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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.

AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Gagolewski, Polish Acad Sci, Syst Res Inst, Ul Newelska
                6, PL-01447 Warsaw, Poland

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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

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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

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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

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