From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Tue Feb 1 02:30:44 2011 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 08:30:44 +0100 Subject: new versions of ti.exe and fulltext.exe for co-word (network) analysis Message-ID: Dear colleagues, I extended and updated both ti.exe and fulltext.exe . Ti.exe generates a semantic co-word map of a set of lines no longer than 1000 characters each and fulltext.exe uses a set of documents. The extensions are as follows: First both programs write now the word-document matrix also as matrix.txt (comma separated variables). This file can be read into SPSS in the case of more than 255 variables. The file labels.sps can be used for labeling the variables to a maximum of 1023 variables. (SPSS does not read more than 255 variables from a .dbf or .xls file.) Both programs have a limit of 1023 words; the number of records (documents) is not limited other than by the disksize. (A manual for applications to content analysis can be found here .) After generating the word-document matrix and the Pajek input files (cosine.dat and coocc.dat; cf. Leydesdorff & Welbers, in press), the program prompts with the question of whether one wishes additionally to run the same routines with observed/expected values. This generates obsexp.dbf (analogous to matrix.dbf), obsexp.txt (analogous to matrix.txt), and coocc_oe.dat and cos_oe.dat, analogous to the input files for Pajek (see the websites), but now containing or operating on the observed/expected values instead of the observed ones. Note that answering "y" (yes) extends the processing time of the original routine; therefore, the default is "n". The SPSS syntax file labels.sps is the same because the variable are not changed. Similarly, one can use (with the same variable labels) the file TfIdf.dbf which contains the "term frequency-inverse document frequency" values as used in library and information science. The expected values are separately stored in the file expected.dbf. The file obs_exp.dbf contains the signed (!) differences between observed and expected values at the cell level of the matrix. (These are the non-standardized residuals of the chi-square.) The corresponding Pajek files can be generated by replacing the matrix values in cos_oe.dat with, for example, the cosine matrix of the values in TfIdf.dbf. (Cosine values can be generated in SPSS under Analyze > Correlate > Distances.) One can also replace the matrix values with the non-normalized values. This should work without problems. Note that the number of cases can be different because rows with no values other than zero are in some cases removed in order to prevent divisions by zero in the computation. However, the number and order of the variables remains the same. After processing, the file words.dbf contains for all words the following summations over the (column) vectors for each word: 1. A variable named "Chi_Sq" which provides Chi-square contributions for each of the variables; these are defined for wordi as ?i?2 = (Observedij - Expectedij)2 / Expectedin. In other words, the sum of the contributions over the column for the variable in each row (Mogoutov et al., 2008); 2. A variable named "Obs_Exp" which provides the sum of |Observed - Expected| for the word as a variable summed over the column; 3. A variable named "ObsExp" which provides the quotient of Obs/Exp for the word as variable summed over the column; 4. A variable named "TfIdf" (that is, Term Frequency * Inverse Document Frequency) defined as follows: Tf-Idf = FREQik * [log2 (n / DOCFREQk)]. This function assigns a high degree of importance to terms occurring in only a few documents in the collection (Salton & McGill, 1983, p. 63); 5. The word frequency within the set. These programs were made under DOS, using 16-bits. Increasingly, 64-bits machines are no longer able to use these programs (unless one downloads the Virtual PC and runs in XP mode). I uploaded versions which are recompiled under Windows-32. These versions are much larger ( > 7 Mbyte) and more error-prone. I just recompile (using a different compiler) without systematically debugging, but I'll react on feedback about error messages. One can disregard error messages which do not stop the program. The 64-bits versions can be found here: ti.exe and fulltext.exe . Error messages are provided when working from the command prompt. (These programs still look like DOS, but they are fully Windows-32.) One can run the old versions on older machines or using the virtual PC in XP-mode on 64-bits machines. Please, consider these programs as legacy software; you are most welcome to use them for scholarly purposes, but at your own risk! Best wishes, Loet References: Loet Leydesdorff & Kasper Welbers (2011), The semantic mapping of words and co-words in contexts , Journal of Informetrics (in press); preprint version available at http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.5209. Esther Vlieger & Loet Leydesdorff (2009). "How to analyze frames using semantic maps of a collection of messages? Pajek Manual." Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam. ** apologies for cross-postings _____ 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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The primary objective of the Doctoral Forum is to provide doctoral students with a forum to present and discuss their research projects with senior researchers and fellow students and to develop their relationships with other scientists. The Doctoral Forum is a one-day event that will take place prior to the main conference on 4 July 2011. Due to the time consuming form of the Doctoral Forum, the number of participants is restricted. The doctoral forum is only open to the invited senior researchers and the accepted students. There is no separate fee for attending the doctoral forum, but participation requires the students to register for the conference Doctoral forum committee (senior researchers): To be announced later Doctoral Forum organizers Prof Omwoyo Bosire Onyancha (Department of Information Science, University of South Africa, South Africa) Associate Professor, Jesper W. 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Policies and regulations must be derived from basic incorruptible data and measures to maintain a healthy and productive STEM enterprise. The economic health of the STEM enterprise is based on a number of factors, the first being the workforce, for example, the number of scientists, engineers and technologists employed, unemployed and/or underemployed, and the influx of future workers from the academic community. The second factor is funding. Where and how much money is placed into the enterprise? For instance, should earmarks in any federal agency allotment be counted as part of the R&D budget? What is the true amount within reasonable error margins of the industrial input to the R&D budget? Why does the industrial sector not fully fund basic & applied research? The third factor is data. Is bibliometric data reasonable in measuring output? If not, what new data sources can be put in force to quantify output? What data exist to follow interactions among the three STEM enterprise sectors: federal, academic and industrial, and among different collaborating countries? Finally, given these factors what is the outcome that can affect a national or international policy? Given incorruptible data, can an algorithm be designed to sufficiently measure productivity and quality? Are there dependant functions that can within some degree of accuracy project future productivity? Can this be employed by policymakers to make the STEM enterprise more efficient? The first "Workshop on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Enterprise: Measures for Innovation and Competiveness," was held at George Washington University on 21 October 2009 in Washington, D.C., to address these issues. 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This is the world broadest coverage ranking of Universities showing the performance of 12,000 higher education institutions worldwide. The Ranking is freely available: http://www.webometrics.info/ This January 2011 edition's introduces new improved features including an updated Directory, more national and regional Rankings and recalculated indicators for better reflecting academic impact of the universities' web presence. Focusing not only on the research dimension, but considering also other academic missions like teaching, community engagement and knowledge and technological transfer, the Ranking Web is offering a series of truly global indicators that reveal the outstanding performers, the excellence in education and the international impact and visibility of the universities. The main results from the current edition are: ?US dominance: The Ranking is headed by MIT and Harvard University, followed by Stanford and California Berkeley. There are 115 North American universities among the Top 200, including 16 Canadian ones. ?Academic Digital Divide. The concerning gap between US and the Developed World Universities is not being closed. Only 59 European institutions are cited in the Top 200, including 10 UK ones, mostly in the leading group (Cambridge and University College of London are the EU best ones) ?Language barriers. The globalization of the Web penalized the international visibility of French, Japanese or Korean universities. Australian, Scandinavian, Singapore and surprisingly Taiwanese institutions show a performance close to the Canadian universities. ?Size is a relevant factor in the emerging countries. Sao Paulo in Brazil, UNAM in M?xico and Peking and Tsinghua in China are examples to be considered. None Indian university appears in top 500. ?Open Access policies. The scores show that many universities are launching big efforts to populate their repositories, greatly expanding the availability of academic papers. On the contrary, there are still a few hundred institutions with two or more web domains, a bad practice that penalizes not only their rank but their overall visibility in search engines. "In this edition a new indicator has been applied for reflecting more accurately the academic impact of the web contents" said Isidro F. Aguillo, Head of the Cybermetrics Lab. "The goal is to provide a complete overview of the academia worldwide, without using subjective criteria or excluding universities solely by technical reasons and guaranteeing no economical or political interests affect the scores". "We are very surprised by the use of incomplete or flawed rankings for recognition of foreign university degrees. The current report constitutes a robust evaluation resource that can useful worldwide" said Isidro Aguillo. *About The Cybermetrics Lab* The Cybermetrics Lab is a research group devoted to Science Evaluation by means of analysis, visualization and evaluation of the information published in the public Web. The Cybermetrics Lab belongs to the Spanish Research Council (CSIC), the largest scientific public body in Spain and one of the most important networks of research centers in Europe. The Cybermetrics Lab publishes several scientific information portals including the Webometrics Rankings of Research centers (research.webometrics.info), Hospitals (hospitals.webometrics.info), Business Schools (business-schools.webometrics.info) and Repositories (repositories.webometrics.info). *About the Webometrics Project* The Webometrics Rankings are published since 2004, analyzing more than 45.000 academic and research organizations from all over the world. About 20.000 Higher Education Institutions are included in the Catalogue of Universities that is probably the largest and the most updated (a new edition appears every January & July) world directory of academic web domains. *Media Contact* Isidro F. Aguillo, HcDr Head, The Cybermetrics Lab Email: isidro.aguillo at cchs.csic.es -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From isidro.aguillo at CCHS.CSIC.ES Thu Feb 3 13:48:09 2011 From: isidro.aguillo at CCHS.CSIC.ES (Isidro F. Aguillo) Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 19:48:09 +0100 Subject: [Web4lib] Ranking Web of Universities. January 2011 Edition In-Reply-To: <847E56CCF2682C41B52795B54701AEC604C842519948@MAIL.admin.tc3.edu> Message-ID: Dear Wilfred: There a search gateway at bottom of the left index. It is powered by ZoomSearch that is powerful enough and it is a really cheap option. Best, -- Isidro F. Aguillo, HonPhD Cybermetrics Lab (3C1). CCHS - CSIC Albasanz, 26-28. 28037 Madrid. Spain isidro.aguillo @ cchs.csic.es www. webometrics.infoQuoting Wilfred Drew: > One problem, how does one get the ranking of a specific institution? > > ----------------------------------------- > Wilfred (Bill) Drew, M.S., B.S., A.S. > Assistant Professor > Librarian, Systems and Tech Services > Strengths: Ideation, Input, Learner, Command, Analytical > E-mail: dreww at tc3.edu > Follow the library: http://twitter.com/TC3Library > ?Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail or document. > > -----Original Message----- > From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org > [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Isidro F. > Aguillo > Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 6:09 AM > To: web4lib at webjunction.org; ASIS&T Special Interest Group on > Metrics; air-l at listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Web4lib] Ranking Web of Universities. January 2011 Edition > > *Ranking Web of Universities. January 2011 Edition* > > ?*New edition of the ranking including 12,000 Higher Education > Institutions according to its web performance in January 2011* > > ?*It analyzes presence and performance and the international visibility > and impact of the universities* > > ?*Useful Resource for researchers, scholars, provosts, managers, and > candidate students* > > ?*Developed by The Cybermetrics Lab, CSIC* > > *Madrid, February 3rd, 2011 -- *The Cybermetrics Lab released today the > 12^th edition of its Ranking Web of Universities. This is the world > broadest coverage ranking of Universities showing the performance of > 12,000 higher education institutions worldwide. > > The Ranking is freely available: > http://www.webometrics.info/ > > This January 2011 edition's introduces new improved features including > an updated Directory, more national and regional Rankings and > recalculated indicators for better reflecting academic impact of the > universities' web presence. > > Focusing not only on the research dimension, but considering also other > academic missions like teaching, community engagement and knowledge and > technological transfer, the Ranking Web is offering a series of truly > global indicators that reveal the outstanding performers, the excellence > in education and the international impact and visibility of the > universities. > > The main results from the current edition are: > > ?US dominance: The Ranking is headed by MIT and Harvard University, > followed by Stanford and California Berkeley. There are 115 North > American universities among the Top 200, including 16 Canadian ones. > > ?Academic Digital Divide. The concerning gap between US and the > Developed World Universities is not being closed. Only 59 European > institutions are cited in the Top 200, including 10 UK ones, mostly in > the leading group (Cambridge and University College of London are the EU > best ones) > > ?Language barriers. The globalization of the Web penalized the > international visibility of French, Japanese or Korean universities. > Australian, Scandinavian, Singapore and surprisingly Taiwanese > institutions show a performance close to the Canadian universities. > > ?Size is a relevant factor in the emerging countries. Sao Paulo in > Brazil, UNAM in M?xico and Peking and Tsinghua in China are examples to > be considered. None Indian university appears in top 500. > > ?Open Access policies. The scores show that many universities are > launching big efforts to populate their repositories, greatly expanding > the availability of academic papers. On the contrary, there are still a > few hundred institutions with two or more web domains, a bad practice > that penalizes not only their rank but their overall visibility in > search engines. > > "In this edition a new indicator has been applied for reflecting more > accurately the academic impact of the web contents" said Isidro F. > Aguillo, Head of the Cybermetrics Lab. "The goal is to provide a > complete overview of the academia worldwide, without using subjective > criteria or excluding universities solely by technical reasons and > guaranteeing no economical or political interests affect the scores". > > "We are very surprised by the use of incomplete or flawed rankings for > recognition of foreign university degrees. The current report > constitutes a robust evaluation resource that can useful worldwide" said > Isidro Aguillo. > > *About The Cybermetrics Lab* > > The Cybermetrics Lab is a research group devoted to Science Evaluation > by means of analysis, visualization and evaluation of the information > published in the public Web. The Cybermetrics Lab belongs to the Spanish > Research Council (CSIC), the largest scientific public body in Spain and > one of the most important networks of research centers in Europe. > > The Cybermetrics Lab publishes several scientific information portals > including the Webometrics Rankings of Research centers > (research.webometrics.info), Hospitals (hospitals.webometrics.info), > Business Schools (business-schools.webometrics.info) and Repositories > (repositories.webometrics.info). > > *About the Webometrics Project* > > The Webometrics Rankings are published since 2004, analyzing more than > 45.000 academic and research organizations from all over the world. > About 20.000 Higher Education Institutions are included in the Catalogue > of Universities that is probably the largest and the most updated (a new > edition appears every January & July) world directory of academic web > domains. > > *Media Contact* > > Isidro F. Aguillo, HcDr > Head, The Cybermetrics Lab > Email: isidro.aguillo at cchs.csic.es > > _______________________________________________ > Web4lib mailing list > Web4lib at webjunction.org > http://lists.webjunction.org/web4lib/ > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andrea.scharnhorst at VKS.KNAW.NL Mon Feb 7 10:29:58 2011 From: andrea.scharnhorst at VKS.KNAW.NL (Andrea Scharnhorst) Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 16:29:58 +0100 Subject: Postdoc position (social sciences - STS, information science, or other related disciplines) ACUMEN project Amsterdam Message-ID: [cid:3D7ADC04-DCF7-4DEF-B913-9D50FAA58CFF] DANS is the national organisation for digital storage and dissemination of research data in the Humanities and Social Sciences and. DANS is involved in various national and international projects aimed at improving the availability of research data. With effect from March 1st there is a vacancy for a Post-doc ACUMEN 38 hours a week (1.0 fte) (Vacancy number DANS-2011-ACUMEN) DANS in collaboration with the e-Humanities Group of the KNAW is working on an EU FP7 -funded project ?Academic Careers Understood through Measurement and Norms? (ACUMEN). Project Background Assessment of the performance of individual researchers is the cornerstone of the scientific and scholarly workforce. It shapes the quality and relevance of knowledge production in science, technology and innovation. Currently, there is a discrepancy between the criteria used in performance assessment and the broader social and economic function of scientific and scholarly research. Additional problems in the current evaluation system are: lack of resources for qualitative evaluation due to increased scale of research; available quantitative measures are often not applicable at the individual level; andthere is a lack of recognition for new types of work that researchers need to perform. As a result, the broader social functions of the scientific system are often not included in its quality control mechanisms. ACUMEN addresses these problems by developing criteria and guidelines for Good Evaluation Practices (GEP). These will be based on an ACUMEN Portfolio for individual researchers throughout the sciences, social sciences and humanities combining multiple qualitative and quantitative evidence sources. The ACUMEN Portfolio will be based on: a comparative analysis of current peer review systems in Europe; an in-depth exploration of novel peer review practices; an assessment of the use of scientometric indicators in performance evaluation; the development of new web-based indicators and web-based evaluation tools; and a comparative analysis of the implications of current and emerging evaluation practices for the career development of women researchers. ACUMEN is an integrated, comparative study in which a set of proven methods will be used on the basis of selections from one shared data set: a sample of European Research Area personnel from bibliographic and web databases as well as data harvested from websites, and data gathered through interviews and from citation indexes. The consortium includes partners from the Netherlands, Israel, Spain, Germany, Denmark, Estonia and the UK. Information on the position You will work with Dr Andrea Scharnhorst and Professor Sally Wyatt, on a review of current evaluation practices in Europe and how they are experienced by researchers across different disciplines, countries and career stage. You will conduct desk-based research regarding peer review (academic analysis as well as guidelines issued by funding and other research organisations). In addition, you will also conduct a small number of case studies in order to understand how evaluation methods are experienced, addressing in particular what kinds of research work are more or less visible in different evaluation frameworks. You will also contribute to the work packages led by other consortium partners. Position requirements You preferably should have the following qualifications: * A completed PhD in a relevant social science discipline (STS, information science, or other related discipline) * Skills or demonstrable interest in the substantive area of research evaluation * Training in and experience of using qualitative research methods * Clear evidence of or potential for international excellence in published research * Fluency in spoken English and excellent written and verbal communication skills * Knowledge of one or more other European languages would be an advantage * Willingness and proven ability to work in a team and to liaise with colleagues in an international and interdisciplinary research environment * Ability to develop contacts and participate in internal and external networks for the exchange of information and collaboration * Experience with EU FP7 projects Appointment The position involves a temporary appointment for 3 years and will be located with DANS and the e-Humanities Group. Applicants should have the right to work in the Netherlands for the duration of the contract. Salary Depending on training and work experience, the gross monthly salary coming with a fulltime appointment will amount to a maximum of ? 3.755 per month (scale 10 Collective Labour Agreement Dutch Universities), excluding 8% holiday payment and 8.3% year end payment. A comprehensive package of fringe benefits is included. Place of employment: Place of employment will be the national research data archive DANS, close to train station Laan van NOI in The Hague, The Netherlands. The successful applicant will also be associated with the e-Humanities Group of the KNAW, and will be expected to regularly participate in meetings held in Amsterdam (location Meertens institute). 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Language: Spanish Document Type: Article Author Keywords: bibliometrics; impact factor; web of science; Mexico; engineering chemical KeyWords Plus: INDICATORS; SPANISH Abstract: The purpose of this study was to characterize the area of Engineering, Chemical at Mexico. So, it has been reviewed at the institutional level, through the database Web of Science (WoS), work on Engineering, Chemical conducted by researchers in Mexican institutions and published in international journals with impact factor between 1997 and 2008. It the Latin American context, where work has been published rate 6,183 article or review in 119 journals, and in Mexico were found 1,302 articles in 87 journals published mostly in English (96.08%), but in Spanish (3.69%) and French (0.23%). On the other hand, we have analyzed the Universities and Research Centers from the point of view quantitative and qualitative, through some bibliometric indicators as the Weighted Impact Factor, Relative Impact Factor and the ratio between the number of citations compared to the number of documents. Thus, among the five most productive institutions stressed the Mexican Petroleum Institute by the number of documents and the National Autonomous University of Mexico for the ratio between quotes against documents and for the Weighted Impact Factor. Addresses: [Rojas-Sola, J. I.] Univ Jaen, Jaen 23071, Spain; [de San-Antonio- Gomez, C.] Univ Politecn Madrid, Madrid 28071, Spain Reprint Address: Rojas-Sola, JI, Univ Jaen, Campus Lagunillas S-N, Jaen 23071, Spain. E-mail Address: jirojas at ujaen.es ISSN: 1665-2738 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Feb 7 15:35:12 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 15:35:12 -0500 Subject: Raghuram, S; Tuertscher, P; Garud, R. 2010. Mapping the Field of Virtual Work: A Cocitation Analysis. INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH 21 (4): 983-999 Message-ID: Raghuram, S; Tuertscher, P; Garud, R. 2010. Mapping the Field of Virtual Work: A Cocitation Analysis. INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH 21 (4): 983-999. Author Full Name(s): Raghuram, Sumita; Tuertscher, Philipp; Garud, Raghu Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: virtual work; virtual teams; bibliometric analysis KeyWords Plus: SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; ELECTRONIC MAIL; AT-HOME; COLLABORATION; COMMUNICATION; ORGANIZATION; TEAMS; IDENTIFICATION; PATTERNS; CONTEXT Abstract: Interest in the area of virtual work continues to increase with articles being written from different disciplinary perspectives-e. g., information systems (IS), management, psychology, and transportation. In this paper, we map research on virtual work to (a) understand the intellectual base from which this field has emerged, (b) explore how this field has evolved over time, and (c) identify clusters of research themes that have emerged over time and the relationships between them. Specifically, we use cocitation analysis of research published in all social science disciplines to map the field at three points in time-1995, 2000, and 2006. Our results show that the field has grown from 9 research clusters in 1995 to 16 in 2006. A comparison across these maps suggests that research in the cluster of "virtual teams" has gained significance even as research in some earlier clusters such as "urban planning and transportation" has lost ground. Our longitudinal analysis identifies relevant concepts, theories, and methodologies that have emerged in the field of virtual work. This analysis can help interested researchers identify how they may want to contribute to the field of virtual work-by adding to popular clusters, by enriching emerging smaller clusters, or by acting as bridges across clusters. Addresses: [Raghuram, Sumita] Penn State Univ, Dept Labor Studies & Employment Relat, University Pk, PA 16802 USA; [Tuertscher, Philipp] Vienna Univ Econ & Business, Inst Entrepreneurship & Innovat, A-1090 Vienna, Austria; [Garud, Raghu] Penn State Univ, Smeal Coll Business, University Pk, PA 16802 USA Reprint Address: Raghuram, S, Penn State Univ, Dept Labor Studies & Employment Relat, University Pk, PA 16802 USA. E-mail Address: raghuram at psu.edu; philipp.tuertscher at wu-wien.ac.at; rgarud at psu.edu ISSN: 1047-7047 DOI: 10.1287/isre.1080.0227 fulltext: http://isr.journal.informs.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/4/983 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Feb 7 15:40:32 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 15:40:32 -0500 Subject: Bernauer, T; Gilardi, F. 2010. Publication Output of Swiss Political Science Departments. SWISS POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW 16 (2): 279-303. Message-ID: Bernauer, T; Gilardi, F. 2010. Publication Output of Swiss Political Science Departments. SWISS POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW 16 (2): 279-303. Author Full Name(s): Bernauer, Thomas; Gilardi, Fabrizio Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Publication Output; Swiss Political Science; Bibliometric Analysis KeyWords Plus: JOURNALS Abstract: This article compares the scientific publication output and international academic visibility of Swiss political science departments, using three indicators (number of publications, number of citations, and the h-index) and publicly available data from two sources: the Web of Knowledge and Google Scholar. We also examine whether the publication output of political science professors and postdoctoral researchers in Switzerland varies as a Junction of academic age. We observe rather strong variations both across and within departments. The analysis also shows that the most prolific professors tend to be those who completed their Ph.D. about 10-20 years ago and that some postdocs are on a very promising publications trajectory. We derive some benchmarks for publication output that might be useful for hiring decisions or promotions. Addresses: [Bernauer, Thomas] Swiss Fed Inst Technol, Ctr Comparat & Int Studies, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland; [Gilardi, Fabrizio] Univ Zurich, Ctr Comparat & Int Studies, CH-8001 Zurich, Switzerland; [Gilardi, Fabrizio] Univ Zurich, Dept Polit Sci, CH-8001 Zurich, Switzerland Reprint Address: Bernauer, T, Swiss Fed Inst Technol, Ctr Comparat & Int Studies, Weinbergstr 11, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland. E-mail Address: thbe0520 at ethz.ch; gilardi at ipz.uzh.ch ISSN: 1424-7755 author copy: http://www.ipw.unibe.ch/unibe/wiso/ipw/content/e7289/e7749/files7750/public ations_swissfinal_ger.pdf From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Feb 7 15:44:00 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 15:44:00 -0500 Subject: Hsu, JW; Huang, DW. 2011. Dynamics of citation distribution. COMPUTER PHYSICS COMMUNICATIONS 182 (1): 185-187 Message-ID: Hsu, JW; Huang, DW. 2011. Dynamics of citation distribution. COMPUTER PHYSICS COMMUNICATIONS 182 (1): 185-187.. Author Full Name(s): Hsu, Jiann-wien; Huang, Ding-wei Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Citation analysis; Bibliometrics; Stochastic processes KeyWords Plus: SCIENTIFIC PAPERS; NETWORKS; STATISTICS Abstract: We study the citation dynamics of scientific publications over the years We propose a simple cellular automaton model featuring a combination of two distinct mechanisms i e the random assignment and the preferential attachment to investigate the dynamics of journal citation Different from most previous studies focusing on highly cited papers we analyze the time evolution of the entire citation distribution Empirical data can be well reproduced by numerical simulations Within the linear regime of the Cited Half-Life a steady accumulation of citations can be expected Moreover within this linear regime the ratio between the above two mechanisms is a constant Besides the average citation represented by the Impact Factor such a constant ratio can also be a characteristic of the journal (C) 2010 Elsevier B V All rights reserved Addresses: [Huang, Ding-wei] Chung Yuan Christian Univ, Dept Phys, Chungli, Taiwan; [Hsu, Jiann-wien] Natl Tainan Inst Nursing, Gen Educ Ctr, Tainan, Taiwan Reprint Address: Huang, DW, Chung Yuan Christian Univ, Dept Phys, Chungli, Taiwan. ISSN: 0010-4655 DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2010.07.031 URL (not open access): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2010.07.031 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Feb 7 15:47:24 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 15:47:24 -0500 Subject: Chiang, JK; Kuo, CW; Yang, YH. 2010. A Bibliometric Study of E-Learning Literature on SSCI Database. ENTERTAINMENT FOR EDUCATION: DIGITAL TECHNIQUES AND SYSTEMS 6249: 145-155 Message-ID: Chiang, JK; Kuo, CW; Yang, YH. 2010. A Bibliometric Study of E-Learning Literature on SSCI Database. ENTERTAINMENT FOR EDUCATION: DIGITAL TECHNIQUES AND SYSTEMS 6249: 145-155. edited by Zhang, XP; Zhong, SC; Pan, ZG; Wong, K; Yun, RW.presented at 5th International Conference on E- learning and Games, Edutainment 2010 in Changchun, PEOPLES R CHINA, AUG 16-18, 2010. Author Full Name(s): Chiang, Johannes K.; Kuo, Chen-Wo; Yang, Yu-Hsiang Book series title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science Language: English Document Type: Proceedings Paper Author Keywords: E learning; Lotka; Bradford; author productivity; bibliometrics KeyWords Plus: EDUCATION Abstract: This paper investigates the publishing trends of e-le it-fling literature catalogued in SSCI database dining 1967 2009 Our findings indicate that (1) the quantity of recent research on e-learning is expanding remarkably (2) the frequency indexes of authors productivity do not appear to abide by Lotca s Law (3) most research papers on c learning are generated by multiple author ship and (4) applications of e learning h we most found in research areas such as Education & Educational Research Information Science & Library Science and Computer Science/Interdisciplinary Applications Finally, future directions of research on e lean-ling are considered Moreover, according to Bradford s Law the three zone ratio comparisons almost equal as 1 8 82 which means the data does match Bradford s Law And the seven core journals in e-learning rue identified and analyzed Addresses: [Chiang, Johannes K.; Kuo, Chen-Wo; Yang, Yu-Hsiang] Natl Chengchi Univ, Dept Management Informat Syst, Taipei 11623, Taiwan Reprint Address: Chiang, JK, Natl Chengchi Univ, Dept Management Informat Syst, 64 Chihnan Rd,Sec 2 Wenshan, Taipei 11623, Taiwan. ISSN: 0302-9743 ISBN: 978-3-642-14532-2 fulltext: http://www.springerlink.com/content/5703851372911514/ From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Feb 7 15:50:35 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 15:50:35 -0500 Subject: Ohba, N; Nakao, K. 2010. The 101 Most Frequently Cited Articles in Ophthalmology Journals From 1850 to 1949. ARCHIVES OF OPHTHALMOLOGY 128 (12): 1610-1617 Message-ID: Ohba, N; Nakao, K. 2010. The 101 Most Frequently Cited Articles in Ophthalmology Journals From 1850 to 1949. ARCHIVES OF OPHTHALMOLOGY 128 (12): 1610-1617.. Author Full Name(s): Ohba, Norio; Nakao, Kumiko Language: English Document Type: Article KeyWords Plus: OF-THE-LITERATURE; RECKLINGHAUSENS-DISEASE; PRIMARY TUMORS; OPTIC-NERVE; LIGHT; FIELD Abstract: We screened 32 ophthalmology journals that had published articles during the period from 1850 through 1949 to identify top-cited articles in the field of ophthalmology (hereafter referred to as citation classics) using the online database Science Citation Index Expanded (Thompson Reuters, Chicago, Illinois). The 101 most frequently cited articles were published in 16 journals. Archives of Ophthalmology had the most top-cited articles (n=31), followed by American Journal of Ophthalmology (n=24) and Albrecht von Graefe's Archiv fur Ophthalmologie (n=9). These articles originated from 14 countries, with the United States publishing the majority (n=58). Most of the citation classics are clinical studies on topics such as rubella cataract, retinopathy of prematurity, keratoconjunctivitis sicca, sympathetic ophthalmia, and the first report of eponymous diseases (eg, Leber hereditary optic neuropathy, Duane retraction syndrome, and Stargardt disease). A considerable number of these articles were ignored initially and for several decades after publication, but, like the classic fairy tale Sleeping Beauty, they have been rediscovered. Our study provides a historical perspective on the classic papers in the literature that are still influential in ophthalmology. Arch Ophthalmol. 2010;128(12):1610-1617 Addresses: [Ohba, Norio] Aichishukutoku Univ, Fac Med Welf, Owariasahi, Aichi 4880046, Japan; [Nakao, Kumiko] Kagoshima Univ, Dept Ophthalmol, Grad Sch Med, Kagoshima 890, Japan Reprint Address: Ohba, N, Aichishukutoku Univ, Fac Med Welf, Asahigaoka 109- 3, Owariasahi, Aichi 4880046, Japan. ISSN: 0003-9950 From pmd8 at CORNELL.EDU Tue Feb 8 11:58:02 2011 From: pmd8 at CORNELL.EDU (Philip Davis) Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 11:58:02 -0500 Subject: Online Access and Citations - A Spurious Relationship, Economists Say Message-ID: Online Access and Citations ? A Spurious Relationship, Economists Say http://j.mp/dHOHq2 Mark McCabe and Chris Snyder report that enormous citation effects attributed to online and open access are spurious ? an artifact of the simple failure to control for differences in article quality and time. -- Philip M. Davis, Ph.D. Department of Communication 301 Kennedy Hall Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 email: pmd8 at cornell.edu phone: 607 255-2124 https://confluence.cornell.edu/display/~pmd8/resume http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/author/pmd8/ From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Fri Feb 11 14:20:47 2011 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:20:47 +0100 Subject: The structure of the Arts & Humanities Citation Index: A mapping on the basis of aggregated citations Message-ID: The structure of the Arts & Humanities Citation Index: A mapping on the basis of aggregated citations among 1,157 journals Loet Leydesdorff, Bj?rn Hammarfelt, and Alkim Almila Akdag Salah Using the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) 2008, we apply mapping techniques previously developed for mapping journal structures in the Science and Social Science Citation Indices. Can a cognitive structure be reconstructed from the aggregated citation patterns among these 1,157 journals containing 110,718 records? Both cosine-normalization (bottom up) and factor analysis (top down) suggest a division into approximately twelve subsets. The relations among these subsets are shown using various visualization techniques. However, this structure could not be retrieved using the ISI Subject Categories, including the 25 categories which are specific to the AHCI. We discuss validation against the categories of the Humanities Indicators (of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences) and compare our results with the curriculum organization of the Humanities Section of the College of Letters and Sciences of UCLA (as an example). Available at http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.1934 ** apologies for cross-postings _____ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. 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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. Detailed information about the template is available at: http://www.asis.org/asist2010/cfp-papers.html. * * *Submission and Deadline* Authors are invited to submit manuscripts by *midnight* *EST on Sunday, the 10th April 2011*, to the following website: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=sigmetspc2011 We expect to have provided feedback on the submissions by the end of April 2011 and to have selected the winner and runner-up soon afterwards. If you have any queries, please email Chaoqun Ni (chni at indiana.edu). Chaoqun Ni Ph.D student in Information Science School of Library & Information Science, Indiana University 1320 East 10th Street, Herman B Wells Library Bloomington, IN 47405, USA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We are convinced that your participation in this conference will be a significant contribution to the development of valid ways ahead to the determination of research quality - not only in the field of educational research. Our online conference registration is open at http://www.eerqi.eu. The registration closing date is 7th March 2011. You will find more information about the conference in the attached draft programme. _______________________________________________________ Fredrik ?str?m, PhD Lund University Libraries Head Office P.O. Box 134 SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden Phone: +46 (0)46-222 7325 (Office), +46 (0)70-494 3346 (Mobile) E-mail: fredrik.astrom at lub.lu.se Fax: +46 (0)46-221 3682 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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In this correspondence, we use previously published data of Van Raan (2006) to address the pivotal issue of how the results of citation analysis correlate with the results of peer review. A quality parameter based on peer review was neither significantly correlated with the two parameters developed by the CWTS in the past (CPP/JCSm or CPP/FCSm) nor with the more recently proposed h-index (Hirsch, 2005). Given the high correlations between the old and new "crown" indicators, one can expect that the lack of correlation with the peer-review based quality indicator applies equally to the newly developed ones. Available at http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.2569 ** apologies for cross-postings _____ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-842239111 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Conversely, it also helps explain why the EU trails the US in patenting. Government funding is indicated as a negative incentive to high-quality patenting. The models here can also be used to predict an output indicator for a country, once the appropriate input indicator is known. This usually is done within a dataset for a single year, but the process can be extended to predict outputs a few years into the future, if reasonable forecasts can be made of the input indicators. We provide new forecasts about the further relationships of the US, the EU-27, and the PRC in the case of publishing. Models for individual countries may be more successful, however, than regression models whose parameters are averaged over a set of countries. _____ Loet Leydesdorff Professor, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. 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I am trying to integrate the history of information science into the general history of science and human knowledge. Hopefully I am being successful. You'll like Hogben, because he is a very funny fellow. A handsome fellow, he is attractive intellectually. However, for a leading pioneer in experimental biology, his Royal Society photo shows him to be a smoker, but he lived until he was 80 Stephen J. Bensman LSU Libraries Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA notsjb at lsu.edu Quetelet's Legacy: The Normal Paradigm and Philosophical Transformation of Statistics In his seminal work on scientific revolutions Kuhn (1970) established the concept of the "paradigm." To do so, he began by defining "normal science" as "research firmly based upon one or more past scientific achievements, achievements that some particular scientific community acknowledges for a time as supplying the foundation for its further practice" (p. 10). Kuhn named such achievements "paradigms," and, relating this term to normal science, he stated, "By choosing it, I mean to suggest that some accepted examples of actual scientific practice-examples which include law, theory, application, and instrumentation together-provide models from which spring particular coherent traditions of scientific research" (p. 10). In a postscript to the 2nd edition of his work, he further explained the term "paradigm" by stating it had been used in the book in two different senses: 1) to designate "the entire constellation of beliefs, values, techniques, and so on shared by the members of a given community"; and 2) to denote "one sort of element in that constellation, the concrete puzzle-solutions which, employed as models or examples, can replace explicit rules as a basis for the solution of the remaining puzzles of normal science" (p. 175). Kuhn considered a scientific revolution to consist of the replacement of one paradigm by another in a process he called the "paradigm shift" (p. 66). Quetelet created such a paradigm, which we call the "normal paradigm," because it posited that the frequency distribution of observations taken from a coherent set always fitted the normal curve of error and that, consequently, the normal distribution could be utilized to identify a coherent set. This paradigm lay at the basis of much subsequent scientific and social research. However, it was not a universally accepted paradigm but had its ardent opponents. Keynes (1921) evaluated Quetelet's work thus: ... Quetelet belongs ... to the long line of brilliant writers, not yet extinct, who have prevented Probability from becoming, in the scientific salon, perfectly respectable. There is still about it for scientists a smack of astrology, of alchemy. p. 335. For Keynes, the "suspicion of quackery" raised by Quetelet's writings had not yet disappeared. In Germany, the normal paradigm was derisively named "Queteletismus" (Hacking, 1990, pp. 125-127), and the noted British economist and statistician Edgeworth (1922) summarized this doctrine thus: ...The theory [of the normal law of error] is to be distinguished from the doctrine, the false doctrine, that generally, wherever there is a curve with a single apex representing a group of statistics-one axis denoting size, the other axis frequency-that curve must be of the "normal" species. The doctrine has been nicknamed "Quetelismus" [sic], on the ground that Quetelet exaggerated the prevalence of the normal law. p. 270. Quetelet's theories were ultimately rejected, and the discovery of the probability structure of scientific information formed in integral part of this paradigm shift. Despite the ultimate failure of his ideas, Quetelet transformed the philosophical bases of statistics. This was, perhaps, inevitable in the transfer of using probability from calculating astronomical error to analyzing mass socioeconomic phenomena, and it is certainly implicit in the way Quetelet combined Poisson's strong version of the law of large numbers with Bernoulli's weak version to accomplish this transfer. Perhaps the most cogent critique of the philosophical and logical bases of modern inferential statistics was written by Lancelot Hogben (1957), who was one of Britain's leading experimental biologists. Born in 1895, Hogben was the son of an impoverished evangelical Methodist minister, and he was the first student from a London County Council secondary school to win a scholarship to Cambridge (Trinity College), where his lower class origins distinguished him from the other undergraduates. At Cambridge Hogben became a Fabian socialist and Quaker. He was an ardent pacifist, and, during World War I, when conscription was introduced in 1916, he deliberately gave up his exemption as a Quaker to serve time in Wormwood Scrubs in protest of this act. Throughout his life, according to Bud (2004), "Hogben displayed a brilliance whose rewards were undermined with 'a sheer genius for making enemies'" (p. 556). Given this personality, it is not surprising that Hogben made numerous career changes, working successively in the 1920s at the University of Edinburgh, McGill University, and the University of Cape Town. In 1930 Hogben (1998) became in his own words "the first, last and only professor of social biology" (p. 120) at the London School of Economics in a position funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and lasting seven years. He finished his academic career at the University of Birmingham, where he was first a professor of zoology (1941-1947) and then of medical statistics (1947-1961). In 1923 Hogben was a founder of the Society for Experimental Biology and in 1936 became a Fellow of the Royal Society. Hogben did not become seriously interested in the theory underlying statistics until relatively late in his career. This interest began during World War II, when he was given the job of overhauling British Army medical statistics, and it was heightened after the war, when the British government decided to establish the National Health Service and fund a chair of medical statistics at the University of Birmingham. This post was offered to Hogben (1998), who accepted it, realizing, as he reported in his autobiography, that "acceptance would commit me to undertake a critical evaluation of the credentials of current mathematical statistics" (p. 190). Hogben began this evaluation by writing a two-volume introduction to probability using visual models entitled Chance and Choice by Cardpack and Chessboard, which, he stated, "provided me with what William Blake called mental work for Jerusalem" (p. 190). This last was a reference to Blake's poem, Jerusalem, whose last stanza reads: "I will not cease from mental fight, Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand, Till we have built Jerusalem, In England's green and pleasant land." Hogben's textbook received a somewhat mixed reception from professional statisticians. For example, Snedecor (1951) gave the first volume a very favorable review, stating, "The professional statistician will be interested in the polemics as well as in the originality of the viewpoint" (p. 256), whereas David (1956) dismissed the volumes as "of little use to the research worker in other fields who wishes to learn a little statistical method" but did state that "serious students of mathematical statistics" would find "a certain freshness of exposition which will possibly help them when they come to revise what they already know," even though she thought the chapter on significance revealed "a certain naivety of outlook on the part of the author" (p. 236). With the groundwork prepared by the textbook, Hogben (1957) published his main assault in a work his son, Adrian (himself a medical doctor and leading researcher in physiology), considered as "perhaps Lancelot's stellar intellectual achievement" (Hogben, 1998, p. xvi). Entitled Statistical Theory, its logical and philosophical approach was summed up in its lengthy subtitle, The Relationship of Probability, Credibility and Error: An Examination of the Contemporary Crisis in Statistical Theory from a Behaviourist Viewpoint. Hogben's behaviorist approach is extremely complex, and his explanation of it is rather perfunctory in the book. Therefore, it is necessary to dig more deeply into his intellectual history in order to understand more fully philosophical bases of his critique. Hogben's development of his behavioral approach to science originated from his participation in a joint discussion held in 1929 at the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in South Africa by the Physiology Section together with the other biological sections. The meeting was entitled "The Nature of Life," and the scientific journal, Nature (South Africa Meeting, 1929a; 1929b; 1929c), reported, "The discussion...was more than usually interesting, since it indicated a swing of the pendulum towards the vitalistic view of the nature of life" (1929b, p. 205). Blackburn (2005) succinctly defined "vitalism" as a philosophical doctrine thus: The doctrine that there is some feature of living bodies that prevents their nature from being entirely explained in physical or chemical terms. This feature may be the presence of a further "thing" (such as a soul), but it may also be simply the emergence of special relations or principles of organization arising from the complexity of the biological organism .... p. 383. The discussion was dominated by the ideas of the South African statesman and soldier, Jan Smuts, and the English astrophysicist, Arthur Eddington. Smuts opened the discussion by developing his theory of "holism," a word, which the Oxford English Dictionary (2002) states he introduced into the English language with his book entitled Holism and Evolution. Smuts (1927) opened this book by stating that it dealt with problems falling within the debatable borderland between science and philosophy. According to him, recent advances in physical and biological science had revealed that there was operative in this borderland a very important factor or principle, which he called "Holism." Smuts (1927) then summarized what his book would endeavor to show about the operation and role of this principle thus: ...Holism...underlies the synthetic tendency in the universe, and is the principle which makes for the origin and progress of wholes in the universe. An attempt is made to show that this whole-making or holistic tendency is fundamental in nature, that it has a well-marked ascertainable character, and that Evolution is nothing but the gradual development and stratification of progressive series of wholes, stretching from the inorganic beginnings to the highest levels of spiritual creation .... p. ix With this concept, Smuts merged the material with the spiritual into the whole, promising to deal with the primary concepts of matter, life, mind, and personality from this perspective. For his part, in a book entitled The Nature of the Physical World containing his 1927 Gifford Lectures, Eddington (1929) based modern physics on philosophical idealism, which Blackburn (2005) generically defined as: "Any doctrine holding that reality is fundamentally mental in nature" (p. 177). According to Eddington, the theoretical advances made by Einstein and Rutherford at the beginning 20th century fundamentally changed our ideas not only of time and space but also matter, causing the downfall of classical Newtonian physics. In his view, the stuff of the world is "mind-stuff," and he stated, "The realistic matter and fields of force of former physical theory are altogether irrelevant-except in so far as the mind-stuff has itself spun these imaginings" (p. 276). Eddington declared, "It is necessary to keep reminding ourselves that all knowledge of our environment from which the world of physics is constructed, has entered in the form of messages transmitted along the nerves to the seat of consciousness" (p. 277), asserting that "it is only our own ends of the [nerve] fibres that we actually know" (p. 278). The scientific journal, Nature (South Africa Meeting), reported that Hogben responded to such ideas by stating that he was "not prepared to believe anything not amenable to experiment" (1929b, p. 205), and it considered him as representing the "extreme behaviourists or bio-mechanists" (1929c, p. 397) at the conference. Hogben had been asked to deliver a 35-minute talk at the conference, but he considered the topic too formidable for such a short presentation. Instead he decided to publish a book, because other contributors at the conference had already published their philosophical views in book form. Hogben (1930) entitled his book The Nature of Living Matter -the title suggesting a biologist's riposte to the astrophysicist Eddington's idealistic The Nature of the Physical World. In his book Hogben (1930) regarded the history of philosophy as continuous controversy between those who had confidence in the testimony of human receptor organs and others who mistrusted the evidence of the senses. According to him, the only permanent feature of philosophical discussion was the impossibility of effecting a permanent reconciliation between those called themselves at different periods of history "materialists and idealists, nominalists and realists, empiricists and transcendentalists, mechanists and vitalists, to emphasize some new aspect of a fundamental incompatibility" (pp. 220-221). A key element in this struggle was played by the concept of "universals," which the Oxford English Dictionary (2002) defines thus for philosophy and logic: That which is predicated or asserted of all the individuals or species of a class or genus, or of many things which are regarded as forming a class; an abstract or general concept regarded either as having an absolute, mental, or nominal existence.... Due to frequency theory of probability, which requires the definition of coherent sets, it is the classificatory role of universals that is of the most importance for the history of statistics. The debate over the status of universals stems from the ancient Greek theory of Forms or Ideas, which Plato held to have real existence distinct from their manifestations in individual objects, i.e., "redness" as a concept must exist before manifesting itself "red" things. Aristotle, on the other hand, argued that universals were not "before the thing" as Plato posited but "in the thing." The Middle Ages were marked by a controversy between Realism, which in its exaggerated form held that universals exist in the mind and nature, and Nominalism, which denied the existence of universals and regarded them merely as adjectival names to describe particular things and events. There was a third position called Conceptualisim advanced, among others, by Abelard and William of Ockham. Conceptualism admitted the existence within us of abstract and universal concepts but held that it is not known whether the mental objects have any foundation outside our minds. In his discussion of these matters as they pertained to science, Hogben (1930) proceeded within the Cartesian framework of "mechanism," as this term has been thus defined by Honderich (1995): In the philosophy of mind, the doctrine that we are machines. Descartes held that other animals are machines, but only to emphasize his own view that human beings are not machines because they have minds, which he supposed to be non-physical.... p. 543. Thus, according to Hogben (1930, pp. 232-235), Cartesian philosophy did not attempt mix metaphysics and science in a uniform system of nature but defined separate spheres of autonomy for the scientist and metaphysician. Thus, he wrote: ...With his propositions and demonstrations "which establish the existence of God and the distinction between the mind and body of man disposed in geometrical order" Descartes stumbled upon the felicitous notion that God ordained the investigation of nature according to strictly mechanistic principles.... p. 232 In his summarization of vitalism and mechnanis that opened the book, Hogben noted that physicists had assumed the leading role in the question of the relationship of science to moral philosophy that had arisen from the uneasy recognition of the conflict between science and common sense, but he asserted that the question could not be settled until the contribution of biology to natural philosophy had been taken into consideration. Hogben (1930) then asserted, "The merits of a mechanistic or vitalistic outlook in biology have been too often discussed from an ontological rather than an epistemological standpoint" (p. 1). According to Hogben, there was a similarity of method in physics and biology, particularly in physiology, and he summed up the underlying theoretical bases of his argumentation, noting the philosophical consequences of the work of the noted Russian physiologist, Ivan Pavlov, on conditioned reflex, thus: ...Traditional mechanistic physiology has accepted the Cartesian dualism of mind and matter. The modern physiology of the conditioned reflex has undermined the distinction between reflex and voluntary behaviour. There this thus no nicely defined boundary at which physiology ends and philosophy begins. Biology is annexing regions of enquiry which have hitherto remained the province of moral philosophy. As a concept of biology Mind is replaced by Behviour.... p. 1 As a result of this intrusion, Hogben saw no limit to the reduction of behavior to purely physico-chemical hypotheses, and he regarded as the significant issue not the completeness of the mechanistic solution but whether there existed any definable method of arriving at a more complete solution that the mechanistic outlook permitted. The perceived merger of mind and matter resulting from Pavlovian theory caused Hogben (1930) to change the emphasis of the discussion from the problem of being (ontology) to the problem of knowledge (epistemology). This is evident in the following summarization by him of his conclusions: When the conclusions of physicists are supplemented by the enquiries of the biologist we are led to a schematization of experience which permits us to discuss the nature of matter and life on a neutral ground. This neutral ground is the public world of science. It represents what is significant for the purpose of discourse. Idealistic philosophers have assumed the nature of reality as the goal of philosophy; but the concept of reality is essentially equivocal. For the purpose of discourse we have to assume that the neutral ground is the real thing. In private we are at liberty to reject this view. Temperament decides which of these alternatives we adopt. There is therefore no hope of arriving at universal agreement in discussing the nature of reality. To the introvert reality resides in the domain of mystic experience. To the extrovert the public world is the nearest approach to a complete representation of reality which our limited range of receptor organs permits us to construct. The belief that philosophy can settle the nature of reality, and that it is possible to arrive at universal conclusions independently of the methods of science and mathematics arose in the period of decadence of Greek philosophy. It developed in modern Europe under \ influence of ecclesiasticism. Freed from the bondage of clerical control, philosophy must undertake the more modest task of discussing what characteristics of belief determine their communicability or publicity, and and indicating how the problems of existence can be resolved into their public and private components. From this standpoint educational theory must be based on a recognition of the respective spheres of publicity and privacy.... p. 217. Thus, for Hogben, the important question was not what is exists but what is knowable, and, in order to be knowable, it must be communicable. It was from this philosophical platform that Hogben launched his critique of modern inferential statistics. In his book Statistical Theory Hogben (1957) accused statistics of committing the philosophical crime of "Platonism," regarding this discipline as dealing with "the Platonic empyrean of universals with an infinite population of the Normal Man" (p. 180) and as having recourse to "Platonic constructs" (p. 476). His attitude toward such a philosophical basis can be inferred from his statement that "few persons outside a mental home would defend thoroughgoing Platonic idealism" (p. 10). Hogben traces the source of this Platonism back to Quetelet. According to one reviewer of this book, Plackett (1958), Quetelet was "seen as the skeleton in the cupboard of contemporary statistics" (p. 244). To make his case, Hogben published a translation of a critique of Quetelet by the French mathematician, Joseph Bertrand, that captured the full Voltairean flavor of the original (pp. 172-174). In this critique Bertrand accused Quetelet of unknowingly resolving the long-forgotten medieval debate about universals-of "[w]andering over the schoolmen's ancient battlefield." This debate pitted the Nominalists, who rejected the existence of universals, holding the view that things denominated by the same name share nothing except that fact, against the Realists, who believed in line with Plato that there are universals that are related to but exist apart from the individual objects in the world. Bertrand wrote that Quetelet "in a book stuffed full of judiciously collected facts, would have us accept a precise definition of the word Man, independently of human beings whose particularity can be considered accidental." After noting that Quetelet defined his "specimen" by attributing to him the arithmetic mean of every element that varies from one man to another, Bertrand focused on Quetelet's use of the physical measurements of military conscripts to lampoon him. Bertrand first wrote on Quetelet's finding that the mean height of 20,000 conscripts was 1 m 75: In this comparison M. Quetelet sees an identity. Our inequalities of height are, in his eyes, the result of inept measurements taken by Nature on an immutable model in whom alone she reveals her secrets. 1 m 75 is the normal height. A little more makes no less a man, but the surplus or deficit in each individual is nature's error, and thus monstrous. p. 173 Then, after a short disquisition in solid geometry, Bertrand drove the dagger home: ...Men's shapes unfortunately can vary, and M. Quetelet profits therefrom. By combining the mean weight of 20,000 conscripts with their mean height, we should produce an absurdly fat man and, whatever Reynolds might have saids, a poor model for an artist. pp. 173-174. With one shot, Bertrand had, thus, hit Quetelet the statistician and Quetelet the aspiring artist. Central to Bertrand's critique was the significance and accuracy of the arithmetic mean, which for Quetelet represented the epitome that identified the Platonic type. Hogben (1957, pp. 227-231) shared Bertrand's doubts on this matter and emphasized this in a section of his book entitled "The Tyranny of Averages." Here he gave the following quote from writings of the great 19th-century French physiologist, Claude Bernard, who, Hogben stated, had been provoked by "Quetelet's disciples inspired with the new evangel of averages": By destroying the biological character of phenomena, the use of averages in physiology and medicine usually gives only apparent accuracy to the results.... If, for instance, we observe the number of pulsations and the degree blood pressure by means of the oscillations of a manometer throughout one day, and if we take the average of all our figures to get the true or average blood pressure and to learn the true or average number of pulsations, we shall simply have wrong numbers..... p. 227. Hogben emphasized that Bernard was writing as an experimentalist. Bertrand's and Hogben's assessments of Quetelet's work from the viewpoint of philosophical idealism were negative, but that of Desrosi?res (1998) from the same philosophical standpoint was quite positive. In a chapter entitled "Averages and the Realism of Aggregates" Desrosi?res places his evaluation of Quetelet's work within the same philosophical framework of the medieval debate between Nominalism and Realism as did Bertrand. Desrosi?res' summary of Quetelet's accomplishments is as follows: But it was Quetelet who, in the 1830s and 1840s, largely disseminated the argument connecting the theory of probability and statistical observations. This construct held together both the random, unpredictable aspect of individual behavior and the contrasting regularity (and consequent predictability) of the statistical summation of these individual acts, through the notion of the average man. It was based both on the generality of [the] Gaussian probability distribution (the future "normal law") and on sets of "moral statistics" (marriages, crimes, suicides) developed by the bureaus of statistics. This form of argument would long send probability theory swinging from its subjective, epistemic side, expressed in terms of "reason to believe," toward its objective, frequentist side: the regularity of averages, opposed to the chaos and unpredictability of individual acts, provided an extremely powerful tool of objectification. p. 10. Thus, in Desrosi?res' opinion, Quetelet played an extremely important role in the historical development of the statistical tools used for objectifying the social world. Of the above assessments of the significance of Quetelet's work from the philosophical standpoint, that of Desrosi?res can be said to be the most valid. In a review of Hogben's book appearing in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Smith (1958) pointed out that the author did not put forward any coherent alternative system to statistical theory and practice as they then stood and even suggested pessimistically at the end of the book that there may be no such system. It will be seen that much of probabilistic and statistical theory is still based on Platonism and other forms of philosophical idealism. This is also true of information science, and this applies not only to such obvious matters as the delineation of scientific disciplines but also to the definition of bibliographic entities. At present there is being designed and tested a new, unified cataloging standard to replace the present Anglo-Anglo American Cataloging Rules (2nd ed.) presently in use. The new standard is called RDA: Resource Description & Access, and it is conceptually based upon a study of the functional requirements for bibliographic records done under the auspices of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) (1998), commonly known the FRBR. Central to the FRBR is a group of entities, whose purpose is to represent the products of intellectual or artistic endeavor described by bibliographic records. The FRBR briefly defines these entities thus: ...The entities defined as work (a distinct intellectual or artistic creation) and expression (the intellectual or artistic realization of a work) reflect intellectual or artistic content. The entities defined as manifestation (the physical embodiment of an expression of a work) and item (a single exemplar of a manifestation), on the other hand, reflect physical form. p. 12 The most important of these entities is the "work," which the FRBR describes in the following manner: A work is an abstract entity; there is no single material object one can point to as the work. We recognize the work through individual realizations or expressions of the work, but the work itself exists only in the commonality of content between and among the various expressions of the work. When we speak of Homer's Iliad as a work, our point of reference is not a particular recitation or text of the work, but the intellectual creation that lies behind all the various expressions of the work. p.16. On the basis of the FRBR even Plato's Republic can be conceived of as a Platonic construct. On this basis Bensman and Leydesdorff (2009) have shown that scientific journals are being re-conceptualized by library catalogers as Platonic constructs that instantiate themselves in reality under different titles, in different formats, etc. To push the analogy further, the value of a scientific journal is commonly epitomized by the "impact factor," which is the arithmetic mean of the citations to its articles and suffers from the same faults Hogben pointed out for the arithmetic mean applied in biology. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Best wishes Haiko -- The Institute for Research Information and Quality Assurance (iFQ - Institut f?r Forschungsinformation und Qualit?tssicherung -) is a scientific institute which is funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG). The institute deals with the monitoring and evaluation of R&D funding programs and the development of suitable methods. www.research-information.de We are seeking to appoint a Research Fellow for the German Competence Center for Bibliometrics (full time, 3 years fixed term, 13/14 TV?D) The German Competence Centre for Bibliometrics aims to develop and improve bibliometric methods for the analysis of structures and achievements in science and technology. Main responsibilities will be conducting bibliometric analyses and advancement and validation of respective methods and techniques. 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How is active defined? * Web of Science* See: http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/science/science_products/a-z/web_of_science/ this suggests >10,000 titles plus 110,000's of proceedings issues But their 'Master Journal List', see: http://science.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi?PC=MASTER gives a rather precise value of 16,512 How many of these 16,512 are 'active' titles, and how many are from other ISI products other than Web of Science? On the face of it, with Scopus covering around 18,000 titles, and Web of Science 16,500 they looked to be about the same size, at least in current content. Is this a fair assumption? Cordially Geoff -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Wed Feb 23 02:33:45 2011 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:33:45 +0100 Subject: How many journals do Web of Science and Scopus really cover? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Geoff, Yes, there are several restrictions in place when one actually retrieves the data. In a recent study about the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (at http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.3098), we first compared the coverage, and concluded: "Despite the realized extension to 1,935 journals, the retrieval for Scopus has remained smaller than that possible from the Web of Science (WoS). At the time of this research (21 November 2010), the retrieval in 2010 for this subject area was 33,494 using Scopus versus 100,948 using the AHCI at the WoS." The AHCI has been pretty stable at 1000+ journals in the core ( 100,000+) records since the 1980s. Additionally, some journals are selectively covered. We use "subjarea(arts)" for retrieving the "arts and humanities" in Scopus and consulted some colleagues at Scopus. I checked the numbers today and they are now:43,918 (Scopus) and 112,088 (WoS) for 2010. It is a bit puzzling. 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 Geoffrey Peters Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 10:47 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: [SIGMETRICS] How many journals do Web of Science and Scopus really cover? being bandied about for these two platforms. Scopus See: http://www.info.sciverse.com/scopus/scopus-in-detail/facts This suggests 18,000 titles including 17,000 peer reviewed ones (as at July 2010) >From their title list (a handy excel file) http://www.info.sciverse.com/documents/files/scopus-training/resourcelibrary /xls/title_list_oct_1.xls This lists just under 30,000 titles (as at October 2010), of which around 27,500 are journals, of which only 18,000 of these are designated as active. How is active defined? Web of Science See: http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/science/science_products/a-z/web _of_science/ this suggests >10,000 titles plus 110,000's of proceedings issues But their 'Master Journal List', see: http://science.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi?PC=MASTER gives a rather precise value of 16,512 How many of these 16,512 are 'active' titles, and how many are from other ISI products other than Web of Science? On the face of it, with Scopus covering around 18,000 titles, and Web of Science 16,500 they looked to be about the same size, at least in current content. Is this a fair assumption? Cordially Geoff -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cbenito at INGENIO.UPV.ES Wed Feb 23 04:19:40 2011 From: cbenito at INGENIO.UPV.ES (Carlos Benito Amat) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:19:40 +0100 Subject: How many journals do Web of Science and Scopus really cover? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Geoff: The British Joint Information Systems Committee has an Academic Database Assessment Tool, available in http://www.jisc-adat.com/adat/help_about.pl The Compare Titles facility brings overlapping data among a variety of bibliographic databases, both multidisciplinary and specialized. The resulting tables and Venn diagrams are obtained by comparing the list of serials each system covers. My opinion is that Loet calculations are finer and more current than these kind of tools. Best Carlos Benito Amat (Skype: carlos.b.amat) INGENIO [CSIC-UPV], Institute of Innovation and Knowledge Management Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia - Camino de Vera s/n Ciudad Polit?cnica de la Innovaci?n - Edificio 8E 5? Planta 46022 - Valencia (Spain) Tel?fonos: 96 387 70 07 Ext. 78489 Fax: 96 387 79 91 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From W.Meester at ELSEVIER.COM Wed Feb 23 04:08:57 2011 From: W.Meester at ELSEVIER.COM (Meester, Wim (ELS-AMS)) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:08:57 +0100 Subject: How many journals do Web of Science and Scopus really cover? In-Reply-To: A<002201cbd32c$0652e9f0$12f8bdd0$@leydesdorff.net> Message-ID: Dear Geoff, In Scopus "Active" is defined as any title with a published item in the last three calendar years. So for 2011, titles are considered active if there are published items in 2009 or later. In the current title list there are almost 19,000 active titles of which almost 18,000 journals. Please note that an updated title list will be available in the next few weeks. You can compare database coverage using the JISC Academic Database Assessment Tool (http://www.jisc-adat.com). Via this tool you can find that there are just over 11,000 active titles in WOS. Scopus will update the data provided to JISC in the coming weeks to reflect the current situation. As for the Arts & Humanities content in Scopus, there are just over 1,600 core A&H titles in Scopus. You can search for A&H records in Scopus by using SUBJTERMS(XXXX) in Advances Search, where XXXX are the ASJC subject classification codes 1200 - 1213 (these can be found in the Scopus title list). There are in total over 2 million A&H records in Scopus. Kind regards, Wim Wim J.N. Meester Senior Product Manager - Scopus Elsevier Radarweg 29 1043 NX Amsterdam, The Netherlands w.meester at elsevier.com www.scopus.com From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Loet Leydesdorff Sent: 23 February 2011 08:34 To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] How many journals do Web of Science and Scopus really cover? Dear Geoff, Yes, there are several restrictions in place when one actually retrieves the data. In a recent study about the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (at http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.3098), we first compared the coverage, and concluded: "Despite the realized extension to 1,935 journals, the retrieval for Scopus has remained smaller than that possible from the Web of Science (WoS). At the time of this research (21 November 2010), the retrieval in 2010 for this subject area was 33,494 using Scopus versus 100,948 using the AHCI at the WoS." The AHCI has been pretty stable at 1000+ journals in the core ( 100,000+) records since the 1980s. Additionally, some journals are selectively covered. We use "subjarea(arts)" for retrieving the "arts and humanities" in Scopus and consulted some colleagues at Scopus. I checked the numbers today and they are now:43,918 (Scopus) and 112,088 (WoS) for 2010. It is a bit puzzling. 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 Geoffrey Peters Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 10:47 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: [SIGMETRICS] How many journals do Web of Science and Scopus really cover? numbers being bandied about for these two platforms. Scopus See: http://www.info.sciverse.com/scopus/scopus-in-detail/facts This suggests 18,000 titles including 17,000 peer reviewed ones (as at July 2010) >From their title list (a handy excel file) http://www.info.sciverse.com/documents/files/scopus-training/resourcelib rary/xls/title_list_oct_1.xls This lists just under 30,000 titles (as at October 2010), of which around 27,500 are journals, of which only 18,000 of these are designated as active. How is active defined? Web of Science See: http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/science/science_products/a-z /web_of_science/ this suggests >10,000 titles plus 110,000's of proceedings issues But their 'Master Journal List', see: http://science.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi?PC=MASTER gives a rather precise value of 16,512 How many of these 16,512 are 'active' titles, and how many are from other ISI products other than Web of Science? On the face of it, with Scopus covering around 18,000 titles, and Web of Science 16,500 they looked to be about the same size, at least in current content. Is this a fair assumption? Cordially Geoff Elsevier B.V. Registered Office: Radarweg 29, 1043 NX Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Registration No. 33156677 (The Netherlands) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Wed Feb 23 04:52:16 2011 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:52:16 +0100 Subject: How many journals do Web of Science and Scopus really cover? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Thank you so much, Wim. ? As for the Arts & Humanities content in Scopus, there are just over 1,600 core A&H titles in Scopus. You can search for A&H records in Scopus by using SUBJTERMS(XXXX) in Advances Search, where XXXX are the ASJC subject classification codes 1200 ? 1213 (these can be found in the Scopus title list). There are in total over 2 million A&H records in Scopus. If I follow this instruction, I obtain not 2 million, but 870,007 records using Advanced Search in Scopus. Of these, 43,918 in 2010. This is exactly the number which I reported earlier today. Can you, please, clarify further? (1) What causes the difference between > 2 million and < 1 million? (2) Why is the coverage of the A&H larger in the WoS despite the much lower number of active journals? Best wishes, Loet -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From W.Meester at ELSEVIER.COM Wed Feb 23 09:06:02 2011 From: W.Meester at ELSEVIER.COM (Meester, Wim (ELS-AMS)) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:06:02 +0100 Subject: How many journals do Web of Science and Scopus really cover? In-Reply-To: A<003b01cbd33f$5b4d8b00$11e8a100$@leydesdorff.net> Message-ID: Dear Loet, The difference between WOS and Scopus can be explained by the different classification schemes that are used. The Scopus classification scheme is based on the ASJC codes and there maybe titles for example in Social Sciences category that may be classified as A&H in other schemes. With the different classification schemes in the two databases, it will be difficult to do a fair comparison on the subject field level. The explanation for the different numbers we came up with, is the records from the CSA Illumina databases which can be searched on Scopus by mutual Scopus and CSA customers. When CSA records are excluded from the Scopus Advanced Search, indeed 870,007 A&H records are retrieved. More information about the classification scheme and the coverage of CSA Illumina databases can also be found in the Scopus Content Coverage Guide . My apologies for the confusion and I hope this answers your questions about the coverage in Scopus. Kind regards, Wim From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Loet Leydesdorff Sent: 23 February 2011 10:52 To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] How many journals do Web of Science and Scopus really cover? Thank you so much, Wim. ? As for the Arts & Humanities content in Scopus, there are just over 1,600 core A&H titles in Scopus. You can search for A&H records in Scopus by using SUBJTERMS(XXXX) in Advances Search, where XXXX are the ASJC subject classification codes 1200 - 1213 (these can be found in the Scopus title list). There are in total over 2 million A&H records in Scopus. If I follow this instruction, I obtain not 2 million, but 870,007 records using Advanced Search in Scopus. Of these, 43,918 in 2010. This is exactly the number which I reported earlier today. Can you, please, clarify further? (1) What causes the difference between > 2 million and < 1 million? (2) Why is the coverage of the A&H larger in the WoS despite the much lower number of active journals? Best wishes, Loet Elsevier B.V. Registered Office: Radarweg 29, 1043 NX Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Registration No. 33156677 (The Netherlands) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From W.Meester at ELSEVIER.COM Wed Feb 23 10:21:28 2011 From: W.Meester at ELSEVIER.COM (Meester, Wim (ELS-AMS)) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:21:28 +0100 Subject: How many journals do Web of Science and Scopus really cover? In-Reply-To: A<38377C5B3FD63648815A35D48D3E20E00456EE52@agenda07.upvnet.upv.es> Message-ID: The Content Coverage Guide can be found on the Scopus info site under "what does it cover", key link on the right hand side: http://www.info.sciverse.com/scopus/scopus-in-detail/facts Direct link to the PDF: http://www.info.sciverse.com/documents/files/scopus-training/resourcelibrary/pdf/sccg0510.pdf Regards, Wim From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Carlos Benito Amat Sent: 23 February 2011 15:50 To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] How many journals do Web of Science and Scopus really cover? Wim, I think you mean the list of titles in http://www.info.sciverse.com/scopus/scopus-in-detail/content-coverage-guide The link you provide doesn't work Carlos Benito Amat (Skype: carlos.b.amat) INGENIO [CSIC-UPV], Institute of Innovation and Knowledge Management Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia - Camino de Vera s/n Ciudad Polit?cnica de la Innovaci?n - Edificio 8E 5? Planta 46022 - Valencia (Espa?a) Tel?fonos: 96 387 70 07 Ext. 78489 Fax: 96 387 79 91 Elsevier B.V. Registered Office: Radarweg 29, 1043 NX Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Registration No. 33156677 (The Netherlands) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Wed Feb 23 10:21:07 2011 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:21:07 +0100 Subject: How many journals do Web of Science and Scopus really cover? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Wim, This clearly answers question 1: there is a Scopus+ version including CSA Illumina. For the A&H this is more than twice the size as Scopus without it. I downloaded the excel with the list information and then obtain the 1948 journals that I reported before. How come that these journals contained only 43,918 records in 2010. Or is this also including the CSA Illumina? If so, what is the number of Scopus journals in this category and how can one retrieve this number online? I hope that you appreciate this questioning. On this list, we are all interested in understanding and if possible improving these databases. 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 Meester, Wim (ELS-AMS) Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 3:06 PM To: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] How many journals do Web of Science and Scopus really cover? Dear Loet, The difference between WOS and Scopus can be explained by the different classification schemes that are used. The Scopus classification scheme is based on the ASJC codes and there maybe titles for example in Social Sciences category that may be classified as A&H in other schemes. With the different classification schemes in the two databases, it will be difficult to do a fair comparison on the subject field level. The explanation for the different numbers we came up with, is the records from the CSA Illumina databases which can be searched on Scopus by mutual Scopus and CSA customers. When CSA records are excluded from the Scopus Advanced Search, indeed 870,007 A&H records are retrieved. More information about the classification scheme and the coverage of CSA Illumina databases can also be found in the Scopus Content Coverage Guide . My apologies for the confusion and I hope this answers your questions about the coverage in Scopus. Kind regards, Wim From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Loet Leydesdorff Sent: 23 February 2011 10:52 To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] How many journals do Web of Science and Scopus really cover? Thank you so much, Wim. ? As for the Arts & Humanities content in Scopus, there are just over 1,600 core A&H titles in Scopus. You can search for A&H records in Scopus by using SUBJTERMS(XXXX) in Advances Search, where XXXX are the ASJC subject classification codes 1200 ? 1213 (these can be found in the Scopus title list). There are in total over 2 million A&H records in Scopus. If I follow this instruction, I obtain not 2 million, but 870,007 records using Advanced Search in Scopus. Of these, 43,918 in 2010. This is exactly the number which I reported earlier today. Can you, please, clarify further? (1) What causes the difference between > 2 million and < 1 million? (2) Why is the coverage of the A&H larger in the WoS despite the much lower number of active journals? Best wishes, Loet Elsevier B.V. Registered Office: Radarweg 29, 1043 NX Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Registration No. 33156677 (The Netherlands) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From W.Meester at ELSEVIER.COM Wed Feb 23 11:12:09 2011 From: W.Meester at ELSEVIER.COM (Meester, Wim (ELS-AMS)) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:12:09 +0100 Subject: How many journals do Web of Science and Scopus really cover? In-Reply-To: A<00a801cbd36d$4be4e860$e3aeb920$@leydesdorff.net> Message-ID: Dear Loet, The numbers that you mention are correct. Just for sake of completion and to confirm: There are 1948 titles classified as A&H in Scopus, of which 1709 are active. This information can be found in the (excel) title list. There are 870,008 records published in A&H titles in Scopus, of which 43,918 in 2010. This information can be found searching for A&H subject classification codes in Advanced Search ("SUBJTERMS (XXXX)", or if using wildcards it is better to use "SUBJMAIN (XX*)") In addition, for mutual customers of Scopus and CSA Illumina, the content of seven CSA Illumina databases can be searched. This results in 2,056,185 records of which 45,172 in 2010. Kind regards, Wim From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Loet Leydesdorff Sent: 23 February 2011 16:21 To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] How many journals do Web of Science and Scopus really cover? Dear Wim, This clearly answers question 1: there is a Scopus+ version including CSA Illumina. For the A&H this is more than twice the size as Scopus without it. I downloaded the excel with the list information and then obtain the 1948 journals that I reported before. How come that these journals contained only 43,918 records in 2010. Or is this also including the CSA Illumina? If so, what is the number of Scopus journals in this category and how can one retrieve this number online? I hope that you appreciate this questioning. On this list, we are all interested in understanding and if possible improving these databases. 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 Meester, Wim (ELS-AMS) Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 3:06 PM To: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] How many journals do Web of Science and Scopus really cover? Dear Loet, The difference between WOS and Scopus can be explained by the different classification schemes that are used. The Scopus classification scheme is based on the ASJC codes and there maybe titles for example in Social Sciences category that may be classified as A&H in other schemes. With the different classification schemes in the two databases, it will be difficult to do a fair comparison on the subject field level. The explanation for the different numbers we came up with, is the records from the CSA Illumina databases which can be searched on Scopus by mutual Scopus and CSA customers. When CSA records are excluded from the Scopus Advanced Search, indeed 870,007 A&H records are retrieved. More information about the classification scheme and the coverage of CSA Illumina databases can also be found in the Scopus Content Coverage Guide . My apologies for the confusion and I hope this answers your questions about the coverage in Scopus. Kind regards, Wim From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Loet Leydesdorff Sent: 23 February 2011 10:52 To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] How many journals do Web of Science and Scopus really cover? Thank you so much, Wim. ? As for the Arts & Humanities content in Scopus, there are just over 1,600 core A&H titles in Scopus. You can search for A&H records in Scopus by using SUBJTERMS(XXXX) in Advances Search, where XXXX are the ASJC subject classification codes 1200 - 1213 (these can be found in the Scopus title list). There are in total over 2 million A&H records in Scopus. If I follow this instruction, I obtain not 2 million, but 870,007 records using Advanced Search in Scopus. Of these, 43,918 in 2010. This is exactly the number which I reported earlier today. Can you, please, clarify further? (1) What causes the difference between > 2 million and < 1 million? (2) Why is the coverage of the A&H larger in the WoS despite the much lower number of active journals? Best wishes, Loet Elsevier B.V. Registered Office: Radarweg 29, 1043 NX Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Registration No. 33156677 (The Netherlands) Elsevier B.V. Registered Office: Radarweg 29, 1043 NX Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Registration No. 33156677 (The Netherlands) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Wed Feb 23 13:49:53 2011 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:49:53 +0100 Subject: How many journals do Web of Science and Scopus really cover? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Thanks, Wim! We agree. Met vriendelijke groeten, 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 Meester, Wim (ELS-AMS) Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 5:12 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] How many journals do Web of Science and Scopus really cover? Dear Loet, The numbers that you mention are correct. Just for sake of completion and to confirm: There are 1948 titles classified as A&H in Scopus, of which 1709 are active. This information can be found in the (excel) title list. There are 870,008 records published in A&H titles in Scopus, of which 43,918 in 2010. This information can be found searching for A&H subject classification codes in Advanced Search (?SUBJTERMS (XXXX)?, or if using wildcards it is better to use ?SUBJMAIN (XX*)?) In addition, for mutual customers of Scopus and CSA Illumina, the content of seven CSA Illumina databases can be searched. This results in 2,056,185 records of which 45,172 in 2010. Kind regards, Wim From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Loet Leydesdorff Sent: 23 February 2011 16:21 To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] How many journals do Web of Science and Scopus really cover? Dear Wim, This clearly answers question 1: there is a Scopus+ version including CSA Illumina. For the A&H this is more than twice the size as Scopus without it. I downloaded the excel with the list information and then obtain the 1948 journals that I reported before. How come that these journals contained only 43,918 records in 2010. Or is this also including the CSA Illumina? If so, what is the number of Scopus journals in this category and how can one retrieve this number online? I hope that you appreciate this questioning. On this list, we are all interested in understanding and if possible improving these databases. 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 Meester, Wim (ELS-AMS) Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 3:06 PM To: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] How many journals do Web of Science and Scopus really cover? Dear Loet, The difference between WOS and Scopus can be explained by the different classification schemes that are used. The Scopus classification scheme is based on the ASJC codes and there maybe titles for example in Social Sciences category that may be classified as A&H in other schemes. With the different classification schemes in the two databases, it will be difficult to do a fair comparison on the subject field level. The explanation for the different numbers we came up with, is the records from the CSA Illumina databases which can be searched on Scopus by mutual Scopus and CSA customers. When CSA records are excluded from the Scopus Advanced Search, indeed 870,007 A&H records are retrieved. More information about the classification scheme and the coverage of CSA Illumina databases can also be found in the Scopus Content Coverage Guide . My apologies for the confusion and I hope this answers your questions about the coverage in Scopus. Kind regards, Wim From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Loet Leydesdorff Sent: 23 February 2011 10:52 To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] How many journals do Web of Science and Scopus really cover? Thank you so much, Wim. ? As for the Arts & Humanities content in Scopus, there are just over 1,600 core A&H titles in Scopus. You can search for A&H records in Scopus by using SUBJTERMS(XXXX) in Advances Search, where XXXX are the ASJC subject classification codes 1200 ? 1213 (these can be found in the Scopus title list). There are in total over 2 million A&H records in Scopus. If I follow this instruction, I obtain not 2 million, but 870,007 records using Advanced Search in Scopus. Of these, 43,918 in 2010. This is exactly the number which I reported earlier today. Can you, please, clarify further? (1) What causes the difference between > 2 million and < 1 million? (2) Why is the coverage of the A&H larger in the WoS despite the much lower number of active journals? Best wishes, Loet Elsevier B.V. Registered Office: Radarweg 29, 1043 NX Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Registration No. 33156677 (The Netherlands) Elsevier B.V. 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There is growing concern that scholarly output may be swamping traditional mechanisms for both pre-publication filtering (e.g peer review) and post-publication impact filtering (e.g. the Journal Impact Factor). Increasing scholarly use of Web2.0 tools like CiteULike, Mendeley, Twitter, and blog-style article commenting presents an opportunity to create new filters. Metrics based on a diverse set of social sources could yield broader, richer, and more timely assessments of current and potential scholarly impact. Realizing this, many authors have begun to call for investigation of these ?altmetrics? [2]. Despite the growing speculation and early exploratory investigation into the value of altmetrics, however, there remains little concrete research into the properties of these metrics: their validity, their potential value and flaws, and their relationship to established measures. Nor has there been any large umbrella to bring these multiple perspectives together. The altmetrics11 workshop aims to encourage both these. Submissions are invited from a variety of areas: * New metrics based on social media * Tracking science communication on the Web * Relation between traditional metrics and altmetrics * Peer-review and altmetrics * Tools for gathering, analyzing, disseminating altmetrics Important Dates: 2-page abstracts due March 31, 2011 Acceptance and abstract publication April 14, 2011 Open pre-workshop discussion April 14, 2011 ? June 14, 2011Workshop at WebSci 11 June 14 ? June 15, 2011 Discussion closed June 30, 2011 Invitations for post-workshop proceedings TBA Submissions: Prospective authors should submit 2-page extended abstracts (max. 1000 words, not including references). If necessary, the workshop organizers will select the most relevant, original, and significant abstracts for presentation. Experimental results will be given preference, followed by technical reports on working altmetrics tools and position papers. All selected submissions will be published online for open peer review and discussion. Authors are encouraged to participate in the discussions of their work. Based on the presentations and online discussion, selected authors may be asked to submit full papers for peer-reviewed proceedings. Location: The workshop is hosted by the ACM Web Science Conference 2011 (Koblenz, Germany). This interdisciplinary conference focuses on advances in studying the full range of social-technical relationships on the Web. Please visit the Web Science site for more information. Organizers: * Paul Groth ? VU University Amsterdam, NL * Jason Priem ? University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA * Dario Taraborelli ? Wikimedia Foundation, USA & University of Surrey, UK The organizers have an interdisciplinary background covering Sociology, Information and Library Science and Computer Science. [1] http://www.websci11.org [2] http://altmetrics.org/manifesto (includes bibliography) -- Jason Priem UNC Royster Fellow School of Information and Library Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill -- Jason Priem UNC Royster Fellow School of Information and Library Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill From rasoolzavaraqi at GMAIL.COM Thu Feb 24 02:34:55 2011 From: rasoolzavaraqi at GMAIL.COM (Rasool Zavaraqi) Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:04:55 +0330 Subject: Citation Tresholds Message-ID: Dear all Hi Has anyboday access to Citation Tresholds of 22 disciplines computed by Essential Science Indicators (ESI). with regards -- Rasool Zavaraqi Faculty Member of Department of Library and Information Science Tabriz University PhD Student of Department of Library and Information Science Tehran University website: http://sites.google.com/site/rzavaraqi http://www2.tabrizu.ac.ir/datafiles/Education/members/zavaraghi/zavaraghi.doc E-mail: zavaraqi at ut.ac.ir zavaraqi at tabrizu.ac.ir rasoolzavaraqi at gmail.com Tel: 09144203532 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Lutz.Bornmann at GV.MPG.DE Thu Feb 24 02:46:51 2011 From: Lutz.Bornmann at GV.MPG.DE (Bornmann, Lutz) Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:46:51 +0100 Subject: Mapping of excellence Message-ID: Dear colleagues, You might be interested in two new approaches to map excellence in science: 1) http://www.leydesdorff.net/mapping_excellence/index.htm 2) http://www.ludowaltman.nl/density_map/ Best, Lutz --------------------------------------- Dr. Dr. habil. Lutz Bornmann Max Planck Society Hofgartenstr. 8 80539 Munich Tel.: 089/2108-1265 Email: bornmann at gv.mpg.de WWW: www.lutz-bornmann.de ResearcherID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-3926-2008 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Sat Feb 26 15:38:39 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 15:38:39 -0500 Subject: Sanni, SA; Zainab, AN. 2010. Google Scholar as a source for citation and impact analysis for a non-ISI indexed medical journal. MALAYSIAN JOURNAL OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE 15 (3): 35-51 Message-ID: Sanni, SA; Zainab, AN. 2010. Google Scholar as a source for citation and impact analysis for a non-ISI indexed medical journal. MALAYSIAN JOURNAL OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE 15 (3): 35-51. Author Full Name(s): Sanni, S. A.; Zainab, A. N. Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Medical Journal of Malaysia; MJM; MyAIS; Publication Productivity; Citation analysis; Impact Factor; Indexation Status KeyWords Plus: BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS; SCIENCE; INTERNATIONALIZATION; PUBLICATION; PATTERNS; SCIENTOMETRICS; WEB Abstract: It is difficult to determine the influence and impact of journals which are not covered by the ISI databases and Journal Citation Report. However, with the availability of databases such as MyAIS (Malaysian Abstracting and Indexing System), which offers sufficient information to support bibliometric analysis as well as being indexed by Google Scholar which provides citation information, it has become possible to obtain productivity, citation and impact information for non-ISI indexed journals. The bibliometric tool Harzing's Publish and Perish was used to collate citation information from Google scholar. The study examines article productivity, the citations obtained by articles and calculates the impact factor of Medical Journal of Malaysia (MJM) published between 2004 and 2008. MJM is the oldest medical journal in Malaysia and the unit of analysis is 580 articles. The results indicate that once a journal is covered by MyAIS it becomes visible and accessible on the Web because Google Scholarindexes MyAIS. The results show that contributors to MJM were mainly Malaysian (91%) and the number of Malaysian-Foreign collaborated papers were very small (28 articles, 4.8%). However, citation information from Google scholar indicates that out of the 580 articles, 76.8% (446) have been cited over the 5-year period. The citations were received from both mainstrean foreign as well as Malaysian journals and the top three citors were from China, Malaysia and the United States. In general more citations were received from East Asian countries, Europe, and Southeast Asia. The 2-yearly impact factor calculated for MJM is 0.378 in 2009, 0.367 in 2008, 0.616 in 2007 and 0.456 in 2006. The 5-year impact factor is calculated as 0.5: 77. The results show that although MJM is a Malaysian journal and not ISI indexed its contents have some international significance based on the citations and impact score it receives, indicating the importance of being visible especially in Google scholar. Addresses: [Zainab, A. N.] Univ Malaya, Digital Lib Res Grp, Fac Comp Sci & Informat Technol, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Reprint Address: Sanni, SA, 54 Lekan Salami Complex, Ibadan, Nigeria. E-mail Address: sanni_sharms at yahoo.com; zainab at um.edu.my ISSN: 1394-6234 fulltext: http://majlis.fsktm.um.edu.my/document.aspx?FileName=956.pdf From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Sat Feb 26 15:47:18 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 15:47:18 -0500 Subject: Mahbuba, D; Rousseau, R; Srivastava, D. 2010. A scientometric analysis of health and population research in South Asia: focus on two research organizations. MALAYSIAN JOURNAL OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE 15 (3): 135-147 Message-ID: Mahbuba, D; Rousseau, R; Srivastava, D. 2010. A scientometric analysis of health and population research in South Asia: focus on two research organizations. MALAYSIAN JOURNAL OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE 15 (3): 135-147. Author Full Name(s): Mahbuba, Dilruba; Rousseau, Ronald; Srivastava, Divya Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Scientometrics; Publication productivity; Research impact; Citation studies; h-index KeyWords Plus: H-INDEX; SCIENCE; INDIA Abstract: In this article we provide a scientometric comparison between two health and population research organizations, namely the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research in Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) and the National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED) in India, during the period 1979-2008. We study these two institutes because they conduct similar research and because of their collaboration ties. Data are collected from the Web of Science (WoS) as well as from official records of these two organizations. The analysis presents the evolution of publication activities. Special attention is given to research impact through time series of the institutional h-and R-indices, as well as to the trend in yearly citations received. Types of publications, international collaboration with other countries, top scientists and most cited articles co-authored by scientists from these institutions are highlighted. It is observed that female scientists play a minor role in these two institutes. Addresses: [Mahbuba, Dilruba] Asian Univ Women, Chittagong 4000, Bangladesh; [Mahbuba, Dilruba; Rousseau, Ronald] Univ Antwerp, IBW, B-2000 Antwerp, Belgium; [Rousseau, Ronald] KHBO Assoc KU Leuven, Dept Ind Sci & Technol, B-8400 Oostende, Belgium; [Rousseau, Ronald] Katholieke Univ Leuven, Dept Math, B-3000 Louvain, Heverlee, Belgium; [Srivastava, Divya] Indian Council Med Res, Scientometr Unit, Div Publicat & Informat, New Delhi 110029, India Reprint Address: Mahbuba, D, Asian Univ Women, 20-A MM Ali Rd, Chittagong 4000, Bangladesh. E-mail Address: dilruba.mahbuba at auw.edu.bd; ronald.rousseau at khbo.be; drdivya.srivastava at gmail.com ISSN: 1394-6234 fulltext: http://majlis.fsktm.um.edu.my/document.aspx?FileName=962.pdf From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Sat Feb 26 15:50:00 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 15:50:00 -0500 Subject: Hack, TF; Crooks, D; Plohman, J; Kepron, E. 2010. Research citation analysis of nursing academics in Canada: identifying success indicators. JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING 66 (11): 2542-2549 Message-ID: Hack, TF; Crooks, D; Plohman, J; Kepron, E. 2010. Research citation analysis of nursing academics in Canada: identifying success indicators. JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING 66 (11): 2542-2549. Author Full Name(s): Hack, Thomas F.; Crooks, Dauna; Plohman, James; Kepron, Emma Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: citation analysis; h-index; nursing; nursing academics; research; Scopus KeyWords Plus: BREAST-CANCER; PARKINSONS-DISEASE; WOMEN; PREFERENCES; INFORMATION; VALIDATION; ILLNESS Abstract: Aim. This article is a report of a citation analysis of research publications by Canadian nursing academics. Background. Citation analysis can yield objective criteria for assessing the value of published research and is becoming increasingly popular as an academic evaluation tool in universities around the world. Citation analysis is useful for examining the research performance of academic researchers and identifying leaders among them. Methods. The journal publication records of 737 nursing academics at 33 Canadian universities and schools of nursing were subject to citation analysis using the Scopus database. Three primary types of analysis were performed for each individual: number of citations for each journal publication, summative citation count of all published papers and the Scopus h-index. Preliminary citation analysis was conducted from June to July 2009, with the final analysis performed on 2 October 2009 following e-mail verification of publication lists. Results. The top 20 nursing academics for each of five citation categories are presented: the number of career citations for all publications, number of career citations for first-authored publications, most highly cited first-authored publications, the Scopus h-index for all publications and the Scopus h-index for first-authored publications. Conclusion. Citation analysis metrics are useful for evaluating the research performance of academic researchers in nursing. Institutions are encouraged to protect the research time of successful and promising nursing academics, and to dedicate funds to enhance the research programmes of underperforming academic nursing groups. Addresses: [Hack, Thomas F.; Crooks, Dauna; Plohman, James; Kepron, Emma] Univ Manitoba, Fac Nursing, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada Reprint Address: Hack, TF, Univ Manitoba, Fac Nursing, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada. E-mail Address: thack at sbrc.ca ISSN: 0309-2402 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2010.05429.x fulltext: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365- 2648.2010.05429.x/full From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Sat Feb 26 15:56:00 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 15:56:00 -0500 Subject: Rojas-Sola, JI; De San-Antonio-Gomez, C. 2010. BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF COLOMBIAN SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS IN ENGINEERING, MULTIDISCIPLINARY SUBJECT CATEGORY IN WEB OF SCIENCE DATABASE (1997-2009). DYNA-COLOMBIA 77 (164): 9-17 Message-ID: Rojas-Sola, JI; De San-Antonio-Gomez, C. 2010. BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF COLOMBIAN SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS IN ENGINEERING, MULTIDISCIPLINARY SUBJECT CATEGORY IN WEB OF SCIENCE DATABASE (1997-2009). DYNA- COLOMBIA 77 (164): 9-17. Author Full Name(s): Ignacio Rojas-Sola, Jose; De San-Antonio-Gomez, Carlos Language: Spanish Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Bibliometrics; Impact Factor; Web of Science; Colombian publications; Engineering Multidiciplinary KeyWords Plus: IMPACT FACTORS; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; INDICATORS; PERFORMANCE; SPANISH; SCI Abstract: The work has characterized the area of Engineering, Multidisciplinary in Colombia, reviewing the work of Colombian researchers in universities and published in international journals with impact factor between 1997 and 2009, at institutional level through Web of Science database. In the context of Latin America have been published 2,195 jobs (article or review) in 83 journals, and at the level of Colombia have found 419 articles published in 23 journals. Also, the universities have been analyzed by bibliometric indicators (Weighted and Relative Impact Factor and average number of citations per document), and found all the scientific production located in 37 Universities and stressing the Universidad Nacional de Colombia for the number of documents, the University Pontificia Bolivariana appointments by the rate cites against documents, and the Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia on the impact factor. Addresses: [Ignacio Rojas-Sola, Jose] Univ Jaen, Escuela Politecen Super Jaen, Jaen, Spain; [De San-Antonio-Gomez, Carlos] Univ Politecn Madrid, ETS Ingenieros Agronomos, E-28040 Madrid, Spain Reprint Address: Rojas-Sola, JI, Univ Jaen, Escuela Politecen Super Jaen, Jaen, Spain. E-mail Address: jiroias at ujaen.es; c.sanantonio at upm.es ISSN: 0012-7353 fulltext: http://dyna.unalmed.edu.co/ediciones/164/articulos/a01v77n164/a01v77n164.p df From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Sat Feb 26 16:00:03 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 16:00:03 -0500 Subject: Cummings, G; Biondo, PD; Campbell, D; et al. 2011. Can the global uptake of palliative care innovations be improved? Insights from a bibliometric analysis of the Edmonton Symptom Assessment System. PALLIATIVE MEDICINE 25 (1): 71-82 Message-ID: Cummings, G; Biondo, PD; Campbell, D; Stiles, C; Fainsinger, R; Muise, M; Hagen, N. 2011. Can the global uptake of palliative care innovations be improved? Insights from a bibliometric analysis of the Edmonton Symptom Assessment System. PALLIATIVE MEDICINE 25 (1): 71-82.. Author Full Name(s): Cummings, Greta; Biondo, Patricia D.; Campbell, David; Stiles, Carla; Fainsinger, Robin; Muise, Melanie; Hagen, Neil Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Bibliometric methods; diffusion of innovation; knowledge transfer; palliative care; symptom management KeyWords Plus: CANCER-PATIENTS; EXPERIENCE; SCALE; LIFE Abstract: Clinical research is undertaken to improve care for palliative patients, but little is known about how to support the broad uptake of resultant innovations. The objectives of this paper are to: (1) explore the uptake of the Edmonton Symptom Assessment System throughout the global palliative care community through the lens of a bibliometric review - a research method that maps out the journey of new knowledge uptake by evaluating where key articles are cited in published literature; (2) construct hypotheses on attributes of the global community of palliative care learners; and (3) make inferences on approaches that could improve knowledge transfer. While preliminary, results of the study suggest several specific approaches that could support widespread uptake of innovations in palliative care: targeting publication in high impact, international journals; explicitly focusing on how the innovation is applied to best practice; encouraging additional research to expand on early studies; consciously targeting key professional groups and organizations to promote discussion in the grey literature; and early translation and promotion within multiple languages. Addresses: [Cummings, Greta; Muise, Melanie] Univ Alberta, Fac Nursing, Edmonton, AB, Canada; [Biondo, Patricia D.; Hagen, Neil] Univ Calgary Oncol, Calgary, AB, Canada; [Fainsinger, Robin] Univ Alberta Canada, Div Palliat Care Med, Edmonton, AB, Canada Reprint Address: Cummings, G, Univ Alberta, Fac Nursing, Edmonton, AB, Canada. E-mail Address: gretac at ualberta.ca ISSN: 0269-2163 DOI: 10.1177/0269216310381449 URL: http://pmj.sagepub.com/content/early/2010/09/16/0269216310381449.abstrac t From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Sat Feb 26 16:02:50 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 16:02:50 -0500 Subject: Rojas-Sola, JI; de San-Antonio-Gomez, C. 2010. Bibliometric analysis of Spanish scientific publications in the subject Construction & Building Technology in Web of Science database (1997-2008). MATERIALES DE CONSTRUCCION 60 (300): 143-14 Message-ID: Rojas-Sola, JI; de San-Antonio-Gomez, C. 2010. Bibliometric analysis of Spanish scientific publications in the subject Construction & Building Technology in Web of Science database (1997-2008). MATERIALES DE CONSTRUCCION 60 (300): 143-149.. Author Full Name(s): Rojas-Sola, J. I.; de San-Antonio-Gomez, C. Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Bibliometric analysis; Impact Factor; Spanish universities; research centers; construction & building technology KeyWords Plus: IMPACT FACTORS Abstract: In this paper the publications from Spanish institutions listed in the journals of the Construction & Building Technology subject of Web of Science database for the period 19972008 are analyzed. The number of journals in whose is published is 35 and the number of articles was 760 (Article or Review). Also a bibliometric assessment has done and we propose two new parameters: Weighted Impact Factor and Relative Impact Factor; also includes the number of citations and the number documents at the institutional level. Among the major production Institutions with greater scientific production, as expected, the Institute of Constructional Science Eduardo Torroja (CSIC), while taking into account the weighted impact factor ranks first University of Vigo. On the other hand, only two journals Cement and Concrete Materials and Materials de Construction agglutinate the 45.26% of the Spanish scientific production published in the Construction & Building Technology subject, with 172 papers each one. Regarding international cooperation, include countries such as England, Mexico, United States, Italy, Argentina and France. Addresses: [Rojas-Sola, J. I.] Univ Jaen, Jaen, Spain; [de San-Antonio-Gomez, C.] Univ Politecn Madrid, Madrid, Spain Reprint Address: Rojas-Sola, JI, Univ Jaen, Jaen, Spain. E-mail Address: jirojas at ujaen.es ISSN: 0465-2746 DOI: 10.3989/mc.2010.59810 fulltext: http://materconstrucc.revistas.csic.es/index.php/materconstrucc/article/view/ 613 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Sat Feb 26 16:07:36 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 16:07:36 -0500 Subject: Robinson, KA; Goodman, SN. 2011. A Systematic Examination of the Citation of Prior Research in Reports of Randomized, Controlled Trials. ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE 154 (1): 50-U187 Message-ID: Robinson, KA; Goodman, SN. 2011. A Systematic Examination of the Citation of Prior Research in Reports of Randomized, Controlled Trials. ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE 154 (1): 50-U187.. Author Full Name(s): Robinson, Karen A.; Goodman, Steven N. Language: English Document Type: Article KeyWords Plus: CLINICAL-PRACTICE GUIDELINE; GENERAL MEDICAL JOURNALS; LOW-BACK-PAIN; RELEVANT EVIDENCE; REFERENCE BIAS; REVIEWS; SURGERY; PUBLICATION; SECTIONS; ARTICLES Abstract: Background: A randomized, controlled trial (RCT) should not be started or interpreted without accounting for evidence from preceding RCTs addressing the same question. Research has suggested that evidence from prior trials is often not accounted for in reports of subsequent RCTs. Objective: To assess the extent to which reports of RCTs cite prior trials studying the same interventions. Design: Meta-analyses published in 2004 that combined 4 or more trials were identified; within each meta-analysis, the extent to which each trial report cited the trials that preceded it by more than 1 year was assessed. Measurements: The proportion of prior trials that were cited (prior research citation index), the proportion of the total participants from prior trials that were in the cited trials (sample size citation index), and the absolute number of trials cited were calculated. Results: 227 meta-analyses were identified, comprising 1523 trials published from 1963 to 2004. The median prior research citation index was 0.21 (95% CI, 0.18 to 0.24), meaning that less than one quarter of relevant reports were cited. The median sample size citation index (0.24 [CI, 0.21 to 0.27]) was similar, suggesting that larger trials were not selectively cited. Of the 1101 RCTs that had 5 or more prior trials to cite, 254 (23%) cited no prior RCTs and 257 (23%) cited only 1. The median number of prior cited trials was 2, which did not change as the number of citable trials increased. The mean number of preceding trials cited by trials published after 2000 was 2.4, compared with 1.5 for those published before 2000 (P < 0.001). Limitation: The investigators could not ascertain why prior trials were not cited, and noncited trials may have been taken into account in the trial design and proposal stages. Conclusion: In reports of RCTs published over 4 decades, fewer than 25% of preceding trials were cited, comprising fewer than 25% of the participants enrolled in all relevant prior trials. A median of 2 trials was cited, regardless of the number of prior trials that had been conducted. Research is needed to explore the explanations for and consequences of this phenomenon. Potential implications include ethically unjustifiable trials, wasted resources, incorrect conclusions, and unnecessary risks for trial participants. Addresses: Johns Hopkins Sch Med, Baltimore, MD USA; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Sch Publ Hlth, Baltimore, MD USA Reprint Address: Robinson, KA, Johns Hopkins Univ, Div Gen Internal Med, Dept Med, 1830 E Monument St,Room 8069, Baltimore, MD 21287 USA. E-mail Address: krobin at jhmi.edu ISSN: 0003-4819 URL: http://annals.org/content/154/1/50.full From quentinburrell at MANX.NET Sun Feb 27 15:27:33 2011 From: quentinburrell at MANX.NET (Quentin Burrell) Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 20:27:33 +0000 Subject: Peer review Message-ID: Given the expertise and experience of members of this list, some of you may wish to submit comments/evidence to the UK Governments select committee: http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/science-and-technology-committee/news/110127-new-inquiry---peer-review/ It might also be of interest if members could share their thoughts with the list. Quentin Burrell From isidro.aguillo at CCHS.CSIC.ES Mon Feb 28 04:17:43 2011 From: isidro.aguillo at CCHS.CSIC.ES (Isidro F. Aguillo) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:17:43 +0100 Subject: New paper published in e-journal Cybermetrics Message-ID: An Investigation of Web Resource Distribution in the Field of Information Science Kun Lu, Soohyung Joo & Dietmar Wolfram Cybermetrics, Vol. 15 (2011): Issue 1, Paper 1 http://www.cindoc.csic.es/cybermetrics/articles/v15i1p1.html http://www.cindoc.csic.es/cybermetrics/articles/v15i1p1.pdf Abstract This study introduces a new methodology to explore Web information distribution. Subject terms extracted from a key journal in the field of information science were employed to conduct Web searches on Google to identify a corpus of Internet domains and associated Web pages to represent the discipline of information science. A Bradford analysis was then applied to the corpus to determine if the scatter of Web pages conformed to a Bradford distribution. The modeling of the collected data to the power law function in LOTKA program indicates a good fit at even 10% significance level. With a binning procedure and least squares fitting, an R square value of 0.987 was obtained. A division of the data according to top level domain category shows different number of domains and domain productivities in different types of domains. Governmental and commercial domains have higher productivity than the educational and organizational domains. However, the difference between governmental and commercial domains and between educational and organizational domains are not significant. -- **************************************** Isidro F. Aguillo, HonPhD The Cybermetrics Lab CSIC Albasanz, 26-28. Madrid 28037. Spain isidro.aguillo at cchs.csic.es **************************************** From Wolfgang.Glanzel at ECON.KULEUVEN.AC.BE Mon Feb 28 04:20:59 2011 From: Wolfgang.Glanzel at ECON.KULEUVEN.AC.BE (Glanzel, Wolfgang) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 09:20:59 +0000 Subject: Derek-de-Solla-Price-Award 2011 Message-ID: We are very pleased to inform that Professor OLLE PERSSON has been selected to receive the Derek de Solla Price Award 2011. The Price Medal and the Scroll will be presented to Professor Persson at the Conference of the International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI) being hosted during 2011 July 4-8 by the Durban University South Africa. For further details about the Derek de Solla Price Memorial Medal and its history, please, visit the ISSI Website at http://www.issi-society.info/price.html. On behalf of the Chair of the Derek Price Award Selection Panel and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Scientometrics, Professor Tibor Braun, Yours sincerely, Wolfgang Gl?nzel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kim.holmberg at ABO.FI Mon Feb 28 07:37:06 2011 From: kim.holmberg at ABO.FI (Kim Holmberg) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:37:06 +0200 Subject: Extended Deadline - Information Science and Social Media conference, 24.-26. August 2011 in =?windows-1252?Q?=C5bo/Turku=2C_?= Finland Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Due to many requests we are extending the abstract submission deadline for ISSOME2011 conference until the 31st March 2011. The aim of the first ISSOME conference is to address new modes of information behaviour in different contexts focusing the effects of social media and technologies in the interactive web. The change process is not always straight forward and we need to underline what is really changing and what is only a trend. The conference will discuss skills needed to manage the new information platform and how to develop needed competencies in the information society. The conference is open to researchers, academics and practitioners in the fields of library and information science and social media, as well as businesses and organizations developing social media strategies. The conference will host invited and contributed papers sessions. In conjunction with the conference will also be organized a Doctoral Forum. This offers a possibility for doctoral students to share their ongoing research projects with their peers and well-established senior researchers. The conference is organized by the Department of Information Studies at ?bo Akademi University. It is well established and internationally recognized for excellence in research and education. The department conducts a wide array of research including research about social media, Library 2.0, knowledge management, health information behavior, and scientometrics. The department is part of the School of Business and Economics and it has strong connections and collaborative multidisciplinary projects with other departments in the school. Please visit http://issome2011.library2pointoh.fi/ for more information. Call for Papers Call for Papers for the international conference in Information Science and Social Media - ISSOME in 24.-26.8.2011 is open. We invite researchers worldwide to submit original research within the topics of the conference that are listed below. Submissions should be extended abstracts of no longer than 1500 words. All submissions will be peer-reviewed double blinded. Submission guidelines are available at http://issome2011.library2pointoh.fi/. Conference themes Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Social media in information science - Information aspects of social media - Library 2.0 and Librarian 2.0 - Social networking sites - Information Management - Knowledge Management - Knowledge Organization - Reputation Management - Information Behaviour and Information Use - Information dissemination in social media Structure of the extended abstract - Title - Abstract text - References Abstract text should clearly describe the aims, novelty/originality and principal findings/contribution of the presentation. In the case of empirical studies, also the method and material should be described briefly. Observe that no information about the authors should be included in the abstract document. Deadline Deadline for submissions is March 31, 2011. With kindest regards, -- Kim Holmberg Researcher, lecturer (e) kim.holmberg at abo.fi (t) +358 (0)2 215 4862 (m) +358 (0)45 675 4444 (w3) http://kimholmberg.fi Department of Information Studies School of Business and Economics ?bo Akademi University F?nriksgatan 3 B 20500 ?BO, Finland ---------------------------------------------- "Oh what a tangled web we weave?? - Sir Walter Scott, 1771-1832 ----------------------------------------------