papers of interest to SIG Metrics readers

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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
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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

 
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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
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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

 
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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

 
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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

 

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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.
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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

 
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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

 
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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

 
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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

 
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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
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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.

 
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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.

 
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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

 
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