From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Feb 1 09:24:28 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 09:24:28 -0500 Subject: Garcia-Carpintero, E; et al The Spanish presence in editorial boards of international scientific journals: A tool for the promotion of Spanish science Message-ID: Email address: bgranadino at cindoc.csic.es Author(s): Garcia-Carpintero, E (Garcia-Carpintero, E.); Granadino, B (Granadino, B.); Sastre, N (Sastre, N.); Plaza, LM (Plaza, L. M.) Title: The Spanish presence in editorial boards of international scientific journals: A tool for the promotion of Spanish science Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 850-851, 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International- Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ Carlos III Madrid Addresses: CSIC, CINDOC, Madrid, 28002 Spain. Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM Cited Reference Count: 5 ALBERT A EDITORIAL BILIOTECA : 373 2006 BARRON JP EUROPEAN SCI EDITING 31 : 79 2005 BRAUN T The counting of core journal gatekeepers as science indicators really counts. The scientific scope of action and strength of nations SCIENTOMETRICS 62 : 297 2005 CAMPANARIO JM The competition for journal space among referees, editors and other authors and its influence of journals' impact factors J AM SOC INFORM SCI 47 : 184 1996 PLAZA LM ANUARIO I CERVANTES : 2006 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Feb 1 09:25:31 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 09:25:31 -0500 Subject: Gupta, BM (Gupta, B. M.); Dhawan, SM (Dhawan, S. M.); Gupta, RP (Gupta, R. P.) S&T research in India: An overview of its research output and quality Message-ID: Email address: bmgupta1 at yahoo.com Author(s): Gupta, BM (Gupta, B. M.); Dhawan, SM (Dhawan, S. M.); Gupta, RP (Gupta, R. P.) Title: S&T research in India: An overview of its research output and quality Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 856-857, 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International- Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ Carlos III Madrid KeyWords Plus: SCIENCE-CITATION-INDEX; NATIONS Addresses: Natl Inst Sci Technol & Dev Studies, New Delhi, 110012 India. Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM Cited Reference Count: 12 ARUNACHALAM S Is science in India on decline? CURR SCI INDIA 83 : 107 2002 ARUNACHALAM S A profile based on India's publications as covered by Science Citation Index CURR SCI INDIA 74 : 433 1998 BASU A 24898 NISTADS : 1998 BASU A INF TODAY TOMORROW 20 : 3 2001 BASU A MULTIDISCIPLINES INF 19 : 3 2000 BASU A Science publication indicators for India: Questions of interpretation SCIENTOMETRICS 44 : 347 1999 CHIDAMBARAM R Measures of progress in science and technology CURR SCI INDIA 88 : 856 2005 GARFIELD E SCI PUBL POL 10 : 112 1983 GARG KC Bibliometrics of Indian science as reflected through Science Citation Index J SCI IND RES INDIA 51 : 329 1992 KING DA The scientific impact of nations NATURE 430 : 311 2004 MAY RM Scientific wealth of nations SCIENCE 275 : 793 1997 RAGHURAM N India's declining ranking NATURE 383 : 572 1996 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Feb 1 09:25:59 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 09:25:59 -0500 Subject: Havemann, F et al, Measuring diversity of research in bibliographic-coupling networks Message-ID: Email address: frank.havemann at ib.hu-berlin.de Author(s): Havemann, F (Havemann, Frank); Heinz, M (Heinz, Michael); Schmidt, M (Schmidt, Marion); Glaeser, J (Glaeser, Jochen) Title: Measuring diversity of research in bibliographic-coupling networks Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 860-861, 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International- Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ Carlos III Madrid Addresses: Humboldt Univ, Dept Lib & Informat Sci, Berlin, Germany. Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM Cited Reference Count: 9 BORDONS M HDB QUANTITATIVE SCI : 437 2004 BOTAFOGO RA Structural analysis of hypertexts: identifying hierarchies and useful metrics ACM T INFORM SYST 10 : 142 1992 EGGHE L A measure for the cohesion of weighted networks J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 54 : 193 2003 GRUPP H The concept of entropy in scientometrics and innovation research SCIENTOMETRICS 18 : 219 1990 MAGURRAN A MEASURING BIOL DIVER : 2004 PURVIS A Getting the measure of biodiversity NATURE 405 : 212 2000 RAFOLS I IN PRESS DIVERSITY M : 2006 SCHMIDT M INT WORKSH WEB INFOR : 139 2006 SHIMATANI K On the measurement of species diversity incorporating species differences OIKOS 93 : 135 2001 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Feb 1 09:25:01 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 09:25:01 -0500 Subject: Gauffriau, M et al, 40 years discussion on the counting of publications Message-ID: Email address: mga at dtv.dk Author(s): Gauffriau, M (Gauffriau, Marianne); Larsen, PO (Larsen, Peder Olesen); Maye, I (Maye, Isabelle); Roulin-Perriard, A (Roulin-Perriard, Anne); von Ins, M (von Ins, Markus) Title: 40 years discussion on the counting of publications Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 852-853, 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International- Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ Carlos III Madrid Addresses: Tech Univ Denmark, Tech Knowledge Ctr Denmark, DARC DTU Anal & Promot Ctr, Lyngby, DK-2800 Denmark. Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM Cited Reference Count: 9 *CEST IND PLAC SCI SUISS 1 : 2004 BORGMAN CL Scholarly communication and bibliometrics ANNU REV INFORM SCI 36 : 3 2002 EGGHE L Methods for accrediting publications to authors or countries: consequences for evaluation studies J AM SOC INFORM SCI 51 : 145 2000 GAUFFRIAU M IN PRESS PUBLICATION : 2007 GAUFFRIAU M Counting methods are decisive for rankings based on publication and citation studies SCIENTOMETRICS 64 : 85 2005 GLANZEL W PREFACE SCIENTOMETRI 3 : 165 1996 MOED HF CITATION ANAL RES EV 30 : 375 1994 MOED HF HDB QUANTITATIVE SCI : 2004 PERSSON O Inflationary bibliometric values: The role of scientific collaboration and the need for relative indicators in evaluative studies SCIENTOMETRICS 60 : 421 2004 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Feb 1 09:26:23 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 09:26:23 -0500 Subject: Iglesias, JE; Pecharroman, C Comparing h-indices for scientists in different ISI fields Message-ID: Email address: jeiglesias at icv.csic.es Author(s): Iglesias, JE (Iglesias, Juan E.); Pecharroman, C (Pecharroman, Carlos) Title: Comparing h-indices for scientists in different ISI fields Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 862-863, 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International- Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ Carlos III Madrid Addresses: CSIC, Inst Ceram & Vidrio, Madrid, E-28049 Spain. Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM Cited Reference Count: 5 EGGE L SCIENTOMETRICS 69 : 121 2006 GLANZEL W On the h-index - A mathematical approach to a new measure of publication activity and citation impact SCIENTOMETRICS 67 : 315 2006 HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102 : 16569 2005 LAHERRERE J EUROPEAN PHYS J 2 : 539 1998 REDNER S EUR PHYS J B 4 : 131 1998 From notsjb at LSU.EDU Fri Feb 1 10:09:37 2008 From: notsjb at LSU.EDU (Stephen J Bensman) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 09:09:37 -0600 Subject: 11th ISSI Conference Message-ID: The 11th ISSI conference must have a big one and in some respects a numbing experience. The number of papers at it has brought to mind the following Biblical quote. Take your pick of translation. http://bible.cc/ecclesiastes/12-12.htm Stephen J. 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The essay provides an explanation for today's renewed interest in the subject and for why the science of eugenics remains relevant to contemporary society. The essay examines the catalyst to re-examine the eugenics movement, the influence of Darwinian thought upon its development, the political and institutional support for its growth, the relationship between eugenics, sterilization, and sex, and how the twentieth-century promises of the science of better breeding was a precursor to the twenty-first-century promise of genetic engineering. Cited Reference Count: 0 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: UNIV CALIFORNIA PRESS Publisher Address: C/O JOURNALS DIVISION, 2000 CENTER ST, STE 303, BERKELEY, CA 94704-1223 USA ISSN: 0272-3433 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Feb 1 10:55:12 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 10:55:12 -0500 Subject: Giles, MW (Giles, Micheal W.); Garand, JC (Garand, James C.) Ranking political science journals: Reputational and citational approaches PS-POLITICAL SCIENCE & POLITICS, 40 (4): 741-751 OCT 2007 Message-ID: Email address: micheal.giles at emory.edu Author(s): Giles, MW (Giles, Micheal W.); Garand, JC (Garand, James C.) Title: Ranking political science journals: Reputational and citational approaches Source: PS-POLITICAL SCIENCE & POLITICS, 40 (4): 741-751 OCT 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Keywords Plus: ECONOMICS JOURNALS; RELATIVE IMPACTS; MANAGEMENT Addresses: Emory Univ, Atlanta, GA 30322 USA; Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA Reprint Address: Giles, MW, Emory Univ, Atlanta, GA 30322 USA. 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BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 313 : 411 1996 GARFIELD E JOURNAL CITATION STUDIES .46. PHYSICAL-CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL PHYSICS JOURNALS .3. THE EVOLUTION OF PHYSICAL-CHEMISTRY TO CHEMICAL PHYSICS CURRENT CONTENTS : 3 1986 GILES MW POLITICAL-SCIENTISTS JOURNAL EVALUATIONS REVISITED PS-POLITICAL SCIENCE & POLITICS 22 : 613 1989 GILES MW POLITICAL SCIENTISTS EVALUATIONS OF 63 JOURNALS P S 8 : 254 1975 HANTULA DA The impact of JOBM: ISI impact factor places the Journal of Organizational Behavior Management third in applied psychology JOURNAL OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT 25 : 1 2005 HENDRY DF UNPUB RES ASSESSMENT : 2006 HIX S POLITICAL STUDIES RE 2 : 293 2004 KALAITZIDAKIS P J EUROPEAN EC ASS 1 : 1346 2003 LABAND DN THE RELATIVE IMPACTS OF ECONOMICS JOURNALS - 1970-1990 JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE 32 : 640 1994 LEIMU R What determines the citation frequency of ecological papers? TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION 20 : 28 2005 LIEBOWITZ SJ ASSESSING THE RELATIVE IMPACTS OF ECONOMICS JOURNALS JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE 22 : 77 1984 MOED H CITATION ANAL RES EV : 2005 NEDERHOF AJ A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF 6 ECONOMICS RESEARCH GROUPS - A COMPARISON WITH PEER-REVIEW RESEARCH POLICY 22 : 353 1993 STAHL MJ PUBLICATION IN LEADING MANAGEMENT JOURNALS AS A MEASURE OF INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 31 : 707 1988 VANDALEN H SCIENTOMETRICS 50 : 455 2002 VOKURKA RJ J OPERATIONS MANAGEM 14 : 345 1996 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Feb 1 11:02:34 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 11:02:34 -0500 Subject: Martin, BR (Martin, Ben R.) Keeping plagiarism at bay - A salutary tale RESEARCH POLICY, 36 (7): 905-911 SEP 2007 Message-ID: E-mail Address: B.Martin at sussex.ac.uk Author(s): Martin, BR (Martin, Ben R.) Title: Keeping plagiarism at bay - A salutary tale Source: RESEARCH POLICY, 36 (7): 905-911 SEP 2007 Language: English Document Type: Editorial Material Author Keywords: plagiarism; research misconduct; peer review; self- policing; social sciences; academic community Keywords Plus: SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; SCIENCE Abstract: This editorial examines the question of whether plagiarism may be on the increase in the social sciences and, if so, what needs to be done to keep the problem in check. It was prompted by the discovery of an alert reader in June 2007 that a 1993 paper in Research Policy appeared to have plagiarised a 1980 article in the Journal of Business. The allegation was investigated, and it was agreed by the Editors that the 1993 paper constituted a clear and serious case of plagiarism. However, the author concerned has published over 100 articles and books. Already, two other publications have been judged by the editors of the journals concerned to have plagiarised previous publications. Two more are under investigation, but the great majority of the remainder still remain to be checked. The fact that academic misconduct on this scale has gone unchecked over such a prolonged period raises serious issues about the efficacy of the processes used to police the conduct of researchers. Furthermore, the unexpected discovery that a paper by the author under investigation appears itself to have been plagiarised poses a fundamental question as to whether plagiarism may be far more common than previously assumed. The editorial concludes that a measured degree of vigilance and a greater willingness to pursue any well-founded suspicions of research misconduct are required by editors, referees, publishers and the wider academic community if the scourge of plagiarism is to be kept at bay. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Addresses: Univ Sussex, Freeman Ctr, SPRU Sci & Technol Policy Res, Brighton BN1 9QE, E Sussex, England Reprint Address: Martin, BR, Univ Sussex, Freeman Ctr, SPRU Sci & Technol Policy Res, Brighton BN1 9QE, E Sussex, England. 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Opening the box: Comparing EU and US scientific output by scientific field TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE, 74 (8): 1334-1356 OCT 2007 Message-ID: E-mail Address: fveloso at cmu.edu Author(s): Horta, H (Horta, Hugo); Veloso, FM (Veloso, Francisco M.) Title: Opening the box: Comparing EU and US scientific output by scientific field Source: TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE, 74 (8): 1334-1356 OCT 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: scientific productivity; scientific competitiveness; science policy Keywords Plus: SCIENCE-AND-TECHNOLOGY; IMPACT FACTOR; INDICATORS; CITATION Abstract: Recent reports suggest that, during the 1990s, the EU15 overcame the US in scientific output. This paper provides a comprehensive comparative analysis of the evolution of the EU 15 and US scientific output and impact throughout the 1990s, looking at publications and impact trends by scientific field. Results show that changes in scientific production for the two blocks are driven by particular scientific fields which grew or declined at a fast rate during the decade. Throughout this period, the EU 15 had eight fields of science, corresponding to a 13% of the total papers published, growing at a rate faster than 10% in relation to world average, while the US had only four fast growing fields, representing 6% of its total output. The situation was exactly reversed for the decline, with the US having more than doubled the number of scientific fields when compared to the EU 15 declining at a rate faster than 10%. Despite this recent trend, the US maintains a distant leadership in impact across all scientific fields. A detailed analysis of the EU 15 countries shows some convergence in terms of outputs and impact, but considerable differences among countries remain. These reflect the evolution, not only of their science, technology and higher education systems, but also their integration in the international science system. (C) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Addresses: Carnegie Mellon Univ, Dept Engn & Publ Policy, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA; Univ Tecn Lisbon, Inst Super Tecn, Ctr Innovat Technol & Policy Res IN, P-1049001 Lisbon, Portugal; Univ Catolica Portuguesa, Fac Ciencias Econ & Empresariais, Lisbon, Portugal Reprint Address: Veloso, FM, Carnegie Mellon Univ, Dept Engn & Publ Policy, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA. 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A journal by any other measure ... JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY 411 : 1 1999 SHELTON RD The US-EU race for leadership of science and technology: Qualitative and quantitative indicators SCIENTOMETRICS 60 : 353 2004 WALLEY B UNCOVERING 3 WORLD S 17 : 186 1986 WHITLEY R INTELLECTUAL SOCIAL : 1984 WOOD F HIGH ED RES DEV 8 : 243 1989 ZIMAN J REAL SCI : 2000 From Chris.Armbruster at EUI.EU Wed Feb 6 11:35:51 2008 From: Chris.Armbruster at EUI.EU (Armbruster, Chris) Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 17:35:51 +0100 Subject: Libraries, repositories and metric research evaluation (pre-print , free download) Message-ID: ACCESS, USAGE AND CITATION METRICS: WHAT FUNCTION FOR DIGITAL LIBRARIES AND REPOSITORIES IN RESEARCH EVALUATION? The growth and increasing complexity of global science poses a grand challenge to scientists: How to organise the worldwide evaluation of research programmes and peers? For the 21st century we need not just information on science, but also meta-level scientific information that is delivered to the digital workbench of every researcher. Access, usage and citation metrics will be one major information service that researchers will need on an everyday basis to handle the complexity of science. Scientometrics has been built on centralised commercial databases of high functionality but restricted scope, mainly providing information that may be used for research assessment. Enter digital libraries and repositories: Can they collect reliable metadata at source, ensure universal metric coverage and defray costs? This systematic appraisal of the future role of digital libraries and repositories for metric research evaluation proceeds by investigating the practical inadequacies of current metric evaluation before defining the scope for libraries and repositories as new players. Subsequently the notion of metrics as research information services is developed. Finally, the future relationship between a) libraries and repositories and b) metrics databases, commercial or non-commercial, is addressed. Services reviewed include: Leiden Ranking, Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, COUNTER, MESUR, Harzing POP, CiteSeer, Citebase, RePEc LogEc and CitEc, Scopus, Web of Science and Google Scholar. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1088453 I should be particularly grateful if readers point out any errors and misconceptions. Chris Armbruster From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Thu Feb 7 02:14:39 2008 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 08:14:39 +0100 Subject: Changing US Output -- NSF Message-ID: Dear colleagues, In another context, some of us had an exchange about the special report "Changing US Output of Scientific Articles: 1988-2003" which the NSF issued in 2007. (The data is rather similar to the ones used in the Indicators series of the NSF.) Since the problems are of a more general nature and the public interest involved, I decided to post a lightly edited version of my contribution to this debate to this list. The issues relate nicely to my recent paper in JASIST about the Caveats of using scientometric indicators. While the paper in JASIST focuses on the use of citations in evaluations, this contribution mentions some of the problems when counting publications. Some of these discussions have been around for more than twenty years without having been resolved. Best wishes, Loet ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------- Dear colleague, Thank you for your extensive reaction to our correspondence. I find the work of the US-NSF in this area very useful and frequently use the Indicators series. However, I am aware of the flaws in the database used, while the general public is not. You may wish to reflect about how this data is used, as sometimes different from the intentions of your agency to provide neutral statistics. For example, in your report on "Changing Output" you and your coauthors state on p. 3 "What prompted this study?" and provide an alarming curve. This curve is partly an artifact of the major development in the science system during the 1990s, that is, international coauthorship relations. Using fractional counting, this hits the US stronger than the EU because most international coauthorship relations within the EU are among EU member states. The impossibility to distinguish between "real" decline and this effect using fractional counting has been discussed in the literature. You make reference to some of that literature on p. 2 when you state: "Nonetheless, these more targeted studies and others like them, which use other, more theoretically driven analytical models and less-comprehensive databases, suggest significant avenues for further research." Some of the authors cited indeed use less-comprehensive databases, but others use the full databases. Other authors who have used the full database have argued about the limitation of the fixed set, but are never cited by NSF studies. You may take my own studies since the late 1980s as a case in point, but let me also point to the Hungarian center. A major difference is the issue about the fixed and changing journal sets. While everybody can control the changing (ISI) journal set, the fixed journal set used by your organization is difficult to access or reconstruct. More fundamentally, I have elaborated on the analytical point about fixing a set in my paper "Dynamic and Evolutionary Updates of Classificatory Schemes in Scientific Journal Structures," [Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 53(12) (2002) 987-994]. I provide arguments why the journal set should be fixed ex post and not ex ante: in a dynamic set one updates and fixes with hindsight, that is based on the current understanding of categories. This point has been completely ignored by your organization. The most amazing thing for me is that you and your colleagues provide data in this report till 2003 while it was issued in 2007. At the same time, I presented a paper at the ISSI conference in Madrid (June 2007) entitled "Is the United States losing ground in science? A global perspective on the world science system," coauthored with Caroline Wagner (SRI; cc) and accepted for publication by Scientometrics in April 2007 [available from my website]. We provided data including 2006, as everyone in this specialty nowadays has data available for 2007. The JCR of the ISI appear in June of the next year, and I can imagine that your organization also needs half a year for the data processing. However, your data run several years behind and make them relatively unuseful as a source of reliable statistics for policy making. (Nevertheless, policy makers may find them useful if they fit their purposes.) If you would have studied the more recent statistics, you would have noticed that the EU and the US exhibit similar development trends during the last decade. (It sometimes seems almost like the EU and the US are increasingly coupled systems.) Let me attach/insert the latest data: The linear growth of South-Korea may be bending off (as expected), but the exponential growth of the Chinese contribution is still continuous. The US contribution is growing less than the EU, but in the above mentioned article you find the arguments about weaknesses in the EU (which are more worrysome than for the US, in my opinion). The data for this graph was collected on January 21, 2008, in collaboration with my coauthor Ping Zhou (cc; only articles + reviews + notes + letters, ISI-dataset). In summary, my suggestions for improvements in your series of studies would be (since you asked for this): 1. try to extend the data used by the NSF with the latest available; make the statistics current; 2. be aware of the effects of international collaboration on fractional counting. (I expect major developments using fractional counting because of the changes in patterns of international collaboration in recent years. Caroline Wagner and I are working on a study about this.) 3. if you wish to use fixed journal sets, fix them ex post (see my paper about this; we do this now regularly in detailed studies); 4. provide also references to publications which were critical about previous reports of your agency. With best wishes, Loet _____ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ Visiting Professor, ISTIC, Beijing; Honorary Fellow SPRU, University of Sussex Now available: The Knowledge-Based Economy: Modeled, Measured, Simulated, 385 pp.; US$ 18.95; The Self-Organization of the Knowledge-Based Society ; The Challenge of Scientometrics -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Cited Reference Count: 2 Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM Cited Reference Count: 2 MOED HF New bibliometric tools for the assessment of national research performance: database description, overview of indicators and first applications SCIENTOMETRICS 33 : 381 1995 VANRAAN A Advanced bibliometric methods for the evaluation of universities SCIENTOMETRICS 45 : 417 1999 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Feb 7 09:33:15 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 09:33:15 -0500 Subject: Kretschmer, H; Kretschmer, T Distribution of co-author pairs frequencies of the Journal of Biological chemistry explained as social gestalt Message-ID: Email address: kretschmer.h at onlinehome.de Author(s): Kretschmer, H (Kretschmer, Hildrun); Kretschmer, T (Kretschmer, Theo) Title: Distribution of co-author pairs frequencies of the Journal of Biological chemistry explained as social gestalt Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 870-871, 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International- Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ Carlos III Madrid Addresses: Dalian Univ Technol, WISE LAB, Dalian, 116023 Peoples R China. Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM Cited Reference Count: 1 KRETSCHMER H Similarities and Dissimilarities in Co-Authorship Networks: Gestalt Theory as Explanation for Well-ordered Collaboration Structures and Production of Scientific Literature LIBR TRENDS 50 : 474 2002 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Feb 7 09:33:48 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 09:33:48 -0500 Subject: Kotar, M (Kotar, Mojca) Author cocitation analysis of polyamides specialty 1974-1999 and the modification of multivariate statistics Message-ID: Email address: mojca.kotar at ntf.uni-lj.si Author(s): Kotar, M (Kotar, Mojca) Title: Author cocitation analysis of polyamides specialty 1974-1999 and the modification of multivariate statistics Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 872-873, 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International- Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ Carlos III Madrid Addresses: Univ Ljubljana, Fac Nat Sci & Engn, Dept Text, Ljubljana, SI- 1000 Slovenia. Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM Cited Reference Count: 3 DOREIAN P STRUCTURAL ANAL SOCI 25 : 2005 KOTAR M BIBLIOMETRIJSKA ANAL : 2005 MCCAIN KW Mapping authors in intellectual space: A technical overview J AM SOC INFORM SCI 41 : 433 1990 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Feb 7 09:34:34 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 09:34:34 -0500 Subject: Leite, P (Leite, Paula); Leta, J (Leta, Jacqueline) Productivity and prestige among Brazilian scientists Message-ID: Email address: plmelo at bioqmed.ufrj.br Author(s): Leite, P (Leite, Paula); Leta, J (Leta, Jacqueline) Title: Productivity and prestige among Brazilian scientists Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 874-875, 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International- Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ Carlos III Madrid Addresses: Univ Fed Rio de Janeiro, Inst Bioquim Med, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM Cited Reference Count: 5 ALLISTON PD Productivity differences among scientists: evidence for accumulative advantage AM SOCIOL REV 39 : 596 1974 FOX MF Publication productivity among scientists: a critical review SOC STUD SCI 13 : 285 1983 LETA J SCIENTOMETRICS 7 : 87 2006 MERTON RK The Matthew effect in science - the reward and communication systems of science are considered SCIENCE 159 : 56 1968 SCHIEBINGER L HAS FEMINISM CHANGED : 1999 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Feb 7 09:36:30 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 09:36:30 -0500 Subject: Levitt, JM (Levitt, Jonathan M.); Thelwall, M (Thelwall, Michael) Two new indicators derived from the h-index for comparing citation impact: Hirsch frequencies and the normalised Hirsch index Message-ID: Email address: j.m.levitt at wlv.ac.uk Author(s): Levitt, JM (Levitt, Jonathan M.); Thelwall, M (Thelwall, Michael) Title: Two new indicators derived from the h-index for comparing citation impact: Hirsch frequencies and the normalised Hirsch index Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 876-877, 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International- Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ Carlos III Madrid KeyWords Plus: RESEARCHERS Addresses: Wolverhampton Univ, Sch Comp & Informat Technol, Wolverhampton, WV1 1SB England. Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM Cited Reference Count: 6 BATISTA PD Is it possible to compare reseachers with different scientific interests SCIENTOMETRICS 68 : 179 2006 BRAUN T A Hirsch-type index for journals SCIENTOMETRICS 69 : 169 2006 CRONIN B Using the h-index to rank influential information scientists J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 57 : 1275 2006 HIRSCH JE An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102 : 16569 2005 OPPENHEIM C Using the h-index to rank influential British researchers in information science and librarianship J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 58 : 297 2007 VANRAAN AFJ Comparison of the Hirsch-index with standard bibliometric indicators and with peer judgment for 147 chemistry research groups SCIENTOMETRICS 67 : 491 2006 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Feb 7 09:37:04 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 09:37:04 -0500 Subject: Lewison, G (Lewison, Grant) Counting citations: Fractionation of addresses and "World-Scale", a new scalar Message-ID: Email address: glewisonxx at aol.com Author(s): Lewison, G (Lewison, Grant) Title: Counting citations: Fractionation of addresses and "World-Scale", a new scalar Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 880-881, 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International- Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ Carlos III Madrid Addresses: Evaluametrics Ltd, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4JF England. Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM Cited Reference Count: 2 AKSNES DW 9 INT C SCI TECHN IN : 3 2006 CAMBROSIO A Mapping the emergence and development of translational cancer research EUR J CANCER 42 : 3140 2006 From isidro at CINDOC.CSIC.ES Fri Feb 8 10:19:39 2008 From: isidro at CINDOC.CSIC.ES (Isidro F. Aguillo) Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 16:19:39 +0100 Subject: New Ranking of Repositories Message-ID: The Webometrics Ranking of World Universities (www.webometrics.info ) has been updated with data collected during January 2008. The main new service offered is the Ranking of Repositories that presents the best 200 ones of the world. The best ranked are three largest thematic Open Access deposits: Arxiv, dedicated to physics and related sciences; RePEc, a big effort being made by the economic science world; and E-LIS committed to Library and Information Sciences and Documentation. The ranking still show a concerning academic digital divide between North American universities and the European ones, as almost the 60% of the 200 first positions are occupied by North American universities. On the first positions of the ranking are MIT, Stanford and Harvard universities. The University of Cambridge, which goes down the list until 27th position, continues being the first European university that appears in the ranking followed by Oxford and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Zurich. It is also worth to mention the good results obtained in general by the Canadian universities that maintains several institutions very well positioned. Nordic universities like Helsinki and Uppsala universities continue to improving their positions in the ranking. And also the universities of Geneva, Amsterdam and Leipzig show an interesting progress. Australian National University in Oceania and UNAM from Mexico in Latin America are improving their positions as regional leaders but they are also close to world leaders status. Another interesting result observed is the improvement that Japanese universities are experimenting. Tokyo and Kyoto universities are increasing their position in the ranking which reflects the commitment of these institutions to web publishing. Also, it is worth to mention the progress that some Chinese universities like the National Taiwan University, and the University of Hong Kong and the Chinese University of Hong Kong are doing. Regarding Research Councils there is also a predominance of North American organizations, like the NIH and NASA in the 2 first positions, but the European CNRS, Max Planck and CERN are among the top ten positions in our ranking. -- **************************** Isidro F. Aguillo Laboratorio de Cibermetr?a Cybermetrics Lab CCHS - CSIC Joaquin Costa, 22 28002 Madrid. Spain isidro @ cindoc.csic.es +34-91-5635482 ext 313 **************************** From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Feb 8 11:06:08 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 11:06:08 -0500 Subject: Lucio-Arias, D (Lucio-Arias, Diana) A validation study of HistCite (TM): Using the discoveries of fullerenes and nanotubes Message-ID: Email address: dlucioarias at fmg.uva.nl Author(s): Lucio-Arias, D (Lucio-Arias, Diana) Title: A validation study of HistCite (TM): Using the discoveries of fullerenes and nanotubes Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 886-887, 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International- Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ Carlos III Madrid Addresses: Univ Amsterdam, ASCoR, Amsterdam, NL-1012 WX Netherlands. Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM Cited Reference Count: 9 CARLEY KM SCIENTIFIC INFLUENCE - AN ANALYSIS OF THE MAIN PATH STRUCTURE IN THE JOURNAL OF CONFLICT-RESOLUTION KNOWLEDGE-CREATION DIFFUSION UTILIZATION 14 : 417 1993 CHEN C J AM SOC INFORM SCI 57 : 359 2005 FRENKEN K Scaling Trajectories in Civil Aircraft RES POLICY 29 : 331 2000 GARFIELD E ESSAYS INFORM SCI 2 : 134 1973 GARFIELD E Algorithmic citation-linked historiography - Mapping the literature of science ASIST 2002: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 65TH ASIST ANNUAL MEETING, VOL 39, 2002 39 : 14 2002 HUMMON NP Connectivity in a citation network SOC NETWORKS 11 : 39 1989 PERSSON O The intellectual base and research fronts of JASIST J AM SOC INFORM SCI 45 : 31 1994 PRICE DJD Networks of scientific papers SCIENCE 149 : 510 1965 VANDENBESSELAAR P Mapping research topics using word-reference co-occurrences: A method and an exploratory case study SCIENTOMETRICS 68 : 377 2006 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Feb 8 11:03:58 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 11:03:58 -0500 Subject: Lin, X (Lin, Xia) New visual interfaces for author co-citation mapping Message-ID: Email address: xlin at drexel.edu Author(s): Lin, X (Lin, Xia) Title: New visual interfaces for author co-citation mapping Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 882-883, 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International- Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ Carlos III Madrid KeyWords Plus: SCIENCE Addresses: Drexel Univ, Coll Informat Sci & Technol, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA. Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM Cited Reference Count: 9 BOYACK KW Domain visualization using VxInsight for science and technology management J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 53 : 764 2002 CHEN CM CiteSpace II: Detecting and visualizing emerging trends and transient patterns in scientific literature J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 57 : 359 2006 KOHONEN T SELF ORG MAPS : 1997 LIN X Real-time author co-citation mapping for online searching INFORM PROCESS MANAG 39 : 689 2003 MACKINLAY JD P ACM C HUM FACT COM : 67 1995 SCHNEIDERMAN B P IEEE S VIS LANG : 336 1996 SCHVANEVELDT RW PATHFINDER ASS NETWO : 1990 SMALL H Visualizing science by citation mapping J AM SOC INFORM SCI 50 : 799 1999 TOGNAZZINI B 1 PRINCIPLES INTERAC : 2003 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Feb 8 11:12:30 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 11:12:30 -0500 Subject: McCain, KW (McCain, Katherine W.) The relationship between influence and image: Two views of the Oeuvre of Conrad Hal Waddington using historiographic mapping and author Tri-Citation image analysis Message-ID: Email address: kate.mccain at ischool.drexel.edu Author(s): McCain, KW (McCain, Katherine W.) Title: The relationship between influence and image: Two views of the Oeuvre of Conrad Hal Waddington using historiographic mapping and author Tri-Citation image analysis Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 890-891, 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International- Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ Carlos III Madrid Addresses: Drexel Univ, Coll Informat Sci & Technol, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA. Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM Cited Reference Count: 4 GARFIELD E Historiographic mapping of knowledge domains literature JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE 30 : 119 2004 MARION LS A tri-citation analysis exploring the citation image of Kurt Lewin ASIST 2002: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 65TH ASIST ANNUAL MEETING, VOL 39, 2002 39 : 3 2002 MCCAIN KW ANAL INFLUENCE TIME : 2007 WHITE HD ASIS MONOGRAPH SERIE : 475 2000 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Feb 8 11:11:58 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 11:11:58 -0500 Subject: Matheus, RF (Fabiano Matheus, Renato) Information science network - ISN: Social network analysis of scientific production of LIS field in Brazil Message-ID: Author(s): Matheus, RF (Fabiano Matheus, Renato) Title: Information science network - ISN: Social network analysis of scientific production of LIS field in Brazil Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 888-889, 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International- Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ Carlos III Madrid Addresses: Nucl Estudos Tecnol Para Informacao & Conheciment, Netic, Brazil. Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM Cited Reference Count: 8 BORGATTI SP UCINET WINDOWS SOFTW : 2002 MATHEUS RF ANAL REDES SOCIAIS C 7 : 2 2006 OTTE E Social network analysis: a powerful strategy, also for information sciences J INF SCI 28 : 441 2002 PARREIRAS FS REDECI COLABORACAO P 11 : 2006 ROUSSEAU B INT J SCI INFORM BIB 4 : 1 2000 SILVA A ENANCIB 7 : 2006 SILVA AB CIENCIA INFORM 35 : 72 2006 WASSERMAN S SOCIAL NETWORK ANAL : 1994 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Feb 8 11:14:05 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 11:14:05 -0500 Subject: McCain, KW; Silverstein, S Using historiographic mapping to trace persistent highly visible research themes in medical informatics Message-ID: Email address: kate.mccain at ischool.drexel.edu Author(s): McCain, KW (McCain, Katherine W.); Silverstein, S (Silverstein, Scot) Title: Using historiographic mapping to trace persistent highly visible research themes in medical informatics Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 892-893, 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International- Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ Carlos III Madrid Addresses: Drexel Univ, Coll Informat Sci & Technol, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA. Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM Cited Reference Count: 3 FRIEDMAN CP Training the next generation of informaticians J AM MED INFORM ASSN 11 : 167 2004 GARFIELD E Historiographic mapping of knowledge domains literature JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE 30 : 119 2004 SILVERSTEIN S SOCIOTECHNOLOGIC ISS From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Feb 8 11:15:11 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 11:15:11 -0500 Subject: Macias-Chapula, CA et al, Institutional health research collaboration in Mexico. A Bibliometric study Message-ID: Email address: chapula at data.net.mx Author(s): Macias-Chapula, CA (Macias-Chapula, C. A.); Mendoza-Guerrero, JA (Mendoza-Guerrero, J. A.); Rodea-Castro, IP (Rodea-Castro, I. P.); Gutierrez-Carrasco, A (Gutierrez-Carrasco, A.) Title: Institutional health research collaboration in Mexico. A Bibliometric study Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 894-895, 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International- Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ Carlos III Madrid KeyWords Plus: INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION; COUNTRIES Addresses: Hosp Gen Mexico City, Res Unit, Mexico City, DF 03920 Mexico. Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM Cited Reference Count: 9 LUCAS AO Internation collaboration in health research B WORLD HEALTH ORGAN 83 : 482 2005 MACIASCHAPULA CA INT WORKSH WEB INF S : 2007 MACIASCHAPULA CA SEM INT EST CUAN CUA : 2006 NARVAEZBERTHELE.N An index to measure the international collaboration of developing countries based on the particiapation of national institutions: The case of Latin America SCIENTOMETRICS 34 : 37 1995 NUYENS Y NO DEV RES CAHALLENG : 2005 PELLEGRINI FA REV PANAM SALUD PUBL 17 : 345 2000 SADANA R Importance of health research in South Asia BRIT MED J 328 : 826 2004 SANCHO R Indicadores de colaboracion cientifica Inter-Centros en los paises de America Latina INTERCIENCIA 31 : 284 2006 WAGNER CS SCI TECHNOLOGY COLLA : 2001 From eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Fri Feb 8 16:52:55 2008 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 16:52:55 -0500 Subject: FW: Libraries, repositories and metric research evaluation (pre-print, free download) (fwd) Message-ID: From: Norman Horrocks [mailto:nhorrock at dal.ca] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 18:26:46 EST From: "Armbruster, Chris" Reply-To: liblicense-l at lists.yale.edu To: liblicense-l at lists.yale.edu Subject: Libraries, repositories and metric research evaluation (pre-print, free download) ACCESS, USAGE AND CITATION METRICS: WHAT FUNCTION FOR DIGITAL LIBRARIES AND REPOSITORIES IN RESEARCH EVALUATION? The growth and increasing complexity of global science poses a grand challenge to scientists: How to organise the worldwide evaluation of research programmes and peers? For the 21st century we need not just information on science, but also meta-level scientific information that is delivered to the digital workbench of every researcher. Access, usage and citation metrics will be one major information service that researchers will need on an everyday basis to handle the complexity of science. Scientometrics has been built on centralised commercial databases of high functionality but restricted scope, mainly providing information that may be used for research assessment. Enter digital libraries and repositories: Can they collect reliable metadata at source, ensure universal metric coverage and defray costs? This systematic appraisal of the future role of digital libraries and repositories for metric research evaluation proceeds by investigating the practical inadequacies of current metric evaluation before defining the scope for libraries and repositories as new players. Subsequently the notion of metrics as research information services is developed. Finally, the future relationship between a) libraries and repositories and b) metrics databases, commercial or non-commercial, is addressed. Services reviewed include: Leiden Ranking, Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, COUNTER, MESUR, Harzing POP, CiteSeer, Citebase, RePEc LogEc and CitEc, Scopus, Web of Science and Google Scholar. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1088453 I should be particularly grateful if readers could point out any errors or misconceptions on my part. Chris Armbruster From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Sat Feb 9 10:10:43 2008 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 15:10:43 +0000 Subject: New Ranking of Central and Institutional Repositories In-Reply-To: <20080209113503.GA10335@openlib.org> Message-ID: On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Thomas Krichel wrote: >> Stevan Harnad: >> Yes, the three first ranks go to "thematic" (i.e., discipline- or >> subject-based) Central Repositories (CRs): (1) Arxiv (Physics), (2) Repec >> (Economics) and (3) E-Lis (Library Science). That is to be expected, >> because such CRs are fed from institutions all over the world. > > Thomas Krichel: > Yeah, but E-LIS is really small, looking at it today it tells > us it has 7253 documents. That IRs struggle to compete with that > sort of effort demonstrates that IRs don't populate, even in the > presence of mandates. No amount of Driver summits will change this. > > Disclaimer: I am the founder of RePEc and also do volunteer work > for E-LIS. (0) IRs "don't populate, even in the presence of mandates"? (Could Tom please state his evidence for this, comparing the 12 mandated IRs so far with unmandated control IRs -- as Arthur Sale did for a subset, demonstrating the exact opposite of what Tom here claims.) http://fcms.its.utas.edu.au/scieng/comp/project.asp?lProjectId=1830 (Perhaps all Tom means here is that ROARMAP is not yet populated with enough mandates -- in which case I suggest he stay tuned, and watch what happens in 2008.) (1) I don't know the Webometrics ranking formula, but it is clearly based on multiple weighted parameters, and not merely on total number of records (country, size, visibility, rich files, "scholar"), otherwise the rank order would have been the same as what ROAR gives you if you select "Sort by Total Records": http://roar.eprints.org/?action=home&q=&country=&version=&type=&order=recordcount&submit=Filter The Webometrics "Size" parameter seems to be the same as ROAR's "Total records" -- except Webometrics so far seems to omit PubMedCentral, which would otherwise be the biggest of the CRs. I expect that Webometrics' coverage and perhaps also their formula is still being refined. [They only seem to cover a total of 200 CRs and IRs right now.] And of course there is also still the not-yet-solved problem of distinguishing the records that are full-texts from those that are just metadata, and distinguishing OA content from other kinds of deposits. Stay tuned. http://trac.eprints.org/projects/iar/wiki/Missing Another prominent omission is OAIster, which of course is a harvested meta-repository of repositories (both IRs and CRs) -- but that should cause some logical reflection about the notion of a "CR" altogether: For of course OAIster is itself a CR! Moreover, some of the other CRs are themselves harvested, either from individual websites or from IRs. (CiteSeer is, and so is Repec -- and so, for that matter, are Google Scholar and Google!) So the CR-enthusiasts still need to sort out their logic: they must sort out harvested CRs from CRs that are deposited into directly. (My own provisional conclusion is that as it becomes obvious that virtually every researcher has or will shortly have his own institution's IR, it is the local OAI-compliant IRs (including departmental IRs) that are the natural, optimal, and systematic locus of direct deposit, since institutions are the direct providers of the research in any case. "CRs" should be seen and treated as central services, harvesting (either full-texts or just their metadata) from the distributed IRs, rather than being seen as alternative "repositories", either for direct deposit (in foolish and dysfunctional competition with direct IR deposit), or as entrants in a size competition with IRs -- when the institutions and their IRs are the source of their contents in any case!) (And CRs are encouraged and welcome to enhance the metadata of their harvested contents. But metadata enhancement should not get in the way of content provision itself: That is putting the cart before the (still largely absent) horse!) (2) All repositories are still "struggling" for content. Arxiv and Repec are based on long-standing, semi-successful spontaneous self-archiving practices by a very small, unchanging number of disciplines (and even that is very far from covering all or most of the research article output of Physics or Economics). The rest of Physics and Economics -- and the rest of the disciplines, and the rest of the research institutions of the world -- are not capturing their research output spontaneously. That is by now quite obvious. The solution is equally obvious, tried, tested, and already shown to successfully approach a deposit rate of 100% within 1-2 years: Green Self-Archiving Mandates. http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/ But again, comparing IRs and CRs in this regard is comparing apples and fruit: There are (growing alongside (i) the one high-volume spontaneous self-archiving CR, Arxiv, (ii) the semi-central CR, Repec, and (iii) the harvested CR, Citeseer), 12 university mandates and 22 funder mandates adopted, several quite recently -- plus 9 more proposed, including nation-wide multi-university mandate proposals in Brazil, and across the 791 universities in 46 countries in Europe. And the question of the *locus* of mandated deposit still needs to be sorted out for the funder mandates: they ought to be mandating IR deposit and central harvesting rather than going against the tide by needlessly mandating direct central deposit. http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/136-guid.html So it's early days for IR mandates, hence also for IR content over and above the spontaneous deposit baseline of about 15%. But stay tuned to see whether it is the apples, oranges, etc. or the fruit that prove to multiply more fruitfully! http://roar.eprints.org/index.php?action=generate_chart&chart_type=stacked (3) Disclaimer: I started in 1994 as an institutional self-archiving advocate. But then, foolishly enthralled by the spontaneous success of Arxiv, I temporarily switched allegiance to central self-archiving. But with the creation of the OAI harvesting protocol in 1999, which effectively made IRs and CRs all interoperable, hence equivalent, my allegiance sensibly reverted to where it should have stayed all along: to the systematic source of all the target content, namely, each researcher's own institutional IR. The institutions are the direct providers of all the OA target content. It is in their own interests and within their means to ensure that it is all made OA in their own IRs. That is the optimal solution that scales, naturally and systematically, to cover all of the world's research output, across all disciplines, institutions, languages and nations. The rest is just a matter of central harvesting, indexing, data-mining, and metadata enrichment of the IR contents. But the first and foremost objective is OA content provision, now; and the natural host for that is the author's own local IR. http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/344-guid.html (It was my impression that Tom Krichel too was a fan of distributed local self-archiving and central harvesting; as I recall, he was one of those who warned me off of centralism during my brief fatuous flirtation with it. But now Tom seems so comfortable with the continuing spontaneous deposit rate of economists that he does not notice that this spontaneous formula has utterly failed to generalize to all other disciplines for well over a decade now, and that Green OA IR Self-Archiving Mandates have meanwhile become the tried, tested and proven means of generating 100% locally. Hence it is toward generalizing those mandates that the OA movement must now devote its efforts (and is indeed doing so, successfully). Stevan Harnad AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM: http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/ UNIVERSITIES and RESEARCH FUNDERS: If you have adopted or plan to adopt a policy of providing Open Access to your own research article output, please describe your policy at: http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/136-guid.html OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY: BOAI-1 ("Green"): Publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal http://romeo.eprints.org/ OR BOAI-2 ("Gold"): Publish your article in an open-access journal if/when a suitable one exists. http://www.doaj.org/ AND in BOTH cases self-archive a supplementary version of your article in your own institutional repository. http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ http://archives.eprints.org/ http://openaccess.eprints.org/ From krichel at OPENLIB.ORG Sat Feb 9 11:43:33 2008 From: krichel at OPENLIB.ORG (Thomas Krichel) Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 10:43:33 -0600 Subject: New Ranking of Central and Institutional Repositories In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Stevan Harnad writes > (Could Tom please state his evidence for this, comparing the 12 mandated > IRs so far with unmandated control IRs -- as Arthur Sale did for a subset, > demonstrating the exact opposite of what Tom here claims.) > http://fcms.its.utas.edu.au/scieng/comp/project.asp?lProjectId=1830 Show me an archive, and a university, who will vouch that for a certain period, all that is in the IR with free full-text is a equivalent to the university's authors' total research papers in the same period. Does such a university exist? > And the question of the *locus* of mandated deposit still needs to > be sorted out for the funder mandates: they ought to be mandating IR > deposit and central harvesting rather than going against the tide by > needlessly mandating direct central deposit. > http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/136-guid.html Central deposit in the funders archive is better because it assures the funder that a copy is and remains available. It does not preclude IR archiving. > (It was my impression that Tom Krichel too was a fan of distributed > local self-archiving and central harvesting; as I recall, he was one of > those who warned me off of centralism during my brief fatuous flirtation > with it. I remember still you apologizing to me in a public meeting about this. Surely, few readers of this forum will believe it happened, but I have witnesses. ;-) Now you just as infatuated with the idea of in institutional mandate as a simple solution. You love simple ideas, that you then keep on repeating. > But now Tom seems so comfortable with the continuing spontaneous > deposit rate of economists Where is your evidence for this? I am not comfortable. For a start, I am in Siberia at this time. ;-) > that he does not notice that this spontaneous formula has utterly > failed to generalize to all other disciplines for well over a decade > now, I may be dump, but I am not deluded. I do notice. The problem is that there are not enough pioneers such as Paul Ginsparg and Thomas Krichel. And they don't get enough help. It's time for universities to support academics who are interested to lead forward scholarly initiative for their groups of scholars. Help them with disk space, CPU time, open TCP ports etc. In the long run this will generate more visibility for the sponsoring institution (per money spent) than pure research. BTW, I am working in pioneering initiatives (again), if an institution is interested in sponsorship (in kind not money) get in touch. Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel skype: thomaskrichel From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Sat Feb 9 11:49:25 2008 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 16:49:25 +0000 Subject: How to Compare IRs and CRs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Leslie Carr wrote: > On 9 Feb 2008, at 11:35, Thomas Krichel wrote: > >> Yeah, but E-LIS is really small, looking at it today it tells >> us it has 7253 documents. That IRs struggle to compete with that >> sort of effort demonstrates that IRs don't populate, even in the >> presence of mandates. No amount of Driver summits will change this. > > If you go to ROAR you will find 62 "Institutional or Departmental" > repositories that are bigger than E-LIS (that's out of a total set of > 562). Admittedly that's just 1 in 8 institutional repositories pulling > something approximating to their weight, but then there are only 89 > subject repositories listed in total. > > It's not a done deal by any means, but I think that the trend is > looking a lot more positive than you suggest . It's even a shade more subtle than that: Not only is comparing IRs to CRs comparing apples to fruit, but the genus and species have different respective denominators to answer to! (1) Obviously, we would not be surprised if Harvard (with an output of, say, 10K journal articles yearly) had a bigger IR than Mercer County Community College (with a yearly output of 100 journal articles). (2) But we would be surprised if the yearly deposit rate for Harvard's 10K annual articles was 1% and the yearly deposit rate for MCC was 90%, even if that meant that Harvard had 100 annual deposits and MCC had only 90. (3) So the right unit of comparison is not total repository content, of course, but proportion of annual output self-archived. (4) The comparison is more revealing (and exacting) when we compare CRs with IRs: How to compare Harvard's IR to the CR for Biomedicine (PubMed Central). (5) We are not surprised if the total annual worldwide (or even just US) output in Biomedicine exceeds the total annual output of Harvard in all disciplines. (6) Again, the valid unit of comparison is total annual-deposits divided by annual-output, and for a discipline, total annual output means all articles published that year in that disciple, originating from all of the world's research institutions. And that (if you needed one) is yet another reason why direct IR deposit is the systematic way to generate 100% OA. It's apples/apples vs fruit/fruit -- and all the fruit, hence all the apples, oranges, etc. are sown, grown and stocked locally. It's from the local repositories that the local produce can then be "harvested" (the limitations of a mixed metaphor!) to some central site, if desired, or just straight to an indexer like Google Scholar or Citebase. The moral of the story is that we have to normalize IR/IR, IR/CR and CR/CR comparisons -- and that absolute, non-normalized totals are not meaningless, but especially misleading about CRs, which give a spurious impression of magnitude simply by omitting their even-larger magnitude denominators! Stevan Harnad AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM: http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/ UNIVERSITIES and RESEARCH FUNDERS: If you have adopted or plan to adopt a policy of providing Open Access to your own research article output, please describe your policy at: http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/136-guid.html OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY: BOAI-1 ("Green"): Publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal http://romeo.eprints.org/ OR BOAI-2 ("Gold"): Publish your article in an open-access journal if/when a suitable one exists. http://www.doaj.org/ AND in BOTH cases self-archive a supplementary version of your article in your own institutional repository. http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ http://archives.eprints.org/ http://openaccess.eprints.org/ From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Sat Feb 9 13:05:20 2008 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 18:05:20 +0000 Subject: How to Compare IRs and CRs In-Reply-To: <20080209164333.GD11345@openlib.org> Message-ID: On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Thomas Krichel wrote: > Stevan Harnad writes > >> (Could Tom please state his evidence for this, comparing the 12 mandated >> IRs so far with unmandated control IRs -- as Arthur Sale did for a subset, >> demonstrating the exact opposite of what Tom here claims.) >> http://fcms.its.utas.edu.au/scieng/comp/project.asp?lProjectId=1830 > > Show me an archive, and a university, who will vouch that for a > certain period, all that is in the IR with free full-text > is a equivalent to the university's authors' total research > papers in the same period. Does such a university exist? Yes, Les Carr has already provided these data for the first mandate, Southampton ECS, in the pages of this Forum. CERN had done the same. We are currently gathering the corresponding data for QUT and Minho. Arthur Sale's comparative studies have also demonstrated this. But while we're at it, what's good for the goose is good for the gander (or, rather, for each genus and species): Show me a discipline-based CR that normalizes by its own denominator -- i.e., by the total research output of that discipline from all institutions, worldwide! >> And the question of the *locus* of mandated deposit still needs to >> be sorted out for the funder mandates: they ought to be mandating IR >> deposit and central harvesting rather than going against the tide by >> needlessly mandating direct central deposit. >> http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/136-guid.html > > Central deposit in the funders archive is better because > it assures the funder that a copy is and remains available. It > does not preclude IR archiving. It does not preclude IR archiving, but it doesn't mandate it, it doesn't help it, and it in fact hinders it, by confusing researchers as to where self-archiving needs to be done, and how many times. Simple solution: Both universities *and* funders mandate deposit in the researcher's IR; then funders can also harvest centrally from the IRs (or the IRs can -- very easily -- be configured to export to the designated CRs, where desired or required). So, No: Central deposit is decidedly *not* "better" -- it is worse, far worse, on all counts. It is just something else that is being done unthinkingly, and the effort is not being made to think it through. >> (It was my impression that Tom Krichel too was a fan of distributed >> local self-archiving and central harvesting; as I recall, he was one of >> those who warned me off of centralism during my brief fatuous flirtation >> with it. > > I remember still you apologizing to me in a public meeting about > this. Surely, few readers of this forum will believe it happened, but > I have witnesses. ;-) > > Now you just as infatuated with the idea of in institutional > mandate as a simple solution. You love simple ideas, that > you then keep on repeating. Tom, I foolishly apologized to you publicly for my foolish brief lapse from distributed institutional self-archiving to central self-archiving between 1996 and 1999, and this is the thanks I get for my politeness? Whereas here you are, defecting (I think!) to central deposit now without so much as "by your leave"? (Alright then, let me put it less charitably: My changes in strategy were empirically-driven, not opinion-driven. They were always backed up by reasoning on the best evidence available at the time, and they continue to be. The empirical sequence was that once self-archiving became possible (via FTP and then Web), some communities -- notably Physics, depositing centrally, and Economics, depositing locally -- spontaneously took it up in significant numbers while most didn't. My first instinct was local deposit (1989-5). But no one listened, while the growing Physics Arxiv made it seem to me as if central deposit might be a better way. So we created CogPrints (1997) for central deposit; yet the other communities still weren't depositing. Then came OAI (1999), opening up a new, interoperable way to do local depositing, so we created the generic OAI-IR software (2000), and IRs caught on, globally, yet their contents were still not growing. Then came Green OA mandates, they worked, and it became obvious that they were the way to systematically cover all research output, from all institutions, in all disciplines. So I'm afraid it was those empirical facts that made me change my mind, Tom, not your preference for local deposit in 1996, nor your preference for central deposit in 2008. I am afraid that -- not for the first time -- I was, in that public posting to which you allude, giving rather more credit than credit was due. I've done worse. I've fatuously portrayed myself as playing John the Baptist to someone else's Messiah. I confess to an occasional weakness for hyperbole and even bathos, but not too often. Mostly it's the facts and reasoning that prevail...) >> But now Tom seems so comfortable with the continuing spontaneous >> deposit rate of economists > > Where is your evidence for this? I am not comfortable. For a start, > I am in Siberia at this time. ;-) Here is an opportunity for a serious response: Do you now favor local IR deposit or CR deposit -- and why? >> that he does not notice that this spontaneous formula has utterly >> failed to generalize to all other disciplines for well over a decade >> now, > > I may be dumb, but I am not deluded. I do notice. > > The problem is that there are not enough pioneers such as Paul Ginsparg and > Thomas Krichel. And they don't get enough help. It's time for universities > to support academics who are interested to lead forward scholarly > initiative for their groups of scholars. Help them with disk space, > CPU time, open TCP ports etc. In the long run this will generate more > visibility for the sponsoring institution (per money spent) than > pure research. I am afraid I could not detect any facts or reasoning in the above, Tom. Universities don't lack disk space, CPU time or open TP ports for OA. Nor do they lack OA champions (there are always a few at just about every institution). What they lack is deposits. And the reason they lack deposits is because they lack deposit mandates. I thought you said you had noticed... > BTW, I am working in pioneering initiatives (again), if an institution > is interested in sponsorship (in kind not money) get in touch. I think you'll need to be more specific about what you propose to pioneer. But be forewarned: what OA needs today is content-provision, nothing else, just the content. There are already more than enough pioneering but unused tools and wizardry to put that content to unprecedentedly powerful and productive new uses; but without the content, those pioneering tools are laying idle. >> Leslie Carr wrote: >> It's not a done deal by any means, but I think that the trend is >> looking a lot more positive than you suggest . > > I am not saying that the trend is not up, but I would like to > see one successful institutional archive as outlined in the > other message, before I believe that a mandate really can work. I suggest having a look at the IRs cited above, as well as the repeatedly cited comparative studies of Arthur Sale. It is not sufficient to keep saying "I am not convinced" without ever troubling to look at the data. > I am not saying that mandates & IRs are wrong, but relying > exclusively on them is failing to realize other opportunities. Relying exclusively on unmandated IRs (or CRs) is indeed a failure to realize their opportunities. That is why the OA movement is at last pressing with full force for the worldwide adoption of Green OA IR self-archiving mandates. All evidence is that they are the missing necessary condition for filling the IRs (and CRs) so that all the pioneering potential of OA can at long last be realized. Stevan Harnad AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM: http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/ UNIVERSITIES and RESEARCH FUNDERS: If you have adopted or plan to adopt a policy of providing Open Access to your own research article output, please describe your policy at: http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/136-guid.html OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY: BOAI-1 ("Green"): Publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal http://romeo.eprints.org/ OR BOAI-2 ("Gold"): Publish your article in an open-access journal if/when a suitable one exists. http://www.doaj.org/ AND in BOTH cases self-archive a supplementary version of your article in your own institutional repository. http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ http://archives.eprints.org/ http://openaccess.eprints.org/ From dwojick at HUGHES.NET Sat Feb 9 13:16:28 2008 From: dwojick at HUGHES.NET (dwojick@hughes.net) Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 18:16:28 +0000 Subject: How to Compare IRs and CRs Message-ID: Steve, I am concerned when you say the following-- "It's from the local repositories that the local produce can then be "harvested" (the limitations of a mixed metaphor!) to some central site, if desired, or just straight to an indexer like Google Scholar or Citebase." OA in 10's of 1,000's of IRs is virtually worthless without some very good, central, global, search capability. How to build this capability is far from clear. David Wojick http://www.osti.gov ----Original Message---- From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Date: 02/09/2008 11:49 AM To: Subj: [SIGMETRICS] How to Compare IRs and CRs On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Leslie Carr wrote: > On 9 Feb 2008, at 11:35, Thomas Krichel wrote: > >> Yeah, but E-LIS is really small, looking at it today it tells >> us it has 7253 documents. That IRs struggle to compete with that >> sort of effort demonstrates that IRs don't populate, even in the >> presence of mandates. No amount of Driver summits will change this. > > If you go to ROAR you will find 62 "Institutional or Departmental" > repositories that are bigger than E-LIS (that's out of a total set of > 562). Admittedly that's just 1 in 8 institutional repositories pulling > something approximating to their weight, but then there are only 89 > subject repositories listed in total. > > It's not a done deal by any means, but I think that the trend is > looking a lot more positive than you suggest . It's even a shade more subtle than that: Not only is comparing IRs to CRs comparing apples to fruit, but the genus and species have different respective denominators to answer to! (1) Obviously, we would not be surprised if Harvard (with an output of, say, 10K journal articles yearly) had a bigger IR than Mercer County Community College (with a yearly output of 100 journal articles). (2) But we would be surprised if the yearly deposit rate for Harvard's 10K annual articles was 1% and the yearly deposit rate for MCC was 90%, even if that meant that Harvard had 100 annual deposits and MCC had only 90. (3) So the right unit of comparison is not total repository content, of course, but proportion of annual output self-archived. (4) The comparison is more revealing (and exacting) when we compare CRs with IRs: How to compare Harvard's IR to the CR for Biomedicine (PubMed Central). (5) We are not surprised if the total annual worldwide (or even just US) output in Biomedicine exceeds the total annual output of Harvard in all disciplines. (6) Again, the valid unit of comparison is total annual-deposits divided by annual-output, and for a discipline, total annual output means all articles published that year in that disciple, originating from all of the world's research institutions. And that (if you needed one) is yet another reason why direct IR deposit is the systematic way to generate 100% OA. It's apples/apples vs fruit/fruit -- and all the fruit, hence all the apples, oranges, etc. are sown, grown and stocked locally. It's from the local repositories that the local produce can then be "harvested" (the limitations of a mixed metaphor!) to some central site, if desired, or just straight to an indexer like Google Scholar or Citebase. The moral of the story is that we have to normalize IR/IR, IR/CR and CR/CR comparisons -- and that absolute, non-normalized totals are not meaningless, but especially misleading about CRs, which give a spurious impression of magnitude simply by omitting their even-larger magnitude denominators! Stevan Harnad AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM: http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access- Forum.html http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/ UNIVERSITIES and RESEARCH FUNDERS: If you have adopted or plan to adopt a policy of providing Open Access to your own research article output, please describe your policy at: http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/136-guid.html OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY: BOAI-1 ("Green"): Publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal http://romeo.eprints.org/ OR BOAI-2 ("Gold"): Publish your article in an open-access journal if/when a suitable one exists. http://www.doaj.org/ AND in BOTH cases self-archive a supplementary version of your article in your own institutional repository. http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ http://archives.eprints.org/ http://openaccess.eprints.org/ From Chris.Armbruster at EUI.EU Sat Feb 9 13:36:01 2008 From: Chris.Armbruster at EUI.EU (Armbruster, Chris) Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 19:36:01 +0100 Subject: How to Compare IRs and CRs - or maybe how not to? Message-ID: I also have my doubts that IRs, federated IRs and OAI-PMH will do the job, but CRs are also sometimes no better. Even assuming that content is self-archived, will it be found? Consider this: It is often assumed that what stands in the way of enhanced functionality and quality is the lack of journal articles available in open access. However, a critical experiment has shown that databases already have problems with coverage even if items are available in open access. It has been found (Bergstrom/Lavaty 2007) that for 33 key economic journals, ninety percent of articles in the most-cited journals had been self-archived and about fifty percent of articles in less-cited journals were also available freely online. All of the freely available articles were found through Google. Using Google Scholar, they found about 10% less. However, when using OAIster they found only 1/4 of the freely available articles and results were only marginally better for SSRN and RePEc searches. Given the high propensity of economists to self-archive and the availability of institutional and disciplinary repositories, the differences between Google and the non-commercial solutions are so dramatic as to warrant the conclusion that the non-commercial solutions, whatever their merits, have only very limited potential. Chris Armbruster http://ssrn.com/abstract=1088453 -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics on behalf of dwojick at hughes.net Sent: Sat 09/02/2008 19:16 To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] How to Compare IRs and CRs Steve, I am concerned when you say the following-- "It's from the local repositories that the local produce can then be "harvested" (the limitations of a mixed metaphor!) to some central site, if desired, or just straight to an indexer like Google Scholar or Citebase." OA in 10's of 1,000's of IRs is virtually worthless without some very good, central, global, search capability. How to build this capability is far from clear. David Wojick http://www.osti.gov ----Original Message---- From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Date: 02/09/2008 11:49 AM To: Subj: [SIGMETRICS] How to Compare IRs and CRs On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Leslie Carr wrote: > On 9 Feb 2008, at 11:35, Thomas Krichel wrote: > >> Yeah, but E-LIS is really small, looking at it today it tells >> us it has 7253 documents. That IRs struggle to compete with that >> sort of effort demonstrates that IRs don't populate, even in the >> presence of mandates. No amount of Driver summits will change this. > > If you go to ROAR you will find 62 "Institutional or Departmental" > repositories that are bigger than E-LIS (that's out of a total set of > 562). Admittedly that's just 1 in 8 institutional repositories pulling > something approximating to their weight, but then there are only 89 > subject repositories listed in total. > > It's not a done deal by any means, but I think that the trend is > looking a lot more positive than you suggest . It's even a shade more subtle than that: Not only is comparing IRs to CRs comparing apples to fruit, but the genus and species have different respective denominators to answer to! (1) Obviously, we would not be surprised if Harvard (with an output of, say, 10K journal articles yearly) had a bigger IR than Mercer County Community College (with a yearly output of 100 journal articles). (2) But we would be surprised if the yearly deposit rate for Harvard's 10K annual articles was 1% and the yearly deposit rate for MCC was 90%, even if that meant that Harvard had 100 annual deposits and MCC had only 90. (3) So the right unit of comparison is not total repository content, of course, but proportion of annual output self-archived. (4) The comparison is more revealing (and exacting) when we compare CRs with IRs: How to compare Harvard's IR to the CR for Biomedicine (PubMed Central). (5) We are not surprised if the total annual worldwide (or even just US) output in Biomedicine exceeds the total annual output of Harvard in all disciplines. (6) Again, the valid unit of comparison is total annual-deposits divided by annual-output, and for a discipline, total annual output means all articles published that year in that disciple, originating from all of the world's research institutions. And that (if you needed one) is yet another reason why direct IR deposit is the systematic way to generate 100% OA. It's apples/apples vs fruit/fruit -- and all the fruit, hence all the apples, oranges, etc. are sown, grown and stocked locally. It's from the local repositories that the local produce can then be "harvested" (the limitations of a mixed metaphor!) to some central site, if desired, or just straight to an indexer like Google Scholar or Citebase. The moral of the story is that we have to normalize IR/IR, IR/CR and CR/CR comparisons -- and that absolute, non-normalized totals are not meaningless, but especially misleading about CRs, which give a spurious impression of magnitude simply by omitting their even-larger magnitude denominators! Stevan Harnad AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM: http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access- Forum.html http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/ UNIVERSITIES and RESEARCH FUNDERS: If you have adopted or plan to adopt a policy of providing Open Access to your own research article output, please describe your policy at: http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/136-guid.html OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY: BOAI-1 ("Green"): Publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal http://romeo.eprints.org/ OR BOAI-2 ("Gold"): Publish your article in an open-access journal if/when a suitable one exists. http://www.doaj.org/ AND in BOTH cases self-archive a supplementary version of your article in your own institutional repository. http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ http://archives.eprints.org/ http://openaccess.eprints.org/ From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Sat Feb 9 13:47:42 2008 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 18:47:42 +0000 Subject: How to Compare IRs and CRs In-Reply-To: <10193789.1202580988692.JavaMail.?@fh036.dia.cp.net> Message-ID: On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, dwojick at hughes.net wrote: > Steve, I am concerned when you say the following -- >> "It's from the local repositories that the local produce can then be >> "harvested" (the limitations of a mixed metaphor!) to some central >> site, if desired, or just straight to an indexer like Google Scholar >> or Citebase." > > OA in 10's of 1,000's of IRs is virtually worthless without some very > good, central, global, search capability. How to build this capability > is far from clear. > > David Wojick > http://www.osti.gov The answer is as simple as it is certain: OA's problem today is *content* not *search*. What is missing is 85+% of OA's target content (2.5M annual articles in 25K peer-reviewed journals), not the means of searching it! Current search power -- both implemented and under development -- is orders of magnitude richer than the OA database for which it is intended. Figure out a way to fill all the world's university IRs with 100% of their annual article output, and the rest is a piece of cake. Keep fussing about the dessert when there's still no main course, and you have a recipe for prolonging the hunger of your esteemed guests even longer than they've already endured it (for over a decade and a half to date). (The way is already figured out, by the way: it's the institutional Green OA Self-Archiving Mandate. What still needs effort is getting the universities to go ahead and adopt them, instead of waiting passively, while fussing instead about preservation, copyright, publishing reform, -- and improved search engines!) Stevan Harnad AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM: http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/ UNIVERSITIES and RESEARCH FUNDERS: If you have adopted or plan to adopt a policy of providing Open Access to your own research article output, please describe your policy at: http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/136-guid.html OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY: BOAI-1 ("Green"): Publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal http://romeo.eprints.org/ OR BOAI-2 ("Gold"): Publish your article in an open-access journal if/when a suitable one exists. http://www.doaj.org/ AND in BOTH cases self-archive a supplementary version of your article in your own institutional repository. http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ http://archives.eprints.org/ http://openaccess.eprints.org/ From dwojick at HUGHES.NET Sat Feb 9 17:26:47 2008 From: dwojick at HUGHES.NET (David E. Wojick) Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 17:26:47 -0500 Subject: How to Compare IRs and CRs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I disagree Steve (and I am doing staff work for the US Federal Interagency Working Group that is grappling with these issues). Mind you I am all for OA, but integrating all the web accessible science is far from trivial. Google, Google Schlolar, Science.gov, Worldwidescience.org, etc., each have large, irrational hunks. It is far from clear that adding tens of thousands of independent IR's is going to help. Also, journal articles are not my favorite content, because they tend to be one to two years after the research and are too short. I prefer conference presentations, reports, even awards and news, to journals. We are trying to speed up science and journals are the tail end of research. So OA is a worthy cause but ony a small part of the policy picture. Findability of key information is the core issue. BTW I did some research that suggests that 60-80% of the journal lit, or something roughly equivalent, is findable for free if you poke around long enough, in some disciplines anyway. David Wojick > >On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, dwojick at hughes.net wrote: > >> Steve, I am concerned when you say the following -- >>> "It's from the local repositories that the local produce can then be >>> "harvested" (the limitations of a mixed metaphor!) to some central >>> site, if desired, or just straight to an indexer like Google Scholar >>> or Citebase." >> >> OA in 10's of 1,000's of IRs is virtually worthless without some very >> good, central, global, search capability. How to build this capability >> is far from clear. >> >> David Wojick >> http://www.osti.gov > >The answer is as simple as it is certain: OA's problem today is *content* >not *search*. > >What is missing is 85+% of OA's target content (2.5M annual articles >in 25K peer-reviewed journals), not the means of searching it! Current >search power -- both implemented and under development -- is orders of >magnitude richer than the OA database for which it is intended. > >Figure out a way to fill all the world's university IRs with 100% of >their annual article output, and the rest is a piece of cake. > >Keep fussing about the dessert when there's still no main course, and >you have a recipe for prolonging the hunger of your esteemed guests >even longer than they've already endured it (for over a decade and a >half to date). > >(The way is already figured out, by the way: it's the institutional >Green OA Self-Archiving Mandate. What still needs effort is getting the >universities to go ahead and adopt them, instead of waiting passively, >while fussing instead about preservation, copyright, publishing reform, >-- and improved search engines!) > >Stevan Harnad >AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM: >http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/ > >UNIVERSITIES and RESEARCH FUNDERS: >If you have adopted or plan to adopt a policy of providing Open Access >to your own research article output, please describe your policy at: > http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php > http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html > http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/136-guid.html > >OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY: > BOAI-1 ("Green"): Publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal > http://romeo.eprints.org/ >OR > BOAI-2 ("Gold"): Publish your article in an open-access journal if/when > a suitable one exists. > http://www.doaj.org/ >AND > in BOTH cases self-archive a supplementary version of your article > in your own institutional repository. > http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ > http://archives.eprints.org/ > http://openaccess.eprints.org/ -- "David E. Wojick, PhD" Senior Consultant for Innovation Office of Scientific and Technical Information US Department of Energy http://www.osti.gov/innovation/ 391 Flickertail Lane, Star Tannery, VA 22654 USA 540-858-3136 http://www.bydesign.com/powervision/resume.html provides my bio and past client list. http://www.bydesign.com/powervision/Mathematics_Philosophy_Science/ presents some of my own research on information structure and dynamics. From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Sat Feb 9 19:01:34 2008 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:01:34 +0000 Subject: How to Compare IRs and CRs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, David E. Wojick wrote: > I disagree Steve (and I am doing staff work for the US Federal > Interagency Working Group that is grappling with these issues). Which issues? OA's target content is the 2.5 million annual articles published in the planet's 25,000 peer-reviewed journals, across all scholarly and scientific disciplines, in all languages. > Mind you I am all for OA, but integrating all the web accessible > science is far from trivial. I agree. But (1) OA is not about integrating all of web accessible science; nor is it (2) only about science; nor is it (3) about making all science web-accessible. It's first and foremost about making the 2.5 million annual articles published in the planet's 25,000 peer-reviewed journals, across all scholarly and scientific disciplines, in all languages freely accessible on the web, > Google, Google Scholar, Science.gov, Worldwidescience.org, > etc., each have large, irrational hunks. It is far from clear that adding > tens of thousands of independent IR's is going to help. OA is not about adding tens of thousands of empty IRs to existing web content. It is about getting the 2.5 million annual articles published in the planet's 25,000 peer-reviewed journals, across all scholarly and scientific disciplines, in all language into their authors' OA IRs. > Also, journal articles are not my favorite content, because they tend > to be one to two years after the research and are too short. But journal articles are OA's target content. And OA means getting them freely accessible online immediately upon acceptance for publication, not 1-2 years afterward. > I prefer conference presentations, reports, even awards and news, > to journals. We are trying to speed up science and journals are the > tail end of research. Those are all fine, and welcome in IRs, over and above OA's target content; but OA's target content -- the 2.5 million annual articles published in the planet's 25,000 peer-reviewed journals, across all scholarly and scientific disciplines, in all languages -- is OA's immediate priority. > So OA is a worthy cause but only a small part of the policy > picture. Findability of key information is the core issue. Findability may be a problem for other causes, but it is not a problem for OA (which is the only cause I am talking about). Absence, not findability, is OA's problem. > BTW I did some research that suggests that 60-80% of the journal lit, > or something roughly equivalent, is findable for free if you poke around > long enough, in some disciplines anyway. I would be very interested to see that research, to find out in what fields that is true, and in what time-slice. I am aware of a few fields (mostly in physics) where it is true, but always happy to learn of more. Our robot studies, across fields and years, find 5% to 15% of content, depending on field (and that's using google). Stevan Harnad > David Wojick > >> >> On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, dwojick at hughes.net wrote: >> >>> Steve, I am concerned when you say the following -- >>>> "It's from the local repositories that the local produce can then be >>>> "harvested" (the limitations of a mixed metaphor!) to some central >>>> site, if desired, or just straight to an indexer like Google Scholar >>>> or Citebase." >>> >>> OA in 10's of 1,000's of IRs is virtually worthless without some very >>> good, central, global, search capability. How to build this capability >>> is far from clear. >>> >>> David Wojick >>> http://www.osti.gov >> >> The answer is as simple as it is certain: OA's problem today is *content* >> not *search*. >> >> What is missing is 85+% of OA's target content (2.5M annual articles >> in 25K peer-reviewed journals), not the means of searching it! Current >> search power -- both implemented and under development -- is orders of >> magnitude richer than the OA database for which it is intended. >> >> Figure out a way to fill all the world's university IRs with 100% of >> their annual article output, and the rest is a piece of cake. >> >> Keep fussing about the dessert when there's still no main course, and >> you have a recipe for prolonging the hunger of your esteemed guests >> even longer than they've already endured it (for over a decade and a >> half to date). >> >> (The way is already figured out, by the way: it's the institutional >> Green OA Self-Archiving Mandate. What still needs effort is getting the >> universities to go ahead and adopt them, instead of waiting passively, >> while fussing instead about preservation, copyright, publishing reform, >> -- and improved search engines!) >> >> Stevan Harnad >> AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM: >> http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html >> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/ >> >> UNIVERSITIES and RESEARCH FUNDERS: >> If you have adopted or plan to adopt a policy of providing Open Access >> to your own research article output, please describe your policy at: >> http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php >> http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html >> http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/136-guid.html >> >> OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY: >> BOAI-1 ("Green"): Publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal >> http://romeo.eprints.org/ >> OR >> BOAI-2 ("Gold"): Publish your article in an open-access journal if/when >> a suitable one exists. >> http://www.doaj.org/ >> AND >> in BOTH cases self-archive a supplementary version of your article >> in your own institutional repository. >> http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ >> http://archives.eprints.org/ >> http://openaccess.eprints.org/ > > -- > > "David E. Wojick, PhD" > Senior Consultant for Innovation > Office of Scientific and Technical Information > US Department of Energy > http://www.osti.gov/innovation/ > 391 Flickertail Lane, Star Tannery, VA 22654 USA > 540-858-3136 > > http://www.bydesign.com/powervision/resume.html provides my bio and past client list. > http://www.bydesign.com/powervision/Mathematics_Philosophy_Science/ presents some of my own research on information structure and dynamics. > From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Sat Feb 9 21:48:50 2008 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:48:50 +0000 Subject: New Ranking of Central and Institutional Repositories (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 08:36:08 +1100 From: Arthur Sale To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM--LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG Subject: Re: New Ranking of Central and Institutional Repositories It looks as though the algorithm is the same as for university websites. Rank each repository for inward bound hyperlinks (VISIBILITY) Rank every repository for number of pages (SIZE) Rank every repository for number of 'interesting' documents eg .doc. .pdf (RICH FILES) Rank every repository for number of records returned by a Google Scholar search (GOOGLE SCHOLAR) Compute (VISIBILITY x 50%) + (SIZE x 20%) + (RICH FILES x 15%) + (GOOGLE SCHOLAR x 15%) And then rank the repositories on this score. This is a poor measure in general. VISIBILITY (accounts for 50% of score!) is not necessarily useful for repositories, when harvesting in more important than hyperlinks. It will be strongly influenced by staff members linking their publications off a repository search. Both SIZE and RICH FILES measure absolute size and say nothing about currency or activity. Some of the higher placed Australian universities have simply had old stuff dumped in them, and are relatively inactive in acquiring current material. Activity should be a major factor in metrics for repositories, and this could easily measured by a search limited to a year (eg 2007), or by the way ROAR does it through OAI-PMH harvesting. Arthur Sale University of Tasmania > > (1) I don't know the Webometrics ranking formula, but it is > clearly based on multiple weighted parameters, and not merely > on total number of records (country, size, visibility, rich > files, "scholar"), otherwise the rank order would have been > the same as what ROAR gives you if you select "Sort by Total Records": > http://roar.eprints.org/?action=home &q=&country=&version=&type =&order=recordcount&submit=Filter > > The Webometrics "Size" parameter seems to be the same as > ROAR's "Total records" -- except Webometrics so far seems to > omit PubMedCentral, which would otherwise be the biggest of > the CRs. I expect that Webometrics' > coverage and perhaps also their formula is still being > refined. [They only seem to cover a total of 200 CRs and IRs > right now.] And of course there is also still the > not-yet-solved problem of distinguishing the records that are > full-texts from those that are just metadata, and > distinguishing OA content from other kinds of deposits. Stay tuned. > http://trac.eprints.org/projects/iar/wiki/Missing > From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Sat Feb 9 21:51:25 2008 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:51:25 +0000 Subject: New Ranking of Central and Institutional Repositories (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 23:53:18 +0000 From: Leslie Carr To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM--LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG Subject: Re: New Ranking of Central and Institutional Repositories On 9 Feb 2008, at 21:36, Arthur Sale wrote: > It looks as though the algorithm is the same as for university > websites. > > Rank each repository for inward bound hyperlinks (VISIBILITY) > Rank every repository for number of pages (SIZE) > Rank every repository for number of 'interesting' documents > eg .doc. .pdf (RICH FILES) > Rank every repository for number of records returned by a Google > Scholar search (GOOGLE SCHOLAR) > Compute (VISIBILITY x 50%) + (SIZE x 20%) + (RICH FILES x 15%) + > (GOOGLE SCHOLAR x 15%) > And then rank the repositories on this score. > > This is a poor measure in general. VISIBILITY (accounts for 50% of > score!) is not necessarily useful for repositories, when harvesting > in more important than hyperlinks. It will be strongly influenced by > staff members linking their publications off a repository search. > Both SIZE and RICH FILES measure absolute size and say nothing about > currency or activity. Some of the higher placed Australian > universities have simply had old stuff dumped in them, and are > relatively inactive in acquiring current material. Activity should > be a major factor in metrics for repositories, and this could easily > measured by a search limited to a year (eg 2007), or by the way ROAR > does it through OAI-PMH harvesting. > I believe that the Webometrics (ghastly name!) ranking of repositories uses the same criteria as its ranking of universities ie it is attempting to quantify the impact that the repository has had. This is very different to the size, deposit activity, or even used-ness of the repository and explains why the major contributing factor is VISIBILITY. The main issue for this league table is "how much evidence is there in the public web that your active research and scholarly outputs are valued enough by your community of peers that they are linking to them". This will probably seem entirely arbitrary to some people, and entirely obvious to others, depending on how much they see "the web" as a para-literature. It mimics Google's PageRank valuation of web pages according to how many 'votes' (links/quasi-citations) they get from other pages from independent sources. It is not possible to tell with any accuracy whether a University Website is "a good website" simply by looking at the University's place in the Webometrics Ranking of Universities. The website is simply a channel which delivers visibility-impact for the University (or not). Similarly for the repository. -- Les Carr From Hakan.Carlsson at LUB.LU.SE Sun Feb 10 03:08:58 2008 From: Hakan.Carlsson at LUB.LU.SE (=?iso-8859-1?Q?H=E5kan_Carlsson?=) Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 09:08:58 +0100 Subject: A friendly reminder: Invitation to Fourth Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication NCSC 2008 Message-ID: **Apologies for any Cross-Posting** Dear Friends, Following up the success of the previous conferences, Lund University Libraries are proud to invite you to the Fourth Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication, NCSC 2008. The registration is open at the conference website, http://www.lub.lu.se/en/ncsc.html, and you are urged to register soon as the conference is quickly filling up. 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I am working the other part -- getting the stuff to the people who need it as efficiently as possible (findability). My point is that my part of the system has something to say about your part. Less metaphorically, OA design issues like IR versus CR need to consider the delivery (or findability) issue, perhaps even being determined by them. My specific point was that your IR solution to OA looks like it creates problems with my delivery solution. Perhaps we can discus this. As for the research, it was very preliminary. We just took one issue of each of several major journals, in physics and chemistry, and manually (intelligently) searched the web for each article. Starting by author typically worked better than by title or text. We got a good success rate. I should point out that much, perhaps most, of web available science is not on Google. It is in the deep web. David ----Original Message---- From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Date: 02/09/2008 7:01 PM To: Subj: Re: [SIGMETRICS] How to Compare IRs and CRs On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, David E. Wojick wrote: > I disagree Steve (and I am doing staff work for the US Federal > Interagency Working Group that is grappling with these issues). Which issues? OA's target content is the 2.5 million annual articles published in the planet's 25,000 peer-reviewed journals, across all scholarly and scientific disciplines, in all languages. > Mind you I am all for OA, but integrating all the web accessible > science is far from trivial. I agree. But (1) OA is not about integrating all of web accessible science; nor is it (2) only about science; nor is it (3) about making all science web-accessible. It's first and foremost about making the 2.5 million annual articles published in the planet's 25,000 peer-reviewed journals, across all scholarly and scientific disciplines, in all languages freely accessible on the web, > Google, Google Scholar, Science.gov, Worldwidescience.org, > etc., each have large, irrational hunks. It is far from clear that adding > tens of thousands of independent IR's is going to help. OA is not about adding tens of thousands of empty IRs to existing web content. It is about getting the 2.5 million annual articles published in the planet's 25,000 peer-reviewed journals, across all scholarly and scientific disciplines, in all language into their authors' OA IRs. > Also, journal articles are not my favorite content, because they tend > to be one to two years after the research and are too short. But journal articles are OA's target content. And OA means getting them freely accessible online immediately upon acceptance for publication, not 1-2 years afterward. > I prefer conference presentations, reports, even awards and news, > to journals. We are trying to speed up science and journals are the > tail end of research. Those are all fine, and welcome in IRs, over and above OA's target content; but OA's target content -- the 2.5 million annual articles published in the planet's 25,000 peer-reviewed journals, across all scholarly and scientific disciplines, in all languages -- is OA's immediate priority. > So OA is a worthy cause but only a small part of the policy > picture. Findability of key information is the core issue. Findability may be a problem for other causes, but it is not a problem for OA (which is the only cause I am talking about). Absence, not findability, is OA's problem. > BTW I did some research that suggests that 60-80% of the journal lit, > or something roughly equivalent, is findable for free if you poke around > long enough, in some disciplines anyway. I would be very interested to see that research, to find out in what fields that is true, and in what time-slice. I am aware of a few fields (mostly in physics) where it is true, but always happy to learn of more. Our robot studies, across fields and years, find 5% to 15% of content, depending on field (and that's using google). Stevan Harnad > David Wojick > >> >> On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, dwojick at hughes.net wrote: >> >>> Steve, I am concerned when you say the following -- >>>> "It's from the local repositories that the local produce can then be >>>> "harvested" (the limitations of a mixed metaphor!) to some central >>>> site, if desired, or just straight to an indexer like Google Scholar >>>> or Citebase." >>> >>> OA in 10's of 1,000's of IRs is virtually worthless without some very >>> good, central, global, search capability. How to build this capability >>> is far from clear. >>> >>> David Wojick >>> http://www.osti.gov >> >> The answer is as simple as it is certain: OA's problem today is *content* >> not *search*. >> >> What is missing is 85+% of OA's target content (2.5M annual articles >> in 25K peer-reviewed journals), not the means of searching it! Current >> search power -- both implemented and under development -- is orders of >> magnitude richer than the OA database for which it is intended. >> >> Figure out a way to fill all the world's university IRs with 100% of >> their annual article output, and the rest is a piece of cake. >> >> Keep fussing about the dessert when there's still no main course, and >> you have a recipe for prolonging the hunger of your esteemed guests >> even longer than they've already endured it (for over a decade and a >> half to date). >> >> (The way is already figured out, by the way: it's the institutional >> Green OA Self-Archiving Mandate. What still needs effort is getting the >> universities to go ahead and adopt them, instead of waiting passively, >> while fussing instead about preservation, copyright, publishing reform, >> -- and improved search engines!) >> >> Stevan Harnad >> AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM: >> http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open- Access-Forum.html >> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/ >> >> UNIVERSITIES and RESEARCH FUNDERS: >> If you have adopted or plan to adopt a policy of providing Open Access >> to your own research article output, please describe your policy at: >> http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php >> http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html >> http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/136-guid.html >> >> OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY: >> BOAI-1 ("Green"): Publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal >> http://romeo.eprints.org/ >> OR >> BOAI-2 ("Gold"): Publish your article in an open-access journal if/when >> a suitable one exists. >> http://www.doaj.org/ >> AND >> in BOTH cases self-archive a supplementary version of your article >> in your own institutional repository. >> http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ >> http://archives.eprints.org/ >> http://openaccess.eprints.org/ > > -- > > "David E. Wojick, PhD" > Senior Consultant for Innovation > Office of Scientific and Technical Information > US Department of Energy > http://www.osti.gov/innovation/ > 391 Flickertail Lane, Star Tannery, VA 22654 USA > 540-858-3136 > > http://www.bydesign.com/powervision/resume.html provides my bio and past client list. > http://www.bydesign.com/powervision/Mathematics_Philosophy_Science/ presents some of my own research on information structure and dynamics. > From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Sun Feb 10 10:27:08 2008 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:27:08 +0000 Subject: How to Compare IRs and CRs In-Reply-To: <11370919.1202644962459.JavaMail.?