From chni at INDIANA.EDU Sun Apr 1 20:52:25 2012 From: chni at INDIANA.EDU (Chaoqun Ni) Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 20:52:25 -0400 Subject: SECOND CALL: 2012 SIGMET Student Paper Contest Message-ID: Dear All, Please submit to 2012 SIG/MET Student Paper Contest. Apologies for cross-posting. * 2012 ASIS&T SIG/MET Student Paper Contest SIG/MET, the Special Interest Group for the measurement of information production and use (http://www.asis.org/SIG/met.html) of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T ) is pleased to announce its second student paper contest. The contest is designed to recognize promising student research relating to the SIG. Purpose SIG/MET seeks to encourages the development and networking of all those interested in the measurement of information. It is holding this contest in order to promote amongst students the generation of new ideas and the conduct of new research in metric-related topics, including bibliometrics, scientometrics, informetrics, webometrics and other related domains. EligibilityThe author of the paper contest must be a full-time student at the time the paper is submitted, irrespective of whether they are members of ASIS&T. Only single-authored manuscripts will be accepted, in order to ensure that the work was conducted primarily by a student. SIG/MET reserves the right to request proof of enrollment as part of the submission and evaluation process. All submissions should be original and not have been published in a journal, or been accepted by a journal, or be in the process of being considered by a journal at the time they are submitted to this contest. Theme Papers could discuss theories, methods, policies, case studies, etc. on different aspects of measurement of information production and use. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following core areas: ? Metric-Related Theory ? Methods and new techniques ? Citation and co-citation analysis ? Indicators ? Altmetrics ? Webometrics ? Mapping & visualization ? Research policy ? Productivity & publications ? Journals, databases and electronic publications ? Collaboration/Co-authorship ? Patent analysis ? Knowledge and topic diffusion Selection There will be a winner, runner-up and, depending on the quantity of strong papers, a number of commended papers. The judges will particularly reward well-written, original research that has potential for publication in a peer-reviewed journal or for presentation at a refereed conference. PrizesThe winner and runner-up will be awarded a one-year individual membership to ASIS&T and the winner will also be awarded a cash prize. Authors of highly rated papers will be invited to submit a short biographical piece to be featured on the SIG/MET Website. In addition, if SIG/MET holds a pre-conference workshop at the 2012 Annual Meeting, these authors will be invited to present their research at the workshop. FormatThe SIG/MET student paper contest committee requires that submissions are no longer than ten pages (including figures, tables and references) and follow the template of 2012 ASIS&T annual conference. Detailed information about the template is available at: http://www.asis.org/asist2012/ Submission & DeadlineAuthors are invited to submit manuscripts by midnight EST on Sunday, the 30th April 2012, to the following website: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigmetspc2012 The students will be notified about the results by the end of May. If you have any queries, please email Chaoqun Ni (chni at indiana.edu), or Carrie Chang (carriehc at gmail.com).* Chaoqun Ni School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University Bloomington 1320 E 10th Street, L012, Bloomington, IN 47405 http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~chni/index.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pmd8 at CORNELL.EDU Mon Apr 2 10:33:56 2012 From: pmd8 at CORNELL.EDU (Philip Davis) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 10:33:56 -0400 Subject: Does Post-Dating Publication Help Journal Impact Factors? Message-ID: Does Post-Dating Publication Help Journal Impact Factors? April 2, 2012. The Scholarly Kitchen http://wp.me/pcvbl-6uF Publishing an article online and then post-dating its "official" publication several months later may be used to game a journal's impact factor, a scientist claims. From christian.gumpenberger at UNIVIE.AC.AT Thu Apr 5 05:29:20 2012 From: christian.gumpenberger at UNIVIE.AC.AT (Christian Gumpenberger) Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 11:29:20 +0200 Subject: European Summer School for Scientometrics (esss) Leuven, July 2012 In-Reply-To: <4F7D6532.104@scientometrics-school.eu> Message-ID: The next European Summer School for Scientometrics (esss) will take place 01-07 July 2012 in Leuven Belgium. The whole week event is almost fully booked, however, free seats for the conference only (02-03 July 2012) are still available. Please register here: http://www.scientometrics-school.eu/registration.html We are looking forward to seeing you in Leuven! Best regards and Happy Easter, Christian Gumpenberger (on behalf of the esss steering committee) ********************************************** Dr. Christian Gumpenberger, MSc University of Vienna Library and archive services Bibliometrics Department esss European Summer School for Scientometrics office Boltzmanngasse 5 A-1090 Wien Tel.: +43-1-4277-27619 Fax: +43-1-4277-27650 mailto: christian.gumpenberger at univie.ac.at mailto: office at scientometrics-school.eu ********************************************** From pmd8 at CORNELL.EDU Thu Apr 5 11:09:07 2012 From: pmd8 at CORNELL.EDU (Philip Davis) Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 11:09:07 -0400 Subject: The (Post) Dating Game =?windows-1252?Q?=97_?= Assembling the Evidence Message-ID: The (Post) Dating Game ? Assembling the Evidence April 5, 2012 http://wp.me/pcvbl-6x4 Is there statistical evidence to suggest that editors are actively manipulating publication dates to boost their Impact Factors? From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Tue Apr 10 01:31:12 2012 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:31:12 +0200 Subject: percentile ranks in excellence and impact indicators Message-ID: Accounting for the Uncertainty in the Evaluation of Percentile Ranks In a recent paper entitled "Inconsistencies of Recently Proposed Citation Impact Indicators and how to Avoid Them," Schreiber (2012, at arXiv:1202.3861 ) proposed (i) a method to assess tied ranks consistently and (ii) fractional attribution to percentile ranks in the case of relatively small samples (e.g., for n < 100). Schreiber's solution to the problem of how to handle tied ranks is convincing, in my opinion. The fractional attribution, however, is computationally intensive and cannot be done manually for even moderately large batches of documents. Schreiber attributed scores fractionally to the six percentile rank classes used in the Science and Engineering Indicators of the U.S. National Science Board, and thus missed, in my opinion, the point that fractional attribution at the level of hundred percentiles--or equivalently quantiles as the continuous random variable--is only a linear, and therefore much less complex problem. Given the quantile-values, the non-linear attribution to the six classes or any other evaluation scheme is then a question of aggregation. A new routine based on these principles (including Schreiber's solution for tied ranks) is made available as software for the assessment of documents retrieved from the Web of Science (at this http URL ). ** forthcoming in JASIST ** apologies for cross-postings _____ Loet Leydesdorff University of Amsterdam Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYAAAAJ &hl=en -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pmd8 at CORNELL.EDU Tue Apr 10 06:41:46 2012 From: pmd8 at CORNELL.EDU (Philip Davis) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 06:41:46 -0400 Subject: Emergence of a Citation Cartel Message-ID: Emergence of a Citation Cartel 10 April, 2012 The Scholarly Kitchen http://wp.me/pcvbl-6xS "In a 1999 essay published in Science titled, ?Scientific Communication ? A Vanity Fair?? George Franck warned us on the possibility of citation cartels ? groups of editors and journals working together for mutual benefit. To date, this behavior has not been widely documented; however, when you first view it, it is astonishing." From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Tue Apr 10 07:26:02 2012 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:26:02 -0400 Subject: Online Academic Abuses and the Power of Openness: Naming & Shaming In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Self-citation in order to enhance a journal's impact factor is certainly an abuse, well worth controlling and exposing. Self-citation to enhance an individual's citation count is futile. Personal citation statistics, used in performance evaluation, can easily be processed to cull out self-citations. And at the individual level, self-citation can be entirely legitimate -- drawing attention to the author's work that is relevant to (and may have been ignored by) the target research field. If there are citation circles doing mutual back-scratching among co-authors, that too is becoming increasingly detectable and name-and-shameable, especially in the Open Access era. (The online digital online medium and the power of computation do make many forms of abuse possible, but open access also provides equally powerful means to expose and punish them: hence, once exposed as exposable, they are likely to become their own deterrents.) http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/5497.html Stevan Harnad On 2012-04-10, at 6:41 AM, Philip Davis wrote: > Emergence of a Citation Cartel > 10 April, 2012 > The Scholarly Kitchen > http://wp.me/pcvbl-6xS > > "In a 1999 essay published in Science titled, ?Scientific Communication ? A Vanity Fair?? George Franck warned us on the possibility of citation cartels ? groups of editors and journals working together for mutual benefit. To date, this behavior has not been widely documented; however, when you first view it, it is astonishing." > From gustaf.nelhans at THEORYSC.GU.SE Tue Apr 10 10:43:17 2012 From: gustaf.nelhans at THEORYSC.GU.SE (Gustaf Nelhans) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:43:17 +0000 Subject: Online Academic Abuses and the Power of Openness: Naming & Shaming In-Reply-To: <4DCA988C-D8F3-4D11-8220-6210343A1344@ecs.soton.ac.uk> Message-ID: Dear Professor Harnad, I believe that it is not always easy to identify the motives behind specific instances of self references (although in the case at hand, the number of mutual citations identified seem to speak for themselves?). The practice of self citation is (as you acknowledge) not in itself a bad thing, but the problem is how to distinguish its legitimate use from its abuse. This is equally valid on the individual level as in editor-suggested references. I would like to draw into attention an exchange about these matters from 1997, where Eugene Garfield stated: ?Recognising the reality of the Matthew effect, I believe that an editor is justified in reminding authors to cite equivalent references from the same journal, if only because readers of that journal presumably have ready access to it. To call this ?manipulation? seems excessive unless the references chosen are irrelevant or mere window dressing.? (Garfield, Eugene. 1997. Editors are justified in asking authors to cite equivalent references from same journal. BMJ 314 (7096):1765. http://www.bmj.com/content/314/7096/1765.2.short ) My question is if there could exist any method of identifying ?bad apples? that does not account for the specific context in the article in which the reference is placed. In my understanding of the problem, the proposed way of using statistical methods for identifying baselines for self citations in various fields could be one important step, but I wonder if it would suffice to make the identification process complete? Best regards, Gustaf Nelhans University of Gothenburg, University of Bor?s, Sweden 10 apr 2012 kl. 13.26 skrev Stevan Harnad: Self-citation in order to enhance a journal's impact factor is certainly an abuse, well worth controlling and exposing. Self-citation to enhance an individual's citation count is futile. Personal citation statistics, used in performance evaluation, can easily be processed to cull out self-citations. And at the individual level, self-citation can be entirely legitimate -- drawing attention to the author's work that is relevant to (and may have been ignored by) the target research field. If there are citation circles doing mutual back-scratching among co-authors, that too is becoming increasingly detectable and name-and-shameable, especially in the Open Access era. (The online digital online medium and the power of computation do make many forms of abuse possible, but open access also provides equally powerful means to expose and punish them: hence, once exposed as exposable, they are likely to become their own deterrents.) http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/5497.html Stevan Harnad On 2012-04-10, at 6:41 AM, Philip Davis wrote: Emergence of a Citation Cartel 10 April, 2012 The Scholarly Kitchen http://wp.me/pcvbl-6xS "In a 1999 essay published in Science titled, ?Scientific Communication ? A Vanity Fair?? George Franck warned us on the possibility of citation cartels ? groups of editors and journals working together for mutual benefit. To date, this behavior has not been widely documented; however, when you first view it, it is astonishing." -- Gustaf Nelhans Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science University of Gothenburg Visiting Address: Olof Wijksgatan 6 Mail Address: P. O. Box 200, SE 405 30 Gothenburg Sweden Tel: +46 (0)31 786 44 78, Cell: +46 (0)709 54 44 26 gustaf.nelhans at theorysc.gu.se http://www.flov.gu.se/om/personal/gustaf-nelhans -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From quentinburrell at MANX.NET Tue Apr 10 15:29:03 2012 From: quentinburrell at MANX.NET (Quentin Burrell) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:29:03 +0100 Subject: Open access? Message-ID: Members might be interested in these two related articles in today's Guardian newspaper. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/09/wellcome-trust-academic-spring http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/09/frustrated-blogpost-boycott-scientific-journals Quentin Burrell From notsjb at LSU.EDU Wed Apr 11 10:59:48 2012 From: notsjb at LSU.EDU (Stephen J. Bensman) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:59:48 -0400 Subject: Open access? Message-ID: Quentin, Thank you for the Guardian articles on Elsevier. I would like to add some observations of my own on this matter. Elsevier runs a good operation and publishes important materials. I work with their support people and find them informative and helpful. But Elsevier has always been non-cooperative, tries to force people to operate within its system, and monopolizes its materials to maximize its profit. This is the nature of the beast. This tendency has recently had extremely negative consequences. Since November, 2004, the field of scientometric evaluative data has been been in a state of revolution. In that month Elsevier launched Scopus, and Google launched Google Scholar, breaking the monopolistic hold Thompson Reuters ISI had on evaluative scientometric data. Since then there has been a Hobbesian battle among these three titans, because--if I am correct--production and control of such data is very profitable. Such data is particularly needed in Europe and other places, where science and universities are funded by the central governments, which need such data for allocation decisions. Thompson Reuters ISI (The Empire) has struck back by abandoning its long-standing policy of relying on mainly journals and launching its Book Citation Index. Google Scholar was really too difficult to use for evaluative purposes, but this has changed with the launching of the Publish or Perish program by Anne-Wil Harzing. This program can be retrieved for free from her Web site at http://www.harzing.com/. It is revolutionary in that it establishes effective statistical and bibliographic control over Google Scholar, making it feasible to use it for evaluative purposes. I am doing research with others to test the vaiidity of using Google Scholar for evaluative purposes, using data which Anne-Wil has graciously given me with her program. It is the most stupendous and interesting data set I have ever worked with. However, in doing this research, I came across this statement on Elsevier's SciVerse Web site at the following URL: http://www.info.sciverse.com/sciencedirect/buying/policies/crawling If one knows anything how Web seach engines operate, it is quite obvious that this is a knife aimed by Elsevier at Google's jugular, blocking it from indexing the publications of one of the leading publishers of scientific materials. Since I working with chemistry, I am going to have to check what effect this has on Google Scholar. Fortunately Anne-Wil's data allows me to determine from where Google Scholar is retrieving its data. The only question I have is whether this is an advantageous or self-destructive move on the part of Elsevier, whose publications and authors will be rated lower by Google Scholar, which can be utilized without cost by cash-strapped institutions. Respectfully, Stephen J. Bensman, Ph.D. LSU Libraries Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:29:03 +0100, Quentin Burrell wrote: >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > >Members might be interested in these two related articles in today's Guardian newspaper. > > >http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/09/wellcome-trust- academic-spring > >http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/09/frustrated-blogpost- boycott-scientific-journals > > >Quentin Burrell From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Wed Apr 11 11:22:27 2012 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:22:27 -0400 Subject: Open access? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Simple solution: All authors (Elsevier authors included) should self-archive the final, refereed, accepted draft of their articles in their institutional repositories, and Google Scholar can index them there. And their funders and institutions should mandate that they do so. That's all it will take: It's just been taking a lot of sluggish academic neurons a ludicrously long time to come to realize it... Stevan Harnad On 2012-04-11, at 10:59 AM, Stephen J. Bensman wrote: > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > Quentin, > Thank you for the Guardian articles on Elsevier. I would like to add > some observations of my own on this matter. Elsevier runs a good > operation and publishes important materials. I work with their support > people and find them informative and helpful. But Elsevier has always > been non-cooperative, tries to force people to operate within its > system, and monopolizes its materials to maximize its profit. This is > the nature of the beast. > > This tendency has recently had extremely negative consequences. > Since November, 2004, the field of scientometric evaluative data has > been been in a state of revolution. In that month Elsevier launched > Scopus, and Google launched Google Scholar, breaking the monopolistic > hold Thompson Reuters ISI had on evaluative scientometric data. Since > then there has been a Hobbesian battle among these three titans, > because--if I am correct--production and control of such data is very > profitable. Such data is particularly needed in Europe and other places, > where science and universities are funded by the central governments, > which need such data for allocation decisions. Thompson Reuters ISI > (The Empire) has struck back by abandoning its long-standing policy of > relying on mainly journals and launching its Book Citation Index. > > Google Scholar was really too difficult to use for evaluative purposes, > but this has changed with the launching of the Publish or Perish > program by Anne-Wil Harzing. This program can be retrieved for free > from her Web site at http://www.harzing.com/. It is revolutionary in > that it establishes effective statistical and bibliographic control over > Google Scholar, making it feasible to use it for evaluative purposes. I > am doing research with others to test the vaiidity of using Google > Scholar for evaluative purposes, using data which Anne-Wil has > graciously given me with her program. It is the most stupendous and > interesting data set I have ever worked with. However, in doing this > research, I came across this statement on Elsevier's SciVerse Web site > at the following URL: > > http://www.info.sciverse.com/sciencedirect/buying/policies/crawling > > If one knows anything how Web seach engines operate, it is quite > obvious that this is a knife aimed by Elsevier at Google's jugular, > blocking it from indexing the publications of one of the leading > publishers of scientific materials. Since I working with chemistry, I am > going to have to check what effect this has on Google Scholar. > Fortunately Anne-Wil's data allows me to determine from where Google > Scholar is retrieving its data. The only question I have is whether this > is an advantageous or self-destructive move on the part of Elsevier, > whose publications and authors will be rated lower by Google Scholar, > which can be utilized without cost by cash-strapped institutions. > > Respectfully, > Stephen J. Bensman, Ph.D. > LSU Libraries > Louisiana State University > Baton Rouge, LA 70803 > USA > > > > > On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:29:03 +0100, Quentin Burrell > wrote: > >> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >> >> Members might be interested in these two related articles in today's > Guardian newspaper. >> >> >> http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/09/wellcome-trust- > academic-spring >> >> http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/09/frustrated-blogpost- > boycott-scientific-journals >> >> >> Quentin Burrell > From pippa.smart at GMAIL.COM Wed Apr 11 11:54:45 2012 From: pippa.smart at GMAIL.COM (Pippa Smart) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:54:45 +0100 Subject: Open access? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Stephen Thank you for this important posting. On testing Google Scholar for some articles from the Lancet (=Elsevier), it seems to include these, so it is possible that Elsevier has granted Google permission to index them (with citation information) - unless the "cited by"only comes from non-Elsevier titles - I would be really interested to find out, so please do post your findings. (And in my experience Google Scholar has always asked for permission to index scholarly content, including that behind subscription barriers with commercial publishers.) Pippa ***** Pippa Smart Research Communication and Publishing Consultant PSP Consulting 3 Park Lane, Appleton, Oxon OX13 5JT, UK Tel: +44 7775 627688 or +44 1865 864255 email: pippa.smart at gmail.com Web: www.pspconsulting.org **** Editor of the ALPSP-Alert, Reviews editor of Learned Publishing **** On 11 April 2012 15:59, Stephen J. Bensman wrote: > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > Quentin, > Thank you for the Guardian articles on Elsevier. ?I would like to add > some observations of my own on this matter. ?Elsevier runs a good > operation and publishes important materials. ?I work with their support > people and find them informative and helpful. ?But Elsevier has always > been non-cooperative, tries to force people to operate within its > system, and monopolizes its materials to maximize its profit. ?This is > the nature of the beast. > > This tendency has recently had extremely negative consequences. > Since November, 2004, the field of scientometric evaluative data has > been been in a state of revolution. ?In that month Elsevier launched > Scopus, and Google launched Google Scholar, breaking the monopolistic > hold Thompson Reuters ISI had on evaluative scientometric data. ?Since > then there has been a Hobbesian battle among these three titans, > because--if I am correct--production and control of such data is very > profitable. ?Such data is particularly needed in Europe and other places, > where science and universities are funded by the central governments, > which need such data for allocation decisions. ?Thompson Reuters ISI > (The Empire) has struck back by abandoning its long-standing policy of > relying on mainly journals and launching its Book Citation Index. > > Google Scholar was really too difficult to use for evaluative purposes, > but this has changed with the launching of the Publish or Perish > program by Anne-Wil Harzing. ?This program can be retrieved for free > from her Web site at http://www.harzing.com/. ?It is revolutionary in > that it establishes effective statistical and bibliographic control over > Google Scholar, making it feasible to use it for evaluative purposes. ?I > am doing research with others to test the vaiidity of using Google > Scholar for evaluative purposes, using data which Anne-Wil has > graciously given me with her program. ?It is the most stupendous and > interesting data set I have ever worked with. ?However, in doing this > research, I came across this statement on Elsevier's SciVerse Web site > at the following URL: > > http://www.info.sciverse.com/sciencedirect/buying/policies/crawling > > If one knows anything how Web seach engines operate, it is quite > obvious that this is a knife aimed by Elsevier at Google's jugular, > blocking it from indexing the publications of one of the leading > publishers of scientific materials. ?Since I working with chemistry, I am > going to have to check what effect this has on Google Scholar. > Fortunately Anne-Wil's data allows me to determine from where Google > Scholar is retrieving its data. ?The only question I have is whether this > is an advantageous or self-destructive move on the part of Elsevier, > whose publications and authors will be rated lower by Google Scholar, > which can be utilized without cost by cash-strapped institutions. > > Respectfully, > Stephen J. Bensman, Ph.D. > LSU Libraries > Louisiana State University > Baton Rouge, LA 70803 > USA > > > > > On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:29:03 +0100, Quentin Burrell > wrote: > >>Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >>http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >> >>Members might be interested in these two related articles in today's > Guardian newspaper. >> >> >>http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/09/wellcome-trust- > academic-spring >> >>http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/09/frustrated-blogpost- > boycott-scientific-journals >> >> >>Quentin Burrell > From fil at INDIANA.EDU Wed Apr 11 12:42:37 2012 From: fil at INDIANA.EDU (Fil Menczer) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:42:37 -0400 Subject: Open access? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Stephen, Two quick comments: 1. Google Scholar has business agreements with all major publishers to access their bibliographic and citation data. This data is mixed with what Google obtains from crawling the Web. This is why Google Scholar is one of the few (or the only?) Google service that does not provide an API. 2. You may be interested in a tool (scholarometer.indiana.edu) that is somewhat similar to Publish or Perish, but makes data openly and freely available through an API as well as in semantic web (linked data) format. Cheers, -Fil Filippo Menczer Professor of Informatics and Computer Science Director, Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research Indiana University, Bloomington http://cnets.indiana.edu/people/filippo-menczer On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Stephen J. Bensman wrote: > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > Quentin, > Thank you for the Guardian articles on Elsevier. ?I would like to add > some observations of my own on this matter. ?Elsevier runs a good > operation and publishes important materials. ?I work with their support > people and find them informative and helpful. ?But Elsevier has always > been non-cooperative, tries to force people to operate within its > system, and monopolizes its materials to maximize its profit. ?This is > the nature of the beast. > > This tendency has recently had extremely negative consequences. > Since November, 2004, the field of scientometric evaluative data has > been been in a state of revolution. ?In that month Elsevier launched > Scopus, and Google launched Google Scholar, breaking the monopolistic > hold Thompson Reuters ISI had on evaluative scientometric data. ?Since > then there has been a Hobbesian battle among these three titans, > because--if I am correct--production and control of such data is very > profitable. ?Such data is particularly needed in Europe and other places, > where science and universities are funded by the central governments, > which need such data for allocation decisions. ?Thompson Reuters ISI > (The Empire) has struck back by abandoning its long-standing policy of > relying on mainly journals and launching its Book Citation Index. > > Google Scholar was really too difficult to use for evaluative purposes, > but this has changed with the launching of the Publish or Perish > program by Anne-Wil Harzing. ?This program can be retrieved for free > from her Web site at http://www.harzing.com/. ?It is revolutionary in > that it establishes effective statistical and bibliographic control over > Google Scholar, making it feasible to use it for evaluative purposes. ?I > am doing research with others to test the vaiidity of using Google > Scholar for evaluative purposes, using data which Anne-Wil has > graciously given me with her program. ?It is the most stupendous and > interesting data set I have ever worked with. ?However, in doing this > research, I came across this statement on Elsevier's SciVerse Web site > at the following URL: > > http://www.info.sciverse.com/sciencedirect/buying/policies/crawling > > If one knows anything how Web seach engines operate, it is quite > obvious that this is a knife aimed by Elsevier at Google's jugular, > blocking it from indexing the publications of one of the leading > publishers of scientific materials. ?Since I working with chemistry, I am > going to have to check what effect this has on Google Scholar. > Fortunately Anne-Wil's data allows me to determine from where Google > Scholar is retrieving its data. ?The only question I have is whether this > is an advantageous or self-destructive move on the part of Elsevier, > whose publications and authors will be rated lower by Google Scholar, > which can be utilized without cost by cash-strapped institutions. > > Respectfully, > Stephen J. Bensman, Ph.D. > LSU Libraries > Louisiana State University > Baton Rouge, LA 70803 > USA > > > > > On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:29:03 +0100, Quentin Burrell > wrote: > >>Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >>http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >> >>Members might be interested in these two related articles in today's > Guardian newspaper. >> >> >>http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/09/wellcome-trust- > academic-spring >> >>http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/09/frustrated-blogpost- > boycott-scientific-journals >> >> >>Quentin Burrell > From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Wed Apr 11 13:34:15 2012 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:34:15 +0200 Subject: Open access? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Stephen, Important limitations for bibliometric research are the limits for the download: 1. Google Scholar: 1000 2. Scopus: 2000 3. WoS 100,000 In version 5 of WoS one can see retrievals larger than 100,000, but not download them. PoP gives an error message when the retrieval is larger than 1,000. WoS does qualifies as the best system for evaluations which in addition to a publication also normalize against a reference set. Otherwise, the other databases are more recent in their organization. (For example, cited references in Scopus are identified and one can move to the institutional addresses.) Best, Loet -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Stephen J. Bensman Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 5:00 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Open access? Quentin, Thank you for the Guardian articles on Elsevier. I would like to add some observations of my own on this matter. Elsevier runs a good operation and publishes important materials. I work with their support people and find them informative and helpful. But Elsevier has always been non-cooperative, tries to force people to operate within its system, and monopolizes its materials to maximize its profit. This is the nature of the beast. This tendency has recently had extremely negative consequences. Since November, 2004, the field of scientometric evaluative data has been been in a state of revolution. In that month Elsevier launched Scopus, and Google launched Google Scholar, breaking the monopolistic hold Thompson Reuters ISI had on evaluative scientometric data. Since then there has been a Hobbesian battle among these three titans, because--if I am correct--production and control of such data is very profitable. Such data is particularly needed in Europe and other places, where science and universities are funded by the central governments, which need such data for allocation decisions. Thompson Reuters ISI (The Empire) has struck back by abandoning its long-standing policy of relying on mainly journals and launching its Book Citation Index. Google Scholar was really too difficult to use for evaluative purposes, but this has changed with the launching of the Publish or Perish program by Anne-Wil Harzing. This program can be retrieved for free from her Web site at http://www.harzing.com/. It is revolutionary in that it establishes effective statistical and bibliographic control over Google Scholar, making it feasible to use it for evaluative purposes. I am doing research with others to test the vaiidity of using Google Scholar for evaluative purposes, using data which Anne-Wil has graciously given me with her program. It is the most stupendous and interesting data set I have ever worked with. However, in doing this research, I came across this statement on Elsevier's SciVerse Web site at the following URL: http://www.info.sciverse.com/sciencedirect/buying/policies/crawling If one knows anything how Web seach engines operate, it is quite obvious that this is a knife aimed by Elsevier at Google's jugular, blocking it from indexing the publications of one of the leading publishers of scientific materials. Since I working with chemistry, I am going to have to check what effect this has on Google Scholar. Fortunately Anne-Wil's data allows me to determine from where Google Scholar is retrieving its data. The only question I have is whether this is an advantageous or self-destructive move on the part of Elsevier, whose publications and authors will be rated lower by Google Scholar, which can be utilized without cost by cash-strapped institutions. Respectfully, Stephen J. Bensman, Ph.D. LSU Libraries Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:29:03 +0100, Quentin Burrell wrote: >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > >Members might be interested in these two related articles in today's Guardian newspaper. > > >http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/09/wellcome-trust- academic-spring > >http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/09/frustrated-blogpost- boycott-scientific-journals > > >Quentin Burrell From notsjb at LSU.EDU Wed Apr 11 13:53:41 2012 From: notsjb at LSU.EDU (Stephen J Bensman) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:53:41 +0000 Subject: Open access? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Filippo, Three questions back to you. First, if I understand you correctly, then Google has a contract with Elsevier that allows its spiders access to the Elsevier publication database. If so, then I not only stand corrected but can rely more on the accuracy of Google Scholar data. In general, my research has shown that Google Scholar totally validates of the findings of Eugene Garfield on scientific journals in his Law of Concentration and importance of review journals. Google Scholar and WoS validate each other, which I find comforting. However, GS retrieves data in a fashion that provides insights that neither WoS or Scopus can provides because it retrieves further down the authorship structure and places these do not visit. If GS can fully access Elsevier journals, then why is that fearsome "web crawlers verboten" sign posted on the Elsevier SciVerse Web site. Second, what the hell is an "API." Third, if Google Scholar can access the Elsevier publication database, then who in the hell needs Scopus, which costs a bundle? LSU has better places to spend its limited money than a redundant database. I think that I will stay with the Harzing program. It is very sophisticated and well designed to handle Google Scholar data. You have to understand that Google only forms coherent sets at the asymptote or the first screen or two. Further than that is what I guess that the Germans would call the "Trummerzone" or "rubbish zone," where things are random and incoherent. With Web data you are always going to be truncated or censored on the left because of the probability structure of the Web. It is a fact of life and a limitation of the WWW. However, at the asymptote things are quite coherent and fairly stable. These are my basic findings so far. I hope that you found these comments of interest. Stephen J Bensman, Ph.D. LSU Libraries Lousiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 -----Original Message----- From: filmenczer at gmail.com [mailto:filmenczer at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Fil Menczer Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 11:43 AM To: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics Cc: Stephen J Bensman Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Open access? Stephen, Two quick comments: 1. Google Scholar has business agreements with all major publishers to access their bibliographic and citation data. This data is mixed with what Google obtains from crawling the Web. This is why Google Scholar is one of the few (or the only?) Google service that does not provide an API. 2. You may be interested in a tool (scholarometer.indiana.edu) that is somewhat similar to Publish or Perish, but makes data openly and freely available through an API as well as in semantic web (linked data) format. Cheers, -Fil Filippo Menczer Professor of Informatics and Computer Science Director, Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research Indiana University, Bloomington http://cnets.indiana.edu/people/filippo-menczer On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Stephen J. Bensman wrote: > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > Quentin, > Thank you for the Guardian articles on Elsevier. ?I would like to add > some observations of my own on this matter. ?Elsevier runs a good > operation and publishes important materials. ?I work with their > support people and find them informative and helpful. ?But Elsevier > has always been non-cooperative, tries to force people to operate > within its system, and monopolizes its materials to maximize its > profit. ?This is the nature of the beast. > > This tendency has recently had extremely negative consequences. > Since November, 2004, the field of scientometric evaluative data has > been been in a state of revolution. ?In that month Elsevier launched > Scopus, and Google launched Google Scholar, breaking the monopolistic > hold Thompson Reuters ISI had on evaluative scientometric data. ?Since > then there has been a Hobbesian battle among these three titans, > because--if I am correct--production and control of such data is very > profitable. ?Such data is particularly needed in Europe and other > places, where science and universities are funded by the central > governments, which need such data for allocation decisions. ?Thompson > Reuters ISI (The Empire) has struck back by abandoning its > long-standing policy of relying on mainly journals and launching its Book Citation Index. > > Google Scholar was really too difficult to use for evaluative > purposes, but this has changed with the launching of the Publish or > Perish program by Anne-Wil Harzing. ?This program can be retrieved for > free from her Web site at http://www.harzing.com/. ?It is > revolutionary in that it establishes effective statistical and > bibliographic control over Google Scholar, making it feasible to use > it for evaluative purposes. ?I am doing research with others to test > the vaiidity of using Google Scholar for evaluative purposes, using > data which Anne-Wil has graciously given me with her program. ?It is > the most stupendous and interesting data set I have ever worked with. ? > However, in doing this research, I came across this statement on > Elsevier's SciVerse Web site at the following URL: > > http://www.info.sciverse.com/sciencedirect/buying/policies/crawling > > If one knows anything how Web seach engines operate, it is quite > obvious that this is a knife aimed by Elsevier at Google's jugular, > blocking it from indexing the publications of one of the leading > publishers of scientific materials. ?Since I working with chemistry, I > am going to have to check what effect this has on Google Scholar. > Fortunately Anne-Wil's data allows me to determine from where Google > Scholar is retrieving its data. ?The only question I have is whether > this is an advantageous or self-destructive move on the part of > Elsevier, whose publications and authors will be rated lower by Google > Scholar, which can be utilized without cost by cash-strapped institutions. > > Respectfully, > Stephen J. Bensman, Ph.D. > LSU Libraries > Louisiana State University > Baton Rouge, LA 70803 > USA > > > > > On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:29:03 +0100, Quentin Burrell > wrote: > >>Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >>http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >> >>Members might be interested in these two related articles in today's > Guardian newspaper. >> >> >>http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/09/wellcome-trust- > academic-spring >> >>http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/09/frustrated-blogpost- > boycott-scientific-journals >> >> >>Quentin Burrell > From notsjb at LSU.EDU Wed Apr 11 14:06:40 2012 From: notsjb at LSU.EDU (Stephen J Bensman) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:06:40 +0000 Subject: Open access? In-Reply-To: <00be01cd1809$52441be0$f6cc53a0$@leydesdorff.net> Message-ID: Loet, I think that I may have answered some of your questions in my response to Filippo. With Anne-Wil's data I am doing an article with two mathematicians, where I describe the probability structure of the Web and locate the positions of chemistry and mathematics in this structure. When you see what this structure is, you will have a better idea on how to handle WWW data. For now I can only give you one piece of advice--it only works at the upper levels of the asymptote. Below that the sets rapidly descend into nonsense and should be truncated. It really is that simple. Yours, Stephen J Bensman, Ph.D. LSU Libraries Lousiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Loet Leydesdorff Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 12:34 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Open access? Dear Stephen, Important limitations for bibliometric research are the limits for the download: 1. Google Scholar: 1000 2. Scopus: 2000 3. WoS 100,000 In version 5 of WoS one can see retrievals larger than 100,000, but not download them. PoP gives an error message when the retrieval is larger than 1,000. WoS does qualifies as the best system for evaluations which in addition to a publication also normalize against a reference set. Otherwise, the other databases are more recent in their organization. (For example, cited references in Scopus are identified and one can move to the institutional addresses.) Best, Loet -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Stephen J. Bensman Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 5:00 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Open access? Quentin, Thank you for the Guardian articles on Elsevier. I would like to add some observations of my own on this matter. Elsevier runs a good operation and publishes important materials. I work with their support people and find them informative and helpful. But Elsevier has always been non-cooperative, tries to force people to operate within its system, and monopolizes its materials to maximize its profit. This is the nature of the beast. This tendency has recently had extremely negative consequences. Since November, 2004, the field of scientometric evaluative data has been been in a state of revolution. In that month Elsevier launched Scopus, and Google launched Google Scholar, breaking the monopolistic hold Thompson Reuters ISI had on evaluative scientometric data. Since then there has been a Hobbesian battle among these three titans, because--if I am correct--production and control of such data is very profitable. Such data is particularly needed in Europe and other places, where science and universities are funded by the central governments, which need such data for allocation decisions. Thompson Reuters ISI (The Empire) has struck back by abandoning its long-standing policy of relying on mainly journals and launching its Book Citation Index. Google Scholar was really too difficult to use for evaluative purposes, but this has changed with the launching of the Publish or Perish program by Anne-Wil Harzing. This program can be retrieved for free from her Web site at http://www.harzing.com/. It is revolutionary in that it establishes effective statistical and bibliographic control over Google Scholar, making it feasible to use it for evaluative purposes. I am doing research with others to test the vaiidity of using Google Scholar for evaluative purposes, using data which Anne-Wil has graciously given me with her program. It is the most stupendous and interesting data set I have ever worked with. However, in doing this research, I came across this statement on Elsevier's SciVerse Web site at the following URL: http://www.info.sciverse.com/sciencedirect/buying/policies/crawling If one knows anything how Web seach engines operate, it is quite obvious that this is a knife aimed by Elsevier at Google's jugular, blocking it from indexing the publications of one of the leading publishers of scientific materials. Since I working with chemistry, I am going to have to check what effect this has on Google Scholar. Fortunately Anne-Wil's data allows me to determine from where Google Scholar is retrieving its data. The only question I have is whether this is an advantageous or self-destructive move on the part of Elsevier, whose publications and authors will be rated lower by Google Scholar, which can be utilized without cost by cash-strapped institutions. Respectfully, Stephen J. Bensman, Ph.D. LSU Libraries Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:29:03 +0100, Quentin Burrell wrote: >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > >Members might be interested in these two related articles in today's Guardian newspaper. > > >http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/09/wellcome-trust- academic-spring > >http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/09/frustrated-blogpost- boycott-scientific-journals > > >Quentin Burrell From notsjb at LSU.EDU Wed Apr 11 14:09:45 2012 From: notsjb at LSU.EDU (Stephen J Bensman) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:09:45 +0000 Subject: Open access? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Pippa, I think that my exchange with Filipo may answer some of your questions. Stephen J Bensman LSU Libraries Lousiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Pippa Smart Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 10:55 AM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Open access? Stephen Thank you for this important posting. On testing Google Scholar for some articles from the Lancet (=Elsevier), it seems to include these, so it is possible that Elsevier has granted Google permission to index them (with citation information) - unless the "cited by"only comes from non-Elsevier titles - I would be really interested to find out, so please do post your findings. (And in my experience Google Scholar has always asked for permission to index scholarly content, including that behind subscription barriers with commercial publishers.) Pippa ***** Pippa Smart Research Communication and Publishing Consultant PSP Consulting 3 Park Lane, Appleton, Oxon OX13 5JT, UK Tel: +44 7775 627688 or +44 1865 864255 email: pippa.smart at gmail.com Web: www.pspconsulting.org **** Editor of the ALPSP-Alert, Reviews editor of Learned Publishing **** On 11 April 2012 15:59, Stephen J. Bensman wrote: > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > Quentin, > Thank you for the Guardian articles on Elsevier. ?I would like to add > some observations of my own on this matter. ?Elsevier runs a good > operation and publishes important materials. ?I work with their > support people and find them informative and helpful. ?But Elsevier > has always been non-cooperative, tries to force people to operate > within its system, and monopolizes its materials to maximize its > profit. ?This is the nature of the beast. > > This tendency has recently had extremely negative consequences. > Since November, 2004, the field of scientometric evaluative data has > been been in a state of revolution. ?In that month Elsevier launched > Scopus, and Google launched Google Scholar, breaking the monopolistic > hold Thompson Reuters ISI had on evaluative scientometric data. ?Since > then there has been a Hobbesian battle among these three titans, > because--if I am correct--production and control of such data is very > profitable. ?Such data is particularly needed in Europe and other > places, where science and universities are funded by the central > governments, which need such data for allocation decisions. ?Thompson > Reuters ISI (The Empire) has struck back by abandoning its > long-standing policy of relying on mainly journals and launching its Book Citation Index. > > Google Scholar was really too difficult to use for evaluative > purposes, but this has changed with the launching of the Publish or > Perish program by Anne-Wil Harzing. ?This program can be retrieved for > free from her Web site at http://www.harzing.com/. ?It is > revolutionary in that it establishes effective statistical and > bibliographic control over Google Scholar, making it feasible to use > it for evaluative purposes. ?I am doing research with others to test > the vaiidity of using Google Scholar for evaluative purposes, using > data which Anne-Wil has graciously given me with her program. ?It is > the most stupendous and interesting data set I have ever worked with. ? > However, in doing this research, I came across this statement on > Elsevier's SciVerse Web site at the following URL: > > http://www.info.sciverse.com/sciencedirect/buying/policies/crawling > > If one knows anything how Web seach engines operate, it is quite > obvious that this is a knife aimed by Elsevier at Google's jugular, > blocking it from indexing the publications of one of the leading > publishers of scientific materials. ?Since I working with chemistry, I > am going to have to check what effect this has on Google Scholar. > Fortunately Anne-Wil's data allows me to determine from where Google > Scholar is retrieving its data. ?The only question I have is whether > this is an advantageous or self-destructive move on the part of > Elsevier, whose publications and authors will be rated lower by Google > Scholar, which can be utilized without cost by cash-strapped institutions. > > Respectfully, > Stephen J. Bensman, Ph.D. > LSU Libraries > Louisiana State University > Baton Rouge, LA 70803 > USA > > > > > On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:29:03 +0100, Quentin Burrell > wrote: > >>Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >>http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >> >>Members might be interested in these two related articles in today's > Guardian newspaper. >> >> >>http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/09/wellcome-trust- > academic-spring >> >>http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/09/frustrated-blogpost- > boycott-scientific-journals >> >> >>Quentin Burrell > From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Wed Apr 11 14:20:19 2012 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:20:19 +0200 Subject: Open access? In-Reply-To: <265B14FECF4CA647B6A3DBEB4028751B01E8002F@BY2PRD0610MB364.namprd06.prod.outlook.com> Message-ID: Dear Stephen, Try "E Garfield" in PoP and you will see what I mean. If you would run "H Simon" the 1000th record would still receive 27 citations. It depends on your research question whether you wish to truncate this. In Scopus, one can run institutional searches (e.g., top-10% of Chinese papers) and then 2,000 may be an unpleasant limit. For my purposes, WoS is often optimal because we don't have these limits set by the system. Best, Loet -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Stephen J Bensman Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 8:07 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Open access? Loet, I think that I may have answered some of your questions in my response to Filippo. With Anne-Wil's data I am doing an article with two mathematicians, where I describe the probability structure of the Web and locate the positions of chemistry and mathematics in this structure. When you see what this structure is, you will have a better idea on how to handle WWW data. For now I can only give you one piece of advice--it only works at the upper levels of the asymptote. Below that the sets rapidly descend into nonsense and should be truncated. It really is that simple. Yours, Stephen J Bensman, Ph.D. LSU Libraries Lousiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Loet Leydesdorff Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 12:34 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Open access? Dear Stephen, Important limitations for bibliometric research are the limits for the download: 1. Google Scholar: 1000 2. Scopus: 2000 3. WoS 100,000 In version 5 of WoS one can see retrievals larger than 100,000, but not download them. PoP gives an error message when the retrieval is larger than 1,000. WoS does qualifies as the best system for evaluations which in addition to a publication also normalize against a reference set. Otherwise, the other databases are more recent in their organization. (For example, cited references in Scopus are identified and one can move to the institutional addresses.) Best, Loet -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Stephen J. Bensman Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 5:00 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Open access? Quentin, Thank you for the Guardian articles on Elsevier. I would like to add some observations of my own on this matter. Elsevier runs a good operation and publishes important materials. I work with their support people and find them informative and helpful. But Elsevier has always been non-cooperative, tries to force people to operate within its system, and monopolizes its materials to maximize its profit. This is the nature of the beast. This tendency has recently had extremely negative consequences. Since November, 2004, the field of scientometric evaluative data has been been in a state of revolution. In that month Elsevier launched Scopus, and Google launched Google Scholar, breaking the monopolistic hold Thompson Reuters ISI had on evaluative scientometric data. Since then there has been a Hobbesian battle among these three titans, because--if I am correct--production and control of such data is very profitable. Such data is particularly needed in Europe and other places, where science and universities are funded by the central governments, which need such data for allocation decisions. Thompson Reuters ISI (The Empire) has struck back by abandoning its long-standing policy of relying on mainly journals and launching its Book Citation Index. Google Scholar was really too difficult to use for evaluative purposes, but this has changed with the launching of the Publish or Perish program by Anne-Wil Harzing. This program can be retrieved for free from her Web site at http://www.harzing.com/. It is revolutionary in that it establishes effective statistical and bibliographic control over Google Scholar, making it feasible to use it for evaluative purposes. I am doing research with others to test the vaiidity of using Google Scholar for evaluative purposes, using data which Anne-Wil has graciously given me with her program. It is the most stupendous and interesting data set I have ever worked with. However, in doing this research, I came across this statement on Elsevier's SciVerse Web site at the following URL: http://www.info.sciverse.com/sciencedirect/buying/policies/crawling If one knows anything how Web seach engines operate, it is quite obvious that this is a knife aimed by Elsevier at Google's jugular, blocking it from indexing the publications of one of the leading publishers of scientific materials. Since I working with chemistry, I am going to have to check what effect this has on Google Scholar. Fortunately Anne-Wil's data allows me to determine from where Google Scholar is retrieving its data. The only question I have is whether this is an advantageous or self-destructive move on the part of Elsevier, whose publications and authors will be rated lower by Google Scholar, which can be utilized without cost by cash-strapped institutions. Respectfully, Stephen J. Bensman, Ph.D. LSU Libraries Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:29:03 +0100, Quentin Burrell wrote: >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > >Members might be interested in these two related articles in today's Guardian newspaper. > > >http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/09/wellcome-trust- academic-spring > >http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/09/frustrated-blogpost- boycott-scientific-journals > > >Quentin Burrell -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: garfield.xlsx Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet Size: 135792 bytes Desc: garfield.xlsx URL: From notsjb at LSU.EDU Wed Apr 11 15:00:37 2012 From: notsjb at LSU.EDU (Stephen J Bensman) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:00:37 +0000 Subject: Open access? In-Reply-To: <00ef01cd180f$c10a34a0$431e9de0$@leydesdorff.net> Message-ID: Loet, I am working with Nobelists in chemistry, and I have not found such problems. However, I have not finished the section of my research on how Google forms and ranks sets through the word spacing, the PageIndex, etc. My experience with the Nobelists is that the document sets become fairly random and incoherent below the h-index where the asymptotes begins. Personally I would not use Google Scholar without validation by WoS because of the randomness of the sets. And there is no authority control whatsoever on journals. However, Google Scholar does give some interesting insights due to the way it retrieves data. For example, Negishi totally dominates his field in terms of review articles, where the paradigms of science are set. His highest rank by GS was not anything he wrote but a two-volume collection of review articles he EDITED. Nobody can do anything in his field unless they consult those volumes, which he put together probably from his students. That book had 797 reverse links but only 7 WoS cites. WoS totally missed the importance of that work. Google found the importance of that book by scanning down the authorship structure to where the editors are and giving the snippet. I would not make any judgments on anything until I determined where the asymptote begins and the crap ends. Yours, SB -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Loet Leydesdorff Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 1:20 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Open access? Dear Stephen, Try "E Garfield" in PoP and you will see what I mean. If you would run "H Simon" the 1000th record would still receive 27 citations. It depends on your research question whether you wish to truncate this. In Scopus, one can run institutional searches (e.g., top-10% of Chinese papers) and then 2,000 may be an unpleasant limit. For my purposes, WoS is often optimal because we don't have these limits set by the system. Best, Loet -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Stephen J Bensman Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 8:07 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Open access? Loet, I think that I may have answered some of your questions in my response to Filippo. With Anne-Wil's data I am doing an article with two mathematicians, where I describe the probability structure of the Web and locate the positions of chemistry and mathematics in this structure. When you see what this structure is, you will have a better idea on how to handle WWW data. For now I can only give you one piece of advice--it only works at the upper levels of the asymptote. Below that the sets rapidly descend into nonsense and should be truncated. It really is that simple. Yours, Stephen J Bensman, Ph.D. LSU Libraries Lousiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Loet Leydesdorff Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 12:34 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Open access? Dear Stephen, Important limitations for bibliometric research are the limits for the download: 1. Google Scholar: 1000 2. Scopus: 2000 3. WoS 100,000 In version 5 of WoS one can see retrievals larger than 100,000, but not download them. PoP gives an error message when the retrieval is larger than 1,000. WoS does qualifies as the best system for evaluations which in addition to a publication also normalize against a reference set. Otherwise, the other databases are more recent in their organization. (For example, cited references in Scopus are identified and one can move to the institutional addresses.) Best, Loet -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Stephen J. Bensman Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 5:00 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Open access? Quentin, Thank you for the Guardian articles on Elsevier. I would like to add some observations of my own on this matter. Elsevier runs a good operation and publishes important materials. I work with their support people and find them informative and helpful. But Elsevier has always been non-cooperative, tries to force people to operate within its system, and monopolizes its materials to maximize its profit. This is the nature of the beast. This tendency has recently had extremely negative consequences. Since November, 2004, the field of scientometric evaluative data has been been in a state of revolution. In that month Elsevier launched Scopus, and Google launched Google Scholar, breaking the monopolistic hold Thompson Reuters ISI had on evaluative scientometric data. Since then there has been a Hobbesian battle among these three titans, because--if I am correct--production and control of such data is very profitable. Such data is particularly needed in Europe and other places, where science and universities are funded by the central governments, which need such data for allocation decisions. Thompson Reuters ISI (The Empire) has struck back by abandoning its long-standing policy of relying on mainly journals and launching its Book Citation Index. Google Scholar was really too difficult to use for evaluative purposes, but this has changed with the launching of the Publish or Perish program by Anne-Wil Harzing. This program can be retrieved for free from her Web site at http://www.harzing.com/. It is revolutionary in that it establishes effective statistical and bibliographic control over Google Scholar, making it feasible to use it for evaluative purposes. I am doing research with others to test the vaiidity of using Google Scholar for evaluative purposes, using data which Anne-Wil has graciously given me with her program. It is the most stupendous and interesting data set I have ever worked with. However, in doing this research, I came across this statement on Elsevier's SciVerse Web site at the following URL: http://www.info.sciverse.com/sciencedirect/buying/policies/crawling If one knows anything how Web seach engines operate, it is quite obvious that this is a knife aimed by Elsevier at Google's jugular, blocking it from indexing the publications of one of the leading publishers of scientific materials. Since I working with chemistry, I am going to have to check what effect this has on Google Scholar. Fortunately Anne-Wil's data allows me to determine from where Google Scholar is retrieving its data. The only question I have is whether this is an advantageous or self-destructive move on the part of Elsevier, whose publications and authors will be rated lower by Google Scholar, which can be utilized without cost by cash-strapped institutions. Respectfully, Stephen J. Bensman, Ph.D. LSU Libraries Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:29:03 +0100, Quentin Burrell wrote: >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > >Members might be interested in these two related articles in today's Guardian newspaper. > > >http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/09/wellcome-trust- academic-spring > >http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/09/frustrated-blogpost- boycott-scientific-journals > > >Quentin Burrell From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Wed Apr 11 15:22:23 2012 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:22:23 +0200 Subject: Open access? In-Reply-To: <265B14FECF4CA647B6A3DBEB4028751B01E8009D@BY2PRD0610MB364.namprd06.prod.outlook.com> Message-ID: OK. Thanks for the exchange. Best, Loet On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Stephen J Bensman wrote: > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > Loet, > I am working with Nobelists in chemistry, and I have not found such > problems. However, I have not finished the section of my research on how > Google forms and ranks sets through the word spacing, the PageIndex, etc. > My experience with the Nobelists is that the document sets become fairly > random and incoherent below the h-index where the asymptotes begins. > Personally I would not use Google Scholar without validation by WoS > because of the randomness of the sets. And there is no authority control > whatsoever on journals. However, Google Scholar does give some interesting > insights due to the way it retrieves data. For example, Negishi totally > dominates his field in terms of review articles, where the paradigms of > science are set. His highest rank by GS was not anything he wrote but a > two-volume collection of review articles he EDITED. Nobody can do anything > in his field unless they consult those volumes, which he put together > probably from his students. That book had 797 reverse links but only 7 > WoS cites. WoS totally missed the importance of that work. Google found > the importance of that book by scanning down the authorship structure to > where the editors are and giving the snippet. I would not make any > judgments on anything until I determined where the asymptote begins and the > crap ends. > > Yours, > SB > > -----Original Message----- > From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto: > SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Loet Leydesdorff > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 1:20 PM > To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU > Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Open access? > > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > Dear Stephen, > > Try "E Garfield" in PoP and you will see what I mean. If you would run "H > Simon" the 1000th record would still receive 27 citations. > > It depends on your research question whether you wish to truncate this. > In Scopus, one can run institutional searches (e.g., top-10% of Chinese > papers) and then 2,000 may be an unpleasant limit. > > For my purposes, WoS is often optimal because we don't have these limits > set by the system. > > Best, > Loet > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics > [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Stephen J Bensman > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 8:07 PM > To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU > Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Open access? > > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > Loet, > I think that I may have answered some of your questions in my response to > Filippo. With Anne-Wil's data I am doing an article with two > mathematicians, where I describe the probability structure of the Web and > locate the positions of chemistry and mathematics in this structure. When > you see what this structure is, you will have a better idea on how to > handle > WWW data. For now I can only give you one piece of advice--it only works > at > the upper levels of the asymptote. Below that the sets rapidly descend > into > nonsense and should be truncated. It really is that simple. > > Yours, > > Stephen J Bensman, Ph.D. > LSU Libraries > Lousiana State University > Baton Rouge, LA 70803 > USA > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics > [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Loet Leydesdorff > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 12:34 PM > To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU > Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Open access? > > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > Dear Stephen, > > Important limitations for bibliometric research are the limits for the > download: > 1. Google Scholar: 1000 > 2. Scopus: 2000 > 3. WoS 100,000 > > In version 5 of WoS one can see retrievals larger than 100,000, but not > download them. > PoP gives an error message when the retrieval is larger than 1,000. > > WoS does qualifies as the best system for evaluations which in addition to > a > publication also normalize against a reference set. Otherwise, the other > databases are more recent in their organization. (For example, cited > references in Scopus are identified and one can move to the institutional > addresses.) > > Best, > Loet > > -----Original Message----- > From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics > [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Stephen J. Bensman > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 5:00 PM > To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU > Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Open access? > > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > Quentin, > Thank you for the Guardian articles on Elsevier. I would like to add some > observations of my own on this matter. Elsevier runs a good operation and > publishes important materials. I work with their support people and find > them informative and helpful. But Elsevier has always been > non-cooperative, > tries to force people to operate within its system, and monopolizes its > materials to maximize its profit. This is the nature of the beast. > > This tendency has recently had extremely negative consequences. > Since November, 2004, the field of scientometric evaluative data has been > been in a state of revolution. In that month Elsevier launched Scopus, and > Google launched Google Scholar, breaking the monopolistic hold Thompson > Reuters ISI had on evaluative scientometric data. Since then there has > been > a Hobbesian battle among these three titans, because--if I am > correct--production and control of such data is very profitable. Such data > is particularly needed in Europe and other places, where science and > universities are funded by the central governments, which need such data > for > allocation decisions. Thompson Reuters ISI (The Empire) has struck back by > abandoning its long-standing policy of relying on mainly journals and > launching its Book Citation Index. > > Google Scholar was really too difficult to use for evaluative purposes, but > this has changed with the launching of the Publish or Perish program by > Anne-Wil Harzing. This program can be retrieved for free from her Web site > at http://www.harzing.com/. It is revolutionary in that it establishes > effective statistical and bibliographic control over Google Scholar, making > it feasible to use it for evaluative purposes. I am doing research with > others to test the vaiidity of using Google Scholar for evaluative > purposes, > using data which Anne-Wil has graciously given me with her program. It is > the most stupendous and interesting data set I have ever worked with. > However, in doing this research, I came across this statement on Elsevier's > SciVerse Web site at the following URL: > > http://www.info.sciverse.com/sciencedirect/buying/policies/crawling > > If one knows anything how Web seach engines operate, it is quite obvious > that this is a knife aimed by Elsevier at Google's jugular, blocking it > from > indexing the publications of one of the leading publishers of scientific > materials. Since I working with chemistry, I am going to have to check > what > effect this has on Google Scholar. > Fortunately Anne-Wil's data allows me to determine from where Google > Scholar > is retrieving its data. The only question I have is whether this is an > advantageous or self-destructive move on the part of Elsevier, whose > publications and authors will be rated lower by Google Scholar, which can > be > utilized without cost by cash-strapped institutions. > > Respectfully, > Stephen J. Bensman, Ph.D. > LSU Libraries > Louisiana State University > Baton Rouge, LA 70803 > USA > > > > > On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:29:03 +0100, Quentin Burrell > wrote: > > >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > >http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > > >Members might be interested in these two related articles in today's > Guardian newspaper. > > > > > >http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/09/wellcome-trust- > academic-spring > > > >http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/09/frustrated-blogpost- > boycott-scientific-journals > > > > > >Quentin Burrell > > -- Professor Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dwojick at HUGHES.NET Wed Apr 11 17:36:58 2012 From: dwojick at HUGHES.NET (David Wojick) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:36:58 -0400 Subject: Open access? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Open access is indeed a fascinating issue. Today the consumers of information pay for it. If the producers want to to pay to give it away that is fine. But changes will have to be made, to the tune of billions of dollars a year. The question is, is this a policy issue? David Sent from my IPad On Apr 10, 2012, at 3:29 PM, Quentin Burrell wrote: > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > Members might be interested in these two related articles in today's Guardian newspaper. > > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/09/wellcome-trust-academic-spring > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/09/frustrated-blogpost-boycott-scientific-journals > > > Quentin Burrell > From fil at INDIANA.EDU Thu Apr 12 00:27:38 2012 From: fil at INDIANA.EDU (Fil Menczer) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:27:38 -0400 Subject: Open access? In-Reply-To: <265B14FECF4CA647B6A3DBEB4028751B01E80005@BY2PRD0610MB364.namprd06.prod.outlook.com> Message-ID: On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Stephen J Bensman wrote: > Filippo, > Three questions back to you. ?First, if I understand you correctly, then Google has a contract with Elsevier that allows its spiders access to the Elsevier publication database. ?If so, then I not only stand corrected but can rely more on the accuracy of Google Scholar data. ?In general, my research has shown that Google Scholar totally validates of the findings of Eugene Garfield on scientific journals in his Law of Concentration and importance of review journals. ?Google Scholar and WoS validate each other, which I find comforting. ?However, GS retrieves data in a fashion that provides insights that neither WoS or Scopus can provides because it retrieves further down the authorship structure and places these do not visit. ?If GS can fully access Elsevier journals, then why is that fearsome "web crawlers verboten" sign posted on the Elsevier SciVerse Web site. Because they do not want just anyone to obtain their data by crawling and scraping their website. As they write, "customers or commercial entities are not allowed to "deep index" Elsevier Internet files except on a contractual basis where indexing rights have been defined". So the policy is directed at entities that, unlike Google Scholar, do not not have a contract allowing them access. > Second, what the hell is an "API." An Application Programming Interface is a way to obtain data from a web service, programmatically. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface > Third, if Google Scholar can access the Elsevier publication database, then who in the hell needs Scopus, which costs a bundle? ?LSU has better places to spend its limited money than a redundant database. Google Scholar allows end-users to query its index but does not give third parties the right to crawl/scrape/download/store/duplicate/mirror/index its data. As I mentioned, this is because of contractual obligations with publishers. This is also why they do not provide an API (which would make it easy for third parties and researchers to get their data), and why services such as Scholarometer and PoP are client based. A server would be blocked as infringing on GS terms of service. The Scholarometer service allows end-users to share the data they get from GS with the community, which is done through the Scholarometer API. On the other hand, wIth Scopus for instance, you pay to get access to the data. I hope this helps. All the best, Fil -- bit.ly/filmenczer From H.Moed at ELSEVIER.COM Thu Apr 12 06:56:59 2012 From: H.Moed at ELSEVIER.COM (Moed, Henk (ELS-AMS)) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:56:59 +0200 Subject: Open access? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Stephen, Thank you for your comment on indexing in Google Scholar. There appears to be serious misunderstanding in your communication which we would like to correct. Elsevier allows Google, Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic Search (and other search engines) to index the full text on ScienceDirect (SD) (referred to also as deep indexing). We have an agreement in place with these search engines and have even set up special processes to facilitate indexing to ensure completeness and provide structure metadata to ensure accurate search results. That said, there is clearly a potential for confusion in the policy wording that you came across and we are currently looking to clarify that to prevent further misunderstanding. We thank you for bringing it to our attention. Kind Regards Henk F. Moed Senior Scientific Advisor Elsevier Amsterdam, The Netherlands -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Stephen J. Bensman Sent: 11 April 2012 17:00 To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Open access? Quentin, Thank you for the Guardian articles on Elsevier. I would like to add some observations of my own on this matter. Elsevier runs a good operation and publishes important materials. I work with their support people and find them informative and helpful. But Elsevier has always been non-cooperative, tries to force people to operate within its system, and monopolizes its materials to maximize its profit. This is the nature of the beast. This tendency has recently had extremely negative consequences. Since November, 2004, the field of scientometric evaluative data has been been in a state of revolution. In that month Elsevier launched Scopus, and Google launched Google Scholar, breaking the monopolistic hold Thompson Reuters ISI had on evaluative scientometric data. Since then there has been a Hobbesian battle among these three titans, because--if I am correct--production and control of such data is very profitable. Such data is particularly needed in Europe and other places, where science and universities are funded by the central governments, which need such data for allocation decisions. Thompson Reuters ISI (The Empire) has struck back by abandoning its long-standing policy of relying on mainly journals and launching its Book Citation Index. Google Scholar was really too difficult to use for evaluative purposes, but this has changed with the launching of the Publish or Perish program by Anne-Wil Harzing. This program can be retrieved for free from her Web site at http://www.harzing.com/. It is revolutionary in that it establishes effective statistical and bibliographic control over Google Scholar, making it feasible to use it for evaluative purposes. I am doing research with others to test the vaiidity of using Google Scholar for evaluative purposes, using data which Anne-Wil has graciously given me with her program. It is the most stupendous and interesting data set I have ever worked with. However, in doing this research, I came across this statement on Elsevier's SciVerse Web site at the following URL: http://www.info.sciverse.com/sciencedirect/buying/policies/crawling If one knows anything how Web seach engines operate, it is quite obvious that this is a knife aimed by Elsevier at Google's jugular, blocking it from indexing the publications of one of the leading publishers of scientific materials. Since I working with chemistry, I am going to have to check what effect this has on Google Scholar. Fortunately Anne-Wil's data allows me to determine from where Google Scholar is retrieving its data. The only question I have is whether this is an advantageous or self-destructive move on the part of Elsevier, whose publications and authors will be rated lower by Google Scholar, which can be utilized without cost by cash-strapped institutions. Respectfully, Stephen J. Bensman, Ph.D. LSU Libraries Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:29:03 +0100, Quentin Burrell wrote: >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > >Members might be interested in these two related articles in today's Guardian newspaper. > > >http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/09/wellcome-trust- academic-spring > >http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/09/frustrated-blogpost- boycott-scientific-journals > > >Quentin Burrell From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Thu Apr 12 07:18:43 2012 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:18:43 +0200 Subject: Open access? In-Reply-To: <249BC378041022409A9F115E6FAA499AB00FC8@ELSAMSEXCP03VA.science.regn.net> Message-ID: Dear Henk, Perhaps, it would be feasible to make a professional API available that would allow this community to search within Scopus beyond the 2,000 limitation? (Given the limitation to 100,000 at WoS, one could think in that order as an alternative limitation.) I understand that this would be an investment. It would make Scopus a very attractive alternative to using WoS because the organization of the data in Scopus is more advanced. I understand that there are also security and IP issues involved. It is just a suggestion (/wish/articulation). From a previous communication, I understood that there is also a bibliometric version of Scopus. Perhaps, such an API could operate on this version. Best, Loet -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Moed, Henk (ELS-AMS) Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 12:57 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Open access? Dear Stephen, Thank you for your comment on indexing in Google Scholar. There appears to be serious misunderstanding in your communication which we would like to correct. Elsevier allows Google, Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic Search (and other search engines) to index the full text on ScienceDirect (SD) (referred to also as deep indexing). We have an agreement in place with these search engines and have even set up special processes to facilitate indexing to ensure completeness and provide structure metadata to ensure accurate search results. That said, there is clearly a potential for confusion in the policy wording that you came across and we are currently looking to clarify that to prevent further misunderstanding. We thank you for bringing it to our attention. Kind Regards Henk F. Moed Senior Scientific Advisor Elsevier Amsterdam, The Netherlands -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Stephen J. Bensman Sent: 11 April 2012 17:00 To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Open access? Quentin, Thank you for the Guardian articles on Elsevier. I would like to add some observations of my own on this matter. Elsevier runs a good operation and publishes important materials. I work with their support people and find them informative and helpful. But Elsevier has always been non-cooperative, tries to force people to operate within its system, and monopolizes its materials to maximize its profit. This is the nature of the beast. This tendency has recently had extremely negative consequences. Since November, 2004, the field of scientometric evaluative data has been been in a state of revolution. In that month Elsevier launched Scopus, and Google launched Google Scholar, breaking the monopolistic hold Thompson Reuters ISI had on evaluative scientometric data. Since then there has been a Hobbesian battle among these three titans, because--if I am correct--production and control of such data is very profitable. Such data is particularly needed in Europe and other places, where science and universities are funded by the central governments, which need such data for allocation decisions. Thompson Reuters ISI (The Empire) has struck back by abandoning its long-standing policy of relying on mainly journals and launching its Book Citation Index. Google Scholar was really too difficult to use for evaluative purposes, but this has changed with the launching of the Publish or Perish program by Anne-Wil Harzing. This program can be retrieved for free from her Web site at http://www.harzing.com/. It is revolutionary in that it establishes effective statistical and bibliographic control over Google Scholar, making it feasible to use it for evaluative purposes. I am doing research with others to test the vaiidity of using Google Scholar for evaluative purposes, using data which Anne-Wil has graciously given me with her program. It is the most stupendous and interesting data set I have ever worked with. However, in doing this research, I came across this statement on Elsevier's SciVerse Web site at the following URL: http://www.info.sciverse.com/sciencedirect/buying/policies/crawling If one knows anything how Web seach engines operate, it is quite obvious that this is a knife aimed by Elsevier at Google's jugular, blocking it from indexing the publications of one of the leading publishers of scientific materials. Since I working with chemistry, I am going to have to check what effect this has on Google Scholar. Fortunately Anne-Wil's data allows me to determine from where Google Scholar is retrieving its data. The only question I have is whether this is an advantageous or self-destructive move on the part of Elsevier, whose publications and authors will be rated lower by Google Scholar, which can be utilized without cost by cash-strapped institutions. Respectfully, Stephen J. Bensman, Ph.D. LSU Libraries Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:29:03 +0100, Quentin Burrell wrote: >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > >Members might be interested in these two related articles in today's Guardian newspaper. > > >http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/09/wellcome-trust- academic-spring > >http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/09/frustrated-blogpost- boycott-scientific-journals > > >Quentin Burrell From notsjb at LSU.EDU Thu Apr 12 11:25:14 2012 From: notsjb at LSU.EDU (Stephen J Bensman) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:25:14 +0000 Subject: Open access? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Fil, Thank you very much. You have clarified many things for me. I will double check my data to make sure that Google Scholar is pulling from the Elsevier database. If GS had been blocked from Elsevier, I would have considered it to have been crippled, because Elsevier publishes so many important journals. What you have stated strengthens the case for using Google Scholar. It also explains my findings. I am analyzing links to the publications of chemistry Nobelists, and my results with Google Scholar totally validate the findings of Eugene Garfield both in respect to his Law of Concentration and the importance of review journals in defining the paradigms of science. I am basing my analysis on a probability model that the number of links are determined by their probability and that this probability is determined by the importance of the thing being linked. Google Scholar is interesting because it allows an immediate connection from the cited to the citing, and you can actually see what is going on. It offers interesting insights on authorship structure, etc., broadening the perspective. In my opinion, all analyses of scientific importance are going to have to utilize GS if only to validate and broaden the perspective. Respectfully, Stephen J Bensman, Ph.D. LSU Libraries Lousiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 -----Original Message----- From: filmenczer at gmail.com [mailto:filmenczer at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Fil Menczer Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 11:28 PM To: Stephen J Bensman Cc: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Open access? On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Stephen J Bensman wrote: > Filippo, > Three questions back to you. ?First, if I understand you correctly, then Google has a contract with Elsevier that allows its spiders access to the Elsevier publication database. ?If so, then I not only stand corrected but can rely more on the accuracy of Google Scholar data. ?In general, my research has shown that Google Scholar totally validates of the findings of Eugene Garfield on scientific journals in his Law of Concentration and importance of review journals. ?Google Scholar and WoS validate each other, which I find comforting. ?However, GS retrieves data in a fashion that provides insights that neither WoS or Scopus can provides because it retrieves further down the authorship structure and places these do not visit. ?If GS can fully access Elsevier journals, then why is that fearsome "web crawlers verboten" sign posted on the Elsevier SciVerse Web site. Because they do not want just anyone to obtain their data by crawling and scraping their website. As they write, "customers or commercial entities are not allowed to "deep index" Elsevier Internet files except on a contractual basis where indexing rights have been defined". So the policy is directed at entities that, unlike Google Scholar, do not not have a contract allowing them access. > Second, what the hell is an "API." An Application Programming Interface is a way to obtain data from a web service, programmatically. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface > Third, if Google Scholar can access the Elsevier publication database, then who in the hell needs Scopus, which costs a bundle? ?LSU has better places to spend its limited money than a redundant database. Google Scholar allows end-users to query its index but does not give third parties the right to crawl/scrape/download/store/duplicate/mirror/index its data. As I mentioned, this is because of contractual obligations with publishers. This is also why they do not provide an API (which would make it easy for third parties and researchers to get their data), and why services such as Scholarometer and PoP are client based. A server would be blocked as infringing on GS terms of service. The Scholarometer service allows end-users to share the data they get from GS with the community, which is done through the Scholarometer API. On the other hand, wIth Scopus for instance, you pay to get access to the data. I hope this helps. All the best, Fil -- bit.ly/filmenczer From notsjb at LSU.EDU Thu Apr 12 11:38:42 2012 From: notsjb at LSU.EDU (Stephen J Bensman) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:38:42 +0000 Subject: Open access? In-Reply-To: <249BC378041022409A9F115E6FAA499AB00FC8@ELSAMSEXCP03VA.science.regn.net> Message-ID: Henk, Thank you very much for the clarification. I was somewhat stunned to find that thing. I have already explained in my response to Fil the importance of Google Scholar having access to the Elsevier database. Without such access it could not deliver valid results, and I was just wasting my time testing its validity. However, my results are validating the use of GS for evaluative purposes, if only for the different and broader perspective that it offers on matters. Respectfully, Stephen J Bensman, Ph.D. LSU Libraries Lousiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Moed, Henk (ELS-AMS) Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 5:57 AM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Open access? Dear Stephen, Thank you for your comment on indexing in Google Scholar. There appears to be serious misunderstanding in your communication which we would like to correct. Elsevier allows Google, Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic Search (and other search engines) to index the full text on ScienceDirect (SD) (referred to also as deep indexing). We have an agreement in place with these search engines and have even set up special processes to facilitate indexing to ensure completeness and provide structure metadata to ensure accurate search results. That said, there is clearly a potential for confusion in the policy wording that you came across and we are currently looking to clarify that to prevent further misunderstanding. We thank you for bringing it to our attention. Kind Regards Henk F. Moed Senior Scientific Advisor Elsevier Amsterdam, The Netherlands -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Stephen J. Bensman Sent: 11 April 2012 17:00 To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Open access? Quentin, Thank you for the Guardian articles on Elsevier. I would like to add some observations of my own on this matter. Elsevier runs a good operation and publishes important materials. I work with their support people and find them informative and helpful. But Elsevier has always been non-cooperative, tries to force people to operate within its system, and monopolizes its materials to maximize its profit. This is the nature of the beast. This tendency has recently had extremely negative consequences. Since November, 2004, the field of scientometric evaluative data has been been in a state of revolution. In that month Elsevier launched Scopus, and Google launched Google Scholar, breaking the monopolistic hold Thompson Reuters ISI had on evaluative scientometric data. Since then there has been a Hobbesian battle among these three titans, because--if I am correct--production and control of such data is very profitable. Such data is particularly needed in Europe and other places, where science and universities are funded by the central governments, which need such data for allocation decisions. Thompson Reuters ISI (The Empire) has struck back by abandoning its long-standing policy of relying on mainly journals and launching its Book Citation Index. Google Scholar was really too difficult to use for evaluative purposes, but this has changed with the launching of the Publish or Perish program by Anne-Wil Harzing. This program can be retrieved for free from her Web site at http://www.harzing.com/. It is revolutionary in that it establishes effective statistical and bibliographic control over Google Scholar, making it feasible to use it for evaluative purposes. I am doing research with others to test the vaiidity of using Google Scholar for evaluative purposes, using data which Anne-Wil has graciously given me with her program. It is the most stupendous and interesting data set I have ever worked with. However, in doing this research, I came across this statement on Elsevier's SciVerse Web site at the following URL: http://www.info.sciverse.com/sciencedirect/buying/policies/crawling If one knows anything how Web seach engines operate, it is quite obvious that this is a knife aimed by Elsevier at Google's jugular, blocking it from indexing the publications of one of the leading publishers of scientific materials. Since I working with chemistry, I am going to have to check what effect this has on Google Scholar. Fortunately Anne-Wil's data allows me to determine from where Google Scholar is retrieving its data. The only question I have is whether this is an advantageous or self-destructive move on the part of Elsevier, whose publications and authors will be rated lower by Google Scholar, which can be utilized without cost by cash-strapped institutions. Respectfully, Stephen J. Bensman, Ph.D. LSU Libraries Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:29:03 +0100, Quentin Burrell wrote: >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > >Members might be interested in these two related articles in today's Guardian newspaper. > > >http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/09/wellcome-trust- academic-spring > >http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/09/frustrated-blogpost- boycott-scientific-journals > > >Quentin Burrell From acabezasclavijo at GMAIL.COM Fri Apr 13 07:23:22 2012 From: acabezasclavijo at GMAIL.COM (Alvaro Cabezas) Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:23:22 +0200 Subject: Google Scholar Metrics Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Following the discussion about the reliability of Google Scholar as a source for scientific evaluation, we would like to raise your attention about Google's new product: Google Scholar Metrics. It was launched just some days ago and it aims at ranking journals according to their h-index. http://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=top_venues Our research group has performed a preliminary analysis of this product, pointing out their weaknesses but also warning about the potential utility of Scholar Metrics for assesing journals, and therefore, positioning itself as a serious competitor for the well-known bibliometric databases. Cabezas-Clavijo, ?., & Delgado-L?pez-C?zar, E. Scholar Metrics: the impact of journals according to Google, just an amusement or a valid scientific tool?, 2012. [Preprint]. http://hdl.handle.net/10760/16836 Cheers, -- ?lvaro Cabezas ------------------------------------- EC3. Grupo Inv. Evaluaci?n de la Ciencia y de la Comunicaci?n Cient?fica. 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In respect to the Hobbesian struggle to which I initially referred, I guess the French would say that maintenant c'est la guerre a outrance. Respectfully, Stephen J Bensman, Ph.D. LSU Libraries Lousiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Alvaro Cabezas Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 6:23 AM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Google Scholar Metrics Following the discussion about the reliability of Google Scholar as a source for scientific evaluation, we would like to raise your attention about Google's new product: Google Scholar Metrics. It was launched just some days ago and it aims at ranking journals according to their h-index. http://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=top_venues Our research group has performed a preliminary analysis of this product, pointing out their weaknesses but also warning about the potential utility of Scholar Metrics for assesing journals, and therefore, positioning itself as a serious competitor for the well-known bibliometric databases. Cabezas-Clavijo, ?., & Delgado-L?pez-C?zar, E. Scholar Metrics: the impact of journals according to Google, just an amusement or a valid scientific tool?, 2012. [Preprint]. http://hdl.handle.net/10760/16836 Cheers, -- ?lvaro Cabezas ------------------------------------- EC3. Grupo Inv. Evaluaci?n de la Ciencia y de la Comunicaci?n Cient?fica. 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APR 2012. p.1-14 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): SCIENTOMETRIC* item_title KEYWORDS: CIS; Science; Bibliometric analysis; Citation index; Patents; R&D ABSTRACT: The article attempts to assess the results of the independent development of the CIS countries in the field of science over the period 1990-2009. The analysis of the numerous scientometric indicators reveals the decrease of the number of expert researchers and the significant decrease in the scientific and technical output. The article also provides the information about the dynamics of a set of indicators which allows to draw conclusions about the effectiveness of the research activity in the CIS countries. AUTHOR ADDRESS: R Karamourzov, Apt 55,Davydkovskaya Str 3, Moscow 121352, Russia -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Time series of scientific growth in Spanish doctoral theses (1848-2009) (Article, English) AUTHOR: Fernandez-Cano, A; Torralbo, M; Vallejo, M SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 91 (1). APR 2012. p.15-36 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth KEYWORDS: Time series; Scientific growth; Doctoral theses; Exponential smoothing; ARIMA models; Spain; Modulatory variable KEYWORDS+: RESEARCH-AND-DEVELOPMENT; INDICATORS; MODEL; UNIVERSITIES; PRODUCTIVITY; PERFORMANCE; KNOWLEDGE; PATTERNS; GRADUATE; PARADOX ABSTRACT: This article analyses scientific growth time series using data for Spanish doctoral theses from 1848 to 2009, retrieved from national databases and an in-depth archive search. Data are classified into subseries by historical periods. The analytical techniques employed range from visual analysis of deterministic graphs to curve-fitting with exponential smoothing and AutoRegressive Integrated Moving Average models. Forecasts are made using the best model. The main finding is that Spanish output of doctoral theses appears to fit a quasi-logistic growth model in line with Price's predictions. An additional control variable termed year-on-year General Welfare is shown to modulate scientific growth, especially in the historical period from 1899 to 1939. AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Fernandez-Cano, Univ Granada, Dept Res Methods Educ, Campus Cartuja, E-18071 Granada, Spain -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Fairly sharing the credit of multi-authored papers and its application in the modification of h-index and g-index (Article, English) AUTHOR: Liu, XZ; Fang, H SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 91 (1). APR 2012. p.37-49 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005 KEYWORDS: Citations; Ranking; Co-authorship; Contribution evaluation; h-Index; g-Index KEYWORDS+: PUBLICATIONS; CONSEQUENCES; SCIENTISTS; IMPACT; OUTPUT ABSTRACT: Except the alphabetic ordering authorship papers, the citations of multi-authored papers are allocated to the authors based on their contributions to the paper. For papers without clarification of contribution proportion, a function of author number and rank is presented to rightly determine the credit allocated proportion and allocated citations of each author. Our citation allocation scheme is between the equally fractional counting and the one using the inverse of author rank. It has a parameter to adjust the credit distribution among the different authors. The allocated citations can either be used alone to indicate one's performance in a paper, or can be applied in the modification of h-index and g-index to represent the achievement of a scientist on the whole. The modified h-index and g-index of an author makes use of more papers in which he or she played important roles. Our method is suitable for the papers with wide range of author numbers. AUTHOR ADDRESS: H Fang, Nanjing Univ, Sch Elect Sci & Engn, State Key Lab Analyt Chem Life Sci, Nanjing 210093, Jiangsu, Peoples R China -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Trends and performance of oxidative stress research from 1991 to 2010 (Article, English) AUTHOR: Wen, H; Huang, Y SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 91 (1). APR 2012. p.51-63 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): ARUNACHALAM S rauth; GARFIELD E rauth; GARFIELD E CURR CONTENTS 32:5 1990 KEYWORDS: Oxidative stress; Bibliometric; SCI; Environmental sciences; Disease KEYWORDS+: SCIENCE-CITATION-INDEX; BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS; DISEASE; INFLAMMATION; LIFE ABSTRACT: A bibliometric analysis was performed in this work to determine research trends of oxidative stress publications published between 1991 and 2010 in journals of all the subject categories of the Science citation index. Publication trends were analyzed by the retrieved results in publication type and language, characteristics of articles outputs, country, subject categories and journals, and the frequency of title-words and keywords used. Over the years, there was a significant growth in article outputs, with more countries participating and collaborating. The seven major industrialized countries (G7) published the majority of the world articles while the USA contributed about one- third of the total. Chinese and Indian outputs grew much faster than those of other countries in the past 5 years. Oxidative stress research in food and environmental related fields gradually became the mainstream of the research. An analysis of the title-words, author keywords and keywords plus showed that antioxidants in human or rat cells were the hot topic in the field. In addition, "reaction oxygen species", "apoptosis", and "nitric-oxide" were major topics of oxidative stress research recently. More articles dealt with diseases that had a strong relationship with oxidative stress, such as inflammation, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, and atherosclerosis. AUTHOR ADDRESS: Y Huang, Peking Univ, State Key Joint Lab Environm Simulat & Pollut Con, Coll Environm Sci & Engn, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Editorial process in scientific journals: analysis and modeling (Article, English) AUTHOR: Mryglod, O; Holovatch, Y; Mryglod, I SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 91 (1). APR 2012. p.101-112 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT KEYWORDS: Human dynamics; Time-series modeling; Editorial process analysis KEYWORDS+: HUMAN DYNAMICS ABSTRACT: The editorial handling of articles in scientific journals as a human activity process is considered. Using recently proposed approaches of human dynamics theory we examine the probability distributions of random variables reflecting the temporal characteristics of studied processes. The first part of this article contains our results of analysis of the real data about articles published in scientific journals. The second part is devoted to modeling of time-series connected with editorial work. The purpose of our study is to present new object that can be studied in terms of human dynamics theory and to corroborate the scientometrical application of the results obtained. AUTHOR ADDRESS: O Mryglod, Natl Acad Sci Ukraine, Inst Condensed Matter Phys, 1 Svientsitskii Str, UA-79011 Lvov, Ukraine -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Top journals selectivity index and "me-too" drugs (Article, English) AUTHOR: Kissin, I; Bradley, EL Jr SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 91 (1). APR 2012. p.131-142 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT KEYWORDS: Bibliometrics; Biomedical journals; Follow-on drugs; First-in-class drug; Pharmaceutical market; Food and Drug Administration KEYWORDS+: RESEARCH-AND-DEVELOPMENT; PRODUCTIVITY; DISCOVERY ABSTRACT: To assess the probability of success of an analgesic drug we have proposed a bibliometric indicator, the Top Journals Selectivity Index (TJSI) (Kissin 2011). It represents the ratio (as %) between the number of all types of articles on a particular drug in the top 20 biomedical journals and the number of articles on that drug in all (> 5,000) journals covered by Medline over the first 5 years after that drug's introduction. The aim of this study was to demonstrate that TJSI may be used for the assessment of follow-on drugs (those that follow a first-in-class drug). The study tested two hypotheses. First, TJSI can detect the difference (in the same class) between drugs with distinguishing features and drugs without them ("me-too" drugs) better than other publication indices, i.e., the number of all types of articles on a drug in journals presented by Medline (AJI), and the number of articles covering only randomized controlled trials (RCT). Second, there is a relationship between the TJSI of "me-too" drugs and the order (sequential number) in which those drugs reached the market. The study was based on drug classes approved for marketing between the 1960's and the early 2000's. The eight classes that had 4 or more drugs were included for analysis. Five specific indicators were used to determine drug's distinguishing pharmacological properties. It was found that TJSI can detect the difference between follow-on drugs with distinguishing features and those without them better than the other publication indices (AJI or RCT). Our analysis also demonstrated a negative correlation (r = - 0.372, p = 0.014) between the TJSI of drugs without distinguishing features ("me-too" drugs) and the order of the drug's market entry. This implies that TJSI could be useful for the assessment of situations with multiple market entrants in the same class when a new addition has a questionable value. AUTHOR ADDRESS: I Kissin, Harvard Univ, Sch Med, Brigham & Womens Hosp, Dept Anesthesiol Perioperat & Pain Med,MRB, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A decade of database conferences: a look inside the program committees (Article, English) AUTHOR: Sakr, S; Alomari, M SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 91 (1). APR 2012. p.173-184 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005 KEYWORDS: Database technology; Program committees KEYWORDS+: INDEX ABSTRACT: Database management technology has played a vital role in facilitating key advancements of the information technology field. Database researchers-and computer scientists in general-consider prestigious conferences as their favorite and effective tools for presenting their original research study and for getting good publicity. With the main aim of retaining the high quality and the prestige of these conference, program committee members plays the major role of evaluating the submitted articles and deciding which submissions are to be included in the conference programs. In this article, we study the program committees of four top-tier and prestigious database conferences (SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, EDBT) over a period of 10 years (2001-2010). We report about the growth in the number of program committee members in comparison to the size of the research community in the last decade. We also analyze the rate of change in the membership of the committees of the different editions of these conferences. Finally, we report about the major contributing scholars in the committees of these conferences as a mean of acknowledging their impact in the community. AUTHOR ADDRESS: S Sakr, Natl ICT Australia, Sydney, NSW, Australia -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A co-word analysis of digital library field in China (Article, English) AUTHOR: Liu, GY; Hu, JM; Wang, HL SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 91 (1). APR 2012. p.203-217 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): SMALL H SCI STUD 4:17 1974; SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973 KEYWORDS: Digital library in China; Co-word analysis; Research advances KEYWORDS+: SCIENTOMETRICS ABSTRACT: The aim of this study is to map the intellectual structure of digital library (DL) field in China during the period of 2002-2011. Co-word analysis was employed to reveal the patterns of DL field in China through measuring the association strength of keywords in relevant journals. Data was collected from Chinese Journal Full-Text Database during the period of 2002-2011. And then, the co-occurrence matrix of keywords was analyzed by the methods of multivariate statistical analysis and social network analysis. The results mainly include five parts: seven clusters of keywords, a two-dimensional map, the density and centrality of clusters, a strategic diagram, and a relation network. The results show that there are some hot research topics and marginal topics in DL field in China, but the research topics are relatively decentralized compared with the international studies. AUTHOR ADDRESS: JM Hu, Wuhan Univ, Ctr Studies Informat Resources, Wuhan 430072, Peoples R China -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: How sustainable a scientifically developing country could be in its specialties? The case of Iran's publications in SCI in the 21st century compared to 1980s (Article, English) AUTHOR: Sotudeh, H SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 91 (1). APR 2012. p.231-243 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth KEYWORDS: Scientific production; Iran; Annual growth; Specialty stability; Specialty diversity KEYWORDS+: SCIENCE-CITATION-INDEX; IMPACT; SUBFIELDS; JOURNALS ABSTRACT: Investigating Iran's scientific proficiency reflected in its scholarly outputs indexed in SCI during the 21st century and 1980s, the present study tries to propose the use of three features of science production including Specialty Diversity, Specialty Stability, and the growth of publications in the specialties, as the primary criteria in evaluating the contribution sustainability of a science system at macro level. They can be seen as the prerequisites every science system should realize to ensure a sustainable movement towards scientific development. The results reveal that Iran's contributions had been not only limited in number in 1980s, but also exposed to serious subject fluctuations, so that a scarce number of the fields were found to be stable regarding Iranian contributions. Moreover, none of them had experienced a significant, exponential positive growth during the decade. The situation is incomparable to the 21st century where Iran's contributions were as diversified as almost all of the SCI subject categories. It also reached long- or short-term stability in a majority of the categories. None of the previously stabilized specialties collapsed in the second 6-year sub- period. On the other hand, previously fluctuating fields mostly stabilized later. Moreover, a majority of the fields experienced significant exponential growths. Overall, according to the results, a developing science system might be characterized by its Specialty Diversity and Stability, as well as an annual growth in its publications in the specialties. Though meeting the criteria does not necessarily guarantee the achievement of quality standards, it may enhance the visibility of the contributions and thereby their recognition. AUTHOR ADDRESS: H Sotudeh, Shiraz Univ, Dept Lib & Informat Sci, Fac Educ & Psychol, Eram Campus, Shiraz, Iran -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: An impact-citations-exergy (iCX) trajectory analysis of leading research institutions in India (Article, English) AUTHOR: Nishy, P; Panwar, Y; Prasad, S; Mandal, GK; Prathap, G SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 91 (1). APR 2012. p.245-251 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS: Bibliometrics; Papers; Citations; Impact; X = iC; Exergy; Quasity KEYWORDS+: INDEX ABSTRACT: A thermodynamic analogy allows bibliometric research assessment of information production processes to be based on a scalar indicator which is an energy-like term called exergy. Derived from standard indicators like impact, citations and number of papers, the exergy indicator X is a multiplicative product of quality and quantity of a scientist's or group's performance using available bibliometric information. Thus, given the bibliometric sequences of leading research agencies and institutions, research performance can be displayed as trajectories on a two-dimensional map as time progresses. In this paper, we track the performance of several of the leading players contributing to academic scientific research in India. AUTHOR ADDRESS: G Prathap, CSIR Natl Inst Sci Commun & Informat Resources, New Delhi 110012, India -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The quality-quantity-quasity and energy-exergy-entropy exegesis of expected value calculation of citation performance (Article, English) AUTHOR: Prathap, G SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 91 (1). APR 2012. p.269-275 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS: Bibliometrics; Normalization; Performance Indicators; Crown Indicator; Quality; Quantity; Quasity; Energy; Exergy; Entropy; Expected Value; Citation Performance KEYWORDS+: CROWN INDICATOR; IMPACT ABSTRACT: Quantitative assessment of information production processes requires the definition of a robust citation performance indicator. This is particularly so where there is a need to introduce a normalization mechanism for correcting for quality across field and disciplines. In this paper, we offer insights from the "thermodynamic" approach in terms of quality, quantity and quasity and energy, exergy and entropy to show how the recently introduced expected value measure can be rationalized and improved. The normalized energy indicator E is proposed as a suitable single number scalar indicator of a scientist's or group's performance (i.e. as a multiplicative product of quality and quantity), when complete bibliometric information is available. AUTHOR ADDRESS: G Prathap, CSIR Natl Inst Sci Commun & Informat Resources, New Delhi 110012, India -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Research productivity in education and psychology in the Philippines and comparison with ASEAN countries (Article, English) AUTHOR: Vinluan, LR SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 91 (1). APR 2012. p.277-294 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): ARUNACHALAM S rauth KEYWORDS: Philippines; Research productivity; Education; Psychology; ASEAN KEYWORDS+: BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS; SOCIAL-SCIENCES; BEHAVIORAL- SCIENCES; RESEARCH QUALITY; UNIVERSITIES; JOURNALS; ACHIEVEMENT; PERIPHERY; RANKINGS; GENDER ABSTRACT: An objective assessment using bibliometric indicators of research productivity in education and psychology in the Philippines was conducted. Results were then benchmarked against its Southeast Asian neighbors' research productivity in the same fields. Results showed that the Philippines ranked low in research productivity compared to Singapore, Thailand, and Malaysia, particularly starting in the 1990s. Only a few researchers, mainly coming from a small number of higher education institutions, were publishing papers on a regular basis in a small range of journals. Those journals had either no or low impact factors and most papers had low citation counts. It also collaborated less with domestic and international institutions. This low research productivity was explained in terms of economic indicators, the local orientation of many social science research studies, funding, individual characteristics of researchers, and the epistemic culture of knowledge production in the country. However, the reforms initiated by the government, particularly in the higher education sector, would hopefully lead to a better research landscape and, consequently, improved research productivity in the near future. AUTHOR ADDRESS: LR Vinluan, Univ Philippines Diliman, Div Educ Leadership & Profess Serv, Coll Educ, Quezon City, Philippines -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A Hirsch-type index of co-author partnership ability (Article, English) AUTHOR: Schubert, A SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 91 (1). APR 2012. p.303-308 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005 KEYWORDS: Hirsch-type indicators; Co-author networks; h-Index; Partnership ability index KEYWORDS+: NETWORKS ABSTRACT: The partnership ability index (phi) combines the number of co-authors and the times each of them acted as co-authors with a given author exactly the same way as Hirsch's h-index combines the number of publications and their citation rate. The index phi was tested on the sample of the Hevesy medal awardees. It was found that phi is consistent with Glanzel's model of h-index, and that higher phi values-at least until a certain limit-may be accompanied with higher citation visibility (h-index). Some further possibilities of application both within and outside the area of scientometrics are suggested. AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Schubert, Hungarian Acad Sci, Inst Res Policy Studies, Budapest, Hungary -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Event report: esss 2011-Scientometric education in Indian summer at the University of Vienna (Article, English) AUTHOR: Gumpenberger, C; Gorraiz, J; Glanzel, W; Debackere, K; Hornbostel, S; Hinze, S SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 91 (1). APR 2012. p.311-313 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): SCIENTOMETRIC* item_title AUTHOR ADDRESS: W Glanzel, Katholieke Univ Leuven, Louvain, Belgium -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Twenty years of research on transition in agricultural economics journals (Article, English) AUTHOR: von Cramon-Taubadel, S; Nivyevskyi, O SOURCE: EUROPEAN REVIEW OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS 39 (2). APR 2012. p.335-359 OXFORD UNIV PRESS, OXFORD SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNALS item_title KEYWORDS: research; publication; co-authorship; network analysis; A11; A14; P20; Q10 KEYWORDS+: COLLABORATION ABSTRACT: We analyse topics and authorship networks in articles on agricultural transition that were published in 16 subject-related peer- review journals between 1989 and 2008. Increasingly, articles on transition are written by authors from the European Union-15 in collaboration with authors from Central and Eastern Europe countries. The importance of authors from North America has fallen since the mid-1990s, and authors from Former Soviet Union countries have not made a large contribution to the literature. A group of roughly 10 authors plays a central role in the literature on agricultural transition, which has become increasingly method-driven and less descriptive or issue-driven over time. The co-authorship network for transition articles is characterised by a predominance of individuals or small groups of authors who have published only one or two papers. AUTHOR ADDRESS: S von Cramon-Taubadel, Univ Gottingen, Dept Agr Econ & Rural Dev, Pl Gottinger Sieben 5, D-37073 Gottingen, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The Games Go On: British Medical Journals Play Politics, Again (Editorial Material, English) SOURCE: ISRAEL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL 14 (2). FEB 2012. p.82-83 ISRAEL MEDICAL ASSOC JOURNAL, RAMAT GAN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Public health research outputs from efficacy to dissemination: a bibliometric analysis (Article, English) AUTHOR: Milat, AJ; Bauman, AE; Redman, S; Curac, N SOURCE: BMC PUBLIC HEALTH 11. DEC 15 2011. p.NIL_1-NIL_9 BIOMED CENTRAL LTD, LONDON SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS+: IMPLEMENTATION RESEARCH; PREVENTION; RECOMMENDATIONS; LIMITATIONS; TRIALS; FALLS ABSTRACT: Background: More intervention research is needed, particularly 'real world' intervention replication and dissemination studies, to optimize improvements in health. This study assessed the proportion and type of published public health intervention research papers over time in physical activity and falls prevention, both important contributors to preventable morbidity and mortality. Methods: A keyword search was conducted, using Medline and PsycINFO to locate publications in 1988-1989, 1998-1999, and 2008-2009 for the two topic areas. In stage 1, a random sample of 1200 publications per time period for both topics were categorized as: non-public health, non-data- based public health, or data-based public health. In stage 2 data-based public health articles were further classified as measurement, descriptive, etiological or intervention research. Finally, intervention papers were categorized as: efficacy, intervention replication or dissemination studies. Inter-rater reliability of paper classification was 88%. Results: Descriptive studies were the most common data-based papers across all time periods (1988-89; 19981999; 2008-2009) for both issues (physical activity: 47%; 54%; 65% and falls 75%; 64%; 63%), increasing significantly over time for physical activity. The proportion of intervention publications did not increase over time for physical activity comprising 23% across all time periods and fluctuated for falls across the time periods (10%; 21%; 17%). The proportion of intervention articles that were replication studies increased over the three time periods for physical activity (0%; 2%; 11%) and for falls (0%; 22%; 35%). Dissemination studies first appeared in the literature in 2008-2009, making up only 3% of physical activity and 7% of falls intervention studies. Conclusions: Intervention research studies remain only a modest proportion of all published studies in physical activity and falls prevention; the majority of the intervention studies, are efficacy studies although there is growing evidence of a move towards replication and dissemination studies, which may have greater potential for improving population health. AUTHOR ADDRESS: AJ Milat, Sax Inst, Level 2,10 Quay St Haymarket, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Positioning Open Access Journals in a LIS Journal Ranking (Article, English) AUTHOR: Xia, JF SOURCE: COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES 73 (2). MAR 2012. p.134-145 ASSOC COLL RESEARCH LIBRARIES, CHICAGO KEYWORDS+: GOOGLE SCHOLAR; H-INDEX; CITATION INDEXES; SCIENCE; IMPACT; QUALITY; LIBRARY; WEB ABSTRACT: This research uses the h-index to rank the quality of library and information science journals between 2004 and 2008. Selected open access (OA) journals are included in the ranking to assess current OA development in support of scholarly communication. It is found that OA journals have gained momentum supporting high-quality research and publication, and some OA journals have been ranked as high as the best traditional print journals. The findings will help convince scholars to make more contributions to OA journal publications, and also encourage librarians and information professionals to make continuous efforts for library publishing. AUTHOR ADDRESS: JF Xia, Indiana Univ, Sch Lib & Informat Sci, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: On the Peter Principle: An agent based investigation into the consequential effects of social networks and behavioural factors (Article, English) AUTHOR: Fetta, AG; Harper, PR; Knight, VA; Vieira, IT; Williams, JE SOURCE: PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS 391 (9). MAY 1 2012. p.2898-2910 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth; PHYSICA A source_abbrev_20 KEYWORDS: Peter Principle; Organisations efficiency; Agent based models; Social networks; Organisational behaviour KEYWORDS+: SMALL-WORLD NETWORKS; ROLE-MODELS; PROMOTION; DYNAMICS; PATTERNS; WEB ABSTRACT: The Peter Principle is a theory that provides a paradoxical explanation for job incompetence in a hierarchical organisation. It argues that should staff be competent at a given level, their competence may not be implicit at higher levels due to the differences in the skill set required. Furthering the work of a recent investigation into the Peter Principle utilising agent based simulation, this paper explores external factors upon varying promotion strategies to assess efficiency. Through additional elements of social networks and organisational thought, a more representative view of workplace interaction is presented. Results of the simulation found that although the Peter Principle affects efficiency, it may not be to the levels previously suggested. Furthermore promotion on merit provided the most favourable maximum and minimum efficiency margins, given the absence of clear evidence pertaining to the existence of the Peter Principle. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V.. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: AG Fetta, Cardiff Univ, Sch Math, Senghennydd Rd, Cardiff CF24 4AG, S Glam, Wales -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Palliative Care Research in Latin America and the Caribbean: From the Beginning to the Declaration of Venice and Beyond (Review, English) AUTHOR: Pastrana, T; De Lima, L; Eisenchlas, J; Wenk, R SOURCE: JOURNAL OF PALLIATIVE MEDICINE 15 (3). MAR 2012. p.352-358 MARY ANN LIEBERT INC, NEW ROCHELLE SEARCH TERM(S): NALIMOV VV rauth KEYWORDS+: DEVELOPING-COUNTRIES; RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS; HEALTH; AFRICA; LIFE; END ABSTRACT: Background: Research in palliative care has increased significantly in the last decade, while the vast majority of the global disease burden occurs in developing countries. Aims: To explore the palliative care research activity in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and its visibility in the international palliative care literature, with a special focus on research studies. Methods: A bibliometric analysis was conducted in MEDLINE (R), Embase (R), PsycINFO (R), and CINAHL (R). Inclusion criteria were: (1) articles published in peer-reviewed scientific journals; (2) main subject was palliative care; (3) research study; (4) the first author or coauthors was based in LAC; and/or (5) the data collected derived from LAC. Results: One hundred six articles from 10 countries were identified in the literature research. The first publication dates from 1989 and was a qualitative study in Brazil. This study shows a modest contribution of publications from LAC. However, the volume of publications within the region is distributed unequally, reflecting the heterogeneity of the region: Brazil published more than half of the articles, while 35 countries have no publications. Most of the studies were quantitative research, predominantly cross-sectional studies. Qualitative studies often used interviews. Health care service was the most researched issue. Seventy percent of studies were carried out in institutions. Conclusions: Palliative care research should have a place in LAC. The development of a regional research agenda tailored to the needs and features of the region considering the health care structure and local resources available is indispensable. AUTHOR ADDRESS: T Pastrana, Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Dept Palliat Med, Pauwelsstr 30, D-52074 Aachen, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Meta-Analysis of Publications on Web 2.0: Impact, Productivity, Prevalent Topics and Research Agendas (Article, English) AUTHOR: Bogolyubov, P SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 12TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.97-106 ACADEMIC CONFERENCES LTD, NR READING SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E SCIENCE 122:108 1955 KEYWORDS: Web 2.0; meta-analysis; knowledge management KEYWORDS+: KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; COLLABORATION; TECHNOLOGIES ABSTRACT: Web 2.0 is a relatively young field of study and the body of publications on it is still developing. The paper offers an in-depth analysis of the prevalent topics discussed in the business-oriented literature in relation to Web 2.0 as well as the understanding of where the research is done (institution/country) and what the citation impact is - in other words, the locale of the research, the quality of publications and the prominent research topics. Even more importantly, it identifies emerging debates in the key areas relevant to the overall conference theme. To assess the productivity and impact, ABI/Inform database was interrogated to compile the list of papers (search for "Web 2.0" string, all fields and texts, scholarly journals only). For the search results, the following information was gathered: the number of citations (found via Google in databases such as SpringerLink, Emerald Insight or Google Scholar), authors' and institutions names and locations as well as keywords - from ABI/Inform, other databases or from papers themselves depending on the information availability. The resulting numbers were subjected to simple statistical analysis: for each institution and each country three numbers were calculated: total number of "hits" (people (co-)authoring papers), total number of citations per hit (time-normalised) and the ratio between the two. The keywords (tags) were counted by the number of appearances on the list, and the analysis highlighted a variety of topics that are discussed the most, with a number of trends highlighted. The full sets of results are shown in the paper in two ways: using " league tables" and tag clouds. The publications dedicated to aspects of Web 2.0 in KM are looked at in more detail in order to identify emerging themes and research agendas. [ ]<-- Enter an X to order article (IDS: BYU24 00011) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The Not-Invented-Here Syndrome in Academia - How to Measure and Manage it (Article, English) AUTHOR: Kathoefer, DG; Leker, J SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 12TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.360-371 ACADEMIC CONFERENCES LTD, NR READING SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth KEYWORDS: Not-Invented-Here syndrome; knowledge transfer; academia; recipient; barrier KEYWORDS+: COMMUNICATION PATTERNS; ABSORPTIVE-CAPACITY; NIH-SYNDROME; KNOWLEDGE; PERFORMANCE; MODEL; TECHNOLOGY; EXTENSION; BEHAVIOR; ROLES ABSTRACT: Today's society is often described as a "knowledge society". Accordingly, knowledge transfer plays a pivotal role for innovation and economic development. In this light, universities have often been the focus of interest for research and practice in recent years. However, the perspective of the knowledge recipient in this process is very much neglected. Thus, this paper concentrates on the Not- Invented-Here syndrome in academia. We develop a robust measurement model and test this construct and 8 potential antecedents in a structural equation model. The sample consists of 477 German university professors from the natural sciences. We figure out that 4 of the hypotheses find support in the data. Especially, experience and a knowledge sharing- friendly environment help to decrease a potential NIH infection of academic scientists. At the end of the paper, practical implications for industrial managers and university policy-makers are derived. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Physicists Get INSPIREd: INSPIRE Project and Grid Applications (Article, English) AUTHOR: Klem, J; Iwaszkiewicz, J SOURCE: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTING IN HIGH ENERGY AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS (CHEP 2010) 331. 2011. p.NIL_31-NIL_36 IOP PUBLISHING LTD, BRISTOL SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005 ABSTRACT: INSPIRE is the new high-energy physics scientific information system developed by CERN, DESY, Fermilab and SLAC. INSPIRE combines the curated and trusted contents of SPIRES database with Invenio digital library technology. INSPIRE contains the entire HEP literature with about one million records and in addition to becoming the reference HEP scientific information platform, it aims to provide new kinds of data mining services and metrics to assess the impact of articles and authors. Grid and cloud computing provide new opportunities to offer better services in areas that require large CPU and storage resources including document Optical Character Recognition (OCR) processing, full-text indexing of articles and improved metrics. D4Science-II is a European project that develops and operates an e-Infrastructure supporting Virtual Research Environments (VREs). It develops an enabling technology (gCube) which implements a mechanism for facilitating the interoperation of its e- Infrastructure with other autonomously running data e-Infrastructures. As a result, this creates the core of an e-Infrastructure ecosystem. INSPIRE is one of the e-Infrastructures participating in D4Science-II project. In the context of the D4Science-II project, the INSPIRE e-Infrastructure makes available some of its resources and services to other members of the resulting ecosystem. Moreover, it benefits from the ecosystem via a dedicated Virtual Organization giving access to an array of resources ranging from computing and storage resources of grid infrastructures to data and services. AUTHOR ADDRESS: J Klem, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland - From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Sun Apr 15 17:00:04 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 21:00:04 +0000 Subject: papers of interest to Sigmetrics readers Message-ID: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: new Citation Scenarios (Article, English) AUTHOR: Keiser, BE SOURCE: ONLINE 36 (2). MAR-APR 2012. p.30-35 ONLINE INC, WILTON ================================================== TITLE: A bibliometric study of financial risk literature: a historic approach (Article, English) AUTHOR: Chun-Hao, C; Jian-Min, Y SOURCE: APPLIED ECONOMICS 44 (22). 2012. p.2827-2839 ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, ABINGDON SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth; BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS: bibliometrics; financial risk; Lotka's Law KEYWORDS+: CRISIS ABSTRACT: This study probes into the development of financial risk literatures through the perspective of bibliometrics. The research samples were collected from the relevant international financial business bibliographic databases. A total of 2727 entries in a span of 29 years from 1970 to 2009 were collected and the results are summarized as follows: (1) the financial risk literatures under influence of the financial turmoil in Asia achieved substantial growth from 1997 to 1998 and an exponential growth curve during the global financial turmoil from 2007 to 2009; (2) the literatures were mainly journals and articles written in English; (3) the United States ranked first in sector productivity; (4) the author productivity of the financial risks was consistent with the Lotka's Law and (5) the document types of the financial risk literatures were mostly dissertation papers on economics and business. AUTHOR ADDRESS: C Chun-Hao, Natl Chengchi Univ, Dept Informat Management, 64,Sect 2,Zhinan Rd, Taipei 116, Taiwan -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The academic journal literature on air transport: Analysis using systematic literature review methodology (Review, English) AUTHOR: Ginieis, M; Sanchez-Rebull, MV; Campa-Planas, F SOURCE: JOURNAL OF AIR TRANSPORT MANAGEMENT 19. MAR 2012. p.31-35 ELSEVIER SCI LTD, OXFORD SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNAL item_title KEYWORDS: Air transport literature; Systematic; Management; Air transport journals; Academic publication KEYWORDS+: COSTS; METAANALYSIS; MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE; MARKETS; POLICY; TRAVEL; CARE ABSTRACT: This paper examines the changing interests of academics publishing in air transportation. By using the systematic literature review method, the material in the field is field organized, and its chronological evolution examined. Some 1059 papers published between 1997 and 2009 on air transportation are identified across a range of journals. We provide a systemized summary of the current status of this body of work. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Ginieis, Univ Rovira & Virgili, Dept Business Management, Tarragona 43204, Spain -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Anaesthetics journals retract further articles after ethics approval is found lacking (News Item, English) AUTHOR: Torjesen, I SOURCE: BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 344. MAR 13 2012. p.NIL_41-NIL_42 B M J PUBLISHING GROUP, LONDON SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNALS item_title -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Is Primatology an Equal-Opportunity Discipline? (Article, English) AUTHOR: Addessi, E; Borgi, M; Palagi, E SOURCE: PLOS ONE 7 (1). JAN 17 2012. p.NIL_1365-NIL_1370 PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, SAN FRANCISCO SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; WENNERAS C NATURE 387:341 1997 KEYWORDS+: GENDER-DIFFERENCES; WOMENS UNDERREPRESENTATION; SCIENCE; FEMALE; PUBLICATION; OUTPUT; INDEX; BIAS ABSTRACT: The proportion of women occupying academic positions in biological sciences has increased in the past few decades, but women are still under-represented in senior academic ranks compared to their male colleagues. Primatology has been often singled out as a model of "equal- opportunity'' discipline because of the common perception that women are more represented in Primatology than in similar fields. But is this indeed true? Here we show that, although in the past 15 years the proportion of female primatologists increased from the 38% of the early 1990s to the 57% of 2008, Primatology is far from being an "equal- opportunity'' discipline, and suffers the phenomenon of "glass ceiling'' as all the other scientific disciplines examined so far. In fact, even if Primatology does attract more female students than males, at the full professor level male members significantly outnumber females. Moreover, regardless of position, IPS male members publish significantly more than their female colleagues. Furthermore, when analyzing gender difference in scientific productivity in relation to the name order in the publications, it emerged that the scientific achievements of female primatologists (in terms of number and type of publications) do not always match their professional achievements (in terms of academic position). However, the gender difference in the IPS members' number of publications does not correspond to a similar difference in their scientific impact (as measured by their H index), which may indicate that female primatologists' fewer articles are of higher impact than those of their male colleagues. AUTHOR ADDRESS: E Addessi, CNR, Ist Sci & Tecnol Cogniz, Unita Primatol Cognitiva, Rome, Italy ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Annals of Laboratory Medicine: Quantum Leap into the Higher Quality (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Song, J SOURCE: ANNALS OF LABORATORY MEDICINE 32 (2). MAR 2012. p.103-104 KOREAN SOC LABORATORY MEDICINE, SEOUL SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E BRIT MED J 313:411 1996; KEYWORDS+: IMPACT FACTORS AUTHOR ADDRESS: J Song, Seoul Natl Univ, Bundang Hosp, Dept Lab Med, 300 Gumi Dong, Songnam 463707, South Korea From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Sun Apr 15 17:00:09 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 21:00:09 +0000 Subject: papers of possible interest to Sig Metrics readers Message-ID: TITLE: University patenting and knowledge spillover in Japan: panel-data analysis with citation data (Article, English) AUTHOR: Otsuka, K SOURCE: APPLIED ECONOMICS LETTERS 19 (11). 2012. p.1045-1049 ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, ABINGDON SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS: R&D; innovation; knowledge spillover; patent citations KEYWORDS+: GROWTH; MODEL ABSTRACT: University-based patents, by their nature, tend to embody scientific knowledge, which can contribute to technological innovation. University patents, therefore, can be an important catalyst between science and technology. This article examines the contribution of university patents to technological innovation. Using patent citation data, we investigate how the knowledge embodied in university patents influences technological innovation. We conclude that university-based patents convert scientific knowledge into generic knowledge and contribute to technological innovation. AUTHOR ADDRESS: K Otsuka, Ritsumeikan Univ, Coll Econ, Dept Int Econ, Noji Cho 1-1-1, Kusatsu, Shiga 5258577, Japan -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Rheumatoid arthritis and periodontitis: A possible link via "citation" (Letter, English) AUTHOR: Rosenstein, ED; Scher, JU; Bretz, WA; Weissmann, G SOURCE: ANAEROBE 18 (1). FEB 2012. p.162 ELSEVIER SCI LTD, OXFORD KEYWORDS+: INFECTION; SEVERITY AUTHOR ADDRESS: ED Rosenstein, Overlook Med Ctr, Inst Rheumat & Autoimmune Dis, 33 Overlook Rd, Summit, NJ 07901 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Cite Right: A Quick Guide to Citation Styles-MLA, APA, Chicago, the Sciences, Professions, and More, by C. Lipson (Book Review, English) AUTHOR: Jennings, A SOURCE: TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION 59 (1). FEB 2012. p.69-70 SOC TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION, FAIRFAX SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Jennings, Univ Houston Downtown, BS Degree Program Profess Writing, Houston, TX 77002 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Contributions to financial crisis research: an assessment of the literature in Social Science Citation Index journals from 1990 to 2008 (Article, English) AUTHOR: Moh, FY; Lu, HP; Lin, BH SOURCE: APPLIED ECONOMICS 44 (36). 2012. p.4689-4700 ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, ABINGDON SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E SCIENCE 178:471 1972; GARFIELD E J AM SOC INFORM SCI 49:768 1998 KEYWORDS+: CURRENCY CRISIS; BANKING CRISIS; INTERNATIONAL-BUSINESS; CORPORATE GOVERNANCE; DEBT CRISIS; IMPACT; LESSONS; ARTICLES; RETURNS; AUTHORS ABSTRACT: Research in the field of financial crisis has generated a considerable amount of literature in the past, yet there has neither been any study to assess the contributions to the literature made by individuals or institutions, nor any to measure the impact of the articles and researchers. This study represents an attempt to: (1) investigate the major journals in publishing financial crisis research, (2) assess the contributions of individual researchers and institutions using the credited contribution approach and (3) measure the impact of individual publications and individual researchers on the financial crisis literature through citation analysis, based on the publications in Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) journals from 1990 to 2008. The findings provide a useful benchmark for assessing individual and institutional research productivity, and trends for future research and venues for publications are identified. AUTHOR ADDRESS: FY Moh, Natl Taiwan Univ Sci & Technol, Grad Inst Management, 43,Sect 4,Keelung Rd, Taipei 106, Taiwan -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Fatigue after subarachnoid haemorrhage: A systematic review (Review, English) AUTHOR: Kutlubaev, MA; Barugh, AJ; Mead, GE SOURCE: JOURNAL OF PSYCHOSOMATIC RESEARCH 72 (4). APR 2012. p.305-310 PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, OXFORD SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E SCIENTIST 3:12 1989; J PSYCHOSOM RES source_abbrev_20 KEYWORDS: Fatigue; Subarachnoid haemorrhage; Long-term outcomes KEYWORDS+: QUALITY-OF-LIFE; LONG-TERM; ANEURYSMAL SAH; DISORDERS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; DYSFUNCTION; PREVALENCE; SYMPTOMS; OUTCOMES; STROKE ABSTRACT: Background: Fatigue is common and debilitating symptom in many neurological disorders and it has been reported in patients after non-traumatic subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH). Objectives: We undertook a systematic review to identify and critically appraise all published studies that have reported frequency, severity and time course of fatigue after SAH, the factors associated with its development and the impact of fatigue on patients' life after SAH. Methods: We searched Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, AMED, PubMed and included in the review all studies published in English, recruiting at least 10 patients (>18 years old) after SAH, which reported fatigue. Results: We identified 13 studies (total number of subjects 737) meeting our inclusion criteria. The frequency of fatigue ranged from 31 to 90%. Fatigue remained common even several years after the ictus. According to some studies fatigue after SAH was associated with sleep disturbances, anxiety, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, cognitive and physical impairment, but these could not explain all cases of fatigue. Fatigue reduces quality of life and life satisfaction in patients after SAH. Conclusions: Fatigue is common after SAH and seems to persist. Further research is needed to clarify its time course and identify factors associated with its development. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: MA Kutlubaev, Univ Edinburgh, Royal Infirm Edinburgh, Room S1643, Edinburgh EH16 5NN, Midlothian, Scotland -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: BAYESIAN META-ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL NETWORK DATA VIA CONDITIONAL UNIFORM GRAPH QUANTILES (Article, English) AUTHOR: Butts, CT SOURCE: SOCIOLOGICAL METHODOLOGY 2011, VOL 41 41. 2011. p.257-298 BLACKWELL SCIENCE PUBL, OXFORD SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth KEYWORDS+: EXPONENTIAL FAMILY; SAMPLE-SURVEYS; MODELS; POWER; DISTRIBUTIONS; INFERENCE; SOCIOMATRICES; MIXTURES; DYNAMICS; DENSITY ABSTRACT: Many basic questions in the social network literature center on the distribution of aggregate structural properties within and across populations of networks. Such questions are of increasing relevance given the growing availability of network data suitable for meta-analytic studies, as well as the rise of study designs that involve the collection of data on multiple networks drawn from a larger population. Despite this, little work has been done on model-based inference for the properties of graph populations, or on methods for comparing such populations. Here, we attempt to rectify this gap by introducing a family of techniques that combines an existing approach to the identification of structural biases in network data (the use of conditional uniform graph quantiles) with strategies drawn from nonparametric Bayesian analysis. Conditional uniform graph quantiles are the quantiles of an observed structural property in the reference distribution produced by evaluating that property over all graphs with certain fixed characteristics (e.g., size or density). These quantiles have long been used to measure the extent to which a property of interest on a single network deviates from what would be expected given that network's other characteristics. The methods introduced here employ such quantile information to allow for principled inference regarding the distribution of structural biases within (and comparison across) populations of networks, given data sampled at the network level. The data requirements of these methods are minimal, thus making them well- suited to meta-analytic applications for which complete network data (as opposed to summary statistics) are often unavailable. The structural biases inferred using these methods can be expressed in terms of posterior predictives for familiar and easily communicated quantities, such as p-values. In addition to the methods themselves, we present algorithms for posterior simulation from this model class, illustrating their use with applications to the analysis of social structure within urban communes and radio communications among emergency personnel. We also discuss how this approach may applied to quantiles arising from other reference distributions, such as those obtained using general exponential-family random graph models. AUTHOR ADDRESS: CT Butts, Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Sociol, SSPA 2145, Irvine, CA 92697 USA From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Sun Apr 15 17:38:16 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 21:38:16 +0000 Subject: Papers of interest from WoS to SIG-Metrics Readers Message-ID: Title: Contributions *to* financial crisis *research*: *an* assessment of the literature in Social Science Citation *Index* journals from 1990 *to* 2008 Authors: Moh, FY; Lu, HP; Lin, BH Author Full Names: Moh, Feng-Yuan; Lu, Hsi-Peng; Lin, Bing-Huei Source: APPLIED ECONOMICS, 44 (36):4689-4700; 10.1080/00036846.2010.528370 2012 Language: English Document Type: Article KeyWords Plus: CURRENCY CRISIS; BANKING CRISIS; INTERNATIONAL-BUSINESS; CORPORATE GOVERNANCE; DEBT CRISIS; IMPACT; LESSONS; ARTICLES; RETURNS; AUTHORS Abstract: Research in the field of financial crisis has generated a considerable amount of literature in the past, yet there has neither been any study to assess the contributions to the literature made by individuals or institutions, nor any to measure the impact of the articles and researchers. This study represents an attempt to: (1) investigate the major journals in publishing financial crisis research, (2) assess the contributions of individual researchers and institutions using the credited contribution approach and (3) measure the impact of individual publications and individual researchers on the financial crisis literature through citation analysis, based on the publications in Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) journals from 1990 to 2008. The findings provide a useful benchmark for assessing individual and institutional research productivity, and trends for future research and venues for publications are identified. Reprint Address: Moh, FY (reprint author), Natl Taiwan Univ Sci & Technol, Grad Inst Management, 43,Sect 4,Keelung Rd, Taipei 106, Taiwan Addresses: [Moh, Feng-Yuan] Natl Taiwan Univ Sci & Technol, Grad Inst Management, Taipei 106, Taiwan [Lu, Hsi-Peng] Natl Taiwan Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Management, Taipei 106, Taiwan [Lin, Bing-Huei] Natl Chung Hsing Univ, Dept Finance, Taichung 402, Taiwan E-mail Address: fengyuanmoh at gmail.com Cited Reference Count: 49 Publisher: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 4 PARK SQUARE, MILTON PARK, ABINGDON OX14 4RN, OXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2010.528370 Cited References: DAVIS P, 1984, AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW, V74, P225 LINDSEY D, 1978, SCI PUBLICATION SYST, Mitton T, 2002, JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL ECONOMICS, V64, P215 Miller C, 2006, GLOBAL GOVERNANCE, V12, P449 Feldstein M, 1998, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, V77, P20 Englund P, 1999, OXFORD REVIEW OF ECONOMIC POLICY, V15, P80 CAPRIO G, 1999, EPISODES SYSTE UNPUB, Zou SM, 2005, JOURNAL OF ADVERTISING, V34, P99 De Paula LF, 2000, JOURNAL OF POST KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS, V22, P589 ZIVNEY TL, 1992, JOURNAL OF FINANCE, V47, P295 BRUNER RF, 1987, JOURNAL OF MONEY CREDIT AND BANKING, V19, P46 Pazarbasioglu C, 1997, INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND STAFF PAPERS, V44, P315 Johnson S, 2000, JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL ECONOMICS, V58, P141 Moore WR, 2007, JOURNAL OF FORECASTING, V26, P445 Gazioglu S, 2008, APPLIED ECONOMICS, V40, P1363 MORRIS PWG, 1988, TECHNOLOGY IN SOCIETY, V10, P353 ROBERTS J, 2003, DEV POLICY REV, V21, P714 Corbett J, 1999, WORLD ECONOMY, V22, P155 Garfield E, 1998, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE, V49, P768 ALEXANDER JC, 1994, JOURNAL OF FINANCE, V49, P697 FISCHER S, 2003, REV WORLD ECON, V39, P1 Abdelal R, 1998, POLITICAL STUDIES, V46, P236 Horvath J, 1999, POST-COMMUNIST ECONOMIES, V11, P277 PARETO V, 1964, COURS EC POLITIQUE, V2, P1896 BERNANKE BS, 1983, AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW, V73, P257 CHANDY PR, 1994, JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES, V25, P715 Klein LR, 1996, OPEN ECONOMIES REVIEW, V7, P501 Sgard J, 1999, REVUE D ETUDES COMPARATIVES EST-OUEST, V30, P215 Aslund A, 1998, POST-SOVIET GEOGRAPHY AND ECONOMICS, V39, P309 BAUMANN H, 2002, J IND ECOL, V6, P13 Ozlale U, 2004, APPLIED ECONOMICS, V36, P1839 COTE JA, 1991, JOURNAL OF CONSUMER RESEARCH, V18, P402 GHATTAS E, 1971, MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL, V25, P31 Milne A, 2008, FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF ST LOUIS REVIEW, V90, P517 Crouhy MG, 2008, JOURNAL OF DERIVATIVES, V16, P81 Henthorne TL, 1998, JOURNAL OF ADVERTISING, V27, P53 Kaminsky G, 1998, INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND STAFF PAPERS, V45, P1 GARFIELD E, 1971, ESSAYS INFORM SCI, V1, P179 GARFIELD E, 1972, SCIENCE, V178, P471 Kaminsky GL, 1999, AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW, V89, P473 INKPEN AC, 1994, JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES, V25, P703 Luor T, 2008, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V59, P1313 FELDMAN EV, 1983, DESARROLLO ECONOMICO-REVISTA DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES, V23, P449 Peek J, 2000, NEW ENGLAND ECONOMIC REVIEW, P45 RADELET S, 1998, BROOKINGS PAPERS EC, V29, P1 SPRINGER GL, 1995, JOURNAL OF INTERAMERICAN STUDIES AND WORLD AFFAIRS, V37, P57 HECK JL, 1988, FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, V17, P100 Johnson S, 2003, JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL ECONOMICS, V67, P351 PODOLSKI TM, 1987, INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, V63, P118 ======================================================================= Title: Status of iberomerican journals of psychology at the 2010 Journal Citation Reports Authors: Quevedo-Blasco, R; Lopez-Lopez, W Author Full Names: Quevedo-Blasco, Raul; Lopez-Lopez, Wilson Source: UNIVERSITAS PSYCHOLOGICA, 10 (3):937-947; SEP-DEC 2011 Language: Spanish Document Type:Article Author Keywords: Latin American journals; Journal Citation Reports; Impact Factor; Immediacy Index KeyWords Plus: SPANISH PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES; RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY; CLINICAL-PSYCHOLOGY; SCIENCE; WEB; PROGRAMS; ARTICLES; RANKING; INTERNATIONALITY; PERFORMANCE Abstract: The aim of this study is to show the current landscape of the visibility and popularity of scientific journals in psychology published in Latin American countries, according to a recent Journal Citation Reports (JCR) 2010. This is a descriptive study using analysis of documents. We analyzed a total of 18 journals, of which 61.11 % (11) are Spanish, 33.33 % (6) are Latin American and 5.55 % (1) Portuguese, 50 % are indexed in the category of "Psychology, Multidisciplinary "and the Latin American magazine with the *Impact Factor* (IF) 2010 Universitas Psychologica is higher (1,283), followed by Psicologia: Reflexao e Critica (1,124). Contradictorily. Latin American journal that has obtained the highest indexed IF fits the category of "Psychology, Clinical" and it is about International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology (1,842). Reprint Address: Quevedo-Blasco, R (reprint author), Univ Granada, Fac Psicol, Granada 18011, Spain Addresses: [Quevedo-Blasco, Raul] Univ Granada, Fac Psicol, Granada 18011, Spain [Lopez-Lopez, Wilson] Pontificia Univ Javeriana, Fac Psicol, Bogota, Colombia E-mail Address: rquevedo at ugr.es, lopezw at javeria-na.edu.co Cited Reference Count: 36 Publisher: PONTIFICA UNIV JAVERIANA, FAC PSYCH, CARRERA 5 NUM 39-00, EDIFICIO MANUEL BRICENO, BOGOTA, 00000, COLOMBIA Cited References: Musi-Lechuga B, 2009, International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, V9, P161 QUEVEDOBLASCO R, 2011, REV DIGITAL U, V11, P15 Fernandez-Rios L, 2009, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY, V9, P329 Buela-Casal G, 2010, PSICOTHEMA, V22, P171 Musi-Lechuga B, 2011, REVISTA MEXICANA DE PSICOLOGIA, V28, P93 GRANADOS MR, 2011, AULA ABIERTA, V39, P97 Garcia-Martinez AT, 2009, UNIVERSITAS PSYCHOLOGICA, V8, P13 Buela-Casal G, 2011, PSICOTHEMA, V23, P527 LOPEZLOPEZ W, 2009, STUDOS PSICOLOGIA NA, V16, P17 Ramos-Alvarez MM, 2008, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY, V8, P751 ZYCH I, 2007, REV MEX PSICOL, V24, P7 BETZ B, 2010, AULA ABIERTA, V38, P65 Garcia-Cepero MC, 2010, UNIVERSITAS PSYCHOLOGICA, V9, P13 CASTRO A, 2010, AULA ABIERTA, V38, P17 LOPEZCOZAR ED, 2010, AULA ABIERTA, V38, P3 Quevedo-Blasco R, 2010, SALUD MENTAL, V33, P133 Buela-Casal G, 2011, REVISTA DE PSICODIDACTICA, V16, P181 ZYCH I, 2010, INT J CLIN HLTH PSYC, V11, P549 Zych I, 2010, UNIVERSITAS PSYCHOLOGICA, V9, P27 Bermudez MP, 2009, REVISTA DE PSICODIDACTICA, V14, P193 Olivas-Avila JA, 2010, PSICOTHEMA, V22, P909 Virues-Ortega J, 2008, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY, V8, P765 Buela-Casal G, 2010, REVISTA DE PSICODIDACTICA, V15, P3 Zych I, 2009, REVISTA LATINOAMERICANA DE PSICOLOGIA, V41, P401 Olivas-Avila JA, 2010, PSICOTHEMA, V22, P917 Montero I, 2007, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY, V7, P847 QUEVEDOBLASCO R, 2009, PSICOL-REFLEX CRIT, V23, P384 GARCIABERRO E, 2010, AULA ABIERTA, V38, P29 GUILLENRIQUELME A, 2010, AULA ABIERTA, V38, P75 Navarrete-Cortes J, 2009, REVISTA MEXICANA DE PSICOLOGIA, V26, P131 Buela-Casal G, 2011, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY, V11, P95 Vera-Villarroel P, 2011, REVISTA LATINOAMERICANA DE PSICOLOGIA, V43, P95 Buela-Casal G, 2009, PSICOTHEMA, V21, P304 Buela-Casal G, 2010, PSICOTHEMA, V22, P270 Buela-Casal G, 2010, PSICOTHEMA, V22, P924 Navarrete-Cortes J, 2010, UNIVERSITAS PSYCHOLOGICA, V9, P553 ======================================================================= Title: On the proper use of bibliometrics *to* evaluate physicians and scientists Authors: Bach, JF Author Full Names: Bach, Jean-Francois Source:BULLETIN DE L ACADEMIE NATIONALE DE MEDECINE, 195 (6):1223-1233; JUN 2011 Language: French Document Type: Article Author Keywords: PEER REVIEW; BIBLIOMETRICS; PUBLICATIONS; CITATIONS; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR Abstract: Quantitative analysis of publications and their citations, a procedure known as bibliometries, has become increasingly important in the evaluation of scientists and clinicians. In the clinical setting, bibliometrics is used for the calculation of hospital budgets. While bibliometrics is attractive because it rapidly provides numbers that bear a certain relation to scientific productivity, it is often misused. The parameters chosen are questionable and sometimes worthless because of material errors or inappropriate use. More importantly, reducing the activity of a scientist or physician simply to the number of his or her publications or citations, without analyzing the importance and impact of the work itself can lead to serious errors. Reprint Address: Bach, JF (reprint author), Acad Sci, Paris, France Addresses: Acad Sci, Paris, France Cited Reference Count: 3 Publisher: ACAD NATL MEDECINE, 16 RUE BONAPARTE, 75272 PARIS 06, FRANCE Cited References: 1000, CRITERES AUTHORSHIP, 2009, RAPPORT ACAD SCI EVA, 2011, RAPPORT ACAD SCI BON, From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Sun Apr 15 17:39:21 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 21:39:21 +0000 Subject: Papers if possible inerest to SIG Metrics readers Message-ID: TITLE: On the Function and Reception of Citations - Conclusions of a User Study of the Online Dictionary elexico (Article, German) AUTHOR: Klosa, A; Topel, A; Koplenig, A SOURCE: SPRACHWISSENSCHAFT 37 (1). 2012. p.93-123 UNIVERSITATSVERLAG C WINTER HEIDELBERG GMBH, HEIDELBERG SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION* item_title AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Klosa, Inst Deutsch Sprache, R 5,6-13, D-68161 Mannheim, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The Ideology of Supreme Court Opinions and Citations (Article, English) AUTHOR: Cross, FB SOURCE: IOWA LAW REVIEW 97 (3). MAR 2012. p.693-751 UNIV IOWA, COLL LAW, IOWA CITY KEYWORDS+: JUDICIAL DECISION-MAKING; EMPIRICAL-ANALYSIS; MAJORITY OPINION; LEGAL DOCTRINE; PRECEDENT; RULES; LAW; JUSTICES; MODEL; STANDARDS ABSTRACT: A great deal of social, scientific, and legal research has been devoted to assessing the role of ideology in the Supreme Court's decisions. But this research has treated each case as equally important and entirely ignored the language of the opinions themselves. Yet it is the opinion's language, and its effect on future cases, that is the primary output of the Court and reflects the greatest potential ideological meaning. This effect can be partially measured through an analysis of the use of cases as precedents for future decisions. In this Article, I examine this use and whether the citing case was itself liberal or conservative, and I consider the nature of the citation as well. This enables me to ascertain the opinions that had the greatest ideological impact, liberal or conservative. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Dividing Discipline: Structures of Communication in International Relations (Article, English) AUTHOR: Kristensen, PM SOURCE: INTERNATIONAL STUDIES REVIEW 14 (1). MAR 2012. p.32-50 WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN SEARCH TERM(S); PRICE DJD rauth; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 122:108 1955; PUDOVKIN AI J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 53:1113 2002 KEYWORDS+: POLITICAL-SCIENCE JOURNALS; 1ST GREAT DEBATE; SOCIAL- SCIENCE; SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS; CITATION ANALYSIS; POLICY RELEVANCE; CENTRALITY; NETWORKS; AMERICAN; IMPACT ABSTRACT: International Relations (IR) has cultivated an image as a discipline with strong divisions along paradigmatic, methodological, metatheoretical, geographical, and other lines. This article questions that image analyzing the latent structures of communication in IR. It uses citation data from more than 20,000 articles published in 59 IR journals to construct a network among IR journals and finds a discipline with a center consisting of pedigreed IR journals, albeit closely related to political science. Divisions are identifiable as specialty areas that form clusters of specialized journals along the periphery of the network- security studies and international political economy in particular-but communication is also divided along the lines of geography and policy/theory. The article concludes that divisions notwithstanding, IR communication remains centered around American, general, and theoretical IR journals and that to practice this particular kind of communication is an important dimension of being an IR scholar. AUTHOR ADDRESS: PM Kristensen, Univ Copenhagen, Ctr Adv Secur Theory, DK-1168 Copenhagen, Denmark -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The Citation Networks Model with Random Aging (Article, English) AUTHOR: Geng, XM; Wang, Y SOURCE: COMPLEXITY 17 (4). MAR-APR 2012. p.16-22 WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS: degree distribution; aging decay; preferential probability; scaling exponent; clustering coefficient ABSTRACT: In citation networks, the age of the articles published plays an important role in deciding the preferential attachment probability of the publishing article. In this article, we consider the aging to be cited of the article decays as (t-t(t))(-eta), where t - t(t) denotes the time when node i exists in the networks, eta is a random variable and denotes the aging decay exponent of the article published. We deduce that the degree distribution of a citation network also shows power-law dependence P(k) similar to k (-gamma) with exponent gamma approximate to 3. At the same time, we study the clustering property of this networks, calculate the clustering coefficient of node i in citation network. We find that the clustering coefficient of node i is larger if its neighbors add into the net earlier. (c) 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Complexity 17: 16-22, 2012. AUTHOR ADDRESS: XM Geng, Nanjing Univ Aeronaut & Astronaut, Coll Sci, Nanjing 210016, Peoples R China ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Analysis of the bibliometrics score of surgical department from the academic hospitals of Paris: What is the rank of urology? (Article, French) AUTHOR: Roupret, M; Drouin, SJ; Faron, M; Glanard, A; Bitker, MO; Richard, F; Chartier-Kastler, E; Lefevre, JH SOURCE: PROGRES EN UROLOGIE 22 (3). MAR 2012. p.182-188 ELSEVIER MASSON, MILANO SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS: Scientific publication; Bibliometrics; Impact factor; Academic hospital; Indexing; Surgery; Urology KEYWORDS+: SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATION; SIGAPS; RESIDENTS; FRANCE; INDEX ABSTRACT: Objectives. - Analyze the results of the bibliometric system and analysis of scientific publications (SIGAPS) in the Assistance publique-Hopitaux de Paris (AP-HP) and compare the scientific production among the various surgical disciplines of the academic hospitals of Paris and define the place of urology. Methods. - The publications from 115 surgical departments between 2006 and 2008 were included. Only surgical departments were considered in the current study. The following data were taken into account: the hospital department of origin, the number of articles published, the number of first place, last places, the number of full-time unit, the SIGAPS score. Statistical analysis focused on the quality and on the quantity of published articles per surgeons and per department. There were eight academic departments of urology identified within the AP-HP. Results. - The database contained information for 115 surgical departments. The mean number of articles published by department was 42.89 +/- 27.34 (13.2 to 110.75). The mean number of publications per full-time surgeon was 6.7 +/- 2.59 (3.77 to 12.84), or a mean of 2.25 +/- 0.86 released by full-time and by year. The median score SIGAPS of surgery was 304 with a wide interval (122 to 903.5). Urology was the specialty with the highest median score compared to other surgical specialties. The department, which published the most, was the center 1, in comparison with the center 6 which was publishing the most in A/B ranking journals. Conclusion. - Urology was the absolute leader by far in terms of scientific publications in the AP-HP when compared to other surgical disciplines. The discipline is organized efficiently to juggle clinical work and research indicating a certain dynamism of the teams that invest there to fulfill the missions assigned to them in the University Hospital and the part of the autonomy of the universities. (C) 2011 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Roupret, Univ Paris 06, Hop La Pitie Salpetriere, AP HP, Fac Med Pierre & Marie Curie,Serv Urol, 83 Blvd Hop, F-75013 Paris, France -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Using the h-index to measure the quality of journals in the field of business and management (Article, English) AUTHOR: Mingers, J; Macri, F; Petrovici, D SOURCE: INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT 48 (2). MAR 2012. p.234-241 PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, OXFORD SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 178:471 1972 KEYWORDS: Citations; Google Scholar; h-Index; Impact factor; Journal quality; Research impact; Web of Science KEYWORDS+: GOOGLE SCHOLAR; SCIENCE; IMPACT; RANKING; CITATIONS; SCOPUS ABSTRACT: This paper considers the use of the h-index as a measure of a journal's research quality and contribution. We study a sample of 455 journals in business and management all of which are included in the ISI Web of Science (WoS) and the Association of Business School's peer review journal ranking list. The h-index is compared with both the traditional impact factors, and with the peer review judgements. We also consider two sources of citation data the WoS itself and Google Scholar. The conclusions are that the h-index is preferable to the impact factor for a variety of reasons, especially the selective coverage of the impact factor and the fact that it disadvantages journals that publish many papers. Google Scholar is also preferred to WoS as a data source. However, the paper notes that it is not sufficient to use any single metric to properly evaluate research achievements. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: J Mingers, Univ Kent, Ctr Evaluat Res Performance, Kent Business Sch, Canterbury CT7 2PE, Kent, England -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Bibliometric analysis of CiteSeer data for countries (Article, English) AUTHOR: Fiala, D SOURCE: INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT 48 (2). MAR 2012. p.242-253 PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, OXFORD SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title; HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005 KEYWORDS: CiteSeer; CiteSeer(x); Citations; Shares; Countries; Internet domains KEYWORDS+: COMPUTER-SCIENCE RESEARCH; CITATION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH OUTPUT; WEB; PUBLICATIONS ABSTRACT: This article describes the results of our analysis of the data from the Cite Seer digital library. First, we examined the data from the point of view of source top-level Internet domains from which the data were collected. Second, we measured country shares in publications indexed by Cite Seer and compared them to those based on mainstream bibliographic data from the Web of Science and Scopus. And third, we concentrated on analyzing publications and their citations aggregated by countries. This way, we generated rankings of the most influential countries in computer science using several non-recursive as well as recursive methods such as citation counts or Page Rank. We conclude that even if East Asian countries are underrepresented in Cite Seer, its data may well be used along with other conventional bibliographic databases for comparing the computer science research productivity and performance of countries. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: D Fiala, Univ W Bohemia, Univ 8, Plzen 30614, Czech Republic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Sun Apr 15 17:40:15 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 21:40:15 +0000 Subject: Papers of interest to SIG-Metrics readers Message-ID: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Why and how can "sleeping beauties" be awakened? (Article, English) AUTHOR: Wang, JC; Ma, FC; Chen, MJ; Rao, YQ SOURCE: ELECTRONIC LIBRARY 30 (1). 2012. p.5-18 EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED, BINGLEY SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; PRICE DJD rauth KEYWORDS: Information awakening; Sleeping beauty; Information utilization; Prince; Information obsolescence; Information; Obsolescence KEYWORDS+: SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; COLLEGE LIBRARIES; RESISTANCE; OBSOLESCENCE; DISCOVERIES; KNOWLEDGE; SCIENCE; DATE; WEB ABSTRACT: Purpose - "Sleeping beauties" are very common in science, so this paper aims to uncover the reasons and formulation mechanism of information awakening on a more general level. Based on this, the paper will further propose useful strategies to awaken those "sleeping beauties" earlier. Design/methodology/approach - Explanation-building of case study is used to develop some models of information awakening and also to uncover different types of reasons for triggering academic information to be awakened. Findings - Based on the three basic elements of information utilisation, namely, information value, access channel and user needs, the paper summarises several reasons for information awakening: the information value is re-mined because of the relevance among various information; different uses of information are discovered; information availability and visibility are improved; information is placed into the appropriate place; and, with time passing by, demands for the information rise. Practical implications - The presence of excessive "sleeping beauties" is not only a kind of idleness and waste to knowledge, but also may result in aggravation of information redundancy and increasing cost of storage. The revelation of its essence and reasons is not only helpful to establish better management mechanism to awaken "sleeping beauties" and thus to maximise their value, but also helpful to distinguish "sleeping beauties" from "pseudo-sleeping beauties" as early as possible, so that all that worthless information can be cleared up without hesitation. Originality/value - Most existing studies remain on the level of collecting instances and interpreting specific cases, but this paper investigates reasons from a more general level. What is more, current understandings are very one-sided in that they treat information awakening and delayed recognition as the same, so this paper clarifies their differentiation and summarises the reasons comprehensively. AUTHOR ADDRESS: FC Ma, Wuhan Univ, Ctr Studies Informat Resources, Wuhan 430072, Peoples R China -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Availability and persistence of web citations in Indian LIS literature (Article, English) AUTHOR: Kumar, BTS; Raj, KRP SOURCE: ELECTRONIC LIBRARY 30 (1). 2012. p.19-32 EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED, BINGLEY SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS: Web citation; Persistence; LIS literature; India; Web sites; Information management KEYWORDS+: INTERNET CITATIONS; REFERENCES; JOURNALS; ACCESSIBILITY; PERMANENCE; DECAY; TIME; LIFE ABSTRACT: Purpose - The worldwide web is growing at an enormous speed and web citations are becoming very common in scholarly publications. However the major problem of web citation is its persistence since citations disappear over time, causing accessibility problems for readers. In this context the present study aims to investigate the availability of web citations and their persistence in Indian Library and Information Science literature. The study also aims to investigate types of link accessibility errors encountered, domains associated with missing web citations and the correlation between the path depth and missing web citations. Design/methodology/approach - The web citations (URLs) from 350 articles published in Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science (IATLIS) conference volume (2001-2008) were extracted and then tested to determine the accessibility. The W3C Link Checker (http://validator.w3.org/checklink) was used to evaluate links associated with a cited web resource. This link checker tests a submitted web page for broken or non-valid hypertext links and reports the types of HTTP messages encountered. Findings - Results of the study show that the average citations per article have been increased substantially from 0.25 (in the year 2001) to 3.02 (in the year 2008). It also found that 45.61 per cent of citations are not accessible during the time of testing, and the majority of web citations show HTTP Error Code 404 (63.84 per cent). Web citations from the .org domain are found to have the highest failure rates (30.29 per cent) compared to .edu (21.49 per cent) and .com/.co (14.33 per cent) domains. Originality/value - The researchers analysed 673 web citations from 350 articles published during 2001 to 2008 in IATLIS conference volumes. The study investigated the percentage of missing web citations and domains associated with missing web citations. The study suggests some possible solutions to improve web citation accessibility. This carries research value for web content providers, web authors and researchers in library and information science. AUTHOR ADDRESS: BTS Kumar, Kuvempu Univ, Dept Lib & Informat Sci, Shimoga, Karnataka, India -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Scholarly communication of The Electronic Library from 2003-2009: a bibliometric study (Article, English) AUTHOR: Jena, KL; Swain, DK; Sahu, SB SOURCE: ELECTRONIC LIBRARY 30 (1). 2012. p.103-119 EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED, BINGLEY SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS: Bibliometrics; Citation analysis; Citation counts; Bradford's Law; Journals; Library studies ABSTRACT: Purpose - The study aims to divulge the patterns of scholarly communication of The Electronic Library from 2003 to 2009 and to measure the coverage and quality of contributions of this journal towards LIS literature. Design/methodology/approach - Seven volumes of The Electronic Library (TEL) published during the years 2003-2009 collected from Emerald Management Xtra, that constituted 42 issues and a total number of 417 articles carrying 7,442 citations, have been taken up for the analysis. The study analyzes bibliographical forms, types of articles, authorship pattern, geographical distribution of contributors, chronological distribution of citations, length of articles, and ranking of journals. The study employs Bradford's Law of Scattering. Findings - The majority of articles published in TEL fall under the category of research papers, followed by case studies, and general reviews. Regarding the bibliographical distribution of citations, it is found that the majority of citations are from journals, followed by web resources and books. The study further reveals that the average length of articles is 13.017 pages and the scattering of contributors is limited within a few countries. Originality/value - The paper is relevant and useful to those who are interested in bibliometrics and it provides a comprehensive study of scholarly communication of The Electronic Library, from 2003-2009 for comprehending essential publishing traits of this journal during the stated period. AUTHOR ADDRESS: KL Jena, Coll Engn & Technol, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Irreproducible Experimental Results Causes, (Mis)interpretations, and Consequences (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Loscalzo, J SOURCE: CIRCULATION 125 (10). MAR 13 2012. p.1211-1214 LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS, PHILADELPHIA SEARCH TERM(S): JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 295:90 2006; KEYWORDS: Editorials; experimental irreproducibility KEYWORDS+: FRAUD AUTHOR ADDRESS: J Loscalzo, Harvard Univ, Sch Med, Brigham & Womens Hosp, Dept Med, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115 USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Exploring the development of action research in nursing and social care in the UK: A comparative bibliometric review of action research designs in social work (2000-2010) (Review, English) AUTHOR: McVicar, A; Munn-Giddings, C; Abu-Helil, C SOURCE: ACTION RESEARCH 10 (1). MAR 2012. p.79-101 SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, LONDON SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS: Action research; health and social care; participation; research capacity; social work KEYWORDS+: INTERVENTION RESEARCH; CHALLENGES ABSTRACT: Action research is promoted in the UK as a vehicle for practice development in health and social care, but its application has not been evaluated. This study reviews research designs in published social work studies, 2000-2010. Applying the analytic strategy of Munn- Giddings et al. (2008) also enabled comparison to be made with nursing action research. Action research has a strong presence in social work. Studies were highly collaborative, mainly qualitative and largely focused on practice or educational development, though user-focused change had a presence. Participant groups generally were 'active' in the research process, but participation by academics was low. In contrast, authorship was dominated by academics. External funding suggested an attractiveness of action research to funders. Action research in social work shared similarities with nursing. Main differences were involvement of the voluntary sector, the favouring of interactive group working, and a greater likelihood of service users being co-researchers. Of most concern is the lack of authorship (and by implication, ownership) by practitioners or service users. This is contrary to the underpinning inclusive philosophy, and researchers should be more proactive in acknowledging the contribution of individuals, groups or organizations, as appropriate, and so evidence their growth in research capability and capacity. AUTHOR ADDRESS: A McVicar, Anglia Ruskin Univ, Fac Hlth & Social Care, Chelmsford CM1 1SQ, Essex, England -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: How the Literature is Used A View Through Citation and Usage Statistics of the ADS (Article, English) AUTHOR: Henneken, EA; Eichhorn, G; Accomazzi, A; Kurtz, MJ; Grant, C; Thompson, D; Bohlen, E; Murray, SS SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD UN/ESA/NASA WORKSHOP ON THE INTERNATIONAL HELIOPHYSICAL YEAR 2007 AND BASIC SPACE SCIENCE: NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN. 2010. p.141-147 SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, BERLIN SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS: NASA/Smithsonian Astrophysics Data System; Citation statistics; Bibliometrics; e-prints ABSTRACT: The data holdings, usage and citation records of the NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) form a unique environment for bibliometric studies. Here we will highlight one such study. Using the citation and usage statistics from the NASA Astrophysics Data System, we study the impact of offering a paper as an electronic pre-print ("e-print") on the arXiv e-print repository, prior to its publication in a scholarly journal. We will address the following questions for astronomy: are people reading the e-prints from arXiv instead of the journal articles? Are e-prints read in a different way than journal articles? What is the impact of offering a paper as e-print prior to its publication in a scholarly journal? We will show that in astronomy, the e-prints are not being read instead of the journal article. As soon as the journal article is published, users prefer to read the article. Our analysis confirms that journal articles which were submitted as e-print on arXiv, prior to their publication, show higher citation rates than journal articles that were not submitted as e-print. AUTHOR ADDRESS: EA Henneken, Harvard Smithsonian Ctr Astrophys, 60 Garden St, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From zqding1028 at YAHOO.COM.CN Sun Apr 15 20:52:45 2012 From: zqding1028 at YAHOO.COM.CN (=?utf-8?B?5L2Q5aWHIOS4gQ==?=) Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 08:52:45 +0800 Subject: =?utf-8?Q?=E5=9B=9E=E5=A4=8D=EF=BC=9A_?= [SIGMETRICS] papers of possible interest to Sig Metrics readers In-Reply-To: <1654640A36FE964C936514B2FD0B2CB4106D1F@EAGH-ERFPMBX40.ERF.thomson.com> Message-ID: Dear Prof., Would you please send me the full text of the article "University patenting and knowledge spillover in Japan: panel-data analysis with citation data ". Thanks a lot. Sincerely yours, ZuoQi Ding Editorial staff, Chines Journal of Natural Medicines --- 12?4?16????, Eugene Garfield ??? > ???: Eugene Garfield > ??: [SIGMETRICS] papers of possible interest to Sig Metrics readers > ???: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU > ??: 2012?4?16?,??,??5:00 > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS > (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > > > > ??? > TITLE:? ? ? ? ? University > patenting and knowledge spillover in Japan: > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > panel-data analysis with citation data (Article, English) > AUTHOR:? ? ? ???Otsuka, K > SOURCE:? ? ? ???APPLIED > ECONOMICS LETTERS 19 (11). 2012. p.1045-1049 > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, ABINGDON > > SEARCH TERM(S):? CITATION? item_title; > CITATION*? item_title > > KEYWORDS:? ? ???R&D; > innovation; knowledge spillover; patent citations > KEYWORDS+:? ? ???GROWTH; MODEL > > ABSTRACT:? ? ???University-based > patents, by their nature, tend to embody > scientific knowledge, which can contribute to technological > innovation. > University patents, therefore, can be an important catalyst > between science and technology. This article examines the > contribution of university patents to technological > innovation. Using patent citation data, we investigate how > the knowledge embodied in university patents influences > technological innovation. We conclude that university-based > patents convert scientific knowledge into generic knowledge > and contribute to technological innovation. > > AUTHOR ADDRESS: K Otsuka, Ritsumeikan Univ, Coll Econ, Dept > Int Econ, Noji > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Cho > 1-1-1, Kusatsu, Shiga 5258577, Japan > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > TITLE:? ? ? ? ? Rheumatoid > arthritis and periodontitis: A possible link > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? via > "citation" (Letter, English) > AUTHOR:? ? ? ???Rosenstein, > ED; Scher, JU; Bretz, WA; Weissmann, G > SOURCE:? ? ? ???ANAEROBE 18 > (1). FEB 2012. p.162 ELSEVIER SCI LTD, > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > OXFORD > > > KEYWORDS+:? ? ???INFECTION; > SEVERITY > > AUTHOR ADDRESS: ED Rosenstein, Overlook Med Ctr, Inst > Rheumat & Autoimmune > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Dis, > 33 Overlook Rd, Summit, NJ 07901 USA > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > TITLE:? ? ? ? ? Cite Right: A Quick > Guide to Citation Styles-MLA, APA, > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > Chicago, the Sciences, Professions, and More, by C. Lipson > (Book Review, > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > English) > AUTHOR:? ? ? ???Jennings, A > SOURCE:? ? ? ???TECHNICAL > COMMUNICATION 59 (1). FEB 2012. p.69-70 SOC > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION, FAIRFAX > > SEARCH TERM(S):? CITATION? item_title; > CITATION*? item_title > > > AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Jennings, Univ Houston Downtown, BS Degree > Program > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > Profess Writing, Houston, TX 77002 USA > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > TITLE:? ? ? ? ? Contributions to > financial crisis research: an assessment > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? of > the literature in Social Science Citation Index journals > from 1990 to > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 2008 > (Article, English) > AUTHOR:? ? ? ???Moh, FY; Lu, > HP; Lin, BH > SOURCE:? ? ? ???APPLIED > ECONOMICS 44 (36). 2012. p.4689-4700 ROUTLEDGE > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, ABINGDON > > SEARCH TERM(S):???GARFIELD E? ? > ? ???SCIENCE? ? ? ? > ? ? > ???178:471???1972; > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > ???GARFIELD E? ? ? > ???J AM SOC INFORM SCI? ? > 49:768???1998 > > KEYWORDS+:? ? ???CURRENCY CRISIS; > BANKING CRISIS; INTERNATIONAL-BUSINESS; > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > CORPORATE GOVERNANCE; DEBT CRISIS; IMPACT; LESSONS; > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > ARTICLES; RETURNS; AUTHORS > > ABSTRACT:? ? ???Research in the > field of financial crisis has generated a > considerable amount of literature in the past, yet there has > neither been any study to assess the contributions to the > literature made by individuals or institutions, nor any to > measure the impact of the articles and researchers. This > study represents an attempt to: (1) investigate the major > journals in publishing financial crisis research, > (2) assess the contributions of individual researchers and > institutions using the credited contribution approach and > (3) measure the impact of individual publications and > individual researchers on the financial crisis literature > through citation analysis, based on the publications in > Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) journals from 1990 to > 2008. The findings provide a useful benchmark for assessing > individual and institutional research productivity, and > trends for future research and venues for publications are > identified. > > AUTHOR ADDRESS: FY Moh, Natl Taiwan Univ Sci & Technol, > Grad Inst > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > Management, 43,Sect 4,Keelung Rd, Taipei 106, Taiwan > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > TITLE:? ? ? ? ? Fatigue after > subarachnoid haemorrhage: A systematic > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > review (Review, English) > AUTHOR:? ? ? ???Kutlubaev, MA; > Barugh, AJ; Mead, GE > SOURCE:? ? ? ???JOURNAL OF > PSYCHOSOMATIC RESEARCH 72 (4). APR 2012. > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > p.305-310 PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, OXFORD > > SEARCH TERM(S):??? > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > ???GARFIELD E? ? ? > ???SCIENTIST? ? ? ? > ? ? ???3:12? ? 1989; > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > ???J PSYCHOSOM RES? source_abbrev_20 > > KEYWORDS:? ? ???Fatigue; > Subarachnoid haemorrhage; Long-term outcomes > KEYWORDS+:? ? ???QUALITY-OF-LIFE; > LONG-TERM; ANEURYSMAL SAH; DISORDERS; > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > EPIDEMIOLOGY; DYSFUNCTION; PREVALENCE; SYMPTOMS; OUTCOMES; > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > STROKE > > ABSTRACT:? ? ???Background: Fatigue > is common and debilitating symptom in > many neurological disorders and it has been reported in > patients after non-traumatic subarachnoid haemorrhage > (SAH). > > Objectives: We undertook a systematic review to identify and > critically appraise all published studies that have reported > frequency, severity and time course of fatigue after SAH, > the factors associated with its development and the impact > of fatigue on patients' life after SAH. > > Methods: We searched Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, > AMED, PubMed and included in the review all studies > published in English, recruiting at least 10 patients > (>18 years old) after SAH, which reported fatigue. > > Results: We identified 13 studies (total number of subjects > 737) meeting our inclusion criteria. The frequency of > fatigue ranged from 31 to 90%. > Fatigue remained common even several years after the ictus. > According to some studies fatigue after SAH was associated > with sleep disturbances, anxiety, depression, posttraumatic > stress disorder, cognitive and physical impairment, but > these could not explain all cases of fatigue. > Fatigue reduces quality of life and life satisfaction in > patients after SAH. > > Conclusions: Fatigue is common after SAH and seems to > persist. Further research is needed to clarify its time > course and identify factors associated with its development. > (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. > > AUTHOR ADDRESS: MA Kutlubaev, Univ Edinburgh, Royal Infirm > Edinburgh, Room > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > S1643, Edinburgh EH16 5NN, Midlothian, Scotland > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > TITLE:? ? ? ? ? BAYESIAN > META-ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL NETWORK DATA VIA > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > CONDITIONAL UNIFORM GRAPH QUANTILES (Article, English) > AUTHOR:? ? ? ???Butts, CT > SOURCE:? ? ? ???SOCIOLOGICAL > METHODOLOGY 2011, VOL 41 41. 2011. > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > p.257-298 BLACKWELL SCIENCE PUBL, OXFORD > > SEARCH TERM(S):? PRICE DJD? rauth > > KEYWORDS+:? ? ???EXPONENTIAL > FAMILY; SAMPLE-SURVEYS; MODELS; POWER; > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > DISTRIBUTIONS; INFERENCE; SOCIOMATRICES; MIXTURES; > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > DYNAMICS; DENSITY > > ABSTRACT:? ? ???Many basic > questions in the social network literature > center on the distribution of aggregate structural > properties within and across populations of networks. Such > questions are of increasing relevance given the growing > availability of network data suitable for meta-analytic > studies, as well as the rise of study designs that involve > the collection of data on multiple networks drawn from a > larger population. Despite this, little work has been done > on model-based inference for the properties of graph > populations, or on methods for comparing such populations. > Here, we attempt to rectify this gap by introducing a family > of techniques that combines an existing approach to the > identification of structural biases in network data (the use > of conditional uniform graph quantiles) with strategies > drawn from nonparametric Bayesian analysis. Conditional > uniform graph quantiles are the quantiles of an observed > structural property in the reference distribution produced > by evaluating that property over all graphs with certain > fixed characteristics (e.g., size or density). These > quantiles have long been used to measure the extent to which > a property of interest on a single network deviates from > what would be expected given that network's other > characteristics. The methods introduced here employ such > quantile information to allow for principled inference > regarding the distribution of structural biases within (and > comparison across) populations of networks, given data > sampled at the network level. The data requirements of these > methods are minimal, thus making them well- suited to > meta-analytic applications for which complete network data > (as opposed to summary statistics) are often unavailable. > The structural biases inferred using these methods can be > expressed in terms of posterior predictives for familiar and > easily communicated quantities, such as p-values. In > addition to the methods themselves, we present algorithms > for posterior simulation from this model class, illustrating > their use with applications to the analysis of social > structure within urban communes and radio communications > among emergency personnel. We also discuss how this approach > may applied to quantiles arising from other reference > distributions, such as those obtained using general > exponential-family random graph models. > > AUTHOR ADDRESS: CT Butts, Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Sociol, > SSPA 2145, > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > Irvine, CA 92697 USA > > > > > > From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Mon Apr 16 14:07:03 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:07:03 +0000 Subject: =?utf-8?Q?=E5=9B=9E=E5=A4=8D=EF=BC=9A_?