Various papers of interest to SIG Metrics
Eugene Garfield
eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM
Mon Nov 7 10:41:12 EST 2011
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TITLE: The Scholarly Book Review in the Humanities AN ACADEMIC
CINDERELLA? (Article, English)
AUTHOR: East, JW
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING 43 (1). OCT 2011.
p.52-67 UNIV TORONTO PRESS INC, TORONTO
SEARCH TERM(S):
GARFIELD E LIBRARY Q 50:40 1980
KEYWORDS: book reviews; humanities; scholarly journals
ABSTRACT: This article examines the status of the book review as a
form of scholarly publication in the humanities, looking at the role and characteristics of humanities book reviews and at who writes them and why. It examines evidence for the influence and impact of book reviews in the humanities and makes suggestions for the future of the scholarly book review in an online information environment.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: JW East, Univ Queensland, Arts Fac, Brisbane, Qld 4072,
Australia
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TITLE: Journal des Savants FROM THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS TO THE
CLOUD LIBRARY (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Potts, CH
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING 43 (1). OCT 2011.
p.68-75 UNIV TORONTO PRESS INC, TORONTO
SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNAL item_title
KEYWORDS: academic publishing; cloud-sourced collections; demise of
print; hybrid collections; European studies; cooperative
collection development
ABSTRACT: As more books, journals, and newspapers make the
inevitable transition to the electronic format, academics get the sense that the only scholarly materials one really needs can be found in the digital realm. Through the imagined voice of the Journal des Savants-the world's oldest scholarly journal still active today this article brings to the surface valid concerns about print scarcity, familiar terrain for not only Europeanists but for anyone who works in area studies. It objects to conventional metrics for determining scholarly value and reconfirms known perils of relying solely on the mass-digitization efforts of Google Books. Most importantly, the article questions an over- reliance on digital preservation repositories such as LOCKSS, CLOCKSS, Portico, and HathiTrust-key players in the so-called Cloud Library, or external network of trusted digital library collection and service providers. The push toward cloud-sourced collections comes at a time when research libraries are hastily embarking on ambitious cooperative regional initiatives to systematically de-duplicate their costly, problematic, redundant, and very much terrestrial print collections.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: CH Potts, Univ Calif Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
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TITLE: Appraising Internationality in Spanish Communication
Journals (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Fernandez-Quijada, D
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING 43 (1). OCT 2011.
p.90-109 UNIV TORONTO PRESS INC, TORONTO
SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNALS item_title
KEYWORDS: internationality; local journals; Spanish scholarly
journals; journal evaluation; communication sciences
KEYWORDS+: SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS; PSYCHOLOGY JOURNALS; SCHOLARLY
JOURNALS; CITATION; SCIENCE; INDEX; HUMANITIES; LANGUAGE;
FIELD
ABSTRACT: This article explores how journals published in a
language other than English achieve a degree of internationality and can increase our knowledge of scientific publication patterns. This author offers a case study focused on Spanish communication journals from a sample of 1182 articles published from 2007 to 2009. The article examines three variables in this sample: the number of non-Spanish scholars, the use of languages other than Spanish, and how often non-Spanish journals are referred to. The results show that (a) these journals find it difficult to attract foreign scholars, (b) open-language policies have had a limited effect, and (c) internationality is constrained to the Spanish geolinguistic region.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: D Fernandez-Quijada, Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Dept
Comunicacio Audiovisual & Publicitat 1, Barcelona, Spain
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TITLE: Making the Journal Abstract More Concrete (Article,
English)
AUTHOR: Hartley, J
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING 43 (1). OCT 2011.
p.110-115 UNIV TORONTO PRESS INC, TORONTO
SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNAL item_title
KEYWORDS: abstracts; structured abstracts; journals; social
sciences; psychology
ABSTRACT: This article describes how the author, when compiling
sets of abstracts for psychology teachers, began to realize that such abstracts needed to be made more concrete if they were to be more helpful for their readers. Three examples are provided.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: J Hartley, Univ Keele, Keele ST5 5BG, Staffs, England
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TITLE: A bibliometric analysis of malaria research in India
during 1998-2009 (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Gupta, BM; Bala, A
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF VECTOR BORNE DISEASES 48 (3). SEP 2011.
p.163-170 MALARIA RESEARCH CENTRE, INDIAN COUNCIL
MEDICAL RESEARCH-ICMR, DELHI
SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title
KEYWORDS: India; malaria research; publication output
ABSTRACT: Objective: This study analyses the research output of
India in malaria research in national and global context, as reflected in its publications output during 1998-2009.
Methods: SCOPUS Citation database has been used to retrieve the publication data, which has been further analysed on several parameters including its growth, rank and global publications share, citation impact, overall share of international collaborative papers and share of major collaborative partners and patterns of research communication in most productive journals. The publications output, impact and collaborative publication share of India is also compared with South Africa, Brazil and China.
Results: Indian scientists together have published 2786 papers in malaria research during 1998-2009 and registered an average citation per paper of 3.49. The country ranks 4th among the top 20 most productive countries in malaria research with its global publications share of 6.47% during 1998- 2009.
Conclusion: Quantum of Indian research output in malaria research is high but its citations per paper is low compared to select developing countries, which can be improved by investing more funds in international and national collaborative research projects, as well as increasing the participation of researchers in such projects.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: BM Gupta, Natl Inst Sci Technol & Dev Studies, New Delhi
110012, India
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