Papers of possible interest to Sig Metrics Readers (part 2)
Eugene Garfield
eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM
Fri Dec 7 16:02:31 EST 2012
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TITLE: Funding programmes for young scientists-Do the 'best'
apply? (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Neufeld, J; Hornbostel, S
SOURCE: RESEARCH EVALUATION 21 (4). OCT 2012. p.270-279 OXFORD
UNIV PRESS, OXFORD
SEARCH TERM(S: GARFIELD E JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 295:90 2006
KEYWORDS: research funding; bibliometric indicators; young
scientists; research performance; citations
ABSTRACT: Evaluation studies of application-based funding
programmes often raise the question of whether the 'best' applicants (in
terms of ex-ante and ex-post publication performance) are selected for
funding. For this reason actual applicants seem to be a well-studied
group. However, for a comprehensive appraisal of the applicants group,
some details about performance distribution in the group of potential
applicants would be valuable. The relative performance of actual
applicants (compared to potential applicants) is of interest to funding
organizations when developing, rearranging and promoting their funding
schemes. The question is: 'Does a funding scheme attract the "best" young
scientists?' Or are there alternative attractive ways of pursuing a
scientific career that influence the choice of potential applicants? In
this article we examine that question by using bibliometric methods to
compare a sample of applicants for the Emmy Noether Programme (ENP)
provided by the German Research Foundation (DFG) with potential
applicants (people who actually hold a professorship or are qualified for
it (Habilitierte), and who are from the same cohort of postdocs as the
ENP applicants, but did not apply for the ENP.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: J Neufeld, Inst Forsch Informat & Qualitatssicherung,
Schutzenstr 6A, D-10117 Berlin, Germany
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TITLE: Metrics: a fetish for high-profile journals (Letter,
English)
AUTHOR: Rousseau, R; Hu, XJ
SOURCE: NATURE 490 (7420). OCT 18 2012. p.343 NATURE PUBLISHING
GROUP, LONDON
SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNALS item_title; LETTER* doctype
AUTHOR ADDRESS: R Rousseau, Univ Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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TITLE: World Scientific Production in Psychology (Article,
English)
AUTHOR: Garcia-Martinez, AT; Guerrero-Bote, VP; de Moya-Anegon, F
SOURCE: UNIVERSITAS PSYCHOLOGICA 11 (3). JUL-SEP 2012. p.699-717
PONTIFICA UNIV JAVERIANA, FAC PSYCH, BOGOTA
SEARCH TERM(S):
GARFIELD E CURR CONTENTS :5 1975;
GARFIELD E CURR CONTENTS 41:5 1990;
GARFIELD E CURR CONTENTS 23:5 1992;
KEYWORDS: Global Psychology; Scientific Production; Bibliometrics
KEYWORDS+: SCHOLARLY IMPACT; SCIENCE; ISI; DEPARTMENTS; COCITATION;
DOMAIN; SCOPUS; FIELD; WEB
ABSTRACT: This study examines world scientific production in
Psychology based on bibliometric indicators (scientific production,
production's percentage variation, average citations per document,
normalized citation, impact, etc.), for the period 2003-2008. The
analysis is made by country, by research institutions, and scientific
journals, using the Scopus (Elsevier), database of scientific literature.
The results show that total world production has increased over the
period studied. Four groups are acknowledge for each country,
institutions, and journals, taking into account their values of
scientific production, normalized citation, and subject specialization.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: AT Garcia-Martinez, Univ Extremadura, Dept Informac &
Comunicac, Plazuela Ibn Marwan S-N, Badajoz 06001, Spain
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TITLE: A Zipf-Like Distant Supervision Approach for Multi-
document Summarization Using Wikinews Articles (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Bravo-Marquez, F; Manriquez, M
SOURCE: STRING PROCESSING AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL 7608. 2012.
p.143-154 SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, BERLIN
SEARCH TERM(S): ZIPF*
LUHN HP IBM J RES DEV 2:159 1958
ABSTRACT: This work presents a sentence ranking strategy based on
distant supervision for the multi-document summarization problem. Due to
the difficulty of obtaining large training datasets formed by document
clusters and their respective human-made summaries, we propose building a
training and a testing corpus from Wikinews. Wikinews articles are
modeled as "distant" summaries of their cited sources, considering that
first sentences of Wikinews articles tend to summarize the event covered
in the news story. Sentences from cited sources are represented as tuples
of numerical features and labeled according to a relationship with the
given distant summary that is based on the Zipf law. Ranking functions
are trained using linear regressions and ranking SVMs, which are also
combined using Borda count. Top ranked sentences are concatenated and
used to build summaries, which are compared with the first sentences of
the distant summary using ROUGE evaluation measures. Experimental results
obtained show the effectiveness of the proposed method and that the
combination of different ranking techniques outperforms the quality of
the generated summary.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: F Bravo-Marquez, Univ Chile, Dept Comp Sci, Santiago, Chile
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TITLE: Position-Aligned Translation Model for Citation
Recommendation (Article, English)
AUTHOR: He, J; Nie, JY; Lu, Y; Zhao, WX
SOURCE: STRING PROCESSING AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL 7608. 2012.
p.251-263 SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, BERLIN
SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title
ABSTRACT: The goal of a citation recommendation system is to
suggest some references for a snippet in an article or a book, and this
is very useful for both authors and the readers. The citation
recommendation problem can be cast as an information retrieval problem,
in which the query is the snippet from an article, and the relevant
documents are the cited articles. In reality, the citation snippet and
the cited articles may be described in different terms, and this makes
the citation recommendation task difficult. Translation model is very
useful in bridging the vocabulary gap between queries and documents in
information retrieval. It can be trained on a collection of query and
document pairs, which are assumed to be parallel. However, such training
data contains much noise: a relevant document usually contains some
relevant parts along with irrelevant ones. In particular, the citation
snippet may only mention only some parts of the cited article's content.
To cope with this problem, in this paper, we propose a method to train
translation models on such noisy data, called position-aligned
translation model. This model tries to align the query to the most
relevant parts of the document, so that the estimated translation
probabilities could rely more on them. We test this model in a citation
recommendation task for scientific papers. Our experiments show that the
proposed method can significantly improve the previous retrieval methods
based on translation models.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: J He, Univ Montreal, Montreal, PQ H3C 3J7, Canada
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TITLE: VISUALIZING THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: COMMUNITY AMONG
AUTHORS IN TOP SOCIAL WORK JOURNALS (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Woehle, R
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION 48 (3). FAL 2012.
p.537-552 COUNCIL SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION, ALEXANDRIA
KEYWORDS+: RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE; COLLABORATION; NETWORKS; TENURE;
PUBLICATION; PERSPECTIVE; SCHOLARSHIP; DECISIONS;
PROMOTION; KNOWLEDGE
ABSTRACT: A review of literature related to the existence of an
invisible college community among coauthors of articles in top-rated
social work journals indicated that an invisible college could promote
quality scholarship but that coauthoring might be inadequately studied or
valued in social work education. Social network analysis revealed a
skeletal piece of the top-rated social work journal coauthor network,
visualized it, documented its growth between the overlapping periods 2001-
2005 and 2004-2008, and associated that growth with increasing citations
of networked coauthors. Possible continued growth of the invisible
college suggests the need to examine coauthoring, the means of evaluating
coauthor contributions, and the content of social work scholarship.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: R Woehle, 40518 447th St SE, Lengby, MN 56651 USA
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TITLE: RESEARCH NOTE ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS OF SOCIAL WORK
JOURNAL ARTICLE AUTHORS, 2004-2008 (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Ligon, J; Cobb, A; Thyer, B
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION 48 (3). FAL 2012.
p.613-622 COUNCIL SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION, ALEXANDRIA
SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E SCIENCE 178:471 1972
KEYWORDS+: PRODUCTIVITY ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGY JOURNALS; PUBLICATION
PRODUCTIVITY; CITATION ANALYSIS; SCHOOLS; SCIENCE;
RANKINGS
ABSTRACT: The researchers tabulated the academic affiliations of
the authors of all articles published between 2004 and 2008 in 6 major
social work journals to produce a ranking of the colleges and
universities whose faculty made the most substantive contributions to the
social work literature. The results of this analysis are compared with
findings of 5 identical, previously published studies, which cover the 5-
year periods of 1979-1983, 1984-1988, 1989-1993, 1994-1998, and 1999-
2003. The limitations of this method of analysis are discussed, as are
its merits.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: J Ligon, Georgia State Univ, Sch Social Work, POB 3995,
Atlanta, GA 30302 US
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TITLE: British Scholarly Journals on Film Studies: Study and
Evaluation of Their Internationality (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Morales, ST; Toledo, EG
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING 44 (1). OCT 2012.
p.75-90 UNIV TORONTO PRESS INC, TORONTO
KEYWORDS: scientific journals evaluation; cinematography; film
studies; internationality; United Kingdom
ABSTRACT: In the United Kingdom, the journal Screen has since the
1950s been the main bibliographic source for the theorists of cinema. At
the moment, there are other journals in this area which are making room
for themselves in the global arena of film publications. This article
studies the internationality-nowadays a key factor in the process of
scientific evaluation-of sixteen British film journals as part of an
ongoing research project on the evolution of criteria used to measure the
quality of scientific journals in the period 2008-2012. In order to
measure their level of internationality, four indicators are studied:
presence in national and international databases, internationality of
both editorial and scientific boards, internationality of contributions,
and, finally, the existence of peer-review evaluation in the selection
process of the manuscripts.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: ST Morales, Univ Murcia, E-30001 Murcia, Spain
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TITLE: Celebrating 100 years of the Bulletin of the Medical
Library Association and Journal of the Medical Library Association: a
selection from each decade (Editorial Material, English)
AUTHOR: Plutchak, TS
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 100 (4
SUPPL). OCT 2012. p.S1-S3 MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOC, CHICAGO
AUTHOR ADDRESS: TS Plutchak, Univ Alabama Birmingham, Lister Hill Lib Hlth
Sci, LHL 251,1720 2nd Ave S, Birmingham, AL 35294 USA
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TITLE: "THE SCIENCE OF LIBRARIANSHIP." (Editorial Material,
English)
AUTHOR: Osler, W
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 100 (4
SUPPL). OCT 2012. p.A70-A74 MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOC,
CHICAGO
SEARCH TERM(S): J MED LIBR ASSOC source_abbrev_20; EDITORIAL doctype
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TITLE: The Rise and Development of the American Medical
Periodical 1797-1850 (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Ebert, M
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 100 (4
SUPPL). OCT 2012. p.E243-E276 MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOC,
CHICAGO
SEARCH TERM(S): J MED LIBR ASSOC source_abbrev_20
AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Ebert, NYU, Belluve Med Ctr Lib, New York, NY 10003 USA
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TITLE: Bibliometric Analysis of the most relevant Iberoamerican
Journals related to Clinical and Health Psychology of the Journal
Citation Reports (2011) (Article, Spanish)
AUTHOR: Ariza, T; Granados, MR
SOURCE: TERAPIA PSICOLOGICA 30 (3). DEC 2012. p.89-102 SOCIEDAD
CHILENA PSICOLOGIA CLINICA, SANTIAGO
SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; JOURNALS item_title;
BIBLIOMETR* item_title; CITATION item_title;
CITATION* item_title; JOURNAL item_title
KEYWORDS: bibliometrics; journals; psychology; impact factor;
Journal Citation Reports
KEYWORDS+: SPANISH PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES; MENTAL-HEALTH; SCIENCE; WEB;
INTERNATIONALITY; DISORDERS; VARIABLES; ARTICLES; IMPACT;
INDEX
ABSTRACT: Psychology journals are the benchmark of theoretical and
methodological research. Therefore, the purpose of the current study
consisted of conducting a bibliometric analysis of International Journal
of Clinical and Health Psychology, Revista Argentina de Clinica
Psicologica, Revista Latinoamericana de Psicopatologia Fundamental, Salud
Mental and Terapia Psicologica for the past five years. Content analysis
of articles was based on indicators of the Journal Citation Reports
(impact factor, immediacy index and number of citations) and bibliometric
indicators (number of articles, authorship index, institutional
affiliation, methodology, types of sample, general and specific themes
and language of publication). Our results verify the characteristics of
each journal and finally, it reflects on the positive aspects that should
be maintained by the journals and the negative aspects that can be
improved to achieve greater prestige.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: T Ariza, Univ Granada, Fac Psicol, Campus Cartuja S-N,
Granada 18011, Spain
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TITLE: On thwarting the seeds of scientific fraud (Editorial
Material, English)
AUTHOR: Sobel, BE
SOURCE: CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE 23 (8). DEC 2012. p.560-562
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS, PHILADELPHIA
SEARCH TERM(S):
GARFIELD E JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 295:90 2006;
KEYWORDS+: SLOAN-KETTERING AFFAIR
AUTHOR ADDRESS: BE Sobel, Univ Vermont, Dept Med, Coll Med, Colchester Res
Facil, 208 S Pk Dr, Colchester, VT 05446 USA
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TITLE: Detecting the temporal gaps of technology fronts: A case
study of smart grid field (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Chen, SH; Huang, MH; Chen, DZ; Lin, SZ
SOURCE: TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE 79 (9). NOV
2012. p.1705-1719 ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, NEW YORK
SEARCH TERM(S): SMALL H SCIENTOMETRICS 38:275 1997
KEYWORDS: Patent analysis; Bibliographic coupling; Technology front;
Technology trajectory; Smart grid
KEYWORDS+: EMERGING RESEARCH FRONTS; SCIENCE-AND-TECHNOLOGY; PATENT
ANALYSIS
ABSTRACT: This study aims to propose a methodology that describes
the technology fronts evolution and compares the temporal gaps between
two specialties. Using the patent documents of a local country, the
United States (US), as well as the global context in the smart grid
technology as the example, highly cited patents were collected from 2001
to 2010 and divided into a series of overlapping snapshots in which
patent citation networks were constructed through bibliographic coupling
(BC) analysis. A rolling clustering and features extraction procedure
were applied for segmenting networks into clusters and then mapping these
clusters into the technology trajectory maps. Next we describe the state
of global and the US smart grid development, and then place the US
trajectories in the global context to explore the temporal relationship
between them. Technology fronts in this study can be categorized into
four types - frontrunner, follower, uniquer, and behinder - according to
the matching criteria and the temporal gap index. The results show that a
high percentage of US technology fronts can be classified as frontrunners
or uniquers; the nation occupies a leading position worldwide in
developing each sub-domain of smart grid technology. (C) 2012 Elsevier
Inc. All rights reserved.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: DZ Chen, Natl Taiwan Univ, Dept Mech Engn, 1,Sec
4,Roosevelt Rd, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
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TITLE: Reporting of ethical committee approval and patient
consent in the Portuguese Journal of Pulmonology and in the other
Portuguese medical journals with impact factor (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Bernardes, MJ; Nunes, R
SOURCE: REVISTA PORTUGUESA DE PNEUMOLOGIA 18 (6). NOV-DEC 2012.
p.289-293 ELSEVIER DOYMA SL, BARCELONA
KEYWORDS: Ethical committee; Patient consent; Publication; Impact
factor; Medical journal
ABSTRACT: Introduction: Reporting of ethical committee (EC)
approval and patient consent in publications involving human subjects may
be lower than recommended. In this paper this ethical issue was analysed
in the Portuguese Journal of Pulmonology and in the other two Portuguese
medical journals with impact factor indexed in the ISI Web of Knowledge.
Methods: Reporting of EC approval and patient consent was searched in all
publications involving human subjects published in the Acta Medica
Portuguesa, Acta Reumatologica Portuguesa and Portuguese Journal of
Pulmonology, from the 1st July 2010 until the 30th June 2011. The search
also looked for the involvement of vulnerable and potentially
identifiable subjects.
Results: Most of the analysed publications, which included a considerable
proportion of vulnerable (23%) and of potentially identifiable case
reports (14%), were case reports (49%). Overall EC approval ranged from
0% to 28%, in case reports and prospective studies, respectively, whereas
overall patient consent ranged from 0% to 26%. There were not
statistically significant differences in results among the selected
journals.
Conclusions: Reporting of EC approval and patient consent in the three
leading Portuguese medical journals has been lower than in their leading
world counterparts. This should be taken into account and further audited
in future, not only for the protection of the research subjects but also
to maintain public trust in the process. (C) 2012 Sociedade Portuguesa de
Pneumologia. Published by Elsevier Espana, S. L. All rights reserved.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: MJ Bernardes, Univ Porto, Fac Med, Serv Bioetica & Etica
Med, Rua Campo Alegre 823, P-4100 Oporto, Portugal
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TITLE: There is More than a Power Law in Zipf (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Cristelli, M; Batty, M; Pietronero, L
SOURCE: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 2. NOV 8 2012. p.NIL_1-NIL_7 NATURE
PUBLISHING GROUP, LONDON
KEYWORDS+: SIZE DISTRIBUTION; CITIES; DISTRIBUTIONS; TAILS
ABSTRACT: The largest cities, the most frequently used words, the
income of the richest countries, and the most wealthy billionaires, can
be all described in terms of Zipf's Law, a rank-size rule capturing the
relation between the frequency of a set of objects or events and their
size. It is assumed to be one of many manifestations of an underlying
power law like Pareto's or Benford's, but contrary to popular belief,
from a distribution of, say, city sizes and a simple random sampling, one
does not obtain Zipf's law for the largest cities. This pathology is
reflected in the fact that Zipf's Law has a functional form depending on
the number of events N. This requires a fundamental property of the
sample distribution which we call 'coherence' and it corresponds to a
'screening' between various elements of the set. We show how it should be
accounted for when fitting Zipf's Law.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Batty, UCL, Ctr Adv Spatial Anal, 90 Tottenham Court Rd,
London W1T 4TJ, England
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TITLE: In science "there is no bad publicity": Papers criticized
in comments have high scientific impact (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Radicchi, F
SOURCE: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 2. NOV 8 2012. p.NIL_7-NIL_11 NATURE
PUBLISHING GROUP, LONDON
SEARCH TERM(S): MACROBERTS MH rauth
KEYWORDS+: CITATION ANALYSIS; DILUTE ANTISERUM; COLLABORATION;
COUNTS; IGE
ABSTRACT: Comments are special types of publications whose aim is
to correct or criticize previously published papers. For this reason,
comments are believed to make commented papers less worthy or trusty to
the eyes of the scientific community, and thus predestined to have low
scientific impact. Here, we show that such belief is not supported by
empirical evidence. We consider thirteen major publication outlets in
science, and perform systematic comparisons between the citations
accumulated by commented and non commented articles. We find that (i)
commented papers are, on average, much more cited than non commented
papers, and (ii) commented papers are more likely to be among the most
cited papers of a journal. Since comments are published soon after
criticized papers, comments should be viewed as early indicators of the
future impact of criticized papers.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: F Radicchi, Univ Rovira & Virgili, Dept Engn Quim, Av
Paisos Catalans 26, Tarragona 43007, Spain
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TITLE: The World Bank's publication record (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Ravallion, M; Wagstaff, A
SOURCE: REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS 7 (4). DEC 2012.
p.343-368 SPRINGER, NEW YORK
SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005
KEYWORDS: Bibliometrics; World Bank; Citations; h-index; Journals;
Google Scholar
KEYWORDS+: ECONOMICS; FUNGIBILITY; ASSISTANCE; VIETNAM; AID
ABSTRACT: The World Bank claims to be a "knowledge bank," but do
its knowledge products influence development thinking, or is the Bank
merely a proselytizer? The World Bank is a prolific publisher; for
example, it has published more journal articles in economics than any
university except Harvard. But what about their impact on development
thinking? Using citation data from Google Scholar it is hard to discern
more than a negligible impact for a great many Bank publications.
However, a sizeable minority of its journal articles and books have been
highly cited. Compared to leading research universities and other
international institutions, the Bank's ranking in terms of widely-used
citation-based indices is no lower than for its journal article counts.
This suggests that the Bank's research does much more than proselytize.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Ravallion, World Bank, Dev Res Grp, 1818 H St NW,
Washington, DC 20433 USA
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TITLE: Investigation on Diesel Engine Volume Impact Factors
Based on Design of Experiment (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Tan, ZF; Chen, WG; Li, D
SOURCE: FRONTIERS OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AND MATERIALS
ENGINEERING, PTS 1 AND 2 184-185. 2012. p.277-281 TRANS
TECH PUBLICATIONS LTD, STAFA-ZURICH
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TITLE: A New Evaluation Approach of Science and Technology to
Objective Weighting Weight Giving Based on Data Independence and Data
Fluctuation (DIDF) (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Li, LZ; Yu, LP
SOURCE: 2012 7TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS
ENGINEERING (SOSE). 2012. p.662-667 IEEE COMPUTER SOC,
LOS ALAMITOS
SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005
KEYWORDS: science and technology evaluation; objective weighting;
Weight Giving Based on Data Independence and Data
Fluctuation; academic journal
KEYWORDS+: JOURNALS; IMPACT
ABSTRACT: In this paper, we establish a evaluation approach system
of science and technology, and analyze five evaluation approaches of
linear objective weighting. A new evaluation approach of science and
technology to objective weighting is then put forward on these bases-
Weight Giving Based on Data Independence and Data Fluctuation. It is also
tested and verified by data from papers in agricultural journals of
Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China. The method is
to calculate the deviation ratio of evaluation index and the index's
independent information rate by the improved multiple correlation
coefficient, then multiply the standardized eviation. ratio by the
standardized index's independent mformation n rate and normalize the
product to get weight. It is a synthesis of advantages of all approaches
of linear objective weighting by now and it has enriched objective
weighting theory. The applicable conditions for objective weighting are
analyzed and discussed as well. The results show that the entropy weight
method and discrete coefficient method have similarities in computing the
weight of indices.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: LZ Li, Cangzhou Teachers Coll, Dept Econ & Management,
Cangzhou, Peoples R China
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TITLE: Citation Analysis of Hepatitis Monthly by Journal
Citation Report (ISI), Google Scholar, and Scopus (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Miri, SM; Raoofi, A; Heidari, Z
SOURCE: HEPATITIS MONTHLY 12 (9). SEP 2012. p.NIL_4-NIL_10
BAQIYATALLAH RESEARCH CENTER, TEHRAN
SEARCH TERM(S):
GARFIELD E JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 295:90 2006;
GARFIELD E SCIENCE 178:471 1972
KEYWORDS: Citation Analysis; Impact Factor; Hepatitis Monthly; ISI;
Scopus; Google Scholar
KEYWORDS+: IMPACT FACTOR; SCIENCE; INDEX
ABSTRACT: Background: Citation analysis as one of the most widely
used methods of bibliometrics can be used for computing the various
impact measures for scholars based on data from citation databases.
Journal Citation Reports (JCR) from Thomson Reuters provides annual
report in the form of impact factor (IF) for each journal.
Objectives: We aimed to evaluate the citation parameters of Hepatitis
Monthly by JCR in 2010 and compare them with GS and Sc.
Materials and Methods: All articles of Hepat Mon published in 2009 and
2008 which had been cited in 2010 in three databases including WoS, Sc
and GS gathered in a spread-sheet. The IFs were manually calculated.
Results: Among the 104 total published articles the accuracy rates of GS
and Sc in recording the total number of articles was 96% and 87.5%. There
was a difference between IFs among the three databases (0.793 in ISI
[Institute for Scientific Information], 0.945 in Sc and 0.85 GS). The
missing rate of citations in ISI was 4% totally. Original articles were
the main cited types, whereas, guidelines and clinical challenges were
the least ones.
Conclusions: None of the three databases succeed to record all articles
published in the journal. Despite high sensitivity of GS comparing to Sc,
it cannot be a reliable source for indexing since GS has lack of
screening in the data collection and low specificity. Using an average of
three IFs is suggested to find the correct IF. Editors should be more
aware on the role of original articles in increasing IF and the potential
efficacy of review articles in long term impact factor. Published by
Kowsar Corp, 2012. cc 3.0.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Raoofi, Kowsar, Hoenbrock, Netherlands
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TITLE: JNIS: factoring the impact (Editorial Material, English)
AUTHOR: Hirsch, JA; Albuquerque, FC; Fiorella, D; Prestigiacomo,
CJ; Zaidat, O; Tarr, RW
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF NEUROINTERVENTIONAL SURGERY 4 (6). NOV 2012.
p.395-396 BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP, LONDON
SEARCH TERM(S):
GARFIELD E SCIENCE 122:108 1955;
GARFIELD E CAN MED ASSOC J 161:979 1999;
KEYWORDS+: ENDOVASCULAR TREATMENT; ISCHEMIC-STROKE; MALFORMATIONS;
PROTECTION; ANEURYSMS; DEVICE
AUTHOR ADDRESS: JA Hirsch, Massachusetts Gen Hosp, NeuroEndovasc Program,
55 Fruit St,Gray 241B, Boston, MA 02114 USA
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Title:
Evolution of the most common English words and phrases over the centuries
Authors:
Perc, M
Author Full Names:
Perc, Matjaz
Source:
JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY INTERFACE, 9 (77):3323-3328; 10.1098/rsif.2012.0491 DEC 7 2012
Language:
English
Abstract:
By determining the most common English words and phrases since the beginning of the sixteenth century, we obtain a unique large-scale view of the evolution of written text. We find that the most common words and phrases in any given year had a much shorter popularity lifespan in the sixteenth century than they had in the twentieth century. By measuring how their usage propagated across the years, we show that for the past two centuries, the process has been governed by linear preferential attachment. Along with the steady growth of the English lexicon, this provides an empirical explanation for the ubiquity of *Zipf*'s law in language statistics and confirms that writing, although undoubtedly an expression of art and skill, is not immune to the same influences of self-organization that are known to regulate processes as diverse as the making of new friends and World Wide Web growth.
ISSN:
1742-5689
IDS Number:
030LV
Unique ID:
WOS:000310573100015
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Title:
Bibliometric Analysis of the most relevant Iberoamerican *Journals* related to Clinical and Health Psychology of the Journal Citation Reports (2011)
Authors:
Ariza, T; Granados, MR
Author Full Names:
Ariza, Tania; Reina Granados, M.
Source:
TERAPIA PSICOLOGICA, 30 (3):89-102; DEC 2012
Language:
Spanish
Abstract:
Psychology journals are the benchmark of theoretical and methodological research. Therefore, the purpose of the current study consisted of conducting a bibliometric analysis of International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, Revista Argentina de Clinica Psicologica, Revista Latinoamericana de Psicopatologia Fundamental, Salud Mental and Terapia Psicologica for the past five years. Content analysis of articles was based on indicators of the Journal Citation Reports (impact factor, immediacy index and number of citations) and bibliometric indicators (number of articles, authorship index, institutional affiliation, methodology, types of sample, general and specific themes and language of publication). Our results verify the characteristics of each journal and finally, it reflects on the positive aspects that should be maintained by the journals and the negative aspects that can be improved to achieve greater prestige.
ISSN:
0716-6184
IDS Number:
030HD
Unique ID:
WOS:000310560800009
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Title:
Perceived information gain from randomized trials correlates with publication in high-impact factor *journals*
Authors:
Evangelou, E; Siontis, KC; Pfeiffer, T; Ioannidis, JPA
Author Full Names:
Evangelou, Evangelos; Siontis, Konstantinos C.; Pfeiffer, Thomas;
Ioannidis, John P. A.
Source:
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY, 65 (12):1274-1281; 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2012.06.009 DEC 2012
Language:
English
Abstract:
Objective: To examine whether perceived information gain (IG) drives the publication of randomized trials in high-impact factor (IF) journals.
Study Design and Setting: We estimated IG as the Kullback-Leibler divergence, quantifying how much a new finding changes established knowledge. We used 67 meta-analyses (964 randomized trials) that include one or more trials from any of the three highest IF general medical journals (NEJM, JAMA, and Lancet). We calculated IG for the presence of a non-null effect (IG(1)) and IG for the effect size magnitude (IG(2)).
Results: Across meta-analyses, the summary correlation coefficient of IF was 0.23 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.14, 0.31) for IG(1) and 0.35 (95% CI: 0.25, 0.46) for IG(2). IF also correlated with the P-value of the results (r = 0.18), order of publication (r = -0.13), and number of events in the trial (r = 0.36). Multivariate regression including IG, order of publication, P-value, and the number of events showed that IG is an independent correlate of IF. IG(2) explained a substantially larger proportion of the variance in IF than IG(1).
Conclusion: Publication in journals with high IF is driven by how extensively the results of a study change prior perceptions of the evidence, independently of the statistical significance and size of the study. (c) 2012 Published by Elsevier Inc.
ISSN:
0895-4356
IDS Number:
031VA
Unique ID:
WOS:000310669400009
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Title:
There is More than a Power Law in *Zipf*
Authors:
Cristelli, M; Batty, M; Pietronero, L
Author Full Names:
Cristelli, Matthieu; Batty, Michael; Pietronero, Luciano
Source:
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 2 10.1038/srep00812 NOV 8 2012
Language:
English
Abstract:
The largest cities, the most frequently used words, the income of the richest countries, and the most wealthy billionaires, can be all described in terms of *Zipf*'s Law, a rank-size rule capturing the relation between the frequency of a set of objects or events and their size. It is assumed to be one of many manifestations of an underlying power law like Pareto's or Benford's, but contrary to popular belief, from a distribution of, say, city sizes and a simple random sampling, one does not obtain *Zipf*'s law for the largest cities. This pathology is reflected in the fact that *Zipf*'s Law has a functional form depending on the number of events N. This requires a fundamental property of the sample distribution which we call 'coherence' and it corresponds to a 'screening' between various elements of the set. We show how it should be accounted for when fitting *Zipf*'s Law.
ISSN:
2045-2322
Article Number:
812
IDS Number:
034MU
Unique ID:
WOS:000310878400001
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Title:
Scientists, Papers and *Journals*: Coping with Rejection
Authors:
Balaram, P
Author Full Names:
Balaram, P.
Source:
CURRENT SCIENCE, 103 (8):867-868; OCT 25 2012
Language:
English
ISSN:
0011-3891
IDS Number:
032JZ
Unique ID:
WOS:000310715800001
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Title:
Metrics: a fetish for high-profile *journals*
Authors:
Rousseau, R; Hu, XJ
Author Full Names:
Rousseau, Ronald; Hu, Xiaojun
Source:
NATURE, 490 (7420):343-343; OCT 18 2012
Language:
English
ISSN:
0028-0836
IDS Number:
021XI
Unique ID:
WOS:000309918500025
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Title:
Impact factors of Indian open access *journals* rising
Authors:
Gunasekaran, S; Arunachalam, S
Author Full Names:
Gunasekaran, Subbiah; Arunachalam, Subbiah
Source:
CURRENT SCIENCE, 103 (7):757-760; OCT 10 2012
Language:
English
ISSN:
0011-3891
IDS Number:
032NE
Unique ID:
WOS:000310725200002
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Title:
VISUALIZING THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: COMMUNITY AMONG AUTHORS IN TOP SOCIAL WORK *JOURNALS*
Authors:
Woehle, R
Author Full Names:
Woehle, Ralph
Source:
JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION, 48 (3):537-552; 10.5175/JSWE.2012.201000088 FAL 2012
Language:
English
Abstract:
A review of literature related to the existence of an invisible college community among coauthors of articles in top-rated social work journals indicated that an invisible college could promote quality scholarship but that coauthoring might be inadequately studied or valued in social work education. Social network analysis revealed a skeletal piece of the top-rated social work journal coauthor network, visualized it, documented its growth between the overlapping periods 2001-2005 and 2004-2008, and associated that growth with increasing citations of networked coauthors. Possible continued growth of the invisible college suggests the need to examine coauthoring, the means of evaluating coauthor contributions, and the content of social work scholarship.
ISSN:
1043-7797
IDS Number:
031VT
Unique ID:
WOS:000310671400009
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Title:
World Scientific Production in Psychology
Authors:
Garcia-Martinez, AT; Guerrero-Bote, VP; de Moya-Anegon, F
Author Full Names:
Teresa Garcia-Martinez, Ana; Guerrero-Bote, Vicente P.; de Moya-Anegon,
Felix
Source:
UNIVERSITAS PSYCHOLOGICA, 11 (3):699-717; JUL-SEP 2012
Language:
English
Abstract:
This study examines world scientific production in Psychology based on bibliometric indicators (scientific production, production's percentage variation, average citations per document, normalized citation, impact, etc.), for the period 2003-2008. The analysis is made by country, by research institutions, and scientific journals, using the Scopus (Elsevier), database of scientific literature. The results show that total world production has increased over the period studied. Four groups are acknowledge for each country, institutions, and journals, taking into account their values of scientific production, normalized citation, and subject specialization.
ISSN:
1657-9267
IDS Number:
033KB
Unique ID:
WOS:000310793300002
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Title:
A *Zipf-Like* Distant Supervision Approach for Multi-document Summarization Using Wikinews Articles
Authors:
Bravo-Marquez, F; Manriquez, M
Author Full Names:
Bravo-Marquez, Felipe; Manriquez, Manuel
Editor(s):
CalderonBenavides L; GonzalezCaro C; Chavez E; Ziviani N
Source:
STRING PROCESSING AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL: 19TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM, SPIRE 2012, 7608 143-154; 2012
Book Series:
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Language:
English
Abstract:
This work presents a sentence ranking strategy based on distant supervision for the multi-document summarization problem. Due to the difficulty of obtaining large training datasets formed by document clusters and their respective human-made summaries, we propose building a training and a testing corpus from Wikinews. Wikinews articles are modeled as "distant" summaries of their cited sources, considering that first sentences of Wikinews articles tend to summarize the event covered in the news story. Sentences from cited sources are represented as tuples of numerical features and labeled according to a relationship with the given distant summary that is based on the *Zipf* law. Ranking functions are trained using linear regressions and ranking SVMs, which are also combined using Borda count. Top ranked sentences are concatenated and used to build summaries, which are compared with the first sentences of the distant summary using ROUGE evaluation measures. Experimental results!
obtained show the effectiveness of the proposed method and that the combination of different ranking techniques outperforms the quality of the generated summary.
ISSN:
0302-9743
ISBN:
978-3-642-34108-3
IDS Number:
BCM88
Unique ID:
WOS:000310731700015
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Title:
Ranking Marketing *Journals* by Using Social Network Analysis
Authors:
Yang, ZY; Gao, CC
Author Full Names:
Yang, Zhiyong; Gao, Changchun
Editor(s):
Tan HH
Source:
TECHNOLOGY FOR EDUCATION AND LEARNING, 136 623-629; 2012
Book Series:
Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing
Language:
English
Abstract:
With the development of the marketing discipline, more and more marketing journals were released, and the relative positions of those journals were widely concerned, because evaluations of scholars and institutions were often based on which journal published their papers. Preference survey and citation analysis were two most commonly used methods to evaluate marketing journals, but there were some shortcomings existed. This paper suggested that Social Network Analysis was an alternative method to avoid those problems. 68 marketing journals were selected and ranked by using Social Network Analysis; the result was compared with previous ranking researches.
ISSN:
1867-5662
ISBN:
978-3-642-27710-8
IDS Number:
BCM79
Unique ID:
WOS:000310718700082
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Title:
Position-Aligned Translation Model for Citation Recommendation
Authors:
He, J; Nie, JY; Lu, Y; Zhao, WX
Author Full Names:
He, Jing; Nie, Jian-Yun; Lu, Yang; Zhao, Wayne Xin
Editor(s):
CalderonBenavides L; GonzalezCaro C; Chavez E; Ziviani N
Source:
STRING PROCESSING AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL: 19TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM, SPIRE 2012, 7608 251-263; 2012
Book Series:
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Language:
English
Abstract:
The goal of a citation recommendation system is to suggest some references for a snippet in an article or a book, and this is very useful for both authors and the readers. The citation recommendation problem can be cast as an information retrieval problem, in which the query is the snippet from an article, and the relevant documents are the *cited articles*. In reality, the citation snippet and the *cited articles* may be described in different terms, and this makes the citation recommendation task difficult. Translation model is very useful in bridging the vocabulary gap between queries and documents in information retrieval. It can be trained on a collection of query and document pairs, which are assumed to be parallel. However, such training data contains much noise: a relevant document usually contains some relevant parts along with irrelevant ones. In particular, the citation snippet may only mention only some parts of the *cited article*'s content. To cope with this pr!
oblem, in this paper, we propose a method to train translation models on such noisy data, called position-aligned translation model. This model tries to align the query to the most relevant parts of the document, so that the estimated translation probabilities could rely more on them. We test this model in a citation recommendation task for scientific papers. Our experiments show that the proposed method can significantly improve the previous retrieval methods based on translation models.
ISSN:
0302-9743
ISBN:
978-3-642-34108-3
IDS Number:
BCM88
Unique ID:
WOS:000310731700027
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