From Chris.Armbruster at EUI.EU Wed Sep 2 02:48:09 2009 From: Chris.Armbruster at EUI.EU (Armbruster, Chris) Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 08:48:09 +0200 Subject: Citation, Usage and Access Metrics as Information Service for Scholars? Message-ID: Dear colleagues, It would seem that there exist tried-and-tested technologies and methods to deliver metric information services that would be of value to scholars in their routines of work, e.g. information search, literature evaluation, peer review, collaboration and competition etc. At the same time I know only of a few services that have been designed explicitly with the scholars in mind (e.g. JIF and JUF I would discount, but gopubmed.com I would count). I would like to invite you to review a new paper that argues for building and expanding a scholarly metric information service. Please send any comments to me (or the list). http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1464706 Thank you, Chris Armbruster Abstract As the Internet has enhanced the collection and provision of citation, usage and access metrics, the challenge lies neither in the technology nor the method, but in constructing databases that deliver services of value to the scholar. However, the development of metrics has hitherto been driven by the needs of external research assessment (governments and funders), while publishers and libraries have focussed on their own needs (e.g. journal impact and usage factors). Scholars often criticize research assessment and the use of particular metrics as a zero-sum game whose undesirable consequences far outweigh the benefits. However, this is not to be confused with a general prejudice against metrics, which are principally compatible with the scholarly recognition and rewards system. But it does indicate that current metric information services often do not serve the needs of scholars. The question everybody should be asking is: What kind of metric information services would serve scholars? Keywords Citation metrics, usage metrics, access metrics, research assessment, research information services, scholarly societies, scholarly publishers, postdocs, Hirsch index Services mentioned Journal impact factor, journal usage factor, GoPubMed, SSRN CiteReader, RePEc LogEc, RePEc CitEc, SPIRES, Harzing POP, Webometrics, ISI Web of Knowledge, Scopus, Google Scholar, Citebase, CiteSeer X, CERIF http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1464706 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Jayshree.Mamtora at CDU.EDU.AU Wed Sep 2 03:08:47 2009 From: Jayshree.Mamtora at CDU.EDU.AU (Jayshree Mamtora) Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 16:38:47 +0930 Subject: Citation, Usage and Access Metrics as Information Service for Scholars? In-Reply-To: A<454C4EFF24E347449521ABDC1B63025D0367AE49@MAILSRV1.iue.private> Message-ID: Chris, I'm having difficulty downloading the paper - any suggestions? Regards Jayshree From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Armbruster, Chris Sent: Wednesday, 2 September 2009 4:18 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Citation, Usage and Access Metrics as Information Service for Scholars? Dear colleagues, It would seem that there exist tried-and-tested technologies and methods to deliver metric information services that would be of value to scholars in their routines of work, e.g. information search, literature evaluation, peer review, collaboration and competition etc. At the same time I know only of a few services that have been designed explicitly with the scholars in mind (e.g. JIF and JUF I would discount, but gopubmed.com I would count). I would like to invite you to review a new paper that argues for building and expanding a scholarly metric information service. Please send any comments to me (or the list). http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1464706 Thank you, Chris Armbruster Abstract As the Internet has enhanced the collection and provision of citation, usage and access metrics, the challenge lies neither in the technology nor the method, but in constructing databases that deliver services of value to the scholar. However, the development of metrics has hitherto been driven by the needs of external research assessment (governments and funders), while publishers and libraries have focussed on their own needs (e.g. journal impact and usage factors). Scholars often criticize research assessment and the use of particular metrics as a zero-sum game whose undesirable consequences far outweigh the benefits. However, this is not to be confused with a general prejudice against metrics, which are principally compatible with the scholarly recognition and rewards system. But it does indicate that current metric information services often do not serve the needs of scholars. The question everybody should be asking is: What kind of metric information services would serve scholars? Keywords Citation metrics, usage metrics, access metrics, research assessment, research information services, scholarly societies, scholarly publishers, postdocs, Hirsch index Services mentioned Journal impact factor, journal usage factor, GoPubMed, SSRN CiteReader, RePEc LogEc, RePEc CitEc, SPIRES, Harzing POP, Webometrics, ISI Web of Knowledge, Scopus, Google Scholar, Citebase, CiteSeer X, CERIF http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1464706 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Chris.Armbruster at EUI.EU Wed Sep 2 04:02:11 2009 From: Chris.Armbruster at EUI.EU (Armbruster, Chris) Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 10:02:11 +0200 Subject: Citation, Usage and Access Metrics as Information Service for Scholars? Message-ID: Jayshree, All, apologies if anyone is having difficulties downloading. SSRN provides open access and has a number of servers (mirrors) around the world, including Europe and Asia (South Korea). Alternatively, try downloading from the author page: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=434782 For the servers, see the home page: http://www.ssrn.com/ If any particular world region does have regular difficulties in downloading, I suggest contacting SSRN: management at ssrn.com Regards, Chris -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics on behalf of Jayshree Mamtora Sent: Wed 9/2/2009 09:08 To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Citation, Usage and Access Metrics as Information Service for Scholars? Chris, I'm having difficulty downloading the paper - any suggestions? Regards Jayshree From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Armbruster, Chris Sent: Wednesday, 2 September 2009 4:18 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Citation, Usage and Access Metrics as Information Service for Scholars? Dear colleagues, It would seem that there exist tried-and-tested technologies and methods to deliver metric information services that would be of value to scholars in their routines of work, e.g. information search, literature evaluation, peer review, collaboration and competition etc. At the same time I know only of a few services that have been designed explicitly with the scholars in mind (e.g. JIF and JUF I would discount, but gopubmed.com I would count). I would like to invite you to review a new paper that argues for building and expanding a scholarly metric information service. Please send any comments to me (or the list). http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1464706 Thank you, Chris Armbruster Abstract As the Internet has enhanced the collection and provision of citation, usage and access metrics, the challenge lies neither in the technology nor the method, but in constructing databases that deliver services of value to the scholar. However, the development of metrics has hitherto been driven by the needs of external research assessment (governments and funders), while publishers and libraries have focussed on their own needs (e.g. journal impact and usage factors). Scholars often criticize research assessment and the use of particular metrics as a zero-sum game whose undesirable consequences far outweigh the benefits. However, this is not to be confused with a general prejudice against metrics, which are principally compatible with the scholarly recognition and rewards system. But it does indicate that current metric information services often do not serve the needs of scholars. The question everybody should be asking is: What kind of metric information services would serve scholars? Keywords Citation metrics, usage metrics, access metrics, research assessment, research information services, scholarly societies, scholarly publishers, postdocs, Hirsch index Services mentioned Journal impact factor, journal usage factor, GoPubMed, SSRN CiteReader, RePEc LogEc, RePEc CitEc, SPIRES, Harzing POP, Webometrics, ISI Web of Knowledge, Scopus, Google Scholar, Citebase, CiteSeer X, CERIF http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1464706 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ruben at UCR.EDU Wed Sep 2 17:33:33 2009 From: ruben at UCR.EDU (Ruben Urbizagastegui) Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 14:33:33 -0700 Subject: What is an International Journal? In-Reply-To: <200908231037201711180@zju.edu.cn> Message-ID: Hi you guys there, I am trying to write a paper on author productivity and publishing in scholarly journals. I have read a lot about this topic and insistently some of you guys talk about the need for an author to publish in "an International journal". But what is an international journal? What features should have a journal to be international? It really exist an international Journal? When we talk about books, we tend not to think in an international book, or an international dissertation, or an international grey literature. This way of thinking only show up with journals. I hope some of you can help me to clarified this issue. Thank you very much for all you help. Ruben Urbizagastegui University of California, Riverside University Libraries P.O. Box 5900 Riverside, California 92517-5900 From Fredrik.Astrom at LUB.LU.SE Thu Sep 3 04:27:25 2009 From: Fredrik.Astrom at LUB.LU.SE (=?Windows-1252?Q?Fredrik_=C5str=F6m?=) Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 10:27:25 +0200 Subject: SV: [SIGMETRICS] What is an International Journal? In-Reply-To: <001801ca2c15$05a56060$10f02120$@edu> Message-ID: Hi there, that is an interesting question: - is it based on where the editorial board comes from? - is it based on where the contributing authors comes from? - is it based on to what extent the journal is read internationally? The issue was debated in Europe in relation to an intiative by the European Science Foundation (ESF: http://www.esf.org/) where the compiled a ranked/categorized list of journals in the humanities, the European Reference Index of Humanities (ERIH: http://www.esf.org/research-areas/humanities/research-infrastructures-including-erih.html), and one of the criteria for ranking/categorization was whether the journal was national or international. Their definition is as follows: "A journal is international (Categories A and B) when the following requirements are fulfilled in addition to those that apply to all journals: ? A genuine, varied and regular international cohort of contributors and readership ? Consistently high-quality scholarly content ? Broad consensus within the field concerning international status and visibility [...] ? Active international advisory board" (Guidelines..., http://www.esf.org/index.php?eID=tx_nawsecuredl&u=0&file=fileadmin/be_user/research_areas/HUM/Documents/ERIH/ERIH%20summary_guidelines_Sept_07.pdf&t=1252055978&hash=6919297e2e860d8c6a211900d855902d) I know I've read at least on paper discussing this definition and its problems, but can't quite remember title, author or in what context. Sorry about that. All the best, Fredrik ______________________________ Fredrik ?str?m, PhD Lund University Libraries, Head Office P.O. Box 134 SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden Email: fredrik.astrom at lub.lu.se Phone: +46 (0)46-222 7325 Fax: +46 (0)46-222 3682 Cell: +46 (0)70-494 33 46 ________________________________________ Fr?n: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] för Ruben Urbizagastegui [ruben at UCR.EDU] Skickat: den 2 september 2009 23:33 Till: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU ?mne: [SIGMETRICS] What is an International Journal? Hi you guys there, I am trying to write a paper on author productivity and publishing in scholarly journals. I have read a lot about this topic and insistently some of you guys talk about the need for an author to publish in "an International journal". But what is an international journal? What features should have a journal to be international? It really exist an international Journal? When we talk about books, we tend not to think in an international book, or an international dissertation, or an international grey literature. This way of thinking only show up with journals. I hope some of you can help me to clarified this issue. Thank you very much for all you help. Ruben Urbizagastegui University of California, Riverside University Libraries P.O. Box 5900 Riverside, California 92517-5900 From azun at METU.EDU.TR Thu Sep 3 05:04:29 2009 From: azun at METU.EDU.TR (ali uzun) Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 12:04:29 +0300 Subject: What is an International Journal? In-Reply-To: <001801ca2c15$05a56060$10f02120$@edu> Message-ID: Dear Ruben, One feature of an International journal may be its lenguage and another may be the composition of its editorial board (nationality of board members). Conversely, a scholarly journal with an editorial board coming from the same country publishes papers from every country. What I am trying to say is that if a journal which is assumed to be international could attract papers only from a few countries is not really/fully international. It may be considered as local. So, conversly, the internationality of a journal may have a bearing on its editorial board and policies, funding prosedures, etc. Some of the references are (1) Elster, A.D., Chen, M.Y.M (1994). The Internationalization of of the American Journal of Roentgenology, Am. J.Roent. 16 2(3), 519-522 (2)Abt. H. A. (1990). Trends Toward Internationalization in Astronomical Literature. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pecific, 102, 368-372, (3) Uzun, A. (2004). Assessing internationality of scholarly journals through foreign authorship patterns. Scientometrics, Vol. 61, No. 3, 457-465. Regards Ali Uzun Dept. Stat. Middle East Tech. Univ. Ankara-Turkey > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > Hi you guys there, > > I am trying to write a paper on author productivity and publishing in scholarly journals. I have read a lot about this topic and insistently some of you guys talk about the need for an author to publish in "an International journal". But what is an international journal? What features should have a journal to be international? It really exist an international Journal? > > When we talk about books, we tend not to think in an international book, or an international dissertation, or an international grey literature. This way of thinking only show up with journals. > > I hope some of you can help me to clarified this issue. > > Thank you very much for all you help. > > > Ruben Urbizagastegui > University of California, Riverside > University Libraries > P.O. Box 5900 > Riverside, California 92517-5900 > > > From michel.menou at ORANGE.FR Thu Sep 3 08:54:52 2009 From: michel.menou at ORANGE.FR (M.J. Menou) Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 14:54:52 +0200 Subject: [Fwd: BIBLAT: indicadores bibliom=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E9tricos_de__Am=E9rica?= Latina y el Caribe] Message-ID: The directorate of libraries of the National University of Mexico, UNAM, is opening a portal, BIBLAT (** http://biblat.unam.mx), giving access to the Latin American bibliographic databases CLASE (social sciences and humanities) and PERIODICA (sciences). They cover more than 3000 journals and 600000 records accumulated over 30 years. Site in Spanish. -- ===================================================================== Dr. Michel J. Menou Visiting Professor, DIS, University College London, U.K. Consultant in ICT policies and Knowledge & Information Management B.P. 15 F-49350 Les Rosiers sur Loire, France Email: micheljmenou[at]gmail[dot]com michel[dot]menou[at]orange[dot]fr Phone: +33 (0)2 41511043 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ciber/peoplemenou.php ===================================================================== -------------- next part -------------- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.409 / Virus Database: 270.13.76/2343 - Release Date: 09/03/09 05:50:00 From chessnic at COMPUSERVE.COM Thu Sep 3 09:59:39 2009 From: chessnic at COMPUSERVE.COM (chessnic at COMPUSERVE.COM) Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 09:59:39 -0400 Subject: What is an International Journal? In-Reply-To: <20090903090430.336133FE7E@mail.metu.edu.tr> Message-ID: The sigmetrics answer lies in the data of SCIENCE & ENGINEERING INDICATORS, which have repeatedly shown American scientists citing American scientists -- presumably publishing in American journals. Robert Maxwell, in an attempt to gain readers for his British based Pergamon journals, named them all "International Journal of ..." and recruited editors from both sides of the Atlantic. Albert Henderson (former VP Pergamon; former editor PUBLISHING RESEARCH QTLY) -----Original Message-----> > Hi you guys there, > > I am trying to write a paper on author productivity and publishing in scholarly journals. I have read a lot about this topic and insistently some of you guys talk about the need for an author to publish in "an International journal". But what is an international journal? What features should have a journal to be international? It really exist an international Journal? > > When we talk about books, we tend not to think in an international book, or an international dissertation, or an international grey literature. This way of thinking only show up with journals. > > I hope some of you can help me to clarified this issue. > > Thank you very much for all you help. > > > Ruben Urbizagastegui > University of California, Riverside > University Libraries > P.O. Box 5900 > Riverside, California 92517-5900 > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From krobin at JHMI.EDU Thu Sep 3 15:49:57 2009 From: krobin at JHMI.EDU (Karen A. Robinson) Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 15:49:57 -0400 Subject: mean and median number of citations per article? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I'm looking for the mean and median number of citations per article. Ideally, for overall and also for clinical trials in specific. I've seen a number of different figures but thought someone on this list would know of the definitive source for this information. Also of interest would be the number or proportion of articles that remain uncited. I recall seeing a figure, I think from Garfield, that gave this at 25%. thanks in advance for your suggestions and advice, Karen -- Karen A. Robinson Internal Medicine and Health Sciences Informatics, Medicine Johns Hopkins University 1830 East Monument Street, Room 8069 Baltimore, MD 21287 410-502-9216 (voice) 410-955-0825 (fax) krobin at jhmi.edu From notsjb at LSU.EDU Thu Sep 3 17:00:36 2009 From: notsjb at LSU.EDU (Stephen J Bensman) Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 16:00:36 -0500 Subject: mean and median number of citations per article? In-Reply-To: A<4AA01DE5.2030800@jhmi.edu> Message-ID: Probably you would have to develop this data on your own. You seem to be interested in clinical medicine, so get together a good sample journals narrowly classified in clinical medicine and covered in the SCI JCR. You can use the LC schedules to form your set. The JCR does not have a subject category for clinical medicine. Then retrieve impact factors from the JCR. Nowadays, you can retrieve two-year impact factor, five-year impact factor, and article influence score. Careful of the latter two, because they have a 5-year framework and the JCR has a 2-year framework for title changes, which can screw up your citation measures beyond this framework. That's the easy part. Then work up a sample of articles on clinical trials, and calculate their mean and median citation rate over your chosen time-period. You can then compare this to your journal means. As for the zero class, lot's of luck. That is one of the hardest damn things in the world to estimate, sometimes requiring computer runs lasting for days. There is a good reason why zero was the last number to be discovered. Wish I could offer you more than a lot of grunt work. But, as Nietzsche said, that, which does not kill you, strengthens you. Stephen J. Bensman LSU Libraries Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA notsjb at lsu.edu -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Karen A. Robinson Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 2:50 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: [SIGMETRICS] mean and median number of citations per article? I'm looking for the mean and median number of citations per article. Ideally, for overall and also for clinical trials in specific. I've seen a number of different figures but thought someone on this list would know of the definitive source for this information. Also of interest would be the number or proportion of articles that remain uncited. I recall seeing a figure, I think from Garfield, that gave this at 25%. thanks in advance for your suggestions and advice, Karen -- Karen A. Robinson Internal Medicine and Health Sciences Informatics, Medicine Johns Hopkins University 1830 East Monument Street, Room 8069 Baltimore, MD 21287 410-502-9216 (voice) 410-955-0825 (fax) krobin at jhmi.edu From roberto.penteado at EMBRAPA.BR Fri Sep 4 09:05:03 2009 From: roberto.penteado at EMBRAPA.BR (Roberto Penteado) Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 10:05:03 -0300 Subject: mean and median number of citations per article? In-Reply-To: <4AA01DE5.2030800@jhmi.edu> Message-ID: Deat Karen I can give you the numbers for mean citations per article from GARFIELD, E. Agony and the ecstasy - the history and meaning of the journal impact factor. In: International Congress on Peer Review and Bibliomedical Publication, Chicago, Setembro 16, 2005. Dispon?vel em: http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/jifchicago2005.pdf . Part of the references are in portuguese... They are: All articles in WOS until August 2005. Mean citations per article = 0.52 All the best. Roberto de Camargo Penteado Filho Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecu?ria - Embrapa Secretaria de Gest?o e Estrat?gia - SGE Parque Esta??o Biol?gica - Av. W3 norte - final 70770-901 - Bras?lia, DF - Brasil Fone: (55-61) 3448-4187 roberto.penteado at embrapa.br Leia "Organiza??es Inteligentes: Guia para a competitividade e sustentabilidade nos neg?cios" http://livraria.sct.embrapa.br/liv2/consultaProduto.do?metodo=detalhar&codigoProduto=00081730 Karen A. Robinson wrote: > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > I'm looking for the mean and median number of citations per article. > Ideally, for overall and also for clinical trials in specific. I've seen > a number of different figures but thought someone on this list would > know of the definitive source for this information. Also of interest > would be the number or proportion of articles that remain uncited. I > recall seeing a figure, I think from Garfield, that gave this at 25%. > > thanks in advance for your suggestions and advice, > Karen ____________________________________________________________________________ Aviso de confidencialidade Esta mensagem da Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecu?ria (Embrapa), empresa p?blica federal regida pelo disposto na Lei Federal no. 5.851, de 7 de dezembro de 1972, ? enviada exclusivamente a seu destinat?rio e pode conter informa??es confidenciais, protegidas por sigilo profissional. Sua utiliza??o desautorizada ? ilegal e sujeita o infrator ?s penas da lei. Se voc? a recebeu indevidamente, queira, por gentileza, reenvi?-la ao emitente, esclarecendo o equivoco. 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Author(s): Lewis M (Lewis, Michael) Source: APPLIED DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE Volume: 13 Issue: 3 Pages: 149-152 Published: 2009 Abstract: This paper addresses some of the implicit rules that may be involved in scientific inquiry. Factors outside the scientific method such as personal characteristics, belief systems, and scholarly eminence may play a role in scientific inquiry. In this case study, we show that the referencing of two prominent psychologists, Jean Piaget and Clark Hull, declined sharply after they died. This change, we suggest, may be due to the absence of an actual influence on colleagues and students. Reprint Address: Lewis, M (reprint author), Univ Med & Dent New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Med Sch, Inst Study Child Dev, New Brunswick, NJ 08903 USA Addresses: 1. Univ Med & Dent New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Med Sch, Inst Study Child Dev, New Brunswick, NJ 08903 USA E-mail Addresses: lewis at umdnj.edu Publisher: PSYCHOLOGY PRESS, 27 CHURCH RD, HOVE BN3 2FA, EAST SUSSEX, ENGLAND REFERENCES: 1. EIDUSON BT SCI THEIR PSYCHOL WO : 1962 2. GARDNER H MINDS NEW SCI : 1985 3. GARFIELD E When to cite LIBRARY QUARTERLY 66 : 449 1996 4. GERGEN KJ, TRANSFORMATION SOCIA : 1994 5. GREENWALD AG, AN ETHNIC BIAS IN SCIENTIFIC CITATIONS EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 24 : 623 1994 6. GROSS PR, FLIGHT SCI REASON : 1997 7. GUTTMAN N, SKINNER AND HULL - REMINISCENCE AND PROJECTION AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST 32 : 321 1977 8. HELD BS, FLIGHT SCI REASON : 198 1997 9. HUDSON L, CULT FACT : 1972 10. HULL CL, BEHAV SYSTEM INTRO B : 1952 11. HULL CL, ESSENTIALS BEHAV : 1951 12. HULL CL, PRINCIPLES BEHAV : 1943 13. KESSEN W, American psychology just before Piaget, PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE 7 : 196 1996 14. KUBIE LS, AM SCI 42 : 104 1954 15. 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TRIMBLE V, DEATH COMES AS THE END - EFFECTS OF CESSATION OF PERSONAL INFLUENCE UPON RATES OF CITATION OF ASTRONOMICAL PAPERS CZECHOSLOVAK JOURNAL OF PHYSICS 36 : 175 1986 From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Sun Sep 6 16:11:56 2009 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 15:11:56 -0500 Subject: Peter Vinkler's book / The Evaluation of Research by Scientometric Indicators Message-ID: http://www.woodheadpublishing.com/en/book.aspx?bookID=1927&ChandosTitle= 1 No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.409 / Virus Database: 270.13.72/2337 - Release Date: 08/31/09 05:50:00 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nouruzi at GMAIL.COM Thu Sep 17 08:35:14 2009 From: nouruzi at GMAIL.COM (Alireza Noruzi) Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:05:14 +0430 Subject: Webology: Volume 6, Number 2, 2009 Message-ID: Dear All, apologies for cross-posting. We are pleased to inform you that Vol. 6, No. 2 of Webology, an OPEN ACCESS journal, is published and available ONLINE now. ----------------------------------------- Webology: Volume 6, Number 2, 2009 TOC: http://www.webology.ir/2009/v6n2/toc.html This issue contains: ----------------------------------------- Editorial - Wikipedia popularity from a citation analysis point of view -- Alireza Noruzi -- Keywords: Wikipedia; Popularity; Citation Analysis; Encyclopedia -- http://www.webology.ir/2009/v6n2/editorial20.html ----------------------------------------- Articles - Ensuring the discoverability of digital images for social work education: an online "tagging" survey to test controlled vocabularies -- Ellen Daly & Neil Ballantyne -- Keywords: Indexing; Digital images; Controlled vocabularies; Folksonomies; Tagging; Taxonomies -- http://www.webology.ir/2009/v6n2/a69.html - Web search behavior of university students: a case study at University of the Punjab -- Amara Malik & Khalid Mahmood -- Keywords: Web searching; Web information retrieval; Web search behavior; Search engines; Universities; Pakistan -- http://www.webology.ir/2009/v6n2/a70.html - Correlation between references and citations -- Dariush Alimohammadi & Mahshid Sajjadi -- Keywords: References; Citations; Correlation -- http://www.webology.ir/2009/v6n2/a71.html - Evidence-based medical librarianship in Iran: an introduction -- Vahideh Zarea Gavgani -- Keywords: Subject specialist librarians; Subject librarians; Evidence-Based Medical Practice (EBMP); Informationist; Iran -- http://www.webology.ir/2009/v6n2/a72.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. ~ From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Fri Sep 18 04:20:47 2009 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:20:47 +0200 Subject: mapping citation networks Message-ID: ** apologies for cross-postings Dear colleagues, 1. I made a new routine BibAuth.exe available at http://www.leydesdorff.net/software/bibauth/index.htm. BibAuth.exe allows users to map the social network among the cited authors of a document set (Pajek format). The program is strictly analagous to BibJourn.exe which focuses on the network among the cited journals. (BibCoupl.exe maps the citing authors in terms of their shared references.) All three programs provide asymmetrical document versus variable matrices, symmetrical co-occurrence matrices, and cosine-normalized matrices. 2. The various programs which use WoS data as input data (in the tagged format) are now updated with the new facility of the ISI to couple authors unambiguously to corporate addresses. This information is stored in an additional file csau.dbf which can be used for the relational database management between the author names (au.dbf) and the address information (cs.dbf). 3. A new and thoroughly revised version of "Journal Maps on the Basis of Scopus Data: A comparison with the Journal Citation Reports of the ISI" coauthored with Felix de Moya-Anegon and Vicente P. Guerrero-Bote (JASIST, forthcoming) is now available http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.3193. Best wishes, Loet ________________________________ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel. +31-20-525 6598; fax: +31-842239111 loet at leydesdorff.net From joachim.schopfel at UNIV-LILLE3.FR Tue Sep 22 07:16:42 2009 From: joachim.schopfel at UNIV-LILLE3.FR (Joachim SCHOPFEL) Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:16:42 +0200 Subject: International Symposium "Academic Online Resources: Assessment and Usage" Message-ID: International Symposium "Academic Online Resources: Assessment and Usage" Lille (France), 26-27 November 2009 The evaluation of academic online information resources through usage assessment accompanies their integration into academic libraries. The topic associates librarians, publishers, vendors and scientists into a common discussion on resource management, evaluation, research and theoretical aspects. Between 1998 and 2008, the work on usage assessment advanced in several ways. The COUNTER Codes of Good Practice are to become international standards and facilitate the recording and reporting of online usage statistics in a consistent, credible and compatible way. Regularly revised and updated, they are built upon common definitions of collected usage statistics. Vendors and service providers offer tools and services for the management of usage data, compliant with the COUNTER standards. Libraries develop local software for usage assessment. Especially in the UK, results from a new type of usage research based on the weblog analysis have been published. These studies provide an accurate knowledge about who uses what, when and how. The symposium aims at highlighting the frontline research of library and information scientists and LIS professionals and at getting a large and precise understanding of online information usage assessment and to discuss the challenges. The programme : http://epef.anr.free.fr/index-eng.html How to book online : http://epef.anr.free.fr/registration.html Joachim Sch?pfel Universit? Charles de Gaulle Lille 3 UFR IDIST Laboratoire GERiiCO BP 60149 F - 59653 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex T?l ++33 (0)320 41 69 38 ou ++33 (0)688 35 01 47 From stocknmw at AOL.COM Tue Sep 22 11:13:12 2009 From: stocknmw at AOL.COM (Wolfgang G. Stock) Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:13:12 -0400 Subject: Inflation of journal impact factors Message-ID: Dear SIGMETRICS members, ? in the current issue of ChemPhysChem appeared an essay about the "inflation" of impact factors of scientific journals. It is a short article on?the classical Garfield-Sher?IF, the?five-year IF, the Hirsch-index of journals,?Scopus' trend-line, the SCImago index by the Spanish SCImago Group, and the Eigenfactor score created by Carl Bergstrom. Best wishes from Duesseldorf, Wolf ? Wolfgang G. Stock: The Inflation of Impact Factors of Scientific Journals. ChemPhysChem, 10(13), 2009,?2193-2196. Abstract. Nowadays, we are confronted with a multitude of different impact indicators. This essay discusses some of the problems of citation analysis?-?and of indicators claiming to give a measure of the standing of a scholarly periodical. Incomplete data sets and the (mostly forgotten) highly skewed distribution of papers by cites are two of the most critical points of the journal impact calculation. Full text (for ChemPhysChem subscribers): ?http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122553749/abstract Full text (all others): http://wwwalt.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/infowiss/admin/public_dateien/files/1/1252916718stock222_h.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Jessica.Shepherd at GUARDIAN.CO.UK Tue Sep 22 11:14:44 2009 From: Jessica.Shepherd at GUARDIAN.CO.UK (Jessica Shepherd) Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:14:44 +0100 Subject: Jessica Shepherd/Guardian/GNL is out of the office. Message-ID: I will be out of the office starting 19/09/2009 and will not return until 05/10/2009. 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Schui : gabriel.schui at zpid.de TITLE: Computer Assisted Learning and its Impact on Educational Programs Within the Past Decade: A Bibliometric Overview of Research AUTHOR: Schui, G; Krampen, G SOURCE: BEYOND KNOWLEDGE: THE LEGACY OF COMPETENCE. 2008. p.115-116 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT (Beyond Knowledge: The Legacy of Competence Meaningful Computer-based Learning Environments Zumbach, J.; Schwartz, N.; Seufert, T.; Kester, L. (Eds.) 2008, VIII, 312 p., Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-8826-1) ABSTRACT: With the increasing ubiquity of computers and the internet, and in light of recent debates on educational standards and how to achieve them, questions of using computer assisted learning (CAL) to improve the effectiveness and efficacy of competence acquisition are of increasing importance. We chose a bibliometric approach to show the research development of CAL and its application in educational contexts. For more comprehensive information on using bibliometric methods to map the literature of a research area, see Schui and Krampen 2007. AUTHOR ADDRESS: G Schui, Univ Trier, ZPID, D-54286 Trier, Germany From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Sep 22 11:43:02 2009 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:43:02 -0400 Subject: Wall HJ " Don't get skewed over by journal rankings" B E JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS & POLICY 9(1), Article 34, 2009 Message-ID: E-mail Addresses: wall at stls.frb.org AUTHOR(s): Wall HJ (Wall, Howard J.) TITLE : Don't Get Skewed Over by Journal Rankings SOURCE : B E JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS & POLICY Volume: 9 Issue: 1 Article Number: 34 Published: 2009 Abstract: Nearly all journal rankings in economics use some weighted average of citations to calculate a journal's impact. These rankings are often used, formally or informally, to help assess the publication success of individual economists or institutions. Although ranking methods and opinions are legion, scant attention has been paid to the usefulness of any ranking as representative of the many articles published in a journal. First, because the distributions of citations across articles within a journal are seriously skewed, and the skewness differs across journals, the appropriate measure of central tendency is the median rather than the mean. Second, large shares of articles in the highest-ranked journals are cited less frequently than typical articles in much-lower-ranked journals. Reprint Address: Wall, HJ (reprint author), Fed Reserve Bank St Louis, POB 442, St Louis, MO 63166 USA Addresses: 1. Fed Reserve Bank St Louis, St Louis, MO 63166 USA E-mail Addresses: wall at stls.frb.org Publisher: BERKELEY ELECTRONIC PRESS, 2809 TELEGRAPH AVENUE, STE 202, BERKELEY, CA 94705 USA REFERENCES: 1. 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WALL HJ 2009014A FED RES BAN From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Tue Sep 22 15:27:49 2009 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:27:49 -0400 Subject: Herther NK "Research evaluation and citation analysis: key issues and implications " Electronic Library 27(3):361-375, 2009 Message-ID: E-Mail Address: n-hert at umn.edu TITLE : Research evaluation and citation analysis: key issues and implications AUTHOR (s): Herther NK (Herther, Nancy K.) SOURCE: ELECTRONIC LIBRARY Volume: 27 Issue: 3 Pages: 361-375 Published: 2009 ABSTRACT: Purpose - Citation and ranking information are becoming key aspects of knowledge management in academic and research institutions. By examining changing user needs and products, this paper aims to encourage information professionals to better understand and manage these resources and better respond to user needs. Design/methodology/approach - Literature reviews, work with faculty clients and initial product testing are used to present coherent information on the current climate and practice of competitive analysis of researchers and their institutions. Findings - As more sources for citation information have become available - even many scholarly databases today offering cited reference data - the need to identify, access and manage these resources is becoming acute. Information professionals need to become more proactive in their strategies to support these applications and users. Originality/value - This article builds on previous analyses of the roles and nature of citation analysis in research institutions and examines potential new roles and contributions that information professionals can take on to better serve their users. Reprint Address: Herther, NK (reprint author), Univ Minnesota Lib, Minneapolis, MN USA Addresses: 1. Univ Minnesota Lib, Minneapolis, MN USA E-mail Addresses: n-hert at umn.edu Publisher: EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED, HOWARD HOUSE, WAGON LANE, BINGLEY BD16 1WA, W YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND IDS Number: 481EO ISSN: 0264-0473 DOI: 10.1108/02640470910966835 REFERENCES: 1. *ALL CONS GROUP MEAS IMP PUBL FUND R : 2005 2. *COMM FUT HIGH ED TEST LEAD CHART FUT : 2006 3. *MOD LANG ASS AM MLA TASK FORC EV SCH : 2006 4. *THOMS SCI ESS SCI IND : 2008 5. *THOMS SCI J CIT REP : 2008 6. ABBASI K BRIT MED J 329 : 867 2004 7. ADAM D The counting house NATURE 415 : 726 2002 8. BATAILLE GM FACULTY CAREER PATHS : 2006 9. BENSMAN SJ Garfield and the impact factor ANNUAL REVIEW OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 41 : 93 2007 10. BOLLAG B CHRON HIGHER EDUC 52 : A40 2006 11. BORGMAN CL Scholarly communication and bibliometrics ANNUAL REVIEW OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 36 : 3 2002 12. 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WILSON CS, ANN REV INFORMATION 34 : 3 2001 90. WILSON P, The future of research in our field, INFORMATION SCIENCE : 319 1996 91. YOUNGEN GK, Citation patterns to traditional and electronic preprints in the published literature , COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES 59 : 448 1998 92. ZHAO DZ, Citation analysis using scientific publications on the Web as data source: A case study in the XML research area SCIENTOMETRICS 54 : 449 2002 From katy at INDIANA.EDU Wed Sep 23 11:16:12 2009 From: katy at INDIANA.EDU (Katy Borner) Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:16:12 -0400 Subject: Network Workbench Tool 1.0.0 release Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Sep 25 16:34:49 2009 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (=?windows-1252?Q?Eugene_Garfield?=) Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:34:49 -0400 Subject: Vinkler P "The pi-index: a new indicator for assessing scientific impact " Journal of Information Science 35(5):602-612, October 2009 Message-ID: e-MAIL: pvinkler at chemres.hu TITLE : The pi-index: a new indicator for assessing scientific impact AUTHOR : Vinkler P (Vinkler, Peter)1 SOURCE : JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE Volume: 35 Issue: 5 Pages: 602-612 Published: OCT 2009 ABSTRACT: There are several simple and sophisticated scientometric indicators generally applied in the literature (e.g. total number of publications and citations, citations per journal paper, relative citedness indexes, Hirsch index, etc.), which may characterize the publications of scientists both qualitatively and quantitatively. The calculation methods generally use data referring to the total set of papers studied. Scientific progress, however, may be attributed primarily to information in the highly cited publications. Therefore, a new indicator (pi-index) is suggested for comparative assessment of scientists active in similar subject fields. The pi-index is equal to one hundredth of the number of citations obtained to the top square root of the total number of journal papers ('elite set of papers') ranked by the decreasing number of citations. The relation of the pi-index to other indexes and its dependence on the field is studied, using data of journal papers of 'highly cited researchers'. Reprint Address: Vinkler, P (reprint author), , POB 17, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary Addresses: 1. Hungarian Acad Sci, Chem Res Ctr, H-1051 Budapest, Hungary E-mail Addresses: pvinkler at chemres.hu Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, 1 OLIVERS YARD, 55 CITY ROAD, LONDON EC1Y 1SP, ENGLAND IDS Number: 494GX ISSN: 0165-5515 DOI: 10.1177/0165551509103601 REFERENCES: 1. 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VANRAAN AFJ - Comparison of the Hirsch-index with standard bibliometric indicators and with peer judgment for 147 chemistry research groups SCIENTOMETRICS 67 : 491 DOI 10.1556/Scient.67.2006.3.10 2006 25. VINKLER P - EXCELLENCE EMERGENCE : 274 2008 26. VINKLER P Characterization of the impact of sets of scientific papers: The Garfield (Impact) Factor JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 55 : 431 DOI 10.1002/asi.10391 2004 27. VINKLER P Eminence of scientists in the light of the h-index and other scientometric indicators JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE 33 : 481 DOI 10.1177/0165551506072165 2007 28. VINKLER P The institutionalization of scientific information: A scientometric model (ISI-S model) LIBRARY TRENDS 50 : 553 2002 29. VINKLER P - SCIENTOMETR IN PRESS 79 : 2009 30. VINKLER P An attempt for defining some basic categories of scientometrics and classifying the indicators of evaluative scientometrics SCIENTOMETRICS 50 : 539 2001