From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Fri Jun 1 15:39:43 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 19:39:43 +0000 Subject: Papers of interest to SIG-Metrics readers Message-ID: TITLE: Shaping the landscape of research in information systems from the perspective of editorial boards: A scientometric study of 77 leading journals (Article, English) AUTHOR: Cabanac, G SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 63 (5). MAY 2012. p.977-996 WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth; JOURNALS item_title; SCIENTOMETRIC* item_title; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 122:108 1955 KEYWORDS: scientometrics; scholarly communication; gatekeepers KEYWORDS+: SCIENCE JOURNALS; IMPACT FACTOR; GATEKEEPERS; INFORMETRICS; INDICATOR ABSTRACT: Characteristics of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology and 76 other journals listed in the Information Systems category of the Journal Citation ReportsScience edition 2009 were analyzed. Besides reporting usual bibliographic indicators, we investigated the human cornerstone of any peer-reviewed journal: its editorial board. Demographic data about the 2,846 gatekeepers serving in information systems (IS) editorial boards were collected. We discuss various scientometric indicators supported by descriptive statistics. Our findings reflect the great variety of IS journals in terms of research output, author communities, editorial boards, and gatekeeper demographics (e.g., diversity in gender and location), seniority, authority, and degree of involvement in editorial boards. We believe that these results may help the general public and scholars (e.g., readers, authors, journal gatekeepers, policy makers) to revise and increase their knowledge of scholarly communication in the IS field. The EB_IS_2009 dataset supporting this scientometric study is released as online supplementary material to this article to foster further research on editorial boards. AUTHOR ADDRESS: G Cabanac, Univ Toulouse, Dept Comp Sci, CNRS, IRIT,UMR 5505, 118 Route Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse 9, France -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A bibliometric chronicling of library and information science's first hundred years (Article, English) AUTHOR: Lariviere, V; Sugimoto, CR; Cronin, B SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 63 (5). MAY 2012. p.997-1016 WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN SEARCH TERM(S): LIPETZ BA rauth; MERTON RK rauth; PRICE DJD rauth; BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS: information science history; bibliometrics KEYWORDS+: CITATION ANALYSIS; JOURNAL ARTICLES; LIS JOURNALS; RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY; CO-AUTHORSHIP; IMPACT; INTERDISCIPLINARITY; COLLABORATION; FACULTY; LIBRARIANSHIP ABSTRACT: This paper presents a condensed history of Library and Information Science (LIS) over the course of more than a century using a variety of bibliometric measures. It examines in detail the variable rate of knowledge production in the field, shifts in subject coverage, the dominance of particular publication genres at different times, prevailing modes of production, interactions with other disciplines, and, more generally, observes how the field has evolved. It shows that, despite a striking growth in the number of journals, papers, and contributing authors, a decrease was observed in the field's market-share of all social science and humanities research. Collaborative authorship is now the norm, a pattern seen across the social sciences. The idea of boundary crossing was also examined: in 2010, nearly 60% of authors who published in LIS also published in another discipline. This high degree of permeability in LIS was also demonstrated through reference and citation practices: LIS scholars now cite and receive citations from other fields more than from LIS itself. Two major structural shifts are revealed in the data: in 1960, LIS changed from a professional field focused on librarianship to an academic field focused on information and use; and in 1990, LIS began to receive a growing number of citations from outside the field, notably from Computer Science and Management, and saw a dramatic increase in the number of authors contributing to the literature of the field. AUTHOR ADDRESS: V Lariviere, Univ Montreal, Ecole Bibliothecon & Sci Informat, Montreal, PQ, Canada -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Scientific subject categories of Web of Knowledge ranked according to their multidimensional prestige of influential journals (Article, English) AUTHOR: Garcia, JA; Rodriguez-Sanchez, R; Fdez-Valdivia, J SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 63 (5). MAY 2012. p.1017-1029 WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; JOURNALS item_title; GARFIELD E JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 295:90 2006 KEYWORDS: scientometrics; informetrics; impact factor KEYWORDS+: POVERTY; SCOPUS; IMPACT ABSTRACT: A journal may be considered as having dimension-specific prestige when its score, based on a given journal ranking model, exceeds a threshold value. But a journal has multidimensional prestige only if it is a prestigious journal with respect to a number of dimensionse.g., Institute for Scientific Information Impact Factor, immediacy index, eigenfactor score, and article influence score. The multidimensional prestige of influential journals takes into account the fact that several prestige indicators should be used for a distinct analysis of the impact of scholarly journals in a subject category. After having identified the multidimensionally influential journals, their prestige scores can be aggregated to produce a summary measure of multidimensional prestige for a subject category, which satisfies numerous properties. Using this measure of multidimensional prestige to rank subject categories, we have found the top scientific subject categories of Web of Knowledge as of 2010. AUTHOR ADDRESS: JA Garcia, Univ Granada, Dept Ciencias Comp & IA, E-18071 Granada, Spain -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Citation-based bootstrapping for large-scale author disambiguation (Article, English) AUTHOR: Levin, M; Krawczyk, S; Bethard, S; Jurafsky, D SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 63 (5). MAY 2012. p.1030-1047 WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN SEARCH TERM(S): SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973; WHITE HD J AM SOC INFORM SCI 32:163 1981; CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS: machine aided indexing; automatic extracting; disambiguation KEYWORDS+: NAME DISAMBIGUATION; COCITATION; MODEL ABSTRACT: We present a new, two-stage, self-supervised algorithm for author disambiguation in large bibliographic databases. In the first bootstrap stage, a collection of high-precision features is used to bootstrap a training set with positive and negative examples of coreferring authors. A supervised feature-based classifier is then trained on the bootstrap clusters and used to cluster the authors in a larger unlabeled dataset. Our self-supervised approach shares the advantages of unsupervised approaches (no need for expensive hand labels) as well as supervised approaches (a rich set of features that can be discriminatively trained). The algorithm disambiguates 54,000,000 author instances in Thomson Reuters' Web of Knowledge with B3 F1 of.807. We analyze parameters and features, particularly those from citation networks, which have not been deeply investigated in author disambiguation. The most important citation feature is self-citation, which can be approximated without expensive extraction of the full network. For the supervised stage, the minor improvement due to other citation features (increasing F1 from.748 to.767) suggests they may not be worth the trouble of extracting from databases that don't already have them. A lean feature set without expensive abstract and title features performs 130 times faster with about equal F1. AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Levin, Stanford Univ, Dept Comp Sci, 353 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The Hirsch index of a shifted Lotka function and its relation with the impact factor (Article, English) AUTHOR: Egghe, L; Rousseau, R SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 63 (5). MAY 2012. p.1048-1053 WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; IMPACT FACTOR* item_title; EGGHE L primaryauthor,author KEYWORDS: bibliometrics KEYWORDS+: H-INDEX; MODEL ABSTRACT: Based on earlier results about the shifted Lotka function, we prove an implicit functional relation between the Hirsch index (h-index) and the total number of sources (T). It is shown that the corresponding function, h(T), is concavely increasing. Next, we construct an implicit relation between the h-index and the impact factor IF (an average number of items per source). The corresponding function h(IF) is increasing and we show that if the parameter C in the numerator of the shifted Lotka function is high, then the relation between the h-index and the impact factor is almost linear. AUTHOR ADDRESS: L Egghe, Univ Hasselt UHasselt, Campus Diepenbeek, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Fuzziness and Overlapping Communities in Large-Scale Networks (Article, English) AUTHOR: Wang, QN; Fleury, E SOURCE: JOURNAL OF UNIVERSAL COMPUTER SCIENCE 18 (4). 2012. p.457-486 GRAZ UNIV TECHNOLGOY, INST INFORMATION SYSTEMS COMPUTER MEDIA-IICM, GRAZ SEARCH TERM(S): KESSLER MM AM DOC 14:10 1963 KEYWORDS: fuzzy community detection; overlapping community detection; community detection; modularity; large-scale networks ABSTRACT: Overlapping community detection is a popular topic in complex networks. As compared to disjoint community structure, overlapping community structure is more suitable to describe networks at a macroscopic level. Overlaps shared by communities play an important role in combining different communities. In this paper, two methods are proposed to detect overlapping community structure. One is called clique optimization, and the other is named fuzzy detection. Clique optimization aims at detecting granular overlaps. The clique optimization method is a fine grain scale approach. Each granular overlap is a node connected to distinct communities and it is highly connected to each community. Fuzzy detection is at a coarser grain scale and aims at identifying modular overlaps. Modular overlaps represent groups of nodes that have high community membership degrees with several communities. A modular overlap is itself a possible cluster/sub-community. Experimental studies in synthetic networks and real networks show that both methods provide good performances in detecting overlapping nodes but in different views. In addition, a new extension of modularity is introduced for measuring the quality of overlapping community structure. AUTHOR ADDRESS: QN Wang, Univ Lyon, D NET INRIA, LIP ENS LYON, 46 Allee Italie, F-69364 Lyon, France -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A positive theory of network connectivity (Article, English) AUTHOR: Levinson, D; Huang, A SOURCE: ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING B-PLANNING & DESIGN 39 (2). 2012. p.308-325 PION LTD, LONDON SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth KEYWORDS: road network; network growth; network structure; treeness; circuitness; topology KEYWORDS+: TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS; SPACE-TIME; LAND-USE; INDIVIDUAL ACCESSIBILITY; INFORMATION-SYSTEMS; TRAIL SYSTEMS; CITIES; EMERGENCE; EVOLUTION; HIERARCHY ABSTRACT: In this paper we develop a positive theory of network connectivity, seeking to provide the microfoundations of alternative network topologies as the result of self-interested actors. By building roads, landowners hope to increase their parcels' accessibility and economic value. A simulation model is performed on a grid-like land-use layer with a downtown in the center. The degree to which the networks are tree-like is evaluated. This research posits that road networks experience an evolutionary process where a tree-like structure first emerges around the centered parcel before the network pushes outward to the periphery. Road network topology becomes increasingly connected as the accessibility value of reaching other parcels increases. The results demonstrate that, even without a centralized authority, road networks can display the property of self-organization and evolution, and that, in the absence of intervention, the degree to which a network structure is tree- like or web-like results from the underlying economies. AUTHOR ADDRESS: D Levinson, Univ Minnesota, Dept Civil Engn, 500 Pillsbury Dr SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Identifying Trustworthy Experts: How Do Policymakers Find and Assess Public Health Researchers Worth Consulting or Collaborating With? (Article, English) AUTHOR: Haynes, AS; Derrick, GE; Redman, S; Hall, WD; Gillespie, JA; Chapman, S; Sturk, H SOURCE: PLOS ONE 7 (3). MAR 5 2012. p.NIL_882-NIL_889 PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, SAN FRANCISCO SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005 KEYWORDS+: ORGANIZATIONAL TRUST; INTEGRATIVE MODEL; KNOWLEDGE; EXCHANGE; FUTURE ABSTRACT: This paper reports data from semi-structured interviews on how 26 Australian civil servants, ministers and ministerial advisors find and evaluate researchers with whom they wish to consult or collaborate. Policymakers valued researchers who had credibility across the three attributes seen as contributing to trustworthiness: competence (an exemplary academic reputation complemented by pragmatism, understanding of government processes, and effective collaboration and communication skills); integrity (independence, "authenticity", and faithful reporting of research); and benevolence (commitment to the policy reform agenda). The emphases given to these assessment criteria appeared to be shaped in part by policymakers' roles and the type and phase of policy development in which they were engaged. Policymakers are encouraged to reassess their methods for engaging researchers and to maximise information flow and support in these relationships. Researchers who wish to influence policy are advised to develop relationships across the policy community, but also to engage in other complementary strategies for promoting research-informed policy, including the strategic use of mass media. AUTHOR ADDRESS: AS Haynes, Univ Sydney, Sydney Sch Publ Hlth, Camperdown, NSW, Australia From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Fri Jun 1 16:33:50 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 20:33:50 +0000 Subject: Papers of interest to SIG-Metrics Readers (mainly Scientometrics) Message-ID: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A new instrument for technology monitoring: novelty in patents measured by semantic patent analysis (Article, English) AUTHOR: Gerken, JM; Moehrle, MG SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 91 (3). JUN 2012. p.645-670 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): KESSLER MM AM DOC 14:10 1963 KEYWORDS: Novelty measurement; Semantic patent analysis; Inventive progress; Technology monitoring; Citation analysis; Classification analysis KEYWORDS+: RESEARCH-AND-DEVELOPMENT; CO-WORD ANALYSIS; INNOVATION; INDUSTRY; TRENDS; INDICATORS; INVENTIONS; SIMILARITY; CITATIONS; EVOLUTION ABSTRACT: Given that in terms of technology novel inventions are crucial factors for companies; this article contributes to the identification of inventions of high novelty in patent data. As companies are confronted with an information overflow, and having patents reviewed by experts is a time-consuming task, we introduce a new approach to the identification of inventions of high novelty: a specific form of semantic patent analysis. Subsequent to the introduction of the concept of novelty in patents, the classical method of semantic patent analysis will be adapted to support novelty measurement. By means of a case study from the automotive industry, we corroborate that semantic patent analysis is able to outperform available methods for the identification of inventions of high novelty. Accordingly, semantic patent information possesses the potential to enhance technology monitoring while reducing both costs and uncertainty in the identification of inventions of high novelty. AUTHOR ADDRESS: JM Gerken, Univ Bremen, Inst Project Management & Innovat IPMI, Wilhelm Herbst Str 12, D-28359 Bremen, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A quantitative analysis of Arctic related articles in the humanities and social sciences appearing in the world core journals (Article, English) AUTHOR: Hua, WN; Yuan, SB; Yan, MM; Li, Y SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 91 (3). JUN 2012. p.703-718 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; JOURNALS item_title KEYWORDS: Arctic studies; Bibliometric study; Humanities and social sciences KEYWORDS+: NETWORK ANALYSIS; CONTROVERSY; INDEX ABSTRACT: To demonstrate the importance of Arctic studies in the humanities and social sciences, we collected data from the SSCI and A&HCI covering a period of over 100 years and focused on the number of papers published each year, the major journals, types of documents, major languages represented, authors and their countries publishing the most articles, author's affiliations, collaboration and the major research subjects covered. The results indicate that worldwide scholars had never been absent in this field for more than one century. Countries near the Arctic, particularly in North America and the Nordic, show the most interest and have the most research results. Universities and colleges are the most important research institutions in this field. North America is the area that has conducted the largest amount of research, while some Western European countries such as Germany and France, performed with great enthusiasm research in relation with North Pole expeditions. Arctic research in the humanities and social sciences has gradually expanded from the historical, archaeological, and anthropological fields to the realm of political, social, educational sciences including international relations, music, art, etc. AUTHOR ADDRESS: WN Hua, Nanjing Univ, Sch Informat Management, 22 Hankou Rd, Nanjing 210093, Jiangsu, Peoples R China -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The taxonomy of research collaboration in science and technology: evidence from mechanical research through probabilistic clustering analysis (Article, English) AUTHOR: Jeong, S; Choi, JY SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 91 (3). JUN 2012. p.719-735 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth KEYWORDS: Research collaboration; Research and development strategy; Clustering; Gaussian mixture KEYWORDS+: INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION; CO-AUTHORSHIPS; MODEL; DETERMINANTS; PROJECTS; QUALITY; IMPACTS ABSTRACT: This paper suggests an empirical framework to classify research collaboration activities with developed indicators that carry on a previous theoretical framework (Wagner [Science and Technology Policy for Development, Dialogues at the Interface, 2006]; Wagner et al. [Linking effectively: Learning lessons from successful collaboration in science and technology. DB-345-OSTP, 2002]) by employing the Gaussian mixture model, an advanced probabilistic clustering analysis. By further exploring the method upon a profound evidence-based reflection of actual phenomena, this paper also proposes an exploratory analysis to manage and evaluate research projects upon their differentiated classification in a preceding perspective of research collaboration and R&D management. In addition, the results show that international collaboration tends to be associated with more evenly committed collaboration, and that collaboration featuring a higher degree of funding or dispersed commitments generally results in larger outcomes than research clustered on the opposite side of the framework. AUTHOR ADDRESS: JY Choi, Korea Inst Ind Econ & Trade KIET, Ctr Growth Engine Ind, 66 Hoegiro, Seoul, South Korea -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Metrics to evaluate research performance in academic institutions: a critique of ERA 2010 as applied in forestry and the indirect H-2 index as a possible alternative (Article, English) AUTHOR: Vanclay, JK; Bornmann, L SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 91 (3). JUN 2012. p.751-771 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005 KEYWORDS: Successive h-index; Percentile; h-index; Excellence for Research in Australia (ERA) KEYWORDS+: SUCCESSIVE H-INDEXES; JOURNAL RANKING; GOOGLE-SCHOLAR; CITATION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH QUALITY; IMPACT; WEB; INDICATORS; ECONOMICS; VARIANTS ABSTRACT: Excellence for Research in Australia (ERA) is an attempt by the Australian Research Council to rate Australian universities on a 5- point scale within 180 Fields of Research using metrics and peer evaluation by an evaluation committee. Some of the bibliometric data contributing to this ranking suffer statistical issues associated with skewed distributions. Other data are standardised year-by-year, placing undue emphasis on the most recent publications which may not yet have reliable citation patterns. The bibliometric data offered to the evaluation committees is extensive, but lacks effective syntheses such as the h-index and its variants. The indirect H-2 index is objective, can be computed automatically and efficiently, is resistant to manipulation, and a good indicator of impact to assist the ERA evaluation committees and to similar evaluations internationally. AUTHOR ADDRESS: JK Vanclay, So Cross Univ, POB 157, Lismore, NSW 2480, Australia -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A comparative study of interdisciplinary changes between information science and library science (Article, English) AUTHOR: Huang, MH; Chang, YW SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 91 (3). JUN 2012. p.789-803 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): WHITE HD J AM SOC INFORM SCI 32:163 1981 KEYWORDS: Interdisciplinary changes; Library science; Information science; Direct citation KEYWORDS+: AUTHOR COCITATION; CITATION; PATTERNS; COMMUNICATION; DISCIPLINES; EVOLUTION; SCHOLARS; FIELD; WORK; MAP ABSTRACT: This study employs the method of direct citation to analyze and compare the interdisciplinary characteristics of the two disciplines of library science and information science during the period of 1978-2007. Based on the research generated by five library science journals and five information science journals, library science researchers tend to cite publications from library and information science (LIS), education, business/management, sociology, and psychology, while researchers of information science tend to cite more publications from LIS, general science, computer science, technology, and medicine. This means that the disciplines with larger contributions to library science are almost entirely different from those contributing to information science. In addition, researchers of library science frequently cite publications from LIS; the rate is as high as 65.61%, which is much higher than the rate for information science, 49.50%. However, a decreasing trend in the percentage of LIS in library science indicates that library science researchers tend to cite more publications from non-LIS disciplines. A rising trend in the proportion of references to education sources is reported for library science articles, while a rising trend in the proportion of references to computer science sources has been found for information science articles. In addition, this study applies an interdisciplinary indicator, Brillouin's Index, to measurement of the degree of interdisciplinarity. The results confirm that the trend toward interdisciplinarity in both information science and library science has risen over the years, although the degree of interdisciplinarity in information science is higher than that in library science. AUTHOR ADDRESS: MH Huang, Natl Taiwan Univ, Dept Lib & Informat Sci, 1,Sec 4,Roosevelt Rd, Taipei 10617, Taiwan -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Using complex networks concepts to assess approaches for citations in scientific papers (Article, English) AUTHOR: Amancio, DR; Nunes, MGV; Oliveira, ON Jr; Costa, LD SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 91 (3). JUN 2012. p.827-842 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): MACROBERTS MH rauth; GROSS PLK SCIENCE 66:385 1927; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS: Complex networks; Virtual scientometry; Similarity network KEYWORDS+: CITING BEHAVIOR; FAWLTY TOWERS; OMBUDSMAN; QUALITY; SCIENCE ABSTRACT: The number of citations received by authors in scientific journals has become a major parameter to assess individual researchers and the journals themselves through the impact factor. A fair assessment therefore requires that the criteria for selecting references in a given manuscript should be unbiased with regard to the authors or journals cited. In this paper, we assess approaches for citations considering two recommendations for authors to follow while preparing a manuscript: (i) consider similarity of contents with the topics investigated, lest related work should be reproduced or ignored; (ii) perform a systematic search over the network of citations including seminal or very related papers. We use formalisms of complex networks for two datasets of papers from the arXiv and the Web of Science repositories to show that neither of these two criteria is fulfilled in practice. By representing the texts as complex networks we estimated a similarity index between pieces of texts and found that the list of references did not contain the most similar papers in the dataset. This was quantified by calculating a consistency index, whose maximum value is one if the references in a given paper are the most similar in the dataset. For the areas of "complex networks" and "graphenes", the consistency index was only 0.11- 0.23 and 0.10-0.25, respectively. To simulate a systematic search in the citation network, we employed a traditional random walk search (i.e. diffusion) and a random walk whose probabilities of transition are proportional to the number of the ingoing edges of the neighbours. The frequency of visits to the nodes (papers) in the network had a very small correlation with either the actual list of references in the papers or with the number of downloads from the arXiv repository. Therefore, apparently the authors and users of the repository did not follow the criterion related to a systematic search over the network of citations. Based on these results, we propose an approach that we believe is fairer for evaluating and complementing citations of a given author, effectively leading to a virtual scientometry. AUTHOR ADDRESS: DR Amancio, Univ Sao Paulo, Inst Phys Sao Carlos, POB 369, BR-13560970 Sao Paulo, Brazil -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The Hawthorne effect in journal peer review (Review, English) AUTHOR: Bornmann, L SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 91 (3). JUN 2012. p.857-862 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): ZUCKERMAN H rauth; ZUCKERMA.H MINERVA 9:66 1971; JOURNAL item_title KEYWORDS: Editorial peer review; Manuscript rejection; Hawthorne effect KEYWORDS+: PREDICTIVE-VALIDITY; ANGEWANDTE-CHEMIE; MANUSCRIPTS; FATE; SCIENCE; BIAS; NEURORADIOLOGY; PUBLICATION; ACCEPTANCE; AGREEMENT ABSTRACT: Purpose-this paper aims to look at the Hawthorne effect in editorial peer review. Design/methodology/approach-discusses the quality evaluation of refereed scholarly journals. Findings-a key finding of this research was that in the peer review process of one and the same manuscript, reviewers or editors, respectively, arrive at different judgments. This phenomenon is named as "Hawthorne effect" because the different judgements are dependent on the specific conditions under which the peer review process at the individual journals takes place. Originality/value-provides a discussion on the quality evaluation of scholarly journals. AUTHOR ADDRESS: L Bornmann, Max Planck Soc, Hofgartenstr 8, D-80539 Munich, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A publication index that is independent of age (Article, English) AUTHOR: Abt, HA SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 91 (3). JUN 2012. p.863-868 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005 KEYWORDS: Publication indexes; Astronomy; Hirsch h-index ABSTRACT: The Hirsch h-index is widely used to measure a researcher's major publications. It has the advantage of being easy to compute. However, it increases steeply with time and therefore does not allow a comparison of young and mature researchers. We find that if the h- index is divided by the number of decades since publication of the researcher's first paper, the result is statistically constant with age. Then the resulting index can be compared for young and old researchers. Its accuracy is the same as that of the h-index and is as easy to compute as the h-index. AUTHOR ADDRESS: HA Abt, Kitt Peak Natl Observ, Box 26732, Tucson, AZ 85726 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Identifying attractive research fields for new scientists (Article, English) AUTHOR: Akritidis, L; Katsaros, D; Bozanis, P SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 91 (3). JUN 2012. p.869-894 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 178:471 1972 KEYWORDS: Scientist; Author; Research area; Research field; Scientometrics; Attractive KEYWORDS+: H-INDEX; HIRSCH INDEX; JOURNALS; RANKING; SCIENCE; CITATIONS; IMPACT ABSTRACT: Prior to the beginning of a scientific career, every new scientist is obliged to confront the critical issue of defining the subject area where his/her future research will be conducted. Regardless of the capabilities of a new scholar, an erroneous selection may condemn a dignified effort and result in wasted energy, time and resources. In this article we attempt to identify the research fields which are attractive to these individuals. To the best of our knowledge, this is a new topic that has never been discussed or addressed in the literature. Here we formally set the problem and we propose a solution combining the characteristics of the attractive research areas and the new scholars. Our approach is compared against a statistical model which reveals popular research areas. The comparison of this method to our proposed model leads to the conclusion that not all trendy research areas are suitable for new scientists. A secondary outcome reveals the existence of scientific fields which although they are not so emerging, they are promising for scientists who are starting their career. AUTHOR ADDRESS: D Katsaros, Univ Thessaly, Volos, Greece -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A bibliometric tool to assess the regional dimension of university-industry research collaborations (Article, English) AUTHOR: Abramo, G; D'Angelo, CA; Solazzi, M SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 91 (3). JUN 2012. p.955-975 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS: Research collaboration; University-industry interaction; Knowledge spillover; Bibliometrics; Co-authorship; Italy KEYWORDS+: RESEARCH-AND-DEVELOPMENT; KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVERS; INNOVATION SYSTEMS; EUROPEAN REGIONS; GROWTH; SCIENCE; ENTREPRENEURSHIP; PROXIMITY ABSTRACT: The present study proposes a bibliometric methodology for measuring the grade of correspondence between regional industry's demand for research collaboration and supply from public laboratories. The methodology also permits measurement of the intensity and direction of the regional flows of knowledge in public-private collaborations. The aim is to provide a diagnostic instrument for regional and national policy makers, which could add to existing ones to plan interventions for re- balancing sectorial public supply of knowledge with industrial absorptive capacity, and maximizing appropriability of knowledge spillovers. The methodology is applied to university-industry collaborations in the hard sciences in all Italian administrative regions. AUTHOR ADDRESS: G Abramo, Natl Res Council Italy, Inst Syst Anal & Comp Sci IASI CNR, Rome, Italy -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: State of the art on the Systems of Innovation research: a bibliometrics study up to 2009 (Article, English) AUTHOR: Uriona-Maldonado, M; dos Santos, RNM; Varvakis, G SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 91 (3). JUN 2012. p.977-996 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973; BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS: Innovation Systems; Systems of Innovation; Bibliometrics KEYWORDS+: NATIONAL SYSTEMS; INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS; TECHNOLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE; HISTORICAL-PERSPECTIVE; TECHNICAL CHANGE; POLICY; DETERMINANTS; TRAJECTORIES; CAPACITY; TAXONOMY ABSTRACT: Over the last decades there has been a growing interest on developing research and formulating public policy by using the Innovation Systems approach. However, as evidenced on the academic literature there is a lack of systematic, chronological and synthesizing studies indicating how this field has evolved over time. This paper has as main objective to consolidate the state of the art of academic research on IS, based on a bibliometrics study on literature published over the past 35 years. The results are discussed under the following perspectives: general results, chronological distribution, author relevance, articles and cited references of relevance, journals relevance and institutions and countries relevance. The paper ends with a discussion of the main implications and limitations of the study. AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Uriona-Maldonado, Univ Fed Santa Catarina, Dept Knowledge Engn, Campus UFSC, BR-88040970 Florianopolis, SC, Brazil -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Research on the cross-citation relationship of core authors in scientometrics (Article, English) AUTHOR: Wang, FF; Qiu, JP; Yu, HQ SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 91 (3). JUN 2012. p.1011-1033 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973; WHITE HD J AM SOC INFORM SCI 32:163 1981; SCIENTOMETRIC* item_title; CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS: Scientometrics; Author cross-citation; Knowledge communication; Academic community KEYWORDS+: INFORMATION-SCIENCE; COCITATION ANALYSIS; WEB ABSTRACT: Generally speaking, citation relationship among authors can be divided into 3 types: co-citation, coupling and cross-citation. Since author co-citation analysis was first introduced in 1982, it has been widely applied to study discipline structure, research state and research trends. Afterwards, conception of author bibliographic-coupling analysis was put forward and related empirical studies provided a method for mapping active authors in a research field for a more realistic picture of the current state of its research activities. Additionally, if one of author A's papers has a citation from one of author B's, there is cross-citation relationship between A and B. However, studies based on author cross-citation relationship mainly describe citation behaviors themselves using citation identity and citation image; they rarely involve any implicit knowledge communication, author research correlation or discovering academic communities. Author cross-citation analysis infers to both citing and cited phenomenon, which can be roughly correspond to citation identity and citation image. The study will further explore the author cross-citation relationship with core authors in scientometrics field as study object in order to provide reference for development of scientometrics field and in-depth application of citation analysis. AUTHOR ADDRESS: FF Wang, Wuhan Univ, Sch Informat Management, Wuhan 430072, Peoples R China -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A bibliometric study of research activity in ASEAN related to the EU in FP7 priority areas (Article, English) AUTHOR: Hassan, SU; Haddawy, P; Kuinkel, P; Degelsegger, A; Blasy, C SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 91 (3). JUN 2012. p.1035-1051 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS: Bibliometrics; FP7 thematic priority areas; Southeast Asia's research activity; International research collaboration ABSTRACT: Two relevant recent developments in the area of science and technology (S&T) and related policy-making motivate this article: first, bibliometric data on a specific research area's performance becomes an increasingly relevant source for S&T policy-making and evaluation. This trend is embedded in wider discussions on evidence-based policy-making. Secondly, the scientific output of Southeast Asian countries is rising, as is the number of international research collaborations with the second area of our interest: Europe. Against this background, we employ basic bibliometric methodology in order to draw a picture of Southeast Asian research strengths as well the amount and focus of S&T cooperation between the countries in Southeast Asia and the European Union. The results can prove useful for an interested public as well as for the scientific community and science, technology and innovation policy-making. AUTHOR ADDRESS: SU Hassan, AIT Asian Inst Technol, POB 4, Klongluang 12120, Pathumthani, Thailand -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: On the age-independent publication index (Article, English) AUTHOR: Sangwal, K SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 91 (3). JUN 2012. p.1053-1058 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005 KEYWORDS: Age-independent index alpha; Citation acceleration a; Hirsch index h; Hirsch constant A KEYWORDS+: OUTPUT ABSTRACT: It is shown that the age-independent index based on h- type index per decade, called hereafter an alpha index instead of the a index, suggested by Kosmulski (Journal of Informetrics 3, 341-347, 2009) and Abt (Scientometrics 2012) is related to the square-root of the ratio of citation acceleration a to the Hirsch constant A. AUTHOR ADDRESS: K Sangwal, Lublin Univ Technol, Dept Appl Phys, Ul Nadbystrzycka 38, PL-20618 Lublin, Poland -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Comments on "a bibliometric study of the trend in articles related to eutrophication published in Science Citation Index" (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Chuang, KY; Ho, YS SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 91 (3). JUN 2012. p.1061-1065 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): SCIENCE CITATION INDEX item_title; BIBLIOMETR* item_title; CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title; EDITORIAL doctype AUTHOR ADDRESS: YS Ho, Asia Univ, Trend Res Ctr, 500 Lioufeng Rd, Wufeng 41354, Taichung County, Taiwan -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Response to Chuang and Ho's comments on "a bibliometric study of the trend in articles related to eutrophication published in Science Citation Index" (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Huang, Y; Wang, J SOURCE: SCIENTOMETRICS 91 (3). JUN 2012. p.1067-1071 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): SCIENCE CITATION INDEX item_title; BIBLIOMETR* item_title; CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title; EDITORIAL doctype KEYWORDS: Eutrophication; Eutrophic; Bibliometric; SCI ABSTRACT: This note is a response Chuang and Ho's comments regarding to the appropriate selection of keywords for a bibliometric study entitled "a bibliometric study of the trend in articles related to eutrophication published in Science Citation Index" published in Scientometrics. Chuang's inquiry was Huang and Yi's careless use of filter, which had committed inaccurate results and wrong conclusions. This short note will explain the authors' arguments to Chuang and Ho's inquiry in two folds, the conceptual analysis of keywords selection, and bibliometric comparison between 'eutrophication' and 'eutrophication and eutrophic'. AUTHOR ADDRESS: J Wang, Peking Univ, Coll Environm Sci & Engn, 5 Yiheyuan Rd, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Four decades of health economics through a bibliometric lens (Article, English) AUTHOR: Wagstaff, A; Culyer, AJ SOURCE: JOURNAL OF HEALTH ECONOMICS 31 (2). MAR 2012. p.406-439 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS: Health economics; Bibliometrics; History of economic thought KEYWORDS+: MEDICAL-CARE; HOSPITALIZED-PATIENTS; WELFARE ECONOMICS; ADVERSE EVENTS; INSURANCE; SERVICES; DEMAND; PRICE; INSTITUTIONS; SATISFACTION ABSTRACT: In this paper, we take a bibliometric tour of the last forty years of health economics using bibliographic "metadata" from EconLit supplemented by citation data from Google Scholar and our own topical classifications. We report the growth of health economics (we find 33,000 publications since 1969-12,000 more than in the economics of education) and list the 300 most-cited publications broken down by topic. We report the changing topical and geographic focus of health economics (the topics 'Determinants of health and ill-health' and 'Health statistics and econometrics' both show an upward trend, and the field has expanded appreciably into the developing world). We also compare authors, countries, institutions and journals in terms of the volume of publications and their influence as measured through various citation- based indices (Grossman, the US, Harvard and the JHE emerge close to or at the top on a variety of measures). (C) 2012 World Bank. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Wagstaff, World Bank, Dev Res Grp, 1818 H St NW, Washington, DC 20433 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A review of power laws in real life phenomena (Review, English) AUTHOR: Pinto, CMA; Lopes, AM; Machado, JAT SOURCE: COMMUNICATIONS IN NONLINEAR SCIENCE AND NUMERICAL SIMULATION 17 (9). SEP 2012. p.3558-3578 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth KEYWORDS: Power law behavior; Parento law; Zipf law; Heavy tail distributions; Applications KEYWORDS+: SELF-ORGANIZED CRITICALITY; CITY SIZE DISTRIBUTION; FOREST-FIRE MODEL; WORLD-WIDE-WEB; ZIPFS LAW; PARETO LAW; INCOME-DISTRIBUTION; CITIES; SCALE; EXPLANATION ABSTRACT: Power law distributions, also known as heavy tail distributions, model distinct real life phenomena in the areas of biology, demography, computer science, economics, information theory, language, and astronomy, amongst others. In this paper, it is presented a review of the literature having in mind applications and possible explanations for the use of power laws in real phenomena. We also unravel some controversies around power laws. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: CMA Pinto, Univ Porto, Inst Super Engn Porto, Ctr Matemat, Rua Dr Antonio Bernardino de Almeida 431, P-4200072 Oporto, Portugal From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Sun Jun 3 10:47:02 2012 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2012 10:47:02 -0400 Subject: U.S. OA Petition: 24,563 down, 437 signatures to go Message-ID: 24,563 down, 437 signatures to go: Please be the one to put the Open Access Petition to President Obama over the top: wh.gov/6TH Any adult worldwide can sign. Stevan Harnad -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Mon Jun 4 18:18:33 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 22:18:33 +0000 Subject: papers that might interest readers of SIG Metrics Message-ID: Title: PAV: A novel model for ranking heterogeneous objects in bibliographic information networks Authors: Deng, ZH; Lai, BY; Wang, ZH; Fang, GD Author Full Names: Deng, Zhi-Hong; Lai, Bo-Yan; Wang, Zhong-Hui; Fang, Guo-Dong Source: EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS, 39 (10):9788-9796; 10.1016/j.eswa.2012.02.175 AUG 2012 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Bibliographic information networks, Link analysis, Ranking, Regular Markov chain KeyWords Plus: INDEX; IMPACT Abstract: Bibliographic information networks, formed by online bibliographic databases, such as ACM Digital Library and IEEE/IET Electronic Library, contain abundant information about authors, papers, venues (journals/conferences), and have been widely studies in recent years. However, few studies examine the problem of ranking objects in these networks. In this paper, we study this problem and present a novel model, called PAV, for ranking heterogeneous objects, such as authors, papers, and venues. Based on PAV model, we transform the problem of ranking objects into the problem of estimating probability distribution. We propose an efficient algorithm to estimate probability parameters by use of the fact that the PAV model is a regular Markov chain. For evaluating PAV model, we apply it on one real dataset, which was crawled from ACM Digital Library. The experimental results show that the proposed model is effective. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Reprint Address: Deng, ZH (reprint author), Peking Univ, Key Lab Machine Percept, Minist Educ, Sch Elect Engn & Comp Sci, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China Addresses: [Deng, Zhi-Hong; Lai, Bo-Yan; Wang, Zhong-Hui; Fang, Guo-Dong] Peking Univ, Key Lab Machine Percept, Minist Educ, Sch Elect Engn & Comp Sci, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China [Deng, Zhi-Hong] Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Software, State Key Lab Comp Sci, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China E-mail Address: zhdeng at cis.pku.edu.cn Funding Acknowledgement: National Natural Science Foundation of China[61170091]; National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program)[2009AA01Z136] Funding Text: This work is partially supported by Project 61170091 supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China and Project 2009AA01Z136 supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program). Cited Reference Count: 26 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, THE BOULEVARD, LANGFORD LANE, KIDLINGTON, OXFORD OX5 1GB, ENGLAND Cited References: Tang J., 2008, Sun Y., 2008, Garfield E, 1998, SCIENTIST, V12, P11 Bensman SJ, 1998, LIBRARY RESOURCES & TECHNICAL SERVICES, V42, P147 Kleinberg JM, 1999, JOURNAL OF THE ACM, V46, P604 Hwang H., 2006, Manning C.D., 2008, Introduction to information retrieval, Egghe Leo, 2006, SCIENTOMETRICS, V69, P131 Burrell Quentin L., 2007, SCIENTOMETRICS, V73, P19 Sun Y., 2009, Wang C., 2010, EGGHE L, 2006, ISSI NEWSLETTER, V2, P8 Tang J., 2007, Frandsen TF, 2005, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V56, P58 Peter K., 2009, Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, V49, P1630 Yin X., 2006, Tang J., 2008, GARFIELD E, 1972, SCIENCE, V178, P471 Sun Y., 2009, Hirsch JE, 2005, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V102, P16569 Grinstead C., 1997, Introduction to probability, Trivedi KS, 2002, Probability & statistics with reliability, queuing and computer science applications, Sun Y., 2009, Balmin A., 2004, Brin S., 1998, JAMES H, 1989, ECONOMETRICA, V57, P357 ======================================================================= Title: Three-feature model *to* reproduce the topology of citation networks and the effects from authors' visibility on their h-*index* Authors: Amancio, DR; Oliveira, ON; Costa, LD Author Full Names: Amancio, Diego Raphael; Oliveira, Osvaldo Novais, Jr.; Costa, Luciano da Fontoura Source: JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, 6 (3):427-434; 10.1016/j.joi.2012.02.005 JUL 2012 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Scientometry, h-Index, Citation networks, Complex networks, Network model KeyWords Plus: COMPLEX NETWORKS; IMPACT; DISTRIBUTIONS; JOURNALS; DYNAMICS; QUALITY; LAW Abstract: Various factors are believed to govern the selection of references in citation networks, but a precise, quantitative determination of their importance has remained elusive. In this paper, we show that three factors can account for the referencing pattern of citation networks for two topics, namely "graphenes" and "complex networks", thus allowing one to reproduce the topological features of the networks built with papers being the nodes and the edges established by citations. The most relevant factor was content similarity, while the other two - in-degree (i.e. citation counts) and age of publication - had varying importance depending on the topic studied. This dependence indicates that additional factors could play a role. Indeed, by intuition one should expect the reputation (or visibility) of authors and/or institutions to affect the referencing pattern, and this is only indirectly considered via the in-degree that should correlate with such reputation. Because informatio! n on reputation is not readily available, we simulated its effect on artificial citation networks considering two communities with distinct fitness (visibility) parameters. One community was assumed to have twice the fitness value of the other, which amounts to a double probability for a paper being cited. While the h-index for authors in the community with larger fitness evolved with time with slightly higher values than for the control network (no fitness considered), a drastic effect was noted for the community with smaller fitness. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Reprint Address: Amancio, DR (reprint author), Univ Sao Paulo, Inst Phys Sao Carlos, POB 369, BR-13560970 Sao Carlos, SP, Brazil Addresses: [Amancio, Diego Raphael; Oliveira, Osvaldo Novais, Jr.; Costa, Luciano da Fontoura] Univ Sao Paulo, Inst Phys Sao Carlos, BR-13560970 Sao Carlos, SP, Brazil E-mail Address: diego.amancio at usp.br Cited Reference Count: 25 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 1751-1577 Web of Science Category: Information Science & Library Science Cited References: Costas Rodrigo, 2007, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V1, P193 Stremersch Stefan, 2007, JOURNAL OF MARKETING, V71, P171 Menczer F, 2004, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V101, P5261 Egghe L, 2005, POWER LAWS IN THE INFORMATION PRODUCTION PROCESS: LOTKAIAN INFORMETRICS, P1 Bauke H., 2007, EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL B, V58, P167 Ball P, 2005, NATURE, V436, P900 Press W. 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H., 2005, Physica A, V346, P44 Albert R, 2002, REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS, V74, P47 Newman MEJ, 2005, CONTEMPORARY PHYSICS, V46, P323 Boccaletti S., 2006, PHYSICS REPORTS-REVIEW SECTION OF PHYSICS LETTERS, V424, P175 Alonso S., 2009, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V3, P273 ======================================================================= ======================================================================= Title: Shaping the landscape of *research* in information systems from the perspective of editorial boards: A scientometric study of 77 leading journals Authors: Cabanac, G Author Full Names: Cabanac, Guillaume Source: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 63 (5):977-996; 10.1002/asi.22609 MAY 2012 Author Keywords: scientometrics, scholarly communication, gatekeepers KeyWords Plus: SCIENCE JOURNALS; IMPACT FACTOR; GATEKEEPERS; INFORMETRICS; INDICATOR Abstract: Characteristics of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology and 76 other journals listed in the Information Systems category of the Journal Citation ReportsScience edition 2009 were analyzed. Besides reporting usual bibliographic indicators, we investigated the human cornerstone of any peer-reviewed journal: its editorial board. Demographic data about the 2,846 gatekeepers serving in information systems (IS) editorial boards were collected. We discuss various scientometric indicators supported by descriptive statistics. Our findings reflect the great variety of IS journals in terms of research output, author communities, editorial boards, and gatekeeper demographics (e.g., diversity in gender and location), seniority, authority, and degree of involvement in editorial boards. We believe that these results may help the general public and scholars (e.g., readers, authors, journal gatekeepers, policy makers) to revise and increase their knowledg! e of scholarly communication in the IS field. The EB_IS_2009 dataset supporting this scientometric study is released as online supplementary material to this article to foster further research on editorial boards. Reprint Address: Cabanac, G (reprint author), Univ Toulouse, Dept Comp Sci, CNRS, IRIT,UMR 5505, 118 Route Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse 9, France Addresses: Univ Toulouse, Dept Comp Sci, CNRS, IRIT,UMR 5505, F-31062 Toulouse 9, France E-mail Address: guillaume.cabanac at univ-tlse3.fr Cited Reference Count: 56 Publisher: WILEY-BLACKWELL, COMMERCE PLACE, 350 MAIN ST, MALDEN 02148, MA USA Cited References: CRANE D, 1967, AMERICAN SOCIOLOGIST, V2, P195 GIBBONS JD, 1991, JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC EDUCATION, V22, P361 Stross R., 2008, The New York Times, PBU4 Rennie D, 1997, JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, V278, P579 Cronin B, 2001, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V52, P558 Powell K., 2010, Nature, V464, P800 Mallig Nicolai, 2010, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V4, P564 WILLIAMSON DF, 1989, ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE, V110, P916 KAMADA T, 1989, INFORMATION PROCESSING LETTERS, V31, P7 Baccini Alberto, 2011, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V5, P382 De Palma P, 2001, COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM, V44, P27 Ley M., 2002, V2476, P1 Poder Endel, 2010, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V61, P2593 Garcia-Carpintero Esther, 2010, SCIENTOMETRICS, V84, P799 Cronin Blaise, 2011, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V62, P1215 Hood WW, 2001, SCIENTOMETRICS, V52, P291 Cronin Blaise, 2009, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V60, P1949 HARMAN D, 1991, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE, V42, P7 2009, The Journal Gatekeeping Indicator for evaluation of science and scientists, Miguel Campanario Juan, 2006, SCIENTOMETRICS, V69, P37 Elmacioglu E, 2005, SIGMOD RECORD, V34, P33 Braun T, 2005, SCIENTOMETRICS, V62, P297 Braun T., 2005, P95 Miguel Campanario Juan, 2011, SCIENTOMETRICS, V87, P189 Dewatripont M., 2006, Final Report, Deng Hongbo, 2008, ICDM 2008: EIGHTH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATA MINING, PROCEEDINGS, P163 Braun Tibor, 2007, SCIENTOMETRICS, V71, P155 GARFIELD E, 1955, SCIENCE, V122, P108 ZSINDELY S, 1982, SCIENTOMETRICS, V4, P57 Fiala Dalibor, 2011, SCIENTOMETRICS, V86, P553 Cronin B., 2009, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, V60, P645 Bar-Ilan Judit, 2008, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V2, P1 SALTON G, 1979, JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION, V35, P1 FARIA JR, 2005, B ECON RES, V57, P1 Bar-Ilan Judit, 2010, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V4, P141 Viegas Fernanda B., 2009, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VISUALIZATION AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS, V15, P1137 FREYNE J, 2010, COMMUN ACM, V53, P124 Nisonger TE, 2002, SCIENTOMETRICS, V54, P257 Ley M., 2009, Proceedings of VLDB Endowment, V2, P1493 Cronin Blaise, 2009, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V60, P1 Braun T, 2005, SCIENTOMETRICS, V64, P113 Borner K., 2010, Atlas of science: Visualizing what we know, Manning C.D., 2008, Introduction to information retrieval, Bar-Ilan Judit, 2010, SCIENTOMETRICS, V83, P809 Cronin Blaise, 2009, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V60, P2387 Sin Sei-Ching Joanna, 2011, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V62, P1770 Laine C., 2005, Annals of Internal Medicine, V144, P149 Miguel Campanario Juan, 2011, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V62, P230 Cabanac Guillaume, 2011, SCIENTOMETRICS, V87, P597 Bedeian Arthur G., 2009, ORGANIZATIONAL RESEARCH METHODS, V12, P211 Lowe D.J., 2009, Journal of Accounting Education, V27, P197 Wolfram D, 2006, SCIENTOMETRICS, V67, P301 Braun Tibor, 2007, SCIENTOMETRICS, V71, P541 Baccini Alberto, 2010, SCIENTOMETRICS, V82, P365 Glanzel W, 2002, SCIENTOMETRICS, V53, P171 Merton R.K., 1973, The sociology of science: Theoretical and empirical investigations, ======================================================================= Title: The Hirsch *index* of a shifted Lotka function and its relation with the *impact factor* Authors: Egghe, L; Rousseau, R Author Full Names: Egghe, Leo; Rousseau, Ronald Source: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 63 (5):1048-1053; 10.1002/asi.22617 MAY 2012 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: bibliometrics KeyWords Plus: H-INDEX; MODEL Abstract: Based on earlier results about the shifted Lotka function, we prove an implicit functional relation between the Hirsch index (h-index) and the total number of sources (T). It is shown that the corresponding function, h(T), is concavely increasing. Next, we construct an implicit relation between the h-index and the *impact factor* IF (an average number of items per source). The corresponding function h(IF) is increasing and we show that if the parameter C in the numerator of the shifted Lotka function is high, then the relation between the h-index and the *impact factor* is almost linear. Reprint Address: Egghe, L (reprint author), Univ Hasselt UHasselt, Campus Diepenbeek, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium Addresses: [Egghe, Leo] Univ Hasselt UHasselt, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium [Egghe, Leo; Rousseau, Ronald] Univ Antwerp, IBW, B-2000 Antwerp, Belgium [Rousseau, Ronald] KHBO Assoc KU Leuven, Fac Engn Technol, B-8400 Oostende, Belgium [Rousseau, Ronald] Katholieke Univ Leuven, Dept Math, B-3000 Heverlee, Belgium E-mail Address: leo.egghe at uhasselt.be; ronald.rousseau at khbo.be Funding Acknowledgement: NSFC[7101017006] Funding Text: The authors thank the anonymous reviewers for helpful comments, leading to an improved publication. Work of R. Rousseau is supported by the NSFC grant No. 7101017006. Cited Reference Count: 11 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: WILEY-BLACKWELL, COMMERCE PLACE, 350 MAIN ST, MALDEN 02148, MA USA Cited References: Hodge David R., 2011, RESEARCH ON SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE, V21, P222 Egghe L., 1000, Scientometrics, Burrell Quentin L., 2008, INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT, V44, P1794 Egghe Leo, 2009, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V60, P2362 Hirsch JE, 2005, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V102, P16569 Glanzel Wolfgang, 2010, SCIENTOMETRICS, V83, P697 Lotka A.J., 1926, Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, V16, P317 Egghe Leo, 2011, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V62, P1637 Egghe L, 2005, POWER LAWS IN THE INFORMATION PRODUCTION PROCESS: LOTKAIAN INFORMETRICS, P1 Frandsen TF, 2005, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V56, P58 Egghe Leo, 2006, SCIENTOMETRICS, V69, P121 ======================================================================= Title: *Scientific* subject categories of Web of Knowledge ranked according *to* their multidimensional prestige of influential journals Authors: Garcia, JA; Rodriguez-Sanchez, R; Fdez-Valdivia, J Author Full Names: Garcia, J. A.; Rodriguez-Sanchez, Rosa; Fdez-Valdivia, J. Source: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 63 (5):1017-1029; 10.1002/asi.22615 MAY 2012 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: scientometrics, informetrics, impact factor KeyWords Plus: POVERTY; SCOPUS; IMPACT Abstract: A journal may be considered as having dimension-specific prestige when its score, based on a given journal ranking model, exceeds a threshold value. But a journal has multidimensional prestige only if it is a prestigious journal with respect to a number of dimensionse.g., Institute for Scientific Information *Impact Factor*, immediacy index, eigenfactor score, and article influence score. The multidimensional prestige of influential journals takes into account the fact that several prestige indicators should be used for a distinct analysis of the impact of scholarly journals in a subject category. After having identified the multidimensionally influential journals, their prestige scores can be aggregated to produce a summary measure of multidimensional prestige for a subject category, which satisfies numerous properties. Using this measure of multidimensional prestige to rank subject categories, we have found the top scientific subject categories of Web of Knowledge as of 20! 10. Reprint Address: Garcia, JA (reprint author), Univ Granada, Dept Ciencias Comp & IA, E-18071 Granada, Spain Addresses: [Garcia, J. A.; Rodriguez-Sanchez, Rosa; Fdez-Valdivia, J.] Univ Granada, Dept Ciencias Comp & IA, E-18071 Granada, Spain E-mail Address: jags at decsai.ugr.es; rosa at decsai.ugr.es; jfv at decsai.ugr.es Funding Acknowledgement: Spanish Board for Science and Technology (MICINN)[TIN2010-15157]; European FEDER Funding Text: This research was sponsored by the Spanish Board for Science and Technology (MICINN) under Grant No. TIN2010-15157 cofinanced with European FEDER funds. 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Two-year citations of JAPPL original articles: evidence of a relative age effect. J Appl Physiol 112: 1434-1436, 2012. First published March 1, 2012; doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.01491.2011.-Several indicators have been used to analyze scientific journals, with the *impact factor* and the number of citations in a 2-yr calendar time frame (2-YRC) being the most common factors. However, considering that the Journal of Applied Physiology (JAPPL) appears monthly and that calculations of these indicators are based on citations of papers published in previous years, we hypothesized that articles published at the beginning of the year would be cited more in the 2-YRC compared with those appearing in the last issues of the year, a phenomena known as a relative age effect. Our objective was to confirm the existence of a relative age effec! t in the 2-YRC for original articles published in JAPPL. From 2005 to 2008, a total of 1,726 original articles were published, according to the Web of Science, and 9,973 citations in 2-YRC, varying from 0 to 45, with a mean of 5.78 for individual papers. Although there were no differences in the number of original articles published in a given month (P = 0.99), the 2-YRC varied considerably throughout the year, being higher for those earlier issues of the year, as shown by the linear regression analysis (r(2) = 0.76; P < 0.001). The 2-YRC began at 6.62 during the first 3 mo of the year, dropping by 10% at each 3-mo period. In summary, the longer an article has been out there, the more citations it collects. The relative age effect is a potential confounding variable for the assessment and interpretation of 2-YRC (using calendar years) from JAPPL original articles. Reprint Address: de Araujo, CGS (reprint author), Clinimex, Exercise Med Clin, Rua Siqueira Campos 93-101, BR-22031070 Rio De Janeiro, RJ, Brazil Addresses: [Soares de Araujo, Claudio Gil] Clinimex, Exercise Med Clin, BR-22031070 Rio De Janeiro, RJ, Brazil [Soares de Araujo, Claudio Gil; Ramalho de Oliveira, Bruno Ribeiro; de Oliveira Brito, Leticia Vargas; da Matta, Thiago Torres; Viana, Bruno Ferreira; de Souza, Cintia Pereira; Guerreiro, Renato de Carvalho; Slama, Fabian Antonio; Mello Portugal, Eduardo da Matta] Univ Gama Filho, Exercise & Sport Sci Grad Program, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil E-mail Address: cgaraujo at iis.com.br Funding Acknowledgement: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico-Brazil (CNPq); Fundacao Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro-Brazil (FAPERJ) Funding Text: This study was partially supported by research grants and graduate scholarships from Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico-Brazil (CNPq) and Fundacao Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro-Brazil (FAPERJ). 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A., 2010, PLOS ONE, V5, Adler R, 2008, Citation statistics, Wuchty Stefan, 2007, SCIENCE, V316, P1036 Garfield E, 2005, Noorden R, 2010, Nature, V465, P864 1000, The Thomson Reuters Impact-Factor, Mabe M., 2003, Serials, V16, P191 2005, Nature, V435, P1003 2001, AWMF-Vorschlag zur Verwendung des Impact-Faktors, ======================================================================= Title: Australasian Plant Pathology: *an* analysis of authorship and citations in the 21st century Authors: Calver, MC; O'Brien, PA; Lilith, M Author Full Names: Calver, M. C.; O'Brien, P. A.; Lilith, M. Source: AUSTRALASIAN PLANT PATHOLOGY, 41 (2):179-187; 10.1007/s13313-011-0106-2 2012 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Australasian Plant Pathology, Citation, Bibliometrics, SNIP, SJR KeyWords Plus: JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; CONSERVATION-BIOLOGY; PHAEOMONIELLA-CHLAMYDOSPORA; SOILBORNE DISEASES; CROWN ROT; RANKINGS; IDENTIFICATION; PATHOGENICITY; SCIENCE; DECLINE Abstract: To better inform editorial planning, we analysed Australasian Plant Pathology's (APP) authorship and readership 2001-2010. Authors came from Australia (57%), the Americas (Canada, USA and South American countries) (11%), New Zealand (7%), other Pacific and Asian countries (9%), Europe (5%) and other nations (11%), with the Australian contribution declining over the decade. Most authors were government employees (55% overall), but this category declined from 58% in 2001 to 46% in 2010. Academic authors (40% in 2001 to 49% in 2010) and other authors (2% in 2001 to 5% in 2010) increased. Using Scopus (December 2010), >= 73% of papers between 2001 and 2007 were cited >= 1, declining to 19% in 2010. Authors citing APP came from 114 countries (ISI Web of Science's cited reference feature, December 2010). Compared to 23 plant pathology journals over 2002-2007, APP ranked 15th over 10 journal usage statistics. In cluster analysis APP was closest to Journal of Phytopathology, Forest ! Pathology and Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology. Given its increasing proportion of authors from outside Australia, the many countries citing it and its usage relative to similar journals, APP makes a broad regional contribution with global recognition. The editorial challenge is to identify and solicit the 'new and significant work' that the journal web site claims to prioritise for publication. Reprint Address: Calver, MC (reprint author), Murdoch Univ, Sch Biol Sci & Biotechnol, Murdoch, WA 6150, Australia Addresses: [Calver, M. C.; O'Brien, P. A.; Lilith, M.] Murdoch Univ, Sch Biol Sci & Biotechnol, Murdoch, WA 6150, Australia E-mail Address: m.calver at murdoch.edu.au Funding Acknowledgement: Australasian Society of Plant Pathology Funding Text: We thank, without implication, two anonymous reviewers for detailed comments on early drafts. We also thank Belinda Cale for preparing the figure. The Australasian Society of Plant Pathology provided financial support. 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Source: AUSTRALIAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCHER, 39 (2):221-235; 10.1007/s13384-012-0060-1 MAY 2012 Author Keywords: Citation measures, Bibliometrics, Research impact, Educational research, Publication KeyWords Plus: GOOGLE SCHOLAR; H-INDEX; PERFORMANCE; COUNTS; SCOPUS; IMPACT; WEB Abstract: Individual researchers and the organisations for which they work are interested in comparative measures of research performance for a variety of purposes. Such comparisons are facilitated by quantifiable measures that are easily obtained and offer convenience and a sense of objectivity. One popular measure is the journal *impact factor*, based on citation rates, but it is a measure intended for journals rather than individuals. Moreover, educational research publications are not well represented in the databases most widely used for calculation of citation measures, leading to doubts about the usefulness of such measures in education. Newer measures and data sources offer alternatives that provide wider representation of education research. However, research has shown that citation rates vary according to discipline and that valid comparisons depend upon the availability of discipline-specific benchmarks. This study sought to provide such benchmarks for Australian educationa! l researchers based on analysis of citation measures obtained for the Australian education professoriate. Reprint Address: Albion, PR (reprint author), Univ So Queensland, Toowoomba, Qld 4350, Australia Addresses: Univ So Queensland, Toowoomba, Qld 4350, Australia E-mail Address: Peter.Albion at usq.edu.au Cited Reference Count: 29 ======================================================================= Title: Analysis of publications on infectious diseases. a comparative study of ten countries in the period 2000-2009 Authors: Inigo, J; Chaves, F Author Full Names: Inigo, Jesus; Chaves, Fernando Source: ENFERMEDADES INFECCIOSAS Y MICROBIOLOGIA CLINICA, 30 (5):236-242; 10.1016/j.eimc.2011.10.017 MAY 2012 Language: Spanish Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Literature analysis, Scientific publications, Infectious diseases, International collaboration KeyWords Plus: JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; HIRSCHS H-INDEX; SCIENTIFIC-RESEARCH; BIOMEDICAL-RESEARCH; BIBLIOMETRIC MAP; EUROPEAN-UNION; SCIENCE; SPAIN; INDICATORS; ARTICLES Abstract: Objective: We analyse the productivity and visibility of Spanish publications on the subject category of infectious diseases in the period 2000-2009 and compared with the corresponding nine other countries. Methods: We used the database Web of Science. Analysis (annual and five-year) was restricted to the citable documents. The bibliometric indicators used were the number of publications, the amount of citations, median and interquartile range of the citations and the h-index Hirsch. Results: There were 76,491 publications (84.1% were original articles) with a percentage increase of 20% between the two periods. The ten countries with over 50,000 citations were the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada, Holland, Spain, Italy, Switzerland and Australia. 24.8% of publications in international collaboration was made and received 29.9% of the total citations. 47.1% of the publications corresponding to the first quartile journals and received 68.1% of the total citations. The median of citations for all publications was 9 (interquartile range: 4-21). Spain was the fifth country in the world by number of publications, the seventh by citations received, and the eighth by the h index. Spain was the country with the lowest percentage of publications in the first quartile (40.2%), and international collaboration (26.7%). Conclusions: In the period 2000-2009 analysed we observed a high production of publications by Spanish authors, with a high growth rate, and a prominent position in the total number of citations received by publications. (C) 2011 Elsevier Espana, S.L. All rights reserved. Reprint Address: Inigo, J (reprint author), Consejeria Sanidad Comunidad Madrid, Com Et Invest Clin Reg, Madrid, Spain Addresses: [Inigo, Jesus] Consejeria Sanidad Comunidad Madrid, Com Et Invest Clin Reg, Madrid, Spain [Chaves, Fernando] Hosp Univ 12 Octubre, Microbiol Serv, Madrid, Spain E-mail Address: jesus.inigo at salud.madrid.org Cited Reference Count: 26 ======================================================== Title: Influence ratio: *An* alternate means *to* assess the relative influence of hospitality and tourism journals on *research* Authors: McKercher, B Author Full Names: McKercher, Bob Source: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT, 31 (3):962-971; 10.1016/j.ijhm.2011.11.004 SEP 2012 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Journal influence, Influence ratio, Citations, Bibliometrics KeyWords Plus: IMPACT FACTOR; CITATION INDICATORS; EIGENFACTOR; RANKING Abstract: This paper proposes an alternative metric to assess the relative influence journals have on research by using an influence ratio measure. Hospitality and tourism journals are used as a case study. Influence ratio enables a suite of journals to be evaluated through the calculation of a score for each journal that reflects the share of citations and the share of papers it produces against all citations and all papers in the set. A higher influence ratio score signifies that a journal is proportionately more influential, for it generates a greater share of citations than the share of papers published would suggest. The study evaluated three sets of hospitality and tourism journals (17 hospitality, 41 tourism and a combined set of 54 hospitality and tourism journals). The study illustrates the efficacy of using the influence ratio metric. A small number of journals in each field play a disproportionately strong influence in informing scholarship, with a long tail of relatively l! ess influential journals observed. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Reprint Address: McKercher, B (reprint author), Hong Kong Polytech Univ, Sch Hotel & Tourism Management, Kowloon, Hong Kong, Peoples R China Addresses: Hong Kong Polytech Univ, Sch Hotel & Tourism Management, Kowloon, Hong Kong, Peoples R China E-mail Address: hmbob at polyu.edu.hk Cited Reference Count: 30 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: ELSEVIER SCI LTD, THE BOULEVARD, LANGFORD LANE, KIDLINGTON, OXFORD OX5 1GB, OXON, ENGLAND Cited References: Dahiya A., 2011, Tourism and Hospitality journals, 2011, MIS journal Rankings, 2011, List of Academic Journals, Lancho-Barrantes Barbara S., 2010, JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE, V36, P371 Greenwood Darren C., 2007, BMC MEDICAL RESEARCH METHODOLOGY, V7, Stringer Michael J., 2008, PLOS ONE, V3, Moed F., 2009, Measuring Contextual Citation Impact of Scientific Journals, V13, Vaughan L, 2002, ASLIB PROCEEDINGS, V54, P356 Grzybowski Andrzej, 2009, MEDICAL SCIENCE MONITOR, V15, PSR1 2011, Tourism, Hospitality and Leisure Journals, Ryan C, 2005, TOURISM MANAGEMENT, V26, P657 Sheldon P. 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R., 1994, International Journal of Hospitality Management, V13, P209 Buhalis D., 2011, Posting on TRINET, ======================================================================= ======================================================================= Title: Publication Bias in the Anesthesiology Literature Authors: De Oliveira, GS; Chang, R; Kendall, MC; Fitzgerald, PC; McCarthy, RJ Author Full Names: De Oliveira, Gildasio S., Jr.; Chang, Ray; Kendall, Mark C.; Fitzgerald, Paul C.; McCarthy, Robert J. Source: ANESTHESIA AND ANALGESIA, 114 (5):1042-1048; 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3182468fc6 MAY 2012 Language: English Document Type: Article KeyWords Plus: JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; CLINICAL-RESEARCH; CONTROLLED TRIALS; COHORT Abstract: BACKGROUND: Publication bias occurs because positive finding studies are more likely to be published. The dearth of studies of negative or equivalence findings can erroneously affect future research and potentially clinical care of patients. We hypothesized that positive studies were more likely to be published than negative studies in anesthesiology journals with a higher impact and circulation. METHODS: A PubMed search for controlled trials in humans published in peer-reviewed anesthesiology journals during 2008 and 2009 was performed. Fourteen anesthesiology journals and 1163 studies were evaluated. The average clinical trial *impact factor* (average citations per article) for each journal was determined. The quartiles for the clinical trial *impact factor* for the journals included in the analysis were 4, 6.1, and 9.1. Studies were scored by 2 raters as positive or negative results of the primary stated outcome. Factors previously associated with publication were also extracted. The primary outcome, the proportion of positive and negative studies in the journals in the upper quartile of the clinical trial *impact factor* to the lower quartiles was compared using the Fisher exact test. The odds ratio for the effect of positive study results adjusted for other characteristics associated with publication was determined using binary logistic regression. A multinomial! logistic regression model was fitted for the journals with an *impact factor* in the upper quartile with adjustment for study trial registration, origin of publication, positive study findings, reporting of treatment blinding, reporting of subject withdrawals, study sponsorship, and description of the randomization method. RESULTS: Positive finding studies were identified in 72% (425 of 588) of articles in journals with a clinical trial *impact factor* >9.1 compared with 53% (308 of 575) in journals <9.1 (P < 0.001). After adjusting for factors associated with publication, positive study results had an odds ratio (95% confidence interval) of 2.28 (1.76-3.01) for publication in an anesthesiology journal in the upper quartile. Multinomial logistic regression identified positive study findings associated with an increased likelihood of publication in 3 of the 4 anesthesiology journals with a clinical trial *impact factor* >9.1. CONCLUSION: This study reports the presence of publication bias in the anesthesiology literature especially in higher clinical trial *impact factor* journals. Publication bias can have potential implications for future research and the clinical care of patients. Authors should be encouraged to submit negative studies to high impact journals and the journals should be encouraged to evaluate the editorial process as the cause of publication bias. 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JUN 2012. p.67 WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: History of scientific peer review in medicine, medical publications and urology journals (Meeting Abstract, English) AUTHOR: Khan, RS SOURCE: BJU INTERNATIONAL 109 (SUPPL SP ISS). JUN 2012. p.68 WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNALS item_title -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A Bibliometric View on the Use of Contingency Theory in Project Management Research (Review, English) AUTHOR: Hanisch, B; Wald, A SOURCE: PROJECT MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 43 (3). JUN 2012. p.4-23 WILEY PERIODICALS, INC, MALDEN SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS: projects; project management; temporary organization; contingency theory; contingency factors; bibliometric study KEYWORDS+: INTELLECTUAL STRUCTURE; ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE; PRODUCT INNOVATION; SUCCESS FACTORS; PERFORMANCE; FRAMEWORK; FIT; COORDINATION; UNCERTAINTY; TECHNOLOGY ABSTRACT: Contingency theory has influenced organization theory since the 1950s. Project management research has only recently started to consider context factors. In this area, applications of contingency theory still represent a fragmented field with a nonuniform use of terminology. Fully utilizing the contingency theory approach requires a systematic foundation. This article presents an overview of contingency theory in both permanent and temporary organizations. In a bibliometric study based on 1,622 articles from four academic project management journals, we identify dominating authors, prevalent keywords, and different focal areas in project contingency theory as well as the most researched project types. AUTHOR ADDRESS: B Hanisch, EBS Business Sch, Dept Innovat Management & Entrepreneurship, Oestrich Winkel, Germany -------------------------------------------- TITLE: Citation Pattern Matching Algorithms for Citation-based Plagiarism Detection: Greedy Citation Tiling, Citation Chunking and Longest Common Citation Sequence (Article, English) AUTHOR: Gipp, B; Meuschke, N SOURCE: DOCENG 2011: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2011 ACM SYMPOSIUM ON DOCUMENT ENGINEERING. 2011. p.249-258 ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY, NEW YORK SEARCH TERM(S): GRIFFITH BC SCI STUD 4:339 1974; SMALL H SCI STUD 4:17 1974; CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 122:108 1955 KEYWORDS: Plagiarism Detection Systems; Citation-based; Citation Order Analysis; Citation Pattern Analysis KEYWORDS+: SCIENTIFIC LITERATURES; SCIENCE; STATE; WEB ABSTRACT: Plagiarism Detection Systems have been developed to locate instances of plagiarism e.g. within scientific papers. Studies have shown that the existing approaches deliver reasonable results in identifying copy&paste plagiarism, but fail to detect more sophisticated forms such as paraphrased, translated or idea plagiarism. The authors of this paper demonstrated in recent studies [4, 15] that the detection rate can be significantly improved by not only relying on text analysis, but by additionally analyzing the citations of a document. Citations are valuable language independent markers that are similar to a fingerprint. In fact, our examinations of real world cases have shown that the order of citations in a document often remains similar even if the text has been strongly paraphrased or translated in order to disguise plagiarism. This paper introduces three algorithms and discusses their suitability for the purpose of Citation-based Plagiarism Detection. Due to the numerous ways in which plagiarism can occur, these algorithms need to be versatile. They must be capable of detecting transpositions, scaling and combinations in a local and global form. The algorithms are coined Greedy Citation Tiling, Citation Chunking and Longest Common Citation Sequence. The evaluation showed that common forms of plagiarism can be detected reliably if these algorithms are combined. AUTHOR ADDRESS: B Gipp, OvGU, Magdeburg, Germany ------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Popular perceptions of welfare state consequences: A multilevel, cross-national analysis of 25 European countries (Article, English) AUTHOR: van Oorschot, W; Reeskens, T; Meuleman, B SOURCE: JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN SOCIAL POLICY 22 (2). MAY 2012. p.181-197 SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, LONDON SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth KEYWORDS: European Social Survey; multilevel analysis; perceived welfare state consequences; public opinion; welfare legitimacy KEYWORDS+: ATTITUDES; FINLAND; MATTER ABSTRACT: The societal effects of the welfare state are a perennial issue in the public debate. Critics accuse the welfare state of having unintended economic and moral consequences rather than producing its intended social goals. Popular perceptions of possible consequences of the welfare state are a crucial component of welfare state legitimacy, but have received hardly any scholarly attention. Using the 2008 wave of the European Social Survey, we analyse how European citizens perceive the consequences of the welfare state, whether perceived positive consequences outweigh the negative consequences, and to what extent consequence perceptions are determined by individual and country-level factors. The conclusion is that the European public has a clearer eye for the positive social than for negative economic and moral consequences. Moreover, at the individual level these perceptions are mainly influenced by ideational factors, while they are affected by welfare state generosity at the country level. Interestingly, in more developed welfare states the public perceives the negative, as well as the positive consequences more strongly. AUTHOR ADDRESS: W van Oorschot, Tilburg Univ, Dept Sociol, POB 90153, NL-5000 LE Tilburg, Netherlands -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Seed journal citation network maps: A method based on network theory (Article, English) AUTHOR: Medina, CMC; van Leeuwen, TN SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 63 (6). JUN 2012. p.1226-1234 WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 178:471 1972; PUDOVKIN AI J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 53:1113 2002 KEYWORDS: network analysis; citation analysis KEYWORDS+: SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS; RESEARCH PERFORMANCE; BIOLOGY JOURNALS; SCIENCE; IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTS; INDICATORS; EVOLUTION; AUTHOR; FIELD ABSTRACT: The study presented here shows a method based on network theory to identify the most important journals related to a given journal, the seed journal. In just one simple network map, we get the relevant citation environment of a specific seed journal. It is of interest to librarians, publishers, scientists and science policy makers. These journal citation network maps are useful for these various stakeholders in and around the science system, as they provide information on the level of journal connections, unlike the more traditional structures such as the Journal Subject Categories, the classification system applied in the products of Thomson Reuters (Journal Citation Reports, Web of Science, etc.). These network maps show the closest relations journals can have, based on citation relations, suggesting influence relations between journals in such a way that traditional field boundaries are transcended. AUTHOR ADDRESS: CMC Medina, Leiden Univ, Ctr Sci & Technol Studies CWTS, Wassenaarseweg 62A, NL-2333 AL Leiden, Netherlands -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Applying the Publication Power Approach to Artificial Intelligence Journals (Article, English) AUTHOR: Rokach, L SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 63 (6). JUN 2012. p.1270-1277 WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 295:90 2006 KEYWORDS: bibliographic records KEYWORDS+: AUTHOR-AFFILIATION-INDEX; IMPACT FACTOR; SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS; H-INDEX; QUALITY; MANAGEMENT; BUSINESS; SYSTEMS; RANKINGS ABSTRACT: This study evaluates the utility of a publication power approach (PPA) for assessing the quality of journals in the field of artificial intelligence. PPA is compared with the Thomson-Reuters Institute for Scientific Information (TR) 5-year and 2-year impact factors and with expert opinion. The ranking produced by the method under study is only partially correlated with citation-based measures (TR), but exhibits close agreement with expert survey rankings. A simple average of TR and power rankings results in a new ranking that is highly correlated with the expert survey rankings. This evidence suggests that power ranking can contribute to evaluating artificial intelligence journals. AUTHOR ADDRESS: L Rokach, Ben Gurion Univ Negev, Dept Informat Syst Engn, POB 653, IL-84105 Beer Sheva, Israel -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The bibliometric bandwagon: Characteristics of bibliometric articles outside the field literature. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (vol 63, pg 829, 2012) (Correction, English) AUTHOR: Jonkers, K; Derrick, GE SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 63 (6). JUN 2012. p.1280 WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A CONCEPTUAL SNAPSHOT OF THE FIRST DECADE (2002-2011) OF THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & DECISION MAKING (Article, English) AUTHOR: Lopez-Herrera, AG; Herrera-Viedma, E; Cobo, MJ; Martinez, MA; Kou, G; Shi, Y SOURCE: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & DECISION MAKING 11 (2). MAR 2012. p.247-270 WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD, SINGAPORE SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; CURRENT CONTENTS* rwork; HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973; JOURNAL item_title KEYWORDS: Science mapping; authomatic topic detection KEYWORDS+: CO-WORD ANALYSIS; FUZZY LINGUISTIC INFORMATION; ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; NEURAL- NETWORKS; SUPPORT-SYSTEM; RESEARCH TREND; MODEL; UNCERTAINTY; VARIABLES ABSTRACT: In this paper, we carry out a study about the main themes treated by the International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making during its first 10 years (2002-2011). The themes are detected, quantified and visualized using an approach that combines performance analysis and science mapping. Bibliometric maps based on co-word analysis will help us to visualize the division of the journal into several subfields and their relationships, providing interesting insight into the main topics being discussed in the journal in these years. In addition, the study will show the most productive themes (according to published papers) and the most impacting ones (according to received citations). AUTHOR ADDRESS: Y Shi, Chinese Acad Sci, Res Ctr Fictitious Econ & Data Sci, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: SCHOLARLY COMMUNITIES OF RESEARCH IN MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION MAKING: A BIBLIOMETRIC RESEARCH PROFILING STUDY (Article, English) AUTHOR: Bragge, J; Korhonen, P; Wallenius, H; Wallenius, J SOURCE: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & DECISION MAKING 11 (2). MAR 2012. p.401-426 WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD, SINGAPORE SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS: Multiple criteria decision making; research profiling; bibliometrics; text mining KEYWORDS+: CITATIONS; DRIVERS ABSTRACT: Electronic journal databases allow efficient retrieval and processing of bibliometric data, making possible enhanced literature reviews called research profiling studies. We have conducted such a research profiling study of Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) using the ISI Web of Science. The ISI database covers close to 9000 publications, mainly journals. We report statistics regarding how the MCDM field has developed based on variations of a set of rather broad search words. We have also produced detailed correlation maps based on most cited authors for different decades, showing the birth and evolution of different schools of thought. We seek to provide the "big picture" of MCDM. Our study shows that the field has experienced exponential growth. At the same time it has penetrated other neighboring domains of knowledge, such as Information and Communication Technologies and engineering. AUTHOR ADDRESS: J Bragge, Aalto Univ, Sch Econ, Dept Informat & Serv Econ, POB 21220, Helsinki 00076, Finland -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Identifying Overlapping and Hierarchical Thematic Structures in Networks of Scholarly Papers: A Comparison of Three Approaches (Article, English) AUTHOR: Havemann, F; Glaser, J; Heinz, M; Struck, A SOURCE: PLOS ONE 7 (3). MAR 27 2012. p.NIL_205-NIL_216 PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, SAN FRANCISCO SEARCH TERM(S): MARSHAKOVA IV rauth; SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973 KEYWORDS+: COMMUNITIES; SCIENCE; MAPS ABSTRACT: The aim of this paper is to introduce and assess three algorithms for the identification of overlapping thematic structures in networks of papers. We implemented three recently proposed approaches to the identification of overlapping and hierarchical substructures in graphs and applied the corresponding algorithms to a network of 492 information-science papers coupled via their cited sources. The thematic substructures obtained and overlaps produced by the three hierarchical cluster algorithms were compared to a content-based categorisation, which we based on the interpretation of titles, abstracts, and keywords. We defined sets of papers dealing with three topics located on different levels of aggregation: h-index, webometrics, and bibliometrics. We identified these topics with branches in the dendrograms produced by the three cluster algorithms and compared the overlapping topics they detected with one another and with the three predefined paper sets. We discuss the advantages and drawbacks of applying the three approaches to paper networks in research fields. AUTHOR ADDRESS: F Havemann, Humboldt Univ, Inst Bibliotheks & Informat Wissensch, D-10099 Berlin, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Mapping the Intellectual Structure of Entrepreneurship Research: revisiting the invisible college (Article, English) AUTHOR: Campos, HM; Parellada, FS; Palma, Y SOURCE: RBGN-REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE GESTAO DE NEGOCIOS 14 (42). 2012. p.41-58 FUND ESCOLA COMERCIO ALVARES PENTEADO-FECAP, SAO PAULO SP SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; CAWKELL A* rauth KEYWORDS: Entrepreneurship; Research; Forum; Invisible college KEYWORDS+: COCITATION ANALYSIS; FIELD; SCHOLARS; FORUM; FIRM ABSTRACT: Along with entrepreneurship's continuing emergence among the management sciences, there is an ongoing debate about what the field is or should be. In this regard, to have a better understanding of the development of this research field, it is useful to understand the scientific structure. This study uses bibliometric techniques and cluster analyses to present an empirically grounded picture of the entrepreneurship research. This research analyzes the 1,112 full-length papers published in the FER Proceedings between 1981 and 2009, and the 378 articles published in the Journal of Business Venturing between 2000 and 2010. Both forums are considered representative in the exchange of entrepreneurial thought. The results indicate that entrepreneurship research published in these forums is characterized by varied themes that are not necessarily connected. Rather, they reflect the disciplinary training and lens of their authors; and considerable dynamism and change in key research themes over time. Hopefully, the results presented here provide abundant opportunities for identifying insightful, influential, and creative research topics in the entrepreneurship field. AUTHOR ADDRESS: HM Campos, C Jordi Girona 29,Edific Nexus 2 Planta 0A, Barcelona 08034, Spain -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: An Empirical Analysis on Inner Impact Factors of Independent Innovation of Innovative Pilot Enterprises in Fujian Province of China (Article, English) AUTHOR: Wang, Y; Chen, YL SOURCE: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 8TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INNOVATION AND MANAGEMENT. 2011. p.331-334 WUHAN UNIV TECHNOLOGY PRESS, WUHAN SEARCH TERM(S): IMPACT FACTOR* item_title KEYWORDS: Innovative pilot enterprise; Independent innovation capability; Inner impact factor; Fujian province ABSTRACT: In this paper, we take the first batch of innovative pilot enterprises in Fujian province as the research object, authorized patent quantity is chosen as output index, and R&D input intensity, R&D personnel proportion in employed person, staff educational expenditure proportion in main business income, the construction condition of R&D institution, the construction condition of intellectual property management system and the construction condition of Innovation development strategy are chosen as impact factors, regression model is used to estimate their influence on authorized patent quantity. Results showed that R&D input intensity; the construction condition of R&D institution, the construction condition of intellectual property management system and the construction condition of Innovation development strategy are the main impact factors of authorized patent quantity. ------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The impact factor: A bad impact on individual research (Letter, English) AUTHOR: Waheed, U; Satti, HS SOURCE: HEALTH EDUCATION JOURNAL 71 (3). MAY 2012. p.253-254 SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, LONDON SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; IMPACT FACTOR* item_title; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 122:108 1955; LETTER* doctype AUTHOR ADDRESS: U Waheed, Quaid I Azam Univ, Dept Biochem, Islamabad, Pakistan a -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Characteristics and trends of research articles authored by researchers affiliated with institute of chemical engineering in Taiwan (Article, English) AUTHOR: Chang, YW; Cheng, TW SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE TAIWAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS 43 (3). MAY 2012. p.331-338 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM SEARCH TERM(S): LIPETZ BA rauth KEYWORDS: Chemical engineering; Taiwan; Bibliometric method; Productivity; Type of collaboration; Subject category KEYWORDS+: INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION; SCIENCE MAPS; PATTERNS; PRODUCTIVITY; REPRESENTATIONS ABSTRACT: This study used the bibliometric method to analyze the characteristics and trends of research articles authored by researchers affiliated with institute of chemical engineering in Taiwan based on bibliographic data indexed by Web of Science (WOS). Results based on 14,524 articles published in the period of 1973-2010 demonstrated an increasing trend in the number of articles. The two-authored articles were the largest share; however, the articles authored by five or more researchers have become the largest part since 2007. Because co- authorship is a common phenomenon, the co-authored articles were further divided by types of collaboration. The results indicate that inter- institutional collaboration replaced the intra-departmental collaboration and has become the dominant type of collaboration since 2005. The interdisciplinary articles also revealed a considerable upward tendency. In addition, over 60% of articles were produced by the top five institutes. All articles were published in 967 journals and covered 135 subjects. Polymer Science, Chemical Engineering, and Physical Chemistry were the main subjects in most of the articles. The increase in the number of subject categories by year confirms that the research scope in chemical engineering is expanding. (C) 2011 Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: YW Chang, Fu Jen Catholic Univ, Dept Lib & Informat Sci, New Taipei City 24205, Taiwan . From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Mon Jun 4 20:23:33 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 00:23:33 +0000 Subject: Papers of Interest to SIG-Metrics Readers Message-ID: TITLE: A decade of agile methodologies: Towards explaining agile software development (Article, English) AUTHOR: Dingsoyr, T; Nerur, S; Balijepally, V; Moe, NB SOURCE: JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE 85 (6). JUN 2012. p.1213-1221 ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, NEW YORK SEARCH TERM(S): WHITE HD J AM SOC INFORM SCI 32:163 1981 KEYWORDS: Agile software development; Theory; Software engineering; Information systems; eXtreme programming, XP; Scrum; Lean software development; Crystal method; Feature-driven development KEYWORDS+: INTELLECTUAL STRUCTURE; AUTHOR COCITATION; 2 HEADS; MANAGEMENT; IMPACT; PERSONALITY; PROJECT; STATE; TEAM; PERSPECTIVES ABSTRACT: Ever since the agile manifesto was created in 2001, the research community has devoted a great deal of attention to agile software development. This article examines publications and citations to illustrate how the research on agile has progressed in the 10 years following the articulation of the manifesto. Specifically, we delineate the conceptual structure underlying agile scholarship by performing an analysis of authors who have made notable contributions to the field. Further, we summarize prior research and introduce contributions in this special issue on agile software development. We conclude by discussing directions for future research and urging agile researchers to embrace a theory-based approach in their scholarship. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: T Dingsoyr, SINTEF, NO-7465 Trondheim, Norway -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Obstacles to decision making in Agile software development teams (Article, English) AUTHOR: Drury, M; Conboy, K; Power, K SOURCE: JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE 85 (6). JUN 2012. p.1239-1254 ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, NEW YORK SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth KEYWORDS: Agile decision making; Agile project management; Agile software development; Case study; Decision making; Decision obstacles; Focus group; Iteration decisions; Iteration Planning; Iteration Review; Retrospective; Scrum; Software engineering; Team decisions KEYWORDS+: MANAGEMENT; FOCUS; COMMITMENT; SYSTEMS; PRODUCT ABSTRACT: The obstacles facing decision making in Agile development are critical yet poorly understood. This research examines decisions made across four stages of the iteration cycle: Iteration Planning, Iteration Execution, Iteration Review and Iteration Retrospective. A mixed method approach was employed, whereby a focus group was initially conducted with 43 Agile developers and managers to determine decisions made at different points of the iteration cycle. Subsequently, six illustrative mini cases were purposefully conducted as examples of the six obstacles identified in these focus groups. This included interviews with 18 individuals in Agile projects from five different organizations: a global consulting organization, a multinational communications company, two multinational software development companies, and a large museum organization. This research contributes to Agile software development literature by analyzing decisions made during the iteration cycle and identifying six key obstacles to these decisions. Results indicate the six decision obstacles are unwillingness to commit to decisions; conflicting priorities; unstable resource availability; and lack of: implementation; ownership; empowerment. These six decision obstacles are mapped to descriptive decision making principles to demonstrate where the obstacles affect the decision process. The effects of these obstacles include a lack of longer-term, strategic focus for decisions, an ever-growing backlog of delayed work from previous iterations, and a lack of team engagement. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Drury, Fordham Univ, Gabelli Sch Business, 1790 Broadway,Suite 1108, New York, NY 10019 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The changing landscape of technology and innovation management: An updated ranking of journals in the field (Article, English) AUTHOR: Thongpapanl, N SOURCE: TECHNOVATION 32 (5). MAY 2012. p.257-271 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNALS item_title KEYWORDS: Citation analysis; Journal ranking; Technology and innovation management; Management of technology KEYWORDS+: CITATION ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE; PERSPECTIVE; BODY ABSTRACT: This paper presents an up-to-date ranking of the leading technology and innovation management (TIM) specialty journals. Citation data from the years 2006-2010 of the fifteen base journals are collected and analyzed. Based on the total citation score, frequency adjusted score, age adjusted score, self-citation adjusted score, and overall adjusted score, the new top 50 journals list for TIM is offered. Compared with the results from the earlier period, no statistically significant change is detected in the top half of the list: however, a significant number of well-regarded journals that did not appear in the 1997-2001 period have surfaced in the bottom half of the list. Overall, the top ten journals of this latest ranking are Research Policy, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Management Science, Academy of Management Journal, Harvard Business Review, Academy of Management Review, Research-Technology Management, Organization Science, and Technovation. The ranking order of the top ten TIM specialty journals is as follows: Research Policy, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Research-Technology Management, Technovation, R&D Management, Industrial and Corporate Change, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Journal of Technology Transfer, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, and Journal of Engineering and Technology Management. A fresh perspective on how TIM specialty journals relate to each other and how they link to business, economics, and management disciplines is provided. A detailed discussion of these findings, together with concluding remarks, also helps answer the question "Do things change or remain the same?" Crown Copyright (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: N Thongpapanl, Brock Univ, Fac Business, 500 Glenridge Ave, St Catharines, ON L2S 3A1, Canada -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: New indexes for compound prioritization and complexity quantification on environmental monitoring inventories (Article, English) AUTHOR: Ginebreda, A; Jelic, A; Petrovic, M; de Alda, ML; Barcelo, D SOURCE: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH 19 (4 SP ISS). MAY 2012. p.958-970 SPRINGER HEIDELBERG, HEIDELBERG SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005 KEYWORDS: Chemical complexity; Environmental monitoring; Pareto statistics; Power law; Hirsch index; Pharmaceuticals; Wastewater treatment KEYWORDS+: TANDEM MASS-SPECTROMETRY; MULTI-RESIDUE ANALYSIS; ULTRA- TRACE QUANTIFICATION; RISK-ASSESSMENT; EMERGING CONTAMINANTS; PRIORITY SUBSTANCES; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; WATER; PHARMACEUTICALS; POLLUTANTS ABSTRACT: Lists of compounds resulting from environmental monitoring may be conveniently represented in a very general way using Pareto distributions, after ranking them on descending order according to their concentration or hazard quotient expressed as percentages, depending on whether the objective of the monitoring is focussed on mass load occurrence or risk assessment respectively. Ranked distributions are characterized using appropriate indexes, such as h (Hirsch), well known in other disciplines like bibliometry. Furthermore, to such ordered distributions, simple numerical power type equations relating rank order and occurrence probability can be fitted, following the so-called power or Zipf law. Both h indices and the characteristic power law exponents are interpreted as measures of complexity of the overall mixture. On the other hand, compounds included within the h index may be seen as the most relevant in the mixture, thus providing a reasonable indication of what is worth analyzing. These concepts have been applied, as case study, to the characterization of the pharmaceutical compounds found in the input and output streams of wastewater treatment plants. Whereas both the concentration load and ecotoxicity of pharmaceuticals in WWTPs obviously decrease in the output of the treatment (influent > effluent, sludge), complexity quantified using the proposed indexes does not follow the same trend, being this behaviour common to the three plants examined. The joint combination of h compounds of the three plants studied allowed optimizing the list of compounds to be analyzed, which must be considered the key ones for the scenario under study. AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Ginebreda, Spanish Council Sci Res CSIC, Inst Environm Assessment & Water Res IDAEA, Dept Environm Chem, Jordi Girona 18-26, Barcelona 08034, Spain -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Emerging trends in regenerative medicine: a scientometric analysis in CiteSpace (Review, English) AUTHOR: Chen, CM; Hu, ZG; Liu, SB; Tseng, H SOURCE: EXPERT OPINION ON BIOLOGICAL THERAPY 12 (5). MAY 2012. p.593-608 INFORMA HEALTHCARE, LONDON SEARCH TERM(S): SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973; SCIENTOMETRIC* item_title; GARFIELD E J INFORM SCI 30:119 2004 KEYWORDS: CiteSpace; co-citation analysis; induced pluripotent stem cells; regenerative medicine; scientometrics KEYWORDS+: PLURIPOTENT STEM-CELLS; REPROGRAMMING FACTORS; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; HUMAN FIBROBLASTS; DEFINED FACTORS; RESEARCH FRONTS; GENERATION; MOUSE; STATE; PATIENT ABSTRACT: Introduction: Regenerative medicine involves research in a number of fields and disciplines such as stem cell research, tissue engineering and biological therapy in general. As research in these areas advances rapidly, it is critical to keep abreast of emerging trends and critical turns of the development of the collective knowledge. Areas covered: A progressively synthesized network is derived from 35,963 original research and review articles that cite 3875 articles obtained from an initial topic search on regenerative medicine between 2000 and 2011. CiteSpace is used to facilitate the analysis of the intellectual structure and emerging trends. Expert opinion: A major ongoing research trend is concerned with finding alternative reprogramming techniques as well as refining existing ones for induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). A more recent emerging trend focuses on the structural and functional equivalence between iPSCs and human embryonic stem cells and potential clinical and therapeutic implications on regenerative medicine in a long run. The two trends overlap in terms of what they cite, but they are distinct and have different implications on future research. Visual analytics of the literature provides a valuable, timely, repeatable and flexible approach in addition to traditional systematic reviews so as to track the development of new emerging trends and identify critical evidence. AUTHOR ADDRESS: CM Chen, Drexel Univ, Coll Informat Sci & Technol, 3141 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Update to "Beyond Citation Analysis: A Model for Assessment of Research Impact'' (Letter, English) AUTHOR: Sarli, CC; Holmes, KL SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 100 (2). APR 2012. p.82 MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOC, CHICAGO SEARCH TERM(S): J MED LIBR ASSOC source_abbrev_20; LETTER* doctype; CITATION item_title; CITATION ANALYS* item_title; CITATION* item_title AUTHOR ADDRESS: CC Sarli, Washington Univ, Sch Med, Bernard Becker Med Lib, St Louis, MO 63130 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Does Bradford's Law of Scattering predict the size of the literature in Cochrane Reviews? (Review, English) AUTHOR: Nash-Stewart, CE; Kruesi, LM; Del Mar, CB SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 100 (2). APR 2012. p.135-NIL_3 MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOC, CHICAGO SEARCH TERM(S): FAIRTHORNE RA rauth; GARFIELD E rauth; J MED LIBR ASSOC source_abbrev_20 KEYWORDS+: SCIENCE AUTHOR ADDRESS: LM Kruesi, Univ Queensland, Univ Queensland Lib, Scholarly Publishing & Digitisat Serv, St Lucia Campus, Brisbane, Qld 4029, Australia -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Benchmarking Individual Publication Productivity in Logistics (Article, English) AUTHOR: Coleman, BJ; Bolumole, YA; Frankel, R SOURCE: TRANSPORTATION JOURNAL 51 (2). SPR 2012. p.164-196 AMER SOC TRANSPORTATION LOGISTICS, WASHINGTON SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; GARFIELD E SCIENTOMETRICS 1:359 1979 KEYWORDS: Publication productivity; logistics scholars; authorship; citation analysis; bibliometrics; h-index KEYWORDS+: SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; ACADEMIC JOURNALS; INTELLECTUAL STRUCTURE; CITATION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH OUTPUT; TRANSPORTATION; AFFILIATION; AUTHORS; COLLABORATION; BIBLIOMETRICS ABSTRACT: What constitutes excellence in publication productivity in logistics journals? Several previous studies have examined this question at the institutional level. However, prior literature has not examined in detail the research productivity patterns of the entire distribution of individual logistics authors across a relatively large number of journals within a lengthy time frame. Prior work has also not established the benchmarks or thresholds of individual research productivity, in terms of both quantity and quality, which are necessary to be ranked among the leading contributors in the discipline. To address this void in the literature, we examine 3,312 articles published in seven leading logistics journals from 1990 to 2009, inclusive, to which 3,657 different individual authors contributed at least one authorship or coauthorship. Using the rankings and associated percentiles of individual authors according to six quality and quantity metrics, we identify the aggregate productivity benchmarks necessary for individual authors to be ranked at various positions in the field. We find that the thresholds necessary to be among the leaders in logistics research productivity, or to meet typically posited expectations for performance, are not necessarily reflective of the traditional wisdom. AUTHOR ADDRESS: BJ Coleman, Univ N Florida, Coggin Coll Business, 1 UNF Dr, Jacksonville, FL 32224 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Bibliometric snapshot of research involving cytochromes P450 in medicine and biology (Article, English) AUTHOR: Robert, C; Wilson, CS; Gaudy, JF; Arreto, CD SOURCE: 9TH CONGRESS OF THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS - EACPT. 2009. p.187-190 MEDIMOND S R L, 40128 BOLOGNA SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title ABSTRACT: Introduction: The objective is to elucidate various research activity devoted to cytochromes P450. Method: 2230 scholarly papers published in 653 journals during 2006-2007 on cytochromes P450 were retrieved from the SCI-Expanded database, and analyzed. Results: The 2230 papers were authored by researchers from 73 countries and the most prolific are: the USA (810). Japan (339). Germany (182). UK (169) and China (167). There were more than 100 subject specialities represented, led by Pharmacology & Pharmacy (843 papers) and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (458). Of the 653 journals, the most prolific are Drug Metabolism & Disposition with 142 papers and the European Journal of Pharmacology with 42. Conclusion: Similar bibliometric analyses of cytochromes P450 sub family should provide worthwhile insight. AUTHOR ADDRESS: C Robert, Univ Paris 05, Fac Chirurgie Dentaire, Lab Anat Fonctionnelle, 1 Rue Maurice Arnoux, F-92120 Montrouge, France -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Analysis of publications on infectious diseases. a comparative study of ten countries in the period 2000-2009 (Article, Spanish) AUTHOR: Inigo, J; Chaves, F SOURCE: ENFERMEDADES INFECCIOSAS Y MICROBIOLOGIA CLINICA 30 (5). MAY 2012. p.236-242 EDICIONES DOYMA S A, BARCELONA SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; GARFIELD E JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 295:90 2006 KEYWORDS: Literature analysis; Scientific publications; Infectious diseases; International collaboration KEYWORDS+: JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; HIRSCHS H-INDEX; SCIENTIFIC- RESEARCH; BIOMEDICAL-RESEARCH; BIBLIOMETRIC MAP; EUROPEAN- UNION; SCIENCE; SPAIN; INDICATORS; ARTICLES ABSTRACT: Objective: We analyse the productivity and visibility of Spanish publications on the subject category of infectious diseases in the period 2000-2009 and compared with the corresponding nine other countries. Methods: We used the database Web of Science. Analysis (annual and five- year) was restricted to the citable documents. The bibliometric indicators used were the number of publications, the amount of citations, median and interquartile range of the citations and the h-index Hirsch. Results: There were 76,491 publications (84.1% were original articles) with a percentage increase of 20% between the two periods. The ten countries with over 50,000 citations were the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada, Holland, Spain, Italy, Switzerland and Australia. 