eight papers on various aspects of scientometrics.
Eugene Garfield
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TITLE: Scientometrics of big science: a case study of research
in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Zhang, JA; Vogeley, MS; Chen, CM
SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 86 (1). JAN 2011. p.1-14 SPRINGER,
DORDRECHT
KEYWORDS: Bibliometric; Entropy analysis; Publication analysis;
Sloan Digital Sky Survey; Large-scale scientific project
KEYWORDS+: ASTRONOMICAL PUBLICATIONS; TRENDS
ABSTRACT: Large-scale scientific projects have become a major
impetus of scientific advances. But few studies have specifically
analyzed how those projects bolster scientific research. We address this
question from a scientometrics perspective. By analyzing the
bibliographic records of papers relevant to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
(SDSS), we found that the SDSS helped scientists from many countries
further develop their own research; investigators initially formed large
research groups to tackle key problems, while later papers involved
fewer
authors; and the number of research topics increased but the diversity
of
topics remains stable. Furthermore, the entropy analysis method has
proven valuable in terms of analyzing patterns of research topics at a
macroscopic level.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: JA Zhang, Drexel Univ, Coll Informat Sci & Technol, 3141
Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
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TITLE: Is there a 'gender gap' in authorship of the main
Brazilian psychiatric journals at the beginning of the
21st century?
(Article, English)
AUTHOR: Mendlowicz, MV; Coutinho, ESF; Laks, J; Fontenelle, LF;
Valenca, AM; Berger, W; Figueira, I; de Aguiar, GA
SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 86 (1). JAN 2011. p.27-37 SPRINGER,
DORDRECHT
KEYWORDS: Authorship; Gender gap; Scientometrics; Bibliometrics;
Psychiatry
KEYWORDS+: SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION; FEMALE AUTHORSHIP;
MENTAL-HEALTH;
3 DECADES; SCIENCE; WOMEN; PUBLICATIONS
ABSTRACT: The aim of this study was to investigate the existence
of
a "gender gap" in the authorship of the four most important
peer-reviewed
psychiatric journals in Brazil and to quantify its magnitude. In
addition, we examined the patterns of change in this gap during the
period extending from 2001 to 2008 and variations according to the total
number of authors, the type of article (original vs. non-original
studies), and the journals themselves. A total of 1,036 articles were
analyzed. We found that the proportion of female overall participation
has increased from 2001 to 2008. Nevertheless, the incremental rate was
accounted mostly by the growth of the participation in non-original
articles. While the average annual increment for original articles was
virtually null (.01%), for the non-original articles the corresponding
figure was 3.7%. We also found that the chance of a woman being first
author was about three times greater in original papers as compared to
non-original ones at the beginning of the study period; this
differential
declined by 11% per year during this period. A different pattern emerged
from the analysis of female last authorship. Year of publication and
type
of study were still associated with the chance of a woman being the last
author but without interaction. Further, the journals themselves were
found to be related with female last authorship: the chance of a woman
being the last author in an article published in the Revista Brasileira
de Psiquiatria was significantly smaller than in the other three
journals. Our findings indicate clearly that some progress in being
achieved in eliminating the gender gap also in field of Psychiatry and
highlight the need for further research in this area.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: MV Mendlowicz, Univ Fed Fluminense MSM UFF, Dept
Psychiat &
Mental Hlth, Rua Marques Parana,303-3 Andar Predio
Anexo,
BR-24030215 Niteroi, RJ, Brazil
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TITLE: A made-to-measure indicator for cross-disciplinary
bibliometric ranking of researchers performance
(Article, English)
AUTHOR: Claro, J; Costa, CAV
SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 86 (1). JAN 2011. p.113-123 SPRINGER,
DORDRECHT
SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569
2005;
BIBLIOMETR* item_title
KEYWORDS: Bibliometric indicators; Research performance; Cross-
disciplinarity; Rankings
KEYWORDS+: INDIVIDUALS; IMPACT; INDEX
ABSTRACT: This paper presents and discusses a new bibliometric
indicator of research performance, designed with the fundamental concern
of enabling cross-disciplinary comparisons. The indicator, called x-
index, compares a researcher's output to a reference set of research
output from top researchers, identified in the journals where the
researcher has published. It reflects publication quantity and quality,
uses a moderately sized data set, and works with a more refined
definition of scientific fields. x-index was developed to rank
researchers in a scientific excellence award in the Faculty of
Engineering of the University of Porto. The data set collected for the
2009 edition of the award is used to study the indicator's features and
design choices, and provides the basis for a discussion of its
advantages
and limitations.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: J Claro, Univ Porto, INESC Porto, Fac Engn, Rua Dr
Roberto
Frias S-N, P-4200465 Oporto, Portugal
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TITLE: Impact evaluation of the voluntary early retirement
policy on research and technology outputs of the
faculties of science in
Morocco (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Bouabid, H; Dalimi, M; ElMajid, Z
SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 86 (1). JAN 2011. p.125-132 SPRINGER,
DORDRECHT
SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005
KEYWORDS: Public policy; Metrics; Research and technology outputs;
Evaluation; Morocco
KEYWORDS+: H-INDEX; HIRSCH-INDEX; PUBLICATION; INDICATORS;
SCIENTISTS; PROFESSORS; CHEMISTRY; PATENT
ABSTRACT: Scientometric indicators or science metrics,
conventional
and derived ones, are used in ex-post evaluating of a government policy
with impact on research system. Publications, citations, h-index,
Glanzel
model, and patents are applied in both micro and meso levels. This
provides useful insight into the impact of the voluntary early
retirement
policy on research and technological outputs of the faculties of science
in Morocco and consequently on the overall Morocco's research system.
The
use of these metrics showed that the effect of the initiative was quite
limited by affecting an average of 8% of the professor staffs of these
institutions. Furthermore, each professor benefiting from this
initiative
had produced an average of 3.7 publications indexed in SCI in all his
(her) career. The few number of the publications attributed to these
professors had been gradually decreasing even 6 years before the
initiative. No specific scientific field had intensively been struck.
The
findings also support that these professors were in general more
'author'
than 'inventor'. Inventor-professor institutions were likely more
affected by the initiative. By means of these metrics, even if the
initiative had not contributed to rejuvenate the professor-staffs of the
faculties of science in Morocco, would nevertheless be a stimulus of
their research system with respect to their scientometric indicators.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: H Bouabid, Univ Ibn Tofail, BP 133, Kenitra 14000,
Morocco
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TITLE: Structure and infrastructure of infectious agent
research
literature: SARS (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Kostoff, RN; Morse, SA
SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 86 (1). JAN 2011. p.195-209 SPRINGER,
DORDRECHT
SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; SWANSON DR rauth;
GARFIELD E J CHEM INF COMP SCI 25:170 1985
KEYWORDS: Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS); Coronavirus;
Infectious diseases; Text mining; Bibliometrics;
Citation
analysis
KEYWORDS+: DATABASE TOMOGRAPHY; DISCOVERY LRD; BIBLIOMETRICS; COV;
CHINA
ABSTRACT: Text mining was used to extract technical intelligence
from the open source global SARS research literature. A SARS-focused
query was applied to the Science Citation Index (SCI) (SCI 2008)
database
for the period 1998-early 2008. The SARS research literature
infrastructure (prolific authors, key journals/institutions/countries,
most cited authors/journals/documents) was obtained using bibliometrics,
and the SARS research literature technical structure (hierarchical
taxonomy) was obtained using computational linguistics/document
clustering.
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TITLE: Analysis of a number and type of publications that
editors publish in their own journals: case study of
scholarly journals
in Croatia (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Bosnjak, L; Puljak, L; Vukojevic, K; Marusic, A
SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 86 (1). JAN 2011. p.227-233 SPRINGER,
DORDRECHT
SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNALS item_title
KEYWORDS: Journal editors; Publishing; Conflict of interest;
Guidelines for authors; Transparency
KEYWORDS+: INSTRUCTIONS; AUTHORS
ABSTRACT: To assess the publication practices of editors in their
own journals, we analysed the number of articles that Croatian editors
published in the journals they edit. From 2005 to 2008, 256 decision-
making editors of 180 journals published a total of 887 publications in
their own journals. Out of these, 332 were relevant for their academic
promotion. Only 18 editors published 5 or more articles in their own
journals. A single journal had regulations for self-publishing in the
instructions for authors. Although the majority of editors did not
misuse
their own journals for scientific publishing and academic promotion,
there is a need for greater transparency of the declaration and
management of editorial conflict of interest in academic and scholarly
journals.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Marusic, Univ Split, Dept Res Methodol, Sch Med,
Soltanska 2, Split 21000, Croatia
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TITLE: Assessing What Distinguishes Highly Cited from
Less-Cited
Papers Published in Interfaces (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Hamrick, TA; Fricker, RD Jr; Brown, GG
SOURCE: INTERFACES 40 (6). DEC 10 2010. p.454-464 INFORMS,
HANOVER
SEARCH TERM(S): CRONIN B rauth; GARFIELD E rauth;
GROSS PLK SCIENCE 66:385
1927;
HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569
2005;
GARFIELD E JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 295:90 2006
KEYWORDS: citation; bibliometrics; impact; impact factor
KEYWORDS+: CITING BEHAVIOR; OLD PAPERS; CITATION; REASONS;
ABSTRACT: We evaluate what distinguishes a highly cited Interfaces
paper from other Interfaces papers that are cited less often. Citations
are used to acknowledge prior relevant research, to document sources of
information, and to substantiate claims. As such, citations play a key
role in the evolution of knowledge. More recently, citations are also
being used to quantify the impact of papers and journals, a practice not
without controversy, but one that motivates our work here. We find that
Edelman competition papers, longer papers, tutorials, papers with larger
numbers of references to prior literature, and papers with a larger
number of "callouts" (a feature no longer used by Interfaces) tend to
have a higher number of citations.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: TA Hamrick, USN, Postgrad Sch, Monterey, CA 93943 USA
TITLE: An auction market for journal articles (Article,
English)
AUTHOR: Prufer, J; Zetland, D
SOURCE: PUBLIC CHOICE 145 (3-4). DEC 2010. p.379-403 SPRINGER,
DORDRECHT
KEYWORDS: Academic journals; Academic; productivity; Market design
KEYWORDS+: CONSTRAINED BIDDERS; SUBMISSIONS
ABSTRACT: We recommend that an auction market replace the current
system for submitting academic papers and show a strict Pareto-
improvement in equilibrium Besides the benefit of speed, this mechanism
Increases the average quality of articles and journals and rewards
editors and referees for their effort The "academic dollar' proceeds
from
papers sold at auction go to authors, editors and referees of cited
articles This nonpecuniary income indicates the academic impact of an
article facilitating decisions on tenure and promotion This auction
market does not require more work of editors
AUTHOR ADDRESS: D Zetland, Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Agr & Resource
Econ,
Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
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