From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Sun Jul 1 01:52:47 2007 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 07:52:47 +0200 Subject: seeking guidance In-Reply-To: <0ML31I-1I4iFJ1syD-0004ES@mrelayeu.kundenserver.de> Message-ID: > You should cooperate with an institution which owns the CD-ROM > versions. As ar as I could see your Welch library holds at least some > cumulations of the CD-versions. So, as always, first ask your > librarian ... Dear colleagues, It is possible to do this straightforwardly using the online versions of the Science Citation Index at Dialog or STN (SciSearch). However, it would be expensive. With best wishes, Loet From krobin at JHMI.EDU Mon Jul 2 08:48:22 2007 From: krobin at JHMI.EDU (Karen Robinson) Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 08:48:22 -0400 Subject: thank you Message-ID: Thank you to those who responded to my query. It is disappointing to hear that there is no easy solution but reassuring that I was not just being silly in not seeing a solution. as a reminder, I am trying to do following: Search for topic n yields documents A, B, C, D A cites f, g, h B cites x, y, z I want to know if f cites g, f cites h, g cites h (etc) (building in a lag time but that's a whole other issue!). Thanks to those who suggested checking out HistCite. I will do so. thanks, Karen -- Karen A. Robinson Internal Medicine and Health Sciences Informatics, Medicine Johns Hopkins University 1830 East Monument Street, Room 8069 Baltimore, MD 21287 410-502-9216 (voice) 410-955-0825 (fax) krobin at jhmi.edu From Christina.Pikas at JHUAPL.EDU Mon Jul 2 09:24:37 2007 From: Christina.Pikas at JHUAPL.EDU (Pikas, Christina K.) Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 09:24:37 -0400 Subject: New WoS interface Message-ID: WRT what is possible/easy with the Web of Science interface, I just attended a WebEx demonstration of the new interface that will come online in parallel with the current interface in July-August, and as the only interface from this Fall forward. As of Thursday - they decided not to keep the "marked list" feature. This seems to be a poor decision that will negatively impact the workflow of the members of this list. It seems that Thomson Scientific is still working on the programming (for example, right now the marked items do not stay marked from one page to the next within the results set!), so it would probably be a good time for feedback. I have a list of items I will be providing feedback on but additional voices and a proactive approach might help. I think this url will take you to the WebEx sign up pages: https://thomsonscientific.webex.com. The WebEx is intended for librarians, so you might consider contacting your friendly local librarian and asking her or him to represent you. BTW- as far as I know, we only have web access to WoS at JHU. I have access to DIALOG, but I believe my research lab is the only JHU DIALOG customer. Christina K. Pikas, MLS R.E. Gibson Library & Information Center The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Voice 240.228.4812 (Washington), 443.778.4812 (Baltimore) Fax 443.778.5353 From stuart.taylor at ROYALSOC.AC.UK Thu Jul 5 05:25:58 2007 From: stuart.taylor at ROYALSOC.AC.UK (Taylor, Stuart) Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 10:25:58 +0100 Subject: Royal Society Publishing - 2006 Journal Impact Factors Message-ID: Royal Society Publishing is pleased to announce that Biology Letters (launched in 2005) has received its first Impact Factor of 2.00. This places it 6th out of the 51 journals in its category. Journal of the Royal Society Interface (launched in 2004) has moved from its first impact factor of 0.727 last year to 2.597 this year, which places it at 4th rank in its category*. Proceedings of the Royal Society A, Proceedings of the Royal Society B and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A also enjoyed increases in impact factor from last year. Dr Stuart Taylor Head of Publishing The Royal Society 6-9 Carlton House Terrace London SW1Y 5AG tel: +44 (0)20 7451 2619 mobile: +44 (0) 7787 562340 http://publishing.royalsoc.ac.uk _____________________________ *(The impact factor published in the Journal Citation Reports is currently 0.93, but Thomson ISI have now re-calculated this to the correct the figure of 2.597). ************************************************************************* The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may also be subject to legal privilege. It is intended only for the recipient(s) named above. 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However, Korea's citation performance is not yet as competitive as publication performance. In this study, the authors examine the intellectual structure of Korean S&T field based on social network analysis of journal-journal citation data using the ten Korean SCI journals as seed journals. The results reveal that Korean SCI journals function more like publication places, neither research channels nor information sources among national scientists. Thus, these journals may provide Korean scholars with access to international scientific communities by facilitating the respective entry barriers. However, there are no citation relations based on their Korean background. Furthermore, we intend to draw some policy implications which may be helpful to increase Korea's research potential. Han Woo PARK Dept of Communication & Information, YeungNam University 214-1, Dae-dong, Gyeongsan-si,Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea, Zip Code 712-749 http://www.hanpark.net; parkhanwoo at hotmail.com 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/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From amanda.pattavina at THOMSON.COM Fri Jul 6 10:09:17 2007 From: amanda.pattavina at THOMSON.COM (=?windows-1252?Q?Amanda_Pattavina?=) Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 10:09:17 -0400 Subject: New Web of Knowledge Interface Message-ID: Thomson Scientific is very pleased with the excitement surrounding the preview release of the new ISI Web of Knowledge interface. In response to questions raised about the status of the current ?Marked List? function in this new environment, I am writing to assure readers that, in fact, the ?Marked List? will be retained in the new interface and so will continue to provide the robust management functionality that advanced users of ISI Web of Knowledge have come to enjoy. Sincerely, Jim Pringle, VP Product Development, Thomson Scientific From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Sun Jul 8 09:17:42 2007 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 15:17:42 +0200 Subject: S&T indicators Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Lesson 5 about patents and patent citations is now alive at http://www.leydesdorff.net/indicators/lesson5.htm . Currently, the search facilities are limited to the USPTO database. 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 garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Jul 12 15:45:25 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1250?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:45:25 -0400 Subject: Contents of Scientometrics, Vol:72(1) April 2007 Message-ID: Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 1 (April 2007) CONTENTS ------------------------------- TITLE : The public science base of US biotechnology: A citation-weighted approach AUTHOR : G. STEVEN MCMILLAN a, ROBERT D. HAMILTON, III b a. Penn State Abington, Abington, PA (USA) b. Department of General and Strategic Management, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA (USA) Abstract In previous research we examined the science base of US biotechnology utilizing several unique patent and scientific paper databases (MCMILLAN et al., 2000). Our findings highlighted the importance of public science in this industry. In this current research effort, we extend that analysis to include the subsequent citations those biotechnology patents received. Our conclusions are that the reliance on public science is stable when adjusted for forward citations, but the impact of different funding sources does change when citation weights are added. The science policy implications of these findings and future research opportunities are discussed. Address for correspondence: G. STEVEN MCMILLAN Penn State Abington, 1600 Woodland Road, Abington, PA 19003, USA E-mail: gsm5 at psu.edu Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 1 (April 2007) 3-10 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1701-4 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE : An exploratory study of the feature of Iranian co-authorships in biology, chemistry and physics AUTHORS : GOYA HARIRCHI,a G?RAN MELIN,b SHAPOUR ETEMADc a School of Education & Psychology, Department of Library and Information Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran (Iran) b Swedish Institute for Studies in Education and Research, Stockholm (Sweden) c Iranian Institute of Philosophy, Tehran (Iran) Abstract This paper investigates factors behind co-authorships between scientists in Iran and elsewhere. It also compares the Iranian pattern of collaboration with other countries. A questionnaire was sent out to Iranian scientists in fields of physics, chemistry, and biology who had published an internationally co-authored journal article during 2003. The results show that not all co-authored articles were the result of a collaborative project. Also, the main collaborative motives behind the co-authorships were identified and described. Among these, we could mention sharing laboratory devices, accessing knowledge, and increased efficiency of the study at hand. It is clear that emigrated Iranian scientists play an important role as collaborators and probably also as links to the international scientific community as a whole. Cultural factors mix with scientific and work related ones. Although the proportion of international co-authorships is lower than in most other countries, the collaborative pattern seems rather similar. Address for correspondence: G?RAN MELIN Swedish Institute for Studies in Education and Research Drottning Kristinas V?g 33 D, S-114 28 Stockholm, Sweden E-mail: goran.melin at sister.nu Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 1 (April 2007) 11?24 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1693-0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE : Irreproducibility of the results of the Shanghai academic ranking of world universities AUTHOR : R?ZVAN V. FLORIANa,b aAd Astra Association of Romanian Scientists, Cluj-Napoca (Romania) bCenter for Cognitive and Neural Studies (Coneural), Cluj-Napoca (Romania) Abstract I discuss the difficulties that I encountered in reproducing the results of the Shanghai ranking of world universities. In the Shanghai ranking, the dependence between the score for the SCI indicator and the weighted number of considered articles obeys a power law, instead of the proportional dependence that is suggested by the official methodology of the ranking. Discrepancies from proportionality are also found in some of the scores for the N&S and Size indicators. This shows that the results of the Shanghai ranking cannot be reproduced, given raw data and the public methodology of the ranking. Address for correspondence: R?ZVAN V. FLORIAN Ad Astra Association of Romanian Scientists Str. Saturn nr. 24, 400504 Cluj-Napoca, Romania E-mail: florian at ad-astra.ro Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 1 (April 2007) 25?32 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1712-1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE : Innovation assessment in traditional industries. A proposal of aesthetic innovation indicators AUTHOR : JORGE ALCAIDE-MARZALa, ENRIQUE TORTAJADA-ESPARZAb aProject Engineering Department, Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia, Valencia (Spain) bINGENIO (CSIC-UPV), Valencia (Spain) Abstract Innovative activities are fundamental to the competitiveness strategies of the firms in a globalized market. Their assessment, using indicators such as those utilized in the Community Innovation Survey (CIS), shows significant sectoral dispersion. Traditional industries are in a weak position because the innovation they are involved in is mainly aesthetic, which is not really addressed in innovation surveys. In this work, we review the various criticisms levelled at existing indicators and propose some new indicators that would capture the types of innovations that are conducted by the traditional industries. This work is based on a study of the features of traditional industries and the concept of aesthetic novelty. The proposed indicators are tested in the Spanish footwear industry. Address for correspondence: JORGE ALCAIDE-MARZAL Project Engineering Department, Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia Valencia, Spain E-mail: jalcaide at dpi.upv.es Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 1 (April 2007) 33?57 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1708-x ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE : Exploring social integration as a determinant of research activity, performance and prestige of scientists. Empirical evidence in the Biology and Biomedicine field AUTHOR : JES?S REY-ROCHA, BEL?N GARZ?N-GARC?A, M. JOS? MART?N-SEMPERE Group for Scientific Activity Studies, Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), Madrid (Spain) Abstract The aim of this paper is to explore to what extent social integration influences scientists? research activity and performance. Data were obtained from a survey of researchers ascribed to the Biology and Biomedicine area of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research, as well as from their curricula vitae. The results provide empirical evidence that researchers who were highly integrated within their teams performed better than their less integrated colleagues in aspects of research activity such as collaboration with the private sector, patenting, participation in domestic funded research and development projects, and supervision of doctoral dissertations. Nevertheless, highly integrated researchers did not seem to be more prestigious than less integrated colleagues, nor did the former?s publications have a higher impact. Address for correspondence: JES?S REY-ROCHA CINDOC (CSIC), Joaqu?n Costa 22, 28002 Madrid, Spain E-mail: J.Rey at cindoc.csic.es Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 1 (April 2007) 59?80 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1703-2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE : Why are Websites co-linked? The case of Canadian universities AUTHOR : LIWEN VAUGHAN, MARGARET E. I. KIPP, YIJUN GAO Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario (Canada) Abstract This study examined why Websites were co-linked using Canadian university Websites as the test set. Pages that co-linked to these university Websites were located using Yahoo!. A random sample of 859 co-linking pages (the page that initiated the co-link) was retrieved and the contents of the page, as well as the context of the link, were manually examined to record the following variables: language, country, type of Website, and the reasons for co-linking. The study found that in over 94% of cases, the two co-linked universities were related academically; many of these cases (38%) showed a relationship specifically in teaching or research. This confirms results, from previous quantitative studies, that Web co-links can be a measure of the similarity or relatedness of sites being co-linked and that Web co-link analysis can thus be used to study relationships among linked Websites. Address for correspondence: LIWEN VAUGHAN Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, N6A 5B7, Canada Email: lvaughan at uwo.ca Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 1 (April 2007) 81?92 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1707-y ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE : Low awareness of the link between science and innovation affects public policies in developing countries: The Chilean case AUTHOR : MANUEL KRAUSKOPFa,b, ERWIN KRAUSKOPFa,b,c, BERNARDITA M?NDEZa,b,c aUniversidad Andr?s Bello, Santiago (Chile) bMillenium Institute for Fundamental and Applied Biology, Santiago (Chile) cFundaci?n Ciencia para la Vida, Santiago (Chile) Abstract Developing countries share disbelief about the benefits of the endogenous production of science as a tool for economical growth. Hence, public policies to strengthen science and technology and promote the culture of innovation are, in general, weak and sometimes incoherent. Patenting has become not only an icon to protect discoveries which can yield profits and enable socio-economical growth but also a potent informetric tool to assess innovation and certainly, since the seminal work of Narin, to understand the multidimensional interactions between science, technology and innovation. In this article we examine the impact of Chilean research articles on world technology as viewed by the link between articles produced in Chile and US patents. Our results show that from 1987 to 2003, 509 US patents had 562 citations to 273 articles produced at least, by one author working in a Chilean institution. US, not Chilean companies are the holders of patents citing Chilean produced articles. The research articles covered many disciplines but a clear concentration occurred in the biomedical field. Additionally, chemistry was also well cited. Our results confirm that in Chile a non-patenting culture which involves researchers and institutions still prevails. Hence, public policies need to be designed and implemented to foster scientific production and innovation in order to advance progress in the current knowledgeeconomy- driven society which sustains competitiveness in the globalized world. Address for correspondence: MANUEL KRAUSKOPF Universidad Andr?s Bello, Av. Rep?blica 237, Santiago, Chile E-mail: mkrausk at unab.cl Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 1 (April 2007) 93?103 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1737-5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE : The frequencies of multinational papers in various sciences AUTHOR : HELMUT A. ABT Kitt Peak National Observatory, Tucson, AZ (USA) Abstract Multinational papers are defined here as ones written by authors who reside in different countries during the course of research. For each of 16 fields of science, I scanned the first 200 papers in 2005 in four major journals publishing original research papers. Those journals produced 40% of all the citations among those journals with Impact Factors greater than 1.0. The frequencies of multinational papers ranged from 13% in surgery to 55% in astronomy. Although one can list a dozen factors which might contribute toward multinational papers, I lack the data to test most of those. There are only minor correlations with team sizes and Impact Factors, inadequate to explain the range. There is a larger, but not convincing, dependence upon the fractions of single-author papers and its cause, if real, is unclear. However, the most prominent factor seems to be the nature of the objects studied; if they are usually local (e.g. in one hospital or in one laboratory), the papers tend to be domestic but if most of the objects are available simultaneously to scientists in many countries (e.g. the sky in astronomy or the oceans and the Earth?s atmosphere in geosciences or widespread diseases in the area of infectious diseases or plants and animals widely distributed in biology), the papers are often international. Auxiliary results for 2005 are an average of 5.5 ?0.3 authors per paper and 6.6 ?1.0% one-author papers. Address for correspondence: HELMUT A. ABT Kitt Peak National Observatory Box 26732, Tucson, AZ 85726-6732, USA E-mail: abt at noao.edu Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 1 (April 2007) 105?115 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1686-z ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE : Measuring researcher interdisciplinarity AUTHOR : ALAN L. PORTER, ALEX S. COHEN, J. DAVID ROESSNER, MARTY PERREAULT National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI), Irvine, CA (USA) Abstract We offer two metrics that together help gauge how interdisciplinary a body of research is. Both draw upon Web of Knowledge Subject Categories (SCs) as key units of analysis. We have assembled two substantial Web of Knowledge samples from which to determine how closely individual SCs relate to each other. ?Integration? measures the extent to which a research article cites diverse SCs. ?Specialization? considers the spread of SCs in which the body of research (e.g., the work of a given author in a specified time period) is published. Pilot results for a sample of researchers show a surprising degree of interdisciplinarity. Address for correspondence: ALAN L. PORTER Technology Policy and Assessment Center, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA (USA) E-mail: alan.porter at isye.gatech.edu Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 1 (April 2007) 117?147 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1700-5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE : The evidence of systematic noise in non-patent references: A study of New Zealand companies? patents AUTHOR : ZI-LIN HE, MIN DENG Department of Management, University of Otago, Dunedin (New Zealand) Abstract Since the pioneering studies of CARPENTER & NARIN (1983), and NARIN & NOMA (1985), non-patent references (NPRs) in patent documents have been widely used as an indicator of science-technology links. MEYER (2000) reviewed previous work in the patent citation literature and found that citation links between patents and papers are, if not explicitly, at least implicitly viewed as an indication of the contribution of science to technology. Using a sample of 850 patents of New Zealand companies granted by the USPTO between 1976 and 2004, we find evidence of systematic noise in NPR data. We suggest that future research should pay close attention to heterogeneity among countries, and that one should demonstrate more caution in applying and interpreting results based on the NPR methodology. Address for correspondence: ZI-LIN HE Department of Management University of Otago P. O. Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand 9001 Email: zilinhe at business.otago.ac.nz Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 1 (April 2007) 149?166 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1702-3 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Jul 12 15:55:05 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1250?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:55:05 -0400 Subject: Contents of Scientometrics, Vol:72 No:2 May 2007 Message-ID: Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 2 (May 2007) CONTENTS ------------------------------------------------------------------ TITLE : Variations in content and format of ISI databases in their different versions: The case of the Science Citation Index in CD-ROM and the Web of Science AUTHORS : RODRIGO COSTASa, ISABEL IRIBARREN-MAESTROb aCentro de Informaci?n y Documentaci?n Cient?fica, CINDOC-CSIC, Madrid (Spain) bLaboratorio de Estudios M?tricos de Informaci?n (LEMI), Departamento de Biblioteconom?a y Documentaci?n, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Getafe, Madrid (Spain) Abstract The CD-ROM and web versions of the Science Citation Index databases are compared as to their content and format features. Several differences have been detected such as the use of different punctuation marks in both versions and a different organisation of author?s affiliation data. These differences make automatic comparisons of ISI products difficult and they should be considered when matching both databases. Some recommendations to ensure more normalisation and reliability of data are pointed out. Address for correspondence: RODRIGO COSTAS Centro de Informaci?n y Documentaci?n Cient?fica. CINDOC-CSIC C/Joaqu?n Costa, 22, 28002, Madrid, Spain E-mail: rodrigo.costas at cindoc.csic.es Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 2 (May 2007) 167?183 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1589-z ------------------------------------------------------------------ TITLE : The citation impacts and citation environments of Chinese journals in mathematics AUTHORS : PING ZHOUa,b, LOET LEYDESDORFFb aInstitute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, Beijing (P. R. China) bAmsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam (The Netherlands) Abstract Based on the citation data of journals covered by the China Scientific and Technical Papers and Citations Database (CSTPCD), we obtained aggregated journal-journal citation environments by applying routines developed specifically for this purpose. Local citation impact of journals is defined as the share of the total citations in a local citation environment, which is expressed as a ratio and can be visualized by the size of the nodes. The vertical size of the nodes varies proportionally to a journal?s total citation share, while the horizontal size of the nodes is used to provide citation information after correction for the within-journal (self-) citations. In the ?citing? environment, the equivalent of the local citation performance can also be considered as a citation activity index. Using the ?citing? patterns as variables one is able to map how the relevant journal environments are perceived by the collective of authors of a journal, while the ?cited? environment reflects the impact of journals in a local environment. In this study, we analyze citation impacts of three Chinese journals in mathematics and compare local citation impacts with impact factors. Local citation impacts reflect a journal?s status and function better than (global) impact factors. We also found that authors in Chinese journals prefer international instead of domestic ones as sources for their citations. Address for correspondence: PING ZHOU Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China 15 Fuxing Road, Beijing, 100038, P. R. China E-mail: zhoup at istic.ac.cn Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 2 (May 2007) 185?200 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1713-0 ------------------------------------------------------------------ TITLE : A bibliometric and citation analysis of stroke-related research in Taiwan AUTHORS : KUN-YANG CHUANGa, YA-LI HUANGb, YUH-SHAN HOc aDepartment of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, Taipei (Taiwan) bDivision of Public Health, School of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei (Taiwan) cBibliometric Center, Taipei Medical University, Wan-Fang Hospital, Taipei (Taiwan) Abstract As the population ages in Taiwan, stroke research has received greater attention in recent years. Strokes have significant impacts on the health and well-being of the elderly. To formulate future research policy, information on stroke publications should be collected. In this research, we studied stroke-related research articles published by Taiwan researchers which were indexed in the Science Citation Index from 1991 to 2005. We found that the quantity of publications has increased at a quicker pace than the worldwide trend. Over the years, there has been an increase in international collaboration, mainly with researchers in the U.S. Article visibility, measured as the frequency of being cited, also increased during the period. It appears that stroke research in Taiwan has become more globally connected and has also improved in quality. The publication output was concentrated in a few institutes, but there was a wide variation among these institutes in the ability to independently conduct research. A wide array of keywords indicated a probable lack of continuity in research. Nevertheless, there was an inverse relationship between stroke mortality and number of published articles in Taiwan. To improve the quality and efficiency of stroke research, continuity in research focuses needs to be maintained, and thus funding should be allocated on a long-term basis to institutes with a proven record of success. Address for correspondence: YUH-SHAN HO Bibliometric Center, Taipei Medical University, Wan-Fang Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan E-mail: ysho at tmu.edu.tw Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 2 (May 2007) 201?212 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1693-0 -------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE : Transient and continuant authors in a research field: The case of terrorism AUTHOR: AVISHAG GORDONa,b aDepartment of Information and Library Studies, University of Haifa, Haifa (Israel) bComputer Science Library, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa (Israel) Abstract The issue of research continuance in a scientific discipline was analyzed and applied to the field of terrorism. The growing amount of literature in this field is produced mostly by one-timers who ?visit? the field, contribute one or two articles, and then move to another subject area. This research pattern does not contribute to the regularity and constancy of publication by which a scientific discipline is formed and theories and paradigms of the field are created. This study observed the research continuance and transience of scientific publications in terrorism by using obtainable ?most prolific terrorism authors? lists at different points in time. These lists designed by several terrorism researchers, presented a few researchers who contributed to the field continuously and many others whose main research interest lay in another discipline. The four lists observed included authors who were continuants, transients, new-comers, and terminators (who left the field). The lack of continuous, full-time research in a research field is typical of many disciplines, but the influence of this research pattern on a field?s growth and stability is different for older, established disciplines than for new and formative fields of study. With in the former, intellectual mobility could contribute to the rise of new topics and probably enrich the particular scientific field; with the latter, by contrast, it could hamper the formation and growth of the field. Address for correspondence: AVISHAG GORDON P. O. Box 7571, Haifa 31074 Israel E-mail: avishag at tx.technion.ac.il Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 2 (May 2007) 213?224 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1714-z ------------------------------------------------------------------ TITLE : An educational resource for information literacy in higher education: Functional and users analyses of the e-COMS academic portal AUTHORS : MARIA PINTO, ANNE-VINCIANE DOUCET Department of Information Science, University of Granada, Granada (Spain) Abstract As in today?s knowledge society the Internet is playing an important role in the information literacy of university students the goal of this paper is to analyse, after its first year on the Web, the informational impact of an e-learning resource developed by Granada?s University lecturers (the e- COMS educational portal), a pioneer in Spain for training in information literacy. From the objective and subjective data provided by the own portal and by it users, two different and complementary kinds of analysis (functional and users?) are performed. Assessment of various capabilities, among which visibility and usability stand out, is provided. The highly positive but improvable results offer a detailed analysis of the functional aspects of the portal itself and of the users? relations with this information resource. From these analyses strengths and weaknesses are extracted and some proposals for improvement are derived. Address for correspondence: MARIA PINTO Department of Information Science, University of Granada, Spain e-mail: mpinto at ugr.es Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 2 (May 2007) 225?252 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1725-9 ------------------------------------------------------------------ TITLE : Generalized Hirsch h-index for disclosing latent facts in citation networks AUTHORS : ANTONIS SIDIROPOULOSa, DIMITRIOS KATSAROSa,b, YANNIS MANOLOPOULOSa aInformatics Department, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki (Greece) bComputer & Communications Engineering Department, University of Thessaly, Volos (Greece) Abstract What is the value of a scientist and its impact upon the scientific thinking? How can we measure the prestige of a journal or a conference? The evaluation of the scientific work of a scientist and the estimation of the quality of a journal or conference has long attracted significant interest, due to the benefits by obtaining an unbiased and fair criterion. Although it appears to be simple, defining a quality metric is not an easy task. To overcome the disadvantages of the present metrics used for ranking scientists and journals, J. E. Hirsch proposed a pioneering metric, the now famous h-index. In this article we demonstrate several inefficiencies of this index and develop a pair of generalizations and effective variants of it to deal with scientist ranking and publication forum ranking. The new citation indices are able to disclose trendsetters in scientific research, as well as researchers that constantly shape their field with their influential work, no matter how old they are. We exhibit the effectiveness and the benefits of the new indices to unfold the full potential of the h- index, with extensive experimental results obtained from the DBLP, a widely known on-line digital library. Address for correspondence: DIMITRIOS KATSAROS Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, 54124, Greece E-mail: dimitris at delab.csd.auth.gr Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 2 (May 2007) 253?280 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1722-z ------------------------------------------------------------------ TITLE : Separating the articles of authors with the same name AUTHORS : JOS? M. SOLER Departamento de F?sica de la Materia Condensada, C-III, Universidad Aut?noma de Madrid, Madrid (Spain) Abstract I describe a method to separate the articles of different authors with the same name. It is based on a distance between any two publications, defined in terms of the probability that they would have as many coincidences if they were drawn at random from all published documents. Articles with a given author name are then clustered according to their distance, so that all articles in a cluster belong very likely to the same author. The method has proven very useful in generating groups of papers that are then selected manually. This simplifies considerably citation analysis when the author publication lists are not available. Address for correspondence: JOS? M. SOLER Departamento de F?sica de la Materia Condensada, C-III Universidad Aut?noma de Madrid, E-28049 Madrid, Spain E-mail: jose.soler at uam.es Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 2 (May 2007) 281?290 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1730-z ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE : Models for citation behavior AUTHORS : SARALEES NADARAJAHa SAMUEL KOTZb aUniversity of Manchester, Manchester (UK) bGeorge Washington University, Washington, DC (USA) Abstract The number of citations of journal papers is an important measure of the impact of research. Thus, the modeling of citation behavior needs attention. Burrell, Egghe, Rousseau and others pioneered this type of modeling. Several models have been proposed for the citation distribution. In this note, we derive the most comprehensive collection of formulas for the citation distribution, covering some 17 flexible families. The corresponding estimation procedures are also derived by the method of moments. We feel that this work could serve as a useful reference for the modeling of citation behavior. Address for correspondence: SARALEES NADARAJAH University of Manchester, Manchester, M60 1QD, UK E-mail: mbbsssn2 at manchester.ac.uk Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 2 (May 2007) 291?305 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1717-9 ------------------------------------------------------------------ TITLE : Direct interactions medical school faculty members have with professionals and managers working in public and private sector organizations: A cross-sectional study AUTHORS : MATHIEU OUIMETa,b, NABIL AMARAc, R?JEAN LANDRYc, JOHN LAVISd aDepartment of Political Science, Universit? Laval, Qu?bec, QC (Canada) bAgence de la sant? et des services sociaux de la Mont?r?gie, Direction de la gestion de l?information et des connaissances (DGIC), Longueuil, Qu?bec, QC (Canada) cDepartment of Management, Laval University, Qu?bec, QC (Canada) dDepartment of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON (Canada) Abstract The research questions are as follows: to what extent do Canadian medical school faculty members have person-to-person interactions with individuals working in public and private sector organizations? What are the characteristics of Canadian medical school faculty members who interact with individuals working in these work settings? Are these different network patterns complementary or substitute? The data used for this study are from a cross-sectional survey of Canadian medical school faculty members (n = 907). Structural multivariate ordered probit models were estimated to explore the characteristics of faculty members with different network patterns and to see if these network patterns are complementary or substitute. Study results suggest that the different network patterns considered in the study are not conflicting, but that some patterns correspond to different faculty member profiles. Address for correspondence: MATHIEU OUIMET Department of Political Science, Pavillon Charles-De Koninck, bureau 4453 Universit? Laval, Qu?bec, QC, G1K 7P4, Canada E-mail: mathieu.ouimet at pol.ulaval.ca Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 2 (May 2007) 307?323 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1731-y ------------------------------------------------------------------ TITLE : Profiling citation impact: A new methodology AUTHORS : JONATHAN ADAMS, KAREN GURNEY, STUART MARSHALL Evidence Ltd, Leeds (UK) Abstract A methodology for creating bibliometric impact profiles is described. The advantages of such profiles as a management tool to supplement the reporting power of traditional average impact metrics are discussed. The impact profile for the UK as a whole reveals the extent to which the median and modal UK impact values differ from and are significantly below average impact. Only one-third of UK output for 1995?2004 is above world average impact although the UK?s average world-normalised impact is 1.24. Time- categorised impact profiles are used to test hypotheses about changing impact and confirm that the increase in average UK impact is due to real improvement rather than a reduction in low impact outputs. The impact profile methodology has been applied across disciplines as well as years and is shown to work well in all subject categories. It reveals substantial variations in performance between disciplines. The value of calculating the profile median and mode as well as the average impact are demonstrated. Finally, the methodology is applied to a specific data-set to compare the impact profile of the elite Laboratory of Molecular Biology (Cambridge) with the relevant UK average. This demonstrates an application of the methodology by identifying where the institute?s exceptional performance is located. The value of impact profiles lies in their role as an interpretive aid for non-specialists, not as a technical transformation of the data for scientometricians. Address for correspondence: JONATHAN ADAMS Evidence Ltd, 103 Clarendon Road, Leeds LS2 9DF, UK E-mail: jonathan.adams at evidence.co.uk Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 2 (May 2007) 325?344 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1696-x ------------------------------------------------------------------ TITLE : Metric analysis of the information visibility and diffusion about the European Higher Education Area on Spanish University websites AUTHORS : MAR?A PINTOa, DORA SALESb, ANNE-VINCIANE DOUCETa, ANDR?S FERN?NDEZ-RAMOSa, DAVID GUERREROc aUniversity of Granada, Department of Information Science, Granada (Spain) bUniversitat Jaume I, Department of Translation and Communication, Castell?n (Spain) cUniversity of Granada, Vice-Rectorate for Planning, Quality and Evaluation of Teaching, Granada (Spain) Abstract The purpose of the study proposed in this paper is to evaluate the Spanish public university websites dedicated to the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). To do so, the quality of these resources has been analysed in the light of data provided by a series of indicators grouped in seven criteria, most of which were used to determine what information is made available and in what way. The criteria used in our analysis are: visibility, authority, updatedness, accesibility, correctness and completeness, quality assessment and navigability. All in all, the results allow us to carry out an overall diagnosis of the situation and also provide us with information about the situation at each university, thus revealing their main strengths, namely authority and navegability, and also their chief shortcomings: updatedness, accessibility and quality assessment. In this way it is possible to detect the best practices in each of the aspects evaluated so that they can serve as an example and guide for universities with greater deficiencies and thus help them to improve their EHEA websites. Address for correspondence: MAR?A PINTO University of Granada, Department of Information Science Pº de Cartuja, s/n, 18071, Granada, Spain e-mail: mpinto at ugr.es Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 2 (May 2007) 345?370 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1766-0 ------------------------------------------------------------------ TITLE : Metric analysis of the information visibility and diffusion about the European Higher Education Area on Spanish University websites AUTHORS : MAR?A PINTOa, DORA SALESb, ANNE-VINCIANE DOUCETa, ANDR?S FERN?NDEZ-RAMOSa, DAVID GUERREROc aUniversity of Granada, Department of Information Science, Granada (Spain) bUniversitat Jaume I, Department of Translation and Communication, Castell?n (Spain) cUniversity of Granada, Vice-Rectorate for Planning, Quality and Evaluation of Teaching, Granada (Spain) Abstract The purpose of the study proposed in this paper is to evaluate the Spanish public university websites dedicated to the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). To do so, the quality of these resources has been analysed in the light of data provided by a series of indicators grouped in seven criteria, most of which were used to determine what information is made available and in what way. The criteria used in our analysis are: visibility, authority, updatedness, accesibility, correctness and completeness, quality assessment and navigability. All in all, the results allow us to carry out an overall diagnosis of the situation and also provide us with information about the situation at each university, thus revealing their main strengths, namely authority and navegability, and also their chief shortcomings: updatedness, accessibility and quality assessment. In this way it is possible to detect the best practices in each of the aspects evaluated so that they can serve as an example and guide for universities with greater deficiencies and thus help them to improve their EHEA websites. Address for correspondence: MAR?A PINTO University of Granada, Department of Information Science Pº de Cartuja, s/n, 18071, Granada, Spain e-mail: mpinto at ugr.es Scientometrics, Vol. 72, No. 2 (May 2007) 345?370 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1766-0 From pmd8 at CORNELL.EDU Fri Jul 13 13:49:52 2007 From: pmd8 at CORNELL.EDU (Phil Davis) Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:49:52 -0400 Subject: Finding Open Choice articles in Springer & Elsevier Message-ID: Does anyone know how to find articles published by Springer or Elsevier that have been published through their Open Choice/Open Access program? Alternatively, does anyone know of a few Springer or Elsevier journals that have attracted a reasonable number of OA articles? Thank you ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Philip M. Davis PhD Student Department of Communication 336 Kennedy Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 email: pmd8 at cornell.edu work phone: 607 255-4735 web: http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/pmd8/ From Christina.Pikas at JHUAPL.EDU Fri Jul 13 14:24:53 2007 From: Christina.Pikas at JHUAPL.EDU (Pikas, Christina K.) Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:24:53 -0400 Subject: Finding Open Choice articles in Springer & Elsevier In-Reply-To: A<6.2.1.2.2.20070713134140.028144b8@postoffice8.mail.cornell.edu> Message-ID: Peter Murray-Rust recently blogged about this in the case of Springer and Jan Velterop replied. I believe the consensus was that you can't easily find Springer OA articles - they haven't updated their system to provide access to that bit of metadata. (http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=395) I would be interested in the answer if you learn of any way to do this. Christina K. Pikas, MLS R.E. Gibson Library & Information Center The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Voice 240.228.4812 (Washington), 443.778.4812 (Baltimore) Fax 443.778.5353 -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Phil Davis Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 1:50 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Finding Open Choice articles in Springer & Elsevier Does anyone know how to find articles published by Springer or Elsevier that have been published through their Open Choice/Open Access program? Alternatively, does anyone know of a few Springer or Elsevier journals that have attracted a reasonable number of OA articles? Thank you ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Philip M. Davis PhD Student Department of Communication 336 Kennedy Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 email: pmd8 at cornell.edu work phone: 607 255-4735 web: http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/pmd8/ From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Sat Jul 14 08:18:21 2007 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 13:18:21 +0100 Subject: Microsoft Research Faculty Summit: eScience Message-ID: Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2007 Microsoft Conference Center, Redmond, Washington, July 16 http://research.microsoft.com/workshops/FS2007/2007 ESCIENCE: DATA CAPTURE TO SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION Tony Hey, Microsoft Research (Chair) Research Communication, Navigation, Evaluation, and Impact in the Open Access Era, Stevan Harnad, University of Southampton The global research community is moving toward the optimal and inevitable outcome in the online age: All research articles as well as the data on which they are based will be openly accessible for free for all on the web, deposited in researchers' own OAI-compliant Institutional Repositories, and mandated by their institutions and funders. Research users, funders, evaluators, and analysts, as well as teachers, and the general public will have an unprecedented capacity not only to read, assess and use research findings, but to comment upon them, entering into the global knowledge growth process. Prepublication preprints, published postprints, data, analytic tools and commentary will all be fully and navigably interlinked. Scientometrics will generate powerful new ways to navigate, analyze, rank, and evaluate this Open Access corpus, its past history, and its future trajectory. A vast potential for providing services that mine and manage this rich global research database will be open both to the academic community as well as to enterprising industries. [See: "Publication-Archiving, Data-Archiving and Scientometrics," forthcoming in CTWatch] http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Temp/ctwatch.doc The Digital Data Universe Chris Greer, National Science Foundation CyberInfrastructure