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[Eugene Garfield]

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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

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AUTHOR ADDRESS: RE Mercer, Univ Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 3K7, Canada
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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

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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
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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
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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
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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

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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

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                 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.