Papers of interest to Sig Metrics readers
Eugene Garfield
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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