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Eugene Garfield
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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