Enough is enough!

[Stevan Harnad]

Just to add my voice to the throng: It is mainly for Gene's regular  
postings of abstracts that I am subscribed to this group! Keep 'em  
flowing, Gene, and let those who consider them spam switch (to digest  
format) or ditch!

Chrs, Stevan

PS It is a fact of some scientometric interest and importance that  
the dynamics of public lists tend to be tilted toward negative vocal  
minorities who raise their voice in complaint, whilst the silent  
majority abstains -- perhaps out of a desire not to spam the list!  
But as a result, minority negativism often prevails by default over  
(silent) majority neutrality or positivism... Perhaps by analogy with  
opt-in and opt-out advertising and polling, it might be a good idea  
if a plurality parameter were agreed upon as a threshold: If a  
request for exclusion (or otherwise) is not positively supported by  
at least the plurality quorum, it is ignored, by default.

On 30-Jan-08, at 11:31 AM, Schiebel Edgar wrote:

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> Dear Prof Garfield,
>
> I also appreciate a lot the information about new publications and  
> the work that you do in this quality and consistency. This is a  
> service that is unique, please go on.
>
> Thank you very much for this benefit.
>
> Edgar Schiebel
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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics  
> [mailto:SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu] Im Auftrag von Katy Borner
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 30. Jänner 2008 16:28
> An: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu
> Betreff: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Enough is enough!
>
> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe):
> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html
>
> I believe Gene and his team do a great service to the sigmentrics
> community by sending out information on recently published,  
> relevant works.
> It takes time and care to do this and is very generous of them to  
> spent
> their resources on this.
> Sunny regards,
> k
>
> Jeppe Nicolaisen wrote:
>
>> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe):
>> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html
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>> Dear Eugene Garfield,
>>
>> Could you please tell your secretary to stop spamming the list  
>> with these random peeks from the ISSI 2007. It has been going on  
>> for weeks now.
>>
>> /Jeppe Nicolaisen
>>
>> -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
>> Fra: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics  
>> [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] På vegne af Eugene Garfield
>> Sendt: 30. januar 2008 15:06
>> Til: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU
>> Emne: [SIGMETRICS] Bar-Ilan, J (Bar-Ilan, Judit) The h-index of h- 
>> index and of other informetric topics
>>
>> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe):
>> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html
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>> Email address: barilaj at mail.biu.ac.il
>>
>> Author(s): Bar-Ilan, J (Bar-Ilan, Judit)
>>
>> Title: The h-index of h-index and of other informetric topics
>>
>> 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
>> 826-827, 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: Bar Ilan Univ, Dept Informat Sci, Ramat Gan, IL-52900  
>> Israel.
>>
>> 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
>>
>> *NAT NEWSBL
>> TOP FIV PHYS : 2006
>>
>> BALL P
>> Index aims for fair rankings of scientists
>> NATURE 436 : 900 2005
>>
>> BANKS MG
>> An extension of the Hirsch index: Indexing scientific topics and  
>> compounds
>> SCIENTOMETRICS 69 : 161 2006
>>
>> BRAUN T
>> A Hirsch-type index for journals
>> SCIENTIST 19 : 8 2005
>>
>> HIRSCH JE
>> An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output
>> P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102 : 16569 2005
>>
>>
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