Papers presented at ISSI 2005: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, Vols 1 and 2. 2005. Stockholm.
Eugene Garfield
eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM
Wed Dec 14 15:30:46 EST 2005
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the ISSI. Stockholm,
2005.
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Blaise Cronin : bcronin at indiana.edu
TITLE: Warm bodies, cold facts: The embodiment and emplacement
of knowledge claims (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Cronin, B
SOURCE: ISSI 2005: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2005.
p.1-12 KAROLINSKA UNIV PRESS AB, STOCKHOLM
ABSTRACT: The texts we write and the texts we cite bear the marks
of the epistemic cultures, socio-cognitive networks and physical places
to which we belong at different stages of our professional lives.
Scholarly texts emerge from webs of social relationships, yet there is no
trace of these relationships in the formal, scientific record. The social
substrate of science may be largely invisible-and for very good reason-
but it is by no means inconsequential. In this talk I argue the case for
a tighter coupling of bibliometrics with biography and of scientometrics
with sociometrics. In so doing I raise a number of questions: 'How do
personal connections and affective ties in the workplace influence or
prefigure the depersonalized data that furnish the raw material of
scientometrics?' 'What is the epistemic significance of collegiality and
context?' 'How important are physical proximity and place in the
construction of knowledge claims and, ultimately, in the allocation of
credit?' The issues foregrounded by these and related questions
constitute the stuff of socio-scientometrics.
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Henry Small : henry.small at thomson.com
TITLE: Tracking and predicting growth areas in science (Article,
English)
AUTHOR: Small, H
SOURCE: ISSI 2005: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2005.
p.13-23 KAROLINSKA UNIV PRESS AB, STOCKHOLM
ABSTRACT: We explore the possibility of using co-citation clusters
over three time periods to track the emergence and growth of research
areas, and predict their near term change. Data sets are from three
overlapping six-year periods: 1996-2001, 1997-2002 and 1998-2003. The
methodologies of co-citation clustering, mapping, and string formation
are reviewed, and a measure of cluster currency is defined as the average
age of highly cited papers relative to the year span of the data set. An
association is found between the currency variable in a prior period and
the percentage change in cluster size and citation frequency in the
following period. Various approaches to measuring growth and change in
research fields are discussed.
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Olle Persson : Olle.Persson at soc.umu.se
TITLE: Exploring the analytical potential of comparing citing
and cited source items (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Persson, O
SOURCE: ISSI 2005: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2005.
p.24-33 KAROLINSKA UNIV PRESS AB, STOCKHOLM
ABSTRACT: Comparing properties of citing and cited source items
opens a wide variety of analytical possibilities. In a study of citations
among papers in the journal Scientometrics a number of analytical themes
are identified. The analysis shows: the way in which a citation graph can
be decomposed into different subparts; country specific citation patterns;
the effects of self-citations and domestic citations; the mapping of
cited author relationships using direct citation and co-citation links;
and time slicing effects on impact ranking of countries and papers.
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Title: Knowledge integrators or weak links? Inventor-authors: An
exploratory comparison of patenting researchers with their non-inventing
peers in nano-science and technology
Author(s): Meyer M
Source: ISSI 2005: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2 :
34-44, 2005
Editor(s): Ingwersen P, Larsen B
Document Type: Article Language: English
Cited References: 31
Conference Information: 10th International Conference of the I nternational-
Society-for-Scientometrics-and-Informatrics
Stockholm, SWEDEN, JUL 24-28, 2005
Int Soc Scientomet & Informat
Abstract: This paper explores the relationship between scientific
publication and patenting activity. More specifically, this research
examines for the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology whether
researchers who both publish and patent are more productive and more highly
cited than their peers who concentrate on scholarly publication in
communicating their research results. This study is based on an analysis of
nano-science publications and nanotechnology patents of a small set of
European countries. While only a very small number of nano-scientists
appear to hold patents in nanotechnology, a considerable number of nano-
inventors seem to be actively publishing nano-science research. Overall,
the patenting scientists appear to outperform their solely publishing, non-
inventing peers in terms of publication counts and citation frequency.
However, a closer examination of the highly active and cited nano-authors
points to a slightly different situation. While still over-represented in
among the highly cited authors, inventor-authors appear not to be among the
most highly cited authors in that category with one notable exception.
Addresses: Univ Sussex, SPRU, Freman Ctr, Brighton BN1 9QE, E Sussex
England
Publisher: KAROLINSKA UNIV PRESS AB, BOX 200, STOCKHOLM, SE-171 77, SWEDEN
IDS Number: BDC93
ISBN: 91-7140-339-6
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TITLE: Visualizing 60 years of anthrax research (Article,
English)
AUTHOR: Morris, SA; Boyack, KW
SOURCE: ISSI 2005: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2005.
p.45-55 KAROLINSKA UNIV PRESS AB, STOCKHOLM
Abstract: Using a collection of 2472 papers covering 60 years of anthrax
research, we demonstrate three techniques for visualizing and mapping
knowledge in a scientific specialty. Timelines, maps of clusters of papers
by time, reveal the temporal changes in the specialty. Crossmaps, maps of
the correspondence of groups of entities of different entity-types, reveal
overlapping relations among sub-specialties within the specialty. Usage
plots, maps of entity usage over time, allow visualization of emergence and
obsolescence in the specialty of key entities such as seminal references
and important researchers. The timeline visualization of the anthrax
collection of papers reveals that anthrax research grew in two distinct
phases, and that the specialty experienced major disruptions in reaction to
the Soviet anthrax bioweapons accident at Sverdlovsk in 1979, and the
anthrax postal bioterror attacks in the United States in 2001. A crossmap
of research fronts to reference clusters reveals groups of key references
in the specialty, and the overlapping relation of those groups to research
topics in the specialty. A usage plot of references reveals the temporal
emergence and obsolescence of key groups of references in the specialty.
