AW: [SIGMETRICS] Addresses on papers

[Quentin Burrell]

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:

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> 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?
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> 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.
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> 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
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> 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.
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> On 12 January 2012 14:24, Bornmann, Lutz <lutz.bornmann at gv.mpg.de> wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
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> Perhaps, someone can help me according to the following question:
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> 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).
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> 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)?
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> Many thanks for answers,
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> Lutz
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