Papers of interest to SIGMETRICS readers
Eugene Garfield
eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM
Thu Jul 19 16:46:49 EDT 2012
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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