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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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