Papers of Interest to SIG-Metrics Readers

[Eugene Garfield]

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TITLE:          THE INTELLECTUAL STRUCTURE OF RESEARCH INTO PPPS A
                bibliometric analysis (Article, English)
AUTHOR:         Marsilio, M; Cappellaro, G; Cuccurullo, C
SOURCE:         PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REVIEW 13 (6). 2011. p.763-782
                ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, ABINGDON

SEARCH TERM(S):  SMALL H            J AM SOC INFORM SCI    24:265   1973;
                 WHITE HD           J AM SOC INFORM SCI    32:163   1981;
                 BIBLIOMETR*  item_title; AM* BEH* SCI*  rwork

KEYWORDS:       Bibliometric analysis; public-private partnership
KEYWORDS+:       PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS; AUTHOR COCITATION ANALYSIS;
                HEALTH; PERFORMANCE; PRACTITIONERS; DISCIPLINE;
                GOVERNANCE; ECONOMICS; JOURNALS

ABSTRACT:       Public-private partnerships (or PPPs) encompass a broad
spectrum of public sector infrastructure and service initiatives.
Recently, some scholars have undertaken literature review studies of the various definitions of the concept of PPPs and its research traditions, identifying several distinct PPP research approaches. This article aims
to: (1) enhance the findings of these literature reviews; (2) identify the cited works and authors (intellectual structure) in the published research on PPPs; (3) define the subfields that constitute the intellectual structure of PPP research fields. The methodology is based on the bibliometric techniques of citation and author co-citation analysis applied to published research on PPPs included in the Social Science Citation Index.

AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Marsilio, Univ Trent, Trento, Italy

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TITLE:          The Journal Impact Factor: A Threat or Opportunity?
                (Article, Spanish)
AUTHOR:         Fernandez-Sola, C; Granero-Molina, J; Hernandez-Padilla,
                JM; Aguilera-Manrique, G
SOURCE:         AQUICHAN 11 (3). 2011. p.245-255 UNIV SABANA, FAC
                ENFERMARIA, CHIA

SEARCH TERM(S):  IMPACT FACTOR*  item_title; JOURNAL  item_title

KEYWORDS:       Journal impact factor; nursing research; bibliometric
                indicators
KEYWORDS+:       NURSING-RESEARCH; BIBLIOMETRICS

ABSTRACT:       This paper contains a summary of criticism on use of the
impact factor (IF) as an indicator of the quality of work published by researchers. The criticism is directed to authors who are trying to publish in journals with IF. The claim is they are renouncing their own identity and prioritizing their curriculum over the usefulness of their research. The authors challenge this criticism by arguing that stringent assessment criteria stimulate the internationalisation of science, that there is a consensus in the scientific community about the imperfections of FI and its acceptance as a valid and necessary tool for scientific evaluation, and that the debate over identity does little to resolve the international invisibility of nursing research written up in Spanish.
Proposals are outlined on how to benefit from the strengths of this system to increase the visibility of nursing research, to develop strategies for including journals written in Spanish in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), to encourage professional training and interdisciplinary cooperation, to promote the publication of research conducted in postgraduate programs, and to claim an editorial commitment for indexing their journals in the JCR. It can be concluded that, although difficult, it would be possible to increase the visibility of nursing scientific research in Spanish.

AUTHOR ADDRESS: C Fernandez-Sola, Univ Almeria, Almeria, Spain

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TITLE:          Current trends in educational technologies studies
                presented in World Conferences on Educational Sciences (Article, English)
AUTHOR:         Keser, H; Ozcan, D
SOURCE:         3RD WORLD CONFERENCE ON EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES (2011) 15.
                2011. p.NIL_424-NIL_433 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM

SEARCH TERM(S):  GARFIELD E         SCIENCE               122:108   1955

KEYWORDS:       technology; educational technology; content analysis
KEYWORDS+:       CITATION ANALYSIS; JOURNALS; ARTICLES

ABSTRACT:       The general aim of this study is to determine the current
trends in educational technologies studies presented in World Conference on Educational Sciences in 2009 and 2010 years. Type of this study is literature review. Content analysis is applied to collect the data. For this study, and 503 articles presented in Word Conference of Educational Sciences 2010, and 993 articles presented in Word Conference of Educational Sciences 2010, and published in Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences by Elsevier Publication and are also indexed by Scopus and Science Direct and Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index-Science are examined, and totally 97 articles in the field of educational technologies are analyzed in terms of their formats, content and methodologies. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd.

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TITLE:          GOOD TO BE BAD? DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN POSITIVE AND
                NEGATIVE CITATIONS IN SCIENTIFIC IMPACT (Article, English)
AUTHOR:         Cavalcanti, DC; Prudencio, RBC; Pradhan, SS; Shah, JY;
                Pietrobon, RS
SOURCE:         2011 23RD IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TOOLS WITH
                ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (ICTAI 2011). 2011. p.156-162
                IEEE COMPUTER SOC, LOS ALAMITOS

SEARCH TERM(S):  GARFIELD E         SCIENTOMETRICS          1:359   1979

KEYWORDS:       Impact Factor; Sentiment Analysis; SentiWordNet; Spearman
                Ranking Correlation

ABSTRACT:       The impact of a publication is often measured by the
number of citations it received, this number being taken as a proxy for the relevance of published work. However, a higher citation index does not necessarily mean that a publication necessarily had a positive feedback from citing authors, as a citation can represent a negative criticism. In order to overcome this limitation, we used sentiment analysis to rate citations as positive, neutral or negative. Adjectives are initially extracted from the citations, with the SentiWordNet lexicon being used to rate the degree of positivity and negativity for each adjective. Relevance scores were then computed to rank citations according to the sentiment expressed in the text corresponding to each citation. As expected for accurate information retrieval systems, higher precision rates were observed in the initial points of the curve. The SRC
(0.6728) computed using number of raw citations is lower than the SRC
(0.7397) observed by the ranking generated using sentiment scores (Table 3). Conclusion: This result indicates that child articles with higher values of relevance score were in general the ones expressing positive opinion about their parents. Therefore, the ranking generated by sentiment scores had an improved accuracy.

AUTHOR ADDRESS: DC Cavalcanti, Univ Fed Pernambuco, Ctr Informat, UFPE,
                Recife, PE, Brazil

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