Contents of Scientometrics Vol:77, No:3 DEC. 2008

[Eugene Garfield]

Scientometrics, Vol. 77, No. 3 (DECEMBER 2008)

CONTENTS
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Leo Egghe
Modelling successive h-indices 	377

E-Mail    leo.egghe at uhasselt.be

AUTHOR :  LEO EGGHEa,b

a Universiteit Hasselt (UHasselt), Campus Diepenbeek, Diepenbeek (Belgium)
b Universiteit Antwerpen (UA), Campus Drie Eiken, Wilrijk (Belgium)

TITLE : Modelling successive h-indices

JOURNAL : Scientometrics, Vol. 77, No. 3 (2008) 377–387
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1968-5


ABSTRACT:
>From a list of papers of an author, ranked in decreasing order of the 
number of citations to these papers one can calculate this author’s Hirsch 
index (or h-index). If this is done for a group of authors (e.g. from the 
same institute) then we can again list these authors in decreasing order of 
their h-indices and from this, one can calculate the h-index of (part of) 
this institute. One can go even further by listing institutes in a country 
in decreasing order of their h-indices and calculate again the h-index as 
described above. Such h-indices are called by SCHUBERT [2007] “successive” 
h-indices. 
In this paper we present a model for such successive h-indices based on our 
existing theory on the distribution of the h-index in Lotkaian 
informetrics. We show that, each step, involves the multiplication of the 
exponent of the previous h-index by 1/where > 1 is a Lotka exponent. We 
explain why, in general, successive h-indices are decreasing. 
We also introduce a global h-index for which tables of individuals 
(authors, institutes,…) are merged. 
We calculate successive and global h-indices for the (still active) D. De 
Solla Price awardees.

Address for correspondence:
LEO EGGHE
Universiteit Hasselt (UHasselt), Campus Diepenbeek, Agoralaan
B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
E-mail: leo.egghe at uhasselt.be

Scientometrics, Vol. 77, No. 3 (2008) 377–387
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1968-5

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Prabir G. Dastidar, S. Ramachandran
Intellectual structure of Antarctic science: A 25-years analysis	389

E-mail: prabirgd11 at gmail.com, prabirgd11 at rediffmail.com

AUTHOR : PRABIR G. DASTIDAR,a S. RAMACHANDRANb
a Ministry of Earth Sciences, New Delhi (India)
b University of Madras, Chennai (India)

TITLE : Intellectual structure of Antarctic science: A 25-years analysis


JOURNAL :  Scientometrics, Vol. 77, No. 3 (2008) 389–414
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1947-x 

ABSTRACT:
To delineate the intellectual structure of Antarctic science, the research 
outputs on Antarctic science have been analyzed for a period of 25 years 
(1980–2004) through a set of scientometrics and network analysis 
techniques. The study is based on 10,942 records (research articles, 
letters, reviews, etc.), published in 961 journals/documents, and retrieved 
from the Science Citation Index (SCI) database. Over the years interest in 
Antarctic science has increased, as is evident from the growing number of 
ratified countries and research stations. During the period under study, 
the productivity has increased 3-times and there is a 13-fold increase in 
collaborative articles. Attempt has been made to identify important players 
like scientists, organizations and countries working in the field and to 
identify frontier areas of research that is being conducted in this 
continent. The highest 41% scientific output is contributed by the USA and 
the UK, followed by Australia and Germany. British Antarctic Survey (BAS), 
UK and Alfred Wegener Institute of Polar & Marine Research, Germany are the 
most productive institutes in Antarctic science. Maximum number of research 
articles on Antarctic science, have been published in the journal Polar 
Biology, indicating substantial work being done on the biology of this 
continent. The journals – Nature and Science – are the highly-cited 
journals in Antarctic science. The paper written by J. C. Farman et al., 
published in Nature in 1985, reporting depletion of ozone layer, is the 
most-cited article. Semantic relationships between cited documents were 
measured through co-citation analysis. J. C. Farman and S. Solomon are co-
cited most frequently.

Address for correspondence:
PRABIR G. DASTIDAR
Ministry of Earth Sciences, Block No 9 & 12, CGO Complex
Lodi Road, New Delhi- 110003, India
E-mail: prabirgd11 at gmail.com, prabirgd11 at rediffmail.com

Scientometrics, Vol. 77, No. 3 (2008) 389–414
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1947-x 
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Lutz Bornmann, Irina Nast, Hans-Dieter Daniel
Do editors and referees look for signs of scientific misconduct when 
reviewing 
manuscripts? A quantitative content analysis of studies that examined 
review criteria 
and reasons for accepting and rejecting manuscripts for publication 	415

E-mail: bornmann at gess.ethz.ch

AUTHOR : LUTZ BORNMANN, IRINA NAST, HANS-DIETER DANIEL

ETH Zurich, Zurich (Switzerland)

TITLE : Do editors and referees look for signs of scientific misconduct 
when reviewing manuscripts? A quantitative content analysis of studies that 
examined review criteria and reasons for accepting and rejecting 
manuscripts for publication

JOURNAL : Scientometrics, Vol. 77, No. 3 (2008) 415–432
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1950-2 


ABSTRACT:
The case of Dr. Hwang Woo Suk, the South Korean stem-cell researcher, is 
arguably the highest profile case in the history of research misconduct. 
The discovery of Dr. Hwang’s fraud led to fierce criticism of the peer 
review process (at Science). To find answers to the question of why the 
journal peer review system did not detect scientific misconduct 
(falsification or fabrication of data) not only in the Hwang case but also 
in many other cases, an overview is needed of the criteria that editors and 
referees normally consider when reviewing a manuscript. Do they at all look 
for signs of scientific misconduct when reviewing a manuscript? We 
conducted a quantitative content analysis of 46 research studies that 
examined editors’ and referees’ criteria for the assessment of manuscripts 
and their grounds for accepting or rejecting manuscripts. The total of 572 
criteria and reasons from the 46 studies could be assigned to nine main 
areas: (1) ‘relevance of contribution,’ (2) ‘writing / presentation,’ 
(3) ‘design / conception,’ (4) ‘method / statistics,’ (5) ‘discussion of 
results,’ (6) ‘reference to the literature and documentation,’ 
(7) ‘theory,’ (8) ‘author’s reputation / institutional affiliation,’ and 
(9) ‘ethics.’ None of the criteria or reasons that were assigned to the 
nine main areas refers to or is related to possible falsification or 
fabrication of data. In a second step, the study examined what main areas 
take on high and low significance for editors and referees in manuscript 
assessment. The main areas that are clearly related to the quality of the 
research underlying a manuscript emerged in the analysis frequently as 
important: ‘theory,’ ‘design / conception’ and ‘discussion of results.’

Address for correspondence:
LUTZ BORNMANN
ETH Zurich, Zähringerstr. 24, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
E-mail: bornmann at gess.ethz.ch

Scientometrics, Vol. 77, No. 3 (2008) 415–432
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1950-2 
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Liwen Vaughan, Justin You 
Content assisted web co-link analysis for competitive intelligence 	433

E-mail: lvaughan at uwo.ca

AUTHOR : LIWEN VAUGHAN,a JUSTIN YOUb

a Faculty of Information and Media Studies,University of Western Ontario, 
Ontario (Canada)
b ApacBridge Consulting, Ottawa, Ontario (Canada)

TITLE : Content assisted web co-link analysis for competitive intelligence

JOURNAL : Scientometrics, Vol. 77, No. 3 (2008) 433–444
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1999-y 

ABSTRACT:
Building on a previous study that succeeded in mapping business competition 
positions at an industry level using Web co-link analysis, the current 
study attempted to improve Web co-link analysis by adding Web page content 
to obtain the mapping at a particular market segment level. This method 
combines the ideas of Web content mining with Web structure mining. The 
method was tested in the WiMAX sector of the telecommunication industry. 
Specifically, the keyword WiMAX was incorporated into queries that searched 
for co-links to pairs of company Websites. Two sets of data were collected: 
one with the proposed method and one with co-link search alone. The 
resulting two data matrices were analyzed using multidimensional scaling 
(MDS) to generate maps of business competition. The comparison between the 
two maps shows that the proposed method produced a map focusing on the 
WiMAX sector. The study also proposed the measure of reduction of co-link 
count that can be used to gauge the effectiveness of focusing the analysis 
on a particular sector. The reduction of co-link count could also be an 
easy and pragmatic measure for an analysis of a company’s competitiveness 
in a particular market segment.

Address for correspondence:
LIWEN VAUGHAN
Faculty of Information and Media Studies,University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, N6A 5B7 Canada
E-mail: lvaughan at uwo.ca

Scientometrics, Vol. 77, No. 3 (2008) 433–444
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1999-y 
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Seung-Hoon Yoo, Hye-Seon Moon
A note on approximation of distribution function for the number of 
innovation activities 	445

A note on approximation of distribution function for the number of 
innovation activities

SEUNG-HOON YOO,a HYE-SEON MOONb

a Department of International Area Studies, Hoseo University, Chungnam 
(Republic of Korea)
b H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy & Management, Carnegie Mellon 
University, Pittsburgh (USA)

This note attempts to approximate the distribution function for the number 
of innovation activities (NIA) in the manufacturing sector using the 
dataset of 2002 Korean Innovation Survey. The mixture model applied here 
can easily capture the bimodality feature of the NIA distribution and 
provide some useful information such as the mean of NIA and the effect of a 
firm’s characteristic on whether the firm will undertake innovation activity

Address for correspondence:
SEUNG-HOON YOO
Department of International Area Studies, Hoseo University
268 Anseo-Dong, Cheonan, Chungnam, 330-713, Republic of Korea
E-mail: shyoo at hoseo.edu

Scientometrics, Vol. 77, No. 3 (2008) 445–452
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-008-1802-8 

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Maite Barrios, Angel Borrego, Andreu Vilaginés, Candela Ollé, Marta Somoza
A bibliometric study of psychological research on tourism 	453

A bibliometric study of psychological research on tourism

MAITE BARRIOS,a ANGEL BORREGO,b ANDREU VILAGINÉS,c CANDELA OLLÉ,b MARTA 
SOMOZAb

a Department of Methodology of Behavioral Sciences, University of 
Barcelona, Barcelona (Spain)
b Department of Library and Information Science, University of Barcelona, 
Barcelona (Spain)
c Escola Universitària d’Hosteleria i Turisme CETT, University of 
Barcelona, Barcelona (Spain)

The psychology of tourism is a new, multidisciplinary research field. 
However, no systematic analyses of the scientific production in this field 
have been carried out to date. This study presents a bibliometric analysis 
of the area of psychology of tourism between 1990 and 2005. The evolution 
of scientific production during this period, Price’s, Lotka’s and 
Bradford’s laws and citation patterns were studied. The results show a 
significant growth in the literature on the subject, as well as an increase 
in coauthorship and institutional collaboration. Bibliometric laws and 
empiric regularities observed in other disciplines are also present in this 
new research field.

Address for correspondence:
MAITE BARRIOS
Department of Methodology of Behavioral Science, University of Barcelona
Passeig Vall d’Hebron 171, Barcelona 08035, Spain
E-mail: mbarrios at ub.edu

Scientometrics, Vol. 77, No. 3 (2008) 453–467
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1952-0


Anna Villarroya, Maite Barrios, Angel Borrego, Amparo Frías 
PhD theses in Spain: A gender study covering the years 1990–2004 	469

 
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Anna Villarroya, Maite Barrios, Angel Borrego, Amparo Frías 
PhD theses in Spain: A gender study covering the years 1990–2004 	469

E-mail: annavillarroya at ub.edu

AUTHOR : ANNA VILLARROYA,a MAITE BARRIOS,b ANGEL BORREGO,c AMPARO FRÍASc

a Department of Political Economy and Public Finance, University of 
Barcelona, Barcelona (Spain)
b Department of Methodology of Behavioural Sciences, University of 
Barcelona, Barcelona (Spain)
c Department of Library and Information Science, University of Barcelona, 
Barcelona (Spain)

TITLE : PhD theses in Spain: A gender study covering the years 1990–2004

JOURNAL: Scientometrics, Vol. 77, No. 3 (2008) 469–483
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1965-8

ABSTRACT:
In this study we analyse gender equality in the preparation, supervision 
and defence of PhD theses in Spain in the period 1990–2004. 
The results indicate a tendency towards greater equality in the number of 
men and women successfully completing doctoral studies. However, the gender 
imbalance among thesis supervisors and on thesis assessment boards is more 
apparent, with a predominance of male academics. Moreover, the gender of 
the PhD student is clearly related to the gender of the supervisor, and 
both are related to the gender of the members of the assessment boards of 
PhD theses in Spain.

Address for correspondence:
ANNA VILLARROYA
Department of Political Economy and Public Finance. University of 
Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
E-mail: annavillarroya at ub.edu

Scientometrics, Vol. 77, No. 3 (2008) 469–483
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1965-8
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Bo Jarneving
A variation of the calculation of the first author cocitation strength in 
author 
cocitation analysis 	485

AUTHOR : BO JARNEVING

Swedish School of Library and Information Science, Borås (Sweden)

E-MAIL: bo.jarneving at hb.se

TITLE A variation of the calculation of the first author cocitation 
strength in author cocitation analysis

JOURNAL: Scientometrics, Vol. 77, No. 3 (2008) 485–504
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1943-1

ABSTRACT:
The method of author cocitation analysis (ACA) was first presented by White 
and Griffith in 1981 as a “literature measure of intellectual structure” 
and its applicability for the mapping of areas of science has since then 
been tested in various bibliometric science mapping studies. In this study, 
an experimental method of calculating the first or single author cocitation 
frequency is presented and compared with the standard method. Applying 
Ward’s method of clustering, the analysis revealed that the two approaches 
did not produce similar results and a tentative interpretation of 
deviations was that the experimental method provided with a more detailed 
depiction of the specialty structure. It was also concluded that a number 
of additional research questions need to be resolved before a comprehensive 
understanding of the suggested method’s merits and demerits is reached.

Address for correspondence:
BO JARNEVING
Swedish School of Library and Information Science, 501 90 Borås, Sweden
E-mail: bo.jarneving at hb.se

Scientometrics, Vol. 77, No. 3 (2008) 485–504
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1943-1
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