From isidro.aguillo at CCHS.CSIC.ES Tue May 5 05:26:42 2009 From: isidro.aguillo at CCHS.CSIC.ES (Isidro F. Aguillo) Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 11:26:42 +0200 Subject: Slides from Rankings' conference available Message-ID: The presentations of the Second Edition of the International Workshop on University Web Rankings 2009 that took place in Madrid on 21st April of this year are freely available to download. They includes the introduction of the new Scimago Ranking with screenshots of the beta version, details about the World version of the Leiden Ranking, the new strategy of the QS for the THE Ranking and a lot of useful material for improving web performace from the Cybermetrics Lab. You can follow the link from the homepage of the Ranking Web: http://www.webometrics.info/ Best regards, -- ************************************* Isidro F. Aguillo, HonPhD 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 kretschmer.h at T-ONLINE.DE Tue May 5 06:34:02 2009 From: kretschmer.h at T-ONLINE.DE (kretschmer.h@t-online.de) Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 12:34:02 +0200 Subject: Call for papers (Poster presentations) 5th Int Conf WIS & 10th COLLNET Meeting Dalian, China Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue May 5 13:33:12 2009 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?US-ASCII?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 13:33:12 -0400 Subject: Enger KB "Using citation analysis to develop core book collections " Library & Information Science Research 31(2):107-112, April 2009 Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue May 5 13:46:00 2009 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 13:46:00 -0400 Subject: Mukherjee B. "The hyperlinking pattern of open-access journals in library and information science: A cited citing reference study" Lib & Info Sci Res 31 (2). APR 2009. p.113-125 Message-ID: E-mail : mukherjee.bhaskar at gmail.com TITLE: The hyperlinking pattern of open-access journals in library and information science: A cited citing reference study (Article, English) AUTHOR : Mukherjee, B SOURCE: LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE RESEARCH 31 (2). APR 2009. p.113-125 ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, NEW YORK FULL TEXT AVAILABLE AT: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6W5R-4VJ4FKN- 1&_user=1976668&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000055689&_ version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=1976668&md5=75399cc4afce35a5ec0874b7214fa636 ABSTRACT: Using 17 open-access journals published without interruption between 2000 and 2004 in the field of library and information science. this study compares the pattern of cited/citing hyperlinked references of Web-based scholarly electronic articles under various citation ranges in terms of language, file format, source and top- level domain. While the patterns of cited references were manually examined by counting the live hyperlinked-cited references, the patterns of citing references were examined by using the cited by tag in Google Scholar. The analysis indicates that although language, top-level domain, and file format of citations did not differ significantly for articles under different citation ranges, sources of citation differed significantly for articles in different citation ranges. Articles with fewer citations mostly cite less-scholarly sources such as Web pages, whereas articles with a higher number of citations mostly cite scholarly sources such as journal articles, etc. The findings suggest that 8 out of 17 OA journals in LIS have significant research impact in the scholarly communication process. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: B Mukherjee, Banaras Hindu Univ, Dept Lib & Informat Sci, Varanasi 221005, Uttar Pradesh, India From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue May 5 14:03:42 2009 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 14:03:42 -0400 Subject: Gallagher R. "Citation Violations" The Scientist 23(5):13, May 2009 Message-ID: E-mail: rgallagher at the-scientist.com TITLE: Citation Violations (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR:Gallagher, R SOURCE:SCIENTIST 23 (5). MAY 2009. p.13 SCIENTIST INC, Philadelphia AUTHOR ADDRESS: R Gallagher, The Scientist, 400 Market St,Suite 1250, Philadelphia, PA 19106 USA FULL TEXT: The Scientist Volume 23 | Issue 5 | Page 13 Citation Violations Scientists are guilty of bibliographic negligence. Here's how to police the pages of journals. By Richard Gallagher _____________________________________________ The age-old problem of attribution in science?in other words, the practice of citation?has resurfaced with a vengeance in a couple of recent fracases. What's new about these cases is that they're being played out online in full gory detail and in real time. For the first time, large sections of the community can get involved in judging the evidence for themselves, and in having their say. It's very illuminating. At the theoretical level, the assignment of credit for previous research is straightforward: When writing a paper, authors should cite any highly relevant publications that have a bearing on the research being written up. But this comforting rule of thumb isn't necessarily followed. From disregarding the wealth of "old" scientific observations to omitting mention of competitors' latest results, citation practice has always been a source of tension in science, as it probably is in every other professional pursuit. Eugene Garfield, Editor Emeritus of The Scientist, has written extensively on the topic, coining the terms "bibliographic negligence" in 2002, and "citation amnesia" a decade earlier. The first of the recent cases that I want to highlight surfaced late last year, when a collection of researchers accused the authors of a Cell paper of "improper citation, disregard for antecedent research, and shoddy experimentation." The work was on cell-cell communication in the organization of epithelia. Our story on the subject1 generated 37 comments from concerned readers. When the controversy emerged, Cell flatly refused to fully engage with the complainants, inviting them instead to post a comment on the journal's Web site. For the record, I've been an editor at Science and Nature, and have the highest respect for the skills and dedication of that cadre. But it's high time that journal editors joined the rest of us in openly discussing and learning from serious disputes. Their ongoing censorship2 is helping no one, and they are running the risk of making themselves irrelevant through nonparticipation. In the second case, researcher Neil Greenspan, writing on our Web site,3 describes how the perceived novelty and importance of a specific study were significantly enhanced by omission of prior work. The subject matter of the paper, published in Science, is the development of an antibody with two specificities. While not disputing the validity or interest of the study, Greenspan takes issue with a portrayal of the work that "unfairly damage(s) investigators whose work and ideas are not cited or taken into account." At the time of writing, Science had not responded to his criticism. These recent examples raised a number of old questions: How widespread is foul play in citation practice? Is there a "best practice" and, if so, how should it be implemented? To help answer these questions, we've posted an online survey here. It's anonymous and the accumulated results are immediately available to participants, so if you want a snapshot of where we stand in relation to citation practice, check it out. We need a code of practice for citation, which journals should adopt explicitly. Gene Garfield called for this many years ago, suggesting that authors sign a pledge or oath that they have done a minimal search of the literature and that to the best of their knowledge there is no other relevant work. This is, in fact, the oath one signs when filing for a US patent. Judging by the amount of publicity for fraud and greed in science, standards appear to be in freefall. I am not sure that I buy it. I think that the openness gifted us by the Internet is revealing the lax standards that have been in place all the time. The purifying glare of publicity may actually help us get our house in order?I wish that the editors of research journals would get this. rgallagher at the-scientist.com References 1. B. Grant, "Critics rip Cell paper," The Scientist NewsBlog, November 25, 2008. 2. R. Gallagher, "End the Censorship of Science," The Scientist, 21(5):13, May 1, 2007. 3. N. Greenspan, "The Hype of Science," The Scientist NewsBlog, April 15, 2009. Related Articles End the Censorship of Science The hype of science Critics rip Cell paper Citation Amnesia Survey -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Properties of the l-index and extensions are discussed. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Teics, Budapest Univ Technol & Econ, Dept Comp Sci & Informat Theory, Magyar Tudosok Korutja 2, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary From benedetto.lepori at UNISI.CH Wed May 6 10:19:35 2009 From: benedetto.lepori at UNISI.CH (Lepori Benedetto) Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 16:19:35 +0200 Subject: PRIME ENID Indicators summer school: extended deadline Message-ID: Dear colleagues, I am happy to inform you that, to answer to some requests, the deadline for submitting application to the PRIME-ENID Summer school on Science and Technology Indicators has been extended until May 25th. The school will take place in Amsterdam from the 1st to the 4th September 2009 and offers an attractive program dealing with different dimensions of science and technology indicators. Please find attached the program and submission information. Best Benedetto Lepori Benedetto Lepori Servizio Ricerca USI-SUPSI and Centre for Organisational Research Universit? della Svizzera italiana via Lambertenghi 10a 6904 Lugano, Switzerland Tel. +41 58 666 46 14 e-mail: blepori at unisi.ch -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PRIME Flyer_summerschool 2009.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 44437 bytes Desc: PRIME Flyer_summerschool 2009.pdf URL: From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu May 7 14:30:24 2009 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 14:30:24 -0400 Subject: Kulinna, PH; Scrabis-Fletcher, K; Kodish, S; Phillips, S; "A Decade of Research Literature in Physical Education Pedagogy " JOURNAL OF TEACHING IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION 28 (2). APR 2009. Message-ID: Pamela Kulinna : Pamela.Kulinna at asu.edu TITLE: A Decade of Research Literature in Physical Education Pedagogy AUTHOR: Kulinna, PH; Scrabis-Fletcher, K; Kodish, S; Phillips, S; Silverman, S SOURCE: JOURNAL OF TEACHING IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION 28 (2). APR 2009. p.119-140 HUMAN KINETICS PUBL INC, CHAMPAIGN ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study was to provide a detailed analysis of the research literature in physical education for one decade, including data on the research focus (i.e., teaching, teacher education, and curriculum). A database of published research and research-based scholarship was created. Data were coded maintaining 97% or higher agreement levels. There were 1,8 19 physical education pedagogy research papers published during 1995-2004 in 94 different journals, including those that primarily pertain to (a) physical education (56.40%), (b) kinesiology (30.02%), (c) education and social science (9.35%), and (d) heath education and medical (4.23%). Papers represented all three focus areas: teaching (65.31%), curriculum (19.24%), and teacher education ( 15.45%). Research in physical education pedagogy has increased each year since 1995, including a small presence in education and social science journals as well as health education and medical journals. AUTHOR ADDRESS: PH Kulinna, Arizona State Univ, Tempe, AZ 85287 USA References: 1. ISI WEB KNOWLEDGE : 2007 2. CHEN A, Revisiting the assumptions for inferential statistical analyses: A conceptual guide QUEST 53 : 418 2001 3. CRONIN B, Using the h-index to rank influential information scientists JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 57 : 1275 DOI 10.1002/asi.20354 2006 4. EID M, HDB MULTIMETHOD MEAS : 2006 5. GAGE NL, HDB RES TEACHING : 1963 6. GRABER KC, HDB RES TEACHING : 491 2001 7. HARTER SP, ISI's impact factor as misnomer: A proposed new measure to assess journal impact JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE 48 : 1146 1997 8. KIRK D, INT WORKSH QUAL SCI : 2007 9. LEFF D, Making an impact: The rise of the impact factor as a measure of journal quality JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN DIETETIC ASSOCIATION 105 : 29 DOI 10.1016/j.jada.2004.11.020 2005 10. LEVSKY ME. A descriptive analysis of authorship within medical journals, 1995-2005 SOUTHERN MEDICAL JOURNAL 100 : 371 2007 11. LOCKE LF, PROPOSALS WORK GUIDE : 2007 12. MACDONALD D, It's all very well, in theory: Theoretical perspectives and their applications in contemporary pedagogical research QUEST 54 : 133 2002 13. MCBRIDE R, Impact factors for the Journal of Teaching in Physical Education - What are they and are they important? JOURNAL OF TEACHING IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION 25 : 3 2006 14. MCGHEE CN, Considering journal impact factor and impact of the journal in the electronic age CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL OPHTHALMOLOGY 32 : 457 2004 15. OPLATKA I, INT STUDIES ED ADM 35 : 92 2007 16. SHILBURY D, SPORT MANAGEMENT REV 10 : 31 2007 17. SHULMAN LS. HDB RES TEACHING : 3 1986 18. SIECK GC. The "impact factor": what it means to the impact of applied physiology JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY 89 : 865 2000 19. SILVERMAN S, Research on teaching in physical education doctoral dissertations: A detailed investigation of focus, method, and analysis JOURNAL OF TEACHING IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION 22 : 280 2003 20. SILVERMAN S. Research on teaching in physical education: An analysis of published research JOURNAL OF TEACHING IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION 16 : 300 1997 21. SILVERMAN S, J TEACHING PHYS ED 7 : 61 1997 22. SILVERMAN S. STUDENT LEARNING PHY : 3 2003 23. SILVERMAN SJ. STUDENT LEARNING PHY : 2003 24. STORY M, School-based approaches for preventing and treating obesity INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBESITY 23 : S43 1999 25. WARD P. Publication trends in the Journal of Teaching in Physical Education from 1981 to 2005 JOURNAL OF TEACHING IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION 25 : 266 2006 26. YUE WP, Peer assessment of journal quality in clinical neurology JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 95 : 70 2007 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu May 7 14:50:19 2009 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 14:50:19 -0400 Subject: Osca-Lluch J, Molla CC , Ortega MP, "Consequences of the error in bibliographical references" PSICOTHEMA Volume: 21 Issue: 2 Pages: 300-303 MAY 2009 Message-ID: E-mail: TITLE : Consequences of the error in bibliographical references Author(s): Osca-Lluch J (Osca-Lluch, Julia)1, Molla CC (Civera Molla, Cristina), Ortega MP (Penaranda Ortega, Maria)2 Source: PSICOTHEMA Volume: 21 Issue: 2 Pages: 300-303 Published: MAY 2009 Times Cited: 0 References: 22 Citation Map Abstract: Consequences of the error in bibliographical references. The specific case of the journal Psicothema The errors, as they appear in the databases of the Web of Science, found in the bibliographical citations of the works published 'in Psicothema were analyzed. The most frequent error found is citing the title of the journal as Psicorhema, instead of Psicothema. The authors reveal the need to take more care when reviewing the titles of journals in the bibliographical references of the works. Such errors often prevent locating the works cited in the article. They also hinder authors' evaluation of the works and the journals because many bibliometric indicators used to establish the rankings of the best journals of a specialty are calculated based on the number of citations of works published in the journals. Document Type: Article Language: Spanish KeyWords Plus: IMPACT FACTOR; PSYCHOLOGY; JOURNALS; SPANISH; INDEX Reprint Address: Osca-Lluch, J (reprint author), Univ Valencia, Inst Hist Ciencia & Documentac Lopez Pinero, E-46003 Valencia, Spain Addresses: 1. Univ Valencia, Inst Hist Ciencia & Documentac Lopez Pinero, E-46003 Valencia, Spain 2. Univ Murcia, E-30001 Murcia, Spain E-mail Addresses: M.Julia.Osca at uv.es Publisher: COLEGIO OFICIAL DE PSICOLOGOS DE ASTURIAS, ILDEFONSO S. DEL RIO, 4-1 B, 33001 OVIEDO, SPAIN IDS Number: 433NY ISSN: 0214-9915 References: 1. BROADUS RN AN INVESTIGATION OF THE VALIDITY OF BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATIONS JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE 34 : 132 1983 2. BUELACASAL G ANAL MODIFICACION CO 28 : 455 2002 3. BUELACASAL G. Impact factor of three Spanish journals of psychology. PSICOTHEMA 16 : 680 2004 4. BUELACASAL G Evaluating quality of articles and scientific journals. Proposal of weighted impact factor and a quality index? PSICOTHEMA 15 : 23 2003 5. BUELACASAL G. Comparative study of the Psychology journals with impact factor written in Spanish. PSICOTHEMA 14 : 837 2002 6. CIVERA C. ANSIEDAD ESTRES 10 : 1 2004 7. GARFIELD E REV INT PSICOLOGIA C 3 : 363 2003 8. LOPEZ P. NUEVAS TECNOLOGIAS I : 17 2002 9. LOPEZCOZAR ED. BIBLIO 3 W REV BIBLI 574 : 1 2005 10. MERTON RK, WEB KNOWLEDGE FESTSC : 435 2000 11. MESTRE V. PSYCHOL REP 93 : 973 2003 12. MOED HF, POSSIBLE INACCURACIES OCCURRING IN CITATION ANALYSIS JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE 15 : 95 1989 13. MUSILECHUGA B, Scientific production of professors of Psychology at Spanish Universities in journals included in Web of Sciences database PSICOTHEMA 17 : 539 2005 14. OSCALLUCH J. ANALES DOCUMENTACION 8 : 165 2005 15. PONCEVARGAS A, REV ESPANOLA REUMATO 26 : 80 1999 16. PULIDO M, The ethical obligations of the authors: references, criteria of originality, and redundant publication and the rights of intellectual property MEDICINA CLINICA 109 : 673 1997 17. PULIDO M, ERRORS IN BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES - A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY IN MEDICINA-CLINICA (1962-1992) MEDICINA CLINICA 104 : 170 1995 18. PULIDO M, REV ESPANOLA REUMATO 26 : 73 1999 19. QUINONESVIDAL E, The nature of social and personality psychology as reflected in JPSP, 1965-2000 JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 86 : 435 DOI 10.1037/0022-3514.86.3.435 2004 20. SALGADO JF, Scientific productivity and Hirsch's h index of Spanish social psychology: Convergence between productivity indexes and comparison with other areas PSICOTHEMA 19 : 179 2007 21. TORTOSA F, ANSIEDAD ESTRES 5 : 5 1999 22. TORTOSA F, CREACION INDICE CITA : 2005 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Thu May 7 15:03:07 2009 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 15:03:07 -0400 Subject: Buela-Casal G, Bermudez MD, Sierra JC, Quevedo-Blasco R, Castro A. "Ranking 2008 of research productivity in Spanish public universities" PSICOTHEMA Volume: 21 Issue: 2 Pages: 304-312 MAY 2009 Message-ID: E-MAIL: gbuela at ugr.es TITLE : Ranking 2008 of research productivity in Spanish public universities. Author(s): Buela-Casal G (Buela-Casal, Gualberto)1, Bermudez MD (de la Paz Bermudez, Maria), Sierra JC (Carlos Sierra, Juan), Quevedo-Blasco R (Quevedo-Blasco, Raul), Castro A (Castro, Angel) Source: PSICOTHEMA Volume: 21 Issue: 2 Pages: 304-312 Published: MAY 2009 Times Cited: 0 References: 32 Citation Map Abstract: Ranking 2008 of research productivity in Spanish public universities. The aim of this study is to analyze research scientific productivity of Spanish public universities by means of using criteria related to research assessment in Spain. Firstly, a study to establish the weight of the indicators was developed. A representative sample of 1,341 university teachers participated in this study. Of them, 68% are senior lecturers and 32% are professors. A stratified random sampling procedure within each area of knowledge was used. The sample is representative with a 97% confidence interval. Secondly, the scientific productivity according to the size of university in each indicator was analyzed. Finally, the scientific productivity according to size of university and weight of each indicator was weighted. Results of the survey make possible to get a specific ranking in each criterion: Doctoral dissertations, Research projects + development, Grants for training university teachers, Articles included in JCR, Research periods and Doctorate programs with Quality Mention, as well as a global ranking. Results allow analyzing strengths and weakness of each university according each criterion. Language: Spanish Reprint Address: Buela-Casal, G (reprint author), Univ Granada, Fac Psicol, Granada 18011, Spain Addresses: 1. Univ Granada, Fac Psicol, Granada 18011, Spain E-mail Addresses: gbuela at ugr.es Publisher: COLEGIO OFICIAL DE PSICOLOGOS DE ASTURIAS, ILDEFONSO S. DEL RIO, 4-1 B, 33001 OVIEDO, SPAIN IDS Number: 433NY ISSN: 0214-9915 ABSTRACT: Ranking 2008 of research productivity in Spanish public universities. The aim of this study is to analyze research scientific productivity of Spanish public universities by means of using criteria related to research assessment in Spain. Firstly, a study to establish the weight of the indicators was developed. A representative sample of 1,341 university teachers participated in this study. Of them, 68% are senior lecturers and 32% are professors. A stratified random sampling procedure within each area of knowledge was used. The sample is representative with a 97% confidence interval. Secondly, the scientific productivity according to the size of university in each indicator was analyzed. Finally, the scientific productivity according to size of university and weight of each indicator was weighted. Results of the survey make possible to get a specific ranking in each criterion: Doctoral dissertations, Research projects + development, Grants for training university teachers, Articles included in JCR, Research periods and Doctorate programs with Quality Mention, as well as a global ranking. Results allow analyzing strengths and weakness of each university according each criterion. AUTHOR ADDRESS: G Buela-Casal, Univ Granada, Fac Psicol, Granada 18011, Spain REFERENCES: 1.*AG CAL ACRED PROS SIST EV PROF U CONTR : 2006 2. *AG NAC EV CAL ACR PROG EV PROF PRINC O : 2005 3. *INT RANK EXP GROU BERL PRINC RANK HIGH : 2006 4. *MIN ED CIENC HAB ACC CUERP FUNC D : 2005 5. *SHANGHAI JIAO TON AC RANK WORLD U : 2008 6. AGUDELO D Analysis of the scientific productivity of the Spanish psychology through the doctoral thesis PSICOTHEMA 15 : 595 2003 7. BUELACASAL G 5 FOR EV CAL SUP ED 2008 8. BUELACASAL G ANAL MODIFICATION CO 31 : 313 2005 9. BUELACASAL G The internationality index of the Spanish psychology journals INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY 7 : 899 2007 10. BUELACASAL G An overview of scientific productivity of Spanish Universities INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY 5 : 175 2005 11. BUELACASAL G INT J PSYCHOL PSYCHO 8 : 127 2008 12. BUELACASAL G Reflections on the Accreditation System of tenured University Professors in Spain. PSICOTHEMA 19 : 473 2007 13. BUELACASAL G PSICOTHEMA 19 : 537 2007 14. BUELACASAL G Evaluating quality of articles and scientific journals. Proposal of weighted impact factor and a quality index? PSICOTHEMA 15 : 23 2003 15. BUELACASAL G REV ELECT METODOLOGI 12 : 1 2007 16. BUELACASAL G REV MEX PSICOL 22 : 306 2005 17. BUELACASAL G Comparative study of international academic rankings of universities SCIENTOMETRICS 71 : 349 DOI 10.1007/s11192-007-1653-8 2007 18. BUELACASAL G Measuring internationality: Reflections and perspectives on academic journals SCIENTOMETRICS 67 : 45 DOI 10.1556/Scient.67.2006.1.4 2006 19. CARBALLO JS REV INVESTIGACION ED 4 : 4 2007 20. GARFIELD E INT J CLIN HLTH PSYC 3 : 363 2003 21. MONTERO I A guide for naming research studies in Psychology INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY 7 : 847 2007 22. MOYA F INDICADORES BIBLIOME : 2004 23. MOYANO M INT J PSYCHOL PSYCHO 6 : 111 2006 24. MUSILECHUGA B One Scientific productivity of Doctorate programs in Clinical and Health Psychology in Spain INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY 9 : 161 2009 25. MUSILECHUGA B Scientific production of professors of Psychology at Spanish Universities in journals included in Web of Sciences database PSICOTHEMA 17 : 539 2005 26. PAGANI R ESTUDIO INT CRITERIO : 2006 27. RAMOSALVAREZ MM Criteria of the peer review process for publication of experimental and quasi-experimental research in Psychology: A guide for creating research papers INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY 8 : 751 2008 28. RUIZPEREZ R Institute for Scientific Information criteria for scientific journals selection. Its application to Spanish journals: Methodology and indicators INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY 6 : 401 2006 29. SANZ L IDENTIFICACION CENTR : 2002 30. SIERRA JC Transnational analysis of the evaluation and selection of university professors INTERCIENCIA 33 : 251 2008 From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Fri May 8 15:09:59 2009 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 21:09:59 +0200 Subject: An Indicator of Research Front Activity: Measuring Intellectual Organization as Uncertainty Reduction in Document Sets Message-ID: An Indicator of Research Front Activity: Measuring Intellectual Organization as Uncertainty Reduction in Document Sets When using scientific literature to model scholarly discourse, a research specialty can be operationalized as an evolving set of related documents. Each publication can be expected to contribute to the further development of the specialty at the research front. The specific combinations of title words and cited references in a paper can then be considered as a signature of the knowledge claim in the paper: new words and combinations of words can be expected to represent variation, while each paper is at the same time selectively positioned into the intellectual organization of a field using context-relevant references. Can the mutual information among these three dimensions-title words, cited references, and sequence numbers-be used as an indicator of the extent to which intellectual organization structures the uncertainty prevailing at a research front? The effect of the discovery of nanotubes (1991) on the previously existing field of fullerenes is used as a test case. Thereafter, this method is applied to science studies with a focus on scientometrics using various sample delineations. An emerging research front about citation analysis can be indicated. Diana Lucio-Arias & Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. ** apologies for cross-postings From aliarmini at YAHOO.COM Mon May 11 04:42:07 2009 From: aliarmini at YAHOO.COM (Ali Rashidi) Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 01:42:07 -0700 Subject: No subject Message-ID: Ali Rashidi Ph.D in Bibliometric and Scientometric. Day phone:0441-3653748 Alternative Eamil:aliarmini at Gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon May 11 14:15:10 2009 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 14:15:10 -0400 Subject: Revised - Enger KB "Using citation analysis to develop core book collections in academic " Lib. & Info Science Research 31(2):107-112, April 2009 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: Kathy.Enger at ndsu.edu TITLE : Using citation analysis to develop core book collections in academic libraries Author(s): Enger KB (Enger, K. Brock) Source: LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE RESEARCH Volume: 31 Issue: 2 Pages: 107-112 Published: APR 2009 Times Cited: 0 References: 55 Citation Map Abstract: Collection development in college and university libraries most often occurs using longstanding traditional selection methods, such as favorable book reviews or local user needs. This study uses citation analysis as a tool to select books for the social science book collection in one academic library and compares the circulation of books using traditional methods to those books using citation analysis. The journal impact factor was used to determine those journals and authors cited the most in the disciplines of business, anthropology, education, political science, psychology, and sociology. If those authors published books. the books were purchased and circulation data on the books were tabulated and compared to books chosen using traditional methods. Findings indicate that books purchased using traditional methods of selection circulated more, except when individual disciplines were measured. In the areas of business, political science. and psychology, there was no significant difference in circulation statistics, and together both the traditional and citation analysis methods accounted for circulation of nearly 95% of the social science collection. Since it is based on scholarly activity, citation analysis is a collection development method that could be used in all academic libraries. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Document Type: Article Language: English Reprint Address: Enger, KB (reprint author), N Dakota State Univ, Sch Educ, Family Life Ctr 216B, POB 5057, Fargo, ND 58105 USA Addresses: 1. N Dakota State Univ, Sch Educ, Family Life Ctr 216B, Fargo, ND 58105 USA E-mail Addresses: Kathy.Enger at ndsu.edu Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 360 PARK AVE SOUTH, NEW YORK, NY 10010- 1710 USA IDS Number: 435MG ISSN: 0740-8188 DOI: 10.1016/j.lisr.2008.12.003 REFERENCES: 1. ADAMS B COLLECT BUILD 27 : 71 2008 2. ALABASTER C DEV OUTSTANDING CORE : 2002 3. ALTMANN KG The usefulness of impact factor in serial selection: A rank and mean analysis using ecology journals LIBRARY ACQUISITIONS-PRACTICE AND THEORY 22 : 147 1998 4. 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PRITCHARD A STATISTICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OR BIBLIOMETRICS JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION 25 : 348 1969 45. ROUSSEAU R Journal evaluation: Technical and practical issues LIBRARY TRENDS 50 : 418 2002 46. SCHMIDT K Past perfect, future tense: A survey of issues in collection development LIBRARY COLLECTIONS ACQUISITIONS & TECHNICAL SERVICES 28 : 360 DOI 10.1016/j.lcats.2004.08.012 2004 47. SEGLEN PO BRIT MED J 314 : 497 1997 48. SIMS JL Citation analysis and journal impact factors in ophthalmology and vision science journals CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL OPHTHALMOLOGY 31 : 14 2003 49. SMALL H On the shoulders of Robert Merton: Towards a normative theory of citation SCIENTOMETRICS 60 : 71 2004 50. SMALL HG CITED DOCUMENTS AS CONCEPT SYMBOLS SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE 8 : 327 1978 51. SMITH DA COLLECT BUILD 27 : 30 2008 52. SMITH LC CITATION ANALYSIS LIBRARY TRENDS 30 : 83 1981 53. WALLACE DP LIB EVALUATION CASEB : 2001 54. ZIMAN JM PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE ESS : 1968 55. ZWEMER RL IDENTIFICATION OF JOURNAL CHARACTERISTICS USEFUL IN IMPROVING INPUT AND OUTPUT OF A RETRIEVAL SYSTEM FEDERATION PROCEEDINGS 29 : 1595 1970 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon May 11 14:22:57 2009 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 14:22:57 -0400 Subject: Huang CP "Bibliometric Analysis of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research Trends" Journal of Chinese Medical Association 72(3):117-123, March 2009 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: 92257 at wanfang.gov.tw TITLE : Bibliometric Analysis of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research Trends Author(s): Huang CP (Huang, Chun-Ping)1,2 Source: JOURNAL OF THE CHINESE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION Volume: 72 Issue: 3 Pages: 117-123 Published: MAR 2009 Times Cited: 0 References: 25 Citation Map Abstract: Background: This study aimed to describe current trends and areas of future research using a bibliometric evaluation of the publication output associated with research on obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) during the 16-year period of 1991-2006. Methods: Data encompassing the period from 1991 to 2006 were extracted from the Science Citation Index online version. We analyzed selected documents with "obstructive sleep apnea", "obstructive apnea", or "OSA" as a part of the title, abstract, or key words and reported the following parameters: trends of publication output, journal pattern, country of publication, authorship, author-gene rated key words, and KeyWords Plus (R). Results: The annual number of articles on OSA grew at a faster rate than did the number of general scientific publications, from approximately 200 in 1991 to 650 in 2006. The main subject categories in which research on OSA was conducted were the respiratory system and clinical neurology, each of which accounted for > 10% of total articles. Most of the research was conducted in the major industrial countries, with most international collaborations involving the United States and Canada. Certain terms were identified by KeyWords Plus (R) but not by a author-gene rated key words, and some terms increased in frequency of use over time. Conclusion: This study provides a bibliometric analysis showing that the annual number of publications related to OSA has been increasing at a much faster rate than the overall scientific literature during the past 16 years in a growing number of specialized journals. Analysis of key words (KeyWords Plus (R)) suggests research trends and areas for future research. [J Chin Med Assoc 2009;72(3):117-123] Document Type: Article Language: English Reprint Address: Huang, CP (reprint author), Taipei Med Univ, Wan Fang Hosp, Dept Neurol, 111 Hsing Long Rd,Sect 3, Taipei 116, Taiwan Addresses: 1. Taipei Med Univ, Wan Fang Hosp, Dept Neurol, Taipei 116, Taiwan 2. Taipei Med Univ, Grad Inst Med Sci, Taipei 116, Taiwan E-mail Addresses: 92257 at wanfang.gov.tw Publisher: ELSEVIER SINGAPORE PTE LTD, 3 KILLINEY ROAD 08-01, WINSLAND HOUSE 1, SINGAPORE, 239519, SINGAPORE IDS Number: 435QE ISSN: 1726-4901 REFERENCES: 1. *AM AC SLEEP MED INT CLASS SLEEP DIS : 2005 2. AKASHIBA T Relationship between quality of life and mood or depression in patients with severe obstructive sleep apnea syndrome CHEST 122 : 861 2002 3. BANNO K Sleep apnea: Clinical investigations in humans SLEEP MEDICINE 8 : 400 2007 4. BORGER JA J OCCUP MED TOX S1 3 : S7 2008 5. CHIU WT Bibliometric analysis of severe acute respiratory syndrome-related research in the beginning stage SCIENTOMETRICS 61 : 69 2004 6. CHUANG KY A bibliometric and citation analysis of stroke-related research in Taiwan SCIENTOMETRICS 72 : 201 DOI 10.1007/s11192-007-1721-0 2007 7. GARFIELD E ESSAYS INFORM SCI 13 : 295 1990 8. GARFIELD E CITATION INDEXING FOR STUDYING SCIENCE NATURE 227 : 669 1970 9. GOTTLIEB DJ Symptoms of sleep-disordered breathing in 5-year-old children are associated with sleepiness and problem behaviors PEDIATRICS 112 : 870 2003 10. HSIEH WH Bibliometric analysis of patent ductus arteriosus treatments SCIENTOMETRICS 60 : 105 2004 11. HUANG Y SCIENTOMETRICS 75 : 67 2008 12. HUNT CE SLEEP BIOL RHYTHMS 2 : S9 2004 13. JEEVAN VKJ A scientometric analysis of research output from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur SCIENTOMETRICS 53 : 165 2002 14. KAPUR VK Sleepiness in patients with moderate to severe sleep-disordered breathing SLEEP 28 : 472 2005 15. LI LL SCIENTOMETR IN PRESS : 2009 16. MICHALOPOULOS A A bibliometric analysis of global research production in respiratory medicine CHEST 128 : 3993 2005 17. MOED HF The effects of changes in the funding structure of the Flemish universities on their research capacity, productivity and impact during the 1980's and early 1990's SCIENTOMETRICS 43 : 231 1998 18. MOREIRA T Sleep, health and the dynamics of biomedicine SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE 63 : 54 DOI 10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.11.066 2006 19. RAMOS JM Publication of European Union research on infectious diseases (1991-2001): A bibliometric evaluation EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY & INFECTIOUS DISEASES 23 : 180 DOI 10.1007/s10096-003-1074-4 2004 20. ROBERT C The evolution of the sleep science literature over 30 years: A bibliometric analysis SCIENTOMETRICS 73 : 231 2007 21. SCHUBERT A The portrait of a journal as reflected in its publications, references and citations: Inorganica Chimica Acta, 1990-1994 INORGANICA CHIMICA ACTA 253 : 111 1996 22. SHARIQ K Sleep centers in the US reach 2,515 in 2004 SLEEP 28 : 145 2005 23. VANDENBERGHE H Bibliometric indicators of university research performance in Flanders JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE 49 : 59 1998 24. VGONTZAS AN Sleep apnea is a manifestation of the metabolic syndrome SLEEP MEDICINE REVIEWS 9 : 211 DOI 10.1016/j.smrv.2005.01.006 2005 25. YOUNG T Epidemiology of obstructive sleep apnea - A population health perspective AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE 165 : 1217 2002 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue May 12 15:36:51 2009 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 15:36:51 -0400 Subject: Mijac V. "BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS ON PARASITOLOGY IN VENEZUELA (2002-2007) more options " Interciencia 34(2):140-146 Feb 2009 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: ultramado at hotmail.com, elenaryder at gmail.com TITLE: BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS ON PARASITOLOGY IN VENEZUELA (2002-2007) more options Author(s): Mijac V (Mijac, Volga)1, Ryder E (Ryder, Elena) Source: INTERCIENCIA Volume: 34 Issue: 2 Pages: 140-146 Published: FEB 2009 Times Cited: 0 References: 22 Citation Map Abstract: The aim of this work was to revise, through Internet data bases (PubMed/MEDLINE, Scielo and LILACS) the research papers on parasitosis in Venezuela, published in national and foreign journals, between 2000 and 2007. Keywords used were Venezuela + parasitosis and specific parasites + Venezuela. One hundred sixty two papers were found, published in 56 journals, mostly (61.1%) in English. Venezuelan journals published 51 papers (31.5%), mainly Investigacion Clinica (15; 29.5%) and Kasmera (12; 23.6%), with percentages similar to those in high impact journals as American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and Memorias del Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. The institution responsible for most of the papers was the Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV) with 41 communications (14.7%). In 15 papers (9.2%), the responsible institution was foreign, but the studied sample came from Venezuela. The most studied area (58%) was Epidemiology. The parasites more frequently studied were the tisular protozoa (41.9%), leading to 28 reports on Trypanosome. The papers on intestinal protozoa were variable, with similar species numbers. Among arthropods the most studied were Anopheles, Tityus and Lutzomyia. It was found that the productivity in the area of Parasitology in Venezuela was stable during the period analyzed, that local journals contained an important amount of the papers, that the most productive institution was UCV, that papers on tisular protozoa predominated but most parasites and their vectors were represented. Document Type: Article Language: Spanish Reprint Address: Mijac, V (reprint author), Univ Zulia, LUZ, Dept Enfermedades Infecciosas & Trop, Escuela Med, Maracaibo 4011, Venezuela Addresses: 1. Univ Zulia, LUZ, Dept Enfermedades Infecciosas & Trop, Escuela Med, Maracaibo 4011, Venezuela E-mail Addresses: ultramado at hotmail.com, elenaryder at gmail.com Publisher: INTERCIENCIA, APARTADO 51842, CARACAS 1050A, VENEZUELA IDS Number: 434GA ISSN: 0378-1844 REFERENCES: 1. *BAS DAT SOC SAL NUTR MORB CONS A : 2001 2. *OPS AN PREL SIT SAL VEN : 2001 3. *PAHO PUBL CIENT TECN EEUU 622 : 2007 4. BECERRIL B Toxins and genes isolated from scorpions of the genus Tityus TOXICON 35 : 821 1997 5. DEPINERO DF SITUACION ENTOMOLOGI : 2003 6. DIEMERT DJ Hookworm vaccines CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES 46 : 282 DOI 10.1086/524070 2008 7. FALAGAS ME A bibliometric analysis of research productivity in Parasitology by different world regions during a 9-year period (1995-2003) BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES 6 : ARTN 56 2006 8. FRANK M Prevalence and epidemiological significance of Trypanosoma cruzi infection among Latin American immigrants in Berlin, Germany INFECTION 25 : 355 1997 9. GUMBO T Intestinal parasites in patients with diarrhea and human immunodeficiency virus infection in Zimbabwe AIDS 13 : 819 1999 10. HOFMAN K Reporting of non-communicable disease research in low- and middle-income countries: a pilot bibliometric analysis JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 94 : 415 2006 11. LEWISON G Malaria research, 1980-2004, and the burden of disease ACTA TROPICA 106 : 96 DOI 10.1016/j.actatropica.2008.01.009 2008 12. LOUKAS A Immunobiology of hookworm infection FEMS IMMUNOLOGY AND MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY 43 : 115 DOI 10.1016/j.femsim.2004.11.006 2005 13. OSPINA EG The use of bibliographic databases by Spanish-speaking Latin American bomedical researchers: a cross-sectional study REVISTA PANAMERICANA DE SALUD PUBLICA-PAN AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH 17 : 230 2005 14. PELLEGRINI A REV PANAM SALUD PUBL 1 : 23 1997 15. RAMOS JM Scientific production in microbiology and affinity areas in Spain during 1990-2002 ENFERMEDADES INFECCIOSAS Y MICROBIOLOGIA CLINICA 23 : 406 2005 16. RIOSGOMEZ C REV INTERAM BIBLIOTE 28 : 43 2005 17. RODULFODEGIL E Analysis of Venezuelan scientific production registered by ISI 1980-1994 INTERCIENCIA 21 : 272 1996 18. RYDER E Public health and/or epidemiological studies in Venezuela are published mainly in languages different to Spanish, the native language INTERCIENCIA 26 : 619 2001 19. SANCHO R Indicators of inter-center scientific co-operation in Latin American countries INTERCIENCIA 31 : 284 2006 20. 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 21. STEELE LS J IMMIGR MINOR HLTH 9 : 43 2007 22. WAHEED AA SCI WORLD 1 : 239 2001 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue May 12 15:58:55 2009 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 15:58:55 -0400 Subject: Huber R, Klump J. "Charting taxonomic knowledge through ontologies and ranking algorithms more options " Computers & Geosciences 35(4) Special Issue :SI: 862-868, April 2009 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: rhuber at wdc-mare.org, jklump at gfz-potsdam.de TITLE : Charting taxonomic knowledge through ontologies and ranking algorithms more options Author(s): Huber R (Huber, Robert)2, Klump J (Klump, Jens)1 Source: COMPUTERS & GEOSCIENCES Volume: 35 Issue: 4 Special Issue: Sp. Iss. SI Pages: 862-868 Published: APR 2009 Times Cited: 0 References: 11 Citation Map Conference Information: Fall Meeting of the American-Geophysical-Union San Francisco, CA, DEC, 2006 Amer Geophys Union Abstract: Since the inception of geology as a modern science, paleontologists have described a large number of fossil species. This makes fossilized organisms an important tool in the study of stratigraphy and past environments. Since taxonomic classifications of organisms, and thereby their names, change frequently, the correct application of this tool requires taxonomic expertise in finding correct synonyms for a given species name. Much of this taxonomic information has already been published in journals and books where it is compiled in carefully prepared synonymy lists. Because this information is scattered throughout the paleontological literature, it is difficult to find and sometimes not accessible. Also, taxonomic information in the literature is often difficult to interpret for non-taxonomists looking for taxonomic synonymies as part of their research. The highly formalized structure makes Open Nomenclature synonymy lists ideally suited for computer aided identification of taxonomic synonyms. Because a synonymy list is a list of citations related to a taxon name, its bibliographic nature allows the application of bibliometric techniques to calculate the impact of synonymies and taxonomic concepts. TaxonRank is a ranking algorithm based on bibliometric analysis and Internet page ranking algorithms. TaxonRank uses published synonymy list data stored in TaxonConcept, a taxonomic information system. The basic ranking algorithm has been modified to include a measure of confidence on species identification based on the Open Nomenclature notation used in synonymy list, as well as other synonymy specific criteria. The results of our experiments show that the output of the proposed ranking algorithm gives a good estimate of the impact a published taxonomic concept has on the taxonomic opinions in the geological community. Also, our results show that treating taxonomic synonymies as part of on an ontology is a way to record and manage taxonomic knowledge, and thus contribute to the preservation our scientific heritage. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Document Type: Proceedings Paper Language: English Reprint Address: Klump, J (reprint author), Geoforschungszentrum Potsdam, Ctr Data, D-14473 Potsdam, Germany Addresses: 1. Geoforschungszentrum Potsdam, Ctr Data, D-14473 Potsdam, Germany 2. Univ Bremen, MARUM, Bremen, Germany E-mail Addresses: rhuber at wdc-mare.org, jklump at gfz-potsdam.de Publisher: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, THE BOULEVARD, LANGFORD LANE, KIDLINGTON, OXFORD OX5 1GB, ENGLAND IDS Number: 437GS ISSN: 0098-3004 DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2008.02.016 REFERENCES: 1. BENGTSON P OPEN NOMENCLATURE PALAEONTOLOGY 31 : 223 1988 2. BERGGREN WA Biostratigraphy, phylogeny and systematics of Paleocene trochospiral planktic foraminifera MICROPALEONTOLOGY 43 : 1 1997 3. BRIN S The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine COMPUTER NETWORKS AND ISDN SYSTEMS 30 : 107 1998 4. FLOYD RW ALGORITHM-97 - SHORTEST PATH COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM 5 : 345 1962 5. 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PAGE L PAGERANK CITATION RA : 1998 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue May 12 16:04:21 2009 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 16:04:21 -0400 Subject: Tyrer P "The Wind of Change in Psychiatric Publications more options " Psychiatry Investigation 5(2):67-69, June 2008 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: p.tyrer at imperial.ac.uk TITLE : The Wind of Change in Psychiatric Publications more options Author(s): Tyrer P (Tyrer, Peter) Source: PSYCHIATRY INVESTIGATION Volume: 5 Issue: 2 Pages: 67- 69 Published: JUN 2008 Times Cited: 0 References: 3 Citation Map Abstract: It is getting more difficult to get papers published that it used to be, even though many more journals are available. This article is written mainly for young researchers who are ambitious to get their research published in the best possible journals. A systematic strategic policy is Suggested that does not necessarily contradict the aims of achieving the best possible science. Document Type: Article Language: English Reprint Address: Tyrer, P (reprint author), Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol & Med, Dept Psychol Med, Charing Cross Campus, London W6 8RP, England Addresses: 1. Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol & Med, Dept Psychol Med, London W6 8RP, England E-mail Addresses: p.tyrer at imperial.ac.uk Publisher: KOREAN NEUROPSYCHIATRIC ASSOC, RN 522, G-FIVE CENTRAL PLAZA 1685- 8 SEOCHO 4-DONG, SEOCHO-GU, SEOUL, 137-882, SOUTH KOREA IDS Number: 435SG ISSN: 1738-3684 REFERENCES: 1,. PARK J PSYCHIAT INVEST 4 : 84 2007 2. QUINN S MARIE CURIE LIFE : 1995 3. RAHMAN A Why do collaborative research? BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 335 : 304 2007 From isidro.aguillo at CCHS.CSIC.ES Wed May 13 05:02:49 2009 From: isidro.aguillo at CCHS.CSIC.ES (Isidro F. Aguillo) Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 11:02:49 +0200 Subject: Three new papers in the e-journal Cybermetrics Message-ID: Papers recently published in the Vol. 13 of the electronic Journal Cybermetrics: Evolution of the formal quality indicators of the Web spaces of University Libraries in Spain Jos? Antonio Gonz?lez-Lucio, Cristina Faba-P?rez, Felix de Moya Aneg?n, Purificaci?n Moscoso-Castro Cybermetrics, vol. 13: paper 1 http://www.cindoc.csic.es/cybermetrics/articles/v13i1p1.pdf The need to measure and assess the electronic information made available by the Web has given rise to the development of indicators that can be used to evaluate the final quality of this information. Web spaces of the informational units, which include virtual university libraries, are prime candidates for such a process of assessment. The present study has a look at the quality of the informational services supplied by virtual university libraries in Spain, adopting as the variable of analysis the evolution that certain quality indicators of a formal character have exhibited over an exemplary period of six months. The interpretation of our results makes manifest an overall satisfactory evolution, though the breakdown by regions or Autonomous Communities of Spain reveals deficiencies in some cases. Handling self-citations using Google Scholar Francisco M. Couto, Catia Pesquita, Tiago Grego, and Paulo Verissimo Cybermetrics, vol. 13: paper 2 http://www.cindoc.csic.es/cybermetrics/articles/v13i1p2.pdf The increasing use of citation impact indexes for evaluation and comparison not only of individual researchers but also of institutions, universities and even countries has prompted the development of new citation metrics. Currently, the number of publications and citations is widely accepted as an easy and balanced way to compare scientists. Calculation of such statistics depends on the availability of a comprehensive database of publications and their citations. Google Scholar aims at providing such a service and is currently the most widely used freely available search engine for scientific and academic literature. However, the citations generally used to calculate citation statistics include self-citations, which deviates from the intention of using citations as a reflection of research impact. To the best of our knowledge, there are no available tools for calculating citation statistics that account for self-citations. We present a web-based service CIDS (Citation Impact Discerning Self-citations), that takes into account self-citations. An assessment of CIDS in a research team has shown that both the number of citations and the h-index is sensitive to self-citations at the individual level, the h-index increasing 24% on average when considering them. However, self-citation is highly variable among individuals and its contribution highly variable. We conclude that at the individual and research unit level, self-citations are not dismissible when calculating citation statistics. Even the h-index is influenced by self-citation and comparing individuals without taking them in account can produce misleading results. CIDS is available at: http://xldb.fc.ul.pt/tools/cids/. The h-i index: A proposed new metric of individual scientific output David Navon Cybermetrics, vol. 13: paper 3 http://www.cindoc.csic.es/cybermetrics/articles/v13i1p3.pdf It is proposed that since scientific output of individual researchers is not unidimensional, its popular measure, /h/-index, should be augmented with a measure of the average impact of the /h/ top cited publications, /i/, that is basically independent of /h/. It is argued that the two metrics, /h/ and /i/, reflect two separate facets of scientific output, the latter being little affected by seniority. -- ************************************* Isidro F. Aguillo, HonPhD 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 lutz.bornmann at GESS.ETHZ.CH Mon May 18 04:20:31 2009 From: lutz.bornmann at GESS.ETHZ.CH (Bornmann Lutz) Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 10:20:31 +0200 Subject: h index Message-ID: Dear colleague, Please find attached a recently published paper (pdf-file) that might be of interest to you. Title: Do We Need the h Index and Its Variants in Addition to Standard Bibliometric Measures? Abstract: In this study, we investigate whether there is a need for the h index and its variants in addition to standard bibliometric measures (SBMs). Results from our recent study (L. Bornmann, R. Mutz, & H.-D. Daniel, 2008) have indicated that there are two types of indices: One type of indices (e.g., h index) describes the most productive core of a scientist's output and informs about the number of papers in the core.The other type of indices (e.g., a index) depicts the impact of the papers in the core. In evaluative bibliometric studies, the two dimensions quantity and quality of output are usually assessed using the SBMs "number of publications" (for the quantity dimension) and "total citation counts" (for the impact dimension). We additionally included the SBMs into the factor analysis. The results of the newly calculated analysis indicate that there is a high intercorrelation between "number of publications" and the indices that load substantially on the factor Quantity of the Productive Core as well as between "total citation counts" and the indices that load substantially on the factor Impact of the Productive Core. The high-loading indices and SBMs within one performance dimension could be called redundant in empirical application, as high intercorrelations between different indicators are a sign for measuring something similar (or the same). Based on our findings, we propose the use of any pair of indicators (one relating to the number of papers in a researcher's productive core and one relating to the impact of these core papers) as a meaningful approach for comparing scientists. Sincerely yours, Lutz Bornmann ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------- Dr. Lutz Bornmann ETH Zurich, D-GESS Professorship for Social Psychology and Research on Higher Education Zaehringerstr. 24 / ZAE CH-8092 Zurich Phone: 0041 44 632 48 25 Fax: 0041 44 632 12 83 Skype: lutz.bornmann http://www.psh.ethz.ch/ bornmann at gess.ethz.ch -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Auf http://isko.gesis.org/isko2009 finden Sie weitere Einzelheiten. H. Peter OHLY ------------------------------------- GESIS - Leibniz-Institut f?r Sozialwissenschaften / Abt. Fachinformation f?r die Sozialwissenschaften / Lennestr. 30 / 53113 BONN / Germany / Tel.: +49-228-2281-542 / Fax.: +49-228-2281-4542 / mailto:peter.ohly at gesis.org "Wissen - Wissenschaft - Organisation" (Wissensorganisation '09) 12. Tagung der Deutschen ISKO (International Society for Knowledge Organization) Bonn, 19.10.2009 bis 21.10.2009 Wissen ist zum Leitbegriff der postmodernen Gesellschaft geworden. Elektronik und Neue Medien haben die technologische Entwicklung beschleunigt. Entsprechend entstehen im Wissenschaftsbetrieb neue Techniken, Organisationsformen und Wissensbegriffe. All dies ist gepaart sind mit neuen Logiken, Konzeptionen, Kommunikationsweisen und Arbeitsteilungen. Begriffe wie "Wissensfabrik", "Nicht-Wissen", "Wissensnachhaltigkeit", "Wissenstransfer", "Knowledge Base", "E-Science", "Ontologien", "Semantic Web", "Online Communities" und andere spiegeln dieses neue Verst?ndnis der Generierung von Wissen und dem Umgang damit wider. Die Notwendigkeit interdisziplin?rer Zusammenarbeit ist offenkundig. Beteiligt sind an der Ausarbeitung einer 'Neuen Wissensordnung': Konzeptanalyse, Informationsverarbeitung, Erkenntnistheorie, Nutzerforschung, Evaluationsforschung, Kognitionsforschung, Wissensmanagement und andere Bereiche der etablierten Wissenschaften. Die kommende Tagung der Deutschen ISKO soll neue Tendenzen in der Organisation von Wissen aufzeigen, diese hinterfragen und praktikable Modelle zur Organisation von Wissen vorstellen. Programmbereiche: Wissensorganisation und Wissenschaftstheorie Ontologien und Interoperabilit?t Individualit?t und Wissensorganisation Virtual Communities und Social Software Wissensmanagement und Wissensdesign Wissenssoziologie und Wissensordnung Scientometrie und Wissenschaftsevaluation Wissensethik und Wissensnachhaltigkeit Ort: Bonn, Universit?tsclub Termine: Frist f?r die Einreichung von Workshop-Vorschl?gen (mit mind. 3 Referenten/Referaten): 31. Mai 2009 Benachrichtigung ?ber die Annahme von Workshops: bis ca. 15. Juni 2009 Einreichung einer Kurzfassung: bis 20. Juni 2009 Annahmebescheid: bis ca. 30. Juni 2009 Fr?hbuchung: bis 15. Juli 2009 Einreichung der Langfassung: 15. September 2009 Tagung: 19.-22. Oktober 2009 Adressat: peter.ohly at gesis.org Tagungsinformation: http://isko.gesis.org/d-a-ch/bonn2009 (Call for Papers) http://isko.gesis.org/isko2009/ (Conference Site) Programmkomitee: J?rg Blasius, Bonn / Angelika Deigner, Bonn / Winfried G?dert, K?ln / Stefan Hornbostel, Bonn / Thomas Mandl, Hildesheim / Tilman Mayer, Bonn / Ekkehard Mochmann, K?ln / H. Peter Ohly, Bonn (Tagungsl.) / Achim Osswald, K?ln / Vivien Petras, Berlin / Jo Reichertz, Duisburg / Ralph Schr?der, Oxford / J?rn Sieglerschmidt, Konstanz / Max Stempfhuber, Bonn / Christian Swertz, Wien / Karsten Weber, Opole From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon May 18 14:13:23 2009 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 14:13:23 -0400 Subject: Groneberg-Kloft, B; Scutaru, C; Fischer, A; Welte, T;Kreiter, C; Quarcoo, D "Analysis of research output parameters: Density equalizing mapping and citation trend analysis" BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH 9. JAN 27 2009. p.NIL_1-NIL_8 Biomed Central, London Message-ID: ------------------------------------ E-Mail Address: Beatrix.groneberg-kloft at charite.de FULL TEXT AVAILABLE AT : http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1472-6963-9-16.pdf BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH is an open access journal available at: http://www.biomedcentral.com/ ------------------------------------ TITLE: Analysis of research output parameters: Density equalizing mapping and citation trend analysis (Article, English) AUTHOR: Groneberg-Kloft, B; Scutaru, C; Fischer, A; Welte, T;Kreiter, C; Quarcoo, D SOURCE: BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH 9. JAN 27 2009. p.NIL_1-NIL_8 BIOMED CENTRAL LTD, LONDON ABSTRACT: Background: Burden of disease studies indicate major socio-economic burdens since many years. They should be used for the allocation of funding. However, imbalances are present in funding policies and therefore benchmarking becomes increasingly important in health services research. Methods: The present study assessed benchmarking approaches. Using large data base analyses, research was analyzed for different health research output parameters. The fields of cardiovascular and respiratory medicine served as models to assess irregular patterns of health research. For visualization, density equalizing mapping procedures were used. Results: Specific areas of major research activity were identified for European countries and large differences were found. Spatial distribution of published items for cardiac and cardiovascular systems differed in comparison to the distribution for the respiratory system. In general, large countries dominated the overall number of published items. When qualitative measures such as citation analysis were assessed, differing results were achieved. In this category, mostly Scandinavian countries dominated. Conclusion: The present approach of comparative output benchmarking can be used to assess institutional operating figures at the national and international level and to analyze imbalances in health and research funding. AUTHOR ADDRESS: B Groneberg-Kloft, Free Univ Berlin, Charite Univ Med Berlin, Otto Heubner Ctr, D-1000 Berlin, Germany E-mail: Beatrix.groneberg-kloft at charite.de REFERENCES: 1. Chung F, Barnes N, Allen M, Angus R, Corris P, Knox A, Miles J, Morice A, O'Reilly J and Richardson M: Assessing the burden of respiratory disease in the UK. Respir Med 2002, 96:963?975. 2. Lopez AD, Mathers CD, Ezzati M, Jamison DT and Murray CJ: Global and regional burden of disease and risk factors, 2001: systematic analysis of population health data. Lancet 2006, 367:1747?1757. 3. Murray CJ, Kreuser J and Whang W: Cost-effectiveness analysis and policy choices: investing in health systems. Bull World Health Organ 1994, 72:663?674. 4. Nord E: The significance of contextual factors in valuing health states. Health Policy 1989, 13:189?198. 5. Donaldson C, Atkinson A, Bond J and Wright K: QALYS and longterm care for elderly people in the UK: scales for assessment of quality of life. Age Ageing 1988, 17:379?387. 6. Fuster V: Dilemmas of NIH funding for cardiovascular research. Circulation 1998, 98:1253?1254. 7. Time to reform European science funding. Nat Neurosci 2004, 7:895. 8. Lewison G, Grant J and Jansen P: International gastroenterology research: subject areas, impact, and funding. Gut 2001, 49:295?302. 9. Schiermeier Q: Berlin places genomics among top funding priorities. Nature 1999, 402:568. 10. Campbell A: Ethos and economics: examining the rationale underlying stem cell and cloning research policies in the United States, Germany, and Japan. Am J Law Med 2005, 31:47? 86. 11. Stevens D: Embryonic stem cell research: will President Bush's limitation on federal funding put the United States at a disadvantage? A comparison between U.S. and international law. Houst J Int Law 2003, 25:623?653. 12. Taylor PL: The gap between law and ethics in human embryonic stem cell research: overcoming the effect of U. S. federal policy on research advances and public benefit. Sci Eng Ethics 2005, 11:589?616. 13. Zwingmann C, Buschmann-Steinhage R, Gerwinn H and Klosterhuis H: [The "rehabilitation sciences" research funding programme: research findings ? implementation ? impact and perspectives]. Rehabilitation (Stuttg) 2004, 43:260?270. BMC Health Services Research 2009, 9:16 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/9/16 From jacso at HAWAII.EDU Mon May 18 15:48:21 2009 From: jacso at HAWAII.EDU (Peter Jacso) Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 09:48:21 -1000 Subject: Scopus hit counts shrinking for same query Message-ID: I spotted Scopus producing very different (mostly shrinking number of) hit counts for identical queries when repeated minutes later, i.e. ??? ?hawaii 115,295 then when repeated ???? hawaii 112,798 I spotted this Sunday evening (after the MLA exhibit hall closed here). I e-mailed the Amsterdam office as it was Monday morning there, but I received no reply. I would not be much concerned about a temporary dementia but I have done quite a number ?of searches the days before on Scopus for a research paper, and I wonder if anyone has spotted this problem already last week, making my earlier results invalid. Thanks peter jacso -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From juan.gorraiz at UNIVIE.AC.AT Mon May 18 16:29:04 2009 From: juan.gorraiz at UNIVIE.AC.AT (Juan Gorraiz) Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 22:29:04 +0200 Subject: Scopus hit counts shrinking for same query In-Reply-To: Message-ID: dear peter at the moment there are some problems with scopus. looking for articles from one author, scopus reports to have found a certain number of articles, but when retrieving them, only a part of them can be displayed! juan On Mo, 18.05.2009, 21:48, Peter Jacso wrote: > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > I spotted Scopus producing very different (mostly shrinking number of) hit > counts for identical queries when repeated minutes later, i.e. > ??? ?hawaii 115,295 then when repeated > ???? hawaii 112,798 > I spotted this Sunday evening (after the MLA exhibit hall closed here). I > e-mailed the Amsterdam office as it was Monday morning there, but I > received no reply. > I would not be much concerned about a temporary dementia but I have done > quite a number ?of searches the days before on Scopus for a research > paper, and I wonder if anyone has spotted this problem already last week, > making my earlier results invalid. > Thanks > peter jacso > From jacso at HAWAII.EDU Mon May 18 19:02:08 2009 From: jacso at HAWAII.EDU (Peter Jacso) Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 13:02:08 -1000 Subject: Scopus hit counts shrinking for same query In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Thanks Juan,? indeed the problem applies to every search with or without field or date restriction. ? My concern is if this problem has been there for a few days invalidating my search results of the past days. I called the US rep of Scopus, he was alerted of the problem but did not know for how long this problem persisted.? I suggested to the US rep to display a warning at the log-in stage to alert users (as swimmers are about rip tide currents). pj ?? ----- Original Message ----- From: Juan Gorraiz Date: Monday, May 18, 2009 10:29 Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Scopus hit counts shrinking for same query To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > dear peter > > at the moment there are some problems with scopus. > looking for articles from one author, scopus reports to have > found a > certain number of articles, but when retrieving them, only a > part of them > can be displayed! > > juan > > On Mo, 18.05.2009, 21:48, Peter Jacso wrote: > > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > > > I spotted Scopus producing very different (mostly shrinking > number of) hit > > counts for identical queries when repeated minutes later, i.e. > > ??? ?hawaii 115,295 then when repeated > > ???? hawaii 112,798 > > I spotted this Sunday evening (after the MLA exhibit hall > closed here). I > > e-mailed the Amsterdam office as it was Monday morning there, > but I > > received no reply. > > I would not be much concerned about a temporary dementia but I > have done > > quite a number ?of searches the days before on Scopus for a research > > paper, and I wonder if anyone has spotted this problem already > last week, > > making my earlier results invalid. > > Thanks > > peter jacso > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Tue May 19 01:56:50 2009 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 07:56:50 +0200 Subject: Scopus hit counts shrinking for same query In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Results Source Actions 6. AFFIL(hawai) 2,142 Scopus Edit | Save | Set Alert | Create RSS feed for this search 5. (AFFIL(hawai)) AND NOT (AFFIL(hawai)) 0 Scopus Edit | Save | Set Alert | Create RSS feed for this search 4. AFFIL(hawai) 1,860 Scopus Edit | Save | Set Alert | Create RSS feed for this search 3. AFFIL(hawai) 2,022 Scopus Edit | Save | Set Alert | Create RSS feed for this search 2. AFFIL(hawai) 1,910 Scopus Edit | Save | Set Alert | Create RSS feed for this search 1. AFFIL(hawai) 1,843 Scopus You are right: one does not seem to obtain the same results twice. 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 Peter Jacso Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 9:48 PM To: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Scopus hit counts shrinking for same query I spotted Scopus producing very different (mostly shrinking number of) hit counts for identical queries when repeated minutes later, i.e. hawaii 115,295 then when repeated hawaii 112,798 I spotted this Sunday evening (after the MLA exhibit hall closed here). I e-mailed the Amsterdam office as it was Monday morning there, but I received no reply. I would not be much concerned about a temporary dementia but I have done quite a number of searches the days before on Scopus for a research paper, and I wonder if anyone has spotted this problem already last week, making my earlier results invalid. 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Our technology teams have identified the cause of the fault and are working around the clock to return Scopus to normal. We will contact all customers as well as readers of this listserv within the next 24 hours to give an update on when we expect normal service to resume. Regards, Cameron Ross Head of Scopus Product Management ________________________ Elsevier Radarweg 29 Amsterdam 1043 NX Netherlands E-mail: cameron.ross at elsevier.com Tel: +31-20-485 3037 ________________________ http://info.scopus.com ________________________ From jacso at HAWAII.EDU Tue May 19 09:06:14 2009 From: jacso at HAWAII.EDU (Peter Jacso) Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 03:06:14 -1000 Subject: Scopus hit counts shrinking for same query In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Thanks Ross, this is good - knowing the high quality of your programmers that I've? always praised, but the help desk staff in Amsterdam (unless it was sourced out to Centra/West Asia) should be taught the basic courtesy of replying to customers' specific report about errors at least by acknowledging the receipt of error reports. For more than 30 hours they did not reply. Your US rep was corteous and sympathetic , but could only confirm the error . It may be worth to put on the log-in page a? warning about this temporary anomaly. I know that many information professioanals? work intensely these days on large scale searching projects related to institutional research assessments in Australia and New Zealand, and may be unaware of this problem. The same applies to researchers who work on? test searches for their forthcoming papers and/or presentations on comparing Scopus and Web of Sccience. best regards peter ----- Original Message ----- From: Cameron Ross Date: Monday, May 18, 2009 22:40 Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Scopus hit counts shrinking for same query To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > Dear Sigmetrics Listserv readers, > > We are currently experiencing problems with the stability > of? Scopus search > results. > > On behalf of the Scopus team, I would like to apologise for this > inconvenience. > Please be assured that this issue is of the highest priority. > Our? technology teams have identified the cause of the > fault and are working > around the clock to return Scopus to normal. > > We will contact all customers as well as readers of this > listserv within the > next 24 hours to give an update on when we expect normal service > to resume. > > Regards, > Cameron Ross > > Head of Scopus Product Management > ________________________ > Elsevier > Radarweg 29 > Amsterdam > 1043 NX > Netherlands > > E-mail: cameron.ross at elsevier.com > Tel: +31-20-485 3037 > ________________________ > http://info.scopus.com > ________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue May 19 13:53:39 2009 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 13:53:39 -0400 Subject: Katsaros D , Akritidis L, Bozanis P "The f Index: Quantifying the Impact of Coterminal Citations on Scientists' Ranking more options " JASIST 60(5): 1051-1056 MAY 2009 Message-ID: -------------------------------------------- E-mail Addresses: dkatsar at inf.uth.gr, leoakr at uth.gr, pbozanis at inf.uth.gr TITLE : The f Index: Quantifying the Impact of Coterminal Citations on Scientists' Ranking more options Author(s): Katsaros D (Katsaros, Dimitrios)1, Akritidis L (Akritidis, Leonidas)1, Bozanis P (Bozanis, Panayiotis)1 Source: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Volume: 60 Issue: 5 Pages: 1051-1056 Published: MAY 2009 Times Cited: 0 References: 21 Citation Map Abstract: Designing fair and unbiased metrics to measure the "level of excellence" of a scientist is a very significant task because they recently also have been taken into account when deciding faculty promotions, when allocating funds, and so on. Despite criticism that such scientometric evaluators are confronted with, they do have their merits, and efforts should be spent to arm them with robustness and resistance to manipulation. This article alms at initiating the study of the coterminal citations-their existence and implications-and presents them as a generalization of self-citations and of co-citation; it also shows how they can be used to capture any manipulation attempts against scientometric indicators, and finally presents a new index, the f index, that takes into account the coterminal citations. The utility of the new index is validated using the academic production of a number of esteemed computer scientists. The results confirm that the new index can discriminate those individuals whose work penetrates many scientific communities. Reprint Address: Katsaros, D (reprint author), Univ Thessaly, Dept Comp & Commun Engn, Volos, Greece Addresses: 1. Univ Thessaly, Dept Comp & Commun Engn, Volos, Greece E-mail Addresses: dkatsar at inf.uth.gr, leoakr at uth.gr, pbozanis at inf.uth.gr publisher: JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN, NJ 07030 USA IDS Number: 436NL ISSN: 1532-2882 DOI: 10.1002/asi.21040 REFERENCES: 1. *HIGH ED FUND COUN US BIBL MEAS RES QUA : 2007 2. ADLER R AUSTR MATH SOC GAZET 35 : 166 2008 3. CRONIN B A cast of thousands: Coauthorship and subauthorship collaboration in the 20th century as manifested in the scholarly journal literature of psychology and philosophy JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 54 : 855 DOI 10.1002/asi.10278 2003 4. CRONIN B Hyperauthorship: A postmodern perversion or evidence of a structural shift in scholarly communication practices? JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 52 : 558 2001 5. CRONIN B NEW REV ACAD LIB 9 : 1 2003 6. FOWLER JH Does self-citation pay? SCIENTOMETRICS 72 : 427 2007 7. GARFIELD E P S STAT ASS METH ME : 189 1964 8. GYONGYI Z Spam: It's not just for inboxes anymore COMPUTER 38 : 28 2005 9. HELLSTEN I Self-citations, co-authorships and keywords: A new approach to scientists' field mobility? SCIENTOMETRICS 72 : 469 DOI 10.1007/s11192-007-1680-5 2007 10. HIRSCH JE An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 102 : 16569 DOI 10.1073/pnas.0507655102 2005 11. HYLAND K Self-citation and self-reference: Credibility and promotion in academic publication JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 54 : 251 DOI 10.1002/asi.10204 2003 12. LAWANI SM ON THE HETEROGENEITY AND CLASSIFICATION OF AUTHOR SELF-CITATIONS JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE 33 : 281 1982 13. LEHRL S EVALUATION FORSCHUNG : 291 1988 14. PARNAS DL Stop the numbers game COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM 50 : 19 2007 15. PERSSON O Inflationary bibliometric values: The role of scientific collaboration and the need for relative indicators in evaluative studies SCIENTOMETRICS 60 : 421 2004 16. RAUTER J ZITATIONSANALYSE INT : 2006 17. REN J Automatic and versatile publications ranking for research institutions and scholars COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM 50 : 81 2007 18. SCHREIBER M EPL-EUROPHYS LETT 78 : ARTN 30002.1-30002.6 2007 19. SCHUBERT A The weight of author self-citations. A fractional approach to self-citation counting SCIENTOMETRICS 67 : 503 DOI 10.1556/Scient.67.2006.3.11 2006 20. SIDIROPOULOS A Generalized Hirsch h-index for disclosing latent facts in citation networks SCIENTOMETRICS 72 : 253 DOI 10.1007/s11192-007-1722-z 2007 21. VANRAAN AFJ Self-citation as an impact-reinforcing mechanism in the science system JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 59 : 1631 DOI 10.1002/asi.20868 2008 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue May 19 15:34:56 2009 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 15:34:56 -0400 Subject: Jacobs G "Influence and canonical supremacy: An analysis of how George Herbert Mead demoted Charles Horton Cooley in the sociological canon" Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 45(2):117-144, Spring 2009 Message-ID: E-Mail : Glenn Jacobs : glenn.jacobs at umb.edu TITLE : INFLUENCE AND CANONICAL SUPREMACY: AN ANALYSIS OF HOW GEORGE HERBERT MEAD DEMOTED CHARLES HORTON COOLEY IN THE SOCIOLOGICAL CANON \ Author(s): Jacobs G (Jacobs, Glenn) Source: JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES Volume: 45 Issue: 2 Pages: 117-144 Published: SPR 2009 Times Cited: 0 References: 108 Citation Map Abstract: This analysis assesses the factors underlying Charles Horton Cooley's place in the sociological canon as they relate to George Herbert Mead's puzzling diatribe-echoed in secondary accounts-against Cooley's social psychology and view of the self published scarcely a year after his death. The illocutionary act of publishing his critique stands as an effort to project the image of Mead's intellectual self and enhance his standing among sociologists within and outside the orbit of the University of Chicago. It expressed Mead's ambivalence toward his precursor Cooley, whose influence he never fully acknowledged. In addition, it typifies the contending fractal distinctions of the scientifically discursive versus literary styles of Mead and Cooley, who both founded the interpretive sociological tradition. The contrasting styles and attitudes toward writing of the two figures are discussed, and their implications for the problems of scale that have stymied the symbolic interactionist tradition are explored. Reprint Address: Jacobs, G (reprint author), Univ Massachusetts, Boston, MA 02125 USA Addresses: 1. Univ Massachusetts, Boston, MA 02125 USA Publisher: JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN, NJ 07030 USA IDS Number: 437BJ ISSN: 0022-5061 DOI: 10.1002/jhbs.20363 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue May 19 15:40:51 2009 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 15:40:51 -0400 Subject: Vasquez RIM, "To be or not to be in the picture: the individual assessment of scientific performance more options" Atencion Primaria 41(2):63-66, February 2009 Message-ID: ================================== E-mail Addresses: rmendez at prbb.org TITLE : To be or not to be in the picture: the individual assessment of scientific performance more options Author(s): Vasquez RIM (Mendez Vasquez, Raul Isaac) Source: ATENCION PRIMARIA Volume: 41 Issue: 2 Pages: 63-66 Published: FEB 2009 Times Cited: 0 References: 11 Citation Map Reprint Address: Vasquez, RIM (reprint author), AATRM, Grp Recerca Bibliometia & Avaluacio Ciencia, Barcelona, Spain Addresses: 1. AATRM, Grp Recerca Bibliometia & Avaluacio Ciencia, Barcelona, Spain E-mail Addresses: rmendez at prbb.org Publisher: EDICIONES DOYMA S A, TRAV DE GRACIA 17-21, 08021 BARCELONA, SPAIN IDS Number: 437JV ISSN: 0212-6567 DOI: 10.1016/j.aprim.2008.12.001 REFERENCES: 1. . RES ID RECURSO ACCES : 2. *FECYT CURR VIT NORM CVN : 2008 3. AKSNES DW When different persons have an identical author name. How frequent are homonyms? JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 59 : 838 2008 4. CAMI J CARACTERIZACION BIBL : 2003 5. GARFIELD E SELECTING ALL-TIME CITATION CLASSICS - HERE ARE 50 MOST CITED PAPERS FOR 1961-1972 CURRENT CONTENTS : 5 1974 6. GARFIELD E THE ASIS OUTSTANDING INFORMATION-SCIENCE TEACHER AWARD - LANCASTER,F.WILFRID IS THE 1ST WINNER CURRENT CONTENTS 7 : 5 1981 7. MENDEZVASQUEZ RI CARACTERIZACION BIBL : 2007 8. PRICE D LITTLE SCI BIG SCI : 1963 9. 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WUCHTY S The increasing dominance of teams in production of knowledge SCIENCE 316 : 1036 DOI 10.1126/science.1136099 2007 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue May 19 16:04:15 2009 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 16:04:15 -0400 Subject: Azizi MH, Raees-Jalali GA, Noroozi H "A Brief History of the Publication of Biomedical Journals in Iran between 1901 and 1979 " Archives of Iranian Medicine 12(2):204-211, March 2009 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: azizi at ams.ac.ir TITLE : A Brief History of the Publication of Biomedical Journals in Iran between 1901 and 1979 Author(s): Azizi MH (Azizi, Mohammad-Hossein)1, Raees-Jalali GA (Raees- Jalali, Ghanbar-Ali)2, Noroozi H (Noroozi, Hesameddin)3 Source: ARCHIVES OF IRANIAN MEDICINE Volume: 12 Issue: 2 Pages: 204-211 Published: MAR 2009 Times Cited: 0 References: 21 Citation Map Abstract: The history of the publication of biomedical journals parallels the development of modern medicine in Iran. Modern medicine was introduced to Iran in the mid-nineteenth century, particularly after the establishment of the Dar al-Fonun School in 1851. The foundation of this collage of higher education was instrumental in further advancement of modern medicine together with the publication of medical textbooks, but the biomedical journals were published later i.e. at the beginning of twentieth century and the first weekly public health periodical was established in 1901. From that point onwards, especially following the inauguration of the Faculty of Medicine of Tehran in 1934, the number and diversity of biomedical journals was gradually increased and their scientific quality was also improved. The present paper explores briefly the history of publication of 105 medical, dental, pharmaceutical, and public health journals from the early twentieth century up to the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Reprint Address: Azizi, MH (reprint author), Acad Med Sci IR Iran, Tehran, Iran Addresses: 1. Acad Med Sci IR Iran, Tehran, Iran 2. Namazi Hosp, Dept Internal Med, Shiraz, Iran 3. Shiraz Univ Med Sci, Shiraz, Iran E-mail Addresses: azizi at ams.ac.ir Publisher: ACAD MEDICAL SCIENCES I R IRAN, PO BOX 19395-5655, TEHRAN, 00000, IRAN IDS Number: 436SA ISSN: 1029-2977 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: D:\MMistry\My Documents\azizipaper.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 88094 bytes Desc: not available URL: From O.Kahler at ELSEVIER.COM Wed May 20 05:56:52 2009 From: O.Kahler at ELSEVIER.COM (Kahler, Ove (ELS-AMS)) Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 11:56:52 +0200 Subject: Scopus hit counts shrinking for same query In-Reply-To: A Message-ID: Dear Sigmetrics Listserv readers, As a follow-up of our message yesterday, we would like to inform you that the problems around Scopus search results have been resolved. Again, we apologize for the inconvenience that these problems may have caused. 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Regards, Cameron Ross Head of Scopus Product Management ________________________ Elsevier Radarweg 29 Amsterdam 1043 NX Netherlands E-mail: cameron.ross at elsevier.com Tel: +31-20-485 3037 ________________________ http://info.scopus.com ________________________ From m.thelwall at BLUEYONDER.CO.UK Tue May 26 17:17:24 2009 From: m.thelwall at BLUEYONDER.CO.UK (Mike Thelwall) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 22:17:24 +0100 Subject: [new book] Introduction to Webometrics: Quantitative Web Research for the Social Sciences In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Introduction to Webometrics: Quantitative Web Research for the Social Sciences Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services Mike Thelwall, University of Wolverhampton Webometrics is concerned with measuring aspects of the web: web sites, web pages, parts of web pages, words in web pages, hyperlinks, web search engine results. The importance of the web itself as a communication medium and for hosting an increasingly wide array of documents, from journal articles to holiday brochures, needs no introduction. Given this huge and easily accessible source of information, there are limitless possibilities for measuring or counting on a huge scale (e.g., the number of web sites, the number of web pages, the number of blogs) or on a smaller scale (e.g., the number of web sites in Ireland, the number of web pages in the CNN web site, the number of blogs mentioning Barack Obama before the 2008 presidential campaign). This book argues that it can be useful for social scientists to measure aspects of the web and explains how this can be achieved on both a small and large scale. The book is intended for social scientists with research topics that are wholly or partly online (e.g., social networks, news, political communication) and social scientists with offline research topics with an online reflection, even if this is not a core component (e.g., diaspora communities, consumer culture, linguistic change). The book is also intended for library and information science students in the belief that the knowledge and techniques described will be useful for them to guide and aid other social scientists in their research. In addition, the techniques and issues are all directly relevant to library and information science research problems. Table of Contents: Introduction / Web Impact Assessment / Link Analysis / Blog Searching / Automatic Search Engine Searches: LexiURL Searcher / Web Crawling: SocSciBot / Search Engines and Data Reliability / Tracking User Actions Online / Advanced Techniques / Summary and Future Directions http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00176ED1V01Y200903ICR004 From m.thelwall at BLUEYONDER.CO.UK Tue May 26 17:21:58 2009 From: m.thelwall at BLUEYONDER.CO.UK (Mike Thelwall) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 22:21:58 +0100 Subject: Half-day webometrics workshops In-Reply-To: Message-ID: For anyone interested in webometrics training there are two half-day webometrics workshops available at the following event: 5th International Conference on e-Social Science 24th-26th June, Cologne, Germany http://www.ncess.ac.uk/events/conference-09/ Web analysis of politics, online ideas, discussions and trends (half day workshop) Software to aid politics and social science web research (half day workshop) From eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM Tue May 26 22:08:45 2009 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSON.COM (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 22:08:45 -0400 Subject: Benamer HTS, Bakoush O, "Arab nations lagging behind other Middle Eastern Countries in biomedical research: a comparative study" BMC Medical Res Methodology Vol9, Article 26, April 2009 Message-ID: ----------------------------------------------------- URL: url: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2288/9/26 E-mail Addresses: benamer at doctors.org.uk, omran.bakoush at med.lu.se TITLE : Arab nations lagging behind other Middle Eastern countries in biomedical research: a comparative study Author(s): Benamer HTS (Benamer, Hani T. S.)2, Bakoush O (Bakoush, Omran)1 Source: BMC MEDICAL RESEARCH METHODOLOGY Volume: 9 Article Number: 26 Published: APR 17 2009 Times Cited: 0 References: 16 Citation Map Abstract: Background: Analysis of biomedical research and publications in a country or group of countries is used to monitor research progress and trends. This study aims to assess the performance of biomedical research in the Arab world during 2001-2005 and to compare it with other Middle Eastern non-Arab countries. Methods: PubMed and Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-expanded) were searched systematically for the original biomedical research publications and their citation frequencies of 16 Arab nations and three non-Arab Middle Eastern countries (Iran, Israel and Turkey), all of which are classified as middle or high income countries. Results: The 16 Arab countries together have 5775 and 14,374 original research articles listed by PubMed and SCI-expanded, respectively, significantly less (p < 0.001) than the other three Middle Eastern countries (25,643 and 49,110). The Arab countries also scored less when the data were normalized to population, gross domestic product (GDP), and GDP/capita. The publications from the Arab countries also have a significantly lower (p < 0.001) citation frequency. Conclusion: The Arab world is producing fewer biomedical publications of lower quality than other Middle Eastern countries. Studies are needed to clarify the causes and to propose strategies to improve the biomedical research status in Arab countries. Document Type: Article Language: English Reprint Address: Bakoush, O (reprint author), Lund Univ, Dept Nephrol, S- 22101 Lund, Sweden Addresses: 1. Lund Univ, Dept Nephrol, S-22101 Lund, Sweden 2. 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TADMOURI GO Biomedical publications in an unstable region: the Arab world, 1988-2002 LANCET 362 : 1766 2003 15. TADMOURI GO A major pitfall in the search strategy on PubMed SAUDI MEDICAL JOURNAL 25 : 7 2004 16. TADMOURI GO Biomedical research in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (1982-2000) SAUDI MEDICAL JOURNAL 23 : 20 2002 From nouruzi at GMAIL.COM Thu May 28 10:55:42 2009 From: nouruzi at GMAIL.COM (Alireza Noruzi) Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 19:25:42 +0430 Subject: Webology: Volume 6, Number 1, 2009 Message-ID: Dear All, apologies for cross-posting. We are pleased to inform you that Vol. 6, No. 1 of Webology, an OPEN ACCESS journal, is published and available ONLINE now. ------------------ Webology: Volume 6, Number 1, 2009 TOC: http://www.webology.ir/2009/v6n1/toc.html This issue contains: ----------------------------------------- Articles - A study of journal publication attributes: Some considerations for academics in the information systems discipline -- Carmine Sellitto -- Keywords: Information systems; Citation; Journal; Impact Factor; ISI; Circulation; Article length; Knowledge diffusion -- http://www.webology.ir/2009/v6n1/a66.html - Citation analysis of Library Trends -- Rosy Jan -- Keywords: Citation analysis; Journals; Bibliometrics; Print-citations; Electronic-citations -- http://www.webology.ir/2009/v6n1/a67.html - Moving from script to science 2.0 for scholarly communication -- Khaiser Nikam & Rajendra Babu H. -- Keywords: Scholarly Communication; Open Access; Web 2.0; Open Access 2.0; Science 2.0; OpenWetware; PLoS -- http://www.webology.ir/2009/v6n1/a68.html ----------------------------------------- Editorial - Letter to the Editor: 'Scientific collaboration and quality of scientific research' -- James Hartley -- Keywords: Scientific collaboration; Scientific research; Quality; Citation -- http://www.webology.ir/2009/v6n1/editorial19.html - Reply to the Letter to the Editor: 'Scientific collaboration and quality of scientific research' -- Alireza Noruzi -- Keywords: Scientific collaboration; Scientific research; Quality; Citation -- http://www.webology.ir/2009/v6n1/editorial19a.html ----------------------------------------- Call for Papers -- http://www.webology.ir/callforpapers.html ========================================= Best regards, Alireza -------------------- Alireza Noruzi, Ph.D. Editor-in-Chief of Webology Website: www.webology.ir ~ The great aim of Open Access journals is knowledge sharing. ~ ~ Scientific knowledge is the result of the knowledge sharing and exchange of experiences. ~ "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." ~ George Bernard Shaw ~ From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Sun May 31 11:31:39 2009 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 17:31:39 +0200 Subject: "Structuration" by Intellectual Organization; preprint v ersion Message-ID: "Structuration" by Intellectual Organization: The Configuration of Knowledge in Relations among Scientific Texts Using aggregated journal-journal citation networks, the measurement of anticipation in empirical systems is examined in two cases of interdisciplinary developments during the period 1995-2005: (i) the development of nanotechnology in the natural sciences and (ii) the development of communication studies as an interdiscipline between social psychology and political science. The results are compared with a case of stable development: the citation networks of core journals in chemistry. The textual networks are intellectually organized by networks of expectations in the knowledge base at the specialty (that is, above-journal) level. This "structuration" of structural components in the observable networks can be measured as configurational information. The latter can be compared with the Shannon-type information generated in the interactions among structural components: the difference between these two measures provides us with a redundancy generated by the specification of a model in the knowledge base of the system. The knowledge base incurs to variable extents on the knowledge infrastructures provided by the networks of exchange relations. . _____ 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/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: