From eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Tue Feb 3 16:12:40 2009 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 16:12:40 -0500 Subject: Contents of Journal of Informetrics, 3(1): 1-90, January 2009 Message-ID: Journal of Informetrics Volume 3, Issue 1, Pages 1-90 (January 2009) ABSTRACTS, AUTHOR ADDRESSES, ETC. FOLLOW BELOW AFTER CONTENTS PAGE: Edwin A. Henneken, Michael J. Kurtz, Alberto Accomazzi, Carolyn S. Grant, Donna Thompson, Elizabeth Bohlen, Stephen S. Murray Use of astronomical literature?A report on usage patterns Pg. 1 Daniel Torres-Salinas, Henk F. Moed Library Catalog Analysis as a tool in studies of social sciences and humanities: An exploratory study of published book titles in Economics Pg.9 Lutz Bornmann, Werner Marx, Hermann Schier, Erhard Rahm, Andreas Thor, Hans- Dieter Daniel Convergent validity of bibliometric Google Scholar data in the field of chemistry?Citation counts for papers that were accepted by Angewandte Chemie International Edition or rejected but published elsewhere, using Google Scholar, Science Citation Index, Scopus, and Chemical Abstracts Pg.27 Eleftheria Vasileiadou Stabilisation operationalised: Using time series analysis to understand the dynamics of research collaboration Pg. 36 Per Ahlgren, Cristian Colliander Document?document similarity approaches and science mapping: Experimental comparison of five approaches Pg. 49 Raf Guns, Ronald Rousseau Real and rational variants of the h-index and the g-index Pg.64 Laila Khreisat A machine learning approach for Arabic text classification using N-gram frequency statistics Pg. 72 Amir Hosein Keyhanipour, Maryam Piroozmand, Kambiz Badie A GP-adaptive web ranking discovery framework based on combinative content and context features Pg.78 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use of astronomical literature?A report on usage patterns Edwin A. Henneken a, Michael J. Kurtza, Alberto Accomazzia, Carolyn S. Granta, Donna Thompsona, Elizabeth Bohlena and Stephen S. Murraya Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Abstract In this paper we present a number of metrics for usage of the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS). Since the ADS is used by the entire astronomical community, these are indicative of how the astronomical literature is used. We will show how the use of the ADS has changed both quantitatively and qualitatively. We will also show that different types of users access the system in different ways. Finally, we show how use of the ADS has evolved over the years in various regions of the world. Address for correspondence: Edwin A. Henneken Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA ehenneken at cfa.harvard.edu Journal of Informetrics Volume 3, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 1-8 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2008.10.001 ----------------------------------------------- Library Catalog Analysis as a tool in studies of social sciences and humanities: An exploratory study of published book titles in Economics Daniel Torres-Salinasa, and Henk F. Moedb aEvaluaci?n de la Ciencia y de la Comunicaci?n Cient?fica, Centro de Investigaci?n M?dica Aplicada, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain bCentre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University, The Netherlands Abstract This paper explores the use of Library Catalog Analysis (LCA), defined as the application of bibliometric or informetric techniques to a set of library online catalogs, to describe quantitatively a scientific-scholarly field on the basis of published book titles. It focuses on its value as a tool in studies of Social Sciences and Humanities, especially its cognitive structures, main book publishers and the research performance of its actors. The paper proposes an analogy model between traditional citation analysis of journal articles and Library Catalog Analysis of book titles. It presents the outcomes of an exploratory study of book titles in Economics included in 42 academic library catalogs from 7 countries. It describes the process of data collection and cleaning, and applies a series of indicators and thematic mapping techniques. It illustrates how LCA can be fruitfully used to assess book production and research performance at the level of an individual researcher, a research department, an entire country and a book publisher. It discusses a number of issues that should be addressed in follow-up studies and concludes that LCA of published book titles can be developed into a powerful and useful tool in studies of Social Sciences and Humanities. Address for correspondence: Henk F. Moed Leiden University, Leiden, NETHERLANDS moed at cwts.leidenuniv.nl Journal of Informetrics Volume 3, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 9-26 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2008.10.002 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Convergent validity of bibliometric Google Scholar data in the field of chemistry?Citation counts for papers that were accepted by Angewandte Chemie International Edition or rejected but published elsewhere, using Google Scholar, Science Citation Index, Scopus, and Chemical Abstracts Lutz Bornmanna, , , Werner Marxb, Hermann Schierb, Erhard Rahmc, Andreas Thorc and Hans-Dieter Daniela, d aETH Zurich, Professorship for Social Psychology and Research on Higher Education, Z?hringerstr. 24, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland bMax Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Heisenbergstra?e 1, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany cUniversity of Leipzig, Department of Computer Science, PF 100920, D-04009 Leipzig, Germany dUniversity of Zurich, Evaluation Office, M?hlegasse 21, CH-8001 Zurich, Switzerland Abstract Examining a comprehensive set of papers (n = 1837) that were accepted for publication by the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition (one of the prime chemistry journals in the world) or rejected by the journal but then published elsewhere, this study tested the extent to which the use of the freely available database Google Scholar (GS) can be expected to yield valid citation counts in the field of chemistry. Analyses of citations for the set of papers returned by three fee-based databases ? Science Citation Index, Scopus, and Chemical Abstracts ? were compared to the analysis of citations found using GS data. Whereas the analyses using citations returned by the three fee-based databases show very similar results, the results of the analysis using GS citation data differed greatly from the findings using citations from the fee-based databases. Our study therefore supports, on the one hand, the convergent validity of citation analyses based on data from the fee-based databases and, on the other hand, the lack of convergent validity of the citation analysis based on the GS data. Address for correspondence: Lutz Bornmann ETH Zurich, Professorship for Social Psychology and Research on Higher Education, Z?hringerstr. 24, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland bornmann at gess.ethz.ch Journal of Informetrics Volume 3, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 27-35 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2008.11.001 ------------------------------------------------------ Stabilisation operationalised: Using time series analysis to understand the dynamics of research collaboration Eleftheria Vasileiadou Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands Abstract The aim of the paper is to investigate the use of online data and time series analysis, in order to study the dynamics of new types of research collaboration in a systematic way. Two international research teams were studied for more than 3 years, and quantitative data about their internet use together with observation of their collaboration patterns were gathered. Time series analysis (ARIMA modelling) was performed on their use of internet, and specific types of models related to specific ways of conducting research at a distance. The paper proposes the use of online data and ARIMA models to identify the stabilisation of a complex system, such as a research team, and investigate everyday research practices. Address for correspondence: Eleftheria Vasileiadou Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands eleftheria.vasileiadou at gmail.com Journal of Informetrics Volume 3, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 36-48 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2008.11.002 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Document?document similarity approaches and science mapping: Experimental comparison of five approaches Per Ahlgrena, and Cristian Collianderb aDepartment of e-Resources, University Library, Stockholm University, SE- 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden bUniversity Library, J?nk?ping University, SE-551 11 J?nk?ping, Sweden Abstract This paper treats document?document similarity approaches in the context of science mapping. Five approaches, involving nine methods, are compared experimentally. We compare text-based approaches, the citation-based bibliographic coupling approach, and approaches that combine text-based approaches and bibliographic coupling. Forty-three articles, published in the journal Information Retrieval, are used as test documents. We investigate how well the approaches agree with a ground truth subject classification of the test documents, when the complete linkage method is used, and under two types of similarities, first-order and second-order. The results show that it is possible to achieve a very good approximation of the classification by means of automatic grouping of articles. One text- only method and one combination method, under second-order similarities in both cases, give rise to cluster solutions that to a large extent agree with the classification. Address for correspondence: Per Ahlgren Department of e-Resources, University Library, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden per.ahlgren at sub.su.se Journal of Informetrics Volume 3, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 49-63 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2008.11.003 ------------------------------------------------------- Real and rational variants of the h-index and the g-index Raf Gunsa, and Ronald Rousseaub, c, d, aUniversity of Antwerp, IBW, Venusstraat 35, City Campus, 2000 Antwerpen, Belgium bKHBO (Association K.U.Leuven), Industrial Sciences and Technology, Zeedijk 101, B-8400 Oostende, Belgium cHasselt University, Universitaire Campus, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium dK.U.Leuven, Steunpunt O&O Indicatoren and Dept. MSI, Dekenstraat 2, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium Abstract The definitions of the rational and real-valued variants of the h-index and g-index are reviewed. It is shown how they can be obtained both graphically and by calculation. Formulae are derived expressing the exact relations between the h-variants and between the g-variants. Subsequently these relations are examined. In a citation context the real h-index is often, but not always, smaller than the rational h-index. It is also shown that the relation between the real and the rational g-index depends on the number of citations of the article ranked g + 1. Maximum differences between h, hr and hrat on the one hand and between g, gr and grat on the other are determined. Address for correspondence: Raf Guns University of Antwerp, IBW, Venusstraat 35, City Campus, 2000 Antwerpen, Belgium raf.guns at ua.ac.be Journal of Informetrics Volume 3, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 64-71 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2008.11.004 ---------------------------------------------- A machine learning approach for Arabic text classification using N-gram frequency statistics Laila Khreisat Dept. of Computer Science, Math and Physics, Fairleigh Dickinson University, 285 Madison Ave., Madison, NJ 07940, USA Abstract In this paper a machine learning approach for classifying Arabic text documents is presented. To handle the high dimensionality of text documents, embeddings are used to map each document (instance) into R (the set of real numbers) representing the tri-gram frequency statistics profiles for a document. Classification is achieved by computing a dissimilarity measure, called the Manhattan distance, between the profile of the instance to be classified and the profiles of all the instances in the training set. The class (category) to which an instance (document) belongs is the one with the least computed Manhattan measure. The Dice similarity measure is used to compare the performance of method. Results show that tri-gram text classification using the Dice measure outperforms classification using the Manhattan measure. Address for correspondence: Laila Khreisat Dept. of Computer Science, Math and Physics, Fairleigh Dickinson University, 285 Madison Ave., Madison, NJ 07940, USA Khreisat at fdu.edu Journal of Informetrics Volume 3, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 72-77 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2008.11.005 ------------------------------------ A GP-adaptive web ranking discovery framework based on combinative content and context features Amir Hosein Keyhanipour a, , Maryam Piroozmanda and Kambiz Badiea aIT Research Faculty, Iran Telecommunication Research Center (ITRC), Tehran, Iran Abstract The problem of ranking is a crucial task in the web information retrieval systems. The dynamic nature of information resources as well as the continuous changes in the information demands of the users has made it very difficult to provide effective methods for data mining and document ranking. Regarding these challenges, in this paper an adaptive ranking algorithm is proposed named GPRank. This algorithm which is a function discovery framework, utilizes the relatively simple features of web documents to provide suitable rankings using a multi-layer/multi-population genetic programming architecture. Experiments done, illustrate that GPRank has better performance in comparison with well-known ranking techniques and also against its full mode edition. Address for correspondence: Amir Hosein Keyhanipour IT Research Faculty, Iran Telecommunication Research Center (ITRC), Tehran, Iran keyhanipour at yahoo.com Journal of Informetrics Volume 3, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 78-89 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2008.11.006 --------------------------------------------- From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Feb 4 14:40:28 2009 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 14:40:28 -0500 Subject: Tricco, AC; Runnels, V; Sampson, M; Bouchard, L Health, Health Promotion, and Public Health A Bibliometric Analysis CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH-REVUE CANADIENNE DE SANTE PUBLIQUE, 99 (6): 466-471 NOV-DEC 2008 Message-ID: E-mail Address: atric060 at Uottawa.ca Author(s): Tricco, AC (Tricco, Andrea C.); Runnels, V (Runnels, Vivien); Sampson, M (Sampson, Margaret); Bouchard, L (Bouchard, Louise) Title: Health, Health Promotion, and Public Health A Bibliometric Analysis Source: CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH-REVUE CANADIENNE DE SANTE PUBLIQUE, 99 (6): 466-471 NOV-DEC 2008 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Bibliometric analysis; public health; health promotion; population health KeyWords Plus: POPULATION HEALTH; MEDICINE; CARE Abstract: Objective: Bibliometric analysis can be used to objectively compare the usage of terms over time. The purpose of this research was to compare the use of population health, health promotion, and public health using bibliometric indicators of the published literature. Methods: Bibliometric indicators, Such as scientific productivity and the overlap between the terms, were analyzed in the Web of Science. Indexing Of Population health, health promotion, and public health was explored in MEDLINE, CINAHL, and EMBASE. Results: The most productive country in population health was Canada, while the most productive country in health promotion and public health was the United States. The number of published articles using the public health term was surpassed by health promotion around 1990. Both were surpassed by population health around 2000. Population health was the only concept which lacked an index term in all three databases. Discussion: There has been a shift in the usage of public health, health promotion, and population health concepts over time. Country analysis revealed that Canadian researchers are leaders in population health, while researchers based in the United States are leaders in public health and health promotion. This may indicate differences rooted in the social, historical and economic traditions. Although the publication rate of articles described as 'population health' research is increasing, it is lacking an index term across major electronic databases. We suggest that without timely acceptance of terms, new concepts that represent different ways of thinking about health may be limited, delayed or glossed over. Addresses: [Tricco, Andrea C.; Runnels, Vivien; Bouchard, Louise] Univ Ottawa, Inst Populat Hlth, Ottawa, ON K1H 8L1, Canada; [Sampson, Margaret] Childrens Hosp Eastern Ontario, Res Inst, Chalmers Res Grp, Ottawa, ON K1H 8L1, Canada; [Sampson, Margaret] Univ Wales, Dept Informat Studies, Aberystwyth, Dyfed, Wales; [Bouchard, Louise] Univ Ottawa, Dept Anthropol & Sociol, Ottawa, ON K1H 8L1, Canada Reprint Address: Tricco, AC, Univ Ottawa, Childrens Hosp Eastern Ontario, Inst Populat Hlth, 401 Smyth Rd, Ottawa, ON K1H 8L1, Canada. E-mail Address: atric060 at Uottawa.ca Cited Reference Count: 28 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: CANADIAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOC Publisher Address: 1565 CARLING AVE, SUITE 400, OTTAWA, ONTARIO K1Z 8R1, CANADA ISSN: 0008-4263 29-char Source Abbrev.: CAN J PUBL HEALTH-REV CAN SAN ISO Source Abbrev.: Can. J. Public Health-Rev. Can. Sante Publ. Source Item Page Count: 6 Subject Category: Public, Environmental & Occupational Health ISI Document Delivery No.: 388GG *HLTH CAN POP HLTH TEMPL KEY E : 2001 *NAT INF STAND ORG GUID CONSTR FORM MAN : *US DEP HHS HLTH PEOPL 2010 2 : 2000 *US DEP HHS HLTH PEOPL 2010 1 : 2000 *WHO 1 INT C HLTH PROM OT 1986 BOULOS MN INT J HEALTH GEOGR 4 : 7 2005 DUNN JR Toward a lexicon of population health CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH-REVUE CANADIENNE DE SANTE PUBLIQUE 90 : S7 1999 EVANS RG PRODUCING HEALTH, CONSUMING HEALTH-CARE SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE 31 : 1347 1990 FRANK JW WHY POPULATION HEALTH CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH-REVUE CANADIENNE DE SANTE PUBLIQUE 86 : 162 1995 GLANZEL W BIBLIOMETRICS RES FI : 2003 GLOVER SW Bibliometric analysis of research published in Tropical Medicine and International Health 1996-2003 TROPICAL MEDICINE & INTERNATIONAL HEALTH 9 : 1327 2004 HULME EW STAT BIBLIO RELATION : 1923 KATZ S BIBLIOMETRIC INDICAT : 1999 KICKBUSCH I The contribution of the World Health Organization to a new public health and health promotion AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH 93 : 383 2003 KOBAYASHI S DAIGAKU KENKYU 1 : 57 1987 LABONTE R CAN J PUBLIC HLTH 86 : 65 1995 LALONDE M NEW PERSPECTIVE HLTH : 1974 LAST LM DICT EPIDEMIOLOGY : 2001 MELA GS Radiological research in Europe: a bibliometric study EUROPEAN RADIOLOGY 13 : 657 DOI 10.1007/s00330-002-1640-7 2003 OKUBO Y 51765 ORG EC COOP DE 1997 OTSU T POLYMERS FROM 1,2-DISUBSTITUTED ETHYLENIC MONOMERS .5. RADICAL POLYMERIZATION OF DIMETHYL MALEATE IN THE PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF ISOMERIZATION CATALYST JOURNAL OF MACROMOLECULAR SCIENCE-CHEMISTRY 19 : 27 1983 OTTE E J INFORMATION SCI 28 : 443 2002 POLAND B Wealth, equity and health care: A critique of a "population health" perspective on the determinants of health SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE 46 : 785 1998 RAPHAEL D PUBLIC HLTH CANADA U : 347 2007 SMEDLEY BD PROMOTING HLTH INTER : 2000 SOTERIADES ES A bibliometric analysis in the fields of preventive medicine, occupational and environmental medicine, epidemiology, and public health BMC PUBLIC HEALTH 6 : ARTN 301 2006 TSAY MY Bibliometric analysis of the literature of randomized controlled trials JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 93 : 450 2005 ZOLLER HM COMMUNICATION STUDIE 56 : 175 2005 From pislyakov at HSE.RU Thu Feb 5 06:37:46 2009 From: pislyakov at HSE.RU (=?windows-1251?Q?Vladimir_Pislyakov?=) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 06:37:46 -0500 Subject: silent changes in WoS Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Have anyone noticed changes of the publication indicators in the Web of Science databases when they transformed "ISI Proceedings" into "Conference Proceedings Citation Index" (now a part of the WoS)? For example. Before this transformation, in September 2008, we counted number of Russian papers of the type "Article" published in 2006 (in SCIE and SSCI databases). It was 23367. After that, in November (transformation of the Proceeedings took place in the middle of October) the same search produced a much smaller figure. Now the same search string (CU=Russia) AND (PY=2006) AND Document Type=(Article) produces just 20601 documents. It may be suggested that some of the documents have changed their "Document Type" field in the process of merging of new Proceedings Index, and so "Articles" got some other type. It is very sad for us, because every year we publish in print statistics on Russian publication output by document types and these changes result in the loss of coherence of our yearly data. Have someone else confronted these silent changes in WoS? Is there any way to overcome these inconsistencies? There is even no note on WoK platfrom regarding these changes. Vladimir Pislyakov Assistant Director for Electronic Resources Management Higher School of Economics Library 20 Myasnitskaya street Moscow, 101000 Russia Tel.: +7 (495) 6213785 Fax: +7 (495) 6287931 E-mail: pislyakov at hse.ru URL: http://library.hse.ru From iain.craig at WILEY.COM Thu Feb 5 07:40:29 2009 From: iain.craig at WILEY.COM (Craig, Iain - Oxford) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 12:40:29 +0000 Subject: silent changes in WoS In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Vladimir If you extend your search to include document type = proceedings papers, you should recover your missing papers. With best wishes Iain Iain Craig Research & Analysis Group Wiley-Blackwell John Wiley & Sons Ltd 9600 Garsington Road Oxford, OX4 2DQ United Kingdom E-mail: iain.craig at wiley.com Phone: +44 (0)1865 476301 -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Vladimir Pislyakov Sent: 05 February 2009 11:38 To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: [SIGMETRICS] silent changes in WoS Dear colleagues, Have anyone noticed changes of the publication indicators in the Web of Science databases when they transformed "ISI Proceedings" into "Conference Proceedings Citation Index" (now a part of the WoS)? For example. Before this transformation, in September 2008, we counted number of Russian papers of the type "Article" published in 2006 (in SCIE and SSCI databases). It was 23367. After that, in November (transformation of the Proceeedings took place in the middle of October) the same search produced a much smaller figure. Now the same search string (CU=Russia) AND (PY=2006) AND Document Type=(Article) produces just 20601 documents. It may be suggested that some of the documents have changed their "Document Type" field in the process of merging of new Proceedings Index, and so "Articles" got some other type. It is very sad for us, because every year we publish in print statistics on Russian publication output by document types and these changes result in the loss of coherence of our yearly data. Have someone else confronted these silent changes in WoS? Is there any way to overcome these inconsistencies? There is even no note on WoK platfrom regarding these changes. Vladimir Pislyakov Assistant Director for Electronic Resources Management Higher School of Economics Library 20 Myasnitskaya street Moscow, 101000 Russia Tel.: +7 (495) 6213785 Fax: +7 (495) 6287931 E-mail: pislyakov at hse.ru URL: http://library.hse.ru ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email (and any attachment) is confidential, may be legally privileged and is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient please do not disclose, copy or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this message in error please tell us by reply and delete all copies on your system. Although this email has been scanned for viruses you should rely on your own virus check as the sender accepts no liability for any damage arising out of any bug or virus infection. Please note that email traffic data may be monitored and that emails may be viewed for security reasons. Blackwell Publishing Limited is a private limited company registered in England with registered number 180277. Registered office address: The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From pislyakov at HSE.RU Thu Feb 5 08:26:03 2009 From: pislyakov at HSE.RU (=?windows-1251?Q?Vladimir_Pislyakov?=) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 08:26:03 -0500 Subject: silent changes in WoS Message-ID: Dear Iain, Thank you, I tried to test it on several years and this method seems to produce results very close to the figures obtained earlier. It means that in October 2008 about 12% of "Articles" changed their document type to "Proceedings Paper", unusual thing. Kind regards, Vladimir Vladimir Pislyakov Assistant Director for Electronic Resources Management Higher School of Economics Library 20 Myasnitskaya street Moscow, 101000 Russia Tel.: +7 (495) 6213785 Fax: +7 (495) 6287931 E-mail: pislyakov at hse.ru URL: http://library.hse.ru =============== On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 12:40:29 +0000, Craig, Iain - Oxford wrote: >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > >Dear Vladimir > >If you extend your search to include document type = proceedings papers, you should recover your missing papers. > >With best wishes > >Iain > > >Iain Craig >Research & Analysis Group > >Wiley-Blackwell >John Wiley & Sons Ltd >9600 Garsington Road >Oxford, OX4 2DQ >United Kingdom > >E-mail: iain.craig at wiley.com >Phone: +44 (0)1865 476301 > >-----Original Message----- >From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Vladimir Pislyakov >Sent: 05 February 2009 11:38 >To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU >Subject: [SIGMETRICS] silent changes in WoS > >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > >Dear colleagues, > >Have anyone noticed changes of the publication indicators in the Web of >Science databases when they transformed "ISI Proceedings" into "Conference >Proceedings Citation Index" (now a part of the WoS)? > >For example. Before this transformation, in September 2008, we counted >number of Russian papers of the type "Article" published in 2006 (in SCIE >and SSCI databases). It was 23367. After that, in November (transformation >of the Proceeedings took place in the middle of October) the same search >produced a much smaller figure. Now the same search string > >(CU=Russia) AND (PY=2006) AND Document Type=(Article) > >produces just 20601 documents. > >It may be suggested that some of the documents have changed their "Document >Type" field in the process of merging of new Proceedings Index, and so >"Articles" got some other type. > >It is very sad for us, because every year we publish in print statistics on >Russian publication output by document types and these changes result in the >loss of coherence of our yearly data. Have someone else confronted these >silent changes in WoS? Is there any way to overcome these inconsistencies? >There is even no note on WoK platfrom regarding these changes. > >Vladimir Pislyakov >Assistant Director for Electronic Resources Management >Higher School of Economics Library >20 Myasnitskaya street >Moscow, 101000 >Russia >Tel.: +7 (495) 6213785 >Fax: +7 (495) 6287931 >E-mail: pislyakov at hse.ru >URL: http://library.hse.ru >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >This email (and any attachment) is confidential, may be legally privileged and is intended solely for the >use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient please do >not disclose, copy or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this message in error please >tell us by reply and delete all copies on your system. > >Although this email has been scanned for viruses you should rely on your own virus check as the sender >accepts no liability for any damage arising out of any bug or virus infection. Please note that email >traffic data may be monitored and that emails may be viewed for security reasons. > >Blackwell Publishing Limited is a private limited company registered in England with registered number 180277. > >Registered office address: The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ. >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From juan.gorraiz at UNIVIE.AC.AT Thu Feb 5 10:04:02 2009 From: juan.gorraiz at UNIVIE.AC.AT (Juan Gorraiz) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 16:04:02 +0100 Subject: silent changes in WoS In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Vladimir, this is not only an ususual thing, but a very sensititive issue! The value of many indicators based on number of articles (like Impact Factor, etc) may then change abruptly!!! Kind regards, Juan ********************************************** Dr. Juan Gorraiz University of Vienna Library and archive services Bibliometrics Department Boltzmanngasse 5 A-1090 Wien Tel.: +43-1-4277-27609 +43-66460277-27609 Fax: +43-1-4277-27650 mailto: juan.gorraiz at univie.ac.at ********************************************** http://personalabteilung.univie.ac.at/index.php?id=10896 Vladimir Pislyakov schrieb: > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > Dear Iain, > > Thank you, I tried to test it on several years and this method seems to > produce results very close to the figures obtained earlier. It means that in > October 2008 about 12% of "Articles" changed their document type to > "Proceedings Paper", unusual thing. > > Kind regards, > Vladimir > > Vladimir Pislyakov > Assistant Director for Electronic Resources Management > Higher School of Economics Library > 20 Myasnitskaya street > Moscow, 101000 > Russia > Tel.: +7 (495) 6213785 > Fax: +7 (495) 6287931 > E-mail: pislyakov at hse.ru > URL: http://library.hse.ru > > =============== > On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 12:40:29 +0000, Craig, Iain - Oxford > wrote: > >> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >> >> Dear Vladimir >> >> If you extend your search to include document type = proceedings papers, > you should recover your missing papers. >> With best wishes >> >> Iain >> >> >> Iain Craig >> Research & Analysis Group >> >> Wiley-Blackwell >> John Wiley & Sons Ltd >> 9600 Garsington Road >> Oxford, OX4 2DQ >> United Kingdom >> >> E-mail: iain.craig at wiley.com >> Phone: +44 (0)1865 476301 >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics > [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Vladimir Pislyakov >> Sent: 05 February 2009 11:38 >> To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU >> Subject: [SIGMETRICS] silent changes in WoS >> >> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >> >> Dear colleagues, >> >> Have anyone noticed changes of the publication indicators in the Web of >> Science databases when they transformed "ISI Proceedings" into "Conference >> Proceedings Citation Index" (now a part of the WoS)? >> >> For example. Before this transformation, in September 2008, we counted >> number of Russian papers of the type "Article" published in 2006 (in SCIE >> and SSCI databases). It was 23367. After that, in November (transformation >> of the Proceeedings took place in the middle of October) the same search >> produced a much smaller figure. Now the same search string >> >> (CU=Russia) AND (PY=2006) AND Document Type=(Article) >> >> produces just 20601 documents. >> >> It may be suggested that some of the documents have changed their "Document >> Type" field in the process of merging of new Proceedings Index, and so >> "Articles" got some other type. >> >> It is very sad for us, because every year we publish in print statistics on >> Russian publication output by document types and these changes result in the >> loss of coherence of our yearly data. Have someone else confronted these >> silent changes in WoS? Is there any way to overcome these inconsistencies? >> There is even no note on WoK platfrom regarding these changes. >> >> Vladimir Pislyakov >> Assistant Director for Electronic Resources Management >> Higher School of Economics Library >> 20 Myasnitskaya street >> Moscow, 101000 >> Russia >> Tel.: +7 (495) 6213785 >> Fax: +7 (495) 6287931 >> E-mail: pislyakov at hse.ru >> URL: http://library.hse.ru >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> This email (and any attachment) is confidential, may be legally privileged > and is intended solely for the >> use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the > intended recipient please do >> not disclose, copy or take any action in reliance on it. If you have > received this message in error please >> tell us by reply and delete all copies on your system. >> >> Although this email has been scanned for viruses you should rely on your > own virus check as the sender >> accepts no liability for any damage arising out of any bug or virus > infection. Please note that email >> traffic data may be monitored and that emails may be viewed for security > reasons. >> Blackwell Publishing Limited is a private limited company registered in > England with registered number 180277. >> Registered office address: The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West > Sussex, PO19 8SQ. >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -- ********************************************** Dr. Juan Gorraiz University of Vienna Library and archive services Bibliometrics Department Boltzmanngasse 5 A-1090 Wien Tel.: +43-1-4277-27609 +43-66460277-27609 Fax: +43-1-4277-27650 mailto: juan.gorraiz at univie.ac.at ********************************************** From iain.craig at WILEY.COM Thu Feb 5 10:23:34 2009 From: iain.craig at WILEY.COM (Craig, Iain - Oxford) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 15:23:34 +0000 Subject: silent changes in WoS In-Reply-To: <498AFFE2.10809@univie.ac.at> Message-ID: >From what I can see, the number of citable items doesn't change; proceedings papers are now being added to the numbers of articles and reviews. So the net effect on JCR metrics should be neutral. Iain -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Juan Gorraiz Sent: 05 February 2009 15:04 To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] silent changes in WoS Dear Vladimir, this is not only an ususual thing, but a very sensititive issue! The value of many indicators based on number of articles (like Impact Factor, etc) may then change abruptly!!! Kind regards, Juan ********************************************** Dr. Juan Gorraiz University of Vienna Library and archive services Bibliometrics Department Boltzmanngasse 5 A-1090 Wien Tel.: +43-1-4277-27609 +43-66460277-27609 Fax: +43-1-4277-27650 mailto: juan.gorraiz at univie.ac.at ********************************************** http://personalabteilung.univie.ac.at/index.php?id=10896 Vladimir Pislyakov schrieb: > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > Dear Iain, > > Thank you, I tried to test it on several years and this method seems to > produce results very close to the figures obtained earlier. It means that in > October 2008 about 12% of "Articles" changed their document type to > "Proceedings Paper", unusual thing. > > Kind regards, > Vladimir > > Vladimir Pislyakov > Assistant Director for Electronic Resources Management > Higher School of Economics Library > 20 Myasnitskaya street > Moscow, 101000 > Russia > Tel.: +7 (495) 6213785 > Fax: +7 (495) 6287931 > E-mail: pislyakov at hse.ru > URL: http://library.hse.ru > > =============== > On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 12:40:29 +0000, Craig, Iain - Oxford > wrote: > >> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >> >> Dear Vladimir >> >> If you extend your search to include document type = proceedings papers, > you should recover your missing papers. >> With best wishes >> >> Iain >> >> >> Iain Craig >> Research & Analysis Group >> >> Wiley-Blackwell >> John Wiley & Sons Ltd >> 9600 Garsington Road >> Oxford, OX4 2DQ >> United Kingdom >> >> E-mail: iain.craig at wiley.com >> Phone: +44 (0)1865 476301 >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics > [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Vladimir Pislyakov >> Sent: 05 February 2009 11:38 >> To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU >> Subject: [SIGMETRICS] silent changes in WoS >> >> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >> >> Dear colleagues, >> >> Have anyone noticed changes of the publication indicators in the Web of >> Science databases when they transformed "ISI Proceedings" into "Conference >> Proceedings Citation Index" (now a part of the WoS)? >> >> For example. Before this transformation, in September 2008, we counted >> number of Russian papers of the type "Article" published in 2006 (in SCIE >> and SSCI databases). It was 23367. After that, in November (transformation >> of the Proceeedings took place in the middle of October) the same search >> produced a much smaller figure. Now the same search string >> >> (CU=Russia) AND (PY=2006) AND Document Type=(Article) >> >> produces just 20601 documents. >> >> It may be suggested that some of the documents have changed their "Document >> Type" field in the process of merging of new Proceedings Index, and so >> "Articles" got some other type. >> >> It is very sad for us, because every year we publish in print statistics on >> Russian publication output by document types and these changes result in the >> loss of coherence of our yearly data. Have someone else confronted these >> silent changes in WoS? Is there any way to overcome these inconsistencies? >> There is even no note on WoK platfrom regarding these changes. >> >> Vladimir Pislyakov >> Assistant Director for Electronic Resources Management >> Higher School of Economics Library >> 20 Myasnitskaya street >> Moscow, 101000 >> Russia >> Tel.: +7 (495) 6213785 >> Fax: +7 (495) 6287931 >> E-mail: pislyakov at hse.ru >> URL: http://library.hse.ru >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> This email (and any attachment) is confidential, may be legally privileged > and is intended solely for the >> use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the > intended recipient please do >> not disclose, copy or take any action in reliance on it. If you have > received this message in error please >> tell us by reply and delete all copies on your system. >> >> Although this email has been scanned for viruses you should rely on your > own virus check as the sender >> accepts no liability for any damage arising out of any bug or virus > infection. Please note that email >> traffic data may be monitored and that emails may be viewed for security > reasons. >> Blackwell Publishing Limited is a private limited company registered in > England with registered number 180277. >> Registered office address: The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West > Sussex, PO19 8SQ. >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -- ********************************************** Dr. Juan Gorraiz University of Vienna Library and archive services Bibliometrics Department Boltzmanngasse 5 A-1090 Wien Tel.: +43-1-4277-27609 +43-66460277-27609 Fax: +43-1-4277-27650 mailto: juan.gorraiz at univie.ac.at ********************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email (and any attachment) is confidential, may be legally privileged and is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient please do not disclose, copy or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this message in error please tell us by reply and delete all copies on your system. Although this email has been scanned for viruses you should rely on your own virus check as the sender accepts no liability for any damage arising out of any bug or virus infection. Please note that email traffic data may be monitored and that emails may be viewed for security reasons. Blackwell Publishing Limited is a private limited company registered in England with registered number 180277. Registered office address: The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From Christina.Pikas at JHUAPL.EDU Thu Feb 5 10:59:30 2009 From: Christina.Pikas at JHUAPL.EDU (Pikas, Christina K.) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 10:59:30 -0500 Subject: silent changes in WoS In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Ok - I'm confused. I look at a paper in WoS and it's got, say, 100 citations. When I list the citing papers, only like 80 are in the list. It turns out that the other 20 citations came from proceedings papers, I guess, and my institution does not subscribe to this proceedings citation thingy. So these are mystery citations.... Actually, if I understood this a little better, I'd probably say what the impact is: none or huge? Christina -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu] On Behalf Of Craig, Iain - Oxford Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 10:24 AM To: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] silent changes in WoS >From what I can see, the number of citable items doesn't change; proceedings papers are now being added to the numbers of articles and reviews. So the net effect on JCR metrics should be neutral. Iain -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Juan Gorraiz Sent: 05 February 2009 15:04 To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] silent changes in WoS Dear Vladimir, this is not only an ususual thing, but a very sensititive issue! The value of many indicators based on number of articles (like Impact Factor, etc) may then change abruptly!!! Kind regards, Juan ********************************************** Dr. Juan Gorraiz University of Vienna Library and archive services Bibliometrics Department Boltzmanngasse 5 A-1090 Wien Tel.: +43-1-4277-27609 +43-66460277-27609 Fax: +43-1-4277-27650 mailto: juan.gorraiz at univie.ac.at ********************************************** http://personalabteilung.univie.ac.at/index.php?id=10896 Vladimir Pislyakov schrieb: > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > Dear Iain, > > Thank you, I tried to test it on several years and this method seems to > produce results very close to the figures obtained earlier. It means that in > October 2008 about 12% of "Articles" changed their document type to > "Proceedings Paper", unusual thing. > > Kind regards, > Vladimir > > Vladimir Pislyakov > Assistant Director for Electronic Resources Management > Higher School of Economics Library > 20 Myasnitskaya street > Moscow, 101000 > Russia > Tel.: +7 (495) 6213785 > Fax: +7 (495) 6287931 > E-mail: pislyakov at hse.ru > URL: http://library.hse.ru > > =============== > On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 12:40:29 +0000, Craig, Iain - Oxford > wrote: > >> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >> >> Dear Vladimir >> >> If you extend your search to include document type = proceedings papers, > you should recover your missing papers. >> With best wishes >> >> Iain >> >> >> Iain Craig >> Research & Analysis Group >> >> Wiley-Blackwell >> John Wiley & Sons Ltd >> 9600 Garsington Road >> Oxford, OX4 2DQ >> United Kingdom >> >> E-mail: iain.craig at wiley.com >> Phone: +44 (0)1865 476301 >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics > [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Vladimir Pislyakov >> Sent: 05 February 2009 11:38 >> To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU >> Subject: [SIGMETRICS] silent changes in WoS >> >> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >> >> Dear colleagues, >> >> Have anyone noticed changes of the publication indicators in the Web of >> Science databases when they transformed "ISI Proceedings" into "Conference >> Proceedings Citation Index" (now a part of the WoS)? >> >> For example. Before this transformation, in September 2008, we counted >> number of Russian papers of the type "Article" published in 2006 (in SCIE >> and SSCI databases). It was 23367. After that, in November (transformation >> of the Proceeedings took place in the middle of October) the same search >> produced a much smaller figure. Now the same search string >> >> (CU=Russia) AND (PY=2006) AND Document Type=(Article) >> >> produces just 20601 documents. >> >> It may be suggested that some of the documents have changed their "Document >> Type" field in the process of merging of new Proceedings Index, and so >> "Articles" got some other type. >> >> It is very sad for us, because every year we publish in print statistics on >> Russian publication output by document types and these changes result in the >> loss of coherence of our yearly data. Have someone else confronted these >> silent changes in WoS? Is there any way to overcome these inconsistencies? >> There is even no note on WoK platfrom regarding these changes. >> >> Vladimir Pislyakov >> Assistant Director for Electronic Resources Management >> Higher School of Economics Library >> 20 Myasnitskaya street >> Moscow, 101000 >> Russia >> Tel.: +7 (495) 6213785 >> Fax: +7 (495) 6287931 >> E-mail: pislyakov at hse.ru >> URL: http://library.hse.ru >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> This email (and any attachment) is confidential, may be legally privileged > and is intended solely for the >> use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the > intended recipient please do >> not disclose, copy or take any action in reliance on it. If you have > received this message in error please >> tell us by reply and delete all copies on your system. >> >> Although this email has been scanned for viruses you should rely on your > own virus check as the sender >> accepts no liability for any damage arising out of any bug or virus > infection. Please note that email >> traffic data may be monitored and that emails may be viewed for security > reasons. >> Blackwell Publishing Limited is a private limited company registered in > England with registered number 180277. >> Registered office address: The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West > Sussex, PO19 8SQ. >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -- ********************************************** Dr. Juan Gorraiz University of Vienna Library and archive services Bibliometrics Department Boltzmanngasse 5 A-1090 Wien Tel.: +43-1-4277-27609 +43-66460277-27609 Fax: +43-1-4277-27650 mailto: juan.gorraiz at univie.ac.at ********************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email (and any attachment) is confidential, may be legally privileged and is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient please do not disclose, copy or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this message in error please tell us by reply and delete all copies on your system. Although this email has been scanned for viruses you should rely on your own virus check as the sender accepts no liability for any damage arising out of any bug or virus infection. Please note that email traffic data may be monitored and that emails may be viewed for security reasons. Blackwell Publishing Limited is a private limited company registered in England with registered number 180277. Registered office address: The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From pislyakov at HSE.RU Thu Feb 5 11:08:01 2009 From: pislyakov at HSE.RU (=?windows-1251?Q?Vladimir_Pislyakov?=) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 11:08:01 -0500 Subject: silent changes in WoS Message-ID: It is interesting what Thomson will make with the next edition of JCR, when it appears in June. Either they should change the text of methodology of IF calculations (add "Proceedings papers" to the citable items), or IFs will loose their continuity from 2007 to 2008 (e.g. some of the 2006 papers will be "citable" in 2007 IFs and non-citable in 2008 IFs calculations). It is especially important for journals with high share of "proceedings papers". Somehow, the change to the WoS content is rather important (e.g. many of us, I suppose, limit their investigations to this or that document type), so it is natural to expect a clear and detailed explanation from Thomson what's going on and what will be in the future. Kind regards, Vladimir Vladimir Pislyakov Assistant Director for Electronic Resources Management Higher School of Economics Library 20 Myasnitskaya street Moscow, 101000 Russia Tel.: +7 (495) 6213785 Fax: +7 (495) 6287931 E-mail: pislyakov at hse.ru URL: http://library.hse.ru ============= On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 15:23:34 +0000, Craig, Iain - Oxford wrote: >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > >>From what I can see, the number of citable items doesn't change; proceedings papers are now being added to the numbers of articles and reviews. So the net effect on JCR metrics should be neutral. > >Iain > >-----Original Message----- >From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Juan Gorraiz >Sent: 05 February 2009 15:04 >To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU >Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] silent changes in WoS > >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > >Dear Vladimir, > >this is not only an ususual thing, but a very sensititive issue! >The value of many indicators based on number of articles (like Impact >Factor, etc) may then change abruptly!!! > >Kind regards, >Juan > >********************************************** >Dr. Juan Gorraiz >University of Vienna >Library and archive services >Bibliometrics Department >Boltzmanngasse 5 >A-1090 Wien > >Tel.: >+43-1-4277-27609 >+43-66460277-27609 >Fax: >+43-1-4277-27650 >mailto: >juan.gorraiz at univie.ac.at >********************************************** > >http://personalabteilung.univie.ac.at/index.php?id=10896 >Vladimir Pislyakov schrieb: >> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >> >> Dear Iain, >> >> Thank you, I tried to test it on several years and this method seems to >> produce results very close to the figures obtained earlier. It means that in >> October 2008 about 12% of "Articles" changed their document type to >> "Proceedings Paper", unusual thing. >> >> Kind regards, >> Vladimir >> >> Vladimir Pislyakov >> Assistant Director for Electronic Resources Management >> Higher School of Economics Library >> 20 Myasnitskaya street >> Moscow, 101000 >> Russia >> Tel.: +7 (495) 6213785 >> Fax: +7 (495) 6287931 >> E-mail: pislyakov at hse.ru >> URL: http://library.hse.ru >> >> =============== >> On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 12:40:29 +0000, Craig, Iain - Oxford >> wrote: >> >>> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >>> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >>> >>> Dear Vladimir >>> >>> If you extend your search to include document type = proceedings papers, >> you should recover your missing papers. >>> With best wishes >>> >>> Iain >>> >>> >>> Iain Craig >>> Research & Analysis Group >>> >>> Wiley-Blackwell >>> John Wiley & Sons Ltd >>> 9600 Garsington Road >>> Oxford, OX4 2DQ >>> United Kingdom >>> >>> E-mail: iain.craig at wiley.com >>> Phone: +44 (0)1865 476301 >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics >> [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Vladimir Pislyakov >>> Sent: 05 February 2009 11:38 >>> To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU >>> Subject: [SIGMETRICS] silent changes in WoS >>> >>> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >>> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >>> >>> Dear colleagues, >>> >>> Have anyone noticed changes of the publication indicators in the Web of >>> Science databases when they transformed "ISI Proceedings" into "Conference >>> Proceedings Citation Index" (now a part of the WoS)? >>> >>> For example. Before this transformation, in September 2008, we counted >>> number of Russian papers of the type "Article" published in 2006 (in SCIE >>> and SSCI databases). It was 23367. After that, in November (transformation >>> of the Proceeedings took place in the middle of October) the same search >>> produced a much smaller figure. Now the same search string >>> >>> (CU=Russia) AND (PY=2006) AND Document Type=(Article) >>> >>> produces just 20601 documents. >>> >>> It may be suggested that some of the documents have changed their "Document >>> Type" field in the process of merging of new Proceedings Index, and so >>> "Articles" got some other type. >>> >>> It is very sad for us, because every year we publish in print statistics on >>> Russian publication output by document types and these changes result in the >>> loss of coherence of our yearly data. Have someone else confronted these >>> silent changes in WoS? Is there any way to overcome these inconsistencies? >>> There is even no note on WoK platfrom regarding these changes. >>> >>> Vladimir Pislyakov >>> Assistant Director for Electronic Resources Management >>> Higher School of Economics Library >>> 20 Myasnitskaya street >>> Moscow, 101000 >>> Russia >>> Tel.: +7 (495) 6213785 >>> Fax: +7 (495) 6287931 >>> E-mail: pislyakov at hse.ru >>> URL: http://library.hse.ru >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> This email (and any attachment) is confidential, may be legally privileged >> and is intended solely for the >>> use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the >> intended recipient please do >>> not disclose, copy or take any action in reliance on it. If you have >> received this message in error please >>> tell us by reply and delete all copies on your system. >>> >>> Although this email has been scanned for viruses you should rely on your >> own virus check as the sender >>> accepts no liability for any damage arising out of any bug or virus >> infection. Please note that email >>> traffic data may be monitored and that emails may be viewed for security >> reasons. >>> Blackwell Publishing Limited is a private limited company registered in >> England with registered number 180277. >>> Registered office address: The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West >> Sussex, PO19 8SQ. >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> > > >-- >********************************************** >Dr. Juan Gorraiz > >University of Vienna >Library and archive services >Bibliometrics Department > >Boltzmanngasse 5 >A-1090 Wien > >Tel.: >+43-1-4277-27609 >+43-66460277-27609 >Fax: >+43-1-4277-27650 >mailto: >juan.gorraiz at univie.ac.at >********************************************** >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >This email (and any attachment) is confidential, may be legally privileged and is intended solely for the >use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient please do >not disclose, copy or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this message in error please >tell us by reply and delete all copies on your system. > >Although this email has been scanned for viruses you should rely on your own virus check as the sender >accepts no liability for any damage arising out of any bug or virus infection. Please note that email >traffic data may be monitored and that emails may be viewed for security reasons. > >Blackwell Publishing Limited is a private limited company registered in England with registered number 180277. > >Registered office address: The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ. >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From pislyakov at HSE.RU Thu Feb 5 11:14:23 2009 From: pislyakov at HSE.RU (=?windows-1251?Q?Vladimir_Pislyakov?=) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 11:14:23 -0500 Subject: silent changes in WoS Message-ID: I guess, that is another kind of question. The explanation of this effect exists, it is here http://images.isiknowledge.com/WOK45/help/WOS/hcr_times_cited.html Kind regards, Vladimir Vladimir Pislyakov Assistant Director for Electronic Resources Management Higher School of Economics Library 20 Myasnitskaya street Moscow, 101000 Russia Tel.: +7 (495) 6213785 Fax: +7 (495) 6287931 E-mail: pislyakov at hse.ru URL: http://library.hse.ru ================ On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 10:59:30 -0500, Pikas, Christina K. wrote: >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > >Ok - I'm confused. > >I look at a paper in WoS and it's got, say, 100 citations. When I list the citing papers, only like 80 are in the list. It turns out that the other 20 citations came from proceedings papers, I guess, and my institution does not subscribe to this proceedings citation thingy. So these are mystery citations.... Actually, if I understood this a little better, I'd probably say what the impact is: none or huge? > >Christina > > >-----Original Message----- >From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu] On Behalf Of Craig, Iain - Oxford >Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 10:24 AM >To: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu >Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] silent changes in WoS > >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > >>From what I can see, the number of citable items doesn't change; proceedings papers are now being added to the numbers of articles and reviews. So the net effect on JCR metrics should be neutral. > >Iain > >-----Original Message----- >From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Juan Gorraiz >Sent: 05 February 2009 15:04 >To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU >Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] silent changes in WoS > >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > >Dear Vladimir, > >this is not only an ususual thing, but a very sensititive issue! >The value of many indicators based on number of articles (like Impact >Factor, etc) may then change abruptly!!! > >Kind regards, >Juan > >********************************************** >Dr. Juan Gorraiz >University of Vienna >Library and archive services >Bibliometrics Department >Boltzmanngasse 5 >A-1090 Wien > >Tel.: >+43-1-4277-27609 >+43-66460277-27609 >Fax: >+43-1-4277-27650 >mailto: >juan.gorraiz at univie.ac.at >********************************************** > >http://personalabteilung.univie.ac.at/index.php?id=10896 >Vladimir Pislyakov schrieb: >> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >> >> Dear Iain, >> >> Thank you, I tried to test it on several years and this method seems to >> produce results very close to the figures obtained earlier. It means that in >> October 2008 about 12% of "Articles" changed their document type to >> "Proceedings Paper", unusual thing. >> >> Kind regards, >> Vladimir >> >> Vladimir Pislyakov >> Assistant Director for Electronic Resources Management >> Higher School of Economics Library >> 20 Myasnitskaya street >> Moscow, 101000 >> Russia >> Tel.: +7 (495) 6213785 >> Fax: +7 (495) 6287931 >> E-mail: pislyakov at hse.ru >> URL: http://library.hse.ru >> >> =============== >> On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 12:40:29 +0000, Craig, Iain - Oxford >> wrote: >> >>> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >>> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >>> >>> Dear Vladimir >>> >>> If you extend your search to include document type = proceedings papers, >> you should recover your missing papers. >>> With best wishes >>> >>> Iain >>> >>> >>> Iain Craig >>> Research & Analysis Group >>> >>> Wiley-Blackwell >>> John Wiley & Sons Ltd >>> 9600 Garsington Road >>> Oxford, OX4 2DQ >>> United Kingdom >>> >>> E-mail: iain.craig at wiley.com >>> Phone: +44 (0)1865 476301 >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics >> [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Vladimir Pislyakov >>> Sent: 05 February 2009 11:38 >>> To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU >>> Subject: [SIGMETRICS] silent changes in WoS >>> >>> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >>> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >>> >>> Dear colleagues, >>> >>> Have anyone noticed changes of the publication indicators in the Web of >>> Science databases when they transformed "ISI Proceedings" into "Conference >>> Proceedings Citation Index" (now a part of the WoS)? >>> >>> For example. Before this transformation, in September 2008, we counted >>> number of Russian papers of the type "Article" published in 2006 (in SCIE >>> and SSCI databases). It was 23367. After that, in November (transformation >>> of the Proceeedings took place in the middle of October) the same search >>> produced a much smaller figure. Now the same search string >>> >>> (CU=Russia) AND (PY=2006) AND Document Type=(Article) >>> >>> produces just 20601 documents. >>> >>> It may be suggested that some of the documents have changed their "Document >>> Type" field in the process of merging of new Proceedings Index, and so >>> "Articles" got some other type. >>> >>> It is very sad for us, because every year we publish in print statistics on >>> Russian publication output by document types and these changes result in the >>> loss of coherence of our yearly data. Have someone else confronted these >>> silent changes in WoS? Is there any way to overcome these inconsistencies? >>> There is even no note on WoK platfrom regarding these changes. >>> >>> Vladimir Pislyakov >>> Assistant Director for Electronic Resources Management >>> Higher School of Economics Library >>> 20 Myasnitskaya street >>> Moscow, 101000 >>> Russia >>> Tel.: +7 (495) 6213785 >>> Fax: +7 (495) 6287931 >>> E-mail: pislyakov at hse.ru >>> URL: http://library.hse.ru >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> This email (and any attachment) is confidential, may be legally privileged >> and is intended solely for the >>> use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the >> intended recipient please do >>> not disclose, copy or take any action in reliance on it. If you have >> received this message in error please >>> tell us by reply and delete all copies on your system. >>> >>> Although this email has been scanned for viruses you should rely on your >> own virus check as the sender >>> accepts no liability for any damage arising out of any bug or virus >> infection. Please note that email >>> traffic data may be monitored and that emails may be viewed for security >> reasons. >>> Blackwell Publishing Limited is a private limited company registered in >> England with registered number 180277. >>> Registered office address: The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West >> Sussex, PO19 8SQ. >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> > > >-- >********************************************** >Dr. Juan Gorraiz > >University of Vienna >Library and archive services >Bibliometrics Department > >Boltzmanngasse 5 >A-1090 Wien > >Tel.: >+43-1-4277-27609 >+43-66460277-27609 >Fax: >+43-1-4277-27650 >mailto: >juan.gorraiz at univie.ac.at >********************************************** >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >This email (and any attachment) is confidential, may be legally privileged and is intended solely for the >use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient please do >not disclose, copy or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this message in error please >tell us by reply and delete all copies on your system. > >Although this email has been scanned for viruses you should rely on your own virus check as the sender >accepts no liability for any damage arising out of any bug or virus infection. Please note that email >traffic data may be monitored and that emails may be viewed for security reasons. > >Blackwell Publishing Limited is a private limited company registered in England with registered number 180277. > >Registered office address: The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ. >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >========================================================================= From juan.gorraiz at UNIVIE.AC.AT Thu Feb 5 11:36:43 2009 From: juan.gorraiz at UNIVIE.AC.AT (Juan Gorraiz) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 17:36:43 +0100 Subject: silent changes in WoS In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Many regular journals are publishing ?proceedings papers? in special issues. If these papers were considered before as ?articles? and have been consequently changed to ?proceedings papers?, there may be changes in the JCR Metrics! If they were not changed, they are differently processed from the other proceedings publications! JCR Metrics is perhaps not so strongly influenced but a lot of analyses performed by users (and considering the category ?articles?) may not be anymore reproducible and so lacking of scientific character. Another problem is how the JCR Metrics will be defined in the future, including or not the Proceedings. However, as we already reported, citations coming from some Proceedings (for example Proceedings of the IEEE and some other Series) were always (!) considered calculating the Impact Factor of the core Journals but not consequently (only citations from ?some? issues indexed in WoS). Now, there is an opportunity to consider consequently all the citations coming from the Proceedings. But this is also a controversial subject: Is then the selection criteria (used to define the core ISI-journals) also valid for the Proceedings (even if they never before had IFs)? Kind regards Juan ********************************************** Vladimir Pislyakov schrieb: > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > It is interesting what Thomson will make with the next edition of JCR, when > it appears in June. Either they should change the text of methodology of IF > calculations (add "Proceedings papers" to the citable items), or IFs will > loose their continuity from 2007 to 2008 (e.g. some of the 2006 papers will > be "citable" in 2007 IFs and non-citable in 2008 IFs calculations). It is > especially important for journals with high share of "proceedings papers". > > Somehow, the change to the WoS content is rather important (e.g. many of us, > I suppose, limit their investigations to this or that document type), so it > is natural to expect a clear and detailed explanation from Thomson what's > going on and what will be in the future. > > Kind regards, > Vladimir > > Vladimir Pislyakov > Assistant Director for Electronic Resources Management > Higher School of Economics Library > 20 Myasnitskaya street > Moscow, 101000 > Russia > Tel.: +7 (495) 6213785 > Fax: +7 (495) 6287931 > E-mail: pislyakov at hse.ru > URL: http://library.hse.ru > > > > ============= > On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 15:23:34 +0000, Craig, Iain - Oxford > wrote: > >> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >> >>>From what I can see, the number of citable items doesn't change; > proceedings papers are now being added to the numbers of articles and > reviews. So the net effect on JCR metrics should be neutral. >> Iain >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics > [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Juan Gorraiz >> Sent: 05 February 2009 15:04 >> To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU >> Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] silent changes in WoS >> >> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >> >> Dear Vladimir, >> >> this is not only an ususual thing, but a very sensititive issue! >> The value of many indicators based on number of articles (like Impact >> Factor, etc) may then change abruptly!!! >> >> Kind regards, >> Juan >> >> ********************************************** >> Dr. Juan Gorraiz >> University of Vienna >> Library and archive services >> Bibliometrics Department >> Boltzmanngasse 5 >> A-1090 Wien >> >> Tel.: >> +43-1-4277-27609 >> +43-66460277-27609 >> Fax: >> +43-1-4277-27650 >> mailto: >> juan.gorraiz at univie.ac.at >> ********************************************** >> >> http://personalabteilung.univie.ac.at/index.php?id=10896 >> Vladimir Pislyakov schrieb: >>> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >>> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >>> >>> Dear Iain, >>> >>> Thank you, I tried to test it on several years and this method seems to >>> produce results very close to the figures obtained earlier. It means that in >>> October 2008 about 12% of "Articles" changed their document type to >>> "Proceedings Paper", unusual thing. >>> >>> Kind regards, >>> Vladimir >>> >>> Vladimir Pislyakov >>> Assistant Director for Electronic Resources Management >>> Higher School of Economics Library >>> 20 Myasnitskaya street >>> Moscow, 101000 >>> Russia >>> Tel.: +7 (495) 6213785 >>> Fax: +7 (495) 6287931 >>> E-mail: pislyakov at hse.ru >>> URL: http://library.hse.ru >>> >>> =============== >>> On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 12:40:29 +0000, Craig, Iain - Oxford >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >>>> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >>>> >>>> Dear Vladimir >>>> >>>> If you extend your search to include document type = proceedings papers, >>> you should recover your missing papers. >>>> With best wishes >>>> >>>> Iain >>>> >>>> >>>> Iain Craig >>>> Research & Analysis Group >>>> >>>> Wiley-Blackwell >>>> John Wiley & Sons Ltd >>>> 9600 Garsington Road >>>> Oxford, OX4 2DQ >>>> United Kingdom >>>> >>>> E-mail: iain.craig at wiley.com >>>> Phone: +44 (0)1865 476301 >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics >>> [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Vladimir Pislyakov >>>> Sent: 05 February 2009 11:38 >>>> To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU >>>> Subject: [SIGMETRICS] silent changes in WoS >>>> >>>> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >>>> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >>>> >>>> Dear colleagues, >>>> >>>> Have anyone noticed changes of the publication indicators in the Web of >>>> Science databases when they transformed "ISI Proceedings" into "Conference >>>> Proceedings Citation Index" (now a part of the WoS)? >>>> >>>> For example. Before this transformation, in September 2008, we counted >>>> number of Russian papers of the type "Article" published in 2006 (in SCIE >>>> and SSCI databases). It was 23367. After that, in November (transformation >>>> of the Proceeedings took place in the middle of October) the same search >>>> produced a much smaller figure. Now the same search string >>>> >>>> (CU=Russia) AND (PY=2006) AND Document Type=(Article) >>>> >>>> produces just 20601 documents. >>>> >>>> It may be suggested that some of the documents have changed their "Document >>>> Type" field in the process of merging of new Proceedings Index, and so >>>> "Articles" got some other type. >>>> >>>> It is very sad for us, because every year we publish in print statistics on >>>> Russian publication output by document types and these changes result in the >>>> loss of coherence of our yearly data. Have someone else confronted these >>>> silent changes in WoS? Is there any way to overcome these inconsistencies? >>>> There is even no note on WoK platfrom regarding these changes. >>>> >>>> Vladimir Pislyakov >>>> Assistant Director for Electronic Resources Management >>>> Higher School of Economics Library >>>> 20 Myasnitskaya street >>>> Moscow, 101000 >>>> Russia >>>> Tel.: +7 (495) 6213785 >>>> Fax: +7 (495) 6287931 >>>> E-mail: pislyakov at hse.ru >>>> URL: http://library.hse.ru >>>> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> This email (and any attachment) is confidential, may be legally privileged >>> and is intended solely for the >>>> use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the >>> intended recipient please do >>>> not disclose, copy or take any action in reliance on it. If you have >>> received this message in error please >>>> tell us by reply and delete all copies on your system. >>>> >>>> Although this email has been scanned for viruses you should rely on your >>> own virus check as the sender >>>> accepts no liability for any damage arising out of any bug or virus >>> infection. Please note that email >>>> traffic data may be monitored and that emails may be viewed for security >>> reasons. >>>> Blackwell Publishing Limited is a private limited company registered in >>> England with registered number 180277. >>>> Registered office address: The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West >>> Sussex, PO19 8SQ. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> -- >> ********************************************** >> Dr. Juan Gorraiz >> >> University of Vienna >> Library and archive services >> Bibliometrics Department >> >> Boltzmanngasse 5 >> A-1090 Wien >> >> Tel.: >> +43-1-4277-27609 >> +43-66460277-27609 >> Fax: >> +43-1-4277-27650 >> mailto: >> juan.gorraiz at univie.ac.at >> ********************************************** >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> This email (and any attachment) is confidential, may be legally privileged > and is intended solely for the >> use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the > intended recipient please do >> not disclose, copy or take any action in reliance on it. If you have > received this message in error please >> tell us by reply and delete all copies on your system. >> >> Although this email has been scanned for viruses you should rely on your > own virus check as the sender >> accepts no liability for any damage arising out of any bug or virus > infection. Please note that email >> traffic data may be monitored and that emails may be viewed for security > reasons. >> Blackwell Publishing Limited is a private limited company registered in > England with registered number 180277. >> Registered office address: The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West > Sussex, PO19 8SQ. >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -- ********************************************** Dr. Juan Gorraiz University of Vienna Library and archive services Bibliometrics Department Boltzmanngasse 5 A-1090 Wien Tel.: +43-1-4277-27609 +43-66460277-27609 Fax: +43-1-4277-27650 mailto: juan.gorraiz at univie.ac.at ********************************************** From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Fri Feb 6 01:51:56 2009 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 07:51:56 +0100 Subject: silent changes in WoS In-Reply-To: <498B159B.4050906@univie.ac.at> Message-ID: Dear colleagues, I checked the effect for the set which I can assess most easily and that is for my own papers. Five full articles from the past have now been converted into "Proceedings Papers". Among these two articles were from Scientometrics: Title: Scientometrics and communication theory: Towards theoretically informed indicators Author(s): Leydesdorff L, VandenBesselaar P Source: SCIENTOMETRICS Volume: 38 Issue: 1 Pages: 155-174 Published: JAN 1997 Times Cited: 15 Title: THE DELINEATION OF SPECIALITIES IN TERMS OF JOURNALS USING THE DYNAMIC JOURNAL SET OF THE SCI Author(s): LEYDESDORFF L, COZZENS SE Source: SCIENTOMETRICS Volume: 26 Issue: 1 Pages: 135-156 Published: JAN 1993 Times Cited: 17 These two papers were not proceedings papers. I have no idea why their status was changed. The other three papers were also not Proceedings papers. Best wishes, Loet ________________________________ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ > -----Original Message----- > From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics > [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Juan Gorraiz > Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 5:37 PM > To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU > Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] silent changes in WoS > > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > Many regular journals are publishing "proceedings papers" in special > issues. If these papers were considered before as "articles" and have > been consequently changed to "proceedings papers", there may > be changes > in the JCR Metrics! If they were not changed, they are differently > processed from the other proceedings publications! > > JCR Metrics is perhaps not so strongly influenced but a lot > of analyses > performed by users (and considering the category "articles") > may not be > anymore reproducible and so lacking of scientific character. > > Another problem is how the JCR Metrics will be defined in the future, > including or not the Proceedings. However, as we already reported, > citations coming from some Proceedings (for example > Proceedings of the > IEEE and some other Series) were always (!) considered > calculating the > Impact Factor of the core Journals but not consequently (only > citations > from "some" issues indexed in WoS). > Now, there is an opportunity to consider consequently all the > citations > coming from the Proceedings. But this is also a controversial > subject: > Is then the selection criteria (used to define the core ISI-journals) > also valid for the Proceedings (even if they never before had IFs)? > > Kind regards > Juan > > > > > ********************************************** > > > Vladimir Pislyakov schrieb: > > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > > > It is interesting what Thomson will make with the next > edition of JCR, when > > it appears in June. Either they should change the text of > methodology of IF > > calculations (add "Proceedings papers" to the citable > items), or IFs will > > loose their continuity from 2007 to 2008 (e.g. some of the > 2006 papers will > > be "citable" in 2007 IFs and non-citable in 2008 IFs > calculations). It is > > especially important for journals with high share of > "proceedings papers". > > > > Somehow, the change to the WoS content is rather important > (e.g. many of us, > > I suppose, limit their investigations to this or that > document type), so it > > is natural to expect a clear and detailed explanation from > Thomson what's > > going on and what will be in the future. > > > > Kind regards, > > Vladimir > > > > Vladimir Pislyakov > > Assistant Director for Electronic Resources Management > > Higher School of Economics Library > > 20 Myasnitskaya street > > Moscow, 101000 > > Russia > > Tel.: +7 (495) 6213785 > > Fax: +7 (495) 6287931 > > E-mail: pislyakov at hse.ru > > URL: http://library.hse.ru > > > > > > > > ============= > > On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 15:23:34 +0000, Craig, Iain - Oxford > > wrote: > > > >> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > >> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > >> > >>From what I can see, the number of citable items doesn't change; > > proceedings papers are now being added to the numbers of > articles and > > reviews. So the net effect on JCR metrics should be neutral. > >> Iain > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics > > [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Juan Gorraiz > >> Sent: 05 February 2009 15:04 > >> To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU > >> Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] silent changes in WoS > >> > >> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > >> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > >> > >> Dear Vladimir, > >> > >> this is not only an ususual thing, but a very sensititive issue! > >> The value of many indicators based on number of articles > (like Impact > >> Factor, etc) may then change abruptly!!! > >> > >> Kind regards, > >> Juan > >> > >> ********************************************** > >> Dr. Juan Gorraiz > >> University of Vienna > >> Library and archive services > >> Bibliometrics Department > >> Boltzmanngasse 5 > >> A-1090 Wien > >> > >> Tel.: > >> +43-1-4277-27609 > >> +43-66460277-27609 > >> Fax: > >> +43-1-4277-27650 > >> mailto: > >> juan.gorraiz at univie.ac.at > >> ********************************************** > >> > >> http://personalabteilung.univie.ac.at/index.php?id=10896 > >> Vladimir Pislyakov schrieb: > >>> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > >>> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > >>> > >>> Dear Iain, > >>> > >>> Thank you, I tried to test it on several years and this > method seems to > >>> produce results very close to the figures obtained > earlier. It means that in > >>> October 2008 about 12% of "Articles" changed their > document type to > >>> "Proceedings Paper", unusual thing. > >>> > >>> Kind regards, > >>> Vladimir > >>> > >>> Vladimir Pislyakov > >>> Assistant Director for Electronic Resources Management > >>> Higher School of Economics Library > >>> 20 Myasnitskaya street > >>> Moscow, 101000 > >>> Russia > >>> Tel.: +7 (495) 6213785 > >>> Fax: +7 (495) 6287931 > >>> E-mail: pislyakov at hse.ru > >>> URL: http://library.hse.ru > >>> > >>> =============== > >>> On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 12:40:29 +0000, Craig, Iain - Oxford > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > >>>> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > >>>> > >>>> Dear Vladimir > >>>> > >>>> If you extend your search to include document type = > proceedings papers, > >>> you should recover your missing papers. > >>>> With best wishes > >>>> > >>>> Iain > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Iain Craig > >>>> Research & Analysis Group > >>>> > >>>> Wiley-Blackwell > >>>> John Wiley & Sons Ltd > >>>> 9600 Garsington Road > >>>> Oxford, OX4 2DQ > >>>> United Kingdom > >>>> > >>>> E-mail: iain.craig at wiley.com > >>>> Phone: +44 (0)1865 476301 > >>>> > >>>> -----Original Message----- > >>>> From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics > >>> [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of > Vladimir Pislyakov > >>>> Sent: 05 February 2009 11:38 > >>>> To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU > >>>> Subject: [SIGMETRICS] silent changes in WoS > >>>> > >>>> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > >>>> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > >>>> > >>>> Dear colleagues, > >>>> > >>>> Have anyone noticed changes of the publication > indicators in the Web of > >>>> Science databases when they transformed "ISI > Proceedings" into "Conference > >>>> Proceedings Citation Index" (now a part of the WoS)? > >>>> > >>>> For example. Before this transformation, in September > 2008, we counted > >>>> number of Russian papers of the type "Article" published > in 2006 (in SCIE > >>>> and SSCI databases). It was 23367. After that, in > November (transformation > >>>> of the Proceeedings took place in the middle of October) > the same search > >>>> produced a much smaller figure. Now the same search string > >>>> > >>>> (CU=Russia) AND (PY=2006) AND Document Type=(Article) > >>>> > >>>> produces just 20601 documents. > >>>> > >>>> It may be suggested that some of the documents have > changed their "Document > >>>> Type" field in the process of merging of new Proceedings > Index, and so > >>>> "Articles" got some other type. > >>>> > >>>> It is very sad for us, because every year we publish in > print statistics on > >>>> Russian publication output by document types and these > changes result in the > >>>> loss of coherence of our yearly data. Have someone else > confronted these > >>>> silent changes in WoS? Is there any way to overcome > these inconsistencies? > >>>> There is even no note on WoK platfrom regarding these changes. > >>>> > >>>> Vladimir Pislyakov > >>>> Assistant Director for Electronic Resources Management > >>>> Higher School of Economics Library > >>>> 20 Myasnitskaya street > >>>> Moscow, 101000 > >>>> Russia > >>>> Tel.: +7 (495) 6213785 > >>>> Fax: +7 (495) 6287931 > >>>> E-mail: pislyakov at hse.ru > >>>> URL: http://library.hse.ru > >>>> > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------- > >>>> This email (and any attachment) is confidential, may be > legally privileged > >>> and is intended solely for the > >>>> use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. > If you are not the > >>> intended recipient please do > >>>> not disclose, copy or take any action in reliance on it. > If you have > >>> received this message in error please > >>>> tell us by reply and delete all copies on your system. > >>>> > >>>> Although this email has been scanned for viruses you > should rely on your > >>> own virus check as the sender > >>>> accepts no liability for any damage arising out of any > bug or virus > >>> infection. Please note that email > >>>> traffic data may be monitored and that emails may be > viewed for security > >>> reasons. > >>>> Blackwell Publishing Limited is a private limited > company registered in > >>> England with registered number 180277. > >>>> Registered office address: The Atrium, Southern Gate, > Chichester, West > >>> Sussex, PO19 8SQ. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------- > >> > >> -- > >> ********************************************** > >> Dr. Juan Gorraiz > >> > >> University of Vienna > >> Library and archive services > >> Bibliometrics Department > >> > >> Boltzmanngasse 5 > >> A-1090 Wien > >> > >> Tel.: > >> +43-1-4277-27609 > >> +43-66460277-27609 > >> Fax: > >> +43-1-4277-27650 > >> mailto: > >> juan.gorraiz at univie.ac.at > >> ********************************************** > >> > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------- > >> This email (and any attachment) is confidential, may be > legally privileged > > and is intended solely for the > >> use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. > If you are not the > > intended recipient please do > >> not disclose, copy or take any action in reliance on it. > If you have > > received this message in error please > >> tell us by reply and delete all copies on your system. > >> > >> Although this email has been scanned for viruses you > should rely on your > > own virus check as the sender > >> accepts no liability for any damage arising out of any bug or virus > > infection. Please note that email > >> traffic data may be monitored and that emails may be > viewed for security > > reasons. > >> Blackwell Publishing Limited is a private limited company > registered in > > England with registered number 180277. > >> Registered office address: The Atrium, Southern Gate, > Chichester, West > > Sussex, PO19 8SQ. > >> > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------- > > > > > -- > ********************************************** > Dr. Juan Gorraiz > > University of Vienna > Library and archive services > Bibliometrics Department > > Boltzmanngasse 5 > A-1090 Wien > > Tel.: > +43-1-4277-27609 > +43-66460277-27609 > Fax: > +43-1-4277-27650 > mailto: > juan.gorraiz at univie.ac.at > ********************************************** > From j.hartley at PSY.KEELE.AC.UK Fri Feb 6 04:20:12 2009 From: j.hartley at PSY.KEELE.AC.UK (James Hartley) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 09:20:12 -0000 Subject: Abstracts Message-ID: Does anyone know where I might find a history of the use of abstracts in scientific journals? Thanks Jim Hartley James Hartley School of Psychology Keele University Staffordshire ST5 5BG UK j.hartley at psy.keele.ac.uk http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/ps/people/JHartley/index.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jonathan at LEVITT.NET Fri Feb 6 06:01:54 2009 From: jonathan at LEVITT.NET (Jonathan Levitt) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 03:01:54 -0800 Subject: silent changes in WoS In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, ? Vladimir has highlighted a problem of concern to me as a bibliometrician using WoS data.? Whilst I understand that journals may be added retroactively to Web of Science databases, I was astonished to read that that the same query can result in a 12% difference in the reported number of matches. ? Could WoS assure bibliometricians that they will seek to avoid making large retroactive changes to the contents of the SSCI and SCI??? I would not like to have to add to my articles the limitation that my findings could be affected by large changes to the contents of WoS of which I am unaware? ? Kind regards, Jonathan Levitt. ?? ---------------------------------------------------------------- ? Date:??? Thu, 5 Feb 2009 06:37:46 -0500 From:??? =?windows-1251?Q?Vladimir_Pislyakov?= Subject: silent changes in WoS ? ? Dear colleagues, ? Have anyone noticed changes of the publication indicators in the Web of Science databases when they transformed "ISI Proceedings" into "Conference Proceedings Citation Index" (now a part of the WoS)? ? For example. Before this transformation, in September 2008, we counted number of Russian papers of the type "Article" published in 2006 (in SCIE and SSCI databases). It was 23367. After that, in November (transformation of the Proceeedings took place in the middle of October) the same search produced a much smaller figure. Now the same search string ? (CU=Russia) AND (PY=2006) AND Document Type=(Article) ? produces just 20601 documents. ? It may be suggested that some of the documents have changed their "Document Type" field in the process of merging of new Proceedings Index, and so "Articles" got some other type. ? It is very sad for us, because every year we publish in print statistics on Russian publication output by document types and these changes result in the loss of coherence of our yearly data. Have someone else confronted these silent changes in WoS? Is there any way to overcome these inconsistencies? There is even no note on WoK platfrom regarding these changes. ? Vladimir Pislyakov Assistant Director for Electronic Resources Management Higher School of Economics Library 20 Myasnitskaya street Moscow, 101000 Russia Tel.: +7 (495) 6213785 Fax: +7 (495) 6287931 E-mail: pislyakov at hse.ru URL: http://library.hse.ru ? ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pislyakov at HSE.RU Fri Feb 6 11:49:14 2009 From: pislyakov at HSE.RU (=?windows-1251?Q?Vladimir_Pislyakov?=) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 11:49:14 -0500 Subject: silent changes in WoS Message-ID: Exactly, Jonathan. These are my feelings too. Moreover, we conduct a research which started before the change and now we thought to get some additional data from WoS. And it seems that we have to gather all data again from the beginning... Kind regards, Vladimir ========== On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 03:01:54 -0800, Jonathan Levitt wrote: >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > >Dear Colleagues, >?? >Vladimir has highlighted a problem of concern to me as a bibliometrician using WoS data.?? Whilst I understand that journals may be added retroactively to Web of Science databases, I was astonished to read that that the same query can result in a 12% difference in the reported number of matches. >?? >Could WoS assure bibliometricians that they will seek to avoid making large retroactive changes to the contents of the SSCI and SCI????? I would not like to have to add to my articles the limitation that my findings could be affected by large changes to the contents of WoS of which I am unaware? >?? >Kind regards, >Jonathan Levitt. >???? >---------------------------------------------------------------- >?? >Date:?????? Thu, 5 Feb 2009 06:37:46 -0500 >From:?????? Vladimir Pislyakov >Subject: silent changes in WoS >?? >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >?? >Dear colleagues, >?? >Have anyone noticed changes of the publication indicators in the Web of Science databases when they transformed "ISI Proceedings" into "Conference Proceedings Citation Index" (now a part of the WoS)? >?? >For example. Before this transformation, in September 2008, we counted number of Russian papers of the type "Article" published in 2006 (in SCIE and SSCI databases). It was 23367. After that, in November (transformation of the Proceeedings took place in the middle of October) the same search produced a much smaller figure. Now the same search string >?? >(CU=Russia) AND (PY=2006) AND Document Type=(Article) >?? >produces just 20601 documents. >?? >It may be suggested that some of the documents have changed their "Document Type" field in the process of merging of new Proceedings Index, and so "Articles" got some other type. >?? >It is very sad for us, because every year we publish in print statistics on Russian publication output by document types and these changes result in the loss of coherence of our yearly data. Have someone else confronted these silent changes in WoS? Is there any way to overcome these inconsistencies? There is even no note on WoK platfrom regarding these changes. >?? >Vladimir Pislyakov >Assistant Director for Electronic Resources Management >Higher School of Economics Library >20 Myasnitskaya street >Moscow, 101000 >Russia >Tel.: +7 (495) 6213785 >Fax: +7 (495) 6287931 >E-mail: pislyakov at hse.ru >URL: http://library.hse.ru >?? >?? From brach.10 at ND.EDU Fri Feb 6 14:17:07 2009 From: brach.10 at ND.EDU (Carol Brach) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 14:17:07 -0500 Subject: Using Web of Science to study the growth of an area of research Message-ID: Hello everyone, I am brand new to this list and appreciate the opportunity to ask a question. I would like to validate data that I retrieved from Web of Science, Science Ed. If you do a "search for" a topic on the main search page, and use the timespan limit to limit retrieval to one year only (eg. 1991 - 1991) at the very end of the results page, in small print you see "XXXX records matched your query of the XXX,XXX,XXX in the data limits you selected". I have been assured means that XXX,XXX,XXX is the total number of articles that were included in the WOS Sci Ed database for that year. Thus it is possible to get a simple ratio between the number of total articles and the number of articles that appeared on a particular topic in a particular year. I have been assured by two Thomson consultants that this is true, but I would be very grateful if someone from this list would agree that this is the correct understanding of these figures. Thank you! Carol -- Carol A. Brach Engineering Librarian University of Notre Dame (574)631-5070 From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Fri Feb 6 14:57:09 2009 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 20:57:09 +0100 Subject: Using Web of Science to study the growth of an area of research In-Reply-To: <498C8CB3.7060508@nd.edu> Message-ID: Dear Carol, It is not completely correct. The number in small prints of the total set is not confined to articles. Insofar as I know, it is all documents in the database. > I have been assured means that XXX,XXX,XXX is the total number of > articles that were included in the WOS Sci Ed database for that year. > > Thus it is possible to get a simple ratio between the number of total > articles and the number of articles that appeared on a > particular topic > in a particular year. > > I have been assured by two Thomson consultants that this is > true, but I > would be very grateful if someone from this list would agree > that this > is the correct understanding of these figures. > > Thank you! > > Carol > > -- > Carol A. Brach > Engineering Librarian > University of Notre Dame > (574)631-5070 > Best wishes, Loet ________________________________ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel. +31-20-525 6598; fax: +31-842239111 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Fri Feb 6 16:19:55 2009 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 22:19:55 +0100 Subject: silent changes in WoS In-Reply-To: Message-ID: > For example. Before this transformation, in September 2008, we counted > number of Russian papers of the type "Article" published in > 2006 (in SCIE > and SSCI databases). It was 23367. After that, in November > (transformation > of the Proceeedings took place in the middle of October) the > same search > produced a much smaller figure. Now the same search string > > (CU=Russia) AND (PY=2006) AND Document Type=(Article) > > produces just 20601 documents. Thee problem at the level of macro-statistics seems now to be solved: 23,490 cu=russia and py=2006 AND Document Type=(Article OR Proceedings Paper) Databases=SCI-EXPANDED, SSCI, A&HCI Timespan=All Years This is virtually the same as you had before the changes (23,367). The real problem seems to me that more than 10% error was introduced in the document types. Articles were arbitrarily changed into Proceedings Papers. Perhaps, one of our colleagues at ThomsonReuters can explain what happened? Best wishes, Loet ________________________________ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel. +31-20-525 6598; fax: +31-842239111 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 > > It may be suggested that some of the documents have changed > their "Document > Type" field in the process of merging of new Proceedings Index, and so > "Articles" got some other type. > > It is very sad for us, because every year we publish in print > statistics on > Russian publication output by document types and these > changes result in the > loss of coherence of our yearly data. Have someone else > confronted these > silent changes in WoS? Is there any way to overcome these > inconsistencies? > There is even no note on WoK platfrom regarding these changes. > > Vladimir Pislyakov > Assistant Director for Electronic Resources Management > Higher School of Economics Library > 20 Myasnitskaya street > Moscow, 101000 > Russia > Tel.: +7 (495) 6213785 > Fax: +7 (495) 6287931 > E-mail: pislyakov at hse.ru > URL: http://library.hse.ru > From agrimwade at HISTCITE.COM Fri Feb 6 17:24:51 2009 From: agrimwade at HISTCITE.COM (Alexander Grimwade) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 17:24:51 -0500 Subject: Using Web of Science to study the growth of an area of research In-Reply-To: <498C8CB3.7060508@nd.edu> Message-ID: You are correct. The limits on the search based on timespan and on the Web of Science database you select (SCI, SSCI etc) are reflected in the statement on the results page "n records matched your query of the x,xxx,xxx in the data limits you selected." You can verify this by changing the timespan and/or the database. --------------------------- Alexander M Grimwade Ph. D. HISTCITE SOFTWARE LLC P. O. Box 2423 Bala-Cynwyd PA 19004 USA agrimwade at histcite.com (484) 270 8471 www.histcite.com -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Carol Brach Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 2:17 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Using Web of Science to study the growth of an area of research Hello everyone, I am brand new to this list and appreciate the opportunity to ask a question. I would like to validate data that I retrieved from Web of Science, Science Ed. If you do a "search for" a topic on the main search page, and use the timespan limit to limit retrieval to one year only (eg. 1991 - 1991) at the very end of the results page, in small print you see "XXXX records matched your query of the XXX,XXX,XXX in the data limits you selected". I have been assured means that XXX,XXX,XXX is the total number of articles that were included in the WOS Sci Ed database for that year. Thus it is possible to get a simple ratio between the number of total articles and the number of articles that appeared on a particular topic in a particular year. I have been assured by two Thomson consultants that this is true, but I would be very grateful if someone from this list would agree that this is the correct understanding of these figures. Thank you! Carol -- Carol A. Brach Engineering Librarian University of Notre Dame (574)631-5070 From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Sat Feb 7 08:50:42 2009 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 14:50:42 +0100 Subject: The Decline of University Patenting and the End of the Bayh-Dole Effect Message-ID: The Decline of University Patenting and the End of the Bayh-Dole Effect pdf> Abstract University patenting has been heralded as a symbol of changing relations between universities and their social environments. The Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 in the USA was eagerly promoted by the OECD as a recipe for the commercialization of university research, and the law was imitated by a number of national governments. However, since the 2000s university patenting in the most advanced economies has been on the decline both as a percentage and in absolute terms. We suggest that the institutional incentives for university patenting have disappeared with the new regime of university ranking. Patents and spin-offs are not counted in university rankings. In the new arrangements of university-industry-government relations, universities have become very responsive to changes in their relevant environments. Loet Leydesdorff & Martin Meyer a Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam, Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands. b SPRU, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK; Steunpunt O&O Statistieken, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven , Belgium. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: attc5b30.gif Type: image/gif Size: 1101 bytes Desc: not available URL: From isidro.aguillo at CCHS.CSIC.ES Mon Feb 9 10:08:51 2009 From: isidro.aguillo at CCHS.CSIC.ES (Isidro F. Aguillo) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 16:08:51 +0100 Subject: Ranking Web of Universities: January 2009 Message-ID: The new edition of the popular Ranking Web of World Universities (http://www.webometrics.info) has been published at the end January 2009. With more than three million visitors per year this public independent academic Ranking is beating again competitors for providing the largest and updated classification of Higher Education Institutions worldwide. The coverage includes institutions beyond position 200 or 500 that means many developing countries institutions are now ranked. In this edition a special effort has been made to better reflect the performance and impact of the Universities through their Web presence, a crown indicator that takes into account not only research results, but academic excellence and community engagement. The Ranking shows a concerning academic digital divide between North American and European universities as the first ones (US & Canada) represents more than 60% of the 200 first positioned institutions. On the first positions of the ranking are MIT, Stanford and Harvard universities, although other well known names as Yale, Purdue, Johns Hopkins or Princeton appears more delayed. It is also worth to mention the good results obtained in general by the Canadian universities. The University of Cambridge, which goes down the list until 28th position, continues being the first European university that appears in the ranking followed by Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) of Zurich and the University of Oxford. Nordic universities like Helsinki and Oslo universities continue to improving their positions in the ranking. And also the universities of Utrecht, Vienna or Bologna show an interesting progress. Although 5 of the Top 10 European Universities are British, there are more German (15) than UK (10) universities among the Top 50 European Universities, with French and Italian ones underrepresented. For Eastern Europe the Czech Charles University and the Russian Lomonosov Moscow State University are among the world best 200, but their Polish counterparts appear delayed. Australian National University (48^th ) and UNAM from Mexico (44^th ) in Latin America are improving their positions not only as regional leaders but also close to world leaders? status. The Japanese Universities appear delayed comparing with research-based rankings mainly because the intensive use of their local language in the websites, although Tokyo and Kyoto universities are improving their positions. Also, it is worth to mention the progress of universities like the National Taiwan University, Peking University, the University of Hong Kong and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Regarding Research Centers the Ranking (http://research.webometrics.info/) is headed by the large US Research bodies (NIH & NASA). The growing interest in the climate change related issues explains the third position of the NOAA. The most important changes are related to the French institutions now in top positions of Europe, with CNRS placed in 5th position worldwide. Check out also: Ranking Web of Hospitals http://hospitals.webometrics.info/ Ranking Web of Repositories http://repositories.webometrics.info/ Ranking web of Business Schools http://business-schools.webometrics.info/ -- ************************************* Isidro F. Aguillo Cybermetrics Lab CCHS - CSIC Albasanz, 26-28, 3C1. 28037 Madrid. Spain Ph. 91-602 2890. Fax: 91-602 2971 isidro.aguillo @ cchs.csic.es www. webometrics.info ************************************* From juan.gorraiz at UNIVIE.AC.AT Mon Feb 9 11:25:32 2009 From: juan.gorraiz at UNIVIE.AC.AT (Juan Gorraiz) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 17:25:32 +0100 Subject: silent changes in WoS In-Reply-To: <498B159B.4050906@univie.ac.at> Message-ID: Dear All! I want to draw again your attention to the changes in document type in WoS (?articles? converted in ?proceedings papers?) and their possible consequences for the JCR-metrics and other bibliometric analyses (as Vladimir has highlighted and I was exposing in my last entry, see below). We would be very grateful receiving some feedback from our Thomson colleagues and getting informed if these changes are permanent. Additionally, we would appreciate receiving some information about which corrections will be made calculating Impact Factors and other bibliometric indicators in the new issue of JCR (including or not the Proceedings and how). Greetings from Vienna! Juan Juan Gorraiz schrieb: > > > Many regular journals are publishing ?proceedings papers? in special > issues. If these papers were considered before as ?articles? and have > been consequently changed to ?proceedings papers?, there may be changes > in the JCR Metrics! If they were not changed, they are differently > processed from the other proceedings publications! > > JCR Metrics is perhaps not so strongly influenced but a lot of analyses > performed by users (and considering the category ?articles?) may not be > anymore reproducible and so lacking of scientific character. > > Another problem is how the JCR Metrics will be defined in the future, > including or not the Proceedings. However, as we already reported, > citations coming from some Proceedings (for example Proceedings of the > IEEE and some other Series) were always (!) considered calculating the > Impact Factor of the core Journals but not consequently (only citations > from ?some? issues indexed in WoS). > Now, there is an opportunity to consider consequently all the citations > coming from the Proceedings. But this is also a controversial subject: > Is then the selection criteria (used to define the core ISI-journals) > also valid for the Proceedings (even if they never before had IFs)? > > Kind regards > Juan > > > > > ********************************************** > > > Vladimir Pislyakov schrieb: >> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >> >> It is interesting what Thomson will make with the next edition of JCR, >> when >> it appears in June. Either they should change the text of methodology >> of IF >> calculations (add "Proceedings papers" to the citable items), or IFs will >> loose their continuity from 2007 to 2008 (e.g. some of the 2006 papers >> will >> be "citable" in 2007 IFs and non-citable in 2008 IFs calculations). It is >> especially important for journals with high share of "proceedings >> papers". >> >> Somehow, the change to the WoS content is rather important (e.g. many >> of us, >> I suppose, limit their investigations to this or that document type), >> so it >> is natural to expect a clear and detailed explanation from Thomson what's >> going on and what will be in the future. >> >> Kind regards, >> Vladimir >> >> Vladimir Pislyakov Assistant Director for Electronic Resources >> Management Higher School of Economics Library 20 Myasnitskaya street >> Moscow, 101000 Russia Tel.: +7 (495) 6213785 >> Fax: +7 (495) 6287931 >> E-mail: pislyakov at hse.ru URL: http://library.hse.ru >> >> >> ============= >> On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 15:23:34 +0000, Craig, Iain - Oxford >> wrote: >> >>> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >>> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >>> >>> From what I can see, the number of citable items doesn't change; >> proceedings papers are now being added to the numbers of articles and >> reviews. So the net effect on JCR metrics should be neutral. >>> Iain >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics >> [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Juan Gorraiz >>> Sent: 05 February 2009 15:04 >>> To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU >>> Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] silent changes in WoS >>> >>> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >>> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >>> >>> Dear Vladimir, >>> >>> this is not only an ususual thing, but a very sensititive issue! >>> The value of many indicators based on number of articles (like Impact >>> Factor, etc) may then change abruptly!!! >>> >>> Kind regards, >>> Juan >>> >>> ********************************************** >>> Dr. Juan Gorraiz >>> University of Vienna >>> Library and archive services >>> Bibliometrics Department >>> Boltzmanngasse 5 >>> A-1090 Wien >>> >>> Tel.: >>> +43-1-4277-27609 >>> +43-66460277-27609 >>> Fax: >>> +43-1-4277-27650 >>> mailto: >>> juan.gorraiz at univie.ac.at >>> ********************************************** >>> >>> http://personalabteilung.univie.ac.at/index.php?id=10896 >>> Vladimir Pislyakov schrieb: >>>> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >>>> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >>>> >>>> Dear Iain, >>>> >>>> Thank you, I tried to test it on several years and this method seems to >>>> produce results very close to the figures obtained earlier. It means >>>> that in >>>> October 2008 about 12% of "Articles" changed their document type to >>>> "Proceedings Paper", unusual thing. >>>> >>>> Kind regards, >>>> Vladimir >>>> >>>> Vladimir Pislyakov >>>> Assistant Director for Electronic Resources Management >>>> Higher School of Economics Library >>>> 20 Myasnitskaya street >>>> Moscow, 101000 >>>> Russia >>>> Tel.: +7 (495) 6213785 >>>> Fax: +7 (495) 6287931 >>>> E-mail: pislyakov at hse.ru >>>> URL: http://library.hse.ru >>>> >>>> =============== >>>> On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 12:40:29 +0000, Craig, Iain - Oxford >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >>>>> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >>>>> >>>>> Dear Vladimir >>>>> >>>>> If you extend your search to include document type = proceedings >>>>> papers, >>>> you should recover your missing papers. >>>>> With best wishes >>>>> >>>>> Iain >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Iain Craig >>>>> Research & Analysis Group >>>>> >>>>> Wiley-Blackwell >>>>> John Wiley & Sons Ltd >>>>> 9600 Garsington Road >>>>> Oxford, OX4 2DQ >>>>> United Kingdom >>>>> >>>>> E-mail: iain.craig at wiley.com >>>>> Phone: +44 (0)1865 476301 >>>>> >>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>> From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics >>>> [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Vladimir Pislyakov >>>>> Sent: 05 February 2009 11:38 >>>>> To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU >>>>> Subject: [SIGMETRICS] silent changes in WoS >>>>> >>>>> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >>>>> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >>>>> >>>>> Dear colleagues, >>>>> >>>>> Have anyone noticed changes of the publication indicators in the >>>>> Web of >>>>> Science databases when they transformed "ISI Proceedings" into >>>>> "Conference >>>>> Proceedings Citation Index" (now a part of the WoS)? >>>>> >>>>> For example. Before this transformation, in September 2008, we counted >>>>> number of Russian papers of the type "Article" published in 2006 >>>>> (in SCIE >>>>> and SSCI databases). It was 23367. After that, in November >>>>> (transformation >>>>> of the Proceeedings took place in the middle of October) the same >>>>> search >>>>> produced a much smaller figure. Now the same search string >>>>> >>>>> (CU=Russia) AND (PY=2006) AND Document Type=(Article) >>>>> >>>>> produces just 20601 documents. >>>>> >>>>> It may be suggested that some of the documents have changed their >>>>> "Document >>>>> Type" field in the process of merging of new Proceedings Index, and so >>>>> "Articles" got some other type. >>>>> >>>>> It is very sad for us, because every year we publish in print >>>>> statistics on >>>>> Russian publication output by document types and these changes >>>>> result in the >>>>> loss of coherence of our yearly data. Have someone else confronted >>>>> these >>>>> silent changes in WoS? 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Please note that email >>> traffic data may be monitored and that emails may be viewed for security >> reasons. >>> Blackwell Publishing Limited is a private limited company registered in >> England with registered number 180277. >>> Registered office address: The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West >> Sussex, PO19 8SQ. >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >> > > From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Feb 9 11:55:43 2009 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:55:43 -0500 Subject: Feramisco, JD; el at, JS A gender gap in the dermatology literature? Cross-sectional analysis of manuscript authorship trends in dermatology journals during 3 decades JOUR OF THE AM ACADEMY OF DERMA, 60 (1): 63-69 JAN 2009 Message-ID: E-mail Address: resneckj at derm.ucsf.edu Author(s): Feramisco, JD (Feramisco, Jamison D.); Leitenberger, JJ (Leitenberger, Justin J.); Redfern, SI (Redfern, Shelley I.); Bian, AH (Bian, Aihua); Xie, XJ (Xie, Xian-Jin); Resneck, JS (Resneck, Jack S., Jr.) Title: A gender gap in the dermatology literature? Cross-sectional analysis of manuscript authorship trends in dermatology journals during 3 decades Source: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DERMATOLOGY, 60 (1): 63-69 JAN 2009 Language: English Document Type: Article KeyWords Plus: ACADEMIC MEDICINE; FEMALE PHYSICIANS; WOMEN PHYSICIANS; UNITED-STATES; FACULTY; CAREER; ADVANCEMENT; PROMOTION; WORKFORCE; CHALLENGES Abstract: Background: Despite a dramatic influx of female dermatologists during the last 30 years, women in academic dermatology departments remain relatively clustered in junior faculty Positions. Research in other specialties showing a disparity in the academic productivity of women has led to many hypotheses regarding factors that may place them at a competitive disadvantage. It is unknown, however, whether similar differences in academic productivity might also serve as barriers to advancement in dermatology, or whether any productivity gap actually exists in this specialty that experienced a more Substantial entry of women. Objective. Because publication in peer-reviewed journals is one of the core Measures of academic productivity used in the promotion process, we evaluated trends in the prevalence of female authorship in top dermatology journals during the last 3 decades. Methods: We conducted an observational study of trends in the sex distribution of US authors in 3 prestigious general dermatology journals (in 1976, 1986, 1996, and 2006) and 3 subspecialty dermatology journals (in 2006 only). Journals were chosen based on published impact factors and citation half-lives. Results: During the last 3 decades, the proportion of women authoring manuscripts in the 3 major general dermatology journals increased from 12% to 48% of US-affiliated first authors (P < .001) and from 6.2% to 31% of US-affiliated senior authors (P < .001). Separate analyses by journal and by article type showed similar increases. The prevalence of female authors in subspecialty journals in 2006 was slightly more variable. Limitations: Although the publications selected for this study capture many of the most respected US journals in dermatology, they may not be representative of all journals in which dermatologists publish. Conclusions: Female dermatologists are authoring publications in growing numbers that match or exceed their prevalence in the academic and overall workforce. This Suggests that other factors (differences in productivity outside of the publishing arena, differences in job descriptions Or Opportunities, differences in career aspirations, a lack of institutional support or flexibility, or gender bias) may be associated with the ongoing reduced advancement of women to senior academic dermatology ranks relative to their male colleagues, and further research is warranted to explore these possibilities. (J Am Acad Dermatol 2009;60:63-9.) Addresses: [Resneck, Jack S., Jr.] Univ Calif San Francisco, Sch Med, Dept Dermatol, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA; [Feramisco, Jamison D.; Redfern, Shelley I.] Univ Texas SW Med Ctr Dallas, Dept Internal Med, Dallas, TX 75390 USA; [Leitenberger, Justin J.] Univ Texas SW Med Ctr Dallas, Dept Dermatol, Dallas, TX 75390 USA; [Bian, Aihua; Xie, Xian-Jin] Univ Texas SW Med Ctr Dallas, Dept Clin Sci, Dallas, TX 75390 USA; [Resneck, Jack S., Jr.] Univ Calif San Francisco, Sch Med, Inst Hlth Policy Studies, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA Reprint Address: Resneck, JS, Univ Calif San Francisco, Sch Med, Dept Dermatol, Box 0316, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA. E-mail Address: resneckj at derm.ucsf.edu Cited Reference Count: 37 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: MOSBY-ELSEVIER Publisher Address: 360 PARK AVENUE SOUTH, NEW YORK, NY 10010-1710 USA ISSN: 0190-9622 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2008.06.044 29-char Source Abbrev.: J AMER ACAD DERMATOL ISO Source Abbrev.: J. Am. Acad. Dermatol. 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The views of clinical department chairs ACADEMIC MEDICINE 76 : 453 2001 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Feb 9 12:30:50 2009 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 12:30:50 -0500 Subject: Davis, PM (Davis, Philip M.) Reward or persuasion? The battle to define the meaning of a citation LEARNED PUBLISHING, 22 (1): 5-11 JAN 2009 Message-ID: E-mail Address: pmd8 at cornell.edu Author(s): Davis, PM (Davis, Philip M.) Title: Reward or persuasion? The battle to define the meaning of a citation Source: LEARNED PUBLISHING, 22 (1): 5-11 JAN 2009 Language: English Document Type: Article KeyWords Plus: SCIENCE; QUALITY; NATIONS; IMPACT; MODEL; TOOL Abstract: The history and development of the Science Citation Index (SCI) is an ex(example of the power of users in defining and influencing the development of a new technology. The SCI was developed as a tool for the historian of science for the purpose of tracing die history of ideas, but it was appropriated by users for purposes for which it was unintended - as a tool for evaluating the literature, individuals, institutions, and countries. The development of a citation tool gave rise to a debate over what is actually measured by citation. The citation-was-reward camp views citations as indicators of quality and impact, whereas the citation-as- persuasion. oil camp views citations as no more than rhetorical devices. While neither view call fully explain how authors use citations, citation- as-reward prevails as the (dominant interpretation. Addresses: Cornell Univ, Dept Commun, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA Reprint Address: Davis, PM, Cornell Univ, Dept Commun, 336 Kennedy Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA. E-mail Address: pmd8 at cornell.edu Cited Reference Count: 41 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ASSOC LEARNED PROFESSIONAL SOC PUBL Publisher Address: SOUTH HOUSE, THE STREET WORTHING, W SUSSEX BN13 3UU, ENGLAND ISSN: 0953-1513 DOI: 10.1087/095315108X378712 29-char Source Abbrev.: LEARN PUBL ISO Source Abbrev.: Learn. Publ. 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The case of demographers SCIENTOMETRICS 50 : 455 2001 WEINSTOCK M ENCY LIBRARY INFORMA 5 : 16 1971 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Feb 9 15:45:08 2009 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 15:45:08 -0500 Subject: Sambunjak, D; Huic, M; Hren, D; Katic, M; Marusic, A; Marusic, M National vs. international journals: views of medical professionals in Croatia LEARNED PUBLISHING, 22 (1): 57-+ JAN 2009 Message-ID: E-mail Address: dsambunj at mef.hr; mhuic at mef.hr; dhren at mef.hr; mkatic at snz.hr; ana.marusic at agram.mef.hr; mmarusic at mef.hr Author(s): Sambunjak, D (Sambunjak, Dario); Huic, M (Huic, Mirjana); Hren, D (Hren, Darko); Katic, M (Katic, Milica); Marusic, A (Marusic, Ana); Marusic, M (Marusic, Matko) Title: National vs. international journals: views of medical professionals in Croatia Source: LEARNED PUBLISHING, 22 (1): 57-+ JAN 2009 Language: English Document Type: Proceedings Paper Conference Title: Council-of-Science-Editors Annual Meeting 2008 Conference Date: MAY 16-20, 2008 Conference Location: Vancouver, CANADA Conference Sponsors: Council Sci Editors. KeyWords Plus: IMPACT FACTOR; LANGUAGE; COUNTRIES; ENGLISH; SCIENCE Abstract: Scholarly journals, especially in 7 non-English-speaking countries, may perform very different functions depending on whether they are published for national or international audiences. Four hundred and sixty-six academic physicians and non-academic general practitioners in Croatia were surveyed on their knowledge about two Croatian medical journals: Lijecnicki vjesnik (published in Croatian) and Croatian Medical Journal (published in English). The physicians were also surveyed about the importance of all national and international journals published in Croatia, and the types of articles they thought should be published in these journals. More respondents rated national (n = 329, 72.6%) than international journals (n = 275, 63.5%, P < 0.001, Wilcoxon test) very important for the medical profession. On the other hand, publishing in international journals was more often rated as important than publishing in national journals (n = 184, 42.5% vs. n = 125, 27.8%; P < 0.001, Wilcoxon test). Guidelines for clinical practice were rated as the most important publication item in national journals, and original scientific articles in international journals. Addresses: [Sambunjak, Dario; Katic, Milica] Univ Zagreb, Sch Med, Andrija Stampar Sch Publ Hlth, Zagreb 10000, Croatia Reprint Address: Sambunjak, D, Univ Zagreb, Sch Med, Andrija Stampar Sch Publ Hlth, Salata 3b, Zagreb 10000, Croatia. E-mail Address: dsambunj at mef.hr; mhuic at mef.hr; dhren at mef.hr; mkatic at snz.hr; ana.marusic at agram.mef.hr; mmarusic at mef.hr Cited Reference Count: 36 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ASSOC LEARNED PROFESSIONAL SOC PUBL Publisher Address: SOUTH HOUSE, THE STREET WORTHING, W SUSSEX BN13 3UU, ENGLAND ISSN: 0953-1513 DOI: 10.1087/095315108X378785 29-char Source Abbrev.: LEARN PUBL ISO Source Abbrev.: Learn. Publ. Source Item Page Count: 13 Subject Category: Information Science & Library Science ISI Document Delivery No.: 389TM *ROYAL NETH AC ART SOC IMP APPL HLTH RE : 2002 ASCH DA Response rates to mail surveys published in medical journals JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY 50 : 1129 1997 BARANYIOVA E EUROPEAN SCI EDITING 30 : 87 2004 BOLLEN J Journal status SCIENTOMETRICS 69 : 669 2006 BRACHORIQUELME RL Bibliometric repercussions of adopting English as the language of publication REVISTA DE INVESTIGACION CLINICA 49 : 369 1997 BRANDTDOMINICUS JC TIJDSCHR PSYCHIAT 48 : 445 2006 BRUKE DT AM J PHYS MED REHAB 81 : 779 2002 DEGREGORY J SCI EDITOR 27 : 190 2004 EIJKMAN MA NEDERLANDS TIJDSCHRI 102 : 299 1995 FIELD A DISCOVERING STAT USI : 2005 GERMENIS AE Non-indexed medical journals in the Web: new perspectives in the medical literature INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INFORMATICS 47 : 65 1997 GOLUBIC R Calculating impact factor: How bibliographical classification of journal items affects the impact factor of large and small journals SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ETHICS 14 : 41 DOI 10.1007/s11948-007-9044-3 2008 GUYATT G EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE - A NEW APPROACH TO TEACHING THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 268 : 2420 1992 HOJAT M Impartial judgment by the "gatekeepers" of science: Fallibility and accountability in the peer review process ADVANCES IN HEALTH SCIENCES EDUCATION 8 : 75 2003 JONES TH BMC MED INFORM DECIS 6 : 24 2006 JONES TH BMC PEDIATRICS 7 : 1 2007 LANG TA The value of systematic reviews as research activities in medical education ACADEMIC MEDICINE 79 : 1067 PMID 15504773 2004 MARUSIC A Small scientific journals from small countries: Breaking from a vicious circle of inadequacy CROATIAN MEDICAL JOURNAL 40 : 508 1999 MARUSIC M Life of small medical journal - How bibliographical indexing and international visibility affected editorial work in Croatian Medical Journal CROATIAN MEDICAL JOURNAL 47 : 372 2006 MCCARTHY M Public health journals in own languages: an endangered species? EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH 15 : 222 DOI 10.1093/eurpub/cki149 2005 MELERO R EUROPEAN SCI EDITING 30 : 45 2004 PEREZYARZA EG AN PEDIATR 58 : 1 2003 PITTLER MH The decline of non-English language journals MAYO CLINIC PROCEEDINGS 80 : 287 2005 PULISELIC L Is it enough to change the language? A case study of Croatian biomedical journals LEARNED PUBLISHING 19 : 299 2006 ROWLANDS I NEW J PUBLISHING MOD : 2005 SAHA S Impact factor: a valid measure of journal quality? JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 91 : 42 2003 SAMBUNJAK D Representation of journals from five neighboring European countries in the Journal Citation Reports SCIENTOMETRICS 76 : 261 DOI 10.1007/s11192-007-1915-5 2008 SANZ E THE FUNCTION OF NATIONAL JOURNALS IN DISSEMINATING APPLIED SCIENCE JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE 21 : 319 1995 SCHEIN M CURR SURG 57 : 252 2000 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 SEGLEN PO Why the impact factor of journals should not be used for evaluating research BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 314 : 498 1997 STINSON ER SURVEY OF HEALTH-PROFESSIONALS INFORMATION HABITS AND NEEDS - CONDUCTED THROUGH PERSONAL INTERVIEWS JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 243 : 140 1980 TENOPIR C Journal reading patterns and preferences of pediatricians JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 95 : 56 2007 TENOPIR C Medical faculty's use of print and electronic journals: changes over time and in comparison with scientists JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 92 : 233 2004 TOWPIK E EUROPEAN SCI EDITING 29 : 72 2003 VANMALDEGEM BT NED TIJDSCHR GENEES 143 : 1957 1999 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Feb 9 16:23:38 2009 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 16:23:38 -0500 Subject: Brimblecombe, P (Brimblecombe, Peter); Grossi, CM (Grossi, Carlota M.) The bibliometrics of atmospheric environment ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT, 43 (1): 9-12 JAN 2009 Message-ID: E-mail Address: p.brimblecombe at uea.ac.uk Author(s): Brimblecombe, P (Brimblecombe, Peter); Grossi, CM (Grossi, Carlota M.) Title: The bibliometrics of atmospheric environment Source: ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT, 43 (1): 9-12 JAN 2009 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Citation analysis; Citation half life; Content analysis; Impact factor Abstract: Bibliometric analysis is an important tool in the management of a journal. SCOPUS Output is used to assess the increase in the quantity of material in Atmospheric Environment and stylistic changes in the way authors choose words and punctuation in titles and assemble their reference lists. Citation analysis is used to consider the impact factor of the journal, but perhaps more importantly the way in which it reflects the importance authors give to papers published in Atmospheric Environment. The impact factor of Atmospheric Environment (2.549 for 2007) from the journal Citation Reports Suggests it performs well within the atmospheric sciences, but it conceals the long term Value authors place on papers appearing in the journal. Reference lists show that a fifth come through citing papers more than a decade old. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Addresses: [Brimblecombe, Peter; Grossi, Carlota M.] Univ E Anglia, Sch Environm Sci, Norwich NR4 7TJ, Norfolk, England Reprint Address: Brimblecombe, P, Univ E Anglia, Sch Environm Sci, Norwich NR4 7TJ, Norfolk, England. E-mail Address: p.brimblecombe at uea.ac.uk Cited Reference Count: 6 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD Publisher Address: THE BOULEVARD, LANGFORD LANE, KIDLINGTON, OXFORD OX5 1GB, ENGLAND ISSN: 1352-2310 DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.09.037 29-char Source Abbrev.: ATMOS ENVIRON ISO Source Abbrev.: Atmos. Environ. Source Item Page Count: 4 Subject Category: Environmental Sciences; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences ISI Document Delivery No.: 390EP BRIMBLECOMBE P ATMOS ENVIRON 43 : 2 2008 HECHT F The journal "impact factor": A misnamed, misleading, misused measure CANCER GENETICS AND CYTOGENETICS 104 : 77 1998 LEGOUAIS G AIR POLLUTION REV : 345 2001 SAAM NJ Lotka's law reconsidered: The evolution of publication and citation distributions in scientific fields SCIENTOMETRICS 44 : 135 1999 SEGLEN PO Citations and journal impact factors: questionable indicators of research quality ALLERGY 52 : 1050 1997 VANRAAN AFJ Sleeping Beauties in science SCIENTOMETRICS 59 : 467 2004 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Feb 9 16:33:27 2009 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 16:33:27 -0500 Subject: Errami, M; Sun, ZH; Long, TC; George, AC; Garner, HR Deja vu: a database of highly similar citations in the scientific literature NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH, 37: D921-D924 Sp. Iss. SI JAN 2009 Message-ID: E-mail Address: mounir.errami at utsouthwestern.edu Author(s): Errami, M (Errami, Mounir); Sun, ZH (Sun, Zhaohui); Long, TC (Long, Tara C.); George, AC (George, Angela C.); Garner, HR (Garner, Harold R.) Title: Deja vu: a database of highly similar citations in the scientific literature Source: NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH, 37: D921-D924 Sp. Iss. SI JAN 2009 Language: English Document Type: Article KeyWords Plus: DUPLICATE PUBLICATION; SURGERY; JOURNALS; ICEBERG; MEDLINE; TEXT; TIP Abstract: In the scientific research community, plagiarism and covert multiple publications of the same data are considered unacceptable because they undermine the public confidence in the scientific integrity. Yet, little has been done to help authors and editors to identify highly similar citations, which sometimes may represent cases of unethical duplication. For this reason, we have made available Deja vu, a publicly available database of highly similar Medline citations identified by the text similarity search engine eTBLAST. Following manual verification, highly similar citation pairs are classified into various categories ranging from duplicates with different authors to sanctioned duplicates. Deja vu records also contain user-provided commentary and supporting information to substantiate each document's categorization. Deja` vu and eTBLAST are available to authors, editors, reviewers, ethicists and sociologists to study, intercept, annotate and deter questionable publication practices. These tools are part of a sustained effort to enhance the quality of Medline as 'the' biomedical corpus. The Deja vu database is freely accessible at http://spore.swmed.edu/dejavu. The tool eTBLAST is also freely available at http://etblast.org. Addresses: [Errami, Mounir; Sun, Zhaohui; Garner, Harold R.] Univ Texas SW Med Ctr Dallas, Div Translat Res, Dallas, TX 75390 USA; [Long, Tara C.; George, Angela C.; Garner, Harold R.] Univ Texas SW Med Ctr Dallas, McDermott Ctr Human Growth & Dev, Dallas, TX 75390 USA Reprint Address: Errami, M, Univ Texas SW Med Ctr Dallas, Div Translat Res, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas, TX 75390 USA. E-mail Address: mounir.errami at utsouthwestern.edu Funding Acknowledgement: Funding Agency Grant Number Hudson Foundation National Institute of Health/National Library of Medicine R01 LM009758- 01 P.O'B. Montgomery Distinguished Chair ( to H. G.); the Hudson Foundation ( to H. G.); National Institute of Health/National Library of Medicine grant (R01 LM009758-01 to H. R. G.). Funding for open access charge: P.O'B. Montgomery Distinguished Chair. 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Source Item Page Count: 4 Subject Category: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology ISI Document Delivery No.: 386TT BAILEY BJ Duplicate publication in the field of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery OTOLARYNGOLOGY-HEAD AND NECK SURGERY 126 : 211 2002 BARNARD H NED TIJDSCHR GENEES 137 : 593 1993 BLANCETT SS IMAGE J NURS SCH 27 : 51 1995 BLOEMENKAMP DGM NEDERLANDS TIJDSCHRI 143 : 2150 1999 BROAD WJ THE PUBLISHING GAME - GETTING MORE FOR LESS SCIENCE 211 : 1137 1981 BUDINGER TF ETHICS EMERGING TECH : 2006 CHENNAGIRI RJR Duplicate publication in the journal of hand surgery JOURNAL OF HAND SURGERY-BRITISH AND EUROPEAN VOLUME 29 : 625 DOI 10.1016/j.jhsb.2004.04.005 2004 DURANI P Duplicate publications: redundancy in plastic surgery literature JOURNAL OF PLASTIC RECONSTRUCTIVE AND AESTHETIC SURGERY 59 : 975 DOI 10.1016/j.bjps.2005.11.039 2006 ERRAMI M Deja vu - A study of duplicate citations in Medline BIOINFORMATICS 24 : 243 DOI 10.1093/bioinformatics/btm574 2008 ERRAMI M A tale of two citations NATURE 451 : 397 DOI 10.1038/451397a 2008 ERRAMI M eTBLAST: a web server to identify expert reviewers, appropriate journals and similar publications NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH 35 : W12 DOI 10.1093/nar/gkm221 2007 GOTZSCHE PC MULTIPLE PUBLICATION OF REPORTS OF DRUG TRIALS EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY 36 : 429 1989 HUTH EJ IRRESPONSIBLE AUTHORSHIP AND WASTEFUL PUBLICATION ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE 104 : 257 1986 KOSTOFF RN Duplicate publication and 'paper inflation' in the fractals literature SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ETHICS 12 : 543 2006 LEWIS J Text similarity: an alternative way to search MEDLINE BIOINFORMATICS 22 : 2298 DOI 10.1093/bioinformatics/btl388 2006 MOJONAZZI SM Redundant publications in scientific ophthalmologic journals - The tip of the iceberg? OPHTHALMOLOGY 111 : 863 DOI 10.1016/j.ophtha.2003.09.029 2004 ROIG M Re-using text from one's own previously published papers: An exploratory study of potential self-plagiarism PSYCHOLOGICAL REPORTS 97 : 43 2005 ROSENTHAL EL Duplicate publications in the otolaryngology literature LARYNGOSCOPE 113 : 772 2003 SCHEIN M Redundant surgical publications: Tip of the iceberg? SURGERY 129 : 655 2001 VONELM E Different patterns of duplicate publication - An analysis of articles used in systematic reviews JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 291 : 974 2004 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Feb 10 14:12:06 2009 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:12:06 -0500 Subject: Morrone, JJ (Morrone, Juan J.); Guerrero, JC (Guerrero, Jose C.) General trends in world biogeographic literature: A preliminary bibliometric analysis REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE ENTOMOLOGIA, 52 (4): 493-499 OCT-DEC 2008 Message-ID: E-mail Address: jjm at hp.fciencias.unam.mx; jcguerrero at uma.es Author(s): Morrone, JJ (Morrone, Juan J.); Guerrero, JC (Guerrero, Jose C.) Title: General trends in world biogeographic literature: A preliminary bibliometric analysis Source: REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE ENTOMOLOGIA, 52 (4): 493-499 OCT-DEC 2008 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Biogeography; publications; journals; scientometrics; Science Citation Index Abstract: General trends in world biogeographic literature: A preliminary bibliometric analysis. Records with the search string biogeograph* were collected from the Science Citation Index (SCI). A total of 3456 records were downloaded for the 1945-2006 period from titles of articles and reviews, and 10,543 records were downloaded for 1991-2006, taking into consideration also abstracts and keywords. Temporal trends of publications, geographical and institutional distribution of the research output, authorship, and core journals were evaluated. There were as many as 122 countries carrying out biogeographic research; in the most recent period. USA is the top producing country, followed by the United Kingdom, Australia. France, Germany, Spain, and Canada. There were 17,493 authors contributing to the field. During 1991-2006 there were 4098 organizations with authors involved in biogeographic research; institutions with higher number of papers are the Natural History Museum (United Kingdom). the University of California, Berkeley (USA), the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (France). the Universidad Nacional Autonoma do Mexico (Mexico). the American Museum of Natural History (USA) and the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia). Research articles are spread over a variety of journals. with the Journal of Biogeography, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Molecular Ecology, and Biological Journal of the Linnean Society being the core journals. From 28,759 keywords retrieved those with the highest frequency were evolution. phylogeny. diversity. mitochondrial DNA, pattern(s), systematics, and population(s). We conclude that publications on biogeography have increased substantially during the last),cars, especially since 1998. The preferred journal for biogeographic papers is the Journal of Biogeography. Most frequent keywords seem to indicate that biogeography fits well within both evolutionary biology and ecology, with molecular biology and phylogenetics being important factors that drive their current development. Addresses: [Morrone, Juan J.] Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Fac Ciencias, Dept Biol Evolut, Museo Zool Alfonso L Herrera, Mexico City 04510, DF, Mexico; [Guerrero, Jose C.] Univ Malaga, Fac Ciencias, Dept Anim Biol, E- 29071 Malaga, Spain Reprint Address: Morrone, JJ, Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Fac Ciencias, Dept Biol Evolut, Museo Zool Alfonso L Herrera, Apdo Postal 70-399, Mexico City 04510, DF, Mexico. E-mail Address: jjm at hp.fciencias.unam.mx; jcguerrero at uma.es Cited Reference Count: 7 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: SOC BRASILEIRA ENTOMOLOGIA Publisher Address: CAIXA POSTAL 19030, CURITIBA, PR 81531-980, BRAZIL ISSN: 0085-5626 29-char Source Abbrev.: REV BRAS ENTOMOL ISO Source Abbrev.: Rev. 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Source Item Page Count: 7 Subject Category: Entomology ISI Document Delivery No.: 390EU *THOMS ISI RES ENDN VERS 7 0 0 : 1998 FERNER RE National differences in publishing papers on adverse drug reactions BRITISH JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY 59 : 108 DOI 10.1111/j.1365- 2125.2005.02267.x 2005 GARG KC Scientometrics of laser research in India during 1970-1994 SCIENTOMETRICS 55 : 215 2002 POSADAS P BIOGEOGRAFIA 2 : 26 2007 RIDDLE BR The post and future roles of phylogeography in historical biogeography Frontiers of Biogeography: New Directions in the Geography of Nature : 93 2004 ZHU X Highly cited research papers and the evaluation of a research university: A case study: Peking University 1974-2003 SCIENTOMETRICS 60 : 237 2004 ZORZETTO R The scientific production in health and biological sciences of the top 20 Brazilian universities BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH 39 : 1513 2006 From bgsloan2 at YAHOO.COM Tue Feb 10 17:49:46 2009 From: bgsloan2 at YAHOO.COM (B.G. Sloan) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:49:46 -0800 Subject: Reward or persuasion? The battle to define the meaning of a citation In-Reply-To: Message-ID: ? I hadn't really thought a lot?about defining the meaning of a citation?as being?"reward?OR persuasion." ? After thinking a bit about how I use citations I think I fall in the "reward AND persuasion" camp rather in either the "reward" OR "persuasion" camps. ? When I write papers?I use citations as a rhetorical device, which falls into the "persuasion" category. When I track citations to my papers I tend to view them as indicators of quality or impact, which falls into the "reward" category. ? Bernie Sloan Sora Associates Bloomington, IN --- On Mon, 2/9/09, Eugene Garfield wrote: From: Eugene Garfield Subject: Davis, PM (Davis, Philip M.) Reward or persuasion? The battle to define the meaning of a citation LEARNED PUBLISHING, 22 (1): 5-11 JAN 2009 To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Date: Monday, February 9, 2009, 12:30 PM E-mail Address: pmd8 at cornell.edu Author(s): Davis, PM (Davis, Philip M.) Title: Reward or persuasion? The battle to define the meaning of a citation Source: LEARNED PUBLISHING, 22 (1): 5-11 JAN 2009 Language: English Document Type: Article KeyWords Plus: SCIENCE; QUALITY; NATIONS; IMPACT; MODEL; TOOL Abstract: The history and development of the Science Citation Index (SCI) is an ex(example of the power of users in defining and influencing the development of a new technology. The SCI was developed as a tool for the historian of science for the purpose of tracing die history of ideas, but it was appropriated by users for purposes for which it was unintended - as a tool for evaluating the literature, individuals, institutions, and countries. The development of a citation tool gave rise to a debate over what is actually measured by citation. The citation-was-reward camp views citations as indicators of quality and impact, whereas the citation-as- persuasion. oil camp views citations as no more than rhetorical devices. While neither view call fully explain how authors use citations, citation- as-reward prevails as the (dominant interpretation. Addresses: Cornell Univ, Dept Commun, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA Reprint Address: Davis, PM, Cornell Univ, Dept Commun, 336 Kennedy Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA. E-mail Address: pmd8 at cornell.edu Cited Reference Count: 41 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ASSOC LEARNED PROFESSIONAL SOC PUBL Publisher Address: SOUTH HOUSE, THE STREET WORTHING, W SUSSEX BN13 3UU, ENGLAND ISSN: 0953-1513 DOI: 10.1087/095315108X378712 29-char Source Abbrev.: LEARN PUBL ISO Source Abbrev.: Learn. Publ. Source Item Page Count: 7 Subject Category: Information Science & Library Science ISI Document Delivery No.: 389TM AKRICH M SHAPING TECHNOLOGY B : 205 1992 BALDI S Normative versus social constructivist processes in the allocation of citations: A network-analytic model AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW 63 : 829 1998 BROOKS TA EVIDENCE OF COMPLEX CITER MOTIVATIONS JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE 37 : 34 1986 BROOKS TA J AM SOC INFORM SCI 36 : 23 1985 CHUBIN DE CONTENT-ANALYSIS OF REFERENCES - ADJUNCT OR ALTERNATIVE TO CITATION COUNTING SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE 5 : 423 1975 COLE J MEASURING QUALITY OF SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH - PROBLEMS IN USE OF SCIENCE CITATION INDEX AMERICAN SOCIOLOGIST 6 : 23 1971 COLE JR SOCIAL STRATIFICATIO : 283 1973 COZZENS SE WHAT DO CITATIONS COUNT - THE RHETORIC-1ST MODEL SCIENTOMETRICS 15 : 437 1989 CRONIN B CITATION PROCESS ROL : 103 1984 CRONIN B SCHOLARS COURTESY RO : 124 1995 DIAMOND AM WHAT IS A CITATION WORTH JOURNAL OF HUMAN RESOURCES 21 : 200 1986 FRANCK G Scientific communication - A vanity fair? SCIENCE 286 : 53 1999 GARFIELD E METRIC SCI ADVENT SC : 354 1978 GARFIELD E CITATION INDEXING FOR STUDYING SCIENCE NATURE 227 : 669 1970 GARFIELD E SCI PUBL POLICY 19 : 321 1992 GARFIELD E CITATION ANALYSIS AS A TOOL IN JOURNAL EVALUATION - JOURNALS CAN BE RANKED BY FREQUENCY AND IMPACT OF CITATIONS FOR SCIENCE POLICY STUDIES SCIENCE 178 : 471 1972 GARFIELD E IS CITATION ANALYSIS A LEGITIMATE EVALUATION TOOL SCIENTOMETRICS 1 : 359 1979 GARFIELD E USE CITATION DATA WR : 1964 GILBERT GN REFERENCING AS PERSUASION SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE 7 : 113 1977 GRAFIELD E SCIENCE 122 : 108 1955 HAGSTROM WO SCI COMMUNITY : 304 1965 HAMILTON DP PUBLISHING BY - AND FOR QUESTIONABLE - THE NUMBERS SCIENCE 250 : 1331 1990 HICKS D SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE - A REFLEXIVE CITATION ANALYSIS OR SCIENCE DISCIPLINES AND DISCIPLINING SCIENCE SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE 21 : 459 1991 KAPLAN N THE NORMS OF CITATION BEHAVIOR - PROLEGOMENA TO THE FOOTNOTE AMERICAN DOCUMENTATION 16 : 179 1965 KING DA The scientific impact of nations NATURE 430 : 311 DOI 10.1038/430311a 2004 KLINE R Users as agents of technological change: The social construction of the automobile in the rural United States TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE 37 : 763 1996 LATOUR B SCI ACTION : 274 1987 LINDSEY D SCI PUBLICATION SYST : 169 1978 LUUKKONEN T Why has Latour's theory of citations been ignored by the bibliometric community? Discussion of sociological interpretations of citation analysis SCIENTOMETRICS 38 : 27 1997 MAY RM The scientific wealth of nations SCIENCE 275 : 793 1997 MEADOWS AJ COMMUNICATION SCI : 248 1974 MERTON RK THE MATTHEW EFFECT IN SCIENCE .2. CUMULATIVE ADVANTAGE AND THE SYMBOLISM OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ISIS 79 : 606 1988 MERTON RK J LEGAL POLITICAL SO 1 : 115 1942 MERTON RK MATTHEW EFFECT IN SCIENCE SCIENCE 159 : 56 1968 MORAVCSIK MJ SOME RESULTS ON FUNCTION AND QUALITY OF CITATIONS SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE 5 : 86 1975 PRICE DJD NETWORKS OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS SCIENCE 149 : 510 1965 SMALL H COCITATION IN SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE - NEW MEASURE OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN 2 DOCUMENTS JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE 24 : 265 1973 STEWART JA ACHIEVEMENT AND ASCRIPTIVE PROCESSES IN THE RECOGNITION OF SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES SOCIAL FORCES 62 : 166 1983 TAINER JA SCIENCE, CITATION, AND FUNDING SCIENCE 251 : 1408 1991 VANDALEN HP What makes a scientific article influential? 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The battle to define the meaning of a citation In-Reply-To: A<49922B56.3060208@cornell.edu> Message-ID: Phil, As evidence that Eugene Garfield's primary aim was not history but management (of the scientific literature, then science), see the following article. Note that this article is dated 1966. It is a nice piece of evidence, and needs to be considered alongside Eugene's own story or recalling of history that you have cited. I. H. Sher and E. Garfield (1966), New Tools for Improving and Evaluating the Effectiveness of Research, in M. C. Yovits et al. (eds.), Research Program Effectiveness, New York: Gordon and Breach, pp. 136-146 Beno?t Godin Professeur, INRS (Montreal) Tel.: 1 (514) 499 4074 email: benoit.godin at ucs.inrs.ca website: http://www.csiic.ca ________________________________ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Phil Davis Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 8:35 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Reward or persuasion? The battle to define the meaning of a citation In reading the literature, I found two very distinct camps: one arguing from the Mertonian view that citations reflect a type of reward in the form of public recognition, and the other suggesting that citations were no more than rhetorical devices for bolstering one's argument. The reward camp is well known by people on this list. The persuasion literature is found more in the Science and Technology Studies journals, and for the most-part, is ignored by the reward camp. There are some who try to reconcile both arguments, and I try to do this in the article (see attached). I've received some personal correspondence that I've completely misunderstood Eugene Garfield and his intentions for creating an index based on the citation literature. In his writings, I saw a compelling argument from the perspective of the historian of science. I was working entirely from the literature, and did not conduct any interviews with Dr. Garfield. If I have misunderstood his rationale(s) for the citation index, the confusion is entirely mine. --Phil Davis B.G. Sloan wrote: I hadn't really thought a lot about defining the meaning of a citation as being "reward OR persuasion." After thinking a bit about how I use citations I think I fall in the "reward AND persuasion" camp rather in either the "reward" OR "persuasion" camps. When I write papers I use citations as a rhetorical device, which falls into the "persuasion" category. When I track citations to my papers I tend to view them as indicators of quality or impact, which falls into the "reward" category. Bernie Sloan Sora Associates Bloomington, IN --- On Mon, 2/9/09, Eugene Garfield wrote: From: Eugene Garfield Subject: Davis, PM (Davis, Philip M.) Reward or persuasion? The battle to define the meaning of a citation LEARNED PUBLISHING, 22 (1): 5-11 JAN 2009 To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Date: Monday, February 9, 2009, 12:30 PM Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html E-mail Address: pmd8 at cornell.edu Author(s): Davis, PM (Davis, Philip M.) Title: Reward or persuasion? The battle to define the meaning of a citation Source: LEARNED PUBLISHING, 22 (1): 5-11 JAN 2009 Language: English Document Type: Article KeyWords Plus: SCIENCE; QUALITY; NATIONS; IMPACT; MODEL; TOOL Abstract: The history and development of the Science Citation Index (SCI) is an ex(example of the power of users in defining and influencing the development of a new technology. The SCI was developed as a tool for the historian of science for the purpose of tracing die history of ideas, but it was appropriated by users for purposes for which it was unintended - as a tool for evaluating the literature, individuals, institutions, and countries. The development of a citation tool gave rise to a debate over what is actually measured by citation. The citation-was-reward camp views citations as indicators of quality and impact, whereas the citation-as- persuasion. oil camp views citations as no more than rhetorical devices. While neither view call fully explain how authors use citations, citation- as-reward prevails as the (dominant interpretation. Addresses: Cornell Univ, Dept Commun, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA Reprint Address: Davis, PM, Cornell Univ, Dept Commun, 336 Kennedy Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA. E-mail Address: pmd8 at cornell.edu Cited Reference Count: 41 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ASSOC LEARNED PROFESSIONAL SOC PUBL Publisher Address: SOUTH HOUSE, THE STREET WORTHING, W SUSSEX BN13 3UU, ENGLAND ISSN: 0953-1513 DOI: 10.1087/095315108X378712 29-char Source Abbrev.: LEARN PUBL ISO Source Abbrev.: Learn. Publ. Source Item Page Count: 7 Subject Category: Information Science & Library Science ISI Document Delivery No.: 389TM AKRICH M SHAPING TECHNOLOGY B : 205 1992 BALDI S Normative versus social constructivist processes in the allocation of citations: A network-analytic model AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW 63 : 829 1998 BROOKS TA EVIDENCE OF COMPLEX CITER MOTIVATIONS JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE 37 : 34 1986 BROOKS TA J AM SOC INFORM SCI 36 : 23 1985 CHUBIN DE CONTENT-ANALYSIS OF REFERENCES - ADJUNCT OR ALTERNATIVE TO CITATION COUNTING SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE 5 : 423 1975 COLE J MEASURING QUALITY OF SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH - PROBLEMS IN USE OF SCIENCE CITATION INDEX AMERICAN SOCIOLOGIST 6 : 23 1971 COLE JR SOCIAL STRATIFICATIO : 283 1973 COZZENS SE WHAT DO CITATIONS COUNT - THE RHETORIC-1ST MODEL SCIENTOMETRICS 15 : 437 1989 CRONIN B CITATION PROCESS ROL : 103 1984 CRONIN B SCHOLARS COURTESY RO : 124 1995 DIAMOND AM WHAT IS A CITATION WORTH JOURNAL OF HUMAN RESOURCES 21 : 200 1986 FRANCK G Scientific communication - A vanity fair? SCIENCE 286 : 53 1999 GARFIELD E METRIC SCI ADVENT SC : 354 1978 GARFIELD E CITATION INDEXING FOR STUDYING SCIENCE NATURE 227 : 669 1970 GARFIELD E SCI PUBL POLICY 19 : 321 1992 GARFIELD E CITATION ANALYSIS AS A TOOL IN JOURNAL EVALUATION - JOURNALS CAN BE RANKED BY FREQUENCY AND IMPACT OF CITATIONS FOR SCIENCE POLICY STUDIES SCIENCE 178 : 471 1972 GARFIELD E IS CITATION ANALYSIS A LEGITIMATE EVALUATION TOOL SCIENTOMETRICS 1 : 359 1979 GARFIELD E USE CITATION DATA WR : 1964 GILBERT GN REFERENCING AS PERSUASION SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE 7 : 113 1977 GRAFIELD E SCIENCE 122 : 108 1955 HAGSTROM WO SCI COMMUNITY : 304 1965 HAMILTON DP PUBLISHING BY - AND FOR QUESTIONABLE - THE NUMBERS SCIENCE 250 : 1331 1990 HICKS D SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE - A REFLEXIVE CITATION ANALYSIS OR SCIENCE DISCIPLINES AND DISCIPLINING SCIENCE SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE 21 : 459 1991 KAPLAN N THE NORMS OF CITATION BEHAVIOR - PROLEGOMENA TO THE FOOTNOTE AMERICAN DOCUMENTATION 16 : 179 1965 KING DA The scientific impact of nations NATURE 430 : 311 DOI 10.1038/430311a 2004 KLINE R Users as agents of technological change: The social construction of the automobile in the rural United States TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE 37 : 763 1996 LATOUR B SCI ACTION : 274 1987 LINDSEY D SCI PUBLICATION SYST : 169 1978 LUUKKONEN T Why has Latour's theory of citations been ignored by the bibliometric community? Discussion of sociological interpretations of citation analysis SCIENTOMETRICS 38 : 27 1997 MAY RM The scientific wealth of nations SCIENCE 275 : 793 1997 MEADOWS AJ COMMUNICATION SCI : 248 1974 MERTON RK THE MATTHEW EFFECT IN SCIENCE .2. CUMULATIVE ADVANTAGE AND THE SYMBOLISM OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ISIS 79 : 606 1988 MERTON RK J LEGAL POLITICAL SO 1 : 115 1942 MERTON RK MATTHEW EFFECT IN SCIENCE SCIENCE 159 : 56 1968 MORAVCSIK MJ SOME RESULTS ON FUNCTION AND QUALITY OF CITATIONS SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE 5 : 86 1975 PRICE DJD NETWORKS OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS SCIENCE 149 : 510 1965 SMALL H COCITATION IN SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE - NEW MEASURE OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN 2 DOCUMENTS JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE 24 : 265 1973 STEWART JA ACHIEVEMENT AND ASCRIPTIVE PROCESSES IN THE RECOGNITION OF SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES SOCIAL FORCES 62 : 166 1983 TAINER JA SCIENCE, CITATION, AND FUNDING SCIENCE 251 : 1408 1991 VANDALEN HP What makes a scientific article influential? The case of demographers SCIENTOMETRICS 50 : 455 2001 WEINSTOCK M ENCY LIBRARY INFORMA 5 : 16 1971 -- Philip M. Davis PhD Student Department of Communication 301 Kennedy Hall Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 email: pmd8 at cornell.edu phone: 607 255-2124 https://confluence.cornell.edu/display/~pmd8/resume -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From whitehd at DREXEL.EDU Wed Feb 11 00:55:45 2009 From: whitehd at DREXEL.EDU (Howard White) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:55:45 -0500 Subject: Reward or persuasion? The battle to define the meaning of a citation In-Reply-To: <49922B56.3060208@cornell.edu> Message-ID: Hello, All, The thing I feel bad about in Phil Davis's piece is a rather spectacular failure in his literature search. He missed my long 2004 article in Scientometrics with the title "Reward, Persuasion, and the Sokal Hoax: A Study in Citation Identities." This is not to say he did not cite many of the right things, but my article is so relevant to his, in both the arguments and the empirical data it presents, that I really think not taking it explicitly into account was a major omission. It appeared in the issue of Scientometrics devoted to Merton's work and addresses both the Mertonian "reward" and the social constructivist "persuasion" positions in considerable detail. It critiques many of the same studies he cites. It also runs counter to his belief that "the persuasion literature...for the most part, is ignored by the reward camp" and might even have helped him avoid some of the misunderstandings he is now being taxed with. For those who are interested in the "reward" vs. "persuasion debate and who might have missed it, I have added the abstract below. Although the abstract makes it seem a bit wonky, it's one of my livelier writings. TI- Reward, persuasion, and the Sokal Hoax: A study in citation identities| AV- ABSTRACT AVAILABLE| LA- English| AU- White HD (REPRINT)| CS- Drexel Univ, Coll Informat Sci & Technol, Philadelphia//PA/19104 (REPRINT); Drexel Univ, Coll Informat Sci & Technol, Philadelphia//PA/19104| GL- USA| JN- SCIENTOMETRICS, 2004, V60, N1, P93-120| PU- KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL, VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS| SN- 0138-9130| PY- 2004| DT- Article| NR- 55| SF- SciSearch| SC- INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE| AB- A citation identity is a list of an author's citees ranked by how frequently that author has cited them in publications covered by the Institute for Scientific Information. The same Dialog software that creates identities can simultaneously show the overall citation counts of citees,which indicate their reputations. Using identities for 28 authors in several disciplines of science and scholarship, I show that the reputational counts of their citees always have an approximately log-normal distribution: citations to very famous names are roughly balanced by citations to obscure ones, and most citations go to authors of middling reputation. These results undercut claims by constructivists that the main function of citation is to marshal "big-name" support for arguments at the expense of crediting lesser-known figures. The results are better explained by Robert K. Merton's norm of universalism, which holds that citers are rewarding use of relevant intellectual property, than by the constructivists' particularism, which holds that citers are trying to persuade through manipulative rhetoric. A universalistic citation pattern appears even in Alan Sokal's famous hoax article, where some of his citing was deliberately particularistic. In fact, Sokal's basic adherence to universalism probably helped his hoax succeed, which suggests the strength of the Mertonian norm. In specimen cases, the constructivists themselves are shown as conforming to it.| ID- KeyWord Plus(R): ORTEGA HYPOTHESIS; CITER MOTIVATIONS; SCIENCE; BEHAVIOR; AUTHORS; MODEL; FACTS| CR- MACROBERTS MH, 1987, V12, P293, SCIENTOMETRICS *LING FRANC, 2000, SOK HOAX SHAM SHOOK BALDI S, 1998, V63, P829, AM SOCIOL REV BLOOR D, 1976, KNOWLEDGE SOCIAL IMA BROOKS TA, 1986, V37, P34, J AM SOC INFORM SCI BROOKS TA, 1985, V36, P223, J AM SOC INFORM SCI BROWN JR, 2001, WHO RULES SCI OPINIO COLE JR, 1973, SOCIAL STRATIFICATIO COLE S, 1992, MAKING SCI NATURE SO COZZENS SE, 1989, V15, P437, SCIENTOMETRICS CRONIN B, 2002, V54, P31, SCIENTOMETRICS EDGE D, 1979, V17, P103, HIST SCI GARFIELD E, 2003, V54, P400, J AM SOC INF SCI TEC GIERYN T, 2003, SOCIOLOGY SCI GILBERT GN, 1977, V7, P113, SOC STUD SCI GRIFFITH BC, 1990, P31, SCHOLARLY COMMUNICAT HAGSTROM WO, 1965, SCI COMMUNITY HESS DJ, 1997, SCI STUDIES ADV INTR HOERMAN HL, 1995, V65, P415, LIBR QUART KAPLAN N, 1965, V16, P179, AM DOC KNORRCETINA K, 1981, MANUFACTURE KNOWLEDG LANGHAM T, 1995, V51, P360, J DOC LATOUR B, 1987, SCI ACTION FOLLOW SC LATOUR B, 1979, LAB LIFE SOCIAL CONS LAW J, 1982, V12, P535, SOC STUD SCI LIU MX, 1993, V49, P370, J DOC LLOYD C, 1997, SALON LUUKKONEN T, 1990, THESIS U TAMPERE TAM LUUKKONEN T, 1997, V38, P27, SCIENTOMETRICS MACROBERTS MH, 1996, V36, P435, SCIENTOMETRICS MACROBERTS MH, 1987, V12, P293, SCIENTOMETRICS MCINNES RG, 1988, V12, P240, COLL RES LIB MERTON RK, 1968, V159, P56, SCIENCE MERTONR K, 1979, PR5, CITATION INDEXING IT MERTON RK, 1957, V22, P635, AM SOCIOL REV MERTON RK, 1942, V1, P115, J LEGAL POLITICAL SO MERTON RK, 1988, V79, P606, ISIS MITROFF II, 1974, SUBJECTIVE SIDE SCI NICOLAISEN J, 2003, V40, P12, P AM SOC INFORM SCI PAGLIA C, 1999, SALON POTTER J, 1996, REPRESENTING REALITY SOKAL A, 1996, V46, P217, SOCIAL TEXT SOKAL A, 1998, FASHIONABLE NONSENSE STORER NW, 1966, SOCIAL SYSTEM SCI THORNE FC, 1977, V33, P1157, J CLIN PSYCHOL WHITE HD, 2001, V52, P87, J AM SOC INF SCI TEC WHITE HD, 2001, V51, P607, SCIENTOMETRICS WHITE HD, 2003, V54, P423, J AM SOC INF SCI TEC WHITE HD, 2000, P475, WEB KNOWLEDGE FESTSC WHITE HD, 2004, V25, P89, APPL LINGUIST WHITE HD, 1998, V49, P327, J AM SOC INFORM SCI WILLIS E, 1996, P133, SOKAL HOAX SHAM SHOO WOOLGAR S, 1988, SCI VERY IDEA ZUCKERMAN H, 1988, P511, HDB SOCIOLOGY ZUCKERMAN H, 1987, V12, P329, SCIENTOMETRICS|| *|| From jean.claude.guedon at UMONTREAL.CA Wed Feb 11 07:18:02 2009 From: jean.claude.guedon at UMONTREAL.CA (Jean-Claude =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gu=E9don?=) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:18:02 -0500 Subject: Reward or persuasion? The battle to define the meaning of a citation In-Reply-To: Message-ID: For the early history of SCI, Paul Wouters' The Citation Culture cannot be avoided, IMHO (U. of Amsterdam doctoral thesis, n.d.[1999]). He also has an article in a festschrift written in the honour of E. Garfield. (The Web of Knowledge (ASIS, 2000)): "Garfield as Alchemist". Jean-Claude Gu?don Le mardi 10 f?vrier 2009 ? 21:58 -0500, Godin, Beno?t a ?crit : > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > Phil, > > > > As evidence that Eugene Garfield?s primary aim was not history but > management (of the scientific literature, then science), see the > following article. Note that this article is dated 1966. It is a nice > piece of evidence, and needs to be considered alongside Eugene?s own > story or recalling of history that you have cited. > > > > I. H. Sher and E. Garfield (1966), New Tools for Improving and > Evaluating the Effectiveness of Research, in M. C. Yovits et al. > (eds.), Research Program Effectiveness, New York: Gordon and Breach, > pp. 136-146 > > > > > > > Beno?t Godin > > > Professeur, INRS (Montreal) > > > Tel.: 1 (514) 499 4074 > > > email: benoit.godin at ucs.inrs.ca > > > website: http://www.csiic.ca > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics > [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Phil Davis > Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 8:35 PM > To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU > Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Reward or persuasion? The battle to define > the meaning of a citation > > > > > > In reading the literature, I found two very distinct camps: one > arguing from the Mertonian view that citations reflect a type of > reward in the form of public recognition, and the other suggesting > that citations were no more than rhetorical devices for bolstering > one's argument. The reward camp is well known by people on this list. > The persuasion literature is found more in the Science and Technology > Studies journals, and for the most-part, is ignored by the reward > camp. There are some who try to reconcile both arguments, and I try > to do this in the article (see attached). > > I've received some personal correspondence that I've completely > misunderstood Eugene Garfield and his intentions for creating an index > based on the citation literature. In his writings, I saw a compelling > argument from the perspective of the historian of science. I was > working entirely from the literature, and did not conduct any > interviews with Dr. Garfield. If I have misunderstood his > rationale(s) for the citation index, the confusion is entirely mine. > > --Phil Davis > > > > B.G. Sloan wrote: > > > > > I hadn't really thought a lot about defining the meaning of a > citation as being "reward OR persuasion." > > > > > > After thinking a bit about how I use citations I think I fall in the > "reward AND persuasion" camp rather in either the "reward" OR > "persuasion" camps. > > > > > > When I write papers I use citations as a rhetorical device, which > falls into the "persuasion" category. When I track citations to my > papers I tend to view them as indicators of quality or impact, which > falls into the "reward" category. > > > > > > Bernie Sloan > > > Sora Associates > > > Bloomington, IN > > --- On Mon, 2/9/09, Eugene Garfield > wrote: > > > > From: Eugene Garfield > Subject: Davis, PM (Davis, Philip M.) Reward or persuasion? > The battle to define the meaning of a citation LEARNED > PUBLISHING, 22 (1): 5-11 JAN 2009 > To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU > Date: Monday, February 9, 2009, 12:30 PM > > > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > E-mail Address: pmd8 at cornell.edu > > Author(s): Davis, PM (Davis, Philip M.) > Title: Reward or persuasion? The battle to define the meaning of a > citation > > Source: LEARNED PUBLISHING, 22 (1): 5-11 JAN 2009 > > Language: English > > Document Type: Article > > KeyWords Plus: SCIENCE; QUALITY; NATIONS; IMPACT; MODEL; TOOL > > Abstract: The history and development of the Science Citation Index (SCI) > is an ex(example of the power of users in defining and influencing the > development of a new technology. The SCI was developed as a tool for the > historian of science for the purpose of tracing die history of ideas, but > it was appropriated by users for purposes for which it was unintended - as > a tool for evaluating the literature, individuals, institutions, and > countries. The development of a citation tool gave rise to a debate over > what is actually measured by citation. The citation-was-reward camp views > citations as indicators of quality and impact, whereas the citation-as- > persuasion. oil camp views citations as no more than rhetorical devices. > While neither view call fully explain how authors use citations, citation- > as-reward prevails as the (dominant interpretation. > > Addresses: Cornell Univ, Dept Commun, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA > > Reprint Address: Davis, PM, Cornell Univ, Dept Commun, 336 Kennedy Hall, > Ithaca, NY 14853 USA. > > E-mail Address: pmd8 at cornell.edu > > Cited Reference Count: 41 > > Times Cited: 0 > > Publisher: ASSOC LEARNED PROFESSIONAL SOC PUBL > > Publisher Address: SOUTH HOUSE, THE STREET WORTHING, W SUSSEX BN13 3UU, > ENGLAND > > ISSN: 0953-1513 > > DOI: 10.1087/095315108X378712 > > 29-char Source Abbrev.: LEARN PUBL > > ISO Source Abbrev.: Learn. Publ. > > Source Item Page Count: 7 > > Subject Category: Information Science & Library Science > > ISI Document Delivery No.: 389TM > > AKRICH M > SHAPING TECHNOLOGY B : 205 1992 > > BALDI S > Normative versus social constructivist processes in the allocation of > citations: A network-analytic model > AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW 63 : 829 1998 > > BROOKS TA > EVIDENCE OF COMPLEX CITER MOTIVATIONS > JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE 37 : 34 1986 > > BROOKS TA > J AM SOC INFORM SCI 36 : 23 1985 > > CHUBIN DE > CONTENT-ANALYSIS OF REFERENCES - ADJUNCT OR ALTERNATIVE TO CITATION > COUNTING > SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE 5 : 423 1975 > > COLE J > MEASURING QUALITY OF SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH - PROBLEMS IN USE OF SCIENCE > CITATION INDEX > AMERICAN SOCIOLOGIST 6 : 23 1971 > > COLE JR > SOCIAL STRATIFICATIO : 283 1973 > > COZZENS SE > WHAT DO CITATIONS COUNT - THE RHETORIC-1ST MODEL > SCIENTOMETRICS 15 : 437 1989 > > CRONIN B > CITATION PROCESS ROL : 103 1984 > > CRONIN B > SCHOLARS COURTESY RO : 124 1995 > > DIAMOND AM > WHAT IS A CITATION WORTH > JOURNAL OF HUMAN RESOURCES 21 : 200 1986 > > FRANCK G > Scientific communication - A vanity fair? > SCIENCE 286 : 53 1999 > > GARFIELD E > METRIC SCI ADVENT SC : 354 1978 > > GARFIELD E > CITATION INDEXING FOR STUDYING SCIENCE > NATURE 227 : 669 1970 > > GARFIELD E > SCI PUBL POLICY 19 : 321 1992 > > GARFIELD E > CITATION ANALYSIS AS A TOOL IN JOURNAL EVALUATION - JOURNALS CAN BE RANKED > BY FREQUENCY AND IMPACT OF CITATIONS FOR SCIENCE POLICY STUDIES > SCIENCE 178 : 471 1972 > > GARFIELD E > IS CITATION ANALYSIS A LEGITIMATE EVALUATION TOOL > SCIENTOMETRICS 1 : 359 1979 > > GARFIELD E > USE CITATION DATA WR : 1964 > > GILBERT GN > REFERENCING AS PERSUASION > SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE 7 : 113 1977 > > GRAFIELD E > SCIENCE 122 : 108 1955 > > HAGSTROM WO > SCI COMMUNITY : 304 1965 > > HAMILTON DP > PUBLISHING BY - AND FOR QUESTIONABLE - THE NUMBERS > SCIENCE 250 : 1331 1990 > > HICKS D > SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE - A REFLEXIVE CITATION ANALYSIS OR > SCIENCE DISCIPLINES AND DISCIPLINING SCIENCE > SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE 21 : 459 1991 > > KAPLAN N > THE NORMS OF CITATION BEHAVIOR - PROLEGOMENA TO THE FOOTNOTE > AMERICAN DOCUMENTATION 16 : 179 1965 > > KING DA > The scientific impact of nations > NATURE 430 : 311 DOI 10.1038/430311a 2004 > > KLINE R > Users as agents of technological change: The social construction of the > automobile in the rural United States > TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE 37 : 763 1996 > > LATOUR B > SCI ACTION : 274 1987 > > LINDSEY D > SCI PUBLICATION SYST : 169 1978 > > LUUKKONEN T > Why has Latour's theory of citations been ignored by the bibliometric > community? Discussion of sociological interpretations of citation analysis > SCIENTOMETRICS 38 : 27 1997 > > MAY RM > The scientific wealth of nations > SCIENCE 275 : 793 1997 > > MEADOWS AJ > COMMUNICATION SCI : 248 1974 > > MERTON RK > THE MATTHEW EFFECT IN SCIENCE .2. CUMULATIVE ADVANTAGE AND THE SYMBOLISM > OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY > ISIS 79 : 606 1988 > > MERTON RK > J LEGAL POLITICAL SO 1 : 115 1942 > > MERTON RK > MATTHEW EFFECT IN SCIENCE > SCIENCE 159 : 56 1968 > > MORAVCSIK MJ > SOME RESULTS ON FUNCTION AND QUALITY OF CITATIONS > SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE 5 : 86 1975 > > PRICE DJD > NETWORKS OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS > SCIENCE 149 : 510 1965 > > SMALL H > COCITATION IN SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE - NEW MEASURE OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN > 2 DOCUMENTS > JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE 24 : 265 1973 > > STEWART JA > ACHIEVEMENT AND ASCRIPTIVE PROCESSES IN THE RECOGNITION OF SCIENTIFIC > ARTICLES > SOCIAL FORCES 62 : 166 1983 > > TAINER JA > SCIENCE, CITATION, AND FUNDING > SCIENCE 251 : 1408 1991 > > VANDALEN HP > What makes a scientific article influential? The case of demographers > SCIENTOMETRICS 50 : 455 2001 > > WEINSTOCK M > ENCY LIBRARY INFORMA 5 : 16 1971 > > > > > > > > -- > Philip M. Davis > PhD Student > Department of Communication > 301 Kennedy Hall > Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 > email: pmd8 at cornell.edu > phone: 607 255-2124 > https://confluence.cornell.edu/display/~pmd8/resume Jean-Claude Gu?don Universit? de Montr?al -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From notsjb at LSU.EDU Wed Feb 11 09:59:13 2009 From: notsjb at LSU.EDU (Stephen J Bensman) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:59:13 -0600 Subject: Reward or persuasion? The battle to define the meaning of a citation In-Reply-To: A<1234354682.7724.45.camel@amd64> Message-ID: In re Benoit Godin?s comment that ?Eugene Garfield?s primary aim was not history but management (of the scientific literature, then science)? I think that you have to take into account the historic period and J.D. Bernal?s influence on Dr. Garfield. Bernal was advancing a typical Depression-era project of Watson Davis, founder of ASIST, for replacing the scientific journal system with an institute that would provide efficient delivery of documents to scientists specific to their interests. He proposed this project to the 1948 Royal Society Scientific Information Science Conference but withdrew it after an analysis of Bradford?s Law of Scattering proved its infeasibility to him. Dr. Garfield initially saw citation indexing as a way around the roadblock to the Bernal/Watson institute for providing efficient document delivery. You have to understand that he was making his money on a form of Current Contents, which was crude implementation of the basic idea. One of the first products Dr. Garfield tried to develop was the ?personalized journal,? which would have been an efficient implementation. However, Dr? Garfield?s own law of concentration proved that citations could not be used for such a purpose and that, when questioned, scientists themselves could not define their subject interests specifically enough for personalized journals?the ultimate triumph of Bradford?s Law. As an aside, I see Dr. Garfield?s postings on this listserv as something of a return to his intellectual Current Contents roots. 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 Jean-Claude Gu?don Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 6:18 AM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Reward or persuasion? The battle to define the meaning of a citation Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html For the early history of SCI, Paul Wouters' The Citation Culture cannot be avoided, IMHO (U. of Amsterdam doctoral thesis, n.d.[1999]). He also has an article in a festschrift written in the honour of E. Garfield. (The Web of Knowledge (ASIS, 2000)): "Garfield as Alchemist". Jean-Claude Gu?don Le mardi 10 f?vrier 2009 ? 21:58 -0500, Godin, Beno?t a ?crit : Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html Phil, As evidence that Eugene Garfield?s primary aim was not history but management (of the scientific literature, then science), see the following article. Note that this article is dated 1966. It is a nice piece of evidence, and needs to be considered alongside Eugene?s own story or recalling of history that you have cited. I. H. Sher and E. Garfield (1966), New Tools for Improving and Evaluating the Effectiveness of Research, in M. C. Yovits et al. (eds.), Research Program Effectiveness, New York: Gordon and Breach, pp. 136-146 Beno?t Godin Professeur, INRS (Montreal) Tel.: 1 (514) 499 4074 email: benoit.godin at ucs.inrs.ca website: http://www.csiic.ca ________________________________ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Phil Davis Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 8:35 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Reward or persuasion? The battle to define the meaning of a citation In reading the literature, I found two very distinct camps: one arguing from the Mertonian view that citations reflect a type of reward in the form of public recognition, and the other suggesting that citations were no more than rhetorical devices for bolstering one's argument. The reward camp is well known by people on this list. The persuasion literature is found more in the Science and Technology Studies journals, and for the most-part, is ignored by the reward camp. There are some who try to reconcile both arguments, and I try to do this in the article (see attached). I've received some personal correspondence that I've completely misunderstood Eugene Garfield and his intentions for creating an index based on the citation literature. In his writings, I saw a compelling argument from the perspective of the historian of science. I was working entirely from the literature, and did not conduct any interviews with Dr. Garfield. If I have misunderstood his rationale(s) for the citation index, the confusion is entirely mine. --Phil Davis B.G. Sloan wrote: I hadn't really thought a lot about defining the meaning of a citation as being "reward OR persuasion." After thinking a bit about how I use citations I think I fall in the "reward AND persuasion" camp rather in either the "reward" OR "persuasion" camps. When I write papers I use citations as a rhetorical device, which falls into the "persuasion" category. When I track citations to my papers I tend to view them as indicators of quality or impact, which falls into the "reward" category. Bernie Sloan Sora Associates Bloomington, IN --- On Mon, 2/9/09, Eugene Garfield wrote: From: Eugene Garfield Subject: Davis, PM (Davis, Philip M.) Reward or persuasion? The battle to define the meaning of a citation LEARNED PUBLISHING, 22 (1): 5-11 JAN 2009 To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Date: Monday, February 9, 2009, 12:30 PM Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html E-mail Address: pmd8 at cornell.edu Author(s): Davis, PM (Davis, Philip M.) Title: Reward or persuasion? The battle to define the meaning of a citation Source: LEARNED PUBLISHING, 22 (1): 5-11 JAN 2009 Language: English Document Type: Article KeyWords Plus: SCIENCE; QUALITY; NATIONS; IMPACT; MODEL; TOOL Abstract: The history and development of the Science Citation Index (SCI) is an ex(example of the power of users in defining and influencing the development of a new technology. The SCI was developed as a tool for the historian of science for the purpose of tracing die history of ideas, but it was appropriated by users for purposes for which it was unintended - as a tool for evaluating the literature, individuals, institutions, and countries. The development of a citation tool gave rise to a debate over what is actually measured by citation. The citation-was-reward camp views citations as indicators of quality and impact, whereas the citation-as- persuasion. oil camp views citations as no more than rhetorical devices. While neither view call fully explain how authors use citations, citation- as-reward prevails as the (dominant interpretation. Addresses: Cornell Univ, Dept Commun, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA Reprint Address: Davis, PM, Cornell Univ, Dept Commun, 336 Kennedy Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA. E-mail Address: pmd8 at cornell.edu Cited Reference Count: 41 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ASSOC LEARNED PROFESSIONAL SOC PUBL Publisher Address: SOUTH HOUSE, THE STREET WORTHING, W SUSSEX BN13 3UU, ENGLAND ISSN: 0953-1513 DOI: 10.1087/095315108X378712 29-char Source Abbrev.: LEARN PUBL ISO Source Abbrev.: Learn. Publ. Source Item Page Count: 7 Subject Category: Information Science & Library Science ISI Document Delivery No.: 389TM AKRICH M SHAPING TECHNOLOGY B : 205 1992 BALDI S Normative versus social constructivist processes in the allocation of citations: A network-analytic model AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW 63 : 829 1998 BROOKS TA EVIDENCE OF COMPLEX CITER MOTIVATIONS JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE 37 : 34 1986 BROOKS TA J AM SOC INFORM SCI 36 : 23 1985 CHUBIN DE CONTENT-ANALYSIS OF REFERENCES - ADJUNCT OR ALTERNATIVE TO CITATION COUNTING SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE 5 : 423 1975 COLE J MEASURING QUALITY OF SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH - PROBLEMS IN USE OF SCIENCE CITATION INDEX AMERICAN SOCIOLOGIST 6 : 23 1971 COLE JR SOCIAL STRATIFICATIO : 283 1973 COZZENS SE WHAT DO CITATIONS COUNT - THE RHETORIC-1ST MODEL SCIENTOMETRICS 15 : 437 1989 CRONIN B CITATION PROCESS ROL : 103 1984 CRONIN B SCHOLARS COURTESY RO : 124 1995 DIAMOND AM WHAT IS A CITATION WORTH JOURNAL OF HUMAN RESOURCES 21 : 200 1986 FRANCK G Scientific communication - A vanity fair? SCIENCE 286 : 53 1999 GARFIELD E METRIC SCI ADVENT SC : 354 1978 GARFIELD E CITATION INDEXING FOR STUDYING SCIENCE NATURE 227 : 669 1970 GARFIELD E SCI PUBL POLICY 19 : 321 1992 GARFIELD E CITATION ANALYSIS AS A TOOL IN JOURNAL EVALUATION - JOURNALS CAN BE RANKED BY FREQUENCY AND IMPACT OF CITATIONS FOR SCIENCE POLICY STUDIES SCIENCE 178 : 471 1972 GARFIELD E IS CITATION ANALYSIS A LEGITIMATE EVALUATION TOOL SCIENTOMETRICS 1 : 359 1979 GARFIELD E USE CITATION DATA WR : 1964 GILBERT GN REFERENCING AS PERSUASION SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE 7 : 113 1977 GRAFIELD E SCIENCE 122 : 108 1955 HAGSTROM WO SCI COMMUNITY : 304 1965 HAMILTON DP PUBLISHING BY - AND FOR QUESTIONABLE - THE NUMBERS SCIENCE 250 : 1331 1990 HICKS D SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE - A REFLEXIVE CITATION ANALYSIS OR SCIENCE DISCIPLINES AND DISCIPLINING SCIENCE SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE 21 : 459 1991 KAPLAN N THE NORMS OF CITATION BEHAVIOR - PROLEGOMENA TO THE FOOTNOTE AMERICAN DOCUMENTATION 16 : 179 1965 KING DA The scientific impact of nations NATURE 430 : 311 DOI 10.1038/430311a 2004 KLINE R Users as agents of technological change: The social construction of the automobile in the rural United States TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE 37 : 763 1996 LATOUR B SCI ACTION : 274 1987 LINDSEY D SCI PUBLICATION SYST : 169 1978 LUUKKONEN T Why has Latour's theory of citations been ignored by the bibliometric community? Discussion of sociological interpretations of citation analysis SCIENTOMETRICS 38 : 27 1997 MAY RM The scientific wealth of nations SCIENCE 275 : 793 1997 MEADOWS AJ COMMUNICATION SCI : 248 1974 MERTON RK THE MATTHEW EFFECT IN SCIENCE .2. CUMULATIVE ADVANTAGE AND THE SYMBOLISM OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ISIS 79 : 606 1988 MERTON RK J LEGAL POLITICAL SO 1 : 115 1942 MERTON RK MATTHEW EFFECT IN SCIENCE SCIENCE 159 : 56 1968 MORAVCSIK MJ SOME RESULTS ON FUNCTION AND QUALITY OF CITATIONS SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE 5 : 86 1975 PRICE DJD NETWORKS OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS SCIENCE 149 : 510 1965 SMALL H COCITATION IN SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE - NEW MEASURE OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN 2 DOCUMENTS JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE 24 : 265 1973 STEWART JA ACHIEVEMENT AND ASCRIPTIVE PROCESSES IN THE RECOGNITION OF SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES SOCIAL FORCES 62 : 166 1983 TAINER JA SCIENCE, CITATION, AND FUNDING SCIENCE 251 : 1408 1991 VANDALEN HP What makes a scientific article influential? The case of demographers SCIENTOMETRICS 50 : 455 2001 WEINSTOCK M ENCY LIBRARY INFORMA 5 : 16 1971 -- Philip M. Davis PhD Student Department of Communication 301 Kennedy Hall Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 email: pmd8 at cornell.edu phone: 607 255-2124 https://confluence.cornell.edu/display/~pmd8/resume Jean-Claude Gu?don Universit? de Montr?al -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Christina.Pikas at JHUAPL.EDU Wed Feb 11 10:09:47 2009 From: Christina.Pikas at JHUAPL.EDU (Pikas, Christina K.) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:09:47 -0500 Subject: Reward or persuasion? The battle to define the meaning of a citation In-Reply-To: <1234354682.7724.45.camel@amd64> Message-ID: It?s also worth pointing out that Jeppe Nicolaisen?s recent ARIST review does discuss various calls for a theory of citation. It also discusses psychological, normative, social constructivist, persuasion?. And other versions of why people cite things. I highly recommend it. Nicolaisen, J. (2007). Citation analysis. In B. Cronin (Ed.), Annual review of information science and technology (pp. 609-641). Medford, N.J.: Information Today. DOI: 10.1002/aris.2007.1440410120 ASIS&T members and subscribers to their digital library can read it online. Christina ________________________________________ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Phil Davis Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 8:35 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Reward or persuasion? The battle to define the meaning of a citation ? In reading the literature, I found two very distinct camps: one arguing from the Mertonian view that citations reflect a type of reward in the form of public recognition, and the other suggesting that citations were no more than rhetorical devices for bolstering one's argument.? The reward camp is well known by people on this list. The persuasion literature is found more in the Science and Technology Studies journals, and for the most-part, is ignored by the reward camp.? There are some who try to reconcile both arguments, and I try to do this in the article (see attached). I've received some personal correspondence that I've completely misunderstood Eugene Garfield and his intentions for creating an index based on the citation literature.? In his writings, I saw a compelling argument from the perspective of the historian of science.? I was working entirely from the literature, and did not conduct any interviews with Dr. Garfield.? If I have misunderstood his rationale(s) for the citation index, the confusion is entirely mine. --Phil Davis B.G. Sloan wrote: ? I hadn't really thought a lot?about defining the meaning of a citation?as being?"reward?OR persuasion." ? After thinking a bit about how I use citations I think I fall in the "reward AND persuasion" camp rather in either the "reward" OR "persuasion" camps. ? When I write papers?I use citations as a rhetorical device, which falls into the "persuasion" category. When I track citations to my papers I tend to view them as indicators of quality or impact, which falls into the "reward" category. ? Bernie Sloan Sora Associates Bloomington, IN --- On Mon, 2/9/09, Eugene Garfield wrote: From: Eugene Garfield Subject: Davis, PM (Davis, Philip M.) Reward or persuasion? The battle to define the meaning of a citation LEARNED PUBLISHING, 22 (1): 5-11 JAN 2009 To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Date: Monday, February 9, 2009, 12:30 PM ? E-mail Address: pmd8 at cornell.edu ? Author(s): Davis, PM (Davis, Philip M.) Title: Reward or persuasion? The battle to define the meaning of a citation ? Source: LEARNED PUBLISHING, 22 (1): 5-11 JAN 2009 ? Language: English ? Document Type: Article ? KeyWords Plus: SCIENCE; QUALITY; NATIONS; IMPACT; MODEL; TOOL ? Abstract: The history and development of the Science Citation Index (SCI) is an ex(example of the power of users in defining and influencing the development of a new technology. The SCI was developed as a tool for the historian of science for the purpose of tracing die history of ideas, but it was appropriated by users for purposes for which it was unintended - as a tool for evaluating the literature, individuals, institutions, and countries. The development of a citation tool gave rise to a debate over what is actually measured by citation. The citation-was-reward camp views citations as indicators of quality and impact, whereas the citation-as- persuasion. oil camp views citations as no more than rhetorical devices. While neither view call fully explain how authors use citations, citation- as-reward prevails as the (dominant interpretation. ? Addresses: Cornell Univ, Dept Commun, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA ? Reprint Address: Davis, PM, Cornell Univ, Dept Commun, 336 Kennedy Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA. ? E-mail Address: pmd8 at cornell.edu ? Cited Reference Count: 41 ? Times Cited: 0 ? Publisher: ASSOC LEARNED PROFESSIONAL SOC PUBL ? Publisher Address: SOUTH HOUSE, THE STREET WORTHING, W SUSSEX BN13 3UU, ENGLAND ? ISSN: 0953-1513 ? DOI: 10.1087/095315108X378712 ? 29-char Source Abbrev.: LEARN PUBL ? ISO Source Abbrev.: Learn. Publ. ? Source Item Page Count: 7 ? Subject Category: Information Science & Library Science ? ISI Document Delivery No.: 389TM ? AKRICH M SHAPING TECHNOLOGY B : 205 1992 ? BALDI S Normative versus social constructivist processes in the allocation of citations: A network-analytic model AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW 63 : 829 1998 ? BROOKS TA EVIDENCE OF COMPLEX CITER MOTIVATIONS JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE 37 : 34 1986 ? BROOKS TA J AM SOC INFORM SCI 36 : 23 1985 ? CHUBIN DE CONTENT-ANALYSIS OF REFERENCES - ADJUNCT OR ALTERNATIVE TO CITATION COUNTING SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE 5 : 423 1975 ? COLE J MEASURING QUALITY OF SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH - PROBLEMS IN USE OF SCIENCE CITATION INDEX AMERICAN SOCIOLOGIST 6 : 23 1971 ? COLE JR SOCIAL STRATIFICATIO : 283 1973 ? COZZENS SE WHAT DO CITATIONS COUNT - THE RHETORIC-1ST MODEL SCIENTOMETRICS 15 : 437 1989 ? CRONIN B CITATION PROCESS ROL : 103 1984 ? CRONIN B SCHOLARS COURTESY RO : 124 1995 ? DIAMOND AM WHAT IS A CITATION WORTH JOURNAL OF HUMAN RESOURCES 21 : 200 1986 ? FRANCK G Scientific communication - A vanity fair? SCIENCE 286 : 53 1999 ? GARFIELD E METRIC SCI ADVENT SC : 354 1978 ? GARFIELD E CITATION INDEXING FOR STUDYING SCIENCE NATURE 227 : 669 1970 ? GARFIELD E SCI PUBL POLICY 19 : 321 1992 ? GARFIELD E CITATION ANALYSIS AS A TOOL IN JOURNAL EVALUATION - JOURNALS CAN BE RANKED BY FREQUENCY AND IMPACT OF CITATIONS FOR SCIENCE POLICY STUDIES SCIENCE 178 : 471 1972 ? GARFIELD E IS CITATION ANALYSIS A LEGITIMATE EVALUATION TOOL SCIENTOMETRICS 1 : 359 1979 ? GARFIELD E USE CITATION DATA WR : 1964 ? GILBERT GN REFERENCING AS PERSUASION SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE 7 : 113 1977 ? GRAFIELD E SCIENCE 122 : 108 1955 ? HAGSTROM WO SCI COMMUNITY : 304 1965 ? HAMILTON DP PUBLISHING BY - AND FOR QUESTIONABLE - THE NUMBERS SCIENCE 250 : 1331 1990 ? HICKS D SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE - A REFLEXIVE CITATION ANALYSIS OR SCIENCE DISCIPLINES AND DISCIPLINING SCIENCE SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE 21 : 459 1991 ? KAPLAN N THE NORMS OF CITATION BEHAVIOR - PROLEGOMENA TO THE FOOTNOTE AMERICAN DOCUMENTATION 16 : 179 1965 ? KING DA The scientific impact of nations NATURE 430 : 311 DOI 10.1038/430311a 2004 ? KLINE R Users as agents of technological change: The social construction of the automobile in the rural United States TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE 37 : 763 1996 ? LATOUR B SCI ACTION : 274 1987 ? LINDSEY D SCI PUBLICATION SYST : 169 1978 ? LUUKKONEN T Why has Latour's theory of citations been ignored by the bibliometric community? Discussion of sociological interpretations of citation analysis SCIENTOMETRICS 38 : 27 1997 ? MAY RM The scientific wealth of nations SCIENCE 275 : 793 1997 ? MEADOWS AJ COMMUNICATION SCI : 248 1974 ? MERTON RK THE MATTHEW EFFECT IN SCIENCE .2. CUMULATIVE ADVANTAGE AND THE SYMBOLISM OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ISIS 79 : 606 1988 ? MERTON RK J LEGAL POLITICAL SO 1 : 115 1942 ? MERTON RK MATTHEW EFFECT IN SCIENCE SCIENCE 159 : 56 1968 ? MORAVCSIK MJ SOME RESULTS ON FUNCTION AND QUALITY OF CITATIONS SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE 5 : 86 1975 ? PRICE DJD NETWORKS OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS SCIENCE 149 : 510 1965 ? SMALL H COCITATION IN SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE - NEW MEASURE OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN 2 DOCUMENTS JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE 24 : 265 1973 ? STEWART JA ACHIEVEMENT AND ASCRIPTIVE PROCESSES IN THE RECOGNITION OF SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES SOCIAL FORCES 62 : 166 1983 ? TAINER JA SCIENCE, CITATION, AND FUNDING SCIENCE 251 : 1408 1991 ? VANDALEN HP What makes a scientific article influential? The case of demographers SCIENTOMETRICS 50 : 455 2001 ? WEINSTOCK M ENCY LIBRARY INFORMA 5 : 16 1971 ?????????? ? ? -- Philip M. Davis PhD Student Department of Communication 301 Kennedy Hall Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 email: pmd8 at cornell.edu phone: 607 255-2124 https://confluence.cornell.edu/display/~pmd8/resume Jean-Claude Gu?don Universit? de Montr?al From dwojick at HUGHES.NET Wed Feb 11 11:29:05 2009 From: dwojick at HUGHES.NET (David E. Wojick) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:29:05 -0500 Subject: Reward or persuasion? The battle to define the meaning of a citation In-Reply-To: <0BBD8C9342CBA343AE2C91D32990988C37EB3170C0@aplesstripe.dom1.jhuapl.edu> Message-ID: I study the logic of citation in the context of the logic of science, with a relatively simple model. Mind you this says nothing about the psychology or sociology of citation. The standard logical structure of a research paper is this: 1. What is the problem? 2. What did we do? 3. What did we find? 4. What does it mean? Section 2 is normally the longest, while section 4 may be absent. However, most citations occur in section 1, where they are used to supplement the description of the problem, including its history. The precise role of contemporary (as opposed to historical) citations depends on how the problem is described, which may depend on the nature of the problem. For example, if there have been prior failed attempts. But mostly the citations back up the factual specification of the problem and the work leading up to the present work. The logic is explanatory, not persuasive, so Davis's category of "persuasion" is misleading and probably incorrect. The contrast between scientific papers, and persuasive content such as political speeches, is logically stark. The citations typically are straightforward references to additional information. The goal appears to be that of clarity of exposition, not persuasion, and indeed there is generally nothing to be persuaded of. Likewise, the choice of citations seems to be those best suited to explain the problem and approach taken. I have never seen any evidence that citations were chosen in order to reward the authors being cited, although it may well happen on occasion. Generally speaking citations are part of the evidence that one understands the problem so it would be hard to skew them. Thus Davis's term "reward" is also misleading and probably incorrect. There is then the very different issue of how scientific communities view and use citations. They are of course widely used just as they appear, that is as references. They are also sometimes used to judge the importance of a given work, journal, etc., in the sense of the number of people who seem to be affected. This is not a reward, it is a measure, although it is certainly true that people benefit from measuring high. There is also a persuasive aspect to this in that people are likely to be persuaded that work is important if others find it so. The unfortunate bandwagon effect is part of this phenomenon, but I digress. So my view is that the terms reward and persuasion are incorrect when applied to the general theory of citations. Citations do not exist for either reason, rather they exist of the purpose of communication. Perhaps reward and persuasion are metaphorical, but then I have no use for schools of sociology that view metaphors as explanations. David Wojick >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > >It's also worth pointing out that Jeppe Nicolaisen's recent ARIST >review does discuss various calls for a theory of citation. It also >discusses psychological, normative, social constructivist, >persuasion?. And other versions of why people cite things. > >I highly recommend it. > >Nicolaisen, J. (2007). Citation analysis. In B. Cronin (Ed.), Annual >review of information science and technology (pp. 609-641). Medford, >N.J.: Information Today. DOI: 10.1002/aris.2007.1440410120 > >ASIS&T members and subscribers to their digital library can read it online. > >Christina > >________________________________________ >From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics >[mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Phil Davis >Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 8:35 PM >To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU >Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Reward or persuasion? The battle to define >the meaning of a citation > > > >In reading the literature, I found two very distinct camps: one >arguing from the Mertonian view that citations reflect a type of >reward in the form of public recognition, and the other suggesting >that citations were no more than rhetorical devices for bolstering >one's argument. The reward camp is well known by people on this >list. The persuasion literature is found more in the Science and >Technology Studies journals, and for the most-part, is ignored by >the reward camp. There are some who try to reconcile both >arguments, and I try to do this in the article (see attached). > >I've received some personal correspondence that I've completely >misunderstood Eugene Garfield and his intentions for creating an >index based on the citation literature. In his writings, I saw a >compelling argument from the perspective of the historian of >science. I was working entirely from the literature, and did not >conduct any interviews with Dr. Garfield. If I have misunderstood >his rationale(s) for the citation index, the confusion is entirely >mine. > >--Phil Davis >-- >Philip M. Davis >PhD Student >Department of Communication >301 Kennedy Hall >Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 >email: pmd8 at cornell.edu >phone: 607 255-2124 >https://confluence.cornell.edu/display/~pmd8/resume >Jean-Claude Gu?don >Universit? de Montr?al -- "David E. Wojick, Ph.D., PE" 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 garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Feb 11 11:58:09 2009 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:58:09 -0500 Subject: Bacchiocchi, E; Montobbio, F Knowledge diffusion from university and public research. A comparison between US, Japan and Europe using patent citations JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER, 34 (2): 169-181 APR 2009 Message-ID: E-mail Address: emanuele.bacchiocchi at unimi.it; fabio.montobbio at uninsubria.it Author(s): Bacchiocchi, E (Bacchiocchi, E.); Montobbio, F (Montobbio, F.) Title: Knowledge diffusion from university and public research. A comparison between US, Japan and Europe using patent citations Source: JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER, 34 (2): 169-181 APR 2009 Language: English Document Type: Proceedings Paper Author Keywords: University patents; Citations; Spillovers; Knowledge diffusion; Public research KeyWords Plus: ACADEMIA Abstract: This paper estimates the process of diffusion and decay of knowledge from university, public laboratories and corporate patents in six countries and tests the differences across countries and across technological fields using data from the European Patent Office. It finds that university and public research patents are more cited relatively to companies' patents. However these results are mainly driven by the Chemical, Drugs & Medical, and Mechanical fields and US universities. In Europe and Japan, where the great majority of patents from public research come from national agencies, there is no evidence of a superior fertility of university and public laboratory patents vis A vis corporate patents. The distribution of the citation lags shows that knowledge embedded in university and public research patents tends to diffuse more rapidly relative to corporate ones in particular in the US, Germany, France and Japan. Addresses: [Montobbio, F.] Univ Insubria, Varese, Italy; [Bacchiocchi, E.] Univ Milan, Milan, Italy; [Montobbio, F.] CESPRI Bocconi Univ, Milan, Italy Reprint Address: Montobbio, F, Univ Insubria, Varese, Italy. E-mail Address: emanuele.bacchiocchi at unimi.it; fabio.montobbio at uninsubria.it Cited Reference Count: 24 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: SPRINGER Publisher Address: 233 SPRING ST, NEW YORK, NY 10013 USA ISSN: 0892-9912 DOI: 10.1007/s10961-007-9070-y 29-char Source Abbrev.: J TECHNOL TRANSFER ISO Source Abbrev.: J. Technol. Transf. Source Item Page Count: 13 Subject Category: Engineering, Industrial ISI Document Delivery No.: 394XD *EPO GUID EX EUR PAT OFF : 2005 *OECD MEAS SCI TECHN ACT U : 1994 *OECD TURN SCI BUS PAT LIC : 2003 AZOULAY P 11917 NBER 2006 BACCHIOCCHI E 161 CESPRI 2004 BALCONI M Networks of inventors and the role of academia: an exploration of Italian patent data RESEARCH POLICY 33 : 127 DOI 10.1016/S0048-7333(03)00108-2 2004 BRESCHI S EC INNOVATION NEW TE 16 : 101 2007 CABALLERO R NBER MACROECON ANN 8 : 15 1993 COCKBURN I 8980 NAT BUR EC RES 2002 DOSI G The relationships between science, technologies and their industrial exploitation: An illustration through the myths and realities of the so- called 'European Paradox' RESEARCH POLICY 35 : 1450 DOI 10.1016/j.respol.2006.09.012 2006 GEUNA A University patenting and its effects on academic research: The emerging European evidence RESEARCH POLICY 35 : 790 DOI 10.1016/j.respol.2006.04.005 2006 HALL BH 8498 NBER 2001 HARHOFF D Citation frequency and the value of patented inventions REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS 81 : 511 1999 HENDERSON R Universities as a source of commercial technology: A detailed analysis of university patenting, 1965-1988 REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS 80 : 119 1998 JAFFE AB Flows of knowledge from universities and federal laboratories: Modeling the flow of patent citations over time and across institutional and geographic boundaries PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 93 : 12671 1996 JAFFE AB PATENTS CITATIONS IN : 2002 LISSONI F 181 CESPR 2006 LISSONI F 202 CESPRI 2007 MOWERY D IVORY TOWER IND INNO : 2004 MOWERY DC J TECHNOLOGY TRANSFE 30 : 115 2005 SAMPAT BN Changes in university patent quality after the Bayh-Dole act: a re- examination INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION 21 : 1371 DOI 10.1016/S0167-7187(03)00087-0 2003 SAPSALIS E Academic versus industry patenting: An in-depth analysis of what determines patent value RESEARCH POLICY 35 : 1631 DOI 10.1016/j.respol.2006.09.014 2006 SARGOSSI S J TECHNOLOGY TRANSFE 28 : 47 2003 VALENTIN F Effects on academia-industry collaboration of extending university property rights JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER 32 : 251 2007 From bgsloan2 at YAHOO.COM Wed Feb 11 15:12:58 2009 From: bgsloan2 at YAHOO.COM (B.G. Sloan) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:12:58 -0800 Subject: Reward or persuasion? The battle to define the meaning of a citation Message-ID: ? David Wojick said:? ? "The logic is explanatory, not persuasive, so Davis's category of 'persuasion' is misleading and probably incorrect. The contrast between scientific papers, and persuasive content such as political speeches, is logically stark. The citations typically are straightforward references to additional information. The goal appears to be that of clarity of exposition, not persuasion, and indeed there is generally nothing to be persuaded of." ? One could argue that the use of citations involves some measure of persuasion. The authors must convince others (reviewers, readers) that their work is worthwhile. The use of citations, although predominantly explanatory, can also bolster the case of the authors and thus has a persuasive aspect. ? Whether "persuasive" or "explanatory", this use of citations seems to be a rhetorical device. So you still have the?dichtomy between those who define citations as rewards, and those who see them as rhetorical devices. ? Bernie Sloan Sora Associates Bloomington, IN ? --- On Wed, 2/11/09, David E. Wojick wrote: From: David E. Wojick Subject: Re: Reward or persuasion? The battle to define the meaning of a citation To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 11:29 AM I study the logic of citation in the context of the logic of science, with a relatively simple model. Mind you this says nothing about the psychology or sociology of citation. The standard logical structure of a research paper is this: 1. What is the problem? 2. What did we do? 3. What did we find? 4. What does it mean? Section 2 is normally the longest, while section 4 may be absent. However, most citations occur in section 1, where they are used to supplement the description of the problem, including its history. The precise role of contemporary (as opposed to historical) citations depends on how the problem is described, which may depend on the nature of the problem. For example, if there have been prior failed attempts. But mostly the citations back up the factual specification of the problem and the work leading up to the present work. The logic is explanatory, not persuasive, so Davis's category of "persuasion" is misleading and probably incorrect. The contrast between scientific papers, and persuasive content such as political speeches, is logically stark. The citations typically are straightforward references to additional information. The goal appears to be that of clarity of exposition, not persuasion, and indeed there is generally nothing to be persuaded of. Likewise, the choice of citations seems to be those best suited to explain the problem and approach taken. I have never seen any evidence that citations were chosen in order to reward the authors being cited, although it may well happen on occasion. Generally speaking citations are part of the evidence that one understands the problem so it would be hard to skew them. Thus Davis's term "reward" is also misleading and probably incorrect. There is then the very different issue of how scientific communities view and use citations. They are of course widely used just as they appear, that is as references. They are also sometimes used to judge the importance of a given work, journal, etc., in the sense of the number of people who seem to be affected. This is not a reward, it is a measure, although it is certainly true that people benefit from measuring high. There is also a persuasive aspect to this in that people are likely to be persuaded that work is important if others find it so. The unfortunate bandwagon effect is part of this phenomenon, but I digress. So my view is that the terms reward and persuasion are incorrect when applied to the general theory of citations. Citations do not exist for either reason, rather they exist of the purpose of communication. Perhaps reward and persuasion are metaphorical, but then I have no use for schools of sociology that view metaphors as explanations. David Wojick >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > >It's also worth pointing out that Jeppe Nicolaisen's recent ARIST review does discuss various calls for a theory of citation.? It also discusses psychological, normative, social constructivist, persuasion?. And other versions of why people cite things. > >I highly recommend it. > >Nicolaisen, J. (2007). Citation analysis. In B. Cronin (Ed.), Annual review of information science and technology (pp. 609-641). Medford, N.J.: Information Today. DOI: 10.1002/aris.2007.1440410120 > >ASIS&T members and subscribers to their digital library can read it online. > >Christina > >________________________________________ >From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Phil Davis >Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 8:35 PM >To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU >Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Reward or persuasion? The battle to define the meaning of a citation > >? > >In reading the literature, I found two very distinct camps: one arguing from the Mertonian view that citations reflect a type of reward in the form of public recognition, and the other suggesting that citations were no more than rhetorical devices for bolstering one's argument.? The reward camp is well known by people on this list. The persuasion literature is found more in the Science and Technology Studies journals, and for the most-part, is ignored by the reward camp.? There are some who try to reconcile both arguments, and I try to do this in the article (see attached). > >I've received some personal correspondence that I've completely misunderstood Eugene Garfield and his intentions for creating an index based on the citation literature.? In his writings, I saw a compelling argument from the perspective of the historian of science.? I was working entirely from the literature, and did not conduct any interviews with Dr. Garfield.? If I have misunderstood his rationale(s) for the citation index, the confusion is entirely mine. > >--Phil Davis >-- >Philip M. Davis >PhD Student >Department of Communication >301 Kennedy Hall >Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 >email: pmd8 at cornell.edu >phone: 607 255-2124 >https://confluence.cornell.edu/display/~pmd8/resume >Jean-Claude Gu?don >Universit? de Montr?al -- "David E. Wojick, Ph.D., PE" 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 Wed Feb 11 17:15:10 2009 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:15:10 +0100 Subject: Reward or persuasion? The battle to define the meaning of a citation In-Reply-To: <78106.39165.qm@web57101.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Message-ID: > Whether "persuasive" or "explanatory", this use of citations seems to be a rhetorical device. So you still have the dichtomy between those who define citations as rewards, and those who see them as rhetorical devices. Dear Bernie and colleagues, This is not merely a question of disciplinary affiliation because in the same text the one citation can have rhetorical function and another an explanatory. Olga Amsterdamska and I did two papers on this: one in which we tried to classify functions of citation in the text, and a second one in which we questionnaired the citing authors for their motivation for the citation in these same terms. Olga Amsterdamska & Loet Leydesdorff, Citations: Indicators of Significance, Scientometrics 15(5/6) (1989) 449-471. Loet Leydesdorff and Olga Amsterdamska, Dimensions of Citation Analysis, Science, Technology and Human Values 15 (1990) 305-335. The questions can thus be made empirical. Best wishes, Loet -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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David, You are approaching the communication of science from an 18th century rationalist worldview; that is, communication is merely a transmission of facts and is completely devoid of contextual meaning. From this viewpoint, a rational scientist needs no persuasion -- provide him with the facts and he will come to the same conclusions as the author. While you have no use for schools of sociology that view science as a social process, ask scientists themselves how they use citations. They will tell you it is more than just providing the facts, ma'am. --Phil Davis -- Philip M. Davis PhD Student Department of Communication 301 Kennedy Hall Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 email: pmd8 at cornell.edu phone: 607 255-2124 https://confluence.cornell.edu/display/~pmd8/resume From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Thu Feb 12 10:47:15 2009 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:47:15 +0100 Subject: Reward or persuasion? The battle to define the meaning of a citation In-Reply-To: <103409417.42608.1234443155908.JavaMail.mail@webmail07> Message-ID: I would also stress that this is no mere semantic quibble. Reward and persuasion are theory-laden terms and the theories they imply tend to trivialize the fundamental role of scientific communication in science. I agree that this is not a semantic quibble. Some sociologist of science reduce science to a belief system. This is sometimes called the neo-Durkheimian paradigm: paradigms can be studied as churches and specialties as denominations. This reduction is as one-sided as the reduction by philosophers of science to a system of rationalized expectations. Both reductions loose the perspective on the complex dynamics between rationalized expectations and belief systems. The belief systems can be attributed to agents and organization and thus one obtains a perspective on "following the actors" (Latour). Expectations can be rationalized only in communication. The code of communication thus is an attribute of communication. The networks of agents span a social network, the network of communications (including citations as links among communications) spans a network on top of the social network. Both networks can have a different dynamics. Networks of communications for example leave traces in archives and libraries, while social networks, for example, can show generational cycles. In summary, the two reduction may serve the analytical perspectives in the respective disciplines because they make it possible to communicate with social constructivists and philosophers of science, respectively. The interdisciplinary approach focuses on the dynamics between these two networks. Both networks can be expected to develop a structure and a different dynamics. Best wishes, Loet -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Thu Feb 12 10:52:43 2009 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:52:43 +0100 Subject: Reward or persuasion? The battle to define the meaning of a citation In-Reply-To: <49943E36.6000206@cornell.edu> Message-ID: > While you have no use for schools of sociology that view science as a > social process, ask scientists themselves how they use > citations. They > will tell you it is more than just providing the facts, ma'am. I sometimes read things that convince me and then I may provide a reference in a next article. I assume that this behavior is non-scientific in your eyes? :-) Best, Loet From dwojick at HUGHES.NET Thu Feb 12 11:32:44 2009 From: dwojick at HUGHES.NET (David E. Wojick) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:32:44 -0500 Subject: Reward or persuasion? The battle to define the meaning of a citation In-Reply-To: <49943E36.6000206@cornell.edu> Message-ID: Phil, I never said I had no use for schools of sociology that view science as a social process. I said I had no use for schools that take metaphors as explanations. Your confusion may be a symptom of your science. In fact I do research on science as a social process. My team just made what we think is a breakthru discovery of a phase change in co-author networks that occurs as new communities form. See http://www.osti.gov/innovation/research/diffusion/OSTIBettencourtKaiser.pdf But I am indeed a rationalist, albeit not an 18th century one. I believe science exists because it is a successful instance of organized collective reasoning. It follows that the principal features of science are going to be based on the nature of that reasoning. Given this there is no reason to ignore the obvious explanations for citations in favor of esoteric hidden social mechanisms, although these may indeed exist as part of the process. As a student of scientific language and confusion I find the term "contextual meaning" to be almost meaningless. It seems to refer to everything that is going on when language is used, except the direct meaning of what is said. As such it is too broad and vague to be meaningful as scientific language. It is another metaphor. If you want to talk about specific social mehanisms that may affect the practice of citation, beyond the obvious ones of explanation and reference, that is fine. Let's see the evidence. What I object to is the a priori claim that such mechanisms dominate or define the practice of citation. They do not. My best regards, David >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > >David E. Wojick wrote: >"So my view is that the terms reward and persuasion are incorrect when applied to the general theory of citations. Citations do not exist for either reason, rather they exist of the purpose of communication. Perhaps reward and persuasion are metaphorical, but then I have no use for schools of sociology that view metaphors as explanations." > >David, >You are approaching the communication of science from an 18th century rationalist worldview; that is, communication is merely a transmission of facts and is completely devoid of contextual meaning. From this viewpoint, a rational scientist needs no persuasion -- provide him with the facts and he will come to the same conclusions as the author. > >While you have no use for schools of sociology that view science as a social process, ask scientists themselves how they use citations. They will tell you it is more than just providing the facts, ma'am. > >--Phil Davis > >-- >Philip M. Davis >PhD Student >Department of Communication >301 Kennedy Hall >Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 >email: pmd8 at cornell.edu >phone: 607 255-2124 >https://confluence.cornell.edu/display/~pmd8/resume -- "David E. Wojick, Ph.D., PE" 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. From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu Feb 12 15:23:52 2009 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:23:52 -0500 Subject: van Nierop, E (van Nierop, Erjen) Why do statistics journals have low impact factors? STATISTICA NEERLANDICA, 63 (1): 52-62 FEB 2009 Message-ID: E-mail Address: j.e.m.van.nierop at rug.nl Author(s): van Nierop, E (van Nierop, Erjen) Title: Why do statistics journals have low impact factors? Source: STATISTICA NEERLANDICA, 63 (1): 52-62 FEB 2009 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Impact factors; citations; diffusion models KeyWords Plus: SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS; DIFFUSION; CITATION Abstract: In this paper, we answer the question why statistics journals get lower impact factors than journals in other disciplines. We analyze diffusion patterns of papers in several journals in various academic fields. To obtain insights into the diffusion of the citation counts of the papers, the data are analysed with the Bass model, leading to values for the time-to-peak that can be used to compare the speeds of diffusion paper citations of the different disciplines. Estimation results show that for statistics journals, it takes significantly more years to reach their peak. To further investigate diffusion, we also compute the percentages of the total number of citations a paper has after 2 or 3 years. Again, it appears that statistics journals have slower citation diffusion than journals in other disciplines. We conclude with some suggestions to reduce this disparity. Addresses: Univ Groningen, Fac Econ & Business, Dept Mkt, NL-9700 AV Groningen, Netherlands Reprint Address: van Nierop, E, Univ Groningen, Fac Econ & Business, Dept Mkt, POB 800, NL-9700 AV Groningen, Netherlands. E-mail Address: j.e.m.van.nierop at rug.nl Cited Reference Count: 12 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: BLACKWELL PUBLISHING Publisher Address: 9600 GARSINGTON RD, OXFORD OX4 2DQ, OXON, ENGLAND ISSN: 0039-0402 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9574.2008.00408.x 29-char Source Abbrev.: STAT NEERL ISO Source Abbrev.: Stat. Neerl. Source Item Page Count: 11 Subject Category: Statistics & Probability ISI Document Delivery No.: 395HA BASS FM NEW PRODUCT GROWTH FOR MODEL CONSUMER DURABLES MANAGEMENT SCIENCE SERIES A-THEORY 15 : 215 1969 CONTRERAS C The Current Impact Factor and the long-term impact of scientific journals by discipline: A logistic diffusion model estimation SCIENTOMETRICS 69 : 689 2006 FOK D Modeling the diffusion of scientific publications JOURNAL OF ECONOMETRICS 139 : 376 DOI 10.1016/j.jeconom.2006.10.021 2007 FRANSES PH SCIENTOMETRICS 56 : 30 2003 HEMMINGSSON A Manipulation of impact factors by editors of scientific journals AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ROENTGENOLOGY 178 : 767 2002 HERNAN MA Epidemiologists (of all people) should question journal impact factors EPIDEMIOLOGY 19 : 366 DOI 10.1097/EDE.0b013e31816a9e28 2008 KOSTOFF RN The use and misuse of citation analysis in research evaluation - Comments on theories of citation? SCIENTOMETRICS 43 : 27 1998 PHELAN TJ A compendium of issues for citation analysis SCIENTOMETRICS 45 : 117 1999 REEDIJK J Is the impact of journal impact factors decreasing? JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION 64 : 183 DOI 10.1108/00220110810858001 2008 RYAN TP The most-cited statistical papers JOURNAL OF APPLIED STATISTICS 32 : 461 DOI 10.1080/02664760500079373 2005 SEGLEN PO Why the impact factor of journals should not be used for evaluating research BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 314 : 498 1997 TELLIS GJ The international takeoff of new products: The role of economics, culture, and country innovativeness MARKETING SCIENCE 22 : 188 2003 From franz.barjak at FHNW.CH Fri Feb 13 04:46:37 2009 From: franz.barjak at FHNW.CH (Barjak,Franz) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:46:37 +0100 Subject: Domain, discipline, field - what is what? Message-ID: Dear list, After having been a silent observer of this list for several years I happen to have to ask something due to an ongoing discussion that I have offline: I use the terms - "domain" for "humanities" or "natural sciences", - "discipline" for "archaeology" or "physics" and - "field" or "specialty" for "classical archaeology" or "nuclear physics" type of concepts. Now I am being told that I mix up field and discipline. I know that some use both as synonyms, but this is the worst solution in my view. Any comments or references which could help? Thanks, Franz ********************************************* Franz Barjak School of Business University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland Riggenbachstrasse 16 CH-4600 Olten Switzerland E-mail: franz.barjak at fhnw.ch p. +41 62 287 7825, fax: +41 62 287 7845 ********************************************* From joachim.schopfel at UNIV-LILLE3.FR Fri Feb 13 05:50:39 2009 From: joachim.schopfel at UNIV-LILLE3.FR (Joachim SCHOPFEL) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:50:39 +0100 Subject: International Symposium "Academic Online Resources: Assessment and Usage" Message-ID: *International Symposium "Academic Online Resources: * *Assessment and Usage"* *Lille (France), 26-27 November 2009 (http://epef.anr.free.fr) * *Charles de Gaulle University Lille 3* *GERIICO laboratory ? SID team* First announcement and call for papers The evaluation of academic online information resources through usage assessment accompanies their integration into academic libraries. The topic associates librarians, publishers, vendors and scientists into a common discussion on resource management, evaluation, research and theoretical aspects. Between 1998 and 2008, the work on usage assessment advanced in several ways. The COUNTER Codes of Good Practice are to become international standards and facilitate the recording and reporting of online usage statistics in a consistent, credible and compatible way. Regularly revised and updated, they are built upon common definitions of collected usage statistics. Vendors and service providers offer tools and services for the management of usage data, compliant with the COUNTER standards. Libraries develop local software for usage assessment. Especially in the UK, results from a new type of usage research based on the weblog analysis have been published. These studies provide an accurate knowledge about who uses what, when and how. The symposium aims at highlighting the frontline research of library and information scientists and LIS professionals and at getting a large and precise understanding of online information usage assessment and to discuss the challenges. The symposium is also a forum to compare and debate on different theoretical and methodological approaches. The invited communications should cover the whole range of questions related to the evaluation of online information resources in academic and research environments ? e.g. economical, political, scientific, documentary aspects and so on. *Suggested topics * 1. Access statistics: empirical studies 2. Usage behaviours in academic environment: plural methodologies 3. Metrics and assessment 4. Tools, standards, and services: prospective analyses 5. Access statistics and scientific research assessment 6. Usage behaviours and business models for academic online resources 7. Academic libraries in a digital environment: usage profiles and new services 8. New publishing models and access statistics 9. Usage assessment of new information resources: datasets, multimedia 10. Usage of online resources, competencies, and information literacy (Google generation) The list is not exhaustive, other proposals can be submitted to enrich and complete the suggested topics. Concerned are foremost researchers in information and communication sciences but scholars from other disciplines and LIS professionals are welcome. The symposium is open to contributions from France and other countries. Expected languages are French and English. Scientific committee ? Ch?rifa BOUKACEM, Lille 3 ? GERIICO (Coordinator) ? Chris ARMBRUSTER, Max Planck Digital Library ? Tim BRODY, University of Southampton ? Pierre CARBONE, Inspection G?n?rale des Biblioth?ques ? St?phane CHAUDIRON, Lille 3 ? GERIICO ? Eric DELAMOTTE, Lille 3 ? GERIICO ? J?r?me FONCEL, Nancy 2 ? GREMARS ? Hamid JAMALI, Tarbiat Moallem University (Teheran) - CIBER ? Thierry LAFOUGE, Lyon 1 ? ELICO ? David NICHOLAS, UCL ? CIBER ? Fabrice PAPY, Paris 8 ? Paragraphe ? Claude POISSENOT, Nancy 2 - ELICO ? Ian ROWLANDS, UCL ? CIBER ? Joachim SCH?PFEL, Lille 3 ? GERIICO ? Carol TENOPIR, University of Tennessee ? Isma?l TIMMIMI, Lille 3 ? GERIICO ? Fran?oise VAN DOOREN, Universit? Libre de Bruxelles ? Alexis WALCKIERS, Universit? Libre de Bruxelles ? ECARES * * *Organization committee * ? Laure BOLKA ? Heidi GAUTSCHI ? Aude SAUER AVARGUES ? Xavier SENSE (Coordinator) Important dates ? 16 March 2009: Deadline of the reception of communication proposals. ? 20 April 2009: Answers of the Scientific Committee. ? 20 July 2009: Handing-over final versions of the talks. Submission of proposals and final versions ? Submission of proposals at the following address: xaviersense at wanadoo.fr ? Each tender for communication should include identity of the speaker and his contact numbers (name - corporate name - telephone - fax - addresses - e-mail), references and a short biography, title of the intervention with the selected theme, a summary of about 6000 characters (without blanks) written in French or English, and three key-words. ? Final version: expected are 12 pages A4 with references (30 000 characters), police Times New Roman, 12 points, simple interline, format WORD or RTF, abstract (10 lines) and keywords in English and French. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From notsjb at LSU.EDU Fri Feb 13 09:49:12 2009 From: notsjb at LSU.EDU (Stephen J Bensman) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:49:12 -0600 Subject: Domain, discipline, field - what is what? In-Reply-To: A<61D782572FA1864A95B7DD1DE0F7D7B3615FC0F13E@MXAMU11.adm.ds.fhnw.ch> Message-ID: Franz, Below are definitions taken from the Oxford English Dictionary for the terms that concern you. If I were with you, I would go with the examples from Middle English--preferably Chaucer--because these might most closely approximate Schweizerdeutsch. Stephen J. Bensman LSU Libraries Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA DOMAIN 4. a. fig. A sphere of thought or action; field, province, scope of a department of knowledge, etc. 1764 GOLDSM. Trav. 97 Carried to excess in each domain, This fav'rite good begets peculiar pain. 1799 MACKINTOSH Study Law Nat. Wks. 1846 I. 381 Contracting..the domain of brutal force and of arbitrary will. 1828 CARLYLE Misc. (1872) I, Our Poet's gift in raising it into the domain of Art. 1864 BOWEN Logic x. 343 An actual enlargement of the domain of Science. 1866 ARGYLL Reign Law ii. (ed. 4) 53. DISCIPLINE 2. A branch of instruction or education; a department of learning or knowledge; a science or art in its educational aspect. c1386 CHAUCER Can. Yeom. Prol. & T. 700 Assaye in myn absence This disciplyne and this crafty science. 1500-20 DUNBAR Poems lxv. 4 To speik of science, craft, or sapience..Off euerie study, lair, or discipline. 1549 COVERDALE, etc. Erasm. Par. Eph. II. 2 Being singularely learned in humayne disciplines, ye haue excelled other sortes of men euer vnto this day. 1597 MORLEY Introd. Mus. 184 Ye tearmeth he musick a perfect knowledge of al sciences and disciplines. 1654 Z. COKE Logick (1657) 2 Objective disciplines be..principally four. 1 Theologie. 2 Jurisprudence. 3 Medicine. 4 Philosophy. 1685 BOYLE Enq. Notion Nat. 375 Acquainted with Physico-Mathematical Disciplines, such as Opticks, Astronomy, Hydrostaticks, and Mechanicks. 1741 MIDDLETON Cicero I. vi. 454 Skill'd in all the Tuscan discipline of interpreting portentous events. 1844 EMERSON Lect. New Eng. Ref. Wks. (Bohn) I. 266 The culture of the mind in those disciplines to which we give the name of education. 1864 BURTON Scot Abr. II. i. 48 Professors of arts and disciplines at Paris. 1878 BELL Gegenbaur's Comp. Anat. 1 The department of Science which has organic nature for its investigations, breaks up into two great divisions, Botany and Zoology..The two disciplines together form the science of living nature. 1942 Spectator 27 Feb. 204/1 The distribution of academic disciplines in which they [sc. candidates for the Foreign Office] had specialised. 1958 G. J. WARNOCK Eng. Philos. since 1900 xiii. 172 It is only quite recently that the subject-matter, or rather the tasks, of philosophy have come to be clearly distinguished from those of other disciplines. 1962 Lancet 13 Jan. 113/1 Sir Leonard Parsons..had been the first to draw into the paediatrics of his time other disciplines such as biochemistry and immunology. FIELD III. Area of operation or observation. 15. a. An area or sphere of action, operation, or investigation; a (wider or narrower) range of opportunities, or of objects, for labour, study, or contemplation; a department or subject of activity or speculation. 1340 Ayenb. 240 Huanne oure lhord wolde by uonded of e dyeule: he yede in-to desert. uor e desert of religion: is ueld of uondinge. 1580 SIDNEY Arcadia I. (1622) 19 A very good Orator might have a fair field to use eloquence in, if [etc.]. 1626 BACON Sylva ?228 As for the increase of Vertue generally..it is a large Field, and to be handled by it self. 1674 OWEN Holy Spirit (1693) 82 A large and plain Field doth here open it self unto us. 1711 ADDISON Spect. No. 160 4 This..Failure..opens a large Field of Raillery. 1750 BEAWES Lex Mercat. (1752) 2 The wide field for trade that now lies before us. 1807 T. THOMSON Chem. (ed. 3) II. 143 A very interesting field of investigation. a1862 BUCKLE Civiliz. (1873) III. v. 350 The philosopher and the practical man..each is in his own field, supreme. SPECIALTY b. A special subject of study or research. 1861 tr. Czermak's Uses Laryngoscope ii. 10 Physicians..who do not intend to make a specialty of laryngoscopy. 1861 Sat. Rev. 7 Dec. 591 Mr. Aris Willmott's specialty (to use a very current piece of slang) is with the sacred poets. 1873 MORLEY Rousseau I. 150 There is a constant tendency on the part of energetic intellectual workers..to concentrate their energies on a minute specialty. 1883 M. PATTISON Mem. (1885) 70 He had selected as his specialty currency and finance. -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Barjak,Franz Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 3:47 AM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Domain, discipline, field - what is what? Dear list, After having been a silent observer of this list for several years I happen to have to ask something due to an ongoing discussion that I have offline: I use the terms - "domain" for "humanities" or "natural sciences", - "discipline" for "archaeology" or "physics" and - "field" or "specialty" for "classical archaeology" or "nuclear physics" type of concepts. Now I am being told that I mix up field and discipline. I know that some use both as synonyms, but this is the worst solution in my view. Any comments or references which could help? Thanks, Franz ********************************************* Franz Barjak School of Business University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland Riggenbachstrasse 16 CH-4600 Olten Switzerland E-mail: franz.barjak at fhnw.ch p. +41 62 287 7825, fax: +41 62 287 7845 ********************************************* From quentinburrell at MANX.NET Sat Feb 14 15:34:50 2009 From: quentinburrell at MANX.NET (Quentin L. Burrell) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 20:34:50 -0000 Subject: Sponsored research Message-ID: List members outside the UK might not be familiar with an excellent weekly column entitled "Bad Science" by Ben Goldacre appearing in the Guardian newspaper. This week's column focuses on an article by Tom Jefferson et al. in BMJ which looks at sponsored research and impact. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/14/bad-science-medical-research I would be most interested to hear any comments/reactions from list members who might have investigated this area. It clearly raises important issues. Dr Quentin L Burrell Isle of Man International Business School The Nunnery Old Castletown Road Douglas Isle of Man IM2 1QB via United Kingdom www.ibs.ac.im -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Jonathan at LEVITT.NET Sun Feb 15 02:29:02 2009 From: Jonathan at LEVITT.NET (=?windows-1252?Q?Jonathan_Levitt?=) Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 02:29:02 -0500 Subject: Sponsored research Message-ID: Lewison, Lipworth and de Francisco?s ?Input indicators from output measures: a bibliometric approach to the estimation of malaria research funding? (RESEARCH EVALUATION, Vol. 11 No. 3, p. 155-163, 2002) seems relevant. Best wishes, Jonathan Levitt. Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 20:34:50 -0000 From: "Quentin L. Burrell" Subject: Sponsored research List members outside the UK might not be familiar with an excellent weekly column entitled "Bad Science" by Ben Goldacre appearing in the Guardian newspaper. This week's column focuses on an article by Tom Jefferson et al. in BMJ which looks at sponsored research and impact. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/14/bad-science-medical- research I would be most interested to hear any comments/reactions from list members who might have investigated this area. It clearly raises important issues. Dr Quentin L Burrell Isle of Man International Business School The Nunnery Old Castletown Road Douglas Isle of Man IM2 1QB via United Kingdom www.ibs.ac.im From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Feb 18 10:13:45 2009 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:13:45 -0500 Subject: Hyett, M (Hyett, Matthew); Parker, G (Parker, Gordon) Can the highly cited psychiatric paper be predicted early? AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY, 43 (2): 173-176 2009 Message-ID: E-mail Address: m.hyett at unsw.edu.au Author(s): Hyett, M (Hyett, Matthew); Parker, G (Parker, Gordon) Title: Can the highly cited psychiatric paper be predicted early? Source: AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY, 43 (2): 173-176 2009 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Citations; comparative study; forecasting; psychiatry journals KeyWords Plus: IMPACT Abstract: Objective: Predicting the impact of any research article on its scientific discipline is often viewed as requiring the passage of time. A recent BMJ article, however, reported that an article's citation rate at 2 years could be predicted by data available 3 weeks following publication. The question remains as to whether establishing a citation trajectory at an early stage holds for psychiatric publications, given the low percentage of psychiatric articles in their analysis. The aim of the current article was to critically examine this area of the scientific literature. Method: Data were collected from the Institute for Scientific Information on scientific papers published in January/February 2006, in the top 30 psychiatric journals. Analyses examined the comparative impact of early citation numbers and several predictors identified in the BMJ article. Results: Only two BMJ variables (a larger number of references per article and larger number of authors) predicted higher citations at 2 years in the principal analysis. Citation counts at 1, 3, 6 and 12 months predicted citations at 2 years, with increasing success over time, and such citation counts were distinctly superior to the quantified variables in the previous study. Conclusions: It appears doubtful that data available at 3 weeks after publication for psychiatric articles are useful in predicting citation counts at 2 years. The trajectory of citation counts for a psychiatric article becomes more apparent with time. Addresses: [Hyett, Matthew] Univ New S Wales, Sch Psychiat, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Prince Wales Hosp, Black Dog Inst, Randwick, NSW 2031, Australia Reprint Address: Hyett, M, Univ New S Wales, Sch Psychiat, Sydney, NSW, Australia. E-mail Address: m.hyett at unsw.edu.au Funding Acknowledgement: Funding Agency Grant Number National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia 510135 NSW Department of Health Financial support for the present study was provided by grants from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (510135) and NSW Department of Health. Our thanks to Kerrie Eyers for assistance. Cited Reference Count: 9 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: INFORMA HEALTHCARE Publisher Address: 52 VANDERBILT AVE, NEW YORK, NY 10017 USA ISSN: 0004-8674 29-char Source Abbrev.: AUST N Z J PSYCHIAT ISO Source Abbrev.: Aust. N. Z. J. Psych. Source Item Page Count: 4 Subject Category: Psychiatry ISI Document Delivery No.: 395EV *I SCI INF ISI WEB SCI VERS 4 3 : 2008 BEREZIN AA KNOWLEDGE TECHNOLOGY 11 : 5 1998 GARFIELD E The history and meaning of the journal impact factor JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 295 : 90 2006 GARFIELD E CITATION ANALYSIS AS A TOOL IN JOURNAL EVALUATION - JOURNALS CAN BE RANKED BY FREQUENCY AND IMPACT OF CITATIONS FOR SCIENCE POLICY STUDIES SCIENCE 178 : 471 1972 HAYNES RB Second-order peer review of the medical literature for clinical practitioners JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 295 : 1801 2006 LEWISON G Fair assessment of the merits of psychiatric research BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY 190 : 314 DOI 10.1192/bjp.bp.106.024919 2007 LOKKER C Prediction of citation counts for clinical articles at two years using data available within three weeks of publication: retrospective cohort study BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 336 : 655 DOI 10.1136/bmj.39482.526713.BE 2008 OSBORNE JW PRACTICAL ASSESSMENT 7 : 1 2000 PEDHAZUR EJ MULTIPLE REGRESSION : 1997 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Feb 18 11:16:27 2009 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:16:27 -0500 Subject: Rivera-Garzon, D (Mauricio Rivera-Garzon, Diego) The Psychological Scientific Community that Publishes in the Journal Universitas Psychologica (2002-2008) UNIVERSITAS PSYCHOLOGICA, 7 (3): 917-932 2008 Message-ID: E-mail Address: d.rivera at javeriana.edu.co Author(s): Rivera-Garzon, D (Mauricio Rivera-Garzon, Diego) Title: The Psychological Scientific Community that Publishes in the Journal Universitas Psychologica (2002-2008) Source: UNIVERSITAS PSYCHOLOGICA, 7 (3): 917-932 2008 Language: Spanish Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Metric Studies of Information; Growth of Literature; Scientific Community of Psychology; Scientific Communication; Colombia; Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Abstract: The bibliometric analysis is presented in the journal Universitas Psychologica of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana during the period 2002-2008, to identify the scientific community in the area of Psychology that published in the journal and to know the communication networks used by the community. It works with bibliometric methods to characterize the scientific community that publishes a journal, for which information was structured as follows: citante information to identify the relationships inherent in the scientific community psychology, and the information cited, which refers to the identification of the types or communication channels, which are cited in articles identified in the information citante, namely the community that publishes a journal with respect to the international scientific community. Addresses: Pontificia Univ Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia Reprint Address: Rivera-Garzon, D, Pontificia Univ Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia. E-mail Address: d.rivera at javeriana.edu.co Cited Reference Count: 3 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: PONTIFICA UNIV JAVERIANA, FAC PSYCH Publisher Address: CARRERA 5 NUM 39-00, EDIFICIO MANUEL BRICENO, BOGOTA, 00000, COLOMBIA ISSN: 1657-9267 29-char Source Abbrev.: UNIV PSYCHOL ISO Source Abbrev.: Univ. Psychol. Source Item Page Count: 16 ISI Document Delivery No.: 397IG *APA PSYCINFO CONT CLASS : ALVARADO RU INVESTIGACION BIBLIO 13 : 125 1999 ARENDS T BIBLIOMETRY IN LATIN-AMERICA INTERCIENCIA 10 : 38 1985 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Feb 18 12:20:51 2009 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:20:51 -0500 Subject: Taborsky, M (Taborsky, Michael) Biased Citation Practice and Taxonomic Parochialism ETHOLOGY, 115 (2): 105-111 FEB 2009 Message-ID: E-mail Address: michael.taborsky at esh.unibe.ch Author(s): Taborsky, M (Taborsky, Michael) Title: Biased Citation Practice and Taxonomic Parochialism Source: ETHOLOGY, 115 (2): 105-111 FEB 2009 Language: English Document Type: Editorial Material KeyWords Plus: SCIENTIFIC IMPACT; PUBLICATION BIAS; BODY-SIZE; SCIENCE; BEHAVIOR; MANAGEMENT; SUCCESS; BEETLE; DISCRIMINATION; CONSPECIFICS Abstract: Citation bias in scientific literature is as widespread as unwelcome. Among other drawbacks, it has a detrimental influence by the wide use of citation statistics for political decisions on resource distribution. Here I ask whether a taxonomic citation bias exists in behavioural studies. The analysis revealed that (1) the taxonomic citation bias is on average large, with nearly a quarter of articles in a haphazardly chosen sample referring to the studied taxon alone, and (2) behavioural studies on mammals and birds show a significantly larger bias than work on other taxa. In contrast, research themes and questions studied do not seem to influence the taxonomic citation bias. Authors of different regions of the world do not differ in their taxonomic citation bias, and the number of papers cited in an article does not relate to the degree of bias. I discuss potential reasons for the substantial citation bias revealed by this analysis and conclude that taxonomic parochialism is a likely cause. Addresses: Univ Bern, Inst Ecol & Evolut, CH-3032 Bern, Switzerland Reprint Address: Taborsky, M, Univ Bern, Inst Ecol & Evolut, Wohlenstr 50A, CH-3032 Bern, Switzerland. E-mail Address: michael.taborsky at esh.unibe.ch Cited Reference Count: 83 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: BLACKWELL PUBLISHING Publisher Address: 9600 GARSINGTON RD, OXFORD OX4 2DQ, OXON, ENGLAND ISSN: 0179-1613 DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2009.01610.x 29-char Source Abbrev.: ETHOLOGY ISO Source Abbrev.: Ethology Source Item Page Count: 7 Subject Category: Psychology, Biological; Behavioral Sciences; Zoology ISI Document Delivery No.: 395FP ADAM D The counting house NATURE 415 : 726 2002 AGRILLO C Choice of female groups by male mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) ETHOLOGY 114 : 479 DOI 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2008.01493.x 2008 ALMEIDA AA Pupal period affects calling behavior of the wheat moth, Pseudaletia sequax (Lepidoptera : Noctuidae) ETHOLOGY 114 : 499 DOI 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2008.01492.x 2008 ANDERSEN T Why do males of the spider Pisaura mirabilis wrap their nuptial gifts in silk: Female preference or male control? 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TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION 20 : 475 DOI 10.1016/j.tree.2005.07.003 2005 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Feb 18 14:26:07 2009 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:26:07 -0500 Subject: Roundtree, AK; et al Poor reporting of search strategy and conflict of interest in over 250 narrative and systematic reviews of two biologic agents in arthritis: A systematic review JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY, 62 (2): 128-137 FEB 2009 Message-ID: E-mail Address: msalmazor at mdanderson.org Author(s): Roundtree, AK (Roundtree, Aimee Kendall); Kallen, MA (Kallen, Michael A.); Lopez-Olivo, MA (Lopez-Olivo, Maria A.); Kimmel, B (Kimmel, Barbara); Skidmore, B (Skidmore, Becky); Ortiz, Z (Ortiz, Zulma); Cox, V (Cox, Vanessa); Suarez-Almazor, ME (Suarez-Almazor, Maria E.) Title: Poor reporting of search strategy and conflict of interest in over 250 narrative and systematic reviews of two biologic agents in arthritis: A systematic review Source: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY, 62 (2): 128-137 FEB 2009 Language: English Document Type: Review Author Keywords: QUOROM instrument; Systematic review quality; Rheumatoid arthritis; Conflict of interest; Infliximab Etanercept KeyWords Plus: MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUGS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED- TRIALS; ANTITUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; FACTOR-ALPHA ANTAGONISTS; PAPER-BASED JOURNALS; RHEUMATOID-ARTHRITIS; COST-EFFECTIVENESS; COCHRANE REVIEWS; BLOCKING-AGENTS; CROHNS-DISEASE Abstract: Objective: To evaluate the quality of reviews about etanercept (ETN) and infliximab (IFX), two biologic treatments for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Study Design: A comprehensive, systematic review, including searches of MEDLINE, EMBASE, and other electronic databases and hand-searches for published and unpublished literature. Two raters independently examined each article and identified systematic reviews as those including either a description of: (1) sources for identification and data retrieval; or (2) search strategy. They applied the quality of reporting of meta-analyses (QUOROM) instrument to systematic reviews. Results: Of 3,620 total citations, 281 were identified as reviews. Of these, 26 (9%) qualified as systematic rather than narrative. Overall, few reviews described selection of sources, critical appraisal, or quantitative summary or synthesis. Systematic reviews most often failed to explain validity assessment. Several articles did not disclose authors' participation in industry-funded clinical trials. Most reviews published in high impact factor and rheumatology journals did not meet many quality standards. Significant associations existed between review type (narrative vs. systematic) and reported funding (P = 0.05), conflicts of interest (P = 0.005), and country of publication (P < 0.0001). Conclusion: More than 90% of the published reviews were narrative and did not report methods and conflicts of interest in sufficient detail, raising concerns about selection and reporting bias. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Addresses: [Suarez-Almazor, Maria E.] Univ Texas MD Anderson Canc Ctr, Unit 1465, Houston, TX 77030 USA; [Roundtree, Aimee Kendall] Univ Houston Downtown, Houston, TX USA; [Kimmel, Barbara] Baylor Coll Med, Houston Ctr Qual Care & Utilizat Studies, Houston, TX 77030 USA; [Skidmore, Becky] Soc Obstetricians & Gynaecologists Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada; [Ortiz, Zulma] Acad Nacl Med Buenos Aires, Inst Invest Epidemiol, Buenos Aires, DF, Argentina Reprint Address: Suarez-Almazor, ME, Univ Texas MD Anderson Canc Ctr, Unit 1465, 1515 Holcombe Blvd, Houston, TX 77030 USA. E-mail Address: msalmazor at mdanderson.org Funding Acknowledgement: Funding Agency Grant Number Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH) National Institutes of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Disease Disorders 5 K24 AR053593 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) 5 U18 HS016093 A major portion of this work was funded by the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH). In addition, MSA has a K24 career award from the National Institutes of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Disease Disorders [5 K24 AR053593]. She is also the director of the Houston Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics (CERTs), which receives core support from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) [5 U18 HS016093]. 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Understanding Exceptional Publication Productivity in the Leading Marketing Journals JOURNAL OF MARKETING, 73 (1): 122-132 JAN 2009 Message-ID: E-mail Address: Steven.Seggie at ozyegin.edu.tr Author(s): Seggie, SH (Seggie, Steven H.); Griffith, DA (Griffith, David A.) Title: What Does It Take to Get Promoted in Marketing Academia? Understanding Exceptional Publication Productivity in the Leading Marketing Journals Source: JOURNAL OF MARKETING, 73 (1): 122-132 JAN 2009 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: marketing academia; scientometrics; imperfect substitution; publication productivity; career advancement KeyWords Plus: CAREER RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY; BUSINESS; IMPACT; SUPERSTARS; DISCIPLINE; SCIENTISTS; MANAGEMENT; ECONOMICS; PATTERNS; FACULTY Abstract: Institutional competition to retain and recruit marketing scholars capable of publishing in the leading marketing journals has intensified. Although increased emphasis has been placed on publication productivity in the leading marketing journals, little is known about questions such as (1) What level of publication productivity in the leading marketing journals does it take to get promoted in marketing academia? (2) What level of publication productivity in the leading marketing journals warrants exception? and (3) What drives research productivity in the leading marketing journals? The authors draw on the economic concept of imperfect substitution to address these questions using two data sets: (1) a census of publication activity in the leading marketing journals of 337 scholars in the top 70 institutions who were promoted between 1992 and 2006 and (2) an examination of 2672 scholars who published 3492 articles in the four leading marketing journals over the 1982-2006 period. The results indicate that the average number of publications by successful candidates for promotion to associate professor from PhD conferral at the top 10 institutions was .57 articles in the leading marketing journals per year, compared with .47 in the top 11-20 institutions,.47 in the top 21-40 institutions, and .26 in the top 41-70 institutions. The authors also present findings related to promotion to full professor both from PhD conferral and from promotion to associate professor, as well as scholars identified as warranting exceptional publication productivity. The findings provide substantive implications for marketing academics, for those involved with the recruitment and retention of marketing academics, and for the field of marketing thought in general. Addresses: [Seggie, Steven H.] Ozyegin Univ, Istanbul, Turkey; [Griffith, David A.] Michigan State Univ, Eli Broad Grad Sch Management, Dept Mkt, E Lansing, MI 48824 USA Reprint Address: Seggie, SH, Ozyegin Univ, Istanbul, Turkey. E-mail Address: Steven.Seggie at ozyegin.edu.tr Cited Reference Count: 31 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: AMER MARKETING ASSOC Publisher Address: 311S WACKER DR, STE 5800, CHICAGO, IL 60606-6629 USA ISSN: 0022-2429 29-char Source Abbrev.: J MARKETING ISO Source Abbrev.: J. Mark. 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MARKETING SCIENCE 24 : 585 DOI 10.1287/mksc.1050.0152 2005 TELLIS GJ In search of diversity: The record of major marketing journals JOURNAL OF MARKETING RESEARCH 36 : 120 1999 THEOHARAKIS V Perceptual differences of marketing journals: A worldwide perspective MARKETING LETTERS 13 : 389 2002 TRIESCHMANN JS Serving multiple constituencies in business schools: MBA program versus research performance ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 43 : 1130 2000 J MARKETING 69 : 8 2005 WILLIAMSON IO Predicting early career research productivity: the case of management faculty JOURNAL OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR 24 : 25 DOI 10.1002/job.178 2003 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Feb 18 14:50:20 2009 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:50:20 -0500 Subject: Krapivin, M (Krapivin, Mikalai); Marchese, M (Marchese, Maurizio) Focused Page Rank in Scientific Papers Ranking DIGITAL LIBRARIES: UNIVERSAL AND UBIQUITOUS ACCESS TO INFORMATION, PROCEEDINGS, 5362: 144-153 2008 Message-ID: Email Address: mikalai.krapivin at disi.unitn.it Author(s): Krapivin, M (Krapivin, Mikalai); Marchese, M (Marchese, Maurizio) Editor(s): Buchanan, G; Masoodian, M; Cunningham, SJ Title: Focused Page Rank in Scientific Papers Ranking Source: DIGITAL LIBRARIES: UNIVERSAL AND UBIQUITOUS ACCESS TO INFORMATION, PROCEEDINGS, 5362: 144-153 2008 Book series title: LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE Language: English Document Type: Proceedings Paper Conference Title: 11th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries Conference Date: DEC 02-05, 2008 Conference Location: Bali, INDONESIA Conference Sponsors: Natl Lib Indonesia.; Univ Indonesia.; Petra Christian Univ. Author Keywords: Scientometrics; Page Rank; Focused Surfer; Citation-based metrics; Digital Libraries Abstract: We propose Focused Page Rank (FPR) algorithm adaptation for the problem of scientific papers ranking. FPR is based on the Focused Surfer model, where the probability to follow the reference in a paper is proportional to its citation count. Evaluation on Citeseer autonomous digital library content showed that proposed model is a tradeoff between traditional citation count and basic Page Rank (PR). In contrast to basic Page Rank, proposed Focused Surfer model suffers less from the "outbound links" problem. We believe that FPR algorithm is closer to reality because highly cited papers are more visible and tend to attract more citations in future. This is in accordance with the one of the most significant principles of Scientometrics. No need for lexical analysis of the domain corpus and simplicity of implementation are among the strong points of the proposed model and make the proposed ranking technique attractive for academia digital libraries. Addresses: [Krapivin, Mikalai; Marchese, Maurizio] Univ Trent, DISI, I- 38100 Trento, Italy Cited Reference Count: 13 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN Publisher Address: HEIDELBERGER PLATZ 3, D-14197 BERLIN, GERMANY ISSN: 0302-9743 ISBN: 978-3-540-89532-9 29-char Source Abbrev.: LECT NOTE COMPUT SCI Source Item Page Count: 10 ISI Document Delivery No.: BIT31 ABOUASSALEH T WWW 2007 : 2007 BOLLEN J JCDI : 2008 CHEN P Finding scientific gems with Google's PageRank algorithm JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS 1 : 8 2007 DILIGENTI M WWW 2002 : 84 2002 FUYONG Y 8 ACIS INT C SOFTW E 2007 797 GLANZEL W BIBLIOMETRICS RES FI : 2003 HAVELIWALA T EFFICIENT COMPUTATIO : 84 1999 KAMVAR S WWW 2003 : 2003 LANGVILLE AN J INTERNET MATH 15 : 335 2004 PAGE L P 7 INT WWW C : 107 1998 PRICE DJD LITTLE SCI BIG SCI : 1963 SOBEK M EFFECT OUTBOUND LINK : 2003 SUN Y POPULARITY WEIGHTED : 2007 From blar at DB.DK Thu Feb 19 20:41:15 2009 From: blar at DB.DK (Birger Larsen) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:41:15 +0100 Subject: Call for posters and doctoral forum applications - ISSI 2009 Message-ID: (Apologies for cross postings) CALL FOR POSTERS & DOCTORAL FORUM APPLICATIONS ISSI 2009 - 12th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics July 14-17, 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil http://www.issi2009.org *** Deadline for posters: March 16, 2009 *** *** Deadline for Doctoral Forum applications: April 1, 2009 *** SCOPE & AREAS OF INTEREST The biannual ISSI conference is the premier international venue for research within the areas of informetrics, scientometrics and bibliometrics. For more information on the scope of the conference and the areas of interest please visit the conference web site. POSTER PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished work that is not being considered for publication in any other forum. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically using the camera-ready templates available at the conference web site. *** Note that for posters there is a page limit of 2 pages *** All poster papers must conform to the ISSI 2009 submission template. Uploading instructions and more detailed submission instructions are available from the conference website (http://www.issi2009.org). All submissions will be peer reviewed and all accepted publications will be published in the proceedings of the conference. One author per poster is required to register and attend the conference to present the poster at the poster session if accepted for publication. DOCTORAL FORUM APPLICATIONS For the third time a Doctoral Forum is offered at the ISSI conference. The Doctoral Forum is an offer and an invitation to doctoral students to present their research projects to senior researchers and to their colleagues, and in return receive constructive feedback. Applicants should be doctoral students, from any country, conducting ongoing PhD research on any of ISSI 2009 conference themes and related fields. Please visit the conference web for more information of the Doctoral Forum, including details on how to apply. IMPORTANT DATES Poster papers Submission deadline: March 16, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: April 17, 2009 Camera ready poster papers to be submitted: April 30, 2009 Doctoral Forum Submission deadline: April 1, 2009 Conference Dates Workshops and Doctoral Forum: July 14, 2009 Main Conference: July 15-17, 2009 ORGANIZERS ISSI 2009 Chairs: Abel L. Packer (BIREME/PAHO/WHO, Brazil) Ronald Rousseau (KHBO, Belgium) Program Chairs: Birger Larsen (Royal School of Library & Information Science, Denmark) Jacqueline Leta (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Conference Chairs: Jacqueline Leta (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Rog?rio Meneghini (BIREME/PAHO/WHO, Brazil) Poster Chairs: Jane M. Russell (Universidad Nacional Aut?noma de M?xico, Mexico) Martin Meyer (University of Sussex, UK) Satellite Workshop Chair: Peter Ingwersen (Royal School of Library & Information Science, Denmark) Doctoral Forum Chairs: Jesper W. Schneider (Royal School of Library & Information Science, Denmark) Sonia M. R. Vasconcelos (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Regional Program Chairs: Africa: Dennis Ocholla (University of Zululand, South Africa) Australia / Oceania: Mari Davis (University of New South Wales, Australia) China / East Asia: Liming Liang (Henan Normal University, China) Europe: Wolfgang Gl?nzel (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) India / Middle east: Aparna Basu (University of Delhi, India) Latin America: Manuel Krauskopf (Universidad Nacional Andr?s Bello, Chile) North America: Katy B?rner (Indiana University, USA) In addition, ISSI 2009 will have an international scientific committee and a national committee. CONFIRMED SPONSORS National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, Brazil The Eugene Garfield Foundation ISSI 2009 is organised under the auspices of ISSI - the International Society for Informetrics and Scientometrics (http://www.issi-society.info/). The conference language is English. CONTACT See http://www.issi2009.org/php/contact.php?lang=en From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Fri Feb 20 06:08:11 2009 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:08:11 +0100 Subject: The Dynamics of Exchanges and References among Scientific Texts, and the Autopoiesis of Discursive Knowledge; preprint version Message-ID: The Dynamics of Exchanges and References among Scientific Texts, and the Autopoiesis of Discursive Knowledge Abstract Discursive knowledge emerges as codification in flows of communication. The flows of communication are constrained and enabled by networks of communications as their historical manifestations at each moment of time. New publications modify the existing networks by changing the distributions of attributes and relations in document sets, while the networks are self-referentially updated along trajectories. Codification operates reflexively: the network structures are reconstructed from the perspective of hindsight. Codification along different axes differentiates discursive knowledge into specialties. These intellectual control structures are constructed bottom-up, but feed top-down back upon the production of new knowledge. However, the forward dynamics of diffusion in the development of the communication networks along trajectories differs from the feedback mechanisms of control. Analysis of the development of scientific communication in terms of evolving scientific literatures provides us with a model which makes these evolutionary processes amenable to measurement. Diana Lucio Arias & Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands ** apologies for cross-postings -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Feb 20 10:52:26 2009 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:52:26 -0500 Subject: Holguin, JA (Holguin, Jess Anthony) Occupational Therapy and the Journal Citation Reports: 10-Year Performance Trajectories AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY, 63 (1): 105-112 Sp. Iss. SI JAN-FEB 2009 Message-ID: E-mail Address: jholguin at usc.edu Author(s): Holguin, JA (Holguin, Jess Anthony) Title: Occupational Therapy and the Journal Citation Reports: 10-Year Performance Trajectories Source: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY, 63 (1): 105-112 Sp. Iss. SI JAN-FEB 2009 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: bibliometrics; occupational therapy; peer review; periodicals; research KeyWords Plus: IMPACT FACTOR; PUBLICATION; QUALITY; HEALTH Abstract: The purpose of this study was to document performance of occupational therapy journals on the metrics of the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), the annually appearing index used as a yardstick to assess the quality of scholarly publications. Outcomes for the field's two indexed journals, the American Journal of Occupational Therapy and OTJR: Occupation, Participation and Health, were assessed over a 10-year period (1996-2005)to determine their overall standing and patterns of change on each of the JCR's five metrics. The mean category ranking for the two journals was generally above the 50th percentile. However, they performed least adequately and evidenced a downward trend over time on the most widely used metric (the journal impact factor). Possible reasons underlying this latter result are explored, pressing implications of the overall findings for practice and research are discussed, and strategic steps toward ethically safeguarding the profession's viability are offered. Addresses: [Holguin, Jess Anthony] Univ So Calif, Div Occupat Sci & Occupat Therapy, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA; [Holguin, Jess Anthony] St Jude Med Ctr, Fullerton, CA 92835 USA Reprint Address: Holguin, JA, Univ So Calif, Div Occupat Sci & Occupat Therapy, CHP 133,1540 Alcazar St, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA. E-mail Address: jholguin at usc.edu Cited Reference Count: 22 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: AMER OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY ASSOC, INC Publisher Address: 4720 MONTGOMERY LANE, BETHESDA, MD 20814-3425 USA ISSN: 0272-9490 29-char Source Abbrev.: AMER J OCCUP THER ISO Source Abbrev.: Am. J. Occup. Ther. Source Item Page Count: 8 Subject Category: Rehabilitation ISI Document Delivery No.: 399JD THOMS SCI CORP J CIT REP : 2007 BARNABY DP Alternative to the Science Citation Index impact factor as an assessment of emergency medicine's scientific contributions ANNALS OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE 31 : 78 1998 CALLAHAM M Journal prestige, publication bias, and other characteristics associated with citation of published studies in peer-reviewed journals JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 287 : 2847 2002 CAMERON BD Trends in the usage of ISI bibliometric data: Uses, abuses, and implications PORTAL-LIBRARIES AND THE ACADEMY 5 : 105 2005 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 CHEEK J What's in a number? Issues in providing evidence of impact and quality of research(ers) QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH 16 : 423 DOI 10.1177/1049732305285701 2006 DELLASALA S A double dissociation between impact factor and cited half life CORTEX 43 : 174 2007 DRUSS BG Tracking publication outcomes of National Institutes of Health grants AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE 118 : 658 2005 FRONTERA WR Rehabilitation medicine summit: Building research capacity: Executive summary AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY 60 : 165 2006 GARFIELD E INT C PEER REV BIOME : 2005 GARFIELD E The history and meaning of the journal impact factor JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 295 : 90 2006 GARFIELD E SCI CITATION INDEX 1 1 : 5 1963 GARFIELD E I had a dream ... about uncitedness SCIENTIST 12 : 10 1998 KURMIS AP Current concepts review - Understanding the limitations of the journal impact factor JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY-AMERICAN VOLUME 85 : 2449 2003 LAWRENCE PA The politics of publication - Authors, reviewers and editors must act to protect the quality of research. NATURE 422 : 259 DOI 10.1038/422259a 2003 MCVEIGH ME PHYSIOLOGIST 47 : 458 2004 MOED HF Towards appropriate indicators of journal impact SCIENTOMETRICS 46 : 575 1999 NIEMINEN P BMC MED RES METHODOL 6 : 42 2006 PRICE JH Journal impact factor: Bibliometrics and the Journal of School Health JOURNAL OF SCHOOL HEALTH 76 : 123 2006 RINIA ED SCIENTOMETRICS 51 : 293 2004 RODGER S AUSTR OCCUPATIONAL T 53 : 1 2006 SOMBATSOMPOP N A modified method for calculating the Impact Factors of journals in ISI Journal Citation Reports: Polymer Science Category in 1997-2001 SCIENTOMETRICS 60 : 217 2004 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Feb 20 11:12:52 2009 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:12:52 -0500 Subject: Matsubayashi, M; Kurata, K; Sakai, Y; Morioka, T; Kato, S; Mine, S; Ueda, S (Ueda, Shuichi) Status of open access in the biomedical field in 2005 JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, 97 (1): 4-11 JAN 2009 Message-ID: E-mail Address: mamiko at slis.tsukuba; keiko at slis.keio.ac.jp; yukiko at lib.keio.ac.jp; QYB00077 at nifty.com; skato at bureau.tohoku.ac.jp; smine at nagoya-u.jp; ueda at slis.keio.ac.jp Author(s): Matsubayashi, M (Matsubayashi, Mamiko); Kurata, K (Kurata, Keiko); Sakai, Y (Sakai, Yukiko); Morioka, T (Morioka, Tomoko); Kato, S (Kato, Shinya); Mine, S (Mine, Shinji); Ueda, S (Ueda, Shuichi) Title: Status of open access in the biomedical field in 2005 Source: JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, 97 (1): 4-11 JAN 2009 Language: English Document Type: Proceedings Paper KeyWords Plus: CITATIONS; ARTICLES; IMPACT Abstract: Objectives: This study was designed to document the state of open access (OA) in the biomedical field in 2005. Methods: PubMed was used to collect bibliographic data on target articles published in 2005. PubMed, Google Scholar, Google, and OAIster were then used to establish the availability of free full text online for these publications. Articles were analyzed by type of OA, country, type of article, impact factor, publisher, and publishing model to provide insight into the current state of OA. Results: Twenty-seven percent of all the articles were accessible as OA articles. More than 70% of the OA articles were provided through journal websites. Midrank commercial publishers often provided OA articles in OA journals, while society publishers tended to provide OA articles in the context of a traditional subscription model. The rate of OA articles available from the websites of individual authors or in institutional repositories was quite low. Discussion/Conclusions: In 2005, OA in the biomedical field was achieved under an umbrella of existing scholarly communication systems. Typically, OA articles were published as part of subscription journals published by scholarly societies. OA journals published by BioMed Central contributed to a small portion of all OA articles. Addresses: [Matsubayashi, Mamiko] Univ Tsukuba, Grad Sch Lib Informat & Media Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3058550, Japan; [Kurata, Keiko; Ueda, Shuichi] Keio Univ, Sch Lib & Informat Sci, Minato Ku, Tokyo 1088345, Japan; [Sakai, Yukiko] Keio Univ, Shinanomachi Media Ctr, Shinjuku Ku, Tokyo 1608582, Japan; [Morioka, Tomoko] Kunitachi Coll Mus, Kunitachi Coll Music Lib, Tachikawa, Tokyo 1908520, Japan; [Kato, Shinya] Tohoku Univ, Tohoku Univ Lib, Aoba Ku, Sendai, Miyagi 9808576, Japan; [Mine, Shinji] Nagoya Univ, Lib Studies, Chikusa Ku, Nagoya, Aichi 4648601, Japan Reprint Address: Matsubayashi, M, Univ Tsukuba, Grad Sch Lib Informat & Media Studies, 1-2 Kasuga, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3058550, Japan. E-mail Address: mamiko at slis.tsukuba; keiko at slis.keio.ac.jp; yukiko at lib.keio.ac.jp; QYB00077 at nifty.com; skato at bureau.tohoku.ac.jp; smine at nagoya-u.jp; ueda at slis.keio.ac.jp Cited Reference Count: 16 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOC Publisher Address: 65 EAST WACKER PLACE, STE 1900, CHICAGO, IL 60601-7298 USA ISSN: 1536-5050 DOI: 10.3163/1536-5050.97.1.002 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.: 398NK *COUNC SCI TECHN P SCI TECHN BAS PLAN F : 2006 *NIH NIH PUBL ACC POL DET : *NIH MAN SUBM NIHMS STAT : *SCI TECHN COMM HC SCI PUBL FREE ALL IN : 2004 ANTELMAN K Do open-access articles have a greater research impact? COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES 65 : 372 2004 HAJJEM C IEEE DATA ENG B 28 : 39 2005 HARNAD S D LIB MAGAZINE JUN 10 : 2004 HARNAD S D LIB MAGAZINE MAR 11 : 2005 KURTZ MJ The effect of use and access on citations INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT 41 : 1395 DOI 10.1016/j.ipm.2005.03.010 2005 LAWRENCE S NATURE : MATSUBAYASHI M P AM SOC INFORM SCI 43 : 98 2006 MIYAIRI N CURR AWARE 284 : 2005 SUBER P OPEN ACCESS OVERVIEW : 2002 WALTERS GD Predicting subsequent citations to articles published in twelve crime- psychology journals: Author impact versus journal impact SCIENTOMETRICS 69 : 499 2006 WILLINSKY J ACCESS PRINCIPLE CAS : 2006 WREN JD Open access and openly accessible: a study of scientific publications shared via the internet BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 330 : 1128 2005 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Feb 20 12:24:52 2009 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:24:52 -0500 Subject: Bonnett, P (Bonnett, Penny) From kitchen table to electronic editorial office: the evolution of the journal HEALTH INFORMATION AND LIBRARIES JOURNAL, 25: 4-9 Suppl. 1 DEC 2008 Message-ID: E-mail Address: pabonnett at tiscali.co.uk Author(s): Bonnett, P (Bonnett, Penny) Title: From kitchen table to electronic editorial office: the evolution of the journal Source: HEALTH INFORMATION AND LIBRARIES JOURNAL, 25: 4-9 Suppl. 1 DEC 2008 Language: English Document Type: Editorial Material KeyWords Plus: IMPACT FACTOR E-mail Address: pabonnett at tiscali.co.uk Cited Reference Count: 15 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: BLACKWELL PUBLISHING Publisher Address: 9600 GARSINGTON RD, OXFORD OX4 2DQ, OXON, ENGLAND ISSN: 1471-1834 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-1842.2008.00794.x 29-char Source Abbrev.: HEALTH INFO LIBR J ISO Source Abbrev.: Heatlth Info. Libr. J. Source Item Page Count: 6 Subject Category: Information Science & Library Science ISI Document Delivery No.: 398WZ BONNETT P ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN 85 : 179 1992 BONNETT P HLTH LIB REV 15 : 209 1998 BONNETT P HLTH LIB REV 13 : 174 1996 BONNETT P HLTH LIB REV 13 : 175 1996 CHALMERS I GETTING TO GRIPS WITH COCHRANE,ARCHIE AGENDA BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 305 : 786 1992 GARFIELD E Journal impact factor: a brief review CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL 161 : 979 1999 GARFIELD E HLTH LIBR REV 2 : 159 1985 GLANVILLE J HLTH LIB REV 11 : 243 1994 GODBOLT S HLTH LIB REV 6 : 1 1989 LEFEBVRE C HLTH LIBR REV 11 : 235 1994 PALMER J HLTH INFORM LIB J 18 : 1 2001 PALMER J HLTH LIB REV 16 : 1 1999 SAHA S Impact factor: a valid measure of journal quality? JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 91 : 42 2003 WALTON TA Policing the race: US men's distance running and the crisis of whiteness SOCIOLOGY OF SPORT JOURNAL 23 : 1 2006 WHITSED N HLTH LIB REV 15 : 219 1998 From dwojick at HUGHES.NET Sun Feb 22 13:18:11 2009 From: dwojick at HUGHES.NET (David E. Wojick) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:18:11 -0500 Subject: The Dynamics of Exchanges and References among Scientific Texts, and the Autopoiesis of Discursive Knowledge; preprint version In-Reply-To: <96287CE12961445EAEBE81FC216CD5D6@loet> Message-ID: Dear Loet, Where does the natural world that science studies fit into this system? New specialties develop because of the way the world is, not because science wants them. That is, new discoveries lead to new lines of inquiry that attract new communities. Where these discoveries occur and what the new trajectories are is not up to the scientists, rather it is in a sense up to nature. This is why the dynamics are unpredictable; we really do not know where we are going. Reality is thus the control mechanism, the ultimate feedback loop. This suggests that the best model for scientific dynamics might be swarming (in pursuit of understanding), not self organization. But I freely admit I am not familiar with the community of thought you are drawing upon in this essay, except for a few of your prior writings. So I may simply have misunderstood. My best regards, David Wojick The Dynamics of Exchanges and References among Scientific Texts, and the Autopoiesis of Discursive Knowledge Abstract Discursive knowledge emerges as codification in flows of communication. The flows of communication are constrained and enabled by networks of communications as their historical manifestations at each moment of time. New publications modify the existing networks by changing the distributions of attributes and relations in document sets, while the networks are self-referentially updated along trajectories. Codification operates reflexively: the network structures are reconstructed from the perspective of hindsight. Codification along different axes differentiates discursive knowledge into specialties. These intellectual control structures are constructed bottom-up, but feed top-down back upon the production of new knowledge. However, the forward dynamics of diffusion in the development of the communication networks along trajectories differs from the feedback mechanisms of control. Analysis of the development of scientific communication in terms of evolving scientific literatures provides us with a model which makes these evolutionary processes amenable to measurement. Diana Lucio Arias & Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands ** apologies for cross-postings -- "David E. Wojick, Ph.D., PE" 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 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 Jessica.Shepherd at GUARDIAN.CO.UK Sun Feb 22 13:34:34 2009 From: Jessica.Shepherd at GUARDIAN.CO.UK (Jessica Shepherd) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:34:34 +0000 Subject: Jessica Shepherd/Guardian/GNL is out of the office. 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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 loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Sun Feb 22 14:30:26 2009 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:30:26 +0100 Subject: The Dynamics of Exchanges and References among Scientific Texts, and the Autopoiesis of Discursive Knowledge; preprint version In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear David, The natural world enter the system in terms of knowledge claims in new manuscripts, i.e., as variation. The submissions can contain observational statements. At this end, the system can be swarming, indeed. The dynamics, however, are determined by the selection mechanisms and not by the variation. Upon validation, the variation is incorporated in the structure at a next moment in time. Best wishes, Loet _____ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ _____ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of David E. Wojick Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 7:18 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] The Dynamics of Exchanges and References among Scientific Texts, and the Autopoiesis of Discursive Knowledge; preprint version Dear Loet, Where does the natural world that science studies fit into this system? New specialties develop because of the way the world is, not because science wants them. That is, new discoveries lead to new lines of inquiry that attract new communities. Where these discoveries occur and what the new trajectories are is not up to the scientists, rather it is in a sense up to nature. This is why the dynamics are unpredictable; we really do not know where we are going. Reality is thus the control mechanism, the ultimate feedback loop. This suggests that the best model for scientific dynamics might be swarming (in pursuit of understanding), not self organization. But I freely admit I am not familiar with the community of thought you are drawing upon in this essay, except for a few of your prior writings. So I may simply have misunderstood. My best regards, David Wojick The Dynamics of Exchanges and References among Scientific Texts, and the Autopoiesis of Discursive Knowledge Abstract Discursive knowledge emerges as codification in flows of communication. The flows of communication are constrained and enabled by networks of communications as their historical manifestations at each moment of time. New publications modify the existing networks by changing the distributions of attributes and relations in document sets, while the networks are self-referentially updated along trajectories. Codification operates reflexively: the network structures are reconstructed from the perspective of hindsight. Codification along different axes differentiates discursive knowledge into specialties. These intellectual control structures are constructed bottom-up, but feed top-down back upon the production of new knowledge. However, the forward dynamics of diffusion in the development of the communication networks along trajectories differs from the feedback mechanisms of control. Analysis of the development of scientific communication in terms of evolving scientific literatures provides us with a model which makes these evolutionary processes amenable to measurement. Diana Lucio Arias & Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands ** apologies for cross-postings -- "David E. Wojick, Ph.D., PE" 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 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 dwojick at HUGHES.NET Mon Feb 23 07:04:16 2009 From: dwojick at HUGHES.NET (David Wojick) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:04:16 +0000 Subject: The Dynamics of Exchanges and References among Scientific Texts, and the Autopoiesis of Discursive Knowledge; preprint version Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Mon Feb 23 09:25:43 2009 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:25:43 +0100 Subject: The Dynamics of Exchanges and References among Scientific Texts, and the Autopoiesis of Discursive Knowledge; preprint version In-Reply-To: <977918206.42048.1235390657206.JavaMail.mail@webmail04> Message-ID: Dear David, Apologies for misunderstanding your metaphor of swarming. It seems to me that you got the gist of the message that different selection mechanisms are operating. We try to specify this using models of self-organization which are more common in systems theory and general sociology than in science studies (hitherto :-) ). Best wishes, Loet _____ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ _____ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu] On Behalf Of David Wojick Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 1:04 PM To: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] The Dynamics of Exchanges and References among Scientific Texts, and the Autopoiesis of Discursive Knowledge; preprint version Dear Loet, By selection mechanisms and validation do you mean (1) selection of papers for publication and/or citation or (2) that the knowledge claim is selected, accepted and used by others as a basis for further research? (The latter is what I mean by swarming.) I do not think that publication in a specific journal or citation play a major role in the dynamics of science. The network structures we map using journals and citations are merely vague indications of scientific activity. They do not determine the dynamics. But again perhaps I have misunderstood. Your language is quite different from that of the US science of science community that I am in. My best regards, David Feb 22, 2009 02:44:29 PM, loet at leydesdorff.net wrote: Dear David, The natural world enter the system in terms of knowledge claims in new manuscripts, i.e., as variation. The submissions can contain observational statements. At this end, the system can be swarming, indeed. The dynamics, however, are determined by the selection mechanisms and not by the variation. Upon validation, the variation is incorporated in the structure at a next moment in time. Best wishes, Loet _____ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ _____ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of David E. Wojick Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 7:18 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] The Dynamics of Exchanges and References among Scientific Texts, and the Autopoiesis of Discursive Knowledge; preprint version Dear Loet, Where does the natural world that science studies fit into this system? New specialties develop because of the way the world is, not because science wants them. That is, new discoveries lead to new lines of inquiry that attract new communities. Where these discoveries occur and what the new trajectories are is not up to the scientists, rather it is in a sense up to nature. This is why the dynamics are unpredictable; we really do not know where we are going. Reality is thus the control mechanism, the ultimate feedback loop. This suggests that the best model for scientific dynamics might be swarming (in pursuit of understanding), not self organization. But I freely admit I am not familiar with the community of thought you are drawing upon in this essay, except for a few of your prior writings. So I may simply have misunderstood. My best regards, David Wojick The Dynamics of Exchanges and References among Scientific Texts, and the Autopoiesis of Discursive Knowledge Abstract Discursive knowledge emerges as codification in flows of communication. The flows of communication are constrained and enabled by networks of communications as their historical manifestations at each moment of time. New publications modify the existing networks by changing the distributions of attributes and relations in document sets, while the networks are self-referentially updated along trajectories. Codification operates reflexively: the network structures are reconstructed from the perspective of hindsight. Codification along different axes differentiates discursive knowledge into specialties. These intellectual control structures are constructed bottom-up, but feed top-down back upon the production of new knowledge. However, the forward dynamics of diffusion in the development of the communication networks along trajectories differs from the feedback mechanisms of control. Analysis of the development of scientific communication in terms of evolving scientific literatures provides us with a model which makes these evolutionary processes amenable to measurement. Diana Lucio Arias & Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands ** apologies for cross-postings -- "David E. Wojick, Ph.D., PE" 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 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 garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Feb 23 12:23:40 2009 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:23:40 -0500 Subject: Uzunboylu, H; Ozcinar, Z Research and Trends in Computer-assisted Language Learning during 1990-2008: Results of a Citation Analysis EGITIM ARASTIRMALARI-EURASIAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH, 8 (34): 133-150 WIN 2009 Message-ID: E-mail Address: huzunboylu at neu.edu.tr; zehra.ozcinar at aoa.edu.tr Author(s): Uzunboylu, H (Uzunboylu, Huseyin); Ozcinar, Z (Ozcinar, Zehra) Title: Research and Trends in Computer-assisted Language Learning during 1990-2008: Results of a Citation Analysis Source: EGITIM ARASTIRMALARI-EURASIAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH, 8 (34): 133-150 WIN 2009 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Computer-assisted language learning; citation analysis; research; trends; h-index KeyWords Plus: JOURNALS; PSYCHOLOGY; CLASSICS; PRODUCTIVITY; PUBLICATION; EDUCATION; ARTICLES Abstract: Problem Statement: In a search of available literature, there wasn't any articles found that are related to computer-assisted language learning (CALL) on content analysis or citation analysis. This reveals that there was a research gap for citation analysis in the field of CALL. Therefore, there's a necessity for citation analysis in the field of CALL to examine the trends of analysis, research and citation. Purpose of Study: The purpose of this study was to examine research and trends in CALL published in selected professional * documents during 1990- 2008. Methods: Citation analysis was used in this study to investigate documents related to CALL that are indexed by the Web of Science, Scopus EBSCOhost and ScienceDirect. "Computer-assisted language learning," "computer- assisted language instruction," "computer-aided language learning," "CALL," "technology-assisted language learning," etc. were the keywords used in searching for documents. There were a total of 1309 documents analyzed that were judged to be relevant to the field of computer-assisted language learning. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze and report this data. Findings and Results: The principal documents related to CALL published in the sources during 1990-2008 were articles and English was the most frequently-used language. The most frequent publishers of documents related to the CALL field were Computer-assisted Language Learning and Language Learning and Technology journals. Interestingly, the number of published documents increased sharply to a high level in 1997, as compared to the previous year. The majority of the source documents which were related to CALL were co-authored. Speech and Learning Systems were the most frequently used keywords. A total of 3536 cited documents were related to CALL during the years 1990-2008 by the authors. The most frequently-cited article topic was "conversation/computer-mediated communication," and descriptive research was used most frequently in research design. Conclusions and Recommendations: The trend line is an increasing trend in the number of articles on CALL starting from the year 2000. It was recommended that a combination of citation analysis and other analysis types should be used in future research studies. It was also recommended that similar studies should be conducted with the journal and should be repeated at least every five years. Addresses: [Uzunboylu, Huseyin] Near E Univ, Fac Educ, N Cyprus, Turkey; [Ozcinar, Zehra] Ataturk Teacher Acad, N Cyprus, Turkey Reprint Address: Uzunboylu, H, Near E Univ, Fac Educ, Via Mersin 10, N Cyprus, Turkey. E-mail Address: huzunboylu at neu.edu.tr; zehra.ozcinar at aoa.edu.tr Cited Reference Count: 41 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ANI YAYINCILIK Publisher Address: KIZILIRMAK SOK NO 10-A, BAKANLIKLAR, ANKARA 00000, TURKEY ISSN: 1302-597X 29-char Source Abbrev.: EGIT ARAST ISO Source Abbrev.: Egit. Arast. 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Sloan) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:47:44 -0800 Subject: Determining the "top journals" in a field? Message-ID: Someone recently asked me about the ?top journals? in the field of Library and Information Science (LIS). The question concerned the best journals to publish in for promotion and tenure purposes. My first reaction was to go to the JCR and sort the journals in the ?Information and Library Science? subject category by impact factor. But I was also reminded of Nisonger and Davis and their 2005 paper ?The Perception of Library and Information Science Journals by LIS Education Deans and ARL Library Directors: A Replication of the Kohl?Davis Study?. Table 2 in that paper shows the ?Average Rating of Journal Prestige in Terms of Value for Tenure and Promotion? by deans at schools of library and information science. I compared the top ten journals from Table 2 in the Nisonger and Davis paper with the top ten journals in the field ranked by the JCR 5-year impact factor. I was surprised to find that there was very little overlap between the rankings. The #1 journal on the deans? rankings (JASIST) did not make the top ten in the JCR. The journal overwhelmingly ranked #1 by impact factor (MIS Quarterly) barely made the deans? top ten list. Only three journals (ARIST, MIS Quarterly, and the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association) appear on both lists. ARIST was the most consistent, being 6th on the deans? list, 4th in 2007 impact factor, and 5th in 5-year impact factor. The journals in the sixth through tenth positions of the JCR rankings fared especially poorly in the deans? list, ranking 43rd, 50th, 63rd, 31st, and 51st, respectively. At first I suspected a possible geographical bias since the LIS deans surveyed by Nisonger and Davis were all at North American LIS schools, and the JCR has more of an international flavor. But the JCR list has six journals published in the US, and the deans? list has seven US-based journals. Indeed, the top five journals in the JCR rankings are all US-based, where only three of the top five journals in the deans? list are US-based. I?m probably missing something here, as this isn?t exactly my forte. Just wondering what you all would do if you came up with two very different lists of ?top journals? in a field? What would you tell someone who wanted to know the ?best? journals to publish in for promotion and tenure purposes? Thanks! Bernie Sloan Sora Associates Bloomington, IN From notsjb at LSU.EDU Mon Feb 23 21:38:38 2009 From: notsjb at LSU.EDU (Stephen J Bensman) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:38:38 -0600 Subject: Determining the "top journals" in a field? Message-ID: Personally I would go with the Nisonger and Davis rankings as they are less disturbed by exogenous variables. You are dealing with a number of factors here. First, the JCR subject set is very fuzzy and includes business administration, medical, etc. These are information science but belong more to other fields. If you want to see the effect of this, go to my article at the URL below where I discuss IS impact factors a bit: http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/bensman/bensman072008.pdf Second, impact factor tends to correlate very badly with expert ratings. Total Cites is a better measure here. You get good results with ARIST, because it is a review journal. The main effect of impact factor is to capture the importance of review journals, which are considered prestigious for a number of reasons, one of them being you have to a senior scholar and invited to write in them in the first place. Personally, I would run scattergrams of Impact Factors and Total Cites against the Nisonger-Davis dean rankings as the more accurate measure to determine where the citation measures are screwing up. I think that you will be able to pinpoint the exogenous variables showing up in the outliers that way. Stephen J. Bensman. LSU Libraries Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA. ________________________________ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics on behalf of B.G. Sloan Sent: Mon 2/23/2009 3:47 PM To: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Determining the "top journals" in a field? Someone recently asked me about the "top journals" in the field of Library and Information Science (LIS). The question concerned the best journals to publish in for promotion and tenure purposes. My first reaction was to go to the JCR and sort the journals in the "Information and Library Science" subject category by impact factor. But I was also reminded of Nisonger and Davis and their 2005 paper "The Perception of Library and Information Science Journals by LIS Education Deans and ARL Library Directors: A Replication of the Kohl-Davis Study". Table 2 in that paper shows the "Average Rating of Journal Prestige in Terms of Value for Tenure and Promotion" by deans at schools of library and information science. I compared the top ten journals from Table 2 in the Nisonger and Davis paper with the top ten journals in the field ranked by the JCR 5-year impact factor. I was surprised to find that there was very little overlap between the rankings. The #1 journal on the deans' rankings (JASIST) did not make the top ten in the JCR. The journal overwhelmingly ranked #1 by impact factor (MIS Quarterly) barely made the deans' top ten list. Only three journals (ARIST, MIS Quarterly, and the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association) appear on both lists. ARIST was the most consistent, being 6th on the deans' list, 4th in 2007 impact factor, and 5th in 5-year impact factor. The journals in the sixth through tenth positions of the JCR rankings fared especially poorly in the deans' list, ranking 43rd, 50th, 63rd, 31st, and 51st, respectively. At first I suspected a possible geographical bias since the LIS deans surveyed by Nisonger and Davis were all at North American LIS schools, and the JCR has more of an international flavor. But the JCR list has six journals published in the US, and the deans' list has seven US-based journals. Indeed, the top five journals in the JCR rankings are all US-based, where only three of the top five journals in the deans' list are US-based. I'm probably missing something here, as this isn't exactly my forte. Just wondering what you all would do if you came up with two very different lists of "top journals" in a field? What would you tell someone who wanted to know the "best" journals to publish in for promotion and tenure purposes? Thanks! Bernie Sloan Sora Associates Bloomington, IN -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From blb at BUFFALO.EDU Tue Feb 24 00:34:28 2009 From: blb at BUFFALO.EDU (Brenda L Battleson) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:34:28 -0500 Subject: Determining the "top journals" in a field? In-Reply-To: <837426.95582.qm@web57105.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Message-ID: I think that the primary reason for such a discrepancy is the nature of the LIS journals. With the advent of informatics, especially medical informatics, there seems to be an increasing divergence of the "information science" part of LIS. Whereas the journals listed in the Nisonger and Davis article are focused in the areas of library research and practice, those with the highest impact factors in JCR heavily lean towards information science. Consider the citing journals of the top ten LIS journals listed in JCR by impact factor: I'm admittedly "eyeballing" the lists, but it is obvious that a significant proportion of citing journals come from outside of LIS. (This is especially true in the area of medical informatics.) When we examine the journal titles listed in Nisonger and Davis, we see that for the most part, the citing journals fall primarily within LIS. Closer examination suggests that most of these cited and citing titles tend to have a "practitioner" rather than "research" focus. With such a specialized scope, there would be little interest beyond LIS, which is reflected by the relatively low impact factors for these titles. Given the recent growth of ISchools and informatics programs, It would be interesting to replicate the Nisonger-Davis study (itself a replication of the Kohl-Davis study) once again to see if the relationship between journal prestige perceptions of LIS deans and those of ARL library directors have changed. Furthermore, are there any differences in the perceptions of ISchool deans as compared to more traditional LIS program deans? And how does all of this compare to JCR? Best, -Brenda -- Brenda L. Battleson Visiting Assistant Professor University at Buffalo Dept. of Library and Info. Studies 522 Baldy Hall Buffalo, NY 14260-1020 USA Ph: (716) 645-2412 x1210 blb at buffalo.edu * * B.G. Sloan wrote: > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > Someone recently asked me about the ?top journals? in the field of Library and Information Science (LIS). The question concerned the best journals to publish in for promotion and tenure purposes. > > My first reaction was to go to the JCR and sort the journals in the ?Information and Library Science? subject category by impact factor. But I was also reminded of Nisonger and Davis and their 2005 paper ?The Perception of Library and Information Science Journals by LIS Education Deans and ARL Library Directors: A Replication of the Kohl?Davis Study?. Table 2 in that paper shows the ?Average Rating of Journal Prestige in Terms of Value for Tenure and Promotion? by deans at schools of library and information science. > > I compared the top ten journals from Table 2 in the Nisonger and Davis paper with the top ten journals in the field ranked by the JCR 5-year impact factor. I was surprised to find that there was very little overlap between the rankings. The #1 journal on the deans? rankings (JASIST) did not make the top ten in the JCR. The journal overwhelmingly ranked #1 by impact factor (MIS Quarterly) barely made the deans? top ten list. Only three journals (ARIST, MIS Quarterly, and the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association) appear on both lists. ARIST was the most consistent, being 6th on the deans? list, 4th in 2007 impact factor, and 5th in 5-year impact factor. The journals in the sixth through tenth positions of the JCR rankings fared especially poorly in the deans? list, ranking 43rd, 50th, 63rd, 31st, and 51st, respectively. > > At first I suspected a possible geographical bias since the LIS deans surveyed by Nisonger and Davis were all at North American LIS schools, and the JCR has more of an international flavor. But the JCR list has six journals published in the US, and the deans? list has seven US-based journals. Indeed, the top five journals in the JCR rankings are all US-based, where only three of the top five journals in the deans? list are US-based. > > I?m probably missing something here, as this isn?t exactly my forte. Just wondering what you all would do if you came up with two very different lists of ?top journals? in a field? What would you tell someone who wanted to know the ?best? journals to publish in for promotion and tenure purposes? > > Thanks! > > Bernie Sloan > Sora Associates > Bloomington, IN > > > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nouruzi at GMAIL.COM Tue Feb 24 15:15:17 2009 From: nouruzi at GMAIL.COM (Alireza Noruzi) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:45:17 +0330 Subject: Webology: Volume 5, Number 4 Message-ID: Dear All, apologies for cross-posting. We are pleased to inform you that Vol. 5, No. 4 of Webology, an OPEN ACCESS journal, is published and available ONLINE now. ------------------ Webology: Volume 5, Number 4, 2008 TOC: http://www.webology.ir/2008/v5n4/toc.html This issue contains: ----------------------------------------- Editorial -- Scientific collaboration and quality of scientific research -- Alireza Noruzi -- Keywords: Scientific research collaborations; Research productivity; Top papers; Highly-cited papers -- http://www.webology.ir/2008/v5n4/editorial18.html ----------------------------------------- Articles - LIS open access e-journal - where are you? -- Izabella Taler -- Keywords: Open access; Library science; Periodicals; Free e-journals; E-journal indexing -- http://www.webology.ir/2008/v5n4/a62.html - What is not available online is not worth reading? -- Hamid R. Jamali -- Keywords: Online access: Open access; Accessibility -- http://www.webology.ir/2008/v5n4/a63.html - Virtual polling data: A social network analysis on a student government election -- Shane Tilton -- Keywords: Facebook; Elections; Political; Virtual engagement; Hierarchical linear model -- http://www.webology.ir/2008/v5n4/a64.html - Nigerian university websites: A webometric analysis -- Williams E. Nwagwu & Omoverere Agarin -- Keywords: Nigerian universities; Websites; Webometric analysis; World Wide Web; Link analysis -- http://www.webology.ir/2008/v5n4/a65.html ----------------------------------------- Book Reviews - Digital consumers reshaping the information profession / David Nicholas & Ian Rowlands -- Ina Fourie -- http://www.webology.ir/2008/v5n4/bookreview17.html - Digital literacies: Concepts, policies and practices / Colin Lankshear & Michele Knobel -- Ina Fourie -- http://www.webology.ir/2008/v5n4/bookreview18.html - Digital rights management: A librarian's guide to technology and practice / Grace Agnew -- Ina Fourie -- http://www.webology.ir/2008/v5n4/bookreview19.html - Global information inequalities: Bridging the information gap / Deborah H. Charbonneau -- Dariush Alimohammadi -- http://www.webology.ir/2008/v5n4/bookreview20.html ----------------------------------------- Call for Papers -- 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 garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Feb 25 16:07:31 2009 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:07:31 -0500 Subject: Safer, MA (Safer, Martin A.); Tang, R (Tang, Rong) The Psychology of Referencing in Psychology Journal Articles PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 4 (1): 51-53 JAN 2009 Message-ID: E-mail Address: safer at cua.edu Author(s): Safer, MA (Safer, Martin A.); Tang, R (Tang, Rong) Title: The Psychology of Referencing in Psychology Journal Articles Source: PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 4 (1): 51-53 JAN 2009 Language: English Document Type: Article KeyWords Plus: CITATIONS Abstract: Citation statistics can affect major professional decisions, but little is known about how important a particular reference is to the citing document. We asked 49 psychologists to rate the importance of every reference in their own empirical paper and to indicate the primary citation reason. References cited for conceptual ideas or to justify methods and data analyses were regarded as more important than references cited for general background, limitations, or future research. The location, frequency, and length of a citation predicted its importance, but such relationships were weaker for self-citations. We make suggestions about referencing for authors, editors, and bibliographic database designers. Addresses: [Safer, Martin A.] Catholic Univ Amer, Dept Psychol, Washington, DC 20064 USA Reprint Address: Safer, MA, Catholic Univ Amer, Dept Psychol, Washington, DC 20064 USA. E-mail Address: safer at cua.edu Cited Reference Count: 9 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC Publisher Address: COMMERCE PLACE, 350 MAIN ST, MALDEN 02148, MA USA ISSN: 1745-6916 DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6924.2009.01104.x 29-char Source Abbrev.: PERSPECT PSYCHOL SCI ISO Source Abbrev.: Perspect. Psychol. Sci. Source Item Page Count: 3 ISI Document Delivery No.: 399WT ADAIR JG The explosion of knowledge, references, and citations - Psychology's unique response to a crisis AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST 58 : 15 DOI 10.1037/0003-066X.58.1.15 2003 CACIOPPO JT APS OBSERVER 20 : 2007 HSEE CK When is more better? On the relationship between magnitude and subjective value CURRENT DIRECTIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE 14 : 234 2005 MORAVCSIK MJ SOME RESULTS ON FUNCTION AND QUALITY OF CITATIONS SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE 5 : 86 1975 ROEDIGER HL APS OBSERVER 19 : 2006 SHADISH WR AUTHOR JUDGMENTS ABOUT WORKS THEY CITE - 3 STUDIES FROM PSYCHOLOGY JOURNALS SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE 25 : 477 1995 SWALES JM GENRE ANAL ENGLISH A : 1990 TANG R Author-rated importance of cited references in biology and psychology publications JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION 64 : 246 DOI 10.1108/00220410810858047 2008 WHITE HD Authors as citers over time JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 52 : 87 2001 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Feb 25 16:11:17 2009 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:11:17 -0500 Subject: Wolf, DM; Williamson, PA Impact factor and study design: the Academic Value of Published Research (AVaRes) score ANNALS OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND, 91 (1): 71-73 JAN 2009 Message-ID: E-mail Address: dennis.wolf at gmail.com Author(s): Wolf, DM (Wolf, Dennis M.); Williamson, PA (Williamson, Peter A.) Title: Impact factor and study design: the Academic Value of Published Research (AVaRes) score Source: ANNALS OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND, 91 (1): 71-73 JAN 2009 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Academic value; Research; Publications; Impact factor; Citation Abstract: INTRODUCTION To compare the citation indices. of original articles and case reports in otolaryngology journals and thereby determine whether c se reports are of less interest and possibly of academically inferior value to original articles. MATERIALS AND METHODS All articles in two reputable UK otolaryngology journals (Clinical Otolaryngology and Journal of Laryngology and Otology for 2000 and 2001 were identified. Citation indices were obtained from ISI Web of Knowledge and compared. Statistical. analysis was performed using Microsoft (R) Office Excel 2003. RESULTS Review articles. were cited most frequently with a mean of 5.21 followed by original articles with 4.28 citations and case reports with 2 citations, The difference in citing between original articles and case reports was statistically significant (P < 0.0001). There was-no statistically significant difference in citations between review articles and original articles. CONCLUSIONS As ease reports ate clearly of lesser academic value than original and review articles, we suggest a scoring system incorporating journal impact factor and a scoring multiple taking into account study design. This facilitates easier comparison and-recognition of publications in curricula vitae during job application. Addresses: [Wolf, Dennis M.; Williamson, Peter A.] St George Hosp, Dept Otolaryngol, London SW17 0QT, England Reprint Address: Wolf, DM, St George Hosp, Dept Otolaryngol, Blackshaw Rd, London SW17 0QT, England. E-mail Address: dennis.wolf at gmail.com Cited Reference Count: 4 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ROYAL COLL SURGEONS ENGLAND Publisher Address: 35-43 LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS, LONDON WC2A 3PN, ENGLAND ISSN: 0035-8843 DOI: 10.1308/003588409X359222 29-char Source Abbrev.: ANN ROY COLL SURG ENGL ISO Source Abbrev.: Ann. R. Coll. Surg. Engl. Source Item Page Count: 3 Subject Category: Surgery ISI Document Delivery No.: 401BV DOSHI J Variations in the application procedures for the specialist registrar posts in otolaryngology CLINICAL OTOLARYNGOLOGY 31 : 75 2006 KMIETOWICZ Z BRIT MED J 331 : 1426 2005 PATSOPOULOS NA Relative citation impact of various study designs in the health sciences JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 293 : 2362 2005 PHILLIPS B LEVELS EVIDENCE GRAD : From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Feb 25 16:34:45 2009 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:34:45 -0500 Subject: Abramo, G (Abramo, Giovanni); D'Angelo, CA (D'Angelo, Ciriaco Andrea); Caprasecca, A (Caprasecca, Alessandro) Allocative efficiency in public research funding: Can bibliometrics help? RESEARCH POLICY, 38 (1): 206-215 FEB 2009 Message-ID: E-mail Address: abramo at disp.uniroma2.it Author(s): Abramo, G (Abramo, Giovanni); D'Angelo, CA (D'Angelo, Ciriaco Andrea); Caprasecca, A (Caprasecca, Alessandro) Title: Allocative efficiency in public research funding: Can bibliometrics help? Source: RESEARCH POLICY, 38 (1): 206-215 FEB 2009 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Research assessment; Universities; Peer review; Bibliometrics KeyWords Plus: IMPACT-FACTORS; INDICATORS; UNIVERSITIES; PERFORMANCE; CITATION Abstract: The use of outcome control modes of research evaluation exercises is ever more frequent. They are conceived as tools to stimulate increased levels of research productivity, and to guide choices in allocating components of government research budgets for publicly funded institutions. There are several contributions in the literature that compare the different methodological approaches that policy makers could adopt for these exercises, however the comparisons are limited to only a few disciplines. This work, examining the case of the whole of the "hard sciences" of the Italian academic system, makes a comparison between results obtained from peer review type of evaluations (as adopted by the Ministry of Universities and Research) and those possible from a bibliometric approach (as developed by the authors). The aim is to understand to what extent bibliometric methodology, which is noted as relatively inexpensive, time-saving and exhaustive, can complement and integrate peer review methodology in research evaluation. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Addresses: [Abramo, Giovanni; D'Angelo, Ciriaco Andrea; Caprasecca, Alessandro] Univ Roma Tor Vergata, Sch Engn, Dept Management, Lab Studies Res & Technol Transfer, Rome, Italy Reprint Address: Abramo, G, Univ Roma Tor Vergata, Sch Engn, Dept Management, Lab Studies Res & Technol Transfer, Rome, Italy. E-mail Address: abramo at disp.uniroma2.it Cited Reference Count: 25 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV Publisher Address: PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 0048-7333 DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2008.11.001 29-char Source Abbrev.: RES POLICY ISO Source Abbrev.: Res. 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Sure enough, the silly spin originated from the NSF Press release (though the buck stops with E & R's vague and somewhat tendentious description and interpretation of some of their findings). Here is the NSF Press Release, enhanced with my comments, for your delectation and verdict: ------------------------------ ** If you offer something of value to people for free while someone else charges a hefty sum of money for the same type of product, one would logically assume that most people would choose the free option. According to new research in today's edition of the journal Science, if the product in question is access to scholarly papers and research, that logic might just be wrong. These findings provide new insight into the nature of scholarly discourse and the future of the open source publication movement[sic, emphasis added]. *(1) If you offer something valuable for free, people will choose the free option *unless they've already paid for the paid option (especially if they needed -- and could afford -- it earlier).* (2) Free access after an embargo of a year is not the same "something" as immediate free access. Its "value" for a potential user is lower. (That's one of the reasons institutions keep paying for subscription/license access to journals.) (3) Hence it is not in the least surprising that immediate print-on-paper access + (paid) online access (IP + IO) generates more citations than immediate (paid) print-on-paper access (IP) alone. (4) Nor is it surprising that immediate (paid) print-on-paper access + online access + delayed free online access (IP +IO + DF) generates more citations than just immediate (paid) print-on-paper + online access (IO + IP) alone -- even if the free access is provided a year later than the paid access. (5) Why on earth would anyone conclude that the fact that the increase in citations from IP to IP + IO is 12% and the increase in citations from IP + IO to IP + IO + DF is a further 8% implies anything whatsoever about people's preference for paid access over free access? Especially when the free access is not even immediate (IF) but delayed (DF)?* Most research is published in scientific journals and reviews, and subscriptions to these outlets have traditionally cost money--in some cases a great deal of money. Publishers must cover the costs of producing peer-reviewed publications and in most cases also try to turn a profit. To access these publications, other scholars and researchers must either be able to afford subscriptions or work at institutions that can provide access. In recent years, as the Internet has helped lower the cost of publishing, more and more scientists have begun publishing their research in open source outlets online. Since these publications are free to anyone with an Internet connection, the belief has been that more interested readers will find them and potentially cite them. Earlier studies had postulated that being in an open source format could more than double the number of times a journal article is used by other researchers. *What on earth is an "open source outlet"? ("Open source" is a software matter.) Let's assume what's meant is "open access"; but then is this referring to (i) publishing in an open access journal, to (ii) publishing in a subscription journal but also self-archiving the published article to make it open access, or to (iii) self-archiving an unpublished paper? What (many) previous studies had measured (not "postulated") was that (ii) publishing in a subscription journal (IP + IO) and also self-archiving the published article to make it Open Access (IP + IO + OA) could more than double the citations, compared to IP + IO alone.* To test this theory, James A. Evans, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Chicago, and Jacob Reimer, a student of neurobiology also at the University of Chicago, analyzed millions of articles available online, including those from open source publications and those that required payment to access. *No, they did nothing of the sort; and no "theory" was tested. Evans & Reimer (E & R) only analyzed articles from subscription access journals before and after they became accessible online (to paid subscribers only) (i.e., IP vs IP + IO) as well as before and after the online version was made accessible free for all (after a paid-access-only embargo of up to a year or more: i.e., IP +IO vs IP + IO + DF). Their methodology was based on comparing citation counts for articles within the same journals before and after being made free online at various intervals.* The results were surprising. On average, when a given publication was made available online after being in print for a year, being published in an open source format increased the use of that article by about 8 percent. When articles are made available online in a commercial format a year after publication, however, usage increases by about 12 percent. *In other words, the citation count increase from just (paid) IP to (paid) IP + IO was 12% and the citation count increase from just (paid) IP + IO to (paid) IP + IO + DF was 8%. Not in the least surprising: Making paid-access articles accessible online increases their citations, and making them free online (even if only after a delay of a year) increases them still more. What *is* surprising is the rather absurd spin that this press release appears to be trying to put on this unsurprising finding.* "Across the scientific community," Evans said in an interview, "it turns out that open access does have a positive impact on the attention that's given to the journal articles, but it's a small impact." *We already knew that OA increased citations, as the many prior published studies have shown. Most of those studies, however, were based on *immediate* OA (i.e., IF), not embargoed OA. What E & R do show, interestingly, is that* even delaying OA for a year still increases citations*, though not nearly as much as immediate OA (IF).* Yet Evans and Reimer's research also points to one very positive impact of the open source movement that is sometimes overlooked in the debate about scholarly publications. Researchers in the developing world, where research funding and libraries are not as robust as they are in wealthier countries, were far more likely to read and cite open source articles. *A large portion of the citation increase from (delayed) OA turns out to come from Developing Countries (refuting Frandsen's recent report to the contrary). (A similar comparison, within the US, of citations from the Have-Not Universities (with the smaller journal subscription budgets) compared to the Harvards may well reveal the same effect closer to home, though probably at a smaller scale.)* The University of Chicago team concludes that outside the developed world, the open source movement "widens the global circle of those who can participate in science and benefit from it." *And it will be interesting to test for the same effect comparing the Harvards and the Have-Nots in the US -- but a more realistic estimate might come from looking at immediate OA (IF) rather than just embargoed OA (DF).* So while some scientists and scholars may chose to pay for scientific publications even when free publications are available, their colleagues in other parts of the world may find that going with open source works is the only choice they have. *It would be interesting to hear the authors of this NSF press release -- or E & R, for that matter -- explain how this paradoxical "preference" for paid access over free access was tested during the access embargo period... *Stevan Harnad * American Scientist Open Access Forum -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From adam.bartkowski at TU-ILMENAU.DE Thu Feb 26 03:43:18 2009 From: adam.bartkowski at TU-ILMENAU.DE (Adam Bartkowski) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:43:18 +0100 Subject: -- POSSIBLE SPAM -- Citation rates in scientific fields - looking for data Message-ID: Dear All, I'm looking for statistic data about average citation rates in scientific fields, best of all from the last 3-5 years, the data itself or reference to the sources. Thank you in advance, Adam Bartkowski -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Dipl.-Ing. Adam Bartkowski TU Ilmenau / PATON Landespatentzentrum Thueringen Abt. Patentinformationstechnologie PF 100565, D-98684 Ilmenau Langewiesener Str. 37, CC513 Tel.: +49 (0)3677 - 69 4563 Fax: +49 (0)3677 - 69 4538 E-Mail: adam.bartkowski at tu-ilmenau.de WWW: http://www.paton.tu-ilmenau.de ------------------------------------------------------------ From willieezi at YAHOO.COM Thu Feb 26 04:07:39 2009 From: willieezi at YAHOO.COM (Williams Nwagwu) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:07:39 -0800 Subject: On Evans and Reimer's (2009) Science Message-ID: The fact of institutions inability to subscribe for all the materials they need in their libraries is a very old problem, although it is a common knowledge that this problem is more acute in the developing countries. This does not however mean that scholars and institutions in the developing regions have zero access to fee-based sources. A few universities are able to buy access to some few sources, some institutions gain access through subscriptions paid for by agencies while individual scholars gain access through personal relationships and interactions. The open access regime only boosted access to scientific publications for scholars and institutions in both the developing and developed worlds. If ?Researchers in the developing world, where research funding and libraries are not as robust as they are in wealthier countries, were far more likely to read and cite open source articles?, then the findings of Evans and Reimer should just be set aside. Science in the developing regions might not be as robust as it is in the developed world, but science obtained in the region before the regime of Open Access. Open Access has increased access to scholarly publications by those in both worlds, particularly to those who do not have the means of using fee based sources. Journals observing the OA principle cannot be less cited than those being paid for. E and R?s research can only be convincing if they show us that those scholars who use OA publications do not either publish, or only in fee-based sources. They also need to show us the production capacity and proportion of publications attributable to the enemies of OA in relation to those who subscribe to the OA agenda as well as relative number of adherents to OA in comparison with fee based. Comparing journals from 1945 for a study that focused on Open Access will lead to a terribly skewed sample. When did the OA movement gain ground? The sample of OA papers will definitely be incomparable with that of fee-based. (I have not read the paper). It remains debatable that a scholar would prefer using a fee based access material which involves parting with some funds and negotiating some logistic bottlenecks to free access one, available at convenience and accessible by a click. Even common sense does not support this kind of opinion. How does one say that OA "widens the global circle of those who can participate in science and benefit from it." How does ?rigorous? information searching which mainly characterizes the fee-based strategy foster information access and use? The corollary is also worth positing: how does easy and cost free access to information constitute an obstacle to knowledge access and use? The only basis upon which E and R?s paper should continue circulating is that they a have a publishing company whose interest they want to protect. From adam.bartkowski at TU-ILMENAU.DE Thu Feb 26 06:18:06 2009 From: adam.bartkowski at TU-ILMENAU.DE (Adam Bartkowski) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:18:06 +0100 Subject: -- POSSIBLE SPAM -- Citation rates in scientific fields - looking for data In-Reply-To: <55847E98A79C432999F3E802E3F7A9C2@carlosportatil> Message-ID: Thanks for all those, who answered so quickly, despite "POSSIBLE SPAM" in the subject :-) Kind regards, Adam Bartkowski, Spam Monster -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Dipl.-Ing. Adam Bartkowski TU Ilmenau / PATON Landespatentzentrum Thueringen Abt. Patentinformationstechnologie PF 100565, D-98684 Ilmenau Langewiesener Str. 37, CC513 Tel.: +49 (0)3677 - 69 4563 Fax: +49 (0)3677 - 69 4538 E-Mail: adam.bartkowski at tu-ilmenau.de WWW: http://www.paton.tu-ilmenau.de ------------------------------------------------------------ From dwojick at HUGHES.NET Thu Feb 26 06:52:59 2009 From: dwojick at HUGHES.NET (David Wojick) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:52:59 +0000 Subject: Perils of Press-Release Journalism: NSF and Chronicle of Higher Education Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From notsjb at LSU.EDU Thu Feb 26 09:40:47 2009 From: notsjb at LSU.EDU (Stephen J Bensman) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:40:47 -0600 Subject: -- POSSIBLE SPAM -- Citation rates in scientific fields - looking for data In-Reply-To: A<49A65626.1010505@tu-ilmenau.de> Message-ID: Average to what? Journals, articles, individual scientists, academic departments, etc? The first two are handled in the JCRs. Stephen J. Bensman LSU Libraries Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA notsjb at lsu.edu -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu] On Behalf Of Adam Bartkowski Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 2:43 AM To: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu Subject: [SIGMETRICS] -- POSSIBLE SPAM -- Citation rates in scientific fields - looking for data Dear All, I'm looking for statistic data about average citation rates in scientific fields, best of all from the last 3-5 years, the data itself or reference to the sources. Thank you in advance, Adam Bartkowski -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Dipl.-Ing. Adam Bartkowski TU Ilmenau / PATON Landespatentzentrum Thueringen Abt. Patentinformationstechnologie PF 100565, D-98684 Ilmenau Langewiesener Str. 37, CC513 Tel.: +49 (0)3677 - 69 4563 Fax: +49 (0)3677 - 69 4538 E-Mail: adam.bartkowski at tu-ilmenau.de WWW: http://www.paton.tu-ilmenau.de ------------------------------------------------------------ From Christina.Pikas at JHUAPL.EDU Thu Feb 26 09:49:29 2009 From: Christina.Pikas at JHUAPL.EDU (Pikas, Christina K.) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:49:29 -0500 Subject: Perils of Press-Release Journalism: NSF and Chronicle of Higher Education In-Reply-To: <109773423.133657.1235649180717.JavaMail.mail@webmail05> Message-ID: Certainly there has been research on how press releases figure into the diffusion of scientific information. For example, there have been bibliometric studies that included press release coverage in a regression equations regarding citedness. There have also been STS and public understanding of science (I refuse to use the unpleasant abbreviation) papers about this in general as well as the particular case surrounding cold fusion. There are also studies in scholarly communication that discuss the Ingelfinger rule and the like. Actually, an editorial in today?s Nature is about this issue with blogs, pre-prints, and press embargos: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v457/n7233/full/4571058a.html Based on conversations with PLOS and Nature editors, it seems likely that they will both add more information to article pages regarding web commentary on blogs and other social computing technologies. Their goal is to provide a more 360 view of article/author impact than journal article citations do alone. As far as how to study, I think there have even been some relevant questions on the GSS as well as smaller surveys, qualitative/ethnographic studies, critical/historical studies, etc. I?m not saying it?s a done deal, but it certainly has been addressed. 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 From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu] On Behalf Of David Wojick Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 6:53 AM To: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Perils of Press-Release Journalism: NSF and Chronicle of Higher Education Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html Steve raises an important scientometric issue, quite apart from the issue of what Evans did or found. This is the role of press releases, and the news articles they engender, in the diffusion of scientific infromation. The question is how to observe and measure such diffusion? The number of information transactions, or A reading about B's results, via news is several orders of magnitude greater than via journal articles. I don't think we even know how many orders of magnitude. Yet this is in some respects the most important mode of scientific knowledge diffusion. How this news based diffusion affects the dynamics of science is likewise unknown. Is anyone studying this formally? I am doing so informally. The web is providing some new approaches, such a blog tracking and the occurrence of embedded URLs. The spread of characteristic language is also a likely avenue. This is much more like true diffusion analysis than is citation and co-author network analysis, in that it goes beyond tracking large, discrete transactions to looking at a vague spreading cloud of information. Steve also raises the issue of the spread of misinformation via diffusion of news. This has been studied in the context of general social thought, especially rumors. It is certainly significant in the realm of science and public policy, where the Evans case lies. I study this phenomenon in the climate change debate and in energy policy. Whether it is important in science per se I do not know. It is not even clear how one would approach it, but it seems like an important research topic. Perhaps it should be approached as the diffusion and dynamics of controversy or disagreement. Cheers, David David Wojick, Ph.D. http://www.osti.gov Feb 25, 2009 06:40:34 PM, SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu wrote: Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html In response to my critique of his Chronicle of Higher Education posting on Evans and Reimer's (2009) Science article (which I likewise critiqued, though much more mildly), I got an email from Paul Basken asking me to explain what, if anything he had got wrong, since his posting was based entirely on a press release from NSF. Sure enough, the silly spin originated from the NSF Press release (though the buck stops with E & R's vague and somewhat tendentious description and interpretation of some of their findings). Here is the NSF Press Release, enhanced with my comments, for your delectation and verdict: ________________________________ If you offer something of value to people for free while someone else charges a hefty sum of money for the same type of product, one would logically assume that most people would choose the free option. According to new research in today's edition of the journal Science, if the product in question is access to scholarly papers and research, that logic might just be wrong. These findings provide new insight into the nature of scholarly discourse and the future of the open source publication movement[sic, emphasis added]. (1) If you offer something valuable for free, people will choose the free option unless they've already paid for the paid option (especially if they needed -- and could afford -- it earlier). (2) Free access after an embargo of a year is not the same "something" as immediate free access. Its "value" for a potential user is lower. (That's one of the reasons institutions keep paying for subscription/license access to journals.) (3) Hence it is not in the least surprising that immediate print-on-paper access + (paid) online access (IP + IO) generates more citations than immediate (paid) print-on-paper access (IP) alone. (4) Nor is it surprising that immediate (paid) print-on-paper access + online access + delayed free online access (IP +IO + DF) generates more citations than just immediate (paid) print-on-paper + online access (IO + IP) alone -- even if the free access is provided a year later than the paid access. (5) Why on earth would anyone conclude that the fact that the increase in citations from IP to IP + IO is 12% and the increase in citations from IP + IO to IP + IO + DF is a further 8% implies anything whatsoever about people's preference for paid access over free access? Especially when the free access is not even immediate (IF) but delayed (DF)? Most research is published in scientific journals and reviews, and subscriptions to these outlets have traditionally cost money--in some cases a great deal of money. Publishers must cover the costs of producing peer-reviewed publications and in most cases also try to turn a profit. To access these publications, other scholars and researchers must either be able to afford subscriptions or work at institutions that can provide access. In recent years, as the Internet has helped lower the cost of publishing, more and more scientists have begun publishing their research in open source outlets online. Since these publications are free to anyone with an Internet connection, the belief has been that more interested readers will find them and potentially cite them. Earlier studies had postulated that being in an open source format could more than double the number of times a journal article is used by other researchers. What on earth is an "open source outlet"? ("Open source" is a software matter.) Let's assume what's meant is "open access"; but then is this referring to (i) publishing in an open access journal, to (ii) publishing in a subscription journal but also self-archiving the published article to make it open access, or to (iii) self-archiving an unpublished paper? What (many) previous studies had measured (not "postulated") was that (ii) publishing in a subscription journal (IP + IO) and also self-archiving the published article to make it Open Access (IP + IO + OA) could more than double the citations, compared to IP + IO alone. To test this theory, James A. Evans, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Chicago, and Jacob Reimer, a student of neurobiology also at the University of Chicago, analyzed millions of articles available online, including those from open source publications and those that required payment to access. No, they did nothing of the sort; and no "theory" was tested. Evans & Reimer (E & R) only analyzed articles from subscription access journals before and after they became accessible online (to paid subscribers only) (i.e., IP vs IP + IO) as well as before and after the online version was made accessible free for all (after a paid-access-only embargo of up to a year or more: i.e., IP +IO vs IP + IO + DF). Their methodology was based on comparing citation counts for articles within the same journals before and after being made free online at various intervals. The results were surprising. On average, when a given publication was made available online after being in print for a year, being published in an open source format increased the use of that article by about 8 percent. When articles are made available online in a commercial format a year after publication, however, usage increases by about 12 percent. In other words, the citation count increase from just (paid) IP to (paid) IP + IO was 12% and the citation count increase from just (paid) IP + IO to (paid) IP + IO + DF was 8%. Not in the least surprising: Making paid-access articles accessible online increases their citations, and making them free online (even if only after a delay of a year) increases them still more. What is surprising is the rather absurd spin that this press release appears to be trying to put on this unsurprising finding. "Across the scientific community," Evans said in an interview, "it turns out that open access does have a positive impact on the attention that's given to the journal articles, but it's a small impact." We already knew that OA increased citations, as the many prior published studies have shown. Most of those studies, however, were based on immediate OA (i.e., IF), not embargoed OA. What E & R do show, interestingly, is that even delaying OA for a year still increases citations, though not nearly as much as immediate OA (IF). Yet Evans and Reimer's research also points to one very positive impact of the open source movement that is sometimes overlooked in the debate about scholarly publications. Researchers in the developing world, where research funding and libraries are not as robust as they are in wealthier countries, were far more likely to read and cite open source articles. A large portion of the citation increase from (delayed) OA turns out to come from Developing Countries (refuting Frandsen's recent report to the contrary). (A similar comparison, within the US, of citations from the Have-Not Universities (with the smaller journal subscription budgets) compared to the Harvards may well reveal the same effect closer to home, though probably at a smaller scale.) The University of Chicago team concludes that outside the developed world, the open source movement "widens the global circle of those who can participate in science and benefit from it." And it will be interesting to test for the same effect comparing the Harvards and the Have-Nots in the US -- but a more realistic estimate might come from looking at immediate OA (IF) rather than just embargoed OA (DF). So while some scientists and scholars may chose to pay for scientific publications even when free publications are available, their colleagues in other parts of the world may find that going with open source works is the only choice they have. It would be interesting to hear the authors of this NSF press release -- or E & R, for that matter -- explain how this paradoxical "preference" for paid access over free access was tested during the access embargo period... 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Abstract: In journal peer review, editorial decisions on submitted manuscripts are informed by referees' expert recommendations; however, the choice of referees may affect these decisions. Using data from Angewandte Chemie International Edition (AC-IE), this study tested what would have happened if referee reports had been received in a different order. In AC-IE's peer-review process, a manuscript is generally published only if two referees rate the results of the study as important and also recommend publication in the journal (what we have called the 'clear-cut' rule). For 23% of those manuscripts for which a third referee report arrived after the editorial decision was made (37 of 162), this rule would have led to a different decision if the third report had replaced either of the others. Please find the paper attached. 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SI JAN 2009 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Patent; Patent citation; Basic patent; Technology diffusion KeyWords Plus: INNOVATION; EVOLUTION; MODELS Abstract: Among the many technology forecasting indicators, patents and patent citations are useful and important indicators. The more frequently a certain patent is cited by subsequent patents, the more the related technology can be said to be diffused, implying that the technology is more widely applied and thus more valuable. This paper analyzes the business methods technology which retrieves patents from the USPTO database. There are two purposes of this paper: 1. establish the indicators for finding basic patents and measure the relationship of these basic patents; 2. classify the basic patents and explain the groups of technology diffusion. Finally, this study identifies the two mainstreams in business method technology: one is focused on marketing technology, and the other one stresses on data security. Both are important for Internet data processes or e-commerce activities. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Addresses: [Chang, Shann-Bin] Ling Tung Univ, Dept Commercial Technol & Management, Taichung 40852, Taiwan; [Lai, Kuei-Kuei] Natl Yunlin Univ Sci & Technol, Dept Business Adm, Touliu, Taiwan; [Chang, Shu-Min] Nan Kai Inst Technol, Dept Ind Engn & Management, Nantou, Taiwan; [Chang, Shu-Min] Natl Yunlin Univ Sci & Technol, PhD Program BA, Touliu, Taiwan Reprint Address: Chang, SB, Ling Tung Univ, Dept Commercial Technol & Management, Taichung 40852, Taiwan. E-mail Address: stephen.22 at hotmail.com Cited Reference Count: 36 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC Publisher Address: 360 PARK AVE SOUTH, NEW YORK, NY 10010-1710 USA ISSN: 0040-1625 DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2008.03.014 29-char Source Abbrev.: TECHNOL FORECAST SOC CHANGE ISO Source Abbrev.: Technol. Forecast. Soc. Chang. 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Iss. SI JAN 2009 Message-ID: E-mail Address: a.pilkington at rhul.ac.uk Author(s): Pilkington, A (Pilkington, Alan); Lee, LL (Lee, Linda L.); Chan, CK (Chan, Casey K.); Ramakrishna, S (Ramakrishna, Seerarn) Title: Defining key inventors: A comparison of fuel cell and nanotechnology industries Source: TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE, 76 (1): 118-127 Sp. Iss. SI JAN 2009 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Nanotechnology; Fuel cell; Patent analysis; Key inventor; Bibliometrics KeyWords Plus: PATENT STATISTICS; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; INNOVATIVE ACTIVITIES; SCIENCE; INDICATORS; HYDROGEN; ADOPTION; POLICY; ENTRY; FIRMS Abstract: This paper defines the notion of key inventors - those whose patenting is simultaneously highly productive and also widely cited. By implication. key inventors should be the leaders in any developing new field and we investigate the validity of the notion through an exploration of two emerging technological fields: fuel cell and nanotechnology. The nature of the two groups is compared to discuss the differences between the technological groups. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Addresses: [Pilkington, Alan] Univ London, Sch Management, Egham TW20 0EX, Surrey, England; [Lee, Linda L.; Chan, Casey K.; Ramakrishna, Seerarn] Natl Univ Singapore, Nanosci & Nanotechnol Initiat, Singapore 0511, Singapore Reprint Address: Pilkington, A, Univ London, Sch Management, Egham Hill, Egham TW20 0EX, Surrey, England. 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AN ALTERNATIVE RANKING HUMAN RELATIONS 38 : 139 1985 SOETE LG THE USE OF FOREIGN PATENTING AS AN INTERNATIONALLY COMPARABLE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OUTPUT INDICATOR SCIENTOMETRICS 5 : 31 1983 SULLIVAN PH PROFITING INTELLECTU : 1998 TEICHERT T PORTL INT C MAN ENG : 78 1999 TULLIS T UCLA J LAW TECHNOLOG 12 : 2004 VANMERKERK RO Tracing emerging irreversibilities in emerging technologies: The case of nanotubes TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE 72 : 1094 DOI 10.1016/j.techfore.2004.10.003 2005 WATANABE C Patent statistics: deciphering a 'real' versus a 'pseudo' proxy of innovation TECHNOVATION 21 : 783 2001 From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Fri Feb 27 03:27:35 2009 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:27:35 +0100 Subject: Lock-In and Break-Out from Technological Trajectories: Modeling and Policy Implications; preprint version Message-ID: Wilfred Dolfsma & Loet Leydesdorff, Lock-In and Break-Out from Technological Trajectories: Modeling and Policy Implications, Technological Forecasting and Social Change (2009, forthcoming); Abstract. Arthur provided a model to explain the circumstances that lead to technological lock-in into a specific trajectory. We contribute substantially to this area of research by investigating the circumstances under which technological development may break-out of a trajectory. We argue that for this to happen, a third selection mechanism--beyond those of the market and of technology--needs to upset the lock-in. We model the interaction, or mutual shaping among three selection mechanisms, and thus this paper also allows for a better understanding of when a technology will lock-in into a trajectory, when a technology may break-out of a lock-in, and when competing technologies may co-exist in a balance. As a system is conceptualized to gain a (third) degree of freedom, the possibility of bifurcation is introduced into the model. The equations, in which interactions between competition and selection mechanisms can be modeled, allow one to specify conditions for lock-in, competitive balance, and break-out. ________________________________ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel. +31-20-525 6598; fax: +31-842239111 loet at leydesdorff.net; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ From dwojick at HUGHES.NET Fri Feb 27 06:27:33 2009 From: dwojick at HUGHES.NET (David Wojick) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:27:33 +0000 Subject: Perils of Press-Release Journalism: NSF and Chronicle of Higher Education Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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One question raised recently is "Why has the number of articles in Web of Science gone down and the number of proceedings papers gone up?" Please visit http://isiwebofknowledge.com/products_tools/multidisciplinary/webofscience/c pci/usingproceedings/ or an explanation of the reasons for this change, and a method by which researchers can obtain the same search results as they did previously. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vtorvik at UIC.EDU Sat Feb 28 13:33:26 2009 From: vtorvik at UIC.EDU (Torvik, Vetle Ingvald) Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:33:26 -0600 Subject: [Fwd: Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration - new home, no article fees!] Message-ID: Dear Colleague, The Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration has now transitioned from Biomed Central to U of Illinois. Please bookmark the new site: http://journals.uic.edu/jbdc/. As before, all articles will be peer-reviewed with a fast turnaround (initial reviews in 3 weeks), immediate publication upon acceptance, and open-access (no subscriptions or registration needed). However, we will now have NO mandatory article fees. This should greatly reduce the barrier to contributing from authors whose work is not grant-supported. Prospective authors should be reassured that papers do not need to be explicitly biomedical in order to be appropriate for the journal. As it says on the journal website: "Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration (DISCO) is an Open Access, peer-reviewed online journal that will encompass all aspects of scientific information management and studies of scientific practice. Currently, many scattered disciplines study aspects of scientific practice, including informatics, computer science, sociology, cognitive psychology, scientometrics, rhetoric, and history and philosophy of science. 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This should greatly reduce the barrier to contributing from authors whose work is not grant-supported. Prospective authors should be reassured that papers do not need to be explicitly biomedical in order to be appropriate for the journal. As it says on the journal website: "Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration (DISCO) is an Open Access, peer-reviewed online journal that will encompass all aspects of scientific information management and studies of scientific practice. Currently, many scattered disciplines study aspects of scientific practice, including informatics, computer science, sociology, cognitive psychology, scientometrics, rhetoric, and history and philosophy of science. The journal will connect these disparate perspectives with each other, and with contemporary scientific practice." Neil Smalheiser Editor-in-Chief discovery at psych.uic.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: