal Citation Reports citation scores, whereas the correlations between directors' perceptions and citation data were weak to nonexistent. The findings confirm a hierarchy of prestige among LIS journals, but the hierarchical order differs somewhat between deans and directors. Addresses: Nisonger TE (reprint author), Indiana Univ, Sch Lib & Informat Sci, Bloomington, IN 47401 USA Indiana Univ, Sch Lib & Informat Sci, Bloomington, IN 47401 USA E-mail Addresses: nisonge at indiana.edu, davisc at indiana.edu Publisher: ASSOC COLL RESEARCH LIBRARIES, 50 E HURON ST, CHICAGO, IL 60611 USA Subject Category: INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE IDS Number: 947PS Cited References: FAMILIARITY PERCEIVE, P227. RATINGS J ARI LIBR, P41. 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From noruzi at CRRM.U-3MRS.FR Fri Aug 26 07:33:41 2005 From: noruzi at CRRM.U-3MRS.FR (Alireza Noruzi) Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:33:41 +0200 Subject: Webology: Volume 2, Number 2, August, 2005 Message-ID: Dear All, Apologies for cross-posting firstly. We are pleased to inform you that the fourth issue of Webology, an OPEN ACCESS journal, is published and is available ONLINE now. This issue contains: ------------------ Editorial -- Alireza Noruzi -- http://www.webology.ir/2005/v2n1/editorial4.html ----------------------------------------- Precision and Recall of Five Search Engines for Retrieval of Scholarly Information in the Field of Biotechnology -- Dr. S. M. Shafi & Rafiq A. Rather -- http://www.webology.ir/2005/v2n2/a12.html ----------------------------------------- Search Engines and Resource Discovery on the Web: Is Metadata an Impact Factor? -- Mehdi Safari -- http://www.webology.ir/2005/v2n2/a13.html ----------------------------------------- Resource Gleaning, From Earlier Times to the Information Age -- Dr. William W. Bostock -- http://www.webology.ir/2005/v2n2/a14.html ----------------------------------------- The Past, Present and Future of Web Search Research: An Interview with Dr. Amanda Spink -- Yazdan Mansourian -- http://www.webology.ir/2005/v2n2/a15.html ========================================= Call for Papers: http://www.webology.ir/callforpapers.html ========================================= Regards, A. Noruzi Dep. of Information Science University of Paul Cezanne France -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hanpark at YUMAIL.AC.KR Fri Aug 26 19:37:39 2005 From: hanpark at YUMAIL.AC.KR (Han Woo PARK (Dr)) Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 08:37:39 +0900 Subject: =?utf-8?B?UmU6IFtBaXItbF0gV2Vib2xvZ3k6IFZvbHVtZSAyLCBOdW1iZXIgMiwg?= =?utf-8?B?QXVndXN0LCAyMDA1?= Message-ID: Hi there, Is there any reference to deal with the problem that different browers (IE VS Netscape) produce different results even if using the same search engine? The Google search results from IE and those from Netscape are inconsistent. Thanks for your feedback. Han.. > > > -----Original message----- > From: "Alireza Noruzi" > To: "ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics" ,asis-l at asis.org,sigtis-l at asis.org,siguse-l at asis.org,sigkm-l at asis.org,sigiii-l at asis.org,eurchap at asis.org,air-l at aoir.org,air-l-aoir.org at listserv.aoir.org > Date: 2005/08/26(?)20:33 > Subject: [Air-l] Webology: Volume 2, Number 2, August, 2005 > > Dear All, Apologies for cross-posting firstly. > > We are pleased to inform you that the fourth issue of Webology, an > OPEN ACCESS journal, is published and is available ONLINE now. > This issue contains: > ------------------ > > > Editorial > -- Alireza Noruzi > -- http://www.webology.ir/2005/v2n1/editorial4.html > ----------------------------------------- > > Precision and Recall of Five Search Engines for Retrieval of Scholarly > Information in the Field of Biotechnology > -- Dr. S. M. Shafi & Rafiq A. Rather > -- http://www.webology.ir/2005/v2n2/a12.html > ----------------------------------------- > > Search Engines and Resource Discovery on the Web: Is Metadata an > Impact Factor? > -- Mehdi Safari > -- http://www.webology.ir/2005/v2n2/a13.html > ----------------------------------------- > > Resource Gleaning, From Earlier Times to the Information Age > -- Dr. William W. Bostock > -- http://www.webology.ir/2005/v2n2/a14.html > ----------------------------------------- > > The Past, Present and Future of Web Search Research: An Interview > with Dr. Amanda Spink > -- Yazdan Mansourian > -- http://www.webology.ir/2005/v2n2/a15.html > > > > ========================================= > Call for Papers: http://www.webology.ir/callforpapers.html > > ========================================= > > Regards, > A. Noruzi > Dep. of Information Science > University of Paul Cezanne > France > _______________________________________________ > The Air-l-aoir.org at listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > > > > > > Dr. Han Woo PARK English site: http://www.hanpark.net MSN messenger: parkhanwoo at hotmail.com Internet phone Skype: hanpark2020 Mini-Homepage in Korea: http://www.cyworld.com/hanpark2020 Cyber-cafe in Korea: http://cafe.naver.com/newmas.cafe Department of Communication & Information: http://yu.ac.kr/~media/ YeungNam University: http://www.yu.ac.kr/ 214-1, Dae-dong, Gyeongsan-si,Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea, Zip Code 712-749 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From bernies at UILLINOIS.EDU Wed Aug 31 18:28:19 2005 From: bernies at UILLINOIS.EDU (Sloan, Bernie) Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:28:19 -0500 Subject: An individual's research output Message-ID: Quentin, Perhaps you might begin the discussion by sharing your "thoughts/responses/outrages" on Jorge Hirsch's paper? This sort of thing (quantification/evaluation of research output) intrigues me... Thanks! Bernie Sloan ________________________________ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Quentin L. Burrell Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 1:02 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: [SIGMETRICS] An individual's research output You might have seen this flagged elsewhere, but I am sure that many members will have thoughts/responses/outrages at Hirsch's paper "An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output" You can find it at http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0508025 Enjoy! 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