From Peter.Mutschke at GESIS.ORG Tue Jul 3 01:22:55 2012 From: Peter.Mutschke at GESIS.ORG (Mutschke, Peter) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 05:22:55 +0000 Subject: 2nd CFP: TPDL-Workshop on Science-Model- and Task-aware Search (SciMoTS) Message-ID: [Apologies for cross posting] == Second Call for Papers == First International Workshop on Science-Model- and Task-aware Search (SciMoTS) to be held as part of the 16th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL). http://www.gesis.org/en/events/conferences/scimots/ === Important Dates === - Submissions: July 13, 2012 - Notification: August 10, 2012 - Camera Ready Contributions: August 24, 2012 - Workshop: September 27, 2012 in Cyprus === Keynote === Andrea Scharnhorst from the Virtual Knowledge Studio, Amsterdam, will give a keynote on "Mapping science and modeling science dynamics - consequences for digital collections and navigation through them". === Aim of the Workshop === Retrieval evaluations such as TREC or CLEF have shown that simple text-based retrieval methods scale up very well but do not progress anymore: Traditional ad-hoc retrieval seems to have reached a high level of quality in terms of measures like precision and recall. Nevertheless digital libraries and especially scholarly information systems still face major retrieval challenges that are present since the early days of digital libraries: Vagueness between search and indexing terms, information overload by the amount and complexity of result sets, and the drawbacks of text based relevance rankings. Therefore we will focus on two new approaches to improve the retrieval process in digital library systems: Science models and task-based retrieval. Science models address issues in statistical modelling and mapping of structures and scholarly activities in scientific domains. Until now the outcome of bibliometric/scientometric research is rarely used to enhance retrieval processes in digital libraries although first approaches in this domain have shown that the use of science models can offer a variety of value-added effects for users. Advanced bibliometric as well as network models of the structure of scientific communities are especially promising to open up alternative access paths into a scientific digital library. While science models are related to the structure of the information space, task aware searching and browsing focus on the user and his/her search task. Search is a highly dynamic and interactive process where within each phase the user faces a new situation which may change the current information need - even more on long-term interactive search activities. A task-aware model for each search phase would reflect the particular information need in question to support the user on these long term tasks. The central research question for this workshop therefore is: How can models of science, in particular dynamic models mapping the evolution of science, and models of the long-term dynamics in scholarly, task-oriented searching be mutually interrelated in order to enhance retrieval quality? The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers from different domains, such as information retrieval, information seeking, science modelling, bibliometrics, scientometrics, network analysis, and digital libraries to move toward a deeper understanding of this research challenge. === Workshop Topics === To support the previously described goals the workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - IR for digital libraries and scientific information portals - IR for scientific domains, e.g. social sciences, life sciences etc. - Information Seeking Behaviour - Bibliometrics, citation analysis and network analysis for IR - Query expansion and relevance feedback approaches - Science Modelling (both formal & empirical) - Task based user modelling, interaction, and personalisation - (Long-term) Evaluation methods and test collection design - Collaborative information handling and information sharing - Classification, categorisation and clustering approaches - Information extraction (including topic detection, entity and relation extraction) - Recommendations based on explicit and implicit user feedback We especially invite descriptions of running projects and ongoing work. Papers that investigate multiple themes directly are especially welcome. === Types of Submissions === - Full Papers (6 to 8 pages): Full papers, describing advanced or completed work - Short Papers (4 pages): Position papers or work in progress - Poster and Demonstrations (2 pages): Poster and Presentation of systems or prototypes Submissions have to follow the Springer LNCS Author Guidelines (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) and should be submitted as PDF files to EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scimots2012). All submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Please be aware of the fact that at least one author per paper needs to register for the workshop and attend the workshop to present the work. In case of no-show the paper (even if accepted) will be deleted from the proceedings AND from the program. Printed proceedings will be distributed to all attendees. In addition, workshop proceedings will be deposited online in the CEUR workshop proceedings publication service (ISSN 1613-0073) - This way the proceedings will be permanently available and citable (digital persistent identifiers and long term preservation). === Organizers === Peter Mutschke, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany Philipp Schaer, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany Claus-Peter Klas, Distance University in Hagen, Germany Preben Hansen, SICS, Sweden Supported by Philipp Mayr, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany. Any questions regarding the workshop can be posted to scimots2012 at easychair.org - Please, feel free to contact us. === Programm Committee === Farag Ahmed, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany Reginald Ferber, University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt, Germany Nicola Ferro, University of Padova, Italy Ingo Frommholz, University of Bedfordshire, UK Norbert Fuhr, University of Dortmund, Germany Daniel Hienert, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany Birger Larsen, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark Vivien Petras, Humboldt-Universit?t Berlin, Germany Andrea Scharnhorst, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam Christian Schl?gl, University of Graz, Austria Howard D. White, Drexel University, USA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Thu Jul 5 13:36:49 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 17:36:49 +0000 Subject: Papers of interest to SIG-Metrics readers Message-ID: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Scientomics: An Emergent Perspective in Knowledge Organization (Article, English) AUTHOR: Marijuan, PC; del Moral, R; Navarro, J SOURCE: KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION 39 (3). 2012. p.153-164 ERGON-VERLAG, WURZBURG SEARCH TERM(S): SMALL H J INF SCI 11:147 1985 KEYWORDS+: INFORMATION; SCIENCE ABSTRACT: In one of the most important conceptual changes of our times, biology has definitely abandoned its mechanistic hardcore and is advancing "fast and furious" along the informational dimension. Biology has really become an information science; and, as such, it is also inspiring new ways of thinking and new kinds of knowledge paradigms beyond those discussed during past decades. In this regard, a new "bioinformational" approach to the inter-multi-disciplinary relationships among the sciences will be proposed herein: scientomics. Biologically inspired, scientomics contemplates the multifarious interactions between scientific disciplines from the "knowledge recombination" vantage point. In their historical expansion, the sciences would have recapitulated upon collective cognitive dynamics already realized along the evolutionary expansion of living systems, mostly by means of domain recombination processes within cellular genomes, but also occurring neurally inside the "cerebral workspace" of human brains and advanced mammals. Scientomics, understood as a new research field in the domain of knowledge organization, would capture the ongoing processes of scientific expansion and recombination by means of genomic inspired software (like in the new held of culturomics). It would explain the peculiar interaction maps of the sciences (scientometrics) as well as the increasing complexity of research amidst scientific and technological cumulative achievements. Beyond the polarized classical positions of reductionism and holism, scientomics could also propose new conceptual tools for scientific integration and planning, and for research management. AUTHOR ADDRESS: PC Marijuan, Aragon Inst Hlth Sci I CS, Bioinformat & Syst Biol Grp, Avda Gomez Laguna 25, Zaragoza 50009, Spain -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Theoretical Approximations Between Brazilian and Spanish Authors' Production in the Field of Knowledge Organization in the Production of Journals on Information Science in Brazil (Article, English) AUTHOR: Freitas, JL; Gabriel, RF Jr; Bufrem, LS SOURCE: KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION 39 (3). 2012. p.216-223 ERGON-VERLAG, WURZBURG SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNALS item_title ? ABSTRACT: This work identifies and analyzes literature about knowledge organization (KO), expressed in scientific journals communication of information science (IS). It performs an exploratory study on the Base de Dados Referencial de Artigos de Periodicos em Ciencia da Informacio (BRAPCI, Reference Database of Journal Articles on Information Science) between the years 2000 and 2010. The descriptors relating to "knowledge organization" are used in order to recover and analyze the corresponding articles and to identify descriptors and concepts which integrate the semantic universe related to KO. Through the analysis of content, based on metrical studies, this article gathers and interprets data relating to documents and authors. Through this, it demonstrates the development of this field and its research fronts according to the observed characteristics, as well as noting the transformation indicative in the production of knowledge. The work describes the influences of the Spanish researchers on Brazilian literature in the fields of knowledge and information organization. As a result, it presents the most cited and productive authors, the theoretical currents which support them, and the most significant relationships of the Spanish-Brazilian authors network. Based on the constant key-words analysis in the cited articles, the co-existence of the French conception current and the incipient Spanish influence in Brazil is observed. Through this, it contributes to the comprehension of the thematic range relating to KO, stimulating both criticism and self- criticism, debate and knowledge creation, based on studies that have been developed and institutionalized in academic contexts in Spain and Brazil. AUTHOR ADDRESS: JL Freitas, Univ Fed Parana, Dept Informat Sci & Management, Informat Management Sch, Av Prefeito Lothario Meissner 632, BR-80060000 Curitiba, Parana, Brazil -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Citation records and some forgotten anniversaries in thermal analysis (Article, English) AUTHOR: Sestak, J SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THERMAL ANALYSIS AND CALORIMETRY 109 (1). JUL 2012. p.1-5 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS: Impact factor; Quotation responses; Best cited papers; Thermoanalytical journals; Kinetics KEYWORDS+: DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; NONISOTHERMAL KINETICS; CRYSTALLIZATION KINETICS; THERMOANALYTICAL DATA; AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; DIAGNOSTIC LIMITS; KISSINGER METHOD; GLASS; TEMPERATURE; EQUATION ABSTRACT: Extent of citation is analysed and the best citied papers mentioned accentuating Journal of Thermal analysis and Thermochimica Acta. The relevant scope of papers is uncovered and some viewpoints are shown. The sphere of kinetics appears the most cited subject matter. AUTHOR ADDRESS: J Sestak, Univ W Bohemia, New Technol Res Ctr Westbohemian Reg, Univ 8, Plzen 30114, Czech Republic -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Entrepreneurship: Exploring the knowledge base (Article, English) AUTHOR: Landstrom, H; Harirchi, G; Astrom, F SOURCE: RESEARCH POLICY 41 (7 SP ISS). SEP 2012. p.1154-1181 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 178:471 1972 KEYWORDS: Entrepreneurship; Research field; Handbooks; Bibliometric analysis KEYWORDS+: SCIENCE POLICY; GROWTH; SPILLOVERS; INNOVATION; DISCOVERY; CITATIONS; ECONOMICS; MARKET ABSTRACT: Entrepreneurship research has a long tradition and since the 1980s the field has grown significantly. In this study we identify the 'knowledge producers' who have shaped the field over time and their core entrepreneurship research works. A unique database consisting of all references in twelve entrepreneurship 'handbooks' (or state-of-the-art books) has been developed. The chapters in these handbooks were written by experts within the field, and it can be assumed that the most frequently cited references represent 'core knowledge' with relevance to entrepreneurship research. >From our analysis, it appears that entrepreneurship is a rather changeable field of research, closely linked to disciplines such as 'management studies' and 'economics'. Over time, the field has become more formalized with its own core knowledge, research specialities and an increasing number of 'insider works'. However, it is still based on some fairly old theoretical frameworks imported from mainstream disciplines, although during the last decade we have seen the emergence of a number of new field-specific concepts and theories. We argue that to successfully develop entrepreneurship research in the future, we need to relate new research opportunities to earlier knowledge within the field, which calls for a stronger 'knowledge-based' focus. We would also like to see greater integration between the fields of entrepreneurship and innovation studies in the future. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: H Landstrom, Lund Univ, CIRCLE, POB 117, S-22100 Lund, Sweden -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Knowledge flows - Analyzing the core literature of innovation, entrepreneurship and science and technology studies (Article, English) AUTHOR: Bhupatiraju, S; Nomaler, O; Triulzi, G; Verspagen, B SOURCE: RESEARCH POLICY 41 (7 SP ISS). SEP 2012. p.1205-1218 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM SEARCH TERM(S): GRIFFITH BC SCI STUD 4:339 1974; SMALL H SCI STUD 4:17 1974; SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973; GARFIELD E rauth; MERTON RK rauth; PRICE DJD rauth KEYWORDS: Innovation studies; Entrepreneursip; Science and technology studies; Citation networks; Network analysis KEYWORDS+: SCIENTIFIC LITERATURES; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; TECHNICAL CHANGE; CANCER-RESEARCH; NETWORKS; TRAJECTORIES; GROWTH ABSTRACT: This paper applies network analysis to a citation database that combines the key references in the fields of Entrepreneurship (ENT), Innovation Studies (INN) and Science and Technology Studies (STS). We find that citations between the three fields are relatively scarce, as compared to citations within the fields. As a result of this tendency, a cluster analysis of the publications in the database yields a partition that is largely the same as the a priori division into the three fields. We take this as evidence that the three fields, although they share research topics and themes, have developed largely on their own and in relative isolation from one another. We also apply a so-called 'main path' analysis aimed at outlining the main research trajectories in the field. Here we find important differences between the fields. In STS. we find a cumulative trajectory that develops in a more or less linear fashion over time. In INN, we find a major shift of attention in the main trajectory, from macroeconomic issues to business-oriented research. ENT develops relatively late, and shows a trajectory that is still in its infancy. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: B Verspagen, Maastricht Univ, UNU MERIT, POB 616, NL-6200 MD Maastricht, Netherlands -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The evolution of science policy and innovation studies (Article, English) AUTHOR: Martin, BR SOURCE: RESEARCH POLICY 41 (7 SP ISS). SEP 2012. p.1219-1239 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E CURR CONTENTS :5 1975; GARFIELD E rauth; MACROBERTS MH rauth; MERTON RK rauth KEYWORDS: Innovation studies; Science policy; History; Evolution; Highly cited publications; Key contributions KEYWORDS+: AUTHOR COCITATION ANALYSIS; DECISION-SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INTELLECTUAL STRUCTURE; CITATION ANALYSIS; OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH PERFORMANCE; INFORMATION-SYSTEMS; ORTEGA HYPOTHESIS; FALSE DICHOTOMY; TECHNOLOGY ABSTRACT: This article examines the origins and evolution of the field of science policy and innovation studies (SPIS). Like other studies in this Special Issue, it seeks to systematically identify the key intellectual developments in the field over the last 50 years by analysing the publications that have been highly cited by other researchers. The analysis reveals how the emerging field of SPIS drew upon a growing range of disciplines in the late 1950s and 1960s, and how the relationship with these disciplines evolved over time. Around the mid- 1980s, substantial parts of SPIS started to coalesce into a more coherent field centred on the adoption of an evolutionary (or neo-Schumpeterian) economics framework, an interactive model of the innovation process, and (a little later) the concept of 'systems of innovation' and the resource- based view of the firm. The article concludes with a discussion of whether SPIS is perhaps in the early stages of becoming a discipline. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: BR Martin, Univ Sussex, SPRU Sci & Technol Policy Res, Freeman Ctr, Brighton BN1 9QE, E Sussex, England -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Research on Chinese Local Government Performance Evaluation: The Evaluation of Journal Publication (2001-2011) (Article, English) AUTHOR: Shen, L SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF 2011 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION (7TH), VOL I. 2011. p.661-667 UNIV ELECTRONIC SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CHINA PRESS, CHENGDU SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNAL item_title KEYWORDS: Local government; Performance evaluation; Performance management; Evaluating indicator ABSTRACT: Local government performance evaluation has become an important part of building a service-oriented government in China, is the powerful weapon of changing local government function, improving the administrative management level and the management efficiency as well. However, at present, as we are still on the primary stage of our local government performance evaluation research, we have had a lot weak points in theory construction and practice operation. This article analyzes and summaries the Chinese government performance evaluation literature that data from the CNKI social science databases between 2001 and 2011, in order to evaluate the Chinese government performance evaluation research. The result shows that, the research on Chinese government performance evaluation presents characteristics as following: slow research progress lack of concentration and continuity; relatively single of research angle lack of scientific research methods; theorized and conceptional research content lack of empirical research; The academic standardization should be further enhanced, while research are at the primary stage. Based on the above conclusions, this paper puts forward some proposals aims at improving Chinese government performance evaluation research. ? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Early Journals and Their Influences on the Development of Gerontology (Article, English) AUTHOR: Mercer, L; Carter, L SOURCE: EDUCATIONAL GERONTOLOGY 38 (9). 2012. p.616-626 TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC, PHILADELPHIA SEARCH TERM(S): J CITATION REPORT rwork; JOURNALS item_title KEYWORDS+: SOCIAL GERONTOLOGY; EDUCATION; COMMUNITY ABSTRACT: This examination of early gerontology journals identifies the multidisciplinary backgrounds of contributors, methods of investigation, nascent theory development, and formative themes and controversies. Through use of content, thematic, and critical analyses of second year issues of The Gerontologist, Educational Gerontology, Research on Aging, Journal of Applied Gerontology, and Canadian Journal on Aging, this study highlights the influence of these journals on the formation of the discipline of gerontology. The analyses indicate that education and awareness of ageism, policy planning to address changing demographic patterns, cultural diversity, and disciplinary development were key themes in these early publications. The study also reveals that researchers and scholars in the social sciences and health sciences established the foundations of the discipline. Controversies were evident in various debates about knowledge formation and dissemination. The early journals further included diverse perspectives, theories, research methods, directions, and critiques of issues of age, aging, and the aged. AUTHOR ADDRESS: L Mercer, Huntington Univ, Gerontol Dept, Sudbury, ON P3E 2C6, Canada -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Science and technology studies: Exploring the knowledge base (Article, English) AUTHOR: Martin, BR; Nightingale, P; Yegros-Yegros, A SOURCE: RESEARCH POLICY 41 (7 SP ISS). SEP 2012. p.1182-1204 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM SEARCH TERM(S): ZUCKERMAN H rauth; MERTON RK AM SOCIOL REV 22:635 1957; GARFIELD E rauth; SMALL H rauth KEYWORDS: Science studies; STS; Knowledge base; Handbooks; Core contributions KEYWORDS+: PRODUCTIVITY; RECOGNITION; SCIENTISTS; SHOPS ABSTRACT: Science and Technology Studies (STS) is one of a number of new research fields to emerge over the last four or five decades. This paper attempts to identify its core academic contributions from the perspective of the authors of chapters in authoritative 'handbooks' and the references they cite. Besides identifying the most prominent publications, institutions and authors, we examine whether the core contributions can be broken down into identifiable clusters. The study also analyses the impact of these contributions by exploring the research fields, journals, and geographical location of the researchers that have cited the STS core contributions in their own work. Together, these analyses reveal a number of phases in the development of STS with periods of convergence and divergence of the field, including the gradual separation of quantitative studies of science and technology from the main body of STS. The paper ends with some conclusions about the evolution of STS, such as the role of 'institution builders' in developing new research fields and the structures required to hold them together. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: BR Martin, Univ Sussex, SPRU Sci & Technol Policy Res, Freeman Ctr, Brighton BN1 9QE, E Sussex, England ------------------------------------------------------------ TITLE: Graduate Student Searching Proficiencies in the Selection of Qualitative and Quantitative Journal References (Article, English) AUTHOR: Allen, EJ; Weber, RK SOURCE: JOURNAL OF ACADEMIC LIBRARIANSHIP 38 (3). MAY 2012. p.130-134 ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, NEW YORK SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNAL item_title KEYWORDS+: UNDERGRADUATE CITATION BEHAVIOR; LIBRARY ANXIETY; WEB AUTHOR ADDRESS: EJ Allen, Florida Atlantic Univ, Boca Raton, FL 33431 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Scientometric approaches to the analysis of research results (Article, Russian) AUTHOR: Oganov, RG; Trushchelev, SA SOURCE: CARDIOVASCULAR THERAPY AND PREVENTION 11 (2). 2012. p.90-95 SILICEA-POLIGRAF, MOSCOW SEARCH TERM(S): SCIENTOMETRIC* item_title KEYWORDS: Medical information; science; impact factors; medicine; cardiology ABSTRACT: The paper discusses the role of scientific medical information and its impact indicators (researcher's publishing activity, citation index, impact factor, Hirsch index, etc.). The sources of these indicators are specified. AUTHOR ADDRESS: RG Oganov, State Res Ctr Prevent Med, Moscow, Russia -------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Graduate Student Searching Proficiencies in the Selection of Qualitative and Quantitative Journal References (Article, English) AUTHOR: Allen, EJ; Weber, RK SOURCE: JOURNAL OF ACADEMIC LIBRARIANSHIP 38 (3). MAY 2012. p.130-134 ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, NEW YORK SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNAL item_title KEYWORDS+: UNDERGRADUATE CITATION BEHAVIOR; LIBRARY ANXIETY; WEB AUTHOR ADDRESS: EJ Allen, Florida Atlantic Univ, Boca Raton, FL 33431 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Scientometric approaches to the analysis of research results (Article, Russian) AUTHOR: Oganov, RG; Trushchelev, SA SOURCE: CARDIOVASCULAR THERAPY AND PREVENTION 11 (2). 2012. p.90-95 SILICEA-POLIGRAF, MOSCOW SEARCH TERM(S): SCIENTOMETRIC* item_title KEYWORDS: Medical information; science; impact factors; medicine; cardiology ABSTRACT: The paper discusses the role of scientific medical information and its impact indicators (researcher's publishing activity, citation index, impact factor, Hirsch index, etc.). The sources of these indicators are specified. AUTHOR ADDRESS: RG Oganov, State Res Ctr Prevent Med, Moscow, Russia -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Measuring researchers' use of scholarly information through social bookmarking data: A case study of BibSonomy (Article, English) AUTHOR: Borrego, A; Fry, J SOURCE: JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE 38 (3). JUN 2012. p.297-308 SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, LONDON SEARCH TERM(S): J INF SCI source_abbrev_20 KEYWORDS: BibSonomy; information behaviour; scholarly communication; scientific information; social bookmarking KEYWORDS+: READING PATTERNS; SEEKING BEHAVIOR; LOG ANALYSIS ABSTRACT: This paper explores the possibility of using data from social bookmarking services to measure the use of information by academic researchers. Social bookmarking data can be used to augment participative methods (e.g. interviews and surveys) and other, non-participative methods (e.g. citation analysis and transaction logs) to measure the use of scholarly information. We use BibSonomy, a free resource-sharing system, as a case study. Results show that published journal articles are by far the most popular type of source bookmarked, followed by conference proceedings and books. Commercial journal publisher platforms are the most popular type of information resource bookmarked, followed by websites, records in databases and digital repositories. Usage of open access information resources is low in comparison with toll access journals. In the case of open access repositories, there is a marked preference for the use of subject-based repositories over institutional repositories. The results are consistent with those observed in related studies based on surveys and citation analysis, confirming the possible use of bookmarking data in studies of information behaviour in academic settings. The main advantages of using social bookmarking data are that is an unobtrusive approach, it captures the reading habits of researchers who are not necessarily authors, and data are readily available. The main limitation is that a significant amount of human resources is required in cleaning and standardizing the data. AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Borrego, Univ Barcelona, Fac Bibliotecon & Documentacio, Melcior Palau 140, Barcelona 08014, Spain -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: How journal rankings can suppress interdisciplinary research: A comparison between Innovation Studies and Business & Management Authors: Rafols, I; Leydesdorff, L; O'Hare, A; Nightingale, P; Stirling, A Author Full Names: Rafols, Ismael; Leydesdorff, Loet; O'Hare, Alice; Nightingale, Paul; Stirling, Andy Source: RESEARCH POLICY, 41 (7):1262-1282; SI 10.1016/j.respol.2012.03.015 SEP 2012 Language:English Document Type:Article Author Keywords:Interdisciplinary, Evaluation, Ranking, Innovation, Bibliometrics, Research assessment KeyWords Plus:SCIENCE-CITATION-INDEX; BASIC RESEARCH; IMPACT FACTOR; TECHNOLOGY; INDICATORS; FRAMEWORK; POLICY; BETWEENNESS; PERFORMANCE; INTEGRATION Abstract: This study provides quantitative evidence on how the use of journal rankings can disadvantage interdisciplinary research in research evaluations. Using publication and citation data, it compares the degree of interdisciplinarity and the research performance of a number of Innovation Studies units with that of leading Business & Management Schools (BMS) in the UK. On the basis of various mappings and metrics, this study shows that: (i) Innovation Studies units are consistently more interdisciplinary in their research than Business & Management Schools; (ii) the top journals in the Association of Business Schools' rankings span a less diverse set of disciplines than lower-ranked journals; (iii) this results in a more favourable assessment of the performance of Business & Management Schools, which are more disciplinary-focused. This citation-based analysis challenges the journal ranking-based assessment. In short, the investigation illustrates how ostensibly 'excellence-based' ! journal rankings exhibit a systematic bias in favour of mono-disciplinary research. The paper concludes with a discussion of implications of these phenomena, in particular how the bias is likely to affect negatively the evaluation and associated financial resourcing of interdisciplinary research organisations, and may result in researchers becoming more compliant with disciplinary authority over time. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Reprint Address: Rafols, I (reprint author), Univ Sussex, SPRU Sci & Technol Policy Res, Brighton BN1 9QE, E Sussex, England Addresses: [Rafols, Ismael; O'Hare, Alice; Nightingale, Paul; Stirling, Andy] Univ Sussex, SPRU Sci & Technol Policy Res, Brighton BN1 9QE, E Sussex, England [Rafols, Ismael] Georgia Inst Technol, Technol Policy & Assessment Ctr, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA [Leydesdorff, Loet] Univ Amsterdam, Amsterdam Sch Commun Res ASCoR, NL-1012 CX Amsterdam, Netherlands E-mail Address: i.rafols at sussex.ac.uk Cited Reference Count:129 Times Cited:3 Publisher:ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS ? 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Methods: We used the Science Citation Index (SCI)-Expanded database and we manually revisted titles published from 2000 to 2007 in the journal Emergencias. Articles authored by emergency physicians affiliated to institutions in Spain were included; conference presentations were excluded. For each article we recorded the following information: year of publication; journal; the journal's impact factor; type of article; affiliation of the first emergency physician coauthor named and the Spanish autonomous community where that physician worked; that emergency physician's place in the list of authors, university affiliation, and main type of work; the research topic; and collaboration or not with coauthors from other departments or facilities. Results: A total of 913 titles were published from 2005 to 2009, 38% more than in the previous 5 years (P=.10); 409 (43.2%) titles corresponded to original articles. The increases represented an annual growth in productivity of 7.3% (P<.001). The mean impact factor of the journals publishing the articles was 3.06 in the 2000-to-2004 period but decreased to 2.48 in the later period (P<.001). Spanish emergency physicians continue to publish mainly in Spanish and in Spanish journals when they are first authors, most work in hospital emergency departments, and a university affiliation is rare. The number of collaborations increased in the second period (from 55.2% to 68.8%, P<.001), but coauthors from outside Spain were listed on only 20 articles (2.3%). The topics researched most often were infectious and cardiovascular diseases and the organization of emergency services. In the 2005-to-2009 period, Catalonia was the community that produced the largest number of titles (208, 23! .9%), and the department at Hospital Clinic de Barcelona (98 titles, 12.4%) was the most productive in the hospital category; among out-of-hospital services, the leader was the emergency response service in Galicia (061-Galicia). Important changes were seen between the two periods with regard to the relative weight of productivity in some autonomous communities, hospital emergency departments, and out-of-hospital services. Conclusions: The absolute productivity of Spanish emergency department physicians continued to grow during the 5-year period from 2005 to 2009 in terms of number of articles published; however, the mean impact factor of the publishing journals was lower in the second 5-year period. We also detected subtle changes over time in the topics being studied by emergency physicians; the journals they chose; and the productivity of different communities, hospitals, and responder services. [Emergencias 2012;24:164-174] Reprint Address: Miro, O (reprint author), Hosp Clin Barcelona, Area Urgencias, Villarroel 170, E-08036 Barcelona, Spain Addresses: [Miro, Oscar] Hosp Clin Barcelona, Area Urgencias, E-08036 Barcelona, Spain [Miro, Oscar] Grp Invest Urgencias Proc & Patol IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain [Angel Valcarcel de la Iglesia, Maria; Cremades Pallas, Rebeca Maria] Hosp Clin San Carlos, Serv Med Prevent, Unidad Invest, Madrid, Spain [Martin Sanchez, Francisco Javier] Hosp Clin San Carlos, Serv Urgencias, Madrid, Spain [Burillo-Putze, Guillermo] Hosp Univ Canarias, Serv Urgencias, Tenerife, Spain [Julian, Agustin] Hosp Virgen de la Salud, Serv Urgencias, Toledo, Spain E-mail Address: omiro at clinic.cb.es Cited Reference Count: 27 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: SANIDAD EDICIONES, CAPITAL HAYA, 60, MADRID, 28020, SPAIN ? 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URL: From smilojev at INDIANA.EDU Fri Jul 6 18:35:28 2012 From: smilojev at INDIANA.EDU (Stasa Milojevic) Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 18:35:28 -0400 Subject: CFP>METRICS 2012 Message-ID: *METRICS 2012 -- WORKSHOP ON INFORMETRIC AND SCIENTOMETRIC RESEARCH* *CALL FOR ABSTRACTS* The ASIS&T Special Interest Group for Metrics (SIG/MET) will host a workshop on Friday, October 26, 2012 preceding the ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Baltimore. This workshop will provide an opportunity for presentations and in-depth conversations on metric-related issues, including the latest theories, approaches, applications, innovations, and tools. Submissions in any area of metrics research will be accepted for review. The workshop is envisioned as a combination of short presentations and open discussion. SIG/MET is the Special Interest Group for the measurement of information production and use. It encourages the development and networking of all those interested in the measurement of information. It encompasses not only bibliometrics, scientometrics, informetrics and webometrics , but also measurement of the Web and the Internet, applications running on these platforms, and metrics related to network analysis, visualization, and scholarly communication. The workshop is endorsed by the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI) and sponsored by Elsevier. /Submissions / Submissions should be in the form of two-page extended abstracts or position papers (up to 1000 words excluding references, tables, and figures). A structured abstract is preferred, but not required. Two types of submissions will be accepted: posters and presentations. Please indicate the type of submission in bold at the beginning of your submission. The requirements for both formats are the same. Submit in .pdf or .doc to http://www.softconf.com/asis/Metrics2012/ /Peer-Review process / Each submission will be reviewed and brief feedback given in narrative format. /Important Dates/ Submissions due: August 6, 2012 Notifications: August 28, 201 Workshop: October 26, 2012 /Registration fees/ The registration fee is $105 for ASIST/ISSI members and $65 for students and will include wifi, two refreshments and lunch. /With questions, please contact / Stas(a Milojevic' Chair, SIG/MET smilojev at indiana.edu -- Stasa Milojevic, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science School of Library and Information Science Indiana University Email: smilojev at indiana.edu Phone: (812) 856-4182 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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It argues that the emergence of a particular structure of feeling amongst academics in the last few years has been closely associated with the growth and development of quantified control. It examines the functioning of a range of metrics: citations; workload models; transparent costing data; research assessments; teaching quality assessments; and commercial university league tables. It argues that these metrics, and others, although still embedded within an audit culture, increasingly function autonomously as a data assemblage able not just to mimic markets but, increasingly, to enact them. It concludes by posing some questions about the possible implications of this for the future of academic practice. AUTHOR ADDRESS: R Burrows, Univ London, London WC1E 7HU, England -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: INNOVATING WOMEN: CONTRIBUTIONS TO TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT PREFACE (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Henry, C; Marlow, S SOURCE: INNOVATING WOMEN: CONTRIBUTIONS TO TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT 1. 2010. p.IX-X,209-232 EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD, BINGLEY SEARCH TERM(S): ZUCKERMAN H rauth KEYWORDS+: POSSIBLE SELVES; VETERINARY-MEDICINE; GENDER-DIFFERENCES; UNDOING GENDER; WORK; SELF; ENTREPRENEURSHIP; BUSINESS; SCIENCE; MEN AUTHOR ADDRESS: C Henry, Univ Tromso, N-9001 Tromso, Norway -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ========================== End of Data =========================== Until February 15, 2013, you can purchase the full text of any document by simply entering an X in the box to the left of the reference. 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Copyright (C) 2003 by ISI Thomson Scientific All rights reserved. No portion of this data may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher. From chni at INDIANA.EDU Sun Jul 8 18:38:35 2012 From: chni at INDIANA.EDU (Chaoqun Ni) Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2012 18:38:35 -0400 Subject: SIGMET 2012 Student Paper Contest Result Announcement In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting. The Special Interest Group for the measurement of information production and use (http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGMET/) of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is pleased to announce the results of its 2012 student paper contest. The judging committee had a difficult task of selecting the winners due to the high quality of all the submitted papers. Two papers share the first place: Research synthesis: Overview of an intersection with ILS, by Laura Sheble The determinants of research citation impact in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, by Fereshteh Didegah This year?s runner-up paper is: Visualizing an Information Society: A Network-Based Perspective of Authors and Editors over 30 years in the Context of a Scholarly Journal, by Christopher Mascaro All three authors will be awarded cash prizes, will get a one-year membership to ASIS&T, and are invited to present their papers at the SIGMET workshop to be held on October 26, 2012, preceding this year?s ASIS&T annual meeting in Baltimore, MD. The registration fees for the workshop for all three students will be covered by Elsevier. We would like to thank all the students who participated in this year?s contest and congratulate the winners. Best Regards, Chaoqun Ni, Chair of Student Paper Contest, SIGMET, on behalf of the judging committee. From umutal at HACETTEPE.EDU.TR Mon Jul 9 15:38:49 2012 From: umutal at HACETTEPE.EDU.TR (Umut AL) Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 22:38:49 +0300 Subject: Draft program is available for the IMCW 2012 Conference on E-Science in Ankara Message-ID: Dear List Members: The "3rd International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World" organized by the Department of Information Management of Hacettepe University will take place in Ankara, Turkey, from 19-21 September 2012. It aims to bring together both researchers and practitioners to discuss the current information management issues, and present ideas, theories, approaches and methods to tackle them. The draft programme of the 3rd International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World is available at http://by2012.bilgiyonetimi.net/en/programme/. The online registration is now open, too (http://by2012.bilgiyonetimi.net/en/registration/). We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Tony Hey, a distinguished scientist and corporate vice president of Microsoft Research since 2005, has accepted to deliver the plenary keynote speech of the Symposium entitled ?Fourth Paradigm - Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery?. Looking forward to meeting you in Ankara in September. Regards and best wishes. Ya?ar Tonta Chair of the Organizing Committee Hacettepe University Department of Information Management 06800 Beytepe, Ankara E-mail: tonta at hacettepe.edu.tr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Mon Jul 9 18:02:54 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 22:02:54 +0000 Subject: Papers of interest to readers of SIG-Metrics .. Message-ID: TITLE: Modelling the evolution of a bipartite network-Peer referral in interlocking directorates (Article, English) AUTHOR: Koskinen, J; Edling, C SOURCE: SOCIAL NETWORKS 34 (3 SP ISS). JUL 2012. p.309-322 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM SEARCH TERM(S): SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973 KEYWORDS: Stochastic actor-oriented models; Bipartite graphs; Interlocking directorates; Bayesian analysis; Longitudinal network data; Prediction KEYWORDS+: STRATEGIC DECISION-MAKING; RANDOM GRAPH MODELS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; AFFILIATION NETWORKS; TIES; INTERCORPORATE; INVOLVEMENT; FRAMEWORK; DYNAMICS; DUALITY ABSTRACT: A central part of relational ties between social actors is constituted by shared affiliations and events. The action of joint participation reinforces personal ties between social actors as well as mutually shared values and norms that in turn perpetuate the patterns of social action that define groups. Therefore the study of bipartite networks is central to social science. Furthermore, the dynamics of these processes suggests that bipartite networks should not be considered static structures but rather be studied over time. In order to model the evolution of bipartite networks empirically we introduce a class of models and a Bayesian inference scheme that extends previous stochastic actor-oriented models for unimodal graphs. Contemporary research on interlocking directorates provides an area of research in which it seems reasonable to apply the model. Specifically, we address the question of how tie formation, i.e. director recruitment, contributes to the structural properties of the interlocking directorate network. For boards of directors on the Stockholm stock exchange we propose that a prolific mechanism in tie formation is that of peer referral. The results indicate that such a mechanism is present, generating multiple interlocks between boards. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: J Koskinen, Univ Oxford, Dept Polit & Int Relat, ReMiSS, Manor Rd, Oxford OX1 3UQ, England -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Network dynamics of television use in school classes (Article, English) AUTHOR: Friemel, TN SOURCE: SOCIAL NETWORKS 34 (3 SP ISS). JUL 2012. p.346-358 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth; AM* BEH* SCI* rwork KEYWORDS: Dynamic social network analysis; Mass media use; Television program preferences; TV genres; Interpersonal communication; Conversation; Adolescent; School classes; Two-step flow of communication; Diffusion KEYWORDS+: MASS-MEDIA; GRATIFICATIONS SOUGHT; PERSONALITY-TRAITS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; COMMUNICATION; BEHAVIOR; EXPOSURE; FEATHER; BIRDS; NEWS ABSTRACT: Seventy years ago Paul Lazarsfeld and colleagues found empirical evidence for a significant influence of the social context on media effects by interpersonal communication. Subsequently various theories in mass media science incorporated the social context as an independent or dependent variable. However, there is little empirical research that addresses the dynamics of media use within a social context using network analytic methods. This study considers the social context as both an independent and dependent variable in a dynamic network process in order to disentangle social selection and influence processes. Hence, on one hand it tests whether the intensity of TV use and the use of specific TV genres predict the selection of conversation partners in social groups (social selection process). On the other hand it tests if individuals' social context predicts their TV use (social influence process). Here, social context is defined as the conversation structure as well as the media use of all other persons in the social group. The research design includes a four wave panel survey on interpersonal communication networks and TV use of 707 students (age 13-16) in 29 Swiss school classes. The stochastic actor-based models tested with the program SIENA support the hypothesized selection processes. Conversation partners about TV programs are selected according to the similarity of their TV use. In contrast to this finding, the widely held assumption that individuals are influenced by their social network is not supported. Some inconclusive evidences suggest a possible social influence process on the level of TV intensity but not on the level of specific TV genres. Network- autocorrelation of conversation ties and TV use has therefore primarily be accredited to social selection processes and not social influence. Furthermore, the results show that avid viewers tend to talk more often about TV programs (ego effect), that avid viewers are more likely to be addressed (alter effect), and a general tendency to talk to persons with the same program preference (similarity effect). This challenges the classic idea of a two-step flow of communication in which intensive media users which are well informed would provide information to occasional users which are less conversant with a topic. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: TN Friemel, Univ Zurich, IPMZ, Andreasstr 15, CH-8050 Zurich, Switzerland -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A Bibliometric Index for Selection Processes (Article, English) AUTHOR: Gordillo, F; Arana, JM; Mestas, L SOURCE: JOURNAL OF MIND AND BEHAVIOR 32 (4). FAL 2011. p.333-349 INST MIND BEHAVIOR INC, NEW YORK SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth; HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; BIBLIOMETR* item_title; J MIND BEHAV source_abbrev_20 KEYWORDS: analysis of citations; research impact; h-index KEYWORDS+: H-INDEX; RESEARCH PERFORMANCE; INDICATORS; SCIENCE; RESEARCHERS; CITATION; RANKING; NUMBERS; IMPACT ABSTRACT: A bibliometric index is proposed that accounts for the differential contribution authors make to a joint paper published, the valuation of the number of publications, the quality of the journals in which the authors are published and which cite them, as well as the timeliness of the paper. This approach means the index can be used in selection processes for positions of employment or the award of research projects, as it abides by the premise of considering scientific merit based on the quality and quantity of publications. The term weighted citability index (WCIQT) is used to refer to a mathematical process that uses filters proportionally both to the degree of involvement in the joint research and to the values of number, quality, and timeliness of the research papers. AUTHOR ADDRESS: F Gordillo, Camilo Jose Cela Univ, Castillo Alarcon 49, Madrid 28692, Spain -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A Research Synthesis and Taxonomic Classification of the Organizational Stressors Encountered by Sport Performers (Article, English) AUTHOR: Arnold, R; Fletcher, D SOURCE: JOURNAL OF SPORT & EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGY 34 (3). JUN 2012. p.397-429 HUMAN KINETICS PUBL INC, CHAMPAIGN SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth; J SPORT EXERCISE PSY source_abbrev_20 KEYWORDS: athlete; athletic; job; meta-interpretation; occupational; stress KEYWORDS+: QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; OCCUPATIONAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL OWNERSHIP; META-INTERPRETATION; CRISIS MANAGEMENT; COPING STRATEGIES; SELF-CONTROL; ELITE SPORT; JOB STRESS; WORK ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study was to synthesize the research that has identified the organizational stressors encountered by sport performers and develop a taxonomic classification of these environmental demands. This study used a meta-interpretation, which is an interpretive form of synthesis that is suited to topic areas employing primarily qualitative methods. Thirty-four studies (with a combined sample of 1809 participants) were analyzed using concurrent thematic and context analysis. The organizational stressors that emerged from the analysis numbered 1287, of which 640 were distinct stressors. The demands were abstracted into 31 subcategories, which were subsequently organized to form four categories: leadership and personnel, cultural and team, logistical and environmental, and performance and personal issues. This meta-interpretation with taxonomy provides the most accurate, comprehensive, and parsimonious classification of organizational stressors to date. The findings are valid, generalizable, and applicable to a large number of sport performers of various ages, genders, nationalities, sports, and standards. AUTHOR ADDRESS: R Arnold, Univ Loughborough, Sch Sport Exercise & Hlth Sci, Loughborough, Leics, England -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Measuring Impact in Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery: An Analysis of the Top 100 Most Highly Cited Works and the Citation Classics in the Field (Article, English) AUTHOR: Lipsman, N; Lozano, AM SOURCE: STEREOTACTIC AND FUNCTIONAL NEUROSURGERY 90 (3). 2012. p.201-209 KARGER, BASEL SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 257:52 1987 KEYWORDS: Functional neurosurgery; Top 100 papers; Citation classics; Literature search; Citation indices KEYWORDS+: STIMULATION; DEPRESSION ABSTRACT: Background: Functional neurosurgery is a rapidly expanding field, with an exponentially growing literature. However, as with other fields, it can sometimes be difficult to distinguish between what is incremental and what is transformational. One way of measuring durable impact is examining the number of times a specific piece of scholarship is cited by others in the field. For example, papers that have been cited at least 400 times are designated 'citation classics' or works that, by virtue of very high citations, have been deemed of particular importance by researchers working in related disciplines. Methods: We queried a large, web-based scholarly database using 49 pre- selected search terms. The results for each individual query was manually examined for relevance to the functional neurosurgery field in order to arrive at the top 100 most highly cited papers as well as the citation classics. Results:The top 100 most cited papers, including 61 citation classics, in the stereotactic and functional neurosurgery field can be divided into 7 categories: functional/anatomic studies, technological innovations, and papers relevant to movement disorders, pain, psychiatry, radiosurgery and epilepsy. Conclusions: We have attempted to ascertain which papers have had, and continue to have, significant impact in our rapidly advancing field. At a minimum, the citation classics in functional neurosurgery provide both trainees and seasoned surgeons with a reading list of the 'must-know' works in the field - works whose influence have helped shape the direction of functional neurosurgery well into the future. Copyright (C) 2012 S. Karger AG, Basel AUTHOR ADDRESS: AM Lozano, Univ Toronto, Toronto Western Hosp, Div Neurosurg, 399 Bathurst St,4W-431, Toronto, ON M5T 2S8, Canada -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A ranking of safety journals using different measurement methods (Article, English) AUTHOR: Reniers, G; Anthone, Y SOURCE: SAFETY SCIENCE 50 (7). AUG 2012. p.1445-1451 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNALS item_title KEYWORDS: Safety journals; Ranking; Journal quality; Journal evaluation; Perception; Impact factor ABSTRACT: Using an online survey, we asked safety researchers around the globe how they perceived the quality of a list of 35 representative safety journals. We found that the most well-respected journal by expert opinion was the Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries. However, taking both the respondents' results and the citation-based results into consideration, the Journal of Hazardous Materials is the most influential journal, followed by Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Risk Analysis, Accident Analysis and Prevention and Safety Science. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: G Reniers, Univ Antwerp, Res Grp ARGoSS, Fac Appl Econ Sci, Prinsstr 13, B-2000 Antwerp, Belgium -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: FROM KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT TO STRATEGIC COMPETENCE Measuring Technological, Market and Organisational Innovation Preface to the Second Edition (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Tidd, J SOURCE: FROM KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT TO STRATEGIC COMPETENCE: MEASURING TECHNOLOGICAL, MARKET AND ORGANISATIONAL INNOVATION, 2ND EDITION 3. 2006. p.V-IX,401-434 IMPERIAL COLL PRESS, COVENT GARDEN SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 122:108 1955; EDITORIAL doctype KEYWORDS+: RESEARCH-AND-DEVELOPMENT; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT SUCCESS; COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE; CONTINUOUS-IMPROVEMENT; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; EMPIRICAL-ANALYSIS; MULTITECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONS; INTANGIBLE RESOURCES; PATENTED INVENTIONS; CORE COMPETENCES AUTHOR ADDRESS: J Tidd, Univ Sussex, SPRU, SPRU Sci & Technol Policy Res, Freeman Ctr, Brighton BN1 9QE, E Sussex, England -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Mon Jul 9 18:42:23 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 22:42:23 +0000 Subject: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE NTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. Message-ID: TITLE: A Study of Scientometric Methods to Identify Emerging Technologies (Article, English) AUTHOR: Abercrombie, RK; Udoeyop, AW SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.2-12 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): SCIENTOMETRIC* item_title ABSTRACT: This work examines a scientometric model that tracks the emergence of an identified technology from initial discovery (via original scientific and conference literature), through critical discoveries (via original scientific, conference literature and patents), transitioning through Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) and ultimately on to commercial application. During the period of innovation and technology transfer, the impact of scholarly works, patents and on-line web news sources are identified. As trends develop, currency of citations, collaboration indicators, and on-line news patterns are identified. The combinations of four distinct and separate searchable on- line networked sources (i.e., scholarly publications and citation, worldwide patents, news archives, and on-line mapping networks) are assembled to become one collective network (a dataset for analysis of relations). This established network becomes the basis from which to quickly analyze the temporal flow of activity (searchable events) for the example subject domain we investigated. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Thomson Reuters Book Citation Index (Article, English) AUTHOR: Adams, J; Testa, J SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.13-18 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS+: HUMANITIES ABSTRACT: Thomson Reuters has developed a novel Book Citation Index. This will become available from late 2011 and will contain a structured selection of scholarly books, categorised by discipline and book type. The Citation Index will be managed using similar inclusion criteria to those applied elsewhere in the Web of Science, so as to ensure that there is comparability across output types. The accurate and comprehensive citation links in the Index are primarily to enable cited items to be readily discovered. It is likely, however, that they will prove an informative source of analytical material for the scientometrics and research evaluation community. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Is Google Scholar useful for Bibliometrics? A Webometric Analysis (Article, English) AUTHOR: Aguillo, IF SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.19-25 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS+: SCIENCE; WEB; SCOPUS; INDEX ABSTRACT: Google Scholar, the academic bibliographic database provided free-of-charge by the search engine giant Google, has been suggested as an alternative or complementary resource to the commercial citation databases like Web of Knowledge (ISI/Thomson) or Scopus (Elsevier). In order to check the usefulness of this database for bibliometric analysis, and especially research evaluation, a novel approach is introduced. Instead of names of authors or institutions, a webometric analysis of academic web domains is performed. The bibliographic records for 225 top level web domains (TLD) and 19,240 university institutional web domains has been collected from the Google Scholar database. About 63.8% of the records are hosted in generic domains like com or org, confirming that most of the Scholar data come from large commercial or non-profit sources. One third of the other items (10.6% from the global) are hosted by the 10,442 universities that have at least one record in Scholar. The individual analysis show that universities from China, Brazil, Spain, Taiwan or Indonesia are far better ranked than expected. In some cases, large international or national databases, or repositories are responsible for the high numbers found. However, in many others, the local contents, including papers in low impact journals, popular scientific literature, and unpublished reports or teaching supporting materials are clearly overrepresented. Google Scholar lacks the quality control needed for its use as a bibliometric tool; the larger coverage it provides consists in some cases of items not comparable with those provided by other similar databases. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: An Informetric Analysis of Selected African Medical Journals Published in the African Journals OnLine (AJOL) (Article, English) AUTHOR: Akakandelwa, A; Ocholla, DN SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.26-33 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; JOURNALS item_title; INFORMETRIC* item_title KEYWORDS+: CITATION INDEXES; GOOGLE SCHOLAR; INFORMATION; DATABASES; IMPACT -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Age and scientific performance. A large-scale study of Norwegian scientists (Article, English) AUTHOR: Aksnes, DW; Rorstad, K; Piro, F; Sivertsen, G SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.34-45 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth KEYWORDS+: RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY; DETERMINANTS; IMPACT ABSTRACT: In this study we analyze the relation between age and scientific performance. The study is based on a large-scale cross- sectional analysis involving 11,500 Norwegian university researchers. In addition to analyzing whether there are significant age differences in the publication and citation rates at an overall national level, we investigate the issue according to variables such as the academic position, research disciplines and gender. We find that there are large age differences in scientific productivity. The youngest and oldest researchers have the lowest annual production of publications. The productivity is increasing by age, reaching a peak late in the career, and declining thereafter. The study shows that persons above 60 are significantly less cited than their younger colleagues. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A measure of research productivity of Nigerian universities: a bibliometric analysis (Article, English) AUTHOR: Ani, OE; Onyancha, OB SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.54-65 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS+: INFORMATION; AFRICA ABSTRACT: The need for sustainable evaluation of the research process and performance in Nigerian universities cannot be overemphasised. The present study used bibliometric analysis with publication output as a major indicator to evaluate research performance and productivity in Nigerian universities. The research results revealed that the first generation universities owned by the federal government are the five most productive universities in Nigeria. Biotechnology and applied microbiology is the most productive subject area, while research in basic sciences (physics, mathematics and chemistry) is low since these subjects are not among the top 20 subject areas in Nigeria. The results also revealed significant growth and progress in research and publications in Nigerian universities in the late 2000s. In terms of citation count and analysis, the University of Ibadan tops the list with 7.5 cites per article and a 38 h-index. It is recommended that more resources should be put into research in the basic sciences for effective scientific/technological development in Nigeria. It is further recommended that the National Universities Commission (NUC) generate relevant parameters/indicators for the national evaluation and ranking of Nigerian universities. Developing a national database of all the researchers, with their publications, at Nigerian universities is highly recommended. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Towards a Multilingual, Comprehensive and Open Scientific Journal Ontology (Article, English) AUTHOR: Archambault, E; Beauchesne, OH; Caruso, J SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.66-77 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; PRICE DJD rauth; GROSS PLK SCIENCE 66:385 1927; SMALL HG INFORM PROCESS MANAG 13:277 1977; JOURNAL item_title; GARFIELD E AM DOC 14:289 1963; PUDOVKIN AI J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 53:1113 2002 KEYWORDS+: CITATION-REPORTS; STRUCTURAL-EQUIVALENCE; INFORMATION- SCIENCE; CLASSIFICATION; NETWORKS ABSTRACT: This paper describes the development of a new journal ontology to facilitate the production of bibliometric data. A number of approaches have been used to design journal-level taxonomies or ontologies, and the scholarly research and practical application of these systems have revealed their various benefits and limitations. To date, however, no single classification scheme has been widely adopted by the international bibliometric community. In light of these factors, the new classification presented here-featuring a hierarchical, three-level classification tree-was developed based on best-practice taxonomies. Categories were modelled on those of existing journal classifications (ISI, CHI, ERA), and their groupings of journals acted as "seeds" or attractors for journals in the new classification. Individual journals were assigned to single, mutually exclusive categories via a hybrid approach combining algorithmic methods and expert judgment. Notably, the classification was designed to be as inclusive as possible of newer fields of inquiry; general and multidisciplinary journals; and the range of arts and humanities disciplines. The new scientific journal ontology is freely available (it can be found at www.sciencemetrix.com) under a creative commons license and is operational in 18 languages. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Scale-Adjusted Metrics of Scientific Collaboration (Article, English) AUTHOR: Archambault, E; Beauchesne, OH; Cote, G; Roberge, G SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.78-88 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth KEYWORDS+: CO-AUTHORSHIP; INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION; COOPERATION; CITATION; SCIENCE; IMPACT; NETWORKS ABSTRACT: Scientific collaboration is increasing on nearly all fronts. In most fields of inquiry, the proportions of multiple authors', multiple institutions', and multiple countries' papers have increased regularly since the birth of scientific journals. Two questions that are frequently asked are: how does collaboration compare from one place to the other, and how does the intensity of collaboration between partners compare in systems with multiple players? For obvious reasons, absolute numbers do not reveal much, but it has been known since the 1970s that the percentages of collaboration present an inverse relationship relative to the number of papers. This paper presents scale-independent methods to examine how frequently collaboration occurs as a function of size. In addition to these scale-adjusted statistics, which are based on the use of the Katz normalization method, this paper proposes a new method to compute a scale-adjusted preference index of collaboration between entities of various sizes. Examples are provided for the world, the European Research Area ( ERA), and the US states, as well as for Canadian universities. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Comparing citation patterns in entrepreneurship research articles in subject handbooks and Web of Science journals (Article, English) AUTHOR: Astrom, F SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.89-96 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): WHITE HD J AM SOC INFORM SCI 32:163 1981; JOURNALS item_title; CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS+: INFORMATION ABSTRACT: Not knowing enough about the similarities or differences of citation structures between different types of publications creates problems related to whether citation maps of research fields based on Web of Science/ISI data are representative of research fields as a whole or if they are a representation of how WoS perceives the field, not the least in the humanities and the social sciences. To investigate this problem, the citation structures in entrepreneurship research were analyzed using citation data both coming out of WoS-indexed journal articles and citation data from 12 entrepreneurship research handbooks. The datasets were analyzed by studying the age of references, the co- citation structures and also, citation overlaps. The results show substantial similarities between the two data sets: the distribution of the age of the references is almost identical, the co-citation structures in form of co-citation maps have strong similarities both in terms of identifiable networks as well as which cited authors are grouped together and there is also a strong citation overlap between the two different publication types. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Principles for comparing sets of documents in citation analysis: From independent samples to comparing sub-samples in terms of percentile ranks (Article, English) AUTHOR: Bornmann, L; Leydesdorff, L; Mutz, R; Opthof, T SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.111-122 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; CITATION item_title; CITATION ANALYS* item_title; CITATION* item_title; GARFIELD E SCIENTOMETRICS 1:359 1979; PUDOVKIN AI J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 53:1113 2002 KEYWORDS+: IMPACT; SCIENCE; INDICATORS; RELIABILITY; JOURNALS ABSTRACT: Using citation analysis, sets of documents can be compared as independent samples; for example, in terms of average citation counts using potentially different reference sets. From this perspective, the size of samples matters only for the statistical significance testing of differences and the error estimation. Using the percentile rank approach, differences among citation distributions can be studied in a single scheme. The comparison among the sets reveals that different sizes of the samples affect the weighing of the probabilities and therefore the rankings. We distinguish among (1) the normalization of papers against external reference sets, (2) the normalization in terms of frequencies relative to the margin-totals of independent versus dependent samples, and (3) the potentially normative definition of percentile rank classes for the evaluation (e. g., top-1% most highly cited; median, etc.). -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Multiple dimensions of journal specificity: Why journals can't be assigned to disciplines (Article, English) AUTHOR: Boyack, KW; Klavans, R SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.123-133 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNALS item_title; JOURNAL item_title KEYWORDS+: SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS; SCIENCE; CLASSIFICATION; INDICATORS; FIELDS; MAP ABSTRACT: Journal classification systems have been used for many years for a variety of purposes. Many different such systems exist, a 'best' classification system has never been identified and there is a growing sense that a perfect journal classification system will never be found. We explore this question further by proposing and calculating four measures of journal specificity. We find that journal specificity has multiple dimensions. Assuming that disciplines are by definition more specific than broad, and that specificity has multiple dimensions, we suggest that few journals are truly disciplinary. This calls into question the validity of any journal-disciplinary classification system when used for research evaluation. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The growth of the scientific production of Colombian universities: An intellectual capital-based approach (Article, English) AUTHOR: Bucheli, V; Diaz, A; Zarama, R SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.134-141 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth ABSTRACT: This paper proposes that the knowledge production of universities is related to their accumulation of intellectual capital (IC). Therefore, universities with an historic process of the accumulation of IC present an exponential growth in their scientific production. This work studies the trends of the scientific publications of Colombian universities and the relationship between these trends and their IC. Universities were categorized into four groups according to the growth in number of their publications: exponential growth -early-; exponential growth -late-; linear growth and irregular growth. In addition, we present some factors relating to the accumulation of IC in Colombian universities. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: How do matchkeys affect citation counts? First steps towards an error calculus for bibliometric indicators (Article, English) AUTHOR: Dinkel, WP SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.175-180 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title; CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS+: REFERENCES; JOURNALS; ACCURACY ABSTRACT: While the methodological pitfalls of citation analysis are subject to intense debate in bibliometric research the more technical aspects of generating citation counts are sometimes lacking attention. However, as citation counts play a central role both in evaluative and descriptive bibliometrics they deserve more thorough consideration. In our contribution we want to present first results of an ongoing research project aiming at developing an error calculus for bibliometric methods. As a first step we compared the outcome of different algorithms for matching references with target documents using Web of Science data from 2007. This research in progress paper serves as a first exploration into the distribution of errors in citations rates. The preliminary results of our ongoing research suggest that the dispersion pattern of the resulting citation counts differ according to object of analyses. The extent of dispersion can be used as a simple measure for indicating the robustness of citation counts. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The Hirsch-index of set partitions (Article, English) AUTHOR: Egghe, L SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.187-195 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; EGGHE L primaryauthor,author ABSTRACT: The Hirsch-index (h-index) is calculated on citations that papers (e. g. of authors or journals) receive. Hence we can consider the h-index as calculated on a partition of the same set of citations. In this paper we will study the h-index, dependent on the particular partition of this set. We will do this in the discrete case as well as in a continuous Lotkaian setting. In the discrete setting we will determine h-indices of successive refinements of partitions. We show that the corresponding h-indices do not form a monotonic sequence and we determine the maximal value of an h- index in such a system. In the continuous Lotkaian setting we prove that, given a set of citations of cardinality A, the h-index only depends on the average number of citations that an author or a journal receives. This functional dependence is calculated and we show that it has a unique maximum for which formulae are given. This is the highest possible h-index, given a set of citations of fixed cardinality. Examples confirm the theory. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Hybrid Documents Co-citation Analysis: a Suggested Method to Analyze the Interaction between Science and Technology in Technology Diffusion (Article, English) AUTHOR: Gao, JP; Ding, K; Teng, L; Pang, J SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.196-205 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): SMALL H SCI STUD 4:17 1974; SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973; CITATION item_title; CITATION ANALYS* item_title; CITATION* item_title; CO CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS+: SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; KNOWLEDGE; LITERATURES; PERSPECTIVE; INDICATORS; PATTERNS; LIFE ABSTRACT: Given the growing attention paid to technology diffusion with the method of patent citation analysis, scholars and practitioners alike need practices to assist them in better understanding the interaction between science and technology. The main objective of the paper proposing a hybrid documents co-citation analysis, tries to help them in this task with a practical and replicable method. With the patents citing Smalley RE in Derwent Innovations Index as the data source, the paper achieved hybrid documents co-citation network through two procedures at first, then made cluster analysis to get a better understanding of technology diffusion from the macro and micro levels. Furthermore, based on the concordance between network properties and technology diffusion mechanisms, three indicators including degree, betweenness and citation half-life, were created to mine the basic documents in the critical position during the technology diffusion. At last, the paper summarized the hybrid documents co-citation analysis in practise, thus made the conclusion on the interaction between science and technology that they undertook different functions and acted dominatingly in the different period of technology diffusion, although they were co- activity all the time. [ ]<-- Enter an X to order article (IDS: BAR88 00022) ISSN: 2175-1935 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Anatomy of scientific misconduct. Bibliometric analysis of the Deja Vu database (Article, English) AUTHOR: Garcia-Romero, A; Estrada, JM; Rodriguez-Vallejo, JM SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.206-211 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS+: CITATIONS ABSTRACT: Scientific misconduct is a worrying problem whose incidence is increasing due to the increasingly competitive research environment in many countries. Deja Vu is a publicly available database of highly similar citations identified by eTBLAST from PubMed. We performed a bibliometric analysis of 116 pairs of duplicated publications whose earlier papers were published in the period 2004-2005. We selected all the cases that have been confirmed by experts. Our aim was to determine to what extent the duplicates with shared authors (SA) are different from those with different authors (DA) in terms of citations and other relevant variables. To this extent, we hope to contribute to a better understanding of the scientific misconduct problem. Our results reveal that there is a clear differentiation between the two types of publications. In the case of papers with different authors, the duplicates received fewer citations than the duplicates with shared authors. Moreover, the DA duplicates are published with a delay of two years on average, one year more than that for SA duplicates. This pattern suggests that fraudulent scientists try to hide their scientific misconduct. [ ]<-- Enter an X to order article (IDS: BAR88 00023) ISSN: 2175-1935 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Using 'core documents' for detecting new emerging topics (Article, English) AUTHOR: Glanzel, W; Thijs, B SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.224-235 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973 KEYWORDS+: COMBINED COCITATION; WORD ANALYSIS; SCIENCE; INFORMATION; TEXT ABSTRACT: The notion of 'core documents', first introduced in the context of co-citation analysis and later re-introduced for bibliographic coupling and extended to hybrid approaches, refers to the representation of the core of a document set according to given criteria. In the present study, core documents are used for the identification of new emerging topics. The proposed method proceeds from independent clustering of disciplines in different time windows. Cross-citations between core documents and clusters in different periods are used to detect new, exceptionally growing clusters or clusters with changing topics. Three paradigmatic types of new, emerging topics are distinguished. Methodology is illustrated using the example of three ISI Subject Categories selected from the life sciences, applied sciences and the social sciences. [ ]<-- Enter an X to order article (IDS: BAR88 00025) ISSN: 2175-1935 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The "Sound of Bibliometrics": an analysis of its level of awareness and acceptance in Austria (Article, English) AUTHOR: Hasitzka, K; Gumpenberger, C; Gorraiz, J; Wieland, M SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.267-279 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS+: SCIENTOMETRIC ANALYSIS; GERMAN JOURNALS; SCIENCE; PUBLICATION; SYSTEM; VISUALIZATION; MANAGEMENT; VIENNA; IMPACT ABSTRACT: This paper gives an overview of the history of bibliometrics in Austria and reports on its level of awareness and its acceptance. For this purpose an online survey addressed to Austrian scientists was conducted and its results analyzed. In spite of emergent and increasing activities in this field, the uptake of bibliometric knowledge is slow and has much room for improvement in the Austrian scientific community. The majority of responders agree on the need for a more sophisticated bibliometric education and also indicate a willingness to use existent bibliometric services. [ ]<-- Enter an X to order article (IDS: BAR88 00029) ISSN: 2175-1935 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Taking a Multidimensional Approach Toward Journal Evaluation (Article, English) AUTHOR: Haustein, S SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.280-291 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; KESSLER MM AM DOC 14:10 1963; SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973; JOURNAL item_title; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 178:471 1972; PUDOVKIN AI J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 53:1113 2002 KEYWORDS+: IMPACT FACTOR; BIBLIOMETRIC RESEARCH; CITATION ANALYSIS; USAGE DATA; SCIENCE; METRICS; NORMALIZATION; LIBRARIES; FIELDS; ISI ABSTRACT: This study takes a comprehensive approach toward the evaluation of scientific journals. The author argues that analyses measuring the impact of periodicals cannot be based on one single citation-based indicator, but that multiple methods should be used to capture the standing of a journal within the scientific community. Based on a set of 45 physics journals, multidimensional evaluation methods are described and applied. Different approaches are presented, which aim to highlight the journal in all its different roles within the whole process of scientific communication. Indicators and methods are grouped into five dimensions; namely journal output, journal content, journal perception, scientific communication and journal management. Furthermore, a lack of communication is addressed between bibliometric research, where new or newly named citation indicators emerge regularly, and applied journal evaluation, which is more or less limited to the Impact Factor. The need for standards involving multidimensional approaches is expressed. [ ]<-- Enter an X to order article (IDS: BAR88 00030) ISSN: 2175-1935 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Discovering shared interests through co-outlinking in a municipal web space (Article, English) AUTHOR: Holmberg, K SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.304-314 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): KESSLER MM AM DOC 14:10 1963 KEYWORDS+: ACADEMIC WEB; SITE INTERLINKING; LINK ANALYSIS; UNIVERSITY; INSTITUTIONS; INFORMATION; MOTIVATIONS; FRAMEWORK ABSTRACT: In webometric research interlinking and co-inlinking has been studied extensively, but co-outlinking has been used as a data collection and research method only in a couple of studies before. Yet it may have some potential as a tool for mapping shared interests of organizations creating the outgoing links. This research studied this potential of co-outlinking and mapped the shared interests of 54 municipalities in Finland. The research showed that co-outlinking can in fact be used to map shared interests and perhaps even cooperation but the method required a lot of manual cleansing and classification of the data. Although the results were promising co-outlinking cannot be recommended unless some improvements are developed for classification of the link data. [ ]<-- Enter an X to order article (IDS: BAR88 00032) ISSN: 2175-1935 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Do Open Access Working Papers Attract more Citations Compared to Printed Journal Articles from the same Research Unit? (Article, English) AUTHOR: Ingwersen, P; Elleby, A SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.327-332 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION* item_title; JOURNAL item_title KEYWORDS+: IMPACT ABSTRACT: This paper presents the results of an empirical case study of the characteristics of citations received by 10 open access non- peer reviewed working papers published by a prestigious multidisciplinary, but basically social science research institute, compared to 10 printed peer reviewed journal articles published in the same year (2004) by the same institute and predominantly by the same authors. The study analyzes the total amount of citations and citation impact observed in Web of Science (WoS) and Google Scholar (GS) received during the five-year period 2004-09 (February) by the two publication types, the citation distributions over the individual sample publications and observed years as well as over external, institutional and personal self-citations. The institute concerned is the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Copenhagen. The results demonstrate that the open access working papers publicly accessible through the DIIS e- archive became far less cited than the corresponding sample of DIIS journal articles published in printed form. However, highly cited working papers have higher impact than the average of the lower half of cited articles. Citation time series show identical distinct patterns for the articles in WoS and GS and working papers in GS, more than doubling the amount of citations received through the latter source. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: There goes another one: Introducing the NUCA-set of indicators (Article, English) AUTHOR: Jovanovic, M; Fritsche, F SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.333-338 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; MACROBERTS MH rauth; HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; GARFIELD E AM DOC 14:195 1963 KEYWORDS+: SELF-CITATION; INDEX ABSTRACT: Indicators that provide a means of evaluation of research have been at the heart of bibliometric studies since the beginning of the discipline. In this research-in-progress paper we introduce a new set of measures and indicators in order to complement existing evaluation methods of research excellence for single authors and highlight a new facet of bibliometric methods. Existing measures normally use publication and citation numbers as the basis for the calculation of an indicator. The NUCA-set (Number of unique citing authors) of indicators uses the number of authors that cited the evaluated author. These new indicators visualize cases where an author's work might have accumulated many citations but in reality only has been frequently cited by a small number of people. The NUCA-set leads to a more balanced evaluation and a more comprehensive evaluation profile if used in addition to already existing indicators like the H-index or the citation rate. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Assessing the Citation Impact of Book-Based Disciplines: The Role of Google Books, Google Scholar and Scopus (Article, English) AUTHOR: Kousha, K; Thelwall, M SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.361-372 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS+: RESEARCH ASSESSMENT EXERCISE; WEB-OF-SCIENCE; SOCIAL- SCIENCES; BIBLIOMETRIC INDICATORS; H-INDEX; HUMANITIES; COUNTS; ARCHAEOLOGY; RANKINGS; COVERAGE ABSTRACT: Although peer review is likely to dominate quality assessment of research in the future UK Research Excellence Framework (REF), citation indictors will also be used in some subject areas to support the peer-review process. However, traditional journal-based citation indexes may be inadequate for the citation impact assessment of book-based disciplines. This article examines whether online citations from Google Books and Google Scholar can provide an alternative. We compared the citation counts to books submitted to 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE - the forerunner of the REF) from Google Books and Google Scholar with Scopus citations across seven book-based disciplines (archaeology, law, politics and international studies, philosophy, sociology, history, and communication, cultural and media studies) based upon a sample of 1,000 authored books. Google books and Google Scholar citations to authored books were 1.4 and 3.2 times bigger than Scopus citations and their medians were also more than twice and three times as high as Scopus citations respectively. This large number of citations is evidence that in book-oriented disciplines in the social sciences, arts and humanities, online book citations are needed to support the peer-review process in the UK REF. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Growth of Brazilian science: a real internationalization or a matter of databases' coverage? (Article, English) AUTHOR: Leta, J SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.392-397 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth KEYWORDS+: TECHNOLOGY; IMPACT ABSTRACT: Brazilian science and technology system has been expanding since the 1950s. As a result of this expansion Brazil has increased its contribution to the world's scientific production indexed in international databases. In more recent period, a stronger increase was observed and gained repercussion in national and international media. The aim of the present study is to investigate whether the recent growth of scientific production means a true insertion of Brazilian science in international scenario or a result of a larger inclusion of Brazilian journals in informational databases. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: To what extent does the citation advantage of collaboration depend on the citation counting system? (Article, English) AUTHOR: Levitt, JM; Thelwall, M; Levitt, M SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.398-408 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth; ZUCKERMAN H rauth; CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS+: MULTIPLE AUTHORSHIP; IMPACT; SCIENCE; PRODUCTIVITY; PUBLICATION ABSTRACT: This paper investigates the extent to which the apparently higher productivity and citation impact of authors with high levels of co-authorship depend on the way in which citation credit is assigned. For articles in physics it compares two methods of allocating credit, the standard (whole) counting system and the fractional counting system. Although numerous studies have found that when the whole counting system is used, more highly coauthoring researchers are more productive and publish more highly cited articles, no study has established whether this is true when the fractional counting system is used. This is particularly important as findings on co-authorship can be used to support the recent encouragement of co-authorship by research policy. This study finds: (a) when whole counting is used, the productivity and citation level increases with level of co-authorship; but (b) when fractional counting is used, the productivity and citation level decreases with level of co-authorship. This casts doubt on the received wisdom about the advantage of co-authored research. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The definition of cancer research: journals, titles, abstracts or keywords? (Article, English) AUTHOR: Lewison, G SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.409-417 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNALS item_title KEYWORDS+: CROSS-FIELD NORMALIZATION; RESEARCH-AND-DEVELOPMENT; CITATION IMPACT; ONCOLOGICAL RESEARCH; RESEARCH INSTITUTES; SCIENTIFIC IMPACT; RESEARCH OUTPUT; SCIENCE; UNIVERSITIES; PERFORMANCE ABSTRACT: Three versions of a "filter" used to identify papers on cancer research, as defined by Cancer Research UK and interpreted by four experts, were compared. The first was based only on specialist journals and had unacceptably low recall. The second was based also on title words, and had both precision and recall above 0.9. The third was based additionally on words in the abstract and/or keywords provided with the paper: it improved the recall to almost unity but the precision was severely degraded, with many false positives. The three filter versions were compared in terms of the outputs of 15 countries in the Web of Science in recent years, and in some instances gave differing indicators of their performance (numbers of papers and citations) which could give conflicting messages for science policy. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Female researchers in Russia: have they become more visible? (Article, English) AUTHOR: Lewison, G; Markusova, V SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.430-441 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): WENNERAS C NATURE 387:341 1997 KEYWORDS+: GENDER-GAP; BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS; CANCER-RESEARCH; SCIENCE; WOMEN; PRODUCTIVITY; TECHNOLOGY; AUTHORSHIP; JOURNALS; CITATION ABSTRACT: This study is based on the fact that the surnames of many Russian scientists have gender endings, with "a" denoting a female, so that the sex of most of them can be readily determined from the listing of authors in the Web of Science (WoS). A comparison was made between the proportion of females in 1985, 1995 and 2005, with a corresponding analysis of the major fields in which they worked, their propensity to co- author papers internationally (which often necessitates having the opportunity to travel to conferences abroad to meet possible colleagues), and their citation records. We found, as expected, that women had a higher presence in the biological sciences and a very low presence in engineering, mathematics and physics. Their citation scores, on a fractionated basis, were lower than those for men in almost all fields and years, and were not explained by their writing of fewer reviews and papers in English (both of which lead to higher citations), or their lower amount of international collaboration in 1995 and 2005 after Russia had become a more open society. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Fractionally Counted versus Integer-Counted Impact Factors in the ISI Journal Set 2008 (Article, English) AUTHOR: Leydesdorff, L; Bornmann, L SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.442-453 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): SHER IH rauth; IMPACT FACTOR* item_title; JOURNAL item_title; GARFIELD E SCIENTOMETRICS 1:359 1979; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 178:471 1972 KEYWORDS+: CITATION ANALYSIS; SCIENCE; NUMBER; FIELDS; TOOL ABSTRACT: The ISI-Impact Factors suffer from a number of drawbacks, among them the incomparability among fields of science because of systematic differences in citation behavior among fields. Can this problem be counteracted by counting citation weights fractionally instead of using whole numbers in the numerators? Fractional citation counts are normalized in terms of the citing sources and thus would take into account differences in citation behavior among fields of science. Differences in the resulting distributions can be tested statistically for their significance at different levels of aggregation. A list of fractionally counted Impact Factors for 2008 is available online at http://www.leydesdorff.net/weighted_if/weighted_if.xls. Using these weighted impact factors, the in-between group variance among the thirteen fields of science identified in the U.S. Science and Engineering Indicators is no longer statistically significant. Although citation behavior differs largely between disciplines, the reflection of these differences in citation distributions cannot-vice versa-be used as a reliable instrument for the classification (Leydesdorff & Bornmann, 2011). -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The Effects of Co-citation Proximity on Co-citation Analysis (Article, English) AUTHOR: Liu, SB; Chen, CM SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.474-484 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): MARSHAKOVA IV rauth; HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973; WHITE HD J AM SOC INFORM SCI 32:163 1981; CITATION item_title; CITATION ANALYS* item_title; CITATION* item_title; CO CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS+: SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE ABSTRACT: In this paper we investigate the effects of co-citation proximity on the quality of co-citation analysis through four experiments of co-citation instances found in full-text scientific publications. First, we compared the distributions of co-citation instances at four levels of proximity in journal articles with the traditionally used article-level co-citation counts. Second, we analyzed how co-citation instances at different proximity levels are distributed across organizational sections in articles. Third, the distribution of co- citation proximity over different co-citation frequency groups is investigated. Fourth, we identified the occurrences of co-citations at different proximity levels with reference to the corresponding traditional co-citation network. The results show that sentence-level co- citations not only preserve the essential structure of the corresponding traditional co-citation network but also form a much smaller subset of the entire co-citation instances typically considered by traditional co- citation analysis. Implications for improving our understanding of underlying factors concerning co-citations and developing more efficient co-citation analysis methods are discussed. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A hierarchical and optimal clustering of WoS journal database by hybrid information (Article, English) AUTHOR: Liu, XH; Glanzel, W; De Moor, B SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.485-496 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNAL item_title KEYWORDS+: COMBINED COCITATION; WORD ANALYSIS; SCIENCE; NETWORKS; WEB ABSTRACT: Previous studies have shown that hybrid clustering methods based on textual and citation information outperforms clustering methods that use only one of these components. However, former methods focus on the vector space model. In this paper we apply a hybrid clustering method which is based on the graph model to map the Web of Science database in the mirror of the journals covered by the database. Compared with former hybrid clustering strategies, our method is very fast and even achieves better clustering accuracy. In addition, it detects the number of clusters automatically and provides a top-down hierarchical analysis, which fits in with the practical application. We quantitatively and qualitatively asses the added value of such an integrated analysis and we investigate whether the clustering outcome provides an appropriate representation of the field structure by comparing with a text-only or citation-only clustering and with another hybrid method based on linear combination of distance matrices. Our dataset consists of about 8000 journals published in the period 2002- 2006. The cognitive analysis, including the ranked journals, term annotation and the visualization of cluster structure demonstrates the efficiency of our strategy. [ ]<-- Enter an X to order article (IDS: BAR88 00050) ISSN: 2175-1935 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A comparative bibliometric analysis of the STI and the ISSI conference series (Article, English) AUTHOR: Luwel, M; Noyons, ECM; van Eck, NJ SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.505-514 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title ABSTRACT: The profile of the STI and the ISSI conferences series are analyzed using the oral presentations. Both play a different role in the development of quantitative science and technology studies. The former is dominated by European authors and more oriented towards applied, policy relevant research. At the latter more fundamental contributions to the discipline are presented by an increasingly globalizing research community. The coexistence of both series is an added value for discipline's further development. To fully contribute the STI conference series should geographically diversify both its author population and its venues. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Portrait of China's R&D activities in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in bibliometric study (Article, English) AUTHOR: Ma, N; Zhao, Y SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.515-520 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title ABSTRACT: China has made great improvement in some critical scientific subject, like nanoscience and nanotechnology. This study explores the state-of-the-art developments of China in nanoscience and nanotechnology, as the previous study showed that China has become the second leading nation in terms of its share of "nano-prefixed" publications all over the world. Patent applications are also included in this study, as there are considerable efforts underway that aim to commercialise nanotechnology, and it is also an important aspect of R&D output. In particular, this study compares the rising pattern of nano- publication and nano-patents, to showcase the gap which lies between the knowledge base and technology base. Furthermore, this study investigates the research focus for both publications and patents in nanoscience and nanotechnology. The findings suggest that the strong presence of publications in MATERIALS SCIENCE, PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY and APPLIED PHYSICS are also in line with China's overall research focus; while there are also many inventions focused on novel formulations of pharmaceutical products which have recently applied in Chinese Traditional Medicine. Finally, the cross-analysis of top organizations and Derwent Classification indicates that the collaboration links between organizations are relatively weak, though their technologies are highly concentrated in some similar areas. Collaborative research is a double edged-sword which may either mutually enhance the research base, or damage to the competitive advantage in commercialization. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: In search of anti-commons: Patent-Paper Pairs in Biotechnology. An Analysis of Citation Flows (Article, English) AUTHOR: Magerman, T; Van Looy, B; Debackere, K SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.521-533 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS+: UNIVERSITIES; INNOVATIONS; ANTICOMMONS; PROPERTY ABSTRACT: In this paper, we examine the possible presence of anti- commons dynamics in biotechnology by comparing citation patterns of patent-paper pairs, i.e. scientific publications from which the contents (subject, methodology, findings, discovery) is part of a patent application. Patent-paper pairs have been detected by relying on text mining algorithms. Starting from a dataset consisting of 948,432 scientific biotechnology publications and 88,994 EPO and USPTO biotechnology patent documents, a total of 584 patent-paper pairs have been identified. Forward citations patterns of those patent-paper pairs have been compared with biotechnology patents and publications that are not part of a patent-paper pairs. In terms of scientific citations, patent-paper pairs receive considerable more citations than publication without a patent counterpart. This is not the case for the technological impact of patent-paper pairs; patent citation rates do not differ significantly between patents with or without a scientific counterpart. As such our findings do not provide evidence for the presence of anti- commons effects stemming from the introduction of IP within scientific activities in the field of biotechnology. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Research performance and collaboration in the Novosibirsk region (Article, English) AUTHOR: Markusova, VA; Libkind, AN; Varshavsly, AE; Jansz, CNM SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.534-545 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth KEYWORDS: citation score; impact factor; level-aggregated indicator; mean weighted indicators; normalized indicator of international collaboration; Novosibirk area; research output; research performance; universities ABSTRACT: The Novosibirsk region is one of the most industrialized in Siberia. In 1957 the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (now Siberian Branch of the RAS (SBRAS)) was set up to stimulate a rapid development of the Siberian and Far East research forces. The goal of this mainly bibliometric, empirical study is to obtain insight into R&D performance in the Novosibirsk region, its domestic and international collaborations and the impact of new government science policies focused on boosting the research and innovation activities of regional universities. Key drivers of research performance are institutions of the SBRAS. Second place in terms of research output belongs to Novosibirsk State University. Its research focuses on hard sciences. 75 % of its papers were published in collaboration with SBRAS institutions. Research output is growing. Novosibirsk area's share of RFBR grants was stable around 8%. Publications from RFBR grantees in 34 subject categories had a level-aggregated indicator value of 1 or higher. In these hard-science areas Russian research develops in accordance with global trends. We observed a concentration of domestic collaboration in the Novosibirsk area as well as a strong international collaboration with advanced economies, in particular in the Asia-Pacific region. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Analysing User Activity in Online Collaboration Projects (Article, English) AUTHOR: McHugh, R; Larsen, B SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.546-551 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005 ABSTRACT: In this paper, we conduct a web usage analysis of user activity in two online collaborative projects, Open Street Map (OSM) and The Pirate Bay (TPB). User logs are downloaded and analysed to provide a picture of user productivity and user activity over time. We find that users of Open Street Map are both more productive and are active for longer than their counterparts in The Pirate Bay. We discuss the methods and heuristics used as an example of how to carry out webometric web usage analysis of online collaboration sites. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The Emergence of Entrepreneurship as a Research Field (Article, English) AUTHOR: Meyer, M; Libaers, D; Thijs, B; Glanzel, W SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.552-557 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973 KEYWORDS+: COCITATION; SCIENCE ABSTRACT: This paper seeks to map out the emergence and evolution of entrepreneurship as an independent field in the social science literature from the early 1990's to 2009. Our analysis indicates that entrepreneurship has grown steadily during the 1990's but has truly emerged as a legitimate academic discipline in the latter part of the 00's. The field has been dominated by researchers from Anglo-Saxon countries over the past twenty years, with particularly strong representations from the US, UK, and Canada. The first results from our structural analysis, which is based on a core document approach, point to five large knowledge clusters. We characterize the clusters in detail and assess the strength of the relationships between the clusters. We offer some initial concluding thoughts on our results. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: SNIP and Beyond (Article, English) AUTHOR: Moed, HF SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.584-594 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; GARFIELD E BRIT MED J 313:411 1996; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 178:471 1972 KEYWORDS+: JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; NORMALIZED IMPACT; TOOL; CITATIONS ABSTRACT: This paper presents a journal indicator of citation impact of a scientific-scholarly journal. It builds further upon Eugene Garfield's groundbreaking ideas presented in many of his early and later publications, by combining his concept of a journal impact factor with his notion that "evaluation studies using citation data must be very sensitive to all divisions, both subtle and gross, between areas of research; and when they are found, the study must properly compensate for disparities in citation potential (Garfield, 1979, p 249)". The proposed indicator is based on a tailor made delimitation of a journal's subject field, and takes into account the frequency and immediacy of citation and database coverage in a subject field applying the concept of source or citing-side field normalization. The first part of the paper outlines the main features of SNIP. The second part discusses the base ideas of source normalization and proposes research lines aimed to further explore its potentialities in research assessment methodologies. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Alone or together - examples from history research (Article, English) AUTHOR: Must, U SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.595-604 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E CURR CONTENTS :5 1979; GARFIELD E CURR CONTENTS :5 1982; GARFIELD E LIBRARY Q 50:40 1980; GARFIELD E rauth KEYWORDS+: HUMANITIES CITATION INDEX; ARTS-AND-HUMANITIES; SOCIAL- SCIENCES; RESEARCH PERFORMANCE; SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION; BEHAVIORAL-SCIENCES; INDICATORS; NEED; CONSEQUENCES; SCHOLARSHIP ABSTRACT: Individualistic nature of research in the humanities is a common fact, as well as the notion that boundaries in humanities are poorly defined. Using citation analysis we have to take into account differences in citation practices not only between humanities and sciences, but also inside narrower fields of humanities. In the current study we observe differences between publication behaviour of historians and archaeologists, examine some aspects of citation practices in those fields, and show their effect on visibility. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Degree, Closeness, and Betweenness: Application of group centrality measurements to explore macro-disciplinary evolution diachronically (Article, English) AUTHOR: Ni, CQ; Sugimoto, CR; Jiang, JP SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.605-616 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): SMALL H J INF SCI 11:147 1985; SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 50:799 1999 KEYWORDS+: COCITATION ANALYSIS; JOURNAL MAPS; SCIENCE; NETWORKS; ISI ABSTRACT: Three group centrality measures-degree, closeness, and betweenness-are utilized in this paper to explore the role of disciplines in two journal co-citation networks by using 677 journals from 40 disciplines categorized by Web of Knowledge. The result shows that social science disciplines play a more central role in knowledge communication and interaction among disciplines than science discipline. Some science disciplines, such as Computer Science, have become more dominant in terms of the three centrality measures over time. The use of group centrality measures provides a novel way of exploring role of disciplines in science mapping and provides evidence that a more comprehensive result can be obtained when all three of these measurements are utilized. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: How is "knowledge management" similar to or different from "information management"? An informetrics perspective (Article, English) AUTHOR: Onyancha, OB SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.626-637 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): INFORMETRIC* item_title KEYWORDS+: CO-WORD ANALYSIS; BIBLIOMETRICS; HIV/AIDS; AFRICA ABSTRACT: This paper compares "information management" (IM) and "knowledge management" (KM) through the use of informetric techniques by examining the subject terms, author-supplied keywords and title words that are used to describe IM and KM literature as well as the journals that disseminate IM and KM research. Data was extracted from the Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA) database and analysed using different computer-aided software programs. The strength of association and coverage ratio between IM and KM and the subject terms, author-supplied keywords, title words and journals that are common in IM and KM literature were assessed, with a view to discovering the relationship between the two concepts. It was observed that IM and KM are related terms in that they share a number of subject terms, title words, journals and author-supplied keywords. However, the strength of association and coverage ratio were found to be too small, implying a weak relationship between IM and KM. Recommendations for further research are offered. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Cognitive Structures and Collaboration Patterns in Academia (Article, English) AUTHOR: Ozel, B SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.638-649 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth KEYWORDS+: CO-WORD ANALYSIS; NETWORK ANALYSIS; RESEARCH FIELDS; EXAMPLE; SCIENCE; SCIENTOMETRICS; LEXIMAPPE; EVOLUTION; MAPS ABSTRACT: This paper develops a coherent research framework which relates cognitive structure and the collaboration patterns into an integrated socio-knowledge analysis of a given scientific community. The framework extends co-word analysis combining it with social network analysis by introducing a novel model. The new model maps actors from co- authorship networks into a strategic diagram of scientists. The mapping is based on cohesiveness and pervasiveness of issues each author has published in the field. The paper adopts a longitudinal approach to trace knowledge diffusion within peculiarity of a national level socio- knowledge system identifying interplay in between scientists socio- knowledge structures and their research strategies, and their evolutions over time. The case covers Turkish management academia spanning the years from 1922 until 2008. It is seen that, within local community, diffusion of management knowledge is lead by academicians with certain socio- knowledge properties: they have more social ties and more diversified knowledge compared to the rest; knowledge they have is distinct compared to their peers in the network; they hold certain part of their knowledge exclusively, thus knowledge-wise they don't resemble the rest; but they keep a level of common knowledge with the rest of the community. However, academicians publishing at international arena do not show any significantly differing socio-cognitive properties from each other, instead, they are merely embedded in strongly connected groups. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Investigating the nature of scientific reputation (Article, English) AUTHOR: Parra, C; Casati, F; Daniel, F; Marchese, M; Cernuzzi, L; Dumas, M; Kungas, P; Garcia-Banuelos, L; Kisselite, K SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.650-655 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; GARFIELD E THEORETICAL MED 13:117 1992 ABSTRACT: Excellence or quality are often regarded as the holy grail of science, and it is the main goal driving scientist to pursue research that will influence the direction of their fields. This excellence, however, has no standard definition and varies across disciplines, and even from person to person, making it difficult to evaluate research and reputation of researchers. In this work, we introduce the general problem of studying the nature of reputation in the context of computer science, providing preliminary results on its relation with bibliometric indicators and hints for future experiments that will foster a better understanding of reputation in the scientific domain. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Short, Strong and Simple Mapping of Research Fields (Article, English) AUTHOR: Persson, O SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.662-664 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; PRICE DJD rauth; SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973; WHITE HD J AM SOC INFORM SCI 32:163 1981; GARFIELD E J INFORM SCI 30:119 2004 KEYWORDS+: AUTHOR COCITATION ANALYSIS; PROXIMITY-MEASURES; PEARSONS R; NETWORKS; RESEMBLANCE; SCIENCE ABSTRACT: Even within a narrowly defined research speciality, the citations among its papers may form a dense and complex network. In this paper a new mapping approach is suggested and tested on a network of papers on co-citation analysis. One way of mapping the dynamics of the field is to reduce the number of direct citation links by successively minimizing the citation year lag. Another approach is to remove the weakest links from the network. When the two approaches are combined, keeping only short and strong citation links, interesting decompositions of the original citation network was found. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Malaria research: preliminary findings of a bibliometric approach (Article, English) AUTHOR: Pimenta, D; Guimaraes, MCG; Da Silva, CDS; Paolucci, CP; Azevedo, F; Melo, L; De Santana, RAL; Martins, EV SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.665-672 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title ABSTRACT: The object of the ongoing research reported here is to analyze and comprehend the international research efforts in malaria research derived from numerous programs and international initiatives, such as published and indexed articles by the major scientific databases. Our objective is to map the international and Brazilian research production, skills and competence along with the key research topics and themes of malaria research in the world and in Brazil. We also aim to identify the pattern of malaria research funding, which should provide subsidies to improve public policies in the field. References on the subject obtained from the Science Citation Index (SCI) and PubMed Medline (web edition) databases for the period 1997-2007 are analyzed and show that the research takes place mainly in Europe and North America, not the peripheral countries who are directly affected by the disease. Internationally, the most substantial funding for malaria research came from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and World Health Organization (WHO). In Brazil, these were The National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and the State of Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). These data are preliminary and we intend to extend the searches to other databases and also use network analysis to detect collaborative research groups or communities in this area. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Scientometric research in South Africa and successful policy instruments (Article, English) AUTHOR: Pouris, A SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.685-692 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): NALIMOV VV rauth; SCIENTOMETRIC* item_title KEYWORDS: Scientometrics; South Africa; incentives; impact on research ABSTRACT: This document provides an analysis of scientometric research in South Africa and it discusses sources of growth in the country's research literature in general. South Africa is identified to have limited expertise in the field revealed mainly during the last decade. However, the country is ranked 21ST in the world among the countries publishing in the journal Scientometrics and it is the only African country with such a standing in the field. Identification of the forces affecting positively the growth in the number of research publications in the country indicates that the primary incentive fuelling the recent growth is the new funding formula in the country which subsidizes the universities by more than R100 000 for each publication that their staff produces. The increase in the number of journals indexed in the ISI Thomson Reuters database and the incorporation of social sciences at the NRF have also affected the growth of research publications, but to a lesser extent. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Visualization analysis of research frontier and development trend in the branches of library information and archival science (Article, English) AUTHOR: Qiu, JP; Song, YH; Yang, SL SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.700-711 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 50:799 1999 KEYWORDS+: RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE; CELLULOSE; ASK ABSTRACT: Based on 12,206 articles during 15 years in 21 international representative journals in the field of library information and archival science, the paper analyzed and processed citations and keywords data by CiteSpace II, and generated hybrid network diagram consisting of co-citation literature network and co-occurrence descriptor network. By knowledge map, we presented mainstream research fields, main academic characters and their important cited literatures in all the branches of library information and archival science, and revealed the evolution process, research hotspots and development trends of all the branches. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: How journal rankings can suppress interdisciplinarity. The case of innovation studies and business and management (Article, English) AUTHOR: Rafols, I; Leydesdorff, L; O'Hare, A; Nightingale, P; Stirling, A SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.712-723 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNAL item_title KEYWORDS+: FRAMEWORK ABSTRACT: This investigation illustrates how allegedly 'excellence- based' journal rankings have a bias in favour of mono-disciplinary research and how this negatively affects the assessment of interdisciplinary organisations. First, we use various mappings and metrics to show how innovation studies units are more interdisciplinary than business and management schools. Second, we provide evidence that the journals in the top ranks of the Association of Business Schools' rankings span a less diverse set of disciplines than lower ranked journals. Third, we show that this bias results in a more favourable performance assessment of the more disciplinary-focused business and management schools. Fourth, we demonstrate that a citation-based analysis of the units' performance challenges the ranking-based assessment. We conclude that this case study illuminates a general mechanism through which unduly narrowly-conceived rankings can suppress interdisciplinary research. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A Quantitative Analysis of Peer Review (Article, English) AUTHOR: Ragone, A; Mirylenka, K; Casati, F; Marchese, M SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.724-736 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): WENNERAS C NATURE 387:341 1997 KEYWORDS+: PREDICTIVE-VALIDITY; QUALITY; DECISIONS; SELECTION; FAIRNESS ABSTRACT: In this paper we focus on the analysis of peer reviews and reviewers behaviour in a number of different review processes. More specifically, we report on the development, definition and rationale of a number of appropriate quantitative metrics to assess the processes main properties. We then apply the proposed metrics and analysis framework to data sets from conference evaluation processes and we discuss the results implications and their eventual use toward improving the analyzed peer review processes. A number of unexpected results were found, in particular: (1) the low correlation between peer review outcome and impact in time of the accepted contributions and (2) the presence of a high level of randomness in the analyzed peer review processes. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Algebraic structures in the ego article citation network (Article, English) AUTHOR: Rousseau, R SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.737-741 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; KESSLER MM AM DOC 14:10 1963; SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973; CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS+: KNOWLEDGE DIFFUSION; FIELDS ABSTRACT: New indices characterizing an article in its ego citation network are introduced. Among these we especially mention the outgrow index. Although algebraic aspects are emphasized, a first step towards their interpretation is attempted. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Plasticity and Bias in Peer Assessment: Critical Perspectives from Bibliometrics (Article, English) AUTHOR: Sandstrom, U SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.742-746 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): WENNERAS C NATURE 387:341 1997; BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS+: GRANT APPLICATIONS; RELIABILITY; INDICATORS; NEPOTISM ABSTRACT: This research paper in progress discusses some of the common criticisms of peer review: Costs and Robustness, Nepotism (conflict of interest), Sexism and Cognitive Bias. Attention is given to the fact that much of the research reported fails on a crucial point: The use of bibliometrics as a correlate for the grading and ranking done by granting or evaluation committees (ad hoc or standing committees). The full paper will extend the analysis using data from a selection of finished projects and assessments. Results indicate that there are systemic problems regarding peer review: Firstly, the positive bias in university assessments based on ad hoc committees. Problems circulate around the absence of robust benchmarks and the ad hoc selection of experts. Secondly, the role of cognitive distance points to the power mechanisms in selection processes for finding relevant reviewers. Thirdly, the low levels of peer's performance (in bibliometric respect) indicate that selection of peers is no longer to search for the best possible peer, but instead, the pragmatic peer. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Research Fronts and Areal Density of Bibliographically Coupled Publications (Article, English) AUTHOR: Schiebel, E SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.756-762 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth; BIBLIOGRAPHIC* item_title ABSTRACT: This article proposes a method for the detection and visualization of research fronts within a broader research field. A research front is defined as a grouping of publications on a research topic using the same knowledge base in a broader context. The broader context is defined by a field such as battery research, casting or tribology, while the knowledge base is defined by references. Some publications report on the usage of keywords, co-citations or bibliographic coupling in the detection of research fronts. In this article, agglomerations of bibliographically coupled publications with a common knowledge base are identified and graphically represented by a density function of publications per area unit. The knowledge base becomes visible if publications with similar vectors of common citations are associated. All bibliographically coupled publications are positioned on a map of points generated by a spring model. The publications positioned in a two dimensional space form areas of differing density of points per area unit. The space dependent density is calculated using a digital grid. The density function of papers per area unit is visualized in a three dimensional plot. In this way, research fronts become visible and can be quantified. The proposed methodology is demonstrated based on a case study in the field of battery research. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Bibliometric evidence for empirical trade-offs in national funding strategies (Article, English) AUTHOR: Shelton, RD; Leydesdorff, L SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.763-774 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS+: BAYH-DOLE ACT; PATENT QUALITY; UNITED-STATES; SCIENCE; SYSTEM; WORLD; UNIVERSITIES; PERFORMANCE; TECHNOLOGY; PARADOX ABSTRACT: Multivariate linear regression models indicate a tradeoff in allocations of national R&D investments. Some components seem to encourage publications, i.e. government funding, and spending in the higher education sector. Other components encourage patenting, i.e. industrial funding, and spending in the business sector. Our results help explain why the US trails the EU in publications, because of its focus on industrial funding-some 70% of its total R&D investment. Conversely, it also helps explain why the EU trails the US in patenting. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: What to Include in a Social Sciences and Humanities Citation Index - an Empirical Analysis (Article, English) AUTHOR: Sivertsen, G; Larsen, B SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.775-782 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title ABSTRACT: A well-designed and comprehensive citation index for the social sciences and humanities has many potential uses, but has yet to be realised. Significant parts of the scholarly production in these areas are not published in international journals, but in national scholarly journals, in book chapters or in monographs. In this paper we investigate the potential for covering these literatures empirically by using a complete publication output data set from the higher education sector of an entire country (Norway). We find that the so far uncovered literatures are concentrated in relatively few publication channels, which should be promising for a more comprehensive coverage of the social sciences and humanities. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Identifying Scientific Breakthroughs by Combining Co- citation Analysis and Citation Context (Article, English) AUTHOR: Small, H; Klavans, R SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.783-793 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): MORAVCSIK MJ rauth; CITATION item_title; CITATION ANALYS* item_title; CITATION* item_title; CO CITATION* item_title ABSTRACT: This study combines two relatively independent approaches to identifying scientific breakthroughs from an analysis of the scientific literature. The first approach focuses on citation network data that is gleaned from the bibliography of scientific documents. The second approach focuses on the text in these documents (especially the text surrounding a reference, the so-called citation context). We have linked these two approaches in order to identify potential scientific breakthroughs within three research communities. The analysis is facilitated by creating a large scale categorization of words and phrases called modalities that scientists use to enhance or diminish the credibility of scientific statements. The rates of occurrence of the modality categories for research communities, papers and sub-regions of those communities are examined to provide indicators for changes in research direction. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Citation Genetic Genealogy: A New Perspective for Citation Analysis in Scientific Literature (Article, English) AUTHOR: Sun, FJ SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.817-828 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; MARSHAKOVA IV rauth; PRICE DJD rauth; KESSLER MM AM DOC 14:10 1963; SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973; SMALL HG SOC STUD SCI 8:327 1978; CITATION item_title; CITATION ANALYS* item_title; CITATION* item_title; GARFIELD E INT MICROBIOL 10:65 2007; GARFIELD E LIBRI 48:67 1998; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 122:108 1955; GARFIELD E J CHEM DOC 7:147 1967; GARFIELD E AM DOC 14:289 1963; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 178:471 1972; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 144:649 1964; GARFIELD E NATURE 227:669 1970; GARFIELD E INT J EPIDEMIOL 35:1127 2006 KEYWORDS+: SCIENCE; INDEXES; INFORMATION; DOCUMENTS; DIMENSION ABSTRACT: Citation relationships are commonly described with citation index or citation graph, but in this article, the author introduced the notion of citation genetic genealogy and apply it in citation analysis. A citing document usually only uses pieces of its cited reference, so the author of this paper defined those pieces of a scientific document, which carry the information that have been used or may be used in the future by other documents as its document genes. Besides, with the definition of symbolic information of a scientific document, the conclusion that a citing document inherited the document genes from its references can be drawn. Based on these understandings, citation genetic genealogy was constructed to describe citation relationships. With citation genetic genealogy, it is easy to map the citation relationships, like bibliographic coupling and co-citation, with familiar family relationships and illustrate the inheritance relationships in scientific literatures. Also, citation genetic genealogy may provide an interface between the citation analysis of a document set and the content analysis for each individual document inside this document set. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The small world of citations: How close are citing authors to those they cite? (Article, English) AUTHOR: Wallace, ML; Lariviere, V; Gingras, Y SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.829-840 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; MACROBERTS MH rauth; CITATION* item_title; GARFIELD E AM DOC 14:195 1963 KEYWORDS+: SELF-CITATIONS; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SCIENCE; PATTERNS; POLICY ABSTRACT: This analysis examines the proximity of authors to those they cite using degrees of separation in a co-author network, expanding on the notion of self-citations. When rigorously computed using all cited and citing authors, the proportion of direct self-citations are relatively constant in time across various specialties in the natural sciences (10% of citations) and the social sciences (20%). Citations to nearby authors of the co-author network, however, vary widely among fields and time periods. Authors in specialties such as astrophysics and astronomy, for instance, have very few citations outside their network of collaborators. We discuss, in social and mathematical terms, the degree to which this closeness is determined by the size and topology of the co- author network (especially as it is affected by recent increases in co- authorship) and by the referencing practices of different disciplines. These results have implications for the long-standing debate over biases common to most types of citation analysis, and especially for understanding social structures and citation practices across scientific disciplines over the past 50 years. In addition, our findings have important practical implications for the availability of 'arm's length' expert reviewers of grants applications and manuscripts. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Author Co-citation Analysis of Information Science in China based on the CSSCI (Article, English) AUTHOR: Wang, FF; Qiu, JP SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.841-847 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): WHITE HD J AM SOC INFORM SCI 32:163 1981; CITATION item_title; CITATION ANALYS* item_title; CITATION* item_title; CO CITATION* item_title ABSTRACT: As an important method of information researches, author co-citation analysis (ACA) has a very wide range of applications in exploring subject structure and research status and trends. To the 70947 cited articles in the information science field included by CSSCI from 2000-2009, this paper makes an author co-citation analysis which is different from the traditional mode, that is, using a combination of citation analysis, factor analysis and social network analysis (SNA) to further explore the relationship of the highly-cited authors in Chinese information science field and attempt to explore of the situation of authors influences and subject structure in the field. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The effects of dangling nodes on citation networks (Article, English) AUTHOR: Yan, EJ; Ding, Y SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.861-873 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS+: PAGERANK ABSTRACT: This study discusses the effects of dangling nodes on citation networks through the PageRank algorithm. The origins of dangling nodes for citation networks are introduced and three methods are applied to handle dangling nodes: retaining all dangling nodes, deleting dangling nodes, and clustering dangling nodes into one node. Correlation analyses are used to compare these three methods. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Comparison of Disciplinary Structure in Science between G7 and the BRIC countries by bibliometric methods (Article, English) AUTHOR: Yue, T; Yang, LY; Ding, JL; Han, T SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.887-897 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS+: PROFILES; EUROPE ABSTRACT: Using a collection of papers gathered from the Web of Science, and classifying disciplines through the JCR classification scheme, this paper compares the disciplinary structure of the G7 countries (representing high S&T level countries) and the BRIC countries (representing fast breaking countries in S&T) by bibliometric methods. It further analyzes the similarity and the balance of their disciplinary structure. We found that: (1) Scientific and technological development is associated with national disciplinary structure. (2) The disciplinary structure of the BRIC countries becomes more and more similar to that of the G7 countries. (3) The disciplinary structure of the G7 countries is more balanced than that of the BRIC countries (4) In the G7 countries more emphasis goes to the life sciences, while BRIC countries focus on Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Engineering. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The Global Structure of International Scientific Collaborations (Article, English) AUTHOR: Zelnio, R SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.898-913 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth KEYWORDS+: SCIENCE; NETWORKS; COOPERATION; WORLD ABSTRACT: While there is a consensus that there is a core-periphery structure in the global scientific enterprise, there have not been many methodologies developed for identifying this structure. This paper develops a methodology by looking at the differences in the power-law structure of article outputs and degree distributions of countries and applies the method to five different scientific fields: astronomy & astrophysics, energy & fuels, nanotechnology & nanosciences, nutrition, and oceanography. The analysis highlights differences in the structures of these fields and their impact on citation behaviour. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Where demographics meets scientometrics: towards a dynamic career analysis (Article, English) AUTHOR: Zhang, L; Glanzel, W SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.914-923 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): SCIENTOMETRIC* item_title KEYWORDS+: H-INDEX; INFORMATION-SCIENCE; SCIENTISTS; JOURNALS ABSTRACT: In an earlier exercise some demographic methods were reformulated for application in a scientometric context. Age-pyramids based on annual publication output and citation impact was supplemented by the change of the mean age of the publications in the h-core at any time. Although the method was introduced to shed some demographic- scientometric light on the career of individual researchers, the second component, i.e., the age dynamics of the h-core can however be applied to higher levels of aggregation as well. However, the found paradigmatic shapes and patterns do not only characterise individual careers and positions, but are also typical of life cycles and subject-specific peculiarities. In the present study, the proposed approach is used to visualise the careers of scientists active in different fields of the sciences and social sciences and notably the second component, the h-core dynamics, is extended to the analysis of scientific journals from the same fields. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Trends of the scientific output in five Latin American countries: a bibliometric approach (Article, English) AUTHOR: Arencibia-Jorge, R; Diaz-Mayans, C; Sheehan, T SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.943-945 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Matching bibliometric data from Scopus with National Databases of Colombian Scientists (ScienTI Col) (Article, English) AUTHOR: Bernal, E; Guerrero, CJ SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.946-948 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A Phenomenon of Optimal Scale of Science Cooperation (Article, English) AUTHOR: Chen, Y; Wang, XW; Lin, DM; Liu, ZY SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.949-951 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): SEGLEN PO SCIENTOMETRICS 49:125 2000 KEYWORDS+: GROUP-SIZE; PRODUCTIVITY -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Is science becoming more inter-disciplinary? A citation analysis of journal citation patterns in Scopus (Article, English) AUTHOR: Colledge, L; el Aisati, M SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.963-965 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION item_title; CITATION ANALYS* item_title; CITATION* item_title; JOURNAL item_title -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Central Indexes to the Citation Distribution: A complement to the h-index (Article, English) AUTHOR: Dorta-Gonzalez, P; Dorta-Gonzalez, MI SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.969-971 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Mapping the humanities: Informetric analyses of literary studies through A&HCI data (Article, English) AUTHOR: Hammarfelt, B; Astrom, F SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.993-995 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): WHITE HD J AM SOC INFORM SCI 32:163 1981; INFORMETRIC* item_title KEYWORDS+: COCITATION; AUTHORS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A Bibliometric Study of Research Activity in Sustainable Development (Article, English) AUTHOR: Saeed-Ul-Hassan; Haddawy, P; Kuinkel, P; Sedhai, S SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.996-998 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS+: SCIENCE -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Microbicides Development - Trends in- Original Research Published Globally in PubMed Indexed Journals (Article, English) AUTHOR: Jain, NC; Jacobs, D SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.1002-1004 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNALS item_title KEYWORDS+: HIV PREVENTION -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Sometimes more is less: An analysis of research institutions in Chile (Article, English) AUTHOR: Krauskopf, E SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.1008-1009 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Are funded articles more highly cited than unfunded articles? A preliminary investigation. (Article, English) AUTHOR: Levitt, JM SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.1013-1015 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): CITED item_title -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Scientometrics for Coauthorship of Big Science - A case study of LHC (Article, English) AUTHOR: Lin, DM; Liu, SB SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.1016-1018 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): SCIENTOMETRIC* item_title KEYWORDS+: NETWORK -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The academic discourse in scientific letters abstracts from the personal archives of the Brazilian scientist Bertha Lutz: a bibliometric and linguistic study of deverbal nominalization in the subject indexing. (Article, English) AUTHOR: Guedes, VLD; Santos, MJVD SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.1019-1021 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS+: OCCURRENCES -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Measuring Generic Technology via Co-technology Analysis & SNA (Article, English) AUTHOR: Luan, CJ; Chen, Y SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.1028-1030 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): SMALL H SCIENTOMETRICS 26:5 1993; SMALL H SCIENTOMETRICS 8:321 1985; SMALL H SCIENTOMETRICS 7:391 1985 KEYWORDS+: RESEARCH-AND-DEVELOPMENT; WORD ANALYSIS; NETWORKS; PARADIGMS; SCIENCE; LEVEL -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: An approach to interdisciplinarity and specialization measurement (Article, English) AUTHOR: Manana-Rodriguez, J; Lopez-Pineiro, C; Gimenez-Toledo, E SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.1034-1036 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Study on the Relationships between Citation and Collaboration (Article, English) AUTHOR: Qiu, JP; Ma, F SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.1046-1048 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Research Excellence Milestones of BRIC and N-11 Countries (Article, English) AUTHOR: Rons, N SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.1049-1051 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005 KEYWORDS+: RESEARCH OUTPUT; IMPACT -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The Subject Structure of Randomized Controlled Trials : An Author Co-Citation Analysis (Article, English) AUTHOR: Tsay, MY SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.1067-1069 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION item_title; CITATION ANALYS* item_title; CITATION* item_title; CO CITATION* item_title -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Scientometric Analysis of Nature (Article, English) AUTHOR: Tsay, MY SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.1070-1072 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): SCIENTOMETRIC* item_title -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Citation Patterns in Interdisciplinary Research Areas (Article, English) AUTHOR: Yoshikane, F; Kiyokawa, A; Tsuji, K; Kawamura, S; Suzuki, T SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.1082-1084 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Scientometric Analysis of Materials' Highly Cited Papers(1979-2008) (Article, English) AUTHOR: Yuan, JP; Zheng, YN; Pan, YT; Zhao, XY; Ma, Z; Su, C; Wu, YS SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.1085-1087 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; CITED item_title; SCIENTOMETRIC* item_title; GARFIELD E SCIENTOMETRICS 1:359 1979 From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Mon Jul 9 19:02:35 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 23:02:35 +0000 Subject: PAPERS OF INTEREST TO SIG-METRICS READERS / Message-ID: TITLE: Count or perish. The use of bibliometric indices in the evaluation of the search (Editorial Material, Italian) AUTHOR: Dal Lago, A SOURCE: AUT AUT (354). APR-JUN 2012. p.191-203 NUOVA ITALIA EDITRICE, SCANDICCI (FI) SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title; HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; EDITORIAL doctype -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The most frequently cited adsorption research articles in the Science Citation Index (Expanded) (Article, English) AUTHOR: Fu, HZ; Wang, MH; Ho, YS SOURCE: JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE 379. AUG 1 2012. p.148-156 ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE, SAN DIEGO SEARCH TERM(S): SCIENCE CITATION INDEX item_title; CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title; GARFIELD E JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 257:52 1987 KEYWORDS: Web of Science; SCI-Expanded; Bibliometric; Top-cited articles; Adsorption KEYWORDS+: BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS; INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION; CLASSICS; JOURNALS; PATTERNS; TRENDS; IMPACT; PERIOD; GASES; MODEL ABSTRACT: The 126 most frequently cited articles published in the adsorption field between 1900 and 2011 were identified and characterized using the Science Citation Index (Expanded). The data analyzed cover a range of publication years, journals, Web of Science categories, authors, institutions, countries/territories, life citation cycle curves, and characteristics of frequently cited articles. The 126 most-frequently- cited articles were each cited an average of 1014 times, ranging from 502 to 9922 citations per article from 1918 to 2006; 80% of these articles were published after 1970. Fifty-five journals were represented, led by the Journal of the American Chemical Society, and followed by Science and Nature. Three categories out of the 35 Web of Science categories constituted 60% of the citations. The three categories were: physical chemistry, multidisciplinary chemistry, and multidisciplinary sciences. Thirteen of the authors contributed three or more articles. Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Washington led the list of 107 institutions, while the United States led the list of 17 countries/territories, comprising more than half of the articles. Collaboration among the top authors was a frequent occurrence, while inter-institutional collaboration and national collaboration was not obvious among the topmost articles. Moreover, the citation patterns as a function of time varied widely among the topmost articles. As evidenced by citation life cycles, the well known BET and Langmuir isotherms have received considerable attention during the study period, and will probably continue to be popular in the adsorption field. Some emerging hotspots are likely to receive particular attention in the near future; these include the new family of "M41S" materials, pseudo- second-order kinetic models, and the nudged elastic band method. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: YS Ho, Asia Univ, Trend Res Ctr, Taichung 41354, Taiwan -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Living with the h-index? Metric assemblages in the contemporary academy (Article, English) AUTHOR: Burrows, R SOURCE: SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW 60 (2). MAY 2012. p.355-372 WILEY-BLACKWELL, HOBOKEN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; MERTON RK rauth; HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 122:108 1955 KEYWORDS: Metrics; higher education; neoliberalism; UK; quantified control; audit culture KEYWORDS+: AUDIT CULTURE; UNIVERSITIES; CITATION; SOCIOLOGY; SCIENCE; UK ABSTRACT: This paper examines the relationship between metrics, markets and affect in the contemporary UK academy. It argues that the emergence of a particular structure of feeling amongst academics in the last few years has been closely associated with the growth and development of quantified control. It examines the functioning of a range of metrics: citations; workload models; transparent costing data; research assessments; teaching quality assessments; and commercial university league tables. It argues that these metrics, and others, although still embedded within an audit culture, increasingly function autonomously as a data assemblage able not just to mimic markets but, increasingly, to enact them. It concludes by posing some questions about the possible implications of this for the future of academic practice. AUTHOR ADDRESS: R Burrows, Univ London, London WC1E 7HU, England -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: An Impact factor and beyond... (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Sheikh, A; Stephenson, P SOURCE: PRIMARY CARE RESPIRATORY JOURNAL 21 (2). JUN 2012. p.121-122 PRIMARY CARE RESPIRATORY SOC-PCRS UK, WATERBECK AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Sheikh, PCRJ Editorial Off, Smithy House, Waterbeck DG11 3EY, Lockerbie, England -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Research Blogs and the Discussion of Scholarly Information (Article, English) AUTHOR: Shema, H; Bar-Ilan, J; Thelwall, M SOURCE: PLOS ONE 7 (5). MAY 11 2012. p.NIL_142-NIL_149 PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, SAN FRANCISCO SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; MERTON RK rauth KEYWORDS+: WEB CITATIONS; BLOGOSPHERE ABSTRACT: The research blog has become a popular mechanism for the quick discussion of scholarly information. However, unlike peer-reviewed journals, the characteristics of this form of scientific discourse are not well understood, for example in terms of the spread of blogger levels of education, gender and institutional affiliations. In this paper we fill this gap by analyzing a sample of blog posts discussing science via an aggregator called ResearchBlogging.org (RB). ResearchBlogging.org aggregates posts based on peer-reviewed research and allows bloggers to cite their sources in a scholarly manner. We studied the bloggers, blog posts and referenced journals of bloggers who posted at least 20 items. We found that RB bloggers show a preference for papers from high-impact journals and blog mostly about research in the life and behavioral sciences. The most frequently referenced journal sources in the sample were: Science, Nature, PNAS and PLoS One. Most of the bloggers in our sample had active Twitter accounts connected with their blogs, and at least 90% of these accounts connect to at least one other RB-related Twitter account. The average RB blogger in our sample is male, either a graduate student or has been awarded a PhD and blogs under his own name. AUTHOR ADDRESS: H Shema, Bar Ilan Univ, Dept Informat Sci, Ramat Gan, Israel -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Characterizing Interdisciplinarity of Researchers and Research Topics Using Web Search Engines (Article, English) AUTHOR: Sayama, H; Akaishi, J SOURCE: PLOS ONE 7 (6). JUN 13 2012. p.NIL_501-NIL_509 PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, SAN FRANCISCO SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth KEYWORDS+: SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION; NETWORKS; COCITATION; SCIENCE ABSTRACT: Researchers' networks have been subject to active modeling and analysis. Earlier literature mostly focused on citation or co-authorship networks reconstructed from annotated scientific publication databases, which have several limitations. Recently, general- purpose web search engines have also been utilized to collect information about social networks. Here we reconstructed, using web search engines, a network representing the relatedness of researchers to their peers as well as to various research topics. Relatedness between researchers and research topics was characterized by visibility boost-increase of a researcher's visibility by focusing on a particular topic. It was observed that researchers who had high visibility boosts by the same research topic tended to be close to each other in their network. We calculated correlations between visibility boosts by research topics and researchers' interdisciplinarity at the individual level (diversity of topics related to the researcher) and at the social level (his/her centrality in the researchers' network). We found that visibility boosts by certain research topics were positively correlated with researchers' individual-level interdisciplinarity despite their negative correlations with the general popularity of researchers. It was also found that visibility boosts by network-related topics had positive correlations with researchers' social-level interdisciplinarity. Research topics' correlations with researchers' individual- and social-level interdisciplinarities were found to be nearly independent from each other. These findings suggest that the notion of "interdisciplinarity" of a researcher should be understood as a multi-dimensional concept that should be evaluated using multiple assessment means. AUTHOR ADDRESS: H Sayama, Binghamton Univ, Collect Dynam Complex Syst Res Grp, Binghamton, NY USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Most cited business ethics publications: mapping the intellectual structure of business ethics studies in 2001-2008 (Article, English) AUTHOR: Ma, ZZ; Liang, DP; Yu, KH; Lee, Y SOURCE: BUSINESS ETHICS-A EUROPEAN REVIEW 21 (3). JUN 2012. p.286-297 WILEY-BLACKWELL, HOBOKEN SEARCH TERM(S): WHITE HD J AM SOC INFORM SCI 32:163 1981; WHITE DH J AM SOC INFORM SCI 49:327 1998; CITED item_title KEYWORDS+: CORPORATE SOCIAL-RESPONSIBILITY; FIRM FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE; DECISION-MAKING; STAKEHOLDER THEORY; MANAGEMENT; ORGANIZATIONS; AUTHORS; THEMES; MODEL ABSTRACT: This study explores the research paradigms of contemporary business ethics research in 20012008. With citation data from the top two business ethics journals included in the Social Sciences Citation Index, this study conducts citation and co-citation analysis to identify the most important publications, scholars, and research themes in the business ethics area and then maps the intellectual structure of business ethics studies between 2001 and 2008. The results show that current business ethics studies cluster around four major research themes, including morality and social contract theory, ethical decision making, corporate social responsibility, and stakeholder theory. This study helps profile the invisible network of knowledge production in business ethics and provides important insights on current research paradigms of business ethics studies. AUTHOR ADDRESS: ZZ Ma, Univ Windsor, Odette Sch Business, Windsor, ON N9B 3P4, Canada -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: International Collaborations in Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Research (Article, English) AUTHOR: Hamadicharef, B SOURCE: WEB INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND MINING, PT I 6987. 2011. p.35-42 SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, BERLIN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 295:90 2006; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 122:108 1955 KEYWORDS: Brain-Computer Interface; Research collaborations; Impact Factor; Eigenfactor KEYWORDS+: IMPACT FACTOR; PUBLICATION ABSTRACT: The strength and quality of a research field can be depicted from its literature. In this paper, the Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) research literature is examined for collaborations at the individual level (i.e. researchers) and international level (i.e. countries). Records from the Web of Science (WoS)(Thomson Reuters) are examined to form an updated picture of the BCI research worldwide and in particular its international collaboration. Results indicate strong collaboration between Germany, USA, Austria, and Italy. At the BCI researcher level, this is less prominent. Furthermore, a research quality proxy, based on both Impact Factor (IF) and Eigen Factor (EF), is also examined for journals publishing BCI research. These results, updated regularly, will be published online to help to improve the BCI research community visibility. AUTHOR ADDRESS: B Hamadicharef, Tiara, 1 Kim Seng Walk, Singapore 239403, Singapore From Cbwenger2 at AOL.COM Mon Jul 9 22:35:55 2012 From: Cbwenger2 at AOL.COM (Charles Wenger) Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 22:35:55 -0400 Subject: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE NTERNAT... Message-ID: In a message dated 7/9/2012 3:42:57 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM writes: TITLE: A Study of Scientometric Methods to Identify Emerging Technologies (Article, English) AUTHOR: Abercrombie, RK; Udoeyop, AW SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.2-12 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): SCIENTOMETRIC* item_title ABSTRACT: This work examines a scientometric model that tracks the emergence of an identified technology from initial discovery (via original scientific and conference literature), through critical discoveries (via original scientific, conference literature and patents), transitioning through Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) and ultimately on to commercial application. During the period of innovation and technology transfer, the impact of scholarly works, patents and on-line web news sources are identified. As trends develop, currency of citations, collaboration indicators, and on-line news patterns are identified. The combinations of four distinct and separate searchable on- line networked sources (i.e., scholarly publications and citation, worldwide patents, news archives, and on-line mapping networks) are assembled to become one collective network (a dataset for analysis of relations). This established network becomes the basis from which to quickly analyze the temporal flow of activity (searchable events) for the example subject domain we investigated. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Thomson Reuters Book Citation Index (Article, English) AUTHOR: Adams, J; Testa, J SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.13-18 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS+: HUMANITIES ABSTRACT: Thomson Reuters has developed a novel Book Citation Index. This will become available from late 2011 and will contain a structured selection of scholarly books, categorised by discipline and book type. The Citation Index will be managed using similar inclusion criteria to those applied elsewhere in the Web of Science, so as to ensure that there is comparability across output types. The accurate and comprehensive citation links in the Index are primarily to enable cited items to be readily discovered. It is likely, however, that they will prove an informative source of analytical material for the scientometrics and research evaluation community. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Is Google Scholar useful for Bibliometrics? A Webometric Analysis (Article, English) AUTHOR: Aguillo, IF SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.19-25 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS+: SCIENCE; WEB; SCOPUS; INDEX ABSTRACT: Google Scholar, the academic bibliographic database provided free-of-charge by the search engine giant Google, has been suggested as an alternative or complementary resource to the commercial citation databases like Web of Knowledge (ISI/Thomson) or Scopus (Elsevier). In order to check the usefulness of this database for bibliometric analysis, and especially research evaluation, a novel approach is introduced. Instead of names of authors or institutions, a webometric analysis of academic web domains is performed. The bibliographic records for 225 top level web domains (TLD) and 19,240 university institutional web domains has been collected from the Google Scholar database. About 63.8% of the records are hosted in generic domains like com or org, confirming that most of the Scholar data come from large commercial or non-profit sources. One third of the other items (10.6% from the global) are hosted by the 10,442 universities that have at least one record in Scholar. The individual analysis show that universities from China, Brazil, Spain, Taiwan or Indonesia are far better ranked than expected. In some cases, large international or national databases, or repositories are responsible for the high numbers found. However, in many others, the local contents, including papers in low impact journals, popular scientific literature, and unpublished reports or teaching supporting materials are clearly overrepresented. Google Scholar lacks the quality control needed for its use as a bibliometric tool; the larger coverage it provides consists in some cases of items not comparable with those provided by other similar databases. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: An Informetric Analysis of Selected African Medical Journals Published in the African Journals OnLine (AJOL) (Article, English) AUTHOR: Akakandelwa, A; Ocholla, DN SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.26-33 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; JOURNALS item_title; INFORMETRIC* item_title KEYWORDS+: CITATION INDEXES; GOOGLE SCHOLAR; INFORMATION; DATABASES; IMPACT -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Age and scientific performance. A large-scale study of Norwegian scientists (Article, English) AUTHOR: Aksnes, DW; Rorstad, K; Piro, F; Sivertsen, G SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.34-45 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth KEYWORDS+: RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY; DETERMINANTS; IMPACT ABSTRACT: In this study we analyze the relation between age and scientific performance. The study is based on a large-scale cross- sectional analysis involving 11,500 Norwegian university researchers. In addition to analyzing whether there are significant age differences in the publication and citation rates at an overall national level, we investigate the issue according to variables such as the academic position, research disciplines and gender. We find that there are large age differences in scientific productivity. The youngest and oldest researchers have the lowest annual production of publications. The productivity is increasing by age, reaching a peak late in the career, and declining thereafter. The study shows that persons above 60 are significantly less cited than their younger colleagues. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A measure of research productivity of Nigerian universities: a bibliometric analysis (Article, English) AUTHOR: Ani, OE; Onyancha, OB SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.54-65 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS+: INFORMATION; AFRICA ABSTRACT: The need for sustainable evaluation of the research process and performance in Nigerian universities cannot be overemphasised. The present study used bibliometric analysis with publication output as a major indicator to evaluate research performance and productivity in Nigerian universities. The research results revealed that the first generation universities owned by the federal government are the five most productive universities in Nigeria. Biotechnology and applied microbiology is the most productive subject area, while research in basic sciences (physics, mathematics and chemistry) is low since these subjects are not among the top 20 subject areas in Nigeria. The results also revealed significant growth and progress in research and publications in Nigerian universities in the late 2000s. In terms of citation count and analysis, the University of Ibadan tops the list with 7.5 cites per article and a 38 h-index. It is recommended that more resources should be put into research in the basic sciences for effective scientific/technological development in Nigeria. It is further recommended that the National Universities Commission (NUC) generate relevant parameters/indicators for the national evaluation and ranking of Nigerian universities. Developing a national database of all the researchers, with their publications, at Nigerian universities is highly recommended. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Towards a Multilingual, Comprehensive and Open Scientific Journal Ontology (Article, English) AUTHOR: Archambault, E; Beauchesne, OH; Caruso, J SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.66-77 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; PRICE DJD rauth; GROSS PLK SCIENCE 66:385 1927; SMALL HG INFORM PROCESS MANAG 13:277 1977; JOURNAL item_title; GARFIELD E AM DOC 14:289 1963; PUDOVKIN AI J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 53:1113 2002 KEYWORDS+: CITATION-REPORTS; STRUCTURAL-EQUIVALENCE; INFORMATION- SCIENCE; CLASSIFICATION; NETWORKS ABSTRACT: This paper describes the development of a new journal ontology to facilitate the production of bibliometric data. A number of approaches have been used to design journal-level taxonomies or ontologies, and the scholarly research and practical application of these systems have revealed their various benefits and limitations. To date, however, no single classification scheme has been widely adopted by the international bibliometric community. In light of these factors, the new classification presented here-featuring a hierarchical, three-level classification tree-was developed based on best-practice taxonomies. Categories were modelled on those of existing journal classifications (ISI, CHI, ERA), and their groupings of journals acted as "seeds" or attractors for journals in the new classification. Individual journals were assigned to single, mutually exclusive categories via a hybrid approach combining algorithmic methods and expert judgment. Notably, the classification was designed to be as inclusive as possible of newer fields of inquiry; general and multidisciplinary journals; and the range of arts and humanities disciplines. The new scientific journal ontology is freely available (it can be found at www.sciencemetrix.com) under a creative commons license and is operational in 18 languages. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Scale-Adjusted Metrics of Scientific Collaboration (Article, English) AUTHOR: Archambault, E; Beauchesne, OH; Cote, G; Roberge, G SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.78-88 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth KEYWORDS+: CO-AUTHORSHIP; INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION; COOPERATION; CITATION; SCIENCE; IMPACT; NETWORKS ABSTRACT: Scientific collaboration is increasing on nearly all fronts. In most fields of inquiry, the proportions of multiple authors', multiple institutions', and multiple countries' papers have increased regularly since the birth of scientific journals. Two questions that are frequently asked are: how does collaboration compare from one place to the other, and how does the intensity of collaboration between partners compare in systems with multiple players? For obvious reasons, absolute numbers do not reveal much, but it has been known since the 1970s that the percentages of collaboration present an inverse relationship relative to the number of papers. This paper presents scale-independent methods to examine how frequently collaboration occurs as a function of size. In addition to these scale-adjusted statistics, which are based on the use of the Katz normalization method, this paper proposes a new method to compute a scale-adjusted preference index of collaboration between entities of various sizes. Examples are provided for the world, the European Research Area ( ERA), and the US states, as well as for Canadian universities. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Comparing citation patterns in entrepreneurship research articles in subject handbooks and Web of Science journals (Article, English) AUTHOR: Astrom, F SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.89-96 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): WHITE HD J AM SOC INFORM SCI 32:163 1981; JOURNALS item_title; CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS+: INFORMATION ABSTRACT: Not knowing enough about the similarities or differences of citation structures between different types of publications creates problems related to whether citation maps of research fields based on Web of Science/ISI data are representative of research fields as a whole or if they are a representation of how WoS perceives the field, not the least in the humanities and the social sciences. To investigate this problem, the citation structures in entrepreneurship research were analyzed using citation data both coming out of WoS-indexed journal articles and citation data from 12 entrepreneurship research handbooks. The datasets were analyzed by studying the age of references, the co- citation structures and also, citation overlaps. The results show substantial similarities between the two data sets: the distribution of the age of the references is almost identical, the co-citation structures in form of co-citation maps have strong similarities both in terms of identifiable networks as well as which cited authors are grouped together and there is also a strong citation overlap between the two different publication types. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Principles for comparing sets of documents in citation analysis: From independent samples to comparing sub-samples in terms of percentile ranks (Article, English) AUTHOR: Bornmann, L; Leydesdorff, L; Mutz, R; Opthof, T SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.111-122 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; CITATION item_title; CITATION ANALYS* item_title; CITATION* item_title; GARFIELD E SCIENTOMETRICS 1:359 1979; PUDOVKIN AI J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 53:1113 2002 KEYWORDS+: IMPACT; SCIENCE; INDICATORS; RELIABILITY; JOURNALS ABSTRACT: Using citation analysis, sets of documents can be compared as independent samples; for example, in terms of average citation counts using potentially different reference sets. From this perspective, the size of samples matters only for the statistical significance testing of differences and the error estimation. Using the percentile rank approach, differences among citation distributions can be studied in a single scheme. The comparison among the sets reveals that different sizes of the samples affect the weighing of the probabilities and therefore the rankings. We distinguish among (1) the normalization of papers against external reference sets, (2) the normalization in terms of frequencies relative to the margin-totals of independent versus dependent samples, and (3) the potentially normative definition of percentile rank classes for the evaluation (e. g., top-1% most highly cited; median, etc.). -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Multiple dimensions of journal specificity: Why journals can't be assigned to disciplines (Article, English) AUTHOR: Boyack, KW; Klavans, R SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.123-133 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNALS item_title; JOURNAL item_title KEYWORDS+: SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS; SCIENCE; CLASSIFICATION; INDICATORS; FIELDS; MAP ABSTRACT: Journal classification systems have been used for many years for a variety of purposes. Many different such systems exist, a 'best' classification system has never been identified and there is a growing sense that a perfect journal classification system will never be found. We explore this question further by proposing and calculating four measures of journal specificity. We find that journal specificity has multiple dimensions. Assuming that disciplines are by definition more specific than broad, and that specificity has multiple dimensions, we suggest that few journals are truly disciplinary. This calls into question the validity of any journal-disciplinary classification system when used for research evaluation. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The growth of the scientific production of Colombian universities: An intellectual capital-based approach (Article, English) AUTHOR: Bucheli, V; Diaz, A; Zarama, R SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.134-141 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth ABSTRACT: This paper proposes that the knowledge production of universities is related to their accumulation of intellectual capital (IC). Therefore, universities with an historic process of the accumulation of IC present an exponential growth in their scientific production. This work studies the trends of the scientific publications of Colombian universities and the relationship between these trends and their IC. Universities were categorized into four groups according to the growth in number of their publications: exponential growth -early-; exponential growth -late-; linear growth and irregular growth. In addition, we present some factors relating to the accumulation of IC in Colombian universities. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: How do matchkeys affect citation counts? First steps towards an error calculus for bibliometric indicators (Article, English) AUTHOR: Dinkel, WP SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.175-180 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title; CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS+: REFERENCES; JOURNALS; ACCURACY ABSTRACT: While the methodological pitfalls of citation analysis are subject to intense debate in bibliometric research the more technical aspects of generating citation counts are sometimes lacking attention. However, as citation counts play a central role both in evaluative and descriptive bibliometrics they deserve more thorough consideration. In our contribution we want to present first results of an ongoing research project aiming at developing an error calculus for bibliometric methods. As a first step we compared the outcome of different algorithms for matching references with target documents using Web of Science data from 2007. This research in progress paper serves as a first exploration into the distribution of errors in citations rates. The preliminary results of our ongoing research suggest that the dispersion pattern of the resulting citation counts differ according to object of analyses. The extent of dispersion can be used as a simple measure for indicating the robustness of citation counts. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The Hirsch-index of set partitions (Article, English) AUTHOR: Egghe, L SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.187-195 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; EGGHE L primaryauthor,author ABSTRACT: The Hirsch-index (h-index) is calculated on citations that papers (e. g. of authors or journals) receive. Hence we can consider the h-index as calculated on a partition of the same set of citations. In this paper we will study the h-index, dependent on the particular partition of this set. We will do this in the discrete case as well as in a continuous Lotkaian setting. In the discrete setting we will determine h-indices of successive refinements of partitions. We show that the corresponding h-indices do not form a monotonic sequence and we determine the maximal value of an h- index in such a system. In the continuous Lotkaian setting we prove that, given a set of citations of cardinality A, the h-index only depends on the average number of citations that an author or a journal receives. This functional dependence is calculated and we show that it has a unique maximum for which formulae are given. This is the highest possible h-index, given a set of citations of fixed cardinality. Examples confirm the theory. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Hybrid Documents Co-citation Analysis: a Suggested Method to Analyze the Interaction between Science and Technology in Technology Diffusion (Article, English) AUTHOR: Gao, JP; Ding, K; Teng, L; Pang, J SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.196-205 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): SMALL H SCI STUD 4:17 1974; SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973; CITATION item_title; CITATION ANALYS* item_title; CITATION* item_title; CO CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS+: SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; KNOWLEDGE; LITERATURES; PERSPECTIVE; INDICATORS; PATTERNS; LIFE ABSTRACT: Given the growing attention paid to technology diffusion with the method of patent citation analysis, scholars and practitioners alike need practices to assist them in better understanding the interaction between science and technology. The main objective of the paper proposing a hybrid documents co-citation analysis, tries to help them in this task with a practical and replicable method. With the patents citing Smalley RE in Derwent Innovations Index as the data source, the paper achieved hybrid documents co-citation network through two procedures at first, then made cluster analysis to get a better understanding of technology diffusion from the macro and micro levels. Furthermore, based on the concordance between network properties and technology diffusion mechanisms, three indicators including degree, betweenness and citation half-life, were created to mine the basic documents in the critical position during the technology diffusion. At last, the paper summarized the hybrid documents co-citation analysis in practise, thus made the conclusion on the interaction between science and technology that they undertook different functions and acted dominatingly in the different period of technology diffusion, although they were co- activity all the time. [ ]<-- Enter an X to order article (IDS: BAR88 00022) ISSN: 2175-1935 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Anatomy of scientific misconduct. Bibliometric analysis of the Deja Vu database (Article, English) AUTHOR: Garcia-Romero, A; Estrada, JM; Rodriguez-Vallejo, JM SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.206-211 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS+: CITATIONS ABSTRACT: Scientific misconduct is a worrying problem whose incidence is increasing due to the increasingly competitive research environment in many countries. Deja Vu is a publicly available database of highly similar citations identified by eTBLAST from PubMed. We performed a bibliometric analysis of 116 pairs of duplicated publications whose earlier papers were published in the period 2004-2005. We selected all the cases that have been confirmed by experts. Our aim was to determine to what extent the duplicates with shared authors (SA) are different from those with different authors (DA) in terms of citations and other relevant variables. To this extent, we hope to contribute to a better understanding of the scientific misconduct problem. Our results reveal that there is a clear differentiation between the two types of publications. In the case of papers with different authors, the duplicates received fewer citations than the duplicates with shared authors. Moreover, the DA duplicates are published with a delay of two years on average, one year more than that for SA duplicates. This pattern suggests that fraudulent scientists try to hide their scientific misconduct. [ ]<-- Enter an X to order article (IDS: BAR88 00023) ISSN: 2175-1935 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Using 'core documents' for detecting new emerging topics (Article, English) AUTHOR: Glanzel, W; Thijs, B SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.224-235 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973 KEYWORDS+: COMBINED COCITATION; WORD ANALYSIS; SCIENCE; INFORMATION; TEXT ABSTRACT: The notion of 'core documents', first introduced in the context of co-citation analysis and later re-introduced for bibliographic coupling and extended to hybrid approaches, refers to the representation of the core of a document set according to given criteria. In the present study, core documents are used for the identification of new emerging topics. The proposed method proceeds from independent clustering of disciplines in different time windows. Cross-citations between core documents and clusters in different periods are used to detect new, exceptionally growing clusters or clusters with changing topics. Three paradigmatic types of new, emerging topics are distinguished. Methodology is illustrated using the example of three ISI Subject Categories selected from the life sciences, applied sciences and the social sciences. [ ]<-- Enter an X to order article (IDS: BAR88 00025) ISSN: 2175-1935 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The "Sound of Bibliometrics": an analysis of its level of awareness and acceptance in Austria (Article, English) AUTHOR: Hasitzka, K; Gumpenberger, C; Gorraiz, J; Wieland, M SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.267-279 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS+: SCIENTOMETRIC ANALYSIS; GERMAN JOURNALS; SCIENCE; PUBLICATION; SYSTEM; VISUALIZATION; MANAGEMENT; VIENNA; IMPACT ABSTRACT: This paper gives an overview of the history of bibliometrics in Austria and reports on its level of awareness and its acceptance. For this purpose an online survey addressed to Austrian scientists was conducted and its results analyzed. In spite of emergent and increasing activities in this field, the uptake of bibliometric knowledge is slow and has much room for improvement in the Austrian scientific community. The majority of responders agree on the need for a more sophisticated bibliometric education and also indicate a willingness to use existent bibliometric services. [ ]<-- Enter an X to order article (IDS: BAR88 00029) ISSN: 2175-1935 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Taking a Multidimensional Approach Toward Journal Evaluation (Article, English) AUTHOR: Haustein, S SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.280-291 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; KESSLER MM AM DOC 14:10 1963; SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973; JOURNAL item_title; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 178:471 1972; PUDOVKIN AI J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 53:1113 2002 KEYWORDS+: IMPACT FACTOR; BIBLIOMETRIC RESEARCH; CITATION ANALYSIS; USAGE DATA; SCIENCE; METRICS; NORMALIZATION; LIBRARIES; FIELDS; ISI ABSTRACT: This study takes a comprehensive approach toward the evaluation of scientific journals. The author argues that analyses measuring the impact of periodicals cannot be based on one single citation-based indicator, but that multiple methods should be used to capture the standing of a journal within the scientific community. Based on a set of 45 physics journals, multidimensional evaluation methods are described and applied. Different approaches are presented, which aim to highlight the journal in all its different roles within the whole process of scientific communication. Indicators and methods are grouped into five dimensions; namely journal output, journal content, journal perception, scientific communication and journal management. Furthermore, a lack of communication is addressed between bibliometric research, where new or newly named citation indicators emerge regularly, and applied journal evaluation, which is more or less limited to the Impact Factor. The need for standards involving multidimensional approaches is expressed. [ ]<-- Enter an X to order article (IDS: BAR88 00030) ISSN: 2175-1935 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Discovering shared interests through co-outlinking in a municipal web space (Article, English) AUTHOR: Holmberg, K SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.304-314 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): KESSLER MM AM DOC 14:10 1963 KEYWORDS+: ACADEMIC WEB; SITE INTERLINKING; LINK ANALYSIS; UNIVERSITY; INSTITUTIONS; INFORMATION; MOTIVATIONS; FRAMEWORK ABSTRACT: In webometric research interlinking and co-inlinking has been studied extensively, but co-outlinking has been used as a data collection and research method only in a couple of studies before. Yet it may have some potential as a tool for mapping shared interests of organizations creating the outgoing links. This research studied this potential of co-outlinking and mapped the shared interests of 54 municipalities in Finland. The research showed that co-outlinking can in fact be used to map shared interests and perhaps even cooperation but the method required a lot of manual cleansing and classification of the data. Although the results were promising co-outlinking cannot be recommended unless some improvements are developed for classification of the link data. [ ]<-- Enter an X to order article (IDS: BAR88 00032) ISSN: 2175-1935 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Do Open Access Working Papers Attract more Citations Compared to Printed Journal Articles from the same Research Unit? (Article, English) AUTHOR: Ingwersen, P; Elleby, A SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.327-332 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION* item_title; JOURNAL item_title KEYWORDS+: IMPACT ABSTRACT: This paper presents the results of an empirical case study of the characteristics of citations received by 10 open access non- peer reviewed working papers published by a prestigious multidisciplinary, but basically social science research institute, compared to 10 printed peer reviewed journal articles published in the same year (2004) by the same institute and predominantly by the same authors. The study analyzes the total amount of citations and citation impact observed in Web of Science (WoS) and Google Scholar (GS) received during the five-year period 2004-09 (February) by the two publication types, the citation distributions over the individual sample publications and observed years as well as over external, institutional and personal self-citations. The institute concerned is the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Copenhagen. The results demonstrate that the open access working papers publicly accessible through the DIIS e- archive became far less cited than the corresponding sample of DIIS journal articles published in printed form. However, highly cited working papers have higher impact than the average of the lower half of cited articles. Citation time series show identical distinct patterns for the articles in WoS and GS and working papers in GS, more than doubling the amount of citations received through the latter source. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: There goes another one: Introducing the NUCA-set of indicators (Article, English) AUTHOR: Jovanovic, M; Fritsche, F SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.333-338 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; MACROBERTS MH rauth; HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; GARFIELD E AM DOC 14:195 1963 KEYWORDS+: SELF-CITATION; INDEX ABSTRACT: Indicators that provide a means of evaluation of research have been at the heart of bibliometric studies since the beginning of the discipline. In this research-in-progress paper we introduce a new set of measures and indicators in order to complement existing evaluation methods of research excellence for single authors and highlight a new facet of bibliometric methods. Existing measures normally use publication and citation numbers as the basis for the calculation of an indicator. The NUCA-set (Number of unique citing authors) of indicators uses the number of authors that cited the evaluated author. These new indicators visualize cases where an author's work might have accumulated many citations but in reality only has been frequently cited by a small number of people. The NUCA-set leads to a more balanced evaluation and a more comprehensive evaluation profile if used in addition to already existing indicators like the H-index or the citation rate. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Assessing the Citation Impact of Book-Based Disciplines: The Role of Google Books, Google Scholar and Scopus (Article, English) AUTHOR: Kousha, K; Thelwall, M SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.361-372 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS+: RESEARCH ASSESSMENT EXERCISE; WEB-OF-SCIENCE; SOCIAL- SCIENCES; BIBLIOMETRIC INDICATORS; H-INDEX; HUMANITIES; COUNTS; ARCHAEOLOGY; RANKINGS; COVERAGE ABSTRACT: Although peer review is likely to dominate quality assessment of research in the future UK Research Excellence Framework (REF), citation indictors will also be used in some subject areas to support the peer-review process. However, traditional journal-based citation indexes may be inadequate for the citation impact assessment of book-based disciplines. This article examines whether online citations from Google Books and Google Scholar can provide an alternative. We compared the citation counts to books submitted to 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE - the forerunner of the REF) from Google Books and Google Scholar with Scopus citations across seven book-based disciplines (archaeology, law, politics and international studies, philosophy, sociology, history, and communication, cultural and media studies) based upon a sample of 1,000 authored books. Google books and Google Scholar citations to authored books were 1.4 and 3.2 times bigger than Scopus citations and their medians were also more than twice and three times as high as Scopus citations respectively. This large number of citations is evidence that in book-oriented disciplines in the social sciences, arts and humanities, online book citations are needed to support the peer-review process in the UK REF. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Growth of Brazilian science: a real internationalization or a matter of databases' coverage? (Article, English) AUTHOR: Leta, J SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.392-397 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth KEYWORDS+: TECHNOLOGY; IMPACT ABSTRACT: Brazilian science and technology system has been expanding since the 1950s. As a result of this expansion Brazil has increased its contribution to the world's scientific production indexed in international databases. In more recent period, a stronger increase was observed and gained repercussion in national and international media. The aim of the present study is to investigate whether the recent growth of scientific production means a true insertion of Brazilian science in international scenario or a result of a larger inclusion of Brazilian journals in informational databases. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: To what extent does the citation advantage of collaboration depend on the citation counting system? (Article, English) AUTHOR: Levitt, JM; Thelwall, M; Levitt, M SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.398-408 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth; ZUCKERMAN H rauth; CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS+: MULTIPLE AUTHORSHIP; IMPACT; SCIENCE; PRODUCTIVITY; PUBLICATION ABSTRACT: This paper investigates the extent to which the apparently higher productivity and citation impact of authors with high levels of co-authorship depend on the way in which citation credit is assigned. For articles in physics it compares two methods of allocating credit, the standard (whole) counting system and the fractional counting system. Although numerous studies have found that when the whole counting system is used, more highly coauthoring researchers are more productive and publish more highly cited articles, no study has established whether this is true when the fractional counting system is used. This is particularly important as findings on co-authorship can be used to support the recent encouragement of co-authorship by research policy. This study finds: (a) when whole counting is used, the productivity and citation level increases with level of co-authorship; but (b) when fractional counting is used, the productivity and citation level decreases with level of co-authorship. This casts doubt on the received wisdom about the advantage of co-authored research. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The definition of cancer research: journals, titles, abstracts or keywords? (Article, English) AUTHOR: Lewison, G SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.409-417 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNALS item_title KEYWORDS+: CROSS-FIELD NORMALIZATION; RESEARCH-AND-DEVELOPMENT; CITATION IMPACT; ONCOLOGICAL RESEARCH; RESEARCH INSTITUTES; SCIENTIFIC IMPACT; RESEARCH OUTPUT; SCIENCE; UNIVERSITIES; PERFORMANCE ABSTRACT: Three versions of a "filter" used to identify papers on cancer research, as defined by Cancer Research UK and interpreted by four experts, were compared. The first was based only on specialist journals and had unacceptably low recall. The second was based also on title words, and had both precision and recall above 0.9. The third was based additionally on words in the abstract and/or keywords provided with the paper: it improved the recall to almost unity but the precision was severely degraded, with many false positives. The three filter versions were compared in terms of the outputs of 15 countries in the Web of Science in recent years, and in some instances gave differing indicators of their performance (numbers of papers and citations) which could give conflicting messages for science policy. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Female researchers in Russia: have they become more visible? (Article, English) AUTHOR: Lewison, G; Markusova, V SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.430-441 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): WENNERAS C NATURE 387:341 1997 KEYWORDS+: GENDER-GAP; BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS; CANCER-RESEARCH; SCIENCE; WOMEN; PRODUCTIVITY; TECHNOLOGY; AUTHORSHIP; JOURNALS; CITATION ABSTRACT: This study is based on the fact that the surnames of many Russian scientists have gender endings, with "a" denoting a female, so that the sex of most of them can be readily determined from the listing of authors in the Web of Science (WoS). A comparison was made between the proportion of females in 1985, 1995 and 2005, with a corresponding analysis of the major fields in which they worked, their propensity to co- author papers internationally (which often necessitates having the opportunity to travel to conferences abroad to meet possible colleagues), and their citation records. We found, as expected, that women had a higher presence in the biological sciences and a very low presence in engineering, mathematics and physics. Their citation scores, on a fractionated basis, were lower than those for men in almost all fields and years, and were not explained by their writing of fewer reviews and papers in English (both of which lead to higher citations), or their lower amount of international collaboration in 1995 and 2005 after Russia had become a more open society. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Fractionally Counted versus Integer-Counted Impact Factors in the ISI Journal Set 2008 (Article, English) AUTHOR: Leydesdorff, L; Bornmann, L SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.442-453 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): SHER IH rauth; IMPACT FACTOR* item_title; JOURNAL item_title; GARFIELD E SCIENTOMETRICS 1:359 1979; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 178:471 1972 KEYWORDS+: CITATION ANALYSIS; SCIENCE; NUMBER; FIELDS; TOOL ABSTRACT: The ISI-Impact Factors suffer from a number of drawbacks, among them the incomparability among fields of science because of systematic differences in citation behavior among fields. Can this problem be counteracted by counting citation weights fractionally instead of using whole numbers in the numerators? Fractional citation counts are normalized in terms of the citing sources and thus would take into account differences in citation behavior among fields of science. Differences in the resulting distributions can be tested statistically for their significance at different levels of aggregation. A list of fractionally counted Impact Factors for 2008 is available online at http://www.leydesdorff.net/weighted_if/weighted_if.xls. Using these weighted impact factors, the in-between group variance among the thirteen fields of science identified in the U.S. Science and Engineering Indicators is no longer statistically significant. Although citation behavior differs largely between disciplines, the reflection of these differences in citation distributions cannot-vice versa-be used as a reliable instrument for the classification (Leydesdorff & Bornmann, 2011). -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The Effects of Co-citation Proximity on Co-citation Analysis (Article, English) AUTHOR: Liu, SB; Chen, CM SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.474-484 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): MARSHAKOVA IV rauth; HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973; WHITE HD J AM SOC INFORM SCI 32:163 1981; CITATION item_title; CITATION ANALYS* item_title; CITATION* item_title; CO CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS+: SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE ABSTRACT: In this paper we investigate the effects of co-citation proximity on the quality of co-citation analysis through four experiments of co-citation instances found in full-text scientific publications. First, we compared the distributions of co-citation instances at four levels of proximity in journal articles with the traditionally used article-level co-citation counts. Second, we analyzed how co-citation instances at different proximity levels are distributed across organizational sections in articles. Third, the distribution of co- citation proximity over different co-citation frequency groups is investigated. Fourth, we identified the occurrences of co-citations at different proximity levels with reference to the corresponding traditional co-citation network. The results show that sentence-level co- citations not only preserve the essential structure of the corresponding traditional co-citation network but also form a much smaller subset of the entire co-citation instances typically considered by traditional co- citation analysis. Implications for improving our understanding of underlying factors concerning co-citations and developing more efficient co-citation analysis methods are discussed. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A hierarchical and optimal clustering of WoS journal database by hybrid information (Article, English) AUTHOR: Liu, XH; Glanzel, W; De Moor, B SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.485-496 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNAL item_title KEYWORDS+: COMBINED COCITATION; WORD ANALYSIS; SCIENCE; NETWORKS; WEB ABSTRACT: Previous studies have shown that hybrid clustering methods based on textual and citation information outperforms clustering methods that use only one of these components. However, former methods focus on the vector space model. In this paper we apply a hybrid clustering method which is based on the graph model to map the Web of Science database in the mirror of the journals covered by the database. Compared with former hybrid clustering strategies, our method is very fast and even achieves better clustering accuracy. In addition, it detects the number of clusters automatically and provides a top-down hierarchical analysis, which fits in with the practical application. We quantitatively and qualitatively asses the added value of such an integrated analysis and we investigate whether the clustering outcome provides an appropriate representation of the field structure by comparing with a text-only or citation-only clustering and with another hybrid method based on linear combination of distance matrices. Our dataset consists of about 8000 journals published in the period 2002- 2006. The cognitive analysis, including the ranked journals, term annotation and the visualization of cluster structure demonstrates the efficiency of our strategy. [ ]<-- Enter an X to order article (IDS: BAR88 00050) ISSN: 2175-1935 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A comparative bibliometric analysis of the STI and the ISSI conference series (Article, English) AUTHOR: Luwel, M; Noyons, ECM; van Eck, NJ SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.505-514 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title ABSTRACT: The profile of the STI and the ISSI conferences series are analyzed using the oral presentations. Both play a different role in the development of quantitative science and technology studies. The former is dominated by European authors and more oriented towards applied, policy relevant research. At the latter more fundamental contributions to the discipline are presented by an increasingly globalizing research community. The coexistence of both series is an added value for discipline's further development. To fully contribute the STI conference series should geographically diversify both its author population and its venues. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Portrait of China's R&D activities in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in bibliometric study (Article, English) AUTHOR: Ma, N; Zhao, Y SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.515-520 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title ABSTRACT: China has made great improvement in some critical scientific subject, like nanoscience and nanotechnology. This study explores the state-of-the-art developments of China in nanoscience and nanotechnology, as the previous study showed that China has become the second leading nation in terms of its share of "nano-prefixed" publications all over the world. Patent applications are also included in this study, as there are considerable efforts underway that aim to commercialise nanotechnology, and it is also an important aspect of R&D output. In particular, this study compares the rising pattern of nano- publication and nano-patents, to showcase the gap which lies between the knowledge base and technology base. Furthermore, this study investigates the research focus for both publications and patents in nanoscience and nanotechnology. The findings suggest that the strong presence of publications in MATERIALS SCIENCE, PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY and APPLIED PHYSICS are also in line with China's overall research focus; while there are also many inventions focused on novel formulations of pharmaceutical products which have recently applied in Chinese Traditional Medicine. Finally, the cross-analysis of top organizations and Derwent Classification indicates that the collaboration links between organizations are relatively weak, though their technologies are highly concentrated in some similar areas. Collaborative research is a double edged-sword which may either mutually enhance the research base, or damage to the competitive advantage in commercialization. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: In search of anti-commons: Patent-Paper Pairs in Biotechnology. An Analysis of Citation Flows (Article, English) AUTHOR: Magerman, T; Van Looy, B; Debackere, K SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.521-533 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS+: UNIVERSITIES; INNOVATIONS; ANTICOMMONS; PROPERTY ABSTRACT: In this paper, we examine the possible presence of anti- commons dynamics in biotechnology by comparing citation patterns of patent-paper pairs, i.e. scientific publications from which the contents (subject, methodology, findings, discovery) is part of a patent application. Patent-paper pairs have been detected by relying on text mining algorithms. Starting from a dataset consisting of 948,432 scientific biotechnology publications and 88,994 EPO and USPTO biotechnology patent documents, a total of 584 patent-paper pairs have been identified. Forward citations patterns of those patent-paper pairs have been compared with biotechnology patents and publications that are not part of a patent-paper pairs. In terms of scientific citations, patent-paper pairs receive considerable more citations than publication without a patent counterpart. This is not the case for the technological impact of patent-paper pairs; patent citation rates do not differ significantly between patents with or without a scientific counterpart. As such our findings do not provide evidence for the presence of anti- commons effects stemming from the introduction of IP within scientific activities in the field of biotechnology. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Research performance and collaboration in the Novosibirsk region (Article, English) AUTHOR: Markusova, VA; Libkind, AN; Varshavsly, AE; Jansz, CNM SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.534-545 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth KEYWORDS: citation score; impact factor; level-aggregated indicator; mean weighted indicators; normalized indicator of international collaboration; Novosibirk area; research output; research performance; universities ABSTRACT: The Novosibirsk region is one of the most industrialized in Siberia. In 1957 the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (now Siberian Branch of the RAS (SBRAS)) was set up to stimulate a rapid development of the Siberian and Far East research forces. The goal of this mainly bibliometric, empirical study is to obtain insight into R&D performance in the Novosibirsk region, its domestic and international collaborations and the impact of new government science policies focused on boosting the research and innovation activities of regional universities. Key drivers of research performance are institutions of the SBRAS. Second place in terms of research output belongs to Novosibirsk State University. Its research focuses on hard sciences. 75 % of its papers were published in collaboration with SBRAS institutions. Research output is growing. Novosibirsk area's share of RFBR grants was stable around 8%. Publications from RFBR grantees in 34 subject categories had a level-aggregated indicator value of 1 or higher. In these hard-science areas Russian research develops in accordance with global trends. We observed a concentration of domestic collaboration in the Novosibirsk area as well as a strong international collaboration with advanced economies, in particular in the Asia-Pacific region. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Analysing User Activity in Online Collaboration Projects (Article, English) AUTHOR: McHugh, R; Larsen, B SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.546-551 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005 ABSTRACT: In this paper, we conduct a web usage analysis of user activity in two online collaborative projects, Open Street Map (OSM) and The Pirate Bay (TPB). User logs are downloaded and analysed to provide a picture of user productivity and user activity over time. We find that users of Open Street Map are both more productive and are active for longer than their counterparts in The Pirate Bay. We discuss the methods and heuristics used as an example of how to carry out webometric web usage analysis of online collaboration sites. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The Emergence of Entrepreneurship as a Research Field (Article, English) AUTHOR: Meyer, M; Libaers, D; Thijs, B; Glanzel, W SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.552-557 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973 KEYWORDS+: COCITATION; SCIENCE ABSTRACT: This paper seeks to map out the emergence and evolution of entrepreneurship as an independent field in the social science literature from the early 1990's to 2009. Our analysis indicates that entrepreneurship has grown steadily during the 1990's but has truly emerged as a legitimate academic discipline in the latter part of the 00's. The field has been dominated by researchers from Anglo-Saxon countries over the past twenty years, with particularly strong representations from the US, UK, and Canada. The first results from our structural analysis, which is based on a core document approach, point to five large knowledge clusters. We characterize the clusters in detail and assess the strength of the relationships between the clusters. We offer some initial concluding thoughts on our results. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: SNIP and Beyond (Article, English) AUTHOR: Moed, HF SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.584-594 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; GARFIELD E BRIT MED J 313:411 1996; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 178:471 1972 KEYWORDS+: JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; NORMALIZED IMPACT; TOOL; CITATIONS ABSTRACT: This paper presents a journal indicator of citation impact of a scientific-scholarly journal. It builds further upon Eugene Garfield's groundbreaking ideas presented in many of his early and later publications, by combining his concept of a journal impact factor with his notion that "evaluation studies using citation data must be very sensitive to all divisions, both subtle and gross, between areas of research; and when they are found, the study must properly compensate for disparities in citation potential (Garfield, 1979, p 249)". The proposed indicator is based on a tailor made delimitation of a journal's subject field, and takes into account the frequency and immediacy of citation and database coverage in a subject field applying the concept of source or citing-side field normalization. The first part of the paper outlines the main features of SNIP. The second part discusses the base ideas of source normalization and proposes research lines aimed to further explore its potentialities in research assessment methodologies. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Alone or together - examples from history research (Article, English) AUTHOR: Must, U SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.595-604 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E CURR CONTENTS :5 1979; GARFIELD E CURR CONTENTS :5 1982; GARFIELD E LIBRARY Q 50:40 1980; GARFIELD E rauth KEYWORDS+: HUMANITIES CITATION INDEX; ARTS-AND-HUMANITIES; SOCIAL- SCIENCES; RESEARCH PERFORMANCE; SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION; BEHAVIORAL-SCIENCES; INDICATORS; NEED; CONSEQUENCES; SCHOLARSHIP ABSTRACT: Individualistic nature of research in the humanities is a common fact, as well as the notion that boundaries in humanities are poorly defined. Using citation analysis we have to take into account differences in citation practices not only between humanities and sciences, but also inside narrower fields of humanities. In the current study we observe differences between publication behaviour of historians and archaeologists, examine some aspects of citation practices in those fields, and show their effect on visibility. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Degree, Closeness, and Betweenness: Application of group centrality measurements to explore macro-disciplinary evolution diachronically (Article, English) AUTHOR: Ni, CQ; Sugimoto, CR; Jiang, JP SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.605-616 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): SMALL H J INF SCI 11:147 1985; SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 50:799 1999 KEYWORDS+: COCITATION ANALYSIS; JOURNAL MAPS; SCIENCE; NETWORKS; ISI ABSTRACT: Three group centrality measures-degree, closeness, and betweenness-are utilized in this paper to explore the role of disciplines in two journal co-citation networks by using 677 journals from 40 disciplines categorized by Web of Knowledge. The result shows that social science disciplines play a more central role in knowledge communication and interaction among disciplines than science discipline. Some science disciplines, such as Computer Science, have become more dominant in terms of the three centrality measures over time. The use of group centrality measures provides a novel way of exploring role of disciplines in science mapping and provides evidence that a more comprehensive result can be obtained when all three of these measurements are utilized. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: How is "knowledge management" similar to or different from "information management"? An informetrics perspective (Article, English) AUTHOR: Onyancha, OB SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.626-637 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): INFORMETRIC* item_title KEYWORDS+: CO-WORD ANALYSIS; BIBLIOMETRICS; HIV/AIDS; AFRICA ABSTRACT: This paper compares "information management" (IM) and "knowledge management" (KM) through the use of informetric techniques by examining the subject terms, author-supplied keywords and title words that are used to describe IM and KM literature as well as the journals that disseminate IM and KM research. Data was extracted from the Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA) database and analysed using different computer-aided software programs. The strength of association and coverage ratio between IM and KM and the subject terms, author-supplied keywords, title words and journals that are common in IM and KM literature were assessed, with a view to discovering the relationship between the two concepts. It was observed that IM and KM are related terms in that they share a number of subject terms, title words, journals and author-supplied keywords. However, the strength of association and coverage ratio were found to be too small, implying a weak relationship between IM and KM. Recommendations for further research are offered. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Cognitive Structures and Collaboration Patterns in Academia (Article, English) AUTHOR: Ozel, B SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.638-649 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth KEYWORDS+: CO-WORD ANALYSIS; NETWORK ANALYSIS; RESEARCH FIELDS; EXAMPLE; SCIENCE; SCIENTOMETRICS; LEXIMAPPE; EVOLUTION; MAPS ABSTRACT: This paper develops a coherent research framework which relates cognitive structure and the collaboration patterns into an integrated socio-knowledge analysis of a given scientific community. The framework extends co-word analysis combining it with social network analysis by introducing a novel model. The new model maps actors from co- authorship networks into a strategic diagram of scientists. The mapping is based on cohesiveness and pervasiveness of issues each author has published in the field. The paper adopts a longitudinal approach to trace knowledge diffusion within peculiarity of a national level socio- knowledge system identifying interplay in between scientists socio- knowledge structures and their research strategies, and their evolutions over time. The case covers Turkish management academia spanning the years from 1922 until 2008. It is seen that, within local community, diffusion of management knowledge is lead by academicians with certain socio- knowledge properties: they have more social ties and more diversified knowledge compared to the rest; knowledge they have is distinct compared to their peers in the network; they hold certain part of their knowledge exclusively, thus knowledge-wise they don't resemble the rest; but they keep a level of common knowledge with the rest of the community. However, academicians publishing at international arena do not show any significantly differing socio-cognitive properties from each other, instead, they are merely embedded in strongly connected groups. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Investigating the nature of scientific reputation (Article, English) AUTHOR: Parra, C; Casati, F; Daniel, F; Marchese, M; Cernuzzi, L; Dumas, M; Kungas, P; Garcia-Banuelos, L; Kisselite, K SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.650-655 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; GARFIELD E THEORETICAL MED 13:117 1992 ABSTRACT: Excellence or quality are often regarded as the holy grail of science, and it is the main goal driving scientist to pursue research that will influence the direction of their fields. This excellence, however, has no standard definition and varies across disciplines, and even from person to person, making it difficult to evaluate research and reputation of researchers. In this work, we introduce the general problem of studying the nature of reputation in the context of computer science, providing preliminary results on its relation with bibliometric indicators and hints for future experiments that will foster a better understanding of reputation in the scientific domain. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Short, Strong and Simple Mapping of Research Fields (Article, English) AUTHOR: Persson, O SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.662-664 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; PRICE DJD rauth; SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973; WHITE HD J AM SOC INFORM SCI 32:163 1981; GARFIELD E J INFORM SCI 30:119 2004 KEYWORDS+: AUTHOR COCITATION ANALYSIS; PROXIMITY-MEASURES; PEARSONS R; NETWORKS; RESEMBLANCE; SCIENCE ABSTRACT: Even within a narrowly defined research speciality, the citations among its papers may form a dense and complex network. In this paper a new mapping approach is suggested and tested on a network of papers on co-citation analysis. One way of mapping the dynamics of the field is to reduce the number of direct citation links by successively minimizing the citation year lag. Another approach is to remove the weakest links from the network. When the two approaches are combined, keeping only short and strong citation links, interesting decompositions of the original citation network was found. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Malaria research: preliminary findings of a bibliometric approach (Article, English) AUTHOR: Pimenta, D; Guimaraes, MCG; Da Silva, CDS; Paolucci, CP; Azevedo, F; Melo, L; De Santana, RAL; Martins, EV SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.665-672 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title ABSTRACT: The object of the ongoing research reported here is to analyze and comprehend the international research efforts in malaria research derived from numerous programs and international initiatives, such as published and indexed articles by the major scientific databases. Our objective is to map the international and Brazilian research production, skills and competence along with the key research topics and themes of malaria research in the world and in Brazil. We also aim to identify the pattern of malaria research funding, which should provide subsidies to improve public policies in the field. References on the subject obtained from the Science Citation Index (SCI) and PubMed Medline (web edition) databases for the period 1997-2007 are analyzed and show that the research takes place mainly in Europe and North America, not the peripheral countries who are directly affected by the disease. Internationally, the most substantial funding for malaria research came from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and World Health Organization (WHO). In Brazil, these were The National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and the State of Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). These data are preliminary and we intend to extend the searches to other databases and also use network analysis to detect collaborative research groups or communities in this area. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Scientometric research in South Africa and successful policy instruments (Article, English) AUTHOR: Pouris, A SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.685-692 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): NALIMOV VV rauth; SCIENTOMETRIC* item_title KEYWORDS: Scientometrics; South Africa; incentives; impact on research ABSTRACT: This document provides an analysis of scientometric research in South Africa and it discusses sources of growth in the country's research literature in general. South Africa is identified to have limited expertise in the field revealed mainly during the last decade. However, the country is ranked 21ST in the world among the countries publishing in the journal Scientometrics and it is the only African country with such a standing in the field. Identification of the forces affecting positively the growth in the number of research publications in the country indicates that the primary incentive fuelling the recent growth is the new funding formula in the country which subsidizes the universities by more than R100 000 for each publication that their staff produces. The increase in the number of journals indexed in the ISI Thomson Reuters database and the incorporation of social sciences at the NRF have also affected the growth of research publications, but to a lesser extent. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Visualization analysis of research frontier and development trend in the branches of library information and archival science (Article, English) AUTHOR: Qiu, JP; Song, YH; Yang, SL SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.700-711 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 50:799 1999 KEYWORDS+: RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE; CELLULOSE; ASK ABSTRACT: Based on 12,206 articles during 15 years in 21 international representative journals in the field of library information and archival science, the paper analyzed and processed citations and keywords data by CiteSpace II, and generated hybrid network diagram consisting of co-citation literature network and co-occurrence descriptor network. By knowledge map, we presented mainstream research fields, main academic characters and their important cited literatures in all the branches of library information and archival science, and revealed the evolution process, research hotspots and development trends of all the branches. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: How journal rankings can suppress interdisciplinarity. The case of innovation studies and business and management (Article, English) AUTHOR: Rafols, I; Leydesdorff, L; O'Hare, A; Nightingale, P; Stirling, A SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.712-723 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNAL item_title KEYWORDS+: FRAMEWORK ABSTRACT: This investigation illustrates how allegedly 'excellence- based' journal rankings have a bias in favour of mono-disciplinary research and how this negatively affects the assessment of interdisciplinary organisations. First, we use various mappings and metrics to show how innovation studies units are more interdisciplinary than business and management schools. Second, we provide evidence that the journals in the top ranks of the Association of Business Schools' rankings span a less diverse set of disciplines than lower ranked journals. Third, we show that this bias results in a more favourable performance assessment of the more disciplinary-focused business and management schools. Fourth, we demonstrate that a citation-based analysis of the units' performance challenges the ranking-based assessment. We conclude that this case study illuminates a general mechanism through which unduly narrowly-conceived rankings can suppress interdisciplinary research. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A Quantitative Analysis of Peer Review (Article, English) AUTHOR: Ragone, A; Mirylenka, K; Casati, F; Marchese, M SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.724-736 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): WENNERAS C NATURE 387:341 1997 KEYWORDS+: PREDICTIVE-VALIDITY; QUALITY; DECISIONS; SELECTION; FAIRNESS ABSTRACT: In this paper we focus on the analysis of peer reviews and reviewers behaviour in a number of different review processes. More specifically, we report on the development, definition and rationale of a number of appropriate quantitative metrics to assess the processes main properties. We then apply the proposed metrics and analysis framework to data sets from conference evaluation processes and we discuss the results implications and their eventual use toward improving the analyzed peer review processes. A number of unexpected results were found, in particular: (1) the low correlation between peer review outcome and impact in time of the accepted contributions and (2) the presence of a high level of randomness in the analyzed peer review processes. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Algebraic structures in the ego article citation network (Article, English) AUTHOR: Rousseau, R SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.737-741 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; KESSLER MM AM DOC 14:10 1963; SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973; CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS+: KNOWLEDGE DIFFUSION; FIELDS ABSTRACT: New indices characterizing an article in its ego citation network are introduced. Among these we especially mention the outgrow index. Although algebraic aspects are emphasized, a first step towards their interpretation is attempted. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Plasticity and Bias in Peer Assessment: Critical Perspectives from Bibliometrics (Article, English) AUTHOR: Sandstrom, U SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.742-746 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): WENNERAS C NATURE 387:341 1997; BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS+: GRANT APPLICATIONS; RELIABILITY; INDICATORS; NEPOTISM ABSTRACT: This research paper in progress discusses some of the common criticisms of peer review: Costs and Robustness, Nepotism (conflict of interest), Sexism and Cognitive Bias. Attention is given to the fact that much of the research reported fails on a crucial point: The use of bibliometrics as a correlate for the grading and ranking done by granting or evaluation committees (ad hoc or standing committees). The full paper will extend the analysis using data from a selection of finished projects and assessments. Results indicate that there are systemic problems regarding peer review: Firstly, the positive bias in university assessments based on ad hoc committees. Problems circulate around the absence of robust benchmarks and the ad hoc selection of experts. Secondly, the role of cognitive distance points to the power mechanisms in selection processes for finding relevant reviewers. Thirdly, the low levels of peer's performance (in bibliometric respect) indicate that selection of peers is no longer to search for the best possible peer, but instead, the pragmatic peer. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Research Fronts and Areal Density of Bibliographically Coupled Publications (Article, English) AUTHOR: Schiebel, E SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.756-762 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth; BIBLIOGRAPHIC* item_title ABSTRACT: This article proposes a method for the detection and visualization of research fronts within a broader research field. A research front is defined as a grouping of publications on a research topic using the same knowledge base in a broader context. The broader context is defined by a field such as battery research, casting or tribology, while the knowledge base is defined by references. Some publications report on the usage of keywords, co-citations or bibliographic coupling in the detection of research fronts. In this article, agglomerations of bibliographically coupled publications with a common knowledge base are identified and graphically represented by a density function of publications per area unit. The knowledge base becomes visible if publications with similar vectors of common citations are associated. All bibliographically coupled publications are positioned on a map of points generated by a spring model. The publications positioned in a two dimensional space form areas of differing density of points per area unit. The space dependent density is calculated using a digital grid. The density function of papers per area unit is visualized in a three dimensional plot. In this way, research fronts become visible and can be quantified. The proposed methodology is demonstrated based on a case study in the field of battery research. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Bibliometric evidence for empirical trade-offs in national funding strategies (Article, English) AUTHOR: Shelton, RD; Leydesdorff, L SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.763-774 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS+: BAYH-DOLE ACT; PATENT QUALITY; UNITED-STATES; SCIENCE; SYSTEM; WORLD; UNIVERSITIES; PERFORMANCE; TECHNOLOGY; PARADOX ABSTRACT: Multivariate linear regression models indicate a tradeoff in allocations of national R&D investments. Some components seem to encourage publications, i.e. government funding, and spending in the higher education sector. Other components encourage patenting, i.e. industrial funding, and spending in the business sector. Our results help explain why the US trails the EU in publications, because of its focus on industrial funding-some 70% of its total R&D investment. Conversely, it also helps explain why the EU trails the US in patenting. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: What to Include in a Social Sciences and Humanities Citation Index - an Empirical Analysis (Article, English) AUTHOR: Sivertsen, G; Larsen, B SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.775-782 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title ABSTRACT: A well-designed and comprehensive citation index for the social sciences and humanities has many potential uses, but has yet to be realised. Significant parts of the scholarly production in these areas are not published in international journals, but in national scholarly journals, in book chapters or in monographs. In this paper we investigate the potential for covering these literatures empirically by using a complete publication output data set from the higher education sector of an entire country (Norway). We find that the so far uncovered literatures are concentrated in relatively few publication channels, which should be promising for a more comprehensive coverage of the social sciences and humanities. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Identifying Scientific Breakthroughs by Combining Co- citation Analysis and Citation Context (Article, English) AUTHOR: Small, H; Klavans, R SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.783-793 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): MORAVCSIK MJ rauth; CITATION item_title; CITATION ANALYS* item_title; CITATION* item_title; CO CITATION* item_title ABSTRACT: This study combines two relatively independent approaches to identifying scientific breakthroughs from an analysis of the scientific literature. The first approach focuses on citation network data that is gleaned from the bibliography of scientific documents. The second approach focuses on the text in these documents (especially the text surrounding a reference, the so-called citation context). We have linked these two approaches in order to identify potential scientific breakthroughs within three research communities. The analysis is facilitated by creating a large scale categorization of words and phrases called modalities that scientists use to enhance or diminish the credibility of scientific statements. The rates of occurrence of the modality categories for research communities, papers and sub-regions of those communities are examined to provide indicators for changes in research direction. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Citation Genetic Genealogy: A New Perspective for Citation Analysis in Scientific Literature (Article, English) AUTHOR: Sun, FJ SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.817-828 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; MARSHAKOVA IV rauth; PRICE DJD rauth; KESSLER MM AM DOC 14:10 1963; SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973; SMALL HG SOC STUD SCI 8:327 1978; CITATION item_title; CITATION ANALYS* item_title; CITATION* item_title; GARFIELD E INT MICROBIOL 10:65 2007; GARFIELD E LIBRI 48:67 1998; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 122:108 1955; GARFIELD E J CHEM DOC 7:147 1967; GARFIELD E AM DOC 14:289 1963; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 178:471 1972; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 144:649 1964; GARFIELD E NATURE 227:669 1970; GARFIELD E INT J EPIDEMIOL 35:1127 2006 KEYWORDS+: SCIENCE; INDEXES; INFORMATION; DOCUMENTS; DIMENSION ABSTRACT: Citation relationships are commonly described with citation index or citation graph, but in this article, the author introduced the notion of citation genetic genealogy and apply it in citation analysis. A citing document usually only uses pieces of its cited reference, so the author of this paper defined those pieces of a scientific document, which carry the information that have been used or may be used in the future by other documents as its document genes. Besides, with the definition of symbolic information of a scientific document, the conclusion that a citing document inherited the document genes from its references can be drawn. Based on these understandings, citation genetic genealogy was constructed to describe citation relationships. With citation genetic genealogy, it is easy to map the citation relationships, like bibliographic coupling and co-citation, with familiar family relationships and illustrate the inheritance relationships in scientific literatures. Also, citation genetic genealogy may provide an interface between the citation analysis of a document set and the content analysis for each individual document inside this document set. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The small world of citations: How close are citing authors to those they cite? (Article, English) AUTHOR: Wallace, ML; Lariviere, V; Gingras, Y SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.829-840 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; MACROBERTS MH rauth; CITATION* item_title; GARFIELD E AM DOC 14:195 1963 KEYWORDS+: SELF-CITATIONS; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SCIENCE; PATTERNS; POLICY ABSTRACT: This analysis examines the proximity of authors to those they cite using degrees of separation in a co-author network, expanding on the notion of self-citations. When rigorously computed using all cited and citing authors, the proportion of direct self-citations are relatively constant in time across various specialties in the natural sciences (10% of citations) and the social sciences (20%). Citations to nearby authors of the co-author network, however, vary widely among fields and time periods. Authors in specialties such as astrophysics and astronomy, for instance, have very few citations outside their network of collaborators. We discuss, in social and mathematical terms, the degree to which this closeness is determined by the size and topology of the co- author network (especially as it is affected by recent increases in co- authorship) and by the referencing practices of different disciplines. These results have implications for the long-standing debate over biases common to most types of citation analysis, and especially for understanding social structures and citation practices across scientific disciplines over the past 50 years. In addition, our findings have important practical implications for the availability of 'arm's length' expert reviewers of grants applications and manuscripts. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Author Co-citation Analysis of Information Science in China based on the CSSCI (Article, English) AUTHOR: Wang, FF; Qiu, JP SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.841-847 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): WHITE HD J AM SOC INFORM SCI 32:163 1981; CITATION item_title; CITATION ANALYS* item_title; CITATION* item_title; CO CITATION* item_title ABSTRACT: As an important method of information researches, author co-citation analysis (ACA) has a very wide range of applications in exploring subject structure and research status and trends. To the 70947 cited articles in the information science field included by CSSCI from 2000-2009, this paper makes an author co-citation analysis which is different from the traditional mode, that is, using a combination of citation analysis, factor analysis and social network analysis (SNA) to further explore the relationship of the highly-cited authors in Chinese information science field and attempt to explore of the situation of authors influences and subject structure in the field. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The effects of dangling nodes on citation networks (Article, English) AUTHOR: Yan, EJ; Ding, Y SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.861-873 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS+: PAGERANK ABSTRACT: This study discusses the effects of dangling nodes on citation networks through the PageRank algorithm. The origins of dangling nodes for citation networks are introduced and three methods are applied to handle dangling nodes: retaining all dangling nodes, deleting dangling nodes, and clustering dangling nodes into one node. Correlation analyses are used to compare these three methods. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Comparison of Disciplinary Structure in Science between G7 and the BRIC countries by bibliometric methods (Article, English) AUTHOR: Yue, T; Yang, LY; Ding, JL; Han, T SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.887-897 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS+: PROFILES; EUROPE ABSTRACT: Using a collection of papers gathered from the Web of Science, and classifying disciplines through the JCR classification scheme, this paper compares the disciplinary structure of the G7 countries (representing high S&T level countries) and the BRIC countries (representing fast breaking countries in S&T) by bibliometric methods. It further analyzes the similarity and the balance of their disciplinary structure. We found that: (1) Scientific and technological development is associated with national disciplinary structure. (2) The disciplinary structure of the BRIC countries becomes more and more similar to that of the G7 countries. (3) The disciplinary structure of the G7 countries is more balanced than that of the BRIC countries (4) In the G7 countries more emphasis goes to the life sciences, while BRIC countries focus on Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Engineering. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The Global Structure of International Scientific Collaborations (Article, English) AUTHOR: Zelnio, R SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.898-913 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth KEYWORDS+: SCIENCE; NETWORKS; COOPERATION; WORLD ABSTRACT: While there is a consensus that there is a core-periphery structure in the global scientific enterprise, there have not been many methodologies developed for identifying this structure. This paper develops a methodology by looking at the differences in the power-law structure of article outputs and degree distributions of countries and applies the method to five different scientific fields: astronomy & astrophysics, energy & fuels, nanotechnology & nanosciences, nutrition, and oceanography. The analysis highlights differences in the structures of these fields and their impact on citation behaviour. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Where demographics meets scientometrics: towards a dynamic career analysis (Article, English) AUTHOR: Zhang, L; Glanzel, W SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.914-923 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): SCIENTOMETRIC* item_title KEYWORDS+: H-INDEX; INFORMATION-SCIENCE; SCIENTISTS; JOURNALS ABSTRACT: In an earlier exercise some demographic methods were reformulated for application in a scientometric context. Age-pyramids based on annual publication output and citation impact was supplemented by the change of the mean age of the publications in the h-core at any time. Although the method was introduced to shed some demographic- scientometric light on the career of individual researchers, the second component, i.e., the age dynamics of the h-core can however be applied to higher levels of aggregation as well. However, the found paradigmatic shapes and patterns do not only characterise individual careers and positions, but are also typical of life cycles and subject-specific peculiarities. In the present study, the proposed approach is used to visualise the careers of scientists active in different fields of the sciences and social sciences and notably the second component, the h-core dynamics, is extended to the analysis of scientific journals from the same fields. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Trends of the scientific output in five Latin American countries: a bibliometric approach (Article, English) AUTHOR: Arencibia-Jorge, R; Diaz-Mayans, C; Sheehan, T SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.943-945 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Matching bibliometric data from Scopus with National Databases of Colombian Scientists (ScienTI Col) (Article, English) AUTHOR: Bernal, E; Guerrero, CJ SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.946-948 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A Phenomenon of Optimal Scale of Science Cooperation (Article, English) AUTHOR: Chen, Y; Wang, XW; Lin, DM; Liu, ZY SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.949-951 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): SEGLEN PO SCIENTOMETRICS 49:125 2000 KEYWORDS+: GROUP-SIZE; PRODUCTIVITY -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Is science becoming more inter-disciplinary? A citation analysis of journal citation patterns in Scopus (Article, English) AUTHOR: Colledge, L; el Aisati, M SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.963-965 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION item_title; CITATION ANALYS* item_title; CITATION* item_title; JOURNAL item_title -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Central Indexes to the Citation Distribution: A complement to the h-index (Article, English) AUTHOR: Dorta-Gonzalez, P; Dorta-Gonzalez, MI SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.969-971 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Mapping the humanities: Informetric analyses of literary studies through A&HCI data (Article, English) AUTHOR: Hammarfelt, B; Astrom, F SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.993-995 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): WHITE HD J AM SOC INFORM SCI 32:163 1981; INFORMETRIC* item_title KEYWORDS+: COCITATION; AUTHORS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A Bibliometric Study of Research Activity in Sustainable Development (Article, English) AUTHOR: Saeed-Ul-Hassan; Haddawy, P; Kuinkel, P; Sedhai, S SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.996-998 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS+: SCIENCE -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Microbicides Development - Trends in- Original Research Published Globally in PubMed Indexed Journals (Article, English) AUTHOR: Jain, NC; Jacobs, D SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.1002-1004 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNALS item_title KEYWORDS+: HIV PREVENTION -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Sometimes more is less: An analysis of research institutions in Chile (Article, English) AUTHOR: Krauskopf, E SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.1008-1009 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Are funded articles more highly cited than unfunded articles? A preliminary investigation. (Article, English) AUTHOR: Levitt, JM SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.1013-1015 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): CITED item_title -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Scientometrics for Coauthorship of Big Science - A case study of LHC (Article, English) AUTHOR: Lin, DM; Liu, SB SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.1016-1018 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): SCIENTOMETRIC* item_title KEYWORDS+: NETWORK -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The academic discourse in scientific letters abstracts from the personal archives of the Brazilian scientist Bertha Lutz: a bibliometric and linguistic study of deverbal nominalization in the subject indexing. (Article, English) AUTHOR: Guedes, VLD; Santos, MJVD SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.1019-1021 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS+: OCCURRENCES -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Measuring Generic Technology via Co-technology Analysis & SNA (Article, English) AUTHOR: Luan, CJ; Chen, Y SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.1028-1030 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): SMALL H SCIENTOMETRICS 26:5 1993; SMALL H SCIENTOMETRICS 8:321 1985; SMALL H SCIENTOMETRICS 7:391 1985 KEYWORDS+: RESEARCH-AND-DEVELOPMENT; WORD ANALYSIS; NETWORKS; PARADIGMS; SCIENCE; LEVEL -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: An approach to interdisciplinarity and specialization measurement (Article, English) AUTHOR: Manana-Rodriguez, J; Lopez-Pineiro, C; Gimenez-Toledo, E SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.1034-1036 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Study on the Relationships between Citation and Collaboration (Article, English) AUTHOR: Qiu, JP; Ma, F SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.1046-1048 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Research Excellence Milestones of BRIC and N-11 Countries (Article, English) AUTHOR: Rons, N SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.1049-1051 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005 KEYWORDS+: RESEARCH OUTPUT; IMPACT -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The Subject Structure of Randomized Controlled Trials : An Author Co-Citation Analysis (Article, English) AUTHOR: Tsay, MY SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.1067-1069 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION item_title; CITATION ANALYS* item_title; CITATION* item_title; CO CITATION* item_title -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Scientometric Analysis of Nature (Article, English) AUTHOR: Tsay, MY SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.1070-1072 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): SCIENTOMETRIC* item_title -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Citation Patterns in Interdisciplinary Research Areas (Article, English) AUTHOR: Yoshikane, F; Kiyokawa, A; Tsuji, K; Kawamura, S; Suzuki, T SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.1082-1084 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Scientometric Analysis of Materials' Highly Cited Papers(1979-2008) (Article, English) AUTHOR: Yuan, JP; Zheng, YN; Pan, YT; Zhao, XY; Ma, Z; Su, C; Wu, YS SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.1085-1087 INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI, LEUVEN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; CITED item_title; SCIENTOMETRIC* item_title; GARFIELD E SCIENTOMETRICS 1:359 1979 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Tue Jul 10 17:16:48 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 21:16:48 +0000 Subject: Papers of possible interest to Sig Metrics readers Message-ID: TITLE: Torsten Hagerstrand in the Citation Time Web (Article, English) AUTHOR: Persson, O; Ellegard, K SOURCE: PROFESSIONAL GEOGRAPHER 64 (2). 2012. p.250-261 ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, ABINGDON SEARCH TERM(S): SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973; WHITE HD J AM SOC INFORM SCI 32:163 1981; KEYWORDS: citation analysis; Hagerstrand; time geography; visualization KEYWORDS+: SPACE-TIME; GENDER-DIFFERENCES; SPATIAL-ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION; GEOGRAPHY; TRAVEL; INFORMATION; INNOVATION; MIGRATION; PATTERNS ABSTRACT: Time and space are fundamental to science dynamics, as science concerns not only what but also where and when. We examine the application of a time-geographical approach in a study of articles citing the works of Torsten Hagerstrand. Citation links between these articles were identified and the links were assigned weights based on shared references and cocitations. The main result is that adding a space-time dimension to traditional bibliometric mapping yields new insight into the dynamics of a research field. It became obvious that change in research is both cognitive and spatial; that is, science changes when it moves. AUTHOR ADDRESS: O Persson, Umea Univ, Dept Sociol, SE-90187 Umea, Sweden ------------------------------------------------------------ TITLE: Growing Stem Cells: The Impact of Federal Funding Policy on the US Scientific Frontier (Article, English) AUTHOR: Furman, JL; Murray, F; Stern, S SOURCE: JOURNAL OF POLICY ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT 31 (3). SUM 2012. p.661-NIL_151 WILEY-BLACKWELL, HOBOKEN SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth; PRICE DJD rauth; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 122:108 1955; GARFIELD E SCIENTOMETRICS 1:359 1979 KEYWORDS+: ACADEMIC LIFE SCIENCES; CUMULATIVE RESEARCH; MOUSE EMBRYOS; LINES; INSTITUTIONS; ECONOMETRICS; PRODUCTIVITY; SHOULDERS; COUNTRIES; ECONOMICS ABSTRACT: This paper articulates a citation-based approach to science policy evaluation and employs that approach to investigate the impact of the United States 2001 policy regarding the federal funding of human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research. We evaluate the impact of the policy on the level of U.S. hESC research, the U.S. position at the knowledge frontier, and the strategic response of U.S. scientists. Consistent with recent research on the science of science and innovation policy, we employ a difference-in-differences approach using bibliometric data with the aim of analyzing the causal impact of the policy on cumulative research. Our estimates suggest that in the aftermath of the 2001 policy, U.S. production of hESC research lagged 35 to 40 percent behind anticipated levels. However, this relative decline was largely concentrated in the years 2001 to 2003 and ameliorated over time. The rebound in U.S. hESC research after 2003 was driven by contributions by researchers at elite U.S. institutions and U.S. researchers who collaborated with international partners. The results suggest that scientists respond strategically to research funding restrictions and that modest science policy shifts can have a significant influence on the within-country composition of research and the pattern of global research collaboration. (C) 2012 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. AUTHOR ADDRESS: JL Furman, Boston Univ, Sch Management, 595 Commonwealth Ave,653A, Boston, MA 02215 USA ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: FROM KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT TO STRATEGIC COMPETENCE Measuring Technological, Market and Organisational Innovation Preface to the Second Edition (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Tidd, J SOURCE: FROM KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT TO STRATEGIC COMPETENCE: MEASURING TECHNOLOGICAL, MARKET AND ORGANISATIONAL INNOVATION, 2ND EDITION 3. 2006. p.V-IX,401-434 IMPERIAL COLL PRESS, COVENT GARDEN SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 122:108 1955; EDITORIAL doctype KEYWORDS+: RESEARCH-AND-DEVELOPMENT; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT SUCCESS; COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE; CONTINUOUS-IMPROVEMENT; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; EMPIRICAL-ANALYSIS; MULTITECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONS; INTANGIBLE RESOURCES; PATENTED INVENTIONS; CORE COMPETENCES AUTHOR ADDRESS: J Tidd, Univ Sussex, SPRU, SPRU Sci & Technol Policy Res, Freeman Ctr, Brighton BN1 9QE, E Sussex, England -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Trends in Fisheries Science from 2000 to 2009: A Bibliometric Study (Article, English) AUTHOR: Jaric, I; Cvijanovic, G; Knezevic-Jaric, J; Lenhardt, M SOURCE: REVIEWS IN FISHERIES SCIENCE 20 (2). 2012. p.70-79 TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC, PHILADELPHIA SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS: fishery; fisheries science; bibliometry; bibliometric analysis; trend KEYWORDS+: CONSERVATION-BIOLOGY; WORLD FISHERIES; FUTURE; AGE ABSTRACT: The present study applies a bibliometric approach to identify recent patterns and trends in the methods, subjects, and authorships in the literature published in fisheries science (2000-2009). The results indicate that the most frequently studied group of species were Salmonidae, although the interest for these species seems to be diminishing. The studies of the marine habitat and inland habitats, respectively, have revealed a marked increase and decrease in frequency. Genetics represents the most rapidly growing area of research. The model development was the most frequently applied method in fisheries science, although such publications have had a generally lower number of citations. The number of experimental studies was markedly low, but they were also the most frequently cited. The United States was the most productive country over the last decade with a gradually increasing output over the time, but it was surpassed by the total European Union output. An apparent difference in the research output has been recorded between the developed and developing countries. The findings of this study, however, indicate a positive tendency in this direction. A growing rate of publications based on international collaboration was recorded, and such publications also demonstrate a higher number of citations than the single-country publications. AUTHOR ADDRESS: I Jaric, Univ Belgrade, Inst Multidisciplinary Res, Kneza Viseslava 1, Belgrade 11000, Serbia -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Research Trends in Technology-based Learning from 2000 to 2009: A content Analysis of Publications in Selected Journals (Article, English) AUTHOR: Hsu, YC; Ho, HNJ; Tsai, CC; Hwang, GJ; Chu, HC; Wang, CY; Chen, NS SOURCE: EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY 15 (2). APR 2012. p.354-370 IEEE COMPUTER SOC, LEARNING TECHNOLOGY TASK FORCE, PALMERSTON NORTH SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNALS item_title KEYWORDS: Research trends; Technology-based learning; Content analysis KEYWORDS+: CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION; ENVIRONMENTS; METAANALYSIS; PREFERENCES; TEACHERS ABSTRACT: This paper provides a content analysis of studies in technology-based learning (TBL) that were published in five Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) journals (i.e. the British Journal of Educational Technology, Computers & Education, Educational Technology Research & Development, Educational Technology & Society, the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning) from 2000 to 2009. A total of 2,976 articles were cross-analyzed by three categories including research topic, research sample group, and learning domain. It was found that "Pedagogical design and theories" was the most popular research topic, "Higher Education" was the most utilized sample group, and "Non- specified" and "Engineering/Computer sciences" were the most selected learning domains in the last decade. However, topics in "Motivation, Perceptions and Attitudes" drew more attention in the latest five years, while the number of articles in "Digital game and intelligent toy enhanced learning" and "Mobile and Ubiquitous Learning" grew significantly between 2005 and 2009. Furthermore, the Chi-square analysis results showed that there were significant associations among these three categories. The results of the analysis provide insights for educators and researchers into research trends and patterns of technology-based learning. AUTHOR ADDRESS: HNJ Ho, Natl Taiwan Univ Sci & Technol, Grad Inst Digital Learning & Educ, 43,Sec 4,Keelung Rd, Taipei 106, Taiwan -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Scientific Value of Systematic Reviews: Survey of Editors of Core Clinical Journals (Review, English) AUTHOR: Meerpohl, JJ; Herrle, F; Antes, G; von Elm, E SOURCE: PLOS ONE 7 (5). MAY 1 2012. p.NIL_191-NIL_195 PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, SAN FRANCISCO SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNALS item_title KEYWORDS+: MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION; METAANALYSIS; TRIALS ABSTRACT: Background: Synthesizing research evidence using systematic and rigorous methods has become a key feature of evidence- based medicine and knowledge translation. Systematic reviews (SRs) may or may not include a meta-analysis depending on the suitability of available data. They are often being criticised as 'secondary research' and denied the status of original research. Scientific journals play an important role in the publication process. How they appraise a given type of research influences the status of that research in the scientific community. We investigated the attitudes of editors of core clinical journals towards SRs and their value for publication. Methods: We identified the 118 journals labelled as "core clinical journals'' by the National Library of Medicine, USA in April 2009. The journals' editors were surveyed by email in 2009 and asked whether they considered SRs as original research projects; whether they published SRs; and for which section of the journal they would consider a SR manuscript. Results: The editors of 65 journals (55%) responded. Most respondents considered SRs to be original research (71%) and almost all journals (93%) published SRs. Several editors regarded the use of Cochrane methodology or a meta-analysis as quality criteria; for some respondents these criteria were premises for the consideration of SRs as original research. Journals placed SRs in various sections such as "Review'' or "Feature article''. Characterization of non-responding journals showed that about two thirds do publish systematic reviews. Discussion: Currently, the editors of most core clinical journals consider SRs original research. Our findings are limited by a non- responder rate of 45%. Individual comments suggest that this is a grey area and attitudes differ widely. A debate about the definition of 'original research' in the context of SRs is warranted. AUTHOR ADDRESS: JJ Meerpohl, Univ Med Ctr Freiburg, Inst Med Biometry & Med Informat, German Cochrane Ctr, Freiburg, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The role of references in scientific papers: Cited papers as objects of research (Article, English) AUTHOR: Kosmulski, M SOURCE: RESEARCH EVALUATION 21 (2). JUN 2012. p.87-88 OXFORD UNIV PRESS, OXFORD KEYWORDS: impact factor; citation analysis; journal self-citations; Web of Science; information ethics KEYWORDS+: JOURNAL IMPACT FACTORS ABSTRACT: Scientific papers are often cited because they were selected as objects of research, rather than because of their contents. This practice may substantially affect journal impact factors. AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Kosmulski, Lublin Univ Technol, Dept Electrochem, Nadbystrzycka 38, PL-20618 Lublin, Poland -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Sub-field normalization in the multiplicative case: High- and low-impact citation indicators (Article, English) AUTHOR: Herranz, N; Ruiz-Castillo, J SOURCE: RESEARCH EVALUATION 21 (2). JUN 2012. p.113-125 OXFORD UNIV PRESS, OXFORD SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; SEGLEN PO J AM SOC INFORM SCI 43:628 1992; CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS: citation analysis; high- and low-impact indicators; subfield normalization; multiplicative approach; US/EU scientific gap KEYWORDS+: CHARACTERISTIC SCORES; RESEARCH PERFORMANCE; SCALES; DISTRIBUTIONS; JOURNALS; POVERTY; RANKING; SCIENCE; NATIONS ABSTRACT: This article uses high- and low-impact citation indicators for the evaluation of the citation performance of research units at different aggregate levels using a dataset of about 3.6 million articles published in 1998-2002 in the natural and the social sciences with a 5-year citation window. The difficulty is that a large proportion of individual articles are assigned to multiple subfields. To control for wide differences in citation practices at the subfield level, we apply a novel normalization procedure in the multiplicative approach in which each paper is wholly counted as many times as necessary in the several categories to which it is assigned at each aggregation level. The methodology is applied to a partition of the world into three geographical areas: the USA, the European Union (EU), and the Rest of the World. The main findings are the following two. (1) Although normalization does not systematically bias the results against any area, it reduces the US/EU high-impact gap in the all-sciences case by a non- negligible 14.4%. (2) The dominance of the USA over the EU in the basic and applied research published in the periodical literature is almost universal at all aggregation levels. From the high-impact perspective, for example, the USA is ahead of the EU in 77 out of 80 disciplines, and all of 20 fields. For all sciences as a whole, the US high-impact indicator is 61% greater than that of the EU. AUTHOR ADDRESS: J Ruiz-Castillo, Univ Carlos III Madrid, Dept Econ, Madrid 126, E-28903 Getafe, Spain -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Research status and characteristics of library and information science in Taiwan: a bibliometric analysis (Article, English) AUTHOR: Lin, WYC SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 92 (1). JUL 2012. p.7-21 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS: Library and information science (LIS); Research status; Journal article; Thesis; Research project; Taiwan KEYWORDS+: JOURNAL-OF-DOCUMENTATION; JASIST; SPAIN ABSTRACT: This study determines how library and information science (LIS) research in Taiwan has changed between 2001 and 2010. The major research questions address the research status of LIS in Taiwan, how the Taiwanese government supports the field, and the collaborative authorship of LIS journal articles in Taiwan. Bibliometric and content analysis methods were conducted to analyze 2,494 journal articles, 983 theses, and 191 research projects between 2001 and 2010. The results show LIS and Technology to be the most popular topics in journal articles. The most well-received thesis topics are LIS and Technology and User Services, accounting for more than 50 % of graduate theses. The same is true for research projects, with the subjects of LIS and Technology, LIS Theory and Foundation, and User Services having a ratio of more than 70 %. In government-sponsored research projects, the average amount of funding obtained had no significant differences or tendencies for various subjects over time. In authorship of journal articles, individual researchers conducted 66.11 % of articles in key LIS scholarly journals in Taiwan between 2001 and 2010. AUTHOR ADDRESS: WYC Lin, Tamkang Univ, Dept Informat & Lib Sci, 151 Yingzhuan Rd, New Taipei City 25137, Taiwan -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A comparative study on world university rankings: a bibliometric survey (Article, English) AUTHOR: Chen, KH; Liao, PY SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 92 (1). JUL 2012. p.89-103 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT KEYWORDS: Bibliometrics; Ranking indicators; World university rankings ABSTRACT: Recently there are many organizations conducting projects on ranking world universities from different perspectives. These ranking activities have made impacts and caused controversy. This study does not favor using bibliometric indicators to evaluate universities' performances, but not against the idea either. We regard these ranking activities as important phenomena and aim to investigate correlation of different ranking systems taking bibliometric approach. Four research questions are discussed: (1) the inter-correlation among different ranking systems; (2) the intra-correlation within ranking systems; (3) the correlation of indicators across ranking systems; and (4) the impact of different citation indexes on rankings. The preliminary results show that 55 % of top 200 universities are covered in all ranking systems. The rankings of ARWU and PRSPWU show stronger correlation. With inclusion of another ranking, WRWU (2009-2010), these rankings tend to converge. In addition, intra-correlation is significant and this means that it is possible to find out some ranking indicators with high degree of discriminativeness or representativeness. Finally, it is found that there is no significant impact of using different citation indexes on the ranking results for top 200 universities. AUTHOR ADDRESS: KH Chen, Natl Taiwan Univ, Dept Lib & Informat Sci, 1,Sec 4,Roosevelt Rd, Taipei 10617, Taiwan -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The development and empirical study of a literature review aiding system (Article, English) AUTHOR: Chen, TT SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 92 (1). JUL 2012. p.105-116 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973; WHITE HD J AM SOC INFORM SCI 32:163 1981 KEYWORDS: Literature review; Intellectual structure; Citation analysis; Empirical study KEYWORDS+: INFORMATION-SYSTEMS; TECHNOLOGY; MODEL; ACCEPTANCE; COCITATION; EXTENSION; QUALITY ABSTRACT: Literature review is an important but time-consuming task that involves many disparate steps. A simple query to a library database may return voluminous literature that often bewilders novices.We believe the bibliographic techniques developed by the information scientists provide useful process and methods that facilitate literature analysis and review. We thereby developed a citation-based literature analyzing and structuring system, which may facilitate novices to perform tasks that are usually carried out by trained professionals. A field study was carried out to gauge the utility as well as users' perception using a questionnaire adopted from relevant empirical studies. Graduate students participated in the field study are able to publish papers in their first semester by utilizing this system. The utility and usefulness of the intellectual structuring system are demonstrated by the objective evidence of the high acceptance rate of papers utilizing the system as well as the subjective positive response from the users. A system utilization model utilizing the structure equation modeling technique found the task characteristics construct affects the information quality construct, which in turn affects the perceive usefulness of the system. AUTHOR ADDRESS: TT Chen, Natl Taipei Univ, Grad Inst Informat Management, 151 Univ Rd, New Taipei City, Taiwan -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Bibliometric characteristics of highly cited papers from Taiwan, 2000-2009 (Article, English) AUTHOR: Miyairi, N; Chang, HW SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 92 (1). JUL 2012. p.197-205 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT KEYWORDS: Bibliometrics; Highly cited papers; Taiwan; Indicators; Science KEYWORDS+: CITATION PATTERNS; INDICATORS; EXCELLENCE; SCIENCE; UNIVERSITIES ABSTRACT: The present study analyzes bibliometric characteristics of Taiwan's highly cited papers published from 2000 to 2009. During this period, Taiwan ranked within the top 30 countries by number of highly cited papers, defined in Thomson Reuters' Essential Science Indicators (ESI) as those that rank in the top 1 % by citations for their category and year of publication. Taiwan made notable progress in world-class research in the two consecutive 5-year periods 2000-2004 and 2005-2009. For the group of highly cited papers from Taiwan, USA, China, Germany, and Japan were the top collaborating countries over the decade. In recent years, Taiwan has increasingly collaborated with European countries whose output of highly cited papers is relatively high and increasing, rather than with its neighboring countries in Asia. Overall, Taiwan produced highly cited papers in all the 22 ESI subject categories during the 10- year period. Taiwan's output of highly cited papers was greatest in the categories of Engineering, Clinical Medicine, and Physics, while those in Agricultural Sciences and Mathematics exceeded the expected output level in relative terms. More detailed analyses would be useful for a holistic understanding of Taiwan's research landscape and their progress in world- class research, combining both bibliometric and non-bibliometric data, such as researcher mobility, research grants, and output from internationally-collaborated research programs. AUTHOR ADDRESS: HW Chang, Thomson Reuters, 9F, 196,Chien Kuo N Rd,Sec 2, Taipei 10483, Taiwan -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Bibliometric analysis of carbon dioxide reduction research trends during 1999-2009 (Article, English) AUTHOR: Wan, TJ; Shen, SM; Bandyopadhyay, A; Shu, CM SOURCE: SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION TECHNOLOGY 94. JUN 19 2012. p.87-91 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM KEYWORDS: Bibliometric analysis; CO2 reduction; Information Science Institute (ISI); Subject categories; CO2 fixation KEYWORDS+: CO2; PHOTOBIOREACTOR; BIOFIXATION; SEPARATION; FIXATION; VULGARIS; SOLVENTS; TIO2 ABSTRACT: The objective of this study is to conduct a bibliometric analysis of the literature regarding CO2 reduction trends published in the Science Citation Index-listed periodicals from 1999 to 2009. These documents were obtained by subscription from the Information Science Institute (ISI) Web of Science, Philadelphia, PA, USA. A total of 3,177 authors from 56 different countries wrote 855 articles published in 355 journals in 102 subject categories. Of these, the most titles were found in Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society (3.9%). The most frequently cited paper was "Chemical CO2 fixation: Cr(III) salen complexes as highly efficient catalysts for the coupling of CO2 and epoxides", and the same paper contained the most often-used keyword. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: CM Shu, NYUST, Dept Safety Hlth & Environm Engn, Touliu 64002, Yunlin, Taiwan -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: How to write research papers and grants: 2011 Asian Pacific Society for Respirology Annual Scientific Meeting Postgraduate Session (Review, English) AUTHOR: Eastwood, PR; Naughton, MT; Calverley, P; Zeng, GQ; Beasley, R; Robinson, B; Lee, YCG SOURCE: RESPIROLOGY 17 (5). JUL 2012. p.792-801 WILEY-BLACKWELL, HOBOKEN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E INT MICROBIOL 10:65 2007; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 122:108 1955 KEYWORDS: clinical research; grant writing; journal impact factor; manuscript writing KEYWORDS+: OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY-DISEASE; ACUTE PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; IMPACT FACTORS; TRIALS; JOURNALS; SCIENCE; PEACE; COPD ABSTRACT: This review article summarizes the content of a series of interrelated workshop presentations from the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology held in Shanghai in November, 2011. The article describes tips and strategies for writing research papers and research grant applications and includes discussion of: the role of pulmonologists in research; the debates around the use of the journal impact factor; tips for writing manuscripts and publishing research in high-impact journals; how journals assess manuscripts and the most common reasons editors reject manuscripts; how to write grant applications and what grant panels look for in successful proposals; and how to undertake research in resource-limited countries. AUTHOR ADDRESS: PR Eastwood, Sir Charles Gairdner Hosp, Dept Pulm Physiol & Sleep Med, Hosp Ave, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Influential Publications in Social Work Discourse: The 100 Most Highly Cited Articles in Disciplinary Journals: 200009 (Article, English) AUTHOR: Hodge, DR; Lacasse, JR; Benson, O SOURCE: BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK 42 (4). JUN 2012. p.765-782 OXFORD UNIV PRESS, OXFORD SEARCH TERM(S): MACROBERTS MH rauth; KEYWORDS: Bibliometrics; professional discourse; social work literature; highly cited articles KEYWORDS+: GOOGLE-SCHOLAR; CITATION-CLASSICS; OPHTHALMOLOGY JOURNALS; SURGICAL JOURNALS; SCIENCE; IMPACT; WEB; SCOPUS; INDICATORS; PROFESSION ABSTRACT: Examinations of highly cited articles are common in professions such as medicine as a way to enhance professional self- reflection. Yet, little research has examined influential articles in social work. In light of the emergence of a distinct disciplinary knowledge base over the past few decades, this study identifies the 100 most cited articles in disciplinary social work journals (N 79) published during 200009. Analysis revealed twelve citation classics spanning a relatively diverse array of subjects. Among the various topics that appeared among the 100 most cited articles, the results suggest that evidence-based practice/social work research plays a particularly important role in professional discourse. Also notable is the fact that some two-thirds of the most highly cited articles were published in just four journals. AUTHOR ADDRESS: DR Hodge, Arizona State Univ, Sch Social Work, CoPP, Mail Code 3920,411 N Cent Ave,Suite 800, Phoenix, AZ 85004 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Ethos and symbolic violence among women of science: An empirical study (Article, English) AUTHOR: Cerroni, A; Simonella, Z SOURCE: SOCIAL SCIENCE INFORMATION SUR LES SCIENCES SOCIALES 51 (2). JUN 2012. p.165-182 SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, LONDON SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth; ZUCKERMAN H rauth KEYWORDS: ethos; gender; gender habit; knowledge society; scientific community; scientific habit; symbolic violence KEYWORDS+: MERTON THESIS; NORMS; KNOWLEDGE; SCIENTISTS; SOCIOLOGY ABSTRACT: While scientific challenges raise relevant debates about the ethics of science, the scientific ethos, shattered by post-Mertonian studies, has received neither due attention nor further conceptualizations in view of the transition to knowledge society. On the contrary, in our investigation of Italian women scientists, it appears to have survived as a reference for scientists, even if the context has changed. Indeed, the ethos of scientists is no longer conceivable as exclusive, but is instead seen as open and dynamic in interaction with other symbolic references. Therefore, instead of scientific ethos, it is preferable to speak of scientific habit, including the individual symbolic universe and the social practices linked to the scientific role. In so doing, other habits come into focus and interact. In particular, we investigated the interaction between the scientific habit and the gender habit. We argue for a conflict between two such habits and for the existence of a symbolic violence suffered by women scientists. Lastly, a new dimension of the scientific ethos is defined which is not included in the Mertonian definition: a scientific responsibility among scientists in society. Such a picture could shape a new perspective of re-gendering science in society from the standpoint of women's experience as scientists in the knowledge society. AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Cerroni, Univ Milano Bicocca, Dept Sociol & Social Res, Ctr MaCSIS, 8 Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi, I-20126 Milan, Italy -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Publications, Contributions, and the Social Dilemma of Scholarly Productivity: A Reaction to Aguinis, Debruin, Cunningham, Hall, Culpepper, and Gottfredson (2010) (Article, English) AUTHOR: Northcraft, GB; Tenbrunsel, AE SOURCE: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT LEARNING & EDUCATION 11 (2). JUN 2012. p.303-308 ACAD MANAGEMENT, BRIARCLIFF MANOR SEARCH TERM(S): ZUCKERMAN H rauth ABSTRACT: In their article What Does Not Kill You (Sometimes) Makes You Stronger: Productivity Fluctuations of Journal Editors, Aguinis et al. (2010) find that major journal editors publish fewer journal articles (for a while) after being editors. The real story in Aguinis et al. (2010) is how the academic community defines what constitutes productivity for a scholar. Aguinis et al.'s (2010) apparently narrow focus on publications as scholarly productivity may reflect a reluctance by the academic community to acknowledge the critical importance of nonpublication scholarly contributions. If nonpublication contributions are necessary for the success of academia, that success is more likely when the nonpublication contributions that provide the foundation for publication excellence are measured, acknowledged, and rewarded. AUTHOR ADDRESS: GB Northcraft, Univ Illinois, Coll Business, Champaign, IL 61820 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The Publish or Perish Book: Your Guide to Effective and Responsible Citation Analysis, by A.W. Harzing (Book Review, English) AUTHOR: Trau, RNC SOURCE: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT LEARNING & EDUCATION 11 (2). JUN 2012. p.314-315 ACAD MANAGEMENT, BRIARCLIFF MANOR SEARCH TERM(S): PUBLISH OR PERISH item_title; CITATION item_title; CITATION ANALYS* item_title; CITATION* item_title AUTHOR ADDRESS: RNC Trau, Univ Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Measuring the Surgical Academic Output of an Institution: The "Institutional" H-Index (Article, English) AUTHOR: Turaga, KK; Gamblin, TC SOURCE: JOURNAL OF SURGICAL EDUCATION 69 (4). JUL-AUG 2012. p.499-503 ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, NEW YORK SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005 KEYWORDS: ranking; academic surgery; research; education ABSTRACT: INTRODUCTION: The Hirsch index is a novel index that combines the number of publications and citations in measuring the research output of researchers. We hypothesized that the h-index can be used to measure the academic success of an institution in a subject area (surgery) and compared this measure to previously published measures of ranking institutions. METHODS: We identified the top 10 research medical schools as designated by the United States News and World Report 2010. The h-index for an institution was obtained in 3-year periods for articles published in surgery. Independent rankings from the NIH and other web sites were then used to compare with our newly generated rankings. RESULTS: The median h-index for institutions was 52.5 (46-54) for 2000- 2002, 50 (44-52) for 2003-2005, 35.5 (33-40) for 2006-2008, and 15.5 (13- 16) for 2009-2011. The percentage of self citations was the highest in publications from Harvard University (22.2%) and the lowest from Columbia University (10%) in the years 2009-11. Our ranking closely mirrored the United States News and World Report, and Harvard Medical School remains the top ranking in the field of surgery, although NIH funding-based ranking may suggest otherwise. CONCLUSIONS: The institutional h-index appears to be a viable indicator for the measure of academic success of institutions in a subject area. Despite limitations, it yields objective data regarding the citations and number of articles published by an institution in a subject area and could be used to measure performance. (J Surg 69:499-503. (C) 2012 Association of Program Directors in Surgery. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.) AUTHOR ADDRESS: KK Turaga, Med Coll Wisconsin, Div Surg Oncol, 9200 W Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53226 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Changes in Relative Material Deprivation in Regions of Slovakia and the Czech Republic (Article, English) AUTHOR: Zelinsky, T SOURCE: PANOECONOMICUS 59 (3). 2012. p.335-353 SAVEZ EKONOMISTA VOJVODINE, NOVI SAD SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth KEYWORDS: Poverty; Relative material deprivation; Czech Republic; Slovakia; EU SILC KEYWORDS+: POVERTY ABSTRACT: The aim of this article is to assess the level of relative material deprivation in the Czech and Slovak Republics and their regions. The first part of the article describes the level of households' equipment with utilities and durables using the 1991 and 2001 censuses. The second part is aimed at estimating the relative material deprivation in the Czech and Slovak regions using EU SILC 2006-2008 microdata, i.e. approximately 15 years after the split. The results indicate that there are significant differences in the relative material deprivation rates between the Czech Republic and Slovakia and among their regions. According to the results, the level of deprivation is higher in Slovakia, and deprived households are highly concentrated in the eastern part of Slovakia. The regions can be divided into five clusters, while the Czech Capital Prague Region has a special position. It has the highest level of housing deprivation and the lowest level of durables/economic strain deprivation. AUTHOR ADDRESS: T Zelinsky, Tech Univ Kosice, Fac Econ, Dept Reg Sci & Management, Kosice, Slovakia -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The effect of instant messaging services on society's mental health (Article, English) AUTHOR: Rosenbaum, MS; Wong, IA SOURCE: JOURNAL OF SERVICES MARKETING 26 (2-3). 2012. p.124-135 EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED, BINGLEY SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth KEYWORDS: Social support; Instant messaging; Internet addiction; Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; Cyber-addiction; Third places KEYWORDS+: INTERNET ADDICTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; COMMERCIAL FRIENDSHIPS; ONLINE; ADOLESCENTS; QUALITY; CANCER; PLACES; LIVES; LIFE ABSTRACT: Purpose - This paper aims to show how instant messaging (IM) service providers are helping and hindering societal mental health among young adults. That is, IM services provide users with an ability to obtain instantaneous and inexpensive support in their time of need. However, excessive internet usage may place IM users at risk of experiencing symptoms associated with internet addiction and adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Design/methodology/approach - The authors propose a framework obtained from coding qualitative data. They test the framework with structural equation methodology and latent mean analysis from data collected from younger-aged Chinese and American IM users in two studies. Findings - Younger-aged IM users in both China and the US obtain social support from their virtual networks. However, both groups of IM users show signs of elevated levels of internet addiction and of being at risk of experiencing symptoms associated with ADHD. Research limitations/implications - Excessive IM and internet usage may hinder young adults' mental health, and the problem is likely to grow in the future. The work confirms recent trends in US psychology to consider internet addiction a mental health disorder. Social implications - Both service and public health researchers are encouraged to consider the impact of technological services, including internet usage and IM, on consumer health and well-being. People with ADHD are particularly susceptible to internet addiction; thus, technological services may be damaging society's mental health. Originality/value - The paper illustrates how researchers can engage in transformative service research, referring to research with implications that affect global consumer health and well-being. The work also shows a "dark side" to services and the unintended consequences of service technology on public health. Both topics have not been explored in service research. AUTHOR ADDRESS: MS Rosenbaum, No Illinois Univ, Dept Mkt, De Kalb, IL 60115 USA From Peter.Mutschke at GESIS.ORG Thu Jul 12 09:27:22 2012 From: Peter.Mutschke at GESIS.ORG (Mutschke, Peter) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:27:22 +0000 Subject: Deadline Extension CFP: TPDL-Workshop on Science-Model- and Task-aware Search (SciMoTS) - submission deadline extended to July 22, 2012 Message-ID: [Apologies for cross posting] == Final Call for Papers == First International Workshop on Science-Model- and Task-aware Search (SciMoTS) to be held as part of the 16th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL). http://www.gesis.org/en/events/conferences/scimots/ === UPDATED PAPER/POSTER/DEMO DEADLINE === - Paper/Poster/Demo deadline extended to July 22! Still 11 days left to submit your work and to join us in Cyprus. === Important Dates === - Submissions: July 22, 2012 (extended!) - Notification: August 10, 2012 - Camera Ready Contributions: August 24, 2012 - Workshop: September 27, 2012 in Cyprus === Keynote === Andrea Scharnhorst from the Virtual Knowledge Studio, Amsterdam, will give a keynote on "Mapping science and modeling science dynamics - consequences for digital collections and navigation through them". === Aim of the Workshop === Retrieval evaluations such as TREC or CLEF have shown that simple text-based retrieval methods scale up very well but do not progress anymore: Traditional ad-hoc retrieval seems to have reached a high level of quality in terms of measures like precision and recall. Nevertheless digital libraries and especially scholarly information systems still face major retrieval challenges that are present since the early days of digital libraries: Vagueness between search and indexing terms, information overload by the amount and complexity of result sets, and the drawbacks of text based relevance rankings. Therefore we will focus on two new approaches to improve the retrieval process in digital library systems: Science models and task-based retrieval. Science models address issues in statistical modelling and mapping of structures and scholarly activities in scientific domains. Until now the outcome of bibliometric/scientometric research is rarely used to enhance retrieval processes in digital libraries although first approaches in this domain have shown that the use of science models can offer a variety of value-added effects for users. Advanced bibliometric as well as network models of the structure of scientific communities are especially promising to open up alternative access paths into a scientific digital library. While science models are related to the structure of the information space, task aware searching and browsing focus on the user and his/her search task. Search is a highly dynamic and interactive process where within each phase the user faces a new situation which may change the current information need - even more on long-term interactive search activities. A task-aware model for each search phase would reflect the particular information need in question to support the user on these long term tasks. The central research question for this workshop therefore is: How can models of science, in particular dynamic models mapping the evolution of science, and models of the long-term dynamics in scholarly, task-oriented searching be mutually interrelated in order to enhance retrieval quality? The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers from different domains, such as information retrieval, information seeking, science modelling, bibliometrics, scientometrics, network analysis, and digital libraries to move toward a deeper understanding of this research challenge. === Workshop Topics === To support the previously described goals the workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - IR for digital libraries and scientific information portals - IR for scientific domains, e.g. social sciences, life sciences etc. - Information Seeking Behaviour - Bibliometrics, citation analysis and network analysis for IR - Query expansion and relevance feedback approaches - Science Modelling (both formal & empirical) - Task based user modelling, interaction, and personalisation - (Long-term) Evaluation methods and test collection design - Collaborative information handling and information sharing - Classification, categorisation and clustering approaches - Information extraction (including topic detection, entity and relation extraction) - Recommendations based on explicit and implicit user feedback We especially invite descriptions of running projects and ongoing work. Papers that investigate multiple themes directly are especially welcome. === Types of Submissions === - Full Papers (6 to 8 pages): Full papers, describing advanced or completed work - Short Papers (4 pages): Position papers or work in progress - Poster and Demonstrations (2 pages): Poster and Presentation of systems or prototypes Submissions have to follow the Springer LNCS Author Guidelines (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) and should be submitted as PDF files to EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scimots2012). All submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Please be aware of the fact that at least one author per paper needs to register for the workshop and attend the workshop to present the work. In case of no-show the paper (even if accepted) will be deleted from the proceedings AND from the program. Printed proceedings will be distributed to all attendees. In addition, workshop proceedings will be deposited online in the CEUR workshop proceedings publication service (ISSN 1613-0073) - This way the proceedings will be permanently available and citable (digital persistent identifiers and long term preservation). === Organizers === Peter Mutschke, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany Philipp Schaer, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany Claus-Peter Klas, Distance University in Hagen, Germany Preben Hansen, SICS, Sweden Supported by Philipp Mayr, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany. Any questions regarding the workshop can be posted to scimots2012 at easychair.org - Please, feel free to contact us. === Programm Committee === Farag Ahmed, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany Reginald Ferber, University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt, Germany Nicola Ferro, University of Padova, Italy Ingo Frommholz, University of Bedfordshire, UK Norbert Fuhr, University of Dortmund, Germany Daniel Hienert, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany Birger Larsen, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark Vivien Petras, Humboldt-Universit?t Berlin, Germany Andrea Scharnhorst, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam Christian Schl?gl, University of Graz, Austria Howard D. White, Drexel University, USA Kind regards, Peter Mutschke --- Acting Head of Department Dep. Knowledge Technologies for the Social Sciences (WTS) GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8 D-50667 K?ln Tel.: +49(0)221 / 47694 -500 Fax: +49(0)221 / 47694 -8500 Mail: peter.mutschke at gesis.org www.gesis.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Thu Jul 12 17:08:17 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:08:17 +0000 Subject: Papers of interest to SigMetrics readers Message-ID: TITLE: THE SOCIAL REPRESENTATION THEORY IN GRADUATE NURSING DISSERTATIONS AND THESES: A BIBLIOMETRIC PROFILE (Article, Portuguese) AUTHOR: da Silva, AMF; Martini, JG; Becker, SG SOURCE: TEXTO & CONTEXTO ENFERMAGEM 20 (2). APR-JUN 2011. p.294-300 UNIV FEDERAL SANTA CATARINA, FLORIANOPOLIS SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS: Research nursing; Psychology social; Nursing; Bibliometrics ABSTRACT: This study aimed to identify nursing theses and dissertations which utilized the Social Representation Theory available in the Center for Nursing Studies and Research database from 2001 to 2007. It is an exploratory, Bibliometrics analysis study of the papers registered in the database. Of the 3246 studies found, 167 (5%) used the Theory; 38 (22.7%) were dissertations and 129 (77.3%) were theses. The Southeast and the Northeast regions recorded the highest production, with 61.2% and 26.8%, respectively. In theoretical approach, 80 (62%) theses and 27 (71%) dissertations used this theoretical framework. Its use as a theoretical and methodological reference occurred in 16 (10%) studies. In these studies data was collected through interviews, used in 44.4% of the cases, and content analysis, the choice of 54.6% of the students. We highlight a growing interest in the Social Representation Theory and the need for greater criteria in preparing abstracts, given their importance in developing scientific research. AUTHOR ADDRESS: AMF da Silva, Servidao Victor Chagas 396, BR-88063550 Florianopolis, SC, Brazil ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Diversity, value and limitations of the journal impact factor and alternative metrics (Review, English) AUTHOR: Bornmann, L; Marx, W; Gasparyan, AY; Kitas, G SOURCE: RHEUMATOLOGY INTERNATIONAL 32 (7). JUL 2012. p.1861-1867 SPRINGER HEIDELBERG, HEIDELBERG SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; IMPACT FACTOR* item_title; JOURNAL item_title; GARFIELD E JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 295:90 2006 KEYWORDS: Bibliometrics; Periodicals as topic; Impact factor; h- Index; Biomedical journals; Rheumatology KEYWORDS+: ANGEWANDTE-CHEMIE; CITATION-INDEX; SCIENCE; HISTORY; QUALITY; EDITORS ABSTRACT: The highly popular journal impact factor (JIF) is an average measure of citations within 1 year after the publication of a journal as a whole within the two preceding years. It is widely used as a proxy of a journal's quality and scientific prestige. This article discusses misuses of JIF to assess impact of separate journal articles and the effect of several manuscript versions on JIF. It also presents some newer alternative journal metrics such as SCImago Journal Rank and the h-index and analyses examples of their application in several subject categories. AUTHOR ADDRESS: AY Gasparyan, Dudley Grp NHS Fdn Trust, Clin Res Unit, Dept Rheumatol, Russells Hall Hosp, Dudley DY1 2HQ, W Midlands, England -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Intended and Unintended Consequences of a Publish-or- Perish Culture: A Worldwide Survey (Article, English) AUTHOR: van Dalen, HP; Henkens, K SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 63 (7). JUL 2012. p.1282-1293 WILEY-BLACKWELL, HOBOKEN SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth; GARFIELD E SCIENTIST 10:11 1996 KEYWORDS: bibliometrics; scientists; surveys KEYWORDS+: SCIENCE; COMPETITION; DEMOGRAPHY; POPULATION; INCENTIVES; SCIENTISTS; JOURNALS ABSTRACT: How does publication pressure in modern-day universities affect the intrinsic and extrinsic rewards in science? By using a worldwide survey among demographers in developed and developing countries, the authors show that the large majority perceive the publication pressure as high, but more so in Anglo-Saxon countries and to a lesser extent in Western Europe. However, scholars see both the pros (upward mobility) and cons (excessive publication and uncitedness, neglect of policy issues, etc.) of the so-called publish-or-perish culture. By measuring behavior in terms of reading and publishing, and perceived extrinsic rewards and stated intrinsic rewards of practicing science, it turns out that publication pressure negatively affects the orientation of demographers towards policy and knowledge sharing. There are no signs that the pressure affects reading and publishing outside the core discipline. AUTHOR ADDRESS: HP van Dalen, NIDI, POB 11650, NL-2502 AR The Hague, Netherlands ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Analyzing Scientific Networks for Nuclear Capabilities Assessment (Article, English) AUTHOR: Kas, M; Khadka, AG; Frankenstein, W; Abdulla, AY; Kunkel, F; Carley, LR; Carley, KM SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 63 (7). JUL 2012. p.1294-1312 WILEY-BLACKWELL, HOBOKEN SEARCH TERM(S): SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 50:799 1999; WHITE HD J AM SOC INFORM SCI 32:163 1981 KEYWORDS: automatic extracting; authoring (hypermedia); social aspects KEYWORDS+: INFORMATION SEEKING; AUTHOR COCITATION; CENTRALITY; SCIENCE ABSTRACT: The capability to build nuclear weapons is a key national security factor that has a profound influence on the balance of international relations. In addition to longstanding players, regional powers and peripheral countries have sought for ways of acquiring and/or developing them. The authors postulate that to express the capabilities, relative positions, and interrelations of the countries involved in the production of nuclear weaponization knowledge, dynamic network analysis provides valuable insight. In this article, the authors use a computational framework that combines techniques from dynamic network analysis and text mining to mine and analyze large-scale networks that are extracted from open theoretical and experimental nuclear research publications of the last two decades. More specifically, they build interlinked, dynamic networks that model relationships of nuclear researchers based on the open literature and supplement this information with text mining to classify the nuclear weaponization capabilities of each publication-of each author, organization, city, and country. Using such a comprehensive computational framework, they are able to (a) elicit the hot topics in nuclear weaponization research, (b) assess the nuclear expertise level of each country, (c) differentiate between established and emergent players, and (d) identify the key entities at various levels such as organization, city, and country. AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Kas, Carnegie Mellon Univ, Inst Software Res, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Scholarly Network Similarities: How Bibliographic Coupling Networks, Citation Networks, Cocitation Networks, Topical Networks, Coauthorship Networks, and Coword Networks Relate to Each Other (Article, English) AUTHOR: Yan, EJ; Ding, Y SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 63 (7). JUL 2012. p.1313-1326 WILEY-BLACKWELL, HOBOKEN SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; KESSLER MM AM DOC 14:10 1963; SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973; WHITE HD J AM SOC INFORM SCI 32:163 1981; BIBLIOGRAPHIC* item_title; CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title; COCITATION* item_title KEYWORDS: network analysis; citation networks; bibliographic coupling; co-citation analysis; joint authorship KEYWORDS+: INFORMATION-SCIENCE; SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION; KNOWLEDGE DIFFUSION; AUTHOR COCITATION; PATENT CITATIONS; RESEARCH FRONT; PATTERNS; DISCIPLINE; PAGERANK ABSTRACT: This study explores the similarity among six types of scholarly networks aggregated at the institution level, including bibliographic coupling networks, citation networks, cocitation networks, topical networks, coauthorship networks, and coword networks. Cosine distance is chosen to measure the similarities among the six networks. The authors found that topical networks and coauthorship networks have the lowest similarity; cocitation networks and citation networks have high similarity; bibliographic coupling networks and cocitation networks have high similarity; and coword networks and topical networks have high similarity. In addition, through multidimensional scaling, two dimensions can be identified among the six networks: Dimension 1 can be interpreted as citation-based versus noncitation-based, and Dimension 2 can be interpreted as social versus cognitive. The authors recommend the use of hybrid or heterogeneous networks to study research interaction and scholarly communications. AUTHOR ADDRESS: EJ Yan, Indiana Univ, Sch Lib & Informat Sci, Bloomington, IN 47401 USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Changes in Publication Languages and Citation Practices and Their Effect on the Scientific Impact of Russian Science (1993-2010) (Article, English) AUTHOR: Kirchik, O; Gingras, Y; Lariviere, V SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 63 (7). JUL 2012. p.1411-1419 WILEY-BLACKWELL, HOBOKEN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E CURR CONTENTS 15:5 1972; GARFIELD E SCIENTIST 4:18 1990 KEYWORDS: bibliometrics KEYWORDS+: NATIONAL RESEARCH PERFORMANCE; BIBLIOMETRIC INDICATORS; ACADEMIC JOURNALS; NETWORKS ABSTRACT: This article analyzes the effects of publication language on the international scientific visibility of Russia using the Web of Science (WoS). Like other developing and transition countries, it is subject to a growing pressure to "internationalize" its scientific activities, which primarily means a shift to English as a language of scientific communication. But to what extent does the transition to English improve the impact of research? The case of Russia is of interest in this respect as the existence of many combinations of national journals and languages of publications (namely, Russian and English, including translated journals) provide a kind of natural I experiment to test the effects of language and publisher's country on the international visibility of research through citations as well as on the referencing practices of authors. Our analysis points to the conclusion that the production of original English-language papers in foreign journals is a more efficient strategy of internationalization than the mere translation of domestic journals. If the objective of a country is to maximize the international visibility of its scientific work, then the efforts should go into the promotion of publication in reputed English-language journals to profit from the added effect provided by the Matthew effect of these venues. AUTHOR ADDRESS: O Kirchik, Natl Res Univ, Higher Sch Econ, Lab S&T Studies, Myasnitskaya Str 18, Moscow 101000, Russia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A Visual Representation of Relative First-Citation Times (Article, English) AUTHOR: Glanzel, W; Rousseau, R; Zhang, L SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 63 (7). JUL 2012. p.1420-1425 WILEY-BLACKWELL, HOBOKEN KEYWORDS: quantitative research; bibliometrics KEYWORDS+: CITATION DISTRIBUTION; PREFERENCE ABSTRACT: A new visual representation of the response time, i.e., the time elapsed between the publication year and the date of the first citation of a paper, is provided. This presentation can be used to detect and describe different paradigmatic types of reception speed for scientific journals. AUTHOR ADDRESS: W Glanzel, Katholieke Univ Leuven, Ctr R&D Monitoring ECOOM, Louvain, Belgium ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Mapping (USPTO) Patent Data Using Overlays to Google Maps (Article, English) AUTHOR: Leydesdorff, L; Bornmann, L SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 63 (7). JUL 2012. p.1442-1458 WILEY-BLACKWELL, HOBOKEN SEARCH TERM(S): SMALL H J INF SCI 11:147 1985 KEYWORDS: knowledge representation; data mining; geography KEYWORDS+: RESEARCH-AND-DEVELOPMENT; TECHNICAL CHANGE; CITATION ANALYSIS; ACADEMIC RESEARCH; SCIENCE BASE; BAYH-DOLE; TECHNOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE; INNOVATION; GEOGRAPHY ABSTRACT: A technique is developed using patent information available online (at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office) for the generation of Google Maps. The overlays indicate both the quantity and the quality of patents at the city level. This information is relevant for research questions in technology analysis, innovation studies, and evolutionary economics, as well as economic geography. The resulting maps can also be relevant for technological innovation policies and research and development management, because the U.S. market can be considered the leading market for patenting and patent competition. In addition to the maps, the routines provide quantitative data about the patents for statistical analysis. The cities on the map are colored according to the results of significance tests. The overlays are explored for the Netherlands as a "national system of innovations" and further elaborated in two cases of emerging technologies: ribonucleic acid interference (RNAi) and nanotechnology. AUTHOR ADDRESS: L Leydesdorff, Univ Amsterdam, ASCoR, Klovenierburgwal 48, NL-1012 CX Amsterdam, Netherlands -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Citation Measures at the Micro Level: Influence of Publication Age, Field, and Uncitedness (Article, English) AUTHOR: Amez, L SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 63 (7). JUL 2012. p.1459-1465 WILEY-BLACKWELL, HOBOKEN SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; KEYWORDS: bibliometrics KEYWORDS+: H-INDEX; BIBLIOMETRIC INDICATORS; RESEARCH PERFORMANCE; RESEARCHERS; IMPACT ABSTRACT: The application of micro-level citation indicators is not without controversy. The procedure requires the availability of both adequate data sets and trusted metrics. Few indicators have been developed to deal specifically with individual assessment. The h-type indices are the most popular category; however, the dependence of h-type metrics on publication age and field makes their application often unjustified. This article studies the effects that publication age and field normalization have on h-type citation values of German Leibniz Prize winners. This data set is exclusive in that it is highly scrutinized for homonyms. Results are compared with other field- normalized citation rates, contributing to the debate on using demarcation versus average citation approaches to evaluate top researchers. AUTHOR ADDRESS: L Amez, Vrije Univ Brussel, R&D Dept, Pl Lann 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: PREDICTIVE MODELS FOR TIME TO ACCEPTANCE An Example Using "Hurricane" Articles in AMS Journals (Article, English) AUTHOR: Hodges, RE; Elsner, JB; Jagger, TH SOURCE: BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY 93 (6). JUN 2012. p.879-882 AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC, BOSTON SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNALS item_title AUTHOR ADDRESS: RE Hodges, Florida State Univ, Dept Geog, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: A ranking of safety journals using different measurement methods Authors: Reniers, G; Anthone, Y Author Full Names: Reniers, Genserik; Anthone, Yannick Source: SAFETY SCIENCE, 50 (7):1445-1451; 10.1016/j.ssci.2012.01.017 AUG 2012 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Safety journals, Ranking, Journal quality, Journal evaluation, Perception, Impact factor Abstract: Using an online survey, we asked safety researchers around the globe how they perceived the quality of a list of 35 representative safety journals. We found that the most well-respected journal by expert opinion was the Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries. However, taking both the respondents' results and the citation-based results into consideration, the Journal of Hazardous Materials is the most influential journal, followed by Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Risk Analysis, Accident Analysis and Prevention and Safety Science. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Reprint Address: Reniers, G (reprint author), Univ Antwerp, Res Grp ARGoSS, Fac Appl Econ Sci, Prinsstr 13, B-2000 Antwerp, Belgium Addresses: [Reniers, Genserik; Anthone, Yannick] Univ Antwerp, Res Grp ARGoSS, Fac Appl Econ Sci, B-2000 Antwerp, Belgium [Reniers, Genserik] KULeuven, HUB, Ctr Econ & Corp Sustainabil CEDON, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium E-mail Address: genserik.reniers at ua.ac.be Cited Reference Count: 10 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS Web of Science Category: Engineering, Industrial; Operations Research & Management Science Subject Area: Engineering; Operations Research & Management Science Cited References: Frandsen TF, 2006, JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION, V62, P58 Bean A. G., 1995, Marketing Research, V7, P20 Egghe Leo, 2007, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V58, P777 Moed H. F., 2005, Citation analysis in research evaluation, Yue WP, 2004, SCIENTOMETRICS, V60, P317 Kodrzycki Y. K., 2006, Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, V5, Dillman D. A., 2010, International Journal of Internet Science, V5, P1 Rousseau Sandra, 2008, SCIENTOMETRICS, V77, P223 Axarloglou K., 2003, Journal of the European Economic Association, V1, P1402 Frippiat D., 2010, Population-E, V5, P285 ======================================================================= Title: Mine, Yours, Ours? Sharing Data on Human Genetic Variation Authors: Milia, N; Congiu, A; Anagnostou, P; Montinaro, F; Capocasa, M; Sanna, E; Bisol, GD Author Full Names: Milia, Nicola; Congiu, Alessandra; Anagnostou, Paolo; Montinaro, Francesco; Capocasa, Marco; Sanna, Emanuele; Bisol, Giovanni Destro Source: PLOS ONE, 7 (6):10.1371/journal.pone.0037552 JUN 5 2012 Language: English Document Type: Article KeyWords Plus: POPULATION; EVOLUTION; DISEASE; TOOLS Abstract: The achievement of a robust, effective and responsible form of data sharing is currently regarded as a priority for biological and bio-medical research. Empirical evaluations of data sharing may be regarded as an indispensable first step in the identification of critical aspects and the development of strategies aimed at increasing availability of research data for the scientific community as a whole. Research concerning human genetic variation represents a potential forerunner in the establishment of widespread sharing of primary datasets. However, no specific analysis has been conducted to date in order to ascertain whether the sharing of primary datasets is common-practice in this research field. To this aim, we analyzed a total of 543 mitochondrial and Y chromosomal datasets reported in 508 papers indexed in the Pubmed database from 2008 to 2011. A substantial portion of datasets (21.9%) was found to have been withheld, while neither strong editorial policies nor high im! pact factor proved to be effective in increasing the sharing rate beyond the current figure of 80.5%. Disaggregating datasets for research fields, we could observe a substantially lower sharing in medical than evolutionary and forensic genetics, more evident for whole mtDNA sequences (15.0% vs 99.6%). The low rate of positive responses to e-mail requests sent to corresponding authors of withheld datasets (28.6%) suggests that sharing should be regarded as a prerequisite for final paper acceptance, while making authors deposit their results in open online databases which provide data quality control seems to provide the best-practice standard. Finally, we estimated that 29.8% to 32.9% of total resources are used to generate withheld datasets, implying that an important portion of research funding does not produce shared knowledge. By making the scientific community and the public aware of this important aspect, we may help popularize a more effective culture of data sharing. Reprint Address: Milia, N (reprint author), Univ Roma La Sapienza, Dipartimento Biol Ambientale, Rome, Italy Addresses: [Milia, Nicola; Congiu, Alessandra; Anagnostou, Paolo; Bisol, Giovanni Destro] Univ Roma La Sapienza, Dipartimento Biol Ambientale, Rome, Italy [Milia, Nicola; Congiu, Alessandra; Sanna, Emanuele] Univ Cagliari, Dipartimento Biol Sperimentale, Cagliari, Italy [Anagnostou, Paolo; Montinaro, Francesco; Capocasa, Marco; Bisol, Giovanni Destro] Ist Italiano Antropol, Rome, Italy E-mail Address: destrobisol at uniroma1.it Funding Acknowledgement: Universita di Roma "La Sapienza"; Istituto Italiano di Antropologia; Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita e della Ricerca[200975T9EW] Funding Text: This work was supported by the Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Istituto Italiano di Antropologia, and the Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita e della Ricerca (Prin project 200975T9EW). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. 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This practice may substantially affect journal impact factors. Reprint Address: Kosmulski, M (reprint author), Lublin Univ Technol, Dept Electrochem, Nadbystrzycka 38, PL-20618 Lublin, Poland Addresses:Lublin Univ Technol, Dept Electrochem, PL-20618 Lublin, Poland E-mail Address:mkosmuls at hektor.umcs.lublin.pl Cited Reference Count:8 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PRESS, GREAT CLARENDON ST, OXFORD OX2 6DP, ENGLAND Subject Area: Information Science & Library Science Cited References: Falagas Matthew E., 2008, ARCHIVUM IMMUNOLOGIAE ET THERAPIAE EXPERIMENTALIS, V56, P223 Su Cheng, 2011, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V5, P1 Reedijk Jan, 2008, JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION, V64, P183 Bornmann Luti, 2008, JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION, V64, P45 2011, Kosmulski, M.British Medical Journal, V343, Pd5917 Moed HF, 1996, NATURE, V381, P186 MOED HF, 1995, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE, V46, P461 Moed Henk F., 2005, CITATION ANALYSIS IN RESEARCH EVALUATION, V9, P193 ======================================================================= Title: Living with the h-index? Metric assemblages in the contemporary academy Authors: Burrows, R Author Full Names:Burrows, Roger Source:SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW, 60 (2):355-372; 10.1111/j.1467-954X.2012.02077.x MAY 2012 Language:English Document Type:Article Author Keywords: Metrics, higher education, neoliberalism, UK, quantified control, audit culture KeyWords Plus: AUDIT CULTURE; UNIVERSITIES; CITATION; SOCIOLOGY; SCIENCE; UK Abstract: This paper examines the relationship between metrics, markets and affect in the contemporary UK academy. It argues that the emergence of a particular structure of feeling amongst academics in the last few years has been closely associated with the growth and development of quantified control. It examines the functioning of a range of metrics: citations; workload models; transparent costing data; research assessments; teaching quality assessments; and commercial university league tables. It argues that these metrics, and others, although still embedded within an audit culture, increasingly function autonomously as a data assemblage able not just to mimic markets but, increasingly, to enact them. It concludes by posing some questions about the possible implications of this for the future of academic practice. Reprint Address: Burrows, R (reprint author), Univ London, London WC1E 7HU, England Addresses: Univ London, London WC1E 7HU, England E-mail Address: r.burrows at gold.ac.uk Cited Reference Count:60 Times Cited:0 Publisher: WILEY-BLACKWELL, 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN 07030-5774, NJ USA ISSN:0038-0261 Subject Area:Sociology Cited References: Henkel M., 2000, Academic Identities and Policy Change in Higher Education, Regini M., 2011, European Universities and the Challenge of the Market, Gill R., 2010, Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process: Feminist Reflections, P228 Merton RK, 2000, WEB OF KNOWLEDGE - A FESTSCHRIFT IN HONOR OF EUGENE GARFIELD, P435 Watson D., 2010, The Question of Morale: Managing Happiness and Unhappiness in University Life, Pringle James, 2008, LEARNED PUBLISHING, V21, P85 GARFIELD E, 1955, SCIENCE, V122, P108 WILLMOTT H, 1995, HUMAN RELATIONS, V48, P993 Howie G, 2005, CRITICAL QUARTERLY, V47, P1 De Angelis Massimo, 2009, HISTORICAL MATERIALISM-RESEARCH IN CRITICAL MARXIST THEORY, V17, P3 Power M, 1997, The Audit Society, Pelias R., 2004, A Methodology of the Heart, Sparkes A., 2007, Qualitative Research, V7, P521 Winter R., 1995, The Changing Labour Process in Higher Education, Boden Rebecca, 2011, SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW, V59, P476 Lock G., 2011, EspacesTemps.net, Halsey A. 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F., 2010, EspacesTemps.net, Lindgren L., 2011, Evaluation, V17, P7 2011, The Mutual Construction of Statistics and Society, 2012, Measure and Value, Evans M., 2004, Killing Thinking: The Death of the Universities, Lodge D., 1984, Small World, Bar-Ilan Judit, 2008, SCIENTOMETRICS, V74, P257 Kogan M., 2000, Reforming Higher Education, Hazelkorn E, 2011, RANKINGS AND THE RESHAPING OF HIGHER EDUCATION: THE BATTLE FOR WORLD-CLASS EXCELLENCE, P1 Wright S., 2010, Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, V18, Holmwood John, 2010, BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY, V61, P639 Jacobson H., 1983, Coming from Behind, Giroux H., 2002, Harvard Educational Review, V72, P424 Deem R., 2007, Knowledge, Higher Education, and the New Managerialism: The Changing Management of UK Universities, Bence V., 2005, Journal of Educational Administration and History, V37, P137 Lodge D., 1988, Nice Work, Law J, 2004, ECONOMY AND SOCIETY, V33, P390 Amsler Sarah S., 2012, BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION, V33, P283 Hovland J., 2011, The Mutual Construction of Statistics and Society, Parkin F., 1987, The Mind and Body Shop, Lynch K., 2010, Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, V9, P54 Larsson S., 2009, Nordisk Pedagogik, V29, P29 Holmwood J., 2011, Exquisite Life: Research Blogs, - From Andreas.Strotmann at GESIS.ORG Fri Jul 13 05:17:57 2012 From: Andreas.Strotmann at GESIS.ORG (Strotmann, Andreas) Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 09:17:57 +0000 Subject: Bibliometrics Ph.D. student position availablle in Cologne, Germany Message-ID: Bibliometrics Ph.D. student position available in Cologne, Germany GESIS, the Leibniz Institute for the (German) Social Sciences, is looking for a Ph.D. student with a research interest in the general area of bibliometrics and scientometrics (detailed job add attached) to strengthen its new research focus in scientometric studies of the social sciences. We are looking for someone with a Master's degree (or equivalent) in Information and/or Computer Science, or for someone with an excellent Master's degree (or equivalent) in an empirical social science and with skills in statistics and computing (e.g., with R programming). The 4-year position is paid as a 75% FTE entry-level staff scientist according to the German public service salary scale. Excellent German language skills are required for this position, as conducting scientometric studies of the German-language social sciences is among the main tasks in this position. The Institute boasts a highly interdisciplinary research and research infrastructure environment, and this position will provide excellent opportunities to interact with its full range of scientists and professionals. It is located in the very center of Cologne, Germany, within easy walking distance from its main travel, tourist, and shopping facilities. Please forward this announcement to possible candidates, and to those who might know of possible candidates for this position. The application deadline is August 5th, 2012. Many thanks and best regards, -- Andreas Strotmann, Ph.D. Senior Researcher ; Team Lead, Information Services Andreas.Strotmann at gesis.org -- +49-221-47694-221 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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We also attach the supplementary material, including screenshots with the different mistakes that are pointed out in the text. Delgado-L?pez-C?zar, Emilio; Cabezas-Clavijo, ?lvaro. ?Google Scholar Metrics: an unreliable tool for assessing scientific journals?. El profesional de la informaci?n, 2012, July-August, v. 21, n. 4, pp. 419-427. http://dx.doi.org/10.3145/epi.2012.jul.15 (open access version at http://digibug.ugr.es/handle/10481/21540 ) Best regards -- ?lvaro Cabezas ------------------------------------- EC3. Grupo Inv. Evaluaci?n de la Ciencia y de la Comunicaci?n Cient?fica. Universidad de Granada Tlf:958 243939 http://ec3.ugr.es ------------------------------------- http://alvarocabezas.com http://twitter.com/acabezas/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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JUL 2012. p.1010-1024 ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, NEW YORK SEARCH TERM(S): MACROBERTS MH rauth; WADE N SCIENCE 188:429 1975; KEYWORDS: Price; Pricing; Pricing strategy; Citation analysis; Marketing journal impact; Research profiling KEYWORDS+: MARKETING JOURNALS; SPECIAL-ISSUE; BIBLIOMETRICS; PRODUCTIVITY ABSTRACT: This paper identifies the body of literature related to pricing that exists in 20 marketing or business journals contained in the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) between January 1980 and June 2010. During this 30-year period we found over 38,800 citations were made to 1945 articles that dealt with some aspect of pricing. Based on these data, we identify individual articles, authors, and institutions that have contributed most to this body of literature. We study what subjects within the domain of pricing have received most attention, and how these topics have evolved in three year periods. In addition, we use text mining and information visualization tools to identify networks of researchers who collaborate on pricing articles. We identify institutional affiliations within the networks and highlight most frequent subjects of articles written by researchers in each network. Our results show pricing is an important topic in the marketing domain. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: RP Leone, Texas Christian Univ, MJ Neeley Sch Business, 375 Dan Rogers Hall,TCU Box 298530, Ft Worth, TX 76129 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The Future of Innovation Studies in Less Economically Developed Countries (Article, English) AUTHOR: Williams, LDA; Woodson, TS SOURCE: MINERVA 50 (2 SP ISS). JUN 2012. p.221-237 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): MORAVCSIK MJ rauth KEYWORDS: Developing countries; Innovation studies; NGOs; Civil society; Less economically developed countries; Appropriation KEYWORDS+: INDUSTRY-GOVERNMENT RELATIONS; TECHNOLOGICAL-CHANGE; GREEN-REVOLUTION; TRIPLE-HELIX; UNIVERSITY; KNOWLEDGE; SYSTEMS; SCIENCE; AFRICA ABSTRACT: In this paper, we argue that there are patterns of innovation occurring in less economically developed countries (LEDCs) that have been historically overlooked by the innovation studies literature, including the literature on innovation systems and the triple helix. This paper briefly surveys cases in agriculture, banking, biomedicine and information and communications technologies that demonstrate organizational, scientific and technological innovation in Africa, South Asia, and Brazil. In particular, we track new developments in two distinctive patterns within LEDCs: (1) civil society as a site of innovation and; (2) innovation through appropriation. By systematically uncovering patterns of innovation in LEDCs, science and technology policy scholars may make new theoretical gains in innovation studies that can potentially contribute to innovation policies in the global South. AUTHOR ADDRESS: LDA Williams, Rensselaer Polytech Inst, 110 8th St,Sage Lab 5th FL, Troy, NY 12180 USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: How to measure the internationality of scientific publications (Article, English) AUTHOR: Buela-Casal, G; Zych, I SOURCE: PSICOTHEMA 24 (3). AUG 2012. p.435-441 COLEGIO OFICIAL DE PSICOLOGOS DE ASTURIAS, OVIEDO SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; KEYWORDS+: PSYCHOLOGY JOURNALS; SCIENCE; WEB; PRODUCTIVITY; ARTICLES; CRITERIA; INDEX; INDICATORS; PROFESSORS; GUIDE ABSTRACT: Although the term "internationality" has never been defined by consensus, it is commonly used as a synonym of quality. Even though its meaning has never been established, internationality is frequently used to evaluate scientists, publications, or universities in many different countries. The present investigation is based on the opinion about the meaning of the concept "internationality" of the members of scientific community, represented by a broad sample of 16,056 scientists from 109 countries working in all the fields of knowledge defined by UNESCO. The sample was randomly selected from the Web of Science database from the scientists who have published at least one article in one of the journals indexed by the database. A questionnaire based on eleven criteria was designed for the purpose of the study. As a result, the first measure of internationality has been obtained. The most important criteria of internationality are: the publication language, online access, and international publication standards. There are significant differences among geographic zones and fields of knowledge. AUTHOR ADDRESS: I Zych, Univ Cordoba, Fac Ciencias Educ, E-14071 Cordoba, Spain -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The Journal of Hydraulic Research 1963-2012: advances over the past 50 years (Article, English) AUTHOR: Hager, WH SOURCE: JOURNAL OF HYDRAULIC RESEARCH 50 (3). 2012. p.256-261 TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, ABINGDON KEYWORDS: History; hydraulics; IAHR; Journal of Hydraulic Research; research ABSTRACT: The Journal of Hydraulic Research (JHR) reaches in 2012 the 50th publication year, so that an adequate look back is appropriate. This paper describes the foundations of both the International Association of Hydro-environment Engineering and Research (IAHR) and its flagship journal JHR. The latter was a significant addition to the then existing hydraulic engineering research journals, and it was well received particularly among the IAHR members. The development of JHR is described in terms of the journal presentation, the editors and the 10 top-cited papers. It is noted that papers mainly with a computational background and with problems in river engineering count in these seminal works. The paper closes with remarks from the author relating to his observations made during the past 5 years while serving as the JHR editor. AUTHOR ADDRESS: WH Hager, ETH, Versuchsanstalt Wasserbau Hydrol & Glaziol VAW, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Gaps in knowledge management systems: a bibliographical review (Article, Spanish) AUTHOR: Pinto-Prieto, LP; Becerra-Ardila, LE; Gomez-Florez, LC SOURCE: PROFESIONAL DE LA INFORMACION 21 (3). MAY-JUN 2012. p.268-276 EPI, BARCELONA SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOGRAPHIC* item_title KEYWORDS: Knowledge management; Knowledge; Information systems and technologies; Knowledge management systems; Knowledge management processes; Gaps in knowledge management systems KEYWORDS+: DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES; INFORMATION-TECHNOLOGY; ORGANIZATIONAL MEMORY; FRAMEWORK; FIRM; CORPORATION; PERSPECTIVE; STRATEGY; CREATION; CORE ABSTRACT: The importance of knowledge as a sustainable competitive advantage and the increasing development of information technology (IT) have led to knowledge management systems (KMS), facilitating and encouraging the processes of generation, codification and transfer of knowledge in organizations. The interest of professionals, academics and researchers has been growing for several years, to the point that it can be stated that knowledge management is a topic on the rise. Nonetheless, if we review their status in organizations, there are great difficulties in their implementation, difficulties that cover various aspects. Through a review of the literature, this paper explores the present gaps in the implementation of KMS. The results reflect the dominance of a reductionist approach in this area, with a focus on IT, revealing the need for a holistic approach, guided by what makes sense in the organization. AUTHOR ADDRESS: LP Pinto-Prieto, Univ Ind Santander, Fac Ingn Fisicomecan, Escuela Ingn Sistemas, Grp Invest STI Oficina LP 325, Carrera 27,Calle 9,Apartado Aereo 678, Bucaramanga, Colombia -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A LANGUAGE PROFILE OF SOURCES CITED IN THE JOURNAL KINEZIOLOGIJA/KINESIOLOGY FROM 1971 TO 2010 (Article, English) AUTHOR: Omrcen, D; Lescic, S SOURCE: KINESIOLOGY 43 (1). JUN 2011. p.7-24 UNIV ZAGREB, FAC KINESIOLOGY, ZAGREB SEARCH TERM(S): CITED item_title; JOURNAL item_title KEYWORDS: citations; visibility; journal; language; author's country of origin; gender KEYWORDS+: CITATION CHARACTERISTICS; COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL- SCIENCES; ENGLISH; PRODUCTIVITY; MONOGRAPHS; GERMAN ABSTRACT: The goal of this paper was to provide a diachronic survey of the language of sources cited in the journal Kineziologija/Kinesiology from 1971 to 2010. Also, interactions were sought between various variables regarding various aspects of article publication - publication year, language of sources cited, number of sources cited, author's country of origin and gender. The population was comprised of 760 articles published in the journal Kineziologija/Kinesiology throughout forty years of its publication. Results of the analyses were expressed in frequencies and by interaction plots of the analysed variables. The allocation of the total number of sources cited showed that the largest number of papers cited between 10 and 19 sources. The highest average number of sources cited per paper was in English, followed by the average number of sources in Croatian. The number of all sources cited per article significantly increased in the last decade of the journal's publication as did the number of sources in the English language. Most papers were authored by researchers from the Slavic language-speaking countries. The number of non-English sources used by the authors from Slavic language-speaking countries was larger than the number of non- English sources used by the authors from countries in which languages other than English, German, Romance and Slavic languages are spoken. Most of the 760 papers were written by men, followed by the number of papers written in co-authorship of men and women. The number of papers written exclusively by women was the lowest. This type of analysis could be regarded not only as a mirror of the journal's development, but also as a mirror of the development of a society. AUTHOR ADDRESS: D Omrcen, Univ Zagreb, Fac Kinesiol, Horvacanski Zavoj 15, Zagreb 10000, Croatia -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The research on the attitudes toward disabled people in the educational settings: A scientometric evaluation (Article, English) AUTHOR: Konur, O SOURCE: ENERGY EDUCATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PART B-SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL STUDIES 5 (1). JAN 2013. p.483-498 SILA SCIENCE, TRABZON SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E CURR CONTENTS 0922 :3 1986 KEYWORDS: Attitudes toward disabled people; SSCI; SCI-E; Incentive structures; Research evaluation; Research productivity; Scientometrics; Web of Knowledge KEYWORDS+: INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES; CHILDRENS ATTITUDES; STUDENTS ATTITUDES; HANDICAPPED PEERS; PUBLIC-POLICY; CIVIL-RIGHTS; DISCRIMINATION; INSTITUTIONS; INDIVIDUALS; CITATION ABSTRACT: The present study explores the characteristics of the literature on the attitudes toward their disabled people published during the last three decades, based on the databases of Science Citation Index- Expanded (SCIE) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) and its implications using the scientometric techniques. The results of this study reveal that the literature in this field has grown steadily during this period reaching to 655 papers in total with paralleling enormous changes in the research landscape. Papers were mostly journal articles, reviews, and proceedings, and being predominantly in English. The US was the most publishing country producing 54% of the output. The "Bar Ilan University" of Israel was the most contributing institution and the most publishing author was "Livneh H". "Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin" was the most publishing journal whilst "Rehabilitation" was the most published subject area. The total number of citations was 5,262 resulting in 8.03 average citations per paper and "H-index" of 29. "Donaldson J" [1] had the highest impact on the literature. The results of this first ever such study of its kind showed that the scientometric analysis has a great potential to gain valuable insights into the evolution of the research on the attitudes toward disabled people. AUTHOR ADDRESS: O Konur, Sirnak Univ Rectorate, TR-73000 Sirnak, Turkey From notsjb at LSU.EDU Tue Jul 17 09:43:18 2012 From: notsjb at LSU.EDU (Stephen J Bensman) Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:43:18 +0000 Subject: Google Scholar Metrics: an unreliable tool for assessing scientific journals In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Thanks for this. It is just what we need in our research here at LSU. Stephen J Bensman, Ph.D. LSU Libraries Lousiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Alvaro Cabezas Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 10:42 AM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Google Scholar Metrics: an unreliable tool for assessing scientific journals You may be interested in this paper which aims to review the new Google's product Google Scholar Metrics. "Google Scholar Metrics: an unreliable tool for assessing scientific journals". In this work, we perform a critical review of Google Scholar Metrics (GSM), showing their main characteristics and shortcomings. We conclude that, despite Google Scholar's value as a source for scientific assessment, GSM is an immature product with many shortcomings, and therefore we advise against its use for evaluation purposes. We also attach the supplementary material, including screenshots with the different mistakes that are pointed out in the text. Delgado-L?pez-C?zar, Emilio; Cabezas-Clavijo, ?lvaro. "Google Scholar Metrics: an unreliable tool for assessing scientific journals". El profesional de la informaci?n, 2012, July-August, v. 21, n. 4, pp. 419-427. http://dx.doi.org/10.3145/epi.2012.jul.15 (open access version at http://digibug.ugr.es/handle/10481/21540 ) Best regards -- ?lvaro Cabezas ------------------------------------- EC3. Grupo Inv. Evaluaci?n de la Ciencia y de la Comunicaci?n Cient?fica. 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URL: From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Wed Jul 18 23:55:23 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 03:55:23 +0000 Subject: Papers of interest to Sig Metrics readers Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Re-examination of Zipf's law and urban dynamic in China: a regional approach (Article, English) AUTHOR: Ye, XY; Xie, YC SOURCE: ANNALS OF REGIONAL SCIENCE 49 (1). AUG 2012. p.135-156 SPRINGER, NEW YORK SEARCH TERM(S): ZIPF* item_title KEYWORDS+: CITY SIZE DISTRIBUTION; CITIES; SYSTEM; WORLD; URBANIZATION; GROWTH ABSTRACT: Recent efforts have been made to interpret spatial- temporal evolution of urban system using Zipf's law. The debates remain whether Zipf's law holds true for large and diverse countries with long urbanization history, and how varied geographical settings with different socioeconomic conditions affect city-size distributions. This research investigates China's urban system dynamics through expanded Zipf's law at national and regional level. First, the paper revisits urban system dynamic theories and recent applications of Zipf's law. The city data from 1960 to 2000 are then used to analyze rapid changes of urban systems in China through Zipf's plots of cities over the entire nation and in six macro regions, respectively. The paper also examines top ten city rank changes nationally and regionally to examine temporal trajectories of key cities and the impacts on urban systems over space. Three types of Zipf's law reflections are found over six China's macro regions, based on the similarities of temporal dynamics of urban systems. AUTHOR ADDRESS: XY Ye, Bowling Green State Univ, Ctr Reg Dev, 109 South Hall, Bowling Green, OH 43403 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Quality Indicators of Scientific Research (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Sharma, OP SOURCE: INDIAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY 52 (2). JUN 2012. p.305-306 SPRINGER, NEW YORK SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; AUTHOR ADDRESS: OP Sharma, Indian Vet Res Inst, Reg Stn, Palampur 176061, Himachal Prades, India -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Corporate branding: an interdisciplinary literature review (Review, English) AUTHOR: Fetscherin, M; Usunier, JC SOURCE: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MARKETING 46 (5). 2012. p.733-753 EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED, BINGLEY SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth; SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 50:799 1999; GARFIELD E AM DOC 14:289 1963 KEYWORDS: Corporate branding; Corporate identity; Corporate image; Corporate reputation; Bibliometric analysis; Brands; Business history KEYWORDS+: COMPANY EMPLOYMENT IMAGE; SOCIAL-RESPONSIBILITY; COCITATION ANALYSIS; CITATION ANALYSIS; FIRM REPUTATION; VISUAL IDENTITY; MODERATING ROLE; SCIENCE AREAS; SERVICE; IMPACT ABSTRACT: Purpose - This paper aims to examine how scholarly research on corporate branding has evolved using bibliometric author co- citation analysis of articles published between 1969 and 2008 on corporate branding. Design/methodology/approach - The bibliography was compiled using the ISI Web of Science database. The authors searched articles published between 1969 and 2008 that used terms in their title related to their research scope. Then they used citation mapping to visualize the relationships between and among key works in the field. Findings - The search resulted in 264 papers by 412 authors in 150 journals. The field is notably interdisciplinary, with articles published mainly in business, management, architecture, arts and communications disciplines. The authors found three main approaches to corporate branding research (internal, transactional, external) with seven core research streams: product, service and sponsorship evaluation; corporate and visual identity; employment image and application; corporate crime; financial performance; brand extension; and corporate image. They also identified emerging fields such as corporate branding combined with corporate social responsibility. Research limitations/implications - This research is limited by the database and the terms used for the search. Self-citations were also included. The authors used citation mapping and content analysis to identify core research streams. Originality/value - The article is singular in using bibliometrics by means of author co-citation analyses to identify, analyze and visualize key articles about corporate branding in the last 40 years. The results demonstrate the impact of selected institutions, journals, and key articles and authors on the research field. AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Fetscherin, Rollins Coll, Crummer Grad Sch Business, Orlando, FL USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Relevance of the spanish journals included in the databases of the Institute for Scientific Information measured by the renormalized impact factor (Article, Spanish) AUTHOR: Gamez, AM SOURCE: INVESTIGACION BIBLIOTECOLOGICA 25 (55). SEP-DEC 2011. p.63-80 UNIV NACIONAL AUTONOMA MEXICO, MEXICO CITY SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; KEYWORDS: Bibliometric indexes; Impact Factor; Renormalized Impact Factor; Scientific journals evaluation; Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) KEYWORDS+: LIMITATIONS; INDICATORS; ARTICLES; CITATION; QUALITY ABSTRACT: Nowadays the Impact Factor (IF) is used as a measure of the relevance or the quality of an institution, a research group or project, or a particular researcher's scientific production, regardless of the scientific field to which they belong. This paper shows a classification of the Spanish journals included in the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) databases based on their relevance. To measure this relevance we propose the Renormalized Impact Factor (Fr) instead of the IF. The results show that 12.64% of Spanish journals included in the ISI may be considered relevant in their categories and that a high IF does not necessarily indicate a high relevance of the journal, so the IF perhaps is not an appropriate index to evaluate scientific activities belonging to different fields. AUTHOR ADDRESS: AM Gamez, Univ Jaen, Jaen, Spain -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Scientific production in the state of Chihuahua, 1999- 2008: analysis of publications registered by ISI Web of Knowledge (Article, Spanish) AUTHOR: Moreno-Ceja, F; Zumaya-Leal, MD; Cortes-Vera, JD SOURCE: INVESTIGACION BIBLIOTECOLOGICA 25 (55). SEP-DEC 2011. p.201-225 UNIV NACIONAL AUTONOMA MEXICO, MEXICO CITY SEARCH TERM(S): TAUBES G SCIENCE 260:884 1993 KEYWORDS: Scientific production; Bibliometrics; Bibliometric indicators; Chihuahua KEYWORDS+: LATIN-AMERICAN COUNTRIES; COOPERATION; INDICATORS; SCIENCE; IMPACT ABSTRACT: This paper is based on the publications produced in a decade by researchers in the State of Chihuahua, Mexico; the analysis is predominantly quantitative and was undertaken through bibliometric techniques, being its objective to examine the production of scientific knowledge in the state, considering as starting point the documents included in the database of ISI Web of Knowledge during 1999-2008. The methodology followed considered the application of bibliometric indicators such as: output, subject areas, typology, language, collaboration, number of authors contributing to each article, among others. Regarding output, it was observed that the total production reported for the period under study was of 973 documents; it was also found that only 10 institutions had a presence in the total outcome; the main subject areas were Materials science (28.98%), followed by Physics (26.10%); the preferred format was the article (60.64%); the main language was English (93.53%). Concerning collaboration: most of it was international (39.47%), where the main partner was the United States (52.08%); the rate of authors per document was 4.66. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Studies in Writing Preface (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Lillis, T SOURCE: UNIVERSITY WRITING: SELVES AND TEXTS IN ACADEMIC SOCIETIES 24. 2012. p.XI-XII,249-284 EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD, BINGLEY SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth; GRIFFITH BC SCI STUD 4:339 1974; SMALL H SCI STUD 4:17 1974; SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973; KEYWORDS+: HIGHER-EDUCATION; ACADEMIC LITERACIES; UNIVERSITY- STUDENTS; DOCTORAL STUDENTS; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURES; LEARNING-DISABILITIES; MULTILINGUAL SCHOLARS; GRADUATE- STUDENTS; LEXICAL BUNDLES; READER BELIEFS AUTHOR ADDRESS: T Lillis, Open Univ, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, Bucks, England -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Andreas.Strotmann at GESIS.ORG Thu Jul 19 03:52:32 2012 From: Andreas.Strotmann at GESIS.ORG (Strotmann, Andreas) Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 07:52:32 +0000 Subject: Correction: Bibliometrics Ph.D. student position availablle in Cologne, Germany Message-ID: Correction: the application deadline for this position is August 12, 2012 (not August 5). Best regards, -- Andreas Strotmann Von: Strotmann, Andreas Gesendet: Freitag, 13. Juli 2012 11:18 An: 'sigmetrics at listserv.utk.edu' Betreff: Bibliometrics Ph.D. student position availablle in Cologne, Germany Bibliometrics Ph.D. student position available in Cologne, Germany GESIS, the Leibniz Institute for the (German) Social Sciences, is looking for a Ph.D. student with a research interest in the general area of bibliometrics and scientometrics (detailed job add attached) to strengthen its new research focus in scientometric studies of the social sciences. We are looking for someone with a Master's degree (or equivalent) in Information and/or Computer Science, or for someone with an excellent Master's degree (or equivalent) in an empirical social science and with skills in statistics and computing (e.g., with R programming). The 4-year position is paid as a 75% FTE entry-level staff scientist according to the German public service salary scale. Excellent German language skills are required for this position, as conducting scientometric studies of the German-language social sciences is among the main tasks in this position. The Institute boasts a highly interdisciplinary research and research infrastructure environment, and this position will provide excellent opportunities to interact with its full range of scientists and professionals. It is located in the very center of Cologne, Germany, within easy walking distance from its main travel, tourist, and shopping facilities. Please forward this announcement to possible candidates, and to those who might know of possible candidates for this position. The application deadline is August 5th, 2012. Many thanks and best regards, -- Andreas Strotmann, Ph.D. Senior Researcher ; Team Lead, Information Services Andreas.Strotmann at gesis.org -- +49-221-47694-221 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Thu Jul 19 16:46:49 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:46:49 +0000 Subject: Papers of interest to SIGMETRICS readers Message-ID: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: SCIENTIFIC OUTPUT ON CARDIOLOGY AND SPORT: RANKING OF JOURNALS (2010) AND EXCELLENCE (Article, Spanish) AUTHOR: Martinez-Morilla, JA; Ruiz-Caballero, JA; Brito-Ojeda, E; Navarro-Valdivielso, ME SOURCE: REVISTA INTERNACIONAL DE MEDICINA Y CIENCIAS DE LA ACTIVIDAD FISICA Y DEL DEPORTE 12 (46). JUN 2012. p.299-312 RED IRIS, MADRID SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; GARFIELD E JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 295:90 2006 KEYWORDS: SportDiscus; Embase; PubMed; Scopus; Web of Science; cardiology; sport; science production; bibliometrics indicators KEYWORDS+: IMPACT FACTOR; GOOGLE SCHOLAR; SCOPUS; INDICATORS; SCIENCE; WEB; INDEX ABSTRACT: The purpose has been to search through databases SportDiscus, Embase, Pubmed, Scopus and Web of Science, in 2010. Placing the document search as referring to the production lines. We searched with the terms cardi(star) and sport(star) (truncated) in the fields: title, abstract, keywords and document types of the mentioned databases. Statistical analysis was done by incorporating the data to a spreadsheet program Microsoft Excel 2010. The results allow discussing the opportunity to publish research in journals with higher quality and dissemination, and those in which your article may be cited according to indicators: FI, SJR and index h, used in citation analysis. The most commonly used language in the communication on the items of study is English. One third of the journals are open access, as opposed to payment. In addition to such consultation are complementary databases, unable to ignore any of them. AUTHOR ADDRESS: JA Martinez-Morilla, Univ Las Palmas Gran Canaria, Dept Educ Fis, Edificio Educ Fis, Las Palmas Gran Canaria, Spain ----------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: International Journal Impact Factor Modeling based on Gene Expression Programming (Article, English) AUTHOR: Zhao, YX; Zhou, HB; Li, MF SOURCE: 2010 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKING AND MOBILE COMPUTING (WICOM). 2010. p.NIL_35-NIL_38 IEEE, NEW YORK SEARCH TERM(S): IMPACT FACTOR* item_title; JOURNAL item_title KEYWORDS: International journal; impact factor; gene expression programming; JCR ABSTRACT: Academic periodical is able to manifest scientific competitiveness of one country, and also is an important manifestation form of scientific productivity. Therefore, the research on international journal impact factor modeling has certain practical significance. Based on the gene expression programming, this paper establishes nonlinear model between journal impact factor and related indexes. The model utilizes immediacy index, total cites, articles, cited half-life, issues per year, self cites and average references as the inputs, and takes impact factor as the output. This paper mainly chooses the academic journals of China in 2008 as experimental data that are embodied by Journal Citation Reports. The experimental results show that impact factor is positively related to immediacy index, total cites and average references, and is negatively related to articles and cited half-life, and nearly has nothing to do with issues per year and self cites. AUTHOR ADDRESS: YX Zhao, Wuhan Univ Technol, Sch Comp Sci & Technol, Wuhan 430070, Peoples R China -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Zipf-law: A Measurement study of Geographical Distribution of Peers in BitTorrent Swarms (Article, English) AUTHOR: Yu, LD; Chen, M SOURCE: 2010 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKING AND MOBILE COMPUTING (WICOM). 2010. p.NIL_312-NIL_315 IEEE, NEW YORK SEARCH TERM(S): ZIPF* item_title KEYWORDS: BitTorrent swarms; geographical distribution; locality; network measurement; Zipf ABSTRACT: In the past few years, many locality-based approaches have been proposed to reduce cross-ISPs traffic caused by BitTorrent (BT). However, most of these approaches have taken such an assumption that there are always plenty of peers in client's neighborhood, which results in inefficiently reducing cross-ISPs traffic. In this paper, we study the characteristics of geographical distribution of peers in BT swarms. By measuring and analyzing more than 2 000. torrent file swarms of BT in 5-month, the geographical distributions of peers is found to follow Zipf-like law both in country level and AS level. More specifically, the distributions of peers exhibit a non-Zipf head, but Zipf tail. Our work shows that the characteristics of geographical distributions of peers can be used to better understand and answer questions related to traffic optimization of BT. AUTHOR ADDRESS: LD Yu, PLA Univ Sci & Technol, Dept Comp, Nanjing, Jiangsu, Peoples R China ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The impact of case reports in oral and maxillofacial surgery (Article, English) AUTHOR: Nabil, S; Samman, N SOURCE: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY 41 (7). JUL 2012. p.789-796 CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE, EDINBURGH SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; GARFIELD E JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 295:90 2006 KEYWORDS: case report; citation; impact factor; oral and maxillofacial surgery KEYWORDS+: SCIENTIFIC-KNOWLEDGE; CASE SERIES; COMPLICATION; NECROSIS; HISTORY; RARE ABSTRACT: This review examines the effect of publishing case reports on journal impact factor and future research. All case reports published in the four major English language oral and maxillofacial surgery journals in the two year period, 2007-2008, were searched manually. The citation data of each case report were retrieved from the ISI online database. The number, percentage and mean citations received by case reports and their relation to the 2009 journal impact factor were analysed. Case reports which received more than 5 citations were also identified and all of the citing articles retrieved and analysed. Thirty- one percent of all articles published in major oral and maxillofacial journals in 2007-2008 were case reports. Case reports had a low citation rate with a mean citation of less than 1. There were 38 (7.2%) case reports with more than 5 citations and 30% of the citing articles were also case reports. The publication of case reports negatively affected journal impact factor which correlated directly with the percentage of case reports published within a journal. Case reports reporting recent topics, describing new treatment/diagnosis method and with a literature review were more likely to receive citations. AUTHOR ADDRESS: N Samman, Prince Philip Dent Hosp, 34 Hosp Rd, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Peoples R China ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Disambiguating authors in citations on the web and authorship correlations (Article, English) AUTHOR: Peng, HT; Lu, CY; Hsu, W; Ho, JM SOURCE: EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS 39 (12). SEP 15 2012. p.10521-10532 PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, OXFORD SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS: Author name disambiguation; Citation analysis; Web correlation; Authorship correlation ABSTRACT: Members of the academic community have increasingly turned to digital libraries to search for the latest work of their peers. On account of their role in the academic community, it is very important that these digital libraries collect citations in a consistent, accurate, and up-to-date manner, yet they do not correctly compile citations for myriads of authors for various reasons including authors with the same name, a problem known as the "name ambiguity problem." This problem occurs when multiple authors share the same name and particularly when names are simplified as in cases where names merely contain the first initial and the last name. This paper proposes a reliable and accurate pair-wise similarities approach to disambiguate names using supervised classification on Web correlations and authorship correlations. This approach makes use of Web correlations among citations assuming citations that co-refer on publication lists on the Web should to refer to the same author. This approach also makes use of authorship correlations assuming citations with the same rare author name refer to the same author, and furthermore, citations with the same full names of authors or e-mail addresses likely refer to the same author. These two types of correlations are measured in our approach using pair-wise similarity metrics. In addition, a binary classifier, as part of supervised classification, is applied to label matching pairs of citations using pair-wise similarity metrics, and these labels are then used to group citations into different clusters such that each cluster represents an individual author. Results show our approach greatly improves upon the name disambiguation accuracy and performance of other proposed approaches, especially in some name clusters with high degree of ambiguity. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: CY Lu, Acad Sinica, Inst Informat Sci, Taipei, Taiwan -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Assessing the scientific productivity of Italian forest researchers using the Web of Science, SCOPUS and SCIMAGO databases (Article, English) AUTHOR: Chirici, G SOURCE: IFOREST-BIOGEOSCIENCES AND FORESTRY 5. MAY 30 2012. p.101-107 SISEF-SOC ITALIANA SELVICOLTURA ECOL FORESTALE, POTENZA SEARCH TERM(S): MACROBERTS MH rauth; HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 122:108 1955; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 178:471 1972 KEYWORDS: Scientific Evaluation; SCOPUS; Web of Science; Google Scholar; SCIMAGO KEYWORDS+: GOOGLE-SCHOLAR; RESEARCH PERFORMANCE; CITATION ANALYSIS; IMPACT; ASSOCIATION; INDICATORS; INDEXES; COUNTS ABSTRACT: For long time a quantitative assessment of the productivity of Italian researchers has been lacking; the first and unique assessment was the Three-Year Research Evaluation for the period 2001-2003. Italian Law 240/2010, ruling the organization of research and universities, requires a system for the evaluation of the scientific productivity of Italian researchers. In 2011, both the National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes (ANVUR) and the National University Council (CUN) proposed a set of evaluation criteria based on a bibliometric approach with indexes calculated using the information from the Thomson Reuters Web of Science (WOS) or the Elsevier SciVerse SCOPUS databases. The aim of this study is twofold: (i) to present the results of an assessment of the global aggregated scientific productivity of the Italian forestry community for 1996-2010 using the SCOPUS data available from the on-line SCIMAGO system; and (ii) to compare the WOS and SCOPUS databases with respect to three indexes (number of publications, number of citations, h-index) of the scientific productivity for university forest researchers in Italy. Two subcategories of forestry were considered: AGR05 - forest management and silviculture, and AGR06 - wood technology. Out of a total of 84 authors, 76 were considered in the analysis because not affected by unresolved homonymity or duplication. Overall, the trend in scientific productivity for Italian forestry is promising. Italy ranked 10(th) in terms of the h- index with an increasing trend in importance relative to other European countries, though the scientific contribution of authors was largely heterogeneous. Both WOS and SCOPUS databases were suitable sources of information for evaluating the scientific productivity of Italian authors. Although the two databases did not produce meaningful differences for any of the three indexes, the advantages and disadvantages of the two sources must be carefully considered if used operationally to evaluate the Italian scientific productivity. AUTHOR ADDRESS: G Chirici, Univ Molise, ECOGEOFOR Lab Ecol & Geomat Forestale, Dipartimento SBioscenze & Terr, Cda Fonte Lappone Snc, I-86090 Pesche, Isernia, Italy -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From katy at INDIANA.EDU Fri Jul 20 14:42:59 2012 From: katy at INDIANA.EDU (Katy Borner) Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 14:42:59 -0400 Subject: VIVO Conference 2012 - Preliminary Conference Agenda Now Available In-Reply-To: <1110521102208.1103255371082.74.1.4513500A@scheduler.constantcontact.com> Message-ID: Please find below the VIVO Conference 2012 Preliminary Agenda. The Conference also features workshops on topics such as * Survey of VIVO Data Ingest Methods * VIVO Visualizations: Design and Usage * How to customize your VIVO: case studies of ontology, theme, and code extensions and how to share back to the community * VIVO Data Integrity and Maintenance by Example * OpenSocial Workshop * Unifying Researcher Profile and Research Resource Information * Building Global Science Collaboratories The VIVO Book will debut at the Conference. k ** *VIVO Book Announcement* VIVO Book Cover *VIVO: A Semantic Approach to Scholarly Networking and Discovery * Published on July 12, 2012, /VIVO: A Semantic Approach to Scholarly Networking and Discovery / provides an introduction to VIVO, a tool for representing information about research and researchers - their scholarly works, research interests, and organizational relationships. By the end of 2012, over twenty countries and fifty organizations will provide information in VIVO format on more than one million researchers and research staff, including publications, research resources, events, funding, courses taught, and other scholarly activity. The rapid growth of VIVO and of VIVO-compatible data sources speaks to the fundamental need to transform scholarship for the twenty-first century. A ubiquitious, open information infrastructure for scholarship, consisting of linked open data, open-source software tools, and a community committed to sustainability are emerging to meet the needs of scholars today. Meet the authors during the 3rd Annual VIVO Conference. VIVO 2012 *3rd Annual VIVO Conference* August 22 - 24 InterContinental, Miami ** *Upcoming Deadlines* *TODAY, JULY 20:* InterContinental Room Block Ends ($129/night) *Tuesday, July 31: *Regular Registration Ends (Late Registration $550) ** *Conference Website * *Online Registration * *InterContinental Hotel Reservations * *Conference Workshops * *Call for Apps *(submissions due July 31) *VIVO Conference Sponsors * ** *Preliminary Conference Agenda* *Preliminary Conference Agenda - now available! * The *preliminary conference agenda * includes dates and times for major program highlights, including keynote presentations, invited speakers, Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions, lightning rounds, poolside welcome reception and this year's poster session and networking event. Due to the overwhelming popularity from last year's VIVO conference, we are adding even more time for networking opportunities during the conference, including BOF sessions and lightning round presentations during the lunch breaks on Thursday and Friday. Bring your slides and be prepared to give a 5 minute talk on your topic of choice. This is a perfect opportunity to talk about preliminary results or an area of interest that complements the many themes presented during the scientific sessions and poster presentations at the conference. Sign-up sheets will be available at the registration desk. A complete schedule of this year's conference program will be available soon, stay tuned! ** *Program Highlights* Thanks to the numerous scientific contributions and strong community support, the 3^rd Annual VIVO Conference program promises to be one of the strongest yet. Program highlights include: * *Three broad conference themes and session tracks:* oCollaboration, Culture, Science oOntology oStandards/Technical * *Strong community representation from:* oInternational Projects and Collaborations oClinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSAs) oVIVO Implementers oPeople new to VIVO oUS Federal Government * *Even more networking opportunities!* oPoolside Welcome Reception and Networking Event/(Wednesday, Aug 22)/ oPoster Session and Networking Reception/(Thursday, Aug 23)/ oBirds of a Feather (BOF) sessions/(Thursday and Friday)/ oLightning Rounds/(Thursday and Friday)/ o30-minute program breaks throughout the conference o2-hour lunches *Miami Eco-Tourism * Fairchild Tropical Gardens The Kampong Garden Vizcaya Museum & Gardens Flamingo Gardens Key West Ft. Lauderdale Beaches Biscayne National Park Bill Baggs State Park Venetian Pool Key West Aquarium -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Source: RHEUMATOLOGY INTERNATIONAL, 32 (7):1861-1867; 10.1007/s00296-011-2276-1 JUL 2012 Language: English Document Type: Review Author Keywords: Bibliometrics, Periodicals as topic, Impact factor, h-Index, Biomedical journals, Rheumatology KeyWords Plus: ANGEWANDTE-CHEMIE; CITATION-INDEX; SCIENCE; HISTORY; QUALITY; EDITORS Abstract: The highly popular journal *impact factor* (JIF) is an average measure of citations within 1 year after the publication of a journal as a whole within the two preceding years. It is widely used as a proxy of a journal's quality and scientific prestige. This article discusses misuses of JIF to assess impact of separate journal articles and the effect of several manuscript versions on JIF. It also presents some newer alternative journal metrics such as SCImago Journal Rank and the h-index and analyses examples of their application in several subject categories. Reprint Address: Gasparyan, AY (reprint author), Dudley Grp NHS Fdn Trust, Clin Res Unit, Dept Rheumatol, Russells Hall Hosp, Dudley DY1 2HQ, W Midlands, England Addresses: [Gasparyan, Armen Yuri; Kitas, George D.] Dudley Grp NHS Fdn Trust, Clin Res Unit, Dept Rheumatol, Russells Hall Hosp, Dudley DY1 2HQ, W Midlands, England [Bornmann, Lutz] Max Planck Gesell, Munich, Germany [Marx, Werner] Max Planck Inst Solid State Res, Stuttgart, Germany [Kitas, George D.] Univ Manchester, Arthrit Res UK Epidemiol Unit, Manchester, Lancs, England E-mail Address: a.gasparyan at gmail.com Cited Reference Count: 49 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: SPRINGER HEIDELBERG, TIERGARTENSTRASSE 17, D-69121 HEIDELBERG, GERMANY ISSN: 0172-8172 Web of Science Category: Rheumatology Subject Area: Rheumatology IDS Number: 964FZ Unique ID: WOS:000305680700001 Cited References: Moed HF, 1996, SCIENTOMETRICS, V37, P105 Metze Konradin, 2010, CLINICS, V65, P937 Marx W, 2001, ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION, V40, P139 Gasparyan Armen Yuri, 2009, ARCHIVES OF MEDICAL SCIENCE, V5, P1 Rossner Mike, 2008, JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE, V205, P260 Caramelli B, 2010, Eur Sci Ed, V36, P38 Satyanarayana K, 2010, Indian journal of physiology and pharmacology, V54, P197 Bornmann L, 2011, Eur Sci Ed, V37, P77 Golubic Rajna, 2008, SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ETHICS, V14, P41 Braun Tibor, 2006, SCIENTOMETRICS, V69, P169 Dimitrov Jordan D., 2010, NATURE, V466, P179 Rossner Mike, 2007, JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY, V179, P1091 Bornmann Lutz, 2009, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, P1471 Chen Min, 2011, RHEUMATOLOGY INTERNATIONAL, V31, P1611 Brown Hannah, 2007, BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL, V334, P561 Kanter Steven L., 2009, ACADEMIC MEDICINE, V84, P1169 Gonzalez-Pereira Borja, 2010, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V4, P379 Tomlinson S, 2000, BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL, V320, P636 Kovacic Natasa, 2008, CROATIAN MEDICAL JOURNAL, V49, P12 Gonzalez Lidia, 2007, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V58, P252 Gasparyan AY, 2011, European Science Editing, V37, P66 Gasparyan Armen Yuri, 2010, Inflammation & Allergy Drug Targets, V9, P2 Hirsch JE, 2005, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V102, P16569 Rieder Simon, 2010, LANGENBECKS ARCHIVES OF SURGERY, V395, PS57 Bornmann Lutz, 2011, SCIENTOMETRICS, V86, P93 Fersht Alan, 2009, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V106, P6883 Habibzadeh Farrokh, 2008, ARCHIVES OF IRANIAN MEDICINE, V11, P453 Falagas Matthew E., 2008, FASEB JOURNAL, V22, P2623 Archambault Eric, 2009, SCIENTOMETRICS, V79, P635 Bornmann Lutz, 2007, CHIMIA, V61, P104 Bornmann Luti, 2008, JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION, V64, P45 Gasparyan Armen Yuri, 2011, CROATIAN MEDICAL JOURNAL, V52, P423 Adler Robert, 2009, STATISTICAL SCIENCE, V24, P1 Habibzadeh Farrokh, 2011, CROATIAN MEDICAL JOURNAL, V52, P212 Hoeffel C, 1998, ALLERGY, V53, P1225 Bornmann Lutz, 2009, EMBO REPORTS, V10, P2 Licinio J, 2006, MOLECULAR PSYCHIATRY, V11, P324 Oswald Andrew J., 2007, ECONOMICA, V74, P21 Togia A., 2006, International Journal of Educational Research, V45, P362 Krell Frank-Thorsten, 2010, LEARNED PUBLISHING, V23, P59 Retzer Vroni, 2009, BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY, V10, P393 Seglen PO, 1997, BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL, V314, P498 Bergstrom Carl T., 2008, JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE, V28, P11433 Frey Bruno S., 2010, JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECONOMICS, V13, P1 Garfield E, 2006, JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, V295, P90 2007, Eur Sci Ed, V33, P99 Mathur Vijay Prakash, 2009, Indian journal of dental research : official publication of Indian Society for Dental Research, V20, P81 Poschl U, 2004, LEARNED PUBLISHING, V17, P105 Rizkallah Jacques, 2010, PLOS ONE, V5, ==================================================================== Title: Assessment of caries experience in epidemiological surveys: a review Authors: Agbaje, JO; Lesaffre, E; Declerck, D Author Full Names: Agbaje, J. O.; Lesaffre, E.; Declerck, D. Source: COMMUNITY DENTAL HEALTH, 29 (1):14-20; 10.1922/CDH_2668-Olubanwo06 MAR 2012 Language: English Document Type: Review Author Keywords: caries experience, epidemiology, methodological aspects KeyWords Plus: EXTERNAL VALIDITY; CLINICAL-TRIALS; DENTAL-CARIES; GUIDELINES; IMPROVEMENT; STATEMENT; STANDARDS; SQUIRE Abstract: Objectives: To review aspects of methods for assessing caries experience (CE) in epidemiological surveys. Method: A search of English language literature published between January 2000 and December 2008 was undertaken using 'epidemiology', 'dental caries' and 'assessment' as search terms. Information on criteria for CE assessment, materials and settings, diagnostic threshold, training of examiners and validation of the screening results was extracted from the reports. Results: Eighty-nine reports met the inclusion criteria. In 9 of the reports (10%) no reference was made to existing standardisation criteria for assessment of CE. Light condition applied (60 reports, 67%) and the use of a probe (60 reports, 67%) were frequently reported. Most reports mentioned that training and calibration of examiners took place, but the outcome of reliability checks were often not presented (48 reports, 54%). Only 28 of the reports (32%) specified that cleaning took place before the examinat! ion. Journals with *Impact Factor* (IF) provided specific information on methods more frequently than journals without. The WHO Basic Methods for Oral Health Surveys were most often applied (52 surveys, 58%). However, deviations from the original description were found especially for measurement and reporting of reliability measurement (24, 46% and 29, 56% respectively), type of probe used (27, 52%) and light condition (16, 31%). All of these hamper the (external) validity of the obtained results. Conclusions: There is a clear need for improvement of the reporting and application of methods for assessing CE in epidemiological surveys. A check-list of aspects of methods to be included in reports of surveys assessing CE is proposed by the authors. Reprint Address: Agbaje, JO (reprint author), Katholieke Univ Leuven, Dept Conservat Dent, Sch Dent Oral Pathol & Maxillofacial Surg, Kapucijnenvoer 7,Blok Bus 7001, B-3000 Louvain, Belgium Addresses: [Agbaje, J. O.; Declerck, D.] Katholieke Univ Leuven, Dept Conservat Dent, Sch Dent Oral Pathol & Maxillofacial Surg, B-3000 Louvain, Belgium [Lesaffre, E.] Erasmus Univ, Dept Biostat, Erasmus Med Ctr, Rotterdam, Netherlands E-mail Address: joagbaje at gmail.com Cited Reference Count: 22 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: F D I WORLD DENTAL PRESS LTD, 5 BATTERY GREEN RD, LOWESTOFT NR32 1 DE, SUFFOLK, ENGLAND ISSN: 0265-539X Web of Science Category: Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine Subject Area: Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine IDS Number: 963IG Unique ID: WOS:000305613100004 Cited References: Slack MK, 2001, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HEALTH-SYSTEM PHARMACY, V58, P2173 Needleman I., 2008, JOURNAL OF DENTAL RESEARCH, V87, P894 Thomson R. G., 2008, QUALITY & SAFETY IN HEALTH CARE, V17, P10 Davidoff Frank, 2009, BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL, V338, von Elm Erik, 2008, REVISTA ESPANOLA DE SALUD PUBLICA, V82, P251 Kassawara Ariana Bellotto Correa, 2007, Oral health & preventive dentistry, V5, P137 HINTZE H, 1994, DENTOMAXILLOFACIAL RADIOLOGY, V23, P19 1997, Oral health surveys: basic methods, Assaf AV, 2004, COMMUNITY DENTISTRY AND ORAL EPIDEMIOLOGY, V32, P418 Ismail A I, 2004, Journal of dental research, V83 Spec No C, PC56 Hill CL, 2002, JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY, V55, P783 Charland Robert, 2002, The New York state dental journal, V68, P38 Wenzel A., 2004, Journal of Dental Research, V83, PC72 Poorterman JHG, 1999, COMMUNITY DENTISTRY AND ORAL EPIDEMIOLOGY, V27, P331 Pitts N B, 2001, Journal of dental education, V65, P972 Bossuyt P M, 2003, Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde, V147, P336 MacPherson Hugh, 2010, ACUPUNCTURE IN MEDICINE, V28, P83 Ferguson L, 2004, JOURNAL OF NURSING SCHOLARSHIP, V36, P16 Pitts Nigel, 2004, Community dental health, V21, P193 Pitts N B, 1997, Community dental health, V14 Suppl 1, P6 Twycross A., 2005, Paediatric Nursing, V17, P43 Fyffe HE, 2000, COMMUNITY DENTISTRY AND ORAL EPIDEMIOLOGY, V28, P42 From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Fri Jul 20 14:54:12 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:54:12 +0000 Subject: Papers of possible interest to Sig Metrics readers Message-ID: - TITLE: Quantitative analysis of quality management literature published in total quality management and business excellence (1996-2010) (Article, English) AUTHOR: Lo, QQ; Chai, KH SOURCE: TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT & BUSINESS EXCELLENCE 23 (5-6 SP ISS). 2012. p.629-651 ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, ABINGDON SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973 KEYWORDS: quality management; bibliometrics KEYWORDS+: INTELLECTUAL STRUCTURE; PERFORMANCE ABSTRACT: The purpose of this paper is to investigate core themes in the quality management research area through a quantitative analysis of research papers published in the journal Total Quality Management and Business Excellence. The study analyses the bibliographies in the published papers in addition to conventional literature reviews. The methodologies applied include bibliometrics and social network techniques. The analysis shows relationships between different publications and the developments over three periods. Core research themes are found to be service quality measurement, customer satisfaction, total quality management (TQM) implementation and effects. Emerging themes are also identified and include establishing customer relations and perceived quality of service, quality cost, comparison studies and empirical studies of TQM effects. The development of the research themes over the three pre-defined periods is also discussed. AUTHOR ADDRESS: KH Chai, Natl Univ Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 119260, Singapore -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Books as a knowledge translation mechanism: citation analysis and author survey (Article, English) AUTHOR: Serenko, A; Bontis, N; Moshonsky, M SOURCE: JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT 16 (3). 2012. p.495-511 EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED, BINGLEY SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth; CITATION item_title; CITATION ANALYS* item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS: Knowledge management; Intellectual capital; Relevance; Academic research; Citation analysis; Scientometrics KEYWORDS+: BUSINESS SCHOOLS; PRACTICAL RELEVANCE; MANAGEMENT RESEARCH; ACADEMIC JOURNALS; SCHOLARLY BOOKS; RANKING; SEARCH ABSTRACT: Purpose - As a response to the claims that much of management academic research is irrelevant from the practitioner perspective, this study aims to empirically investigate whether books serve as effective knowledge distribution agents and whether peer- reviewed publications are used in the development of book content. Design/methodology/approach - A citation analysis of 40 authored and nine edited books was done, followed by a survey of 35 book authors. Findings - This study refutes the previous claims that management academic research has made little impact on the state of practice. Peer- reviewed sources, such as refereed journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings, are used to develop the content of knowledge management and intellectual capital (KM/IC) books. Even though most business professionals do not directly read academic articles, the knowledge existing in these articles is delivered to them by means of books and textbooks. Practical implications - Scholarly research has played a significant role in developing the KM/IC field. This study confirms the existence of the indirect knowledge dissemination channels where books serve as knowledge transmission agents. Therefore, academics should not change their research behavior. Instead, infrastructure should be developed to facilitate the transition of scholarly knowledge to practitioners. The question is not whether academic research is relevant, instead it is whether it reaches practitioners in the most efficient way Originality/value - This is the most comprehensive empirical investigation of the role of books in academic knowledge transition ever conducted. AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Serenko, Lakehead Univ, Fac Business Adm, Thunder Bay, ON P7B 5E1, Canada From s.haustein at FZ-JUELICH.DE Mon Jul 23 04:35:57 2012 From: s.haustein at FZ-JUELICH.DE (Stefanie Haustein) Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:35:57 +0200 Subject: Multidimensional Journal Evaluation: Analyzing Scientific Periodicals beyond the Impact Factor Message-ID: Dear colleagues, for those of you who are interested, my thesis got published at De Gruyter and is now available in print or as an ebook: Haustein, S. (2012): Multidimensional Journal Evaluation. Analyzing Scientific Periodicals beyond the Impact Factor, Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter Saur. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110255553 http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/129246?format=G I compared and summarized different aspects of evaluating scholarly journals including old and new citation-based indicators (e.g., SNIP, fractional-counted IF), downloads and alternative methods to measure journal usage (e.g. social bookmarking and tagging), rejection rates and publication delay, and focused on the different user groups of journal evaluation: readers, authors, librarians and editors/publishers. Kind regards, Stefanie Haustein -- Dr. Stefanie Haustein Forschungszentrum J?lich Zentralbibliothek 52425 J?lich Tel: 02461 616198 Fax: 02461 616103 web: www.fz-juelich.de/zb/bibliometrie mail: s.haustein at fz-juelich.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH 52425 Juelich Sitz der Gesellschaft: Juelich Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Dueren Nr. HR B 3498 Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: MinDir Dr. Karl Eugen Huthmacher Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr. Achim Bachem (Vorsitzender), Karsten Beneke (stellv. Vorsitzender), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Bolt, Prof. Dr. Sebastian M. 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Submissions in any area of metrics research will be accepted for review. The workshop is envisioned as a combination of short presentations and open discussion. SIG/MET is the Special Interest Group for the measurement of information production and use. It encourages the development and networking of all those interested in the measurement of information. It encompasses not only bibliometrics, scientometrics, informetrics and webometrics , but also measurement of the Web and the Internet, applications running on these platforms, and metrics related to network analysis, visualization, and scholarly communication. The workshop is endorsed by the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI) and sponsored by Elsevier. /Submissions / Submissions should be in the form of two-page extended abstracts or position papers (up to 1000 words excluding references, tables, and figures). A structured abstract is preferred, but not required. 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Juli 2012 11:18 > An: 'sigmetrics at listserv.utk.edu' > Betreff: Bibliometrics Ph.D. student position availablle in Cologne, Germany > > > > Bibliometrics Ph.D. student position available in Cologne, Germany > > > > GESIS, the Leibniz Institute for the (German) Social Sciences, is looking for a Ph.D. student with a research interest in the general area of bibliometrics and scientometrics (detailed job add attached) to strengthen its new research focus in scientometric studies of the social sciences. We are looking for someone with a Master?s degree (or equivalent) in Information and/or Computer Science, or for someone with an excellent Master?s degree (or equivalent) in an empirical social science and with skills in statistics and computing (e.g., with R programming). > > > > The 4-year position is paid as a 75% FTE entry-level staff scientist according to the German public service salary scale. Excellent German language skills are required for this position, as conducting scientometric studies of the German-language social sciences is among the main tasks in this position. The Institute boasts a highly interdisciplinary research and research infrastructure environment, and this position will provide excellent opportunities to interact with its full range of scientists and professionals. It is located in the very center of Cologne, Germany, within easy walking distance from its main travel, tourist, and shopping facilities. > > > > Please forward this announcement to possible candidates, and to those who might know of possible candidates for this position. The application deadline is August 5th, 2012. > > > > Many thanks and best regards, > > > > -- Andreas Strotmann, Ph.D. > > Senior Researcher ; Team Lead, Information Services > > Andreas.Strotmann at gesis.org -- +49-221-47694-221 > > -- Fereshteh Didegah PhD. Student at Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group STech, UOW, UK f.didegah at wlv.ac.uk ** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maryasadi2008 at GMAIL.COM Wed Jul 25 00:35:37 2012 From: maryasadi2008 at GMAIL.COM (maryam asadi) Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 09:05:37 +0430 Subject: Correction: Bibliometrics Ph.D. student position availablle in Cologne, Germany In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi, It is a good position. unfortunately, Germany language is a limitation. best regards Maryam On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 3:48 AM, Fereshteh Didegah wrote: > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html Salam > Shayad emaile zir ro dide bashid. Kheily positione khubie wali inke zabane > almani bedunid ye kam jaleb nist! > > Best > F > > > On Thursday, July 19, 2012, Strotmann, Andreas < > Andreas.Strotmann at gesis.org> wrote: > > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > > > Correction: the application deadline for this position is August 12, > 2012 (not August 5). > > > > > > > > Best regards, > > > > > > > > -- Andreas Strotmann > > > > > > > > Von: Strotmann, Andreas > > Gesendet: Freitag, 13. Juli 2012 11:18 > > An: 'sigmetrics at listserv.utk.edu' > > Betreff: Bibliometrics Ph.D. student position availablle in Cologne, > Germany > > > > > > > > Bibliometrics Ph.D. student position available in Cologne, Germany > > > > > > > > GESIS, the Leibniz Institute for the (German) Social Sciences, is > looking for a Ph.D. student with a research interest in the general area of > bibliometrics and scientometrics (detailed job add attached) to strengthen > its new research focus in scientometric studies of the social sciences. We > are looking for someone with a Master?s degree (or equivalent) in > Information and/or Computer Science, or for someone with an excellent > Master?s degree (or equivalent) in an empirical social science and with > skills in statistics and computing (e.g., with R programming). > > > > > > > > The 4-year position is paid as a 75% FTE entry-level staff scientist > according to the German public service salary scale. Excellent German > language skills are required for this position, as conducting scientometric > studies of the German-language social sciences is among the main tasks in > this position. The Institute boasts a highly interdisciplinary research and > research infrastructure environment, and this position will provide > excellent opportunities to interact with its full range of scientists and > professionals. It is located in the very center of Cologne, Germany, within > easy walking distance from its main travel, tourist, and shopping > facilities. > > > > > > > > Please forward this announcement to possible candidates, and to those > who might know of possible candidates for this position. The application > deadline is August 5th, 2012. > > > > > > > > Many thanks and best regards, > > > > > > > > -- Andreas Strotmann, Ph.D. > > > > Senior Researcher ; Team Lead, Information Services > > > > Andreas.Strotmann at gesis.org -- +49-221-47694-221 > > > > > > -- > > Fereshteh Didegah > > PhD. Student at Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group > > STech, UOW, UK > f.didegah at wlv.ac.uk > > > > ** > > -- *Maryam **Asadi* LIS PhD Student; Head of Library and Information Services Sharif University of Technology, Central Library Member Board of Directors ILISA, the head of Public relation committee Email (committee): ilisa.prc at gmail.com * * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Thu Jul 26 17:18:05 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 21:18:05 +0000 Subject: papers of potential interest to readers of Sig Metrics Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The Structure of Scientific Articles: Applications to Citation Indexing and Summarization, by S. Teufel (Book Review, English) AUTHOR: Mercer, RE SOURCE: COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS 38 (2). JUN 2012. p.443-445 MIT PRESS, CAMBRIDGE SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title AUTHOR ADDRESS: RE Mercer, Univ Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 3K7, Canada -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Inventor networks in emerging key technologies: information technology vs. semiconductors (Article, English) AUTHOR: Graf, H SOURCE: JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY ECONOMICS 22 (3). JUL 2012. p.459-480 SPRINGER, NEW YORK SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth KEYWORDS: Knowledge relatedness; Inventor networks; Interdisciplinary research; Patents; Key technology KEYWORDS+: COLLABORATION NETWORK; KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVERS; LOCALIZED KNOWLEDGE; PATENT CITATIONS; SOCIAL-STRUCTURE; TECHNICAL CHANGE; EVOLUTION; INNOVATION; GEOGRAPHY; MOBILITY ABSTRACT: This paper analyzes the development of the German knowledge base measured by co-classifications of patents by German inventors and relate this technological development to changes in the structure of the underlying inventor networks. The central hypothesis states that technologies that become more central to the knowledge base are also characterized by a higher connectedness of the inventor network. The theoretical considerations are exemplified in a comparative study of two patenting fields-information technology and semiconductors. It turns out that information technology shows the highest increases in patents, but only a moderate move towards the center of the knowledge base. By contrast, semiconductors develops towards a key technology, despite a moderate increase in the number of patents. The dynamic analysis of inventor networks in both fields shows an increasing connectedness and the emergence of a large component in semiconductors, but not in information technology, which is in line with the expectations. AUTHOR ADDRESS: H Graf, Univ Jena, Sch Econ & Business Adm, Carl Zeiss Str 3, D-07743 Jena, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Gender and First Authorship of Papers in Family Medicine Journals 2006-2008 (Article, English) AUTHOR: Schrager, S; Bouwkamp, C; Mundt, M SOURCE: FAMILY MEDICINE 43 (3). MAR 2011. p.155-159 SOC TEACHERS FAMILY MEDICINE, LEAWOOD KEYWORDS+: 35-YEAR PERSPECTIVE; FEMALE AUTHORSHIP; ACADEMIC MEDICINE; 3 DECADES; WOMEN; REPRESENTATION; FACULTY; TRENDS; GAP ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Despite increasing numbers of women attending medical school and completing residencies, women continue to lag behind men in academic achievement. Other specialties have found that women publish fewer journal articles than men. While family medicine is becoming increasingly gender balanced, the aim of this study was to evaluate the gender balance of published material within family medicine journals. METHODS: All original articles were reviewed in five family medicine journals published in the United States (Family Medicine, Journal of Family Practice, Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, Annals of Family Medicine, and American Family Physician) between 2006-2008. The articles were categorized based on type of publication and gender of first author. The editorial boards of each of the journals were examined to determine gender breakdown. RESULTS: A total of 2,126 articles were included in the study. Females were first author on 712 (33.5%) of the articles, and males authored 1,414 (66.5%). There was no significant difference between years. More female authors wrote original research, and fewer wrote letters to the editor. Only Family Medicine had gender parity on its editorial board. CONCLUSIONS: Female authors wrote about a third of all original publications in family medicine journals between 2006-2009 even though they comprise 44% of the faculty. Further research can evaluate reasons for this gender disparity. (Fam Med 2011;43(3):155-9.) AUTHOR ADDRESS: S Schrager, Univ Wisconsin, Sch Med & Publ Hlth, Dept Family Med, 777 S Mills St, Madison, WI 53715 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: From presentation to publication: 10-year publication rates and journal impact factors from an international surgical meeting (Meeting Abstract, English) AUTHOR: Kearney, DE; Conneely, M; Kerin, MJ; Sweeney, KJ SOURCE: BRITISH JOURNAL OF SURGERY 99 (SUPPL). 2012. p.136 WILEY-BLACKWELL, HOBOKEN -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The Most Highly Cited Papers in the Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology Through the Decades (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Pierce, GN SOURCE: CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY AND PHARMACOLOGY 90 (7). JUL 2012. p.III-IV CANADIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING, NRC RESEARCH PRESS, OTTAWA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Measuring Knowledge (Article, English) AUTHOR: Reyes-Alcazar, V; Romero-Tabares, A; Torres-Olivera, A SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 8TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL, KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND ORGANISATIONAL LEARNING, VOLS 1 AND 2. 2011. p.845-849 ACAD CONFERENCES LTD, NR READING SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E BRIT MED J 313:411 1996; GARFIELD E CAN MED ASSOC J 161:979 1999 KEYWORDS: quality; knowledge management; balanced scorecard; synthetic index of scientific production KEYWORDS+: IMPACT ABSTRACT: Today, the main asset of organizations no longer resides only in its tangible value, but also in intellectual capital. This asset is a new value that cannot be recorded on the company balance sheet; however, it does grant a competitive advantage over other organizations. Thus, the management of intangible assets (organizational and strategic processes based on knowledge) now characterizes organizations focused on excellence. This article presents a synthetic index of scientific knowledge production that has been incorporated into the strategic management system of a public organization with the mission of improving healthcare quality. The synthetic index of scientific production (SPI - Scientific Production Index) is made up of three specific variables, two weighting factors and one independent variable. There are three specific variables: (1) Number of Articles published in scientific journals, (2) Number of Abstracts accepted for conferences and (3) Number of Research Projects financed. The weighting factor that affects the authorship attempts to encourage collaborative work. The geographical weighting factor is aligned with the strategic vision of becoming a leader organization and a model for other institutions. The incorporation of a synthetic indicator of scientific production in the Balanced Scorecard reinforces the link of the Learning and Growth perspective under the knowledge management approach. From amsciforum at GMAIL.COM Tue Jul 31 10:02:48 2012 From: amsciforum at GMAIL.COM (Stevan Harnad) Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:02:48 -0400 Subject: Online Academic Abuses and the Power of Openness: Naming & Shaming Message-ID: Sorry for the long delay in replying to this. I missed it, and it has just been drawn to my attention: On 10 April 2012 Gustaf Nelhans wrote: Dear Professor Harnad, > I believe that it is not always easy to identify the motives behind > specific instances of self references (although in the case at hand, the > number of mutual citations identified seem to speak for themselves?). The > practice of self citation is (as you acknowledge) not in itself a bad > thing, but the problem is how to distinguish its legitimate use from its > abuse. Agreed. And in fact the outcome of tests comparing rankings and correlation patterns based on total citation counts, and citation counts minus self-citations tend to be very similar. Nevertheless, looking at individuals with or without self-citations and comparing them to the population norms can raise a red flag which can then be examined manually. This is equally valid on the individual level as in editor-suggested > references. I would like to draw into attention an exchange about these > matters from 1997, where Eugene Garfield stated: > ?Recognising the reality of the Matthew effect, I believe that an editor > is justified in reminding authors to cite equivalent references from the > same journal, if only because readers of that journal presumably have ready > access to it. To call this ?manipulation? seems excessive unless the > references chosen are irrelevant or mere window dressing.? (Garfield, Eugene. > 1997. Editors are justified in asking authors to cite equivalent references > from same journal. *BMJ* 314 (7096):1765. > http://www.bmj.com/content/314/7096/1765.2.short ) Gene Garfield made this suggestion in 1997, before OA became a distinct possibility. In a world where the only way to access articles is if your institution can afford a subscription, "preferentially cite this journal" might have had an ounce of validity -- alongside the obvious pound of self-interest. But no longer today. An editor telling the author of an article to cite more articles in his journal because readers have "more access" to it is outrageous. Rather, he should tell authors to self-archive it (Green OA) if they really want to make their articles more accessible. My question is if there could exist any method of identifying ?bad > apples? that does not account for the specific context in the article in > which the reference is placed. Only in a population statistical sense. Individual anomalies flagged by the population metrics would still need to be examined manually. But automated text-analytic tools may eventually also become sensitive enough to make a contribution, sorting out some of the nature of the citation from the accompanying text, not just from the author/article/journal counts. In my understanding of the problem, the proposed way of using statistical > methods for identifying baselines for self citations in various fields > could be one important step, but I wonder if it would suffice to make the > identification process complete? It is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for answering all the kinds of questions one might have about uses and misuses of citations. In statistics there is always, and necessarily, a difference between population data and individual cases. Medical conditions are the best illustration: I have an illness. I want to be treated for my illness, and not for what, on average, works most often with people that have symptoms most like mine. (See Kahneman & Tversky on the base rate fallacy .) For citations, "bad" citations can be identified on a statistical basis, comparing two populations of citations, and perhaps even one individual's total citations as compared to the population norms, to see whether there is something anomalous (such as excess self-citation swelling the citation count). But it won't tell you whether an individual citation is good or bad. It is possible to develop and apply automated text-analytic algorithms to the text surrounding a citation, to try to predict whether it is positive or negative, and such algorithms can even be "trained up" with corrective feedback based on human evaluation of whether each individual citation was positive or negative. But it's early days for both of these, and validating statistical predictors will first take an awful lot of individual hand-validation in order to test and improve the algorithms. But for journals or individuals it is definitely possible to check computationally whether they deviate from population norms/baselines, and then look at the cases that the population anomaly detectors single out, and check them manually to see whether they are indeed cases of bad faith, legitimate practice, or just statistical anomalies. Citation cartels (and many other systematic abuses) are more detectable if the entire corpus is accessible precisely because everybody can detect them: no need to wait to see whether proprietary database owners with other interests get around to or see fit to provide the data needed to monitor and detect abuses. Global OA not only provides the open database, but it provides the (continuous) open means of flagging anomalies in the population pattern, checking them, and naming and shaming the cases where there really has been willful misuse or abuse. It's yet another potential application for crowd-sourcing. Stevan Harnad *Harnad, S. (2008) **Validating Research Performance Metrics Against Peer Rankings* *. **Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics* 8 (11) doi:10.3354/esep00088 The Use And Misuse Of Bibliometric Indices In Evaluating Scholarly Performance http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/15619/ ** *Harnad, S. (2009) **Open Access Scientometrics and the UK Research Assessment Exercise* *. Scientometrics 79 (1) *Also in *Proceedings of 11th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics* 11(1), pp. 27-33, Madrid, Spain. Torres-Salinas, D. and Moed, H. F., Eds. (2007) *Harnad, S. (2009) **Multiple metrics required to measure research performance* *. *Nature (Correspondence) 457 (785) (12 February 2009) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Tue Jul 31 13:38:54 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 17:38:54 +0000 Subject: Papers from WOS of potentialinterest to Sig Metrics readers Message-ID: Title: The impact of case reports in oral and maxillofacial surgery Authors: Nabil, S; Samman, N Author Full Names: Nabil, S.; Samman, N. Source: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY, 41 (7):789-796; 10.1016/j.ijom.2012.03.007 JUL 2012 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: case report, citation, impact factor, oral and maxillofacial surgery KeyWords Plus: SCIENTIFIC-KNOWLEDGE; CASE SERIES; COMPLICATION; NECROSIS; HISTORY; RARE Abstract: This review examines the effect of publishing case reports on journal *impact factor* and future research. All case reports published in the four major English language oral and maxillofacial surgery journals in the two year period, 2007-2008, were searched manually. The citation data of each case report were retrieved from the ISI online database. The number, percentage and mean citations received by case reports and their relation to the 2009 journal *impact factor* were analysed. Case reports which received more than 5 citations were also identified and all of the citing articles retrieved and analysed. Thirty-one percent of all articles published in major oral and maxillofacial journals in 2007-2008 were case reports. Case reports had a low citation rate with a mean citation of less than 1. There were 38 (7.2%) case reports with more than 5 citations and 30% of the citing articles were also case reports. The publication of case reports negatively affected journal *impact! factor* which correlated directly with the percentage of case reports published within a journal. Case reports reporting recent topics, describing new treatment/diagnosis method and with a literature review were more likely to receive citations. Reprint Address: Samman, N (reprint author), Prince Philip Dent Hosp, 34 Hosp Rd, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Peoples R China Addresses: [Nabil, S.] Natl Univ Malaysia, Fac Dent, Bangi, Malaysia [Samman, N.] Univ Hong Kong, Fac Dent, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Peoples R China E-mail Address: nsamman at hku.hk Cited Reference Count: 27 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE, JOURNAL PRODUCTION DEPT, ROBERT STEVENSON HOUSE, 1-3 BAXTERS PLACE, LEITH WALK, EDINBURGH EH1 3AF, MIDLOTHIAN, SCOTLAND Web of Science Category: Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine; Surgery Cited References: Nieri Michele, 2009, JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PERIODONTOLOGY, V36, P39 Gardner Nadia, 2007, BRITISH JOURNAL OF ORAL & MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY, V45, P174 Migliorati CA, 2003, JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY, V21, P4253 Pitak-Arnnop Poramate, 2011, JOURNAL OF ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY, V69, P252 Carey JC, 2006, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS PART A, V140A, P801 Carey John C., 2010, RARE DISEASES EPIDEMIOLOGY, V686, P77 Patsopoulos NA, 2005, JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, V293, P2362 1000, The Oxford 2011 levels of evidence, Lau S. L., 2007, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY, V36, P1 Garfield E, 2006, JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, V295, P90 Garfield U, 1000, The Thomson Reuters impact factor, Harbour R, 2001, BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL, V323, P334 Albrecht J, 2005, JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY, V58, P1227 Kljakovic Marjan, 2002, Australian family physician, V31, P669 Jenicek M, 2001, Clinical case reporting in evidence-based medicine, Brennan P. A., 2009, BRITISH JOURNAL OF ORAL & MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY, V47, P515 Papanas N., 2008, INTERNATIONAL ANGIOLOGY, V27, P344 Vandenbroucke JP, 2001, ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE, V134, P330 Carey John C., 2006, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS PART A, V140A, P2131 Vandenbroucke JP, 1999, JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE, V92, P159 Archambault Eric, 2009, SCIENTOMETRICS, V79, P635 Brennan P. A., 2010, BRITISH JOURNAL OF ORAL & MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY, V48, P167 D'Ascanio Luca, 2007, BRITISH JOURNAL OF ORAL & MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY, V45, P176 Sackett DL, 1996, BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL, V312, P71 Kyzas Panayiotis A., 2008, JOURNAL OF ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY, V66, P973 Marx RE, 2003, JOURNAL OF ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY, V61, P1115 Brennan P. A., 2009, BRITISH JOURNAL OF ORAL & MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY, V47, P435 ======================================================================= Title: *SCIENTIFIC* *OUTPUT* ON CARDIOLOGY AND SPORT: RANKING OF JOURNALS (2010) AND EXCELLENCE Authors: Martinez-Morilla, JA; Ruiz-Caballero, JA; Brito-Ojeda, E; Navarro-Valdivielso, ME Author Full Names: Martinez-Morilla, J. A.; Ruiz-Caballero, J. A.; Brito-Ojeda, E.; Navarro-Valdivielso, M. E. Source: REVISTA INTERNACIONAL DE MEDICINA Y CIENCIAS DE LA ACTIVIDAD FISICA Y DEL DEPORTE, 12 (46):299-312; JUN 2012 Language: Spanish Document Type: Article Author Keywords: SportDiscus, Embase, PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, cardiology, sport, science production, bibliometrics indicators KeyWords Plus: IMPACT FACTOR; GOOGLE SCHOLAR; SCOPUS; INDICATORS; SCIENCE; WEB; INDEX Abstract: The purpose has been to search through databases SportDiscus, Embase, Pubmed, Scopus and Web of Science, in 2010. Placing the document search as referring to the production lines. We searched with the terms cardi(star) and sport(star) (truncated) in the fields: title, abstract, keywords and document types of the mentioned databases. Statistical analysis was done by incorporating the data to a spreadsheet program Microsoft Excel 2010. The results allow discussing the opportunity to publish research in journals with higher quality and dissemination, and those in which your article may be cited according to indicators: FI, SJR and index h, used in citation analysis. The most commonly used language in the communication on the items of study is English. One third of the journals are open access, as opposed to payment. In addition to such consultation are complementary databases, unable to ignore any of them. Reprint Address: Martinez-Morilla, JA (reprint author), Univ Las Palmas Gran Canaria, Dept Educ Fis, Edificio Educ Fis, Las Palmas Gran Canaria, Spain Addresses: [Martinez-Morilla, J. A.; Ruiz-Caballero, J. A.; Brito-Ojeda, E.; Navarro-Valdivielso, M. E.] Univ Las Palmas Gran Canaria, Dept Educ Fis, Las Palmas Gran Canaria, Spain E-mail Address: jmartinez at pas.ulpgc.es; jruiz at def.ulpgc.es; ebrito at def.ulpgc.es; mnavarro at def.ulpgc.es Cited Reference Count: 21 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: RED IRIS, EDIF BRONCE, PLAZA DE MANUEL GOMEZ MORENO, S-N 2A PLANTA, MADRID, 28020, SPAIN Web of Science Category: Sport Sciences Cited References: Garfield E, 2006, JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, V295, P90 Falagas Matthew E., 2008, FASEB JOURNAL, V22, P2623 Braun Tibor, 2006, SCIENTOMETRICS, V69, P169 Woods D, 1998, BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL, V316, P1166 Camps Diego, 2008, COLOMBIA MEDICA, V39, P74 Bjork Bo-Christer, 2010, PLOS ONE, V5, Torres-Salinas Daniel, 2010, PROFESIONAL DE LA INFORMACION, V19, P201 Dong Peng, 2005, Biomedical digital libraries, V2, P7 Jacso P, 2004, ONLINE, V28, P51 Aleixandre-Benavent Rafael, 2007, PROFESIONAL DE LA INFORMACION, V16, P4 Meneghini Rogerio, 2007, EMBO REPORTS, V8, P112 Kulkarni Abhaya V., 2009, JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, V302, P1092 Bollen J, 2009, A principal component analysis of 39 scientific impact measures, Saharan VA, 2008, RPS, V3, P1 Hirsch JE, 2005, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V102, P16569 Bordons M, 1999, REVISTA ESPANOLA DE CARDIOLOGIA, V52, P790 De Moya-Anegon Felix, 2007, SCIENTOMETRICS, V73, P53 Meho Lokman I., 2007, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V58, P2105 Lawrence DW, 1998, Inj Prev, V14, P401 Scimago G., 2007, El profesional de la informacion, V16, P645 Alfonso Fernando, 2010, Endocrinologia y nutricion : organo de la Sociedad Espanola de Endocrinologia y Nutricion, V57, P110 ======================================================================= Title: Assessing the *scientific* productivity of Italian forest researchers using the Web of Science, SCOPUS and SCIMAGO databases Authors: Chirici, G Author Full Names: Chirici, Gherardo Source: IFOREST-BIOGEOSCIENCES AND FORESTRY, 5 101-107; 10.3832/ifor0613-005 MAY 30 2012 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Scientific Evaluation, SCOPUS, Web of Science, Google Scholar, SCIMAGO KeyWords Plus: GOOGLE-SCHOLAR; RESEARCH PERFORMANCE; CITATION ANALYSIS; IMPACT; ASSOCIATION; INDICATORS; INDEXES; COUNTS Abstract: For long time a quantitative assessment of the productivity of Italian researchers has been lacking; the first and unique assessment was the Three-Year Research Evaluation for the period 2001-2003. Italian Law 240/2010, ruling the organization of research and universities, requires a system for the evaluation of the scientific productivity of Italian researchers. In 2011, both the National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes (ANVUR) and the National University Council (CUN) proposed a set of evaluation criteria based on a bibliometric approach with indexes calculated using the information from the Thomson Reuters Web of Science (WOS) or the Elsevier SciVerse SCOPUS databases. The aim of this study is twofold: (i) to present the results of an assessment of the global aggregated scientific productivity of the Italian forestry community for 1996-2010 using the SCOPUS data available from the on-line SCIMAGO system; and (ii) to compare the WOS and SC! OPUS databases with respect to three indexes (number of publications, number of citations, h-index) of the scientific productivity for university forest researchers in Italy. Two subcategories of forestry were considered: AGR05 - forest management and silviculture, and AGR06 - wood technology. Out of a total of 84 authors, 76 were considered in the analysis because not affected by unresolved homonymity or duplication. Overall, the trend in scientific productivity for Italian forestry is promising. Italy ranked 10(th) in terms of the h-index with an increasing trend in importance relative to other European countries, though the scientific contribution of authors was largely heterogeneous. Both WOS and SCOPUS databases were suitable sources of information for evaluating the scientific productivity of Italian authors. Although the two databases did not produce meaningful differences for any of the three indexes, the advantages and disadvantages of the two sources must be caref! ully considered if used operationally to evaluate the Italian ! scientif ic productivity. Reprint Address: Chirici, G (reprint author), Univ Molise, ECOGEOFOR Lab Ecol & Geomat Forestale, Dipartimento SBioscenze & Terr, Cda Fonte Lappone Snc, I-86090 Pesche, Isernia, Italy Addresses: Univ Molise, ECOGEOFOR Lab Ecol & Geomat Forestale, Dipartimento SBioscenze & Terr, I-86090 Pesche, Isernia, Italy E-mail Address: gherardo.chirici at unimol.it Cited Reference Count: 38 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: SISEF-SOC ITALIANA SELVICOLTURA ECOL FORESTALE, DEPT PROD VEGETALE, VIA ATENEO LUCANO 10, POTENZA, 85100, ITALY Web of Science Category: Forestry Cited References: Narin F, 1976, Evaluative bibliometrics: the use of publication and citation analysis in the evaluation of scientific activity, P456 2011, Criteri e parametri di valutazione dei candidati e dei commissari dell'abilitazione scientifica nazionale, Gurney Thomas, 2012, SCIENTOMETRICS, V91, P435 2007, SJR-Scimago Journal & Country Rank, Gonzalez-Pereira Borja, 2010, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V4, P379 Aguillo Isidro F., 2012, SCIENTOMETRICS, V91, P343 Martin BR, 1996, SCIENTOMETRICS, V36, P343 Judit BI, 2008, Journal of Informetrics, V2, P1 van Raan AFJ, 2000, The web of knowledge: A festschrift in honor of Eugene Garfield, P301 GARFIELD E, 1972, SCIENCE, V178, P471 Bar-Ilan Judit, 2010, SCIENTOMETRICS, V82, P495 Glanzel W, 1996, SCIENTOMETRICS, V35, P167 Jacso Peter, 2006, ONLINE INFORMATION REVIEW, V30, P297 Mikki Susanne, 2010, SCIENTOMETRICS, V82, P321 Abramo Giovanni, 2011, SCIENTOMETRICS, V88, P599 Seglen PO, 1998, ACTA ORTHOPAEDICA SCANDINAVICA, V69, P224 GARFIELD E, 1955, SCIENCE, V122, P108 So CYK, 1998, SCIENTOMETRICS, V41, P325 Bauer K, 2005, D-Lib Magazine, V11, Daraio Cinzia, 2011, RESEARCH POLICY, V40, P1380 Aksnes DW, 2004, RESEARCH EVALUATION, V13, P33 Li J, 2010, Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries, V7, P196 Kostoff RN, 1996, SCIENTOMETRICS, V36, P281 WILCOXON F, 1945, BIOMETRICS BULLETIN, V1, P80 Lu Kun, 2010, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V4, P591 Hirsch JE, 2005, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V102, P16569 NAGPAUL PS, 1995, SCIENTOMETRICS, V33, P169 Abramo Giovanni, 2011, SCIENTOMETRICS, V86, P347 2006, Italian Triennial Research Evaluation-VTR 2001-2003, Bakkalbasi Nisa, 2006, Biomedical digital libraries, V3, P7 Bar-Ilan Judit, 2008, SCIENTOMETRICS, V74, P257 Meho Lokman I., 2007, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V58, P2105 Abramo Giovanni, 2011, SCIENTOMETRICS, V87, P499 2011, Cerca Universita, Spearman C, 1904, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, V15, P72 MacRoberts MH, 1996, SCIENTOMETRICS, V36, P435 Jacso P, 2005, CURRENT SCIENCE, V89, P1537 Garcia-Perez Miguel A., 2010, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V61, P2070 ======================================================================= Title: IEEE Latin America Transactions Volume 10 Issue 3 April 2012 Authors: Notare, MSMA; Pariente, CAB Author Full Names: Notare, M. S. M. A.; Pariente, C. A. B. Source: IEEE LATIN AMERICA TRANSACTIONS, 10 (3):1668-1672; SI APR 2012 Language: Portuguese Document Type: Article Author Keywords: IEEE Xplore, IEEE Latin America Transactions, Region 9, Special Issue, Impact Factor, ISI, DOI, Qualis, Volume 10, Issue 3, April 2012 Abstract: This edition is the second special issue of the IEEE Latin America Transactions of the year 2012. Special issues are published, out of regular issues schedule, according to the availability of extended best papers from recognized high level conferences that claim for a special issue. The current issue includes extended best papers of the Athena2011, CIBSI2011 and Latincom2011. Reprint Address: Notare, MSMA (reprint author), I2TS Int Informat & Telecommun Technol Symposium, Florianopolis, SC, Brazil Addresses: [Notare, M. S. M. A.] I2TS Int Informat & Telecommun Technol Symposium, Florianopolis, SC, Brazil [Notare, M. S. M. A.] IEEE MobiWac Mobil & Wireless Access Workshop, New York, NY USA [Notare, M. S. M. A.] IEEE ISCC, New York, NY USA E-mail Address: mirela at ieee.org; cesarabravop at ieee.org Cited Reference Count: 7 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC, 445 HOES LANE, PISCATAWAY, NJ 08855-4141 USA Web of Science Category: Computer Science, Information Systems; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic Cited References: 1000, Web Of Science, 2012, ISO 26324 Information and documentation - Digital object identifier, 1000, Revista Brasileira de Pos Graduacao, V1, P149 2010, JCR-Journal Citations Report, 1000, Web Of Knowledge, 1000, Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledgeformerly ISI Web of Knowledge, 2011, Scientific List Publications, ======================================================================= Title: Relevance of the spanish journals included in the databases of the Institute for *Scientific* Information measured by the renormalized *impact factor* Authors: Gamez, AM Author Full Names: Matias Gamez, A. Source: INVESTIGACION BIBLIOTECOLOGICA, 25 (55):63-80; SEP-DEC 2011 Language: Spanish Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Bibliometric indexes, Impact Factor, Renormalized Impact Factor, Scientific journals evaluation, Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) KeyWords Plus: LIMITATIONS; INDICATORS; ARTICLES; CITATION; QUALITY Abstract: Nowadays the *Impact Factor* (IF) is used as a measure of the relevance or the quality of an institution, a research group or project, or a particular researcher's scientific production, regardless of the scientific field to which they belong. This paper shows a classification of the Spanish journals included in the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) databases based on their relevance. To measure this relevance we propose the Renormalized *Impact Factor* (Fr) instead of the IF. The results show that 12.64% of Spanish journals included in the ISI may be considered relevant in their categories and that a high IF does not necessarily indicate a high relevance of the journal, so the IF perhaps is not an appropriate index to evaluate scientific activities belonging to different fields. Reprint Address: Gamez, AM (reprint author), Univ Jaen, Jaen, Spain Addresses: Univ Jaen, Jaen, Spain E-mail Address: mgmartin at ujaen.es Cited Reference Count: 16 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: UNIV NACIONAL AUTONOMA MEXICO, CIUDAD UNIV, CENTRO UNIV BIBLIOTECOLOGICAS, TORRE II HUMANIDADES, PISO 11, 12 & 13, MEXICO CITY, CP 04510, MEXICO Web of Science Category: Information Science & Library Science Cited References: Balaban AT, 1996, SCIENTOMETRICS, V37, P495 GARFIELD E, 2003, INT J CLIN HLTH PSYC, V3, P363 Coslado Maria-Angeles, 2011, PROFESIONAL DE LA INFORMACION, V20, P159 BUELACASAL G, 2001, PAPELES PSICOLOGO, V79, P53 Buela-Casal G, 2003, PSICOTHEMA, V15, P23 Ramirez A. M., 2002, Revista Espanola de Documentacion Cientifica, V25, P387 Aleixandre-Benavent Rafael, 2007, PROFESIONAL DE LA INFORMACION, V16, P4 Ramirez AM, 2000, SCIENTOMETRICS, V47, P3 Ramirez A. M., 1999, Investtgacion Bibliotecologica, V13, P110 Buela-Casal G, 2004, PSICOTHEMA, V16, P680 Cangas A. J., 2006, International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy, V6, P417 Makino J, 1998, SCIENTOMETRICS, V43, P87 Bordons M, 2002, SCIENTOMETRICS, V53, P195 Ruiz-Perez R, 2006, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY, V6, P401 Seglen PO, 1997, BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL, V314, P498 Garcia E.O., 2002, Revista Espanola de Documentacion Cientifica, V25, From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Tue Jul 31 16:35:58 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:35:58 +0000 Subject: Papers of Interest to SIG-Metrics Readers Message-ID: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Identification and Bibliometric Characterization of Research Groups in the Cardio-Cerebrovascular Field, Spain 1996-2004 (Article, English) AUTHOR: Mendez-Vasquez, RI; Sunen-Pinyol, E; Cervello, R; Cami, J SOURCE: REVISTA ESPANOLA DE CARDIOLOGIA 65 (7). JUL 2012. p.642-650 EDICIONES DOYMA S A, BARCELONA SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; SEGLEN PO SCIENTOMETRICS 49:125 2000; BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS: Coauthorship analysis; Author-name disambiguation; Research groups; Bibliometrics; Cardio-cerebrovascular KEYWORDS+: COLLABORATION; PRODUCTIVITY; NETWORKS; INDEX; TEAMS; SIZE ABSTRACT: Introduction and objectives: The abundance of macro-level studies on scientific production in the field of biomedicine in Spain only serves to highlight the scarcity of micro-level studies reporting on the activity of research groups-the basic units of the science and technology system. This lack of information may well be explained by the ambiguity inherent in the "research group" concept and by the existence of synonymous and homonymous bibliographic signatures that confuse the correspondence between these and the real authors. The aim of this study is to describe bibliographic production in cardio-cerebrovascular research and identify research groups active in the field. Methods: Using Thomson-Reuters' National Citation Report for Spain database and the National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings thesaurus, we defined the field of cardio-cerebrovascular research and identified research groups through coauthorship analysis supported by the opinions of an expert. Groups were described in terms of bibliometric indicators of activity and visibility. Results: Ninety-three groups made up of 772 different authors were identified from an initial subset of 6540 publications on cardio- cerebrovascular research. The groups we identified came mainly from the healthcare sector and the universities and were mostly located in the autonomous regions of Catalonia and the Community of Madrid. The scientific production attributable to the groups presented indicators of visibility above the mean for biomedicine. Conclusions: Collaboration between the healthcare sector and the universities dominated cardio-cerebrovascular research, although international collaboration rates were poor, standing at levels below the mean for biomedicine. (C) 2012 Sociedad Espanola de Cardiologia. Published by Elsevier Espana, S. L. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: RI Mendez-Vasquez, FPRBB, Dr Aiguader 88,4A Planta, Barcelona 08003, Spain -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The ups and downs of the impact factor: "Every cloud has a silver lining" (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Winck, JC; Morais, A SOURCE: REVISTA PORTUGUESA DE PNEUMOLOGIA 18 (4). JUL-AUG 2012. p.153-154 ELSEVIER DOYMA SL, BARCELONA SEARCH TERM(S): IMPACT FACTOR* item_title; EDITORIAL doctype KEYWORDS+: JOURNALS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The five top bad reasons nurses don't publish in impactful journals (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Thompson, DR; Clark, AM SOURCE: JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING 68 (8). AUG 2012. p.1675-1678 WILEY-BLACKWELL, HOBOKEN SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNALS item_title; HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; EDITORIAL doctype KEYWORDS+: CITATION ANALYSIS; NURSING JOURNALS; INDEX AUTHOR ADDRESS: DR Thompson, Australian Catholic Univ, Fac Hlth Sci, Melbourne, Vic, Australia -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Department of Veterans Affairs Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Centers: Translating Aging Research into Clinical Geriatrics (Review, English) AUTHOR: Supiano, MA; Alessi, C; Chernoff, R; Goldberg, A; Morley, JE; Schmader, KE; Shay, K SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY 60 (7). JUL 2012. p.1347-1356 WILEY-BLACKWELL, HOBOKEN SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005 KEYWORDS: translational research; geriatric care; education and training KEYWORDS+: RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED-TRIAL; NURSING-HOME RESIDENTS; INTENSIVE-CARE-UNIT; MECHANICALLY VENTILATED PATIENTS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM; CONFUSION ASSESSMENT METHOD; ADVERSE DRUG EVENTS; ALZHEIMER-DISEASE; OLDER-ADULTS; MOUSE MODEL ABSTRACT: Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Centers (GRECCs) originated in 1975 in response to the rapidly aging veteran population. Since its inception, the GRECC program has made major contributions to the advancement of aging research, geriatric training, and clinical care within and outside the VA. GRECCs were created to conduct translational research to enhance the clinical care of future aging generations. GRECC training programs also provide leadership in educating healthcare providers about the special needs of older persons. GRECC programs are also instrumental in establishing robust clinical geriatric and aging research programs at their affiliated university schools of medicine. This report identifies how the GRECC program has successfully adapted to changes that have occurred in VA since 1994, when the program's influence on U.S. geriatrics was last reported, focusing on its effect on advancing clinical geriatrics in the last 10 years. This evidence supports the conclusion that, after more than 30 years, the GRECC program remains a vibrant jewel in the crown of the VA and is poised to make contributions to aging research and clinical geriatrics well into the future. AUTHOR ADDRESS: MA Supiano, George E Whalen Dept Vet Affairs Hlth Care Syst, VA Salt Lake City Geriatr Res Educ & Clin Ctr 182, 500 Foothill Dr, Salt Lake City, UT 84148 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Design and Update of a Classification System: The UCSD Map of Science (Article, English) AUTHOR: Borner, K; Klavans, R; Patek, M; Zoss, AM; Biberstine, JR; Light, RP; Lariviere, V; Boyack, KW SOURCE: PLOS ONE 7 (7). JUL 12 2012. p.NIL_77-NIL_86 PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, SAN FRANCISCO SEARCH TERM(S): SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 50:799 1999 KEYWORDS+: TECHNOLOGY; IMPACT ABSTRACT: Global maps of science can be used as a reference system to chart career trajectories, the location of emerging research frontiers, or the expertise profiles of institutes or nations. This paper details data preparation, analysis, and layout performed when designing and subsequently updating the UCSD map of science and classification system. The original classification and map use 7.2 million papers and their references from Elsevier's Scopus (about 15,000 source titles, 2001- 2005) and Thomson Reuters' Web of Science (WoS) Science, Social Science, Arts & Humanities Citation Indexes (about 9,000 source titles, 2001-2004)- about 16,000 unique source titles. The updated map and classification adds six years (2005-2010) of WoS data and three years (2006-2008) from Scopus to the existing category structure-increasing the number of source titles to about 25,000. To our knowledge, this is the first time that a widely used map of science was updated. A comparison of the original 5- year and the new 10-year maps and classification system show (i) an increase in the total number of journals that can be mapped by 9,409 journals (social sciences had a 80% increase, humanities a 119% increase, medical (32%) and natural science (74%)), (ii) a simplification of the map by assigning all but five highly interdisciplinary journals to exactly one discipline, (iii) a more even distribution of journals over the 554 subdisciplines and 13 disciplines when calculating the coefficient of variation, and (iv) a better reflection of journal clusters when compared with paper-level citation data. When evaluating the map with a listing of desirable features for maps of science, the updated map is shown to have higher mapping accuracy, easier understandability as fewer journals are multiply classified, and higher usability for the generation of data overlays, among others. AUTHOR ADDRESS: K Borner, Indiana Univ, Sch Lib & Informat Sci, Cyberinfrastruct Network Sci Ctr, Bloomington, IN 47401 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Our first impact factor (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Steffens, I SOURCE: EUROSURVEILLANCE 17 (27). JUL 5 2012. p.2-3 EUR CENTRE DIS PREVENTION & CONTROL, STOCKHOLM SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; GARFIELD E JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 295:90 2006; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 122:108 1955; AUTHOR ADDRESS: I Steffens, European Ctr Dis Prevent & Control ECDC, Stockholm, Sweden -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The Brazilian Journal of Rheumatology over the last ten years a Scientometrics-based view (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Louzada, P Jr; Freitas, MVC SOURCE: REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE REUMATOLOGIA 51 (1). JAN-FEB 2011. p.1-6 ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, NEW YORK SEARCH TERM(S): SCIENTOMETRIC* item_title; JOURNAL item_title; EDITORIAL doctype -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Co-Ranking Multiple Entities in a Heterogeneous Network: Integrating Temporal Factor and Users' Bookmarks (Article, English) AUTHOR: Zhang, M; Feng, S; Tang, J; Ojokoh, B; Liu, GJ SOURCE: DIGITAL LIBRARIES: FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE, KNOWLEDGE DISSEMINATION, AND FUTURE CREATION 7008. 2011. p.202-211 SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, BERLIN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E SCIENCE 178:471 1972 ABSTRACT: In this paper, we present a novel approach that models the mutual reinforcing relationship among papers, authors and publication venues with due cognizance of publication time. We further integrate bookmark information which models the relationship between users' expertise and papers' quality into the composite citation network using random walk with restart framework. The experimental results with ACM dataset show that 1) the proposed method outperforms the traditional methods; 2) by incorporating the temporal factor, the ranking result of latest publications can be greatly improved; 3) the integration of user generated content further enhances the ranking result. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Shifting sands of research domains, migrating knowledge clouds and academic journals as Zeppelins (editorial considerations in mid-2012) (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Magala, S SOURCE: JOURNAL OF ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE MANAGEMENT 25 (3). 2012. p.360-363 EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED, BINGLEY SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNALS item_title; EDITORIAL doctype KEYWORDS: Migrating knowledge clouds; Evolution of academic division of research domains; Managing knowledge dissemination; Knowledge management; Change management ABSTRACT: Purpose - Academic journals still navigate the relatively closed space of academic peer domains, but knowledge production explodes and blows up in a cloud of expanding "gases" of knowledges slowly solidifying into tectonically mobile continents. This paper seeks to address these issues. It also provides an overview of seven published papers. Design/methodology/approach - This paper uses a viewpoint approach as well as introducing the current issue. Findings - The paper finds that "everything in knowledge production and dissemination has changed", which will have consequences and implications in areas such as research domain independence and the role of the academic journal. Originality/value - This paper raises the issues of change in knowledge production and dissemination, and of possible redefinition in the areas of change management and cross-cultural knowledge. It also introduces the seven papers in the current issue. AUTHOR ADDRESS: S Magala, RSM EUR, Rotterdam, Netherlands ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Co-Ranking Multiple Entities in a Heterogeneous Network: Integrating Temporal Factor and Users' Bookmarks (Article, English) AUTHOR: Zhang, M; Feng, S; Tang, J; Ojokoh, B; Liu, GJ SOURCE: DIGITAL LIBRARIES: FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE, KNOWLEDGE DISSEMINATION, AND FUTURE CREATION 7008. 2011. p.202-211 SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, BERLIN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E SCIENCE 178:471 1972 ABSTRACT: In this paper, we present a novel approach that models the mutual reinforcing relationship among papers, authors and publication venues with due cognizance of publication time. We further integrate bookmark information which models the relationship between users' expertise and papers' quality into the composite citation network using random walk with restart framework. The experimental results with ACM dataset show that 1) the proposed method outperforms the traditional methods; 2) by incorporating the temporal factor, the ranking result of latest publications can be greatly improved; 3) the integration of user generated content further enhances the ranking result. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Tue Jul 31 17:44:59 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 21:44:59 +0000 Subject: Online Academic Abuses and the Power of Openness: Naming & Shaming In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Stevan: Some of your readers may not be able to access my 1997 letter to BMJ because you have posted a link that requires a subscription to the BMJ files. The proper link to use is http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/bmj14june1997.pdf where I have posted the full text. Unfortunately my comments have been distorted in some cases to justify deplorable excesses in the use of references to the same journal when I emphasized that such references should be relevant and not mere window dressing-- a blatant attempt to increase the impact factor of the journal in question. Best wishes. Gene Garfield ________________________________ From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Stevan Harnad Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 10:03 AM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Online Academic Abuses and the Power of Openness: Naming & Shaming Sorry for the long delay in replying to this. I missed it, and it has just been drawn to my attention: On 10 April 2012 Gustaf Nelhans wrote: Dear Professor Harnad, I believe that it is not always easy to identify the motives behind specific instances of self references (although in the case at hand, the number of mutual citations identified seem to speak for themselves...). The practice of self citation is (as you acknowledge) not in itself a bad thing, but the problem is how to distinguish its legitimate use from its abuse. Agreed. And in fact the outcome of tests comparing rankings and correlation patterns based on total citation counts, and citation counts minus self-citations tend to be very similar. Nevertheless, looking at individuals with or without self-citations and comparing them to the population norms can raise a red flag which can then be examined manually. This is equally valid on the individual level as in editor-suggested references. I would like to draw into attention an exchange about these matters from 1997, where Eugene Garfield stated: "Recognising the reality of the Matthew effect, I believe that an editor is justified in reminding authors to cite equivalent references from the same journal, if only because readers of that journal presumably have ready access to it. To call this "manipulation" seems excessive unless the references chosen are irrelevant or mere window dressing." (Garfield, Eugene. 1997. Editors are justified in asking authors to cite equivalent references from same journal. BMJ 314 (7096):1765. http://www.bmj.com/content/314/7096/1765.2.short ) Gene Garfield made this suggestion in 1997, before OA became a distinct possibility. In a world where the only way to access articles is if your institution can afford a subscription, "preferentially cite this journal" might have had an ounce of validity -- alongside the obvious pound of self-interest. But no longer today. An editor telling the author of an article to cite more articles in his journal because readers have "more access" to it is outrageous. Rather, he should tell authors to self-archive it (Green OA) if they really want to make their articles more accessible. My question is if there could exist any method of identifying "bad apples" that does not account for the specific context in the article in which the reference is placed. Only in a population statistical sense. Individual anomalies flagged by the population metrics would still need to be examined manually. But automated text-analytic tools may eventually also become sensitive enough to make a contribution, sorting out some of the nature of the citation from the accompanying text, not just from the author/article/journal counts. In my understanding of the problem, the proposed way of using statistical methods for identifying baselines for self citations in various fields could be one important step, but I wonder if it would suffice to make the identification process complete? It is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for answering all the kinds of questions one might have about uses and misuses of citations. In statistics there is always, and necessarily, a difference between population data and individual cases. Medical conditions are the best illustration: I have an illness. I want to be treated for my illness, and not for what, on average, works most often with people that have symptoms most like mine. (See Kahneman & Tversky on the base rate fallacy.) For citations, "bad" citations can be identified on a statistical basis, comparing two populations of citations, and perhaps even one individual's total citations as compared to the population norms, to see whether there is something anomalous (such as excess self-citation swelling the citation count). But it won't tell you whether an individual citation is good or bad. It is possible to develop and apply automated text-analytic algorithms to the text surrounding a citation, to try to predict whether it is positive or negative, and such algorithms can even be "trained up" with corrective feedback based on human evaluation of whether each individual citation was positive or negative. But it's early days for both of these, and validating statistical predictors will first take an awful lot of individual hand-validation in order to test and improve the algorithms. But for journals or individuals it is definitely possible to check computationally whether they deviate from population norms/baselines, and then look at the cases that the population anomaly detectors single out, and check them manually to see whether they are indeed cases of bad faith, legitimate practice, or just statistical anomalies. Citation cartels (and many other systematic abuses) are more detectable if the entire corpus is accessible precisely because everybody can detect them: no need to wait to see whether proprietary database owners with other interests get around to or see fit to provide the data needed to monitor and detect abuses. Global OA not only provides the open database, but it provides the (continuous) open means of flagging anomalies in the population pattern, checking them, and naming and shaming the cases where there really has been willful misuse or abuse. It's yet another potential application for crowd-sourcing. Stevan Harnad Harnad, S. (2008) Validating Research Performance Metrics Against Peer Rankings. Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics 8 (11) doi:10.3354/esep00088 The Use And Misuse Of Bibliometric Indices In Evaluating Scholarly Performance http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/15619/ Harnad, S. (2009) Open Access Scientometrics and the UK Research Assessment Exercise. Scientometrics 79 (1) Also in Proceedings of 11th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics 11(1), pp. 27-33, Madrid, Spain. Torres-Salinas, D. and Moed, H. F., Eds. (2007) Harnad, S. (2009) Multiple metrics required to measure research performance. Nature (Correspondence) 457 (785) (12 February 2009) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: