From pmd8 at CORNELL.EDU Wed Jan 4 06:31:23 2012 From: pmd8 at CORNELL.EDU (Philip Davis) Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 06:31:23 -0500 Subject: Tweets, and Our Obsession with Alt Metrics Message-ID: Tweets, and Our Obsession with Alt Metrics Can tweets predict future citations? A study of article tweets raises validity and ethical concerns. by Phil Davis The Scholarly Kitchen, 4 Jan, 2012 http://wp.me/pcvbl-669 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From krichel at OPENLIB.ORG Wed Jan 4 23:46:03 2012 From: krichel at OPENLIB.ORG (Thomas Krichel) Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 05:46:03 +0100 Subject: conference on "The Value of Unique Scholarly Identifiers to Academics, Institutions and Countries" Message-ID: On behalf of the organizers, I am pleased to announce the conference "The Value of Unique Scholarly Identifiers to Academics, Institutions and Countries". The conference is organized by the Association of Lithuanian Serials (see http://serials.lt). It will take place in Parliament of Lithuania (see http://lrs.lt), in Vilnius, Lithuania on February 14th, 2012. We think that the topic of researcher identification is relevant not only to librarians and publishers but also to researchers of all subject areas. Therefore, the main goal of the conference is to explain to the wide academic community how the latest technologies have been changing their profile in the scholarly universe and what they can expect in the future. Well-known speakers will give insight on the future of the scholarly universe and the image of academics in it. Read more about the conference at http://uniqueids.org. If you wish to contact the organizers write to Eleonora Dagiene, Chair of Council, Director of VGTU Press, eleonora at serials.lt. Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorprofile.org/pkr1 skype: thomaskrichel From Weller at UNI-DUESSELDORF.DE Thu Jan 5 06:10:23 2012 From: Weller at UNI-DUESSELDORF.DE (Katrin Weller) Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 12:10:23 +0100 Subject: Call for Papers: Conference on Science and the Internet (#cosci12). D=?ISO-8859-15?Q?=FCsseldorf=2C_?= Germany, 1-3 August 2012 Message-ID: - Apologies for cross-posting - CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SCIENCE AND THE INTERNET (#cosci12) DATE: August 1-3, 2012 LOCATION: D?sseldorf, Germany WEB SITE: http://www.nfgwin.uni-duesseldorf.de/de/cosci12 SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 15, 2012 ---------------------------- CONFERENCE TOPICS ---------------------------- Online media have brought about numerous changes in scholarly practices, including, but not limited to gathering data, finding relevant literature, making research and results accessible, organising collaboration, communicating with colleagues and students as well as creating fruitful learning environments. The interdisciplinary conference "Science and the Internet", to be held August 1-3, 2012 in D?sseldorf, brings together researchers and practitioners from multiple disciplines (e.g. information science, computer science, sociology, communication and media studies, linguistics, educations studies, legal studies, etc.) working on the following or related issues: How is the research process transformed through the use of digital infrastructures? How can the challenges of the public availability of (large scale) scientific data be met? How do scholars make use of social networking platforms, (micro-)blogs, wikis, or websites? How does the Internet affect scholarly publishing (e.g. Open Access, unpublished manuscripts, blogs)? How has the Internet changed the practice and relevance of citations and of receiving reputation? How do teaching styles or beliefs and use of the Internet mutually influence each other? Do Web 2.0 platforms offer opportunities to advance public understanding of science? What is the role of ethics, policies, and legal regulation in academic use of the Internet? What theoretical and practical implications do the aforementioned considerations have for science and the Internet? -------------------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES -------------------------------- The conference language is English. We invite two types of submissions: Abstracts for talks (20 minutes for presentation + 10 minutes for discussion) should not exceed 500 words, excluding data and references. In case of acceptance a full paper (max. 3.000 words or 12 pages) in either English or German must be submitted by July 15, 2012. The full paper will be published in conference proceedings (print and online). Proposals for interactive workshops (90 minutes) should outline both the thematic focus and the session design. Workshops should engage participants in developing the topics. Proposals should not exceed 1.000 words. Both abstracts for presentations and proposals for interactive workshops must be submitted via EasyChair. ------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------ Deadline for submitting abstracts: January 15, 2012 Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2012 Camera-ready submission of papers: July 15, 2012 Conference dates: August 1-3, 2012 --------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE --------------------------------- The conference is organized by the interdisciplinary Junior Researchers Group "Science and the Internet" (http://nfgwin.uni-duesseldorf.de/) at Heinrich-Heine-University D?sseldorf: Michael Beurskens (legal studies) Susanne Keuneke (communication and media studies) Merja Mahrt (communication and media studies) Cornelius Puschmann (English linguistics) Isabella Peters (information science) Alexander Tokar (English linguistics) Timo van Treeck (education studies) Katrin Weller (information science) CONTACT Alexander Tokar, email: tokar at phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de -- Dr. Katrin Weller Institute for Language and Information Department of Information Science Heinrich-Heine-University D?sseldorf Universit?tsstr. 1, Building 23.21.04.68 D-40225 D?sseldorf Phone: +49 (0) 211 81 10803 E-Mail: weller at uni-duesseldorf.de From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Thu Jan 5 17:53:38 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 22:53:38 +0000 Subject: FW: Citations and Ethics by Jan Reedijk Message-ID: Author :Prof. Jan Reedijk of Leiden University (The Netherlands) and King Saud University, Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) E-mail: reedijk at chem.leidenuniv.nl -----Original Message----- From: CHEMICAL INFORMATION SOURCES DISCUSSION LIST [mailto:CHMINF-L at LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU] On Behalf Of Wendy Warr Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 12:15 PM To: CHMINF-L at LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU Subject: [CHMINF-L] Citations and Ethics Full text of Editorial in Angewandte Chemie: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201107554/pdf Posted by Dr. Wendy A. Warr Associate Editor, J. Chem. Inf. Model. 6 Berwick Court, Holmes Chapel Cheshire, CW4 7HZ, England Tel./fax +44 (0)1477 533837 jcim at warr.com CHMINF-L Archives (also to join or leave CHMINF-L, etc.) http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/chminf-l.html Search the CHMINF-L archives at: https://listserv.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/wa-iub.exe?S1=chminf-l Sponsors of CHMINF-L: http://www.indiana.edu/~libchem/chminfsupport.htm From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Fri Jan 6 13:46:39 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 18:46:39 +0000 Subject: Of interest to SIG Metrics Message-ID: ========================= Start of Data ========================= TITLE: Possibilistic analysis of arity-monotonic aggregation operators and its relation to bibliometric impact assessment of individuals (Article, English) AUTHOR: Gagolewski, M; Grzegorzewski, P SOURCE: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPROXIMATE REASONING 52 (9). DEC 2011. p.1312-1324 ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, NEW YORK SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS: Aggregation operators; Possibility theory; S-statistics; h-Index; OWMax KEYWORDS+: INDEX; CONSTRUCTION ABSTRACT: A class of arity-monotonic aggregation operators, called impact functions, is proposed. This family of operators forms a theoretical framework for the so-called Producer Assessment Problem, which includes the scientometric task of fair and objective assessment of scientists using the number of citations received by their publications. The impact function output values are analyzed under right-censored and dynamically changing input data. The qualitative possibilistic approach is used to describe this kind of uncertainty. It leads to intuitive graphical interpretations and may be easily applied for practical purposes. The discourse is illustrated by a family of aggregation operators generalizing the well-known Ordered Weighted Maximum (OWMax) and the Hirsch h-index. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Gagolewski, Polish Acad Sci, Syst Res Inst, Ul Newelska 6, PL-01447 Warsaw, Poland ========================== ========================= 1) TITLE: Uncovering the Intellectual Structure of Research in Business Ethics: A Journey Through the History, the Classics, and the Pillars of Journal of Business Ethics (Article, English) AUTHOR: Calabretta, G; Durisin, B; Ogliengo, M SOURCE: JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS 104 (4). DEC 2011. p.499-524 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; WHITE HD J AM SOC INFORM SCI 32:163 1981; JOURNAL item_title KEYWORDS: Business ethics; Corporate social responsibility; Ethical decision making; Bibliometrics; Literature review KEYWORDS+: CORPORATE SOCIAL-RESPONSIBILITY; PRODUCT-INNOVATION- MANAGEMENT; DECISION-MAKING; COCITATION ANALYSIS; FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE; EMPIRICAL-EXAMINATION; AUTHOR COCITATION; ORGANIZATIONS; BEHAVIOR; MODEL ABSTRACT: After almost 30 years of publications, Journal of Business Ethics (JBE) has achieved the position of main marketplace for business ethics discussion and knowledge generation. Given the large amount of knowledge produced, an assessment of the state of the art could benefit both the constructive development of the discipline and the further growth of the journal itself. As the evolution of a discipline is set to be reflected in the evolution of its leading journal, we attempt to characterize changes in the intellectual structure of business ethics through a bibliometric analysis of articles published in JBE. Specifically, we conduct a knowledge-stock analysis to assess the evolution, major trends, and current state of the journal. Additionally, we use citation and co-citation analysis to provide an accurate description of the content and the advancement of research in business ethics. Through the results of our analysis, we are able to: (1) pinpoint the characteristics of the growing stock of knowledge published by JBE over the years; (2) identify the most influential works on business ethics research; and (3) detect the formation and evolution of schools of thought in business ethics. AUTHOR ADDRESS: G Calabretta, BI Norwegian Business Sch, Dept Mkt, Nydalsveien 37, N-0484 Oslo, Norway From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Fri Jan 6 13:54:05 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 18:54:05 +0000 Subject: of interest to SIG Metrics readers Message-ID: TITLE: Possibilistic analysis of arity-monotonic aggregation operators and its relation to bibliometric impact assessment of individuals (Article, English) AUTHOR: Gagolewski, M; Grzegorzewski, P SOURCE: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPROXIMATE REASONING 52 (9). DEC 2011. p.1312-1324 ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, NEW YORK SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS: Aggregation operators; Possibility theory; S-statistics; h-Index; OWMax KEYWORDS+: INDEX; CONSTRUCTION ABSTRACT: A class of arity-monotonic aggregation operators, called impact functions, is proposed. This family of operators forms a theoretical framework for the so-called Producer Assessment Problem, which includes the scientometric task of fair and objective assessment of scientists using the number of citations received by their publications. The impact function output values are analyzed under right-censored and dynamically changing input data. The qualitative possibilistic approach is used to describe this kind of uncertainty. It leads to intuitive graphical interpretations and may be easily applied for practical purposes. The discourse is illustrated by a family of aggregation operators generalizing the well-known Ordered Weighted Maximum (OWMax) and the Hirsch h-index. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Gagolewski, Polish Acad Sci, Syst Res Inst, Ul Newelska 6, PL-01447 Warsaw, Poland -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Content and Bibliometric Analysis of Articles Published in the Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy (Article, English) AUTHOR: Coronado, RA; Wurtzel, WA; Simon, CB; Riddle, DL; George, SZ SOURCE: JOURNAL OF ORTHOPAEDIC & SPORTS PHYSICAL THERAPY 41 (12). DEC 2011. p.920-931 J O S P T,, ALEXANDRIA SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title; JOURNAL item_title KEYWORDS: citation analysis; publication trends; research KEYWORDS+: QUANTITATIVE-ANALYSIS; REHABILITATION; CITATION; DATABASE; TRIALS; PEDRO ABSTRACT: STUDY DESIGN: Descriptive bibliometric analysis. BACKGROUND: Content and bibliometric studies are useful for describing the publication patterns of a given profession, such as physical therapy, within the medical and allied health fields. However, few studies have conducted these analyses on specialty physical therapy journals. OBJECTIVES: To conduct a content and bibliometric assessment of publications within the Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy (JOSPT) and report publication and citation trends over multiple years. METHODS: All available JOSPT manuscripts published from 1980 through 2009 were reviewed. Only research reports, topical reviews, and case reports were included in the current analysis. Articles were coded by 2 independent reviewers based on type, participant characteristics, research design, purpose, clinical condition, and intervention. We obtained additional citation information (eg, authors and institutions) from a subset of articles published from 1992 through 2009 using bibliometric software. RESULTS: Of the 2233 available JOSPT publications, 1732 (77.6%) met criteria for inclusion. Of these, 1172 (67.7%) were research reports, 351 (20.3%) topical reviews, and 209 (12.1%) case reports. Over the last 30 years there has been a significant increase in the number of articles published and the percentage of research reports, systematic reviews, articles focused on prognosis, and articles including symptomatic participants. Percentage decreases were observed for topical or nonsystematic reviews and articles focused on anatomy/physiology. Top institutions, authors, and cited papers from 1992 through 2009 were identified in the bibliometric analyses. CONCLUSION: JOSPT has shown publication trends for increased percentage of experimental and clinically relevant research. However, there may be a need for increased publication of randomized controlled trials and studies focused on diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, if goals of evidence-based practice are to be met. J Ort hop Sports Phys Ther 2011; 41(12):920-931, doi:10.2519/JOSPT.2011.3808 AUTHOR ADDRESS: RA Coronado, UFHSC, Box 100154, Gainesville, FL 32610 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A disadvantage of h-type indices for comparing the citation impact of two researchers (Article, English) AUTHOR: Egghe, L SOURCE: RESEARCH EVALUATION 20 (4). OCT 2011. p.341-346 BEECH TREE PUBLISHING, GUILDFORD SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title; EGGHE L primaryauthor,author KEYWORDS+: SCIENTIFIC IMPACT ABSTRACT: We show that the rank frequency functions of two researchers usually intersect. As a consequence of this, different h-type indices can conclude on different impact judgements of the two researchers. Also in this paper a new indicator is proposed: the average number of citations per paper in the papers whose ranks are smaller than or equal to the intersection point of their two rank frequency functions. The theoretical derivations are illustrated using an empirical example. AUTHOR ADDRESS: L Egghe, Univ Antwerp, IBW, Stadscampus,Venusstr 35, B-2000 Antwerp, Belgium -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Expertise Recommender System for Scientific Community (Article, English) AUTHOR: Afzal, MT; Maurer, H SOURCE: JOURNAL OF UNIVERSAL COMPUTER SCIENCE 17 (11). 2011. p.1529-1549 GRAZ UNIV TECHNOLGOY, INST INFORMATION SYSTEMS COMPUTER MEDIA-IICM, GRAZ SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 178:471 1972 KEYWORDS: Expertise Finding; Hyperbolic Visualization; Digital Journals; Multi-faceted expert Profile; Spiral Visualization KEYWORDS+: IMPACT ABSTRACT: Finding experts in academics as well as in enterprises is an important practical problem. Both manual and automated approaches are employed and have their own pros and cons. On one hand, the manual approaches need extensive human efforts but the quality of data is good, on the other hand, the automated approaches normally do not need human efforts but the quality of service is not as good as in the manual approaches. Furthermore, the automated approaches normally use only one metric to measure the expertise of an individual. For example, for finding experts in academia, the number of publications of an individual is used to discover and rank experts. This paper illustrates both manual and automated approaches for finding experts and subsequently proposes and implements an automated approach for measuring expertise profile in academia. The proposed approach incorporates multiple metrics for measuring an overall expertise level. To visualize a rank list of experts, an extended hyperbolic visualization technique is proposed and implemented. Furthermore, the discovered experts are pushed to users based on their local context. The research has been implemented for Journal of Universal Computer Science (J. UCS) and is available online for the users of J. UCS. AUTHOR ADDRESS: MT Afzal, Mohammad Ali Jinnah Univ, Ctr Distributed & Semant Comp, Islamabad, Pakistan -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From saman.saghafi at YAHOO.COM Mon Jan 9 07:32:43 2012 From: saman.saghafi at YAHOO.COM (Saman Sagahfi) Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 04:32:43 -0800 Subject: Question and Help Message-ID: Dear all, I am studying about ?historiographical map of Engineering field?. Unfortunately, I was encountered with an error when extracting data form Web of Science (WOS) database and when imported data in HistCite software. I am mention step by step: How extracting data is step1: 1-500; step2: Full record plus cited References; step3: save to plain text (Save). But when data is imported in Histcite software, only one record is read by HistCite software. Shown error in log is ?File: "C:\Documents and ettings\masadi\Desktop\HM\Data\savedrecs1-500.txt" Line: "?FN Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge " Size: 2.02 MB (2116261 bytes) Format: ISI-WOS Reading data. Use of uninitialized value $f in hash element at /HC/Data.pm line 140,? chunk 1. Use of uninitialized value $f in hash element at /HC/Data.pm line 146,? chunk 1.? done in 1 secs Total records: 1, Unique records: 1 (new) Years: 2011 ? 2011 Indexing records..? done ; ??? Records: 1; Collection span: 2011 ? 2011? Please, help me how I can save this data and overcome with this problem. It is very important for me that I known about it. Thanks in advance, Saman Saghafi Software Engineer -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cbenito at INGENIO.UPV.ES Mon Jan 9 11:00:04 2012 From: cbenito at INGENIO.UPV.ES (Carlos Benito Amat) Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 16:00:04 +0000 Subject: Question and Help In-Reply-To: <1326112363.33816.YahooMailNeo@web114210.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Dear Saman: I experienced a similar problem last week. There's a mistake in the delimiter of records: instead of tab-ER-tab-tab the contemporary downloads read tab-ER-tab so lacking the second tabulator. I fixed this error opening the files in a word processor (TextWrangler in my case) and doing a pattern search to replace the defective chain with the right one. It worked fine and so I could add all downloaded files to HistCite. Hope this will work with your application too Best -- Carlos Benito Amat INGENIO (CSIC y UPV) Ciudad Polit?cnica de la Innovaci?n, edificio 8E Campus de Vera 46022 Valencia (Spain) Tel.: 34 96 387 70 07 ext 78489 De: Saman Sagahfi > Responder a: Saman Sagahfi > Fecha: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 04:32:43 -0800 Para: > Asunto: [SIGMETRICS] Question and Help I am studying about ?historiographical map of Engineering field?. Unfortunately, I was encountered with an error when extracting data form Web of Science (WOS) database and when imported data in HistCite software. I am mention step by step: How extracting data is step1: 1-500; step2: Full record plus cited References; step3: save to plain text (Save). But when data is imported in Histcite software, only one record is read by HistCite software. Shown error in log is ?File: "C:\Documents and ettings\masadi\Desktop\HM\Data\savedrecs1-500.txt" Line: "?FN Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge " Size: 2.02 MB (2116261 bytes) Format: ISI-WOS Reading data. Use of uninitialized value $f in hash element at /HC/Data.pm line 140, chunk 1. Use of uninitialized value $f in hash element at /HC/Data.pm line 146, chunk 1. done in 1 secs Total records: 1, Unique records: 1 (new) Years: 2011 ? 2011 Indexing records.. done ; Records: 1; Collection span: 2011 ? 2011? Please, help me how I can save this data and overcome with this problem. It is very important for me that I known about it. Thanks in advance, Saman Saghafi Software Engineer From gingras.yves at UQAM.CA Tue Jan 10 12:54:31 2012 From: gingras.yves at UQAM.CA (Yves Gingras) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:54:31 -0500 Subject: FW: [SIGMETRICS] FW: Citations and Ethics by Jan Reedijk In-Reply-To: <08E0EAB2-4F16-440B-A94D-4055E2EAF966@umontreal.ca> Message-ID: > For those interested in the question of ethics of citation and ranking > manipulation see in the recent issue of Science: > Saudi Universities Offer Cash in Exchange for Academic Prestige * Yudhijit Bhattacharjee Science 9 December 2011: 1344-1345. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/334/6061/1344.full Very interesting and worth discussing... Yves Gingras Professeur D?partement d'histoire Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie (CIRST) Chaire de recherche du Canada en histoire et sociologie des sciences UQAM C.P. 8888, Succ. Centre-Ville Montr?al, Qu?bec Canada, H3C 3P8 Tel: (514)-987-3000-7053 Fax: (514)-987-7726 http://www.chss.uqam.ca http://www.cirst.uqam.ca http://www.ost.uqam.ca > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: CHEMICAL INFORMATION SOURCES DISCUSSION LIST > [mailto:CHMINF-L at LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU] On Behalf Of Wendy Warr > Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 12:15 PM > To: CHMINF-L at LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU > Subject: [CHMINF-L] Citations and Ethics > > Full text of Editorial in Angewandte Chemie: > > http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201107554/pdf > > Posted by > > Dr. Wendy A. Warr > Associate Editor, J. Chem. Inf. Model. > 6 Berwick Court, Holmes Chapel > Cheshire, CW4 7HZ, England > Tel./fax +44 (0)1477 533837 > jcim at warr.com > > > CHMINF-L Archives (also to join or leave CHMINF-L, etc.) > http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/chminf-l.html > Search the CHMINF-L archives at: > https://listserv.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/wa-iub.exe?S1=chminf-l > Sponsors of CHMINF-L: > http://www.indiana.edu/~libchem/chminfsupport.htm > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Tue Jan 10 13:43:17 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:43:17 +0000 Subject: Papers of possible interest to Sig Metrics Message-ID: P -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Bibliometrics of anaesthesia researchers in the UK (Letter, English) AUTHOR: O'Leary, JD SOURCE: BRITISH JOURNAL OF ANAESTHESIA 108 (1). JAN 2012. p.164-165 OXFORD UNIV PRESS, OXFORD SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Bibliometrics of anaesthesia researchers in the UK Reply (Letter, English) AUTHOR: Moppett, IK; Hardman, JG SOURCE: BRITISH JOURNAL OF ANAESTHESIA 108 (1). JAN 2012. p.165 OXFORD UNIV PRESS, OXFORD SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; KEYWORDS+: INDEX ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Pain research in Croatia: Analysis of bibliometric trends (Article, English) AUTHOR: Sapunar, D; Kostic, S; Banozic, A; Ferhatovic, L; Puljak, L SOURCE: PERIODICUM BIOLOGORUM 113 (2). JUN 2011. p.137-140 PERIODICUM BIOLOGORUM, ZAGREB SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS: pain research; scientometrics; science policy; Croatia KEYWORDS+: PAPER; LIFE ABSTRACT: Background and Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate number and type of Croatian publications in the field of pain research, and to compare it with peers. Material and Methods: The raw data were collected during February 2011 from the three Current Contents (CC) database subsets: Life Sciences, Clinical Medicine, and Social & Behavioral Sciences. We combined two data sets: the one with articles published by authors affiliated with Croatian institutions and the one with pain-related keywords. We studied number of publications, their impact factors and type of collaborations. Publications of Croatian authors in the field of pain research were compared with identical dataset comprising articles published by researchers from Graz, Austria, because of its comparable scientific production. Results: From 1998 to 2011, scientists from Croatian institutions published 194 pain-related articles indexed in CC, compared to 187 articles published by their peels from Graz. The 32% percent of articles were published in the local low-impact journals. The number of Croatian research publications in the field of pain is steadily increasing. However, an average impact factor of journals in our cohort was significantly lower compared to peels from Graz. Conclusion: Although the number of manuscripts in the field of pain research in Croatia is increasing, the quality of published articles is still low. We propose that Croatian Association for the Treatment of Pain should take actions for enhancing pain research in Croatia, as well as increasing the visibility and impact of Croatian pain-related research that can be transposed to other research fields and transitional countries. AUTHOR ADDRESS: D Sapunar, Univ Split, Sch Med, Lab Pain Res, Soltanska 2, Split 21000, Croatia -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: What Do Philosophers of Education Do? An Empirical Study of Philosophy of Education Journals (Article, English) AUTHOR: Hayden, MJ SOURCE: STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY AND EDUCATION 31 (1). JAN 2012. p.1-27 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT KEYWORDS: Philosophy of education; Research; Journals; Publish; Articles; Concepts KEYWORDS+: PERSPECTIVES ABSTRACT: What is philosophy of education? This question has been answered in as many ways as there are those who self-identify as philosophers of education. However, the questions our field asks and the research conducted to answer them often produce papers, essays, and manuscripts that we can read, evaluate, and ponder. This paper turns to those tangible products of our scholarly activities. The titles, abstracts, and keywords from every article published from 2000 to 2010 in four journals of educational philosophy were analyzed to find out what kind of research is being published in the field of philosophy of education. Over 143 different concepts were identified and analyzed from 1,572 articles. The data suggests that philosophy and education, while primarily concerned with theory, teaching, and learning, tackles a diversity of subjects in a slightly narrowing band of thematic topics. AUTHOR ADDRESS: MJ Hayden, Columbia Univ, Teachers Coll, 509 W 121st St 806, New York, NY 10027 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Original research articles on the cardiopulmonary system recently appeared in Brazilian clinical and surgical journals (Article, English) AUTHOR: Patel, KK; Caramelli, B; Silva, MRE SOURCE: REVISTA DA ASSOCIACAO MEDICA BRASILEIRA 57 (6). NOV-DEC 2011. p.717-738 ASSOC MEDICA BRASILEIRA, SAO PAULO SEARCH TERM(S): J CITATION REPORT rwork; JOURNALS item_title KEYWORDS: Cardiovascular diseases; cardiology; respiratory system; lung diseases; pulmonary disease; chronic obstructive KEYWORDS+: QUALITY-OF-LIFE; OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY-DISEASE; LEFT- VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL-DISEASE; PORTUGUESE-LANGUAGE VERSION; VIDEO-ASSISTED THORACOSCOPY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK-FACTORS; CONGENITAL HEART-DISEASE; HIGH BLOOD-PRESSURE; 6-MINUTE WALK TEST ABSTRACT: In the last few years, a huge increment in the quality of scientific articles published in Brazilian Medical Journals has been observed. Several reasons were related to this feature including the SciELO free access initiative, the English language adopted by most journals, and, more importantly, the increase in the number and quality of Brazilian researchers. This article highlights, in the cardiovascular and respiratory areas, the best articles that have been published in these journals in the last few months. The reader will have a general overview of these areas and can select the original articles for deeper information. AUTHOR ADDRESS: B Caramelli, Av Dr Eneas C de Aguiar 44, BR-05403900 Sao Paulo, Brazil -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Special Issue: Mirrors: Science and Knowledge Society, -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Texting and Accessing the Web While Driving: Traffic Citations and Crashes Among Young Adult Drivers (Article, English) AUTHOR: Cook, JL; Jones, RM SOURCE: TRAFFIC INJURY PREVENTION 12 (6). 