From notsjb at LSU.EDU Wed Aug 1 14:55:35 2007 From: notsjb at LSU.EDU (Stephen J Bensman) Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 13:55:35 -0500 Subject: LSU Evaluation Pratfalls Message-ID: I am donating to Louisiana State University (LSU) Archives materials I have collected over the years on the national ratings of LSU's research-doctorate programs. I am too close to retirement to be really hurt by making these materials public. I have written for these materials an inventory/explanation, which contains some interesting findings concerning the vagaries of evaluating academic programs and the mistakes that can be made. Therefore, I am posting the inventory/explanation on Sigmetrics in the accompanying Word attachment. Some of you may find my humor rather offbeat, and you have to have seen the movie "Gone with the Wind" to understand the best joke. Stephen J. Bensman LSU Libraries Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA notsjb at lsu.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: LSURatings.doc Type: application/msword Size: 49664 bytes Desc: LSURatings.doc URL: From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Tue Aug 7 14:15:52 2007 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 19:15:52 +0100 Subject: University of Leicester's Self-Archiving Policy In-Reply-To: Message-ID: [Cross-Posted] On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Colman, Prof A.M. wrote: > Dear Stevan > > I am keen to have my publications archived where they are likely to be > found by interested readers. After your encouraging reply, I spent a > whole day retrieving 63 manuscript drafts of articles and tidying them > up for deposit in the Leicester Research Archive. Because PDFs of the > published versions are already in my own web space, I inserted a > hyperlink on each manuscript version, directing readers to the PDF > version. I would advise you to to forward this exchange to the IP policy-makers at U Leicester, because the logic of the current UL policy has to be more carefully thought through. I am sure UL's motivation is to help, not hinder UL's research impact while ensuring everything is in conformity with the law. A few minor but critical changes in the current policy will accomplish both goals: maximal impact, and full legality: > A month later, less than half of my manuscripts are in the Leicester > Research Archive. The archive has been seeking permission from the > publishers for archiving each manuscript draft, and, for those for which > permission has been granted, have also carefully deleted the hyperlinks > that I inserted at the top of each manuscript draft. This is the policy that urgently needs to be carefully thought through again, as it has a few major, unnecessary flaws that are easily remediable, but do need to be remedied: (1) *All* manuscripts should be deposited immediately upon acceptance for publication. Deposit itself is entirely the prerogative of UL, an internal matter, not requiring permission from anyone. It is only *access-setting* to that deposited document -- i.e. Open Access vs. Closed Access -- that can depend on publisher policy. (2) If the UL archivists wish to query the publishers about access-setting, that's fine: in the meanwhile, access to the full texts of the deposits can be set as Closed Access. (3) If the response to the query is affirmative (or the policy indexed in Romeo endorses immediate OA self-archiving), set access as Open Access; otherwise, rely on the "Request Copy" "Fair Use" Button for those who want access to the Closed Access deposits: "How the Immediate-Deposit/Optional-Access Mandate + the 'Fair Use' Button Work" http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/274-guid.html http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php//RequestCopy (Deleting hyperlinks to the PDFs on your website makes no sense at all!) > I am not convinced of the value of manuscript drafts on their own. > Researchers cannot rely on them, even if they are in fact faithful > versions of the published articles, which is seldom the case because of > copy-editing alterations that are often not even discussed with authors. Andrew, you are judging this against the wrong baseline: (a) If a potential user has access to either the publisher's paper version or PDF, they can and will use that. Those are *not* the users for whom the self-archived version is being provided. (b) If a potential user does *not* have access to either the publisher's paper version or PDF, then their problem is not that they don't have access to a "faithful" copy-edited version, but that they have no access at all! *Those* are the target users for whom OA is needed, and being provided, and they are the ones who double research impact if they are at last given access. Please don't think of OA self-archiving as replacing subscription access. It is a *supplement*, for those who are denied subscription access. You can make your final draft as faithful as you judge necessary. But it would be a huge error in judgment and priorities to deprive would-be users of access altogether, when they can't afford subscription access at all, simply because you don't want to deprive them of the copy-editing! > Even if one had confidence in the accuracy of a manuscript version, it > would be impossible to quote from it, because the pagination would be > missing. I don't find other researchers' manuscript drafts nearly as > useful as final PDFs. Again, you are weighing this entirely from the wrong viewpoint: Those who can't *access* it, cannot read or use your research *at all*. (And of course one can quote from a manuscript version. One quotes it, specifying the section and paragraph number instead of the page! That is in fact more accurate and scholarly than a page reference. And if the copy-editor (of the article one is writing, in which one is quoting from an article for which one only has access to the final draft, not the PDF) requests page-spans, *that's* the time to tell the copy-editor that one does not have subscription access, so let *them* look up the page numbers -- or use the even better scholarly indicator of section name and paragraph number.) "Paragraph-Based Quotation in Place of PDF/Page-Based" http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/5755.html http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/154-guid.html > You said that "Leicester's only omission in all of this is not yet > having mandated deposit; once it does that, all will go well". Worse > than that, the person handling my submissions believes that publishers > need to be contacted for each item, and that "unfortunately I do have to > wait for permission to archive them, even if they are drafts. Generally > publishers do not allow the 'as published versions' to be archived by > anyone apart from themselves on their own sites and so for us to archive > them, or provide links to sites, other than the publisher's official > site, may breach copyright law. . . . Unfortunately we are not allowed > to even archive the drafts from the following publications which you > have articles in [followed by a list]". This UL provisional policy has not been thought through and needs only a few simple parametric changes to make it sensible and effective: (i) The manuscript can and should be deposited immediately. No one's permission is needed for that, and the metadata are then immediately visible webwide, and the "Fair Use" Button can start doing its job. (ii) The journal policy can already be looked up in Romeo for most journals, and that means 62% of the immediate deposits can definitely be set to Open Access immediately. The archivist can write to the publisher to double-check the policy if they wish, but meanwhile the deposit should be OA for this 62%: http://romeo.eprints.org/stats.php (iii) For the remaining 38% of immediate-deposits, set access initially as Closed Access, and let the archivist inquire, if they wish. Meanwhile the Fair Use button will be doing its job. "Get the Institutional Repository Managers Out of the Decision Loop" http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/6482.html http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/260-guid.html > Is this right, and if not, is there perhaps a different archive in which > I and my colleagues could place our articles? I have several colleagues > who are keen on this idea but are not attracted by the very partial > solution available locally. The Leicester Archive policy is very wrong on this score. I urge you to take it up with the administration, because currently they are shooting themselves in the foot, gratuitously, with this flawed policy, so easily corrected. Yes, there are other Archives you could deposit it in, but it would be a great pity if Leicester did not sort out its own deposit policy, as it is so simple to do: (1) All manuscripts should be deposited immediately. (2) Not only the archivists but the authors should be able to deposit, as they can in virtually all of the other IRs worldwide. Almost no IR restricts depositing to proxy archivists (and those few that do are making a big mistake in imposing this needless and counterproductive restriction). (3) If there are worries about rights, check Romeo, and, if the archivist wishes, also write to the publisher. But meanwhile, deposit immediately and set Access as Closed Access if in doubt. (4) Implement the "Fair Use" Button: http://www.eprints.org/news/features/request_button.php (5) Adopt the ID/OA policy: http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html Best wishes, Stevan Harnad AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM: http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/ UNIVERSITIES and RESEARCH FUNDERS: If you have adopted or plan to adopt an policy of providing Open Access to your own research article output, please describe your policy at: http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/136-guid.html 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 an 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 own institutional repository. http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ http://archives.eprints.org/ http://openaccess.eprints.org/ From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Aug 9 11:39:22 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 11:39:22 -0400 Subject: Contents of Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 3 September 2007 Message-ID: Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 3 September(2007) =============================================== E-mail: mjkim at jj.ac.kr, mjkim77 at hotmail.com AUTHOR : Mee-Jean Kim, Jeonju University, Department of Library and Information Science, Jeonju (South Korea) TITLE : A bibliometric analysis of the effectiveness of Korea?s Biotechnology Stimulation Plans, with a comparison with four other Asian nations SOURCE : Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 3 (2007) 371?388 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-006-1585-8 Abstract : This study investigates the scientific output and publication patterns of Korean biotechnology before and after the start of the Korean Biotechnology Stimulation Plans (1994?2007), and then compares the results with publication data from the same time periods for Japan, the People?s Republic of China, Taiwan and Singapore. For this study, 14,704 publications, published by at least one researcher from one of the five Asian nations (indexed by SCI Expanded during the years 1990?1993 and the years 2000?2003), were considered. A marked increase of Korean research output in biotechnology was largely influenced by an increasing tendency for researchers to enter the field of biotechnology and by increased expenditures for R&D activity through the Korean Biotechnology Stimulation Plans. In addition, the SCI Expanded coverage of national journals affected the scientific output and publication patterns of Japanese and Korean researchers. Looking at the Korean publications by collaboration type, international collaboration leads to more publications in mainstream journals of high impact factors than local and domestic collaborations for the two periods. However, although the Korean Biotechnology Stimulation Plans were followed by a remarkable increase in South Korea?s research output, this increase has not been accompanied by growth in the quality of those publications in terms of impact factors of journals for Korean publications. ADDRESS : Address for correspondence: MEE-JEAN KIM Saemmori Apt. 203-1203, Dunsan-Dong 908, Seo-Gu Daejeon, South Korea E-mail: mjkim at jj.ac.kr, mjkim77 at hotmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------- E-mail: xjhu at zjuem.zju.edu.cn, wangjian63 at mail.hz.zj.cn AUTHOR : Xiaojun Hu Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Medical Information Center, Hangzhou (P. R. China) TITLE : Relative Superiority Coefficient of papers: A new dimension for institutional research performance in different fields SOURCE : Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 3 (2007) 389?402 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-006-1733-1 ABSTRACT: Cross-field comparison of citation measures of scientific achievement or research quality is severely hindered by the diversity of the stage of development and citation habits of different disciplines or fields. Based on the same principles of RCR (Relative Citation Rate) and RW (Relative Subfield Citedness), a new dimension ? the Relative Superiority Coefficient (SCn) in research quality was introduced. This can indicate clearly the relative research level for research groups at multiple levels in the respective field by consistent criteria in terms of research quality. Comparison of the SCn within or across 22 broad fields among 5 countries were presented as an application model. Hierarchical Cluster and One-Way ANOVA were applied and processed by the statistical program SPSS. All original data were from Essential Science Indicators (ESI) 1996?2006. Address for correspondence: HU XIAOJUN Medical Information Center, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University Hangzhou, 310058, P. R. China E-mail: xjhu at zjuem.zju.edu.cn, wangjian63 at mail.hz.zj.cn Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 3 (2007) 389?402 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-006-1733-1 --------------------------------------------------------------- E-mail: guanjianch at buaa.edu.cn; guanjianch at 126.com; guanjianch at sina.com AUTHOR : Jiancheng Guan, Ying He JIANCHENG GUANa,b, YING HEb aSchool of Management, Fudan University, Shanghai (P. R. China) bSchool of Management, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing (P. R. China) TITLE : Patent-bibliometric analysis on the Chinese science ? technology linkages SOURCE : Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 3 (2007) 403?425 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1741-1 ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study is to explore the character and pattern of the linkage between science and technology in China, based on the database of United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The analysis is focused on the period 1995?2004, a rapid increasing period for Chinese US patents. Using the scientific non-patent references (NPRs) within patents, we investigate the science-technology connection in the context of Chinese regions as well as industrial sectors classified by International Patent Classification (IPC). 