Papers of Interest to SIG-Metrics Readers
Eugene Garfield
eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM
Tue Jul 31 16:35:58 EDT 2012
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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