SV: [SIGMETRICS] Enough is enough!

Wed Jan 30 17:18:53 EST 2008

The Sigmetrics listserv is open for discussions of bibliometric matters. It is not required to be member of ASIS&T to subscribe. It not only provides an alerting service for subscribers but also a platform for commenting on the use of misuse of quantitative data. It also serves to educate newer readers to past work. Unfortunately, it is often difficult to get comments about subjects unless they are they are controversial. 
The recent spate of abstracts from the ISSI Conference in Madrid 2007 was meant to aid those who could not attend. They would not have access to the two Proceedings volumes which were distributed to all participants. It is planned to post the full text to a web site in the near future. 

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Eugene Garfield  email:  garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu 

-----Original Message-----
From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Jeppe Nicolaisen
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 11:50 AM
To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU
Subject: [SIGMETRICS] SV: [SIGMETRICS] Enough is enough!

I thought that the list served as a forum for discussions, but thanks to the kind replies, I now understand that the list primarily functions as a bibliographic database. I stand corrected.

/jeppe

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Fra: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics på vegne af David E. Wojick
Sendt: on 30-01-2008 16:32
Til: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU
Emne: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Enough is enough!

These notices are the reason I subscribe to this list. Given that article notices are 90+% of the traffic I imagine it is the reason most of us are here. Nicolaisen is mistaken.
Keep it up Gene.
David Wojick
DOE OSTI
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>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
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>Jeppe Nicolaisen wrote:
>

>>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
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>>Email address: barilaj at mail.biu.ac.il
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>>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
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>> BRAUN T
>>A Hirsch-type index for journals
>>SCIENTIST 19 : 8 2005  
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>> HIRSCH JE
>>An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output
>>P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102 : 16569 2005  
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