Papers of Interest to SIG-Metrics Readers
Eugene Garfield
eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM
Mon Jun 4 20:23:33 EDT 2012
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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