Contents of Scientometrics Vol:79, No:1, 2009

[Eugene Garfield]

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Scientometrics, Vol. 79, No. 1 (2009)

Listing of individual  papers with abstracts follows this contents page

CONTENTS

Wolfgang Glänzel, Henk F. Moed
The 11th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics	5

Judit Bar-Ilan, Luma C. Peritz 
The lifespan of “informetrics” on the Web:An eight year study (1998–2006)
	7

Kevin W. Boyack 
Using detailed maps of science to identify potential collaborations	27

Kevin W. Boyack, Katy Börner, Richard Klavans 
Mapping the structure and evolution of chemistry research	45

Robert Braam 
Everything about genes: Some results on the dynamics of genomics research
	61

Quentin L. Burrell 
On Hirsch’s h, Egghe’s g and Kosmulski’s h(2)	79

Mario Coccia 
Research performance and bureaucracy within public research labs	93

Wolfgang Glänzel, Frizo Janssens, Bart Thijs 
A comparative analysis of publication activity and citation impact based on 
the core literature in bioinformatics	109

Isabel Gómez, María Bordons, M. Teresa Fernández, Fernanda Morillo 
Structure and research performance of Spanish universities	131

Stevan Harnad 
Open access scientometrics and the UK Research Assessment Exercise	147

Kim Holmberg, Mike Thelwall 
Local government web sites in Finland: A geographic and webometric analysis
	157

Stefan Hornbostel, Susan böhmer, Bernd Klingsporn, Jörg Neufeld,
Markus von Ins
Funding of young scientist and scientific excellence	171

Isabel Iribarren-Maestro, María Luisa Lascurain-Sánchez,
Elías Sanz-Casado 
Are multi-authorship and visibility related?
Study of ten research areas at Carlos III University of Madrid	191

Evaristo Jiménez-Contreras, Daniel Torres-Salinas, Rafael Bailón Moreno, 
Rosario Ruiz Baños, Emilio Delgado López-Cózara
Response Surface Methodology and its application in evaluating scientific 
activity
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TITLE  : The 11th International Conference on Scientometrics and 
Informetrics

AUTHOR : WOLFGANG GLÄNZEL,a,b HENK F. MOEDc

a Steunpunt O&O Indicatoren and Dept. MSI, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 
Leuven, Belgium
b Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Science Policy Research, 
Budapest, Hungary
c Centre for Science & Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University, 
Leiden, The Netherlands

Address for correspondence:
WOLFGANG GLÄNZEL
E-mail: Wolfgang.Glanzel at econ.kuleuven.ac.be

Scientometrics, Vol. 79, No. 1 (2009) 5
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-009-0400-8
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TITLE :  The lifespan of “informetrics” on the Web: An eight year study 
(1998–2006)

AUTHOR :   JUDIT BAR-ILAN,a BLUMA C. PERITZb

a Department of Information Science, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 52900, 
Israel
b Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel

ABSTRACT : 
The World Wide Web is growing at an enormous speed, and has become an 
indispensable source for information and research. New pages are constantly 
added, but there are additional processes as well: pages are moved or 
removed and/or their content changes. We report here the results of an 
eight year long project started in 1998, when multiple search engines were 
used to identify a set of pages containing the term informetrics. Data 
collection was repeated once a year for the last eight years (with the 
exception of 2000 and 2001) using both search engines and revisiting 
previously identified pages. The results show that the number of pages grew 
from 866 in 1998 to 28,914 in 2006 – a 33-fold growth. Besides the obvious 
growth of the topic on the Web, we observed both decay (pages disappearing 
from the Web) and modification. Even though most of the pages from 1998 
either disappeared or ceased to contain the term informetrics, 165 pages 
(19.1%) still exist in 2006 and contain the search term. We followed 
the “fate” of these 165 pages: characterized the publishers, the contents 
and the changes that occurred the whole period. In recent years e-print 
servers and publishers’ sites became sources of large number of pages 
related to informetrics. Longitudinal studies following the evolution of a 
topic on the Web are very important, since they provide insights about 
content and the underlying Web processes.