Addresses: Oklahoma State Univ, Stillwater, OK 74078 USA
Publisher: KAROLINSKA UNIV PRESS AB, BOX 200, STOCKHOLM, SE-171 77, SWEDEN
IDS Number: BDC93
ISBN: 91-7140-339-6
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TITLE: Identifying small-world connectors across an academic web
space - A webometric study (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Bjorneborn, L
SOURCE: ISSI 2005: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2005.
p.56-66 KAROLINSKA UNIV PRESS AB, STOCKHOLM
ABSTRACT: This webometric study identifies web links, pages, and
sites that function as small-world connectors affecting short link
distances across topics in an academic web space. A five-step methodology
is developed to sample and identify small-world properties by zooming
stepwise into more and more fine-grained web node levels and link
structures among 7669 subsites harvested from 109 UK universities. The
methodology includes shortest path nets functioning as investigable small-
world link structures, 'mini small worlds', generated by deliberate
juxtaposition of topically dissimilar subsites. The network analysis tool
Pajek identified all shortest link paths within the data set between 10
pairs of subsites. The study includes a novel corona-shaped model of
reachability structures in a web subgraph. Indicative findings suggest
that personal link creators and computer science subsites may be
important small-world connectors across sites and topics in an academic
web space. Such small-world connectors are important as they counteract
balkanization of the Web into insularities of disconnected and
unreachable subpopulations. The study also suggests how the Web is a web
of genres with richly diversified genre connectivity and with genre
drift, i.e. changes in page genres along link paths that may affect small-
world properties.
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TITLE: Motivations for URL citations to open access library and
information science articles (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Kousha, K; Thelwall, M
SOURCE: ISSI 2005: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2005.
p.67-77 KAROLINSKA UNIV PRESS AB, STOCKHOLM
ABSTRACT: We define URL citations as mentions of an URL in the text
of a Web page, whether hyperlinked or not. The proportions of formal and
informal scholarly motivations for creating URL citations to the Library
and Information Science open access journal articles were identified.
Five characteristics for each source of URL citations equivalent to
formal citations were manually extracted and the relationship between Web
and conventional citation counts at the e-journal level was examined.
Results showed that 282 research articles published in the year 2000 in
15 peer-reviewed LIS open access journals were invoked by 3045 URL
citations. Of these URL citations, 43% were created for formal scholarly
reasons equivalent to traditional citation and 18% for informal scholarly
reasons. Of the sources of URL citations, 82% were in English, 88% were
full text papers and 58% were non-HTML documents. Of the URL citations,
60% were text URLs only and 40% were hyperlinked. About 50% of URL
citations were created within one year after the publication of the cited
e-article. A slight correlation was found between average numbers of URL
citations and average numbers of ISI citations for the journals in 2000.
Separating out the citing HTML and non-HTML documents showed that formal
scholarly communication trends on the Web were mainly influenced by text
URL citations from non-HTML documents.
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TITLE: Limits and feasibility of cositation method on the Web.
An experiment on the french speaking Web (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Prime-Claverie, C; Beigbeder, M; Lafouge, T
SOURCE: ISSI 2005: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2005.
p.78-86 KAROLINSKA UNIV PRESS AB, STOCKHOLM
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TITLE: Expectations versus reality - Web search engines at the
beginning of 2005 (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Bar-Ilan, J
SOURCE: ISSI 2005: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2005.
p.87-96 KAROLINSKA UNIV PRESS AB, STOCKHOLM
ABSTRACT: Web research is based on data from or about the Web.
Often data is collected using search engines. Here we describe our "wish
list" for the ideal search engine, explain the need for the specific
features and examine whether the currently existing major search engines
can at least partially fulfil the requirements from the ultimate search
tool. The major search tools are commercial and are oriented towards the
"average" user and not towards the Web researcher, and therefore are
unable to meet all the requests. One possible solution is for the
research community to recruit the necessary funding, resources and know-
how in order to build a research-oriented search tool.
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TITLE: Research productivity in the Internet era (Article,
English)
AUTHOR: Barjak, F
SOURCE: ISSI 2005: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2005.
p.97-108 KAROLINSKA UNIV PRESS AB, STOCKHOLM
ABSTRACT: The present study investigated the relationship between
the use of different internet applications and research productivity,
controlling for other influences on the latter. The control variables
included dummies for country, discipline, gender and type of organization
of the respondent; as well as variables for age, recognition, the degree
of society-related and career-related motivation for research, and the
size of the collaboration net-work. Simple variance analyses and more
complex negative binomial hurdle models point to a positive relationship
between internet use (for personal communication, information retrieval
and information dissemination) and research productivity. However, the
results should be interpreted with caution as it was not possible to test
the role of the internet against other pre-internet tools which fulfil
the same functions. Thus instance it may not be the use of e-mail per se,
but the degree of communicating with colleagues that makes a productive
scientist.