@fh036.dia.cp.net> Message-ID: On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, dwojick at hughes.net wrote: > My point is that one should not consider (and design) OA in isolation. It is not at all clear why not, David. One does not have to redesign the web, publishing, or science, to attain 100% OA. One need merely self-archive in one's IR. > OA should be viewed as part of a systematic change in the way we do > science. But why? when reaching 100% OA is simple and reachable -- just a matter of a few keystrokes, and the only thing universities and funders need do is mandate them -- whereas systematically changing the way we do science is complicated, and not at all within obvious reach? > Or, to put it another way, OA has to be justified in terms of > the benefits it will provide. OA is disruptive and costly so the > benefits must be correspondingly great. What disruptive and costly effects? IRs cost next to nothing; keystrokes cost nothing; mandates cost nothing. Are we speculating, then, about the possible future of journal publishing after Green OA self-archiving is mandated and reaches 100%? (It will convert to Gold OA publishing. But what does that have to do with the scientific and scholarly research community? Publishing is a service industry and will adapt itself to the needs of research. Is research instead supposed to adapt itself to the needs of the publish industry?) http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/399/399we152.htm > The benefits of OA in science lie in increased efficiency of > communication. What I call better, faster science. But access is only > part of the communication process. I am working the other part -- Agreed that access is only part of it. But it is a necessary part, indeed an essential prerequisite. And it is an immediately doable part: The way to do it is for universities and funders to mandate Green OA self-archiving in the researcher's own OAI-compliant Institutional Repository (IR). That's immediately reachable, right now. Then we can worry about other parts... [NB: Recall that I am only talking about OA's target content: journal articles.] > getting the stuff to the people who need it as efficiently as possible > (findability). My point is that my part of the system has something to > say about your part. But you can't find what's not there: Green OA IR mandates will provide the missing content, and then we can see whether there's truly any residual findability problem at all. > Less metaphorically, OA design issues like IR > versus CR need to consider the delivery (or findability) issue, perhaps > even being determined by them. IF it were the case that direct CR (Central Repository) deposit could deliver 100% of the target OA content and IF direct CR deposit were also somehow essential for findability, you would be quite right. But direct CR deposit cannot and will not deliver 100% of the target OA content (thematic CRs cannot cover all of research output space, exhaustively and non-redundantly, and institutions and funders are the entities that have the interests, and the means, to mandate deposit; "themes" are not); and harvesting content to CR search services will provide the findability. So both the conditional IFs are counterfactual. > My specific point was that your IR solution to OA looks like it > creates problems with my delivery solution. Perhaps we can discus this. I would be happy to discuss it. My guess is that your delivery solution calls for richer metadata than OAI. Fine. If the richer metadata really prove necessary, either CRs can harvest the OAI metadata from the IRs and enrich them, or, once the IRs are at last capturing all their own research output, the IRs themselves can be persuaded (by the advantages of your delivery solution) to enrich their own metadata requirements. But direct CR deposit is a nonstarter, either way, because it will not generate 100% OA content -- and it is totally unnecessary. [NB: Again, recall that I am only talking about OA's target content: journal articles.] > As for the research, it was very preliminary. We just took one issue > of each of several major journals, in physics and chemistry, and > manually (intelligently) searched the web for each article. Starting by > author typically worked better than by title or text. We got a good > success rate. I should point out that much, perhaps most, of web > available science is not on Google. It is in the deep web. Depositing on arbitrary websites, let alone in the deep web, is obviously nonoptimal. Mandates to deposit in OAI-compliant IRs will solve that. Stevan Harnad AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM: http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/ UNIVERSITIES and RESEARCH FUNDERS: If you have adopted or plan to adopt a policy of providing Open Access to your own research article output, please describe your policy at: http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/136-guid.html OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY: BOAI-1 ("Green"): Publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal http://romeo.eprints.org/ OR BOAI-2 ("Gold"): Publish your article in an open-access journal if/when a suitable one exists. http://www.doaj.org/ AND in BOTH cases self-archive a supplementary version of your article in your own institutional repository. http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ http://archives.eprints.org/ http://openaccess.eprints.org/ From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Sun Feb 10 11:37:43 2008 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:37:43 +0000 Subject: How to Compare IRs and CRs - or maybe how not to? In-Reply-To: <454C4EFF24E347449521ABDC1B63025D021403DF@MAILSRV1.iue.private> Message-ID: On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Armbruster, Chris wrote: > I also have my doubts that IRs, federated IRs and OAI-PMH will do the > job... But what job, exactly, is it that you doubt they can do, Chris? Because searching over nonexistent content cannot be done by anyone or anything! > but CRs are also sometimes no better. Even assuming that content > is self-archived, will it be found? This is rather like asking: "But assuming we have a cure for cancer, how will we distribute it?" The immediate goal is to find a cure for cancer. Let's wait till we have one before assuming we have a nontrivial distribution problem too! (Fortunately, in the case of OA, we already know the cure: mandate self-archiving in OAI-compliant IRs.) The reason the OA target content cannot be found today is that most if it isn't there; hence no resource is (or needs to be) developed and implemented today on the assumption that the target content is all or mostly there, free for all on the web, and that the only thing we are missing is a reliable way to find it. What we need is that nonexistent content, not the content-finder. (In a parallel reply to David Wojick I address the question of free content in the "deep web," not indexed by Google: The solution there, too, is to bring it to the reachable, surfable surface, by mandating that it be deposited in the researcher's OAI-compliant Institutional Repository [IR].) > Consider this: It is often assumed that what stands in the way of > enhanced functionality and quality is the lack of journal articles > available in open access. However, a critical experiment has shown that > databases already have problems with coverage even if items are available > in open access. It has been found (Bergstrom/Lavaty 2007) that for > 33 key economic journals, ninety percent of articles in the most-cited > journals had been self-archived and about fifty percent of articles in > less-cited journals were also available freely online. All of the freely > available articles were found through Google. Using Google Scholar, they > found about 10% less. However, when using OAIster they found only 1/4 of > the freely available articles and results were only marginally better > for SSRN and RePEc searches. (0) (It is noteworthy that the B&L study is in Economics, which, along with Physics and Computer Science, make up the three disciplines that have been spontaneously self-archiving for over a decade and a half now. But the OA problem is with all the other disciplines: They have not followed this admirable example. Nor have even these three laudable disciplines come anywhere near depositing 100% of their annual article output.) (1) But I'm not sure what, exactly, your point is, Chris: If all of the free articles were indeed found with Google, then find them with Google! OAIster and Google Scholar will get them too, once they are deposited in mandated OAI-compliant IRs, as proposed, rather than on arbitrary websites, as now. (2) Of course a specific-item Google search only works if you know that the item is on the web, and you know some or all of the boolean search words that will pick it out, Google-style. No use expecting much of that content to pop up in a generic-topic Google search, where you have no idea know what is and isn't out there. (3) The remedy for that is to have all of it in OAI-compliant IRs. Then you can restrict the boolean full-text Google search to OA content, and OA content alone, instead of searching for it in a haystack of at least 30 billion web pages (in Feb 2007). Here is the sort of thing it would be absurd to expect to succeed today, on the full web -- but would be a trivial piece of cake if the full texts of all 2.5 million articles published annually in the planet's 25,000 were self-archived in an OAI-compliant IR: (i) Do a generic boolean search, GB, using content terms, on a dedicated database, such as PubMed. (ii) Then take the references for all the P PubMed hits, and first do a specific-item boolean search, SB, for each of them, item by item, by reference term, on the full web via Google. (iii) Lets say the SB search on the web finds W of those P hits as full texts on the web. W/P is the proportion of the Pubmed hits that is currently available free on the web (apart from the "deep web" unreachable by Google). (iv) Now re-do the generic boolean search GB (i.e., using content terms rather than each items reference) this time directly on the web, via Google. (v) Of course the result will be a huge and unnavigable mess, despite the miracle of PageRank. PageRank is good enough for rank-ordering the single targeted item reference search, but not for the generic boolean search GB on content terms. (vi) Why not? Two obvious reasons: (i) The target content that is there, is embedded in too large a mess of irrelevant content and (ii) most of the target content is not there. (vii) Remedy: (i) get all of the target content out there in OAI-compliant IRs so that (ii) the search can be restricted to all and only the relevant content, as it is in PubMed. But before someone draws it, let me point out that the *wrong* conclusion to draw from this is that therefore the target content should be deposited directly in a CR like PubMed Central, rather than in each author's own institutional IR! That would be like trying to inventory what each person on the planet spends, on what, daily, by asking them to deposit each separate individual purchase, item by item, directly into the central thematic database or databases corresponding to the category or categories in which each purchase falls (milk, dairy, food, toothpaste, movies, airplane tickets, travel, leisure, traffic tickets...) rather than simply inventorying all their individual purchases in their own local bank account, and letting software harvest and classify the items centrally in the various ways it sees fit. It is not too far-fetched to say that that sort of direct centralism would be tantamount to each author's having to deposit each publication into a CR corresponding to every possible keyword and boolean combination (when even depositing each publication into just the CR that provides the "closest match" would be absurd). Again, local deposited in each researcher's own OA-compliant IR, and then central harvesting by whatever central services we want to build on the distributed IRs is the natural, obvious, and optimal solution that will scale systematically to all of OA output worldwide. > Given the high propensity of economists > to self-archive and the availability of institutional and disciplinary > repositories, the differences between Google and the non-commercial > solutions are so dramatic as to warrant the conclusion that the > non-commercial solutions, whatever their merits, have only very limited > potential. But : (a) The "availability" of IRs and CRs has not been availed of spontaneously by the vast majority of researchers, in all disciplines: That's why IRs and CRs are largely empty (relative to their annual target content). And that's why institutional and funder self-archiving mandates are needed. (b) Although the spontaneous self-archiving propensity of economists (and physicists and computer scientists) is indeed much higher than that of most other disciplines, this admirable propensity predated the OA/OAI/IR era, and continues along the same spontaneous lines established over a decade and a half ago (direct deposit in the Arxiv CR for physicists, deposit in local or central "working papers" series, harvested by the Repec CR in economics, and arbitrary local website deposit, harvested by the Citeseer CR in computer science). So that's another reason institutional and funder self-archiving mandates are needed. (I am not quite sure what Google and commercial/noncommercial solutions has to do with this. OA is not trying to compete with google. Google's fine. It's trying to generate OA content, in OAI-compliant OA IRs and CRs. Once it's all there, we can see whether boolean search with Google, restricted to OA content alone, well be enough for search and navigation purposes. If not, further resources will be developed. There's plenty of scope for creativity there; the only thing missing is the content to apply it to.) Stevan Harnad AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM: http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/ UNIVERSITIES and RESEARCH FUNDERS: If you have adopted or plan to adopt a policy of providing Open Access to your own research article output, please describe your policy at: http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/136-guid.html OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY: BOAI-1 ("Green"): Publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal http://romeo.eprints.org/ OR BOAI-2 ("Gold"): Publish your article in an open-access journal if/when a suitable one exists. http://www.doaj.org/ AND in BOTH cases self-archive a supplementary version of your article in your own institutional repository. http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ http://archives.eprints.org/ http://openaccess.eprints.org/ From dwojick at HUGHES.NET Sun Feb 10 13:38:53 2008 From: dwojick at HUGHES.NET (David E. Wojick) Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:38:53 -0500 Subject: How to Compare IRs and CRs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Steve, I do not regard establishing and maintaining IR's in tens of thouands of institutions around the world, and getting millions of authors to archive their writings each year, as simple or costing "next to nothing." (Clearly you do so we have little basis upon which to discuss policy issues.) By coincidence I come from a regulatory background, where I specialized in analyzing the human cost of information requirements. In the US we have what is called a "burden budget" for federal regulations, which I helped develop. Your version of OA looks to be quite burdensome indeed. See http://www.bydesign.com/powervision/Mathematics_Philosophy_Science/ENR_cover_story.doc In any case, my delivery solution does not require more metadata. I tend to think of metadata as obsolete as a search tool, and burdensome, preferring full text (except for Sigmetrics-like meta analysis and visualization of course, where metadata can be very useful). My approach is exemplified by http://www.science.gov and the new http://worldwidescience.org/ , both of which already probably exceed plain Google in science content. (Google Scholar is largely pay-per-paper, not OA.) Our approach involves external federation of existing collections, which imposes no new burden on the institution, unlike Google's sitemap protocol. We are starting with the biggest collections first, then working our way down. If I have to find, federate and then track every college and institute IR in the world it will not be easy, hence my concern. You also seem to be claiming that no further work is needed to improve the findability of raw access scientific content, until your (utopian?) vision of universal OA is completed. Needless to say I do not agree. There is much to be done, even if OA fails to materialize. One of our working principles is not to wait for visions to come true. David Wojick "David E. Wojick, PhD" Senior Consultant for Innovation Office of Scientific and Technical Information US Department of Energy http://www.osti.gov/innovation/ > >On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, dwojick at hughes.net wrote: > >> My point is that one should not consider (and design) OA in isolation. > >It is not at all clear why not, David. One does not have to redesign >the web, publishing, or science, to attain 100% OA. One need merely >self-archive in one's IR. > >> OA should be viewed as part of a systematic change in the way we do >> science. > >But why? when reaching 100% OA is simple and reachable -- just a matter >of a few keystrokes, and the only thing universities and funders need do >is mandate them -- whereas systematically changing the way we do science >is complicated, and not at all within obvious reach? > >> Or, to put it another way, OA has to be justified in terms of >> the benefits it will provide. OA is disruptive and costly so the >> benefits must be correspondingly great. > >What disruptive and costly effects? IRs cost next to nothing; keystrokes >cost nothing; mandates cost nothing. > >Are we speculating, then, about the possible future of journal publishing >after Green OA self-archiving is mandated and reaches 100%? (It will >convert to Gold OA publishing. But what does that have to do with the >scientific and scholarly research community? Publishing is a service >industry and will adapt itself to the needs of research. Is research >instead supposed to adapt itself to the needs of the publish industry?) >http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/399/399we152.htm > >> The benefits of OA in science lie in increased efficiency of >> communication. What I call better, faster science. But access is only >> part of the communication process. I am working the other part -- > >Agreed that access is only part of it. But it is a necessary part, >indeed an essential prerequisite. And it is an immediately doable >part: The way to do it is for universities and funders to mandate >Green OA self-archiving in the researcher's own OAI-compliant >Institutional Repository (IR). > >That's immediately reachable, right now. Then we can worry about other >parts... > >[NB: Recall that I am only talking about OA's target content: journal >articles.] > >> getting the stuff to the people who need it as efficiently as possible >> (findability). My point is that my part of the system has something to >> say about your part. > >But you can't find what's not there: Green OA IR mandates will provide >the missing content, and then we can see whether there's truly any >residual findability problem at all. > >> Less metaphorically, OA design issues like IR >> versus CR need to consider the delivery (or findability) issue, perhaps >> even being determined by them. > >IF it were the case that direct CR (Central Repository) deposit could >deliver 100% of the target OA content and IF direct CR deposit were also >somehow essential for findability, you would be quite right. > >But direct CR deposit cannot and will not deliver 100% of the target >OA content (thematic CRs cannot cover all of research output space, >exhaustively and non-redundantly, and institutions and funders are the >entities that have the interests, and the means, to mandate deposit; >"themes" are not); and harvesting content to CR search services will >provide the findability. So both the conditional IFs are counterfactual. > >> My specific point was that your IR solution to OA looks like it >> creates problems with my delivery solution. Perhaps we can discus this. > >I would be happy to discuss it. My guess is that your delivery solution >calls for richer metadata than OAI. Fine. If the richer metadata really >prove necessary, either CRs can harvest the OAI metadata from the IRs >and enrich them, or, once the IRs are at last capturing all their own >research output, the IRs themselves can be persuaded (by the advantages >of your delivery solution) to enrich their own metadata requirements. > >But direct CR deposit is a nonstarter, either way, because it will not >generate 100% OA content -- and it is totally unnecessary. > >[NB: Again, recall that I am only talking about OA's target content: >journal articles.] > >> As for the research, it was very preliminary. We just took one issue >> of each of several major journals, in physics and chemistry, and >> manually (intelligently) searched the web for each article. Starting by >> author typically worked better than by title or text. We got a good >> success rate. I should point out that much, perhaps most, of web >> available science is not on Google. It is in the deep web. > >Depositing on arbitrary websites, let alone in the deep web, is obviously >nonoptimal. Mandates to deposit in OAI-compliant IRs will solve that. > >Stevan Harnad >AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM: >http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/ > >UNIVERSITIES and RESEARCH FUNDERS: >If you have adopted or plan to adopt a policy of providing Open Access >to your own research article output, please describe your policy at: > http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php > http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html > http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/136-guid.html > >OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY: > BOAI-1 ("Green"): Publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal > http://romeo.eprints.org/ >OR > BOAI-2 ("Gold"): Publish your article in an open-access journal if/when > a suitable one exists. > http://www.doaj.org/ >AND > in BOTH cases self-archive a supplementary version of your article > in your own institutional repository. > http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ > http://archives.eprints.org/ > http://openaccess.eprints.org/ From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Sun Feb 10 20:58:51 2008 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:58:51 +0000 Subject: No search/findability problem for OA IRs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, David E. Wojick wrote: > Steve, I do not regard establishing and maintaining IR's in tens > of thousands of institutions around the world... David, most of the major US, European, Australian, and Japanese universities already have IRs, and the rest soon will too, in any case. http://roar.eprints.org/index.php?action=browse > and getting millions of authors to archive their writings each year... The authors already do the keystrokes to write the paper, store it, submit it and revise it. It's just a few more keystrokes per paper to deposit it. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/10688/ > as simple or costing "next to nothing." It's distributed, simple, and costs next to nothing per author/paper. And all it needs institutionally is an IR and a mandate. http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/sign.php > Your version of OA looks to be quite burdensome indeed. Not to the growing number of universities and funders that have actually mandated it already. Stay tuned! http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/ (By the way, this "version" of OA is called Green OA self-archiving. Gold OA publishing is far slower, more complicated, more burdensome, and cannot be mandated, but it too will probably come after 100% Green OA has been reached.) http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/21.html > In any case, my delivery solution does not require more metadata. I > tend to think of metadata as obsolete as a search tool, and burdensome, > preferring full text... With OA IR mandates, you have full text too. Google has already inverted it; and you can harvest it all if you like. > My approach is exemplified by http://www.science.gov and the new > http://worldwidescience.org/ , both of which already probably exceed > plain Google in science content. Congratulations! They both look very good! They'll be even better once the IRs are mandated and filled, providing your two search engines with much more content. > (Google Scholar is largely pay-per-paper, not OA.) I'm not sure what you mean. You don't pay GS anything, and if the linked paper is a publisher toll-access site, GS provides any free alternatives under "all versions" (if they exist). (But its a *good* thing that GS indexes toll-access as well as OA papers. > Our approach involves external federation of existing collections, > which imposes no new burden on the institution, unlike Google's sitemap > protocol. We are starting with the biggest collections first, then working > our way down. If I have to find, federate and then track every college > and institute IR in the world it will not be easy, hence my concern. It will be easy. All the IRs will be OAI-compliant, harvested by OAIster, and registered in ROAR and OpenDOAR. All you'll need to do is harvest them from the listings in bulk. > You also seem to be claiming that no further work is needed to > improve the findability of raw access scientific content, until your > (utopian?) vision of universal OA is completed. Needless to say I do not > agree. There is much to be done, even if OA fails to materialize. One > of our working principles is not to wait for visions to come true. I am talking only about OA's target content. (There's plenty to do in other areas too, but that has nothing to do with the OA and OA mandates that are the only things I'm talking about.) What I resist resolutely is anything that slows down or gets in OA's way by trying to load it down or complicate it with needless burdens that apply to other kinds of content, but need not apply to OA. (I also resist any implication that OA is not enough or needs to wait to solve other technical problems such as preservation, meta-data enhancement or search.) Stevan Harnad AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM: http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/ UNIVERSITIES and RESEARCH FUNDERS: If you have adopted or plan to adopt a policy of providing Open Access to your own research article output, please describe your policy at: http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/136-guid.html OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY: BOAI-1 ("Green"): Publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal http://romeo.eprints.org/ OR BOAI-2 ("Gold"): Publish your article in an open-access journal if/when a suitable one exists. http://www.doaj.org/ AND in BOTH cases self-archive a supplementary version of your article in your own institutional repository. http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/ http://archives.eprints.org/ http://openaccess.eprints.org/ From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Mon Feb 11 14:41:33 2008 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:41:33 +0100 Subject: dynamic animations of journal maps; preprint version Message-ID: Dynamic Animations of Journal Maps: Indicators of Structural Changes and Interdisciplinary Developments The dynamic analysis of structural change because of potentially interdisciplinary developments among fields of science requires the integration of multivariate and time-series analysis. Recent developments in animation techniques enable us to distinguish the stress originating in each time-slice from the stress originating from the sequencing of time-slices, and thus to optimize the trade-offs between these two sources of variance using multidimensional scaling (MDS). Unlike traditional MDS, network visualization programs allow us to show not only the positions of the nodes, but also their relational attributes like betweenness centrality. Betweenness centrality in the vector space can be considered as an indicator of interdisciplinarity. Using this indicator, the dynamics of the citation impact environments of the journals Cognitive Science, Social Networks, and Nanotechnology are animated and assessed in terms of processes of structural change among the disciplines involved. Loet Leydesdorff [a] & Thomas Schank [b] [a] Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam, Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands; loet at leydesdorff.net; http://www.leydesdorff.net [b] Technical University of Karlsruhe, Faculty of Informatics, ITI Wagner, Box 6980, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany; schank at ira.uka.de. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Mon Feb 11 19:42:27 2008 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:42:27 +0000 Subject: New Ranking of Central and Institutional Repositories In-Reply-To: <47AFFEEE.4040800@cindoc.csic.es> Message-ID: Isidro As one of those that contributed to that discussion, may I be more specific? The impact of a repository should be measured by things other than some of the measures that you use. PageRank and Size are both very weak indicators. I give examples below. VISIBILITY Visibility in the way you measure is nothing to do with the purpose of repositories, and only a minor factor in their impact. Let me give examples: * Inward links to the repository itself are relatively rare, and probably negligible in the total. Almost no-one really goes to a repository to search its content except locally - its value is in federation. The exceptions are (1) central repositories such as CERN, RepEc, ArXiv, etc, and (2) exemplar repositories such as Southampton and QUT. The component is hugely biased towards these repositories. * The majority of links to institutional repositories on the Web are probably from depositor's home pages, linking to their research records. In UTas we will gain 600-1000 such links once it is in the standard staff member template. Is this visibility? Or does it measure university size? * In a few cases, viewers may link to a paper. However to do this they have to value the paper significantly, then copy the URL, and then post it to a public website or blog. I expect this is a minority in the total of links. Any data otherwise? In any case it is dependent on an author's importance in the field, not the repository value. REAL VISIBILITY Real visibility in the case of a repository consists in (a) whether it provides a compliant OAI-PMH interface, and (b) whether that interface is harvested by federated services, such as ROAR, OAIster, etc. One might also add whether the repository is actively harvested as a flat file or via OAI by Google and Google Scholar, Scopus, or Thomson. Noithing else really matters in respect of visibility. All these are measurable. PageRank is irrelevant, sorry. SIZE Size is a terrible measure. Australia is full of examples where the repository has been populated by uploading zillions of old stub records going back to the 1930s or before. The full text is mostly missing, though sometimes a grant has funded image scanning of the document. This is fullness for the sake of fullness. To give one example in your list, the Australasian Digital Thesis Program has 110,000 records of this type of old PhD theses. The full-text simply says: contact the university for a photocopy. That's OK, but the weighting of size ought to be low - less than 20%. If it is necessary to measure size, and it probably is, then I suggest a measure that counts the number of records with a publication date within the last five years. Choose 10 years if you want, but ancient record-keeping does not translate into impact. ACTIVITY It is quite clear from ROAR that deposit activity is a major measure of impact. There are three easy measures to derive. * The number of acquisitions in the last 12 months. Easily discovered from the OAI interface. The number of acquisitions with a publication date in the last 12 months. Easily discovered from the OAI interface. This measures currency as well as activity. * Some repositories are sporadic, some are continuous, the latter reflecting a deep-seated integration within the university's activity. A simple measure would be to derive a statistic from the traffic (see ROAR), such as * number of days in last 12 months with a deposit event * the Fourier spectrum of the last 12 months deposit events having no component with a period longer than 7 days above 10% (I guess at what is significant and perhaps this can be turned into a score). RICH TEXT This is a reasonable measure, though subject to error. For example we sometimes put a full-text that gives instructions on how to ask for access to the item concerned, or a bio of the creator of an artwork. DOWNLOADS I'd love to promote downloads as a measure of impact, but there is as yet no federated way to access this data. I'm happy to continue this dialogue. Arthur Sale Professor of Computer Science University of Tasmania > -----Original Message----- > From: American Scientist Open Access Forum > [mailto:AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM at LISTSERVER.SIGMAX > I.ORG] On Behalf Of Isidro F. Aguillo > Sent: Monday, 11 February 2008 6:53 PM > To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM at LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG > Subject: Re: [AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM] New > Ranking of Central and Institutional Repositories > > Dear all: > > Thanks for your interest in the Ranking of repositories, part > of our larger effort for rnaking webpresence of universities > and research centers. A few comments to your messages: > > - Currently the Ranking of repositories is a beta version. We > will thank comments, suggestions and criticisms. Information > about missed repositories are warmly welcomed. After feedback > recieved during the last days we are considering a new > edition before the scheduled one in July. > - Our rank formula mimic in part PageRank but our > "inspiration" was in fact impact factor. We maintain a ratio > 1:1 between visibility (impact) and size (activity) that it > is the basis of IF. In order to take into account the > diversity of web info we decide to split the size > contribution according to additional criteria. > - Freshness is a topic we are concerned about not only for > repositories but for the rest of the rankings too. We are > considering to take it into account in the Scholar > contribution giving more weight to recent publications. > - There are methodological problems for producing relative > indicators: > percentage of global output, or institution size > normalization. But you know ranking are usually build by GDP > (US, Japan, Germany,...) and not GDP per capita (Luxembourg, > United Arab Emirates, ...) > - Our position as a research group has been previously stated > but I am going to summarise again: The rankings are made with > the aim of increase the volume of academic information > available on the Web, promoting the electronic publication of > all the activities of the universities, not only the research > related ones. And specially from developing countries institutions. > > Best regards, > > Leslie Carr escribi?: > > > > On 9 Feb 2008, at 21:36, Arthur Sale wrote: > > > >> It looks as though the algorithm is the same as for > university websites. > >> > >> Rank each repository for inward bound hyperlinks (VISIBILITY) Rank > >> every repository for number of pages (SIZE) Rank every > repository for > >> number of 'interesting' documents eg .doc. > >> .pdf (RICH FILES) > >> Rank every repository for number of records returned by a Google > >> Scholar search (GOOGLE SCHOLAR) Compute (VISIBILITY x 50%) > + (SIZE x > >> 20%) + (RICH FILES x 15%) + (GOOGLE SCHOLAR x 15%) And > then rank the > >> repositories on this score. > >> > >> This is a poor measure in general. VISIBILITY (accounts for 50% of > >> score!) is not necessarily useful for repositories, when > harvesting > >> in more important than hyperlinks. It will be strongly > influenced by > >> staff members linking their publications off a repository search. > >> Both SIZE and RICH FILES measure absolute size and say > nothing about > >> currency or activity. Some of the higher placed Australian > >> universities have simply had old stuff dumped in them, and are > >> relatively inactive in acquiring current material. > Activity should be > >> a major factor in metrics for repositories, and this could easily > >> measured by a search limited to a year (eg 2007), or by > the way ROAR > >> does it through OAI-PMH harvesting. > >> > > I believe that the Webometrics (ghastly name!) ranking of > repositories > > uses the same criteria as its ranking of universities ie it is > > attempting to quantify the impact that the repository has > had. This is > > very different to the size, deposit activity, or even > used-ness of the > > repository and explains why the major contributing factor is > > VISIBILITY. The main issue for this league table is "how > much evidence > > is there in the public web that your active research and scholarly > > outputs are valued enough by your community of peers that they are > > linking to them". > > > > This will probably seem entirely arbitrary to some people, and > > entirely obvious to others, depending on how much they see "the web" > > as a para-literature. It mimics Google's PageRank valuation of web > > pages according to how many 'votes' (links/quasi-citations) > they get > > from other pages from independent sources. > > > > It is not possible to tell with any accuracy whether a University > > Website is "a good website" simply by looking at the University's > > place in the Webometrics Ranking of Universities. The website is > > simply a channel which delivers visibility-impact for the > University > > (or not). Similarly for the repository. > > -- > > Les Carr > > > > -- > **************************** > Isidro F. 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Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM Cited Reference Count: 8 BORDONS M P 5 BIENN C INT SOC : 83 1995 CALERO C How to identify research groups using publication analysis: an example in the field of nanotechnology SCIENTOMETRICS 66 : 365 2006 CAMI J CARACTERIZACION BIBL : 2003 CAMI J Mapa bibliometrico de Espana 1994-2002: Biomedicina y Ciencias de la Salud MED CLIN-BARCELONA 124 : 93 2005 CARMONA SN ESTUDIO BIBLIOMETRIC : 2006 MARK EJ PHYS REV : 1 2000 PETERS HPF Structuring scientific activities by co-author analysis SCIENTOMETRICS 20 : 235 1991 PINYOL ES ALGORITHMS AUTOMATIC : 2001 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Feb 12 09:08:34 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:08:34 -0500 Subject: Morillo, F (Morillo, Fernanda); de Filippo, D (de Filippo, Daniela) The role of Madrid in the Spanish regional collaboration Message-ID: Email address: fmorillo at cindoc.csic.es Author(s): Morillo, F (Morillo, Fernanda); de Filippo, D (de Filippo, Daniela) Title: The role of Madrid in the Spanish regional collaboration Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 900-901, 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International- Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ Carlos III Madrid KeyWords Plus: SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION Addresses: CSIC, CINDOC, Madrid, Spain. Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM Cited Reference Count: 3 HARA N An Emerging View of Scientific Collaboration: Scientists' Perspectives on Collaboration and Factors that Impact Collaboration J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 54 : 952 2003 LEYDESDORFF L IS US LOSING GROUND : 2006 YAMASHITA Y Patterns of scientific collaboration between Japan and France: Inter- sectoral analysis using Probalistic Partnershiip Index (PPI) SCIENTOMETRICS 68 : 303 2006 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Feb 12 09:09:00 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:09:00 -0500 Subject: Mugnaini, R et al, Ways of adequacy for evaluation of Brazilian scientific production: National impact versus international impact Message-ID: Email address: elias at bob.uc3m.es Author(s): Mugnaini, R (Mugnaini, Rogerio); Sanz-Casado, E (Sanz-Casado, Elias); Garcia-Zorita, C (Garcia-Zorita, Carlos) Title: Ways of adequacy for evaluation of Brazilian scientific production: National impact versus international impact Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 902-903, 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International- Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ Carlos III Madrid Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM Cited Reference Count: 4 BORDONS M Advantages and limitations in the use of impact factor measures for the assessment of research performance in a peripheral country SCIENTOMETRICS 53 : 195 2002 DAVYT A HIST CIENCIAS SAUDEM 7 : 93 2000 MACROBERTS MH Problems of citation analysis SCIENTOMETRICS 36 : 435 1996 PACKER AL CI INF 27 : 109 1998 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Feb 12 09:09:36 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:09:36 -0500 Subject: Mugnaini, R (Mugnaini, Rogerio); Meneghini, R (Meneghini, Rogerio); Packer, A (Packer, Abel) Citation profiles in Brazilian journals of the SciELO database in different scientific areas Message-ID: Email address: rogerio at bireme.br Author(s): Mugnaini, R (Mugnaini, Rogerio); Meneghini, R (Meneghini, Rogerio); Packer, A (Packer, Abel) Title: Citation profiles in Brazilian journals of the SciELO database in different scientific areas Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 904-905, 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International- Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ Carlos III Madrid Cited Reference Count: 4 Cited References: EGGHE L, 1999, INTRO INFORMETRICS Q GLANZEL W, 2002, SCIENTOMETRICS, V53, P171 MELO, 2005, JC EMAIL 1222 MOED HF, 2005, CITATION ANAL RES EV Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Feb 12 09:10:03 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:10:03 -0500 Subject: Must, U (Must, Ulle) History research in a globalized world: a Bibliometric approach Message-ID: Email address: ylle at archimedes.ee Author(s): Must, U (Must, Ulle) Title: History research in a globalized world: a Bibliometric approach Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 906-907, 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International- Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ Carlos III Madrid Addresses: Archimedes Fdn, Tartu, EE-51013 Estonia. Cited Reference Count: 2 Cited References: CONARD NJ, 2003, J HUM EVOL, V44, P331 KARKANAS P, 2000, J ARCHAEOL SCI, V27, P915 Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Feb 12 09:08:05 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:08:05 -0500 Subject: Miguel-Dasit, et al Analysis of the interdisciplinar collaboration in Spanish scientific production on radiology and diagnostic imaging Message-ID: Email address: amdasit at hotmail.com Author(s): Miguel-Dasit, A (Miguel-Dasit, Alberto); Gonzalez-Alcaide, G (Gonzalez-Alcaide, Gregorio); Valderrama-Zurian, JC (Valderrama-Zurian, Juan Carlos); Alonso-Arroyo, A (Alonso-Arroyo, Adolfo); Aleixandre- Benavent, R (Aleixandre-Benavent, Rafael) Title: Analysis of the interdisciplinar collaboration in Spanish scientific production on radiology and diagnostic imaging Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 898-899, 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International- Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ Carlos III Madrid Addresses: La Plana Vila Real Hosp, MR Sect, Castellon de La Plana, Spain. Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM Cited Reference Count: 5 KLEIN JT INTERDISCIPLINARITY 6 : 2 2004 MCCAIN KW Neural networks research in context: A longitudinal journal cocitation analysis of an emerging interdisciplinary field SCIENTOMETRICS 41 : 389 1998 MIGUELDASIT A Spanish production of research articles on diagnostic imaging in Cardiology and Radiology REV ESP CARDIOL 57 : 806 2004 NOYONS ECM Monitoring scientific developments from a dynamic perspective: Self- organized structuring to map neural network research JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE 49 : 68 1998 SMALL H The Structure of Scientific Literatures I: Identifying and Graphing Specialities SCI STUD 4 : 17 1974 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Feb 12 09:25:22 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:25:22 -0500 Subject: Davies, JB; Kocher, MG; Sutter, M Economics research in Canada: a long-run assessment of journal publications CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS-REVUE CANADIENNE D ECONOMIQUE, 41 (1): 22-45 FEB 2008 Message-ID: E-mail Address: jdavies at uwo.ca Author(s): Davies, JB (Davies, James B.); Kocher, MG (Kocher, Martin G.); Sutter, M (Sutter, Matthias) Title: Economics research in Canada: a long-run assessment of journal publications Source: CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS-REVUE CANADIENNE D ECONOMIQUE, 41 (1): 22-45 FEB 2008 Language: English Document Type: Article Keywords Plus: CORE JOURNALS; DEPARTMENTS; RANKINGS; US Abstract: We examine the publications of authors affiliated with an economics research institution in Canada in (1) the Top-10 journals in economics according to journals' impact factors, and (2) the Canadian Journal of Economics. We consider all publications in the even years from 1980 to 2000. Canadian economists contributed about 5% of publications in the Top-10 journals and about 55% of publications in the Canadian Journal of Economics over this period. We identify the most active research centres and identify trends in their relative outputs over time. Those research centres successful in publishing in the Top-10 journals are found to also dominate the Canadian Journal of Economics. Additionally, we check the robustness of our findings with respect to journal selection, and we present data on authors' PhD origin, thereby indicating output and its concentration in graduate education. Addresses: Univ Western Ontario, Dept Econ, London, ON N6A 3K7, Canada; Univ Munich, Dept Econ, D-80539 Munich, Germany; Innsbruck Univ, Dept Econ, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria; Univ Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden Reprint Address: Davies, JB, Univ Western Ontario, Dept Econ, London, ON N6A 3K7, Canada. Times Cited: 0 Publisher: BLACKWELL PUBLISHING Publisher Address: 9600 GARSINGTON RD, OXFORD OX4 2ZG, OXON, ENGLAND ISSN: 0008-4085 Cited Reference Count: 25 CHANT J WE PAY PROFESSORS WH : 2005 COMBES PP J EUROPEAN EC ASS 1 : 1250 2003 CONROY ME The productivity of economics departments in the US: Publications in the Core journals JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE 33 : 1966 1995 COUPE T J EUROPEAN EC ASS 1 : 1309 2003 DUSANSKY R Rankings of US economics departments JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES 12 : 157 1998 FEINBERG RM Ranking economics departments JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES 12 : 231 1998 FRANKENA M CANADIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMICS JOURNALS, 1968-1972 CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS-REVUE CANADIENNE D ECONOMIQUE 6 : 121 1973 FRANKENA M J EUROPEAN EC ASS 1 : 1346 2003 GARFIELD E CITATION ANALYSIS AS A TOOL IN JOURNAL EVALUATION - JOURNALS CAN BE RANKED BY FREQUENCY AND IMPACT OF CITATIONS FOR SCIENCE POLICY STUDIES SCIENCE 178 : 471 1972 GRILICHES Z Ranking economics departments JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES 12 : 233 1998 HODGSON G ECON J 109 : 165 1999 HOSIOS AJ Unions without rents: the curious economics of faculty unions CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS-REVUE CANADIENNE D ECONOMIQUE 37 : 28 2004 KALAITZIDAKIS P European economics: An analysis based on publications in the core journals EUROPEAN ECONOMIC REVIEW 43 : 1150 1999 KIRMAN A EC RES EUROPE : 1996 KIRMAN A ECONOMIC RESEARCH IN EUROPE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC REVIEW 38 : 505 1994 KOCHER M ECON J 111 : 405 2001 KOCHER MG SOCIO EC PLANNING SC 40 : 314 2006 KODRZYCKI YK CONTRIBUTIONS EC ANA 5 : 2006 LUBRANO M J EUROPEAN EC ASS 1 : 1367 2003 LUCAS RF CANADIAN J EC 28 : 945 1995 MOORE WJ RELATIVE QUALITY OF ECONOMICS JOURNALS - SUGGESTED RATING SYSTEM WESTERN ECONOMIC JOURNAL 10 : 156 1972 PALMER J Q REV ECON BUS 28 : 88 1988 SCOTT LC Trends in rankings of economics departments in the US: An update ECONOMIC INQUIRY 34 : 378 1996 SUTTER M Tools for evaluating research output - Are citation-based rankings of economics journals stable? EVALUATION REVIEW 25 : 555 2001 THURSBY JG What do we say about ourselves and what does it mean? Yet another look at economics department research JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE 38 : 383 2000 From leticia.strehl at GMAIL.COM Tue Feb 12 10:27:29 2008 From: leticia.strehl at GMAIL.COM (Leticia Strehl) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:27:29 -0200 Subject: Mugnaini, R (Mugnaini, Rogerio); Meneghini, R (Meneghini, Rogerio); Packer, A (Packer, Abel) Citation profiles in Brazilian journals of the SciELO database in different scientific areas In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Oi Rog?rio! Tu podes me enviar os teus 2 trabalhos do ISSI do ano passado? Abra?o, Let?cia 2008/2/12, Eugene Garfield : > > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > Email address: rogerio at bireme.br > > Author(s): Mugnaini, R (Mugnaini, Rogerio); Meneghini, R (Meneghini, > Rogerio); Packer, A (Packer, Abel) > > Title: Citation profiles in Brazilian journals of the SciELO database in > different scientific areas > > Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF > > Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE > INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II > 904-905, 2007 > > Language: English > Document Type: Article > > Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International- > Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics > > Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 > > Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN > > Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & > Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, > Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ > Carlos III Madrid > > Cited Reference Count: 4 > > Cited References: > EGGHE L, 1999, INTRO INFORMETRICS Q > GLANZEL W, 2002, SCIENTOMETRICS, V53, P171 > MELO, 2005, JC EMAIL 1222 > MOED HF, 2005, CITATION ANAL RES EV > > Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI > Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT > 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM > -- ************************* Let?cia Strehl http://chasqueweb.ufrgs.br/~leticiastrehl/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Feb 12 13:58:02 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:58:02 -0500 Subject: Leydesdorff, L (Leydesdorff, Loet) Caveats for the use of citation indicators in research and journal evaluations JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 59 (2): 278-287 JAN 15 2008 Message-ID: E-mail Address: loet at leydesdorff.net Author(s): Leydesdorff, L (Leydesdorff, Loet) Title: Caveats for the use of citation indicators in research and journal evaluations Source: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 59 (2): 278-287 JAN 15 2008 Language: English Document Type: Article Keywords Plus: IMPACT FACTORS; ANGEWANDTE-CHEMIE; SCIENCE; INDEX; CHINA; INTERDISCIPLINARITY; SCIENTOMETRICS; BETWEENNESS; CENTRALITY; KNOWLEDGE Abstract: Aging of publications, percentage of self-citations, and impact vary from journal to journal within fields of science. The assumption that citation and publication practices are homogenous within specialties and fields of science is invalid. Furthermore, the delineation of fields and among specialties is fuzzy. Institutional units of analysis and persons may move between fields or span different specialties. The match between the citation index and institutional profiles varies among institutional units and nations. The respective matches may heavily affect the representation of the units. Non-institute of Scientific Information (ISI) journals are increasingly cornered into "transdisciplinary" Mode-2 functions with the exception of specialist journals publishing in languages other than English. An "externally cited impact factor" can be calculated for these journals. The citation impact of non-ISI journals will be demonstrated using Science and Public Policy as the example. Addresses: Univ Amsterdam, Amsterdam Sch Commun Res ASCoR, NL-1012 CX Amsterdam, Netherlands Reprint Address: Leydesdorff, L, Univ Amsterdam, Amsterdam Sch Commun Res ASCoR, Kloveniersburgwal 48, NL-1012 CX Amsterdam, Netherlands. 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Explorations in the specialty of molecular motors SCIENTOMETRICS 70 : 633 DOI 10.1007/s11192-007-0305-3 2007 ROUSSEAU R 4 INT C U EV RES EV 2004 ROUSSEAU R IN PRESS SIMPLE MODE : 2006 ROUSSEAU R Timelines in citation research JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 57 : 1404 DOI 10.1002/asi.20397 2006 SALTON G INTRO MODERN INFORM : 1983 SEGLEN PO Why the impact factor of journals should not be used for evaluating research BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 314 : 498 1997 SHER IH 2 C RES PROGR EFF WA 1965 STEGMANN J Building a list of journals with constructed impact factors JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION 55 : 310 1999 STUDER KE CANC MISSION SOCIAL : 1980 TESTA J ISI DATABASE J SELEC : 1997 TIJSSEN RJW ON GENERALIZING SCIENTOMETRIC JOURNAL MAPPING BEYOND ISIS JOURNAL AND CITATION DATABASES SCIENTOMETRICS 33 : 93 1995 VANDENBESSELAAR P The cognitive and the social structure of STS SCIENTOMETRICS 51 : 441 2001 VONTUNZELMANN N EFFECTS SIZE RES PER : 2003 WHITLEY RD INTELLECTUAL SOCIAL : 1984 ZHOU P A comparison between the China Scientific and Technical Papers and Citations Database and the Science Citation Index in terms of journal hierarchies and interjournal citation relations JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 58 : 223 DOI 10.1002/asi.20475 2007 ZHOU P The citation impacts and citation environments of Chinese journals in mathematics SCIENTOMETRICS 72 : 185 DOI 10.1007/s11192-007-1713-0 2007 From eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Wed Feb 13 11:29:01 2008 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:29:01 -0500 Subject: FW: [CHMINF-L] book on information and publishing Message-ID: -----Original Message----- From: CHEMICAL INFORMATION SOURCES DISCUSSION LIST [mailto:CHMINF-L at LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU] On Behalf Of BOB BUNTROCK Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 9:39 AM To: CHMINF-L at LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU Subject: [CHMINF-L] book on information and publishing I just read a review in Nature (451, 1/24/08, p. 401) of: Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure and the Internet,; Christine L. Borgman, MIT press 2007, 336 pp., $35. The practice of and issues in scholarly communications are discussed, including all of the sciences. Historical and current practices come first followed by the effect of the Internet and open publishing. Compromises are proposed for scientists wishing direct access and the needs of the owners of the content to control access. Recommended for policy makers as well as students and practitioners of information. Sounds like a good primer for those participating in Open Access and discussions about it. -- Bob Buntrock Orono, ME CHMINF-L Archives (also to join or leave CHMINF-L, etc.) http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/chminf-l.html Search the CHMINF-L archives at: https://listserv.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/wa-iub.exe?S1=chminf-l Sponsors of CHMINF-L: http://www.indiana.edu/~libchem/chminfsupport.htm From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Feb 13 11:40:02 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:40:02 -0500 Subject: Ohniwa, RL (Ohniwa, Ryosuke L.); Hibino, A (Hibino, Aiko); Takeyasu, K (Takeyasu, Kunio) Perspective factor: Past, present and future of life sciences Message-ID: Email address: ohniwa at lif.kyoto-u.ac.jp Author(s): Ohniwa, RL (Ohniwa, Ryosuke L.); Hibino, A (Hibino, Aiko); Takeyasu, K (Takeyasu, Kunio) Title: Perspective factor: Past, present and future of life sciences Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 908-909, 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International- Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ Carlos III Madrid Addresses: Kyoto Univ, Grad Sch Business, Lab Plasma Membrane & Nucl Signaling, Sakyo Ku, Kyoto, 6068501 Japan. Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM Cited Reference Count: 6 BRODY S Impat factor as the best operational measure of medical journals LANCET 346 : 1300 1995 GARFIELD E Citation Index for Science SCIENCE 122 : 108 1955 KSOTOFF RN SCIENTOMETRICS 43 : 27 1998 OHNIWA RL Perspective Factor: A novel indicator for the assessment of journal quality RES EVALUAT 13 : 175 2004 SCHULMAN J USING MED SUBJECT HE : 2000 SEGLEN PO BRIT MED J 314 : 497 1997 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Feb 13 11:40:37 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:40:37 -0500 Subject: Ortega, JL (Luis Ortega, Jose); Aguillo, I (Aguillo, Isidro); Cothey, V (Cothey, Viv); Scharnhorst, A (Scharnhorst, Andrea) Exploring visually the European academic web space Message-ID: Email address: jortega at cindoc.csic.es Author(s): Ortega, JL (Luis Ortega, Jose); Aguillo, I (Aguillo, Isidro); Cothey, V (Cothey, Viv); Scharnhorst, A (Scharnhorst, Andrea) Title: Exploring visually the European academic web space Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 912-913, 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International- Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ Carlos III Madrid Addresses: CSIC, CINDOC, Cybermetr Lab, Madrid, 28002 Spain. Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM Cited Reference Count: 10 ADAMIC LA GLOTTOMETRICS 3 : 143 2002 ALBERT R Internet - Diameter of the World-Wide Web NATURE 401 : 130 1999 CHEN C MAPPING SCI FRONTIER : 2003 COTHEY V Web-Crawling Reliability J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 55 : 1228 2004 KATZ JS Web indicators for complex innovation systems RES EVALUAT 15 : 85 2006 MCCAIN KW Mapping Authors in Intellectual Space: A Technical Overview J AM SOC INFORM SCI 41 : 433 1990 NOYONS ECM BIBLIOMETRICS MAPPIN : 1999 SCHARNHORST A J COMPUTER MEDIATED 8 : 2003 SMALL H The structure of the scientific literatures Identifying and graphing specialties SCI STUD 4 : 17 1974 THELWALL M LINK ANAL INFORM SCI : 2004 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Feb 13 11:41:08 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:41:08 -0500 Subject: Ortiz, AP (Patricia Ortiz, Ana); et al Basic characteristics of cancer-related research in Puerto Rico: An approach to local and international journals Message-ID: Email address: aportiz at rcm.upr.edu Author(s): Ortiz, AP (Patricia Ortiz, Ana); Calo, WA (A. Calo, William); Suarez, CA (A. Suarez, Carlos); Suarez, E (Suarez, Erik); Iribarren, I (Iribarren, Isabel); Sanz-Casado, E (Sanz-Casado, Elias) Title: Basic characteristics of cancer-related research in Puerto Rico: An approach to local and international journals Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 914-915, 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International- Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ Carlos III Madrid Addresses: Univ Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico, Spain. Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM Cited Reference Count: 4 *PUERT RIC HLTH DE PUERT RIC ANN VIT ST : 2003 KAMANGAR F Patterns of cancer incidence, mortality and prevalence across five continents: defining priorities to reduce cancer disparities in different geographic regions J CLIN ONCOL 24 : 2137 2006 ORTIZ AP UNPUB J MED LIB ASS ORTIZRIVERA LA Scientific production in Puerto Rico in science and technology during the period 1990-1998 SCIENTOMETRICS 49 : 403 2000 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Feb 13 11:41:41 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:41:41 -0500 Subject: Poulos, M (Poulos, Marios); Korfiatis, N (Korfiatis, Nikolaos); Bokos, G (Bokos, George) Towards the construction of a global bibliometric indicator Message-ID: Email address: mpoulos at ionio.gr Author(s): Poulos, M (Poulos, Marios); Korfiatis, N (Korfiatis, Nikolaos); Bokos, G (Bokos, George) Title: Towards the construction of a global bibliometric indicator Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 920-921, 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International- Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ Carlos III Madrid Addresses: Ionian Univ, Dept Archives & Lib Sci, Corfu, 49100 Greece. Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM Cited Reference Count: 11 BARILAN J Informetric theories and methods for exploring the internet: an analytical survey of recent research literature LIBR TRENDS 50 : 371 2002 BJORNSSON H JOKULL 50 : 1 2001 BOLLEN J SCIENTOMETRICS 69 : 2006 BRICKLEY D FAOF VOCABULARY SPEC : 2006 CASSERLY MF Web citation availability: analysis and implications for scholarship COLL RES LIBR 64 : 300 2003 GOMEZ I Analysis of the structure of international scientific cooperation networks through bibliometric indicators SCIENTOMETRICS 44 : 441 1999 KASABOV N FDN NEURAL NETWORKS : 1996 KORFIATIS N IN PRESS EL LIB TEL : 2006 MORRISON N MULTIVARIATE STAT ME : 1976 SMITH R Journal accused of manipulating impact factor BRIT MED J 314 : 463 1997 SNIZEK WE SCIENTOMETRICS 32 : 177 1995 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Feb 13 11:42:17 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:42:17 -0500 Subject: Rabow, H (Rabow, Hampus) A bibliometric analysis of book based literature Message-ID: Email address: hampus.rabow at lub.lu.se Author(s): Rabow, H (Rabow, Hampus) Title: A bibliometric analysis of book based literature Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 922-923, 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International- Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ Carlos III Madrid KeyWords Plus: SCIENCE LITERATURE; CITATION; EXTRACTION Addresses: Lund Univ, Ctr Bibliometr & Res Evaluat, Lund, S-22100 Sweden. Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM Cited Reference Count: 10 ARCHAMBAULT E Benchmarking scientific output in the social sciences and humanities: The limits of existing databases SCIENTOMETRICS 68 : 329 2006 DAY MY Reference metadata extraction using a hierarchical knowledge representation framework DECIS SUPPORT SYST 43 : 152 2007 GOODRUM AA Scholarly publishing in the Internet age: a citation analysis of computing science literature INFORM PROCESS MANAG 37 : 661 2001 HICKS D The Difficulty of Achieving Full Coverage of Internation Social Science Literature and the Bibliometric Consequences SCIENTOMETRICS 44 : 193 1999 KOSTOFF RN Is citation normalization realistic? J INF SCI 31 : 57 2005 LAWRENCE S Digital libraries and autonomous citation indexing COMPUTER 32 : 67 1999 LAWSON M Automatic extraction of citations from the text of English-language patents - An example of template mining J INFORM SCI 22 : 423 1996 NEDERHOF AJ SCIENTOMETRICS 66 : 81 2006 VANRAAN AFJ In Matters of Quantitative Studies of Science the Fault of Theorists is Offering too Little and Asking too Much SCIENTOMETRICS 43 : 129 1998 VANRAAN AFJ Advanced bibliometric methods as quantitative core of peer reviewed based evaluation and foresight exercises. SCIENTOMETRICS 36 : 397 1996 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Feb 13 11:42:55 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:42:55 -0500 Subject: Robert, C (Robert, Claude); Wilson, CS (Wilson, Concepcion S.); Gaudy, JF (Gaudy, Jean-Francois); Arreto, CD (Arreto, Charles-Daniel) The evolution of the sleep scientific literature over 30 years: A bibliometric analysis Message-ID: Email address: claude.robert at univ-paris5.fr Author(s): Robert, C (Robert, Claude); Wilson, CS (Wilson, Concepcion S.); Gaudy, JF (Gaudy, Jean-Francois); Arreto, CD (Arreto, Charles-Daniel) Title: The evolution of the sleep scientific literature over 30 years: A bibliometric analysis Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 926-927, 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International- Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ Carlos III Madrid Addresses: Univ Paris 05, Lab Anat Fonctionnelle, Montrouge, F-92120 France. Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM Cited Reference Count: 2 ROBERT C A snapshot of EU publications in sleep research: A scientometric survey SCIENTOMETRICS 67 : 385 2006 ROBERT C SLEEP BIOL RHYTHMS 4 : 160 2006 From peter.ohly at GESIS.ORG Thu Feb 14 10:23:04 2008 From: peter.ohly at GESIS.ORG (Ohly, H. Peter) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:23:04 +0100 Subject: extended CfP: 'Information and Evaluation', Naples September 1-5, 2008 Message-ID: Call for Papers Session 'Information and Evaluation' on the 7th RC33 International Conference on Social Science Methodology, Naples September 1-5, 2008. Session Organizers: H. Peter Ohly (peter.ohly at gesis.org); Max Stempfhuber (max.stempfhuber at gesis.org) Information and its dissemination are seen as important factors of productivity in global exchange and competition. Here, information is primarily understood as scientific knowledge and research results - which might enhance science itself as well as application domains. On the one hand the question arises, how such information can be acquired, processed and distributed optimally. Approaches such as user participation, data accumulation, value adding and qualitative filtering are of concern. On the other hand, the information on scientific outcomes is used to judge about the structures of disciplines, developments in research and excellence of institutions and individual scientists. This questions the reliability of information and its sources, completeness, comparability and validity of data, as well as the role of indicators for positional judgements. This session targets at the improvement of information transfer as well as diagnostic procedures on information databases and their mutual relationship. Of interest is also, how the scientific community adapts in this context. Please send your abstract as soon as possible to session organizers. The abstract should not be longer than 250 words and it should indicate your name, your email address, your institutional affiliation and up to three keywords. Extended Deadline for abstracts: February 28 , 2008. The session organizers or the organisation committee will inform you about the acceptance by the end of March at the latest. (for details: http://www.rc332008.unina.it/ e.g. CfP) Mit freundlichen Gruessen, With kind regards, Sinc?res salutations, H. 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International communication patterns in an emerging interdisciplinary field applications of geographic information systems in public health Message-ID: Email address: dimtomov at yahoo.com Author(s): Totnov, DT (Totnov, Dimitar T.); Murad, AA (Murad, AbdulKader A.) Title: International communication patterns in an emerging interdisciplinary field applications of geographic information systems in public health Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 938-939, 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International- Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ Carlos III Madrid Addresses: Prof Paraskev Stoyanov Med Univ Varna, Fac Publ Hlth, Dept Hlth Econ & Management, Varna, BG-9002 Bulgaria. Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM Cited Reference Count: 9 GATRELL A GEOGRAPHIES HLTH INT : 2002 GATRELL A GIS HLTH : 1998 MURAD AA Application of Geographical Information Systems for Educational Facilities Planning INT J ENVIRON HEAL R 14 : 185 2004 MURAD AA THESIS U NEWCASTLE U : 1998 TOMOV DT BIOMEDICAL REV 17 : 113 2006 TOMOV DT BIOMEDICAL REV 12 : 41 2001 TOMOV DT Some critical remarks on the stop word lists of ISI publications J DOC 57 : 798 2001 TOMOV DT Comparative indicators of interdisciplinarity in modern science SCIENTOMETRICS 37 : 267 1996 TOMOV DT SCRIPTA PERRIDICA S 7 : 12 2004 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Feb 14 11:01:10 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:01:10 -0500 Subject: Sun, Y (Sun, Yuan); Negishi, M (Negishi, Masamitsu); Leydesdorff, L (Leydesdorff, Loet) National and international dimensions of the triple helix in Japan: University-industry-government and international co-authorship relations Message-ID: Email address: yuan at nii.ac.jp Author(s): Sun, Y (Sun, Yuan); Negishi, M (Negishi, Masamitsu); Leydesdorff, L (Leydesdorff, Loet) Title: National and international dimensions of the triple helix in Japan: University-industry-government and international co-authorship relations Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 936-937, 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International- Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ Carlos III Madrid KeyWords Plus: SCIENCE Addresses: Natl Inst Informat, Chiyoda Ku, Tokyo, 1018430 Japan. Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM Cited Reference Count: 10 ABRAMSON N INFORM THEORY CODING : 1963 GLANZEL W National characteristics in international scientific co-authorship relations SCIENTOMETRICS 51 : 69 2001 JAKULIN A APPROACH BASED ENTRO : 2004 LEYDESDORFF L KNOWLEDGE BASED EC M : 2006 LEYDESDORFF L The Mutual Information of University-Industry-Government Relations: An Indicator of the Triple Helix Dynamics SCIENTOMETRICS 58 : 445 2003 NARIN F The increasing link between U.S. technology and public science RES POLICY 26 : 317 1997 SUN Y 9 INT C SCI TECHN IN : 2006 TIJSSEN RJW IN PRESS U IND INTER 35 : 2006 WAGNER CS J TECHNOLOGY GLOBALI 1 : 185 2005 ZITT M Shadows of the past in international cooperation: Collaboration profiles of the top five producers of science. SCIENTOMETRICS 47 : 627 2000 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Feb 14 11:02:39 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:02:39 -0500 Subject: Van, TT (Van, Thanh-Trung); Beigbeder, M (Beigbeder, Michel) From web citation to web co-citation: Discovering relatedness on the web Message-ID: Email address: van at emse.fr Author(s): Van, TT (Van, Thanh-Trung); Beigbeder, M (Beigbeder, Michel) Title: From web citation to web co-citation: Discovering relatedness on the web Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 946-947, 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International- Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ Carlos III Madrid Addresses: Ecole Natl Super Mines, Ctr G21, St Etienne, F-42023 France. Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM Cited Reference Count: 4 KESSLER MM Bibliographic coupling between scientific papers AM DOC 14 : 10 1963 MARSHAKOVA IV NAUCHNO TEKHNICHESKA 2 : 3 1973 SMALL H Co-citation in the scientific literature: A new measure of the relationship between two documents J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24 : 265 1973 VAUGHAN L J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 54 : 1532 2003 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Feb 14 11:02:09 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:02:09 -0500 Subject: Author(s): Uzun, A (Uzun, Ali) Recent trends in renewable energy research: A bibliometric perspective Message-ID: Email address: azun at metu.edu.tr Author(s): Uzun, A (Uzun, Ali) Title: Recent trends in renewable energy research: A bibliometric perspective Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 944-945, 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International- Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ Carlos III Madrid KeyWords Plus: INDICATORS; OUTPUT Addresses: Middle E Tech Univ, Dept Stat, Ankara, TR-06531 Turkey. Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM Cited Reference Count: 4 CARPENTER MP Bibliometric profiles of academic institutions: An experiment to develop output indicators SCIENTOMETRICS 14 : 213 1988 FRAME JD INTERSCIENCIA 2 : 143 1977 SAYIGH AAM P WORLD REN EN C 5 P : 1998 SCHUBERT A Relative indicators and relational charts for cooperative assessment of publication output and citation impact. SCIENTOMETRICS 9 : 281 1986 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Feb 14 11:00:32 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:00:32 -0500 Subject: Vanz, SADS (Vanz, Samile Andrea de Souza); Matheus, RF (Matheus, Renato Fabiano) Analyzing grey literature from postgraduate programs in social communication in Brazil: Network of influence and citation analysis Message-ID: Email address: samilevanz at terra.com.br Author(s): Vanz, SADS (Vanz, Samile Andrea de Souza); Matheus, RF (Matheus, Renato Fabiano) Title: Analyzing grey literature from postgraduate programs in social communication in Brazil: Network of influence and citation analysis Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 934-935, 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International- Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ Carlos III Madrid Addresses: Univ Fed Rio Grande do Sul, Programa Pos Grad Comunicacao & Infromacao, Porto Alegre, RS BR-90035005 Brazil. Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM Cited Reference Count: 6 BARRE R The European perspective on S&T indicators SCIENTOMETRICS 38 : 57 1997 BORGATTI SP UCINET 6 WINDOWS SOF : 2007 CASE DO How Can we Investigate Citation Behavior? a study of reasons for citing literature in communication J AM SOC INFORM SCI 51 : 635 2000 ROUSSEAU B CYBERMETRICS 4 : 2000 SPINAK E CIENCIA INFORMACAO 27 : 141 1998 VELHO L The Meaning of Citation in the Context of a Scientifically Peripheral Country SCIENTOMETRICS 9 : 71 1986 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Feb 14 13:26:45 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:26:45 -0500 Subject: Oppenheim, Using the h-index to rank influential British researchers in information science and librarianship JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 58 (2): 297-301 JAN 15 2007 Message-ID: E-mail Address: c.oppenheim at lboro.ac.uk Author(s): Oppenheim, C (Oppenheim, Charles) Title: Using the h-index to rank influential British researchers in information science and librarianship Source: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 58 (2): 297-301 JAN 15 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Keywords Plus: SCIENTISTS Abstract: The recently developed h-index has been applied to the literature produced by senior British-based academics in librarianship and information science. The majority of those evaluated currently hold senior positions in UK information science and librarianship departments; however, a small number of staff in other departments and retired '' founding fathers '' were analyzed as well. The analysis was carried out using the Web of Science (Thomson Scientific, Philadelphia, PA) for the years from 1992 to October 2005, and included both second authored papers and self-citations. The top-ranking British information scientist, Peter Willett, has an h-index of 31. However, it was found that Eugene Garfield, the founder of modern citation studies, has an even higher h-index of 36. These results support other studies suggesting that the 17-index is a useful tool in the armory of bibliometrics. Addresses: Univ Loughborough, Dept Informat Sci, Loughborough LE11 3TU, Leics, England Reprint Address: Oppenheim, C, Univ Loughborough, Dept Informat Sci, Loughborough LE11 3TU, Leics, England. Times Cited: 4 Publisher: JOHN WILEY & SONS INC Publisher Address: 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN, NJ 07030 USA Cited Reference Count: 19 CILIP COURS LIB INF STUD A : BAIRD LM DO CITATIONS MATTER JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE 20 : 2 1994 BATISTA PD IS IT POSSIBLE COMPA : BORNMANN L Does the h-index for ranking of scientists really work? SCIENTOMETRICS 65 : 391 DOI 10.1007/s11192-005-0281-4 2005 BRAUN T SCIENTIST 19 : 25 2005 BRITTAIN JM A highly visible scientist - Jack Meadows JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE 26 : 267 2000 CRONIN B Using the h-index to rank influential information scientists JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 57 : 1275 DOI 10.1002/asi.20354 2006 GLANZEL W On the h-index - A mathematical approach to a new measure of publication activity and citation impact SCIENTOMETRICS 67 : 315 DOI 10.1556/Scient.67.2006.2.12 2006 HIRSCH JE INDEX QUANTIFY INDIV : 2005 KALYANE VL MALAYSIAN J LIB INFO 9 : 81 2004 KALYANE VL MALAYSIAN J LIB INFO 3 : 25 1998 KOMATSU S PHARM LIB B JAPAN 43 : 26 1998 MEHO LI Ranking the research productivity of library and information science faculty and schools: An evaluation of data sources and research methods JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 56 : 1314 DOI 10.1002/asi.20227 2005 NORRIS M Citation counts and the Research Assessment Exercise V - Archaeology and the 2001 RAE JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION 59 : 709 2003 PETERS HPF SCIENTOMETRICS 29 : 115 1992 RUSTRUM R SCIENTOMETRICS 5 : 117 1983 SEGLEN PO THE SKEWNESS OF SCIENCE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE 43 : 628 1992 VANRAAN AFJ Comparison of the Hirsch-index with standard bibliometric indicators and with peer judgment for 147 chemistry research groups SCIENTOMETRICS 67 : 491 DOI 10.1556/Scient.67.2006.3.10 2006 WELLER AC EDITORIAL PEER REV : 2001 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Feb 14 13:47:34 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:47:34 -0500 Subject: Author(s): Schroeder, R (Schroeder, Robert) Pointing users toward citation searching: Using Google scholar and Web of Science PORTAL-LIBRARIES AND THE ACADEMY, 7 (2): 243-248 APR 2007 Message-ID: E-mail Address: schroedr at pdx.edu Author(s): Schroeder, R (Schroeder, Robert) Title: Pointing users toward citation searching: Using Google scholar and Web of Science Source: PORTAL-LIBRARIES AND THE ACADEMY, 7 (2): 243-248 APR 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Keywords Plus: INDEXES Addresses: Portland State Univ Lib, Portland, OR 97207 USA Reprint Address: Schroeder, R, Portland State Univ Lib, Portland, OR 97207 USA. E-mail Address: schroedr at pdx.edu Times Cited: 0 Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PRESS Publisher Address: JOURNALS PUBLISHING DIVISION, 2715 NORTH CHARLES ST, BALTIMORE, MD 21218-4363 USA ISSN: 1531-2542 Cited Reference Count: 10 BAKKALBASI N BIOMEDICAL DIGITAL L 3 : 2006 BAUER K D LIB MAGAZINE 11 : 2005 BELEW RK ARXIVCORR0404036 : 10 2005 GARFIELD E CITATION INDEXES FOR SCIENCE - NEW DIMENSION IN DOCUMENTATION THROUGH ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS SCIENCE 122 : 108 1955 JACSO CURRENT SCI 89 : 1543 2005 JACSO DIG LIB IMP STRAT SH : 360 2005 KOUSHA K P INT WORKSH WEB INF : 2006 NORUZI A Google Scholar: The new generation of citation indexes LIBRI 55 : 170 2005 PAULY D ETHICS SCI ENV 1222 : 2005 YANG K P 69 ANN M AM SOC IN : 43 2006 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Feb 14 14:39:59 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:39:59 -0500 Subject: Labanaris, AP; Vassiliadi, AP; Polykandriotis, E; Tjiawi, J; Arkudas, A; Horch, RE Impact factors and publication times for plastic surgery journals PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY, 120 (7): 2076-2081 DEC 2007 Message-ID: E-mail Address: raymund.horch at chir.imed.uni-erlangen.de Author(s): Labanaris, AP (Labanaris, Apostolos P.); Vassiliadi, AP (Vassiliadi, Agapi P.); Polykandriotis, E (Polykandriotis, Elias); Tjiawi, J (Tjiawi, Jimmy); Arkudas, A (Arkudas, Andreas); Horch, RE (Horch, Raymund E.) Title: Impact factors and publication times for plastic surgery journals Source: PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY, 120 (7): 2076-2081 DEC 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Addresses: Univ Erlangen Nurnberg, Med Ctr, Dept Plast & Hand Surg, D- 91054 Erlangen, Germany; Europakanal Med Ctr, Dept Psychiat & Psychotherapy, Erlangen, Germany Background: The purposes of the authors? analysis were to assess the values that plastic surgical journals demonstrate in terms of the standardized measures created by the Institute for Scientific Information?s Journal Citation Report, and to assess the relationship between these values and the turnaround time of these journals. Methods: The overall indexes of surgical journals were compared with those of journals in other fields of medicine using the following parameters: highest impact factor, average impact factor, cited half-life, immediacy index, and number of journals. Similarly, plastic surgery journals were compared with the highest ranking journals from various fields of surgery. In addition, an evaluation of all original articles published in 2005, assessing the time intervals from submission to publication, submission to acceptance, and acceptance to publication, was conducted for all plastic surgical journals and the highest ranking journals from various surgical fields listed in the Journal Citation Report. Results: Plastic surgical journals demonstrated low overall index values and a greater elongation of their turnaround time in comparison to journals in other fields of surgery and medicine. Conclusions: The fact that the field of plastic surgery targets a rather specific and limited medical audience, and that plastic surgical articles usually get quoted by this audience, partly explains these values. Furthermore, the elongated turnaround time contributes to their endurance. Since plastic surgical journals cannot attract a broader medical audience, journals should speed up their publication times to help these values rise. (Plast. Reconstr. Surg. 120: 2076, 2007.) Reprint Address: Horch, RE, Univ Erlangen Nurnberg, Med Ctr, Dept Plast & Hand Surg, Krankenhausstr 12, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany. E-mail Address: raymund.horch at chir.imed.uni-erlangen.de Times Cited: 0 Publisher: LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS Publisher Address: 530 WALNUT ST, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106-3621 USA ISSN: 0032-1052 Cited Reference Count: 8 DONG P BIOMED DIGIT LIB 2 : 7 2005 GARFIELD E How can impact factors be improved? BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 313 : 411 1996 JACSO P A deficiency in the algorithm for calculating the impact factor of scholarly journals: The journal impact factor CORTEX 37 : 590 2001 JEMEC GB BMC DERMATOL 1 : 7 2001 METRON RK SCIENCE 159 : 56 1968 SEGLEN PO Why the impact factor of journals should not be used for evaluating research BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 314 : 498 1997 TORGERSON DJ Submission to multiple journals: a method of reducing time to publication? BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 330 : 305 2005 VANLEEUWEN TN Development and application of journal impact measures in the Dutch science system SCIENTOMETRICS 53 : 249 2002 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Feb 14 10:48:40 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:48:40 -0500 Subject: Rons, N (Rons, Nadine); De Bruyn, A (De Bruyn, Arlette) Quantitative CV-based indicators for research quality, validated by peer review Message-ID: Email address: Nadine.Rons at vub.ac.be Author(s): Rons, N (Rons, Nadine); De Bruyn, A (De Bruyn, Arlette) Title: Quantitative CV-based indicators for research quality, validated by peer review Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 930-931, 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International- Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ Carlos III Madrid Addresses: Vrije Univ Brussels, R&D Dept, Res Coordinat Unit, Brussels, Belgium. Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM Cited Reference Count: 4 COZZENS SE The Knowledge Pool: Measurement Challenges in Evaluating Fundamental Research Programs EVAL PROGRAM PLANN 20 : 77 1997 KOSTOFF RN ADA296021 DTIC : 1997 MARTIN BR The Use of Multiple Indicators in the Assessment of Basic Research SCIENTOMETRICS 36 : 343 1996 MOED HF CITATION ANAL RES EV : CH18 2005 From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Fri Feb 15 06:58:56 2008 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:58:56 +0000 Subject: RAE/REF research In-Reply-To: <17BBF49306835748938EF9728B418E4304E51CBF@ccexchange-3.cns.cranfield.ac.uk> Message-ID: On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Bevan, Simon wrote: > The research undertaken at Cranfield concerning the differences between > the Research Assessment Exercise and the Research Excellence Framework, > discussed in the Times Higher this week is available at: > https://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/bitstream/1826/2248/1/Citation%20Counts-RAE%20Scores-2008..pdf This pilot study has some methodological weaknesses. The remedy for the ostensible problems encountered in this study is for the panel rankings in the parallel metric/panel RAE 2008 to be analysed in a full-scale multiple regression study using as rich and diverse as possible a spectrum of predictive metrics (not just citation counts!), discipline by discipline. This will reveal which metrics are most predictive of the panel rankings in each discipline, and it will initialise their weights, which can then be calibrated, updated and fine-tuned (as well as augmented with any new metrics) in subsequent continuous assessment. Stevan Harnad Harnad, S. (2007) Open Access Scientometrics and the UK Research Assessment Exercise. In Proceedings of 11th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics 11(1), pp. 27-33, Madrid, Spain. Torres-Salinas, D. and Moed, H. F., Eds. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/13804/ Brody, T., Carr, L., Harnad, S. and Swan, A. (2007) Time to Convert to Metrics. Research Fortnight pp. 17-18. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/14329/ Brody, T., Carr, L., Gingras, Y., Hajjem, C., Harnad, S. and Swan, A. (2007) Incentivizing the Open Access Research Web: Publication-Archiving, Data-Archiving and Scientometrics. CTWatch Quarterly 3(3). http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/14418/ Harnad, S., Carr, L., Brody, T. & Oppenheim, C. (2003) Mandated online RAE CVs Linked to University Eprint Archives: Improving the UK Research Assessment Exercise whilst making it cheaper and easier. Ariadne 35. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/Ariadne-RAE.htm Brody, T., Kampa, S., Harnad, S., Carr, L. and Hitchcock, S. (2003) Digitometric Services for Open Archives Environments. In Proceedings of European Conference on Digital Libraries 2003, pp. 207-220, Trondheim, Norway. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/7503/ Harnad, S. (2003) Measuring and Maximising UK Research Impact. Times Higher Education Supplement. Friday, June 6 2003 http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/7728/ Harnad, S. (2001) Research access, impact and assessment. Times Higher Education Supplement 1487: p. 16. http://cogprints.org/1683/ > > > Cheers > > > > Simon > > ------------------------------------------- > > Simon J. Bevan > > Information Systems Manager > > Cranfield University > > Cranfield > > Bedfordshire > > MK43 0AL > > > > Email: s.bevan at cranfield.ac.uk > > Tel: +44(0)1234 754445 > > > > The Kings Norton Library has been awarded Charter Mark > , the > UK Government standard for excellent customer service. > > > > *************************************************************** > > This communication is sent in confidence to the named recipient only. If > you are not the named recipient, any use, disclosure or copying of this > communication is prohibited. If you have received this communication in > error, please notify the sender immediately by telephone or email. > > > > The opinions expressed do not necessarily represent the corporate views > of Cranfield University. Cranfield University accepts no liability for > the content of this email or the consequences of any actions taken on > the basis of the information provided. > > *************************************************************** > > > > From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Feb 15 10:15:48 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:15:48 -0500 Subject: Vasconcelos, S (Vasconcelos, Sonia); Sorenson, M (Sorenson, Martha); Leta, J (Leta, Jacqueline) English proficiency: A potential science indicator? Message-ID: Email address: sonia at peq.coppe.ufri.br Author(s): Vasconcelos, S (Vasconcelos, Sonia); Sorenson, M (Sorenson, Martha); Leta, J (Leta, Jacqueline) Title: English proficiency: A potential science indicator? Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 948-949, 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International- Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ Carlos III Madrid Addresses: Univ Fed Rio de Janeiro, Inst Med Biochem, Sci Educ Program, Rio De Janeiro, BR-21941 Brazil. Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM Cited Reference Count: 5 GLANZEL W Science in Brazil. Part 1: A macro-level comparative study SCIENTOMETRICS 67 : 67 2006 MAN JP Why do some countries publish more than others? An international comparison of research funding, English proficiency and publication output in highly ranked general medical journals EUR J EPIDEMIOL 19 : 811 2004 MONTGOMERY S Of towers, walls, and fields: perspectives on language in science SCIENCE 303 : 1333 2004 ORTIZ R REV BRASILEIRA CIENC 19 : 5 2004 ZHOU P The emergence of China as a leading nation in science RES POLICY 35 : 83 2006 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Feb 15 11:50:36 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:50:36 -0500 Subject: Wang, CC (Wang, Chun-Chieh); Huang, MH (Huang, Mu-Hsuan); Chen, DZ (Chen, Dar-Zen) Innovative capacity evaluation of main countries based on patent analysis Message-ID: Email address: d95126002 at ntu.edu.tw Author(s): Wang, CC (Wang, Chun-Chieh); Huang, MH (Huang, Mu-Hsuan); Chen, DZ (Chen, Dar-Zen) Title: Innovative capacity evaluation of main countries based on patent analysis Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 952-953, 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International- Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ Carlos III Madrid Addresses: Natl Taiwan Univ, Dept Lib & Informat Sci, Taipei, 10764 Taiwan. Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM Cited Reference Count: 3 ALBERT MB NEW INNOVATORS GLOBA : 1998 ALBERT MB Direct validation of citation counts as indicators of industrially important patents RES POLICY 20 : 251 1991 CHEN DZ Using Essential Patent Index and Essential Technological Strength to Evaluate Industrial Technological Innovation Competitiveness SCIENTOMETRICS 71 : 101 2007 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Feb 15 11:57:25 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:57:25 -0500 Subject: Yang, LL (Yang, Li-Li); Fu, DH (Fu, Dong-Hong); Bai, XP (Bai, Xiao-Ping); Fang, WG (Fang, Wei-Gang); Yao, SY (Yao, Shu-Yin) Citation analysis of the Chinese journal of medical science management Message-ID: Email address: kgzz at bjmu.edu.cn Author(s): Yang, LL (Yang, Li-Li); Fu, DH (Fu, Dong-Hong); Bai, XP (Bai, Xiao-Ping); Fang, WG (Fang, Wei-Gang); Yao, SY (Yao, Shu-Yin) Title: Citation analysis of the Chinese journal of medical science management Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 958-959, 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International- Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ Carlos III Madrid Addresses: Peking Univ, Hlth Sci Ctr, Sci Res Div, Beijing, 100083 Peoples R China. Cited Reference Count: 5 Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM *CNKI CHIN AC J COMPR CIT : 2003 CARR JE Citation trends of applied journals in behavioral psychology J APPL BEHAV ANAL 36 : 113 2003 GAO JQ LIB INFORMATION SERV 48 : 58 2004 JIANG CL R&D MANAGE 13 : 70 2001 LI YJ J CHINA SOC SCI TECH 25 : 172 2006 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Feb 15 11:56:57 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:56:57 -0500 Subject: Yamashita, Y (Yamashita, Yasuhiro); Ueno, S (Ueno, Sen); Tomizawa, H (Tomizawa, Hiroyuki); Kondo, M (Kondo, Masayuki) Influence of the international migration of researchers on national publications in three fields of engineering Message-ID: Email address: yaya at jm.kj.yamagata-u.ac.jp Author(s): Yamashita, Y (Yamashita, Yasuhiro); Ueno, S (Ueno, Sen); Tomizawa, H (Tomizawa, Hiroyuki); Kondo, M (Kondo, Masayuki) Title: Influence of the international migration of researchers on national publications in three fields of engineering Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 956-957, 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International- Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ Carlos III Madrid KeyWords Plus: SCIENCE Addresses: Yamagata Univ, Evaluat & Anal Off, Yamagata, 9908560 Japan. Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM Cited Reference Count: 4 CHEN Y P ISSI 2005 ISSI2005 : 733 2005 JIN BH Long-term influences of interventions in the normal development of science: China and the cultural revolution J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 55 : 544 2004 LIANG LM Age structures of scientific collaboration in Chinese computer science SCIENTOMETRICS 52 : 471 2001 LOANNIDIS JPA FASEB J 18 : 939 2004 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Feb 15 11:58:17 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:58:17 -0500 Subject: Zhang, J (Zhang, Jian); Zhu, W (Zhu, Weizhong); Chen, Y (Chen, Yunan); Vogeley, M (Vogeley, Michael); Chen, C (Chen, Chaomei) Analyzing the impact of sloan digital sky survey on astronomical literature: A multiple perspective approach Message-ID: Email address: jz85 at drexel.edu Author(s): Zhang, J (Zhang, Jian); Zhu, W (Zhu, Weizhong); Chen, Y (Chen, Yunan); Vogeley, M (Vogeley, Michael); Chen, C (Chen, Chaomei) Title: Analyzing the impact of sloan digital sky survey on astronomical literature: A multiple perspective approach Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 964-965, 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International- Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ Carlos III Madrid KeyWords Plus: TRENDS; PUBLICATION Addresses: Drexel Univ, Coll Informat Sci & Technol, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA. Cited Reference Count: 9 Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM ABT HA Astronomical publication in the near future PUBL ASTRON SOC PAC 112 : 1417 2000 ABT HA Trends toward internationalization in astronomical literature PUBL ASTRON SOC PAC 102 : 368 1990 ABT HA PUBLICATIONS ASTRONO 553 : 269 1981 CHEN CM CiteSpace II: Detecting and visualizing emerging trends and transient patterns in scientific literature J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 57 : 359 2006 DAVOUST E A study of the publishing activity of astronomers since 1969 SCIENTOMETRICS 22 : 9 1991 FERNANDEZ JA The transition from an individual science to a collective one: The case of astronomer SCIENTOMETRICS 42 : 61 1998 SCHULMAN E Trends in astronomical publication between 1975 and 1996 PUBL ASTRON SOC PAC 109 : 1278 1997 YORK DG The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical summary ASTRON J 120 : 1579 2000 ZHU W COMPUTERS GRAPHICS : 2007 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Feb 15 11:57:50 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:57:50 -0500 Subject: Yu, H (Yu, Hairong); Wilson, CS (Wilson, Concepcoin S.); Davis, M (Davis, Mari); Cole, F (Cole, Fletcher) Complex data modelling for informetric research Message-ID: Email address: hairong.yu at unsw.edu.au Author(s): Yu, H (Yu, Hairong); Wilson, CS (Wilson, Concepcoin S.); Davis, M (Davis, Mari); Cole, F (Cole, Fletcher) Title: Complex data modelling for informetric research Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 962-963, 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International- Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ Carlos III Madrid KeyWords Plus: DATABASES Addresses: Univ New S Wales, Sch Informat Syst Technol & Management, Sydney, NSW Australia. Cited Reference Count: 6 Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM FISK JM Integrating query of relational and textual data in clinical databases: A case study J AM MED INFORM ASSN 10 : 21 2003 HOOD WW Informetric studies using databases: Opportunities and challenges SCIENTOMETRICS 58 : 587 2003 JARVELIN K A user-oriented interface for generalized informetrics analysis based on applying advanced data modelling techniques J DOC 56 : 250 2000 STIX G SCI AM 292 : 70 2005 ULLMAN J OBJECT RELATIONAL FE : 1998 WILSON CS Informetrics ANNU REV INFORM SCI 34 : 107 1999 From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Sun Feb 17 02:51:35 2008 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 08:51:35 +0100 Subject: Science/NSF report In-Reply-To: <0B471BCE1E22964AB937F8B0AB76E91CEDB394@NSF-BE-01.ad.nsf.gov> Message-ID: Dear colleagues, I followed up on the discussion about the selection of a sample of journals which was used for the NSF Science and Engineering Indicators 2008. I distribute this email because of the public relevance of these indicators, but anonymized the heading: I studied the files of journals included in the analysis which you so kindly sent me. The Science and Egineering Indicators 2008 mention on p. 5-37 (Vol. 1) that 4906 journals were included in the analysis in 2005 and you indicate that the file with the filename JNL_FILE_Y2005_v3.XLS provided the base for this statistics. This file contains 10,216 journal names in total; 5394 of these journals contained publications in 2005 and 5393 match with the ISI database for this same year using the ISSN. The ISI database (SCI + SSCI) contains 2132 other journal names which were not included. The descriptive statistics are as follows (in percentages): SCI+SSCI NSF2005 % included journals 7525 5393 71.67 publications 898892 705971 78.54 citations 23322568 21631020 92.75 An analysis of variance between the group of journals covered by the NSF (5393 journals) against the journals not-covered (2132) teaches that the covered group has significantly different means on all relevant parameters: Thus, the smaller group scores higher on all these parameters. However, the impact factor was not the criterion for the selection given that the included group also contains journals with low impact: Statistics impact factor N Valid 5372 Missing 21 Mean 1.84146 Median 1.13900 Mode .500 Std. Deviation 2.752701 Range 49.794 Minimum .000 Maximum 49.794 The question thus becomes urgent what the selection criteria are for these 5393 journals, and what justifies the further reduction to 4906 journals as a basis for the NSF Indicators 2008. As we know, the various indicators are sensitive to the choices of selection criteria. For example, part of the problem with "the decline of UK science" in the 1980s was that UK scientists tended to publish above average in journals which were not included in the CHI journal set (for analytic reasons) because these journals were relatively new journals. Given the weight of the NSF report in the public debate and the transparency required, perhaps you can further elucidate the choices made. With best wishes, Loet Leydesdorff _____ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ Visiting Professor, ISTIC, Beijing; Honorary Fellow SPRU, University of Sussex Now available: The Knowledge-Based Economy: Modeled, Measured, Simulated, 385 pp.; US$ 18.95; The Self-Organization of the Knowledge-Based Society ; The Challenge of Scientometrics -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Cited Reference Count: 8 Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM HAIR JF MULTIVARIATE DATA AN : 1998 LEYDESDORFF L Co-occurrence matrices and their applications in information science: Extending ACA to the Web environment J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 57 : 1616 2006 MCCAIN KW Mapping authors in intellectual space: a technical overview J AM SOC INFORM SCI 41 : 433 1990 MCCAIN KW SCHOLARLY COMMUNICAT : 194 1990 WHITE HD Visualizing a discipline: An author co-citation analysis of information science J AM SOC INFORM SCI 49 : 327 1998 WHITE HD Author cocitation: A literature measure of intellectual structure J AM SOC INFORM SCI 32 : 163 1981 WHITE HD Authors as markers of intellectual space: Co-citation in studies of science, technology and society J DOC 38 : 255 1982 ZHAO DZ Towards all-author co-citation analysis INFORM PROCESS MANAG 42 : 1578 2006 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Feb 18 10:40:29 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:40:29 -0500 Subject: Zulueta, MA (Zulueta, M. A.); Garcia-Gomez, G (Garcia-Gomez, G.); Domenech, I (Domenech, I.); Izquierdo, M (Izquierdo, M.); Moscoso, P (Moscoso, P.) Bibliometry analysis of the research on women and health Message-ID: Email address: ma.zulueta at uah.es Author(s): Zulueta, MA (Zulueta, M. A.); Garcia-Gomez, G (Garcia-Gomez, G.); Domenech, I (Domenech, I.); Izquierdo, M (Izquierdo, M.); Moscoso, P (Moscoso, P.) Title: Bibliometry analysis of the research on women and health Editor(s): TorresSalinas, D; Moed, HF Source: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2007: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS I AND II 968-969, 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 11th International Conference of the International- Society-for-Scientrometrics-and-Informetrics Conference Date: JUN 25-27, 2007 Conference Location: Madrid, SPAIN Conference Sponsors: Int Soc Scientrometr & Informetr, CSIC, Minist Educ & Ciencia, FECYT, Comunidad Madrid, Eugene Garfield Fdn, Thomson Sci, Elsevier, Journal Informetr, Scopus, Ayuntamiento Madrid, Sci Metrix, Univ Carlos III Madrid Addresses: Univ Alcala de Henares, Fac Documentat, Alcala De Henares, Spain. Cited Reference Count: 4 Publisher Name: INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI Publisher Address: KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN, FACULTEIT E T E W, DEKENSTRAAT 2, LEUVEN, B-3000, BELGIUM *NAT LIBR MED PUBL CHAR SCOP NOT DING WW Gender differences in patenting in the academic life sciences SCIENCE 313 : 665 2006 GARCIAGARCIA P Evolution of Spanish scientific production in international obstetrics and gynecology journals during the period 1986-2002 EUR J OBSTET GYN R B 123 : 150 2005 GILMONTOYA JA World dental research production: an ISI database approach EUR J ORAL SCI 114 : 102 2006 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Feb 18 10:57:08 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:57:08 -0500 Subject: Vucovich, LA (Vucovich, Lee A.); Baker, JB (Baker, Jason Blaine); Smith, JT (Smith, Jack T., Jr.)Analyzing the impact of an author's publications JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, 96 (1): 63-66 JAN 2008 Message-ID: Author's E-mail: Ivucovi at uab.edu Author(s): Vucovich, LA (Vucovich, Lee A.); Baker, JB (Baker, Jason Blaine); Smith, JT (Smith, Jack T., Jr.) Title: Analyzing the impact of an author's publications Source: JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, 96 (1): 63-66 JAN 2008 Language: English Document Type: Article CC Editions/Collections: Social & Behavioral Sciences (SBS) Discipline: LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCES Keywords Plus: JOURNAL QUALITY; CITATIONS; RANKING; SCIENCE; ISSUES Addresses: Univ Alabama, Lister Hill Lib Hlth Sci, Birmingham, AL 35294 USA Reprint Address: VUCOVICH, LA, UNIV ALABAMA, LISTER HILL LIB HLTH SCI, 1530,3RD AVE S, BIRMINGHAM, AL 35294 USA Author's E-mail: Ivucovi at uab.edu Publisher: MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOC Publisher City: CHICAGO Publisher Address: 65 EAST WACKER PLACE, STE 1900, CHICAGO, IL 60601-7298 USA Publisher Web Address: http://www.mlanet.org ISSN: 1536-5050 Cited References: 23 NAT NEUROSCI 8 : 397 2005 AMIN M PERSPECTIVES PUBLISH : 1 2000 BAKKALBASI N BIOMED DIGIT LIBR 3 : 7 2006 BALL P Index aims for fair ranking of scientists NATURE 436 : 900 DOI 10.1038/436900a 2005 BURNHAM JF BIOMEDICAL DIGITAL L 3 : 1 2006 CARTWRIGHT VA Ophthalmology and vision science research - Part 1: Understanding and using journal impact factors and citation indices JOURNAL OF CATARACT AND REFRACTIVE SURGERY 31 : 1999 DOI 10.1016/j.jcrs.2005.10.031 2005 CHEEK J What's in a number? 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JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 91 : 42 2003 SEGLEN PO Why the impact factor of journals should not be used for evaluating research BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 314 : 498 1997 THIBODEAU PL CITATION ANAL INNOVA : 2006 VIEIRA D Analyzing the research record of an institutions's list of faculty publications BULLETIN OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 85 : 154 1997 YUE WP Peer assessment of journal quality in clinical neurology JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 95 : 70 2007 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Feb 18 14:41:41 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:41:41 -0500 Subject: Lee, D (Lee, Donywon); Kang, J (Kang, Jaewoo); Mitra, P (Mitra, Prasenjit); Giles, CL (Giles, C. Lee); On, BW (On, Byung-Won) Are your citations clean? COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM, 50 (12): 33-38 DEC 2007 Message-ID: E-mail Address: dongwon at psu.edu; kangj at korea.ac.kr; pmitra at ist.psu.edu; giles at ist.psu.edu; on at cse.psu.edu Author(s): Lee, D (Lee, Donywon); Kang, J (Kang, Jaewoo); Mitra, P (Mitra, Prasenjit); Giles, CL (Giles, C. Lee); On, BW (On, Byung-Won) Title: Are your citations clean? Source: COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM, 50 (12): 33-38 DEC 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Keywords Plus: RECORD-LINKAGE Addresses: Penn State Univ, Coll Informat Sci & Technol, University Pk, PA 16802 USA; Korea Univ, Dept Comp Sci, Seoul 136701, South Korea; Penn State Univ, Dept Comp Sci, University Pk, PA 16802 USA Reprint Address: Lee, D, Penn State Univ, Coll Informat Sci & Technol, University Pk, PA 16802 USA. E-mail Address: dongwon at psu.edu; kangj at korea.ac.kr; pmitra at ist.psu.edu; giles at ist.psu.edu; on at cse.psu.edu Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY Publisher Address: 2 PENN PLAZA, STE 701, NEW YORK, NY 10121-0701 USA ISSN: 0001-0782 Cited Reference Count: 12 BAEZAYATES R MODERN INFORM RETRIE : 1999 BILENKO M Adaptive name matching in information integration IEEE INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS 18 : 16 2003 FELLEGI IP A THEORY FOR RECORD LINKAGE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION 64 : 1183 1969 GILES CL P 3 ACM C DIG LIB : 89 1998 HONG Y P 8 EUR C DIG LIB : 134 2004 JARO MA ADVANCES IN RECORD-LINKAGE METHODOLOGY AS APPLIED TO MATCHING THE 1985 CENSUS OF TAMPA, FLORIDA JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION 84 : 414 1989 JIN L P INT C DAT SYST ADV : 137 2003 LAWRENCE S IEEE COMPUT 32 : 67 1999 ON BW P JCDL 2005 DENV US : 344 2005 PASKIN N D LIB MAGAZINE JUN 9 : 6 2003 PASULA H ADV NEURAL INFORM PR : 2003 WINKLER W STATE RECORD LINKAGE : 1999 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Feb 18 14:53:25 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:53:25 -0500 Subject: Kostoff, RN; et al Assessment of science and technology literature of China and India as reflected in the SCI/SSCI CURRENT SCIENCE, 93 (8): 1088-1092 OCT 25 2007 Message-ID: Author(s): Kostoff, RN (Kostoff, Ronald N.); Eriggs, ME (Eriggs, Michael E.); Rushenberg, RL (Rushenberg, Robert L.); Eowles, CA (Eowles, Christine A.); Bhattacharya, S (Bhattacharya, Sujit); Johnson, D (Johnson, Dustin); Icenhour, AS (Icenhour, Alan S.); Nikodym, K (Nikodym, Kimberly); Barth, RB (Barth, Ryan B.); Dodbele, S (Dodbele, Simha); Pecht, M (Pecht, Michael) Title: Assessment of science and technology literature of China and India as reflected in the SCI/SSCI Source: CURRENT SCIENCE, 93 (8): 1088-1092 OCT 25 2007 E-mail Address: kostofr at onr.navy.mil URL: http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/oct252007/1088.pdf Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: bibliometrics; research and technology assessment; science and technology; text mining Addresses: Univ Maryland, College Pk, MD 20742 USA; Natl Inst Sci Technol & Dev Studies, New Delhi 110012, India; Off Naval Res, Arlington, VA 22217 USA; TASC, Fairfax, VA 22033 USA; Marine Corps Warfighting Lab, Quantico, VA 22134 USA; DDL OMNI Engn LLC, Mclean, VA 22102 USA Reprint Address: Kostoff, RN, Univ Maryland, College Pk, MD 20742 USA. E-mail Address: kostofr at onr.navy.mil Times Cited: 0 Publisher: CURRENT SCIENCE ASSOC Publisher Address: C V RAMAN AVENUE, PO BOX 8005, BANGALORE 560 080, INDIA ISSN: 0011-3891 Cited Reference Count: 9 *ELS ENG INF INC EC CERT DAT INCL HER : 2006 *THOMS SCI INC SCI CERT DAT INCL HE : 2006 BHATTACHARYA S Using patent statistics as a measure of 'technological assertiveness': A China-India comparison CURRENT SCIENCE 83 : 23 2002 KOSTOFF RN ASSESSMENT INDIAS RE : 2006 KOSTOFF RN IN PRESS TECHNOL FOR : 2007 KOSTOFF RN IN PRESS TECHNOL FOR : 2007 KOSTOFF RN IN PRESS TECHNOL FOR : 2007 KOSTOFF RN IN PRESS TECHNOL FOR : 2007 KOSTOFF RN STRUCTURE INFRASTRUC : 2006 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Feb 18 15:00:10 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:00:10 -0500 Subject: Oelrich, B (Oelrich, Beibei); Peters, R (Peters, Robert); Jung, K (Jung, Klaus) A Bibliometric evaluation of publications in Urological journals among European Union countries between 2000-2005 EUROPEAN UROLOGY, 52 (4): 1238-1248 OCT 2007 Message-ID: E-mail Address: klaus.jung at charite.de Author(s): Oelrich, B (Oelrich, Beibei); Peters, R (Peters, Robert); Jung, K (Jung, Klaus) Title: A Bibliometric evaluation of publications in Urological journals among European Union countries between 2000-2005 Source: EUROPEAN UROLOGY, 52 (4): 1238-1248 OCT 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Bibliometrics; European urology; impact factor; publication activity Keywords Plus: IMPACT FACTOR; JAPAN CONTRIBUTION; RESEARCH OUTPUT; SCIENCE; ANESTHESIA; INDEX Abstract: Objectives: To perform a bibliometric evaluation of publications from European Union (EU) countries in the international urological journals between 2000-2005 according to their national origin and in relation to international context. Methods: Articles except reviews, editorials, letters, and reports published during 2000-2005 in 19 international urological journals were screened using Web of Science database. The total number of publications and the cumulative impact factor were determined for the first 15 EU member states (EU15), the USA, and the world. These data were related for every country to the population size and the socio-economic indicators gross domestic product, gross domestic expenditure on research and experimental development, and expenditure on health care. Results: A total of 19.709 articles were published of which 6.878 (34.9%) came from the EU15 countries and 7.927 (40.2%) from the USA. About 15% of all papers from the EU15 countries were in collaboration with USA researchers. in the EU, the number of publications and the cumulative impact factor were dominated by United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy with about 52% of all papers and 50% of the cumulative impact factor. If adjusted for demographic and socio-economic factors the smaller countries Austria, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, and Sweden (alphabetical order) revealed a distinctly higher publication rate. Conclusions: This study based on bibliometric analyses in urological journals demonstrated a feasible solution to validate and compare the contribution of the various EU countries towards the urological research. (c) 2007 European Association of Urology. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Addresses: Univ Med Berlin, Charite, Dept Urol, Berlin, Germany Reprint Address: Jung, K, Univ Hosp Charite, Dept Urol, CCM, Schumannstr,20-21, D-10117 Berlin, Germany. E-mail Address: klaus.jung at charite.de Times Cited: 1 Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV Publisher Address: PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 0302-2838 Cited Reference Count: 30 ADUSUMILLI PS Citation characteristics of basic science research publications in general surgical journals JOURNAL OF SURGICAL RESEARCH 128 : 168 DOI 10.1016/j.jss.2005.05.06.011 2005 ARBEJ JAP ARCH ESPAN UROL 50 : 427 1997 BAKKALBASI N BIOMED DIGIT LIBR 3 : 7 2006 BARNABY DP Alternative to the Science Citation Index impact factor as an assessment of emergency medicine's scientific contributions ANNALS OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE 31 : 78 1998 BOLDT J Which countries publish in important anesthesia and critical care journals? 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They always call the database SCI and it is available on disk as far as I know. The final ~500 journals are excluded as they formed "professional fields" column in SEI-2006 which is omitted in 2008 version, as is expressly stated on p. 5- 37 of the Vol. 1. These are just versions, certainly it would be interesting to have an explanation from the SEI creators. Kind regards, Vladimir Vladimir Pislyakov Assistant Director for Electronic Resources Management Higher School of Economics Library Senior Research Fellow Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge Higher School of Economics 20 Myasnitskaya street Moscow, 101000 Russia Tel.: +7 (495) 6213785 Fax: +7 (495) 6287931 E-mail: pislyakov at hse.ru URL: http://library.hse.ru; http://issek.hse.ru/index.html On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 08:51:35 +0100, Loet Leydesdorff wrote: >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > >Dear colleagues, > >I followed up on the discussion about the selection of a sample of journals >which was used for the NSF Science and Engineering Indicators 2008. I >distribute this email because of the public relevance of these indicators, >but anonymized the heading: > >I studied the files of journals included in the analysis which you so kindly >sent me. The Science and Egineering Indicators 2008 mention on p. 5-37 (Vol. >1) that 4906 journals were included in the analysis in 2005 and you indicate >that the file with the filename JNL_FILE_Y2005_v3.XLS provided the base for >this statistics. > >This file contains 10,216 journal names in total; 5394 of these journals >contained publications in 2005 and 5393 match with the ISI database for this >same year using the ISSN. The ISI database (SCI + SSCI) contains 2132 other >journal names which were not included. The descriptive statistics are as >follows (in percentages): > > > >SCI+SSCI NSF2005 % included >journals 7525 5393 71.67 >publications 898892 705971 78.54 >citations 23322568 21631020 92.75 > >An analysis of variance between the group of journals covered by the NSF >(5393 journals) against the journals not-covered (2132) teaches that the >covered group has significantly different means on all relevant parameters: > > >Thus, the smaller group scores higher on all these parameters. However, the >impact factor was not the criterion for the selection given that the >included group also contains journals with low impact: > > > >Statistics > >impact factor > > > >N > >Valid > >5372 > > >Missing > >21 > > >Mean > >1.84146 > > >Median > >1.13900 > > >Mode > >.500 > > >Std. Deviation > >2.752701 > > >Range > >49.794 > > >Minimum > >.000 > > >Maximum > >49.794 > > > > > >The question thus becomes urgent what the selection criteria are for these >5393 journals, and what justifies the further reduction to 4906 journals as >a basis for the NSF Indicators 2008. As we know, the various indicators are >sensitive to the choices of selection criteria. > > > >For example, part of the problem with "the decline of UK science" in the >1980s was that UK scientists tended to publish above average in journals >which were not included in the CHI journal set (for analytic reasons) >because these journals were relatively new journals. > > > >Given the weight of the NSF report in the public debate and the transparency >required, perhaps you can further elucidate the choices made. > > > >With best wishes, > > > > > >Loet Leydesdorff > > > > _____ > >Loet Leydesdorff >Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) >Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam > loet at leydesdorff.net ; > http://www.leydesdorff.net/ > > >Visiting Professor, ISTIC, >Beijing; Honorary Fellow SPRU, University >of Sussex >Now available: > >The Knowledge-Based Economy: Modeled, Measured, Simulated, 385 pp.; US$ >18.95; > >The Self-Organization of the Knowledge-Based Society ; > >The Challenge of Scientometrics > > > From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Tue Feb 19 08:12:49 2008 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:12:49 +0100 Subject: Science/NSF report In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Vladimir, > I used to think that NSF (or rather ipIQ Inc.) works with > SCI, not SCIE and > that explains the difference in the number of journals. They > always call > the database SCI and it is available on disk as far as I > know. I used the SCI for the comparison, and not the SCIE. The SCI corresponds to the Journal Citations Reports. The number of journals in the SCIE is much larger and also sometimes expanding. :-) > The final ~500 journals are excluded as they formed "professional > fields" column in > SEI-2006 which is omitted in 2008 version, as is expressly > stated on p. 5- > 37 of the Vol. 1. Can you, perhaps, have a listing of these ~500 professional journals? How are they distinguished? (Sets are often fuzzy, aren't they?) With best wishes, Loet From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Tue Feb 19 08:46:21 2008 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:46:21 +0100 Subject: Science/NSF report In-Reply-To: Message-ID: PS. I just received a prompt correction from one of our colleagues: the JCR includes all journals in the SCIE, not only SCI. Perhaps, this explains the difference. I'll check. Best wishes, Loet Dear Vladimir, > I used to think that NSF (or rather ipIQ Inc.) works with > SCI, not SCIE and > that explains the difference in the number of journals. They > always call > the database SCI and it is available on disk as far as I > know. I used the SCI for the comparison, and not the SCIE. The SCI corresponds to the Journal Citations Reports. The number of journals in the SCIE is much larger and also sometimes expanding. :-) > The final ~500 journals are excluded as they formed "professional > fields" column in > SEI-2006 which is omitted in 2008 version, as is expressly > stated on p. 5- > 37 of the Vol. 1. Can you, perhaps, have a listing of these ~500 professional journals? How are they distinguished? (Sets are often fuzzy, aren't they?) With best wishes, Loet From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Tue Feb 19 09:51:32 2008 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:51:32 +0100 Subject: Science/NSF report In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Vladimir, Yes, this solves the issue. The SCI contained 3722 journals in 2005, the SSCI 1747. The sum is 5469, but there is some overlap, and therefore: 5341 journals. The file of the NSF gives for 5394 journals a match with the JCR (including the expanded set). Thus, this seems OK. The IpIq Fieldname "Professional Fields" is attributed in 2005 to 446 of these journals. 5469 - 446 = 4948 or alternatively: 5341 - 446 = 4895. The Indicators 2008 (at p. 5-37) mention 4906 journals. Thus, this is OK. Thank you so much! Best wishes, Loet ________________________________ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ From notsjb at LSU.EDU Tue Feb 19 10:28:16 2008 From: notsjb at LSU.EDU (Stephen J Bensman) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:28:16 -0600 Subject: Science/NSF report In-Reply-To: A<001901c87306$eb3b4ff0$6402a8c0@loet> Message-ID: I should like to point out that what you are counting are not really journals. The JCRs do not define journals as bibliographic entities. What you are counting are disaggregated title segments, which have to be combined into bibliographic entities in accordance with the logic of your research. I would suggest that you study chapter 12 of the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules on "Continuing Resources", which is also available online in French and German translations. I would also suggest that you become acquainted with MARC Codes 770-785, so that you can trace in OCLC the bibliographic history of the JCR title segments. Otherwise what you may working with a random mass of serial segments unrecognizable to your audience of interest. 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 Loet Leydesdorff Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 8:52 AM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Science/NSF report Dear Vladimir, Yes, this solves the issue. The SCI contained 3722 journals in 2005, the SSCI 1747. The sum is 5469, but there is some overlap, and therefore: 5341 journals. The file of the NSF gives for 5394 journals a match with the JCR (including the expanded set). Thus, this seems OK. The IpIq Fieldname "Professional Fields" is attributed in 2005 to 446 of these journals. 5469 - 446 = 4948 or alternatively: 5341 - 446 = 4895. The Indicators 2008 (at p. 5-37) mention 4906 journals. Thus, this is OK. Thank you so much! Best wishes, Loet ________________________________ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Feb 19 10:21:55 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:21:55 -0500 Subject: Dimitrova, DV (Dimitrova, Daniela V.); Bugeja, M (Bugeja, Michael) The half-life of internet references cited in communication journals NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY, 9 (5): 811-826 OCT 2007 Message-ID: E-mail Address: Danielad at iastate.edu; Bugeja at iastate.edu Author(s): Dimitrova, DV (Dimitrova, Daniela V.); Bugeja, M (Bugeja, Michael) Title: The half-life of internet references cited in communication journals Source: NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY, 9 (5): 811-826 OCT 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: internet research; online citations; replicability; source attribution Keywords Plus: WEB PAGE; CITATIONS Abstract: This exploratory study examines the use of online citations, focusing on five leading journals in journalism and communication. It analyzes 1126 URL reference addresses in citations of articles published between 2000 and 2003. The results show that only 61 percent of the online citations remain accessible in 2004 and 39 percent do not. The content analysis also shows that. org and. gov are the most stable domains. Error messages for ' dead' URL addresses are explored. The instability of online citations raises concerns for researchers, editors and associations. Addresses: Iowa State Univ, Greeniee Sch Journalism & Commun, Ames, IA 50011 USA Reprint Address: Dimitrova, DV, Iowa State Univ, Greeniee Sch Journalism & Commun, Ames, IA 50011 USA. E-mail Address: Danielad at iastate.edu; Bugeja at iastate.edu Times Cited: 0 Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD Publisher Address: 1 OLIVERS YARD, 55 CITY ROAD, LONDON EC1Y 1SP, ENGLAND ISSN: 1461-4448 Cited Reference Count: 24 CHICAGO MANUAL STYLE : 2003 CHICAGO MANUAL STYLE : 1993 J CITATION REPORTS : 2004 PUBLICATION MANUAL A : 2001 PUBLICATION MANUAL A : 1984 BALDI S Normative versus social constructivist processes in the allocation of citations: A network-analytic model AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW 63 : 829 1998 BOYNTON LA JOURNALISM MASS COMM 58 : 330 2004 BUGEJA M IOWA J COMMUNICATION 37 : 77 2005 CARLSON S CHRONICLE HIGHER ED : 2004 CASSERLY MF Web citation availability: Analysis and implications for scholarship COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES 64 : 300 2003 CHANG TK THEOR METH DIV ASS E : 2004 DAVIS PM The effect of the web on undergraduate citation behavior: A 2000 update COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES 63 : 53 2002 DELLAVALLE RP Information science - Going, going, gone: Lost Internet references SCIENCE 302 : 787 2003 EVANS MP The Resource Locator Service: fixing a flaw in the web COMPUTER NETWORKS-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKING 37 : 307 2001 GERMAIN CA URLs: Uniform resource locators or unreliable resource locators COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES 61 : 359 2000 HARTER SP INFORM RES 2 : 1996 KOEHLER W INFORM RES 9 : 2004 KOEHLER W Web page change and persistence - A four-year longitudinal study JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 53 : 162 2002 KOEHLER W An analysis of Web page and Web site constancy and permanence JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE 50 : 162 1999 NATRIELLO G TEACH COLL REC 98 : 373 1997 RIFFE D ANAL MEDIA MESSAGES : 1998 TAYLOR MK "Linkrot" and the usefulness of Web site bibliographies REFERENCE & USER SERVICES QUARTERLY 39 : 273 2000 TYLER DC Librarians and link rot: Comparative analysis with some methodological considerations PORTAL-LIBRARIES AND THE ACADEMY 3 : 615 2003 VAUGHAN L Bibliographic and web citations: What is the difference? JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 54 : 1313 DOI 10.1002/asi.10338 2003 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Feb 19 11:10:03 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:10:03 -0500 Subject: Trimble, V (Trimble, V.); Ceja, JA (Ceja, J. A.) Productivity and impact of astronomical facilities: A statistical study of publications and citations ASTRONOMISCHE NACHRICHTEN, 328 (9): 983-994 SEP 2007 Message-ID: Email address: vtrimble at uci.edu Author(s): Trimble, V (Trimble, V.); Ceja, JA (Ceja, J. A.) Title: Productivity and impact of astronomical facilities: A statistical study of publications and citations Source: ASTRONOMISCHE NACHRICHTEN, 328 (9): 983-994 SEP 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: publications, bibliography; telescopes Keywords Plus: TELESCOPES Abstract: In calendar years 2001 and 2002, 20 journals of astronomy and astrophysics published 7768 papers that reported or analyzed observations at wavelengths from meter radio to ultrahigh energy gamma rays. In the three calendar years after publication, these papers were cited more than 97 000 times, according to the Science Citation Index/Web of Science data base (the most complete, we believe, available), for an average rate of 4.19 citations per paper per year. We slice these data up several ways, by subject matter, wavelength band, and the telescopes (etc.) used. Most of the results will not surprise: There are hot topics (cosmology, exoplanets) and not so hot topics (binary stars, planetary nebulae). Papers reporting space-based data are cited a bit more often and radio papers a bit less often than optical papers, but multi-wavelength studies do the best. The total number of telescopes involved is surprisingly large, about 330 optical and infrared (mostly ground based but including HST), 109 radio (including COBE and VSOP satellites), and 90 space based (including satellites, interplanetary probes, things carried on rockets, balloons, the Shuttle, and so forth). The superstar telescopes are (mostly) the ones you would expect, though having the most papers does not always go with largest ratios of citations per paper. HST produces the largest number of optical papers, but SDSS the most highly-cited ones, while the VLA is responsible for the largest number of radio papers and the most highly cited (apart from balloon-borne CMB observatories), and among things that fly, the most recent tend to dominate both paper and citation numbers. If you have to choose, it is probably better to opt for a small telescope on a well-supported site than a larger one with less support, and service to the community, in the form of catalogues and mission definitions, is rewarded, at least in citation counts, if not always in other ways. A few comparisons are made with other studies. The main difference is that we have included all the papers and all the telescopes for the years chosen, rather than focussing on one or a few observatories or skimming the cream of most-cited papers or ones from the highest-profile journals. (c) 2007 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. Addresses: Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Phys & Astron, Irvine, CA 92697 USA; Las Cumbres Observ, Goleta, CA USA Reprint Address: Ceja, JA, Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Phys & Astron, Irvine, CA 92697 USA. Times Cited: 0 Publisher: WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH Publisher Address: PO BOX 10 11 61, D-69451 WEINHEIM, GERMANY ISSN: 0004-6337 Cited Reference Count: 13 ABT HA LONG-TERM CITATION HISTORIES OF ASTRONOMICAL PAPERS PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC 93 : 207 1981 ABT HA AN ASSESSMENT OF RESEARCH DONE AT THE NATIONAL-OPTICAL-OBSERVATORIES PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC 97 : 1050 1985 BENN CR Scientific impact of large telescopes PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC 113 : 385 2001 CRABTREE DR JRASC 95 : 259 2001 FREEDMAN WL Final results from the Hubble Space Telescope key project to measure the Hubble constant ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 553 : 47 2001 MADRID JP BAAS 38 : 1286 2006 MEYLAN G Hubble Space Telescope science metrics PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC 116 : 790 2004 SANCHEZ SF Impact of astronomical research from different countries ASTRONOMISCHE NACHRICHTEN 325 : 445 DOI 10.1002/asna.200310238 2004 TRIMBLE V PASP 20 : 40 1985 TRIMBLE V Productivity and impact of space-based astronomical facilities PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC 118 : 651 2006 TRIMBLE V Productivity and impact of radio telescopes PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC 118 : 933 2006 TRIMBLE V Productivity and impact of optical telescopes PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC 117 : 111 2005 WHITE SDM ASTROPH07042291 : 2007 From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Tue Feb 19 11:20:12 2008 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:20:12 +0100 Subject: Science/NSF report In-Reply-To: <4928689828488E458AECE7AFDCB52CFE2D665F@email003.lsu.edu> Message-ID: Dear Stephen, Thank you so much. Can you provide an URL for an online version of AACR2, please? (The library of our university has the book, but it is out.) I could not find an URL. The MARC Codes and the tracing are better left to the real librarians among us, aren't they? With best wishes, Loet ________________________________ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ > -----Original Message----- > From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics > [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Stephen J Bensman > Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 4:28 PM > To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU > Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Science/NSF report > > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > I should like to point out that what you are counting are not really > journals. The JCRs do not define journals as bibliographic entities. > What you are counting are disaggregated title segments, which > have to be > combined into bibliographic entities in accordance with the logic of > your research. I would suggest that you study chapter 12 of the > Anglo-American Cataloging Rules on "Continuing Resources", > which is also > available online in French and German translations. I would also > suggest that you become acquainted with MARC Codes 770-785, > so that you > can trace in OCLC the bibliographic history of the JCR title segments. > Otherwise what you may working with a random mass of serial segments > unrecognizable to your audience of interest. > > 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 Loet Leydesdorff > Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 8:52 AM > To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU > Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Science/NSF report > > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > Dear Vladimir, > > Yes, this solves the issue. The SCI contained 3722 journals > in 2005, the > SSCI 1747. The sum is 5469, but there is some overlap, and therefore: > 5341 > journals. > > The file of the NSF gives for 5394 journals a match with the JCR > (including > the expanded set). Thus, this seems OK. > > The IpIq Fieldname "Professional Fields" is attributed in > 2005 to 446 of > these journals. > 5469 - 446 = 4948 or alternatively: 5341 - 446 = 4895. The Indicators > 2008 > (at p. 5-37) mention 4906 journals. Thus, this is OK. > > Thank you so much! > > Best wishes, > > > Loet > ________________________________ > > Loet Leydesdorff > Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), > Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. > Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 > loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ > > > From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Feb 19 11:44:43 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:44:43 -0500 Subject: Powley, B; Dale, R High accuracy citation extraction and named entity recognition for a heterogeneous corpus of academic papers PROC OF THE 2007 IEEE INTL CONF ON NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING (NLP-KE'07) 119-124, 2007 Message-ID: Email address: bpowley at comp.mq.edu.au Author(s): Powley, B (Powley, Brett); Dale, R (Dale, Robert) Title: High accuracy citation extraction and named entity recognition for a heterogeneous corpus of academic papers Source: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2007 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING (NLP-KE'07) 119-124, 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering Conference Date: AUG 30-SEP 01, 2007 Conference Location: Beijing, PEOPLES R CHINA Conference Sponsors: IEEE Signal Proc Soc, Chinese Assoc Artificial Intellignece, Chinese Informat Proc Soc China, IEEE Beijing Sect, Beijing Univ Posts & Telecommun Abstract: Citation indices are increasingly being used not only as navigational tools for researchers, but also as the basis for measurement of academic performance and research impact. This means that the reliability of tools used to extract citations and construct such indices is becoming more critical; however, existing approaches to citation extraction still fall short of the high accuracy required if critical assessments are to be based on them. In this paper, we present techniques for high accuracy extraction of citations from academic papers, designed for applicability across a broad range of disciplines and document styles. We integrate citation extraction, reference parsing, and author named entity recognition to significantly improve performance in citation extraction, and demonstrate this performance on a cross-disciplinary heterogeneous corpus. Applying our algorithm to previously unseen documents, we demonstrate high F-measure performance of 0.98 for author named entity recognition and 0.97 for citation extraction. Reprint Address: Powley, B, Macquarie Univ, Ctr Language Technol, Sydney, NSW 2109 Australia. Publisher Name: IEEE Publisher Address: 345 E 47TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017 USA ISBN: 978-1-4244-1610-3 Cited Reference Count: 8 BERGMARK D CSTR20001821 : 2000 BERGMARK D SIGIR FORUM 35 : 2001 BESAGNI D DOCUMENT ANAL RECOGN : 84 2003 GARFIELD E CITATION INDEXES FOR SCIENCE - NEW DIMENSION IN DOCUMENTATION THROUGH ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS SCIENCE 122 : 108 1955 GIUFFRIDA G DL 00 : 77 2000 POWLEY B P 8 RIAO INT C LARG : 2007 SEYMORE K AAAI 99 WORKSH MACH : 1999 TAKASU A P 3 ACM IEEE CS JOIN : 2003 From Christina.Pikas at JHUAPL.EDU Tue Feb 19 12:20:16 2008 From: Christina.Pikas at JHUAPL.EDU (Pikas, Christina K.) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:20:16 -0500 Subject: Science/NSF report In-Reply-To: A<000601c87313$4e88a510$6402a8c0@loet> Message-ID: Even more so - let's leave both AACR2 and the MARC records to the catalogers when possible :) (actually, I think AACR2 is just fee-based? Either in print or through catalogers desktop) My question was something different. I know there is an OCLC api web service to match up multiple ISBNs (xISBN, http://www.worldcat.org/affiliate/webservices/xisbn/app.jsp). Is there a similar service to automate this hunting of OCLC records for ISSNs and journal names and changes? Maybe something like Ulrich's would be more user friendly? Christina -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Loet Leydesdorff Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 11:20 AM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Science/NSF report Dear Stephen, Thank you so much. Can you provide an URL for an online version of AACR2, please? (The library of our university has the book, but it is out.) I could not find an URL. The MARC Codes and the tracing are better left to the real librarians among us, aren't they? With best wishes, Loet ________________________________ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ > -----Original Message----- > From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics > [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Stephen J Bensman > Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 4:28 PM > To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU > Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Science/NSF report > > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > I should like to point out that what you are counting are not really > journals. The JCRs do not define journals as bibliographic entities. > What you are counting are disaggregated title segments, which have to > be combined into bibliographic entities in accordance with the logic > of your research. I would suggest that you study chapter 12 of the > Anglo-American Cataloging Rules on "Continuing Resources", which is > also available online in French and German translations. I would also > suggest that you become acquainted with MARC Codes 770-785, so that > you can trace in OCLC the bibliographic history of the JCR title > segments. > Otherwise what you may working with a random mass of serial segments > unrecognizable to your audience of interest. > > 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 Loet Leydesdorff > Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 8:52 AM > To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU > Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Science/NSF report > > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > Dear Vladimir, > > Yes, this solves the issue. The SCI contained 3722 journals in 2005, > the SSCI 1747. The sum is 5469, but there is some overlap, and > therefore: > 5341 > journals. > > The file of the NSF gives for 5394 journals a match with the JCR > (including the expanded set). Thus, this seems OK. > > The IpIq Fieldname "Professional Fields" is attributed in > 2005 to 446 of > these journals. > 5469 - 446 = 4948 or alternatively: 5341 - 446 = 4895. The Indicators > 2008 > (at p. 5-37) mention 4906 journals. Thus, this is OK. > > Thank you so much! > > Best wishes, > > > Loet > ________________________________ > > Loet Leydesdorff > Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal > 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. > Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; > http://www.leydesdorff.net/ > > > From pislyakov at HSE.RU Tue Feb 19 12:54:27 2008 From: pislyakov at HSE.RU (=?windows-1251?Q?Vladimir_Pislyakov?=) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:54:27 -0500 Subject: Science/NSF report Message-ID: Dear Loet, Thank you for the careful update! It's a pleasure when our conjectural hypotheses gain terra firma and mathematics agrees with them. Kind regards, Vladimir On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:51:32 +0100, Loet Leydesdorff wrote: >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > >Dear Vladimir, > >Yes, this solves the issue. The SCI contained 3722 journals in 2005, the >SSCI 1747. The sum is 5469, but there is some overlap, and therefore: 5341 >journals. > >The file of the NSF gives for 5394 journals a match with the JCR (including >the expanded set). Thus, this seems OK. > >The IpIq Fieldname "Professional Fields" is attributed in 2005 to 446 of >these journals. >5469 - 446 = 4948 or alternatively: 5341 - 446 = 4895. The Indicators 2008 >(at p. 5-37) mention 4906 journals. Thus, this is OK. > >Thank you so much! > >Best wishes, > > >Loet >________________________________ > >Loet Leydesdorff >Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), >Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. >Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 >loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ > > >========================================================================= From notsjb at LSU.EDU Tue Feb 19 13:07:45 2008 From: notsjb at LSU.EDU (Stephen J Bensman) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:07:45 -0600 Subject: Science/NSF report In-Reply-To: A<934BB0B6D8A02C42BC6099FDE8149CCD015DBC5D@aplesjustice.dom1.jhuapl.edu> Message-ID: For those without the technical expertise, I would suggest using OCLC WorldCat for tracing bibliographic histories of JCR title segments. This is the public OPAC available to library patrons, and all the technicalities--Preceding, Superseding, Continuing, etc.--are translated into notes easily understandable to the public. As lagniappe--as we say in Louisiana--you can also obtain the number of libraries holding the various title segments. A key clue to watch for is the volume numbering of the segments. If a journal changes titles but keeps the volume numbering consecutive, it is considered the same journal. If the journals changes titles and reverts to vol. 1 for the title change, the second segment is a superseding journal. How to combine these segments--which includes splits into parts or combination of parts--depends upon the logic of your research. We are not exactly dealing with rocket science here. The real trick is that once you have defined the entities, how do you dig the data out of the JCRs for combining or separating. For the hell of it, it would be interesting to see how the title changes from Soviet to Russian, Ukrainian, etc., were handled from this perspective. Was the volume numbering kept consecutive out of nostalgia for the past, or did the numbering revert to 1 as a sign of the new era. I have had to deal with this problem with Germany splitting and then recombining, and the way it was handled was very interesting from this historical perspective. With the new Kossovo and Europe possibly fragmenting into minimal entities--Spanish to Basque and Catalonian, for example--this could be a major problem in the future. You also have the problem of national journals merging into the Euromass like the journals of the Royal Chemical Society merging with those of the Scandinavian chemical societies. 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 Pikas, Christina K. Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 11:20 AM To: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Science/NSF report Even more so - let's leave both AACR2 and the MARC records to the catalogers when possible :) (actually, I think AACR2 is just fee-based? Either in print or through catalogers desktop) My question was something different. I know there is an OCLC api web service to match up multiple ISBNs (xISBN, http://www.worldcat.org/affiliate/webservices/xisbn/app.jsp). Is there a similar service to automate this hunting of OCLC records for ISSNs and journal names and changes? Maybe something like Ulrich's would be more user friendly? Christina -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Loet Leydesdorff Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 11:20 AM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Science/NSF report Dear Stephen, Thank you so much. Can you provide an URL for an online version of AACR2, please? (The library of our university has the book, but it is out.) I could not find an URL. The MARC Codes and the tracing are better left to the real librarians among us, aren't they? With best wishes, Loet ________________________________ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ > -----Original Message----- > From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics > [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Stephen J Bensman > Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 4:28 PM > To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU > Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Science/NSF report > > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > I should like to point out that what you are counting are not really > journals. The JCRs do not define journals as bibliographic entities. > What you are counting are disaggregated title segments, which have to > be combined into bibliographic entities in accordance with the logic > of your research. I would suggest that you study chapter 12 of the > Anglo-American Cataloging Rules on "Continuing Resources", which is > also available online in French and German translations. I would also > suggest that you become acquainted with MARC Codes 770-785, so that > you can trace in OCLC the bibliographic history of the JCR title > segments. > Otherwise what you may working with a random mass of serial segments > unrecognizable to your audience of interest. > > 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 Loet Leydesdorff > Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 8:52 AM > To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU > Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Science/NSF report > > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > Dear Vladimir, > > Yes, this solves the issue. The SCI contained 3722 journals in 2005, > the SSCI 1747. The sum is 5469, but there is some overlap, and > therefore: > 5341 > journals. > > The file of the NSF gives for 5394 journals a match with the JCR > (including the expanded set). Thus, this seems OK. > > The IpIq Fieldname "Professional Fields" is attributed in > 2005 to 446 of > these journals. > 5469 - 446 = 4948 or alternatively: 5341 - 446 = 4895. The Indicators > 2008 > (at p. 5-37) mention 4906 journals. Thus, this is OK. > > Thank you so much! > > Best wishes, > > > Loet > ________________________________ > > Loet Leydesdorff > Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal > 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. > Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; > http://www.leydesdorff.net/ > > > From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Feb 19 15:35:20 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:35:20 -0500 Subject: Smith, JA (Smith, Joseph A., Jr.) References and citations - What do they really mean? JOURNAL OF UROLOGY, 178 (6): 2246-2246 DEC 2007 Message-ID: Email address: jacso at hawaii.edu Author(s): Smith, JA (Smith, Joseph A., Jr.) Title: References and citations - What do they really mean? Source: JOURNAL OF UROLOGY, 178 (6): 2246-2246 DEC 2007 Language: English Document Type: Editorial Material Cited Reference Count: 1 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC Publisher Address: 360 PARK AVE SOUTH, NEW YORK, NY 10010-1710 USA ISSN: 0022-5347 Cited Reference Count: 1 EINSTEIN A The electrodynamic moving body ANNALEN DER PHYSIK 17 : 891 1905 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Feb 19 16:12:03 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:12:03 -0500 Subject: **Correction - Jacso, P (Jacso, Peter) The dimensions of cited reference enhanced database subsets ONLINE INFORMATION REVIEW, 31 (5): 694-705 2007 Message-ID: This is a correction to the previous posting of the JA Smith article in which Peter Jacso's email address was included. I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. (kwb) Author(s): Jacso, P (Jacso, Peter) Title: The dimensions of cited reference enhanced database subsets Source: ONLINE INFORMATION REVIEW, 31 (5): 694-705 2007 jacso at hawaii.edu Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: reference services; databases Abstract: Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to discuss databases with cited references. Design/methodology/approach - The paper considers the dimensions of cited reference enhanced database subsets. Findings - The typical database has the ski slope shape, as there is a fairly steady, gradual growth in the yearly number of records added. This is not true for the shape of the cited references subset, as in most databases cited references have been added to the records only for the past few years. Practical implications - There are many features which are specific to cited references, and thus the traditional bibliographic database design is just not sufficient. Originality/value - The paper examines the issues surrounding cited reference enhanced database subsets. Addresses: Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA Reprint Address: Jacso, P, Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA. Cited Reference Count: 0 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED Publisher Address: HOWARD HOUSE, WAGON LANE, BINGLEY BD16 1WA, W YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND ISSN: 1468-4527 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Feb 19 16:25:11 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:25:11 -0500 Subject: Diaz-Puente, JM; Cazorla, A; Dorrego, A Crossing national, continental, and Linguistic boundaries - Toward a worldwide evaluation research community in journals of evaluation AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EVALUATION, 28 (4): 399-415 DEC 2007 Message-ID: E-mail Address: jmdiazpuente at gmail.com Author(s): Diaz-Puente, JM (Diaz-Puente, Jose M.); Cazorla, A (Cazorla, Adolfo); Dorrego, A (Dorrego, Ana) Title: Crossing national, continental, and Linguistic boundaries - Toward a worldwide evaluation research community in journals of evaluation Source: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EVALUATION, 28 (4): 399-415 DEC 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: evaluation journals; internationalization; international exchange; cross-fertilization; boundaries Keywords Plus: INTERNATIONAL-ORGANIZATION; GLOBALIZATION; GEOGRAPHY; CITATION; ENGLISH; COOPERATION; ECONOMICS; FUTURE; IMPACT; BIAS Abstract: In an attempt to build a worldwide evaluation community, English evaluation journals are best positioned to promote international dialogue and increasingly provide international exchanges that deepen and enrich the evaluation field. This article analyzes the degree of internationalization achieved by these journals by looking at the extent of international authorship of the contributions they publish. Results show that-in spite of the efforts made-national, continental, and linguistic boundaries are still hindering the international exchange in the journals. Discussion is presented concerning the implications of these results and the efforts required to take greater advantage of the English journals to bridge national and regional traditions in the evaluation field. Addresses: Univ Politecn Madrid, Escuela Tecn Super Ingn Agron, Dept Proyectos & Planificac Rural, E-28040 Madrid, Spain Reprint Address: Diaz-Puente, JM, Univ Politecn Madrid, Escuela Tecn Super Ingn Agron, Dept Proyectos & Planificac Rural, Ave Complutense S-N, E- 28040 Madrid, Spain. Times Cited: 0 Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC Publisher Address: 2455 TELLER RD, THOUSAND OAKS, CA 91320 USA ISSN: 1098-2140 Cited Reference Count: 40 *AM EV ASS EV 2005 C OV : 2005 *INT ORG COOP EV PROP INT ORG COOP EV : 2000 BOLLEN J Toward alternative metrics of journal impact: A comparison of download and citation data INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT 41 : 1419 DOI 10.1016/j.ipm.2005.03.024 2005 BRICE IJ MED EDUC 38 : 96 2004 CANAGARAJAH AS GEOPOLITICS ACAD WRI : 2002 CROSSGROVE W EARLY SCI MED 5 : 47 2000 DANG Y Internationalization of mathematical research SCIENTOMETRICS 58 : 559 2003 DERLIEN HU PROGRAM EVALUATION M : 147 1990 FLOWERDEW J J SECOND LANG WRIT 8 : 123 1999 FLOWERDEW J J SECOND LANG WRIT 8 : 243 1999 FURUBO JE INT ATLAS EVALUATION : 2002 GARCIARAMON MD Globalization and international geography: the questions of languages and scholarly traditions PROGRESS IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY 27 : 1 DOI 10.1191/0309132503ph409xx 2003 GARFIELD E CITATION INDEXING IT : 1979 GINSBERG PE EVALUATION IN CROSS-CULTURAL-PERSPECTIVE EVALUATION AND PROGRAM PLANNING 11 : 189 1988 GUTIERREZ J Are international journals of human geography really international? 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An analysis based on bibliometric indicators URBAN STUDIES 39 : 903 2002 MERTENS DM The inauguration of the international organization for cooperation in evaluation AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EVALUATION 26 : 124 DOI 10.1177/1098214004273186 2005 MERTENS DM A proposal for the International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EVALUATION 21 : 275 2000 MISAK A Manuscript editing as a way of teaching academic writing: Experience from a small scientific journal JOURNAL OF SECOND LANGUAGE WRITING 14 : 122 DOI 10.1016/j.jslw.2005.05.001 2005 PAASI A Globalisation, academic capitalism, and the uneven geographies of international journal publishing spaces ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING A 37 : 769 DOI 10.1068/a3769 2005 PATTON MQ CANADIAN EVALUATION : 12 2002 PICCIOTTO R International trends and development evaluation: The need for ideas AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EVALUATION 24 : 227 2003 REYROCHA J Research productivity of scientists in consolidated vs. non-consolidated teams: The case of Spanish university geologists SCIENTOMETRICS 55 : 137 2002 RODRIGUEZPOSE A On English as a vehicle to preserve geographical diversity PROGRESS IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY 28 : 1 DOI 10.1191/0309132504ph467xx 2004 ROGERS PJ The whole world is evaluating half-full glasses AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EVALUATION 22 : 431 2001 SHORT JR Cultural globalization, global English, and geography journals PROFESSIONAL GEOGRAPHER 53 : 1 2001 SUTTER M Tools for evaluating research output - Are citation-based rankings of economics journals stable? EVALUATION REVIEW 25 : 555 2001 VANROOYEN S Effect of open peer review on quality of reviews and on reviewers' recommendations: a randomised trial BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 318 : 23 1999 WARNER J A critical review of the application of citation studies to the Research Assessment Exercises JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE 26 : 453 2000 YEUNG HWC Redressing the geographical bias in social science knowledge ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING A 33 : 2 2001 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Feb 19 16:38:16 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:38:16 -0500 Subject: Jamal, T (Jamal, Tazim); Smith, B (Smith, Brian); Watson, E (Watson, Elizabeth) Ranking, rating and scoring of tourism journals: Interdisciplinary challenges and innovations TOURISM MANAGEMENT, 29 (1): 66-78 FEB 2008 Message-ID: E-mail Address: tjamal at tamu.edu; touranalyst at shaw.ca; ejwatson at ucalgary.ca Author(s): Jamal, T (Jamal, Tazim); Smith, B (Smith, Brian); Watson, E (Watson, Elizabeth) Title: Ranking, rating and scoring of tourism journals: Interdisciplinary challenges and innovations Source: TOURISM MANAGEMENT, 29 (1): 66-78 FEB 2008 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: journal impact factor; citation analysis; journal ranking; tourism studies; CAB international; social science citation index (SSCI); journal citation report (JCR) Keywords Plus: IMPACT-FACTOR; AUTHORSHIP ANALYSIS; CITATIONS; QUALITY Abstract: This paper provides a critical analysis of journal ranking and citation analysis in tourism studies. Authors and institutions using journal impact factors, citation frequency and hits as measures of academic productivity or importance should exercise great care in their use. A close look at Journal Citation Reports produced by Social Science Citation Index, 'hits' on CAB International, and citation analyses from several databases shows that the desire for a universal ranking system has so far only generated some imperfect systems and inconsistent applications to suit different needs. One size simply does not fit all. Drawing upon insights from other fields that have been addressing similar ranking and citation issues, concrete suggestions are offered for developing alternative evaluation parameters and processes for managing the diverse range of interdisciplinary journals in tourism and hospitality. Specifically, the analysis argues for differentiating journals by scope, influence, relevance and quality, and a scoring system that involves participation from the community of social scientists. Innovations for timely, effective dissemination of tourism knowledge are also forwarded. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Addresses: Texas A&M Univ, Dept Recreat Pk & Tourism Sci, College Stn, TX 77843 USA; Univ Calgary, Haskayne Sch Business, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada Reprint Address: Jamal, T, Texas A&M Univ, Dept Recreat Pk & Tourism Sci, College Stn, TX 77843 USA. 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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 54 : 1313 DOI 10.1002/asi.10338 2003 WEALE AR BMC MED RES METHODOL 4 : 14 2004 From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Wed Feb 20 08:53:46 2008 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:53:46 +0100 Subject: Science/NSF report In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear colleagues, In summary, the ANOVA results of a few days ago compared the core-SCI+SSCI set (5000+) with the journals added for the SCI-E (2000+). These two groups were significantly different on all citation indicators. The Indicators are based on the CD-Rom versions and this makes perfect sense because it allows the analysts to run jobs in batch mode. One issue remains and that is the special status of the 400+ journals indicated as "Professional Fields" and not included in the analysis for the Indicators Reports. These include journals from law, business and management studies, education, LIS (library studies), etc. The group is also significantly different on all citation indicators from the other group of journals (but the significances may be a result of the large numbers). Descriptives N Mean Std. Deviation Std. Error 95% Confidence Interval for Mean Minimum Maximum Lower Bound Upper Bound Lower Bound Upper Bound Lower Bound Upper Bound Lower Bound Upper Bound IMPACT .00 439 .88503 .813250 .038814 .80874 .96131 .000 6.035 1.00 5026 1.92364 2.837329 .040022 1.84518 2.00210 .000 49.794 Total 5465 1.84021 2.745242 .037135 1.76741 1.91301 .000 49.794 IMMEDIACY .00 422 .21276 .326727 .015905 .18150 .24403 .000 2.267 1.00 4908 .36026 .695697 .009930 .34079 .37972 .000 21.300 Total 5330 .34858 .675045 .009246 .33045 .36671 .000 21.300 CITEDHALFLIFE .00 373 27.98150 38.853235 2.011744 24.02568 31.93732 2.700 99.900 1.00 4800 26.70940 38.530577 .556141 25.61910 27.79969 .500 99.900 Total 5173 26.80112 38.551556 .536007 25.75032 27.85192 .500 99.900 Total Cites .00 439 674.48 1173.454 56.006 564.40 784.55 3 8685 1.00 5049 4410.54 15377.956 216.419 3986.26 4834.81 2 404397 Total 5488 4111.68 14788.462 199.625 3720.34 4503.03 2 404397 Self-Citation .00 439 80.41 125.267 5.979 68.66 92.16 0 1120 1.00 5049 409.50 1648.490 23.200 364.02 454.98 0 48558 Total 5488 383.18 1584.084 21.383 341.26 425.10 0 48558 Among these journals are surprises like Communication Research which is a leading journal in the field of communication studies. In terms of parametric statistics, it would probably not make a difference. However, because all underlying distributions are the subject of study and highly skewed, small differences in choices may have large impacts. The different sets are not the same, and rankings may therefore easily differ among them. This is an empirical question. With best wishes, Loet _____ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Feb 20 12:12:38 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:12:38 -0500 Subject: Suresh, V; Raghupathy, N; Shekar, B (Shekar, B.); Madhavan, CEV (Madhavan, C. E. Veni) Discovering mentorship information from author collaboration networks DISCOVERY SCIENCE, PROCEEDINGS 197-208, 2007 Message-ID: Email Address: vsuresh at csa.iisc.ernet.in Author(s): Suresh, V (Suresh, V.); Raghupathy, N (Raghupathy, Narayanan); Shekar, B (Shekar, B.); Madhavan, CEV (Madhavan, C. E. Veni) Title: Discovering mentorship information from author collaboration networks Editor(s): Corruble, V; Takeda, M; Suzuki, E Source: DISCOVERY SCIENCE, PROCEEDINGS 197-208, 2007 Book Series: LECTURE NOTES IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, 4755 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 10th International Conference on Discovery Science Conference Date: OCT 01-04, 2007 Conference Location: Sendai, JAPAN Conference Sponsors: AF Off Sci Res, Asian Off Aerosp Res & Dev, Grad Sch Informat Sci KeyWords Plus: SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION; INDEX Abstract: Researchers are assessed from a researcher-centric perspective - by quantifying a researcher's contribution to the field. Citation and publication counts are some typical examples. We propose a student-centric measure to assess researchers on their mentoring abilities. Our approach quantifies benefits bestowed by researchers upon their students by characterizing the publication dynamics of research advisor-student interactions in author collaboration networks. We show that our measures could help aspiring students identify research advisors with proven mentoring skills. Our measures also help in stratification of researchers with similar ranks based on typical indices like publication and citation counts while being independent of their direct influences. Addresses: Indian Inst Sci, Dept Comp Sci & Automat, Bangalore, Karnataka 560012 India. Reprint Address: Suresh, V, Indian Inst Sci, Dept Comp Sci & Automat, Bangalore, Karnataka 560012 India. Cited Reference Count: 13 Publisher Name: SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN Publisher Address: HEIDELBERGER PLATZ 3, D-14197 BERLIN, GERMANY ISSN: 0302-9743 ISBN: 978-3-540-75487-9 BALL P Index aims for fair ranking of scientists NATURE 436 : 900 2005 BOLLEN J SCIENTOMETRICS 69 : 2006 BORNER K The simultaneous evolution of author and paper networks PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 101 : 5266 2004 DEREK JSP SCIENCE 149 : 510 1965 GARFIELD E Citation Analysis as a Tool in Journal Evaluation - Journals Can Be Ranked by Frequency And Impact of Citations For Science Policy Studies SCIENCE 178 : 471 1972 HIRSCH JE An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102 : 16569 2005 LEE A Nature's guide for mentors NATURE 447 : 791 2007 LIU XM Co-authorship networks in the digital library research community INFORM PROCESS MANAG 41 : 1462 2005 MOHAN BK Searching association networks for nurturers COMPUTER 38 : 54 2005 NASCIMENTO MA Analysis of SIGMOD's co-authorship graph SIGMOD RECORD 32 : 8 2003 NEWMAN MEJ Coauthorship networks and patterns of scientific collaboration PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 101 : 5200 2004 NEWMAN MEJ The structure of scientific collaboration networks P NATL ACAD SCI USA 98 : 404 2001 PAGE L PAGERANK CITATION RA : 1998 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Feb 20 14:24:45 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:24:45 -0500 Subject: Van Eck, NJ (Van Eck, Nees Jan); Waltman, L (Waltman, Ludo) Bibliometric mapping of the computational intelligence field INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF UNCERTAINTY FUZZINESS AND KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS, 15 (5): 625-645 OCT 2007 Message-ID: Email Address: nvaneck at few.eur.nl; waltman at few.eur.nl Author(s): Van Eck, NJ (Van Eck, Nees Jan); Waltman, L (Waltman, Ludo) Title: Bibliometric mapping of the computational intelligence field Source: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF UNCERTAINTY FUZZINESS AND KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS, 15 (5): 625-645 OCT 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: bibliometrics; bibliometric mapping; computational intelligence; neural networks; fuzzy systems; evolutionary computation Keywords Plus: NEURAL-NETWORK RESEARCH; DISCIPLINE; JACKKNIFE; SCIENCE; MAPS Abstract: In this paper, a bibliometric study of the computational intelligence field is presented. Bibliometric maps showing the associations between the main concepts in the field are provided for the periods 1996-2000 and 2001-2005. Both the current structure of the field and the evolution of the field over the last decade are analyzed. In addition, a number of emerging areas in the fild are identified. It turns out that the computational intelligence can best be seen as a field that is structured around four important types of problems, namely control problems, classification problems, regression problemsm and optimization problems. Within the computational intelligence field, the neural networks and fuzzy systems sudfields are fairly intertwined, whereas the evolutionary computation subfield has a relatively independent postion. Addresses: Erasmus Univ, Erasmus Sch Econ, Inst Econometr, NL-3000 DR Rotterdam, Netherlands Reprint Address: Van Eck, NJ, Erasmus Univ, Erasmus Sch Econ, Inst Econometr, PO Box 1738, NL-3000 DR Rotterdam, Netherlands. E-mail Address: nvaneck at few.eur.nl; waltman at few.eur.nl Times Cited: 0 Publisher: WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD Publisher Address: 5 TOH TUCK LINK, SINGAPORE 596224, SINGAPORE ISSN: 0218-4885 Cited Reference Count: 24 BORG I MODERN MULTIDIMENSIO : 2005 BORNER K Visualizing knowledge domains ANNUAL REVIEW OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 37 : 179 2003 CHEN C INFORM VISUALIZATION : 2006 DELEEUW J A SPECIAL JACKKNIFE FOR MULTIDIMENSIONAL-SCALING JOURNAL OF CLASSIFICATION 3 : 97 1986 ENGELBRECHT AP COMPUTATIONAL INTELL : 2003 HEISER WJ CONSTRAINED MULTIDIMENSIONAL-SCALING, INCLUDING CONFIRMATION APPLIED PSYCHOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT 7 : 381 1983 HEISER WJ ANALYZING RECTANGULAR TABLES BY JOINT AND CONSTRAINED MULTIDIMENSIONAL- SCALING JOURNAL OF ECONOMETRICS 22 : 139 1983 HINZE S BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CARTOGRAPHY OF AN EMERGING INTERDISCIPLINARY DISCIPLINE - THE CASE OF BIOELECTRONICS SCIENTOMETRICS 29 : 353 1994 JUSTESON JS NATURAL LANGUAGE ENG 1 : 9 1995 KONAR A COMPUTATIONAL INTELL : 2005 MCCAIN KW MAPPING AUTHORS IN INTELLECTUAL SPACE - A TECHNICAL OVERVIEW JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE 41 : 433 1990 NOVAK JD LEARNING LEARN : 1984 NOYONS ECM HDB QUANTITATIVE SCI : 237 2004 NOYONS ECM Monitoring scientific developments from a dynamic perspective: Self- organized structuring to map neural network research JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE 49 : 68 1998 PETERS HPF CO-WORD-BASED SCIENCE MAPS OF CHEMICAL-ENGINEERING .1. REPRESENTATIONS BY DIRECT MULTIDIMENSIONAL-SCALING RESEARCH POLICY 22 : 23 1993 RIP A CO-WORD MAPS OF BIOTECHNOLOGY - AN EXAMPLE OF COGNITIVE SCIENTOMETRICS SCIENTOMETRICS 6 : 381 1984 SCOTT DW MULTIVARIATE DENSITY : 1992 VANECK NJ ADV DATA ANAL : 299 2007 VANECK NJ Visualizing the computational intelligence field IEEE COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINE 1 : 6 2006 VANECK NJ P 10 INT C INF VIS : 270 2006 VANECK NJ P 2006 IEEE INT C FU : 7862 2006 VANRAAN AFJ THE NEURAL NET OF NEURAL NETWORK RESEARCH - AN EXERCISE IN BIBLIOMETRIC MAPPING SCIENTOMETRICS 26 : 169 1993 WEINBERG SL CONFIDENCE-REGIONS FOR INDSCAL USING THE JACKKNIFE AND BOOTSTRAP TECHNIQUES PSYCHOMETRIKA 49 : 475 1984 WHITE HD Visualizing a discipline: An author co-citation analysis of information science, 1972-1995 JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE 49 : 327 1998 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Feb 20 14:28:07 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:28:07 -0500 Subject: West, D (West, Douglas) Directions in marketing communications research - An analysis of the International Journal of Advertising INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVERTISING, 26 (4): 543-554 2007 Message-ID: Email Address: d.west at bham.ac.uk Author(s): West, D (West, Douglas) Title: Directions in marketing communications research - An analysis of the International Journal of Advertising Source: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVERTISING, 26 (4): 543-554 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Keywords Plus: CITATION ANALYSIS; CONSUMER RESEARCH; RELIABILITY Abstract: This paper provides a content analysis of the inputs and outputs of the International Journal of Advertising (M) during the period 1992- 2006 and was sparked by the 25th anniversary of the journal (1982-2006). A total of 348 papers were surveyed using a content analysis in order to provide researchers and readers with a better sense of the contribution of the HA over the past 15 years. The analysis reveals a journal largely focused upon topics involving practice and effects with increasingly sophisticated statistical techniques employed. Single-authored papers appear to be in decline in favour of two- to three-authored papers, and author institutions widely domiciled across North America, Asia, the UK, Europe and Australasia. Addresses: Univ Birmingham, Birmingham Business Sch, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England Reprint Address: West, D, Univ Birmingham, Birmingham Business Sch, Univ House,Edgbaston Pk Rd, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England. E-mail Address: d.west at bham.ac.uk Times Cited: 0 Publisher: WORLD ADVERTISING RESEARCH CTR Publisher Address: FARM RD, HENLEY-ON-THAMES, OXON, OXFORDSHIRE RG9 1EJ, ENGLAND ISSN: 0265-0487 Cited Reference Count: 14 ARNDT J PARADIGMS IN CONSUMER RESEARCH - A REVIEW OF PERSPECTIVES AND APPROACHES EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MARKETING 20 : 23 1986 BARRY TE PUBLICATION PRODUCTIVITY IN THE 3 LEADING UNITED-STATES ADVERTISING JOURNALS - INAUGURAL ISSUES THROUGH 1988 JOURNAL OF ADVERTISING 19 : 52 1990 BAUMGARTNER H The structural influence of marketing journals: A citation analysis of the discipline and its subareas over time JOURNAL OF MARKETING 67 : 123 2003 CROUCH GI Demand elasticities in international marketing - A meta-analytical application to tourism JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH 36 : 117 1996 EWING MT INT J ADVERT 21 : 323 2002 INKPEN AC AN ANALYSIS OF 25 YEARS OF RESEARCH IN THE JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL- BUSINESS STUDIES JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES 25 : 703 1994 KOLBE RH CONTENT-ANALYSIS RESEARCH - AN EXAMINATION OF APPLICATIONS WITH DIRECTIVES FOR IMPROVING RESEARCH RELIABILITY AND OBJECTIVITY JOURNAL OF CONSUMER RESEARCH 18 : 243 1991 LEONG SM A CITATION ANALYSIS OF THE JOURNAL OF CONSUMER RESEARCH JOURNAL OF CONSUMER RESEARCH 15 : 492 1989 MALHOTRA NK J ACAD MARKET SCI 24 : 291 1996 PASADEOS Y Disciplinary impact of advertising scholars: Temporal comparisons of influential authors, works and research networks JOURNAL OF ADVERTISING 27 : 53 1998 PITT LF INT J ADVERT 24 : 241 2005 RUST RT RELIABILITY-MEASURES FOR QUALITATIVE DATA - THEORY AND IMPLICATIONS JOURNAL OF MARKETING RESEARCH 31 : 1 1994 VANDERMERWE R J MARKETING MANAGEME 23 : 181 2007 YALE L TRENDS IN ADVERTISING RESEARCH - A LOOK AT THE CONTENT OF MARKETING- ORIENTED JOURNALS FROM 1976 TO 1985 JOURNAL OF ADVERTISING 17 : 12 1988 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Feb 20 15:57:00 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:57:00 -0500 Subject: Tilley, T; Eklund, P Citation analysis using formal concept analysis: A case study in software engineering DEXA 2007: 18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATABASE AND EXPERT SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS, PROCEEDINGS 545-549, 2007 Message-ID: Email Address: tilley at itee.uq.edu.au Author(s): Tilley, T (Tilley, Thomas); Eklund, P (Eklund, Peter) Title: Citation analysis using formal concept analysis: A case study in software engineering Editor(s): Tjoa, AM; Wagner, RR Source: DEXA 2007: 18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATABASE AND EXPERT SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS, PROCEEDINGS 545-549, 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 18th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications Conference Date: SEP 03-07, 2007 Conference Location: Regensburg, GERMANY Conference Sponsors: DEXA Assoc, Austrian Comp Soc, Res Inst Appl Knowledge Proc, Univ Regensburg Conference Host: Univ Regensburg Abstract: In this paper Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) is used as a means to analyse afield of research using published academic papers as its input. In particular results are presented based on a case study of 47 academic papers in a scientific field of study. The analysis includes inferences about the field of study based on the domain background knowledge derived from the ISO12207 software engineering standard. Additionally, a number of alternative classifications based on the target application language and the reported application size are introduced. FCA reveals useful insights about the nature of the subject matter: identifying fruitful areas of research as well as producing details about characteristics of the community under examination. Addresses: Univ Wollongong, Sch Informat Syst &Technol, Wollongong, NSW 2522 Australia. Reprint Address: Tilley, T, Univ Wollongong, Sch Informat Syst &Technol, Wollongong, NSW 2522 Australia. Publisher Name: IEEE COMPUTER SOC Publisher Address: 10662 LOS VAQUEROS CIRCLE, PO BOX 3014, LOS ALAMITOS, CA 90720-1264 USA ISBN: 978-0-7695-2932-5 Cited Reference Count: 22 CITESEER NEC RES I S : 2002 *IEEE 1220701996 IEEE 1998 *IEEE 610121990 IEEE 1990 AMMONS G P C PROGR LANG DES I : 2003 BALL T P 7 EUR SOFTW ENG C : 216 1999 BOJIC D S APPL COMP SAC2000 : 2000 EISENBARTH T 9 INT WORKSH PROGR C 2001 300 EISENBARTH T IEEE T SOFTWARE ENG 29 : 195 2003 EISENBARTH T Aiding program comprehension by static and dynamic feature analysis IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE, PROCEEDINGS : 602 2001 FUNK P 9509 TU 1995 GANTER B FORMAL CONCEPT ANAL : 1999 KRONE M ON THE INFERENCE OF CONFIGURATION STRUCTURES FROM SOURCE CODE 16TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING : 49 1994 KUIPERS T SENR0017 : 2000 LINDIG C Assessing modular structure of legacy code based on mathematical concept analysis PROCEEDINGS OF THE 1997 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING : 349 1997 PRESSMAN R SOFTWARE ENG PRACTIT : 1992 ROYCE WW TUTORIAL SOFTWARE EN : 118 1987 SNELTING G ACM T SOFTW ENG METH 5 : 146 1996 SNELTING G P IEEE INT C SOFTW M : 3 2000 SNELTING G SIGPLAN SIGSOFT WORK : 1 1998 SO CYK Citation ranking versus expert judgment in evaluating communication scholars: Effects of research specialty size and individual prominence SCIENTOMETRICS 41 : 325 1998 TILLEY T LNCS 3626 : 2005 VANDEURSEN A P 21 INT C SOFTW ENG : 246 1999 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Feb 21 10:23:29 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:23:29 -0500 Subject: Kousha, K (Kousha, Kayvan); Thelwall, M (Thelwall, Mike) The Web impact of open access social science research LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE RESEARCH, 29 (4): 495-507 2007 Message-ID: Email Address: E-mail Address: kkoosha at ut.ac.ir; m.thelwall at wlv.ac.uk Author(s): Kousha, K (Kousha, Kayvan); Thelwall, M (Thelwall, Mike) Title: The Web impact of open access social science research Source: LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE RESEARCH, 29 (4): 495-507 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Keywords Plus: SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION; HUMANITIES; CITATIONS; ARTICLES; MOTIVATIONS; FIELDS Abstract: For a long time, Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) journal citations have been widely used for research performance monitoring of the sciences. For the social sciences, however, the Social Sciences Citation Index (R) (SSCI (R)) can sometimes be insufficient. Broader types of publications (e.g., books and non-ISI jounals) and informal scholarly indicators may also be needed. This article investigates whether the Web can help to fill this gap. The authors analyzed 1530 citations from Google (TM) to 492 research articles from 44 open access social science journals. The articles were published in 2001 in the fields of education, psychology, sociology, and economics. About 19% of the Web citations represented formal impact equivalent to journal citations, and 11% were more informal indicators of impact. The average was about 3 formal and 2 informal impact citations per article. Although the proportions of formal and informal online impact were similar in sociology, psychology, and education, economics showed six times more formal impact than informal impact. The results suggest that new types of citation information and informal scholarly indictors could be extracted from the Web for the social sciences. Since these form only a small proportion of the Web citations, however, Web citation counts should first be processed to remove irrelevant citations. This can be a time-consuming process unless automated. (C) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Addresses: Univ Tehran, Dept Lib & Informat Sci, Tehran 14174, Iran; Wolverhampton Univ, Sch Comp & Informat Technol, Wolverhampton WV1 1ST, England Reprint Address: Kousha, K, Univ Tehran, Dept Lib & Informat Sci, Tehran 14174, Iran. E-mail Address: kkoosha at ut.ac.ir; m.thelwall at wlv.ac.uk Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC Publisher Address: 360 PARK AVE SOUTH, NEW YORK, NY 10010-1710 USA ISSN: 0740-8188 Cited Reference Count: 39 ARCHAMBAULT E Benchmarking scientific output in the social sciences and humanities: The limits of existing databases SCIENTOMETRICS 68 : 329 DOI 10.1007/s11192-006-0115-z 2006 BARILAN J What do we know about links and linking? 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A classification of google unique web citations JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 58 : 1631 DOI 10.1002/asi.20649 2007 KOUSHA K J AM SOC INFORM SCI 57 : 1055 2007 KOUSHA K J INFORM MANAGEMENT 1 : 13 2004 KOUSHA K Motivations for URL citations to open access library and information science articles SCIENTOMETRICS 68 : 501 DOI 10.1007/s11192-006-0126-9 2006 LIEVROUW LA SCHOLARLY COMMUNICAT : 59 1990 MATZAT U Academic communication and Internet Discussion Groups: transfer of information or creation of social contacts? SOCIAL NETWORKS 26 : 221 DOI 10.1016/j.socnet.2004.04.001 2004 MEADOWS AJ COMMUNICATION SCI : 1974 MERTON RK SOCIOLOGY SCI THEORE : 1973 MOED HF CITATION ANAL RES EV : 2005 NEDERHOF AJ SCIENTOMETRICS 66 : 81 2006 SMITH AG INFORM RES : 2004 VANIMPE S INFORM WISSENSCHAFT 57 : 422 2007 VANLEEUWEN TN SCIENTOMETRICS 66 : 133 2006 VAUGHAN L Web citation data for impact assessment: A comparison of four science disciplines JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 56 : 1075 DOI 10.1002/asi.20199 2005 VAUGHAN L Bibliographic and web citations: What is the difference? JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 54 : 1313 DOI 10.1002/asi.10338 2003 WEBSTER BM Polish Sociology Citation Index as an example of usage of national citation indexes in scientometric analysis of social sciences JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE 24 : 19 1998 WHITLEY R INTELLECUTAL SOCIAL : 2000 WILKINSON D J INFORMATION SCI 29 : 59 2003 WOUTERS P THESIS U AMSTERDAM N : 1999 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Feb 21 11:58:48 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:58:48 -0500 Subject: Mohammad, AE (Mohammad, Ali E.); Laskin, DM (Laskin, Daniel M.) Citation accuracy in the oral and maxillofacial surgery literature JOURNAL OF ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY, 66 (1): 3-6 JAN 2008 Message-ID: E-mail Address: dmlaskin at vcu.edu Author(s): Mohammad, AE (Mohammad, Ali E.); Laskin, DM (Laskin, Daniel M.) Title: Citation accuracy in the oral and maxillofacial surgery literature Source: JOURNAL OF ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY, 66 (1): 3-6 JAN 2008 Language: English Document Type: Article Keywords Plus: JOURNALS; QUOTATION Abstract: Purpose: Readers frequently assume that the references in an article published in a well-respected, peer-reviewed journal will be cited correctly. However, previous studies have shown that this is not always true. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the citation accuracy in 5 oral and maxillofacial surgery journals. Materials and Methods: A search was done using PubMed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.library.drexel.edu/sites/ entrez? db=PubMed) to locate the articles cited in 108 references in each journal. If the article could not be located, a search was done in the specific journal in the medical library. The references were then divided into those with major errors that prevented the article from being located and those with minor errors that still permitted the article to be found. Results: There were a significant number of citations with major errors in each of the journals that made it impossible to find these articles. No correlation was found between the number of major or minor errors and the rank of the senior author or if the article was submitted from a non English-speaking country. Conclusions: This study shows that there needs to be a greater effort on the part of authors to provide accurate citations in their articles. (C) 2008 American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. Addresses: Virginia Commonwealth Univ, Dept Oral & Maxillofacial Surg, Richmond, VA 23298 USA Reprint Address: Laskin, DM, Virginia Commonwealth Univ, Dept Oral & Maxillofacial Surg, 521 N 11th St,POB 980566, Richmond, VA 23298 USA. E-mail Address: dmlaskin at vcu.edou Times Cited: 0 Publisher: W B SAUNDERS CO-ELSEVIER INC Publisher Address: 1600 JOHN F KENNEDY BOULEVARD, STE 1800, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19103-2899 USA ISSN: 0278-2391 Cited Reference Count: 5 BROWNE RFJ The accuracy of references in manuscripts submitted for publication CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF RADIOLOGISTS JOURNAL-JOURNAL DE L ASSOCIATION CANADIENNE DES RADIOLOGISTES 55 : 170 2004 BUCHAN JC Accuracy of referencing in the ophthalmic literature AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OPHTHALMOLOGY 140 : 1146 2005 DOMS CA A SURVEY OF REFERENCE ACCURACY IN 5 NATIONAL DENTAL JOURNALS JOURNAL OF DENTAL RESEARCH 68 : 442 1989 FENTON JE The accuracy of citation and quotation in otolaryngology/head and neck surgery journals CLINICAL OTOLARYNGOLOGY 25 : 40 2000 LUKIC IK Citation and quotation accuracy in three anatomy journals CLINICAL ANATOMY 17 : 534 DOI 10.1002/ca.10255 2004 From michel.menou at ORANGE.FR Thu Feb 21 12:23:07 2008 From: michel.menou at ORANGE.FR (M.J. Menou) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:23:07 +0100 Subject: [Fwd: Welcome to the 8th Regional Congress on Health Sciences Information - CRICS8] Message-ID: -------- Message original -------- Sujet: Welcome to the 8th Regional Congress on Health Sciences Information - CRICS8 Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:01:13 -0300 De: #BIR:DIR Pour :: trouble viewing, click here Welcome to CRICS 8 The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ) and the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information (BIREME/PAHO/WHO) are pleased to invite you to the 8th Regional Congress on Health Sciences Information (CRICS8) to be held from September 16th to 19th 2008, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. With the main theme *Scientific Information and Knowledge for Innovation in Health*, the CRICS8 will host the meetings of the VHL (Virtual Health Library), SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) and others regional and global networks from 14th to 16th, in addition to courses, expositions, cultural, social and tourist activities The submission of abstracts to the poster session of CRICS 8 will be open from March 3rd to June 9th and promises to enliven the scientific and technical community. The thematic tracks of CRICS 8 will address the state-of-the-art and the challenges that face the developing countries based on management of information and scientific knowledge in favor of innovation in health, including: * Policies and programs for information and scientific communication; * Knowledge dissemination, social inclusion and democracy; * Information, communication and scientific evidence for competence development; * State-of-the-art of Scientific Communication; * Information, knowledge and health institutions management; * Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and convergences; * Health scientific knowledge for social development. Following the previous editions, the expectation is the active participation of researchers, health workers, professionals on public policies in the area and general population. More than 800 participants are expected, particularly from Latin America, Caribbean countries and other regions. Be welcome to check important deadlines, information about registration and updated news on website www.crics8.org The Organizing Committee is assembling all efforts to achieve a successful meeting, and offer everlasting joyful memories of the CRICS8 in the marvelous city of Rio de Janeiro. We are looking forward to meeting you in Rio de Janeiro! The CRICS 8 Organizing Committee -- ===================================================================== Dr. Michel J. Menou Visiting Professor, SLAIS, University College London, U.K. Consultant in ICT policies and Knowledge & Information Management Adviser of Somos at Telecentros board http://www.tele-centros.org Member of the founding steering committee of Telecenters of the Americas Partnership http://www.tele-centers.net/ B.P. 15 F-49350 Les Rosiers sur Loire, France Email: micheljmenou[at]gmail[dot]com michel[dot]menou[at]orange[dot]fr Phone: +33 (0)2 41511043 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ciber/peoplemenou.php ===================================================================== From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Feb 21 14:20:50 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:20:50 -0500 Subject: Castillo, C (Castillo, Carlos); Donato, D (Donato, Debora); Gionis, A (Gionis, Aristides) Estimating number of citations using author reputation STRING PROCESSING AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL, PROCEEDINGS 107-117, 2007 Message-ID: Email address: chato at chato.cl (in first email to author, please include 'baldor' in the subject line) Author(s): Castillo, C (Castillo, Carlos); Donato, D (Donato, Debora); Gionis, A (Gionis, Aristides) Title: Estimating number of citations using author reputation Editor(s): Ziviani, N; BaezaYates, R Source: STRING PROCESSING AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL, PROCEEDINGS 107-117, 2007 Book Series: LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, 4726 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 14th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval Conference Date: OCT 29-31, 2007 Conference Location: Santiago, CHILE Conference Sponsors: Univ Chile, Dept Comp Sci, Web Res, Millwnnium Nucl Ctr, Fed Univ Minas Gerais, Dept Comp Sci, Yahoo, Res Latin Amer Abstract: We study the problem of predicting the popularity of items in a dynamic environment in which authors post continuously new items and provide feedback on existing items. This problem can be applied to predict popularity of blog posts, rank photographs in a photo-sharing system, or predict the citations of a scientific article using author information and monitoring the items of interest for a short period of time after their creation. As a case study, we show how to estimate the number of citations for an academic paper using information about past articles written by the same author(s) of the paper. If we use only the citation information over a short period of time, we obtain a predicted value that has a correlation of r = 0.57 with the actual value. This is our baseline prediction. Our best-performing system can improve that prediction by adding features extracted from the past publishing history of its authors, increasing the correlation between the actual and the predicted values to r = 0.81. Addresses: Yahoo Res Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalunya 08003 Spain. Reprint Address: Castillo, C, Yahoo Res Barcelona, C Ocata 1, Barcelona, Catalunya 08003 Spain. Publisher Name: SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN Publisher Address: HEIDELBERGER PLATZ 3, D-14197 BERLIN, GERMANY ISSN: 0302-9743 Cited Reference Count: 16 ADAR E WWE 2004 NEW YORK US : 2004 BAEZAYATES R LNCS 2476 : 2002 BURIOL L WI 2006 HONG KONG : 45 2006 CHO J SIGMOD 2005 : 551 2005 FEITELSON DG Predictive ranking of computer scientists using CiteSeer data J DOC 60 : 44 2004 FUJIMURA K The EigenRumor algorithm for calculating contributions in cyberspace communities TRUSTING AGENTS FOR TRUSTING ELECTRONIC SOCIETIES: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS IN HCI AND E-COMMERCE 3577 : 59 2005 GEHRKE J SIGKDD EXPLOR NEWSL 5 : 149 2003 KLEINBERG JM Authoritative sources in a hyperlinked environment J ACM 46 : 604 1999 KUMAR R Structure and evolution of blogspaceCOMMUN ACM 47 : 35 2004 LESKOVEC J KDD 05 : 177 2005 LIBENNOWELL D CIKM 03 P 12 INT C I : 556 2003 MEI Q WWW 2006 : 533 2006 PAGE L PAGERANK CITATION RA : 1998 POPESCUL A IJCAI 2003 : 2003 SALGANIK MJ Experimental study of inequality and unpredictability in an artificial cultural market SCIENCE 311 : 854 2006 WITTEN IH DATA MINING PRACTICA : 1999 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Feb 21 15:16:34 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:16:34 -0500 Subject: Wohlin, C (Wohlin, Claes) Introduction to section most cited journal articles in software engineering INFORMATION AND SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY, 50 (1-2): 2-2 JAN 2008 Message-ID: E-mail Address: claes.wohlin at bth.se Author(s): Wohlin, C (Wohlin, Claes) Title: Introduction to section most cited journal articles in software engineering Source: INFORMATION AND SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY, 50 (1-2): 2-2 JAN 2008 Language: English Document Type: Editorial Material Addresses: Blekinge Inst Technol, Sch Engn, SE-37225 Ronneby, Sweden Reprint Address: Wohlin, C, Blekinge Inst Technol, Sch Engn, SE-37225 Ronneby, Sweden. Cited Reference Count: 0 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV Publisher Address: PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 0950-5849 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Feb 21 15:19:36 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:19:36 -0500 Subject: Wohlin, C (Wohlin, Claes) An analysis of the most cited articles in software engineering journals - 2001 INFORMATION AND SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY, 50 (1-2): 3-9 JAN 2008 Message-ID: E-mail Address: Claes.Wohlin at bth.se Author(s): Wohlin, C (Wohlin, Claes) Title: An analysis of the most cited articles in software engineering journals - 2001 Source: INFORMATION AND SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY, 50 (1-2): 3-9 JAN 2008 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: citations; bibliometric research; software engineering Abstract: Citations and related work are crucial in any research to position the work and to build on the work of others. A high citation count is an indication of the influence of specific articles. The importance of citations means that it is interesting to analyze which articles are cited the most. Such an analysis has been conducted using the ISI Web of Science to identify the most cited software engineering journal articles published in 2001. The objective of the analysis is to identify and list the articles that have influenced others the most as measured by citation count. An understanding of which research is viewed by the research community as most valuable to build upon may provide valuable insights into what research to focus on now and in the future. Based on the analysis, a list of the 20 most cited articles is presented here. The intention of the analysis is twofold. First, to identify the most cited articles, and second, to invite the authors of the most cited articles in 2001 to contribute to a special section of Information and Software Technology. Three authors have accepted the invitation and their articles appear in this special section. Moreover, an analysis has been conducted regarding which authors are most productive in terms of software engineering journal publications. The latter analysis focuses on the publications in the last 20 years, which is intended as a complement to last year's analysis focusing on the most cited articles in the last 20 years [C. Wohlin, An Analysis of the Most Cited Articles in Software Engineering Journals - 2007, Information and Software Technology 49 (1) 2- 11]. The most productive author in the last 20 years is Professor Victor Basili. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Addresses: Blekinge Inst Technol, Sch Engn, Dept Syst & Software Engn, S- 37225 Ronneby, Sweden Reprint Address: Wohlin, C, Blekinge Inst Technol, Sch Engn, Dept Syst & Software Engn, POB 520, S-37225 Ronneby, Sweden. Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV Publisher Address: PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 0950-5849 Cited Reference Count: 7 GLANZEL W Journal impact measures in bibliometric research SCIENTOMETRICS 53 : 171 2002 JONES AW INT J LEGAL MED 119 : 53 2005 MCBURNEY MK P PROF COMM C : 108 2002 TSE TH An assessment of systems and software engineering scholars and institutions (2000-2004) JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE 79 : 816 DOI 10.1016/j.jss.2005.08.018 2006 WOHLIN C An analysis of the most cited articles in software engineering journals - 2000 INFORMATION AND SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY 49 : 2 DOI 10.1016/j.infsof.2006.08.004 2007 WOHLIN C An analysis of the most cited articles in software engineering journals - 1999 INFORMATION AND SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY 47 : 957 DOI 10.1016/j.infsof.2005.09.002 2005 ZITT M Relativity of citation performance and excellence measures: From cross- field to cross-scale effects of field-normalisation SCIENTOMETRICS 63 : 373 DOI 10.1007/s11192-005-0218-y 2005 From thomas.c.templeton at GMAIL.COM Thu Feb 21 15:40:51 2008 From: thomas.c.templeton at GMAIL.COM (clay templeton) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:40:51 -0500 Subject: software Message-ID: Hi folks, I'm searching for recommendations re: What is the most efficient way to go from exported Web of Science data to co-citation clusters a la http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/ci/chapter7.pdf ? I understand the algorithm, but I don't know what's available in terms of implementations and do *not* wish to re-invent the wheel :-) Thanks very much, Thomas.Clay.Templeton Goddard Space Flight Center -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From whitehd at DREXEL.EDU Thu Feb 21 16:30:59 2008 From: whitehd at DREXEL.EDU (Howard White) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:30:59 -0500 Subject: software In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi, I take it by "co-citation clusters" you mean what Garfield calls Historiographs, that is, graphs showing linked papers over time. That's what ch. 7 is about, and technically that's not co-citation. If you can arrange your data to form a directed acyclic graph, so that every paper points only backward toward earlier papers it cites, you can use Pajek, available free on the Web, to visualize it. See Vladimir Batagelj's paper, "Efficient Algorithms for Citation Network Analysis" downloadable in pdf at: http://arxiv.org/pdf/cs.DL/0309023 Batagelj is the co-creator of Pajek, and there is a module for certain kinds of citation analysis built into it. Note his references to Hummon & Doreian's work as well. Howard White Drexel University From Chaomei.Chen at CIS.DREXEL.EDU Thu Feb 21 17:08:09 2008 From: Chaomei.Chen at CIS.DREXEL.EDU (Chaomei Chen) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:08:09 -0500 Subject: software In-Reply-To: Message-ID: CiteSpace takes data in the Web of Science format and visualizes co-citation networks. http://cluster.cis.drexel.edu/~cchen/citespace/ Use the WebStart link to launch it straightaway. Free. Best wishes, Chaomei Chen ********************************************************************** Dr. Chaomei Chen Editor-in-Chief, Information Visualization (IVS) College of Information Science and Technology Drexel University 3141 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, PA 19104-2875, USA Phone: +1 215 895-6627 FAX: +1 215 895-2494 Email: chaomei.chen at ischool.drexel.edu Web: www.pages.drexel.edu/~cc345 IVS Home: www.palgrave-journals.com/ivs/ CiteSpace Home: cluster.cis.drexel.edu/~cchen/citespace ********************************************************************** -----ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics wrote: ----- >To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU >From: clay templeton >Sent by: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics > >Date: 02/21/2008 03:40PM >Subject: [SIGMETRICS] software > >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html Hi folks, > >I'm searching for recommendations re: What is the most efficient way >to go from exported Web of Science data to co-citation clusters a la >http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/ci/chapter7.pdf ? I >understand the algorithm, but I don't know what's available in terms >of implementations and do not wish to re-invent the wheel :-) > >Thanks very much, > >Thomas.Clay.Templeton >Goddard Space Flight Center -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From thomas.c.templeton at GMAIL.COM Fri Feb 22 01:20:45 2008 From: thomas.c.templeton at GMAIL.COM (clay templeton) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:20:45 -0500 Subject: software In-Reply-To: <47BDED93.9020900@drexel.edu> Message-ID: Howard and Chaomei, Thank you very much. It looks like I made a lucky error in referring to chapter 7 of Garfield's *Citation Indexing*. I meant chapter 8, but my underlying purpose is to present a literature in as many ways as feasible and let the community of expertise decide which results are most interesting. Thus, both historiographic and co-citation approaches are of interest to me. CiteSpace and Pajek look like a really appealing playground for my data. I should mention that I'm already using HistCite. Any other pointers are appreciated; I'm looking to minimize money and time, and maximize useful information that I can provide to my research community. Best, Clay On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Howard White wrote: > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > Hi, > > I take it by "co-citation clusters" you mean what Garfield calls > Historiographs, that is, graphs showing linked papers over time. > That's what ch. 7 is about, and technically that's not co-citation. > If you can arrange your data to form a directed acyclic graph, so > that every paper points only backward toward earlier papers it cites, > you can use Pajek, available free on the Web, to visualize it. > > See Vladimir Batagelj's paper, "Efficient Algorithms for Citation > Network Analysis" downloadable in pdf at: > > http://arxiv.org/pdf/cs.DL/0309023 > > Batagelj is the co-creator of Pajek, and there is a module for > certain kinds of citation analysis built into it. Note his > references to Hummon & Doreian's work as well. > > > Howard White > Drexel University > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lutz.bornmann at GESS.ETHZ.CH Fri Feb 22 03:42:11 2008 From: lutz.bornmann at GESS.ETHZ.CH (Bornmann Lutz) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:42:11 +0100 Subject: New paper concerning the h index Message-ID: Dear colleague, You might be interested in our new paper: "Are There Better Indices for Evaluation Purposes than the h Index? A Comparison of Nine Different Variants of the h Index Using Data from Biomedicine" (JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 59(5), 830-837, 2008). You can download that paper from: http://www.lutz-bornmann.de/icons/BornmannMutzDanielFinal.pdf Sincerely yours, Lutz Bornmann ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------- Dr. Lutz Bornmann ETH Zurich, D-GESS Professorship for Social Psychology and Research on Higher Education Zaehringerstr. 24 / ZAE CH-8092 Zurich Phone: 0041 44 632 48 25 Fax: 0041 44 632 12 83 http://www.psh.ethz.ch/ bornmann at gess.ethz.ch Download of publications: www.lutz-bornmann.de/Publications.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Fri Feb 22 08:20:34 2008 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:20:34 +0100 Subject: software In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Clay, HistCite and CiteSpace are both very good. Specifically for bibliographic coupling, I can offer BibCouple.exe at http://www.leydesdorff.net/software/BibCouple/index.htm . It makes in addition to the co-occurrence matrix, the occurrence matrix, and the cosine-normalized matrix. The latter is preferable for the visualization. With bes wishes, Loet _____ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ _____ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of clay templeton Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 7:21 AM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] software Thank you very much. It looks like I made a lucky error in referring to chapter 7 of Garfield's Citation Indexing. I meant chapter 8, but my underlying purpose is to present a literature in as many ways as feasible and let the community of expertise decide which results are most interesting. Thus, both historiographic and co-citation approaches are of interest to me. CiteSpace and Pajek look like a really appealing playground for my data. I should mention that I'm already using HistCite. Any other pointers are appreciated; I'm looking to minimize money and time, and maximize useful information that I can provide to my research community. Best, Clay On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Howard White wrote: Hi, I take it by "co-citation clusters" you mean what Garfield calls Historiographs, that is, graphs showing linked papers over time. That's what ch. 7 is about, and technically that's not co-citation. If you can arrange your data to form a directed acyclic graph, so that every paper points only backward toward earlier papers it cites, you can use Pajek, available free on the Web, to visualize it. See Vladimir Batagelj's paper, "Efficient Algorithms for Citation Network Analysis" downloadable in pdf at: http://arxiv.org/pdf/cs.DL/0309023 Batagelj is the co-creator of Pajek, and there is a module for certain kinds of citation analysis built into it. Note his references to Hummon & Doreian's work as well. Howard White Drexel University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From notsjb at LSU.EDU Fri Feb 22 14:10:52 2008 From: notsjb at LSU.EDU (Stephen J Bensman) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:10:52 -0600 Subject: JCR Total Cites Flaw Example Message-ID: Vis-?-vis what I wrote on the flaws of the JCR definition of bibliographic entity, I am posting the following concrete example In 2003 the journal Animal Learning & Behavior, which is published by the Psychonomic Society, changed its title. This title was published since 1973, and 30 volumes had been published at the time of the change. Its new title was Learning & Behavior, whose volume numbering began thus: Vol. 31, no. (Feb. 2003)-. As can be seen, the volume numbering is consecutive for the two titles, and it remained a journal of the Psychonomic Society. From the viewpoint of logic and AACR2 cataloging rules, these two titles form a single bibliographic entity, which we shall call a "journal." However, since these titles are not alphabetically consecutive, the JCR treats them as two different bibliographic entities, which we shall call "title segments." The JCR citation counts relate only to these title segments. In the 2004 JCR Learning & Behavior had 49 total cites and an impact factor of 1.030. Since Animal Learning & Behavior fell within the 2-year time limit of the impact factor, it was still covered. This title segment had 1,195 total cites and an impact factor of 2.059. Going forward now to the 2006 JCR, we find that Learning & Behavior has 241 total cites and an impact factor of 1.926. Since Animal Learning & Behavior is now outside the two-year impact factor limit, it has dropped from JCR coverage, and it is impossible to retrieve citation data on this title segment through the JCR. It is quite obvious from the above that 2006 JCR is giving quite a false picture of the importance of Learning & Behavior as measured by total cites, which I have found to be a better surrogate for expert ratings and library use than the impact factor. The historical perspective has been lost due to a logical flaw in the definition of a bibliographic entity. In any type of statistical research involving total cites, Learning & Behavior will appear as a screaming outlier that distorts all results. Since the fault cannot be corrected through the JCR, it becomes a question of how do you use Web of Science to recover the lost data. If there is a solution to this problem, it should also be applicable to journals not covered in the JCRs. Stephen J. Bensman LSU Libraries Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA notsjb at lsu.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Fri Feb 22 15:11:40 2008 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:11:40 +0100 Subject: JCR Total Cites Flaw Example In-Reply-To: <4928689828488E458AECE7AFDCB52CFE2D6969@email003.lsu.edu> Message-ID: Dear Stephen, This is not so difficult: You go to the WoS, Cited Reference Search, and type in "ANIM LEARN BEHAV" as the journal abbreviation. This leads today to a total cites of 1,958. You can do the same with the CD-Rom version of the JCR. The JCR 2006, for example, gives you 1,803. On the webversion of the JCR, one can search with ISSN. Best wishes, Loet _____ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ _____ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu] On Behalf Of Stephen J Bensman Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 8:11 PM To: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu Subject: [SIGMETRICS] JCR Total Cites Flaw Example Vis-?-vis what I wrote on the flaws of the JCR definition of bibliographic entity, I am posting the following concrete example In 2003 the journal Animal Learning & Behavior, which is published by the Psychonomic Society, changed its title. This title was published since 1973, and 30 volumes had been published at the time of the change. Its new title was Learning & Behavior, whose volume numbering began thus: Vol. 31, no. (Feb. 2003)-. As can be seen, the volume numbering is consecutive for the two titles, and it remained a journal of the Psychonomic Society. From the viewpoint of logic and AACR2 cataloging rules, these two titles form a single bibliographic entity, which we shall call a ?journal.? However, since these titles are not alphabetically consecutive, the JCR treats them as two different bibliographic entities, which we shall call ?title segments.? The JCR citation counts relate only to these title segments. In the 2004 JCR Learning & Behavior had 49 total cites and an impact factor of 1.030. Since Animal Learning & Behavior fell within the 2-year time limit of the impact factor, it was still covered. This title segment had 1,195 total cites and an impact factor of 2.059. Going forward now to the 2006 JCR, we find that Learning & Behavior has 241 total cites and an impact factor of 1.926. Since Animal Learning & Behavior is now outside the two-year impact factor limit, it has dropped from JCR coverage, and it is impossible to retrieve citation data on this title segment through the JCR. It is quite obvious from the above that 2006 JCR is giving quite a false picture of the importance of Learning & Behavior as measured by total cites, which I have found to be a better surrogate for expert ratings and library use than the impact factor. The historical perspective has been lost due to a logical flaw in the definition of a bibliographic entity. In any type of statistical research involving total cites, Learning & Behavior will appear as a screaming outlier that distorts all results. Since the fault cannot be corrected through the JCR, it becomes a question of how do you use Web of Science to recover the lost data. If there is a solution to this problem, it should also be applicable to journals not covered in the JCRs. Stephen J. Bensman LSU Libraries Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA notsjb at lsu.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From notsjb at LSU.EDU Fri Feb 22 16:20:38 2008 From: notsjb at LSU.EDU (Stephen J Bensman) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:20:38 -0600 Subject: JCR Total Cites Flaw Example In-Reply-To: A<003801c8758f$2611c110$6402a8c0@loet> Message-ID: I just did the cited reference search and got 2070. The problem I have with doing this is whether this is equivalent to the cites during a given JCR year. I have asked the ISI people on how to do this, and I will forward you their answer when I get it. When I discussed it with the ISI instructor, it seemed more complex than that. The problem is not getting the cites but restricting it to the cites during a given JCR year at least on the Web for the sake of equivalency. There also seemed problems of different forms of entry requiring Boolean operators for capturing. I hope to hear from her over the next week or so. I am sure that it can be done, but I like my facts from horses' mouths. Stephen J. Bensman LSU Libraries Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA notsjb at lsu.edu ________________________________ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Loet Leydesdorff Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 2:12 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] JCR Total Cites Flaw Example Dear Stephen, This is not so difficult: You go to the WoS, Cited Reference Search, and type in "ANIM LEARN BEHAV" as the journal abbreviation. This leads today to a total cites of 1,958. You can do the same with the CD-Rom version of the JCR. The JCR 2006, for example, gives you 1,803. On the webversion of the JCR, one can search with ISSN. Best wishes, Loet ________________________________ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ ________________________________ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu] On Behalf Of Stephen J Bensman Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 8:11 PM To: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu Subject: [SIGMETRICS] JCR Total Cites Flaw Example Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html Vis-?-vis what I wrote on the flaws of the JCR definition of bibliographic entity, I am posting the following concrete example In 2003 the journal Animal Learning & Behavior, which is published by the Psychonomic Society, changed its title. This title was published since 1973, and 30 volumes had been published at the time of the change. Its new title was Learning & Behavior, whose volume numbering began thus: Vol. 31, no. (Feb. 2003)-. As can be seen, the volume numbering is consecutive for the two titles, and it remained a journal of the Psychonomic Society. From the viewpoint of logic and AACR2 cataloging rules, these two titles form a single bibliographic entity, which we shall call a "journal." However, since these titles are not alphabetically consecutive, the JCR treats them as two different bibliographic entities, which we shall call "title segments." The JCR citation counts relate only to these title segments. In the 2004 JCR Learning & Behavior had 49 total cites and an impact factor of 1.030. Since Animal Learning & Behavior fell within the 2-year time limit of the impact factor, it was still covered. This title segment had 1,195 total cites and an impact factor of 2.059. Going forward now to the 2006 JCR, we find that Learning & Behavior has 241 total cites and an impact factor of 1.926. Since Animal Learning & Behavior is now outside the two-year impact factor limit, it has dropped from JCR coverage, and it is impossible to retrieve citation data on this title segment through the JCR. It is quite obvious from the above that 2006 JCR is giving quite a false picture of the importance of Learning & Behavior as measured by total cites, which I have found to be a better surrogate for expert ratings and library use than the impact factor. The historical perspective has been lost due to a logical flaw in the definition of a bibliographic entity. In any type of statistical research involving total cites, Learning & Behavior will appear as a screaming outlier that distorts all results. Since the fault cannot be corrected through the JCR, it becomes a question of how do you use Web of Science to recover the lost data. If there is a solution to this problem, it should also be applicable to journals not covered in the JCRs. Stephen J. 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You can download that paper from: > http://www.lutz-bornmann.de/icons/BornmannMutzDanielFinal.pdf You might be interested in uploading it to E-LIS, http://eprints.rclis.org E-LIS came third in Isidoro's ranking of repositories, http://www.webometrics.info/top200_rep.asp It should help to increase visibilty for your work and help to supports it's long-run preservation. Disclaimer: I am involved in the team that maintains E-LIS, and created RePEc, the repository that came second in the survey. Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel phone: +7 383 330 6813 skype: thomaskrichel From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Sat Feb 23 03:45:44 2008 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:45:44 +0100 Subject: JCR Total Cites Flaw Example In-Reply-To: <4928689828488E458AECE7AFDCB52CFE2D6999@email003.lsu.edu> Message-ID: Dear Stephen, I now realized that the total cites on the WoS are dependent on which year one has as a starting year. This is not the case for the JCR data. OK: let's wait for the reactions of the colleagues from Thomson/ISI. Best wishes, Loet _____ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ _____ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Stephen J Bensman Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 10:21 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] JCR Total Cites Flaw Example I just did the cited reference search and got 2070. The problem I have with doing this is whether this is equivalent to the cites during a given JCR year. I have asked the ISI people on how to do this, and I will forward you their answer when I get it. When I discussed it with the ISI instructor, it seemed more complex than that. The problem is not getting the cites but restricting it to the cites during a given JCR year at least on the Web for the sake of equivalency. There also seemed problems of different forms of entry requiring Boolean operators for capturing. I hope to hear from her over the next week or so. I am sure that it can be done, but I like my facts from horses? mouths. Stephen J. Bensman LSU Libraries Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA notsjb at lsu.edu _____ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Loet Leydesdorff Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 2:12 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] JCR Total Cites Flaw Example Dear Stephen, This is not so difficult: You go to the WoS, Cited Reference Search, and type in "ANIM LEARN BEHAV" as the journal abbreviation. This leads today to a total cites of 1,958. You can do the same with the CD-Rom version of the JCR. The JCR 2006, for example, gives you 1,803. On the webversion of the JCR, one can search with ISSN. Best wishes, Loet _____ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ _____ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu] On Behalf Of Stephen J Bensman Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 8:11 PM To: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu Subject: [SIGMETRICS] JCR Total Cites Flaw Example Vis-?-vis what I wrote on the flaws of the JCR definition of bibliographic entity, I am posting the following concrete example In 2003 the journal Animal Learning & Behavior, which is published by the Psychonomic Society, changed its title. This title was published since 1973, and 30 volumes had been published at the time of the change. Its new title was Learning & Behavior, whose volume numbering began thus: Vol. 31, no. (Feb. 2003)-. As can be seen, the volume numbering is consecutive for the two titles, and it remained a journal of the Psychonomic Society. From the viewpoint of logic and AACR2 cataloging rules, these two titles form a single bibliographic entity, which we shall call a ?journal.? However, since these titles are not alphabetically consecutive, the JCR treats them as two different bibliographic entities, which we shall call ?title segments.? The JCR citation counts relate only to these title segments. In the 2004 JCR Learning & Behavior had 49 total cites and an impact factor of 1.030. Since Animal Learning & Behavior fell within the 2-year time limit of the impact factor, it was still covered. This title segment had 1,195 total cites and an impact factor of 2.059. Going forward now to the 2006 JCR, we find that Learning & Behavior has 241 total cites and an impact factor of 1.926. Since Animal Learning & Behavior is now outside the two-year impact factor limit, it has dropped from JCR coverage, and it is impossible to retrieve citation data on this title segment through the JCR. It is quite obvious from the above that 2006 JCR is giving quite a false picture of the importance of Learning & Behavior as measured by total cites, which I have found to be a better surrogate for expert ratings and library use than the impact factor. The historical perspective has been lost due to a logical flaw in the definition of a bibliographic entity. In any type of statistical research involving total cites, Learning & Behavior will appear as a screaming outlier that distorts all results. Since the fault cannot be corrected through the JCR, it becomes a question of how do you use Web of Science to recover the lost data. If there is a solution to this problem, it should also be applicable to journals not covered in the JCRs. Stephen J. Bensman LSU Libraries Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA notsjb at lsu.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From notsjb at LSU.EDU Sat Feb 23 10:03:37 2008 From: notsjb at LSU.EDU (Stephen J Bensman) Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:03:37 -0600 Subject: JCR Total Cites Flaw Example Message-ID: Loet, The problem with the WoS is that it designed to retrieve by the year being cited and not by the year during which the citations are being made. To make sure that the title segments are equivalent, you have to be able to do the latter--define by the year during which the references are being made. The ISI instructor thought that it could be done but that it would take several steps in which to do this. For me this is crucial, because I think that total cites are better surrogates for what I needed--faculty ratings and library use. It was your paper that put me on to this, and I realized that in working with total cites, I was working with a random congomlerate not representative of what I need. This first thing you have to do is classify the data by biblliographic entry and subject, and it is not possible to do the former with the JCR. To emphasize the importance of this, I am now going to cite Karl Pearson: The importance of classification was emphasized by Karl Pearson (1911) in his magisterial work, The Grammar of Science, which he periodically revised and published in three editions from 1892 to 1911. In this book Pearson listed as a key feature of the scientific method the "[c]areful and accurate classification of facts and observation of their correlation and sequence" (p. 37). He drove this point home in the following passage: ...The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification--judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the individual mind--essentially sum up the aim and method of modern science. The scientific man has above all things to strive at self-elimination in his judgments, to provide an argument which is as true for each individual mind as for his own. The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming a judgment upon these facts unbiassed by personal feeling is characteristic of what may be termed the scientific frame of mind. (p. 6) In Pearson's opinion, "...whenever we come across a conclusion in a scientific work which does not flow from the classification of facts..., then we are dealing with bad science" (p. 10). SB ________________________________ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics on behalf of Loet Leydesdorff Sent: Sat 2/23/2008 2:45 AM To: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] JCR Total Cites Flaw Example Dear Stephen, I now realized that the total cites on the WoS are dependent on which year one has as a starting year. This is not the case for the JCR data. OK: let's wait for the reactions of the colleagues from Thomson/ISI. Best wishes, Loet ________________________________ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ ________________________________ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Stephen J Bensman Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 10:21 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] JCR Total Cites Flaw Example Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html I just did the cited reference search and got 2070. The problem I have with doing this is whether this is equivalent to the cites during a given JCR year. I have asked the ISI people on how to do this, and I will forward you their answer when I get it. When I discussed it with the ISI instructor, it seemed more complex than that. The problem is not getting the cites but restricting it to the cites during a given JCR year at least on the Web for the sake of equivalency. There also seemed problems of different forms of entry requiring Boolean operators for capturing. I hope to hear from her over the next week or so. I am sure that it can be done, but I like my facts from horses' mouths. Stephen J. Bensman LSU Libraries Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA notsjb at lsu.edu ________________________________ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Loet Leydesdorff Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 2:12 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] JCR Total Cites Flaw Example Dear Stephen, This is not so difficult: You go to the WoS, Cited Reference Search, and type in "ANIM LEARN BEHAV" as the journal abbreviation. This leads today to a total cites of 1,958. You can do the same with the CD-Rom version of the JCR. The JCR 2006, for example, gives you 1,803. On the webversion of the JCR, one can search with ISSN. Best wishes, Loet ________________________________ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ ________________________________ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu] On Behalf Of Stephen J Bensman Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 8:11 PM To: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu Subject: [SIGMETRICS] JCR Total Cites Flaw Example Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html Vis-?-vis what I wrote on the flaws of the JCR definition of bibliographic entity, I am posting the following concrete example In 2003 the journal Animal Learning & Behavior, which is published by the Psychonomic Society, changed its title. This title was published since 1973, and 30 volumes had been published at the time of the change. Its new title was Learning & Behavior, whose volume numbering began thus: Vol. 31, no. (Feb. 2003)-. As can be seen, the volume numbering is consecutive for the two titles, and it remained a journal of the Psychonomic Society. From the viewpoint of logic and AACR2 cataloging rules, these two titles form a single bibliographic entity, which we shall call a "journal." However, since these titles are not alphabetically consecutive, the JCR treats them as two different bibliographic entities, which we shall call "title segments." The JCR citation counts relate only to these title segments. In the 2004 JCR Learning & Behavior had 49 total cites and an impact factor of 1.030. Since Animal Learning & Behavior fell within the 2-year time limit of the impact factor, it was still covered. This title segment had 1,195 total cites and an impact factor of 2.059. Going forward now to the 2006 JCR, we find that Learning & Behavior has 241 total cites and an impact factor of 1.926. Since Animal Learning & Behavior is now outside the two-year impact factor limit, it has dropped from JCR coverage, and it is impossible to retrieve citation data on this title segment through the JCR. It is quite obvious from the above that 2006 JCR is giving quite a false picture of the importance of Learning & Behavior as measured by total cites, which I have found to be a better surrogate for expert ratings and library use than the impact factor. The historical perspective has been lost due to a logical flaw in the definition of a bibliographic entity. In any type of statistical research involving total cites, Learning & Behavior will appear as a screaming outlier that distorts all results. Since the fault cannot be corrected through the JCR, it becomes a question of how do you use Web of Science to recover the lost data. If there is a solution to this problem, it should also be applicable to journals not covered in the JCRs. Stephen J. Bensman LSU Libraries Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA notsjb at lsu.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Sat Feb 23 11:14:46 2008 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:14:46 +0100 Subject: JCR Total Cites Flaw Example In-Reply-To: <4928689828488E458AECE7AFDCB52CFE019AF1@email003.lsu.edu> Message-ID: Dear Stephen, Using the CD-Rom version of the JCR, one can retrieve 1803 total cites for "Anim Learn Behav" in 2006. However, in the webversion this number is no longer available (because of the two-year time windown for the impact factor). The WoS version of the database itself (SCI) I get 799 hits for "Anim Learn Behav" as cited reference work, but one would have to add the numbers in the column "citing articles" to find the number of "total cites." That is a lot of work. Best wishes, Loet _____ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ _____ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu] On Behalf Of Stephen J Bensman Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2008 4:04 PM To: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] JCR Total Cites Flaw Example Loet, The problem with the WoS is that it designed to retrieve by the year being cited and not by the year during which the citations are being made. To make sure that the title segments are equivalent, you have to be able to do the latter--define by the year during which the references are being made. The ISI instructor thought that it could be done but that it would take several steps in which to do this. For me this is crucial, because I think that total cites are better surrogates for what I needed--faculty ratings and library use. It was your paper that put me on to this, and I realized that in working with total cites, I was working with a random congomlerate not representative of what I need. This first thing you have to do is classify the data by biblliographic entry and subject, and it is not possible to do the former with the JCR. To emphasize the importance of this, I am now going to cite Karl Pearson: The importance of classification was emphasized by Karl Pearson (1911) in his magisterial work, The Grammar of Science, which he periodically revised and published in three editions from 1892 to 1911. In this book Pearson listed as a key feature of the scientific method the ?[c]areful and accurate classification of facts and observation of their correlation and sequence? (p. 37). He drove this point home in the following passage: ...The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification--judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the individual mind--essentially sum up the aim and method of modern science. The scientific man has above all things to strive at self-elimination in his judgments, to provide an argument which is as true for each individual mind as for his own. The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming a judgment upon these facts unbiassed by personal feeling is characteristic of what may be termed the scientific frame of mind. (p. 6) In Pearson?s opinion, ? whenever we come across a conclusion in a scientific work which does not flow from the classification of facts , then we are dealing with bad science? (p. 10). SB _____ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics on behalf of Loet Leydesdorff Sent: Sat 2/23/2008 2:45 AM To: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] JCR Total Cites Flaw Example Dear Stephen, I now realized that the total cites on the WoS are dependent on which year one has as a starting year. This is not the case for the JCR data. OK: let's wait for the reactions of the colleagues from Thomson/ISI. Best wishes, Loet _____ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ _____ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Stephen J Bensman Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 10:21 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] JCR Total Cites Flaw Example I just did the cited reference search and got 2070. The problem I have with doing this is whether this is equivalent to the cites during a given JCR year. I have asked the ISI people on how to do this, and I will forward you their answer when I get it. When I discussed it with the ISI instructor, it seemed more complex than that. The problem is not getting the cites but restricting it to the cites during a given JCR year at least on the Web for the sake of equivalency. There also seemed problems of different forms of entry requiring Boolean operators for capturing. I hope to hear from her over the next week or so. I am sure that it can be done, but I like my facts from horses? mouths. Stephen J. Bensman LSU Libraries Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA notsjb at lsu.edu _____ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Loet Leydesdorff Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 2:12 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] JCR Total Cites Flaw Example Dear Stephen, This is not so difficult: You go to the WoS, Cited Reference Search, and type in "ANIM LEARN BEHAV" as the journal abbreviation. This leads today to a total cites of 1,958. You can do the same with the CD-Rom version of the JCR. The JCR 2006, for example, gives you 1,803. On the webversion of the JCR, one can search with ISSN. Best wishes, Loet _____ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ _____ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu] On Behalf Of Stephen J Bensman Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 8:11 PM To: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu Subject: [SIGMETRICS] JCR Total Cites Flaw Example Vis-?-vis what I wrote on the flaws of the JCR definition of bibliographic entity, I am posting the following concrete example In 2003 the journal Animal Learning & Behavior, which is published by the Psychonomic Society, changed its title. This title was published since 1973, and 30 volumes had been published at the time of the change. Its new title was Learning & Behavior, whose volume numbering began thus: Vol. 31, no. (Feb. 2003)-. As can be seen, the volume numbering is consecutive for the two titles, and it remained a journal of the Psychonomic Society. From the viewpoint of logic and AACR2 cataloging rules, these two titles form a single bibliographic entity, which we shall call a ?journal.? However, since these titles are not alphabetically consecutive, the JCR treats them as two different bibliographic entities, which we shall call ?title segments.? The JCR citation counts relate only to these title segments. In the 2004 JCR Learning & Behavior had 49 total cites and an impact factor of 1.030. Since Animal Learning & Behavior fell within the 2-year time limit of the impact factor, it was still covered. This title segment had 1,195 total cites and an impact factor of 2.059. Going forward now to the 2006 JCR, we find that Learning & Behavior has 241 total cites and an impact factor of 1.926. Since Animal Learning & Behavior is now outside the two-year impact factor limit, it has dropped from JCR coverage, and it is impossible to retrieve citation data on this title segment through the JCR. It is quite obvious from the above that 2006 JCR is giving quite a false picture of the importance of Learning & Behavior as measured by total cites, which I have found to be a better surrogate for expert ratings and library use than the impact factor. The historical perspective has been lost due to a logical flaw in the definition of a bibliographic entity. In any type of statistical research involving total cites, Learning & Behavior will appear as a screaming outlier that distorts all results. Since the fault cannot be corrected through the JCR, it becomes a question of how do you use Web of Science to recover the lost data. If there is a solution to this problem, it should also be applicable to journals not covered in the JCRs. Stephen J. Bensman LSU Libraries Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA notsjb at lsu.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From notsjb at LSU.EDU Sat Feb 23 14:33:58 2008 From: notsjb at LSU.EDU (Stephen J Bensman) Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:33:58 -0600 Subject: JCR Total Cites Flaw Example Message-ID: Loet, Thanks for the information on the difference between the CD ROM version and Web version of the JCRs. When I return to work Monday, I will check whether LSU has the CD-ROM version. However, in 2004 we switched from the CD-ROM to the Web version, I thought this a big improvement as I had desktop delivery. LSU will not fork out for both versions, if it requires another subscription. However, it is surprising that Thomson would do such a thing--making a backward technology have more information than an advanced technology. LSU is trying to create a virtual library because the faculty do not want to come to a library in another building. They want desktop delivery, and so do I. Paper is out of the question, as a key physics journal grows at 15-20 linear feet per year, and we are out of physical capacity. If the CD-ROM version can do this, then it should be simple for them to make it a feature of the Web version. This is also a crucial issue for you, because the citing/cited, half-life etc. packages are all based on total cites. It means that if you cannot define your bibliographic entities properly, all your pretty pictures may not be true reflections of reality. SB ________________________________ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics on behalf of Loet Leydesdorff Sent: Sat 2/23/2008 10:14 AM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] JCR Total Cites Flaw Example Dear Stephen, Using the CD-Rom version of the JCR, one can retrieve 1803 total cites for "Anim Learn Behav" in 2006. However, in the webversion this number is no longer available (because of the two-year time windown for the impact factor). The WoS version of the database itself (SCI) I get 799 hits for "Anim Learn Behav" as cited reference work, but one would have to add the numbers in the column "citing articles" to find the number of "total cites." That is a lot of work. Best wishes, Loet ________________________________ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ ________________________________ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu] On Behalf Of Stephen J Bensman Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2008 4:04 PM To: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] JCR Total Cites Flaw Example Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html Loet, The problem with the WoS is that it designed to retrieve by the year being cited and not by the year during which the citations are being made. To make sure that the title segments are equivalent, you have to be able to do the latter--define by the year during which the references are being made. The ISI instructor thought that it could be done but that it would take several steps in which to do this. For me this is crucial, because I think that total cites are better surrogates for what I needed--faculty ratings and library use. It was your paper that put me on to this, and I realized that in working with total cites, I was working with a random congomlerate not representative of what I need. This first thing you have to do is classify the data by biblliographic entry and subject, and it is not possible to do the former with the JCR. To emphasize the importance of this, I am now going to cite Karl Pearson: The importance of classification was emphasized by Karl Pearson (1911) in his magisterial work, The Grammar of Science, which he periodically revised and published in three editions from 1892 to 1911. In this book Pearson listed as a key feature of the scientific method the "[c]areful and accurate classification of facts and observation of their correlation and sequence" (p. 37). He drove this point home in the following passage: ...The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification--judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the individual mind--essentially sum up the aim and method of modern science. The scientific man has above all things to strive at self-elimination in his judgments, to provide an argument which is as true for each individual mind as for his own. The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming a judgment upon these facts unbiassed by personal feeling is characteristic of what may be termed the scientific frame of mind. (p. 6) In Pearson's opinion, "...whenever we come across a conclusion in a scientific work which does not flow from the classification of facts..., then we are dealing with bad science" (p. 10). SB ________________________________ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics on behalf of Loet Leydesdorff Sent: Sat 2/23/2008 2:45 AM To: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] JCR Total Cites Flaw Example Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html Dear Stephen, I now realized that the total cites on the WoS are dependent on which year one has as a starting year. This is not the case for the JCR data. OK: let's wait for the reactions of the colleagues from Thomson/ISI. Best wishes, Loet ________________________________ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ ________________________________ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Stephen J Bensman Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 10:21 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] JCR Total Cites Flaw Example Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html I just did the cited reference search and got 2070. The problem I have with doing this is whether this is equivalent to the cites during a given JCR year. I have asked the ISI people on how to do this, and I will forward you their answer when I get it. When I discussed it with the ISI instructor, it seemed more complex than that. The problem is not getting the cites but restricting it to the cites during a given JCR year at least on the Web for the sake of equivalency. There also seemed problems of different forms of entry requiring Boolean operators for capturing. I hope to hear from her over the next week or so. I am sure that it can be done, but I like my facts from horses' mouths. Stephen J. Bensman LSU Libraries Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA notsjb at lsu.edu ________________________________ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Loet Leydesdorff Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 2:12 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] JCR Total Cites Flaw Example Dear Stephen, This is not so difficult: You go to the WoS, Cited Reference Search, and type in "ANIM LEARN BEHAV" as the journal abbreviation. This leads today to a total cites of 1,958. You can do the same with the CD-Rom version of the JCR. The JCR 2006, for example, gives you 1,803. On the webversion of the JCR, one can search with ISSN. Best wishes, Loet ________________________________ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ ________________________________ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu] On Behalf Of Stephen J Bensman Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 8:11 PM To: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu Subject: [SIGMETRICS] JCR Total Cites Flaw Example Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html Vis-?-vis what I wrote on the flaws of the JCR definition of bibliographic entity, I am posting the following concrete example In 2003 the journal Animal Learning & Behavior, which is published by the Psychonomic Society, changed its title. This title was published since 1973, and 30 volumes had been published at the time of the change. Its new title was Learning & Behavior, whose volume numbering began thus: Vol. 31, no. (Feb. 2003)-. As can be seen, the volume numbering is consecutive for the two titles, and it remained a journal of the Psychonomic Society. From the viewpoint of logic and AACR2 cataloging rules, these two titles form a single bibliographic entity, which we shall call a "journal." However, since these titles are not alphabetically consecutive, the JCR treats them as two different bibliographic entities, which we shall call "title segments." The JCR citation counts relate only to these title segments. In the 2004 JCR Learning & Behavior had 49 total cites and an impact factor of 1.030. Since Animal Learning & Behavior fell within the 2-year time limit of the impact factor, it was still covered. This title segment had 1,195 total cites and an impact factor of 2.059. Going forward now to the 2006 JCR, we find that Learning & Behavior has 241 total cites and an impact factor of 1.926. Since Animal Learning & Behavior is now outside the two-year impact factor limit, it has dropped from JCR coverage, and it is impossible to retrieve citation data on this title segment through the JCR. It is quite obvious from the above that 2006 JCR is giving quite a false picture of the importance of Learning & Behavior as measured by total cites, which I have found to be a better surrogate for expert ratings and library use than the impact factor. The historical perspective has been lost due to a logical flaw in the definition of a bibliographic entity. In any type of statistical research involving total cites, Learning & Behavior will appear as a screaming outlier that distorts all results. Since the fault cannot be corrected through the JCR, it becomes a question of how do you use Web of Science to recover the lost data. If there is a solution to this problem, it should also be applicable to journals not covered in the JCRs. Stephen J. Bensman LSU Libraries Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA notsjb at lsu.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Sun Feb 24 10:57:12 2008 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:57:12 +0100 Subject: ISI Parser Source Files In-Reply-To: <200802181813.m1IID8K8076394@ns-frankfurt.daze.net> Message-ID: Dear Sheri, I uploaded a new version of isi.exe at http://www.leydesdorff.net/software/isi.exe which includes the fields SC and ID. If anybody uses it and finds a bug, please, let me know. Best wishes, Loet _____ From: Sheri Ross [mailto:slw04f at fsu.edu] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 7:13 PM To: 'Loet Leydesdorff' Subject: ISI Parser Source Files Dear Dr. Leydesdorf, Hello again from Florida State. I hope you are well. I have been busy downloading data from ISI and parsing it with your program. I noticed that the parser does not pull out the keyword and subject information. I'd like to try to find a way to include these (SC and DE, and maybe ID) in the CORE output file. This type of data has a lot of analytical potential, I think. Last June, you offered to send me the source files. Would you please do so? I'm certainly not a computer scientist, but I'm hoping it will be a matter opening a text file, finding the correct pattern of code, copy/pasting a section, and then replacing the field abbreviations. If it's more complicated than that - and it probably is - then, I'll try to get one of our tech-focused faculty to assist me. Also, there are a number of mystery fields with numerical data, e.g. BP, EP, AR, PG, GA. I've not been able to match them to anything in the displayed record, nor have I been able to find a key to explain what they mean. Do you know where I might find such a key? Thank you very much, Sheri Sheri V. T. Ross Doctoral Candidate College of Information Florida State University slw04f at fsu.edu _____ From: loet at leydesdorff.net [mailto:leydesdorff at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Loet Leydesdorff Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 1:45 PM To: 'Sheri Webber' Subject: RE: Please lend your expertise Dear Sheri, Take a look at http://www.leydesdorff.net/software/isi . My program parses out the journal field from the Cited References in a separate column. I use it often. If it does not work, let me know. Then, we can make it working. The various files are dBase files (old-fashioned), but they can be related using MS Access. It saves you a lot of cutting-and-pasting and therefore unavoidably errors. You can have the source files if you wish. With best wishes, Loet _____ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ Now available: The Knowledge-Based Economy: Modeled, Measured, Simulated. 385 pp.; US$ 18.95 The Self-Organization of the Knowledge-Based Society; The Challenge of Scientometrics _____ From: Sheri Webber [mailto:slw04f at fsu.edu] Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 7:29 PM To: loet at leydesdorff.net Subject: Please lend your expertise Dear Professor Leydesdorff, I am preparing my dissertation prospectus and would like to confirm that the means of data collection that I am proposing is the most efficient available. I hope you will be kind enough to read the following few paragraphs and share your expert knowledge of ISI data sets. I am a librarian and a social scientist, not a computer scientist. However, for my dissertation, I am conducting a quantitative journal use study to lay the groundwork for future qualitative research. My few colleagues who have worked with citation data believe that my approach is the only possible - but, I want to be certain. I am interested in the frequency of citations made to all ISI journals by national groupings of authors (120 countries) each year over a period of eight. The journal abbreviations in the cited works field in the ISI record are matched against those in a journal table in Access which allows me to query citations (according to country and/or year) to journals with certain characteristics (place of publication, for instance). This all works fine. The collecting and organizing of the cited works data however, is time consuming as the raw article-level ISI file doesn't seem to lend itself to ready analysis- even simple ones. This is how I proceed. I conduct a search on country of author and limited by year. So, I receive all articles published by Nigerian authors in 2001, say. I import the file(s) to Excel, highlight the cited works column, and copy it. I then paste it into a text file and perform several find and replace tasks. I then import the cited works data into a new Excel worksheet and do a few sort/cell insert routines in order to correct for an apparent lack of place holders for empty fields. I add a column for the country and the year and the file is ready for import into Access. Again, this all works fine - I have Macros set up. It would be optimal to get as much of the original article level-data into my Access database as possible. This would allow me to add finer levels of analysis, querying by institution or author, for instance. From the ISI raw data set, I envision a related database with an author table, an institution table, a citations table and an article table that links them all together. However, I don't know how to get the data from its compressed format in Excel to a more usable format in Access in a reliable and efficient way. Like the cited works field, there are often multiple entries within the cell, and sequence relationships are also an issue. I don't have the technical expertise to do this type of mapping. Is there software available that automates this process or perhaps you could suggest a different approach? Thank you so much for reading all the way through my email. If you have any suggestions at all, I would be humbled if you would share them with me. Sheri Sheri V. T. Ross Doctoral Candidate College of Information Florida State University slw04f at fsu.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Feb 25 15:06:43 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:06:43 -0500 Subject: Donovan, C (Donovan, Claire) The hidden perils of citation counting for Australasian political science AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, 42 (4): 665-678 DEC 2007 - and reply by Goldfinch, S Message-ID: Email address: claire.donovan at anu.edu.au Author(s): Donovan, C (Donovan, Claire) Title: The hidden perils of citation counting for Australasian political science Source: AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, 42 (4): 665-678 DEC 2007 Language: English Document Type: Editorial Material Keywords Plus: SOCIAL-SCIENCES; SOCIOLOGY; DISCIPLINES; HUMANITIES; BOOKS Abstract: In a recent article in Australian Journal of Political Science, Dale and Goldfinch present 'standard' journal-based publication and citation rankings of Australasian political science departments designed to complement what they characterise as the multidisciplinary, historical, qualitative and humanistic political science of the region. However, the 'highly cited' articles in their top-ranked political science department belong to quantitative psychology. Through unravelling why their study favours the opposite of that which 4 was meant. to detect, this paper alerts political scientists to the hidden perils of accepting 'standard' Institute of Scientific Information-based approaches to citation counting as valid measures of research 'quality'. It exposes the veiled bibliometric assumption that the 'best' social science. is quantitative research, notes that incongruous citation scores may inform the distribution of block funding and departmental appointment processes, and warns against using 'standard' data to unintentionally self-police the future shape of Australasian political science. Cited Reference Count: 30 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD Publisher Address: 4 PARK SQUARE, MILTON PARK, ABINGDON OX14 4RN, OXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND ISSN: 1036-1146 *DEST RES QUAL FRAM ASS QU : 2006 *STAT OFF INV BRIT POT BUILD O : 2006 BOURKE P REPP MONOGRAPH SERIE 3 : 1996 BUTLER L P 9 INT C SCI TECHN : 31 2006 BUTLER L Extending citation analysis to non-source items SCIENTOMETRICS 66 : 327 DOI 10.1007/s11192-006-0024-1 2006 CLEMENS ES CAREERS IN PRINT - BOOKS, JOURNALS, AND SCHOLARLY REPUTATIONS AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY 101 : 433 1995 CRONIN B Comparative citation rankings of authors in monographic and journal literature: A study of sociology JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION 53 : 263 1997 DALE T Article citation rates and productivity of Australasian political science units 1995-2002 AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE 40 : 425 DOI 10.1080/10361140500203951 2005 DONOVAN C 053 REPP AUSTR NAT U : 2005 ESPELAND WN Commensuration as a social process ANNUAL REVIEW OF SOCIOLOGY 24 : 313 1998 GLANZEL W A bibliometric study of reference literature in the sciences and social sciences INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT 35 : 31 1999 GLASER J Why are the most influential books in Australian sociology necessarily the most cited ones? JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY 40 : 261 DOI 10.1177/1440783304046370 2004 GODIN B 1 INRS 2002 HICKS D HDB QUANTITATIVE SOC : 2004 HICKS D The difficulty of achieving full coverage of international social science literature and the bibliometric consequences SCIENTOMETRICS 44 : 193 1999 HICKS D SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE - A REFLEXIVE CITATION ANALYSIS OR SCIENCE DISCIPLINES AND DISCIPLINING SCIENCE SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE 21 : 459 1991 HIX S POLITICAL STUDIES RE 2 : 293 2004 KATZ JS BIBLIOMETRIC INDICAT : 1999 LUWEL M INDICATORS RES PERFO : 1999 MOED HF CITATION ANAL RES EV : 2005 NAJMAN JM The validity of publication and citation counts for Sociology and other selected disciplines JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY 39 : 62 2003 NEDERHOF AJ INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON OF DEPARTMENTS RESEARCH PERFORMANCE IN THE HUMANITIES JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE 43 : 249 1992 NEDERHOF AJ SCIENTOMETRICS 66 : 81 2006 NEDERHOF AJ ASSESSING THE USEFULNESS OF BIBLIOMETRIC INDICATORS FOR THE HUMANITIES AND THE SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL-SCIENCES - A COMPARATIVE-STUDY SCIENTOMETRICS 15 : 423 1989 ROYLE P AUSTR ACAD RES LIB 25 : 77 1994 RUBIO AV SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION OF SPANISH UNIVERSITIES IN THE FIELDS OF SOCIAL- SCIENCES AND LANGUAGE SCIENTOMETRICS 24 : 3 1992 SMALL HG SPECIALTIES AND DISCIPLINES IN SCIENCE AND SOCIAL-SCIENCE - EXAMINATION OF THEIR STRUCTURE USING CITATION INDEXES SCIENTOMETRICS 1 : 445 1979 VANLEEUWEN TN SCIENTOMETRICS 66 : 133 2006 VANRAAN AFJ RES EVALUAT 7 : 1 1998 VANRAAN AFJ TECHNIKFOLGENABSCHAT 12 : 20 2003 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Goldfinch, S (Goldfinch, Shaun) Measuring research and citation analyses in Australasian political science units: A reply to Donovan AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, 42 (4): 679-681 DEC 2007 Email address: shaun.goldfinch at stonebow.otago.ac.nz Author(s): Goldfinch, S (Goldfinch, Shaun) Title: Measuring research and citation analyses in Australasian political science units: A reply to Donovan Source: AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, 42 (4): 679-681 DEC 2007 Language: English Document Type: Editorial Material Keywords Plus: RATES Addresses: Amer Univ Sharjah, Sch Business & Management, Sharjah, U Arab Emirates Reprint Address: Goldfinch, S, Amer Univ Sharjah, Sch Business & Management, Sharjah, U Arab Emirates. Cited Reference Count: 5 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD Publisher Address: 4 PARK SQUARE, MILTON PARK, ABINGDON OX14 4RN, OXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND ISSN: 1036-1146 BOURKE P Publication types, citation rates and evaluation SCIENTOMETRICS 37 : 473 1996 DALE T Article citation rates and productivity of Australasian political science units 1995-2002 AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE 40 : 425 DOI 10.1080/10361140500203951 2005 GOLDFINCH S J CONT ISSUES BUSINE 7 : 5 2001 GOLDFINCH S Science from the periphery: Collaboration, networks and 'Periphery Effects' in the citation of New Zealand Crown Research Institutes articles, 1995-2000 SCIENTOMETRICS 57 : 321 2003 HIX S POLITICAL STUDIES RE 2 : 293 2004 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Feb 25 15:38:40 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:38:40 -0500 Subject: Greenwood, DC (Greenwood, Darren C.) Reliability of journal impact factor rankings BMC MEDICAL RESEARCH METHODOLOGY, 7: Art. No. 48 NOV 15 2007 Message-ID: E-mail Address: d.c.greenwood at leeds.ac.uk URL: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2288/7/48 Author(s): Greenwood, DC (Greenwood, Darren C.) Title: Reliability of journal impact factor rankings Source: BMC MEDICAL RESEARCH METHODOLOGY, 7: Art. No. 48 NOV 15 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Keywords Plus: GENERAL MEDICAL JOURNALS; CITATION ANALYSIS; LEAGUE TABLES; SCIENCE; QUALITY; ASSOCIATION; FREQUENCY; INDEXES; IDEAS; TOOL Abstract: Background: Journal impact factors and their ranks are used widely by journals, researchers, and research assessment exercises. Methods: Based on citations to journals in research and experimental medicine in 2005, Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo methods were used to estimate the uncertainty associated with these journal performance indicators. Results: Intervals representing plausible ranges of values for journal impact factor ranks indicated that most journals cannot be ranked with great precision. Only the top and bottom few journals could place any confidence in their rank position. Intervals were wider and overlapping for most journals. Conclusion: Decisions placed on journal impact factors are potentially misleading where the uncertainty associated with the measure is ignored. This article proposes that caution should be exercised in the interpretation of journal impact factors and their ranks, and specifically that a measure of uncertainty should be routinely presented alongside the point estimate. Addresses: Univ Leeds, Ctr Biostat & Epidemiol, Biostat Unit, Leeds, W Yorkshire, England Reprint Address: Greenwood, DC, Univ Leeds, Ctr Biostat & Epidemiol, Biostat Unit, Leeds, W Yorkshire, England. Cited Reference Count: 29 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: BIOMED CENTRAL LTD Publisher Address: MIDDLESEX HOUSE, 34-42 CLEVELAND ST, LONDON W1T 4LB, ENGLAND ISSN: 1471-2288 *DEP ED SKILLS REF HIGH ED RES ASS : 2006 *INT COMM MED J ED MED EDUC 33 : 66 1999 3. SCI INN INV FRAM 200 : 2006 BIRD SM J ROYAL STAT SOC A : 168 2005 BROOKS SP General methods for monitoring convergence of iterative simulations JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL AND GRAPHICAL STATISTICS 7 : 434 1998 EBRAHIM S Entelechy, citation indexes, and the association of ideas INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY 35 : 1117 DOI 10.1093/ije/dyl201 2006 GARFIELD E CITATION ANALYSIS STUDIES SCIENCE 189 : 397 1975 GARFIELD E CITATION ANALYSIS AS A TOOL IN JOURNAL EVALUATION - JOURNALS CAN BE RANKED BY FREQUENCY AND IMPACT OF CITATIONS FOR SCIENCE POLICY STUDIES SCIENCE 178 : 471 1972 GARFIELD E CITATION INDEXES FOR SCIENCE - NEW DIMENSION IN DOCUMENTATION THROUGH ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS SCIENCE 122 : 108 1955 GILKS WR MARKOV CHAIN M CARLO : 1996 GOLDSTEIN H League tables and their limitations: Statistical issues in comparisons of institutional performance JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY SERIES A-STATISTICS IN SOCIETY 159 : 385 1996 JANKE NC JOURNAL EVALUATION SCIENCE 182 : 1196 1973 JOSEPH KS Quality of impact factors of general medical journals BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 326 : 283 2003 KLERER M CITATION ANALYSIS SCIENCE 188 : 1064 1975 MARSHALL EC MULTILEVEL MODELLING : 127 2001 MARSHALL EC STAT ANAL MED DATA N : 229 1998 MARSHALL EG Reliability of league tables of in vitro fertilisation clinics: retrospective analysis of live birth rates BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 316 : 1701 1998 PORTA M Quality of impact factors of general medical journals - Quality matters - and the choice of indicator matters too BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 326 : 931 2003 PORTA M Commentary: The 'bibliographic impact factor' and the still uncharted sociology of epidemiology INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY 35 : 1130 DOI 10.1093/ije/dyl196 2006 ROSTAMIHODJEGAN A Journal impact factors: a 'bioequivalence' issue? BRITISH JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY 51 : 111 2001 SEGLEN PO THE SKEWNESS OF SCIENCE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE 43 : 628 1992 SEGLEN PO CITATION FREQUENCY AND JOURNAL IMPACT - VALID INDICATORS OF SCIENTIFIC QUALITY? JOURNAL OF INTERNAL MEDICINE 229 : 109 1991 SMITH R Commentary: The power of the unrelenting impact factor - Is it a force for good or harm? INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY 35 : 1129 DOI 10.1093/ije/dyl191 2006 SPIEGELHALTER DJ WINBUGS USER MANUAL : 2004 TAINER JA SCIENCE, CITATION, AND FUNDING SCIENCE 251 : 1408 1991 WADE N CITATION ANALYSIS - NEW TOOL FOR SCIENCE ADMINISTRATORS SCIENCE 188 : 429 1975 WARNER J A critical review of the application of citation studies to the Research Assessment Exercises JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE 26 : 453 2000 WEALE AR BMC MED RES METHODOL 4 : 14 2004 WILLIAMS G Should we ditch impact factors? Yes BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 334 : 568 2007 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Feb 26 14:46:38 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:46:38 -0500 Subject: Leydesdorff, L (Leydesdorff, Loet) On the normalization and visualization of author co-citation data: Salton's cosine versus the Jaccard index JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 59 (1): 77-85 JAN 1 2008 Message-ID: E-mail Address: loet at leydesdorff.net Author(s): Leydesdorff, L (Leydesdorff, Loet) Title: On the normalization and visualization of author co-citation data: Salton's cosine versus the Jaccard index Source: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 59 (1): 77-85 JAN 1 2008 Document Type: Article Keywords Plus: SIMILARITY MEASURES; PEARSONS-R; COLLABORATION; SCIENCE Abstract: The debate about which similarity measure one should use for the normalization in the case of Author Co-citation Analysis (ACA) is further complicated when one distinguishes between the symmetrical co-citation-or, more generally, co-occurrence-matrix and the underlying asymmetrical citation-occurrence-matrix. In the Web environment, the approach of retrieving original citation data is often not feasible. In that case, one should use the Jaccard index, but preferentially after adding the number of total citations (i.e., occurrences) on the main diagonal. Unlike Salton's cosine and the Pearson correlation, the Jaccard index abstracts from the shape of the distributions and focuses only on the intersection and the sum of the two sets. Since the correlations in the co-occurrence matrix may be spurious, this property of the Jaccard index can be considered as an advantage in this case. Addresses: Amsterdam Sch Commun Res, NL-1012 CX Amsterdam, Netherlands Reprint Address: Leydesdorff, L, Amsterdam Sch Commun Res, Kloveniersbrugwal 48, NL-1012 CX Amsterdam, Netherlands. E-mail Address: loet at leydesdorff.net Cited Reference Count: 29 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: JOHN WILEY & SONS INC Publisher Address: 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN, NJ 07030 USA ISSN: 1532-2882 AHLGREN P Author cocitation analysis and Pearson's r JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 55 : 843 DOI 10.1002/asi.20030 2004 AHLGREN P Requirements for a cocitation similarity measure, with special reference to Pearson's correlation coefficient JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 54 : 550 DOI 10.1002/asi.10242 2003 BENSMAN SJ Pearson's r and author cocitation analysis: A commentary on the controversy JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 55 : 935 DOI 10.1002/asi.20028 2004 BORGATTI SP UCINET WINDOWS SOFTW : 2002 EGGHE L INTRO INFORMETRICS A : 1990 GLANZEL W National characteristics in international scientific co-authorship relations SCIENTOMETRICS 51 : 69 2001 HAMERS L SIMILARITY MEASURES IN SCIENTOMETRIC RESEARCH - THE JACCARD INDEX VERSUS SALTON COSINE FORMULA INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT 25 : 315 1989 JACCARD P B SOC VAUD SCI NAT 37 : 241 1901 JONES WP PICTURES OF RELEVANCE - A GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF SIMILARITY MEASURES JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE 38 : 420 1987 KAMADA T AN ALGORITHM FOR DRAWING GENERAL UNDIRECTED GRAPHS INFORMATION PROCESSING LETTERS 31 : 7 1989 KENNY DA DYADIC DATA ANAL : 2006 LEYDESDORFF L INFORMETRICS 87 : 105 1988 LEYDESDORFF L Co-occurrence matrices and their applications in information science: Extending ACA to the Web environment JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 57 : 1616 DOI 10.1002/asi.20335 2006 LEYDESDORFF L Similarity measures, author cocitation analysis, and information theory JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 56 : 769 DOI 10.1002/asi.20130 2005 LEYDESDORFF L J AM SOC INFORM SCI : 2007 LIPKUS AH A proof of the triangle inequality for the Tanimoto distance JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL CHEMISTRY 26 : 263 1999 LUUKKONEN T THE MEASUREMENT OF INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION SCIENTOMETRICS 28 : 15 1993 MICHELET B THESIS U PARIS 7 PAR : 1988 SALTON G INTRO MODERN INFORM : 1983 SCHNEIDER JW Matrix comparison, part 1: Motivation and important issues for measuring the resemblance between proximity measures or ordination results JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 58 : 1586 DOI 10.1002/asi.20643 2007 SMALL H COCITATION IN SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE - NEW MEASURE OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN 2 DOCUMENTS JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE 24 : 265 1973 TANIMOTO TT IBM TECHNICAL REPORT : 1957 VANRIJSBERGEN CJ THEORETICAL BASIS FOR USE OF CO-OCCURRENCE DATA IN INFORMATION-RETRIEVAL JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION 33 : 106 1977 WAGNER C INT J TECHNOLOGY GLO 1 : 185 2005 WALTMAN L Some comments on the question whether co-occurrence data should be normalized JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 58 : 1701 DOI 10.1002/asi.20647 2007 WHITE HD Author cocitation analysis and Pearson's r - Reply JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 55 : 843 DOI 10.1002/asi.20032 2004 WHITE HD Author cocitation analysis and Pearson's r JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 54 : 1250 DOI 10.1002/asi.10325 2003 WHITE HD AUTHOR COCITATION - A LITERATURE MEASURE OF INTELLECTUAL STRUCTURE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE 32 : 163 1981 ZITT M Shadows of the past in international cooperation: Collaboration profiles of the top five producers of science SCIENTOMETRICS 47 : 627 2000 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Feb 26 15:39:33 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:39:33 -0500 Subject: Bollen, J; van de Sompel, H Usage Impact Factor: The effects of sample characteristics on usage-based impact metrics JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 59 (1): 136-149 JAN 1 2008 Message-ID: E-mail Address: jbollen at lanl.gov; herbertv at lanl.gov Author(s): Bollen, J (Bollen, Johan); van de Sompel, H (van de Sompel, Herbert) Title: Usage Impact Factor: The effects of sample characteristics on usage- based impact metrics Source: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 59 (1): 136-149 JAN 1 2008 Language: English Document Type: Article Keywords Plus: CITATION ANALYSES; DIGITAL LIBRARY; JOURNAL IMPACT; SCIENCE; PUBLICATION; INFORMATION; STATISTICS; READERSHIP; NONSENSE; SYSTEM Abstract: There exist ample demonstrations that indicators of scholarly impact analogous to the citation-based ISI Impact Factor can be derived from usage data; however, so far, usage can practically be recorded only at the level of distinct information services. This leads to community- specific assessments of scholarly impact that are difficult to generalize to the global scholarly community. In contrast, the ISI Impact Factor is based on citation data and thereby represents the global community of scholarly authors. The objective of this study is to examine the effects of community characteristics on assessments of scholarly impact from usage. We define a journal Usage Impact Factor that mimics the definition of the Thomson Scientific ISI Impact Factor. Usage Impact Factor rankings are calculated on the basis of a large-scale usage dataset recorded by the linking servers of the California State University system from 2003 to 2005. The resulting journal rankings are then compared to the Thomson Scientific ISI Impact Factor that is used as a reference indicator of general impact. Our results indicate that the particular scientific and demographic characteristics of a discipline have a strong effect on resulting usage-based assessments of scholarly impact. In particular, we observed that as the number of graduate students and faculty increases in a particular discipline, Usage Impact Factor rankings will converge more strongly with the ISI Impact Factor. Addresses: Los Alamos Natl Lab, Digital Lib Res & Prototyping Team, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA Reprint Address: Bollen, J, Los Alamos Natl Lab, Digital Lib Res & Prototyping Team, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA. E-mail Address: jbollen at lanl.gov; herbertv at lanl.gov Cited Reference Count: 42 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: JOHN WILEY & SONS INC Publisher Address: 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN, NJ 07030 USA ISSN: 1532-2882 NATURE 435 : 1003 2005 *AN STAT DIV STAT ABSTR 2004 2005 : 2004 *MED PLOS MED 3 : 2006 BOLLEN J D LIB MAGAZINE 8 : 2002 BOLLEN J Toward alternative metrics of journal impact: A comparison of download and citation data INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT 41 : 1419 DOI 10.1016/j.ipm.2005.03.024 2005 BOLLEN J JOINT C DIG LIBRARIE : 298 2006 BOLLEN J Detecting research trends in digital library readership RESEARCH AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY FOR DIGITAL LIBRARIES 2769 : 24 2003 BOLLEN J Mapping the structure of science through usage SCIENTOMETRICS 69 : 227 DOI 10.1007/s11192-006-0151-8 2006 BRODY T Earlier web usage statistics as predictors of later citation impact JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 57 : 1060 DOI 10.1002/asi.20373 2006 CHANDLER A GRAIN 18 : 82 2006 DARMONI SJ Reading factor: a new bibliometric criterion for managing digital libraries JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 90 : 323 2002 DAVIS PM eJournal interface can influence usage statistics: Implications for libraries, publishers, and project COUNTER JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 57 : 1243 DOI 10.1002/asi.20405 2006 FRANKLIN B Library usage patterns in the electronic information environment INFORMATION RESEARCH-AN INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONIC JOURNAL 9 : ARTN 187 2004 GALLAGHER J Evidence-based librarianship: Utilizing data from all available sources to make judicious print cancellation decisions LIBRARY COLLECTIONS ACQUISITIONS & TECHNICAL SERVICES 29 : 169 DOI 10.1016/j.lcats.2005.04.004 2005 GALVIN TJ USE OF A UNIVERSITY-LIBRARY COLLECTION - PROGRESS REPORT ON A PITTSBURGH STUDY LIBRARY JOURNAL 102 : 2317 1977 GARFIELD E Journal impact factor: a brief review CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL 161 : 979 1999 GARFIELD E CITATION INDEXING IT : 1979 GROOTE SL B MED LIB ASS 89 : 372 2001 KING DW D LIB MAGAZINE 12 : 2006 KURTZ MJ Worldwide use and impact of the NASA astrophysics data system digital library JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 56 : 36 DOI 10.1002/asi.20095 2005 KURTZ MJ The bibliometric properties of article readership information JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 56 : 111 DOI 10.1002/asi.20096 2005 LUTHER J J ELECT PUBLISHING 6 : 2006 LUWEL M Publication delays in the science field and their relationship to the ageing of scientific literature SCIENTOMETRICS 41 : 29 1998 MACROBERTS MH PROBLEMS OF CITATION ANALYSIS - A CRITICAL-REVIEW JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE 40 : 342 1989 MCDONALD JD J AM SOC INFORM SCI 57 : 39 2006 MOED HF Statistical relationships between downloads and citations at the level of individual documents within a single journal JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 56 : 1088 DOI 10.1002/asi.20200 2005 MONASTERSKY R CHRON HIGHER EDUC 52 : A12 2005 NICHOLAS D Revisiting 'obsolescence' and journal article 'decay' through usage data: an analysis of digital journal use by year of publication INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT 41 : 1441 DOI 10.1016/j.ipm.2005.03.014 2005 OPTHOF T Sense and nonsense about the impact factor CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH 33 : 1 1997 PERNEGER TV Relation between online "hit counts" and subsequent citations: prospective study of research papers in the BMJ BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 329 : 546 2004 REEDIJK J Sense and nonsense of science citation analyses: comments on the monopoly position of ISI and citation inaccuracies. Risks of possible misuse and biased citation and impact data. NEW JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY 22 : 767 1998 RINIA EJ Citation delay in interdisciplinary knowledge exchange SCIENTOMETRICS 51 : 293 2001 SAHA S Impact factor: a valid measure of journal quality? JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 91 : 42 2003 SCALES PA CITATION ANALYSES AS INDICATORS OF USE OF SERIALS - COMPARISON OF RANKED TITLE LISTS PRODUCED BY CITATION COUNTING AND FROM USE DATA JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION 32 : 17 1976 SHEPHERD PT J INFORM PROCESSING 47 : 245 2004 SHEPHERD PT J SERIALS COMMUNITY 20 : 117 DOI 10.1629/20117 2007 TSAY MY The relationship between journal use in a medical library and citation use BULLETIN OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 86 : 31 1998 VANDESOMPEL H D LIB MAGAZINE 7 : 2001 VANDESOMPEL H D LIB MAGAZINE 1 5 : 1999 VANDESOMPEL H D LIB MAGAZINE 2 5 : 1999 WEINGART P Impact of bibliometrics upon the science system: Inadvertent consequences? SCIENTOMETRICS 62 : 117 2005 WINSHIP C ANNU REV SOCIOL 18 : 237 1992 From MOGOTSIC at MOPIPI.UB.BW Wed Feb 27 08:31:17 2008 From: MOGOTSIC at MOPIPI.UB.BW (Mogotsi I C Mr, Acc & Fin) Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:31:17 +0200 Subject: ISI Parser Source Files In-Reply-To: A<004601c876fd$eb9e1b30$6402a8c0@loet> Message-ID: I am unable to reach this file -> "page cannot found". I would really be interested in getting the software. Kind regards, Isaac ________________________________ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Loet Leydesdorff Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 5:57 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] ISI Parser Source Files Dear Sheri, I uploaded a new version of isi.exe at http://www.leydesdorff.net/software/isi.exe which includes the fields SC and ID. If anybody uses it and finds a bug, please, let me know. Best wishes, Loet ________________________________ From: Sheri Ross [mailto:slw04f at fsu.edu] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 7:13 PM To: 'Loet Leydesdorff' Subject: ISI Parser Source Files Dear Dr. Leydesdorf, Hello again from Florida State. I hope you are well. I have been busy downloading data from ISI and parsing it with your program. I noticed that the parser does not pull out the keyword and subject information. I'd like to try to find a way to include these (SC and DE, and maybe ID) in the CORE output file. This type of data has a lot of analytical potential, I think. Last June, you offered to send me the source files. Would you please do so? I'm certainly not a computer scientist, but I'm hoping it will be a matter opening a text file, finding the correct pattern of code, copy/pasting a section, and then replacing the field abbreviations. If it's more complicated than that - and it probably is - then, I'll try to get one of our tech-focused faculty to assist me. Also, there are a number of mystery fields with numerical data, e.g. BP, EP, AR, PG, GA. I've not been able to match them to anything in the displayed record, nor have I been able to find a key to explain what they mean. Do you know where I might find such a key? Thank you very much, Sheri Sheri V. T. Ross Doctoral Candidate College of Information Florida State University slw04f at fsu.edu ________________________________ From: loet at leydesdorff.net [mailto:leydesdorff at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Loet Leydesdorff Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 1:45 PM To: 'Sheri Webber' Subject: RE: Please lend your expertise Dear Sheri, Take a look at http://www.leydesdorff.net/software/isi . My program parses out the journal field from the Cited References in a separate column. I use it often. If it does not work, let me know. Then, we can make it working. The various files are dBase files (old-fashioned), but they can be related using MS Access. It saves you a lot of cutting-and-pasting and therefore unavoidably errors. You can have the source files if you wish. With best wishes, Loet ________________________________ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ Now available: The Knowledge-Based Economy: Modeled, Measured, Simulated . 385 pp.; US$ 18.95 The Self-Organization of the Knowledge-Based Society ; The Challenge of Scientometrics ________________________________ From: Sheri Webber [mailto:slw04f at fsu.edu] Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 7:29 PM To: loet at leydesdorff.net Subject: Please lend your expertise Dear Professor Leydesdorff, I am preparing my dissertation prospectus and would like to confirm that the means of data collection that I am proposing is the most efficient available. I hope you will be kind enough to read the following few paragraphs and share your expert knowledge of ISI data sets. I am a librarian and a social scientist, not a computer scientist. However, for my dissertation, I am conducting a quantitative journal use study to lay the groundwork for future qualitative research. My few colleagues who have worked with citation data believe that my approach is the only possible - but, I want to be certain. I am interested in the frequency of citations made to all ISI journals by national groupings of authors (120 countries) each year over a period of eight. The journal abbreviations in the cited works field in the ISI record are matched against those in a journal table in Access which allows me to query citations (according to country and/or year) to journals with certain characteristics (place of publication, for instance). This all works fine. The collecting and organizing of the cited works data however, is time consuming as the raw article-level ISI file doesn't seem to lend itself to ready analysis- even simple ones. This is how I proceed. I conduct a search on country of author and limited by year. So, I receive all articles published by Nigerian authors in 2001, say. I import the file(s) to Excel, highlight the cited works column, and copy it. I then paste it into a text file and perform several find and replace tasks. I then import the cited works data into a new Excel worksheet and do a few sort/cell insert routines in order to correct for an apparent lack of place holders for empty fields. I add a column for the country and the year and the file is ready for import into Access. Again, this all works fine - I have Macros set up. It would be optimal to get as much of the original article level-data into my Access database as possible. This would allow me to add finer levels of analysis, querying by institution or author, for instance. From the ISI raw data set, I envision a related database with an author table, an institution table, a citations table and an article table that links them all together. However, I don't know how to get the data from its compressed format in Excel to a more usable format in Access in a reliable and efficient way. Like the cited works field, there are often multiple entries within the cell, and sequence relationships are also an issue. I don't have the technical expertise to do this type of mapping. Is there software available that automates this process or perhaps you could suggest a different approach? Thank you so much for reading all the way through my email. If you have any suggestions at all, I would be humbled if you would share them with me. Sheri Sheri V. T. 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What to Believe? -- Maryam Moayeri -- Keywords: Information seeking behavior; Search engines; Students; Education -- http://www.webology.ir/2007/v4n4/a47.html - Location-Based Search Engines Tasks and Capabilities: A Comparative Study -- Saeid Asadi, Xiaofang Zhou, Hamid R. 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Jamali -- http://www.webology.ir/2007/v4n4/bookreview11.html ----------------------------------------- Call for Papers: -- http://www.webology.ir/cfp.html ========================================= Best regards, Alireza Noruzi, PhD Editor-in-Chief of Webology ~ The great aim of Open Access journals is knowledge sharing. ~ From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Wed Feb 27 09:12:02 2008 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:12:02 +0100 Subject: ISI Parser Source Files In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Isaac, The page address is: http://users.fmg.uva.nl/lleydesdorff/software/isi/index.htm My apologies. Best wishes, Loet _____ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ _____ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Mogotsi I C Mr, Acc & Fin Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 2:31 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] ISI Parser Source Files I am unable to reach this file -> "page cannot found". I would really be interested in getting the software. Kind regards, Isaac _____ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Loet Leydesdorff Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 5:57 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] ISI Parser Source Files Dear Sheri, I uploaded a new version of isi.exe at http://www.leydesdorff.net/software/isi.exe which includes the fields SC and ID. If anybody uses it and finds a bug, please, let me know. Best wishes, Loet _____ From: Sheri Ross [mailto:slw04f at fsu.edu] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 7:13 PM To: 'Loet Leydesdorff' Subject: ISI Parser Source Files Dear Dr. Leydesdorf, Hello again from Florida State. I hope you are well. I have been busy downloading data from ISI and parsing it with your program. I noticed that the parser does not pull out the keyword and subject information. I'd like to try to find a way to include these (SC and DE, and maybe ID) in the CORE output file. This type of data has a lot of analytical potential, I think. Last June, you offered to send me the source files. Would you please do so? I'm certainly not a computer scientist, but I'm hoping it will be a matter opening a text file, finding the correct pattern of code, copy/pasting a section, and then replacing the field abbreviations. If it's more complicated than that - and it probably is - then, I'll try to get one of our tech-focused faculty to assist me. Also, there are a number of mystery fields with numerical data, e.g. BP, EP, AR, PG, GA. I've not been able to match them to anything in the displayed record, nor have I been able to find a key to explain what they mean. Do you know where I might find such a key? Thank you very much, Sheri Sheri V. T. Ross Doctoral Candidate College of Information Florida State University slw04f at fsu.edu _____ From: loet at leydesdorff.net [mailto:leydesdorff at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Loet Leydesdorff Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 1:45 PM To: 'Sheri Webber' Subject: RE: Please lend your expertise Dear Sheri, Take a look at http://www.leydesdorff.net/software/isi . My program parses out the journal field from the Cited References in a separate column. I use it often. If it does not work, let me know. Then, we can make it working. The various files are dBase files (old-fashioned), but they can be related using MS Access. It saves you a lot of cutting-and-pasting and therefore unavoidably errors. You can have the source files if you wish. With best wishes, Loet _____ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ Now available: The Knowledge-Based Economy: Modeled, Measured, Simulated. 385 pp.; US$ 18.95 The Self-Organization of the Knowledge-Based Society; The Challenge of Scientometrics _____ From: Sheri Webber [mailto:slw04f at fsu.edu] Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 7:29 PM To: loet at leydesdorff.net Subject: Please lend your expertise Dear Professor Leydesdorff, I am preparing my dissertation prospectus and would like to confirm that the means of data collection that I am proposing is the most efficient available. I hope you will be kind enough to read the following few paragraphs and share your expert knowledge of ISI data sets. I am a librarian and a social scientist, not a computer scientist. However, for my dissertation, I am conducting a quantitative journal use study to lay the groundwork for future qualitative research. My few colleagues who have worked with citation data believe that my approach is the only possible - but, I want to be certain. I am interested in the frequency of citations made to all ISI journals by national groupings of authors (120 countries) each year over a period of eight. The journal abbreviations in the cited works field in the ISI record are matched against those in a journal table in Access which allows me to query citations (according to country and/or year) to journals with certain characteristics (place of publication, for instance). This all works fine. The collecting and organizing of the cited works data however, is time consuming as the raw article-level ISI file doesn't seem to lend itself to ready analysis- even simple ones. This is how I proceed. I conduct a search on country of author and limited by year. So, I receive all articles published by Nigerian authors in 2001, say. I import the file(s) to Excel, highlight the cited works column, and copy it. I then paste it into a text file and perform several find and replace tasks. I then import the cited works data into a new Excel worksheet and do a few sort/cell insert routines in order to correct for an apparent lack of place holders for empty fields. I add a column for the country and the year and the file is ready for import into Access. Again, this all works fine - I have Macros set up. It would be optimal to get as much of the original article level-data into my Access database as possible. This would allow me to add finer levels of analysis, querying by institution or author, for instance. From the ISI raw data set, I envision a related database with an author table, an institution table, a citations table and an article table that links them all together. However, I don't know how to get the data from its compressed format in Excel to a more usable format in Access in a reliable and efficient way. Like the cited works field, there are often multiple entries within the cell, and sequence relationships are also an issue. I don't have the technical expertise to do this type of mapping. Is there software available that automates this process or perhaps you could suggest a different approach? Thank you so much for reading all the way through my email. If you have any suggestions at all, I would be humbled if you would share them with me. Sheri Sheri V. T. Ross Doctoral Candidate College of Information Florida State University slw04f at fsu.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Feb 27 14:44:52 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:44:52 -0500 Subject: Accomazzi, A; Eichhorn, G; Kurtz, MJ; Grant, CS; Henneken, E; Demleitner, M; Thompson, D; Bohlen, E; Murray, SS Creation and use of citations in the ADS LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICES IN ASTRONOMY V: COMMON CHALLENGES, UNCOMMON SOLUTIONS 69-78, 2007 Message-ID: Email Address: aaccomazzi at cfa.harvard.edu Author(s): Accomazzi, A (Accomazzi, Alberto); Eichhorn, G (Eichhorn, Guenther); Kurtz, MJ (Kurtz, Michael J.); Grant, CS (Grant, Carolyn S.); Henneken, E (Henneken, Edwin); Demleitner, M (Demleitner, Markus); Thompson, D (Thompson, Donna); Bohlen, E (Bohlen, Elizabeth); Murray, SS (Murray, Stephen S.) Title: Creation and use of citations in the ADS Editor(s): Ricketts, S; Birdie, C; Isaksson, E Source: LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICES IN ASTRONOMY V: COMMON CHALLENGES, UNCOMMON SOLUTIONS 69-78, 2007 Book Series: ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC CONFERENCE SERIES, 377 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 5th Library and Information Services in Astronomy Conference Conference Date: JUN 18-21, 2006 Conference Location: Cambridge, MA Abstract: With over 20 million records, the ADS citation database is regularly used by researchers and librarians to measure the scientific impact of individuals, groups, and institutions. In addition to the traditional sources of citations, the ADS has recently added references extracted from the arXiv e-prints on a nightly basis. We review the procedures used to harvest and identify the reference data used in the creation of citations, the policies and procedures that we follow to avoid double-counting and to eliminate contributions which may not be scholarly in nature. Finally, we describe how users and institutions can easily obtain quantitative citation data from the ADS, both interactively and via web-based programming tools. Addresses: Harvard Smithsonian Ctr Astrophys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA. Publisher Name: ASTRONOMICAL SOC PACIFIC Publisher Address: 390 ASHTON AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112 USA ISBN: 978-1-58381-316-4 Cited Reference Count: 7 ACCOMAZZI A The ADS bibliographic reference resolver ASTRONOMICAL DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE AND SYSTEMS VIII 172 : 291 1999 DEMLEITNER M CLASSIFICATION CLUST : 521 2004 HENNEKEN E ARXIVCS0608027 : 2006 KURTZ MJ BAAS 35 : 1241 2003 KURTZ MJ Title Not Available INFORM PROCESS MANAG 41 : 1395 2005 KURTZ MJ Second order bibliometric operators in the astrophysics data system ASTRONOMICAL DATA ANALYSIS II 4847 : 238 2002 STEVENRAYBURN S P LIB INF SERV ASTR 4 : 185 2003 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Feb 27 15:04:16 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:04:16 -0500 Subject: Isaksson, E (Isaksson, Eva) Bibliometric evaluation of Finnish astronomy LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICES IN ASTRONOMY V: COMMON CHALLENGES, UNCOMMON SOLUTIONS 111-114, 2007 Message-ID: Email Address: Eva.Isaksson at Helsinki.Fi Author(s): Isaksson, E (Isaksson, Eva) Title: Bibliometric evaluation of Finnish astronomy Editor(s): Ricketts, S; Birdie, C; Isaksson, E Source: LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICES IN ASTRONOMY V: COMMON CHALLENGES, UNCOMMON SOLUTIONS 111-114, 2007 Book Series: ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC CONFERENCE SERIES, 377 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: 5th Library and Information Services in Astronomy Conference Conference Date: JUN 18-21, 2006 Conference Location: Cambridge, MA Abstract: Finnish astronomy publishing provides us with an interesting data sample. It is small but not too small: approximately one thousand articles have been published in a decade. There are only four astronomy institutes to be compared. An interesting paradox also emerges in the field: while Finnish science assessments usually value highly the impact of scientific publishing, no serious evaluations using real bibliometric data have been made. To remedy this, a comprehensive ten-year database of refereed papers was collected and analyzed. Addresses: Univ Helsinki, Helsinki, FIN-00014 Finland. Publisher Name: ASTRONOMICAL SOC PACIFIC Publisher Address: 390 ASHTON AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112 USA ISBN: 978-1-58381-316-4 Cited Reference Count: 5 EV FINN ASTR 2000 : 2000 ABT H BAAS 36 : 948 2004 PERSSON O 4800 VTT 2004 SANDQVIST A ARXIVASTROPH0403184 : 2004 WOLTJER L EUROPES QUEST UNIVER : 2006 From MOGOTSIC at MOPIPI.UB.BW Thu Feb 28 07:33:07 2008 From: MOGOTSIC at MOPIPI.UB.BW (Mogotsi I C Mr, Acc & Fin) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:33:07 +0200 Subject: ISI Parser Source Files In-Reply-To: A<006001c8794a$bc4a5cf0$6402a8c0@loet> Message-ID: Loet, A billion thanks, Isaac ________________________________ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Loet Leydesdorff Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 4:12 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] ISI Parser Source Files Dear Isaac, The page address is: http://users.fmg.uva.nl/lleydesdorff/software/isi/index.htm My apologies. Best wishes, Loet ________________________________ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ ________________________________ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Mogotsi I C Mr, Acc & Fin Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 2:31 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] ISI Parser Source Files Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html I am unable to reach this file -> "page cannot found". I would really be interested in getting the software. Kind regards, Isaac ________________________________ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Loet Leydesdorff Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 5:57 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] ISI Parser Source Files Dear Sheri, I uploaded a new version of isi.exe at http://www.leydesdorff.net/software/isi.exe which includes the fields SC and ID. If anybody uses it and finds a bug, please, let me know. Best wishes, Loet ________________________________ From: Sheri Ross [mailto:slw04f at fsu.edu] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 7:13 PM To: 'Loet Leydesdorff' Subject: ISI Parser Source Files Dear Dr. Leydesdorf, Hello again from Florida State. I hope you are well. I have been busy downloading data from ISI and parsing it with your program. I noticed that the parser does not pull out the keyword and subject information. I'd like to try to find a way to include these (SC and DE, and maybe ID) in the CORE output file. This type of data has a lot of analytical potential, I think. Last June, you offered to send me the source files. Would you please do so? I'm certainly not a computer scientist, but I'm hoping it will be a matter opening a text file, finding the correct pattern of code, copy/pasting a section, and then replacing the field abbreviations. If it's more complicated than that - and it probably is - then, I'll try to get one of our tech-focused faculty to assist me. Also, there are a number of mystery fields with numerical data, e.g. BP, EP, AR, PG, GA. I've not been able to match them to anything in the displayed record, nor have I been able to find a key to explain what they mean. Do you know where I might find such a key? Thank you very much, Sheri Sheri V. T. Ross Doctoral Candidate College of Information Florida State University slw04f at fsu.edu ________________________________ From: loet at leydesdorff.net [mailto:leydesdorff at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Loet Leydesdorff Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 1:45 PM To: 'Sheri Webber' Subject: RE: Please lend your expertise Dear Sheri, Take a look at http://www.leydesdorff.net/software/isi . My program parses out the journal field from the Cited References in a separate column. I use it often. If it does not work, let me know. Then, we can make it working. The various files are dBase files (old-fashioned), but they can be related using MS Access. It saves you a lot of cutting-and-pasting and therefore unavoidably errors. You can have the source files if you wish. With best wishes, Loet ________________________________ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ Now available: The Knowledge-Based Economy: Modeled, Measured, Simulated . 385 pp.; US$ 18.95 The Self-Organization of the Knowledge-Based Society ; The Challenge of Scientometrics ________________________________ From: Sheri Webber [mailto:slw04f at fsu.edu] Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 7:29 PM To: loet at leydesdorff.net Subject: Please lend your expertise Dear Professor Leydesdorff, I am preparing my dissertation prospectus and would like to confirm that the means of data collection that I am proposing is the most efficient available. I hope you will be kind enough to read the following few paragraphs and share your expert knowledge of ISI data sets. I am a librarian and a social scientist, not a computer scientist. However, for my dissertation, I am conducting a quantitative journal use study to lay the groundwork for future qualitative research. My few colleagues who have worked with citation data believe that my approach is the only possible - but, I want to be certain. I am interested in the frequency of citations made to all ISI journals by national groupings of authors (120 countries) each year over a period of eight. The journal abbreviations in the cited works field in the ISI record are matched against those in a journal table in Access which allows me to query citations (according to country and/or year) to journals with certain characteristics (place of publication, for instance). This all works fine. The collecting and organizing of the cited works data however, is time consuming as the raw article-level ISI file doesn't seem to lend itself to ready analysis- even simple ones. This is how I proceed. I conduct a search on country of author and limited by year. So, I receive all articles published by Nigerian authors in 2001, say. I import the file(s) to Excel, highlight the cited works column, and copy it. I then paste it into a text file and perform several find and replace tasks. I then import the cited works data into a new Excel worksheet and do a few sort/cell insert routines in order to correct for an apparent lack of place holders for empty fields. I add a column for the country and the year and the file is ready for import into Access. Again, this all works fine - I have Macros set up. It would be optimal to get as much of the original article level-data into my Access database as possible. This would allow me to add finer levels of analysis, querying by institution or author, for instance. From the ISI raw data set, I envision a related database with an author table, an institution table, a citations table and an article table that links them all together. However, I don't know how to get the data from its compressed format in Excel to a more usable format in Access in a reliable and efficient way. Like the cited works field, there are often multiple entries within the cell, and sequence relationships are also an issue. I don't have the technical expertise to do this type of mapping. Is there software available that automates this process or perhaps you could suggest a different approach? Thank you so much for reading all the way through my email. If you have any suggestions at all, I would be humbled if you would share them with me. Sheri Sheri V. T. Ross Doctoral Candidate College of Information Florida State University slw04f at fsu.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Feb 28 15:11:32 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:11:32 -0500 Subject: McKercher, B (McKercher, Bob); Law, R (Law, Rob); Lam, T (Lam, Terry) Rating tourism and hospitality journals TOURISM MANAGEMENT, 27 (6): 1235-1252 DEC 2006 Message-ID: E-mail Address: hmbob at polyu.edu.hk; hmroblaw at polyu.edu.hk; hmterry at polyu.edu.hk Author(s): McKercher, B (McKercher, Bob); Law, R (Law, Rob); Lam, T (Lam, Terry) Title: Rating tourism and hospitality journals Source: TOURISM MANAGEMENT, 27 (6): 1235-1252 DEC 2006 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: rating; journals; quality; tourism; hospitality Keywords Plus: MANAGEMENT JOURNALS; CITATION ANALYSIS; IMPACT FACTOR; RANKING; PERSPECTIVE Abstract: This paper reports on the findings of a global study of tourism and hospitality academics asking them to rate their collective literature. The study adopted a peer assessment method, using a snowball sample to maximize response rates. Overall, 70 tourism and hospitality journals were assessed (40 tourism and 30 hospitality) by 314 tourism and 191 hospitality experts. The study revealed that tourism and hospitality community, collectively, rates its journals in a clear hierarchy based on a combination of awareness and perceived quality rating. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Addresses: Hong Kong Polytech Univ, Sch Hotel & Tourism Management, Kowloon, Hong Kong, Peoples R China Reprint Address: McKercher, B, Hong Kong Polytech Univ, Sch Hotel & Tourism Management, Kowloon, Hong Kong, Peoples R China. Cited Reference Count: 34 Times Cited: 2 Publisher: ELSEVIER SCI LTD Publisher Address: THE BOULEVARD, LANGFORD LANE, KIDLINGTON, OXFORD OX5 1GB, OXON, ENGLAND ISSN: 0261-5177 *THOMS THOMS US : 2004 BROWN LD REV QUANTITATIVE FIN 20 : 291 2003 CALIGIURI PM INT J HUM RESOUR MAN 10 : 515 1999 DUBOIS FL Ranking the international business journals JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES 31 : 689 2000 EGGER R ELECT TOURISM COM : 2004 FERREIRA R INT J HOSPITALITY MA 13 : 209 1994 FERREIRA RR J HOSPITALITY TOURIS 10 : 46 1998 GARFIELD E IMPACT FACTOR : 1994 HOLSAPPLE CW AN EMPIRICAL-ASSESSMENT AND CATEGORIZATION OF JOURNALS RELEVANT TO DSS RESEARCH DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS 14 : 359 1995 HOLSAPPLE CW A CITATION ANALYSIS OF BUSINESS COMPUTING RESEARCH JOURNALS INFORMATION & MANAGEMENT 25 : 231 1993 HOWEY RM Tourism and hospitality research journals: cross-citations among research communities TOURISM MANAGEMENT 20 : 133 1999 HSU CHC P 1 APACCHRIE C : 529 2003 JOSEPH KS CMAJ's impact factor: room for recalculation CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL 161 : 977 1999 LINDE A On the pitfalls of journal ranking by impact factor (R) EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ORAL SCIENCES 106 : 525 1998 LINTON JD PERSPECTIVE: Ranking the technology innovation management journals JOURNAL OF PRODUCT INNOVATION MANAGEMENT 21 : 123 2004 MCNULTY JE J EC FINANCE 23 : 30 1999 MORGAN V AUSTRALASIAN PSYCHIA 8 : 230 2000 MORRISON A TOURISM HOSPITALITY : 2004 MYLONOPOULOS NA Global perceptions of IS journals - Where is the best IS research published? COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM 44 : 29 2001 NORD JH MIS RESEARCH - JOURNAL STATUS ASSESSMENT AND ANALYSIS INFORMATION & MANAGEMENT 29 : 29 1995 PECHLANER H J TRAVEL RES 42 : 328 2004 POLONSKY MJ J MARKETING ED 21 : 181 1999 REDMAN AL A normalized citation analysis of real estate journals REAL ESTATE ECONOMICS 27 : 169 1999 RYAN C The ranking and rating of academics and journals in tourism research TOURISM MANAGEMENT 26 : 657 DOI 10.1016/j.tourman.2004.05.001 2005 SCHMIDGALL R CORNEL HOTEL RESTAUR : 47 1996 SCHMIDGALL R J HOSPITALITY TOURIS 9 : 74 1997 SHELDON PJ J TOURISM STUDIES 1 : 42 1990 SLOAN P Impact factor BRITISH DENTAL JOURNAL 189 : 1 2000 SOTERIOU AC J OPER MANAG 17 : 225 1999 TAHAI A A revealed preference study of management journals' direct influences STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 20 : 279 1999 VASTAG G OMEGA 30 : 113 2002 VOKURKA RJ J OPERATIONS MANAGEM 14 : 345 1996 WING C CONSTRUCTION MANAGEM 15 : 387 1997 ZINKHAN G J ADVERTISING 28 : 52 1999 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Feb 28 15:15:48 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:15:48 -0500 Subject: Freshwater, D (Freshwater, D.) Impact factors and relevance of research outputs: one step forward, two back? JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC AND MENTAL HEALTH NURSING, 13 (5): 473-474 OCT 2006 Message-ID: Email Address: d.freshwater at leeds.ac.uk Author(s): Freshwater, D (Freshwater, D.) Title: Impact factors and relevance of research outputs: one step forward, two back? Source: JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC AND MENTAL HEALTH NURSING, 13 (5): 473-474 OCT 2006 Language: English Document Type: Editorial Material Cited Reference Count: 7 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: BLACKWELL PUBLISHING Publisher Address: 9600 GARSINGTON RD, OXFORD OX4 2DQ, OXON, ENGLAND ISSN: 1351-0126 AMIN M IMPACT FACTORS USE A : 2000 BISHOP V NURSING RES CONTEXT : 168 2004 FASOULAKI A BRIT J ANAESTH 84 : 266 2000 FRESHWATER D Editors and publishing: integrity, trust and faith JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC AND MENTAL HEALTH NURSING 13 : 1 2006 GARFIELD E CURR CONTENTS 25 : 3 1994 HEGYVARY ST What every author should know about redundant and duplicate publication JOURNAL OF NURSING SCHOLARSHIP 37 : 295 2005 MCKENNA H J RES NURSING 10 : 597 2005 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Feb 28 15:53:46 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:53:46 -0500 Subject: Falagas, ME (Falagas, Matthew E.); Zouglakis, GM (Zouglakis, George M.) Trends in the impact factor of scientific journals MAYO CLINIC PROCEEDINGS, 81 (10): 1401-1402 OCT 2006 Message-ID: Email Address: m.falagas at aibs.gr Author(s): Falagas, ME (Falagas, Matthew E.); Zouglakis, GM (Zouglakis, George M.) Title: Trends in the impact factor of scientific journals Source: MAYO CLINIC PROCEEDINGS, 81 (10): 1401-1402 OCT 2006 Language: English Document Type: Letter Addresses: Alfa Inst Biomed Sci, Athens, Greece; Tufts Univ, Sch Med, Boston, MA 02111 USA Reprint Address: Falagas, ME, Alfa Inst Biomed Sci, Athens, Greece. Cited Reference Count: 5 Times Cited: 2 Publisher: MAYO CLINIC PROCEEDINGS Publisher Address: 660 SIEBENS BLDG MAYO CLINIC, ROCHESTER, MN 55905 USA ISSN: 0025-6196 ADAL KA Central venous catheter-related infections: A review NUTRITION 12 : 208 1996 ARONSON MD BLOOD CULTURES ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE 106 : 246 1987 BATES DW CONTAMINANT BLOOD CULTURES AND RESOURCE UTILIZATION - THE TRUE CONSEQUENCES OF FALSE-POSITIVE RESULTS JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 265 : 365 1991 BEUTZ M Clinical utility of blood cultures drawn from central vein catheters and peripheral venipuncture in critically ill medical patients CHEST 123 : 854 2003 BOZZETTI F BLOOD CULTURE AS A GUIDE FOR THE DIAGNOSIS OF CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER SEPSIS JOURNAL OF PARENTERAL AND ENTERAL NUTRITION 8 : 396 1984 BRYANT JK RELIABILITY OF BLOOD CULTURES COLLECTED FROM INTRAVASCULAR CATHETER VERSUS VENIPUNCTURE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PATHOLOGY 88 : 113 1987 DESJARDIN JA Clinical utility of blood cultures drawn from indwelling central venous catheters in hospitalized patients with cancer ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE 131 : 641 1999 EVERTS RJ Contamination of catheter-drawn blood cultures JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY 39 : 3393 2001 FELICES FJ USE OF THE CENTRAL VENOUS-PRESSURE CATHETER TO OBTAIN BLOOD CULTURES CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE 7 : 78 1979 JUSTE RN Central venous blood culture: a useful test for catheter colonisation? INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE 26 : 1373 2000 KRUEGER KE THE RELIABILITY OF LABORATORY DATA FROM BLOOD-SAMPLES COLLECTED THROUGH PULMONARY-ARTERY CATHETERS ARCHIVES OF PATHOLOGY & LABORATORY MEDICINE 105 : 343 1981 LANGE BJ Impact of changes in catheter management on infectious complications among children with central venous catheters INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY 18 : 326 1997 LEVIN PD The use of the arterial line as a source for blood cultures INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE 26 : 1350 2000 MARTINEZ JA Clinical utility of blood cultures drawn from central venous or arterial catheters in critically ill surgical patients CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE 30 : 7 2002 MCBRYDE ES Comparison of contamination rates of catheter-drawn and peripheral blood cultures JOURNAL OF HOSPITAL INFECTION 60 : 118 DOI 10.1016/j.jhin.2004.10.020 2005 OGRADY NP MMWR RECOMM REP 51 : 1 2002 RAAD II MIDDLE E J ANESTHESI 12 : 381 1994 TABRIZ MS Repeating blood cultures during hospital stay: practice pattern at a teaching hospital and a proposal for guidelines CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION 10 : 624 DOI 10.1111/j.1469- 0691.2004.00893.x 2004 TAFURO P COMPARISON OF BLOOD CULTURES OBTAINED SIMULTANEOUSLY BY VENIPUNCTURE AND FROM VASCULAR LINES JOURNAL OF HOSPITAL INFECTION 7 : 283 1986 TOKARS JI Predictive value of blood cultures positive for coagulase-negative staphylococci: Implications for patient care and health care quality assurance CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES 39 : 333 2004 TONNESEN A CULTURES OF BLOOD DRAWN BY CATHETERS VS VENIPUNCTURE JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 235 : 1877 1976 VAISANEN IT COMPARISON OF ARTERIAL AND VENOUS-BLOOD SAMPLES FOR THE DIAGNOSIS OF BACTEREMIA IN CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE 13 : 664 1985 WEINSTEIN MC CLIN DECISION ANAL : 1980 WORMSER GP SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY OF BLOOD CULTURES OBTAINED THROUGH INTRAVASCULAR CATHETERS CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE 18 : 152 1990 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Feb 28 15:59:13 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:59:13 -0500 Subject: Egghe, L (Egghe, L.) Item-time-dependent Lotkaian informetrics and applications to the calculation of the time-dependent h-index and g-index MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTER MODELLING, 45 (7-8): 864-872 APR 2007 Message-ID: E-mail Address: leo.egghe at uhasselt.be Author(s): Egghe, L (Egghe, L.) Title: Item-time-dependent Lotkaian informetrics and applications to the calculation of the time-dependent h-index and g-index Source: MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTER MODELLING, 45 (7-8): 864-872 APR 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Lotka; Lotkaian informetrics; time-dependent; h-index; Hirsch; g-index Keywords Plus: HIRSCH-INDEX; INDICATORS; SCIENTISTS; RANKING Abstract: The model for the cumulative nth citation distribution, as developed in [L. Egghe, I.K. Ravichandra Rao, Theory of first-citation distributions and applications, Mathematical and Computer Modelling 34 (2001) 81-90] is extended to the general source-item situation. This yields a time-dependent Lotka function based on a given (static) Lotka function (considered to be valid for time t = infinity). Based on this function, a time-dependent Lotkaian informetrics theory is then further developed by e.g. deriving the corresponding time-dependent rank-frequency function. These tools are then used to calculate the dynamical (i.e. time-dependent) g-index (of Egghe) while also an earlier proved result on the time- dependent h-index (of Hirsch) is refound. It is proved that both indexes are concavely increasing to their steady state values for t = infinity. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Addresses: Univ Hasselt, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium; Univ Antwerp, B-2610 Antwerp, Belgium Reprint Address: Egghe, L, Univ Hasselt, Campus Diepenbeek, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium. Cited Reference Count: 17 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD Publisher Address: THE BOULEVARD, LANGFORD LANE, KIDLINGTON, OXFORD OX5 1GB, ENGLAND ISSN: 0895-7177 BALL P Index aims for fair ranking of scientists NATURE 436 : 900 DOI 10.1038/436900a 2005 BORNMANN L Does the h-index for ranking of scientists really work? SCIENTOMETRICS 65 : 391 DOI 10.1007/s11192-005-0281-4 2005 BRAUN T A Hirsch-type index for journals SCIENTIST 19 : 8 2005 EGGHE L IN PRESS J AM SOC IN : 2006 EGGHE L ISSI NEWSLETTER 2 : 8 2006 EGGHE L Theory of first-citation distributions and applications MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTER MODELLING 34 : 81 2001 EGGHE L POWER LAWS INFORMETR : 2005 EGGHE L SCIENTIST 20 : 14 2006 EGGHE L An informetric model for the Hirsch-index SCIENTOMETRICS 69 : 121 DOI 10.1007/s11192-006-0143-8 2006 EGGHE L Theory and practise of the g-index SCIENTOMETRICS 69 : 131 DOI 10.1007/s11192-006-0144-7 2006 EGGHE L A heuristic study of the first-citation distribution SCIENTOMETRICS 48 : 345 2000 GLANZEL W ON SOME STOPPING-TIMES OF CITATION PROCESSES - FROM THEORY TO INDICATORS INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT 28 : 53 1992 GLANZEL W A BIBLIOMETRIC STUDY ON AGING AND RECEPTION PROCESSES OF SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE 21 : 37 1995 GLANZEL W SCI FOCUS 1 : 10 2006 GLANZEL W On the h-index - A mathematical approach to a new measure of publication activity and citation impact SCIENTOMETRICS 67 : 315 DOI 10.1556/Scient.67.2006.2.12 2006 HIRSCH JE An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 102 : 16569 DOI 10.1073/pnas.0507655102 2005 VANRAAN AFJ Comparison of the Hirsch-index with standard bibliometric indicators and with peer judgment for 147 chemistry research groups SCIENTOMETRICS 67 : 491 DOI 10.1556/Scient.67.2006.3.10 2006 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Feb 28 16:03:36 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:03:36 -0500 Subject: van Rossum, M (van Rossum, M.); Bosker, BH (Bosker, B. H.); Pierik, EGJM (Pierik, E. G. J. M.); Verheyen, CCPM (Verheyen, C. C. P. M.) Geographic origin of publications in surgical journals BRITISH JOURNAL OF SURGERY, 94 (2): 244-247 FEB 2007 Message-ID: E-mail Address: c.c.p.m.verheyen at isala.nl Author(s): van Rossum, M (van Rossum, M.); Bosker, BH (Bosker, B. H.); Pierik, EGJM (Pierik, E. G. J. M.); Verheyen, CCPM (Verheyen, C. C. P. M.) Title: Geographic origin of publications in surgical journals Source: BRITISH JOURNAL OF SURGERY, 94 (2): 244-247 FEB 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Keywords Plus: JAPAN CONTRIBUTION; COUNTRIES PUBLISH; CARE JOURNALS; MEDICINE; ANESTHESIA; IMPACT; OUTPUT Abstract: Background: Publications in peer-reviewed journals are the main determinants of research rating and funding. The present study assesses worldwide scientific contributions in the field of surgical research. Methods: Fifteen major surgical journals were selected for a bibliometric search in Medline/PubMed over a 6-year period (2000-2005). All articles with abstracts were totalled according to country of corresponding author. Publications (total and corrected for population size) and journal impact factor were assessed according to country. Results: A total of 18 717 articles were identified. Fifteen countries generated 88.8 per cent of these: the USA produced 42.1 per cent, Japan 9.1 per cent and the UK 7.6 per cent. When corrected for population size, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland topped the ranking; the USA was sixth. Ireland and Switzerland scored the highest mean impact factor. Conclusion: The USA is the most productive country in terms of absolute number of surgical publications in the selected journals. However, when population size is taken into consideration, certain smaller European countries were more prolific. Addresses: Isala Clin, Dept Gen & Orthopaed Surg, NL-8000 GM Zwolle, Netherlands Reprint Address: Verheyen, CCPM, Isala Clin, Dept Gen & Orthopaed Surg, POB 10500, NL-8000 GM Zwolle, Netherlands. Cited Reference Count: 18 Times Cited: 1 Publisher: JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD Publisher Address: THE ATRIUM, SOUTHERN GATE, CHICHESTER PO19 8SQ, W SUSSEX, ENGLAND ISSN: 0007-1323 *WIK LIST COUNTR GDP NOM : BOLDT J Which countries publish in important anesthesia and critical care journals? ANESTHESIA AND ANALGESIA 88 : 1175 1999 BOSKER BH The international rank order of publications in major clinical orthopaedic journals from 2000 to 2004 JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY-BRITISH VOLUME 88 : 156 DOI 10.1302/0301- 620X.88B2.17018 2006 CIMMINO MA Trends in otolaryngology research during the period 1995-2000: A bibliometric approach OTOLARYNGOLOGY-HEAD AND NECK SURGERY 132 : 295 DOI 10.1016/j.otohns.2004.09.026 2005 COPPEN A 20 most-cited countries in clinical medicine ranked by population size LANCET 363 : 250 2004 FIGUEREDO E International publishing in anaesthesia - how do different countries contribute? ACTA ANAESTHESIOLOGICA SCANDINAVICA 47 : 378 2003 GARFIELD E The history and meaning of the journal impact factor JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 295 : 90 2006 HAYASHINO Y Japan's contribution to research on cardiovascular disease CIRCULATION JOURNAL 67 : 103 2003 KING DA The scientific impact of nations NATURE 430 : 311 DOI 10.1038/430311a 2004 MAEDA K Japan's contribution to clinical research in gastroenterology and hepatology JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY 38 : 816 DOI 10.1007/s00535-003-1153-4 2003 MAN JP Why do some countries publish more than others? An international comparison of research funding, English proficiency and publication output in highly ranked general medical journals EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY 19 : 811 2004 MICHALOPOULOS A Worldwide research productivity in critical care medicine CRITICAL CARE 9 : R258 DOI 10.1186/cc3514 2005 PARKER G A profile of regional psychiatry publishing: home and away AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY 36 : 693 2002 RAHMAN M Japan's share of research output in urology and nephrology INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF UROLOGY 10 : 353 2003 RAHMAN M J ORTHOP SCI 7 : 607 2002 RIPPON I Research outputs in respiratory medicine THORAX 60 : 63 DOI 10.1136/thx.2004.031229 2005 SHAHLA M International participation in major intensive care journals - ''The smaller the better'' INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE 22 : 1258 1996 STERN RS Growth of international contributors to dermatologic literature ARCHIVES OF DERMATOLOGY 135 : 1074 1999 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Feb 29 11:39:45 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:39:45 -0500 Subject: Loui, RP (Loui, Ronald P.) A citation-based reflection on Toulmin and argument Hitchcock, D; Verheij, B ARGUING ON THE TOULMIN MODEL - NEW ESSAYS IN ARGUMENT ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION 31-38, 2006 Message-ID: Email Address: r.p.loui at gmail.com Author(s): Loui, RP (Loui, Ronald P.) Title: A citation-based reflection on Toulmin and argument Editor(s): Hitchcock, D; Verheij, B Source: ARGUING ON THE TOULMIN MODEL - NEW ESSAYS IN ARGUMENT ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION 31-38, 2006 Book Series: ARGUMENTATION LIBRARY, 10 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: Conference on the Uses of Argument Conference Date: MAY, 2005 Conference Location: Hamilton, CANADA Conference Sponsors: Social Sci & Humanities Res Council Canada Conference Host: McMaster Univ Author Keywords: Stephen E. Toulmin; argumentation; intellectual history; philosophy of logic; philosophy of science; citation counts Abstract: This article considers Toulmin's recent impact on scholarship by comparing his citation Counts with those of other celebrated philosophers. Toulmin is found to be in good stead, in fact better cited recently than many of the great names at the intersection of philosophy of science and philosophy of logic. Addresses: Washington Univ, St Louis, MO 63130 USA. Cited Reference Count: 0 Publisher Name: SPRINGER Publisher Address: PO BOX 17, 3300 AA DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS ISBN: 978-1-4020-4937-8 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Feb 29 11:46:31 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:46:31 -0500 Subject: Leon, R (Leon, Rebecca); Bayat, A (Bayat, Ardeshir) Part 3: medical literature and impact factors BRITISH JOURNAL OF HOSPITAL MEDICINE, 68 (2): M24-M25 FEB 2007 Message-ID: Email Address: ardeshir.bayat at manchester.ac.uk Author(s): Leon, R (Leon, Rebecca); Bayat, A (Bayat, Ardeshir) Title: Part 3: medical literature and impact factors Source: BRITISH JOURNAL OF HOSPITAL MEDICINE, 68 (2): M24-M25 FEB 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Keywords Plus: JOURNALS; SCIENCE Addresses: Univ Manchester, Manchester Interdisciplinary Bioctr, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England Reprint Address: Bayat, A, Univ Manchester, Manchester Interdisciplinary Bioctr, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England. Cited Reference Count: 16 Times Cited: 1 Publisher: MA HEALTHCARE LTD Publisher Address: ST JUDES CHURCH, DULWICH ROAD, LONDON SE24 0PB, ENGLAND ISSN: 1462-3935 CITATION INDEX : 2006 J CITATION REPORTS : 2006 *I SCI INF WEB KNOWL SERV UK ED : 2006 DUMONTIER C Impact factor: do we have to choose between the impact factor and the Revue de Chirurgie Orthopedique? REVUE DE CHIRURGIE ORTHOPEDIQUE ET REPARATRICE DE L APPAREIL MOTEUR 87 : 115 2001 GARFIELD E How can impact factors be improved? 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FORENSIC SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL 133 : 1 DOI 10.1016/S0379-0738(03)00042-2 2003 MEENEN NM UNFALLCHIRURG 23 : 128 1997 NEUBERGER J Impact factors: uses and abuses EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY 14 : 209 2002 WEALE AR BMC MED RES METHODOL 28 : 14 2004 WEALE AR Randomised controlled trials and quality of journals LANCET 361 : 1749 2003 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Feb 29 13:38:44 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:38:44 -0500 Subject: Lund, D (Lund, Daryl) Is the impact factor important? COMPREHENSIVE REVIEWS IN FOOD SCIENCE AND FOOD SAFETY, 5 (4): 187-187 OCT 2006 Message-ID: Email Address: dlund at cals.wisc.edu Author(s): Lund, D (Lund, Daryl) Title: Is the impact factor important? Source: COMPREHENSIVE REVIEWS IN FOOD SCIENCE AND FOOD SAFETY, 5 (4): 187- 187 OCT 2006 Language: English Document Type: Editorial Material Cited Reference Count: 1 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: BLACKWELL PUBLISHING Publisher Address: 9600 GARSINGTON RD, OXFORD OX4 2DQ, OXON, ENGLAND ISSN: 1541-4337 KING WR The critical role of information processing in creating an effective knowledge organization JOURNAL OF DATABASE MANAGEMENT 17 : 1 2006 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Feb 29 14:13:59 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:13:59 -0500 Subject: Johnstone, MJ (Johnstone, M. -J.) Journal impact factors: implications for the nursing profession INTERNATIONAL NURSING REVIEW, 54 (1): 35-40 MAR 2007 Message-ID: E-mail Address: megan.johnstone at rmit.edu.au Author(s): Johnstone, MJ (Johnstone, M. -J.) Title: Journal impact factors: implications for the nursing profession Source: INTERNATIONAL NURSING REVIEW, 54 (1): 35-40 MAR 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: journal impact factors; nursing; publishing; research; scholarship Keywords Plus: QUALITY; CITATIONS; SCIENCE; COUNTS; LINK Abstract: Background: The journal impact factor (IF) has become widely used as an absolute measure of the quality of professional journals. It is also increasingly used as a tool for measuring the academic performance of researchers and to inform decisions concerning the appointment and tenure of academic staff as well as the viability of their departments/schools. In keeping with these IF-related trends, nurse researchers and faculty the world over are being increasingly expected to publish only in journals that have a high IF and to abandon all other forms of publishing (including books and book chapters) that do not attract IF rankings. Issues: The IF obsession is placing in jeopardy the sustainability and hence viability of nursing journals and academic nursing publication lists (academic texts). If nurse authors abandon their publishing agenda and publish only in 'elite' journals (many of which may be outside nursing), the capacity of the nursing profession to develop and control the cutting edge of its disciplinary knowledge could be placed at risk. Actions: Other means for assessing the quality and impact of nursing journals need to be devised. In addition, other works (such as books and book chapters) need also to be included in quality metrics. Nurse authors and journal editors must work together and devise ways to ensure the sustainability and viability of nursing publications. Addresses: RMIT Univ, Div Nursing & Midwifery, Sch Hlth Sci, Bundoora, Vic, Australia Reprint Address: Johnstone, MJ, RMIT Univ, Div Nursing & Midwifery, Sch Hlth Sci, POB 71, Melbourne, Vic 3083, Australia. 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