From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Apr 1 13:59:28 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 13:59:28 -0400 Subject: Karageorgopoulos, DE; Lamnatou, V; Sardi, TA; Gkegkes, ID; Falagas, ME. 2011. Temporal Trends in the Impact Factor of European versus USA Biomedical Journals. PLOS ONE 6 (2): art. no.-e16300. Message-ID: Karageorgopoulos, DE; Lamnatou, V; Sardi, TA; Gkegkes, ID; Falagas, ME. 2011. Temporal Trends in the Impact Factor of European versus USA Biomedical Journals. PLOS ONE 6 (2): art. no.-e16300. Author Full Name(s): Karageorgopoulos, Drosos E.; Lamnatou, Vasiliki; Sardi, Thalia A.; Gkegkes, Ioannis D.; Falagas, Matthew E. Language: English Document Type: Article KeyWords Plus: PUBLICATION Abstract: Background: The impact factors of biomedical journals tend to rise over time. We sought to assess the trend in the impact factor, during the past decade, of journals published on behalf of United States (US) and European scientific societies, in four select biomedical subject categories (Biology, Cell Biology, Critical Care Medicine, and Infectious Diseases). Methods: We identified all journals included in the above-mentioned subject categories of Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports (R) for the years 1999, 2002, 2005, and 2008. We selected those that were published on behalf of US or European scientific societies, as documented in journal websites. Results: We included 167 journals (35 in the subject category of Biology, 79 in Cell Biology, 27 in Critical Care Medicine, and 26 in Infectious Diseases). Between 1999 and 2008, the percentage increase in the impact factor of the European journals was higher than for the US journals (73.7 +/- 110.0% compared with 39.7 +/- 70.0%, p = 0.049). Regarding specific subject categories, the percentage change in the factor of the European journals tended to be higher than the respective US journals for Cell Biology (61.7% versus 16.3%), Critical Care Medicine (212.4% versus 65.4%), Infectious Diseases (88.3% versus 48.7%), whereas the opposite was observed for journals in Biology (41.0% versus 62.5%). Conclusion: Journals published on behalf of European scientific societies, in select biomedical fields, may tend to close the "gap" in impact factor compared with those of US societies. What's Already Known About This Topic? The impact factors of biomedical journals tend to rise through years. The leading positions in productivity in biomedical research are held by developed countries, including those from North America and Western Europe. What Does This Article Add? The journals from European biomedical scientific societies tended, over the past decade, to increase their impact factor more than the respective US journals. Addresses: [Karageorgopoulos, Drosos E.; Lamnatou, Vasiliki; Sardi, Thalia A.; Gkegkes, Ioannis D.; Falagas, Matthew E.] Alfa Inst Biomed Sci, Athens, Greece; [Falagas, Matthew E.] Henry Dunant Hosp, Dept Med, Athens, Greece; [Falagas, Matthew E.] Tufts Univ, Sch Med, Dept Med, Boston, MA 02111 USA Reprint Address: Karageorgopoulos, DE, Alfa Inst Biomed Sci, Athens, Greece. E-mail Address: m.falagas at aibs.gr ISSN: 1932-6203 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016300 fulltext: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.001630 0 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Apr 1 14:04:55 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 14:04:55 -0400 Subject: Hamdaqa, M; Hamou-Lhadj, A. 2011. An approach based on citation analysis to support effective handling of regulatory compliance. FUTURE GENERATION COMPUTER SYSTEMS-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GRID COMPUTING-THEORY METHODS AND APPLICATIONS 27 (4): 395-410 Message-ID: Hamdaqa, M; Hamou-Lhadj, A. 2011. An approach based on citation analysis to support effective handling of regulatory compliance. FUTURE GENERATION COMPUTER SYSTEMS-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GRID COMPUTING- THEORY METHODS AND APPLICATIONS 27 (4): 395-410. Author Full Name(s): Hamdaqa, Mohammad; Hamou-Lhadj, Abdelwahab Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Software engineering; Regulatory compliance; IT Compliance; Citation analysis KeyWords Plus: WEB; DATABASE Abstract: For most global software companies with a client base that covers a large number of regulated businesses, regulatory compliance represents a significant challenge. The world of compliance has become increasingly complex due to the overwhelming number of regulations, laws, and standards that are introduced every year. These laws may vary significantly in their scope and applicability depending on the industry sector and the geographical area of the end client. In addition, many of these laws are created by different legislative bodies resulting in overlapping and sometimes conflicting provisions. To further complicate matters, laws are often created based on existing ones, forming a complex set of interdependent rules where changes made in one place can propagate to affect, sometimes in an inconsistent manner, many other laws. There is clearly a need to investigate techniques and tools that can alleviate IT solution providers from the complexity of dealing with regulatory compliance. In this paper, we present an approach and a supporting tool that aim to facilitate the analysis of multiple regulations. Our approach is based on the exploration of the citation relationship that links various laws together. The citation relationship is represented by a citation graph that can be used by an analyst to navigate through the provisions of various interrelated laws to uncover overlaps and possible conflicts or to simply understand the content of specific law documents. We also present a tool called CompDSS (Compliance Decision Support System) that supports our approach. Finally, we show the effectiveness of the presented approach by applying it to three regulations, namely, SOX, HIPAA, and GLBA. Crown Copyright (C) 2010 Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Addresses: [Hamdaqa, Mohammad; Hamou-Lhadj, Abdelwahab] Concordia Univ, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, Montreal, PQ H3G 1M8, Canada Reprint Address: Hamou-Lhadj, A, Concordia Univ, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, 1455 Maisonneuve W Blvd, Montreal, PQ H3G 1M8, Canada. E-mail Address: m_hamdaq at ece.concordia.ca; abdelw at ece.concordia.ca ISSN: 0167-739X DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2010.09.007 URL (not open access): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2010.09.007 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Apr 1 14:13:23 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 14:13:23 -0400 Subject: Hall, CM. 2011. Publish and perish? Bibliometric analysis, journal ranking and the assessment of research quality in tourism. TOURISM MANAGEMENT 32 (1): 16-27. Message-ID: Hall, CM. 2011. Publish and perish? Bibliometric analysis, journal ranking and the assessment of research quality in tourism. TOURISM MANAGEMENT 32 (1): 16- 27. Author Full Name(s): Hall, C. Michael Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Journal impact; Journal prestige; Journal ranking; SCImago; Scopus; Institutional context; Neoliberalism; Economization KeyWords Plus: RESEARCH ASSESSMENT EXERCISE; EVALUATING RESEARCH PERFORMANCE; INSTITUTIONAL CONTRIBUTORS; SOCIAL-SCIENCES; UNITED- KINGDOM; INDICATORS; HOSPITALITY; MANAGEMENT; METRICS; IMPACT Abstract: Bibliometric analysis is important in tourism as a result of external evaluation of research quality, interest in impact and prestige factors, and study of the field's development. Although bibliometric analysis can be applied to any type of publication the main focus is on journals. Five approaches to the evaluation of journal quality are identified: stated preference, citation-based, derived, hybrid, and expert panels. Different productivity, impact and hybrid metrics are used to identify rankings of tourism journals from Scopus/SCImago data, compared with a derived RAE ranking, and three expert panel rankings. The different rankings reinforces that bibliometric understanding of scientific impact is a multi-dimensional construct. However, bibliometric analysis does not occur in an institutional and policy vacuum. The institutional context of government and private organization evaluations of research quality increasingly determine which metrics are applied, with subsequent effects on performance evaluation, career development and future direction of tourism- studies. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Addresses: [Hall, C. Michael] Univ Canterbury, Coll Business & Econ, Dept Management, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand; [Hall, C. Michael] Univ Oulu, Dept Geog, Oulu, Finland; [Hall, C. Michael] Linnaeus Univ, Linnaeus Univ Sch Business & Econ, Kalmar, Sweden Reprint Address: Hall, CM, Univ Canterbury, Coll Business & Econ, Dept Management, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand. E-mail Address: michael.hall at canterbury.ac.nz ISSN: 0261-5177 DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2010.07.001 fulltext: http://canterbury- nz.academia.edu/CMichaelHall/Papers/199361/Publish_and_Perish_Bibliometric_A nalysis_Journal_Ranking_and_the_Assessment_of_Research_Quality_in_Tourism From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Apr 1 14:15:22 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 14:15:22 -0400 Subject: Marian, L; Le Meur, JY; Rajman, M; Vesely, M. 2010. Citation Graph Based Ranking in Invenio. RESEARCH AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY FOR DIGITAL LIBRARIES 6273: 236-247 Message-ID: Marian, L; Le Meur, JY; Rajman, M; Vesely, M. 2010. Citation Graph Based Ranking in Invenio. RESEARCH AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY FOR DIGITAL LIBRARIES 6273: 236-247. edited by Lalmas, M; Jose, J; Rauber, A; Sebastiani, F; Frommholz, I. presented at 14th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries in Glasgow, SCOTLAND, SEP 06-10, 2010. Author Full Name(s): Marian, Ludmila; Le Meur, Jean-Yves; Rajman, Martin; Vesely, Martin Book series title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science Language: English Document Type: Proceedings Paper Author Keywords: CDS; Invenio; Inspire; citation graph; PageRank; external citations; time decay Abstract: Invenio is the web-based integrated digital library system developed at CERN. Within this framework, we present four types of ranking models based on the citation graph that complement the simple approach based on citation counts: time-dependent citation counts, a relevancy ranking which extends the Page Rank model, a time-dependent ranking which combines the freshness of citations with Page Rank and a ranking that takes into consideration the external citations. We present our analysis and results obtained on two main data sets: Inspire and CERN Document Server. Our main contributions are: (i) a study of the currently available ranking methods based on the citation graph; (ii) the development of new ranking methods that correct some of the identified limitations of the current methods such as treating all citations of equal importance, not taking time into account or considering the citation graph complete; (iii) a detailed study of the key parameters for these ranking methods. Addresses: [Marian, Ludmila; Le Meur, Jean-Yves] European Org Nucl Res, CH- 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland E-mail Address: ludmila.marian at cern.ch; jean-Yves.le.meur at cern.ch; martin.rajman at epfl.ch; martin.vesely at epfl.ch ISSN: 0302-9743 ISBN: 978-3-642-15463-8 PDF: http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1295598/files/CERN-IT-2010-001.pdf From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Apr 1 14:18:29 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 14:18:29 -0400 Subject: Gipp, B; Taylor, A; Beel, J. 2010. Link Proximity Analysis - Clustering Websites by Examining Link Proximity. RESEARCH AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY FOR DIGITAL LIBRARIES 6273: 449-452 Message-ID: Gipp, B; Taylor, A; Beel, J. 2010. Link Proximity Analysis - Clustering Websites by Examining Link Proximity. RESEARCH AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY FOR DIGITAL LIBRARIES 6273: 449-452. edited by Lalmas, M; Jose, J; Rauber, A; Sebastiani, F; Frommholz, I.presented at 14th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries in Glasgow, SCOTLAND, SEP 06-10, 2010. Author Full Name(s): Gipp, Bela; Taylor, Adriana; Beel, Joeran Book series title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science Language: English Document Type: Proceedings Paper Author Keywords: Web page; Website; clustering; Network Analysis; Link Analysis; Citation Proximity Analysis KeyWords Plus: COCITATION Abstract: This research-in-progress paper presents a new approach called Link Proximity Analysis (LPA) for identifying related web pages based on link analysis. In contrast to current techniques, which ignore intra-page link analysis, the one put forth here examines the relative positioning of links to each other within websites. The approach uses the fact that a clear correlation between the proximity of links to each other and the subject-relatedness of the linked websites can be observed on nearly every web page. By statistically analyzing this relationship and measuring the amount of sentences, paragraphs, etc. between two links, related websites can be automatically, identified as a first study has proven. Addresses: [Gipp, Bela; Taylor, Adriana; Beel, Joeran] UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA USA E-mail Address: gipp at berkeley.edu; aitaylor at berkeley.edu; beel at berkeley.edu ISSN: 0302-9743 ISBN: 978-3-642-15463-8 pre-print PDF: http://www.sciplore.org/publications/2010- Link_Proximity_Analysis_-_preprint.pdf From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Apr 1 14:22:29 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 14:22:29 -0400 Subject: Benoit, K; Marsh, M. 2009. A Relative Impact Ranking of Political Studies In Ireland. ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL REVIEW 40 (3): 269-298 Message-ID: Benoit, K; Marsh, M. 2009. A Relative Impact Ranking of Political Studies In Ireland. ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL REVIEW 40 (3): 269-298. Author Full Name(s): Benoit, Kenneth; Marsh, Michael Language: English Document Type: Article KeyWords Plus: WEB-OF-SCIENCE; SOCIAL-SCIENCES Abstract: Against a background of the Irish government's concerns with Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and the British government's wishes for a more quantitative Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), our study conducts a relative impact assessment of the study of politics, government, political science, and international relations in Ireland. Impact is measured as citations from the publications of permanent staff in eight Irish politics departments, based on data compiled in April 2008 from two leading academic indexes - ISI's Web of Science and Scopus - as well as the now popular Google Scholar. We discuss some of the criticisms that naturally arise in a study of this nature. Then, following similar exercises in other disciplines (e. g. economics), we use the impact measures to compare and rank individual scholars as well as departments. We also explore the extent to which the choice of different indexes, and different measures, influences the results that we obtain. While there are differences, in particular between indexes based purely on articles and those that access books and other material, the results from the different indexes are strongly correlated. Addresses: [Benoit, Kenneth; Marsh, Michael] Trinity Coll Dublin, Dublin, Ireland Reprint Address: Benoit, K, Trinity Coll Dublin, Dept Polit Sci, Dublin, Ireland. ISSN: 0012-9984 PDF: http://www.esr.ie/Vol40_3/02Benoit.pdf From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Fri Apr 1 14:25:02 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 14:25:02 -0400 Subject: Chang, CC; Ho, YS. 2010. Bibliometric analysis of financial crisis research. AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT 4 (18): 3898-3910 Message-ID: Chang, CC; Ho, YS. 2010. Bibliometric analysis of financial crisis research. AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT 4 (18): 3898-3910. Author Full Name(s): Chang, Chong-Chuo; Ho, Yuh-Shan Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Scientometrics; crisis; research trend; web of science; SSCI KeyWords Plus: CURRENCY CRISES; DISTRIBUTIONS Abstract: The bibliometric analytical approach has not yet been applied in financial crisis research. The aim of the study was to apply bibliometric analysis to financial crisis publications in 362 journals listed in the four ISI subject categories of economics, finance business, business, and management in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI). Analyzed parameters were publication language, document type, publication output, authorship, publication patterns, subject category distribution, region, country, publication institute, most frequently cited articles, and hot issues. This study demonstrates that the amount of research increased markedly during financial crises, especially during the Asian financial crisis and global financial crisis. Furthermore, the most frequently cited articles and topics associated with the currency crisis, policy, and banking crisis were popular during the Asian financial crisis and global financial crisis. Addresses: [Ho, Yuh-Shan] Asia Univ, Trend Res Ctr, Taichung 41354, Taiwan; [Chang, Chong-Chuo] Asia Univ, Dept Finance, Coll Management, Taichung 41354, Taiwan Reprint Address: Ho, YS, Asia Univ, Trend Res Ctr, Taichung 41354, Taiwan. E-mail Address: ysho at asia.edu.tw ISSN: 1993-8233 PDF: http://www.academicjournals.org/ajbm/pdf/pdf2010/18Dec/Chang%20and%20H o.pdf From nouruzi at GMAIL.COM Fri Apr 1 17:07:36 2011 From: nouruzi at GMAIL.COM (Noruzi, Alireza) Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 23:07:36 +0200 Subject: Webology: Volume 7, Number 2, 2010 Message-ID: Dear All, apologies for cross-posting. We are pleased to inform you that Vol. 7, No. 2 of Webology, an OPEN ACCESS bi-annual journal, is published. ------------------ Webology: Volume 7, Number 2, 2010 TOC: http://www.webology.org/2010/v7n2/toc.html This issue contains: ----------------------------------------- Articles - Library 2.0, information and digital literacies in the light of the contradictory nature of Web 2.0 -- Tibor Koltay -- Keywords: Information literacy; Digital literacy; Amateur content; Professional content; Public libraries; Academic libraries -- http://www.webology.org/2010/v7n2/a78.html - Exploitation of social media among university students: A case study -- Farzana Shafique, Mushahid Anwar, Rubina Bhatti, & Mahe Bushra -- Keywords: Social media; Social networks; Web 2.0; University students; The Islamia University of Bahawalpur; Pakistan -- http://www.webology.org/2010/v7n2/a79.html - Gender-specific information search behavior -- Parinaz Maghferat & Wolfgang G. Stock -- Keywords: Information search behavior; Search engine; Information seeking behavior; Empirical gender study; Gender differences; Information retrieval -- http://www.webology.org/2010/v7n2/a80.html - Perceptions, awareness and acceptance of library 2.0 applications among librarians at the International Islamic University Malaysia -- Yushiana Mansor & Sufy Rabea Adawiyah Idris -- Keywords: Web 2.0; Library 2.0; University libraries; Malaysia -- http://www.webology.org/2010/v7n2/a81.html ----------------------------------------- Call for Papers -- http://www.webology.org/callforpapers.html ========================================= Best regards, Alireza -------------------- Alireza Noruzi, Ph.D. Editor-in-Chief of Webology Website: www.webology.org ~ The great aim of Open Access journals is knowledge sharing. ~ ~ Scientific knowledge is the result of the knowledge sharing and exchange of experiences. ~ From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Fri Apr 1 19:24:23 2011 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 18:24:23 -0500 Subject: Measuring the impact of research by James King of NIH Message-ID: Email address: James.King at nih.gov "Measuring the impact of research" by James King . Subtitle: Several tools have been developed to help librarians evaluate the impact of research conducted by in-house scientists. INFORMATION OUTLOOK V.15 no. 2, p.17-19, March 2011. Information Outlook is the magazine of the Special Libraries Association. The author is an information architect at the NIH in Bethesda, MD working for the NIH library in the Office of Research services. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The bumps in the curve indicate that this is deviant data. I mention this because in a recent preprint entitled "Publish or Patent: Bibliometric evidence for empirical trade-offs in national funding strategies" (http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1102/1102.3047.pdf), Robert D. Shelton and I reported on a revision of our previous predictions about this change in the trend. Previously, one had to assume exponential growth in the percentage share of China, but since a number of years linear growth provides the better fit: Description: cid:image004.png at 01CBF12F.309E78C0 Figure 5: Forecast of percentage world share using extrapolation of a best fit based on data for 2003-2010 (cf. Leydesdorff & Wagner, 2009a, Figure 1, at p. 356). This is based on using all so-called "citable items" in the Science Citation Index (Expanded edition on the Web-of-Science), that is: articles, proceedings papers, reviews, and letters (measured on January 22, 2011, and thefore including 2010 data). I assume that a similar representation could be made using Scopus data, but Elsevier and/or the Royal Society for one reason or another prefered to use "Elsevier's publication data". But even this forecast is a bit dubious (as are all forecasts). The change from exponential growth to linear growth indicates a change in the underlying mechanism. Linear growth is well known in studies of this database (the SCI) and tends to indicate that there is an increasing tendency no longer to produce within a national context, but increasingly internationally. This reserve capacity is thus mobilized. In a previous publication, Ping Zhou and I assumed that the exceptional (since exponential growth of China in the late 1990s and the first half the of the 2000s was due to the huge reservoir of Chinese academic manpower wishing to participate in internationally publishing. This acceleration seems now to be exhausted. A further bending of the curve for linear growth towards a plateau has always been observed in other cases (Spain, Korea, etc.). Ping also notes that the influx in academia in China is stagnating. Thus, the demographics and the marginal costs-given the competition-may be inhibiting factors in the next ten years. I thought that I should let this know given the media attention to the report of the Royal Society, and in order to inform this discussion. Best wishes, Loet _____ Loet Leydesdorff Professor, University of Amsterdam 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/ Visiting Professor, ISTIC, Beijing; Honorary Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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This is also made clear in the methodology section of the report (pg. 12): "Publication data are derived from Scopus, the world's largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Scopus contains over 41 million records across 18,000 journals and covers regional as well as international literature. Publication outputs in this report are defined as articles, reviews and conference papers published in these journals. Where we consider overall totals of publications, these include outputs in all disciplines." The report is also very clear on how this projection should be interpreted (pp. 43-44): "In terms of publications, the landscape is set to change even more dramatically if current trends continue, as can be seen in Figure 1.6. China has already overtaken the UK as the second leading producer of research publications, but some time before 2020 it is expected to surpass the USA. Projections vary, but a simple linear interpretation of Elsevier's publishing data suggests that this could take place as early as 2013. Of course, in practice, this will not follow a linear progression (we do not expect that the USA will decrease their share of global publications to nothing in the next 50 years), but the potential for China to match US output in terms of sheer numbers in the near to medium term is clear." Different methodologies can obviously yield very different results: in your own manuscript Figure 5 (pg. 27; which you reproduced below) gives a very different picture from Figure 6 (pg. 32), which is noted as "more useful" and that shows China surpassing the US in article share in 2015. A comprehensive, global report of the type of "Knowledge, Networks and Nations" is not trivial undertaking, and the data presented in it were analysed in depth over a period of almost 18 months prior to its final publication. For this reason, the final data point presented is current to 2008 only. It is not (yet) appropriate to use 2010 data for the calculation of article shares (as you have done in your follow-up message), since the data are not yet finished and may give false impressions. In Research Trends (www.researchtrends.com; Editor-in-Chief: Henk Moed), next week we will publish a fresh analysis using Scopus data up to and including 2009 reaffirming the findings in "Knowledge, Networks and Nations". The feature also draws on data from the 2010 NSF "Science and Engineering Indicators" report to show that - based on latest available data - the capacity-building (i.e. in manpower) that China has been focused on in recent years is showing no let-up, suggesting that at least this underlying driver of publication output will remain. Best wishes, Andrew Dr Andrew Plume |Associate Director - Scientometrics & Market Analysis |Research & Academic Relations Department|Elsevier |The Boulevard |Langford Lane |Kidlington |Oxford |OX5 1GB |UK |phone +44 (0)1865 843835 |mobile:+44 (0)7795970766 |fax: +44 (0)1865 843982 |a.plume at elsevier.com Elsevier Limited. Registered Office: The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford, OX5 1GB, United Kingdom, Registration No. 1982084 (England and Wales). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Sat Apr 2 13:01:09 2011 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 19:01:09 +0200 Subject: China and the Royal Society In-Reply-To: <4F1EB418DED58441B95F87EA9415F73F184637A4@ELSOXFEXCP27VA.science.regn.net> Message-ID: Dear Andrew, Thank you for this clarification. I was confused by the sentence "Elsevier's publication data" which I erroneously assumed to be different from Scopus because the latter also contains, for example, "Wiley's publication data", doesn't it? Anyhow, the curve then raises even more questions. I understand that you do not include letters, but this cannot make so much difference. I used the four citable items of the ISI database for reasons of comparability and the search string was: AFFILCOUNTRY(United States) AND (DOCTYPE(ar) OR DOCTYPE(re) OR DOCTYPE(le) OR DOCTYPE(cp)) AND PUBYEAR is 2008 Mutatis mutandis. The data are then: China United States world % China % USA 2000 44,537 305,768 1,159,205 3.84203 26.37739 2001 57,755 299,688 1,207,085 4.784667 24.82741 2002 57,102 305,358 1,246,514 4.580935 24.49696 2003 69,617 324,466 1,324,869 5.254633 24.49042 2004 102,093 306,898 1,464,399 6.971666 20.95727 2005 152,365 327,734 1,600,948 9.517174 20.47125 2006 179,780 348,400 1,702,704 10.5585 20.46157 2007 203,060 362,015 1,787,264 11.3615 20.25526 2008 236,564 372,357 1,848,046 12.80076 20.14869 2009 280,911 398,232 1,911,139 14.69862 20.83742 2010 305,600 443,687 1,879,200 16.26224 23.61042 The figure in my email of a few hours ago was based on this data. There is only weak correspondence with the data in your Figure 1.6 and the central inference of the Royal Society report is therefore not warranted. I look forward to the further explanation. Best wishes, Loet _____ Loet Leydesdorff Professor, University of Amsterdam 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: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Plume, Andrew (ELS-OXF) Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2011 6:27 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: [SIGMETRICS] China and the Royal Society Dear Loet, While I am sure readers of SIGMETRICS welcome this methodological discussion on extrapolating trends, as an analyst for Elsevier on the Royal Society report I would like to correct a misunderstanding in your post about the data used therein. The publication and citation data used throughout "Knowledge, Networks and Nations" are from Scopus and NOT just Elsevier journals as your post suggests. This is stated explicitly in footnote 155 (pg. 43) to Figure 1.6 you reproduced: "Analysis by Elsevier based on data from Scopus. This indicates a simple linear projection of the data." This is also made clear in the methodology section of the report (pg. 12): "Publication data are derived from Scopus, the world's largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Scopus contains over 41 million records across 18,000 journals and covers regional as well as international literature. Publication outputs in this report are defined as articles, reviews and conference papers published in these journals. Where we consider overall totals of publications, these include outputs in all disciplines." The report is also very clear on how this projection should be interpreted (pp. 43-44): "In terms of publications, the landscape is set to change even more dramatically if current trends continue, as can be seen in Figure 1.6. China has already overtaken the UK as the second leading producer of research publications, but some time before 2020 it is expected to surpass the USA. Projections vary, but a simple linear interpretation of Elsevier's publishing data suggests that this could take place as early as 2013. Of course, in practice, this will not follow a linear progression (we do not expect that the USA will decrease their share of global publications to nothing in the next 50 years), but the potential for China to match US output in terms of sheer numbers in the near to medium term is clear." Different methodologies can obviously yield very different results: in your own manuscript Figure 5 (pg. 27; which you reproduced below) gives a very different picture from Figure 6 (pg. 32), which is noted as "more useful" and that shows China surpassing the US in article share in 2015. A comprehensive, global report of the type of "Knowledge, Networks and Nations" is not trivial undertaking, and the data presented in it were analysed in depth over a period of almost 18 months prior to its final publication. For this reason, the final data point presented is current to 2008 only. It is not (yet) appropriate to use 2010 data for the calculation of article shares (as you have done in your follow-up message), since the data are not yet finished and may give false impressions. In Research Trends (www.researchtrends.com; Editor-in-Chief: Henk Moed), next week we will publish a fresh analysis using Scopus data up to and including 2009 reaffirming the findings in "Knowledge, Networks and Nations". The feature also draws on data from the 2010 NSF "Science and Engineering Indicators" report to show that - based on latest available data - the capacity-building (i.e. in manpower) that China has been focused on in recent years is showing no let-up, suggesting that at least this underlying driver of publication output will remain. Best wishes, Andrew Dr Andrew Plume |Associate Director - Scientometrics & Market Analysis |Research & Academic Relations Department|Elsevier |The Boulevard |Langford Lane |Kidlington |Oxford |OX5 1GB |UK |phone +44 (0)1865 843835 |mobile:+44 (0)7795970766 |fax: +44 (0)1865 843982 | a.plume at elsevier.com Elsevier Limited. Registered Office: The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford, OX5 1GB, United Kingdom, Registration No. 1982084 (England and Wales). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Quentin Figure 1 for Scopus data (articles, reviews, and proceedings papers): Figure 2 for WoS data (articles, reviews, proceedings papers, and letters ? however, the letters do not change the curves: Some notes: 1. The percentages for 2010 in the Scopus set are uncertain because this is based on publication years. In the WoS case, data collection was based on calendar years. 2. The USA is weaker represented in the Scopus data, and China is weaker in the ISI set; 3. The linear regression line does not fit the data in the case of the USA (r2 = 0.015); I added the quadratic regression line which has a fit of 0.876, but of course does not have a further interpretation for the extrapolation; 3. The differences between the two measurements are large (e.g., confidence intervals do not overlap); 4. Scopus data can indeed be used to legitimate the conclusions of the Royal Society report. Best wishes, Loet -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Students will receive this feedback well before the deadline for submissions to the ASIS&T Annual Meeting, so they can take the feedback into account prior to submitting to the 2011 Annual Meeting to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana in October 2011. *Purpose*** SIG/MET seeks to encourages the development and networking of all those interested in the measurement of information. It is holding this contest in order to promote amongst students the generation of new ideas and the conduct of new research in metric-related topics, including bibliometrics, scientometrics, informetrics, webometrics and related domains. *Eligibility*** The primary author must be a full-time student at the time the paper is submitted, irrespective of whether they are members of ASIS&T. Faculty advisors may be listed as co-authors, but the presentation must be made by the primary author. SIGMET reserves the right to request proof of enrollment as part of the submission and evaluation process. All submissions should be original and not have been published in a journal, or been accepted by a journal, or be in the process of being considered by a journal at the time they are submitted to this contest. *Theme*** Papers could discuss theories, methods, policies and case studies on different aspects of measurement of information production and use. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following core areas: ? Metric-Related Theory ? Methods and techniques ? Citation and co-citation analysis ? Indicators ? Webometrics ? Mapping & visualization ? Research policy ? Productivity & publications ? Journals, databases and electronic publications ? Collaboration/Co-authorship ? Patent analysis ? Knowledge and topic diffusion *Selection*** There will be a winner, runner-up and, depending on the quantity of strong papers, a number of commended papers. The reviewers will particularly reward well-written, original research that has potential for publication in a peer-reviewed journal or for presentation at a refereed conference.* * *Prizes*** The winner and runner-up will be awarded a one-year individual membership to ASIS&T and the winner will also be awarded a cash prize. In the case of multiple authors, the primary author will be awarded the ASIS&T membership. Primary authors of highly rated papers will be invited to submit a short biographical piece to the SIG/MET Newsletter. In addition, if SIG/MET holds a pre-conference workshop at the 2011 Annual Meeting, these primary authors will be invited to present their research at the poster session of this workshop. *Format*** The SIG/MET student paper contest committee requires that submissions are no longer than ten pages (including figures, tables and references) and follow the template of 2011 ASIS&T annual conference. 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Let's wait and see in June/July whether the situation was improved. Best wishes, Loet _____ Loet Leydesdorff Professor, University of Amsterdam 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/ Visiting Professor, ISTIC, Beijing; Honorary Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From geoffreypeters6 at GMAIL.COM Fri Apr 8 10:20:35 2011 From: geoffreypeters6 at GMAIL.COM (Geoffrey Peters) Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 15:20:35 +0100 Subject: Region/World data from SJR.com Message-ID: The data freely available at: http://www.scimagojr.com/ is very helpful. But I have recently noticed a discrepancy (either in my understanding in how the data is put together, or in the data itself). I?m interested if anybody has an explanation. It is possible to look at publication output at a regional level. In this report you get metrics such as #documents, #citable documents, #citations covering the period 1996- 2009. I understood this to represent, e.g. how many documents were published which included at least one author from a given region. I assume that the regional figures would be de-duped so as not to count collaborating researchers from different countries within the same region. You also have the corresponding figures at the world level, see below. Now while I could understand if the sum of the regional values were greater than the world totals (a paper from collaborating researchers from different regions would get counted in multiple regions), it appears that the sums of the regional values for #documents and #citable documents are actually lower than the world values. Is there a simple explanation for this? Is it simply that 1.3 million citable documents have no country data associated with them? 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I?m interested if anybody > has an explanation. > > It is possible to look at publication output at a regional level. In this > report you get metrics such as #documents, #citable documents, #citations > covering the period 1996- 2009. I understood this to represent, e.g. how > many documents were published which included at least one author from a > given region. I assume that the regional figures would be de-duped so as not > to count collaborating researchers from different countries within the same > region. You also have the corresponding figures at the world level, see > below. > > > > Now while I could understand if the sum of the regional values were greater > than the world totals (a paper from collaborating researchers from different > regions would get counted in multiple regions), it appears that the sums of > the regional values for #documents and #citable documents are actually > lower than the world values. Is there a simple explanation for this? 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As a result, the research involves diverse methodological approaches, including: * Mapping research dynamics using publications, patents and press data * Interviews of key actors on field dynamics, values, expectations * Survey techniques for exploring wider communities This work will be performed through six case studies of emergent technologies. Competences required: * Background in innovation studies or management, STS, or related (flexible) * Familiarity with quantitative data manipulation and visualisation (expected) * Training in interviewing (plus) * Interest in mixing / articulating quantitative and qualitative analyses Two post doctoral positions : ? one in Brighton (SPRU), one in Paris-Marne La Vall?e (LATTS), ? two years with about six months in the partner location ? up to 31 K?/year-32 KEuros/year (before tax) (abour 28KEuros/year for first postdoc) Applications should be sent by April 15th by e-mail including: ? Extended CV ? Two recommendation letters ? One article or conference paper Submission are to be made to Aurelie Delemarle from LATTS ( a.delemarle at esiee.fr) and Ismael Rafols from SPRU ( i.rafols at sussex.ac.uk), indicating preference for location (i.e. Brighton or Paris). Candidates will be asked to hold interviews in early-mid May in Brighton and/or Paris. Results will be announced by the end of May. SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research) is a world-leading department at the University of Sussex where research and high-level policy advice are combined with postgraduate teaching in science, technology, and innovation policy and management. Its highly interdisciplinary faculty addresses the analysis of the rate and direction of scientific change and innovation, the promotion and management of innovation, the regulation of technological risks, the search for effective energy policies and paths to a more sustainable society. SPRU researchers are prominent participants in debates concerning biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, nuclear power, climate change, technology in development and the roles of public and private research organisations. LATTS (a French acronym meaning ?research group on technology, territories and societies?), which was founded in 1985, is a joint research group of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS - http://www.cnrs.fr), the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chauss?es (ENPC, a top French engineering institute under the auspices of the French Ministry of Public Works - http://www.enpc.fr/) and the University of Marne-la-Vall?e ( http://www.univ-mlv.fr). Latts brings together a team of approximately thirty researchers (in city planning, economics, ergonomics, geography, management, history, political science and sociology) mainly originating from these three academic institutions and thirty doctoral candidates. Latts members carry out research into enterprises, public administration, local institutions, collective action, territorial dynamics and the related technical systems. By means of field research, comparative investigations and conceptual thought processes, this work in the social sciences pursues multidisciplinary aims: between disciplines, between theory and empirics and between scientific controversy and public debate. _____ Loet Leydesdorff Professor, University of Amsterdam 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/ Visiting Professor, ISTIC, Beijing; Honorary Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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For registration please go to: http://www.scientometrics-school.eu/registration.html The esss steering committee members are looking forward to seeing you in Vienna. Wolfgang Gl?nzel (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Koenraad Debackere (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Stefan Hornbostel (iFQ, Humboldt Universit?t zu Berlin) Sybille Hinze (iFQ) Juan Gorraiz (University of Vienna) Christian Gumpenberger (University of Vienna) ********************************************** Dr. Christian Gumpenberger, MSc University of Vienna Library and archive services Bibliometrics Department esss European Summer School for Scientometrics office Boltzmanngasse 5 A-1090 Wien Tel.: +43-1-4277-27619 Fax: +43-1-4277-27650 mailto: christian.gumpenberger at univie.ac.at mailto: office at scientometrics-school.eu ********************************************** From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Apr 13 15:06:01 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:06:01 -0400 Subject: Rogers, JD. 2010. Citation analysis of nanotechnology at the field level: implications of R&D evaluation. RESEARCH EVALUATION 19 (4): 281-290 Message-ID: Rogers, JD. 2010. Citation analysis of nanotechnology at the field level: implications of R&D evaluation. RESEARCH EVALUATION 19 (4): 281-290. Author Full Name(s): Rogers, Juan D. Language: English Document Type: Article KeyWords Plus: SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SLEEPING BEAUTIES; SCIENCE Abstract: This article addresses the question of how much time it takes for contributions to the nanotechnology literature to establish themselves in the field by analyzing the dynamics of the citations to several cohorts of its papers and the consequences this has for the use of citations in evaluation of R&D. It focuses on the first ten years of publications (cohorts 1991 to 2000) in the field of nanotechnology and eighteen years (1991-2008) worth of citations in windows of increasing length for each cohort to establish some of the basic features of the dynamics of citations in this emerging field. It offers a characterization of the citation distributions of these cohorts of papers and analyzes the time it takes for information contained in those papers to be absorbed by the field as reflected in citations. With a measure developed for that purpose and graphical representation of several dynamical characteristics it finds that there are significant delays in the absorption of information from papers in each cohort. Many papers have sustained growth of citations for many years, sometimes a decade or more, at all levels of the absolute number of citations, and the rank of papers by number of citations has many changes over long periods of time. This suggests that more refined tools for analysis of field level characteristics of impact should be developed to pick up not only the early signs of a potential opportunity in the short term but also recognize topics with older antecedents on their way to a deep and sustained influence. Addresses: Georgia Inst Technol, Sch Publ Policy, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA Reprint Address: Rogers, JD, Georgia Inst Technol, Sch Publ Policy, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA. E-mail Address: jdrogers at gatech.edu ISSN: 0958-2029 DOI: 10.3152/095820210X12827366906409 URL (not open access): http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/beech/rev/2010/00000019/00000004 /art00006 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Apr 13 15:20:21 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:20:21 -0400 Subject: Kahler, O. 2010. Combining peer review and metrics to assess journals for inclusion in Scopus. LEARNED PUBLISHING 23 (4): 336 Message-ID: Kahler, O. 2010. Combining peer review and metrics to assess journals for inclusion in Scopus. LEARNED PUBLISHING 23 (4): 336-+. Author Full Name(s): Kaehler, Ove Language: English Document Type: Article Abstract: Peer review has been in place for centuries as an accepted process to validate manuscripts submitted for publication in scientific journals. Yet a similarly rigorous assessment of content also happens a level up, when looking at the quality of journals that apply for indexing in bibliographic databases. Scopus, an abstract & citation database provided by Elsevier, indexing 18,000 scientific titles, is receiving an increasing number of title suggestions; in 2009 this grew to almost 5,000 in that year alone. Some of the suggested journals are dedicated to niche areas and/or are published in other languages than English. To ensure a fair and transparent evaluation of these titles and to address the rising interest in being indexed, Scopus redesigned its entire title evaluation process basing it on a metrical scorecard and on the principles of peer review. By developing an online editorial system - the Scopus Title Evaluation Platform (STEP) - Scopus also created the prerequisite of an improved communication with publishers and editors about their journals. (C) Ove Kahler 2010 Addresses: Elsevier BV, NL-1043 NX Amsterdam, Netherlands Reprint Address: Kahler, O, Elsevier BV, Radarweg 29, NL-1043 NX Amsterdam, Netherlands. E-mail Address: o.kahler at elsevier.com ISSN: 0953-1513 DOI: 10.1087/20100411 URL: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/alpsp/lp/2010/00000023/00000004/ar t00011 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Apr 13 15:40:26 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:40:26 -0400 Subject: Maz-Machado, A; Torralbo-Rodriguez, M; Vallejo-Ruiz, M; Bracho-Lopez, R. 2010. Bibliometric analysis of scholarly production from the University of Malaga in the Social Sciences Citation Index (1998-2007) Message-ID: Maz-Machado, A; Torralbo-Rodriguez, M; Vallejo-Ruiz, M; Bracho-Lopez, R. 2010. Bibliometric analysis of scholarly production from the University of Malaga in the Social Sciences Citation Index (1998-2007). REVISTA ESPANOLA DE DOCUMENTACION CIENTIFICA 33 (4): 582-599. Author Full Name(s): Maz-Machado, Alexander; Torralbo-Rodriguez, Manuel; Vallejo-Ruiz, Monica; Bracho-Lopez, Rafael Language: Spanish Document Type: Article Author Keywords: University of Malaga; bibliometric indicators; Social Sciences; scholarly and bibliographic production; Social Sciences Citation Index Abstract: A bibliometric analysis was performed of the scholarly production of the University of Malaga published during 1998-2007 in journals indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index (as accessed through the Web of Science). This paper examines productivity and chronological distribution, national and international collaboration, scientific production by departments, and the journals in which articles were published. The results reveal a slight increase in productivity, as well as a slightly higher level of co-authorship (2.85) than the average for social sciences in Spain, along with a good level of collaboration with national and foreign academic institutions. Addresses: [Maz-Machado, Alexander; Torralbo-Rodriguez, Manuel; Bracho- Lopez, Rafael] Univ Cordoba, Dept Matemat, E-14071 Cordoba, Spain; [Vallejo- Ruiz, Monica] Univ Murcia, Fac Educ, E-30001 Murcia, Spain Reprint Address: Maz-Machado, A, Univ Cordoba, Dept Matemat, E-14071 Cordoba, Spain. E-mail Address: ma1mamaa at uco.es; ma1torom at uco.es; monicavr at um.es; rbracho at gmail.com ISSN: 0210-0614 DOI: 10.3989/redc.2010.4.757 PDF: http://redc.revistas.csic.es/index.php/redc/article/download/672/747 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Apr 13 15:46:30 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:46:30 -0400 Subject: Alonso-Arroyo, A., et al.. 2010. Gender analysis, scholarly productivity and collaboration of female university professors of Health Science in the Autonomous Region of Valencia (2003-2007). REVISTA ESPANOLA DE DOCUMENTACION CIENTIFICA 33 (4): 624-642 Message-ID: Alonso-Arroyo, A; Bolanos-Pizarro, M; Gonzalez-Alcaide, G; Villamon, M; Aleixandre-Benavent, R. 2010. Gender analysis, scholarly productivity and collaboration of female university professors of Health Science in the Autonomous Region of Valencia (2003-2007). REVISTA ESPANOLA DE DOCUMENTACION CIENTIFICA 33 (4): 624-642 Author Full Name(s): Alonso-Arroyo, Adolfo; Bolanos-Pizarro, Maxima; Gonzalez- Alcaide, Gregorio; Villamon, Miguel; Aleixandre-Benavent, Rafael Language: Spanish Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Gender analysis; Bibliometrics; scholarly output; scholarly collaboration; Valencian Community; Health science Abstract: The article presents an analysis of the scholarly output of female professors in the field of Health Science in the Autonomous Region of Valencia from 2003 to 2007, through bibliometric techniques and the application of a gender variable. The work attempted to identify how many women became large producers of scholarly articles compared to those who did not reach the same levels of productivity and impact. A total of 3,739 articles were retrieved during this period and the gender of all authors with more than 2 articles was identified. Of these authors 2,774 (60.41%) were male and 1,818 (39.59%) were female. Focusing solely on large producers, the percentage of women publishing more than 10 papers was reduced to 26.72%. As regards to scientific collaboration, it is significant to note that women are included in all clusters of at least 10 authors and in some cases their presence is comparable with that of men. Although women's participation is lower than men's in all areas of knowledge, it is noteworthy that in Health Sciences the difference is not as great as in other technical areas. Women's contribution to the scientific field is increasing, suggesting the possibility of a significant improvement in gender parity in the coining years. Addresses: [Alonso-Arroyo, Adolfo] Univ Valencia, Dept Hist Ciencia & Documentac, Fac Med & Odontol, E-46003 Valencia, Spain; [Bolanos-Pizarro, Maxima; Gonzalez-Alcaide, Gregorio; Aleixandre-Benavent, Rafael] CSIC, Inst Hist Med & Ciencia Lopez Pinero UISYS, Madrid, Spain; [Villamon, Miguel] Univ Valencia, Fac Ciencias Actividad Fis & Deporte, E-46003 Valencia, Spain Reprint Address: Alonso-Arroyo, A, Univ Valencia, Dept Hist Ciencia & Documentac, Fac Med & Odontol, E-46003 Valencia, Spain. E-mail Address: adolfo.alonso at uv.es ISSN: 0210-0614 DOI: 10.3989/redc.2010.4.764 PDF: http://redc.revistas.csic.es/index.php/redc/article/download/674/749 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Apr 13 15:50:27 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:50:27 -0400 Subject: Rosas, SR; et al.. 2011. Evaluating Research and Impact: A Bibliometric Analysis of Research by the NIH/NIAID HIV/AIDS Clinical Trials Networks. PLOS ONE 6 (3): art. no.-e17428 Message-ID: Rosas, SR; Kagan, JM; Schouten, JT; Slack, PA; Trochim, WMK. 2011. Evaluating Research and Impact: A Bibliometric Analysis of Research by the NIH/NIAID HIV/AIDS Clinical Trials Networks. PLOS ONE 6 (3): art. no.-e17428.. Author Full Name(s): Rosas, Scott R.; Kagan, Jonathan M.; Schouten, Jeffrey T.; Slack, Perry A.; Trochim, William M. K. Language: English Document Type: Article KeyWords Plus: AIDS LITERATURE; LATIN-AMERICA; CITATION; METRICS; AFRICA; OUTPUT Abstract: Evaluative bibliometrics uses advanced techniques to assess the impact of scholarly work in the context of other scientific work and usually compares the relative scientific contributions of research groups or institutions. Using publications from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) HIV/AIDS extramural clinical trials networks, we assessed the presence, performance, and impact of papers published in 2006-2008. Through this approach, we sought to expand traditional bibliometric analyses beyond citation counts to include normative comparisons across journals and fields, visualization of co-authorship across the networks, and assess the inclusion of publications in reviews and syntheses. Specifically, we examined the research output of the networks in terms of the a) presence of papers in the scientific journal hierarchy ranked on the basis of journal influence measures, b) performance of publications on traditional bibliometric measures, and c) impact of publications in comparisons with similar publications worldwide, adjusted for journals and fields. We also examined collaboration and interdisciplinarity across the initiative, through network analysis and modeling of co-authorship patterns. Finally, we explored the uptake of network produced publications in research reviews and syntheses. Overall, the results suggest the networks are producing highly recognized work, engaging in extensive interdisciplinary collaborations, and having an impact across several areas of HIV-related science. The strengths and limitations of the approach for evaluation and monitoring research initiatives are discussed. Addresses: [Rosas, Scott R.; Slack, Perry A.] Concept Syst Inc, Ithaca, NY USA; [Kagan, Jonathan M.] NIAID, Div Clin Res, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA; [Schouten, Jeffrey T.] Fred Hutchinson Canc Res Ctr, HIV AIDS Network Coordinat Project, Seattle, WA 98104 USA; [Trochim, William M. K.] Cornell Univ, Dept Policy Anal & Management, Ithaca, NY USA Reprint Address: Rosas, SR, Concept Syst Inc, Ithaca, NY USA. E-mail Address: srosas at conceptsystems.com ISSN: 1932-6203 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017428 PDF: http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/research/Rosas%20et%20al%202011% 20Evaluating%20research%20and%20impact.pdf From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Wed Apr 13 15:58:35 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:58:35 -0400 Subject: Kocsis, T; Negny, S; Floquet, P; Meyer, X; Rev, E. 2010. An Application of a Cocitation-Analysis Method to Find Further Research Possibilities on the Area of Scheduling Problems. 20TH EUROPEAN SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER AIDED PROCESS ENGINEERING 28: 1165-1170 Message-ID: Kocsis, T; Negny, S; Floquet, P; Meyer, X; Rev, E. 2010. An Application of a Cocitation-Analysis Method to Find Further Research Possibilities on the Area of Scheduling Problems. 20TH EUROPEAN SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER AIDED PROCESS ENGINEERING 28: 1165-1170. edited by Pierucci, S; Ferraris, BG.presented at 20th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE) in Ischia, ITALY, JUN 06-09, 2010. Author Full Name(s): Kocsis, T.; Negny, S.; Floquet, P.; Meyer, X.; Rev, E. Book series title: Computer-Aided Chemical Engineering Language: English Document Type: Proceedings Paper Author Keywords: Scheduling; Classification; Cocitation Analysis; Review Abstract: In this article we will give firstly a classification scheme of scheduling problems and their solving methods. The main aspects under examination are the following: machine and secondary resources, constraints, objective functions, uncertainty, mathematical models and adapted solution methods. In a second part, based on this scheme, we will examine a corpus of 60 main articles (1015 citation links were recorded in total) in scheduling literature from 1977 to 2009. The main purpose is to discover the underlying themes within the literature and to examine how they have evolved. To identify documents likely to be closely related, we are going to use the cocitation-based method of Greene et al. (2008). Our aim is to build a base of articles in order to extract the much developed research themes and find the less examined ones as well, and then try to discuss the reasons of the poorly investigation of some areas. Addresses: [Kocsis, T.; Negny, S.; Floquet, P.; Meyer, X.] Univ Toulouse, LGC UMR INPT ENSIACET 5503, F-31432 Toulouse 4, France Reprint Address: Kocsis, T, Univ Toulouse, LGC UMR INPT ENSIACET 5503, 4 Allee Emile Monso,BP 74 2333, F-31432 Toulouse 4, France. E-mail Address: kocsis.tibor at gmail.com ISSN: 1570-7946 ISBN: 978-0-444-53569-6 URL (not open access): http://www.sciencedirect.com/science? _ob=PublicationURL&_tockey=%23TOC%2341850%232010%23999719999%2320 73736%23FLP%23&_cdi=41850&_pubType=BS&_auth=y&_acct=C000050221&_v ersion=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=1844137c643dbd8a055bd8e90023e27 d From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Wed Apr 13 17:34:34 2011 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:34:34 -0500 Subject: No subject Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------ TITLE: Making sense of bibliometrics (Article, English) AUTHOR: Hunt, GE E-mail: glenn.hunt at sydney.edu.au SOURCE: ACTA NEUROPSYCHIATRICA 23 (2). APR 2011. p.80-81 WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; BIBLIOMETR* item_title; ACTA NEUROPSYCHIATR source_abbrev_20; GARFIELD E JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 295:90 2006 KEYWORDS+: IMPACT FACTOR; H-INDEX; CITATIONS; SCIENCE AUTHOR ADDRESS: GE Hunt, Concord Hosp, Discipline Psychiat, Hosp Rd, Concord, NSW 2139, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------ Eugene Garfield, PhD. email: garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu home page: www.eugenegarfield.org Tel: 610-525-8729 Fax: 610-560-4749 Chairman Emeritus, ThomsonReuters Scientific (formerly ISI) 1500 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA 19130-4067 Editor Emeritus, The Scientist LLC. www.the-scientist.com 400 Market St. Suite 330 Philadelphia, PA 19106-2535 Past President, American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) www.asist.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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JUL 2010. p.267-268 ASSOC LEARNED PROFESSIONAL SOC PUBL, W SUSSEX SEARCH TERM(S): SCIENCE CITATION INDEX item_title; BIBLIOMETR* item_title; CITATION item_title; CITATION ANALYS* item_title; CITATION* item_title ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------ Eugene Garfield, PhD. email: garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu home page: www.eugenegarfield.org Tel: 610-525-8729 Fax: 610-560-4749 Chairman Emeritus, ThomsonReuters Scientific (formerly ISI) 1500 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA 19130-4067 Editor Emeritus, The Scientist LLC. www.the-scientist.com 400 Market St. Suite 330 Philadelphia, PA 19106-2535 Past President, American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) www.asist.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: LPdeBellis book review.pdf Type: application/octet-stream Size: 97282 bytes Desc: LPdeBellis book review.pdf URL: From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Wed Apr 13 19:18:24 2011 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:18:24 -0500 Subject: Paper by Peter Jacso Univ of Hawaii Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- TITLE: Pragmatic issues in calculating and comparing the quantity and quality of research through rating and ranking of researchers based on peer reviews and bibliometric indicators from Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar (Article, English) AUTHOR: Jacso, P email: jacso at hawaii.edu SOURCE: ONLINE INFORMATION REVIEW 34 (6). 2010. p.972-982 EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED, BINGLEY SEARCH TERM(S): CRONIN B rauth; HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS: Research; Peer review; Quality indicators KEYWORDS+: RESEARCH ASSESSMENT EXERCISE; H-INDEX; CITATION COUNTS; OF-SCIENCE; INFORMATION-SCIENCE; LIS FACULTY; LIBRARY; IMPACT; CONS; PROS ABSTRACT: Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to analyze the findings of two recently published papers (Norris and Oppenheim, 2003; and Li et al., 2010). Design/methodology/approach The findings were analyzed from the practitioner's perspective about the procedures involved in calculating the indicator values and the ranks and ratings. This was done with the purpose of playing the devil's advocate, contemplating the reservations and arguments of those who do not want to use metrics based on database searches. Findings One advantage of this project is that its results can be compared at least partially with the findings of the three earlier RAEs (although its grade classes have changed), as well as with some of the other ranking lists in library and information management areas. Originality/value Very importantly, the authors concluded that "it would be premature in the extreme to suggest that citation-based indicators could be used as a cost-effective alternative to expert judgments". This is a strong, very realistic and fair statement. Even this recent project's results are very valuable in spite of the problems mentioned. 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My previous file of this same data was based on having collected the data each year in January, while this one is based on all data available on April 7, 2011, and using this new interface. The (linear) fit is much improved. Let me mention that Andrew Plume of the Scopus team published a new paper on this subject entitled "Tipping the balance: The rise of China as a science superpower" at http://www.researchtrends.com/issue22-march-2011/tipping-the-balance-the-ris e-of-china-as-a-science-superpower/. The differences are largely due to significant differences in coverage between the two databases. Minor factors are: 1. Using publication years or calendar years; 2. Scopus does not include "letters" as citable items. Best wishes, Loet _____ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. 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URL: From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Apr 18 13:59:50 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:59:50 -0400 Subject: Scientometrics, Vol 86, Issue 3, 2011 Message-ID: Scientometrics Volume 86, Number 3 / March 2011 Viewing all 15 articles URL for all articles: http://www.springerlink.com/content/0138-9130/86/3/ 553-562 Mining citation information from CiteSeer data Dalibor Fiala 563-574 Methodology for the evaluation of scientific journals: Aggregated Citations of Cited Articles D. Gnana Bharathi 575-592 Overturning some assumptions about the effects of evaluation systems on publication performance Carmen Osuna, Laura Cruz-Castro and Luis Sanz-Men?ndez 593-612 Visualizing the research on pervasive and ubiquitous computing Rongying Zhao and Ju Wang 613-627 What do UK academics cite? An analysis of references cited in UK scholarly outputs Claire Creaser, Charles Oppenheim and Mark A. C. Summers 629-643 The relationship between scientists? research performance and the degree of internationalization of their research Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D?Angelo and Marco Solazzi 645-656 Time series analysis of publication counts of a university: what are the implications? Oguz K. Baskurt 657-670 A journal co-citation analysis of library and information science in China Chang-Ping Hu, Ji-Ming Hu, Yan Gao and Yao-Kun Zhang 671-686 f-Value: measuring an article?s scientific impact Eleni Fragkiadaki, Georgios Evangelidis, Nikolaos Samaras and Dimitris A. Dervos 687-703 Invention property-function network analysis of patents: a case of silicon- based thin film solar cells Janghyeok Yoon, Sungchul Choi and Kwangsoo Kim 705-725 Interdisciplinarity and the intellectual base of literature studies: citation analysis of highly cited monographs Bj?rn Hammarfelt 727-746 Reasons for and developments in international scientific collaboration: does an Asia?Pacific research area exist from a bibliometric point of view? Stefanie Haustein, Dirk Tunger, Gerold Heinrichs and Gesa Baelz 747-761 How to improve research quality? Examining the impacts of collaboration intensity and member diversity in collaboration networks Chien Hsiang Liao 763-784 Scholarly gratitude in five geographical contexts: a diachronic and cross- generic approach of the acknowledgment paratext in medical discourse (1950? 2010) Fran?oise Salager-Meyer, Mar?a ?ngeles Alcaraz-Ariza, Marianela Luzardo Brice?o and Georges Jabbour 785-795 Can a bibliometric indicator predict the success of an analgesic? Igor Kissin From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Apr 18 14:13:27 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:13:27 -0400 Subject: Klavans, R; Boyack, KW. 2011. Using Global Mapping to Create More Accurate Document-Level Maps of Research Fields. JASIST. 62 (1): 1-18 Message-ID: Klavans, R; Boyack, KW. 2011. Using Global Mapping to Create More Accurate Document-Level Maps of Research Fields. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 62 (1): 1-18.. Author Full Name(s): Klavans, Richard; Boyack, Kevin W. Language: English Document Type: Article KeyWords Plus: AUTHOR COCITATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION-SCIENCE; RESEARCH-FRONT; CITATION; LIBRARY Abstract: We describe two general approaches to creating document-level maps of science. To create a local map, one defines and directly maps a sample of data, such as all literature published in a set of information science journals. To create a global map of a research field, one maps" all of science" and then locates a literature sample within that full context. We provide a deductive argument that global mapping should create more accurate partitions of a research field than does local mapping, followed by practical reasons why this may not be so. The field of information science is then mapped at the document level using both local and global methods to provide a case illustration of the differences between the methods. Textual coherence is used to assess the accuracies of both maps. We find that document clusters in the global map have significantly higher coherence than do those in the local map, and that the global map provides unique insights into the field of information science that cannot be discerned from the local map. Specifically, we show that information science and computer science have a large interface and that computer science is the more progressive discipline at that interface. We also show that research communities in temporally linked threads have a much higher coherence than do isolated communities, and that this feature can be used to predict which threads will persist into a subsequent year. Methods that could increase the accuracy of both local and global maps in the future also are discussed. Addresses: [Klavans, Richard] SciTech Strategies Inc, Berwyn, PA 19312 USA; [Boyack, Kevin W.] SciTech Strategies Inc, Albuquerque, NM 87122 USA Reprint Address: Klavans, R, SciTech Strategies Inc, Berwyn, PA 19312 USA. E-mail Address: rklavans at mapofscience.com; kboyack at mapofscience.com ISSN: 1532-2882 DOI: 10.1002/asi.21444 fulltext: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.21444/full From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Apr 18 14:16:13 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:16:13 -0400 Subject: Zitt, M; Lelu, A; Bassecoulard, E. 2011. Hybrid Citation-Word Representations in Science Mapping: Portolan Charts of Research Fields?. JASIST. 62 (1): 19-39. Message-ID: Zitt, M; Lelu, A; Bassecoulard, E. 2011. Hybrid Citation-Word Representations in Science Mapping: Portolan Charts of Research Fields?. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 62 (1): 19- 39. Author Full Name(s): Zitt, Michel; Lelu, Alain; Bassecoulard, Elise Language: English Document Type: Article KeyWords Plus: COCITATION ANALYSIS; AUTHOR COCITATION; KNOWLEDGE DOMAINS; RESEARCH FRONTS; VISUALIZATION; NANOSCIENCES; NETWORKS; CLUSTERS; TIME; MAP Abstract: The mapping of scientific fields, based on principles established in the seventies, has recently shown a remarkable development and applications are now booming with progress in computing efficiency. We examine here the convergence of two thematic mapping approaches, citation-based and word- based, which rely on quite different sociological backgrounds. A corpus in the nanoscience field was broken down into research themes, using the same clustering technique on the 2 networks separately. The tool for comparison is the table of intersections of the M clusters (here M = 50) built on either side. A classical visual exploitation of such contingency tables is based on correspondence analysis. We investigate a rearrangement of the intersection table (block modeling), resulting in pseudo-map. The interest of this representation for confronting the two breakdowns is discussed. The amount of convergence found is, in our view, a strong argument in favor of the reliability of bibliometric mapping. However, the outcomes are not convergent at the degree where they can be substituted for each other. Differences highlight the complementarity between approaches based on different networks. In contrast with the strong informetric posture found in recent literature, where lexical and citation markers are considered as miscible tokens, the framework proposed here does not mix the two elements at an early stage, in compliance with their contrasted logic. Addresses: [Zitt, Michel; Bassecoulard, Elise] INRA, Lereco, F-44316 Nantes 3, France; [Lelu, Alain] Univ Franche Comte, LASELDI, F-25000 Besancon, France; [Lelu, Alain] LORIA, F-54506 Vandoeuvre Les Nancy, France Reprint Address: Zitt, M, INRA, Lereco, BP 71627, F-44316 Nantes 3, France. E-mail Address: zitt at nantes.inra.fr; alelu at 9online.fr; bassecou at nantes.inra.fr ISSN: 1532-2882 DOI: 10.1002/asi.21440 fulltext: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.21440/full From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Apr 18 14:20:00 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:20:00 -0400 Subject: Albarran, P; Ruiz-Castillo, J. 2011. References Made and Citations Received by Scientific Articles. JASIST. 62 (1): 40-49 Message-ID: Albarran, P; Ruiz-Castillo, J. 2011. References Made and Citations Received by Scientific Articles. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 62 (1): 40-49.. Author Full Name(s): Albarran, Pedro; Ruiz-Castillo, Javier Language: English Document Type: Article KeyWords Plus: POWER-LAW DISTRIBUTIONS; CHARACTERISTIC SCORES; RESEARCH PERFORMANCE; PARAMETER-ESTIMATION; SCALES; INDICATORS; SCIENCE; IMPACT; INDEX; MODEL Abstract: This article studies massive evidence about references made and citations received after a 5-year citation window by 3.7 million articles published in 1998 to 2002 in 22 scientific fields. We find that the distributions of references made and citations received share a number of basic features across sciences. Reference distributions are rather skewed to the right while citation distributions are even more highly skewed: The mean is about 20 percentage points to the right of the median, and articles with a remarkable or an outstanding number of citations represent about 9% of the total. Moreover, the existence of a power law representing the upper tail of citation distributions cannot be rejected in 17 fields whose articles represent 74.7% of the total. Contrary to the evidence in other contexts, the value of the scale parameter is above 3.5 in 13 of the 17 cases. Finally, power laws are typically small, but capture a considerable proportion of the total citations received. Addresses: [Albarran, Pedro] Univ Alicante, Dept Fundamentos Anal Econ, E- 03080 Alicante, Spain; [Ruiz-Castillo, Javier] Univ Carlos III Madrid, Dept Econ, Madrid, Spain Reprint Address: Albarran, P, Univ Alicante, Dept Fundamentos Anal Econ, E- 03080 Alicante, Spain. E-mail Address: albarran at ua.es; jrc at eco.uc3m.es ISSN: 1532-2882 DOI: 10.1002/asi.21448 fulltext: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.21448/full From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Apr 18 14:22:06 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:22:06 -0400 Subject: Danell, R. 2011. Can the Quality of Scientific Work Be Predicted Using Information on the Author's Track Record?. JASIST. 62 (1): 50-60 Message-ID: Danell, R. 2011. Can the Quality of Scientific Work Be Predicted Using Information on the Author's Track Record?. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 62 (1): 50-60.. Author Full Name(s): Danell, Rickard Language: English Document Type: Article KeyWords Plus: CUMULATIVE ADVANTAGE; BIBLIOMETRIC INDICATORS; SCIENCE; PRODUCTIVITY; INEQUALITY Abstract: Many countries are moving towards research policies that emphasize excellence; consequently; they develop evaluation systems to identify universities, research groups, and researchers that can be said to be "excellent." Such active research policy strategies, in which evaluations are used to concentrate resources, are based on an unsubstantiated assumption that researchers' track records are indicative of their future research performance. In this study, information on authors' track records (previous publication volume and previous citation rate) is used to predict the impact of their articles. The study concludes that, to a certain degree, the impact of scientific work can be predicted using information on how often an author's previous publications have been cited. The relationship between past performance and the citation rate of articles is strongest at the high end of the citation distribution. The implications of these results are discussed in the context of a cumulative advantage process. Addresses: Umea Univ, Dept Sociol, S-90187 Umea, Sweden Reprint Address: Danell, R, Umea Univ, Dept Sociol, S-90187 Umea, Sweden. E-mail Address: rickard.danell at soc.umu.se ISSN: 1532-2882 DOI: 10.1002/asi.21454 fulltext: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.21454/full From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Apr 18 14:25:45 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:25:45 -0400 Subject: Schloegl, C; Gorraiz, J. 2011. Global Usage Versus Global Citation Metrics: The Case of Pharmacology Journals. JASIST. 62 (1): 161-170.. Message-ID: Schloegl, C; Gorraiz, J. 2011. Global Usage Versus Global Citation Metrics: The Case of Pharmacology Journals. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 62 (1): 161-170.. Author Full Name(s): Schloegl, Christian; Gorraiz, Juan Language: English Document Type: Article KeyWords Plus: IMPACT; STATISTICS; DOWNLOADS Abstract: Following the transition from print journals to electronic (hybrid) journals in the past decade, usage metrics have become an interesting complement to citation metrics. In this article we investigate the similarities of and differences between usage and citation indicators for pharmacy and pharmacology journals and relate the results to a previous study on oncology journals. For the comparison at journal level we use the classical citation indicators as defined in the Journal Citation Reports and compute the corresponding usage indicators. At the article level we not only relate download and citation counts to each other but also try to identify the possible effect of citations upon subsequent downloads. Usage data were provided by ScienceDirect both at the journal level and, for a few selected journals, on a paper-by-paper basis. The corresponding citation data were retrieved from the Web of Science and Journal Citation Reports. Our analyses show that electronic journals have become generally accepted over the last decade. While the supply of ScienceDirect pharma journals rose by 50% between 2001 and 2006, the total number of article downloads (full-text articles [FTAs]) multiplied more than 5-fold in the same period. This also impacted the pattern of scholarly communication (strong increase in the immediacy index) in the past few years. Our results further reveal a close relation between citation and download frequencies. We computed a high correlation at the journal level when using absolute values and a moderate to high correlation when relating usage and citation impact factors. At the article level the rank correlation between downloads and citations was only medium-sized. Differences between downloads and citations exist in terms of obsolescence characteristics. While more than half of the articles are downloaded in the publication year or 1 year later, the median cited half-life was nearly 6 years for our journal sample. Our attempt to reveal a direct influence of citations upon downloads proved not to be feasible. Addresses: [Schloegl, Christian] Graz Univ, Inst Informat Sci & Informat Syst, A-8010 Graz, Austria; [Gorraiz, Juan] Univ Vienna, Bibliometr Dept, Lib Serv, A- 1090 Vienna, Austria; [Gorraiz, Juan] Univ Vienna, Bibliometr Dept, Arch Serv, A-1090 Vienna, Austria Reprint Address: Schloegl, C, Graz Univ, Inst Informat Sci & Informat Syst, Univ Str 15-F3, A-8010 Graz, Austria. E-mail Address: christian.schloegl at uni-graz.at; juan.gorraiz at univie.ac.at ISSN: 1532-2882 DOI: 10.1002/asi.21420 fulltext: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.21420/full From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Apr 18 14:28:34 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:28:34 -0400 Subject: Ye, FY. 2011. A Unification of Three Models for the h-Index. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 62 (1): 205-207 Message-ID: Ye, FY. 2011. A Unification of Three Models for the h-Index. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 62 (1): 205-207.. Author Full Name(s): Ye, Fred Y. Language: English Document Type: Article KeyWords Plus: HIRSCH-INDEX; JOURNALS; SCIENCE; LAW Abstract: Among existing theoretical models for the h-index, Hirsch's original approach, the Egghe-Rousseau model, and the Glanzel-Schubert model are the three main representatives. Assuming a power-law relation or Heaps' law between publications and citations a unified theoretical explanation for these three models is provided. It is shown that on the level of universities, the Glanzel-Schubert model fits best. Addresses: [Ye, Fred Y.] Zhejiang Univ, Inst Informat Resource Management, Hangzhou 310027, Zhejiang, Peoples R China; [Ye, Fred Y.] Inst Res Informat & Qual Assurance iFQ, D-53175 Bonn, Germany Reprint Address: Ye, FY, Zhejiang Univ, Inst Informat Resource Management, 38 Zheda Rd, Hangzhou 310027, Zhejiang, Peoples R China. E-mail Address: yye at zju.edu.cn ISSN: 1532-2882 DOI: 10.1002/asi.21456 fulltext: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.21456/full From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Apr 18 14:30:15 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:30:15 -0400 Subject: Bensman, SJ. 2011. The Evaluation of Research by Scientometric Indicators.. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 62 (1): 208-210 Message-ID: Bensman, SJ. 2011. The Evaluation of Research by Scientometric Indicators.. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 62 (1): 208-210.. Author Full Name(s): Bensman, Stephen J. Language: English Document Type: Book Review KeyWords Plus: JOURNALS; GARFIELD Addresses: [Bensman, Stephen J.] Louisiana State Univ, LSU Lib, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA Reprint Address: Bensman, SJ, Louisiana State Univ, LSU Lib, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA. E-mail Address: notsjb at lsu.edu ISSN: 1532-2882 DOI: 10.1002/asi.21417 fulltext: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.21417/full From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Apr 18 14:31:46 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:31:46 -0400 Subject: Moed, HF. 2011. The Source Normalized Impact per Paper Is a Valid and Sophisticated Indicator of Journal Citation Impact. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 62 (1): 211-213 Message-ID: Moed, HF. 2011. The Source Normalized Impact per Paper Is a Valid and Sophisticated Indicator of Journal Citation Impact. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 62 (1): 211-213. Author Full Name(s): Moed, Henk F. Language: English Document Type: Letter Addresses: Elsevier, NL-1043 NX Amsterdam, Netherlands Reprint Address: Moed, HF, Elsevier, Radarweg 29, NL-1043 NX Amsterdam, Netherlands. E-mail Address: h.moed at elsevier.com ISSN: 1532-2882 DOI: 10.1002/asi.21424 fulltext: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.21424/full From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Apr 18 15:17:10 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:17:10 -0400 Subject: Franco, G. 2011. Scientific research and academic promotion in Occupational Medicine: what are the rules of the game?. MEDICINA DEL LAVORO 102 (2): 167-173 Message-ID: Franco, G. 2011. Scientific research and academic promotion in Occupational Medicine: what are the rules of the game?. MEDICINA DEL LAVORO 102 (2): 167-173. Author Full Name(s): Franco, G. Language: Italian Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Impact factor; occupational medicine; academics KeyWords Plus: CORE JOURNALS; IMPACT FACTOR; H-INDEX; HEALTH; CITATIONS; SET Abstract: "Scientific research and academic promotion in Occupational Medicine: what are the rules of the game?". Introduction: Recently, the National University Council (CUN) recognized the importance of bibliometric indicators in assessing scientific output and the Ministry of Education, University and Research established that the selection committees' decision must be guided by internationally recognized metrics including the impact factor (IF). Aim: To analyse methods and tools of metrics to assess scientific performance in Occupational Medicine by examining some critical aspects for entry-level positions and academic promotion in the Universities. Methods: By means of different databases (Web of Knowledge (R), Scopus (R), SCImago), the h-index was studied to assess the scientific output in the field of Occupational Medicine. The h-index was used as an index of both output and quality of overall output of researchers, disciplines, journals, and countries. Results: Italian scientific output in the Public, Environmental & Occupational Health subject category (h-index=62) was lower than almost the total of other medical disciplines and, at an international level, is ranked at 12(th) place (other disciplines ranked 3(rd) to 9(th)). Output was 32% compared to that of the USA (other disciplines ranged from 42% and 61%). However, it should be noted that most scientific papers of Occupational Medicine researchers are published mainly in journals of different disciplines (with a higher IF) rather than in journals of Public, Environmental & Occupational Health (with a lower IF). Conclusion: Assuming that selection committees' decisions will be guided by metrics and will respect the minimum standard proposed by CUN, Occupational Medicine researchers aiming at academic promotion will have good reason to ask themselves not only which journals are most useful but also which journals have the greatest impact. This fact could have profound implications for the future of the discipline. Addresses: Univ Modena & Reggio Emilia, Dipartimento Med & Specialita Med, I- 41100 Modena, Italy Reprint Address: Franco, G, Univ Modena & Reggio Emilia, Dipartimento Med & Specialita Med, Largo Pozzo 71, I-41100 Modena, Italy. E-mail Address: franco at unimo.it ISSN: 0025-7818 URL: http://www.mattioli1885.com/onlinejournals/index.php/lamedicinadellavoro/articl e/view/772 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Apr 18 15:19:25 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:19:25 -0400 Subject: Greenberg, SA. 2011. Understanding belief using citation networks. JOURNAL OF EVALUATION IN CLINICAL PRACTICE 17 (2): 389-393 Message-ID: Greenberg, SA. 2011. Understanding belief using citation networks. JOURNAL OF EVALUATION IN CLINICAL PRACTICE 17 (2): 389-393.. Author Full Name(s): Greenberg, Steven A. Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: citation Abstract: Citation is a powerful method for establishing belief. Published statements gain credibility when followed by citations. Citation in its purest form consists of the scholarly connection of authors' ideas and claims to existing literature, yet there are also non-scholarly uses of citation that are best called citation distortions. Unfounded biomedical belief systems arising from citation distortions may become widely accepted as fact. The development of methodology for the study of citation distortions and belief systems regarding scientific claims was recently described. Here, I discuss further the methodological approaches to studying published scientific belief systems and identifying citation distortions. Addresses: [Greenberg, Steven A.] Brigham & Womens Hosp, Dept Neurol, Div Neuromuscular Dis, Boston, MA 02115 USA; [Greenberg, Steven A.] Harvard Univ, Sch Med, Informat Program, Childrens Hosp, Boston, MA USA Reprint Address: Greenberg, SA, Brigham & Womens Hosp, Dept Neurol, Div Neuromuscular Dis, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115 USA. E-mail Address: sagreenberg at partners.org ISSN: 1356-1294 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2011.01646.x fulltext: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365- 2753.2011.01646.x/full From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Apr 18 15:22:55 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:22:55 -0400 Subject: Zhang, YH; Pan, YT; Hong, XA. 2011. A brief statistical analysis of stomatology papers published in international journals by researchers from the mainland of China. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ORAL SCIENCE 3 (1): 1-6 Message-ID: Zhang, YH; Pan, YT; Hong, XA. 2011. A brief statistical analysis of stomatology papers published in international journals by researchers from the mainland of China - Based on Thomson Reuters' Journal Citation Reports for 2009. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ORAL SCIENCE 3 (1): 1-6. Author Full Name(s): Zhang, Yu-hua; Pan, Yun-tao; Hong, Xiao Language: English Document Type: Review Author Keywords: oral; dentistry; Journal Citation Reports; SCIE-indexed papers Abstract: This paper has briefly analyzed the publication status of Chinese stomatology papers in 2009 with statistics from Journal Citation Reports (R) provided by Thomson Scientific. Only those papers with the first author coming from the mainland of China were included for calculations. We have found,a significant increase in the number of SCIE-indexed papers, most of which were published by six dental institutions in China. Among all Chinese medical institutions, West China School of Stomatology Sichuan University is the first dental institution to enter the top-20 list with the most publications, and it also ranks the 9th in the number of outstanding articles. West China School of Stomatology Sichuan University and the Forth Military Medical University are the only two dental institutions in China which have published SCIE-indexed papers over a hundred. The former has published the most SCIE-indexed stomatology papers, while the latter has the highest average impact factor. As the laboratories and funds in China have close connections with various dental hospitals, the pratice of translational medicine in dentistry is fast and fluent. Addresses: [Zhang, Yu-hua; Pan, Yun-tao] Inst Sci & Tech Informat China, Beijing 100038, Peoples R China; [Hong, Xiao] Sichuan Univ, State Key Lab Oral Dis, Chengdu 610041, Peoples R China Reprint Address: Zhang, YH, Inst Sci & Tech Informat China, Beijing 100038, Peoples R China. E-mail Address: zyh at istic.ac.cn ISSN: 1674-2818 DOI: 10.4248/IJOS11003 PDF: http://www.ijos.org.cn/qikan/manage/wenzhang/62.pdf From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Apr 18 15:26:09 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:26:09 -0400 Subject: Ellis, PD; Zhan, G. 2011. How international are the international business journals?. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS REVIEW 20 (1): 100-112 Message-ID: Ellis, PD; Zhan, G. 2011. How international are the international business journals?. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS REVIEW 20 (1): 100-112. Author Full Name(s): Ellis, Paul D.; Zhan, Ge Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Authorship; Internationalisation of research diversity; Research diversity KeyWords Plus: MANAGEMENT RESEARCH; RANKINGS; AMJ Abstract: In their assessment of research published in three international business journals, Thomas, Shenkar, and Clarke (1994) described a body of work characterized by low levels of internationalization We extend their research by reviewing 1439 articles published from 2000 to 2008 in four core international business journals Although we find that the shadow of US dominance continues to lie over the field, we also find evidence of increasing research and authorship diversity Although the representation of nations is uneven and cultural diversity levels remain low, we conclude that international business research has entered a new era of research internationalism. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Addresses: [Ellis, Paul D.; Zhan, Ge] Hong Kong Polytech Univ, Dept Management & Mkt, Kowloon, Hong Kong, Peoples R China Reprint Address: Ellis, PD, Hong Kong Polytech Univ, Dept Management & Mkt, Kowloon, Hong Kong, Peoples R China. E-mail Address: mspaul at inet.polyu.edu.hk; 06900258r at polyu.edu.hk ISSN: 0969-5931 DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2010.07.004 URL: http://www.mendeley.com/research/international-international-business- journals/ From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Apr 18 15:29:29 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:29:29 -0400 Subject: Guo, Z; Zhang, ZF; Zhu, SH; Chi, Y; Gong, YH. 2009. Knowledge Discovery from Citation Networks. 2009 9TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATA MINING: 800-805 Message-ID: Guo, Z; Zhang, ZF; Zhu, SH; Chi, Y; Gong, YH. 2009. Knowledge Discovery from Citation Networks. 2009 9TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATA MINING: 800-805. edited by Wang, W; Kargupta, H; Ranka, S; Yu, PS; Wu, XD.presented at 9th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining in Miami Beach, FL, DEC 06-09, 2009. Author Full Name(s): Guo, Zhen; Zhang, Zhongfei (Mark); Zhu, Shenghuo; Chi, Yun; Gong, Yihong Book series title: IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Language: English Document Type: Proceedings Paper Author Keywords: Unsupervised learning; latent models; text mining Abstract: Knowledge discovery from scientific articles has received increasing attentions recently since huge repositories are made available by the development of the Internet and digital databases. In a corpus of scientific articles such as a digital library, documents are connected by citations and one document plays two different roles in the corpus: document itself and a citation of other documents. In the existing topic models, little effort is made to differentiate these two roles. We believe that the topic distributions of these two roles are different and related in a certain way. In this paper we propose a Bernoulli Process Topic (BPT) model which models the corpus at two levels: document level and citation level. In the BPT model, each document has two different representations in the latent topic space associated with its roles. Moreover, the multi-level hierarchical structure of the citation network is captured by a generative process involving a Bernoulli process. The distribution parameters of the BPT model are estimated by a variational approximation approach. In addition to conducting the experimental evaluations on the document modeling task, we also apply the BPT model to a well known scientific corpus to discover the latent topics. The comparisons against state- of-the-art methods demonstrate a very promising performance. Addresses: [Guo, Zhen; Zhang, Zhongfei (Mark)] SUNY Binghamton, Dept Comp Sci, Binghamton, NY 13902 USA Reprint Address: Guo, Z, SUNY Binghamton, Dept Comp Sci, Binghamton, NY 13902 USA. E-mail Address: zguo at cs.binghamton.edu; zhongfei at cs.binghamton.edu; zsh at sv.nec-labs.com; ychi at sv.nec-labs.com; ygong at sv.nec-labs.com ISSN: 1550-4786 ISBN: 978-1-4244-5242-2 fulltext: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=5360314&tag=1 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Apr 18 15:31:56 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:31:56 -0400 Subject: Cao, Y; Tong, HF; Yu, J; Chen, DZ; Huang, MH; Zhang, X; Luo, Y; Zhao, YH; Zhang, ZY. 2010. Performance Evaluation of Universities in China Based on ESI Database. PICMET 2010: TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT FOR GLOBAL ECONOMIC GROWTH. Message-ID: Cao, Y; Tong, HF; Yu, J; Chen, DZ; Huang, MH; Zhang, X; Luo, Y; Zhao, YH; Zhang, ZY. 2010. Performance Evaluation of Universities in China Based on ESI Database. PICMET 2010: TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT FOR GLOBAL ECONOMIC GROWTH: . edited by Kocaoglu, DF; Anderson, TR; Daim, TU.presented at Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET 10) in Portland, OR, 2010. Author Full Name(s): Cao, Yan; Tong, He-feng; Yu, Jie; Chen, Dar-zen; Huang, Mu-hsuan; Zhang, Xu; Luo, Yong; Zhao, Yun-hua; Zhang, Ze-yu Language: English Document Type: Proceedings Paper Conference Host: Natl Elect & Comp Technol Ctr (NECTEC), Natl Sci & Technol Dev Agcy (NSTDA KeyWords Plus: BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS; BASIC RESEARCH; MOLECULAR- BIOLOGY; DEPARTMENTS; PUBLICATIONS; EFFICIENCY; DIMENSION Abstract: The research performance of universities in China is evaluated in this study from the global perspective. Based on the Essential Science Indicators (ESI) database, this research mainly concerns the academic output in overall publication activity and the influential strength of certain disciplines of selected universities. Different types of bibliometric methods are applied in this study, including publication output and impact indicators. Some basic bibliometric indicators, such as number of papers, number of citations, average citation rates, and number of highly cited papers, are obtained from ESI. The other three indicators are yielded from more complicated calculation in order to comprehensively interpret academic performance of selected universities. The overall research performance and the superior disciplines of these universities are revealed in this study, and the authors also compare the outstanding academic disciplines with their so called National Key Disciplines that the universities prioritize. The results show that there is a considerable gap between quality and quantity of research output of the universities in China. Meanwhile, a large degree of research influence concentrates on some specific disciplines of selected universities. Addresses: [Cao, Yan; Tong, He-feng; Yu, Jie; Zhang, Xu; Luo, Yong; Zhao, Yun-hua; Zhang, Ze-yu] Inst Sci & Tech Informat China, Res Ctr Strateg Sci & Technol Issues, Beijing, Peoples R China ISBN: 978-1-890843-22-9 URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=5602052 From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Mon Apr 18 15:33:25 2011 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:33:25 -0500 Subject: book review by Bensman, SJ. 2011. The Evaluation of Research by Scientometric Indicators by Peter Vinkler.. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 62 (1): 208-210 Message-ID: -----Original Message----- Book Review by Bensman, SJ. 2011. The Evaluation of Research by Scientometric Indicators by Peter Vinkler. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 62 (1): 208-210.. Author Full Name(s): Bensman, Stephen J. Language: English Document Type: Book Review Reprint Address: Bensman, SJ, Louisiana State Univ, LSU Lib, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA. E-mail Address: notsjb at lsu.edu ISSN: 1532-2882 DOI: 10.1002/asi.21417 fulltext: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.21417/full -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 21417_ftp.pdf Type: application/octet-stream Size: 55122 bytes Desc: 21417_ftp.pdf URL: From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Apr 18 15:33:59 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:33:59 -0400 Subject: Lissoni, F; Mairesse, J; Montobbio, F; Pezzoni, M. 2011. Scientific productivity and academic promotion: a study on French and Italian physicists. INDUSTRIAL AND CORPORATE CHANGE 20 (1): 253-294 Message-ID: Lissoni, F; Mairesse, J; Montobbio, F; Pezzoni, M. 2011. Scientific productivity and academic promotion: a study on French and Italian physicists. INDUSTRIAL AND CORPORATE CHANGE 20 (1): 253-294. Author Full Name(s): Lissoni, Francesco; Mairesse, Jacques; Montobbio, Fabio; Pezzoni, Michele Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: C23; I23; J40; O30 KeyWords Plus: SEX-DIFFERENCES; SELECTION BIAS; SCIENCE; NATIONS; CAREERS; IMPACT Abstract: The article examines the determinants of scientific productivity (number of articles and journals' impact factor) for a panel of about 3600 French and Italian academic physicists active in 2004-2005. Endogeneity problems concerning promotion and productivity are addressed by specifying a generalized Tobit model, in which a selection probit equation accounts for the individual scientist's probability of promotion to her present rank, and a productivity regression estimates the effects of age, gender, cohort of entry, and collaboration characteristics, conditional on the scientist's rank. We find that the size and international nature of collaborative projects and co-authors' past productivity have very significant impacts on current productivity, while age, gender, and past productivity are also influential determinants of both productivity and probability of promotion. Furthermore we show that the stop and go policies of recruitment and promotion, typical of the Italian and French centralized academic systems of governance, can leave significant long-lasting cohort effects on research productivity. Addresses: [Lissoni, Francesco] Univ Brescia, DIMI, I-20136 Milan, Italy; [Lissoni, Francesco; Montobbio, Fabio; Pezzoni, Michele] Univ Bocconi, KITeS, I-20136 Milan, Italy; [Mairesse, Jacques] CREST INSEE, F-92245 Malakoff, France; [Mairesse, Jacques] Natl Bur Econ Res, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA; [Mairesse, Jacques] United Nations Univ, NL-6211 TC Maastricht, Netherlands; [Mairesse, Jacques] ICER Villa Gualino, I-10133 Turin, Italy; [Montobbio, Fabio] Univ Insubria, Dept Econ, I-21100 Varese, Italy; Univ Bergamo, Dipartimento Ingn Gest, Bergamo, Italy Reprint Address: Lissoni, F, Univ Brescia, DIMI, Via Branze 38, I-20136 Milan, Italy. E-mail Address: lissoni at ing.unibs.it; Jacques.Mairesse at ensae.fr; fmontobbio at eco.uninsubria.it; michele.pezzoni at unibocconi.it ISSN: 0960-6491 DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtq073 URL: http://icc.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/01/19/icc.dtq073.full From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Apr 18 15:36:18 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:36:18 -0400 Subject: Romanovskii, MY. 2010. Publication activity of natural-science research organizations in Russia and abroad. HERALD OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 80 (6): 475-479 Message-ID: Romanovskii, MY. 2010. Publication activity of natural-science research organizations in Russia and abroad. HERALD OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 80 (6): 475-479. Author Full Name(s): Romanovskii, M. Yu. Language: English Document Type: Article Abstract: Is it possible to compare research institutes by the number of publications in leading peer-reviewed journals with the highest impact factor? Seemingly, it is, but, for the sake of correctness, these institutes should represent the same country. The method of assessing publication activity, proposed in the article below, makes it possible to answer a number of pressing questions, for example: Is science made only at universities? Who personifies Russian science?. Addresses: RAS Branch Phys Sci, Moscow, Russia Reprint Address: Romanovskii, MY, RAS Branch Phys Sci, Moscow, Russia. ISSN: 1019-3316 DOI: 10.1134/S1019331610060018 URL: http://www.springerlink.com/content/8r4r503610486512/ From krichel at OPENLIB.ORG Wed Apr 20 17:05:27 2011 From: krichel at OPENLIB.ORG (Thomas Krichel) Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 23:05:27 +0200 Subject: 7th Cern Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication Message-ID: [sent on behalf of the OAI7 Workshop Organising Committee] OAI7, the 7th Cern Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication, at http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?ovw=True&confId=103325, is being held on 22-24 June 2011 in the University of Geneva. OAI Workshops are *THE* Open Access event in Europe in the year in which they are held. They bring together a community of librarians, IT specialists, publishers, funders and researchers and are a real community occasion. A full programme of papers and posters has been prepared by the Organising Committee for this event. A new development for OAI7 is the introduction of a session on Open Access publishing, the first time this subject has received such treatment at OAI Workshops. The full programme of Tutorials and Papers can be found at http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceTimeTable.py?confId=103325#20110622. Registrations are proceeding apace. We encourage you to register quickly at http://indico.cern.ch/confRegistrationFormDisplay.py?confId=103325 to ensure you have a place at the event. There is a Social Programme to accompany OAI7, which will include a visit to the Cern Laboratories, with the opportunity to tour some of the exhibitions there, as well as a buffet and the now-traditional drinks sharing, where every attender is invited to bring something to drink and share which represents their home country. A second social occasion will be the drinks aperitif on the rooftop of the University buildings, giving panoramic views across the city. We look forward to meeting you in Geneva in June. OAI7 Workshop Organising Committee From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Sun Apr 24 14:51:26 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 14:51:26 -0400 Subject: Hodge, DR; Lacasse, JR. 2011. Evaluating Journal Quality: Is the H-Index a Better Measure Than Impact Factors?. RESEARCH ON SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE 21 (2): 222-230 Message-ID: Hodge, DR; Lacasse, JR. 2011. Evaluating Journal Quality: Is the H-Index a Better Measure Than Impact Factors?. RESEARCH ON SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE 21 (2): 222- 230. Author Full Name(s): Hodge, David R.; Lacasse, Jeffrey R. Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: h-index; impact factors; journal quality; bibliometrics KeyWords Plus: SOCIAL-WORK JOURNALS; FACULTY PUBLICATION PROJECT; GOOGLE- SCHOLAR; BIBLIOMETRIC DATA; CITATION; SCIENCE; WEB; SCOPUS; PRODUCTIVITY; PERCEPTIONS Abstract: Objectives: This study evaluates the utility of a new measure-the h-index- that may provide a more valid approach to evaluating journal quality in the social work profession. Method: H-index values are compared with Thomson ISI 5-year impact factors and expert opinion. Results: As hypothesized, the h-index correlates highly with ISI 5-year impact factors; but exhibits closer agreement with expert opinion, particularly with high familiarity disciplinary journals. Conclusions: This evidence of convergent and discriminatory validity suggests that the h-index may have some utility in assessing social work journals. Notable advantages of the h-index include its compatibility with the profession's applied research culture and its ability to be used with essentially all journals in which social workers publish. Addresses: [Hodge, David R.] Arizona State Univ, CoPP, Phoenix, AZ 85004 USA Reprint Address: Hodge, DR, Arizona State Univ, CoPP, Mail Code 3920,411 N Cent Ave,Suite 800, Phoenix, AZ 85004 USA. E-mail Address: davidhodge at asu.edu ISSN: 1049-7315 DOI: 10.1177/1049731510369141 URL: http://rsw.sagepub.com/content/early/2010/05/24/1049731510369141.abstract From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Sun Apr 24 14:54:36 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 14:54:36 -0400 Subject: Lowe, MS; Wallace, KL. 2011. HeinOnline and Law Review Citation Patterns. LAW LIBRARY JOURNAL 103 (1): 55-70 Message-ID: Lowe, MS; Wallace, KL. 2011. HeinOnline and Law Review Citation Patterns. LAW LIBRARY JOURNAL 103 (1): 55-70.. Author Full Name(s): Lowe, M. Sara; Wallace, Karen L. Language: English Document Type: Article KeyWords Plus: LIBRARY JOURNAL USE; LEGAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SCIENCE; REFERENCES; ARTICLES; AGE Addresses: [Lowe, M. Sara; Wallace, Karen L.] Drake Univ, Law Lib, Des Moines, IA 50311 USA Reprint Address: Lowe, MS, Drake Univ, Law Lib, Des Moines, IA 50311 USA. ISSN: 0023-9283 PDF: http://www.aallnet.org/products/pub_llj_v103n01/2011-03.pdf From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Sun Apr 24 14:56:56 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 14:56:56 -0400 Subject: Traynor, M. 2011. Bibliometrics as politics: the case of emerging disciplines. INTERNATIONAL NURSING REVIEW 58 (1): 26-27 Message-ID: Traynor, M. 2011. Bibliometrics as politics: the case of emerging disciplines. INTERNATIONAL NURSING REVIEW 58 (1): 26-27.. Author Full Name(s): Traynor, Michael Language: English Document Type: Editorial Material Author Keywords: Bibliometrics; Nursing Research; Professionalization Abstract: Academic nurses are increasingly turning to bibliometrics to assess the state and status of research publication in nursing in countries around the world. Early bibliometric studies were carried out by Cattell as part of a project to advance research in psychology in the early decades of the 20th century. There are some echoes in nursing's moves to increase its standing over the last 40 years. The interpretation of bibliometric studies can reveal embedded values about academic disciplinary activity and normative views of scientific work. Patterns of publishing by nurse academics appear increasingly to resemble those in biomedicine as a whole. Addresses: [Traynor, Michael] Middlesex Univ, London N17 8HR, England Reprint Address: Traynor, M, Middlesex Univ, Archway Campus, London N17 8HR, England. E-mail Address: m.traynor at mdx.ac.uk ISSN: 0020-8132 DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-7657.2010.00874.x fulltext: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1466- 7657.2010.00874.x/full From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Sun Apr 24 14:59:06 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 14:59:06 -0400 Subject: Yin, CY. 2011. Do impact factor, h-index and Eigenfactor (TM) of chemical engineering journals correlate well with each other and indicate the journals' influence and prestige?. CURRENT SCIENCE 100 (5): 648-653 Message-ID: Yin, CY. 2011. Do impact factor, h-index and Eigenfactor (TM) of chemical engineering journals correlate well with each other and indicate the journals' influence and prestige?. CURRENT SCIENCE 100 (5): 648-653. Author Full Name(s): Yin, Chun-Yang Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Chemical engineering; Eigenfactor (TM) score; h-index; journal impact factor; journal influence Abstract: This study aims to determine the correlation strength between impact factor (JIF), h-index and Eigenfactor (TM) of chemical engineering (CE) journals and its subsequent relevance in indicating the influence and prestige of the journals. Five-year JIFs, Eigenfactor (TM) and Article Influencer (TM) score for the journals are extracted from the 2008 Journal Citation Reports (R) whereas h-indices are determined from SCImago Journal & Country Rank and ISI Web of Knowledge. It is found that all the aforesaid metrics are highly correlated with one another (Spearman 's rho > 0.8) and it is especially true for broad-based CE journals. The Eigenfactor (TM) and h-index exhibit a power-law correlation and their combination is revealed to be the best indicator of prestige and impact of broad-based CE journals. Findings from this study shed some light on the suitability of the aforesaid metrics to complement each other when used as collective indicators to evaluate the influence or prestige of CE journals or journals of other categories. Addresses: Murdoch Univ, Sch Chem & Math Sci, Murdoch, WA 6150, Australia Reprint Address: Yin, CY, Murdoch Univ, Sch Chem & Math Sci, Murdoch, WA 6150, Australia. E-mail Address: c.yin at murdoch.edu.au ISSN: 0011-3891 PDF: http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/10mar2011/648.pdf From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Mon Apr 25 13:20:36 2011 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 12:20:36 -0500 Subject: Too big to fail pdf version of Chronicle article Message-ID: Jonathan R. 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An Incremental Clustering Crawler for Community-Limited Search. 2009 SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE APPLICATIONS OF DIGITAL INFORMATION AND WEB TECHNOLOGIES (ICADIWT 2009): 438-445. presented at 2nd International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies in London, ENGLAND, AUG 04-06, 2009. Author Full Name(s): Kim, Gye-Jeong; Whang, Kyu-Young; Kim, Min-Soo; Lim, Hyo-Sang; Lee, Ki-Hoon; Lee, Byung Suk Language: English Document Type: Proceedings Paper Abstract: We propose an incremental clustering crawler, a novel algorithm for finding communities for community-limited search in the web. A web community is a set of semantically related sites found through link-based clustering. The key idea of the proposed algorithm is to perform clustering incrementally while crawling is in progress. This algorithm does not need to crawl all the web pages a priori, but needs to crawl only as many web pages as are relevant to the clusters that are being formed. This ability to crawl on the fly is an important advantage since it is infeasible to crawl the entire set of web pages in the world and since we often do not even know which web pages or sites to crawl. Another advantage is that the time spent on clustering is reduced because at any time the clustering is performed on only the relevant web pages collected thus far An apparent disadvantage is that the resulting clusters are not optimal since the algorithm does not have all the crawled sites available at the time of clustering. Experiments show, however that the achieved cluster quality is comparable to the optimal cluster quality which, in our experiments, is achieved using the minimum spanning tree clustering algorithm. Addresses: [Kim, Gye-Jeong] LG Elect Inst Technol, Seoul, South Korea Reprint Address: Kim, GJ, LG Elect Inst Technol, Seoul, South Korea. E-mail Address: gjkim at mozart.kaist.ac.kr; kywhang at mozart.kaist.ac.kr; mskim at mozart.kaist.ac.kr; hslim at mozart.kaist.ac.kr; khlee at mozart.kaist.ac.kr; bslee at cems.uvm.edu ISBN: 978-1-4244-4456-4 URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=5273940 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Apr 25 14:17:41 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:17:41 -0400 Subject: Burnham, JC. 2011. Transnational History of Medicine after 1950: Framing and Interrogation from Psychiatric Journals. MEDICAL HISTORY 55 (1): 3-26 Message-ID: Burnham, JC. 2011. Transnational History of Medicine after 1950: Framing and Interrogation from Psychiatric Journals. MEDICAL HISTORY 55 (1): 3-26.. Author Full Name(s): Burnham, John C. Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Citation Analysis; Communication; Dissemination; English Language; Globalisation; Information; Internationality; Medical Publications; Psychiatry; Transnationalisation KeyWords Plus: CITATION ANALYSIS; IMPACT FACTOR; WORLD Abstract: Communication amongst medical specialists helps display the tensions between localism and transnationalisation. Some quantitative sampling of psychiatric journals provides one framework for understanding the history of psychiatry and, to some extent, the history of medicine in general in the twentieth century. After World War H, extreme national isolation of psychiatric communities gave way to substantial transnationalisation, especially in the 1980s, when a remarkable switch to English-language communication became obvious. Various psychiatric communities used the new universal language, not so much as victims of Americanisation, as to gain general professional recognition and to participate in and adapt to modernisation. Addresses: Ohio State Univ, Dept Hist, Columbus, OH 43210 USA Reprint Address: Burnham, JC, Ohio State Univ, Dept Hist, 106 Dulles Hall,230 W 17th Ave, Columbus, OH 43210 USA. E-mail Address: bumham.2 at osu.edu ISSN: 0025-7273 fulltext: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3037212/ From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Apr 25 14:28:34 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:28:34 -0400 Subject: Ferber, MA; Brun, M. 2011. The Gender Gap in Citations: Does It Persist?. FEMINIST ECONOMICS 17 (1): 151-158 Message-ID: Ferber, MA; Brun, M. 2011. The Gender Gap in Citations: Does It Persist?. FEMINIST ECONOMICS 17 (1): 151-158. Author Full Name(s): Ferber, Marianne A.; Bruen, Michael Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Academia; citations; discrimination; publications; tokens; women KeyWords Plus: ECONOMICS; WOMEN; SEX Abstract: In the late 1970s and early 1980s, several researchers showed the importance, in the United States, of the number of times scholars' publications are cited for determining their bargaining power in academia. Not surprisingly, the question was soon raised whether citations are a good measure of scholarly merit. Are women at a disadvantage in male-dominated fields, such as economics? Studies had shown that authors tended to cite a larger proportion of publications by authors of the same gender. This paper examines whether women's disadvantage in garnering citations has been reduced by the increasing representation of women in economics and finds that this has been the case in both labor economics and economics in general, albeit not to the same degree. Addresses: [Ferber, Marianne A.] Univ Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 USA; [Ferber, Marianne A.] Midwest Econ Assoc, St Louis, MO USA Reprint Address: Ferber, MA, Univ Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 USA. ISSN: 1354-5701 DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2010.541857 URL: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a932598195 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Apr 25 14:36:05 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:36:05 -0400 Subject: Glanville et al. Research output on primary care in Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States: bibliometric analysis. BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 342: art. no.-d1028 Message-ID: Glanville, J; Kendrick, T; McNally, R; Campbell, J; Hobbs, FDR. 2011. Research output on primary care in Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States: bibliometric analysis. BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 342: art. no.-d1028.. Author Full Name(s): Glanville, Julie; Kendrick, Tony; McNally, Rosalind; Campbell, John; Hobbs, F. D. Richard Language: English Document Type: Article Abstract: Objective To compare the volume and quality of original research in primary care published by researchers from primary care in the United Kingdom against five countries with well established academic primary care. Design Bibliometric analysis. Setting United Kingdom, United States, Australia, Canada, Germany, and the Netherlands. Studies reviewed Research publications relevant to comprehensive primary care and authored by researchers from primary care, recorded in Medline and Embase, with publication dates 2001-7 inclusive. Main outcome measures Volume of published activity of generalist primary care researchers and the quality of the research output by those publishing the most using citation metrics: numbers of cited papers, proportion of cited papers, and mean citation scores. Results 82 169 papers published between 2001 and 2007 in the six countries were classified as research on primary care. In a 15% pragmatic random sample of these records, 40% of research on primary care from the United Kingdom and 46% from the Netherlands was authored by researchers employed in a primary care setting or employed in academic departments of primary care. The 141 researchers with the highest volume of publications reporting research findings published between 2001 and 2007 (inclusive) authored or part authored 8.3% of the total sample of papers. For authors with the highest proportion of publications cited at least five times, the best performers came from the United States (n=5), United Kingdom (n=4), and the Netherlands (n=2). In the top 10 of authors with the highest proportions of publications achieving 20 or more citations, six were from the United Kingdom and four from the United States. The mean Hirsch index (measure of a researcher's productivity and impact of the published work) was 14 for the Netherlands, 13 for the United Kingdom, 12 for the United States, 7 for Canada, 4 for Australia, and 3 for Germany. Conclusion This international comparison of the volume and citation rates of papers by researchers from primary care consistently placed UK researchers among the best performers internationally. Addresses: [Hobbs, F. D. Richard] Univ Birmingham, Dept Primary Care Clin Sci, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England; [Glanville, Julie] Univ York, York Hlth Econ Consortium, York YO10 5DD, N Yorkshire, England; [Kendrick, Tony] Univ Southampton, Dept Primary Care, Southampton SO9 5NH, Hants, England; [McNally, Rosalind] Univ Manchester, Natl Primary Care Res & Dev Ctr, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England Reprint Address: Hobbs, FDR, Univ Birmingham, Dept Primary Care Clin Sci, Primary Care Clin Sci Bldg, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England. E-mail Address: f.d.r.hobbs at bham.ac.uk ISSN: 0959-535X DOI: 10.1136/bmj.d1028 fulltext: http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.d1028.full From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Apr 25 14:38:20 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:38:20 -0400 Subject: Weightman, AL; Butler, CC. 2011. Using bibliometrics to define the quality of primary care research. BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 342: art. no.-d1083 Message-ID: Weightman, AL; Butler, CC. 2011. Using bibliometrics to define the quality of primary care research. BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 342: art. no.-d1083.. Author Full Name(s): Weightman, Alison L.; Butler, Chris C. Language: English Document Type: Editorial Material E-mail Address: weightmanal at cardiff.ac.uk ISSN: 0959-535X DOI: 10.1136/bmj.d1083 fulltext: http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.d1083.full From notsjb at LSU.EDU Tue Apr 26 10:52:06 2011 From: notsjb at LSU.EDU (Stephen J Bensman) Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 09:52:06 -0500 Subject: Hogben vs. R. A. Fisher Message-ID: Below is a section of my book, The Probability Structure of Scientific Information, on the assault of my intellectual hero, Lancelot Hogben, on the statistics developed by the British biometric school, more specifically those of R.A. Fisher. I may not agree with everything Hogen writes but he does clarify the intellectual and philosophical bases of modern inferential statistics. He also makes very clear that all this scientometric stuff we do stems from eugenics, and, when we evaluate scientists, institutions, nations, etc., we stand upon the road that leads to Auschwitz. As a native of Wisconsin and alumnus of University of Wisconsin at Madison, I found Hogben's observations on the UW and small town Wisconsin life very insightful. It should be noted that Hogben's son, Adrian, received his medical degree from the UW. It should also be noted that R. A. Fisher's son-in-law, George Box, developed the UW's statistics program and that, when I was an undergraduate there, R. A. Fisher himself often visited Madison to see his daughter Joan Fisher Box, whose book on her father I often cite. Stephen J. Bensman LSU Libraries Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA notsjb at lsu.edu The above concepts were the focus of the ferocious critique of the inferential system developed by the British biometricians in the book Statistical Theory by Hogben (1957). In his autobiography Hogben (1998) stated, "In Statistical Theory, 1957, I repudiated the still almost universally accepted assumptions of Fisherian statistics" (p.124), and in the book itself he described the concept of "a random sample of some infinite hypothetical population of possible values" as "the kingpin of the theory of statistical inference expounded by R. A. Fisher" (p. 98). Hogben's case against the biometricians was political, scientific, and philosophical. Politically he did not like their eugenics. Part of this was personal. As the son of an impoverished family, he had attended Cambridge on a scholarship system, which Major Leonard Darwin, son of Charles Darwin and Fisher's mentor, together with other eugenicists denounced as dysgenic and a waste of public resources, because students from poor families were genetically inferior (Sarkar, 1996). Hogben was not only opposed to discrimination on the basis of class but also on the basis of race. He was compelled to cut short his stay as professor of zoology in Cape Town due to his openly anti-apartheid attitudes and actions (Wells, 1978, pp. 194-198). Hogben (1940) once described his tenure at Cape Town as a "four years' sojourn among the chromatocracy of South Africa" (p. 47), and in his memoirs Hogben (1998) stated, "By the beginning of 1929, the prospect was not at all healthy for university staff who openly opposed the Government's racial policy" (p. 114). He was also a steadfast opponent of Nazism, helping Jewish scientists in Germany in the late 1930s, and in 1940 he was caught by the German invasion of Norway, when he went to lecture at the University of Oslo on genetic credentials of Nazi race theory. Since the Blitzkrieg had cut him off from England, returning home entailed one-year odyssey via Sweden, the Soviet Union, Japan, and the United States, where he accepted an offer of a one-semester visiting professorship to teach mathematical genetics at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and gained a "glimpse of one-horse-town life" (Hogben, 1998, p. 177). Here it should be pointed out that Hogben (1998) was not only anti-Nazi but anti-Communist, finding "Marxist dogma dished out as dialectical materialism deeply distasteful and wholly incompatible with my own criteria for intellectual integrity" (p. 129). To him, it was just another "brand of religious fanaticism," and he dismissed the Communist scientific bible-Anti-D?hring by Friedrich Engels-as a "hodgepodge of Teutonic mysticism, phrenology, and mid-nineteenth century naturalism" (p. 128). In his book Statistical Theory Hogben (1957) revealed that his anti-eugenicist stance was an important component of his hostile attitude toward the British biometric school. Here he described Galton as "the father of the political cult variously named eugenics or Rassenhygiene" (p.106) and his views as "Galton's racialist creed" (p. 325). Considering Karl Pearson as "Galton's disciple" (p.106), he declared that "K. Pearson's flair for ancestor worship had ample scope for self-expression in his partnership with the founder of the Eugenic cult" (p. 176). However, Hogben reserved his greatest contempt for R. A. Fisher. In a passage discussing the downfall of the Nazi Party in his autobiography excised from the published version by the editors but quoted by Tabery (2008), Hogben has this to say about Fisher: ...After the war, the Nuremberg justices of the peace had Rosenberg hanged. If I believed in hanging people for their opinions, the only extenuating circumstances I might enter with a clear conscience as a plan for mercy on behalf of the late Sir R. A. Fisher would be that he did not occupy a government post with responsibility for implementing his convictions. pp. 753-754. When Hogben applied for the position of professor of social biology at the London School of Economics to escape apartheid South Africa, one of his competitors for the post, according to Fisher's daughter, J. F. Box (1978, p. 202), was Fisher. Hogben's candidacy was promoted by the Marxist Harold Laski, and in his memoirs Hogben (1998) surmised that Laski's main reason was the following: ...Laski's main concern in inveigling me into taking the chair of Social Biology was that the brass hats of the Eugenics Society were already congratulating themselves on the prospect of one of their co-religionists getting the job. At the time, the Society was truculently anti-socialist and a stronghold of racial prejudice. Unlike so many other leftists in the academic world of that time, Laski did not underrate the sinister significance of racist doctrines upholstered with bogus biology then gaining ground in Germany. p. 121. The above surmise was not far off the mark, for the correspondence of R. A. Fisher (M. Keynes, 2001-2002, 44 (March/June 2002), p. 1; Bennett, 1983, pp. 112-113) reveals that he was being encouraged in his candidacy by the Leonard Darwin, President of the Eugenics Society and Hogben's b?te noire. In his autobiography Hogben (1998) provided the following evaluation of human genetics as a science when he assumed the post of Professor of Social Biology at the London School of Economics: At that time human genetics was a morass of surmise and superstition. It had as yet no sufficient theoretical foundation for firm conclusions about the results of matings necessarily beyond the range of experimental control. In short, no advance could materialise without further mathematical exploration of the postulates of experimentally established principles.... The rationalisation of race prejudice by appeal to biological principles was then plausible only because human genetics was so immature.... p. 122. Hogben crossed scientific swords with Fisher on the issue of nature vs. nurture shortly taking over the social biology professorship. Tabery (2008) has analyzed the origins and development of this controversy, summarizing it in the following manner: ...R. A. Fisher, one of the founders of population genetics and the creator of the statistical analysis of variance, introduced the biometric concept as he attempted to resolve one of the main problems in the biometric tradition of biology - partitioning the relative contributions of nature and nurture responsible for variation in a population. Lancelot Hogben, an experimental embryologist and also a statistician, introduced the developmental concept as he attempted to resolve one of the main problems in the developmental tradition of biology - determining the role that developmental relationships between genotype and environment played in the generation of variation.... p. 717. According to Tabery, whereas the eugenicists emphasized hereditary variation and the anti-eugenicists emphasized environmental variation, the crucial variability for Hogben was a third type that resulted from the combination of a particular genetic constitution with a particular environment. Tabery considered this controversy as a precursor of the one that erupted later in the century over the relationship of IQ to race. The origins of the controversy can be traced back to the landmark paper by Fisher (1918) entitled "The Correlation between Relatives on the Supposition of Mendelian Inheritance," in which he reconciled biometry and Mendelism. At the end of this paper Fisher acknowledged his "indebtedness to Major Leonard Darwin, at whose suggestion this inquiry was first undertaken, and to whose kindness and advice it owes its completion" (p. 433). Fisher (1918) stated his main conclusion thus: By means of the fraternal correlation it is possible to ascertain the dominance ratio and so distinguish dominance from all non-genetic causes, such as environment,...[and] to calculate the numerical influence not only of dominance, but of the total genetic and non-genetic causes of variability. An examination of the best available figures for human measurements shows that there is little or no indication of non-genetic causes.... pp. 432-433. Hogben (1933a) subjected Fisher's paper to critical analysis in an article entitled "The Limits of Applicability of Correlation Technique in Human Genetics." This article was incorporated by Hogben (1933b, pp. 91-121) as a chapter entitled "The Interdependence of Nature and Nurture" in his book entitled Nature and Nurture, which comprised the William Withering Memorial Lectures he delivered at the University of Birmingham Faculty of Medicine. In the article Hogben (1933a) characterized Fisher's paper as an attempt at "a synthesis between the particulate theory of inheritance and the problem of nature and nurture as it had been formulated by Galton and his successors" (p. 379). He summarized the conclusions of his critique in the following three points: (1) The technique of correlation can be used to draw attention to the existence of genetic differences or of differences due to environment provided the selection of data is appropriate to the kind of differences we wish to detect. (2) The belief that a comparison between observed correlations of relatives and correlations based upon purely genetical assumptions provides us with a measure of the influence of nurture is not justified, because of the close relationship between the distribution of gene differences and differences due to environment in populations of viviparous animals which live in families, especially when, as with human populations, the environment of different families may differ greatly. (3) A balance sheet of nature and nurture, if it has any significance in the light of modern experimental concepts, does not entitle us to set limits to changes which might be produced by regulating the social or physical environment of a human population. In his lectures Hogben (1933b) capped these conclusions by pointing to "the danger of concealing assumptions which have no factual basis behind an impressive fa?ade of flawless algebra" (p. 121). However, perhaps Hogben's biggest disagreements with the British biometricians were not political and scientific but philosophical, and he set forth the bases of these disagreements in his book, The Nature of Living Matter. In the first place, as described above, here Hogben (1930) divided reality into the public world of scientific discourse, where ideas had to be communicated and validated, and the private world of unverifiable opinion. According to him (p. 127), the failure to recognize that biology no less than physics was an ethically neutral science was a result of the religious hostility evoked by Darwin's theory of evolution in the mid-19th century, which forced biologists to focus not on the logical structure of the new theory but its apparent implications for social philosophy. The purpose of experimental biology of his generation was to free biology of this and to reduce the problems of organic evolution to an exact science. From this perspective, Hogben criticized the eugenicists for injecting their private opinions into the public discourse of science, hurting the development of biology as an ethically neutral science. Thus, he wrote that eugenic propaganda in England had been dominated by an explicit social bias making it unpalatable to a section of the community assuming the role of a governing class, declaring, "The greatest obstacle to the spread of a sane eugenic point of view is the eugenists themselves" (p. 214). According to Hogben, the biologist should make clear when he is speaking as a professional biologist and when he is speaking a private citizen, and he drove the point home in the following manner: ...As a private citizen the biologist is entitled to his own opinions concerning the merits of sterilizing the unfit, just as he is entitled to his own opinions on the Single tax or the advantages of capital punishment. Such opinions usually belong to his private world. In his public capacity, as a biologist, he is primarily concerned with sterilizing the instruments of research before undertaking surgical operations upon the body politic. p. 215. On the whole, Hogben comes across as a voice of sanity and reason in a world rapidly going insane. In the second place, as has been seen above, Karl Pearson in his The Grammar of Science consciously based science and British biometrics on the idealistic precepts of Bishop Berkeley and Immanuel Kant. For Pearson, science dealt with sense impressions, and its field was essentially the contents of the mind. From this perspective, the statistician deals not with material reality, which he cannot know, but with mental constructs of reality. In his book Statistical Theory Hogben (1957) described such type of thinking as "Platonism," and it has been seen that he traced its origins in statistics back Quetelet, He considered both Galton and Pearson disciples of Quetelet, calling the latter "the architect of a system of values and of an epistemology later inflicted by Karl Pearson on a generation still surviving" (p. 109). Hogben had run into this type of thinking at the 1929 South Africa meeting of the British Association in the ideas of the astrophysicist , Arthur Eddington (1929), who in a book entitled The Nature of the Physical World described this world as "mind-stuff." Hogben (1930) had countered this in his book The Nature of Living Matter with his "behaviourist" approach, by which he meant that the work of the Russian physiologist, Ivan Pavlov, on the conditioned reflex had destroyed the distinction between "mind" and "matter," making such questions moot. For Hogben the question shifted from one of ontology or existence to one of epistemology or what was communicable and knowable in the public world of scientific discourse. In Statistical Theory Hogben (1957) considered Fisher's concept of "a random sample of some infinite hypothetical population of possible values" as emblematic of the Platonic underpinnings of the inferential statistics developed by the British biometric school. Linking Fisher's hypothetical universe with Quetelet's average man and the normal paradigm, Hogben identified "the angelic choir in the Platonic empyrean of universals with an infinite population of the Normal Man" (p. 180), and he denounced as "Platonic constructs" the concepts of "the infinite hypothetical population, the normal man and the normal environment" (p. 476). There is truth in Hogben's charge, for in Fisher's world we do appear to be prisoners in Plato's cave, trying to divine the nature of our infinite conceptual or hypothetical populations from the shadows (statistics) cast upon the wall by the Ideas or Forms (parameters) of these populations. However, there still remains the question of whether what Hogben considered as one of the major weaknesses of British biometrics is actually one of its major strengths. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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