Papers relevant to SIG Metrics

[Eugene Garfield]

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
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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
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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
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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