From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue May 1 15:56:03 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 15:56:03 -0400 Subject: Lipsky PE " The lack of impact of the "impact factor" in clinical medicine, NATURE CLINICAL PRACTICE RHEUMATOLOGY 3 (4): 189-189 APR 2007 Message-ID: The author, P.E. Lipsky, and the publisher, Nature Publishing Group, have kindly granted permission to post the full text of this editorial. P.E. Lipsky : lipskyp at mail.nih.gov Title: The lack of impact of the "impact factor' in clinical medicine Author(s): Lipsky PE (Lipsky, Peter E.) 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REPRINTS now available here: http://vip.db.dk/jni/articles/nicolaisen&hjorland(2007).pdf With best wishes, Jeppe - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Jeppe Nicolaisen, PhD Assistant Professor Royal School of Library and Information Science Birketinget 6 DK-2300 Copenhagen S. Phone: (+45) 32 34 15 22 E-mail: jni at db.dk Web: http://www.db.dk/jni -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed May 2 14:34:17 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 14:34:17 -0400 Subject: Juan Miguel Campanario, Erika Acedo "Rejecting highly cited papers: The views of scientists who encounter resistance to their discoveries from other scientists" Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58, 5, 734-743. Message-ID: The full text of this paper is available in English at : http://www2.uah.es/jmc/ai53.pdf E-Mail: Juan Miguel Campanario [juan.campanario at uah.es] AUTHOR : Juan Miguel Campanario, Erika Acedo (2007) TITLE : Rejecting highly cited papers: The views of scientists who encounter resistance to their discoveries from other scientists SOURCE : Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58, 5, 734-743. From kmedina at UIUC.EDU Wed May 2 16:14:28 2007 From: kmedina at UIUC.EDU (Karen Medina) Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 15:14:28 -0500 Subject: Juan Miguel Campanario, Erika Acedo "Rejecting highly cited papers: The views of scientists who encounter resistance to their discoveries from other scientists" Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58, 5, 734-743. Message-ID: Dear Sigmetrics community, I just recently read Campanario's 1993 paper "Consolation for the Scientist: Sometimes It is Hard to Publish Papers That are Later Highly-Cited"* and hadn't had the time to go look for his follow-up work, so I was glad to see this posted. What intrigues me is setting this paper along side Hermanowicz's claim that rejection is commonplace and that persistence is the most valuable characteristic for success**. So maybe Campanario's original hypothesis that originality is not valued may not be the whole answer. If rejection is as commonplace as Hermanowicz alludes to, perhaps all work (regardless of originality) just needs to be pushed again and again. I like one of the quotes from Hermanowicz's interview subjects: "You have to be creative. You have to have good ideas and pursue them. You have to certainly be smart enough to get the ideas, tenacious enough to keep pushing, and confident enough to know that you're on the right track, and also to switch when you've made a mistake. (Interview 43)" (p. 143). Footnotes *Campanario, J. M. (1993). Consolation for the Scientist: Sometimes It is Hard to Publish Papers That Are Later Highly-Cited. Social Studies of Science, 23(2), 342-362. (May, 1993) ** Hermanowicz, J. C. (2006). What Does It Take to Be Successful? Science, Technology, & Human Values, 31(2), 135-152. http://sth.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/31/2/135 --- Original Message said: ------- >AUTHOR : Juan Miguel Campanario, Erika Acedo (2007) >TITLE : Rejecting highly cited papers: The views of scientists who encounter resistance to their discoveries from other scientists > >SOURCE : Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58, 5, 734-743. >The full text of this paper is available in English at : >http://www2.uah.es/jmc/ai53.pdf From lutz.bornmann at GESS.ETHZ.CH Thu May 3 02:49:00 2007 From: lutz.bornmann at GESS.ETHZ.CH (Bornmann Lutz) Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 08:49:00 +0200 Subject: Citation environment of Angewandte Chemie Message-ID: The full text of this paper is available at: http://www.lutz-bornmann.de/icons/Note.pdf E-Mail: Lutz Bornmann [bornmann at gess.ethz.ch] AUTHORS : Lutz Bornmann, Loet Leydesdorff, and Werner Marx (2007) TITLE : Citation environment of Angewandte Chemie SOURCE : CHIMIA, 61(3), 104-109 ABSTRACT: Recently, aggregated journal-journal citation networks were made accessible from the perspective of each journal included in the Science Citation Index (see http://www.leydesdorff.net/). The local matrices can be used to inspect the relevant citation environment of a journal using statistical analysis and visualization techniques from social network analysis. The inspection gives an answer to the question what the local impact of this and other journals in the environment is. In this study the citation environment of Angewandte Chemie was analysed. Angewandte Chemie is one of the prime chemistry journals in the world. Its environment was compared with that of the Journal of the American Chemical Society. The results of the environment analyses give a detailed insight into the field-embeddedness of Angewandte Chemie. The impacts of the German and international editions of this journal are compared. 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Name: loet.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 31304 bytes Desc: not available URL: From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue May 8 17:28:55 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 17:28:55 -0400 Subject: Anderson MH "How can we know what we think until we see what we said?: A citation and citation context analysis of Karl Weick's the social psychology of organizing " Organization Studies 27(11):1675-1692, November 2006 Message-ID: Doi: 10.1177/0170840606068346 E-mail Addresses: mha at waikato.ac.nz Title: How can we know what we think until we see what we said?: A citation and citation context analysis of Karl Weick's the social psychology of organizing Author(s): Anderson MH (Anderson, Marc H.) Source: ORGANIZATION STUDIES 27 (11): 1675-1692 NOV 2006 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 95 Times Cited: 1 Abstract: A substantial portion of Karl Weick's influence on organization studies is based upon his classic book The Social Psychology of Organizing (abbreviated as Organizing). A citation analysis shows the magnitude of this influence compared to five other organization studies classics, and reveals that Organizing continues to be highly cited. A citation context analysis (i.e. content analysis) of all citations to Weick (1979) in three top organization studies journals (Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Organization Studies) shows that 12 concepts account for 67.6% of citations to Organizing, but that the book is cited for a remarkable diversity of additional content as well. Furthermore, a consideration of differences between the concepts cited in the US journals versus Organization Studies reveals several regional differences. Finally, very few citations are critical of Organizing or involve empirical tests. These results hold a variety of implications for future research. Addresses: Anderson MH (reprint author), Univ Waikato, Dept Strategy & Human Resource Management, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand Univ Waikato, Dept Strategy & Human Resource Management, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand E-mail Addresses: mha at waikato.ac.nz Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, 1 OLIVERS YARD, 55 CITY ROAD, LONDON EC1Y 1SP, ENGLAND IDS Number: 112OC ISSN: 0170-8406 CITED REFERENCES; ABOLAFIA MY ENACTING MARKET CRISIS - THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF A SPECULATIVE BUBBLE ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCE QUARTERLY 33 : 177 1988 ABRAHAMSON E Attentional homogeneity in industries: The effect of discretion JOURNAL OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR 18 : 513 1997 ALDRICH H PARADIGM WARRIORS - DONALDSON VERSUS THE CRITICS OF ORGANIZATION THEORY ORGANIZATION STUDIES 9 : 19 1988 ALLEN B Referring to schools of thought: An example of symbolic citations SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE 27 : 937 1997 ANDERSON PA DECISION-MAKING BY OBJECTION AND THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCE QUARTERLY 28 : 201 1983 ASTLEY WG ADM SCI Q 30 : 497 1985 BAKER T Creating something from nothing: Resource construction through entrepreneurial bricolage ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCE QUARTERLY 50 : 329 2005 BANTZ CR CRITIQUE AND EXPERIMENTAL TEST OF WEICKS MODEL OF ORGANIZING COMMUNICATION MONOGRAPHS 44 : 171 1977 BANTZ CR COMMUNICATION STUDIE 40 : 231 1989 BERGER PL SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION : 1967 BOWMAN EH STRATEGY THROUGH THE OPTION LENS - AN INTEGRATED VIEW OF RESOURCE INVESTMENTS AND THE INCREMENTAL-CHOICE PROCESS ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW 18 : 760 1993 BURRELL G SOCIOLOGICAL PARADIG : 1979 CASE DO How can we investigate citation behavior? 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Methods: Lists of most highly cited CCA articles were obtained from Current Contents (1974, 1991) and CCA (2006); all based on the ISI/Thomson Scientific database. PubMed search identified country of origin. Results: Distribution of the most highly cited CCA articles was skewed towards those with high total citations. From the beginning, these articles originated from a diverse group of countries. This diversity increased with time to include countries from 4 continents. The most highly cited articles emerged at least 8-16 years following their publication. During the first 35 years of the Journal, there was a significant positive correlation between the total number of citations and the publication date of cited articles. Initially, virtually all most highly cited articles were methods papers, whereas during the past 25 years less than half of them reported methods; clinical research papers and reviews making up the rest. Conclusions: Results of this analysis may help in editorial policy-making and marketing of the Journal and in assessing the impact of individual countries on the field, and may guide authors' decision in submitting articles to the Journal. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Addresses: Csako G (reprint author), NIH, Ctr Clin, Dept Lab Med, Bldg 10,Rm 2C-407, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA NIH, Ctr Clin, Dept Lab Med, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA E-mail Addresses: gcsako at nih.gov Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS Subject Category: Medical Laboratory Technology IDS Number: 112IQ ISSN: 0009-8981 Cited references : 50 YEARS CITATION IN : 2005 CO TIMELINE BOULOS MN INT J HLTH GEOGR 4 : 7 2005 DELANGHE J 50 years of CCA CLINICA CHIMICA ACTA 369 : 105 2006 FIGUEREDO E International publishing in anaesthesia - how do different countries contribute? ACTA ANAESTHESIOLOGICA SCANDINAVICA 47 : 378 2003 GARFIELD E How can impact factors be improved? BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 313 : 411 1996 GARFIELD E CLIN CHEM CLINICA CH 48 : 5 1974 GARFIELD E CITATION-CLASSICS IN CLINICAL-CHEMISTRY HIGHLIGHT THE CUMULATIVE IMPACT OF USEFUL METHODS - A TRIBUTE TO EDITOR KING,JOHN,STANTON - AN INTRODUCTION TO REMONSTRANCE, APOSTROPHE, AND VALEDICTORY - BY KING,J.S. (REPRINTED FROM CLINICAL-CHEMISTRY, VOL 36, PG 413-414, 1990) CURRENT CONTENTS 37 : 3 1991 GARFIELD E ISI IMPACT FACTOR CU : 1994 GARFIELD E The history and meaning of the journal impact factor JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 295 : 90 2006 GARFIELD E CITATION INDEXES FOR SCIENCE - NEW DIMENSION IN DOCUMENTATION THROUGH ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS SCIENCE 122 : 108 1955 LOWRY OH PROTEIN MEASUREMENT WITH THE FOLIN PHENOL REAGENT JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY 193 : 265 1951 NEWMAN A CLIN CHIM ACTA 369 : 108 2006 SCHOENBACH UH CITATION INDEXES FOR SCIENCE SCIENCE 123 : 61 1956 TUTAREL O BMC MED ED 2 : 3 2002 From dgoodman at PRINCETON.EDU Tue May 8 21:42:44 2007 From: dgoodman at PRINCETON.EDU (David Goodman) Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 21:42:44 -0400 Subject: Lipsky PE " The lack of impact of the "impact factor" in clinical medicine, NATURE CLINICAL PRACTICE RHEUMATOLOGY 3 (4): 189-189 APR 2007 Message-ID: This article claims (on the basis of no data whatsoever) a lack of correlation of the usefulness of journals to clinicians with their impact factors. the 6 highest ranking journals in general medicine, by impact factor are: 1.New England Journal of Medicine 2.Lancet 3.JAMA 4.Annals of internal medicine 5.Annual review of medicine 6.British Medical Journal Leaving aside Annual Review of Medicine, which has the well-understood high impact factor characteristic of any review journal, which of these journals does the author propose as having a low impact of clinical practice? The author is the editor of Nature Clinical Practice Rheumatology, and 45% of their articles are classified by PubMed as review articles--as mentioned, the most obvious way of increasing impact factors as an artifact. For this journal, the earliest articles are from 2005; using Scopus, which includes the journal, not a single item in the first issue has more than 2 citations; the mode is zero. The author claims prejudice because impact factors are prepared by a for-profit company; I think the evidence shows that Thomson has no prejudice against the equally for-profit NPG: the highest impact factor title in general science is from that publisher, as is the highest title in experimental medicine (Nature Medicine). David Goodman, Ph.D., M.L.S. previously: Bibliographer and Research Librarian Princeton University Library dgoodman at princeton.edu ----- Original Message ----- From: Eugene Garfield Date: Tuesday, May 1, 2007 4:07 pm Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Lipsky PE " The lack of impact of the "impact factor" in clinical medicine, NATURE CLINICAL PRACTICE RHEUMATOLOGY 3 (4): 189-189 APR 2007 To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > The author, P.E. Lipsky, and the publisher, Nature Publishing > Group, have > kindly granted permission to post the full text of this editorial. > > > P.E. Lipsky : lipskyp at mail.nih.gov > > > Title: The lack of impact of the "impact factor' in clinical > medicine > > Author(s): Lipsky PE (Lipsky, Peter E.) > > Source: NATURE CLINICAL PRACTICE RHEUMATOLOGY 3 (4): 189-189 APR > 2007 > > Document Type: Editorial Material > Language: English > Cited References: 0 Times Cited: 0 > > Publisher: NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 75 VARICK STREET, 9TH FLOOR, > NEW YORK, > NY 10013-1917 USA > Subject Category: Rheumatology; Social Issues > IDS Number: 152KK > > ISSN: 1745-8382 > > From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed May 9 00:24:04 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 00:24:04 -0400 Subject: Davis HE "Keeping validity in cite: Web resources cited in select Washington law reviews, 2001-03 " LAW LIBRARY JOURNAL 98 (4): 639-661 FAL 2006 Message-ID: e-MAIL : helaned at yahoo.com Title: Keeping validity in cite: Web resources cited in select Washington law reviews, 2001-03 Author(s): Davis HE (Davis, Helane E.) Source: LAW LIBRARY JOURNAL 98 (4): 639-661 FAL 2006 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 28 Times Cited: 0 Addresses: Davis HE (reprint author), Univ Kentucky, Coll Law, Lexington, KY 40506 USA Univ Kentucky, Coll Law, Lexington, KY 40506 USA Publisher: AMER ASSN LAW LIBRARIES, SUITE 703 53 WEST JACKSON BLVD, CHICAGO, IL 60604 USA Subject Category: Information Science & Library Science; Law IDS Number: 104YA ISSN: 0023-9283 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed May 9 00:30:15 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 00:30:15 -0400 Subject: Li ZX "How to establish a first-class international scientific journal in China? " WORLD JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY 12 (43): 6905-6908 NOV 21 2006 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: lizhenxi2003 at yahoo.com.cn Title: How to establish a first-class international scientific journal in China? Author(s): Li ZX (Li, Zhen-Xi) Source: WORLD JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY 12 (43): 6905-6908 NOV 21 2006 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 0 Times Cited: 1 Abstract: Hundreds of scientific journals are published in China. However, only scores of them are included in Science Citation Index by the Institute for Scientific Information, with impact factors of only I or less. Thus, how to establish a first-class international scientific journal in China is an important but difficult topic that deserves extensive exploration. World Journal of Gastroenterology (WJG) sets a good example although it has experienced setbacks on the road towards success. Concepts and pursuits that affirm the overall development direction, innovation and dreams that provide impetus and aspiration for higher objectives, team work and unique pattern that assure excellent quality and service, and culture and environment that also determine the speed and direction of the development, are believed to be the major factors contributing to the success of WJG. It is recommended that the effective resolution to the above issue is to learn from Chinese examples such as WJG rather than from "how foreign journals do". (c) 2006 The WJG Press. All rights reserved. Addresses: Li ZX (reprint author), Shanxi Provincial Acad Soft Sci, 1 Bldg,Binhe E Rd Dist, Taiyuan 030002, Shanxi Province Peoples R China Shanxi Provincial Acad Soft Sci, Taiyuan 030002, Shanxi Province Peoples R China E-mail Addresses: lizhenxi2003 at yahoo.com.cn Publisher: W J G PRESS, PO BOX 2345, BEIJING 100023, PEOPLES R CHINA Subject Category: Gastroenterology & Hepatology IDS Number: 109HR ISSN: 1007-9327 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed May 9 00:32:41 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 00:32:41 -0400 Subject: Behrens H "A bibliometric study in crystallography " ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION B-STRUCTURAL SCIENCE 62: 993-1001 Part 6, DEC 2006 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: peter.luksch at fiz-karlsruhe.de Title: A bibliometric study in crystallography Author(s): Behrens H (Behrens, Heinrich), Luksch P (Luksch, Peter) Source: ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION B-STRUCTURAL SCIENCE 62: 993-1001 Part 6, DEC 2006 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 17 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: This is an application of the mathematical and statistical techniques of bibliometrics to the field of crystallography. This study is, however, restricted to inorganic compounds. The data were taken from the Inorganic Crystal Structure Database, which is a well defined and evaluated body of literature and data published from 1913 to date. The data were loaded in a relational database system, which allows a widespread analysis. The following results were obtained: The cumulative growth rate of the number of experimentally determined crystal structures is best described by a third-degree polynomial function. Except for the upper end of the curve, Bradford's plot can be described well by the analytical Leimkuhler function. The publication process is dominated by a small number of periodicals. The probability of the author productivity in terms of publications follows an inverse power law of the Lotka form and in terms of database entries an inverse power law in the Mandelbrot form. In both cases the exponent is about 1.7. For the lower tail of the data an exponential correction factor has to be applied. Multiple authorship has increased from 1.4 authors per publication to about four within the past eight decades. The author distribution itself is represented by a lognormal distribution. Addresses: Luksch P (reprint author), FIZ Karlsruhe, D-76344 Eggenstein Leopoldshafen, Germany FIZ Karlsruhe, D-76344 Eggenstein Leopoldshafen, Germany E-mail Addresses: peter.luksch at fiz-karlsruhe.de Publisher: BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, 9600 GARSINGTON RD, OXFORD OX4 2DQ, OXON, ENGLAND Subject Category: Crystallography IDS Number: 104WW ISSN: 0108-7681 CITED REFERENCES : BAILONMORENO R Bibliometric laws: Empirical flaws of fit SCIENTOMETRICS 63 : 209 2005 BEHRENS H BER WISSENSCHAFTSGES 29 : 89 2006 BEHRENS H Data import and validation in the inorganic Crystal Structure Database JOURNAL OF RESEARCH OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY 101 : 365 1996 BELSKY A New developments in the Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD): accessibility in support of materials research and design ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION B-STRUCTURAL SCIENCE 58 : 364 2002 BENNION BC ESTIMATING SIZE AND SCATTER OF WORLD PHYSICS JOURNAL LITERATURE CZECHOSLOVAK JOURNAL OF PHYSICS 36 : 19 1986 BERGERHOFF G CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC DAT : 77 1987 BOOKSTEIN A INFORMETRIC DISTRIBUTIONS .1. UNIFIED OVERVIEW JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE 41 : 368 1990 BRADFORD SC ENGINEERING-LONDON 137 : 85 1934 DIODATO V DICT BIBLIOMETRICS : 1994 FLUCK E Inorganic crystal structure database (ICSD) and standardized data and crystal chemical characterization of inorganic structure types (TYPIX) - Two tools for inorganic chemists and crystallographers JOURNAL OF RESEARCH OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY 101 : 217 1996 HAWKINS DT CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC LITERATURE - A BIBLIOMETRIC AND CITATION ANALYSIS ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION A 36 : 475 1980 LEIMKUHLER FF BRADFORD DISTRIBUTION JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION 23 : 197 1967 LOTKA AJ J WASHINGTON ACADEMY 16 : 317 1926 MANDELBROT B FRACTAL GEOMETRY NAT : 1982 PERLINE R Strong, weak and false inverse power laws STATISTICAL SCIENCE 20 : 68 2005 REDMAN J A citation analysis of the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre JOURNAL OF APPLIED CRYSTALLOGRAPHY 34 : 375 2001 SOLLAPRICE DJ LITTLE SCI BIG SCI : 1963 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed May 9 00:35:44 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 00:35:44 -0400 Subject: Huang Z , Chen HC , Li X , Roco MC "Connecting NSF funding to patent innovation in nanotechnology (2001-2004) " JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH 8 (6): 859-879 DEC 2006 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: zanhuang at psu.edu Title: Connecting NSF funding to patent innovation in nanotechnology (2001- 2004) Author(s): Huang Z (Huang, Zan), Chen HC (Chen, Hsinchun), Li X (Li, Xin), Roco MC (Roco, Mihail C.) Source: JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH 8 (6): 859-879 DEC 2006 Document Type: Editorial Material Language: English Cited References: 15 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Nanotechnology research has experienced growth rapid in knowledge and innovations; it also attracted significant public funding in recent years. Several countries have recognized nanotechnology as a critical research domain that promises to revolutionize a wide range of fields of applications. In this paper, we present an analysis of the funding for nanoscale science and engineering (NSE) at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and its implications on technological innovation (number of patents) in this field from 2001 to 2004. Using a combination of basic bibliometric analysis and content visualization tools, we identify growth trends, research topic distribution, and the evolution in NSF funding and commercial patenting activities recorded at the United States Patent Office (USPTO). The patent citations are used to compare the impact of the NSF-funded research on nanotechnology development with research supported by other sources in the United States and abroad. The analysis shows that the NSF-funded researchers and patents authored by them have significantly higher impact based on patent citation measures in the four-year period than other comparison groups. The NSF-authored patent impact is growing faster with the lifetime of a patent, indicating the long-term importance of fundamental research. Author Keywords: patent citations; patent analysis; information visualization; self-organizing maps; nanoscale science and engineering; nanotechnology; research and development (R&D); technological innovation; government funding Addresses: Huang Z (reprint author), Penn State Univ, Smeal Coll Business, Dept Supply Chain & Informat Syst, University Pk, PA 16802 USA 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, Artificial Intelligence Lab, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA Natl Sci Fdn, Arlington, VA 22230 USA E-mail Addresses: zanhuang at psu.edu Publisher: SPRINGER, VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS IDS Number: 109RS ISSN: 1388-0764 CITED REFERENCES: ADAMS JD ANN INSEE 49 : 127 1998 ARORA A IMPACT NSF SUPPORT B : 1998 CHEN HC Internet categorization and search: A self-organizing approach JOURNAL OF VISUAL COMMUNICATION AND IMAGE REPRESENTATION 7 : 88 1996 GARFIELD E CITATION INDEXES FOR SCIENCE - NEW DIMENSION IN DOCUMENTATION THROUGH ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS SCIENCE 122 : 108 1955 HUANG Z Longitudinal nanotechnology development (1991-2002): National Science Foundation funding and its impact on patents JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH 7 : 343 2005 HUANG Z International nanotechnology development in 2003: Country, institution, and technology field analysis based on USPTO patent database JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH 6 : 325 2004 HUANG Z Longitudinal patent analysis for nanoscale science and engineering: Country, institution and technology field JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH 5 : 333 2003 KARKI MMS WORLD PATENT INFORMA 19 : 269 1997 LIN C J MANAGEMENT INFORMA 16 : 57 2000 NARIN F ASSESSING VALUE RES : 59 1998 ONG TH Newsmap: a knowledge map for online news DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS 39 : 583 2005 OPPENHEIM C WEB KNOWLEDGE FESTSC : 405 2000 PAYNE AA ADV ECON ANAL POLICY 3 : 1018 2003 ROCO MC International perspective on government nanotechnology funding in 2005 JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH 7 : 707 2005 ROCO MC NANOTECHNOLOGY RES D : 2000 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed May 9 00:38:40 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield_?=) Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 00:38:40 -0400 Subject: Stellman SD "Ernst Wynder: Citation analysis " PREVENTIVE MEDICINE 43 (4): 268-270 OCT 2006 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: sds91 at columbia.edu Title: Ernst Wynder: Citation analysis Author(s): Stellman SD (Stellman, Steven D.) Source: PREVENTIVE MEDICINE 43 (4): 268-270 OCT 2006 Document Type: Biographical-Item Language: English Cited References: 1 Times Cited: 1 Abstract: Ernst Wynder published nearly 800 papers during his lifetime. I used the ISI Web of Science (R) to analyze his publications and the subsequent literature citing his work. More than half of his papers were published in just ten journals, including Cancer, Preventive Medicine (which he founded and edited), JNCI, and Cancer Research. The 87 papers in Cancer covered all of the major cancer sites including breast, colon, lung, and prostate, and many others. Twenty-five papers and one book were cited in over 200 publications. His publications included 441 co-authors from a broad range of scientific disciplines. (c) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Author Keywords: Ernst Wynder; citation analysis; publications; cancer epidemiology; American Health Foundation Addresses: Stellman SD (reprint author), Columbia Univ, Dept Epidemiol, Mailman Sch Publ Hlth, New York, NY 10032 USA. Columbia Univ, Dept Epidemiol, Mailman Sch Publ Hlth, New York, NY 10032 USA E-mail Addresses: sds91 at columbia.edu Publisher: ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE, 525 B ST, STE 1900, SAN DIEGO, CA 92101-4495 USA Subject Category: Public, Environmental & Occupational Health; Medicine, General & Internal IDS Number: 102AY ISSN: 0091-7435 Cited References : WYNDER E PUBLICATION LIST From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed May 9 10:56:07 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 10:56:07 -0400 Subject: Wilkerson WR "The emergence of Internet citations in US Supreme Court opinions " Justice System Journal 27(3):323-338 2006 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: wilkerwr at oneonta.edu Title: The emergence of Internet citations in US Supreme Court opinions Author(s): Wilkerson WR (Wilkerson, William R.) Source: JUSTICE SYSTEM JOURNAL 27 (3): 323-338 2006 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 27 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: This article tracks the use and growth of Internet citations in the decade 1996-2006. The first citation to an Internet reference appeared in a U.S. Supreme Court opinion in 1996. At the end of the 2005 term, all members of the Court had included Internet citations in opinions, and in recent terms, Internet citations appeared in over one-third of cases decided by the Court. Internet citations are found in a disproportionally large number of dissenting opinions. Internet citations are less permanent than other references, although the percentage of live links in Supreme Court opinions is much higher than that found in studies of Internet citation permanence done in other disciplines. The use of Internet citations is compared to larger trends occurring in what is cited by members of the Court in their opinions. The rise in Internet citations has taken place at a time when citations to nonlegal sources have grown and references to law reviews have declined. Addresses: Wilkerson WR (reprint author), SUNY Coll Oneonta, Oneonta, NY 13820 USA SUNY Coll Oneonta, Oneonta, NY 13820 USA E-mail Addresses: wilkerwr at oneonta.edu Publisher: NAT CENTER STATE COURTS, 300 NEWPORT AVE,, WILLIAMSBURG, VA 23185 USA Subject Category: Law IDS Number: 104TG ISSN: 0098-261X CITED REFERENCES: NY TIMES : 2006 *ADM OFF US COURTS JUD BUS US COURTS 20 : 2005 *NEW STAT LAW REP OFF REP STYL MAN 200 : 2002 AXELLUTE P LEGAL CITATION FORM - THEORY AND PRACTICE LAW LIBRARY JOURNAL 75 : 148 1982 CALDEIRA GA POLITICAL BEHAVIOR 5 : 83 1983 EPSTEIN L SUPREME COURT COMPEN : 2003 FRIEDMAN LM STATE SUPREME COURTS - A CENTURY OF STYLE AND CITATION STANFORD LAW REVIEW 33 : 773 1981 GRAFFEO V COMMUNICATION 1213 : 2005 HARRIS P LAW SOC REV 19 : 449 1985 JOHNSON CA FOLLOW-UP CITATIONS IN THE UNITED-STATES-SUPREME-COURT WESTERN POLITICAL QUARTERLY 39 : 538 1986 KOEHLER W A longitudinal study of Web pages continued: a consideration of document persistence INFORMATION RESEARCH-AN INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONIC JOURNAL 9 : Art. No. 174 2004 KOEHLER W An analysis of Web page and Web site constancy and permanence JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE 50 : 162 1999 LANDES WM J LAW ECON 19 : 249 1977 MANZ WH Citations in Supreme Court opinions and briefs: A comparative study LAW LIBRARY JOURNAL 94 : 267 2002 MARKWELL J J SCI ED TECHNOLOGY 11 : 105 2002 MCCLINTOCK MD OKLA L REV 51 : 659 1998 MERRYMAN JH TOWARD A THEORY OF CITATIONS - EMPIRICAL-STUDY OF CITATION PRACTICE OF CALIFORNIA SUPREME-COURT IN 1950, 1960, AND 1970 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW 50 : 381 1977 MERSKY RM TEX BAR J 61 : 569 2000 NEWLAND CA LEGAL PERIODICALS AND THE UNITED-STATES SUPREME-COURT MIDWEST JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE 3 : 58 1959 OBRIEN D STORM CTR SUPREME CO : 2005 REES WD The Bluebook in the new millennium - Same old story? LAW LIBRARY JOURNAL 93 : 335 2001 RUMSEY M Runaway train: Problems of permanence, accessibility, and stability in the use of Web sources in law review citations LAW LIBRARY JOURNAL 94 : 27 2002 SCHAUER F Nonlegal information and the delegalization of law JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES 29 : 495 2000 SHAPIRO FR The most-cited legal scholars JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES 29 : 409 2000 SIRICO LJ The citing of law reviews by the Supreme Court: 1971-1999 INDIANA LAW JOURNAL 75 : 1009 2000 SPAETH H ORIGINAL SUPREME COU : 1953 SPRIGGS JF Explaining the overruling of US Supreme Court precedent JOURNAL OF POLITICS 63 : 1091 2001 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed May 9 11:01:35 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 11:01:35 -0400 Subject: Falagas ME, Michalopoulos AS , Bliziotis IA, Soteriades ES, "A bibliometric analysis by geographic area of published research in several biomedical fields, 1995-2003 " CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL 175 (11): 1389-1390 NOV 21 2006 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: m.falagas at aibs.gr Title: A bibliometric analysis by geographic area of published research in several biomedical fields, 1995-2003 Author(s): Falagas ME (Falagas, Matthew E.), Michalopoulos AS (Michalopoulos, Argyris S.), Bliziotis IA (Bliziotis, Ioannis A.), Soteriades ES (Soteriades, Elpidoforos S.) Source: CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL 175 (11): 1389-1390 NOV 21 2006 Document Type: Article Language: English Cited References: 14 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: We summarized the findings of several studies of ours to compare the quantity and quality of published research from around the world for the years 1995 to 2003. We evaluated the number of articles published and their mean journal impact factor. We also studied the research productivity of various areas adjusted for gross domestic product (GDP) and population. We found that Western Europe leads the world in published research on infectious diseases-microbiology (82 342 articles [38.8%]) and in cardiopulmonary medicine (67 783 articles [39.5%]), whereas the United States ranks first in the fields of preventive medicine, public health and epidemiology both in quantity (23 918 articles [49.1%]) and quality of published papers. However, after adjustments for GDP, Canada ranked first, with the United States and Oceania following closely behind. All of the developing regions had only small research contributions in all of the biomedical fields examined. Addresses: Falagas ME (reprint author), Alfa Inst Biomed Sci, 9 Neapoleos St, Athens 15123, Greece Alfa Inst Biomed Sci, Athens 15123, Greece Henry Dunant Hosp, Dept Med, Athens, Greece Henry Dunant Hosp, Intens Care Unit, Athens, Greece Tufts Univ, Sch Med, Dept Med, Medford, MA 02155 USA Harvard Univ, Sch Publ Hlth, Dept Environm Hlth, Occupat Hlth Program, Boston, MA 02115 USA E-mail Addresses: m.falagas at aibs.gr Publisher: CMA MEDIA INC, 1867 ALTA VISTA DR, OTTAWA, ONTARIO K1G 3Y6, CANADA Subject Category: Medicine, General & Internal IDS Number: 104LY ISSN: 0820-3946 CITED REFERENCES: *I SCI INF SCI SCI CIT IND J CI : 2004 *WORLD BANK GROUP WORLD DEV IND ONL BLIZIOTIS IA Worldwide trends in quantity and quality of published articles in the field of infectious diseases BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES 5 : Art. No. 16 2005 FALAGAS ME ACTA TROP 0930 : 2006 FALAGAS ME A bibliometric analysis of research productivity in Parasitology by different world regions during a 9-year period (1995-2003) BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES 6 : Art. No. 56 2006 FALAGAS ME Estimates of global research productivity in virology JOURNAL OF MEDICAL VIROLOGY 76 : 229 2005 JEMEC GB BMC DERMATOL 1 : 7 2001 MELA GS Radiological research in Europe: a bibliometric study EUROPEAN RADIOLOGY 13 : 657 2003 MICHALOPOULOS A A bibliometric analysis of global research production in respiratory medicine CHEST 128 : 3993 2005 MICHALOPOULOS A Worldwide research productivity in critical care medicine CRITICAL CARE 9 : R258 2005 RAHMAN M Biomedical publication - global profile and trend PUBLIC HEALTH 117 : 274 2003 ROSMARAKIS ES Estimates of global production in cardiovascular diseases research INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY 100 : 443 2005 SEGLEN PO Why the impact factor of journals should not be used for evaluating research BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 314 : 498 1997 VERGIDIS PI Bibliometric analysis of global trends for research productivity in microbiology EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY & INFECTIOUS DISEASES 24 : 342 2005 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed May 9 11:02:44 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 11:02:44 -0400 Subject: Pilkington A, Fitzgerald R, "Operations management themes, concepts and relationships: a forward retrospective of IJOPM " International Journal of Operations and Production Management 26(11-12): 1255-1275 2006 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: a.pilkington at rhul.ac.uk Title: Operations management themes, concepts and relationships: a forward retrospective of IJOPM Author(s): Pilkington A (Pilkington, Alan), Fitzgerald R (Fitzgerald, Robert) Source: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OPERATIONS & PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT 26 (11- 12): 1255-1275 2006 Document Type: Review Language: English Cited References: 157 Times Cited: 0 Abstract: Purpose-The purpose of this paper to investigate the major themes of operations management by analysing citations in IJOPM. It aims to discuss changes in the discipline's sub-fields and identifies emerging topics. Design/methodology/approach-The paper is an empirical analysis of citations and co-citations from IJOPM. Network and factor analysis are used to analyse and group the data. Findings-The study demonstrates that the persistent central ideas of operations management concern manufacturing strategy, with specific interests in strategy typologies, best practices, and the resource-based view. Other central themes are performance measurement, the case study method, and process management. The plotting of subfield trajectories shows that recent studies are seeking a more subtle understanding of operations management by considering its practice in relation to strategy, context and resources. Emerging subjects within the field include supply chain management, lean management systems, theory building from quantitative data and sustainable resource limits to capability. Originality/value-The study is unique in performing the analysis at the individual publication level rather than following the normal aggregated author co-citation analysis (ACA) method. The potential problems with citation/co-citation studies are discussed. Addresses: Pilkington A (reprint author), Univ London Royal Holloway & Bedford New Coll, Sch Management, Egham TW20 0EX, Surrey England Univ London Royal Holloway & Bedford New Coll, Sch Management, Egham TW20 0EX, Surrey England E-mail Addresses: a.pilkington at rhul.ac.uk Publisher: EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED, 60/62 TOLLER LANE, BRADFORD BD8 9BY, W YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND Subject Category: Management IDS Number: 104MU ISSN: 0144-3577 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed May 9 11:04:29 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 11:04:29 -0400 Subject: Hollert H "When will J Soils and Sediments get assigned an impact factor? " JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS 6 (4): 200-200 NOV 2006 Message-ID: E-mail: hollert at uni-heidelberg.de Title: When will J Soils and Sediments get assigned an impact factor? Author(s): Hollert H (Hollert, Henner) Source: JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS 6 (4): 200-200 NOV 2006 Document Type: Editorial Material Language: English Cited References: 4 Times Cited: 0 Addresses: Hollert H (reprint author), Univ Heidelberg, Dept Zool, Neuenheimer Feld 230, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany Univ Heidelberg, Dept Zool, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany E-mail Addresses: Hollert at uni-heidelberg.de Publisher: ECOMED PUBLISHERS, JUSTUS-VON-LIEBIG-STR 1, D-86899 LANDSBERG, GERMANY Subject Category: Geosciences, Multidisciplinary; Agriculture, Soil Science IDS Number: 111WT ISSN: 1439-0108 Cited References: *THOMS HELP PAG JCR : 2006 APITZ SE New and recent developments in soil and sediment management, policy and science do we need a Journal of Soils and Sediments? JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS 5 : 129 2005 HUTZINGER O Passing the baton: A new editor-in-chief and a new challenge ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH 12 : 315 2005 YOUNG AL Round table editors meeting ESPR, JSS and Int JLCA - 13-14 October 2006 in Heidelberg, Germany ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH 13 : 361 2006 From notsjb at LSU.EDU Wed May 9 16:51:57 2007 From: notsjb at LSU.EDU (Stephen J Bensman) Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 15:51:57 -0500 Subject: Hollert H "When will J Soils and Sediments get assigned an impact factor? " JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS 6 (4): 200-200 NOV 2006 In-Reply-To: A Message-ID: Always be careful of what you wish for. Given the probabilities, he may be in for a rude shock, winding up in the bottom 5% of the IF range together with 82% of the other journals. Stephen J. Bensman LSU Libraries Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA notsjb at lsu.edu -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Eugene Garfield Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 10:04 AM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Hollert H "When will J Soils and Sediments get assigned an impact factor? " JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS 6 (4): 200-200 NOV 2006 E-mail: hollert at uni-heidelberg.de Title: When will J Soils and Sediments get assigned an impact factor? Author(s): Hollert H (Hollert, Henner) Source: JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS 6 (4): 200-200 NOV 2006 Document Type: Editorial Material Language: English Cited References: 4 Times Cited: 0 Addresses: Hollert H (reprint author), Univ Heidelberg, Dept Zool, Neuenheimer Feld 230, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany Univ Heidelberg, Dept Zool, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany E-mail Addresses: Hollert at uni-heidelberg.de Publisher: ECOMED PUBLISHERS, JUSTUS-VON-LIEBIG-STR 1, D-86899 LANDSBERG, GERMANY Subject Category: Geosciences, Multidisciplinary; Agriculture, Soil Science IDS Number: 111WT ISSN: 1439-0108 Cited References: *THOMS HELP PAG JCR : 2006 APITZ SE New and recent developments in soil and sediment management, policy and science do we need a Journal of Soils and Sediments? JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS 5 : 129 2005 HUTZINGER O Passing the baton: A new editor-in-chief and a new challenge ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH 12 : 315 2005 YOUNG AL Round table editors meeting ESPR, JSS and Int JLCA - 13-14 October 2006 in Heidelberg, Germany ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH 13 : 361 2006 From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Thu May 10 06:26:19 2007 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 12:26:19 +0200 Subject: visualization of international collaboration in science Message-ID: IntColl.exe for International Collaboration Analysis This program enables one to generate a representation of the international coauthorship relations in a document set in terms of the countries of coauthors. Input is a set saved using ISI's Web of Science, and outputs are: 1. cosine.dat provides an input file for Pajek as a visual representation of the international collaboration network among the authors within this set. The matrix is normalized using the cosine. 2. coocc.dat and matrix.dbf are the files which underly cosine.dat. Coocc.dat is the file before normalization; and matrix.dbf the asymmetrical data matrix. The latter file can be used for statistical analysis in SPSS, the former for graph-analytical analysis using UCINet or Pajek. 3. Like ISI.EXE, the program IntColl.EXE produces four databases containing the information in the original input set in relational format: au.dbf with the authors; cs.dbf with the address ("corporate sources"); core.dbf with information which is unique for each record (e.g., the title); and cr.dbf containing the cited references. The files are linked through the numbers in core.dbf. If one needs only these files, one is advised to use ISI.EXE, since the computation of the cosine is computer intensive, and therefore time-consuming. The routine creating the matrix and the cosine-normalized output uses the country names in the file cs.dbf as variable names, and the records in core.dbf as the cases (rows). The number of documents is unlimited. The country names can be edited in the output files using an ASCII editor (e.g., Notepad). _____ 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 harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Fri May 11 07:54:13 2007 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 12:54:13 +0100 Subject: Vanity Press Journals Message-ID: On Thu, 10 May 2007, [identity deleted] wrote: > Professor Harnad, > > In my discipline... there has developed > a plethora of vanity press journals that with time and money virtually > guarantee a publication. Recently we had a job candidate who had > capitalized on this process and was comparing his work to that in > reputable... journals. In reputable... journals, as in most > disciplines, the acceptance rate for submissions are low and outright > rejection is the most likely outcome. I am interested in any articles > or research reports that investigate this issue. Of course in the top > research universities only an article in an elite journal is acceptable, > but in second tier universities some faculty attempt to use the vanity > press route to inflate their resume. > > Are you aware of any articles or working papers that expressly address > the issue of proliferation of these vanity press journals that attempt > to sell themselves as legitimate academic outlets? I am afraid I don't know anything on precisely the question you asked, but I will forward your query (anonymized, and removing details about discipline, etc.) to the sigmetrics list. My general answer would be that it has always been known that the journal quality hierarchy stretches down all the way to a vanity press at the bottom, and that the name and established quality standards of the journal has always been taken into account, rather than just a blind bean count of publications. In addition, both the impact factor (average citation count) and more recently the actual citation count of the article and the author have also been weighed, in evaluations. Still more metrics will soon be available. Apart from deliberate vanity-press pseudo-journals (in some fields there are also homologous pseudo-conference-proceedings) there is also the question of legitimate new journals that have not yet had a chance to establish a reputation or an impact factor. I think it would be unfair to class the latter with the former, though it is probably true that it is easier to get a paper accepted by a new journal; this too has exceptions, though, such as PLoS Biology, which explicitly began seeking to establish the highest standards, and succeeded from the very outset. In particular, it is incorrect to assume that journals that charge for publication are all vanity press journals. Open Access journals that charge for publication, for example, are not vanity press journals. There have also been some studies on the relation between journal citation counts and rejection rates (positive correlation) but this correlation will not be as high as one would expect, as high-quality journals develop a reputation, and sometimes that means authors carefully self-select rather than submitting and wasting their own and referees' time. But even for this there are exceptions, such as the highest-profile journals, Science and Nature, which receive so many submissions from authors (who send it there first, like a lottery) that they have multi-tier refusals, including declining to referee a paper that does not look as if it has a chance. So the overall picture is probably more complicated than just the proliferation of vanity journals, authors trying to use them, and hiring committees unaware of them. I did not understand the allusion to "online opinion poll." (There are indeed some who want to replace peer review by online tags and comments, but I don't think that has gotten very far.) Stevan Harnad American Scientist Open Access Forum http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Fri May 11 10:26:24 2007 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 15:26:24 +0100 Subject: Future UK RAEs to be Metrics-Based In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Fri, 11 May 2007, J.F.Rowland at lboro.ac.uk wrote: > Sadly, in their RAE (research assessment exercise) assessments of > individual academic staff, many UK university administrations still look > solely at impact factor. This week's Times Higher Educational > Supplement contains one very distressing report of the kind of effect > this one-dimensional measurement can have on a researcher's career. In > addition to its other flaws, dependence on journal impact factor alone > gives undue influence to a commercial organisation (Thomson ISI) which > consistently over-represents journals published in North America, and > under-represents ones published in languages other than English. This is all true, but stay tuned! It is all poised to change, radically. With OA, OA scientomentrics, and the new metric RAE, a rich and diverse array of new metrics will be available, of which the Journal Impact Factor will merely be one among many. Each of the metrics will be weighted by its predictive power, with different profiles for different fields. "Future UK RAEs to be Metrics-Based" http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/5250.html "Let 1000 RAE Metric Flowers Bloom: Avoid Matthew Effect as Self-Fulfilling Prophecy" http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/5417.html Harnad, S. (2007) Open Access Scientometrics and the UK Research Assessment Exercise. In: Proceedings of 11th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics. Madrid, Spain. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/13804/ (Note that the past versions of RAE did not look at citation counts at all, whether individual counts or journal impact factor; however, many departments, in preparing their RAE returns, did, and used journal impact factor as one of their criteria for deciding which 4 publications to return. In future, the OA metrics themselves will be picked up directly, and there will be no point in restricting them to 4 publications -- or, alternatively, there could be a "best 4 metric," with its own weight, along with alongside all the other many metrics.) Stevan Harnad From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon May 14 13:42:27 2007 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 13:42:27 -0400 Subject: Gracza T and Somoskovi I "Impact factor and/or Hirsch index?]" Orv Hetil, May 6, 2007; 148(18): 849-52. Message-ID: TITLE : Impact factor and/or Hirsch index?] AUTHORS: T Gracza and I Somoskovi SOURCE : Orv Hetil, May 6, 2007; 148(18): 849-52. P?csi Tudom?nyegyetem Orvostudom?nyi ?s Eg?szs?gtudom?nyi Centrum K?nyvt?ra P?cs Szigeti ?t 12. 7624. ABSTRACT: Is the best measure of a scientist's worth the total number of his or her published papers? For many years Institute for Scientific Information has been publishing the lists of impact factors providing quantitative tools for ranking scientists. The impact factor was devised by Eugene Garfield, the founder of the Institute for Scientific Information. Impact factors are calculated each year by the Institute for Scientific Information for those journals which it indexes, and are published in Journal Citation Reports. These measures apply only to journals, not individual articles or individual scientists. For the impact factor of individual scientists, there exists the h-index or Hirsch number. The Hirsch-index (h-index) has recently been defined by Hirsch as a new method for measuring the scientific activity. If a scientist has published n articles which all have been cited at least n times, then he will have a h-index of n . The h-index seeks to describe the impact of individual researchers, rather than journals. The h-index is the result of the balance between the number of publications and the number of citations per publication. H-index: Impact of Individual Scientists. H-index or/and impact factor - it is the question of the future. 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URL: From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Sun May 20 11:57:16 2007 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 16:57:16 +0100 Subject: Craig et al.'s review of the OA citation advantage Message-ID: ** Cross-Posted ** Craig, Ian; Andrew Plume, Marie McVeigh, James Pringle & Mayur Amin (2007) Do Open Access Articles Have Greater Citation Impact? A critical review of the literature. Journal of Informetrics. http://www.publishingresearch.net/Citations-SummaryPaper3_000.pdf.pdf I've read Craig et al.'s critical review ("proposed by the Publishing Research Consortium") concerning the OA citation Impact effect and will shortly write a short, mild review. But first here is a commentary from Bruce Royan, followed by Sally Morris's posting, followed by a few remarks from me. -- Stevan Harnad > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 08:00:02 +0100 > From: Bruce Royan > To: diglib--infoserv.inist.fr > Subject: RE: [DIGLIB] Recent research tempers citation advantage of open > access > > Hmm. > > Sally claims that according to this article "the relationship between > open access and citation, once thought to be almost self-evident, > has almost disappeared." > Now I'm no Informetrician, but my reading of the article is that > the authors reluctantly acknowledge that Open Access articles do > have greater citation impact, but claim that this is less because > they are Open Access per se, and more because: > -they are available sooner than more conventionally > published articles, or > -they tend to be better articles, by more prestigious > authors > Sally's point of view is understandable, since she is employed by a > consortium of conventional publishers. It's interesting to note that > the employers of the authors of this article are Wiley-Blackwell, > Thomson Scientific, and Elsevier. > Even more interesting is that, though this article has been accepted > for publication in the conventional "Journal of Informetrics", a pdf > of it (described as a summary, but there are 20 pages in JOI format, > complete with diagrams, references etc) has already been mounted on > the web for free download, in what might be mistaken for an example > of green route open access. > Could this possibly be in order to improve the article's impact? > > Professor Bruce Royan http://www.linkedin.com/in/bruceroyan > Concurrent Computing Limited. Registered Office: > Wellington House, Aylesbury Rd, Princes Risborough, Bucks HP27 0JP > >From: Sally Morris info--publishingresearch.net >Sent: 17 May 2007 18:00 >Subject: [DIGLIB] Recent research tempers citation advantage of open access > > 'Do Open Access Articles Have Greater Citation Impact? > A critical review of the literature' > Ian Craig, Andrew Plume, Marie McVeigh, James Pringle and Mayur Amin. > >A new, comprehensive review of recent bibliometric literature finds >decreasing evidence for an effect of 'Open Access' on article citation >rates. The review, now accepted for publication in the Journal of >Informetrics, was proposed by the Publishing Research Consortium (PRC) and >is available at its web site at www.publishingresearch.net. It traces the >development of this issue from Steve Lawrence's original study in Nature in >2001 to the most recent work of Henk Moed and others. > >Researchers have delved more deeply into such factors as 'selection bias' >and 'early view' effects, and began to control more carefully for the >effects of disciplinary differences and publication dates. As they have >applied these more sophisticated techniques, the relationship between open >access and citation, once thought to be almost self-evident, has almost >disappeared. > >Commenting on the paper, Lord May of Oxford, FRS, past president of the >Royal Society, said 'In December 2005, the Royal Society called for an >evidence-based approach to the scholarly communications debate. This >excellent paper demonstrates that there is actually little evidence of a >citation advantage for open access articles.' > >The debate will certainly continue, and further studies will continue to >refine current work. The PRC welcomes this discussion, and hopes that this >latest paper may be a catalyst for a new round of informed scholarly >exchange. > >Sally Morris >on behalf of the Publishing Research Consortium >Email: info--publishingresearch.net >Website: www.publishingresearch.net It is notoriously tricky (at least since David Hume) to "prove" causality empirically. The thrust of the Craig et al. critique is that despite the fact that virtually all studies comparing the citation counts for OA and non-OA articles keep finding the OA citation counts to be higher, it has not been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the relationship is causal. I agree: It is merely highly probable, not proven beyond a reasonable doubt, that articles are more cited because they are OA, rather than OA merely because they are more cited (or both OA and more cited merely because of a third factor). And I also agree that not one of the studies done so far is without some methodological flaw that could be corrected. But it is also highly probable that the results of the methodologically flawless versions of all those studies will be much the same as the results of the current studies. That's what happens when you have a robust major effect, detected by virtually every study, and only ad hoc methodological cavils and special pleading to rebut each of them with. But I am sure those methodological flaws will not be corrected by these authors, because -- OJ Simpson's "Dream Team" of Defense Attorneys comes to mind -- Craig et al's only interest is evidently in finding flaws and alternative explanations, not in finding out the truth -- if it goes against their client's interests... Iain D.Craig: Wiley-Blackwell Andrew M.Plume, Mayur Amin: Elsevier Marie E.McVeigh, James Pringle: Thomson Scientific Here is a preview of my rebuttal. It is mostly just common sense, if one has no conflict of interest, hence no reason for special pleading and strained interpretations: (1) Research quality is a necessary, but not a sufficient condition for citation impact: The research must also be accessible to be cited. (2) Research accessibility is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for citation impact: The research must also be of sufficient quality to be cited. (3) The OA impact effect is the finding that an article's citation counts are positively correlated with the probability that that article has been made OA: The more an article's citations, the more likely that that article has been made OA. (4) This correlation has at least three causal interpretations: (4a) OA articles are more likely to be cited. (4b) More-cited articles are more likely to be made OA. (4c) A third factor makes it more likely that some articles will be both made OA and more cited. (5) Each of these causal interpretations is correct, and hence a contributor to the OA impact effect: (5a) The better the article, the more likely it is to be cited, hence the more citations it gains if it is made more accessible (3a). (OA Article Quality Advantage, QA) (5b) The better the article, the more likely it is to be made OA (3b). (OA Article Quality Bias, QB) (5c) 10% of articles (and authors) receive 90% of citations. The authors of the better articles know they are better, and hence are more likely both to be cited and to make their articles OA, so as to maximize their visibility, accessibility and citations (3c). (OA Author QB and QA) (6) In addition to QB and QA, there is an OA Early Access effect (EA): providing access earlier increases citations. (7) The OA citation studies have not yet isolated and estimated the relative sizes of each of these (and other) contributing components (OA also increases downloads, and downloads are correlated with later citations). (8) But the handwriting is on the wall as to the benefits of making articles OA, for those with eyes to see, and no conflicting interests to blind them. I do agree completely, however, with erstwhile Princetonian Bob May's call for "an evidence-based approach to the scholarly communications debate." Stevan Harnad http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/ http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html From j.hartley at PSY.KEELE.AC.UK Mon May 21 03:20:02 2007 From: j.hartley at PSY.KEELE.AC.UK (James Hartley) Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 08:20:02 +0100 Subject: Paper on titles Message-ID: Anyone wanting a copy of my recent paper, 'There's more to the title than meets the eye: Exploring the possibilities' (J. Technical Writing & Written Communication, 2007, 37, 1, 95-101) please let me know. This paper distinguishes between 12 types of title, with examples of each. It suggests that it is useful to explore these different types with students. 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James Hartley ????: 2007?5?22? 15:22 ???: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU ??: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Paper on titles Thanks for your message - paper attached! Jim James Hartley School of Psychology Keele University Staffordshire ST5 5BG UK j.hartley at psy.keele.ac.uk ----- Original Message ----- From: Sally Jo Cunningham To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 11:55 PM Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Paper on titles Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html Hello-- I'd very much appreciate a copy of your paper--it sounds great for my students. Cheers, Sally Jo Cunningham Waikato University New Zealand On 21/05/2007, at 7:20 PM, James Hartley wrote: Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html Anyone wanting a copy of my recent paper, 'There's more to the title than meets the eye: Exploring the possibilities' (J. 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From patrick.ruch at SIM.HCUGE.CH Tue May 22 04:56:24 2007 From: patrick.ruch at SIM.HCUGE.CH (Patrick Ruch) Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 10:56:24 +0200 Subject: Paper on titles In-Reply-To: <007201c79c41$f2a7f7d0$728505a0@vig371267> Message-ID: Thank you for this typology ! Just a question, where would you classify titles describing the main result of an article, e.g. "Wip1 phosphatase-deficient mice exhibit defective T cell maturation due to sustained p53 activation.". Such titles seem very frequent in experimental sciences. Regards, Patrick James Hartley wrote: >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > >Thanks for your message - paper attached! > >Jim > > >James Hartley >School of Psychology >Keele University >Staffordshire >ST5 5BG >UK > >j.hartley at psy.keele.ac.uk > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Sally Jo Cunningham > To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU > Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 11:55 PM > Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Paper on titles > > > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html Hello-- > > > I'd very much appreciate a copy of your paper--it sounds great for my students. > > > Cheers, > Sally Jo Cunningham > Waikato University > New Zealand > > > > > On 21/05/2007, at 7:20 PM, James Hartley wrote: > > > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > Anyone wanting a copy of my recent paper, 'There's more to the title than meets the eye: Exploring the possibilities' (J. Technical Writing & Written Communication, 2007, 37, 1, 95-101) please let me know. > > This paper distinguishes between 12 types of title, with examples of each. It suggests that it is useful to explore these different types with students. Before and after examples are provided to show how student's titles can be improved. > > Jim Hartley > > James Hartley > School of Psychology > Keele University > Staffordshire > ST5 5BG > UK > > j.hartley at psy.keele.ac.uk > > > > > > From j.hartley at PSY.KEELE.AC.UK Tue May 22 05:29:12 2007 From: j.hartley at PSY.KEELE.AC.UK (James Hartley) Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 10:29:12 +0100 Subject: Paper on titles Message-ID: Thanks for the comment - I am clearly stuck in the social sciences. Announcing the results on their own is clearly another category! Jim James Hartley School of Psychology Keele University Staffordshire ST5 5BG UK j.hartley at psy.keele.ac.uk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Ruch" To: Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 9:56 AM Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Paper on titles > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > Thank you for this typology ! > > Just a question, where would you classify titles describing the main > result of an article, e.g. "Wip1 phosphatase-deficient mice exhibit > defective T cell maturation due to sustained p53 activation.". Such titles > seem very frequent in experimental sciences. > > Regards, > Patrick > > > James Hartley wrote: > >>Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >>http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >> >>Thanks for your message - paper attached! >> >>Jim >> >> >>James Hartley >>School of Psychology >>Keele University >>Staffordshire >>ST5 5BG >>UK >> >>j.hartley at psy.keele.ac.uk >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Sally Jo Cunningham To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Sent: Monday, >> May 21, 2007 11:55 PM >> Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Paper on titles >> >> >> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html Hello-- >> >> >> I'd very much appreciate a copy of your paper--it sounds great for my >> students. >> >> >> Cheers, >> Sally Jo Cunningham >> Waikato University >> New Zealand >> >> >> >> >> On 21/05/2007, at 7:20 PM, James Hartley wrote: >> >> >> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >> Anyone wanting a copy of my recent paper, 'There's more to the title >> than meets the eye: Exploring the possibilities' (J. Technical Writing & >> Written Communication, 2007, 37, 1, 95-101) please let me know. >> >> This paper distinguishes between 12 types of title, with examples of >> each. It suggests that it is useful to explore these different types >> with students. Before and after examples are provided to show how >> student's titles can be improved. >> >> Jim Hartley >> >> James Hartley >> School of Psychology >> Keele University >> Staffordshire >> ST5 5BG >> UK >> >> j.hartley at psy.keele.ac.uk >> >> >> >> >> From abasulists at YAHOO.CO.IN Tue May 22 09:15:29 2007 From: abasulists at YAHOO.CO.IN (aparna basu) Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 14:15:29 +0100 Subject: Headings in structured abstracts In-Reply-To: <004101c79b78$fd6bcdf0$728505a0@vig371267> Message-ID: Please send me a copy of the paper at aparnabasu.dr at gmail.com James Hartley wrote: Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html Anyone wanting a copy of my short paper on, 'Clarifying the headings of structured abstracts' (European Science Editing, 2007, 33, 2, 41-42), please let me know. This paper suggests the need for 5 sub-headings minimum - Background, Aims, Methods, Results, Conclusions - and explores what writers do when one of these is missing, or additional ones included. Jim James Hartley School of Psychology Keele University Staffordshire ST5 5BG UK j.hartley at psy.keele.ac.uk --------------------------------- Office firewalls, cyber cafes, college labs, don't allow you to download CHAT? Here's a solution! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jacso at HAWAII.EDU Wed May 23 02:38:30 2007 From: jacso at HAWAII.EDU (Peter Jacso) Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 08:38:30 +0200 Subject: Whereabouts of Jan Vlachy In-Reply-To: <311174B69873F148881A743FCF1EE53702398DBB@TSHUSPAPHIMBX02.ERF.THOMSON.COM> Message-ID: Gene, I am in Prague at the INFORUM conference, I found and met Mr. Vlachy here is his e-mail vlachy.jan at gmail.com best peter ----- Original Message ----- From: Eugene Garfield Date: Tuesday, April 3, 2007 7:11 pm Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Whereabouts of Jan Vlachy To: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > If any subscriber to this listserv has recently been in contact > with Jan > Vlachy please let me and Wolfgang know how to contact him by telephone > or by email. He was a winner of the Derek Price Medal but we do not > havebiographical information on him. Many ISSI members will > remember his > pioneering bilbioemetric analysises published in the Czech Journal of > Physics and elsewhere. Eugene Garfield > > > > 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 > > > > From lutz.bornmann at GESS.ETHZ.CH Wed May 23 03:10:41 2007 From: lutz.bornmann at GESS.ETHZ.CH (Bornmann Lutz) Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 09:10:41 +0200 Subject: New publication Message-ID: Dear colleagues, you might be interested in the following publication: Bornmann, L. & Daniel, H.-D. (2007). Multiple publication on a single research study: does it pay? The influence of number of research articles on total citation counts in biomedicine. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58(8), 1100-1107. Abstract: Scientists may seek to report a single definable body of research in more than one publication, that is, in repeated reports of the same work or in fractional reports, in order to disseminate their research as widely as possible in the scientific community. Up to now, however, it has not been examined whether this strategy of multiple publication in fact leads to greater reception of the research. In the present study, we investigate the influence of number of articles reporting the results of a single study on reception in the scientific community (total citation counts of an article on a single study). Our data set consists of 96 applicants for a research fellowship from the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds (BIF), an international foundation for the promotion of basic research in biomedicine. The applicants reported to us all articles that they had published within the framework of their doctoral research projects. On this single project, the applicants had published from 1 to 16 articles (M = 4; Mdn = 3). The results of a regression model with an interaction term show that the practice of multiple publication of research study results does in fact lead to greater reception of the research (higher total citation counts) in the scientific community. However, reception is dependent upon length of article: the longer the article, the more total citation counts increase with the number of articles. Thus, it pays for scientists to practice multiple publication of study results in the form of sizable reports. Anyone wanting a copy of our publication, please let me know. Lutz ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Lutz Bornmann ETH Zurich, D-GESS Professorship for Social Psychology and Research on Higher Education Zaehringerstr. 24 / ZAE CH-8092 Zurich Phone: 0041 44 632 48 25 Fax: 0041 44 632 12 83 http://www.psh.ethz.ch/index_EN bornmann at gess.ethz.ch Download of publications: www.lutz-bornmann.de/Publications.htm From chihfeng at CC.SHU.EDU.TW Thu May 24 00:15:23 2007 From: chihfeng at CC.SHU.EDU.TW (???) Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 12:15:23 +0800 Subject: please share a copy Re: [SIGMETRICS] Paper on titles Message-ID: Dear James: Kindly send a copy to me. Thanks much in advance. With Warmest Regards May 24 (Thursday) 12:15 from Taipei Dr. Chihfeng P. Lin Associate Professor and Director Department/Graduate Program of Information and Communications Shih-Hsin University No. 1, Lane 17, Mucha Road, Sec. 1, Taipei, Taiwan (11603) phone: +886-2-22364906 +886-2-22368225 *3281 or *3282 fax: +886-2-22361722 cell-phone: +886-937059992 e-mail: chihfeng at cc.shu.edu.tw ----- Original Message ----- From: James Hartley To: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 3:20 PM Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Paper on titles Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html Anyone wanting a copy of my recent paper, 'There's more to the title than meets the eye: Exploring the possibilities' (J. Technical Writing & Written Communication, 2007, 37, 1, 95-101) please let me know. This paper distinguishes between 12 types of title, with examples of each. It suggests that it is useful to explore these different types with students. Before and after examples are provided to show how student's titles can be improved. Jim Hartley James Hartley School of Psychology Keele University Staffordshire ST5 5BG UK j.hartley at psy.keele.ac.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dwojick at HUGHES.NET Thu May 24 11:46:24 2007 From: dwojick at HUGHES.NET (David E. Wojick) Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 11:46:24 -0400 Subject: New posting -- "How do our sentences fit together?" In-Reply-To: <75BF4A0763D78D42A50F3A15584302A3526A59@EX0.d.ethz.ch> Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, I have posted a brief introduction to my work on the propositional structure and dynamics of expressed thought (writing and speaking). Please see: http://www.bydesign.com/powervision/Mathematics_Philosophy_Science/How_sentences_fit_together.doc Mine is more of a discovery than an algorithm. All of the sentences in a body of writing or speaking have a basic underlying structure. (Technically it is the atomic propositions, not the sentences.) To oversimplify, this is because each sentence is answering an unspoken question of just one other prior sentence. It is a tree structure and I first found it by analyzing public policy issues so it is called the Issue Tree. Here is a simple example-- http://www.bydesign.com/powervision/NOx_trees/NOx-02.pdf Each path from the top down through the tree is a line of thought. So if we do an issue tree of a body of scientific literature we will see the lines of thought that underlie it. This is what I mean by visualizing the reasoning, which is what we are really interested in many cases. Many of our visualization methods are seeing the shadow of the issue tree. There are also many things to measure in the issue tree. Actually there are two ways of representing the same tree that are of special interest. In one the paths proceed historically so we can see how the science is developing over time. In the other we proceed from the most general concepts down to the more specific. These are very different, for as Aristotle says, the order of knowing is opposite the order of being. In addition to the divergence of paths in the local issue tree there is a convergent phenomenon, where a concept jumps from one region (or subtree) to another. My favorite example is the quantum, which jumped from heat (Planck) to light (Einstein) to matter (Bohr). I did a lot of work with issue trees but it was before the PC, so it is all on paper. I will be happy to discuss it. Regards to all, David -- David E. Wojick, Ph.D., P.E. -- 540-858-3503 -- 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, including the dynamics and structure of information. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From notsjb at LSU.EDU Fri May 25 17:00:33 2007 From: notsjb at LSU.EDU (Stephen J Bensman) Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 16:00:33 -0500 Subject: New CACM article on "publications ranking" Message-ID: Everybody has a better mouse trap. In respect to US academic rankings, the only ones that count are the ones done by the US National Research Council, the American Council on Education, etc., and these are done every 10-15 years or so. There is one being conducted now. Not to worry though. At top the rankings have remained the same for about a century, and despite all the new sophisticated techniques with publications, citations, etc. they arrive at basically the same the results that were obtained by Cattell in 1910 and Hughes in 1924 with crude opinion surveys. There are new fields and all that, but the universities dominant in the new fields are the ones that were dominant in the old fields. Your institution is one of these, and it is an outlier, because most dominant universities have programs with large numbers of faculty, but Hopkins makes it to the top on a small faculty base. You should study the historical reasons for this. It is a very interesting case. SB ________________________________ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics on behalf of Pikas, Christina K. Sent: Fri 5/25/2007 1:07 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: [SIGMETRICS] New CACM article on "publications ranking" Sigh. It just seems so superficial and so not useful... basically based on production. The lead author is from Google -- makes you wonder if this is a new product? Ren, J. and Taylor, R. N. 2007. Automatic and versatile publications ranking for research institutions and scholars. Commun. ACM 50, 6 (Jun. 2007), 81-85. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1247001.1247010 Christina K. Pikas, MLS R.E. 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In the FUTON subcategory, there was an IF gradient > favoring journals with freely available articles. ..." > > I think it is quite obvious why sources available with open access > will be used and cited more often than others... > > So the usefulness of open access is a matter of daily experience, > not so much of academic discussions whether there is any empirical > proof for a citation advantage of open access that may be isolated > by eliminating all possible confounders... > > That open access leads to more visibility and thereby potentially > more citations is trivial, but this relative open access advantage > will vary from journal to journal... > > Due to the multitude of possible confounding factors I would not > believe any of the figures calculated by Stevan Harnad as the > cumulated lost impact, or conversely, the possible gain. I couldn't quite follow the logic of this posting. It seemed to be saying that, yes, there is evidence that OA increases impact, it is even trivially obvious, but, no, we cannot estimate how much, because there are possible confounding factors and the size of the increase varies. All studies have found that the size of the OA impact differential varies from field to field, journal to journal, and year to year. The range of variation is from +25% to over +250% percent. But the differential is always positive, and mostly quite sizeable. That is why I chose a conservative overall estimate of +50% for the potential gain in impact if it were not just the current 15% of research that was being made OA, but also the remaining 85%. (If you think 50% is not conservative enough, use the lower-bound 25%: You'll still find a substantial potential impact gain/loss. If you think self-selection accounts for half the gain, split it in half again: there's still plenty of gain, once you multiply by 85% of total citations.) An interesting question that has since arisen (and could be answered by similar studies) is this: Since it is known that (in science) the top 10% of articles published receive 90% of the total citations made (Seglen 1992), to what extent is the top 10% of articles published over-represented among the c. 15% of articles that are being spontaneously made OA by their authors today? It is a logical possibility that all or most of the top 10% are already among the 15% that are being made OA: I rather doubt it; but it would be worth checking whether it is so. If it did turn out to be so, then reaching 100% OA would be far less urgent and important than I had argued, and OA mandates would likewise be less important. The empirical studies of the relation between OA and impact have been mostly motivated by the objective of accelerating the growth of OA -- and thereby the growth of research usage and impact. Those who are confident that the OA impact differential is merely or largely a non-causal self-selection bias are encouraged to demonstrate that that is the case. Note very carefully, though, that the observed correlation between OA and citations takes the form of a correlation between the number of OA articles, relative to non-OA articles, at each citation level. The more highly cited an article, the more likely it is OA. This is true within journals, and within and across years, in every field tested. And this correlation can arise because more-cited articles are more likely to be made OA *or* because articles that are made OA are more likely to be cited (or both -- which is what I think is in reality the case). It is certainly *not* the case that self-selection is the default or null hypothesis, and that those who interpret the effect as OA causing the citation increase hence have the burden of proof: The situation is completely symmetric numerically; so your choice between the two hypotheses is not based on the numbers, but on other considerations, such as prima facie plausibility -- or financial interest. Until and unless it is shown empirically that today's OA 15% already contains all or most of the top-cited 10% (and hence 90% of what researchers cite), I think it is a much more plausible interpretation of the existing findings that OA is a cause of the increased usage and citations, rather than just a side-effect of them, and hence that there is usage and impact to be gained by providing and mandating OA. (I can quite understand why those who have a financial interest in its being otherwise [Craig et al. 2007] might prefer the other interpretation, but clearly prima facie plausibility cannot be their justification.) I also think that 50% of total citations is a plausible overall estimate of the potential gain from OA, as long as it is understood clearly that that the 50% gain does not apply to every article made OA. Many articles are not found useful enough to cite no matter how accessible you make them. The 50% citation gain will mostly accrue to the top 10% of articles, as citations always do (though OA will no doubt also help to remedy some inequities and will sometimes help some neglected gems to be discovered and used more widely). In other words, the OA advantage to an article will be roughly proportional to that article's intrinsic citation value (independent of OA). Other interesting questions: The top-cited articles are not evenly distributed among journals. The top journals tend to get the top-cited articles. It is also unlikely that journal subscriptions are evenly distributed among journals: The top journals are likely to be subscribed to more, and are hence more accessible. So if someone is truly interested in these questions (as I am not!), they might calculate a "toll-accessibility index" (TAI) for each article, based on the number of researchers/institutions that have toll access to the journal in which that article is published. An analysis of covariance can then be done to see whether and how much the OA citation advantage is reduced if one controls for the article's TAI. (I suspect the answer will be: somewhat, but not much.) Stevan Harnad Bollen, J., Van de Sompel, H., Smith, J. and Luce, R. (2005) Toward alternative metrics of journal impact: A comparison of download and citation data. Information Processing and Management, 41(6): 1419-1440 http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.DL/0503007. Brody, T., Harnad, S. and Carr, L. (2006) Earlier Web Usage Statistics as Predictors of Later Citation Impact. Journal of the American Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) 57(8) pp. 1060-1072. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/10713/ Craig, Ian; Andrew Plume, Marie McVeigh, James Pringle & Mayur Amin (2007) Do Open Access Articles Have Greater Citation Impact? A critical review of the literature. Journal of Informetrics. http://www.publishingresearch.net/Citations-SummaryPaper3_000.pdf.pdf Davis, P. M. and Fromerth, M. J. (2007) Does the arXiv lead to higher citations and reduced publisher downloads for mathematics articles? Scientometrics 71: 203-215. http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.DL/0603056 See critiques: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/%7Eharnad/Hypermail/Amsci/5221 http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/%7Eharnad/Hypermail/Amsci/5440.html Diamond, Jr. , A. M. (1986) What is a Citation Worth? Journal of Human Resources 21:200-15, 1986, http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v11p354y1988.pdf Eysenbach, G. (2006) Citation Advantage of Open Access Articles. PLoS Biology 4: 157. Hajjem, C., Harnad, S. and Gingras, Y. (2005) Ten-Year Cross-Disciplinary Comparison of the Growth of Open Access and How it Increases Research Citation Impact. IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin 28(4) pp. 39-47. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11688/ Hajjem, C. and Harnad, S. (2006) Manual Evaluation of Robot Performance in Identifying Open Access Articles. Technical Report, Institut des sciences cognitives, Universite du Quebec a Montreal. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/12220/ Hajjem, C. and Harnad, S. (2006) The Self-Archiving Impact Advantage: Quality Advantage or Quality Bias? Technical Report, ECS, University of Southampton. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/13193/ Hajjem, C. and Harnad, S. (2007) Citation Advantage For OA Self-Archiving Is Independent of Journal Impact Factor, Article Age, and Number of Co-Authors. Technical Report, Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/13329/ Hajjem, C. and Harnad, S. (2007) The Open Access Citation Advantage: Quality Advantage Or Quality Bias?. Technical Report, Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/13328/ Harnad, S. & Brody, T. (2004) Comparing the Impact of Open Access (OA) vs. Non-OA Articles in the Same Journals, D-Lib Magazine 10 (6) June (Japanese translation) http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/10207/ Harnad, S. (2005) Making the case for web-based self-archiving. Research Money 19(16). http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11534/ Harnad, S. (2005) Maximising the Return on UK's Public Investment in Research. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11220/ Harnad, S. (2005) OA Impact Advantage = EA + (AA) + (QB) + QA + (CA) + UA. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/12085/ Harnad, S. (2005) On Maximizing Journal Article Access, Usage and Impact. Haworth Press (occasional column). http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/10793/ Harnad, S. (2006) Within-Journal Demonstrations of the Open-Access Impact Advantage: PLoS, Pipe-Dreams and Peccadillos (LETTER). PLOS Biology 4(5). http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/12607/ Henneken, E. A., Kurtz, M. J., Eichhorn, G., Accomazzi, A., Grant, C., Thompson, D., and Murray, S. S. (2006) Effect of E-printing on Citation Rates in Astronomy and Physics. Journal of Electronic Publishing, Vol. 9, No. 2, Summer 2006 http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0604061 Henneken, E. A., Kurtz, M. J., Warner, S., Ginsparg, P., Eichhorn, G., Accomazzi, A., Grant, C. S., Thompson, D., Bohlen, E. and Murray, S. S. (2006) E-prints and Journal Articles in Astronomy: a Productive Co-existence (submitted to Learned Publishing) http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0609126 Kurtz, M. J., Eichhorn, G., Accomazzi, A., Grant, C. S., Demleitner, M., Murray, S. S. (2005) The Effect of Use and Access on Citations. Information Processing and Management, 41 (6): 1395-1402, December 2005 http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/%7Ekurtz/kurtz-effect.pdf Kurtz, Michael and Brody, Tim (2006) The impact loss to authors and research. In, Jacobs, Neil (ed.) Open Access: Key strategic, technical and economic aspects. Oxford, UK, Chandos Publishing. http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/40867/ Lawrence, S, (2001) Online or Invisible?, Nature 411 (2001) (6837): 521. http://www.neci.nec.com/lawrence/papers/online-nature01/ Metcalfe, Travis S (2006) The Citation Impact of Digital Preprint Archives for Solar Physics Papers. Solar Physics 239: 549-553 http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006SoPh..239..549M Moed, H. F. (2006) The effect of 'Open Access' upon citation impact: An analysis of ArXiv's Condensed Matter Section http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.DL/0611060 Perneger, T. V. (2004) Relation between online 'hit counts' and subsequent citations: prospective study of research papers in the British Medical Journal. British Medical Journal 329:546-547. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/329/7465/546 Seglen, P.O. (1992) The skewness of science. The American Society for Information Science 43: 628-638 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199210)43:9%3C628::AID-ASI5%3E3.0.CO;2-0 From bgsloan2 at YAHOO.COM Sat May 26 09:40:49 2007 From: bgsloan2 at YAHOO.COM (B.G. Sloan) Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 06:40:49 -0700 Subject: New CACM article on "publications ranking" In-Reply-To: <4928689828488E458AECE7AFDCB52CFE019AA4@email003.lsu.edu> Message-ID: I believe the paper that Cristina mentions goes beyond ranking institutions and also deals with identifying "the best...individuals in a given discipline". Here's the abstract: "Assessing both academic and industrial research institutions, along with their scholars, can help identify the best organizations and individuals in a given discipline. Assessment can reveal outstanding institutions and scholars, allowing students and researchers to better decide where they want to study or work and allowing employers to recruit the most qualified potential employees. These assessments can also assist both internal and external administrators in making influential decisions; for example, funding, promotion, and compensation." Bernie Sloan Stephen J Bensman wrote: Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html Everybody has a better mouse trap. In respect to US academic rankings, the only ones that count are the ones done by the US National Research Council, the American Council on Education, etc., and these are done every 10-15 years or so. There is one being conducted now. Not to worry though. At top the rankings have remained the same for about a century, and despite all the new sophisticated techniques with publications, citations, etc. they arrive at basically the same the results that were obtained by Cattell in 1910 and Hughes in 1924 with crude opinion surveys. There are new fields and all that, but the universities dominant in the new fields are the ones that were dominant in the old fields. Your institution is one of these, and it is an outlier, because most dominant universities have programs with large numbers of faculty, but Hopkins makes it to the top on a small faculty base. You should study the historical reasons for this. It is a very interesting case. SB --------------------------------- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics on behalf of Pikas, Christina K. Sent: Fri 5/25/2007 1:07 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: [SIGMETRICS] New CACM article on "publications ranking" Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html Sigh. It just seems so superficial and so not useful... basically based on production. The lead author is from Google -- makes you wonder if this is a new product? Ren, J. and Taylor, R. N. 2007. Automatic and versatile publications ranking for research institutions and scholars. Commun. ACM 50, 6 (Jun. 2007), 81-85. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1247001.1247010 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 --------------------------------- Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From notsjb at LSU.EDU Sat May 26 14:27:34 2007 From: notsjb at LSU.EDU (Stephen J Bensman) Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 13:27:34 -0500 Subject: New CACM article on "publications ranking" Message-ID: I read the abstract, and, personally, I thought that he stole it word-for-word from the introduction to Hughes' 1924 assessment of US research-doctorate programs. Plus ca change, plus ca la meme chose. SB ________________________________ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics on behalf of B.G. Sloan Sent: Sat 5/26/2007 8:40 AM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] New CACM article on "publications ranking" I believe the paper that Cristina mentions goes beyond ranking institutions and also deals with identifying "the best...individuals in a given discipline". Here's the abstract: "Assessing both academic and industrial research institutions, along with their scholars, can help identify the best organizations and individuals in a given discipline. Assessment can reveal outstanding institutions and scholars, allowing students and researchers to better decide where they want to study or work and allowing employers to recruit the most qualified potential employees. These assessments can also assist both internal and external administrators in making influential decisions; for example, funding, promotion, and compensation." Bernie Sloan Stephen J Bensman wrote: Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html Everybody has a better mouse trap. In respect to US academic rankings, the only ones that count are the ones done by the US National Research Council, the American Council on Education, etc., and these are done every 10-15 years or so. There is one being conducted now. Not to worry though. At top the rankings have remained the same for about a century, and despite all the new sophisticated techniques with publications, citations, etc. they arrive at basically the same the results that were obtained by Cattell in 1910 and Hughes in 1924 with crude opinion surveys. There are new fields and all that, but the universities dominant in the new fields are the ones that were dominant in the old fields. Your institution is one of these, and it is an outlier, because most dominant universities have programs with large numbers of faculty, but Hopkins makes it to the top on a small faculty base. You should study the historical reasons for this. It is a very interesting case. SB ________________________________ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics on behalf of Pikas, Christina K. Sent: Fri 5/25/2007 1:07 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: [SIGMETRICS] New CACM article on "publications ranking" Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html Sigh. It just seems so superficial and so not useful... basically based on production. The lead author is from Google -- makes you wonder if this is a new product? Ren, J. and Taylor, R. N. 2007. Automatic and versatile publications ranking for research institutions and scholars. Commun. ACM 50, 6 (Jun. 2007), 81-85. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1247001.1247010 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 ________________________________ Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Sat May 26 18:39:35 2007 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 23:39:35 +0100 Subject: Craig et al.'s review of the OA citation advantage In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Sat, 26 May 2007 bernd-christoph.kaemper at ub.uni-stuttgart.de wrote: > Could we do a thought experiment? > From a representative group of authors, choose a sample of authors > randomly and induce them to make their next article open access. > Do you believe they will see as much gain in citations compared to > their previous average citation levels as predicted from the various > current "OA advantage" studies where several confounding factors > are operating? Probably not - but what would remain of that > advantage? -- I find that difficult to predict or model. From a random sample, I would expect an increase of around 50% or more in total citations, 90% of the increased citations going to the top 10%, as always. > As I learned from your posting, you seem to predict that it will > anyway depend on the previous citedness of the members of that > group (if we take that as a proxy for the unknown actual intrinsic > citation value of those articles), in the sense that more-cited authors > will see a larger percentage increase effect. I don't think it's just a Matthew Effect; I think the highest quality papers get the most citations (90%), and the highest quality papers are apparently about 10% (in science, according to Seglen). > To turn your argument around, most authors happily going open > access in expectation of increased citation might be disappointed > because the 50% increase will only apply to a small minority of > them. That's true; but you could say the same for most authors going into research at all. There is no guarantee that they will produce the highest quality research, but I assume that researchers do what they do in the hope that they will, if not this time, then the next time, produce the highest quality research. > That was the reason why I said that (as an individual author) > I would rather not believe in any "promised" values for the possible > gain. Where there is life, and effort, there is hope. I think every researchers should do research, and publish, and self-archive, with the ambition of doing the best quality work, and having it rewarded with valuable findings, which will be used and cited. My "promise", by the way, was never that each individual author would get 50% more citations. (That would actually have been absurd, since over 50% of papers get no citations at all -- apart from self-citation -- and 50% of 0 is still 0.) My promise, in calculating the impact gain/loss that you doubted, was to countries, research funders and institutions. On the assumption that the research output of each roughly cover the quality spectrum, they can expect their total citations to increase by 50% or more with OA, but that increase will be mostly at their high-quality end. (And the total increase is actually about 85% of 50%, as the baseline spontaneous self-archiving rate is about 15%.) Stevan Harnad > That doesn't mean though that there are not enough other > reasons to go for open access (I mentioned many of them in my > posting). There are other reasons, but researchers' main motivation for conducting and publishing research is in order to make a contribution to knowledge that will be found useful by, and used by, other researchers. There are pedagogic goals too, but I think they are secondary, and I certainly don't think they are strong enough to induce a researchers to make his publications OA, if the primary reason was not enough to induce them. (Actually, I don't think any of the reasons are enough to induce enough researchers to provide OA, and that's why Green OA mandates are needed -- and being provided -- from researchers' institutions and funders.) > With respect to the toll accessibility index, I completely agree. > The occasional good article in an otherwise "obscure" journal > probably has a lot to gain from open access, as many people > would not bother to try to get hold of a copy should they find it > among a lot of others in a bibliographic database search, if it > doesn't look from the beginning like a "perfect match" of what > they are looking for. You agree with the toll-accessibility argument prematurely: There are as yet no data on it, whereas there are plenty of data on the correlation between OA and impact. > An interesting question to look at would also be the effect of > open access on non-formal citation modes like web linking, > especially social bookmarking. Clearly NPG is interested in > Connotea also as a means to enhance the visibility of articles > in their own toll access articles. Has anyone already tried such > investigations? Although I cannot say how much it is due to other kinds of links or from citation links themselves, the University of Southampton, the first institution with a (departmental) Green OA self-archiving mandate, and also the one with the longest-standing mandate also has a surprisingly high webmetric, university-metric and G-factor rank: http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/79-guid.html Stevan Harnad From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Mon May 28 06:19:31 2007 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 11:19:31 +0100 Subject: Open Access Scientometrics: Doctoral and Postdoctoral Positions Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, I am looking for strong candidates to do doctoral and postdoctoral research on Open Access Scientomentrics with me and Prof. Yves Gingras at University of Quebec in Montreal and would be very grateful if you could draw this to the attention of qualified candidates, who can contact me at: harnad [AT] uqam.ca (1) The postdoctoral candidate must have strong programming skills, as well as expertise in scientometric and statistical analysis -- espcially in research impact evaluation. The doctoral candidate should have skills and interest in the same direction. (2) In particular, the expertise to conduct analyses using the ISI citation index database, web-based impact data (google scholar, web metrics) alongside ISI analyses is required. (3) The expertise to conduct download and web-log analyses alongside citation analyses is also needed, especially with respect to deposit dates and download analysis of papers deposited in OAI-compliant Institutional Repositories as well as other kinds of websites. (4) Some demonstrable mastery of French would also be helpful, both because this is a French-language university, and to facilitate the visa process, but it is not absolutely essential. We have funding for a major research project in developing new scientometric measures for evaluating research impact using the ISI database as well as Open Access web content. The project is very timely and exciting and the research will have a high profile. Here is an article for describing some directions this research will take: Harnad, S. (2007) Open Access Scientometrics and the UK Research Assessment Exercise. Invited Keynote, 11th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics. Madrid, Spain, 25 June 2007 http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.IR/0703131 I would be very grateful if you could share this information with suitable candidates. With many thanks Stevan Harnad Canada Research Chair Institute of Cognitive Sciences Universite du Quebec a Montreal CP 8888 Succursale Centre-Ville Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3C 3P8 harnad [AT] uqam.ca http://www.crsc.uqam.ca/en/index2_en.html American Scientist Open Access Forum http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html From darush55 at YAHOO.COM Tue May 29 04:28:24 2007 From: darush55 at YAHOO.COM (dariush alimohammadi) Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 01:28:24 -0700 Subject: Production of information in LIS: a global ranking Message-ID: Dear All, I am looking for any valuable data on the global ranking of information production in library and information sciences/studies. such an intended list should at least introduce the high-ranked countries across the world regarding the rate of information production. Looking forward to hearing from you. Regards, Dariush Alimohammadi Library, Museum & Documentation Center Islamic Consultative Assembly Baharestan Sq. 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Name: Current_Science__Nov10_2005.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 125544 bytes Desc: not available URL: From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Tue May 29 10:47:43 2007 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 15:47:43 +0100 Subject: Craig et al.'s review of the OA citation advantage In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Excellent points by Matt Hodgkinson. A few supporting comments: On Fri, 25 May 2007 matt.hodgkinson at biomedcentral.com wrote: > in a famine it is no good if food is in the shops, but the prices are too > high for the starving to afford it. Spot on. > I don't want to pay $25-50 to read an article I'm not sure is worth the money... > Indeed, if it is not immediately available online then even a visit to the > library... I would avoid if possible... And it's virtually certain that huge quantities of potential usage and impact are being lost daily, worldwide, for this very reason. Indeed, a component in the OA usage/impact advantage is a *competitive* advantage (CA): The articles that are not yet freely accessible online lose out to the ones that are. CA is not the only component in the OA advantage, nor necessarily the biggest one. And CA (along with the self-selection Quality Bias QB) will of course vanish completely once everything is OA. But for now, CA is an extra -- and potentially substantial -- competitive edge that the OA articles have over the non-OA ones while much of research is still non-OA. > I don't quite understand something about Early View - is it solely an > effect of preprints / self-archiving? No, it definitely applies to all OA papers, whether preprint or postprint, self-archived or in an OA journal. Early Access means having the OA advantage earlier. The earliest possible moment for the refereed draft is the moment when the final version is accepted for publication; that is the *latest* time at which it should be made OA. (Until then there may still be changes and corrections from the refereeing; and in many fields cautious users will not want to risk relying on the unrefereed preprint. So preprint self-archiving must be discretionary; it is postprint self-archiving that must be mandatory.) I strongly doubt the claim that Early Access just means phase-shifting the lifetime citation expectancy of an article, i.e., that it's the same number of total citations, but they just start happening earlier. I think it might look like that for fields that are virtually 100% OA already, like astrophysics: there it has been reported that the citation curves look the same for articles that are and are not self-archived as preprints, just that for the preprinted ones the curve starts earlier. What this leaves out is when the curve *ends*! Two wave-fronts may look the same, apart from a phase difference, but then there's the question of the long-term total area under the wave. The way paper uploads generate downloads -- which then generate citations, which then generate more downloads, which generate more citations, etc. -- suggests that this interactive cycle increases not just the onset time of citations but the total area (citations) under the curve. Nor does it stop there: Other research is going on in parallel. If it is obvious that it is not irrelevant to the usage and impact of a finding whether it is published two months before it is needed for a related study by another researcher, or ten years after, then it should not take much imagination (just a change in time-scale) to see how Early Access does not just mean earlier citations but more citations, because of the widening self-potentiating cycle of research. And this of course applies to both preprints and postprints: An article that is published at time T but only made OA at time T + 12 months (embargo) stands to lose a good deal of its potential impact (especially in fast-moving fields) -- some of it lost forever; and meanwhile research loses potential widening cycles of progress. > Early View appears to be a somewhat complicated way of saying > that if an article is available earlier, it can be read and cited sooner. Which is in turn a somewhat complicated way of saying that if an article is accessible, it can be read and cited, and the more it is accessible -- whether more widely or earlier -- the more it can be read and cited. In other words, OA applies to both time and space: The sooner and the more widely findings are accessible, the sooner and the more widely they can be taken up, applied, built upon, used, and cited. Early Access benefits are merely a particular case of OA benefits. It is only to those who are straining to make us swallow publisher embargoes -- as if they made no difference at all to research usage, uptake, impact, and progress -- that these banal truths will be anything less than obvious. > Is the rapid dissemination of science not a good thing, and should this > result not encourage all authors to deposit preprints and postprints? Of course it is, and should. The only ones who would have us think otherwise are those who feel their revenues might be put at risk by such deposits (which, eventually, they indeed might). But instead of just coming out and saying that -- "Please don't self-archive, because it might make me lose some subscription revenue" -- they try to persuade researchers not to self-archive because it wouldn't make any difference to research. This strategy calls to mind nothing less than the efforts of polluting industries to persuade the public that the pollution makes no difference to their climate, or the efforts of tobacco companies to persuade smokers that the smoking will make no difference to their health. The strategy is essentially the same as that of OJ Simpson's Dream Team: Simply take every piece of empirical evidence (that is unfavourable to your client), find some ad hoc flaw in it, no matter how trivial, and crank and spin that so as to sow a seed of doubt in every instance. Such a strategy worked for the tobacco industry until the evidence became overwhelming. But meanwhile, smokers needlessly lost years of health, just as research is now needlessly losing years of impact and progress. I have for years been restraining myself from making these analogies with the tobacco and pollution industries, because it seemed too shrill: impact, after all, is not as important as health. Maybe, maybe not. But what is making me less inclined to continue to be so restrained and charitable is the relentless (and successful) lobbying by the publishing industry against Green OA mandates. The motivation is identical: Do and say whatever it takes to protect your revenue streams, whether it's at the cost of research impact or health impact. The gloves are now off... Stevan Harnad PS I don't mean Sally, of course, but the publishing industry's pit-bulls, who have so far successfully lobbied the DTI in the UK, NIH in the US, the Bundesrat in Germany, the EC in Brussels and the Industry and Finance ministries in Canada. OA has no lobby, but it has a far, far bigger constituency, which needs merely to be rallied to show its collective strength: researchers, research institutions, research funders, the vast R&D industry, and the public whose taxes support the research. http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070122/full/445347a.html http://www.ec-petition.eu/index.php?p=index http://www.publicaccesstoresearch.org/index.html > > From: Sally Morris (Morris Associates) 23 May 2007 14:58 > > To: SPARC Open Access Forum > > Subject: Re: Recent research tempers citation advantage of open access > > > > I don't follow this at all. EV is to do with the article being available > > sooner, not more widely (that would be the 'OA advantage', if any). > > Articles in OA journals are available no sooner than those in conventional > > journals - i.e. on publication.