From katy at INDIANA.EDU Sun Mar 4 12:26:47 2007 From: katy at INDIANA.EDU (Katy Borner) Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 12:26:47 -0500 Subject: [Fwd: NetSci 2007 at The New York Hall of Science, May 20th-25th] Message-ID: Dear Colleague, It is with great pleasure that we inform you of an exciting new event in Network Science: NetSci 2007, International Workshop and Conference on Network Science, May 20-25, 2007, to be held at The New York Hall of Science, New York City. More information can be found at: http://www.nd.edu/~netsci The Workshop (May 20-21) offers a series of lectures and tutorials, introducing tools and basic results from a variety of research areas of major interest for the study of complex networks. The Conference (May 22-25) is dedicated to talks presenting the latest research in the field of networks and their applications. Panels and demonstrations will be conducted as well, to help promote discourse on the needs of education, industry, and funding for Network Science. The list of confirmed speakers can be found appended at the end of this message. For your convenience we attached the conference poster. Please share it with your group and post it at your institution. A limited number of student sponsorship packages are available. Please encourage your students to apply. More information on the application procedure is available at the conference website. We hope to see you there! With kind regards, The Organizers: Zolt?n Toroczkai, Stephen M. Uzzo, Albert-L?szl? Barab?si, Katy B?rner and Marc Vidal List of Confirmed Invited Speakers: Lada Adamic, University of Michigan R?ka Albert, Penn State University Eivind Almaas, Lawrence Livermore National Lab Eric Bonabeau, Icosystems, Cambridge, MA Stefan Bornholdt, University of Bremen Guido Caldarelli, Universit? "La Sapienza", Rome William R. Cheswick, Lumeta Corporation Philippe Cluzel, University of Chicago James J. Collins, Boston University Noshir Contractor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Raissa D'Souza, University of California, Davis Jennifer Dunne, Santa Fe Institute Mark Gerstein, Yale University Ricardo Hausmann, Harvard University Hiroaki Kitano, Sony Computer Science Laboratories Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University Gy?rgy Korniss, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute David M. J. Lazer, Harvard University Joseph Loscalzo, Harvard University Hern?n Makse, Benjamin Levich Institute and City College of New York Sergei Maslov, Brookhaven National Lab Mark E. J. Newman, University of Michigan Stephen North, AT&T Erzs?bet Ravasz-Regan, Harvard University Fritz Roth, Harvard University Dorion Sagan, Sciencewriters Annamaria Talas, Real Pictures Chao Tang, University of California, San Francisco Alessandro Vespignani, Indiana University Tam?s Vicsek, E?tv?s University, Budapest -- Katy Borner, Associate Professor Information Science & Cognitive Science Indiana University, SLIS 10th Street & Jordan Avenue Phone: (812) 855-3256 Fax: -6166 Main Library 021 E-mail: katy at indiana.edu Bloomington, IN 47405, USA WWW: ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy InfoVis Lab/CNS Center Open House is on Oct 30th, 2006 http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy/gallery/06-openhouse/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Note that transactions have quantity as well, such as reading your email, your abstract, part of your paper, all of it, etc. My first question is, does every initial transaction between two people, no matter how slight, establish a link in the network? The alternative might be that certain thresholds of interaction must apply, such as co-authorship or citation. My second question is, do you think that the strength of a link might usefully be measured by the amount of information that passes between the people linked? If these issues are already discussed in the literature I shall be happy to look at it. It is important because the vast majority of transactions cannot be observed, just as in other cases of diffusion. Best regards, David At 04:11 AM 2/27/2007, you wrote: >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > >Globalisation in the network of science in 2005: > >The diffusion of international collaboration and the formation of a core group > > >[] > > >Caroline S. Wagner > >SRI International, Arlington, Virginia, 22209, USA > >Caroline.wagner at sri.com; http://www.cswagner.net > > > >Loet Leydesdorff > >University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) > >Kloveniersburgwel 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands > > > >International collaboration as measured by co-authorships on refereed papers grew significantly from 1990 to 2005. International communications in science can best be studied as a network, since there is no political institution mediating relationships at that level: links self-organize largely through contacts made by scientists. As such, science at the international level shares features with other complex adaptive systems whose order arises from the interactions of hundreds of agents pursuing self-interested strategies. Communications at the international level appears to have grown significantly in the 1990s, with the addresses of many more countries evident in collaborative articles. By 2005, global communications appear to have reinforced the formation of a core group of highly cooperative countries. This core group can be expected to use knowledge from the global network with great efficiency, since these countries have strong national systems. Countries at the periphery may be disadvantaged by the strength of the core. > > >---------- >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: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 1a16cba.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 3094 bytes Desc: not available URL: From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Sun Mar 4 13:56:27 2007 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 19:56:27 +0100 Subject: Should Co-occurrence Data be Normalized? Message-ID: Should Co-occurrence Data be Normalized? A Rejoinder to: Waltman, L., Van Eck, N. J. (2007). Some comments on the question whether co-occurrence data should be normalized. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (forthcoming). _____ 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 prabirgd11 at REDIFFMAIL.COM Sun Mar 4 14:16:09 2007 From: prabirgd11 at REDIFFMAIL.COM (Prabir G. Dastidar) Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 19:16:09 -0000 Subject: [Fwd: NetSci 2007 at The New York Hall of Science, May 20th-25th] Message-ID: Dear Katy, It is great that you are organizing NetSci 2007, International Workshop and Conference on Network Science, May 20-25, 2007. - I work on intellectual networks, country collaborations and going to submit my Ph.D soon. My work will also include cognitive networks. - Can I get some student sponsorship support so that I can attend this very useful event? Can you suggest how to go about? I am attaching some paper of mine for your kind perusal. Will wait for your kind reply. Regards, Prabir On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 Katy Borner wrote : >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > > >Dear Colleague, > >It is with great pleasure that we inform you of an exciting new >event in Network Science: > >NetSci 2007, International Workshop and Conference on Network >Science, May 20-25, 2007, to be held at The New York Hall of >Science, New York City. > >More information can be found at: http://www.nd.edu/~netsci > > >The Workshop (May 20-21) offers a series of lectures and >tutorials, introducing tools and basic results from a variety of >research areas of major interest for the study of complex >networks. > >The Conference (May 22-25) is dedicated to talks presenting the >latest research in the field of networks and their applications. >Panels and demonstrations will be conducted as well, to help >promote discourse on the needs of education, industry, and >funding for Network Science. > >The list of confirmed speakers can be found appended at the end >of this message. For your convenience we attached the conference >poster. Please share it with your group and post it at your >institution. > >A limited number of student sponsorship packages are available. >Please encourage your students to apply. More information on the >application procedure is available at the conference website. > >We hope to see you there! >With kind regards, >The Organizers: >Zolt?n Toroczkai, Stephen M. Uzzo, Albert-L?szl? Barab?si, Katy >B?rner and Marc Vidal > >List of Confirmed Invited Speakers: >Lada Adamic, University of Michigan >R?ka Albert, Penn State University >Eivind Almaas, Lawrence Livermore National Lab >Eric Bonabeau, Icosystems, Cambridge, MA >Stefan Bornholdt, University of Bremen >Guido Caldarelli, Universit? "La Sapienza", Rome >William R. Cheswick, Lumeta Corporation >Philippe Cluzel, University of Chicago >James J. Collins, Boston University >Noshir Contractor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign >Raissa D'Souza, University of California, Davis >Jennifer Dunne, Santa Fe Institute >Mark Gerstein, Yale University >Ricardo Hausmann, Harvard University >Hiroaki Kitano, Sony Computer Science Laboratories >Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University >Gy?rgy Korniss, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute >David M. J. Lazer, Harvard University >Joseph Loscalzo, Harvard University >Hern?n Makse, Benjamin Levich Institute and City College of New >York >Sergei Maslov, Brookhaven National Lab >Mark E. J. Newman, University of Michigan >Stephen North, AT&T >Erzs?bet Ravasz-Regan, Harvard University >Fritz Roth, Harvard University >Dorion Sagan, Sciencewriters >Annamaria Talas, Real Pictures >Chao Tang, University of California, San Francisco >Alessandro Vespignani, Indiana University >Tam?s Vicsek, E?tv?s University, Budapest > > >-- Katy Borner, Associate Professor >Information Science & Cognitive Science >Indiana University, SLIS >10th Street & Jordan Avenue Phone: (812) 855-3256 Fax: >-6166 >Main Library 021 E-mail: katy at indiana.edu >Bloomington, IN 47405, USA WWW: >ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy > >InfoVis Lab/CNS Center Open House is on Oct 30th, 2006 >http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy/gallery/06-openhouse/ > ********************************** Prabir G.Dastidar, Scientist/Director Ministry of Earth Sciences, Block no 9 & 12, CGO Complex, Lodi Road, New Delhi: 110003, INDIA. 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The network is spanned by these bottom-up processes, but then it is also a structure (it contains an architecture). The structure is selective. Because the network is changing, the selection mechanism is also at variance over time. Some selection can then be selected for stabilization. This provides the retention mechanism. So far, the metaphor is biological. However, in social networks one can expect one more degree of freedom because we also give meaning to the information exchange and the meaning exchanges feedback on the information exchanges. Therefore, some stabilizations can also be selected for globalization. Thus, one obtains a non-linear dynamics of communication. However, each communication also remains an "information transaction:" it is not either ... or, but both. Or even better: all four dimensions of probabilistic entropy. The information transaction alone is just a vector. The network can be represented as a matrix. A network at each moment of time can be modeled as a cube of information. For example, a trajectory can be shaped within this cube. A trajectory which can be changed by (inter-)human intervention provides us with a hypercube of information (in four dimensions). 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 _____ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of David E. Wojick Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 8:01 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] preprint version "Globalisation in science in 2005" This study is very interesting in the context of my http://www.osti.gov/science.world/ project. But on a tangential note, your mention of strong and weak links brings up a basic question about network analysis, about which I know little. I have a conceptual model of science diffusion in which the basic element is the "information transaction." This is basically one person getting information from another. My reading your paper for example. Note that transactions have quantity as well, such as reading your email, your abstract, part of your paper, all of it, etc. My first question is, does every initial transaction between two people, no matter how slight, establish a link in the network? The alternative might be that certain thresholds of interaction must apply, such as co-authorship or citation. My second question is, do you think that the strength of a link might usefully be measured by the amount of information that passes between the people linked? If these issues are already discussed in the literature I shall be happy to look at it. It is important because the vast majority of transactions cannot be observed, just as in other cases of diffusion. Best regards, David At 04:11 AM 2/27/2007, you wrote: Globalisation in the network of science in 2005: The diffusion of international collaboration and the formation of a core group [] Caroline S. Wagner SRI International, Arlington, Virginia, 22209, USA Caroline.wagner at sri.com; http://www.cswagner.net Loet Leydesdorff University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwel 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands International collaboration as measured by co-authorships on refereed papers grew significantly from 1990 to 2005. International communications in science can best be studied as a network, since there is no political institution mediating relationships at that level: links self-organize largely through contacts made by scientists. As such, science at the international level shares features with other complex adaptive systems whose order arises from the interactions of hundreds of agents pursuing self-interested strategies. Communications at the international level appears to have grown significantly in the 1990s, with the addresses of many more countries evident in collaborative articles. By 2005, global communications appear to have reinforced the formation of a core group of highly cooperative countries. This core group can be expected to use knowledge from the global network with great efficiency, since these countries have strong national systems. Countries at the periphery may be disadvantaged by the strength of the core. _____ 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: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Moreover, a second generation of CV studies has recently begun, using more powerful analysis tools and more comprehensive data. Despite theoretical and methodological progress, the newness of CV analysis implies that many technical problems remain to be solved. For example, the coding of the information and its entry into a database is not at all straightforward. We invite authors to submit short papers (maximum 2000 words) or presentations that contribute to the methodological discussion and progress in the use of CVs as a source of data. The workshop will particularly focus on assessing the current state-of-the-art in this recent and rapidly evolving field of inquiry. Substantively, the research focus will especially emphasize the use of CV's for research evaluation, analysis of career trajectories, assessing the impacts of grants and grants on researchers' productivity, collaboration, and mobility. Submissions: Please send your contributions to Barry Bozeman (email: bbozeman at uga.edu ) by March 25th. Submissions should include full short papers (max 2000 words) or full presentations, author(s)' name, affiliation and contact details. Important dates: Deadline for short papers or presentations submission: March 25 Acceptance decision: April 3 Early registration deadline: April 15 Deadline for revised paper or presentation submission: May 20 Organizers: Barry Bozeman University of Georgia USA Carolina Ca?ibano Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Spain Program Committee: Chair: Ulf Sandstrom, Linkoping University ( Sweden ) Juan Rogers ( USA ) Tim Turpin, University of Western Sydney ( Australia ) Monica Gaughan ( USA ) Dag Aksnes, NIFU/STEP, ( Norway ) Julia Melkers, University of Illinois ( USA ) Selection of Papers Papers will be selected using double-blind peer review, administered by the committee chair. Note that papers already accepted by the main conference may not be re-given in the workshops but such papers might be transferred to workshops if requested by the organizers of ISSI or the authors. Web Site Updated information concerning the workshop program is posted at www.uga.edu/padp/issi.htm. Duration Thursday, June 28, 9AM ? 1 PM (4 hours, 1 break) Location To be announced from the ISSI2007 Organizers. Workshop fee per participant Early bird registration fee (until April 25) is 75 Euro. Thereafter it is 100 Euro. This fee should be paid by all participants and covers services provided by the ISSI2007 Organizers: ? workshop location, ? IT facilities (computer, internet access and projector ) , ? Coffee at break and post-workshop lunch ? copying of the Workshop Proceedings/Notes (spiral bound) Workshop participants should also register for the ISSI2007 general meeting. Paper publication The ISSI2007 organizing committee will photocopy and assemble Workshop Notes, with a front page and list of committee members, reviewers and participants. This will not abridge rights to submit papers to publishers or journals. Instructions will follow about proper format for papers presented at the workshop. Best, Ulf Sandstrom KTH Industriell dynamik 100 44 Stockholm 08-790 9810 Tema Link?pings universitet 581 83 Link?ping 0708-137376 08-731 8216 ulfsa at tema.liu.se www.forskningspolitik.se http://forskningspolitik.blogspot.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dwojick at HUGHES.NET Mon Mar 5 14:32:12 2007 From: dwojick at HUGHES.NET (David E. Wojick) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 14:32:12 -0500 Subject: preprint version "Globalisation in science in 2005" In-Reply-To: <002a01c75ef8$ed3592c0$1302a8c0@loet> Message-ID: Dear Loet, I am afraid I understand very little of what you have written. Not enough to grasp the answers to my two questions. You (seem to) say that transmission (via transactions) supplies variation to the network but I would think it was the primary process that constitutes the network. You say that the structure of the network is selective and I do not understand what that means. Do you mean that the structure takes the form it does because the people are selective in whom they communicate with? In that case I agree but, again, it makes transactions the basic unit. Retention I do not understand, nor much of the rest. Meaning, degree of freedom, stabilization, etc. I use all these words but not in your way apparently. You are using a technical language that I do not speak. Is this the language of network science? Is there something I can read to learn it? All my best, David At 02:36 AM 3/5/2007, you wrote: >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >Dear David, > >Indeed, there is always a substantive side to the information transmission: something is communicated. However, from the perspective of the network this mainly provides the variation. The network is spanned by these bottom-up processes, but then it is also a structure (it contains an architecture). The structure is selective. Because the network is changing, the selection mechanism is also at variance over time. Some selection can then be selected for stabilization. This provides the retention mechanism. > >So far, the metaphor is biological. However, in social networks one can expect one more degree of freedom because we also give meaning to the information exchange and the meaning exchanges feedback on the information exchanges. Therefore, some stabilizations can also be selected for globalization. Thus, one obtains a non-linear dynamics of communication. However, each communication also remains an "information transaction:" it is not either ... or, but both. Or even better: all four dimensions of probabilistic entropy. > >The information transaction alone is just a vector. The network can be represented as a matrix. A network at each moment of time can be modeled as a cube of information. For example, a trajectory can be shaped within this cube. A trajectory which can be changed by (inter-)human intervention provides us with a hypercube of information (in four dimensions). > >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 > > > > >---------- >From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of David E. Wojick >Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 8:01 PM >To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU >Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] preprint version "Globalisation in science in 2005" > >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html Loet (and all), > >This study is very interesting in the context of my http://www.osti.gov/science.world/ project. But on a tangential note, your mention of strong and weak links brings up a basic question about network analysis, about which I know little. > >I have a conceptual model of science diffusion in which the basic element is the "information transaction." This is basically one person getting information from another. My reading your paper for example. Note that transactions have quantity as well, such as reading your email, your abstract, part of your paper, all of it, etc. > >My first question is, does every initial transaction between two people, no matter how slight, establish a link in the network? The alternative might be that certain thresholds of interaction must apply, such as co-authorship or citation. My second question is, do you think that the strength of a link might usefully be measured by the amount of information that passes between the people linked? > >If these issues are already discussed in the literature I shall be happy to look at it. It is important because the vast majority of transactions cannot be observed, just as in other cases of diffusion. > >Best regards, >David > >At 04:11 AM 2/27/2007, you wrote: >>Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >> >>Globalisation in the network of science in 2005: >> >>The diffusion of international collaboration and the formation of a core group >> >> >>[] >> >> >>Caroline S. Wagner >> >>SRI International, Arlington, Virginia, 22209, USA >> >>Caroline.wagner at sri.com; http://www.cswagner.net >> >> >> >> >>Loet Leydesdorff >> >>University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) >> >>Kloveniersburgwel 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands >> >> >> >>International collaboration as measured by co-authorships on refereed papers grew significantly from 1990 to 2005. International communications in science can best be studied as a network, since there is no political institution mediating relationships at that level: links self-organize largely through contacts made by scientists. As such, science at the international level shares features with other complex adaptive systems whose order arises from the interactions of hundreds of agents pursuing self-interested strategies. Communications at the international level appears to have grown significantly in the 1990s, with the addresses of many more countries evident in collaborative articles. By 2005, global communications appear to have reinforced the formation of a core group of highly cooperative countries. This core group can be expected to use knowledge from the global network with great efficiency, since these countries have strong national systems. Countries at the periphery may be disadvantaged by the strength of the core. >> >> >>---------- >>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 Christina.Pikas at JHUAPL.EDU Mon Mar 5 17:29:39 2007 From: Christina.Pikas at JHUAPL.EDU (Pikas, Christina K.) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 17:29:39 -0500 Subject: preprint version "Globalisation in science in 2005" In-Reply-To: A<7.0.1.0.2.20070305141615.0221ccc0@hughes.net> Message-ID: For my own learning process, let me try to respond to your original questions, and then maybe the more experienced on the list can correct me. >My first question is, does every initial transaction between two people, no matter how slight, establish a link in the network? The alternative might be that certain thresholds of interaction must apply, such as co-authorship or citation. My second question is, do you think that the strength of a link might usefully be measured by the amount of information that passes between the people linked? Network analysis works on relationships as the basic unit (not attributes, for example). How these relationships are defined/determined depends on what makes sense for the system being studied. We can look at co-authorship, co-citation, co-membership (in an organization) or a 2-mode thing like co-attendees of an event... So we might look at co-authorship of only peer reviewed journal articles that are in journals indexed by ISI -- which sets the bar fairly high. For things like co-authorship, the relationship is non-directional but can be valued. It can have different weights for the number of times the authors appear together if that makes sense to the phenomenon you are studying. Many times, it makes more sense to just have 1s and 0s -- link or no link. As for amount of information, one of the problems in network analysis is obtaining the data. Can you interview everyone involved? How much information can you obtain about the actors? Can that information be easily made into a matrix for mathematical operations? I think there's the pragmatic aspect of what is do-able as well as the science aspect of what you want to look at. The standard book on SNA is Faust and Wasserman and there have been several relevant chapters in ARIST on citation analysis, but you might do best by reading Dr. Leydesdorff's books and web page. 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: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of David E. Wojick Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 2:32 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] preprint version "Globalisation in science in 2005" I am afraid I understand very little of what you have written. Not enough to grasp the answers to my two questions. You (seem to) say that transmission (via transactions) supplies variation to the network but I would think it was the primary process that constitutes the network. You say that the structure of the network is selective and I do not understand what that means. Do you mean that the structure takes the form it does because the people are selective in whom they communicate with? In that case I agree but, again, it makes transactions the basic unit. Retention I do not understand, nor much of the rest. Meaning, degree of freedom, stabilization, etc. I use all these words but not in your way apparently. You are using a technical language that I do not speak. Is this the language of network science? Is there something I can read to learn it? All my best, David At 02:36 AM 3/5/2007, you wrote: Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html Dear David, Indeed, there is always a substantive side to the information transmission: something is communicated. However, from the perspective of the network this mainly provides the variation. The network is spanned by these bottom-up processes, but then it is also a structure (it contains an architecture). The structure is selective. Because the network is changing, the selection mechanism is also at variance over time. Some selection can then be selected for stabilization. This provides the retention mechanism. So far, the metaphor is biological. However, in social networks one can expect one more degree of freedom because we also give meaning to the information exchange and the meaning exchanges feedback on the information exchanges. Therefore, some stabilizations can also be selected for globalization. Thus, one obtains a non-linear dynamics of communication. However, each communication also remains an "information transaction:" it is not either ... or, but both. Or even better: all four dimensions of probabilistic entropy. The information transaction alone is just a vector. The network can be represented as a matrix. A network at each moment of time can be modeled as a cube of information. For example, a trajectory can be shaped within this cube. A trajectory which can be changed by (inter-)human intervention provides us with a hypercube of information (in four dimensions). 