Address for correspondence:
JUDIT BAR-ILAN
E-mail: barilaj at mail.biu.ac.il

Scientometrics, Vol. 79, No. 1 (2009) 7–25
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-009-0401-7
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TITLE  :  Using detailed maps of science to identify potential 
collaborations

AUTHOR  :  KEVIN W. BOYACKa,b 

a Sandia National Laboratories, P.O. Box 5800, MS-1316, Albuquerque, NM 
87185, USA
b SciTech Strategies, Inc., Albuquerque, NM 87122, USA

ABSTRACT :
Research on the effects of collaboration in scientific research has been 
increasing in recent years. A variety of studies have been done at the 
institution and country level, many with an eye toward policy implications. 
However, the question of how to identify the most fruitful targets for 
future collaboration in high-performing areas of science has not been 
addressed. This paper presents a method for identifying targets for future 
collaboration between two institutions. The utility of the method is shown 
in two different applications: identifying specific potential 
collaborations at the author level between two institutions, and generating 
an index that can be used for strategic planning purposes.  Identification 
of these potential collaborations is based on finding authors that belong 
to the same small paper-level community (or cluster of papers), using a map 
of science and technology containing nearly 1 million papers organized into 
117,435 communities. The map used here is also unique in that it is the 
first map to combine the ISI Proceedings database with the Science and 
Social Science Indexes at the paper level.

Address for correspondence:
KEVIN W. BOYACK
E-mail: kboyack at mapofscience.com

Scientometrics, Vol. 79, No. 1 (2009) 27–44
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-009-0402-6
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TITLE :  Mapping the structure and evolution of chemistry research

AUTHOR :  KEVIN W. BOYACK,a,b KATY BÖRNER,c  RICHARD KLAVANSb

a Sandia National Laboratories, P.O. Box 5800, MS-1316, Albuquerque, NM 
87185, USA
b SciTech Strategies, Inc., Berwyn, PA 19312, USA
c SLIS, Indiana University, 10th Street and Jordan Avenue, Bloomington, IN 
47405, USA

ABSTRACT:
How does our collective scholarly knowledge grow over time? What major 
areas of science exist and how are they interlinked? Which areas are major 
knowledge producers; which ones are consumers? Computational 
scientometrics – the application of bibliometric/scientometric methods to 
large-scale scholarly datasets – and the communication of results via maps 
of science might help us answer these questions. This paper represents the 
results of a prototype study that aims to map the structure and evolution 
of chemistry research over a 30 year time frame. Information from the 
combined Science (SCIE) and Social Science (SSCI) Citations Indexes from 
2002 was used to generate a disciplinary map of 7,227 journals and 671 
journal clusters. Clusters relevant to study the structure and evolution of 
chemistry were identified using JCR categories and were further clustered 
into 14 disciplines. The changing scientific composition of these 14 
disciplines and their knowledge exchange via citation linkages was 
computed. Major changes on the dominance, influence, and role of Chemistry, 
Biology, Biochemistry, and Bioengineering over these 30 years are 
discussed. The paper concludes with suggestions for future work.

Address for correspondence:
KEVIN W. BOYACK
E-mail: kboyack at mapofscience.com

Scientometrics, Vol. 79, No. 1 (2009) 45–60 
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-009-0403-5 
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TITLE :  Everything about genes: Some results on the dynamics of genomics 
research

AUTHOR :  ROBERT BRAAM

Rathenau Institute, National Centre for Science System Assessment (SciSA), 
Anna van Saksenlaan 51, 2593 HW Den Haag, The Netherlands

ABSTRACT:
In this study some novel indicators and publication data resources are 
explored to study the dynamics of genomics research at three different 
levels: worldwide; national and at individual Research Centers. Our results 
indicate that the growth of genomics research worldwide seems to
be stabilizing, whereas genomics research in the Netherlands aims at 
getting ‘ready for the next step’. As we find differences in research 
dynamics at the level of individual Research Centers, governmental support 
in a ‘next step’ could take these differences into account. For this 
purpose, we introduce a general model of research dynamics and timing of 
research management, building on ideas of Price and Bonaccorsi. Based on 
this model a framework is presented to discuss steering options in relation 
to research dynamics. We apply this framework to Research Centers of the 
Netherlands Genomics Initiative (NGI) and discuss findings.

Address for correspondence:
ROBERT BRAAM
E-mail: r.braam at rathenau.nl

Scientometrics, Vol. 79, No. 1 (2009) 61–77
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-009-0404-4
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TITLE :  On Hirsch’s h, Egghe’s g and Kosmulski’s h(2)

AUTHOR  :  QUENTIN L. BURRELL

Isle of Man International Business School, Douglas, Isle of Man

ABSTRACT:
In recent issues of the ISSI Newsletter, EGGHE [2006A] proposed the g-index 
and KOSMULSKI [2006] the h(2)-index, both claimed to be improvements on the 
original h-index proposed by HIRSCH [2005]. The aim of this paper is to 
investigate the inter-relationships between these measures and also their 
time dependence using the stochastic publication/citation model proposed by 
BURRELL [1992, 2007A]. We also make some tentative suggestions regarding 
the relative merits of these three proposed measures.

Address for correspondence:
QUENTIN L. BURRELL
The Nunnery, Old Castletown Road, Douglas, Isle of Man IM2 1QB, via United 
Kingdom
E-mail: q.burrell at ibs.ac.im

Scientometrics, Vol. 79, No. 1 (2009) 79–91
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-009-0405-3
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TITLE :  Research performance and bureaucracy within public research labs

AUTHOR :  MARIO COCCIA

National Research Council of Italy and Max Planck Institute of Economics, 
Germany
CERIS-CNR, Institute for Economic Research on Firm and Growth, Collegio 
Carlo Alberto,via Real Collegio, n. 30 – 10024 Moncalieri, Torino, Italy

ABSTRACT:
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the relationship between 
bureaucracy and research performance within Public Research Bodies. The 
research methodology is applied on a sample of 100 interviewed belonging to 
11 institutes of National Research Council of Italy. The main finding is 
that within Italian Public Research Council there is academic 
bureaucratization that reduces performance and efficiency of institutes. In 
fact, institutes have two organizational behaviours: high bureaucracy – low 
performance and low bureaucracy – high performance. These bureaucratic 
tendencies are also present in other countries and particularly: the public 
research labs have an academic bureaucratization because of administrative 
burden necessary to the governance of the structures, whereas the 
universities have mainly an administrative bureaucratization generated by 
the increase of administrative staff in comparison with researchers and 
faculty.

Address for correspondence:
MARIO COCCIA
E-mail: m.coccia at ceris.cnr.it

Scientometrics, Vol. 79, No. 1 (2009) 93–107
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-009-0406-2
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TITLE :  A comparative analysis of publication activity and citation impact 
based on the core literature in bioinformatics

AUTHOR :  WOLFGANG GLÄNZEL,a,b FRIZO JANSSENS,a,c BART THIJSa

a K.U. Leuven, Steunpunt O&O Indicatoren and Faculty ETEW, Dept. MSI, 
Dekenstraat 2,B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
b Institute for Research Policy Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 
Budapest, Hungary
c K.U. Leuven, Dept. of Electrical Engineering ESAT-SCD, Kasteelpark 
Arenberg 10,B-3001 Leuven, Belgium

ABSTRACT:
A novel subject-delineation strategy has been developed for the retrieval 
of the core literature in bioinformatics. The strategy combines textual 
components with bibliometric, citation-based techniques. This bibliometrics-
aided search strategy is applied to the 1980–2004 annual volumes of the Web 
of Science. Retrieved literature has undergone a structural as well as 
quantitative analysis. Patterns of national publication activity, citation 
impact and international collaboration are analysed for the 1990s and the 
new millennium.

Address for correspondence:
WOLFGANG GLÄNZEL
E-mail: Wolfgang.Glanzel at econ.kuleuven.be

Scientometrics, Vol. 79, No. 1 (2009) 109–129	
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-009-0407-1
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TITLE :  Structure and research performance of Spanish universities

AUTHOR  :  ISABEL GÓMEZ, MARÍA BORDONS, M. TERESA FERNÁNDEZ, FERNANDA 
MORILLO

Instituto de Estudios Documentales en Ciencia y Tecnología (IEDCYT), 
Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Joaquín Costa 22, 28002 Madrid, 
Spain

ABSTRACT:  
The aim of this paper is to describe Spanish universities by means of 
structural, input and output indicators, to explore the relationship 
between those indicators and to analyse university behaviour in different 
dimensions. Seniority of the universities and environmental conditions are 
taken into account, together with input and output indicators, as well as 
others related to the networks and links established. Our results will 
contribute to the knowledge of the university research system in Spain, 
producing data that could be useful for research management at the 
institutional, regional and national level.

Address for correspondence:
ISABEL GÓMEZ
E-mail: igomez at cindoc.csic.es

Scientometrics, Vol. 79, No. 1 (2009) 131–146
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-009-0408-0
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TITLE :  Open access scientometrics and the UK Research Assessment Exercise

AUTHOR :  STEVAN HARNAD

Chaire de recherche du Canada, Institut des sciences cognitives, Université 
du Québec à Montréal,H3C 3P8 Montréal, Québec Canada

ABSTRACT:  Scientometric predictors of research performance need to be 
validated by showing that they have a high correlation with the external 
criterion they are trying to predict. The UK Research Assessment Exercise 
(RAE) – together with the growing movement toward making the full-texts of 
research articles freely available on the web – offer a unique opportunity 
to test and validate a wealth of old and new scientometric predictors, 
through multiple regression analysis: Publications, journal impact factors, 
citations, co-citations, citation chronometrics (age, growth, latency to 
peak, decay rate), hub/authority scores, h-index, prior funding, student 
counts, co-authorship scores, endogamy/exogamy, textual proximity, 
download/co-downloads and their chronometrics, etc. can all be tested and 
validated jointly, discipline by discipline, against their RAE panel 
rankings in the forthcoming parallel panel-based and metric RAE in 2008. 
The weights of each predictor can be calibrated to maximize the joint 
correlation with the rankings. Open Access Scientometrics will provide 
powerful new means of navigating, evaluating, predicting and analyzing the 
growing Open Access database, as well as powerful incentives for making it 
grow faster.

Address for correspondence:
STEVAN HARNAD
E-mail: harnad at ecs.soton.ac.uk

Scientometrics, Vol. 79, No. 1 (2009) 147–156
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-009-0409-z
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TITLE :  Local government web sites in Finland: A geographic and webometric 
analysis

AUTHOR :  KIM HOLMBERG,a MIKE THELWALLb

a Information Studies, Åbo Akademi University, Tavastgatan 13, 20500 Åbo, 
Finland
b School of Computing and Information Technology, University of 
Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK

ABSTRACT:
It has been shown that information collected from and about links between 
web pages and web sites can reflect real world phenomena and relationships 
between the organizations they represent. Yet, government linking has not 
been extensively studied from a webometric point of view. The aim of this 
study was to increase the knowledge of governmental interlinking and to 
shed some light on the possible real world phenomena it may indicate. We 
show that interlinking between local government bodies in Finland follows a 
strong geographic, or rather a geopolitical pattern and that governmental 
interlinking is mostly motivated by official cooperation that geographic 
adjacency has made possible.

Address for correspondence:
KIM HOLMBERG
E-mail: kim.holmberg at abo.fi

Scientometrics, Vol. 79, No. 1 (2009) 157–169
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-009-0410-6
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TITLE :  Funding of young scientist and scientific excellence

AUTHOR :  STEFAN HORNBOSTEL, SUSAN BÖHMER, BERND KLINGSPORN, JÖRG NEUFELD, 
MARKUS VON INS

iFQ, Institute for Research Information and Quality Assurance, Godesberger 
Allee 90,53175 Bonn, Germany

ABSTRACT:
The German Research Foundation’s (DFG) Emmy Noether Programme aims to fund 
excellent young researchers in the postdoctoral phase and, in particular, 
to open up an alternative to the traditional route to professorial 
qualification via the Habilitation (venia legendi). This paper seeks to 
evaluate this funding programme with a combination of methods made up of 
questionnaires, interviews, appraisals of the reviews, and bibliometric 
analyses. The key success criteria in this respect are the frequency of 
professorial appointments plus excellent research performance demonstrated 
in the form of publications. Up to now, such postdoc programme evaluations 
have been conducted only scarcely. In professional terms, approved 
applicants are actually clearly better placed. The personal career 
satisfaction level is also higher among funding recipients. Concerning 
publications and citations, some minor performance differences could be 
identified between approved and rejected applicants. Nevertheless, we can 
confirm that, on average, the reviewers indeed selected the slightly better 
performers from a relatively homogenous group of very high-performing 
applicants. However, a comparison between approved and rejected applicants 
did not show that participation in the programme had decisively influenced 
research performance in the examined fields of medicine and physics.

Address for correspondence:
SUSAN BÖHMER
E-mail: boehmer at forschungsinfo.de

Scientometrics, Vol. 79, No. 1 (2009) 171–190
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-009-0411-5
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TITLE :  Are multi-authorship and visibility related? Study of ten research 
areas at
Carlos III University of Madrid

AUTHOR :  ISABEL IRIBARREN-MAESTRO, MARÍA LUISA LASCURAIN-SÁNCHEZ, ELÍAS 
SANZ-CASADO

Laboratory of Information Metrics Studies (LEMI), Carlos III University of 
Madrid, Department of Library Science and Documentation, Getafe, 28903 
Madrid, Spain

ABSTRACT:
Opinions in the literature on the possible relationship between co-
authorship and number of citations vary. This paper contributes to the 
debate with a further analysis of the subject, taking account of the number 
and quality of citations found for multi-(author, institution, country) and 
single-authored papers. The study is based on the scientific production of 
ten Carlos III University of Madrid departmental areas between 1997 and 
2003 as reflected in the ISI Web of Science, and the number of times the 
respective papers were cited between 1997 and 2004. Univariate 
multifactorial analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to verify the 
relationship between multi-authorship and visibility. The correlation 
between multi-institutional and multi-national authorship and the quartile 
of the citing journals was analyzed with correspondence analysis. The 
results show that while multi-institutional and multi-national authorship 
raise the number of citations, co-authorship and number of citations are 
unrelated. Correspondence analysis failed to show any correlation between 
the quartile of the citing journal and multi-institutional or multinational 
authorship, but did reveal a relationship between citing journal quartile 
and departmental
area.

Address for correspondence:
ELÍAS SANZ-CASADO
E-mail: elias at bib.uc3m.es

Scientometrics, Vol. 79, No. 1 (2009) 191–200
Dordrecht DOI: 10.1007/s11192-009-0412-4
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TITLE :  Response Surface Methodology and its application in evaluating 
scientific activity

AUTHOR  :  EVARISTO JIMÉNEZ-CONTRERAS,a DANIEL TORRES-SALINAS,a,b RAFAEL 
BAILÓN MORENO,a ROSARIO RUIZ BAÑOS,a EMILIO DELGADO LÓPEZ-CÓZARa

a Evaluación de la Ciencia y la Comunicación Científica, Facultad de 
Communicatión y Documentación Departamento de Biblioteconomía y 
Documentación, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
b Centro de Investigación Médica Aplicada (CIMA), Universidad de Navarra, 
Pamplona, Spain

ABSTRACT:
The possibilities of the Response Surface Methodology (RSM) has been 
explored within the ambit of Scientific Activity Analysis. The case of the 
system “Departments of the Area of Health Sciences of the University of 
Navarre (Spain)” has been studied in relation to the system “Scientific 
Community in the Health Sciences”, from the perspective of input/output 
models (factors/response). It is concluded that the RSM reveals the causal 
relationships between factors and responses through the construction of 
polynomial mathematical models. Similarly, quasiexperimental designs are 
proposed, these permitting scientific activity to be analysed with minimum 
effort and cost and high accuracy.

Address for correspondence:
E-mail: evaristo at ugr.es

Scientometrics, Vol. 79, No. 1 (2009) 201–218
Dordrecht DOI: 10.1007/s11192-009-0413-3
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