11 technological domains have been selected to describe the science intensity of the technology. The results suggest that the patents and the corresponding scientific citations are related in different ways. Finally, we match the scientific NPRs to the Science Citation Index (SCI) covered publications to identify the core journals and categories. It reveals that the scientific references covered by SCI show a skewed distribution not only in journals but also in categories. Address for correspondence: JIANCHENG GUAN School of Management Fudan University 200433 Shanghai, P. R. China E-mail: guanjianch at buaa.edu.cn; guanjianch at 126.com; guanjianch at sina.com Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 3 (2007) 403?425 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1741-1 ----------------------------------------------------------- E-mail: jhfowler at ucsd.edu AUTHOR : James H. Fowler, Dag W. Aksnes JAMES H. FOWLERa, DAG W. AKSNESb aPolitical Science Department, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA (USA) bNIFU STEP Studies in Innovation, Research and Education, Oslo (Norway) TITLE : Does self-citation pay? SOURCE : Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 3 (2007) 427?437 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1777-2 ABSTRACT: Self-citations ? those where authors cite their own works ? account for a significant portion of all citations. These self-references may result from the cumulative nature of individual research, the need for personal gratification, or the value of self-citation as a rhetorical and tactical tool in the struggle for visibility and scientific authority. In this article we examine the incentives that underlie self-citation by studying how authors? references to their own works affect the citations they receive from others. We report the results of a macro study of more than half a million citations to articles by Norwegian scientists that appeared in the Science Citation Index. We show that the more one cites oneself the more one is cited by other scholars. Controlling for numerous sources of variation in cumulative citations from others, our models suggest that each additional self-citation increases the number of citations from others by about one after one year, and by about three after five years. Moreover, there is no significant penalty for the most frequent selfciters ? the effect of self-citation remains positive even for very high rates of self- citation. These results carry important policy implications for the use of citations to evaluate performance and distribute resources in science and they represent new information on the role and impact of selfcitations in scientific communication. Address for correspondence: JAMES H. FOWLER Political Science Department, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive 0521, La Jolla, CA 92093-0521, USA E-mail: jhfowler at ucsd.edu Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 3 (2007) 427?437 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1777-2 ---------------------------------------------------------------- E-mail: glewisonxx at aol.com AUTHOR : Grant Lewison GRANT LEWISONa,b aEvaluametrics Ltd, Richmond, Surrey (England) bCIBER, School of Library Archive and Information Studies, University College London,London (England) TITLE : The reporting of the risks from genetically modified organisms in the mass media, 2002?2004 SOURCE : Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 3 (2007) 439?458 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1769-2 ABSTRACT: This paper describes an analysis of coverage of the risks from agricultural and food genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) from April 2002 to April 2004 in 14 news media from six countries (Canada, France, Germany, Spain, the UK and the USA) which was conducted as part of a review for the European Commission of the management of risk communication. A total of 597 relevant news articles were found and coded for their presentational tone, the types of risk (environmental, financial, health and political, in that order), the organisms described (mainly maize, rape and beet crops), and the documents, people and organisations cited. UK news media tended to be the most ?scary? and Spanish ones the most ?robust?. Articles quoting public perceptions, non-governmental environmental organisations and politicians tended to emphasize the risks of GMOs; those quoting scientists tended to downplay the risks and describe their potential benefits. Some suggestions for possible action by the European Commission are put forward, such as the facilitation of contact between journalists and scientists, but it is recognized that for some newspapers, their editorial wish to campaign will inevitably over-ride their reporters? wish to present the truth. Address for correspondence: GRANT LEWISON Evaluametrics Ltd, 50 Marksbury Avenue, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 4JF, England E-mail: glewisonxx at aol.com Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 3 (2007) 439?458 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1769-2 ---------------------------------------------------------------- E-mail: buehring at berkeley.edu AUTHOR : Gertrude Case Buehring, Jessica E. Buehring, Patrick D. Gerard GERTRUDE CASE BUEHRINGa, JESSICA E. BUEHRINGb, PATRICK D. GERARDc aSchool of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA (USA) bDepartment of Library and Information Science, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS (USA) cDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, Experimental Statistics Unit, Mississippi State University,Starkville, MS (USA) TITLE : Lost in citation: Vanishing visibility of senior authors SOURCE : Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 3 (2007) 459?468 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1762-4 ABSTRACT: The senior author is usually last on the byline of scientific publications, yet generally has made the second most important contribution. The explosion in author number per scientific paper, has necessitated limits on the number of authors allowed in cited references, frequently resulting in senior author truncation. Would potential visibility gained from citations in top-tier journals be offset by senior author omission? We found evidence for this in a sample of 208 journals, showing significant associations between author limits in cited references and various measures of journal quality. These associations, however, differed among biological science, physical science, and interdisciplinary journals. Received January 6, 2007 Address for correspondence: GERTRUDE CASE BUEHRING School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Email: buehring at berkeley.edu Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 3 (2007) 459?468 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1762-4 ---------------------------------------------------------------- E-mail: iina.hellsten at vks.knaw.nl AUTHOR : Iina Hellsten, Renaud Lambiotte, Andrea Scharnhorst, Marcel Ausloos IINA HELLSTENa, RENAUD LAMBIOTTEb, ANDREA SCHARNHORSTa, MARCEL AUSLOOSb aThe Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the Royal Netherlands Academyof Arts and Sciences, VKS-KNAW, Amsterdam (The Netherlands) bSUPRATECS, Universit? de Li?ge, Li?ge (Belgium) TITLE : Self-citations, co-authorships and keywords: A new approach to scientists? field mobility? SOURCE : Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 3 (2007) 469?486 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1680-5 ABSTRACT: This paper introduces a new approach to detecting scientists? field mobility by focusing on an author?s self-citation network, and the co- authorships and keywords in self-citing articles. Contrary to much previous literature on self-citations, we will show that author?s self-citation patterns reveal important information on the development and emergence of new research topics over time. More specifically, we will discuss self- citations as a means to detect scientists? field mobility. We introduce a network based definition of field mobility, using the Optimal Percolation Method (LAMBIOTTE & AUSLOOS, 2005; 2006). The results of the study can be extended to selfcitation networks of groups of authors and, generally also for other types of networks. Address for correspondence: IINA HELLSTEN The Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences VKS-KNAW, Cruquiusweg 31, 1019 AT Amsterdam, The Netherlands E-mail: iina.hellsten at vks.knaw.nl Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 3 (2007) 469?486 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1680-5 ---------------------------------------------------------------- E-mail: katarina at idi.hr AUTHOR : Katarina Prpić Institute for Social Research of Zagreb, Zagreb (Croatia) TITLE : Changes of scientific knowledge production and research productivity in a transitional society SOURCE : Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 3 (2007) 487?511 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1760-6 ABSTRACT: The main objective of this paper is to provide an empirical insight into the changes in the basic characteristics of the knowledge production mode and of scientific productivity in the Croatian research system in the transitional period. Empirical analysis is based on the results of two comparable questionnaire studies. The first survey was conducted in 1990 and the sample covered 921 respondents, while the second survey was conducted in 2004 with a sample of 915 respondents. The central characteristics of the knowledge production mode and of productivity confirm an expected duality: the features that accompany the introduction of a competitive system of research funding and evaluation on the one hand, and the anachronistic and newly acquired peculiarity of the research system on the other. Thus, the gap between the improved scientific performance of the researchers and the conditions in which they work has deepened. Scientific productivity still lags behind the productivity of the (developed) countries. Though Croatian researchers publish less, they follow basic global trends in the structure of publications, especially the rise in foreign and co-authored works. Address for correspondence: KATARINA PRPIĆ Institute for Social Research of Zagreb Amru?eva 11,10000 Zagreb, Croatia E-mail: katarina at idi.hr Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 3 (2007) 487?511 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1760-6 ---------------------------------------------------------------- E-mail: kostofr at onr.navy.mil AUTHOR : Ronald N. Kostoff Office of Naval Research, Arlington, VA (USA) TITLE : The difference between highly and poorly cited medical articles in the journal Lancet SOURCE : Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 3 (2007) 513?520 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1573-7 ABSTRACT: Characteristics of highly and poorly cited research articles (with Abstracts) published in The Lancet over a three-year period were examined. These characteristics included numerical (numbers of authors, references, citations, Abstract words, journal pages), organizational (first author country, institution type, institution name), and medical (medical condition, study approach, study type, sample size, study outcome). Compared to the least cited articles, the most cited have three to five times the median number of authors per article, fifty to six hundred percent greater median number of references per article, 110 to 490 times the median number of citations per article, 2.5 to almost seven times the median number of Abstract words per article, and 2.5 to 3.5 times the median number of pages per article. The most cited articles? medical themes emphasize breast cancer, diabetes, coronary circulation, and HIV immune system problems, focusing on large- scale clinical trials of drugs. The least cited articles? themes essentially do not address the above medical issues, especially from a clinical trials perspective, cover a much broader range of topics, and have much more emphasis on social and reproductive health issues. Finally, for sample sizes of clinical trials specifically, those of the most cited articles ranged from a median of about 1500 to 2500, whereas those of the least cited articles ranged from 30 to 40. Address for correspondence: RONALD N. KOSTOFF Office of Naval Research, Arlington, VA 22217, USA E-mail: kostofr at onr.navy.mil Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 3 (2007) 513?520 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1573-7 ------------------------------- ____________________________________________________________________________ Eugene Garfield, PhD. email: garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu home page: www.eugenegarfield.org Tel: 215-243-2205 Fax 215-387- 1266 Chairman Emeritus, ISI www.isinet.com 3501 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-3302 President, The Scientist LLC. www.the-scientist.com 400 Market Street, Suite 1250, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2501 Past President, American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) www.asist.org From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Sun Aug 12 15:41:03 2007 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 21:41:03 +0200 Subject: no longer a size limit (of 64 kByte) in fulltext.exe Message-ID: FullText.exe for Full Text Analysis now for unlimited text sizes available at http://www.leydesdorff.net/software/fulltext/index.htm FullText.exe previously contained a size limit for texts of no longer than 64 kByte. The program generates a word-occurrence matrix, a co-occurrence matrix, and a normalized co-occurrence matrix from a set of text files and a word list. The output files can be read into standard software (like SPSS, Ucinet/Pajek, etc.) for the statistical analysis and the visualization. The program is freely available for academic usage. The number of words to be included in each single analysis as variables remains limited to 1024. With best wishes, Loet _____ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ Now available: The Knowledge-Based Economy: Modeled, Measured, Simulated. 385 pp.; US$ 18.95 The Self-Organization of the Knowledge-Based Society; The Challenge of Scientometrics -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ricardo.arencibia at CNIC.EDU.CU Mon Aug 13 13:52:46 2007 From: ricardo.arencibia at CNIC.EDU.CU (Lic. Ricardo Arencibia Jorge) Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:52:46 -0400 Subject: Gender perspectives in Health Sciences: a bibliometric study Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Gender perspectives can offer an interesting view of the woman role in Science. We send a picture of the Health Surveillance field in Cuba, through the study of a Cuban Open Access journal specialized in this topic. Health Surveillance is an interdisciplinary field, and we use techniques based on Social Network Analysis. Our paper shows a high protagonism of women in the research activity developed in the field. We will send as soon as possible an English version. Title: Woman and development in Health Sciences: a scientometric study of Reporte T?cnico de Vigilancia from gender perspectives Abstract: A scientometric study of the Reporte T?cnico de Vigilancia, a journal of the Health and Analysis Trends Unit from the Cuban Ministry of Public Health, was carried out. The scientific production in the period 1996-2006 was analyzed based on gender perspective, in order to identify the presence of women in the Health Surveillance context for supporting decision making processes on publishing and scientific policies. The collaboration networks between authors, institutions and specialties were visualized. Women were predominant in the authorship. They participated in the 90 % of the articles. However, an increase of the collaboration between both sexes was evidenced. Women were the first author in the 70 % of the articles. The three levels of medical assistance were represented. The Third Level (health research institutes) had the protagonist role, with the predominance of women authorship. The presence of women was directly proportional to the subordination levels. This presence was none at municipal level. A total of 23 specialties according to the professional career were identified. Women were presented in more than 60 % of those specialties, and they represented 100 % in almost 35 % of the specialties. Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Hygiene constituted the back bone of the disciplinary network, which was related to the theoretical framework on Health Surveillance. Key words: Woman, gender, science, health surveillance, scientific production, social networks, scientific collaboration, scientific journal, Scientometrics, Cuba. Link: ACIMED 2007, Vol. 16, Issue 1 http://bvs.sld.cu/revistas/aci/vol16_1_07/aci06707.htm Best Regards, BsC.Ricardo Arencibia Jorge Network of Scientometric Studies for Higher Education National Center for Scientific Research (CNIC) ricardo.arencibia at cnic.edu.cu __________________________________________ Participe en Universidad 2008. 11 al 15 de febrero del 2008. Palacio de las Convenciones, Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba http://www.universidad2008.cu/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Wed Aug 15 03:16:47 2007 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:16:47 +0200 Subject: Journal Citations Reports 2006 Message-ID: Dear colleagues, I brought the local citation environments for the 7,500+ journals included in the Journal Citations Reports 2006 online at http://www.leydesdorff.net/jcr06/cited and http://www.leydesdorff.net/jcr06/citing, respectively. 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Name: Outlook.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 30705 bytes Desc: not available URL: From Chaomei.Chen at CIS.DREXEL.EDU Wed Aug 15 04:01:11 2007 From: Chaomei.Chen at CIS.DREXEL.EDU (Chaomei Chen) Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 04:01:11 -0400 Subject: Chaomei Chen/Drexel_IST is out of the office. Message-ID: I will be out of the office starting Tue 08/14/2007 and will not return until Wed 08/29/2007. I will respond to your message when I return. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Aug 15 15:20:56 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:20:56 -0400 Subject: Contents of Scientometrics, Vol. 73, No. 1 October 2007 Message-ID: Contents of Scientometrics, Vol. 73, No. 1 October 2007 CONTENTS ------------------------------- E-mail: ysho at tmu.edu TITLE : Bibliometric analysis of tsunami research AUTHOR: WEN-TA CHIU, YUH-SHAN HO Taipei Medical University ? Wan-Fang Hospital, Taipei (Taiwan) SOURCE: Scientometrics, Vol. 73, No. 1 (2007) 3-17 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-005-1523-1 Abstract The use of the bibilometric analytical technique for examining tsunami research does not exist in the literature. The objective of the study was to perform a bibliometric analysis of all tsunami-related publications in the Science Citation Index (SCI). Analyzed parameters included document type, language of publication, publication output, authorship, publication patterns, distribution of subject category, distribution of author keywords, country of publication, most-frequently cited article, and document distribution after the Indonesia tsunami. The US and Japan produced 53% of the total output where the seven major industrial countries accounted for the majority of the total production. English was the dominant language, comprising 95% of articles. A simulation model was applied to describe the relationship between the number of authors and the number of articles, the number of journals and the number of articles, and the percentage of total articles and the number of times a certain keyword was used. Moreover the tsunami publication patterns in the first 8 months after the Indonesia tsunami occurred on 26 December 2004 indicated a high percentage of non-article publications and more documents being published in journals with higher impact factors. Address for correspondence: YUH-SHAN HO Taipei Medical University ? Wan-Fang Hospital 111 Hsing-Long Road, Sec. 3, Taipei 116, Taiwan E-mail: ysho at tmu.edu Scientometrics, Vol. 73, No. 1 (2007) 3-17 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-005-1523-1 ------------------------------- q.burrell at ibs.ac.im TITLE : Hirsch index or Hirsch rate? Some thoughts arising from Liang?s data AUTHOR : QUENTIN L. BURRELL Isle of Man International Business School, Douglas (Isle of Man) SOURCE : Scientometrics, Vol. 73, No. 1 (2007) 19-28 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-006-1774-5 Abstract Hirsch?s h-index gives a single number that in some sense summarizes an author?s research output and its impact. Since an individual author?s h- index will be time-dependent, we propose instead the h-rate which, according to theory, is (almost) constant. We re-analyse a previously published data set (LIANG, 2006) which, although not of the precise form to properly test our model, reveals that in many cases we do not have a constant h-rate. On the other hand this then suggests ways in which deeper scientometric investigations could be carried out. This work should be viewed as complementary to that of LIANG (2006). Address for correspondence: QUENTIN L. BURRELL Isle of Man International Business School, The Nunnery Old Castletown Road, Douglas, Isle of Man IM2 1QB, via United Kingdom Email: q.burrell at ibs.ac.im Scientometrics, Vol. 73, No. 1 (2007) 19-28 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-006-1774-5 ------------------------------- IrajDaizadeh at yahoo.com TITLE : Issued US patents, patent-related global academic and media publications, and the US market indices are inter-correlated, with varying growth patterns AUTHOR : IRAJ DAIZADEH Amgen, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA (USA) SOURCE : Scientometrics, Vol. 73, No. 1 (2007) 29-36 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1749-1 Abstract The increase in patents is a main driving force for discussions of international competitiveness, knowledge spillovers, patent office efficiencies, and others. However, to the author?s knowledge, it is interesting that no work has investigated the impact of the growth in the number of patents on patent-related scholarly (peer-reviewed) and media (e.g., press release) literatures, or evidence of inter-relatedness among these three literatures with those of the US market indices (viz., Dow, S&P500, NASDAQ). Here, I report that the growth in the number of US issued patents, the patentrelated media and peer-reviewed publications, and these indices are statistically correlated, but with drastically different growth rates. This general result affords data supporting a hypothesis that publicly traded companies, as drivers of innovation, are priming a new research area within the scholarly communities and simultaneously affecting market value through, what-may-be-called, ?patent journalism.? Address for correspondence: IRAJ DAIZADEH M/S: 27-2-E, Amgen, Inc., One Amgen Center Drive, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320, USA E-mail: IrajDaizadeh at yahoo.com Scientometrics, Vol. 73, No. 1 (2007) 29-36 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1749-1 ------------------------------- E-mail: juliocrp at usp.br TITLE : Who?s who and what?s what in Brazilian Public Health Sciences AUTHOR :J?LIO CESAR RODRIGUES PEREIRA, JULIANA PARREIRA VASCONCELLOS, LUCILLA FURUSAWA, AUGUSTO DE MOURA BARBATI University of S?o Paulo, School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, S?o Paulo (Brazil) SOURCE : Scientometrics, Vol. 73, No. 1 (2007) 37-52 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1787-8 Abstract Introduction: The present study endeavours to provide information on what are the research interests of Brazilian Public Health and how authors can be ranked. Methods: Post-graduate faculty members ISI data are analysed according to regions. Number of paper and its citations, papers? type-complexity- cooperation, Bradford?s Law, Shannon?s indexes, time dynamic functions, Lotka?s Law, and ranking functions are examined. Results: Current production was built up in the last 30 years at a rate of 9.6% articles/year and 12.6% citations/year. 66% of potential authors were present in ISI data records, 64% achieved at least one citation. Research fields do not much depart from the traditional PH purview. More than 66% of authors have just one paper and decrease is steep. Subtle differences call attention to the South region. Conclusion: Brazilian PH is mainly committed to classical research fields and ranking among authors is narrow. Address for correspondence: J?LIO C. R. PEREIRA Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of S?o Paulo Av. Dr. Arnaldo, 715, 01246-907 ? S?o Paulo, Brazil E-mail: juliocrp at usp.br Scientometrics, Vol. 73, No. 1 (2007) 37-52 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1787-8 ------------------------------- E-mail: felix at ugr.es TITLE : Coverage analysis of Scopus: A journal metric approach AUTHOR : F?LIX DE MOYA-ANEG?N, ZAIDA CHINCHILLA-RODR?GUEZ, BENJAM?N VARGAS- QUESADA, ELENA CORERA-?LVAREZ, FRANCISCO JOS? MU?OZ-FERN?NDEZ, ANTONIO GONZ?LEZ-MOLINA, VICTOR HERRERO-SOLANA SCIMAGO Research Group, University of Granada, Library and Information Science Faculty, Granada (Spain) SOURCE : Scientometrics, Vol. 73, No. 1 (2007) 53-78 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1681-4 Abstract Our aim is to compare the coverage of the Scopus database with that of Ulrich, to determine just how homogenous it is in the academic world. The variables taken into account were subject distribution, geographical distribution, distribution by publishers and the language of publication. The analysis of the coverage of a product of this nature should be done in relation to an accepted model, the optimal choice being Ulrich?s Directory, considered the international point of reference for the most comprehensive information on journals published throughout the world. The results described here allow us to draw a profile of Scopus in terms of its coverage by areas ? geographic and thematic ? and the significance of peer- review in its publications. Both these aspects are highly pragmatic considerations for information retrieval, the evaluation of research, and the design of policies for the use of scientific databases in scientific promotion. Address for correspondence: F?LIX MOYA-ANEG?N University of Granada, Library and Information Science Faculty Campus Cartuja, 18071 Granada, Spain E-mail: felix at ugr.es Scientometrics, Vol. 73, No. 1 (2007) 53-78 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1681-4 ------------------------------- E-mail: Jochen.Krauss at uni-bayreuth.de TITLE : Journal self-citation rates in ecological sciences AUTHOR : JOCHEN KRAUSSa,b aInstitute of Environmental Sciences, University of Z?rich, Z?rich (Switzerland) bDepartment of Animal Ecology I, Population Ecology, Bayreuth (Germany) SOURCE : Scientometrics, Vol. 73, No. 1 (2007) 79-89 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1727-7 Abstract Impact factors are a widely accepted means for the assessment of journal quality. However, journal editors have possibilities to influence the impact factor of their journals, for example, by requesting authors to cite additional papers published recently in that journal thus increasing the self-citation rate. I calculated self-citation rates of journals ranked in the Journal Citation Reports of ISI in the subject category ?Ecology? (n = 107). On average, self citation was responsible for 16.2 ? 