Contents of Scientometrics Vol:77, No:1 OCTOBER 2008

[Eugene Garfield]

CONTENTS OF 

SCIENTOMETRICS, VOLUME 77, NO:1, OCTOBER 2008

E-Mail : E-mail: brlee at kisti.re.kr

AUTHOR : BANGRAE LEE, YONG-IL JEONG

TITLE	:Mapping Korea’s national R&D domain of robot technology by using 
the co-word analysis

JOURNAL : Scientometrics, Vol. 77, No. 1 (2008) 3–19
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1819-4


ABSTRACT: In this paper, we show a “Strategic Diagram” of the robot 
technology by applying the co-word analysis to the metadata of Korean 
related national R&D projects in 2001. The strategic diagram shows the 
evolutionary trends of the specific R&D domain and relational patterns 
between subdomains. We may use this strategic diagram to support both the 
strategic planning and the R&D Program. 

Address for correspondence:
BANGRAE LEE
Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information
206-9, Cheongnyangni-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 130-741, Korea
E-mail: brlee at kisti.re.kr

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E-MAIL: E-mail: mrdavarpanah at yahoo.com

AUTHOR :	M. R. DAVARPANAH, S. ASLEKIA

TITLE	: A scientometric analysis of international LIS journals: 
Productivity and characteristics

JOURNAL :	  Scientometrics, Vol. 77, No. 1 (2008) 21–39
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1803-z 

ABSTRACT : 
This paper presents a quantitative study of productivity, characteristics 
and various aspects of global publication in the field of library and 
information science (LIS). A total of 894 contributions published in 56 LIS 
journals indexed in SSCI during the years of 2000–2004 were analyzed. A 
total of 1361 authors had contributed publications during the five years. 
The overwhelming majority (89.93%) of them wrote one paper. The average 
number of authors per paper is 1.52. All the studied papers were published 
in English. The sum of research output of the authors form USA and UK 
reaches 70% of the total productivity. Most papers received few citations. 
Each article received on an average 1.6 citations and the LIS researchers 
cite mostly latest articles. About 48% of citing authors had tendency of 
self-citation. The productive authors, their contribution and authorship 
position are listed to indicate their productivity and degree of 
involvement in their research publications.

Address for correspondence:
M. R. DAVARPANAH
Department of Library and Information Science, Ferdowsi University of 
Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
E-mail: mrdavarpanah at yahoo.com

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E-Mail : E-mail: j.m.levitt at wlv.ac.uk

AUTHOR : JONATHAN M. LEVITT, MIKE THELWALL

TITLE : Patterns of annual citation of highly cited articles and the 
prediction of their citation ranking: A comparison across subjects

JOURNAL : Scientometrics, Vol. 77, No. 1 (2008) 41–60
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1946-y 

ABSTRACT: 
High citation is associated with research quality and consequently findings 
on highly cited articles are useful to increase understanding of the 
factors that produce high quality research. This study explores highly 
cited articles in six subjects, focusing on late citation and peak citation 
years. Longitudinal citation patterns were found to be highly varied and, 
on average, different from the remaining articles in each subject. For four 
of the six subjects, there is a correlation of over 0.42 between the 
percentage of early citations and total citation ranking but more highly 
ranked articles had a lower percentage of early citations. Surprisingly, 
for highly cited articles in all six subjects the prediction of citation 
ranking of from the sum of citations during their first six years was less 
accurate than prediction using the sum of the citations for only the fifth 
and sixth year.

Address for correspondence:
JONATHAN M. LEVITT
Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group, School of Computing and 
Information Technology
University of Wolverhampton, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton WV1 1SB, UK
E-mail: j.m.levitt at wlv.ac.uk

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E-Mail : E-mail: tom.vancaneghem at ehsal.be

AUTHOR : GEERT VAN CAMPENHOUT,a TOM VAN CANEGHEM,b STEVE VAN UYTBERGENc

a Catholic University Brussels – Member of the K.U. Leuven Association, 
Brussels (Belgium)
b European University College Brussels (EHSAL) – Member of the K.U. Leuven 
Association, Brussels (Belgium)
c Lessius Hogeschool – Member of the K.U. Leuven Association, Antwerp 
(Belgium)

TITLE : A comparison of overall and sub-area journal influence: The case of 
the accounting literature

JOURNAL : Scientometrics, Vol. 77, No. 1 (2008) 61–90
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1907-5 

ABSTRACT : In most scientific disciplines, a number of divergent and often 
highly specialized research areas are examined, which is reflected in 
substantial differences among journal scopes. Using the accounting 
literature as an example, we argue that this diversity in scopes should be 
considered when assessing journal influence. Concretely, we examine a 
citation-based structural influence measure for a sample of 41 accounting 
journals. Next, we identify sub-areas in the accounting literature and we 
explore journal influence in these sub-areas. Our results clearly 
demonstrate the importance of distinguishing between overall and sub-area 
influence. In addition, we show that sub-areas should be identified using a 
fuzzy clustering procedure.

Address for correspondence:
TOM VAN CANEGHEM
European University College Brussels (EHSAL) – Member of the K.U. Leuven 
Association
Stormstraat 2, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
E-mail: tom.vancaneghem at ehsal.be

Scientometrics, Vol. 77, No. 1 (2008) 61–90
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1907-5 
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E-Mail : E-mail: chosr at skku.edu

AUTHOR : SOO-RYUN CHO
International Vaccine Institute Library, Seoul (Korea)

TITLE:  New evaluation indexes for articles and authors’ academic 
achievements based on Open Access Resources

JOURNAL : Scientometrics, Vol. 77, No. 1 (2008) 91–112
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1834-5 

ABSTRACT : 
In Open Access (OA) environment where article-based or author-based 
evaluation is important, a new evaluation system is needed to accommodate 
characteristics of Open Access Resources (OAR) and to overcome limitations 
of pre-existing evaluation systems such as journalbased evaluation. Primary 
and secondary evaluation factors were selected. 
Primary factors include hits and citations that constitutes composite 
index. Several secondary factors each for article and author evaluation 
were selected for normalization of the indexes. 
To validate superiority of newly developed normalized composite index 
systems compared to the monovariable index system, time-driven bias and 
power of discrimination were adopted. 
The results led to the conclusion that composite index proved to be a more 
stable index offsetting the negative effects from one element to another 
and normalization makes the composite index even more stable by controlling 
the bias from external elements. 

Address for correspondence:
SOO-RYUN CHO
Institute for Information Management, Sung Kyun Kwan University
53 Myeongnyun-dong 3-ga, Jongno-gu, Seoul 110-745, Korea
E-mail: chosr at skku.edu

Scientometrics, Vol. 77, No. 1 (2008) 91–112
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1834-5 
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E-Mail : sdxie at pku.edu.cn

AUTHOR : SHAODONG XIE,a JING ZHANG,c YUH-SHAN HOb,c

a State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution 
Control, Department of Environmental Sciences, College of Environmental 
Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing (People’s Republic of 
China)
b Bibliometric & Research Centre, I-Shou University, Ta-Hsu Hsiang (Taiwan)
c Department of Environmental Sciences, College of Environmental Science 
and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing (People’s Republic of China)

TITLE : Assessment of world aerosol research trends by bibliometric analysis

JOURNAL : Scientometrics, Vol. 77, No. 1 (2008) 113–130
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1928-0

ABSTRACT :
This study was to explore a bibliometric approach to quantitatively 
assessing current research trends on atmospheric aerosol, using the related 
literature in the Science Citation Index (SCI) database from 1991 to 2006. 
Articles were concentrated on the analysis by scientific output, research 
performances by individuals, institutes and countries, and trends by the 
frequency of keywords used. Over the years, there had been a notably growth 
trend in research outputs, along with more participation and collaboration 
of institutes and countries. Research collaborative papers shifted from 
national inter-institutional to international collaboration. The decreasing 
share of world total and independent articles by the seven major 
industrialized countries (G7) was examined. Aerosol research in 
environmental and chemical related fields other than in medical fields was 
the mainstream of current years. Finally, author keywords, words in title 
and keywords plus were analyzed contrastively, with research trends and 
recent hotspots provided.


Address for correspondence:
YUH-SHAN HO
Department of Environmental Sciences, College of Environmental Science and 
Engineering
Peking University, Beijing

Scientometrics, Vol. 77, No. 1 (2008) 113–130
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1928-0
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E-Mail : E-mail: elias at bib.uc3m.es

AUTHOR : M. LUISA LASCURAIN-SÁNCHEZ,a CARLOS GARCÍA-ZORITA,a CARMEN MARTÍN-
MORENO,a 
CARLOS SUÁREZ-BALSEIRO,b ELÍAS SANZ-CASADOa
a Laboratory of Information Metric Studies (LEMI), Department of Library 
Science and Documentation, Carlos III University of Madrid, Madrid (Spain)
b Observatory of Information-Related Studies (OERI), Graduate School of 
Information Science and Technologies, University of Puerto Rico, Rio 
Piedras Campus, San Juan (Puerto Rico)

TITLE : Impact of health science research on the Spanish health system, 
based on bibliometric and healthcare indicators


JOURNAL : Scientometrics, Vol. 77, No. 1 (2008) 131–146
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1922-6

ABSTRACT:
The present study aimed to determine the possible impact of medical 
research on the Spanish health system. To this end, an analysis was 
conducted of Spanish researchers’ scientific production, measured in terms 
of the publications cited in MEDLINE, along with a series of economic, 
demographic and socio-sanitary data such as the R&D resources allocated to 
medical science, the actual population during the period studied mortality, 
morbidity and drug spending. The results showed increases in all the 
variables studied, identified the areas most intensely researched and 
defined the relationship between this information and the chief causes of 
mortality, morbidity and drug spending.

Address for correspondence:
ELÍAS SANZ-CASADO
Department of Library Science and Documentation, Carlos III University of 
Madrid
C/ Madrid 126, 28903, Getafe, Madrid, Spain
E-mail: elias at bib.uc3m.es

Scientometrics, Vol. 77, No. 1 (2008) 131–146
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1922-6
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E-Mail : E-mail: pol at webspeed.dk

AUTHOR : MARIANNE GAUFFRIAU,a PEDER OLESEN LARSEN,b ISABELLE MAYE,c ANNE 
ROULIN-PERRIARD,c MARKUS VON INSc,d

a Technical University of Denmark, Technical Knowledge Center of Denmark, 
D’ARC – DTU Analysis & Research Promotion Center, Lyngby (Denmark)
b Marievej 10A, 2, Hellerup (Denmark)
c Center for Science and Technology Studies (CEST), Bern (Switzerland)
d Institute for Research Information and Quality Assurance, Bonn (Germany)

TITLE : Comparisons of results of publication counting using different 
methods

ABSTRACT:
Using a database for publications established at CEST and covering the 
period from 1981 to 2002 the differences in national scores obtained by 
different counting methods have been measured. The results are supported by 
analysing data from the literature. Special attention has been paid to the 
comparison between the EU and the USA. There are big differences between 
scores obtained by different methods. In one instance the reduction in 
scores going from whole to complete-normalized (fractional) counting is 72 
per cent. In the literature there is often not enough information given 
about methods used, and no sign of a clear and consistent terminology and 
of agreement on properties of and results from different methods. As a 
matter of fact, whole counting is favourable to certain countries, 
especially countries with a high level of international cooperation. The 
problems are increasing with time because of the ever-increasing national 
and international cooperation in research and the increasing average number 
of authors per publication. The need for a common understanding and a joint 
effort to rectify the situation is stressed.

Address for correspondence:
PEDER OLESEN LARSEN
Marievej 10A, 2, Hellerup, Denmark
E-mail: pol at webspeed.dk

Scientometrics, Vol. 77, No. 1 (2008) 147–176
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1934-2
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E-Mail : E-mail: yhuang at pku.edu.cn

AUTHOR : YI HUANG, QING YANG, XIAOLAN AO

Department of Environmental Sciences, College of Environmental Sciences, 
Peking University, Beijing (People’s Republic of China)

TITLE : Bibliometric analysis of pentachlorophenol remediation methods 
during the period of 1994 to 2005

JOURNAL : Scientometrics, Vol. 77, No. 1 (2008) 177-186	
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1899-1

ABSTRACT : A bibliometric analysis was performed to assess the quantitative 
trend of published pentachlorophenol (PCP) remediation studies, including 
both degradation and sorption. The documents studies were retrieved from 
the Science Citation Index (SCI) for the period from 1994 to 2005. The 
trends were analyzed with the retrieved results in publication language, 
document type, page count, publication output, publication pattern, 
authorship, citation analysis and country of publication. The results 
indicated that degradation was the emphasis for PCP remediation. The 
average impact factor of the journals was higher for publishing degradation 
studies in comparison to that publishing sorption studies. And there was a 
positive correlation between CPP and IF for journals published more than 
two papers. The publishing countries of both degradation and sorption 
denoted that most of these researches were done by USA and Canada. Two to 
four authors was the most popular level of co-authorship.

Address for correspondence:
YI HUANG
Department of Environmental Sciences, College of Environmental Sciences,
Peking University, Beijing 100871, People’s Republic of China
E-mail: yhuang at pku.edu.cn

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E-Mail : E-mail: wolfgang.glanzel at econ.kuleuven.be

AUTHOR : WOLFGANG GLÄNZELa,b
a Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Steunpunt O&O Indicatoren, Dept. MSI, 
Leuven (Belgium)
b Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Research Policy Studies, 
Budapest (Hungary)


TITLE ;On some new bibliometric applications of statistics related to the h-
index


JOURNAL : Scientometrics, Vol. 77, No. 1 (2008) 187–196
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-008-1010-6

ABSTRACT : In this paper some new fields of application of Hirsch-related 
statistics are presented. Furthermore, so far unrevealed properties of the 
h-index are analysed in the context of rankfrequency and extreme-value 
statistics.

Address for correspondence:
WOLFGANG GLÄNZEL
Steunpunt O&O Indicatoren, KU Leuven, Dekenstraat 2, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
E-mail: wolfgang.glanzel at econ.kuleuven.be

Scientometrics, Vol. 77, No. 1 (2008) 187–196
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-008-1010-6
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AUTHOR : SÁNDOR ZSINDELY

TITLE : From vanity fair to scientific research: The place of genealogy in 
contemporary science. A scientometric approach

JOURNAL : Scientometrics, Vol. 77, No. 1 (2008) 197–206
DOI: DOI: 10.1007/s11192-008-1010-6


ABSTRACT:
The place of genealogy in present scientific research has been investigated 
by scientometric methods. The term “genealogy” and related words were 
searched in the title, keywords, and abstracts of science journals for the 
period 1975–2006. It was concluded that 1991 onward the number of articles 
about “applied” genealogy has increased dramatically, whereas that of 
classical (or “pure”) genealogy only modestly. In contemporary science, the 
fields medicine and genetics are those who profit most from human 
genealogy. More than forty percent of the medical articles containing the 
search terms were from the neurology and oncology in the period 
investigated.

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