A few papers of possible interest to SIG Metrics readers

[Eugene Garfield]

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TITLE:          Commercializing academic research: the quality of faculty
                patenting (Article, English)
AUTHOR:         Czarnitzki, D; Hussinger, K; Schneider, C
SOURCE:         INDUSTRIAL AND CORPORATE CHANGE 20 (5). 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

  
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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

 
 
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