From Wolfgang.Glanzel at ECON.KULEUVEN.AC.BE Mon Mar 7 03:41:07 2011 From: Wolfgang.Glanzel at ECON.KULEUVEN.AC.BE (Glanzel, Wolfgang) Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 08:41:07 +0000 Subject: Manfred Bonitz Festschrift Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, It is our pleasure to inform you that our colleague and friend, Dr. Manfred Bonitz, celebrates his 80th birthday today. As a gesture to honour the great scientist, we have edited a collection of short papers and notes. This festschrift is published as a special issue of the ISSI Newsletter (vol. 25-S, March 2011). This issue is now available online for reading and free download at http://www.issi-society.info/manfredbonitz/. Yours sincerely, Wolfgang Gl?nzel Bal?zs Schlemmer -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Language: English Document Type: Article KeyWords Plus: RESEARCH COLLABORATION; INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION; SELF-ORGANIZATION; SCIENCE; CITATION; JOURNALS; NATIONS; TRENDS; IMPACT Abstract: Engineering as a branch of science has a crucial role in the growth of the economy. The growth and development of engineering is therefore highly relevant. One way to understand this is to examine the characteristics of the scientific knowledge produced in the field of engineering. Drawing on the publications in engineering from the ISI Web of Science over the last three decades, this paper looks at the visibility and importance of engineering research in South Africa. The visibility of research publications is studied in terms of the number of citations a publication receives. The analysis shows that the visibility of South African engineering research is determined by the number of authors involved in the production of a paper, the presence of international collaboration, the degree of collaboration, and the journals in which the papers are published. Engineering research in South Africa, compared with that of all subjects, is clearly growing. But the visibility of South African engineering publications, in comparison with all other subjects, has been diminishing in recent years. Addresses: Univ KwaZulu Natal, Sociol Programme, Durban, South Africa Reprint Address: Sooryamoorthy, R, Univ KwaZulu Natal, Sociol Programme, Durban, South Africa. E-mail Address: sooryamoorthyr at ukzn.ac.za ISSN: 1012-277X From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Mar 7 14:09:06 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 14:09:06 -0500 Subject: Petersen, AM; Jung, WS; Yang, JS; Stanley, HE. 2011. Quantitative and empirical demonstration of the Matthew effect in a study of career longevity. PNAS 108 (1): 18-23 Message-ID: Petersen, AM; Jung, WS; Yang, JS; Stanley, HE. 2011. Quantitative and empirical demonstration of the Matthew effect in a study of career longevity. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 108 (1): 18-23.. Author Full Name(s): Petersen, Alexander M.; Jung, Woo-Sung; Yang, Jae-Suk; Stanley, H. Eugene Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: career length; hazard rate; output; Poisson process; quantitative sociology KeyWords Plus: CUMULATIVE ADVANTAGE; HUMAN MOBILITY; RELATIVE AGE; HEAVY TAILS; SCIENCE; PRODUCTIVITY; NETWORKS; DYNAMICS; SYSTEM; DISTRIBUTIONS Abstract: The Matthew effect refers to the adage written some two-thousand years ago in the Gospel of St. Matthew: "For to all those who have, more will be given." Even two millennia later, this idiom is used by sociologists to qualitatively describe the dynamics of individual progress and the interplay between status and reward. Quantitative studies of professional careers are traditionally limited by the difficulty in measuring progress and the lack of data on individual careers. However, in some professions, there are well-defined metrics that quantify career longevity, success, and prowess, which together contribute to the overall success rating for an individual employee. Here we demonstrate testable evidence of the age-old Matthew "rich get richer" effect, wherein the longevity and past success of an individual lead to a cumulative advantage in further developing his or her career. We develop an exactly solvable stochastic career progress model that quantitatively incorporates the Matthew effect and validate our model predictions for several competitive professions. We test our model on the careers of 400,000 scientists using data from six high-impact journals and further confirm our findings by testing the model on the careers of more than 20,000 athletes in four sports leagues. Our model highlights the importance of early career development, showing that many careers are stunted by the relative disadvantage associated with inexperience. Addresses: [Petersen, Alexander M.; Jung, Woo-Sung; Stanley, H. Eugene] Boston Univ, Ctr Polymer Studies, Boston, MA 02215 USA; [Petersen, Alexander M.; Jung, Woo-Sung; Stanley, H. Eugene] Boston Univ, Dept Phys, Boston, MA 02215 USA; [Jung, Woo-Sung] Pohang Univ Sci & Technol, Dept Phys, Pohang 790784, South Korea; [Jung, Woo-Sung] Pohang Univ Sci & Technol, Grad Program Technol & Innovat Management, Pohang 790784, South Korea; [Yang, Jae-Suk] Columbia Univ, Columbia Business Sch, Sanford C Benstein & Co Ctr Leadership & Eth, New York, NY 10027 USA Reprint Address: Petersen, AM, Boston Univ, Ctr Polymer Studies, Boston, MA 02215 USA. E-mail Address: amp17 at physics.bu.edu; hes at bu.edu ISSN: 0027-8424 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1016733108 fulltext: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/12/16/1016733108.full.pdf+html From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Mar 7 14:41:02 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 14:41:02 -0500 Subject: Li, ZW; Wan, XH; Lu, AP; Li, XH; Li, JY. 2010. Pathological research output in China and other top-ranking countries: 10-year survey of the literature. PATHOLOGY RESEARCH AND PRACTICE 206 (12): 835-838. Message-ID: Li, ZW; Wan, XH; Lu, AP; Li, XH; Li, JY. 2010. Pathological research output in China and other top-ranking countries: 10-year survey of the literature. PATHOLOGY RESEARCH AND PRACTICE 206 (12): 835-838. Author Full Name(s): Li, Zhongwu; Wan, Xiaohua; Lu, Aiping; Li, Xianghong; Li, Jiyou Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Research; Pathology; Impact factor (IF); Journal Citation Reports (JCR); China KeyWords Plus: JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; SYSTEMS PATHOLOGY; LIFE SCIENCES; PUBLICATIONS Abstract: The present study was designed to study the research output in pathology journals from the United States (USA), Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom (UK), France, and China between 2000 and 2009. Articles published in 67 pathology-related journals were retrieved from the PubMed database. US- American publications, which rank first, accounted for 30.9% of the total world's output and for 35.4% in the top 10% journals with impact factor (IF) scores. Chinese publications accounted for 2.8% of a total of 67 journals, and for 2.0% in the top 10% journals with IF scores. Our analysis investigated the research output of these six countries and revealed a positive trend in China for the period 2000-2009. Also, in contrast to other top-ranking countries, our results imply that China's research in the field of pathology falls behind that of the developed countries, and appropriate steps should be taken to improve the role of pathologists in clinical activity and to gear up for high-quality pathological studies. (c) 2010 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved. Addresses: [Li, Zhongwu; Lu, Aiping; Li, Xianghong; Li, Jiyou] Peking Univ, Sch Oncol, Beijing Canc Hosp & Inst,Minist Educ, Key Lab Carcinogenesis & Translat Res,Dept Pathol, Beijing 100142, Peoples R China; [Wan, Xiaohua] Capital Med Univ, Beijing Tongren Hosp, Dept Lab Med, Beijing 100730, Peoples R China Reprint Address: Li, ZW, Peking Univ, Sch Oncol, Beijing Canc Hosp & Inst,Minist Educ, Key Lab Carcinogenesis & Translat Res,Dept Pathol, 52 Fucheng Rd, Beijing 100142, Peoples R China. E-mail Address: zhwuli2008 at gmail.com; lijiyou at 263.net ISSN: 0344-0338 DOI: 10.1016/j.prp.2010.02.012 URL: http://www.researchgate.net/publication/42806163_Pathological_research_out put_in_China_and_other_top-ranking_countries_10- year_survey_of_the_literature From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Mar 7 14:45:10 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 14:45:10 -0500 Subject: Buela-Casal, Get al. 2011. The h index of the presidents of the APA through journal articles included in the Web of Science database. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY 11 (1): 95-107 Message-ID: Buela-Casal, G; Olivas-Avila, JA; Musi-Lechuga, B; Zych, I. 2011. The h index of the presidents of the American Psychological Association (APA) through journal articles included in the Web of Science database. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY 11 (1): 95-107. Author Full Name(s): Buela-Casal, Gualberto; Olivas-Avila, Jose A.; Musi- Lechuga, Bertha; Zych, Izabela Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: The presidents of the APA; The h index; American Psychological Association; Descriptive study KeyWords Plus: SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTIVITY; IMPACT; INTERNATIONALITY; PROFESSORS; PROGRAMS; QUALITY; GUIDE; SPAIN Abstract: The current descriptive study analyzes the h index of the presidents of the American Psychological Association (APA) since 1940 to the present. The h index is calculated from the number of articles published in journals included in the Web of Science (WOS) database and the citations received by the articles in the same database. There was no established period of time for the search and thus, all the results included in the WOS were analyzed. The total number of results was of 16 676 from which 3 734 were of the presidents of the APA. The results are shown as a rank-ordered list. It was found that Albert Bandura and Alan Kazdin are the presidents with the highest h indexes and that there is an important difference between those and the rest. The results of the study lead to speculate that the productivity in scientific articles was not the most important criterion to take into account for the election of the presidents in the history of the APA. Addresses: [Buela-Casal, Gualberto] Univ Granada, Fac Psicol, Granada 18011, Spain; [Olivas-Avila, Jose A.] Univ Autonoma Ciudad Juarez, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico; [Zych, Izabela] Univ Huelva, Huelva, Spain Reprint Address: Buela-Casal, G, Univ Granada, Fac Psicol, Campus Cartuja S-N, Granada 18011, Spain. E-mail Address: gbuela at ugr.es ISSN: 1697-2600 fulltext: http://redalyc.uaemex.mx/redalyc/pdf/337/33715423006.pdf From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Mar 7 14:47:25 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 14:47:25 -0500 Subject: Rani, K; Luthra, R. 2011. Are research grants free from gender bias: an overview of funding pattern of CSIR extramural research projects in life sciences. CURRENT SCIENCE 100 (1): 38-42 Message-ID: Rani, K; Luthra, R. 2011. Are research grants free from gender bias: an overview of funding pattern of CSIR extramural research projects in life sciences. CURRENT SCIENCE 100 (1): 38-42. Author Full Name(s): Rani, Kanta; Luthra, Rajesh Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Extramural research; funding pattern; gender; life sciences KeyWords Plus: WOMEN; INDIA Abstract: Analysis of life sciences extramural research (EMR) projects, recommended during the period 2004-2008, indicates no apparent gender bias in awarding EMR grants. The success rate of women scientists from universities in getting EMR grants is higher compared to men scientists, unlike R&D institutions where it is relatively lower. Outreach of life sciences research funding to women scientists is limited to mainly Delhi, Karnataka and West Bengal. Relatively lower strength of women in most institutions, rather than gender discrimination, seems to be the reason of lower representation of women in life sciences research funding. Addresses: [Rani, Kanta; Luthra, Rajesh] Human Resource Dev Grp, New Delhi 110012, India Reprint Address: Luthra, R, Human Resource Dev Grp, CSIR Complex,Lib Ave, New Delhi 110012, India. E-mail Address: luthra57 at rediffmail.com ISSN: 0011-3891 fulltext: http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/10jan2011/38.pdf From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Mar 7 14:49:05 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 14:49:05 -0500 Subject: Schell, MJ. 2010. Identifying Key Statistical Papers From 1985 to 2002 Using Citation Data for Applied Biostatisticians. AMERICAN STATISTICIAN 64 (4): 310-317 Message-ID: Schell, MJ. 2010. Identifying Key Statistical Papers From 1985 to 2002 Using Citation Data for Applied Biostatisticians. AMERICAN STATISTICIAN 64 (4): 310-317.. Author Full Name(s): Schell, Michael J. Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Applied fraction; Citation count; Statistical practice KeyWords Plus: SMOOTHING PARAMETER-ESTIMATION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; LONGITUDINAL DATA-ANALYSIS; FALSE DISCOVERY RATE; LOGISTIC-REGRESSION; MULTIPLE IMPUTATION; INTERVAL ESTIMATION; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; PUBLICATION BIAS Abstract: Dissemination of ideas from theory to practice is a significant challenge in statistics. Quick identification of articles useful to practitioners would greatly assist in this dissemination, thereby improving science. This article uses the citation count history of articles to identify key papers from 1985 to 2002 from 12 statistics journals for applied biostatisticians. One feature requiring attention in order to appropriately rank an article's impact is assessment of the citation accrual patterns over time. Citation counts in statistics differ dramatically from fields such as medicine. In statistics, most articles receive few citations, with 15-year-old articles from five key journals receiving a median of 13 citations compared to 66 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. However, statistics articles in the top 2%-3% continue to gain citations at a high rate past 15 years, exceeding those in JCO, whose counts slow dramatically around 8 years past publication. Articles with the highest expected applied uses 20 years post publication were identified using joinpoint regression. In this evaluation, the fraction of citations that represent applied use was defined and estimated. The false discovery rate, quantification of heterogeneity in meta-analysis, and generalized estimating equations rank as the ideas with the greatest estimated applied impact. Addresses: Univ S Florida, H Lee Moffitt Canc Ctr & Res Inst, Dept Biostat, Tampa, FL 33612 USA Reprint Address: Schell, MJ, Univ S Florida, H Lee Moffitt Canc Ctr & Res Inst, Dept Biostat, Tampa, FL 33612 USA. E-mail Address: michael.schell at moffitt.org ISSN: 0003-1305 DOI: 10.1198/tast.2010.08250 fulltext: http://pubs.amstat.org/doi/pdf/10.1198/tast.2010.08250 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Mar 7 14:55:31 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 14:55:31 -0500 Subject: Romero, AH; Kremer, RK; Marx, W. 2011. The scientific road of Manuel Cardona: a bibliometric analysis. ANNALEN DER PHYSIK 523 (1-2): 179-190, Sp. Iss. SI Message-ID: Romero, AH; Kremer, RK; Marx, W. 2011. The scientific road of Manuel Cardona: a bibliometric analysis. ANNALEN DER PHYSIK 523 (1-2): 179-190, Sp. Iss. SI.. Author Full Name(s): Romero, A. H.; Kremer, R. K.; Marx, W. Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Hirsch index; h index; Manuel Cardona; scientific impact KeyWords Plus: H-INDEX; HIRSCH INDEX Abstract: We present a detailed bibliometric analysis of the scientific contributions of Manuel Cardona, who represents an interesting example of a renowned scientist with a long and fruitful career. His publications provide an appropriate basis to apply various bibliometric techniques to measure the impact of his scientific achievements. For this purpose, we have taken into account his full publication record, the institutions of all his coauthors, the journals where his papers have been published, and the citations of his papers as a measure of their impact. We have analyzed in more detail some of his most important publications, which appeared as journal papers and book contributions. Additionally, we have broken down the complete ensemble of the citing papers with respect to the countries of authors, the journals, and the subject areas. The analysis performed in this study also makes use of the Hirsch index as one of the most recognized bibliometric indicators which has rapidly captured the field of research evaluation. Finally, we have established the citation historiogram based on the most highly-cited papers to visualize their citation network. (C) 2011 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim Addresses: [Romero, A. H.] CINVESTAV, Unidad Queretaro, Dept Mat, Queretaro 76230, Mexico; [Kremer, R. K.; Marx, W.] Max Planck Inst Solid State Res, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany Reprint Address: Romero, AH, CINVESTAV, Unidad Queretaro, Dept Mat, Queretaro 76230, Mexico. E-mail Address: aromero at qro.cinvestav.mx ISSN: 0003-3804 DOI: 10.1002/andp.201000090 fulltext: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/andp.201000090/pdf From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Mon Mar 7 15:00:27 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 15:00:27 -0500 Subject: Hennequin, MW. 2010. Documentation: A History and Critique of Attribution, Commentary, Glosses, Marginalia, Notes, Bibliographies, Works-Cited Lists, and Citation Indexing and Analysis. JOURNAL OF SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING 42 (1): 89-93 Message-ID: Hennequin, MW. 2010. Documentation: A History and Critique of Attribution, Commentary, Glosses, Marginalia, Notes, Bibliographies, Works-Cited Lists, and Citation Indexing and Analysis. JOURNAL OF SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING 42 (1): 89- 93.. Author Full Name(s): Hennequin, M. Wendy Language: English Document Type: Book Review Addresses: [Hennequin, M. Wendy] Tennessee State Univ, Dept Language Literature & Philosophy, Nashville, TN 37203 USA Reprint Address: Hennequin, MW, Tennessee State Univ, Dept Language Literature & Philosophy, Nashville, TN 37203 USA. E-mail Address: mwhennequin at gmail.com ISSN: 1198-9742 fulltext attached. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 42.1.hennequin.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 238733 bytes Desc: 42.1.hennequin.pdf URL: From chni at INDIANA.EDU Wed Mar 9 20:15:08 2011 From: chni at INDIANA.EDU (Chaoqun Ni) Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 20:15:08 -0500 Subject: 2nd Call: SIGMET Student Paper Contest Message-ID: 2011 ASIS&T SIG/MET Student Paper Contest The Special Interest Group for the measurement of information production and use (http://www.asis.org/SIG/met.html) of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T ) is pleased to announce its first student paper contest. The contest is designed, not only to recognize promising student research relating to the SIG, but also to provide feedback from specialists in the measurement of information production and use. 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 Deadlin* 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). 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Most existing citation matching work is done on scientific literature. The goal of this paper is to present methods for performing citation matching on Sanskrit texts. Exact matching and approximate matching are the two methods for performing citation matching. The exact matching method checks for exact occurrence of the citation with respect to the textual corpus. Approximate matching is a fuzzy string-matching method which computes a similarity score between an individual line of the textual corpus and the citation. The Smith-Waterman-Gotoh algorithm for local alignment, which is generally used in bioinformatics, is used here for calculating the similarity score. This similarity score is a measure of the closeness between the text and the citation. The exact-and approximate-matching methods are evaluated and compared. The methods presented can be easily applied to corpora in other Indic languages like Kannada, Tamil, etc. The approximate-matching method can in particular be used in the compilation of critical editions and plagiarism detection in a literary work. AUTHOR ADDRESS: AS Prasad, Int Inst Informat Technol, Bangalore, Karnataka, India ISSN: 0302-9743 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------ Eugene Garfield, PhD. email: garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu home page: www.eugenegarfield.org Tel: 610-525-8729 Fax: 610-560-4749 Chairman Emeritus, ThomsonReuters Scientific (formerly ISI) 1500 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA 19130-4067 Editor Emeritus, The Scientist LLC. www.the-scientist.com 400 Market St. Suite 330 Philadelphia, PA 19106-2535 Past President, American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) www.asist.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Tue Mar 15 13:40:57 2011 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:40:57 -0500 Subject: SELECTED PAPERS FROM SCIENTOMETRICS FEB 2011 Message-ID: TITLE: Criticism on the hg-index (Article, English) AUTHOR: Franceschini, F; Maisano, D SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 86 (2). FEB 2011. p.339-346 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): ; HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; JOURNALS item_title; BIBLIOMETR* item_title; GARFIELD E JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 295:90 2006 KEYWORDS: Citations; Manufacturing journal; Hirsch index; Hirsch spectrum; Impact factor; Journal authors; Bibliometrics KEYWORDS+: H-INDEX; HIRSCH-INDEX; INDICATORS; DISTRIBUTIONS; IMPACT; TAIL ABSTRACT: This article analyzes some of the most popular scientific journals in the Manufacturing field from the point of view of four bibliometric indicators: the ISI impact factor (ISI-IF), the Hirsch (h) index-for-journal, the total number of citations and the h-spectrum. h- spectrum is a novel tool based on h, making it possible to (i) identify a reference profile of the typical authors of a journal, (ii) compare different journals and (iii) provide a rough indication of their "bibliometric positioning" in the scientific community. Results of this analysis can be helpful for guiding potential authors and members of the scientific community in the Manufacturing area. Of particular interest is the construction of maps based on h-spectrum and IST-IF to compare journals and monitor their bibliometric positioning over time. A large amount of empirical data are presented and discussed. AUTHOR ADDRESS: F Franceschini, Politecn Torino, DISPEA, Corso Duca Abruzzi----------------------------------------------------------------- --------- TITLE: The fractional and harmonic p-indices for multiple authorship (Article, English) AUTHOR: Prathap, G SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 86 (2). FEB 2011. p.239-244 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005 KEYWORDS: Bibliometrics; h-Index; p-Index; Fractional counting; Harmonic counting; Quality; Quantity; Performance KEYWORDS+: H-INDEX ABSTRACT: A proposal is made so that the p-index (a composite performance index that can effectively combine size and quality of scientific papers) can be extended for bibliometric research assessment in cases where multiple authorship is taken into account. The fractional and harmonic p-indices are applied to some recent examples to show their usefulness. AUTHOR ADDRESS: G Prathap, Natl Inst Sci Commun & Informat Resources, New Delhi 110012, India ISSN: 0138-9130 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- TITLE: Quantifying the ease of scientific discovery (Article, English) AUTHOR: Arbesman, S SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 86 (2). FEB 2011. p.245-250 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth KEYWORDS: Discovery; Difficulty; Ease; Model; Mammals; Elements; Minor planets KEYWORDS+: MAMMALS ABSTRACT: It has long been known that scientific output proceeds on an exponential increase, or more properly, a logistic growth curve. The interplay between effort and discovery is clear, and the nature of the functional form has been thought to be due to many changes in the scientific process over time. Here I show a quantitative method for examining the ease of scientific progress, another necessary component in understanding scientific discovery. Using examples from three different scientific disciplines mammalian species, chemical elements, and minor planets I find the ease of discovery to conform to an exponential decay. In addition, I show how the pace of scientific discovery can be best understood as the outcome of both scientific output and ease of discovery. A quantitative study of the ease of scientific discovery in the aggregate, such as done here, has the potential to provide a great deal of insight into both the nature of future discoveries and the technical processes behind discoveries in science. AUTHOR ADDRESS: S Arbesman, Harvard Univ, Sch Med, Dept Hlth Care Policy, Boston, MA 02115 USA ISSN: 0138-9130 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- TITLE: An approach to improve the indicator weights of scientific and technological competitiveness evaluation of Chinese universities (Article, English) AUTHOR: Ding, JD; Qiu, JP SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 86 (2). FEB 2011. p.285-297 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 178:471 1972 KEYWORDS: Indicator weights; Improvement; Approach; Evaluation KEYWORDS+: JOURNAL EVALUATION; PERFORMANCE; MANAGEMENT; TAIWAN ABSTRACT: As indicator weights obtaining is often difficult in all types of evaluation, this paper describes an approach to improve the indicator weights of scientific and technological competitiveness evaluation of Chinese universities. As a public institution funded by Chinese government, the research center for Chinese science evaluation of Wuhan University has completed five annual evaluations for the scientific and technological competitiveness of Chinese universities since 2005, whose abundant and reliable data motivated us to try to improve the weights obtained by the AHP (analytical hierarchy process). Based on these data, we calculated the objective weights of the indicator using the representative mathematical methods of the least square and the variation coefficient. As the weights of AHP can be influenced by the knowledge, experience and preference of experts and the calculated objective weights neglect the subjective judgement information, we integrated the subjective and objective weights by respectively using the additive and multiplicative model to reflect both the subjective considerations of experts and the objective information, and obtained three kinds of integrative weights. Finally, we selected the integrative weights of multiplicative model as the best weights by comparing and analyzing the evaluation results in 2005 and 2009 of each kind of weights. The results show that the evaluation effect of the weights of multiplicative model is indeed the best for all types of Chinese universities among these kinds of weights, and the experts and university principals enquired also basically reached a consensus on the university rankings of the integrative weights of multiplicative model. AUTHOR ADDRESS: JD Ding, Wuhan Univ, Res Ctr Chinese Sci Evaluat, Wuhan 430072, Peoples R China ISSN: 0138-9130 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- TITLE: Criticism on the hg-index (Article, English) AUTHOR: Franceschini, F; Maisano, D SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 86 (2). FEB 2011. p.339-346 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005 KEYWORDS: Bibliometrics; hg-index; h-index; g-index; Indicator composition; Composite indicator; Scales of measurement; Ordinal scale; Scale granularity KEYWORDS+: HIRSCH INDEX ABSTRACT: Although composition of bibliometric indicators appears to be desirable, in many cases it may be misleading. After a brief introduction on the properties of scales of measurement, the attention of this communication is focused on a recent composite indicator, the hg- index, suggested by Alonso et al. (Scientometrics 82(2):391-400, 2010). Specifically, hg-index has three major criticalities: (1) the hg scale is the result of a composition of the h- and g-indices, which are defined both on ordinal scales, (2) the equivalence classes of hg are questionable and the substitution rate between h and g may arbitrarily change depending on the specific h and g values, (3) the apparent increase in granularity of hg, with respect to h and g, is illusory and misleading. Argument is supported by several examples. AUTHOR ADDRESS: F Franceschini, Politecn Torino, DISPEA, Corso Duca Abruzzi 24, I-10129 Turin, Italy ISSN: 0138-9130 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- TITLE: National-scale research performance assessment at the individual level (Article, English) AUTHOR: Abramo, G; D'Angelo, CA SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 86 (2). FEB 2011. p.347-364 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005 KEYWORDS: Research assessment exercises; Research funding; University; Bibliometrics; Italy KEYWORDS+: BIBLIOMETRIC INDICATORS; OUTPUT ABSTRACT: There is an evident and rapid trend towards the adoption of evaluation exercises for national research systems for purposes, among others, of improving allocative efficiency in public funding of individual institutions. However the desired macroeconomic aims could be compromised if internal redistribution of government resources within each research institution does not follow a consistent logic: the intended effects of national evaluation systems can result only if a "funds for quality" rule is followed at all levels of decision-making. The objective of this study is to propose a bibliometric methodology for: (i) large-scale comparative evaluation of research performance by individual scientists, research groups and departments within research institution, to inform selective funding allocations; and (ii) assessment of strengths and weaknesses by field of research, to inform strategic planning and control. The proposed methodology has been applied to the hard science disciplines of the Italian university research system for the period 2004-2006. AUTHOR ADDRESS: G Abramo, Univ Roma Tor Vergata, Lab Studies Res & Technol Transfer, Sch Engn, Dipartimento Ingn Impresa, Via Politecn 1, I-00133 Rome, Italy ISSN: 0138-9130 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- TITLE: Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database: administrative health care database as study object in bibliometrics (Article, English) AUTHOR: Chen, YC; Yeh, HY; Wu, JC; Haschler, I; Chen, TJ; Wetter, T SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 86 (2). FEB 2011. p.365-380 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT KEYWORDS: Administrative health care database; National Health Insurance Research Database; Bibliometric analysis; Knowledge growth KEYWORDS+: SECONDARY DATA SOURCES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH; GROWTH; PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE ABSTRACT: The trend to use administrative health care databases as research material is increasing but not well explored. Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD), one of the largest administrative health care databases around the world, has been used widely in academic studies. This study analyzed 383 NHIRD studies published between 2000 and 2009 to quantify the effects on overall growth, scholar response, and spread of the study fields. The NHIRD studies expanded rapidly in both quantity and quality since the first study was published in 2000. Researchers usually collaborated to share knowledge, which was crucial to process the NHIRD data. However, once the fundamental problem had been overcome, success to get published became more reproducible. NHIRD studies were also published diversely in a growing number of journals. Both general health and clinical science studies benefited from NIIIRD. In conclusion, this new research material widely promotes scientific production in a greater magnitude. The experience of Taiwan's NHIRD should encourage national- or institutional- level data holders to consider re-using their administrative databases for academic purposes. AUTHOR ADDRESS: YC Chen, Univ Heidelberg, Dept Med Informat, Neuenheimer Feld 305, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany [ ]<-- Enter an X to order article (IDS: 710FL 00011) ISSN: 0138-9130 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- TITLE: Explicitly searching for useful inventions: dynamic relatedness and the costs of connecting versus synthesizing (Article, English) AUTHOR: Hsieh, CM SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 86 (2). FEB 2011. p.381-404 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; MACROBERTS MH rauth; SWANSON DR rauth; SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973 KEYWORDS: Connections; Search; Inventions; Patents; Linkage; Relatedness KEYWORDS+: SCIENCE-AND-TECHNOLOGY; LITERATURE-BASED DISCOVERY; PATENT CITATIONS; OPPORTUNITY RECOGNITION; INNOVATIVE ACTIVITIES; LEARNING-CURVE; COUNT DATA; PERFORMANCE; INDICATORS; KNOWLEDGE ABSTRACT: Inventions combine technological features. When features are barely related, burdensomely broad knowledge is required to identify the situations that they share. When features are overly related, burdensomely broad knowledge is required to identify the situations that distinguish them. Thus, according to my first hypothesis, when features are moderately related, the costs of connecting and costs of synthesizing are cumulatively minimized, and the most useful inventions emerge. I also hypothesize that continued experimentation with a specific set of features is likely to lead to the discovery of decreasingly useful inventions; the earlier-identified connections reflect the more common consumer situations. Covering data from all industries, the empirical analysis provides broad support for the first hypothesis. Regressions to test the second hypothesis are inconclusive when examining industry types individually. Yet, this study represents an exploratory investigation, and future research should test refined hypotheses with more sophisticated data, such as that found in literature-based discovery research. AUTHOR ADDRESS: CM Hsieh, Univ Amsterdam, Amsterdam Sch Econ, E2-39,Roetersstr 11, NL-1018 WB Amsterdam, Netherlands ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- TITLE: Looking across communicative genres: a call for inclusive indicators of interdisciplinarity (Article, English) AUTHOR: Sugimoto, CR SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 86 (2). FEB 2011. p.449-461 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): CRONIN B rauth; PRICE DJD rauth KEYWORDS: Interdisciplinarity; Disciplinarity; Communicative genres; LC class; Citation analysis KEYWORDS+: SCIENCE; CITATION; COLLABORATION; NETWORKS; MAP ABSTRACT: Disciplines vary in the types of communicative genres they use to disseminate knowledge and citing patterns used within these genres. However, citation analyses have predominately relied on the references and citations of one type of communicative genre. It is argued that this is particularly problematic for studies of interdisciplinarity, where analyses bias the disciplines that communicate using the genre under investigation. This may lead to inaccurate or incomplete results in terms of fully understanding the interrelationships between disciplines. This study analyzes a set of 15,870 references from 97 US dissertations, in order to demonstrate the difference in discipline and author rankings, based on the genre under investigation. This work encourages future work that takes into account multiple citing and cited works, especially where indicators of interdisciplinarity are used for the allocation of resources or ranking of scholars. AUTHOR ADDRESS: CR Sugimoto, Indiana Univ, Sch Lib & Informat Sci, 1320 E 10th St,LI 029, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- TITLE: Bibliometric positioning of scientific manufacturing journals: a comparative analysis (Article, English) AUTHOR: Franceschini, F; Maisano, D SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 86 (2). FEB 2011. p.463-485 SPRINGER, 24, I-10129 Turin, Italy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- TITLE: The end of the beginning: a reflection on the first five years of the HRI conference (Article, English) AUTHOR: Bartneck, C SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 86 (2). FEB 2011. p.487-504 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; SEGLEN PO J AM SOC INFORM SCI 43:628 1992; GARFIELD E JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 295:90 2006 KEYWORDS: HRI; Conference; Military; Bibliometrics KEYWORDS+: GOOGLE SCHOLAR; SCIENCE; IMPACT; INDEX ABSTRACT: This study presents a historical overview of the International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI). It summarizes its growth, internationalization and collaboration. Rankings for countries, organizations and authors are provided. Furthermore, an analysis of the military funding for HRI papers is performed. Approximately 20% of the papers are funded by the US Military. The proportion of papers from the US is around 65% and the dominant role of the US is only challenged by the strong position of Japan, in particular by the contributions by AIR. AUTHOR ADDRESS: C Bartneck, Eindhoven Univ Technol, Dept Ind Design, Dolech 2, NL-5600 MB Eindhoven, Netherlands ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- TITLE: Publication activity, citation impact and bi-directional links between publications and patents in biotechnology (Article, English) AUTHOR: Glanzel, W; Zhou, P SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 86 (2). FEB 2011. p.505-525 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS: Biotechnology; Publication activity; International collaboration; Citation impact; Patent citation; Science- technology linkage KEYWORDS+: BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE-BASE; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SCIENCE FIELDS; INDICATORS; TECHNOLOGY; STATISTICS; GERMANY; BIOLOGY ABSTRACT: The study focuses on publication activity, citation impact and citation links between publications and patents in biotechnology. The European Union (EU), US, Japan and China are the most important global players. However, the landscape is changing since the EU and the US are losing ground because of challenges from a group of emerging economies. National profiles differ between the two groups of main players and upcoming countries; the focus on red biotechnology in the US and Europe is contrasted by propensity for white and green technology in Asia. Furthermore, the subject profile of biotechnology papers citing patents and cited by patents as well as the relationship between patent citations and citation impact in scientific literature is explored. Papers that cite patents tend to reflect propensity towards white biotechnology while patent-cited publications have a higher relative share in red biotechnology. No significant difference concerning the citation impact of publications 'citing patents' and 'not citing patents' can be found. This is contrasted by the observation that patent- cited papers perform distinctly better in terms of standard bibliometric indicators than comparable publications that are not linked to technology in this direction. AUTHOR ADDRESS: W Glanzel, Katholieke Univ Leuven, Ctr R&D Monitoring ECOOM, Louvain, Belgium ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- TITLE: Scientometrics of a pandemic: HIV/AIDS research in South Africa and the World (Article, English) AUTHOR: Pouris, A; Pouris, A SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 86 (2). FEB 2011. p.541-552 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): SMALL H SCIENTOMETRICS 30:229 1994; KEYWORDS: Scientometrics; HIV/AIDS; South Africa; Human immunodeficiency virus; Science policy KEYWORDS+: AIDS ABSTRACT: The HIV/AIDS pandemic is of international interest with the 2008 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine having being awarded for the discovery of the virus that causes AIDS. South Africa has a particular interest in the field of HIV/AIDS research as it is the country with the largest number of HIV infections in the world and the issue has created a number of political and scientific debates. This investigation identifies the state of HIV/ AIDS related research in South Africa vis-a-vis the rest of the world using evaluative scientometrics in order to inform relevant policy. South Africa is identified as producing an increasing number of HIV/AIDS related publications, making it one of the most prolific fields in the country. The rest of the world appears to have stabilized its research efforts after the development of highly active antiretroviral therapies. The USA is identified as the main producer of HIV/AIDS research while Europe appears to under-emphasise the issue. Comparison of the world's most prolific universities with those in South Africa identifies that the latter has a fragmented system. A number of policy issues are discussed. AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Pouris, Natl Res Fdn, Pretoria, South Africa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- TITLE: Collaboration in information and library science doctoral education (Article, English) AUTHOR: Sugimoto, CR SOURCE: LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE RESEARCH 33 (1). JAN 2011. p.3-11 ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, NEW YORK SEARCH TERM(S): CRONIN B rauth; GARFIELD E rauth; LIPETZ BA rauth KEYWORDS+: MULTIPLE AUTHORSHIP; JOURNAL LITERATURE; SOCIAL-SCIENCES; PUBLICATION; PATTERNS; PRODUCTIVITY; NETWORKS; CITATION; SYSTEMS; ACKNOWLEDGMENT ABSTRACT: Coauthorship is increasing across all areas of scholarship. Despite this trend, dissertations as sole-authored monographs are still revered as the cornerstone of doctoral education. As students learn the norms and communicative behaviors of their field during their doctoral education, do they also learn collaborative behaviors? This study investigated this issue through triangulation of 30 interviews, 215 questionnaires, and bibliometric analyses of 97 CVs in the field of library and information science (LIS). The findings demonstrate that collaboration occurs in about half of advisee/advisor relationships and is primarily understood as research dissemination outside the dissertation. Respondents reported that the dissertation was not and should not be considered a collaborative product. The discussion also includes a commentary about grant funding and the implications for this on models of academic scholarship and research production. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: CR Sugimoto, Indiana Univ, Sch Lib & Informat Sci, 1320 E 10th St,L1029, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------ Eugene Garfield, PhD. email: garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu home page: www.eugenegarfield.org Tel: 610-525-8729 Fax: 610-560-4749 Chairman Emeritus, ThomsonReuters Scientific (formerly ISI) 1500 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA 19130-4067 Editor Emeritus, The Scientist LLC. www.the-scientist.com 400 Market St. Suite 330 Philadelphia, PA 19106-2535 Past President, American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) www.asist.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Tue Mar 15 13:44:25 2011 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:44:25 -0500 Subject: MISCELLANEOUS papers on citation analysis and bibliometrics. Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- TITLE: The research core of the knowledge management literature (Article, English) AUTHOR: Wallace, DP; Van Fleet, C; Downs, LJ SOURCE: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT 31 (1). FEB 2011. p.14-20 ELSEVIER SCI LTD, OXFORD SEARCH TERM(S): FAIRTHORNE RA rauth KEYWORDS: Knowledge management; Research methods; Professional literature; Bibliometrics; Content analysis KEYWORDS+: BRADFORD LAW; DISCIPLINE; DISCOURSES; SYSTEMS ABSTRACT: A bibliometric analysis and a content analysis were conducted to explore the nature of the knowledge management literature. For the bibliometric analysis, three levels of Bradford analysis were used to examine the shape of the knowledge management literature based on 21,596 references from 2771 source publications. Each of the three analyses conformed to the typical curve of the Bradford distribution. For the content analysis, the texts of 630 knowledge management articles were analyzed to address the question of what research methodologies are used in the knowledge management literature. It was found that 27.8 percent of knowledge management-related articles in knowledge management journals used no identifiable research method. Of the remaining 455 refereed articles, 60 percent employed mainstream social sciences research methodologies. The remaining 40 percent of the articles using an identifiable methodology were characterized by the use of "provisional methods" that appeared to substitute for more formally defined or scientifically based research methodologies. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: DP Wallace, Univ Alabama, Sch Lib & Informat Studies, 501 Gorgas Lib,Box 870252, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 USA ISSN: 0268-4012 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- TITLE: The predictive validity of peer review: A selective review of the judgmental forecasting qualities of peers, and implications for innovation in science (Review, English) AUTHOR: Benda, WGG; Engels, TCE SOURCE: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FORECASTING 27 (1 SP ISS). JAN-MAR 2011. p.166-182 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM ISSN: 0169-2070 SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; SEGLEN PO J AM SOC INFORM SCI 45:1 1994; WILSON JD J CLIN INVEST 61:1697 1978 KEYWORDS: Advice taking; Cognitive bias; Decision-making; Expert advice; Group decision making; Reliability KEYWORDS+: CUM LAUDE DOCTORATES; DECISION-MAKING; BIBLIOMETRIC INDICATORS; SCIENTIFIC EXCELLENCE; GRANT APPLICATIONS; CITATION ANALYSIS; JOURNAL IMPACT; BIAS; AUTHORS; RELIABILITY ABSTRACT: In this review we investigate what the available data on the predictive validity of peer review can add to our understanding of judgmental forecasting. We found that peer review attests to the relative success of judgmental forecasting by experts. Both manuscript and group- based peer review allow, on average, for accurate decisions to be made. However, tension exists between peer review and innovative ideas, even though the latter underlie scientific advance. This points to the danger of biases and preconceptions in judgments. We therefore formulate two proposals for enhancing the likelihood of innovative work. (C) 2010 International Institute of Forecasters. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: TCE Engels, Univ Antwerp, Ctr R&D Monitoring, Middelheimlaan 1, B-2020 Antwerp, Belgium ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- TITLE: Level of evidence and conflict of interest disclosure associated with higher citation rates in orthopedics (Article, English) AUTHOR: Okike, K; Kocher, MS; Torpey, JL; Nwachukwu, BU; Mehlman, CT; Bhandari, M SOURCE: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY 64 (3). MAR 2011. p.331-338 PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, OXFORD SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION* item_title; GARFIELD E JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 295:90 2006 KEYWORDS: Citation rates; Impact factor; Conflict of interest; Level of evidence; Orthopedic surgery; Bibliometrics KEYWORDS+: JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; ARTICLES ABSTRACT: Objective: To identify the scientific and nonscientific factors associated with rates of citation in the orthopedic literature. Study Design and Setting: All original clinical articles published in three general orthopedics journals between July 2002 and December 2003 were reviewed. Information was collected on variables plausibly related to rates of citation, including scientific and nonscientific factors. The number of citations at 5 years was ascertained and linear regression was used to identify factors associated with rates of citation. Results: In the multivariate analysis, factors associated with increased rates of citation at 5 years were high level of evidence (22.2 citations for level I or II vs. 10.8 citations for level III or IV; P = 0.0001), large sample size (18.8 citations for sample size of 100 or more vs. 7.9 citations for sample size of 25 or fewer; P < 0.0001), multiple institutions (15.2 citations for two or more centers vs. 11.1 citations for single center; P = 0.023), self-reported conflict of interest disclosure involving a nonprofit organization (17.4 citations for nonprofit disclosure vs. 10.6 citations for no disclosure; P = 0.027), and self-reported conflict of interest disclosure involving a for-profit company (26.1 citations for for-profit disclosure vs. 10.6 citations for no disclosure; P = 0.011). Conclusion: High level of evidence, large sample size, representation from multiple institutions, and conflict of interest disclosure are associated with higher rates of citation in orthopedics. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: K Okike, Massachusetts Gen Hosp, Dept Orthoped Surg, 55 Fruit St, Boston, MA 02114 USA ISSN: 0895-4356 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- TITLE: Protocols and Challenges to the Creation of a Cross- Disciplinary Journal (Article, English) AUTHOR: Gould, THP SOURCE: JOURNAL OF SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING 42 (2). JAN 2011. p.105-141 UNIV TORONTO PRESS INC, TORONTO SEARCH TERM(S): ZUCKERMAN H rauth; ZUCKERMA.H MINERVA 9:66 1971; JOURNAL item_title KEYWORDS: Online Journal of Rural Research and Policy; narrowly defined; scholarly journals; born-online; cross- disciplinary; sustainability; editorial boards; academic ranking KEYWORDS+: WEB REFERENCES; OPEN-ACCESS; PERMANENCE ABSTRACT: In 2006, the Online Journal of Rural Research and Policy (OJRRP) was launched. The publication is an example of the ability of academia to create narrowly defined scholarly journals aimed at a small, targeted readership while relying on a meagre budget. This article discusses the factors that fostered the creation of hundreds of online- only journals, as well as providing a case study of the creation of OJRRP and the long-term implications of online cross-disciplinary publications. Areas covered include sponsorship, editorial board, editorial staff, software, link rot, code, promotional activities, tracking and supporting usage, and, perhaps most importantly, long-term sustainability. The OJRRP experience is presented along with lessons learned in each area. AUTHOR ADDRESS: THP Gould, Kansas State Univ, Manhattan, KS 66506 USA ISSN: 1198-9742 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- TITLE: Flogging a Dead Book? PROSPECTS FOR THE SCHOLARLY BOOK AND THE UNIVERSITY PRESS IN AUSTRALIA (Article, English) AUTHOR: James, S SOURCE: JOURNAL OF SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING 42 (2). JAN 2011. p.182-204 UNIV TORONTO PRESS INC, TORONTO SEARCH TERM(S): CRONIN B rauth KEYWORDS: monograph; university press; scholarly book; scholarly publishing; university commercialization; peer review; Australia KEYWORDS+: MONOGRAPH ABSTRACT: This article explores an issue that has been neglected in Australia, the intertwined fates of the scholarly book and the university press. These institutions face two significant threats: the commercialization of the university, which has left academics with less time for the patient research and writing needed to produce a monograph, and the 'tyranny of the journal article' (in contrast to that of the monograph, which has been noted in American debates), which has devalued the monograph and thus reduced some of the incentive for academics to write one. After examining the decline of university presses in Australia, the article concludes that they, and the monographs they publish, will best flourish with increased philanthropic, governmental, and university funding; careful list diversification; creative commissioning; cross-subsidization; and the savvy use of electronic and traditional forms of publishing and dissemination. ISSN: 1198-9742 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- TITLE: The Peer-Review Process for Articles in Iran's Scientific Journals (Review, English) AUTHOR: Ardakan, MA; Mirzaie, SA; Sheikhshoaei, F SOURCE: JOURNAL OF SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING 42 (2). JAN 2011. p.243-261 UNIV TORONTO PRESS INC, TORONTO SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNALS item_title KEYWORDS: peer-review process; scientific journals; types of refereeing; referee; editorial board KEYWORDS+: CHECKLIST ABSTRACT: The purpose of this research was to study the peer-review process for articles in Iran's accredited scientific journals. The study considered the types of refereeing currently practised, the decision- making methods and criteria for acceptance of articles, the major decision makers, and the current norms in the peer-review process. The method used was a survey, and the data-collecting tool was a questionnaire. The statistical population of this research included 245 scientific journals. The results of the study show that, currently, the predominant type of refereeing for articles submitted to these journals is 'double blind' and the prevailing method of informing authors about the results of manuscript evaluation is 'commenting on the manuscript after refereeing it and after consideration in an editorial board meeting.' The findings also indicate that two criteria 'Originality and creativity of the research' and 'Being within the journal's scope' - play the most important role in article acceptance. Of the five main parties cooperating in the peer-review process for these journals, the editorial board plays the most fundamental role. AUTHOR ADDRESS: F Sheikhshoaei, Univ Tehran Med Sci, Sch Allied Hlth Sci, Tehran, Iran [ ]<-- Enter an X to order article (IDS: 709MR 00008) ISSN: 1198-9742 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- TITLE: The controversial policies of journal ratings: evaluating social sciences and humanities (Article, English) AUTHOR: Pontille, D; Torny, D SOURCE: RESEARCH EVALUATION 19 (5). DEC 2010. p.347-360 BEECH TREE PUBLISHING, GUILDFORD SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; ZUCKERMAN HA rauth; ZUCKERMA.H MINERVA 9:66 1971; KEYWORDS+: RESEARCH PERFORMANCE; CITATION-REPORTS; IMPACT FACTORS; QUALITY; ECONOMICS; RANKINGS; TOP; PUBLICATIONS; INDICATORS; MANAGEMENT ABSTRACT: In a growing number of countries, governments and public agencies seek to systematically assess the scientific outputs of their universities and research institutions. Bibliometrics indicators and peer review are regularly used for this purpose, and their advantages and biases are discussed in a wide range of literature. This article examines how three different national organisations produce journal ratings as an alternative assessment tool, which is particularly targeted for social sciences and humanities. After setting out the organisational context in which these journal ratings emerged, the analysis highlights the main steps of their production, the criticism they received after publication, especially from journals, and the changes made during the ensuing revision process. The particular tensions of a tool designed as both a political instrument and a scientific apparatus are also discussed. AUTHOR ADDRESS: D Torny, INRA, RiTME UR 1323, 65 Blvd Brandebourg, F-94205 Ivry, France ISSN: 0958-2029 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- TITLE: Large Increases and Decreases in Journal Impact Factors in Only One Year: The Effect of Journal Self-Citations (Article, English) AUTHOR: Campanario, JM SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 62 (2). FEB 2011. p.230-235 WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION* ; IMPACT FACTOR KEYWORDS+: LABELED EDITORIAL MATERIAL; MANIPULATION; INDEX ABSTRACT: I studied the factors (citations, self-citations, and number of articles) that influenced large changes in only 1 year in the impact factors (IFs) of journals. A set of 360 instances of journals with large increases or decreases in their IFs from a given year to the following was selected from journals in the Journal Citation Reports from 1998 to 2007 (40 journals each year). The main factor influencing large changes was the change in the number of citations. About 54% of the increases and 42% of the decreases in the journal IFs were associated with changes in the journal self-citations. AUTHOR ADDRESS: JM Campanario, Univ Alcala De Henares, Dept Fis, Madrid 28871, Spain ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- TITLE: A Heuristic Approach to Author Name Disambiguation in Bibliometrics Databases for Large-Scale Research Assessments (Article, English) AUTHOR: D'Angelo, CA; Giuffrida, C; Abramo, G SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 62 (2). FEB 2011. p.257-269 WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS+: RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY; HOMONYMS; IMPACT ABSTRACT: National exercises for the evaluation of research activity by universities are becoming regular practice in ever more countries. These exercises have mainly been conducted through the application of peer-review methods. Bibliometrics has not been able to offer a valid large-scale alternative because of almost overwhelming difficulties in identifying the true author of each publication. We will address this problem by presenting a heuristic approach to author name disambiguation in bibliometric datasets for large-scale research assessments. The application proposed concerns the Italian university system, comprising 80 universities and a research staff of over 60,000 scientists. The key advantage of the proposed approach is the ease of implementation. The algorithms are of practical application and have considerably better scalability and expandability properties than state- of-the-art unsupervised approaches. Moreover, the performance in terms of precision and recall, which can be further improved, seems thoroughly adequate for the typical needs of large-scale bibliometric research assessments. AUTHOR ADDRESS: CA D'Angelo, Univ Roma Tor Vergata, Lab Studies Res & Technol Transfer, Via Politecn 1, I-00133 Rome, Italy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- TITLE: Coverage and Overlap of the New Social Sciences and Humanities Journal Lists (Article, English) AUTHOR: Hicks, D; Wang, JA SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 62 (2). FEB 2011. p.284-294 WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNAL item_title KEYWORDS+: SOCIOLOGY CITATION INDEX; WEB-OF-SCIENCE; GOOGLE SCHOLAR; SCOPUS ABSTRACT: This is a study of coverage and overlap in second- generation social sciences and humanities journal lists, with attention paid to curation and the judgment of scholarliness. We identify four factors underpinning coverage shortfalls: journal language, country, publisher size, and age. Analyzing these factors turns our attention to the process of assessing a journal as scholarly, which is a necessary foundation for every list of scholarly journals. Although scholarliness should be a quality inherent in the journal, coverage falls short because groups assessing scholarliness have different perspectives on the social sciences and humanities literature. That the four factors shape perspectives on the literature points to a deeper problem of fragmentation within the scholarly community. We propose reducing this fragmentation as the best method to reduce coverage shortfalls. AUTHOR ADDRESS: D Hicks, Georgia Inst Technol, Sch Publ Policy, 685 Cherry St, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- TITLE: Comparison Between Two Five Year Periods (1998/2002 and 2003/2007) on the Production, Impact and co-Authorship of Publications on Tobacco and Smoking by Spanish authors Using the Science Citation Index (Article, Spanish) AUTHOR: de Granda-Orive, J; Alonso-Arroyo, A; Serrano, SJV; Aleixandre-Benavent, R; Gonzalez-Alcaide, G; Garcia-Rio, F; Jimenez-Ruiz, CA; Solano-Reina, S; Roig-Vazquez, F SOURCE: ARCHIVOS DE BRONCONEUMOLOGIA 47 (1). JAN 2011. p.25-34 EDICIONES DOYMA S A, BARCELONA SEARCH TERM(S): SCIENCE CITATION INDEX item_title; CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS: Smoking; Literature; Coauthorship networks; Scientific publication KEYWORDS+: SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION; BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS; SPAIN; COOPERATION; MEDLINE ABSTRACT: Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the production, impact and co-authorship of publications by Spanish authors on smoking and tobacco between two time periods (1998/2002 vs 2003/2007) using Science Citation Index (SCI). Methods: The literature search was performed in the SCI-Expanded on 20 November 2008. All types of documents by Spanish authors were selected. The search was restricted to the title, and the key words used were "smok*" and "tobac*". The statistical analysis was descriptive (95% CI). Results: A total of 588 documents were obtained, with 399 (67.85%) original papers, 54(9.18%) letters to the editor, and 35 (5.95%) editorials. Productivity increased between the 98/02 to 03/07 periods: 234 (39.8%) documents versus 354 (60.2%). We have found significant differences between the two periods (98/02 vs 03/07) in total mean annual documents (47 +/- 8 vs 71 +/- 16 [p=0.024]) and total mean annual original papers (34 +/- 6 vs 46 +/- 9 [p = 0.041]). The mean number of citations per document was 14.1 +/- 2.1 for 98/02 period and 5.6 +/- 2.5 for 03/07 period (p = 0.003). The co-authorship annual index had increased; with a mean of 6.77 signatures/document for 98/02 period to a mean of 6.87 for 03/07 period. Authors and institution networks collaborations had increased between the two periods. Conclusions: Spanish production and co-authorship of documents on smoking and tobacco have increased between these two periods. The earlier period documents received more citations. (C) 2010 SEPAR. Published by Elsevier Espana, S.L. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: J de Granda-Orive, Hosp Infanta Elena, Serv Neumol, Madrid, Spain ISSN: 0300-2896 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- TITLE: Analysis of the publication volume of Canadian ophthalmology departments from 2005 to 2009: a systematic review of the literature (Article, English) AUTHOR: Micieli, A; Micieli, JA; Smith, AF SOURCE: CANADIAN JOURNAL OF OPHTHALMOLOGY-JOURNAL CANADIEN D OPHTALMOLOGIE 46 (1). FEB 2011. p.66-71 CANADIAN OPHTHAL SOC, OTTAWA SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 295:90 2006 KEYWORDS+: JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; VISION SCIENCE; PRODUCTIVITY ABSTRACT: Objective: To assess the publication volume of Canadian ophthalmology departments over a 5-year period, 2005-2009. Design: Systematic review of the literature. Methods: MEDLINE was searched for papers published from 2005 to 2009 where the designated affiliation corresponded to a Canadian ophthalmology department. The papers were sorted by year, university, and study design. A total impact score (the impact factor of the journal multiplied by the number of papers published in that journal per year) was also calculated for each university. Results: In the 5-year period there was an increasing trend in the total number of published ophthalmology papers. The University of Toronto had the highest number of published papers (224), followed by the University of British Columbia (143) and McGill University (120). The Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology published the most papers, followed by Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science. The most frequent study design category was basic science research and a total of 11 different randomized controlled trials were retrieved. Conclusions: The publication volume of Canadian ophthalmology researchers increased significantly from 2005 to 2009 with larger institutions accounting for the majority of published papers. Like researchers in other countries, Canadian ophthalmology researchers preferred to publish in domestic journals. AUTHOR ADDRESS: AF Smith, Medmetrics Inc, 30 Charles St, Ottawa, ON K1M 1R2, Canada ISSN: 0008-4182 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- TITLE: A modified Yule process to model the evolution of some object-oriented system properties (Article, English) AUTHOR: Turnu, I; Concas, G; Marchesi, M; Pinna, S; Tonelli, R SOURCE: INFORMATION SCIENCES 181 (4). FEB 15 2011. p.883-902 ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, NEW YORK SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth KEYWORDS: Power laws; Yule process; Object-oriented languages; Software engineering; Java KEYWORDS+: POWER-LAW DISTRIBUTIONS; QUANTITATIVE-ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; NETWORKS; DESIGN; FAULTS ABSTRACT: We present a model based on the Yule process, able to explain the evolution of some properties of large object-oriented software systems. We study four system properties related to code production of four large object-oriented software systems - Eclipse, Netbeans, JDK and Ant. The properties analysed, namely the naming of variables and methods, the call to methods and the inheritance hierarchies, show a power-law distribution as reported in previous papers for different systems. We use the simulation approach to verify the goodness of our model, finding a very good correspondence between empirical data of subsequent software versions, and the prediction of the model presented. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: I Turnu, Univ Cagliari, Dept Elect & Elect Engn, Piazza Armi, I-09123 Cagliari, Italy ISSN: 0020-0255 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- TITLE: Peer review and journal impact factor: the two pillars of contemporary medical publishing (Review, English) AUTHOR: Triaridis, S; Kyrgidis, A SOURCE: HIPPOKRATIA 14 (1 SUPPL). 2010. p.5-12 LITHOGRAPHIA, THESSALONIKI SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; IMPACT FACTOR* item_title; JOURNAL item_title; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 178:471 1972; ACAD* PSY* rwork KEYWORDS: impact factor; peer-review; citation; editor; medical; quality KEYWORDS+: AUTHORS ABSTRACT: The appraisal of scientific quality is a particularly difficult problem. Editorial boards resort to secondary criteria including crude publication counts, journal prestige, the reputation of authors and institutions, and estimated importance and relevance of the research field, making peer review a controversial rather than a rigorous process. On this background different methods for evaluating research may become required, including citation rates and journal impact factors (IF), which are thought to be more quantitative and objective indicators, directly related to published science. The aim of this review is to go into the two pillars of contemporary medical publishing, that is the peer review process and the IF. Qualified experts' reviewing the publications appears to be the only way for the evaluation of medical publication quality. To improve and standardise the principles, procedures and criteria used in peer review evaluation is of great importance. Standardizing and improving training techniques for peer reviewers, would allow for the magnification of a journal's impact factor. This may be a very important reason that impact factor and peer review need to be analyzed simultaneously. Improving a journal's IF would be difficult without improving peer-review efficiency. Peer-reviewers need to understand the fundamental principles of contemporary medical publishing, that is peer-review and impact factors. The current supplement of the Hippokratia for supporting its seminar for reviewers will help to fulfil some of these scopes. Hippokratia 2010; 14 (Suppl 1): 5-12 AUTHOR ADDRESS: S Triaridis, 215 Lambraki St, Thessaloniki 54352, Greece ISSN: 1108-4189 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- TITLE: Global mismatch between research effort and conservation needs of tropical coral reefs (Article, English) AUTHOR: Fisher, R; Radford, BT; Knowlton, N; Brainard, RE; Michaelis, FB; Caley, MJ SOURCE: CONSERVATION LETTERS 4 (1). FEB 2011. p.64-72 WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E CURR CONTENTS 32:5 1990 KEYWORDS: Biological conservation; biological knowledge; Coral Triangle; coral reefs; geocoding; global conservation; global research; Google Maps (TM); scientific literature; Web of Science KEYWORDS+: CLIMATE-CHANGE; BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOTS; MARINE BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; RESILIENCE; PRIORITIES; OCEAN ABSTRACT: Tropical coral reefs are highly diverse and globally threatened. Management to ensure their persistence requires sound biological knowledge in regions where coral reef biodiversity and/or the threats to it are greatest. This paper uses a novel text analysis approach and Google Maps (TM) to examine the spatial coverage of scientific papers on coral reefs listed in Web of Science (R). Results show that research is highly clumped spatially, positively related to per capita gross domestic product, negatively related to coral species richness, and unrelated to threats to coral reefs globally; indicating a serious mismatch between conservation needs and the knowledge required for effective management. Greater research effort alone cannot guarantee better conservation outcomes, but given some regions of the world (e.g., Central Indo-Pacific) remain severely understudied, priority allocation of resources to fill such knowledge gaps should support greater adaptive management capacity through the development of an improved knowledge base for reef managers. AUTHOR ADDRESS: R Fisher, UWA Oceans Inst M096, Australian Inst Marine Sci, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia ISSN: 1755-263X ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- TITLE: Accuracy of References in Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery (Article, English) AUTHOR: Adhikari, P SOURCE: INDIAN JOURNAL OF OTOLARYNGOLOGY AND HEAD & NECK SURGERY 62 (4). OCT 2010. p.338-341 SPRINGER, NEW YORK KEYWORDS: References; Accuracy; Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery 3(IJOHNS) KEYWORDS+: CITATIONS ABSTRACT: This study was done to observe the accuracy of references in articles published in Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery. There were 63 references randomly selected from different issues of Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery (IJOHNS). It includes: Volume 61, Number 4, December 2009 and Volume 62, Number 1, January 2010. References were examined in details by dividing them into six elements and they were compared with the original for accuracy. References not cited from indexed journals were excluded. Statistical analysis was done by using frequency and percentage. Results show that 30.1% references in Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery were incorrect. Most common errors were author's name and journal name. Author's names were found to be incorrect in 11.1% references while journal name were found to be incorrect in 6.3%. Errors in citing the references are also found in the Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery. The quoted error in this study is comparable to other international literatures. The majority of errors are avoidable. So, the authors, editors and the reviewers have to check for any errors seriously before publication in the journal. AUTHOR ADDRESS: P Adhikari, TU Teaching Hosp, Dept ENT & Head & Neck Surg, Kathmandu, Nepal ISSN: 0019-5421 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- TITLE: Development of biomedical publications on ametropia research in PubMed from 1845 to 2010: a bibliometric analysis (Article, English) AUTHOR: Xu, CT; Li, SQ; Lu, YG; Pan, BR SOURCE: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OPHTHALMOLOGY 4 (1). FEB 18 2011. p.1-7 IJO PRESS, XI AN SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS: bibliometric analysis; biomedical publications; ametropia; journal; literature KEYWORDS+: INTRAOCULAR-LENS; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; HIGH MYOPIA; PATHOLOGICAL MYOPIA; FEMTOSECOND LASER; CATARACT- SURGERY; LASIK; IMPLANTATION; ASTIGMATISM; BIOETHICS ABSTRACT: We have carried out a bibliometric analysis on the development of ametropia literature to determine its growth rule and tendency, and to provide the basis for the problems related to ametropia research. Literatures that contained the descriptors of ametropia in title or paper published before Nov. 10, 2010 in PubMed databases (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Pubmed) were selected. As bibliometric indicators of ametropia, biomedical journals referring to ophthalmology by ISSN were calculated. The principal bibliometric indicators: Price's and Bradford's laws were applied on the increase or dispersion of scientific literature, the participation index of languages and the journals. By means of manual coding, literatures were classified according to documents study and statistical analysis. The literatures cited in ametropia, astigmatism, myopia and hypermetropia had accumulated to 26475, which consists of Review (n =1560), Randomized Controlled Trial (n =776), Practice Guideline (n =10), Meta-Analysis (n=23), Letter (n=1222), Editorial (n =328), Clinical Trial ( n =1726) and Others (n=20830); and Humans (n=23073), Animals (n=1434) and Others ( n=1968). 1136 literatures were included in PubMed Central, 22384 in MEDLINE and 2955 in others. The ametropia literatures rose every 5 years which of the ametropia-year cumulated amount of the literatures had three periods: before 1900, slowly increasing from 1901 to 1950, rapidly rising from 1951 to 2010 (increased approximate exponentiation exponent). Sixty kinds of languages were listed in PubMed databases, of which English was dominant for aborting to ametropia research documents before 2010 (77.32%, 20471/26475). The document language of top eight accounted for 95.58% (English, German, French, Japanese, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Chinese), and others for 4.42% (1171/26475). The SCI database includes 48 ophthalmologic journals and the impact factor of 39 journals is >= 1 on Thomson-Reuters in 2010. Of 48 ophthalmologic journals, there were 14785 documents (55.85%) of ametropia, astigmatism, myopia, and hypermetropia. Others were without exception. The bibliometric analysis results show that ametropia literature are increased progressively, approximate exponentiation Exponent during 1951-2010. In addition, ametropia research has become more popular since nearly half century. AUTHOR ADDRESS: YG Lu, Fourth Mil Med Univ, Xijing Hosp, Dept Vasc Endocrine Surg, Xian 710032, Shaanxi Prov, Peoples R China ISSN: 1672-5123 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- From katy at INDIANA.EDU Thu Mar 17 23:10:03 2011 From: katy at INDIANA.EDU (Katy Borner) Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 23:10:03 -0400 Subject: Second Annual VIVO Conference In-Reply-To: <1104828291740.1103255371082.74.1.4313100A@scheduler> Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kboyack at MAPOFSCIENCE.COM Fri Mar 18 10:07:22 2011 From: kboyack at MAPOFSCIENCE.COM (Kevin Boyack) Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 08:07:22 -0600 Subject: Clustering More than Two Million Biomedical Publications: Comparing the Accuracies of Nine Text-Based Similarity Approaches Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Several months ago we published an article in JASIST (?Co-citation analysis, bibliographic coupling, and direct citation: Which citation approach represents the research front most accurately??) that was only part of a much larger study in which we compared the map results of three citation approaches, nine text approaches, and one hybrid approach on a single corpus. An article with the results from the nine text-based approaches was published yesterday in PLoS ONE. This new article is the result of a collaborative effort between SciTech Strategies, Katy B?rner?s team at Indiana University, David Newman at UC Irvine, Andr? Skupin at SDSU, and Bob Schjivenaars at Collexis. With best regards, Kevin Boyack and Dick Klavans SciTech Strategies, Inc. ------------------------------------------- Clustering More than Two Million Biomedical Publications: Comparing the Accuracies of Nine Text-Based Similarity Approaches PLoS ONE (article freely available online at http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0018029) Background: We investigate the accuracy of different similarity approaches for clustering over two million biomedical documents. Clustering large sets of text documents is important for a variety of information needs and applications such as collection management and navigation, summary and analysis. The few comparisons of clustering results from different similarity approaches have focused on small literature sets and have given conflicting results. Our study was designed to seek a robust answer to the question of which similarity approach would generate the most coherent clusters of a biomedical literature set of over two million documents. Methodology: We used a corpus of 2.15 million recent (2004-2008) records from MEDLINE, and generated nine different document-document similarity matrices from information extracted from their bibliographic records, including titles, abstracts and subject headings. The nine approaches were comprised of five different analytical techniques with two data sources. The five analytical techniques are cosine similarity using term frequency-inverse document frequency vectors (tf-idf cosine), latent semantic analysis (LSA), topic modeling, and two Poisson-based language models ? BM25 and PMRA (PubMed Related Articles). The two data sources were a) MeSH subject headings, and b) words from titles and abstracts. Each similarity matrix was filtered to keep the top-n highest similarities per document and then clustered using a combination of graph layout and average-link clustering. Cluster results from the nine similarity approaches were compared using (1) within-cluster textual coherence based on the Jensen-Shannon divergence, and (2) two concentration measures based on grant-to-article linkages indexed in MEDLINE. Conclusions: PubMed?s own related article approach (PMRA) generated the most coherent and most concentrated cluster solution of the nine text-based similarity approaches tested, followed closely by the BM25 approach using titles and abstracts. Approaches using only MeSH subject headings were not competitive with those based on titles and abstracts. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Sat Mar 19 07:17:39 2011 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 12:17:39 +0100 Subject: A new mapping approach--using Google Maps--based on statistical significance testing Message-ID: Which cities produce worldwide more excellent papers than can be expected? A new mapping approach--using Google Maps--based on statistical significance testing Abstract: The methods presented in this paper allow for a spatial analysis revealing centers of excellence around the world using programs that are freely available. Based on Web of Science data, field-specific excellence can be identified in cities where highly-cited papers were published. Compared to the mapping approaches published hitherto, our approach is more analytically oriented by allowing the assessment of an observed number of excellent papers for a city against the expected number. With this feature, this approach can not only identify the top performers in output but the "true jewels." These are cities locating authors who publish significantly more top cited papers than can be expected. As the examples in this paper show for physics, chemistry, and psychology, these cities do not necessarily have a high output of excellent papers. Lutz Bornmann* & Loet Leydesdorff * l.bornmann at gv.mpg.de ** 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... URL: From davisc at INDIANA.EDU Sat Mar 19 10:24:54 2011 From: davisc at INDIANA.EDU (Charles H. Davis) Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 10:24:54 -0400 Subject: Plug-and-Play Macroscopes" feature article and video in the current CACM magazine In-Reply-To: <4D842F1C.7060803@indiana.edu> Message-ID: Hi, Katy! Thanks for sharing this with everyone. I saw it in my current issue of CACM and thought about you right away (not that I need any help with that). :-) I've meant to apologize for not attending more SLIS events. The problem is that I have a rehearsal on Monday evening, a regular luncheon engagement on Wednesdays, and a variety of music- or tennis-related meetings. Although I'm happily retired as a Professor Emeritus, I enjoy keeping up with things and appreciate what you're doing. Cheers! Chuck Quoting Katy Borner : > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > If you are interested to learn more about the plug-and-play software > architecture that makes it possible > > * to share algorithm plugins among the Network Workbench tool > (http://nwb.cns.iu.edu/), the NSF SciSIP funded Science of Science > tool (http://sci2.cns.iu.edu/), the EU funded TexTrend > (http://textrend.org), and other tools and > > * to create your own "dream tools" from continuously evolving sets > of algorithms > > please see the "Plug-and-Play Macroscopes" feature article in the > current CACM magazine issue at > http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2011/3/105316-plug-and-play-macroscopes > > and the accompanying video at http://cacm.acm.org > Best regards, > k > > -- Katy Borner Victor H. Yngve Professor of Information Science > Director, CI for Network Science Center, http://cns.slis.indiana.edu > Curator, Mapping Science exhibit, http://scimaps.org | Atlas of > Science (2010) MIT Press. http://scimaps.org/atlasSchool of Library > and Information Science, Indiana University Wells Library 021, 1320 > E. Tenth Street, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA Phone: (812) 855-3256 > Fax: -6166 From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Sat Mar 19 13:17:36 2011 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 12:17:36 -0500 Subject: Happy New Year In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Rasool Zavaraqi [rasoolzavaraqi at GMAIL.COM] Thanks for your New Year?s greeting, but it would help if you would translate the Persian text into English. Using Google Translator the result was not very satisfactory. Best wishes. EG ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eugene Garfield, PhD. email: garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu home page: www.eugenegarfield.org Tel: 610-525-8729 Fax: 610-560-4749 Chairman Emeritus, ThomsonReuters Scientific (formerly ISI) 1500 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA 19130-4067 Past President, American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) www.asist.org ________________________________ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Rasool Zavaraqi Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 6:31 AM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Happy New Year ?? ???? ?????? ?? ??????? ????? ?? ?? ?????? ? ?? ??? ???????? ???? ?? ????? ?? ???? ? ?? ?????? ??????? ????? ?? ??? ??? ???? ? ?????. ?? ??? ????? ??????? ??? ??? ??????? ?? ???? ??? ? ??????? ???????? ????? ??? ?? ??? ? ?? ??? ??? ?? ???? ??? ? ??????? ???????? ????? ????? ? ?????? ????. ?? ??? ????? ???? ???? ?????? -- Rasoul 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From katy at INDIANA.EDU Sun Mar 20 23:47:32 2011 From: katy at INDIANA.EDU (Katy Borner) Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 23:47:32 -0400 Subject: Clustering More than Two Million Biomedical Publications: Comparing the Accuracies of Nine Text-Based Similarity Approaches In-Reply-To: <009801cbe575$cdf68290$69e387b0$@com> Message-ID: Dear all, many of the datasets used in the below study were made available at http://sts.cns.iu.edu in support of replicability and to inspire future comparisons. k On 3/18/2011 10:07 AM, Kevin Boyack wrote: > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > Dear Colleagues, > > Several months ago we published an article in JASIST ("Co-citation > analysis, bibliographic coupling, and direct citation: Which citation > approach represents the research front most accurately?") that was > only part of a much larger study in which we compared the map results > of three citation approaches, nine text approaches, and one hybrid > approach on a single corpus. > > An article with the results from the nine text-based approaches was > published yesterday in PLoS ONE. This new article is the result of a > collaborative effort between SciTech Strategies, Katy B?rner's team at > Indiana University, David Newman at UC Irvine, Andr? Skupin at SDSU, > and Bob Schjivenaars at Collexis. > > With best regards, > > Kevin Boyack and Dick Klavans > > SciTech Strategies, Inc. > > ------------------------------------------- > > *Clustering More than Two Million Biomedical Publications: Comparing > the Accuracies of Nine Text-Based Similarity Approaches* > > PLoS ONE (article freely available online at > http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0018029) > > > *Background:* We investigate the accuracy of different similarity > approaches for clustering over two million biomedical documents. > Clustering large sets of text documents is important for a variety of > information needs and applications such as collection management and > navigation, summary and analysis. The few comparisons of clustering > results from different similarity approaches have focused on small > literature sets and have given conflicting results. Our study was > designed to seek a robust answer to the question of which similarity > approach would generate the most coherent clusters of a biomedical > literature set of over two million documents. > > *Methodology:* We used a corpus of 2.15 million recent (2004-2008) > records from MEDLINE, and generated nine different document-document > similarity matrices from information extracted from their > bibliographic records, including titles, abstracts and subject > headings. The nine approaches were comprised of five different > analytical techniques with two data sources. The five analytical > techniques are cosine similarity using term frequency-inverse document > frequency vectors (tf-idf cosine), latent semantic analysis (LSA), > topic modeling, and two Poisson-based language models -- BM25 and PMRA > (PubMed Related Articles). The two data sources were a) MeSH subject > headings, and b) words from titles and abstracts. Each similarity > matrix was filtered to keep the top-n highest similarities per > document and then clustered using a combination of graph layout and > average-link clustering. Cluster results from the nine similarity > approaches were compared using (1) within-cluster textual coherence > based on the Jensen-Shannon divergence, and (2) two concentration > measures based on grant-to-article linkages indexed in MEDLINE. > > *Conclusions:* PubMed's own related article approach (PMRA) generated > the most coherent and most concentrated cluster solution of the nine > text-based similarity approaches tested, followed closely by the BM25 > approach using titles and abstracts. Approaches using only MeSH > subject headings were not competitive with those based on titles and > abstracts. > -- Katy Borner Victor H. Yngve Professor of Information Science Director, CI for Network Science Center, http://cns.slis.indiana.edu Curator, Mapping Science exhibit, http://scimaps.org School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University Wells Library 021, 1320 E. 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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 altmetrics 11 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 * April 8 *, 2011 Acceptance and abstract publication April 14, 2011 Open pre-workshop discussion April 14, 2011 ? June 14, 2011 Workshop at WebSci 11 June 14 ? June 15, 2011 Discussion closed June 30, 2011 Invitations for post-workshop proceedings TBA Submissions: Prospective authors should email 2-page extended abstracts (max. 1000 words, not including references) to altmetrics11 at altmetrics.org. 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. Website: http://altmetrics.org/workshop2011/ Organizers: * Paul Groth ? VU University Amsterdam, NL * Jason Priem ? University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA * Dario Taraborelli ? Wikimedia Foundation, USA 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 ismaelrafols at GOOGLEMAIL.COM Thu Mar 24 03:18:59 2011 From: ismaelrafols at GOOGLEMAIL.COM (Ismael Rafols) Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:18:59 +0100 Subject: postdocs in innovation studies / science policy Message-ID: Two post doctoral positions for a joint ESRC-ANR project will be available from ~October 2011 for 24 months, one at SPRU (University of Sussex, Brighton), and one in Latts (Paris-Est University, Paris-Marne La Vall?e) for the project "Emergence & institutionalisation of epistemic communities in science-based technologies". This project aims to combine various analytical dimensions to study the formation of epistemic communities in emergent technologies: knowledge dynamics, normativities (social values, expectations), and institutionalisation. As a result, the research involves diverse methodological approaches, including: . Mapping research dynamics using publications, patents and press data . Interviews of key actors on field dynamics, values, expectations . Survey techniques for exploring wider communities This work will be performed through six case studies of emergent technologies. Competences required: . Background in innovation studies or management, STS, or related (flexible) . Familiarity with quantitative data manipulation and visualisation (expected) . Training in interviewing (plus) . Interest in mixing / articulating quantitative and qualitative analyses Two post doctoral positions : * one in Brighton (SPRU), one in Paris-Marne La Vall?e (LATTS), * two years with about six months in the partner location * up to 31 K?/year-32 KEuros/year (before tax) (abour 28KEuros/year for first postdoc) Applications should be sent by April 15th by e-mail including: * Extended CV * Two recommendation letters * One article or conference paper Submission are to be made to Aurelie Delemarle from LATTS (a.delemarle at esiee.fr) and Ismael Rafols from SPRU (i.rafols at sussex.ac.uk), indicating preference for location (i.e. Brighton or Paris). Candidates will be asked to hold interviews in early-mid May in Brighton and/or Paris. Results will be announced by the end of May. http://www.esrc.ac.uk/my-esrc/grants/RES-360-25-0076/read ---- SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research, www.sussex.ac.uk/spru) is a world-leading department at the University of Sussex where research and high-level policy advice are combined with postgraduate teaching in science, technology, and innovation policy and management. Its highly interdisciplinary faculty addresses the analysis of the rate and direction of scientific change and innovation, the promotion and management of innovation, the regulation of technological risks, the search for effective energy policies and paths to a more sustainable society. SPRU researchers are prominent participants in debates concerning biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, nuclear power, climate change, technology in development and the roles of public and private research organisations. LATTS (a French acronym meaning "research group on technology, territories and societies"), which was founded in 1985, is a joint research group of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS - http://www.cnrs.fr), the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chauss?es (ENPC, a top French engineering institute under the auspices of the French Ministry of Public Works - http://www.enpc.fr/) and the University of Marne-la-Vall?e (http://www.univ-mlv.fr). Latts brings together a team of approximately thirty researchers (in city planning, economics, ergonomics, geography, management, history, political science and sociology) mainly originating from these three academic institutions and thirty doctoral candidates. Latts members carry out research into enterprises, public administration, local institutions, collective action, territorial dynamics and the related technical systems. By means of field research, comparative investigations and conceptual thought processes, this work in the social sciences pursues multidisciplinary aims: between disciplines, between theory and empirics and between scientific controversy and public debate. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Sat Mar 26 13:43:02 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 13:43:02 -0400 Subject: Goni, J; Corominas-Murtra, B; Sole, RV; Rodriguez-Caso, C. 2010. Exploring the randomness of directed acyclic networks. PHYSICAL REVIEW E 82 (6): art. no.-066115 Message-ID: Goni, J; Corominas-Murtra, B; Sole, RV; Rodriguez-Caso, C. 2010. Exploring the randomness of directed acyclic networks. PHYSICAL REVIEW E 82 (6): art. no.- 066115, Part 2. Author Full Name(s): Goni, Joaquin; Corominas-Murtra, Bernat; Sole, Ricard V.; Rodriguez-Caso, Carlos Language: English Document Type: Article KeyWords Plus: COMPLEX NETWORKS; RANDOM GRAPHS; DYNAMICS Abstract: The feed-forward relationship naturally observed in time-dependent processes and in a diverse number of real systems-such as some food webs and electronic and neural wiring-can be described in terms of the so-called directed acyclic graphs (DAGs). An important ingredient of the analysis of such networks is a proper comparison of their observed architecture against an ensemble of randomized graphs, thereby quantifying the randomness of the real systems with respect to suitable null models. This approximation is particularly relevant when the finite size and/or large connectivity of real systems make inadequate a comparison with the predictions obtained from the so-called configuration model. In this paper we analyze two methods of DAG randomization as defined by the desired combination of two topological invariants (directed degree sequence and component distributions) aimed to be preserved. A highly ordered DAG, called snake graph, and an Erdos-Renyi DAG were used to validate the performance of the algorithms. Finally, three real case studies, namely, the C. elegans cell lineage network, a Ph.D. student- supervisor network, and the Milgram's citation network, were analyzed using each randomization method. Results show how the interpretation of degree- degree relations in DAGs with respect to their randomized ensembles depends on the topological invariants imposed. Addresses: [Corominas-Murtra, Bernat; Sole, Ricard V.; Rodriguez-Caso, Carlos] Univ Pompeu Fabra PRBB, ICREA Complex Syst Lab, Barcelona 08003, Spain; [Goni, Joaquin] Univ Navarra, Ctr Appl Med Res, Dept Neurosci, Funct Neuroimaging Lab, E-31080 Pamplona, Spain; [Sole, Ricard V.] Santa Fe Inst, Santa Fe, NM 87501 USA; [Sole, Ricard V.] CSIC, UPF, Inst Biol Evolut, E- 08003 Barcelona, Spain Reprint Address: Rodriguez-Caso, C, Univ Pompeu Fabra PRBB, ICREA Complex Syst Lab, Dr Aiguader 88, Barcelona 08003, Spain. E-mail Address: carlos.rodriguez at upf.edu ISSN: 1539-3755 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.82.066115 fulltext: http://pre.aps.org/abstract/PRE/v82/i6/e066115 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Sat Mar 26 13:45:13 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 13:45:13 -0400 Subject: Switt, J. 2011. What Does the Journal's Impact Factor Mean to You?. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN DIETETIC ASSOCIATION 111 (1): 41-44 Message-ID: Switt, J. 2011. What Does the Journal's Impact Factor Mean to You?. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN DIETETIC ASSOCIATION 111 (1): 41-44.. Author Full Name(s): Switt, Jason Language: English Document Type: Editorial Material ISSN: 0002-8223 DOI: 10.1016/j.jada.2010.11.006 URL (not open access): http://www.adajournal.org/article/S0002-8223(10)01840- 7/abstract From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Sat Mar 26 13:48:27 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 13:48:27 -0400 Subject: Dang, Y; Zhang, YL; Hu, PJH; Brown, SA; Chen, HC. 2011. Knowledge mapping for rapidly evolving domains: A design science approach. DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS 50 (2): 415-427 Message-ID: Dang, Y; Zhang, YL; Hu, PJH; Brown, SA; Chen, HC. 2011. Knowledge mapping for rapidly evolving domains: A design science approach. DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS 50 (2): 415-427. Author Full Name(s): Dang, Yan; Zhang, Yulei; Hu, Paul Jen-Hwa; Brown, Susan A.; Chen, Hsinchun Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Knowledge mapping; Design science; Information systems KeyWords Plus: NANOTECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGY FIELD; INFORMATION; WEB; VISUALIZATION; SEARCH; INSTITUTION; DATABASE; COUNTRY; PATENTS Abstract: Knowledge mapping can provide comprehensive depictions of rapidly evolving scientific domains. Taking the design science approach, we developed a Web-based knowledge mapping system (i.e., Nano Mapper) that provides interactive search and analysis on various scientific document sources in nanotechnology. We conducted multiple studies to evaluate Nano Mapper's search and analysis functionality respectively. The search functionality appears more effective than that of the benchmark systems. Subjects exhibit favorable satisfaction with the analysis functionality. Our study addresses several gaps in knowledge mapping for nanotechnology and illustrates desirability of using the design science approach to design, implement, and evaluate an advanced information system. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Addresses: [Dang, Yan; Zhang, Yulei] Univ Arkansas, Dept Informat Syst, Sam M Walton Coll Business, Fayetteville, AR 72701 USA; [Brown, Susan A.; Chen, Hsinchun] Univ Arizona, Dept Management Informat Syst, Eller Coll Management, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA; [Hu, Paul Jen-Hwa] Univ Utah, Operat & Informat Syst Dept, David Eccles Sch Business, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 USA Reprint Address: Zhang, YL, Univ Arkansas, Dept Informat Syst, Sam M Walton Coll Business, Fayetteville, AR 72701 USA. E-mail Address: ydang at walton.uark.edu; yzhang at walton.uark.edu; paul.hu at business.utah.edu; suebrown at eller.arizona.edu; hchen at eller.arizona.edu ISSN: 0167-9236 DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2010.10.003 fulltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2010.10.003 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Sat Mar 26 13:55:14 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 13:55:14 -0400 Subject: Liao, WP; Lin, TMY; Liao, SH. 2011. Contributions to Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) research: An assessment of SCI-, SSCI-indexed papers from 2004 to 2008. DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS 50 (2): 548-556 Message-ID: Liao, WP; Lin, TMY; Liao, SH. 2011. Contributions to Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) research: An assessment of SCI-, SSCI-indexed papers from 2004 to 2008. DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS 50 (2): 548-556. Author Full Name(s): Liao, Wei-Pang; Lin, Tom M. Y.; Liao, Shu-Hsien Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Radio Frequency Identification (RFID); Citation analysis; Science Citation Index (SCI); Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) KeyWords Plus: SUPPLY-CHAIN; PUBLICATION PRODUCTIVITY; INTERNATIONAL- BUSINESS; TECHNOLOGY; JOURNALS; IMPLEMENTATION; CHALLENGES; OPERATIONS; CONSUMER; SYSTEMS Abstract: The research literature on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has grown exponentially in recent years. In a domain where new concepts and techniques are constantly being introduced, it is of interest to analyze recent trends in this literature. Although some attempts have been made in the past to review this stream of research, there has been no attempt to assess the contributions to this literature by individuals and institutions. This study assesses the contributions of individual researchers and institutions from 2004 to 2008, based on their publications in SCI- or SSCI-indexed journals. The findings of this study offer researchers a unique view of this field and some directions for future research. Crown Copyright (C) 2010 Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Addresses: [Liao, Wei-Pang; Lin, Tom M. Y.] Natl Taiwan Univ Sci & Technol, Grad Sch Management, Taipei 10607, Taiwan; [Liao, Shu-Hsien] Tamkang Univ, Dept Management Sci & Decis Making, Tamsui 25137, Taipei County, Taiwan Reprint Address: Liao, WP, Natl Taiwan Univ Sci & Technol, Grad Sch Management, 43,Sect 4,Keelung Rd, Taipei 10607, Taiwan. E-mail Address: ct482547 at ms77.hinet.net; tomlin at ba.ntust.edu.tw; michael at mail.tku.edu.tw ISSN: 0167-9236 DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2010.11.013 fulltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2010.11.013 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Sat Mar 26 13:58:08 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 13:58:08 -0400 Subject: Tanaka, H; Ho, YS. 2011. Global trends and performances of desalination research. DESALINATION AND WATER TREATMENT 25 (1-3): 1-12 Message-ID: Tanaka, H; Ho, YS. 2011. Global trends and performances of desalination research. DESALINATION AND WATER TREATMENT 25 (1-3): 1-12.. Author Full Name(s): Tanaka, Hiroshi; Ho, Yuh-Shan Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Bibliometric; Web of Science; Desalination; Reverse osmosis; Membrane desalination; Solar energy KeyWords Plus: CONTINUOUS FRACTIONAL DISTILLATION; WATER-VAPOR DISTILLATION; OF-THE-ART; REVERSE-OSMOSIS; SEAWATER DESALINATION; BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS; SOLAR DISTILLATION; NANOFILTRATION MEMBRANES; CELLULOSE ACETATE; SEA-WATER Abstract: This study was designed to evaluate the global scientific output of desalination research to assess the characteristics of the research tendencies and the research performances. Data were based on the online version of Science Citation Index, Web of Science from 1991 to 2008. Two main respects of the paper characteristics, performance of publication and research tendency, were analyzed. Performances of publications were assessed including document type, language, subject categories, journals, institutes, and countries. Research tendency was investigated by statistically analyzing the distribution of word in article title, author keyword, and keyword plus in different periods. Results show the desalination research mainly performed on subject category of chemical engineering. More specific, research might focus on membranes related research. Addresses: [Ho, Yuh-Shan] Asia Univ, Trend Res Ctr, Taichung 41354, Taiwan; [Ho, Yuh-Shan] Peking Univ, Dept Environm Sci, Minist Educ, Key Lab Water & Sediment Sci, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China; [Tanaka, Hiroshi] Kurume Natl Coll Technol, Dept Mech Engn, Fukuoka 8308555, Japan Reprint Address: Ho, YS, Asia Univ, Trend Res Ctr, Taichung 41354, Taiwan. E-mail Address: ysho at asia.edu.tw ISSN: 1944-3994 DOI: 10.5004/dwt.2011.1936 PDF: http://trend.asia.edu.tw/Publications/PDF/Des%20Wat%20Tre25,%201.pdf From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Sat Mar 26 14:02:48 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 14:02:48 -0400 Subject: Nakamura, Y; Horiike, T; Taira, Y; Sakamoto, H. 2010. An Improved Algorithm for Extracting Research Communities from Bibliographic Data. DATABASE SYSTEMS FOR ADVANCED APPLICATIONS 6193: 338-345 Message-ID: Nakamura, Y; Horiike, T; Taira, Y; Sakamoto, H. 2010. An Improved Algorithm for Extracting Research Communities from Bibliographic Data. DATABASE SYSTEMS FOR ADVANCED APPLICATIONS 6193: 338-345. edited by Yoshikawa, M; Meng, XF; Yumoto, T; Ma, Q; Sun, L; Watanabe, C.presented at 15th International Conference on DASFAA 2010 in Tsukuba, JAPAN, APR 01-04, 2010. Author Full Name(s): Nakamura, Yushi; Horiike, Toshihiko; Taira, Yoshimasa; Sakamoto, Hiroshi Book series title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science Language: English Document Type: Proceedings Paper KeyWords Plus: WEB; FLOW Abstract: In this paper we improve the performance of the community extraction algorithm in [1] from bibliographic data, which was originally proposed for web community discovery by [2]. A web community is considered to be a set of web pages holding a common topic, in other words, it is a dense subgraph induced in web graph. Such subgraphs obtained by the max-flow algorithm are called max-flow communities, and this algorithm was improved to obtain research communities from bibliographic data by the strategy for selection of community nodes in [1]. We propose an improvement of this algorithm by carefully selecting initial seed node, and show the performance of this algorithm by experiments for the list of many keywords frequently appearing in data. Addresses: [Nakamura, Yushi; Horiike, Toshihiko; Taira, Yoshimasa; Sakamoto, Hiroshi] Kyushu Inst Technol, Iizuka, Fukuoka 8208502, Japan Reprint Address: Nakamura, Y, Kyushu Inst Technol, 680-4 Kawazu, Iizuka, Fukuoka 8208502, Japan. E-mail Address: y_nakamura at donald.ai.kyutech.ac.jp; t_horiike at donald.ai.kyutech.ac.jp; taira at donald.ai.kyutech.ac.jp; hiroshi at donald.ai.kyutech.ac.jp ISSN: 0302-9743 ISBN: 978-3-642-14588-9 fulltext: http://www.springerlink.com/content/v48v581r7r513102/ From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Sat Mar 26 14:05:55 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 14:05:55 -0400 Subject: Shwed, U; Bearman, PS. 2010. The Temporal Structure of Scientific Consensus Formation. AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW 75 (6): 817-840 Message-ID: Shwed, U; Bearman, PS. 2010. The Temporal Structure of Scientific Consensus Formation. AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW 75 (6): 817-840.. Author Full Name(s): Shwed, Uri; Bearman, Peter S. Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: sociology of science; consensus; black boxing; network analysis; citations KeyWords Plus: TOBACCO INDUSTRY; PUBLIC-HEALTH; SCIENCE; NETWORKS; SOCIOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE; POLICY; AREAS; FIELD; RISK Abstract: This article engages with problems that are usually opaque: What trajectories do scientific debates assume, when does a scientific community consider a proposition to be a fact, and how can we know that? We develop a strategy for evaluating the state of scientific contestation on issues. The analysis builds from Latour's black box imagery, which we observe in scientific citation networks. We show that as consensus forms, the importance of internal divisions to the overall network structure declines. We consider substantive cases that are now considered facts, such as the carcinogenicity of smoking and the non-carcinogenicity of coffee. We then employ the same analysis to currently contested cases: the suspected carcinogenicity of cellular phones, and the relationship between vaccines and autism. Extracting meaning from the internal structure of scientific knowledge carves a niche for renewed sociological commentary on science, revealing a typology of trajectories that scientific propositions may experience en route to consensus. Addresses: [Shwed, Uri] Ben Gurion Univ Negev, Dept Sociol & Anthropol, IL- 84105 Beer Sheva, Israel; [Bearman, Peter S.] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA Reprint Address: Shwed, U, Ben Gurion Univ Negev, Dept Sociol & Anthropol, POB 653, IL-84105 Beer Sheva, Israel. E-mail Address: shwed at bgu.ac.il ISSN: 0003-1224 DOI: 10.1177/0003122410388488 URL: http://asr.sagepub.com/content/75/6/817.abstract?rss=1 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Sat Mar 26 15:22:06 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 15:22:06 -0400 Subject: Beyhan, B; Cetindamar, D. 2011. No escape from the dominant theories: The analysis of intellectual pillars of technology management in developing countries. TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE 78 (1): 103-115 Message-ID: Beyhan, B; Cetindamar, D. 2011. No escape from the dominant theories: The analysis of intellectual pillars of technology management in developing countries. TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE 78 (1): 103- 115. Author Full Name(s): Beyhan, Berna; Cetindamar, Dilek Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Bibliometric analysis; Knowledge sources; Keywords; Intellectual pillars; TM literature; Developing countries KeyWords Plus: AUTHOR COCITATION ANALYSIS; INNOVATION-MANAGEMENT; STRATEGIC-MANAGEMENT; CITATION ANALYSIS; ABSORPTIVE-CAPACITY; KNOWLEDGE; PERSPECTIVE; CAPABILITIES; JOURNALS; FIRM Abstract: This paper aims to identify the intellectual bases of the technology management (TM) literature generated in developing countries using citation and co-citation analyses and answer the question of whether the intellectual bases of the TM literature created by authors in developing countries diverge from those of the global TM literature. Based on a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of ten technology-innovation management (TIM) specialty journals through the period of 1998-2007, this study produces three important findings. First, the TM literature generated in developing countries is dominated by the knowledge and theories created in developed countries. Second, among these knowledge sources some authors from developing countries and focusing on the specialties of developing countries, such as Kim and Lall, come into prominence; however these authors are not even mentioned in the previous bibliometric studies covering overall TM research. Finally the researchers in developing countries tackle with the issues or topics specific to their own context through combining three major bulks of literature. These are (i) resource-based view (RBV)/core competencies and organizational learning related research; (ii) literature dealing with the evolutionary theorizing on economic change and growth and (iii) literature related to technological capabilities, technology transfer and industrialization in developing countries. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Addresses: [Beyhan, Berna] Middle E Tech Univ, Sci & Technol Policy Studies Res Ctr, TR-06531 Ankara, Turkey; [Cetindamar, Dilek] Sabanci Univ, Fac Management, TR-34956 Istanbul, Turkey Reprint Address: Beyhan, B, Middle E Tech Univ, Sci & Technol Policy Studies Res Ctr, TR-06531 Ankara, Turkey. E-mail Address: berna.beyhan at gmail.com; dilek at sabanciuniv.edu ISSN: 0040-1625 DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2010.10.001 URL (not open access): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2010.10.001 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Sat Mar 26 15:25:54 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 15:25:54 -0400 Subject: Egghe, L. 2011. Mathematical relations of the h-index with other impact measures in a Lotkaian framework. MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTER MODELLING 53 (5-6): 610-616 Message-ID: Egghe, L. 2011. Mathematical relations of the h-index with other impact measures in a Lotkaian framework. MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTER MODELLING 53 (5-6): 610-616. Author Full Name(s): Egghe, L. Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: h-index; Lotka; g-index; R-index; Randic; pi-index KeyWords Plus: CITATION DISTRIBUTIONS; SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATION; HIRSCH- INDEX; COMPETITION; MODEL Abstract: In a Lotkaian framework there exist formulae for impact measures such as the h-index, g-index, R-index and Randic's H-index. Given two situations in which the h-indices are equal, we establish the functional relation of the R-, g- and H-index of Randic with the total number of papers. In all cases we have a decreasing relationship which can also be explained from a concentration point of view. Variants of relations between these measures are also proved. We also prove a Lotkaian formula for the pi-index of Vinkler. We indicate that the square root of this index is better in line with the other indices and we also show that the previously established results on the h-, g-, R- and H-index are not valid for the pi- or root pi-index. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Addresses: [Egghe, L.] Univ Antwerp, B-2000 Antwerp, Belgium; [Egghe, L.] Univ Hasselt UHasselt, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium Reprint Address: Egghe, L, Univ Antwerp, Stadscampus,Venusstr 35, B-2000 Antwerp, Belgium. E-mail Address: leo.egghe at uhasselt.be ISSN: 0895-7177 DOI: 10.1016/j.mcm.2010.09.012 URL (not open access): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mcm.2010.09.012 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Sat Mar 26 15:28:34 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 15:28:34 -0400 Subject: Su, C; Pan, YT; Zhen, YN; Ma, Z; Yuan, JP; Guo, H; Yu, ZL; Ma, CF; Wu, YS. 2011. PrestigeRank: A new evaluation method for papers and journals. JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS 5 (1): 1-13 Message-ID: Su, C; Pan, YT; Zhen, YN; Ma, Z; Yuan, JP; Guo, H; Yu, ZL; Ma, CF; Wu, YS. 2011. PrestigeRank: A new evaluation method for papers and journals. JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS 5 (1): 1-13. Author Full Name(s): Su Cheng; Pan YunTao; Zhen YanNing; Ma Zheng; Yuan JunPeng; Guo Hong; Yu ZhengLu; Ma CaiFeng; Wu YiShan Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: PrestigeRank; Citation analysis; Paper evaluation; Journal evaluation; PageRank; Authority factor; Impact factor KeyWords Plus: PAGERANK ALGORITHM; ANATOMY Abstract: This paper studies how missing data in the PageRank algorithm influences the result of papers ranking and proposes PrestigeRank algorithm on that basis. We make use of PrestigeRank to give the ranking of all papers in physics in the Chinese Scientific and Technology Papers and Citation Database (CSTPCD) published between 2004 and 2006. We compared PrestigeRank result with PageRank and citation ranking. We found PrestigeRank is significantly correlated with PageRank and citation counts. We also used paper citation networks to rank journals, and compared the result with that of journal citation networks. We proposed PRsum, PRave, and compared both of them with citation counts and impact factor. It indicates PRsum, PRave can reflect journal's authority favorably. We also discuss the advantages and disadvantages, application scope and application prospects of PrestigeRank in the evaluation of papers and journals. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Addresses: [Su Cheng; Pan YunTao; Zhen YanNing; Ma Zheng; Yuan JunPeng; Guo Hong; Yu ZhengLu; Ma CaiFeng; Wu YiShan] Inst Sci & Tech Informat China, Res Ctr Informat Sci Methodol, Beijing 100038, Peoples R China Reprint Address: Su, C, Inst Sci & Tech Informat China, Res Ctr Informat Sci Methodol, 15 Fuxing Rd, Beijing 100038, Peoples R China. E-mail Address: sucheng at istic.ac.cn ISSN: 1751-1577 DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2010.03.011 fulltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2010.03.011 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Sat Mar 26 15:31:25 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 15:31:25 -0400 Subject: Hu, XJ; Rousseau, R; Chen, J. 2011. On the definition of forward and backward citation generations. JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS 5 (1): 27-36 Message-ID: Hu, XJ; Rousseau, R; Chen, J. 2011. On the definition of forward and backward citation generations. JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS 5 (1): 27-36.. Author Full Name(s): Hu, Xiaojun; Rousseau, Ronald; Chen, Jin Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Citation generations; Direct and indirect influence; Web of Science; Generating function KeyWords Plus: PUBLICATIONS; INDEX Abstract: A publication exerts direct and indirect influence on other articles (by citing articles and by articles that cite citing articles) and is itself influenced directly as well as indirectly (by references and references of references). This citation network leads to generations of citing and cited publications. In this contribution we show that these generations can be defined in different ways. We also propose methods to calculate indicators derived from these citation generations. We claim that, when studying a publication's contribution to the evolution of its field or to science in general, taking only direct citations into account, tells only part of the story. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Addresses: [Hu, Xiaojun; Chen, Jin] Zhejiang Univ, Coll Publ Adm, Hangzhou 310027, Peoples R China; [Hu, Xiaojun] Zhejiang Univ, Sch Med, Med Informat Ctr, Hangzhou 310058, Zhejiang, Peoples R China; [Rousseau, Ronald] KHBO Assoc KU Leuven, B-8400 Oostende, Belgium; [Rousseau, Ronald] Univ Antwerp, IBW, B-2000 Antwerp, Belgium Reprint Address: Chen, J, Zhejiang Univ, Coll Publ Adm, 38 Zheda Rd, Hangzhou 310027, Peoples R China. E-mail Address: xjhu at zju.edu.cn; ronald.rousseau at khbo.be; cjhd at zju.edu.cn ISSN: 1751-1577 DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2010.07.004 fulltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2010.07.004 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Sat Mar 26 15:42:58 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 15:42:58 -0400 Subject: Alla, S; Sullivan, SJ; McCrory, P; Hale, L. 2011. Spreading the word on sports concussion: citation analysis of summary and agreement, position and consensus statements on sports concussion. BRITISH JOURNAL OF SPORTS MEDICINE 45 (2): 132-135 Message-ID: Alla, S; Sullivan, SJ; McCrory, P; Hale, L. 2011. Spreading the word on sports concussion: citation analysis of summary and agreement, position and consensus statements on sports concussion. BRITISH JOURNAL OF SPORTS MEDICINE 45 (2): 132-135. Author Full Name(s): Alla, Sridhar; Sullivan, S. John; McCrory, Paul; Hale, Leigh Language: English Document Type: Article KeyWords Plus: 2ND INTERNATIONAL-CONFERENCE; NOVEMBER 2008; ZURICH; MANAGEMENT; RECOMMENDATIONS; SCIENCE Abstract: Background The growing concern over concussion in sports has led to the publication of five major summary and agreement, position and consensus statements since 2000. The dissemination of information from these statements is largely unknown and difficult to quantify, but their impact on the research community can be quantified by analysing the number of citations to these key publications. The purpose of this review is to report the number and pattern of citations to the key published statements on sports concussion. Methods Web of Science, Scopus and PubMed were searched from 2000 to mid-December 2009 using two different search strategies. The first strategy used the search terms 'concussion' and 'first author' of the statement article, while the second used the 'title' of the target article as the key search term. Results The publications resulting from the three 'Concussion in Sport' (CIS) group conferences were cited by 532 journal articles, while the National Athletic Trainers' Association position statement was cited 123 times. The highest number of citations to each of the five identified statements was seen in 2009. British Journal of Sports Medicine was the most frequently cited journal. Conclusion The citation analysis of the key statements on sports concussion has shown that the target papers have been widely cited in the research literature, with the highest number of citations being from the publications arising from the CIS group conferences. The authors have shown their preference to cite source articles published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. Addresses: [Alla, Sridhar] Univ Otago, Sch Physiotherapy, Ctr Physiotherapy Res, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand; [McCrory, Paul] Univ Melbourne, Ctr Hlth Exercise & Sports Med, Melbourne, Vic, Australia Reprint Address: Alla, S, Univ Otago, Sch Physiotherapy, Ctr Physiotherapy Res, POB 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand. E-mail Address: allsr357 at student.otago.ac.nz ISSN: 0306-3674 DOI: 10.1136/bjsm.2010.074088 fulltext: 10.1136/bjsm.2010.074088 From garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU Sat Mar 26 15:52:36 2011 From: garfield at CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU (Eugene Garfield) Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 15:52:36 -0400 Subject: Journal of Informetrics, Vol 5, Issue 1, 2011 Message-ID: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The measurement of low- and high-impact in citation distributions: Technical results (Article, English) AUTHOR: Albarran, P; Ortuno, I; Ruiz-Castillo, J SOURCE: JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS 5 (1). JAN 2011. p.48-63 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM KEYWORDS: Research performance; Citation distribution; Poverty measurement; Impact indicators KEYWORDS+: RANKING SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS; RESEARCH PERFORMANCE; CHARACTERISTIC SCORES; BIBLIOMETRIC TOOLS; POVERTY INDEXES; BASIC RESEARCH; INDICATORS; SCIENCE; EXCELLENCE; INEQUALITY ABSTRACT: This paper introduces a novel methodology for comparing the citation distributions of research units of a certain size working in the same homogeneous field. Given a critical citation level (CCL), we suggest using two real valued indicators to describe the shape of any distribution: a high-impact and a low-impact measure defined over the set of articles with citations above or below the CCL. The key to this methodology is the identification of a citation distribution with an income distribution. Once this step is taken, it is easy to realize that the measurement of low-impact coincides with the measurement of economic poverty. In turn, it is equally natural to identify the measurement of high-impact with the measurement of a certain notion of economic affluence. On the other hand, it is seen that the ranking of citation distributions according to a family of low-impact measures is essentially characterized by a number of desirable axioms. Appropriately redefined, these same axioms lead to the selection of an equally convenient class of decomposable high-impact measures. These two families are shown to satisfy other interesting properties that make them potentially useful in empirical applications, including the comparison of research units working in different fields. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: J Ruiz-Castillo, Univ Carlos III, Dept Econ, Madrid 128, E-28903 Getafe, Spain -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Structured evaluation of the scientific output of academic research groups by recent h-based indicators (Article, English) AUTHOR: Franceschini, F; Maisano, D SOURCE: JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS 5 (1). JAN 2011. p.64-74 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM KEYWORDS: Bibliometric positioning; h-Index; h-Spectrum; Successive h-indices; Ch-index; Research evaluation; Academic research group; Scientific production KEYWORDS+: BIBLIOMETRIC INDICATORS; HIRSCH-INDEX; RANKING; INSTITUTIONS; PERFORMANCE; UNIVERSITIES ABSTRACT: Evaluating the scientific output of researchers, research institutions, academic departments and even universities is a challenging issue. To do this, bibliometric indicators are helpful tools, more and more familiar to research and governmental institutions. This paper proposes a structured method to compare academic research groups within the same discipline, by means of some Hirsch (h) based bibliometric indicators. Precisely, five different typologies of indicators are used so as to depict groups' bibliometric positioning within the scientific community. A specific analysis concerning the Italian researchers in the scientific sector of Production Technology and Manufacturing Systems is developed. The analysis is supported by empirical data and can be extended to research groups associated to other scientific sectors. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: F Franceschini, Politecn Torino, DISPEA, Corso Duca Abruzzi 24, I-10129 Turin, Italy -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Bibliometric rankings of journals based on Impact Factors: An axiomatic approach (Article, English) AUTHOR: Bouyssou, D; Marchant, T SOURCE: JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS 5 (1). JAN 2011. p.75-86 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM KEYWORDS: Bibliometrics; Journal rankings; Impact Factor; Expected utility; Decision theory KEYWORDS+: G-INDEX; CITATION ANALYSIS; STANDS TODAY; SCIENCE; CONSEQUENCES; HISTORY; UTILITY; RISK; TOOL ABSTRACT: This paper proposes an axiomatic analysis of Impact Factors when used as tools for ranking journals. This analysis draws on the similarities between the problem of comparing distribution of citations among papers and that of comparing probability distributions on consequences as commonly done in decision theory. Our analysis singles out a number of characteristic properties of the ranking based on Impact Factors. We also suggest alternative ways of using distributions of citations to rank order journals. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: D Bouyssou, CNRS LAMSADE, FRE3234, F-75775 Paris 16, France -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Indicators of the interdisciplinarity of journals: Diversity, centrality, and citations (Article, English) AUTHOR: Leydesdorff, L; Rafols, I SOURCE: JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS 5 (1). JAN 2011. p.87-100 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM KEYWORDS: Journal; Citation; Diversity; Interdisciplinarity; Entropy; Centrality; Gini KEYWORDS+: BETWEENNESS CENTRALITY; SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS; MATHEMATICAL- THEORY; IMPACT FACTOR; RANDOM-WALKS; SCIENCE; COMMUNICATION; INDEX; TECHNOLOGY; ENTROPY ABSTRACT: A citation-based indicator for interdisciplinarity has been missing hitherto among the set of available journal indicators. In this study, we investigate network indicators (betweenness centrality), unevenness indicators (Shannon entropy, the Gini coefficient), and more recently proposed Rao-Stirling measures for "interdisciplinarity." The latter index combines the statistics of both citation distributions of journals (vector-based) and distances in citation networks among journals (matrix-based). The effects of various normalizations are specified and measured using the matrix of 8207 journals contained in the Journal Citation Reports of the (Social) Science Citation Index 2008. Betweenness centrality in symmetrical (1-mode) cosine-normalized networks provides an indicator outperforming betweenness in the asymmetrical (2-mode) citation network. Among the vector-based indicators, Shannon entropy performs better than the Gini coefficient, but is sensitive to size. Science and Nature, for example, are indicated at the top of the list. The new diversity measure provides reasonable results when (1 - cosine) is assumed as a measure for the distance, but results using Euclidean distances were difficult to interpret. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: L Leydesdorff, Univ Amsterdam, ASCoR, Kloveniersburgwal 48, NL-1012 CX Amsterdam, Netherlands -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The effects and their stability of field normalization baseline on relative performance with respect to citation impact: A case study of 20 natural science departments (Article, English) AUTHOR: Colliander, C; Ahlgren, P SOURCE: JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS 5 (1). JAN 2011. p.101-113 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM KEYWORDS: Stability analysis; Field normalization baseline; Journal; ISI/Thomson Reuters subject category; Essential Science Indicators field; Citation impact KEYWORDS+: CROSS-FIELD; INDICATORS; EXCELLENCE ABSTRACT: In this paper we study the effects of field normalization baseline on relative performance of 20 natural science departments in terms of citation impact. Impact is studied under three baselines: journal, ISI/Thomson Reuters subject category, and Essential Science Indicators field. For the measurement of citation impact, the indicators item- oriented mean normalized citation rate and Top-5% are employed. The results, which we analyze with respect to stability, show that the choice of normalization baseline matters. We observe that normalization against publishing journal is particular. The rankings of the departments obtained when journal is used as baseline, irrespective of indicator, differ considerably from the rankings obtained when ISI/Thomson Reuters subject category or Essential Science Indicators field is used. Since no substantial differences are observed when the baselines Essential Science Indicators field and ISI/Thomson Reuters subject category are contrasted, one might suggest that people without access to subject category data can perform reasonable normalized citation impact studies by combining normalization against journal with normalization against Essential Science Indicators field. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: C Colliander, Umea Univ, Dept Sociol, SE-90187 Umea, Sweden -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: How and where the TeraGrid supercomputing infrastructure benefits science (Article, English) AUTHOR: Bollen, J; Fox, G; Singhal, PR SOURCE: JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS 5 (1). JAN 2011. p.114-121 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM KEYWORDS+: INDEX ABSTRACT: We investigate how the benefits of the TeraGrid supercomputing infrastructure are distributed across the scientific community. Do mostly high-impact scientists benefit from the TeraGrid? Are some scientific domains more strongly represented than others in TeraGrid- supported work? To answer these questions, we examine the relation between TeraGrid usage and scientific impact for a set of scientists whose projects relied to varying degrees on the TeraGrid infrastructure. For each scientist we measure TeraGrid usage expressed in terms of allocated Service Units (SU) vs. various indicators of their scientific impact such as the h-index, total citations, and citations per article. Our results show a significant correlation between scientific impact and TeraGrid usage. We furthermore examine the distribution of TeraGrid-related publications across various scientific journals. A superposition of these journals over an existing large-scale map of science shows how TeraGrid-supported work is mostly concentrated in Physics and Chemistry, with a lesser focus on biology. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: J Bollen, Indiana Univ, Sch Informat & Comp, 919 E 10th St, Bloomington, IN 47408 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: High- and low-impact citation measures: Empirical applications (Article, English) AUTHOR: Albarran, P; Ortuno, I; Ruiz-Castillo, J SOURCE: JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS 5 (1). JAN 2011. p.122-145 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM KEYWORDS: Research evaluation; Citation distribution; Scientific ranking; Impact indicators KEYWORDS+: INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION; BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS; COOPERATION; NATIONS; SCORES; SCALES ABSTRACT: This paper contains the first empirical applications of a novel methodology for comparing the citation distributions of research units working in the same homogeneous field. The paper considers a situation in which the world citation distribution in 22 scientific fields is partitioned into three geographical areas: the U. S., the European Union (EU), and the rest of the world (RW). Given a critical citation level (CCL), we suggest using two real valued indicators to describe the shape of each area's distribution: a high-and a low-impact measure defined over the set of articles with citations below or above the CCL. It is found that, when the CCL is fixed at the 80th percentile of the world citation distribution, the U. S. performs dramatically better than the EU and the RW according to both indicators in all scientific fields. This superiority generally increases as we move from the incidence to the intensity and the citation inequality aspects of the phenomena in question. Surprisingly, changes observed when the CCL is increased from the 80th to the 95th percentile are of a relatively small order of magnitude. Finally, it is found that international co-authorship increases the high-impact and reduces the low- impact level in the three geographical areas. This is especially the case for the EU and the RW when they cooperate with the U.S. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: J Ruiz-Castillo, Univ Carlos III, Dept Econ, Madrid 128, Getafe 28903, Spain -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: An approach for detecting, quantifying, and visualizing the evolution of a research field: A practical application to the Fuzzy Sets Theory field (Article, English) AUTHOR: Cobo, MJ; Lopez-Herrera, AG; Herrera-Viedma, E; Herrera, F SOURCE: JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS 5 (1). JAN 2011. p.146-166 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM KEYWORDS: Science mapping; Co-word analysis; Bibliometric studies; Fuzzy Sets Theory; Thematic evolution; h-Index KEYWORDS+: CO-WORD ANALYSIS; SIMILARITY MEASURES; CITATION ANALYSIS; SCIENCE; MAPS; COCITATION; NETWORK; MODEL; SCIENTOMETRICS; SURFACTANTS ABSTRACT: This paper presents an approach to analyze the thematic evolution of a given research field. This approach combines performance analysis and science mapping for detecting and visualizing conceptual subdomains (particular themes or general thematic areas). It allows us to quantify and visualize the thematic evolution of a given research field. To do this, co-word analysis is used in a longitudinal framework in order to detect the different themes treated by the research field across the given time period. The performance analysis uses different bibliometric measures, including the h-index, with the purpose of measuring the impact of both the detected themes and thematic areas. The presented approach includes a visualization method for showing the thematic evolution of the studied field. Then, as an example, the thematic evolution of the Fuzzy Sets Theory field is analyzed using the two most important journals in the topic: Fuzzy Sets and Systems and IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: MJ Cobo, Univ Granada, Dept Comp Sci & Artificial Intelligence, CITIC UGR Res Ctr Informat & Commun Technol, E-18071 Granada, Spain -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Gender differences in peer reviews of grant applications: A substantive-methodological synergy in support of the null hypothesis model (Article, English) AUTHOR: Marsh, HW; Jayasinghe, UW; Bond, NW SOURCE: JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS 5 (1). JAN 2011. p.167-180 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM SEARCH TERM(S): WENNERAS C NATURE 387:341 1997; ZUCKERMA.H MINERVA 9:66 1971; ZUCKERMAN H rauth KEYWORDS: Peer review; Gender differences; Multilevel cross- classified models; Validity; Generalizability KEYWORDS+: FEMALE COLLEGE-TEACHERS; STUDENTS VIEWS; SCIENCE; RELIABILITY; WOMEN; BIAS; METAANALYSIS; ASSESSMENTS; MANUSCRIPT; PSYCHOLOGY ABSTRACT: Peer review serves a gatekeeper role, the final arbiter of what is valued in academia, but is widely criticized in terms of potential biases-particularly in relation to gender. In this substantive- methodological synergy, we demonstrate methodological and multilevel statistical approaches to testing a null hypothesis model in relation to the effect of researcher gender on peer reviews of grant proposals, based on 10,023 reviews by 6233 external assessors of 2331 proposals from social science, humanities, and science disciplines. Utilizing multilevel cross-classified models, we show that support for the null hypothesis model positing researcher gender has no significant effect on proposal outcomes. Furthermore, these non-effects of gender generalize over assessor gender (contrary to a matching hypothesis), discipline, assessors chosen by the researchers themselves compared to those chosen by the funding agency, and country of the assessor. Given the large, diverse sample, the powerful statistical analyses, and support for generalizability, these results - coupled with findings from previous research - offer strong support for the null hypothesis model of no gender differences in peer reviews of grant proposals. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: HW Marsh, Univ Oxford, Dept Educ, 15 Norham Gardens, Oxford OX2 6PY, England -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A proposal for a First-Citation-Speed-Index (Article, English) AUTHOR: Egghe, L; Bornmann, L; Guns, R SOURCE: JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS 5 (1). JAN 2011. p.181-186 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM KEYWORDS: First-Citation-Speed-Index; FCSI; h-Index; Increasing sequence ABSTRACT: In this paper, we define a First-Citation-Speed-Index (FCSI) for a set of papers, based on their times of publication and of first citation. The index is based on the definition of a h-index for increasing sequences. We show that the index has several good properties in the sense that the shorter the times are between publication and first citation (in a global manner) the higher the FCSI is. We present two case studies: a first-citation speed comparison of three journals in the field of psychology and a first-citation speed comparison of accepted and rejected, but published elsewhere manuscripts by the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition. Both case studies indicate that our FCSI satisfies the intuitive feeling of what values a FCSI should have in these cases. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: L Egghe, Univ Hasselt, Campus Diepenbeek,Agoralaan, B- 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Scientific collaboration and endorsement: Network analysis of coauthorship and citation networks (Article, English) AUTHOR: Ding, Y SOURCE: JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS 5 (1). JAN 2011. p.187-203 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM KEYWORDS: Scientific collaboration; Scientific endorsement; Topic modeling; Path-finding algorithm KEYWORDS+: CO-AUTHORSHIP NETWORKS; INFORMATION-RETRIEVAL; INTELLECTUAL STRUCTURE; COCITATION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SCIENCE; IMPACT; COMMUNITIES; SEARCH ABSTRACT: Scientific collaboration and endorsement are well- established research topics which utilize three kinds of methods: survey/questionnaire, bibliometrics, and complex network analysis. This paper combines topic modeling and path-finding algorithms to determine whether productive authors tend to collaborate with or cite researchers with the same or different interests, and whether highly cited authors tend to collaborate with or cite each other. Taking information retrieval as a test field, the results show that productive authors tend to directly coauthor with and closely cite colleagues sharing the same research interests; they do not generally collaborate directly with colleagues having different research topics, but instead directly or indirectly cite them; and highly cited authors do not generally coauthor with each other, but closely cite each other. Published by Elsevier Ltd. AUTHOR ADDRESS: Y Ding, Indiana Univ, Sch Lib & Informat Sci, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Are researchers that collaborate more at the international level top performers? An investigation on the Italian university system (Article, English) AUTHOR: Abramo, G; D'Angelo, CA; Solazzi, M SOURCE: JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS 5 (1). JAN 2011. p.204-213 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth KEYWORDS: International research collaboration; Top scientist; Research performance; Bibliometrics; Italy KEYWORDS+: CO-AUTHORSHIPS; KNOWLEDGE; ORGANIZATION ABSTRACT: The practice of collaboration, and particularly international collaboration, is becoming ever more widespread in scientific research, and is likewise receiving greater interest and stimulus from policy- makers. However, the relation between research performance and degree of internationalization at the level of single researchers still presents unresolved questions. The present work, through a bibliometric analysis of the entire Italian university population working in the hard sciences over the period 2001- 2005, seeks to answer some of these questions. The results show that the researchers with top performance with respect to their national colleagues are also those who collaborate more abroad, but that the reverse is not always true. Also, interesting differences emerge at the sectorial level. Finally, the effect of the nation involved in the international partnership plays a role that should not be ignored. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: G Abramo, Univ Roma Tor Vergata, Dipartimento Ingn Impresa, Via Politecn 1, I-00133 Rome, Italy --------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Strange attractors in the Web of Science database (Article, English) AUTHOR: Garcia-Perez, MA SOURCE: JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS 5 (1). JAN 2011. p.214-218 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005 KEYWORDS: Citation analysis; Scientometrics KEYWORDS+: H-INDEX; GOOGLE SCHOLAR; OF-SCIENCE; SCOPUS; CITATION; PROS; CONS; CONSEQUENCES; COVERAGE ABSTRACT: Accurate computation of h indices or other indicators of research impact requires access to databases supplying complete and accurate citation information. The Web of Science (WoS) database is widely used for this purpose and it is generally deemed error-free. This note describes an inaccuracy that seems to affect differentially non- English sources and targets in WoS, namely, "phantom citations" (i.e., papers reported by WoS to cite some article when they actually did not) and their concentration around particular articles that are thus dubbed "strange attractors". The analysis of references in (and citations to) papers in two English sources and two non-English sources reveals that phantom citations and other errors of indexing occur about twice as often with non-English items. These and other errors of commission affect about 1% of the cited references in the WoS database, and they may reveal large- scale problems in the reference matching algorithm in WoS. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: MA Garcia-Perez, Univ Complutense, Dept Metodol, Fac Psicol, Campus Somosaguas, Madrid 28223, Spain -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: What's familiar is excellent: The impact of exposure effect on perceived journal quality (Article, English) AUTHOR: Serenko, A; Bontis, N SOURCE: JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS 5 (1). JAN 2011. p.219-223 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM KEYWORDS: Journal ranking; Stated preference; Exposure effect; Familiarity effect KEYWORDS+: KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; ACADEMIC JOURNALS; RANKING ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study is to test the existence of the exposure effect in journal ranking decisions. The exposure effect emerges when participants of journal ranking surveys assign higher scores to some journals merely because they are more familiar with them rather than on their objective assessment of the overall journal's contribution to the field. Analysis of the journal ranking data from a survey of 233 active researchers in the field of knowledge management and intellectual capital confirmed the existence of the exposure effect. Specifically, it was found that: (1) those who previously published in a particular journal rated it higher than those who did not; (2) those who previously served as a reviewer or editor for a particular journal also rated it higher than those who did not; and (3) a very strong correlation was found between the respondents' perceptions of overall contribution of a journal and the degree of their familiarity with this outlet. This investigation confirmed a major limitation of the stated preference journal ranking approach that should be taken into consideration in future research and results interpretation. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Serenko, Lakehead Univ, Fac Business Adm, 955 Oliver Rd, Thunder Bay, ON P7B 5E1, Canada -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Remaining problems with the "New Crown Indicator" (MNCS) of the CWTS (Letter, English) AUTHOR: Leydesdorff, L; Opthof, T SOURCE: JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS 5 (1). JAN 2011. p.224-225 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; GARFIELD E SCIENTOMETRICS 1:359 1979; PUDOVKIN AI J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 53:1113 2002; LETTER* doctype KEYWORDS+: JOURNAL-CITATION-REPORTS AUTHOR ADDRESS: L Leydesdorff, Univ Amsterdam, Amsterdam Sch Commun Res ASCoR, Kloveniersburgwal 48, NL-1012 CX Amsterdam, Netherlands -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: There are neither "king" nor "crown" in scientometrics: Comments on a supposed "alternative" method of normalization (Letter, English) AUTHOR: Gingras, Y; Lariviere, V SOURCE: JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS 5 (1). JAN 2011. p.226-227 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM SEARCH TERM(S): SCIENTOMETRIC* item_title; LETTER* doctype AUTHOR ADDRESS: V Lariviere, Univ Quebec, Observ Sci & Technol, Montreal, PQ H3C 3P8, Canada -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Further steps towards an ideal method of measuring citation performance: The avoidance of citation (ratio) averages in field- normalization (Letter, English) AUTHOR: Bornmann, L; Mutz, R SOURCE: JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS 5 (1). JAN 2011. p.228-230 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title; LETTER* doctype AUTHOR ADDRESS: L Bornmann, Max Planck Soc, Off Res Anal & Foresight, Hofgartenstr 8, D-80539 Munich, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From gohar.feroz at GMAIL.COM Sat Mar 26 23:51:30 2011 From: gohar.feroz at GMAIL.COM (G.F.Khan) Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 12:51:30 +0900 Subject: Call for papers:Special Issue of the Scientometrics Journal Message-ID: *Call for Papers* Special Issue of the Scientometrics Journal Triple Helix and Innovation in Asia: Putting University, Industry, and Government (UIG) relations in Context Guest editors: *Dr. Gohar Feroz Khan* International Research Professor Dept. of Media & Communication, YeungNam University, South Korea *Dr. Han Woo Park* Director of Asia Triple-Helix Society A board member of International Triple-Helix Society Associate Professor Department of Media & Communication YeungNam University 214-1 Dae-dong, Gyeongsan-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do 712-749 South Korea hanpark at ynu.ac.kr http://www.hanpark.net *Background* There is a burgeoning interest among academic scientists and policy-makers, in the development of TH (Triple-Helix) and WSI (Webometrics, Scientometrics, and Informetrics) research methods around the world. However, the international literature has not systematically examined TH and WSI approaches in Asian context. Furthermore, previous literature published in international journals does not adequately address the social forces shaping TH development in Asia. In order to investigate the TH or university-industry-government (U-I-G) relations in Asia, it is essential to consider the idiosyncratic properties of national innovation system in developing and catch-up countries. Therefore, on the one hand, we can identify the national variations of U-I-G relations in this region. On the other hand, the common patterns of U-I-G relations different from that of developed countries can be explored. Moreover, as an emerging research technique of science policy and innovation studies, WSI methods have a huge potential to proliferate massive quantitative findings. For example, by measuring linkages between main actors (e.g. universities, industries and government) in national innovation system, the WSI methods enable us to search the structure of the network existing in the system in a quantitative way. In this vein, the development in the WSI methods (e.g. visualization technique and new formula calculating linkage) is one of the important tasks for the researchers in this field. However, insight from the existing studies on the U-I-G relations in Asia as well as research methods such as WSI is not sufficiently shared to boost up the research on the TH or UIG relations in our region. Therefore, Asian researchers and policy-makers need to actively discuss and to initiate research projects addressing this issue together by adopting TH and WSI approaches. Original research papers are invited to be part of this special issue. Sample topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Triple Helix development and innovation in Asia Triple Helix models in Asia: drivers, dynamics, public policy Government, industry, and university roles in Triple Helix interactions in Asia Policies and strategies for Triple helix relations Relevance of the Triple Helix model for sustainable development challenges Triple Helix ecosystems and regional development Triple Helix indicators for measuring Asian knowledge-base Transferability Triple helix models (from developed to developing country, region, innovation system, development stage): replication vs. adaptation to local conditions Enabling conditions for transfer of TH models: organizational context, financial and human resources, legal framework, intellectual property regimes, leadership and vision, culture, economic history, etc. *IMPORTANT DATES:* Paper submission deadline: 30th June, 2011 Review and Acceptance: 30th September, 2011 Anticipated publication: Spring 2012 * * *Guidelines for paper submission:* ? Papers submitted to this special issue should relate in some way to the TH or university-industry-government (U-I-G) relations in Asia. ? Authors must discuss their results by comparing them to previously published results in Scientometrics on the topic of their paper (if any). ? In preparing the manuscript, authors should consult with the Information for Authors on Scientometrics journal home page which describes the standard format of papers. Information for Authors is available here: http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrieval/journal/11192 Inquiries and submissions can be directed to "G.F. Khan" gohar.feroz at gmail.com Thank You -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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August 2011 in =?windows-1252?Q?=C5bo/Turku=2C_?= Finland In-Reply-To: <4D6B96F2.3060205@abo.fi> Message-ID: Deadline reminder for Information Science and Social Media conference. Deadline for submissions is March 31, 2011. ******************* 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 ---------------------------------------------- From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Tue Mar 29 02:56:35 2011 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 08:56:35 +0200 Subject: Integrated Impact Indicators (I3) compared with Impact Factors (IFs): An alternative research design with policy implications Message-ID: Integrated Impact Indicators ( I3) compared with Impact Factors (IFs): An alternative research design with policy implications In bibliometrics, the association of "impact" with central-tendency statistics is mistaken. The impact of two collisions is more than the mean or median of the two impacts; impacts add up, and citation curves should therefore be integrated instead of averaged. For example, the journals MIS Quarterly and JASIST differ by a factor of two in terms of their respective impact factors (IF), but the journal with the lower IF has the higher impact. Using percentiles (e.g., top-1%, top-10%, etc.), an integrated impact indicator (I3) can be based on integration of the citation curves after normalization to the same scale. The results across document sets can be compared as percentages of the total impact of a reference set. Total number of citations, however, should not be used instead because the shape of the citation curves is then not appreciated. In addition to comparing I3 with IFs for the journals in two ISI Subject Categories ("Information Science & Library Science" and "Multidisciplinary Sciences"), we show that the summations can transparently be decomposed in terms of the contributions of institutional units such as nations (universities, etc.) because percentiles provide us with a paper-based measure. Authors: Loet Leydesdorff , Lutz Bornmann (Submitted on 27 Mar 2011; available at http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1103/1103.5241.pdf) ** 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... URL: From pmd8 at CORNELL.EDU Wed Mar 30 13:12:46 2011 From: pmd8 at CORNELL.EDU (Philip Davis) Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:12:46 -0400 Subject: Open access, readership, citations: a randomized controlled trial of scientific journal publishing Message-ID: Published today in The FASEB Journal, we report the findings of our randomized controlled trial of open access publishing on article downloads and citations. This study extends a prior study of 11 journals in physiology (Davis et al, BMJ, 2008) reported at 12months to 36 journals covering the sciences, social sciences and humanities at 3yrs. Our initial results are generalizable across all subject disciplines: open access increases article downloads but has no effect on article citations. The article is freely-available from the link below. You may expect a routine cut-and-paste reply by S.H. shortly. Open access, readership, citations: a randomized controlled trial of scientific journal publishing The FASEB Journal http://www.fasebj.org/content/early/2011/03/29/fj.11-183988.abstract Does free access to journal articles result in greater diffusion of scientific knowledge? Using a randomized controlled trial of open access publishing, involving 36 participating journals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, we report on the effects of free access on article downloads and citations. Articles placed in the open access condition (n=712) received significantly more downloads and reached a broader audience within the first year, yet were cited no more frequently, nor earlier, than subscription-access control articles (n=2533) within 3 yr. These results may be explained by social stratification, a process that concentrates scientific authors at a small number of elite research universities with excellent access to the scientific literature. The real beneficiaries of open access publishing may not be the research community but communities of practice that consume, but rarely contribute to, the corpus of literature.?Davis, P. M. Open access, readership, citations: a randomized controlled trial of scientific journal publishing. Philip Davis Department of Communication Cornell University pmd8 at cornell.edu 607 255-2124 https://confluence.cornell.edu/display/~pmd8/resume http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/author/pmd8/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cristobalpalmer at GMAIL.COM Wed Mar 30 13:27:16 2011 From: cristobalpalmer at GMAIL.COM (=?UTF-8?Q?Crist=C3=B3bal_Palmer?=) Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:27:16 -0400 Subject: Open access, readership, citations: a randomized controlled trial of scientific journal publishing In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Philip Davis wrote: > You may expect a routine cut-and-paste reply by S.H. shortly. Can you explain this? Why do you feel your interlocutors are not intellectually honest, and why do you feel the need to pre?mptively deride them? > Does free access to journal articles result in greater diffusion of > scientific knowledge? I'm confused. Your article does not answer this overly-broad question. Why do you pose it here? Cheers, -- Crist?bal M. Palmer ibiblio.org systems UNC Chapel Hill From pmd8 at CORNELL.EDU Wed Mar 30 13:54:33 2011 From: pmd8 at CORNELL.EDU (Philip Davis) Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:54:33 -0400 Subject: Open access, readership, citations: a randomized controlled trial of scientific journal publishing In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Cristobal, The concept of information diffusion is abstract so one must employ proxies to measure it. Prior studies focus almost entirely on citations, which measures a very narrow form of diffusion --incorporation by a scientific researcher in a published document. We extend our measurements to include article downloads (abstract, fulltext and pdf) as well as visitors (as measured by unique IP addresses). You will find a more complete discussion of this in our article. -Phil Davis On Mar 30, 2011, at 1:27 PM, Crist?bal Palmer wrote: > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Philip Davis wrote: >> You may expect a routine cut-and-paste reply by S.H. shortly. > > Can you explain this? Why do you feel your interlocutors are not > intellectually honest, and why do you feel the need to pre?mptively > deride them? > >> Does free access to journal articles result in greater diffusion of >> scientific knowledge? > > I'm confused. Your article does not answer this overly-broad question. > Why do you pose it here? > > Cheers, > > -- > Crist?bal M. Palmer > ibiblio.org systems > UNC Chapel Hill > From cristobalpalmer at GMAIL.COM Wed Mar 30 14:30:40 2011 From: cristobalpalmer at GMAIL.COM (=?UTF-8?Q?Crist=C3=B3bal_Palmer?=) Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:30:40 -0400 Subject: Open access, readership, citations: a randomized controlled trial of scientific journal publishing In-Reply-To: <9CD98372-1529-439B-8DD6-F9E2662E7581@cornell.edu> Message-ID: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Philip Davis wrote: > The concept of information diffusion is abstract so one must employ proxies to measure it. Prior studies focus almost entirely on citations, which measures a very narrow form of diffusion --incorporation by a scientific researcher in a published document. We extend our measurements to include article downloads (abstract, fulltext and pdf) as well as visitors (as measured by unique IP addresses). You will find a more complete discussion of this in our article. I like the extended measurements and the discussion, and I think I did understand your operationalization on the first read, but I'm still confused as to your answer to your own question. Is it: a) No, diffusion (as it has historically been operationalized) does not increase, but there are nice side effects (eg. practitioners reading/linking literature), or b) Yes, diffusion does increase, but by diffusion we mean something different than others have meant in the past (eg. practitioners reading/linking literature). I think the answer does not matter in terms of facts in the world (they are the same answer), but it does matter in terms of advocacy for a position for or against more use of open access by scholars and their host institutions, and I'm more interested in your rationale for or against than I am a restatement of what's in the paper that I've read 1.5 times now. I wouldn't be interested in the answer had you not framed the question the way you did. Your phrasing is highly loaded, such that a "no" answer discounts the value of open access. No judgement from me on that; I just want to understand where you're coming from and why. Cheers, -- Crist?bal M. Palmer ibiblio.org systems UNC Chapel Hill From pmd8 at CORNELL.EDU Wed Mar 30 14:53:39 2011 From: pmd8 at CORNELL.EDU (Philip Davis) Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:53:39 -0400 Subject: Open access, readership, citations: a randomized controlled trial of scientific journal publishing In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Cristobal, In answering the question of whether free access to the scientific literature increases the diffusion of knowledge, I think the answer is apparent: "Yes" if one looks at readership, but "No" if one looks at citations. I see the world as a more complicated and nuanced place than through the lens of advocacy. -Phil Davis On Mar 30, 2011, at 2:30 PM, Crist?bal Palmer wrote: > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Philip Davis wrote: >> The concept of information diffusion is abstract so one must employ proxies to measure it. Prior studies focus almost entirely on citations, which measures a very narrow form of diffusion --incorporation by a scientific researcher in a published document. We extend our measurements to include article downloads (abstract, fulltext and pdf) as well as visitors (as measured by unique IP addresses). You will find a more complete discussion of this in our article. > > I like the extended measurements and the discussion, and I think I did > understand your operationalization on the first read, but I'm still > confused as to your answer to your own question. Is it: > > a) No, diffusion (as it has historically been operationalized) does > not increase, but there are nice side effects (eg. practitioners > reading/linking literature), or > b) Yes, diffusion does increase, but by diffusion we mean something > different than others have meant in the past (eg. practitioners > reading/linking literature). > > I think the answer does not matter in terms of facts in the world > (they are the same answer), but it does matter in terms of advocacy > for a position for or against more use of open access by scholars and > their host institutions, and I'm more interested in your rationale for > or against than I am a restatement of what's in the paper that I've > read 1.5 times now. > > I wouldn't be interested in the answer had you not framed the question > the way you did. Your phrasing is highly loaded, such that a "no" > answer discounts the value of open access. No judgement from me on > that; I just want to understand where you're coming from and why. > > Cheers, > -- > Crist?bal M. Palmer > ibiblio.org systems > UNC Chapel Hill > From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Wed Mar 30 16:48:37 2011 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:48:37 -0400 Subject: Open access, readership, citations: a randomized controlled trial of scientific journal publishing In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On 2011-03-30, at 1:12 PM, Philip Davis wrote: > Published today in The FASEB Journal, we report the findings of our randomized controlled trial of open access publishing on article downloads and citations. This study extends a prior study of 11 journals in physiology (Davis et al, BMJ, 2008) reported at 12months to 36 journals covering the sciences, social sciences and humanities at 3yrs. Our initial results are generalizable across all subject disciplines: open access increases article downloads but has no effect on article citations....http://www.fasebj.org/content/early/2011/03/29/fj.11-183988.abstract > You may expect a routine cut-and-paste reply by S.H. shortly... > I see the world as a more complicated and nuanced place than through the lens of advocacy. Sorry to disappoint! Nothing new to cut-and-paste or reply to: Still no self-selected self-archiving control, hence no basis for the conclusions drawn (to the effect that the widely reported OA citation advantage is merely an artifact of a self-selection bias toward self-archiving the better, hence more citeable articles -- a bias that the randomization eliminates). http://bit.ly/Davis-Control If and when the requisite self-selected self-archiving control is ever tested, the outcome will either be (1) the usual significant OA citation advantage that most other published studies have reported -- in which case the absence of the citation advantage in Davis's randomized condition would indeed be evidence that the citation advantage was a self-selection artifact -- or (more likely, I should think) (2) there will be no significant citation advantage in the self-archiving control condition either, in which case the Davis study will prove to have been just a non-replication of the usual significant OA citation advantage (perhaps because of the sample size, the fields, or the fact that most of the non-OA articles become OA on the journal's website after a year). Until the requisite self-selected self-archiving control is done, this is just the sound of one hand clapping. Readers can be trusted to draw their own conclusions as to whether this study, tirelessly touted as the only methodologically sound one to date, is that -- or an exercise in advocacy. Stevan Harnad -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fil at INDIANA.EDU Wed Mar 30 19:29:34 2011 From: fil at INDIANA.EDU (Fil Menczer) Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:29:34 -0400 Subject: Invitation to Social Tagging Games and Study In-Reply-To: Message-ID: [Our apologies if you get multiple copies of this message. Please feel free to forward this call to any lists or colleagues who may be interested. Thank you.] The GiveALink.org research project invites you to play two fun games while at the same time contributing to the study of online social tagging behavior: http://givealink.org/giveagame One game, Great Minds Think Alike, is about to be released on the iPhone platform. Please check the website in the near future. The other game, GiveALink Slider, can be played in your browser now and at any time in the next six weeks. Follow the instructions below. The 10 players who earn top scores during the study will win great prizes. Have fun! -------------------------------- Please support the GiveALink.org project by participating in an online user study: Social Annotations through Game Play (IRB study #1011003937). In the study you will play a game, "GiveALink Slider." In the game, you need to tag web pages and accumulate points. The top 10 users with highest scores will win the following prizes: TOP prize: One 8GB Apple iPod Touch TOP 2 - 4 prizes: Three 8GB Apple iPods Nano TOP 5 - 10 prizes: Six 2GB Apple iPods Shuffle The study started on March 29, 2011 and ends on May 10, 2011 (6 weeks). If you wish to participate in this study, please visit the experiment page by clicking on the link below, where you will find an informed consent form and detailed instructions: http://givealink.org/giveagame Thank you in advance for your participation and support! --Lilian Weng, PhD student --Filippo Menczer, Associate Professor School of Informatics and Computing Indiana University, Bloomington From jonathan at LEVITT.NET Thu Mar 31 06:17:04 2011 From: jonathan at LEVITT.NET (Jonathan Levitt) Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 03:17:04 -0700 Subject: Student Paper Contest - further information and deadline In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi, ? I am writing as Chair of the Metrics SIG (SIG/MET) to give you further information on our Student Paper Contest and to remind you that our deadline is midnight EST on the 10th April. ? SIG/MET (http://www.asis.org/SIG/met.html, http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGMET) encourages the development and networking of all those interested in informetrics. ?For the past decade the Metrics SIG has been a virtual SIG.? Its main activity was the SIGMETRICS list.? However in 2010, on the initiative of Drs. Cassidy Sugimoto and Stasa Milojevic from Indiana University, over fifty ASIST endorsed the conversion of? SIG/MET into a fully functioning ASIST SIG and in October 2010 SIG/MET was formed into a fully functioning ASIST SIG.? ? One of our main initiatives, the Student Paper Contest (http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGMET/paper_contest.shtml), is designed to provide feedback on promising doctoral research in informetrics. ?Our contest is open to all doctoral students and the judging will not take into account whether the sturdy is a member of ASIST or lives in North America.? Entrants will receive narrative feedback on matters such as the potential for publication and quality of the writing.? In addition, each paper will be graded by our reviewers for potential for publication and quality of the writing and a winner and runner-up (and depending on the quality of the entrants, commended paupers) selected from the most highly rated papers.? We plan to give a cash prize of $250 to the winner and one year?s student membership of ASIST to both the winner and runner-up. ? Our team of expert reviewers (Judit Bar Illan, Kevin Boyack, Jonathan Levitt, Kate McCain, Stasa Milojevic, Ronald Roussueau, Cassidy Sugimoto, Mike Thelwall and Dietmar Wolfram) have a wealth of expertise in both reviewing and conducting informetric research.? I paste below the call posted by Chaoqun Ni, our Officer for the Student Paper Contest. ? Best regards, Jonathan Levitt, Chair of SIG/MET. ? ? 2011 ASIS&T SIG/MET Student Paper Contest The Special Interest Group for the measurement of information production and use (http://www.asis.org/SIG/met.html) of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is pleased to announce its first student paper contest. The contest is designed, not only to recognize promising student research relating to the SIG, but also to provide feedback from specialists in the measurement of information production and use. 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... URL: From leo.egghe at UHASSELT.BE Thu Mar 31 07:41:39 2011 From: leo.egghe at UHASSELT.BE (=?windows-1252?Q?Leo_EGGHE?=) Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:41:39 +0200 Subject: ToC JOI 5(2) Message-ID: ? 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