From Chris.Armbruster at EUI.EU Wed Jul 2 16:56:41 2008 From: Chris.Armbruster at EUI.EU (Armbruster, Chris) Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 22:56:41 +0200 Subject: Access, Usage and Citation Metrics: What Function for Digital Libraries and Repositories in Research Evaluation? Message-ID: I would like to ask the members of the list for feedback and comment on the following newly updated working paper: "Access, Usage and Citation Metrics: What Function for Digital Libraries and Repositories in Research Evaluation?" Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1088453 The growth and increasing complexity of global science poses a grand challenge to scientists: how to best 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 a 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 the 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, Ranking Web of Repositories, COUNTER, MESUR, Harzing Publish or Perish, Hirsch Index, CiteSeer, Citebase, SPIRES, SSRN CiteReader, RePEc LogEc and CitEc, Scopus, Web of Science and Google Scholar. Keywords Scientometrics, webometrics, research evaluation, research assessment, citation metrics, usage metrics, access metrics, digital library, digital repository, open access Thank you, Chris Armbruster From nouruzi at GMAIL.COM Thu Jul 3 08:55:56 2008 From: nouruzi at GMAIL.COM (Alireza Noruzi) Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 14:55:56 +0200 Subject: Webology: Volume 5, Number 1, March, 2008 Message-ID: Dear All, apologies for cross-posting. We are pleased to inform you that Vol. 5, No. 1 of Webology, an OPEN ACCESS journal, is published and available ONLINE now. ------------------ Webology: Volume 5, Number 1, 2008 TOC: http://www.webology.ir/2008/v5n1/toc.html This issue contains: ----------------------------------------- Editorial - Science Popularization through Open Access -- Alireza Noruzi -- Keywords: Open Access (OA); Popularization of Science; Popularity of Science; Popular science -- http://www.webology.ir/2008/v5n1/editorial15.html ----------------------------------------- Articles - Deterring digital plagiarism, how effective is the digital detection process? -- Jayati Chaudhuri -- Keywords: Academic dishonesty; Plagiarism; Plagiarism Detection Tool; Text Matching Software; SafeAssignment; Safe Assign -- http://www.webology.ir/2008/v5n1/a50.html - Delinking: An exploratory study -- Isola Ajiferuke -- Keywords: Delinking; Link analysis; Universities; Colleges; Canada; US -- http://www.webology.ir/2008/v5n1/a51.html - Generating best features for web page classification -- M. Indra Devi, R. Rajaram & K. Selvakuberan -- Keywords: Feature selection; Subset generation; Subset evaluation; Machine learning; Classification -- http://www.webology.ir/2008/v5n1/a52.html - Application of web 2.0 tools in medical librarianship to support medicine 2.0 -- Vahideh Zarea Gavgani & V. Vishwa Mohan -- Keywords: Web 2.0; Medicine 2.0; Medical Library 2.0; Medical Librarianship -- http://www.webology.ir/2008/v5n1/a53.html ----------------------------------------- Book Reviews - Acquisitions go global: An introduction to library collection management in the 21st century --- Jim Agee --- Book reviewer: Hamid R. Jamali --- http://www.webology.ir/2008/v5n1/bookreview12.html - Library management in electronic environment --- Krishan Kumar --- Book reviewer: Shyama Rajaram --- http://www.webology.ir/2008/v5n1/bookreview13.html ----------------------------------------- Call for Papers: Folksonomies, the Web and Search Engines -- http://www.webology.ir/cfp.html ========================================= Best regards, Alireza Noruzi, Ph.D. Editor-in-Chief of Webology Website: www.webology.ir ~ The great aim of Open Access journals is knowledge sharing.~ From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Fri Jul 4 04:51:32 2008 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 10:51:32 +0200 Subject: SCOPUS.exe at http://www.leydesdorff.net/software/scopus/scopus.exe Message-ID: SCOPUS.exe at http://www.leydesdorff.net/software/scopus/scopus.exe> This program enables one to read a file which is exported from the Scopus database in the format "Text(ASCII format)". The program assumes an input file with the name "data.txt". The output is the organization of this information in files which allow for relational database management (e.g., MS Access) or separate analysis as spreadsheets. These files (AU.dbf; CS.dbf; CR.dbf; CORE.dbf) are in the dBASE-format. Additionally, a file with the abstracts (abstract.txt) and relational numbers is provided in ASCII format. The output is similar to that of ISI.exe for the Science Citation Index. One major difference between the Scopus and ISI output is the use of the abbreviated journal names in the ISI output. These are used in the cited references by the ISI, but Scopus uses the full journal names. My program BibJourn.Exe , for example, is affected by this difference. (HistCiteT hitherto has the same problem.) The file CR.DBF provides the cited references both in the Scopus and the ISI formats (but with long journal names). Note that the country names are not fully standardized in Scopus (e.g., one may find both "The Netherlands" and "Netherlands".) The current version is in the development phase. Please, feel free to feedback with suggestions for improvements. ** apologies for cross-posting ________________________________ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam loet at leydesdorff.net From Jessica.Shepherd at GUARDIAN.CO.UK Fri Jul 4 05:09:18 2008 From: Jessica.Shepherd at GUARDIAN.CO.UK (Jessica Shepherd) Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 10:09:18 +0100 Subject: Jessica Shepherd/Guardian/GNL is out of the office. Message-ID: I will be out of the office starting 04/07/2008 and will not return until 05/07/2008. I am out on a work assignment in the morning today, but I am available on my mobile, 07957147308 or leave me a message on 020 7131 7102. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Visit guardian.co.uk - the UK's most popular newspaper website http://guardian.co.uk http://observer.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------ The Newspaper Marketing Agency Opening Up Newspapers ------------------------------------------------------------------ The Guardian Public Services Awards 2008, in partnership with Hays Specialist Recruitment, recognise and reward outstanding performance from public, private and voluntary sector teams. To find out more and nominate a deserving team or individual, visit http://society.guardian.co.uk/publicservicesawards ------------------------------------------------------------------ Please consider the environment before printing this email This e-mail and all attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the named recipient, please notify the sender and delete the e-mail and all attachments immediately. Do not disclose the contents to another person. You may not use the information for any purpose, or store, or copy, it in any way. Guardian News & Media Limited is not liable for any computer viruses or other material transmitted with or as part of this e-mail. You should employ virus checking software. Guardian News & Media Limited A member of Guardian Media Group PLC Registered Office Number 1 Scott Place, Manchester M3 3GG Registered in England Number 908396 From dwojick at HUGHES.NET Sat Jul 5 11:14:02 2008 From: dwojick at HUGHES.NET (David E. Wojick) Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 11:14:02 -0400 Subject: World's largest Science Portal opens Message-ID: Below is an announcement I am sending around. For this group I am wondering whether WWS is at all useful for science metrics? It has a great variety of material so there are not the standard records to support calculation. But its variatey in some ways may make it a better sample of scientific activity than, say, journal articles. In any case I hope you find our portal useful and will tell others about it. David Wojick World's largest Science Portal opens. New tool in town. In a bid to revolutionize science, a new global Alliance has launched the world's largest science portal. Http://www.worldwidescience.org searches an estimated 200 million pages of free science and technology content, making one of the most comprehensive portals in the world and the largest government portal by far. The WorldWideScience Alliance consists of major government and NGO science information centers around the world. The portal is a federation of over 30 major national and regional portals, including the USA, Canada, Britain, France, Japan, Korea, Germany, etc. One search searches all. The USA member is the Science.gov Alliance, which runs the world's second largest government portal at http://www.science.gov. The WWS portal has just been launched, after a year of beta testing, see: http://www.science.gov/communications/scigovprwwsalliance.html The WWS.org portal is the brainchild of Walter Warnick, director of DOE's Office of Scientific and Technical Information, which built and operates the portal. See: http://www.osti.gov/ostiblog/home/entry/world_wide_science_the_one I am a consultant on the WWS project. Our goal is a "knowledge diffusion revolution." This means that knowledge from every community can easily be found by every other community. Until now that has not been possible. What will science look like when the OSTI diffusion revolution takes hold? Revolutions change the way science works and this one is no exception. One simple example is in the content of research proposals. Today a proposal is required to demonstrate a knowledge of related work on the same topic. But there are many closely related elements that are also pursued in distant communities, where they are studying very different topics. These elements include instrumentation, methods, mathematics and fundamental concepts. For example, nuclear physicists have not been expected to know about what is going on in forest management. But a recent paper in a forestry journal presented a breakthrough in Monte Carlo analysis, which is widely used in nuclear physics. Normally it would take years or decades for this new knowledge to migrate from forestry to physics, but the OSTI diffusion revolution is eliminating the delay time. OSTI is making it possible for researchers to know about these distant activities, which has the potential to revolutionize science. Distant knowledge should be expected as a matter of course. For more on this see my article "Making the Web work for science": http://www.osti.gov/ostiblog/home/entry/making_the_web_work_for Also my " The OSTI diffusion revolution, a problem solving perspective": http://www.osti.gov/ostiblog/home/entry/the_osti_diffusion_revolution_a Just pick some keywords and do a search on WWS.org. You will find out which countries are doing what. Note however that what we call biofuel in the USA the French call bioenergy. National differences do exist so you may have to poke around. Happy to answer your questions, David -- "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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Sun Jul 6 05:24:57 2008 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 11:24:57 +0200 Subject: processing Google (Scholar) data Message-ID: GScholar.EXE This program reads an ASCII text file entitled google.txt as input. The file can be composed by cutting and pasting output of Google Scholar into a single file using an ASCII editor like Notepad (using Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V). The output is organized in two files named records.dbf and au.dbf which can be related through the field "nr". Records contains the unique information such as title, journal name, publication year, and times cited; au.dbf organizes individual author names in the case of coauthorship. The file au.dbf allows for the construction of a coauthorship network. See for most applications also: Anne-Will Harzing's Publish or Perish. Google.EXE This program reads an ASCII text file entitled google.txt as input. The file can be composed by cutting and pasting output of Google into a single file using an ASCII editor like Notepad (using Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V). The output is organized in two files named records.dbf which contains two fields: the information line and the web link. The Google output is dependent on the browser when saved as html. Therefore, these programs use the .txt format. The data is best prepared by cutting and pasting the files into a single file using an ASCII editor (Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V). The programs delete irrelevant information automatically. Please, provide feedback if you find an error. @ Loet Leydesdorff, July 2008 _____ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ Visiting Professor 2007-2010, ISTIC, Beijing; Honorary Fellow 2007-2010, 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: From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Jul 7 11:28:13 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 11:28:13 -0400 Subject: Oppenheim, C. & Summers, M.A.C. Citation counts and the Research Assessment Exercise, part VI: Unit of assessment 67 (music) Information Research, 13(2) paper 342 Message-ID: Oppenheim, C. & Summers, M.A.C. (2008). "Citation counts and the Research Assessment Exercise, part VI: Unit of assessment 67 (music)" Information Research, 13(2) paper 342. [Available at http://InformationR.net/ir/13- 2/paper342.html] From Jessica.Shepherd at GUARDIAN.CO.UK Mon Jul 7 11:39:57 2008 From: Jessica.Shepherd at GUARDIAN.CO.UK (Jessica Shepherd) Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 16:39:57 +0100 Subject: Jessica Shepherd/Guardian/GNL is out of the office. Message-ID: I will be out of the office starting 07/07/2008 and will not return until 08/07/2008. 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Guardian News & Media Limited A member of Guardian Media Group PLC Registered Office Number 1 Scott Place, Manchester M3 3GG Registered in England Number 908396 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Jul 7 11:47:18 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 11:47:18 -0400 Subject: Marinova, D (Marinova, Dora); Newman, P (Newman, Peter) The changing research funding regime in Australia and academic productivity MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS IN SIMULATION, 78 (2-3): 283-291 JUL 2008 Message-ID: E-mail Address: D.Marinova at curtin.edu.au Author(s): Marinova, D (Marinova, Dora); Newman, P (Newman, Peter) Title: The changing research funding regime in Australia and academic productivity Source: MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS IN SIMULATION, 78 (2-3): 283-291 JUL 2008 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: citations; Google Scholar; ISI; RQF Keywords Plus: CITATION RATES; NEW-ZEALAND; SCIENCE Abstract: Australian university research output has been questioned by the Federal Government. A new research funding system is soon to be introduced which is likely to place a heavier weight on publications. Although the importance of publications is not disputed, the article argues that there is no reason for the performance of the Australian academics to be doubted. Data on research publications is used to show that Australia outperforms the UK and New Zealand whose systems are being used as the model for the proposed changes in Australia. The gap between Australia and these two countries has in fact widened since their research funding reforms were introduced. Further data is provided on different citation systems, research funding and PhD completions in one academic unit, namely the Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy (ISTP) as a case study to demonstrate productivity and quality gains during the period under question. It is usual practice for the Australian Federal Government to shape the country's research priorities to better reflect and care for the needs of the economy, society and the physical environment where they exist. The funding for research should provide the basis for achieving such long-term sustainability. A country with a long-term vision for the future should use universities as a social pillar, which can guarantee brighter prospects for its coming generations. For Australia to have a strong and world-class university research sector, adequate resources should be provided to match its current achievements. Also, a (new) funding model should allow for diversity and flexibility in research to properly reflect the complexity of the academic world. (C) 2008 IMACS. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Addresses: Curtin Univ Technol, Curtin Univ Sustainabil Policy Inst, Perth, WA 6845, Australia Reprint Address: Marinova, D, Curtin Univ Technol, Curtin Univ Sustainabil Policy Inst, GPO Box U1987, Perth, WA 6845, Australia. E-mail Address: D.Marinova at curtin.edu.au Cited Reference Count: 21 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV Publisher Address: PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 0378-4754 29-char Source Abbrev.: MATH COMPUT SIMULAT ISO Source Abbrev.: Math. Comput. Simul. Source Item Page Count: 9 Subject Category: Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications; Computer Science, Software Engineering; Mathematics, Applied ISI Document Delivery No.: 310PM *CHASS MEAS QUAL IMP PUBL F : 2005 *DEST RES QUAL FRAM ASS QU : 2005 *ISI ISI ESS : 2004 BALTAGI BH Worldwide institutional and individual rankings in econometrics over the period 1989-1999: An update ECONOMETRIC THEORY 19 : 165 DOI 10.1017/S0266466603191074 2003 BISHOP J RES QUALITY FRAMEWOR : BOSTON J SOCIAL POLICY J NZ 24 : 55 2005 BOURKE P Publication types, citation rates and evaluation SCIENTOMETRICS 37 : 473 1996 BUTLER L Explaining Australia's increased share of ISI publications - the effects of a funding formula based on publication counts RESEARCH POLICY 32 : 143 2003 CHAMBERS R WHOSE REALITY COUNTS : 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 ELTON L HIGHER ED Q 54 : 274 2000 FLYVBJERG B QUALITATIVE RES PRAC : 420 2004 GARFIELD E The significant scientific literature appears in a small core of journals SCIENTIST 10 : 13 1996 GOLDFINCH S Investing in excellence? The performance-based research fund and its implications for political science departments in New Zealand POLITICAL SCIENCE 55 : 39 2003 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 HALL C NZ ANN REV ED 13 : 79 2003 HIX S POLITICAL STUDIES RE 2 : 293 2004 NEUHAUS C The depth and breadth of Google Scholar: An empirical study PORTAL-LIBRARIES AND THE ACADEMY 6 : 127 2006 PHELAN TJ A compendium of issues for citation analysis SCIENTOMETRICS 45 : 117 1999 PHILLIMORE AJ UNIVERSITY-RESEARCH PERFORMANCE INDICATORS IN PRACTICE - THE UNIVERSITY GRANTS COMMITTEES EVALUATION OF BRITISH-UNIVERSITIES, 1985-86 RESEARCH POLICY 18 : 255 1989 SMITH K Use of bibliometric modelling for policy making MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS IN SIMULATION 69 : 177 DOI 10.1016/j.matcom.2005.02.027 2005 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Jul 7 15:07:33 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 15:07:33 -0400 Subject: Payne, SA (Payne, S. A.); Turner, JM (Turner, J. M.) Research methodologies in palliative care: a bibliometric analysis PALLIATIVE MEDICINE, 22 (4): 336-342 JUN 2008 Message-ID: E-mail Address: s.a.payne at lancaster.ac.uk Author(s): Payne, SA (Payne, S. A.); Turner, JM (Turner, J. M.) Title: Research methodologies in palliative care: a bibliometric analysis Source: PALLIATIVE MEDICINE, 22 (4): 336-342 JUN 2008 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: methodology; palliative care; research; research design Keywords Plus: QUALITATIVE RESEARCH Abstract: The aspiration to design and conduct high-quality research in palliative care has been an important but elusive goal. The article evaluates the nature of research methodologies presented in published research within the broad remit of palliative care. A systematic search of the Medline database between 1997 and 2006, using the keywords 'palliative care' or 'end-of-life care' and 'research methodology', identified over 318 publications. A bibliometric analysis indicates an incremental increase in published outputs per year, from 27 countries, with articles widely distributed across 108 journals. The heterogeneity of the research methodologies and the journals publishing them, present challenges in defining what constitutes 'high quality'. We argue that although this diversity leads to a lack of coherence for a single disciplinary paradigm for palliative care, there is a greater acknowledgement of the differing epistemological and theoretical frameworks used by researchers. This could be regarded as enriching our understanding of what it means to be dying in contemporary society. Addresses: Univ Lancaster, Int Observ End Life Care, Inst Hlth Res, Lancaster LA1 4YT, England Reprint Address: Payne, SA, Univ Lancaster, Int Observ End Life Care, Inst Hlth Res, Bowland Tower E, Lancaster LA1 4YT, England. E-mail Address: s.a.payne at lancaster.ac.uk Cited Reference Count: 29 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD Publisher Address: 1 OLIVERS YARD, 55 CITY ROAD, LONDON EC1Y 1SP, ENGLAND ISSN: 0269-2163 29-char Source Abbrev.: PALLIATIVE MED ISO Source Abbrev.: Palliat. Med. Source Item Page Count: 7 Subject Category: Health Care Sciences & Services; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health; Medicine, General & Internal ISI Document Delivery No.: 310ZQ *NCRI SUPP PALL CAR RES UK : 2004 ADDINGTONHALL J RES METHODS PALLIATI : 2007 AOUN SM Challenging the framework for evidence in palliative care research PALLIATIVE MEDICINE 19 : 461 DOI 10.1191/0269216305pm1057oa 2005 BAILEY C The nursing contribution to qualitative research in palliative care 1990- 1999: a critical evaluation JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING 40 : 48 2002 BAILEY C PROGR PALLIATIVE CAR 14 : 265 2006 BINGLEY A PALLIAT MED IN PRESS : BINGLEY AF Making sense of dying: a review of narratives written since 1950 by people facing death from cancer and other diseases PALLIATIVE MEDICINE 20 : 183 DOI 10.1191/0269216306pm1136oa 2006 BOWLING A MEASURING DIS : 1995 CHRISTAKIS NA Advances in palliative care research methodology PALLIATIVE MEDICINE 20 : 725 DOI 10.1177/0269216306073588 2006 CLARK D MORTALITY 3 : 43 1998 CORNER J Is there a research paradigm for palliative care? PALLIATIVE MEDICINE 10 : 201 1996 DAVIES E SOLID FACTS PALLIATI : 2004 DERAEVE L PALLIATIVE MED 8 : 298 1994 FORSHAW M Free qualitative research from the shackles of method PSYCHOLOGIST 20 : 478 2007 FROGGATT KA INT J PALLIAT NURS 9 : 98 2003 GYSELS M RES METHODS PALLIATI : 2007 HANKS GW ANALGESIC EFFECT OF MORPHINE TABLETS LANCET 1 : 732 1981 HEARN J Systematic reviews PALLIATIVE MEDICINE 13 : 75 1999 KAASA S Methodological and structural challenges in pallative care research: how have we fared in the last decades? PALLIATIVE MEDICINE 20 : 727 DOI 10.1177/0269216306072620 2006 KUHN TS STRUCTURE SCI REVOLU : 1962 LEE RM DOING RES SENSITIVE : 1993 MCDERMOTT IE SEARCHER 14 : 18 2006 PAYNE S Supportive and palliative care research collaboratives in the United Kingdom: an unnatural experiment? PALLIATIVE MEDICINE 21 : 663 DOI 10.1177/0269216307085175 2007 PAYNE S RES METHODS PALLIATI : 2007 REYNA YZ RES METHODS PALLIATI : 2007 SILVERMAN D INTERPRETING QUALITA : 1993 VONGUNTEN CF Humpty-Dumpty syndrome PALLIATIVE MEDICINE 21 : 461 DOI 10.1177/0269216307081943 2007 WILLIG C Qualitative research - The need for system PSYCHOLOGIST 20 : 597 2007 WRIGHT M HOSPICE PALLIATIVE C : 2006 From jzus at ZJU.EDU.CN Tue Jul 8 03:20:55 2008 From: jzus at ZJU.EDU.CN (=?gb2312?Q?Helen(Yuehong)_ZHANG?=) Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 03:20:55 -0400 Subject: On indexing in the Web of Science and predicting journal impact factor. Xiu-fang WU, Qiang FU, Ronald ROUSSEAU/ J Zhejiang Univ Sci B,2008, 9(7):582-590. DOI:10.1631/jzus.B0840001 Message-ID: We discuss what document types account for the calculation of the journal impact factor (JIF) as published in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR). Based on a brief review of articles discussing how to predict JIFs and taking data differences between the Web of Science (WoS) and the JCR into account, we make our own predictions. Using data by cited-reference searching for Thomson Scientific?s WoS, we predict 2007 impact factors (IFs) for several journals, such as Nature, Science, Learned Publishing and some Library and Information Sciences journals. Based on our colleagues? experiences we expect our predictions to be lower bounds for the official journal impact factors. We explain why it is useful to derive one?s own journal impact factor. From jzus at ZJU.EDU.CN Wed Jul 9 04:41:22 2008 From: jzus at ZJU.EDU.CN (JZUS) Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 16:41:22 +0800 Subject: On indexing in the Web of Science and predicting journal impact factor. Message-ID: Title: On indexing in the Web of Science and predicting journal impact factor. Authors: Xiu-fang WU, Qiang FU, Ronald ROUSSEAU Source: J Zhejiang Univ Sci B, 2008 9(7):582-590 Http: http://www.zju.edu.cn/jzus/2008/B0807/B080711.htm We discuss what document types account for the calculation of the journal impact factor (JIF) as published in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR). Based on a brief review of articles discussing how to predict JIFs and taking data differences between the Web of Science (WoS) and the JCR into account, we make our own predictions. Using data by cited-reference searching for Thomson Scientific's WoS, we predict 2007 impact factors (IFs) for several journals, such as Nature, Science, Learned Publishing and some Library and Information Sciences journals. Based on our colleagues' experiences we expect our predictions to be lower bounds for the official journal impact factors. We explain why it is useful to derive one's own journal impact factor. Key words: WoS (Web of Science), JCR (Journal Citation Reports), Citation analysis, Predicted impact factors doi:10.1631/jzus.B0840001 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Jul 10 11:19:02 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:19:02 -0400 Subject: Jin, BH; Liang, LM; Rousseau, R; Egghe, L The R- and AR-indices: Complementing the h-index CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN, 52 (6): 855-863 MAR 2007 Message-ID: E-mail Address: jinbh at mail.las.ac.cn Author(s): Jin, BH (Jin BiHui); Liang, LM (Liang LiMing); Rousseau, R (Rousseau, Ronald); Egghe, L (Egghe, Leo) Title: The R- and AR-indices: Complementing the h-index Source: CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN, 52 (6): 855-863 MAR 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: h-index; A-index; R-index; AR-index; g index; performance evaluation; power law Keywords Plus: HIRSCH-INDEX; SCIENTISTS; RANKING Abstract: Based on the foundation laid by the h-index we introduce and study the R- and AR-indices. These new indices eliminate some of the disadvantages of the h-index, especially when they are used in combination with the h-index. The R-index measures the h-core's citation intensity, while AR goes one step further and takes the age of publications into account. This allows for an index that can actually increase and decrease over time. We propose the pair (h, AR) as a meaningful indicator for research evaluation. We further prove a relation characterizing the h- index in the power law model. Addresses: Chinese Acad Sci, Natl Sci Lib, Beijing 100080, Peoples R China; Henan Normal Univ, Inst Sci Technol & Soc, Xinjiang 453002, Peoples R China; Univ Antwerp, B-2610 Antwerp, Belgium; KHBO, Ind Sci & Technol, B- 8400 Oostende, Belgium; Univ Hasselt, Diepenbeek, Belgium Reprint Address: Jin, BH, Chinese Acad Sci, Natl Sci Lib, Beijing 100080, Peoples R China. E-mail Address: jinbh at mail.las.ac.cn Cited Reference Count: 31 Times Cited: 10 Publisher: SCIENCE CHINA PRESS Publisher Address: 16 DONGHUANGCHENGGEN NORTH ST, BEIJING 100717, PEOPLES R CHINA ISSN: 1001-6538 29-char Source Abbrev.: CHIN SCI BULL ISO Source Abbrev.: Chin. Sci. Bull. Source Item Page Count: 9 Subject Category: Multidisciplinary Sciences ISI Document Delivery No.: 170PX BALL P Index aims for fair ranking of scientists NATURE 436 : 900 DOI 10.1038/436900a 2005 BANKS MG An extension of the Hirsch index: Indexing scientific topics and compounds SCIENTOMETRICS 69 : 161 DOI 10.1007/s11192-006-0146-5 2006 BARILAN J ISSI NEWSLETTER 2 : 3 2006 BATISTA PD Is it possible to compare researchers with different scientific interests? SCIENTOMETRICS 68 : 179 2006 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 BURRELL QL J INFORM 1 : 16 2007 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 EDWARDS AWF System to rank scientists was pedalled by Jeffreys NATURE 437 : 951 DOI 10.1038/437951e 2005 EGGHE L ISSI NEWSLETTER 2 : 8 2006 EGGHE L POWER LAWS INFORM PR : 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 GLANZEL W ISSI NEWSLETTER 1 : 5 2005 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 JIN BH 3 MIN SCI TECHN BAS 2005 JIN BH 5 CAS MIN SCI TECHN 2006 JIN BH IN PRESS ISSI NEWSLE 3 : 2007 JIN BH SCI FOCUS 1 : 8 2006 KOSMULSKI M ISSI NEWSLETTER 2 : 4 2006 LIANG LM h-index sequence and h-index matrix: Constructions and applications SCIENTOMETRICS 69 : 153 DOI 10.1007/s11192-006-0145-6 2006 LIU Y IN PRESS P 11 ISSI C : 2007 ROUSSEAU R IN PRESS SCI TECHNOL : 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 ROUSSEAU R J INFORMETR 1 : 2 2007 ROUSSEAU R SCI FOCUS 1 : 16 2006 ROUSSEAU R SCI FOCUS 1 : 23 2006 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 Jul 10 11:26:37 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:26:37 -0400 Subject: Leslie, DM (Leslie, David M., Jr.); Hamilton, MJ (Hamilton, Meredith J.) A plea for a common citation format in scientific serials SERIALS REVIEW, 33 (1): 1-3 MAR 2007 Message-ID: E-mail Address: cleslie at usgs.gov; meredith.hamilton at okstate.edu Author(s): Leslie, DM (Leslie, David M., Jr.); Hamilton, MJ (Hamilton, Meredith J.) Title: A plea for a common citation format in scientific serials Source: SERIALS REVIEW, 33 (1): 1-3 MAR 2007 Language: English Document Type: Editorial Material Addresses: Oklahoma State Univ, USGS, Oklahoma Cooperat Fish & Wildlife Res Unit, Stillwater, OK 74078 USA Reprint Address: Leslie, DM, Oklahoma State Univ, USGS, Oklahoma Cooperat Fish & Wildlife Res Unit, Stillwater, OK 74078 USA. E-mail Address: cleslie at usgs.gov; meredith.hamilton at okstate.edu Cited Reference Count: 7 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ELSEVIER INC Publisher Address: 525 B STREET, STE 1900, SAN DIEGO, CA 92101-4495 USA ISSN: 0098-7913 29-char Source Abbrev.: SER REV ISO Source Abbrev.: Ser. Rev. Source Item Page Count: 3 Subject Category: Information Science & Library Science ISI Document Delivery No.: 155KL *COMM EL SCI TECHN MED J PUBL ITS IMPL : 108 2004 FITZGERALD D Managing references the easy way SCIENTIST 16 : 43 2002 KAREIVA P Slow-moving journals hinder conservation efforts NATURE 420 : 15 2002 LESLIE DJ Multitude of reference styles delays publication NATURE 424 : 127 DOI 10.1038/424127c 2003 REGAZZI J SERIALS REV 30 : 275 2004 TENOPIR C ELECT J REALITIES SC : 3 2003 TENOPIR C Trends in scientific scholarly journal publishing in the United States JOURNAL OF SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING 28 : 135 1997 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Jul 11 15:27:41 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:27:41 -0400 Subject: Zorzetto, R; et al The scientific production in health and biological sciences of the top 20 Brazilian universities BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH, 39 (12): 1513-1520 DEC 2006 Message-ID: E-mail Address: jamari at attglobal.net Author(s): Zorzetto, R (Zorzetto, R.); Razzouk, D (Razzouk, D.); Dubugras, MTB (Dubugras, M. T. B.); Gerolin, J (Gerolin, J.); Schor, N (Schor, N.); Guimaraes, JA (Guimaraes, J. A.); Mari, JJ (Mari, J. J.) Title: The scientific production in health and biological sciences of the top 20 Brazilian universities Source: BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH, 39 (12): 1513-1520 DEC 2006 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: health sciences; scientific publications; information science; scientometrics; bibliometric analysis Keywords Plus: HUMAN-RESOURCES; IMPACT Abstract: Brazilian scientific output exhibited a 4-fold increase in the last two decades because of the stability of the investment in research and development activities and of changes in the policies of the main funding agencies. Most of this production is concentrated in public universities and research institutes located in the richest part of the country. Among all areas of knowledge, the most productive are Health and Biological Sciences. During the 1998-2002 period these areas presented heterogeneous growth ranging from 4.5% (Pharmacology) to 191% (Psychiatry), with a median growth rate of 47.2%. In order to identify and rank the 20 most prolific institutions in these areas, searches were made in three databases (DataCAPES, ISI and MEDLINE) which permitted the identification of 109,507 original articles produced by the 592 Graduate Programs in Health and Biological Sciences offered by 118 public universities and research institutes. The 20 most productive centers, ranked according to the total number of ISI-indexed articles published during the 1998-2003 period, produced 78.7% of the papers in these areas and are strongly concentrated in the Southern part of the country, mainly in Sao Paulo State. Addresses: UNIFESP, Dept Psiquiat, BR-04026001 Sao Paulo, Brazil; UNIFESP, Ctr Avaliacao & Integracao Dados Institucionais, BR-04026001 Sao Paulo, Brazil; UNIFESP, Proreitoria Posgrad & Pesquisa, BR-04026001 Sao Paulo, Brazil; Coordenacao Aperfeicoamento Pessoal Nivel Super, Brasilia, DF, Brazil Reprint Address: Mari, JJ, UNIFESP, Dept Psiquiat, Rua Dr Bacelar 334, BR- 04026001 Sao Paulo, Brazil. E-mail Address: jamari at attglobal.net Cited Reference Count: 24 Times Cited: 8 Publisher: ASSOC BRAS DIVULG CIENTIFICA Publisher Address: FACULDADE MEDICINA, SALA 21, 14049 RIBEIRAO PRETO, SAO PAULO, BRAZIL ISSN: 0100-879X 29-char Source Abbrev.: BRAZ J MED BIOL RES ISO Source Abbrev.: Brazilian J. Med. Biol. Res. Source Item Page Count: 8 Subject Category: Biology; Medicine, Research & Experimental ISI Document Delivery No.: 120RJ *CAPES BANC DAD COORD AP PE : *CAPES COORD PERF HIGH ED P : *CNPQ NAT COUNC SCI TECHN : *SHANG JIAO TONG U AC RANK WORLD U AC R : *THOMS CORP SCI CIT IND EXP SCIE : ANSELMO FP INDICADORES NACL CIE : 2002 BRESSAN RA The modest but growing Brazilian presence in psychiatric, psychobiological and mental health research: assessment of the 1998-2002 period BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH 38 : 649 2005 CAMEIRO S INDICADORES CIENCIA : 173 2003 CASTRO MHG INDICADORES CIENCIA : 2005 DEMEIS L The growing competition in Brazilian science: rites of passage, stress and burnout BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH 36 : 1135 2003 GREGOLIN JAR INDICADORES CIENCIA : 2005 GUIMARAES J CIENC SAUDE COLETIVA 9 : 307 2004 GUIMARAES JA TRAINING OF HUMAN-RESOURCES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN BRAZIL - THE IMPORTANCE OF A VIGOROUS POSTGRADUATE PROGRAM AND ITS IMPACT ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COUNTRY SCIENTOMETRICS 34 : 101 1995 HOLLANDA S INDICADORES CIENCIA : 2005 HOLLANDA S INDICADORES CIENCIA : 93 2003 KING DA The scientific impact of nations NATURE 430 : 311 DOI 10.1038/430311a 2004 LETA J INDICADORES C T I BR : 121 2003 LETA J A profile of science in Brazil SCIENTOMETRICS 35 : 33 1996 LIU NC HIGHER ED EUROPE 30 : 127 2005 MARCHELLI OS REV BRAS POS GRAD 3 : 7 2005 MARI JD Mental health research in Brazil: policies, infrastructure, financing and human resources REVISTA DE SAUDE PUBLICA 40 : 161 2006 PARAJE G Public health - Increasing international gaps in health-related publications SCIENCE 308 : 959 DOI 10.1126/science.1108705 2005 SCHWARTZMAN S 16 INT C LAT AM STUD 1991 VELLOSO A Concentration of science in Brazilian governmental universities SCIENTOMETRICS 61 : 207 2004 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Jul 11 16:52:28 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:52:28 -0400 Subject: Li, X (Li, Xin); Chen, H (Chen, Hsinchun); Huang, Z (Huang, Zan); Roco, MC (Roco, Mihail C.) Patent citation network in nanotechnology (1976-2004) JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH, 9 (3): 337-352 JUN 2007 Message-ID: E-mail Address: xinli at eller.arizona.edu Author(s): Li, X (Li, Xin); Chen, H (Chen, Hsinchun); Huang, Z (Huang, Zan); Roco, MC (Roco, Mihail C.) Title: Patent citation network in nanotechnology (1976-2004) Source: JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH, 9 (3): 337-352 JUN 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: citation networks; knowledge discovery; knowledge transfer; nanoscale science and engineering (NSE); nanotechnology; patent analysis; topological analysis Keywords Plus: KNOWLEDGE DIFFUSION; TECHNOLOGY FIELD; SCIENCE; INSTITUTION; COUNTRY Abstract: The patent citation networks are described using critical node, core network, and network topological analysis. The main objective is understanding of the knowledge transfer processes between technical fields, institutions and countries. This includes identifying key influential players and subfields, the knowledge transfer patterns among them, and the overall knowledge transfer efficiency. The proposed framework is applied to the field of nanoscale science and engineering (NSE), including the citation networks of patent documents, submitting institutions, technology fields, and countries. The NSE patents were identified by keywords "full-text" searching of patents at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The analysis shows that the United States is the most important citation center in NSE research. The institution citation network illustrates a more efficient knowledge transfer between institutions than a random network. The country citation network displays a knowledge transfer capability as efficient as a random network. The technology field citation network and the patent document citation network exhibit a less efficient knowledge diffusion capability than a random network. All four citation networks show a tendency to form local citation clusters. Addresses: Univ Arizona, Eller Coll Management, Dept Management Informat Syst, Artificial Intelligence Lab, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA; Penn State Univ, Smeal Coll Business, Dept Supply Chain & Informat Syst, University Pk, PA 16802 USA; Natl Sci Fdn, Arlington, VA 22230 USA Reprint Address: Li, X, Univ Arizona, Eller Coll Management, Dept Management Informat Syst, Artificial Intelligence Lab, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA. E-mail Address: xinli at eller.arizona.edu Cited Reference Count: 22 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: SPRINGER Publisher Address: VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 1388-0764 29-char Source Abbrev.: J NANOPART RES ISO Source Abbrev.: J. Nanopart. Res. Source Item Page Count: 16 Subject Category: Chemistry, Multidisciplinary; Nanoscience & Nanotechnology; Materials Science, Multidisciplinary ISI Document Delivery No.: 166OK ALBERT R Statistical mechanics of complex networks REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS 74 : 47 2002 BARABASI AL Emergence of scaling in random networks SCIENCE 286 : 509 1999 BILKE S Topological properties of citation and metabolic networks PHYSICAL REVIEW E 64 : ARTN 036106 2001 CHAKRABARTI AK INTERORGANIZATIONAL TRANSFER OF KNOWLEDGE - AN ANALYSIS OF PATENT CITATIONS OF A DEFENSE FIRM IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT 40 : 91 1993 CHEN CM Tracing knowledge diffusion SCIENTOMETRICS 59 : 199 2004 COWAN R Network structure and the diffusion of knowledge JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC DYNAMICS & CONTROL 28 : 1557 DOI 10.1016/j.jedc.2003.04.002 2004 ERDOS P PUBL MATH-DEBRECEN 6 : 290 1959 GANSNER ER An open graph visualization system and its applications to software engineering SOFTWARE-PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE 30 : 1203 2000 HUANG MH Constructing a patent citation map using bibliographic coupling: A study of Taiwan's high-tech companies SCIENTOMETRICS 58 : 489 2003 HUANG Z International nanotechnology development in 2003: Country, institution, and technology field analysis based on USPTO patent database JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH 6 : 325 2004 HUANG Z Longitudinal patent analysis for nanoscale science and engineering: Country, institution and technology field JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH 5 : 333 2003 KARKI MMS WORLD PATENT INFORMA 19 : 269 1997 LEWISON G Gastroenterology research in the United Kingdom: funding sources and impact GUT 43 : 288 1998 MEYER M Patent citations in a novel field of technology - What can they tell about interactions between emerging communities of science and technology? SCIENTOMETRICS 48 : 151 2000 MEYER MS Patent citation analysis in a novel field of technology: An exploration of nano-science and nano-technology SCIENTOMETRICS 51 : 163 2001 MORONE P Knowledge diffusion dynamics and network properties of face-to-face interactions JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY ECONOMICS 14 : 327 DOI 10.1007/s00191-004-0211-2 2004 NARIN F PATENT BIBLIOMETRICS SCIENTOMETRICS 30 : 147 1994 OPPENHEIM C WEB KNOWLEDGE FESTSC : 405 2000 REDNER S How popular is your paper? An empirical study of the citation distribution EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL B 4 : 131 1998 SINGH J SSRN : DOI 10.2139/SSRN.431872 2003 VERBEEK A Science cited in patents: A geographic "flow" analysis of bibliographic citation patterns in patents SCIENTOMETRICS 58 : 241 2003 WATTS DJ NATURE 393 : 442 1998 From katy at INDIANA.EDU Fri Jul 11 20:17:53 2008 From: katy at INDIANA.EDU (Katy Borner) Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:17:53 -0400 Subject: CfP: Visualization and Data Analysis 2009 (EI108) In-Reply-To: <485B0CC9.7040005@indiana.edu> Message-ID: Katy Borner would like to remind: > > Visualization and Data Analysis 2009 (EI108) > Part of the IS&T/SPIE 21st Annual Symposium on Electronic Imaging 2009 > http://vw.indiana.edu/vda2009 > > 18-22 January 2009 . San Jose Convention Center . San Jose, CA USA > > Conference Chairs: > Katy B?rner, Indiana Univ.; Jinah Park, Information and Communications > Univ. (South Korea) > > Conference Cochairs: > Matti T. 