Papers of potential interest to SIG Metrics
Eugene Garfield
eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM
Tue Nov 15 12:29:09 EST 2011
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TITLE: A "librarian-LIS faculty" divide in open access practice
(Article, English)
AUTHOR: Xia, JF; Wilhoite, SK; Myers, RL
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION 67 (5). 2011. p.791-805 EMERALD
GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED, BINGLEY
SEARCH TERM(S): SEGLEN PO J AM SOC INFORM SCI 43:628 1992
KEYWORDS: Digital scholarly commtmication; Institutional libraries;
Open access; Citations
KEYWORDS+: INFORMATION-SCIENCE JOURNALS; THEORY-PRACTICE GAP; GOOGLE
SCHOLAR; KOHL-DAVIS; ARTICLES; IMPACT; PRACTITIONERS;
REPLICATION; ATTITUDES; DIRECTORS
ABSTRACT: Purpose - This paper seeks to examine a librarian-faculty
divide in authors' OA contributions with regard to article self-archiving and OA consumptions with regard to citation counts.
Design/methodology/approach - This paper measures the OA availabilities and citations of scholarly articles from 20 top-ranked US journals published in 2006. A logistic regression analysis is taken to make the comparisons.
Findings - It finds that there is no correlation between the numbers of OA articles and the professional status of the authors. However, librarian authors differ from faculty authors in the citation and self- citation rates of their articles. There are also differences between these two groups of authors in co-authorship and the numbers of article pages and references.
Originality/value - This study takes a new approach to compare the publications of librarians and faculty in library and information science for their open access availability and citations. The findings may help OA advocates and administrators to make appropriate policy changes.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: JF Xia, Indiana Univ, Sch Lib & Informat Sci, Indianapolis,
IN 46204 USA
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TITLE: Journal bibliometric analysis: a case study on the
Journal of Documentation (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Tsay, MY; Shu, ZY
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION 67 (5). 2011. p.806-822 EMERALD
GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED, BINGLEY
SEARCH TERM(S): LIPETZ BA rauth; BIBLIOMETR* item_title;
JOURNAL item_title
KEYWORDS: Journal bibliometric study; Cited books; Cited journals;
Subject analysis; Bibliographic systems; Information
science; Journal of Documentation
KEYWORDS+: INFORMATION-SCIENCE; JASIS
ABSTRACT: Purpose - This study aims to explore the journal
bibliometric characteristics of the Journal of Documentation (JOD) and the subject relationship with other disciplines by citation analysis.
Design/methodology/approach - The citation data were drawn from references of each article of JOD during 1998 and 2008. Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, Library of Congress Subject Heading, retrieved from the WorldCat and LISA database were used to identify the main class, subclass and subject of cited journals and books.
Findings - The results of this study revealed that journal articles are the most cited document, followed by books and book chapters, electronic resources, and conference proceedings, respectively. The three main classes of cited journals in JOD papers are library science, science, and social sciences. The three subclasses of non-LIS journals that were highly cited in JOD papers are Science, "Mathematics. Computer science", and "Industries. Land use. Labor". The three highly cited subjects of library and information science journals encompass searching, information work, and online information retrieval. The most cited main class of books in JOD papers is library and information science, followed by social sciences, science, "Philosophy. Psychology. Religion." The three highly cited subclasses of books in JOD papers are "Books (General).
Writing. Paleography. Book industries and trade. Libraries.
Bibliography," "Philology and linguistics," and Science, and the most cited subject of books is information storage and retrieval systems.
Originality/value - Results for the present research found that information science, as represented by JOD, is a developing discipline with an expanding literature relating to multiple subject areas.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: MY Tsay, Natl Chengchi Univ, Grad Inst Lib Informat &
Archival Studies, 64 Chihnan Rd,Sec 2 Wenshan, Taipei
11623, Taiwan
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TITLE: Two new scientometric indices for measurement of
collaboration activities of departments and their researchers in academic
institutions (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Mohammadhassanzadeh, H; Samadikuchaksaraei, A; Saemi, N;
Salimi-Asl, M
SOURCE: MALAYSIAN JOURNAL OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE 16
(3). DEC 2011. p.1-7 UNIV MALAYA, FAC COMPUTER SCIENCE &
INFORMATION TECH, KUALA LUMPUR
SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005;
SCIENTOMETRIC* item_title
KEYWORDS: Scientific collaboration; Evaluation indices;
Scientometrics; Scientists; Research productivity
ABSTRACT: In general, scientific collaboration represents the
quality of research work of co-researchers and the related research institutes. Knowledge exchange is known as one of the principle methods of spreading the science. Lack of collaboration leads to research institutional isolation and prevents science expansion. The previous indices that have been proposed for measurement of the degree of scientific collaboration do not base their assessment on the context of the main goal of the research groups and their scientists. As a scientist's maximum achievement will happen when he/she work as part of a team with a defined goal, and a team succeeds when it focuses on a defined subject, only the collaborations that are formed for promotion of the goals of the team would be considered constructive. Here, we propose two new indices entitled "collaboration h-index" and "collaborative researchers h-index", to assess the extent of collaboration activities focused on the main goals of a research team.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: H Mohammadhassanzadeh, Urmia Univ Med Sci, Emam Khomeini
Hosp, Orumiyeh, Iran
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TITLE: An empirical relation between k-shells and the h-index in
scale-free networks (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Ye, FY; Zhao, SX; Rousseau, R
SOURCE: MALAYSIAN JOURNAL OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE 16
(3). DEC 2011. p.9-16 UNIV MALAYA, FAC COMPUTER SCIENCE
& INFORMATION TECH, KUALA LUMPUR
SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005
KEYWORDS: h-index; k-shells; Power laws; Graphs; Scale-free networks
KEYWORDS+: HIRSCH-INDEX; MODEL; COLLABORATION; TOPOLOGY; CORE
ABSTRACT: After clarifying the definitions of h-index and k-shells
in a graph, it is shown that the largest k value for which there exists a non-empty k-shell, denoted as k(max)(G), satisfies the relation k(max)(G) <= h(G), where h(G) is the degree h-index of graph G. Next we determine an empirical relation between the h-index, the number of nodes in a small scale-free network, i.e. with maximum degree centrality <100, and the coreness and degree centrality of its nodes. In this contribution we embed the information sciences among other fields involved in network studies.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: FY Ye, Zhejiang Univ, Dept Informat Resource Management,
Hangzhou 310003, Zhejiang, Peoples R China
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TITLE: Death of web citations: a serious alarm for authors
(Article, English)
AUTHOR: Tajeddini, O; Azimi, A; Sadatmoosavi, A;
Sharif-Moghaddam, H
SOURCE: MALAYSIAN JOURNAL OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE 16
(3). DEC 2011. p.17-29 UNIV MALAYA, FAC COMPUTER SCIENCE
& INFORMATION TECH, KUALA LUMPUR
KEYWORDS: Citation analysis; Web citations; URL accessibility; URL
decay; Library and Information Science journals
KEYWORDS+: UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATORS; INFORMATION-SCIENCE; DECAY;
JOURNALS; REFERENCES; INTERNET; ACCESSIBILITY;
PERSISTENCE; PERMANENCE; STABILITY
ABSTRACT: The study explores availability and/or decay of URLs
cited in articles of six Library and Information Sciences (LIS) journals published by Emerald, Science Direct and Sage. The research was performed using a descriptive survey method. Initially, all issues of the six journals including Information Processing & Management, Library & Information Science Research, Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, Journal of Information Science, Online Information Review, and Journal of Documentation from 2005 to 2008 were downloaded directly from their publisher websites. Afterwards, all the journals' citations in either print or Web formats were calculated manually. Then, availability and/or decay of individual cited URLs were examined in the Web environments. Two groups of URLs were identified as accessible (without any accessibility error) or inaccessible (with accessibility errors). Two groups of accessible URLs were "accessible through first-check" and "accessible through second check". Research findings indicated that 66% of articles had web citations. Original accessibility of web citations was 66% which improved to 95% by second check availability using the Wayback Machine and the Google. Overall, from 4562 cited URLs 34% had error messages mostly related to "File error" type. The study recommends that the best solution to prevent decay or disappearance of Web citations and diminish URLs decay is to check availability of citations from while they are being published. The Wayback Archive and the Google can revive the decayed citations.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: O Tajeddini, Islamic Azad Univ, Sci & Res Branch, Dept Lib
& Informat Studies, Tehran, Iran
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