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TITLE: Journal diffusion factors and their mathematical
relations with the number of citations and with the impact
factor
(Article, English)
AUTHOR: Egghe, L
SOURCE: ISSI 2005: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2005.
p.109-120 KAROLINSKA UNIV PRESS AB, STOCKHOLM
ABSTRACT: If we fix a citing period and a cited period, the
Rowlands Journal Diffusion factor (RJDF) is the number of different
citing journals divided by the total number of citations. The Frandsen
Journal Diffusion factor (FJDF) is the number of different citing
journals divided by the total number of citeable articles. Hence the
quotient: diffusion factor of Frandsen divided by the one of Rowlands is
the impact factor IF (for the given time periods). This paper
investigates the mathematical properties of RJDF and FJDF in function of
the number of citations or of IF and shows the validity of some
unexplained claims (based on data) given in "T.F.Frandsen. Journal
diffusion factors - a measure of diffusion ? Aslib Proceedings 56(l), 5-
11, 2004". We show that, under reasonable mathematical conditions
(expressed intuitively in Frandsen (2004)), the RJDF is a convexly
decreasing function of the number of citations and a concavely increasing
function of IF. We also show that Gamma (RJDF, IF) = 0 implies r (FJDF,
IF)> 0 where r denotes the correlation coefficient of Pearson
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TITLE: Power-law fractal: The law of technological innovation
output statistics (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Fang, S
SOURCE: ISSI 2005: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2005.
p.121-128 KAROLINSKA UNIV PRESS AB, STOCKHOLM
ABSTRACT: With patent quantity and GDP data, the author researched
the quantitative relationship between patent quantity, which is an output
index of technological innovation, and Gross Domestic Product, which
stands for the economic output of one country or region. Based on the
analysis and calculation of 6 years' data (from 1998 to 2003) of certain
countries with high patent output, the author found out there is a strong
correlation (the fining correlation coefficient is over 0.9) between
patent output and GDP of many developed countries. This is a Fractal,
quantitative power function relation. In this article, the author is
discussing about the properties and meaning of this fractal, as well as
the method of applying this quantitative relation for analyzing the
technological innovation level and efficiency of one country or region,
and predicting its patent quantity.
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TITLE: An empirical study of the measurement of similarity of
concentration between different informetric distributions
(Article,
English)
AUTHOR: Burrell, QL
SOURCE: ISSI 2005: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2005.
p.129-139 KAROLINSKA UNIV PRESS AB, STOCKHOLM
ABSTRACT: There is a well-established literature on the use of
concentration measures in informetrics. However, these works have usually
been devoted to measures of concentration within a productivity
distribution. In a recent paper Burrell (2005a) introduced two new
measures, both based on the Gini ratio, for measuring the similarity of
concentration of productivity between two different informetric
distributions. The first was derived from Dagum's (1987) notion of
relative economic affluence; the second-in some ways analogous to the
correlation coefficient-is a completely new approach. This was extended
with further theoretical examples in Burrell (2005b). The purpose of this
study is to develop a purely empirical approach to comparative studies of
concentration between informetric data sets using both within and between
measures thereby greatly extending the original study where Burrell
(2005a) considered just two data sets for purposes of illustration of the
methods of calculation of the measures.
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TITLE: A study of rank distributions of journals and articles
(Article, English)
AUTHOR: Rao, IKR; Sahoo, BB
SOURCE: ISSI 2005: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2005.
p.140-148 KAROLINSKA UNIV PRESS AB, STOCKHOLM
ABSTRACT: Two bibliographies (one in mathematics and the other one
in Physics) are analyzed to study the relation among the journals,
references and the citations as well as both the rank and size
distributions of citations. It has been observed that the number of
citations (z) received by a journal can be estimated using a log model
i.e. z = ay - by log (y) (Basu's Model); y is the number of references in
a subject in x most journals. Further, it has been observed that Basu's
model with two free parameters (a and b), y = ax - bx log (x), fits very
well to the observed data on the rank distribution of articles, where y
is the citations received by the x most productive articles. It has also
been observed that the size distribution of citations follows a negative
binomial distribution, implying that the distribution of citations in a
bibliography is a manifestation of success-breeds-success phenomenon. The
Spearman rank correlation coefficient for the data on rank distributions
of journals (based on articles and citations) is only 0.0972515,
indicating that the ranks are quite different from each other; however,
among the top 10 journals, 9 journals are common in both the ranked list.
However, this is not true for the group consisting of least productive
journals.
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TITLE: Welcome to the Linguistic Warp Zone: Benchmarking
scientific output in the social sciences and humanities
(Article, English)
AUTHOR: Archambault, E; Gagne, EV; Cote, G; Lariviere, V;
Gingras, Y
SOURCE: ISSI 2005: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2005.
p.149-158 KAROLINSKA UNIV PRESS AB, STOCKHOLM
ABSTRACT: The goal of this paper is to examine the impact of
linguistic coverage of databases used by bibliometricians on the capacity
to effectively benchmark the work of social scientists and humanities
researchers in various countries. The paper firstly examines the strong
link between bibliometrics and the ISI's database and, subsequently,
reviews the differences in the production and diffusion of knowledge in
the SSH and NSE. This leads to an examination of the old debate on the
coverage of ISI's databases, more specifically in the case of SSH. The
methods section explain how we have compared the coverage of ISI's
databases in the NSE and SSH to the Ulrich extensive database of
journals. Our results show that there is a 20 to 25% overrepresentation
of English-language journals in ISI's databases compared to the list of
journals presented in Ulrich. This paper concludes that because of this
bias, ISI's databases cannot be used to benchmark the output of countries
in the SSH.
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TITLE: Proceedings literature as additional data source for
bibliometric analysis (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Glanzel, W; Schlemmer, B; Schubert, A; Thijs, B
SOURCE: ISSI 2005: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2005.
p.159-167 KAROLINSKA UNIV PRESS AB, STOCKHOLM
ABSTRACT: Scientific meetings have become increasingly important
channels for scholarly communication. In several fields of applied and
engineering sciences they are-according to the statements of scientists
active in those fields even more important than publishing in
periodicals. One objective of this study is to analyse the weight of
proceedings literature in all fields of the sciences, social sciences and
humanities as well as the use of the ISI Proceedings(SM) database as
additional data source for bibliometric studies. The second objective is
exploring the use of a further important feature of this database,
namely, of information about conference location for the analysis of
bibliometrically relevant aspects of information flow such as the
relative attractivity, the extent of mobility and unidirectional or
mutual affinity of countries.
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TITLE: General analyses of cancer research publications in
Australian states using the science and social science
citation indexes
(Article, English)
AUTHOR: Wilson, CS
SOURCE: ISSI 2005: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2005.
p.168-176 KAROLINSKA UNIV PRESS AB, STOCKHOLM
ABSTRACT: This research measures the quantity, quality and extent
of international collaboration of cancer research publications in
Australian states from 1994-1998 through citation analysis. Journal
publications (with at least one Australian author) of the cancer
literature from Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index
were analyzed. For the five-year period, New South Wales (NSW) produced
the most publications (31%), slightly ahead of Victoria (VIC) with 29%;
Queensland (QLD) ranked third (14%) and South Australia (SA) fourth with
11%. However, as measured by mean journal impact factor, the publications
from NSW were of overall lower quality than those from VIC, SA, QLD, and
from Australia as a whole. When standardized for quality against the
national average, and adjusted for state size, the publication output of
the four larger states are ranked in order: SA >> VIC >> QLD > NSW. Four
measures of international collaboration on publications were investigated
as measures of quality; the degree of collaboration with the USA and
England broadly support the IF rankings. At a minimum, these results
suggest that the relevant Australian State authorities, should initiate
more extensive analyses of an apparent deficiency in the overall quality
of their states' cancer research, with the view to greater, or more
selective, support.
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TITLE: An informetric analysis of the HlV/AIDS literature
specific to the youths, 1980-2002 (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Onyancha, OB; Ocholla, DN
SOURCE: ISSI 2005: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2005.
p.177-187 KAROLINSKA UNIV PRESS AB, STOCKHOLM
ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study is to present an analytical
overview of the HIV/AIDS literature relevant to the youths with the view
to determining and comparing the nature, trends, and type of the
pandemic's research and other characteristics as indexed in the AIDSearch
database between 1982 and 2002. Although the search was limited to the
human population, records that discussed both humans and animals were
noted and included in the final analysis of data using the Bibexcel and
Microsoft Excel softwares. Data were analyzed by publication type,
publication year, date of entry, language, source, publication country,
geographic area as a subject, gender, among other variables. We observed
that research on young people seem to be increasing, and publishing and
indexing time lag is still problematic. Other variables are provided in
the findings and recommendations.
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TITLE: What can university-to-government web links reveal about
university-government collaboration? (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Stuart, D; Thelwall, M
SOURCE: ISSI 2005: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2005.
p.188-192 KAROLINSKA UNIV PRESS AB, STOCKHOLM
ABSTRACT: Recent link analysis research has found strong inter-
university academic linking patterns. This study looks beyond the
academic community, focusing on university-government linking practices.
It finds a stronger correlation between a university's research
productivity and the total number of outlinks than with the total number
of university-government links. A classification exercise shows that
university-to-government links predominately identify information
resources rather than reflecting a research relationship.
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TITLE: Academic home pages and Nobel Laureates (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Nelson, M
SOURCE: ISSI 2005: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2005.
p.193-196 KAROLINSKA UNIV PRESS AB, STOCKHOLM
ABSTRACT: An academic home page is the home page of a researcher or
academic who has an institutional affiliation where the home page is
hosted. We are interested in studying the properties of the academic home
pages of Nobel Prize winners for the last five years. Some basic
characteristics such as the inclusion of the individuals' photo and
email, inclusion of a bibliography are determined for the last five years
of Nobel Laureates in physics, chemistry and economics. In addition the
number of links to these web pages is collected. The average number of
links pages citing each of academic home pages was 105.5 for physics,
32.5 for chemistry and 132.1 for economics. Nobel laureates and laureates
of chemistry in particular do not seem to make good use of the web for
academic communication purposes.
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TITLE: A web map of the CSIC research centres: A comparative
study of the cosine and the Pearson's correlation
coefficient in a colink
analysis (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Priego, JLO; Aguillo, I
SOURCE: ISSI 2005: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2005.
p.197-204 KAROLINSKA UNIV PRESS AB, STOCKHOLM
ABSTRACT: A colink study of the web sites of the different centres
of the Spanish main public research body is made. The purpose is to find
the relations existing among research areas of these centres as well as
to study the similitudes and differences according to two measures:
cosine and Pearson's correlation coefficient. A colink matrix is built
from Yahoo! Search results. The main research areas identified in the
CSIC are the Physics and Materials Sciences areas and the Agrobiology,
Biomedicine and Food Technologies areas, proving a greater importance in
the applied research than in the fundamental research. With regard to the
results in the cosine and the correlation coefficient model there are
slight differences between two measures as much in the MDS map as in the
clustering dendrogram.
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TITLE: Web links as an indicator of research output: A
comparison of NZ tertiary institution links with the
performance based
research funding assessment. (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Smith, AG; Thelwall, M
SOURCE: ISSI 2005: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2005.
p.205-211 KAROLINSKA UNIV PRESS AB, STOCKHOLM
ABSTRACT: Data from a crawl of New Zealand Universities is used to
study links between the institutions, and the extent to which web based
measures correlate with a measure of research performance. The research
measure used was the Performance Based Research Fund (PBRF) Quality
Score, arrived at in the 2003 research assessment exercises by the NZ
Government's Tertiary Education Commission (TEC). There is a moderate
correlation between the Quality Score and the FTE-corrected link counts
(link counts divided by numbers of full time equivalent academic staff),
though it is not clear whether counting on the basis of pages,
directories, or domains gives the best measure. Some exceptions to the
correlation could be explained in terms of the special characteristics of
the institutions. The pattern of linking was not uniform, and could
indicate special relationships between institutions. Suggestions for
further research are made.
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TITLE: Some preliminary results from a link-crawl of the
European Union Research Area Web (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Cothey, V
SOURCE: ISSI 2005: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2005.
p.212-220 KAROLINSKA UNIV PRESS AB, STOCKHOLM
ABSTRACT: A constrained Web link crawler has been used to obtain a
broad multi-national sample of the European Union Research Area Web. This
preliminary sample confirms that the distribution of many Web parameters
follows a power law. The power law exponent of the tail of the indegree
frequency distribution is 1.25 +/- 0.01 which agrees with a previously
published value for the Web. However the previous result cannot be
recomputed. A new reliable scale independent Web indicator for national
recognition is also proposed. This makes use of the inter-national
indegree based on country code Top Level Domain names. It might therefore
be regarded as an improved version of the Web Impact Factor (Ingwersen,
1998).
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TITLE: Measuring Wikipedia (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Voss, J
SOURCE: ISSI 2005: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2005.
p.221-231 KAROLINSKA UNIV PRESS AB, STOCKHOLM
ABSTRACT: Wikipedia, an international project that uses Wiki
software to collaboratively create an encyclopaedia, is becoming more and
more popular. Everyone can directly edit articles and every edit is
recorded. The version history of all articles is freely available and
allows a multitude of examinations. This paper gives an overview on
Wikipedia research. Wikipedia's fundamental components, i.e. articles,
authors, edits, and links, as well as content and quality are analysed.
Possibilities of research are explored including examples and first
results. Several characteristics that are found in Wikipedia, such as
exponential growth and scale-free networks are already known in other
context. However the Wiki architecture also possesses some intrinsic
specialities. General trends are measured that are typical for all
Wikipedias but vary between languages in detail.
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TITLE: A new model to evaluate the scientific performance of
public research institutions (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Coccia, M
SOURCE: ISSI 2005: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2005.
p.237-241 KAROLINSKA UNIV PRESS AB, STOCKHOLM
ABSTRACT: Nowadays, in Italy the science sector is doing a
strategic restructuring due to budget cuts. The measure and evaluation of
research performance of its units (public research institutes) is needed.
This paper develops a new model to assess the R&D performance of public
research laboratories. The model is successfully applied to 108 public
research institutes belonging to the Italian National Research Council,
using data 2003. The models of scientific research evaluation can be used
as indicators of performance by policy-makers who must decide about the
level and direction of public funding for research and by R&D managers in
the strategic behaviour of the laboratories.
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TITLE: Different outcomes of different counting methods for
publications and citations (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Gauffriau, M; Larsen, PO
SOURCE: ISSI 2005: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2005.
p.242-246 KAROLINSKA UNIV PRESS AB, STOCKHOLM
ABSTRACT: For all rankings of countries research output based on
number of publications, citations or most cited publications compared
with population, GDP, R&D expenses and other national characteristics the
counting method is decisive. Using data freely available the difference
between numbers of publications based on Total Counting and Fractional
Counting has been quantified. Reduction in numbers of publications going
from Total to Fractional Counting ranges from 10 to 45 per cent for
different countries. Rankings based on numbers of citations or highly
cited papers most likely are even more dependent on the counting method
used. Counting methods are in many cases not precisely described or
discussed.
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TITLE: Research evaluation of research-oriented Universities in
Taiwan (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Huang, MH; Chang, HW
SOURCE: ISSI 2005: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2005.
p.247-250 KAROLINSKA UNIV PRESS AB, STOCKHOLM
ABSTRACT: This paper uses ISI Essential Science Indicators (ESI)
database to investigate the academic performance of seven research-
oriented universities in Taiwan from both the quantitative and
qualitative perspectives. It collects research data for I I years from
1993 to 2003. The performance indicators applied in this study includes
the number of papers, the number of citations, the average citations per
paper, the number of highly cited papers, the number of hot papers, and
the number of core papers. The research performance and strength of those
universities are revealed in this study. It finds that National Taiwan
University leads among these seven research-oriented universities.
However, individual university still shows strengths in various specific
fields.
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TITLE: Bibliometric evaluation of the South African scientific
output performance (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Jacobs, D; Habtezion, AY
SOURCE: ISSI 2005: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2005.
p.251-255 KAROLINSKA UNIV PRESS AB, STOCKHOLM
ABSTRACT: This paper reports the preliminary findings on South
Africa's highly productive authors, journals and research universities.
The result shows that 4 of the most cited authors representing 40.80% of
the total counted are; Bilic N (16.40), Michael JP (6.36), Sacht C
(6.00), and Marques HM (4.60) and the majority belongs to chemistry
department with 37.0% followed by Physics (26.0%), Medicine (7.40%) and
Biology (7.40%). Out of the 18 journals indexed in JCR only SA J OF
GEOLOGY had impact factor above one. The journal with the largest numbers
of original papers was S AFR J SCI with 89 articles and 1397 total
citations in 2003. The result of the appropriate statistical Pearson's
correlation coefficient analysis also point toward that there are
significant correlation between journal productivity and citation
frequency, and between citation frequency and immediacy index with p-
value <0.05.
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TITLE: Using reference structures to evaluate co-word
structures: First explorations (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Buter, RK; Noyons, ECM
SOURCE: ISSI 2005: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2005.
p.260-264 KAROLINSKA UNIV PRESS AB, STOCKHOLM
ABSTRACT: We investigate the overlap between a variant on author-co-
citation structure and a co-word structure, both created using
hierarchical clustering. The overlap is a simple cross-tabulation of both
structures. The rows or columns in this cross-tabulation may be sparse,
showing a strong dominance of one cluster in another. But it may also be
less sparse, showing overlap with most clusters of the other structure. A
visualization of the crosstabulation also reveals these structures.
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TITLE: Journal self-citation study in semiconductor: Synchronous
and diachronous approach (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Tsay, MY; Hsia, SL
SOURCE: ISSI 2005: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2005.
p.265-269 KAROLINSKA UNIV PRESS AB, STOCKHOLM
ABSTRACT: The present study investigates the self-citations of the
most productive semiconductor journals by synchronous (self-citing) and
diachronous (self-cited) approaches. Eighty-seven journals common to
INSPEC and Journal Citation Reports (JCR) of SCI in semiconductor were
selected as the object of this study and were listed for statistical
tests. High self-citing journals are usually older than low self-citing
journals. Journals with a short time interval of publication are more
possible with high self-citing and self-cited rates. Journals with higher
self-citing rate tend to be more productive and receive more citation
than journals with lower self-citing rate. The journal self-cited rate
has no association with the number of articles that journal published and
citation it received. There is significant difference between self-cited
and self-citing rate and the former (15.03%) is greater than the latter
(9.59%).
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TITLE: Developing bibliometric indicators of research
performance in computer science (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Visser, MS; Moed, HF
SOURCE: ISSI 2005: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2005.
p.275-279 KAROLINSKA UNIV PRESS AB, STOCKHOLM
ABSTRACT: This paper presents the first preliminary findings of a
study that aims to develop bibliometric indicators for the measurement of
research performance in the field of Computer Science. A database of the
complete publication output during 1996 - 2001 of 52 research groups at
universities in the Netherlands was created. ISI coverage indicators
suggest that ISI journals only capture a small share of the impact of
Computer Science research. In a first attempt to provide a more complete
picture of the research impact of Dutch computer scientists, both the
impact of their ISI-publications as well as the impact of their non-ISI
publications such as proceedings papers and book chapters in ISI journals
was determined. In the next phase of this study, not only these targets
for citation will be included in our study but also the universe of
citing sources will be expanded. The study aims to develop bibliometric
indicators on the basis of insight into the system of written
communication in the various fields of Computer Science. The indicators
will be further validated by comparing them with peer judgements obtained
from a national research assessment exercise.