to Support Scientific Exploration and Collaboration Dennis Gannon, Indiana University Funding for experimental and computational science has undergone a dramatic shift from having been dominated by single investigator research projects to large, distributed, and multidisciplinary collaborations tied together by powerful information technologies. Because cutting-edge science now requires access to vast data resources, extremely high-powered computation, and state-of-the-art tools, the individual researcher with a great idea or insight is at a serious disadvantage compared to large, well-financed groups. However, just as the Web is now able to provide most of humanity with access to nearly unlimited data, theory, and knowledge, a transformation is also underway that can broaden participation in basic scientific discovery and empower entirely new communities with the tools needed to bring about a paradigm shift in basic research techniques. The roots of this transformation can be seen in the emergence of on-demand supercomputing and vast data storage available from companies like Amazon and the National Science Foundation's TeraGrid Science Gateways program, which takes the concept of a Web portal and turns it into an access point for state-of-the-art data archives and scientific applications that run on back-end supercomputers. However, this transformation is far from complete. What we are now seeing emerge is a redefinition of ?computational experiment? from simple reporting of the results from simulations or data analysis to a documented and repeatable workflow in which every derived data product has an automatically generated provenance record. This talk extrapolates these ideas to the broader domain of scholarly workflow and scientific publication, and qualitative as well as quantitative data, and ponders the possible impact of multicore, ubiquitous gigabyte bandwidth and personal exabyte storage. From isidro at CINDOC.CSIC.ES Tue Jul 17 03:29:39 2007 From: isidro at CINDOC.CSIC.ES (Isidro F. Aguillo) Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:29:39 +0200 Subject: The Performance of South African and Kenyan Universities on the World Wide Web: a Web Link Analysis In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.2.20070713134140.028144b8@postoffice8.mail.cornell.edu> Message-ID: The Performance of South African and Kenyan Universities on the World Wide Web: a Web Link Analysis Omwoyo Bosire Onyancha, Dennis N. Ocholla Cybermetrics, 11 (2007), Issue 1, Paper 2 http://www.cindoc.csic.es/cybermetrics/articles/v11i1p2.html The study used Link Analysis to compare Kenyan and South African universities according to several Web-based indicators, some of which include the number of pages, and the number of in and out-links. The authors examined the external out-links in order to determine the institutions targeted by South African and Kenyan universities. Also investigated were the networks or links between universities. Web Impact Factors (WIFs) were calculated and reported in order to compare the universities? web influence. Results indicate that Kenyan universities, like most African universities, have embraced the Internet and its constructs fairly recently, hence most of their websites are at initial stages of construction. Comparatively, South African universities have made remarkable progress in their web presence, which is at an advanced stage of development, equaling counterparts in more developed countries. The study recommends that regional webometric studies be conducted periodically in order to investigate and map the web-related developments of African universities. It concludes that African universities, though not comparable to counterparts in developed countries, can have their websites evaluated webometrically. -- *************************************** Isidro F. Aguillo isidro @ cindoc.csic.es Ph:(+34) 91-5635482 ext. 313 Cybermetrics Lab CINDOC-CSIC Joaquin Costa, 22 28002 Madrid. SPAIN www.webometrics.info www.cindoc.csic.es/cybermetrics internetlab.cindoc.csic.es **************************************** From isidro at CINDOC.CSIC.ES Tue Jul 17 03:31:37 2007 From: isidro at CINDOC.CSIC.ES (Isidro F. Aguillo) Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:31:37 +0200 Subject: Characterization of the Argentinian Web In-Reply-To: <20061221125802.GA21727@openlib.org> Message-ID: Characterization of the Argentinian Web Gabriel Tolosa, Fernando Bordignon, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Carlos Castillo Cybermetrics, 11 (2007), Issue 1, Paper 3 http://www.cindoc.csic.es/cybermetrics/articles/v11i1p3.html This article presents the results of research on the characterization of the Argentinian web domain over a sample of almost 10 million web pages from 150.000 sites collected in the early 2006. Particularly, we have studied page contents, link structure and technologies used in the construction of the sites. The results are consistent with earlier research on other national web domains, where the same analysis methodology has been used. This study reveals a number of interesting facts: To begin with, there is a significant proportion (97.6%) of ?.com.ar? domains with respect to other second level domains. As regards page contents, we have found a predominance of terms related to commercial activity. However, terms found in site names, extracted from their URLs, are mostly related to tourism. A large proportion of the pages (55%) do not have inbound links coming from other sites in the ?.ar? domain while a 30% do not have outbound links. 72% of the pages have been created or modified in the last year, which indicates that the Argentinian web space is growing quickly. As for technologies, 48% of the pages from the sample are static and 52% dynamic, the latter being mostly built using free tools like PHP and Perl. Besides, 76% of the sites are hosted on servers geographically located in Argentina. These two facts show there is an important web-related technological development and communication infrastructure in Argentina. -- *************************************** Isidro F. Aguillo isidro @ cindoc.csic.es Ph:(+34) 91-5635482 ext. 313 Cybermetrics Lab CINDOC-CSIC Joaquin Costa, 22 28002 Madrid. SPAIN www.webometrics.info www.cindoc.csic.es/cybermetrics internetlab.cindoc.csic.es **************************************** From eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Tue Jul 17 11:28:23 2007 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:28:23 -0400 Subject: McDonald JD, " Understanding journal usage: A statistical analysis of citation and use " JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 58 (1): 39-50 JAN 1 2007 Message-ID: E-mail Address: jmcdonald at library.caltech.edu Title: Understanding journal usage: A statistical analysis of citation and use Authors: McDonald, JD Author Full Names: McDonald, John D. Source: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 58 (1): 39-50 JAN 1 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Abstract: This study examined the relationship between print journal use, online journal use, and online journal discovery tools with local journal citations. Local use measures were collected from 1997 to 2004, and negative binomial regression models were designed to test the effect that local use, online availability, and access enhancements have on citation behaviors of academic research authors. Models are proposed and tested to determine whether multiple locally recorded usage measures can predict citations and if locally controlled access enhancements influence citation. The regression results indicated that print journal use was a significant predictor of local journal citations prior to the adoption of online journals. Publisher-provided and locally recorded online journal use measures were also significant predictors of local citations. Online availability of a journal was found to significantly increase local citations, and, for some disciplines, a new access tool like an Op! enURL resolver significantly impacts citations and publisher-provided journal usage measures. Reprint Address: McDonald, JD, CALTECH, Millikan Lib 132, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA. Research Institution addresses: CALTECH, Millikan Lib 132, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA E-mail Address: jmcdonald at library.caltech.edu Cited References: *NAT INF STAND ORG, 2002, Z39 7 LIB STAT STAND. *PROJ COUNTER, 2002, COUNTER. ANTELMAN K, 2004, COLL RES LIBR, V65, P372. BLACK S, 2005, LIBR RESOUR TECH SER, V49, P19. BLECIC DD, 1999, B MED LIBR ASSOC, V87, P20. BOONZI S, 1991, SCIENTOMETRICS, V21, P245. BORGMAN CL, 2002, ANNU REV INFORM SCI, V36, P3. BROOKS TA, 1986, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V37, P34. BROWN CM, 1999, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V50, P929. BROWN CM, 2001, COMING AGE E PRINTS. CAMERON AC, 1998, REGRESSION ANAL COUN. CANO V, 1989, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V40, P284. CHRZASTOWSKI TE, 1997, LIBR RESOUR TECH SER, V41, P101. COLE JR, 1972, SCIENCE, V178, P368. DARMONI SJ, 2002, J MED LIBR ASSOC, V90, P323. DAVIS P, 2002, PORTAL-LIBR ACAD, V2, P155. DAVIS PM, 2002, COLL RES LIBR, V63, P484. DAVIS PM, 2004, J AM SOC INF SCI TEC, V55, P326. DEGROOTE SL, 2003, J MED LIBR ASSOC, V91, P231. FEITELSON DG, 2004, J DOC, V60, P44. GARDNER W, 1995, PSYCHOL BULL, V118, P392. GARFIELD E, 1964, SCIENCE, V144, P649. GILBERT GN, 1977, SOC STUD SCI, V7, P113. GOODMAN D, 2002, LEARN PUBL, V15, P43. HARTER SP, 1998, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V49, P507. JOSWICK KE, 1997, COLL RES LIBR, V58, P48. KAPLAN NR, 2000, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V51, P324. KASKE NK, 1993, LIB HI TECH, V11, P79. KE HR, 2002, LIBR INFORM SCI RES, V24, P265. KELLAND JL, 1994, COLLECTION MANAGE, V19, P81. LANGLOIS DC, 1973, SPECIAL LIB, V64, P239. LUTHER J, 2000, WHITE PAPER ONLINE J. MACROBERTS MH, 1987, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V38, P305. MACROBERTS MH, 1988, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V39, P432. MACROBERTS MH, 1989, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V40, P342. MERCER LS, 2000, MEASURING USE VALUE. MERTON RK, 1973, SOC SCI. MILLSONMARTULA C, 1988, SERIALS LIBR, V15, P121. MONTGOMERY CH, 2000, D LIB MAGAZINE. MORSE DH, 2000, ISSUES SCI TECHNOLOG. NISONGER TE, 1999, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V50, P1004. ROGERS SA, 2001, COLL RES LIBR, V62, P25. SCALES PA, 1976, J DOC, V32, P17. SEGLEN PO, 1997, ALLERGY, V52, P1050. SEGLEN PO, 1997, BRIT MED J, V314, P498. SEGLEN PO, 1998, ACTA ORTHOP SCAND, V69, P224. SHIN EJ, 2003, J INFORM SCI, V29, P527. STEMPER JA, 2003, COLLECTION MANAGEMEN, V28, P3. TENOPIR C, 2002, LEARN PUBL, V15, P259. TENOPIR C, 2004, J MED LIBR ASSOC, V92, P233. TSAY MY, 1998, B MED LIBR ASSOC, V86, P31. VINKLER P, 1987, SCIENTOMETRICS, V12, P47. Cited Reference Count: 52 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: JOHN WILEY & SONS INC; 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN, NJ 07030 USA Subject Category: Computer Science, Information Systems; Information Science & Library Science ISSN: 1532-2882 IDS Number: 166LB From george at LIBRARY.CALTECH.EDU Tue Jul 17 17:37:09 2007 From: george at LIBRARY.CALTECH.EDU (George Porter) Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:37:09 -0700 Subject: McDonald JD, " Understanding journal usage: A statistical analysis of citation and use " JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 58 (1): 39-50 JAN 1 2007 In-Reply-To: A Message-ID: This paper is freely available in the library portion (CaltechLIB http://caltechlib.library.caltech.edu/) of Caltech CODA . McDonald, John D. (2006) Understanding Online Journal Usage: A Statistical Analysis of Citation and Use. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57 (13). ISSN 1532-2882 [CaltechLIB:2006.001] http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechLIB:2006.001 George S. Porter Sherman Fairchild Library of Engineering & Applied Science California Institute of Technology Mail Code 1-43, Pasadena, CA 91125 Telephone (626) 395-3409 Fax (626) 431-2681 -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Eugene Garfield Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 8:28 AM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: [SIGMETRICS] McDonald JD, " Understanding journal usage: A statistical analysis of citation and use " JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 58 (1): 39-50 JAN 1 2007 E-mail Address: jmcdonald at library.caltech.edu Title: Understanding journal usage: A statistical analysis of citation and use Authors: McDonald, JD Author Full Names: McDonald, John D. Source: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 58 (1): 39-50 JAN 1 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Abstract: This study examined the relationship between print journal use, online journal use, and online journal discovery tools with local journal citations. Local use measures were collected from 1997 to 2004, and negative binomial regression models were designed to test the effect that local use, online availability, and access enhancements have on citation behaviors of academic research authors. Models are proposed and tested to determine whether multiple locally recorded usage measures can predict citations and if locally controlled access enhancements influence citation. The regression results indicated that print journal use was a significant predictor of local journal citations prior to the adoption of online journals. Publisher-provided and locally recorded online journal use measures were also significant predictors of local citations. Online availability of a journal was found to significantly increase local citations, and, for some disciplines, a new access tool like an Op! enURL resolver significantly impacts citations and publisher-provided journal usage measures. Reprint Address: McDonald, JD, CALTECH, Millikan Lib 132, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA. Research Institution addresses: CALTECH, Millikan Lib 132, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA E-mail Address: jmcdonald at library.caltech.edu Cited References: *NAT INF STAND ORG, 2002, Z39 7 LIB STAT STAND. *PROJ COUNTER, 2002, COUNTER. ANTELMAN K, 2004, COLL RES LIBR, V65, P372. BLACK S, 2005, LIBR RESOUR TECH SER, V49, P19. BLECIC DD, 1999, B MED LIBR ASSOC, V87, P20. BOONZI S, 1991, SCIENTOMETRICS, V21, P245. BORGMAN CL, 2002, ANNU REV INFORM SCI, V36, P3. BROOKS TA, 1986, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V37, P34. BROWN CM, 1999, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V50, P929. 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MACROBERTS MH, 1987, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V38, P305. MACROBERTS MH, 1988, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V39, P432. MACROBERTS MH, 1989, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V40, P342. MERCER LS, 2000, MEASURING USE VALUE. MERTON RK, 1973, SOC SCI. MILLSONMARTULA C, 1988, SERIALS LIBR, V15, P121. MONTGOMERY CH, 2000, D LIB MAGAZINE. MORSE DH, 2000, ISSUES SCI TECHNOLOG. NISONGER TE, 1999, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V50, P1004. ROGERS SA, 2001, COLL RES LIBR, V62, P25. SCALES PA, 1976, J DOC, V32, P17. SEGLEN PO, 1997, ALLERGY, V52, P1050. SEGLEN PO, 1997, BRIT MED J, V314, P498. SEGLEN PO, 1998, ACTA ORTHOP SCAND, V69, P224. SHIN EJ, 2003, J INFORM SCI, V29, P527. STEMPER JA, 2003, COLLECTION MANAGEMEN, V28, P3. TENOPIR C, 2002, LEARN PUBL, V15, P259. TENOPIR C, 2004, J MED LIBR ASSOC, V92, P233. TSAY MY, 1998, B MED LIBR ASSOC, V86, P31. VINKLER P, 1987, SCIENTOMETRICS, V12, P47. Cited Reference Count: 52 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: JOHN WILEY & SONS INC; 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN, NJ 07030 USA Subject Category: Computer Science, Information Systems; Information Science & Library Science ISSN: 1532-2882 IDS Number: 166LB From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Jul 18 14:58:02 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:58:02 -0400 Subject: Biemans W, Griffin A, Moenaert R "Twenty years of the Journal of product innovation management: History, participants, and knowledge stock and flows " JOURNAL OF PRODUCT INNOVATION MANAGEMENT 24 (3): 193-213 MAY 2007 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: w.g.biemans at rug.nl Title: Twenty years of the Journal of product innovation management: History, participants, and knowledge stock and flows Author(s): Biemans W (Biemans, Wim), Griffin A (Griffin, Abbie), Moenaert R (Moenaert, Rudy) Source: JOURNAL OF PRODUCT INNOVATION MANAGEMENT 24 (3): 193-213 MAY 2007 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 20 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: The Journal of Product Innovation Management (JPIM) serves as a marketplace for science-based, innovative ideas that are produced and consumed by scholars and businesspeople. Now that JPIM has existed for 20 years, two intriguing questions emerge: (1) How has the journal evolved over time in terms of knowledge stock, that is, what are the characteristics of the growing stock of knowledge published by JPIM over the years; and (2) how has the journal evolved in knowledge flow, that is, how is JPIM influenced by other scientific publications and what is its impact on other journals? In terms of knowledge stock, over 35% of the articles published over the 20 years investigate processes and metrics for performance management. The next most frequently published area was strategy, planning, and decision making (20%), followed by customer and market research (17%). The dominant research method used was a cross-sectional large-sample survey, and the focus most usually is at the project level of the firm. The large majority of JPIM authors (60%) have a marketing background, with the remaining 40% representing numerous functional domains. Academics at all levels publish in JPIM, and though most authors hail from North America, the Dutch are a significant second group. JPIM was analyzed from a knowledge-flow perspective by looking at the scientific sources used by JPIM authors to develop their ideas and articles. To this end a bibliometric analysis was performed by analyzing all references in articles published in JPIM. During 1984-2003 JPIM published 488 articles, containing 10,314 references to journals and 6,533 references to other sources. Some 20% of these references (2,020) were self-references to JPIM articles. The remaining 8,294 journal references were to articles in 287 journals in the fields of management (25%), marketing (24%), and management of technology (14%). However, it should be pointed out that many domains were dominated by a limited number of journals. The second component of knowledge flow concerns the extent to which the ideas developed in JPIM are consumed by other authors. Again, bibliometric analysis was used to analyze data from the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) about citations to JPIM in other journals. For the period 1984-2005, the SSCI registered 7,773 citations to JPIM in 2,067 articles published in 278 journals (including the 2,020 self- citations in JPIM). The functional areas most frequently citing JPIM are management of technology (25%), marketing (15%), management (14%), and operations management and management science (9%). Again, several domains were found to be dominated by a limited number of journals. At the level of individual journals the analysis shows a growing impact of JPIM on management of technology journals. The knowledge-flow analysis demonstrates how JPIM functions as a bridge between the knowledge from various domains and the body of knowledge on management of technology. It suggests a growing specialization of the field of technology innovation management, with JPIM being firmly entrenched as the acknowledged leading journal. Addresses: Biemans W (reprint author), Univ Groningen, Fac Management & Org, POB 800, NL-9700 AV Groningen, Netherlands Univ Groningen, Fac Management & Org, NL-9700 AV Groningen, Netherlands Univ Utah, David Eccles Sch Business, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 USA Tilburg Univ, TIAS Business Sch, Tilburg, Netherlands E-mail Addresses: w.g.biemans at rug.nl Publisher: BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, 9600 GARSINGTON RD, OXFORD OX4 2DQ, OXON, ENGLAND Subject Category: Business; Engineering, Industrial; Management IDS Number: 160LV ISSN: 0737-6782 CITED REFERENCES: BAUMGARTNER H The structural influence of marketing journals: A citation analysis of the discipline and its subareas over time JOURNAL OF MARKETING 67 : 123 2003 BROWN LD USING CITATION ANALYSIS TO ASSESS THE IMPACT OF JOURNALS AND ARTICLES ON CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNTING RESEARCH (CAR) JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING RESEARCH 23 : 84 1985 COOPER RG NEW PRODUCTS - WHAT SEPARATES WINNERS FROM LOSERS JOURNAL OF PRODUCT INNOVATION MANAGEMENT 4 : 169 1987 COOPER RG AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE NEW PRODUCT PROCESS - STEPS, DEFICIENCIES, AND IMPACT JOURNAL OF PRODUCT INNOVATION MANAGEMENT 3 : 71 1986 DOREIAN P MEASURING THE RELATIVE STANDING OF DISCIPLINARY JOURNALS INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT 24 : 45 1988 GRIFFIN A PDMA success measurement project: Recommended measures for product development success and failure JOURNAL OF PRODUCT INNOVATION MANAGEMENT 13 : 478 1996 GRIFFIN A AN INTERIM-REPORT ON MEASURING PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT SUCCESS AND FAILURE JOURNAL OF PRODUCT INNOVATION MANAGEMENT 10 : 291 1993 HARTER SP PUBLIC ACCESS COMPUT 7 : 5 1988 INKPEN AC AN ANALYSIS OF 25 YEARS OF RESEARCH IN THE JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL- BUSINESS STUDIES JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES 25 : 703 1994 LABAND DN THE RELATIVE IMPACTS OF ECONOMICS JOURNALS - 1970-1990 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE 32 : 640 1994 LINTON JD PERSPECTIVE: Ranking the technology innovation management journals JOURNAL OF PRODUCT INNOVATION MANAGEMENT 21 : 123 2004 LITTLE B J PROD INNOVAT MANAG 1 : 1 1984 LITTLE B J PROD INNOVAT MANAG 1 : 3 1984 LITTLE B J PROD INNOVAT MANAG 1 : 209 1984 MACROBERTS M J AM SOC INFORM SCI 40 : 342 1988 MALHOTRA NK J ACAD MARKET SCI 24 : 291 1996 PHELAN SE The first twenty years of the strategic management journal STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 23 : 1161 2002 PIERCE SJ SCHOLARLY COMMUNICAT : 46 1990 SOUDER WE MANAGING RELATIONS BETWEEN R-AND-D AND MARKETING IN NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT- PROJECTS JOURNAL OF PRODUCT INNOVATION MANAGEMENT 5 : 6 1988 ZIMAN J INTRO SCI STUDIES PH : 1984 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Jul 18 17:00:20 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:00:20 -0400 Subject: Bates Marcia J. "Off-Line Networks" The New Yorker, p.24, March 18, 2007 Message-ID: E-mail: mjbates at ucla.edu AUTHOR : Marcia Bates TITLE : OFF-LINE NETWORKS SOURCE : The New Yorker, p. 24, March 18, 2007. FULL TEXT appears below with permission from the author: Jeffrey Toobin reports that Google characterizes its impressive index-the- libraries project as "the equivalent of a giant library card catalogue" ("Google's Moon Shot," February 5, 2007 - http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/02/05/070205fa_fact_toobin ). But library catalogues index only whole books and, occasionally, chapter headings, never the full text. Google's project is more like a giant combined back-of-the-book index, which constitutes vastly more detailed indexing than a library catalogue does. Dan Clancy, Google's chief engineer on the project, addresses the challenge of making books searchable by saying, "Books are not part of a network" But books are already part of a network -- the references to other books and articles that most nonfiction books cite. The lSI Web of Knowledge citation indexes, to which most large academic libraries subscribe, trace this network. Drawing from several thousand journals, the indexes identify citation linkages between those journal articles and all other materials cited in the journals, including, of course, books. Address : Marcia Bates, Professor Emerita, Information Studies U.C.LA. Los Angeles, Calif Department of Information Studies Graduate School of Education and Information Studies University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Los Angeles, CA 90095-1520 USA From pmd8 at CORNELL.EDU Thu Jul 19 10:15:14 2007 From: pmd8 at CORNELL.EDU (Phil Davis) Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:15:14 -0400 Subject: Finding Open Choice articles in Springer (forgetaboutit!) In-Reply-To: <934BB0B6D8A02C42BC6099FDE8149CCD015DBA7B@aplesjustice.dom1 .jhuapl.edu> Message-ID: I communicated extensively with Jan Veltrop of Springer, who was good enough to send me a spreadsheet of Open Choice articles in their journals. After spending a short time, it became clear that "Open Choice" (Springer's program of author-sponsored articles) is being confused with many forms of free access. I discovered that Springer's normal practice of allowing the odd free issue, or free supplement to be labeled "Open Choice". Commentary, perspective, or educational feature articles from some journals were consistently labelled Open Choice. When I countered to Mr. Veltrop that Springer' program is confusing free access with their Open Choice program, he responded: "Why is it 'vague'? Surely the thing that matters is that the articles are open access; not who paid for them or sponsored them or why?" But it DOES matter, because it grossly confuses access models with a business model, and Open Choice as a business model. Someone who has been in the publishing business for most of his life should understand the difference and its implications. This could merely be the product of confusion or incompetence on the part of those responsible for labeling articles. It may be a purposeful activity to artificially inflate the success of Springer's Open Choice program. Whatever the motive or cause, Open Choice can simply not be trusted as an indicator of Springer's Open Choice business model. Either the publisher should get it right, and provide some distinction to those authors who have been willing to pay $3,000 to have an article published as Open Choice, or relabel all of their free content simply as "Free Article". As it stands, their program leads to confusion and obfuscation. If I spent $3,000 for the Open Choice, I'd be pissed. --Phil Davis At 02:24 PM 7/13/2007, Pikas, Christina K. wrote: >Peter Murray-Rust recently blogged about this in the case of Springer >and Jan Velterop replied. I believe the consensus was that you can't >easily find Springer OA articles - they haven't updated their system to >provide access to that bit of metadata. >(http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=395) > >I would be interested in the answer if you learn of any way to do this. . ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Philip M. Davis PhD Student (and former Science Librarian) Department of Communication 336 Kennedy Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 email: pmd8 at cornell.edu work phone: 607 255-4735 web: http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/pmd8/ From pmd8 at CORNELL.EDU Thu Jul 19 10:20:08 2007 From: pmd8 at CORNELL.EDU (Phil Davis) Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:20:08 -0400 Subject: Finding Open Choice articles in Springer (forgetaboutit!) Message-ID: I communicated extensively with Jan Veltrop of Springer, who was good enough to send me a spreadsheet of Open Choice articles in their journals. After spending a short time, it became clear that "Open Choice" (Springer's program of author-sponsored articles) is being confused with many forms of free access. I discovered that Springer's normal practice of allowing the odd free issue, or free supplement to be labeled "Open Choice". Commentary, perspective, or educational feature articles from some journals were consistently labelled Open Choice. When I countered to Mr. Veltrop that Springer' program is confusing free access with their Open Choice program, he responded: "Why is it 'vague'? Surely the thing that matters is that the articles are open access; not who paid for them or sponsored them or why?" But it DOES matter, because it grossly confuses access models with a business model, and Open Choice as a business model. Someone who has been in the publishing business for most of his life should understand the difference and its implications. This could merely be the product of confusion or incompetence on the part of those responsible for labeling articles. It may be a purposeful activity to artificially inflate the success of Springer's Open Choice program. Whatever the motive or cause, Open Choice can simply not be trusted as an indicator of Springer's Open Choice business model. Either the publisher should get it right, and provide some distinction to those authors who have been willing to pay $3,000 to have an article published as Open Choice, or relabel all of their free content simply as "Free Article". As it stands, their program leads to confusion and obfuscation. If I spent $3,000 for Open Choice, I'd be pissed. --Phil Davis At 02:24 PM 7/13/2007, Pikas, Christina K. wrote: >Peter Murray-Rust recently blogged about this in the case of Springer >and Jan Velterop replied. I believe the consensus was that you can't >easily find Springer OA articles - they haven't updated their system to >provide access to that bit of metadata. >(http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=395) > >I would be interested in the answer if you learn of any way to do this. . ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Philip M. Davis PhD Student (and former Science Librarian) Department of Communication 336 Kennedy Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 email: pmd8 at cornell.edu work phone: 607 255-4735 web: http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/pmd8/ From krichel at OPENLIB.ORG Thu Jul 19 22:25:57 2007 From: krichel at OPENLIB.ORG (Thomas Krichel) Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:25:57 -0500 Subject: Finding Open Choice articles in Springer (forgetaboutit!) In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.2.20070719094212.024c2e90@postoffice8.mail.cornell.edu> Message-ID: Phil Davis writes > If I spent $3,000 for the Open Choice, I'd be pissed. And I'd call you an idiot for good measure. Why would you sent $3k to have Springer archive your article, when there are IRs and subject based repositories who will be delighted to do it for free? Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel skype: thomaskrichel From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Fri Jul 20 16:56:12 2007 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:56:12 +0100 Subject: Making Visibility Visible: OA Metrics of Productivity and Prestige In-Reply-To: <200707201456.l6KEu9xB029768@goose.ecs.soton.ac.uk> Message-ID: On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Steve Hitchcock wrote: > SHi > Yes, of course, mandates and content are the no. 1 priority. > But that doesn't mean we should ignore anything else that might > help facilitate more of both. We have enough content in IRs now > for improved visibility to be an issue, and it's an issue that > will become more acute as content continues to grow. We don't have enough content in IRs now, and for what we do have, google provides the visibility. What's needed, urgently, is increased content, not improved visibility. Yes, mandates are the no. 1 priority; but the reason they are still so slow in coming is because we keep getting distracted and diverted to priority no. 2, 3 ... instead. >> SHa: >> IRs do not need "to do more to be highly visible." Their problem is >> not their invisibility, it is their emptiness. And Steve ought to >> know this, because his own department's IR is anything but invisible >> -- for the simple reason that it has content; and it has content >> because self-archiving is mandated! > > SHi: > My point is not about one single IR, or any single IR, but about > services that reveal IRs collectively. It's services that allow us to > have effective IRs - OAI and interoperability and all that. And I > didn't say they are invisible, but that they could and should be more > visible. It's not just about search, it's about awareness and > currency as well. Arxiv has that, IRs as a whole do not. Arxiv has content (in one field); IRs as a whole do not (in any field). The IRs' problem is not the visibility of what little they have, but how little they have. If we keep on distracting the attention (of what I am increasingly coming to believe is a research community suffering from Attention-Deficit-Disorder!) toward the non-problem of the day -- this time the "discoverability/visibility" problem -- instead of staying focused on the only real, persistent problem -- of providing that missing OA content -- then we are simply contributing to our persistent failure to reach for what is already long within our grasp. It is not sufficient to *say* that mandates are the no. 1 priority. We have to actually *make* them the no. 1 priority, until they are actually adopted. Then we can move on to our other pet peeves. Right now the ill-informedness, noise and confusion levels are still far too high to justify cultivating still more distractions. > SHi: > I'm not arguing for central repositories, but others are. Critically, > some mandates require them, e.g. Wellcome, while the UK RC mandates > are more open. So the best we can say is that the most important > mandates so far are ambivalent about subject vs IR. In that case some > authors affected by the mandates have a choice, and this is a > challenge to IRs now in which IRs can help their cause with better services. Mandating CR deposit instead of IR deposit is simply a fundamental strategic and practical error, and can and should be dealt with as such, not as a fait-accompli motivating a detour into yet another irrelevancy ("discoverability"). Optimizing OA Self-Archiving Mandates: What? Where? When? Why? How? http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/136-guid.html And there is no point touting nascent IR functionalities that purport to remedy their non-existent "visibility" problem when their only real problem is their non-existent content -- for which mandates, not IR visbility-enhancements, are the solution. We don't solve -- or even contribute to the grasp of -- a real problem by diverting attention to a non-problem and its solution, as if it were all or part of the solution to the real problem. (There has already been far too much of that sort of wheel-spinning in OA for 13 years now and we need to resist another spell of still more of the same.) There is, however, something that we *can* do that is not only complementary to mandates, but an incentive for adopting them -- and it just might serve to redirect this useless fuss about "visibility" in a more useful direction: No, there is no problem with the visibility of the 15% of articles that are already being deposited in IRs to their would-be users webwide, but there definitely *is* a problem with the visibility of that visibility and usage to the *authors* of those articles -- and especially to the authors of the 85% of articles that have *not* yet been deposited (and to the institutions and funders of those authors who have not mandated that they be deposited). I am speaking, of course, of OA metrics -- the visible, quantitative indicators of the enhanced visibility and usage vouchsafed by OA. It is not enough for a few of these metrics to be plumbed, and then published in journal articles and postings -- as admirably indexed by Steve Hitchcock's very useful bibliography of the effect of open access and downloads ('hits') on citation impact: http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html We have to go on to make those metrics directly visible to self-archivers and to non-self-archivers alike, immediately and continuously, rather than just in the occasional published study -- and not only in an absolute but a comparative context. Those are the kinds of visibility metrics that Arthur Sale at U. Tasmania, Les Carr at Southampton, and Leo Waaijers at SURF/DARE have been working on providing. And the biggest showcase and testbed for all those new metrics of productivity and prestige, and of OA's visible effects on them, will be the 2008 UK Research Assesment Exercise (although I rather hope OA will not wait that long!). Then universities and research funders (worldwide, not just in the UK) will have a palpable sense of how much visibility, usage, impact and income they are losing (and losing to their competitors), the longer they delay mandating OA self-archiving... 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. Some of the absolute visibility metrics are already implemented in Southampton's EPrints IRs: http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk and U. Tasmania's Eprints IRs: http://eprints.utas.edu.au/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint;id=264; A clever adaptation of Tim Brody's citebase, across IRs, could provide the comparative picture too. http://www.citebase.org/ Stevan Harnad > At 21:03 18/07/2007, Stevan Harnad wrote: >> On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Steve Hitchcock wrote: >> >> > Until recently I would have thought that David >> > was overstating the case about the limitations of >> > discovering papers in IRs, but now I tend to >> > agree. There is no conspiracy with journal >> > publishers. Simply the services available have >> > not kept up. Where is Web 2.0 for IRs? >> >> Nope, the problem is not with the findability of the OA content (in IRs >> or anywhere). It is with the absence of (85% of) it. Don't blame >> services for failing to find absent content! >> >> > There are problems with identifying full-text >> > availability and versioning/duplication in IRs. >> >> Nope again: The problem is not plenty of content yet too many >> versions/duplicates of it. (If that were the problem, it would >> quickly and easily be solved!) The problem is the absence of >> *any* version of (85% of) the content! >> >> > To overcome this we need better OAI and better >> > services. There is work going on that will offer >> > some opportunities but it needs to be focussed by >> > recognising the problems we are dealing with. >> >> Better OAI and services are always welcome, but they will not >> solve the real problem, which is absent OA content. That is >> the (*only*) real problem we are dealing with (and dancing >> around, in all directions, instead of solving it.) >> >> > One of the principal reasons for introducing IRs >> > was the lack of takeup of the subject model >> > beyond Arxiv, and the explicit link with the >> > author's institution. >> >> Lack of takeup up in the sense of failure to self-archive, >> not in the sense of preferring to self-archive here, rather than >> there. IRs were introduced so all institutions could provide OA >> to their own research output (in all subjects). >> >> > Now the situation may be >> > different. Most recent research funder OA >> > mandates are open about subject repositories vs >> > IRs (although where they are less open about this >> > mandates tend to favour subjects). >> >> The fact that some funder mandates favour central repositories is a big >> strategic error, and not one to be admired, encouraged or emulated, >> but one to be steered firmly in a more sensible, thought-through >> direction: IRs. (The same is true with the ill-considered mandates that allow >> deposit to be embargoed, instead of requiring immediate deposit and only >> allowing Open Access-setting to be embargoed: That too is not to be cited >> as a rational law of nature but as a silly, short-sighted decision by >> a few of the first funding mandators, to be corrected before it hardens >> into common practice.) >> >> > If subject >> > repositories exploit the inherent advantage of >> > visibility in a given field they could claim more >> > content. >> >> "Subject" repositories have no inherent advantage of visibility in a >> given field if they are empty. And if they happen to have content >> (beyond the 15% spontaneous baseline) as Arxiv did, then their >> advantage is not because of their centrality but because of their >> content! That very same content would have had the very same >> visibility if it had been deposited in IRs and harvested by OAIster >> or Google Scholar or Citebase or Citeseer -- or, for that matter, >> Arxiv! >> >> If someone has the hypothesis that having subject content in >> subject-based central repositories will help generate more OA >> self-archiving -- or more OA self-archiving mandates -- then let them >> harvest IR (and other) OA content metadata into subject-based >> meta-repositories. Let them not confuse the issue by recommending >> direct central self-archiving (again) after it has already failed. >> >> > Of itself that isn't a problem for those >> > fields covered by mandates, but what about the >> > rest? >> >> Isn't the answer obvious: Mandate the rest too! Not subject by subject >> but institution by institution, for all of an institution's subjects. >> And funders should mandate *institutional* self-archiving too. Then, if >> you wish, harvest the IR content metadata into subject-based >> meta-repositories. >> >> > IRs remain important, and have to do more >> > to be highly visible, or they risk becoming >> > secondary sources, as David suggests, with the >> > consequences that follow. >> >> Both David and Steve are missing the crux of the matter: There is >> little spontaneous self-archiving, either way, except in physics and >> computer science (for cultural and historical reasons). In physics, >> spontaneous self-archiving happens to have been much more substantial, >> and central. In computer science spontaneous self-archiving happens to have >> been much more substantial, and distributed (and harvested by Citeseer, >> and now Google Scholar). Both cases are exceptional solely because they >> are providing high volumes of content spontaneously (unmandated); not >> for any other reason (one being central and the other distributed). >> >> IRs do not need "to do more to be highly visible." Their problem is >> not their invisibility, it is their emptiness. And Steve ought to >> know this, because his own department's IR is anything but invisible >> -- for the simple reason that it has content; and it has content >> because self-archiving is mandated! >> >> With too many of the (still few) funders foolishly mandating central >> self-archiving instead of Institutional Self-Archiving, it remains >> for the sleeping giant -- the universities, the primary providers of >> *all* research, in *all* subjects, whether funded or unfunded -- to set >> the right example, by mandating self-archiving in their own IRs. Then >> funders will catch on and reinforce institutional self-archiving by >> requiring their fundees to self-archive in their IRs too. And then, >> if they wish it, central, subject-based repositories can harvest from >> the IRs willy-nilly, as they see fit. >> >> 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 zahedi_zz at YAHOO.COM Mon Jul 23 07:04:48 2007 From: zahedi_zz at YAHOO.COM (zohreh zahedi) Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 04:04:48 -0700 Subject: a question Message-ID: Dear Sir I want to do a webometric study of medical informatics journals. I want to use altavista, google and yahoo for finding external link, internal link, and also WIF. Would you please help me to use a standard formula for each of these search engines? I look forward to hearing from you soon, Regards, Zohreh Zahedi Master of Library & Information Sciences Shiraz University Iran --------------------------------- Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Sat Jul 28 18:52:37 2007 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 23:52:37 +0100 Subject: How the Immediate-Deposit/Optional-Access Mandate + the "Fair Use" Button Work Message-ID: Cross-Posted How the Immediate-Deposit/Optional-Access Mandate + the "Fair Use" Button Work: http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/274-guid.html Illustrates exactly how even embargoed (Closed Access) deposits can provide almost-immediate almost-OA -- as long the deposit itself is done immediately upon acceptance for publication -- with the help of the Institutional Repository's "Fair Use" Button. 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 i.russell at UCL.AC.UK Mon Jul 30 03:44:52 2007 From: i.russell at UCL.AC.UK (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Isabel_Galina?=) Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 03:44:52 -0400 Subject: looking for repository administrators Message-ID: apologies for cross posting- I am undertaking research into the use of electronic resources within repositories with particular focus on diverse content type as part of a PhD thesis at University College London. As part of my research I am currently looking for repository administrators (or anyone working directly with a repository in their institution) who would be willing to fill in an online survey about types and use of electronic resources and depositing behaviour. It should take about 15 minutes to complete. The results of this work should provide us with further insight into the use of electronic resources within repositories and help to find appropriate methodologies to detect and evaluate their impact. It is vital to understand if and how these electronic resources are being used and to what extent are they important within the scholarly communication process. The survey is available at: http://tinyurl.com/2b348a A Spanish version is available at: http://tinyurl.com/2bromg Further information about the project can be found at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uczciga/repositories/index.html Please feel free to forward this email to repository administrators that you think might be interested. I greatly appreciate your participation. If you have any queries or comments please email me at i.russell at ucl.ac.uk Thank you, Isabel Galina Russell University College London, School of Library, Archive and Information Studies i.russell at ucl.ac.uk http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uczciga From lutz.bornmann at GESS.ETHZ.CH Mon Jul 30 08:08:21 2007 From: lutz.bornmann at GESS.ETHZ.CH (Bornmann Lutz) Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:08:21 +0200 Subject: Peer Review and h index Message-ID: Dear colleagues: you might be interested in the following recently published papers: Bornmann, L. & Daniel, H.-D. (2007). Convergent validation of peer review decisions using the h index. Extent of and reasons for type I and type II errors. Journal of Informetrics, 1, 204-213. Bornmann, L., Mutz, R. & Daniel, H.-D. (2007). Gender differences in grant peer review: a meta-analysis. Journal of Informetrics, 1, 226-238. Anyone wanting a copy of our papers, please let me know. Lutz Bornmann ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Lutz Bornmann ETH Zurich, D-GESS Professorship for Social Psychology and Research on Higher Education Zaehringerstr. 24 / ZAE CH-8092 Zurich Phone: 0041 44 632 48 25 Fax: 0041 44 632 12 83 http://www.psh.ethz.ch/index_EN bornmann at gess.ethz.ch Download of publications: www.lutz-bornmann.de/Publications.htm From willieezi at YAHOO.COM Mon Jul 30 12:01:59 2007 From: willieezi at YAHOO.COM (Williams Nwagwu) Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:01:59 -0700 Subject: STI and ST Policy Message-ID: This is to ask whether anyone has any reference or a paper regarding the "use of STI in science by technology policy makers". The obejct of the study is to understand the extent to which the research outputs of research institutes and universities feed back into the national policies on countries. Studies on theoreies or case studies on any countries are welcomed. THanks very much Williams Nwagwu Africa Regional Cnetre for Information Science University of Ibadan Nigeria ____________________________________________________________________________________ Got a little couch potato? Check out fun summer activities for kids. http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=summer+activities+for+kids&cs=bz