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Eugene Garfield
eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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