Papers of interest to SIG-Metrics Readers
Eugene Garfield
eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM
Mon Feb 27 14:08:16 EST 2012
TITLE: Global urbanization research from 1991 to 2009: A
systematic research review (Review, English)
AUTHOR: Wang, HJ; He, QQ; Liu, XJ; Zhuang, YH; Hong, S
SOURCE: LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING 104 (3-4). MAR 15 2012.
p.299-309 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM
SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005;
GARFIELD E NATURE 227:669 1970
KEYWORDS: Bibliometrics; Urbanization; Urbanization rate; Research
trends; Correlation analysis
KEYWORDS+: BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS; RESEARCH TRENDS; PRODUCTIVITY;
INDICATORS; NETWORKS; JOURNALS; SCIENCE
ABSTRACT: We performed a bibliometric analysis of published
urbanization research from 1991 to 2009, based on SCI and SSCI database.
Our analysis reveals scientific outputs, subject categories and major journals, international collaboration and geographic distribution, and temporal trends in keywords usage in urbanization studies and discusses the relationships between urbanization papers and urbanization rate and offer a substitute demonstration of research advancements, which may be considered as a potential guide for future research. The growth of article outputs has exploded since 1991, along with an increasing collaboration index, references and citations. Environmental sciences, ecology, environmental studies, geography and urban studies were most frequently used subject categories and Landscape and Urban Planning was the most productive journal in urbanization studies. The United States was the largest contributor in global urbanization research, as the USA produced the most independent and collaborative papers. The geographic distribution of urbanization articles overlapped quite well with regions with high economic growth in North America, Europe, and Pacific-Asia. A keywords analysis found the USA and China were "hotspots", confirmed land- use's significant position and revealed keen interest in ecological and environmental issues in urbanization studies. In general, urbanization research was strongly correlated with the urbanization rate although there were different patterns and underlying processes across different countries. This is the first study to quantify global research trends in urbanization. Our study reveals patterns in scientific outputs and academic collaborations and serves as an alternative way of revealing global research trends in urbanization. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: S Hong, Wuhan Univ, Sch Resource & Environm Sci, Wuhan
430079, Peoples R China
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TITLE: Visibility and impact of the Indian Journal of Chemistry,
Section B during 2005-2009 using scientometric techniques (Article,
English)
AUTHOR: Nishy, P; Parvatharajan, P; Prathap, G
SOURCE: INDIAN JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY SECTION B-ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
INCLUDING MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY 51 (1). JAN 2012.
p.269-284 COUNCIL SCIENTIFIC & INDUSTRIAL RES, NEW DELHI
SEARCH TERM(S): SCIENTOMETRIC* item_title; JOURNAL item_title
KEYWORDS: Indian Journal of Chemistry; Section B; Organic Chemistry;
heterocyclic; theoretical chemistry; asymmetric;
chemoenzymatic; synthesis; natural products;
antimicrobial activity; biological activity
KEYWORDS+: BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS; INFORMATION-SCIENCE; BASIC
RESEARCH; PUBLICATION; INDICATORS; PRODUCTIVITY; CITATION
ABSTRACT: Organic chemistry has always been one of the strongest
areas of research in the chemical sciences in India. The Indian Journal of Chemistry. Section B is the leading journal from India covering important contributions in the area of organic and medicinal chemistry.
This is the first attempt to carry out a scientometric assessment of the visibility and impact of this journal towards serving the needs of researchers, mainly from India, in these areas. All papers published in this journal during 2005 to 2009 have been analysed using various scientometric parameters like geographical distribution, citations received each year, authorship patterns. etc. The papers are grouped under four main fields: (i) Heterocyclic Chemistry, (ii) Synthetic Organic Chemistry, (m) Natural Products Chemistry and (iv) Theoretical Chemistry and assessment and performance of these and the forty five specialized sub-fields in organic chemistry have been studied.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: P Parvatharajan, CSIR Natl Inst Sci Commun & Informat
Resources, Dr KS Krishnan Marg, New Delhi 110012, India
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TITLE: Detecting Evolving Patterns of Self-Organizing Networks
by Flow Hierarchy Measurement (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Luo, JX; Magee, CL
SOURCE: COMPLEXITY 16 (6). JUL-AUG 2011. p.53-61
WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN
SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth
KEYWORDS: self-organizing networks; evolution pattern; flow
hierarchy
KEYWORDS+: COMPLEX NETWORKS; FOOD WEBS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE;
ROBUSTNESS; HISTORY
ABSTRACT: Hierarchies occur widely in evolving self-organizing
ecological, biological, technological, and social networks, but detecting and comparing hierarchies is difficult. Here we present a metric and technique to quantitatively assess the extent to which self-organizing directed networks exhibit a flow hierarchy. Flow hierarchy is a commonly observed but theoretically overlooked form of hierarchy in networks. We show that the ecological, neurobiological, economic, and information processing networks are generally more hierarchical than their comparable random networks. We further discovered that hierarchy degree has increased over the course of the evolution of Linux kernels. Taken together, our results suggest that hierarchy is a central organizing feature of real-world evolving networks, and the measurement of hierarchy opens the way to understand the structural regimes and evolutionary patterns of self-organizing networks. Our measurement technique makes it possible to objectively compare hierarchies of different networks and of different evolutionary stages of a single network, and compare evolving patterns of different networks. It can be applied to various complex systems, which can be represented as directed networks. (C) 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Complexity 16: 53-61, 2011
AUTHOR ADDRESS: JX Luo, MIT, 77 Massachusetts Ave,E38-450, Cambridge, MA
02139 USA
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TITLE: Internationalization of pediatric sleep apnea research
(Article, English)
AUTHOR: Milkov, M
SOURCE: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY
76 (2). FEB 2012. p.219-226 ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD, CLARE
SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005
KEYWORDS: Pediatric sleep apnea; International scientific
communications; Science institutionalization; Web of
Science; MEDLINE; Scopus
KEYWORDS+: CO-AUTHORSHIP; CHILDREN; INDICATOR
ABSTRACT: Objective: Recently, the socio-medical importance of
obstructive sleep apnea in infancy and childhood increases worldwide. The present investigation aims at analyzing the dynamic science internationalization in this narrow field as reflected in three data- bases and at outlining the most significant scientists, institutions and primary information sources.
Methods: A scientometric study of data from a retrospective problem- oriented search on pediatric sleep apnea in three data-bases such as Web of Science, MEDLINE and Scopus was carried out. A set of parameters of publication output and citations was followed-up. Several scientometric distributions were created and enabled the identification of some essential peculiarities of the international scientific communications.
Results: There was a steady world publication output increase. In 1972- 2010, 4192 publications from 874 journals were abstracted in MEDLINE. In 1985-2010, more than 8100 authors from 64 countries published 3213 papers in 626 journals and 256 conference proceedings abstracted in Web of Science. In 1973-2010, 152 authors published 687 papers in 144 journals in 19 languages abstracted in Scopus. USA authors dominated followed by those from Australia and Canada. Sleep, Int. J. Pediatr.
Otorhinolaryngol., Pediatr. Pulmonol. and Pediatrics belonged to 'core'
journals concerning Web of Science and MEDLINE while Arch. Dis. Childh.
and Eur. Respir. J. dominated in Scopus. Nine journals being currently published in 5 countries contained the terms of 'sleep' or 'sleeping' in their titles. David Gozal, Carole L Marcus and Christian Guilleminault presented with most publications and citations to them. W.H. Dietz' paper published in Pediatrics in 1998 received 764 citations. Eighty-four authors from 11 countries participated in 16 scientific events held in 12 countries which were immediately devoted to sleep research. Their 13 articles were cited 170 times in Web of Science. Authors from the University of Louisville, Stanford University, and University of Pennsylvania published most papers on pediatric sleep apnea abstracted in these data-bases.
Conclusions: The newly created data-base with the researchers' names, addresses and publications could be used by scientists from smaller countries for further improvement of their international collaboration.
(C) 2011 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Milkov, St Petka Eye & Ear Clin Varna, 40 Slivnitsa Blvd,
BG-9002 Varna, Bulgaria
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TITLE: Regulatory economics and the journal of regulatory
economics: a 30-year retrospective (Review, English)
AUTHOR: Crew, MA; Kleindorfer, PR
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF REGULATORY ECONOMICS 41 (1 SP ISS). FEB 2012.
p.1-18 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT
KEYWORDS: Regulation; Environmental; Impact factors
KEYWORDS+: CELLULAR TELEPHONY; UNITED-STATES
ABSTRACT: Over the 30 year history of the Rutgers University CRRI
Eastern Conference the regulatory scene has changed dramatically. In 1989 the first Issue of the Journal of Regulatory Economics appeared. This paper builds on Crew and Kleindorfer (J Regul Econ 21(1):5-22, 2002), which reviewed 20 years in the development of regulatory economics. In addition, this aricle outlines the history and assesses the significance of the JRE in the literature of regulatory economics.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: MA Crew, Rutgers State Univ, Newark, NJ 07102 USA
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TITLE: Universality in bibliometrics (Article, English)
AUTHOR: da Silva, R; Kalil, F; de Oliveira, JPM; Martinez, AS
SOURCE: PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS 391
(5). MAR 1 2012. p.2119-2128 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV,
AMSTERDAM
SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005;
BIBLIOMETR* item_title; PHYSICA A source_abbrev_20
KEYWORDS: h-index distribution; Generalized distributions;
Bibliometrics; Scientometrics
KEYWORDS+: SUCCESSIVE H-INDEXES
ABSTRACT: Many discussions have enlarged the literature in
Bibliometrics since the Hirsch proposal, the so called h-index. Ranking papers according to their citations, this index quantifies a researcher only by its greatest possible number of papers that are cited at least h times. A closed formula for h-index distribution that can be applied for distinct databases is not yet known. In fact, to obtain such distribution, the knowledge of citation distribution of the authors and its specificities are required. Instead of dealing with researchers randomly chosen, here we address different groups based on distinct databases. The first group is composed of physicists and biologists, with data extracted from Institute of Scientific Information (IS!). The second group is composed of computer scientists, in which data were extracted from Google-Scholar system. In this paper, we obtain a general formula for the h-index probability density function (pdf) for groups of authors by using generalized exponentials in the context of escort probability.
Our analysis includes the use of several statistical methods to estimate the necessary parameters. Also an exhaustive comparison among the possible candidate distributions are used to describe the way the citations are distributed among authors. The h-index pdf should be used to classify groups of researchers from a quantitative point of view, which is meaningfully interesting to eliminate obscure qualitative methods. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: R da Silva, Univ Fed Rio Grande do Sul, Inst Fis, Av Bento
Goncalves 9500,Caixa Postal 1501, BR-91501970 Porto Alegre,
RS, Brazil
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TITLE: A scaling between Impact Factor and uncitedness (Article,
English)
AUTHOR: Hsu, JW; Huang, DW
SOURCE: PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS 391
(5). MAR 1 2012. p.2129-2134 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV,
AMSTERDAM
SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; MERTON RK rauth;
MERTON RK SCIENCE 159:56 1968;
IMPACT FACTOR* item_title;
GARFIELD E JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 295:90 2006;
GARFIELD E SCIENCE 122:108 1955;
PHYSICA A source_abbrev_20
KEYWORDS: Citation dynamics; Scaling; Impact Factor
KEYWORDS+: CITATION DISTRIBUTION; SCIENCE; BEHAVIOR; JOURNALS;
DYNAMICS
ABSTRACT: The Impact Factor has become a well-known measure of the
average citation number of articles published in a scientific journal. A journal with a high Impact Factor is assumed to have a low percentage of uncited articles. We show that the scaling relation between the Impact Factor and the uncited percentage can be understood by a simple mechanism. The empirical data can be reproduced by a random mechanism with the cumulative advantage. To further explore the robustness of such a mechanism, we investigate the relation between the average citation number and the uncited percentage from different perspectives. We apply the idea of Impact Factor to the publications of an institute in addition to its general application to the publications of a journal. We find that the same scaling relation can be obtained. We also show that a static relation can be applied to describe the time evolution of a dynamical process. These results provide further justification for the same citation mechanism behind different research fields. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: DW Huang, Chung Yuan Christian Univ, Dept Phys, Chungli,
Taiwan
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TITLE: Contemporary conservatism and medievalism: 'Nothing new
under the sun'? (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Zafirovski, M
SOURCE: SOCIAL SCIENCE INFORMATION SUR LES SCIENCES SOCIALES 50
(2). JUN 2011. p.223-250 SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, LONDON
SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth
KEYWORDS: capitalism; conservatism; liberalism; medievalism
KEYWORDS+: HISTORICAL-PERSPECTIVE; ENGLISH-REVOLUTION; RELIGION;
MODERNIZATION; SOCIOLOGY; STATE; NATIONALISM; INEQUALITY;
PURITANISM; IDEOLOGY
ABSTRACT: This article explores the historical and sociological
relations between contemporary conservatism and medievalism. It first registers the reemergence and increasing prominence of conservatism in contemporary society, most notably in America during the late 20th and the early 21st centuries. It then places conservatism and medievalism and their relationship within a historical-comparative framework. The article concludes that modern conservatism originates in and continues, with some adaptations or innovations, medievalism seen as the 'golden past', becoming the original and persisting conservative ideal and model of society and history.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Zafirovski, Univ N Texas, Dept Sociol, Denton, TX 76203
USA
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