Papers of possible interst to SIG Metrics readers
Eugene Garfield
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TITLE: Scholarly impact measurements of LIS open access
journals: based on citations and links (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Yuan, SB; Hua, WN
SOURCE: ELECTRONIC LIBRARY 29 (5). 2011. p.682-697 EMERALD GROUP
PUBLISHING LIMITED, BINGLEY
SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNALS item_title; CITATION* item_title
KEYWORDS: Open access; Scholarly impact measurement; Citation
analysis; Web link analysis; Library and information
networks
KEYWORDS+: GREATER RESEARCH IMPACT; WEB IMPACT; SCIENCE; ARTICLES;
SITES; PUBLICATIONS; INDEXES
ABSTRACT: Purpose - The main purpose of this paper is to measure
the scholarly impact of LIS (Library and Information Science) open access journals (OA journals), most of which are not indexed by the Web of Science (WoS). In addition, the paper seeks to discuss measurement methods beyond citation analysis.
Design/methodology/approach - The study selected 97 LIS OA journals as a sample and measured their scholarly impact on the basis of citations and links. The citation counts in WoS, coverage in LISA, Web links, WIFs and Page Rank of the journals are retrieved and calculated, and correlations between citation counts, links, pages, WIFs, and Page Rank are also analyzed.
Findings - The results indicate that LIS OA journals have become a significant component of the scholarly communication system. The Journal of the Medical Library Association enjoys the highest citation counts in WoS. This journal, together with D-Lib Magazine, Information Research, Ariadne, Cybermetrics, and First Monday are the six most important LIS OA journals. With regard to coverage in LISA, Bulletin des Bibliotheques de France (2151) performs best. As a whole, the Page Rank is relatively high, mostly at 6, 7, or 8. The study finds that correlation between citation-based measurements and link-based measurements tends to be significant.
Originality/value - This paper uses the web as a global resource to measure the impact of LIS OA journals by analyzing citation, coverage, web links and Page Rank. The focus of this study is the value of the web as a source of impact indices, rather different from the traditional research methods. It contributes to the scholarly impact measurements of OA journals.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: SB Yuan, Nanjing Univ, Dept Informat Management, Nanjing
210008, Jiangsu, Peoples R China
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TITLE: A bibliometric analysis of digestive health research in
Canada: "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" (Editorial Material, English)
AUTHOR: Vanner, SS
SOURCE: CANADIAN JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY 25 (11). NOV 2011.
p.601-602 PULSUS GROUP INC, OAKVILLE
SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title;
HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005;
EDITORIAL doctype
AUTHOR ADDRESS: SS Vanner, Queens Univ, Kingston Gen Hosp, Dept Med, 78
Stuart St, Kingston, ON K7L 2V7, Canada
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TITLE: A bibliometric analysis of digestive health research in
Canada (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Tuitt, D; Knight, F; Lipman, T
SOURCE: CANADIAN JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY 25 (11). NOV 2011.
p.609-614 PULSUS GROUP INC, OAKVILLE
SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005;
BIBLIOMETR* item_title
KEYWORDS: Canada; Digestive disease; Digestive health; Impact;
Influence
KEYWORDS+: INDICATORS; IMPACT; INDEX
ABSTRACT: Measurement: of the impact and influence of
medical/scientific journals, and of individual researchers has become more widely practiced in recent decades. Tills is driven, in part, by the increased availability of data regarding citations of research articles, and by increased competition for research funding. Digestive disease research has been identified as a particularly strong discipline in Canada. The authors collected quantitative data on the impact and influence of Canadian digestive health research. The present study involved an analysis of the research impact (Hirsch factor) and research influence (Influence factor) of 106 digestive health researchers in Canada. Rankings of the top 25 researchers on the basis of the two metrics were dominated by the larger research groups at the University of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario), McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario), and the Universities of Calgary (Calgary, Alberta) and Alberta (Edmonton, Alberta), but with representation by other research groups at the Universities of Manitoba (Winnipeg, Manitoba), Western Ontario (London,
Ontario) and McGill University (Montreal, Quebec). Female and male researchers had similar scores for the two metrics, as did basic scientists versus clinical investigators. Strategic recruitment, particularly of established investigators, can have a major impact on the ranking of research groups. Comparing these metrics over different time frames can provide insights into the vulnerabilities and strengths of research groups.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: D Tuitt, Res Excellence Metr Ltd, 2000 Appleby Line,Suite
226, Burlington, ON L7L 7H7, Canada
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TITLE: Influence of Database Mistakes on Journal Citation
Analysis: Remarks on the Paper by Franceschini and Maisano, QREI (2010)
(Article, English)
AUTHOR: Franceschini, F; Maisano, D
SOURCE: QUALITY AND RELIABILITY ENGINEERING INTERNATIONAL 27
(7). NOV 2011. p.969-976 WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN
SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005;
CITATION item_title; CITATION ANALYS* item_title;
CITATION* item_title; JOURNAL item_title
KEYWORDS: bibliometric indicators; citation analysis; Hirsch-index;
robust indicator; database mistake; false reference
KEYWORDS+: H-INDEX
ABSTRACT: This short note contains some remarks on a recent
bibliometric survey about some of the major scientific journals in the field of Quality Engineering/Management (Qual. Reliab. Engng. Int. 2010;
26(6): 593-604). In particular, thanks to Professor Woodall's precious indication, it has been freshly noticed that some results in the original work are biased by mistakes in the bibliometric databases (in this case Google Scholar). After a careful examination and correction of biased data, a synthetic analysis of the typical mistakes of bibliometric databases is presented, focussing the attention on the importance of using robust bibliometric indicators. Copyright (C) 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: F Franceschini, Politecn Torino, Dipartimento Sistemi Prod
& Econ Azienda DISPEA, Corso Duca Abruzzi 24, I-10129
Turin, Italy
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TITLE: HOW SHOULD RESEARCH PERFORMANCE BE MEASURED? A STUDY OF
SWEDISH ECONOMISTS (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Henrekson, M; Waldenstrom, D
SOURCE: MANCHESTER SCHOOL 79 (6). DEC 2011. p.1139-1156
WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN
SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005
KEYWORDS+: EUROPEAN ECONOMICS; RELATIVE IMPACTS; CORE JOURNALS; DRY
HOLES; DEPARTMENTS; PRODUCTIVITY; PUBLICATIONS; RANKINGS
ABSTRACT: Billions are allocated annually to university research.
The increased specialization and international integration of research and researchers has animated the need for comparisons of performance across fields, institutions and individual researchers. However, there is still no consensus regarding how such rankings should be conducted and what output measures to use. We rank all full professors in a particular discipline (economics) in one country using seven established measures of research performance. We show both that the rank order varies greatly across measures and that the distribution of total research output is valued very differently depending on the measure used.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Henrekson, Res Inst Ind Econ IFN, Stockholm, Sweden
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TITLE: Fifty years of the Journal of Apicultural Research
(Review, English)
AUTHOR: Carreck, NL
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF APICULTURAL RESEARCH 50 (4). 2011. p.249-256
INT BEE RESEARCH ASSOC, CARDIFF
SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNAL item_title
KEYWORDS: Journal of Apicultural Research; International Bee
Research Association; honey bees; stingless bees; bumble
bees; solitary bees
KEYWORDS+: ACUTE PARALYSIS VIRUS; BRITISH BUMBLE BEES; VARROA-
JACOBSONI; HONEY-BEES; AFRICANIZED HONEYBEE; BACILLUS-
LARVAE; BEHAVIOR; SPERMATOZOA; CULTURE; WORKER
ABSTRACT: The Journal of Apicultural Research (JAR) was first
published in 1962 under the Editorship of Dr Eva Crane, Director of the then Bee Research Association (BRA). The journal was envisaged as an international English language medium of refereed science dealing with all kinds of bee including: honey bees, stingless bees, bumble bees and solitary bees. The international nature of this journal and its parent journal Bee World were instrumental in the change of title of BRA to International Bee Research Association (IBRA). This paper, coming at the completion of the fiftieth volume of JAR, describes the origins and history of the journal, and discusses some of the most notable papers published within its pages.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: NL Carreck, Int Bee Res Assoc, 16 North Rd, Cardiff CF10
3DY, S Glam, Wales
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TITLE: A study of influential authors, works and research
network of consumer behavior research (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Tu, PPN
SOURCE: AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT 5 (23). OCT 7
2011. p.9838-9854 ACADEMIC JOURNALS, VICTORIA ISLAND
SEARCH TERM(S): MARSHAKOVA IV rauth;
SMALL H SCIENTOMETRICS 26:5 1993;
SMALL H SCI STUD 4:17 1974;
SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973;
WHITE HD J AM SOC INFORM SCI 32:163 1981
KEYWORDS: Consumer behavior; bibliometric analysis; author co-
citation analysis; social network analysis; knowledge of
network
KEYWORDS+: COCITATION ANALYSIS; INTELLECTUAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRONIC
MARKETPLACES; OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT; MODELING APPROACH;
PLANNED BEHAVIOR; CONSUMPTION; THEMES; SELF; CONSCIOUSNESS
ABSTRACT: With the proliferation of consumer behavior research in
recent decades, the ability to effectively identify the most influential and representative collection of research articles had become significantly important. Research in the consumer behavior area had developed rapidly, but no recent studies had examined contemporary consumer behavior research. This paper employed author co-citation analysis, a bibliometric methodology and social network analysis methodology to highlight the most influential authors, to analyze citation relationships, to exploit changes in the intellectual base and to show trends and patterns in the consumer behavior field over two consecutive time periods, 1989 to 1998 and 1999 to 2008. In order to analyze the dynamic intellectual structure of consumer behavior research, author co-citation analysis was conducted of 16,536 references from 606 articles found in the SSCI and SCI databases from 1989 to 2008. In addition, factor analysis was used to examine the breadth of the authors'
research areas. The aims of this paper were twofold: to provide a valuable direction for future consumer behavior research, and to propose an objective means of establishing the relative importance of different knowledge nodes in the recent development of the consumer behavior field.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: PPN Tu, Chang Jung Christian Univ, Grad Sch Business &
Operat Management, Tainan, Taiwan
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