SELECTED PAPERS FROM SCIENTOMETRICS FEB 2011
Eugene Garfield
eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM
Tue Mar 15 13:40:57 EDT 2011
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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