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Title: Nanotechnology publications and citations by leading countries and blocs Source: JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH, 10 (6): 981-986 AUG 2008 Language: English Document Type: Editorial Material Author Keywords: nanotechnology publication; bibliometric analysis; Citation analysis; country comparison; nanoscience; international perspective Keywords Plus: SCIENCE; NANOSCIENCE; TECHNOLOGY; PATENTS Abstract: This article examines the relative positions with respect to nanotechnology research publications of the European Union (EU), the United States (US), Japan, Germany, China, and three Asian Tiger nations (South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan). The analysis uses a dataset of nanotechnology publication records for the time period 1990 through 2006 (part year) extracted from the Science Citation Index obtained through the Web of Science and was developed through a two-stage modularized Boolean approach. The results show that although the EU and the US have the highest number of nanotechnology publications, China and other Asian countries are increasing their publications rapidly, taking an ever-larger proportion of the total. When viewed in terms of the quality-based measure of citations, Asian nanotechnology researchers also show growth in recent years. However, by such citation measures, the US still maintains a strongly dominant position, followed by the EU. Addresses: Georgia Inst Technol, Enterprise Innovat Inst, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA; Georgia Inst Technol, Sch Publ Policy, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA; Georgia Inst Technol, Technol Policy & Assessment Ctr, Sch Publ Policy, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA; Univ Manchester, Manchester Business Sch, Manchester Inst Innovat Res, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England Reprint Address: Youtie, J, Georgia Inst Technol, Enterprise Innovat Inst, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA. E-mail Address: jan.youtie at innovate.gatech.edu; pshapira at gatech.edu; aporter at isye.gatech.edu Cited Reference Count: 14 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: SPRINGER Publisher Address: VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 1388-0764 29-char Source Abbrev.: J NANOPART RES ISO Source Abbrev.: J. Nanopart. Res. Source Item Page Count: 6 Subject Category: Chemistry, Multidisciplinary; Nanoscience & Nanotechnology; Materials Science, Multidisciplinary ISI Document Delivery No.: 315WW GLANZEL W NANOTECHNOLOGY ANAL : 2003 HEINZE T Identifying creative research accomplishments: Methodology and results for nanotechnology and human genetics SCIENTOMETRICS 70 : 125 DOI 10.1007/s11192-007-0108-6 2007 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 HUANG Z Longitudinal nanotechnology development (1991-2002): National Science Foundation funding and its impact on patents JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH 7 : 343 DOI 10.1007/s11051-005-5468-3 2005 HUANG Z Longitudinal patent analysis for nanoscale science and engineering: Country, institution and technology field JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH 5 : 333 2003 HULLMANN A Publications and patents in nanotechnology - An overview of previous studies and the state of the art SCIENTOMETRICS 58 : 507 2003 KOSTOFF RN Technical structure of the global nanoscience and nanotechnology literature JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH 9 : 701 DOI 10.1007/s11051-007-9224-8 2007 KOSTOFF RN The structure and infrastructure of the global nanotechnology literature JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH 8 : 301 DOI 10.1007/s11051-005-9035-8 2006 LIN MW Language trends in nanoscience and technology: The case of Chinese- language publications SCIENTOMETRICS 70 : 555 DOI 10.1007/s11192-007-0302-6 2007 MIYAZAKI K Nanotechnology systems of innovation - An analysis of industry and academia research activities TECHNOVATION 27 : 661 DOI 10.1016/j.technovation.2007.05.009 2007 PORTER A J NANOPART RES AUG : 2007 ZHOU P The emergence of China as a leading nation in science RESEARCH POLICY 35 : 83 DOI 10.1016/j.respol.2005.08.006 2006 ZITT M Delineating complex scientific fields by an hybrid lexical-citation method: An application to nanosciences INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT 42 : 1513 DOI 10.1016/j.ipm.2006.03.016 2006 ZUCKER LG 11181 NAT BUR EC RES 2005 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Jul 14 15:21:34 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:21:34 -0400 Subject: Zucker, KJ (Zucker, Kenneth J.); Cantor, JM (Cantor, James M.) The Archives in the era of online first ahead of print ARCHIVES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, 37 (4): 512-516 AUG 2008 Message-ID: E-mail Address: Ken_Zucker at camh.net Author(s): Zucker, KJ (Zucker, Kenneth J.); Cantor, JM (Cantor, James M.) Title: The Archives in the era of online first ahead of print Source: ARCHIVES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, 37 (4): 512-516 AUG 2008 Language: English Document Type: Editorial Material Keywords Plus: GUEST EDITORS INTRODUCTION; SEX-DIMORPHIC-BEHAVIOR; IMPACT FACTOR; BIOLOGICAL-RESEARCH; ORIENTATION; DYSFUNCTION; GENDER; DESIRE Addresses: Ctr Addict & Mental Hlth, Child Youth & Family Program, Gender Ident Serv, Toronto, ON M5T 1R8, Canada; Ctr Addict & Mental Hlth, Law & Mental Hlth Program, Toronto, ON, Canada Reprint Address: Zucker, KJ, Ctr Addict & Mental Hlth, Child Youth & Family Program, Gender Ident Serv, 250 Coll St, Toronto, ON M5T 1R8, Canada. E-mail Address: Ken_Zucker at camh.net Cited Reference Count: 24 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS Publisher Address: 233 SPRING ST, NEW YORK, NY 10013 USA ISSN: 0004-0002 29-char Source Abbrev.: ARCH SEX BEHAV ISO Source Abbrev.: Arch. Sex. Behav. Source Item Page Count: 5 Subject Category: Psychology, Clinical ISI Document Delivery No.: 316CS BAILEY JM MAN WHO WOULD BE QUE : 2003 BINIK YM Should dyspareunia be retained as a sexual dysfunction in DSM-V? A painful classification decision ARCHIVES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR 34 : 11 DOI 10.1007/s10508-005-0998-4 2005 BULLOUGH VL Sex will never be the same: The contributions of Alfred C. Kinsey ARCHIVES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR 33 : 277 2004 CLEMENT U Sex in long-term relationships: A systemic approach to sexual desire problems ARCHIVES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR 31 : 241 2002 CRAIG ID The Journal of Sexual Medicine - Impact factor predictions and analysis JOURNAL OF SEXUAL MEDICINE 4 : 855 DOI 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2007.00515.x 2007 DREGER A ARCH SEXUAL BEHAV 37 : 2008 DRESCHER J EXGAY RES ANAL SPITZ : 2006 FRANK K Exploring the motivations and fantasies of strip club customers in relation to legal regulations ARCHIVES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR 34 : 487 DOI 10.1007/s10508-005-6275-8 2005 GARFIELD E The history and meaning of the journal impact factor JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 295 : 90 2006 GOLDSTEIN I Guest Editor's Introduction - Female sexuality and sexual dysfunction ARCHIVES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR 31 : 391 2002 GREEN R Is Pedophilia a mental disorder? ARCHIVES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR 31 : 467 2002 LEVINE SB The nature of sexual desire: A clinician's perspective ARCHIVES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR 32 : 279 2003 LIPPA RA Guest editor's introduction to the BBC special section ARCHIVES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR 36 : 145 DOI 10.1007/s10508-006-9150-3 2007 MEYERBAHLBURG HFL Introduction: Gender dysphoria and gender change in persons with intersexuality ARCHIVES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR 34 : 371 DOI 10.1007/s10508-005-4335-8 2005 SANDFORT TGM Sexual orientation and gender: Stereotypes and beyond ARCHIVES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR 34 : 595 DOI 10.1007/s10508-005-7907-8 2005 SANDFORT TGM Sexual health: A useful public health paradigm or a moral imperative? ARCHIVES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR 33 : 181 2004 SCHMIDT G The dilemma of the male pedophile ARCHIVES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR 31 : 473 2002 SPITZER RL Can some gay men and lesbians change their sexual orientation? 200 participants reporting a change from homosexual to heterosexual orientation ARCHIVES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR 32 : 403 2003 ZUCKER KJ Special issue: Biological research on sex dimorphic-behavior and sexual orientation ARCHIVES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR 37 : 1 DOI 10.1007/s10508-007-9275-z 2008 ZUCKER KJ The impact factor: The Archives breaks from the pack ARCHIVES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR 35 : 7 DOI 10.1007/s10508-006-8990-1 2006 ZUCKER KJ The impact factor: "Goin' up" ARCHIVES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR 34 : 7 DOI 10.1007/s10508-005-0997-5 2005 ZUCKER KJ The numbers game: The impact factor and all that jazz ARCHIVES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR 32 : 3 2003 ZUCKER KJ >From the Editor's desk: Receiving the torch in the era of sexology's renaissance ARCHIVES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR 31 : 1 2002 ZUCKER KJ Biological research on sex-dimorphic behavior and sexual orientation ARCHIVES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR 31 : 7 2002 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Jul 15 11:25:39 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:25:39 -0400 Subject: Al-Awqati, Q (Al-Awqati, Qais) Impact factors and prestige KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL, 71 (3): 183-185 FEB 2007 Message-ID: E-mail Address: qa1 at columbia.edu Author(s): Al-Awqati, Q (Al-Awqati, Qais) Title: Impact factors and prestige Source: KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL, 71 (3): 183-185 FEB 2007 Language: English Document Type: Editorial Material Addresses: Columbia Univ, Dept Med, New York, NY 10032 USA Reprint Address: Al-Awqati, Q, Columbia Univ, Dept Med, 630 W 168th St, New York, NY 10032 USA. E-mail Address: qa1 at columbia.edu Cited Reference Count: 6 Times Cited: 1 Publisher: NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP Publisher Address: 75 VARICK STREET, 9TH FLOOR, NEW YORK, NY 10013-1917 USA ISSN: 0085-2538 29-char Source Abbrev.: KIDNEY INT ISO Source Abbrev.: Kidney Int. Source Item Page Count: 3 Subject Category: Urology & Nephrology ISI Document Delivery No.: 129LK BOLLEN J SCIENTOMETRICS 69 : GARFIELD E CITATION INDEXES FOR SCIENCE - NEW DIMENSION IN DOCUMENTATION THROUGH ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS SCIENCE 122 : 108 1955 GARNER R COMPUTER ORIENTED GR : 1967 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 LOWRY OH J BIOL CHEM 193 : 275 1951 SELYE H THE GENERAL ADAPTATION SYNDROME AND THE DISEASES OF ADAPTATION JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM 6 : 117 1946 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Jul 15 11:38:07 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:38:07 -0400 Subject: Willcocks, L (Willcocks, Leslie); Sauer, C (Sauer, Chris) JIT success in impact factor rankings JOURNAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, 22 (1): 1-2 MAR 2007 Message-ID: Email Address: willcockslp at aol.com URL: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jit/journal/v22/n1/pdf/2000074a.pdf Author(s): Willcocks, L (Willcocks, Leslie); Sauer, C (Sauer, Chris) Title: JIT success in impact factor rankings Source: JOURNAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, 22 (1): 1-2 MAR 2007 Language: English Document Type: Editorial Material Cited Reference Count: 0 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN LTD Publisher Address: BRUNEL RD BLDG, HOUNDMILLS, BASINGSTOKE RG21 6XS, HANTS, ENGLAND ISSN: 0268-3962 29-char Source Abbrev.: J INFORM TECHNOL ISO Source Abbrev.: J. Inf. Technol. Source Item Page Count: 2 Subject Category: Computer Science, Information Systems; Information Science & Library Science; Management ISI Document Delivery No.: 143UC From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Jul 16 12:01:34 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:01:34 -0400 Subject: Housri, N; Cheung, MC; Koniaris, LG; Zimmers, TA Scientific impact of women in academic surgery JOURNAL OF SURGICAL RESEARCH, 148 (1): 13-16 JUL 2008 Message-ID: E-mail Address: tzimmers at med.miami.edu Author(s): Housri, N (Housri, Nadine); Cheung, MC (Cheung, Michael C.); Koniaris, LG (Koniaris, Leonidas G.); Zimmers, TA (Zimmers, Teresa A.) Title: Scientific impact of women in academic surgery Source: JOURNAL OF SURGICAL RESEARCH, 148 (1): 13-16 JUL 2008 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: education; peer review; research; female; male; publishing; career; achievement Keywords Plus: CAREER; GENDER; SUCCESS; MEDICINE; MEN Abstract: Objective. To evaluate the scientific impact of women in the surgical literature. Methods. Gender of the principal investigator of every abstract presented at the 2002, 2003, and 2004 annual meetings of the Association for Academic Surgery and Society of University Surgeons was identified by internet search. Resulting publications were identified using PubMed. Journal impact factor and number of article citations were determined using ISI Web of Knowledge. Results. The principal investigator's gender was identified for 649 (98.8%) of the 657 abstracts presented at the 2002-2004 AAS meetings. Women authored 9.1% of abstracts and 11.8% of total resulting publications. The publication rate of abstracts by women was significantly higher than that of men (69.5% versus 52.4%, P = 0.0132). There was a trend toward higher average impact factors of journals in which female authors published (3.265 versus 2.673, P = 0.0626). There was no significant difference in mean number of citations per publication. The principal investigator's gender was identified for all 337 (100%) abstracts presented at the 2002-2004 SUS meetings. Women authored 11.0% of abstracts and 11.2% of resulting publications. Publication rates and average citation numbers were similar for female and male authors. The average impact factors of journals in which women published were significantly higher (4.741 versus 3.348, P = 0.0082). Conclusions. Although women comprise a small proportion of principal investigators on abstracts presented at these conferences, the quality of their presented work is equal to or better than those of their male counterparts. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Addresses: Univ Miami, Miller Sch Med, DeWitt Daughtry Family Dept Surg, Miami, FL 33136 USA Reprint Address: Zimmers, TA, Univ Miami, Dept Surg Oncol, Sylvester Comprehens Canc Ctr 310T 3550, 1475 NW 12th Ave, Miami, FL 33136 USA. E-mail Address: tzimmers at med.miami.edu Cited Reference Count: 17 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE Publisher Address: 525 B ST, STE 1900, SAN DIEGO, CA 92101-4495 USA ISSN: 0022-4804 29-char Source Abbrev.: J SURG RES ISO Source Abbrev.: J. Surg. Res. Source Item Page Count: 4 Subject Category: Surgery ISI Document Delivery No.: 316FZ *AM MED ASS TABL 1 4 : 2007 BARNETT RC Relationships of gender and career motivation to medical faculty members' production of academic publications ACADEMIC MEDICINE 73 : 180 1998 BROTHERTON SE US graduate medical education, 2003-2004 JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 292 : 1032 2004 CAPEK L Plastic surgeons: A gender comparison PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY 99 : 289 1997 CARR PL COMPARING THE STATUS OF WOMEN AND MEN IN ACADEMIC MEDICINE ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE 119 : 908 1993 COLLETTI LM Perceived obstacles to career success for women in academic surgery ARCHIVES OF SURGERY 135 : 972 2000 HOOVER EL Mentoring women in academic surgery: Overcoming institutional barriers to success JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 98 : 1542 2006 JAGSI R The "gender gap" in authorship of Academic Medical Literature - A 35-year perspective NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE 355 : 281 2006 JONASSON O Leaders in American surgery: Where are the women? SURGERY 131 : 672 2002 KURICHI JE Women authors of surgical research ARCHIVES OF SURGERY 140 : 1074 2005 MAGRANE D WOMEN US ACAD MED ST : 2005 OZOMARO U How important is the contribution of surgical specialties to a medical school's NIH funding? JOURNAL OF SURGICAL RESEARCH 141 : 16 DOI 10.1016/j.jss.2007.02.023 2007 SCHROEN AT Women in academic general surgery ACADEMIC MEDICINE 79 : 310 2004 SONNERT G Career patterns of women and men in the sciences AMERICAN SCIENTIST 84 : 63 1996 TESCH BJ PROMOTION OF WOMEN PHYSICIANS IN ACADEMIC MEDICINE - GLASS CEILING OR STICKY FLOOR JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 273 : 1022 1995 WENDEL TM Are there gender differences in choosing a surgical career? SURGERY 134 : 591 DOI 10.1016/S0039-6060(03)00304-0 2003 WYRZYKOWSKI AD A profile of female academic surgeons: Training, credentials, and academic success AMERICAN SURGEON 72 : 1153 2006 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Jul 16 14:30:44 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:30:44 -0400 Subject: Rethlefsen, ML; Wallis, LC Public health citation patterns: an analysis of the American Journal of Public Health, 2003-2005 JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, 95 (4): 408-415 OCT 2007 Message-ID: E-mail Address: mlrethlefsen at gmail.com; l-wallis at neiu.edu Author(s): Rethlefsen, ML (Rethlefsen, Melissa L.); Wallis, LC (Wallis, Lisa C.) Title: Public health citation patterns: an analysis of the American Journal of Public Health, 2003-2005 Source: JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, 95 (4): 408-415 OCT 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Keywords Plus: BIBLIOGRAPHIC IMPACT-FACTOR; BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS; RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY; INFECTIOUS-DISEASES; MEDICINE JOURNALS; INFORMATION USE; TRENDS; FIELD; LIST Abstract: Objectives: The research sought to determine the publication types cited most often in public health as well as the most heavily cited journal titles. Methods: From a pool of 33,449 citations in 934 articles published in the 2003-2005 issues of American Journal of Public Health, 2 random samples were drawn: one (n = 1,034) from the total set of citations and one (n = 1,016) from the citations to journal articles. For each sampled citation, investigators noted publication type, publication date, uniform resource locator (URL) citation (yes/no), and, for the journal article sample, journal titles. The cited journal titles were analyzed using Bradford zones. Results: The majority of cited items from the overall sample of 1,034 items were journal articles (64.4%, n = 666), followed by government documents (n 130), books (n = 122), and miscellaneous sources (n = 116). Publication date ranged from 1826-2005 (mean = 1995, mode = 2002). Most cited items were between 0 and 5 years old (50.3%, n = 512). In the sample of 1,016 journal article citations, a total of 387 journal titles were cited. Discussion: Analysis of cited material types revealed results similar to citation analyses in specific public health disciplines, including use of materials from a wide range of disciplines, reliance on miscellaneous and government documents, and need for older publications. Addresses: Mayo Clin Lib, Rochester, MN 55905 USA; NE Illinois Univ, Ronald Williams Lib, Chicago, IL 60625 USA Reprint Address: Rethlefsen, ML, Mayo Clin Lib, 200 1st St SW, Rochester, MN 55905 USA. E-mail Address: mlrethlefsen at gmail.com; l-wallis at neiu.edu Cited Reference Count: 43 Times Cited: 1 Publisher: MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOC Publisher Address: 65 EAST WACKER PLACE, STE 1900, CHICAGO, IL 60601-7298 USA ISSN: 1536-5050 29-char Source Abbrev.: J MED LIBR ASSOC ISO Source Abbrev.: J. Med. Libr. Assoc. Source Item Page Count: 8 Subject Category: Information Science & Library Science ISI Document Delivery No.: 222DQ *AM PUBL HLTH ASS J : 2006 *CREAT RES SYST SAMP SIZ CALC : 2003 *PUBL HLTH HLTH AD COR PUBL HLTH J VERS : 2006 *TASK FORC MAPP NU NURS ALL HLTH RES SE : 2006 ALLEN MP Mapping the literature of nursing: 1996-2000 JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 94 : 206 2006 ALLEN MP J MED LIBR ASSOC 94 : E43 2006 ALLISON MM J MED LIBR ASSOC 94 : E74 2006 ALPI KM J MED LIBR ASSOC 95 : E6 2007 BIRADAR BS SRELS J INFORM MANAG 37 : 199 2000 BLIZIOTIS IA Worldwide trends in quantity and quality of published articles in the field of infectious diseases BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES 5 : ARTN 16 2005 BURRIGHT MA Understanding information use in a multidisciplinary field: A local citation analysis of neuroscience research COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES 66 : 198 2005 CAMERON BD Trends in the usage of ISI bibliometric data: Uses, abuses, and implications PORTAL-LIBRARIES AND THE ACADEMY 5 : 105 2005 CRAWLEYLOW J Bibliometric analysis of the American Journal of Veterinary Research to produce a list of core veterinary medicine journals JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 94 : 430 2006 FALAGAS ME A bibliometric analysis of research productivity in Parasitology by different world regions during a 9-year period (1995-2003) BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES 6 : ARTN 56 2006 FALAGAS ME Estimates of global research productivity in virology JOURNAL OF MEDICAL VIROLOGY 76 : 229 DOI 10.1002/jmv.20346 2005 FRANKS AL Assessing prevention research impact - A bibliometric analysis AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE 30 : 211 DOI 10.1016/j.amepre.2005.10.025 2006 GEBBIE K PUBLIC HLTH WORK FOR : 2000 GEHANNO JF How to select publications on occupational health: the usefulness of Medline and the impact factor OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE 57 : 706 2000 GEORGAS H A citation study of the characteristics of the linguistics literature COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES 66 : 496 2005 HASBROUCK LM Use of epidemiology in clinical medical publications, 1983-1999: A citation analysis AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY 157 : 399 DOI 10.1093/aje/KWF218 2003 HUA Y The feature of papers and citation analysis of eleven journals in tropical medicine indexed by Science Citation Index Expanded MEMORIAS DO INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ 100 : 805 2005 KELSEY P Establishing a core list of journals for forestry: A citation analysis from faculty at southern universities COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES 64 : 357 2003 KNIEVEL JE Citation analysis for collection development: A comparative study of eight humanities fields LIBRARY QUARTERLY 75 : 142 2005 KUSHKOWSKI JD Master's and doctoral thesis citations: Analysis and trends of a longitudinal study PORTAL-LIBRARIES AND THE ACADEMY 3 : 459 2003 LOPEZABENTE G Time trends in the impact factor of Public Health journals BMC PUBLIC HEALTH 5 : ARTN 24 2005 MOORBATH P A STUDY OF JOURNALS NEEDED TO SUPPORT THE PROJECT-2000 NURSING COURSE WITH AN EVALUATION OF CITATION COUNTING AS A METHOD OF JOURNAL SELECTION ASLIB PROCEEDINGS 45 : 39 1993 ORTEGA L Tracking cross-disciplinary information use by author affiliation: Demonstration of a method COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES 67 : 446 2006 PORTA M CAD SAUDE PUBLICA 19 : 1847 2003 PORTA M The bibliographic ''impact factor'' of the Institute for Scientific Information: How relevant is it really for public health journals? 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PORTA M Commentary I - The bibliographic "impact factor", the total number of citations and related bibliometric indicators: the need to focus on journals of public health and preventive medicine SOZIAL-UND PRAVENTIVMEDIZIN 49 : 15 DOI 10.1007/s00038-003-0031-4 2004 RAMOS JM Publication of European Union research on infectious diseases (1991-2001): A bibliometric evaluation EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY & INFECTIOUS DISEASES 23 : 180 DOI 10.1007/s10096-003-1074-4 2004 RETHLEFSEN ML 106 ANN M MED LIB AS 2006 REVERE D IN PRESS J BIOMED IN : 2007 SCHLOMAN BF Mapping the literature of health education BULLETIN OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 85 : 278 1997 SCHOONBAERT D Citation patterns in tropical medicine journals TROPICAL MEDICINE & INTERNATIONAL HEALTH 9 : 1142 2004 SMITH ET Assessing collection usefulness: An investigation of library ownership of the resources graduate students use COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES 64 : 344 2003 SOTERIADES ES SOZ PREVENTIVMED 6 : 301 DOI 10.1007/S00038-003-0031-4 2006 SPASSER MA J MED LIBR ASSOC 94 : E137 2006 TAYLOR MK J MED LIBR ASSOC 95 : E58 DOI 10.3163/1588-9439.95.2.E58 2007 THOMPSON ISI 2004 JCR SCI 2006 THOMPSON ISI 2005 JCR SCI EDITION 2006 THOMPSON ISI JCR SOCIAL SCI EDITI : 2006 VERGIDIS PI Bibliometric analysis of global trends for research productivity in microbiology EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY & INFECTIOUS DISEASES 24 : 342 DOI 10.1007/s10096-005-1306-x 2005 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Jul 16 16:44:24 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:44:24 -0400 Subject: Wickremasinghe, SI Evaluating research productivity: a case study of the rice scientists in India and Sri Lanka JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION OF SRI LANKA, 36 (1): 59-68 MAR 2008 Message-ID: Email Address: seethaiw at nsf.ac.lk Author(s): Wickremasinghe, SI (Wickremasinghe, Seetha I.) Title: Evaluating research productivity: a case study of the rice scientists in India and Sri Lanka Source: JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION OF SRI LANKA, 36 (1): 59-68 MAR 2008 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: India; research productivity; research publication; rice research; rice scientists; science policy; science & technology output; Sri Lanka Keywords Plus: RECOGNITION; SCIENCE; OUTPUT Abstract: Measuring research productivity of the scientific community is important because it gives an insight to the research and development (R&D) of a particular country. A common method used for this purpose is the evaluation of the output of the research publications viz., research articles published in the journals and bulletins; presentations at workshops/ conference proceedings; books or chapters in books; technical reports etc. The patents and the awards received by the scientists are also considered as research productivity indicators. The present case study is aimed at evaluation of the research productivity of rice scientists in India and Sri Lanka through their publications and other research outputs. A questionnaire survey was administered among the scientists at the Central Rice Research Institute (CRRI), at Cuttack in the Orissa State of India and at the Rice Research and Development Institute (RRDI), at Batalagoda, Ibbagamuwa in Sri Lanka. This was supplemented by direct interviews with senior scientists and research administrators in the National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS) in both countries. The mean research productivity was found to be significantly higher (p <= 1) for Indian rice scientists compared to the Sri Lankan rice scientists. The possible reasons for this difference that emerged from this study are as follows. a) Publication of research is the most essential criterion for promotion and career development of Indian scientists; b) Many Indian journals are available for publication of rice research; and c) The majority of Indian rice scientists hold PhD degrees which is essential for conducting independent research. The study also indicated a policy insight for training Sri Lankan rice scientists up to PhD level for higher research productivity. Addresses: Natl Sci Fdn, Sci & Technol Policy Res Div, Colombo 07, Sri Lanka Reprint Address: Wickremasinghe, SI, Natl Sci Fdn, Sci & Technol Policy Res Div, 47-5 Maitland Pl, Colombo 07, Sri Lanka. Cited Reference Count: 18 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: NATL SCIENCE FOUNDATION SRI LANKA Publisher Address: 47/5 MAITLAND PLACE, COLOMBO, 00000, SRI LANKA ISSN: 1391-4588 29-char Source Abbrev.: J NATL SCI FOUND SRI LANKA ISO Source Abbrev.: J. Natl. Sci. Found. Sri Lanka Source Item Page Count: 10 Subject Category: Multidisciplinary Sciences ISI Document Delivery No.: 310DO ALLISON PD PROCESS STRATIFICATI : 1980 ARUNACHALAM S Mapping agricultural research in India: A profile based on CAB Abstracts 1998 CURRENT SCIENCE 81 : 896 2001 CHAKRAVARTHY R PRODUCTIVITY 27 : 259 1986 COLE S SCIENTIFIC OUTPUT AND RECOGNITION - STUDY IN OPERATION OF REWARD SYSTEM IN SCIENCE AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW 32 : 377 1967 FOX MF PUBLICATION PRODUCTIVITY AMONG SCIENTISTS - A CRITICAL-REVIEW SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE 13 : 285 1983 GASTON J REWARD SYTSEM BRIT A : 1978 GUSTIN BH CHARISM, RECOGNITION, AND MOTIVATION OF SCIENTISTS AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY 78 : 1119 1973 HERBSTEIN FH MEASURING PUBLICATIONS OUTPUT AND PUBLICATIONS IMPACT OF FACULTY MEMBERS OF A UNIVERSITY CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT SCIENTOMETRICS 28 : 349 1993 LEHMAN HC AGE ACHIEVEMENT : 1953 LEVIN SG RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY OVER THE LIFE-CYCLE - EVIDENCE FOR ACADEMIC SCIENTISTS AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW 81 : 114 1991 LONG JS ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT AND SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTIVITY AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW 46 : 422 1981 MERTON RK MATTHEW EFFECT IN SCIENCE SCIENCE 159 : 56 1968 OVER R SCIENTOMETRICS 13 : 207 1982 PELZ DC SCI ORG PRODUCTIVE C : 1976 SEETHA IW THESIS J NEHRU U NEW : 2004 SKIFF A TOWARD A THEORY OF PUBLISHING OR PERISHING AMERICAN SOCIOLOGIST 15 : 175 1980 WENGRAF T QUALITATIVE RES INTE : 2001 YIN RK CASE STUDY RES DESIG : 1994 From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Thu Jul 17 13:21:48 2008 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:21:48 +0200 Subject: International Collaboration in Science and the Formation of a Core Group Message-ID: International Collaboration in Science and the Formation of a Core Group Journal of Informetrics (forthcoming) International collaboration as measured by co-authorship relations on refereed papers grew linearly from 1990 to 2005 in terms of the number of papers, but exponentially in terms of the number of international addresses. This confirms Persson et al.'s (2004) hypothesis of an inflation in international collaboration. Patterns in international collaboration in science can be considered as network effects, since there is no political institution mediating relationships at that level except for the initiatives of the European Commission. Science at the international level shares features with other complex adaptive systems whose order arises from the interactions of hundreds of agents pursuing self-interested strategies. During the period 2000-2005, the network of global collaborations appears to have reinforced the formation of a core group of fourteen most cooperative countries. This core group can be expected to use knowledge from the global network with great efficiency, since these countries have strong national systems. Countries at the periphery may be disadvantaged by the increased strength of the core. pdf-version _____ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ Caroline S. Wagner SRI International Arlington, Virginia, 22209, USA caroline.wagner at sri.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Jul 17 15:09:38 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:09:38 -0400 Subject: Kelly, JG (Kelly, James G.); Chang, J (Chang, Janet) Pluralistic inquiry for the history of community psychology JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY, 36 (5): 675-691 JUL 2008 Message-ID: E-mail Address: jgkjazz at sbcglobal.net; janet.Chang at trincoll.edu Author(s): Kelly, JG (Kelly, James G.); Chang, J (Chang, Janet) Title: Pluralistic inquiry for the history of community psychology Source: JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY, 36 (5): 675-691 JUL 2008 Language: English Document Type: Article Keywords Plus: CITATION ANALYSIS; JOURNALS; CULTURE Abstract: The authors present the case not only for studying the history of community psychology but also of adopting a pluralistic approach to historical inquiry, using multiple methods and access to resources from other disciplines (e.g., historians of science and social historians). Examples of substantive topics and methods, including social network and citation analyses, oral histories and narratives, larger cultural forces, and, investigative reporting, that can illuminate historical issues are discussed. Current resources,for the study of the history of community psychology are identified. Recommendations for the continued study of the history of community psychology are also presented. (C) 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Addresses: Univ Calif Davis, Dept Psychol, Davis, CA 95616 USA; Trinity Coll, Dept Psychol, Hartford, CT 06106 USA Reprint Address: Kelly, JG, 1014 San Gallo Terrace, Davis, CA 95616 USA. E-mail Address: jgkjazz at sbcglobal.net; janet.Chang at trincoll.edu Cited Reference Count: 62 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: JOHN WILEY & SONS INC Publisher Address: 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN, NJ 07030 USA ISSN: 0090-4392 PSYCHOL ISO Source Abbrev.: J. Community Psychol. Source Item Page Count: 17 Subject Category: Public, Environmental & Occupational Health; Psychology, Multidisciplinary; Social Work ISI Document Delivery No.: 313KI BENNETT CC COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY - IMPRESSIONS OF THE BOSTON CONFERENCE ON THE EDUCATION OF PSYCHOLOGISTS FOR COMMUNITY MENTAL-HEALTH AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST 20 : 832 1965 BENNETT CC COMM PSYCH REP BOST : 1966 BLEDSTEIN BJ CULTURE PROFESSIONAL : 1976 BLOOM B COMMUNITY MENTAL HLT : 1984 BOND MA A history of women and feminist perspectives in community psychology AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY 28 : 599 2000 BORGMAN CL SCHOLARLY COMMUNICAT : 1990 BREISACH E FUTURE HIST : 2003 BRUNER J SEARCH MIND ESSAYS A : 1983 CHAMPAGNE D RACE ETHNICITY RES M : 233 1993 COOPER CR Theories linking culture and psychology: Universal and community-specific processes ANNUAL REVIEW OF PSYCHOLOGY 49 : 559 1998 DANZIGER K ANN THEORETICAL PSYC 8 : 15 1993 DENNIS PM Psychology's public image in "topics of the times": Commentary from the editorial page of the New York Times between 1904 and 1947 JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES 38 : 371 DOI 10.1002/jhbs.10068 2002 EVERETT JE CITATION ANALYSIS MAPPING OF JOURNALS IN APPLIED AND CLINICAL-PSYCHOLOGY JOURNAL OF APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 23 : 750 1993 FARMER TW Exploring risk in early adolescent African American youth AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY 33 : 51 2004 FOWLER PJ Personal lineages and the development of community psychology: 1965 to 2005 JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY 36 : 626 DOI 10.1002/jcop.20243 2008 GADDIS JL LANDSCAPE HIST : 2002 GARFIELD E SCI EXCELLENCE ORIGI : 18 1987 GILDERHUS MT HIST HIST : 2003 GOLANN S FUTURE COMMUNITY PSY : 1975 GOLDMAN L SCI REFORM POLITICS : 2002 GROB GN ASYLUM COMMUNITY : 1991 HALBERSTAM D 50 1993 HASKELL TL EMERGENCE PROFESSION : 1977 ISCOE I P NAT C TRAIN COMM P : 1977 KELLY JG 6 COMMUNITY PSYCHOL 2004 KELLY JG The spirit of community psychology AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY 30 : 43 2002 KELLY JG BECOMING ECOLOGICAL : 2006 KELLY JG COMMUNITY PSYCHOL 33 : 23 2000 KELLY JG COMMUNITY PSYCHOL PR : 2008 KELLY JG EXEMPLARS COMMUNITY : 2003 KELLY JG HDB ACTION RES : 348 2001 KERN S CULTURE TIME SPACE 1 : 1983 LEARY DE TELLING LIKELY STORIES - THE RHETORIC OF THE NEW PSYCHOLOGY, 1880-1920 JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES 23 : 315 1987 LEHMAN DR Psychology and culture ANNUAL REVIEW OF PSYCHOLOGY 55 : 689 DOI 10.1146/annurev.psych.55.090902.141927 2004 LERNER G WHY HIST MATTERS : 1997 LEVIN G LIVING COMMUNITY PSY 36 : 12 2003 LEVINE M INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING AS A RESEARCH METHOD - AN ANALYSIS OF BERNSTEIN AND WOODWARD ALL THE PRESIDENTS MEN AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST 35 : 626 1980 LEVINE M HIST POLITICS COMMUN : 1981 MAHER TH THESIS U MICHIGAN AN : 1970 MALI J MYTHISTORY : 2003 MARTIN PP AJCP as a vehicle for improving community life: An historic-analytic review of the journal's contents AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY 34 : 163 2004 MERRITT DM M AM PSYCH ASS CHIC : 1997 MERRITT DM UNIFICATION DIVISION 3 : 73 1998 PERLMAN D RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL-PSYCHOLOGY - A CITATION ANALYSIS PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY BULLETIN 10 : 493 1984 PIERCE SJ SCHOLARLY COMMUNICAT : 46 1990 PRIMAVERA J Introduction to the special issue on the process of community research and action AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY 33 : 177 2004 REVENSON TA QUARTER CENTURY COMM : 2002 ROSEN G HIST PUBLIC HLTH : 1993 ROSS D ORIGINS AM SOCIAL SC : 1991 ROUTH DK HDB PSYCHOL 1 : 337 2003 RUNYAN WM PSYCHOL HIST INTERPR : 1988 SAMELSON F ANN THEORETICAL PSYC 8 : 59 1993 SARASON SB MAKING AM PSYCHOL AU : 1988 SHWEDER R THINKING CULTURES : 73 1991 SIMONTON DK Qualitative and quantitative analyses of historical data ANNUAL REVIEW OF PSYCHOLOGY 54 : 617 DOI 10.1146/annurev.psych.54.101601.145034 2003 SIMONTON DK GREAT PSYCHOL THEIR : 1992 SIMONTON DK PSYCHOL SCI HIST INT : 1990 STOCKING GW RACE CULTURE EVOLUTI : 1982 SWANSON DR SCHOLARLY COMMUNICAT : 129 1990 TORO PA Community psychology: Where do we go from here? AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY 35 : 9 DOI 10.1007/s10464-005- 1883-y 2005 WALSH RT THE EVOLUTION OF THE RESEARCH RELATIONSHIP IN COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY 15 : 773 1987 WILSON BDM HDB PSYCHOL HIST PSY 1 : 431 2003 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Jul 17 15:46:05 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:46:05 -0400 Subject: Leicht, EA; Clarkson, G; Shedden, K; Newman, MEJ Large-scale structure of time evolving citation networks EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL B, 59 (1): 75-83 SEP 2007 Message-ID: E-mail Address: eleicht at umich.edu Author(s): Leicht, EA (Leicht, E. A.); Clarkson, G (Clarkson, G.); Shedden, K (Shedden, K.); Newman, MEJ (Newman, M. E. J.) Title: Large-scale structure of time evolving citation networks Source: EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL B, 59 (1): 75-83 SEP 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Keywords Plus: COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPLEX NETWORKS; MODEL Abstract: In this paper we examine a number of methods for probing and understanding the large-scale structure of networks that evolve over time. We focus in particular on citation networks, networks of references between documents such as papers, patents, or court cases. We describe three different methods of analysis, one based on an expectation- maximization algorithm, one based on modularity optimization, and one based on eigenvector centrality. Using the network of citations between opinions of the United States Supreme Court as an example, we demonstrate how each of these methods can reveal significant structural divisions in the network and how, ultimately, the combination of all three can help us develop a coherent overall picture of the network's shape. Addresses: Univ Michigan, Dept Phys, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA; Univ Michigan, Sch Informat, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA; Univ Michigan, Dept Stat, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA; Univ Michigan, Ctr Study Complex Syst, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA Reprint Address: Leicht, EA, Univ Michigan, Dept Phys, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA. E-mail Address: eleicht at umich.edu Cited Reference Count: 30 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: SPRINGER Publisher Address: 233 SPRING STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10013 USA ISSN: 1434-6028 29-char Source Abbrev.: EUR PHYS J B ISO Source Abbrev.: Eur. Phys. J. 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An empirical study of the citation distribution EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL B 4 : 131 1998 SCHWARZ G ESTIMATING DIMENSION OF A MODEL ANNALS OF STATISTICS 6 : 461 1978 SEGLEN PO THE SKEWNESS OF SCIENCE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE 43 : 628 1992 UROFSKY MI MARCH LIBERTY CONSTI : 2002 From Christina.Pikas at JHUAPL.EDU Fri Jul 18 12:36:39 2008 From: Christina.Pikas at JHUAPL.EDU (Pikas, Christina K.) Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:36:39 -0400 Subject: FW: Article on citing practices Message-ID: See also: http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111928&govDel=USNSF_51 Christina K. Pikas, MLS R.E. Gibson Library & Information Center The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Voice 240.228.4812 (Washington), 443.778.4812 (Baltimore) Fax 443.778.5353 -----Original Message----- From: PAMnet [mailto:PAMNET at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Molly White Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 12:30 PM To: PAMNET at LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Article on citing practices From today's Chronicle of Higher Education: Access to Online Journals Is Found to Reduce Breadth of Citations Despite having access to more and more journal articles online, scholars are citing fewer and fewer discrete articles in their papers, according to a study published today in "Science." The intro: : http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/321/5887/395 > >Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship > > > >James A. Evans > >Online journals promise to serve more information to more dispersed >audiences and are more efficiently searched and recalled. But because >they are used differently than print-scientists and scholars tend to >search electronically and follow hyperlinks rather than browse or >peruse-electronically available journals may portend an ironic change >for science. Using a database of 34 million articles, their citations >(1945 to 2005), and online availability (1998 to 2005), I show that as >more journal issues came online, the articles referenced tended to be >more recent, fewer journals and articles were cited, and more of those >citations were to fewer journals and articles. The forced browsing of >print archives may have stretched scientists and scholars to anchor >findings deeply into past and present scholarship. Searching online is >more efficient and following hyperlinks quickly puts researchers in >touch with prevailing opinion, but this may accelerate consensus and >narrow the range of findings and ideas built upon. > >Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, 1126 East 59th Street, >Chicago, IL60615, USA. E-mail: >jevans at uchicago.edu ************************************************** To send an email to PAMnet: pamnet at listserv.nd.edu To view PAMnet Archives: http://listserv.nd.edu/archives/pamnet.html To unsubscribe to PAMnet: http://listserv.nd.edu/archives/pamnet.html then click on Join or leave the list (or change settings) To modify subscription settings: http://listserv.nd.edu/archives/pamnet.html then click on Join or leave the list (or change settings) From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Jul 22 11:50:13 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:50:13 -0400 Subject: Gingras, Y (Gingras, Yves) The collective construction of scientific memory: The Einstein-Poincare connection and its discontents, 1905-2005 HISTORY OF SCIENCE, 46 (151): 75-114 Part 1 MAR 2008 Message-ID: Email Address: gingras.yves at uqam.ca Author(s): Gingras, Y (Gingras, Yves) Title: The collective construction of scientific memory: The Einstein- Poincare connection and its discontents, 1905-2005 Source: HISTORY OF SCIENCE, 46 (151): 75-114 Part 1 MAR 2008 Language: English Document Type: Review Keywords Plus: SPECIAL RELATIVITY; RENDICONTI PAPER; PRIORITY DISPUTE; BELATED DECISION; LORENTZ; TRANSFORMATIONS; DISCOVERY; PRINCIPLE; CITATION; PHYSICS Addresses: Univ Quebec Montreal, Montreal, PQ, Canada Reprint Address: Gingras, Y, Univ Quebec Montreal, Montreal, PQ, Canada. 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Corry, J. Renn, and J. Stachel ZEITSCHRIFT FUR NATURFORSCHUNG SECTION A-A JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES 59 : 715 2004 ZAHAR E BRIT J PHILOS SCI 29 : 49 1978 ZAHAR E EINSTEINS REVOLUTION : CH5 1989 From dwojick at HUGHES.NET Tue Jul 22 12:27:11 2008 From: dwojick at HUGHES.NET (David E. Wojick) Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:27:11 -0400 Subject: Population modeling of the emergence and development of scientific fields In-Reply-To: <000901c8df4a$28a6c090$6402a8c0@loet> Message-ID: Population modeling of the emergence and development of scientific fields Scientometrics, Vol. 75, No. 3 (2008) 495-518 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1888-4 http://web.mit.edu/dikaiser/www/BKKCW.PopModels.pdf Abstract: We analyze the temporal evolution of emerging fields within several scientific disciplines in terms of numbers of authors and publications. From bibliographic searches we construct databases of authors, papers, and their dates of publication. We show that the temporal development of each field, while different in detail, is well described by population contagion models, suitably adapted from epidemiology to reflect the dynamics of scientific interaction. Dynamical parameters are estimated and discussed to reflect fundamental characteristics of the field, such as time of apprenticeship and recruitment rate. We also show that fields are characterized by simple scaling laws relating numbers of new publications to new authors, with exponents that reflect increasing or decreasing returns in scientific productivity. LUIS M. A. BETTENCOURT, a,f DAVID I. KAISER, b JASLEEN KAUR, a,c CARLOS CASTILLO-CH?VEZ, d DAVID E. WOJICK, e a Theoretical Division, T-7 MS B284, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos (USA) b Center for Theoretical Physics, Laboratory for Nuclear Science, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (USA) c School of Informatics, Indiana University, Bloomington (USA) d Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Arizona State University, Tempe (USA) e Office of Scientific and Technical Information, US Department of Energy, Oak Ridge (USA) f Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe NM 87501 (USA) Basically we are looking at the spread of scientific language via the mathematics of the spread of disease. Additional results are available here: http://www.osti.gov/innovation/research/ including exploring ways to speed up the diffusion of science. Cheers, David -- "David E. Wojick, Ph.D., P.E." Senior Consultant -- The DOE Science Accelerator http://www.scienceaccelerator.gov/ http://www.osti.gov/innovation/scienceaccelerator.pdf http://www.osti.gov/innovation/ A strategic initiative of the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, US Department of Energy (540) 858-3136 391 Flickertail Lane, Star Tannery, VA 22654 USA http://www.bydesign.com/powervision/resume.html provides my bio and client list. http://www.bydesign.com/powervision/Mathematics_Philosophy_Science/ presents some of my own research on information structure and dynamics. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Wed Jul 23 13:02:22 2008 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:02:22 -0400 Subject: FW: New Study Claims Citations Narrow as Journals Move Online Message-ID: I believe this study has been widely quoted and discussed it not on Sigmetrics, then elsewhere. Best wishes. EG Hi! How are you? The topic noted below might be of interest for discussion on SIGMETRICS if not already covered. Thank you. Warm regards, Ed Fox Professor Edward A. Fox, Ph.D. Department of Computer Science, http://www.cs.vt.edu 2050 Torgersen Hall, M/C 0106 Virginia Tech, http://www.vt.edu Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA Ph: +1-540-231-5113, Cell +1-540-230-6266 Email: fox at vt.edu, FAX: +1-540-231-6075 WWW: http://fox.cs.vt.edu Executive Director, NDLTD, www.ndltd.org From: NDLTD-BoD-L Discussion List [mailto:NDLTD-BOD-L at listserv.vt.edu] On Behalf Of John Hagen Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 3:27 PM To: NDLTD-BOD-L at LISTSERV.VT.EDU Subject: New Study Claims Citations Narrow as Journals Move Online Hi All, I read a rather interesting report in today's Chronicle of Higher Education which claims that citations narrow as journals move online. Surely there must be a plethora of studies done by ARL and open access proponents to dispute this. Or maybe the researcher is really on to something regarding changes in the research cycle from discovery to published article? Links to the Chronicle article and the source article in Science Magazine are listed below. Access to Online Journals Reduces Breadth of Citations, Study Finds (Chronicle of Higher Education) http://chronicle.com/daily/2008/07/3870n.htm Survey Finds Citations Growing Narrower as Journals Move Online (Science) http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/321/5887/329a.pdf Regards, - John <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> John H. Hagen Manager, Institutional Repository Programs, Coordinator, Electronic Thesis & Dissertation Program Board Member, NDLTD Co-Chair, ETD 2009 Symposium WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES Acquisitions Department Wise Library, Room 2510 P.O. 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Format this record for printingE-mail this recordAdd this record to your Marked List.Save to EndNote Web librarymore options Author(s): Garfield E Source: LIBRI Volume: 48 Issue: 2 Pages: 67-80 Published: JUN 1998 Times Cited: 26 References: 67 Citation Map Abstract: This article provides a synoptic review and history of citation indexes and their evolution into research evaluation tools including a discussion of the use of bibliometric data for evaluating U.S. institutions (academic departments) by the National Research Council (NRC). The review covers the origin and uses of journal impact factors, validation studies of citation analysis, information retrieval and dissemination (current awareness), citation consciousness, historiography and science mapping, Citation Classics,(R) and the history of contemporary science. Retrieval of information by cited reference searching is illustrated, especially as it applies to avoiding duplicated research. The fifteen-year cumulative impacts of journals and the percentage of uncitedness, the emergence of scientometrics, old boy networks, and citation frequency distributions are discussed. The paper concludes with observations about the future of citation indexing. When responding, please attach my original message __________________________________________________ Eugene Garfield, PhD. email: garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu home page: www.eugenegarfield.org Tel: 215-243-2205 Fax 215-387-1266 President, The Scientist LLC. www.the-scientist.com 400 Market St., Suite 1250 Phila. PA 19106- Chairman Emeritus, ISI www.isinet.com 3501 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-3302 Past President, American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) www.asis.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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An example from Finnish schizophrenia research NORDIC JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY, 62 (2): 136-143 2008 Message-ID: E-mail Address: johanna.koskinen at oulu.fi Author(s): Koskinen, J (Koskinen, Johanna); Isohanni, M (Isohanni, Matti); Paajala, H (Paajala, Henna); Jaaskelainen, E (Jaaskelainen, Erika); Nieminen, P (Nieminen, Pentti); Koponen, H (Koponen, Hannu); Tienari, P (Tienari, Pekka); Miettunen, J (Miettunen, Jouko) Title: How to use bibliometric methods in evaluation of scientific research? An example from Finnish schizophrenia research Source: NORDIC JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY, 62 (2): 136-143 2008 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: bibliometrics; Finland; information science; schizophrenia Keywords Plus: BIPOLAR DISORDER; PUBLICATIONS; IMPACT; VISIBILITY; PSYCHIATRY Abstract: We present bibliometric methods that can be utilized in evaluation processes of scientific work. In this paper, we present some practical clues using Finnish schizophrenia research as an example and comparing the research output of different institutions. Bibliometric data and indicators including publication counts, impact factors and received citations were used as tools for evaluating research performance in Finnish schizophrenia research. The articles and citations were searched from the Web of Science database. We used schizophrenia as a keyword and defined address Finland, and limited years to 1996-2005. When we analysed Finnish schizophrenia research, altogether 265 articles met our criteria. There were differences in impact factors and received citations between institutions. The number of annually published Finnish schizophrenia articles has tripled since the mid-1990s. International co-operation was common (43%). Bibliometric methods revealed differences between institutions, indicating that the methods can be applied in research evaluation. The coverage of databases as well as the precision of their search engines can be seen as limitations. Bibliometric methods offer a practical and impartial way to estimate publication profiles of researchers and research groups. According to our experience, these methods can be used as an evaluation instrument in research together with other methods, such as expert opinions and panels. Addresses: Univ Oulu, Dept Psychiat, FIN-90014 Oulu, Finland; Oulu Univ Hosp, Oulu, Finland; Univ Oulu, Med Informat Grp, FIN-90014 Oulu, Finland; Univ Kuopio, Dept Psychiat, FIN-70211 Kuopio, Finland Reprint Address: Koskinen, J, Univ Oulu, Dept Psychiat, POB 5000, FIN- 90014 Oulu, Finland. E-mail Address: johanna.koskinen at oulu.fi Cited Reference Count: 21 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: TAYLOR & FRANCIS AS Publisher Address: PO BOX 12 POSTHUSET, NO-0051 OSLO, NORWAY ISSN: 0803-9488 DOI: 10.1080/08039480801961667 29-char Source Abbrev.: NORD J PSYCHIATR ISO Source Abbrev.: Nord. J. Psychiatr. Source Item Page Count: 8 Subject Category: Psychiatry ISI Document Delivery No.: 318CX ADAM D The counting house NATURE 415 : 726 2002 AMIN M PERSPECTIVES PUBLISH 1 : 2 2000 DEBACKERE K Using a bibliometric approach to support research policy making: The case of the Flemish BOF-key SCIENTOMETRICS 59 : 253 2004 FIGUEIRA I A comparison between domestic and international publications in Brazilian psychiatry SCIENTOMETRICS 56 : 317 2003 GARFIELD E WHICH MEDICAL JOURNALS HAVE THE GREATEST IMPACT ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE 105 : 313 1986 HOVATTA I Linkage analysis of putative schizophrenia gene candidate regions on chromosomes 3p, 5q, 6p, 8p, 20p and 22q in a population-based sampled Finnish family set MOLECULAR PSYCHIATRY 3 : 452 1998 HUBERT JJ GENERAL BIBLIOMETRIC-MODELS LIBRARY TRENDS 30 : 65 1981 INGWERSEN P Visibility and impact of research in Psychiatry for North European countries in EU, US and world contexts SCIENTOMETRICS 54 : 131 2002 JONES PB Schizophrenia as a long-term outcome of pregnancy, delivery, and perinatal complications: A 28-year follow-up of the 1966 North Finland general population birth cohort AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY 155 : 355 1998 KALTENBORN KF The journal impact factor as a parameter for the evaluation of researchers and research MEDIZINISCHE KLINIK 98 : 153 DOI 10.1007/s00063-003-1240-6 2003 KEKOMAKI M EVALUATION USES PROP : 3 2001 KOSKINEN J PSYCHIAT FENNICA : 9 2004 LETA J Central international visibility of Brazilian psychiatric publications from 1981 to 1999 SCIENTOMETRICS 50 : 241 2001 LEWIS CM Genome scan meta-analysis of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, part II: Schizophrenia AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS 73 : 34 2003 LEWISON G Bibliometric methods for the evaluation of arthritis research RHEUMATOLOGY 38 : 13 1999 LOPEZMUNOZ F Bibliometric analysis of biomedical publications on SSRIs during 1980-2000 DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY 18 : 95 DOI 10.1002/da.10121 2003 LOPEZMUNOZ F Bipolar disorder as an emerging pathology in the scientific literature: A bibliometric approach JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS 92 : 161 DOI 10.1016/j.jad.2006.02.006 2006 LOPEZMUNOZ F PSIQUIATR 11 : 68 1995 MIETTUNEN J SCIENTOMETRICS 57 : 379 2004 NIEMINEN P SOCIAALILAAK AIKAK 35 : 152 1998 SUVISAARI JM Decline in the incidence of schizophrenia in Finnish cohorts born from 1954 to 1965 ARCHIVES OF GENERAL PSYCHIATRY 56 : 733 1999 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Jul 24 16:15:39 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:15:39 -0400 Subject: Harmon, Glynn. Remembering William Goffman: Mathematical information science pioneer. Information Processing and Management 44 (2008) 1634=?windows-1252?Q?=961647?= Message-ID: Harmon, Glynn. Remembering William Goffman: Mathematical information science pioneer. Information Processing and Management 44 (2008) 1634?1647 gharmon at ischool.utexas.edu Abstract This paper reviews the career and legacy of William (Bill) Goffman, who served as a researcher, Professor, Dean and Emeritus at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, from 1959 to 2000. Goffman pioneered mathematical information science broadly and in several key areas. First, he applied disease epidemiology concepts to model accurately the spread of knowledge and the formation of knowledge systems and their ecologies, including the dynamics of scientific discovery. Second, he proposed significant improvements in information retrieval through the deployment of multi-valued logic, appropriate file ordering, effective and efficient retrieval measures, and simplified retrieval approaches, including early work in citation-based searching. Third, Goffman applied Bradford-like distributions to model effective core research literature collection development and usage. Fourth, he developed original epidemiology models, and was an early contributor in biomedical informatics. His mathematical contributions have stood the test of time and will continue to be applicable indefinitely. for full text of article preprint go to: http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/goffman.pdf See also: HistCite files for W. Goffman - http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/histcomp/goffman-w_citing/index-tl.html From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Jul 25 11:54:59 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:54:59 -0400 Subject: Bornmann, L; et al Is the h index related to (standard) bibliometric measures and to the assessments by peers? An investigation of the h index by using molecular life sciences data RESEARCH EVALUATION, 17 (2): 149-156 JUN 2008 Message-ID: E-mail Address: bornmann at gess.ethz.ch Author(s): Bornmann, L (Bornmann, Lutz); Wallon, G (Wallon, Gerlind); Ledin, A (Ledin, Anna) Title: Is the h index related to (standard) bibliometric measures and to the assessments by peers? An investigation of the h index by using molecular life sciences data Source: RESEARCH EVALUATION, 17 (2): 149-156 JUN 2008 Language: English Document Type: Article Keywords Plus: SCIENTISTS; INDICATORS; JOURNALS; RANKING; IMPACT; TESTS Abstract: Jorge Hirsch has proposed the h index as a single-number criterion to evaluate the scientific output of a researcher. Using comprehensive data sets of applicants to the long-term fellowship and young investigator programmes of the European Molecular Biology Organization, we determined the relationship between the h index and three (standard) bibliometric indicators (number of publications, total citation counts, and average journal impact factor) as well as peer assessments to test the convergent validity of the h index. The findings indicate that the h index is a valid indicator for research performance at micro and meso levels. Our results suggest that the It index is a promising rough measurement of the quality of a young scientist's work as it is judged by internationally renowned scientists. Addresses: ETH, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland; EMBO, Heidelberg, Germany; Royal Swedish Acad Sci, Stockholm, Sweden Reprint Address: Bornmann, L, ETH, Zahringerstr 24, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland. E-mail Address: bornmann at gess.ethz.ch Cited Reference Count: 37 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: BEECH TREE PUBLISHING Publisher Address: 10 WATFORD CLOSE,, GUILDFORD GU1 2EP, SURREY, ENGLAND ISSN: 0958-2029 DOI: 10.3152/095820208X319166 29-char Source Abbrev.: RES EVALUAT ISO Source Abbrev.: Res. Evaluat. Source Item Page Count: 8 Subject Category: Information Science & Library Science ISI Document Delivery No.: 319NH SCIENCE 309 : 1181 2005 *CYT SOFTW CORP STATXACT VERS 8 CYT 2 : 2007 *STATACORP STAT STAT SOFTW REL : 2007 BALL P Achievement index climbs the ranks NATURE 448 : 737 DOI 10.1038/448737a 2007 BALL P Index aims for fair ranking of scientists NATURE 436 : 900 DOI 10.1038/436900a 2005 BATISTA PD UNIVERSAL BEHAV RES : 2005 BORNMANN L ETHICS SCI ENV POLIT : 8 2008 BORNMANN L 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 : 830 DOI 10.1002/asi.20806 2008 BORNMANN L What do we know about the h index? JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 58 : 1381 DOI 10.1002/asi.20609 2007 BORNMANN L J INFORM 1 : 204 2007 BORNMANN L Selecting scientific excellence through committee peer review - A citation analysis of publications previously published to approval or rejection of post-doctoral research fellowship applicants SCIENTOMETRICS 68 : 427 DOI 10.1007/s11192-006-0121-1 2006 BORNMANN L Does the h-index for ranking of scientists really work? SCIENTOMETRICS 65 : 391 DOI 10.1007/s11192-005-0281-4 2005 COHEN J STAT POWER ANAL BEHA : 1988 COLE S CITATIONS AND THE EVALUATION OF INDIVIDUAL SCIENTISTS TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES 14 : 9 1989 COSTAS R The h-index: Advantages, limitations and its relation with other bibliometric indicators at the micro level JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS 1 : 193 DOI 10.1016/j.joi.2007.02.001 2007 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 DAGOSTINO RB A SUGGESTION FOR USING POWERFUL AND INFORMATIVE TESTS OF NORMALITY AMERICAN STATISTICIAN 44 : 316 1990 EGGHE L SCIENTIST 20 : 14 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 HARNAD S CTWATCH 3 : 2007 HIRSCH JE Does the h index have predictive power? PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 104 : 19193 DOI 10.1073/pnas.0707962104 2007 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 JIN BH The R- and AR-indices: Complementing the h-index CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN 52 : 855 DOI 10.1007/s11434-007-0145-9 2007 JIN BH SCI FOCUS 1 : 8 2006 KAISER J An exact and a Monte Carlo proposal to the Fisher-Pitman permutation tests for paired replicates and for independent samples STATA JOURNAL 7 : 402 2007 KELLY CD H-index: age and sex make it unreliable NATURE 449 : 403 DOI 10.1038/449403c 2007 KELLY CD The h index and career assessment by numbers TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION 21 : 167 DOI 10.1016/j.tree.2006.01.005 2006 KRAEMER HC Measures of clinical significance JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY 42 : 1524 DOI 10.1097/01.chi.0000091507.46853.d1 2003 LEDIN A A persistent problem - Traditional gender roles hold back female scientists EMBO REPORTS 8 : 982 DOI 10.1038/sj.embor.7401109 2007 LIU Y P ISSI CSIC MADR SPA : 514 2007 ROSSNER M Show me the data JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY 179 : 1091 2007 ROYSTON P STATA TECHNICAL B RE 1 : 110 1991 SAAD G Exploring the h-index at the author and journal levels using bibliometric data of productive consumer scholars and business-related journals respectively SCIENTOMETRICS 69 : 117 DOI 10.1007/s11192-006-0142-9 2006 SEGLEN PO Why the impact factor of journals should not be used for evaluating research BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 314 : 498 1997 SMITH A CORRELATION RAE RATI : 2002 SYMONDS MRE PLOS ONE 1 : E127 2006 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 eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Fri Jul 25 12:23:16 2008 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:23:16 -0400 Subject: No subject Message-ID: Science 18 July 2008: Vol. 321. no. 5887, p. 329 DOI: 10.1126/science.321.5887.329a Prev | Table of Contents | Next News of the Week SOCIOLOGY: Survey Finds Citations Growing Narrower as Journals Move Online Jennifer Couzin Millions of scholarly articles have migrated online in recent years, making trips to library stacks mostly obsolete. How has this affected research, which depends on published work to guide and bolster academic inquiry? A sociologist at the University of Chicago in Illinois argues on page 395 that the shift has narrowed citations to more recent and less diverse articles than before--the opposite of what most people expected. Working solo, James Evans of the University of Chicago was curious about how citation behavior has changed in the sciences and social sciences. In theory, online access should make it quicker and easier for researchers to find what they're looking for, particularly now that more than 1 million articles are available for free. Relying on Thomson Scientific's citation indexes and Fulltext Sources Online, Evans surveyed 34 million articles with citations from 1945 to 2005. For every additional year of back issues that a particular journal posted online, Evans found on average 14% fewer distinct citations to that journal, suggesting a convergence on a smaller pool of articles. In other words, as more issues of a journal were posted online, fewer distinct articles from that journal were cited, although there were not necessarily fewer total references to that journal. It suggests herd behavior among authors: A smaller number of articles than in the past are winning the popularity contest, pulling ahead of the pack in citations, even though more articles than ever before are available. The average age of citations also dropped. Valuable papers might "end up getting lost in the archives," says Evans. Oddly, "our studies show the opposite," says Carol Tenopir, an information scientist at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She and her statistician colleague Donald King of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, have surveyed thousands of scientists over the years for their scholarly reading habits. They found that scientists are reading older articles and reading more broadly--at least one article a year from 23 different journals, compared with 13 journals in the late 1970s. In legal research, too, "people are going further back," says Dana Neac u, head of public services at Columbia University's Law School Library in New York City, who has studied the question. Tight focus. Citations to journals that have been online longer, according to James Evans, tend to cluster around more recent dates. When responding, please attach my original message __________________________________________________ Eugene Garfield, PhD. email: garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu home page: www.eugenegarfield.org Tel: 215-243-2205 Fax 215-387-1266 President, The Scientist LLC. www.the-scientist.com 400 Market St., Suite 1250 Phila. PA 19106- Chairman Emeritus, ISI www.isinet.com 3501 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-3302 Past President, American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) www.asis.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.gif Type: image/gif Size: 36093 bytes Desc: image001.gif URL: From notsjb at LSU.EDU Fri Jul 25 12:49:14 2008 From: notsjb at LSU.EDU (Stephen J Bensman) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:49:14 -0500 Subject: No subject In-Reply-To: A<311174B69873F148881A743FCF1EE5370579D422@TSHUSPAPHIMBX02.ERF.THOMSON.COM> Message-ID: I would bet on the librarians over the sociologist on this one. My own experience is that with JSTOR I have access to key older stuff like the back issues of Biometrika that used to shatter on the Xerox machine but now print nicely at desktop. And I don't have to dig into compact shelving, where I can be squeezed to death by the rolling shelving. Sociologists have never been known to be expert in the use of libraries and always seem to get lost outside their office collections. 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 Eugene Garfield Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 11:23 AM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Science 18 July 2008: Vol. 321. no. 5887, p. 329 DOI: 10.1126/science.321.5887.329a Prev | Table of Contents | Next News of the Week SOCIOLOGY: Survey Finds Citations Growing Narrower as Journals Move Online Jennifer Couzin Millions of scholarly articles have migrated online in recent years, making trips to library stacks mostly obsolete. How has this affected research, which depends on published work to guide and bolster academic inquiry? A sociologist at the University of Chicago in Illinois argues on page 395 that the shift has narrowed citations to more recent and less diverse articles than before--the opposite of what most people expected. Working solo, James Evans of the University of Chicago was curious about how citation behavior has changed in the sciences and social sciences. In theory, online access should make it quicker and easier for researchers to find what they're looking for, particularly now that more than 1 million articles are available for free. Relying on Thomson Scientific's citation indexes and Fulltext Sources Online, Evans surveyed 34 million articles with citations from 1945 to 2005. For every additional year of back issues that a particular journal posted online, Evans found on average 14% fewer distinct citations to that journal, suggesting a convergence on a smaller pool of articles. In other words, as more issues of a journal were posted online, fewer distinct articles from that journal were cited, although there were not necessarily fewer total references to that journal. It suggests herd behavior among authors: A smaller number of articles than in the past are winning the popularity contest, pulling ahead of the pack in citations, even though more articles than ever before are available. The average age of citations also dropped. Valuable papers might "end up getting lost in the archives," says Evans. Oddly, "our studies show the opposite," says Carol Tenopir, an information scientist at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She and her statistician colleague Donald King of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, have surveyed thousands of scientists over the years for their scholarly reading habits. They found that scientists are reading older articles and reading more broadly--at least one article a year from 23 different journals, compared with 13 journals in the late 1970s. In legal research, too, "people are going further back," says Dana Neac u, head of public services at Columbia University's Law School Library in New York City, who has studied the question. Tight focus. Citations to journals that have been online longer, according to James Evans, tend to cluster around more recent dates. When responding, please attach my original message __________________________________________________ Eugene Garfield, PhD. email: garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu home page: www.eugenegarfield.org Tel: 215-243-2205 Fax 215-387-1266 President, The Scientist LLC. www.the-scientist.com 400 Market St., Suite 1250 Phila. PA 19106- Chairman Emeritus, ISI www.isinet.com 3501 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-3302 Past President, American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) www.asis.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image002.gif Type: image/gif Size: 36093 bytes Desc: image002.gif URL: From krichel at OPENLIB.ORG Sat Jul 26 03:49:02 2008 From: krichel at OPENLIB.ORG (Thomas Krichel) Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:49:02 -0500 Subject: No subject In-Reply-To: <311174B69873F148881A743FCF1EE5370579D422@TSHUSPAPHIMBX02.ERF.THOMSON.COM> Message-ID: Eugene Garfield writes > News of the Week > > SOCIOLOGY: > Survey Finds Citations Growing Narrower as Journals Move Online > > Jennifer Couzin ... > Oddly, "our studies show the opposite," says Carol Tenopir, an > information scientist at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She and > her statistician colleague Donald King of the University of North > Carolina, Chapel Hill, have surveyed thousands of scientists over the > years for their scholarly reading habits. I suspect what the surveyed scientists say they do is not what they actually do. As a colleage once suggested to me, if you ask a reader what book the library should buy for her, she will tell you what she thinks she ought to read, rather than what she actually reads. Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel skype: thomaskrichel From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Jul 28 11:10:50 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:10:50 -0400 Subject: van Leeuwen, T (van Leeuwen, Thed) Testing the validity of the Hirsch-index for research assessment purposes RESEARCH EVALUATION, 17 (2): 157-160 JUN 2008 Message-ID: E-mail Address: leeuwen at cwts.nl Author(s): van Leeuwen, T (van Leeuwen, Thed) Title: Testing the validity of the Hirsch-index for research assessment purposes Source: RESEARCH EVALUATION, 17 (2): 157-160 JUN 2008 Language: English Document Type: Article Keywords Plus: H-INDEX; BIBLIOMETRIC INDICATORS; SCIENTISTS; RANKING Abstract: This paper describes the results of a recent bibliometric study conducted in the Netherlands focusing on the level of the individual researcher, in relation to an academic reward system. In this study, the Hirsch-Index is compared with various bibliometric indicators and other characteristics of researchers, and its usefulness in particularly research assessment procedures is tested. We find a strong bias towards the research field(s) in which a researcher is active, thereby limiting the validity of this indicator for the specific interest of evaluation practices. Further analyses on a sample of scientists of various ages should test the sensitivity of the indicator towards age or length of career. Addresses: Leiden Univ, Ctr Sci & Technol Studies CWTS, NL-9555 RB Leiden, Netherlands Reprint Address: van Leeuwen, T, Leiden Univ, Ctr Sci & Technol Studies CWTS, Wassenaarseweg 52,POB, NL-9555 RB Leiden, Netherlands. E-mail Address: leeuwen at cwts.nl Cited Reference Count: 8 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: BEECH TREE PUBLISHING Publisher Address: 10 WATFORD CLOSE,, GUILDFORD GU1 2EP, SURREY, ENGLAND ISSN: 0958-2029 DOI: 10.3152/095820208X319175 29-char Source Abbrev.: RES EVALUAT ISO Source Abbrev.: Res. Evaluat. Source Item Page Count: 4 Subject Category: Information Science & Library Science ISI Document Delivery No.: 319NH 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 SCIENTOMETRICS 69 : 169 DOI 10.1007/s11192-006-0147-4 2006 COSTAS R The h-index: Advantages, limitations and its relation with other bibliometric indicators at the micro level JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS 1 : 193 DOI 10.1016/j.joi.2007.02.001 2007 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 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 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 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 Mon Jul 28 11:28:49 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:28:49 -0400 Subject: Bensman, SJ Distributional differences of the Impact Factor in the sciences versus the social sciences: An analysis of the probabilistic structure of the 2005 Journal Citation Reports JASIST, 59 (9): 1366-1382 JUL 2008 Message-ID: E-mail Address: notsjb at lsu.edu Author(s): Bensman, SJ (Bensman, Stephen J.) Title: Distributional differences of the Impact Factor in the sciences versus the social sciences: An analysis of the probabilistic structure of the 2005 Journal Citation Reports Source: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 59 (9): 1366-1382 JUL 2008 Language: English Document Type: Article Keywords Plus: LIBRARY; MARKET Abstract: This paper examines the probability structure of the 2005 Science Citation Index (SCI) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) Journal Citation Reports (JCR) by analyzing the Impact Factor distributions of their journals. The distribution of the SCI journals corresponded with a distribution generally modeled by the negative binomial distribution, whereas the SSCI distribution fit the Poisson distribution modeling random, rare events. Both Impact Factor distributions were positively skewed-the SCI much more so than the SSCI- indicating excess variance. One of the causes of this excess variance was that the journals highest in the Impact Factor in both JCRs tended to class in subject categories well funded by the National Institutes of Health. The main reason for the SCI Impact Factor distribution being more skewed than the SSCI one was that review journals defining disciplinary paradigms play a much more important role in the sciences than in the social sciences. Addresses: Louisiana State Univ, LSU Lib, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA Reprint Address: Bensman, SJ, Louisiana State Univ, LSU Lib, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA. E-mail Address: notsjb at lsu.edu Cited Reference Count: 60 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: JOHN WILEY & SONS INC Publisher Address: 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN, NJ 07030 USA ISSN: 1532-2882 DOI: 10.1002/asi.20810 29-char Source Abbrev.: J AM SOC INF SCI TECHNOL ISO Source Abbrev.: J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci. Technol. 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Journal articles and their cited references from faculties at the University of New South Wales were downloaded from the Web of Science (WoS) and journal impact factors from the Journal Citation Reports. The survey of the University of New South Wales (UNSW) academic staff asked both reader-related and reading-related questions. Both methods showed that academics in medicine published more and had more coauthors per paper than academics in the other faculties; however, when correlated with the number of students and academic staff, science published more and engineering published in higher impact journals. When "recalled" numbers of articles published were compared to "actual" numbers, all faculties over-estimated their productivity by nearly two- told. The distribution of cited serial references was highly skewed with over half of the titles cited only once. The survey results corresponded with U.S. university surveys with one exception: Engineering academics reported the highest number of article readings and read mostly for research related activities. Citation analysis data showed that the UNSW library provided the majority of journals in which researchers published and cited, mostly in electronic formats. However, the availability of non- journal cited sources was low. The joint methods provided both confirmatory and contradictory results and proved useful in evaluating library research collections. Addresses: Univ New S Wales, Sch Informat Syst Technol & Management, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia; Univ Tennessee, Sch Informat Sci, Knoxville, TN 37996 USA Reprint Address: Wilson, CS, Univ New S Wales, Sch Informat Syst Technol & Management, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia. E-mail Address: c.wilson at unsw.edu.au; ctenopir at utk.edu Cited Reference Count: 19 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: JOHN WILEY & SONS INC Publisher Address: 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN, NJ 07030 USA ISSN: 1532-2882 DOI: 10.1002/asi.20812 29-char Source Abbrev.: J AM SOC INF SCI TECHNOL ISO Source Abbrev.: J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci. Technol. Source Item Page Count: 16 Subject Category: Computer Science, Information Systems; Information Science & Library Science ISI Document Delivery No.: 319MQ *SCI BYT AUSTR U MOST PROF EN : 2006 *U NEW S WAL U NEW S WAL 2003 STA : 2003 *U NEW S WAL UNSW LIB COLL DEV PO : 2006 BERGMAN SS COLLECT BUILD 25 : 108 2006 GOODEN AM ISSUES SCI TECHNOLOG : 2001 HOOD WW Informetric studies using databases: Opportunities and challenges SCIENTOMETRICS 58 : 587 2003 KENNAN MA Academic authors, scholarly publishing, and open access in Australia LEARNED PUBLISHING 20 : 138 DOI 10.1087/174148507X185117 2007 KRAUS JR ISSUES SCI TECHNOLOG : 2005 LABONTE KB ISSUES SCI TECHNOLOG : 2005 NICHOLAS D Open access publishing: The evidence from the authors JOURNAL OF ACADEMIC LIBRARIANSHIP 31 : 179 2005 NICHOLAS D Open access journal publishing: the views of some of the world's senior authors JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION 61 : 497 DOI 10.1108/00220410510407499 2005 NICHOLAS D In their very own words: authors and scholarly journal publishing LEARNED PUBLISHING 18 : 212 2005 SCHLOEGL C Impact and relevance of LIS journals: A scientometric analysis of international and German-language LIS journals - Citation analysis versus reader survey JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 55 : 1155 DOI 10.1002/asi.20070 2004 SINN RN SCI TECHNOLOGY LIB 25 : 25 2005 TENOPIR C COMMUNICATION PATTER : 2004 TENOPIR C ELECT J REALITIES SC : 488 2000 TENOPIR C Journal reading patterns and preferences of pediatricians JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 95 : 56 2007 TENOPIR C U NEW S WALES UNPUB : 66 2006 WILSON CS Science and research in Iran: a scientometric study INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE REVIEWS 28 : 26 DOI 10.1179/030801803225010322 2003 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Jul 28 14:23:23 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:23:23 -0400 Subject: Jarvelin, K; Persson, O The DCI index: Discounted cumulated impact-based research evaluation JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 59 (9): 1433-1440 JUL 2008 Message-ID: E-mail Address: kalervo.jarvelin at uta.fi; Olle.Persson at soc.umu.se Author(s): Jarvelin, K (Jarvelin, Kalervo); Persson, O (Persson, Olle) Title: The DCI index: Discounted cumulated impact-based research evaluation Source: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 59 (9): 1433-1440 JUL 2008 Language: English Document Type: Article Keywords Plus: H-INDEX; HIRSCH-INDEX; INFORMATION-SCIENCE Abstract: Research evaluation is increasingly popular and important among research funding bodies and science policy makers. Various indicators have been proposed to evaluate the standing of individual scientists, institutions, journals, or countries. A simple and popular one among the indicators is the h-index, the Hirsch index (Hirsch 2005), which is an indicator for lifetime achievement of a scholar. Several other indicators have been proposed to complement or balance the h-index. However, these indicators have no conception of aging. The AR-index (Jin et al. 2007) incorporates aging but divides the received citation counts by the raw age of the publication. Consequently, the decay of a publication is very steep and insensitive to disciplinary differences. In addition, we believe that a publication becomes outdated only when it is no longer cited, not because of its age. Finally, all indicators treat citations as equally material when one might reasonably think that a citation from a heavily cited publication should weigh more than a citation froma non-cited or little-cited publication. We propose a new indicator, the Discounted Cumulated Impact (DCI) index, which devalues old citations in a smooth way. It rewards an author for receiving new citations even if the publication is old. Further, it allows weighting of the citations by the citation weight of the citing publication. DCI can be used to calculate research performance on the basis of the h-core of a scholar or any other publication data set. Finally, it supports comparing research performance to the average performance in the domain and across domains as well. Addresses: Umea Univ, Inst Sociol, S-90187 Umea, Sweden Reprint Address: Jarvelin, K, Univ Tampere, Dept Informat Studies, FIN- 33014 Tampere, Finland. E-mail Address: kalervo.jarvelin at uta.fi; Olle.Persson at soc.umu.se Cited Reference Count: 18 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: JOHN WILEY & SONS INC Publisher Address: 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN, NJ 07030 USA ISSN: 1532-2882 DOI: 10.1002/asi.20847 29-char Source Abbrev.: J AM SOC INF SCI TECHNOL ISO Source Abbrev.: J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci. Technol. Source Item Page Count: 8 Subject Category: Computer Science, Information Systems; Information Science & Library Science ISI Document Delivery No.: 319MQ BANKS MG An extension of the Hirsch index: Indexing scientific topics and compounds SCIENTOMETRICS 69 : 161 DOI 10.1007/s11192-006-0146-5 2006 BORNMANN L J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 57 : 1381 2007 BRAUN T A Hirsch-type index for journals SCIENTIST 19 : 8 2005 BURRELL QL MULTIDIMENSIONAL WOR : 65 2007 BURRELL QL Hirsch index or Hirsch rate? Some thoughts arising from Liang's data SCIENTOMETRICS 73 : 19 DOI 10.1007/s11192-006-1774-5 2007 COSTAS R The h-index: Advantages, limitations and its relation with other bibliometric indicators at the micro level JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS 1 : 193 DOI 10.1016/j.joi.2007.02.001 2007 CRONIN B Timelines of creativity: A study of intellectual innovators in information science JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 58 : 1948 DOI 10.1002/asi.20667 2007 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 EGGHE L ISSI NEWSLETTER 2 : 8 2006 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 HIRSCH JE Does the h index have predictive power? PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 104 : 19193 DOI 10.1073/pnas.0707962104 2007 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 JIN B ISSI NEWSLETTER 3 : 6 2007 JIN BH The R- and AR-indices: Complementing the h-index CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN 52 : 855 DOI 10.1007/s11434-007-0145-9 2007 JIN BH SCI FOCUS 1 : 8 2006 OPPENHEIM C 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 : 297 DOI 10.1002/asi.20460 2007 SCHUBERT A A systematic analysis of Hirsch-type indices for journals JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS 1 : 179 DOI 10.1016/j.joi.2006.12.002 2007 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Jul 28 15:03:02 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:03:02 -0400 Subject: Schreiber, M An empirical investigation of the g-index for 26 physicists in comparison with the h-Index, the A-index, and the R-index JASIST, 59 (9): 1513-1522 JUL 2008 Message-ID: E-mail Address: schreiber at physik.tu-chemnitz.de Author(s): Schreiber, M (Schreiber, Michael) Title: An empirical investigation of the g-index for 26 physicists in comparison with the h-Index, the A-index, and the R-index Source: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 59 (9): 1513-1522 JUL 2008 Language: English Document Type: Article Keywords Plus: HIRSCH-INDEX; INDICATORS; SCIENTISTS Abstract: J.E. Hirsch (2005) introduced the h-index to quantify an individual's scientific research output by the largest number h of a scientist's papers that received at least h citations. To take into account the highly skewed frequency distribution of citations, L. Egghe (2006a) proposed the g-index as an improvement of the h-index. I have worked out 26 practical cases of physicists from the Institute of Physics at Chemnitz University of Technology, and compare the h and g values in this study. It is demonstrated that the 9-index discriminates better between different citation patterns. This also can be achieved by evaluating B.H. Jin's (2006) A-index, which reflects the average number of citations in the h-core, and interpreting it in conjunction with the h- index. h and A can be combined into the R-index to measure the h-core's citation intensity. I also have determined the A and R values for the 26 datasets. For a better comparison, I utilize interpolated indices. The correlations between the various indices as well as with the total number of papers and the highest citation counts are discussed. The largest Pearson correlation coefficient is found between g and R. Although the correlation between g and h is relatively strong, the arrangement of the datasets is significantly different depending on whether they are put into order according to the values of either h or g. Addresses: Tech Univ Chemnitz, Inst Phys, D-09107 Chemnitz, Germany Reprint Address: Schreiber, M, Tech Univ Chemnitz, Inst Phys, D-09107 Chemnitz, Germany. E-mail Address: schreiber at physik.tu-chemnitz.de Cited Reference Count: 21 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: JOHN WILEY & SONS INC Publisher Address: 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN, NJ 07030 USA ISSN: 1532-2882 DOI: 10.1002/asi.20856 29-char Source Abbrev.: J AM SOC INF SCI TECHNOL ISO Source Abbrev.: J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci. Technol. Source Item Page Count: 10 Subject Category: Computer Science, Information Systems; Information Science & Library Science ISI Document Delivery No.: 319MQ BALL P Index aims for fair ranking of scientists NATURE 436 : 900 DOI 10.1038/436900a 2005 BORNMANN L 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 : 830 DOI 10.1002/asi.20806 2008 BORNMANN L What do we know about the h index? JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 58 : 1381 DOI 10.1002/asi.20609 2007 BORNMANN L J INFORM 1 : 204 2007 BURRELL QL On the h-index, the size of the Hirsch core and Jin's A-index JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS 1 : 170 DOI 10.1016/j.joi.2007.01.003 2007 EGGHE L ISSI NEWSLETTER 2 : 8 2006 EGGHE L SCIENTIST 20 : 14 2006 EGGHE L Theory and practise of the g-index SCIENTOMETRICS 69 : 131 DOI 10.1007/s11192-006-0144-7 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 JIN BH The R- and AR-indices: Complementing the h-index CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN 52 : 855 DOI 10.1007/s11434-007-0145-9 2007 JIN BH SCI FOCUS 1 : 8 2006 KELLY CD The h index and career assessment by numbers TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION 21 : 167 DOI 10.1016/j.tree.2006.01.005 2006 MEHO LI The rise and rise of citation analysis PHYSICS WORLD 20 : 32 2007 PODLUBNY I Towards a better list of citation superstars: compiling a multidisciplinary list of highly cited researchers RESEARCH EVALUATION 15 : 154 2006 ROUSSEAU R SIMPLE MODELS CORRES : 2006 SCHREIBER M A case study of the Hirsch index for 26 non-prominent physicists ANNALEN DER PHYSIK 16 : 640 DOI 10.1002/andp.20071025 2007 SCHREIBER M EPL-EUROPHYS LETT 78 : UNSP 30002-1-6 2007 SCHREIBER M To share the fame in a fair way, h(m) modifies h for multi-authored manuscripts NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS 10 : ARTN 040201 2008 SCHREIBER M The influence of self-citation corrections on Egghe's g index SCIENTOMETRICS 76 : 187 DOI 10.1007/s11192-007-1886-6 2008 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 VINKLER P Eminence of scientists in the light of the h-index and other scientometric indicators JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE 33 : 481 DOI 10.1177/0165551506072165 2007 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Jul 28 16:14:24 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:14:24 -0400 Subject: Suk, MH; Jang, HJ; Park, JS; Kim, HW; Suk, YO; Shin, HS; Yang, JH; Jung, MS; Chung, MS Accuracy of references in eight nursing journals in Korea JOURNAL OF KOREAN ACADEMY OF NURSING, 38 (1): 180-185 FEB 2008 Message-ID: E-mail Address: hjjang at hallym.ac.kr Author(s): Suk, MH (Suk, Min-Hyun); Jang, HJ (Jang, Hee-Jung); Park, JS (Park, Jeong Sook); Kim, HW (Kim, Hae-Won); Suk, YO (Suk, Yeon-Ok); Shin, HS (Shin, Hyun-Sook); Yang, JH (Yang, Jin-Hyang); Jung, MS (Jung, Myun- Sook); Chung, MS (Chung, Myung-Sill) Title: Accuracy of references in eight nursing journals in Korea Source: JOURNAL OF KOREAN ACADEMY OF NURSING, 38 (1): 180-185 FEB 2008 Language: Korean Document Type: Article Author Keywords: reference; accuracy Abstract: Purpose: This study was to investigate the reference accuracy in major nursing journals in Korea. Methods: The references in articles from eight nursing journals from 2006 were compared with PubMed for authors, year, title, journal, volume, and page accuracy. Four hundred sixty-six references were reviewed. Errors were classified as major or minor and categorized by bibliographic headings (author, title, journal, year, volume and page). Results: Of the 466 references, 223 (47.9%) had citation errors. The reference error rates ranged from 28.6% to 58.7%. Most errors occurred in the author element (37.9%), followed by title (20.9%), journal (19.0%), page (13.9%), volume (5.9%), and year (2.4%). Conclusion: This study identified a considerable error rate in the references of nursing journals. Inaccuracy of references is a reflection on scholarly work of authors and journals. Authors and Editorial committees are responsible for the accuracy of references. Addresses: Hallym Univ, Div Nursing, Chunchon 200702, South Korea; Pochon CHA Univ, Dept Nursing, Songnam, South Korea; Keimyung Univ, Coll Nursing, Taegu, South Korea; Kwandong Univ, Dept Nursing, Kangnung, South Korea; Soonchunhyang Univ, Dept Nursing, Cheonan, South Korea; Kyung Hee Univ, Coll Nursing, Seoul, South Korea; Inje Univ, Dept Nursing, Pusan, South Korea; Geongsang Natl Univ, Coll Nursing, Jinju, South Korea; Sungshin Womens Univ, Coll Nursing, Seoul, South Korea Reprint Address: Jang, HJ, Hallym Univ, Div Nursing, 39 Hallymdaehak Gil, Chunchon 200702, South Korea. E-mail Address: hjjang at hallym.ac.kr Cited Reference Count: 8 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: KOREAN SOC NURSING SCIENCE Publisher Address: KOREA SCIENCE & TECHNOL CTR, 635-4 YEOKSAM-DONG, KANGNAM-GU,, SEOUL, 135-703, SOUTH KOREA ISSN: 1598-2874 29-char Source Abbrev.: J KOREAN ACAD NURS ISO Source Abbrev.: J. Korean Acad. Nurs. Source Item Page Count: 6 ISI Document Delivery No.: 319CL ARONSKY D Accuracy of references in five biomedical informatics journals JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL INFORMATICS ASSOCIATION 12 : 225 DOI 10.1197/jamia.M1683 2005 GOSLING CM Referencing and quotation accuracy in four manual therapy journals MANUAL THERAPY 9 : 36 DOI 10.1016/S1356-689X(03)00056-0 2004 HINCHCLIFF KW ACCURACY OF REFERENCES AND QUOTATIONS IN VETERINARY JOURNALS JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 202 : 397 1993 OCONNOR AE EMERGEN MED 14 : 139 2002 OERMANN MH J PEDIAT NURS 16 : 263 2000 POLIT DE NURSING RES PRINCIPL : 2004 SCHULMEISTER L IMAGE J NURSING SCHO 30 : 143 1998 TAYLOR MK The practical effects of errors in reference lists in nursing research journals NURSING RESEARCH 47 : 300 1998 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Jul 29 11:57:08 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:57:08 -0400 Subject: Zhang, L (Zhang, Li) Citation analysis for collection development: A study of international relations journal literature LIBRARY COLLECTIONS ACQUISITIONS & TECHNICAL SERVICES, 31 (3-4): 195-207 2007 Message-ID: E-mail Address: lzhang at library.msstate.edu Author(s): Zhang, L (Zhang, Li) Title: Citation analysis for collection development: A study of international relations journal literature Source: LIBRARY COLLECTIONS ACQUISITIONS & TECHNICAL SERVICES, 31 (3-4): 195-207 2007 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: international relations studies; collection development; citation analysis Keywords Plus: POLITICAL-SCIENCE; SOCIAL-SCIENCES; SOCIOLOGY Abstract: By examining citations in international relations journal articles published between 2000 and 2005, this study reveals that international relations scholars more heavily rely on books rather than on journals. Less than 2% of the citations are from electronic resources. Materials in foreign languages are utilized insignificantly, with English language citations dominating the research literature. The analysis of subject scatter details the main disciplines that are associated with international relations research. Qualitative scholars cite a higher proportion of monographic literature, while quantitative scholars display a higher journal citation rate. (c) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Addresses: Mississippi State Univ Lib, Mississippi State, MS 39762 USA Reprint Address: Zhang, L, Mississippi State Univ Lib, 395 Hardy Rd, Mississippi State, MS 39762 USA. E-mail Address: lzhang at library.msstate.edu Cited Reference Count: 15 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD Publisher Address: THE BOULEVARD, LANGFORD LANE, KIDLINGTON, OXFORD OX5 1GB, ENGLAND ISSN: 1464-9055 DOI: 10.1016/j.lcats.2007.11.001 29-char Source Abbrev.: LIBR COLLECT ACQUIS TECH SERV ISO Source Abbrev.: Libr. Collect Acquis. Tech. Serv. Source Item Page Count: 13 Subject Category: Information Science & Library Science ISI Document Delivery No.: 321AI BANDYOPADHYAY AK HERALD LIB SCI 40 : 192 2001 BORGMAN CL Scholarly communication and bibliometrics ANNUAL REVIEW OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 36 : 3 2002 BRILL MS GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS AS BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES IN THE PERIODICAL LITERATURE OF INTERNATIONAL-RELATIONS - A CITATION ANALYSIS GOVERNMENT INFORMATION QUARTERLY 7 : 427 1990 BROADUS RN LITERATURE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES - SURVEY OF CITATION STUDIES INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE JOURNAL 23 : 236 1971 BUCHANAN AL COMPARING MATERIALS USED IN PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICAL-SCIENCE DISSERTATIONS - A TECHNICAL NOTE BEHAVIORAL & SOCIAL SCIENCES LIBRARIAN 12 : 63 1993 BUDD JM Social sciences literature and electronic information PORTAL-LIBRARIES AND THE ACADEMY 3 : 643 2003 DEVIN RB THE SERIAL MONOGRAPH RATIO IN RESEARCH-LIBRARIES - BUDGETING IN LIGHT OF CITATION STUDIES COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES 51 : 46 1990 DOSARY FMA THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RESEARCH APPROACH AND CITATION BEHAVIOR OF POLITICAL-SCIENTISTS LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE RESEARCH 10 : 221 1988 GOLDSTEIN JS INT RELATIONS : 2002 NICHOLAS D LIT BIBLIOMETRICS : 1978 RUDASILL LM SERIALS LIBR 43 : 49 2002 SMITH S BRIT J POLITICS INT 2 : 374 2000 SWYGARTHOBAUGH AJ A citation analysis of the quantitative/qualitative methods debate's reflection in sociology research: Implications for library collection development LIBRARY COLLECTIONS ACQUISITIONS & TECHNICAL SERVICES 28 : 180 DOI 10.1016/j.lcats.2004.02.003 2004 WAEVER O The sociology of a not so international discipline: American and European developments in international relations INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION 52 : 687 1998 ZHANG Y Scholarly use of Internet-based electronic resources JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 52 : 628 2001 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Jul 29 16:01:44 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:01:44 -0400 Subject: Sun, TL; Deng, KY; Deng, JW Novel numerical methods for rapid computation of PageRank 2008 PROCEEDINGS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEM SCIENCES: ITESS 2008, VOL 2 532-537, 2008 Message-ID: Author(s): Sun, TL (Sun, T. L.); Deng, KY (Deng, K. Y.); Deng, JW (Deng, J. W.) Title: Novel numerical methods for rapid computation of PageRank Editor(s): Li, G; Jia, Z; Fu, Z Source: 2008 PROCEEDINGS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEM SCIENCES: ITESS 2008, VOL 2 532-537, 2008 Language: English Document Type: Article Conference Title: International Conference on Informational Technology and Environmental System Science Conference Date: MAY 15-17, 2008 Conference Location: Jiaozuo, PEOPLES R CHINA Conference Host: Henan Polytechn Univ Author Keywords: PageRank; power method; dominant eigenvector; Google matrix KeyWords Plus: WORLD-WIDE-WEB Abstract: PageRank, a part of the search engine Google, is one of the most important ranking algorithms used by search engines. Google is one of the most successful search engines in the world. Although many factors determine Google's overall ranking of search engine results, Google maintains that the heart of its search engine software is PageRank. PageRank computation is a key component of modem Web search ranking systems. The computation of the PageRank vector consists in computing the dominant eigenvector of a stochastic matrix whose size is now of some billions. Brin and Page originally suggested computing this pair by using the well-known power method and they also gave a nice interpretation of PageRank in term of Markov Chains. The power iteration method used to compute the PageRank by Google can take much computing time and many resources. For these reasons, it seems urgent to make much more efforts for reducing the computation cost spent in Web ranking algorithms. This paper works on accelerating the PageRank computation. At first, the model of PageRank and the power method are briefly introduced. Based on the existing research on the computation of PageRank, we further derive the general formula for acceleration of PageRank computations and at the same time present two novel algorithms for accelerating the PageRank convergence: General Extrapolation and Acceleration Method. Then we give the results of numerical experiments performed on four datasets. The numerical results confirm the effectiveness of our theoretical analysis and numerical algorithms. Addresses: NE Normal Univ, Sch Comp Sci, Changchun, 130117 Peoples R China. Reprint Address: Deng, KY, NE Normal Univ, Sch Comp Sci, Changchun, 130117 Peoples R China. Cited Reference Count: 28 Publisher Name: PUBLISHING HOUSE ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY Publisher Address: PO BOX 173 WANSHOU ROAD, BEIJING 100036, PEOPLES R CHINA ISBN: 978-7-121-06303-9 Source Item Page Count: 6 ISI Document Delivery No.: BHW36 ARASU A P 11 INT WORLD WID W : 2001 AVRACHENKOV K Title Not Available STOCH MODELS 22 : 319 2006 AVRAECHENKOV KE P 5 WORKSH ALG MOD W : 2007 BARABASI AL Scale-free characteristics of random networks: the topology of the World- Wide Web PHYSICA A 281 : 69 2000 BHARAT K Title Not Available ACM T INFORM SYST 20 : 47 2002 BIANCHINI M INSIDE PAGERANK : 2003 BRIN S The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine COMPUTER NETWORKS AND ISDN SYSTEMS 30 : 107 1998 DING CHQ Title Not Available SIAM REV 46 : 256 2004 GARFIELD E CITATION INDEXES SCI : 108 1955 GOLUB GH MATRIX COMPUTATIONS : 1996 HAVELIWALA TH 2 WIGENVALUE GOOGLE 2003 HAVELIWALA TH EFFICIENT COMPUTATIO : 1999 JEH G P 12 INT WORLD WID W : 2003 KAMVAR S Adaptive methods for the computation of PageRank LINEAR ALGEBRA AND ITS APPLICATIONS 386 : 51 2004 KAMVAR SD P 12 INT WORLD WID W : 2003 KIM SJ P 24 BCS IRSG EUR C : 73 2002 KOHLSCHUTTER C P 28 EUR C INF RETR : 2006 LANGVILLE AN Title Not Available SIAM J MATRIX ANAL A 27 : 968 2006 LANGVILLE AN Title Not Available SIAM J SCI COMPUT 27 : 2112 2006 LANGVILLE AN Title Not Available SIAM REV 47 : 135 2005 LEE CP FAST 2 STAGE ALGORIT : 2003 MCSHERRY F P 14 INT C WORLD WID : 575 2005 MOLER C WORLDS LARGEST MATRI : 12 2002 PAGE L PAGERANK CITATION RA : 1998 RICHARDSON M INTELLIGENT SURFER P 14 : 2002 SERRACAPIZZANO S Title Not Available SIAM J MATRIX ANAL A 27 : 305 2005 SUN H Title Not Available APPL MATH COMPUT 179 : 799 2006 ZHANG JP THESIS E CHINA U SCI : 24 2007 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Jul 30 15:02:12 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:02:12 -0400 Subject: Sambunjak, D; Ivanis, A; Marusic, A; Marusic, M Representation of journals from five neighboring European countries in the Journal Citation Reports SCIENTOMETRICS, 76 (2): 261-271 AUG 2008 Message-ID: E-mail Address: dsambunj at mef.hr Author(s): Sambunjak, D (Sambunjak, Dario); Ivanis, A (Ivanis, Ana); Marusic, A (Marusic, Ana); Marusic, M (Marusic, Matko) Title: Representation of journals from five neighboring European countries in the Journal Citation Reports Source: SCIENTOMETRICS, 76 (2): 261-271 AUG 2008 Language: English Document Type: Article Keywords Plus: SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS; IMPACT FACTOR; VISIBILITY; LANGUAGE; DATABASE; WAR Abstract: This study explores the representation of scientific journals from Italy, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia and Montenegro in the Thomson Scientific's 2005 Journal Citation Reports (JCR). The number of journals covered by JCR was analyzed in relation to scientific productivity of selected countries and the size of their economies, and no apparent relationship between these factors was found. Our findings suggest that other factors, including the quality of individual journals, may influence how many journals a country will have in the JCR. Addresses: Univ Zagreb, Sch Med, Zagreb 10000, Croatia Reprint Address: Sambunjak, D, Univ Zagreb, Sch Med, Salata 3B, Zagreb 10000, Croatia. E-mail Address: dsambunj at mef.hr Cited Reference Count: 23 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: SPRINGER Publisher Address: VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 0138-9130 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1915-5 29-char Source Abbrev.: SCIENTOMETRICS ISO Source Abbrev.: Scientometrics Source Item Page Count: 11 Subject Category: Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications; Information Science & Library Science ISI Document Delivery No.: 322UG QUICK REF CARD : 2005 *UNESCO I STAT SEL R D IND : 2004 BILMONTOYA JA EUROPEAN J ORAL SCI 114 : 102 2006 BRAUN T WEB KNOWLEDGE FESTSC : 2000 FALAGAS ME A bibliometric analysis of research productivity in Parasitology by different world regions during a 9-year period (1995-2003) BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES 6 : ARTN 56 2006 FALAGAS ME Trends in the impact factor of scientific journals MAYO CLINIC PROCEEDINGS 81 : 1401 2006 HEFLER L LANCET 353 : 9167 1999 IGIC R The influence of the civil war in Yugoslavia on publishing in peer- reviewed journals SCIENTOMETRICS 53 : 447 2002 KOVACIC N What can be learned from impact factor of Croatian Medical Journal, 1994- 2003? CROATIAN MEDICAL JOURNAL 45 : 13 2004 LUKENDA J Influence of the 1991-1995 war on Croatian publications in the MEDLINE database SCIENTOMETRICS 69 : 21 DOI 10.1007/s11192-006-0136-7 2006 MARUSIC A Small scientific journals from small countries: Breaking from a vicious circle of inadequacy CROATIAN MEDICAL JOURNAL 40 : 508 1999 MARUSIC M ACTA MED CROATICA 59 : 285 2005 MARUSIC M CROATION MED J 47 : 327 2006 MARUSIC M Academic advancement of authors receiving tutoring from a medical journal TEACHING AND LEARNING IN MEDICINE 18 : 126 2006 MONGENAJERA J The countries and languages that dominate biological research at the beginning of the 21(st) century REVISTA DE BIOLOGIA TROPICAL 53 : 283 2005 POURIS A An assessment of the impact and visibility of South African journals SCIENTOMETRICS 62 : 213 2005 PULISELIC L Is it enough to change the language? A case study of Croatian biomedical journals LEARNED PUBLISHING 19 : 299 2006 RAHMAN M Biomedical publication - global profile and trend PUBLIC HEALTH 117 : 274 DOI 10.1016/S0033-3506(03)00068-4 2003 REN S The role of China's English-language scientific journals in scientific communication LEARNED PUBLISHING 17 : 99 2004 TOBIN MJ Assessing the performance of a medical journal AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE 169 : 1268 DOI 10.1164/rccm.2404006 2004 TOWPIK E EUROPEAN SCI EDITING 29 : 72 2003 UGOLINI D The visibility of Italian journals SCIENTOMETRICS 56 : 345 2003 ZITT M Correcting glasses help fair comparisons in international science landscape: Country indicators as a function of ISI database delineation SCIENTOMETRICS 56 : 259 2003 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Jul 30 15:10:00 2008 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:10:00 -0400 Subject: Fan, JC; McGhee, CNJ Publication and citation in ophthalmology: glaucoma and the water-provocation test - wring out the old and ring in the new? CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL OPHTHALMOLOGY, 36 (4): 304-305 MAY-JUN 2008 Message-ID: Email Address: j.fan at auckland.ac.nz Author(s): Fan, JC (Fan, Jennifer C.); McGhee, CNJ (McGhee, Charles N. J.) Title: Publication and citation in ophthalmology: glaucoma and the water- provocation test - wring out the old and ring in the new? Source: CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL OPHTHALMOLOGY, 36 (4): 304-305 MAY-JUN 2008 Language: English Document Type: Editorial Material Keywords Plus: JOURNAL IMPACT FACTORS; INTRAOCULAR-PRESSURE; DRINKING TEST; LATANOPROST; FIELD Addresses: Univ Auckland, Fac Med & Hlth Sci, Dept Ophthalmol, Auckland 1, New Zealand Reprint Address: Fan, JC, Univ Auckland, Fac Med & Hlth Sci, Dept Ophthalmol, Auckland 1, New Zealand. Cited Reference Count: 20 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: BLACKWELL PUBLISHING Publisher Address: 9600 GARSINGTON RD, OXFORD OX4 2DQ, OXON, ENGLAND ISSN: 1442-6404 DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2008.01787.x 29-char Source Abbrev.: CLIN EXP OPHTHALMOL ISO Source Abbrev.: Clin. Exp. Ophthalmol. Source Item Page Count: 2 Subject Category: Ophthalmology ISI Document Delivery No.: 323VH 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 CHEN CH The application of water drinking test on the evaluation of trabeculectomy patency JOURNAL OF OCULAR PHARMACOLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS 16 : 37 2000 DANESHMEYER H CLIN EXPT OPHTHALMOL 36 : 303 2008 DANESHMEYER HV OPHTHALMOLOGY MAR : 2008 FAN JC Citation analysis of the most influential authors and ophthalmology journals in the field of cataract and corneal refractive surgery 2000-2004 CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL OPHTHALMOLOGY 36 : 54 DOI 10.1111/j.1442- 9071.2008.01674.x 2008 GARFIELD E SCIENCE CITATION INDEX-NEW DIMENSION IN INDEXING - UNIQUE APPROACH UNDERLIES VERSATILE BIBLIOGRAPHIC SYSTEMS FOR COMMUNICATING + EVALUATING INFORMATION SCIENCE 144 : 649 1964 GARFIELD E AS WE LAUNCH INTO THE NEW-YEAR, REALITY MUST TEMPER EXPECTATIONS SCIENTIST 7 : 12 1993 GARFIELD E NONPROFIT SOCIETIES SHOULD BE OPEN TO SCRUTINY BY THEIR MEMBERS AND BY THE PRESS SCIENTIST 4 : 14 1990 KUMAR RS Does peak intraocular pressure measured by water drinking test reflect peak circadian levels? 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E.); Alexiou, VG (Alexiou, V. G.) Title: Editors may inappropriately influence authors' decisions regarding selection of references in scientific articles Source: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF IMPOTENCE RESEARCH, 19 (5): 443-445 SEP- OCT 2007 Language: English Document Type: Editorial Material Keywords Plus: JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR Addresses: Alfa Inst Biomed Sci, Athens, Greece; Tufts Univ, Sch Med, Dept Med, Boston, MA 02111 USA Reprint Address: Falagas, ME, Alfa Inst Biomed Sci, Athens, Greece. E-mail Address: m.falagas at aibs.gr Cited Reference Count: 13 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP Publisher Address: MACMILLAN BUILDING, 4 CRINAN ST, LONDON N1 9XW, ENGLAND ISSN: 0955-9930 DOI: 10.1038/si.ijir.3901583 29-char Source Abbrev.: INT J IMPOT RES ISO Source Abbrev.: Int. J. Impot. Res. 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Name: darrow.gif Type: image/gif Size: 72 bytes Desc: not available URL: From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Thu Jul 31 16:10:03 2008 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:10:03 -0400 Subject: Open access publishing, article downloads, and citations In-Reply-To: Message-ID: ** Apologies for Cross-Posting On 31-Jul-08, at 11:14 AM, Phil Davis wrote: > Open access publishing, article downloads, and citations: randomised > controlled trial > > Philip M Davis, Bruce V Lewenstein, Daniel H Simon, James G Booth, > Mathew J L Connolly > > BMJ 2008;337:a568 > > Published 31 July 2008, doi:10.1136/bmj.a568 > > http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/337/jul31_1/a568 > Overview (by SH): Davis et al's study was designed to test whether the "Open Access (OA) Advantage" (i.e., more citations to OA articles than to non-OA articles in the same journal and year) is an artifact of a "self- selection bias" (i.e., better authors are more likely to self-archive or better articles are more likely to be self-archived by their authors). The control for self-selection bias was to select randomly which articles were made OA, rather than having the author choose. The result was that a year after publication the OA articles were not cited significantly more than the non-OA articles (although they were downloaded more). The authors write: "To control for self selection we carried out a randomised controlled experiment in which articles from a journal publisher?s websites were assigned to open access status or subscription access only" The authors conclude: "No evidence was found of a citation advantage for open access articles in the first year after publication. The citation advantage from open access reported widely in the literature may be an artefact of other causes." Commentary: To show that the OA advantage is an artefact of self-selection bias (or any other factor), you first have to produce the OA advantage and then show that it is eliminated by eliminating self-selection bias (or any other artefact). This is not what Davis et al did. They simply showed that they could detect no OA advantage one year after publication in their sample. This is not surprising, since most other studies don't detect an OA advantage one year after publication either. It is too early. To draw any conclusions at all from such a 1-year study, the authors would have had to do acontrol condition, in which they managed to find a sufficient number of self-selected self-archived OA articles (from the same journals, for the same year) that do show the OA advantage, whereas their randomized OA articles do not. In the absence of that control condition, the finding that no OA advantage is detected in the first year for this particular sample of journals and articles is completely uninformative. The authors did find a download advantage within the first year, as other studies have found. This early download advantage for OA articles has also been found to be correlated with a citation advantage 18 months or more later. The authors try to argue that this correlation would not hold in their case, but they give no evidence (because they hurried to publish their study, originally intended to run four years, three years too early.) (1) The Davis study was originally proposed (in December 2006) as intended to cover 4 years: Davis, PN (2006) Randomized controlled study of OA publishing (see comment) It has instead been released after a year. (2) The Open Access (OA) Advantage (i.e., significantly more citations for OA articles, always comparing OA and non-OA articles in the same journal and year) has been reported in all fields tested so far, for example: Hajjem, C., Harnad, S. and Gingras, Y. (2005) Ten-Year Cross- Disciplinary Comparison of the Growth of Open Access and How it Increases Research Citation Impact. IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin 28(4) pp. 39-47. (3) There is always the logical possibility that the OA advantage is not a causal one, but merely an effect of self-selection: The better authors may be more likely to self-archive their articles and/or the better articles may be more likely to be self-archived; those better articles would be the ones that get more cited anyway. (4) So it is a very good idea to try to control methodologically for this self-selection bias: The way to control it is exactly as Davis et al have done, which is to select articles at random for being made OA, rather than having the authors self-select. (5) Then, if it turns out that the citation advantage for randomized OA articles is significantly smaller than the citation advantage for self-selected-OA articles, then the hypothesis that the OA advantage is all or mostly just a self-selection bias is supported. (6) But that is not at all what Davis et al. did. (7) All Davis et al did was to find that their randomized OA articles had significantly higher downloads than non-OA articles, but no significant difference in citations. (8) This was based on the first year after publication, when most of the prior studies on the OA advantage likewise find no significant OA advantage, because it is simply too early: the early results are too noisy! The OA advantage shows up in later years (1-4). (9) If Davis et al had been more self-critical, seeking to test and perhaps falsify their own hypothesis, rather than just to confirm it, they would have done the obvious control study, which is to test whether articles that were made OA through self-selected self- archiving by their authors (in the very same year, in the very same journals) show an OA advantage in that same interval. For if they do not, then of course the interval was too short, the results were released prematurely, and the study so far shows nothing at all: It is not until you have actually demonstrated an OA advantage that you can estimate how much of that might due to a self-selection artefact! (10) The study shows almost nothing at all, but not quite nothing, because one would expect (based on our own previous study, which showed that early downloads, at 6 months, predict enhanced citations a year and a half or later) that Davis's increased downloads too would translate into increased citations, once given enough time. Brody, T., Harnad, S. and Carr, L. (2006) Earlier Web Usage Statistics as Predictors of Later Citation Impact. Journal of the American Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) 57(8) pp. 1060-1072. (11) The findings of Michael Kurtz and collaborators are also relevant in this regard. They looked only at astrophysics, which is special, in that (a) it is a field with only about a dozen journals, and every research astronomer has subscription access to them -- and these days also free online access via ADS -- and (b) it is a field in which most authors self-archive their preprints very early in arxiv -- much earlier than the date of publication. Kurtz, M. J. and Henneken, E. A. (2007) Open Access does not increase citations for research articles from The Astrophysical Journal. Preprint deposited in arXiv September 6, 2007. (12) Kurtz & Henneken found the usual self-archiving advantage in astrophysics (i.e., about twice as many citations for OA papers than non-OA) but when they analyzed its cause, they found that most of the cause was the Early Advantage of access to the preprint, as much as a year before publication of the (OA) postprint. In addition, they found a self-selection bias (for preprints -- which is all that were involved here, because, as noted, as of publication, everything is OA): The better articles by the better authors were more likely to have been self-archived as preprints. (13) Kurtz's results do not generalize to all fields, because it is not true in other fields either that (a) they already have 100% OA for their published postprints, nor that (b) many authors tend to self- archive preprints before publication. (14) However, the fact that early preprint self-archiving (in a field that is 100% OA as of postprint publication) is sufficient to double citations is very likely to translate into a similar effect, in a non- OA field, if one reckons on the basis of the one-year access embargo that many publishers are imposing on the postprint. (The yearlong "No- Embargo" advantage in other fields might not turn out to be so big as to double citations, as with the preprint Early Advantage in astrophysics, because at least there is some subscription access to the postprint, but the counterpart of the Early Advantage for the postprint is likely to be there too.) (15) Moreover, the preprint OA advantage is primarily Early Advantage, and only secondarily Self-Selection. (16) The size of the postprint self-selection bias would have been what Davis and al tested -- if they had done the proper control, and waited long enough to get an actual OA effect to compare against. (17) We had reported in a pilot study that there was no statistically significant difference between the size of the OA advantage for mandated and unmandated self-archiving: Hajjem, C & Harnad, S. (2007) The Open Access Citation Advantage: Quality Advantage Or Quality Bias?Preprint deposited in arXiv January 22, 2007. (18) We will soon be reporting the results of a 4-year study on the OA advantage in mandated and unmandated self-archiving that confirms these earlier findings: Mandated self-archiving is like Davis et al's randomized OA, and it does not reduce the OA advantage at all -- once enough time has elapsed for there to be an OA Advantage at all. Stevan Harnad American Scientist Open Access Forum -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: