From eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Thu Jul 7 16:21:03 2005 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 16:21:03 -0400 Subject: Perez MR, Fu MY, Xie JZ, Yang XS, Belcher B "The relationship between forest research and forest management in China: an analysis of four leading Chinese forestry journals " International Forestry Review 6 (3-4): 341-345 DEC 2004 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: manuel.ruiz at uam.es Title: The relationship between forest research and forest management in China: an analysis of four leading Chinese forestry journals Authors: Perez MR, Fu MY, Xie JZ, Yang XS, Belcher B Source: INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY REVIEW 6 (3-4): 341-345 DEC 2004 Abstract: We analyse the collaboration between forestry research institutions and forestry departments in China based on a bibliometric study of four leading Chinese forestry journals. Multiple-authored papers are frequent, and there is a significant collaboration between research and implementing agencies. This collaboration centres on applied research, being less common on fundamental research and almost non-existent on policy research. Universities, National research institutes and National and Provincial level forest departments act as the key organisers of research, with specialised domains and types of collaboration. This helps explain the success of Chinese forestry experiences in recent years. Author Keywords: forestry research; collaborative research; bibliometric; China Addresses: Perez MR (reprint author), Univ Autonoma Madrid, Dept Ecol, Fac Sci, Madrid, Spain Univ Autonoma Madrid, Dept Ecol, Fac Sci, Madrid, Spain Chinese Acad Forestry, Res Inst Subtrop Forestry, Zhejiang, Peoples R China Ctr Int Forestry Res, Bogor, Indonesia E-mail Addresses: manuel.ruiz at uam.es Publisher: COMMONWEALTH FORESTRY ASSN, P O BOX 142, OXFORD OX26 6ZJ, BICESTER, ENGLAND ISSN: 1465-5489 Cited References: *CIFOR, 2004, SCI FOR PEOPL CIFOR. ALBERS HJ, 1998, CONTEMP ECON POLICY, V16, P22. BRUCE JW, 1995, UNASYLVA, V46, P44. HYDE WF, CHINAS FORESTS GLOBA, P1. ROZELLE S, 2000, AFFORESTATION POVERT. WANG S, 2004, FOREST POLICY ECON, V6, P71. From eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Thu Jul 7 16:32:52 2005 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 16:32:52 -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 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. BORDONS M, 2002, REV ESPANOLA DOCUMEN, V25, P49. BOSCH X, 2000, REV ESP CARDIOL, V53, P1421. EGGHE L, 2002, SCIENTOMETRICS, V54, P51. FIGUEREDO E, 2000, REV ESP ANESTESIOL R, V47, P393. GARCIA F, 2001, ARCH BRONCONEUMOL, V37, P465. GARFIELD E, 1972, SCIENCE, V178, P471. HEMMINGSSON A, 2002, EUR RADIOL, V12, P1863. MIGUEL A, 2000, RADIOLOGIA, V42, P545. MIGUEL A, 2002, EUR RADIOL, V12, P248. MOED HF, 1987, MEASUREMENT RES PERF. OJASOO T, 2002, PRESSE MED, V31, P775. RAOSS L, 1997, RADIOLOGIA, V39, P671. RIO FG, 2002, AN ESP PEDIATR, V57, P131. SEGLEN PO, 1997, BRIT MED J, V314, P497. SMITH R, 1997, BRIT MED J, V314, P461. SOLARI A, 2000, SCIENTOMETRICS, V47, P605. WINKMANN G, 2002, KLIN MONATSBL AUGENH, V219, P65. From eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Thu Jul 7 16:49:01 2005 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 16:49:01 -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: jdul at rsm.nl Title: Objective and subjective rankings of scientific journals in the field of ergonomics: 2004-2005 Author: 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 eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Thu Jul 7 17:17:15 2005 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 17:17:15 -0400 Subject: Kostoff RN, Karpouzian G, Malpohl G "Text mining the global abrupt-wing-stall literature " Journal of Aircraft 42 (3): 661-664 MAY-JUN 2005 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: Malpohl at ipd.uka.de Title: Text mining the global abrupt-wing-stall literature Author(s): Kostoff RN, Karpouzian G, Malpohl G Source: JOURNAL OF AIRCRAFT 42 (3): 661-664 MAY-JUN 2005 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 30 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Text mining was used to derive technical intelligence from an abrupt-wing-stall database derived from the Science Citation Index database. Both concept and document clustering were used to provide the structural taxonomy of the global abrupt-wing-stall literature and the estimated relative levels of effort in the major subcategories. Bibliometric analysis of the abrupt-wing-stall literature generated author/journal/institution publication and citation data. Addresses: Malpohl G (reprint author), Off Naval Res, Arlington, VA 22217 USA Off Naval Res, Arlington, VA 22217 USA USN Acad, Annapolis, MD 21402 USA Univ Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, D-76128 Germany E-mail Addresses: Malpohl at ipd.uka.de Publisher: AMER INST AERONAUT ASTRONAUT, 1801 ALEXANDER BELL DRIVE, STE 500, RESTON, VA 22091-4344 USA Subject Category: ENGINEERING, AEROSPACE IDS Number: 934GH ISSN: 0021-8669 Cited References: *I SCI INF, 2002, SCI CIT IND. CHAMBERS JR, 1999, HISTORICAL REV PERSP. CHAMBERS JR, 2003, 200340590 AIAA. DAVIDSE RJ, 1997, SCIENTOMETRICS, V40, P171. GARFIELD E, 1985, J CHEM INF COMP SCI, V25, P170. GOLDMAN JA, 1999, METHOD INFORM MED, V38, P96. GORDON MD, 1998, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V49, P674. GREENGRASS E, 1997, TRR520296 NAT SEC AG. HEARST M, 1999, P 37 ANN M ASS COMP, P3. KOSTOFF RN, IN PRESS FRACTALS RO. KOSTOFF RN, 1997, J INFORM SCI, V23, P301. KOSTOFF RN, 2000, J AIRCRAFT, V37, P727. KOSTOFF RN, 2001, ANAL CHEM, V73, P370. KOSTOFF RN, 2001, J AM SOC INF SCI TEC, V52, P1148. KOSTOFF RN, 2002, J POWER SOURCES, V110, P163. KOSTOFF RN, 2003, ENCY LIB INFORMATION, P2789. KOSTOFF RN, 2003, INT HDB INNOVATION, P388. KOSTOFF RN, 2003, MED HYPOTHESES, V61, P265. KOSTOFF RN, 2003, PAXRTR2003164 NAV AI. KOSTOFF RN, 2004, INT J BIFURCATION CH, V14. LOSIEWICZ P, 2000, J INTELL INF SYST, V15, P99. NARIN F, 1976, NSFC637 NAT SCI FDN. NARIN F, 1994, EVALUATION REV, V18, P65. RASMUSSEN E, 1992, INFORMATION RETRIEVA, P419. SCHUBERT A, 1987, SCIENTOMETRICS, V12, P267. SWANSON DR, 1986, PERSPECT BIOL MED, V30, P7. SWANSON DR, 1997, ARTIF INTELL, V91, P183. VIATOR JA, 2001, J ACOUST SOC AM 1, V109, P1779. WILLETT P, 1988, INFORMATION PROCESSI, V24, P577. ZHU DH, 2002, TECHNOL FORECAST SOC, V69, P495. From eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Fri Jul 8 14:38:11 2005 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 14:38:11 -0400 Subject: Peltoniemi M "Impact factors, citations, and Geophysics " GEOPHYSICS 70 (2): 3MA-17MA March - April 2005 Message-ID: Subscribers to SEG Digital Library will find this paper at http://scitation.aip.org/ Markku Peltoniemi : Markku.Peltoniemi at tkk.fi Title: Impact factors, citations, and GEOPHYSICS Author(s): Peltoniemi M Source: GEOPHYSICS 70 (2): 3MA-17MA MAR-APR 2005 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 5 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: This review assesses the contributions and impact that GEOPHYSICS journal has made to both the theory and the applications of exploration geophysics during its publication life span. The contributions are evaluated first on the basis of Journal Citation Reports data, which summarize information available since 1975 about the impact factor of our journal. The impact factor for GEOPHYSICS in 1975-2002 has ranged between 1.461 and 0.591, with an average of 0.924 and with a relative ranking between 16 and 45 for all journals in its category. The journal receiving the highest impact factor for the period 2000-2003 in the "Geochemistry and Geophysics" category is Reviews of Geophysics, with an average impact factor of 7.787 and which ranged between 9.226 and 6.083. A second and important criterion is the frequency with which individual papers published in GEOPHYSICS have been cited elsewhere. This information is available for the entire publication history of GEOPHYSICS and supports the choices made for the early classic papers. These were listed in both the Silver and the Golden Anniversary issues of GEOPHYSICS. In August 2004, the five most-cited papers in GEOPHYSICS published in the time period 4.936 to February 2003 are Thomsen (1986) with 423 citations, Constable et al. (1987) with 380 citations, Cagniard (1953) with 354 citations, Sen et al. (1981) with 313 citations, and Stolt (1978) with 307 citations. Fifteen more papers exceed a threshold value of 200 citations. During 2000-2002, GEOPHYSICS, Geophysical Prospecting, Geophysical Journal International, and Journal of Applied Geophysics were the four journals with the highest number of citations of papers published in GEOPHYSICS. In the same 2000-2002 period, those journals in which papers published in GEOPHYSICS are cited most are GEOPHYSICS, Geophysical Prospecting, Geophysical Journal International, and Journal of Geophysical Research. During 1985, the total number of citations in all journals in the Science Citation Index database to papers published in GEOPHYSICS was 2657. By 2002, this same citation count for GEOPHYSICS had increased to 4784. Addresses: Peltoniemi M (reprint author), Helsinki Univ Technol, POB 6200, Helsinki, FIN-02015 Finland Helsinki Univ Technol, Helsinki, FIN-02015 Finland E-mail Addresses: Markku.Peltoniemi at hut.fi Publisher: SOC EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICISTS, 8801 S YALE ST, TULSA, OK 74137 USA Subject Category: GEOCHEMISTRY & GEOPHYSICS IDS Number: 915CR ISSN: 0016-8033 Cited References: FAUST LY, 1960, GEOPHYSICS, V25, P2. GARFIELD E, 1972, SCIENCE, V178, P471. PELTONIEMI M, 2001, EAGE 1951 2001 REFLE, P58. SPIES BR, 1991, GEOPHYSICS, V56, P844. WARD SH, 1985, GEOPHYSICS, V50, P2297. From eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Fri Jul 8 15:18:08 2005 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 15:18:08 -0400 Subject: Eston R. "The Impact Factor: a misleading and flawed measure of research quality" Journal of Sports Sciences 23(1):1-3 January 2005 Message-ID: Roger Eston : R.G.Eston at exeter.ac.uk Title: The Impact Factor: a misleading and flawed measure of research quality Author(s): Eston R Source: JOURNAL OF SPORTS SCIENCES 23 (1): 1-3 JAN 2005 Document Type: Editorial Material Language: English Cited References: 10 Addresses: Eston R (reprint author), Univ Exeter, Exeter, Devon EX4 4QJ England Univ Exeter, Exeter, Devon EX4 4QJ England Publisher: TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 4 PARK SQUARE, MILTON PARK, ABINGDON OX14 4RN, OXON, ENGLAND IDS Number: 890OJ ISSN: 0264-0414 Cited References: BLOCH S, 2001, AUSTR NZ J PSYCHIAT, V257, P54. DAVIES J, 2003, NATURE, V421, P210. ERILL S, 2003, LANCET, V362, P1864. FATOVICFERENCIC S, 2004, CROAT MED J, V45, P344. FRANK M, 2003, J MED LIBR ASSOC, V91, P4. HANSSON S, 1995, LANCET, V346, P906. NEVILL AM, 2004, SPORT EXERCISE SCI. OPTHOF T, 1997, CARDIOVASC RES, V33, P1. SEGLEN PO, 1997, BRIT MED J, V314, P498. WALTER G, 2003, MED J AUSTRALIA, V178, P280. _________________________________________________ The editor of _Journal of Sports Sciences_ as well as the author, Roger Eston, have kindly permitted us to reproduce the article in full text for readers of the SIG-Metrics list. Journal of Sports Sciences, Jan 2005 v23(1) p.1-3 The Impact Factor: a misleading and flawed measure of research quality.(Editorial) Roger Eston. Full Text: COPYRIGHT 2005 E & F N Spon The rise in awareness and apparent importance associated with the Impact Factor (IF) has caused a considerable change in the way researchers consider outlets for their research. In the light of impending personal audits or audits of institutional research, many of us feel obliged to deliberately and strategically select journals for the sake of maximal impact. In August 2004, the Editor-in Chief, Alan Nevill, issued an urgent statement to address the erroneous IF of the Journal of Sports Sciences as originally published by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) (Nevill, 2004). The initial IF of 0.741 ranked the Journal in 38th place in the 'Sports Science' subject category. Thanks to meticulous detective work by Bill Baltzopoulos, it was revealed that this was due to the inclusion of abstracts. The ISI acknowledged this error in July. The subsequently corrected IF of 1.255 raises the Journal six places from 22 to 16 out of 71 in the 2004 Journal Citation Report (JCR). For those of us who publish in the Journal and/or place a lot of faith in the numerology associated with the IF, this is good news. The editorial board and the publishers are, of course, delighted that the Journal has climbed higher in the JCR charts. But what does all this really mean? The IF is seriously fallible when it comes to judging the quality of research, a factor that has been highlighted in a many critical reviews and articles. In this editorial, I summarize some of the major limitations and flaws of the IF. How is the IF calculated? The IF is a simple ratio of citations and articles. The numerator is the number of current year citations (e.g. citations made in 2003) to published items in that journal in the previous two years (i.e. 2001 and 2002). The denominator is the total number of articles published in the journal in the previous two years (i.e. 2001 and 2002). The IF for the Journal of Sports Sciences was therefore calculated by: 192 cites to 2001 and 2002 items in 2003/([SIGMA]268 articles in 2001 + 85 articles in 2002) = 1.255 Limitations of the IF * The ISI can make mistakes and report the wrong impact factor! The fallibility of the IF is exacerbated when the ISI get it wrong. A large and unexpected reduction in the IF can be damaging to the profile of the Journal. At the time of this editorial going to press (12 October 2004), the IF for the Journal of Sports Sciences continues to read 0.741! * The journal IF is not wholly representative of the quality of all articles. Seglen (1997) reported that 15% of the most cited papers account for 50% of the citations, and the most cited 50% account for 90% of the citations. Thus, articles that may never be cited are given full credit for the impact of the few highly cited papers which deter determine the value of the IF. * The quality of scientific research should not be constrained by time. The selection of a two-year period set by the ISI is entirely arbitrary (Hansson, 1995; Walter et al., 2003). In relation to this, since articles from a given journal tend to cite articles in the same journal, rapid publication is self-serving with respect to the IF (Seglen, 1997). The danger of constraining the impact factor by time may be elucidated by a discovery, finding or conceptual reasoning, which although may not be considered important at the time of publication, may later form the basis of treatment or define conceptual frameworks of approach to the subject a few years later. This is exemplified by the isolation of trypsinogen in 1971, which provides the basic element in the treatment of HIV-1 infection (Erill, 2003; Fatovic-Ferencic, 2004). * The ISI database includes only a proportion of subject-relevant Journals (Bloch and Walter, 2001; Walter et al., 2003). The number of journals in the ISI database is a minute proportion of those published. The great majority are English language based. * High-quality research in non-English language journals is rarely cited. This explains the low rank of the few non-English language journals in the list--not the research quality of their articles. Seglen (1997) was particularly critical of the extent to which American scientists cited each other, giving rise to an inflated mean journal impact factor of American science to be 30% above the world average. * It includes only normal articles and reviews as citable items in the denominator. However, the numerator includes citations to reports, editorials, letters, abstracts and short notes. * It does not take into account 'self-citations'. These may account for up to a third of citations (Seglen, 1997; Walter et al., 2003). For example, an editor may increase the numerator in the IF by making references to previous editorials published in the last two years. * Reviews are cited more frequently than original research. Researchers often cite reviews for convenience, particularly in the introduction to a research paper. The inclusion of review papers may therefore inflate the impact factor and be a factor for strategic editorial consideration. It is notable that two of the top four journals in the JCR for Sports Science are review journals. * The assumption of a positive link between citations and quality is ill-founded. Articles may be cited for a number of reasons, including reference to research that is considered to be poor or lacking in some aspect (Opthof, 1997; Walter et al., 2003). * Dynamic research fields with high activity and short publication lags (e.g, biochemistry and molecular biology) have higher IFs. Journal impact factors are largely dependent on the research field. Seglen (1997) reported that high impact factors are likely for journals that cover broad areas of basic research with a rapidly expanding but 'short-lived' literature which uses many citations per article. He also reported that the IF of a research field is directly proportional to the mean number of references per article, and indicated for example that it was twice as high in biochemistry as in mathematics. He also noted that arts and humanities articles use much fewer references. * Small research fields tend to lack journals with high impact (Seglen, 1997). * It does not include research published in books. * The frequency with which an individual researcher's work is cited in The literature is more informative about the quality and impact of his or her research than the Journal IF. Researchers do not always publish their most citable work in journals of the highest impact. Like it or not, the IF--initially intended to assist librarians to select journals for their libraries over 40 years ago--has now become a means of judging the scientific quality of a journal and the quality of everything that is published in it. The extent of blind faith in the objectivity and validity of the IF to evaluate the quality of journals is actually quite astounding. Some institutions and committees of non- experts in the research area have included the use of the IF to evaluate an individual's scientific achievement and to allocate resources (Seglen, 1997; Frank, 2003). Consequently, it has become a tool to rationalize the funding of projects, an individual's research, allocation of PhD students to individuals, and as a guide for academic promotion. Considering the flaws in the IF, anyone who has been judged by, or suffered because of, the application of this criterion alone has the right to feel aggrieved. Making snap judgements about the quality of scientific research obtained by perusing the names of journals in which an individual has published, without actually reading the papers, is dangerous (Davies, 2003). Thus, although a perusal of the annual IF listings makes intriguing reading, it is important to be aware that the IF lists are merely indicative of the citation behaviour of researchers. Multiple factors influence the choice of journal where researchers submit their papers. Equally or perhaps more importantly than the IF, their choice should be influenced by the subject area of the journal, its relevance to their speciality, the chances of publication, the speed of the editorial and refereeing process, the length of time it takes to be published once accepted, publication cost, indexing of the journal and, finally and very importantly, the quality of the editorial and advisory board of the journal. In this respect, one cannot ignore the quality of the editorial and editorial advisory board of the Journal of Sports Sciences, and the other international experts who are frequently called upon to review papers for the journal. Critics of journals listed in the Sports Sciences JCR (let's face it--the mean IF of Sports Science in general is a fraction of other ISI subject areas) should reflect on whether such expert referees would compromise their standards of quality assessment to suit a given journal. I suspect not. Finally, for those of you who are making preparations for the UK's Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) of 2008, and are a little 'gripped up' by this IF nonsense, it is reassuring to know that it is highly unlikely that impact factors will be used to assess the quality of your research. I am informed from previous and potential members of the RAE panel that impact factors of journals were not considered in the Panel's evaluation of research in 1992, 1996 or 2001. Articles must be read by qualified experts to truly evaluate their scientific quality. This indeed was the case in 2001 and, from what I understand, will also be the procedure for the 2008 RAE. 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ROGER ESTON University of Exeter Professor Roger G Eston Children's Health and Exercise Research Centre School of Sport and Health Sciences St Luke's Campus University of Exeter Exeter EX1 2LU R.G.Eston at exeter.ac.uk http://www.ex.ac.uk/sshs/ From eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Fri Jul 8 15:48:17 2005 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 15:48:17 -0400 Subject: Hall BH, Jaffe A, Trajtenberg M "Market value and patent citations" Rand Journal of Economics 36(1):16-38 Spr 2005 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: bhhall at econ.berkeley.edu, ajaffe at brandeis.edu, manuel at post.tau.ac.il Title : Market value and patent citations Author(s): Hall BH, Jaffe A, Trajtenberg M Source: RAND JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS 36 (1): 16-38 SPR 2005 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 39 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: We explore the usefulness of patent citations as a measure of the "importance" of a firm's patents, as indicated by the stock market valuation of the firm's intangible stock of knowledge. Using patents and citations for 1963-1995, we estimate Tobin's q equations on the ratios of R&D to assets stocks, patents to R&D, and citations to patents. We find that each ratio significantly affects market value, with an extra citation per patent boosting market value by 3%. Further findings indicate that "unpredictable" citations have a stronger effect than the predictable portion, and that self-citations are more valuable than external citations. Addresses: Hall BH (reprint author), Univ Calif Berkeley, NBER, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA Univ Calif Berkeley, NBER, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA Brandeis Univ, Waltham, MA 02254 USA Tel Aviv Univ, NBER, Tel Aviv, IL-69978 Israel E-mail Addresses: bhhall at econ.berkeley.edu, ajaffe at brandeis.edu, manuel at post.tau.ac.il Publisher: RAND, 810 EAST 10TH ST, LAWRENCE, KS 66044 USA Subject Category: ECONOMICS IDS Number: 936IO ISSN: 0741-6261 Cited References: *OTAF, 1976, US DEP COMM PAT TRAD. ALBERT MB, 1991, RES POLICY, V20, P251. 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From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Mon Jul 11 08:10:38 2005 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 13:10:38 +0100 Subject: Announcing: New Open Access Archivangelism Blog Message-ID: ** Apologies for Cross-Posting ** This is to announce a new blog (weblog) called: Open Access Archivangelism Maximizing Research Impact by Maximizing Research Access http://openaccess.eprints.org/ As of this date, I will begin branching my own substantive American Scientist Open Access Forum postings http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html to the OAA blog as well. I may also blog selected AmSci comments by others there too, but OAA is not meant to replace the AmSci Forum by any means, only to mirror it. Stevan Harnad AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM: A complete Hypermail archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online (1998-2005) is available at: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/ To join or leave the Forum or change your subscription address: http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html Post discussion to: american-scientist-open-access-forum at amsci.org Open Access Archivangelism Blog is a partial mirror of the AmSci Forum http://openaccess.eprints.org/ UNIVERSITIES: If you have adopted or plan to adopt an institutional policy of providing Open Access to your own research article output, please describe your policy at: http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php UNIFIED DUAL OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY: BOAI-1 ("green"): Publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal http://romeo.eprints.org/ OR BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a open-access journal if/when a suitable one exists. http://www.doaj.org/ AND in BOTH cases self-archive a supplementary version of your article in your institutional repository. http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ http://archives.eprints.org/ From eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Mon Jul 11 16:33:41 2005 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:33:41 -0400 Subject: Scientometrics 64 (2): 113-120 August 2005 - Interesting Articles Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: braun at mail.iif.hu Title: The journal gatekeepers of major publishing houses of core science journals Author(s): Braun T, Diospatonyi I Source: SCIENTOMETRICS 64 (2): 113-120 AUG 2005 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 4 Times Cited: 0 Addresses: Braun T (reprint author), Hungarian Acad Sci, ISSRU, Inst Res Policy Studies, POB 123, Budapest, H-1443 Hungary Hungarian Acad Sci, ISSRU, Inst Res Policy Studies, Budapest, H-1443 Hungary Lorand Eotvos Univ, Inst Inorgan & Analyt Chem, Budapest, H-1443 Hungary E-mail Addresses: braun at mail.iif.hu Publisher: SPRINGER, VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS IDS Number: 933KY ISSN: 0138-9130 Cited References: BRAUN T, 2004, HDB QUANTITATIVE SCI. BRAUN T, 2005, SCIENTOMETRICS, V63, P297. EBEL HF, 2004, ART SCI WRITING. GLANZEL W, 2003, SCIENTOMETRICS, V56, P357. ________________________________________________________________ K.C. Garg : gargkc at nistads.res.in Title: Scientometrics of computer science research in India and China Author(s): Kumar S, Garg KC Source: SCIENTOMETRICS 64 (2): 121-132 AUG 2005 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 14 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: An analysis of 2058 papers published by Chinese authors and 2678 papers published by Indian authors in the field of computer science during 1971-2000 indicates that India's output is significantly higher than the Chinese output. However, China is catching up fast. Chinese researchers prefer to publish their research results in domestic journals, while Indian researchers prefer to publish their research results in journals published in the advanced countries of the West. Also the share of papers in journals covered by SCI for India was higher than from China. However, no significant difference has been observed in the impact of the research output of the two countries as seen by different impact indicators. Team research is more common in India as compared to China. Addresses: Garg KC (reprint author), Natl Inst Sci Technol & Dev Studies, Pusa Gate,KS Krishnan Marg, New Delhi, 110012 India Natl Inst Sci Technol & Dev Studies, New Delhi, 110012 India E-mail Addresses: gargkc at nistads.res.in Publisher: SPRINGER, VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS IDS Number: 933KY -------------------------------------------------------------------------- S. Lozano : slozano at us.es TITLE: Data envelopment analysis of OR/MS journals (Article, English) AUTHOR: Lozano, S; Salmeron, JL SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 64 (2). AUG 2005. p.133-150 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: This paper presents the results of a Data Envelopment Analysis of Operations Research/ Management Science journals on two questions: the duration of the refereeing/publication process and the relation between the length of the articles published and their impact. The second question uses data publicly available through the ISI Journal Citation Reports database and through the journals contents while for the first question data had to be gathered from the journal editors through an e-mail survey. The analysis gives cues about the amount each journal should aim to reduce their lead times, setting efficiency targets both on the average time from submission to first editorial decision and on the time from final editorial decision to publication. Similarly, for each journal, efficiency targets for the average article length are obtained. Our promoting of refereeing efficiency and paper length efficiency assumes that no loss of quality in the peer review process or in the knowledge transmission process needs to happen. AUTHOR ADDRESS: S Lozano, Univ Sevilla, Escuela Super Ingn, Camino Descubrimientos S-N, Seville 41092, Spain Cited References: *SPARC, 2004, J MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS. BARDHAN I, 1996, J OPER RES SOC JPN, V39, P322. BARSCHALL HH, 1988, B AM PHYS SOC, V33, P1437. BARSCHALL HH, 1988, PHYS TODAY, V41, P56. BEEBE L, 2000, J ELECT PUBLISHING, V5. COOPER WW, 2000, DATA ENVELOPMENT ANA. CURTIS D, 2003, TOOLS RESOURCES ONLI. DAVIS FD, 1989, MIS Q, V13, P318. DIOSPATONYI I, 2001, J CHEM INF COMP SCI, V41, P1452. FEDER T, 1999, PHYS TODAY, V52, P55. FISHER JH, 1997, SCHOL COMM TECHN C E. HALL AD, 1990, ECONOMET THEOR, V6, P1. HARGREAVES L, 2000, PHYS TODAY, V53, P56. HARNAD S, 1999, D LIB MAGAZINE, V5, P12. HARNAD S, 2000, EXPLOIT INTERACTIVE. KING DW, 1998, ICSU PRESS WORKSH. KLING R, 2002, WP0212 IND U CTR SOC. KLING R, 2003, ANNU REV INFORM SCI, V37, P127. MCKIERNAN G, 2002, LIB HI TECH NEWS, V19, P7. ROBERTS P, 1999, 1 MONDAY, V4, P4. ROWLAND F, 2002, LEARN PUBL, V15, P4247. SCHEEL H, 2000, EFFICIENCY MEASUREME. SOETE G, 1999, MEASURING COST EFFEC. TAUBES G, 1996, SCIENCE, V271, P765. TRIVEDI PK, 1993, J APPL ECONOM, V8, P93. WARKENTIN E, 1997, CANADIAN J COMMUNICA, V22. WEBER EJ, 2002, JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC, V287, P2790. WILSON JR, 2002, SCI ENG ETHICS, V8, P155. WOOD D, 2000, LEARN PUBL, V13, P95. WOOD D, 2001, ACCEPTANCE ONLINE PE. WOOD D, 2001, LEARN PUBL, V14, P151. _____________________________________________________________ E-mail Addresses: X.Li4 at wlv.ac.uk TITLE: National and international university departmental Web site interlinking. Part 1: Validation of departmental link analysis (Article, English) AUTHOR: Li, XM; Thelwall, M; Wilkinson, D; Musgrove, P SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 64 (2). AUG 2005. p.151-185 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: The structural similarity between hyperlinks and citations has encouraged information scientists to apply bibliometric techniques to the Web. University links have been previously validated as a new data source through significant statistical correlations between link and research measures, together with identification of motivations for hyperlink creation at the university level. Many investigations have been conducted for university interlinking, but few for departments. University Web sites are large compared with departmental Web sites, and significant statistical results are more easily obtained. Nevertheless, universities are multidisciplinary by nature and disciplines may employ the Web differently, thus patterns identified at the university level may hide subject differences. This paper validates departmental interlinking, using Physics, Chemistry and Biology departments from Australia, Canada and the UK. AUTHOR ADDRESS: XM Li, Wolverhampton Univ, Sch Comp & Informat Technol, 35-49 Lichfield St, Wolverhampton WV1 1EL, England Cited References: *DETYA, 2001, HIGH ED REP 2000 200. *HERO, 2001, RAE 2001. *ICANN GNSO, 2001, GTLD REG. ALMIND TC, 1997, J DOC, V53, P404. BARILAN J, 2004, SCIENTOMETRICS, V59, P29. BARILAN J, 2004, SCIENTOMETRICS, V59, P391. BJORNEBORN L, 2004, SMALL WORLD LINK STR. CRONIN B, 2001, J INFORM SCI, V27, P1. EGGHE L, 2000, J INFORM SCI, V26, P329. HARRIES G, 2004, J INFORM SCI, V30, P436. INGWERSEN P, 1998, J DOC, V54, P236. KLING R, 2000, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V51, P1306. LARSON RR, 1996, AISS 59 ANN M. LEYDESDORFF L, 2004, J DOC, V60, P317. LI XM, 2003, ONLINE INFORM REV, V27, P407. LI XM, 2003, SCIENTOMETRICS, V57, P239. LI XM, 2005, SCIENTOMETRICS, V64, P187. OPPENHEIM C, 2000, ASIS MONOGRAPH SERIE, P405. PANDIA, 2004, DEATH ALTAVISTA ALLT. ROUSSEAU R, 1997, CYBERMETRICS, V1. SMITH A, 2002, SCIENTOMETRICS, V54, P363. SMITH AG, 1999, J DOC, V55, P577. SMITH AG, 2004, INFORMATION RES, V9. TANG R, 2002, 65 ANN M AM SOC INF, P417. TANG R, 2004, SCIENTOMETRICS, V60, P475. THELWALL M, 2001, J AM SOC INF SCI TEC, V52, P1157. THELWALL M, 2002, J AM SOC INF SCI TEC, V53, P995. THELWALL M, 2002, J DOC, V58, P66. THELWALL M, 2003, J AM SOC INF SCI TEC, V54, P706. THELWALL M, 2003, SCIENTOMETRICS, V58, P155. THELWALL M, 2004, J AM SOC INF SCI TEC, V55, P149. THELWALL M, 2004, LINK ANAL INFORMATIO. THELWALL M, 2004, SOCSCIBOT3. VANRAAN AFJ, 2000, ASIS MONOGRAPH SERIE, P301. VAUGHAN L, 2005, INFORM PROCESS MANAG, V41, P347. WILKINSON D, 2003, J INFORM SCI, V29, P49. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- E-mail Addresses: X.Li4 at wlv.ac.uk TITLE: National and international university departmental Web site interlinking. Part 2: Link patterns (Article, English) AUTHOR: Li, XM; Thelwall, M; Wilkinson, D; Musgrove, P SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 64 (2). AUG 2005. p.187-208 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: Although many link patterns have been identified at the university level, departmental interlinking has been relatively ignored. Universities are multidisciplinary by nature and various disciplines may employ the Web differently, thus patterns identified at the university level may hide subject differences. Departments are typically subject- oriented, and departmental interlinking may therefore illustrate interesting disciplinary linking patterns, perhaps relating to informal scholarly communication. The aim of this paper is to identify whether and how link patterns differ along country and disciplinary lines between similar disciplines and similar countries. Physics, Chemistry and Biology departments in Australia, Canada and the UK have been chosen. In order to get a holistic picture of departments Web use profiles and link patterns, five different perspectives are identified and compared for each set of departments. Differences in link patterns are identified along both national and disciplinary lines, and are found to reflect offline phenomena. Along national lines, a likely explanation for the difference is that countries with better research performances make more general use of the Web; and, with respect to international peer interlinking, countries that share more scholarly communication tend to interlink more with each other. Along disciplinary lines, it seems that departments from disciplines which are more willing to distribute their research outputs tend to make more general use of the Web, and also interlink more with their national and international peers. AUTHOR ADDRESS: XM Li, Wolverhampton Univ, Sch Comp & Informat Technol, 35-49 Lichfield St, Wolverhampton WV1 1EL, England Cited References: *ISI, 2003, RANK 20 MOST CIT COU. ALMIND TC, 1997, J DOC, V53, P404. BJORNEBORN L, 2001, SCIENTOMETRICS, V50, P65. FRY J, 2004, 67 ASIST ANN M MEDF. 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VAUGHAN L, 2005, INFORM PROCESS MANAG, V41, P347. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- E-mail Addresses: dalen at nidi.nl Title: Signals in science - On the importance of signaling in gaining attention in science Author(s): van Dalen HP, Henkens K Source: SCIENTOMETRICS 64 (2): 209-233 AUG 2005 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 29 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Which signals are important in gaining attention in science? For a group of 1,371 scientific articles published in 17 demography journals in the years 1990-1992 we track their influence and discern which signals are important in receiving citations. Three types of signals are examined: the author's reputation (as producer of the idea), the journal (as the broker of the idea), and the state of uncitedness (as an indication of the assessment by the scientific community of an idea). The empirical analysis points out that, first, the reputation of journals plays an overriding role in gaining attention in science. Second, in contrast to common wisdom, the state of uncitedness does not affect the future probability of being cited. And third, the reputation of a journal may help to get late recognition (so- called sleeping beauties) as well as generate 'flash-in-the-pans': immediately noted articles but apparently not very influential in the long run. Addresses: van Dalen HP (reprint author), NIDI, POB 11650, The Hague, NL- 2502 AR Netherlands NIDI, The Hague, NL-2502 AR Netherlands Erasmus Univ, Dept Econ, SEOR ECRI, Rotterdam, Netherlands Erasmus Univ, Tinbergen Inst, Rotterdam, Netherlands E-mail Addresses: dalen at nidi.nl Publisher: SPRINGER, VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS IDS Number: 933KY ISSN: 0138-9130 Cited References: AKERLOF GA, 1970, Q J ECON, V84, P488. BALDI S, 1998, AM SOCIOL REV, V63, P829. 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WOOLDRIDGE JM, 2002, ECONOMETRIC ANAL CRO. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Mon Jul 11 16:45:42 2005 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:45:42 -0400 Subject: Burright MA, Hahn TB, Antonisse MJ "Understanding information use in a multidisciplinary field: A local citation analysis of neuroscience research " COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES 66 (3): 198-210 MAY 2005 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: mburrigh at umd.edu, thahn at umd.edu, mja at umd.edu Title: Understanding information use in a multidisciplinary field: A local citation analysis of neuroscience research Author(s): Burright MA, Hahn TB, Antonisse MJ Source: COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES 66 (3): 198-210 MAY 2005 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 23 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Assessing the information needs of a multidisciplinary academic community presents challenges to librarians managing journal collections. This case study analyzed the literature used by the neuroscience community at the University of Maryland to determine the following about the publications they cited: their type, their discipline, and how recent they were relative to the citing publication. The authors searched the ISI Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index to identify the publishing, citing, and coauthoring patterns of both faculty and graduate students to inform library decisions about collecting journals and other types of literature. Addresses: Burright MA (reprint author), Univ Maryland Lib, User Educ Serv, College Pk, MD 20742 USA Univ Maryland Lib, User Educ Serv, College Pk, MD 20742 USA E-mail Addresses: mburrigh at umd.edu, thahn at umd.edu, mja at umd.edu Publisher: ASSOC COLL RESEARCH LIBRARIES, 50 E HURON ST, CHICAGO, IL 60611 USA IDS Number: 928OZ ISSN: 0010-0870 Cited References: 2000, BRAIN FACTS PRIMER B. 2004, PETERSONS GRADUATE P. BLACK S, 2001, LIBR RESOUR TECH SER, V45, P3. 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From eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Mon Jul 11 16:50:04 2005 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:50:04 -0400 Subject: Navarro A, Lynd FE "Where does research occur in geriatrics and gerontology? " JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY 53 (6): 1058-1063 JUN 2005 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: albert.navarro at uab.es Title : Where does research occur in geriatrics and gerontology? Author(s): Navarro A, Lynd FE Source : JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY 53 (6): 1058-1063 JUN 2005 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 23 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: The International Plan of Action on Aging 2002 emphasized the need to promote and develop research on aging, especially in underdeveloped countries. This article aims at describing the current situation with regard to the international scientific production in the field of geriatrics and gerontology. All articles published in journals included in the categories "Geriatrics and Gerontology" of the Science Citation Index or "Gerontology" of the Social Science Citation Index in 2002 were analyzed. There is unquestionable predomination by the United States, which participates in 53.8% of the articles analyzed, followed by the United Kingdom (9.66%) and Canada (6.66%). The production of the 15 European Union countries together is 31.2%. When adjustments are made for economic or population factors, other countries show their importance: Israel and Sweden, for example. Authors from richer countries participate in more than 95% of the articles, whereas those in less-developed countries tend to publish less, and when they do so, it is through collaboration with more- developed countries. In general, only 10.5% of the articles are written in collaboration with institutions from different countries. One of the keys to stimulating research in less wealthy countries would seem to be precisely through collaboration. This would aid the transfer of knowledge and experience, allowing researchers in these countries to obtain autonomy to perform their own studies independently and to provide them with the ability to gain access for their publications at the international level. Author Keywords: bibliometrics; geriatrics; gerontology; international cooperation; scientific production Addresses: Navarro A (reprint author), Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Fac Med, Lab Bioestadist & Epidemiol,Sch Med, Latin African & Latin Amer Res Grp, Cerdanyola Del Valles, 08193 Spain Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Fac Med, Lab Bioestadist & Epidemiol,Sch Med, Latin African & Latin Amer Res Grp, Cerdanyola Del Valles, 08193 Spain Hosp Sant Gervasi, Fdn Sociosanitaria Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain E-mail Addresses: albert.navarro at uab.es Publisher: BLACKWELL PUBLISHING INC, 350 MAIN ST, MALDEN, MA 02148 USA IDS Number: 928NV ISSN: 0002-8614 Cited References: 2003, WORLD DEV INDICATORS. 2003, WORLD DEV REPORT 200. *I SCI INF, ISI WEB SCI. *UN, 2002, POL DECL MADR INT PL. ACHENBAUM WA, 1995, CROSSING FRONTIERS G. ALBA AS, 1990, MANUAL GERIATRIA. ANDREWS G, 2002, PROVIDING EVIDENCE B. BEAVER DB, 1998, SCIENTOMETRICS, V1, P65. CASADO JMR, 1995, MED INTERNAL, P1275. 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From eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Mon Jul 11 17:08:47 2005 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 17:08:47 -0400 Subject: Byrne F, Chapman S "The most cited authors and papers in tobacco control " TOBACCO CONTROL 14 (3): 155-160 JUN 2005 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: simonchapman at health.usyd.edu.au Title: The most cited authors and papers in tobacco control Author(s): Byrne F, Chapman S Source: TOBACCO CONTROL 14 (3): 155-160 JUN 2005 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 9 Times Cited: 0 Addresses: Chapman S (reprint author), Univ Sydney, Sch Publ Hlth, Edward Ford Bldg A27, Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia Univ Sydney, Sch Publ Hlth, Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia E-mail Addresses: simonchapman at health.usyd.edu.au Publisher: B M J PUBLISHING GROUP, BRITISH MED ASSOC HOUSE, TAVISTOCK SQUARE, LONDON WC1H 9JR, ENGLAND IDS Number: 930RG Cited References: ADAM D, 2002, NATURE, V415, P726. ADAMS AB, 2004, RESP CARE, V49, P276. BALTUSSEN A, 2004, ANESTH ANALG, V98, P443. COLE S, 1989, TRENDS BIOCHEM SCI, V14, P9. DUMONT JE, 1989, TRENDS BIOCHEM SCI, V14, P327. GARFIELD E, 2004, J INFORM SCI, V30, P119. MARX W, 2001, SCIENTOMETRICS, V52, P59. SMITH R, 2001, BRIT MED J, V323, P528. WEST R, 2002, ADDICTION, V97, P501. From eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Tue Jul 12 14:01:56 2005 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 14:01:56 -0400 Subject: Redner S. "Citation statistics from 110 years of Physical Review " Physics Today 58 (6): 49-54 June 2005 Message-ID: S. Redner : redner at buphy.bu.edu Title : Citation statistics from 110 years of Physical Review Author(s): Redner S Source: PHYSICS TODAY 58 (6): 49-54 JUN 2005 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 22 Times Cited: 0 Addresses: Redner S (reprint author), Los Alamos Natl Lab, Ctr Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA Boston Univ, Ctr BioDynam, Boston, MA 02215 USA Boston Univ, Ctr Polymer Studies, Boston, MA 02215 USA Publisher: AMER INST PHYSICS, CIRCULATION & FULFILLMENT DIV, 2 HUNTINGTON QUADRANGLE, STE 1 N O 1, MELVILLE, NY 11747-4501 USA IDS Number: 930VF ISSN: 0031-9228 Cited References: ALBERT R, 2002, REV MOD PHYS, V74, P47. BARABASI AL, 1999, SCIENCE, V286, P509. BARABASI AL, 2002, PHYSICA A, V311, P590. DOROGOVTSEV SN, 2000, PHYS REV LETT, V85, P4633. DOROGOVTSEV SN, 2002, ADV PHYS, V51, P1079. EGGHE L, 1990, INTRO INFORMETRICS Q. GARFIELD E, 1972, SCIENCE, V178, P471. JEONG H, 2003, EUROPHYS LETT, V61, P567. KLEINBERG J, 1999, LECT NOTES COMPUTER, V1627, P1. KRAPIVSKY PL, 2000, PHYS REV LETT, V85, P4629. KRAPIVSKY PL, 2001, PHYS REV E 2, V63. LAHERRERE J, 1998, EUR PHYS J B, V2, P525. MERTON R, 1973, SOCIOLOGY SCI. MOED HF, 2002, NATURE, V415, P731. NAKAMOTO H, 1988, P 1 INT C BIBL THEOR, P157. PASTORSATORRAS P, 2004, EVOLUTION STRUCTURE. PRICE DJD, 1965, SCIENCE, V149, P510. PRICE DJD, 1976, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V27, P292. REDNER S, 1998, EUR PHYS J B, V4, P131. SIMON HA, 1955, BIOMETRIKA, V42, P425. VANRAAN AFJ, 2004, SCIENTOMETRICS, V59, P467. YULE GU, 1925, PHILOS T R SOC LON B, V213, P21. From eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Tue Jul 12 14:11:02 2005 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 14:11:02 -0400 Subject: Lockett A. McWilliams A. "The balance of trade between disciplines - do we effectively manage knowledge?" Journal of Management Inquiry 14(2): 139-150 June 2005. Message-ID: Andy Lockett : andy.locket at nottingham.ac.uk Abby McWilliams : abby at uic.edu Title: The balance of trade between disciplines - Do we effectively manage knowledge? Author(s): Lockett A, McWilliams A Source: JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT INQUIRY 14 (2): 139-150 JUN 2005 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 16 Times Cited: 1 Abstract: This study was motivated by the admonition of Professor Hambrick, as president of the Academy of Management, that the field does not "matter" much. One reason for this may be that management scholars have not done a good job of disseminating knowledge to scholars in related fields. The article examines this proposition by assessing the citation patterns between management journals and journals in the related social sciences (citations received and citations sent). Results indicate that management continues to run a significant balance-of-trade deficit with economics, psychology, and sociology. Management exports a significant (but small) amount of knowledge only to psychology, while importing a significant amount from economics, psychology, and sociology. Results indicate that there is much work to be done to improve our management of knowledge, relative to the social sciences. Addresses: Lockett A (reprint author), Univ Nottingham, Sch Business, Nottingham, NG7 2RD England Univ Nottingham, Sch Business, Nottingham, NG7 2RD England Univ Illinois, Managerial Studies Dept, Chicago, IL 60680 USA E-mail Addresses: andy.locket at nottingham.ac.uk, abby at uic.edu Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC, 2455 TELLER RD, THOUSAND OAKS, CA 91320 USA IDS Number: 925SB ISSN: 1056-4926 Cited References: BOTT DM, 1991, AM SOCIOL, V22, P147. BROAD W, 1982, BETRAYERS TRUTH FRAU. COLE J, 1973, SOCIAL STRATIFICATIO. GARFIELD E, 1982, CURRENT CONTENTS, V5. HAMBRICK DC, 1994, ACAD MANAGE REV, V19, P11. HAMILTON DP, 1990, SCIENCE, V250, P1331. JOHNSON JL, 1994, ACAD MANAGE J, V37, P1392. KAY J, 1993, FDN CORPORATE SUCCES. LABAND DN, 1994, J ECON LIT, V32, P640. LIEBOWITZ SJ, 1984, J ECON LIT, V22, P77. MULLINS NC, 1977, AM SOCIOL REV, V42, P552. PIETERS R, 2002, J ECON LIT, V40, P483. STIGLER GJ, 1995, J POLIT ECON, V103, P331. SULLIVAN D, 1977, SOC STUD SCI, V7, P223. TAHAI A, 1999, STRATEGIC MANAGE J, V20, P279. ZUCKERMAN H, 1977, SCI ELITE NOBEL LAUR. From eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Tue Jul 12 14:42:15 2005 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 14:42:15 -0400 Subject: Bedeian AG. "Crossing disciplinary boundaries - A epilegomenon for Lockett and McWilliams" Journal of Management Inquiry 14(2):151-155, June 2005. Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: abede at lsu.edu A.G. Bedeian : abede at lsu.edu Title: Crossing disciplinary boundaries - A epilegomenon for Lockett and McWilliams Author(s): Bedeian AG Source: JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT INQUIRY 14 (2): 151-155 JUN 2005 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 11 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Although applauding the application of bibliometric techniques to an analysis of the management literature, this author presents an alternative interpretation to A. Lockett and A. McWilliams's (2005) conclusion that, in general, the citation patterns of selected management journals compare "unfavorably" with a set of "core" journals from economics, psychology, and sociology. In doing so, the author discusses methodological and theoretical issues related to assessing the management discipline's influence on science as a whole. Addresses: Bedeian AG (reprint author), Louisiana State Univ, Rucks Dept Management, Ourso Coll Business Adm, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA Louisiana State Univ, Rucks Dept Management, Ourso Coll Business Adm, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA E-mail Addresses: abede at lsu.edu Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC, 2455 TELLER RD, THOUSAND OAKS, CA 91320 USA Subject Category: MANAGEMENT IDS Number: 925SB ISSN: 1056-4926 Cited References: ALLEN MP, 2003, FOOTNOTES, V31, P10. ALLEN MP, 2003, FOOTNOTES, V31, P7. AMIN M, 2000, PERSPECTIVES PUBLISH. CARPENTER MP, 1973, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V24, P425. EISENHARDT KM, 1989, ACAD MANAGE J, V32, P543. HYMAN R, 1995, PSYCHOL BULL, V118, P178. LOCKETT A, 2005, J MANAGE INQUIRY, V14, P139. PIETERS R, 2002, J ECON LIT, V40, P483. SMALL H, 1999, LIBR TRENDS, V48, P72. URWICK LF, 1971, MANAGE INT REV, V11, P3. XHIGNESSE LV, 1967, AM PSYCHOL, V22, P778. From eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Tue Jul 12 15:34:32 2005 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 15:34:32 -0400 Subject: Palmer AL, Sese A, Montano JJ "Tourism and statistics - Bibliometric study 1998-2002 " Annals of Tourism Research 32 (1): 167-178 JAN 2005 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: alfonso.palmer at uib.es Title: Tourism and statistics - Bibliometric study 1998-2002 Author(s): Palmer AL, Sese A, Montano JJ Source: ANNALS OF TOURISM RESEARCH 32 (1): 167-178 JAN 2005 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 7 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: The use of statistics in any scientific discipline can be considered a key element in evaluating its degree of maturity and demonstrates the generation of nonspeculative knowledge. The aim of this study is to carry out a bibliometric analysis of the rise of statistical methods in tourism research. To accomplish this, a group of 12 tourism journals published within a 5-year period (1998-2002) were chosen and 1,790 articles were reviewed by means of a taxonomy with 24 statistical categories. The main results show the percentage of articles that apply statistical techniques as compared to those that do not, and a ranking of the techniques most often used and their distribution according to journal. EXCERPT FROM PAPER : "Results suggest that there is a nonsignificant correlation between the ISI (Institute for Scientific Information) impact factor and the percentages of use of statistical techniques. This may be because impact factor calculations do not take into account these types of statistics, but instead deal with the number of references to articles published, weighted by the number of articles published over a certain period of time. It is debatable whether the capacity of this "citation" index describes the quality of a publication, but a discussion of this interesting topic is not an objective of this paper." Addresses: Palmer AL (reprint author), Dept Psychol, Ctra Valldemossa Km 7- 5, Pahna, 07122 Spain Dept Psychol, Pahna, 07122 Spain Univ Balearic Isl, Palma de Mallorca, Spain E-mail Addresses: alfonso.palmer at uib.es Publisher: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, THE BOULEVARD, LANGFORD LANE, KIDLINGTON, OXFORD OX5 1GB, ENGLAND Subject Category: ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES; SOCIOLOGY IDS Number: 912PY ISSN: 0160-7383 Cited References: *THOMS ISI, 2002, ISI J CIT REP SOC SC. BALOGLU S, 1999, J HOSPITATLITY TOURI, V23, P53. CRAWFORDWELCH S, 1992, INT J HOSPITALITY MA, V11, P155. GALLARZA M, 2002, ANN TOURISM RES, V20, P56. GRAZER WF, 1987, J ACAD MARKETING SIC, V15, P70. LYNN M, 2002, CORNELL HOTEL RESTRA, V43, P97. REID L, 1989, J TRAVEL RES, V27, P21. From eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Tue Jul 12 16:23:59 2005 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 16:23:59 -0400 Subject: Sanz EJ "Pharmacoepidemiology and the "Impact Factor" European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology 60 (11): 765-772 JAN 2005 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: esanz at ull.es Title: Pharmacoepidemiology and the "Impact Factor" Author(s): Sanz EJ Source : EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY 60 (11): 765-772 JAN 2005 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 13 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: The field of "Pharmacoepidemiology/Drug Utilization" research has been analysed by studying published research articles under the medical subject headings (MeSH terms) "Pharmacoepidemiology", "Drug Utilization" and "Drug Utilization Review". There were 1822 articles published, and stored in Medline, during the 32-month period between I January 2001 and 31 August 2003; these papers might represent a field of research, due to the similarity of MeSH terms used for coding and the set of journals in which the articles were published. A total of 457 articles, representing 25% of all articles in the field, were published in 14 different journals, and 50% of all articles (948) were collected in only 64 different journals. The two main journals publishing research in "Pharmacoepidemiology/ Drug Utilization" are Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf and the Eur J Clin Pharmacol. These two publications are the official journals of the three main societies in the field and are at least partially focused on this subject, with 45.7% of all articles in Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf and 11.1% of all articles in Eur J Clin Pharmacol included under the studied MeSH terms; other journals only occasionally publish papers in this line of research. These two journals are the leaders in pharmacoepidemiology and drug utilization research, having impact factors (IFs) in 2002/2003 above (1.955/1.972 for EJCP) and a bit below (1.092/1.257 for PDS) the middle of the ranking of publications, according to the IF, in the "Pharmacology and Pharmacy" list of the Science Citation Index (SCI). Addresses: Sanz EJ (reprint author), Univ La Laguna, Sch Med, Dept Pharmacol, Tenerife, 38071 Spain Univ La Laguna, Sch Med, Dept Pharmacol, Tenerife, 38071 Spain E-mail Addresses: esanz at ull.es IDS Number: 889TX ISSN: 0031-6970 Cited References: *WHO, 1977, WHO TECHN REP SER, V615. BEGAUD B, 2000, DICT PHARMACOEPIDEMI. BERGMAN U, 1975, EUR J CLIN PHARMACOL, V8, P83. DUKES MNG, 1993, DRUG UTILIZATION STU. GARFIELD E, 1972, SCIENCE, V178, P471. GRIFFITHS K, 1986, EUR J CLIN PHARMACOL, V30, P513. GRIFFITHS K, 1986, EUR J CLIN PHARMACOL, V30, P521. HARTZEMA AG, 1997, PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY. LAPORTE JR, 1983, PRINCIPIOS EPIDEMIOL. MCGAVOCK H, 2000, UK DRUG UTILISATION. MOED HF, 1985, SCIENTOMETRICS, V8, P177. SEGLEN PO, 1997, BRIT MED J, V314, P498. STROM BL, 2000, PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY. From eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Tue Jul 12 16:35:07 2005 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 16:35:07 -0400 Subject: Gonzalez F, Castro AF "Publication output in telemedicine in Spain " Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare 11 (1): 23-28 2005 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: francisco.gonzalez at usc.es Title: Publication output in telemedicine in Spain Author(s): Gonzalez F, Castro AF Source: JOURNAL OF TELEMEDICINE AND TELECARE 11 (1): 23-28 2005 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 9 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: We searched the MEDLINE database for publications about telemedicine from 1966 to 2003. Only publications with a first institutional address in Spain and from journals listed in the /CR Science Edition 2002 were included in the study. A total of 118 publications were found. The first publication appeared in 1988 and publication output showed a sudden increase starting in 1995, reaching a maximum in 2002 with 21 publications. The number of authors per publication in non-multicentre studies ranged from I to 14 (median 6.5). Most authors (79%) contributed to only a single publication; 10% of authors participated in three or more publications. Most publications were full papers (88%). The most active Autonomous Community in the number of publications relative to inhabitants was Galicia (0.91 publications per 100,000 inhabitants). The Community that produced the highest absolute number of publications was Madrid (29% of the total). The mean impact factor of the journals in which the publications appeared was 0.961. Production of telemedicine publications in Spain has followed the same temporal course as has been observed worldwide. There is an unequal geographical and institutional distribution of publications. The highest production is concentrated in a few institutions and only a small number of authors show steady research activity. Addresses: Gonzalez F (reprint author), Univ Santiago de Compostela, Sch Med, Dept Physiol, Santiago De Compostela, E-15782 Spain Univ Santiago de Compostela, Sch Med, Dept Physiol, Santiago De Compostela, E-15782 Spain Univ Santiago de Compostela, Catedra Telemed Telefon, Santiago De Compostela, E-15782 Spain Univ Santiago de Compostela, Complejo Hosp, Serv Ophthalmol, Santiago De Compostela, E-15782 Spain E-mail Addresses: francisco.gonzalez at usc.es Publisher: ROYAL SOC MEDICINE PRESS LTD, 1 WIMPOLE STREET, LONDON W1G 0AE, ENGLAND Subject Category: HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES IDS Number: 902VR ISSN: 1357-633X Cited References: *I NAC EST, ESP CIFR 2003 2004. *I NAC EST, 2004, AN EST ESP 2002 2003. DAVIS M, 2003, CLIN EXP OPHTHALMOL, V31, P286. FAVALORO EJ, 1998, MED J AUSTRALIA, V169, P617. GARFIELD E, 1986, ANN INTERN MED, V105, P313. KOLBITSCH C, 1999, ANASTH INTENSIV NOTF, V34, P214. MOSER PL, 2004, J TELEMED TELECARE, V10, P72. PEREDNIA DA, 1995, JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC, V273, P483. POMAROLI A, 1994, BRIT J ANAESTH, V72, P723. From eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Tue Jul 12 17:14:38 2005 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 17:14:38 -0400 Subject: Redner S. "Citation statistics from 110 years of Physical Review " Physics Today 58 (6): 49-54 June 2005 Message-ID: S. Redner : redner at bu.edu the online version may be found at http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-58/iss-6/p49.shtml Title: Citation statistics from 110 years of Physical Review Author(s): Redner S Source: PHYSICS TODAY 58 (6): 49-54 JUN 2005 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 22 Times Cited: 0 Addresses: Redner S (reprint author), Los Alamos Natl Lab, Ctr Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA Boston Univ, Ctr BioDynam, Boston, MA 02215 USA Boston Univ, Ctr Polymer Studies, Boston, MA 02215 USA Publisher: AMER INST PHYSICS, CIRCULATION & FULFILLMENT DIV, 2 HUNTINGTON QUADRANGLE, STE 1 N O 1, MELVILLE, NY 11747-4501 USA Subject Category: PHYSICS, MULTIDISCIPLINARY IDS Number: 930VF ISSN: 0031-9228 Cited References: ALBERT R, 2002, REV MOD PHYS, V74, P47. BARABASI AL, 1999, SCIENCE, V286, P509. BARABASI AL, 2002, PHYSICA A, V311, P590. DOROGOVTSEV SN, 2000, PHYS REV LETT, V85, P4633. DOROGOVTSEV SN, 2002, ADV PHYS, V51, P1079. EGGHE L, 1990, INTRO INFORMETRICS Q. GARFIELD E, 1972, SCIENCE, V178, P471. JEONG H, 2003, EUROPHYS LETT, V61, P567. KLEINBERG J, 1999, LECT NOTES COMPUTER, V1627, P1. KRAPIVSKY PL, 2000, PHYS REV LETT, V85, P4629. KRAPIVSKY PL, 2001, PHYS REV E 2, V63. LAHERRERE J, 1998, EUR PHYS J B, V2, P525. MERTON R, 1973, SOCIOLOGY SCI. MOED HF, 2002, NATURE, V415, P731. NAKAMOTO H, 1988, P 1 INT C BIBL THEOR, P157. PASTORSATORRAS P, 2004, EVOLUTION STRUCTURE. PRICE DJD, 1965, SCIENCE, V149, P510. PRICE DJD, 1976, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V27, P292. REDNER S, 1998, EUR PHYS J B, V4, P131. SIMON HA, 1955, BIOMETRIKA, V42, P425. VANRAAN AFJ, 2004, SCIENTOMETRICS, V59, P467. YULE GU, 1925, PHILOS T R SOC LON B, V213, P21. From hanpark at YUMAIL.AC.KR Sat Jul 16 06:44:32 2005 From: hanpark at YUMAIL.AC.KR (Han Woo PARK (Dr)) Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 19:44:32 +0900 Subject: =?utf-8?B?W1NJR01FVFJJQ1NdIFRlY2hub2xvZ3kgbWFwcGluZyB2aWEgU0NJIGFu?= =?utf-8?B?ZC9vciBXZWIgZGF0YQ==?= Message-ID: Dear List members, I like to examine the trend of (industrial) technologies (such as the VOIP) using the SCI and/or Web data. Do you have any suggestions (for reading) in relation to this topic? Thanks in advance for reply, Han.. > > > -----Original message----- > From: "EugeneGarfield" > To: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu > Date: 2005/07/13(?)06:14 > Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Redner S. "Citation statistics from 110 years of Physical Review " Physics Today 58 (6): 49-54 June 2005 > > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > S. Redner : redner at bu.edu > > the online version may be found at > http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-58/iss-6/p49.shtml > > > Title: Citation statistics from 110 years of Physical Review > > Author(s): Redner S > > Source: PHYSICS TODAY 58 (6): 49-54 JUN 2005 > > Document Type: Article Language: English > Cited References: 22 Times Cited: 0 > > Addresses: Redner S (reprint author), Los Alamos Natl Lab, Ctr Nonlinear > Studies, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA > Boston Univ, Ctr BioDynam, Boston, MA 02215 USA > Boston Univ, Ctr Polymer Studies, Boston, MA 02215 USA > > Publisher: AMER INST PHYSICS, CIRCULATION & FULFILLMENT DIV, 2 HUNTINGTON > QUADRANGLE, STE 1 N O 1, MELVILLE, NY 11747-4501 USA > Subject Category: PHYSICS, MULTIDISCIPLINARY > > IDS Number: 930VF > > ISSN: 0031-9228 > > > Cited References: > ALBERT R, 2002, REV MOD PHYS, V74, P47. > BARABASI AL, 1999, SCIENCE, V286, P509. > BARABASI AL, 2002, PHYSICA A, V311, P590. > DOROGOVTSEV SN, 2000, PHYS REV LETT, V85, P4633. > DOROGOVTSEV SN, 2002, ADV PHYS, V51, P1079. > EGGHE L, 1990, INTRO INFORMETRICS Q. > GARFIELD E, 1972, SCIENCE, V178, P471. > JEONG H, 2003, EUROPHYS LETT, V61, P567. > KLEINBERG J, 1999, LECT NOTES COMPUTER, V1627, P1. > KRAPIVSKY PL, 2000, PHYS REV LETT, V85, P4629. > KRAPIVSKY PL, 2001, PHYS REV E 2, V63. > LAHERRERE J, 1998, EUR PHYS J B, V2, P525. > MERTON R, 1973, SOCIOLOGY SCI. > MOED HF, 2002, NATURE, V415, P731. > NAKAMOTO H, 1988, P 1 INT C BIBL THEOR, P157. > PASTORSATORRAS P, 2004, EVOLUTION STRUCTURE. > PRICE DJD, 1965, SCIENCE, V149, P510. > PRICE DJD, 1976, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V27, P292. > REDNER S, 1998, EUR PHYS J B, V4, P131. > SIMON HA, 1955, BIOMETRIKA, V42, P425. > VANRAAN AFJ, 2004, SCIENTOMETRICS, V59, P467. > YULE GU, 1925, PHILOS T R SOC LON B, V213, P21. > > > > > Dr. Han Woo PARK English site: http://www.hanpark.net Cyber-cafe in Korean, 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... URL: From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Sat Jul 16 14:16:50 2005 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 20:16:50 +0200 Subject: Preprint version about co-occurrence matrices Message-ID: Co-occurrence Matrices and their Applications in Information Science: Extending ACA to the Web Environment Loet Leydesdorff [1] and Liwen Vaughan [2] Co-occurrence matrices, such as co-citation, co-word, and co-link matrices, have been used widely in the information sciences. However, confusion and controversy have hindered the proper statistical analysis of this data. The underlying problem, in our opinion, involved understanding the nature of various types of matrices. This paper discusses the difference between a symmetrical co-citation matrix and an asymmetrical citation matrix as well as the appropriate statistical techniques that can be applied to each of these matrices, respectively. Similarity measures (like the Pearson correlation coefficient or the cosine) should not be applied to the symmetrical co-citation matrix, but can be applied to the asymmetrical citation matrix to derive the proximity matrix which is needed for further analysis such as multidimensional scaling. The argument is illustrated with examples. The study then extends the application of co-occurrence matrices to the Web environment where the nature of the available data and thus data collection methods are different from those of traditional databases such as the Science Citation Index. A set of data collected with the Google Scholar search engine is analyzed using both the traditional methods of multivariate analysis and the new visualization software Pajek that is based on social network analysis and graph theory. ** apologies for cross-postings; comments are very welcome in this stage. _____ 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 Jul 19 13:18:45 2005 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 13:18:45 -0400 Subject: Isidro F. Aguillo, Bego=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=F1a?= Granadino, Jose Luis Ortega and Jose Antonio Prieto "What the Internet says about Science: Universities can be ranked based on web indicators" The Scientist | Volume 19 | Issue 14 | Page 10 | Jul. 18, 2005 Message-ID: E-mail: Isidro F. Aguillo [isidro at cindoc.csic.es], FROM: The Scientist Volume 19 | Issue 14 | Page 10 | Jul. 18, 2005 UPFRONT | OPINION TITLE : What the Internet says about Science: Universities can be ranked based on web indicators AUTHORS: Isidro F. Aguillo, Bego?a Granadino, Jose Luis Ortega and Jose Antonio Prieto The Web has changed the way in which many researchers access scientific information, conduct research, communicate their findings, and share data. There is now a need to assess the impact of Web publication in order to promote wider and better use of this new medium.1 Recent attempts have been made to go beyond the strict use of bibliometric indicators. Shanghai Jiao Tong University has published a ranking2 of the top 500 universities, in which numbers of publications and citations were combined with other criteria such as institution size or the number of Nobel prizes awarded to alumni. The Web offers advantages as institutions represent "natural units," with their own institutional domains that mark their presence on the Internet. Since most institutions have a specific Internet domain or subdomain for all their Web pages,3 quantitative data can be extracted using specifically designed crawlers, or the robots of the major search engines. The contents of these institutional Web sites might include not only final papers or preprints, but also valuable information on other aspects of their scientific activities. Raw data, teaching materials, slides produced for meetings or conferences, in-house software, graphs, media files, and even administrative information might be useful to pupils, colleagues, and partners worldwide. Since the Web is ubiquitous, a wider audience is possible when publication is electronic; this could include readers in developing countries whose access to scientific publications can be very restricted. The Web is cheaper than the printed word and can provide information that paper sources could never contain; for example, large amounts of data, complex and dynamic graphics, or even interactive systems. Finally, the Web is a hypertext-interlinked system, and although the motivations for linking far exceed traditional "citation for recognition," careful use of citation analysis techniques may still be possible. Web indicators are now becoming important in the quantitative analysis of science,4 but a global system involving the major universities and research institutions has yet to be developed. To fill this gap, we designed a combined assessment model for ranking the institutional domains of universities worldwide based on "Web presence" indicators. Three different features of these domains were assessed: the size of their Web presence (measured by the number of Web pages), visibility (reflected by the number of in-links from pages external to the domain), and the number of "rich" files available (the number of downloadable files in advanced formats such as Adobe Acrobat ? pdf, PostScript ? ps, MS Word ? doc, MS PowerPoint ? ppt, and MS Excel ? xls). Table 1 Rank University Size Visibility Rich Files 1 Stanford University 3 3 1 2 University of California,Berkeley 4 2 3 3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 5 1 6 4 Harvard University 1 4 4 5 Pennsylvania State University 2 9 2 6 Univ. of Illinois,Urbana-Champaign 7 7 7 7 University of Michigan 6 6 16 8 Cornell University 13 5 9 9 University of Texas,Austin 9 8 10 10 University of Wisconsin, Madison 10 10 12 While evaluations were made in absolute terms, the fact that research and other activities involve specific file types was taken into account. The number of in-links to these organizations' Web sites was used to establish the visibility of their content to third parties, including other academic and scientific organizations, government authorities, and companies. Data were collected using the major search engines. The full results are available from "Ranking of World Universities in the Web" [http://www.webometrics.info], where the first 1,000 universities are listed according to Web criteria. Preliminary analysis shows that most productive research-oriented universities are among the leaders in the list (Table 1). Table 2 Country Top 100 Top 200 Top 500 USA 66 104 208 Canada 7 16 26 Germany 5 21 52 United Kingdom 5 12 37 Sweden 3 7 13 Norway 3 3 4 Australia 2 7 19 Switzerland 2 5 7 Finland 2 2 8 Austria 2 2 8 Netherlands 1 6 8 Brazil 1 2 6 Mexico 1 1 3 Italy 2 13 France 2 10 A significant positive correlation was found between the Web list ranks and the Shanghai Jiao Tong University list. Moreover, a large number of technologically oriented institutions were well-positioned by the Webometric indicators. The universities of developing countries (especially of the larger nations) appeared in competitive positions with regard to those of the developed world (Table 2). There are still several technical and methodological problems to overcome, mostly related with the search engine bias. More relevant, there are several shortcomings and caveats related to the use of Web indicators for assessing visibility and impact. These are not yet developed enough to compare directly to bibliometric ones, but we intend to use non-Webometric indicators in our rankings to allow a direct comparison of the different approaches. Isidro F. Aguillo [isidro at cindoc.csic.es], Bego?a Granadino, Jose Luis Ortega, and Jose Antonio Prieto are researchers in the Internet Lab at the Center for Scientific Information and Documentation (CINDC), Spanish Higher Council for Scientific Research, in Madrid, Spain. References 1. M Thelwall et al, http://cybermetrics.wlv.ac.uk/AoIRASIST/index.html Proceedings of the AoIR-ASIST 2004 Workshop on Web Science Research Methods 2004. 2. NC Liu et al, "Academic Ranking of World Universities ? 2004," http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/ranking.htm Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University 2004. 3. IF Aguillo STM information on the Web and the development of new Internet R&D databases and indicators Proceedings Online Information Meeting 98, London, Learned information 1998, 239-43. 4. M Thelwall et al, "Webometrics," Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (Edited by: Cronin B). Medford, NY: Information Today, Inc 2005, 39: 81-135. From eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Thu Jul 21 13:39:13 2005 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:39:13 -0400 Subject: Related journals feature of Journal Citation Reports Message-ID: In the Journal Citation Reports for 2004 and retroactively as well for 2003 ISI has added a new feature to JCR which will appear to Journalology aficionados. In a nutshell, starting with a given journal title you can find a ranked list of journals that are most closely related to it. The feature is explained in the help notes. The process is ISI's application of the method described by Alexander Pudovkin of Vladivostok and myself in the following paper: Pudovkin AI, Garfield E "Algorithmic procedure for finding semantically related journals " Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) 53(13):1113-1119, November 2002. http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/pudovkinsemanticallyrelatedjour nals2002.html __________________________________________________ Eugene Garfield, PhD. email: garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu home page: www.eugenegarfield.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Thu Jul 21 14:04:07 2005 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:04:07 -0400 Subject: Ahmed T, Johnson B, Oppenheim C, Peck C. "Watson & Crick 1953 paper + HistCite (Letter to the Editor)" Message-ID: E-mail: C.Oppenheim at lboro.ac.uk Published in Scientometrics Vol. 63, No. 3 (2005) 631 AUTHOR : Tanzila Ahmed, Ben Johnson, Charles Oppenheim, Catherine Peck TITLE : Watson & Crick 1953 paper + HistCite -Letter to the Editor SOURCE : Scientometrics, Vol:63, No:3, p.631, June 2005 Sir, Since the publication of our article (AHMED et al., 2004) analysing citations to the seminal Watson and Crick article (WATSON & CRICK, 1953) on the structure of DNA,my attention has been drawn to a series of articles by Garfield et al. (GARFIELD et al.,2003a; GARFIELD et al., 2003b; GARFIELD, 2003), in which they examined the citation history of this paper using the HistCite software. Garfield et al.’s papers complement rather than duplicate our work, and shed important new light on the impact of Watson and Crick on subsequent researchers. The HistCite program offers a powerful new tool for helping those analysing citation histories. Tanzila Ahmed Ben Johnson Charles Oppenheim Catherine Peck Department of Information Science Loughborough University Loughborough Leics LE11 3TU UK E mail: C.Oppenheim at lboro.ac.uk References AHMED, T., JOHNSON, B., OPPENHEIM, C., PECK, C. (2004), Highly cited old papers and the reason why they continue to be cited, Part II. The 1953 Watson and Crick article on the structure of DNA, Scientometrics, 61 (2) 147–156. GARFIELD, E. (2003), Using HistCite to Map the Output of Small World, Watson-Crick 1953, Cell Death and Differentiation, P. Nicotera, and Gene Flow. Presented at MRC Toxicology Unit Seminar at the University of Leicester, and available at: http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/leicester071103.pdf GARFIELD, E., PUDOVKIN, A. I., ISTOMIN, V. I. (2003a), Mapping the output of topical searches in the Web of Knowledge and the case of Watson-Crick, Information Technology and Libraries, 22 (4) : 183-187. GARFIELD, E., PUDOVKIN, A. I., ISTOMIN, V. I. (2003b), Mapping output of topical searches in the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts and Humanities Citation Index, paper presented at the Special Libraries Association Meeting, New York, June 2003 and available at: http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/sla061003.pdf WATSON, J. D., CRICK, F. H. C. (1953), A structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid, Nature, 171 (4356) : 737-738. From eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Thu Jul 21 15:05:06 2005 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 15:05:06 -0400 Subject: Patra SK, Chand P, "Biotechnology research profile of India" Scientometrics 63(3): 583-597, June 2005. Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: prakashc at niscair.res.in Title : Biotechnology research profile of India Author(s): Patra SK, Chand P Source: SCIENTOMETRICS 63 (3): 583-597 JUN 2005 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 15 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: The study explores the chronological growth of Indian Biotechnology. Applicability of Lotka's law has been examined for the authorship pattern. Productivity of authors is analyzed and a list of 35 authors publishing more than 10 publications is given. Bradford's law of scattering is used to identify the core journals which cover most of the research and development output of Indian Biotechnology. The study also shows the active authors, institutions and statewise distributions of Indian Biotechnology research output. Addresses: Chand P (reprint author), Natl Inst Sci Commun & Informat Resources, 14 Satsang Vihar Marg, New Delhi, 110067 India Natl Inst Sci Commun & Informat Resources, New Delhi, 110067 India Indian Inst Technol Delhi, Dept Biochem Engn & Biotechnol, New Delhi, India E-mail Addresses: prakashc at niscair.res.in Publisher: SPRINGER, VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS Subject Category: COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS; INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE IDS Number: 924UH ISSN: 0138-9130 Cited References: 2002, INDIA EC NEWS, V12, P1. ARUNACHALAM S, 1999, CURR SCI INDIA, V76, P1191. ARUNACHALAM S, 2001, SCIENTOMETRICS, V52, P235. BRADFORD SC, 1934, ENGINEERING-LONDON, V137, P85. BROOKES BC, 1969, NATURE, V224, P953. CHATURVEDI S, 2002, RES INFORMATION SYST, P1. GHOSE TK, 2000, ADV BIOCHEM ENG BIOT, V69, P87. GREGORY B, 2003, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V54, P169. KAWAMURA M, 1999, MED INFORM INTERNET, V24, P309. LOTKA AJ, 1926, J WASHINGTON ACADEMY, V16, P317. MANI S, 2004, TECHNOL FORECAST SOC, V71, P855. NAGPAL MPK, 2000, UNPUB SCIENTOMETRIC. SITTIG DF, 1996, B MED LIBR ASSOC, V84, P200. UNGERNSTERNBERG SV, 2000, SCIENTOMETRICS, V49, P161. YUEH M, 2000, SCIENTOMETICS, V49, P491. From eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Fri Jul 22 14:36:05 2005 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 14:36:05 -0400 Subject: Tempest D. "The effect of journal title changes on impact factors " Learned Publishing 18(1):57-62 January 2005. Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: d.tempest at elsevier.com Title: The effect of journal title changes on impact factors Author(s): Tempest D Source: LEARNED PUBLISHING 18 (1): 57-62 JAN 2005 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 7 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: One of the most misunderstood aspects of journal management is the effect of journal title changes on the ThomsonScientific impact factor. This study analyses journals that changed their title in 1994 and 1995 and ascertains the period of time taken to recover the impact factor. Effects of subject classification and of the size of the journal are also investigated to see if recovery time depends on them. The analysis shows that recovery times are longer than predicted. Suggestions are made on how publishers may approach communication of journal title changes to minimize the effects on the impact factor. Addresses: Tempest D (reprint author), Elsevier, Acad Relat, Blvd,Langford Lane, Kidlington, OX5 1GB England Elsevier, Acad Relat, Kidlington, OX5 1GB England E-mail Addresses: d.tempest at elsevier.com Publisher: ASSOC LEARNED PROFESSIONAL SOC PUBL, SOUTH HOUSE, THE STREET WORTHING, W SUSSEX BN13 3UU, ENGLAND IDS Number: 894PF ISSN: 0953-1513 Cited References: FOGGIN CM, 1992, SERIALS LIBR, V23, P71. GARFIELD E, ISI ESSAY IMPACT FAC. MABE M, IMPACT FACTORS USE A. MABE M, 2003, SERIALS, V16, P191. MABE MA, 2001, ASLIB PROC, V53, P85. ROBERTSON J, ISI ESSAY UNDERSTAND. VANAFES B, 1993, B MED LIB ASS, V81, P48. From quentinburrell at MANX.NET Fri Jul 22 15:02:54 2005 From: quentinburrell at MANX.NET (Quentin L. Burrell) Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 20:02:54 +0100 Subject: Impact? Fwd from THES Message-ID: RAE shifts focus from prestige journals Anthea Lipsett and Anna Fazackerley Published: 22 July 2005 Senior academics overseeing the 2008 research assessment exercise have urged universities to abandon their obsession with big-name journals such as Nature and Science. If successful, the move could signal a major culture shift in universities where academics are pressured to publish "career grade" papers in top-ranking general journals to gain appointments and promotions. As the 15 main panels and 67 subject sub-panels this week unveiled the draft criteria for the 2008 RAE, panel chairs stressed that all types of research and journals will be treated equally across all subjects, from the sciences to the arts and humanities. Sir John Beringer, chair of Panel D, which covers the biological sciences, said: "The jolt will come for those (academics) who take the mindless approach - 'I have so many publications in journals X and Y, therefore I am excellent'. It is terribly important to break the link that publishing in a journal such as Nature is necessarily a measure of excellence." Rama Thirunamachandran, director of research at the Higher Education Funding Council for England, said: "It is not all about publishing in high-impact journals. It is about ensuring that high-quality research is disseminated by whatever means. In some cases that might be a patent application, in others conference proceedings." But academics were already questioning the practicality of the new approach. Ian Haines, chairman of the UK Deans of Science Committee, said: "It is probably almost impossible to ask each panel to read all the information and look at all the publications they are referred to. That does open up problems." The 2008 RAE, which will determine where billions of pounds in future research grants go, will focus solely on research outputs such as academic papers rather than individuals, and produce star profiles for university departments rather than research ratings as previously. Despite greater autonomy given to different subject panels, chairs have been keen to emphasise the similarity of their approaches. Most panels have said that 70 per cent of final rankings will be based on research outputs, 20 per cent on research environmentand 10 per cent on esteem. The engineering panel, however, has opted to allocate just 50 per cent to research outputs. But Sir Bob May, president of the Royal Society, warned against focusing solely on the 2008 RAE. "It is important that members of the research community do not become so absorbed in preparing for the 2008 RAE that they neglect to raise their sights to consider what should happen afterwards," he said. "If it (a review) does not begin now, there is a danger that we will have time only after the 2008 RAE to tinker again with the existing system. It is time to stop rearranging the deckchairs and decide whether we are on the right ship." anthea.lipsett at thes.co.uk Dr Quentin L Burrell Isle of Man International Business School The Nunnery Old Castletown Road Douglas Isle of Man IM2 1QB via United Kingdom www.ibs.ac.im -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From notsjb at LSU.EDU Fri Jul 22 15:22:39 2005 From: notsjb at LSU.EDU (Stephen J Bensman) Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 14:22:39 -0500 Subject: Impact? Fwd from THES Message-ID: Thanks. Very interesting. The proper URL for that below is at: http://www.thes.co.uk/current_edition/story.aspx?story_id=2023494 It won't work. Prestige journals and impact factor have become institutionalzed, and, once something has become institutionalized, the only way to destroy it is to destroy the institutions. Many Brit authors are requesting the impact factor of JASIST once their papers have been accepted, because they have to give this information to their academic superiors. Because of this, Don Kraft has requested me a number of time to do an impact factor analysis of JASIST, so this information can be given to them. The cancer is very deep. I am beginning to think of billing Wiley for the service. If anybody is interested in the latest analysis, please contact me, and I will forward it to them. I know that EU and Brit authors are required to put this in their reports to their academic honchos. SB "Quentin L. Burrell" @LISTSERV.UTK.EDU> on 07/22/2005 02:02:54 PM Please respond to ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics Sent by: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU cc: (bcc: Stephen J Bensman/notsjb/LSU) Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Impact? Fwd from THES RAE shifts focus from prestige journals Anthea Lipsett and Anna Fazackerley Published: 22 July 2005 Senior academics overseeing the 2008 research assessment exercise have urged universities to abandon their obsession with big-name journals such as Nature and Science. If successful, the move could signal a major culture shift in universities where academics are pressured to publish "career grade" papers in top-ranking general journals to gain appointments and promotions. As the 15 main panels and 67 subject sub-panels this week unveiled the draft criteria for the 2008 RAE, panel chairs stressed that all types of research and journals will be treated equally across all subjects, from the sciences to the arts and humanities. Sir John Beringer, chair of Panel D, which covers the biological sciences, said: "The jolt will come for those (academics) who take the mindless approach - 'I have so many publications in journals X and Y, therefore I am excellent'. It is terribly important to break the link that publishing in a journal such as Nature is necessarily a measure of excellence." Rama Thirunamachandran, director of research at the Higher Education Funding Council for England, said: "It is not all about publishing in high-impact journals. It is about ensuring that high-quality research is disseminated by whatever means. In some cases that might be a patent application, in others conference proceedings." But academics were already questioning the practicality of the new approach. Ian Haines, chairman of the UK Deans of Science Committee, said: "It is probably almost impossible to ask each panel to read all the information and look at all the publications they are referred to. That does open up problems." The 2008 RAE, which will determine where billions of pounds in future research grants go, will focus solely on research outputs such as academic papers rather than individuals, and produce star profiles for university departments rather than research ratings as previously. Despite greater autonomy given to different subject panels, chairs have been keen to emphasise the similarity of their approaches. Most panels have said that 70 per cent of final rankings will be based on research outputs, 20 per cent on research environmentand 10 per cent on esteem. The engineering panel, however, has opted to allocate just 50 per cent to research outputs. But Sir Bob May, president of the Royal Society, warned against focusing solely on the 2008 RAE. "It is important that members of the research community do not become so absorbed in preparing for the 2008 RAE that they neglect to raise their sights to consider what should happen afterwards," he said. "If it (a review) does not begin now, there is a danger that we will have time only after the 2008 RAE to tinker again with the existing system. It is time to stop rearranging the deckchairs and decide whether we are on the right ship." anthea.lipsett at thes.co.uk Dr Quentin L Burrell Isle of Man International Business School The Nunnery Old Castletown Road Douglas Isle of Man IM2 1QB via United Kingdom www.ibs.ac.im From katy at INDIANA.EDU Sat Jul 23 10:50:56 2005 From: katy at INDIANA.EDU (Katy Borner) Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 09:50:56 -0500 Subject: =?windows-1252?Q?CfP=3A_Special_Issue_of_Environment_a?= =?windows-1252?Q?nd_Planning_B_on_=93Mapping_Humanity=27s_Kn?= =?windows-1252?Q?owledge_and_Expertise_in_the_Digital_Domain?= =?windows-1252?Q?=94?= Message-ID: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Submissions --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Issue of Environment and Planning B ?Mapping Humanity's Knowledge and Expertise in the Digital Domain? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Guest Editors Andr? Skupin, San Diego State University, skupin at mail.sdsu.edu Katy B?rner, Indiana University, katy at indiana.edu Definition and Scope This special issue aims to provide an overview of major research on the visualization of humanity?s collective knowledge and expertise, as it exists in a digital form. Some of the leading-edge research on this topic is found where geography intersects with information / library science, computer science, cognitive science, graphic design, history and other fields. The special issue of Environment and Planning B will present papers on the broad foundations, computational methods, software systems, and evaluation of such data analyses and visualizations, as they have emerged in this interdisciplinary endeavor. Given the importance of efficient knowledge and expertise management at a time of accelerating information flood, we wish to bring major researchers and their work together in this special issue to initiate a major push of research in this area. The metaphors and organizing principles provided by geographic space have received increasing recognition within these diverse disciplines. Publication in Environment and Planning B will help to further broaden the impact that spatial sciences have on efforts to organize large repositories of non-georeferenced data. List of Possible Topics We invite submissions of authors from a variety of disciplines such as geographic information science, cognitive science, digital libraries, database design, data analysis/mining, information visualization, interface design, and others. The recent special issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science on 'Mapping Knowledge Domains' http://www.pnas.org/content/vol101/suppl_1/ is a good example of the diversity of skills and theories required to map humanity's scholarly knowledge and expertise. The following are some of the topics that papers might address: ? Historical, Sociological, or Philosophical Perspectives on Knowledge Mapping ? Knowledge Discovery, Representation, and Diffusion ? Invisible Colleges, Scientific Networks, Social Networks ? Bibliometric and Scientometric Approaches ? Models of the Structure and Dynamic of Scientific Disciplines ? Spatial Metaphors, Geographic Principles, and Cartographic Methods ? Interaction Techniques and Storytelling ? Map Evaluation, Validation, and Interpretation ? Case Studies and Infrastructure Development Submission Process We ask that authors send a tentative title and abstract to the editors by September 15, in order to expedite later editorial and peer review procedures. Then, by November 15, submit to both editors an electronic copy of your paper (up to 6000-8000 words; preferably in Microsoft Word format). All submissions will then undergo a rigorous peer review process to determine the contributions to appear in this special issue, in accordance with the timeline indicated below. A total of 5-6 papers will be included in this issue. Timeline Call for papers issued: July 15, 2005 Notices of Intent Due: September 15, 2005 Full papers due: November 15, 2005 Peer reviews due: January 1, 2005 Authors notified: January 15, 2005 Revisions due: March 1, 2006 About the Guest Editors Andr? Skupin is an assistant professor of Geography at San Diego State University. Prior to this he held an associate professor position at the University of New Orleans. One of his core research interests is the application of geographic metaphors, cartographic principles, and GIS techniques in the visualization of non-geographic information. His research is strongly interdisciplinary, aimed especially at increased cross-fertilization between geography and information science. For example, he has worked on new approaches to create map-like visualizations from large document collections. Results have been published in such journals as Cartography and Geographic Information Science, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Computing in Science and Engineering, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Skupin is currently co-editing a book on applications of self-organizing maps in geographic information science for Wiley. He has served on program committees of the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) and of a number of international workshops dealing with digital library interfaces. See also http://www.uno.edu/~geog/askupin/ Katy B?rner is an associate professor in the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University. In addition, she is an adjunct associate professor of Informatics, core faculty in Cognitive Science, and a research affiliate of the Biocomplexity Institute. She conducts research on the analysis and modeling of large scale data sets and the design of cyberinfrastructures (http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy/gallery ). Dr. B?rner has co-organized diverse international workshops, conferences and symposia and co-edited several special journal issues as well as a Springer book on 'Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries'. She is the co-editor of the recent PNAS 101 (Suppl. 1) 2004 issue on 'Mapping Knowledge Domains'. Her research is funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, James S. McDonnell Foundation, SBC (formerly Ameritech), and SUN Microsystems. See also http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy/ -- Katy Borner, Associate Professor Information Science & Cognitive Science Indiana University, SLIS 10th Street & Jordan Avenue Phone: (812) 855-3256 Fax: -6166 Main Library 019 E-mail: katy at indiana.edu Bloomington, IN 47405, USA WWW: ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy Check out the new InfoVis Lab Gallery at http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy/gallery/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Michel.Menou at WANADOO.FR Sun Jul 24 04:17:56 2005 From: Michel.Menou at WANADOO.FR (Michel J. Menou) Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 10:17:56 +0200 Subject: Announcing the International Calendar of Information Science Conferences Message-ID: ** Please excuse duplicate postings ** The Special Interest Group on International Information Issues (SIG/III), the European (ASIST/EC) and the New England (NEASIST) chapters of ASIS&T (American Society for Information Science & Technology) are pleased to announce: The International Calendar of Information Science Conferences (ICISC) http://icisc.neasist.org/ This centralized, master calendar of relevant conferences being held around the world serves three primary purposes: - to help information science researchers and practitioners (and their colleagues in related disciplines) to discover which conferences are planned that might fulfill their need to communicate their knowledge and experience and learn from others; and, - to help conference organizers avoid time or topic conflicts, or coordinate with other groups, leading to more interaction and coherence among professional groups; and, - to contribute to facilitating interaction among like-minded professionals working on information problems around the globe. This calendar is meant as a cooperative venture. Any organization or conference organizer is cordially invited to submit relevant conferences, either confirmed or planned, to the ICISC Calendar. Detailed instructions for registering a conference directly, through a submission form, or by Email can be found on the Web site. The site is moderated and the sponsoring organizations reserve the right to discard entries that would not be deemed appropriate. The calendar is in English at the moment. We hope that more languages and/or mirror sites could be added in the future. Announcements can be passed in any language that can be presented in Latin characters, provided an English translation of at least the conference place and title is also included. In addition to the dynamic and searchable calendar available for viewing in both block and list style, there is a "Quick Calendar" listing all the events on a static HTML web page useful for printing, or for those with slower internet connections. ICISC further offers the option to subscribe to an RSS feed to keep up to date on the latest additions. The web site further includes lists of electronic fora, organizations, networks and rotating conferences in Information science. Suggestions of relevant entries will be most welcome. We hope that you will find this calendar useful from an organizational and/or individual stand point. We encourage you to contribute to the calendar and offer your suggestions. Be sure to subscribe to the RSS/XML feed to stay up to date on new additions to the calendar. Your colleagues from, SIG/III (http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/) ASIST/EC (http://www.asis.org/Chapters/europe/About.htm) NEASIST (http://www.neasist.org/) International Calendar of Information Science Conferences (ICISC) http://icisc.neasist.org/ Contact: icisc at neasist.org -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.9.4/57 - Release Date: 22/07/2005 From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Sat Jul 30 04:03:32 2005 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 10:03:32 +0200 Subject: How search engines re-write the past Message-ID: Multiple Presents: How Search Engines Re-write the Past New Media & Society (forthcoming) Iina Hellsten, Loet Leydesdorff, and Paul Wouters Abstract Internet search engines function in a present which changes continuously. The search engines update their indices regularly, overwriting Web pages with newer ones, adding new pages to the index, and losing older ones. Some search engines can be used to search for information at the internet for specific periods of time. However, these 'date stamps' are not determined by the first occurrence of the pages in the Web, but by the last date at which a page was updated or a new page was added, and the search engine's crawler updated this change in the database. This has major implications for the use of search engines in scholarly research as well as theoretical implications for the conceptions of time and temporality. We examine the interplay between the different updating frequencies by using AltaVista and Google for searches at different moments of time. Both the retrieval of the results and the structure of the retrieved information erodes over time. ** apologies for cross-postings _____ 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: