CFP workshop on Methodological Issues in Using Curricula Vitae

[David Goodman]

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 <loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET>
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

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> 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
> 
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