= [SIGMETRICS] papers of possible interest to Sig Metrics readers In-Reply-To: <1334537565.52830.YahooMailClassic@web15102.mail.cnb.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Here is the full WOS record. I suggest you send email to the author requesting an e-print. Best wishes. E. Garfield -----Original Message----- From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of ?? ? Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2012 8:53 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: [SIGMETRICS] ??? [SIGMETRICS] papers of possible interest to Sig Metrics readers Dear Prof., Would you please send me the full text of the article "University patenting and knowledge spillover in Japan: panel-data analysis with citation data ". Thanks a lot. Sincerely yours, ZuoQi Ding Editorial staff, Chines Journal of Natural Medicines --- 12?4?16????, Eugene Garfield ??? > ???: Eugene Garfield > ??: [SIGMETRICS] papers of possible interest to Sig Metrics readers > ???: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU > ??: 2012?4?16?,??,??5:00 > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS > (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > > > > ??? > TITLE:? ? ? ? ? University > patenting and knowledge spillover in Japan: > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > panel-data analysis with citation data (Article, English) > AUTHOR:? ? ? ???Otsuka, K > SOURCE:? ? ? ???APPLIED > ECONOMICS LETTERS 19 (11). 2012. p.1045-1049 > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, ABINGDON > > SEARCH TERM(S):? CITATION? item_title; > CITATION*? item_title > > KEYWORDS:? ? ???R&D; > innovation; knowledge spillover; patent citations > KEYWORDS+:? ? ???GROWTH; MODEL > > ABSTRACT:? ? ???University-based > patents, by their nature, tend to embody scientific knowledge, which > can contribute to technological innovation. > University patents, therefore, can be an important catalyst between > science and technology. This article examines the contribution of > university patents to technological innovation. Using patent citation > data, we investigate how the knowledge embodied in university patents > influences technological innovation. We conclude that university-based > patents convert scientific knowledge into generic knowledge and > contribute to technological innovation. > > AUTHOR ADDRESS: K Otsuka, Ritsumeikan Univ, Coll Econ, Dept Int Econ, > Noji > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Cho > 1-1-1, Kusatsu, Shiga 5258577, Japan > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > TITLE:? ? ? ? ? Rheumatoid > arthritis and periodontitis: A possible link > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? via > "citation" (Letter, English) > AUTHOR:? ? ? ???Rosenstein, > ED; Scher, JU; Bretz, WA; Weissmann, G > SOURCE:? ? ? ???ANAEROBE 18 > (1). FEB 2012. p.162 ELSEVIER SCI LTD, > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > OXFORD > > > KEYWORDS+:? ? ???INFECTION; > SEVERITY > > AUTHOR ADDRESS: ED Rosenstein, Overlook Med Ctr, Inst Rheumat & > Autoimmune > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Dis, > 33 Overlook Rd, Summit, NJ 07901 USA > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > TITLE:? ? ? ? ? Cite Right: A Quick > Guide to Citation Styles-MLA, APA, > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > Chicago, the Sciences, Professions, and More, by C. Lipson (Book > Review, > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > English) > AUTHOR:? ? ? ???Jennings, A > SOURCE:? ? ? ???TECHNICAL > COMMUNICATION 59 (1). FEB 2012. p.69-70 SOC > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION, FAIRFAX > > SEARCH TERM(S):? CITATION? item_title; > CITATION*? item_title > > > AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Jennings, Univ Houston Downtown, BS Degree Program > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > Profess Writing, Houston, TX 77002 USA > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > TITLE:? ? ? ? ? Contributions to > financial crisis research: an assessment > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? of > the literature in Social Science Citation Index journals from 1990 to > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 2008 > (Article, English) > AUTHOR:? ? ? ???Moh, FY; Lu, > HP; Lin, BH > SOURCE:? ? ? ???APPLIED > ECONOMICS 44 (36). 2012. p.4689-4700 ROUTLEDGE > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, ABINGDON > > SEARCH TERM(S):???GARFIELD E > ? ???SCIENCE > ? ? > ???178:471???1972; > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > ???GARFIELD E > ???J AM SOC INFORM SCI > 49:768???1998 > > KEYWORDS+:? ? ???CURRENCY CRISIS; > BANKING CRISIS; INTERNATIONAL-BUSINESS; > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > CORPORATE GOVERNANCE; DEBT CRISIS; IMPACT; LESSONS; > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > ARTICLES; RETURNS; AUTHORS > > ABSTRACT:? ? ???Research in the > field of financial crisis has generated a considerable amount of > literature in the past, yet there has neither been any study to assess > the contributions to the literature made by individuals or > institutions, nor any to measure the impact of the articles and > researchers. This study represents an attempt to: (1) investigate the > major journals in publishing financial crisis research, > (2) assess the contributions of individual researchers and > institutions using the credited contribution approach and > (3) measure the impact of individual publications and individual > researchers on the financial crisis literature through citation > analysis, based on the publications in Social Science Citation Index > (SSCI) journals from 1990 to 2008. The findings provide a useful > benchmark for assessing individual and institutional research > productivity, and trends for future research and venues for > publications are identified. > > AUTHOR ADDRESS: FY Moh, Natl Taiwan Univ Sci & Technol, Grad Inst > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > Management, 43,Sect 4,Keelung Rd, Taipei 106, Taiwan > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > TITLE:? ? ? ? ? Fatigue after > subarachnoid haemorrhage: A systematic > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > review (Review, English) > AUTHOR:? ? ? ???Kutlubaev, MA; > Barugh, AJ; Mead, GE > SOURCE:? ? ? ???JOURNAL OF > PSYCHOSOMATIC RESEARCH 72 (4). APR 2012. > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > p.305-310 PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, OXFORD > > SEARCH TERM(S): > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > ???GARFIELD E > ???SCIENTIST > ? ? ???3:12? ? 1989; > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > ???J PSYCHOSOM RES? source_abbrev_20 > > KEYWORDS:? ? ???Fatigue; > Subarachnoid haemorrhage; Long-term outcomes > KEYWORDS+:? ? ???QUALITY-OF-LIFE; > LONG-TERM; ANEURYSMAL SAH; DISORDERS; > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > EPIDEMIOLOGY; DYSFUNCTION; PREVALENCE; SYMPTOMS; OUTCOMES; > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > STROKE > > ABSTRACT:? ? ???Background: Fatigue > is common and debilitating symptom in > many neurological disorders and it has been reported in patients after > non-traumatic subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH). > > Objectives: We undertook a systematic review to identify and > critically appraise all published studies that have reported > frequency, severity and time course of fatigue after SAH, the factors > associated with its development and the impact of fatigue on patients' > life after SAH. > > Methods: We searched Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, AMED, PubMed > and included in the review all studies published in English, > recruiting at least 10 patients > (>18 years old) after SAH, which reported fatigue. > > Results: We identified 13 studies (total number of subjects > 737) meeting our inclusion criteria. The frequency of fatigue ranged > from 31 to 90%. > Fatigue remained common even several years after the ictus. > According to some studies fatigue after SAH was associated with sleep > disturbances, anxiety, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, > cognitive and physical impairment, but these could not explain all > cases of fatigue. > Fatigue reduces quality of life and life satisfaction in patients > after SAH. > > Conclusions: Fatigue is common after SAH and seems to persist. Further > research is needed to clarify its time course and identify factors > associated with its development. > (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. > > AUTHOR ADDRESS: MA Kutlubaev, Univ Edinburgh, Royal Infirm Edinburgh, > Room > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > S1643, Edinburgh EH16 5NN, Midlothian, Scotland > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > TITLE:? ? ? ? ? BAYESIAN > META-ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL NETWORK DATA VIA > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > CONDITIONAL UNIFORM GRAPH QUANTILES (Article, English) > AUTHOR:? ? ? ???Butts, CT > SOURCE:? ? ? ???SOCIOLOGICAL > METHODOLOGY 2011, VOL 41 41. 2011. > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > p.257-298 BLACKWELL SCIENCE PUBL, OXFORD > > SEARCH TERM(S):? PRICE DJD? rauth > > KEYWORDS+:? ? ???EXPONENTIAL > FAMILY; SAMPLE-SURVEYS; MODELS; POWER; > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > DISTRIBUTIONS; INFERENCE; SOCIOMATRICES; MIXTURES; > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > DYNAMICS; DENSITY > > ABSTRACT:? ? ???Many basic > questions in the social network literature center on the distribution > of aggregate structural properties within and across populations of > networks. Such questions are of increasing relevance given the growing > availability of network data suitable for meta-analytic studies, as > well as the rise of study designs that involve the collection of data > on multiple networks drawn from a larger population. Despite this, > little work has been done on model-based inference for the properties > of graph populations, or on methods for comparing such populations. > Here, we attempt to rectify this gap by introducing a family of > techniques that combines an existing approach to the identification of > structural biases in network data (the use of conditional uniform > graph quantiles) with strategies drawn from nonparametric Bayesian > analysis. Conditional uniform graph quantiles are the quantiles of an > observed structural property in the reference distribution produced by > evaluating that property over all graphs with certain fixed > characteristics (e.g., size or density). These quantiles have long > been used to measure the extent to which a property of interest on a > single network deviates from what would be expected given that > network's other characteristics. The methods introduced here employ > such quantile information to allow for principled inference regarding > the distribution of structural biases within (and comparison across) > populations of networks, given data sampled at the network level. The > data requirements of these methods are minimal, thus making them well- > suited to meta-analytic applications for which complete network data > (as opposed to summary statistics) are often unavailable. > The structural biases inferred using these methods can be expressed in > terms of posterior predictives for familiar and easily communicated > quantities, such as p-values. In addition to the methods themselves, > we present algorithms for posterior simulation from this model class, > illustrating their use with applications to the analysis of social > structure within urban communes and radio communications among > emergency personnel. We also discuss how this approach may applied to > quantiles arising from other reference distributions, such as those > obtained using general exponential-family random graph models. > > AUTHOR ADDRESS: CT Butts, Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Sociol, SSPA 2145, > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > Irvine, CA 92697 USA > > > > > > From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Mon Apr 16 15:18:09 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:18:09 +0000 Subject: Informetrics articles and others of interest to Sig Metrics Message-ID: === *Record 1 of 40. Search terms matched: IMPACT FACTOR(1); TO(1) Title: Citation analysis and bibliometric approach for ant colony optimization from 1996 *to* 2010 Authors: Deng, GF; Lin, WT Author Full Names: Deng, Guang-Feng; Lin, Woo-Tsong Source: EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS, 39 (6):6229-6237; 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.12.001 MAY 2012 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Citation analysis; Bibliometric analysis; Ant colony optimization (ACO); Bradford Law; Lotka's Law KeyWords Plus: QUADRATIC ASSIGNMENT PROBLEM; SYSTEM; ALGORITHMS Abstract: To build awareness of the development of ant colony optimization (ACO), this study clarifies the citation and bibliometric analysis of research publications of ACO during 1996-2010. This study analysed 12,960 citations from a total of 1372 articles dealing with ACO published in 517 journals based on the databases of SCIE, SSCI and AH&CI, retrieved via the Web of Science. Bradford Law and Lotka's Law, respectively, examined the distribution of journal articles and author productivity. Furthermore, this study determines the citation impact of ACO using parameters such as extent of citation received in terms of number of citations per study, distribution of citations over time, distribution of citations among domains, citation of authors, citation of institutions, highly cited papers and citing journals and *impact factor* of 12,960 citations. This study can help researchers to better understand the history, current status and trends of ACO in the advanced study of it. (C) 2011! Elsevier I.td. All rights reserved. Reprint Address: Deng, GF (reprint author), Natl Chengchi Univ, Dept Management Informat Syst, 64,Sec 2,Chihnan Rd, Taipei 116, Taiwan Addresses: [Deng, Guang-Feng; Lin, Woo-Tsong] Natl Chengchi Univ, Dept Management Informat Syst, Taipei 116, Taiwan E-mail Address: deng at nccu.edu.tw, lin at mis.nccu.edu.tw Cited Reference Count: 20 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, THE BOULEVARD, LANGFORD LANE, KIDLINGTON, OXFORD OX5 1GB, ENGLAND ISSN: 0957-4174 DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.12.001 Subject Category: Computer Science; Engineering; Operations Research & Management Science IDS Number: 902BN Unique ID: WOS:000301013700013 Cited References: Shiau WL, 2011, EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS, V38, P3999 Rajendran C, 2004, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH, V155, P426 Abdallah H, 2009, EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS, V36, P10004 Dorigo M, 1997, BIOSYSTEMS, V43, P73 Dorigo M, 1999, ARTIFICIAL LIFE, V5, P137 Bullnheimer B, 1999, ANNALS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH, V89, P319 Dorigo M, 1996, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS MAN AND CYBERNETICS PART B-CYBERNETICS, V26, P29 Tsay MY, 2000, SCIENTOMETRICS, V49, P491 Gambardella LM, 1999, JOURNAL OF THE OPERATIONAL RESEARCH SOCIETY, V50, P167 Dorigo M, 2005, THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE, V344, P243 Stutzle T, 2000, FUTURE GENERATION COMPUTER SYSTEMS, V16, P889 Gutjahr WJ, 2000, FUTURE GENERATION COMPUTER SYSTEMS, V16, P873 Deng GF, 2011, EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS, V38, P5787 Costa D, 1997, JOURNAL OF THE OPERATIONAL RESEARCH SOCIETY, V48, P295 Merkle D, 2002, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION, V6, P333 Blum C, 2003, ACM COMPUTING SURVEYS, V35, P268 Mishra PN, 2010, MALAYSIAN JOURNAL OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE, V15, P91 Maniezzo V, 1999, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING, V11, P769 Takeda Y, 2009, SCIENTOMETRICS, V78, P543 Dorigo M, 2006, IEEE COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINE, V1, P28 ======================================================================= Title: HistCite analysis of papers constituting the h *index* *research* front Authors: Bornmann, L; Marx, W Author Full Names: Bornmann, Lutz; Marx, Werner Source: JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, 6 (2):285-288; 10.1016/j.joi.2011.11.001 APR 2012 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: h index; Research front; HistCite KeyWords Plus: SCIENTIFIC-RESEARCH OUTPUT; HIRSCH-TYPE INDEXES; BIBLIOMETRIC INDICATORS; IMPACT; JOURNALS; RANKING; SCIENCE Abstract: In the Essential Science Indicators (Thomson Reuters), a research front exists to the h index (entitled "GOOGLE SCHOLAR H-INDEX; SCIENCE CITATION INDEX; GENERALIZED HIRSCH H-INDEX; H INDEX; GOOGLE SCHOLAR CITATIONS") consisting of a group of highly cited papers. We used HistCite to analyze the structure and relationships of the 45 papers forming the h index research front. Since we were interested in the topics of research on the h index at the front, we classified each paper according to its main topic. Six topics (inductively generated) were sufficient to classify the 45 papers: (1) citation database, (2) empirical validation study, (3) new application, (4) theoretical analysis, (5) new index development, and (6) literature review. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Reprint Address: Bornmann, L (reprint author), Max Planck Soc, Hofgartenstr 8, D-80539 Munich, Germany Addresses: [Bornmann, Lutz] Max Planck Soc, D-80539 Munich, Germany [Marx, Werner] Max Planck Inst Solid State Res, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany E-mail Address: bornmann at gv.mpg.de Cited Reference Count: 34 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 1751-1577 DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2011.11.001 Subject Category: Information Science & Library Science IDS Number: 906RF Unique ID: WOS:000301364100012 Cited References: Banks MG, 2006, SCIENTOMETRICS, V69, P161 Bornmann L, 2005, SCIENTOMETRICS, V65, P391 Franceschini F, 2010, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH, V203, P494 Garfield E, 2004, JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE, V30, P119 Garfield E, 2009, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V3, P173 Panaretos J, 2009, SCIENTOMETRICS, V81, P635 Egghe L, 2006, SCIENTOMETRICS, V69, P131 Prathap G, 2006, CURRENT SCIENCE, V91, P1439 Bornmann L, 2007, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V58, P1381 GARFIELD E, 1972, SCIENCE, V178, P471 Zhang L, 2011, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V5, P583 Norris M, 2010, JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION, V66, P681 Glanzel W, 2006, SCIENTOMETRICS, V67, P315 Liu YX, 2009, SCIENTOMETRICS, V79, P235 Costas R, 2007, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V1, P193 Mingers J, 2009, JOURNAL OF THE OPERATIONAL RESEARCH SOCIETY, V60, P1143 Bornmann L, 2011, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V5, P346 Egghe L, 2006, SCIENTOMETRICS, V69, P121 Braun T, 2006, SCIENTOMETRICS, V69, P169 *THOMS REUT, 2008, US BIBL GUID EV RES, Schubert A, 2007, SCIENTOMETRICS, V70, P201 Alonso S, 2009, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V3, P273 KOSMULSKI M, 2006, FORUM AKAD, P31 Aris A, 2009, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V60, P2219 Hirsch JE, 2005, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V102, P16569 Jin BH, 2007, CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN, V52, P855 Bornmann L, 2009, EMBO REPORTS, V10, P2 Vanclay JK, 2007, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V58, P1547 Van Raan AFJ, 2006, SCIENTOMETRICS, V67, P491 Jacso P, 2005, CURRENT SCIENCE, V89, P1537 THOMPSON DF, 2009, AM J PHARM ED, V73, Schreiber M, 2008, SCIENTOMETRICS, V76, P187 Egghe L, 2010, ANNUAL REVIEW OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V44, P65 Hirsch JE, 2007, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V104, P19193 ======================================================================= Title: Which are the best performing regions in information science in terms of highly cited papers? Some improvements of our previous mapping approaches Authors: Bornmann, L; Leydesdorff, L Author Full Names: Bornmann, Lutz; Leydesdorff, Loet Source: JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, 6 (2):336-345; 10.1016/j.joi.2011.11.002 APR 2012 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Scientific excellence; Highly cited papers; I3; Geography of science; Spatial scientometrics; Google map KeyWords Plus: RELATIVE INDICATORS; IMPACT FACTOR; GEOGRAPHY; PUBLICATION; CITIES; CHARTS; MAPS Abstract: Bornmann and Leydesdorff (2011) proposed methods based on Web of Science data to identify field-specific excellence in cities where highly cited papers were published more frequently than can be expected. Top performers in output are cities in which authors are located who publish a number of highly cited papers that is statistically significantly higher than can be expected for these cities. Using papers published between 1989 and 2009 in information science improvements to the methods of Bornmann and Leydesdorff (2011) are presented and an alternative mapping approach based on the Integrated Impact Indicator (I3) is introduced here. The I3 indicator was developed by Leydesdorff and Bornmann (2011b). (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Reprint Address: Bornmann, L (reprint author), Max Planck Soc, Hofgartenstr 8, D-80539 Munich, Germany Addresses: [Bornmann, Lutz] Max Planck Soc, D-80539 Munich, Germany [Leydesdorff, Loet] Univ Amsterdam, Amsterdam Sch Commun Res, NL-1012 CX Amsterdam, Netherlands E-mail Address: bornmann at gv.mpg.de, loet at leydesdorff.net Cited Reference Count: 24 Times Cited: 1 Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 1751-1577 DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2011.11.002 Subject Category: Information Science & Library Science IDS Number: 906RF Unique ID: WOS:000301364100018 Cited References: Leydesdorff L, 2010, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V61, P1622 Ozimek A, 2011, STATA JOURNAL, V11, P106 VANNOORDEN R, 2010, NATURE, V467, P906 Bornmann L, 2011, JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY SERIES A-STATISTICS IN SOCIETY, V174, P857 *AUSTR RES COUNC, 2011, ERA 2010 CIT BENCHM, Bornmann L, 2011, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V5, P537 Leydesdorff L, 2011, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V62, P2133 SCHUBERT A, 1986, SCIENTOMETRICS, V9, P281 *NAT SCI BOARD, 2010, 1001 NSB NAT SCI FDN, Glanzel W, 2009, SCIENTOMETRICS, V78, P165 ROUSSEAU R, 1000, J AM SOC IN IN PRESS, Bornmann L, 2011, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V62, P1954 Bornmann L, 2011, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V5, P547 Garfield E, 2006, JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, V295, P90 MOED HF, 1995, SCIENTOMETRICS, V33, P381 Gingras Y, 2011, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V5, P226 SHESKIN D, 2007, HDB PARAMETRIC NONPA, Moed HF, 2010, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V4, P265 KATZ JS, 1994, SCIENTOMETRICS, V31, P31 Garcia SM, 2009, PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE, V20, P871 Bornmann L, 2011, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V5, P228 Leydesdorff L, 2011, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V62, P217 Opthof T, 2010, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V4, P423 GARFIELD E, 1979, SCIENTOMETRICS, V1, P359 ======================================================================= Title: Averages of ratios compared *to* ratios of averages: Mathematical results Authors: Egghe, L Author Full Names: Egghe, L. Source: JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, 6 (2):307-317; 10.1016/j.joi.2011.12.007 APR 2012 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Average of ratios; Ratio of averages; Global impact factor; Average impact factor; Crown indicator KeyWords Plus: IMPACT Abstract: The recently awakened discussion on the usability of averages of ratios (AoR) compared to ratios of averages (RoA) has led to the mathematical results in this paper. Based on the empirical results in Lariviere and Gingras (2011) we prove, under reasonable conditions, the following relations between AoR and RoA for a set of points: (i) The regression line of RoA in function of AoR is the first bisectrix. (ii) (AoR - RoA)/AoR in function of the number N of papers is a cloud of points comprised between a multiple of 1 root N and - 1 root N. (iii) (AoR - RoA)/AoR versus RoA has a decreasing regression line. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Reprint Address: Egghe, L (reprint author), Univ Hasselt, Campus Diepenbeek,Agoralaan, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium Addresses: [Egghe, L.] Univ Hasselt, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium [Egghe, L.] Univ Antwerp, IBW, B-2000 Antwerp, Belgium E-mail Address: leo.egghe at uhasselt.be Cited Reference Count: 12 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 1751-1577 DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2011.12.007 Subject Category: Information Science & Library Science IDS Number: 906RF Unique ID: WOS:000301364100015 Cited References: Waltman L, 2011, SCIENTOMETRICS, V87, P467 Lariviere V, 2011, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V5, P392 ROUSSEAU R, 2011, ISSI NEWSLETTER, V7, P10 Egghe L, 2002, CANADIAN JOURNAL OF INFORMATION AND LIBRARY SCIENCE-REVUE CANADIENNE DES SCIENCES DE L INFORMATION ET DE BIBLIOTHECONOMIE, V27, P29 BLOM G, 1989, PROBABILITY STAT THE, EGGHE L, 2001, ELEMENTARY STAT EFFE, Egghe L, 2000, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE, V51, P145 Waltman L, 2011, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V5, P37 Opthof T, 2010, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V4, P423 Egghe L, 1996, SCIENTOMETRICS, V36, P97 Egghe L, 1996, JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE, V22, P165 HOX JJ, 2010, MULTILEVEL ANAL, ======================================================================= * Title: Revealing *research* themes and trends in knowledge management: From 1995 *to* 2010 Authors: Lee, MR; Chen, TT Author Full Names: Lee, Maria R.; Chen, Tsung Teng Source: KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS, 28 47-58; 10.1016/j.knosys.2011.11.016 APR 2012 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Knowledge management; Research trends; Visualization; Intellectual structure; Literature review KeyWords Plus: DOMAINS INTELLECTUAL STRUCTURE; AUTHOR COCITATION; CO-WORD; SYSTEMS; NETWORKS; CITATION; SCIENCE; TOOLS Abstract: Visualizing the entire domain of knowledge and tracking the latest developments of an important discipline are challenging tasks for researchers. This study builds an intellectual structure by examining a total of 10,974 publications in the knowledge management (KM) field from 1995 to 2010. Document co-citation analysis, pathfinder network and strategic diagram techniques are applied to provide a dynamic view of the evolution of knowledge management research trends. This study provides a systematic and objective means in exploring the development of the KM discipline. This paper not only drew its finding from a large data set but also presented a longitudinal analysis of the development of the KM related studies. The results of this study reflect that the coverage of key KM papers has expanded into a broad spectrum of disciplines. A discussion of the future of KM research is also provided. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Reprint Address: Lee, MR (reprint author), Shih Chien Univ, Dept Informat Technol & Management, 70 Ta Chih St, Taipei 104, Taiwan Addresses: [Lee, Maria R.] Shih Chien Univ, Dept Informat Technol & Management, Taipei 104, Taiwan [Chen, Tsung Teng] Natl Taipei Univ, Grad Inst Informat Management, Taipei 237, Taiwan E-mail Address: maria.lee at mail.usc.edu.tw, misttc at mail.ntpu.edu.tw Cited Reference Count: 67 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 0950-7051 DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2011.11.016 Subject Category: Computer Science IDS Number: 904BN Unique ID: WOS:000301168700006 Cited References: WHITE HD, 1981, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE, V32, P163 Rodriguez JT, 2010, KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS, V23, P17 Cahlik T, 2000, SCIENTOMETRICS, V49, P373 SIMON H, 1996, SCI ARTIFICIAL, GARFIELD E, 1955, SCIENCE, V122, P108 Li BM, 2011, KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS, V24, P1108 Quaddus M, 2005, KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS, V18, P107 Kankanhalli A, 2011, INFORMATION & MANAGEMENT, V48, P106 Chen HH, 2010, KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS, V23, P924 KAKABADSE NK, 2003, J KNOWLEDGE MANAGEME, V7, P75 Singpurwalla ND, 2003, JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL PLANNING AND INFERENCE, V115, P361 TURNER WA, 1991, SCIENTOMETRICS, V22, P139 White HD, 2003, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V54, P423 Wen YF, 2009, KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS, V22, P363 Wan SA, 2009, KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS, V22, P580 SERENKO, 2004, KNOWLEDGE PROCESS MA, V11, P185 Lee MR, 2010, KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND ACQUISITION FOR SMART SYSTEMS AND SERVICES, V6232, P261 Holsapple CW, 2008, KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT RESEARCH & PRACTICE, V6, P31 MCCAIN KW, 1990, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE, V41, P433 Chen CM, 2001, COMPUTER, V34, P65 KRANSDORFF A, 2006, CORPORATE DNS, Serenko A, 2010, JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT, V14, P3 Gu YN, 2004, SCIENTOMETRICS, V61, P171 Vandaie R, 2008, KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS, V21, P920 CHAUVEL D, 2002, J KNOWLEDGE MANAGEME, V6, P207 GRUBER T, 2005, INT J SEMANTIC WEB I, Dwivedi YK, 2011, INFORMATION SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT, V28, P43 NIE Z, 2007, CIDR 2007 AS CA US, P235 Liao SH, 2003, EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS, V25, P155 CHEN TT, 2005, P INF VIS 9 INT C IV, P135 KOSILOV A, 2009, INT J NUCL KNOWLEDGE, V3, NIE Z, 2005, P 14 INT WORLD WID W, ALJAYYOUS O, 2004, J DESALINATION, V167, P27 WHITE H, 1995, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V49, P327 NONAKA I, 2006, KNOWLEDGE PROCESS MA, V13, P3 Chen CM, 2003, INFOVIS 2002: IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON INFORMATION VISUALIZATION 2003, PROCEEDINGS, P67 Nie K, 2009, SYSTEMS RESEARCH AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE, V26, P629 WEI F, 2009, KEY ENG MATER, V439, P189 Chen TT, 2006, Advances in Knowledge Acquisition and Management, V4303, P99 Lee MR, 2007, KNOWLEDGE SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT, V4798, P362 Laleci GB, 2010, KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS, V23, P832 SMALL H, 1993, SCIENTOMETRICS, V26, P5 GUO R, 2007, DECIS SUPPORT SYST, V44, P673 COURTIAL JP, 1989, SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE, V19, P301 DARROCH J, 2005, J KNOWLEDGE MANAGEME, V9, P101 CASEY A, 2003, 5 INT C ORG LEARN KN, P1 Gruber TR, 1995, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN-COMPUTER STUDIES, V43, P907 Mothe J, 2006, COMPUTERS ENVIRONMENT AND URBAN SYSTEMS, V30, P460 CHEN C, 2005, CITESPACE, V2, Borner K, 2003, ANNUAL REVIEW OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V37, P179 WEBSTER J, 2002, MIS Q, V26, P8 SHANNON C, 1998, MATH THEORY COMMUNIC, Xu Y, 2011, KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS, V24, P166 Hyland K, 2003, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V54, P251 Ponzi LJ, 2002, SCIENTOMETRICS, V55, P259 MOTHE J, 2004, 6 INT C SOC SCI METH, SUBRAMANI M, 2003, EXAMINING INTELLECTU, P23 POPPER KR, 1972, OBJECTIVE KNOWLEDGE, CHEN C, 2002, HDB SOFTWARE ENG KNO, V2, P700 Alavi M, 2001, MIS QUARTERLY, V25, P107 Chen TT, 2010, ELECTRONIC LIBRARY, V28, P477 GUARINO N, 1998, INT C FORM ONT INF S, ACKOFF RL, 1989, J APPL SYSTEMS ANAL, V16, P3 SCHVANEVELDT R, 1990, PATHFINDER ASS NETWO, Wei H, 2011, KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS, V24, P542 Kebede G, 2010, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT, V30, P416 BONNER D, 2000, LEADING KNOWLEDGE MA, ======================================================================= Title: Interactive overlays: A new method for generating global journal maps from Web-of-Science data Authors: Leydesdorff, L; Rafols, I Author Full Names: Leydesdorff, Loet; Rafols, Ismael Source: JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, 6 (2):318-332; 10.1016/j.joi.2011.11.003 APR 2012 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Map; Journal; Overlay; VOSViewer; Gephi KeyWords Plus: PEARSONS CORRELATION-COEFFICIENT; SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CITATION RELATIONS; INFORMATION-THEORY; SALTONS COSINE; MAPPING CHANGE; NETWORKS; COMMUNICATION; INDICATORS Abstract: Recent advances in methods and techniques enable us to develop interactive overlays to a global map of science based on aggregated citation relations among the 9162 journals contained in the Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index 2009. We first discuss the pros and cons of the various options: cited versus citing, multidimensional scaling versus spring-embedded algorithms, VOSViewer versus Gephi, and the various clustering algorithms and similarity criteria. Our approach focuses on the positions of journals in the multidimensional space spanned by the aggregated journal-journal citations. Using VOSViewer for the resulting mapping, a number of choices can be left to the user; we provide default options reflecting our preferences. Some examples are also provided; for example, the potential of using this technique to assess the interdisciplinarity of organizations and/or document sets. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Reprint Address: Leydesdorff, L (reprint author), Univ Amsterdam, ASCoR, Kloveniersburgwal 48, NL-1012 CX Amsterdam, Netherlands Addresses: [Leydesdorff, Loet] Univ Amsterdam, ASCoR, NL-1012 CX Amsterdam, Netherlands [Rafols, Ismael] Univ Sussex, Freeman Ctr, SPRU Sci & Technol Policy Res, Falmer Brighton BN1 9QE, E Sussex, England E-mail Address: loet at leydesdorff.net, i.rafols at sussex.ac.uk Cited Reference Count: 74 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 1751-1577 DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2011.11.003 Subject Category: Information Science & Library Science IDS Number: 906RF Unique ID: WOS:000301364100016 Cited References: LEYDESDORFF L, 1991, SOCIAL NETWORKS, V13, P301 BLONDEL VD, 2008, J STAT MECH-THEORY E, V8, P10008 FRUCHTERMAN TMJ, 1991, SOFTWARE-PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE, V21, P1129 LATOUR B, 1987, TRIBUNALS REASON, PCH5 Newman MEJ, 2004, PHYSICAL REVIEW E, V69, Klavans R, 2006, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION 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Normalization; McCall's area transformation; Rubin Causal Model KeyWords Plus: PUBLICATION; SCIENCE; APPROPRIATE; INDICATORS; INFERENCE; SCORES; INDEX Abstract: The journal *impact factor* (JIF) proposed by Garfield in the year 1955 is one of the most prominent and common measures of the prestige, position, and importance of a scientific journal. The JIF may profit from its comprehensibility, robustness, methodological reproducibility, simplicity, and rapid availability, but it is at the expense of serious technical and methodological flaws. The paper discusses two core problems with the JIF: first, citations of documents are generally not normally distributed, and, furthermore, the distribution is affected by outliers, which has serious consequences for the use of the mean value in the JIF calculation. Second, the JIF is affected by bias factors that have nothing to do with the prestige or quality of a journal (e.g., document type). For solving these two problems, we suggest using McCall's area transformation and the Rubin Causal Model. Citation data for documents of all journals in the ISI Subject Category "Psychology, Mathematica! l" (Journal Citation Report) are used to illustrate the proposal. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Reprint Address: Mutz, R (reprint author), Swiss Fed Inst Technol, Muhlegasse 21, CH-8001 Zurich, Switzerland Addresses: [Mutz, Ruediger; Daniel, Hans-Dieter] Swiss Fed Inst Technol, CH-8001 Zurich, Switzerland E-mail Address: mutz at gess.ethz.ch Cited Reference Count: 35 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 1751-1577 DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2011.12.006 Subject Category: Information Science & Library Science IDS Number: 906RF Unique ID: WOS:000301364100002 Cited References: Schweizer K, 2010, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT, V26, P235 COCHRAN WG, 1968, BIOMETRICS, V24, P295 GARFIELD E, 1955, SCIENCE, V122, P108 Glanzel W, 2002, SCIENTOMETRICS, V53, P171 MOED HF, 1995, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE, V46, P461 Bornmann L, 2011, JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY SERIES A-STATISTICS IN SOCIETY, V174, P857 HOLLAND PW, 1986, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION, V81, P945 BOOR M, 1982, AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST, V37, P975 RUBIN DB, 1974, JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY, V66, P688 BRAUN T, 1989, SCIENTOMETRICS, V15, P325 Rubin DB, 2006, MATCHED SAMPLING FOR CAUSAL EFFECTS, P1 ROTTON J, 1993, AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST, V48, P911 Leydesdorff L, 2011, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V62, P2133 HUBER PJ, 1981, ROBUST STAT, KRUS DJ, 1977, EDUCATIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT, V37, P257 Leydesdorff L, 2010, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V61, P2365 RUBIN DB, 1977, J EDUC STATIST, V2, P1 BORNMANN L, 2008, ETHICS SCI ENV POLIT, V8, P93 Rubin DB, 2004, JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL AND BEHAVIORAL STATISTICS, V29, P343 Moed HF, 1999, SCIENTOMETRICS, V46, P575 Anseel F, 2004, AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST, V59, P49 Glanzel W, 2011, SCIENTOMETRICS, V87, P415 Bornmann L, 2011, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V5, P228 DEKKING FM, 2005, MODERN INTRO PROBABI, Leydesdorff L, 2011, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V62, P217 Moed HF, 2010, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V4, P265 Garfield E, 2006, JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, V295, P90 MCCALL WA, 1922, MEASURE ED, Egloff B, 2006, PSYCHOLOGISCHE RUNDSCHAU, V57, P116 Beirlant J, 2007, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V1, P185 Garfield E, 1999, CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL, V161, P979 TODOROV R, 1988, JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE, V14, P47 GUO S, 2010, PROPENSITY SCORE ANA, Glanzel W, 2011, JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE, V37, P40 Neuhaus C, 2009, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V60, P176 ======================================================================= Title: The case of scientometricians with the "absolute relative" impact indicator Authors: Vinkler, P Author Full Names: Vinkler, Peter Source: JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, 6 (2):254-264; 10.1016/j.joi.2011.12.004 APR 2012 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Relative impact indicator; "crown" indicator; Relative citation rate; Relative subfield citedness KeyWords Plus: HIGHLY CITED PAPERS; BIBLIOMETRIC INDICATORS; RESEARCH PERFORMANCE; CITATION IMPACT; CROWN INDICATOR; G-INDEX; PUBLICATIONS; UNIVERSITY; CHARTS; OUTPUT Abstract: The effect of two different calculation methods for obtaining relative impact indicators is modelled. Science policy considerations make it clear that evaluating the sets of publications, the "ratio of the sums" method should be preferred over the "mean of the ratios" method. Accordingly, determining the relative total impact against the mean relative impact of the publications of teams or institutes may be preferred. The special problem caused by relating the number of citations of an individual article to the Garfield (*Impact) Factor* (or mean citedness) of the publishing journal (or a set of journals selected as standard) lower than zero is demonstrated by examples. The possible effects of the different share of publications in different fields on the value of the "new crown" index are also modelled. The assessment methods using several appropriately weighted indicators which result in a composite index are recommended. The acronym "BMV" is suggested to term the relative! impact indicators (e.g. RCR, CPP/JCS(m), CPP/FCSm and RW) in scientometrics. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Reprint Address: Vinkler, P (reprint author), Hungarian Acad Sci, Chem Res Ctr, POB 17, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary Addresses: Hungarian Acad Sci, Chem Res Ctr, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary E-mail Address: pvinkler at chemres.hu Cited Reference Count: 41 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 1751-1577 DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2011.12.004 Subject Category: Information Science & Library Science IDS Number: 906RF Unique ID: WOS:000301364100009 Cited References: Glanzel W, 2009, SCIENTOMETRICS, V78, P165 BORNMANN L, 2008, ETHICS SCI ENV POLIT, V8, P93 VANRAAN AFJ, 2004, HDB QUANTITATIVE SCI, P19 Moed HF, 2010, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V4, P436 Opthof T, 2010, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V4, P423 Aksnes DW, 2004, RESEARCH EVALUATION, V13, P33 Waltman L, 2011, SCIENTOMETRICS, V87, P467 Bornmann L, 2011, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V5, P346 Egghe L, 2006, SCIENTOMETRICS, V69, P131 Schreiber M, 2008, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V59, P1513 BRAUN T, 1985, SCIENTOMETRIC INDICA, Lundberg J, 2007, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V1, P145 Leydesdorff L, 2011, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V5, P224 Bornmann L, 2010, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V4, P441 Spaan JAE, 2010, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V4, P439 Lariviere V, 2011, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V5, P392 Vinkler P, 2006, SCIENTOMETRICS, V68, P629 Vinkler P, 2011, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V62, P1963 Vinkler P, 2009, JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE, V35, P602 MORAVCSIK MJ, 1988, HDB QUANTITATIVE STU, P11 SCHUBERT A, 1986, SCIENTOMETRICS, V9, P281 MOED HF, 1985, RESEARCH POLICY, V14, P131 PLOMP R, 1990, SCIENTOMETRICS, V19, P185 Waltman L, 2011, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V5, P37 Vinkler P, 2004, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V55, P431 MOED HF, 1985, SCIENTOMETRICS, V8, P177 Vinkler P, 2010, EVALUATION OF RESEARCH BY SCIENTOMETRIC INDICATORS, P1 Vinkler P, 2011, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V62, P1430 Vinkler P, 2002, SCIENTOMETRICS, V53, P267 Vinkler P, 2003, SCIENTOMETRICS, V58, P687 Hirsch JE, 2005, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V102, P16569 Vinkler P, 2010, SCIENTOMETRICS, V82, P461 Vinkler P, 1996, SCIENTOMETRICS, V36, P223 Bornmann L, 2011, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V5, P228 Aksnes DW, 2003, RESEARCH EVALUATION, V12, P159 van Raan AFJ, 2010, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V4, P431 Gingras Y, 2011, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V5, P226 Egghe L, 1996, JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE, V22, P165 ELKANA Y, 1977, METRIC SCI ADVENT SC, P39 Egghe L, 2002, CANADIAN JOURNAL OF INFORMATION AND LIBRARY SCIENCE-REVUE CANADIENNE DES SCIENCES DE L INFORMATION ET DE BIBLIOTHECONOMIE, V27, P29 VINKLER P, 1986, SCIENTOMETRICS, V10, P157 ======================================================================= ======================================================================= Title: *Research* trends on pathogenic Cryptococcus species in the last 20 years: a global analysis with focus on Brazil Authors: Albuquerque, PC; Rodrigues, ML Author Full Names: Albuquerque, Priscila C.; Rodrigues, Marcio L. Source: FUTURE MICROBIOLOGY, 7 (3):319-329; 10.2217/FMB.11.162 MAR 2012 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Brazil; Cryptococcus gattii; Cryptococcus neoformans; publication records KeyWords Plus: FUNGAL PATHOGEN; NEOFORMANS; GATTII; CAPSULE; AIDS; POLYSACCHARIDE; MENINGITIS; DISCOVERY; CELLS Abstract: Aims: Recent data demonstrates that cryptococcosis caused by Cryptococcus neoformans or Cryptococcus gattii kills approximately 600,000 people per year in the world. In Brazil, cryptococcosis has recently been identified as the most fatal mycosis in AIDS patients. In this study, we aimed to map research into C. neoformans and C. gattii in the world, with a focus on the Brazilian contribution to this area. Methods: The parameters used for this analysis were based on publication records, including number of articles published, citation indices, journal *impact factor* and distribution of authorship in the last two decades. Results: Our global analysis of publications demonstrated that, in the last 20 years, the USA was the country that produced the highest number of scientific articles in the Cryptococcus field, while Brazil occupied the third position. Brazilian productivity, however, showed a steady tendency to increase, in contrast to the USA and other countries. The averag! e *impact factor* of journals at which articles authored by Brazilians were published was 2.58, which represented approximately half the value found for papers of American authorship. Studies authored by Brazilian scientists showed relatively low averages of citations per article, in comparison to papers published by researchers from the USA, France, Australia, The Netherlands and Germany, among others. Conclusion: This study demonstrates that the contribution of Brazilian scientists to the Cryptococcus field is continually growing, although papers produced in Brazil apparently have poor repercussion in comparison to those generated in developed countries. Reprint Address: Rodrigues, ML (reprint author), Univ Fed Rio de Janeiro, Lab Estudos Integrados Bioquim Microbiana, Inst Microbiol Prof Paulo de Goes, BR-21941902 Rio De Janeiro, Brazil Addresses: [Albuquerque, Priscila C.; Rodrigues, Marcio L.] Univ Fed Rio de Janeiro, Lab Estudos Integrados Bioquim Microbiana, Inst Microbiol Prof Paulo de Goes, BR-21941902 Rio De Janeiro, Brazil E-mail Address: marcio at micro.ufrj.br Funding Acknowledgement: Brazilian agency CAPES; Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (CAPES, Brazil); Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq, Brazil); Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ, Brazil) Funding Text: ML Rodrigues is supported by grants from Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (CAPES, Brazil), Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq, Brazil) and Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ, Brazil). The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed. Cited Reference Count: 49 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: FUTURE MEDICINE LTD, UNITEC HOUSE, 3RD FLOOR, 2 ALBERT PLACE, FINCHLEY CENTRAL, LONDON, N3 1QB, ENGLAND ISSN: 1746-0913 DOI: 10.2217/FMB.11.162 Subject Category: Microbiology IDS Number: 904BP Unique ID: WOS:000301168900007 Cited References: 1000, SCIMAGO J COUNTRY RA, ZARAGOZA O, 2010, ACTUALIDAD SEM SOC E, V49, P30 Doering TL, 2009, ANNUAL REVIEW OF MICROBIOLOGY, V63, P223 Casadevall A, 2009, TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY, V17, P158 PERFECT JR, 1980, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY, V101, P177 Chayakulkeeree M, 2006, INFECTIOUS DISEASE CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA, V20, P507 KOVACS JA, 1985, ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE, V103, P533 2011, NAT MED, V17, P1169 Velagapudi R, 2009, INFECTION AND IMMUNITY, V77, P4345 RODRIGUES MI, 2011, MYCOPATHOLOGIA, Meneghini R, 2008, PLOS ONE, V3, MUKHERJEE J, 1992, INFECTION AND IMMUNITY, V60, P4534 Santos LMP, 2011, HEALTH RESEARCH POLICY AND SYSTEMS, V9, BYRNES EJ, 2009, F1000 BIOL REPORTS, V1, P62 ROSEFF SA, 1993, INFECTION AND IMMUNITY, V61, P3818 Lin XR, 2009, INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION, V9, P401 Prado M, 2009, MEMORIAS DO INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ, V104, P513 Zaragoza O, 2009, ADVANCES IN APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY, VOL 68, V68, P133 Byrnes EJ, 2011, MICROBES AND INFECTION, V13, P895 RODRIGUES ML, 2009, MICROBE, V4, P467 Fries BC, 2011, CRYPTOCOCCUS: FROM HUMAN PATHOGEN TO MODEL YEAST, P515 Rivera J, 1998, INFECTION AND IMMUNITY, V66, P5027 Loftus BJ, 2005, SCIENCE, V307, P1321 Chaturvedi V, 2011, TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY, V19, P564 CHERNIAK R, 1980, MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY, V17, P1025 KWONCHUNG KJ, 1975, MYCOLOGIA, V67, P1197 PERFECT JR, 1989, INFECT DIS CLIN N AM, V3, P77 Park BJ, 2009, AIDS, V23, P525 Kozubowski L, 2009, CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY, V11, P370 Chaturvedi S, 2005, EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES, V11, P1686 Garcia-Rodas R, 2012, FEMS IMMUNOLOGY AND MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY, V64, P147 ZARAGOZA O, 2011, FRONT MICROBIOL, V2, P181 Datta K, 2009, EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES, V15, P1185 Petherick A, 2011, NATURE MEDICINE, V17, P1173 Kidd SE, 2004, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V101, P17258 CHAYAKULKEEREE M, 2006, INFECT DIS CLIN N AM, V20, PR5 ELLIS DH, 1990, LANCET, V336, P923 Jung WH, 2008, CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY, V10, P277 BENNETT JE, 1966, ANTIMICROB AGENTS CH, V6, P405 Barbosa FM, 2006, MICROBES AND INFECTION, V8, P493 Silva FD, 2011, FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS, V324, P64 WANG X, 2011, MYCOPATHOLOGIA, 1000, WORLD FACTBOOK 2009, KWONCHUNG KJ, 2011, MYCOPATHOLOGIA, MITCHELL TG, 1995, CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY REVIEWS, V8, P515 Esteves B, 2011, NATURE MEDICINE, V17, P1174 DIXIT A, 2009, INTERDISCIP PERSPECT, P40452 KWONCHUNG KJ, 2002, TAXON, V51, P804 Odom A, 1997, ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY, V41, P156 ======================================================================= * Search terms matched: IMPACT FACTOR(1); S(1); TO(1) * Title: A Review of the Journal of Investigative Dermatology'*s* Most Cited Publications over the Past 25 Years and the Use of Developing Bibliometric Methodologies *to* Assess Journal Quality Authors: Bickers, DR; Modlin, RL Author Full Names: Bickers, David R.; Modlin, Robert L. Source: JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY, 132 (3):1050-1060; Part 2 10.1038/jid.2011.391 MAR 2012 Language: English Document Type: Review KeyWords Plus: IMPACT FACTOR; CITATION; CELLS Abstract: The JID is a major resource for publishing dermatologic research. Here we document bibliometric systems that permit detailed analysis of JID's relative scientific quality. We provide an overview of metrics employed by ISI Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge and Elsevier's open-access Scopus to measure JID's comparative performance. We list JID's 50 most cited articles between 1986 and 2010 and summarize the six most cited papers published during this period. We conclude by showing how selected cited papers have influenced research in the JID subcategories of immunology/infection and photobiology during this period. JID has thrived as the strength of its editorial leadership and the quality of dermatologic science have grown apace. Reprint Address: Bickers, DR (reprint author), Herbert Irving Pavil, Room 1214,161 Ft Washington Ave, New York, NY 10032 USA Addresses: [Bickers, David R.] Columbia Univ, Dept Dermatol, Med Ctr, New York, NY 10027 USA [Modlin, Robert L.] UCLA Med Ctr, David Geffen Sch Med, Dept Med, Div Dermatol, Los Angeles, CA USA E-mail Address: drb25 at columbia.edu Cited Reference Count: 26 Times Cited: 1 Publisher: NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 75 VARICK ST, 9TH FLR, NEW YORK, NY 10013-1917 USA ISSN: 0022-202X DOI: 10.1038/jid.2011.391 Subject Category: Dermatology IDS Number: 893RW Unique ID: WOS:000300374100037 Cited References: ROUSSEAU R, 2009, RELATION WOS IMPACT, Lo EH, 2011, STROKE, V42, P1803 BUOYSSOUA D, 2010, J INFORMETR, V4, P365 Beel J, 2009, PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2009 - 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOL 1, V1, P230 KLIGMAN AM, 1966, JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY, V47, P393 Evans JA, 2008, SCIENCE, V321, P395 RIZKALLAH J, 2010, PLOS ONE, V5, P1 Hoeffel C, 1998, ALLERGY, V53, P1225 Rossner M, 2008, JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY, V180, P254 BIRBECK MS, 1961, JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY, V37, P51 Bornmann L, 2011, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V5, P346 Favaloro EJ, 2008, SEMINARS IN THROMBOSIS AND HEMOSTASIS, V34, P7 COHEN S, 1963, JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY, V40, P1 Garfield E, 2006, JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, V295, P90 Dellavalle RP, 2007, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DERMATOLOGY, V57, P116 Fersht A, 2009, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V106, P6883 Franceschet M, 2010, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V4, P239 ELSAIE ML, 2009, INDIAN J DERMATOL, V54, P83 KARASEK MA, 1966, JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY, V47, P533 Hirsch JE, 2005, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V102, P16569 BEUTNER EH, 1968, JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY, V51, P63 Wolthoff A, 2011, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGY, V21, P495 STERN RS, 1988, JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY, V91, P120 Loscalzo J, 2011, CIRCULATION, V123, P947 Sanni SA, 2010, MALAYSIAN JOURNAL OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE, V15, P35 NORRIS DA, 1989, JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY, V92, PS149 ======================================================================= * Title: Predictive Effects of Structural Variation on Citation Counts Authors: Chen, CM Author Full Names: Chen, Chaomei Source: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 63 (3):431-449; 10.1002/asi.21694 MAR 2012 Language: English Document Type: Article KeyWords Plus: UNDISCOVERED PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE; NETWORKS; SCIENCE; FORESIGHT; ARTICLES; PERSPECTIVE; TECHNOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; DYNAMICS; PATTERNS Abstract: A critical part of a scientific activity is to discern how a new idea is related to what we know and what may become possible. As the number of new scientific publications arrives at a rate that rapidly outpaces our capacity of reading, analyzing, and synthesizing scientific knowledge, we need to augment ourselves with information that can effectively guide us through the rapidly growing intellectual space. In this article, we address a fundamental issue concerning what kinds of information may serve as early signs of potentially valuable ideas. In particular, we are interested in information that is routinely available and derivable upon the publication of a scientific paper without assuming the availability of additional information such as its usage and citations. We propose a theoretical and computational model that predicts the potential of a scientific publication in terms of the degree to which it alters the intellectual structure of the state of the art. The structur! al variation approach focuses on the novel boundary-spanning connections introduced by a new article to the intellectual space. We validate the role of boundary-spanning in predicting future citations using three metrics of structural variation-namely, modularity change rate, cluster linkage, and Centrality Divergence-along with more commonly studied predictors of citations such as the number of coauthors, the number of cited references, and the number of pages. Main effects of these factors are estimated for five cases using zero-inflated negative binomial regression models of citation counts. Key findings indicate that (a) structural variations measured by cluster linkage are a better predictor of citation counts than are the more commonly studied variables such as the number of references cited, (b) the number of coauthors and the number of references are both good predictors of global citation counts to a lesser extent, and (c) the Centrality Divergence metric is potent! ially valuable for detecting boundary-spanning activities at i! nterdisc iplinary levels. The structural variation approach offers a new way to monitor and discern the potential of newly published papers in context. The boundary-spanning mechanism offers a conceptually simplified and unifying explanation of the roles played by commonly studied extrinsic properties of a publication in the study of citation behavior. Reprint Address: Chen, CM (reprint author), Drexel Univ, Coll Informat Sci & Technol, 3141 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA Addresses: Drexel Univ, Coll Informat Sci & Technol, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA E-mail Address: chaomei.chen at drexel.edu Cited Reference Count: 55 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: WILEY-BLACKWELL, COMMERCE PLACE, 350 MAIN ST, MALDEN 02148, MA USA ISSN: 1532-2882 DOI: 10.1002/asi.21694 Subject Category: Computer Science; Information Science & Library Science IDS Number: 902KZ Unique ID: WOS:000301038300001 Cited References: GARFIELD E, 1955, SCIENCE, V122, P108 LAMBERT D, 1992, TECHNOMETRICS, V34, P1 Miles I, 2010, TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE, V77, P1448 Martin BR, 2010, TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE, V77, P1438 Kurtz MJ, 2005, INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT, V41, P1395 Fauconnier G, 1998, COGNITIVE SCIENCE, V22, P133 Shibata N, 2007, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V58, P872 CHUBIN DE, 1990, PAPERLESS SCI PEER R, Newman MEJ, 2006, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V103, P8577 BOYACK KW, 2005, 10 INT C INT SOC SCI, ZEILEIS A, 2011, REGRESSION MODELS CO, Levitt JM, 2008, SCIENTOMETRICS, V77, P41 Lipinski C, 2004, NATURE, V432, P855 Galea S, 2002, NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE, V346, P982 Chen CM, 2009, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V3, P191 van Dalen HP, 2005, SCIENTOMETRICS, V64, P209 Tichy G, 2004, TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE, V71, P341 Skilton PF, 2009, SCIENTOMETRICS, V78, P525 Walters GD, 2006, SCIENTOMETRICS, V69, P499 Aksnes DW, 2003, RESEARCH EVALUATION, V12, P159 WEEBER M, 2003, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V54, P913 PRICE DJD, 1965, SCIENCE, V149, P510 Takeda Y, 2010, SCIENTOMETRICS, V83, P783 Bornmann L, 2008, JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION, V64, P45 SWANSON DR, 1986, LIBRARY QUARTERLY, V56, P103 CHEN C, 2011, TURNING POINTS NATUR, Persson O, 2010, SCIENTOMETRICS, V83, P397 HETTICH S, 2006, P 12 ACM SIGKDD INT, P862 Cuhls K, 2001, TECHNOLOGY ANALYSIS & STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, V13, P555 Chen CM, 2006, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V57, P359 CHUBIN DE, 1994, EVALUATION REVIEW, V18, P20 VONLUXBURG U, 2006, TUTORIAL SPECTRAL CL, HAYRYNEN M, 2007, BREAKTHROUGH RES FUN, LEYDESDORFF L, 2001, CHALLENGE SCIENTOMET, Chen CM, 2010, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V61, P1386 Hirsch JE, 2007, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V104, P19193 CHEN C, 2006, 69 ANN M AM SOC INF, HILBE JM, 2011, NEGATIVE BINOMIAL RE, SWANSON DR, 1986, PERSPECTIVES IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE, V30, P7 FLEMING L, 2000, APPL STAT WORKSH, LAHIRI M, 2008, 2008 IEEE INT C DAT, Chen CM, 2002, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V53, P678 Barabasi AL, 1999, SCIENCE, V286, P509 Upham SP, 2010, SCIENTOMETRICS, V83, P555 CHEN C, 2003, MAPPING SCI FRONTIER, Watts DJ, 1998, NATURE, V393, P440 Haslam N, 2008, SCIENTOMETRICS, V76, P169 Tijssen RJW, 2002, SCIENTOMETRICS, V54, P381 Hsieh CM, 2011, SCIENTOMETRICS, V86, P381 Dewett T, 2004, SCIENTOMETRICS, V60, P249 BRODY T, 2005, EARLIER WEB USAGE ST, MERTON RK, 1968, SCIENCE, V159, P56 Buter RK, 2011, SCIENTOMETRICS, V86, P325 Burt RS, 2004, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY, V110, P349 Kostoff RN, 2007, SCIENTOMETRICS, V72, P513 ======================================================================= Search terms matched: IMPACT FACTOR(1) Title: Citation Characterization and Impact Normalization in Bioinformatics Journals Authors: Huang, H; Andrews, J; Tang, J Author Full Names: Huang, Hong; Andrews, James; Tang, Jiang Source: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 63 (3):490-497; 10.1002/asi.21707 MAR 2012 Language: English Document Type: Article KeyWords Plus: SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; RESEARCH PERFORMANCE; RELATIVE INDICATORS; SCIENCE FIELDS; OBSOLESCENCE; PUBLICATION; ARTICLES; INDEX; DOCUMENTATION; ASSOCIATION Abstract: Bioinformatics journals publish research findings of intellectual synergies among subfields such as biology, mathematics, and computer science. The objective of this study is to characterize the citation patterns in bioinformatics journals and their correspondent knowledge subfields. Our study analyzed bibliometric data (*impact factor*, cited-half-life, and references-per-article) of bioinformatics journals and their related subfields collected from the Journal Citation Reports (JCR). The findings showed that bioinformatics journals' citations are field-dependent, with scattered patterns in article life span and citing propensity. Bioinformatics journals originally derived from biology-related subfields have shorter article life spans, more citing on average, and higher impact factors. Those journals, derived from mathematics and statistics, demonstrate converse citation patterns. Journal impact factors were normalized, taking into account the impacts of article life spans ! and citing propensity. A comparison of these normalized factors to JCR journal impact factors showed rearrangements in the ranking orders of a number of individual journals, but a high overall correlation with JCR impact factors. Reprint Address: Huang, H (reprint author), Univ S Florida, Sch Informat, Tampa, FL 33620 USA Addresses: [Huang, Hong; Andrews, James] Univ S Florida, Sch Informat, Tampa, FL 33620 USA [Tang, Jiang] Chinese Acad Sci, Shanghai Informat Ctr Life Sci, Shanghai 200031, Peoples R China E-mail Address: honghuang at usf.edu, jimandrews at usf.edu, jt at sibs.ac.cn Cited Reference Count: 57 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: WILEY-BLACKWELL, COMMERCE PLACE, 350 MAIN ST, MALDEN 02148, MA USA ISSN: 1532-2882 DOI: 10.1002/asi.21707 Subject Category: Computer Science; Information Science & Library Science IDS Number: 902KZ Unique ID: WOS:000301038300005 Cited References: MacMullen WJ, 2005, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V56, P447 Cronin B, 2006, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V57, P1275 Molatudi M, 2009, SCIENTOMETRICS, V81, P47 MOED HF, 1985, SCIENTOMETRICS, V8, P177 TONA Y, 2006, LIB INFORM SCI RES, V28, P281 GARFIELD E, 1955, SCIENCE, V122, P108 Tsay MY, 1998, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE, V49, P1283 CUNNINGHAM S, 1995, 9516 U WAIK DEP COMP, AVRAMESCU A, 1979, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE, V30, P296 YAN E, 2010, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V61, P1635 WAGNER C, 2011, J INFORMETR, V51, P14 Glanzel W, 2009, SCIENTOMETRICS, V78, P165 Seglen PO, 1997, BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL, V314, P498 SCHUBERT A, 1986, SCIENTOMETRICS, V9, P281 Patra SK, 2006, SCIENTOMETRICS, V67, P477 Ball R, 2009, SCIENTOMETRICS, V81, P381 Pudovkin AI, 2004, ASIST 2004: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 67TH ASIS&T ANNUAL MEETING, VOL 41, 2004, V41, P507 Biglu MH, 2008, SCIENTOMETRICS, V74, P453 Guan J, 2008, SCIENTOMETRICS, V75, P357 Egghe L, 2000, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE, V51, P158 Hirsch JE, 2005, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V102, P16569 SEN BK, 1992, JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION, V48, P318 Walters GD, 2011, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V62, P1629 Lariviere V, 2008, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V59, P288 Kuo W, 2007, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON RELIABILITY, V56, P366 Yu G, 2010, SCIENTOMETRICS, V83, P259 Moed HF, 2010, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V4, P265 Zitt M, 2008, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V59, P1856 Vinkler P, 2002, SCIENTOMETRICS, V53, P267 Glanzel W, 2003, SCIENTOMETRICS, V56, P357 MARTON J, 1985, SCIENTOMETRICS, V7, P145 MOED HF, 1995, SCIENTOMETRICS, V33, P381 Bensman SJ, 2010, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V61, P1440 Albarran P, 2011, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V62, P40 Moed HF, 2005, CURRENT SCIENCE, V89, P1990 SMALL H, 1985, SCIENTOMETRICS, V7, P391 Garfield E, 2000, CROATIAN MEDICAL JOURNAL, V41, P368 Gomez-Sancho JM, 2009, SCIENTOMETRICS, V81, P435 Jeong S, 2009, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V60, P1118 Zhao DZ, 2011, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V62, P654 Vinkler P, 1996, SCIENTOMETRICS, V35, P375 CRONIN B, 1994, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE, V45, P61 MarshakovaShaikevich I, 1996, SCIENTOMETRICS, V35, P283 Glanzel W, 1999, INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT, V35, P31 SCHUBERT A, 1993, SCIENTOMETRICS, V26, P21 Brown C, 2003, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V54, P926 Schubert A, 1996, SCIENTOMETRICS, V36, P311 Egghe L, 2000, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE, V51, P1004 WALLACE DP, 1986, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE, V37, P136 Lariviere V, 2010, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V61, P126 DRMANAC R, 2010, GENET MED, V13, P188 Leydesdorff L, 2011, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V62, P217 Lin X, 2003, INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT, V39, P689 Schubert A, 2007, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V1, P179 Glanzel W, 2009, SCIENTOMETRICS, V79, P109 Nicholas D, 2005, INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT, V41, P1441 MCCAIN KW, 1989, SCIENTOMETRICS, V17, P127 ======================================================================= Search terms matched: IMPACT FACTOR(1); TO(1) Title: Predictors of the accuracy of quotation of references in peer-reviewed orthopaedic literature in relation *to* publications on the scaphoid Authors: Buijze, GA; Weening, AA; Poolman, RW; Bhandari, M; Ring, D Author Full Names: Buijze, G. A.; Weening, A. A.; Poolman, R. W.; Bhandari, M.; Ring, D. Source: JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY-BRITISH VOLUME, 94B (2):276-280; 10.1302/0301-620X.94B2.27618 FEB 2012 Language: English Document Type: Review KeyWords Plus: JOURNAL QUALITY; FRACTURES; SURGERY; RADIUS; BONE Abstract: Using inaccurate quotations can propagate misleading information, which might affect the management of patients. The aim of this study was to determine the predictors of quotation inaccuracy in the peer-reviewed orthopaedic literature related to the scaphoid. We randomly selected 100 papers from ten orthopaedic journals. All references were retrieved in full text when available or otherwise excluded. Two observers independently rated all quotations from the selected papers by comparing the claims made by the authors with the data and expressed opinions of the reference source. A statistical analysis determined which article-related factors were predictors of quotation inaccuracy. The mean total inaccuracy rate of the 3840 verified quotes was 7.6%. There was no correlation between the rate of inaccuracy and the *impact factor* of the journal. Multivariable analysis identified the journal and the type of study (clinical, biomechanical, methodological, case report or review) as! important predictors of the total quotation inaccuracy rate. We concluded that inaccurate quotations in the peer-reviewed orthopaedic literature related to the scaphoid were common and slightly more so for certain journals and certain study types. Authors, reviewers and editorial staff play an important role in reducing this inaccuracy. Reprint Address: Ring, D (reprint author), Massachusetts Gen Hosp, Dept Orthopaed Surg, 55 Fruit St,YAW 2-2C, Boston, MA 02114 USA Addresses: [Ring, D.] Massachusetts Gen Hosp, Dept Orthopaed Surg, Boston, MA 02114 USA [Buijze, G. A.; Weening, A. A.] Harvard Univ, Massachusetts Gen Hosp, Sch Med, Orthopaed Hand & Upper Extrem Serv,Yawkey Ctr, Boston, MA 02114 USA E-mail Address: dring at partners.org Cited Reference Count: 17 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: BRITISH EDITORIAL SOC BONE JOINT SURGERY, 22 BUCKINGHAM STREET, LONDON WC2N 6ET, ENGLAND ISSN: 0301-620X DOI: 10.1302/0301-620X.94B2.27618 Subject Category: Orthopedics; Surgery IDS Number: 893WF Unique ID: WOS:000300387700025 Cited References: Reddy MS, 2008, SURGEON-JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL COLLEGES OF SURGEONS OF EDINBURGH AND IRELAND, V6, P71 LAWSON LA, 1999, PSYCHIAT B, V23, P221 Davids JR, 2010, JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY-AMERICAN VOLUME, V92A, P1155 SCHULMEISTER L, 1998, IMAGE J NURSING SCHO, V30, P143 Saha S, 2003, JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, V91, P42 KNIRK JL, 1986, JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY-AMERICAN VOLUME, V68A, P647 Wager E, 2002, JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, V287, P2821 Porrino JA, 2008, JOURNAL OF HAND SURGERY-AMERICAN VOLUME, V33A, P2 EICHORN P, 1987, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, V77, P1011 HANSEN ME, 1994, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ROENTGENOLOGY, V163, P719 DELACEY G, 1985, BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL, V291, P884 WAGER E, 2008, COCHRANE DATABASE SY, V4, Gosling CM, 2004, MANUAL THERAPY, V9, P36 Harpf C, 2001, PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY, V108, P664 Braga-Silva J, 2008, JOURNAL OF HAND SURGERY-EUROPEAN VOLUME, V33E, P636 Fenton JE, 2000, CLINICAL OTOLARYNGOLOGY, V25, P40 Lee KP, 2002, JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, V287, P2805 ======================================================================= Search terms matched: IMPACT FACTOR(1) Title: Evaluation of University-Based Sports Medicine in Germany Authors: Schneider, M; Fromke, C; Menold, E; Bartsch, P Author Full Names: Schneider, M.; Froemke, C.; Menold, E.; Baertsch, P. Source: DEUTSCHE ZEITSCHRIFT FUR SPORTMEDIZIN, 63 (2):46-52; 10.5960/dzsm.2011.065 2012 Language: German Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Teaching; research; service; publications; funding; resources KeyWords Plus: IMPACT Abstract: The purpose of this evaluation was to assess the development of sports medicine in Germany with regard to research, teaching and clinical work. Therefore, the evaluation which had assessed the performance in the years 1996-2000 was repeated with identical methods for the years 2004-2008.22 of the 26 university-based institutions that had participated in the first evaluation could be assessed again. Performance and resources of these institutes were compared in pairs over both periods. Institutions which were members of non-medical faculties had again fewer staff, smaller budgets and less original publications in journals with lower impact factors than those belonging to medical faculties. When each publication was given the *impact factor* (IF) of the respective journal, the average IF per publication increased by 223% from the first to the second evaluation period. During this time, the IF of the 10 journals in which the evaluated institutions published most frequently incr! eased by only 83%. These data demonstrate that incorporation of sports medicine into a medical faculty is associated with better resources and scientific performance and that there is a trend to publish more papers in journals with higher IF by these institutions. The results of this evaluation confirm the results of the Evaluation 1996-2000. Reprint Address: Schneider, M (reprint author), Hannover Med Sch, Inst Biometrie, Gebaude K27,4 Etage,Raum 1041,Carl Neuberg Str 1, D-30625 Hannover, Germany Addresses: [Schneider, M.; Froemke, C.] Hannover Med Sch, Inst Biometrie, D-30625 Hannover, Germany [Menold, E.; Baertsch, P.] Univ Heidelberg, Abt Innere Med Sportmed 7, Med Klin & Poliklin, D-6900 Heidelberg, Germany E-mail Address: Schneider.Michael at mh-hannover.de Cited Reference Count: 7 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: W W F VERLAGSGESELLSCHAFT GMBH, AM EGGENKAMP 37-39, 48268 GREVEN, GERMANY ISSN: 0344-5925 DOI: 10.5960/dzsm.2011.065 Subject Category: Sport Sciences IDS Number: 904BD Unique ID: WOS:000301167700006 Cited References: FROMTER E, 1999, DEUT MED WOCHENSCHR, V124, P910 Bartsch P, 2002, DEUTSCHE ZEITSCHRIFT FUR SPORTMEDIZIN, V53, P307 Ritter JM, 2011, BRITISH JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY, V72, P367 Decker O, 2004, SOZIAL-UND PRAVENTIVMEDIZIN, V49, P10 SEGLEN PO, 1997, BRIT MED J, V314, P497 Kaltenborn KF, 2004, SOZIAL-UND PRAVENTIVMEDIZIN, V49, P23 FRANK M, 2002, PHYSIOLOGIST, V45, P181 ======================================================================= ======================================================================= Search terms matched: IMPACT FACTOR(1) * Title: Relative Influence of Professional Counseling Journals Authors: Fernando, DM; Minton, CAB Author Full Names: Fernando, Delini M.; Minton, Casey A. Barrio Source: JOURNAL OF COUNSELING AND DEVELOPMENT, 89 (4):423-430; 10.1002/j.1556-6676.2011.tb02839.x FAL 2011 Language: English Document Type: Article KeyWords Plus: IMPACT FACTORS; PUBLICATION; CITATION; QUALITY Abstract: The authors used social network analysis of citation data to study the flow of information and relative influence of 17 professional counseling journals. Although the Journal of Counseling & Development ranked very highly in all measures of journal influence, several division journals emerged as key players in the flow of information within the counseling profession. Results highlight the many facets of journal influence and the fallacy of using single measures, such as journal *impact factor*, to rank professional counseling journals. Reprint Address: Fernando, DM (reprint author), Univ N Texas, Dept Counseling & Higher Educ, 1155 Union Circle,310829, Denton, TX 76203 USA Addresses: [Fernando, Delini M.; Minton, Casey A. Barrio] Univ N Texas, Dept Counseling & Higher Educ, Denton, TX 76203 USA E-mail Address: delini.fernando at unt.edu Cited Reference Count: 23 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: WILEY PERIODICALS, INC, COMMERCE PLACE, 350 MAIN STREET, MALDEN, MA 02148-529 USA ISSN: 0748-9633 DOI: 10.1002/j.1556-6676.2011.tb02839.x Subject Category: Psychology IDS Number: 909NR Unique ID: WOS:000301571900005 Cited References: Schultz-Jones B, 2009, JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION, V65, P592 RAJASEKARAN MS, 2003, HUMAN COMPUTER INT 1, V1, P218 VEGARODONDO F, 2007, COMPLEX SOCIAL NETWO, Haslam N, 2010, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, V40, P216 MINTON CAB, 2008, COUNS EDUC SUPERV, V48, P133 MATOCHA L, 1993, PUBLISHING J FAMILY, P5 Leydesdorff L, 2009, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V60, P1327 BORGATTI SP, 2002, UCINET WINDOWS SOFTW, MCGOWAN AS, 1994, J HUMANISTIC ED DEV, V32, P146 STRAUB D, 2010, MIS Q, V34, PR3 *I SCI INF, 2008, J CIT REP, Feeley TH, 2008, HUMAN COMMUNICATION RESEARCH, V34, P505 Sellers SL, 2004, JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION, V40, P143 LEWIS B, 2008, JUDGING J, P42 O'Connor SJ, 2010, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CANCER CARE, V19, P141 Leydesdorff L, 2007, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V58, P1303 BORGATTI SP, 2002, NETDRAW GRAPH VISUAL, Johnstone MJ, 2007, INTERNATIONAL NURSING REVIEW, V54, P35 THOMPSON B, 1995, JOURNAL OF COUNSELING AND DEVELOPMENT, V73, P342 TOGIA A, 2006, INT J ED RES, V45, P362 ALLEN FL, 1995, J SOCIAL WORK ED, V31, P38 SMABY MH, 1998, COUNS EDUC SUPERV, V37, P218 Otte E, 2002, JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE, V28, P441 ======================================================================= ======================================================================= ======================================================================= Title: Textile-related *research* in Spain: a case study applying micro bibliometric indicators Authors: Carrera-Gallissa, E; Capdevila, X Author Full Names: Carrera-Gallissa, Enric; Capdevila, Xavier Source: REVISTA ESPANOLA DE DOCUMENTACION CIENTIFICA, 34 (4):581-596; 10.3989/redc.2011.4.832 2011 Language: Spanish Document Type: Article Author Keywords: h Index; Spain; Textile researchers; Bibliometrics indicators KeyWords Plus: H-INDEX; JOURNALS Abstract: The study examines the h-index of textile researchers in Spain and, for the first time, provides information, on the range of values of this index in the area of textile-related knowledge. This paper reports on a study of 10 scientific production indicators for Spanish textile researchers over the period 1955-2009. The population studied consisted of 73 researchers affiliated with 6 different institutions. Textile investigators represent a heterogeneous community, since they come from different areas of knowledge. The h-index studied presents a positive correlation, ranging between intense and notable, with the number of publications, publications by year, number of citations, citations per year, number of citations received by the most cited publication. The correlation is significant but negative concerning the percentage of authors' non-cited publications. The Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientficas (CSIC) has higher levels than the other institutions for the follo! wing indicators: h-index, number of publications, citations, citation per year, maximum number of citations. The Instituto Tecnologico Textil de Alcoy (AITEX) has the highest levels for the following indicators: h-index per year of activity and percentage of non-cited publications. Finally, a relation is shown between the h-index and three (latent) factors that explain the other indicators and provide three dimensions of the h-index. Reprint Address: Carrera-Gallissa, E (reprint author), Univ Politecn Cataluna, Dept Ingn Text & Papelera, EET, Terrassa, Spain Addresses: [Carrera-Gallissa, Enric; Capdevila, Xavier] Univ Politecn Cataluna, Dept Ingn Text & Papelera, EET, Terrassa, Spain E-mail Address: carrera at catunesco.upc.edu, xcapdevila at etp.upc.edu Cited Reference Count: 23 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS, VITRUVIO 8, 28006 MADRID, SPAIN ISSN: 0210-0614 DOI: 10.3989/redc.2011.4.832 Subject Category: Information Science & Library Science IDS Number: 859AH Unique ID: WOS:000297845500005 Cited References: Kelly CD, 2006, TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION, V21, P167 NIEMINEN P, 2006, BMC MED RES METHODOL, V6, P42 SEGLEN OP, 1998, ACTA ORTHOPHEDICA SC, V69, P224 Garfield E, 1996, BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL, V313, P411 IMPERIAL J, 2009, UTILIDAD INDICE HIRS, Buela-Casal G, 2003, PSICOTHEMA, V15, P23 BUELACASAL G, 2001, PAPELES PSICOLOGO, V79, P53 HIRSCH JE, 2005, P NATL ACAD SCI USA, V102, IGLESIAS JE, 2006, SCALING H INDEX DIFF, GARFIELD E, 1955, SCIENCE, V122, P108 Van Raan AFJ, 2006, SCIENTOMETRICS, V67, P491 Buela-Casal G, 2006, SCIENTOMETRICS, V67, P45 *ISI, 1999, SCI WATCH JAN, Costas R, 2007, PROFESIONAL DE LA INFORMACION, V16, P427 SEGLEN OP, 1997, BRIT MED J, V314, P498 Cronin B, 2006, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V57, P1275 GARFIELD E, 1984, USE CITATION ANAL 2, P354 BUELACASAL G, 2002, ANAL MODIFICACION CO, V28, P455 Salgado JF, 2007, PSICOTHEMA, V19, P179 SEGLEN OP, 1992, RES EVALUAT, V2, P143 PRITCHAR.A, 1969, JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION, V25, P348 *GRUP SCIM, 2007, PROF INFORM, V16, P47 SIMKIN MV, 2003, COMPLEX SYSTEMS, V14, P269 ======================================================================= Search terms matched: IMPACT FACTOR(1); Title: GOOD *TO* BE BAD? DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE CITATIONS IN *SCIENTIFIC* IMPACT Authors: Cavalcanti, DC; Prudencio, RBC; Pradhan, SS; Shah, JY; Pietrobon, RS Author Full Names: Cavalcanti, Diana C.; Prudencio, Ricardo B. C.; Pradhan, Shreyasee S.; Shah, Jatin Y.; Pietrobon, Ricardo S. Book Group Author(s): IEEE Source: 2011 23RD IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TOOLS WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (ICTAI 2011), 156-162; 10.1109/ICTAI.2011.32 2011 Book Series: Proceedings-International Conference on Tools With Artificial Intelligence Language: English Document Type: Proceedings Paper Conference Title: 23rd IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI) Conference Date: NOV 07-09, 2011 Conference Location: Boca Raton, FL Conference Sponsor(s): IEEE, IEEE Comp Soc, IEEE Comp Soc Tech Comm Multimedia Comp (TCMC), Bio & Artificial Intelligence Soc (BAIS), Florida Atlant Univ (FAU), Univ Technol, Ctr Quantum Comp & Intelligent Syst (UTS-QCIS), Tsinghua Univ, Arnetminer Author Keywords: Impact Factor; Sentiment Analysis; SentiWordNet; Spearman Ranking Correlation Abstract: The impact of a publication is often measured by the number of citations it received, this number being taken as a proxy for the relevance of published work. However, a higher citation index does not necessarily mean that a publication necessarily had a positive feedback from citing authors, as a citation can represent a negative criticism. In order to overcome this limitation, we used sentiment analysis to rate citations as positive, neutral or negative. Adjectives are initially extracted from the citations, with the SentiWordNet lexicon being used to rate the degree of positivity and negativity for each adjective. Relevance scores were then computed to rank citations according to the sentiment expressed in the text corresponding to each citation. As expected for accurate information retrieval systems, higher precision rates were observed in the initial points of the curve. The SRC (0.6728) computed using number of raw citations is lower than the SRC (0.7397) observed by th! e ranking generated using sentiment scores (Table 3). Conclusion: This result indicates that child articles with higher values of relevance score were in general the ones expressing positive opinion about their parents. Therefore, the ranking generated by sentiment scores had an improved accuracy. Reprint Address: Cavalcanti, DC (reprint author), Univ Fed Pernambuco, Ctr Informat, UFPE, Recife, PE, Brazil Addresses: [Cavalcanti, Diana C.; Prudencio, Ricardo B. C.] Univ Fed Pernambuco, Ctr Informat, UFPE, Recife, PE, Brazil E-mail Address: dcc2 at cin.ufpe.br, rbcp at cin.ufpe.br, sp133 at duke.edu, jys4 at duke.edu, rpietro at duke.edu Cited Reference Count: 23 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: IEEE COMPUTER SOC, 10662 LOS VAQUEROS CIRCLE, PO BOX 3014, LOS ALAMITOS, CA 90720-1264 USA ISSN: 1082-3409 ISBN: 978-0-7695-4596-7 DOI: 10.1109/ICTAI.2011.32 Subject Category: Computer Science IDS Number: BYJ28 Unique ID: WOS:000299009900023 Cited References: Jenab M, 2010, BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL, V340, PANG B, 2004, P 42 ANN M ASS COMP, P271 GREFENSTETTE G, 2004, COUPLING NICHE BROWS, WANNER F, 2009, P IUI 09 WORKSH VIS, BAEZAYATES R, 1999, MODERN INFORM RETRIE, WEALE AR, 2004, BMC MED RES METHODOL, V4, P14 HU M, 2004, MINING SUMMARIZING C, HATZIVASSILOGLO.V, 1997, PREDICTING SEMANTIC, JINDAL N, 2007, P 16 INT C WORLD WID, P1189 KIM SM, 2004, DETERMINING SENTIMEN, VELOSO A, 2007, BRAZ S DAT, P332 Boiy E, 2009, INFORMATION RETRIEVAL, V12, P526 ESULI A, 2006, 5 INT C LANG RES EV, P417 Liu B, 2010, HANDBOOK OF NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING, SECOND EDITION, P627 TURNEY PD, 2002, P 40 ANN M ASS COMP, P417 PANG B, 2008, FDN TRENDS INFORM RE, V2, P1 BEINEKE P, 2004, SENTIMENTAL FACTOR I, Rocker G, 2009, THORAX, V64, P910 Opthof T, 1997, CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH, V33, P1 GARFIELD E, 1979, SCIENTOMETRICS, V1, P359 HARZING AW, 2008, COMP GOOGLE SCHOLAR, WILSON T, 2009, RECOGNIZING CONTEXTU, HARZING AW, 2007, GOOGLE SCHOLARA NEW, ======================================================================= Title: How are journal impact, prestige and article influence related? *An* application *to* neuroscience Authors: Chang, CL; McAleer, M; Oxley, L Author Full Names: Chang, Chia-Lin; McAleer, Michael; Oxley, Les Source: JOURNAL OF APPLIED STATISTICS, 38 (11):2563-2573; 10.1080/02664763.2011.559212 2011 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: impact factor; prestige; immediacy; Eigenfactor; article influence; h-index; C3PO; Zinfluence; PI-BETA; STAR; IFI; cited article influence Abstract: The paper analyzes the leading journals in neurosciences using quantifiable research assessment measures (RAM), highlights the similarities and differences in alternative RAM, shows that several RAM capture similar performance characteristics of highly cited journals, and shows that some other RAM have low correlations with each other, and hence add significant informational value. Alternative RAM are discussed for the Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science database (hereafter ISI). The RAM that are calculated annually or updated daily include the classic 2-year *impact factor* (2YIF), 5-year *impact factor*, immediacy (or zero-year *impact factor*), Eigenfactor score, article influence score, C3PO (citation performance per paper online), h-index, Zinfluence, PI-BETA (papers ignored by even the authors), 2-year and historical self-citation threshold approval ratings, *impact factor* inflation, and cited article influence (CAI). The RAM are analyzed for 26 highly cited journals i! n the ISI category of neurosciences. The paper finds that the Eigenfactor score and PI-BETA are not highly correlated with the other RAM scores, so that they convey additional information regarding journal rankings, that article influence is highly correlated with some existing RAM, so that it has little informative incremental value, and that CAI has additional informational value to that of article influence. Harmonic mean rankings of the 13 RAM criteria for the 26 highly cited journals are also presented. Emphasizing the 2YIF of a journal to the exclusion of other informative RAM criteria is shown to lead to a distorted evaluation of journal performance and influence, especially given the informative value of several other RAM. Reprint Address: Oxley, L (reprint author), Univ Canterbury, Dept Econ & Finance, Canterbury, New Zealand Addresses: [Oxley, Les] Univ Canterbury, Dept Econ & Finance, Canterbury, New Zealand [Chang, Chia-Lin] Natl Chung Hsing Univ, Dept Appl Econ, Taichung 40227, Taiwan [McAleer, Michael] Erasmus Univ, Econometr Inst, Erasmus Sch Econ, Rotterdam, Netherlands [McAleer, Michael] Kyoto Univ, Inst Econ Res, Kyoto 6068501, Japan E-mail Address: lesoxley at gmail.com Funding Acknowledgement: National Science Council, Taiwan; Australian Research Council; Japan Society for the Promotion of Science; Royal Society of New Zealand Funding Text: The authors wish to thank three referees for helpful comments and suggestions. The first author acknowledges the National Science Council, Taiwan; the second author the Australian Research Council, the National Science Council, Taiwan, and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science; and the third author the Royal Society of New Zealand, the Marsden Fund for financial support. Cited Reference Count: 7 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 4 PARK SQUARE, MILTON PARK, ABINGDON OX14 4RN, OXON, ENGLAND ISSN: 0266-4763 DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2011.559212 Subject Category: Mathematics IDS Number: 873YY Unique ID: WOS:000298923300013 Cited References: *THOMS REUT ISI, 2010, J CIT REP ESS SCI IN, FERSHT A, 1000, P NATL ACAD SCI US, V106, P6883 CHANG CL, 2010, EC REV IN PRESS, Hirsch JE, 2005, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V102, P16569 Seglen PO, 1997, BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL, V314, P498 Bergstrom CT, 2008, JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE, V28, P11433 BERGSTROM C, 2007, COLL RES LIB NEWS, V68, P314 ======================================================================= Search terms matched: IMPACT FACTOR(5) Title: GREAT EXPECTATRICS: GREAT PAPERS, GREAT JOURNALS, GREAT ECONOMETRICS Authors: Chang, CL; McAleer, M; Oxley, L Author Full Names: Chang, Chia-Lin; McAleer, Michael; Oxley, Les Source: ECONOMETRIC REVIEWS, 30 (6):583-619; 10.1080/07474938.2011.586614 2011 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Article influence; Cited article influence; C3PO; Eigenfactor; IFI; Immediacy; Impact factors; h-Index; PI-BETA; STAR; Research assessment measures; Zinfluence KeyWords Plus: EIGENFACTOR(TM) METRICS; IMPACT FACTOR Abstract: The article discusses alternative Research Assessment Measures (RAM), with an emphasis on the Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science database (hereafter ISI). Some analysis and comparisons are also made with data from the SciVerse Scopus database. The various RAM that are calculated annually or updated daily are defined and analyzed, including the classic 2-year *impact factor* (2YIF), 2YIF without journal self-citations (2YIF*), 5-year *impact factor* (5YIF), Immediacy (or zero-year *impact factor* (0YIF)), *Impact Factor* Inflation (IFI), Self-citation Threshold Approval Rating (STAR), Eigenfactor score, Article Influence, C3PO (Citation Performance Per Paper Online), h-index, Zinfluence, and PI-BETA (Papers - Ignored By Even The Authors). The RAM are analyzed for 10 leading econometrics journals and 4 leading statistics journals. The application to econometrics can be used as a template for other areas in economics, for other scientific disciplines, and as a benchmark for new! er journals in a range of disciplines. In addition to evaluating high quality research in leading econometrics journals, the paper also compares econometrics and statistics, alternative RAM, highlights the similarities and differences of the alternative RAM, finds that several RAM capture similar performance characteristics for the leading econometrics and statistics journals, while the new PI-BETA criterion is not highly correlated with any of the other RAM, and hence conveys additional information regarding RAM, highlights major research areas in leading journals in econometrics, and discusses some likely future uses of RAM, and shows that the harmonic mean of 13 RAM provides more robust journal rankings than relying solely on 2YIF. Reprint Address: McAleer, M (reprint author), Erasmus Univ, Erasmus Sch Econ, Inst Econometr, NL-3602 PA Rotterdam, Netherlands Addresses: [McAleer, Michael] Erasmus Univ, Erasmus Sch Econ, Inst Econometr, NL-3602 PA Rotterdam, Netherlands [McAleer, Michael] Tinbergen Inst, Amsterdam, Netherlands [Chang, Chia-Lin] Natl Chung Hsing Univ, Dept Appl Econ, Taichung 40227, Taiwan [Chang, Chia-Lin] Natl Chung Hsing Univ, Dept Finance, Taichung 40227, Taiwan [Oxley, Les] Univ Canterbury, Dept Econ & Finance, Canterbury, New Zealand E-mail Address: michael.mcaleer at gmail.com Funding Acknowledgement: National Science Council, Taiwan; Australian Research Council; Japan Society for the Promotion of Science; Royal Society of New Zealand Funding Text: The authors wish to thank Dennis Fok, Philip Hans Franses, Jan Magnus, the Editor and two referees for very helpful comments, suggestions, and discussions. For financial support, the first author acknowledges the National Science Council, Taiwan, the second author acknowledges the Australian Research Council, National Science Council, Taiwan, and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and the third author acknowledges the Royal Society of New Zealand, Marsden Fund. Cited Reference Count: 10 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC, 325 CHESTNUT ST, SUITE 800, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106 USA ISSN: 0747-4938 DOI: 10.1080/07474938.2011.586614 Subject Category: Business & Economics; Mathematics; Mathematical Methods In Social Sciences IDS Number: 882PM Unique ID: WOS:000299576300001 Cited References: Fersht A, 2009, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V106, P6883 Chang CL, 2011, JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC SURVEYS, V25, P326 Franceschet M, 2010, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V4, P239 Hirsch JE, 2005, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V102, P16569 Seglen PO, 1997, BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL, V314, P498 Bergstrom CT, 2008, JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE, V28, P11433 BERGSTROM C, 2007, COLL RES LIB NEWS, V68, P314 Bergstrom CT, 2008, NEUROLOGY, V71, P1850 *SCIVERSE SCOP, 2010, CONT COV GUID, *ISI WEB SCI, 2010, J CIT REP ESS SCI IN, ======================================================================= Search terms matched: IMPACT FACTOR(1); *View Full Record: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord;UT=WOS:000301091100022 *Order Full Text [ ] Title: Study on *Output* Performance of Innovative Enterprises Authors: Chen, YL Author Full Names: Chen Yalan Editor(s): Chi RY; Guo YY; Feng Q; Ouyang ZJ Source: PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWELFTH WEST LAKE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SMALL & MEDIUM BUSINESS (WLICSMB 2010), 158-166; 2011 Language: English Document Type: Proceedings Paper Conference Title: 12th West Lake International Conference on Small and Medium Business (WLICSMB 2010) Conference Date: OCT 24-26, 2010 Conference Location: Hangzhou, PEOPLES R CHINA Conference Sponsor(s): Hangzhou Municipal Govt, Econ Commiss, Zhejiang Provincial Inst Small & Medium Business, Hangzhou Municipal Govt, Natl Nat Sci Fdn China, Zhejiang Provincial Small & Medium Enterprises Bur, Zhejiang Univ Technol, World Assoc Ind & Technol Res Org Author Keywords: Innovative pilot enterprise; output performance; impact factor KeyWords Plus: TECHNOLOGY; FIRMS Abstract: Innovative pilot enterprise is very important for regional innovation system construction, and it can not be ignored. This article chose innovative (pilot) enterprises in Fujian province as research sample, analyzed the distributional characteristics of each output and synthetic output performance, using multiple regression model to analyze relevant factors. We concluded that technology research and development institutions, R&D personnel, Staff educational and training expenditure, innovation incentive mechanism have significant influence on output performance, this provides a practical guidence for local government to further promote innovative pilot enterprise. Reprint Address: Addresses: [Chen Yalan] Fuzhou Univ, Fuzhou, Peoples R China Cited Reference Count: 19 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ZHEJIANG GONGSHANG UNIV PRESS, 149 JIAOGONG RD, HANGZHOU, ZHEJIANG 00000, PEOPLES R CHINA ISBN: 978-7-81140-313-8 Subject Category: Business & Economics IDS Number: BZC54 Unique ID: WOS:000301091100022 Cited References: HU LY, 2008, CHINA SOFT SCI MANAG, P116 Lumpkin GT, 1996, ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW, V21, P135 GU LP, 2006, MANAGE ENG J, P147 OREGAN N, 2006, HIT ENTREP MANAG, P299 DUAN RC, 2005, CHINA SOFT SCI, P1 SHU H, 2008, BUSINESS EC ADM, P24 Granstrand O, 1998, RESEARCH POLICY, V27, P465 DERASSENFOSSE G, 2009, RES POLICY, P779 DUAN RC, 2006, SCI TECHNOLOGY DAILY, P4 MARIANI M, 2007, RES POLICY, P1128 ZHANG L, 2000, J E CHINA U SCI TECH, P33 CHEN W, 2008, SCI TECHNOLOGY MANAG, P57 Fontes M, 2001, RESEARCH POLICY, V30, P79 2006, RES POLICY, P1377 LITTLE AD, 1977, NEW TECHNOLOGY BASED, GAULT F, 2004, STAT CANADA, P23 ZHU AM, 2009, SCI TECHNOLOGY MANAG, P578 Hicks D, 2005, RESEARCH POLICY, V34, P703 *OECD, 2000, INN SURV MAN, ======================================================================= Search terms matched: IMPACT FACTOR(1) Title: System development using Petri net based modules Authors: Costa, A; Gomes, L Author Full Names: Costa, Aniko; Gomes, Luis Book Group Author(s): IEEE Source: 2011 9TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS (INDIN), 2011 Book Series: IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics INDIN Language: English Document Type: Proceedings Paper Conference Title: 9th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN) Conference Date: JUL 26-29, 2011 Conference Location: Lisbon, PORTUGAL Conference Sponsor(s): Inst Elect & Elect Engineers (IEEE), IEEE Ind Elect Soc (IES), UNINOVA, Univ Nova Lisba, Fac Ciencias Tecnologia, Schneider Elect, O3neida Conference Host: New Univ Lisbon, Campus Fac Sci & Technol Abstract: Model Based Development within the area of embedded systems hardware-software co-design has been demonstrated to be effective to handle system complexity. Several modeling formalisms are widely used within this area. The work presented in this paper aims to contribute for the usage of Petri nets as the system-level specification language within model-based development of embedded systems using co-design techniques. System model partitioning into modules and components ready to be implemented in hardware or software and be deployed into a distributed platform is a major concern within co-design methodologies. Having Petri net as underlying modeling formalisms the net splitting operation can be used in order to decompose the model into several sub-models. The resulted sub-models can be seen as components and executed in parallel communicating using directed synchronous communication channels. In this paper it is presented how to modify the splitted model in order to be conside! red as composable modules, supporting module reutilization, which is a key *impact factor* within engineering activities. The proposed techniques rely on keeping the module interface unchanged in order to support the integration of the module in new situations. Reprint Address: Costa, A (reprint author), Univ Nova Lisboa, UNINOVA CTS, P-1200 Lisbon, Portugal Addresses: [Costa, Aniko; Gomes, Luis] Univ Nova Lisboa, UNINOVA CTS, P-1200 Lisbon, Portugal E-mail Address: akc at uninova.pt, lugo at uninova.pt Cited Reference Count: 15 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: IEEE, 345 E 47TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017 USA ISSN: 1935-4576 ISBN: 978-1-4577-0434-5 Subject Category: Computer Science; Engineering IDS Number: BYH15 Unique ID: WOS:000298743300118 Cited References: GOMES L, 2007, 5 IEEE INT C IND INF, Gomes L, 2010, IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS (ISIE 2010), P3057 FREY G, 2000, P AWPN 2000, P57 COSTA A, 2009, 7 IEEE INT C IND INF, MENDES JM, 2010, P 8 IEEE INT C IND I, P578 SOMMERVILLE I, 2005, SOFTWARE ENG, SCHATZ B, 2002, ADV OBJECT ORIENTED, SILVA M, 1985, REDES PETRI AUTOMATI, GOMES L, 2007, IECON 2007 33 ANN C, RAUSCH M, 1995, ETFA95, V1, P592 COSTA A, 2010, THESIS U NOVA LISBOA, MURATA T, 1989, IEEE, V77, P541 HANISCH HM, 2000, FUNDAMENTA INFORMATI, V41, P415 BARROS J, 2004, 3 IEEE INT C IND INF, COSTA A, 2007, IEEE 2 INT S IND EMB, P316 ======================================================================= Search terms matched: IMPACT FACTOR(1); *View Full Record: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord;UT=WOS:000298656803063 *Order Full Text [ ] Title: Development Present Situation Of Heilongjiang Province Producer Services And Development Path *Research* Authors: Duan, L; Zhao, DH; Chou, HF Author Full Names: Duan, Lian; Zhao, De-hai; Chou, Hai-feng Book Group Author(s): IEEE Source: 2011 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ELECTRONICS, COMMUNICATIONS AND CONTROL (ICECC), 3149-3153; 2011 Language: Unspecified Document Type: Proceedings Paper Conference Title: IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Communications and Control (ICECC) Conference Date: SEP 09-11, 2011 Conference Location: Ningbo, PEOPLES R CHINA Conference Sponsor(s): IEEE, Ningbo Univ, Key Lab Sci & Tech Natl Def (KLSTND) Author Keywords: producer services; impact factor; induction coefficient; eight economic zones Abstract: Firstly, according to surveys and combing the literature form the development of producer services of Heilongjiang Province, summarize and point out problem in its development. Calculated and finished based on input-output table reach conclusion that the influence of various departments the sensitivity coefficient coefficient the sensitivity coefficient services. As the basis for above proposed should be based on transportation and warehousing, wholesale and retail trade, finance and insurance, leasing and business services, information transmission, computer services and software industry as the producer services areas of priority development sectors. Finally put forward to promote the development of producer services of Heilongjiang suggestions. Reprint Address: Duan, L (reprint author), Harbin Univ Commerce, Coll Econ, Harbin, Peoples R China Addresses: [Duan, Lian; Zhao, De-hai; Chou, Hai-feng] Harbin Univ Commerce, Coll Econ, Harbin, Peoples R China Cited Reference Count: 10 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: IEEE, 345 E 47TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017 USA ISBN: 978-1-4577-0321-8 Subject Category: Automation & Control Systems; Engineering IDS Number: BYG97 Unique ID: WOS:000298656803063 Cited References: WANG Z, 1000, ANN REPORT IMPOVEMEN, P30 HARVEY AC, 1989, FORECASTING STRUCTUR, HALL R, 1978, J POLITICAL EC, P90 QU W, 1000, ANN REPORT EC DEV HE, P88 Yang Y, 2010, DATA MINING AND KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY HANDBOOK, SECOND EDITION, P101 ZHANG YN, 1986, ENTERPRISE MANAGEMEN, P20 JIA F, 2009, REPORT DEV STRATEGIE, HAMILTON NYJ, 1994, TIME SERIES ANAL, P10 GAULIER G, 2006, CHINA ECON REV, P1 GAO RX, 1000, KNOWLEDGE SERVICES 1, ======================================================================= Search terms matched: IMPACT FACTOR(3) Title: The Journal *Impact Factor*: A Threat or Opportunity? Authors: Fernandez-Sola, C; Granero-Molina, J; Hernandez-Padilla, JM; Aguilera-Manrique, G Author Full Names: Fernandez-Sola, Cayetano; Granero-Molina, Jose; Manuel Hernandez-Padilla, Jose; Aguilera-Manrique, Gabriel Source: AQUICHAN, 11 (3):245-255; 2011 Language: Spanish Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Journal impact factor; nursing research; bibliometric indicators KeyWords Plus: NURSING-RESEARCH; BIBLIOMETRICS Abstract: This paper contains a summary of criticism on use of the *impact factor* (IF) as an indicator of the quality of work published by researchers. The criticism is directed to authors who are trying to publish in journals with IF. The claim is they are renouncing their own identity and prioritizing their curriculum over the usefulness of their research. The authors challenge this criticism by arguing that stringent assessment criteria stimulate the internationalisation of science, that there is a consensus in the scientific community about the imperfections of FI and its acceptance as a valid and necessary tool for scientific evaluation, and that the debate over identity does little to resolve the international invisibility of nursing research written up in Spanish. Proposals are outlined on how to benefit from the strengths of this system to increase the visibility of nursing research, to develop strategies for including journals written in Spanish in the Journal Citation Repor! ts (JCR), to encourage professional training and interdisciplinary cooperation, to promote the publication of research conducted in postgraduate programs, and to claim an editorial commitment for indexing their journals in the JCR. It can be concluded that, although difficult, it would be possible to increase the visibility of nursing scientific research in Spanish. Reprint Address: Fernandez-Sola, C (reprint author), Univ Almeria, Almeria, Spain Addresses: [Fernandez-Sola, Cayetano; Granero-Molina, Jose; Aguilera-Manrique, Gabriel] Univ Almeria, Almeria, Spain [Manuel Hernandez-Padilla, Jose] Order St John Care Trust, Oxford, England E-mail Address: cfernan at ual.es, jgranero at ual.es, jm.hernandezpadilla at gmail.com, gaguiler at ual.es Cited Reference Count: 52 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: UNIV SABANA, FAC ENFERMARIA, CAMPUS UNIV PUENTE COMUN, KM 21 AUTOPISTA NORTE BOGOTA, D C, CHIA, CUNDINAMARCA 00000, COLOMBIA ISSN: 1657-5997 Subject Category: Nursing IDS Number: 883ZJ Unique ID: WOS:000299674200002 Cited References: MIQUELCOLLELL C, 2011, ENFERM CLIN, V21, P67 Saha S, 2003, JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, V91, P42 MARZIALE MHP, 2005, REV LAT-AM ENFERM, V13, P285 UMBELINO FM, 2009, REV REFERENCIA, V11, P95 PASCUAL SN, 2011, ENFERM CLIN, V21, P61 LOPEZ SR, 2008, REV ADM SANIT SIGLO, V6, P673 Traynor M, 2011, INTERNATIONAL NURSING REVIEW, V58, P26 GARCIA F, 1000, FORMACION SALUD PUBL, Pego-Fernande PM, 2010, SAO PAULO MEDICAL JOURNAL, V128, P185 GALVEZ A, 2005, INDEX ENFERM, V14, P7 Fernandez-Mondejar E, 2010, MEDICINA INTENSIVA, V34, P493 *RED EV, 2007, EVIDENTIA, V4, FERNANDEZ E, 2003, GAC SANIT, V17, P179 Benitez-Bribiesca L, 2002, ARCHIVES OF MEDICAL RESEARCH, V33, P91 PARAVIC T, 2004, REV LAT-AM ENFERM, V12, P946 Polit DF, 2009, JOURNAL OF NURSING SCHOLARSHIP, V41, P44 SILVA LC, 2011, ENFERM CLIN, V21, P59 MONASTERSKY R, 2005, CHRON HIGHER EDUC, V52, P8 Mendoza-Parra S, 2009, JOURNAL OF NURSING SCHOLARSHIP, V41, P54 Ketefian S, 2010, INTERNATIONAL NURSING REVIEW, V57, P343 RUIZ MA, 2009, REV BRAS HEMATOLOGIA, V31, P355 LORALOPEZ P, 2008, INDEX ENFERM, V17, P85 Trilla A, 2000, MEDICINA CLINICA, V114, P609 Vernaza-Pinzon P, 2011, AQUICHAN, V11, P94 BARRIO IM, 2011, ENFERM CLIN, V21, P60 AMEZCUA M, 2010, INDEX ENFERM, V19, P5 ALVAREZ E, 2011, HAY CIENCIA SIN COMP, P31 GALVEZ A, 2007, INDEX ENFERM, V16, P7 JIMENEZCONTRERA.E, 2004, ED MED S1, V7, P1 Segrott J, 2006, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NURSING STUDIES, V43, P637 AIZPURU F, 2011, ENFERMCLIN, V21, P64 HERRAIZMALLEBRE.A, 2011, ENFERM CLIN, V21, P62 GASTALDO D, 2010, ENFERM CLIN, V20, P145 GIMENEZ N, 2009, MED CLIN, V132, P112 Johnstone MJ, 2007, INTERNATIONAL NURSING REVIEW, V54, P35 OLTRARODRIGUEZ E, 2007, ENFERM CLIN, V17, P3 AMEZCUA M, 2010, INDEX ENFERM, V19, P83 PALENCIA E, 2004, REMI, V4, MARZIALE MHP, 2002, REV LATINO AMERICANA, V10, P466 FIGUEREDO E, 2005, MED CLIN, V25, P661 JOHNSON N, 2010, NURSE ED PRACT, V10, P43 PORTILLO MC, 2011, ENFERM CLIN, V21, P62 Yegros-Yegros A, 2012, MEDICINA CLINICA, V138, P165 KETEFIAN S, 2010, OBJN, V9, MARZIALE MHP, 2004, INDEX ENFERM, V13, P75 Moreno-Fergusson ME, 2011, AQUICHAN, V11, P124 LOPEZPISA RM, 2011, ENFERM CLIN, V21, P63 Pardo C, 2001, JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING, V35, P933 DELAROSA MA, 2011, FUTURO ESTA CIENCIA, P25 MARTINARRIBAS MC, 2009, J RES NURSING, V14, P153 Robayo-Cruz EC, 2011, AQUICHAN, V11, P4 CASTRILLON MC, 2010, INVEST ED ENFERM, V28, P475 ======================================================================= Search terms matched: IMPACT FACTOR(1) *View Full Record: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord;UT=WOS:000299674200001 *Order Full Text [ ] Title: Improving Quality in the Dissemination of Nursing Science Authors: Gennaro, S; Fehder, W Author Full Names: Gennaro, Susan; Fehder, William Source: AQUICHAN, 11 (3):234-U1500; 2011 Language: English Document Type: Editorial Material KeyWords Plus: JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR Reprint Address: Gennaro, S (reprint author), Boston Coll, William F Connell Sch Nursing, Chestnut Hill, MA 02167 USA Addresses: [Gennaro, Susan; Fehder, William] Boston Coll, William F Connell Sch Nursing, Chestnut Hill, MA 02167 USA E-mail Address: susan.gennaro at bc.edu, william.fehder at bc.edu Cited Reference Count: 14 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: UNIV SABANA, FAC ENFERMARIA, CAMPUS UNIV PUENTE COMUN, KM 21 AUTOPISTA NORTE BOGOTA, D C, CHIA, CUNDINAMARCA 00000, COLOMBIA ISSN: 1657-5997 Subject Category: Nursing IDS Number: 883ZJ Unique ID: WOS:000299674200001 Cited References: Gennaro S, 2010, JOURNAL OF NURSING SCHOLARSHIP, V42, P233 Freda MC, 2005, JOURNAL OF NURSING SCHOLARSHIP, V37, P87 McGlynn EA, 2003, NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE, V348, P2635 DONALDSON SK, 1978, NURS OUTLOOK, V26, P113 Gennaro S, 2010, JOURNAL OF PERINATAL & NEONATAL NURSING, V24, P55 Jacso P, 2001, CORTEX, V37, P590 *THOMS REUT, 1000, SCI ESS, *GALL, 2010, NURS TOP HON ETH LIS, Mendoza-Parra S, 2009, JOURNAL OF NURSING SCHOLARSHIP, V41, P54 *BIOMED CENTR, 1000, WHAT IS BIOM CENTR, Kearney MH, 2008, JOURNAL OF NURSING SCHOLARSHIP, V40, P395 GREAVES S, 2006, NATURES TRIAL OPEN P, Vanclay JK, 2009, SCIENTOMETRICS, V78, P3 Gennaro S, 2007, JOGNN-JOURNAL OF OBSTETRIC GYNECOLOGIC AND NEONATAL NURSING, V36, P598 ======================================================================= ======================================================================= ======================================================================= Search terms matched: IMPACT FACTOR(1) Title: Key Performance Indicators For PhD Education in Biomedicine and Health Sciences Authors: Lee, MJR Author Full Names: Lee, Marvin J. R. Source: TURKISH JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY-TURK BIYOKIMYA DERGISI, 36 S60-S62; 1 2011 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: PhD education; performance indicators; biomedicine; health sciences Abstract: With the increasing shift in focus from basic science to translational research, stronger emphasis has been placed on developing research expertise for real-world applications. A well-designed PhD programme set out to meet the exacting standards and novel requirements in the field of biomedicine and health sciences is therefore essential in the 21st century. Other than stream lining the objectives with the Bologna Process, experiential projects and research have also been actively integrated into the PhD programmes in Europeto meet the quality assurance and outcome assessment criteria in our modern society. The quality of a PhD programme therefore should be assessed both by drawing references to the academic output of the research institution as well as the academic and industrial relevance i.e. value-addedness of the graduate students. The scientific and transferrable skills that students have developed in a PhD programme should be applicable in settings such as education, health services, business and government. Quality and quantity of research publications, invitations to scientific conferences, prizes and personal accolades, coursework assessment, transferable skills acquired serve as excellent indicators of the quality of PhD students, which also directly reflects the robustness of the PhD programme. On an institution-wide! level, the quality of the PhD programme should be assessed by a number of key performance indicators (KPI), which includes the volume and *impact factor* of their academic publications, scientific profiles and reputation of the research personnel within the institution, the inherent ability to identify and recognize relevant research areas within and between academic institutions for the cross-pollination of complementary ideas to materialize useful collaborations, generations of patents, adherence to ethical standards and most importantly, the possession of a sizeable research endowment that provides the fuel for the academic engines. A European-wide standardized set of assessment criteria should therefore be taken into consideration by the relevant authorities that oversee the quality of PhD education in biomedical and health sciences. Based on this centralized assessment system, ranking academic institutions may or may not be necessary according to a number of reasons that will be explored in this article. Reprint Address: Lee, MJR (reprint author), Univ Oxford, Dept Biochem, Oxford Glycobiol Inst, S Parks Rd, Oxford OX1 3QU, England Addresses: Univ Oxford, Dept Biochem, Oxford Glycobiol Inst, Oxford OX1 3QU, England Cited Reference Count: 0 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: TURKISH BIOCHEM SOC, HIRFANLI SOKAK BANU, APT 9-3 GAZIOSMANPASA, ANKARA, 06700, TURKEY ISSN: 0250-4685 Subject Category: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology IDS Number: 901OD Unique ID: WOS:000300975800014 ======================================================================= Search terms matched: IMPACT FACTOR(2); SCIENTIFIC(1) *View Full Record: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord;UT=WOS:000297604900065 *Order Full Text [ ] Title: The reasonable evaluation on the *scientific* papers based on JCR zoning method Authors: Li, X; Zhao, HJ; Zhang, XL Author Full Names: Li Xin; Zhao Haijun; Zhang Xiaolei Editor(s): Zhou M Source: 2011 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FUTURE COMPUTERS IN EDUCATION (ICFCE 2011), VOL I, 243-246; 2011 Language: Unspecified Document Type: Proceedings Paper Conference Title: International Conference on Future Computers in Education (ICFCE 2011) Conference Date: JUN 25-26, 2011 Conference Location: Xiamen, PEOPLES R CHINA Conference Sponsor(s): Hubei Univ Technol, Int Ind Elect Ctr Author Keywords: impact factor; SCI; JCR zoning method; subject classification Abstract: According to the papers cited and journal *impact factor*, this article analyzes the situation of the scientific papers cited by SCI which were published from the year 2002 to 2007 in Tianjin Normal University as a case. The elaboration included two aspects, the school and the individual researchers. Based on the JCR zoning method, the article points out the necessity of comparison by the subject classification statistics and provides corresponding advices on evaluation of scientific papers more rationally in the same kind of school engaged in teaching and research. Reprint Address: Li, X (reprint author), Tianjin Normal Univ, Tianjin 300387, Peoples R China Addresses: [Li Xin; Zhao Haijun; Zhang Xiaolei] Tianjin Normal Univ, Tianjin 300387, Peoples R China E-mail Address: tj_lixin at 163.com Cited Reference Count: 4 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: INT INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONIC CENTER, FLAT 4A YUE FAT BUILDING, 87-91 TAI PO ROAD, SHAM SHUI PO, KOWLOON 00000, PEOPLES R CHINA ISBN: 978-988-19116-6-7 IDS Number: BXY21 Unique ID: WOS:000297604900065 Cited References: PAN YT, 2003, YEAR 1998 2002 CHINE, JIN BH, 1999, SCI RES MANAGEMENT, V20, P1 QIU JP, 2000, INFORM STUDIES THEOR, P315 YU YS, 2008, J CHONGQING U SOCIAL, V14, P88 ======================================================================= Search terms matched: IMPACT FACTOR(1); SCIENTIFIC(1); TO(1) *View Full Record: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord;UT=WOS:000298331400016 *Order Full Text [ ] Title: Continuously Variable Rating: a new, simple and logical procedure *to* evaluate original *scientific* publications Authors: Silva, MRE Author Full Names: Rocha e Silva, Mauricio Source: CLINICS, 66 (12):2099-2104; 10.1590/S1807-59322011001200016 2011 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Scientometrics; scientific article evaluation; Impact Factors; citations Abstract: OBJECTIVE: Impact Factors (IF) are widely used surrogates to evaluate single articles, in spite of known shortcomings imposed by cite distribution skewness. We quantify this asymmetry and propose a simple computer-based procedure for evaluating individual articles. METHOD: (a) Analysis of symmetry. Journals clustered around nine *Impact Factor* points were selected from the medical "Subject Categories" in Journal Citation Reports 2010. Citable items published in 2008 were retrieved and ranked by granted citations over the Jan/2008 - Jun/2011 period. Frequency distribution of cites, normalized cumulative cites and absolute cites/decile were determined for each journal cluster. (b) Positive Predictive Value. Three arbitrarily established evaluation classes were generated: LOW (1.3 <= IF<2.6); MID: (2.6 <= IF<3.9); HIGH: (IF >= 3.9). Positive Predictive Value for journal clusters within each class range was estimated. (c) Continuously Variable Rating. An alternative evaluation procedure is proposed to allow the rating of individually published articles in comparison to all articles published in the same journal within the same year of publication. The general guiding lines for the construction of a totally dedicated software program are d! elineated. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: Skewness followed the Pareto Distribution for (1 ======================================================================= * Title: FREQUENTLY CITED JOURNALS IN FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY Authors: Black, S Author Full Names: Black, Steve Source: PSYCHOLOGICAL REPORTS, 110 (1):276-282; 10.2466/09.13.17.PR0.110.1.276-282 FEB 2012 Language: English Document Type: Article KeyWords Plus: CITATION ANALYSIS; IMPACT Abstract: Works cited in six forensic psychology journals published 2008-2010 were counted to identify the most frequently cited journals. The sample of works cited (N = 21,776) was not a definitive ranked list of important journals in forensic psychology, but was large enough to indicate high-impact journals. The list of frequently cited publications included more general psychiatry and psychology journals than titles specific to forensic psychology. The implications of the proportion of general versus specific titles for collections supporting research in forensic psychology were discussed. Reprint Address: Black, S (reprint author), Coll St Rose, 392 Western Ave, Albany, NY 12203 USA Addresses: Coll St Rose, Albany, NY 12203 USA E-mail Address: blacks at strose.edu Cited Reference Count: 15 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: AMMONS SCIENTIFIC, LTD, PO BOX 9229, MISSOULA, MT 59807-9229 USA ISSN: 0033-2941 DOI: 10.2466/09.13.17.PR0.110.1.276-282 Subject Category: Psychology IDS Number: 909IY Unique ID: WOS:000301559400021 Cited References: ROSENSTREICH D, 2009, BR ACCOUNT REV, V41, P227 HELMS JL, 2009, FORENSIC PSYCHOL J R, SMITH LC, 1981, LIBRARY TRENDS, V30, P83 Sittig DF, 1996, BULLETIN OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, V84, P200 MACROBERTS MH, 1989, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE, V40, P342 GARFIELD E, 1972, SCIENCE, V178, P471 Perdue B, 2003, PERCEPTUAL AND MOTOR SKILLS, V96, P1237 MACK T, 1991, LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE RESEARCH, V13, P131 Phelan TJ, 1999, SCIENTOMETRICS, V45, P117 Seglen PO, 1997, BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL, V314, P498 Ryan JJ, 2003, PSYCHOLOGICAL REPORTS, V92, P770 WHITE MJ, 1977, AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST, V32, P301 Martin BR, 1996, SCIENTOMETRICS, V36, P343 Black S, 2001, LIBRARY RESOURCES & TECHNICAL SERVICES, V45, P3 NISONGER TE, 2007, SERIALS LIB, V51, P51 ======================================================================= =================================================================== *Record 5 of 5. Search terms matched: RESEARCH(1) *View Full Record: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord;UT=WOS:000300379200011 *Order Full Text [ ] Title: Meta-Analysis of Publications on Web 2.0: Impact, Productivity, Prevalent Topics and *Research* Agendas Authors: Bogolyubov, P Author Full Names: Bogolyubov, Pavel Editor(s): Lehner F; Bredl K Source: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 12TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT, VOLS 1 AND 2, 97-106; 2011 Language: English Document Type: Proceedings Paper Conference Title: 12th Annual European Conference on Knowledge Management (ECKM) Conference Date: SEP 01-02, 2011 Conference Location: Passau, GERMANY Conference Host: Univ Passau Author Keywords: Web 2.0; meta-analysis; knowledge management KeyWords Plus: KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; COLLABORATION; TECHNOLOGIES Abstract: Web 2.0 is a relatively young field of study and the body of publications on it is still developing. The paper offers an in-depth analysis of the prevalent topics discussed in the business-oriented literature in relation to Web 2.0 as well as the understanding of where the research is done (institution/country) and what the citation impact is - in other words, the locale of the research, the quality of publications and the prominent research topics. Even more importantly, it identifies emerging debates in the key areas relevant to the overall conference theme. To assess the productivity and impact, ABI/Inform database was interrogated to compile the list of papers (search for "Web 2.0" string, all fields and texts, scholarly journals only). For the search results, the following information was gathered: the number of citations (found via Google in databases such as SpringerLink, Emerald Insight or Google Scholar), authors' and institutions names and locations as well as keyw! ords - from ABI/Inform, other databases or from papers themselves depending on the information availability. The resulting numbers were subjected to simple statistical analysis: for each institution and each country three numbers were calculated: total number of "hits" (people (co-)authoring papers), total number of citations per hit (time-normalised) and the ratio between the two. The keywords (tags) were counted by the number of appearances on the list, and the analysis highlighted a variety of topics that are discussed the most, with a number of trends highlighted. The full sets of results are shown in the paper in two ways: using " league tables" and tag clouds. The publications dedicated to aspects of Web 2.0 in KM are looked at in more detail in order to identify emerging themes and research agendas. Reprint Address: Addresses: [Bogolyubov, Pavel] Univ Lancaster, Sch Management, Lancaster, England E-mail Address: p.bogolyubov1 at lancaster.ac.uk Cited Reference Count: 44 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ACADEMIC CONFERENCES LTD, CURTIS FARM, KIDMORE END, NR READING, RG4 9AY, ENGLAND ISBN: 978-1-908272-09-6 Subject Category: Information Science & Library Science; Business & Economics IDS Number: BYU24 Unique ID: WOS:000300379200011 Cited References: NONAKA I, 1995, KNOWLEDGE CREATING C, McNamee RC, 2010, RESEARCH-TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT, V53, P54 RAZMERITA L, 2009, ONLINE INFORM REV, V33, SERENKO A, 2004, KNOWLEDGE PROCESS MA, V11, P3 1000, ABI INFORM DATABASE, 2011, WHAT ARE COCHRANE RE, Easterby-Smith M, 2000, JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES, V37, P783 KANE KJ, 2010, J INFORM KNOWLEDGE M, V40, P62 Wu H, 2009, IEEE SOFTWARE, V26, P48 Zhang ZP, 2009, ONLINE INFORMATION REVIEW, V33, P237 SIAKAS KV, 2010, VINE, V40, P376 GROSSMAN M, 2008, VINE, V38, MCAFEE AP, 2006, MIT SLOAN MANAGEMENT, HOLSAPPLE CW, 1994, J MANAGEMENT INFORMA, V11, P131 Paroutis S, 2009, JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT, V13, P52 Llorens F, 2010, ONLINE INFORMATION REVIEW, V34, P565 Serenko A, 2009, JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT, V13, P4 Yates D, 2010, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V61, P543 PARISE S, 2009, J INF TECHNOL, V11, P51 Donnelly FP, 2010, LIBRARY HI TECH, V28, P131 Wu H, 2010, DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, V50, P292 Garcia-Penalvo FJ, 2010, ONLINE INFORMATION REVIEW, V34, P520 Erkut E, 2002, CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES-REVUE CANADIENNE DES SCIENCES DE L ADMINISTRATION, V19, P97 RUIZ C, 2008, WHO COINED WEB 2 0 D, Andriole SJ, 2010, COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM, V53, P67 GARFIELD E, 1955, SCIENCE, V122, P108 RAPOZA J, 2007, EWEEK, V24, P54 Schneckenberg D, 2009, JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT, V13, P509 GRACE TPL, 2009, J KNOWLEDGE MANAGEME, V13, WENNING R, 2010, PUBLIC MANAGER, V39, P18 Lee BZ, 2010, ONLINE INFORMATION REVIEW, V34, P618 AHERNE M, 2008, LEADERSHIP HLTH SERV, V21, P229 GRINHAM J, 2007, J DIGITAL ASSET MANA, V3, P306 Wang H, 2008, INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT & DATA SYSTEMS, V108, P622 Serenko A, 2010, JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT, V14, P3 CHUNG KH, 1990, JOURNAL OF FINANCE, V45, P301 DUSANSKY R, 1998, J ECON PERSPECT, V12, P150 Matthews B, 2010, ASLIB PROCEEDINGS, V62, P447 MARTINNIEMI F, 2010, VINE, V40, P7 BURLEY D, 2010, VINE, V40, P71 MITTU R, 2008, INT J ELECT GOVT RES, V4, P36 PATRICK K, 2007, J COMPUTER INFORM SY, V49, P33 GARFIELD E, 1973, ESSAYS INFORM SCI, V1, P406 RIBIERE VM, 2010, VINE J INFORM KNOWLE, V40, P90 ======================================================================= From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Mon Apr 16 15:30:31 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:30:31 +0000 Subject: Papers of potential interest to Sig Metrics readers Message-ID: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Response to Sasso L (2011) Commentary on Thompson DR & Watson R (2010) Guest editorial: h-indexes and the performance of nursing professors of nursing in the UK. Journal of Clinical Nursing 19, 2957- 2958. Journal of Clinical Nursing 20, 2685-2686 (Article, English) AUTHOR: Watson, R; Thompson, DR SOURCE: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NURSING 21 (7-8). APR 2012. p.1193-1194 WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; JOURNAL item_title AUTHOR ADDRESS: R Watson, Univ Western Sydney, Sch Nursing & Midwifery, Sydney, NSW, Australia -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Impact of Self-citation on the H Index in the Field of Academic Radiology (Article, English) AUTHOR: Rad, AE; Shahgholi, L; Kallmes, D SOURCE: ACADEMIC RADIOLOGY 19 (4). APR 2012. p.455-457 ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, NEW YORK SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS: Hindex; self citation; radiology ABSTRACT: Rationale and Objectives: The Hirsch Index (H index) is widely applied as a metric of scientific productivity. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the role of self-citation on the H index in academic radiology. Materials and Methods: Through the National Resident Matching Program's Web site, one third (47/139) of radiology residency programs were selected randomly. All chairpersons and full professors were included. Using the Scopus database, we calculated the H index as well as the number of cumulative citations with and without inclusion of self- citations. We determined the proportion of academic staff in which H index increased by one, two, or greater than two integers. We also correlated the proportional increase in H index before and after inclusion of self citations with the number of publications. Results: A total of 487 academic staff (47 chair and 440 professors) was identified. Because of self-citation, mean +/- SD of the H index increased from 13.7 +/- 9.9 to 14.0 +/- 10.2; mean SD of cumulative citations increased from 1804 +/- 1889 to 1870 +/- 1971. H index numbers did not change in 376/487 (77%) authors as a result of self-citation. There was no correlation between number of publications and proportional change of H index. Conclusion: The effect of self-citation is minimal in academic radiology, as evidenced by the fact that cumulative citations increase by only 2% and the large majority of H index values do not change by even a single integer after inclusion of self-citation. AUTHOR ADDRESS: L Shahgholi, Mayo Clin, Dept Neuroradiol, 200 1st St SW, Rochester, MN 55905 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Trends in literature on new oilseed crops and related species: Seeking evidence of increasing or waning interest (Article, English) AUTHOR: Cruz, VMV; Dierig, DA SOURCE: INDUSTRIAL CROPS AND PRODUCTS 37 (1). MAY 2012. p.141-148 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005 KEYWORDS: Brassicaceae; Asteraceae; Lythraceae; Limnanthaceae; Bibliometrics; h-Index KEYWORDS+: BIBLIOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; SCIENCE; OIL ABSTRACT: Bibliographic records on eight new crop species Camelina, Crambe, Cuphea, Physaria, Limnanthes, Stokesia, Thlaspi, and Vernonia from Agricola, CAB Abstracts, Scopus, and Web of Science were analyzed for historical and recent trends on the areas of research, author distribution, and quantity and impact of publications. A total of 6786 non-redundant bibliographic records were curated and used in the analyses with about 59% of the records pertaining to the primary oilseed species. The highest number of records was found to be on Thlaspi while the least on Stokesia. Authors representing a total of 110 countries were determined to have worked in these new crops and their relative species during the past six decades with those from United States contributing about 27% in the total number of publications. There was an increase of more than ten-fold in the number of publications on new crops and relatives from 1950 to 2010 and this was paralleled by a similar increase on articles in popular and news media. The h-index values, indicating the collective impact of publications by researchers in the crop groups, show an increasing trend until the year 2000 then followed by a decline. It was determined that in recent times, there are fewer papers in the areas of chemistry, agronomy and horticulture, and more publications dealing with genetics and plant biology. Published by Elsevier B.V. AUTHOR ADDRESS: VMV Cruz, ARS, USDA, Natl Ctr Genet Resources Preservat, 1111 S Mason St, Ft Collins, CO 80521 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Solicited self-referencing undermines the credibility of researchers and journals (Letter, English) AUTHOR: Avanzini, F; Bertele, V; Pistotti, V; Mannucci, PM; Garattini, S SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THROMBOSIS AND HAEMOSTASIS 10 (3). MAR 2012. p.481-482 WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; AUTHOR ADDRESS: PM Mannucci, IRCCS Ca Granda Maggiore Policlin Hosp Fdn, Via Pace 9, I-20122 Milan, Italy -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: What Are the Correlates of Interdisciplinary Research Impact? The Case of Corporate Governance Research (Article, English) AUTHOR: Judge, WQ; Weber, T; Muller-Kahle, MI SOURCE: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT LEARNING & EDUCATION 11 (1). MAR 2012. p.82-98 ACAD MANAGEMENT, BRIARCLIFF MANOR SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E CURR CONTENTS :5 1977 KEYWORDS+: RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY; SOCIAL NETWORKS; RESEARCH PERFORMANCE; ACADEMIC ECONOMISTS; RESEARCH OUTCOMES; MANAGEMENT; FACULTY; SCIENCE; SCHOLARSHIP; RANKING ABSTRACT: We explore the concept of interdisciplinary research impact and better understand what factors might be associated with it. Using the field of corporate governance research as a case study and linking our research impact concept to a novel measure of scholarly citation rates, we seek to understand why some corporate governance scholars are cited more than others. We first developed a comprehensive ranking of the top-100 scholars cited for their research in corporate governance and then compared that "high-impact" group with scholars who had published governance research that was not yet cited. We hypothesized that indicators from the social network perspective would be predictive of interdisciplinary research impact. Our data largely supported our hypotheses using this new and improved measure of research impact, and robustness tests also supported our results. AUTHOR ADDRESS: WQ Judge, Old Dominion Univ, Norfolk, VA 23529 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Non-Governmental and Not-for-Profit Organizational Effectiveness: A Modern Synthesis (Article, English) AUTHOR: Lecy, JD; Schmitz, HP; Swedlund, H SOURCE: VOLUNTAS 23 (2). JUN 2012. p.434-457 SPRINGER, NEW YORK SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; PRICE DJD rauth; GARFIELD E CURR CONTENTS :5 1980 KEYWORDS: Non-for-profit organizations; Non-governmental organizations; Structured literature review KEYWORDS+: NETWORKS; PERFORMANCE; MANAGEMENT; CRITERIA; SYSTEM ABSTRACT: NGO/NPO effectiveness remains a prominent concern for scholars and practitioners, but the literature on this issue is increasingly fragmented along disciplinary lines. We address this problem by presenting a comprehensive and interdisciplinary review of the literature on NGO and NPO effectiveness using citation analysis. In order to uncover commonalities across disciplines concerned with similar questions, we deploy a structured literature review using snowball sampling within citation networks. This approach limits author biases, fosters an interdisciplinary perspective, and adds a different methodological approach to conventional content-based literature reviews. Our review uncovers three trends: (1) there is broad scholarly consensus that unidimensional measures of effectiveness are not useful-even though such measures are commonly used by NGO/NPO rating agencies; (2) the scholarship on NGO/NPO effectiveness is dominated by conceptual works, while empirical studies remain rare; (3) a consensus on how to operationalize effectiveness remains elusive. These results suggest that progress in our understanding of NGO/NPO effectiveness requires enhanced efforts at crossing disciplinary divides, adding empirical analyses, and increasing attention to develop shared categories and methodologies. AUTHOR ADDRESS: JD Lecy, Georgia State Univ, Atlanta, GA 30303 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Wed Apr 18 02:40:01 2012 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 08:40:01 +0200 Subject: Book Citation Index of Thomson Reuters Message-ID: Edited Volumes, Monographs, and Book Chapters in the Book Citation Index (BCI) and Science Citation Index (SCI, SoSCI, A &HCI) In 2011, Thomson-Reuters introduced the Book Citation Index (BCI) as part of the Science Citation Index (SCI). The interface of the Web of Science version 5 enables users to search for both "Books" and "Book Chapters" as new categories. Books and book chapters, however, were always among the cited references, and book chapters have been included in the database since 2005. We explore the two categories with both BCI and SCI, and in the sister databases for the social sciences (SoSCI) and the arts and humanities (A&HCI). Book chapters in edited volumes can be highly cited. Books contain many citing references, but are relatively less cited. We suggest that this may find its origin in the slower circulation of books then of journal articles. It is possible to distinguish scientometrically between monographs and edited volumes among the "Books". Monographs may be underrated in terms of citation impact or overrated using publication performance indicators because individual chapters are counted separately as contributions in terms of articles, reviews, and/or book chapters. Loet Leydesdorff [1] & Ulrike Felt [2] ** This is a preprint version of a paper in preparation for the (forthcoming) inaugural issue of the Journal of Scientometric Research. Apologies for cross postings. _____ [1] Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam [2] Department of Science & Technology Studies, University of Vienna -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Wed Apr 18 18:16:24 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 22:16:24 +0000 Subject: papers relevant to Sig Metrics Message-ID: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Using Structural Information and Citation Evidence to Detect Significant Plagiarism Cases in Scientific Publications (Article, English) AUTHOR: Alzahrani, S; Palade, V; Salim, N; Abraham, A SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 63 (2). FEB 2012. p.286-312 WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS+: DOCUMENT STRUCTURE; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; SEARCH ABSTRACT: In plagiarism detection (PD) systems, two important problems should be considered: the problem of retrieving candidate documents that are globally similar to a document q under investigation, and the problem of side-by-side comparison of q and its candidates to pinpoint plagiarized fragments in detail. In this article, the authors investigate the usage of structural information of scientific publications in both problems, and the consideration of citation evidence in the second problem. Three statistical measures namely Inverse Generic Class Frequency, Spread, and Depth are introduced to assign a degree of importance (i.e., weight) to structural components in scientific articles. A term-weighting scheme is adjusted to incorporate component- weight factors, which is used to improve the retrieval of potential sources of plagiarism. A plagiarism screening process is applied based on a measure of resemblance, in which component-weight factors are exploited to ignore less or nonsignificant plagiarism cases. Using the notion of citation evidence, parts with proper citation evidence are excluded, and remaining cases are suspected and used to calculate the similarity index. The authors compare their approach to two flat-based baselines, TF-IDF weighting with a Cosine coefficient, and shingling with a Jaccard coefficient. In both baselines, they use different comparison units with overlapping measures for plagiarism screening. They conducted extensive experiments using a dataset of 15,412 documents divided into 8,657 source publications and 6,755 suspicious queries, which included 18,147 plagiarism cases inserted automatically. Component-weight factors are assessed using precision, recall, and F-measure averaged over a 10-fold cross-validation and compared using the ANOVA statistical test. Results from structural-based candidate retrieval and plagiarism detection are evaluated statistically against the flat baselines using paired-t tests on 10-fold cross-validation runs, which demonstrate the efficacy achieved by the proposed framework. An empirical study on the system's response shows that structural information, unlike existing plagiarism detectors, helps to flag significant plagiarism cases, improve the similarity index, and provide human-like plagiarism screening results. AUTHOR ADDRESS: S Alzahrani, Taif Univ, Dept Comp Sci, At Taif, Saudi Arabia [ ]<-- Enter an X to order article (IDS: 917FM 00007) ISSN: 1532-2882 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Mapping World Scientific Collaboration: Authors, Institutions, and Countries (Article, English) AUTHOR: Gazni, A; Sugimoto, CR; Didegah, F SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 63 (2). FEB 2012. p.323-335 WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth KEYWORDS+: INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION; CO-AUTHORSHIP; SCIENCES; COOPERATION; NETWORKS; PATTERNS; CITATION; PUBLICATIONS; COAUTHORSHIP; PERIPHERY ABSTRACT: International collaboration is being heralded as the hallmark of contemporary scientific production. Yet little quantitative evidence has portrayed the landscape and trends of such collaboration. To this end, 14,000,000 documents indexed in Thomson Reuters's Web of Science (WoS) were studied to provide a state-of-the-art description of scientific collaborations across the world. The results indicate that the number of authors in the largest research teams have not significantly grown during the past decade; however, the number of smaller research teams has seen significant increases in growth. In terms of composition, the largest teams have become more diverse than the latter teams and tend more toward interinstitutional and international collaboration. Investigating the size of teams showed large variation between fields. Mapping scientific cooperation at the country level reveals that Western countries situated at the core of the map are extensively cooperating with each other. High-impact institutions are significantly more collaborative than others. This work should inform policy makers, administrators, and those interested in the progression of scientific collaboration. AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Gazni, Islamic World Sci Citat Ctr ISC, Shiraz, Iran [ ]<-- Enter an X to order article (IDS: 917FM 00009) ISSN: 1532-2882 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The Inconsistency of the h-index (Article, English) AUTHOR: Waltman, L; Van Eck, NJ SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 63 (2). FEB 2012. p.406-415 WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005 KEYWORDS+: HIGHLY CITED PAPERS; HIRSCH-INDEX; BIBLIOMETRIC INDICATORS; SCIENTIFIC PERFORMANCE; IMPACT MEASURES; RANKINGS; JOURNALS; SCORE; MODEL ABSTRACT: The h-index is a popular bibliometric indicator for assessing individual scientists. We criticize the h-index from a theoretical point of view. We argue that for the purpose of measuring the overall scientific impact of a scientist (or some other unit of analysis), the h-index behaves in a counterintuitive way. In certain cases, the mechanism used by the h-index to aggregate publication and citation statistics into a single number leads to inconsistencies in the way in which scientists are ranked. Our conclusion is that the h-index cannot be considered an appropriate indicator of a scientist's overall scientific impact. Based on recent theoretical insights, we discuss what kind of indicators can be used as an alternative to the h-index. We pay special attention to the highly cited publications indicator. This indicator has a lot in common with the h-index, but unlike the h-index it does not produce inconsistent rankings. AUTHOR ADDRESS: L Waltman, Leiden Univ, Ctr Sci & Technol Studies, POB 905, NL-2300 AX Leiden, Netherlands [ ]<-- Enter an X to order article (IDS: 917FM 00015) ISSN: 1532-2882 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The Thermodynamics-Bibliometrics Consilience and the Meaning of h-Type Indices (Letter, English) AUTHOR: Prathap, G SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 63 (2). FEB 2012. p.430 WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title; LETTER* doctype AUTHOR ADDRESS: G Prathap, CSIR Natl Inst Sci Commun & Informat Resources, New Delhi 110012, India [ ]<-- Enter an X to order article (IDS: 917FM 00022) ISSN: 1532-2882 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Too much impact for the Impact Factor: are a new generation of scientists in peril? (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Pierce, GN SOURCE: CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY AND PHARMACOLOGY 90 (4). APR 2012. p.III-IV CANADIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING, NRC RESEARCH PRESS, OTTAWA SEARCH TERM(S): IMPACT FACTOR* item_title; EDITORIAL doctype -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Citation Classic Genesis and Outcome of a Breast Cancer Trial to Develop the Aromatase Inhibitor Anastrozole (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Howell, A SOURCE: CLINICAL CHEMISTRY 58 (4). APR 2012. p.782-783 AMER ASSOC CLINICAL CHEMISTRY, WASHINGTON SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title; EDITORIAL doctype KEYWORDS+: ARIMIDEX; TAMOXIFEN AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Howell, Univ Manchester, Christie NHS Fdn Trust, Manchester Breast Ctr, Wilmslow Rd, Manchester M20 4BX, Lancs, England -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Ethics requirements and impact factor (Article, English) AUTHOR: Charlier, P; Bridoux, V; Watier, L; Menetrier, M; de la Grandmaison, GL; Herve, C SOURCE: JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ETHICS 38 (4). APR 2012. p.253-255 B M J PUBLISHING GROUP, LONDON SEARCH TERM(S): IMPACT FACTOR* item_title KEYWORDS+: TRIALS ABSTRACT: Do all clinical research publications show strong application of ethics principles and respect for biomedical law? We examined, for the year 2009, the ethics requirements displayed on the website of 30 leading medical journals with an impact factor (IF) >10, and 30 others with an IF <10. We carried out a short study looking at the relationship between the IF of a journal and the ethics requirements in its instructions to authors. We show that the IF of a biomedical journal bears a direct relationship to its ethics requirements. Such results should improve the ethics requirements of all biomedical journals, especially those with low IF, so that they are internationally standardised to the higher standard required by journals with higher IF. AUTHOR ADDRESS: P Charlier, Univ Hosp R Poincare, AP HP, UVSQ, Dept Forens Med, 104 R Poincare Blvd, F-92380 Garches, France -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Peer Review and Impact Factor as well as Preferential Reading Give Hint to Authors of Papers for Clinical Issues (Editorial Material, German) AUTHOR: Gobel, U; Gortner, L SOURCE: KLINISCHE PADIATRIE 224 (1). JAN-FEB 2012. p.3-7 GEORG THIEME VERLAG KG, STUTTGART SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; GARFIELD E ANN INTERN MED 105:313 1986; KEYWORDS+: DISORDERS; JOURNALS; CHILDREN; DISEASE; INDEX; PAN AUTHOR ADDRESS: U Gobel, Univ Dusseldorf, Koordinierungszentrum Klin Studien, Univ Klinikum, Moorenstrasse 5, D-40225 Dusseldorf, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Rating and Ranking of Medical Journals: A Randomised Controlled Evaluation of Impact Factor and Number of Listed Journals (Article, German) AUTHOR: Gobel, U; Niem, V SOURCE: KLINISCHE PADIATRIE 224 (1). JAN-FEB 2012. p.43-50 GEORG THIEME VERLAG KG, STUTTGART SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; JOURNALS item_title; IMPACT FACTOR* item_title; GARFIELD E ANN INTERN MED 105:313 1986 KEYWORDS: impact factor; research efficacy; research assessment; scientific journal; health sciences KEYWORDS+: RARE DISEASES; DECADE ABSTRACT: Background: The impact factor is a purely bibliometric parameter built on a number of publications and their citations that occur within clearly defined periods. Appropriate interpretation of the impact factor is important as it is also used worldwide for the evaluation of research performance. Research question: It is assumed that the number of medical journals reflects the extent of diseases and patient populations involved and that the number is correlated with the level of the impact factor. Method: 174 category lists (Subject Categories) are included in the area Health Sciences of the ISI Web of Knowledge of Thomson Reuters, 71 of which belong to the field of medicine and 50 of which have a clinical and/or application-oriented focus. These alphabetically arranged 50 category lists were consecutively numbered, randomized by odd and even numbers, respectively, into 2 equal-sized groups and then grouped according to organ specialities, sub-specialities and cross-disciplinary fields. By tossing up a coin it was decided which group should be evaluated first. Only then the category lists were downloaded and the number of journals, as well as the impact factors of journals ranking number 1 and 2, as well as the impact factors of journals at the end of the first third and at the end of the first half of each category list were compared. Results: The number of journals per category list varies considerably between 5 and 252. The lists of organ specialties and cross-disciplinary fields include more than three times as many journals as those of the sub- specialities; the highest numbers of journals are listed for the cross- disciplinary fields. The level of impact factor of journals that rank number 1 in the lists varies considerably and ranges from 3,058 to 94,333; a similar variability exists for the journals at rank 2. On the other hand, the impact factor of journals at the end of the first third of the lists varies from 1,214 and 3,953, and for those journals at the end of the first half of a respective category list it varies from 0,609 and 2,872. The slope of the straight correlation line between the level of impact factors of journals at rank 1 and 2 with the number of listed journals varies from 0,0756 and 0,2651 (correlation coefficients between 0,49 and 0,96). For the journals ranking further down in the lists the straight correlation lines run almost horizontally or with inverse slope. Conclusions: This current analysis adds to the knowledge for an appropriate interpretation of the impact factor. Generally, greater importance should be given to the ranking of a journal within a corresponding category list. AUTHOR ADDRESS: U Gobel, Univ Dusseldorf, Univ Klinikum, ESPED Geschafsstelle, Koordinierungszentrum Klin Studien, Moorenstr 5, D-40225 Dusseldorf, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A bibliometric analysis of research papers published on photosynthesis: 1992-2009 (Article, English) AUTHOR: Yu, JJ; Wang, MH; Xu, M; Ho, YS SOURCE: PHOTOSYNTHETICA 50 (1). MAR 2012. p.5-14 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E SCIENTIST 14:4 2000 KEYWORDS: author keyword; research trend; scientometrics; science citation index expanded KEYWORDS+: LIGHT-HARVESTING COMPLEX; SCIENCE-CITATION-INDEX; CHLOROPHYLL FLUORESCENCE; WATER-STRESS; ELECTRON- TRANSPORT; CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE; ATMOSPHERIC CO2; RESEARCH TRENDS; PHOTOSYSTEM-II; ELEVATED CO2 ABSTRACT: We present here a bibliometric analysis of publications on photosynthesis research from 1992 to 2009 in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-Expanded) Web of Science. This has allowed us to examine the growing trends and the key topics on this subject. We have assessed the document type, language of the publications, publication output, subject category, journal distribution, countries and territories of these publications, institutions involved, hot topics and highly cited papers. The top 30 countries/territories were ranked according to their total number of articles (TA), single country articles (SCA), internationally collaborative articles (ICA), first author articles (FAA) and corresponding author articles (CAA). Research directions on the subject of photosynthesis were also investigated and evaluated by statistically analyzing the distribution of author keywords in the database. Our analysis indicates that "water", "stress", "carbon dioxide", "nitrogen" and "climate change" are hot topics of research on photosynthesis during this period. AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Xu, Rutgers State Univ, Dept Ecol Evolut & Nat Resources, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Thu Apr 19 11:55:14 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:55:14 +0000 Subject: Papers of interest to SIG Metrics readers Message-ID: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A threshold citation analysis in marketing research (Article, English) AUTHOR: Chan, KC; Lai, P; Liano, K SOURCE: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MARKETING 46 (1-2). 2012. p.134-156 EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED, BINGLEY SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E SCIENCE 178:471 1972 KEYWORDS: Marketing research; Performance measurement (quality); Marketing; Research KEYWORDS+: BUYER-SELLER RELATIONSHIPS; JOURNALS; ORIENTATION; IMPACT; INSTITUTIONS; PARADIGM; FIRM ABSTRACT: Purpose - The objective of this paper is to simultaneously identify influential articles, journals, institutions, and researchers in marketing research in recent years using a threshold citation analysis. Design/methodology/approach - The threshold citation analysis counts the number of times a research work is cited by articles published in a set of elite marketing journals. In order to be included in the analysis, the research work must be cited 18 or more times. This threshold is used to measure influence and is unique in the ranking of marketing research. The threshold citation analysis incorporates the quality, the importance, and the influence of research works in the ranking criteria and is not limited to a set of journals nor confined by the year a research work is published. Findings - The three frequently cited articles in marketing research are Fornell and Larcker, Baron and Kenny, and Anderson and Gerbing. Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, and Journal of Consumer Research are the three marketing journals having the greatest influence in marketing research. As for the ranking of institutions, the three most influential institutions in marketing research are Northwestern University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Michigan while the three frequently cited authors in marketing research are Richard Oliver, Valarie Zeithaml, and James Anderson. Originality/value - First, this study identifies influential research works, journals, institutions, and researchers in marketing simultaneously and is in sharp contrast to the traditional approaches that identify influential research works, journals, institutions, and researchers separately. Second, this analysis mitigates the limitations that have plagued the quantity oriented publication-based approach and the quality oriented citation-based approach, making these findings more robust and inclusive. Finally, this paper identifies non-marketing journals, non-marketing articles, and scholarly books that have significant impact on contemporary marketing research. Consequently, this study offers new and comprehensive insights to the rankings research in marketing that were neglected by previous studies. AUTHOR ADDRESS: K Liano, Mississippi State Univ, Dept Finance, Starkville, MS 39759 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A Study of the Evolution of Interdisciplinarity in Library and Information Science: Using Three Bibliometric Methods (Article, English) AUTHOR: Chang, YW; Huang, MH SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 63 (1). JAN 2012. p.22-33 WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN SEARCH TERM(S): LIPETZ BA rauth; KESSLER MM AM DOC 14:10 1963; BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS+: CITATION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL-SCIENCES; PATTERNS; DISCIPLINES; INTRADISCIPLINARY; COLLABORATION; COMMUNICATION; AFFILIATION; LITERATURES; MANAGEMENT ABSTRACT: This study uses three bibliometric methods: direct citation, bibliographic coupling, and co-authorship analysis, to investigate interdisciplinary changes in library and information science (LIS) from 1978 to 2007. The results reveal that LIS researchers most frequently cite publications in their own discipline. In addition, half of all co-authors of LIS articles are affiliated with LIS-related institutes. The results confirm that the degree of interdisciplinarity within LIS has increased, particularly co-authorship. However, the study found sources of direct citations in LIS articles are widely distributed across 30 disciplines, but co-authors of LIS articles are distributed across only 25 disciplines. The degree of interdisciplinarity was found ranging from 0.61 to 0.82 with citation to references in all articles being the highest and that of co-authorship being the lowest. Percentages of contribution attributable to LIS show a decreasing tendency based on the results of direct citation and co-authorship analysis, but an increasing tendency based on those of bibliographic coupling analysis. Such differences indicate each of the three bibliometric methods has its strength and provides insights respectively for viewing various aspects of interdisciplinarity, suggesting the use of no single bibliometric method can reveal all aspects of interdisciplinarity due to its multifaceted nature. AUTHOR ADDRESS: YW Chang, Fu Jen Catholic Univ, Dept Lib & Informat Sci, 510 Zhongzheng Rd, New Taipei City 24205, Taiwan -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Effects of Academic Experience and Prestige on Researchers' Citing Behavior (Article, English) AUTHOR: Frandsen, TF; Nicolaisen, J SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 63 (1). JAN 2012. p.64-71 WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN SEARCH TERM(S): ZUCKERMAN H rauth KEYWORDS+: RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY; AGE; ECONOMICS; REVIEWS; SCIENCE ABSTRACT: This article reports the findings of a bibliometric study of the measurable effects of experience and prestige on researchers' citing behavior. All single authors from two econometrics journals over a 10-year time period form the basis of the analysis of how experience and prestige affect the number of references in their publications. Preliminary results from linear regression models suggest that two author types can be characterized using this analysis. Review experience seems to be the decisive factor in the data. The article discusses the implications of the findings and offers suggestions for future research within this new and promising area. AUTHOR ADDRESS: TF Frandsen, Univ So Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Universality of Citation Distributions Revisited (Article, English) AUTHOR: Waltman, L; van Eck, NJ; van Raan, AFJ SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 63 (1). JAN 2012. p.72-77 WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS+: INDICATOR ABSTRACT: Radicchi, Fortunato, and Castellano (2008) claim that, apart from a scaling factor, all fields of science are characterized by the same citation distribution. We present a large-scale validation study of this universality-of-citation-distributions claim. Our analysis shows that claiming citation distributions to be universal for all fields of science is not warranted. Although many fields indeed seem to have fairly similar citation distributions, there are exceptions as well. We also briefly discuss the consequences of our findings for the measurement of scientific impact using citation-based bibliometric indicators. AUTHOR ADDRESS: L Waltman, Leiden Univ, Ctr Sci & Technol Studies, POB 905, NL-2300 AX Leiden, Netherlands -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Link Prediction in Citation Networks (Article, English) AUTHOR: Shibata, N; Kajikawa, Y; Sakata, I SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 63 (1). JAN 2012. p.78-85 WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN SEARCH TERM(S): MACROBERTS MH rauth; PRICE DJD rauth; SEGLEN PO J AM SOC INFORM SCI 45:1 1994; SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 50:799 1999; CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS+: SCIENCE; PARADIGMS; CITEDNESS; TRACKING ABSTRACT: In this article, we build models to predict the existence of citations among papers by formulating link prediction for 5 large- scale datasets of citation networks. The supervised machine-learning model is applied with 11 features. As a result, our learner performs very well, with the F1 values of between 0.74 and 0.82. Three features in particular, link-based Jaccard coefficient, difference in betweenness centrality, and cosine similarity of term frequency-inverse document frequency vectors, largely affect the predictions of citations. The results also indicate that different models are required for different types of research areas-research fields with a single issue or research fields with multiple issues. In the case of research fields with multiple issues, there are barriers among research fields because our results indicate that papers tend to be cited in each research field locally. Therefore, one must consider the typology of targeted research areas when building models for link prediction in citation networks. AUTHOR ADDRESS: N Shibata, Univ Tokyo, Grad Sch Engn, Innovat Policy Res Ctr, Bunkyo Ku, 2-11-16 Yayoi, Tokyo 1138656, Japan -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: How Much Do Core Journals Change over a Decade? The Case of Communication Disorders (Article, English) AUTHOR: Black, S SOURCE: LIBRARY RESOURCES & TECHNICAL SERVICES 56 (2). APR 2012. p.80-93 AMER LIBRARY ASSOC, CHICAGO SEARCH TERM(S): LINE MB rauth; MACROBERTS MH rauth; MERTON RK rauth; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 178:471 1972 KEYWORDS+: CITATION DATA; IMPACT FACTOR; SERIALS; LISTS; COLLECTION; PATTERNS; SCIENCE ABSTRACT: This study replicates the method of identifying core journals in the field of communication disorders published in the January 2001 issue of Library Resources and Technical Services for the purpose of determining the degree to which the ranked list changed after ten years. Two measures are used to assess the reliability of rankings over time: Spearman's rho rank correlations among the citing journals and coefficients of variation among cited journals. Rank correlations of groups of journals can mask important changes in rank for individual titles, so characteristics of the journals with the greatest movements in rank over a decade are explored. Major findings are that the discipline's literature grew substantially over the decade, and the core journals remained stable over ten years (r(s) = 0.73). However, despite stability of core journals over time, some titles changed dramatically in rank. Coefficients of reliability calculated for this group of communication disorders journals suggests that approximately one-third of observed change in ranks is because of random variability in works cited. AUTHOR ADDRESS: S Black, Coll St Rose, Neil Hellman Lib, Albany, NY USA - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From bjorn.hammarfelt at ABM.UU.SE Fri Apr 20 10:40:11 2012 From: bjorn.hammarfelt at ABM.UU.SE (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Hammarfelt?=) Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:40:11 +0200 Subject: Doctoral thesis on citation patterns in the humanities Message-ID: Members of this list might be interested in my recently published dissertation: /Following the Footnotes: A Bibliometric Analysis of Citation Patterns in Literary Studies/. A fulltext version (without included articles) is available here: http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:511996/FULLTEXT01 Best wishes, Bj?rn Hammarfelt -- Bj?rn Hammarfelt Phd-candidate Department of Archival Science, Library& Information Science and Museology Uppsala University bjorn.hammarfelt at abm.uu.se Work: (0046) 018-4716328 Cell: (0046) 073-7277921 http://uppsala.academia.edu/Bj?rnHammarfelt -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chni at INDIANA.EDU Mon Apr 23 17:42:59 2012 From: chni at INDIANA.EDU (Chaoqun Ni) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:42:59 -0400 Subject: FINAL CALL: 2012 SIGMET Student Paper Contest Message-ID: Please submit to 2012 SIG/MET Student Paper Contest. Apologies for cross-posting. *Deadline: midnight EST on Sunday, April 30, 2012* * 2012 ASIS&T SIG/MET Student Paper Contest SIG/MET, the Special Interest Group for the measurement of information production and use (http://www.asis.org/SIG/met.html) of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T ) is pleased to announce its second student paper contest. The contest is designed to recognize promising student research relating to the SIG. Purpose SIG/MET seeks to encourages the development and networking of all those interested in the measurement of information. It is holding this contest in order to promote amongst students the generation of new ideas and the conduct of new research in metric-related topics, including bibliometrics, scientometrics, informetrics, webometrics and other related domains. EligibilityThe author of the paper contest must be a full-time student at the time the paper is submitted, irrespective of whether they are members of ASIS&T. Only single-authored manuscripts will be accepted, in order to ensure that the work was conducted primarily by a student. SIG/MET reserves the right to request proof of enrollment as part of the submission and evaluation process. All submissions should be original and not have been published in a journal, or been accepted by a journal, or be in the process of being considered by a journal at the time they are submitted to this contest. Theme Papers could discuss theories, methods, policies, case studies, etc. on different aspects of measurement of information production and use. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following core areas: ? Metric-Related Theory ? Methods and new techniques ? Citation and co-citation analysis ? Indicators ? Altmetrics ? Webometrics ? Mapping & visualization ? Research policy ? Productivity & publications ? Journals, databases and electronic publications ? Collaboration/Co-authorship ? Patent analysis ? Knowledge and topic diffusion Selection There will be a winner, runner-up and, depending on the quantity of strong papers, a number of commended papers. The judges will particularly reward well-written, original research that has potential for publication in a peer-reviewed journal or for presentation at a refereed conference. PrizesThe winner and runner-up will be awarded a one-year individual membership to ASIS&T and the winner will also be awarded a cash prize. Authors of highly rated papers will be invited to submit a short biographical piece to be featured on the SIG/MET Website. In addition, if SIG/MET holds a pre-conference workshop at the 2012 Annual Meeting, these authors will be invited to present their research at the workshop. FormatThe SIG/MET student paper contest committee requires that submissions are no longer than ten pages (including figures, tables and references) and follow the template of 2012 ASIS&T annual conference. Detailed information about the template is available at: http://www.asis.org/asist2012/ Submission & DeadlineAuthors are invited to submit manuscripts by midnight EST on Sunday, the 30th April 2012, to the following website: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigmetspc2012 The students will be notified about the results by the end of May. If you have any queries, please email Chaoqun Ni (chni at indiana.edu), or Carrie Chang (carriehc at gmail.com).* Chaoqun Ni School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University Bloomington 1320 E 10th Street, L012, Bloomington, IN 47405 http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~chni/index.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pmd8 at CORNELL.EDU Tue Apr 24 06:38:26 2012 From: pmd8 at CORNELL.EDU (Philip Davis) Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 06:38:26 -0400 Subject: Universal Citation Paper Lacks Universality Message-ID: Universal Citation Paper Lacks Universality THE SCHOLARLY KITCHEN. BY PHIL DAVIS ? APR 24, 2012 http://wp.me/pcvbl-6Bu A bold claim that citation impact is comparable across fields is disputed by researchers who question why uncited papers were excluded from the analysis. From priem at EMAIL.UNC.EDU Tue Apr 24 16:47:14 2012 From: priem at EMAIL.UNC.EDU (Jason Priem) Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:47:14 -0400 Subject: CFP: altmetrics12: tracking scholarly impact on the social Web. Message-ID: *Call for Proposals: altmetrics12: tracking scholarly impact on the social Web. An ACM Web Science Conference 2012 Workshop Evanston, IL ? 21 June 2011 Increasing scholarly use of Web2.0 tools like CiteULike, Mendeley, Twitter, and blog-style article commenting presents an opportunity to track scholarly impact in novel ways. Metrics based on this diverse set of Web sources could yield broader, richer, and more timely assessments of current and potential scholarly impact. Realizing this, many authors have begun to investigate these altmetrics. altmetrics12 encourages continued investigation into the the properties of these metrics: their validity, their potential value and flaws, and their relationship to established measures. Submissions are invited from a variety of areas: * New metrics based on social media * Tracking science communication on the Web * Relation between traditional metrics and altmetrics * Peer-review and altmetrics * Tools for gathering, analyzing, disseminating altmetrics This workshop is a follow-up to the successful altmetrics11 workshop hosted by WebSci?11. Important Dates 2-page abstracts due:May 18, 2012 Acceptance and abstract publication:May 22, 2012 Open pre-workshop discussion:May 22 ? June 18, 2012 Workshop at WebSci 12June 21, 2012 Discussion closedJune 30, 2012 Invitations for post-workshop proceedingsTBA Submissions Prospective authors should submit 2-page extended abstracts (max. 1000 words, not including references) via EasyChair. If necessary, the workshop organizers will select the most relevant, original, and significant abstracts for presentation. Experimental results will be given preference, followed by technical reports on working altmetrics tools and position papers. All selected submissions will be published online for open peer review and discussion. Authors are encouraged to participate in the discussions of their work. Based on the presentations and online discussion, selected authors may be asked to submit full papers for peer-reviewed proceedings. Location The workshop is hosted by the ACM Web Science Conference 2012 (Evanston, Illinois). This interdisciplinary conference focuses on advances in studying the full range of social-technical relationships on the Web. Please visit the workshop website (http://altmetrics.org/altmetrics12) for more information. Organizers Paul Groth ? VU University Amsterdam, NL Jason Priem ? University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Dario Taraborelli ? Wikimedia Foundation, USA* -- Jason Priem UNC Royster Fellow School of Information and Library Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rigic at EXCITE.COM Wed Apr 25 13:30:16 2012 From: rigic at EXCITE.COM (Rajko) Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:30:16 -0400 Subject: English language and medical journals Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, I have just prepared a short text entitled "Medical journals and the English language." For two years our journal, Scripta Medica, publishes articles in English or Serbian. We do not know yet if it is the best solution for our medical community. Therefore, we plan to determine how many readers read the articles in English versus Serbian. I should appreciate it very much to get opinion of the information scientists on this subject. Perhaps some bilingual journals in non-English speaking countries had studied this subject. Rajko Igi? Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management J. H. Stroger Hospital of Cook County Chicago, IL 60612 USA Editor-in-Chief Scripta Medica (Banja Luka) MEDICAL JOURNALS AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Richard Smith, the long time editor of BMJ, once remarked, ?healing the sick is the core of medicine?? yet, healing depends upon various other disciplines. Basic science, public health, medical technology, health care and business all contribute to the final outcome. For that reason, knowledge must be shared through publications in professional journals; they are the primary medium for dissemination of up to date information to all medical professionals. Throughout the history of medicine, several languages became the lingua franca of their time. Most recently, this honor falls to the English language. Although more people worldwide speak Chinese, Hindi or Spanish than English, the latter remains the language of medicine and science. Hence, authors whose native tongue is not English often publish in that language. Because publication in English can help to promote an author?s academic career, French, Russian, German or Japanese doctors who acquire new and important information prefer to publish in English language journals rather than in their own national journals. Publications in English are cited on average six times more frequently than those in German, Japanese or French. Thus, English publication of research or clinical findings greatly enhances the spread of knowledge and recognition of the authors among their peers. Accordingly, the publishers of Langenbecks Archiv fur Chirurgie, a German-language journal founded in 1860, decided in 1998 to publish exclusively in English. Medical publications in many developing countries may use English rather than their own national language to achieve greater ?international visibility? for their journals. The question is, how much does the language switch help? Even if a paper had an excellent impact, of one citation per year, it might be read by only 5-10 percent of local medical professionals. Non-English speaking countries would need to publish one in ten (or twenty) medical journals in English to make an impact. Some journals might prefer to publish papers both in English and the local language, although such an approach does not favor inclusion of either old or new medical journals in worldwide databases. The NLM recently reviewed 140 medical journals for inclusion in MEDLINE. Thirty journals published in English were selected along with one with articles in both English and Portuguese. Bilingual journals can provide good practice for the authors (and editors) in reading, and they tend to enrich international standards in publishing. As a result, English remains the preferred language of regional medical professional specialists. For example, the Journal of Balkan Union of Oncology (J BUON) is published in the Balkans. General medical practitioners spend only about one hour a week reading articles in professional journals. Medical information and exchange of opinions on local medical problems are more efficacious if articles are published in the local language. Many large non-English speaking countries use their local language for dissemination of medical information and advancement of educational topics, but they publish several journals in English as well. In developing countries, journals in English are appropriately more limited, because their goal is to inform colleagues who speak the same language. However, if an important discovery merits more attention, the authors could publish the information in English, in a well-established international journal. Duplicate publication remains another possibility for non-English speaking authors. The Vancouver group established the prerequisites for duplicate publication, particularly for two different languages. Duplicate publication requires approval from the editors of both journals along with other conditions; indexing within databases requires this to avoid ?a publishing misdemeanor.? Before the electronic period, it was an easy process. An example of this modality, common in the 19th Century, is provided by citation of the same publication in Serbian and German: Lazarevi? LK. Ischias postica Cotunnii: a contribution to the differential diagnosis. Srpski Arhiv 1880;7:23-35. [In Serbian] Lazarevi? LK. Ischias postica Cotunnii. Ein Beitrag zu deren Differential-Diagnose. Allg Wien Med Zeitung 1884;29:437-438. Finally, to keep doctors informed and their patients in good health, there must be regular access to information on medical advances. Physicians need to be able to share their experiences and observations via published media. The best solution may be to publish the majority of articles for non-English speaking readers in their local language but include some in English with dual language abstracts or summaries. From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Sat Apr 28 14:23:55 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:23:55 +0000 Subject: papers of possible interest to Sig Metrics Message-ID: TITLE: Getting funded. Multi-level network of physicists in Italy (Article, English) AUTHOR: Bellotti, E SOURCE: SOCIAL NETWORKS 34 (2). MAY 2012. p.215-229 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth; PRICE DJD rauth KEYWORDS: Sociology of science; Multi-level networks; Bipartite networks; Meso-sociology; Fish/pond; Research funding ABSTRACT: Much of the work in the sociology of science observes scientific communities from a micro perspective, focusing on interactions in laboratories in order to uncover the impact of social and cultural norms in the everyday production of scientific results. Other studies approach the topic from a macro perspective, analysing scientific organizations and the reciprocal influence they have with wider society, or uncovering the invisible colleges that become apparent through the analysis of co-authorship and citations' patterns. Less attention has been paid to the meso level of interaction within and between scientists and the institutions they work in. This paper extends the structural approach of Lazega et al. (2008. Catching up with big fish in the big pond? Multi-level network analysis through linked design. Social Networks 30, 157-176) and analyses the local system of public funding to physics in Italy using bipartite networks. Data cover 10 years of funding of Projects of National Interest (Prin) from the Italian Ministry of University and Research. The micro level (collaborations between scientists), macro level (collaborations between institutions) and meso level (the combination of network measures at a micro and macro level) of interactions are independently analysed, and results are used to model the total amount of money physicists have received over the 10 years against the variables that meaningfully describe the network structure of collaborations. Results show that in order to be successfully funded what counts more than being a big fish (a scientist with a lot of connections) working in a big pond (a large University), is being in a brokerage position interacting over the years with different research groups. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: E Bellotti, Arthur Lewis Bldg,Bridgeford St, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Quantifying the influence of scientists and their publications: distinguishing between prestige and popularity (Article, English) AUTHOR: Zhou, YB; Lu, LY; Li, MH SOURCE: NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS 14. MAR 20 2012. p.NIL_32-NIL_48 IOP PUBLISHING LTD, BRISTOL SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 122:108 1955; KEYWORDS+: PAGERANK ALGORITHM; IMPACT FACTOR; NETWORKS; RANKING; CITATIONS; JOURNALS; QUALITY; INDEX ABSTRACT: The number of citations is a widely used metric for evaluating the scientific credit of papers, scientists and journals. However, it so happens that papers with fewer citations from prestigious scientists have a higher influence than papers with more citations. In this paper, we argue that by whom the paper is being cited is of greater significance than merely the number of citations. Accordingly, we propose an interactive model of author-paper bipartite networks as well as an iterative algorithm to obtain better rankings for scientists and their publications. The main advantage of this method is twofold: (i) it is a parameter-free algorithm; (ii) it considers the relationship between the prestige of scientists and the quality of their publications. We conducted real experiments on publications in econophysics, and used this method to evaluate the influence of related scientific journals. The comparison between the rankings by our method and simple citation counts suggests that our method is effective in distinguishing prestige from popularity. S Online supplementary data available from stacks.iop.org/NJP/14/033033/mmedia AUTHOR ADDRESS: LY Lu, Hangzhou Normal Univ, Inst Informat Econ, Hangzhou 310036, Zhejiang, Peoples R China -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: ARE EDITORS COERCING CITATIONS? (Letter, English) AUTHOR: Wilhite, A; Fong, EA SOURCE: CHEMICAL & ENGINEERING NEWS 90 (14). APR 2 2012. p.4 AMER CHEMICAL SOC, WASHINGTON SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION* item_title; LETTER* doctype AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Wilhite, Univ Alabama, Dept Econ, Huntsville, AL 35899 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Culture, Citation, and Categorisation Regionality in Late Neolithic Britain and Ireland (Article, English) AUTHOR: Jones, A SOURCE: MEMORY AND MATERIAL CULTURE. 2007. p.122-140 CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, CAMBRIDGE AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Jones, Univ Southampton, Southampton SO9 5NH, Hants, England From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Sat Apr 28 14:24:03 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:24:03 +0000 Subject: Misc articles found in WOS of interest to Sig Metrics Message-ID: ======================================================================= Title: The 25 Most Cited Articles in Arthroscopic Orthopaedic Surgery Authors: Gheiti, AJC; Downey, RE; Byrne, DP; Molony, DC; Mulhall, KJ Author Full Names: Gheiti, Adrian J. Cassar; Downey, Richard E.; Byrne, Damien P.; Molony, Diarmuid C.; Mulhall, Kevin J. Source: ARTHROSCOPY-THE JOURNAL OF ARTHROSCOPIC AND RELATED SURGERY, 28 (4):548-564; 10.1016/j.arthro.2011.08.312 APR 2012 Language: English Document Type: Article KeyWords Plus: ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; AUTOLOGOUS CHONDROCYTE TRANSPLANTATION; SCIENCE-CITATION-INDEX; ROTATOR CUFF TEARS; ARTICULAR-CARTILAGE; IMPACT FACTOR; PATELLAR TENDON; KNEE; JOURNALS; DEFECTS Abstract: Purpose: The purpose of this study was to use Web of Knowledge to determine which published arthroscopic surgery-related articles have been cited most frequently by other authors by ranking the 25 most cited articles. We furthermore wished to determine whether there is any difference between a categorical "journal-by-journal" analysis and an "all-database" analysis in arthroscopic surgery and whether such a search methodology would alter the results of previously published lists of "citation classics" in the field. We analyzed the characteristics of these articles to determine what qualities make an article important to this subspecialty of orthopaedic surgery. Methods: Web of Knowledge was searched on March 7, 2011, using the term "arthroscopy" for citations to articles related to arthroscopy in 61 orthopaedic journals and using the all-database function. Each of the 61 orthopaedic journals was searched separately for arthroscopy-related articles to determine the 25 most ci! ted articles. An all-database search for arthroscopy-related articles was carried out and compared with a journal-by-journal search. Each article was reviewed for basic information including the type of article, authorship, institution, country, publishing journal, and year published. Results: The number of citations ranged from 189 to 567 in a journal-by-journal search and from 214 to 1,869 in an all-database search. The 25 most cited articles on arthroscopic surgery were published in 11 journals: 8 orthopaedic journals and 3 journals from other specialties. The most cited article in arthroscopic orthopaedic surgery was published in The New England Journal of Medicine, which was not previously identified by a journal-by-journal search. Conclusions: An all-database search in Web of Knowledge gives a more in-depth methodology of determining the true citation ranking of articles. Among the top 25 most cited articles, autologous chondrocyte implantation/transplantation is curr! ently the most cited and most popular topic in arthroscopic or! thopaedi c surgery and research. Clinical Relevance: Analysis of the 25 most cited articles allows us to identify the most popular field of research in arthroscopic orthopaedic surgery and gives us insight into the quality and characteristics that are required for an article to become highly cited. Reprint Address: Gheiti, AJC (reprint author), Orthopaed Res & Innovat Fdn, Sports Surg Clin, Suite 4,Northwood Ave, Dublin 09, Ireland Addresses: [Gheiti, Adrian J. Cassar; Downey, Richard E.; Byrne, Damien P.; Molony, Diarmuid C.; Mulhall, Kevin J.] Orthopaed Res & Innovat Fdn, Sports Surg Clin, Dublin 09, Ireland E-mail Address: ajcg at eircom.net Cited Reference Count: 70 Publisher: W B SAUNDERS CO-ELSEVIER INC, 1600 JOHN F KENNEDY BOULEVARD, STE 1800, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19103-2899 USA ISSN: 0749-8063 DOI: 10.1016/j.arthro.2011.08.312 Subject Category: Orthopedics; Surgery Cited References: Kelly JC, 2010, JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY-BRITISH VOLUME, V92B, P1338 CRUES JV, 1987, RADIOLOGY, V164, P445 BROOKER AF, 1973, JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY-AMERICAN VOLUME, VA 55, P1629 Galatz LM, 2004, JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY-AMERICAN VOLUME, V86A, P219 Seglen PO, 1997, ALLERGY, V52, P1050 Paladugu R, 2002, WORLD JOURNAL OF SURGERY, V26, P1099 Stern RS, 1999, ARCHIVES OF DERMATOLOGY, V135, P948 Hangody L, 1998, ORTHOPEDICS, V21, P751 BURNHAM JF, 2006, BIOMED DIGIT LIB, V3, P1 SOANES C, 2009, CONCISE OXFORD ENGLI, Roy D, 2002, JOURNAL OF LARYNGOLOGY AND OTOLOGY, V116, P363 Jackson RW, 2010, ARTHROSCOPY-THE JOURNAL OF ARTHROSCOPIC AND RELATED SURGERY, V26, P91 LAGUARDIA C, 2005, LIB J, V1, HOMMINGA GN, 1990, JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY-BRITISH VOLUME, V72, P1003 OBRIEN SJ, 1990, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SPORTS MEDICINE, V18, P449 NEER CS, 1980, JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY-AMERICAN VOLUME, V62, P897 GARDIELD E, 2005, INT C PEER REV BIOM, 1000, INTERNET GROWTH STAT, MIYASAKA N, 1988, ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATISM, V31, P480 Moppett IK, 2011, BRITISH JOURNAL OF ANAESTHESIA, V107, P351 Lefaivre KA, 2010, JOURNAL OF ORTHOPAEDIC TRAUMA, V24, P53 Curl WW, 1997, ARTHROSCOPY, V13, P456 KANNUS P, 1987, JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY-AMERICAN VOLUME, V69A, P1007 STEIN C, 1991, NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE, V325, P1123 MATSUSUE Y, 1993, ARTHROSCOPY, V9, P318 Potter HG, 1998, JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY-AMERICAN VOLUME, V80A, P1276 Hunziker EB, 2002, OSTEOARTHRITIS AND CARTILAGE, V10, P432 Steadman JR, 2003, ARTHROSCOPY-THE JOURNAL OF ARTHROSCOPIC AND RELATED SURGERY, V19, P477 Patel VM, 2011, JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE, V104, P251 Bentley G, 2003, JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY-BRITISH VOLUME, V85B, P223 FINGERMAN S, 2006, ISSUES SCI TECHNOL L, V48, BRITTBERG M, 1994, NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE, V331, P889 NOYES FR, 1989, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SPORTS MEDICINE, V17, P505 Garfield E, 2008, HEALTH INFORMATION AND LIBRARIES JOURNAL, V25, P52 HARRIS WH, 1969, JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY-AMERICAN VOLUME, VA 51, P737 Garfield E, 2007, INTERNATIONAL MICROBIOLOGY, V10, P65 NOYES FR, 1983, JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY-AMERICAN VOLUME, V65, P163 Corry IS, 1999, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SPORTS MEDICINE, V27, P444 Tsai YL, 2006, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE, V24, P647 Brown T, 2011, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY, V65, P346 Moseley JB, 2002, NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE, V347, P81 Stern RS, 2000, ARCHIVES OF DERMATOLOGY, V136, P357 Bhandari M, 2007, CANADIAN JOURNAL OF SURGERY, V50, P119 Baltussen A, 2004, ANESTHESIA AND ANALGESIA, V98, P443 ANDREWS JR, 1985, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SPORTS MEDICINE, V13, P337 DANIEL DM, 1985, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SPORTS MEDICINE, V13, P401 Beck M, 2004, CLINICAL ORTHOPAEDICS AND RELATED RESEARCH, P67 Lankhorst GJ, 2001, CLINICAL REHABILITATION, V15, P115 Jacso P, 2005, CURRENT SCIENCE, V89, P1537 GARFIELD E, 1987, JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, V257, P52 Lefaivre KA, 2011, CLINICAL ORTHOPAEDICS AND RELATED RESEARCH, V469, P1487 NOYES FR, 1980, JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY-AMERICAN VOLUME, V62, P687 Peterson L, 2002, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SPORTS MEDICINE, V30, P2 Garfield E, 2006, JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, V295, P90 Lundberg GD, 2003, MEDICAL JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIA, V178, P253 Peterson L, 2000, CLINICAL ORTHOPAEDICS AND RELATED RESEARCH, P212 GARFIELD E, 1977, CURRENT CONTENTS, P1 GARFIELD E, 1975, SCIENCE, V189, P397 PALMER AK, 1989, JOURNAL OF HAND SURGERY-AMERICAN VOLUME, V14A, P594 Hangody L, 2003, JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY-AMERICAN VOLUME, V85A, P25 Knutsen G, 2004, JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY-AMERICAN VOLUME, V86A, P455 SMITH DR, 2007, NZ MED J, V120, PU2871 Callaham M, 2002, JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, V287, P2847 NOYES FR, 1980, J BONE JOINT SURG AM, V62, P757 GARFIELD E, 1991, WIENER KLINISCHE WOCHENSCHRIFT, V103, P318 Morgan CD, 1998, ARTHROSCOPY, V14, P553 Baltussen A, 2004, INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE, V30, P902 Cheek J, 2006, QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH, V16, P423 MARDER RA, 1991, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SPORTS MEDICINE, V19, P478 ADAMS AB, 2004, RESP CARE, V49, P276 ======================================================================= Title: The Eigenfactor (TM) Score in Highly Specific Medical Fields: The Dental Model Authors: Sillet, A; Katsahian, S; Range, H; Czernichow, S; Bouchard, P Author Full Names: Sillet, A.; Katsahian, S.; Range, H.; Czernichow, S.; Bouchard, P. Source: JOURNAL OF DENTAL RESEARCH, 91 (4):329-333; 10.1177/0022034512437374 APR 2012 Language: English Document Type: Editorial Material Author Keywords: journal Impact Factor; Eigenfactor Score; bibliometrics; PubMed; medical publications; quality of publications KeyWords Plus: IMPACT FACTOR; JOURNAL IMPACT; SELF-CITATION; METRICS; BIAS Abstract: We sought to compare the Eigenfactor Score (TM) journal rank with the journal Impact Factor over five years, and to identify variables that may influence the ranking differences between the two metrics. Datasets were retrieved from the Thomson ReutersA and Eigenfactor Score (TM) Web sites. Dentistry was identified as the most specific medical specialty. Variables were retrieved from the selected journals to be included in a regression linear model. Among the 46 dental journals included in the analysis, striking variations in ranks were observed according to the metric used. The Bland-Altman plot showed a poor agreement between the metrics. The multivariate analysis indicates that the number of original research articles, the number of reviews, the self-citations, and the citing time may explain the differences between ranks. The Eigenfactor Score (TM) seems to better capture the prestige of a journal than the Impact Factor. In medicine, the bibliometric indicators should foc! us not only on the overall medical field but also on specialized disciplinary fields. Distinct measures are needed to better describe the scientific impact of specialized medical publications. Reprint Address: Bouchard, P (reprint author), Univ Paris 07, UFR Odontol, 5 Rue Garanciere, F-75006 Paris, France Addresses: [Sillet, A.] Paris Descartes Univ, Bibliotheque Interuniv Sante, Paris, France [Katsahian, S.] Univ Paris 12, Mondor Hosp, AP HP, Res Clin Unit,UFR Med, Paris, France [Range, H.; Bouchard, P.] Univ Paris 07, Rothschild Hosp, AP HP, Dept Periodontol,Serv Odontol,UFR Odontol, F-75006 Paris, France [Czernichow, S.] Univ Versailles St Quentin, Hop Ambroise Pare, AP HP, Dept Nutr, Boulogne, France [Czernichow, S.] Ctr Res Epidemiol & Populat Hlth, INSERM, U1018, Paris, France E-mail Address: phbouch at noos.fr Cited Reference Count: 19 Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC, 2455 TELLER RD, THOUSAND OAKS, CA 91320 USA ISSN: 0022-0345 DOI: 10.1177/0022034512437374 Subject Category: Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine Cited References: Fassoulaki A, 2002, ACTA ANAESTHESIOLOGICA SCANDINAVICA, V46, P902 Buela-Casal G, 2007, SCIENTOMETRICS, V71, P349 WEALE AR, 2004, BMC MED RES METHODOL, V4, P14 Falagas ME, 2006, FASEB JOURNAL, V20, P1039 Falagas ME, 2008, FASEB JOURNAL, V22, P2623 Bollen J, 2009, PLOS ONE, V4, West J, 2010, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V61, P1800 Callaham M, 2002, JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, V287, P2847 Bordons M, 2002, SCIENTOMETRICS, V53, P195 Rizkallah J, 2010, PLOS ONE, V5, Braun T, 2010, NATURE, V465, P870 BLAND JM, 1986, LANCET, V1, P307 Harter SP, 1997, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE, V48, P1146 Seglen PO, 1997, BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL, V314, P498 Bergstrom CT, 2008, JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE, V28, P11433 *PLOS MED ED, 2006, PLOS MED, V3, PE291 Opthof T, 1997, CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH, V33, P1 Marashi SA, 2005, MEDICAL HYPOTHESES, V65, P822 Miguel A, 2002, EUROPEAN RADIOLOGY, V12, P248 ======================================================================= Title: Dividing Discipline: Structures of Communication in International Relations Authors: Kristensen, PM Author Full Names: Kristensen, Peter M. Source: INTERNATIONAL STUDIES REVIEW, 14 (1):32-50; 10.1111/j.1468-2486.2012.01101.x MAR 2012 Language: English Document Type: Article KeyWords Plus: POLITICAL-SCIENCE JOURNALS; 1ST GREAT DEBATE; SOCIAL-SCIENCE; SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS; CITATION ANALYSIS; POLICY RELEVANCE; CENTRALITY; NETWORKS; AMERICAN; IMPACT Abstract: International Relations (IR) has cultivated an image as a discipline with strong divisions along paradigmatic, methodological, metatheoretical, geographical, and other lines. This article questions that image analyzing the latent structures of communication in IR. It uses citation data from more than 20,000 articles published in 59 IR journals to construct a network among IR journals and finds a discipline with a center consisting of pedigreed IR journals, albeit closely related to political science. Divisions are identifiable as specialty areas that form clusters of specialized journals along the periphery of the network-security studies and international political economy in particular-but communication is also divided along the lines of geography and policy/theory. The article concludes that divisions notwithstanding, IR communication remains centered around American, general, and theoretical IR journals and that to practice this particular kind of communication is an imp! ortant dimension of being an IR scholar. Reprint Address: Kristensen, PM (reprint author), Univ Copenhagen, Ctr Adv Secur Theory, DK-1168 Copenhagen, Denmark Addresses: Univ Copenhagen, Ctr Adv Secur Theory, DK-1168 Copenhagen, Denmark Cited Reference Count: 69 Publisher: WILEY-BLACKWELL, COMMERCE PLACE, 350 MAIN ST, MALDEN 02148, MA USA ISSN: 1521-9488 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2486.2012.01101.x Subject Category: International Relations; Government & Law Cited References: Tickner A, 2003, MILLENNIUM-JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, V32, P295 MANSBACH R, 2002, VISIONS INT RELATION, VONISENBURG M, 2009, EVIDENCE BASED LIB I, V4, P49 HOFFMANN S, 1977, DAEDALUS, V106, P41 Hermann MG, 1998, INTERNATIONAL STUDIES QUARTERLY, V42, P605 Su XN, 2001, ONLINE INFORMATION REVIEW, V25, P365 Zhang L, 2007, LIBRARY COLLECTIONS ACQUISITIONS & TECHNICAL SERVICES, V31, P195 Lebow RN, 2007, JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND DEVELOPMENT, V10, P16 Hellmann G, 2009, JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND DEVELOPMENT, V12, P251 FREEMAN LC, 1979, SOCIAL NETWORKS, V1, P215 Leydesdorff L, 2007, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V58, P1303 Sylvester C, 2007, MILLENNIUM-JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, V35, P551 BREUNING M, 2005, INT STUDIES PERSPECT, V6, P447 Boyack KW, 2005, SCIENTOMETRICS, V64, P351 PRICE DD, 1986, LITTLE SCI BIG SCI, Pudovkin AI, 2002, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V53, P1113 Kornprobst M, 2009, INTERNATIONAL STUDIES REVIEW, V11, P87 NORRIS P, 1993, POLITICAL STUDIES, V41, P5 Adler E, 2007, INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION, V61, P1 WALTZ KN, 1979, THEORY INT POLITICS, Jones A, 2002, REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, V28, P619 NISONGER TE, 1994, LIBRARY ACQUISITIONS-PRACTICE AND THEORY, V18, P447 Jentleson BW, 2002, INTERNATIONAL SECURITY, V26, P169 Russett B, 2010, SECURITY DIALOGUE, V41, P589 Walt SM, 2005, ANNUAL REVIEW OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, V8, P23 Waever O, 1998, INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION, V52, P687 BRILL MS, 1990, GOVERNMENT INFORMATION QUARTERLY, V7, P427 Fowler JH, 2007, PS-POLITICAL SCIENCE & POLITICS, V40, P729 Ahlgren P, 2003, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V54, P550 HOLSTI K, 1985, DIVIDING DISCIPLINE, HELLMANN G, 2003, J INT RELAT DEV, V6, P372 PRICE DJD, 1965, SCIENCE, V149, P510 DUNNE T, 2010, INT RELATIONS THEORI, Leydesdorff L, 2011, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V5, P87 SMITH S, 2000, BRIT J POLIT INT REL, V2, P374 Leydesdorff L, 2007, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V58, P25 KAHLER M, 1993, IDEAS IDEALS ESSAYS, WAEVER O, 2010, INT RELATIONS THEORI, CRAWFORD R, 2001, INT RELATIONS STILL, CARLSNAES W, 2002, HDB INT RELATIONS, Garand JC, 2003, PS-POLITICAL SCIENCE & POLITICS, V36, P293 AYDINLI E, 2000, INT STUDIES PERSPECT, V1, P289 Maliniak D, 2011, INTERNATIONAL STUDIES QUARTERLY, V55, P437 Sillanpaa A, 2010, INTERNATIONAL STUDIES PERSPECTIVES, V11, P148 Meho LI, 2007, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V58, P2105 FREEMAN LC, 1977, SOCIOMETRY, V40, P35 GEORGE A, 1993, BRIDGING GAP THEORY, MALINIAK D, 2009, ONE DISCIPLINE MANY, GOLDMANN K, 1995, EUROPEAN J INT RELAT, V1, P245 Leydesdorff L, 2009, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V60, P348 JACKSON R, 2006, INTRO INT RELATIONS, ASHWORTH L, 2002, INT RELAT, V16, P33 Leydesdorff L, 2005, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V56, P769 Quirk J, 2005, REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, V31, P89 Wilson P, 1998, REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, V24, P1 WAEVER O, 2007, 48 ANN CONV INT STUD, BREUNING M, 2010, INT STUDIES ENCY COM, Buzan B, 2001, MILLENNIUM-JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, V30, P19 TICKNER A, 2009, INT RELATIONS SCHOLA, KAHLER M, 1997, NEW THINKING INT REL, Maliniak D, 2008, POLITICS & GENDER, V4, P122 Nye JS, 2008, POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY, V29, P593 GARFIELD E, 1955, SCIENCE, V122, P108 WHITLEY R, 1984, INTELLECTUAL SOCIAL, GILES MW, 1989, PS-POLITICAL SCIENCE & POLITICS, V22, P613 Lepgold J, 1998, POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY, V113, P43 KAMADA T, 1989, INFORMATION PROCESSING LETTERS, V31, P7 Giles MW, 2007, PS-POLITICAL SCIENCE & POLITICS, V40, P741 Soreanu R, 2008, MILLENNIUM-JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, V37, P123