Papers of Interest to SIG-Metrics Readers
Eugene Garfield
eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM
Thu Feb 16 15:59:15 EST 2012
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TITLE: Dispelling the myths surrounding the Research Excellence
Framework (Editorial Material, English)
AUTHOR: Trevorrow, P; Volmer, DA
SOURCE: RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY 26 (4). FEB 29
2012. p.399-402 WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN
SEARCH TERM(S):
SEGLEN PO J AM SOC INFORM SCI 43:628 1992;
GARFIELD E CURR CONTENTS 14:3 1989;
GARFIELD E JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 295:90 2006;
GARFIELD E BRIT MED J 313:411 1996;
GARFIELD E UNFALLCHIRURG 101:413 1998;
KEYWORDS+: JOURNAL IMPACT-FACTOR; RESEARCH QUALITY; UK; SCIENCE
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TITLE: Trends in biomedical informatics: most cited topics from
recent years (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Kim, HE; Jiang, XQ; Kim, J; Ohno-Machado, L
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL INFORMATICS ASSOCIATION
18 (SUPPL). DEC 2011. p.I166-I170 B M J PUBLISHING
GROUP, LONDON
SEARCH TERM(S): CITED item_title
KEYWORDS+: ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; OPEN-ACCESS ARTICLES; WEB-OF-
SCIENCE; MEDICATION INFORMATION; EXTRACTION SYSTEM;
GOOGLE-SCHOLAR; CLINICAL TEXT; IMPACT; SCOPUS;
TERMINOLOGIES
ABSTRACT: Biomedical informatics is a young, highly
interdisciplinary field that is evolving quickly. It is important to know which published topics in generalist biomedical informatics journals elicit the most interest from the scientific community, and whether this interest changes over time, so that journals can better serve their readers. It is also important to understand whether free access to biomedical informatics articles impacts their citation rates in a significant way, so authors can make informed decisions about unlock fees, and journal owners and publishers understand the implications of open access. The topics and JAMIA articles from years 2009 and 2010 that have been most cited according to the Web of Science are described. To better understand the effects of free access in article dissemination, the number of citations per month after publication for articles published in 2009 versus 2010 was compared, since there was a significant change in free access to JAMIA articles between those years. Results suggest that there is a positive association between free access and citation rate for JAMIA articles.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: L Ohno-Machado, Univ Calif San Diego, Dept Med, Div Biomed
Informat, 9500 Gilman Dr,MC 0728, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
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TITLE: Cited or read? (Letter, English)
AUTHOR: Bellini, C
SOURCE: LANCET 379 (9813). JAN 28 2012. p.314 ELSEVIER SCIENCE
INC, NEW YORK
SEARCH TERM(S): CITED item_title;
HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005;
LETTER* doctype
AUTHOR ADDRESS: C Bellini, Univ Genoa, Gaslini Childrens Hosp, Neonatal
Intens Care Unit, Dept Pediat, I-16147 Genoa, Italy
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TITLE: Scientific output in the health sciences in Ecuador
(Article, Spanish)
AUTHOR: Sisa, I; Espinel, M; Fornasini, M; Mantilla, G
SOURCE: REVISTA PANAMERICANA DE SALUD PUBLICA-PAN AMERICAN
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH 30 (4). OCT 2011. p.388-392 PAN
AMER HEALTH ORGANIZATION, WASHINGTON
SEARCH TERM(S): ARUNACHALAM S rauth
KEYWORDS: Bibliometrics; biomedical research; health sciences;
health priorities; Ecuador
KEYWORDS+: LATIN-AMERICA
ABSTRACT: This cross-sectional study describes the characteristics
and trends of health sciences-related studies published in Ecuador from 1999-2009. Its objective is to contribute to the design and implementation of a research and development policy whose work is centered on the country's health priorities. Bibliometric indicators of production applied to publications in health sciences in Ecuador were used for the analysis. The publications were from the LILACS and MEDLINE databases. It was found that 625 articles were published from 1999-2009, primarily in the clinical-surgical areas (60%), followed by epidemiology (17.4%), basic sciences (14.1%), and health systems (8.5%). Only 4.3% and 7.2% of the production in this period was related to the primary causes of morbidity and mortality, respectively. It was found that private institutions generated more health research than public institutions, and hospitals (public, private, and mixed) produced a higher percentage than universities. The analysis showed that there was limited scientific production in health sciences in Ecuador during the study period, with a slight increase in the last two years that may be due in part to greater investment in research and development by the National Secretariat of Science and Technology (SENACYT). Investment increased from 0.20% to 0.44% of gross domestic product between 2006 and 2009.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: I Sisa, Univ San Francisco Quito, Quito, Ecuador
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TITLE: On social computing research collaboration patterns: a
social network perspective (Review, English)
AUTHOR: Wang, T; Zhang, QP; Liu, Z; Liu, WL; Wen, D
SOURCE: FRONTIERS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE IN CHINA 6 (1). FEB 2012.
p.122-130 HIGHER EDUCATION PRESS, BEIJING
SEARCH TERM(S):
SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973;
GARFIELD E J INFORM SCI 30:119 2004
KEYWORDS: social computing; bibliographic analysis; computational
social science; social network analysis
KEYWORDS+: SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; INTELLIGENCE; SYSTEMS; INFORMATION;
COCITATION; KNOWLEDGE; EMERGENCE; DYNAMICS; SCIENCE;
SEARCH
ABSTRACT: The field of social computing emerged more than ten years
ago. During the last decade, researchers from a variety of disciplines have been closely collaborating to boost the growth of social computing research. This paper aims at identifying key researchers and institutions, and examining the collaboration patterns in the field. We employ co-authorship network analysis at different levels to study the bibliographic information of 6 543 publications in social computing from
1998 to 2011. This paper gives a snapshot of the current research in social computing and can provide an initial guidance to new researchers in social computing.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: T Wang, Natl Univ Def & Technol, Coll Informat Syst &
Management, Sci & Technol Informat Syst Engn Lab, Changsha
410073, Hunan, Peoples R China
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