Contents of April 2012 issue of Scientometrics and other misc items of interest to SigMetrics
Eugene Garfield
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TITLE: The development trends of science in the CIS countries on
the basis of some scientometric indicators (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Karamourzov, R
SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 91 (1). APR 2012. p.1-14 SPRINGER,
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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
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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,
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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
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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,
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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
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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,
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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
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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,
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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