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TITLE: Co-clustering approaches to integrate lexical and
bibliographical information (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Janssens, F; Glenisson, P; Glanzel, W; De Moor, B
SOURCE: ISSI 2005: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2005.
p.284-289 KAROLINSKA UNIV PRESS AB, STOCKHOLM
ABSTRACT: Terms are the building blocks to organize and access
information, and hold a key position in information retrieval. In
forthcoming work we have shown how a methodology of indexing full-text
scientific articles combined with an exploratory statistical analysis can
improve on bibliometric approaches to mapping science. Textual documents
are indexed and further characterized using data mining techniques and co-
word analysis. We start this paper by briefly demonstrating the text
mining approach. Whereas statistical processing based on full-text
documents provides a relational view based on the topicality represented
by these documents, bibliometric components can include other
characteristics that describe their position in the set. Therefore we
extend on previous work and explore how hybrid methodologies that deeply
combine text analysis and bibliometric methods can improve the mapping of
science and technology. In particular, we propose a method to
mathematically combine document similarity matrices resulting from vector-
based indices on the one hand, and from selected bibliometric indicators
on the other hand. Weighted linear combinations as well as approaches
inspired on statistical meta-analysis are presented. Both pitfalls and
possible solutions are discussed. The resulting combined similarity
matrix offers an attractive way to 'co-cluster' documents based on both
lexical and bibliographic information.
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TITLE: In defence of 'early career universities' (Article,
English)
AUTHOR: Butler, L
SOURCE: ISSI 2005: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2005.
p.290-294 KAROLINSKA UNIV PRESS AB, STOCKHOLM
ABSTRACT: The expansion of access to tertiary education resulted in
the creation of many new universities in the 1970s and 1980s. As a
parallel to use of the term 'early career researchers', these
institutions can be labelled 'early career universities' (ECU). With the
move in many countries to a greater use of metrics in the assessment of
research, the implications for ECUs must be recognised. Data from a
comprehensive study of Australian publication output, alongside a
detailed analysis of one ECU, provide important insights into the issues
that might arise. It reveals that ECUs can be characterised by a rapid
increase in publication output, and a reliance on non-ISI journal
outlets. Both trends diminish the usefulness of common bibliometric
measures and evaluators must be sensitive to this. Where multi-year
citation windows are used, the deflating effects on citation rates
publication output biased towards the most recent years needs to be
recognised and catered for. In addition, it is clear that ISI coverage of
ECU output is much lower than for established universities.
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TITLE: Bipartite yule processes in collections of journal papers
(Article, English)
AUTHOR: Morris, SA
SOURCE: ISSI 2005: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2005.
p.316-321 KAROLINSKA UNIV PRESS AB, STOCKHOLM
ABSTRACT: Collections of journal papers constitute a series of
coupled bipartite networks that tend to exhibit linear growth and
preferential attachment as papers are added to the collection. Assuming
primary nodes in the first network partition and secondary nodes in the
second network partition, the basic bipartite Yule process assumes that
as each primary node is added to the network, it links to multiple
secondary nodes, and with probability, a, each new link may connect to a
newly appearing secondary node. The number of links from a new primary
node follows some empirically measured distribution. Links to existing
secondary nodes follow a preferential attachment rule. With modifications
to adapt to specific networks, bipartite Yule processes simulate networks
that can be validated against actual networks using a wide variety of
network metrics. The application of bipartite Yule processes to paper-
reference networks and paper-author networks is demonstrated and the
results compare favorably to networks from actual collections of papers.
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TITLE: The discovery of discoveries exploring the dissemination
of major findings in the life sciences (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Rabow, H
SOURCE: ISSI 2005: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2005.
p.322-326 KAROLINSKA UNIV PRESS AB, STOCKHOLM
ABSTRACT: The citations of highly cited papers in the life sciences
published in 1986 and 2000 was examined to determine the extent to which
early impact predicts long term impact. Linear correlation between early
and post-peak impact was found to be about 0.7
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TITLE: How influential is Brooks' Law? A citation context
analysis of Frederick Brooks' The Mythical Man-Month
(Article, English)
AUTHOR: McCain, KW; Salvucci, LJ
SOURCE: ISSI 2005: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2005.
p.327-334 KAROLINSKA UNIV PRESS AB, STOCKHOLM
ABSTRACT: Five hundred seventy-four citation contexts from 497
journal articles citing an edition of Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.'s The
Mythical Man-Month (MMM) were content-analyzed to assess the degree to
which MMAI has become a,,concept symbol" in the sense of Small, 1978.
Data were collected for the period 1975-May, 1999. A classification
scheme comprising 15 content classes in four areas (generalia, project
management issues, building the system, other) was developed and each
context uniquely assigned to one class. Citing article contexts were
assigned a subject code based on the publishing journal and its ISI
subject and LC class assignments. MMM represents a variety of different
concepts with differing emphasis depending on the subject area of the
citing article. The eponymous concept "Brooks' Law" (the "mythical man-
month" or "adding more people to a late project makes it later"),
although the most prominent concept across the board, accounted for less
than one quarter of the 513 contexts assigned to one of the first three
content class groups. MAW is also frequently cited in Software
Engineering, Computer Science, and Information Systems, as a landmark
work in software engineering, while project management issues are the
second most frequent content class in Management.
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TITLE: Predicting the importance of current papers (Article,
English)
AUTHOR: Boyack, KW; Klavans, R
SOURCE: ISSI 2005: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2005.
p.335-342 KAROLINSKA UNIV PRESS AB, STOCKHOLM
ABSTRACT: This article examines how well one can predict the
importance of a current paper (a paper that is recently published in the
literature). We look at three factors-journal importance, reference
importance and author reputation. Citation-based measures of importance
are used for all variables. We find that journal importance is the best
predictor (explaining 22.3% out of a potential 29.1% of the variance in
the data), and that this correlation value varies significantly by
discipline. Journal importance is a better predictor of citation in
Computer Science than in any other discipline. While the finding supports
the present policy of using journal impact statistics as a surrogate for
the importance of current papers, it calls into question the present
policy of equally weighting current documents in text-based analyses. We
suggest that future researchers take into account the expected importance
of a document when attempting to describe the cognitive structure of a
field.
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TITLE: Selecting scientific excellence through committee peer
review - A citation analysis of previous publications by
successful and
non-successful post-doctoral research fellowship applicants
(Article,
English)
AUTHOR: Bornmann, L; Daniel, HD
SOURCE: ISSI 2005: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2005.
p.343-351 KAROLINSKA UNIV PRESS AB, STOCKHOLM
ABSTRACT: We investigated committee peer review for awarding long-
term fellowships to post-graduate researchers as practiced by the
Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds (B.I.F.) - a foundation for the promotion of
basic research in biomedicine. Assessing the validity of selection
decisions requires a generally accepted criterion for research impact. A
widely used approach is to use citation counts as a proxy for the impact
of scientific research. Therefore, a citation analysis for articles
published previous to the applicants' approval or rejection for a B.I.F.
fellowship was conducted. Based on our model estimation (negative
binomial regression model), journal articles that had been published by
applicants approved for a fellowship award (n=64) prior to applying for
the B.I.F. fellowship award can be expected to have 37% (straight counts
of citations) and 49% (complete counts of citations) more citations than
articles that had been published by rejected applicants (n=333).
Furthermore, comparison with international scientific reference values
revealed (a) that articles published by successful and non-successful
applicants are cited considerably more often than the "average"
publication and (b) that excellent research performance can be expected
more of successful than non-successful applicants. The findings confirm
that the foundation is not only achieving its goal of selecting the best
junior scientists for fellowship awards, but also successfully attracting
highly talented young scientists to apply for B.I.F. fellowships.
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TITLE: Using ISI's 'highly cited researchers' to obtain a
country level indicator of citation excellence (Article,
English)
AUTHOR: Basu, A
SOURCE: ISSI 2005: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2005.
p.352-361 KAROLINSKA UNIV PRESS AB, STOCKHOLM
ABSTRACT: A high level of citation to an author's work is, in
general, a testimony to the fact that the author's work has been noted
and used by his peers. High citation has been found to be correlated with
other forms of recogtion and rewards, and is a key indicator of research
performance. The Institute for Scientific information (ISI) defines a
'highly cited researcher' (HCR) as one of 250 most cited authors of
journal papers in any discipline. Citation data for 20 years (1981-99) is
used to calculate the share of HCRs for countries in 2 1 subject areas.
We find that the US dominates in all subject areas (US share similar to
40-90%). Based on the number of highly cited researchers in a country, an
index of citation excellence is proposed. We find that rank order of
countries based on this index is in conformity with our general
understanding of research excellence, whereas the more frequently used
indicator, citations per paper, gave an unacceptable rank order due to an
inherent bias toward very small countries. Additionally, a high value of
the index of citation excellence was found to be associated with higher
concentration of highly cited researchers in affiliating organizations.
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TITLE: China's quantitative expansion phase: Exponential growth
but low impact (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Jin, BH; Rousseau, R
SOURCE: ISSI 2005: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2005.
p.362-370 KAROLINSKA UNIV PRESS AB, STOCKHOLM
ABSTRACT: It is shown that although China's publication share in
the world has been increasing exponentially, its impact defined as the
number of citations per publication lags far behind. This state of
affairs is expressed as a,quantitative expansion phase'. China's science
needs to move from the 'quantitative expansion' phase in which it is
nowadays to a arising quality' phase. Correspondingly scientists'
motivation for publishing papers must shift from 'driven by benefit' to
'driven by excellence and timeliness', Currently, China's science
although blending into the world, is not yet a full player in its major
league. Yet, all growth-related graphs show an exponential increase.
Moreover, doubling times calculated in this article are clear indications
that, despite obvious problems and short-comings, the quality of Chinese
research as a whole is increasing very quickly. We conclude that, if the
necessary measures are taken and the observed exponentially increasing
trend continues, the impact of Chinese research results will soon catch
up with that of other major countries.
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TITLE: A decade after Hicks and Katz: Interdisciplinary research
re-examined (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Sandstrom, U; Wadskog, D
SOURCE: ISSI 2005: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2005.
p.371-381 KAROLINSKA UNIV PRESS AB, STOCKHOLM
ABSTRACT: Following the innovative method from the SPRU paper by
Hicks and Katz in 1996 we investigated different aspects of the
interdisciplinary trends in Europe. The paper uses ISI data covering the
period from 1982-2003. The trend towards multi- and interdisciplinarity
in the natural, medical and technological sciences is growing stronger
over time. In our analysis we use number of publications and citations in
different areas of research, countries, sectors and universities. This
gives an overview of interdiscplinafity as a phenomenon. Detailed Swedish
data is used as a case study. The paper concludes with a short discussion
on interdisciplinarity and research level.
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