24.8% of publications in international collaboration was made and received 29.9% of the total citations. 47.1% of the publications corresponding to the first quartile journals and received 68.1% of the total citations. The median of citations for all publications was 9 (interquartile range: 4-21). Spain was the fifth country in the world by number of publications, the seventh by citations received, and the eighth by the h index. Spain was the country with the lowest percentage of publications in the first quartile (40.2%), and international collaboration (26.7%). Conclusions: In the period 2000-2009 analysed we observed a high production of publications by Spanish authors, with a high growth rate, and a prominent position in the total number of citations received by publications. (C) 2011 Elsevier Espana, S.L. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: J Inigo, Consejeria Sanidad Comunidad Madrid, Com Et Invest Clin Reg, Madrid, Spain -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Benchmarking citation measures among the Australian education professoriate (Article, English) AUTHOR: Albion, PR SOURCE: AUSTRALIAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCHER 39 (2). MAY 2012. p.221-235 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS: Citation measures; Bibliometrics; Research impact; Educational research; Publication KEYWORDS+: GOOGLE SCHOLAR; H-INDEX; PERFORMANCE; COUNTS; SCOPUS; IMPACT; WEB ABSTRACT: Individual researchers and the organisations for which they work are interested in comparative measures of research performance for a variety of purposes. Such comparisons are facilitated by quantifiable measures that are easily obtained and offer convenience and a sense of objectivity. One popular measure is the journal impact factor, based on citation rates, but it is a measure intended for journals rather than individuals. Moreover, educational research publications are not well represented in the databases most widely used for calculation of citation measures, leading to doubts about the usefulness of such measures in education. Newer measures and data sources offer alternatives that provide wider representation of education research. However, research has shown that citation rates vary according to discipline and that valid comparisons depend upon the availability of discipline- specific benchmarks. This study sought to provide such benchmarks for Australian educational researchers based on analysis of citation measures obtained for the Australian education professoriate. AUTHOR ADDRESS: PR Albion, Univ So Queensland, Toowoomba, Qld 4350, Australia -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Citation Analysis as a Tool to Measure the Impact of Individual Research Consultations (Article, English) AUTHOR: Reinsfelder, TL SOURCE: COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES 73 (3). MAY 2012. p.263-277 ASSOC COLL RESEARCH LIBRARIES, CHICAGO SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION item_title; CITATION ANALYS* item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS+: BEHAVIOR; BIBLIOGRAPHIES; INSTRUCTION; WEB ABSTRACT: This study sought to determine the degree to which individual research consultations with a librarian can improve the work of undergraduate students. Citation analysis was used to evaluate the quality of sources selected on draft papers before meeting with a librarian and on final papers after meeting with a librarian. The rating scale presented here offers guidelines for measuring the quality of sources used by students. Findings of this research begin to provide some quantitative evidence demonstrating the positive impact of individual research consultations. AUTHOR ADDRESS: TL Reinsfelder, Penn State Mt Alto, Mont Alto, PA USA ---------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The impact factor: A bad impact on individual research (Letter, English) AUTHOR: Waheed, U; Satti, HS SOURCE: HEALTH EDUCATION JOURNAL 71 (3). MAY 2012. p.253-254 SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, LONDON SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; IMPACT FACTOR* item_title; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 122:108 1955; LETTER* doctype AUTHOR ADDRESS: U Waheed, Quaid I Azam Univ, Dept Biochem, Islamabad, Pakistan a -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Characteristics and trends of research articles authored by researchers affiliated with institute of chemical engineering in Taiwan (Article, English) AUTHOR: Chang, YW; Cheng, TW SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE TAIWAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS 43 (3). MAY 2012. p.331-338 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM SEARCH TERM(S): LIPETZ BA rauth KEYWORDS: Chemical engineering; Taiwan; Bibliometric method; Productivity; Type of collaboration; Subject category KEYWORDS+: INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION; SCIENCE MAPS; PATTERNS; PRODUCTIVITY; REPRESENTATIONS ABSTRACT: This study used the bibliometric method to analyze the characteristics and trends of research articles authored by researchers affiliated with institute of chemical engineering in Taiwan based on bibliographic data indexed by Web of Science (WOS). Results based on 14,524 articles published in the period of 1973-2010 demonstrated an increasing trend in the number of articles. The two-authored articles were the largest share; however, the articles authored by five or more researchers have become the largest part since 2007. Because co- authorship is a common phenomenon, the co-authored articles were further divided by types of collaboration. The results indicate that inter- institutional collaboration replaced the intra-departmental collaboration and has become the dominant type of collaboration since 2005. The interdisciplinary articles also revealed a considerable upward tendency. In addition, over 60% of articles were produced by the top five institutes. All articles were published in 967 journals and covered 135 subjects. Polymer Science, Chemical Engineering, and Physical Chemistry were the main subjects in most of the articles. The increase in the number of subject categories by year confirms that the research scope in chemical engineering is expanding. (C) 2011 Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: YW Chang, Fu Jen Catholic Univ, Dept Lib & Informat Sci, New Taipei City 24205, Taiwan . From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Mon Jun 4 20:43:50 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 00:43:50 +0000 Subject: papers of posssible interst to Sig Metrics readers Message-ID: Title: Identifying attractive *research* fields for new scientists Authors: Akritidis, L; Katsaros, D; Bozanis, P Author Full Names: Akritidis, Leonidas; Katsaros, Dimitrios; Bozanis, Panayiotis Source: SCIENTOMETRICS, 91 (3):869-894; 10.1007/s11192-012-0646-4 JUN 2012 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Scientist, Author, Research area, Research field, Scientometrics, Attractive KeyWords Plus: H-INDEX; HIRSCH INDEX; JOURNALS; RANKING; SCIENCE; CITATIONS; IMPACT Abstract: Prior to the beginning of a scientific career, every new scientist is obliged to confront the critical issue of defining the subject area where his/her future research will be conducted. Regardless of the capabilities of a new scholar, an erroneous selection may condemn a dignified effort and result in wasted energy, time and resources. In this article we attempt to identify the research fields which are attractive to these individuals. To the best of our knowledge, this is a new topic that has never been discussed or addressed in the literature. Here we formally set the problem and we propose a solution combining the characteristics of the attractive research areas and the new scholars. Our approach is compared against a statistical model which reveals popular research areas. The comparison of this method to our proposed model leads to the conclusion that not all trendy research areas are suitable for new scientists. A secondary outcome reveals the existence of scientific f! ields which although they are not so emerging, they are promising for scientists who are starting their career. Reprint Address: Katsaros, D (reprint author), Univ Thessaly, Volos, Greece Addresses: [Akritidis, Leonidas; Katsaros, Dimitrios; Bozanis, Panayiotis] Univ Thessaly, Volos, Greece E-mail Address: leoakr at infuth.gr; dkatsar at inf.uth.gr; pbozanis at inf.uth.gr Cited Reference Count: 25 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: SPRINGER, VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 0138-9130 Web of Science Category: Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications; Information Science & Library Science ======================================================================= * Title: Using complex networks concepts *to* assess approaches for citations in *scientific* papers Authors: Amancio, DR; Nunes, MGV; Oliveira, ON; Costa, LD Author Full Names: Amancio, D. R.; Nunes, M. G. V.; Oliveira, O. N., Jr.; Costa, L. da F. Source: SCIENTOMETRICS, 91 (3):827-842; 10.1007/s11192-012-0630-z JUN 2012 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Complex networks, Virtual scientometry, Similarity network KeyWords Plus: CITING BEHAVIOR; FAWLTY TOWERS; OMBUDSMAN; QUALITY; SCIENCE Abstract: The number of citations received by authors in scientific journals has become a major parameter to assess individual researchers and the journals themselves through the *impact factor*. A fair assessment therefore requires that the criteria for selecting references in a given manuscript should be unbiased with regard to the authors or journals cited. In this paper, we assess approaches for citations considering two recommendations for authors to follow while preparing a manuscript: (i) consider similarity of contents with the topics investigated, lest related work should be reproduced or ignored; (ii) perform a systematic search over the network of citations including seminal or very related papers. We use formalisms of complex networks for two datasets of papers from the arXiv and the Web of Science repositories to show that neither of these two criteria is fulfilled in practice. By representing the texts as complex networks we estimated a similarity index between pieces of! texts and found that the list of references did not contain the most similar papers in the dataset. This was quantified by calculating a consistency index, whose maximum value is one if the references in a given paper are the most similar in the dataset. For the areas of "complex networks" and "graphenes", the consistency index was only 0.11-0.23 and 0.10-0.25, respectively. To simulate a systematic search in the citation network, we employed a traditional random walk search (i.e. diffusion) and a random walk whose probabilities of transition are proportional to the number of the ingoing edges of the neighbours. The frequency of visits to the nodes (papers) in the network had a very small correlation with either the actual list of references in the papers or with the number of downloads from the arXiv repository. Therefore, apparently the authors and users of the repository did not follow the criterion related to a systematic search over the network of citations. Based on ! these results, we propose an approach that we believe is faire! r for ev aluating and complementing citations of a given author, effectively leading to a virtual scientometry. Reprint Address: Amancio, DR (reprint author), Univ Sao Paulo, Inst Phys Sao Carlos, POB 369, BR-13560970 Sao Paulo, Brazil Addresses: [Amancio, D. R.; Oliveira, O. N., Jr.; Costa, L. da F.] Univ Sao Paulo, Inst Phys Sao Carlos, BR-13560970 Sao Paulo, Brazil [Nunes, M. G. V.] Univ Sao Paulo, Inst Math & Comp Sci, BR-13560970 Sao Paulo, Brazil E-mail Address: diegoraphael at gmail.com Funding Acknowledgement: FAPESP[2010/00927-9]; CNPq (Brazil) Funding Text: The authors are grateful to FAPESP (2010/00927-9) and CNPq (Brazil) for the financial support. Cited Reference Count: 50 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: SPRINGER, VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS ======================================================================= Title: Author self-citations in the field of ecology Authors: Leblond, M Author Full Names: Leblond, Mathieu Source: SCIENTOMETRICS, 91 (3):943-953; 10.1007/s11192-011-0565-9 JUN 2012 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Bibliometrics, Citation models, Diachronous self-citations, Journal impact factor, Self-reference, Synchronous self-citations KeyWords Plus: JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; COLLABORATION; ARTICLES; INDEX; RATES Abstract: Ecologists writing research articles frequently cite their own papers. Self-citations are frequent in science, but the reasons behind abnormally high rates of self-citations are questionable. My goals were to assess the prevalence of author self-citations and to identify the combination of attributes that best predict high levels of self-citations in ecology articles. I searched 643 articles from 9 different ecology journals of various impact factors for synchronous (i.e., within reference lists) and diachronous (i.e., following publication) self-citations, using the Web of Science online database. I assessed the effect of the number of authors, pages, and references/citations, the proportion of diachronous/synchronous self-citations, and the *impact factor*, on the proportion of synchronous and diachronous self-citations separately. I compared various candidate models made of these covariates using Akaike's Information Criterion. On average, ecologists made 6.0 synchronous ! self-citations (12.8% of references), and 2.5 diachronous self-citations (25.5% of citations received 2.8 to 4.5 years after publication) per article. The best predictor of the proportion of synchronous self-citations was the number of authors. My study is the first to report recidivism in the inclusion of self-citations by researchers, i.e., the proportion of diachronous self-citations was best explained by the proportion of synchronous self-citations. The proportion of self-citations also increased with the number of pages and the *impact factor* of ecology journals, and decreased with the number of references/citations. Although a lot of variance remained unexplained, my study successfully showed regularities in the propensity of ecologists to include self-citations in their research articles. Reprint Address: Leblond, M (reprint author), Univ Quebec, Dept Biol Chim & Geog, 300 Allee Ursulines, Rimouski, PQ G5L 3A1, Canada Addresses: Univ Quebec, Dept Biol Chim & Geog, Rimouski, PQ G5L 3A1, Canada E-mail Address: mathieu_leblond at uqar.qc.ca Cited Reference Count: 26 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: SPRINGER, VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS Cited References: Glanzel W, 2004, SCIENTOMETRICS, V59, P63 Macdonald Stuart, 2011, ORGANIZATION, V18, P467 Aksnes DW, 2003, SCIENTOMETRICS, V56, P235 Costas Rodrigo, 2010, SCIENTOMETRICS, V82, P517 Snyder H, 1998, JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE, V24, P431 Leimu R, 2005, BIOSCIENCE, V55, P438 LAWANI SM, 1982, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE, V33, P281 Garfield E., 1992, Science and Public Policy, V19, P321 GARFIELD E, 1963, AMERICAN DOCUMENTATION, V14, P195 White HD, 2001, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V52, P87 Glanzel W, 2006, SCIENTOMETRICS, V67, P67 Hyland K, 2003, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V54, P251 Garfield E, 2006, JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, V295, P90 Hutson SR, 2006, JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL METHOD AND THEORY, V13, P1 Amin M., 2000, Perspect. Publ., V1, P1 Zhivotovsky Lev A., 2008, SCIENTOMETRICS, V77, P373 Burnham K. P., 2002, Model Selection and Inference: A Practical Information-Theoretic Approach, Rousseau R, 1999, SCIENTOMETRICS, V44, P521 Pichappan P, 2002, SCIENTOMETRICS, V54, P285 Hirsch JE, 2005, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V102, P16569 Krauss Jochen, 2007, SCIENTOMETRICS, V73, P79 Fowler James H., 2007, SCIENTOMETRICS, V72, P427 Thijs B, 2006, SCIENTOMETRICS, V66, P71 Katz JS, 1997, RESEARCH POLICY, V26, P1 Falagas Matthew E., 2008, ARCHIVUM IMMUNOLOGIAE ET THERAPIAE EXPERIMENTALIS, V56, P223 Hyland K, 2001, ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES, V20, P207 ======================================================================= * Title: Benchmarking citation measures among the Australian education professoriate Authors: Albion, PR Author Full Names: Albion, Peter R. Source: AUSTRALIAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCHER, 39 (2):221-235; 10.1007/s13384-012-0060-1 MAY 2012 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Citation measures, Bibliometrics, Research impact, Educational research, Publication KeyWords Plus: GOOGLE SCHOLAR; H-INDEX; PERFORMANCE; COUNTS; SCOPUS; IMPACT; WEB Abstract: Individual researchers and the organisations for which they work are interested in comparative measures of research performance for a variety of purposes. Such comparisons are facilitated by quantifiable measures that are easily obtained and offer convenience and a sense of objectivity. One popular measure is the journal *impact factor*, based on citation rates, but it is a measure intended for journals rather than individuals. Moreover, educational research publications are not well represented in the databases most widely used for calculation of citation measures, leading to doubts about the usefulness of such measures in education. Newer measures and data sources offer alternatives that provide wider representation of education research. However, research has shown that citation rates vary according to discipline and that valid comparisons depend upon the availability of discipline-specific benchmarks. This study sought to provide such benchmarks for Australian educationa! l researchers based on analysis of citation measures obtained for the Australian education professoriate. Reprint Address: Albion, PR (reprint author), Univ So Queensland, Toowoomba, Qld 4350, Australia Addresses: Univ So Queensland, Toowoomba, Qld 4350, Australia E-mail Address: Peter.Albion at usq.edu.au Cited Reference Count: 29 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: SPRINGER, VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 0311-6999 Web of Science Category: Education & Educational Research ======================================================================= Title: Analysis of publications on infectious diseases. a comparative study of ten countries in the period 2000-2009 Authors: Inigo, J; Chaves, F Author Full Names: Inigo, Jesus; Chaves, Fernando Source: ENFERMEDADES INFECCIOSAS Y MICROBIOLOGIA CLINICA, 30 (5):236-242; 10.1016/j.eimc.2011.10.017 MAY 2012 Language: Spanish Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Literature analysis, Scientific publications, Infectious diseases, International collaboration KeyWords Plus: JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; HIRSCHS H-INDEX; SCIENTIFIC-RESEARCH; BIOMEDICAL-RESEARCH; BIBLIOMETRIC MAP; EUROPEAN-UNION; SCIENCE; SPAIN; INDICATORS; ARTICLES Abstract: Objective: We analyse the productivity and visibility of Spanish publications on the subject category of infectious diseases in the period 2000-2009 and compared with the corresponding nine other countries. Methods: We used the database Web of Science. Analysis (annual and five-year) was restricted to the citable documents. The bibliometric indicators used were the number of publications, the amount of citations, median and interquartile range of the citations and the h-index Hirsch. Results: There were 76,491 publications (84.1% were original articles) with a percentage increase of 20% between the two periods. The ten countries with over 50,000 citations were the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada, Holland, Spain, Italy, Switzerland and Australia. 24.8% of publications in international collaboration was made and received 29.9% of the total citations. 47.1% of the publications corresponding to the first quartile journals and received 68.1% of the total citations. The median of citations for all publications was 9 (interquartile range: 4-21). Spain was the fifth country in the world by number of publications, the seventh by citations received, and the eighth by the h index. Spain was the country with the lowest percentage of publications in the first quartile (40.2%), and international collaboration (26.7%). Conclusions: In the period 2000-2009 analysed we observed a high production of publications by Spanish authors, with a high growth rate, and a prominent position in the total number of citations received by publications. (C) 2011 Elsevier Espana, S.L. All rights reserved. Reprint Address: Inigo, J (reprint author), Consejeria Sanidad Comunidad Madrid, Com Et Invest Clin Reg, Madrid, Spain Addresses: [Inigo, Jesus] Consejeria Sanidad Comunidad Madrid, Com Et Invest Clin Reg, Madrid, Spain [Chaves, Fernando] Hosp Univ 12 Octubre, Microbiol Serv, Madrid, Spain E-mail Address: jesus.inigo at salud.madrid.org Cited Reference Count: 26 Publisher: EDICIONES DOYMA S A, TRAV DE GRACIA 17-21, 08021 BARCELONA, SPAIN ======================================================================= From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Mon Jun 4 23:55:59 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 03:55:59 +0000 Subject: Papers of Interest to SIG-Metrics Readers Message-ID: TITLE: Research performance of centers of expertise for rare diseases-The influence of network integration, internal resource access and operational experience (Article, English) AUTHOR: Hannemann-Weber, H; Kessel, M; Schultz, C SOURCE: HEALTH POLICY 105 (2-3). MAY 2012. p.138-145 ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD, CLARE SEARCH TERM(S): ANGELL M ANN INTERN MED 104:261 1986; GARFIELD E CURR CONTENTS 49:5 1992 KEYWORDS: Cooperation; Center of expertise; Healthcare; Network integration; Operational experience; Rare disease; Research performance KEYWORDS+: DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES; CLINICAL-OUTCOMES; PUBLIC-POLICY; KNOWLEDGE; CARE; EXPLORATION; INNOVATION; ALLIANCES; PREDICTORS; BOUNDARIES ABSTRACT: Objectives: Centers of expertise (CoE) are vital to the care and treatment of patients with rare diseases and play a central role in generating medical and scientific knowledge. This study explores the relationship between a CoEs internal resource availability, operational experience and functional network integration and its research performance. Method: Hypotheses were tested based on a sample of 64 CoEs in Europe and North America that specialize in 6 rare diseases. We collected questionnaire data related to strategic and structural antecedents and subsequently examined bibliometric data in the IS! Web of Science database to determine (1) research output by publication counts and (2) research impact by the number of citations. Results: A CoEs research performance is greatly determined by available experiences and internal resources as well as by the nature of networks. While research output increases with the number of treated patients, the amount of resources and access to R&D networks, the impact of the identified publications is not related to a CoEs availability of internal resources or to the size of its R&D network. Nevertheless, a CoEs focus on care-oriented networks increases its research impact. Conclusion: Under the guidance of different national efforts, this study aims to support a nationwide establishment of specialized CoEs for rare diseases. It emphasizes the relevance of CoEs for the generation of medical knowledge for rare diseases as well as their need for essential support through internal and external resources. The findings further show the necessity for CoEs not only to concentrate on R&D collaborations to generate completely new knowledge and opportunities but also to establish networks with operational care partners such as general practitioners, local therapists, rehabilitation centers or other hospitals. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: H Hannemann-Weber, Tech Univ Berlin, Berlin, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Zipf's Law, Hierarchical Structure, and Cards-Shuffling Model for Urban Development (Article, English) AUTHOR: Chen, YG SOURCE: DISCRETE DYNAMICS IN NATURE AND SOCIETY. 2012. p.NIL_1-NIL_21 HINDAWI PUBLISHING CORPORATION, NEW YORK SEARCH TERM(S): ZIPF* item_title KEYWORDS+: SCALING LAWS; EXACT FORMULATION; CITY-SIZE; CITIES; NETWORKS; SYSTEMS; INTERMITTENCY; DISTRIBUTIONS; UNIVERSALITY ABSTRACT: Hierarchy of cities reflects the ubiquitous structure frequently observed in the natural world and social institutions. Where there is a hierarchy with cascade structure, there is a Zipf's rank-size distribution, and vice versa. However, we have no theory to explain the spatial dynamics associated with Zipf's law of cities. In this paper, a new angle of view is proposed to find the simple rules dominating complex systems and regular patterns behind random distribution of cities. The hierarchical structure can be described with a set of exponential functions that are identical in form to Horton-Strahler's laws on rivers and Gutenberg-Richter's laws on earthquake energy. From the exponential models, we can derive four power laws including Zipf's law indicative of fractals and scaling symmetry. A card-shuffling model is built to interpret the relation between Zipf's law and hierarchy of cities. This model can be expanded to illuminate the general empirical power-law distributions across the individual physical and social sciences, which are hard to be comprehended within the specific scientific domains. This research is useful for us to understand how complex systems such as networks of cities are self-organized. AUTHOR ADDRESS: YG Chen, Peking Univ, Coll Urban & Environm Sci, Dept Geog, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Two-year citations of JAPPL original articles: evidence of a relative age effect (Article, English) AUTHOR: de Araujo, CGS; de Oliveira, BRR; Brito, LVD; da Matta, TT; Viana, BF; de Souza, CP; Guerreiro, RD; Slama, FA; Portugal, EDM SOURCE: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY 112 (9). MAY 2012. p.1434-1436 AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC, BETHESDA SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E INT MICROBIOL 10:65 2007; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 122:108 1955; GARFIELD E THEORETICAL MED 13:117 1992; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 178:471 1972; GARFIELD E INT J EPIDEMIOL 35:1123 2006; GARFIELD E INT J EPIDEMIOL 35:1127 2006 KEYWORDS: impact factor; scientometrics; bibliometrics; indexing KEYWORDS+: IMPACT FACTOR; SCIENCE; SPORTS; INDEXES; PARTICIPATION; DOCUMENTATION; ASSOCIATION; COMPETITION; PHYSIOLOGY; DIMENSION ABSTRACT: de Araujo CGS, de Oliveira BRR, de Oliveira Brito LV, da Matta TT, Viana BF, de Souza CP, de Carvalho Guerreiro R, Slama FA, da Matta Mello Portugal E. Two-year citations of JAPPL original articles: evidence of a relative age effect. J Appl Physiol 112: 1434-1436, 2012. First published March 1, 2012; doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.01491.2011.