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 ________________________________ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [ mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU ] On Behalf Of David E. Wojick Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 8:01 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] preprint version "Globalisation in science in 2005" Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html Loet (and all), This study is very interesting in the context of my http://www.osti.gov/science.world/ project. But on a tangential note, your mention of strong and weak links brings up a basic question about network analysis, about which I know little. I have a conceptual model of science diffusion in which the basic element is the "information transaction." This is basically one person getting information from another. My reading your paper for example. Note that transactions have quantity as well, such as reading your email, your abstract, part of your paper, all of it, etc. My first question is, does every initial transaction between two people, no matter how slight, establish a link in the network? The alternative might be that certain thresholds of interaction must apply, such as co-authorship or citation. My second question is, do you think that the strength of a link might usefully be measured by the amount of information that passes between the people linked? If these issues are already discussed in the literature I shall be happy to look at it. It is important because the vast majority of transactions cannot be observed, just as in other cases of diffusion. Best regards, David At 04:11 AM 2/27/2007, you wrote: Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html Globalisation in the network of science in 2005: The diffusion of international collaboration and the formation of a core group [] Caroline S. Wagner SRI International, Arlington, Virginia, 22209, USA Caroline.wagner at sri.com; http://www.cswagner.net Loet Leydesdorff University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwel 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands International collaboration as measured by co-authorships on refereed papers grew significantly from 1990 to 2005. International communications in science can best be studied as a network, since there is no political institution mediating relationships at that level: links self-organize largely through contacts made by scientists. As such, science at the international level shares features with other complex adaptive systems whose order arises from the interactions of hundreds of agents pursuing self-interested strategies. Communications at the international level appears to have grown significantly in the 1990s, with the addresses of many more countries evident in collaborative articles. By 2005, global communications appear to have reinforced the formation of a core group of highly cooperative countries. This core group can be expected to use knowledge from the global network with great efficiency, since these countries have strong national systems. Countries at the periphery may be disadvantaged by the strength of the core. ________________________________ 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 loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Tue Mar 6 01:35:48 2007 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 07:35:48 +0100 Subject: preprint version "Globalisation in science in 2005" In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.2.20070305141615.0221ccc0@hughes.net> Message-ID: Dear David, Perhaps, it helps to use an engineering metaphor more than an evolutionary one. The transaction requires a communication channel. If one has more than a single transaction, one may need a set of communication channels. These channels can be placed in parallel or serial. The sumtotal of channels generates a network. The network can be represented as a matrix: the transactions are then the vectors of the matrix. The matrix contains a structure. Structure is deterministic. For example, this email list can be considered as a communication system. It provides a network. The transactions do not constitute the network because the network remains even if people are silent. (Networks can also be empty.) The structure of the network determines first who can participate in the communication and then at the social level the communication is coded by expectations so that one can expect relevant communication. Perhaps, some of us will consider this communication as disturbance; let's say variation. The code of the communication helps to stabilize the communication. This is the Sigmetrics list of ASIST. When the code is symbolically generalized, we no longer need this specific network for the communication because the channels would adapt to the code. This is the case at the field level. For example, we can publish in the twenty or so journals of our field and reach approximately the same audience of information scientists. The communication system "lives from" the transactions. Without transactions it would not be reproduced. The transactions are substantial, but it does not matter so much for the system, how the transactions vary. The system is stablized against variation if the communication is specifically codified. Stabilization is local; globalization can then be considered as a kind of hyper-stabilization. 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 _____ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of David E. Wojick Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 8:32 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] preprint version "Globalisation in science in 2005" I am afraid I understand very little of what you have written. Not enough to grasp the answers to my two questions. You (seem to) say that transmission (via transactions) supplies variation to the network but I would think it was the primary process that constitutes the network. You say that the structure of the network is selective and I do not understand what that means. Do you mean that the structure takes the form it does because the people are selective in whom they communicate with? In that case I agree but, again, it makes transactions the basic unit. Retention I do not understand, nor much of the rest. Meaning, degree of freedom, stabilization, etc. I use all these words but not in your way apparently. You are using a technical language that I do not speak. Is this the language of network science? Is there something I can read to learn it? All my best, David At 02:36 AM 3/5/2007, you wrote: Dear David, Indeed, there is always a substantive side to the information transmission: something is communicated. However, from the perspective of the network this mainly provides the variation. The network is spanned by these bottom-up processes, but then it is also a structure (it contains an architecture). The structure is selective. Because the network is changing, the selection mechanism is also at variance over time. Some selection can then be selected for stabilization. This provides the retention mechanism. So far, the metaphor is biological. However, in social networks one can expect one more degree of freedom because we also give meaning to the information exchange and the meaning exchanges feedback on the information exchanges. Therefore, some stabilizations can also be selected for globalization. Thus, one obtains a non-linear dynamics of communication. However, each communication also remains an "information transaction:" it is not either ... or, but both. Or even better: all four dimensions of probabilistic entropy. The information transaction alone is just a vector. The network can be represented as a matrix. A network at each moment of time can be modeled as a cube of information. For example, a trajectory can be shaped within this cube. A trajectory which can be changed by (inter-)human intervention provides us with a hypercube of information (in four dimensions). 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 _____ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [ mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of David E. Wojick Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 8:01 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] preprint version "Globalisation in science in 2005" This study is very interesting in the context of my http://www.osti.gov/science.world/ project. But on a tangential note, your mention of strong and weak links brings up a basic question about network analysis, about which I know little. I have a conceptual model of science diffusion in which the basic element is the "information transaction." This is basically one person getting information from another. My reading your paper for example. Note that transactions have quantity as well, such as reading your email, your abstract, part of your paper, all of it, etc. My first question is, does every initial transaction between two people, no matter how slight, establish a link in the network? The alternative might be that certain thresholds of interaction must apply, such as co-authorship or citation. My second question is, do you think that the strength of a link might usefully be measured by the amount of information that passes between the people linked? If these issues are already discussed in the literature I shall be happy to look at it. It is important because the vast majority of transactions cannot be observed, just as in other cases of diffusion. Best regards, David At 04:11 AM 2/27/2007, you wrote: Globalisation in the network of science in 2005: The diffusion of international collaboration and the formation of a core group [] Caroline S. Wagner SRI International, Arlington, Virginia, 22209, USA Caroline.wagner at sri.com; http://www.cswagner.net Loet Leydesdorff University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwel 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands International collaboration as measured by co-authorships on refereed papers grew significantly from 1990 to 2005. International communications in science can best be studied as a network, since there is no political institution mediating relationships at that level: links self-organize largely through contacts made by scientists. As such, science at the international level shares features with other complex adaptive systems whose order arises from the interactions of hundreds of agents pursuing self-interested strategies. Communications at the international level appears to have grown significantly in the 1990s, with the addresses of many more countries evident in collaborative articles. By 2005, global communications appear to have reinforced the formation of a core group of highly cooperative countries. This core group can be expected to use knowledge from the global network with great efficiency, since these countries have strong national systems. Countries at the periphery may be disadvantaged by the strength of the core. _____ 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 loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Tue Mar 6 02:20:34 2007 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 08:20:34 +0100 Subject: your two questions In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.2.20070305141615.0221ccc0@hughes.net> Message-ID: Dear David, My first question is, does every initial transaction between two people, no matter how slight, establish a link in the network? The alternative might be that certain thresholds of interaction must apply, such as co-authorship or citation. My second question is, do you think that the strength of a link might usefully be measured by the amount of information that passes between the people linked? 1. As may be clear from my previous answer, I would consider a zero-transaction also as a link, but with the value of zero. The network is to be defined as the system of reference. For example, if one studies the network of international coauthorships, there may be no transactions between two countries in a certain year. The matrix would then have a value of zero in this cell. The expectation based on the margintotals for these two countries may be different from zero. 2. Yes. For example, in the network of international coauthorships the number of publications is usually counted. One can try to refine this by for example counting the number of coauthored words. The strength of the links, however, is also dependent on the meaningfulness of the information and that would lead me back to the previous communication. Inter-human communication is more complex than the communication between computers. Perhaps, the strength of the links between two servers can meaningfully be operationalized as the amount of information that passes between them. 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 _____ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of David E. Wojick Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 8:32 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] preprint version "Globalisation in science in 2005" I am afraid I understand very little of what you have written. Not enough to grasp the answers to my two questions. You (seem to) say that transmission (via transactions) supplies variation to the network but I would think it was the primary process that constitutes the network. You say that the structure of the network is selective and I do not understand what that means. Do you mean that the structure takes the form it does because the people are selective in whom they communicate with? In that case I agree but, again, it makes transactions the basic unit. Retention I do not understand, nor much of the rest. Meaning, degree of freedom, stabilization, etc. I use all these words but not in your way apparently. You are using a technical language that I do not speak. Is this the language of network science? Is there something I can read to learn it? All my best, David At 02:36 AM 3/5/2007, you wrote: Dear David, Indeed, there is always a substantive side to the information transmission: something is communicated. However, from the perspective of the network this mainly provides the variation. The network is spanned by these bottom-up processes, but then it is also a structure (it contains an architecture). The structure is selective. Because the network is changing, the selection mechanism is also at variance over time. Some selection can then be selected for stabilization. This provides the retention mechanism. So far, the metaphor is biological. However, in social networks one can expect one more degree of freedom because we also give meaning to the information exchange and the meaning exchanges feedback on the information exchanges. Therefore, some stabilizations can also be selected for globalization. Thus, one obtains a non-linear dynamics of communication. However, each communication also remains an "information transaction:" it is not either ... or, but both. Or even better: all four dimensions of probabilistic entropy. The information transaction alone is just a vector. The network can be represented as a matrix. A network at each moment of time can be modeled as a cube of information. For example, a trajectory can be shaped within this cube. A trajectory which can be changed by (inter-)human intervention provides us with a hypercube of information (in four dimensions). 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 _____ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [ mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of David E. Wojick Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 8:01 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] preprint version "Globalisation in science in 2005" This study is very interesting in the context of my http://www.osti.gov/science.world/ project. But on a tangential note, your mention of strong and weak links brings up a basic question about network analysis, about which I know little. I have a conceptual model of science diffusion in which the basic element is the "information transaction." This is basically one person getting information from another. My reading your paper for example. Note that transactions have quantity as well, such as reading your email, your abstract, part of your paper, all of it, etc. My first question is, does every initial transaction between two people, no matter how slight, establish a link in the network? The alternative might be that certain thresholds of interaction must apply, such as co-authorship or citation. My second question is, do you think that the strength of a link might usefully be measured by the amount of information that passes between the people linked? If these issues are already discussed in the literature I shall be happy to look at it. It is important because the vast majority of transactions cannot be observed, just as in other cases of diffusion. Best regards, David At 04:11 AM 2/27/2007, you wrote: Globalisation in the network of science in 2005: The diffusion of international collaboration and the formation of a core group [] Caroline S. Wagner SRI International, Arlington, Virginia, 22209, USA Caroline.wagner at sri.com; http://www.cswagner.net Loet Leydesdorff University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwel 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands International collaboration as measured by co-authorships on refereed papers grew significantly from 1990 to 2005. International communications in science can best be studied as a network, since there is no political institution mediating relationships at that level: links self-organize largely through contacts made by scientists. As such, science at the international level shares features with other complex adaptive systems whose order arises from the interactions of hundreds of agents pursuing self-interested strategies. Communications at the international level appears to have grown significantly in the 1990s, with the addresses of many more countries evident in collaborative articles. By 2005, global communications appear to have reinforced the formation of a core group of highly cooperative countries. This core group can be expected to use knowledge from the global network with great efficiency, since these countries have strong national systems. Countries at the periphery may be disadvantaged by the strength of the core. _____ 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 JWS at DB.DK Tue Mar 6 08:43:13 2007 From: JWS at DB.DK (Jesper Wiborg Schneider) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 14:43:13 +0100 Subject: CFP workshop on Methodological Issues in Using Curricula Vitae Message-ID: 11th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics Madrid, 25-27 June [http://issi2007.cindoc.csic.es/] Call for papers and presentations Workshop on: Taking CiteSpace to Science: new applications to visualization programming The visualization freeware CiteSpace was developed by Chaomei Chen at Drexel University, US. Originally it was meant as an instrument for analyzing paradigmatic shifts in scientific specialties. In several articles Chen has shown the abilities of the program, but one of the weaknesses is the definition of a scientific field. We invite papers that discuss different approaches to this important problem. How reliable are strategies on the basis of keywords, on subject codes, or on selected sets of journals? If researchers normally are active in many different journals covering 15-20 different subject codes what does that say about using the ISI codes for definition of specialties? To what extent is burst of terms a strategy that is effective? What are the concurrent procedures of making identifiers and descriptors in the database and in journals? The strengths of the CiteSpace program are evident, but there might be areas of application that have not been discussed on scientific basis. Therefore, we organize this workshop at the Madrid ISSI conference and invite full or research-in-progress papers in order to discuss central features and new applications of the CiteSpace program. A main topic of the workshop is the continuous development of strategies for detecting and tracking research fronts and the evolution of a specialty. Especially, we are interested in ways of implementing the CiteSpace program for new questions. E.g. can CiteSpace be of any use for research group analysis? Can CiteSpace be applied to questions about funding policy for National Research Councils? Should CiteSpace be used for performance analysis? However, the workshop also encourages contributions that look at the CiteSpace program and its advantages and disadvantages in relation to bibliometric research methodology. A vital issue in bibliometric analyses is the reliability and standardization of Thompson ISI reference data. CiteSpace does not initially allow for such standardizations and the question is how this affects the resulting analyses? These and other questions will be addressed during the workshop. Submissions: Please send your contributions to Jesper Wiborg Schneider (email: jws at db.dk) by March 25th. Submissions should include full short papers (max 2000 words) or full presentations, author(s) name, affiliation and contact details. Important dates: Deadline for short papers or presentations submission: March 25 Acceptance decision: April 3 Early registration deadline: April 15 Deadline for revised paper of presentation submission: May 20 Workshop organizers: Ulf Sandstr?m, Tema Institute, Linkoping University, 581 83 Linkoping, Sweden Jesper Wiborg Schneider, Dept of Information Studies, Royal School of Library & Information Science, Aalborg, Denmark Program committee: Chair: Jesper W. Schneider, Royal School of Library & Information Science, Denmark; Chaomei Chen, Drexel University, USA; Ulf Sandstr?m, Linkoping University, Sweden; Diana Hicks, Georgia Tech, USA; Jin Bihui, Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; F?lix de Moya Aneg?n, University of Granada, Spain; Olle Persson, Ume? University, Sweden. Duration of the workshop: half-day (4 hours) Selection of papers Papers will be selected using double-blind peer review, administered by the committee chair. Note that papers already accepted by the main conference may not be re-given in the workshops but such papers might be transferred to workshops by the organizers of ISSI or the authors. Note that no more than 10 participants can be selected for the workshop. Web Site Updated information concerning the workshop program is posted at http://www.db.dk/jws AND http://www.forskningspolitik.se/english Duration Thursday, June 28, 9AM - 1 PM (4 hours, 1 break) Location To be announced from the ISSI 2007 organizers Workshop fee per participant Early bird registration fee (until April 25) is 75 Euro. Thereafter it is 100 Euro. This fee should be paid by all participants and covers services provided by the ISSI 2007 Organizers: - workshop location, - IT facilities (computer, internet access and projector), - Coffee at break and post-workshop lunch - copying of the Workshop Proceedings/Notes (spiral bound) Workshop participants should also register for the ISSI 2007 general meeting. Paper publication The ISSI 2007 organizing committee will photocopy and assemble Workshop Notes, with a front page and list of committee members, reviewers and participants. This will not abridge rights to submit papers to publishers or journals. Instructions will follow about proper format for papers presented at the workshop. --------------------------------------------------------------- Kind regards - Jesper Schneider ********************************************** Jesper Wiborg Schneider, PhD, Assistant Professor Department of Information Studies Royal School of Library & Information Science Sohng?rdsholmsvej 2, DK-9000 Aalborg, DENMARK Tel. +45 98773041, Fax. +45 98151042 E-mail: jws at db.dk Homepage:http://www.db.dk/jws ********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From JWS at DB.DK Tue Mar 6 08:46:09 2007 From: JWS at DB.DK (Jesper Wiborg Schneider) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 14:46:09 +0100 Subject: CFP workshop on taking CiteSpace to Science: new applications to visualization programming Message-ID: I'm sorry the title of the previous e-mail was wrong - this is the right one ... 11th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics Madrid, 25-27 June [http://issi2007.cindoc.csic.es/] Call for papers and presentations Workshop on: Taking CiteSpace to Science: new applications to visualization programming The visualization freeware CiteSpace was developed by Chaomei Chen at Drexel University, US. Originally it was meant as an instrument for analyzing paradigmatic shifts in scientific specialties. In several articles Chen has shown the abilities of the program, but one of the weaknesses is the definition of a scientific field. We invite papers that discuss different approaches to this important problem. How reliable are strategies on the basis of keywords, on subject codes, or on selected sets of journals? If researchers normally are active in many different journals covering 15-20 different subject codes what does that say about using the ISI codes for definition of specialties? To what extent is burst of terms a strategy that is effective? What are the concurrent procedures of making identifiers and descriptors in the database and in journals? The strengths of the CiteSpace program are evident, but there might be areas of application that have not been discussed on scientific basis. Therefore, we organize this workshop at the Madrid ISSI conference and invite full or research-in-progress papers in order to discuss central features and new applications of the CiteSpace program. A main topic of the workshop is the continuous development of strategies for detecting and tracking research fronts and the evolution of a specialty. Especially, we are interested in ways of implementing the CiteSpace program for new questions. E.g. can CiteSpace be of any use for research group analysis? Can CiteSpace be applied to questions about funding policy for National Research Councils? Should CiteSpace be used for performance analysis? However, the workshop also encourages contributions that look at the CiteSpace program and its advantages and disadvantages in relation to bibliometric research methodology. A vital issue in bibliometric analyses is the reliability and standardization of Thompson ISI reference data. CiteSpace does not initially allow for such standardizations and the question is how this affects the resulting analyses? These and other questions will be addressed during the workshop. Submissions: Please send your contributions to Jesper Wiborg Schneider (email: jws at db.dk) by March 25th. Submissions should include full short papers (max 2000 words) or full presentations, author(s) name, affiliation and contact details. Important dates: Deadline for short papers or presentations submission: March 25 Acceptance decision: April 3 Early registration deadline: April 15 Deadline for revised paper of presentation submission: May 20 Workshop organizers: Ulf Sandstr?m, Tema Institute, Linkoping University, 581 83 Linkoping, Sweden Jesper Wiborg Schneider, Dept of Information Studies, Royal School of Library & Information Science, Aalborg, Denmark Program committee: Chair: Jesper W. Schneider, Royal School of Library & Information Science, Denmark; Chaomei Chen, Drexel University, USA; Ulf Sandstr?m, Linkoping University, Sweden; Diana Hicks, Georgia Tech, USA; Jin Bihui, Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; F?lix de Moya Aneg?n, University of Granada, Spain; Olle Persson, Ume? University, Sweden. Duration of the workshop: half-day (4 hours) Selection of papers Papers will be selected using double-blind peer review, administered by the committee chair. Note that papers already accepted by the main conference may not be re-given in the workshops but such papers might be transferred to workshops by the organizers of ISSI or the authors. Note that no more than 10 participants can be selected for the workshop. Web Site Updated information concerning the workshop program is posted at http://www.db.dk/jws AND http://www.forskningspolitik.se/english Duration Thursday, June 28, 9AM - 1 PM (4 hours, 1 break) Location To be announced from the ISSI 2007 organizers Workshop fee per participant Early bird registration fee (until April 25) is 75 Euro. Thereafter it is 100 Euro. This fee should be paid by all participants and covers services provided by the ISSI 2007 Organizers: - workshop location, - IT facilities (computer, internet access and projector), - Coffee at break and post-workshop lunch - copying of the Workshop Proceedings/Notes (spiral bound) Workshop participants should also register for the ISSI 2007 general meeting. Paper publication The ISSI 2007 organizing committee will photocopy and assemble Workshop Notes, with a front page and list of committee members, reviewers and participants. This will not abridge rights to submit papers to publishers or journals. Instructions will follow about proper format for papers presented at the workshop. --------------------------------------------------------------- Kind regards - Jesper Schneider ********************************************** Jesper Wiborg Schneider, PhD, Assistant Professor Department of Information Studies Royal School of Library & Information Science Sohng?rdsholmsvej 2, DK-9000 Aalborg, DENMARK Tel. +45 98773041, Fax. +45 98151042 E-mail: jws at db.dk Homepage:http://www.db.dk/jws ********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Tue Mar 6 12:32:10 2007 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 18:32:10 +0100 Subject: CFP workshop on Methodological Issues in Using Curricula Vitae In-Reply-To: <73573C2DCB0154408D790B1E7EDB0C5254C4F8@ka-exch01.db.dk> Message-ID: Dear Jesper, If researchers normally are active in many different journals covering 15-20 different subject codes what does that say about using the ISI codes for definition of specialties? Using the ISI codes for the definition of specialties is not a good idea. The categories have no analytical basis. They are ad hoc, as our colleagues at ISI admit. I found no strong relations between the subject categories and principal components in the citation matrix, for example, in: Can Scientific Journals be Classified in terms of Aggregated Journal-Journal Citation Relations using the Journal Citation Reports? Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57(5) (2006) 601-613. 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 kboyack at SANDIA.GOV Tue Mar 6 13:58:12 2007 From: kboyack at SANDIA.GOV (Boyack, Kevin W) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 11:58:12 -0700 Subject: CFP workshop on Methodological Issues in Using Curricula Vitae In-Reply-To: <003801c76015$5fbab600$1302a8c0@loet> Message-ID: Dear Loet, While I agree that we need a new and better journal classification system, I am unwilling to throw out the ISI classifications just yet. Although the assignments are ad hoc, they are far from random. Although there is no standardized analytical basis that is applied consistently across all journals, there is some analytical basis in the minds of the presumably smart people making the assignments. Contrary to your findings, in Boyack, Klavans & B?rner (2005). Mapping the backbone of science. Scientometrics, 64(3), 351-374 we found that the ISI categories corresponded quite closely with journal clusterings based on intercitation in many cases (better than half of the clusters), but not so well in the remainder. In other words, it's a mixed bag. Further, if one looks at pairs of highly related journals, for instance the top 10 related journals for each journal, they occur in the same ISI category roughly 90% of the time over the entire SCIE/SSCI (Klavans & Boyack (2006). Identifying a better measure of relatedness for mapping science. JASIST, 57(2), 251-263). The pairwise accuracy does vary by journal, so there is still much room for improvement. To sum up, while not perfect, the ISI codes are a reasonable starting point for many applications. In addition, I have yet to see anyone make available a suitable and more accurate alternative that we can all use. I would welcome such a contribution. Best regards, Kevin ________________________________ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu] On Behalf Of Loet Leydesdorff Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 10:32 AM To: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] CFP workshop on Methodological Issues in Using Curricula Vitae Dear Jesper, If researchers normally are active in many different journals covering 15-20 different subject codes what does that say about using the ISI codes for definition of specialties? Using the ISI codes for the definition of specialties is not a good idea. The categories have no analytical basis. They are ad hoc, as our colleagues at ISI admit. I found no strong relations between the subject categories and principal components in the citation matrix, for example, in: Can Scientific Journals be Classified in terms of Aggregated Journal-Journal Citation Relations using the Journal Citation Reports? Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57(5) (2006) 601-613. 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 dgoodman at PRINCETON.EDU Wed Mar 7 02:59:47 2007 From: dgoodman at PRINCETON.EDU (David Goodman) Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 02:59:47 -0500 Subject: CFP workshop on Methodological Issues in Using Curricula Vitae In-Reply-To: <003801c76015$5fbab600$1302a8c0@loet> Message-ID: The categories were never intended for classifying researchers--they were intended for classifying journals. The main and obvious reason for doing so was the desire to compare journals with similar ones, and in particular with others in the same field that might be expected to have the same pattern of citation, in order to prevent the unfairness of comparing impact factors across fields with different publication patterns. They do fairly well for this. David Goodman, Ph.D., M.L.S. previously: Bibliographer and Research Librarian Princeton University Library dgoodman at princeton.edu ----- Original Message ----- From: Loet Leydesdorff Date: Tuesday, March 6, 2007 12:51 pm Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] CFP workshop on Methodological Issues in Using Curricula Vitae To: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > Dear Jesper, > > If researchers normally are active in many different journals > covering 15-20 > different subject codes what does that say about using the ISI > codes for > definition of specialties? > > Using the ISI codes for the definition of specialties is not a good > idea.The categories have no analytical basis. They are ad hoc, as > our colleagues > at ISI admit. I found no strong relations between the subject > categoriesand principal components in the citation matrix, for > example, in: > > Can Scientific Journals be Classified in terms of Aggregated > Journal-Journal > Citation Relations using the Journal Citation Reports? Journal of the > American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57(5) (2006) > 601-613. > > 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: > publishers.com/book.php?method=ISBN&book=1581129378>The Knowledge- > Based Economy: Modeled, Measured, Simulated. 385 pp.; US$ > 18.95 > publishers.com/book.php?method=ISBN&book=1581126956>The Self- > Organization of the Knowledge-Based Society; > publishers.com/book.php?method=ISBN&book=1581126816>The Challenge > of Scientometrics > > > > From fcollazo at FIS.CINVESTAV.MX Wed Mar 7 19:18:48 2007 From: fcollazo at FIS.CINVESTAV.MX (Francisco Collazo Reyes) Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 18:18:48 -0600 Subject: Mexican journal in SSCI Message-ID: Somebody can help me. I need to know the period of covering of the mexican journal "Trimestre Economico" in Science Citation Index, during 1970-2005 Thanks Francisco Collazo From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Thu Mar 8 02:39:59 2007 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 08:39:59 +0100 Subject: CFP workshop on Methodological Issues in Using Curricula Vitae In-Reply-To: <46EAC19F3066C14BB20DF799A649C5F40457FA76@ES23SNLNT.srn.sandia.gov> Message-ID: Contrary to your findings, in Boyack, Klavans & B?rner (2005). Mapping the backbone of science. Scientometrics, 64(3), 351-374 we found that the ISI categories corresponded quite closely with journal clusterings based on intercitation in many cases (better than half of the clusters), but not so well in the remainder. In other words, it's a mixed bag. Further, if one looks at pairs of highly related journals, for instance the top 10 related journals for each journal, they occur in the same ISI category roughly 90% of the time over the entire SCIE/SSCI (Klavans & Boyack (2006). Identifying a better measure of relatedness for mapping science. JASIST, 57(2), 251-263). The pairwise accuracy does vary by journal, so there is still much room for improvement. Dear Kevin, "Better than half of the clusters" is not good enough for an analytical approach. Specifically because we don't know which half. My guess would also be "half of the clusters". Furthermore, I agree that the tops of the iceberg are well identified. It is not so difficult to classify a journal with the name of Allergy to the category Allergy. This class has 16 journals. If I analyze the citation environments of this journal (both cited and citing), the correspondence is high. The situation changes dramatically when we turn to larger clusters and to journals which can less unambiguously be classified. Let me take the liberty to reproduce figure 12 from my paper in JASIST (57(5), 601-613, 2006) for the case of the biochemistry & molecular biology set of 261 journals in 2003. The problems is not only pragmatically, but analytically. The sets are fuzzy and deeply interwoven in the tales of the distributions. (The cores are not the problem.) Any classification will have to be reflexive about this, for example, by indicating the error. In the case of the ISI classifications, you found approximately 50% error. :-) I don't mind that you wish to use them; I do so, too, when it is convenient. 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Name: Outlook.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 16450 bytes Desc: not available URL: From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Thu Mar 8 04:20:41 2007 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 10:20:41 +0100 Subject: CFP workshop on Methodological Issues in Using Curricula Vitae In-Reply-To: Message-ID: > The main and obvious reason for doing so was the desire to > compare journals with similar ones, and in > particular with others in the same field that might be > expected to have the same pattern of citation, in order > to prevent the unfairness of comparing impact factors across > fields with different publication patterns. They > do fairly well for this. The question, indeed, is whether the journals within a set can be expected to have the same pattern of citation. I question both this expectation and the evidence that "they do fairly well for this." The expectation is not warranted by an ad-hoc classification, however smart the classifiers are and the evidence is not convincing. See my reply to Kevin about this. My initial mail was mainly concerned with some colleagues organizing a workshop of scientometrics at Madrid based on this erroneous assumption. I understand that one sometimes has to be pragmatical, but not in the scholarly debate, in my opinion. 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/ From eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Thu Mar 8 14:46:01 2007 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 14:46:01 -0500 Subject: Mexican journal in SSCI In-Reply-To: Message-ID: A search of the WebofKnowledge followed by the analyze function produces the following data: Field: Publication Year Record Count % of 1643 Bar Chart Save Analysis Data to File 1966 32 1.9477 % 1967 46 2.7998 % 1968 43 2.6172 % 1969 36 2.1911 % 1970 49 2.9823 % 1971 44 2.6780 % 1972 47 2.8606 % 1973 47 2.8606 % 1974 46 2.7998 % 1975 47 2.8606 % 1976 47 2.8606 % 1977 52 3.1649 % 1978 57 3.4693 % 1979 39 2.3737 % 1980 49 2.9823 % 1981 51 3.1041 % 1982 55 3.3475 % 1983 95 5.7821 % 1984 42 2.5563 % 1985 63 3.8344 % 1986 50 3.0432 % 1987 45 2.7389 % 1988 30 1.8259 % 1989 27 1.6433 % 1990 49 2.9823 % 1991 39 2.3737 % 1992 40 2.4346 % 1993 31 1.8868 % 1994 23 1.3999 % 1995 21 1.2781 % 1996 46 2.7998 % 1997 28 1.7042 % 1998 25 1.5216 % 1999 24 1.4607 % 2000 24 1.4607 % 2001 18 1.0956 % 2002 22 1.3390 % 2003 26 1.5825 % 2004 27 1.6433 % 2005 29 1.7651 % 2006 32 1.9477 % View Records When responding, please attach my original message __________________________________________________ Eugene Garfield, PhD. email: garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu home page: www.eugenegarfield.org Tel: 215-243-2205 Fax 215-387-1266 Chairman Emeritus, ISI www.isinet.com 3501 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-3302 President, The Scientist LLC. www.the-scientist.com 400 Market Street, Suite 1250, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2501 Past President, American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) www.asist.org -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Francisco Collazo Reyes Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 7:19 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Mexican journal in SSCI http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html Somebody can help me. 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Wojick) Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 11:27:16 -0500 Subject: Networks and link data, was preprint version "Globalisation in science in 2005" In-Reply-To: <934BB0B6D8A02C42BC6099FDE8149CCD015DB5E7@aplesjustice.dom1.jhuapl.edu> Message-ID: Thank you Christina, very useful. Most network analysis is quite rightly focused on networks for which we have link data. I am interested in, and took Loet to be talking about, some more basic network of scientists, about which we have very limited data. It is this concept, that there is an existing network to be discovered, that drives us to seek new kinds of data. More especially, I am trying to study diffusion of thinking among scientists at a level for which there may be no individual link data. Message by message transactions if you like. This is analogous to diffusion of groundwater, where we know we cannot track individual molecules. In the case of water we monitor pressure using a 3D grid of sensors. In my case I am looking at the migration of new language in, say, journals, or proposals, or conference proceedings. The math of discrete network analysis may or may not apply in my cases. How to bridge the gap between discrete network analysis and diffusion seems to me to be an important question. I think a similar problem arises in statistical mechanics. David Wojick For my own learning process, let me try to respond to your original questions, and then maybe the more experienced on the list can correct me. >My first question is, does every initial transaction between two >people, no matter how slight, establish a link in the network? The >alternative might be that certain thresholds of interaction must >apply, such as co-authorship or citation. My second question is, do >you think that the strength of a link might usefully be measured by >the amount of information that passes between the people linked? Network analysis works on relationships as the basic unit (not attributes, for example). How these relationships are defined/determined depends on what makes sense for the system being studied. We can look at co-authorship, co-citation, co-membership (in an organization) or a 2-mode thing like co-attendees of an event... So we might look at co-authorship of only peer reviewed journal articles that are in journals indexed by ISI -- which sets the bar fairly high. For things like co-authorship, the relationship is non-directional but can be valued. It can have different weights for the number of times the authors appear together if that makes sense to the phenomenon you are studying. Many times, it makes more sense to just have 1s and 0s -- link or no link. As for amount of information, one of the problems in network analysis is obtaining the data. Can you interview everyone involved? How much information can you obtain about the actors? Can that information be easily made into a matrix for mathematical operations? I think there's the pragmatic aspect of what is do-able as well as the science aspect of what you want to look at. The standard book on SNA is Faust and Wasserman and there have been several relevant chapters in ARIST on citation analysis, but you might do best by reading Dr. Leydesdorff's books and web page. 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 -- "David E. Wojick, Ph.D." Senior Consultant -- The DOE Science Accelerator http://www.osti.gov/innovation/scienceaccelerator.pdf http://www.osti.gov/innovation/ A strategic initiative of the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, US Department of Energy (540) 858-3150 391 Flickertail Lane, Star Tannery, VA 22654 USA http://www.bydesign.com/powervision/resume.html provides my bio and client list. http://www.bydesign.com/powervision/Mathematics_Philosophy_Science/ presents some of my own research on information structure and dynamics. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From j.s.katz at SUSSEX.AC.UK Sat Mar 10 12:49:12 2007 From: j.s.katz at SUSSEX.AC.UK (Sylvan Katz) Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 11:49:12 -0600 Subject: Networks and link data, was preprint version "Globalisation in science in 2005" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: David > seems to me to be an important question. I think a similar problem arises > in statistical mechanics. Are you thinking of Percolation Theory? Albert, R. and A. L. Barabasi, 2002: Statistical mechanics of complex networks. Reviews of Modern Physics, 74, 47-97. Newman, M. E. J. and D. J. Watts, 1999: Scaling and percolation in the small-world network model. Physical Review E, 60, 7332 LP - 7342 Essam, J. W., 1980: Percolation theory. Reports on Progress in Physics, 43, 833-912. Sylvan Dr. J. Sylvan Katz, Visiting Fellow SPRU, University of Sussex http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/sylvank Adjunct Professor Mathematics & Statistics, University of Saskatchewan Associate Researcher Institut national de la recherche scientifique, University of Quebec From dwojick at HUGHES.NET Sun Mar 11 14:28:31 2007 From: dwojick at HUGHES.NET (David E. Wojick) Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 13:28:31 -0500 Subject: preprint version "Globalisation in science in 2005" In-Reply-To: <000a01c75fb9$ae3a6700$1302a8c0@loet> Message-ID: Dear Loet, yes this does help me understand. It sounds to me like you are looking at established networks with established channels. My focus is on new communications, between members of distant communities or fields. Put another way, I am looking at cases where empty cells in the matrix of scientists are being filled by transactions for the first time. For example by new mathematical techniques (visualization, etc.) that are useful across the sciences. But also, I am interested in how the existing networks constrain and direct the flow of new ideas. (This sounds related to your "coding" although I do not understand that term here.) Networks are indeed stable or at least persistent, and that has a lot to do with why diffusion of new ideas takes decades. Since I want to accelerate diffusion this stability is actually a problem for me, not an asset. Predictively, there is also the question of how the articulation of a new idea will restructure the network, at least locally. Best of luck, David Dear David, Perhaps, it helps to use an engineering metaphor more than an evolutionary one. The transaction requires a communication channel. If one has more than a single transaction, one may need a set of communication channels. These channels can be placed in parallel or serial. The sumtotal of channels generates a network. The network can be represented as a matrix: the transactions are then the vectors of the matrix. The matrix contains a structure. Structure is deterministic. For example, this email list can be considered as a communication system. It provides a network. The transactions do not constitute the network because the network remains even if people are silent. (Networks can also be empty.) The structure of the network determines first who can participate in the communication and then at the social level the communication is coded by expectations so that one can expect relevant communication. Perhaps, some of us will consider this communication as disturbance; let's say variation. The code of the communication helps to stabilize the communication. This is the Sigmetrics list of ASIST. When the code is symbolically generalized, we no longer need this specific network for the communication because the channels would adapt to the code. This is the case at the field level. For example, we can publish in the twenty or so journals of our field and reach approximately the same audience of information scientists. The communication system "lives from" the transactions. Without transactions it would not be reproduced. The transactions are substantial, but it does not matter so much for the system, how the transactions vary. The system is stablized against variation if the communication is specifically codified. Stabilization is local; globalization can then be considered as a kind of hyper-stabilization. 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 -- "David E. Wojick, Ph.D." Senior Consultant -- The DOE Science Accelerator http://www.osti.gov/innovation/scienceaccelerator.pdf http://www.osti.gov/innovation/ A strategic initiative of the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, US Department of Energy (540) 858-3150 391 Flickertail Lane, Star Tannery, VA 22654 USA http://www.bydesign.com/powervision/resume.html provides my bio and client list. http://www.bydesign.com/powervision/Mathematics_Philosophy_Science/ presents some of my own research on information structure and dynamics. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dwojick at HUGHES.NET Mon Mar 12 11:23:38 2007 From: dwojick at HUGHES.NET (David E. Wojick) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:23:38 -0500 Subject: Networks and link data In-Reply-To: <53F597FAACE849F07803BAA5@[192.168.0.103]> Message-ID: Sylvan, I did not know about it, but percolation theory looks like a promising marriage between network analysis and statistical fluid flow. (I am new to network analysis.) The question then becomes how can it be applied to the diffusion of ideas in science? We opted for a contagion model rather than a fluid diffusion or percolation model because ideas are not conserved, as mass flows are. The idea does not move from you to me but rather is replicated in me. That is, when you get me to think about percolation theory you do not lose any thought in the process. On the other hand, there are important processes in the congitive flow system that are conserved. Funding for example, and the flow of funds to various ideas greatly determines which ideas get thought about by whom. My client, OSTI, is part of the DOE Office of Science which funds about $4 billion a year of basic research. Which ideas get funded is their chief concern. This leads to a broader concept which is conserved, which I call "attention." Rather than looking at the movement of an idea from person to person, look at the movement of attention from idea to idea. If we assume that one can only think about one topic at a time then attention is conserved. Thinking about percolation thoery precludes thinking about some other theory (unless one is thinking about the combination of course). Even for groups of scientists, which can think about more than one topic at once, there is an allocation of attention at any given time. As with any applied math, the question is how to apply it to the thing or process under study. For the diffusion of scientific ideas this is a hard problem, because the science of ideas is poorly developed. But I think we are making headway. Thanks for your interest. David > >David > >> seems to me to be an important question. I think a similar problem arises >> in statistical mechanics. > >Are you thinking of Percolation Theory? > > > >Albert, R. and A. L. Barabasi, 2002: Statistical mechanics of complex networks. Reviews of Modern Physics, 74, 47-97. > > >Newman, M. E. J. and D. J. Watts, 1999: Scaling and percolation in the small-world network model. Physical Review E, 60, 7332 LP - 7342 > >Essam, J. W., 1980: Percolation theory. Reports on Progress in Physics, 43, 833-912. > > >Sylvan > > >Dr. J. Sylvan Katz, Visiting Fellow >SPRU, University of Sussex >http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/sylvank > >Adjunct Professor >Mathematics & Statistics, University of Saskatchewan > >Associate Researcher >Institut national de la recherche scientifique, University of Quebec -- "David E. Wojick, Ph.D." Senior Consultant -- The DOE Science Accelerator http://www.osti.gov/innovation/scienceaccelerator.pdf http://www.osti.gov/innovation/ A strategic initiative of the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, US Department of Energy (540) 858-3150 391 Flickertail Lane, Star Tannery, VA 22654 USA http://www.bydesign.com/powervision/resume.html provides my bio and client list. http://www.bydesign.com/powervision/Mathematics_Philosophy_Science/ presents some of my own research on information structure and dynamics. From j.s.katz at SUSSEX.AC.UK Mon Mar 12 12:16:32 2007 From: j.s.katz at SUSSEX.AC.UK (Sylvan Katz) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:16:32 -0600 Subject: Networks and link data In-Reply-To: Message-ID: David The flow of ideas a very interesting concept. However, measurement is, as you pointed out rather difficult since an idea is a somewhat ethereal concept. > This leads to a broader concept which is conserved, which I call > "attention." Rather than looking at the movement of an idea from person > to person, look at the movement of attention from idea to idea. If we > assume that one can only think about one topic at a time then attention > is conserved. Thinking about percolation thoery precludes thinking about I am not sure about the notion of conservation of attention. The only known conserved entities are physical things like energy, spin, charge, etc. While attention maybe limited or constrained it is unlikely that is conserved at least in the same manner as the conservation of energy. For example each of us has more or less attention at any point in time depending on a variety of factors including such things as health, social and environmental factors, psychological state, etc. While attention maybe a constrained resource it is not clear that is a conserved resource. Is it possible that the movement of ideas from person to person is synonymous with the movement of personal attention from idea to idea? >As with any applied math, the question is how to apply it to the thing or process under study. >For the diffusion of scientific ideas this is a hard problem, because the science of ideas is >poorly developed. But I think we are making headway. Thanks for your interest. This is a problem. Until there are ways to measure ideas and their diffusion it might be that these models will have limited value. For sure it will be difficult to calibrate any model to real world situations without the availability of robust indicators derived from real world measures. Of course, complicating matters even more is the possibility that an idea is rarely pure but enmeshed in a complex of other ideas which are implied during the transfer. If the recipient(s) is unaware of the complex then the transfer could be incomplete and have less valuable no matter how much attention the recipient(s) has at his disposal. Very interesting stuff :) Sylvan Dr. J. Sylvan Katz, Visiting Fellow SPRU, University of Sussex http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/sylvank Adjunct Professor Mathematics & Statistics, University of Saskatchewan Associate Researcher Institut national de la recherche scientifique, University of Quebec From dwojick at HUGHES.NET Mon Mar 12 14:39:32 2007 From: dwojick at HUGHES.NET (David E. Wojick) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 13:39:32 -0500 Subject: Networks and link data In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Sylvan, I think you are right about attention being constrained rather than strictly conserved. Conserved is metaphorical. The basic point is that if I work on one thing I am not working on others. We are making headway on the etherial aspect of ideas. The semantic web folks are a leading community here. Google's success shows that the words we use are a good indicator of the ideas we express (and presumeably use). What people call (mistakenly I think) semantic structure is in fact part of the structure of our ideas. For example, you introduced me to percolation theory. Searching the journals on the referring expression "percolation theory" would give a pretty good picture of where percolation theory was being used, and how it's use has spread over time. Looking at the language that co-occurs with it should show how it is being used as well. So word use is our basic data. In our diffusion work to date we have simply looked at the growth of the use of certain words, using a contagion model to probe the underlying mechanisms. Beyond words we have structure. An example of structure is our (OSTI's) thing we call Word Web. https://www.osti.gov/taxonomy/ It is a complex network in which the nodes are about 30,000 scientific and technical words. There are 3 interlaced subnetworks of pairwise word-word relations. These are "use A for B" or prefered synonyms (about 10,000 pairs); "A is broader than, or narrower than, or a subset of B" (taxonomic, with about 45,000 multi-pair paths), and "A is related to B in some unstated way" (about 200,000 pairs). Arguably this network maps the cognitive structure of a broad area of scientific and technical thought in some basic way. It has changed relatively little since it was started in 1973. Here too one could see where a concept like percolation theory was being used and how that was changing over time. In fact we have started doing Pajek mapping of Word Web. In this case we are looking at the diffusion of an idea in a network of ideas, not a network of people. I myself have been working on the network structure of reasoning, which is arguably what science is all about. My work is about how sentences or whole thoughts, as opposed to words, form networks. I will post on this separately. David > >David > >The flow of ideas a very interesting concept. However, measurement is, as you pointed out rather difficult since an idea is a somewhat ethereal concept. > >> This leads to a broader concept which is conserved, which I call >> "attention." Rather than looking at the movement of an idea from person >> to person, look at the movement of attention from idea to idea. If we >> assume that one can only think about one topic at a time then attention >> is conserved. Thinking about percolation thoery precludes thinking about > >I am not sure about the notion of conservation of attention. The only known conserved entities are physical things like energy, spin, charge, etc. While attention maybe limited or constrained it is unlikely that is conserved at least in the same manner as the conservation of energy. For example each of us has more or less attention at any point in time depending on a variety of factors including such things as health, social and environmental factors, psychological state, etc. While attention maybe a constrained resource it is not clear that is a conserved resource. > >Is it possible that the movement of ideas from person to person is synonymous with the movement of personal attention from idea to idea? > >>As with any applied math, the question is how to apply it to the thing or >process under study. >>For the diffusion of scientific ideas this is a hard problem, because the >science of ideas is >>poorly developed. But I think we are making headway. Thanks for your >interest. > >This is a problem. Until there are ways to measure ideas and their diffusion it might be that these models will have limited value. For sure it will be difficult to calibrate any model to real world situations without the availability of robust indicators derived from real world measures. Of course, complicating matters even more is the possibility that an idea is rarely pure but enmeshed in a complex of other ideas which are implied during the transfer. If the recipient(s) is unaware of the complex then the transfer could be incomplete and have less valuable no matter how much attention the recipient(s) has at his disposal. Very interesting stuff :) > >Sylvan > > >Dr. J. Sylvan Katz, Visiting Fellow >SPRU, University of Sussex >http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/sylvank > >Adjunct Professor >Mathematics & Statistics, University of Saskatchewan > >Associate Researcher >Institut national de la recherche scientifique, University of Quebec From rclemens at EXCHANGE.FULLERTON.EDU Mon Mar 12 14:48:43 2007 From: rclemens at EXCHANGE.FULLERTON.EDU (Clemens, Rachael) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:48:43 -0700 Subject: JournalRanking.com Message-ID: Good afternoon I've received some inquiries from discipline faculty about a new journal ranking tool called JRC (JournalRanking.com) which purports to provide a more "accurate" journal ranking that matches perceived journal influence - than ISI's JCR. According to the methodology description (which seems quite generalized to me) it builds on an expanded page rank method to determine Journal Influence Index (JII) and Paper Influence Index (PII). The tool is freely available at: http://www.journal-ranking.com Is anyone familiar with this work? Any comments? Thanks -Rachael ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rachael Green Clemens Distance Education Librarian Pollak Library California State University Fullerton 714.278.7543 http://faculty.fullerton.edu/rclemens ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From notsjb at LSU.EDU Mon Mar 12 17:19:04 2007 From: notsjb at LSU.EDU (Stephen J Bensman) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:19:04 -0500 Subject: JournalRanking.com Message-ID: Caveat emptor. "Clemens, Rachael" @LISTSERV.UTK.EDU> on 03/12/2007 01:48:43 PM Please respond to ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics Sent by: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU cc: (bcc: Stephen J Bensman/notsjb/LSU) Subject: [SIGMETRICS] JournalRanking.com Good afternoon I?ve received some inquiries from discipline faculty about a new journal ranking tool called JRC (JournalRanking.com) which purports to provide a more ?accurate? journal ranking that matches perceived journal influence ? than ISI?s JCR. According to the methodology description (which seems quite generalized to me) it builds on an expanded page rank method to determine Journal Influence Index (JII) and Paper Influence Index (PII). The tool is freely available at: http://www.journal-ranking.com Is anyone familiar with this work? Any comments? Thanks -Rachael ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rachael Green Clemens Distance Education Librarian Pollak Library California State University Fullerton 714.278.7543 http://faculty.fullerton.edu/rclemens ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From j.s.katz at SUSSEX.AC.UK Mon Mar 12 18:14:56 2007 From: j.s.katz at SUSSEX.AC.UK (Sylvan Katz) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:14:56 -0600 Subject: Thesaurus Term Selector Message-ID: David, I had fun with your Thesaurus Term Selector. Can you provide a URL to a paper that gives the details of the underlying data and methodology? I played with the selector search feature. I was looking for the existence of well-know established term relationships in your data set. One of the things I looked for was the well established relationships among the terms 'power laws', 'scaling laws', fractals and chaos. All scaling laws are power laws they are used to characterize fractal and chaotic systems. I found that neither the term 'power law' or 'power laws' existed and it was not obvious to me that I could navigate my way from among the terms scaling laws, chaos and fractals using the explorer. Is this what you would expect? >In fact we have started doing Pajek mapping of Word Web. In this case we are looking at the diffusion >of an idea in a network of ideas, not a network of people. Well it could be argued that ideas are only generated by people hence a network of ideas is a network of people :) Sylvan Dr. J. Sylvan Katz, Visiting Fellow SPRU, University of Sussex http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/sylvank Adjunct Professor Mathematics & Statistics, University of Saskatchewan Associate Researcher Institut national de la recherche scientifique, University of Quebec From isidro at CINDOC.CSIC.ES Tue Mar 13 05:34:59 2007 From: isidro at CINDOC.CSIC.ES (Isidro F. Aguillo) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:34:59 +0100 Subject: Registration is open for ISSI2007 Message-ID: The registration for the 11th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, which will be held on June 25-27, 2007 in Madrid (Spain) is Open. http://issi2007.cindoc.csic.es/ Reservations in the Conference hotels can be done from the website. The preliminary program of the Conference, including the list of presentations and posters, is also available. Reminder the period for requesting scholarships is going to close on March 17th. -- *************************************** Isidro F. Aguillo isidro at cindoc.csic.es Ph:(+34) 91-5635482 ext. 313 Cybermetrics Lab CINDOC-CSIC Joaquin Costa, 22 28002 Madrid. SPAIN http://www.webometrics.info http://www.cindoc.csic.es/cybermetrics http://internetlab.cindoc.csic.es **************************************** From dwojick at HUGHES.NET Tue Mar 13 12:28:09 2007 From: dwojick at HUGHES.NET (David E. Wojick) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:28:09 -0500 Subject: Thesaurus Term Selector In-Reply-To: <04D77E1591242247944D6586@[192.168.0.103]> Message-ID: Sylvan (and all), Information regarding the thesaurus component of OSTI Word Web can be found here http://www.osti.gov/about/international OSTI Word Web has two distinct but integrated component networks. I liken them to a blimp suspended by a net, which in turn hangs from a single hook. The blimp is the Energy Technology Data Exchange energy subject thesaurus. Its central network is the 200,000 term-term relations linking about 20,000 terms. It was developed initially in 1973 and is now maintained jointy by ETDE and INIS, both international consortia. Regarding the net holding up the blimp, the thesaurus also includes about 3500 mini-taxonomies, based on "narower than-broader than" term-term pairs. Each mini-taxonomy has a broadest term. Over the last few years OSTI's William Watson has constructed an overarching taxonomy of science and technology, such that every path leads down to one of these broadest terms. Because many terms are used in more than one place in science there are about 45,000 paths in total. Of course the taxonomy is a tree structure, with other interesting features I will not go into now. Watson's taxonomy is the net from which the thesaurus blimp is supsended. What OSTI identifies as a "Thesaurus Term Selector" is actually the whole Word Web, not just the thesaurus component. So far as I know OSTI has nothing about this amazing project online. Queries should be addressed to William Watson -- WatsonW at osti.gov Regarding the terms you did not find, bear in mind that this is an energy subject thesaurus. If you can identify an area of energy or nuclear science or technology where these terms are actively used then you can submit a poposal to have them included. David > >David, > >I had fun with your Thesaurus Term Selector. > >Can you provide a URL to a paper that gives the details of the underlying data and methodology? > >I played with the selector search feature. I was looking for the existence of well-know established term relationships in your data set. One of the things I looked for was the well established relationships among the terms 'power laws', 'scaling laws', fractals and chaos. All scaling laws are power laws they are used to characterize fractal and chaotic systems. I found that neither the term 'power law' or 'power laws' existed and it was not obvious to me that I could navigate my way from among the terms scaling laws, chaos and fractals using the explorer. Is this what you would expect? > >>In fact we have started doing Pajek mapping of Word Web. In this case we >are looking at the diffusion >>of an idea in a network of ideas, not a network of people. > >Well it could be argued that ideas are only generated by people hence a network of ideas is a network of people :) > >Sylvan > > >Dr. J. Sylvan Katz, Visiting Fellow >SPRU, University of Sussex >http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/sylvank > >Adjunct Professor >Mathematics & Statistics, University of Saskatchewan > >Associate Researcher >Institut national de la recherche scientifique, University of Quebec -- "David E. Wojick, Ph.D." Senior Consultant -- The DOE Science Accelerator http://www.osti.gov/innovation/scienceaccelerator.pdf http://www.osti.gov/innovation/ A strategic initiative of the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, US Department of Energy (540) 858-3150 391 Flickertail Lane, Star Tannery, VA 22654 USA http://www.bydesign.com/powervision/resume.html provides my bio and client list. http://www.bydesign.com/powervision/Mathematics_Philosophy_Science/ presents some of my own research on information structure and dynamics. From eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Tue Mar 13 18:32:34 2007 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:32:34 -0400 Subject: FW: [CHMINF-L] [UTKSIS-L] US News & World Report College Rankings (fwd) Message-ID: This is from today's Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/09/AR200703 0901836.html?referrer=email . This is a discomfiting example of a process that has always been open to question. The author of the Op-Ed piece is the president of Sarah Lawrence College. From notsjb at LSU.EDU Wed Mar 14 09:32:20 2007 From: notsjb at LSU.EDU (Stephen J Bensman) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:32:20 -0500 Subject: FW: [CHMINF-L] [UTKSIS-L] US News & World Report College Rankings (fwd) Message-ID: The classic case of ranking fraud was the reports published annually about 10 years ago by one Jack Gourman, a political science professor at Cal State Northridge. Gourman knew all the academic hokum and how to fool the pedantry. He even published his rankings to the 5th decimal place, when everybody knows that they are not even an accurate reflection of real rank at one decimal place. He was playful in his rankings, even placing Cal State Northridge higher in political science than Yale University. When a reporter tried to find the address of the publisher, he found only an empty lot. Yet every library bought a copy of these rankings and had it in their reference department. Academic adminstators used these rankings in their decision making, and the former chancellor of LSU used to report the university's progress in these rankings like clockwork. I tried to disabuse of the chancellor of using these rankings, but it was like talking to a brick wall, so desperate was he to have some sort of figures. I even suggested to one administrator that the best way to rise in these rankings was to slip Gourman a few hundred dollars under the table every year--far less than the cost of a good fullback--and LSU would really skyrocket to the top in one decimal jumps. SB Eugene Garfield @LISTSERV.UTK.EDU> on 03/13/2007 05:32:34 PM Please respond to ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics Sent by: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU cc: (bcc: Stephen J Bensman/notsjb/LSU) Subject: [SIGMETRICS] FW: [CHMINF-L] [UTKSIS-L] US News & World Report College Rankings (fwd) This is from today's Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/09/AR200703 0901836.html?referrer=email . This is a discomfiting example of a process that has always been open to question. The author of the Op-Ed piece is the president of Sarah Lawrence College. From notsjb at LSU.EDU Wed Mar 14 13:38:54 2007 From: notsjb at LSU.EDU (Stephen J Bensman) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:38:54 -0500 Subject: Gourman Report Message-ID: In reference to my last sending on the phony university rankings by Jack Gourman, I decided to check whether P.T. Barnum was correct about a sucker being born every minute. 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No library can restrict its collection to valid scholarship, even in those instances when, as here, it is in a position to judge. We did obtain a review, and insert it into the volume. At the beginning, it was kept behind the reference desk and provided along with a verbal explanation. But I note that strictly speaking, this is in violation of the ALA standards for librarians, which call for all materials to be made available without special labeling. The only strictly ethical way we could have used would have been to shelve it next to other and better reports. 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2007 The Thomson Corporation From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Mar 16 17:44:47 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:44:47 -0400 Subject: Parameswaran A, Sebastian R. "The value of South and Southeast Asian studies journal rankings " SERIALS REVIEW 32 (3): 154-163 SEP 2006 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: ashvin at alumni.nus.edu.sg, Rodney at alumni.nus.edu.sg Title: The value of South and Southeast Asian studies journal rankings Author(s): Parameswaran A (Parameswaran, Ashvin), Sebastian R (Sebastian, Rodney) Source: SERIALS REVIEW 32 (3): 154-163 SEP 2006 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 28 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: This article ranks South and Southeast Asian Studies journals along three categories-quality, efficiency, and impact. The ranking summarizes the results of a survey sent to an international sample of South and Southeast Asian Studies scholars. This study is valuable in three ways: as a decision making tool for the South and Southeast Asian Studies academic community, as an evaluation of methodology in journal ranking studies, and as a discussion of the value of journal rankings studies to assessment and evaluation in higher education generally. E-mail Addresses: ashvin at alumni.nus.edu.sg, Rodney at alumni.nus.edu.sg Publisher: ELSEVIER INC, 525 B STREET, STE 1900, SAN DIEGO, CA 92101-4495 USA Subject Category: Information Science & Library Science IDS Number: 093ES ISSN: 0098-7913 References: *ACC GLOB CONS ACC AS SPEC DAT *AS SOC AS EXP DAT *COL U LIB INT DIET S AS SCHOL *THOMS ISI WEB KNO JCR SOC SCI ED 2003 ARCHIBALD RB SCH PUBLISHING 18 : 131 1987 BAVELAS JB SOCIAL-PSYCHOLOGY OF CITATIONS CANADIAN PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW-PSYCHOLOGIE CANADIENNE 19 : 158 1978 BROWN LD CONTEMP ACCOUNT RES 11 : 223 1994 COE R EVALUATING THE MANAGEMENT JOURNALS - A 2ND LOOK ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 27 : 660 1984 COSTANZA R Influential publications in ecological economics: a citation analysis ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS 50 : 261 2004 DUBOIS FL Ranking the international business journals JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES 31 : 689 2000 DUL J An assessment system for rating scientific journals in the field of ergonomics and human factors APPLIED ERGONOMICS 35 : 301 2004 FORRESTER JP AN ASSESSMENT OF PUBLIC-ADMINISTRATION JOURNALS - THE PERSPECTIVE OF EDITORS AND EDITORIAL-BOARD MEMBERS PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW 54 : 474 1994 GREEN RG Faculty rank, effort, and success: A study of publication in professional journals JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION 34 : 415 1998 HARMAN DL J RES MUSIC EDUC 46 : 405 1999 HERMAN IL RECEPTIVITY TO FOREIGN LITERATURE - A COMPARISON OF UK AND UNITED-STATES CITING BEHAVIOR IN LIBRARIANSHIP AND INFORMATION-SCIENCE LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE RESEARCH 13 : 37 1991 HULL RP ACCOUNTING HORIZONS 4 : 77 1990 ILIEVA J Online surveys in marketing research: pros and cons INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARKET RESEARCH 44 : 361 2002 JOSWICK KE Perceptions vs use: Comparing faculty evaluations of journal titles with faculty and student usage JOURNAL OF ACADEMIC LIBRARIANSHIP 21 : 454 1995 LOWE A Perceptions of journal quality and research paradigm: results of a web- based survey of British accounting academics ACCOUNTING ORGANIZATIONS AND SOCIETY 30 : 81 2005 MCKERCHER B A case for ranking tourism journals TOURISM MANAGEMENT 26 : 649 2005 MILNE M ACCOUNTING ACCOUNTAB 6 : 99 2000 NISONGER TE EVALUATION LIB COLLE : 207 2003 POLONSKY MJ AUSTRALASIAN MARKETI 12 : 64 2004 RYAN C The ranking and rating of academics and journals in tourism research TOURISM MANAGEMENT 26 : 657 2005 THEOHARAKIS V Perceptual differences of marketing journals: A worldwide perspective MARKETING LETTERS 13 : 389 2002 TURBAN E A group decision support approach to evaluating journals INFORMATION & MANAGEMENT 42 : 31 2004 VASTAG G OMEGA 30 : 119 2002 VOKURKA JR J OPERATIONS MANAGEM 14 : 344 1996 From ronald.rousseau at KHBO.BE Sat Mar 17 09:45:40 2007 From: ronald.rousseau at KHBO.BE (Ronald Rousseau) Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 14:45:40 +0100 Subject: Jin's AR-index Message-ID: Dear colleagues, May I draw your attention to the latest issue of the ISSI Newsletter (vol.3, issue 1). Among other things it contains an interesting short contribution by Bihui Jin, namely a proposal for an Hirsch-type index which takes citations and their age into account. If you do not have access to the Newsletter you may find a link to this article on the first page of my website (users.telenet.be/ronald.rousseau). On this page I added some more links to articles related to h-type indices. Best regards, Ronald Rousseau -- Ronald Rousseau, KHBO (Association K.U.Leuven)- Industrial Sciences and Technology Zeedijk 101 B-8400 Oostende Belgium Guest Professor at the Antwerp University School for Library and Information Science (UA - IBW) web page: http://users.telenet.be/ronald.rousseau ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP 3.2.8, the Internet Messaging Program. From quentinburrell at MANX.NET Sat Mar 17 11:30:48 2007 From: quentinburrell at MANX.NET (Quentin L. Burrell) Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 15:30:48 -0000 Subject: Jin's AR-index Message-ID: One of the main attractions of the original h-index is its simplicity. Although it does have some merit, Jin's AR index loses this aspect. That the age of citations is important, was realised by Hirsch and for this reason I have proposed the rather simpler idea of considering an author's h-rate. This paper "Hirsch index or Hirsch rate? Some thoughts arising from Liang's data." is to appear in Scientometrics. Interested colleagues can request a preprint by emailing me at q.burrell at ibs.ac.im Another paper relating to Jin's original idea of the h-core average is "On the h-index, the size of the Hirsch core and Jin's A- index" to appear in Journal of Informetrics, and currently available online. Again, I can supply a preprint version. Best wishes Quentin *************************************************************** Dr Quentin L Burrell Isle of Man International Business School The Nunnery Old Castletown Road Douglas Isle of Man IM9 4EX via United Kingdom www.ibs.ac.im ******************************************************* ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ronald Rousseau" To: Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2007 1:45 PM Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Jin's AR-index > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > Dear colleagues, > > May I draw your attention to the latest issue of the ISSI Newsletter (vol.3, > issue 1). Among other things it contains an interesting short contribution by > Bihui Jin, namely a proposal for an Hirsch-type index which takes citations and > their age into account. > > If you do not have access to the Newsletter you may find a link to this article > on the first page of my website (users.telenet.be/ronald.rousseau). 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URL: From blar at DB.DK Mon Mar 19 06:30:55 2007 From: blar at DB.DK (Birger Larsen) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:30:55 +0100 Subject: CFP - Doctoral Forum at ISSI2007 Message-ID: *** Apologies for cross postings *** Call for Participation Doctoral Forum at the ISSI2007 conference 24 June, 2007 Madrid, Spain For the second time a Doctoral Forum is offered at the biannual conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI). The Doctoral Forum at the ISSI2007 conference in Madrid, Spain is a chance for doctoral students to present their research projects to senior researchers and to their colleagues, and in return receive constructive feedback. The primary objective of the Doctoral Forum is to provide doctoral students with a forum to present and discuss their research projects with senior researchers and fellow students and to develop their relationships with other scientists. Due to the time consuming form of the Doctoral Forum, the number of participants is restricted. The doctoral forum is only open to the invited senior researchers and the accepted students. There is no separate fee for attending the doctoral forum, but participation requires the students register for the conference. Doctoral Forum Committee (see homepages for contact information) ------------------------ Dr. Bluma Peritz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Dr. Ed Noyons, Leiden University, the Netherlands Dr. Mike Thelwall, University of Wolverhampton, UK Dr. Peter Ingwersen, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark Dr. Ronald Rousseau, Catholic School for Higher Education Bruges-Ostend (KHBO), Belgium Doctoral Forum Chairs --------------------- Associate professor, Rickard Danell, Ume? University, Ume? - Sweden (http://www.umu.se/soc/personal/danell_rickard.htm). Associate professor, Birger Larsen, Royal School of Library & Information Science, Copenhagen - Denmark (http://www.db.dk/blar). Location -------- Residencia de Estudiantes Madrid (Close to the ISSI2007 conference venue) Time ---- June 24 between 9 am to 5 pm. Applications ------------ To apply to the workshop, please submit an application of up to 1500 words containing: * Description of doctoral research project - including research questions and planned methodology; and * Motivation for student participation at the Doctoral Forum, and importantly the issues you wish to receive feedback on from the senior researchers. The first page of the application must contain the name, affiliation and full address of the doctoral student including phone and fax numbers and email address, as well as the name of the supervisor(s). The application should be electronically submitted by 1st April 2007 in RTF or PDF format using the electronic conference submission system (See the Doctoral Forum page at http://issi2007.cindoc.csic.es/ for link). We recommend that student participation and presentation of research project at the Doctoral Forum are credited 3 ECTS by their home department. From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Mar 19 18:04:56 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:04:56 -0400 Subject: Csardi G. "Dynamics of citation networks" ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS - ICANN 2006, PT 1 LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE 4131: 698-709 2006 Message-ID: E-Mail : E-mail Addresses: csardi at rmki.kfki.hu Title: Dynamics of citation networks Author(s): Csardi G (Csardi, Gabor) Source: ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS - ICANN 2006, PT 1 LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE 4131: 698-709 2006 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 18 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: The aim of this paper is to give theoretical and experimental tools for measuring the driving force in evolving complex networks. First a discrete-time stochastic model framework is introduced to state the question of how the dynamics of these networks depend on the properties of the parts of the system. Then a method is presented to determine this dependence in the possession of the required data about the system. This measurement method is applied to the citation network of high energy physics papers to extract the in-degree and age dependence of the dynamics. It is shown that the method yields close to "optimal" results. KeyWords Plus: EVOLVING NETWORKS; COMPLEX NETWORKS Addresses: Csardi G (reprint author), Hungarian Acad Sci, KFKI Res Inst Particle & Nucl Phys, Dept Biophys, Budapest, Hungary Hungarian Acad Sci, KFKI Res Inst Particle & Nucl Phys, Dept Biophys, Budapest, Hungary Kalamazoo Coll, Ctr Complex Syst Studies, Kalamazoo, MI 49006 USA E-mail Addresses: csardi at rmki.kfki.hu Publisher: SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, HEIDELBERGER PLATZ 3, D-14197 BERLIN, GERMANY IDS Number: BFE51 ISSN: 0302-9743 CITED REFERENCES : AMARAL LAN Classes of small-world networks PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 97 : 11149 2000 BARABASI AL Network biology: Understanding the cell's functional organization NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS 5 : 101 2004 BARABASI AL Emergence of scaling in random networks SCIENCE 286 : 509 1999 BERGER N P 31 INT COLL AUT LA : 208 2004 BIANCONI G Competition and multiscaling in evolving networks EUROPHYSICS LETTERS 54 : 436 2001 BOCCALETTI S Complex networks: Structure and dynamics PHYSICS REPORTS-REVIEW SECTION OF PHYSICS LETTERS 424 : 175 2006 CALDARELLI G PHYS REV LETT 89 : 2002 DOROGOVTSEV SN Evolution of networks with aging of sites PHYSICAL REVIEW E 62 : 1842 2000 ERGUN G Growing random networks with fitness PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS 303 : 261 2002 JEONG H Measuring preferential attachment in evolving networks EUROPHYSICS LETTERS 61 : 567 2003 KLEINBERG JM LECT NOTES COMPUTER : 1998 KRAPIVSKY PL PHYS REV E 63 : 66123 2001 MITZENMACHER M INTERNET MATH 1 : 226 2004 NEWMAN MEJ The structure and function of complex networks SIAM REVIEW 45 : 167 2003 REDNER S Citation statistics from 110 years of Physical Review PHYSICS TODAY 58 : 49 2005 ROTH C ARXIVNLINAO507021 : 2005 WATTS DJ The "new" science of networks ANNUAL REVIEW OF SOCIOLOGY 30 : 243 2004 ZHU H PHYS REV E 68 : 56121 2003 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Mar 19 18:10:16 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:10:16 -0400 Subject: Tian L. Zhu CP, Shi DN, Gu ZM, Zhou T. "Universal scaling behavior of clustering coefficient induced by deactivation mechanism " PHYSICAL REVIEW E 74 (4): Art. No. 046103 Part 2, OCT 2006 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: chenpingzhu at yahoo.com.cn, shi at nuaa.edu.cn Title: Universal scaling behavior of clustering coefficient induced by deactivation mechanism Author(s): Tian L (Tian, Liang), Zhu CP (Zhu, Chen-Ping), Shi DN (Shi, Da- Ning), Gu ZM (Gu, Zhi-Ming), Zhou T (Zhou, Tao) Source: PHYSICAL REVIEW E 74 (4): Art. No. 046103 Part 2, OCT 2006 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 37 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: We propose a model of network growth that generalizes the deactivation model previously suggested for complex networks. Several topological features of this generalized model, such as the degree distribution and clustering coefficient, have been investigated analytically and by simulations. A scaling behavior of clustering coefficient C similar to 1/M is theoretically obtained, where M refers to the number of active nodes in the network. We discuss the relationship between the recently observed numerical behavior of clustering coefficient in the coauthor and paper citation networks and our theoretical result. It shows that both of them are induced by deactivation mechanism. By introducing a perturbation, the generated network undergoes a transition from large to small world, meanwhile the scaling behavior of C is conserved. It indicates that C similar to 1/M is a universal scaling behavior induced by deactivation mechanism. Addresses: Tian L (reprint author), Nanjing Univ Aeronaut & Astronaut, Coll Sci, Nanjing 210016, Peoples R China Nanjing Univ Aeronaut & Astronaut, Coll Sci, Nanjing 210016, Peoples R China Univ Sci & Technol China, Ctr Nonlinear Sci, Hefei 230026, Peoples R China Univ Sci & Technol China, Dept Modern Phys, Hefei 230026, Peoples R China E-mail Addresses: chenpingzhu at yahoo.com.cn, shi at nuaa.edu.cn Publisher: AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC, ONE PHYSICS ELLIPSE, COLLEGE PK, MD 20740- 3844 USA Subject Category: Physics, Fluids & Plasmas; Physics, Mathematical IDS Number: 101EW ISSN: 1539-3755 CITED REFERENCES: ALBERT R Internet - Diameter of the World-Wide Web NATURE 401 : 130 1999 ALBERT R Statistical mechanics of complex networks REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS 74 : 47 2002 AMARAL LAN Classes of small-world networks PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 97 : 11149 2000 BARABASI AL Emergence of scaling in random networks SCIENCE 286 : 509 1999 BOGUNA M Absence of epidemic threshold in scale-free networks with degree correlations PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 90 : Art. No. 028701 2003 BORNER K The simultaneous evolution of author and paper networks PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 101 : 5266 2004 DOROGOVTSEV SN Evolution of networks ADVANCES IN PHYSICS 51 : 1079 2002 DOROGOVTSEV SN Evolution of networks with aging of sites PHYSICAL REVIEW E 62 : 1842 2000 EGUILUZ VM PHYS REV E 68 : 2003 EGUILUZ VM Epidemic threshold in structured scale-free networks PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 89 : Art. No. 108701 2002 FALOUTSOS M title not available COMP COMM R 29 : 251 1999 GU ZM CONDMAT0505175 HAJRA KB Phase transitions in an aging network PHYSICAL REVIEW E 70 : Art. No. 056103 2004 HAJRA KB Aging in citation networks PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS 346 : 44 2005 HUBERMAN BA LAWS WEB : 2001 JEONG H Lethality and centrality in protein networks NATURE 411 : 41 2001 JIANG PQ Networks emerging from the competition of pullulation and decrepitude CHINESE PHYSICS LETTERS 22 : 1285 2005 KLEMM K Nonequilibrium transitions in complex networks: A model of social interaction PHYSICAL REVIEW E 67 : Art. No. 026120 2003 KLEMM K Growing scale-free networks with small-world behavior PHYSICAL REVIEW E 65 : Art. No. 057102 2002 KLEMM K Highly clustered scale-free networks PHYSICAL REVIEW E 65 : Art. No. 036123 2002 MCGRAW PN PHYS REV E 72 : 2005 NEWMAN MEJ Scaling and percolation in the small-world network model PHYSICAL REVIEW E 60 : 7332 1999 NEWMAN MEJ The structure and function of complex networks SIAM REVIEW 45 : 167 2003 PASTORSATORRAS R Dynamical and correlation properties of the Internet PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 87 : Art. No. 258701 2001 PIMM SL FOOD WEBS : 2002 RAVASZ E Hierarchical organization of modularity in metabolic networks SCIENCE 297 : 1551 2002 SCOTT J SOCIAL NETWORK ANAL : 2000 SUCHECKI K Voter model dynamics in complex networks: Role of dimensionality, disorder, and degree distribution PHYSICAL REVIEW E 72 : Art. No. 036132 2005 VANRAAN AFJ On growth, ageing, and fractal differentiation of science SCIENTOMETRICS 47 : 347 2000 VAZQUEZ A Topology and correlations in structured scale-free networks PHYSICAL REVIEW E 67 : Art. No. 046111 2003 WASSERMAN S SOCIAL NETWORK ANAL : 1994 WATTS DJ Collective dynamics of 'small-world' networks NATURE 393 : 440 1998 WU XA Synchronizability of highly clustered scale-free networks CHINESE PHYSICS LETTERS 23 : 1046 2006 ZHAO M IN PRESS PHYSICA A ZHOU T Maximal planar networks with large clustering coefficient and power-law degree distribution PHYSICAL REVIEW E 71 : Art. No. 046141 2005 ZHU CP Scaling of directed dynamical small-world networks with random responses PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 92 : Art. No. 218702 2004 ZHU H Effect of aging on network structure PHYSICAL REVIEW E 68 : Art. No. 056121 2003 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Mar 19 18:20:49 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:20:49 -0400 Subject: Plikus MV, Zhang Z, Chuong CM "PubFocus: semantic MEDLINE/PubMed citations analytics through integration of controlled biomedical dictionaries and ranking algorithm " BMC BIOINFORMATICS 7: Art. No. 424 OCT 2 2006 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: plikus at usc.edu, zzhangin at ucla.edu, chuong at pathfinder.usc.edu Title: PubFocus: semantic MEDLINE/PubMed citations analytics through integration of controlled biomedical dictionaries and ranking algorithm Author(s): Plikus MV (Plikus, Maksim V.), Zhang Z (Zhang, Zina), Chuong CM (Chuong, Cheng-Ming) Source: BMC BIOINFORMATICS 7: Art. No. 424 OCT 2 2006 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 24 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Background: Understanding research activity within any given biomedical field is important. Search outputs generated by MEDLINE/PubMed are not well classified and require lengthy manual citation analysis. Automation of citation analytics can be very useful and timesaving for both novices and experts. Results: PubFocus web server automates analysis of MEDLINE/PubMed search queries by enriching them with two widely used human factor-based bibliometric indicators of publication quality: journal impact factor and volume of forward references. In addition to providing basic volumetric statistics, PubFocus also prioritizes citations and evaluates authors' impact on the field of search. PubFocus also analyses presence and occurrence of biomedical key terms within citations by utilizing controlled vocabularies. Conclusion: We have developed citations' prioritisation algorithm based on journal impact factor, forward referencing volume, referencing dynamics, and author's contribution level. It can be applied either to the primary set of PubMed search results or to the subsets of these results identified through key terms from controlled biomedical vocabularies and ontologies. NCI (National Cancer Institute) thesaurus and MGD (Mouse Genome Database) mammalian gene orthology have been implemented for key terms analytics. PubFocus provides a scalable platform for the integration of multiple available ontology databases. PubFocus analytics can be adapted for input sources of biomedical citations other than PubMed. Addresses: Plikus MV (reprint author), Univ So Calif, Keck Sch Med, Dept Pathol, Los Angeles, CA USA Univ So Calif, Keck Sch Med, Dept Pathol, Los Angeles, CA USA Univ Calif Los Angeles, David Geffen Sch Med, Dept Med, Los Angeles, CA USA E-mail Addresses: plikus at usc.edu, zzhangin at ucla.edu, chuong at pathfinder.usc.edu Publisher: BIOMED CENTRAL LTD, MIDDLESEX HOUSE, 34-42 CLEVELAND ST, LONDON W1T 4LB, ENGLAND IDS Number: 097SG ISSN: 1471-2105 CITED REFERENCES: ASHBURNER M FLYBASE - THE DROSOPHILA GENETIC DATABASE DEVELOPMENT 120 : 2077 1994 BAKKALBASI N BIOMED DIGIT LIB : 3 2006 BALES ME Graph theoretic modeling of large-scale semantic networks JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS 39 : 451 2006 COTSARELIS G LABEL-RETAINING CELLS RESIDE IN THE BULGE AREA OF PILOSEBACEOUS UNIT - IMPLICATIONS FOR FOLLICULAR STEM-CELLS, HAIR CYCLE, AND SKIN CARCINOGENESIS CELL 61 : 1329 1990 DECORONADO S MEDINFO 11 : 33 2004 DEVOS P STUD HLTH TECHNOL IN 95 : 721 2003 DING J PubMed Assistant: a biologist-friendly interface for enhanced PubMed search BIOINFORMATICS 22 : 378 2006 DING J MedKit: a helper toolkit for automatic mining of MEDLINE/PubMed citations BIOINFORMATICS 21 : 694 2005 DOMS A GoPubMed: Exploring PubMed with the gene ontology NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH 33 : W783 2005 DONG P BIOMED DIGIT LIB 2 : 7 2005 EPPIG JT The Mouse Genome Database (MGD): from genes to mice - a community resource for mouse biology NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH 33 : D471 2005 GARFIELD E The history and meaning of the journal impact factor JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 295 : 90 2006 GOETZ T PubFinder: a tool for improving retrieval rate of relevant PubMed abstracts NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH 33 : W774 2005 GRANDO AS SCI EDITOR 26 : 122 2003 HARRIS MA The Gene Ontology (GO) database and informatics resource NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH 32 : D258 2004 HOEFFEL C Journal impact factors ALLERGY 53 : 1225 1998 KURMIS AP Exploring the relationship between impact factor and manuscript rejection rates in radiologic journals ACADEMIC RADIOLOGY 13 : 77 2006 MUIN M BMC MED INFORM DECIS 5 : 37 2005 OLIVER DE Tools for loading MEDLINE into a local relational database BMC BIOINFORMATICS 5 : Art. No. 146 2004 PEREZIRATXETA C Update on XplorMed: a web server for exploring scientific literature NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH 31 : 3866 2003 PEREZIRATXETA C XplorMed: a tool for exploring MEDLINE abstracts TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES 26 : 573 2001 SHAPIRO DW THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF AUTHORS TO MULTIAUTHORED BIOMEDICAL-RESEARCH PAPERS JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 271 : 438 1994 SIOUTOS N J BIOMED INFORM : 2006 YOSHIDA K We of BRCA1 and BRCA2 as regulators of DNA repair, transcription, and cell cycle in response to DNA damage CANCER SCIENCE 95 : 866 2004 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Mar 20 13:05:17 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:05:17 -0400 Subject: Peleg R, Shvartzman P. "Where should family medicine papers be published - Following the impact factor? " JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN BOARD OF FAMILY MEDICINE 19 (6): 633-636 NOV-DEC 2006 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: pelegr at bgu.ac.il Title: Where should family medicine papers be published - Following the impact factor? Author(s): Peleg R (Peleg, Roni), Shvartzman P (Shvartzman, Pesach) Source: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN BOARD OF FAMILY MEDICINE 19 (6): 633-636 NOV-DEC 2006 Document Type: Editorial Material Language: English Cited References: 15 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Academic institutions weigh the research contribution of family physicians and take this factor into account when determining eligibility for the candidates' promotion. Among other parameters, these institutions consider the journals in which family physicians publish. In this respect, the impact factor ( IF) has gained a foothold as one of the most accepted means to measure this contribution. The IF may be a measure of the main importance of a scientific journal. IF has a huge, but controversial, influence on the perception and evaluation of published scientific research. It is important for family physicians to understand and be aware of the importance of the IF and the way it is calculated. The IF is one consideration in the decision-making process of a researcher as to where to publish because the IF of most family medicine journals is less than 2.0. Thus publication in these journals might not yield the proper "score" for academic promotion in many institutions. On the other hand, publication in journals with higher IF that are not necessarily widely read by primary care physicians could result in a small impact of their findings on direct patient care. Addresses: Peleg R (reprint author), Ben Gurion Univ Negev, Dept Family Med, Fac Hlth Sci, POB 653, IL-84105 Beer Sheva, Israel Ben Gurion Univ Negev, Dept Family Med, Fac Hlth Sci, IL-84105 Beer Sheva, Israel Ben Gurion Univ Negev, Sial Family Med, Fac Hlth Sci, IL-84105 Beer Sheva, Israel Ben Gurion Univ Negev, Primary Care Res Ctr, Fac Hlth Sci, IL-84105 Beer Sheva, Israel E-mail Addresses: pelegr at bgu.ac.il Publisher: AMER BOARD FAMILY MEDICINE, 2228 YOUNG DR, LEXINGTON, KY 40505 USA Subject Category: Medicine, General & Internal IDS Number: 103AY ISSN: 1557-2625 REFERENCES: CARTWRIGHT VA Ophthalmology and vision science research - Part 1: Understanding and using journal impact factors and citation indices JOURNAL OF CATARACT AND REFRACTIVE SURGERY 31 : 1999 2005 DONG P BIOMED DIGIT LIB 2 : 7 2005 GARFIELD E CITATION INDEXES FOR SCIENCE - NEW DIMENSION IN DOCUMENTATION THROUGH ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS SCIENCE 122 : 108 1955 HAFBAUER R EUROFACTOR NEW EUROP : 2002 INGRAM TG FAM MED 24 : 303 1992 JEFFERSON T Effects of editorial peer review - A systematic review JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 287 : 2784 2002 JEFFERSON T Measuring the quality of editorial peer review JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 287 : 2786 2002 MOED HF MEASUREMENT RES PERF : 1987 MURALI NS Impact of FUTON and NAA bias on visibility of research MAYO CLINIC PROCEEDINGS 79 : 1001 2004 OPTHOF T Impact factors: no totum pro parte by skewness of citation CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH 61 : 201 2004 ROUSSEAU R Median and percentile impact factors: A set of new indicators SCIENTOMETRICS 63 : 431 2005 SAHA S Impact factor: a valid measure of journal quality? JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 91 : 42 2003 SEGLEN PO Why the impact factor of journals should not be used for evaluating research BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 314 : 498 1997 SOMBATSOMPOP N A modified method for calculating the Impact Factors of journals in ISI Journal Citation Reports: Polymer Science Category in 1997-2001 SCIENTOMETRICS 60 : 217 2004 WEISS BD FAM PRACT RES J 10 : 117 1990 From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Tue Mar 20 13:15:49 2007 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:15:49 +0000 Subject: Size of repositories (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:42:35 +0100 From: Isidro F. Aguillo To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM at LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG Subject: Size of repositories We have made an experiment when preparing the new edition of the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities (http://www.webometrics.info/) to calculate the number of documents in web repositories needed for reaching certain level. We defined Premier League for the Universities in the Top 200, World Class for the Top 500 and Regional Class when they appear among the Top 1000. We collected data for rich formats, including Adobe Acrobat (pdf), MS Word (doc), MS PowerPoint (ppt) and PostScript (ps) files and Google Scholar database. The thresholds are as follows: PDF DOC PPT PS SCHOLAR PREMIER LEAGUE 19000 4000 2000 1000 3300 WORLD CLASS 7000 2000 1000 300 1200 REGIONAL CLASS 3000 500 300 50 400 These figures could be used as a reference in repository planning. All the data refers to publicly accessible documents in the Web being indexed by major search engines -- *************************************** Isidro F. Aguillo isidro at cindoc.csic.es Ph:(+34) 91-5635482 ext. 313 Cybermetrics Lab CINDOC-CSIC Joaquin Costa, 22 28002 Madrid. SPAIN http://www.webometrics.info http://www.cindoc.csic.es/cybermetrics http://internetlab.cindoc.csic.es **************************************** From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Mar 20 13:28:54 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:28:54 -0400 Subject: Shneiderman B, Aris A. "Network visualization by semantic substrates" IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VISUALIZATION AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS 12 (5): 733-740 SEP-OCT 2006 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: ben at cs.umd.edu, aris at cs.umd.edu Title: Network visualization by semantic substrates Author(s): Shneiderman B (Shneiderman, Ben), Aris A (Aris, Aleks) Source: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VISUALIZATION AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS 12 (5): 733-740 SEP-OCT 2006 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 38 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Networks have remained a challenge for information visualization designers because of the complex issues of node and link layout coupled with the rich set of tasks that users present. This paper offers a strategy based on two principles: (1) layouts are based on user-defined semantic substrates, which are non-overlapping regions in which node placement is based on node attributes, (2) users interactively adjust sliders to control link visibility to limit clutter and thus ensure comprehensibility of source and destination. Scalability is further facilitated by user control of which nodes are visible. We illustrate our semantic substrates approach as implemented in NVSS 1.0 with legal precedent data for up to 1122 court cases in three regions with 7645 legal citations. Addresses: Shneiderman B (reprint author), Univ Maryland, Dept Comp Sci, College Pk, MD 20742 USA Univ Maryland, Dept Comp Sci, College Pk, MD 20742 USA Univ Maryland, Human Comp Interact Lab, College Pk, MD 20742 USA E-mail Addresses: ben at cs.umd.edu, aris at cs.umd.edu Publisher: IEEE COMPUTER SOC, 10662 LOS VAQUEROS CIRCLE, PO BOX 3014, LOS ALAMITOS, CA 90720-1314 USA Subject Category: Computer Science, Software Engineering IDS Number: 096NE ISSN: 1077-2626 CITED REFERENCES: BECKER RA VISUALIZING NETWORK DATA IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VISUALIZATION AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS 1 : 16 1995 BEDERSON BB Toolkit design for interactive structured graphics IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING 30 : 535 2004 BEST C Visualizing and identifying conformational ensembles in molecular dynamics trajectories COMPUTING IN SCIENCE & ENGINEERING 4 : 68 2002 BILGIC M IEEE S VIS AN SCI TE : 2006 BORNER K ANN REV INFO SCI TEC 37 : 2003 CHENG PCH A study of statistical process control: Practice, problems and training needs TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT 9 : 3 1998 DAVIS MB Multilevel solution of augmented drift-diffusion equations COMPEL-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR COMPUTATION AND MATHEMATICS IN ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING 15 : 4 1996 DENOOY W EXPLORATORY SOCIAL N : 2005 DIBATTISTA G GRAPH DRAWING ALGORI : 1999 EADES P C NUMERANTIUM 42 : 149 1984 EADES P LNCS 1190 : 101 1997 FRUCHTERMAN TMJ GRAPH DRAWING BY FORCE-DIRECTED PLACEMENT SOFTWARE-PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE 21 : 1129 1991 GANSNER ER Improved force-directed layouts GRAPH DRAWING 1547 : 364 1998 GARFIELD E Historiographic mapping of knowledge domains literature JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE 30 : 119 2004 GHONIEM M P 10 IEEE INFOVIS 04 : 17 2004 HADANY R A multi-scale algorithm for drawing graphs nicely DISCRETE APPLIED MATHEMATICS 113 : 3 2001 HAREL D LNCS 1984 : 183 2001 HAREL D P WORK C ADV VIS INT : 157 2002 HEER J P INF VIS C : 33 2005 HUFFAKER B OTTER GEN PURPOSE NE : 1999 KAMADA T AN ALGORITHM FOR DRAWING GENERAL UNDIRECTED GRAPHS INFORMATION PROCESSING LETTERS 31 : 7 1989 KAMPS T LNCS 1027 : 349 1995 KANDOGAN E SOFTWARE PRACTICE EX 328 : 225 1998 KANG H Exploring personal media: A spatial interface supporting user-defined semantic regions JOURNAL OF VISUAL LANGUAGES AND COMPUTING 17 : 254 2006 KOSAK C AUTOMATING THE LAYOUT OF NETWORK DIAGRAMS WITH SPECIFIED VISUAL ORGANIZATION IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS MAN AND CYBERNETICS 24 : 440 1994 LEE B CHI 2005 : 1969 2005 MCGUFFIN MJ P INF VIS C : 17 2005 MISUE K LAYOUT ADJUSTMENT AND THE MENTAL MAP JOURNAL OF VISUAL LANGUAGES AND COMPUTING 6 : 183 1995 MUNZNER T THESIS STANFORD U : 2000 NARDI BA Integrating communication and information through contact map COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM 45 : 89 2002 PRETORIUS AJ P 9 INT C INF VIS : 323 2005 RANDES U SPRINGER SERIES MATH : 321 2003 REITKREUTZ BJ GENOME BIOL 4 : R22 2003 SCHAFFER D ACM T COMPUTER HUMAN 3 : 162 1996 STOREY MA WORKSH INT TOOLS KNO : 2001 SUGIYAMA K METHODS FOR VISUAL UNDERSTANDING OF HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM STRUCTURES IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS MAN AND CYBERNETICS 11 : 109 1981 WATTENBERG M P SIGCHI C HUM FACT : 811 2006 WILLS GJ NicheWorks - Interactive visualization of very large graphs JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL AND GRAPHICAL STATISTICS 8 : 190 1999 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Mar 20 14:21:19 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:21:19 -0400 Subject: Klink S, Reuther P , Weber A , Walter B , Ley M "Analysing social networks within bibliographical data " DATABASE AND EXPERT SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS, PROCEEDINGS LECTURE NOTES Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: Stefan.Klink at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de, reuther at uni-trier.de, aweber at uni-trier.de, walter at uni-trier.de, ley at uni-trier.de Title: Analysing social networks within bibliographical data Author(s): Klink S (Klink, Stefan), Reuther P (Reuther, Patrick), Weber A (Weber, Alexander), Walter B (Walter, Bernd), Ley M (Ley, Michael) Source: DATABASE AND EXPERT SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS, PROCEEDINGS LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE 4080: 234-243 2006 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 18 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Finding relationships between authors and thematic Similar publications is getting harder and harder due to the mass of information and the rapid growth of the number of scientific workers. The io-port.net portal and the DBLP Computer Science Bibliography including more than 2,000,000 and 750,000 publications, respectively, from more than 450,000 authors are major services used by thousands of computer scientists which provides fundamental support for scientists searching for publications or other scientists in similar communities. In this paper, we describe a user-friendly interface which plays the central role in searching authors and publications and analysing social networks on the basis of bibliographical data. After introducing the concept of multi-mode social networks, the DBL- Browser itself and various methods for multi-layered browsing through social networks are described. Addresses: Klink S (reprint author), Univ Karlsruhe, Inst Appl Informat & Formal Descript Methods, TH, Kaiserstr 12, Karlsruhe, Germany Univ Karlsruhe, Inst Appl Informat & Formal Descript Methods, TH, Karlsruhe, Germany Univ Trier, Dept Databases & Informat Syst, D-54286 Trier, Germany E-mail Addresses: Stefan.Klink at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de, reuther at uni-trier.de, aweber at uni-trier.de, walter at uni-trier.de, ley at uni-trier.de Publisher: SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, HEIDELBERGER PLATZ 3, D-14197 BERLIN, GERMANY IDS Number: BFD37 ISSN: 0302-9743 CITED REFERENCES: FRIEND FRIEND PROJEC : 2006 INFORM ONLINE : 2006 OPEN BUSINESS CLUB : 2006 BAEZAYATES R MODERN INFORM RETRIE : 1999 BELKIN NJ RETRIEVAL TECHNIQUES ANNUAL REVIEW OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 22 : 109 1987 BHATTACHARYA I P SIGMOD 2004 WORKSH : 11 2004 DING Y Bibliometric Information Retrieval System (BIRS): A Web search interface utilizing bibliometric research results JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE 51 : 1190 2000 FANKHAUSER P LNI 68 : 698 2005 HAN H ACM IEEE JOINT C DIG : 296 2004 HAN H P 2 INT SEM WEB C IS : 2003 HAN H P ACM IEEE JOINT C D : 334 2005 KLINK S Improving document transformation techniques with collaborative learned term-based concepts READING AND LEARNING 2956 : 281 2004 KLINK S LNI 51 : 193 2004 LEE ML Cleaning the spurious links in data IEEE INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS 19 : 28 2004 LEVENSHTEIN VI RUSSIAN PROBLEMY PER 1 : 12 1965 LEY M LECT NOTES COMPUTER 2476 : 1 2002 WASSERMAN S STRUCTURAL ANAL SOCI 8 : 1994 WATTS DJ 6 DEGREES SCI CONNEC : 2004 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Mar 20 15:37:53 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:37:53 -0400 Subject: Rodenas-Torralba E, Morales-Rubio A , de la Guardia M "Scientometric picture of the evolution of the literature of automation in spectroscopy and its current state " SPECTROSCOPY LETTERS 39 (6): 513-532 2006 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: miguel.delaguardia at uv.es Title: Scientometric picture of the evolution of the literature of automation in spectroscopy and its current state Author(s): Rodenas-Torralba E (Rodenas-Torralba, Eva), Morales-Rubio A (Morales-Rubio, Angel), de la Guardia M (de la Guardia, Miguel) Source: SPECTROSCOPY LETTERS 39 (6): 513-532 2006 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 19 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: The current study focuses on the status of automation and mechanization in spectroscopy for analytical chemistry publications compiled during the period 1980 2006, in Analytical Abstracts. Flow injection analysis (FIA), sequential injection analysis (SIA), multicommutation, and monosegmented and segmented flow strategies were considered. For assessing the evolution of scientific productivity, the total number of publications concerned with the different methodologies was evaluated. In order to provide a picture of the state of the art of this field, the most important journals, the most active authors, and the most productive countries in the field of automation were evaluated in the period of the first years of this century. Addresses: de la Guardia M (reprint author), Univ Valencia, Dept Analyt Chem, Edificio Jeroni Munoz,Moliner St 50, E-46100 Valencia, Spain Univ Valencia, Dept Analyt Chem, E-46100 Valencia, Spain E-mail Addresses: miguel.delaguardia at uv.es Publisher: TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC, 325 CHESTNUT ST, SUITE 800, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106 USA IDS Number: 106ZZ ISSN: 0038-7010 CITED REFERENCE : BARRIADA JL Automation of a flow injection system for the determination of dissolved silver at picomolar concentrations in seawater with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry JOURNAL OF AUTOMATED METHODS & MANAGEMENT IN CHEMISTRY 25 : 93 2003 BEREZKIN VG Changes in the basic experimental parameters of capillary gas chromatography in the 20th century JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY A 985 : 3 2003 BRAN T LIT ANAL CHEM SCIENT : 1987 DIOSPATONYI I The publication speed of information in bibliographic chemical databases JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL INFORMATION AND COMPUTER SCIENCES 41 : 1446 2001 GARFIELD E CITATION ANALYSIS AS A TOOL IN JOURNAL EVALUATION - JOURNALS CAN BE RANKED BY FREQUENCY AND IMPACT OF CITATIONS FOR SCIENCE POLICY STUDIES SCIENCE 178 : 471 1972 GEORGIOU CA Analytical chemistry in the European Union during 1993-1999: an appraisal on the basis of papers abstracted in Analytical Abstracts TRAC-TRENDS IN ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY 20 : 462 2001 GRIFFITH BC SCIENCE LITERATURE - HOW FAULTY A MIRROR OF SCIENCE ASLIB PROCEEDINGS 31 : 381 1979 HURST W AUTOMATION LAB : 1995 KOSTOFF RN Macromolecule mass spectrometry: Citation mining of user documents JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 15 : 281 2004 LOPEZCALAFI J REV ESP DOC CIENT 8 : 201 1985 PASQUINI C MONOSEGMENTED SYSTEM FOR CONTINUOUS-FLOW ANALYSIS - SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC DETERMINATION OF CHROMIUM(VI), AMMONIA, AND PHOSPHORUS ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY 57 : 2575 1985 REIS BE A multicommuted flow system for the determination of copper, chromium, iron and lead in lubricating oils with detection by flame AAS TALANTA 64 : 1220 2004 REIS BF MULTICOMMUTATION IN FLOW-ANALYSIS .1. BINARY SAMPLING - CONCEPTS, INSTRUMENTATION AND SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC DETERMINATION OF IRON IN PLANT DIGESTS ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA 293 : 129 1994 REIS BF Improvement of the atomic fluorescence determination of mercury by using multicommutation JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL ATOMIC SPECTROMETRY 17 : 537 2002 RUZICKA J SEQUENTIAL INJECTION - A NEW CONCEPT FOR CHEMICAL SENSORS, PROCESS ANALYSIS AND LABORATORY ASSAYS ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA 237 : 329 1990 RUZICKA J FLOW INJECTION ANALYSES .1. NEW CONCEPT OF FAST CONTINUOUS-FLOW ANALYSIS ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA 78 : 145 1975 RUZICKA J FLOW INJECTION ANAL : 1988 SKEGGS LT AN AUTOMATIC METHOD FOR COLORIMETRIC ANALYSIS AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PATHOLOGY 28 : 311 1957 WELEYTANASKOVIC I P 2 INT S FRONT SCI : 1994 From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Wed Mar 21 08:04:12 2007 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:04:12 +0100 Subject: coauthor networks Message-ID: Dear colleagues, In my series of programs for use in the class, I added one which generates a coauthor network as a Pajek file from a set of documents downloaded from the ISI databases at the Web-of-Science. The program can be found at http://www.leydesdorff.net/software/coauth/index.htm. In addition to a co-occurrence matrix, a cosine-normalized matrix is generated and the asymmetrical matrix of documents versus authors. This latter matrix can be used for processing in SPSS. The variable names correspond with the first ten characters of the name of the respective author. I advice to use of the cosine-normalized matrix (cosine.dat) for the visualization. This one is in the Pajek format. The size of the node can be set (within Pajek) proportional to the logarithm of the number of authorships in the data. 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 vmarkusova at YAHOO.COM Thu Mar 22 07:19:42 2007 From: vmarkusova at YAHOO.COM (Valentina Markusova) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 04:19:42 -0700 Subject: Jin's AR-index In-Reply-To: <1174139140.45fbf10411ae3@webmail.khbo.be> Message-ID: Dear Ronald, Could you let me know how to get the access to ISSI Newsletter, vol.3, issue 1. Through link which you mentioned I could not be able to get access to Bihui Jin,proposals. With best wishes, Valentina Markusova Ronald Rousseau wrote: Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html Dear colleagues, May I draw your attention to the latest issue of the ISSI Newsletter (vol.3, issue 1). Among other things it contains an interesting short contribution by Bihui Jin, namely a proposal for an Hirsch-type index which takes citations and their age into account. If you do not have access to the Newsletter you may find a link to this article on the first page of my website (users.telenet.be/ronald.rousseau). On this page I added some more links to articles related to h-type indices. Best regards, Ronald Rousseau -- Ronald Rousseau, KHBO (Association K.U.Leuven)- Industrial Sciences and Technology Zeedijk 101 B-8400 Oostende Belgium Guest Professor at the Antwerp University School for Library and Information Science (UA - IBW) web page: http://users.telenet.be/ronald.rousseau ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP 3.2.8, the Internet Messaging Program. --------------------------------- No need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. Get started. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Fri Mar 23 06:57:45 2007 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:57:45 +0100 Subject: Patent Classification as Indicators of Cognitive Structures Message-ID: Patent Classifications as Indicators of Cognitive Structures Paper to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), Montreal, October 2007 . pdf-version of the full paper . html-version of the full paper Using the 138,751 patents filed in 2006 under the Patent Cooperation Treaty, co-classification analysis is pursued on the basis of three- and four-digit codes in the International Patent Classification (IPC, 8th edition). The initial hypothesis that classifications might be considered as the organizers of patents into classes, and that therefore co-classification patterns would be useful for mapping, is discarded in favor of using co-word analysis among titles of patents. The classifications hang weakly together, even at the four-digit level; at the country level, more specificity can be made visible. The co-classifications among the patents enable us to analyze and visualize the relations among technologies at different levels of aggregation. However, countries are not the appropriate units of analysis because patent portfolios are largely similar in many advanced countries in terms of the classes attributed. The following files are input files for Pajek based on the cosines between the 4-digit classifications for each country separately and for the complete set ("World"): World (135,536 patents; zipped) Andorra (4 patents) United Arab Emirates (15 patents) Antigua and Barbuda (4 patents) ...., etc. Spain (1114 patents) Finland (1651 patents) France (6958 patents; zipped) ...., etc. Netherlands (3287 patents) Norway (665 patents) New Zealand (444 patents) ....., etc. _____ 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 dwojick at HUGHES.NET Fri Mar 23 11:37:32 2007 From: dwojick at HUGHES.NET (David E. Wojick) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:37:32 -0500 Subject: Patent Classification as Indicators of Cognitive Structures In-Reply-To: <002801c76d3a$172044f0$1302a8c0@loet> Message-ID: I have a general theory of the structure of information that may be relevant. I have not published it but there is a brief essay on it here: http://www.bydesign.com/powervision/Mathematics_Philosophy_Science/information.html It suggests that in typical cases there will be many useful ways to systematically organize or classify a given body of information. If so then there is probably no single way that will be generally useful or representative. A working instance of this principle is the NASA taxonomy system, with 11 independent taxonomies. However, many of the underlying structures are not taxonomies, nor even tree-structures. Many are networks with convergence as well as tree-like divergence. Interestingly, since some of these structures are based on the way the things the information is about are related to one another, some of the most important structures are unknown until science finds them. David Wojick info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html Patent Classifications as Indicators of Cognitive Structures Paper to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), Montreal, October 2007 ? pdf-version of the full paper ? html-version of the full paper Using the 138,751 patents filed in 2006 under the Patent Cooperation Treaty, co-classification analysis is pursued on the basis of three- and four-digit codes in the International Patent Classification (IPC, 8th edition). The initial hypothesis that classifications might be considered as the organizers of patents into classes, and that therefore co-classification patterns would be useful for mapping, is discarded in favor of using co-word analysis among titles of patents. The classifications hang weakly together, even at the four-digit level; at the country level, more specificity can be made visible. The co-classifications among the patents enable us to analyze and visualize the relations among technologies at different levels of aggregation. However, countries are not the appropriate units of analysis because patent portfolios are largely similar in many advanced countries in terms of the classes attributed. The following files are input files for Pajek based on the cosines between the 4-digit classifications for each country separately and for the complete set ("World"): World (135,536 patents; zipped) Andorra (4 patents) United Arab Emirates (15 patents) Antigua and Barbuda (4 patents) ...., etc. Spain (1114 patents) Finland (1651 patents) France (6958 patents; zipped) ...., etc. Netherlands (3287 patents) Norway (665 patents) New Zealand (444 patents) ....., etc. 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 -- "David E. Wojick, Ph.D." Senior Consultant -- The DOE Science Accelerator http://www.osti.gov/innovation/scienceaccelerator.pdf http://www.osti.gov/innovation/ A strategic initiative of the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, US Department of Energy (540) 858-3150 391 Flickertail Lane, Star Tannery, VA 22654 USA http://www.bydesign.com/powervision/resume.html provides my bio and client list. http://www.bydesign.com/powervision/Mathematics_Philosophy_Science/ presents some of my own research on information structure and dynamics. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Christina.Pikas at JHUAPL.EDU Fri Mar 23 11:25:39 2007 From: Christina.Pikas at JHUAPL.EDU (Pikas, Christina K.) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:25:39 -0400 Subject: Patent Classification as Indicators of Cognitive Structures In-Reply-To: A Message-ID: It suggests to me that it might be a faceted classification system - or a system that is applied in a faceted manner. For the purposes of a sort of thought experiment, we might consider MeSH to be faceted. For an article on say leg fractures of adult human males we might have fractures, bone adult femur OR Fibula OR Patella OR Tibia femoral neck fractures, etc. maybe even "activity"/adverse effects or some such... If you tried to cluster on, say, femur you would get a weak co-classification because there are indeed many articles on leg breaks, but also bone cancer and genetic anomalies, etc. Maybe I should read the article :) 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: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of David E. Wojick Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 11:38 AM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Patent Classification as Indicators of Cognitive Structures I have a general theory of the structure of information that may be relevant. I have not published it but there is a brief essay on it here: http://www.bydesign.com/powervision/Mathematics_Philosophy_Science/infor mation.html It suggests that in typical cases there will be many useful ways to systematically organize or classify a given body of information. If so then there is probably no single way that will be generally useful or representative. A working instance of this principle is the NASA taxonomy system, with 11 independent taxonomies. However, many of the underlying structures are not taxonomies, nor even tree-structures. Many are networks with convergence as well as tree-like divergence. Interestingly, since some of these structures are based on the way the things the information is about are related to one another, some of the most important structures are unknown until science finds them. David Wojick info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html Patent Classifications as Indicators of Cognitive Structures Paper to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), Montreal, October 2007 * pdf-version of the full paper * html-version of the full paper Using the 138,751 patents filed in 2006 under the Patent Cooperation Treaty, co-classification analysis is pursued on the basis of three- and four-digit codes in the International Patent Classification (IPC, 8th edition). The initial hypothesis that classifications might be considered as the organizers of patents into classes, and that therefore co-classification patterns would be useful for mapping, is discarded in favor of using co-word analysis among titles of patents. The classifications hang weakly together, even at the four-digit level; at the country level, more specificity can be made visible. The co-classifications among the patents enable us to analyze and visualize the relations among technologies at different levels of aggregation. However, countries are not the appropriate units of analysis because patent portfolios are largely similar in many advanced countries in terms of the classes attributed. The following files are input files for Pajek based on the cosines between the 4-digit classifications for each country separately and for the complete set ("World"): World (135,536 patents; zipped) Andorra (4 patents) United Arab Emirates (15 patents) Antigua and Barbuda (4 patents) ...., etc. Spain (1114 patents) Finland (1651 patents) France (6958 patents; zipped) ...., etc. Netherlands (3287 patents) Norway (665 patents) New Zealand (444 patents) ....., etc. ________________________________ 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 -- "David E. Wojick, Ph.D." Senior Consultant -- The DOE Science Accelerator http://www.osti.gov/innovation/scienceaccelerator.pdf http://www.osti.gov/innovation/ A strategic initiative of the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, US Department of Energy (540) 858-3150 391 Flickertail Lane, Star Tannery, VA 22654 USA http://www.bydesign.com/powervision/resume.html provides my bio and client list. http://www.bydesign.com/powervision/Mathematics_Philosophy_Science/ presents some of my own research on information structure and dynamics. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Fri Mar 23 13:10:24 2007 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:10:24 +0100 Subject: Patent Classification as Indicators of Cognitive Structures In-Reply-To: Message-ID: It suggests that in typical cases there will be many useful ways to systematically organize or classify a given body of information. If so then there is probably no single way that will be generally useful or representative. A working instance of this principle is the NASA taxonomy system, with 11 independent taxonomies. However, many of the underlying structures are not taxonomies, nor even tree-structures. Many are networks with convergence as well as tree-like divergence. Dear David: I fully agree. A taxonomy reduces the complexity with at least one dimension. It creates a window with a perspective. Nevertheless, one can study the quality of the representation of the multi-dimensional structure which is represented. For example, ISI once launched the Atlas of Science (in the late 1980s) which was based on single linkage clustering of co-citations. That went wrong. However, cocitation analysis itself is an important tool. Best wishes, Loet -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Mar 23 15:04:46 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:04:46 -0400 Subject: Abrouk L , Gouaich A , "Automatic annotation using citation links and co-citation measure: Application to the water information system " SEMANTIC WEB - ASWC 2006, PROCEEDINGS LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE 4185: 44-57 2006 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: abrouk at lirmm.fr, gouaich at lirmm.fr Title: Automatic annotation using citation links and co-citation measure: Application to the water information system Author(s): Abrouk L (Abrouk, Lylia), Gouaich A (Gouaich, Abdelkader) Source: SEMANTIC WEB - ASWC 2006, PROCEEDINGS LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE 4185: 44-57 2006 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 19 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: This paper describes an approach to automatically annotate documents for the Euro-Mediterranean Water Information System. This approach uses the citation links and co-citation measure in order to refine annotations extracted from an indexation method. An experiment of this approach with the CiteSeer database is presented and discussed. Addresses: Abrouk L (reprint author), LIRMM, 161 Rue Ada, F-34392 Montpellier 5, France LIRMM, F-34392 Montpellier 5, France EMWIS, Euro Mediterranean Informat Syst, F-06560 Valbonne, France E-mail Addresses: abrouk at lirmm.fr, gouaich at lirmm.fr Publisher: SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, HEIDELBERGER PLATZ 3, D-14197 BERLIN, GERMANY Subject Category: Computer Science, Theory & Methods IDS Number: BFE30 ISSN: 0302-9743 CITED REFERENCES: AGUIAR F THESIS ECOLE SUPRIEU : 2002 ARASU A EXPT ALGORITHMS : 2001 BRIN S P 7 INT C WORLD WID 7 : 107 1998 BUYUKKOKTEN O WEBDB : 1999 GARFIELD E ESSAYS INFORM SCI NO : 15 1993 GHITA S UNPUB L3S TECHNICAL : 2005 GIBSON D UK C HYPERTEXT : 1998 KESSLER M AM DOC : 10 1963 KLEINBERG JM J ACM : 139 1999 KUMAR R COMPUTER NETWORKS : 1999 LAURI P INT J INFORM SCI DEC : 2836 1997 MARCHIORI M 6 INT WWW C SANT CLA : 1997 MARCHIORI M P 7 INT WORLD WID WE : 1 1998 MIHALCEA R P 20 INT C COMP LING : 2004 PHELAN D DESCENDANT BASED LIN : 2002 PRIMECLAVERIE C JOURNES FRANCOPHONES : 2003 PRIMECLAVERIE C THESIS ECOLE SUPRIEU : 2004 STRIBLING J INT WORKSH PEER PEER : 2005 VANDAELE V P JADT 2004 JOURNES : 2004 From JWS at DB.DK Fri Mar 23 15:29:22 2007 From: JWS at DB.DK (Jesper Wiborg Schneider) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:29:22 +0100 Subject: 2nd Call For Participation and extended deadline: Workshop on taking CiteSpace to Science: new applications to visualization programming Message-ID: Dear colleagues, this is the 2nd CFP - with an extended deadline for short papers and presentations - please consider! Kind regards - Jesper Schneider 11th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics Madrid, 25-27 June [http://issi2007.cindoc.csic.es/] Extended deadline for short papers or presentations: April 3 Call for papers and presentations Workshop on: Taking CiteSpace to Science: new applications to visualization programming The visualization freeware CiteSpace was developed by Chaomei Chen at Drexel University, US. Originally it was meant as an instrument for analyzing paradigmatic shifts in scientific specialties. In several articles Chen has shown the abilities of the program, but one of the weaknesses is the definition of a scientific field. We invite papers that discuss different approaches to this important problem. How reliable are strategies on the basis of keywords, on subject codes, or on selected sets of journals? If researchers normally are active in many different journals covering 15-20 different subject codes what does that say about using the ISI codes for definition of specialties? To what extent is burst of terms a strategy that is effective? What are the concurrent procedures of making identifiers and descriptors in the database and in journals? The strengths of the CiteSpace program are evident, but there might be areas of application that have not been discussed on scientific basis. Therefore, we organize this workshop at the Madrid ISSI conference and invite full or research-in-progress papers in order to discuss central features and new applications of the CiteSpace program. A main topic of the workshop is the continuous development of strategies for detecting and tracking research fronts and the evolution of a specialty. Especially, we are interested in ways of implementing the CiteSpace program for new questions. E.g. can CiteSpace be of any use for research group analysis? Can CiteSpace be applied to questions about funding policy for National Research Councils? Should CiteSpace be used for performance analysis? However, the workshop also encourages contributions that look at the CiteSpace program and its advantages and disadvantages in relation to bibliometric research methodology. A vital issue in bibliometric analyses is the reliability and standardization of Thompson ISI reference data. CiteSpace does not initially allow for such standardizations and the question is how this affects the resulting analyses? These and other questions will be addressed during the workshop. Submissions: Please send your contributions to Jesper Wiborg Schneider (email: jws at db.dk) by March 25th. Submissions should include full short papers (max 2000 words) or full presentations, author(s) name, affiliation and contact details. Important dates: NEW: Deadline for short papers or presentations submission: April 3 NEW: Acceptance decision: April 13 Early registration deadline: April 15 Deadline for revised paper of presentation submission: May 20 Workshop organizers: Ulf Sandstr?m, Tema Institute, Linkoping University, 581 83 Linkoping, Sweden Jesper Wiborg Schneider, Dept of Information Studies, Royal School of Library & Information Science, Aalborg, Denmark Program committee: Chair: Jesper W. Schneider, Royal School of Library & Information Science, Denmark; Chaomei Chen, Drexel University, USA; Ulf Sandstr?m, Linkoping University, Sweden; Diana Hicks, Georgia Tech, USA; Jin Bihui, Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; F?lix de Moya Aneg?n, University of Granada, Spain; Olle Persson, Ume? University, Sweden. Duration of the workshop: half-day (4 hours) Selection of papers Papers will be selected using double-blind peer review, administered by the committee chair. Note that papers already accepted by the main conference may not be re-given in the workshops but such papers might be transferred to workshops by the organizers of ISSI or the authors. Note that no more than 10 participants can be selected for the workshop. Web Site Updated information concerning the workshop program is posted at http://www.db.dk/jws AND http://www.forskningspolitik.se/english Duration Thursday, June 28, 9AM - 1 PM (4 hours, 1 break) Location To be announced from the ISSI 2007 organizers Workshop fee per participant Early bird registration fee (until April 25) is 75 Euro. Thereafter it is 100 Euro. This fee should be paid by all participants and covers services provided by the ISSI 2007 Organizers: - workshop location, - IT facilities (computer, internet access and projector), - Coffee at break and post-workshop lunch - copying of the Workshop Proceedings/Notes (spiral bound) Workshop participants should also register for the ISSI 2007 general meeting. Paper publication The ISSI 2007 organizing committee will photocopy and assemble Workshop Notes, with a front page and list of committee members, reviewers and participants. This will not abridge rights to submit papers to publishers or journals. Instructions will follow about proper format for papers presented at the workshop. ********************************************** Jesper Wiborg Schneider, PhD, Assistant Professor Department of Information Studies Royal School of Library & Information Science Sohng?rdsholmsvej 2, DK-9000 Aalborg, DENMARK Tel. +45 98773041, Fax. +45 98151042 E-mail: jws at db.dk Homepage:http://www.db.dk/jws ********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Mar 23 15:36:54 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:36:54 -0400 Subject: Laband DN, Zhang DW. "Citations, publications, and perceptions-based rankings of the research impact of North American forestry programs" Journal of Forestry 104(5): 254-261, July-August 2006 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: labandn at auburn.edu, zhangdw at auburn.edu Title: Citations, publications, and perceptions-based rankings of the research impact of North American forestry programs Author(s): Laband DN (Laband, David N.), Zhang DW (Zhang, Daowei) Source: JOURNAL OF FORESTRY 104 (5): 254-261 JUL-AUG 2006 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 18 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Using the online citation service available through the Institute for Scientific Information and publication records, we constructed rankings of 53 North American forestry programs based on (1) total citations to the scholarly contributions of current faculty, (2) citations per research faculty member, (3) total number of publications in five top forestry journals, (4) total number of pages, (5) total number of publications per research faculty member, and (6) total number of page per research faculty member, from January 1997 to December 2001. We then compared these results against a ranking of the top forestry schools, based on perceived research profile, as indicated by survey responses from deans and department heads. Author Keywords: program rankings; research impact; citations; publications; forestry programs Addresses: Laband DN (reprint author), Auburn Univ, Sch Forestry & Wildlife Sci, Forest Policy Ctr, Auburn, AL 36849 USA Auburn Univ, Sch Forestry & Wildlife Sci, Forest Policy Ctr, Auburn, AL 36849 USA E-mail Addresses: labandn at auburn.edu, zhangdw at auburn.edu Publisher: SOC AMER FORESTERS, 5400 GROSVENOR LANE, BETHESDA, MD 20814 USA Subject Category: Forestry IDS Number: 084GC ISSN: 0022-1201 CITED REFERENCES : *I SCI INF WEB KNOWL : 2005 BAIRAM EI INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION OF CONTRIBUTORS TO TOP ECONOMIC JOURNALS, 1985- 1990 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE 32 : 674 1994 DAVIS P FACULTY RATINGS OF MAJOR ECONOMICS DEPARTMENTS BY CITATIONS AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW 74 : 225 1984 DUSANSKY R Rankings of US economics departments JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES 12 : 157 1998 GERRITY DM RANKING OF SOUTHERN ECONOMICS DEPARTMENTS - NEW CRITERION AND FURTHER EVIDENCE SOUTHERN ECONOMIC JOURNAL 45 : 608 1978 GOURMAN J GOURMAN REPORT RATIN : 1996 GRAVES PE ECONOMICS DEPARTMENTAL RANKINGS - RESEARCH INCENTIVES, CONSTRAINTS, AND EFFICIENCY AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW 72 : 1131 1982 HELMS JA DICT FORESTRY : 1998 LABAND DN THE RELATIVE IMPACTS OF ECONOMICS JOURNALS - 1970-1990 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE 32 : 640 1994 LABAND DN AN EVALUATION OF 50 RANKED ECONOMICS DEPARTMENTS - BY QUANTITY AND QUALITY OF FACULTY PUBLICATIONS AND GRADUATE STUDENT PLACEMENT AND RESEARCH SUCCESS SOUTHERN ECONOMIC JOURNAL 52 : 216 1985 LEIBOWITZ SJ J ECON LIT 22 : 77 1984 MILLER C A contested past - Forestry education in the United States, 1838-1998 JOURNAL OF FORESTRY 97 : 38 1999 ROCHE T SOCIOL INQ 48 : 48 1978 RUSHTON JP EVALUATION OF 80 PSYCHOLOGY JOURNALS BASED ON SCIENCE-CITATION-INDEX AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST 33 : 520 1978 SAMPLE VA EVOLUTION FORESTRY E : 2000 SCOTT LC Trends in rankings of economics departments in the US: An update ECONOMIC INQUIRY 34 : 378 1996 THOMPSON TA UNPUB SOME RANKING C : 1984 THURSBY JG What do we say about ourselves and what does it mean? Yet another look at economics department research JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE 38 : 383 2000 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Mar 23 15:44:39 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:44:39 -0400 Subject: Chau M, Huang Z, Qin JL, Zhou YL, Chen HC "Building a scientific knowledge web portal: The NanoPort experience " Decision Support Systems 42(2): 1216-1238, November 2006 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: mchau at business.hku.hk, zanhuang at psu.edu, qin at u.arizona.edu, yilu at u.arizona.edu, hchen at eller.arizona.edu Title: Building a scientific knowledge web portal: The NanoPort experience Author(s): Chau M (Chau, Michael), Huang Z (Huang, Zan), Qin JL (Qin, Jialun), Zhou YL (Zhou, Yilu), Chen HC (Chen, Hsinchun) Source: DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS 42 (2): 1216-1238 NOV 2006 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 48 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: There has been a tremendous growth in the amount of information and resources on the World Wide Web that are useful to researchers and practitioners in science domains. While the Web has made the communication and sharing of research ideas and results among scientists easier and faster than ever, its dynamic and unstructured nature also makes the scientists faced with such problems as information overload, vocabulary difference, and lack of analysis tools. To address these problems, it is highly desirable to have an integrated, "one-stop shopping" Web portal to support effective information searching and analysis as well as to enhance communication and collaboration among researchers in various scientific fields. In this paper, we review existing information retrieval techniques and related literature, and propose a framework for developing integrated Web portals that support information searching and analysis for scientific knowledge. Our framework incorporates collection building, meta-searching, keyword suggestion, and various content analysis techniques such as document summarization, document clustering, and topic map visualization. Patent analysis techniques such as citation analysis and content map analysis are also incorporated. To demonstrate the feasibility of our approach, we developed based on our architecture a knowledge portal, called NanoPort, in the field of nanoscale science and engineering. We report our experience and explore the various issues of relevance to developing a Web portal for scientific domains. The system was compared to other search systems in the field and several design issues were identified. An evaluation study was conducted and the results showed that subjects were more satisfied with the NanoPort system than with Scirus, a leading search engine for scientific articles. Through our prototype system, we demonstrated the feasibility of using such an integrated approach and the study brought insight into applying the proposed domain-independent architecture to different areas of science and engineering in the future. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Addresses: Chau M (reprint author), Univ Hong Kong, Sch Business, Fac Business & Econ, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Peoples R China Univ Hong Kong, Sch Business, Fac Business & Econ, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Peoples R China Penn State Univ, Smeal Coll Business, Dept Supply Chain & Informat Syst, University Pk, PA 16802 USA Univ Arizona, Eller Coll Management, Dept Management Informat Syst, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA E-mail Addresses: mchau at business.hku.hk, zanhuang at psu.edu, qin at u.arizona.edu, yilu at u.arizona.edu, hchen at eller.arizona.edu Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS Subject Category: Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence; Computer Science, Information Systems; Operations Research & Management Science IDS Number: 107ZO ISSN: 0167-9236 CITED REFERENCES: ARASU A ACM T INTERNET TECHN 1 : 2 2001 BOWMAN CM SCALABLE INTERNET RESOURCE DISCOVERY - RESEARCH PROBLEMS AND APPROACHES COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM 37 : 98 1994 CHAU M IEEE COMPUT 36 : 56 2003 CHAU M P 1 ACM IEEE CS JOIN : 79 2001 CHAU M P 2 JOINT C DIG LIB : 135 2002 CHAU M WEB INTELLIGENCE : 197 2003 CHEN AC Depth- and strain-dependent mechanical and electromechanical properties of full-thickness bovine articular cartilage in confined compression JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS 34 : 1 2001 CHEN HC COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS - SOLVING THE VOCABULARY PROBLEM COMPUTER 27 : 58 1994 CHEN HC AUTOMATIC CONSTRUCTION OF NETWORKS OF CONCEPTS CHARACTERIZING DOCUMENT DATABASES IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS MAN AND CYBERNETICS 22 : 885 1992 CHEN HC HelpfulMed: Intelligent searching for medical information over the Internet JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 54 : 683 2003 CHEN HC MetaSpider: Meta-searching and categorization on the Web JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 52 : 1134 2001 CHEN HC Internet categorization and search: A self-organizing approach JOURNAL OF VISUAL COMMUNICATION AND IMAGE REPRESENTATION 7 : 88 1996 CHEONG FC INTERNET AGENTS SPID : 1996 COURTEAU J SCIENCE 254 : 201 1991 FURNAS GW THE VOCABULARY PROBLEM IN HUMAN SYSTEM COMMUNICATION COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM 30 : 964 1987 GANSNER ER An open graph visualization system and its applications to software engineering SOFTWARE-PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE 30 : 1203 2000 GARFIELD E CITATION INDEXING IT : 1979 GARFIELD E CITATION INDEXES FOR SCIENCE - NEW DIMENSION IN DOCUMENTATION THROUGH ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS SCIENCE 122 : 108 1955 GRUPP H DYNAMICS SCI BASED I : 1992 HASSAN E Simultaneous mapping of interactions between scientific and technological knowledge bases: The case of space communications JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 54 : 462 2003 HEARST MA TextTiling: Segmenting text into multi-paragraph subtopic passages COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS 23 : 33 1997 HILL DR MECH INFORM STORAGE : 1968 HUANG Z Longitudinal patent analysis for nanoscale science and engineering: Country, institution and technology field JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH 5 : 333 2003 JOACHIMS T P 10 EUR C MACH LEAR : 137 1998 KARKI MMS WORLD PATENT INFORMA 19 : 269 1997 KOHONEN T Self organization of a massive document collection IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS 11 : 574 2000 KOHONEN T SELF ORG MAPS : 1995 LAM SLY P INT C DAT SYST ADV : 1999 LARKEY L P DL 99 4 ACM C DIG : 79 1999 LAWRENCE S Accessibility of information on the web NATURE 400 : 107 1999 LIN C J MANAGEMENT INFORMA 16 : 61 2000 LIN X P 14 ANN INT ACM SIG : 262 1991 MCDONALD D P 2 ACM IEEE CS JOIN : 28 2002 NARIN F TECH LINE BACKGROUD : 2000 ONG TH DECIS SUPPORT SYST 39 : 583 2003 OPPENHEIM C WEB KNOWLEDGE : 2000 RASMUSSEN E CLUSTERING ALGORITHM : 1992 ROCCHIO JJ THESIS HARVARD U : 1966 SALTON G AUTOMATIC TEXT PROCE : 1989 SALTON G ANOTHER LOOK AT AUTOMATIC TEXT-RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM 29 : 648 1986 SELBERG E P 4 WORLD WID WEB C : 1995 TOLLE KM Comparing noun phrasing techniques for use with medical digital library tools JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE 51 : 352 2000 WARD JH HIERARCHICAL GROUPING TO OPTIMIZE AN OBJECTIVE FUNCTION JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION 58 : 236 1963 WIENER E P 4 ANN S DOC AN INF : 1995 YANG Y P 22 ANN INT ACM SIG : 42 1999 YIN CQ P NAT C DIG GOV RES : 2003 ZAMIR O P 21 ANN INT ACM SIG : 46 1998 ZHOU Y P 3 JOINT C DIG LIB : 379 2003 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Mar 23 15:48:01 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:48:01 -0400 Subject: Barnes N "The use of US government publications as bibliographic references in doctoral dissertations" JOURNAL OF ACADEMIC LIBRARIANSHIP 32 (5): 503-511 SEP 2006 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: nbarnes at library.msstate.edu Title: The use of US government publications as bibliographic references in doctoral dissertations Author(s): Barnes N (Barnes, Newkirk) Source: JOURNAL OF ACADEMIC LIBRARIANSHIP 32 (5): 503-511 SEP 2006 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 12 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Through a citation analysis of dissertations at Mississippi State University from 2000-2004, the author examines doctoral students' use of federal government publications as bibliographic references in light of the ongoing migration of these sources to the Internet. The study indicates an increase in the use of federal government documents in Web formats but an overall decrease in the use of these materials as a whole. Addresses: Barnes N (reprint author), Mississippi State Univ, Mitchell Mem Lib, POB 5408, Mississippi State, MS 39762 USA Mississippi State Univ, Mitchell Mem Lib, Mississippi State, MS 39762 USA E-mail Addresses: nbarnes at library.msstate.edu Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 360 PARK AVE SOUTH, NEW YORK, NY 10010- 1710 USA Subject Category: Information Science & Library Science IDS Number: 094DX ISSN: 0099-1333 CITED REFERENCES : ADM NOTES NEWSLETTER : 26 2005 GPO ACCESS BARKLEY D GOVT INFORMATION Q 15 : 74 1998 BRILL MS GOVT INFORM Q 7 : 429 1990 CASWELL TR GOVT INFORM Q 14 : 364 1997 HATHAWAY K REFERENCE LIB 93 : 113 2006 HAYCOCK LA LIBR RESOUR TECH SER 48 : 103 2004 HEINTZ JP PORTAL-LIBR ACAD 3 : 492 2003 HOGENBOOM K J GOV INFORM 29 : 394 2002 MCCLURE CR GOV PUBL REV 9 : 63 1982 MILLER B P 13 ANN FED DEP LIB WEECH TL GOV PUBL REV 5 : 178 1978 From dwojick at HUGHES.NET Fri Mar 23 16:49:31 2007 From: dwojick at HUGHES.NET (David E. Wojick) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:49:31 -0500 Subject: Faceted classification, was Patent Classification as Indicators of Cognitive Structures In-Reply-To: <934BB0B6D8A02C42BC6099FDE8149CCD015DB6AD@aplesjustice.dom1.jhuapl.edu> Message-ID: So-called faceted taxonomies, etc., are indeed a reflection of the fact that there are multiple, important ways to classify the same information. I know of no formal mathematical definition of faceting, though there may be one. My theory is designed to deliniate all possible structures, taxonomic and otherwise, in a body of information. Many of the classification systems in use today combine and confuse multiple, distinct stuctures. By "structure" I mean the application of a single well-defined relation, of which there are a great many. David It suggests to me that it might be a faceted classification system - or a system that is applied in a faceted manner. For the purposes of a sort of thought experiment, we might consider MeSH to be faceted. For an article on say leg fractures of adult human males we might have fractures, bone adult femur OR Fibula OR Patella OR Tibia femoral neck fractures, etc. maybe even "activity"/adverse effects or some such... If you tried to cluster on, say, femur you would get a weak co-classification because there are indeed many articles on leg breaks, but also bone cancer and genetic anomalies, etc. Maybe I should read the article :) 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: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of David E. Wojick Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 11:38 AM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Patent Classification as Indicators of Cognitive Structures MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px } DL { MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px } UL { MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px } OL { MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px } LI { MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px } I have a general theory of the structure of information that may be relevant. I have not published it but there is a brief essay on it here: http://www.bydesign.com/powervision/Mathematics_Philosophy_Science/information.html It suggests that in typical cases there will be many useful ways to systematically organize or classify a given body of information. If so then there is probably no single way that will be generally useful or representative. A working instance of this principle is the NASA taxonomy system, with 11 independent taxonomies. However, many of the underlying structures are not taxonomies, nor even tree-structures. Many are networks with convergence as well as tree-like divergence. Interestingly, since some of these structures are based on the way the things the information is about are related to one another, some of the most important structures are unknown until science finds them. David Wojick info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html Patent Classifications as Indicators of Cognitive Structures Paper to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), Montreal, October 2007 ? pdf-version of the full paper ? html-version of the full paper Using the 138,751 patents filed in 2006 under the Patent Cooperation Treaty, co-classification analysis is pursued on the basis of three- and four-digit codes in the International Patent Classification (IPC, 8th edition). The initial hypothesis that classifications might be considered as the organizers of patents into classes, and that therefore co-classification patterns would be useful for mapping, is discarded in favor of using co-word analysis among titles of patents. The classifications hang weakly together, even at the four-digit level; at the country level, more specificity can be made visible. The co-classifications among the patents enable us to analyze and visualize the relations among technologies at different levels of aggregation. However, countries are not the appropriate units of analysis because patent portfolios are largely similar in many advanced countries in terms of the classes attributed. The following files are input files for Pajek based on the cosines between the 4-digit classifications for each country separately and for the complete set ("World"): World (135,536 patents; zipped) Andorra (4 patents) United Arab Emirates (15 patents) Antigua and Barbuda (4 patents) ...., etc. Spain (1114 patents) Finland (1651 patents) France (6958 patents; zipped) ...., etc. Netherlands (3287 patents) Norway (665 patents) New Zealand (444 patents) ....., etc. 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 -- "David E. Wojick, Ph.D." Senior Consultant -- The DOE Science Accelerator http://www.osti.gov/innovation/scienceaccelerator.pdf http://www.osti.gov/innovation/ A strategic initiative of the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, US Department of Energy (540) 858-3150 391 Flickertail Lane, Star Tannery, VA 22654 USA http://www.bydesign.com/powervision/resume.html provides my bio and client list. http://www.bydesign.com/powervision/Mathematics_Philosophy_Science/ presents some of my own research on information structure and dynamics. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Mar 23 16:01:59 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:01:59 -0400 Subject: Werner YL "The case of impact factor versus taxonomy: a proposal" Journal of Naturnal History 40(21-22): 1285-1286, 2006 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: yehudah_w at yahoo.com Title: The case of impact factor versus taxonomy: a proposal Author(s): Werner YL (Werner, Yehudah L.) Source: JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY 40 (21-22): 1285-1286 2006 Document Type: Editorial Material Language: English Cited References: 5 Times Cited: 0 Addresses: Werner YL (reprint author), Hebrew Univ Jerusalem, Dept Evolut Systemat & Ecol, IL-91904 Jerusalem, Israel Hebrew Univ Jerusalem, Dept Evolut Systemat & Ecol, IL-91904 Jerusalem, Israel E-mail Addresses: yehudah_w at yahoo.com Publisher: TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 4 PARK SQUARE, MILTON PARK, ABINGDON OX14 4RN, OXON, ENGLAND Subject Category: Biodiversity Conservation; Ecology IDS Number: 094VF ISSN: 0022-2933 CITED REFERENCES : ALMOG A Subspeciation or none? The hardun in the Aegean (Reptilia : Sauria : Agamidae : Laudakia stellio) JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY 39 : 567 2005 ELPHICK MJ Long term effects of incubation temperatures on the morphology and locomotor performance of hatchling lizards (Bassiana duperreyi, Scincidae) BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY 63 : 429 1998 LACHMAN E J NATURAL HIST 40 : 1259 OSGOOD DW EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE ON DEVELOPMENT OF MERISTIC CHARACTERS IN NATRIX- FASCIATA COPEIA : 33 1978 STUART BL Scientific description can imperil species SCIENCE 312 : 1137 2006 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Mar 23 16:16:53 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:16:53 -0400 Subject: Duy J, Vaughan L "Can electronic journal usage data replace citation data as a measure of journal use? An empirical examination " JOURNAL OF ACADEMIC LIBRARIANSHIP 32 (5): 512-517 SEP 2006 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: jduy at alcor.concordia.ca, lvaughan at uwo.ca Title: Can electronic journal usage data replace citation data as a measure of journal use? An empirical examination Author(s): Duy J (Duy, Joanna), Vaughan L (Vaughan, Liwen) Source: JOURNAL OF ACADEMIC LIBRARIANSHIP 32 (5): 512-517 SEP 2006 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 25 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Citation and print journal use data have been used to measure quality and usefulness of library journal titles. This study examined relationships among different measurements and found that electronic usage correlates with print usage and that local citation data are a valid reflection of total journal usage but Impact Factors are not as valid. Addresses: Duy J (reprint author), Concordia Univ Libs, Webster Lib, 1400 Maisonneuve Ouest, Montreal, PQ H3G 1M8 Canada Concordia Univ Libs, Webster Lib, Montreal, PQ H3G 1M8 Canada Univ Western Ontario, Fac Informat & Media Studies, London, ON N6A 5B7 Canada E-mail Addresses: jduy at alcor.concordia.ca, lvaughan at uwo.ca Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 360 PARK AVE SOUTH, NEW YORK, NY 10010- 1710 USA Subject Category: Information Science & Library Science IDS Number: 094DX ISSN: 0099-1333 CITED REFERENCES : 10 INT C INT SOC SCI : 2005 BLECIC DD Measurements of journal use: an analysis of the correlations between three methods BULLETIN OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 87 : 20 1999 BROADUS RN A PROPOSED METHOD FOR ELIMINATING TITLES FROM PERIODICAL SUBSCRIPTION LISTS COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES 46 : 30 1985 COLQUHOUN D Challenging the tyranny of impact factors NATURE 423 : 479 2003 DAVIS P Where to spend our E-journal money: Defining a university library's core collection through citation analysis PORTAL-LIBRARIES AND THE ACADEMY 2 : 155 2002 DUY J Usage data for electronic resources: A comparison between locally collected and vendor-provided statistics JOURNAL OF ACADEMIC LIBRARIANSHIP 29 : 16 2003 DUY J P ISSI 2005 10 INT C : 390 2005 HAHN K COLL RES LIB MAY : 215 2002 KLEINBERG J NATURE WEB FOCUS ACC : 2004 KURTZ J AM SOC INFORM SCI : 127 KURTZ M J AM SOC INFORM SCI 56 : 111 2003 LIU MX PROGRESS IN DOCUMENTATION - THE COMPLEXITIES OF CITATION PRACTICE - A REVIEW OF CITATION STUDIES JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION 49 : 370 1993 NISONGER TE The benefits and drawbacks of impact factor for journal collection management in libraries SERIALS LIBRARIAN 47 : 57 2004 PAN E COLLECTION MANAGEMEN 2 : 29 1978 RICE BA SCI TECHNOLOGY LIB 4 : 43 1983 SAHA S J MED LIBR ASSOC 91 : 43 2003 SCALES PA CITATION ANALYSES AS INDICATORS OF USE OF SERIALS - COMPARISON OF RANKED TITLE LISTS PRODUCED BY CITATION COUNTING AND FROM USE DATA JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION 32 : 17 1976 SCHMELZER D SELBSTERFAHRUNG VERH : 45 1994 SHIM J MEASURES STAT RES LI : 2001 SRIDHAR MS COLLECT MANAGE 12 : 147 1990 STANKUS T COLLECTION MANAGEMEN 4 : 95 1982 TSAY MY The relationship between journal use in a medical library and citation use BULLETIN OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 86 : 31 1998 WHITE HD BIBLIOMETRICS ANNUAL REVIEW OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 24 : 119 1989 WULFF J MED LIB ASS : 315 WULFF JL Quality markers and use of electronic journals in an academic health sciences library JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 92 : 315 2004 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Mar 23 16:22:12 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:22:12 -0400 Subject: Pouris A. "Nanoscale research in South Africa: A mapping exercise based on scientometrics " Scientometrics 70(3): 541-553, March 2007. Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: Anastassios.pouris at up.ac.za Title: Nanoscale research in South Africa: A mapping exercise based on scientometrics Author(s): Pouris A (Pouris, Anastassios) Source: SCIENTOMETRICS 70 (3): 541-553 MAR 2007 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 17 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: This article reports the findings of a scientometric analysis of nanoscale research in South Africa during the period 2000-2005. The ISI databases were identified as the most appropriate information platform for the objectives of the investigation and have been interrogated for the identification of South African authors publishing in the field. The article identifies trends over time, major institutional contributors, journals in which South African authors publish their research, international collaborators and performance in comparison to four comparator countries (India, Brazil, South Korea and Australia). The major findings of the investigation are as follows: nanoscale research in South Africa is driven by individual researchers interests up to date and it is in its early stages of development; the country's nanoscale research is below what would one expect in light of its overall publication output; the country's nano-research is distributed to a number of Universities with subcritical concentration of researchers. Addresses: Pouris A (reprint author), Univ Pretoria, Inst Technol Innovat, Engn Bldg 1, ZA-0002 Pretoria, South Africa Univ Pretoria, Inst Technol Innovat, ZA-0002 Pretoria, South Africa E-mail Addresses: Anastassios.pouris at up.ac.za Publisher: SPRINGER, VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS Subject Category: Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications; Information Science & Library Science IDS Number: 140MO ISSN: 0138-9130 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Mar 23 16:24:31 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:24:31 -0400 Subject: Lin MW, Zhang JJ "Language trends in nanoscience and technology: The case of Chinese-language publications " SCIENTOMETRICS 70 (3): 555-564 MAR 2007 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: minwei.lin at gmail.com Title: Language trends in nanoscience and technology: The case of Chinese- language publications Author(s): Lin MW (Lin, Min-Wei), Zhang JJ (Zhang, Jingjing) Source: SCIENTOMETRICS 70 (3): 555-564 MAR 2007 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 15 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Nanoscience and technology (NST) is a young scientific and technological field that has generated great worldwide interest in the past two decades. Previous bibliometric analyses have unmistakably demonstrated the remarkable growth of the global NST literature. While almost all published research articles in NST are in English, increasingly a larger share of NST publications is published in the Chinese language. Perplexingly, Chinese is the only language - apart from English - that displays an ascendant trend in the NST literature. In this brief note, we explore and evaluate three arguments that could explain this phenomenon: coverage bias, language preference, and community formation. KeyWords Plus: SCIENCE-CITATION-INDEX; RESEARCH PERFORMANCE; SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS; DEVELOPING-WORLD; NANOTECHNOLOGY Addresses: Lin MW (reprint author), Georgia Inst Technol, Sch Publ Policy, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA Georgia Inst Technol, Sch Publ Policy, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA E-mail Addresses: minwei.lin at gmail.com Publisher: SPRINGER, VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS Subject Category: Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications; Information Science & Library Science IDS Number: 140MO ISSN: 0138-9130 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Mar 23 16:26:27 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:26:27 -0400 Subject: Kostoff, RN; Koytcheff, RG; Lau, CGY "Global nanotechnology research metrics" SCIENTOMETRICS 70 (3). MAR 2007. p.565-601 SPRINGER, Dordrecht Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: kostofr at onr.navy.mil TITLE: Global nanotechnology research metrics (Article, English) AUTHOR: Kostoff, RN; Koytcheff, RG; Lau, CGY SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 70 (3). MAR 2007. p.565-601 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: Text mining was used to extract technical intelligence from the open source global nanotechnology and nanoscience research literature. An extensive nanotechnology/nanoscience-focused query was applied to the Science Citation Index/Social Science Citation Index (SCI/SSCI) databases. The nanotechnology/nanoscience research literature infrastructure (prolific authors, key journals/institutions/countries, most cited authors/journals/documents) was obtained using bibliometrics. A novel addition was the use of institution and country auto-correlation maps to show co-publishing networks among institutions and among countries, and the use of institution-phrase and country-phrase cross- correlation maps to show institution networks and country networks based on use of common terminology (proxy for common interests). The use of factor matrices quantified further the strength of the linkages among institutions and among countries, and validated the co-publishing networks shown graphically on the maps. AUTHOR ADDRESS: RN Kostoff, Off Naval Res, 875 N Randolph St, Arlington, VA 22217 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Knowledge emergence in scientific communication: from "fullerenes" to "nanotubes" (Article, English) AUTHOR: Lucio-Arias, D; Leydesdorff, L SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 70 (3). MAR 2007. p.603-632 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT KEYWORDS+: SCIENCE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PATTERNS; INTERDISCIPLINARITY; COLLABORATION; NANOSCIENCE; INDICATORS; ALGORITHM ABSTRACT: This article explores the emergence of knowledge from scientific discoveries and their effects on the structure of scientific communication. Network analysis is applied to understand this emergence institutionally as changes in the journals; semantically as changes in the codification of meaning in terms of words; and cognitively as the new knowledge becomes the emergent foundation of further developments. The discovery of fullerenes in 1985 is analyzed as the scientific discovery that triggered a process which led to research in nanotubes. AUTHOR ADDRESS: D Lucio-Arias, Univ Amsterdam, Amsterdam Sch Commun Res, Kloveniersburgwal 48, NL-1012 CX Amsterdam, Netherlands -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: How cross-disciplinary is bionanotechnology? Explorations in the specialty of molecular motors (Article, English) AUTHOR: Rafols, I; Meyer, M SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 70 (3). MAR 2007. p.633-650 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT KEYWORDS+: SCIENCE; INTERDISCIPLINARITY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; COLLABORATION; TECHNOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE; DYNAMICS; PATTERNS; FIELDS; POLICY ABSTRACT: Nanotechnology has been presented in the policy discourse as an intrinsically interdisciplinary field, requiring collaborations among researchers with different backgrounds, and specific funding schemes supporting knowledge-integration activities. Early bibliometric studies supported this interdisciplinary vision (MEYER & PERSSON, 1998), but recent results suggest that nanotechnology is (yet) a mixed bag with various mono- disciplinary subfields (SCHUMMER, 2004). We have reexamined the issue at the research project level, carrying out five case studies in molecular motors, a specialty of bionanotechnology. Relying both in data from interviews and bibliometric indicators, we have developed a multidimensional analysis (SANZ-MENENDEZ et al., 2001) in order to explore the extent and types of cross-disciplinary practices in each project. We have found that there is a consistent high degree of cross- disciplinarity in the cognitive practices of research (i.e., use of references and instrumentalities) but a more erratic and narrower degree in the social dimensions (i.e., affiliation and researchers' background). This suggests that cross-disciplinarity is an eminently epistemic characteristic and that bibliometric indicators based on citations and references capture more accurately the generation of cross-disciplinary knowledge than approaches tracking co-authors' disciplinary affiliations. In the light of these findings we raise the question whether policies focusing on formal collaborations between laboratories are the most appropriate to facilitate cross-disciplinary knowledge acquisition and generation. AUTHOR ADDRESS: I Rafols, Univ Sussex, SPRU, Freeman Ctr, Brighton BN1 9QE, E Sussex, England -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Gatekeeping patterns in nano-titled journals (Article, English) AUTHOR: Braun, T; Zsindely, S; Diospatonyi, I; Zador, E SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 70 (3). MAR 2007. p.651-667 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth; SCIENTOMETR* rwork; JOURNALS item_title KEYWORDS+: NANOTECHNOLOGY; SCIENCE; INTERDISCIPLINARITY; COLLABORATION; NANOSCIENCE ABSTRACT: Activities on nanoscale research have seen a skyrocketting growth beginning during the nineties. This can be documented by the birth of no less than 16 science journals dedicated entirely to this field of science. The topics of these journals reflect the true interdisciplinary character of nanoscale research. In this paper the decision-makers on what and when appears in those journals, the gatekeepers, i.e., the editorial members of those journals and their national identity are analyzed and some conclusions are drawn on the decisional power of the countries these gatekeepers are located in. It came out that although the United States is still the leading power in the nanoscale research field, the EU is strongly catching up and due to intensive efforts in this directions by some Far East countries as China and Japan but also of India, Asia is nearing and in some cases even overtaking the big powers. AUTHOR ADDRESS: T Braun, Hungarian Acad Sci, Inst Res Policy Studies, ISSRU, POB 123, H-1443 Budapest, Hungary -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The global institutionalization of nanotechnology research: A bibliometric approach to the assessment of science policy (Article, English) AUTHOR: Schummer, J SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 70 (3). MAR 2007. p.669-692 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: Based on bibliometric methods, this paper describes the global institutionalization of nanotechnology research from the mid-1980s to 2006. Owing to an extremely strong dynamics, the institutionalization of nanotechnology is likely to surpass those of major disciplines in only a few years. A breakdown of the relative institutionalizations strengths by the main geographical regions, countries, research sectors, disciplines, and institutional types provides a very diverse picture over the time period because of different national science policies. The results allow a critical assessment of the different science policies based on the relative institutionalizations strengths as well as the conclusion that the institutionalization process has run out of control of individual governments who once induced the development. AUTHOR ADDRESS: J Schummer, Tech Univ Darmstadt, Dept Philosophy, D-64283 Darmstadt, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Nanotechnology as a field of science: Its delineation in terms of journals and patents (Article, English) AUTHOR: Leydesdorff, L; Zhou, P SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 70 (3). MAR 2007. p.693-713 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: The Journal Citation Reports of the Science Citation Index 2004 were used to delineate a core set of nanotechnology journals and a nanotechnology-relevant set. In comparison with 2003, the core set has grown and the relevant set has decreased. This suggests a higher degree of codification in the field of nanotechnology: the field has become more focused in terms of citation practices. Using the citing patterns among journals at the aggregate level, a core group of ten nanotechnology journals in the vector space can be delineated on the criterion of betweenness centrality. National contributions to this core group of journals are evaluated for the years 2003, 2004, and 2005. Additionally, the specific class of nanotechnology patents in the database of the U. S. Patent and Trade Office (USPTO) is analyzed to determine if non-patent literature references can be used as a source for the delineation of the knowledge base in terms of scientific journals. The references are primarily to general science journals and letters, and therefore not specific enough for the purpose of delineating a journal set. AUTHOR ADDRESS: L Leydesdorff, Univ Amsterdam, Amsterdam Sch Commun Res, Kloveniersburgwal 48, NL-1012 CX Amsterdam, Netherlands -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Internationalization and evolution of application areas of an emerging technology: The case of nanotechnology (Article, English) AUTHOR: Wong, PK; Ho, YP; Chan, CK SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 70 (3). MAR 2007. p.715-737 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT KEYWORDS+: SCIENCE; FIELD; INDICATORS; INTERDISCIPLINARITY; COLLABORATION; INSTITUTION; NANOSCIENCE; PATTERNS; PATENTS; COUNTRY ABSTRACT: Nanotechnology patenting has grown rapidly in recent years as an increasing number of countries are getting into the global nanotechnology race. Using a refined methodology to identify and classify nanotechnology patents, this paper analyses the changing pattern of internationalization of nanotechnology patenting activities from 1976- 2004. We show that the dominance of the G5 countries have declined in recent years, not only in terms of quantity, but also in terms of quality as measured by citation indicators. In addition, using a new approach to classifying the intended areas of commercial applications, we show that nanotechnology patenting initially emphasized instrumentation, but exhibited greater diversification to other application areas in recent years. Significant differences in application area specialization are also found among major nanotechnology nations. Moreover, universities are found to play a significant and increasing role in patenting, particularly in US, UK and Canada. AUTHOR ADDRESS: PK Wong, Natl Univ Singapore, Singapore 0511, Singapore -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Measuring and assessing the development of nanotechnology (Article, English) AUTHOR: Hullmann, A SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 70 (3). MAR 2007. p.739-758 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: Nanotechnology merits having a major impact on the world economy because its applications will be used in virtually all sectors. Scientists, researchers, managers, investors and policy makers worldwide acknowledge this huge potential and have started the nano-race. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the state of the art of nanotechnology from an economic perspective, by presenting data on markets, funding, companies, patents and publications. It will also raise the question of how much of the nano-hype is founded on economic data and how much is based on wishful thinking. It focuses on a comparison between world regions, thereby concentrating on Europe and the European Union in relation to their main competitors - the United States and Japan and the emerging 'nano-powers' China and Russia. AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Hullmann, Commiss European Communities, DG Res Unit, CDMA 6-133, B-1049 Brussels, Belgium -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Anticipating technological breakthroughs: Using bibliographic coupling to explore the nanotubes paradigm (Article, English) AUTHOR: Kuusi, O; Meyer, M SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 70 (3). MAR 2007. p.759-777 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): MARSHAKOVA IV rauth; SMALL H rauth; SMALL HG rauth; SCIENTOMETR* rwork; KESSLER MM AM DOC 14:10 1963; BIBLIOGRAPHIC* item_title ABSTRACT: There is general consensus that the field of nanotechnology will be very important in the future. An open question is, however, which technological approaches or paradigms will be important in the field. The paper assumes that the carbon nanotube will be a key element of an emerging technological paradigm in nanotechnology. This study employs a bibliometric method - bibliographic coupling - to identify important nanotubes-related 'leitbilder' - a concept meaning 'guiding images' that provide a basis for different professions and disciplines to work in the same direction. Until recently, bibliographic coupling has been applied rarely for purposes of research evaluation, not to mention technology foresight. Our case study seems to suggest that bibliographic coupling is particularly suitable for anticipating technological breakthroughs. Bibliographic coupling analysis of recent nanotube-related patents focused our attention to recent patents owned by Nantero Inc. Nantero's main focus is the development of NRAM - a high- density nonvolatile random access memory. The NRAM leitbild seems to be an important emerging leitbild. It connects technical opportunities and promising applications relating to the memories in devices such as cell phones, MP3 players, digital cameras, as well as applications in networking arena. AUTHOR ADDRESS: O Kuusi, VATT Govt Inst Econ Res, Arkadiankatu 7,PL 1279, Helsinki 00101, Finland -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: What do we know about innovation in nanotechnology? Some propositions about an emerging field between hype and path- dependency (Article, English) AUTHOR: Meyer, M SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 70 (3). MAR 2007. p.779-810 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT KEYWORDS+: TECHNICAL CHANGE; NANO-SCIENCE; TECHNOLOGY; PATTERNS; INTERDISCIPLINARITY; COLLABORATION; EXPLORATION; NANOSCIENCE; DIRECTIONS; DOMAINS ABSTRACT: This contribution formulates a number of propositions about the emergence of novel nanoscience and nanotechnology (N&N). Seeking to complement recent work that aims to define a research agenda and draws on general insights from the innovation literature, this paper aims to synthesize knowledge from innovation-related studies of the N&N field. More specifically, it is suggested that N&N is often misconstrued as either a field of technology or an area of (broadly) converging technologies while evidence to date suggests rather that N&N be considered a set of inter- related and overlapping about not necessarily merging technologies. The role of instrumentation in connecting the various N&N fields is underlined. Finally, the question is raised whether change in N&N tends to be incremental rather than discontinuous, being the result of technological path-dependencies and lock-ins in industry- typical search regimes that are only slowly giving way to more boundary- crossing activities. AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Meyer, Univ Sussex, SPRU, Freeman Ctr, Brighton BN1 9QE, E Sussex, England -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Characterizing creative scientists in nano-S&T: Productivity, multidisciplinarity, and network brokerage in a longitudinal perspective (Article, English) AUTHOR: Heinze, T; Bauer, G SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 70 (3). MAR 2007. p.811-830 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: While some believe that publication and citation scores are key predictors of breakthroughs in science, others claim that people who work at the intersection of scientific communities are more likely to be familiar with selecting and synthesizing alternatives into novel ideas. This paper contributes to this controversy by presenting a longitudinal comparison of highly creative scientists with equally productive researchers. The sample of creative scientists is identified by combining information on science awards and nominations by international peers covering research accomplishments in the mid-1990s. Results suggest that it is not only the sheer quantity of publications that causes scientists to produce creative pieces of work. Rather, their ability to effectively communicate with otherwise disconnected peers and to address a broader work spectrum also enhances their chances to be widely cited and to develop novel ideas. AUTHOR ADDRESS: T Heinze, Fraunhofer Inst Syst & Innovat Res, D-76139 Karlsruhe, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Mapping nanosciences by citation flows: A preliminary analysis (Article, English) AUTHOR: Bassecoulard, E; Lelu, A; Zitt, M SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 70 (3). MAR 2007. p.859-880 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): CRONIN B rauth; GARFIELD E rauth; MARSHAKOVA IV rauth; SMALL H rauth; SCIENTOMETR* rwork; KESSLER MM AM DOC 14:10 1963; CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS+: MODERN SCIENCE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; INTERDISCIPLINARITY; COCITATION; COLLABORATION; INDICATORS; PATTERNS ABSTRACT: This article presents a citation-based mapping exercise in the nanosciences field and a first sketch of citation transactions (a measure of cognitive dependences). Nanosciences are considered to be one of the "convergent" components shaping the future of science and technology. Recurrent questions about the structure of the field concern its diversity and multi- or inter-disciplinarity. Observations made from various points of view confirm a strong differentiation of the field, which is scattered in multiple galaxies with moderate level of exchanges. The multi-disciplinarity of themes and super-themes detected by mapping also appears moderate, most of the super-themes being based on physics and chemistry in various proportions. Structural analysis of the list of references in articles suggests that the moderate multi-disciplinarity observed at the aggregate level partly stems from an actual inter- disciplinarity at the article level. AUTHOR ADDRESS: E Bassecoulard, INRA, BP 71627, F-44316 Nantes 3, France From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Mar 23 16:29:44 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:29:44 -0400 Subject: Lucio-Arias D. Leydesdorff L. "Knowledge emergence in scientific communication: from "fullerenes" to "nanotubes" SCIENTOMETRICS 70 (3). MAR 2007. p.603-632 Springer Dordrecht Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: dlucioarias at fmg.uva.nl TITLE: Knowledge emergence in scientific communication: from Knowledge emergence in scientific communication: from "fullerenes" to "nanotubes" (Article, English) AUTHOR: Lucio-Arias, D; Leydesdorff, L SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 70 (3). MAR 2007. p.603-632 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT KEYWORDS+: SCIENCE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PATTERNS; INTERDISCIPLINARITY; COLLABORATION; NANOSCIENCE; INDICATORS; ALGORITHM ABSTRACT: This article explores the emergence of knowledge from scientific discoveries and their effects on the structure of scientific communication. Network analysis is applied to understand this emergence institutionally as changes in the journals; semantically as changes in the codification of meaning in terms of words; and cognitively as the new knowledge becomes the emergent foundation of further developments. The discovery of fullerenes in 1985 is analyzed as the scientific discovery that triggered a process which led to research in nanotubes. AUTHOR ADDRESS: D Lucio-Arias, Univ Amsterdam, Amsterdam Sch Commun Res, Kloveniersburgwal 48, NL-1012 CX Amsterdam, Netherlands From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Mar 23 16:31:54 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:31:54 -0400 Subject: Rafols I, Meyer M, " How cross-disciplinary is bionanotechnology? Explorations in the specialty of molecular motors" SCIENTOMETRICS 70 (3). MAR 2007. p.633-650 SPRINGER, Dordrecht Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: i.rafols at sussex.ac.uk TITLE: How cross-disciplinary is bionanotechnology? Explorations in the specialty of molecular motors (Article, English) AUTHOR: Rafols, I; Meyer, M SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 70 (3). MAR 2007. p.633-650 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT KEYWORDS+: SCIENCE; INTERDISCIPLINARITY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; COLLABORATION; TECHNOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE; DYNAMICS; PATTERNS; FIELDS; POLICY ABSTRACT: Nanotechnology has been presented in the policy discourse as an intrinsically interdisciplinary field, requiring collaborations among researchers with different backgrounds, and specific funding schemes supporting knowledge-integration activities. Early bibliometric studies supported this interdisciplinary vision (MEYER & PERSSON, 1998), but recent results suggest that nanotechnology is (yet) a mixed bag with various mono- disciplinary subfields (SCHUMMER, 2004). We have reexamined the issue at the research project level, carrying out five case studies in molecular motors, a specialty of bionanotechnology. Relying both in data from interviews and bibliometric indicators, we have developed a multidimensional analysis (SANZ-MENENDEZ et al., 2001) in order to explore the extent and types of cross-disciplinary practices in each project. We have found that there is a consistent high degree of cross- disciplinarity in the cognitive practices of research (i.e., use of references and instrumentalities) but a more erratic and narrower degree in the social dimensions (i.e., affiliation and researchers' background). This suggests that cross-disciplinarity is an eminently epistemic characteristic and that bibliometric indicators based on citations and references capture more accurately the generation of cross-disciplinary knowledge than approaches tracking co-authors' disciplinary affiliations. In the light of these findings we raise the question whether policies focusing on formal collaborations between laboratories are the most appropriate to facilitate cross-disciplinary knowledge acquisition and generation. AUTHOR ADDRESS: I Rafols, Univ Sussex, SPRU, Freeman Ctr, Brighton BN1 9QE, E Sussex, England From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Mar 23 16:36:00 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:36:00 -0400 Subject: Braun, T; Zsindely, S; Diospatonyi, I; Zador, E "Gatekeeping patterns in nano-titled journals " SCIENTOMETRICS 70 (3). MAR 2007. p.651-667 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: braun at mail.iif.hu TITLE: Gatekeeping patterns in nano-titled journals (Article, English) AUTHOR: Braun, T; Zsindely, S; Diospatonyi, I; Zador, E SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 70 (3). MAR 2007. p.651-667 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth; SCIENTOMETR* rwork; JOURNALS item_title KEYWORDS+: NANOTECHNOLOGY; SCIENCE; INTERDISCIPLINARITY; COLLABORATION; NANOSCIENCE ABSTRACT: Activities on nanoscale research have seen a skyrocketting growth beginning during the nineties. This can be documented by the birth of no less than 16 science journals dedicated entirely to this field of science. The topics of these journals reflect the true interdisciplinary character of nanoscale research. In this paper the decision-makers on what and when appears in those journals, the gatekeepers, i.e., the editorial members of those journals and their national identity are analyzed and some conclusions are drawn on the decisional power of the countries these gatekeepers are located in. It came out that although the United States is still the leading power in the nanoscale research field, the EU is strongly catching up and due to intensive efforts in this directions by some Far East countries as China and Japan but also of India, Asia is nearing and in some cases even overtaking the big powers. AUTHOR ADDRESS: T Braun, Hungarian Acad Sci, Inst Res Policy Studies, ISSRU, POB 123, H-1443 Budapest, Hungary From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Mar 23 16:38:34 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:38:34 -0400 Subject: Schummer J. "The global institutionalization of nanotechnology research: A bibliometric approach to the assessment of science policy" SCIENTOMETRICS 70 (3). MAR 2007. p.669-692 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: js at hyle.org TITLE: The global institutionalization of nanotechnology research: A bibliometric approach to the assessment of science policy (Article, English) AUTHOR: Schummer, J SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 70 (3). MAR 2007. p.669-692 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: Based on bibliometric methods, this paper describes the global institutionalization of nanotechnology research from the mid-1980s to 2006. Owing to an extremely strong dynamics, the institutionalization of nanotechnology is likely to surpass those of major disciplines in only a few years. A breakdown of the relative institutionalizations strengths by the main geographical regions, countries, research sectors, disciplines, and institutional types provides a very diverse picture over the time period because of different national science policies. The results allow a critical assessment of the different science policies based on the relative institutionalizations strengths as well as the conclusion that the institutionalization process has run out of control of individual governments who once induced the development. AUTHOR ADDRESS: J Schummer, Tech Univ Darmstadt, Dept Philosophy, D-64283 Darmstadt, Germany From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Mar 23 16:41:06 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:41:06 -0400 Subject: Leydesdorff L. Zhou P. "Nanotechnology as a field of science: Its delineation in terms of journals and patents" Scientometrics 70(3): 693-713, March 2007. Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: loet at leydesdorff.net TITLE: Nanotechnology as a field of science: Its delineation in terms of journals and patents (Article, English) AUTHOR: Leydesdorff, L; Zhou, P SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 70 (3). MAR 2007. p.693-713 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: The Journal Citation Reports of the Science Citation Index 2004 were used to delineate a core set of nanotechnology journals and a nanotechnology-relevant set. In comparison with 2003, the core set has grown and the relevant set has decreased. This suggests a higher degree of codification in the field of nanotechnology: the field has become more focused in terms of citation practices. Using the citing patterns among journals at the aggregate level, a core group of ten nanotechnology journals in the vector space can be delineated on the criterion of betweenness centrality. National contributions to this core group of journals are evaluated for the years 2003, 2004, and 2005. Additionally, the specific class of nanotechnology patents in the database of the U. S. Patent and Trade Office (USPTO) is analyzed to determine if non-patent literature references can be used as a source for the delineation of the knowledge base in terms of scientific journals. The references are primarily to general science journals and letters, and therefore not specific enough for the purpose of delineating a journal set. AUTHOR ADDRESS: L Leydesdorff, Univ Amsterdam, Amsterdam Sch Commun Res, Kloveniersburgwal 48, NL-1012 CX Amsterdam, Netherlands From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Mar 23 16:44:29 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:44:29 -0400 Subject: Wong PK, HO YP, Chan CK "Internationalization and evolution of application areas of an emerging technology: The case of nanotechnology " SCIENTOMETRICS 70 (3). MAR 2007. p.715-737 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: pohkam at nus.edu.sg TITLE: Internationalization and evolution of application areas of an emerging technology: The case of nanotechnology AUTHOR: Wong, PK; Ho, YP; Chan, CK SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 70 (3). MAR 2007. p.715-737 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT KEYWORDS+: SCIENCE; FIELD; INDICATORS; INTERDISCIPLINARITY; COLLABORATION; INSTITUTION; NANOSCIENCE; PATTERNS; PATENTS; COUNTRY ABSTRACT: Nanotechnology patenting has grown rapidly in recent years as an increasing number of countries are getting into the global nanotechnology race. Using a refined methodology to identify and classify nanotechnology patents, this paper analyses the changing pattern of internationalization of nanotechnology patenting activities from 1976- 2004. We show that the dominance of the G5 countries have declined in recent years, not only in terms of quantity, but also in terms of quality as measured by citation indicators. In addition, using a new approach to classifying the intended areas of commercial applications, we show that nanotechnology patenting initially emphasized instrumentation, but exhibited greater diversification to other application areas in recent years. Significant differences in application area specialization are also found among major nanotechnology nations. Moreover, universities are found to play a significant and increasing role in patenting, particularly in US, UK and Canada. AUTHOR ADDRESS: PK Wong, Natl Univ Singapore, Singapore 0511, Singapore From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Mar 23 16:45:49 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:45:49 -0400 Subject: Hullmann A. "Measuring and assessing the development of nanotechnology" SCIENTOMETRICS 70 (3). MAR 2007. p.739-758 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: angela.hullman at ec.europa.eu TITLE: Measuring and assessing the development of nanotechnology (Article, English) AUTHOR: Hullmann, A SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 70 (3). MAR 2007. p.739-758 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: Nanotechnology merits having a major impact on the world economy because its applications will be used in virtually all sectors. Scientists, researchers, managers, investors and policy makers worldwide acknowledge this huge potential and have started the nano-race. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the state of the art of nanotechnology from an economic perspective, by presenting data on markets, funding, companies, patents and publications. It will also raise the question of how much of the nano-hype is founded on economic data and how much is based on wishful thinking. It focuses on a comparison between world regions, thereby concentrating on Europe and the European Union in relation to their main competitors - the United States and Japan and the emerging 'nano-powers' China and Russia. AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Hullmann, Commiss European Communities, DG Res Unit, CDMA 6-133, B-1049 Brussels, Belgium From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Mar 23 16:47:55 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:47:55 -0400 Subject: Kuusi O, Meyer M. "Anticipating technological breakthroughs: Using bibliographic coupling to explore the nanotubes paradigm " SCIENTOMETRICS 70 (3). MAR 2007. p.759-777 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: osmo.kuusi at vatt.fi TITLE: Anticipating technological breakthroughs: Using bibliographic coupling to explore the nanotubes paradigm (Article, English) AUTHOR: Kuusi, O; Meyer, M SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 70 (3). MAR 2007. p.759-777 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): MARSHAKOVA IV rauth; SMALL H rauth; SMALL HG rauth; SCIENTOMETR* rwork; KESSLER MM AM DOC 14:10 1963; BIBLIOGRAPHIC* item_title ABSTRACT: There is general consensus that the field of nanotechnology will be very important in the future. An open question is, however, which technological approaches or paradigms will be important in the field. The paper assumes that the carbon nanotube will be a key element of an emerging technological paradigm in nanotechnology. This study employs a bibliometric method - bibliographic coupling - to identify important nanotubes-related 'leitbilder' - a concept meaning 'guiding images' that provide a basis for different professions and disciplines to work in the same direction. Until recently, bibliographic coupling has been applied rarely for purposes of research evaluation, not to mention technology foresight. Our case study seems to suggest that bibliographic coupling is particularly suitable for anticipating technological breakthroughs. Bibliographic coupling analysis of recent nanotube-related patents focused our attention to recent patents owned by Nantero Inc. Nantero's main focus is the development of NRAM - a high- density nonvolatile random access memory. The NRAM leitbild seems to be an important emerging leitbild. It connects technical opportunities and promising applications relating to the memories in devices such as cell phones, MP3 players, digital cameras, as well as applications in networking arena. AUTHOR ADDRESS: O Kuusi, VATT Govt Inst Econ Res, Arkadiankatu 7,PL 1279, Helsinki 00101, Finland From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Mar 23 16:50:01 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:50:01 -0400 Subject: Meyer M. "What do we know about innovation in nanotechnology? Some propositions about an emerging field between hype and path-dependency" SCIENTOMETRICS 70 (3). MAR 2007. p.779-810 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: m.s.meyer at sussex.ac.uk TITLE: What do we know about innovation in nanotechnology? Some propositions about an emerging field between hype and path- dependency (Article, English) AUTHOR: Meyer, M SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 70 (3). MAR 2007. p.779-810 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT KEYWORDS+: TECHNICAL CHANGE; NANO-SCIENCE; TECHNOLOGY; PATTERNS; INTERDISCIPLINARITY; COLLABORATION; EXPLORATION; NANOSCIENCE; DIRECTIONS; DOMAINS ABSTRACT: This contribution formulates a number of propositions about the emergence of novel nanoscience and nanotechnology (N&N). Seeking to complement recent work that aims to define a research agenda and draws on general insights from the innovation literature, this paper aims to synthesize knowledge from innovation-related studies of the N&N field. More specifically, it is suggested that N&N is often misconstrued as either a field of technology or an area of (broadly) converging technologies while evidence to date suggests rather that N&N be considered a set of inter- related and overlapping about not necessarily merging technologies. The role of instrumentation in connecting the various N&N fields is underlined. Finally, the question is raised whether change in N&N tends to be incremental rather than discontinuous, being the result of technological path-dependencies and lock-ins in industry- typical search regimes that are only slowly giving way to more boundary- crossing activities. AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Meyer, Univ Sussex, SPRU, Freeman Ctr, Brighton BN1 9QE, E Sussex, England From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Mar 23 16:51:56 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:51:56 -0400 Subject: Heinze T, Bauer G. "Characterizing creative scientists in nano-S&T: Productivity, multidisciplinarity, and network brokerage in a longitudinal perspective (Article, English)" SCIENTOMETRICS 70 (3). MAR 2007. p.811-830 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: thomas.heinze at isi.fhg.de TITLE: Characterizing creative scientists in nano-S&T: Productivity, multidisciplinarity, and network brokerage in a longitudinal perspective (Article, English) AUTHOR: Heinze, T; Bauer, G SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 70 (3). MAR 2007. p.811-830 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT ABSTRACT: While some believe that publication and citation scores are key predictors of breakthroughs in science, others claim that people who work at the intersection of scientific communities are more likely to be familiar with selecting and synthesizing alternatives into novel ideas. This paper contributes to this controversy by presenting a longitudinal comparison of highly creative scientists with equally productive researchers. The sample of creative scientists is identified by combining information on science awards and nominations by international peers covering research accomplishments in the mid-1990s. Results suggest that it is not only the sheer quantity of publications that causes scientists to produce creative pieces of work. Rather, their ability to effectively communicate with otherwise disconnected peers and to address a broader work spectrum also enhances their chances to be widely cited and to develop novel ideas. AUTHOR ADDRESS: T Heinze, Fraunhofer Inst Syst & Innovat Res, D-76139 Karlsruhe, Germany From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Mar 23 16:53:38 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:53:38 -0400 Subject: Bassecoulard, E; Lelu, A; Zitt, M "Mapping nanosciences by citation flows: A preliminary analysis" Scientometrics 70(3): 859-880, March 2007. Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: bassecou at nantes.inra.fr TITLE: Mapping nanosciences by citation flows: A preliminary analysis (Article, English) AUTHOR: Bassecoulard, E; Lelu, A; Zitt, M SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 70 (3). MAR 2007. p.859-880 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): CRONIN B rauth; GARFIELD E rauth; MARSHAKOVA IV rauth; SMALL H rauth; SCIENTOMETR* rwork; KESSLER MM AM DOC 14:10 1963; CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS+: MODERN SCIENCE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; INTERDISCIPLINARITY; COCITATION; COLLABORATION; INDICATORS; PATTERNS ABSTRACT: This article presents a citation-based mapping exercise in the nanosciences field and a first sketch of citation transactions (a measure of cognitive dependences). Nanosciences are considered to be one of the "convergent" components shaping the future of science and technology. Recurrent questions about the structure of the field concern its diversity and multi- or inter-disciplinarity. Observations made from various points of view confirm a strong differentiation of the field, which is scattered in multiple galaxies with moderate level of exchanges. The multi-disciplinarity of themes and super-themes detected by mapping also appears moderate, most of the super-themes being based on physics and chemistry in various proportions. Structural analysis of the list of references in articles suggests that the moderate multi-disciplinarity observed at the aggregate level partly stems from an actual inter- disciplinarity at the article level. AUTHOR ADDRESS: E Bassecoulard, INRA, BP 71627, F-44316 Nantes 3, France From dwojick at HUGHES.NET Sat Mar 24 13:00:17 2007 From: dwojick at HUGHES.NET (David E. Wojick) Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:00:17 -0500 Subject: multiple Cognitive Structures In-Reply-To: <009701c76d6e$267b8d90$1302a8c0@loet> Message-ID: David Wojick wrote: >It suggests that in typical cases there will be many useful ways to >systematically organize or classify a given body of information. If >so then there is probably no single way that will be generally >useful or representative. A working instance of this principle is >the NASA taxonomy system, with 11 independent taxonomies. However, >many of the underlying structures are not taxonomies, nor even >tree-structures. Many are networks with convergence as well as >tree-like divergence. Dear David: I fully agree. A taxonomy reduces the complexity with at least one dimension. It creates a window with a perspective. Nevertheless, one can study the quality of the representation of the multi-dimensional structure which is represented. For example, ISI once launched the Atlas of Science (in the late 1980s) which was based on single linkage clustering of co-citations. That went wrong. However, co-citation analysis itself is an important tool. Best wishes, Loet Dear Loet, co-citation analysis is indeed important. My group at OSTI is doing it to identify distant research communities that use similar methods, like Monte Carlo. Nuclear power and forest management both use it, so how do we get results to flow between them, since they do not read one another's journals? Likewise, a given taxonomy can be good or poor as far as its logical completeness and coherence goes. The point is that there are many possible, equally good, taxonomies that instantiate different relations. There is not a single fundamental taxonomy that we are all trying to find. Moreover, a co-citation network is one structure and a taxonomy quite another, topologically. And like the typical hybrid taxonomy, the co-citation network probably reflects a number of distinct and different structures in the underlying science. Different citations reflect different relations between the papers. In short, the number of important yet distinct structures is quite large. My general theory of information structure is intended to capture this multiplicity. However, I do think that the most fundamental stucture is the underlying reasoning that guides the research. Results raise questons and questions lead to results, which raise new questions, and so on. There are well defined paths in the reasoning, many of which are relfected in citation paths. Onward, David -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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From krichel at OPENLIB.ORG Tue Mar 27 17:48:51 2007 From: krichel at OPENLIB.ORG (Thomas Krichel) Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:48:51 -0500 Subject: Effect of Indexing on Library Holdingss/Citations In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Stephen J Bensman writes > Attached in Microsoft Word is an article by a colleague of mine, Paul > Kelsey, on the effect of the indexing of a journal on its library holdings > and citation rates. I think it would be appropriate to archive it with a system such as e-lis at http://eprints.rclis.org and then post a link to the abstract page here. In that way it is archived for the future, and can be seen not only by this list, but also by others. > PS The LSU e-mail system has a tendency to corrupt files. Therefore, if > the file does not open for you and you want to read the article, then > please contact me, so that I can send you the article via another system > that does not corrupt files. Yet another reason for the action I recommend in my previous paragraph. Cheers, Thomas Krichel mailto:krichel at openlib.org http://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel skype id: thomaskrichel From notsjb at LSU.EDU Tue Mar 27 20:52:39 2007 From: notsjb at LSU.EDU (Stephen J Bensman) Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:52:39 -0500 Subject: Effect of Indexing on Library Holdingss/Citations Message-ID: I will talk to Paul Kelsey, whether he would allow this to be done. In the meantime were you able to open the file to read the article? SB Thomas Krichel @LISTSERV.UTK.EDU> on 03/27/2007 04:48:51 PM Please respond to ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics Sent by: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU cc: (bcc: Stephen J Bensman/notsjb/LSU) Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Effect of Indexing on Library Holdingss/Citations Stephen J Bensman writes > Attached in Microsoft Word is an article by a colleague of mine, Paul > Kelsey, on the effect of the indexing of a journal on its library holdings > and citation rates. I think it would be appropriate to archive it with a system such as e-lis at http://eprints.rclis.org and then post a link to the abstract page here. In that way it is archived for the future, and can be seen not only by this list, but also by others. > PS The LSU e-mail system has a tendency to corrupt files. Therefore, if > the file does not open for you and you want to read the article, then > please contact me, so that I can send you the article via another system > that does not corrupt files. Yet another reason for the action I recommend in my previous paragraph. Cheers, Thomas Krichel mailto:krichel at openlib.org http://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel skype id: thomaskrichel From michel.menou at WANADOO.FR Wed Mar 28 03:13:09 2007 From: michel.menou at WANADOO.FR (M.J. Menou) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:13:09 +0200 Subject: Winner of E. Garfield ISSI Doctoral Dissertation scholarship 2007 Message-ID: The 2007 winner of the Eugene Garfield ISSI Doctoral Dissertation Scholarship is Sonia Maria Ramos de Vasconcelos from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for her proposal "Science in Brazil: A Scientometric and Linguistic Approach." From: http://www.issi-society.info/news.html -- From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Wed Mar 28 22:33:20 2007 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 03:33:20 +0100 Subject: Open Access Scientometrics and the UK Research Assessment Exercise Message-ID: Harnad, S. (2007) Open Access Scientometrics and the UK Research Assessment Exercise. To be presented at : Proceedings of 11th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, Madrid, Spain. June 25 2006. http://issi2007.cindoc.csic.es/ ABSTRACT: Scientometric predictors of research performance need to be validated by showing that they have a high correlation with the external criterion they are trying to predict. The UK Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) http://www.rae.ac.uk/ -- together with the growing movement toward making the full-texts of research articles freely available on the web -- offer a unique opportunity to test and validate a wealth of old and new scientometric predictors, through multiple regression analysis: Publications, journal impact factors, citations, co-citations, citation chronometrics (age, growth, latency to peak, decay rate), hub/authority scores, h-index, prior funding, student counts, co-authorship scores, endogamy/exogamy, textual proximity, download/co-downloads and their chronometrics, etc. can all be tested and validated jointly, discipline by discipline, against their RAE panel rankings in the forthcoming parallel panel-based and metric RAE in 2008. The weights of each predictor can be calibrated to maximize the joint correlation with the rankings. Open Access Scientometrics will provide powerful new means of navigating, evaluating, predicting and analyzing the growing Open Access database, as well as powerful incentives for making it grow faster. Full text: http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/13804/ From aroldan at ISCIII.ES Thu Mar 29 06:38:00 2007 From: aroldan at ISCIII.ES (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=C1lvaro_Rold=E1n_L=F3pez?=) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:38:00 +0200 Subject: JCR Alternatives Message-ID: I wrote a post (in spanish) about two upstart competitors for JCR: Eigenfactor (http://eigenfactor.org/) and Journal Ranking (http://www.journal-ranking.com/ranking/web/index.html). And I ask myself: Do these tools represent alternatives to JCR? Will these tools become another Prestige Factor Affair? Any comments? I apologize for my terrible English. ?lvaro Rold?n L?pez http://www.bibliometria.com From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Thu Mar 29 07:44:39 2007 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:44:39 +0200 Subject: JCR Alternatives In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Alvaro, You may wish to take a look at http://www.leydesdorff.net/jcr05/centrality/ for the centrality measure (both citing and cited) of all ISI journals (based on the JCR 2005). 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/ > -----Original Message----- > From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics > [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of ?lvaro Rold?n L?pez > Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 12:38 PM > To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU > Subject: [SIGMETRICS] JCR Alternatives > > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > I wrote a post (in spanish) about two upstart competitors for JCR: > > Eigenfactor (http://eigenfactor.org/) and Journal Ranking > (http://www.journal-ranking.com/ranking/web/index.html). > > And I ask myself: > > Do these tools represent alternatives to JCR? > > Will these tools become another Prestige Factor Affair? > > Any comments? > > I apologize for my terrible English. > > > ?lvaro Rold?n L?pez > http://www.bibliometria.com > From JWS at DB.DK Sat Mar 31 04:13:30 2007 From: JWS at DB.DK (Jesper Wiborg Schneider) Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:13:30 +0200 Subject: Final Call for Papers for ISSI 2007 workshop on Taking CiteSpace to Science: new applications to visualization programming Message-ID: Dear colleagues, this is the final CFP for the CiteSPace workshop at ISSI 2007 - please consider a submission! Kind regards - Jesper Schneider 11th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics Madrid, 25-27 June [http://issi2007.cindoc.csic.es/] Extended deadline for short papers or presentations: April 3 Call for papers and presentations Workshop on: Taking CiteSpace to Science: new applications to visualization programming The visualization freeware CiteSpace was developed by Chaomei Chen at Drexel University, US. Originally it was meant as an instrument for analyzing paradigmatic shifts in scientific specialties. In several articles Chen has shown the abilities of the program, but one of the weaknesses is the definition of a scientific field. We invite papers that discuss different approaches to this important problem. How reliable are strategies on the basis of keywords, on subject codes, or on selected sets of journals? If researchers normally are active in many different journals covering 15-20 different subject codes what does that say about using the ISI codes for definition of specialties? To what extent is burst of terms a strategy that is effective? What are the concurrent procedures of making identifiers and descriptors in the database and in journals? The strengths of the CiteSpace program are evident, but there might be areas of application that have not been discussed on scientific basis. Therefore, we organize this workshop at the Madrid ISSI conference and invite full or research-in-progress papers in order to discuss central features and new applications of the CiteSpace program. A main topic of the workshop is the continuous development of strategies for detecting and tracking research fronts and the evolution of a specialty. Especially, we are interested in ways of implementing the CiteSpace program for new questions. E.g. can CiteSpace be of any use for research group analysis? Can CiteSpace be applied to questions about funding policy for National Research Councils? Should CiteSpace be used for performance analysis? However, the workshop also encourages contributions that look at the CiteSpace program and its advantages and disadvantages in relation to bibliometric research methodology. A vital issue in bibliometric analyses is the reliability and standardization of Thompson ISI reference data. CiteSpace does not initially allow for such standardizations and the question is how this affects the resulting analyses? These and other questions will be addressed during the workshop. Submissions: Please send your contributions to Jesper Wiborg Schneider (email: jws at db.dk) by March 25th. Submissions should include full short papers (max 2000 words) or full presentations, author(s) name, affiliation and contact details. Important dates: NEW: Deadline for short papers or presentations submission: April 3 NEW: Acceptance decision: April 13 Early registration deadline: April 15 Deadline for revised paper of presentation submission: May 20 Workshop organizers: Ulf Sandstr?m, Tema Institute, Linkoping University, 581 83 Linkoping, Sweden Jesper Wiborg Schneider, Dept of Information Studies, Royal School of Library & Information Science, Aalborg, Denmark Program committee: Chair: Jesper W. Schneider, Royal School of Library & Information Science, Denmark; Chaomei Chen, Drexel University, USA; Ulf Sandstr?m, Linkoping University, Sweden; Diana Hicks, Georgia Tech, USA; Jin Bihui, Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; F?lix de Moya Aneg?n, University of Granada, Spain; Olle Persson, Ume? University, Sweden. Duration of the workshop: half-day (4 hours) Selection of papers Papers will be selected using double-blind peer review, administered by the committee chair. Note that papers already accepted by the main conference may not be re-given in the workshops but such papers might be transferred to workshops by the organizers of ISSI or the authors. Note that no more than 10 participants can be selected for the workshop. Web Site Updated information concerning the workshop program is posted at http://www.db.dk/jws AND http://www.forskningspolitik.se/english Duration Thursday, June 28, 9AM - 1 PM (4 hours, 1 break) Location To be announced from the ISSI 2007 organizers Workshop fee per participant Early bird registration fee (until April 25) is 75 Euro. Thereafter it is 100 Euro. This fee should be paid by all participants and covers services provided by the ISSI 2007 Organizers: *workshop location, *IT facilities (computer, internet access and projector), *Coffee at break and post-workshop lunch *copying of the Workshop Proceedings/Notes (spiral bound) Workshop participants should also register for the ISSI 2007 general meeting. Paper publication The ISSI 2007 organizing committee will photocopy and assemble Workshop Notes, with a front page and list of committee members, reviewers and participants. This will not abridge rights to submit papers to publishers or journals. Instructions will follow about proper format for papers presented at the workshop. ********************************************** Jesper Wiborg Schneider, PhD, Assistant Professor Department of Information Studies Royal School of Library & Information Science Sohng?rdsholmsvej 2, DK-9000 Aalborg, DENMARK Tel. +45 98773041, Fax. +45 98151042 E-mail: jws at db.dk Homepage:http://www.db.dk/jws ********************************************** ********************************************** Jesper Wiborg Schneider, PhD, Assistant Professor Department of Information Studies Royal School of Library & Information Science Sohng?rdsholmsvej 2, DK-9000 Aalborg, DENMARK Tel. +45 98773041, Fax. +45 98151042 E-mail: jws at db.dk Homepage:http://www.db.dk/jws ********************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: