Papers of Interest to SIG Metrics

[Eugene Garfield]

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TITLE:          The impact factor and taxonomy (Letter, English)
AUTHOR:         Venu, P; Sanjappa, M
SOURCE:         CURRENT SCIENCE 101 (11). DEC 10 2011. p.1397 INDIAN
                ACAD SCIENCES, BANGALORE

SEARCH TERM(S):  GARFIELD E  rauth; IMPACT FACTOR*  item_title;
                 GARFIELD E         NATURE                413:107   2001;
                 LETTER*  doctype


AUTHOR ADDRESS: P Venu, Bot Survey India, Cent Natl Herbarium, Howrah
                711103, India

Paper available at :
http://cs-test.ias.ac.in/cs/Volumes/101/11/1397.pdf

Author e-mail:  pvenu.bsi at gmail
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TITLE:          Publish in foreign journals and prosper, or in Indian
                journals and perish (Letter, English)
AUTHOR:         Nishy, P; Prathap, G
SOURCE:         CURRENT SCIENCE 101 (12). DEC 25 2011. p.1516-1517
                INDIAN ACAD SCIENCES, BANGALORE

SEARCH TERM(S):  JOURNALS  item_title; LETTER*  doctype

AUTHOR ADDRESS: P Nishy, CSIR, Natl Inst Sci Commun & Informat Resources,
                New Delhi 110012, India

Paper available at :
http://cs-test.ias.ac.in/cs/Volumes/101/12/1516.pdf

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TITLE:          H-Index of the Citing Articles: a Contribution to the
                Evaluation of Scientific Production of Experienced Researchers (Article,
                English)
AUTHOR:         de Araujo, CGS; Sardinha, A
SOURCE:         REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE MEDICINA DO ESPORTE 17 (5).
                SEP-OCT 2011. p.358-362 SOC BRASILEIRA MED ESPORTE, SAO
                PAULO SP

SEARCH TERM(S):  GARFIELD E  rauth;
                 HIRSCH JE          P NATL ACAD SCI USA   102:16569 2005;
                 GARFIELD E         JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC   295:90    2006;
                 GARFIELD E         SCIENCE               122:108   1955;
                 GARFIELD E         BRIT MED J            313:411   1996;
                 GARFIELD E         NATURE                411:522   2001;
                 GARFIELD E         SCIENCE               144:649   1964;
                 GARFIELD E         CAN MED ASSOC J       161:979   1999

KEYWORDS:       scientometrics; citations; research; evaluation; impact
                factor
KEYWORDS+:       JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; ACADEMY-OF-SCIENCES; PUBLICATION;
                CITATIONS; DIMENSION; EDITORS; QUALIS; OUTPUT; BRAZIL;
                AREA

ABSTRACT:       Background: there has been an increasing interest and
need in evaluating the quality of scientific papers written by researchers. Therefore, the most important measurements used are the number of citations, the average number of citations per article published in indexed journals and the H-index. Those bibliometric indicators present, however, limitations when assessing the potential impact of the publications of a given researcher, particularly among the most productive ones. Objective: To propose and to demonstrate the use of a new scienciometric strategy - the H-index of the citing articles -, that allows better discrimination of the impact of a given researcher to the body of knowledge in the respective research area. Methods: Research data - Web of Science - from 13 of the most productive Brazilian PhD researchers in the field of exercise and sports sciences were analyzed,
including: number of publications, number of citations, average number of citations per article, H-index and the proposed H-index of citing articles (the H-index extracted from the ranking of articles that cited the papers published by a given researcher). Data from four other researchers - Brazilian and foreign - were used as reference for comparisons. Results: The researcher's H-index and the H-index of the citing articles were associated (r=.92; p>.01). However, when the six most productive authors with H-index above 7 were analyzed, the association between the two indexes dissapeared (r=.35; p=.49).
Conclusions: The H-index of the citing articles can be useful to discriminate the scientific production of authors with a high number of published papers. It is suggested that this algorithm should be adopted by Brazilian and foreign financing and scientific production evaluation agencies.

AUTHOR ADDRESS: CGS de Araujo, Rua Siqueira Campos 93-101, BR-22031070 Rio
                De Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

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