1.3% (mean ? SE) of the impact factor in 2004. The self-citation rates decrease with increasing journal impact, but even high impact journals show large variation. Six journals suspected to request for additional citations showed high self-citation rates, which increased over the last seven years. To avoid further deliberate increases in self-citation rates, I suggest to take journal-specific self-citation rates into account for journal rankings. Address for correspondence: JOCHEN KRAUSS Department of Animal Ecology I, Population Ecology Universit?tsstrasse 30, 95447 Bayreuth, Germany E-mail: Jochen.Krauss at uni-bayreuth.de Scientometrics, Vol. 73, No. 1 (2007) 79-89 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1727-7 ------------------------------- E-mail: lvasas at lib.sote.hu TITLE : Hirsch-index for countries based on Essential Science Indicators data AUTHOR : EDIT CSAJB?Ka, ANNA BERHIDIa, L?VIA VASASa, ANDR?S SCHUBERTb aSemmelweis University, Central Library, Budapest (Hungary) bInstitute of Research Policy Studies/ISSRU, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest (Hungary) SOURCE : Scientometrics, Vol. 73, No. 1 (2007) 91-117 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1859-9 Abstract The authors present ranked lists of world?s countries ? with main focus on EU countries (together with newly acceeded and candidate countries) ? by their h-index on various science fields. As main source of data Thomson Scientific?s Essential Science Indicators (ESI) database was used. EU countries have strong positions in each field but none of them can successfully compete with the USA. The modest position of the newly accessed and candidate countries illustrate the importance of supportive economic and political background in order to achieve scientific success. An attempt is made to fit a recent theoretical model relating the h-index with two traditional scientometric indicators: the number of publications and the mean citation rate. Address for correspondence: L?VIA VASAS Semmelweis University, Central Library H?1085 Budapest, ?ll?i ?t 26, Hungary E-mail: lvasas at lib.sote.hu Scientometrics, Vol. 73, No. 1 (2007) 91-117 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1859-9 ------------------------------- From sbasuki at INDOSAT.NET.ID Wed Aug 15 17:50:29 2007 From: sbasuki at INDOSAT.NET.ID (sulistyo basuki) Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 04:50:29 +0700 Subject: Journal Citations Reports 2006 Message-ID: Terima kasih Sulistyo ----- Original Message ----- From: Loet Leydesdorff To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 2:16 PM Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Journal Citations Reports 2006 Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html Dear colleagues, I brought the local citation environments for the 7,500+ journals included in the Journal Citations Reports 2006 online at http://www.leydesdorff.net/jcr06/cited and http://www.leydesdorff.net/jcr06/citing, respectively. 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THROMBOSIS AND HAEMOSTASIS 96 : 111 2006 HOOTS WK Evidence for the benefits of prophylaxis in the management of hemophilia A THROMBOSIS AND HAEMOSTASIS 96 : 433 2006 MACKMAN N Mouse models in haemostasis and thrombosis THROMBOSIS AND HAEMOSTASIS 92 : 440 2004 MANNHALTER C Laboratory methods in the haemostatic laboratory THROMBOSIS AND HAEMOSTASIS 96 : 545 2006 PREISSNER KT Thrombosis and Haemostasis: An interdisciplinary and translational endeavour THROMBOSIS AND HAEMOSTASIS 97 : 1 2007 SCULLY MF Plasma peptidome: A new approach for assessing thrombotic risk? THROMBOSIS AND HAEMOSTASIS 96 : 697 2006 WEITZ JI Emerging themes in the treatment of venous thromboembolism THROMBOSIS AND HAEMOSTASIS 96 : 239 2006 From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Sat Aug 18 11:17:16 2007 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 11:17:16 -0400 Subject: The Coming Revolution in Scholarly Communications & Cyberinfrastructure Message-ID: [Cross-Posted] CTWatch Quarterly Volume 3 Number 3 August 2007 The Coming Revolution in Scholarly Communications & Cyberinfrastructure http://www.ctwatch.org/quarterly/articles/2007/08/ Introduction Lee Dirks, Microsoft Corporation; Tony Hey, Microsoft Corporation http://www.ctwatch.org/quarterly/print.php?p=78 The Shape of the Scientific Article in The Developing Cyberinfrastructure Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) http://www.ctwatch.org/quarterly/print.php?p=79 Next-Generation Implications of Open Access Paul Ginsparg, Cornell University (this article is currently password-protected: this is probably a bug and CTWatch will fix) http://www.ctwatch.org/quarterly/print.php?p=80 Web 2.0 in Science Timo Hannay, Nature Publishing http://www.ctwatch.org/quarterly/print.php?p=81 Reinventing Scholarly Communication for the Electronic Age J. Lynn Fink, University of California, San Diego; Philip E. Bourne, University of California, San Diego http://www.ctwatch.org/quarterly/print.php?p=83 Interoperability for the Discovery, Use, and Re-Use of Units of Scholarly Communication Herbert Van de Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Carl Lagoze, Cornell University http://www.ctwatch.org/quarterly/print.php?p=84 Incentivizing the Open Access Research Web: Publication-Archiving, Data-Archiving and Scientometrics Tim Brody, University of Southampton, UK; Les Carr, University of Southampton, UK; Yves Gingras, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al (UQAM); Chawki Hajjem, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al (UQAM); Stevan Harnad, University of Southampton, UK; Universit? du Qu?bec ? 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URL: From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Sun Aug 19 10:52:30 2007 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:52:30 +0100 Subject: Validating Open Access Metrics for RAE 2008 Message-ID: ** Cross-Posted ** On 9-Aug-07, at 7:22 AM, [identity deleted] wrote: > I have been commissioned to write a news story for [publication > name deleted] inspired by your post of 12 July on the American > Scientist Forum regarding the HEFCE's RAE being out of touch. > http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/6542.html > > I would welcome your comments on this, especially on how you > consider the RAE may be out of touch on the wider issue of OA as > well as the CD/PDF issue. It is not that the RAE is altogether out of touch. First let me count the things that they are doing right: (1) It is a good idea to have a national research performance evaluation to monitor and reward research productivity and progress. Other countries will be following and eventually emulating the UK's lead. (Australia is already emulating it.) http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/226-guid.html (2) It is also a good idea to convert the costly, time-consuming, and wasteful (and potentially biased) panel-based RAE of past years to an efficient, unbiased metric RAE, using objective measures that can be submitted automatically online, with the panel's role being only to monitor and fine-tune. This way the RAE will no longer take UK researchers' precious time away from actually doing UK research in order to resubmit and locally "re-peer-review" work that has already been submitted, published and peer-reviewed, in national and international scholarly and scientific journals. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue35/harnad/ But, as with all policies that are being shaped collectively by disparate (and sometimes under-informed) policy-making bodies, a few very simple and remediable flaws in the reformed RAE system have gone detected and hence uncorrected. They can still be corrected, and I hope they will be, as they are small, easily fixed flaws, but, if left unfixed, they will have huge negative consequences, compromising the RAE as well as the RAE reforms: (a) The biggest flaw concerns the metrics that will be used. Metrics first have to be tested and validated, discipline by discipline, to ensure that they are valid indicators of research performance. Since the UK has relied on the RAE panel evaluations for 2 decades, and since the last RAE (2008) before conversion to metrics is to be a parallel panel/metrics exercise, the natural thing to do is to test as many candidate metrics as possible in this exercise, and to cross- validate them against the rankings given by the panels, separately, in each discipline. (Which metrics are valid performance indicators will differ from discipline to discipline.) All indications so far are that this cross-validation exercise is *not* what RAE 2008 and HEFCE are planning to do. Instead, there is a focus on a few pre-selected metrics, rather than the very rich spectrum of potential metrics that could be tested. The two main pre-selected metrics are (i) prior research funding and (ii) citation counts. (i) Prior research funding has already been shown to be extremely highly correlated with the RAE panel rankings in a few (mainly scientific) disciplines, but this was undoubtedly because the panels, in making their rankings, already had those metrics in hand, hence could themselves have been explicitly counting them in making their judgments! Now, although a correlation between metrics and panel rankings is desirable initially, because that is the way to launch and validate the choice of metrics, in the case of this particular metric there is not only a potential interaction, indeed a bias, that makes the two (the metric and the panel ranking) non-independent, and hence invalidates the test of this metric's validity, but there is another, even deeper reasoning for not putting a lot of weight on the prior-funding metric: The UK has a Dual System for research funding: (A) competitive individual researcher project proposals and (B) the RAE panel rankings (awarding top-sliced research funding to University Departments, based on their research performance). The prior-funding metric is determined largely by (A). If it is also given a heavy weight in (B) then that is not improving the RAE [i.e., (B)]: It is merely collapsing the UK's Dual System into (A) alone, and doing away with the RAE altogether. As if this were not bad enough, the prior- funding metric is not even a valid metric for many of the RAE disciplines. (ii) Citations counts are a much better potential candidate metric. Indeed, in many of the RAE disciplines, citation counts have already been tested and shown to be correlated with the panel rankings, although not nearly as highly correlated as prior funding (in those few disciplines where prior funding is indeed highly correlated). The somewhat weaker correlation in the case of the citation metric is a good thing, because it leaves room for other metrics to contribute to the assessment outcome too. It is unlikely, and undesirable, to expect performance evaluation to be based on a single metric. But citation counts are certainly a strong candidate for serving as a particularly important one among the array of many metrics to be validated and used in future RAEs. Citation counts also have the virtue that they were not explicitly available to the RAE panels when they made their rankings (indeed, it was explicitly forbidden to submit or count citations). So their correlation with the RAE panel rankings is a genuine empirical correlation rather than an explicit bias. So the prior-funding metric (i) needs to be used cautiously, to avoid bias and self-fulfilling prophecy, and the citation-count metric (ii) is a good candidate, but only one of many potential metrics that can and should be tested in the parallel RAE 2008 metric/panel exercise. (Other metrics include co-citation counts, download counts, download and citation growth and longevity counts, hub/authority scores, interdisciplinarity scores, and many other rich measures for which RAE 2008 is the ideal time to do the testing and validation, discipline by disciplines -- as it is virtually certain that disciplines will differ in which metrics are predictive for them, and what the weightings of each metric should be.) Harnad, S. (2007) Open Access Scientometrics and the UK Research Assessment Exercise. In Proceedings of 11th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics 11(1), pp. 27-33, Madrid, Spain. Torres-Salinas, D. and Moed, H. F., Eds. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/13804/ Shadbolt, N., Brody, T., Carr, L. and Harnad, S. (2006) The Open Research Web: A Preview of the Optimal and the Inevitable, in Jacobs, N., Eds. Open Access: Key Strategic, Technical and Economic Aspects, Chandos. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/12453/ Brody, T., Carr, L., Gingras, Y., Hajjem, C., Harnad, S. and Swan, A. (2007) Incentivizing the Open Access Research Web: Publication-Archiving, Data-Archiving and Scientometrics. CTWatch Quarterly 3(3). http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/14418/01/ctwatch.html Yet it looks as if RAE 2008 and HEFCE are not currently planning to commission this all-important validation exercise of metrics against panel rankings for a rich array of candidate metrics. This is a huge flaw and oversight, though it could still be easily remedied by going ahead and doing such a systematic cross-validation study after all. For such a systematic metric/panel cross-validation study in RAE 2008, however, the array of candidate metrics has to be made as rich and diverse as possible. The RAE is not currently making any effort to collect as many potential metrics as possible in RAE 2008, and this is partly because it is overlooking the growing importance of online, Open Access metrics -- and indeed overlooking the growing importance of Open Access itself, both in research productivity and progress itself, and in evaluating it. This brings us to the second flaw in HEFCE's RAE 2008 plans: (b) For no logical or defensible reason at all, RAE 2008 is insisting that researchers submit the publishers' PDFs for the 2008 exercise. Now it is progress that RAE are accepting electronic drafts rather than requiring hard copy, as in past years. But in insisting that the electronic drafts must be the publisher's PDF, they create two unnecessary problems. One unnecessary problem, a minor one, is that the RAE imagines that in order to have the publisher's PDF for evaluation, they need to seek (or even pay for) permission from the publisher. This is complete nonsense! *Researchers* (i.e., the authors) submit their own published work to the RAE for evaluation. For the researchers, this is Fair Dealing (Fair Use) and no publisher permission or payment whatsoever is needed. (As it happens, I believe HEFCE has worked out a "special arrangement" whereby publishers "grant permission" and "waive payment." But the completely incorrect notion that permission or payment were even at issue, in principle, has an important negative consequence, which I will now describe.) What HEFCE should have done -- instead of mistakenly imagining that it needed permission to access the papers of UK researchers for research evaluation -- was to require researchers to deposit their peer-reviewed, revised, accepted final drafts in their own University's Institutional Repositories (IRs) for research assessment. The HEFCE panels could then access them directly in the IRs for evaluation. This would have ensured that all UK research output was deposited in each UK researcher's university IR. There is no publisher permission issue for the RAE: The deposits can, if desired, be made Closed Access rather than Open Access, so only the author, the employer and the RAE panels can access the full text of the deposit. That is Fair Dealing and requires absolutely no permission from anyone. But, as a bonus, requiring the deposit of all UK research output (or even just the 4 "best papers" that are currently the arbitrary limit for RAE submissions) into the researcher's IR for RAE evaluation would have ensured that 62% of those papers could immediately have been made OA (because 62% of journals already endorse immediate OA self-archiving) http://romeo.eprints.org/stats.php And for the remaining 38% this would have allowed each IR's "Fair Use" button to be used by researchers webwide to request an individual email copy semi-automatically (with these "eprint requests" provide a further potential metric, along with download counts). http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/274-guid.html Instead, HEFCE needlessly insisted on the publisher's PDF (which, by the way, could likewise have been deposited by all authors in their IRs, as Closed Access, without needing any permission from their publishers) being submitted to RAE directly. This effectively cut off not only a rich potential source of RAE metrics, but a powerful incentive for providing OA, which has been shown, in itself, to increase downloads and citations directly in all disciplines. http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html In summary, 2 good things -- (1) research performance itself, and (2) conversion to metrics -- plus 2 bad things -- (3) failure to explicitly provide for the systematic evaluation of a rich candidate spectrum of metrics against the RAE 2008 panel rankings and (4) failure to require deposit of the authors' papers in their own IRs, to generate more OA metrics, more OA, and more UK research impact. The good news is that there is still time to fully remedy (3) and (4) if only policy-makers take a moment to listen, think it through, and do the little that needs to be done to fix it. I am hoping that this will still happen -- and even your article could help make it happen! Stevan Harnad PS To allay a potential misunderstanding: It is definitely *not* the case that the RAE panel rankings are themselves infallible or face-valid! The panelists are potentially biased in many ways. And RAE panel review was never really "peer review," because peer review means consulting the most qualified specialists in the world for each specific paper, whereas the panels are just generic UK panels, evaluating all the UK papers in their discipline: It is the journals who already conducted the peer review. So metrics are not just needed to put an end to the waste and the cost of the existing RAE, but also to try to put the outcome on a more reliable, objective, valid and equitable basis. The idea is not to *duplicate* the outcome of the panels, but to improve it. Nevertheless -- and this is the critical point -- the metrics *do* have to be validated, and, as an essential first step, they have to be cross-validated against the panel rankings, discipline by discipline. For even though those panel rankings are and always were flawed, they are what the RAE has been relying upon, completely, for 2 decades. So the first step is to make sure that the metrics are chosen and weighted, to get as close an approximation to the panel rankings as possible, discipline by discipline. Then, and only then, can the "ladder" of the panel-rankings -- which got us where we are -- be tossed away, allowing us to rely on the metrics alone -- which can then be calibrated and optimised in future years, with feedback from future meta-panels that are monitoring the rankings generated by the metrics and, if necessary, adjusting and fine-tuning the metric weights or even adding new, still-to-be-discovered-and-tested metrics to them. In sum: despite its warts, the current RAE panel rankings need to be used to bootstrap the new metrics into usability. Without that prior validation based on what has been used until now, the metrics are just hanging from a skyhook and no one can say whether or not they measure what the RAE panels have been measuring until now. Without validation, there is no continuity in the RAE and it is not really a "conversion" to metrics, but simply an abrupt switch to another, untested assessment tool. (Citation counts have been tested elsewhere, in other fields, but as there has never been anything of the scope and scale of the UK RAE, across all disciplines in an entire country's research output, the prior patchwork testing of citation counts as research performance indicators is nowhere near providing the evidence that would be needed to make a reliable, valid choice of metrics for the UK RAE: only cross-validation within the RAE parallel metric/panel exercise itself can provide that kind of evidence, and the requisite continuity for a smooth, rational transition from panel rankings to metrics.) From umutal at HACETTEPE.EDU.TR Mon Aug 20 03:36:04 2007 From: umutal at HACETTEPE.EDU.TR (Umut AL) Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 07:36:04 +0000 Subject: Announcement: "Symposium on Information Management in the Changing World" Message-ID: Dear List Members: The "Symposium on Information Management in the Changing World" organized by the Department of Information Management of Hacettepe University to commemorate the 35th anniversary of its foundation, will take place in Ankara, Turkey, from 24-26 October 2007. It aims to bring together both researchers and practitioners to discuss the current information management issues, and present ideas, theories, approaches and methods to tackle them. The draft programme of the Symposium on Information Management in the Changing World is available at http://by2007.bilgiyonetimi.net/english/symposium_programme.php. The online registration is now open, too (http://by2007.bilgiyonetimi.net/english/online_registration.php). Looking forward to meeting you in Ankara in October. Regards and best wishes. Ya?ar Tonta Chair of the Organizing Committee Hacettepe University Department of Information Management 06800 Beytepe, Ankara E-mail: tonta at hacettepe.edu.tr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From van at EMSE.FR Mon Aug 20 05:40:48 2007 From: van at EMSE.FR (T VAN) Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:40:48 +0200 Subject: Fusion methods to combine multiple scores? In-Reply-To: <3EC4C723-C920-44CC-B2DA-41951D154D7D@ecs.soton.ac.uk> Message-ID: Hello everyone, I'm looking for a good fusion methods to combine many differents scores for ranking in a search engine (from 3 - 5 different scores). Can you recomend me some methods (or papers)? Thank you very much. Best regards, T Van. From patrick.ruch at SIM.HCUGE.CH Mon Aug 20 06:18:45 2007 From: patrick.ruch at SIM.HCUGE.CH (Patrick Ruch) Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:18:45 +0200 Subject: Fusion methods to combine multiple scores? In-Reply-To: <46C961A0.7020002@emse.fr> Message-ID: Hello, There are several approaches, but basically, using linear combination of retrieval status values is both simple and effective, see Fox and al. 1994. Regards, Patrick T VAN wrote: > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > Hello everyone, > > I'm looking for a good fusion methods to combine many differents > scores for ranking in a search engine (from 3 - 5 different scores). > Can you recomend me some methods (or papers)? > > Thank you very much. > > Best regards, > T Van. From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Aug 20 14:11:40 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:11:40 -0400 Subject: Nielsen FA, "Scientific Citations in Wikipedia" First Monday - Peer Reviewed Journal on the Internet Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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DEC 2006. p.841-853 ACAD BRASILEIRA DE CIENCIAS, RIO JANEIRO SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; SCIENTOMETR* rwork; CITATION* item_title; GARFIELD E THEORETICAL MED 13:117 1992 KEYWORDS: bibliometry; editing/statistics and numerical data; information service; storage and retrieval information; science; authorship; journals/rules; scientometrics; impact factor; scientific collaboration; scientific network KEYWORDS+: IMPACT ABSTRACT: Articles with 100 citations or more in the scientific literature and with at least one author with Brazilian affiliation, were identified in the Thomson-ISI (Institute for Scientific Information) Web of Science bibliometric database, covering a 10-year period, from 1994 to 2003; 248 (0.23%) out of a total of 109,916 articles with Brazilian affiliation were identified. This study was primarily carried out to identify thematic nuclei of excellence in research that had major impact in the international literature (Meneghini and Packer 2006). The regional and institutional affiliation distributions of these articles follow approximately that of the total of Brazilian articles in the ISI database. However, some significant deviations are observed derived from the outstanding performance of a few groups responsible for the publication of the HC-ISI (Highly cited ISI) papers. The international collaboration and the network organization of work played a fundamental role in these results. It is evident that the role played by organizations in research networks as well as the international collaborations exerted strong influence, in the impact of these articles, although with distinct amplitude in the different fields. AUTHOR ADDRESS: R Meneghini, WHO, Pan Amer Hlth Org, BIREME, Rua Botucatu 862, BR-04023901 Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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DEC 2006. p.855-883 ACAD BRASILEIRA DE CIENCIAS, RIO JANEIRO ABSTRACT: Articles with 100 citations or more in the scientific literature and with at least one author with Brazilian affiliation, were identified in the Thomson-ISI (Institute for Scientific Information) Web of Science bibliometric database covering a 10-year period, from 1994 to 2003 (see Packer and Meneghini 2006); 248 (0.23%) out of a total of 109,916 articles with Brazilian affiliation were identified. This study was primarily carried out to identify thematic nuclei of excellence in research that had major impact in the international literature. Twelve of these nuclei in the fields of Biomedicine, Medicine, Biology, Physic, Chemistry and Astronomy were considered outstanding and their genesis and development were described. The weight of factors such as international collaboration and network organization are distinct in these areas and the reasons for that are discussed. AUTHOR ADDRESS: R Meneghini, WHO, PAHO, BIREME, Rua Botucatu 862, BR-04023901 Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: D:\MMistry\Desktop\meneghini_a-acad-brasil-cien_v78_p855.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 155210 bytes Desc: not available URL: From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Aug 20 15:53:47 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:53:47 -0400 Subject: Henzinger M "Search Technologies for the Internet" Science 317 (5837): 468-471, July 27, 2007 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: monika.henzinger at epfl.ch Title: Search technologies for the Internet Author(s): Henzinger M (Henzinger, Monika) Source: SCIENCE 317 (5837): 468-471 JUL 27 2007 Document Type: Review Language: English Cited References: 31 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: About 20% of the world's population uses the Web, and a large majority thereof uses Web search engines to find information. As a result, many Web researchers are devoting much effort to improving the speed and capability of search technology. KeyWords Plus: WEB Addresses: Henzinger M (reprint author), Google Switzerland, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland Google Switzerland, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland Ecole Polytech Fed Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland E-mail Addresses: monika.henzinger at epfl.ch Publisher: AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE, 1200 NEW YORK AVE, NW, WASHINGTON, DC 20005 USA Subject Category: Multidisciplinary Sciences IDS Number: 194JD ISSN: 0036-8075 CITED REFERENCES : AMERYAHIA S Report on the DB/IR panel at SIGMOD 2005 SIGMOD RECORD 34 : 71 2005 ANICK P P 26 ANN INT ACM SIG : 88 2003 BECCHETTI L P 2 INT WORKSH ADV I : 1 2006 BERGMAN MK J ELECT PUB 7 : 2001 BERKHIN P INTERNET MATH 2 : 73 2005 BRIN S The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine COMPUTER NETWORKS AND ISDN SYSTEMS 30 : 107 1998 BRODER A SIGIR FORUM 36 : 3 2002 BRODER AZ Syntactic clustering of the Web COMPUTER NETWORKS AND ISDN SYSTEMS 29 : 1157 1997 CARMEL D P 26 ANN INT ACM SIG : 151 2003 CHEN H P 29 ANN INT ACM SIG : 429 2006 DEAN J P 6 S OP SYST DES IM : 137 2004 ETZIONI O Unsupervised named-entity extraction from the Web: An experimental study ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 165 : 91 2005 FETTERLY D P 1 LAT AM WEB C IEE : 37 2003 GARFIELD E CITATION INDEXES FOR SCIENCE - NEW DIMENSION IN DOCUMENTATION THROUGH ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS SCIENCE 122 : 108 1955 GHEMAWAT S P 19 ACM S OP SYST P : 29 2003 GRANKA LA P SIGIR 04 : 478 2004 GYONGYI Z Spam: It's not just for inboxes anymore COMPUTER 38 : 28 2005 HENZINGER M P 29 ANN INT ACM SIG : 284 2006 JEH G P 12 INT WORLD WID W : 271 2003 KLEINBERG JM Authoritative sources in a hyperlinked environment JOURNAL OF THE ACM 46 : 604 1999 LANGVILLE AN INTERNET MATH 1 : 335 2005 MOLDOVAN D P HUM LANG TECHN N A : 87 2003 NITOULAS A P JOINT C DIG LIB : 100 2005 NTOULAS A P 2006 WORLD WID WEB : 83 2006 SAHAMI M P 8 PAC RIM INT C AR : 3 2004 SHEN X P 28 ACM ACM INT C R : 43 2005 TAN B P 12 ACM SIGKDD INT : 718 2006 TEEVAN J P 1 INT WORKSH NEW T : 2005 TEEVAN J P 28 ANN INT ACM SIG : 449 2005 WANG L P 28 ANN INT ACM SIG : 424 2005 WU W P 22 INT C DAT ENG : 44 2006 From eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Mon Aug 20 16:37:17 2007 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:37:17 -0400 Subject: Bilbiometric analysis of scientific production in cancer molecular epidemiology (D. Ugolini et al (Genoa, Italy) Message-ID: http://carcin.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/28/8/1774?ct Carcinogenesis Advance Access originally published online on June 4, 2007 Carcinogenesis 2007 28(8):1774-1779; doi:10.1093/carcin/bgm129 This Article Full Text Full Text (PDF) All Versions of this Article: 28/8/1774 most recent bgm129v1 Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in PubMed Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to My Personal Archive Download to citation manager Request Permissions Google Scholar Articles by Ugolini, D. Articles by Bonassi, S. PubMed PubMed Citation Articles by Ugolini, D. Articles by Bonassi, S. (c) The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions at oxfordjournals.org A bibliometric analysis of scientific production in cancer molecular epidemiology Donatella Ugolini1,2,*, Riccardo Puntoni2, Frederica P. Perera3, Paul A. Schulte4 and Stefano Bonassi5 1 Dipartimento di Oncologia, Biologia e Genetica, University of Genoa, Genoa 16132, Italy 2 Units of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, National Cancer Research Institute, Genoa 16132, Italy 3 Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA 4 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, OH 45226, USA 5 Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, National Cancer Research Institute, Genoa 16132, Italy * To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +39 010 5600071; Fax: +39 010 5600501; Email: donatella.ugolini at istge.it Objectives: The main purpose of this research was to compare the scientific production in the field of cancer molecular epidemiology among countries and to evaluate the publication trend between 1995 and 2004. Methods: A bibliometric study was carried out searching the PubMed database with a combined search strategy based on the keywords listed in the medical subject headings and a free text search. Only articles from a representative subset of 92 journals-accounting for 80% of papers identified-were selected for the analysis, and the resulting 13 240 abstracts were manually checked according to a list of basic inclusion criteria. The study evaluated the number of publications and the impact factor (mean and sum), absolute and normalized by country population and gross domestic product. Results: A total of 3842 citations were finally selected for the analysis. Thirty-seven percent came from the European Union (UK, Germany, Italy, France and Sweden ranking at the top), 31.6% from USA and 9.7% from Japan. The highest mean impact factor was reported for Canada (6.3), USA (5.9), Finland (5.8) and UK (5.2). Finland, Sweden and Israel had the best ratio between scientific production and available resources. 'Genetic polymorphism, glutathione transferase, breast neoplasm, risk factors, case-control studies and polymerase chain reaction' were the most used keywords in each of the subgroups evaluated, although inclusion criteria may have privileged studies dealing with exogenous carcinogens. Conclusion: Cancer molecular epidemiology is an expanding area attracting an increasing interest. The identification of an operative definition is a necessary condition to give to this discipline a unique scientific identity. Abbreviations: EU, European Union; IF, impact factor; MeSH, medical subject headings; mIF, mean impact factor When responding, please attach my original message __________________________________________________ Eugene Garfield, PhD. email: garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu home page: www.eugenegarfield.org Tel: 215-243-2205 Fax 215-387-1266 Chairman Emeritus, ISI www.isinet.com 3501 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-3302 President, The Scientist LLC. www.the-scientist.com 400 Market Street, Suite 1250, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2501 Past President, American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) www.asist.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.gif Type: image/gif Size: 73 bytes Desc: image001.gif URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Author(s): Labanaris AP (Labanaris, Apostolos P.), Kuhn R (Kuhn, Reinhard), Schott GE (Schott, Guenter E.), Zugor V (Zugor, Vahudin) Source: UROLOGIA INTERNATIONALIS 78 (4): 299-304 2007 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 6 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Introduction: The purpose of our analysis was to assess the performance of urological journals in terms of the standardized measures created by the Institute of Scientific Information ( ISI) Journal Citation Report (R) ( JCR) in comparison to other medical and surgical fields. Additionally, an evaluation of all original articles, clinical or experimental, published in the year 2005, assessing the time interval needed from submission to publication, submission to acceptance, and acceptance to publication of a manuscript was conducted for all urologic journals. Materials and Methods: The study was conducted with the help of the ISI JCR and the University of Erlangen Medical Center's library ( and on-line library). Results: The field of urology demonstrates satisfactory measures created by the ( ISI) JCR in comparison with various fields of medicine. In comparison with the surgical field, urological journals demonstrate outstanding results. Discussion: The impact factor is a measure of the importance of scientific journals. Urological journals stack up quite well against other medical and especially surgical journals. Copyright (c) 2007 S. Karger AG, Basel. Author Keywords: impact factor; publication time; urological journals Addresses: Labanaris AP (reprint author), Univ Erlangen Nurnberg, Med Ctr, Dept Urol, Krankenhausstr 12, DE-91054 Erlangen, Germany Univ Erlangen Nurnberg, Med Ctr, Dept Urol, DE-91054 Erlangen, Germany Univ Erlangen Nurnberg, Dept Urol, Martha Maria Med Ctr, Acad Hosp, Nurnberg, Germany E-mail Addresses: Labanaris at web.de Publisher: KARGER, ALLSCHWILERSTRASSE 10, CH-4009 BASEL, SWITZERLAND Subject Category: Urology & Nephrology IDS Number: 166QP ISSN: 0042-1138 CITED REFERENCES: DONG P BIOMED DIGIT LIB 2 : 7 2005 GARFIELD E How can impact factors be improved? BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 313 : 411 1996 JACSO P A deficiency in the algorithm for calculating the impact factor of scholarly journals: The journal impact factor CORTEX 37 : 590 2001 JEMEC GB BMC DERMATOL 1 : 7 2001 SEGLEN PO Why the impact factor of journals should not be used for evaluating research BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 314 : 498 1997 VANLEEUWEN TN Development and application of journal impact measures in the Dutch science system SCIENTOMETRICS 53 : 249 2002 From eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Mon Aug 27 00:41:12 2007 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:41:12 -0400 Subject: FW: Google Alert - "citation analysis" Message-ID: HYPERLINK "http://www.theage.com.au/news/education-news/science-works/2007/08/11/1186530635206.html?page=5"http://www.theage.com.au/news/education-news/science-works/2007/08/11/1186530635206.html?page=5 HYPERLINK "http://www.theage.com.au/news/education-news/science-works/2007/08/11/1186530635206.html"Science works The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia ... clearly a strength of Australian science (five of our seven science Nobel Prizes have been in this field) does not really shine in citation analysis. ... HYPERLINK "http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ncl=http://www.theage.com.au/news/education-news/science-works/2007/08/11/1186530635206.html"See all stories on this topic HYPERLINK "http://www.google.com/alerts/remove?s=EAAAACS0Nsv8g79gdcpQsQh9Awc&hl=en" _____ Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.10.6/900 - Release Date: 7/14/2007 3:36 PM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nouruzi at GMAIL.COM Tue Aug 28 05:37:00 2007 From: nouruzi at GMAIL.COM (Alireza Noruzi) Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:37:00 +0200 Subject: Webology: Web 2.0, Folksonomies & Sociology of the Web, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2007 Message-ID: Dear All, apologies for cross-posting. Vol. 4, No. 2 of Webology, an OPEN ACCESS journal, is published and is available ONLINE. ------------------ Webology: Volume 4, Number 2, 2007 TOC: http://www.webology.ir/2007/v4n2/toc.html Editorial - Folksonomies: Why do we need controlled vocabulary? --- Alireza Noruzi --- http://www.webology.ir/2007/v4n2/editorial12.html ----------------------------------------- Articles - Web 2.0 as a Social Movement --- William F. Birdsall --- http://www.webology.ir/2007/v4n2/a40.html - Structure and Form of Folksonomy Tags: The Road to the Public Library Catalogue --- Louise F. Spiteri --- http://www.webology.ir/2007/v4n2/a41.html - Use of Web in Tertiary Research and Education --- Wendy Aitken --- http://www.webology.ir/2007/v4n2/a42.html - Overview of Ontology Servers Research --- Mohammad Nazir Ahmad, & Robert M. Colomb --- http://www.webology.ir/2007/v4n2/a43.html ========================================= Webology: Vol. 4, No. 2, 2007 & Vol. 3, No. 4, 2006 TOC: http://www.webology.ir/2007/v4n1/toc.html TOC: http://www.webology.ir/2006/v3n4/toc.html Editorial - Sociology of the Web --- William Bostock --- http://www.webology.ir/2006/v3n4/editorial10.html ----------------------------------------- Articles - Geographical Distribution of Blogs in the United States. --- Jia Lin, & Alex Halavais --- http://www.webology.ir/2006/v3n4/a30.html - Egyptian and American Internet-Based Cross-Cultural Information Seeking Behavior. Part I: Research Instrument --- Paul L. Hover --- http://www.webology.ir/2006/v3n4/a31.html - Reshaping Digital Inequality in the European Union: How Psychological Barriers Affect Internet Adoption Rates --- Homero Gil-de-Zuniga --- http://www.webology.ir/2006/v3n4/a32.html - Getting Connected: Can Social Capital be Virtual? --- Megan Alessandrini --- http://www.webology.ir/2006/v3n4/a33.html - Texting Tolerance: Computer-Mediated Interfaith Dialogue --- Ally Ostrowski --- http://www.webology.ir/2006/v3n4/a34.html - More Effective Web Search Using Bigrams and Trigrams --- David Johnson, Vishv Malhotra, & Peter Vamplew --- http://www.webology.ir/2006/v3n4/a35.html - Mystery Meat revisited: Spam, Anti-Spam Measures and Digital Redlining --- Christopher P. Lueg, Jeff Huang, & Michael B. Twidale --- http://www.webology.ir/2007/v4n1/a36.html - A Study of Email Spam and How to Effectively Combat It --- Mansoor Al-A'ali --- http://www.webology.ir/2007/v4n1/a37.html - Bridging the Mire between E-Research and E-Publishing for Multimedia Digital Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences: An Australian Case Study --- Andrew Jakubowicz --- http://www.webology.ir/2007/v4n1/a38.html - Islamic Book and Information Culture: An Overview --- Paul L. Hover --- http://www.webology.ir/2007/v4n1/a39.html ========================================= Call for Papers: -- http://www.webology.ir/callforpapers.html ========================================= Best regards, Alireza ------------------- Alireza Noruzi, PhD Editor-in-Chief of Webology Website: www.webology.ir ~ The great aim of Open Access journals is knowledge sharing. ~ From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Aug 31 12:32:07 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:32:07 -0400 Subject: Singh G. Mittal R. Ahmad M. "A bibliometric study of literature on digital libraries" Electronic Library 25(3): 342-348, 2007 Message-ID: E-mail: E-mail Addresses: rekha at niseair.res.in Title: A bibliometric study of literature on digital libraries Author(s): Singh G (Singh, Gian), Mittal R (Mittal, Rekha), Ahmad M (Ahmad, Moin) Source: ELECTRONIC LIBRARY 25 (3): 342-348 2007 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 8 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Purpose - The study has been under-taken with the purpose of finding out the growth and characteristics of digital library literature. Design/methodology/approach - Over 1,000 articles for the period 1998-2004 were collected from LISA Plus and were analyzed to study authorship patterns, authors' productivity and prominent contributors, language-wise and year-wise distribution of articles, country-wise distribution of journals, core journals in the subject area, and indexing term frequency. Findings - Some of the important findings are that most articles (61 percent) are single-authored; author productivity is not in agreement with Lotka's Law, except in one case where number of articles is three; the maximum number of articles were published in 2003 with English being the most productive language; maximum articles were published in the journal D- fib Magazine; distribution of articles nearly follows Bradford's Law; and USA ranked first for maximum number of journals. Originality/value - The paper is relevant to those interested in bibliometrics and provides a comprehensive over-view of authorship in the library and information science community. Addresses: Mittal R (reprint author), Natl Inst Sci Commun & Informat Resources, Training & Translat Grp, New Delhi, India Natl Inst Sci Commun & Informat Resources, Training & Translat Grp, New Delhi, India Natl Inst Sci Commun & Informat Resources, Natl Sci Digital Lib Project, New Delhi, India E-mail Addresses: rekha at niseair.res.in Publisher: EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED, 60/62 TOLLER LANE, BRADFORD BD8 9BY, W YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND Subject Category: Information Science & Library Science IDS Number: 187DI ISSN: 0264-0473 CITED REFERENCES: *NAT TASK FORC INF INF TECHN ACT PLAN : 1998 CHEN YN B LIB INFORM SCI 55 : 51 2005 DALAI BK ANN LIB SCI DOCUMENT 42 : 35 1995 DAS AK ANN LIB SCI DOCUMENT 51 : 99 2004 DEO VN ANN LIB SCI DOCUMENT 42 : 85 1995 FOX EA An Asian digital libraries perspective INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT 41 : 1 2005 KALYANE VL ANN LIB SCI DOCUMENT 42 : 121 1995 SUBRAMANIAN R LIB SCI 29 : 157 1992 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Aug 31 12:37:53 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:37:53 -0400 Subject: McKibbon, KA; Haynes, RB; McKinlay, RJ; Lokker, C "Which journals do primary care physicians and specialists access from an online service?" Journal of the Medical Library Association 95(3): 246-254 July 2007 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: mckib at mcmaster.ca, bhaynes at mcmaster.ca, mckinlj at mcmaster.ca, lokkerc at mcmaster.ca TITLE: Which journals do primary care physicians and specialists access from an online service? (Article, English) AUTHOR: McKibbon, KA; Haynes, RB; McKinlay, RJ; Lokker, C SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 95 (3). JUL 2007. p.246-254 MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOC, CHICAGO Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 23 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Objective: The study sought to determine which online journals primary care physicians and specialists not affiliated with an academic medical center access and how the accesses correlate with measures of journal quality and importance. Methods: Observational study of full-text accesses made during an eighteen- month digital library trial was performed. Access counts were correlated with six methods composed of nine measures for assessing journal importance: ISI impact factors; number of high-quality articles identified during hand-searches of key clinical journals; production data for ACP journal Club, InfoPOEMs, and Evidence-Based Medicine; and mean clinician- provided clinical relevance and newsworthiness scores for individual journal titles. Results: Full-text journals were accessed 2,322 times by 87 of 105 physicians. Participants accessed 136 of 348 available journal titles. Physicians often selected journals with relatively higher numbers of articles abstracted in ACP journal Club. Accesses also showed significant correlations with 6 other measures of quality. Specialists' access patterns correlated with 3 measures, with weaker correlations than for primary care physicians. Conclusions: Primary care physicians, more so than specialists, chose full- text articles from clinical journals deemed important by several measures of value. Most journals accessed by both groups were of high quality as measured by this study's methods for assessing journal importance. Addresses: McKibbon KA (reprint author), McMaster Univ, Fac Hlth Sci, Hlth Informat Res Unit, Dept Clin Epidemiol & Biostat, 1200 Main St W, Hamilton, ON L8N 3Z5 Canada McMaster Univ, Fac Hlth Sci, Hlth Informat Res Unit, Dept Clin Epidemiol & Biostat, Hamilton, ON L8N 3Z5 Canada McMaster Univ, Fac Hlth Sci, Dept Med, Hamilton, ON L8N 3Z5 Canada E-mail Addresses: mckib at mcmaster.ca, bhaynes at mcmaster.ca, mckinlj at mcmaster.ca, lokkerc at mcmaster.ca Publisher: MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOC, 65 EAST WACKER PLACE, STE 1900, CHICAGO, IL 60601-7298 USA Subject Category: Information Science & Library Science IDS Number: 187KU ISSN: 1536-5050 CITED REFERENCES: NAT I CLIN STUD INF FIND ASS METH DI : 2003 *SCI CIT IND J CIT REP : 2006 CASEBEER L J CONTINUING ED HLTH 22 : 33 2002 CHEW F Doctors on-line: Using diffusion of innovations theory to understand Internet use FAMILY MEDICINE 36 : 645 2004 COUMOU HCH How do primary care physicians seek answers to clinical questions? A literature review JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 94 : 55 2006 EBELL MH Finding POEMs in the medical literature JOURNAL OF FAMILY PRACTICE 48 : 350 1999 EYSENBACH G The open access advantage JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH 8 : Art. No. e8 2006 EYSENBACH G Citation advantage of open access articles PLOS BIOLOGY 4 : Art. No. e157 2006 GARFIELD E The history and meaning of the journal impact factor JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 295 : 90 2006 HAYNES RB McMaster PLUS: A cluster randomized clinical trial of an intervention to accelerate clinical use of evidence-based information from digital libraries JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL INFORMATICS ASSOCIATION 13 : 593 2006 HAYYNES RB Second-order peer review of the medical literature for clinical practitioners JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 295 : 1801 2006 HAYNES RB ONLINE J CURR CLIN T : 1993 MCKIBBON KA BMC MED 2 : 33 2004 MORSE DH ISSUES SCI TECHNOL : 28 2000 PERNEGER TV What's wrong with Bonferroni adjustments BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 316 : 1236 1998 ROGERS SA Electronic journal usage at Ohio State University COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES 62 : 25 2001 SAHA S Impact factor: a valid measure of journal quality? JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 91 : 42 2003 SAINT S Journal reading habits of internists JOURNAL OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE 15 : 881 2000 STRASSER TC INFORMATION NEEDS OF PRACTICING PHYSICIANS IN NORTHEASTERN NEW-YORK STATE BULLETIN OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 66 : 200 1978 TENOPIR C ELECT J REALITIES S : 2000 VERHOEVEN AAH INFORM SEEKING GEN P : 1999 WILCZYNSKI NL MEDINFO 10 : 390 2001 WULFF JL Quality markers and use of electronic journals in an academic health sciences library JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 92 : 315 2004 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Aug 31 12:48:58 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:48:58 -0400 Subject: Rethlefsen NL "Citation analysis of Minnesota Department of Health official publications and journal articles: a needs assessment for the RN Barr library " JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 95 (3): 260-266 JUL 2007 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: mlrethlefsen at gmail.com Title: Citation analysis of Minnesota Department of Health official publications and journal articles: a needs assessment for the RN Barr library Author(s): Rethlefsen NL (Rethlefsen, Neflssa L.) Source: JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 95 (3): 260-266 JUL 2007 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 21 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Objective: The paper describes the information needs of a state public health agency, compares needs to its library's collection, and evaluates collection development policy accordingly. Methods: A citation analysis of journal articles authored by Minnesota Department of Health staff as well as official publications from 2002 to 2004 was conducted. Fifty-six publications fitting the criteria for inclusion in the study were identified using PubMed and library records. Information on each cited reference was recorded, including reference type, relative age of citation, and journal name, if applicable. The library's collection and collection development policies were analyzed in regard to the results. Results: As expected, journals were the most heavily cited format: 63% (n = 897) of all citations were to journal articles. Most cited materials were between 2 and 5 years old. The 897 journal citations represented 265 different journals. The top 10 cited journals (4% of all titles) accounted for 36% (n = 320) of all citations; 62% (n = 320) of journals were cited only once. Of the total journals cited, the library subscribed to 70% (n = 627). Discussion: Overall, no large gaps appeared in the RN Barr Library's journal collection. The analysis confirms that the library's collections budget for serials and books reflects the cited use of these materials. KeyWords Plus: INFORMATION NEEDS; COLLECTION; EDUCATION Addresses: Rethlefsen NL (reprint author), Mayo Clin, Coll Med, Learning Res Ctr, 200 1st St SW, Rochester, MN 55905 USA Minnesota Dept Hlth, RN Barr Lib, Minneapolis, MN 55414 USA E-mail Addresses: mlrethlefsen at gmail.com Publisher: MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOC, 65 EAST WACKER PLACE, STE 1900, CHICAGO, IL 60601-7298 USA Subject Category: Information Science & Library Science IDS Number: 187KU ISSN: 1536-5050 CITED REFERENCES : *NURS ALL HLTH RES TASK FORC MAPP NURS : 2006 *PUBL HLTH HLTH A COR PUBL HLTH J VERS : 2006 *PUBL HLTH HLTH AD LIST PUBL HLTH LIB : 2006 ALPI KM J MED LIBR ASSOC 95 : E6 2007 BAKER DR CITATION ANALYSIS - A METHODOLOGICAL REVIEW SOCIAL WORK RESEARCH & ABSTRACTS 26 : 3 1990 BLECIC DD Measurements of journal use: an analysis of the correlations between three methods BULLETIN OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 87 : 20 1999 BURDICK AJ CITATION PATTERNS IN THE HEALTH-SCIENCES - IMPLICATIONS FOR SERIALS MONOGRAPHIC FUND ALLOCATION BULLETIN OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 81 : 44 1993 DAVIS P Where to spend our E-journal money: Defining a university library's core collection through citation analysis PORTAL-LIBRARIES AND THE ACADEMY 2 : 155 2002 EDWARDS S SERIALS REV 25 : 11 1999 FUCHS BE Behavioral citation analysis: Toward collection enhancement for users COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES 67 : 304 2006 HAYCOCK LA Citation analysis of education dissertations for collection development LIBRARY RESOURCES & TECHNICAL SERVICES 48 : 102 2004 KUSHKOWSKI JD Master's and doctoral thesis citations: Analysis and trends of a longitudinal study PORTAL-LIBRARIES AND THE ACADEMY 3 : 459 2003 LAPELLE NR Identifying strategies to improve access to credible and relevant information for public health professionals: a qualitative study BMC PUBLIC HEALTH 6 : Art. No. 89 2006 LEE P Benchmarking information needs and use in the Tennessee public health community JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 91 : 322 2003 OCARROLL PW Information needs in public health and health policy: Results of recent studies JOURNAL OF URBAN HEALTH-BULLETIN OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE 75 : 785 1998 RAMBO N Public Health Outreach Forum: lessons learned BULLETIN OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 89 : 403 2001 SCHLOMAN BF Mapping the literature of health education BULLETIN OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 85 : 278 1997 SMITH ET Assessing collection usefulness: An investigation of library ownership of the resources graduate students use COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES 64 : 344 2003 SYLVIA M WHAT JOURNALS DO PSYCHOLOGY GRADUATE-STUDENTS NEED - A CITATION ANALYSIS OF THESIS REFERENCES COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES 56 : 313 1995 TSAY MY The relationship between journal use in a medical library and citation use BULLETIN OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 86 : 31 1998 WALLIS LC ACQUISITIONS LIB 31 : 111 2004 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Aug 31 13:04:10 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:04:10 -0400 Subject: Watkins N "Citation Rates" Astronomy & Geophysics 45(5): 9-9, October 