From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Sat Oct 1 11:16:53 2011 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 17:16:53 +0200 Subject: Web-of-Science interface and address information Message-ID: Dear colleagues, There have been further improvements to the address information in the (Social) Science Citation Index and Arts and Humanities Index of Thomson-Reuters. At least, I receive requests for changes on the basis of files downloaded with different formats in the US and Europe. New versions are now available of the programs which exhaustively use this address information, for example, for overlays of Google Maps. These programs are: 1. ISI.exe (at http://www.leydesdorff.net/software/isi ) for the generation of relational databases; 2. IntColl.exe and InstColl.exe for international and institutional networks, respectively; 3. Cities1.exe and Inst1.exe for Google Maps using the top-10% in terms of citations for the testing; 4. I3Cit1.exe and I3Inst1.exe for Google Maps based on using the Integrated Impact Indicator for the testing of impact above expectation. The new versions also take care that in the case of English (as different from other UK) addresses, the countyname is sometimes used in addition to the city name (except for the case of London). Using the position of the postal code in the address field, the routine now makes a best guess for the city name. This may go wrong in the case that there are no postal codes. In the case of Japanese addresses, it is not possible to distinguish clearly between city and prefecture addresses. For example, Yokohama is a city in the Kanagawa prefecture. However, "ci= Yokohama and ci=Kanagawa" provides today 1,161 records in the database, while there are 89,000+ for ci=Kanagawa and 31,000+ for "ci=Yokohama". Sometimes the city name is not provided in the address information, but instead the name of the prefecture with the postal code. I chose to use the names of prefectures. The confusion provides no problems for Tokyo and Osaka, because in these cases the prefectures and the city names are the same. US city names are now always provided with the abbreviations for states so that "Athens GA" is clearly distinguished from "Athens OH". In the case of "Frankfurt, Germany" and without a postal code, Frankfurt a.M. is written in the outupt and not Frankfurt a.d. Oder. There may be country-specific problems that we have not run into hitherto. Please, feel free to let me know. See for further explanation: . An Evaluation of Impacts in "Nanoscience & nanotechnology:" Steps towards standards for citation analysis (in preparation). . Lutz Bornmann and Loet Leydesdorff, Which cities produce worldwide excellent papers more than expected? A new mapping approach -using Google Maps-based on statistical significance testing. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 62(10) (2011) 1954-1962; [software & manual] . Loet Leydesdorff & Olle Persson, Mapping the Geography of Science: Distribution Patterns and Networks of Relations among Cities and Institutes , Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology 61(8) (2010) 1622-1634; > > I will shortly extend these routines for generating overlays to Google Maps to searches in the USPTO database. With best wishes, Loet _____ Loet Leydesdorff Professor, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel. +31-20-525 6598; fax: +31-842239111 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ Visiting Professor, ISTIC, Beijing; Honorary Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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SEE; PG 961; HELICOBACTER-PYLORI; IMPACT-FACTOR; ESCHERICHIA-COLI; PSEUDOMONAS-AERUGINOSA; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; EPITHELIAL-CELLS Abstract: Articles may be retracted when their findings are no longer considered trustworthy due to scientific misconduct or error, they plagiarize previously published work, or they are found to violate ethical guidelines. Using a novel measure that we call the "retraction index," we found that the frequency of retraction varies among journals and shows a strong correlation with the journal impact factor. Although retractions are relatively rare, the retraction process is essential for correcting the literature and maintaining trust in the scientific process. Reprint Address: Fang, FC (reprint author), Univ Washington, Sch Med, Dept Lab Med, Seattle, WA 98195 USA Univ Washington, Sch Med, Dept Lab Med, Seattle, WA 98195 USAUniv Washington, Sch Med, Dept Microbiol, Seattle, WA 98195 USAAlbert Einstein Coll Med, Dept Microbiol & Immunol, Bronx, NY 10467 USAAlbert Einstein Coll Med, Dept Med, Bronx, NY 10467 USA Cited Reference Count: 101 Publisher:AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY, 1752 N ST NW, WASHINGTON, DC 20036-2904 USA DOI: 10.1128/IAI.05661-11 Cited References ORANSKY I, 2010, Zhang YH, 2010, V467, P153 Kalia A, 2001, V69, P4858 JACOBSON H, 1955, V43, P125 Rossner M, 2004, V166, P11 Tomimori K, 2007, V75, P5223 Levin LI, 2005, V293, P2496 *ISI, 2011, Jackson AC, 2010, V104, P173 Schon JH, 2000, V290, P963 Arst HN, 2000, V403, P478 WHITELY WP, 1994, V272, P170 FUNK CL, 2007, V14, P269 Peterson GM, 2010, V98, P135 1920, Fontanarosa PB, 2005, V293, P2536 Szklo M, 2008, V19, P369 Tatsioni A, 2007, V298, P2517 Redman BK, 2008, V34, P807 INTERLANDI J, 2006, Fanelli D, 2009, V4, ORME IM, 1993, V61, P338 Trikalinos NA, 2008, V61, P464 Shin JJ, 2004, V72, P2280 Khatua B, 2010, V584, P555 Bird SJ, 2002, V8, P543 Atlas MC, 2004, V92, P242 Mori N, 2000, V68, P1806 LEVIN LI, 2003, V289, P1533 Bloch S, 2001, V35, P563 ORANSKY I, 2011, DEAN C, 2007, Errami M, 2008, V451, P397 Mori N, 1999, V67, P3872 Parrish DM, 1999, V74, P221 WICKER P, 2007, V17, P377 Mori N, 2001, V69, P1280 Potti A, 2006, V355, P570 Fersht A, 2009, V106, P6883 McNally A, 2001, V69, P5107 Marcus E, 2005, V123, P173 Steen RG, 2011, V37, P249 Brenttinger PE, 2009, V103, P855 Hwang WS, 2004, V303, P1669 Schon JH, 2001, V294, P2138 Drury NE, 2009, V87, P670 Nath SB, 2006, V185, P152 DeCoursey TE, 2006, V439, P784 HANSSON S, 1995, V346, P906 STEEN RG, 2011, Fang FC, 2010, V78, P563 Sox HC, 2006, V144, P609 Smith R, 2005, V331, P288 BROOKS D, 2010, Fang FC, 2011, V79, P1401 Mori N, 2003, V71, P3748 Poulton A, 2007, V186, P323 SCHON JH, 2002, V298, P961 Long TC, 2009, V323, P1293 KHATUA B, 2008, Korpela KM, 2010, V26, P843 AVERY S, 2011, Casadevall A, 2008, V76, P3835 Budd JM, 1998, V280, P296 Ahluwalia J, 2004, V427, P853 Schon JH, 2001, V292, P252 Giles J, 2005, V435, P258 Smith R, 2008, V90B, P125 ZIMMER C, 2011, Iyengar R, 2009, V84, P1610 Ding KJ, 2009, V389, P684 REYNAUD A, 1991, V59, P1888 Yilmaz I, 2007, V449, P658 Wakefield AJ, 1998, V351, P637 Takeshima E, 2009, V77, P1337 Vessal K, 2007, V369, P641 Schon JH, 2000, V288, P656 Marcato P, 2002, V70, P1279 Wager E, 2011, V37, P567 Vihinen M, 2009, V457, P26 Cue DR, 1997, V65, P2759 BURANEN L, 1999, Casadevall A, 2009, V77, P3517 Casadevall A, 2009, V77, P4177 Derby B, 2008, V452, P29 ISMAIL SO, 1994, V62, P657 WICKER P, 2007, V17, P372 *AM SOC MICR, 2010, Schon JH, 2000, V287, P1022 Abbott A, 2002, V418, P113 STEEN RG, 2011, Souder L, 2010, V16, P175 Cittadini E, 2005, V76, P1037 Seglen PO, 1997, V314, P498 Couzin J, 2006, V312, P38 Schon JH, 2000, V289, P599 Schon JH, 2001, V293, P2432 Wager E, 2010, V11, P64 1969, Casadevall A, 2010, V78, P4972 Hwang WS, 2005, V308, P1777 ========================================================================= *View Full Record: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord;UT=WOS:000294802500039 Title: Public Availability of Published Research Data in High-Impact Journals Authors: Alsheikh-Ali, AA; Qureshi, W; Al-Mallah, MH; Ioannidis, JPA Author Full Names: Alsheikh-Ali, Alawi A.; Qureshi, Waqas; Al-Mallah, Mouaz H.; Ioannidis, John P. A. Source: PLOS ONE 6 (9): 10.1371/journal.pone.0024357 SEP 7 2011 open access journal KeyWords Plus: RAW DATA; NATIONAL-SURVEY; GENETICS; AUTHORS; TRIALS Abstract: Background: There is increasing interest to make primary data from published research publicly available. We aimed to assess the current status of making research data available in highly-cited journals across the scientific literature. Methods and Results: We reviewed the first 10 original research papers of 2009 published in the 50 original research journals with the highest impact factor. For each journal we documented the policies related to public availability and sharing of data. Of the 50 journals, 44 (88%) had a statement in their instructions to authors related to public availability and sharing of data. However, there was wide variation in journal requirements, ranging from requiring the sharing of all primary data related to the research to just including a statement in the published manuscript that data can be available on request. Of the 500 assessed papers, 149 (30%) were not subject to any data availability policy. Of the remaining 351 papers that were covered by some data availability policy, 208 papers (59%) did not fully adhere to the data availability instructions of the journals they were published in, most commonly (73%) by not publicly depositing microarray data. The other 143 papers t! hat adhered to the data availability instructions did so by publicly depositing only the specific data type as required, making a statement of willingness to share, or actually sharing all the primary data. Overall, only 47 papers (9%) deposited full primary raw data online. None of the 149 papers not subject to data availability policies made their full primary data publicly available. Conclusion: A substantial proportion of original research papers published in high-impact journals are either not subject to any data availability policies, or do not adhere to the data availability instructions in their respective journals. This empiric evaluation highlights opportunities for improvement. Reprint Address: Alsheikh-Ali, AA (reprint author), Sheikh Khalifa Med City, Inst Cardiac Sci, Abu Dhabi, U Arab Emirates Sheikh Khalifa Med City, Inst Cardiac Sci, Abu Dhabi, U Arab EmiratesTufts Univ, Sch Med, Dept Med, Tufts Clin & Translat Sci Inst, Boston, MA 02111 USAHenry Ford Hosp, Dept Med, Detroit, MI 48202 USANatl Guard Hlth Affairs, King Abdul Aziz Cardiac Ctr, Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaWayne State Univ, Detroit, MI USAStanford Univ, Sch Med, Stanford Prevent Res Ctr, Stanford, CA 94305 USAUniv Ioannina, Sch Med, Dept Hyg & Epidemiol, GR-45110 Ioannina, GreeceFdn Res & Technol Hellas, Biomed Res Inst, Ioannina, GreeceHarvard Univ, Sch Publ Hlth, Dept Epidemiol, Boston, MA 02115 USA E-mail Address: jioannid at hsph.harvard.edu Cited Reference Count: 26 ======================================================================= *View Full Record: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord;UT=WOS:000294877200009 *Order Full Text [ ] Title: Bibliometry and nanotechnology: A meta-analysis Authors: Motoyama, Y; Eisler, MN Author Full Names: Motoyama, Yasuyuki; Eisler, Matthew N. Source: TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE 78 (7): 1174-1182 10.1016/j.techfore.2011.03.013 SEP 2011 Author Keywords: Bibliometry; Citation; Country comparison; Impact factor; Metric; Nanotechnology KeyWords Plus: SCIENCE-AND-TECHNOLOGY; IMPACT FACTORS; CITATION; NANOSCIENCE; INDICATORS; PATENTS; JOURNALS; HISTORY; METRICS; AUTHORS Abstract: As in other fields of science, bibliometry has become the primary method of gaging progress in nanotechnology. In the United States in the late 1990s. a period when policy makers were preparing the groundwork for what would become the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), bibliometry largely replaced expert interviews, then the standard method of assessing nanotechnology. However, such analyses of this sector have tended not to account for productivity. We hope to correct this oversight by integrating economic input and output measurements calculating academic publications divided by the number of researchers, and accounting for government investment in nanotechnology. When nanotechnology journal publication is measured in these ways, the U.S. is not the leader, as has been widely assumed. Rather, it lags behind Germany. the United Kingdom, and France. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Reprint Address: Motoyama, Y (reprint author), Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Ctr Nanotechnol Soc, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Ctr Nanotechnol Soc, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA E-mail Address: ymotoy at cns.ucsb.edu, meisler at isber.ucsb.edu Cited Reference Count: 77 DOI:10.1016/j.techfore.2011.03.01============================================================================================================== *Record 13 of 14. *View Full Record: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord;UT=WOS:000294789900008 *Order Full Text [ ] Title: Some Economic Aspects of the Scholarly Journal System Authors: King, DW; Tenopir, C Author Full Names: King, Donald W.; Tenopir, Carol Source: ANNUAL REVIEW OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 45 295-366 2011 KeyWords Plus: OPEN-ACCESS ARTICLES; DEEP LOG ANALYSIS; ELECTRONIC JOURNALS; CITATION ANALYSIS; READING PATTERNS; PHYSICS JOURNALS; IMPACT FACTOR; BIG DEALS; H-INDEX; INFORMATION Reprint Address: King, DW (reprint author), Univ Tennessee, Sch Informat Sci, Knoxville, TN 37996 USA Univ Tennessee, Sch Informat Sci, Knoxville, TN 37996 USAUniv Tennessee, Coll Commun & Informat, Knoxville, TN USAUniv Tennessee, Ctr Informat & Commun Studies, Knoxville, TN USA E-mail Address: donaldwking at gmail.com, ctenopir at utk.edu Funding Text: The authors wish to thank Regina Mays, University of Tennessee, and Etondi Tchwenko, University of North Carolina, for their extensive time and effort in preparing this chapter. We also wish to acknowledge Sally Morris, who, while Chief Executive of ALPSP, funded the effort to pull together an initial bibliography on the economics of scholarly journal publishing at the Sara Fine Institute, University of Pittsburgh, and Frances Alvarado-Albertorio, for gathering about 1,500 references. Cited Reference Count: 272 ======================================================================= *Record 14 of 14. *View Full Record: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord;UT=WOS:000294831600002 *Order Full Text [ ] Title: Measuring research excellence Number of Nobel Prize achievements versus conventional bibliometric indicators Authors: Rodriguez-Navarro, A Author Full Names: Rodriguez-Navarro, Alonso Source: JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION 67 (4): 582-600 10.1108/00220411111145007 2011 Author Keywords: Bibliometric indicators; Research performance; Nobel prizes; Research results; Research KeyWords Plus: HIGHLY CITED PAPERS; IMPACT FACTOR; CITATION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH QUALITY; SCIENCE; INSTITUTIONS; PUBLICATION; NATIONS; COUNTS; AUTHORS Abstract: Purpose - Several bibliometric indicators that are extensively used to estimate research performance have not been validated against an external criterion of excellence. This paper aims to investigate whether this validation is possible using the number of Nobel Prize awards. Design/methodology/approach - This study uses several analytical treatments of the data to investigate: whether Nobel Prize awards are sporadic events or they depend on the scientific activity of countries or institutions and can be used in research evaluation; and the association between the number of Nobel Prize achievements and conventional bibliometric indicators across countries and institutions. Findings - This study finds that conventional bibliometric indicators, numbers of publications, citations, and top 1 per cent most cited publications, correlate with the number of Nobel Prize achievements in several advanced countries with similar research abilities. Contrarily, in countries and institutions with more variable research characteristics, there is no association between conventional bibliometric indicators and the number of Nobel Prize achievements, and their use as indicators of research excellence is not valid. In contrast, the number of national articles in Nature and Science correlates with the number of Nobel Prize achievements across countries and institutions. Practical implications - Science administrators implementing research evaluations and research incentives based on conventional bibliometric indicators should consider that increasing the scores of these indicators does not imply an improvement in research excellence. Originality/value - The study demonstrates that Nobel Prize achievements are not singular events that occur by chance. Therefore, the number of Nobel Prize achievements can be used to validate bibliometric indicators. Reprint Address: Rodriguez-Navarro, A (reprint author), Univ Politecn Madrid, Ctr Biotecnol & Genom Plantas, Campus Montegancedo, E-28040 Madrid, Spain Univ Politecn Madrid, Ctr Biotecnol & Genom Plantas, E-28040 Madrid, Spain E-mail Address: alonso.rodriguez at upm.es Cited Reference Count:48 DOI: 10.1108/00220411111145007 From clement_levallois at YAHOO.FR Tue Oct 4 15:52:40 2011 From: clement_levallois at YAHOO.FR (Clement Levallois) Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 21:52:40 +0200 Subject: Fwd: [gephi-announce] Gephi 0.8 beta released In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Of interest to members of this list: the newest version of Gephi is released! *Reproduced below is the official announcement.* (Gephi is a free and open source software for the visual exploration of networks / linked data: www.gephi.org) Best, Clement PS: sorry for any cross-posting. Clement Levallois, PhD Erasmus University Rotterdam Erasmus webpage www.clementlevallois.net | twitter: @seinecle Discover the *NESSHI project* (2011-2014): www.nesshi.eu -------- Message original -------- Sujet: [gephi-announce] Gephi 0.8 beta released Date : Tue, 4 Oct 2011 10:49:30 -0700 De : Mathieu Bastian Pour : gephi-announce at lists.gephi.org Hello, The 0.8 beta version of Gephi has just been released and is available for Windows, Max OS X and Linux. This release focus on new features for both users and developers, with exciting new plug-ins possibilities. Our long-term focus hasn't changed: performance, usability and modularity and we will continue to deliver new features to the platform. As we are thinking about the 0.9 roadmap, please join the discussion on the forum and tell us what you would like to have improved. *Features highlight 0.8 beta* * Dynamic Ranking: Ranking now has an 'auto-apply' feature. It's no longer needed to click on 'Apply' to update Ranking, it's done automatically! Very useful for dynamic networks (i.e. longitudinal networks). * PNG Export: Create high-resolution network images with all the customization available in Preview. You can even create transparent background images! * New Preview: Completely rewrite of the Preview bringing plug-ins extensibility and much awaited features. You can now set edge/node opacity or add text outline. The latter dramatically improves label readability. * Dynamic Metrics: Analyze network properties over time with the new dynamic statistics, including Dynamic Degree, Dynamic Node Count, Dynamic Edge Count and Dynamic Clustering Coefficient. * ForceAtlas2 layout algorithm: Mathieu Jacomy, our layout algorithm rock-star took the best of the ForceAtlas algorithm and made it scale to much larger networks. It's fast, tunable and profits from multi-core processors! * Data Laboratory Node Merge: Select multiple nodes, right click and select 'Merge nodes' to merge several nodes into one. You can customize how the row data are merged (e.g average, max, set null). * Three new filters: K-core, inter and intra partition. Inter/Intra partition filters can be used to highlight links between different communities or the contrary. * SQLite support: The database importer now supports SQLite. * Time interval support: The database importer can now use 'start' and 'end' columns to import longitudinal networks. * New localizations: Go to Tools > Languages to change to the new Japanese or Portuguese (Brazilian) locales. * Complete list here: http://wiki.gephi.org/index.php/Gephi_Releases *Bugfixes* Thanks to the community for reporting bugs! Consult the 45+ list of bug fixed in this release on the release notes . *New License* Gephi is now released in the dual license CDDL + GNU GPLv3. We abandon the GNU AGPL to offer new opportunities to reuse and integrate parts of Gephi in a full Open Source way. The dual license system means the possibility to choose to apply either the CDDL or the GNU GPLv3 when Gephi source code is integrated to a derivative work. When modified, original files of Gephi should always be published publicly so that the community benefit from the improvements. However, the CDDL license does not require to publish the whole work, so you can build commercial applications for free using Gephi source code! The CDDL is a license created by Sun and approved by the Open Source Initiative. It is business-friendly. Read the Legal FAQs to learn more, and ask questions on the forum. *Plug-ins* Checkout the latest plug-ins released by the community! As usual after a major release, we are reviewing all plug-ins in the next cuple of days for 0.8 compatibility. Your favorite plug-ins will reappear soon in the Gephi Plugins Center. Plug-ins developers may be interested to read the changes done in the Gephi APIs since last release . As Ranking and Preview have been entirely rewritten it opens new exciting plug-ins capabilities. Checkout how to write new preview renderers or extend data laboratory . Visit the Plugins Portal for more information . We are strongly supporting plug-ins development. Don't hesitate to ask for help on the Plugins mailing list or on the forum. *Toolkit* We are updating the Gephi Toolkit to include latest changes and will release a new version very soon. Demos and tutorials will be updated as well on the Toolkit Portal . *Recent links* - New Features in Gephi 0.8 Beta Teasing https://dhs.stanford.edu/tools/new-features-in-gephi-8-beta/ - A New Best Friend: Gephi for Large-scale Networks http://www.mkbergman.com/968/a-new-best-friend-gephi-for-large-scale-networks/ - GraphGL, network visualization with WebGL http://gephi.org/2011/gsoc-mid-term-graphgl-network-visualization-with-webgl/ - Translate Gephi in your language http://gephi.org/2011/translate-gephi-in-your-language/ - New Tutorial: Layouts in Gephi http://gephi.org/2011/new-tutorial-layouts-in-gephi/ - Using Gephi with Google Analytics to visualize keywords and landing pages http://www.mostlymaths.net/2011/08/using-gephi-to-visualize-keywords-and.html - Nodus Labs joins the Gephi Consortium http://gephi.org/2011/nodus-labs-joins-the-gephi-consortium/ - Datasets http://wiki.gephi.org/index.php?title=Datasets To all who spread the word and join the Gephi community, thank you! 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The Map Is Not the Territory by Phil Davis http://wp.me/pcvbl-5IX Experts question rankings of journals by Delcan Butler http://www.nature.com/news/2011/111005/full/478020a.html F1000 Rankings by Richard Grant http://blog.the-scientist.com/2011/10/05/f1000-rankings/ From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Wed Oct 5 13:18:43 2011 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 17:18:43 +0000 Subject: Various papers of possible interest to Sig Metrics readers Message-ID: TITLE: H-index is a sensitive indicator of academic activity in highly productive anaesthesiologists: results of a bibliometric analysis (Article, English) AUTHOR: Pagel, PS; Hudetz, JA SOURCE: ACTA ANAESTHESIOLOGICA SCANDINAVICA 55 (9). OCT 2011. p.1085-1089 WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS+: JOURNAL IMPACT FACTORS; CITATION ANALYSIS; MEDICINE ABSTRACT: Background: H-index distinguishes differences in scholarly output across faculty ranks in anaesthesiologists, but whether h-index also identifies differences in other aspects of productivity is unknown. We tested the hypothesis that h-index is an indicator of not only publication record, but also grant funding and mentoring in highly productive US academic anaesthesiologists. Methods: We conducted an internet analysis of the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research Academy of Research Mentors in Anesthesiology (n = 43). Publications, citations, citations per publication, and h-index for each investigator were obtained using the Scopus (R). Total grants, active grants, years of funding, and duration of longest funded grant were recorded using the US National Institutes of Health Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools (R). Members were surveyed to identify the number of their career trainees and those who obtained independent funding. Results: The median [IRQ (Interquartile range)] h-index of members was 23 [17-32 (8-50)]. Members published 136 [100-225 (39-461)] papers with 3573 [1832-5090 (150-11,601)] citations and 21 [15-32 (4-59)] citations per publication. Members received four [3-7 (0-10)] grants and were funded for 29 [17-45 (0-115)] grant-years. Survey respondents (79%) mentored 40 [26-69 (15-191)] trainees, three [2-6 (0-20)] of which subsequently received funding. Members with h-indices greater than the median had more publications, citations, citations per publication, grants, and years of funding compared with their counterparts. H-index was associated with total citations, active grants, and the number of trainees. Conclusions: In addition to publication record, h-index sensitively indicates grant funding and mentoring in highly productive US academic anaesthesiologists. AUTHOR ADDRESS: PS Pagel, Clement J Zablocki Vet Affairs Med Ctr, Anesthesia Serv, 5000 W Natl Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53295 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Bibliometric Data (Article, English) AUTHOR: Goodall, AH SOURCE: SOCRATES IN THE BOARDROOM: WHY RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES SHOULD BE LED BY TOP SCHOLARS. 2009. p.147-151 PRINCETON UNIV PRESS, PRINCETON SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The Evaluation of Research by Scientometric Indicators Introduction (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Vinkler, P SOURCE: EVALUATION OF RESEARCH BY SCIENTOMETRIC INDICATORS. 2010. p.1-6, 271-294 CHANDOS PUBL, SAWSTON SEARCH TERM(S): SCIENTOMETRIC* item_title; EDITORIAL doctype -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Basic categories of scientometrics (Article, English) AUTHOR: Vinkler, P SOURCE: EVALUATION OF RESEARCH BY SCIENTOMETRIC INDICATORS. 2010. p.7-9 CHANDOS PUBL, SAWSTON -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Classification of the indicators of evaluative scientometrics (Article, English) AUTHOR: Vinkler, P SOURCE: EVALUATION OF RESEARCH BY SCIENTOMETRIC INDICATORS. 2010. p.11-21 CHANDOS PUBL, SAWSTON -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Scientific eminence of journals: the Garfield Factor and the Current Contribution Index (Article, English) AUTHOR: Vinkler, P SOURCE: EVALUATION OF RESEARCH BY SCIENTOMETRIC INDICATORS. 2010. p.35-62 CHANDOS PUBL, SAWSTON -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Scientometric indicators for the assessment of publications (Article, English) AUTHOR: Vinkler, P SOURCE: EVALUATION OF RESEARCH BY SCIENTOMETRIC INDICATORS. 2010. p.79-124 CHANDOS PUBL, SAWSTON SEARCH TERM(S): SCIENTOMETRIC* item_title [ ]<-- Enter an X to order article (IDS: BUK84 00007) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Standards in scientometric assessments (Article, English) AUTHOR: Vinkler, P SOURCE: EVALUATION OF RESEARCH BY SCIENTOMETRIC INDICATORS. 2010. p.161-193 CHANDOS PUBL, SAWSTON -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Scientometric assessments: application of scientometrics for the purposes of science policy (Article, English) AUTHOR: Vinkler, P SOURCE: EVALUATION OF RESEARCH BY SCIENTOMETRIC INDICATORS. 2010. p.195-241 CHANDOS PUBL, SAWSTON -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Institutionalisation of Scientific Information: a scientometric model (ISI-S model) (Article, English) AUTHOR: Vinkler, P SOURCE: EVALUATION OF RESEARCH BY SCIENTOMETRIC INDICATORS. 2010. p.243-256 CHANDOS PUBL, SAWSTON -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The Evaluation of Research by Scientometric Indicators Conclusions (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Vinkler, P SOURCE: EVALUATION OF RESEARCH BY SCIENTOMETRIC INDICATORS. 2010. p.257-269 CHANDOS PUBL, SAWSTON [ ------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Causes, consequences and dynamics of 'complex' distributions of technological activities: the case of prolific inventors (Article, English) AUTHOR: Latham, W; Le Bas, C SOURCE: HANDBOOK ON THE ECONOMIC COMPLEXITY OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE. 2011. p.221-239 EDWARD ELGAR PUBLISHING LTD, CHELTENHAM SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth; SEGLEN PO J AM SOC INFORM SCI 43:628 1992 KEYWORDS+: CUMULATIVE ADVANTAGE; LOTKAS LAW; POWER LAWS; ZIPFS LAW; PRODUCTIVITY; SCIENTISTS; PARETO; MODEL; CREATIVITY; PATTERNS AUTHOR ADDRESS: W Latham, Univ Delaware, Ctr Appl Business & Econ Res, Newark, DE 19716 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From zoleikhamahmudi at GMAIL.COM Thu Oct 6 06:54:06 2011 From: zoleikhamahmudi at GMAIL.COM (mahmudi zoleikha) Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 14:24:06 +0330 Subject: Various papers of possible interest to Sig Metrics readers In-Reply-To: <1654640A36FE964C936514B2FD0B2CB4061672@EAGF-ERFPMBX42.ERF.thomson.com> Message-ID: hi i need some articles about using scientometrics indices(like: h,a,g,r,m) for evaluation institutions output.or some information about analyzing these indices. with regards On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Eugene Garfield < eugene.garfield at thomsonreuters.com> wrote: > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > > > > > TITLE: H-index is a sensitive indicator of academic activity in > highly productive anaesthesiologists: results of a > bibliometric analysis > (Article, English) > AUTHOR: Pagel, PS; Hudetz, JA > SOURCE: ACTA ANAESTHESIOLOGICA SCANDINAVICA 55 (9). OCT 2011. > p.1085-1089 WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN > > SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; > BIBLIOMETR* item_title > > KEYWORDS+: JOURNAL IMPACT FACTORS; CITATION ANALYSIS; MEDICINE > > ABSTRACT: Background: H-index distinguishes differences in > scholarly output across faculty ranks in anaesthesiologists, but whether > h-index also identifies differences in other aspects of productivity is > unknown. We tested the hypothesis that h-index is an indicator of not only > publication record, but also grant funding and mentoring in highly > productive US academic anaesthesiologists. > > Methods: We conducted an internet analysis of the Foundation for Anesthesia > Education and Research Academy of Research Mentors in Anesthesiology (n = > 43). Publications, citations, citations per publication, and h-index for > each investigator were obtained using the Scopus (R). Total grants, active > grants, years of funding, and duration of longest funded grant were recorded > using the US National Institutes of Health Research Portfolio Online > Reporting Tools (R). Members were surveyed to identify the number of their > career trainees and those who obtained independent funding. > > Results: The median [IRQ (Interquartile range)] h-index of members was 23 > [17-32 (8-50)]. Members published 136 [100-225 (39-461)] papers with 3573 > [1832-5090 (150-11,601)] citations and 21 [15-32 (4-59)] citations per > publication. Members received four [3-7 (0-10)] grants and were funded for > 29 [17-45 (0-115)] grant-years. Survey respondents (79%) mentored 40 > [26-69 (15-191)] trainees, three [2-6 (0-20)] of which subsequently > received funding. Members with h-indices greater than the median had more > publications, citations, citations per publication, grants, and years of > funding compared with their counterparts. H-index was associated with total > citations, active grants, and the number of trainees. > > Conclusions: In addition to publication record, h-index sensitively > indicates grant funding and mentoring in highly productive US academic > anaesthesiologists. > > AUTHOR ADDRESS: PS Pagel, Clement J Zablocki Vet Affairs Med Ctr, > Anesthesia Serv, 5000 W Natl Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53295 USA > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > TITLE: Bibliometric Data (Article, English) > AUTHOR: Goodall, AH > SOURCE: SOCRATES IN THE BOARDROOM: WHY RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES > SHOULD BE LED BY TOP SCHOLARS. 2009. p.147-151 PRINCETON > UNIV PRESS, PRINCETON > > SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > TITLE: The Evaluation of Research by Scientometric Indicators > Introduction (Editorial Material, English) > AUTHOR: Vinkler, P > SOURCE: EVALUATION OF RESEARCH BY SCIENTOMETRIC INDICATORS. > 2010. p.1-6, 271-294 CHANDOS PUBL, SAWSTON > > SEARCH TERM(S): SCIENTOMETRIC* item_title; EDITORIAL doctype > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > TITLE: Basic categories of scientometrics (Article, English) > AUTHOR: Vinkler, P > SOURCE: EVALUATION OF RESEARCH BY SCIENTOMETRIC INDICATORS. > 2010. p.7-9 CHANDOS PUBL, SAWSTON > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > TITLE: Classification of the indicators of evaluative > scientometrics (Article, English) > AUTHOR: Vinkler, P > SOURCE: EVALUATION OF RESEARCH BY SCIENTOMETRIC INDICATORS. > 2010. p.11-21 CHANDOS PUBL, SAWSTON > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > TITLE: Scientific eminence of journals: the Garfield Factor and > the Current Contribution Index (Article, English) > AUTHOR: Vinkler, P > SOURCE: EVALUATION OF RESEARCH BY SCIENTOMETRIC INDICATORS. > 2010. p.35-62 CHANDOS PUBL, SAWSTON > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > TITLE: Scientometric indicators for the assessment of > publications (Article, English) > AUTHOR: Vinkler, P > SOURCE: EVALUATION OF RESEARCH BY SCIENTOMETRIC INDICATORS. > 2010. p.79-124 CHANDOS PUBL, SAWSTON > > SEARCH TERM(S): SCIENTOMETRIC* item_title > > > [ ]<-- Enter an X to order article (IDS: BUK84 00007) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > TITLE: Standards in scientometric assessments (Article, English) > AUTHOR: Vinkler, P > SOURCE: EVALUATION OF RESEARCH BY SCIENTOMETRIC INDICATORS. > 2010. p.161-193 CHANDOS PUBL, SAWSTON > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > TITLE: Scientometric assessments: application of scientometrics > for the purposes of science policy (Article, English) > AUTHOR: Vinkler, P > SOURCE: EVALUATION OF RESEARCH BY SCIENTOMETRIC INDICATORS. > 2010. p.195-241 CHANDOS PUBL, SAWSTON > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > TITLE: Institutionalisation of Scientific Information: a > scientometric model (ISI-S model) (Article, English) > AUTHOR: Vinkler, P > SOURCE: EVALUATION OF RESEARCH BY SCIENTOMETRIC INDICATORS. > 2010. p.243-256 CHANDOS PUBL, SAWSTON > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > TITLE: The Evaluation of Research by Scientometric Indicators > Conclusions (Editorial Material, English) > AUTHOR: Vinkler, P > SOURCE: EVALUATION OF RESEARCH BY SCIENTOMETRIC INDICATORS. > 2010. p.257-269 CHANDOS PUBL, SAWSTON > > > > [ ------------------------------------------------------------- > TITLE: Causes, consequences and dynamics of 'complex' > distributions of technological activities: the case of > prolific inventors > (Article, English) > AUTHOR: Latham, W; Le Bas, C > SOURCE: HANDBOOK ON THE ECONOMIC COMPLEXITY OF TECHNOLOGICAL > CHANGE. 2011. p.221-239 EDWARD ELGAR PUBLISHING LTD, > CHELTENHAM > > SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth; > SEGLEN PO J AM SOC INFORM SCI 43:628 1992 > > KEYWORDS+: CUMULATIVE ADVANTAGE; LOTKAS LAW; POWER LAWS; ZIPFS LAW; > PRODUCTIVITY; SCIENTISTS; PARETO; MODEL; CREATIVITY; > PATTERNS > > AUTHOR ADDRESS: W Latham, Univ Delaware, Ctr Appl Business & Econ Res, > Newark, DE 19716 USA > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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OCT 2011. p.724-727 WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN Search terms: MORAVCSIK MJ rauth; HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 178:471 1972; KEYWORDS: citation; credit; impact factor; reference list; scientific contribution KEYWORDS+: H-INDEX; IMPACT AUTHOR ADDRESS: DK Niu, Beijing Normal Univ, Coll Life Sci, Minist Educ, Key Lab Biodivers Sci & Ecol Engn, Beijing 100875, Peoples R China -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Thu Oct 6 16:39:08 2011 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 20:39:08 +0000 Subject: Papers of potential interest to readers of Sig Metrics listserv Message-ID: TITLE: The Hirsch Index and Related Impact Measures (Article, English) AUTHOR: Egghe, L SOURCE: ANNUAL REVIEW OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 44. 2010. p.65-114 WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; SMITH LC LIBR TRENDS 30:83 1981; EGGHE L primaryauthor,author KEYWORDS+: SUCCESSIVE H-INDEXES; ACADEMY-OF-SCIENCES; DEPENDENT LOTKAIAN INFORMETRICS; RANKING SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS; STANDARD BIBLIOMETRIC MEASURES; EGGHES G-INDEX; RESEARCH OUTPUT; GOOGLE SCHOLAR; CITATION ANALYSIS; R-INDEX AUTHOR ADDRESS: L Egghe, Univ Hasselt, Diepenbeek, Belgium ========================== Start of Data ========================= TITLE: H-index is a sensitive indicator of academic activity in highly productive anaesthesiologists: results of a bibliometric analysis (Article, English) AUTHOR: Pagel, PS; Hudetz, JA SOURCE: ACTA ANAESTHESIOLOGICA SCANDINAVICA 55 (9). OCT 2011. p.1085-1089 WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS+: JOURNAL IMPACT FACTORS; CITATION ANALYSIS; MEDICINE ABSTRACT: Background: H-index distinguishes differences in scholarly output across faculty ranks in anaesthesiologists, but whether h-index also identifies differences in other aspects of productivity is unknown. We tested the hypothesis that h-index is an indicator of not only publication record, but also grant funding and mentoring in highly productive US academic anaesthesiologists. Methods: We conducted an internet analysis of the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research Academy of Research Mentors in Anesthesiology (n = 43). Publications, citations, citations per publication, and h-index for each investigator were obtained using the Scopus (R). Total grants, active grants, years of funding, and duration of longest funded grant were recorded using the US National Institutes of Health Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools (R). Members were surveyed to identify the number of their career trainees and those who obtained independent funding. Results: The median [IRQ (Interquartile range)] h-index of members was 23 [17-32 (8-50)]. Members published 136 [100-225 (39-461)] papers with 3573 [1832-5090 (150-11,601)] citations and 21 [15-32 (4-59)] citations per publication. Members received four [3-7 (0-10)] grants and were funded for 29 [17-45 (0-115)] grant-years. Survey respondents (79%) mentored 40 [26-69 (15-191)] trainees, three [2-6 (0-20)] of which subsequently received funding. Members with h-indices greater than the median had more publications, citations, citations per publication, grants, and years of funding compared with their counterparts. H-index was associated with total citations, active grants, and the number of trainees. Conclusions: In addition to publication record, h-index sensitively indicates grant funding and mentoring in highly productive US academic anaesthesiologists. AUTHOR ADDRESS: PS Pagel, Clement J Zablocki Vet Affairs Med Ctr, Anesthesia Serv, 5000 W Natl Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53295 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Bibliometric Data (Article, English) AUTHOR: Goodall, AH SOURCE: SOCRATES IN THE BOARDROOM: WHY RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES SHOULD BE LED BY TOP SCHOLARS. 2009. p.147-151 PRINCETON UNIV PRESS, PRINCETON SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The Evaluation of Research by Scientometric Indicators Introduction (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Vinkler, P SOURCE: EVALUATION OF RESEARCH BY SCIENTOMETRIC INDICATORS. 2010. p.1-6,271-294 CHANDOS PUBL, SAWSTON -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Basic categories of scientometrics (Article, English) AUTHOR: Vinkler, P SOURCE: EVALUATION OF RESEARCH BY SCIENTOMETRIC INDICATORS. 2010. p.7-9 CHANDOS PUBL, SAWSTON SEARCH TERM(S): SCIENTOMETRIC* item_title -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Classification of the indicators of evaluative scientometrics (Article, English) AUTHOR: Vinkler, P SOURCE: EVALUATION OF RESEARCH BY SCIENTOMETRIC INDICATORS. 2010. p.11-21 CHANDOS PUBL, SAWSTON SEARCH TERM(S): SCIENTOMETRIC* item_title ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Scientific eminence of journals: the Garfield Factor and the Current Contribution Index (Article, English) AUTHOR: Vinkler, P SOURCE: EVALUATION OF RESEARCH BY SCIENTOMETRIC INDICATORS. 2010. p.35-62 CHANDOS PUBL, SAWSTON SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNALS item_title -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Scientometric indicators for the assessment of publications (Article, English) AUTHOR: Vinkler, P SOURCE: EVALUATION OF RESEARCH BY SCIENTOMETRIC INDICATORS. 2010. p.79-124 CHANDOS PUBL, SAWSTON SEARCH TERM(S): SCIENTOMETRIC* item_title -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Standards in scientometric assessments (Article, English) AUTHOR: Vinkler, P SOURCE: EVALUATION OF RESEARCH BY SCIENTOMETRIC INDICATORS. 2010. p.161-193 CHANDOS PUBL, SAWSTON SEARCH TERM(S): SCIENTOMETRIC* item_title ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Scientometric assessments: application of scientometrics for the purposes of science policy (Article, English) AUTHOR: Vinkler, P SOURCE: EVALUATION OF RESEARCH BY SCIENTOMETRIC INDICATORS. 2010. p.195-241 CHANDOS PUBL, SAWSTON SEARCH TERM(S): SCIENTOMETRIC* item_title -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Institutionalisation of Scientific Information: a scientometric model (ISI-S model) (Article, English) AUTHOR: Vinkler, P SOURCE: EVALUATION OF RESEARCH BY SCIENTOMETRIC INDICATORS. 2010. p.243-256 CHANDOS PUBL, SAWSTON SEARCH TERM(S): SCIENTOMETRIC* item_title ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The Evaluation of Research by Scientometric Indicators Conclusions (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Vinkler, P SOURCE: EVALUATION OF RESEARCH BY SCIENTOMETRIC INDICATORS. 2010. p.257-269 CHANDOS PUBL, SAWSTON SEARCH TERM(S): SCIENTOMETRIC* item_title; EDITORIAL doctype -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Causes, consequences and dynamics of 'complex' distributions of technological activities: the case of prolific inventors (Article, English) AUTHOR: Latham, W; Le Bas, C SOURCE: HANDBOOK ON THE ECONOMIC COMPLEXITY OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE. 2011. p.221-239 EDWARD ELGAR PUBLISHING LTD, CHELTENHAM SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth; SEGLEN PO J AM SOC INFORM SCI 43:628 1992 KEYWORDS+: CUMULATIVE ADVANTAGE; LOTKAS LAW; POWER LAWS; ZIPFS LAW; PRODUCTIVITY; SCIENTISTS; PARETO; MODEL; CREATIVITY; PATTERNS AUTHOR ADDRESS: W Latham, Univ Delaware, Ctr Appl Business & Econ Res, Newark, DE 19716 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From tim.engels at UA.AC.BE Mon Oct 10 09:30:15 2011 From: tim.engels at UA.AC.BE (Engels Tim) Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:30:15 +0000 Subject: ECOOM-colloquium 2011 Message-ID: Dear colleagues Please find attached the announcement of the ECOOM-colloquium2011, which will take place December 9th at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. ECOOM is the Flemish Interuniversity Centre for R&D Monitoring. This year's topic of the colloquium is 'Assessing research performance in the social sciences and humanities'. The entire program is in English and registration is possible by sending an e-mail to Saskia.peersman at ua.ac.be. Registration is free of charge. With best regards, Tim http://events.linkedin.com/ECOOM-Colloquium-Assessing-research/pub/817848 Tim Engels Head of unit - Basic research & Centre for R&D monitoring Department of Research Affairs, University of Antwerp, Belgium T +32 32 65 30 34, F +32 32 65 30 11 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Contrary to previous predictions on the basis of exponential growth or Scopus data, the cross-over of the lines for China and the USA is postponed to the next decade (after 2020) according to this data. These long extrapolations, however, should be used only as indicators and not as predictions. Along with the dynamics in the publication trends, one also has to take into account the dynamics of the databases used for the measurement. At http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1802 . _____ Loet Leydesdorff Professor, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel. +31-20-525 6598; fax: +31-842239111 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ Visiting Professor, ISTIC, Beijing; Honorary Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex ** apologies for cross-postings -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From olle.persson at SOC.UMU.SE Tue Oct 11 10:43:02 2011 From: olle.persson at SOC.UMU.SE (Olle Persson) Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:43:02 +0200 Subject: SV: [SIGMETRICS] World Shares of Publications of the USA, EU-27, and China Compared and Predicated using the New Interface of the Web-of-Science versus Scopus In-Reply-To: <002201cc87dc$65b8da70$312a8f50$@leydesdorff.net> Message-ID: Dear Loet, good that you made me aware of new WoS having no max limit for record sets. Made me make this [cid:825243714 at 11102011-1985] this comes reasonably close to NSI data from Thomson itself, although they count differently. Compare with page 26 in http://www.fpol.no/Forskningspolitikk/Lists/Research%20policy%20magazine/Attachments/30/Forskningspolitikk_3-2011.pdf World output can be found using: TI=(A* OR B* OR C* OR D* OR E* OR F* OR G* OR H* OR I* OR J* OR K* OR L* OR M* OR N* OR O* OR P* OR Q* OR R* OR S* OR T* OR U* OR V* OR W* OR X* OR Y* OR Z*) and then I used the Analyse function..... Best Olle ________________________________ Fr?n: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] F?r Loet Leydesdorff Skickat: den 11 oktober 2011 08:10 Till: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU ?mne: [SIGMETRICS] World Shares of Publications of the USA, EU-27, and China Compared and Predicated using the New Interface of the Web-of-Science versus Scopus World Shares of Publications of the USA, EU-27, and China Compared and Predicated using the New Interface of the Web-of-Science versus Scopus The new interface of the Web of Science (of Thomson Reuters) enables users to retrieve sets larger than 100,000 documents in a single search. This makes it possible to compare publication trends for China, the USA, EU-27, and a number of smaller countries. China no longer grew exponentially during the 2000s, but linearly. Contrary to previous predictions on the basis of exponential growth or Scopus data, the cross-over of the lines for China and the USA is postponed to the next decade (after 2020) according to this data. These long extrapolations, however, should be used only as indicators and not as predictions. Along with the dynamics in the publication trends, one also has to take into account the dynamics of the databases used for the measurement. At http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1802 . ________________________________ Loet Leydesdorff Professor, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel. +31-20-525 6598; fax: +31-842239111 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ Visiting Professor, ISTIC, Beijing; Honorary Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex ** apologies for cross-postings -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Loet, can you tell me, if there was a specific reason why you used tape years instead of publication years for the WoS data? Thanks! Best, Stefanie ________________________________________ Von: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] im Auftrag von Olle Persson [olle.persson at SOC.UMU.SE] Gesendet: Dienstag, 11. Oktober 2011 16:43 An: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Betreff: [SIGMETRICS] SV: [SIGMETRICS] World Shares of Publications of the USA, EU-27, and China Compared and Predicated using the New Interface of the Web-of-Science versus Scopus good that you made me aware of new WoS having no max limit for record sets. Made me make this [cid:825243714 at 11102011-1985] this comes reasonably close to NSI data from Thomson itself, although they count differently. Compare with page 26 in http://www.fpol.no/Forskningspolitikk/Lists/Research%20policy%20magazine/Attachments/30/Forskningspolitikk_3-2011.pdf World output can be found using: TI=(A* OR B* OR C* OR D* OR E* OR F* OR G* OR H* OR I* OR J* OR K* OR L* OR M* OR N* OR O* OR P* OR Q* OR R* OR S* OR T* OR U* OR V* OR W* OR X* OR Y* OR Z*) and then I used the Analyse function..... Best Olle ________________________________ Fr?n: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] F?r Loet Leydesdorff Skickat: den 11 oktober 2011 08:10 Till: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU ?mne: [SIGMETRICS] World Shares of Publications of the USA, EU-27, and China Compared and Predicated using the New Interface of the Web-of-Science versus Scopus Compared and Predicated using the New Interface of the Web-of-Science versus Scopus The new interface of the Web of Science (of Thomson Reuters) enables users to retrieve sets larger than 100,000 documents in a single search. This makes it possible to compare publication trends for China, the USA, EU-27, and a number of smaller countries. China no longer grew exponentially during the 2000s, but linearly. Contrary to previous predictions on the basis of exponential growth or Scopus data, the cross-over of the lines for China and the USA is postponed to the next decade (after 2020) according to this data. These long extrapolations, however, should be used only as indicators and not as predictions. Along with the dynamics in the publication trends, one also has to take into account the dynamics of the databases used for the measurement. At http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1802 . ________________________________ Loet Leydesdorff Professor, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel. +31-20-525 6598; fax: +31-842239111 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ Visiting Professor, ISTIC, Beijing; Honorary Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex ** apologies for cross-postings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH 52425 Juelich Sitz der Gesellschaft: Juelich Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Dueren Nr. HR B 3498 Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: MinDirig Dr. Karl Eugen Huthmacher Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr. Achim Bachem (Vorsitzender), Karsten Beneke (stellv. Vorsitzender), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Bolt, Prof. Dr. Sebastian M. Schmidt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Tue Oct 11 11:40:33 2011 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:40:33 +0200 Subject: AW: [SIGMETRICS] SV: [SIGMETRICS] World Shares of Publications of the USA, EU-27, and China Compared and Predicated using the New Interface of the Web-of-Science versus Scopus In-Reply-To: <4DEC2DB0EC56FA45A57A530E212839B5CE3B6C4CF5@MBX-CLUSTER01.ad.fz-juelich.de> Message-ID: Dear Stefanie, Using tapeyears allows for an update end of January and for these aggregated data the differences can be expected to be marginal. I don't think that Scopus has tape years; otherwise, I would have used them. Olle: Indeed, I find (in Figure 3) extremely stable numbers for both Switzerland and the Netherlands (SEM: 0.01%). The only exception seems to be in your graphs the increase in the percentage share of Norway. That had already been signalled. Thanks, Best wishes, Loet -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Haustein, Stefanie Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 5:06 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: [SIGMETRICS] AW: [SIGMETRICS] SV: [SIGMETRICS] World Shares of Publications of the USA, EU-27, and China Compared and Predicated using the New Interface of the Web-of-Science versus Scopus Dear Olle, dear Loet, it is now even possible to obtain the world output without the workaround of the title query by searching for the publication year directly: "PY=2000-2010" should retrieve all documents published between 2000 and 2010. You should be able to use the analyze function on the result as well. Loet, can you tell me, if there was a specific reason why you used tape years instead of publication years for the WoS data? Thanks! Best, Stefanie ________________________________________ Von: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] im Auftrag von Olle Persson [olle.persson at SOC.UMU.SE] Gesendet: Dienstag, 11. Oktober 2011 16:43 An: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Betreff: [SIGMETRICS] SV: [SIGMETRICS] World Shares of Publications of the USA, EU-27, and China Compared and Predicated using the New Interface of the Web-of-Science versus Scopus Dear Loet, good that you made me aware of new WoS having no max limit for record sets. Made me make this [cid:825243714 at 11102011-1985] this comes reasonably close to NSI data from Thomson itself, although they count differently. Compare with page 26 in http://www.fpol.no/Forskningspolitikk/Lists/Research%20policy%20magazine/Att achments/30/Forskningspolitikk_3-2011.pdf World output can be found using: TI=(A* OR B* OR C* OR D* OR E* OR F* OR G* OR H* OR I* OR J* OR K* OR L* OR M* OR N* OR O* OR P* OR Q* OR R* OR S* OR T* OR U* OR V* OR W* OR X* OR Y* OR Z*) and then I used the Analyse function..... Best Olle ________________________________ Fr?n: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] F?r Loet Leydesdorff Skickat: den 11 oktober 2011 08:10 Till: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU ?mne: [SIGMETRICS] World Shares of Publications of the USA, EU-27, and China Compared and Predicated using the New Interface of the Web-of-Science versus Scopus World Shares of Publications of the USA, EU-27, and China Compared and Predicated using the New Interface of the Web-of-Science versus Scopus The new interface of the Web of Science (of Thomson Reuters) enables users to retrieve sets larger than 100,000 documents in a single search. This makes it possible to compare publication trends for China, the USA, EU-27, and a number of smaller countries. China no longer grew exponentially during the 2000s, but linearly. Contrary to previous predictions on the basis of exponential growth or Scopus data, the cross-over of the lines for China and the USA is postponed to the next decade (after 2020) according to this data. These long extrapolations, however, should be used only as indicators and not as predictions. Along with the dynamics in the publication trends, one also has to take into account the dynamics of the databases used for the measurement. At http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1802 . ________________________________ Loet Leydesdorff Professor, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel. +31-20-525 6598; fax: +31-842239111 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ Visiting Professor, ISTIC, Beijing; Honorary Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex ** apologies for cross-postings ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH 52425 Juelich Sitz der Gesellschaft: Juelich Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Dueren Nr. HR B 3498 Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: MinDirig Dr. Karl Eugen Huthmacher Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr. Achim Bachem (Vorsitzender), Karsten Beneke (stellv. Vorsitzender), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Bolt, Prof. Dr. Sebastian M. Schmidt ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Wed Oct 12 02:24:21 2011 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:24:21 +0200 Subject: significance test of differences among ranks in the SCImago Institutions Rankings 2011 Message-ID: The new Excellence Indicator in the World Report of the SCImago Institutions Rankings 2011 Lutz Bornmann,[1] Felix de Moya-Aneg?n,[2] and Loet Leydesdorff [3] z-test for significance testing of ranks and differences among ranksDescription: Description: http://www.leydesdorff.net/scimago11/index_files/image001.jpg The new excellence indicator in the World Report of the SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR) makes it possible to test differences in the ranking in terms of statistical significance. For example, at the 17th position of these rankings, UCLA has an output of 37,994 papers with an excellence indicator of 28.9. Stanford University follows at the 19th position with 37,885 papers and 29.1 excellence, and z = - 0.607. The difference between these two institution thus is not statistically significant. We provide a calculator at http://www.leydesdorff.net/scimago11/scimago.xls in which one can fill out this test for any two institutions, and also for each institution on whether its score is significantly above or below expectation (assuming that 10% of the papers are for stochastic reasons in the top-10% set). _____ [1] Max Planck Society, Administrative Headquarters, Hofgartenstr. 8, 80539 Munich, Germany. [2] CSIC/CCHS/IPP, Albasanz 26 Madrid, Spain. [3] Amsterdam School of Communication Research, University of Amsterdam, Kloveniersburgwal 48, NL-1012 CX, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ** apologies for cross-postings -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 1385 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: From pislyakov at HSE.RU Wed Oct 12 10:00:24 2011 From: pislyakov at HSE.RU (Vladimir Pislyakov) Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:00:24 -0400 Subject: Some error in ESI (acknowledged, but not detailed by Thomson) Message-ID: Dear colleagues, While performing research using Highly Cited Papers section of Essential Science Indicators, we with my colleague noticed that there are 11160 of them published in 2008 and only 9311 ones dated by 2009, 8% less. (This was in June, now the numbers are 10726 and 9094 respectively, the same ratio). The science is continuously growing, and WoS shows at least 3% growth in the number of papers for these years, notwithstanding which version of WoS you use. As, by definition, the highly cited paper is every 100th one for a fixed year, there is a clear inconsistency. We contacted Thomson support and, after 2.5 months of investigation, in August, they answered "...upon thorough review we have identified issues with the programming which affected relative records that we left from being added to the database. I sincere apologize for the inconvenience this has caused you". It seemed to me that this is an important message not for me personally, but for all scientometric society, as many of us use ESI in our studies. Unfortunately, until now no public explanation appeared as to what records were missed, how this influences the integrity of the data, when the correct version of ESI will appear for public use. I hope this will be explained in detail for the public. If someone has their own versions/observations, they are most welcome. Best regards, Vladimir Vladimir Pislyakov Assistant Director for Electronic Resources Management Higher School of Economics Library 20 Myasnitskaya street Moscow, 101000 Russia Tel.: +7 (495) 6213785 Fax: +7 (495) 6287931 E-mail: pislyakov at hse.ru URL: http://library.hse.ru From willieezi at YAHOO.COM Thu Oct 13 03:48:59 2011 From: willieezi at YAHOO.COM (Williams Nwagwu) Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:48:59 -0700 Subject: AW: [SIGMETRICS] SV: [SIGMETRICS] World Shares of Publications of the USA, EU-27, and China Compared and Predicated using the New Interface of the Web-of-Science versus Scopus In-Reply-To: <007901cc882c$23ef84e0$6bce8ea0$@leydesdorff.net> Message-ID: Dear ALL, Cab anyone please assist me with a list of all informatin science journals in the world. It will be ok if the details are attached, in addition. My Institute is a compiling this list for the purpose of subscription. Thank you for your kind and urgen response ? Williams --- On Tue, 10/11/11, Loet Leydesdorff wrote: From: Loet Leydesdorff Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] AW: [SIGMETRICS] SV: [SIGMETRICS] World Shares of Publications of the USA, EU-27, and China Compared and Predicated using the New Interface of the Web-of-Science versus Scopus To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Date: Tuesday, October 11, 2011, 8:40 AM Dear Stefanie, Using tapeyears allows for an update end of January and for these aggregated data the differences can be expected to be marginal. I don't think that Scopus has tape years; otherwise, I would have used them. Olle: Indeed, I find (in Figure 3) extremely stable numbers for both Switzerland and the Netherlands (SEM: 0.01%). The only exception seems to be in your graphs the increase in the percentage share of Norway. That had already been signalled. Thanks, Best wishes, Loet -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Haustein, Stefanie Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 5:06 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: [SIGMETRICS] AW: [SIGMETRICS] SV: [SIGMETRICS] World Shares of Publications of the USA, EU-27, and China Compared and Predicated using the New Interface of the Web-of-Science versus Scopus Dear Olle, dear Loet, it is now even possible to obtain the world output without the workaround of the title query by searching for the publication year directly: "PY=2000-2010" should retrieve all documents published between 2000 and 2010. You should be able to use the analyze function on the result as well. Loet, can you tell me, if there was a specific reason why you used tape years instead of publication years for the WoS data? Thanks! Best, Stefanie ________________________________________ Von: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] im Auftrag von Olle Persson [olle.persson at SOC.UMU.SE] Gesendet: Dienstag, 11. Oktober 2011 16:43 An: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Betreff: [SIGMETRICS] SV: [SIGMETRICS] World Shares of Publications of the USA, EU-27, and China Compared and Predicated using the New Interface of the Web-of-Science versus Scopus Dear Loet, good that you made me aware of new WoS having no max limit for record sets. Made me make this [cid:825243714 at 11102011-1985] this comes reasonably close to NSI data from Thomson itself, although they count differently. Compare with page 26 in http://www.fpol.no/Forskningspolitikk/Lists/Research%20policy%20magazine/Att achments/30/Forskningspolitikk_3-2011.pdf World output can be found using: TI=(A* OR B* OR C* OR D* OR E* OR F* OR G* OR H* OR I* OR J* OR K* OR L* OR M* OR N* OR O* OR P* OR Q* OR R* OR S* OR T* OR U* OR V* OR W* OR X* OR Y* OR Z*) and then I used the Analyse function..... Best Olle ________________________________ Fr?n: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] F?r Loet Leydesdorff Skickat: den 11 oktober 2011 08:10 Till: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU ?mne: [SIGMETRICS] World Shares of Publications of the USA, EU-27, and China Compared and Predicated using the New Interface of the Web-of-Science versus Scopus World Shares of Publications of the USA, EU-27, and China Compared and Predicated using the New Interface of the Web-of-Science versus Scopus The new interface of the Web of Science (of Thomson Reuters) enables users to retrieve sets larger than 100,000 documents in a single search. This makes it possible to compare publication trends for China, the USA, EU-27, and a number of smaller countries. China no longer grew exponentially during the 2000s, but linearly. Contrary to previous predictions on the basis of exponential growth or Scopus data, the cross-over of the lines for China and the USA is postponed to the next decade (after 2020) according to this data. These long extrapolations, however, should be used only as indicators and not as predictions. Along with the dynamics in the publication trends, one also has to take into account the dynamics of the databases used for the measurement. At http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1802 . ________________________________ Loet Leydesdorff Professor, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel. +31-20-525 6598; fax: +31-842239111 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ Visiting Professor, ISTIC, Beijing; Honorary Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex ** apologies for cross-postings ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH 52425 Juelich Sitz der Gesellschaft: Juelich Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Dueren Nr. HR B 3498 Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: MinDirig Dr. Karl Eugen Huthmacher Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr. Achim Bachem (Vorsitzender), Karsten Beneke (stellv. Vorsitzender), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Bolt, Prof. Dr. Sebastian M. 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URL: From pmd8 at CORNELL.EDU Mon Oct 17 11:28:03 2011 From: pmd8 at CORNELL.EDU (Philip Davis) Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:28:03 -0400 Subject: Gaming the Impact Factor Puts Journal In Time-out Message-ID: Editors who attempt to game the Impact Factor through self-citation may find their journal suspended from the Journal Citation Report. see: Gaming the Impact Factor Puts Journal In Time-out http://wp.me/pcvbl-5K0 -Phil Davis From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Mon Oct 17 16:34:47 2011 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 20:34:47 +0000 Subject: Papers on bibliometrics/scientometrics Message-ID: TITLE: "Scientometric Analysis of the Major Iranian Medical Universities" (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Borzabadi, S; Etemadi, A SOURCE: ARCHIVES OF IRANIAN MEDICINE 14 (3). MAY 2011. p.222-223 ACAD MEDICAL SCIENCES I R IRAN, TEHRAN SEARCH TERM(S): SCIENTOMETRIC* item_title; EDITORIAL doctype AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Etemadi, Shariati Hosp, Digest Dis Res Ctr, Tehran, Iran ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Improving MeSH classification of biomedical articles using citation contexts (Article, English) AUTHOR: Aljaber, B; Martinez, D; Stokes, N; Bailey, J SOURCE: JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS 44 (5). OCT 2011. p.881-896 ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE, SAN DIEGO SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; CITATION item_title; KEYWORDS: Citation contexts; Document expansion; Biomedical text classification; MeSH terms KEYWORDS+: TEXT; CATEGORIZATION ABSTRACT: Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) are used to index the majority of databases generated by the National Library of Medicine. Essentially, MeSH terms are designed to make information, such as scientific articles, more retrievable and assessable to users of systems such as PubMed. This paper proposes a novel method for automating the assignment of biomedical publications with MeSH terms that takes advantage of citation references to these publications. Our findings show that analysing the citation references that point to a document can provide a useful source of terms that are not present in the document. The use of these citation contexts, as they are known, can thus help to provide a richer document feature representation, which in turn can help improve text mining and information retrieval applications, in our case MeSH term classification. In this paper, we also explore new methods of selecting and utilising citation contexts. In particular, we assess the effect of weighting the importance of citation terms (found in the citation contexts) according to two aspects: (i) the section of the paper they appear in and (ii) their distance to the citation marker. We conduct intrinsic and extrinsic evaluations of citation term quality. For the intrinsic evaluation, we rely on the UMLS Metathesaurus conceptual database to explore the semantic characteristics of the mined citation terms. We also analyse the "informativeness" of these terms using a class-entropy measure. For the extrinsic evaluation, we run a series of automatic document classification experiments over MeSH terms. Our experimental evaluation shows that citation contexts contain terms that are related to the original document, and that the integration of this knowledge results in better classification performance compared to two state-of-the-art MeSH classification systems: MeSHUP and MTI. Our experiments also demonstrate that the consideration of Section and Distance factors can lead to statistically significant improvements in citation feature quality, thus opening the way for better document feature representation in other biomedical text processing applications. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: D Martinez, Univ Melbourne, Dept Comp Sci & Software Engn, Melbourne, Vic 3010, Australia -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A quantitative appraisal of the genuine contribution of Turkey and Turkish universities to science (Article, English) AUTHOR: Onat, A SOURCE: TURKISH JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES 41 (5). OCT 2011. p.909-917 TUBITAK SCIENTIFIC & TECHNICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL TURKEY, ANKARA SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E BRIT MED J 313:411 1996 KEYWORDS: Contribution to science; fields of science; Turkish universities KEYWORDS+: IMPACT ABSTRACT: Aim: To assess quantitatively the cumulative and genuine contribution of Turkish universities to science in the main fields over the past 30 years. Materials and methods: In the Citation Reports section of the Web of Science, over 70 main scientific institutions were searched; and publications that received 60 or more citations by May 2010 were selected. Papers having more than a minor share by international authors were excluded. Results: Only 47 universities and 6 institutions generated articles that were cited >= 60 times. These publications, numbering 541, received a total of 51.215 citations. Eight universities (Istanbul University, Istanbul Technical University, Hacettepe University, Bilkent University, Middle-East Technical University, Bogazici University, Ankara University, and Ege University) acquired 62% of these citations. Primary authors were 335 individuals among whom 121 generated 70% of these citations. It is estimated that Turkish scientists produce about 1 per mil of the global scientific output, which indicates that about 40 such papers are produced annually in Turkey. A substantial variance was recorded across major universities in terms of the ratio of citations to highly-cited papers to the total citations. Engineering and geology had higher relative contributions, followed by agricultural sciences, ecology, pharmacy, chemistry and medicine, while physics, mathematics, and biology had less contributions. Conclusion: Along with research in general, research potentially to contribute to science needs specifically to be supported with a coherence, milieu creation and consistent long-term policy. AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Onat, Nisbetiye Caddesi 59-24, TR-34335 Istanbul, Turkey ---------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Bibliometric analysis of public health research in Africa: The overall trend and regional comparisons (Article, English) AUTHOR: Chuang, KY; Chuang, YC; Ho, M; Ho, YS SOURCE: SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE 107 (5-6). MAY-JUN 2011. p.54-59 ACAD SCIENCE SOUTH AFRICA A S S AF, LYNWOOD RIDGE SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS+: RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED-TRIALS; SOUTH-AFRICA; SCIENCE; AIDS ABSTRACT: Many diseases in Africa can be prevented with appropriate public health interventions. This study aimed to assess the bibliometric characteristics of public health related research articles published by researchers in African institutions from 1991 to 2005. Data used in this study were obtained from the online version of the ISI Web of Science: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-Expanded). Articles published between 1991 and 2005 that had the phrase 'public health' in the title, author keywords or abstract, and had at least one author whose contact address was in an African country, were selected for analysis. The annual number of public health related articles published by African researchers significantly increased from 28 articles in 1991 to 135 articles in 2005, a 382% increase. International collaboration also increased: from 45% of articles having international collaborators during 1991-1995, to 52% during1996-2000, and to 67% during 2001-2005. Collaborations were mostly with European and North American countries. Keywords, subject categories and collaboration patterns of articles varied across regions, reflecting differences in needs and collaboration networks. Public health related research output, as well as international collaborations, have been increasing in Africa. Regional variation observed in this study may assist policymakers to facilitate the advancement of public health research in different regions of Africa, and could be useful for international organisations in identifying needs and to allocate research funding. Future bibliometric analyses of articles published by African researchers, can consider conducting regional comparisons using standardised methods, as well as describing the overall patterns, in order to provide a more comprehensive view of their bibliometric characteristics. AUTHOR ADDRESS: YS Ho, 500 Lioufeng Rd, Wufeng 41354, Taichung County, Taiwan From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Tue Oct 18 11:39:59 2011 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:39:59 +0000 Subject: FW: Two New Papers about Scientometrix Message-ID: ________________________________ From: Farhad Shokraneh [mailto:farhadshokraneh at gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 2:07 AM Subject: FYI: Two New Papers about Scientometrix Attached files are two new papers published by Iranians related to Scientometrics. This papers are free and open access. Feel free to share them. 1. Scientometrics Analysis of Nanotechnology in MEDLINE 2. Two new scientometric indices for measurement of collaboration activities of departments and their researchers in academic institutions BW, Farhad -- Farhad Shokraneh, BSc, MS, MedLIS Academic Member and Research Instructor Research Center for Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran Cell Phone: +98 (0) 9149567734 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Biglu-BioImpacts-2011-1-3.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 1644639 bytes Desc: Biglu-BioImpacts-2011-1-3.pdf URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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OCT 2011. p.1403-1437 OXFORD UNIV PRESS, OXFORD SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth KEYWORDS+: BAYH-DOLE ACT; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY-RIGHTS; KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVERS; UNIVERSITY-RESEARCH; GERMAN PROFESSORS; FIRM PERFORMANCE; SBIR PROGRAM; IVORY TOWER; INNOVATION; CITATIONS ABSTRACT: The knowledge produced by academic scientists has been identified as a potential key driver of technological progress. Recent policies in Europe aim at increasing commercially orientated activities in academe. Based on a sample of German scientists across all fields of science, we investigate the importance of academic patenting. Our findings suggest that academic involvement in patenting results in a citation premium, as academic patents appear to generate more forward citations. We also find that in the European context of changing research objectives and funding sources since the mid-1990s, the "importance" of academic patents declines over time. We show that academic entrants have patents of lower "quality" than academic incumbents but they did not cause the decline, since the relative importance of patents involving academics with an existing patenting history declined over time as well. Moreover, a preliminary evaluation of the effects of the abolishment of the "professor privilege" (the German counterpart of the US Bayh-Dole Act) reveals that this legal disposition led to an acceleration of this apparent decline. AUTHOR ADDRESS: D Czarnitzki, Katholieke Univ Leuven, Ctr R&D Monitoring ECOOM, Louvain, Belgium LONDON SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNAL item_title KEYWORDS: Sadlermiut; Dorset Paleoeskimo; Native point; Stable isotopes; Radiocarbon dating KEYWORDS+: VICTORIA ISLAND; SOUTHERN-CALIFORNIA; INTRODUCED REINDEER; BALAENA-MYSTICETUS; BRITISH-COLUMBIA; BONE-COLLAGEN; BERING-SEA; HUDSON-BAY; DORSET; MARINE -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Spanish educational production in the Social Science Citation Index (1998-2009). II (Article, Spanish) AUTHOR: Fernandez-Cano, A SOURCE: REVISTA ESPANOLA DE PEDAGOGIA 69 (250). SEP-DEC 2011. p.427-443 INST EUROPEO INCIATIVAS EDUCATIVAS, MADRID SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; SCIENCE CITATION INDEX item_title; CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS: Spain; educational research; Social Sciences Citation Index database; scientometrics indicators; productivity; citation ABSTRACT: Spanish educational production in the Social Science Citation Index (1998-2009). II This replication study reviewed scientometrically the Spanish production about educational research indexed at the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) Thomson Reuters (the former Institute for Scientific Information of Philadelphia) database during the 1998-2009 period. It examines the productivity according to thematic areas, diachronically, by support journals, institutions and researchers. It is also given indicators of longitudinal citation and the top-ten studies are recognized. A content analysis on the retrieved key words indicates the general topics more investigated. Finally, the profound changes in the Spanish production of educational research in the last years are discussed and it is set out recommendations for continuous improvement of the field. AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Fernandez-Cano, Univ Granada, Fac Ciencias Educ, Dept Metodos Invest & Diagnost Educ, Campus Cartuja, E-18071 Granada, Spain -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From vincent.lariviere at UMONTREAL.CA Mon Oct 24 13:11:36 2011 From: vincent.lariviere at UMONTREAL.CA (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Larivi=E8re_Vincent?=) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:11:36 -0400 Subject: First Call for Papers - STI Conference Series, 2012 Edition Message-ID: *****Apologies for cross posting***** First Call for Papers STI Conference Series, 2012 Edition, 5-8 September, 2012 in Montr?al, Qu?bec, Canada. International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators In part due to a growing global trend in evidence-based decision-making, the use of S&T indicators for the evaluation of research-not to mention for research planning and policy-is increasing in nearly every country. New indicators and databases continue to emerge and a growing number of scholars hailing from a wide range of disciplines have joined the ranks of the S&T indicators community. The STI conference has become the main yearly venue for the S&T indicators community of practitioners, researchers and users. The International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators, informally known as the "Leiden Conference", was traditionally held every other year. In 2010, it merged with the conference series organised by ENID (European Network of Indicator Designers), which was held in the alternate years. The resulting STI conference series will continue presenting high-quality scholarly work while also providing a venue for networking and the promotion of cooperation between researchers, international organisations and other S&T indicator users. Held for the first time outside Europe, the 2012 STI conference is jointly organised by Science-Metrix and the Observatoire des sciences et des technologies (OST) and will be held at the Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al (UQAM). The 2012 edition will be organised around the three following themes: - Theoretical, historical, practical and social aspects of S&T indicator development and use - Methodological aspects in the use of S&T indicators and the production of statistics - Use of S&T indicators in R&D management and S&T strategy development and evaluation The working language of the conference will be English. Please note that in contrast to previous STI conferences, researchers and practitioners are asked to submit full papers (from 6 to 12 pages). The selected papers will be made available in open access on the STI conference website. Key Dates: -Deadline for submission of full papers or research in progress papers-March 2nd, 2012 -Notification of acceptance of papers-April 13th, 2012 -Deadline for posters submission-May 4th, 2012 -Notification of acceptance of posters-May 25th, 2012 Further information will progressively be made available on the conference website: http://2012.sticonference.org/ Email: info at 2012.sticonference.org Programme Chairs: ?ric Archambault, Yves Gingras, Vincent Larivi?re ________________________ Vincent Larivi?re Professeur adjoint ?cole de biblioth?conomie et des sciences de l'information (EBSI) Universit? de Montr?al Chercheur associ? Observatoire des sciences et des technologies (OST) Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie (CIRST) Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al T?l: +1.514.343.5600 Fax: +1.514.343.5753 vincent.lariviere at umontreal.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From umutal at HACETTEPE.EDU.TR Mon Oct 24 15:15:19 2011 From: umutal at HACETTEPE.EDU.TR (Umut AL) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:15:19 +0300 Subject: Second Call for Papers - 3rd International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World Message-ID: 3rd International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World, September 19-21, 2012, Ankara, Turkey Symposium web site: by2012.bilgiyonetimi.net/en/ E-Science and Information Management (Second Call for Papers) Organizer: Hacettepe University Department of Information Management, Ankara, Turkey (http://www.bby.hacettepe.edu.tr/eng/) Theme: ?E-Science and Information Management? Objectives: IMCW2012 aims to bring together both researchers and information professionals to discuss the implications of e-science for information management. Some of these issues and challenges are as follows: information literacy, intellectual property rights, e-science and open access data archives, information processing and visualizations tools, collection development and management, e-science librarianship, and so on. Keynote speaker: Dr. Tony Hey, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Proceedings book: Accepted papers and posters will appear in the proceedings book to be published by Springer under its CCIS series (http://www.springer.com/series/7899) and in the Symposium web site. Papers that appear in Springer?s CCIS series are indexed in Thomson Reuter?s Conference Proceedings Citation Index. Main topics of the Symposium include (but not limited with) the following: ? Data Management Challenges in E-Science ? Data Life-cycle in E-Science ? Information Discovery, Organization, and Retrieval in E-Science ? Information Management and E-Science ? Information Architecture for E-Science ? Education for Information Management and E-Science ? Scholarly Publishing, Open Access and Digital Repositories in E-Science ? Digital Preservation of Scientific and Cultural Heritage ? Social and Cultural Issues and E-Science How to submit: In addition to papers, short papers (pecha-kucha), posters, workshops and panels on e-science and information management, general papers on information management are also welcome. Student papers and posters will also be considered. Please use the template available in the Symposium web site to prepare your contributions and proposals, and send them to us using the Conference Management Software (openconf). Important dates First Call: July 2011 Second Call: October 2011 Third Call: December 2011 Last date to send papers and posters: 23 January 2012 Authors notification: 5 March 2012 Final papers submission and registration: 7 May 2012 Symposium: 19-21 September 2012 Ex libris competition: Because IMCW2012 coincides with the 40th anniversary of the foundation of the Department of Information Management of Hacettepe University, to commemorate this event we organized an international ex libris competition with the theme ?information management? (http://exlibris.hacettepe.edu.tr/index.php?lang=en&page=HomePage). The winning art works of ex libris will be exhibited during the symposium. (Please note: Different deadlines apply for the ex libris competition. Please check the ex libris web site above for further information.) All suggestions and comments are welcome. Please send us your ideas about possible invited speakers at sempozyum at bilgiyonetimi.net. Symposium Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=304487562911300&context=create Twitter hashtag: #by2012 If you wish to receive updates on IMCW2012 Symposium and the other events organized by the Department of Information Management of Hacettepe University, you can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. Looking forward to your contributions to and participation in the Symposium. Ya?ar Tonta, Chair of the Organizing Committee Serap Kurbano?lu, Chair of the Programme Committee Hacettepe University Department of Information Management 06800 Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey Tel: 0312 297 82 00 Faks: 0312 299 20 14 E-posta: tonta at hacettepe.edu.tr, serap at hacettepe.edu.tr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Tue Oct 25 16:43:17 2011 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:43:17 +0000 Subject: Papers of interest to Sig Metrics Message-ID: ========================== Start of Data ========================= -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: DO COUNTRIES WITH LOWER SELF-CITATION RATES PRODUCE HIGHER IMPACT PAPERS? OR, DOES HUMILITY PAY? (Article, English) AUTHOR: Jaffe, K SOURCE: INTERCIENCIA 36 (9). SEP 2011. p.694-698 INTERCIENCIA, CARACAS SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS+: SCIENCE; MACRO ABSTRACT: Studying the 62 countries producing most papers reported in the SCImago data base in the period 1996-2008, it was found that countries with low per capita publication numbers show variable rates of self-citations and produce publications with lower citation impact. In contrast, countries with larger numbers of citations per paper have also high per capita publication numbers and their researchers appear to be humbler, showing lower rates of country and author self-citations. Notable exceptions are China, USA and Iran, which show abnormally high country self-citation rates, partially explained respectively by large populations, large total number of publications and language barriers. An increase of self-citation rates in almost all countries during the last decade, calls for exploring science policies that increase international scientific impact, such as more international cooperation, and science education with broader outlooks. AUTHOR ADDRESS: K Jaffe, Univ Simon Bolivar, Dept Biol Organismos, Apdo 89000, Caracas 1080, Venezuela -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Empirical test of the origin of Zipf's law in growing social networks (Article, English) AUTHOR: Zhang, QZ; Sornette, D SOURCE: PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS 390 (23-24). NOV 1 2011. p.4124-4130 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM SEARCH TERM(S): ZIPF* item_title; PHYSICA A source_abbrev_20 KEYWORDS: Zipf's law; Gibrat's law ABSTRACT: Zipf's power law is a general empirical regularity found in many systems. We report a detailed analysis of a burgeoning network of social groups, in which all ingredients needed for Zipf's law to apply are verifiable and verified. A recently developed theory predicts that Zipfs law corresponds to systems that are growing according to a maximally sustainable path in the presence of random proportional growth, stochastic birth and death processes. We estimate empirically the average growth r and its standard deviation a as well as the death rate h and predict without adjustable parameters the exponent mu of the power law distribution P(s) of the group sizes s. Using numerical simulations of the underlying growth model, we demonstrate that the empirical stability of Zipfs law over the whole lifetime of the social network can be attributed to the interplay between a finite lifetime effect and a large a value. Our analysis and the corresponding results demonstrate that Zipf's law can be observed with a good precision even when the balanced growth condition is not realized, if the random proportional growth has a strong stochastic component and is acting on young systems under development. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: D Sornette, ETH, Chair Entrepreneurial Risks, Dept Management Technol & Econ, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Formal versus self-organised knowledge systems: A network approach (Article, English) AUTHOR: Masucci, AP SOURCE: PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS 390 (23-24). NOV 1 2011. p.4652-4659 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM SEARCH TERM(S): DESOLLAPRICE DJ rauth; PRICE DJD rauth; PHYSICA A source_abbrev_20 KEYWORDS: Directed acyclic graph; Scale-free networks; Formal system; Citation; Topological ordering KEYWORDS+: SIZE ABSTRACT: In this work, we consider the topological analysis of symbolic formal systems in the framework of network theory. In particular, we analyse the network extracted by Principia Mathematica of B. Russell and AN. Whitehead, where the vertices are the statements and two statements are connected with a directed link if one statement is used to demonstrate the other one. We compare the obtained network with other directed acyclic graphs, such as a scientific citation network and a stochastic model. We also introduce a novel topological ordering for directed acyclic graphs and we discuss its properties with respect to the classical one. The main result is the observation that formal systems of knowledge topologically behave similarly to self-organised systems. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: AP Masucci, IFISC CSIC UIB, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: How honest is the h-index in measuring individual research output? (Letter, English) AUTHOR: Patro, BK; Aggarwal, AK SOURCE: JOURNAL OF POSTGRADUATE MEDICINE 57 (3). JUL-SEP 2011. p.264-265 MEDKNOW PUBLICATIONS, MUMBAI SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; GARFIELD E JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 295:90 2006; KEYWORDS+: IMPACT FACTOR AUTHOR ADDRESS: BK Patro, PGIMER, Sch Publ Hlth, Dept Community Med, Chandigarh, India -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Bibliometric indicators: a snapshot of the scientific productivity of leading European PRM researchers (Article, English) AUTHOR: Franchignoni, F; Lasa, SM; Ozcakar, L; Ottonello, M SOURCE: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL AND REHABILITATION MEDICINE 47 (3). SEP 2011. p.455-462 EDIZIONI MINERVA MEDICA, TURIN SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS: Bibliometrics; Rehabilitation; Publications KEYWORDS+: WEB-OF-SCIENCE; H-INDEX; GOOGLE-SCHOLAR; REHABILITATION- MEDICINE; RESEARCH PERFORMANCE; HIRSCH-INDEX; JOURNALS; SCOPUS; IMPACT; OUTPUT ABSTRACT: Aim. The aim of this paper was to explore the validity and practical usefulness of a set of bibliometric indicators with a focus on the scientific production of influential European researchers in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (PRM). Methods. We randomly selected 24 European PRM specialists from the list of invited lecturers or chairpersons at the 17(th) ESPRM Congress in 2010. Using the time window 1996-2010, we recorded the number of papers published, total number of citations, and h-index from Web of Science (WoS) and Publish or Perish (PoP) databases. We also noted the journals in which the papers were published. Ranking the 24 authors into two groups according to higher vs. lower research productivity, we compared the frequency of Editorial Board membership of at least one of the 5 most influential journals in PRM. Results. Median values (WoS, PoP) for papers, citations, and h-index were respectively: (31, 46); (171, 317); and (6.5, 8.5). High correlations were found among different indicators, and also between the same indicators calculated in the two different databases. However, the Bland- Altman plot indicated that the two databases could not be considered interchangeable. Twelve PRM specialists were Editorial Board members: 11 of them were in the first 10 ranking positions for at least one of the 6 indicators analysed. Conclusion. There is need to better understand the characteristics of bibliometric indicators and we retain that the information they provide is insufficiently valid to justify their use as the sole objective criterion for career assessment. AUTHOR ADDRESS: F Franchignoni, Fdn Salvatore Maugeri, IRCCS, Clin Lavoro & Riabilitaz, Unit Occupat Rehabil & Ergon,Rehabil Inst Veruno, Via Revislate 13, I-28010 Novara, Italy -- From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Thu Oct 27 01:13:06 2011 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:13:06 +0200 Subject: Mapping (USPTO) Patent Data using Overlays to Google Maps Message-ID: Mapping (USPTO) Patent Data using Overlays to Google Maps Loet Leydesdorff and Lutz Bornmann The paper describes a technique to use patent information available online (at the US Patent and Trademark Office ) for the generation of Google Maps that indicate both the quantity and quality of patents granted at the city level. The resulting maps are relevant for technological innovation policies and R&D management because the US market can be considered as the leading market for patenting and patent competition. Quantitative data is made available by the mapping routines for more detailed statistical analysis, and the non-parametric statistics for significance testing are specified. The new mapping approach is explored for the cases of the emerging technologies of "RNA interference" and "nanotechnology" as specific examples. Perspectives for further developments of this technique (other databases and network analysis of co-inventions) are specified. Available at http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1110/1110.5712.pdf ; Software (freeware) and instructions at http://www.leydesdorff.net/software/patentmaps . Figure 1: Portfolio for cities in the Netherlands with five or more patents, based on fractional counting of the inventors. (See for an interactive version http://www.leydesdorff.net/patentmaps/nl_b.htm.) The node sizes are proportionate to the logarithm of the number of patents. ** apologies for cross postings. _____ Loet Leydesdorff Professor, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel. +31-20-525 6598; fax: +31-842239111 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ Visiting Professor, ISTIC, Beijing; Honorary Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image003.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 42452 bytes Desc: image003.jpg URL: From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Fri Oct 28 06:24:08 2011 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:24:08 +0200 Subject: Triple Helix Conference in Bandung, Indonesia Message-ID: Dear colleagues: The 10th Intern. Conference about the Triple Helix of University-Industry-Government Relations will be hosted by the Technical University of Bandung, Indonesia, Aug. 8-10, 2012. The website can be found at http://thc2012.ristek.go.id/ . Abstract submission: August 10th - December 10th 2011 Abstracts can be uploaded directly to the conference online system that is accessed here . Best wishes, Loet ** apologies for cross postings. _____ Loet Leydesdorff Professor, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel. +31-20-525 6598; fax: +31-842239111 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ Visiting Professor, ISTIC, Beijing; Honorary Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Fri Oct 28 12:58:58 2011 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:58:58 +0000 Subject: U.K. Scientific Papers Rank First in Citations Message-ID: Science 28 October 2011: Vol. 334 no. 6055 p. 443 DOI: 10.1126/science.334.6055.443 * News & Analysis Scientific Impact U.K. Scientific Papers Rank First in Citations 1. Eliot Marshall, 2. John Travis British scientists have long taken pride in "punching above their weight," as former U.K. science adviser David King once said, achieving a wide impact with a relatively modest use of public funds. Two reports out last week confirm that reputation. In the first of a planned biennial look at the international standing of British science, the U.K. Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) released a citation analysis it commissioned from Elsevier, the scientific publishing company. The analysis, according to a BIS statement, found that the United Kingdom "attracts more citations per pound spent in overall research and development than any other country." A similar analysis, independently produced by Thomson Reuters, supports that basic theme: Scientific papers from Britain have the greatest impact in the world when the six most prolific nations are ranked by average number of citations. The Thomson Reuters report says Britain produced 8% of the world's research articles and reviews but 17% of the world's research papers with more than 500 citations and 20% of those with more than 1000 citations. [Figure] View larger version: * In this page * In a new window Taking the lead. An analysis by Thomson Reuters finds that U.K. scientific papers are now the world's most cited. The U.K. performance surpasses even that of the United States, which has the world's best-funded research system, according to Thomson Reuters, which examined trends from 1991 to 2010. Adjusting raw citation data to norms in each field and year of publication, analyst Jonathan Adams found that Britain crossed from second to first rank in 2007. Germany went from fourth place in 1991 to second place in 2010 (knocking the United States down to third place last year). France, Japan, and China follow. The Thomson Reuters report says that the "rising trajectory" of U.K. research stands in contrast to the U.S. record, which "has at best plateaued in performance and-according to some estimates-is now in decline." It traces the starting point of the U.K. rise to 1986, when Britain undertook a quality review known as the Research Assessment Exercise. Today, the report says, biological sciences are the strongest area of U.K. research, including "exceptionally high achievements in organismal biology, where the USA suffers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eugene Garfield, PhD. email: garfield at codex.cis.upenn.edu home page: www.eugenegarfield.org Tel: 610-525-8729 Fax: 610-560-4749 Chairman Emeritus, ThomsonReuters Scientific (formerly ISI) 1500 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA 19130-4067 Editor Emeritus, The Scientist LLC. www.the-scientist.com 121 W 27th Street, Suite 604, New York, NY 10001 Past President, American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) www.asist.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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A major problem around this issue is how to define cities or city boundaries. Most of the investigations of Zipf's law rely on the demarcations of cities imposed by census data, for example, metropolitan areas and census- designated places. These demarcations or definitions (of cities) are criticized for being subjective or even arbitrary. Alternative solutions to defining cities are suggested, but they still rely on census data for their definitions. In this article we demarcate urban agglomerations by clustering street nodes (including intersections and ends), forming what we call natural cities. Based on the demarcation, we found that Zipf's law holds remarkably well for all the natural cities (over 2-4 million in total) across the United States. There is little sensitivity for the holding with respect to the clustering resolution used for demarcating the natural cities. This is a big contrast to urban areas, as defined in the census data, which do not hold stable for Zipf's law. AUTHOR ADDRESS: B Jiang, Univ Gavle, Div Geomat, Dept Technol & Built Environm, Gavle, Sweden -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Interpretations and misinterpretations of scientometric data in the report of the Royal Society about the scientific landscape in 2011 (Article, English) AUTHOR: Jacso, P SOURCE: ONLINE INFORMATION REVIEW 35 (4). 2011. p.669-682 EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED, BINGLEY SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; SCIENTOMETRIC* item_title; GARFIELD E SCIENTIST 10:11 1996 KEYWORDS: Sciences; Reports; Research; Publications; Measurement; Search output; Databases; China; United Kingdom KEYWORDS+: H-INDEX; RESEARCH PERFORMANCE; GOOGLE SCHOLAR; SCIENCE; CHINA; IMPACT; DATABASES; SCOPUS; PRODUCTIVITY; PUBLICATION ABSTRACT: Purpose - This paper aims to discuss some caveats about the findings of Part 1 of the Royal Society's report from the perspective of the choice and reliability of the source base, and the bibliometric and scientometric indicators. Design/methodology/approach - The paper argues that the Royal Society's report gives too much emphasis to the growth rate of the publications of Chinese researchers when interpolating those data and forecasting that, within the decade and possibly as early as 2013, China will be ahead of even the USA in terms of the number of publications. Findings - In an era when the "publish or perish" slogan is replaced by the "get cited or perish" mantra, the report barely discusses how much China is behind the world average and especially the above countries in terms of the most important scientometric indicators that take into account the productivity/quantity aspect and the citedness of publications as a proxy for quality. Originality/value - The paper illustrates that there are much better measures for the assessment of research activity than the one-dimensional productivity numbers, such as the h-index or the uncitedness rate, and the citations/publication rate where China is far below and the USA is far above the world average scores, and uses some charts to paint a more realistic picture of the scientific landscape. AUTHOR ADDRESS: P Jacso, Univ Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Comparative Recall and Precision of Simple and Expert Searches in Google Scholar and Eight Other Databases (Article, English) AUTHOR: Walters, WH SOURCE: PORTAL-LIBRARIES AND THE ACADEMY 11 (4). OCT 2011. p.971-1006 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PRESS, BALTIMORE SEARCH TERM(S): SEGLEN PO J AM SOC INFORM SCI 43:628 1992 KEYWORDS+: LATER-LIFE MIGRATION; MULTIDISCIPLINARY FIELD; WEB; COVERAGE; SCIENCE; ARTICLES; JOURNALS ABSTRACT: This study evaluates the effectiveness of simple and expert searches in Google Scholar (GS), Econ Lit, GEOBASE, PATS, POPLINE, PubMed, Social Sciences Citation Index, Social Sciences Full Text, and Sociological Abstracts. It assesses the recall and precision of 32 searches in the field of later-life migration: nine simple keyword searches and 23 expert searches constructed by demography librarians at three top universities. For simple searches, Google Scholar's recall and precision are well above average. For expert searches, the relative effectiveness of GS depends on the number of results users are willing to examine. Although Google Scholar's expert-search performance is just average within the first fifty search results, GS is one of the few databases that retrieves relevant results with reasonably high precision after the fiftieth hit. The results also show that simple searches in GS, GEOBASE, PubMed, and Sociological Abstracts have consistently higher recall and precision than expert searches. This can be attributed not to differences in expert-search effectiveness, but to the unusually strong performance of simple searches in those four databases. AUTHOR ADDRESS: WH Walters, Menlo Coll, Atherton, CA 94027 USA - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Correlation between Download and Citation and Download- citation Deviation Phenomenon for Some Papers in Chinese Medical Journals (Article, English) AUTHOR: Liu, XL; Fang, HL; Wang, MY SOURCE: SERIALS REVIEW 37 (3). SEP 2011. p.157-161 ELSEVIER INC, SAN DIEGO SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 295:90 2006; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 122:108 1955 KEYWORDS+: IMPACT FACTOR; OPEN ACCESS; METRICS; NUMBER ABSTRACT: The authors collected the numbers of citations and downloads from 2005 to 2009 of papers in five Chinese general ophthalmological journals: Recent Advances in Ophthalmology, Chinese Ophthalmic Research, Ophthalmology in China, Journal of Clinical Ophthalmology and Chinese Journal of Practical Ophthalmology, published in 2005 from the Chinese Academic Journals Full-text Database and the Chinese Citation Database in Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) to determine the correlation between download and citation and the peak time of download frequency (OF). The citations from 2000 to 2009 of papers published in 2000 were collected to determine the peak time of citation frequency (CF) of medical papers. There is a highly positive correlation between OF and CF (r = 4.91, P = 0.000). Serials Review 2011; 37:157-161. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: XL Liu, Xinxiang Med Univ, Henan Res Ctr Sci Journals, Xinxiang 453003, Henan Province, Peoples R China [ ]<-- Enter an X to order article (IDS: 827OV 00003) ISSN: 0098-7913 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Journal Self-citation Analysis of Some Chinese Sci-tech Periodicals (Article, English) AUTHOR: Xia, XD; Wu, YW SOURCE: SERIALS REVIEW 37 (3). SEP 2011. p.171-173 ELSEVIER INC, SAN DIEGO SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; CITATION item_title; CITATION ANALYS* item_title; CITATION* item_title; JOURNAL item_title; GARFIELD E JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 295:90 2006 KEYWORDS+: IMPACT FACTOR; PAGERANK; INDEX ABSTRACT: This study investigates self-citation rates of 222 Chinese journals within seven groups including 76 journals of agronomy (34.2 percent), 57 of biology (25.7 percent), 28 of environmental science and technology (12.6 percent), 15 of forestry (6.8 percent), 24 of academic journals of agricultural university (10.8 percent), 9 of aquatic sciences (4.1 percent), and 13 of animal husbandry and veterinary medicine (5.9 percent). The average self-citation rates range from 2 percent to 67 percent in 2006, 1 percent to 68 percent in 2007 and 0 percent to 67 percent in 2008. There is a significant difference in self- citation rate between most groups of journals. The self-citation rate is positively and significantly correlated with the self-citation rate in 2006 for all 222 journals (N = 222, R-2 = 0.194, P = 0.004) (P<0.05). However, the self-citation rate is not significantly correlated with the journal's impact factor in 2007 (N = 222, R-2 = 0.114, P = 0.091) and 2008 (N = 222, R-2 = 0.112, P = 0.096) (P<0.05) for the 222 journals. The relationship between self-citation rate and journal impact factor is discussed. Serials Review 2011; 37:171-173. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: XD Xia, China Natl Rice Res Inst, Editorial Off, Hangzhou 310006, Zhejiang, Peoples R China -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Characterizing and Modeling Citation Dynamics (Article, English) AUTHOR: Eom, YH; Fortunato, S SOURCE: PLOS ONE 6 (9). SEP 22 2011. p.NIL_331-NIL_337 PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, SAN FRANCISCO Open access journal SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; PRICE DJD rauth; SEGLEN PO J AM SOC INFORM SCI 43:628 1992; CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 122:108 1955 KEYWORDS+: PREFERENTIAL ATTACHMENT; SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATION; RANDOM NETWORKS; DISTRIBUTIONS; COMPETITION; EVOLUTION; SCIENCE; IMPACT; TAILS ABSTRACT: Citation distributions are crucial for the analysis and modeling of the activity of scientists. We investigated bibliometric data of papers published in journals of the American Physical Society, searching for the type of function which best describes the observed citation distributions. We used the goodness of fit with Kolmogorov- Smirnov statistics for three classes of functions: log-normal, simple power law and shifted power law. The shifted power law turns out to be the most reliable hypothesis for all citation networks we derived, which correspond to different time spans. We find that citation dynamics is characterized by bursts, usually occurring within a few years since publication of a paper, and the burst size spans several orders of magnitude. We also investigated the microscopic mechanisms for the evolution of citation networks, by proposing a linear preferential attachment with time dependent initial attractiveness. The model successfully reproduces the empirical citation distributions and accounts for the presence of citation bursts as well. AUTHOR ADDRESS: YH Eom, Inst Sci Interchange, Complex Networks & Syst Lagrange Lab, Turin, Italy -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Whetting the Appetite of Scientists: Producing Summaries Tailored to the Citation Context (Article, English) AUTHOR: Wan, S; Paris, C; Dale, R SOURCE: JCDL 09: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2009 ACM/IEEE JOINT CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES. 2009. p.59-68 ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY, NEW YORK SEARCH TERM(S): CITED ARTICLE abstract; CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS: Information needs; Information browsing; Scientific Literature; Biomedical Researchers; User Modeling and Interactive IR; Summarization ABSTRACT: The amount of scientific material available electronically is forever increasing. This makes reading the published literature, whether to stay up-to-date on a topic or to get up to speed on a new topic, a difficult task. Yet, this is an activity in which all researchers must be engaged on a regular basis. Based on a user requirements analysis, we developed a new research tool, called the Citation-Sensitive In-Browser Summariser (CSIBS), which supports researchers in this browsing task. CSIBS enables readers to obtain information about a citation at the point at which they encounter it. This information is aimed at enabling the reader to determine whether or not to invest the time in exploring the cited article further, thus alleviating information overload. CSIBS builds a summary of the cited document, bringing together metadata about the document and a citation- sensitive preview that exploits the citation context to retrieve the sentences from the cited document that are relevant at this point. This paper briefly presents our user requirements analysis, then describes the system and, finally, discusses the observations from an initial pilot study. We found that CSIBS facilitates the relevancy judgment task, by increasing the users' self-reported confidence in making such judgements. AUTHOR ADDRESS: S Wan, CSIRO, ICT Ctr, Sydney, NSW, Australia [ ]<-- Enter an X to order article (IDS: BWY55 00008) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: CEBBIP: A Parser of Bibliographic Information in Chinese Electronic Books (Article, English) AUTHOR: Gao, LC; Tang, Z; Lin, XF SOURCE: JCDL 09: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2009 ACM/IEEE JOINT CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES. 2009. p.73-76 ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY, NEW YORK SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOGRAPHIC* item_title KEYWORDS: Metadata extraction; Digital Library; Chinese Electronic Book; Bibliography; Machine learning ABSTRACT: Bibliographic information is essential for many digital library applications, such as citation analysis, academic searching and topic discovery. And bibliographic data extraction has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years. In this paper, we address the problem of automatic extraction of bibliographic data in Chinese electronic book and propose a tool called CEBBIP. for the task, which includes three main systems: data preprocessing, data parsing and data postprocessing. In the data preprocessing system, the tool adopts a rules-based method to locate citation data in a book and to segment citation data into citation strings of individual referencing literature. And a learning-based approach, Conditional Random Fields (CRF), is employed to parse citation strings in the data parsing system. Finally, the tool takes advantage of document intrinsic local format consistency to enhance citation data segmentation and parsing through clustering techniques. CEBBIP has been used in a commercial E-book production system. Experimental results show that CEBBIP's precision rate is very high. More specially, adopting the document intrinsic local format consistency obviously improves the citation data segmenting and parsing accuracy. AUTHOR ADDRESS: LC Gao, Peking Univ, Inst Comp Sci & Technol, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Learning to Assess the Quality of Scientific Conferences: A Case Study in Computer Science (Article, English) AUTHOR: Martins, WS; Goncalves, MA; Laender, AHF; Pappa, GL SOURCE: JCDL 09: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2009 ACM/IEEE JOINT CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES. 2009. p.193-202 ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY, NEW YORK SEARCH TERM(S): MACROBERTS MH rauth; HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005 KEYWORDS: Machine Learning; Classification; Digital Library; Conference Assessment KEYWORDS+: IMPACT FACTOR; JOURNALS; INDEX ABSTRACT: Assessing the quality of scientific conferences is an important and useful service that can be provided by digital libraries and similar systems. This is specially true for fields such as Computer Science and Electric Engineering, where conference publications are crucial. However, the majority of the existing approaches for assessing the quality of publication venues has been proposed for journals. In this paper, we characterize a large number of features that can be used as criteria to assess the quality of scientific conferences and study how these several features can be automatically combined by means of machine learning techniques to effectively perform this task. Within the features studied are citations, submission and acceptance rates, tradition of the conference, and reputation of the program committee members. Among our several findings, we can cite that: (1) separating high quality conferences from medium and low quality ones can be performed quite effectively, but separating the last two types is a much harder task; and (2) citation features followed by those associated with the tradition of the conference are the most important ones for the task. AUTHOR ADDRESS: WS Martins, Univ Fed Minas Gerais, Dept Comp Sci, BR-31270901 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Building a Thailand Researcher Network Based on a Bibliographic Database (Article, English) AUTHOR: Haruechaiyasak, C; Kongthon, A; Thaiprayoon, S SOURCE: JCDL 09: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2009 ACM/IEEE JOINT CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES. 2009. p.391 ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY, NEW YORK SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOGRAPHIC* item_title KEYWORDS: Expertise retrieval; social network; R&D management ABSTRACT: Among many practical and domain-specific tasks, expertise retrieval (ER) has recently gained increasing attention in the information retrieval and knowledge management communities. ER can be broadly classified into two tasks: expert finding and expert profiling. The expert finding task aims to identify a list of people who carry some certain knowledge specified by the input query [1, 3]. The expert profiling, on the other hand, focuses on identifying the area of expertise associated with a given person [2]. To construct an expert profile, two types of information which can be used to describe an expert are topical and social information. The topical information represents domain and degree of knowledge in which an expert possesses. The social information measures an association aspect among experts such as research project collaboration, publication co-authoring and program committee assignment. This paper describes our ongoing project to design and implement an expert retrieval system with the scope on researchers who work in Thailand. The first step is to build expert profiles for each researcher. To identify expertise in different research areas, we could use many different forms of evidence such as curriculum vitae, personal homepage or professional profiles from social networking website, e.g., Linked In. However, there are two main difficulties in using these information sources. The first is due to the distributed nature of the information sources. Gathering individual profiles from the public information source, i.e., the web, could be very tedious. An intelligent information extraction algorithm is required to understand different document templates. Also, the profile collection is most likely to be incomplete, since some researchers do not provide their profiles in public for privacy reason. The second problem is due to the inconsistency of terms used to describe the area of expertise, e.g., association, rule mining (hyponym) vs data mining (hypernym) or avian flu virus vs H5N1 (synonym). Although integrating information from multiple sources could be very helpful for providing more supported information, we leave this issue as our future work. In our current system prototype, we assume that the areas of expertise among researchers can be extracted from bibliographic databases. We use the Science Citation Index (SCI) database to provide the information for representing the expert profiles. From the SCI database, we queried and retrieved publications covering from the year 2001 to 2008 by specifying the affiliation equal to "Thailand". The results contain a set of approximately 23,000 publications. We downloaded and extracted four related fields including authors (denoted by AU), controlled terms (denoted by ID), keywords (denoted by DE) and subject category (denoted by SC). To build a researcher network, we consider two types of relationships: direct and indirect. The direct (or social) relationship is defined as the co-authoring degree between one researcher to others. The co- authoring degree between two researchers, co-authoring(A,B), can be calculated based on the co-occurrence frequency between A and B found in the field AU of 23,000 retrieved records. The indirect (or topical relationship is defined when two researchers have publications under the same topics. The topical degree between two researchers, topical(A,B), can be calculated based on the similarity measure between two sets of extracted keywords, keyword(A) and keyword (B), representing researcher A and B, respectively. The keyword set can be extracted from the fields ID, DE and SC. An author with high frequencies on particular keywords is considered an expert in the corresponding research topics. AUTHOR ADDRESS: C Haruechaiyasak, Natl Elect & Comp Technol Ctr NECTEC, Human Language Technol Lab HLT, Thailand Sci Pk, Klongluang 12120, Pathumthani, Thailand -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Journal Ranking Based on Social Information (Article, English) AUTHOR: Wang, JL; Gao, K; Ren, YL; Li, G SOURCE: JCDL 09: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2009 ACM/IEEE JOINT CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES. 2009. p.453 ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY, NEW YORK SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNAL item_title KEYWORDS: Journal ranking; Social information; Mining ABSTRACT: Recently, literature analysis has become a hot issue in academic studies. In order to quantify the importance of journals and provide researchers with target vehicles for their work, this poster proposes a novel approach based on the social information through considering the potential relationship between journals quality and authors' affiliation. Based on the formula proposed in this work, the importance of journals can be estimated and ranked. AUTHOR ADDRESS: JL Wang, Qingdao Technol Univ, Sch Comp Engn, Qingdao, Peoples R China From notsjb at LSU.EDU Mon Oct 31 13:49:50 2011 From: notsjb at LSU.EDU (Stephen J Bensman) Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:49:50 -0500 Subject: Wikiscience Message-ID: I have been using the Publish or Perish software, which was created by Anne-Wil Harzing, to study the h-index publications of the winners of the Nobel Prize in chemistry. These publications fulfilled the stipulation Garfield's law of concentration by all being articles published in the few elite journals highest in total cites. The median rank of these journals by total cites was 22. What struck me most about these publication was the amount of co-authorship of these articles and the fact that the winners of the Nobel prize most often were not the primary authors but ranked far down the authorship list. It struck me that breakthrough chemical research was highly collaborative and authorship position is not indicative of the author's importance. One of these papers had 22 co-authors, and the prize winner was last. It struck me that attributing citations to one author or another in certain fields is archaic as we are dealing with collectives or what I call "wikiscience." For this reason, I found the Wall Street Journal article below of extreme interest. It seems that, to evaluate a scientist's true importance, you must use something like Google Scholar, which can retrieve the scientist's works no matter what her/his authorship position. Harzing's Publish or Perish software can be downloaded for free from the following Web site: http://www.harzing.com/. Stephen J Bensman LSU Libraries Lousiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 LIFE & CULTURE OCTOBER 29, 2011 The New Einsteins Will Be Scientists Who Share >From cancer to cosmology, researchers could race ahead by working together-online and in the open By MICHAEL NIELSEN In January 2009, a mathematician at Cambridge University named Tim Gowers decided to use his blog to run an unusual social experiment. He picked out a difficult mathematical problem and tried to solve it completely in the open, using his blog to post ideas and partial progress. He issued an open invitation for others to contribute their own ideas, hoping that many minds would be more powerful than one. He dubbed the experiment the Polymath Project. Alex Nabaum On an experimental blog, a far-flung group of mathematicians cracked a tough problem in weeks. Several hours after Mr. Gowers opened up his blog for discussion, a Canadian-Hungarian mathematician posted a comment. Fifteen minutes later, an Arizona high-school math teacher chimed in. Three minutes after that, the UCLA mathematician Terence Tao commented. The discussion ignited, and in just six weeks, the mathematical problem had been solved. Other challenges have followed, and though the polymaths haven't found solutions every time, they have pioneered a new approach to problem-solving. Their work is an example of the experiments in networked science that are now being done to study everything from galaxies to dinosaurs. These projects use online tools as cognitive tools to amplify our collective intelligence. The tools are a way of connecting the right people to the right problems at the right time, activating what would otherwise be latent expertise. Networked science has the potential to speed up dramatically the rate of discovery across all of science. We may well see the day-to-day process of scientific research change more fundamentally over the next few decades than over the past three centuries. But there are major obstacles to realizing this goal. Though you might think that scientists would aggressively adopt new tools for discovery, they have been surprisingly inhibited. Ventures such as the Polymath Project remain the exception, not the rule. Consider the idea of sharing scientific data online. The best-known example of this is the human genome project, whose data may be downloaded by anyone. When you read in the news that a certain gene is associated with a particular disease, you're almost certainly seeing a discovery made possible by the project's open-data policy. Despite the value of open data, most labs make no systematic effort to share data with other scientists. As one biologist told me, he had been "sitting on [the] genome" for an entire species of life for more than a year. A whole species of life! Just imagine the vital discoveries that other scientists could have made if that genome had been uploaded to an online database. Why don't scientists share? If you're a scientist applying for a job or a grant, the biggest factor determining your success will be your record of scientific publications. If that record is stellar, you'll do well. If not, you'll have a problem. So you devote your working hours to tasks that will lead to papers in scientific journals. Even if you personally think it would be far better for science as a whole if you carefully curated and shared your data online, that is time away from your "real" work of writing papers. Except in a few fields, sharing data is not something your peers will give you credit for doing. There are other ways in which scientists are still backward in using online tools. Consider, for example, the open scientific wikis launched by a few brave pioneers in fields like quantum computing, string theory and genetics (a wiki allows the sharing and collaborative editing of an interlinked body of information, the best-known example being Wikipedia). Specialized wikis could serve as up-to-date reference works on the latest research in a field, like rapidly evolving super-textbooks. They could include descriptions of major unsolved scientific problems and serve as a tool to find solutions. But most such wikis have failed. They have the same problem as data sharing: Even if scientists believe in the value of contributing, they know that writing a single mediocre paper will do far more for their careers. The incentives are all wrong. If networked science is to reach its potential, scientists will have to embrace and reward the open sharing of all forms of scientific knowledge, not just traditional journal publication. Networked science must be open science. But how to get there? A good start would be for government grant agencies (like the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation) to work with scientists to develop requirements for the open sharing of knowledge that is discovered with public support. Such policies have already helped to create open data sets like the one for the human genome. But they should be extended to require earlier and broader sharing. Grant agencies also should do more to encourage scientists to submit new kinds of evidence of their impact in their fields-not just papers!-as part of their applications for funding. The scientific community itself needs to have an energetic, ongoing conversation about the value of these new tools. We have to overthrow the idea that it's a diversion from "real" work when scientists conduct high-quality research in the open. Publicly funded science should be open science. Improving the way that science is done means speeding us along in curing cancer, solving the problem of climate change and launching humanity permanently into space. It means fundamental insights into the human condition, into how the universe works and what it's made of. It means discoveries not yet dreamt of. In the years ahead, we have an astonishing opportunity to reinvent discovery itself. But to do so, we must first choose to create a scientific culture that embraces the open sharing of knowledge. -Mr. Nielsen is a pioneer in the field of quantum computing and the author of "Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science," from which this is adapted. Copyright 2011 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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