From isidro.aguillo at CCHS.CSIC.ES Mon Nov 2 07:44:27 2009 From: isidro.aguillo at CCHS.CSIC.ES (Isidro F. Aguillo) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:44:27 +0100 Subject: 15 postdoc contracts. CSIC, Madrid Message-ID: 15 POST-DOC RESEARCH CONTRACTS (for 3 YEARS) SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION POLICY STUDIES, CSIC CENTRE FOR SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES, MADRID (SPAIN) INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC GOODS AND POLICIES (IPP) www.ipp.csic.es Priority Areas: * Research policy * Bibliometrics and S&T indicators * Science and research dynamics * Public research institutions and research careers * Scientific workforce * Academic inventors and patenting * Economics of the technical change * Social impact of science and technology Deadline for applications: 1st December 2010 1. Aims of the Call. Contracting PhDs for 3 years in some of the research lines mentioned. 2. Basic conditions. Starting salary of 28.900 euros gross, per year (plus social security and health service). 3. Requirements: PhD degree finished or granted before spring 2010. Open for European Union national and non-EU nationals. Post-docs should join R&D projects and teams to develop their own activity 4. Application Requirements (Telematic application system at www.csic.es): a) Curriculum vitae. b) Project proposal and work plan for the 3 years research activity (max. 5 pages). c) CV of the principal investigator of the research group which the applicant would like to join. 5. Selection Criteria a) Scientific and academic merits of the candidate (50%). b) Quality and scientific capabilities of the Principal Investigator (30%) c) Quality of the project proposal (20%). 6. Contracts: expected to start May 2010, but subject to negotiation with the candidate Published in the Spanish Journal (BOE): November 2nd, 2010; http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2009/11/02/pdfs/BOE-A-2009-17417.pdf All Candidates are welcome. More information: Prof. Luis Sanz-Men?ndez (Luis.Sanz at cchs.csic.es), or (+34) 91-602.2549 CSIC-CCHS-IPP is an equal opportunity employer -- ************************************* 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 bgsloan2 at YAHOO.COM Mon Nov 2 11:52:05 2009 From: bgsloan2 at YAHOO.COM (B.G. Sloan) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 08:52:05 -0800 Subject: Google Scholar Message-ID: ? "Google Scholar has become the most convenient resource to find a few good scholarly papers?often in free full-text format?on even the most esoteric topics. For topical keyword searches, GS is most valuable. But it cannot be used to analyze the publishing performance and impact of researchers." ? http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6703850.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Nov 2 21:34:15 2009 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 21:34:15 -0500 Subject: Smith DR "The continuing rise of contact dermatitis, Part 2: The scientific journal " Contact Dermatitis 61(4):194-200, 2009 Message-ID: e-Mail : derek.smith at newcastle.edu.au TITLE : The continuing rise of contact dermatitis, Part 2: The scientific journal Author(s): Smith DR (Smith, Derek R.) Source: CONTACT DERMATITIS Volume: 61 Issue: 4 Pages: 194-200 Published: 2009 Times Cited: 1 References: 55 Citation Map Abstract: Background Although citation analysis represents an increasingly common method for examining the performance of scientific journals, few longitudinal studies have been conducted in the specialist fields of dermatology. Objectives The objective of this study was to provide the first comprehensive bibliometric analysis of Contact Dermatitis for the 30-year period between 1977 and 2006. Materials and Methods Detailed historical data were extracted from the Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports (R) and systematically analysed. The most highly cited articles published in the journal were also identified and then examined for citation frequency and lag time. Results Citation analysis showed that the impact factor of Contact Dermatitis has increased significantly over the past 30 years, experiencing a sixfold improvement between 1977 and 2006. Conclusions Bibliometric trends as identified in the current study clearly demonstrate the ongoing rise of Contact Dermatitis, from early beginnings in the mid- 1970s, into the leading scientific periodical we know today. Document Type: Article Language: English Reprint Address: Smith, DR (reprint author), Univ Newcastle, Sch Hlth Sci, Fac Hlth, Ourimbah, Australia Addresses: 1. Univ Newcastle, Sch Hlth Sci, Fac Hlth, Ourimbah, Australia E-mail Addresses: derek.smith at newcastle.edu.au Publisher: WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC, COMMERCE PLACE, 350 MAIN ST, MALDEN 02148, MA USA IDS Number: 505XO ISSN: 0105-1873 CITED REFERENCES: 1. ANDERSON PC CONSIDERING EXCELLENCE ARCHIVES OF DERMATOLOGY 129 : 1188 1993 2. ARNDT KA PEERING AT THE DERMATOLOGY LITERATURE ARCHIVES OF DERMATOLOGY 131 : 602 1995 3. ARNDT KA INFORMATION EXCESS IN MEDICINE - OVERVIEW, RELEVANCE TO DERMATOLOGY, AND STRATEGIES FOR COPING ARCHIVES OF DERMATOLOGY 128 : 1249 1992 4. BALTUSSEN A Citation classics in anesthetic journals ANESTHESIA AND ANALGESIA 98 : 443 DOI 10.1213/01.ANE.0000096185.13474.0A 2004 5. BALTUSSEN A Citation classics in critical care medicine INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE 30 : 902 DOI 10.1007/s00134-004-2195-7 2004 6. 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VANHOOYDONK G A BIBLIOTHECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT FACTORS OF SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES SCIENTOMETRICS 30 : 65 1994 From jbollen at INDIANA.EDU Tue Nov 3 12:19:02 2009 From: jbollen at INDIANA.EDU (Johan Bollen) Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 12:19:02 -0500 Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: NSF Workshop "Scholarly Evaluation Metrics" - December 16th, 2009, DC Message-ID: [Apologies for Cross-Posting] NSF Workshop "Scholarly Evaluation Metrics: Opportunities and Challenges" Registration is now open for "Scholarly Evaluation Metrics: Opportunities and Challenges", a one-day NSF-funded workshop that will take place in the Renaissance Washington DC Hotel on Wednesday, December 16th 2009. Participation in this workshop is limited to 50 people. Registration is free at http://informatics.indiana.edu/scholmet09/registration.html . The topic of the workshop is the future of scholarly assessment approaches, including organizational, infrastructural, and community issues. The overall goal is to identify requirements for novel assessment approaches, several of which have been proposed in recent years, to become acceptable to community stakeholders including scholars, academic and research institutions, and funding agencies. The impressive group of speakers and panelists for the workshop includes representatives from each of these constituencies. Further details are available at http://informatics.indiana.edu/scholmet09/announcement.html Workshop organizers: Johan Bollen (jbollen at indiana.edu), Herbert Van de Sompel (hvdsomp at gmail.com) and Ying Ding (dingying at indiana.edu) ### Johan Bollen, Associate Professor School of Informatics and Computing Center for Complex Networks and System Research Indiana University jbollen at indiana.edu, +1 812 856 1833 ### From jrussell at SERVIDOR.UNAM.MX Tue Nov 3 14:07:39 2009 From: jrussell at SERVIDOR.UNAM.MX (Jane Russell) Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 13:07:39 -0600 Subject: Call for Papers Message-ID: *V International Seminar on Quantitative and Qualitative Science and* *Technology Studies, ?Prof. Gilberto Sotolongo Aguilar?* Havana, Cuba This seminar will take place within INFO 2010 International Congress of Information, at the Palacio de las Convenciones, Havana, Cuba, from April 20th-22nd, 2010. The scientific committee invites interested researchers and colleagues to send R & D papers related to the quantitative and/or qualitative studies of science and technology. Bibliometric, Scientometric, Informetric, Patentometric, and Webometric studies are of particular relevance. Review studies, case studies or systems approaches to the measurement and evaluation of science and technology performance are also welcome. Important dates: /Submission of abstracts:/ before December 7th, 2009. /Notification of acceptance: /before January 11th, 2010. /Full papers: /before February 8th, 2010. Spanish is the official language of the seminar. For further information, please contact the General Coordinator of the Seminar: Dr. C?sar A. Mac?as-Chapula, Email: chapula at data.net.mx Or consult the call for papers (in Spanish) on our website: http://www.dynamics.unam.edu/alci/ We look forward to hearing from you. -------------- next part -------------- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.424 / Virus Database: 270.14.47/2478 - Release Date: 11/03/09 07:36:00 From m.thelwall at BLUEYONDER.CO.UK Wed Nov 4 13:49:13 2009 From: m.thelwall at BLUEYONDER.CO.UK (Mike Thelwall) Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 18:49:13 -0000 Subject: PhD Studentship in Webometric methods to assess emerging research fields In-Reply-To: Message-ID: PhD Studentship in Webometric methods to assess emerging research fields A significant part of the effort in the research field of scientometrics is devoted to tracking new and emerging scientific fields by analysing their publications in standard databases like the web of science. This approach suffers from an inevitable time lag due to the publication cycle. The objective of this PhD is to develop web-based methods to track heterogeneous emerging research fields, bypassing the publishing time lag and encompassing commercial, governmental and other actors that would not be fully represented in traditional academic publishing. This research will build upon pilot studies already conducted at Wolverhampton. The candidate will ideally have some knowledge of bibliometrics or scientometrics and interview or qualitative analysis techniques. The PhD will combine quantitative and qualitative approaches and would suit someone with a library and information science background. Funding is available for a three-year full-time PhD. Essential: Degree in information science, mathematics or related discipline. Ability to use novel software and do simple analyses of quantitative data. Optional: Master?s degree. Experience of writing scientific articles. Experience of interviewing and interview analysis. Knowledge of bibliometrics, scientometrics, webometrics, social network analysis, science studies. Programming experience. For more information see: http://cybermetrics.wlv.ac.uk/phd_2009a.htm From nouruzi at GMAIL.COM Fri Nov 6 12:17:42 2009 From: nouruzi at GMAIL.COM (Alireza Noruzi) Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 20:47:42 +0330 Subject: Webology: Call for Papers, Vol. 6, No. 3 Message-ID: Dear All, Webology, an international Open Access journal, is a scholarly journal in English devoted to the various fields of Web Science (World Wide Web Studies), and Library and Information Science. It serves as a forum for discussion and experimentation. Webology publishes scholarly articles, essays and reviews, and encourages the participation of academics and practitioners alike. Volume 6, Number 3 will publish papers that focus on the following topics, but not limited to: The World Wide Web Web information retrieval; Web indexing; Web cataloging; Web searching; Search engines and directories; Search behavior; Metadata; Link analysis; Semantic Web; Web ontology; Folksonomy; Web Thesaurus; Webometrics; Cybermetrics; Invisible Web; Web Intelligence (WI), Web Competitive Intelligence (WCI), Web mining; New technologies of Web services; Web impacts; Web search trends; Web users behavior; Web users and usage studies; International issues of the Web; Social studies of the Web; Censorship; Intellectual freedom on the Web; Web site filtering; Web and civil society; Web and globalization; Web war; Web and socio-political issues; Open Access; Evaluating Web resources; Web visibility, popularity and diversity; Web accessibility; Internet, Validity of information; Information mining; Information extraction; Information management and organization; Information or resource discovery; Knowledge management; Knowledge organization; The role of the Web and ICT in research, education, economy, development, customer services, marketing, productivity improvement, and etc. We welcome and encourage all contributions on these or other aspects of the World Wide Web. For further information, please read the Author Guidelines, or contact one of our Editors. Best regards, Alireza -------------------- Alireza Noruzi, Ph.D. Editor-in-Chief of Webology Website: www.webology.ir/callforpapers.html ~ The great aim of Open Access journals is knowledge sharing. ~ ~ Scientific knowledge is the result of the knowledge sharing and exchange of experiences. ~ From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Mon Nov 9 03:45:22 2009 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 09:45:22 +0100 Subject: networks among cities on the basis of the Science Citation Index Message-ID: Dear colleagues, In the series of programs available from http://www.leydesdorff.net/indicators for analyzing data from the major Science & Technology databases in terms of networks of communication, I added one which enables the user to extract city names in the address field as a separate networks. This program may prove useful, for example, in the regional geography of science. Currently, the program was tested for city names and postcodes in the US, Western Europe (including the UK and some Commonwealth nations), China and Japan. I expect problems in other parts of the world. Please, provide me with feedback if such is the case. (Preferentially send me the download records that cause the problems.) The program is available at http://www.leydesdorff.net/software/CityColl/index.htm . Let me take the opportunity to mention also the availability of Pajek input files for mapping the citation environments of the 1,157 journals included in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index 2008, at http://www.leydesdorff.net/ah08/index.htm . These journals can be studied in terms of both their cited and citing patterns using these files. The data contains cosine-normalized matrices of the k = 1 environments of these journals (without thresholds). With best wishes, Loet Leydesdorff ________________________________ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel. +31-20-525 6598; fax: +31-842239111 loet at leydesdorff.net; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ From pmd8 at CORNELL.EDU Mon Nov 9 10:32:38 2009 From: pmd8 at CORNELL.EDU (Philip Davis) Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 10:32:38 -0500 Subject: Portion of articles receiving U.S. gov grants Message-ID: Does anyone know what proportion of articles published in scholarly journals are the result of funding from the U.S. government? I realize that the definition of funding can be pretty fuzzy and that listing a funding source may not indicate complete funding, but any report or data would be very helpful. Thank you -- Philip M. Davis PhD Student Department of Communication 301 Kennedy Hall Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 email: pmd8 at cornell.edu phone: 607 255-2124 https://confluence.cornell.edu/display/~pmd8/resume http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/author/pmd8/ From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Mon Nov 9 14:52:16 2009 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 20:52:16 +0100 Subject: networks among cities on the basis of the Science Citation Index In-Reply-To: <63EB7F22A5AB014D81EDF84E41AD17D5270672349E@EXMAIL2.drexel.edu> Message-ID: Dear Chaomei, That is great! I had not realized this. I'll use it and place a link on my site with this information. Best wishes, Loet ________________________________ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ > -----Original Message----- > From: Chen,Chaomei [mailto:cc345 at drexel.edu] > Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 2:34 PM > To: loet at leydesdorff.net; SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU > Subject: RE: [SIGMETRICS] networks among cities on the basis > of the Science Citation Index > > Dear Loet, > > That's a nice addition. > Just to mention that CiteSpace has a function under the > Geospatial Maps menu, which > generates geospatial maps in KML format based on city names > from authors' affiliations. > Users may opt to include coauthor links between cities. > These files are viewable in Google Earth. > > Here are some examples of its use: > > Chen, C., Zhu, W., Tomaszewski, B., MacEachren, A. (2007) > Tracing conceptual and geospatial diffusion of knowledge. HCI > International 2007. Beijing, China. July 22-27, 2007. LNCS, > 4564. pp. 265-274. > http://cluster.cis.drexel.edu/~cchen/papers/confs/jcdl2007.pdf > > Chen, C., Song, I.Y., Yuan, X., Zhang, J. (2008) The thematic > and citation landscape of Data and Knowledge Engineering > (1985-2007). Data and Knowledge Engineering, 67(2), 234-259. > http://cluster.cis.drexel.edu/~cchen/papers/2008/dke2008.pdf > > CiteSpace is available at: > http://cluster.cis.drexel.edu/~cchen/citespace > > Best wishes, > Chaomei > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Chaomei Chen, Ph.D. Associate Professor > College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University > Editor in Chief, Information Visualization > ChangJiang Scholar Visiting Professor, Dalian University of Technology > Homepage: http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~cc345 > IVS: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ivs/index.html > CiteSpace: http://cluster.cis.drexel.edu/~cchen/citespace > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ________________________________________ > From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics > [SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Loet Leydesdorff > [loet at leydesdorff.net] > Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 3:45 AM > To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU > Subject: [SIGMETRICS] networks among cities on the basis of > the Science Citation Index > > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > Dear colleagues, > > In the series of programs available from > http://www.leydesdorff.net/indicators for analyzing data from > the major > Science & Technology databases in terms of networks of > communication, I > added one which enables the user to extract city names in the > address field > as a separate networks. This program may prove useful, for > example, in the > regional geography of science. > > Currently, the program was tested for city names and > postcodes in the US, > Western Europe (including the UK and some Commonwealth > nations), China and > Japan. I expect problems in other parts of the world. Please, > provide me > with feedback if such is the case. (Preferentially send me > the download > records that cause the problems.) The program is available at > http://www.leydesdorff.net/software/CityColl/index.htm . > > Let me take the opportunity to mention also the availability > of Pajek input > files for mapping the citation environments of the 1,157 > journals included > in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index 2008, at > http://www.leydesdorff.net/ah08/index.htm . These journals > can be studied in > terms of both their cited and citing patterns using these > files. The data > contains cosine-normalized matrices of the k = 1 environments of these > journals (without thresholds). > > With best wishes, > > > Loet Leydesdorff > > ________________________________ > > Loet Leydesdorff > Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) > Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. > Tel. +31-20-525 6598; fax: +31-842239111 > loet at leydesdorff.net; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ > From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Wed Nov 11 13:45:39 2009 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:45:39 +0100 Subject: networks among cities on the basis of the Science Citation Index In-Reply-To: <63EB7F22A5AB014D81EDF84E41AD17D5270672349E@EXMAIL2.drexel.edu> Message-ID: Dear Chaomei, Let me add a few lines after evaluating both options. CiteSpace offers a great environment. It is Java-based and the interface with Google Earth works smoothly. The results are great for presentation purposes. However, I could not find an option to export the coauthor network in a Pajek file. CityColl is based on DOS and therefore legacy software. However, they offer the user the matrix of documents versus addresses (asymmetrical) for statistical analysis as well as the corresponding input files for Pajek. Unlike Google Earth, one can have an American, Asian and European address in a single "map" without having to turn the earth :-) It is nice that we have both options available. Best wishes, Loet > -----Original Message----- > From: Chen,Chaomei [mailto:cc345 at drexel.edu] > Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 2:34 PM > To: loet at leydesdorff.net; SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU > Subject: RE: [SIGMETRICS] networks among cities on the basis > of the Science Citation Index > > Dear Loet, > > That's a nice addition. > Just to mention that CiteSpace has a function under the > Geospatial Maps menu, which > generates geospatial maps in KML format based on city names > from authors' affiliations. > Users may opt to include coauthor links between cities. > These files are viewable in Google Earth. > > Here are some examples of its use: > > Chen, C., Zhu, W., Tomaszewski, B., MacEachren, A. (2007) > Tracing conceptual and geospatial diffusion of knowledge. HCI > International 2007. Beijing, China. July 22-27, 2007. LNCS, > 4564. pp. 265-274. > http://cluster.cis.drexel.edu/~cchen/papers/confs/jcdl2007.pdf > > Chen, C., Song, I.Y., Yuan, X., Zhang, J. (2008) The thematic > and citation landscape of Data and Knowledge Engineering > (1985-2007). Data and Knowledge Engineering, 67(2), 234-259. > http://cluster.cis.drexel.edu/~cchen/papers/2008/dke2008.pdf > > CiteSpace is available at: > http://cluster.cis.drexel.edu/~cchen/citespace > > Best wishes, > Chaomei > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Chaomei Chen, Ph.D. Associate Professor > College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University > Editor in Chief, Information Visualization > ChangJiang Scholar Visiting Professor, Dalian University of Technology > Homepage: http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~cc345 > IVS: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ivs/index.html > CiteSpace: http://cluster.cis.drexel.edu/~cchen/citespace > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ________________________________________ > From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics > [SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Loet Leydesdorff > [loet at leydesdorff.net] > Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 3:45 AM > To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU > Subject: [SIGMETRICS] networks among cities on the basis of > the Science Citation Index > > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > Dear colleagues, > > In the series of programs available from > http://www.leydesdorff.net/indicators for analyzing data from > the major > Science & Technology databases in terms of networks of > communication, I > added one which enables the user to extract city names in the > address field > as a separate networks. This program may prove useful, for > example, in the > regional geography of science. > > Currently, the program was tested for city names and > postcodes in the US, > Western Europe (including the UK and some Commonwealth > nations), China and > Japan. I expect problems in other parts of the world. Please, > provide me > with feedback if such is the case. (Preferentially send me > the download > records that cause the problems.) The program is available at > http://www.leydesdorff.net/software/CityColl/index.htm . > > Let me take the opportunity to mention also the availability > of Pajek input > files for mapping the citation environments of the 1,157 > journals included > in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index 2008, at > http://www.leydesdorff.net/ah08/index.htm . These journals > can be studied in > terms of both their cited and citing patterns using these > files. The data > contains cosine-normalized matrices of the k = 1 environments of these > journals (without thresholds). > > With best wishes, > > > Loet Leydesdorff > > ________________________________ > > Loet Leydesdorff > Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) > Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. > Tel. +31-20-525 6598; fax: +31-842239111 > loet at leydesdorff.net; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ > From yangly at MAIL.LAS.AC.CN Thu Nov 12 01:47:59 2009 From: yangly at MAIL.LAS.AC.CN (=?gb2312?B?eWFuZ2x5?=) Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:47:59 +0800 Subject: Asking for material about description of important research fruit by bibliometric method Message-ID: Dear all: Sorry to bother everyone. One of my friend is now looking for matericals about description of important research fruit by bibliometric method. She want to detect or describe the specific rule or character of important research fruit which might express in bibliograpy dataset. Much thanks in advance. 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My own interest is in using the diffusion of scientific language instead of citation, to see the impact of research. Best of Luck, David Wojick http://www.osti.gov Nov 12, 2009 01:50:16 AM, SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu wrote: =========================================== Dear all:Sorry to bother everyone. One of my friend is now looking for matericals about description of important research fruit by bibliometric method. She want to detect or describe the specific rule or character of important research fruit which might express in bibliograpy dataset. Much thanks in advance. Best wishes, Liying Yang Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Fri Nov 13 08:33:07 2009 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:33:07 +0100 Subject: networks among cities on the basis of the Science Citation Index In-Reply-To: <63EB7F22A5AB014D81EDF84E41AD17D5270672349E@EXMAIL2.drexel.edu> Message-ID: Dear colleagues, I added a file cities.txt as output of the program which allows the user to generate a google map at http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/geocoder/ . If one wishes additionally to visualize the links of the network on the google map in terms of the links, this requires some programming. However, this can be done directly using Chaomei Chen's CiteSpace. CiteSpace uses full address information (including postcodes), CityColl only the cityname. Best wishes, Loet > -----Original Message----- > From: Chen,Chaomei [mailto:cc345 at drexel.edu] > Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 2:34 PM > To: loet at leydesdorff.net; SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU > Subject: RE: [SIGMETRICS] networks among cities on the basis > of the Science Citation Index > > Dear Loet, > > That's a nice addition. > Just to mention that CiteSpace has a function under the > Geospatial Maps menu, which > generates geospatial maps in KML format based on city names > from authors' affiliations. > Users may opt to include coauthor links between cities. > These files are viewable in Google Earth. > > Here are some examples of its use: > > Chen, C., Zhu, W., Tomaszewski, B., MacEachren, A. (2007) > Tracing conceptual and geospatial diffusion of knowledge. HCI > International 2007. Beijing, China. July 22-27, 2007. LNCS, > 4564. pp. 265-274. > http://cluster.cis.drexel.edu/~cchen/papers/confs/jcdl2007.pdf > > Chen, C., Song, I.Y., Yuan, X., Zhang, J. (2008) The thematic > and citation landscape of Data and Knowledge Engineering > (1985-2007). Data and Knowledge Engineering, 67(2), 234-259. > http://cluster.cis.drexel.edu/~cchen/papers/2008/dke2008.pdf > > CiteSpace is available at: > http://cluster.cis.drexel.edu/~cchen/citespace > > Best wishes, > Chaomei > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Chaomei Chen, Ph.D. Associate Professor > College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University > Editor in Chief, Information Visualization > ChangJiang Scholar Visiting Professor, Dalian University of Technology > Homepage: http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~cc345 > IVS: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ivs/index.html > CiteSpace: http://cluster.cis.drexel.edu/~cchen/citespace > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ________________________________________ > From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics > [SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Loet Leydesdorff > [loet at leydesdorff.net] > Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 3:45 AM > To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU > Subject: [SIGMETRICS] networks among cities on the basis of > the Science Citation Index > > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > Dear colleagues, > > In the series of programs available from > http://www.leydesdorff.net/indicators for analyzing data from > the major > Science & Technology databases in terms of networks of > communication, I > added one which enables the user to extract city names in the > address field > as a separate networks. This program may prove useful, for > example, in the > regional geography of science. > > Currently, the program was tested for city names and > postcodes in the US, > Western Europe (including the UK and some Commonwealth > nations), China and > Japan. I expect problems in other parts of the world. Please, > provide me > with feedback if such is the case. (Preferentially send me > the download > records that cause the problems.) The program is available at > http://www.leydesdorff.net/software/CityColl/index.htm . > > Let me take the opportunity to mention also the availability > of Pajek input > files for mapping the citation environments of the 1,157 > journals included > in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index 2008, at > http://www.leydesdorff.net/ah08/index.htm . These journals > can be studied in > terms of both their cited and citing patterns using these > files. The data > contains cosine-normalized matrices of the k = 1 environments of these > journals (without thresholds). > > With best wishes, > > > Loet Leydesdorff > > ________________________________ > > Loet Leydesdorff > Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) > Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. > Tel. +31-20-525 6598; fax: +31-842239111 > loet at leydesdorff.net; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ > From j.hartley at PSY.KEELE.AC.UK Mon Nov 16 03:11:31 2009 From: j.hartley at PSY.KEELE.AC.UK (James Hartley) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:11:31 -0000 Subject: Fw: emailing brilliant minds Message-ID: O wonder if any colleague can answer the question below for a colleague of mine - and send a copy of their answer to the list! Many thanks James Hartley School of Psychology Keele University Staffordshire ST5 5BG UK j.hartley at psy.keele.ac.uk http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/ps/people/JHartley/index.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: Stella Williamson Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 1:35 PM Subject: emailing brilliant minds If I am emailing you it is because I consider you very wise and nice enough to help me with this lack of knowledge. If you have the time would you be able to assist me with the following. Do you know anything about the following website and how it can be used to identify the number of times an article has been cited (anywhere not just within a single database)? thomsonreuters.com/ or do you perhaps know another means of finding out this information? I promise to let you know if someone answers this question. MANY, MANY, MANY THANKS, Stella. Stella Williamson Graduate Assistant Psychology & Counselling Newman University College Birmingham B32 3NT Room: TB1 Tel : 0121 476 1181 Ext 2542 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newman University College, Genners Lane, Bartley Green, Birmingham B32 3NT (Registered Office) Tel +44 (0)121 476 1181 Fax +44 (0)121 476 1196 Newman University College is a charitable company limited by guarantee, Registered in England and Wales with Company number : 5493384 Charity number : 1110346 VAT number : 559 1908 08 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From amsciforum at GMAIL.COM Mon Nov 16 09:07:00 2009 From: amsciforum at GMAIL.COM (Stevan Harnad) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:07:00 -0500 Subject: What about delayed open access In-Reply-To: <20091115181448.st7c02m34csw8oc4@webmail1.hanken.fi> Message-ID: It has been a shortcoming of most studies on both the extent of OA and the size and extent of the OA impact advantage that they take into account the date of publication of both the cited articles and the citing article, but not the date on which (Green) OA articles were made OA. Finer-grained studies are underway. I think anyone with an open mind will agree that if OA is beneficial to research impact and progress (i.e., if denying access to non-paying users is deleterious to overall research impact and progress) then OA is desirable immediately upon acceptance for publication, and not only after an access-denial interval (embargo). There are already at least two kinds of analyses that show this: (1) The studies of Kurtz and co-workers on the Early Access advantage for prepublication preprints in astronomy and physics. (Earlier self-archiving does not just generate downloads and citations earlier, but that earlier usage and citation fans out into more downloads and citations overall, accelerating research not just by reaching a fixed "impact quota" sooner, but by increasing its impact quota.) (2) Brody's studies have shown that not only does self-archiving lead to earlier citations, but that higher rates of downloads early on are correlated with higher rates of citations later. http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/40867/02/chapter5distro.pdf Some comments below: Bo-Christer Bjork wrote: > In the current OA barometer project we're now in the final stages of our > empirical work trying to establish what part of the 2008 peer reviewed > article production is available as OA. Overall it seems the share available > in journals and as e-copies is around equally big. What is particularly > interesting is the split into different types of channels also inside gold > and green. We will publish the results in due course but I would already now > point out that we have found a perhaps surprisingly large amount of articles > which have become OA on toll-gate publishers sites after a delay of 12 > months. It is crucial, then, to classify these "delayed OA" articles made OA by their publishers after an embargo period as Gold OA, not as Green OA. They are only Green OA if self-archived by their authors. Both the Green OA and Gold OA tallies should be classified by posting date, otherwise we will get a misleading impression of both the OA proportion per year of publication and the annual growth rate for OA self-archiving. [Note that with publishers making their own articles OA after an embargo, this means *both* Green OA and Gold OA (and not just Green OA) need to be analyzed in terms of deposit date and not just publication date.] > Very often you can only find this out after trying out with more > recent articles, since the publishers in question don't seem to advertise > the delayed OA. It becomes particularly intriguing when the same publishers > also practice "Open choice" for individual articles. Why pay if all articles > become free after 12 months anyway? Better question: Why pay for immediate Gold OA, or wait for delayed Gold OA, when you can self-archive and provide immediate Green OA? > I think we should take note of this and accept delayed OA as a viable form > of Open Access. What is in fact the difference between this and a repository > copy posted after an embargo of 12 months. A big difference. See the Kurtz and Brody studies for a foretaste. (Of course the degree to which usage and citations are accelerated and augmented by immediate OA compared to a one-year OA embargo will no doubt vary by discipline, being greatest for fast-growing, fast-turnaround fields; but it is hard to believe that there is any field in which it is worth publishing one's results at all where it is not worth making them accessible to all potential users immediately upon publication.) > From a more philosophical viewpoint I would like to raise the issue of > weather each article reading is equally valuable from society's viewpoint. A > very important type of reading is where the reader finds an interesting > citation and tries to retrieve the cited article. For this type of reading > 12 month delayed OA provides almost an equal service to full OA. That's hardly true (or merely philosophical) if that reading happens to occur within a year of the publication of the cited article (and it's another reason for self-archiving articles immediately upon acceptance for publication, rather than waiting out the publication lag). > And usually the chances are much higher that these readings influence the readers own > research and that the article is read more carefully than the average > current awareness reading where researchers quicly scan new articles in the > journals they follow. That sounds like a more philosophical point as it stands. It would be more useful to have objective evidence on that too (for example, either peer ratings or citation counts for articles that cite other articles within different citation-latency periods)... Stevan Harnad From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Wed Nov 18 15:29:56 2009 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:29:56 -0600 Subject: Fw: emailing brilliant minds In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Jim: It is not clear what database this person is talking about. Best wishes. Gene Garfield ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------ Eugene Garfield, PhD. email: garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu home page: www.eugenegarfield.org Tel: 215-243-2205 Fax: 610-560-4749 Chairman Emeritus, Thomson Reuters Scientific (formerly ISI) 1500 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA 19130 President, The Scientist LLC. www.the-scientist.com 400 Market Street, Suite 1250, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2501 Past President, American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) www.asist.org ________________________________ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of James Hartley Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 3:12 AM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Fw: emailing brilliant minds O wonder if any colleague can answer the question below for a colleague of mine - and send a copy of their answer to the list! Many thanks James Hartley School of Psychology Keele University Staffordshire ST5 5BG UK j.hartley at psy.keele.ac.uk http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/ps/people/JHartley/index.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: Stella Williamson Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 1:35 PM Subject: emailing brilliant minds If I am emailing you it is because I consider you very wise and nice enough to help me with this lack of knowledge. If you have the time would you be able to assist me with the following. Do you know anything about the following website and how it can be used to identify the number of times an article has been cited (anywhere not just within a single database)? thomsonreuters.com/ or do you perhaps know another means of finding out this information? I promise to let you know if someone answers this question. MANY, MANY, MANY THANKS, Stella. Stella Williamson Graduate Assistant Psychology & Counselling Newman University College Birmingham B32 3NT Room: TB1 Tel : 0121 476 1181 Ext 2542 ________________________________ Newman University College, Genners Lane, Bartley Green, Birmingham B32 3NT (Registered Office) Tel +44 (0)121 476 1181 Fax +44 (0)121 476 1196 Newman University College is a charitable company limited by guarantee, Registered in England and Wales with Company number : 5493384 Charity number : 1110346 VAT number : 559 1908 08 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kretschmer.h at T-ONLINE.DE Sun Nov 22 11:48:02 2009 From: kretschmer.h at T-ONLINE.DE (kretschmer.h@t-online.de) Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:48:02 +0100 Subject: 6th Int Conf on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics & 11th COLLNET Meeting Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Mysore.doc Type: application/msword Size: 231424 bytes Desc: URL: From fil at INDIANA.EDU Wed Nov 25 21:19:29 2009 From: fil at INDIANA.EDU (Fil Menczer) Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:19:29 -0500 Subject: Introducing tenurometer.indiana.edu Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Please forgive the wide distribution of this announcement. We write to introduce a new social tool to facilitate citation analysis and help evaluate the impact of an author's publications: http://tenurometer.indiana.edu/ Tenurometer provides a smart interface to make Google Scholar more powerful, convenient, and easy to use. Unlike *Publish or Perish*, Tenurometer is not a standalone application; it is a browser extension, so it can be used on any computer with a Firefox browser. There is a twist. By using Tenurometer you help tag authors and contribute to a social database of annotations, associating authors, papers, and disciplines. We plan to make this data publicly available for research purposes. All you do is use Tenurometerfor your own purposes, and submit one or more discipline tags when you query. Statistics from the annotations are availableon the Tenurometer website. In addition to providing various established impact measures such as the h-index, Tenurometer leverages the statistics collected from user annotations to make it possible for the first time to compute the "universal h-index" (Radicchi & al, PNAS 2008). This measure is designed to quantitatively compare the impact of authors in different disciplines, with different citation patterns. While citation analysis has its well-known limitations and must be used with care, the universal h-index and its Tenurometer implementation may represent an important step toward meaningful comparative evaluation of research impact across diverse disciplines in science, the social sciences, arts and humanities. Please download the Tenurometer add-on. Once you install it in your Firefox browser, you can access the extension from the *View > Sidebar* menu, and start querying. On the Tenurometer website you can learn more about the tool, read frequently asked questions , consult a help screen , and find out how to provide feedback . We look forward to your suggestions! And if you find the tool useful, please feel free to forward this note to your colleagues. Filippo Menczer & Diep Thi Hoang Tenurometer Team School of Informatics & Computing Indiana University, Bloomington -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Thu Nov 26 01:45:47 2009 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:45:47 +0100 Subject: Introducing tenurometer.indiana.edu In-Reply-To: <996b36c20911251819y25407a96pd3ea07287c13603@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Dear Fil, It seems that there is a limit for 300 articles? (Thanks for doing this.) 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 Fil Menczer Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2009 3:19 AM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Introducing tenurometer.indiana.edu Please forgive the wide distribution of this announcement. We write to introduce a new social tool to facilitate citation analysis and help evaluate the impact of an author's publications: http://tenurometer.indiana.edu/ Tenurometer provides a smart interface to make Google Scholar more powerful, convenient, and easy to use. Unlike Publish or Perish, Tenurometer is not a standalone application; it is a browser extension, so it can be used on any computer with a Firefox browser. There is a twist. By using Tenurometer you help tag authors and contribute to a social database of annotations, associating authors, papers, and disciplines. We plan to make this data publicly available for research purposes. All you do is use Tenurometer for your own purposes, and submit one or more discipline tags when you query. Statistics from the annotations are available on the Tenurometer website. In addition to providing various established impact measures such as the h-index, Tenurometer leverages the statistics collected from user annotations to make it possible for the first time to compute the "universal h-index" (Radicchi & al, PNAS 2008). This measure is designed to quantitatively compare the impact of authors in different disciplines, with different citation patterns. While citation analysis has its well-known limitations and must be used with care, the universal h-index and its Tenurometer implementation may represent an important step toward meaningful comparative evaluation of research impact across diverse disciplines in science, the social sciences, arts and humanities. Please download the Tenurometer add-on. Once you install it in your Firefox browser, you can access the extension from the View > Sidebar menu, and start querying. On the Tenurometer website you can learn more about the tool, read frequently asked questions , consult a help screen , and find out how to provide feedback . We look forward to your suggestions! And if you find the tool useful, please feel free to forward this note to your colleagues. Filippo Menczer & Diep Thi Hoang Tenurometer Team School of Informatics & Computing Indiana University, Bloomington -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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