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Eugene Garfield
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Thu Sep 8 13:34:51 EDT 2011
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TITLE: Smoothing the Lies: The Distinctive Effects of Patent
Characteristics on Examiner and Applicant Citations (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Azagra-Caro, JM; Mattsson, P; Perruchas, F
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY 62 (9). SEP 2011. p.1727-1740
WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN
SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION* item_title
KEYWORDS+: ABSORPTIVE-CAPACITY; KNOWLEDGE FLOWS; SCIENCE;
TECHNOLOGIES; INDICATE; LEVEL; ART
ABSTRACT: Patent citations added by examiners are often used as
indicators of technological impact and knowledge flows, despite various criticisms. In this study we analyze the distribution of examiner patent citations according to patent characteristics in order to show their limitations. According to our findings, the number of applicant citations included is dependent on the science-base of the technology. However, this gets masked by the citations added by patent examiners, who smooth the distribution of citations across technology classes and include the same number of citations regardless of whether applicants cite any references. Some researchers have called for the use of applicant rather than examiner patent citations as indicators of technology impact and knowledge flows. Nevertheless, we show that the former also have important caveats, because applicants may increase the number of citations in international patents and when there are coapplicants. The implication is that analysts should consider a context-driven use of citation-based indicators.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: JM Azagra-Caro, Univ Politecn Valencia, INGENIO CSIC UPV,
Camino Vera S-N, Valencia 46022, Spain
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TITLE: Ranking Scientists and Departments in a Consistent Manner
(Article, English)
AUTHOR: Bouyssou, D; Marchant, T
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY 62 (9). SEP 2011. p.1761-1769
WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN
SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005
KEYWORDS+: SUCCESSIVE H-INDEXES; BIBLIOMETRIC RANKINGS; RESEARCH
OUTPUT; IMPACT
ABSTRACT: The standard data that we use when computing bibliometric
rankings of scientists are their publication/ citation records, i.e., so many papers with 0 citation, so many with 1 citation, so many with 2 citations, etc. The standard data for bibliometric rankings of departments have the same structure. It is therefore tempting (and many authors gave in to temptation) to use the same method for computing rankings of scientists and rankings of departments. Depending on the method, this can yield quite surprising and unpleasant results. Indeed, with some methods, it may happen that the "best" department contains the "worst" scientists, and only them. This problem will not occur if the rankings satisfy a property called consistency, recently introduced in the literature. In this article, we explore the consequences of consistency and we characterize two families of consistent rankings.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: D Bouyssou, Univ Paris 09, CNRS, F-75775 Paris 16, France
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TITLE: International Coauthorship and Citation Impact: A
Bibliometric Study of Six LIS Journals, 1980-2008 (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Sin, SCJ
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY 62 (9). SEP 2011. p.1770-1783
WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN
SEARCH TERM(S): LIPETZ BA rauth; MERTON RK rauth; PRICE DJD rauth;
MERTON RK SCIENCE 159:56 1968;
SEGLEN PO J AM SOC INFORM SCI 43:628 1992;
JOURNALS item_title; BIBLIOMETR* item_title;
CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title
KEYWORDS+: INFORMATION-SCIENCE JOURNALS; SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION;
MULTI-DISCIPLINARITY; RESEARCH PERFORMANCE; SOCIAL
INFORMATICS; CO-AUTHORSHIP; COUNTRIES; PATTERNS; LIBRARY;
STRATEGIES
ABSTRACT: International collaborative papers are increasingly
common in journals of many disciplines. These types of papers are often cited more frequently. To identify the coauthorship trends within Library and Information Science (LIS), this study analyzed 7,489 papers published in six leading publications (ARIST, IP&M, JAMIA, JASIST, MISQ, and
Scientometrics) over the last three decades. Logistic regression tested the relationships between citations received and seven factors:
authorship type, author's subregion, country income level, publication year, number of authors, document type, and journal title. The main authorship type since 1995 was national collaboration. It was also the dominant type for all publications studied except ARIST, and for all regions except Africa. For citation counts, the logistic regression analysis found all seven factors were significant. Papers that included international collaboration, Northern European authors, and authors in high-income nations had higher odds of being cited more. Papers from East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Southern Europe had lower odds than North American papers. As discussed in the bibliometric literature, Merton's Matthew Effect sheds light on the differential citation counts based on the authors' subregion. This researcher proposes geographies of invisible colleagues and a geographic scope effect to further investigate the relationships between author geographic affiliation and citation impact.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: SCJ Sin, Nanyang Technol Univ Singapore, Wee Kim Wee Sch
Commun & Informat, Div Informat Studies, 31 Nanyang
Link,WKWSCI 05-07, Singapore 637718, Singapore
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TITLE: Academic Genealogy as an Indicator of
Interdisciplinarity: An Examination of Dissertation Networks in Library
and Information Science (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Sugimoto, CR; Ni, CQ; Russell, TG; Bychowski, B
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY 62 (9). SEP 2011. p.1808-1828
WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN
SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth; PRICE DJD rauth
KEYWORDS+: DOCTORAL ADVISEMENT RELATIONSHIPS; MAPPING
INTERDISCIPLINARITY; MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; CITATION
PATTERNS; TRIPLE-HELIX; COLLABORATION; UNIVERSITY;
KNOWLEDGE; INDUSTRY; FACULTY
ABSTRACT: Interdisciplinarity has been studied using cognitive
connections among individuals in corresponding domains, but rarely from the perspective of academic genealogy. This article utilizes academic genealogy network data from 3,038 PhD dissertations in Library and Information Science (LIS) over a span of 80 years (1930-2009) to describe interdisciplinary changes in the discipline. Aspects of academic pedigree of advisors and committee members are analyzed, such as country, school, and discipline of highest degree, to reveal the interdisciplinary features of LIS. The results demonstrate a strong history of mentors from fields such as education and psychology, a decreasing trend of mentors with LIS degrees, and an increasing trend in mentors receiving degrees in computer science, business, and communication, among other disciplines.
This work proposes and explores the use of academic genealogy as an indicator of interdisciplinarity and calls for additional research on the role of doctoral committee composition in a student's subsequent academic career.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: CR Sugimoto, Indiana Univ, Sch Lib & Informat Sci, 1320 E
10th St, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
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TITLE: Fields of interest and influence: a new method for
sourcing and ranking journals in psychiatry (Editorial Material, English)
AUTHOR: Hunt, GE; Walter, G; Cleary, M; Soh, N; Martin, A;
Malhi, GS
SOURCE: AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY 45 (8).
AUG 2011. p.614-618 INFORMA HEALTHCARE, NEW YORK
SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth;
HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005;
JOURNALS item_title;
GARFIELD E JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 295:90 2006;
ACTA NEUROPSY* rwork;
AUST NZ J PSYCHIAT source_abbrev_20; EDITORIAL doctype
KEYWORDS+: IMPACT-FACTOR; OCCUPATIONAL-HEALTH; CITATIONS; QUALITY;
INDEX; TIME
AUTHOR ADDRESS: GE Hunt, Univ Sydney, Concord Hosp, Discipline Psychiat,
Sydney Med Sch, Sydney, NSW 2139, Australia
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TITLE: A Bibliometric Analysis of Scholarly Literature Related
to Information Literacy and Critical Thinking (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Welsh, TS; Wright, MS
SOURCE: INFORMATION LITERACY IN THE DIGITAL AGE: AN
EVIDENCE-BASED APPROACH. 2010. p.197-213 CHANDOS PUBL,
SAWSTON
SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title
KEYWORDS+: ACADEMIC-LIBRARIES; STUDENTS
AUTHOR ADDRESS: TS Welsh, Univ So Mississippi, Sch Lib & Informat Sci,
Hattiesburg, MS 39406 USA
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