Contents of Scientometrics, Vol:80, No:3, September 2009

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Scientometrics, Vol. 80, No. 3 (SEPTEMBER 2009)

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CONTENTS

G. Lalitha Kumari
Synthetic Organic Chemistry research: Analysis by scientometric 
indicators                             561

Tianwei He
International scientific collaboration of China with the G7 
countries                                         573

Tianwei He, Wei Liu
The internationalization of Chinese scientific journals:
A quantitative comparison of three chemical journals from China, England 
and Japan            585

Young Mee Chung, So Young Yu, Yong Kwang Kim, Su Yeon Kim
Characteristics and link structure of a national scholarly Web space:
The case of South Korea            597 

Frances P. Ruane, Richard s. J. Tol
A Hirsch measure for the quality of research supervision, and an 
illustration with trade economists        615

Zouhayr Hayati, Saeideh Ebrahimy
Correlation between quality and quantity in scientific production:
A case study of Iranian organizations from 1997 to 2006        627 

Yu-Shan Chen, Ke-Chiun Chang
Using neural network to analyze the influence of the patent performance 
upon the market value of the US pharmaceutical companies     639 

Mark William Neff, Elizabeth A. Corley
35 years and 160,000 articles: A bibliometric exploration of the evolution 
of ecology               659

G. Steven Mcmillan
Gender differences in patenting activity: An examination of the US 
biotechnology industry     685

Claude Robert, Concepción S. Wilson, Stéphane Donnadieu, Jean-François 
Gaudy, Charles-Daniel Arreto
Analysis of the medical and biological pain research literature in the 
European Union: A 2006 Snapshot       695

Heting Chu, Chen Xu
Web 2.0 and its dimensions in the scholarly world      719 

Iraj Daizadeh
An intellectual property-based corporate strategy:  An R&D spend, patent, 
trademark, media communication and market price innovation agenda     733

Antonio García Romero, José Navarrete Cortés, Cristina Escudero,
Juan Antonio Fernández López, Juan antonio Chaichío Moreno
Measuring the influence of clinical trials citations on several 
bibliometric indicators                749

Daniel Torres-Salinas, Emilio Delgado Lopez-Cózar, Evaristo Jiménez-
Contreras
Ranking of departments and researchers within a university using two 
different databases:  Web of Science versus Scopus       763

Koen Jonkers
Emerging ties: Factors underlying China’s co-publication patterns with 
Western European and North American research systems in three molecular 
life science subfields                   777  

Víctor h. Cervantes, Ana Cristina Santana, Georgina Guilera, Juana Gómez-
Benito
Hierarchical linear models in psychiatry:A bibliometric study     799 

Milan Randić
Citations versus limitations of citations: beyond Hirsch 
index                                                    811

Vladimir G. Deineko, Gerhard J. Woeginger
A new family of scientific impact measures: The generalized Kosmulski-
indices                        821

Elena Castro-Martínez, Fernando Jiménez-Sáez, Francisco Javier Ortega-
Colomer
Science and technology policies: A tale of political use,
misuse and abuse of traditional R&D indicators      829 

Catherine Lecocq, Bart Van Looy
The impact of collaboration on the technological performance of regions: 
time invariant or driven by life cycle dynamics?
An explorative investigation of European regions in the field of 
Biotechnology                         847

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Title      :  Synthetic Organic Chemistry research: Analysis by 
scientometric indicators

AUTHOR :  G. LALITHA KUMARI
Information Management Area, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Uppal 
Road, Hyderabad-500007, India

ADDRESS:  G. LALITHA KUMARI
E-mail: laliict at gmail.com

SOURCE : Scientometrics, Vol. 80, No. 3 (2009) 561–572
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-1985-4

ABSTRACT:
Present study analyses the research output and impact in Synthetic Organic 
Chemistry (SOC) during 1998–2004 applying standardized scientometric 
indicators. Volume of research publications and their citations presented 
as percentage world share is illustrative of trending pattern against time. 
Adopting relative indicators – Absolute Citation Impact (ACI) and Relative 
Citation Impact (RCI), a cross national comparison is attempted at three 
levels of aggregations – global, Asian and Indian. Based on this analysis, 
it is concluded that G7 nations, being leaders for the volume of literature 
published and citations attracted are showing a decreasing trend over the 
years probably due to shifting and diversification of their research 
efforts to other emerging research fronts. In contrast smaller nations 
though publishing low volume but high quality research are represented by 
Netherlands. This country credited with only 1.12% world share of 
publications has recorded highest Absolute Citation Impact and recorded 
higher than world average Relative Citation Impact. In Asian region, 
between the two developing economies India and China, China out-performed 
India qualitatively by accounting higher citation share, higher Absolute 
Citation Impact (ACI) and higher Relative Citation Impact (RCI).

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TITLE :   International scientific collaboration of China with the G7 
countries

AUTHOR :  TIANWEI HE
College of Life Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, P. R. China
Address for correspondence:
TIANWEI HE
E-mail: hetw at jlu.edu.cn

SOURCE :  Scientometrics, Vol. 80, No. 3 (2009) 573–584
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-007-2043-y

ABSTRACT:
Collaboration is one of the remarkable characteristics of contemporary 
basic research. Using bibliometric method, we quantitatively analyze 
international collaboration publication output between China and the G7 
countries based on Science Citation Index. The results indicate that 
international collaboration publication output between China and the G7 
countries has shown exponential growth aroused by the growth of science in 
China. USA is the most important collaboration country and the 
international collaboration between China and the G7 countries display 
differences at each research field.

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TITLE   :  The internationalization of Chinese scientific journals: A 
quantitative comparison of three chemical journals from China, England and 
Japan

AUTHOR :  TIANWEI HE,a WEI LIUb
a College of Life Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, P. R. China
b Editorial Office of Chemical Research in Chinese Universities, Jilin 
University, Changchun, P. R. China
Address for correspondence:
TIANWEI HE
E-mail: hetw at jlu.edu.cn

SOURCE :    Scientometrics, Vol. 80, No. 3 (2009) 585–595
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-008-2067-y

ABSTRACT:
Scientific journals play an important role in international academic 
information exchange. Their international performance can be evaluated 
through the comparison of the geographical distribution patterns of 
authors, citations and subscriptions. In this study we analyzed 3 journals, 
i.e., Chinese Chemical Letters (China), Chemical Communications (England) 
and Chemistry Letters (Japan), for their regional distribution patterns of 
the editorial board members, the authors database, and the citation 
regions, using the bibliometric method, on the basis of the Web of Science. 
The results show that, compared with international journals, the Chinese 
Chemical Letters lags behind in all aspects. 

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TITLE :  Characteristics and link structure of a national scholarly Web 
space: The case of South Korea

AUTHOR  :YOUNG MEE CHUNG, SO YOUNG YU, YONG KWANG KIM, SU YEON KIM
Department of Library and Information Science, Yonsei University, Seoul, 
South Korea
Address for correspondence:
YOUNG MEE CHUNG
E-mail: ymchung at yonsei.ac.kr

SOURCE:  Scientometrics, Vol. 80, No. 3 (2009) 597–614
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-008-2091-y

ABSTRACT: 
This study performs a webometric analysis to explore the communication 
characteristics of scientific knowledge in a national scholarly Web space 
comprising top ranking universities and government supported research 
institutions in South Korea. We found significant differences in scholarly 
communication activity as well as linking behavior among different 
subspaces in addition to institutional differences. We also found the 
usefulness of the ADM approach in analyzing the metric data containing 
extreme outliers and discovered the directory model as the most 
appropriate. Page counts were found significantly correlated with inlinks 
as well as with outlinks at the directory level in the whole scholarly Web 
space.

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TITLE  :   A Hirsch measure for the quality of research supervision, and an 
illustration with trade economists

AUTHOR  : FRANCES P. RUANE,a,b RICHARD S. J. TOLa,c,d,e
a Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, Ireland
b Department of Economics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
c Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The 
Netherlands
d Department of Spatial Economics, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The 
Netherlands
e Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, 
Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Address for correspondence:
RICHARD S. J. TOL
E-mail: richard.tol at esri.ie

SOURCE :  Scientometrics, Vol. 80, No. 3 (2009) 615–626
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-008-2092-x

ABSTRACT:
There is a growing literature measuring research excellence in economics. 
The h-index is noteworthy in combining quantity and research quality in a 
single measure of researcher excellence, and its ability to be extended to 
measure the quantity and quality of the researchers in a department. We 
extend the use of the first successive h-index further to measure the 
quality of graduate education, specifically excellence in research 
supervision, based on publication and citation data for individual 
researchers ascribed to their graduate supervisors.

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TITLE  :Correlation between quality and quantity in scientific production: 
A case study of Iranian organizations from 1997 to 2006

AUTHOR  :ZOUHAYR HAYATI,a SAEIDEH EBRAHIMYb

a Department of Library and Information Science, Shiraz University, 71944, 
Shiraz, Fars, Iran 
b Department of Library and Information Science, Shahid Chamran University 
of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Khuzestan, Iran

Address for correspondence:
ZOUHAYR HAYATI
E-mail: zhayati at rose.shirazu.ac.ir

SOURCE :   Scientometrics, Vol. 80, No. 3 (2009) 627–638
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-009-2094-3

ABSTRACT:
In order to prevent the formation of a gap between the quality and quantity 
in Iranian scientific publications, this study makes an effort to analyze 
Iranian scientific publications indexed on the ISI Web of Science database 
using quantitative and qualitative scientometrics criteria over a ten year 
period. As a first step, all Iranian institutes were divided into three 
categories; universities, research institutes and other organizations. Then 
they were compared according to quantitative and qualitative criteria. 
Second, the correlation between the quality and quantity of the 
publications was measured. The research findings indicated that, according 
to qualitative criteria (citation, citation impact and percentage of cited 
documents) there are no meaningful differences among the three groups, 
while regarding quantitative criterion(number of papers), universities rank 
higher than the other two groups. The results also indicated that there is 
a positive and meaningful correlation among qualitative and quantitative 
criteria in the scholarly scientific publications conducted by Iranian 
organizations. In other words, in Iranian organizations the quality of 
publications increases as their quantity increases. The comparison of 
magnitude of correlation between these two criteria in the three categories 
reveals the fact that the correlation between number of papers and 
citations criterion in research institutes is stronger than the other two 
groups.

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TITLE :   Using neural network to analyze the influence of the patent 
performance upon the market value of the US pharmaceutical companies

AUTHOR :  YU-SHAN CHEN, KE-CHIUN CHANG

National Yunlin University of Science & Technology, Douliu, Yunlin, Taiwan

Address for correspondence:
YU-SHAN CHEN
E-mail: dr.chen.ys at gmail.com

SOURCE :  Scientometrics, Vol. 80, No. 3 (2009) 639–657
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-009-2095-2

ABSTRACT :
This study applies the artificial neural network technique to explore the 
influence of quantitative and qualitative patent indicators upon market 
value of the pharmaceutical companies in US. The results show that 
Herfindahl–Hirschman Index of patents influences negatively market value of 
the pharmaceutical companies in US, and their technological independence 
positively affects their market value. In addition, this study also finds 
out that patent citations of the American pharmaceutical companies have an 
inverse U-shaped effect upon their market value.

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TITLE :   35 years and 160,000 articles: A bibliometric exploration of the 
evolution of ecology

AUTHOR  :  MARK WILLIAM NEFF,a ELIZABETH A. CORLEYb

a Consortium for Science Policy and Outcomes, School of Life Sciences, Mail 
Code 4401, Arizona State
University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA
b School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, USA

address for correspondence:
MARK WILLIAM NEFF
E-mail: mark.neff at asu.edu

SOURCE :  Scientometrics, Vol. 80, No. 3 (2009) 659–684
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-008-2099-3

Received May

ABSTRACT:  
We utilize the bibliometric tool of co-word analysis to identify trends in 
the methods and subjects of ecology during the period 1970-2005. Few 
previous co-word analyses have attempted to analyze fields as large as 
ecology. We utilize a method of isolating concepts and methods in large 
datasets that undergo the most significant upward and downward trends. Our 
analysis identifies policy-relevant trends in the field of ecology, a 
discipline that helps to identify and frame many contemporary policy 
problems. The results provide a new foundation for exploring the relations 
among public policies, technological change, and the evolution of science 
priorities.

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TITLE  :   Gender differences in patenting activity: An examination of the 
US biotechnology industry

AUTHOR  G. STEVEN MCMILLAN
Penn State Abington, 1600 Woodland Road, Abington, PA 19001, USA
Address for correspondence:
G. STEVEN MCMILLAN
E-mail: gsm5 at psu.edu

SOURCE :  Scientometrics, Vol. 80, No. 3 (2009) 685–693
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-008-2101-0

ABSTRACT:
The gender gap in science and technology has received considerable 
attention by both researchers and policy makers. In an effort to better 
understand the quantity, quality, and underlying characteristics of female 
research efforts, I integrate three existing databases to uncover how 
female patenting activities differ from men’s in the US biotechnology 
industry. Data on how much science the patents build upon, the author 
institutions of that science, and who funded the papers in which the 
science appears are all examined. In addition, using the NBER Patent 
Citation Data Files, I propose a possible gender-based life cycle model for 
patenting activity. The policy implications of my findings are also 
discussed.

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TITLE  :  Analysis of the medical and biological pain research literature 
in the European Union: A 2006 snapshot

AUTHOR :  CLAUDE ROBERT,a CONCEPCIÓN S. WILSON,b STÉPHANE DONNADIEU,c JEAN-
FRANÇOIS GAUDY,a CHARLES-DANIEL ARRETOa

a Université Paris Descartes, Faculté de Chirurgie Dentaire, Laboratoire 
d’Anatomie Fonctionnelle, 1 rue Maurice Arnoux, 
92 120 Montrouge, France
b School of Information Systems, Technology and Management, The University 
of New South Wales,
Sydney, Australia

c Unité de Traitement de la Douleur. Hopital Européen Georges Pompidou, 
Paris, France
Address for correspondence:

CLAUDE ROBERT
E-mail: claude.robert at univ-paris5.fr

SOURCE :  Scientometrics, Vol. 80, No. 3 (2009) 695–718
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-008-2102-z

ABSTRACT:
This study analyzed 2443 papers published in 2006 by European Union authors 
on pain-related research. Five EU countries (the UK, Germany, Italy, the 
Netherlands and France) each published > 200 papers while three countries 
(Cyprus, Malta and Estonia) published none; socio-economic indicators were 
related to each country’s productivity. The 2443 papers were published in 
592 journals and Cephalalgia, Pain and European Journal of Pain were the 
most prolific. Publications were also analyzed for intra- versus inter- 
EU/non-EU collaborations and subdisciplines profiles in Clinical Medicine 
and the Life Sciences for the World, USA, EU and the top-four EU countries 
were compared.

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TITLE  :  Web 2.0 and its dimensions in the scholarly world

AUTHOR :  HETING CHU, CHEN XU
College of Information & Computer Science, Long Island University, 720 
Northern Blvd., Brookville, NY 11548, USA

SOURCE :  Scientometrics, Vol. 80, No. 3 (2009) 719–731
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-008-2103-y

ABSTRACT:
A bibliometric analysis was performed on a set of 1718 documents relating 
to Web 2.0 to explore the dimensions and characteristics of this emerging 
field. It has been found that Web 2.0 has its root deep in social networks 
with medicine and sociology as the major contributing disciplines to the 
scholarly publications beyond its technology backbone – information and 
computer science. Terms germane to Web 2.0, extracted from the data 
collected in this study, were also visualized to reflect the very nature of 
this rising star on the Internet. Web 2.0, according to the current 
research, is of the user, by the user, and more importantly, for the user.

Address for correspondence:
HETING CHU
E-mail: hetingchu at gmail.com

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TITLE :  An intellectual property-based corporate strategy: An R&D spend, 
patent, trademark, media communication,

and market price innovation agenda

AUTHOR :  IRAJ DAIZADEHa,b 
a Amgen Inc., M/S: 27-2-E, One Amgen Center Drive, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320, 
USA

b IBM, Global Business Services, 400 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale, CA 91203-
2311, USA

SOURCE :  Scientometrics, Vol. 80, No. 3 (2009) 733–748
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-008-2105-9

ABSTRACT:
An intellectual property (IP)-centric, communication-based Innovation 
Agenda is proposed and investigated. The agenda, which is aligned with IP 
legal prescription, is defined as follows: the firm’s R&D expenditure is 
captured within products. The firm applies for a patent and files a 
trademark to protect its interests in the ‘patentable’ product, and issues 
a media communication, which may alter the perception of future cash flows, 
and thereby market price. Upon patent issuance and trademark registration, 
the firm will then seek another media communication. Spearman (partial) 
correlation analysis shows strong correlation among the various proxy 
metrics suggesting that the model basis may exist. The model proposes a 
novel link among national socioeconomic metrics, corporate strategy, and 
the technology based innovative firm. Finally, the model supports the 
inclusion of trademark and media communications data to be considered in 
socioeconomic modeling.

Address for correspondence:
IRAJ DAIZADEH

E-mail: irajdaizadeh at yahoo.com

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TITLE :   Measuring the influence of clinical trials citations on several 
bibliometric indicators

AUTHOR :  ANTONIO GARCÍA ROMERO,a JOSÉ NAVARRETE CORTÉS,b CRISTINA 
ESCUDERO,c

JUAN ANTONIO FERNÁNDEZ LÓPEZ,b JUAN ANTONIO CHAICHÍO MORENOd
a Agencia Laín Entralgo, Consejería de Sanidad (Comunidad de Madrid), 
C/Gran Vía, 27 28013 Madrid, Spain
b Universidad de Jaén, Jaén, Spain
c Hospital Puerta de Hierro, Madrid, Spain
d Universidad de Almería, Almería, Spain

SOURCE : Scientometrics, Vol. 80, No. 3 (2009) 749–762
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-008-2108-6

ABSTRACT:  
The practice of publishing clinical trials in scientific journals is 
common, although not without its critics. This study aims to measure the 
effect of clinical trials citations on several bibliometric indicators: 
citations per document (CD); journal impact factor (JIF); relative h-index 
(RhI) and strike rate index (SRI). We select all the citable documents 
published in the NEJM, Lancet, JAMA, AIM and BMJ, for the period 2000-2004, 
and record the citations received by those papers from 2000 to 2005. Our 
results show that clinical trials have a CD significantly higher than those 
for conventional papers; JIF is lower when clinical trials are excluded, 
especially for NEJM, Lancet and JAMA. Finally, both RhI and SRI seem to be 
unaffected by clinical trials citations.

Address for correspondence:
ANTONIO GARCÍA ROMERO
E-mail: agr33 at salud.madrid.org

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TITLE :  Ranking of departments and researchers within a university using 
two different databases: Web of Science versus Scopus

 AUTHOR  :  DANIEL TORRES-SALINAS,a EMILIO DELGADO LOPEZ-CÓZAR,b EVARISTO 
JIMÉNEZ-CONTRERASb
a EC3: Evaluación de la Ciencia y de la Comunicación Científica, Centro de 
Investigación Médica Aplicada,
Universidad de Navarra, Avd Pío XII, 55, 31008, Pamplona, Spain

b EC3: Evaluación de la Ciencia y de la Comunicación Científica, 
Departamento de Biblioteconomía y

Documentación, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain

SOURCE : Scientometrics, Vol. 80, No. 3 (2009) 763–776
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-008-2113-9

ABSTRACT:  
In this work, we compare the difference in the number of citations compiled 
with Scopus as opposed to the Web of Science (WoS) with the aim of 
analysing the agreement among the citation rankings generated by these 
databases. For this, we analysed the area of Health Sciences of the 
University of Navarra (Spain), composed of a total of 50 departments and 
864 researchers. The total number of published works reflected in the WoS 
during the period 1999–2005 was 2299. For each work, the number of 
citations in both databases was recorded. The results indicate that the 
works received 14.7% more citations in Scopus than in WoS. In the 
departments, the difference was greater in the clinical ones than in the 
basic ones. In the case of the rankings of citations, it was found that 
both databases generate similar results. The Spearman and Kendall-Tau 
coefficients were higher than 0.9. It was concluded that the difference in 
the number of citations found did not correspond to the difference of 
coverage of WoS and Scopus. 

Address for correspondence:
DANIEL TORRES-SALINAS
E-mail: torressalinas at gmail.com

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TITLE :  Emerging ties: Factors underlying China’s co-publication patterns 
with Western European and North American
research systems in three molecular life science subfields

AUTHOR :  KOEN JONKERSa,b
a European University Institute, Department of Social and Political 
Sciences, Via dei Roccetini 9, I-50016, 
San Domenico di Fiesole, Florence, Italy
b CSIC Institute of Public Goods and Policies (IPP-CCHS), Systems and 
Policies for Research and
Innovation (SPRI_SCIMAGO), Madrid, Spain

SOURCE :  Scientometrics, Vol. 80, No. 3 (2009) 777–797
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-008-2115-7

ABSTRACT:
This paper analyses the changing geographic balance in China’s 
international co-publications in general and in three molecular life 
science subfields in particular. No support is found for the expectation 
that intensive, designated institutional support for research collaboration 
in the form of joint laboratories has a positive impact on the number of co-
publications at the systemic level. The size of partner research systems, 
and since the turn of the century the relative size of overseas Chinese 
scientific communities in various partner countries do help to explain the 
observed geographic variations in the share of China’s international co-
publications. The paper concludes by discussing some of the potential 
factors underlying the perceived change in the dynamics of international co-
publication behavior of mainland Chinese scientists since the turn of the 
century.

Address for correspondence:

KOEN JONKERS

E-mail: kjonkers at eui.eu

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TITLE :  Hierarchical linear models in psychiatry: A bibliometric study

AUTHOR :  VÍCTOR H. CERVANTES,a ANA CRISTINA SANTANA,a GEORGINA GUILERA,b 
JUANA GÓMEZ-BENITOb
a Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Distrito Capital, Colombia
b Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

SOURCE : Scientometrics, Vol. 80, No. 3 (2009) 799–810
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-009-2121-4

ABSTRACT:

Development of research methods requires a systematic review of their 
status. This study focuses on the use of Hierarchical Linear Modeling 
methods in psychiatric research. Evaluation includes 207 documents 
published until 2007, included and indexed in the ISI Web of Knowledge 
databases; analyses focuses on the 194 articles in the sample. Bibliometric 
methods are used to describe the publications patterns. Results indicate a 
growing interest in applying the models and an establishment of methods 
after 2000. Both Lotka’s and Bradford’s distributions are adjusted to the 
data.

Address for correspondence:
VÍCTOR H. CERVANTES

E-mail: vhcervantesb at unal.edu.co

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TITLE :  Citations versus limitations of citations: beyond Hirsch index

AUTHOR :  MILAN RANDIĆa,b
a National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Hajdrihova 19, SI-1000, 
Slovenia

b Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Drake University, Des 
Moines, IA, USA

SOURCE : Scientometrics, Vol. 80, No. 3 (2009) 811–820
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-008-2128-2

ABSTRACT:
It appears popular, particularly among science administrators, to use 
citations and various citation measures for ranking scientists, as if such 
exercises would reflect the scientific potential of the persons considered. 
In recent time the Hirsch index h in particular has obtained visibility in 
this respect in view of its simplicity. We consider a possible extension of 
the concept of selective citations, which in fact is innate to the h index, 
and propose a simple generalization, indices H and Q, which to a degree 
supplement the information accompanying the evaluation of h. The H index 
keeps record of the “history” of citations and the quotient Q = H/h is a 
measure for the quality of a scientist based on the history of his/her 
citations.

Address for correspondence:

MILAN RANDIĆ

3225 Kingman Rd., Ames, IA 50014

E-mail: mrandic at msn.com

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TITLE :  A new family of scientific impact measures: The generalized 
Kosmulski-indices

AUTHOR :  VLADIMIR G. DEINEKO,a GERHARD J. WOEGINGERb
a Warwick Business School, The University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, 
United Kingdom

b Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, TU Eindhoven, Eindhoven, 
The Netherlands

SOURCE : Scientometrics, Vol. 80, No. 3 (2009) 821–828
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-009-2130-0

ABSTRACT:
This article introduces the generalized Kosmulski-indices as a new family 
of scientific impact measures for ranking the output of scientific 
researchers. As special cases, this family contains the well-known 
Hirschindex h and the Kosmulski-index h(2). The main contribution is an 
axiomatic characterization that characterizes every generalized Kosmulski-
index in terms of three axioms.

Address for correspondence:
VLADIMIR G. DEINEKO
E-mail: Vladimir.Deineko at wbs.ac.uk

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TITLE :  Science and technology policies: A tale of political use, misuse 
and abuse of traditional R&D indicators

AUTHOR :  ELENA CASTRO-MARTÍNEZ, FERNANDO JIMÉNEZ-SÁEZ, FRANCISCO JAVIER 
ORTEGA-COLOMER
NGENIO (CSIC-UPV), Institute of Innovation and Knowledge Management,
Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, 
Spain

SOURCE :  Scientometrics, Vol. 80, No. 3 (2009) 829–846
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-009-2132-6

ABSTRACT: 
Future political priorities for science and technology (S&T) policy 
formulation usually rest on a rather simplistic interpretation of past 
events. This can lead to serious errors and distortions and can negatively 
affect the innovation system. In this article we try to highlight the 
riskiness involved in policy making based on traditional R&D indicators and 
trends. We would emphasise that this approach does not take account of 
structural aspects crucial for the analysis of the innovation system. We 
examine the implications for science, technical and human resources 
policies of the political challenge of R&D convergence in a peripheral EU 
region. Three scenarios are developed based on application of the same 
criteria to the trends observed in traditional R&D input indicators.

Address for correspondence:
ELENA CASTRO-MARTÍNEZ

E-mail: ecastrom at ingenio.upv.es

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TITLE :  The impact of collaboration on the technological performance of 
regions: time invariant or driven by life cycle dynamics? An explorative 
investigation of European regions in the field of Biotechnology

AUTHOR :  CATHERINE LECOCQ,a,b BART VAN LOOY a,c,d
a Managerial Economics, Strategy and Innovation, Faculty of Business and 
Economics, K.U. Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
b Steunpunt Ondernemen en Internationaal Ondernemen, K.U. Leuven, Leuven, 
Belgium
c Research Division INCENTIM, K.U. Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
d Steunpunt O&O Indicatoren, K.U. Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

SOURCE : Scientometrics, Vol. 80, No. 3 (2009) 847–867
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-009-2158-4

ABSTRACT:
Increasingly, collaboration between firms as well as science-industry 
interactions are being considered as important for technology development. 
Yet, few attempts have been made to analyze the contribution of 
collaboration, taking into account different stages of the technology life 
cycle. Our analysis, based on a panel of 197 regions in the EU-15 and 
Switzerland (time period 1978–2001), provides evidence that, in the field 
of biotechnology, science-industry collaboration contributes to better 
technological performance of regions both during the emerging phases (1978–
1990) and the growth stages (1991–1999) of the life cycle. Collaboration 
between industrial partners also contributes to the technological 
performance of regions during the first phase but is less pronounced during 
later phases of the technology life cycle. Moreover, the analysis reveals 
that, as technologies develop over time, the impact of local collaboration 
is mitigated in favor of collaboration that has an international dimension. 
This holds true for both science-industry interactions and for 
collaboration between firms. In consequence, our findings underscore the 
relevance of incorporating life cycle dynamics (of technologies) when 
studying the nature and impact of collaboration on the technological 
performance of regions.

Address for correspondence:

CATHERINE LECOCQ

E-mail: catherine.lecocq at econ.kuleuven.be

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