Misc papers on scientometrics, etc

[Eugene Garfield]

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TITLE:          Scholarly Productivity of United States Academic
                Cardiothoracic Anesthesiologists: Influence of Fellowship Accreditation
                and Transesophageal Echocardiographic Credentials on h-Index and Other
                Citation Bibliometrics (Article, English)
AUTHOR:         Pagel, PS; Hudetz, JA
SOURCE:         JOURNAL OF CARDIOTHORACIC AND VASCULAR ANESTHESIA 25
                (5). OCT 2011. p.761-765 W B SAUNDERS CO-ELSEVIER INC,
                PHILADELPHIA

SEARCH TERM(S):  HIRSCH JE          P NATL ACAD SCI USA   102:16569 2005;
                 BIBLIOMETR*  item_title; CITATION  item_title;
                 CITATION*  item_title

KEYWORDS:       bibliometrics; cardiothoracic anesthesia; h-index;
                performance measures; scholarship
KEYWORDS+:       IMPACT; JOURNALS

ABSTRACT:       Objective: The h-index allows the evaluation of scholarly
output in academics, but this bibliometric statistic has not been applied extensively to measure productivity in anesthesiology. The authors tested the hypothesis that the h-index is dependent on academic rank, American College of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) accreditation of the training program, and National Board of Echocardiography credentials in perioperative transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) in United States academic cardiothoracic anesthesiologists.

Design: Observational.

Setting: Internet analysis.

Participants: United States academic cardiothoracic anesthesiologists.

Interventions: None.

Measurements and Main Results: Faculty members from 30 randomly selected fellowship programs with or without accreditation were identified using the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists web site. The status of each faculty member's credentials in perioperative TEE was defined using the "verify certification" function on the National Board of Echocardiography web site. Publications, citations, citations/publication, and the h-index for each faculty member were obtained using Scopus. Two hundred fifty-nine cardiothoracic anesthesiologists (204 men and 55 women) were identified (8 instructors [3%], 123 assistant professors [48%], 56 associate professors [22%], 63 professors [24%], and 9 chairpersons [3%]). The average cardiothoracic anesthesiologist had an h-index of 6 +/- 7 with 28 +/- 46 publications,
499 +/- 988 total citations, and 13 +/- 18 citations per publication. The h-index increased significantly (p < 0.05) among ranks (instructors [1 +/- 1], assistant professors [3 +/- 3], associate professors [7 +/- 5], professors [12 +/- 8], and chairpersons [18 +/- 13]). Significant differences in the number of publications and total citations also were observed among ranks. Differences in the h-index among ranks were observed regardless of program accreditation status or transesophageal echocardiographic credentials. Faculty members working in American College of Graduate Medical Education accredited programs had more publications and citations and higher h-indices than their counterparts in programs that were not accredited. Except for program directors, the scholarly output of academic cardiothoracic anesthesiologists with or without transesophageal echocardiographic credentials was similar within each academic rank.

Conclusions: The results show that the h-index increases progressively with academic rank and is dependent on fellowship program accreditation status but not transesophageal echocardiographic credentials in United States academic cardiothoracic anesthesiologists. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc.
All rights reserved.

AUTHOR ADDRESS: PS Pagel, Clement J Zablocki Vet Affairs Med Ctr,
                Anesthesia Serv, 5000 W Natl Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53295 USA

 
  
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TITLE:          FINANCIAL VALUE OF REPUTATION: EVIDENCE FROM THE eBAY
                AUCTIONS OF GMAIL INVITATIONS (Article, English)
AUTHOR:         Lei, Q
SOURCE:         JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS 59 (3). SEP 2011.
                p.422-456 WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN

SEARCH TERM(S):  MERTON RK          SCIENCE               159:56    1968;
                 MERTON RK  rauth

KEYWORDS+:       ELECTRONIC MARKETS; ADVERSE SELECTION; PRICE PREMIUMS;
                RESERVE PRICES; QUALITY; INTERNET; MECHANISM; INSIGHTS;
                MODEL; WINE

ABSTRACT:       In this article, I utilize a unique collection of
auctions on eBay to study the influence of seller reputation on auction outcomes. In a market of homogeneous goods with non-enforceable contracts, I find that sellers who improve their reputation by one quintile from the lowest, experience a 6.2% higher probability of sale and a 6.1% hike in valuation after adjusting for truncation bias from failed auctions and explicitly controlling for unobservable seller heterogeneity. This study also shows that in addition to a dimension of reputation universal across different product markets, the product- specific dimension of reputation significantly affects the auction outcomes.

AUTHOR ADDRESS: Q Lei, So Methodist Univ, Edwin L Cox Sch Business, Dept
                Finance, POB 750333, Dallas, TX 75275 USA
 
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TITLE:          Citation, Concretization, Transcription: Poetry Writing
                in the Age of Information-A Review of Marjorie Perloff's Unoriginal
                Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century (Article, Chinese)
AUTHOR:         Fang, WK
SOURCE:         FOREIGN LITERATURE STUDIES 33 (4). AUG 2011. p.38-41
                CENTRAL CHINA NORMAL UNIV, WUHAN

SEARCH TERM(S):  CITATION  item_title; CITATION*  item_title

KEYWORDS:       Marjorie Perloff; Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other
                Means in the New Century; concrete Poetry

ABSTRACT:       In her new work Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means
in the New Century published in 2010 Marjorie Perloff traces the poetic tradition of unoriginality from paradigmatic works carefully and objectively, charts and summarizes different kinds of innovations and experiments in modern poetry generally, and shows us poetry by other means of great ingegnuity, wit, and complexity. Modern information techniques have changed the question of how one expresses oneself, so how already existing words and sentences are framed, recycled, approciated, cited, constrained, transcribed, copied, visualized and sounded has become new poetic strategies in the 20th and 21st centuries culture, which has changed the original content of "originality".

AUTHOR ADDRESS: WK Fang, Jiangnan Univ, Foreign Language Coll, Wuxi 214122,
                Peoples R China

 
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