2011. p.545-549 TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC, PHILADELPHIA SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS: Texting; Distracted driving; Citations; Crashes ABSTRACT: Objective: We examined relations between young adult texting and accessing the web while driving with driving outcomes (viz. crashes and traffic citations). Our premise is that engaging in texting and accessing the web while driving is not only distracting but that these activities represent a pattern of behavior that leads to an increase in unwanted outcomes, such as crashes and citations. Methods: College students (N = 274) on 3 campuses (one in California and 2 in Utah) completed an electronic questionnaire regarding their driving experience and cell phone use. Results: Our data indicate that 3 out of 4 (74.3%) young adults engage in texting while driving, over half on a weekly basis (51.8%), and some engage in accessing the web while driving (16.8%). Data analysis revealed a relationship between these cell phone behaviors and traffic citations and crashes. Conclusion: The findings support Jessor and Jessor's (1977) "problem behavior syndrome" by showing that traffic citations are related to texting and accessing the web while driving and that crashes are related to accessing the web while driving. Limitations and recommendations are discussed. AUTHOR ADDRESS: JL Cook, Calif State Univ Sacramento, Dept Family & Consumer Sci, 6000 J St, Sacramento, CA 95819 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Bibliometric and critical mapping of the economical and financial viability analysis of agribusiness projects: an evaluation of the publication in the sober congress in the period 2006-2009. (Article, Portuguese) AUTHOR: Macedo, MAD; Lunga, A SOURCE: CUSTOS E AGRONEGOCIO 6 (2). MAY-AUG 2010. p.67-88 UNIV FED RURAL PERNAMBUCO, DEPT LETRAS CIENCIAS HUMANAS, BAIRRO DE DOIS IRMAOS SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS: Economical and financial viability; Agribusiness; Bibliometric analysis ABSTRACT: This paper makes a bibliometric research of the publications in the SOBER congress in the years of 2006, 2007, 2008 e 2009, aiming to map and analyze critically the use of economical and financial viability techniques. In this way, this study has the intention to offer an overview of the studies made and make itself into a reference base to future studies. The results show a slight trend of increase in the number of articles using these tools in the agribusiness sector and a large number of authors with only one work, which could be pointing to this issue is being used by area, but not developed by it. The critical analysis revealed some problems such as the fact that most of the articles do not consider investment in the working capital and most of these do not show the cash flow used in the analysis, which complicates their understanding. AUTHOR ADDRESS: MAD Macedo, Depto Contabilidade FACC UFRJ, Av Pasteur 250, BR-22229090 Rio De Janeiro, Brazil -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A Remarkable Journal Impact Factor for Simulation in Healthcare (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Gaba, DM SOURCE: SIMULATION IN HEALTHCARE 6 (6). DEC 2011. p.313-315 LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS, PHILADELPHIA SEARCH TERM(S): IMPACT FACTOR* HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; GARFIELD E JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 295:90 2006; AUTHOR ADDRESS: DM Gaba, 291 Campus Dr,LK311C, Stanford, CA 94305 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Quality of reporting of two-group parallel randomized controlled clinical trials of multi-herb formulae: A survey of reports indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded (Review, English) AUTHOR: Zhong, YQ; Zhou, W; Jiang, HL; Fan, T; Diao, X; Yang, HM; Min, J; Wang, G; Fu, JJ; Mao, B SOURCE: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE 3 (4). DEC 2011. p.E303-E310 ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, NEW YORK KEYWORDS: Reporting quality; Parallel; Randomized controlled clinical trials; Multi-herb formulae; KEYWORDS+: TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE; PLACEBO-CONTROLLED TRIALS; EMPIRICAL-EVIDENCE; COMPLEMENTARY; STATEMENT ABSTRACT: Introduction: An increasing number of trials of multi- herb formula interventions are being published in relatively high-ranked medical journals indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE). The aim of the study was to evaluate the quality of reporting of two- group parallel randomized controlled clinical trials (indexed in SCIE) of multi-herb formulae. Methods: Computerized literature searches were performed in SCIE from 1996 to November 2010. Two reviewers independently assessed the included trials using the modified Consolidated Standard of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) 2010 checklist and additional items reflecting the basic characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). The number and proportion of reports describing each of the 38 modified CONSORT items and 6 additional TCM items were calculated. We also performed stratified analyses according to whether reports had or had not adopted the CONSORT statement, or according to Chinese reports (conducted in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan) or non-Chinese reports. Conclusions: The present study shows that the quality of reporting of these trials is suboptimal. We recommend all journals endorse the CONSORT statement, which would help researchers to improve the reporting of future randomized controlled trials. In addition, the reporting of the TCM items was considered inadequate in the included studies. All TCM practitioners should pay attention to the unique characteristics of TCM and improve the reporting of the recommended TCM items. (C) 2011 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: B Mao, Sichuan Univ, W China Hosp, Dept Integrated Tradit Chinese & Western Med, Chengdu 610041, Peoples R China From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Wed Jan 11 09:18:21 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:18:21 +0000 Subject: papers of interest to SIG metrics Message-ID: e TITLE: Scientific journals and impact factors (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Hendee, W; Bernstein, MA; Levine, D SOURCE: MEDICAL PHYSICS 38 (12). DEC 2011. p.I-II AMER ASSOC PHYSICISTS MEDICINE AMER INST PHYSICS, MELVILLE SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNALS item_title; IMPACT FACTOR* item_title; HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; EDITORIAL doctyp -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Efficient Methodologies to Handle Hanging Pages Using Virtual Node (Article, English) AUTHOR: Singh, AK; Kumar, PR; Leng, AGK SOURCE: CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS 42 (8). 2011. p.621-635 TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC, PHILADELPHIA SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 178:471 1972 KEYWORDS: hanging nodes; information retrieval; knowledge extraction; link-based ranking algorithms; Markov analysis; PageRank; TrustRank ABSTRACT: In this article we first explain the knowledge extraction (KE) process from the World Wide Web (WWW) using search engines. Then we explore the PageRank algorithm of Google search engine (a well-known link- based search engine) with its hidden Markov analysis. We also explore one of the problems of link-based ranking algorithms called hanging pages or dangling pages (pages without any forward links). The presence of these pages affects the ranking of Web pages. Some of the hanging pages may contain important information that cannot be neglected by the search engine during ranking. We propose methodologies to handle the hanging pages and compare the methodologies. We also introduce the TrustRank algorithm (an algorithm to handle the spamming problems in link-based search engines) and include it in our proposed methods so that our methods can combat Web spam. We implemented the PageRank algorithm and TrustRank algorithm and modified those algorithms to implement our proposed methodologies. AUTHOR ADDRESS: AK Singh, Curtin Univ, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, Sarawak Campus, Miri, Malaysia -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: "Publish or perish"-Who publishes and who perishes? (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Greco, PM SOURCE: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ORTHODONTICS AND DENTOFACIAL ORTHOPEDICS 141 (1). JAN 2012. p.4 MOSBY-ELSEVIER, NEW YORK SEARCH TERM(S): PUBLISH OR PERISH item_title; EDITORIAL doctype ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Analytic model for academic research productivity having factors, interactions and implications (Review, English) AUTHOR: Kern, S SOURCE: CANCER BIOLOGY & THERAPY 12 (11). DEC 1 2011. p.949-956 LANDES BIOSCIENCE, AUSTIN SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005 KEYWORDS: public policy; research efficiency; productivity; funding KEYWORDS+: OUTPUT; RECOGNITION; SCIENCE; INDEX ABSTRACT: Financial support is dear in academia and will tighten further. How can the research mission be accomplished within new restraints? A model is presented for evaluating source components of academic research productivity. It comprises six factors: funding; investigator quality; efficiency of the research institution; the research mix of novelty, incremental advancement, and confirmatory studies; analytic accuracy; and passion. Their interactions produce output and patterned influences between factors. Strategies for optimizing output are enabled. AUTHOR ADDRESS: S Kern, Johns Hopkins Univ, Dept Oncol, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Scientific Journals and Impact Factors (News Item, English) SOURCE: JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE 52 (12). DEC 1 2011. p.17N SOC NUCLEAR MEDICINE INC, RESTON SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNALS item_title; IMPACT FACTOR* item_title ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: On the relevance of the Impact Factor and other factors (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Sundaram, M; Hodler, J; Rosenthal, DI SOURCE: SKELETAL RADIOLOGY 41 (2). FEB 2012. p.125-126 SPRINGER, NEW YORK SEARCH TERM(S): IMPACT FACTOR* item_title; EDITORIAL doctype AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Sundaram, Cleveland Clin Fdn, 9500 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44195 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Scientific journals and impact factors (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Hendee, W; Bernstein, MA; Levine, D SOURCE: SKELETAL RADIOLOGY 41 (2). FEB 2012. p.127-128 SPRINGER, NEW YORK SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNALS item_title; IMPACT FACTOR* item_title; HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; EDITORIAL doctype AUTHOR ADDRESS: W Hendee, Med Coll Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226 USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Continuously Variable Rating: a new, simple and logical procedure to evaluate original scientific publications (Article, English) AUTHOR: Silva, MRE SOURCE: CLINICS 66 (12). 2011. p.2099-2104 HOSPITAL CLINICAS, UNIV SAO PAULO, SAO PAULO SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth KEYWORDS: Scientometrics; scientific article evaluation; Impact Factors; citations ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE: Impact Factors (IF) are widely used surrogates to evaluate single articles, in spite of known shortcomings imposed by cite distribution skewness. We quantify this asymmetry and propose a simple computer-based procedure for evaluating individual articles. METHOD: (a) Analysis of symmetry. Journals clustered around nine Impact Factor points were selected from the medical "Subject Categories" in Journal Citation Reports 2010. Citable items published in 2008 were retrieved and ranked by granted citations over the Jan/2008 - Jun/2011 period. Frequency distribution of cites, normalized cumulative cites and absolute cites/decile were determined for each journal cluster. (b) Positive Predictive Value. Three arbitrarily established evaluation classes were generated: LOW (1.3 <= IF<2.6); MID: (2.6 <= IF<3.9); HIGH: (IF >= 3.9). Positive Predictive Value for journal clusters within each class range was estimated. (c) Continuously Variable Rating. An alternative evaluation procedure is proposed to allow the rating of individually published articles in comparison to all articles published in the same journal within the same year of publication. The general guiding lines for the construction of a totally dedicated software program are delineated. 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Organizers ---------- Paul Groth, VU University Amsterdam Dario Taraborelli, Wikimedia Foundation Jason Priem, UNC-Chapel Hill About PLoS ONE -------------- PLoS ONE (eISSN-1932-6203) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication. PLoS ONE welcomes reports on primary research from any scientific discipline. It provides: * Open-access ? freely accessible online, authors retain copyright * Fast publication times * Peer review by expert, practicing researchers * Post-publication tools to indicate quality and impact * Community-based dialogue on articles * Worldwide media coverage * PLoS ONE is published by the Public Library of Science (PLoS), a nonprofit organization. -- Jason Priem UNC Royster Fellow School of Information and Library Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill -- Jason Priem UNC Royster Fellow School of Information and Library Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill From lutz.bornmann at GV.MPG.DE Thu Jan 12 09:24:05 2012 From: lutz.bornmann at GV.MPG.DE (Bornmann, Lutz) Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:24:05 +0100 Subject: Addresses on papers Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Perhaps, someone can help me according to the following question: As you know each author has to mention his/ her affiliation on a publication. Many bibliometric studies are based on the information which is given here. However, many scientists have more than one affiliations (e.g., do research at one institution and teach at another, or do temporarily work at another institution than the primary institution). The question is whether there exist general rules/ guidelines (e.g., of journals) which address should be given on a paper (e.g., only the address of the institution which pay the salary)? Many thanks for answers, Lutz --------------------------------------- Dr. Dr. habil. Lutz Bornmann Max Planck Society Administrative Headquarters Hofgartenstr. 8 80539 Munich Tel.: +49 89 2108 1265 Mobil: +49 170 9183667 Email: bornmann at gv.mpg.de WWW: www.lutz-bornmann.de ResearcherID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-3926-2008 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From j.s.katz at SUSSEX.AC.UK Thu Jan 12 09:36:01 2012 From: j.s.katz at SUSSEX.AC.UK (Sylvan Katz) Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:36:01 -0600 Subject: Addresses on papers In-Reply-To: Message-ID: You might check the following paper for a discussion of this matter Katz, J. S., & Martin, B. R. (1997). What is Research Collaboration. Research Policy, 26, 1-18. It was found that 5-14% of papers in the SCI reported more institutions than authors. It is a common occurrence. There likely aren't any guidelines On 1/12/2012 8:24 AM, Bornmann, Lutz wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > Perhaps, someone can help me according to the following question: > > As you know each author has to mention his/ her affiliation on a > publication. Many bibliometric studies are based on the information > which is given here. However, many scientists have more than one > affiliations (e.g., do research at one institution and teach at another, > or do temporarily work at another institution than the primary > institution). > > The question is whether there exist general rules/ guidelines (e.g., of > journals) which address should be given on a paper (e.g., only the > address of the institution which pay the salary)? > > Many thanks for answers, > > Lutz > > --------------------------------------- > > Dr. Dr. habil. Lutz Bornmann > > Max Planck Society > > Administrative Headquarters > > Hofgartenstr. 8 > > 80539 Munich > > Tel.: +49 89 2108 1265 > > Mobil: +49 170 9183667 > > Email: bornmann at gv.mpg.de > > WWW: www.lutz-bornmann.de > > ResearcherID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-3926-2008 > From wilsontd at GMAIL.COM Thu Jan 12 09:36:18 2012 From: wilsontd at GMAIL.COM (Prof. T.D. Wilson) Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:36:18 +0000 Subject: Addresses on papers In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I think the most straightforward response would be to say that the appropriate institution is the one that was 'home' to the reported research. On 12 January 2012 14:24, Bornmann, Lutz wrote: > Dear colleagues,**** > > ** ** > > Perhaps, someone can help me according to the following question:**** > > ** ** > > As you know each author has to mention his/ her affiliation on a > publication. Many bibliometric studies are based on the information which > is given here. However, many scientists have more than one affiliations > (e.g., do research at one institution and teach at another, or do > temporarily work at another institution than the primary institution).**** > > ** ** > > The question is whether there exist general rules/ guidelines (e.g., of > journals) which address should be given on a paper (e.g., only the address > of the institution which pay the salary)?**** > > ** ** > > Many thanks for answers,**** > > ** ** > > Lutz**** > > ** ** > > ---------------------------------------**** > > ** ** > > Dr. Dr. habil. Lutz Bornmann**** > > Max Planck Society**** > > Administrative Headquarters**** > > Hofgartenstr. 8**** > > 80539 Munich**** > > Tel.: +49 89 2108 1265**** > > Mobil: +49 170 9183667**** > > Email: bornmann at gv.mpg.de**** > > WWW: www.lutz-bornmann.de**** > > ResearcherID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-3926-2008**** > > ** ** > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Professor T.D. Wilson, PhD, Hed.Dr, PhD (h.c.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Publisher and Editor in Chief: Information Research: an international electronic journal Website - http://InformationR.net/ir/ Blog - http://info-research.blogspot.com/ Photoblog - http://tomwilson.shutterchance.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------| E-mail: wilsontd at gmail.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------| -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bowman at BIOCHEM.MPG.DE Thu Jan 12 11:35:06 2012 From: bowman at BIOCHEM.MPG.DE (Bowman, Benjamin) Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:35:06 +0100 Subject: AW: [SIGMETRICS] Addresses on papers In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, although I fully agree that for the particular situation mentioned by Lutz (research at X, teaching at Y), the institution which is "home to the reported research" is the only appropriate affiliation that should appear on the publication, the problem as to how "home" is defined still remains. Is it where the experiments were carried out? Is it the institution that has funded the research(er)? Is it both? Say, for example, a full-time scientist at X spends some time as a guest at Y to do research which could not be carried out at X. Which institution(s) should be indicated on the resulting paper: only X, only Y or both? In my opinion, it would be preferable to have guidelines coming from the scientific community and their research institutions, rather than being forced to react to guidelines construed by publishers. Regardless of their source guidelines would, however, only be useful if they address a wide range of possibilities and if they are broadly accepted, applied and controlled. Having such reliable guidelines would obviously make life easier for bibliometricians and for those who use their data to draw appropriate conclusions regarding an institution?s research impact, but achieving this will not be easy. Kind regards, Ben Bowman ____________________________________________________________ Dr. Benjamin F. Bowman bowman at biochem.mpg.de Informationsvermittlung (IVS-BM) Tel: +49 (0)89 8578 3832 Max-Planck-Institut fuer Biochemie Fax: +49 (0)89 8578 3833 D-82152 Martinsried, GERMANY Scientific Information Retrieval Services for the Biology & Medicine Section of the Max Planck Society http://www.biochem.mpg.de/facilities/ivs/index.html ____________________________________________________________ Von: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] Im Auftrag von Prof. T.D. Wilson Gesendet: Donnerstag, 12. Januar 2012 15:36 An: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Betreff: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Addresses on papers uld be to say that the appropriate institution is the one that was 'home' to the reported research. On 12 January 2012 14:24, Bornmann, Lutz > wrote: Dear colleagues, Perhaps, someone can help me according to the following question: As you know each author has to mention his/ her affiliation on a publication. Many bibliometric studies are based on the information which is given here. However, many scientists have more than one affiliations (e.g., do research at one institution and teach at another, or do temporarily work at another institution than the primary institution). The question is whether there exist general rules/ guidelines (e.g., of journals) which address should be given on a paper (e.g., only the address of the institution which pay the salary)? Many thanks for answers, Lutz --------------------------------------- Dr. Dr. habil. Lutz Bornmann Max Planck Society Administrative Headquarters Hofgartenstr. 8 80539 Munich Tel.: +49 89 2108 1265 Mobil: +49 170 9183667 Email: bornmann at gv.mpg.de WWW: www.lutz-bornmann.de ResearcherID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-3926-2008 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Professor T.D. 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URL: From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Thu Jan 12 13:07:05 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:07:05 +0000 Subject: of possible interest to Sig Metrics readers Message-ID: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The Brazilian Archives of Cardiology is the only cardiology journal in Latino America and the Southern hemisphere with an impact factor (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Taylor, J SOURCE: EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL 32 (24). DEC 2011. p.3059-3060 OXFORD UNIV PRESS, OXFORD SEARCH TERM(S): IMPACT FACTOR* item_title; JOURNAL item_title; -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Evaluating the Quality of a Journal: JCEHP's 2010 Impact Factor (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Olson, CA SOURCE: JOURNAL OF CONTINUING EDUCATION IN THE HEALTH PROFESSIONS 31 (4). FAL 2011. p.223-224 WILEY PERIODICALS, INC, MALDEN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; IMPACT FACTOR* AUTHOR ADDRESS: CA Olson, Univ Wisconsin, Off Continuing Profess Dev Med & Publ Hlth, 2701 Int Lane,Suite 208, Madison, WI 53704 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: BibPro: A Citation Parser Based on Sequence Alignment (Article, English) AUTHOR: Chen, CC; Yang, KH; Chen, CL; Ho, JM SOURCE: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING 24 (2). FEB 2012. p.236-250 IEEE COMPUTER SOC, LOS ALAMITOS KEYWORDS: Data integration; digital libraries; information extraction; sequence alignment KEYWORDS+: DIGITAL LIBRARIES ABSTRACT: Dramatic increase in the number of academic publications has led to growing demand for efficient organization of the resources to meet researchers' needs. As a result, a number of network services have compiled databases from the public resources scattered over the Internet. However, publications by different conferences and journals adopt different citation styles. It is an interesting problem to accurately extract metadata from a citation string which is formatted in one of thousands of different styles. It has attracted a great deal of attention in research in recent years. In this paper, based on the notion of sequence alignment, we present a citation parser called BibPro that extracts components of a citation string. To demonstrate the efficacy of BibPro, we conducted experiments on three benchmark data sets. The results show that BibPro achieved over 90 percent accuracy on each benchmark. Even with citations and associated metadata retrieved from the web as training data, our experiments show that BibPro still achieves a reasonable performance. AUTHOR ADDRESS: CC Chen, Natl Taiwan Univ, Dept Comp Sci & Informat Engn, Taipei 10764, Taiwan --------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Bibliometric Analysis of Scientific Publications on Fluoropolymers (Article, English) AUTHOR: Buznik, VM; Zibareva, IV SOURCE: POLYMER SCIENCE SERIES A 53 (11). NOV 2011. p.1110-1120 MAIK NAUKA/INTERPERIODICA/SPRINGER, NEW YORK SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS+: CHEMISTRY ABSTRACT: Scientific publications on fluoropolymers are sought in the Chemical Abstracts Plus database accessed via the SciFinder system. For the period 1946-2010, nearly 116 000 publications containing the search term fluoropolymers as the main concept are found. For nearly 75 000 publications over the period 2000-2009, a detailed bibliometric analysis is performed on the basis of thematic sections and subject headings of the database, substances, publication types, languages and authors of publications, journal titles, and organization names. On the basis of the results, recommendations for improving Russian indicators in the field of fluoropolymers are suggested. AUTHOR ADDRESS: VM Buznik, Russian Acad Sci, Baikov Inst Met & Mat Sci, Leninskii Pr 49, Moscow 119991, Russia --------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Seminars in Thrombosis & Hemostasis 2010: Impact Factor and Highest-Cited Articles from 2008 to 2009 (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Favaloro, EJ SOURCE: SEMINARS IN THROMBOSIS AND HEMOSTASIS 37 (8). NOV 2011. p.863-867 THIEME MEDICAL PUBL INC, NEW YORK SEARCH TERM(S): IMPACT FACTOR* KEYWORDS+: CRITICALLY-ILL PATIENTS; EXTERNAL QUALITY-ASSURANCE; VON- WILLEBRAND-DISEASE; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; PLATELET- FUNCTION; CLINICAL UTILITY; TISSUE FACTOR; LABORATORY IDENTIFICATION; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; DIAGNOSTIC- ASSESSMENT AUTHOR ADDRESS: EJ Favaloro, Westmead Hosp, ICPMR, Dept Haematol, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: INNOVATIVE ACTIVITY OF UNIVERSITIES KNOWLEDGE CREATION IN DEVELOPED AND FAST DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (Article, English) AUTHOR: Pohulak-Zoledowska, E SOURCE: TRANSFORMATIONS IN BUSINESS & ECONOMICS 10 (2A). 2011. p.334-344 VILNIUS UNIV, KAUNAS SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth KEYWORDS: knowledge-based economies; post-academic science; industrial science; university-industry relations; academic innovation ABSTRACT: Nowadays the ability to innovate is the key factor in creating the innovative firm (in the micro-scale) or innovative economy (in a wider prospect). Post-academic and industrial science shortens the gap between scientific discovery and its commercial application. University-industry relations aimed at creating innovations take place in both developed and developing countries. In developed countries basing on the market mechanism, one can notice the emergence of bridging institutions which help to organise the knowledge and technology transfer. Developing countries try to adopt Western standards of knowledge production, but their economic and historical past make the various elements of university-industry cooperation dominate. AUTHOR ADDRESS: E Pohulak-Zoledowska, Wroclaw Univ Econ, WGRiT Jelenia Gora, Ul Nowowiejska 3, PL-58500 Jelenia Gora, Poland ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: ETHICS OF HUMAN GENETIC STUDIES IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: THE CASE OF CAMEROON THROUGH A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS (Article, English) AUTHOR: Wonkam, A; Kenfack, MA; Muna, WFT; Ouwe-Missi-Oukem-Boyer, O SOURCE: DEVELOPING WORLD BIOETHICS 11 (3). DEC 2011. p.120-127 WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS: human genetics; ethics; bibliometric studies; DNA samples; capacity building; Cameroon; sub-Saharan Africa KEYWORDS+: DEVELOPING-COUNTRIES; GENOME-PROJECT; PHYSICIANS; BENEFIT; PARTICIPATION; PERCEPTIONS; CHALLENGES; SERVICES; HISTORY; SOCIETY ABSTRACT: Many ethical concerns surrounding human genetics studies remain unresolved. We report here the situation in Cameroon. Objectives: To describe the profile of human genetic studies that used Cameroonian DNA samples, with specific focus on i) the research centres that were involved, ii) authorship, iii) population studied, iv) research topics and v) ethics disclosure, with the aim of raising ethical issues that emerged from these studies. Method: Bibliometric Studies; we conducted a PubMed-based systematic review of all the studies on human genetics that used Cameroonian DNA samples from 1989 to 2009. Results and Discussion: Fifty articles were identified, involving predominantly research centres from Europe (64%) and America (32%). Only 7 (14%) Cameroonian institutions and 14 (28%) Cameroonian authors were associated with these publications. At least 52% of publications were devoted to population genetics (variation/migration patterns) amongst 30 Cameroonian ethnic groups. Very few studies concerned public health related genetic issues and only 5 (10%) references were found for hemoglobinopathies like sickle cell anaemia. Almost all DNA samples are 'banked' outside of the African continent. Capacity building, rights to the genetic information and benefits to the individuals, communities and populations who contribute to these studies are addressed. Conclusions: 1) Our data suggests the need for a wider debate towards building capacity and addressing ethical issues related to human genomic research in sub-Saharan Africa and specifically in Cameroon; 2) National ethical guidelines and regulations concerning the collection, use and storage of human DNA are urgently needed in Cameroon. AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Wonkam, Univ Cape Town, Fac Hlth Sci, Div Human Genet, Anzio Rd, ZA-7925 Cape Town, South Africa ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Productivity and impact of Spanish researchers: reference thresholds within scientific areas (Article, Spanish) AUTHOR: Jimenez-Contreras, E; Robinson-Garcia, N; Cabezas-Clavijo, A SOURCE: REVISTA ESPANOLA DE DOCUMENTACION CIENTIFICA 34 (4). 2011. p.505-NIL_1 CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS, MADRID SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth KEYWORDS: Bibliometric indicators; reference thresholds; benchmarking; ANEP; science; scientific research; Spain KEYWORDS+: RESEARCH PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; BIBLIOMETRIC METHODS; INFORMATION-SCIENCE; INDICATORS; JOURNALS; RANKING; UNIVERSITIES; SPAIN; INDEX ABSTRACT: Reference thresholds for the scientific production and impact of internationally visible Spanish research within the areas defined by the Spanish National Agency for Evaluation and Prospective (ANEP) are presented. These percentile reference tables are constructed from the population of researchers who applied for a project within the 2007 National R & D Plan (n = 3.356) and are to be used as benchmarks, permitting comparisons between researchers' bibliometric behavior and mean performance in their respective scientific disciplines. Data relating to mean production, impact and visibility for each ANEP area is also presented. The internationalization process of these areas between 2000 and 2006 is discussed, with special emphasis on the Social Sciences. Finally, we recommend these reference thresholds be used by funding agencies and research institutions as instruments of evaluation in their selection processes. AUTHOR ADDRESS: E Jimenez-Contreras, Univ Granada, Dept Bibliotecon & Documentac, E-18071 Granada, Spain ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Book reviews in Spanish scholarly journals in the Social Sciences and Humanities: analysis of production between 2007 and 2009 (Review, Spanish) AUTHOR: Rojo, AS; Bezares, GM; Martin-Carretero, C SOURCE: REVISTA ESPANOLA DE DOCUMENTACION CIENTIFICA 34 (4). 2011. p.526-544 CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS, MADRID KEYWORDS: Bibliometric analysis; Social Sciences; Humanities; reviews; scientific output; scholarly journals; Spain; books KEYWORDS+: AMERICAN ABSTRACT: The goal of this work is to analyse the production of reviews published between 2007 and 2009 in the scholarly journals in the Social Sciences and Humanities contained in the ISOC database. Different aspects were analysed: time pattern, journals, authorship and author affiliation. Also examined were the books reviewed, by publication type, language, authorship, publisher and time lag between the books' publication and the appearance of the reviews. The results concerning the reviews show a constant reduction in their production and a large number concentrated in the humanities. Authors are mostly Spaniards and university lecturers, who publish alone and have a very low level of productivity. There is also a high level of endogamy among those authors who are members of editorial boards. The results concerning the reviewed books reveal that few titles were reviewed more than once, there are a large number of monographs, mostly in Spanish, and there is a long time lag between a book's publication and the appearance of its review. AUTHOR ADDRESS: AS Rojo, Ctr Ciencias Humanas & Sociales CCHS CSIC, IEDCYT, Madrid, Spain ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Characteristics and disparities among sub-specialities: a case study of Biotechnology research teams (Article, Spanish) AUTHOR: Morillo, F; Aparicio, J SOURCE: REVISTA ESPANOLA DE DOCUMENTACION CIENTIFICA 34 (4). 2011. p.563-580 CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS, MADRID SEARCH TERM(S): SEGLEN PO SCIENTOMETRICS 49:125 2000 KEYWORDS: bibliometric indicators; sub-specialities; assessment; research teams; biotechnology KEYWORDS+: RESEARCH-AND-DEVELOPMENT; CITATION IMPACT; RESEARCH COLLABORATION; BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS; PUBLICATION ACTIVITY; SCIENTIFIC-RESEARCH; SPANISH-COUNCIL; INTERDISCIPLINARY; SCIENCE; PERFORMANCE ABSTRACT: The objective of this work is the study of the characteristics and disparities among the existing sub-specialities within interdisciplinary categories, putting forward the need to identify and assess each one separately. The Web of Science (WoS) databases were examined for the years 2003-2006, in order to explore the possible differences between biotechnology research teams in Madrid according to their specialization profile. This Spanish region has the highest output in biotechnology (27 %), a category that interacts with other disciplines, such as microbiology, biochemistry and food science. For this reason, the study of teams includes, in a second analysis, not just the documents in this category, but also publications of the team leaders, regardless of their discipline. With these data, the influence of the specialization on the teams' characteristics, collaboration patterns and impact is discussed. Three typologies are identified according to sub-specialities: a) CORE teams (publishing 50 % or more in biotechnology); b) BASIC teams (publishing in biochemistry and other basic disciplines); and c) MEDIUM teams (publishing in food science and other less basic disciplines). By means of statistical tests, significant differences in output and impact were found among them. The article concludes that these disparities should be taken into account when assessing categories of interdisciplinary research such as biotechnology. AUTHOR ADDRESS: F Morillo, Ctr Ciencias Humanas & Sociales CCHS CSIC, IEDCYT, Madrid, Spain -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Textile-related research in Spain: a case study applying micro bibliometric indicators (Article, Spanish) AUTHOR: Carrera-Gallissa, E; Capdevila, X SOURCE: REVISTA ESPANOLA DE DOCUMENTACION CIENTIFICA 34 (4). 2011. p.581-596 CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS, MADRID SEARCH TERM(S): SCI WATCH* BIBLIOMETR* item_title; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 122:108 1955; GARFIELD E BRIT MED J 313:411 1996 KEYWORDS: h Index; Spain; Textile researchers; Bibliometrics indicators KEYWORDS+: H-INDEX; JOURNALS ABSTRACT: The study examines the h-index of textile researchers in Spain and, for the first time, provides information, on the range of values of this index in the area of textile-related knowledge. This paper reports on a study of 10 scientific production indicators for Spanish textile researchers over the period 1955-2009. The population studied consisted of 73 researchers affiliated with 6 different institutions. Textile investigators represent a heterogeneous community, since they come from different areas of knowledge. The h-index studied presents a positive correlation, ranging between intense and notable, with the number of publications, publications by year, number of citations, citations per year, number of citations received by the most cited publication. The correlation is significant but negative concerning the percentage of authors' non-cited publications. The Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientficas (CSIC) has higher levels than the other institutions for the following indicators: h-index, number of publications, citations, citation per year, maximum number of citations. The Instituto Tecnologico Textil de Alcoy (AITEX) has the highest levels for the following indicators: h-index per year of activity and percentage of non-cited publications. Finally, a relation is shown between the h- index and three (latent) factors that explain the other indicators and provide three dimensions of the h-index. AUTHOR ADDRESS: E Carrera-Gallissa, Univ Politecn Cataluna, Dept Ingn Text & Papelera, EET, Terrassa, Spain ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Drowning - a scientometric analysis and data acquisition of a constant global problem employing density equalizing mapping and scientometric benchmarking procedures (Article, English) AUTHOR: Groneberg, DA; Schilling, U; Scutaru, C; Uibel, S; Zitnik, S; Mueller, D; Klingelhoefer, D; Kloft, B SOURCE: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH GEOGRAPHICS 10. OCT 14 2011. p.NIL_1-NIL_10 BIOMED CENTRAL LTD, LONDON SEARCH TERM(S): SCIENTOMETRIC* GARFIELD E OCCUP MED-OXFORD 49:571 1999 KEYWORDS: drowning; near-drowning; occupational medicine; scientometrics; density equalizing mapping KEYWORDS+: IMPACT FACTORS; PUBLICATIONS; HEALTH; PREVENTION; LANGUAGE; MEDICINE; CHILDREN; DISEASE ABSTRACT: Background: Drowning is a constant global problem which claims approximately half a million victims worldwide each year, whereas the number of near-drowning victims is considerably higher. Public health strategies to reduce the burden of death are still limited. While research activities in the subject drowning grow constantly, yet there is no scientometric evaluation of the existing literature at the present time. Methods: The current study uses classical bibliometric tools and visualizing techniques such as density equalizing mapping to analyse and evaluate the scientific research in the field of drowning. The interpretation of the achieved results is also implemented in the context of the data collection of the WHO. Results: All studies related to drowning and listed in the ISI-Web of Science database since 1900 were identified using the search term "drowning". Implementing bibliometric methods, a constant increase in quantitative markers such as number of publications per state, publication language or collaborations as well as qualitative markers such as citations were observed for research in the field of drowning. The combination with density equalizing mapping exposed different global patterns for research productivity and the total number of drowning deaths and drowning rates respectively. Chart techniques were used to illustrate bi- and multilateral research cooperation. Conclusions: The present study provides the first scientometric approach that visualizes research activity on the subject of drowning. It can be assumed that the scientific approach to this topic will achieve even greater dimensions because of its continuing actuality. AUTHOR ADDRESS: D Klingelhoefer, Goethe Univ Frankfurt, Inst Occupat Social & Environm Med, Frankfurt, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The impact factor for the Brazilian Journal of Pulmonology is arriving (Editorial Material, Portuguese) AUTHOR: Carvalho, CRR SOURCE: JORNAL BRASILEIRO DE PNEUMOLOGIA 37 (6). NOV-DEC 2011. p.703-704 SOC BRASILEIRA PNEUMOLOGIA TISIOLOGIA, BRASILIA DF SEARCH TERM(S): IMPACT FACTOR* ; JOURNAL -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: International participation in collaborative studies published in pulmonology journals: where does the Brazilian Journal of Pulmonology rank? (Letter, Portuguese) AUTHOR: Athanazio, RA; Rached, SZ; Genta, PR; Lorenzi, G SOURCE: JORNAL BRASILEIRO DE PNEUMOLOGIA 37 (6). NOV-DEC 2011. p.826-828 SOC BRASILEIRA PNEUMOLOGIA TISIOLOGIA, BRASILIA DF KEYWORDS+: CO-AUTHORSHIP AUTHOR ADDRESS: RA Athanazio, Univ Sao Paulo, Fac Med, Hosp Clin, Inst Coracao,Disciplina Pneumol, Sao Paulo, Brazil - From quentinburrell at MANX.NET Thu Jan 12 14:38:19 2012 From: quentinburrell at MANX.NET (Quentin Burrell) Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:38:19 +0000 Subject: AW: [SIGMETRICS] Addresses on papers In-Reply-To: Message-ID: There will always be odd cases that do not conform. For instance, after my retirement from the University of Manchester and my reappearance three years later at the Isle of Man International Business School I had no "affiliation", either paid or unpaid. Hence my minor contributions during that period carried only my home address. Hence the appearance of Ballabeg, Isle of Man on at least one of the Leydesdorff - Bornmann maps http://www.leydesdorff.net/lis11/lis11.htm There was also the recent posting on this or the ISSI list regarding certain Saudi institutions that were apparently "signing up" well known researchers on condition that the institution was added to affiliations in future publications. I am sure that there are lots of similarly grey areas. Quentin Burrell On 12 Jan 2012, at 16:35, Bowman, Benjamin wrote: > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > Dear Colleagues, > > although I fully agree that for the particular situation mentioned by Lutz (research at X, teaching at Y), the institution which is ?home to the reported research? is the only appropriate affiliation that should appear on the publication, the problem as to how ?home? is defined still remains. Is it where the experiments were carried out? Is it the institution that has funded the research(er)? Is it both? Say, for example, a full-time scientist at X spends some time as a guest at Y to do research which could not be carried out at X. Which institution(s) should be indicated on the resulting paper: only X, only Y or both? > > In my opinion, it would be preferable to have guidelines coming from the scientific community and their research institutions, rather than being forced to react to guidelines construed by publishers. Regardless of their source guidelines would, however, only be useful if they address a wide range of possibilities and if they are broadly accepted, applied and controlled. Having such reliable guidelines would obviously make life easier for bibliometricians and for those who use their data to draw appropriate conclusions regarding an institution?s research impact, but achieving this will not be easy. > > Kind regards, > Ben Bowman > > ____________________________________________________________ > > Dr. Benjamin F. Bowman bowman at biochem.mpg.de > Informationsvermittlung (IVS-BM) Tel: +49 (0)89 8578 3832 > Max-Planck-Institut fuer Biochemie Fax: +49 (0)89 8578 3833 > D-82152 Martinsried, GERMANY > > Scientific Information Retrieval Services > for the Biology & Medicine Section of the Max Planck Society > http://www.biochem.mpg.de/facilities/ivs/index.html > > ____________________________________________________________ > > > Von: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] Im Auftrag von Prof. T.D. Wilson > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 12. Januar 2012 15:36 > An: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU > Betreff: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Addresses on papers > > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html I think the most straightforward response would be to say that the appropriate institution is the one that was 'home' to the reported research. > > > On 12 January 2012 14:24, Bornmann, Lutz wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > Perhaps, someone can help me according to the following question: > > As you know each author has to mention his/ her affiliation on a publication. Many bibliometric studies are based on the information which is given here. However, many scientists have more than one affiliations (e.g., do research at one institution and teach at another, or do temporarily work at another institution than the primary institution). > > The question is whether there exist general rules/ guidelines (e.g., of journals) which address should be given on a paper (e.g., only the address of the institution which pay the salary)? > > Many thanks for answers, > > Lutz > > --------------------------------------- > > Dr. Dr. habil. Lutz Bornmann > Max Planck Society > Administrative Headquarters > Hofgartenstr. 8 > 80539 Munich > Tel.: +49 89 2108 1265 > Mobil: +49 170 9183667 > Email: bornmann at gv.mpg.de > WWW: www.lutz-bornmann.de > ResearcherID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-3926-2008 > > > > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Professor T.D. Wilson, PhD, Hed.Dr, PhD (h.c.) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Publisher and Editor in Chief: Information Research: > an international electronic journal > Website - http://InformationR.net/ir/ > Blog - http://info-research.blogspot.com/ > Photoblog - http://tomwilson.shutterchance.com/ > ----------------------------------------------------------------------| > E-mail: wilsontd at gmail.com > ----------------------------------------------------------------------| > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Weller at UNI-DUESSELDORF.DE Fri Jan 13 12:52:49 2012 From: Weller at UNI-DUESSELDORF.DE (Katrin Weller) Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:52:49 +0100 Subject: DEADLINE EXTENDED: Conference on Science and the Internet (#cosci12), D=?ISO-8859-15?Q?=FCsseldorf=2C_?= Germany, 1-3 August 2012 Message-ID: * Apologies for cross-posting * CfP Deadline EXTENDED to January 31, 2012 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SCIENCE AND THE INTERNET (#cosci12) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE: August 1-3, 2012 LOCATION: D?sseldorf, Germany CONTACT PERSON: Alexander Tokar EMAIL: tokar at phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de WEB SITE: http://www.nfgwin.uni-duesseldorf.de/de/cosci12 *** Due to multiple requests, we have extended the deadline for submitting abstracts to January 31, 2012!!! *** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are also happy to announce the following keynotes: * Mapping Online Publics project led by Axel Bruns and Jean Burgess (Queensland University of Technology Brisbane, Australia) - http://www.mappingonlinepublics.net/ * Isa Jahnke (Ume? University, Sweden) - http://www.edusci.umu.se/om-institutionen/personal/isa-jahnke * Ralph Schroeder (Oxford Internet Institute, Great Britain) - http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/?id=26 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE TOPICS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Online media have brought about numerous changes in scholarly practices, including, but not limited to gathering data, finding relevant literature, making research and results accessible, organising collaboration, communicating with colleagues and students as well as creating fruitful learning environments. The interdisciplinary conference "Science and the Internet", to be held August 1-3, 2012 in D?sseldorf, brings together researchers and practitioners from multiple disciplines (e.g. information science, computer science, sociology, communication and media studies, linguistics, educations studies, legal studies, etc.) working on the following or related issues: How is the research process transformed through the use of digital infrastructures? How can the challenges of the public availability of (large scale) scientific data be met? How do scholars make use of social networking platforms, (micro-)blogs, wikis, or websites? How does the Internet affect scholarly publishing (e.g. Open Access, unpublished manuscripts, blogs)? How has the Internet changed the practice and relevance of citations and of receiving reputation? How do teaching styles or beliefs and use of the Internet mutually influence each other? Do Web 2.0 platforms offer opportunities to advance public understanding of science? What is the role of ethics, policies, and legal regulation in academic use of the Internet? What theoretical and practical implications do the aforementioned considerations have for science and the Internet? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The conference language is English. We invite two types of submissions: Abstracts for talks (20 minutes for presentation + 10 minutes for discussion) should not exceed 500 words, excluding data and references. In case of acceptance a full paper (max. 3.000 words or 12 pages) in either English or German must be submitted by July 15, 2012. The full paper will be published in conference proceedings (print and online). Proposals for interactive workshops (90 minutes) should outline both the thematic focus and the session design. Workshops should engage participants in developing the topics. Proposals should not exceed 1.000 words. Both abstracts for presentations and proposals for interactive workshops must be submitted via EasyChair. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Deadline for submitting abstracts: January 31, 2012 Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2012 Camera-ready submission of papers: July 15, 2012 Conference dates: August 1-3, 2012 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The conference is organized by the interdisciplinary Junior Researchers Group "Science and the Internet" (http://nfgwin.uni-duesseldorf.de) at Heinrich-Heine-University D?sseldorf: Michael Beurskens (legal studies) Susanne Keuneke (communication and media studies) Merja Mahrt (communication and media studies) Cornelius Puschmann (English linguistics) Isabella Peters (information science) Alexander Tokar (English linguistics) Timo van Treeck (education studies) Katrin Weller (information science) -- Dr. Katrin Weller Institute for Language and Information Department of Information Science Heinrich-Heine-University D?sseldorf Universit?tsstr. 1, Building 23.21.04.68 D-40225 D?sseldorf Phone: +49 (0) 211 81 10803 E-Mail: weller at uni-duesseldorf.de From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Fri Jan 13 17:13:42 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:13:42 +0000 Subject: Papers of potential interest to SIG Metrics readers Message-ID: ========================== Start of Data ========================= -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Editorial: Triple Helix and innovation in Asia using scientometrics, webometrics, and informetrics (Article, English) AUTHOR: Khan, GF; Park, HW SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 90 (1). JAN 2012. p.1-7 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): SCIENTOMETRIC* item_title; INFORMETRIC* item_title KEYWORDS: Triple helix; University-industry-government relations; Webometrics; Scientometrics; Informetrics; Asia KEYWORDS+: INDUSTRY-GOVERNMENT RELATIONS; DYNAMICS ABSTRACT: There is a burgeoning interest among academic scientists and policy-makers in the development and employment of TH (Triple Helix) and WSI (Webometrics, Scientometrics, and Informetrics) research methods. However, the international literature has not systematically examined TH and WSI approaches in an Asian context. Furthermore, previous literature published in international journals does not adequately address the social forces shaping TH development in Asia. Therefore, the purpose of this special issue is to bring researchers together to discuss university- industry-government (U-I-G) relations and innovation diffusion in Asia employing WSI alongside other methods. AUTHOR ADDRESS: HW Park, Yeungnam Univ, Dept Media & Commun, Gyongsan, South Korea - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Measuring science-technology interactions using patent citations and author-inventor links: an exploration analysis from Chinese nanotechnology (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Wang, GB; Guan, JC SOURCE: JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH 13 (12). DEC 2011. p.6245-6262 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION* item_title; KEYWORDS: Science-technology interactions; Non-patent references; Author-inventors; Nanotechnology; Innovation; USPTO KEYWORDS+: SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; NANO-SCIENCE; NANOSCIENCE; KNOWLEDGE; INDUSTRY; PERFORMANCE; INNOVATION; LINKAGES; SYSTEMS; TERMS ABSTRACT: This article contributes to the growing study on the interactions between science and technology with China's evidence in the field of nanotechnology, based on the database of United States Patent and Trademark Office. The analysis is focused during the period of 1991- 2008, a rapid increasing period for the development of nanotechnology. Using the non-patent references cited by patents, we first investigate the science-technology connections in the context of Chinese nanotechnology, especially in institutional sectors and its application fields. Those patents, produced by academic researchers and directed towards basic scientific knowledge, generally cite more scientific references with a higher proportion of self-citations. It is interesting to find that patents contributed by collaborations between public organizations and corporations seldom contain scientific references. Following an interesting path on matching the data of publications and patents, we establish the author-inventor links in this emerging field. Author-inventors, who are co-active in publishing and patenting, are at the very top of the most prolific and highly cited researchers. Finally, we employ social network analysis to explore the characteristics of scientific and technological networks generated by co-authorship and co- invention data, to investigate the position and the role of patenting- publishing scientists in these research networks. AUTHOR ADDRESS: JC Guan, Chinese Acad Sci, Sch Management, Grad Univ, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: How ownership affects the growth strategies of scientific journals A study of economics journals 1950 to 2000 (Article, English) AUTHOR: Day, C SOURCE: ASLIB PROCEEDINGS 63 (5). 2011. p.445-463 EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED, BINGLEY SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNALS item_title KEYWORDS: Journals; Articles; Growth; Publishers; Strategies; Ownership ABSTRACT: Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine how journals expanded to accommodate the growth in scholarly writing from 1950 to 2000, and how the policy response differed between for-profit and non-profit publishers. Design/methodology/approach - Taking economics as an example and using an authoritative list of journals, data were collected and analyzed for the first issue of each decade on new journals, frequency of issues, number of articles published and pages per issue. Each journal was assigned to one of three ownership categories and growth policies analyzed separately for each. Findings - Overall primary reliance was placed on launching new journals and increasing the frequency of issue. However, there was a marked difference between for-profits and non-profits. The former launched most new journals and increased publication frequency while keeping individual issues quite short. By contrast, the latter added few journals or issues, but did systematically include more articles in each issue. Originality/value - This paper looks behind the general growth in scholarly literature to analyze how journals have used the available tools - new journals, more frequent issues, and longer issues - to accommodate the dramatic increase in the number of articles written. Particularly original is the demonstration that for-profits and non- profits have used these tools in very different ways. AUTHOR ADDRESS: C Day, UCL, Dept Informat Studies, London, England ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Getting cited: Does open access help? (Article, English) AUTHOR: Gaule, P; Maystre, N SOURCE: RESEARCH POLICY 40 (10). DEC 2011. p.1332-1338 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM SEARCH TERM(S): CITED item_title KEYWORDS: Open access; Knowledge diffusion; Scientific publishing; Citations; Self-selection KEYWORDS+: CITATION ADVANTAGE; ARTICLES; IMPACT; DOWNLOADS; SCIENCE ABSTRACT: Cross-sectional studies typically find positive correlations between free availability of scientific articles ('open access') and citations. Using a number of instruments as plausible sources of exogeneous variation, we find no evidence for a causal effect of open access on citations. We provide theory and evidence suggesting that authors of higher quality papers are more likely to choose open access in hybrid journals which offer an open access option. Self- selection mechanisms may thus explain the discrepancy between the positive correlation found in Eysenbach (2006) and other cross-sectional studies and the absence of such correlation in the field experiment of Davis et al. (2008). (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: P Gaule, MIT, Alfred P Sloan Sch Management, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Co-authorship networks in electronic markets research (Article, English) AUTHOR: Fischbach, K; Putzke, J; Schoder, D SOURCE: ELECTRONIC MARKETS 21 (1). FEB 2011. p.19-40 SPRINGER HEIDELBERG, HEIDELBERG SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth; HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; MERTON RK SCIENCE 159:56 1968 KEYWORDS: Bibliometrics; Centrality; Citation analysis; Scientometrics; Social network; Structural holes KEYWORDS+: INFORMATION-SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; E-COLLABORATION; ARTICLE IMPACT; CENTRALITY; PATTERNS; ADOPTION; BIBLIOMETRICS; PERSPECTIVE; EVOLUTION ABSTRACT: This article examines co-authorship networks of researchers publishing in Electronic Markets-The International Journal of Networked Business (EM). The authors visualize the co-authorship network and provide descriptive statistics regarding the degree to which researchers are embedded in the co-authorship network. They develop and test seven hypotheses associating the researchers' embeddedness in the co- authorship network with the number of the researchers' citations. Results indicate that author who publish co-authored articles in EM have their EM articles (whether co-authored or not) cited more frequently than those who publish EM articles only in their own names, and that the more they co-author the more they are cited because they are located in the center of a co-authorship network. AUTHOR ADDRESS: J Putzke, Univ Cologne, Dept Informat Syst & Informat Management, Pohligstr 1, D-50969 Cologne, Germany From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Fri Jan 13 17:13:48 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:13:48 +0000 Subject: papers related to SIG Metrics Message-ID: TITLE: Visualizing and mapping the intellectual structure of information retrieval (Article, English) AUTHOR: Rorissa, A; Yuan, XJ SOURCE: INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT 48 (1). JAN 2012. p.120-135 PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, OXFORD SEARCH TERM(S): CLEVERDON C rauth; SMALL H INFORMATION PROCESSI 17:39 1981; SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 50:799 1999; WHITE HD J AM SOC INFORM SCI 32:163 1981 KEYWORDS: Information retrieval; Citation analysis; Bibliometrics; Informetrics; Domain analysis KEYWORDS+: AUTHOR COCITATION ANALYSIS; BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS; GOOGLE SCHOLAR; SCIENCE; LIBRARY; COLLABORATION; SCIENTISTS; NETWORKS; ARTICLES; IMPACT ABSTRACT: Information retrieval is a long established subfield of library and information science. Since its inception in the early- to mid -1950s, it has grown as a result, in part, of well-regarded retrieval system evaluation exercises/campaigns, the proliferation of Web search engines, and the expansion of digital libraries. Although researchers have examined the intellectual structure and nature of the general field of library and information science, the same cannot be said about the subfield of information retrieval. We address that in this work by sketching the information retrieval intellectual landscape through visualizations of citation behaviors. Citation data for 10 years (2000- 2009) were retrieved from the Web of Science and analyzed using existing visualization techniques. Our results address information retrieval's co- authorship network, highly productive authors, highly cited journals and papers, author-assigned keywords, active institutions, and the import of ideas from other disciplines. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Rorissa, SUNY Albany, Dept Informat Studies, Draper Hall,Room 113,135 Western Ave, Albany, NY 12222 USA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From whitehd at DREXEL.EDU Fri Jan 13 19:42:39 2012 From: whitehd at DREXEL.EDU (Howard White) Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:42:39 -0500 Subject: New paper from Howard D. White Message-ID: Relevance Theory and Citations Journal of Pragmatics (November 2011), 43 (14), pg. 3345-3361 Howard D. White College of Information Science and Technology Drexel University Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA Abstract Relevance theory (RT) holds that the relevance of communications is determined by their cognitive effects and the effort needed to process them. The evidence is usually drawn from dialogues between speakers and hearers. Self-communing scholars and scientists afford a new source of real-world evidence as they cite various works over time. Authors cite works with the intention of strengthening their claims in context?a cognitive effect for them as well as for readers?and the works they choose to cite most frequently are found through least-effort behavior. Indicators of least effort include heavy reliance on self-citation, re-citation of a limited number of acquaintances and orienting figures known through reading, and the use of closely related vocabulary across texts. Such practices produce the power-law distributions of citations and terms that are ubiquitous in bibliometrics. These distributions accord well with the claimed universality of RT's Cognitive Principle on maximization of relevance. Authors maximize the relevance of citations for themselves, then optimize those citations for readers under the Communicative Principle. Examples are drawn from a set of course readings, the citation records of three authors, and word-association data. Major tenets of RT have considerable power in explaining various findings from citation research. Authors | Bibliometrics | Cognitive effects | Least-effort behavior | Maximal and optimal relevance | Term frequencies From ishaikev at MAIL.RU Sat Jan 14 01:28:57 2012 From: ishaikev at MAIL.RU (=?UTF-8?B?SXJpbmEgU2hhaWtldmljaA==?=) Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:28:57 +0400 Subject: New paper from Howard D. White In-Reply-To: <76CEBFE88EAE804D8A508F1A5C4F804C0828BC4885@EXMAIL2.drexel.edu> Message-ID: Dear Prof.White, maybe you coul send me your this paper? Best wisahes, Irina Marshakova-Shaikevich Moscow 14 ?????? 2012, 04:42 ?? Howard White : > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > Relevance Theory and Citations > Journal of Pragmatics (November 2011), 43 (14), pg. 3345-3361 > > Howard D. White > College of Information Science and Technology > Drexel University > Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA > > Abstract > > Relevance theory (RT) holds that the relevance of communications is determined by their cognitive effects and the effort needed to process them. The evidence is usually drawn from dialogues between speakers and hearers. Self-communing scholars and scientists afford a new source of real-world evidence as they cite various works over time. Authors cite works with the intention of strengthening their claims in context?a cognitive effect for them as well as for readers?and the works they choose to cite most frequently are found through least-effort behavior. Indicators of least effort include heavy reliance on self-citation, re-citation of a limited number of acquaintances and orienting figures known through reading, and the use of closely related vocabulary across texts. Such practices produce the power-law distributions of citations and terms that are ubiquitous in bibliometrics. These distributions accord well with the claimed universality of RT's Cognitive Principle on maximization of relevance. Authors maximize the relevance of citations for themselves, then optimize those citations for readers under the Communicative Principle. Examples are drawn from a set of course readings, the citation records of three authors, and word-association data. Major tenets of RT have considerable power in explaining various findings from citation research. > > Authors | Bibliometrics | Cognitive effects | Least-effort behavior | Maximal and optimal relevance | Term frequencies > > From Denise_Canso at CAMH.NET Sat Jan 14 19:20:11 2012 From: Denise_Canso at CAMH.NET (Denise Canso) Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:20:11 +0000 Subject: Fellowship & Post-Doc Employment Opportunities, Toronto, Canada. 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Name: JOI 6-1-12.doc Type: application/msword Size: 134144 bytes Desc: JOI 6-1-12.doc URL: From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Tue Jan 17 19:25:20 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:25:20 +0000 Subject: papers related to SIG Metrics Message-ID: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Citation systems in the biosciences A history, classification and descriptive terminology (Article, English) AUTHOR: Williams, RB Email address: BOBWILL at vm.sc.edu SOURCE: JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION 67 (6). 2011. p.995-1014 EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED, BINGLEY SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; MORAVCSIK MJ rauth; PRICE DJD rauth; ZUCKERMAN HA rauth; SMALL HG SOC STUD SCI 8:327 1978; ZUCKERMA.H MINERVA 9:66 1971; CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS: Citation systems; Classification; Harvard system; Information transfer; Numeric system; Terminology; Physical sciences; Bibliographic systems; Research work KEYWORDS+: INFORMATION; SCIENCE; COMMUNICATION ABSTRACT: Purpose - Several bibliographical citation systems are in regular use in scholarly literature, associated with various intellectual disciplines. The aim of this paper is to document an analysis of their designs in the biosciences in order to construct a classification and to assess their comparative effectiveness for information transfer. Design/methodology/approach - A historical survey of communications between scholars, including the reasons why authors cite others' works, was completed. The development of citation systems, specifically the Harvard system and various numeric systems, was traced, following which a universal classification with a new descriptive terminology was constructed. Findings - Citation systems are defined herein as direct (with citation and reference together in the text) or indirect (with citation within the text, and reference outside the text). Direct systems may be described as implicit (the Linnaean style with abbreviated, undated, conceptual reference) or explicit (with full, dated, bibliographical reference). All indirect systems are explicit: the text citation (the referens) may be alphabetic, symbolic, numeric or alphanumeric and the reference (the referendum) may be a marginal note, footnote or end reference. A survey of citation systems in 101 bioscience journals is presented. Within indirect systems, most biomedical journals use a numeric system, but most veterinary, zoological and general biological journals use the Harvard system, which is considered herein to be the most effective for information transfer. Originality/value - No philosophical analysis of citation systems appears to have been carried out before. Based upon historical, conceptual and logical aspects, a robust universal classification with a new descriptive terminology is presented to facilitate the unambiguous discussion of the principles and designs of citation systems. The classification and terminology are applicable to citation systems in any discipline. ========================== TITLE: Quality perceptions of design journals: The design scholars' perspective (Article, English) AUTHOR: Gemser, G; de Bont, C; Hekkert, P; Friedman, K SOURCE: DESIGN STUDIES 33 (1). JAN 2012. p.4-23 ELSEVIER SCI LTD, OXFORD SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNALS item_title KEYWORDS: industrial design; evaluation; design research; design science; journal ranking KEYWORDS+: MANAGEMENT JOURNALS; ECONOMISTS; INNOVATION; ACADEMICS; RANKING; SYSTEM ABSTRACT: The primary objectives of this study were to identify a set of journals that report on industrial design research and to propose quality rankings of those journals. Based on an online survey, design journals were assessed in terms of two quality metrics: popularity and indexed average rank position. We find that both general and specialized design journals ale highly valued and that geographic origin and academic background can be related with journal rankings. The results of the study offer a guide to both evaluators and those evaluated when judging or selecting research outlets. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: G Gemser, Delft Univ Technol, Fac Ind Design Engn, Landbergstr 15, NL-2628 CE Delft, Netherlands -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Understanding design research: A bibliometric analysis of Design Studies (1996-2010) (Article, English) AUTHOR: Chai, KH; Xiao, X SOURCE: DESIGN STUDIES 33 (1). JAN 2012. p.24-43 ELSEVIER SCI LTD, OXFORD SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS: bibliometric study; design research; science of design KEYWORDS+: INTELLECTUAL STRUCTURE; MANAGEMENT RESEARCH; COCITATION ANALYSIS; ENGINEERING DESIGN; THEMES; INFORMATION; SCIENCE ABSTRACT: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the core themes of design research by analysing citations of papers in the journal Design Studies. It also aims to find out the evolution and future trends of design research. Employing a bibliometrics and network analysis, the paper analyses citations and co-citations from Design Studies. Instead of using the standard analysis method of aggregating author co-citations, this study conducts the analysis at the individual publication level. Due to the limitation of the Scopus database, this study only managed to extract articles with full citations in Design Studies from 1996 to 2010. Further studies could also include articles from 1979 to 1995 by either using some character recognition software or manually extracting them. The study identifies the core themes centered on design process and design cognition. In addition, it also reveals that the research method protocol analysis has become more popular in recent years among researchers. The main contribution of this paper is the use of a network analysis technique to analyse 12 107 citations in the 459 articles published in Design Studies between 1996 and 2010. Unlike previous review papers which relied heavily on the qualitative observations and reflections of the authors, this paper is the first comprehensive quantitative analysis in this field. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: KH Chai, Natl Univ Singapore, Dept Ind & Syst Engn, Singapore 119260, Singapore ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Minority Vulnerability in Privileged Occupations: Why Do African American Financial Advisers Earn Less than Whites in a Large Financial Services Firm? (Article, English) AUTHOR: Bielby, WT SOURCE: ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE 639. JAN 2012. p.13-32 SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC, THOUSAND OAKS SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth KEYWORDS: meritocracy; racial bias; cumulative advantage; opportunity hoarding; racialized jobs; accountability structures; discrimination KEYWORDS+: CUMULATIVE ADVANTAGE; RACE; INEQUALITY; DIVERSITY; WORK; MERITOCRACY; NETWORKS; IDENTITY; GENDER; WEALTH ABSTRACT: Building on recent work on contemporary forms of bias in meritocratic personnel systems, the author assesses sources of racial disadvantage in an output-based pay-for-performance system for compensating financial advisers in a large financial services firm. Using data from expert reports submitted in racial discrimination litigation, the author shows how racial differences in access to white wealth, limits on African Americans' full participation in broker teams, racialized approaches to multicultural marketing, and diffuse lines of authority for diversity and nondiscrimination created racial barriers that were sustained and amplified by a cumulative advantage system for allocating productivity-enhancing resources. The author concludes with a discussion of management strategies for minimizing minority vulnerability in privileged professions and the challenges faced when the sources of bias are neither unconscious nor unintended but are instead located at least in part in racially segregated social relations and power differences among professionals who hold formally equivalent positions in a company's job structure. AUTHOR ADDRESS: WT Bielby, Univ Illinois, Chicago, IL 60607 USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The mapping of science and the information sciences (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Bawden, D SOURCE: JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION 67 (6). 2011. p.904-905 EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED, BINGLEY SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth; EDITORIAL doctype -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Micro-credits in scientific publishing (Article, English) AUTHOR: Casati, R; Origgi, G; Simon, J SOURCE: JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION 67 (6). 2011. p.958-974 EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED, BINGLEY SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; GARFIELD E JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 295:90 2006 KEYWORDS: Scientific communication; Scientific evaluation; Online publication; Reputation measures; Scientometrics; Credit attribution; Research work; Publications KEYWORDS+: AUTHORSHIP; ARTICLES; ORDER; HYPERAUTHORSHIP; METAANALYSIS ABSTRACT: [Roberto Casati, Gloria Origgi, Judith Simon (CC-BY-SA)] Purpose - New technologies allow for efficient dissemination of scientific knowledge objects (SKOs). Yet they are likely to transform SKOs as well. The aim of this paper is to propose a way to structure SKOs that allows for both a clear individuation of the main scientific contributions and a fine-grained structure of credits and evaluation. Design/methodology/approach - The authors review and analyze existing practices of structuring SKOs in different disciplines. Findings - Provisionally considering the published paper as an atomic SKO, possible subatomic structures of SKOs are investigated. It is hypothesized that SKOs are meant to satisfy two separated but interdependent sets of constraints, one related to the contribution the SKO makes to the body of knowledge, and another related to the contribution the SKO makes to the reputation of its authors. It is hypothesized that existing SKO structures are not optimal for satisfying both sets of constraints at once. Research limitations/implications - A broader analysis may be needed that covers the totality of existing practices. Practical implications - Guidelines are offered. This paper, including the present abstract, is an example of what the scientific paper of tomorrow could be like. Social implications - The paper proposes better apportioning of scientific credits and evaluation; substantive evolution of the academic publishing and credit attribution models. Originality/value - The idea that the communication and evaluation function of a SKO are differently reflected in their structure is novel. The proposed fine-grained credit attribution system is novel. The molecular/atomic/sub-atomic distinction is a new way to fix the terminology. AUTHOR ADDRESS: R Casati, CNRS EHESS ENS Inst Nicod, Paris, France -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Tue Jan 17 19:38:58 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:38:58 +0000 Subject: papers of interest to SIG Metrics readers Message-ID: ========================== ========================= TITLE: Relevance theory and citations (Article, English) AUTHOR: White, HD SOURCE: JOURNAL OF PRAGMATICS 43 (14). NOV 2011. p.3345-3361 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; MACROBERTS MH rauth; MERTON RK rauth; PRICE DJD rauth; MERTON RK SCIENCE 159:56 1968; SMALL HG SOC STUD SCI 8:327 1978; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS: Authors; Bibliometrics; Cognitive effects; Least-effort behavior; Maximal and optimal relevance; Term frequencies KEYWORDS+: INFORMATION-SCIENCE; COMBINING BIBLIOMETRICS; RETRIEVAL ABSTRACT: Relevance theory (RT) holds that the relevance of communications is determined by their cognitive effects and the effort needed to process them. The evidence is usually drawn from dialogues between speakers and hearers. Self-communing scholars and scientists afford a new source of real-world evidence as they cite various works over time. Authors cite works with the intention of strengthening their claims in context - a cognitive effect for them as well as for readers - and the works they choose to cite most frequently are found through least- effort behavior. Indicators of least effort include heavy reliance on self-citation, re-citation of a limited number of acquaintances and orienting figures known through reading, and the use of closely related vocabulary across texts. Such practices produce the power-law distributions of citations and terms that are ubiquitous in bibliometrics. These distributions accord well with the claimed universality of RT's Cognitive Principle on maximization of relevance. Authors maximize the relevance of citations for themselves, then optimize those citations for readers under the Communicative Principle. Examples are drawn from a set of course readings, the citation records of three authors, and word-association data. Major tenets of RI have considerable power in explaining various findings from citation research. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: HD White, Drexel Univ, Coll Informat Sci & Technol, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Citation analysis - focus on leading Australian nurse authors (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Hunt, GE; Cleary, M; Jackson, D; Watson, R; Thompson, DR SOURCE: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NURSING 20 (23-24). DEC 2011. p.3273-3275 WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION item_title; CITATION ANALYS* item_title; CITATION* item_title; HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; EDITORIAL doctype KEYWORDS+: INDEX AUTHOR ADDRESS: GE Hunt, Univ Sydney, Discipline Psychiat, Concord, NSW, Australia -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Publish or Perish: How Are Research and Reputation Related? (Article, English) AUTHOR: Linton, JD; Tierney, R; Walsh, ST SOURCE: SERIALS REVIEW 37 (4). DEC 2011. p.244-257 ELSEVIER INC, SAN DIEGO SEARCH TERM(S): ANGELL M ANN INTERN MED 104:261 1986; PUBLISH OR PERISH item_title KEYWORDS: Academic reputation; Interdisciplinary studies; Publish or perish; University research reputation KEYWORDS+: SOCIAL-WORK; OPEN ACCESS; ORGANIZATIONAL REPUTATION; MULTIPLE AUTHORSHIP; UNIVERSITY RANKINGS; H-INDEX; JOURNALS; IMPACT; PUBLICATION; CITATION ABSTRACT: A study of twenty-seven fields in 350 highly ranked universities examines the relationship between reputation and rank. We find that many metrics associated with research prowess significantly correlate to university reputation. However, the next logical step- looking at the relationship that links different academic fields with the reputation of the university-did not always offer the expected results. The phrase "publish or perish" clearly has very different meanings in different fields. Serials Review 2011; 37:244-257. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: JD Linton, Univ Ottawa, Telfer Sch Management, Ottawa, ON, Canada -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Publication Delay in Iranian Scholarly Journals (Article, English) AUTHOR: Khosrowjerdi, M; Zeraatkar, N; Vara, N SOURCE: SERIALS REVIEW 37 (4). DEC 2011. p.262-266 ELSEVIER INC, SAN DIEGO SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNALS item_title KEYWORDS: Iranian publication delay; Persian journals; Journal impact factor; Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC) KEYWORDS+: SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE ABSTRACT: Scholarly periodicals in Iran are considered main information resources in the development of knowledge in scholarly areas. About 566 periodicals have publication licenses from the Commission of Scholarly Periodicals Evaluation of Ministry of Science, Research & Technology (MSRT), with sixty-eight published in English. This paper studies the publication delay of twenty-six Iranian scholarly periodicals which are published in Persian in Iran, not those Iranian journals which are published in English in Iran or out of the country. The peer review and scholarly publication processes in Iranian journals are quite lengthy and need improvement. There was no significant relationship between publication delay in Persian scholarly periodicals and their impact factor as presented by the Islamic World Science Citation Center (titled ISC). Finally, the authors offer some solutions for improving the publication system of Iranian scholarly journals and decreasing the publication interval of these journals. Serials Review 2011; 37:262-266. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Electronic Journals: Cataloging and Management Practices in Academic Libraries (Article, English) AUTHOR: West, WL; Miller, HS SOURCE: SERIALS REVIEW 37 (4). DEC 2011. p.267-274 ELSEVIER INC, SAN DIEGO SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNALS item_title KEYWORDS: Electronic journals; Cataloging; Academic libraries; Access; Surveys ABSTRACT: The growth and availability of electronic journals offer libraries the opportunity to provide end users with quick and easy access to more journals than ever before, thereby creating a complex new workload in academic libraries. Libraries have addressed the evolving challenges unique to electronic resources by creating new policies and workflows and dedicating staff to work on the processes, despite the lack of best practices. In the fall of 2009, a survey was distributed to ninety-five libraries at peer institutions to gather information about their policies and practices for cataloging and managing electronic journals in order to gauge the current status of electronic journal management among these peer institutions. This paper reports on the survey findings related to cataloging approach, sources for bibliographic records, methods for identifying problems, and the staff and staff hours dedicated to electronic journals. Serials Review 2011; 37:267-274. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: WL West, SUNY Albany, Div Tech Serv & Lib Syst, Albany, NY 12222 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Eusebius and the Jewish Authors. His Citation Technique in an Apologetic Context, by S. Inowlocki (Book Review, English) AUTHOR: Ulrich, J SOURCE: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF JEWISH STUDIES 5 (2). 2011. p.273-275 BRILL ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS, LEIDEN SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title AUTHOR ADDRESS: J Ulrich, Univ Halle Wittenberg, D-4010 Halle, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Thu Jan 19 13:12:09 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:12:09 +0000 Subject: Papers of possible interest to SIG Metrics Message-ID: ===================== TITLE: Cognitive and Social Structure of the Elite Collaboration Network of Astrophysics: A Case Study on Shifting Network Structures (Article, English) AUTHOR: Heidler, R SOURCE: MINERVA 49 (4). DEC 2011. p.461-488 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK AM SOCIOL REV 22:635 1957 KEYWORDS: Scientific networks; Cognitive structure; Co-authorship network; Astrophysics; Scientific collaboration; Elite network; Social network analysis; Epistemic culture; Scientific disciplines; Dark energy KEYWORDS+: SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION; ASTRONOMY; SCIENCE; COAUTHORSHIP; SPECIALTIES; SUPERNOVAE; PATTERNS; PHYSICS; ENERGY ABSTRACT: Scientific collaboration can only be understood along the epistemic and cognitive grounding of scientific disciplines. New scientific discoveries in astrophysics led to a major restructuring of the elite network of astrophysics. To study the interplay of the epistemic grounding and the social network structure of a discipline, a mixed-methods approach is necessary. It combines scientometrics, quantitative network analysis and visualization tools with a qualitative network analysis approach. The centre of the international collaboration network of astrophysics is demarcated by identifying the 225 most productive astrophysicists. For the years 1998-1999 and 2001-2006 four co- authorship networks are constructed comprehending each a two year period. A visualization of the longitudinal network data gives first hints on the structural development of the network. The network of 2005-2006 is analyzed in depth. Based on cohesion analysis tools for network analysis, two main cores and three smaller ones are identified. Scientists in each core and additionally in structurally interesting positions are identified and 17 qualitative expert interviews are conducted with them. The visualization of the network of 2005-2006 is used in the interviews as a stimulus for the interviewees. An analysis of the three most often used keywords of the 225 astrophysicists is included and combined with the other data. The triangulation of these approaches shows that major epistemic changes in astrophysics, e.g. the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe, together with technical and organizational innovations, leads to a restructuring of the network of the discipline. The importance of a combination of qualitative and quantitative network analysis tools for the understanding of the interplay of cognitive and social structure in the sociology of science is substantiated. AUTHOR ADDRESS: R Heidler, Lehrstuhl Soziol Org, Gaussstr 20, D-42097 Wuppertal, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: What factors determine citation counts of publications in chemistry besides their quality? (Article, English) AUTHOR: Bornmann, L; Schier, H; Marx, W; Daniel, HD SOURCE: JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS 6 (1). JAN 2012. p.11-18 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK SCIENCE 159:56 1968; GARFIELD E rauth; SCIENTIST rwork; CITATION* item_title,keyword KEYWORDS: Chemistry; Citation counts; Scientific quality; Single publication h index KEYWORDS+: H-INDEX; IMPACT FACTOR; SCIENTIFIC-RESEARCH; ANGEWANDTE- CHEMIE; SCIENCE; JOURNALS; PERFORMANCE; INDICATORS; FREQUENCY; BEHAVIOR ABSTRACT: A number of bibliometric studies point out that citation counts are a function of many variables besides scientific quality. In this paper our aim is to investigate these factors that usually impact the number of citation counts, using an extensive data set from the field of chemistry. The data set contains roughly 2000 manuscripts that were submitted to the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition (AC-IE) as short communications, reviewed by external reviewers, and either published in AC-IE or, if not accepted for publication by AC-IE, published elsewhere. As the reviewers' ratings of the importance of the manuscripts' results are also available to us, we can examine the extent to which certain factors that previous studies demonstrated to be generally correlated with citation counts increase the impact of papers, controlling for the quality of the manuscripts (as measured by reviewers' ratings of the importance of the findings) in the statistical analysis. As the results show, besides being associated with quality, citation counts are correlated with the citation performance of the cited references, the language of the publishing journal, the chemical subfield, and the reputation of the authors. In this study no statistically significant correlation was found between citation counts and number of authors. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: L Bornmann, Max Planck Soc, Hofgartenstr 8, D-80539 Munich, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Thu Jan 19 16:02:40 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:02:40 +0000 Subject: Papers relevant to SIG Metrics Message-ID: Title: On the relevance of the *Impact Factor* and other factors Authors: Sundaram, M; Hodler, J; Rosenthal, DI Author Full Names: Sundaram, Murali; Hodler, Juerg; Rosenthal, Daniel I. Source: SKELETAL RADIOLOGY, 41 (2):125-126; 10.1007/s00256-011-1342-9 FEB 2012 Language: English Document Type: Editorial Material Reprint Address: Sundaram, M (reprint author), Cleveland Clin Fdn, 9500 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44195 USA Addresses: [Sundaram, Murali] Cleveland Clin Fdn, Cleveland, OH 44195 USA [Hodler, Juerg] Univ Spital Zurich, Inst Diagnost & Intervent Radiol, Zurich, Switzerland [Rosenthal, Daniel I.] Massachusetts Gen Hosp, Boston, MA 02114 USA E-mail Address: sundarm at ccf.org Publisher: SPRINGER, 233 SPRING ST, NEW YORK, NY 10013 USA DOI 10.1007/s00256-011-1342-9 Subject Category: Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging ======================================================================= . Title: BIBLIOMETRIC STUDY OF EDUCACION XX1 Authors: Gomez-Garcia, A; Ramiro, MT; Ariza, T; Granados, MR Author Full Names: Gomez-Garcia, Almudena; Teresa Ramiro, M.; Ariza, Tania; Reina Granados, M. Source: EDUCACION XX1, 15 (1):17-41; 2012 Language: Spanish Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Bibliometric analysis; descriptive study by means of the analysis of documents; education; IN-RECS database; update index; indicators; scientific production; impact factor KeyWords Plus: PSYCHOLOGY JOURNALS; INTERNATIONALITY INDEX; PSYCHIATRY JOURNALS; SPANISH PSYCHOLOGY; SCIENCE; WEB; PUBLICATIONS; INDICATORS; ARTICLES; CRITERIA Abstract: Bibliometric studies in science have recently acquired great relevance. The aim of this study is to undertake a bibliometric analysis of the Revista Educacion XX1 in the last ten years. This journal has been recently incorporated in the Web of Science, and we aim to revise the current status of it. For this reason, we have undertaken the analysis of a total of 89 articles, consulted in the electronic version of the journal, the IN-RECS database and Redalyc scientific information system, following a series of bibliometric indicators, some of the most relevant of them are: authorship index, authors s nationality, university of origin, language of publication, number of references per year on each article and number of downloads per paper, among others. Among the most prominent results of this research we can conclude that the predominant language used in this publication is Spanish, the authors are mostly of Spanish nationality the articles published in 2007 were the ones that! most citations received, it exists a large percentage of references of articles published before 2000 and there does not exist any relation between the most cited papers and those which are most downloaded. Finally, the paper concludes pointing out some general guidelines aimed to promote the wider dissemination of this journal, its recognition as an international journal, the updating of the year of publication of the references, the affiliation of the authors, and also in relation to subject areas of education on which to publish. Reprint Address: Gomez-Garcia, A (reprint author), Univ Granada, Fac Psicol, Dept Personalidad Evaluac & Tratamientos Psicol, E-18071 Granada, Spain Addresses: [Gomez-Garcia, Almudena; Teresa Ramiro, M.; Ariza, Tania; Reina Granados, M.] Univ Granada, Fac Psicol, Dept Personalidad Evaluac & Tratamientos Psicol, E-18071 Granada, Spain E-mail Address: almudena at ugr.es Cited Reference Count: 49 Publisher: UNIV NACIONAL EDUCACION DISTANCIA, PO SENDA REY,BRAVO MURILLO 38, MADRID, 7-28040, SPAIN ISSN: 1139-613X Subject Category: Education & Educational Research IDS Number: 859QO Unique ID: WOS:000297891100002 Cited References: BUEY MLD, 2002, EDUCACION 21, V5, P77 TRAVERIA GT, 2008, EDUCACION 21, V11, P183 IBANEZ P, 2004, EDUCACION 21, V7, P111 SANCHEZ MJM, 2007, EDUCACION 21, V10, P195 SANCHEZMECA J, 2010, AULA ABIERTA, V38, P53 VILCHEZ PS, 2002, EDUCACION 21, V5, P97 LOPEZCOZAR ED, 2010, AULA ABIERTA, V38, P3 LARA S, 2009, EDUCACION 21, V12, P67 BUITRAGO JP, 2007, EDUCACION 21, V10, P215 Zych I, 2010, UNIVERSITAS PSYCHOLOGICA, V9, P27 Quevedo-Blasco R, 2010, SALUD MENTAL, V33, P133 GARCIA MMM, 2006, REV EDUCACION 21, V9, P183 BETZ B, 2010, AULA ABIERTA, V38, P65 Buela-Casal G, 2007, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY, V7, P899 Diaz L, 2010, ACTAS ESPANOLAS DE PSIQUIATRIA, V38, P147 ZYCH I, 2007, REV MEX PSICOL, V24, P7 FERNANDEZ FS, 2000, EDUCACION 21, V3, P63 DIAZ MM, 2009, EDUCACION 21, V2, P123 Ramos-Alvarez MM, 2008, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY, V8, P751 Buela-Casal G, 2009, SCIENTOMETRICS, V80, P265 ALZINA RB, 2007, EDUCACION 21, V10, P61 GALVEZ IE, 2009, EDUCACION 21, V12, P29 BUITRAGO JP, 2005, EDUCACION 21, V8, P201 Montero I, 2007, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY, V7, P847 Fernandez-Rios L, 2009, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY, V9, P329 YUSTE RP, 2005, EDUCACION 21, V8, P11 BUELACASAL G, 2009, PSICOTHEMA, V21, P309 Buela-Casal G, 2010, PSICOTHEMA, V22, P171 DEMENDOZA PG, 2004, EDUCACION 21, V7, P27 ROJO VA, 2007, EDUCACION 21, V10, P15 Quevedo-Blasco R, 2010, PSICOLOGIA-REFLEXAO E CRITICA, V23, P384 Zych I, 2009, REVISTA LATINOAMERICANA DE PSICOLOGIA, V41, P401 Navarrete-Cortes J, 2010, UNIVERSITAS PSYCHOLOGICA, V9, P553 Navarrete-Cortes J, 2009, REVISTA MEXICANA DE PSICOLOGIA, V26, P131 IGADO MF, 2009, EDUCACION 21, V12, P15 SANCHEZ JLR, 2004, EDUCACION 21, V7, P169 MEDIANO CM, 2005, EDUCACION 21, V8, P35 FLORES JG, 2007, EDUCACION 21, V10, P83 FERNAN IAT, 2002, EDUCACION 21, V5, P35 Buela-Casal G, 2010, PSICOTHEMA, V22, P270 Ruiz-Perez R, 2006, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY, V6, P401 Buela-Casal G, 2010, PSICOTHEMA, V22, P924 RAMA C, 2006, EDUCACION 21, V9, P135 ROMANI JRI, 2008, EDUCACION 21, V11, P133 Alvarez FV, 2007, REVISTA ESPANOLA DE SALUD PUBLICA, V81, P247 *UNESCO, 1000, NOM INT UNESCO CAMP, *GOB ESP AG ESP IS, 1000, TABL MAT CLAS DEC UN, FERNANDEZ MM, 2002, EDUCACION 21, V5, P153 Buela-Casal G, 2010, REVISTA DE PSICODIDACTICA, V15, P3 ======================================================================= Title: Publication bias is present in blood and marrow transplantation: *an* analysis of abstracts at *an* international meeting Authors: Paulson, K; Saeed, M; Mills, J; Cuvelier, GDE; Kumar, R; Raymond, C; Robinson, T; Szwajcer, D; Wall, D; Seftel, MD Author Full Names: Paulson, Kristjan; Saeed, Mahwash; Mills, Jennifer; Cuvelier, Geoff D. E.; Kumar, Rajat; Raymond, Colette; Robinson, Tracy; Szwajcer, David; Wall, Donna; Seftel, Matthew D. Source: BLOOD, 118 (25):6698-6701; 10.1182/blood-2011-08-367466 DEC 15 2011 Language: English Document Type: Article Abstract: Publication bias is the preferential publication of research with positive results, and is a threat to the validity of medical literature. Preliminary evidence suggests that research in blood and marrow transplantation (BMT) lacks publication bias. We evaluated publication bias at an international conference, the 2006 Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR)/American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (ASBMT) "tandem" meeting. All abstracts were categorized by type of research, funding status, number of centers, sample size, and direction of the results. Publication status was then determined for the abstracts by searching PubMed. Of 501 abstracts, 217 (43%) were later published as complete manuscripts. Abstracts with positive results were more likely to be published than those with negative or unstated results (P = .001). Furthermore, positive studies were published in journals with a mean *impact factor* of 6.92, whereas journals in ! which negative/unstated studies were published had an *impact factor* of only 4.30 (P = .02). We conclude that publication bias exists in the BMT literature. Full publication of research, regardless of direction of results, should be encouraged and the BMT community should be aware of the existence of publication bias. (Blood. 2011;118(25):6698-6701) Reprint Address: Paulson, K (reprint author), Univ Manitoba, Sect Hematol Oncol, Dept Internal Med, Fac Med,Canc Care Manitoba, ON2050, Winnipeg, MB R3E OV9, Canada Addresses: [Paulson, Kristjan] Univ Manitoba, Sect Hematol Oncol, Dept Internal Med, Fac Med,Canc Care Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3E OV9, Canada [Mills, Jennifer] Northwestern Univ, Integrated Sci Chem & Phys Program, Evanston, IL USA [Cuvelier, Geoff D. E.; Wall, Donna] Univ Manitoba, Sect Hematol Oncol, Dept Pediat, Fac Med, Winnipeg, MB R3E OV9, Canada [Raymond, Colette] Univ Manitoba, Dept Community Hlth Sci, Fac Med, Winnipeg, MB R3E OV9, Canada E-mail Address: umpaul02 at cc.umanitoba.ca Cited Reference Count: 15 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY, 1900 M STREET. NW SUITE 200, WASHINGTON, DC 20036 USA ISSN: 0006-4971 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2011-08-367466 Subject Category: Hematology IDS Number: 863JC Unique ID: WOS:000298157600034 Cited References: SCHERER RW, 2007, COCHRANE DB SYST REV, V2, VONELM E, 2003, BMC MED RES METHODOL, V3, P12 Saeed M, 2011, BIOLOGY OF BLOOD AND MARROW TRANSPLANTATION, V17, P930 IOANNIDIS JPA, 2005, PLOS MED, V2, P124 PASQUINI MC, 2010, CLIN TRANSPL, P87 *THOMS REUT, 1000, J CIT REP ISI WEB KN, KRONGOLD R, 2006, P 2006 ASBMT CIBMTR, P1 De Angelis CD, 2005, JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, V293, P2927 PLOS MED, 2011, PLOS MED, V8, LANDIS JR, 1977, BIOMETRICS, V33, P159 DEBELLEFEUILLE C, 1992, ANNALS OF ONCOLOGY, V3, P187 Ramsey S, 2008, ONCOLOGIST, V13, P925 DICKERSIN K, 1990, JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, V263, P1385 Weber EJ, 1998, JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, V280, P257 *AM SOC HEM, 1000, INF ABSTR AUTH, ======================================================================= Title: Introduction: ECOC 2011 in Geneva Authors: Harder, CS Author Full Names: Harder, Christoph S. Source: OPTICS EXPRESS, 19 (26):978-982; SI DEC 12 2011 Language: English Document Type: Editorial Material Abstract: The "First European Conference on Optical Fibre Communication" was held in 1975 in London, organized by the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) and European Physical Society (EPS). A proceeding with 209 pages was printed by the IEE. In 1988, ECOC was held again in UK (Brighton) and the IEE pioneered dissemination by publishing for the first time the proceeding of a major conference on an electronic library (IEEE). Since 2008 printed ECOC proceedings are not distributed anymore at all. The 37th ECOC, held in Geneva, marks another publication milestone. For the first time selected proceeding papers are published in an ECOC/Optics Express Special Issue, making use of dissemination through a high *impact factor* and open access journal. (C) 2011 Optical Society of America Reprint Address: Harder, CS (reprint author), HPP, Program Chair ECOC 2011, Etzelstr 58, CH-8834 Schindellegi, Switzerland Addresses: HPP, Program Chair ECOC 2011, CH-8834 Schindellegi, Switzerland E-mail Address: harder at charder.ch Cited Reference Count 5 Publisher: OPTICAL SOC AMER, 2010 MASSACHUSETTS AVE NW, WASHINGTON, DC 20036 USA ISSN: 1094-4087 Subject Category: Optics IDS Number: 866JL Unique ID: WOS:000298376600127 Cited References: 1000, 37 ECOC 2011 C, HECHT J, 1999, CITY LIGHT, COLLADON D, 1842, COMPTES RENDUS, V15, P800 KAO KC, 1966, PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS-LONDON, V113, P1151 2011, 37 ECOC 2011 P 18 22, ======================================================================= . ] Title: Journal information flow in nanotechnology Authors: Andrievski, RA; Klyuchareva, SV Author Full Names: Andrievski, Rostislav A.; Klyuchareva, Svetlana V. Source: JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH, 13 (12):6221-6230; 10.1007/s11051-011-0621-7 DEC 2011 Language: English Document Type: Editorial Material Author Keywords: Nano-titled journal; Nano-related journal; Information flow; Nanotechnology; Nanomaterial; Impact factor; Periodicity; Nanoscale science and engineering publications KeyWords Plus: NANOSCIENCE; PUBLICATIONS; PATENTS Abstract: The nanotechnology development is accompanied by an intensive growth of information flow which is specially noticeable as applied to journal information flow. Now over the world there are the 69 nano-titled journals with the *impact factor* and/or a settled periodicity as well as the 70 those which lack stability periodicity and are in an organization stage. Only 49 nano-titled have the *impact factor* with the comparatively high mean value of about 3.44. The domestic nano-titled journals published in Russia, India, China, and other countries are also considered. The attention is taken that in the 2006-2010 period the 95 new nano-titled journals were organized and in 2011 this process is continuing and seems to be the most impressive. Many nano-related journals (including classical physical, chemical and materials science ones) are also described and discussed. Reprint Address: Andrievski, RA (reprint author), Russian Acad Sci, Dept Inorgan Funct Mat, Inst Problems Chem Phys, Semenov Prospect 1, Moscow 142432, Russia Addresses: [Andrievski, Rostislav A.; Klyuchareva, Svetlana V.] Russian Acad Sci, Dept Inorgan Funct Mat, Inst Problems Chem Phys, Moscow 142432, Russia E-mail Address: ara at icp.ac.ru Cited Reference Count:17 Publisher: SPRINGER, VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 1388-0764 DOI: 10.1007/s11051-011-0621-7 Subject Category: Chemistry; Science & Technology - Other Topics; Materials Science IDS Number: 861YD Unique ID: WOS:000298056100001 Cited References: Leydesdorff L, 2008, SCIENTOMETRICS, V76, P159 Hullmann A, 2006, NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY, V1, P81 Youtie J, 2008, JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH, V10, P981 ZIBAREVA IV, 2010, CHEM SUSTAIN DEV, V18, P215 Kostoff RN, 2008, JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER, V33, P472 ANDRIEVSKI RA, 2007, ROSS NONOTEKHN, V2, P6 TEREKHOV AI, 2009, ROSS NANOTEKH, V4, P52 ROCO MC, 2000, NANOTECHNOLOGY RES D, ANDRIEVSKI RA, 2002, NANOTECHNOLOGY RES D, P267 Braun T, 2007, SCIENTOMETRICS, V70, P651 ANDRIEVSKI RA, 2007, MAT SCI NANOSTRUCT, V1, P109 Shapira P, 2010, NATURE, V468, P627 Roco MC, 2011, JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH, V13, P427 Huang C, 2011, JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER, V36, P145 Chen H, 2009, MAPPING NANOTECHNOLOGY INNOVATIONS AND KNOWLEDGE, V20, P1 Bassecoulard E, 2007, SCIENTOMETRICS, V70, P859 Kostoff RN, 2006, JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH, V8, P301 ======================================================================= Title: A Remarkable Journal *Impact Factor* for Simulation in Healthcare Authors: Gaba, DM Author Full Names: Gaba, David M. Source: SIMULATION IN HEALTHCARE, 6 (6):313-315; 10.1097/SIH.0b013e31823ca798 DEC 2011 Language: English Document Type: Editorial Material Reprint Address: Gaba, DM (reprint author), 291 Campus Dr,LK311C, Stanford, CA 94305 USA Addresses: [Gaba, David M.] Stanford Univ, Sch Med, Stanford, CA 94305 USA E-mail Address: gaba at stanford.edu Cited Reference Count: 10 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS, 530 WALNUT ST, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106-3621 USA ISSN: 1559-2332 DOI: 10.1097/SIH.0b013e31823ca798 Subject Category: Health Care Sciences & Services IDS Number: 863IH Unique ID: WOS:000298155500001 Cited References: ABRAHAMS.S, 1969, JOURNAL OF MEDICAL EDUCATION, V44, P515 Petsko GA, 2008, GENOME BIOLOGY, V9, BERGSTROM C, 2007, COLL RES LIB NEWS, V68, P314 Hirsch JE, 2005, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V102, P16569 DENSON JS, 1969, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, V208, P504 SEGLEN PO, 1997, BRIT MED J, V314, P497 Saha S, 2003, JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, V91, P42 Kanter SL, 2009, ACADEMIC MEDICINE, V84, P1169 Garfield E, 2006, JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, V295, P90 KOLB DA, 1984, EXPERIENTIAL LEARNIN, ======================================================================= Title: Publication Delay in Iranian Scholarly Journals Authors: Khosrowjerdi, M; Zeraatkar, N; Vara, N Author Full Names: Khosrowjerdi, Mahmood; Zeraatkar, Neda; Vara, Narjes Source: SERIALS REVIEW, 37 (4):262-266; 10.1016/j.serrev.2011.06.004 DEC 2011 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Iranian publication delay; Persian journals; Journal impact factor; Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC) KeyWords Plus: SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE Abstract: Scholarly periodicals in Iran are considered main information resources in the development of knowledge in scholarly areas. About 566 periodicals have publication licenses from the Commission of Scholarly Periodicals Evaluation of Ministry of Science, Research & Technology (MSRT), with sixty-eight published in English. This paper studies the publication delay of twenty-six Iranian scholarly periodicals which are published in Persian in Iran, not those Iranian journals which are published in English in Iran or out of the country. The peer review and scholarly publication processes in Iranian journals are quite lengthy and need improvement. There was no significant relationship between publication delay in Persian scholarly periodicals and their *impact factor* as presented by the Islamic World Science Citation Center (titled ISC). Finally, the authors offer some solutions for improving the publication system of Iranian scholarly journals and decreasing the publication interva! l of these journals. Serials Review 2011; 37:262-266. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved Reprint Address: Addresses: [Zeraatkar, Neda] Reg Informat Ctr Sci & Technol, Shiraz, Iran E-mail Address: mkhosro at gmail.com, neda.zeraatkar852 at gmail.com, narsisvara at gmail.com Cited Reference Count:19 Publisher: ELSEVIER INC, 525 B STREET, STE 1900, SAN DIEGO, CA 92101-4495 USA DOI: 10.1016/j.serrev.2011.06.004 Subject Category: Information Science & Library Science IDS Number: 862EX Unique ID: WOS:000298073700004 Cited References: TRIVEDI PK, 1993, JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECONOMETRICS, V8, P93 *ROYAL SOC, 1000, HIST, HOSEINIPAKDEHI A, 1995, RAHYAFT SPR, P30 Amat CB, 2008, SCIENTOMETRICS, V74, P379 BJORK BC, 2006, LEARN PUBL, V19, P147 SHEIBANI A, 2010, PAJOOHANDEH, V15, P72 RIAHI E, 1995, RAHYAFT SPR, P10 *MSRT, 2010, LIST RANK PER HUM 20, MORET BME, 1000, J ELECT PUBLISHING, V3, ZARE B, 1999, RESANEH, V10, P48 HARTMANN DL, 1000, ARE AMS J TOO SLOW B, HARNAD S, 1000, IMPLEMENTING PEER RE, Egghe L, 2000, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE, V51, P158 Torgerson DJ, 2005, BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL, V330, P305 Yu G, 2006, SCIENTOMETRICS, V67, P201 RELMAN AS, 1990, WESTERN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE, V153, P520 Yu G, 2008, SCIENTOMETRICS, V76, P407 Alidousti S, 2009, SERIALS REVIEW, V35, P253 Luwel M, 1998, SCIENTOMETRICS, V41, P29 ======================================================================= Title: The Brazilian Archives of Cardiology is the only cardiology journal in Latino America and the Southern hemisphere with *an* *impact factor* Authors: Taylor, J Author Full Names: Taylor, Jennifer Source: EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL, 32 (24):3059-3060; DEC 2011 Language: English Document Type: Editorial Material Cited Reference Count: 0 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PRESS, GREAT CLARENDON ST, OXFORD OX2 6DP, ENGLAND ISSN: 0195-668X Subject Category: Cardiovascular System & Cardiology IDS Number: 868AE Unique ID: WOS:000298495100003 ======================================================================= Title: What Fuels Publication Bias? Theoretical and Empirical Analyses of Risk Factors Using the Caliper Test Authors: Auspurg, K; Hinz, T Author Full Names: Auspurg, Katrin; Hinz, Thomas Source: JAHRBUCHER FUR NATIONALOKONOMIE UND STATISTIK, 231 (5-6):636-660; NOV 2011 Language: English Document Type: Article KeyWords Plus: REPLICATION RESEARCH; STATISTICAL TESTS; SOCIAL DILEMMAS; VICE-VERSA; SCIENCE; METAANALYSIS; SOCIOLOGY; ECONOMICS; JOURNALS; HYPOTHESES Abstract: Significance tests were originally developed to enable more objective evaluations of research results. Yet the strong orientation towards statistical significance encourages biased results, a phenomenon termed "publication bias". Publication bias occurs whenever the likelihood or time-lag of publication, or the prominence, language, *impact factor* of journal space or the citation rate of studies depend on the direction and significance of research findings. Although there is much evidence concerning the existence of publication bias in all scientific disciplines and although its detrimental consequences for the progress of the sciences have been known for a long time, all attempts to eliminate the bias have failed. The present article reviews the history and logic of significance testing, the state of research on publication bias, and existing practical recommendations. After demonstrating that more systematical research on the risk factors of publication bias is needed, the paper suggests two new directions for publication bias research. First, a more comprehensive theoretical model based on theories of rational choice and economics as well as on the sociology of science is sketched out. Publication bias is recognized as the outcome of a social dilemma that cannot be overcome by moral pleas alone. Second, detection methods for publication bias going beyond meta-analysis, ones that are more suitable for testing causal hypothese! s, are discussed. In particular, the "caliper test" seems well-suited for conducting theoretically motivated comparisons across heterogeneous research fields like sociology. Its potential is demonstrated by testing hypotheses on (a) the relevance of explicitly vs. implicitly stated research propositions and on (b) the relevance of the number of authors on incidence rates of publication bias in 50 papers published in leading German sociology journals. Reprint Address: Auspurg, K (reprint author), Univ Konstanz, Dept Hist & Sociol, Box D40, D-78457 Constance, Germany Addresses: [Auspurg, Katrin; Hinz, Thomas] Univ Konstanz, Dept Hist & Sociol, D-78457 Constance, Germany E-mail Address: katrin.auspurg at uni-konstanz.de, thomas.hinz at uni-konstanz.de Cited Reference Count: 89 Times Cited: 1 Publisher: LUCIUS LUCIUS VERLAG MBH, GEROKSTR 51, D-70184 STUTTGART, GERMANY ISSN: 0021-4027 Subject Category: Business & Economics; Mathematical Methods In Social Sciences IDS Number: 858DS Unique ID: WOS:000297776700006 Cited References: ASHENFELTER O, 1999, LABOUR ECON, V6, P453 FUNG R, 1000, DATA ANOMALIES MANAG, Stephan PE, 1996, JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE, V34, P1199 Stanley TD, 2005, JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC SURVEYS, V19, P309 ROSNOW RL, 1989, AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST, V44, P1276 ALCHIAN AA, 1972, AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW, V62, P777 LEDYARD JO, 1995, HDB EXPT EC, P111 STANLEY TD, 2007, WORKING PAPER EC SER, DICKERSIN K, 2005, PUBLICATION BIAS 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V22, P635 EPSTEIN WM, 1990, SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & HUMAN VALUES, V15, P9 STERLING TD, 1959, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION, V54, P30 ======================================================================= ======================================================================= ======================================================================= Title: Evaluating the Quality of a Journal: JCEHP'*s* 2010 *Impact Factor* Authors: Olson, CA Author Full Names: Olson, Curtis A. Source: JOURNAL OF CONTINUING EDUCATION IN THE HEALTH PROFESSIONS, 31 (4):223-224; 10.1002/chp.20132 FAL 2011 Language: English Document Type: Editorial Material Reprint Address: Olson, CA (reprint author), Univ Wisconsin, Off Continuing Profess Dev Med & Publ Hlth, 2701 Int Lane,Suite 208, Madison, WI 53704 USA Addresses: Univ Wisconsin, Off Continuing Profess Dev Med & Publ Hlth, Madison, WI 53704 USA E-mail Address: caolson at ocpd.wisc.edu Cited Reference Count: 5 Publisher: WILEY PERIODICALS, INC, COMMERCE PLACE, 350 MAIN STREET, MALDEN, MA 02148-529 USA ISSN: 0894-1912 DOI: 10.1002/chp.20132 Subject Category: Education & Educational Research; Health Care Sciences & Services IDS Number: 867VW Unique ID: WOS:000298483900001 Cited References: HUBBARD SC, 2011, LEARN PUBL, V24, P135 *THOMS REUT, 2008, PRES INT J IMP FACT, REGAZZI JJ, 2008, LEARN PUBL, V2, P225 GARFIELD E, 2005, INT C PEER REV BIOM, Graham ID, 2006, JOURNAL OF CONTINUING EDUCATION IN THE HEALTH PROFESSIONS, V26, P13 ======================================================================= ======================================================================= Title: Pain *research* in Croatia: Analysis of bibliometric trends Authors: Sapunar, D; Kostic, S; Banozic, A; Ferhatovic, L; Puljak, L Author Full Names: Sapunar, Damir; Kostic, Sandra; Banozic, Adriana; Ferhatovic, Lejla; Puljak, Livia Source: PERIODICUM BIOLOGORUM, 113 (2):137-140; JUN 2011 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: pain research; scientometrics; science policy; Croatia KeyWords Plus: PAPER; LIFE Abstract: Background and Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate number and type of Croatian publications in the field of pain research, and to compare it with peers. Material and Methods: The raw data were collected during February 2011 from the three Current Contents (CC) database subsets: Life Sciences, Clinical Medicine, and Social & Behavioral Sciences. We combined two data sets: the one with articles published by authors affiliated with Croatian institutions and the one with pain-related keywords. We studied number of publications, their impact factors and type of collaborations. Publications of Croatian authors in the field of pain research were compared with identical dataset comprising articles published by researchers from Graz, Austria, because of its comparable scientific production. Results: From 1998 to 2011, scientists from Croatian institutions published 194 pain-related articles indexed in CC, compared to 187 articles published by their peels from Graz. The 32% percent of articles were published in the local low-impact journals. The number of Croatian research publications in the field of pain is steadily increasing. However, an average *impact factor* of journals in our cohort was significantly lower compared to peels from Graz. Conclusion: Although the number of manuscripts in the field of pain research in Croatia is increasing, the quality of published articles is still low. We propose that Croatian Association for the Treatment of Pain should take actions for enhancing pain research in Croatia, as well as increasing the visibility and impact of Croatian pain-related research that can be transposed to other research fields and transitional countries. Reprint Address: Sapunar, D (reprint author), Univ Split, Sch Med, Lab Pain Res, Soltanska 2, Split 21000, Croatia Addresses: [Sapunar, Damir; Kostic, Sandra; Banozic, Adriana; Ferhatovic, Lejla; Puljak, Livia] Sch Med Split, Lab Pain Res, Split 21000, Croatia E-mail Address: ds at mefst.hr Cited Reference Count: 10 Publisher: PERIODICUM BIOLOGORUM, HRVATSKO PRIRODOSLOVNO DRUSTVO ILICA 16/111, 41000 ZAGREB, CROATIA ISSN: 0031-5362 Subject Category: Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics IDS Number: 864DC Unique ID: WOS:000298216200004 Cited References: SAPUNAR D, 1999, LIJEC VJESN, V121, P208 MERSKEY H, 1994, PAIN TERMS CURRENT L, Niv D, 2007, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PAIN, V11, P487 Mogil JS, 2009, PAIN, V142, P48 Robert C, 2008, PAIN, V138, P250 Mantyselka P, 2001, PAIN, V89, P175 NIV D, 2004, PAIN PRACT, V4, P179 Puljak L, 2008, CROATIAN MEDICAL JOURNAL, V49, P164 Breivik H, 2006, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PAIN, V10, P287 Puljak L, 2008, CROATIAN MEDICAL JOURNAL, V49, P155 ======================================================================= From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Fri Jan 20 12:29:52 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:29:52 +0000 Subject: Papers on bibliometrics and impact factor Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A bibliometric study of Video Retrieval Evaluation Benchmarking (TRECVid): A methodological analysis (Article, English) AUTHOR: Thornley, CV; McLoughlin, SJ; Johnson, AC; Smeaton, AF SOURCE: JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE 37 (6). DEC 2011. p.577-593 SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, LONDON SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; BIBLIOMETR* item_title; J INF SCI source_abbrev_20 KEYWORDS: bibliometrics; methodology; research evaluation; TRECVid; video retrieval; visualization KEYWORDS+: WEB-OF-SCIENCE; GOOGLE SCHOLAR; H-INDEX; CITATION ANALYSIS; SCOPUS; IMPACT; JOURNALS; COUNTS ABSTRACT: This paper provides a discussion and analysis of methodological issues encountered during a scholarly impact and bibliometric study within the field of Computer Science (TRECVid Text Retrieval and Evaluation Conference, Video Retrieval Evaluation). The purpose of this paper is to provide a reflection and analysis of the methods used to provide useful information and guidance for those who may wish to undertake similar studies, and is of particular relevance for the academic disciplines which have publication and citation norms that may not perform well using traditional tools. Scopus and Google Scholar are discussed and a detailed comparison of the effects of different search methods and cleaning methods within and between these tools for subject and author analysis is provided. The additional database capabilities and usefulness of 'Scopus More' in addition to 'Scopus General' are discussed and evaluated. Scopus paper coverage is found to favourably compare with Google Scholar but Scholar consistently has superior performance at finding citations to those papers. These additional citations significantly increase the citation totals and also change the relative ranking of papers. Publish or Perish, a software wrapper for Google Scholar, is also examined and its limitations and some possible solutions are described. Data cleaning methods, including duplicate checks, expert domain checking of bibliographic data, and content checking of retrieved papers, are compared and their relative effects on paper and citation count discussed. Google Scholar and Scopus are also compared as tools for collecting bibliographic data for visualizations of developing trends and, owing to the comparative ease of collecting abstracts, Scopus is found far more effective. AUTHOR ADDRESS: CV Thornley, UCL, Dept Informat Studies, Mortimer St, London WC1E 6BT, England -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A personalized search using a semantic distance measure in a graph-based ranking model (Article, English) AUTHOR: Daoud, M; Tamine, L; Boughanem, M SOURCE: JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE 37 (6). DEC 2011. p.614-636 SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, LONDON SEARCH TERM(S): J INF SCI source_abbrev_20 KEYWORDS: graph formalism; ontology; personalization; user profile KEYWORDS+: INFORMATION-RETRIEVAL; WEB SEARCH; ANATOMY ABSTRACT: The goal of search personalization is to tailor search results to individual users by taking into account their profiles, which include their particular interests and preferences. As these latter are multiple and change over time, personalization becomes effective when the search process takes into account the current user interest. This article presents a search personalization approach that models a semantic user profile and focuses on a personalized document ranking model based on an extended graph-based distance measure. Documents and user profiles are both represented by graphs of concepts issued from predefined web ontology, namely, the Open Directory Project directory (ODP). Personalization is then based on reordering the search results of related queries according to a graph-based document ranking model. This former is based on using a graph-based distance measure combining the minimum common supergraph and the maximum common subgraph between the document and the user profile graphs. We extend this measure in order to take into account a semantic recovery at exact and approximate concept-level matching. Experimental results show the effectiveness of our personalized graph-based ranking model compared with Yahoo and different personalized ranking models performed using classical graph-based measures or vector- space similarity measures. AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Daoud, Univ Toulouse 3, IRIT, 118 Route Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse 9, France -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: THE RESEARCH PUBLISHED IN OIL SHALE: HOW IT LOOKS IN BIBLIOMETRIC INDICATORS (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Kalm, V SOURCE: OIL SHALE 28 (4). 2011. p.467-468 ESTONIAN ACADEMY PUBLISHERS, TALLINN SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title; EDITORIAL doctype AUTHOR ADDRESS: V Kalm, Univ Tartu, Tartu, Estonia -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: ANALYSIS OF SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS IN CIVIL AND GEODETIC ENGINEERING IN SLOVENIA, IN THE CASE OF THE FACULTY OF CIVIL AND GEODETIC ENGINEERING IN UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA (Article, Slovene) AUTHOR: Povh, TK; Juznic, P; Turk, Z; Turk, G SOURCE: GEODETSKI VESTNIK 55 (4). DEC 2011. p.764-780 ASSOC SURVEYORS SLOVENIA, LJUBLJANA SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth KEYWORDS: scientific publications; civil engineering; geodesy; citations of publications; open access; green road of open access KEYWORDS+: OPEN-ACCESS; CITATION; IMPACT ABSTRACT: The development of science is accompanied by the growth of scientific publications in the form of articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals. We analysed the scientific papers of the employees of the Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, University of Ljubljana, in the field of construction and geodesy for the period from 2003 to 2008, their citations, methods of publication and open access. The analysis was conducted in the ISI/Web of Knowledge and Google Scholar information systems. We wanted to determine how both information systems show the visibility of scientific production, specifically the number of articles and their citations, and make data comparisons. We have not found many significant differences in the information systems regarding these two elements. AUTHOR ADDRESS: TK Povh, UL FGG Knjiznica, Jamova 1, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Tue Jan 24 02:30:04 2012 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:30:04 +0100 Subject: Alternatives to the Journal Impact Factor (Scientometrics, forthcoming) Message-ID: Alternatives to the Journal Impact Factor: I3 and the Top-10% (or Top-25%?) of the Most-Highly Cited Papers Journal Impact Factors can be considered historically as the first attempt to normalize citation distributions by using averages over two years. However, it has been recognized that citation distributions vary among fields of science and that one needs to normalize for this. Furthermore, the mean--or any central-tendency statistics--is not a good representation of the citation distribution because these distributions are skewed. Important steps have been taken to solve these two problems during the last few years. First, one can normalize at the article level using the citing audience as the reference set. Second, one can use non-parametric statistics for testing the significance of differences among ratings. A proportion of most-highly cited papers (the top-10% or top-quartile) on the basis of fractional counting of the citations may provide an alternative to the current IF. This indicator is intuitively simple, allows for statistical testing, and accords with the state of the art. _____ Loet Leydesdorff Professor, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel. +31-20-525 6598; fax: +31-842239111 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ Visiting Professor, ISTIC, Beijing; Honorary Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex; http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYAAAAJ&hl=en -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nyggus at GMAIL.COM Tue Jan 24 05:46:49 2012 From: nyggus at GMAIL.COM (Marcin Kozak) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:46:49 +0100 Subject: 5BOAC: Call-for-papers In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Some of you might be interested in the Fifth Belgrade International Open Access Conference 2012, call for papers for which is included in the file enclosed. One of the topics of interest is local and regional journals evaluation, with more specific topics such as - Visibility, full-text availability and impact - Impact Factor of "non-indexed" journals - Other-than-impact journals indicators - Role of national and regional citation databases - Open citation indexes: Potentials of Google Scholar - The role of global citation indexes (WoS and Scopus) in DTC journals development - International aggregators admission criteria - Measuring quality of social sciences and humanities journals: The purpose of ERIC. Best wishes, Marcin Kozak -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 5BOAC-Call-for-papers.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 289099 bytes Desc: 5BOAC-Call-for-papers.pdf URL: From subbiah_a at YAHOO.COM Tue Jan 24 18:42:37 2012 From: subbiah_a at YAHOO.COM (Subbiah Arunachalam) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:42:37 -0800 Subject: 5BOAC: Call-for-papers In-Reply-To: Message-ID: ________________________________ Dear Dr Kozak: One of the key issues in the area of metrics is the validity of conventionally used metrics in the context of evaluating performance in science in developing countries. Often the research performed in DCs may not appear in high impact journals and not highly cited, but may be very useful in the field. The usual indicators based on publication and citation counts may not reflect the true impact or influence of such work.? This problem can be mitigated to some extent if all research is available in the open domain (through open access repositories).? It is for this reason we should encourage all efforts to promote open access repositories everywhere. The Electronic Publishing Trust for Development (EPT) has instituted an award for individuals advancing the cause of open access in DCs. And the award in its inaugural year goes to Dr Francis Jayakanth of India.? I would be grateful if yu and your collegues at the ASIS&T Special Interst Group on Metrcs do all you can to promote open access to science and scholarship through repositories. Regards. Subbiah Arunachalam Chennai, India Sunday, 1 January 2012 EPT OA AWARD 2011- announcing the winner! MANY CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR INAUGURAL WINNER! ?***************************************************** Press Release?January 1st?2012 INAUGURAL EPT AWARD for OPEN ACCESS The Electronic Publishing Trust for Development is pleased to announce the winners of a new annual award to be made toindividuals?working in developing countries who have made a significant personal contribution to advancing the cause of open access and the free exchange of research findings. We received 30 proposals from organisations in 17 developing countries on four continents, naming individuals who have worked hard to promote Open Access and who have achieved substantial progress. The selection of a single winner was extremely difficult as we received nominations for so many individuals who have made impressive strides by any or all of the following means:-? * establishing OA institutional repositories; * setting up or encouraging conversion to OA journals; * achieving establishment of OA mandates requiring?research to be OA on? publication, or other policy?developments; * advocating OA via seminars, publications, workshops, videos; * training others in the technology of setting up IRs; * ?preparing and establishing e-learning projects; * working towards the acceptance of Creative Commons licensing arrangements for research publications; * developing software for use in OA practices. Because of the high standard of the applicants, we have decided to name a single winner, but also to recognise three other individuals who were very close runners-up. All will receive a certificate and the winner will receive in addition an engraved plaque in the next few weeks. We are very happy to announce that the winner of the inaugural award is?Dr Francis Jayakanth?of the National Centre for Scientific Information, Indian Institute of Science,?Bangalore,?India.? Dr Jayakanth played a significant role in the establishment of?India?s first institutional repository (IR) (http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in). He now manages the IR and has provided technical support for establishing IRs in many other universities and institutes in?India. He has been the key resource person at many events to train people in setting up IRs and OA journals. He has delivered presentations on IRs, OA journals, the OAI protocol, OAI compliance, the benefits of OA to authors and institutions and the role of libraries. He has developed a free and open source software tool (CDSOAI), which is widely used.? The Indian Institute of Science is the most prestigious institute inIndia?and its IR now holds >31,400 records, making?the century-old institute's research far more globally?visible than before. The University Grants Commission in?India?has been impressed by the IISC?s IR and has directed all universities in?India?to replicate this effort. Francis Jayakanth can indeed be considered an OA ?renaissance man?, an advocate and technical expert in all aspect of Open Access development and an inspiration to all, both at the research and policy level. The EPT is proud to congratulate Dr Jayakanth as our first Award winner. We believe this Award and the example of our first winner will inspire many others and lead to similarly impressive nominations? in 2012. The runners-up for this award were (in alphabetical order):? ? -?Ina Smith,?University of Stellenbosch,?South Africa; ? -?Tatyan Zayseva,?Khazar University,?Azerbaijan; ? - Xiaolin Zhang, National Science Library,?Chinese?Academy?of? Science. The EPT wishes to congratulate them and?all?who have been proposed, since without exception they have made a significant personal contribution to the sharing of research findings across the world.? We will be sharing some of their stories and successes on our blog over the next few weeks. Electronic Publishing Trust for Development Web site?http://www.epublishingtrust.org Ept Blog?http://www.epublishingtrust.blogspot.com ================================================= -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Wed Jan 25 12:40:35 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:40:35 +0000 Subject: Stylized facts..... Message-ID: - ========================== Start of Data ========================= TITLE: Bibliometrics, Stylized Facts and the Way Ahead: How to Build Good Social Simulation Models of Science? (Article, English) AUTHOR: Meyer, M SOURCE: JASSS-THE JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL SOCIETIES AND SOCIAL SIMULATION 14 (4). OCT 2011. p.NIL_17-NIL_23 J A S S S, GUILDFORD SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK SCIENCE 159:56 1968; BIBLIOMETR* KEYWORDS: Bibliometrics; Stylized Facts; Methodology; Model Comparison; Validation KEYWORDS+: HALF-LIFE ABSTRACT: This paper discusses how stylized facts derived from bibliometric studies can be used to build social simulation models of science. Based on a list of six stylized facts of science it illustrates how they can be brought into play to consolidate and direct research. Moreover, it discusses challenges such a stylized facts based approach of modeling science has to solve. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ========================== End of Data =========================== You can purchase the full text of any document by simply entering an X in the box to the left of the reference. 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Copyright (C) 2003 by ISI Thomson Scientific All rights reserved. No portion of this data may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher. From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Wed Jan 25 14:24:40 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:24:40 +0000 Subject: papers of interest to SIG Metrics readers Message-ID: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Index to Divisions of al-Ghazali's Often-Cited Published Works (Article, English) AUTHOR: al-Akiti, MA SOURCE: MUSLIM WORLD 102 (1 SP ISS). JAN 2012. p.70-200 WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN SEARCH TERM(S): CITED item_title AUTHOR ADDRESS: MA al-Akiti, Univ Oxford, Oxford OX1 2JD, England ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: National characteristics and competitiveness in MOT research: A comparative analysis of ten specialty journals, 2000-2009 (Article, English) AUTHOR: Choi, DG; Lee, YB; Jung, MJ; Lee, H SOURCE: TECHNOVATION 32 (1). JAN 2012. p.9-18 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNALS item_title KEYWORDS: Management of technology and innovation; MOT research; National competitiveness for MOT; Relative research advantage profile; RRA; Bibliometric analysis KEYWORDS+: INNOVATION MANAGEMENT JOURNALS; TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT; BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE; PUBLICATION; COUNTRIES; SYSTEMS; COOPERATION; PERSPECTIVE; CITATION ABSTRACT: This paper addresses how countries placed a different intellectual focus on the management of technology and innovation (MOT) research in ten leading MOT specialty journals published in 2000-2009. The result confirms that each country has quite diverse relative research interests and performances in MOT domains. Among the top seven leading countries in MOT research, the US has a comparative advantage in project management (PJM); the UK has one in social change (SCH); and Spain has one in intellectual property (IPR). The other four countries show much more dynamic observations. Netherlands has clearly a comparative advantage in technology policy (TPO), while Taiwan has one in technology analysis and forecast (TAF), Germany in entrepreneurship (ENT), and Italy in technology transfer and commercialization (TTC). This paper contributes to the MOT community by providing much clearer evidence of how countries become differently positioned in the global MOT arena. These empirical findings demonstrate significant differences in the comparative competitiveness of countries involved in MOT research that were little known earlier. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: H Lee, Sungkyunkwan Univ, Dept Management Technol, Suwon 440746, Gyeongi Do, South Korea -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: INDICATORS FOR RESEARCH PERFORMANCE EVALUATION: AN OVERVIEW (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Froghi, S; Ahmed, K; Finch, A; Fitzpatrick, JM; Khan, MS; Dasgupta, P SOURCE: BJU INTERNATIONAL 109 (3). FEB 2012. p.321-323 WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 122:108 1955; EDITORIAL doctype KEYWORDS+: SCIENTIFIC-RESEARCH OUTPUT; H-INDEX; BIBLIOMETRICS; PUBLICATION; PUBLISH; SCORE AUTHOR ADDRESS: S Froghi, Kings Coll London, MRC Ctr Transplantat, NIHR Biomed Res Ctr, King s Hlth Partners, London WC2R 2LS, England -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Some Critical Notes on Citation Metrics and Heterodox Economics (Article, English) AUTHOR: Kapeller, J SOURCE: REVIEW OF RADICAL POLITICAL ECONOMICS 42 (3). SEP 2010. p.330-337 SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC, THOUSAND OAKS SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth; MERTON RK SCIENCE 159:56 1968; CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS: heterodox economics; citation metrics; RRPE KEYWORDS+: SCIENCE ABSTRACT: This article investigates citations metrics as an institutional phenomenon from two perspectives: first it tries to articulate the role of citation metrics within a Gramscian framework; second it compares citation patterns from orthodox and heterodox economic journals to gain insights on the current economic discourse. Complementary to this general question the role of the Review of Radical Political Economics within citation metrics will be discussed. AUTHOR ADDRESS: J Kapeller, Univ Linz, Dept Philosophy & Theory Sci, Freistadterstr 315, A-4040 Linz, Austria - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Where Are We in the "Long March to Legitimacy?" Assessing Scholarship in Management Learning and Education (Article, English) AUTHOR: Rynes, SL; Brown, KG SOURCE: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT LEARNING & EDUCATION 10 (4). DEC 2011. p.561-582 ACAD MANAGEMENT, BRIARCLIFF MANOR SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; GARFIELD E JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 295:90 2006 KEYWORDS+: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT; ORGANIZATIONAL SCIENCE; IMPACT FACTOR; KNOWLEDGE; FIELD; CONSEQUENCES; DISCONNECTS; JOURNALS; BEHAVIOR; SUCCESS ABSTRACT: Although scholarship in management learning and education (MLE) has existed for many years, its volume and visibility have increased dramatically over the past decade. With the addition of Academy of Management Learning and Education (AMLE) in 2002 and Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education (DSJIE) in 2003 to the long-established journals of Management Learning (ML) and Journal of Management Education (JME), the number of major journals dedicated to MLE scholarship doubled. As such, it seems a good time to examine the current state of MLE research in terms of multiple indicators of scholarly legitimacy. Accordingly, we review 6 years (2002-2007) of primary research studies in these "Big-Four" MLE scholarship journals with respect to consequential, procedural, structural, and personal legitimacy (Suchman, 1995) and compare them to articles from the premiere empirical management journal, Academy of Management Journal (AMJ). Results suggest differences in legitimacy across journals, with AMLE leading the group of MLE journals along most indicators. Suggestions for both authors and editors to further advance the field's legitimacy are offered. AUTHOR ADDRESS: SL Rynes, Univ Iowa, Tippie Coll Business, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Cost efficiency of university hospitals in the Nordic countries: a cross-country analysis (Article, English) AUTHOR: Medin, E; Anthun, KS; Hakkinen, U; Kittelsen, SAC; Linna, M; Magnussen, J; Olsen, K; Rehnberg, C SOURCE: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEALTH ECONOMICS 12 (6). DEC 2011. p.509-519 SPRINGER, NEW YORK SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; GARFIELD E BRIT MED J 313:411 1996 KEYWORDS: International cost efficiency comparison; University hospital; Data envelopment analysis (DEA); Diagnose related groups (DRGs) KEYWORDS+: FINNISH HOSPITALS; EUROPEAN-UNION; IMPACT FACTOR; FRONTIER; MODELS ABSTRACT: This paper estimates cost efficiency scores using the bootstrap bias-corrected procedure, including variables for teaching and research, for the performance of university hospitals in the Nordic countries. Previous research has shown that hospital provision of research and education interferes with patient care routines and inflates the costs of health care services, turning university hospitals into outliers in comparative productivity and efficiency analyses. The organisation of patient care, medical education and clinical research as well as available data at the university hospital level are highly similar in the Nordic countries, creating a data set of comparable decision-making units suitable for a cross-country cost efficiency analysis. The results demonstrate significant differences in university hospital cost efficiency when variables for teaching and research are entered into the analysis, both between and within the Nordic countries. The results of a second-stage analysis show that the most important explanatory variables are geographical location of the hospital and the share of discharges with a high case weight. However, a substantial amount of the variation in cost efficiency at the university hospital level remains unexplained. AUTHOR ADDRESS: E Medin, Karolinska Inst, Med Management Ctr, S-17177 Stockholm, Sweden Note: In The following source title the term "actual" is a mistranslation and should be "current". EG -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: METHODICAL GROUNDS FOR INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS ASSESSMENT OF WORLD CLASS RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES (Article, Russian) AUTHOR: Sakharov, VY; Ilnytskyi, DO SOURCE: ACTUAL PROBLEMS OF ECONOMICS (125). 2011. p.152-168 NATIONAL ACAD MANAGEMENT, KYIV SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005 KEYWORDS: university ranking methodology; indices of international competitiveness of the research; universities ABSTRACT: The article basing on generalization of the methodical approaches to the rating procedure for the world class universities conducted by the leading companies in this field, systematizes the indices that are used as indicators of the development level and of the functional efficiency for the research universities. These indices can be used for assessment and analysis of the international competitiveness of the research universities in Ukraine. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Bite-Size Science and Its Undesired Side Effects (Article, English) AUTHOR: Bertamini, M; Munafo, MR SOURCE: PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE 7 (1). JAN 2012. p.67-71 SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, LONDON SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E CURR CONTENTS :5 1982; HUTH EJ ANN INTERN MED 104:257 1986; PERSPECT PSYCHOL SCI source_abbrev_20 KEYWORDS: allied field; behavioral; cognition; perception; publishing KEYWORDS+: GENETIC ASSOCIATION; BIAS; IMPACT; PUBLICATION; METAANALYSIS; CITATION; TRIALS ABSTRACT: Short and rapid publication of research findings has many advantages. However, there is another side of the coin that needs careful consideration. We argue that the most dangerous aspect of a shift toward "bite-size" publishing is the relationship between study size and publication bias. Findings based on a single study or a study based on a limited sample size are more likely to be false positive, because the false positive rate remains constant, whereas the true positive rate (the power) declines as sample size declines. Pressure on productivity and on novelty value further exacerbates the problem. AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Bertamini, Univ Liverpool, Sch Psychol, Bedford St S, Liverpool L69 7ZA, Merseyside, England -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The Consequences of Predicting Scientific Impact in Psychology Using Journal Impact Factors (Article, English) AUTHOR: Hegarty, P; Walton, Z SOURCE: PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE 7 (1). JAN 2012. p.72-78 SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, LONDON SEARCH TERM(S): CAWKELL A* SEGLEN PO J AM SOC INFORM SCI 45:1 1994; IMPACT FACTOR* GARFIELD E JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 295:90 2006; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 178:471 1972; PERSPECT PSYCHOL SCI source_abbrev_20 KEYWORDS: allied field; sociology; methodology; quantitative; methodology; scientific; sex/gender KEYWORDS+: PERSONALITY PSYCHOLOGY; CITATION COUNTS; SCIENCE; PUBLICATIONS; REFERENCES; JUDGMENTS; KNOWLEDGE; ARTICLES; GRAPHS; WOMEN ABSTRACT: An academic journal's impact factor (hereafter JIF) is an average measure of the citation count of individual articles published in that journal. JIF is used to assess merit, predict impact, and allocate resources, but the actual number of citations to individual articles is only modestly correlated with the JIFs of the journals in which they are published. We counted PsycInfo citations to 1,133 articles published in nine leading psychology journals (1996-2005). Both article length (r =.31) and reference list length (r = .41) predicted log-transformed citation counts better than JIF (r = .27). Articles with fewer graphs and more structural equation models were more frequently cited. Citation count was better predicted by a model based on article length and citation count rather than JIF. When JIF was used to predict citation count, the impact of women authors and social science research was underestimated. These findings distinguish impact in science, as measured by JIF, from actual impact in psychology, and they show the unintended consequences of using a measure of the former to predict the latter. AUTHOR ADDRESS: P Hegarty, Univ Surrey, Dept Psychol, Guildford GU2 7XH, Surrey, England -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Awaiting the first impact factor in 2012: summary of the most read articles in the Polish Archives of Internal Medicine 2009-2010 (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Undas, A SOURCE: POLSKIE ARCHIWUM MEDYCYNY WEWNETRZNEJ-POLISH ARCHIVES OF INTERNAL MEDICINE 121 (12). 2011. p.423-427 MEDYCYNA PRAKTYCZNA, KRAKOW SEARCH TERM(S): IMPACT FACTOR* item_title; EDITORIAL doctype KEYWORDS+: CLINICAL-PRACTICE GUIDELINES; MANAGEMENT; DIAGNOSIS; SOCIETY; DRUGS AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Undas, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Coll Med, Inst Kardiol, Ul Pradnicka 80, PL-31202 Krakow, Poland -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The modals ARE declining Reply to Neil Millar's "Modal verbs in TIME: Frequency changes 1923-2006", International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 14:2 (2009), 191-220 (Article, English) AUTHOR: Leech, G SOURCE: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CORPUS LINGUISTICS 16 (4). 2011. p.547-564 JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY, AMSTERDAM SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNAL item_title KEYWORDS: modals; English; TIME Corpus; Brown family; COHA; COCA KEYWORDS+: ENGLISH ABSTRACT: To simplify for reasons of conciseness, Millar's article (2009) makes claims (a)-(c): (a) Contrary to Leech's (2003) evidence from the Brown family of corpora that the overall frequency of the modal auxiliaries significantly declined between 1961 and 1991, Millar's (2009) investigation of modals in the TIME corpus shows that the overall frequency of modals has been increasing. (b) The TIME corpus has advantages over the Brown family - notably it has a large number of temporal data points, compared with just two data points (1961 and 1991) for the Brown family, the corpus is much larger, covers a much longer time span, and although restricted in genre, is robustly representative of that genre. (c) Compared with the findings of Millar (2009), therefore, the results of Leech (2003) are questionable. In response, I aim to show that overall the modal auxiliaries have indeed been declining in frequency, and that conclusion (c) is unjustified. AUTHOR ADDRESS: G Leech, Univ Lancaster, Dept Linguist & English Language, Lancaster LA1 4YL, England -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The evaluation of citation distributions (Article, English) AUTHOR: Ruiz-Castillo, J SOURCE: SERIES-JOURNAL OF THE SPANISH ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION 3 (1-2 SP ISS). MAR 2012. p.291-310 SPRINGER HEIDELBERG, HEIDELBERG SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS: Citation analysis; Power law; Research performance; Poverty measurement; European paradox KEYWORDS+: RANKING SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS; NATIONAL RESEARCH PERFORMANCE; BIBLIOMETRIC TOOLS; SCIENCE SYSTEM; IMPACT; POVERTY; INDEX; CONSEQUENCES; EXCELLENCE; LAW ABSTRACT: This paper reviews a number of recent contributions that demonstrate that a blend of welfare economics and statistical analysis is useful in the evaluation of the citations received by scientific papers in the periodical literature. The paper begins by clarifying the role of citation analysis in the evaluation of research. Next, a summary of results about the citation distributions' basic features at different aggregation levels is offered. These results indicate that citation distributions share the same broad shape, are highly skewed, and are often crowned by a power law. In light of this evidence, a novel methodology for the evaluation of research units is illustrated by comparing the high- and low-citation impact achieved by the US, the European Union, and the rest of the world in 22 scientific fields. However, contrary to recent claims, it is shown that mean normalization at the sub-field level does not lead to a universal distribution. Nevertheless, among other topics subject to ongoing research, it appears that this lack of universality does not preclude sensible normalization procedures to compare the citation impact of articles in different scientific fields. AUTHOR ADDRESS: J Ruiz-Castillo, Univ Carlos III Madrid, Dept Econ, Madrid, Spain -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Chinese Academic Journals Evaluation Method and Application (Article, English) AUTHOR: Hu, Y; Wang, HW; Zhang, Y SOURCE: COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION OF ECONOMY AND SOCIETY WITH STATISTICAL SCIENCE. 2010. p.429-433 AUSSINO ACAD PUBL HOUSE, MARRICKVILLE SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNALS item_title KEYWORDS: Journal evaluation; Interval data; PCA; Correlation analysis ABSTRACT: In this paper, we firstly use journal data in CSCD to screen key indicators for journals evaluation by correlation analysis; then we package large-scale journal data by interval data analysis method and demonstrate the overall data set information through visual tools. Meanwhile, we construct comprehensive evaluation index structure by principal component analysis and sort journals in Chemical Sciences to show the effectiveness and practicality of this evaluation method. Finally, based on analysis results and combined with the development of Chinese academic journals, this paper proposes policy recommendation for evaluation management of academic journal. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Overall and by Fields Research Output Evaluation of Chinese Mainland Universities Based on ESI Database (Article, English) AUTHOR: Cao, Y; Tong, HF; Yu, J SOURCE: COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION OF ECONOMY AND SOCIETY WITH STATISTICAL SCIENCE. 2010. p.485-494 AUSSINO ACAD PUBL HOUSE, MARRICKVILLE SEARCH TERM GARFIELD E SCIENCE 122:108 1955 KEYWORDS: Bibliometrics; Research output; AI; CPP/FCSm KEYWORDS+: BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS; RESEARCH PERFORMANCE; BASIC RESEARCH; MOLECULAR-BIOLOGY; DEPARTMENTS; PUBLICATIONS; EFFICIENCY; DIMENSION ABSTRACT: The research performance of mainland China universities is evaluated in this study from the global perspective. Based on the Essential Science Indicators (ESI) database, the main research concern is the academic output in overall fields and the strength in certain fields of top 20 universities ranking by citation. Indicators about the numbers of paper and citation are obtained from ESI to interpret the general academic performance of universities. The other indicators are considered as the population of faculty, the activity index, as well as the relative impact index. The statistical results show that the universities in mainland China in terms of quality and quantity of research output have considerable gap. Meanwhile, a large degree of influence to research concentrated in some specific fields is existed. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The Quantitative Analysis of Supply Chain Development in China - Based on Bibliometric Analysis in 1990-2009 (Article, English) AUTHOR: Guo, SD; Li, Y; Liu, B SOURCE: AGRICULTURAL REFORMATION AND RURAL PROGRESSING. 2010. p.445-449 AUSSINO ACAD PUBL HOUSE, MARRICKVILLE SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS: Supply chain; Journal articles; Bibliometric ABSTRACT: In this paper, the literatures containing the words "supply chain" in title were captured and statistically analyzed from CNKI database in 1990-2009 and the scale and the growth of Chinese supply chain research were studied, according to the papers' year, project financing, distribution of region, periodical, keywords, highly cited and so on, which revealed the development and the problems of Chinese supply chain. AUTHOR ADDRESS: SD Guo, Henan Agr Univ, Zhengzhou 450002, Peoples R China - From katy at INDIANA.EDU Wed Jan 25 16:44:53 2012 From: katy at INDIANA.EDU (Katy Borner) Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:44:53 -0500 Subject: NetSci 2012 & ACM WebSci 2012 Calls for Submission In-Reply-To: Message-ID: NetSci 2012 and ACM WebSci 2012 are pleased to announce -- CALLS FOR PAPERS. This collaboration will be a great opportunity to explore the many facets of network science and web science with both events taking place at Northwestern University near Chicago, Illinois, USA. 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Therefore this year we are providing three different submission formats (papers, notes, and abstracts) to allow for a wide range of submissions from all disciplines relevant for Web Science. Submission Guidelines for Research Papers& Research Notes Research papers and research notes should present new results and original work that has not been previously published. Research papers should present significant theoretical, empirical, methodological, or policy-oriented contributions to research and/or practice. Research notes should describe brief and focused research contributions that are noteworthy. Papers can be up to 10 pages; notes up to 4 pages. All submissions should be formatted according to the official ACM SIG proceedings template (WebSci archive format at http://chi2012.acm.org/cfp-formatting-instructions.shtml#extendedformat) and submitted via EasyChair. 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Submissions that are thought-provoking and novel will be more appropriate for longer presentation, while those that are expected to stimulate discussion will be ideal for presentation in smaller groups or as posters. Deadlines February 12: Submissions of papers and notes due February 26: Submissions of extended abstracts due March 31: Notification of acceptance April 29: Final versions of papers, notes, and extended abstracts due June 22-24: Web Science 2011 Conference, Evanston, Illinois, USA General Chairs Noshir Contractor, Northwestern University, US Brian Uzzi, Northwestern University, US Program Chairs Michael Macy, Cornell University, US Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S Research Center, Germany -- Katy Borner Victor H. Yngve Professor of Information Science Director, CI for Network Science Center, http://cns.iu.edu Curator, Mapping Science exhibit, http://scimaps.org School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University Wells Library 021, 1320 E. Tenth Street, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA Phone: (812) 855-3256 Fax: -6166 From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Thu Jan 26 16:15:56 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:15:56 +0000 Subject: Papers of interest to SIG Metrics users Message-ID: --- ========================== Start of Data ========================= TITLE: Citation Analysis of the Contact Lens Field (Article, English) AUTHOR: Efron, N; Brennan, NA; Nichols, JJ SOURCE: OPTOMETRY AND VISION SCIENCE 89 (1). JAN 2012. p.70-79 LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS, PHILADELPHIA SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; CITED ARTICLE abstract; CITATION item_title; CITATION ANALYS* item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS: contact lenses; citation analysis; articles; authors; journals; institutions; countries KEYWORDS+: ULCERATIVE KERATITIS; MICROBIAL KERATITIS; DAILY-WEAR; OPHTHALMOLOGY; AUSTRALIA; INDEX; OUTBREAK; CORNEA; USERS ABSTRACT: Purpose. To identify, analyze, and celebrate the most highly cited articles relating to contact lenses and the leading authors, journals, institutions, and countries associated with these publications. Methods. To capture all contact lens articles published since 1900, a search equation targeting specific contact lens-related terms in the titles of articles was derived and entered into "Web of Science." A rank order list of the 1000 most highly cited articles was assembled, each having received at least eight citations. The most prominent articles, authors, journals, institutions, and countries were identified from this list by simple counts. Results. The most highly cited article relating to contact lenses (although cited exclusively in the physical sciences literature) is that of Phillip and Schmidt (J Non Cryst Solids 1984; 63: 288-92), reporting the application of the sol-gel process for the fabrication of rigid contact lenses. Eight of the top 10 articles ranked according to average number of citations/year relate to contact lens-associated microbial keratitis. Of the top eight authors, six have spent all, or a substantial proportion, of their academic careers in Australia and seven have worked in optometric research environments. Optometry and Vision Science is the leading journal. The top-ranked institution is The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. The United States is the most prominent publishing country in the field, and Australia ranks highest when the numbers of highly cited articles are considered per head of population. Conclusions. This work provides a unique snapshot of significant articles relating to contact lenses. (Optom Vis Sci 2012; 89: 70-79) AUTHOR ADDRESS: N Efron, Queensland Univ Technol, Inst Hlth & Biomed Innovat, 60 Musk Ave, Kelvin Grove, Qld 4059, Australia ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: How are journal impact, prestige and article influence related? An application to neuroscience (Article, English) AUTHOR: Chang, CL; McAleer, M; Oxley, L SOURCE: JOURNAL OF APPLIED STATISTICS 38 (11). 2011. p.2563-2573 TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, ABINGDON SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; CITED ARTICLE item_title,keyword,keyword_plus; CITED ARTICLE abstract; JOURNAL item_title KEYWORDS: impact factor; prestige; immediacy; Eigenfactor; article influence; h-index; C3PO; Zinfluence; PI-BETA; STAR; IFI; cited article influence ABSTRACT: The paper analyzes the leading journals in neurosciences using quantifiable research assessment measures (RAM), highlights the similarities and differences in alternative RAM, shows that several RAM capture similar performance characteristics of highly cited journals, and shows that some other RAM have low correlations with each other, and hence add significant informational value. Alternative RAM are discussed for the Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science database (hereafter ISI). The RAM that are calculated annually or updated daily include the classic 2- year impact factor (2YIF), 5-year impact factor, immediacy (or zero-year impact factor), Eigenfactor score, article influence score, C3PO (citation performance per paper online), h-index, Zinfluence, PI-BETA (papers ignored by even the authors), 2-year and historical self-citation threshold approval ratings, impact factor inflation, and cited article influence (CAI). The RAM are analyzed for 26 highly cited journals in the ISI category of neurosciences. The paper finds that the Eigenfactor score and PI-BETA are not highly correlated with the other RAM scores, so that they convey additional information regarding journal rankings, that article influence is highly correlated with some existing RAM, so that it has little informative incremental value, and that CAI has additional informational value to that of article influence. Harmonic mean rankings of the 13 RAM criteria for the 26 highly cited journals are also presented. Emphasizing the 2YIF of a journal to the exclusion of other informative RAM criteria is shown to lead to a distorted evaluation of journal performance and influence, especially given the informative value of several other RAM. AUTHOR ADDRESS: L Oxley, Univ Canterbury, Dept Econ & Finance, Canterbury, New Zealand ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Relevance of Library Collections for Graduate Student Research: A Citation Analysis Study of Doctoral Dissertations at Notre Dame (Article, English) AUTHOR: Kayongo, J; Helm, C SOURCE: COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES 73 (1). JAN 2012. p.47-67 ASSOC COLL RESEARCH LIBRARIES, CHICAGO SEARCH TERM(S): SMITH LC LIBR TRENDS 30:83 1981; CITATION item_title; CITATION ANALYS* item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS+: INFORMATION USE; FACULTY; MANAGEMENT; REFERENCES; EDUCATION; PATTERNS; JOURNALS; THESES ABSTRACT: This study focused on determining the extent to which collections of the Hesburgh Libraries of Notre Dame met the needs of graduate students. This study data (2005-2007) consisted of a citation analysis of 248 dissertations and focused on the following questions: What were the graduate students citing in their dissertations? Did the library own the cited items? How did the disciplines compare in their citation patterns? The data showed that over 90 percent of the 39,106 citations were to books and journals. The libraries owned 67 percent of the items graduate students cited in their dissertations. The libraries owned 83 percent of the Arts & Humanities, 90 percent of the Engineering, 92 percent of the Science, and 75 percent of the Social Sciences sources in the top 1,000 most cited titles, indicating a need for funding for further development of Social Sciences collections in the Hesburgh Libraries. , From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Thu Jan 26 17:18:43 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:18:43 +0000 Subject: Papers relevant to SIG Metrics Message-ID: TITLE: EMERGING CLUSTER ANALYSIS OF SCI JOURNALS AND ITS EFFICIENCY (Article, English) AUTHOR: Chang, YF; Ping, Y SOURCE: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS C 22 (11). NOV 2011. p.1247-1256 WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD, SINGAPORE SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNALS item_title; INT J MOD PHYS C source_abbrev_20 KEYWORDS: Cluster analysis; journal citation pattern; emerging clustering KEYWORDS+: COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; NETWORKS; MODULARITY ABSTRACT: Cluster analysis is an important way to ascertain whether or not a complex system consists of sub-clusters with different properties. On the basis of journal citation pattern, we clustered 1896 SCI journals in an emerging way (emerging clustering) in this paper. By this emerging clustering, the data to be checked for clustering is reduced from O(N-J(2)) to O(N-J) (N-J is the total number of journals), this reduction could reduce the time complexity of clustering to a certain extent. During the clustering process, characteristic numbers of clusters are obtained, which correspond to various resolution scales for viewing the journals and might be helpful in understanding the mutual interactions among various knowledge domains. Its efficiency is further checked by comparisons between emerging clustering and hierarchical clustering with different inter-cluster linkage techniques. Statistical properties and comparisons of the clustering results show that this is an efficient clustering method for journal system. It could be a helpful improvement for traditional classification methods based on subjective analysis. AUTHOR ADDRESS: YF Chang, China Three Gorges Univ, Coll Sci, Yichang 443002, Hubei, Peoples R China ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Bibliometric analysis of fifty years of physica status solidi (Article, English) AUTHOR: Marx, W; Hoffmann, D SOURCE: PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI B-BASIC SOLID STATE PHYSICS 248 (12). DEC 2011. p.2762-2771 WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; BIBLIOMETR* item_title; GARFIELD E JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 295:90 2006; PHYS STATUS SOLIDI B source_abbrev_20 KEYWORDS: bibliometrics; citations; Impact Factors; journals; physica status solidi; pss KEYWORDS+: IMPACT FACTOR; LIGHT ABSTRACT: Bibliometric methods are used to analyze quantitatively the journal physica status solidi (pss) 50 years after its inception. First, the coverage of the journal by the relevant citation indices accessible under the Web of Science (WoS) and the field-specific INSPEC database is examined. The number of papers published per year by the journal as a whole and by the specific pss series is given. The time evolution of the pss output in terms of papers per year is compared with the output evolution of some major competing journals in the field of condensed-matter physics. The top-12 most frequently cited pss papers published within the complete time period 19612010 and within the two separate time periods 19741989 and 19902010 (before and after the German reunification) are listed. The citation time curves (citation history) of the three most frequently cited pss papers are presented. Furthermore, the Journal Impact Factors (JIFs) of the pss journal series (a) and (b) are discussed and their time evolution is shown. Moreover, the distribution of the pss papers over their document types and the authors is given. The countries of authors are ranked for the complete time period 19612010 as well as for the time periods 19731989 and 19902010. The complete ensemble of the citing papers of the pss papers is analyzed and discussed. The journals citing most often the pss papers published in the year 2000 are listed. Finally, the distribution of the pss papers over the various subject areas and classification terms based on the INSPEC database is tabled. (C) 2011 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim AUTHOR ADDRESS: W Marx, Max Planck Inst Solid State Res, Stuttgart, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Scripta Nova in 2011. Evaluation, impact and visibility of the journal (Article, Spanish) AUTHOR: Jori, G; Bouza, J; Bonastra, Q; Capel, H SOURCE: SCRIPTA NOVA-REVISTA ELECTRONICA DE GEOGRAFIA Y CIENCIAS SOCIALES 15 (386). DEC 31 2011. p.1-18 UNIV BARCELONA, DEPT GEOGRAFIA HUMANA, BARCELONA SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNAL item_title KEYWORDS: bibliometry; scientific journal; electronic journal impact factor; social networks ABSTRACT: This paper is a balance of articles published in Scripta Nova during 2011 and summarizes the journal's evolution since its emergence in 1997. It also examines the impact and visibility of this publication and discusses the use of social networks for scientific knowledge spreading. AUTHOR ADDRESS: G Jori, Univ Barcelona, E-08007 Barcelona, Spain --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA? AUSTRALIAN LIBRARY & INFORMATION STUDIES (LIS) RESEARCHERS FURTHER RANKING OF LIS JOURNALS (Article, English) AUTHOR: Smith, K SOURCE: AUSTRALIAN ACADEMIC & RESEARCH LIBRARIES 42 (4). DEC 2011. p.320-341 AUSTRALIAN LIBRARY & INFORMATION ASSOC LTD, KINGSTON SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNALS item_title KEYWORDS+: PUBLICATION ABSTRACT: The Australian federal government's 2009 Excellence in Research Australian (ERA) policy initiative gave Australian LIS researchers the opportunity to review their listings of preferred journal titles: listings that were to act as a component of measured research activity in the new federal government funding regimes. The Australian research environment, and university reliance on ranking, meant that the importance of ranking journal titles could not be ignored. The ranking of journal titles as submitted to the Research Quality Framework (RQF) exercise in 2007-8, was reviewed in a tight timeframe, with a collegial response to calls for feedback. The results are reported and the anomalous nature of the place of Australian LIS in the Field of Research (FoR) category as assigned by the Australian Bureau of Statistics is discussed, as is the potential relevance of this categorisation regarding the choice of journal titles by these members of the LIS discipline AUTHOR ADDRESS: K Smith, Curtin Univ Technol, Dept Informat Studies, Perth, WA 6845, Australia From p.f.wouters at CWTS.LEIDENUNIV.NL Fri Jan 27 05:46:41 2012 From: p.f.wouters at CWTS.LEIDENUNIV.NL (Paul Wouters) Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:46:41 +0100 Subject: March 12-16, 2012: CWTS Course 'Measuring Science and Research Performance' Message-ID: *March 12-16, 2012: CWTS Course 'Measuring Science and Research Performance' * * * ** Registration is currently open ** *Aim* The aim of the course is to provide a serious grounding in the role of quantitative analyses in research evaluation. The course will consider relevant aspects of the larger context of research evaluation, including existing and new knowledge communication patterns, science policy issues, the role of funding, and new trends in research evaluation. The core of the course is devoted to bibliometric analysis approaches - their rationales, methodology and limitations. In addition to lectures, the program offers interactive modules on science mapping, network analysis, and the construction and interpretation of performance evaluation studies. Attention will also be paid to the recent rise of research evaluation in general, and the increasing emphasis on quantitative measures in particular. *Target group* The course is intended for professionals whose work is closely related to research evaluation: Government and research organization officials, research institution staff, industrial R&D managers, and scientist, scholars and engineers involved in science policy, research management, and research evaluation procedures. The course will be taught by lecturers from the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University. *Method of instruction* Seminar and practicum. *Timetable* The course takes place twice a year: In spring and autumn. In 2012, the spring course will take place from March 12 until March 16. The program of the spring course is available on our website (www.cwts.nl). The autumn course is scheduled for September 24-28, 2012. *Fee* The course fee is ? 1895. This includes tuition, course material, coffee breaks, lunch and dinner. Hotel expenses are not covered by the course fee. *Registration* The maximum number of participants is 20. Admission is at a first-come, first-served basis. To register, please fill in the booking form on our website (www.cwts.nl). For more information please contact mrs. S. van der Luijt ( luijt at cwts.leidenuniv.nl). Paul Wouters Professor of Scientometrics Director Centre for Science and Technology Studies Leiden University Visiting address: Willem Einthoven Building Wassenaarseweg 62A 2333 AL Leiden Mail address: P.O. Box 905 2300 AX Leiden T: +31 71 5273909 (secr.) F: +31 71 5273911 E: p.f.wouters at cwts.leidenuniv.nl CWTS home page: www.cwts.nl Blog about Citation Cultures: http://citationculture.wordpress.com/ Research Dreams: www.researchdreams.nl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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To develop Web-based methods to track interest in academic topics over time as part of the new Digging into Data funded project: Cascades, islands, or streams? Time, topic, and scholarly activities in humanities and social science research. This is in international project in collaboration with Indiana University Bloomington and Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al and the successful applicant will be required to attend meetings in both places. ?In the nature of the post it is not expected that applicants will have prior experience of similar work but those with a PhD in an area related to Library and Information Science or Computer Science will be considered, and those with experience of scientometrics or webometrics are particularly encouraged to apply. You will have working knowledge of scholarly uses of the Web and basic statistics, and will be able to apply your existing research skills to this new area. Good communication and team working skills are essential, and a knowledge of disciplinary issues relevant to research in the social sciences or humanities would be an advantage. http://cybermetrics.wlv.ac.uk/postdoctoral.html From vanraan at XS4ALL.NL Mon Jan 30 10:02:24 2012 From: vanraan at XS4ALL.NL (T. van Raan) Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:02:24 +0100 Subject: Head of Quality Assurance Unit, University of Vienna Message-ID: Head of Quality Assurance Unit Full time employment The University of Vienna with its 18 faculties, 9,400 employees, 180 degree programmes and 91,000 students considers quality assurance as especially important and has, therefore, created the Unit for Quality Assurance in 2004. This Unit currently has 6 staff members. Its responsibilities include: - Planning and coordination of the evaluation of academic and administrative units - Planning and coordination of research and teaching evaluations, conducting surveys among graduates and users of services - Preparing for an external audit of our quality management system - Supporting the University management in the further development of the quality management system (criteria, methods, instruments) We are looking for a Head of our Quality Assurance Unit who should have the following qualifications: - University degree (doctorate) - Experience with scientific evaluation processes - Competence in the analysis of quantitative and qualitative data - Extensive knowledge of the (inter-)national higher education and research landscape - Strategic leadership competence - Inclusive personality with high social competence - German and English proficiency Applications should be submitted preferably via our Job Center (http://jobcenter.univie.ac.at/ ) no later than 31.01.2012 with reference 2774. For further information please contact: jobcenter at univie.ac.at. The University of Vienna intends to increase the number of women on its faculty, particularly in high-level positions, and therefore specifically invites applications by women. Among equally qualified applicants women will receive preferential consideration. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From blar at IVA.DK Mon Jan 30 10:52:47 2012 From: blar at IVA.DK (Birger Larsen) Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:52:47 +0000 Subject: Phd position in Bibliometrics and Research Evaluation (RSLIS, Denmark) Message-ID: *** PHD POSITION IN BIBLIOMETRICS AND RESEARCH EVALUATION *** The Royal School of Library and Information Science, Copenhagen ___Deadline for applications: March 1, 2012___ The Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark, and ACUMEN are pleased to announce that a PhD scholarship will be available from June 1, 2012, or as soon as possible thereafter. Applications are invited for the three-year scholarship from candidates that hold or expect to hold a Master?s degree in a field relevant to the field of bibliometrics and research evaluation. The PhD position is part of a collaborative European FP7 research project on assessing research performance of individual researchers, Academic Careers Understood through Measurement and Norms (ACUMEN [http://research-acumen.eu/]). The Royal School of Library and Information Science (RSLIS; in Danish: Det Informationsvidenskabelige Akademi, [http://www.iva.dk]) contributes to this project with research relating to the use of quantitative indicators, and the successful applicant will contribute to this research. The main objective of the PhD project is to investigate to what extent bibliometric indicators can be used in the evaluation of individual researchers. Most bibliometric indicators are meant for use on higher levels of aggregation, e.g. at the country, research field or institution level, and unwanted effects may occur especially when they are applied at the individual level. The PhD project should analyse the wide range of existing indicators such as productivity, citation impact, and composite indicators such as field normalised indicators, as well as new bibliometric indicators such as the h-index, the g-index and indicators based on network analysis etc. The aim is to understand and call into question the use of bibliometric indicators and to outline the strengths and weaknesses of each indicator for the evaluation of individuals. On the basis of this, the PhD project should propose a suite of indicators for the assessments of individual researchers - both the most suited of the existing as well as novel indicators. These must be tested on the data set provided by the ACUMEN project. The project will have a mathematical theoretical as well as an empirical part. Data sets for the empirical part will in part be provided by partners in the ACUMEN project. Place of work: Copenhagen, Denmark For further information on the ACUMEN research project, please contact Associate Professor, Mr. Birger Larsen (blar @ iva.dk), and for further information on PhD scholarships at RSLIS, please contact Dean of Research, Mr. Hans Dam Christensen (hdc @ iva.dk). PHD SCHOLARSHIP A PhD position is a three-year, fixed-term position involving research and training, and it is to be completed in accordance with the Danish Ministerial order on the PhD programme at the universities (PhD order) from the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education. For further information about the PhD programme at RSLIS, see: http://www.iva.dk/english/research/phd-programme/ QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS The ideal candidate holds or expects to hold a Master?s degree or equivalent in a field relevant to bibliometrics and research evaluation. Mathematical skills and fluency in English are required. APPLICATION 1. Letter stating the interest and qualifications for the project (max. one page). 2. Preliminary project description with theoretical and methodological reflections as well as outline of present state of art of research and including a tentative research plan (up to five pages). 3. Full CV. 4. Bachelor and Master's degree diploma (including grade transcripts for bachelor?s and master?s degrees) and any other documentation. 5. List of publications (if any). 6. References. 7. Applicants with a Master?s degree from abroad should also enclose a short description of the grading scale used. PROCEDURE * Applications, marked "PhD position in Bibliometrics", must be sent to 'job@ iva.dk'. *** Deadline is March 1, 2012 *** * Applicants will, together with a confirmation of the received application, be notified of the composition of the assessment committee. * Applicants must provide supplementary documentation, if requested by the committee. * Applicants will individually be informed of his/her assessment. * Potential candidates may be invited to an interview by a recruitment committee. THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA WILL BE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION: * Capacity to undertake stringent research of high quality within the three-year period. * Scientific concern, creativity and supplementary qualification which are considered essential for undertaking a PhD project. * Already implemented projects, published works of relevance for the PhD position, carried out during or after the master study. * Documented fluency in English. * Documented mathematical skills. SALARY Salary will be according to the agreement between the Ministry of Finance and The Danish Confedaration of Professional Associations, AC. Start level salary depends on pre-employment seniority, but will at least amounts to DKK 285.240,00 annually. Pension contribution is added according to agreement for PhD students, as well an annual addition which at presents amounts to DKK 14.934,97 annually. The PhD student has an obligation to undertake agreed relevant work (including teaching) which totally amounts to 840 work hours during the three years of employment. FACTS ABOUT RSLIS RSLIS is a university institution for development, education and research at the highest scientific level in the field of Information Science. The educational programmes rank from undergraduate to PhD studies. The school's graduates are much appreciated and their capacity for fulfilling vital functions within the emerging knowledge society is increasingly recognized. RSLIS is located in Copenhagen and Aalborg (the Northern part of Jutland). The total number of students enrolled is app. 800. RSLIS is a member of iSchool Caucus and is currently working close together with Institut f?r Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft, Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin, in order to establish a Euro iSchool network. As an equal opportunity employer, RSLIS invites applications from all interested candidates regardless of gender, age, ethnic origin or religion. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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JAN 2012. p.16-29 ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, NEW YORK SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION item_title; CITATION ANALYS* item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS: Technology intelligence; Technology forecasting; Stochastic patent citation analysis; Future technological impacts; Pareto/NBD model; Gamma-gamma model KEYWORDS+: SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; KNOWLEDGE FLOWS; UNITED-STATES; INDICATORS; OBSOLESCENCE; SCIENCE; STRENGTH; BEHAVIOR; INDUSTRY; MODELS ABSTRACT: The anticipation and forecast of technological changes are of vital importance, as technological advances become increasingly fast and complex. What is at the core is identification of the current technologies that will drive technological changes over the coming few years. In this respect, numerous approaches have been devised to assess future technological impacts based on patent citation information, but do not provide a fair reflection of dynamic and idiosyncratic aspects of technological impacts as they are deterministic methods based on simple citation counts. We propose a stochastic patent citation analysis that can assess future technological impacts in a time period of interest by employing the future citation count as a proxy. At the heart of the proposed approach is a Pareto/NBD (Negative Binomial Distribution) model for taking into account the dynamic and idiosyncratic aspects of technological impacts. A patent citation matrix is first constructed for each time unit with citation patterns of the past. The future technological impacts are then derived by Pareto/NBD sub-model and gamma- gamma sub-model. A case study of the display technology patents is presented to illustrate the proposed approach. We believe our method can be employed in various research fields, from narrow patent valuation, to broad technological analysis and planning. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: Y Park, Seoul Natl Univ, Dept Ind Engn, San 56-1, Seoul 151742, South Korea ------------------------------------------------------------------ TITLE: The intricacies of impact factor and mid-term review of editorship (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Malathi, M; Thappa, DM SOURCE: INDIAN JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGY VENEREOLOGY & LEPROLOGY 78 (1). JAN-FEB 2012. p.1-4 MEDKNOW PUBLICATIONS, MUMBAI SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E BRIT MED J 313:411 1996; GARFIELD E CAN MED ASSOC J 161:979 1999; AUTHOR ADDRESS: DM Thappa, JIPMER, Dermatol & STD Dept, Pondicherry 605006, India ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Pakistani Journals and the Impact Factor: Where are we standing right now (Article, English) AUTHOR: Qureshi, MA; Jawaid, M SOURCE: PAKISTAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES 27 (5). OCT-DEC 2011. p.1214-1216 PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL PUBLICATIONS, SADDAR SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E CAN MED ASSOC J 161:979 1999 KEYWORDS: Pakistani journals; Impact Factor ABSTRACT: Objective: To summarizes the performance of Pakistani journals in terms of their Impact Factor. Methodology: Pakistani journals were analyzed for their impact factor (IF), citations and publications from 2000-2009. Journal Citation Reports (JCR) published by Thomson Reuter was used to retrieve the data electronically. All tables and graphical presentations were generated by using either Minitab version-10 or MS-Excel for Macintosh. Results: Total seven journals have their IF in the year 2009. Only two Pakistani Bio-medical journals. have an international impact factor listed by JCR. The highest impact factor of any Pakistani journal is 0.825 in 2009 of Pakistan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. In the year 2009, Journal of College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan (JCPSP) and Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences (PJMS) were included in the list of IF journals for the very first time after 13 and 26 years of their first publication respectively. The IF of JCPSP is 0.554 and PJMS is 0.203 for the year of 2009. Conclusion: There is a very small contribution by Pakistani journals in terms of ISI indexation. Basic sciences journal continues to overshadow in term of 151 indexation with highest impact factor of 0.825 by Pakistan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Jawaid, Dow Univ Hlth Sci, Dept Surg, Karachi, Pakistan -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Impact factor, Associate Editors, acknowledgements and new editorial rules (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Santos, CF SOURCE: JOURNAL OF APPLIED ORAL SCIENCE 19 (6). NOV-DEC 2011. p.NIL_2 UNIV SAO PAULO FAC ODONTOLOGIA BAURU, BAURU-SP -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: An AMSTAR assessment of the methodological quality of systematic reviews of oral healthcare interventions published in the Journal of Applied Oral Science (JAOS) (Review, English) AUTHOR: Sequeira-Byron, P; Fedorowicz, Z; Jagannath, VA; Sharif, MO SOURCE: JOURNAL OF APPLIED ORAL SCIENCE 19 (5). SEP-OCT 2011. p.440-447 UNIV SAO PAULO FAC ODONTOLOGIA BAURU, BAURU-SP SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNAL item_title KEYWORDS: AMSTAR; Systematic reviews; Quality; Methodology KEYWORDS+: MEASUREMENT TOOL; VALIDATION; DENTISTRY; EFFICACY ABSTRACT: Background: Systematic reviews are not an assembly of anecdotes but a distillation of current best available evidence on a particular topic and as such have an important role to play in evidence- based healthcare. A substantial proportion of these systematic reviews focus on interventions, and are able to provide clinicians with the opportunity to understand and translate the best available evidence on the effects of these healthcare interventions into clinical practice. The importance of systematic reviews in summarising and identifying the gaps in evidence which might inform new research initiatives is also widely acknowledged. Their potential impact on practice and research makes their methodological quality especially important as it may directly influence their utility for clinicians, patients and policy makers. The objectives of this study were to identify systematic reviews of oral healthcare interventions published in the Journal of Applied Oral Science (JAOS) and to evaluate their methodological quality using the evaluation tool, AMSTAR. Methods: Potentially eligible systematic reviews in JAOS were identified through an electronic search of the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO). Details of the relevant aspects of methodology as reported in these systematic reviews were extracted from the full text publications. Methodological quality was assessed independently by two reviewers using the AMSTAR questionnaire. Results: Five systematic reviews were identified, one of which was subsequently excluded as it was a review of a diagnostic test. Summary AMSTAR scores for the four included reviews were: 1, 5, 2 and 4 out of a maximum score of 11 (range 1-5, mean 3) with only one of the reviews scoring 5. Conclusion: AMSTAR evaluation of the methodological quality of the relatively small number of systematic reviews published in JAOS illustrated that there was room for improvement. Pre-publication and editorial appraisal of future systematic reviews might benefit from the application of tools such as AMSTAR and is to be recommended. AUTHOR ADDRESS: P Sequeira-Byron, Univ Bern, Dept Prevent Restorat & Pediat Dent, Freiburgstr 7, CH-3010 Bern, Switzerland ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Understanding the "impact" of the impact factor (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Reeves, S; Kenaszchuk, C; Sawatzky-Girling, B; Goldman, J SOURCE: JOURNAL OF INTERPROFESSIONAL CARE 26 (1). JAN 2012. p.2-3 INFORMA HEALTHCARE, NEW YORK SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E SCIENCE 122:108 1955; AUTHOR ADDRESS: S Reeves, Univ Calif San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA - From andrea.scharnhorst at DANS.KNAW.NL Tue Jan 31 06:01:22 2012 From: andrea.scharnhorst at DANS.KNAW.NL (Andrea Scharnhorst) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:01:22 +0100 Subject: Book on mathematical models of science dynamics - new publication Message-ID: Dear colleagues, As some of you know there has been a series of workshops paying attention to the dynamics of the science system and how to visualize and model them. Earlier appeared two special issues: B?rner, Katy, and Andrea Scharnhorst. 2009. ?Visual conceptualizations and models of science. Editorial. Special issue ?Science of Science: Conceptualizations and Models of Science?.? Journal of Informetrics 3 (3) (July): 161-172. doi:10.1016/j.joi.2009.03.008. http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1751157709000315. B?rner, Katy, Wolfgang Gl?nzel, Andrea Scharnhorst, and Peter van den Besselaar. 2011. ?Modeling science: studying the structure and dynamics of science.? Scientometrics 89 (1) (June 28): 347-348. doi:10.1007/s11192-011-0429-3. http://www.springerlink.com/index/10.1007/s11192-011-0429-3. Now, a collection appeared in the Complexity Series of Springer which contains a number of review article about different models of science dynamics. Scharnhorst, Andrea, Katy B?rner, and Peter Besselaar, eds. 2012. Models of Science Dynamics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-23068-4. http://www.springerlink.com/index/10.1007/978-3-642-23068-4. See http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-23067-7/contents/ With contributions from Katy Boerner, Kevin W. Boyack, Stasa Milojevic, Steven Morris, Diana Lucio-Arias, Nikolay K. Vitanov, Marcel R. Ausloos, Nicolas Payette, Matthias Hanauske, Franc Mali, Luka Kronegger, Patrick Doreian, Anuska Ferligoj, Filippo Radicchi, Santo Fortunato, and Alessandro Vespignani, Peter van den Besselaar Regards Andrea -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Tue Jan 31 16:39:35 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:39:35 +0000 Subject: Papers of interest to SIG METRICS Readers Message-ID: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Family firms - On the state-of-the-art of business research (Article, German) AUTHOR: Kraus, S; Filser, M; Gotzen, T; Harms, R SOURCE: BETRIEBSWIRTSCHAFTLICHE FORSCHUNG UND PRAXIS 63 (6). NOV-DEC 2011. p.587-605 VERLAG NEUE WIRTSCHAFTS-BRIEFE, HERNE SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; GARFIELD E SCIENTOMETRICS 1:359 1979 KEYWORDS+: ENTREPRENEURSHIP-RESEARCH; AGENCY COSTS; OWNERSHIP; MANAGEMENT; PERFORMANCE; ISSUES ABSTRACT: Family Firms are receiving increasing attention in business research. At first sight, the field seems to be heterogeneous, which exacerbates the orientation in and the advancement of the field. Therefore, this article strives to systematize Anglo-American family firm research and thereby to identify key discussion lines of this field. Based on a comprehensive literature analysis, we identify core authors and core journals. Based on a bibliometric citation analysis of 276 journal articles with a total of 12,800 references, we have identifiedfive key discussion lines: 1) legitimization and definition, 2) governance, 3) competitive advantage, 4) leadership, and 5) succession. 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