- Several indicators have been used to analyze scientific journals, with the impact factor and the number of citations in a 2-yr calendar time frame (2-YRC) being the most common factors. However, considering that the Journal of Applied Physiology (JAPPL) appears monthly and that calculations of these indicators are based on citations of papers published in previous years, we hypothesized that articles published at the beginning of the year would be cited more in the 2-YRC compared with those appearing in the last issues of the year, a phenomena known as a relative age effect. Our objective was to confirm the existence of a relative age effect in the 2-YRC for original articles published in JAPPL. From 2005 to 2008, a total of 1,726 original articles were published, according to the Web of Science, and 9,973 citations in 2-YRC, varying from 0 to 45, with a mean of 5.78 for individual papers. Although there were no differences in the number of original articles published in a given month (P = 0.99), the 2-YRC varied considerably throughout the year, being higher for those earlier issues of the year, as shown by the linear regression analysis (r(2) = 0.76; P < 0.001). The 2-YRC began at 6.62 during the first 3 mo of the year, dropping by 10% at each 3-mo period. In summary, the longer an article has been out there, the more citations it collects. The relative age effect is a potential confounding variable for the assessment and interpretation of 2-YRC (using calendar years) from JAPPL original articles. AUTHOR ADDRESS: CGS de Araujo, Clinimex, Exercise Med Clin, Rua Siqueira Campos 93-101, BR-22031070 Rio De Janeiro, RJ, Brazil -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Exploratory factor analysis for the Hirsch index, 17 h- type variants, and some traditional bibliometric indicators (Article, English) AUTHOR: Schreiber, M; Malesios, CC; Psarakis, S SOURCE: JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS 6 (3). JUL 2012. p.347-358 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS: Citation metrics; Exploratory factor analysis; h-Index; g- Index KEYWORDS+: MULTI-AUTHORED MANUSCRIPTS; SELF-CITATION CORRECTIONS; SCIENTIFIC IMPACT; CITED PAPERS; MONTE-CARLO; R-INDEX; PHYSICISTS; RECOVERY; OUTPUT; LEVEL ABSTRACT: The purpose of this article is to come up with a valid categorization and to examine the performance and properties of a wide range of h-type indices presented recently in the relevant literature. By exploratory factor analysis (EFA) we study the relationship between the h- index, its variants, and some standard bibliometric indicators of 26 physicists compiled from the Science Citation Index in the Web of Science. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Schreiber, Tech Univ Chemnitz, Inst Phys, D-09107 Chemnitz, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Time-aware PageRank for bibliographic networks (Article, English) AUTHOR: Fiala, D SOURCE: JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS 6 (3). JUL 2012. p.370-388 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOGRAPHIC* item_title KEYWORDS: PageRank; Citations; Collaboration; Time; Salient researchers; Computer science ABSTRACT: In the past, recursive algorithms, such as PageRank originally conceived for the Web, have been successfully used to rank nodes in the citation networks of papers, authors, or journals. They have proved to determine prestige and not popularity, unlike citation counts. However, bibliographic networks, in contrast to the Web, have some specific features that enable the assigning of different weights to citations, thus adding more information to the process of finding prominence. For example, a citation between two authors may be weighed according to whether and when those two authors collaborated with each other, which is information that can be found in the co-authorship network. In this study, we define a couple of PageRank modifications that weigh citations between authors differently based on the information from the co-authorship graph. In addition, we put emphasis on the time of publications and citations. We test our algorithms on the Web of Science data of computer science journal articles and determine the most prominent computer scientists in the 10-year period of 1996-2005. Besides a correlation analysis, we also compare our rankings to the lists of ACM A. M. Turing Award and ACM SIGMOD E. F. Codd Innovations Award winners and find the new time-aware methods to outperform standard PageRank and its time-unaware weighted variants. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: D Fiala, Univ W Bohemia, Univ 8, Plzen 30614, Czech Republic -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Betweenness centrality as a driver of preferential attachment in the evolution of research collaboration networks (Article, English) AUTHOR: Abbasi, A; Hossain, L; Leydesdorff, L SOURCE: JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS 6 (3). JUL 2012. p.403-412 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth; PRICE DJD rauth; MERTON RK SCIENCE 159:56 1968 KEYWORDS: Collaboration; Coauthorship; Network; Preferential attachment; Cumulative advantage; Social network analysis; Centrality KEYWORDS+: SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION; COAUTHORSHIP NETWORKS; CUMULATIVE ADVANTAGE; SOCIAL NETWORK; SCIENCE; PATTERNS; SCHOLARS; IMPACT; INDEX ABSTRACT: We analyze whether preferential attachment in scientific coauthorship networks is different for authors with different forms of centrality. Using a complete database for the scientific specialty of research about "steel structures," we show that betweenness centrality of an existing node is a significantly better predictor of preferential attachment by new entrants than degree or closeness centrality. During the growth of a network, preferential attachment shifts from (local) degree centrality to betweenness centrality as a global measure. An interpretation is that supervisors of PhD projects and postdocs broker between new entrants and the already existing network, and thus become focal to preferential attachment. Because of this mediation, scholarly networks can be expected to develop differently from networks which are predicated on preferential attachment to nodes with high degree centrality. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Abbasi, Univ Sydney, Fac Engn & IT, Ctr Complex Syst Res, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Five years "Journal of Informetrics" (Article, English) AUTHOR: Egghe, L SOURCE: JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS 6 (3). JUL 2012. p.422-426 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM SEARCH TERM(S): INFORMETRIC* item_title; JOURNAL item_title; EGGHE L primaryauthor,author KEYWORDS: Journal of Informetrics KEYWORDS+: EXPANSION; FIELD ABSTRACT: End of 2011, the Journal of Informetrics (Elsevier) existed five years. We overview its scope, published articles (topics, co- authorship, authors' countries), editorial decisions, editorial and production times, impact factor and article downloads aspects. Finally we present a local citation environment map of JOI. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: L Egghe, Univ Hasselt UHasselt, Campus Diepenbeek,Agoralaan, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Three-feature model to reproduce the topology of citation networks and the effects from authors' visibility on their h-index (Article, English) AUTHOR: Amancio, DR; Oliveira, ON Jr; Costa, LD SOURCE: JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS 6 (3). JUL 2012. p.427-434 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth; HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 178:471 1972 KEYWORDS: Scientometry; h-Index; Citation networks; Complex networks; Network model KEYWORDS+: COMPLEX NETWORKS; IMPACT; DISTRIBUTIONS; JOURNALS; DYNAMICS; QUALITY; LAW ABSTRACT: Various factors are believed to govern the selection of references in citation networks, but a precise, quantitative determination of their importance has remained elusive. In this paper, we show that three factors can account for the referencing pattern of citation networks for two topics, namely "graphenes" and "complex networks", thus allowing one to reproduce the topological features of the networks built with papers being the nodes and the edges established by citations. The most relevant factor was content similarity, while the other two - in-degree (i.e. citation counts) and age of publication - had varying importance depending on the topic studied. This dependence indicates that additional factors could play a role. Indeed, by intuition one should expect the reputation (or visibility) of authors and/or institutions to affect the referencing pattern, and this is only indirectly considered via the in-degree that should correlate with such reputation. Because information on reputation is not readily available, we simulated its effect on artificial citation networks considering two communities with distinct fitness (visibility) parameters. One community was assumed to have twice the fitness value of the other, which amounts to a double probability for a paper being cited. While the h-index for authors in the community with larger fitness evolved with time with slightly higher values than for the control network (no fitness considered), a drastic effect was noted for the community with smaller fitness. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: DR Amancio, Univ Sao Paulo, Inst Phys Sao Carlos, POB 369, BR-13560970 Sao Carlos, SP, Brazil -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Factors affecting web links between European higher education institutions (Article, English) AUTHOR: Seeber, M; Lepori, B; Lomi, A; Aguillo, I; Barberio, V SOURCE: JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS 6 (3). JUL 2012. p.435-447 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth; MERTON RK SCIENCE 159:56 1968 KEYWORDS: Webometrics; Web links; Antecedents of relationships KEYWORDS+: SITE INTERLINKING; ACADEMIC WEB; RESEARCH TEAMS; NETWORKS; UNIVERSITY; SCIENCE; IMPACT; ORGANIZATIONS; COLLABORATION; COMMUNICATION ABSTRACT: We examine the extent to which the presence and number of web links between higher education institutions can be predicted from a set of structural factors like country, subject mix, physical distance, academic reputation, and size. We combine two datasets on a large sample of European higher education institutions (HEIs) containing information on inter-university web links, and organizational characteristics, respectively. Descriptive and inferential analyses provide strong support for our hypotheses: we identify factors predicting the connectivity between HEIs, and the number of web links existing between them. We conclude that, while the presence of a web link cannot be directly related to its underlying motivation and the type of relationship between HEIs, patterns of network ties between HEIs present interesting statistical properties which reveal new insights on the function and structure of the inter organizational networks in which HEIs are embedded. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Seeber, Univ Lugano, Ctr Org Res, Via Lambertenghi, CH-6900 Lugano, Switzerland -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Finding the Easter eggs hidden by oneself: Why Radicchi and Castellano's (2012) fairness test for citation indicators is not fair (Letter, English) AUTHOR: Sirtes, D SOURCE: JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS 6 (3). JUL 2012. p.448-450 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM KEYWORDS+: DISTRIBUTIONS; UNIVERSALITY AUTHOR ADDRESS: D Sirtes, Inst Forschungsinformat & Qualitatssicherung, Schutzenstr 6, D-10117 Berlin, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Calibration against a reference set: A quantitative approach to assessment of the methods of assessment of scientific output (Article, English) AUTHOR: Kosmulski, M SOURCE: JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS 6 (3). JUL 2012. p.451-456 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005 KEYWORDS: Citation analysis; Scientific output; Hirsch-type index KEYWORDS+: H-INDEX; HIRSCH-INDEX ABSTRACT: A set of authors whose scientific output can be unequivocally ranged from the highest to the lowest is used to assess the methods of assessment of scientific output. The rank-rank correlation coefficient between the known order in the calibration set and the order produced by certain method of assessment is a quantitative measure of the quality of that method. A common-sense-based reference may play a positive role in the communication between the enthusiasts and antagonists of bibliometric indices. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Kosmulski, Lublin Univ Technol, Lublin, Poland -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: TURKISH CULTURE AND HACI BEKTAS VELI RESEARCH QUARTERLY, 2008-2010 (Article, Turkish) AUTHOR: Al, U SOURCE: TURK KULTURU VE HACI BEKTAS VELI-ARASTIRMA DERGISI (61). SPR 2012. p.273-286 GAZI UNIV, TURK KULTURU VE HACI BEKTAS VELI, ANKARA SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; SENGUPTA IN LIBRI 42:75 1992 KEYWORDS: Turkish Culture and Haci Bektas Veli Research Quarterly; bibliometrics; citation analysis KEYWORDS+: CITATION ANALYSIS; BIBLIOMETRICS ABSTRACT: Turkish Culture and Haci Bektas Veli Research Quarterly has been indexed by the Arts & Humanities Citation Index since 2008. This research examines Turkish Culture and Haci Bektas Veli Research Quarterly and bibliometric features of its publications. The research carried out covers 212 publications between the years 2008-2010. In this context, some of the following research questions have been addressed: 1) Which types of sources (books, researches, articles, etc.) get cited more often in the publications? 2) What are the institutional affiliations of the authors of the publications? 3) What is the rate of literature obsolescence in Turkish Culture and Haci Bektas Veli Research Quarterly? In conclusion, it is found out that all of the publications are written in Turkish. An important part of the contributors is affiliated with Gazi and Ataturk Universities. Books receive an overwhelming majority (91%) of all citations in Turkish Culture and Had Bektas Veli Research Quarterly. Half of the sources cited in Turkish Culture and Haci Bektas Veli Research Quarterly have been published in the last 12 years. AUTHOR ADDRESS: U Al, Hacettepe Univ, Bilgi & Belge Yonetimi Bolumu, Ankara, Turkey -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Innovation trajectories for information visualizations: Comparing treemaps, cone trees, and hyperbolic trees (Article, English) AUTHOR: Shneiderman, B; Dunne, C; Sharma, P; Wang, P SOURCE: INFORMATION VISUALIZATION 11 (2). APR 2012. p.87-105 SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, LONDON SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E J INFORM SCI 30:119 2004; GARFIELD E J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 54:400 2003 KEYWORDS: information visualization; innovation trajectories; graphical user interfaces; treemap; cone tree; hyperbolic tree KEYWORDS+: USER ACCEPTANCE; RESEARCH FRONTS; TECHNOLOGY; SPACE ABSTRACT: This paper reviews the trajectory of three information visualization innovations: treemaps, cone trees, and hyperbolic trees. These three ideas were first published around the same time in the early 1990s, so we are able to track academic publications, patents, and trade press articles over almost two decades. We describe the early history of each approach, problems with data collection from differing sources, appropriate metrics, and strategies for visualizing these longitudinal data sets. This paper makes two contributions: (1) it offers the information visualization community a history of how certain ideas evolved, influenced others, and were adopted for widespread use and (2) it provides an example of how such scientometric trajectories of innovations can be gathered and visualized. Guidance for designers is offered, but these conjectures may also be useful to researchers, research managers, science policy analysts, and venture capitalists. AUTHOR ADDRESS: B Shneiderman, Univ Maryland, Dept Comp Sci, College Pk, MD 20742 USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The uses and abuses of bibliometrics (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Johnson, MH; Cohen, J; Grudzinskas, G SOURCE: REPRODUCTIVE BIOMEDICINE ONLINE 24 (5). MAY 2012. p.485-486 ELSEVIER SCI LTD, OXFORD SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title; EDITORIAL doctype -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From daniel at EVALUATION.UZH.CH Tue Jun 5 04:33:50 2012 From: daniel at EVALUATION.UZH.CH (Hans-Dieter Daniel) Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 10:33:50 +0200 Subject: New journal article on gender bias in grant peer review Message-ID: Mutz, R., Bornmann, L., & Daniel, H.-D. (2012). Does Gender Matter in Grant Peer Review? An Empirical Investigation Using the Example of the Austrian Science Fund. Zeitschrift f?r Psychologie / Journal of Psychology,?220(2), 121-129. Abstract. One of the most frequently voiced criticisms of the peer review process is gender bias. In this study we evaluated the grant peer review process (external reviewers? ratings, and board of trustees? final decision: approval or no approval for funding) at the Austrian Science Fund with respect to gender. The data consisted of 8,496 research proposals (census) across all disciplines from 1999 to 2009, which were rated on a scale from 1 to 100 (poor to excellent) by 18,357 external reviewers in 23,977 reviews. In line with the current state of research, we found that the final decision was not associated with applicant?s gender or with any correspondence between gender of applicants and reviewers. However, the decisions on the grant applications showed a robust female reviewer salience effect. The approval probability decreases (up to 10%), when there is parity or a majority of women in the group of reviewers. Our results confirm an overall gender null hypothesis for the peer review process of men?s and women?s grant applications in contrast to claims that women?s grants are systematically downrated. Keywords: grant peer review, Austrian Science Fund, gender bias, female reviewer salience effect ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From isidro.aguillo at CCHS.CSIC.ES Wed Jun 6 03:36:19 2012 From: isidro.aguillo at CCHS.CSIC.ES (Isidro F. Aguillo) Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 09:36:19 +0200 Subject: Another paper from the ejournal Cybermetrics In-Reply-To: <4FC5E282.1090706@cchs.csic.es> Message-ID: Ordu?a-Malea, Enrique (2012). Graphic, multimedia, and blog content presence in the Spanish academic web-space. Cybermetrics, 16(1):Paper 3. http://cybermetrics.cindoc.csic.es/articles/v16i1p3.html http://cybermetrics.cindoc.csic.es/articles/v16i1p3.pdf The number of pages in a website is an indicator (related to its activity) widely used in cybermetric analysis. This indicator can be disaggregated by type of content and file type. In this sense, a gap in the literature about the treatment and quantitative analysis of multimedia files, graphics and type blog is detected, and particularly in their presence and distribution in the academic environment. This paper proposes a diachronic analysis in 2010 of media and graphic files count, and blog-like content for all websites which conforms the Spanish university space. Among the key findings, a very high percentage of blog-like content and image files are detected, which contrasts with the very low figures obtained for multimedia files. Otherwise, diverse limitations in image searchers used are found (coverage, variations between samples, instability and discrepancies between the calculation of global and file format counts), which call for a careful interpretation of the raw results obtained. Finally, a correlation between Bing images and Google images higher than expected (limited by a small set of URLs), and a sharp decrease on Bing coverage during the study period is obtained. -- =============================== Isidro F. Aguillo, HonPhD The Cybermetrics Lab IPP-CCHS-CSIC Albasanz, 26-28 (3C1) 28037 Madrid. Spain isidro.aguillo @ cchs.csic.es =============================== From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Wed Jun 13 13:21:34 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:21:34 +0000 Subject: Papers of interst to Sig Metrics Message-ID: TITLE: Contribution of Case Reports to Brain Metastases Research: Systematic Review and Analysis of Pattern of Citation (Article, English) AUTHOR: Nieder, C; Pawinski, A; Dalhaug, A SOURCE: PLOS ONE 7 (3). MAR 28 2012. p.NIL_964-NIL_967 PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, SAN FRANCISCO SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS+: RENAL-CELL CARCINOMA; SCIENTOMETRIC INDICATORS; IMPACT FACTOR; CANCER; REGRESSION; SUNITINIB; THERAPY ABSTRACT: Research activity related to different aspects of prevention, prediction, diagnosis and treatment of brain metastases has increased during recent years. One of the major databases (Scopus) contains 942 scientific articles that were published during the 5-year time period 2006-2010. Of these, 195 (21%) reported on single patient cases and 12 (1%) were reports of 2 cases. Little is known about their influence on advancement of the field or scientific merits. Do brain metastases case reports attract attention and provide stimuli for further research or do they go largely unrecognized? Different measures of impact, visibility and quality of published research are available, each with its own pros and cons. For the present evaluation, article citation rate was chosen. The median number of citations overall and stratified by year of publication was 0, except for the year 2006 when it was 2. As compared to other articles, case reports remained more often without citation (p<0.05 except for 2006 data). All case reports with 10 or more citations (n = 6) reported on newly introduced anticancer drugs, which commonly are prescribed to treat extracranial metastases, and the responses observed in single patients with brain metastases. Average annual numbers of citations were also calculated. The articles with most citations per year were the same six case reports mentioned above (the only ones that obtained more than 2.0 citations per year). Citations appeared to gradually increase during the first two years after publication but remained on a generally low or modest level. It cannot be excluded that case reports without citation provide interesting information to some clinicians or researchers. Apparently, case reports describing unexpected therapeutic success gain more attention, at least in terms of citation, than others. AUTHOR ADDRESS: C Nieder, Nordland Hosp, Dept Oncol & Palliat Med, Bodo, Norway -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Scientific productivity of OECD countries in dermatology journals within the last 10-year period (Article, English) AUTHOR: Tasli, L; Kacar, N; Aydemir, EH SOURCE: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGY 51 (6). JUN 2012. p.665-671 WILEY-BLACKWELL, HOBOKEN SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; JOURNALS item_title KEYWORDS+: GENERAL MEDICAL JOURNALS; CITATION; AUTHORS; IMPACT; OUTPUT; INDEX ABSTRACT: Background Scientific productivity is closely related to gross income, population, and cultures of the countries. Every country, more or less, has a responsibility of contributing to science. Materials and methods The publications, citations received, and the h-index under the category of dermatology in 43 journals between the years of 19992003 and 20042008 according to the ISI JCR data of 2008 were examined individually for each OECD country. Results In the journals under the category of dermatology between the years of 1999 and 2008, there were 89,319 publications, 76,899 of which were published by OECD countries. USA ranks first with 27,109 publications and 196,002 citations; Germany, Japan, England, and France are the other countries among the top five, respectively. Regarding the number of publications, Turkey and Korea are among the top 10 by surpassing many Northern European countries. With regard to h-index and citations, Northern European countries and Canada rank among the top 10, while Japan, Spain, Turkey, and Korea rank behind. The number of publications showed a significant correlation with the number of citations, population, gross domestic product, and h-index. Conclusions Nearly half of all publications were performed by the European origin OECD countries, and one-third of all publications were performed by USA. Journals from Germany and France, which are published in their own language, receive fewer citations, but they contribute a lot to these countries with respect to the number of publications. AUTHOR ADDRESS: L Tasli, Pamukkale Univ, Fak Hastanesi Dermatol, TR-2100 Denizli, Turkey -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Tech mining: text mining and visualization tools, as applied to nanoenhanced solar cells (Article, English) AUTHOR: Porter, AL; Guo, Y; Chiavatta, D SOURCE: WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-DATA MINING AND KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY 1 (2). MAR-APR 2011. p.172-181 WILEY PERIODICALS, INC, SAN FRANCISCO SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth; SMALL H SCI STUD 4:17 1974; SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973 KEYWORDS+: SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SCIENCE; INTERDISCIPLINARY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; MAP; TECHNOLOGY; INDICATORS; NETWORKS; TERMS ABSTRACT: 'Tech mining' is a multistep process for the analysis of science, technology, & innovation ('ST&I') information resources. It uses text mining, visualization, and communication tools to provide the empirical knowledge necessary to address management of technology questions. Tech mining can help assess mature or emerging fields of science and technology, such as nanotechnology. Here, we depict select analyses and visualizations of relevant ST&I data on the topics of nanoenhanced, thin-film solar cells and dye-sensitized solar cells. These analyses help identify complementary and competitive research activity, evaluate research productivity, assess research interdisciplinarity, understand nanotechnology developmental trajectories, and identify and forecast promising nanoapplications. (C) 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. WIREs DataMining Knowl Discov 2011 1 172-181 DOI:10.1002/widm.7 AUTHOR ADDRESS: AL Porter, Search Technol Inc, Norcross, GA 30092 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: An overview of social network analysis (Review, English) AUTHOR: Oliveira, M; Gama, J SOURCE: WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-DATA MINING AND KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY 2 (2). MAR-APR 2012. p.99-115 WILEY PERIODICALS, INC, SAN FRANCISCO SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth KEYWORDS+: COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPLEX NETWORKS; BIOLOGICAL NETWORKS; CENTRALITY; WEB ABSTRACT: Data mining is being increasingly applied to social networks. Two relevant reasons are the growing availability of large volumes of relational data, boosted by the proliferation of social media web sites, and the intuition that an individual's connections can yield richer information than his/her isolate attributes. This synergistic combination can show to be germane to a variety of applications such as churn prediction, fraud detection and marketing campaigns. This paper attempts to provide a general and succinct overview of the essentials of social network analysis for those interested in taking a first look at this area and oriented to use data mining in social networks. C (C) 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. AUTHOR ADDRESS: J Gama, Univ Porto, Fac Econ, Rua Campo Alegre 823, P-4100 Oporto, Portugal -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Collaboration in Art and in Science: Approaches to Attribution, Authorship, and Acknowledgment (Article, English) AUTHOR: Cronin, B SOURCE: INFORMATION & CULTURE 47 (1). 2012. p.18-37 UNIV TEXAS PRESS, AUSTIN SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth ABSTRACT: What does it mean to author or coauthor a scholarly paper or a painting? What conditions have to be fulfilled for authorship status to be granted? Must every researcher on a massively coauthored, high- energy physics paper have penned at least n words to warrant the appellation "coauthor"? Is the touch of the artist necessary for authorship to be granted, or is conceiving and superintending the production of the work sufficient? What kinds and scale of contributions warrant acknowledgment? This article explores authorship and attribution practices in the sciences and in the world of art. AUTHOR ADDRESS: B Cronin, Indiana Univ, Sch Lib & Informat Sci, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA TITLE: Analysis of the Ulrich's Serials Analysis System from the perspective of journal coverage by academic databases (Article, English) AUTHOR: Jacso, P SOURCE: ONLINE INFORMATION REVIEW 36 (2). 2012. p.307-319 EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED, BINGLEY SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNAL item_title KEYWORDS: Journals; Serials; Databases; Database management; Computer software; Ulrich's Serials Analysis System ABSTRACT: Purpose - Ulrich's Serials Analysis System (USAS) is based on Ulrich's Periodical Directory which has been an essential resource about periodical publications for 80 years, first in print, then later in CD-ROM and online versions. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the content and software features of USAS, based on tests made between July 2011 and January 2012. Design/methodology/approach - In addition to depicting the overall profile of USAS, special emphasis was given to marketing-focused and marketing-related journals, and their coverage in academic multidisciplinary and business databases. Findings - In light of the apparently everlasting library budget crises, the incessant increases in the subscription costs of journals and database licensing, and on the positive side the impressive growth of full text digital availability of journals through various sources, it was found that USAS can be a great asset in discovering alternatives, negotiating prices, and making educated decisions in collection development, as well as in reference services. Originality/value - The paper presents an analysis of the Ulrich's Serials Analysis System from the perspective of journal coverage by academic databases. AUTHOR ADDRESS: P Jacso, Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The Evaluation of Research by Scientometric Indicators, by P. Vinkler (Book Review, English) AUTHOR: Jacso, P SOURCE: ONLINE INFORMATION REVIEW 36 (2). 2012. p.324-325 EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED, BINGLEY SEARCH TERM(S): SCIENTOMETRIC* item_title KEYWORDS: Scientometric indicators; Citation awards; Citation indexes; Research assessment; Citation metrics AUTHOR ADDRESS: P Jacso, Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Are higher cited papers accepted faster for publication? (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Foley, JA; Valkonen, L SOURCE: CORTEX 48 (6). JUN 2012. p.647-653 ELSEVIER MASSON, MILANO SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 295:90 2006; KEYWORDS+: TRAUMATIC BRAIN-INJURY; OPEN-ACCESS ARTICLES; ALZHEIMERS- DISEASE; IMPACT FACTOR; DEVELOPMENTAL DYSLEXIA; LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRISM ADAPTATION; FRONTAL-CORTEX; TEMPORAL-LOBE AUTHOR ADDRESS: JA Foley, Univ Edinburgh, 7 George Sq, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, Midlothian, Scotland -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Epistemic foundation of bibliographic classification in early China A Ru classicist perspective (Article, English) AUTHOR: Lee, HL SOURCE: JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION 68 (3). 2012. p.378-401 EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED, BINGLEY SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOGRAPHIC* item_title KEYWORDS: Knowledge organization; Epistemology; Traditional Chinese bibliographic classification; Classification; China KEYWORDS+: LIBRARY; HISTORY ABSTRACT: Purpose - This study aims to understand the epistemic foundation of the classification applied in the first Chinese library catalogue, the Seven Epitomes (Qilue). Design/methodology/approach - Originating from a theoretical stance that situates knowledge organization in its social context, the study applies a multifaceted framework pertaining to five categories of textual data: the Seven Epitomes; biographical information about the classificationist Liu Xin; and the relevant intellectual, political, and technological history. Findings - The study discovers seven principles contributing to the epistemic foundation of the catalogue's classification: the Han imperial library collection imposed as the literary warrant; government functions considered for structuring texts; classicist morality determining the main classificatory structure; knowledge perceived and organized as a unity; objects, rather than subjects, of concern affecting categories at the main class level; correlative thinking connecting all text categories to a supreme knowledge embodied by the Six Classics; and classicist moral values resulting in both vertical and horizontal hierarchies among categories as well as texts. Research limitations/implications - A major limitation of the study is its focus on the main classes, with limited attention to subclasses. Future research can extend the analysis to examine subclasses of the same scheme. Findings from these studies may lead to a comparison between the epistemic approach in the target classification and the analytic one common in today's bibliographic classification. Originality/value - The study is the first to examine in depth the epistemic foundation of traditional Chinese bibliographic classification, anchoring the classification in its appropriate social and historical context. AUTHOR ADDRESS: HL Lee, Univ Wisconsin, Sch Informat Studies, Informat Org Res Grp, Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Introspection An Analysis of the Citation Impact of Stroke (Article, English) AUTHOR: Ginsberg, MD SOURCE: STROKE 43 (6). JUN 2012. p.1695-1699 LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS, PHILADELPHIA SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 295:90 2006; KEYWORDS: biomedical journals; citations; impact factor; publication policy; science journals KEYWORDS+: AMERICAN-HEART-ASSOCIATION; HEALTH-CARE PROFESSIONALS; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; SPECIAL WRITING GROUP; SCIENTIFIC STATEMENT; COUNCIL; DISEASE; MANAGEMENT; TRIAL AUTHOR ADDRESS: MD Ginsberg, Univ Miami, Dept Neurol D4 5, Miller Sch Med, POB 016960, Miami, FL 33101 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A Reverse Engineering Approach to the Suppression of Citation Biases Reveals Universal Properties of Citation Distributions (Article, English) AUTHOR: Radicchi, F; Castellano, C SOURCE: PLOS ONE 7 (3). MAR 29 2012. p.NIL_383-NIL_391 PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, SAN FRANCISCO SEARCH TERM(S): MACROBERTS MH rauth; PRICE DJD rauth; HAMILTON DP SCIENCE 251:25 1991; HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; SEGLEN PO J AM SOC INFORM SCI 43:628 1992; CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title; GARFIELD E JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 295:90 2006 KEYWORDS+: SCIENTOMETRIC INDICATORS; FIELD-NORMALIZATION; SCIENTIFIC IMPACT; CROSS-FIELD; VALIDATION; APPLICANTS; EXCELLENCE; SELECTION; SCIENCE; COUNTS ABSTRACT: The large amount of information contained in bibliographic databases has recently boosted the use of citations, and other indicators based on citation numbers, as tools for the quantitative assessment of scientific research. Citations counts are often interpreted as proxies for the scientific influence of papers, journals, scholars, and institutions. However, a rigorous and scientifically grounded methodology for a correct use of citation counts is still missing. In particular, cross-disciplinary comparisons in terms of raw citation counts systematically favors scientific disciplines with higher citation and publication rates. Here we perform an exhaustive study of the citation patterns of millions of papers, and derive a simple transformation of citation counts able to suppress the disproportionate citation counts among scientific domains. We find that the transformation is well described by a power-law function, and that the parameter values of the transformation are typical features of each scientific discipline. Universal properties of citation patterns descend therefore from the fact that citation distributions for papers in a specific field are all part of the same family of univariate distributions. AUTHOR ADDRESS: F Radicchi, Univ Rovira & Virgili, Dept Engn Quim, Catalunya, Spain -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Zipf's Law in Short-Time Timbral Codings of Speech, Music, and Environmental Sound Signals (Article, English) AUTHOR: Haro, M; Serra, J; Herrera, P; Corral, A SOURCE: PLOS ONE 7 (3). MAR 29 2012. p.NIL_500-NIL_509 PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, SAN FRANCISCO SEARCH TERM(S): ZIPF* item_title KEYWORDS+: POWER-LAW; 1/F NOISE; DISTRIBUTIONS; TAILS; SCALE; RECOGNITION; FREQUENCY; DYNAMICS; LOUDNESS; LANGUAGE ABSTRACT: Timbre is a key perceptual feature that allows discrimination between different sounds. Timbral sensations are highly dependent on the temporal evolution of the power spectrum of an audio signal. In order to quantitatively characterize such sensations, the shape of the power spectrum has to be encoded in a way that preserves certain physical and perceptual properties. Therefore, it is common practice to encode short-time power spectra using psychoacoustical frequency scales. In this paper, we study and characterize the statistical properties of such encodings, here called timbral code-words. In particular, we report on rank-frequency distributions of timbral code- words extracted from 740 hours of audio coming from disparate sources such as speech, music, and environmental sounds. Analogously to text corpora, we find a heavy-tailed Zipfian distribution with exponent close to one. Importantly, this distribution is found independently of different encoding decisions and regardless of the audio source. Further analysis on the intrinsic characteristics of most and least frequent code- words reveals that the most frequent code-words tend to have a more homogeneous structure. We also find that speech and music databases have specific, distinctive code-words while, in the case of the environmental sounds, this database-specific code-words are not present. Finally, we find that a Yule-Simon process with memory provides a reasonable quantitative approximation for our data, suggesting the existence of a common simple generative mechanism for all considered sound sources. AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Haro, Univ Pompeu Fabra, Mus Technol Grp, Barcelona, Spain -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Research performance evaluation: the experience of an independent medical research institute (Article, English) AUTHOR: Schapper, CC; Dwyer, T; Tregear, GW; Aitken, M; Clay, MA SOURCE: AUSTRALIAN HEALTH REVIEW 36 (2). 2012. p.218-223 CSIRO PUBLISHING, COLLINGWOOD SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005 KEYWORDS+: IMPACT; SCIENCE ABSTRACT: Background. Evaluation of the social and economic outcomes of health research funding is an area of intense interest and debate. Typically, approaches have sought to assess the impact of research funding by medical charities or regional government bodies. Independent research institutes have a similar need for accountability in investment decisions but have different objectives and funding, thus the existing approaches are not appropriate. Methods. An evaluation methodology using eight indicators was developed to assess research performance across three broad categories: knowledge creation; inputs to research; and commercial, clinical and public health outcomes. The evaluation approach was designed to provide a balanced assessment across laboratory, clinical and public health research. Results and discussion. With a diverse research agenda supported by a large number of researchers, the Research Performance Evaluation process at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute has, by necessity, been iterative and responsive to the needs of the Institute and its staff. Since its inception 5 years ago, data collection systems have been refined, the methodology has been adjusted to capture appropriate data, staff awareness and participation has increased, and issues regarding the methodology and scoring have been resolved. Conclusions. The Research Performance Evaluation methodology described here provides a fair and transparent means of disbursing internal funding. It is also a powerful tool for evaluating the Institute's progress towards achieving its strategic goals, and is therefore a key driver for research excellence. AUTHOR ADDRESS: T Dwyer, Royal Childrens Hosp, Murdoch Childrens Res Inst, Parkville, Vic 3052, Australia -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A Bibliometric Analysis of Articles Citing the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (Article, English) AUTHOR: Williams, MD; Rana, NP; Dwivedi, YK SOURCE: INFORMATION SYSTEMS THEORY: EXPLAINING AND PREDICTING OUR DIGITAL SOCIETY, VOL 1 28. 2010. p.37-62 SPRINGER, NEW YORK SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS: Adoption; Diffusion; Bibliometric Analysis; Systematic Review; UTAUT; TAM; Information Systems; Information Technology KEYWORDS+: INFORMATION-TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET SERVICES; PRIVACY CONCERNS; ADOPTION; MODEL; SYSTEMS; PERCEPTIONS; VALIDATION; PHYSICIANS; BANKING ABSTRACT: Despite the relatively recent emergence of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT). the originating article has already been cited by a large number of studies, and hence it appears to have become a popular theoretical choice within the field of information system (IS)/information technology (IT) adoption and diffusion. However, as yet there have been no attempts to analyse the reasons for citing the originating article. Such a systematic review of citations may inform researchers and guide appropriate future use of the theory. This chapter therefore presents the results of a bibliometric analysis and systematic review of 450 citations of the originating article in an attempt to better understand the reasons for citation, and use and adaptations of the theory. Findings revealed that although a large number of studies have cited the originating article since its appearance, only 43 actually utilized the theory or its constructs in their empirical research for examining IS/IT-related issues. This chapter also classifies and discusses these citations and explores the limitations of UTAUT use in existing research. AUTHOR ADDRESS: MD Williams, Swansea Univ, Technol & Innovat Management Grp, Sch Business & Econ, Swansea SA2 8PP, W Glam, Wales - From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Tue Jun 19 02:15:58 2012 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:15:58 +0200 Subject: the communication of meaning, information, and discursive knowledge; preprint versions Message-ID: Advances in Science Visualization: Social Networks, Semantic Maps, and Discursive Knowledge Positional and relational perspectives on network data have led to two different research traditions in textual analysis and social network analysis, respectively. Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) focuses on the latent dimensions in textual data; social network analysis (SNA) on the observable networks. The two coupled topographies of information-processing in the network space and meaning-processing in the vector space operate with different (nonlinear) dynamics. The historical dynamics of information processing in observable networks organizes the system into instantiations; the systems dynamics, however, can be considered as self-organizing in terms of fluxes of communication along the various dimensions that operate with different codes. The development over time adds evolutionary differentiation to the historical integration; a richer structure can process more complexity. _____ Statistics for the Dynamic Analysis of Scientometric Data: The evolution of the sciences in terms of trajectories and regimes The gap in statistics between multi-variate and time-series analysis can be bridged by using entropy statistics and recent developments in multi-dimensional scaling. For explaining the evolution of the sciences as non-linear dynamics, the configurations among variables can be important in addition to the statistics of individual variables and trend lines. Animations enable us to combine multiple perspectives (based on configurations of variables) and to visualize path-dependencies in terms of trajectories and regimes. Path-dependent transitions and systems formation can be tested using entropy statistics. _____ The Communication of Meaning and Information, and the Structuration of Expectations as Discursive Knowledge In addition to many great discoveries, Galileo changed the philosophy of science of his time by considering the Book of Nature not as a Revelation, but as a text open to debate. He presented his arguments discursively in Dialogo (1632) and Discorsi (1638). The older form of a disputatio which he had used in earlier work (e.g., Disputatio de coelo, 1616) and which was used also by his adversaries, was here abandoned in favor of open dialogue as the prime mode of generating, validating, and reproducing knowledge (Biagioli, 2003). Discursive knowledge-that is proceeding to a conclusion through reasoning-is shaped in communication among reflexive participants in the exchange (Husserl, 1929, 1935/6). The shaping of written knowledge in scientific literature as we know it today followed thereupon as an achievement of mainly the 18th century (Bazerman, 1988). >> more >> _____ ** apologies for crosspostings. Loet Leydesdorff University of Amsterdam Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel. +31-20-525 6598; fax: +31-842239111 loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ Visiting Professor, ISTIC, Beijing; Honorary Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex; http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYAAAAJ&hl=en -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We would also like to know about the expenses we should anticipate in being able to access the databases necessary to perform citation chain analyses, analyses of collaboration patterns, and other types of bibliometric studies. We would further like to know if there are ways we can minimize these expenses while still being able to perform high quality work. If you have any information regarding this matter, please contact our Director of Policy Research Studies, Emory Morrison, at emorrison at aamc.org. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Our staff includes sociologists and statisticians with generally sound methodological and analytical skills including skills in social network analysis.? However, we have no experience in engaging in bibliometrics.? We would like to develop the human capital that we currently have on staff to be able to perform bibliometrics.? > ? > If you could help us identify workshops, short courses, or other resources that would enable us to participate in this work, we would very much appreciate it. We would also like to know about the expenses we should anticipate in being able to access the databases necessary to perform citation chain analyses, analyses of collaboration patterns, and other types of bibliometric studies. We would further like to know if there are ways we can minimize these expenses while still being able to perform high quality work. > ? > If you have any information regarding this matter, please contact our Director of Policy Research Studies, Emory Morrison, at emorrison at aamc.org. > ? > ? |----------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From emorrison at AAMC.ORG Fri Jun 22 13:14:59 2012 From: emorrison at AAMC.ORG (Emory Morrison) Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:14:59 +0000 Subject: Bibliometrics Experience Needed In-Reply-To: <7370a54f2e407.4fe4b5ad@ucd.ie> Message-ID: Very much appreciated. Emory From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics [mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Julia Barrett Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 1:13 PM To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Bibliometrics Experience Needed Have a look at this freely available online tutorial: www.ndlr.ie/myri best regards Julia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Amanda Hayes (Intern)" > Date: Friday, June 22, 2012 3:13 pm Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Bibliometrics Experience Needed To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > Dear SIG Metrics community, > > I am writing on behalf of Policy Research Studies within the Association of American Medical Colleges. Our staff includes sociologists and statisticians with generally sound methodological and analytical skills including skills in social network analysis. However, we have no experience in engaging in bibliometrics. We would like to develop the human capital that we currently have on staff to be able to perform bibliometrics. > > If you could help us identify workshops, short courses, or other resources that would enable us to participate in this work, we would very much appreciate it. We would also like to know about the expenses we should anticipate in being able to access the databases necessary to perform citation chain analyses, analyses of collaboration patterns, and other types of bibliometric studies. We would further like to know if there are ways we can minimize these expenses while still being able to perform high quality work. > > If you have any information regarding this matter, please contact our Director of Policy Research Studies, Emory Morrison, at emorrison at aamc.org. > > ****************************************** Julia Barrett, Research Services Manager, UCD Library, Belfield, Dublin 4. 003531 716 7356 julia.barrett at ucd.ie -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gwhitney at UTK.EDU Fri Jun 22 19:38:49 2012 From: gwhitney at UTK.EDU (Gretchen Whitney) Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:38:49 -0400 Subject: Bibliometrics Experience Needed In-Reply-To: <7370a54f2e407.4fe4b5ad@ucd.ie> Message-ID: Greetings, This is probably very cool, but the page demanded a plug-in that I do not have. I exceed MacOS and Firefox requirements. And Safari for that matter. Can anyone report success in accessing these materials? What OS, What browser? Thanks. --gw <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Gretchen Whitney, PhD, Retired School of Information Sciences University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996 USA gwhitney at utk.edu http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/ jESSE:http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/jesse.html SIGMETRICS:http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> On Fri, 22 Jun 2012, Julia Barrett wrote: > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > Hi Amanda, > > > Have a look at this freely available online tutorial: > > > www.ndlr.ie/myri > > > best regards > > > Julia > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Amanda Hayes (Intern)" > Date: Friday, June 22, 2012 3:13 pm > Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Bibliometrics Experience Needed > To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU > >> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > ****************************************** > Julia Barrett, > Research Services Manager, > UCD Library, > Belfield, Dublin 4. > > 003531 716 7356 > julia.barrett at ucd.ie > > > | > > >> Dear SIG Metrics community, >> ? >> I am writing on behalf of Policy Research Studies within the Association of American Medical Colleges.? Our staff includes sociologists and statisticians with generally sound methodological and analytical skills including skills in social network analysis.? However, we have no experience in engaging in bibliometrics.? We would like to develop the human capital that we currently have on staff to be able to perform bibliometrics.? >> ? >> If you could help us identify workshops, short courses, or other resources that would enable us to participate in this work, we would very much appreciate it. We would also like to know about the expenses we should anticipate in being able to access the databases necessary to perform citation chain analyses, analyses of collaboration patterns, and other types of bibliometric studies. We would further like to know if there are ways we can minimize these expenses while still being able to perform high quality work. >> ? >> If you have any information regarding this matter, please contact our Director of Policy Research Studies, Emory Morrison, at emorrison at aamc.org. >> ? >> ? > |----------------------------------------------------------- > > > > From j.hartley at PSY.KEELE.AC.UK Fri Jun 29 09:50:59 2012 From: j.hartley at PSY.KEELE.AC.UK (James Hartley) Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:50:59 +0100 Subject: Indices of writing quality Message-ID: My colleague Gina Vega has asked if anyone can help her with her query below: I am looking for a method of evaluating the quality of written English (either English-US or English-UK). I am not seeking a readability index (such as SMOG or Flesch) but an index of writing quality. I want to be able to apply it to serve as an initial proxy for a complete copy-editing task for submissions of cases and articles to an international journal and distribution database. Does such an instrument exist? If so, I would appreciate hearing from you at gvega at salemstate.edu Many thanks Gina Vega Prof. of Management Salem State University Salem MA USA James Hartley School of Psychology Keele University Staffordshire http://www.keele.ac.uk/psychology/people/hartleyjames/ ----- Original Message ----- From: gina vega To: James Hartley Sent: Friday, June 29, 2012 2:05 PM Subject: Re: Fw: Writing in English HI Jim, That's very kind of you to offer. As I am not a member of either of these fora, I would very much appreciate your posting the query for me. How about this language: I am looking for a method of evaluating the quality of standard English (either English-US or English-UK) to serve as an initial proxy for a complete copy-editing task for submissions of cases and articles to an international journal and distribution database. I am not seeking a readability index (such SMOG or Gunning Fog), but an index of writing quality. Does such an instrument exist? If so, I would appreciate hearing from you at gvega at salemstate.edu (Gina Vega, Prof. of Management, Salem State University/Salem MA USA). The bibliography you are developing has a noble goal. I wonder if people who are struggling to write English will seek out such a list, or is it of more interest to people like us, who care about the struggles and are seeking ways to help others? Just a thought, Gina On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 1:33 PM, James Hartley wrote: Hi Gina Thanks for your prompt reply. Most fascinating - an algorithm that would make it easy and objective to identify writing that would benefit by having a co-author whose first language is English, because many cases are potentially useful in the classroom but are not written to appropriate English standards - would indeed be useful. I have no doubt you have asked around about this - but have you raised the question on the EASE forum, or the Scientometrics discussion lists? I could do this for you if you wished. Just send me some text to forward! We are aiming the bibliography at people who are writing (having to write) in English although English is not their first language. Cheers Jim -- Gina Vega Editor, The CASE Journal Professor of Management and Director, Center for Entrepreneurial Activities Bertolon School of Business Salem State University Salem, MA 01970 978.542.7417 gvega at salemstate.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pmd8 at CORNELL.EDU Fri Jun 29 12:08:13 2012 From: pmd8 at CORNELL.EDU (Philip Davis) Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 12:08:13 -0400 Subject: Citation Cartel Journals Denied 2011 Impact Factor Message-ID: Citation Cartel Journals Denied 2011 Impact Factor by PHIL DAVIS ? JUN 29, 2012 Fifty-one journals are suspended from the Journal Citation Report for ?anomalous citation patterns.? Whether or not you agree with the impact factor, sanctions help maintain the integrity of the scientific publishing enterprise for everyone. http://bit.ly/LAcjIS From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Fri Jun 29 15:02:32 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 19:02:32 +0000 Subject: papers of possible interest to Sig Metrics Message-ID: TITLE: Homocysteine and the Risk of Dementia Citation Classic (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Seshadri, S SOURCE: CLINICAL CHEMISTRY 58 (6). JUN 2012. p.1059-1060 AMER ASSOC CLINICAL CHEMISTRY, WASHINGTON SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title; EDITORIAL doctype KEYWORDS+: FOLATE AUTHOR ADDRESS: S Seshadri, Boston Univ, Sch Med, Dept Neurol, 72 E Concord St,B602, Boston, MA 02118 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Factors Influencing Chinese Authors' Perceptions of Journal Quality: A Comparison Between Two Academic Fields (Article, English) AUTHOR: Zhang, ZL; Zhang, ZQ; Li, XY; Jiang, MH SOURCE: SERIALS REVIEW 38 (1). MAR 2012. p.17-23 ELSEVIER INC, SAN DIEGO SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNAL item_title KEYWORDS: Author-perceived quality; Impact factor; Editor service; Immediacy index; Acceptance rate; Publication delay KEYWORDS+: INFORMATION-SCIENCE JOURNALS; IMPACT FACTOR; IMMEDIACY INDEX; PUBLICATION; MANAGEMENT; LIBRARY ABSTRACT: Numerous studies published in the academic literature address the issue of journal quality assessment. However, little has been done to compare the factors that influence the perceptions of journal quality in different disciplines. From Chinese authors' viewpoint, this study explored the factors influencing author quality perceptions of journals in computer science and technology as well as in library and information science. Our empirical findings indicate that author-perceived journal quality in these two fields is significantly positively correlated with impact factors and not statistically significantly correlated with technical delay and immediacy index. Slightly different results are also found between the two fields in terms of the effects of editor service, editorial delay and acceptance rates. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: ZL Zhang, Harbin Inst Technol, Sch Management, Harbin 150001, Peoples R China -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Mapping the Knowledge Structure of Research on Patient Adherence: Knowledge Domain Visualization Based Co-Word Analysis and Social Network Analysis (Article, English) AUTHOR: Zhang, J; Xie, J; Hou, WL; Tu, XC; Xu, J; Song, FJ; Wang, ZH; Lu, ZX SOURCE: PLOS ONE 7 (4). APR 5 2012. p.NIL_142-NIL_148 PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, SAN FRANCISCO SEARCH TERM(S): SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973 KEYWORDS+: SYSTEMATIC-REVIEWS; MEDICATION; SCIENTOMETRICS; ACIDIFICATION; INTERVENTIONS ABSTRACT: Background: Patient adherence is an important issue for health service providers and health researchers. However, the knowledge structure of diverse research on treatment adherence is unclear. This study used co-word analysis and social network analysis techniques to analyze research literature on adherence, and to show their knowledge structure and evolution over time. Methods: Published scientific papers about treatment adherence were retrieved from Web of Science (2000 to May 2011). A total of 2308 relevant articles were included: 788 articles published in 2000-2005 and 1520 articles published in 2006-2011. The keywords of each article were extracted by using the software Biblexcel, and the synonym and isogenous words were merged manually. The frequency of keywords and their co-occurrence frequency were counted. High frequency keywords were selected to yield the co-words matrix. Finally the decomposition maps were used to comb the complex knowledge structures. Results: Research themes were more general in the first period (2000 to 2005), and more extensive with many more new terms in the second period (2006 to 2011). Research on adherence has covered more and more diseases, populations and methods, but other diseases/conditions are not as hot as HIV/AIDS and have not become specialty themes/sub-directions. Most studies originated from the United States. Conclusion: The dynamic of this field is mainly divergent, with increasing number of new sub-directions of research. Future research is required to investigate specific directions and converge as well to construct a general paradigm in this field. AUTHOR ADDRESS: J Zhang, Huazhong Univ Sci & Technol, Tongji Med Coll, Sch Publ Hlth, Wuhan 430074, Hubei Province, Peoples R China -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Representation and Negotiation of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: A Citation Context Analysis (Article, English) AUTHOR: Danell, JAB SOURCE: SCIENCE COMMUNICATION 34 (3). JUN 2012. p.299-333 SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC, THOUSAND OAKS SEARCH TERM(S): MACROBERTS MH rauth; MORAVCSIK MJ rauth; SMALL HG SOC STUD SCI 8:327 1978; KEYWORDS: interdisciplinary science communication; rhetoric; information KEYWORDS+: LOW-BACK-PAIN; CARPAL-TUNNEL-SYNDROME; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED-TRIAL; MIND-BODY INTERVENTIONS; FOLLOW-UP OUTCOMES; MANUAL THERAPY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; SPINAL MANIPULATION; CLINICAL-TRIAL; IYENGAR YOGA ABSTRACT: Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is not only increasingly popular and frequently used in Western societies, it is also a growing scientific field. But how are results from clinical CAM studies received and represented by other researchers? This article discusses the migration and representation of three clinical CAM studies, published in high-impact medical journals, analyzed with help from quantitative and qualitative citation context analysis. The results indicate a great variety concerning the migration of results and that this kind of research is subject to different kinds of boundary work, especially concerning biomedical standards and design of the studies. AUTHOR ADDRESS: JAB Danell, Umea Univ, Dept Sociol, S-90187 Umea, Sweden -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Theory of Citing (Article, English) AUTHOR: Simkin, MV; Roychowdhury, VP SOURCE: HANDBOOK OF OPTIMIZATION IN COMPLEX NETWORKS: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS 57. 2012. p.463-505 SPRINGER, NEW YORK SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK SCIENCE 159:56 1968; GARFIELD E rauth KEYWORDS+: CITATION ANALYSIS; NETWORKS; CRITICALITY; EVOLUTION;BEHAVIOR; SCIENCE; MODEL ABSTRACT: We present empirical data on misprints in citations to 12 high-profile papers. The great majority of misprints are identical to misprints in articles that earlier cited the same paper. The distribution of the numbers of misprint repetitions follows a power law. We develop a stochastic model of the citation process, which explains these findings and shows that about 70-90% of scientific citations are copied from the lists of references used in other papers. Citation copying can explain not only why some misprints become popular, but also why some papers become highly cited. We show that a model where a scientist picks few random papers, cites them, and copies a fraction of their references accounts quantitatively for empirically observed distribution of citations. AUTHOR ADDRESS: MV Simkin, Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Elect Engn, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The evaluation of biogas research: A scientometric approach (Article, English) AUTHOR: Konur, O SOURCE: ENERGY EDUCATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PART A-ENERGY SCIENCE AND RESEARCH 29 (2). JUL 2012. p.1277-1292 SILA SCIENCE, TRABZON SEARCH TERM(S): SCIENTOMETRIC* item_title KEYWORDS: Biogas; Research evaluation; Research productivity; Scientometrics; Web of Knowledge KEYWORDS+: MICROBIAL FUEL-CELLS; ECONOMIC-FEASIBILITY; ANAEROBIC-DIGESTION; HYDROGEN-PRODUCTION; ENERGY-PRODUCTION; RENEWABLE ENERGY; HIGHER-EDUCATION; OIL; INDIA; TERRORISM ABSTRACT: The present study explores the characteristics of the literature on the biogas published during the last three decades based on the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) and its implications using the scientometric techniques. The results of this study reveal that the research output on the biogas and the citations received have grown exponentially during this period especially during the last decade with paralleling enormous changes in the research landscape. India, the US, and Germany have been the three most prolific countries. The "Indian Inst Technol" of India has been the most prolific institution and "Angelidaki I" of Denmark has been the most prolific author. "Bioresource Technology" has been the most prolific journal whilst "Engineering" has been the most prolific subject area. "H- index" was 70 and a paper on the pseudo-second order model for sorption processes has had the highest impact on the literature with 1,673 citations. The scientometric analysis has a great potential to gain valuable insights into the evolution of the research on the biogas, complementing the scientometric studies in the other fields of the renewable energies such as biofuels and higher education providing a unique insight on the incentive structures for all the key stakeholders in the field. AUTHOR ADDRESS: O Konur, Sirnak Univ Rectorate, TR-73000 Sirnak, Turkey -------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The 100 most-cited articles in Pediatric Surgery International (Article, English) AUTHOR: Ruttenstock, E; Friedmacher, F; Hollwarth, ME; Coran, AG; Puri, P SOURCE: PEDIATRIC SURGERY INTERNATIONAL 28 (6). JUN 2012. p.563-570 SPRINGER, NEW YORK SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; GARFIELD E JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 257:52 1987 KEYWORDS: Citation analysis; Article; Author; Pediatric surgery KEYWORDS+: CITATION-CLASSICS; JOURNALS; AUTHORS; BIAS; MEDICINE;TRAUMA; IMPACT ABSTRACT: Citation analysis within specific journals and subject areas has become a popular method to assess the impact of a journal, article or author. To date, only a few evaluations of citation reports have been published in the field of pediatric surgery. Twenty-six years after its inception, Pediatric Surgery International (PSI) is a firmly established journal in pediatric surgery. The aim of this study was to identify, analyze and categorize the characteristics of the 100 most- cited articles published in PSI since its founding in 1986. The Web of Knowledge(SM), hosted by the Institute for Scientific Information, was searched with the all-database function for the 100 most- cited articles in PSI published from 1986 to the present. Each article was reviewed and the following parameters were recorded: number of citations, type of article, topic, year of publication, country of origin, institution and authorship. Between 1986 and 2012, 4,907 articles were published in PSI and 3,608 (73.53 %) of these were cited at least once. The 100 most-cited articles received a total of 3,309 citations with a mean of 33.09 (range 24-81). These articles were published between 1987 and 2007, with 73 articles published after 1997. Leading countries were USA (n = 15), Australia (n = 12), UK (n = 9) and Ireland (n = 9). Articles were categorized as followed: 92 original articles, 5 reviews and 3 case reports. 84 articles derived from clinical research and 16 derived from basic science. The most prolific authors were from 7 different institutions and published 37 articles, which received 1,213 (36.66 %) citations. The 100 most-cited articles published in PSI were predominately original articles from English-speaking countries dealing with clinical topics. This analysis may be of value to the editorial board and authors by providing some insights into what types of manuscripts appear to be of interest to the reading audience of PSI. AUTHOR ADDRESS: P Puri, Our Ladys Childrens Hosp, Natl Childrens Res Ctr, Dublin 12, Ireland -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Downloads are better than Jounal Usage Data? A Comparison of Download and Citation Indicators (Article, German) AUTHOR: Schlogl, C; Gorraiz, J SOURCE: ZEITSCHRIFT FUR BIBLIOTHEKSWESEN UND BIBLIOGRAPHIE 59 (2). MAR-APR 2012. p.87-95 VITTORIO KLOSTERNAMM GMBH, FRANKFURT-AM-MAIN SEARCH TERM(S): GROSS PLK SCIENCE 66:385 1927; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 178:471 1972 KEYWORDS+: DOCUMENT DELIVERY; JOURNAL USAGE; IMPACT; STATISTICS;FREQUENCY; METRICS; SUBITO AUTHOR ADDRESS: C Schlogl, Graz Univ, Inst Informat Wissensch & Wirtschaftsinformat, Univ Str 15-F3, A-8010 Graz, Austria -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Citations to Australian Astronomy: 5-and 10-Year Benchmarks (Article, English) AUTHOR: Kenyon, KH; Paramasivam, A; Tu, J; Zhang, A; Graham, AW SOURCE: PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA 29 (2). 2012. p.132-140 CSIRO PUBLISHING, COLLINGWOOD SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 178:471 1972 KEYWORDS: publications, bibliography; sociology of astronomy; surveys KEYWORDS+: CHEMICAL-COMPOSITION; SCIENTIFIC-RESEARCH; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SKY SURVEY; IMPACT; INDEX; SCIENCE; GALAXY; SUN ABSTRACT: Expanding upon Pimbblet's 2011 analysis of career h-indices for members of the Astronomical Society of Australia, we provide additional citation metrics which are geared to quantifying the current performance of all professional astronomers in Australia. We have trawled the staff web-pages of Australian Universities, Observatories and Research Organisations hosting professional astronomers, and identified 384 PhD-qualified, research-active, astronomers in the nation. 132 of these are not members of the Astronomical Society of Australia. Using the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System, we provide the three following common metrics based on publications in the first decade of the 21st century (2001-2010): h-index, author-normalised citation count and lead-author citation count. We additionally present a somewhat more inclusive analysis, applicable for many early-career researchers, that is based on publications from 2006-2010. Histograms and percentiles, plus top-performer lists, are presented for each category. Finally, building on Hirsch's empirical equation, we find that the (10-year) h-index and (10-year) total citation count T can be approximated by the relation h = (0.5+ root T)/root 5 for h greater than or similar to 5. AUTHOR ADDRESS: AW Graham, Swinburne Univ Technol, Ctr Astrophys & Supercomp, Hawthorn, Vic 3122, Australia -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Articles with short titles describing the results are cited more often (Article, English) AUTHOR: Paiva, CE; Lima, JPDN; Paiva, BSR SOURCE: CLINICS 67 (5). 2012. p.509-513 HOSPITAL CLINICAS, UNIV SAO PAULO, SAO PAULO SEARCH TERM(S): CITED item_title KEYWORDS: Articles; Citations; Visualization; Titles ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to evaluate some features of article titles from open access journals and to assess the possible impact of these titles on predicting the number of article views and citations. METHODS: Research articles (n = 423, published in October 2008) from all Public Library of Science (PLoS) journals and from 12 Biomed Central (BMC) journals were evaluated. Publication metrics (views and citations) were analyzed in December 2011. The titles were classified according to their contents, namely methods-describing titles and results-describing titles. The number of title characters, title typology, the use of a question mark, reference to a specific geographical region, and the use of a colon or a hyphen separating different ideas within a sentence were analyzed to identify predictors of views and citations. A logistic regression model was used to identify independent title characteristics that could predict citation rates. RESULTS: Short-titled articles had higher viewing and citation rates than those with longer titles. Titles containing a question mark, containing a reference to a specific geographical region, and that used a colon or a hyphen were associated with a lower number of citations. Articles with results-describing titles were cited more often than those with methods-describing titles. After multivariate analysis, only a low number of characters and title typology remained as predictors of the number of citations. CONCLUSIONS: Some features of article titles can help predict the number of article views and citation counts. Short titles presenting results or conclusions were independently associated with higher citation counts. The findings presented here could be used by authors, reviewers, and editors to maximize the impact of articles in the scientific community. AUTHOR ADDRESS: CE Paiva, Barretos Canc Hosp, Dept Clin Oncol, Div Breast & Gynecol Canc, Barretos, SP, Brazil ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Fri Jun 29 15:59:28 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 19:59:28 +0000 Subject: Papers of interest to SIG-Metrics readers .. Message-ID: Title: Reply to Elias S. Hyams, Jeffrey K. Mullins, and Mohamad E. Allaf's Letter to the Editor re: Alexander Kutikov, Boris Rozenfeld, Brian L. Egleston, et al. Academic Ranking Score: A Publication-Based Reproducible Metric of Thought Leadership in Urology. Eur Urol 2012;61:435-9 Authors: Kutikov, A; Uzzo, RG Author Full Names:Kutikov, Alexander; Uzzo, Robert G. Source:EUROPEAN UROLOGY, 62 (1):E19-E20; 10.1016/j.eururo.2012.04.025 JUL 2012 Language:English Document Type:Letter KeyWords Plus:IMPACT FACTOR Reprint Address:Kutikov, A (reprint author), Fox Chase Canc Ctr, Dept Surg Oncol, Div Urol Oncol, 333 Cottman Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19111 USA Addresses:[Kutikov, Alexander; Uzzo, Robert G.] Fox Chase Canc Ctr, Dept Surg Oncol, Div Urol Oncol, Philadelphia, PA 19111 USA E-mail Address:Alexander.Kutikov at fccc.edu Cited Reference Count:6 Times Cited:0 Publisher:ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS Cited References: Kutikov Alexander, 2012, EUROPEAN UROLOGY, V61, P441 Kutikov Alexander, 2011, JOURNAL OF UROLOGY, V185, P647 Sehgal Ashwini R., 2010, ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE, V152, P521 Kutikov A, 2012, Eur Urol, V61, P440 Kutikov Alexander, 2012, EUROPEAN UROLOGY, V61, P435 Wirth Manfred P., 2012, EUROPEAN UROLOGY, V61, P440 ======================================================================= Title: Introspection An Analysis of the Citation Impact of Stroke Authors: Ginsberg, MD Author Full Names: Ginsberg, Myron D. Source: STROKE, 43 (6):1695-1699; 10.1161/STROKEAHA.111.640235 JUN 2012 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords:biomedical journals, citations, impact factor, publication policy, science journals KeyWords Plus: AMERICAN-HEART-ASSOCIATION; HEALTH-CARE PROFESSIONALS; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; SPECIAL WRITING GROUP; SCIENTIFIC STATEMENT; COUNCIL; DISEASE; MANAGEMENT; TRIAL Reprint Address: Ginsberg, MD (reprint author), Univ Miami, Dept Neurol D4 5, Miller Sch Med, POB 016960, Miami, FL 33101 USA Addresses: [Ginsberg, Myron D.] Univ Miami, Dept Neurol, Miller Sch Med, Miami, FL 33101 USA E-mail Address: mginsberg at med.miami.edu Cited Reference Count:10 Times Cited:0 Publisher: LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS, 530 WALNUT ST, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106-3621 USA Cited References: Langer David, 2009, STROKE, V40, P2761 del Zoppo Gregory J., 2009, STROKE, V40, P2945 Roach E. Steve, 2008, STROKE, V39, P2644 Smith Wade S., 2008, STROKE, V39, P1205 Lo Eng H., 2011, STROKE, V42, P1803 Easton J. Donald, 2009, STROKE, V40, P2276 Bederson Joshua B., 2009, STROKE, V40, P994 Adams Robert J., 2008, STROKE, V39, P1647 Garfield E, 2006, JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, V295, P90 Elsevier B.V., 2011, SciVerse Scopus, ======================================================================= Title: China/USA nanotechnology research output comparison-2011 update Authors: Kostoff, RN Author Full Names: Kostoff, Ronald N. Source: TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE, 79 (5):986-990; 10.1016/j.techfore.2012.01.007 JUN 2012 Language: English Document Type:Article Author Keywords:Nanotechnology, Nanoscience, Nanocomposites, China, Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, Citation analysis KeyWords Plus:SCIENCE-AND-TECHNOLOGY; NANOSCIENCE; INFRASTRUCTURE; COLLABORATION; PUBLICATIONS; CHINESE; INDIA Abstract: This Research Note updates our 2006 and 2009 China/USA nanotechnology and nanoscience (NN) research output comparisons. A 2009 comparison of China/USA research publication outputs showed that China is about to overtake the USA in NN research output. As predicted by the extrapolated 2009 curve, China has passed USA in NN research publication output. This transition occurred in the 2008/2009 time frame, and if the 2011 results (taken at mid-2011) hold for the full year, will become quite pronounced (similar to 20%). When specific sub-disciplines are examined, the differences between China and USA become more pronounced. For example, the 2009 paper presented the time trend for China/USA publications in nanocomposites, an important sub-discipline of NN. The updated nanocomposites curve has increased about twice the rate of the overall NN curve, and shows no sign of abating. The USA papers lead in the numbers of citations by all metrics considered, but the Chinese papers are showing significant improvement with time. Overall, the Chinese papers are cited very modestly, but there is a core of 'heavy hitters' that appears to be increasing substantially with time, and is increasingly making its presence known in the higher Impact Factor journals. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Reprint Address: Kostoff, RN (reprint author), Georgia Inst Technol, Sch Publ Policy, 13500 Tallyrand Way, Gainesville, VA 20155 USA Addresses: Georgia Inst Technol, Sch Publ Policy, Gainesville, VA 20155 USA E-mail Address: ronald.kostoff at pubpolicy.gatech.edu Cited Reference Count: 38 Times Cited:0 Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 360 PARK AVE SOUTH, NEW YORK, NY 10010-1710 USA Cited References: Tang Li, 2011, SCIENTOMETRICS, V86, P299 Kostoff Ronald N., 2006, JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH, V8, P193 Kostoff R.N., 2007, Sci. Focus, V2, P1 Tang Li, 2011, SCIENTOMETRICS, V88, P1 Kostoff Ronald N., 2006, JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH, V8, P301 Leydesdorff Loet, 2008, SCIENTOMETRICS, V76, P159 Chen Kaihua, 2011, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V5, P233 Kostoff Ronald N., 2007, JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH, V9, P701 Guan Jiancheng, 2010, SCIENTOMETRICS, V84, P331 Kostoff Ronald N., 2008, CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN, V53, P1272 Kostoff R.N., 2005, DTIC Technical Report Number ADA435984, Kostoff R.N., 1000, Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Li Xin, 2008, JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH, V10, P3 Guan Jiancheng, 2007, RESEARCH POLICY, V36, P880 Kostoff Ronald N., 2008, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V2, P354 Kostoff R.N., 2006, DTIC Technical Report Number ADA443315, Jia Lee, 2011, NANO TODAY, V6, P6 Leydesdorff Loet, 2009, SCIENTOMETRICS, V78, P23 Kostoff R.N., 2007, DTIC Technical Report Number ADA461930, Wang Gangbo, 2010, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V4, P338 Kostoff Ronald N., 2008, JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER, V33, P472 Shapira Philip, 2009, ASIAN BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT, V8, P461 Kostoff Ronald N., 2009, JOURNAL OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY, V9, P6239 Youtie Jan, 2008, JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH, V10, P981 Kostoff Ronald N., 2007, CURRENT NANOSCIENCE, V3, P135 Lee Pei-Chun, 2011, TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE, V78, P132 Kostoff R.N., 2006, Nanotechnology Perceptions, V2, Kostoff Ronald N., 2007, CURRENT SCIENCE, V93, P1088 Kostoff Ronald N., 2007, TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE, V74, P1609 Kostoff R.N., 2005, DTIC Technical Report Number ADA435986, Kostoff Ronald N., 2007, SCIENTOMETRICS, V70, P565 Chen Hsinchun, 2009, IEEE INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS, V24, P68 Zhou P, 2006, RESEARCH POLICY, V35, P83 Kostoff Ronald N., 2007, CURRENT SCIENCE, V92, P1492 Hullmann Angela, 2007, SCIENTOMETRICS, V70, P739 Liu Xuan, 2009, JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH, V11, P1845 Kostoff Ronald N., 2007, TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE, V74, P1519 Kostoff Ronald N., 2007, TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE, V74, P1539 ======================================================================= Title: Contribution of Case Reports to Brain Metastases Research: Systematic Review and Analysis of Pattern of Citation Authors: Nieder, C; Pawinski, A; Dalhaug, A Author Full Names: Nieder, Carsten; Pawinski, Adam; Dalhaug, Astrid Source: PLOS ONE, 7 (3):10.1371/journal.pone.0034300 MAR 28 2012 Language: English Document Type: Article KeyWords Plus: RENAL-CELL CARCINOMA; SCIENTOMETRIC INDICATORS; IMPACT FACTOR; CANCER; REGRESSION; SUNITINIB; THERAPY Abstract: Research activity related to different aspects of prevention, prediction, diagnosis and treatment of brain metastases has increased during recent years. One of the major databases (Scopus) contains 942 scientific articles that were published during the 5-year time period 2006-2010. Of these, 195 (21%) reported on single patient cases and 12 (1%) were reports of 2 cases. Little is known about their influence on advancement of the field or scientific merits. Do brain metastases case reports attract attention and provide stimuli for further research or do they go largely unrecognized? Different measures of impact, visibility and quality of published research are available, each with its own pros and cons. For the present evaluation, article citation rate was chosen. The median number of citations overall and stratified by year of publication was 0, except for the year 2006 when it was 2. As compared to other articles, case reports remained more often without citation (p<0.05 ex! cept for 2006 data). All case reports with 10 or more citations (n = 6) reported on newly introduced anticancer drugs, which commonly are prescribed to treat extracranial metastases, and the responses observed in single patients with brain metastases. Average annual numbers of citations were also calculated. The articles with most citations per year were the same six case reports mentioned above (the only ones that obtained more than 2.0 citations per year). Citations appeared to gradually increase during the first two years after publication but remained on a generally low or modest level. It cannot be excluded that case reports without citation provide interesting information to some clinicians or researchers. Apparently, case reports describing unexpected therapeutic success gain more attention, at least in terms of citation, than others. Reprint Address: Nieder, C (reprint author), Nordland Hosp, Dept Oncol & Palliat Med, Bodo, Norway Addresses: [Nieder, Carsten; Pawinski, Adam; Dalhaug, Astrid] Nordland Hosp, Dept Oncol & Palliat Med, Bodo, Norway [Nieder, Carsten; Dalhaug, Astrid] Univ Tromso, Fac Hlth Sci, Inst Clin Med, Tromso, Norway E-mail Address: carsten.nieder at nlsh.no Cited Reference Count: 21 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 1160 BATTERY STREET, STE 100, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111 USA Cited References: Schubert A, 1996, SCIENTOMETRICS, V36, P311 Kanaan Ziad, 2011, ANNALS OF SURGERY, V253, P619 Kulkarni Abhaya V., 2011, PLOS ONE, V6, Young Neal S., 2008, PLOS MEDICINE, V5, P1418 Nieder Carsten, 2011, CANCER, V117, P2505 Aoyama H, 2006, JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, V295, P2483 Koutras Angelos K., 2007, ANTICANCER RESEARCH, V27, P4255 Hodi F. Stephen, 2008, NATURE CLINICAL PRACTICE ONCOLOGY, V5, P557 Patsopoulos NA, 2005, JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, V293, P2362 Owlia P., 2011, JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS, V44, P216 Fabi A, 2006, CANCER INVESTIGATION, V24, P466 Thibault Frederic, 2008, JOURNAL OF NEURO-ONCOLOGY, V86, P243 Radicchi Filippo, 2008, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V105, P17268 Stringer Michael J., 2008, PLOS ONE, V3, Gounant Valerie, 2007, LUNG CANCER, V58, P425 Stringer Michael J., 2010, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V61, P1377 Durieux Valerie, 2010, RADIOLOGY, V255, P342 Vinkler P, 2003, SCIENTOMETRICS, V58, P687 Kumar V, 2009, SINGAPORE MEDICAL JOURNAL, V50, P752 Leydesdorff Loet, 2010, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V4, P644 Medioni J., 2007, ANNALS OF ONCOLOGY, V18, P1282