2004. Message-ID: BLACKWELL PUBLISHERS HAVE MADE THE FULL TEXT OF THIS ARITLCE AVAILABLE AT : http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/products/journals/aag/AAG_Oct04/aag_45508 .htm#seq3 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- E-mail: N. Watkins : nww62 at yahoo.co.uk Title: Citation rates Author(s): Watkins N Source: ASTRONOMY & GEOPHYSICS 45 (5): 9-9 OCT 2004 Document Type: Editorial Material Language: English Cited References: 7 Times Cited: 0 Addresses: Watkins N (reprint author), MIT, Ctr Space Res, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge CB3 0ET, England Publisher: BLACKWELL PUBLISHING LTD, 9600 GARSINGTON RD, OXFORD OX4 2DG, OXON, ENGLAND Subject Category: Astronomy & Astrophysics; Geochemistry & Geophysics IDS Number: 857QX ISSN: 1366-8781 CITED REFERENCES: BOUCHAUD JP THEORY FINANCIAL RIS : 2000 LAHERRERE J Stretched exponential distributions in nature and economy: "fat tails" with characteristic scales EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL B 2 : 525 1998 PEARCE F A G 45 REDNER S How popular is your paper? An empirical study of the citation distribution EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL B 4 : 131 1998 SHOCKLEY W ON THE STATISTICS OF INDIVIDUAL VARIATIONS OF PRODUCTIVITY IN RESEARCH LABORATORIES PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTE OF RADIO ENGINEERS 45 : 279 1957 SIMON HA BIOMETRIKA 42 : 424 1955 TSALLIS C Are citations of scientific papers a case of nonextensivity? EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL B 13 : 777 2000 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Aug 31 13:34:56 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:34:56 -0400 Subject: Silverberg, G; Verspagen, B "The size distribution of innovations revisited: An application of extreme value statistics to citation and value measures of patent significance" J. Econometrics 139(2):318-339, August 2007 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: gerald.silverberg at merit.unimaas.nl b.verspagen at tm.tue.nl TITLE: The size distribution of innovations revisited: An application of extreme value statistics to citation and value measures of patent significance (Article, English) AUTHOR: Silverberg, G; Verspagen, B Source: JOURNAL OF ECONOMETRICS 139 (2): 318-339 AUG 2007 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 30 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: This paper focuses on the analysis of size distributions of innovations, which are known to be highly skewed. We use patent citations as one indicator of innovation significance, constructing two large datasets from the European and US Patent Offices at a high level of aggregation, and the Trajtenberg [1990, A penny for your quotes: patent citations and the value of innovations. Rand Journal of Economics 21(1), 172-187] dataset on CT scanners at a very low one. We also study self-assessed reports of patented innovation values using two very recent patent valuation datasets from the Netherlands and the UK, as well as a small dataset of patent licence revenues of Harvard University. Statistical methods are applied to analyse the properties of the empirical size distributions, where we put special emphasis on testing for the existence of 'heavy tails', i.e., whether or not the probability of very large innovations declines more slowly than exponentially. While overall the distributions appear to resemble a lognormal, we argue that the tails are indeed fat. We invoke some recent results from extreme value statistics and apply the Hill [1975. A simple general approach to inference about the tails of a distribution. The Annals of Statistics 3, 1163-1174] estimator with data-driven cut-offs to determine the tail index for the right tails of all datasets except the NL and UK patent valuations. On these latter datasets we use a maximum likelihood estimator for grouped data to estimate the tail index for varying definitions of the right tail. We find significantly and consistently lower tail estimates for the returns data than the citation data (around 0.6-1 vs. 3-5). The EPO and US patent citation tail indices are roughly constant over time, but the latter estimates are significantly lower than the former. The heaviness of the tails, particularly as measured by value indicators, we argue, has significant implications for technology policy and growth. theory, since the second and possibly even the first moments of these distributions may not exist. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Addresses: Silverberg G (reprint author), Maastricht Univ, MERIT, POB 616, NL-6200 MD Maastricht, Netherlands Maastricht Univ, MERIT, NL-6200 MD Maastricht, Netherlands Eindhoven Univ Technol, ECIS, NL-5600 MB Eindhoven, Netherlands E-mail Addresses: gerald.silverberg at merit.unimaas.nl, b.verspagen at tm.tue.nl Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA, PO BOX 564, 1001 LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND Subject Category: Economics; Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications; Social Sciences, Mathematical Methods IDS Number: 183NV ISSN: 0304-4076 CITED REFERENCES: BETRAN FL PRICING PATENTS CITA : 2003 COLES S INTRO STAT MODELING : 2001 DANIELSSON J J EMPIRICAL FINANCE 4 : 241 1997 DREES H Selecting the optimal sample fraction in univariate extreme value estimation STOCHASTIC PROCESSES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS 75 : 149 1998 EMBRECHTS P MODELLING EXTREMAL E : 1997 FALK M LAWS SMALL NUMBERS E : 1994 HALL BH 7741 NBER : 2000 HALL P USING THE BOOTSTRAP TO ESTIMATE MEAN SQUARED ERROR AND SELECT SMOOTHING PARAMETER IN NONPARAMETRIC PROBLEMS JOURNAL OF MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS 32 : 177 1990 HARCHOFF D EC LAW INTELLECTUAL : 2003 HARHOFF D Citation frequency and the value of patented inventions REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS 81 : 511 1999 HILL BM SIMPLE GENERAL APPROACH TO INFERENCE ABOUT TAIL OF A DISTRIBUTION ANNALS OF STATISTICS 3 : 1163 1975 JAFFE AB MEANING PATENT CITAT : 2000 JAFFE AB PATENTS CITATIONS IN : 2002 KUZNETS S RATE DIRECTION INVEN : 1962 LUX T APPL FINANCIAL EC 11 : 299 2001 MANDELBROT B MISBEHAVIOR MARKETS : 2004 NESTA L UK SURVEY PATENT VAL : 2004 REISS RD STAT ANAL EXTREME VA : 2001 RESNICK S EXTREME VALUES FINAN : 2004 SCHERER FM FIRM SIZE, MARKET-STRUCTURE, OPPORTUNITY, AND THE OUTPUT OF PATENTED INVENTIONS AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW 55 : 1097 1965 SCHERER FM Technology policy for a world of skew-distributed outcomes RESEARCH POLICY 29 : 559 2000 SCHERER FM SIZE DISTRIBUTION PR : 495 1998 SILVERBERG G BREWING FUTURE STYLI : 2003 SILVERBERG G C WHAT DO WE KNOW IN : 13 2003 SILVERBERG G A percolation model of innovation in complex technology spaces JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC DYNAMICS & CONTROL 29 : 225 2005 SORNETTE D QUANTITATIVE FINANCE 2 : 224 2002 SORNETTE D WHY STOCK MARKETS CR : 2002 SUTTON J Gibrat's legacy JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE 35 : 40 1997 TRAJTENBERG M A PENNY FOR YOUR QUOTES - PATENT CITATIONS AND THE VALUE OF INNOVATIONS RAND JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS 21 : 172 1990 VANY AS J ECON DYN CONTROL 28 : 1035 2004 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Aug 31 14:23:21 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:23:21 -0400 Subject: Kostoff, RN; Koytcheff, RG; Lau, CGY "Technical structure of the global nanoscience and nanotechnology literature" JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH 9 (5). OCT 2007. p.701-724 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: kostofr at onr.navy.mil TITLE: Technical structure of the global nanoscience and nanotechnology literature (Article, English) AUTHOR: Kostoff, RN; Koytcheff, RG; Lau, CGY SOURCE: JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH 9 (5). OCT 2007. p.701-724 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 10 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Text mining was used to extract technical intelligence from the open source global nanotechnology and nanoscience research literature. An extensive nanotechnology/nanoscience-focused query was applied to the Science Citation Index/Social Science Citation Index (SCI/SSCI) databases. The nanotechnology/nanoscience research literature technical structure (taxonomy) was obtained using computational linguistics/document clustering and factor analysis. The infrastructure (prolific authors, key journals/institutions/countries, most cited authors/journals/documents) for each of the clusters generated by the document clustering algorithm was obtained using bibliometrics. Another novel addition was the use of phrase auto-correlation maps to show technical thrust areas based on phrase co- occurrence in Abstracts, and the use of phrase-phrase cross-correlation maps to show technical thrust areas based on phrase relations due to the sharing of common co-occurring phrases. The similar to 400 most cited nanotechnology papers since 1991 were grouped, and their characteristics generated. Whereas the main analysis provided technical thrusts of all nanotechnology papers retrieved, analysis of the most cited papers allowed their characteristics to be displayed. Finally, most cited papers from selected time periods were extracted, along with all publications from those time periods, and the institutions and countries were compared based on their representation in the most cited documents list relative to their representation in the most publications list. Addresses: Kostoff RN (reprint author), Off Naval Res, 875 N Randolph St, Arlington, VA 22217 USA Off Naval Res, Arlington, VA 22217 USA Inst Def Anal, Alexandria, VA 22311 USA E-mail Addresses: kostofr at onr.navy.mil Publisher: SPRINGER, VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS Subject Category: Chemistry, Multidisciplinary; Nanoscience & Nanotechnology; Materials Science, Multidisciplinary IDS Number: 181YE ISSN: 1388-0764 CITED REFERENCES: SCI CERT DAT INCL HER DE : 2006 KARYPIS G CLUTO CLUSTERING TOO : 2005 KING DA The scientific impact of nations NATURE 430 : 311 2004 KOSTOFF RN ADA461930 DTIC : 2007 KOSTOFF RN J INF SCI 23 : 4 1997 KOSTOFF RN J NANOPART RES 8 : 3 2006 KOSTOFF RN The seminal literature of nanotechnology research JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH 8 : 193 2006 KOSTOFF RN The structure and infrastructure of Finnish research literature TECHNOLOGY ANALYSIS & STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT 18 : 187 2006 ZHAO Y Hierarchical clustering algorithms for document datasets DATA MINING AND KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY 10 : 141 2005 ZHOU P The emergence of China as a leading nation in science RESEARCH POLICY 35 : 83 2006 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Aug 31 14:29:04 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:29:04 -0400 Subject: Rowlands, I; Nicholas, D "The missing link: journal usage metrics" ASLIB PROCEEDINGS 59 (3). 2007. p.222-228 Message-ID: E-mail: i.rowlands at ucl.ac.uk TITLE: The missing link: journal usage metrics (Article, English) AUTHOR: Rowlands, I; Nicholas, D SOURCE: ASLIB PROCEEDINGS 59 (3). 2007. p.222-228 EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED, BRADFORD Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 6 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Purpose - The aim of this short communication is to contribute to a growing debate about how we can measure the "quality" of journals. More specifically, the paper argues the need for a new range of standardized indicators based on reader (rather than author-facing) metrics. Design/methodology/approach - This is a thought experiment, outlining the kinds of usage indicators that could be developed alongside the traditional ISI measures of impact, immediacy and obsolescence. Findings - The time is ripe to develop a set of standardised. measures of journal usage that are as easy to understand, and as universally accepted, as ISI's current citation-based indicators. By linking article publication year to full text downloads, this article argues that very considerable value could be extracted from what, in many cases, is almost uninterpretable data. Practical implications - Indicators in the form proposed could find a wide variety of applications, from helping librarians to assess the potential value-for-money of bundled journal deals, to helping policy-makers and scholarly communication researchers to better understand the dynamics of knowledge diffusion. Originality/value - The development of standardized usage factors in the form suggested here would radically shift the centre of gravity in bibliometrics research from the author to the reader. This remains largely unexplored territory. Addresses: Rowlands I (reprint author), Univ Coll London, Sch Lib Archive & Informat Studies, CIBER, London WC1E 6BT, England Univ Coll London, Sch Lib Archive & Informat Studies, CIBER, London WC1E 6BT, England Publisher: EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED, 60/62 TOLLER LANE, BRADFORD BD8 9BY, W YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND Subject Category: Computer Science, Information Systems; Information Science & Library Science IDS Number: 181AC ISSN: 0001-253X CITED REFERENCES : AMIN M PERSPECTIVES PUBLISH : 1 2000 DARMONI SJ Reading factor: a new bibliometric criterion for managing digital libraries JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 90 : 323 2002 OBST O HLTH INFORMATION LIB 20 : 22 2003 ROWLANDS I Scholarly communication in the digital environment - The 2005 survey of journal author behaviour and attitudes ASLIB PROCEEDINGS 57 : 481 2005 TSAY MY Library journal use and citation age in medical science JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION 55 : 543 1999 WULFF JL Quality markers and use of electronic journals in an academic health sciences library JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 92 : 315 2004