From chni at INDIANA.EDU Tue May 1 13:36:46 2012 From: chni at INDIANA.EDU (Chaoqun Ni) Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 13:36:46 -0400 Subject: Deadline Extended: 2012 SIGMET Student Paper Contest Message-ID: > Please submit to 2012 SIG/MET Student Paper Contest. Apologies > for cross-posting. > > *New Deadline: midnight EST on Tuesday, May 8, 2012* > > > * 2012 ASIS&T SIG/MET Student Paper Contest > SIG/MET, the Special Interest Group for the measurement of information > production and use (http://www.asis.org/SIG/met.html) of the American > Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) > is pleased to announce its second student paper contest. The contest is > designed to recognize promising student research relating to the SIG. > > > Purpose > SIG/MET seeks to encourages the development and networking of all those > interested in the measurement of information. It is holding this contest > in order to promote amongst students the generation of new ideas and the > conduct of new research in metric-related topics, including bibliometrics, > scientometrics, informetrics, webometrics and other related domains. > EligibilityThe author of the paper contest must be a full-time student at > the time the paper is submitted, irrespective of whether they are members > of ASIS&T. Only single-authored manuscripts will be accepted, in order to > ensure that the work was conducted primarily by a student. SIG/MET reserves > the right to request proof of enrollment as part of the submission and > evaluation process. All submissions should be original and not have been > published in a journal, or been accepted by a journal, or be in the process > of being considered by a journal at the time they are submitted to this > contest. > > Theme Papers could discuss theories, methods, policies, case studies, > etc. on different aspects of measurement of information production and use. > Topics include, but are not limited to, the following core areas: > ? Metric-Related Theory > ? Methods and new techniques > ? Citation and co-citation analysis > ? Indicators > ? Altmetrics > ? Webometrics > ? Mapping & visualization > ? Research policy > ? Productivity & publications > ? Journals, databases and electronic publications > ? Collaboration/Co-authorship > ? Patent analysis > ? Knowledge and topic diffusion > > Selection > There will be a winner, runner-up and, depending on the quantity of strong > papers, a number of commended papers. The judges will particularly reward > well-written, original research that has potential for publication in a > peer-reviewed journal or for presentation at a refereed conference. > PrizesThe winner and runner-up will be awarded a one-year individual > membership to ASIS&T and the winner will also be awarded a cash prize. > Authors of highly rated papers will be invited to submit a short > biographical piece to be featured on the SIG/MET Website. In addition, if > SIG/MET holds a pre-conference workshop at the 2012 Annual Meeting, these > authors will be invited to present their research at the workshop. > FormatThe SIG/MET student paper contest committee requires that > submissions are no longer than ten pages (including figures, tables and > references) and follow the template of 2012 ASIS&T annual conference. > Detailed information about the template is available at: > http://www.asis.org/asist2012/ > Submission & DeadlineAuthors are invited to submit manuscripts by midnight EST > on Tuesday, the 8th May 2012, to the following website: > http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigmetspc2012 > > The students will be notified about the results by the end of May. If you > have any queries, please email Chaoqun Ni (chni at indiana.edu), or Carrie > Chang (carriehc at gmail.com).* > > > > Chaoqun Ni > School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University Bloomington > 1320 E 10th Street, L012, Bloomington, IN 47405 > http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~chni/index.html > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Tue May 1 15:14:25 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 19:14:25 +0000 Subject: Papers of interest to SIG-Metrics readers Message-ID: TITLE: SCALE-FREE NETWORKS CAN BE LINEAR-WORLD (Article, English) AUTHOR: Zhu, LZ; Yin, BB; Zhao, L; Cai, KY SOURCE: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS B 25 (32). DEC 30 2011. p.4593-4603 WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD, SINGAPORE SEARCH TERM(S): SEGLEN PO J AM SOC INFORM SCI 43:628 1992; INT J MOD PHYS B source_abbrev_20 KEYWORDS: Complex networks; scale-free degree distribution; small- world effect; degree; average path length; uncorrelated network; correlated network KEYWORDS+: WIDE-WEB; TOPOLOGY; DIAMETER ABSTRACT: It was generally believed that scale-free networks would be small-world. In this paper, two models, named Model A and Model B, are proposed to show that certain scale-free networks can be linear-world instead of small-world. By linear-world, it means that the average path length L of the network grows linearly with the total number of nodes N, i.e., L similar to N. Model A generates a deterministic scale-free network with high assortativity and numerical simulations demonstrate that the network is linear-world when it satisfies degree exponent lambda > 1. Model B constructs a partially deterministic scale-free network, which is connected by identical small scale-free networks following certain rules. Analytical arguments and numerical simulations both yield L similar to N which suggests that it is also linear-world. It is further discussed in this paper that the network generated by Model B could be either correlated or uncorrelated. This suggests that, inconsistent with the results in related works, uncorrelated scale-free networks can also be linear-world. AUTHOR ADDRESS: LZ Zhu, Beijing Univ Aeronaut & Astronaut, Dept Automat Control, Beijing 100083, Peoples R China -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Bias in high-tier medical journals concerning physician- academic relationships with industry (Letter, English) AUTHOR: Lesko, R; Scott, S; Stossel, TP SOURCE: NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY 30 (4). APR 2012. p.320-322 NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, NEW YORK SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNALS item_title; LETTER* doctype KEYWORDS+: CONFLICTS-OF-INTEREST; TRIALS; DRUGS AUTHOR ADDRESS: R Lesko, Navigant Consulting Inc, New York, NY USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Who Are the Giants on Whose Shoulders We Stand? (Article, English) AUTHOR: Laband, DN; Majumdar, S SOURCE: KYKLOS 65 (2). MAY 2012. p.236-244 WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005 KEYWORDS+: ECONOMICS DEPARTMENTS; EUROPEAN ECONOMICS; QUALITY; AMERICAN; RANKINGS; TRENDS; OUTPUT; US ABSTRACT: The scientific community is just that a community and the success/influence of any one individual likely reflects, at least in certain measure, the contributions made previously by others. This suggests that rather than merely ranking economists on the basis of raw citation counts, one might gain real insights about the giants laboring in relative obscurity by identifying who the authors of exceptionally influential papers drew their inspiration from. We identify the most- highly-cited (409) papers published in economics from 20012005, then examine who the authors of these high-impact papers drew from in terms of developing the ideas/arguments/applications presented in these papers. We find that a very small group of individuals had a comparatively large impact on the economics profession, in terms of influencing the subsequent work of authors of extraordinarily highly-cited papers. Further, there is relatively little consistency between our list of giants and Nobel Prize winners in Economics. AUTHOR ADDRESS: DN Laband, Auburn Univ, Dept Econ, Auburn, AL 36849 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Putting university research in context: Assessing alternative measures of production and diffusion at Stanford (Article, English) AUTHOR: Nelson, AJ SOURCE: RESEARCH POLICY 41 (4). MAY 2012. p.678-691 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM SEARCH TERM(S): MACROBERTS MH rauth KEYWORDS: Innovation measurement; Knowledge diffusion; Research commercialization; Linear model; Computer music KEYWORDS+: RESEARCH-AND-DEVELOPMENT; BAYH-DOLE ACT; ACADEMIC RESEARCH; INDUSTRIAL INNOVATIONS; TECHNOLOGY-TRANSFER; KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER; PATENT CITATIONS; PUBLIC RESEARCH; SCIENCE; GROWTH ABSTRACT: Scholars widely acknowledge that university research is critical to innovation and entrepreneurship. Much of the literature on university research, however, evokes a linear model from "science to products" and focuses, therefore, upon a limited set of indicators such as patents and licenses. Such a perspective runs the danger of missing the myriad ways in which science and commerce are intertwined and the myriad ways in which these activities might be assessed. In this paper, I address the question of how different measures reflect different perspectives and biases by investigating the production and diffusion of research associated with one of Stanford University's most prolific interdisciplinary centers, the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). I draw upon a unique data set that captures activities and engagement surrounding CCRMA for its 30-year history through a wide variety of measures, ranging from publication citations to industrial affiliates to personnel mobility. Employing the analytic categories of "description" and "enactment," and distinguishing between "indicators" and "pathways," I show how different measures reflect different activities and learning processes, and how they dramatically alter perceptions of active individuals, organizational reach, and timing and sequencing of activities. Building on these findings, I present a more complete model of university research production and diffusion, I discuss how alternative measures challenge certain assumptions in the literature, and I suggest concrete policy initiatives to improve our measurement and assessment of university research. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: AJ Nelson, Univ Oregon, Lundquist Coll Business, Eugene, OR 97405 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Career progress in centralized academic systems: Social capital and institutions in France and Italy (Article, English) AUTHOR: Pezzoni, M; Sterzi, V; Lissoni, F SOURCE: RESEARCH POLICY 41 (4). MAY 2012. p.704-719 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 178:471 1972 KEYWORDS: Academic careers; Economics of science; Social capital; Gender KEYWORDS+: RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY; SCIENTIFIC CAREERS; SEX- DIFFERENCES; SCIENCE; UNIVERSITIES; ECONOMICS; NETWORKS; PERFORMANCE; IMPACT; POLICY ABSTRACT: We analyze the role of social capital in academic careers. We distinguish between ties with reputed scientists and laboratories (scientific and technical human capital) and ties with influential actors with respect to recruitment/promotion decisions (political capital). We use institution-wise bibliometric indicators to measure separately the two types of capital for a large sample of French and Italian academic physicists between 2000 and 2003/2005. Controlling for scientific productivity, seniority and gender issues, career progress is explained by: the scientist's affiliation to important public research organizations (scientific and technical human capital - France); his/her social ties with senior members of the discipline, who exercise control over careers (political capital - Italy), and the commitment to work with senior colleagues in his/her own university (political capital - Italy). Significant differences exist between the two countries also with respect to the importance of productivity, seniority, and gender. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Pezzoni, KiTES Univ Bocconi, Via G Roentgen 1, I-20136 Milan, Italy -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: BIBLIOMETRIC METHODS FOR DETECTING AND ANALYSING EMERGING RESEARCH TOPICS (Article, English) AUTHOR: Glanzel, W SOURCE: PROFESIONAL DE LA INFORMACION 21 (2). MAR-APR 2012. p.194-201 EPI, BARCELONA SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973; BIBLIOMETR* item_title; GARFIELD E CURR CONTENTS 0518 :3 1987 KEYWORDS: Bibliometrics; Clustering; Hybrid clustering; Emerging topics; Emerging fields; Research topics; Core documents; Biblographic coupling; Text-mining; Collaboration networks; Countries; International collaboration KEYWORDS+: WORD ANALYSIS; COMBINED COCITATION; SCIENCE; CITATION ABSTRACT: This study gives an overview of the process of clustering scientific disciplines using hybrid methods, detecting and labelling emerging topics and analysing the results using bibliometrics methods. The hybrid clustering techniques are based on biblographic coupling and text-mining and 'core documents', and cross-citation links are used to identify emerging fields. The collaboration network of those countries that proved to be most active in the underlying disciplines, in combination with a set of standard indicators, form the groundwork for the bibliometric analysis of the detected emerging research topics. AUTHOR ADDRESS: W Glanzel, Katholieke Univ Leuven, Fac Business & Econ, Waaistr 6 Box 3536, B-3000 Louvain, Belgium -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Endorsement of the CONSORT Statement by High-Impact Medical Journals in China: A Survey of Instructions for Authors and Published Papers (Article, English) AUTHOR: Li, XQ; Tao, KM; Zhou, QH; Moher, D; Chen, HY; Wang, FZ; Ling, CQ SOURCE: PLOS ONE 7 (2). FEB 13 2012. p.NIL_126-NIL_129 PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, SAN FRANCISCO SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNALS item_title KEYWORDS+: RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED-TRIALS; QUALITY; EDITORS ABSTRACT: Background: The CONSORT Statement is a reporting guideline for authors when reporting randomized controlled trials (RCTs). It offers a standard way for authors to prepare RCT reports. It has been endorsed by many high-impact medical journals and by international editorial groups. This study was conducted to assess the endorsement of the CONSORT Statement by high-impact medical journals in China by reviewing their instructions for authors. Methodology/Principal Findings: A total of 200 medical journals were selected according to the Chinese Science and Technology Journal Citation Reports, 195 of which publish clinical research papers. Their instructions for authors were reviewed and all texts mentioning the CONSORT Statement or CONSORT extension papers were extracted. Any mention of the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals (URM) developed by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) or 'clinical trial registration' was also extracted. For journals endorsing the CONSORT Statement, their most recently published RCT reports were retrieved and evaluated to assess whether the journals have followed what the CONSORT Statement required. Out of the 195 medical journals publishing clinical research papers, only six (6/195, 3.08%) mentioned 'CONSORT' in their instructions for authors; out of the 200 medical journals surveyed, only 14 (14/200, 7.00%) mentioned 'ICMJE' or 'URM' in their instructions for authors, and another five journals stated in their instructions for authors that clinical trials should have trial registration numbers and that priority would be given to clinical trials which had been registered. Among the 62 RCT reports published in the six journals endorsing the CONSORT Statement, 20 (20/62, 32.26%) contained flow diagrams and only three (3/62, 4.84%) provided trial registration information. Conclusions/Significance: Medical journals in China endorsing either the CONSORT Statement or the ICMJE's URM constituted a small percentage of the total; all of these journals used ambiguous language regarding what was expected of authors. AUTHOR ADDRESS: XQ Li, Mil Med Coll 2, Changhai Hosp, Dept Tradit Chinese Med, Shanghai, Peoples R China -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From prabirgd11 at GMAIL.COM Wed May 2 06:33:45 2012 From: prabirgd11 at GMAIL.COM (Prabir G. Dastidar) Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 16:03:45 +0530 Subject: h-index basics Message-ID: Dear all, Regarding h-index, I have a basic question. Can you please help me? Sorry for not getting it right! Question: h-index is the number of papers with citation number more than or equal to h. I wish to know the advantage of taking only h papers having more than or equal to h citations. Why not h+1 or some other number? What is the mathematical logic? Best wishes, Prabir **************************************************************************************** *Confidentiality Notice: *This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. **************************************************************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From j.s.katz at SUSSEX.AC.UK Wed May 2 09:59:02 2012 From: j.s.katz at SUSSEX.AC.UK (Sylvan Katz) Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 07:59:02 -0600 Subject: h-index basics In-Reply-To: Message-ID: The theory is explained in Hirsch's original paper Hirsch, J. E. (2005). An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 102(46), 16569-16572. On 5/2/2012 4:33 AM, Prabir G. Dastidar wrote: > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html Dear all, > Regarding h-index, I have a basic question. > Can you please help me? > Sorry for not getting it right! > > Question: > h-index is the number of papers with citation number > more than or equal to h. > I wish to know the advantage of taking only h papers having > more than or equal to h citations. Why not h+1 or some > other number? What is the mathematical logic? > > Best wishes, > > Prabir > > > > > > > > **************************************************************************************** > *Confidentiality Notice: *This e-mail message, including any attachments, > is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain > confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, > disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended > recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all > copies of the original message. > **************************************************************************************** > From quentinburrell at MANX.NET Wed May 2 10:49:20 2012 From: quentinburrell at MANX.NET (Quentin Burrell) Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 15:49:20 +0100 Subject: Open access Message-ID: List members might be interested in the following: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/may/01/open-free-access-academic-research David Willetts is the UK Government's Minister of State for Universities and Science. (His nickname is "Two-Brains"!) Quentin Burrell From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Wed May 2 11:20:52 2012 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 11:20:52 -0400 Subject: Open access In-Reply-To: <10A508EA-D7AB-4C0A-A2A9-5CDE1FF6EB70@manx.net> Message-ID: On 2012-05-02, at 10:49 AM, Quentin Burrell wrote: > List members might be interested in the following: > http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/may/01/open-free-access-academic-research > David Willetts is the UK Government's Minister of State for Universities and Science. (His nickname is "Two-Brains"!) The UK government has engaged Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia to help make UK tax-payer-funded research available online for all. Open Access to peer-reviewed research (OA) is an important, timely and even urgent goal, and the UK's commitment to providing OA is extremely welcome and commendable. But turning to Jimmy Wales to help make it happen makes almost as little sense as turning to Rupert Murdoch. Wikipedia is based on the antithesis of peer review. Asking JW to help make sure peer-reviewed research is available to all is like asking McDonalds to help the UK Food Standards Agency make sure that wholesome food is available to all. The way to make all taxpayer-funded academic research in Britain available online to all is already known: Make it a mandatory condition of funding that the fundees make it available online to all (OA). Britain (RCUK) has already gone a long way toward trying to mnadate just that -- a much longer way than any other country so far. But there are still some crucial implementational details that need tweaking in order to make those mandates work: 1. The requirement has to be to deposit in the fundee's institutional repository (rather than an institution-external repository). 2. The deposit itself must be made immediately upon acceptance for publication (rather than only after a publisher embargo period). That way the fundee's institution will be empowered to monitor and ensure compliance with the funder mandate. In addition, when there is an allowable publisher embargo on making the immediate-deposit OA immediately, the institution's email-eprint-request Button can tide over immediate research usage needs during the embargo on an automated, accelerated individual-request basis. Institutional deposit will also motivate institutions to mandate OA for all of their research output, not just the RCUK-funded portion. But these are all implementational details that could be fixed by just updating the language of the RCUK mandates -- making it explicit that research that is not institutionally deposited immediately loses its funding. Each institution's research grant support office, already so solicitous about complying with all conditions on applying for, receiving and retaining grants will equally assiduously see to it that institutional fundees understand and comply. But JW does not know any of this. And if he did, he would be no better able to implement it than anyone else. It's the implementation that's needed, to make the broth edible and available to all -- not more cooks (and especially not from McDonalds' kitchens)! Stevan Harnad From j.bosman at UU.NL Wed May 2 11:50:14 2012 From: j.bosman at UU.NL (Bosman, J.M. (Jeroen)) Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 15:50:14 +0000 Subject: Open access In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Steven, Why so harsh on Jimmy Wales and Wikipedia, is it something personal? Is it really strange to ask people behind a system that produces the most used informational website to assist? It seems to me that The wikipedia system is tremendously succesful in motivating people to share knowledge, whereas the OA movement has up to now relied on a lot of input and labour from libraries and has not really been succesful in mass motivation of scholars to share. And you are saying that the way forward is a system that denies scholars money unless they share. That must mean that the system itself is not very attractive. Best, Jeroen Bosman Utrecht University Library Avid OA supporter Op 2 mei 2012 om 17:21 heeft "Stevan Harnad" het volgende geschreven: > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > On 2012-05-02, at 10:49 AM, Quentin Burrell wrote: > >> List members might be interested in the following: >> http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/may/01/open-free-access-academic-research >> David Willetts is the UK Government's Minister of State for Universities and Science. (His nickname is "Two-Brains"!) > > The UK government has engaged Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia to help make UK tax-payer-funded research available online for all. > > Open Access to peer-reviewed research (OA) is an important, timely and even urgent goal, and the UK's commitment to providing OA is extremely welcome and commendable. But turning to Jimmy Wales to help make it happen makes almost as little sense as turning to Rupert Murdoch. > > Wikipedia is based on the antithesis of peer review. Asking JW to help make sure peer-reviewed research is available to all is like asking McDonalds to help the UK Food Standards Agency make sure that wholesome food is available to all. > > The way to make all taxpayer-funded academic research in Britain available online to all is already known: Make it a mandatory condition of funding that the fundees make it available online to all (OA). > > Britain (RCUK) has already gone a long way toward trying to mnadate just that -- a much longer way than any other country so far. But there are still some crucial implementational details that need tweaking in order to make those mandates work: > 1. The requirement has to be to deposit in the fundee's institutional repository (rather than an institution-external repository). > > 2. The deposit itself must be made immediately upon acceptance for publication (rather than only after a publisher embargo period). > That way the fundee's institution will be empowered to monitor and ensure compliance with the funder mandate. In addition, when there is an allowable publisher embargo on making the immediate-deposit OA immediately, the institution's email-eprint-request Button can tide over immediate research usage needs during the embargo on an automated, accelerated individual-request basis. Institutional deposit will also motivate institutions to mandate OA for all of their research output, not just the RCUK-funded portion. > > But these are all implementational details that could be fixed by just updating the language of the RCUK mandates -- making it explicit that research that is not institutionally deposited immediately loses its funding. Each institution's research grant support office, already so solicitous about complying with all conditions on applying for, receiving and retaining grants will equally assiduously see to it that institutional fundees understand and comply. > > But JW does not know any of this. And if he did, he would be no better able to implement it than anyone else. It's the implementation that's needed, to make the broth edible and available to all -- not more cooks (and especially not from McDonalds' kitchens)! > > Stevan Harnad > From amsciforum at GMAIL.COM Wed May 2 12:44:30 2012 From: amsciforum at GMAIL.COM (Stevan Harnad) Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 12:44:30 -0400 Subject: Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia, and OA in the UK Message-ID: On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Bosman, J.M. (Jeroen) wrote: > Dear Steven, > > Why so harsh on Jimmy Wales and Wikipedia, is it something personal? Is it really strange to ask ?people behind a system that produces the most used informational website to assist? It seems to me that The wikipedia system is tremendously succesful in motivating people to share knowledge, whereas the OA movement has up to now relied on a lot of input and labour from libraries and has not really been succesful in mass motivation of scholars to share. And you are saying that the way forward is a system that denies scholars money unless they share. That must mean that the system itself is not very attractive. Nothing personal in the least! I don't know Jimmy Wales and I use and occasionally edit Wikipedia. My reaction is the same as if the UK government had asked a successful advertising executive, media executive, marketing executive, web exectutive, publishing executive, etc. to advise on providing open access to peer reviewed research: Is there anything about what they do and know that suggests that they would understand peer review, peer-reviewed research, researchers, research funding, publish-or-perish, research impact and OA, and what needs to be done to induce the researchers to provide the OA? And there's no denying that my own personal frustration is with the fact that I believe -- and have given reasons -- that the problem is with the implementation details of OA mandates, not with something one needs a media or marketing executive to solve. Apart from that, one of the (many) problems that have been delaying OA is the tendency to think that the way to free peer-reviewed research from access-tolls is to free it from peer review. And, this, I'm afraid, is what the Wikipedia view might lead toward. But I'm ready to be wrong: If JW manages to make himself well-informed about the one real problem OA faces -- inducing researchers to provide OA their peer-reviewed research -- and he comes up with a solution that works, splendid! (Just as good: if JW learns and agrees that the solution lies with tweaking the implementation details of OA mandates, then he can serve as a conduit from those who have been saying so all along, to those who have not been ready to heed them, but are ready to heed JW!) Stevan Harnad > Op 2 mei 2012 om 17:21 heeft "Stevan Harnad" het volgende geschreven: > >> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >> >> On 2012-05-02, at 10:49 AM, Quentin Burrell wrote: >> >>> List members might be interested in the following: >>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/may/01/open-free-access-academic-research >>> David Willetts is the UK Government's Minister of State for Universities and Science. (His nickname is "Two-Brains"!) >> >> The UK government has engaged Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia to help make UK tax-payer-funded research available online for all. >> >> Open Access to peer-reviewed research (OA) is an important, timely and even urgent goal, and the UK's commitment to providing OA is extremely welcome and commendable. But turning to Jimmy Wales to help make it happen makes almost as little sense as turning to Rupert Murdoch. >> >> Wikipedia is based on the antithesis of peer review. Asking JW to help make sure peer-reviewed research is available to all is like asking McDonalds to help the UK Food Standards Agency make sure that wholesome food is available to all. >> >> The way to make all taxpayer-funded academic research in Britain available online to all is already known: Make it a mandatory condition of funding that the fundees make it available online to all (OA). >> >> Britain (RCUK) has already gone a long way toward trying to mnadate just that -- a much longer way than any other country so far. But there are still some crucial implementational details that need tweaking in order to make those mandates work: >> 1. The requirement has to be to deposit in the fundee's institutional repository (rather than an institution-external repository). >> >> 2. The deposit itself must be made immediately upon acceptance for publication (rather than only after a publisher embargo period). >> That way the fundee's institution will be empowered to monitor and ensure compliance with the funder mandate. In addition, when there is an allowable publisher embargo on making the immediate-deposit OA immediately, the institution's email-eprint-request Button can tide over immediate research usage needs during the embargo on an automated, accelerated individual-request basis. Institutional deposit will also motivate institutions to mandate OA for all of their research output, not just the RCUK-funded portion. >> >> But these are all implementational details that could be fixed by just updating the language of the RCUK mandates -- making it explicit that research that is not institutionally deposited immediately loses its funding. Each institution's research grant support office, already so solicitous about complying with all conditions on applying for, receiving and retaining grants will equally assiduously see to it that institutional fundees understand and comply. >> >> But JW does not know any of this. And if he did, he would be no better able to implement it than anyone else. It's the implementation that's needed, to make the broth edible and available to all -- not more cooks (and especially not from McDonalds' kitchens)! >> >> Stevan Harnad >> > From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Wed May 2 13:44:42 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 17:44:42 +0000 Subject: Papers of interest to SIG-Metrics readers Message-ID: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: SHORT TERM IMPACT OF THE CHILEAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH: A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS (Article, English) AUTHOR: Krauskopf, E SOURCE: CHILEAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH 72 (1). JAN-MAR 2012. p.161-164 INST INVESTIGACIONES AGROPECUARIAS, CHILLAN SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; BIBLIOMETR* item_title; JOURNAL item_title KEYWORDS: Bibliometric; epistemometry; scientific productivity; Chile KEYWORDS+: SELF-CITATION ABSTRACT: In January 2007, the Chilean Journal of Agricultural Research was indexed by the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI). This paper reviews the research that has been published since 2007 by using records extracted from the Web of Science database. The papers published were mostly affiliated to researchers from Chile, and six out of the ten most-contributing countries were from Latin America. The analysis by institutions showed Universidad de Concepcion as the most prolific, although this result is not valid. A lack of standardization in the manner the Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (INIA) subscribed its address on each paper caused a disaggregation of the information. This was proven by the manual curation of each record that was affiliated to any of the centers belonging to INIA. The journal has a self-citation rate of 19.3%, value that is relatively high if compared to other journals from the same subject category listed on The Journal Citation Reports 2010. Finally, this work should be considered a bibliometric snapshot of the current situation of the journal that will serve as a benchmark when new evaluations are made in a few-years time. AUTHOR ADDRESS: E Krauskopf, Univ Andres Bello, Fac Ciencias Biol, Republ 239, Santiago, Chile -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Bioethics journals: are there many? Are there few? What the situation is? (Article, Spanish) AUTHOR: Hossne, WS SOURCE: ACTA BIOETHICA 17 (1). 2011. p.115-121 UNIV CHILE, CENTRO INTERDISCIPLINARIO ESTUDIOS BIOETICA, SANTIAGO SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNALS item_title KEYWORDS: scientific journal; Bioethics-publications; bibliometric profile; databases ABSTRACT: This work presents a bibliometric profile of Bioethics Journal according to the following journal databases: MEDLINE, LILACS, The Philosopher' s Index, Ulrich's, SciELO and Qualis classification system (Brazil). We found that: from 38 titles indexed in MEDLINE, 25 (66%) still exist; the country with the highest number is the U. S. A (36%); most Bioethics journals appeared in the 1990's (47%), and 36% have less than 10 years of existence. From those that disappeared (34%), the average survival time was about 4 years. There are only 12 countries with indexed journals. In Brazil, from 3 Bioethics journals, only one is (partially) indexed. English is the preponderant language (45%). Only 3% of journals are monthly. LILACS has two additional publications (Acta Bioethica, Chile, and Revista Latino Americana, Colombia). SciELO has only Acta Bioethica. In Ulrich's database, there are eight additional publications. In "Qualis" classification system there are four journals. AUTHOR ADDRESS: WS Hossne, Univ Estadual Paulista, UNESP, Escuela Med Botucatu, Sao Paulo, Brazil ----------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Academic publishers' time-loop: another mechanism to manipulate impact factors? (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Krell, FT SOURCE: LEARNED PUBLISHING 25 (2). APR 2012. p.153-154 ASSOC LEARNED PROFESSIONAL SOC PUBL, W SUSSEX SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; IMPACT FACTOR* item_title; EDITORIAL doctype ? AUTHOR ADDRESS: FT Krell, Denver Museum Nat & Sci, Dept Zool, 2001 Colorado Blvd, Denver, CO 80205 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Accessibility of online resources cited in scholarly LIS journals A study of Emerald ISI-ranked journals (Article, English) AUTHOR: Sadat-Moosavi, A; Isfandyari-Moghaddam, A; Tajeddini, O SOURCE: ASLIB PROCEEDINGS 64 (2). 2012. p.178-192 EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED, BINGLEY KEYWORDS: Online resources; Library and information science journals; Publishers; Accessibility; URL decay; Link rot; Serials; Online access KEYWORDS+: INTERNET REFERENCES; INFORMATION-SCIENCE; CITATION ANALYSIS; WEB REFERENCES; LINK ROT; DECAY; COMMUNICATION; PERSISTENCE; PERMANENCE; STABILITY ABSTRACT: Purpose - This research aims to study the state of online resources cited in scholarly library and information science (LB) journals which are ranked in ISI and available in the Emerald database in terms of accessibility and decay. Design/methodology/approach - Four LB journals published by Emerald were selected from Thomson Reuters' JCR. The journals' issues from 2005 to 2008 were downloaded directly from the publisher web site and checked in terms of decay and availability of individual cited URLs. Findings - Original accessibility of studied online resources was 64 percent, which improved to 95 percent. The main adopted strategies that returned more results were using the Wayback Machine and Google, which revived online resources by 17 percent and 12 percent respectively. Practical implications - To increase the rate of web citations accessibility, some recommendations, including avoiding long URLs, citing documents found in digital collections availability on the web, working through systematic checking of the web citations before publication, getting backup of cited information, using the more stable file formats and domains, and utilizing tools like WebCite (R)-enhanced reference and a digital object identifier (DOI (R)) system are suggested. Originality/value - A study which examines the accessibility and decay of web citations used by authors of articles published in ISI-ranked LIS journals available in the Emerald database has not been already done. This paper can thus contribute to the knowledge of this field as well as quality of such literature for web content providers and publishers, authors and researchers. AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Isfandyari-Moghaddam, Islamic Azad Univ, Dept Lib & Informat Studies, Hamedan Branch, Hamadan, Iran -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A continuous description of discrete data points in informetrics Using spline functions (Article, English) AUTHOR: Liu, YX; Rousseau, R SOURCE: ASLIB PROCEEDINGS 64 (2). 2012. p.193-200 EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED, BINGLEY SEARCH TERM(S): SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973; INFORMETRIC* item_title KEYWORDS: Spline functions; Discrete data; Visualization; Citation data; Differentiable functions; Data handling; Information science KEYWORDS+: SCIENCE; GROWTH ABSTRACT: Purpose - The paper aims to propose the use of spline functions for the description and visualization of discrete informetric data. Design/methodology/approach - Interpolating cubic splines: are interpolating functions (they pass through the given data points); are cubic, i.e. are polynomials of third degree; have first and second derivatives in the data points, implying that they connect data points in a smooth way; satisfy a best-approximation property which tends to reduce curvature. These properties are illustrated in the paper using real citation data. Findings - The paper reveals that calculating splines yields a differentiable function that still captures small but real changes. It offers a middle way between connecting discrete data by line segments and providing an overall best-fitting curve. Research limitations/implications - The major disadvantage of the use of splines is that accurate data are essential. Practical implications - Spline functions can be used for illustrative as well as modelling purposes. Originality/value - Splines have hardly ever been used or studied in the information sciences. AUTHOR ADDRESS: R Rousseau, KHBO Assoc KU Leuven, Fac Engn Technol, Oostende, Belgium -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Creativity, Problem Solving, and Solution Set Sightedness: Radically Reformulating BVSR (Article, English) AUTHOR: Simonton, DK SOURCE: JOURNAL OF CREATIVE BEHAVIOR 46 (1). MAR 2012. p.48-65 CREATIVE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC, HADLEY SEARCH TERM(S): MORAVCSIK MJ rauth; J CREATIVE BEHAV KEYWORDS: creativity; problem solving; solution sets; sightedness; BVSR KEYWORDS+: SELECTIVE RETENTION THEORY; BLIND-VARIATION; THOUGHT; DISCOVERY; CITATIONS; QUALITY; MODEL ABSTRACT: Too often, psychological debates become polarized into dichotomous positions. Such polarization may have occurred with respect to Campbell's (1960) blind variation and selective retention (BVSR) theory of creativity. To resolve this unnecessary controversy, BVSR was radically reformulated with respect to creative problem solving. The reformulation began by defining (a) potential solution sets consisting of k possible solutions each described by their respective probability and utility values, (b) a set sightedness metric that gauges the extent to which the probabilities correspond to the utilities, and (c) a solution creativity index based on the joint improbability and utility of each solution. These definitions are then applied to representative cases in which simultaneous or sequential generate-and-test procedures scrutinize solution sets of variable size and with representative patterns of probabilities and utilities. The principal features of BVSR theory were then derived, including the implications of superfluity and backtracking. Critically, it was formally demonstrated that the most creative solutions must emerge from solution sets that score extremely low in sightedness. Although this preliminary revision has ample room for further development, the demonstration proves that BVSR's explanatory value does not depend on any specious association with Darwin's theory of evolution. AUTHOR ADDRESS: DK Simonton, Univ Calif Davis, Dept Psychol, 1 Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616 USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Decoupling the scholarly journal (Article, English) AUTHOR: Priem, J; Hemminger, BM SOURCE: FRONTIERS IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE 6. APR 5 2012. p.NIL_1-NIL_13 FRONTIERS RES FOUND, LAUSANNE SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth; JOURNAL item_title KEYWORDS: scholarly communication; peer review; publishing; models KEYWORDS+: BIBLIOMETRICS; LIBRARIES; IMPACT ABSTRACT: Although many observers have advocated the reform of the scholarly publishing system, improvements to functions like peer review have been adopted sluggishly. We argue that this is due to the tight coupling of the journal system: the system's essential functions of archiving, registration, dissemination, and certification are bundled together and siloed into tens of thousands of individual journals. This tight coupling makes it difficult to change any one aspect of the system, choking out innovation. We suggest that the solution is the "decoupled journal (DcJ)." In this system, the functions are unbundled and performed as services, able to compete for patronage and evolve in response to the market. For instance, a scholar might deposit an article in her institutional repository, have it copyedited and typeset by one company, indexed for search by several others, self-marketed over her own social networks, and peer reviewed by one or more stamping agencies that connect her paper to external reviewers. The DcJ brings publishing out of its current seventeenth-century paradigm, and creates a Web-like environment of loosely joined pieces-a marketplace of tools that, like the Web, evolves quickly in response to new technologies and users' needs. Importantly, this system is able to evolve from the current one, requiring only the continued development of bolt-on services external to the journal, particularly for peer review. AUTHOR ADDRESS: J Priem, Univ N Carolina, Sch Informat & Lib Sci, 100 Manning Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Scientometric Analysis of Research in Smart Clothing: State of the Art and Future Direction (Article, English) AUTHOR: Choi, K; Park, H; Jeong, ES; Peksoz, S SOURCE: HUMAN CENTERED DESIGN (HCD) 6776. 2011. p.500-508 SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, BERLIN SEARCH TERM(S): SCIENTOMETRIC* item_title KEYWORDS: Smart Clothing; Scientometrics; Technology; Research ABSTRACT: The purposes of this study were to investigate research trends on smart textile and clothing and to suggest future research directions on smart textile and clothing by using scientometrics approach. The research of smart clothing was divided into five categories: technology, human factors, application, manufacturing, and consumer demands and retailing. Technology emerged as the dominant category suggesting technological development of smart materials and wearable input devices have been intensively studied and have provided a solid foundation for smart clothing research. The number of research on output devices and data and power transportation showed a gradually increasing trend since 2000. Analysis on technical collaboration among each research field showed a high correlation between input technology and the three main categories: smart materials, functional application and, manufacturing. Material sciences, electronic engineering and computer sciences were shown to be major research disciplines to lead smart clothing research based on quantity of publications. AUTHOR ADDRESS: K Choi, Oklahoma State Univ, Inst Protect Apparel Res & Technol, Stillwater, OK 74074 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Academic publishers' time-loop: another mechanism to manipulate impact factors? (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Krell, FT SOURCE: LEARNED PUBLISHING 25 (2). APR 2012. p.153-154 ASSOC LEARNED PROFESSIONAL SOC PUBL, W SUSSEX SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; IMPACT FACTOR* item_title; EDITORIAL doctype ? AUTHOR ADDRESS: FT Krell, Denver Museum Nat & Sci, Dept Zool, 2001 Colorado Blvd, Denver, CO 80205 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Accessibility of online resources cited in scholarly LIS journals A study of Emerald ISI-ranked journals (Article, English) AUTHOR: Sadat-Moosavi, A; Isfandyari-Moghaddam, A; Tajeddini, O SOURCE: ASLIB PROCEEDINGS 64 (2). 2012. p.178-192 EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED, BINGLEY KEYWORDS: Online resources; Library and information science journals; Publishers; Accessibility; URL decay; Link rot; Serials; Online access KEYWORDS+: INTERNET REFERENCES; INFORMATION-SCIENCE; CITATION ANALYSIS; WEB REFERENCES; LINK ROT; DECAY; COMMUNICATION; PERSISTENCE; PERMANENCE; STABILITY ABSTRACT: Purpose - This research aims to study the state of online resources cited in scholarly library and information science (LB) journals which are ranked in ISI and available in the Emerald database in terms of accessibility and decay. Design/methodology/approach - Four LB journals published by Emerald were selected from Thomson Reuters' JCR. The journals' issues from 2005 to 2008 were downloaded directly from the publisher web site and checked in terms of decay and availability of individual cited URLs. Findings - Original accessibility of studied online resources was 64 percent, which improved to 95 percent. The main adopted strategies that returned more results were using the Wayback Machine and Google, which revived online resources by 17 percent and 12 percent respectively. Practical implications - To increase the rate of web citations accessibility, some recommendations, including avoiding long URLs, citing documents found in digital collections availability on the web, working through systematic checking of the web citations before publication, getting backup of cited information, using the more stable file formats and domains, and utilizing tools like WebCite (R)-enhanced reference and a digital object identifier (DOI (R)) system are suggested. Originality/value - A study which examines the accessibility and decay of web citations used by authors of articles published in ISI-ranked LIS journals available in the Emerald database has not been already done. This paper can thus contribute to the knowledge of this field as well as quality of such literature for web content providers and publishers, authors and researchers. AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Isfandyari-Moghaddam, Islamic Azad Univ, Dept Lib & Informat Studies, Hamedan Branch, Hamadan, Iran -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A continuous description of discrete data points in informetrics Using spline functions (Article, English) AUTHOR: Liu, YX; Rousseau, R SOURCE: ASLIB PROCEEDINGS 64 (2). 2012. p.193-200 EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED, BINGLEY SEARCH TERM(S): SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973; INFORMETRIC* item_title KEYWORDS: Spline functions; Discrete data; Visualization; Citation data; Differentiable functions; Data handling; Information science KEYWORDS+: SCIENCE; GROWTH ABSTRACT: Purpose - The paper aims to propose the use of spline functions for the description and visualization of discrete informetric data. Design/methodology/approach - Interpolating cubic splines: are interpolating functions (they pass through the given data points); are cubic, i.e. are polynomials of third degree; have first and second derivatives in the data points, implying that they connect data points in a smooth way; satisfy a best-approximation property which tends to reduce curvature. These properties are illustrated in the paper using real citation data. Findings - The paper reveals that calculating splines yields a differentiable function that still captures small but real changes. It offers a middle way between connecting discrete data by line segments and providing an overall best-fitting curve. Research limitations/implications - The major disadvantage of the use of splines is that accurate data are essential. Practical implications - Spline functions can be used for illustrative as well as modelling purposes. Originality/value - Splines have hardly ever been used or studied in the information sciences. AUTHOR ADDRESS: R Rousseau, KHBO Assoc KU Leuven, Fac Engn Technol, Oostende, Belgium -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Creativity, Problem Solving, and Solution Set Sightedness: Radically Reformulating BVSR (Article, English) AUTHOR: Simonton, DK SOURCE: JOURNAL OF CREATIVE BEHAVIOR 46 (1). MAR 2012. p.48-65 CREATIVE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC, HADLEY SEARCH TERM(S): MORAVCSIK MJ rauth; J CREATIVE BEHAV KEYWORDS: creativity; problem solving; solution sets; sightedness; BVSR KEYWORDS+: SELECTIVE RETENTION THEORY; BLIND-VARIATION; THOUGHT; DISCOVERY; CITATIONS; QUALITY; MODEL ABSTRACT: Too often, psychological debates become polarized into dichotomous positions. Such polarization may have occurred with respect to Campbell's (1960) blind variation and selective retention (BVSR) theory of creativity. To resolve this unnecessary controversy, BVSR was radically reformulated with respect to creative problem solving. The reformulation began by defining (a) potential solution sets consisting of k possible solutions each described by their respective probability and utility values, (b) a set sightedness metric that gauges the extent to which the probabilities correspond to the utilities, and (c) a solution creativity index based on the joint improbability and utility of each solution. These definitions are then applied to representative cases in which simultaneous or sequential generate-and-test procedures scrutinize solution sets of variable size and with representative patterns of probabilities and utilities. The principal features of BVSR theory were then derived, including the implications of superfluity and backtracking. Critically, it was formally demonstrated that the most creative solutions must emerge from solution sets that score extremely low in sightedness. Although this preliminary revision has ample room for further development, the demonstration proves that BVSR's explanatory value does not depend on any specious association with Darwin's theory of evolution. AUTHOR ADDRESS: DK Simonton, Univ Calif Davis, Dept Psychol, 1 Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616 USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chessnic at COMPUSERVE.COM Wed May 2 14:04:21 2012 From: chessnic at COMPUSERVE.COM (Al Henderson) Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 14:04:21 -0400 Subject: Fwd: [SIGMETRICS] Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia, and OA in the UK In-Reply-To: Message-ID: For once, I agree with Steven Hanad! If Wiki-chaos is to replace peer-review and the editorial sentinels of the scientific record, quackery and patent medicine -- now barking at the gates -- will not be far behind. Albert Henderson -----Original Message----- From: Stevan Harnad To: SIGMETRICS Sent: Wed, May 2, 2012 12:49 pm Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia, and OA in the UK On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Bosman, J.M. (Jeroen) wrote: > Dear Steven, > > Why so harsh on Jimmy Wales and Wikipedia, is it something personal? Is it really strange to ask people behind a system that produces the most used informational website to assist? It seems to me that The wikipedia system is tremendously succesful in motivating people to share knowledge, whereas the OA movement has up to now relied on a lot of input and labour from libraries and has not really been succesful in mass motivation of scholars to share. And you are saying that the way forward is a system that denies scholars money unless they share. That must mean that the system itself is not very attractive. Nothing personal in the least! I don't know Jimmy Wales and I use and occasionally edit Wikipedia. My reaction is the same as if the UK government had asked a successful advertising executive, media executive, marketing executive, web exectutive, publishing executive, etc. to advise on providing open access to peer reviewed research: Is there anything about what they do and know that suggests that they would understand peer review, peer-reviewed research, researchers, research funding, publish-or-perish, research impact and OA, and what needs to be done to induce the researchers to provide the OA? And there's no denying that my own personal frustration is with the fact that I believe -- and have given reasons -- that the problem is with the implementation details of OA mandates, not with something one needs a media or marketing executive to solve. Apart from that, one of the (many) problems that have been delaying OA is the tendency to think that the way to free peer-reviewed research from access-tolls is to free it from peer review. And, this, I'm afraid, is what the Wikipedia view might lead toward. But I'm ready to be wrong: If JW manages to make himself well-informed about the one real problem OA faces -- inducing researchers to provide OA their peer-reviewed research -- and he comes up with a solution that works, splendid! (Just as good: if JW learns and agrees that the solution lies with tweaking the implementation details of OA mandates, then he can serve as a conduit from those who have been saying so all along, to those who have not been ready to heed them, but are ready to heed JW!) Stevan Harnad > Op 2 mei 2012 om 17:21 heeft "Stevan Harnad" het volgende geschreven: > >> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html >> >> On 2012-05-02, at 10:49 AM, Quentin Burrell wrote: >> >>> List members might be interested in the following: >>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/may/01/open-free-access-academic-research >>> David Willetts is the UK Government's Minister of State for Universities and Science. (His nickname is "Two-Brains"!) >> >> The UK government has engaged Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia to help make UK tax-payer-funded research available online for all. >> >> Open Access to peer-reviewed research (OA) is an important, timely and even urgent goal, and the UK's commitment to providing OA is extremely welcome and commendable. But turning to Jimmy Wales to help make it happen makes almost as little sense as turning to Rupert Murdoch. >> >> Wikipedia is based on the antithesis of peer review. Asking JW to help make sure peer-reviewed research is available to all is like asking McDonalds to help the UK Food Standards Agency make sure that wholesome food is available to all. >> >> The way to make all taxpayer-funded academic research in Britain available online to all is already known: Make it a mandatory condition of funding that the fundees make it available online to all (OA). >> >> Britain (RCUK) has already gone a long way toward trying to mnadate just that -- a much longer way than any other country so far. But there are still some crucial implementational details that need tweaking in order to make those mandates work: >> 1. The requirement has to be to deposit in the fundee's institutional repository (rather than an institution-external repository). >> >> 2. The deposit itself must be made immediately upon acceptance for publication (rather than only after a publisher embargo period). >> That way the fundee's institution will be empowered to monitor and ensure compliance with the funder mandate. In addition, when there is an allowable publisher embargo on making the immediate-deposit OA immediately, the institution's email-eprint-request Button can tide over immediate research usage needs during the embargo on an automated, accelerated individual-request basis. Institutional deposit will also motivate institutions to mandate OA for all of their research output, not just the RCUK-funded portion. >> >> But these are all implementational details that could be fixed by just updating the language of the RCUK mandates -- making it explicit that research that is not institutionally deposited immediately loses its funding. Each institution's research grant support office, already so solicitous about complying with all conditions on applying for, receiving and retaining grants will equally assiduously see to it that institutional fundees understand and comply. >> >> But JW does not know any of this. And if he did, he would be no better able to implement it than anyone else. It's the implementation that's needed, to make the broth edible and available to all -- not more cooks (and especially not from McDonalds' kitchens)! >> >> Stevan Harnad >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fyi.jmla at GMAIL.COM Thu May 3 09:24:41 2012 From: fyi.jmla at GMAIL.COM (Lauren Young) Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 08:24:41 -0500 Subject: JMLA article of interest Message-ID: The Journal of the Medical Library Association is pleased to announce the publication of v.100(2), April 2012. 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URL: From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Thu May 3 16:05:43 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 20:05:43 +0000 Subject: Papers potentially of interest to Readers of Sig Metrics Message-ID: TITLE: A linear ordering of a multi-parameter universe is usually nonsense (Article, English) AUTHOR: Maurer, H SOURCE: THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE 429. APR 20 2012. p.222-226 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005 KEYWORDS+: H-INDEX ABSTRACT: We are talking about the most beautiful woman in the world, about the largest cave in Europe, about the best sportsman of a particular year. We have even started to rank companies according to their "intellectual assets", universities according to their "importance", and scientists according to their "impact". It is time that we protest against this culture of "linearity" in a world that is multi- faceted, where many things cannot be described by one parameter, but only (if at all) by a very long vector of parameters. In this paper, I investigate this phenomenon to some extent as it applies to (computer) scientists and also indicate a link to the information avalanche we are confronted with. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: H Maurer, Graz Univ Technol, A-8010 Graz, Austria ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title: Structural indicators in citation networks Authors: Hu, XJ; Rousseau, R; Chen, J Author Full Names: Hu, Xiaojun; Rousseau, Ronald; Chen, Jin Source: SCIENTOMETRICS, 91 (2):451-460; 10.1007/s11192-011-0587-3 MAY 2012 Language: English Document Type: Article; Proceedings Paper Conference Title: 13th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics Conference Date: JUL 04-07, 2011 Conference Location: Durban, SOUTH AFRICA Conference Sponsor(s): Int Soc Scientometr & Informetr (ISSI), Durban Univ Technol Conference Host: Univ Zululand Author Keywords: Ego citation network; Structural indicators; Algebraic relations; Graph-theoretic analysis; Citation generations; Outgrow index KeyWords Plus: KNOWLEDGE DIFFUSION; SCIENCE; COLLABORATION; INFORMATION; FIELDS Abstract: New indicators, including the outgrow index, characterizing an article in its ego citation network are introduced. We take full advantage of the existing duality (cites-is cited by) in a citation network. Although algebraic aspects are emphasized, a first step towards their interpretation is attempted. Examples of their calculation and of future applications are provided. Reprint Address: Rousseau, R (reprint author), KHBO Assoc KU Leuven, Fac Engn Technol, Zeedijk 101, B-8400 Oostende, Belgium Addresses: [Rousseau, Ronald] KHBO Assoc KU Leuven, Fac Engn Technol, B-8400 Oostende, Belgium [Hu, Xiaojun] Zhejiang Univ, Sch Med, Med Informat Ctr, Hangzhou 310058, Zhejiang, Peoples R China [Rousseau, Ronald] Univ Antwerp, IBW, B-2000 Antwerp, Belgium [Rousseau, Ronald] Katholieke Univ Leuven, Dept Math, B-3000 Louvain, Belgium [Chen, Jin] Zhejiang Univ, Coll Publ Adm, Hangzhou 310027, Zhejiang, Peoples R China E-mail Address: xjhu at zju.edu.cn, ronald.rousseau at khbo.be Cited Reference Count: 27 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: SPRINGER, VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 0138-9130 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-011-0587-3 Subject Category: Computer Science; Information Science & Library Science Cited References: Leydesdorff L, 2011, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V62, P2133 SMALL H, 1973, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE, V24, P265 NIJSSEN D, 1998, COENOSES, V13, P33 EGGHE L, 1990, INTRO INFORMETRICS Q, Wagner CS, 2005, RESEARCH POLICY, V34, P1608 GARFIELD E, 1964, SCIENCE, V144, P649 Otte E, 2002, JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE, V28, P441 Singh J, 2005, MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, V51, P756 KESSLER MM, 1963, AMERICAN DOCUMENTATION, V14, P10 Althouse BM, 2009, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V60, P27 WHITE HD, 2000, WEB KNOWLEDGE FESTSC, P475 GARFIELD E, 1963, SCI CITATION INDEX I, ROUSSEAU R, 2011, P ISSI 2011 13 INT C, P737 GARNER R, 1967, 3 DREXEL INFORMATION, P3 Hu XJ, 2011, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V5, P413 Boyack KW, 2005, SCIENTOMETRICS, V64, P351 WASSERMAN S, 1994, SOCIAL NETWORK ANAL, Wang JC, 2010, SCIENTOMETRICS, V84, P735 Hu XJ, 2011, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V5, P27 Liu YX, 2010, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V61, P340 MARSHAKOVA IV, 1973, NAUCHNO TEKHNICHESKA, V2, P3 Persson O, 2004, SCIENTOMETRICS, V60, P421 ROUSSEAU R, 2010, ANN LIB INFORM STUDI, V57, P287 Chen ZF, 2010, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V4, P97 Rafols I, 2010, SCIENTOMETRICS, V82, P263 YANG EJ, 2009, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V60, P2107 ROUSSEAU R, 2010, JANUS FACED SCHOLAR, P173 ======================================================================= Title: Research performance and collaboration in the Novosibirsk region Authors: Markusova, VA; Libkind, AN; Varshavsly, AE; Jansz, CNM Author Full Names: Markusova, V. A.; Libkind, A. N.; Varshavsly, A. E.; Jansz, C. N. M. Source: SCIENTOMETRICS, 91 (2):513-526; 10.1007/s11192-011-0597-1 MAY 2012 Language: English Document Type: Article; Proceedings Paper Conference Title: 13th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics Conference Date: JUL 04-07, 2011 Conference Location: Durban, SOUTH AFRICA Conference Sponsor(s): Int Soc Scientometr & Informetr (ISSI), Durban Univ Technol Conference Host: Univ Zululand Author Keywords: Citation score; Impact factor; Level-aggregated indicator; Mean weighted indicators; Normalized indicator of international collaboration; Novosibirk area; Research output; Research performance; Universities KeyWords Plus: SCIENCE; RUSSIA Abstract: The Novosibirsk region is one of the most industrialized in Siberia. In 1957 the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (now Siberian Branch of the RAS (SBRAS)) was set up to stimulate a rapid development of the Siberian and Far East research forces. The goal of this mainly bibliometric, empirical study is to obtain insight into R&D performance in the Novosibirsk region, domestic and international collaborations and the impact of new government science policies focused on boosting the research and innovation activities of regional universities. Key drivers of research performance are institutions of the SBRAS. Second place in terms of research output belongs to Novosibirsk State University. Its research focuses on hard sciences. 75% of its papers were published in collaboration with SBRAS institutions. Research output is growing. Novosibirsk area's share of RFBR grants was stable around 8%. Publications from RFBR grantees in 34 subject categories had a level-! aggregated indicator value of one or higher. In these hard-science areas Russian research develops in accordance with global trends. We observed a concentration of domestic collaboration in the Novosibirsk area as well as a strong international collaboration with advanced economies, in particular in the Asia-Pacific region. Reprint Address: Jansz, CNM (reprint author), Technol Fdn STW, POB 3021, NL-3502 GA Utrecht, Netherlands Addresses: [Jansz, C. N. M.] Technol Fdn STW, NL-3502 GA Utrecht, Netherlands [Markusova, V. A.; Libkind, A. N.] VINITI RAS, Moscow 125190, Russia [Varshavsly, A. E.] TSIMI RAS, Moscow 117418, Russia E-mail Address: markusova at viniti.ru, varshav at cemi.rssi.ru, m.jansz at stw.nl Cited Reference Count: 10 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: SPRINGER, VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 0138-9130 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-011-0597-1 Subject Category: Computer Science; Information Science & Library Science Cited References: Schiermeier Q, 2010, NATURE, V464, P1257 PUDOVKIN A, 2011, TROITSKY VARIANT N, V76, P6 LIBKIND I, 2006, 9 INT C CI TECHN IND, P229 MARKUSOVA VA, 2011, P ISSI 13 INT C SCI, P534 MARKUSOVA V, 2009, SCIENTOMETRICS, V64, P249 OKUBO Y, 2000, 6 INT C SCI TECHN IN, P88 Wilson CS, 2004, SCIENTOMETRICS, V59, P345 GARFIELD E, 1990, ESSAYS INFORM SCI, V13, P282 *ROSSTAT, 2009, RUSS REG SOC EC IND, MARKUSOVA V, 2010, 11 INT C SCI TECHN I, P187 ======================================================================= Title: Citation genetic genealogy: a novel insight for citation analysis in scientific literature Authors: Sun, FJ; Zhu, LJ Author Full Names: Sun, Fengjun; Zhu, Lijun Source: SCIENTOMETRICS, 91 (2):577-589; 10.1007/s11192-011-0588-2 MAY 2012 Language: English Document Type: Article; Proceedings Paper Conference Title: 13th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics Conference Date: JUL 04-07, 2011 Conference Location: Durban, SOUTH AFRICA Conference Sponsor(s): Int Soc Scientometr & Informetr (ISSI), Durban Univ Technol Conference Host: Univ Zululand Author Keywords: Citation genetic genealogy; Document gene; Document genomes; Document genome sequence; Citation analysis; Citation family relationships KeyWords Plus: SCIENCE; INDEXES; INFORMATION; DOCUMENTS; DIMENSION Abstract: Citation relationships are commonly described with citation network or citation graph, but in this article, the author introduced the notion of citation genetic genealogy and apply it in citation analysis. A citing document usually only uses pieces of its cited document, so the author of this article defined these valuable pieces of a scientific document, which carry the information that have been used by its citing documents as its document genes. Besides, with the definition of symbolic information of a scientific document, the conclusion that a citing document inherited the document genes from its references can be drawn. Based on these understandings, citation genetic genealogy is constructed to describe citation relationships. With citation genetic genealogy, it is easy to map the citation relationships, like bibliographic coupling and co-citation, with familiar family relationships and illustrate the inheritance relationships in scientific literatures. Also, citation g! enetic genealogy may provide an interface between the citation analysis of a document set and the content analysis for each individual document inside this document set. Reprint Address: Zhu, LJ (reprint author), Inst Sci & Tech Informat China, Beijing 100038, Peoples R China Addresses: [Sun, Fengjun; Zhu, Lijun] Inst Sci & Tech Informat China, Beijing 100038, Peoples R China E-mail Address: zhulj at istic.ac.cn Cited Reference Count: 38 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: SPRINGER, VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS ISSN: 0138-9130 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-011-0588-2 Subject Category: Computer Science; Information Science & Library Science Cited References: EGGHE L, 1990, INTRO INFORMETRICS Q, SMALL H, 1999, B AM SOC INFORM INF, V25, P23 Brin S, 1998, COMPUTER NETWORKS AND ISDN SYSTEMS, V30, P107 MARTYN J, 1964, JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION, V20, P236 Leydesdorff L, 2006, SCIENTOMETRICS, V67, P231 Elkiss A, 2008, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V59, P51 KESSLER MM, 1963, AMERICAN DOCUMENTATION, V14, P10 MCCAIN KW, 1989, SCIENTOMETRICS, V17, P127 GARFIELD E, 1964, SCIENCE, V144, P649 Garfield E, 2009, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V3, P173 MERTON R, 1979, SOCIOLOGY SCI THEORE, GARFIELD E, 2006, INFORM WISSENSCHAFT, V57, P391 GARFIELD E, 1972, SCIENCE, V178, P471 GARFIELD E, 1970, NATURE, V227, P669 SMALL H, 1973, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE, V24, P265 SUN F, 2011, P ISSI 2011 13 INT C, P817 NAKOV P, 2004, P SIGIR 04 WORKSH SE, P81 SMALL HG, 1978, SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE, V8, P327 ZIMAN J, 1987, INTRO SCI STUDIES PH, GARFIELD E, 1955, SCIENCE, V122, P108 Garfield E, 1998, LIBRI, V48, P67 ZIMAN J, 1969, PHYS TODAY, V22, P87 GARFIELD E, 1967, JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL DOCUMENTATION, V7, P147 SMOLENYAK M, 2004, TRACE YOUR ROOTS DNA, BROOKES BC, 1980, JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE, V2, P125 ROBINSON T, 2005, GENETICS DUMMIES, GARNER R, 1967, COMPUTER ORIENTED GR, RIDLEY M, 2000, GENOME AUTOBIOGRAPHY, PRICE DJD, 1965, SCIENCE, V149, P510 Och FJ, 2004, COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS, V30, P417 Pearson H, 2006, NATURE, V441, P398 MERTON R, 1965, SHOULDERS GIANTS SHA, GARFIELD E, 1964, USE CITATION DATA WR, PAGE L, 1998, PAGERANK CITATION RA, Garfield E, 2006, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY, V35, P1127 Garfield E, 2007, INTERNATIONAL MICROBIOLOGY, V10, P65 MALIN MV, 1968, LIBRARY TRENDS, V16, P374 GARFIELD E, 1963, AMERICAN DOCUMENTATION, V14, P289 ======================================================================= Title: The Large-Scale Structure of Journal Citation Networks Authors: Franceschet, M Author Full Names: Franceschet, Massimo Source: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 63 (4):837-842; 10.1002/asi.22608 APR 2012 Language: English Document Type: Article KeyWords Plus: SCIENTIFIC IMPACT; COMPLEX NETWORKS; SCIENCE; COLLABORATION; DISTRIBUTIONS; INDICATORS; MAPS Abstract: We analyze the large-scale structure of the journal citation network built from information contained in the Thomson-Reuters Journal Citation Reports. To this end, we explore network properties such as density, percolation robustness, average and largest node distances, reciprocity, incoming and outgoing degree distributions, and assortative mixing by node degrees. We discover that the journal citation network is a dense, robust, small, and reciprocal world. Furthermore, in- and out-degree node distributions display long tails, with few vital journals and many trivial ones, and they are strongly positively correlated. Reprint Address: Franceschet, M (reprint author), Univ Udine, Dept Math & Comp Sci, Via Sci 206, I-33100 Udine, Italy Addresses: Univ Udine, Dept Math & Comp Sci, I-33100 Udine, Italy E-mail Address: massimo.franceschet at uniud.it Cited Reference Count: 31 Times Cited: 0 Publisher: WILEY-BLACKWELL, COMMERCE PLACE, 350 MAIN ST, MALDEN 02148, MA USA ISSN: 1532-2882 DOI: 10.1002/asi.22608 Subject Category: Computer Science; Information Science & Library Science Cited References: Radicchi F, 2004, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V101, P2658 GROSSMAN JW, 2002, CONGRESSUS NUMERANTI, V158, P201 Franceschet M, 2011, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V62, P1992 Leydesdorff L, 2009, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V60, P1327 *R DEV COR TEAM, 2008, R LANG ENV STAT COMP, KLANANS R, 2009, J AM SOC INFORM SCI, V60, P455 Stringer MJ, 2008, PLOS ONE, V3, West JD, 2010, COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES, V71, P236 BRANDES U, 2005, LECT NOTES COMPUTER, V3418, Bollen J, 2009, PLOS ONE, V4, GARFIELD E, 1955, SCIENCE, V122, P108 Bollen J, 2006, SCIENTOMETRICS, V69, P669 Redner S, 1998, EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL B, V4, P131 Watts DJ, 1998, NATURE, V393, P440 NEWMAN MEJ, 2010, NETWORKS INTRO, PINSKI G, 1976, INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT, V12, P297 Moody J, 2004, AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW, V69, P213 Barabasi AL, 2002, PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS, V311, P590 NEWMAN MEJ, 2006, STRUCTURE DYNAMICS N, Leydesdorff L, 2004, SCIENTOMETRICS, V60, P159 PRICE DJD, 1965, SCIENCE, V149, P510 Rosvall M, 2008, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V105, P1118 Leydesdorff L, 2010, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, V61, P352 Radicchi F, 2008, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V105, P17268 SEGLEN PO, 1992, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE, V43, P628 Clauset A, 2009, SIAM REVIEW, V51, P661 Milo R, 2002, SCIENCE, V298, P824 Rafols I, 2010, SCIENTOMETRICS, V82, P263 Leydesdorff L, 2011, JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, V5, P87 Barabasi AL, 1999, SCIENCE, V286, P509 Newman MEJ, 2004, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V101, P5200 ======================================================================= Title: Dynamic Effect of a Moving Truck on a Culvert Authors: Chen, SS; Harik, IE Author Full Names: Chen, S. S.; Harik, I. E. Source: JOURNAL OF BRIDGE ENGINEERING, 17 (2):382-388; 10.1061/(ASCE)BE.1943-5592.0000238 MAR-APR 2012 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Culvert; Truck; Velocity; Dynamic response; Interaction; Impact factor; Road roughness Abstract: The dynamic interaction between a moving truck and a long span reinforced concrete culvert is studied for different truck velocities. The numerical simulation method presented in this paper is based on discretizing the culvert, surrounding soil, and roadway, using a plane strain finite element model (FEM) along with a seven-degrees-of-freedom FEM mass-spring-damper model for the truck. The time-variable coupled dynamic system is solved in a step-by-step manner using Newmark's integration scheme. Results are presented for different parameters, including truck velocity, truck-culvert frequency ratio, damping ratio, road surface roughness, and roadway material. For the culvert under consideration, the results indicate that the road surface roughness has a significant influence on the dynamic impact factor relative to the displacement at the crown of the culvert. This influence is further magnified by variations in truck frequency, culvert damping coefficient, and truck velocity! . DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)BE.1943-5592.0000238. (C) 2012 American Society of Civil Engineers. Reprint Address: Harik, IE (reprint author), Univ Kentucky, Dept Civil Engn, Lexington, KY 40506 USA Addresses: [Harik, I. E.] Univ Kentucky, Dept Civil Engn, Lexington, KY 40506 USA [Chen, S. S.] E China Jiaotong Univ, Dept Civil Engn, Nanchang 330013, Jiangxi, Peoples R China E-mail Address: Shschen at 126.com, iharik at engr.uky.edu Funding Acknowledgement: National Nature Foundation of China[50868007]; Kentucky Transportation Center at the University of Kentucky Funding Text: The study reported in this paper was supported by a grant from the National Nature Foundation of China (Grant No. 50868007) and by the Kentucky Transportation Center at the University of Kentucky. The writers would like to express their appreciation for this support. Cited Reference Count: 15 Publisher: ASCE-AMER SOC CIVIL ENGINEERS, 1801 ALEXANDER BELL DR, RESTON, VA 20191-4400 USA ISSN: 1084-0702 DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)BE.1943-5592.0000238 Subject Category: Engineering Cited References: LI H, 2005, THESIS FLORIDA A M U, Deng L, 2009, ENGINEERING STRUCTURES, V31, P2474 DODDS CJ, 1973, JOURNAL OF SOUND AND VIBRATION, V31, P175 Masada T, 2007, JOURNAL OF PERFORMANCE OF CONSTRUCTED FACILITIES, V21, P225 Yeau KY, 2009, JOURNAL OF PERFORMANCE OF CONSTRUCTED FACILITIES, V23, P32 TALEB B, 2000, THESIS U W ONTARIO L, *AASHTO, 2007, LRFD BRIDG DES SPEC, Garg AK, 2009, JOURNAL OF TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING-ASCE, V135, P121 SUN L, 2005, P 13 ANN GREAT LAK G, Flener EB, 2009, JOURNAL OF BRIDGE ENGINEERING, V14, P496 DAS BM, 2006, PRINCIPLES GEOTECHNI, TARKASHVAND MS, 2008, THESIS U TEXAS SAN A, Deng L, 2010, ENGINEERING STRUCTURES, V32, P21 CHOPRA AK, 2001, DYNAMICS STRUCTURES, WANG TL, 1993, 1393 TRANSP RES BOAR, P96 =============================================================================================================== Title: Clinical Research Promotes Development of Nephrology in China: An Analysis of 20 Years of Scientific Publications Authors: Kou, J; Zhang, Y; Zhang, XG; Liang, S; Cai, GY; Chen, XM Author Full Names: Kou, Jia; Zhang, Yan; Zhang, Xue-guang; Liang, Shuang; Cai, Guang-Yan; Chen, Xiang-Mei Source: RENAL FAILURE, 34 (4):472-479; 10.3109/0886022X.2011.653776 2012 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: nephrology; China; scientific publications; impact factors KeyWords Plus: CHRONIC KIDNEY-DISEASE; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; RISK-FACTORS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; POPULATION; PREVALENCE; QUALITY; TRIALS Abstract: Background: To study the trend of clinical and basic research output in the field of nephrology in China during the past 20 years. Methods: The journals listed in the "Urology and Nephrology" category of Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) subject categories were selected. The papers were retrieved by searching the PubMed database. Mainland China (ML), Hong Kong (HK), and Taiwan (TW) were chosen as investigative regions compared with other developed countries. Geographical difference in publications in ML was analyzed. The change between clinical and basic research papers was compared. The accumulated or average impact factor (IF) and the number of papers published in the 10 most impacted journals were calculated to determine the quality of papers. Results: The research output in the field of nephrology in ML developed markedly in the last 7 years (an average annual increase of 54% from 2004); ML exceeded TW and HK since 2008. The research output born in ML was mainly fro! m five cities, for example, Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Guangzhou, and Hangzhou, which accounted for 72% of the total. Since 2001, clinical research papers increased yearly by 11.55, and the basic research papers increased by 4.55. However, clinical trials were still limited. In 2010, ML had the highest accumulated IF and the lowest average IF. ML had the second highest number of publications in the 10 top-ranking nephrology journals among the three regions. Conclusions: China has made a remarkable progress in the field of nephrology. Clinical researches have promoted the development of nephrology. The quality of research papers in China needs further improvement. Reprint Address: Cai, GY (reprint author), Chinese Peoples Liberat Army Gen Hosp, Dept Nephrol, Kidney Inst Chinese PLA, State Key Lab Kidney Dis, 28 Fuxing Rd, Beijing 100853, Peoples R China Addresses: [Kou, Jia; Zhang, Yan; Zhang, Xue-guang; Liang, Shuang; Cai, Guang-Yan; Chen, Xiang-Mei] Chinese Peoples Liberat Army Gen Hosp, Dept Nephrol, Kidney Inst Chinese PLA, State Key Lab Kidney Dis, Beijing 100853, Peoples R China E-mail Address: caiguangyan at sina.com Funding Acknowledgement: NSFC[81070267, 81171645]; Scientific Program of Beijing[D09050703560907, D09050104310000] Funding Text: The authors thank all the members of State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases. This work was supported by the NSFC (81070267, 81171645), and the Scientific Program of Beijing (D09050703560907, D09050104310000). Cited Reference Count: 27 Publisher: INFORMA HEALTHCARE, TELEPHONE HOUSE, 69-77 PAUL STREET, LONDON EC2A 4LQ, ENGLAND ISSN: 0886-022X DOI: 10.3109/0886022X.2011.653776 Subject Category: Urology & Nephrology Cited References: Strippoli GFM, 2004, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY, V15, P411 *THOMS SCI, 2007, SCI OUTP CHIN IS GRO, Lawrence PA, 2003, NATURE, V422, P259 Shan Y, 2010, NEPHROLOGY, V15, P354 Cai GY, 2009, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF NEPHROLOGY, V30, P268 ZHOU P, 2008, ISSI NEWSLETTER MAR, P7 ZEEUW DD, 2004, J AM SOC NEPHROL, V15, P506 Chen W, 2009, NEPHROLOGY DIALYSIS TRANSPLANTATION, V24, P1205 1000, THOMSON REUTERS, Goh KL, 2008, JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY AND HEPATOLOGY, V23, P341 Falagas ME, 2008, FASEB JOURNAL, V22, P2623 Zhang WX, 2010, INTERNATIONAL UROLOGY AND NEPHROLOGY, V42, P195 Wallin JA, 2005, BASIC & CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY & TOXICOLOGY, V97, P261 *DIAL TRANSPL REG, 2001, CHIN J NEPHROL, V17, P77 *I SCI INF, 2006, ISI J CITATION REPOR, Xie YS, 2008, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF NEPHROLOGY, V28, P1 ANDERSEN J, 2006, J MICROBIOL IMMUNOL, V39, P436 MERVIS J, 1995, SCIENCE, V270, P1149 Wang JY, 2010, LANCET, V375, P532 Han QD, 2010, LANCET, V375, P1055 WANG H, 2005, KIDNEY INT S, V94, PS63 Wells WA, 2007, JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY, V176, P376 Liu XM, 2010, PLOS ONE, V5, LIU J, 2004, SCI ED, V27, P120 Cheng TO, 2008, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY, V126, P147 Lin SY, 2003, KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL, V63, P108 Chen N, 2009, NEPHROLOGY DIALYSIS TRANSPLANTATION, V24, P2117 ======================================================================= Title: Biomedical Informatics Publications: a Global Perspective Part II: Journals Authors: Maojo, V; Garcia-Remesal, M; Bielza, C; Crespo, J; Perez-Rey, D; Kulikowski, C Author Full Names: Maojo, V.; Garcia-Remesal, M.; Bielza, C.; Crespo, J.; Perez-Rey, D.; Kulikowski, C. Source: METHODS OF INFORMATION IN MEDICINE, 51 (2):131-137; 10.3414/ME11-01-0061 2012 Language: English Document Type: Article Author Keywords: Biomedical informatics; medical informatics; bioinformatics; conference rankings; journal impact factor KeyWords Plus: EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; SCIENTIFIC DEBATE; ONTOLOGIES; HEALTH Abstract: Background: Biomedical Informatics (BMI) is a broad discipline, having evolved from both Medical Informatics (MI) and Bioinformatics (BI). An analysis of publications in the field-should provide an indication about the geographic distribution of BMI research contributions and possible lessons for the future, both for research and professional practice. Objectives: In part I of our analysis of biomedical informatics publications we presented results from BMI conferences. In this second part, we analyse BMI journals, which provide a broader perspective and comparison between data from conferences and journals that ought to confirm or suggest alternatives to the original distributional findings from the conferences. Methods:We manually collected data about authors and their geographical origin from various MI journals: the International Journal of Medical Informatics (IJMI), the Journal of Biomedical Informatics (JBI), Methods of Information in Medicine (MIM) and The Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA). Focusing on first authors, we also compared these findings with data from the journal Bioinformatics. Results: Our results confirm those obtained in our analysis of BMI conferences that local and regional authors favor their corresponding MI journals just as they do their conferences. Consideration of other factors, such as the increasingly open source nature of data and software tools, is consistent with these findings Conclusions: Our analysis suggests various indicators that could lead to further, deeper analyses, and could provide additional insights for future BMI research and professional activities. Reprint Address: Maojo, V (reprint author), Univ Politecn Madrid, Biomed Informat Grp, E-28660 Madrid, Spain Addresses: [Maojo, V.; Crespo, J.] Univ Politecn Madrid, Biomed Informat Grp, E-28660 Madrid, Spain [Maojo, V.; Garcia-Remesal, M.; Perez-Rey, D.] Univ Politecn Madrid, Dept Inteligencia Artificial, Computat Intelligence Grp, E-28660 Madrid, Spain [Crespo, J.] Univ Politecn Madrid, Dept Languages & Software Engn, E-28660 Madrid, Spain [Kulikowski, C.] Rutgers State Univ, Dept Comp Sci, New Brunswick, NJ USA E-mail Address: vmaojo at fi.upm.es Funding Acknowledgement: European Commission[FP7-270107]; Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation[FIS/AES PS09/00069, TIN2010-20900-C04-04, RETIC COMBIOMED RD07/0067/0006]; Comunidad de Madrid Funding Text: We want to thank David Cortizo and Andrea Klemm for their help in collecting the data for this work. The authors at the UPM are supported by the European Commission (the INBIOMEDvision coordination action, FP7-270107), the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (FIS/AES PS09/00069, TIN2010-20900-C04-04, and RETIC COMBIOMED RD07/0067/0006) and the Comunidad de Madrid. Cited Reference Count: 18 Publisher: SCHATTAUER GMBH-VERLAG MEDIZIN NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN, HOLDERLINSTRASSE 3, D-70174 STUTTGART, GERMANY ISSN: 0026-1270 DOI: 10.3414/ME11-01-0061 Subject Category: Computer Science; Health Care Sciences & Services; Medical Informatics Cited References: Garcia-Remesal M, 2010, BIOINFORMATICS, V26, P2801 Maojo V, 2011, METHODS OF INFORMATION IN MEDICINE, V50, P203 de la Calle G, 2009, BMC BIOINFORMATICS, V10, Hasman A, 2006, METHODS OF INFORMATION IN MEDICINE, V45, P638 Ibanez A, 2009, BIOINFORMATICS, V25, P3303 Vardi MY, 2009, COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM, V52, P5 Haux R, 2011, METHODS OF INFORMATION IN MEDICINE, V50, P1 Garcia-Remesal M, 2010, BMC BIOINFORMATICS, V11, McCray AT, 2011, METHODS OF INFORMATION IN MEDICINE, V50, P491 FOLSING A, 1997, A EINSTEIN, Reidpath DD, 2009, LANCET, V373, P1050 Maojo V, 2012, METHODS OF INFORMATION IN MEDICINE, V51, P82 Schuemie MJ, 2009, METHODS OF INFORMATION IN MEDICINE, V48, P76 Brochhausen M, 2011, METHODS OF INFORMATION IN MEDICINE, V50, P217 Malin B, 2007, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL INFORMATICS ASSOCIATION, V14, P340 Hasman A, 2007, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INFORMATICS, V76, P96 Garcia-Remesal M, 2010, METHODS OF INFORMATION IN MEDICINE, V49, P337 de la Iglesia D, 2011, METHODS OF INFORMATION IN MEDICINE, V50, P84 From loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET Fri May 4 01:56:16 2012 From: loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET (Loet Leydesdorff) Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 07:56:16 +0200 Subject: How Can Journal Impact Factors be Normalized across Fields of Science? Message-ID: How Can Journal Impact Factors be Normalized across Fields of Science? An Assessment in terms of Percentile Ranks and Fractional Counts Loet Leydesdorff, Ping Zhou, & Lutz Bornmann Using the CD-ROM version of the Science Citation Index 2010 (N = 3,705 journals), we study the (combined) effects of (i) fractional counting on the impact factor (IF) and (ii) transformation of the skewed citation distributions into a distribution of 100 percentiles and six percentile rank classes (top-1%, top-5%, etc.). Do these approaches lead to field-normalized impact measures for journals? In addition to the two-year IF (IF2), we consider the five-year IF (IF5), the respective numerators of these IFs, and the number of Total Cites, counted both as integers and fractionally. These various indicators are tested against the hypothesis that the classification of journals into 11 broad fields by PatentBoard/National Science Foundation provides (statistically) significant between-field effects. Using fractional counting the between-field variance is reduced by 91.7% in the case of IF5, and by 79.2% in the case of IF2. However, the differences in citation counts are not significantly affected by fractional counting. These results accord with previous studies, but the longer citation window of a fractionally counted IF5 can lead to significant improvement in the normalization across fields. Preprint version available at http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.0668 ** apologies for cross-postings _____ Loet Leydesdorff 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... URL: From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Fri May 4 12:25:44 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 16:25:44 +0000 Subject: Papers of interest to Sig Metrics readers] Message-ID: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Conceptualizing and Advancing Research Networking Systems (Article, English) AUTHOR: Schleyer, T; Butler, BS; Song, M; Spallek, H SOURCE: ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER-HUMAN INTERACTION 19 (1). MAR 2012. p.NIL_32-NIL_57 ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY, NEW YORK SEARCH TERM(S): MARON ME rauth KEYWORDS: Online knowledge communities; social networks; social software; Web 2.0; Web 2.0 applications; Web collaborative software KEYWORDS+: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL NETWORK; SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION; INFORMATION; SEARCH; MODELS; COSTS; TIES; WEB; IMPLEMENTATION ABSTRACT: Science in general, and biomedical research in particular, is becoming more collaborative. As a result, collaboration with the right individuals, teams, and institutions is increasingly crucial for scientific progress. We propose Research Networking Systems (RNS) as a new type of system designed to help scientists identify and choose collaborators, and suggest a corresponding research agenda. The research agenda covers four areas: foundations, presentation, architecture, and evaluation. Foundations includes project-, institution- and discipline-specific motivational factors; the role of social networks; and impression formation based on information beyond expertise and interests. Presentation addresses representing expertise in a comprehensive and up-to-date manner; the role of controlled vocabularies and folksonomies; the tension between seekers' need for comprehensive information and potential collaborators' desire to control how they are seen by others; and the need to support serendipitous discovery of collaborative opportunities. Architecture considers aggregation and synthesis of information from multiple sources, social system interoperability, and integration with the user's primary work context. Lastly, evaluation focuses on assessment of collaboration decisions, measurement of user-specific costs and benefits, and how the large-scale impact of RNS could be evaluated with longitudinal and naturalistic methods. We hope that this article stimulates the human-computer interaction, computer-supported cooperative work, and related communities to pursue a broad and comprehensive agenda for developing research networking systems. AUTHOR ADDRESS: T Schleyer, Univ Pittsburgh, Sch Dent Med, Ctr Dent Informat, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The scientometric evaluation of the research on the DEAF students in higher education (Article, English) AUTHOR: Konur, O SOURCE: ENERGY EDUCATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PART B-SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL STUDIES 4 (3). JUL 2012. p.1573-1588 SILA SCIENCE, TRABZON SEARCH TERM(S): SCIENTOMETRIC* item_title KEYWORDS: Deaf students; students with hearing impairments; higher education; disabled students; scientometrics; research evaluation KEYWORDS+: HARD-OF-HEARING; MICROBIAL FUEL-CELLS; HIGH-SCHOOL- STUDENTS; COLLEGE-STUDENTS; UNIVERSITY-STUDENTS; POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION; DISABLED STUDENTS; BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS; CITATION ANALYSIS; ATTITUDES ABSTRACT: The present study explores the characteristics of the literature on the deaf students in higher education published during the last three decades, based on the databases of 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 literature in this field has grown exponentially during this period with 312 papers in total with paralleling enormous changes in the research landscape. Papers are mostly journal articles, reviews, and proceedings, being predominantly in English. The US is the most publishing country producing three-quarters of the output. The "Rochester Institute of Technology" is the most contributing institution. The most publishing author is "Kelly RR". "American Annals of the Deaf" is the most publishing journal whilst, "Rehabilitation" is the most published subject area. The total number of citations is 1,356, giving a ratio for the "Average Citations per Item" as 4.5 and "H-index" as 18. Hanson et al. [1] has had the highest impact on the literature. The results of this first ever such study of its kind, show that the scientometric analysis has a great potential to gain valuable insights into the evolution of the research on the deaf students in higher education. AUTHOR ADDRESS: O Konur, Sirnak Univ, Fac Engn, TR-73000 Sirnak, Turkey ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The evaluation of the research on the arts and humanities in Turkey: A scientometric approach (Article, English) AUTHOR: Konur, O SOURCE: ENERGY EDUCATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PART B-SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL STUDIES 4 (3). JUL 2012. p.1603-1618 SILA SCIENCE, TRABZON SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E CURR CONTENTS 0922 :3 1986; GARFIELD E LIBRARY Q 50:40 1980 KEYWORDS: Arts; Humanities; Architecture; A&HCI; incentive structures; research evaluation; research productivity; scientometrics; Web of Knowledge KEYWORDS+: SOCIAL-SCIENCES; RESEARCH PERFORMANCE; UNIVERSITY- STUDENTS; SCIENTIFIC OUTPUT; CITATION; AUTHORS; PUBLICATIONS; INSTITUTIONS; DEPARTMENTS; ARTIFACTS ABSTRACT: The present study explores the characteristics of the research on the Arts & Humanities carried out by the researchers in Turkey and published during the last three decades based on the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) and its implications using the scientometric techniques. The results of this study reveal that the research output on the Arts and Humanities and the citations received have grown exponentially during this period especially during the 2000s with paralleling enormous changes in the research landscape. However, the research performance of the researchers in Turkey in the fields of Arts and Humanities (1,705 papers and 1,745 citations) have lagged significantly behind the comparitive performance of Turkey in the Social Sciences but especially in Hard Sciences like Engineering and Health Sciences. The US, England, and France have been the three most prolific collaborating countries. The "Bilkent Univ" has been the most prolific instituion and "Almond I" of "Bilkent Univ" has been the most prolific author. "Milli Folkor" (National Folklore) has been the most prolific journal whilst "Archaeology" has been the most prolific subject area. "H- index" was 16 and "Kita & Ozyurek" [1] has had the highest impact on the literature. The scientometric analysis has a great potentail to gain valualbe insights into the evolution of the research on the Arts and Humanities in Turkey, complementing the scientometric studies in the other fields such as renewable energies as well as students with disabilities providing a unique insight on the incentive structures for all the key stakeholders in the field. It was concluded in this context that the incentive structures have not been well designed to produce superior research performance in Arts & Humanities in Turkey as in Hard Sciences such as Engineering and Health Sciences especially in the design of the rules for the academic appointments and promotions in universities. AUTHOR ADDRESS: O Konur, Sirnak Univ, Fac Engn, TR-73000 Sirnak, Turkey ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: PERFORMANCE OF THE PROBLEM SOLVING PROCESS IN DESIGN: MEASURE AND IMPACT FACTORS (Article, English) AUTHOR: Maranzana, N; Dubois, S; Gartiser, N; De Guio, R; Caillaud, E SOURCE: ICED 09 - THE 17TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGINEERING DESIGN, VOL 6: DESIGN METHODS AND TOOLS, PT 2. 2009. p.235-246 DESIGN SOC, GLASGOW SEARCH TERM(S): IMPACT FACTOR* KEYWORDS: performance; problem solving; design; indicators ABSTRACT: This article focuses on the problem solving process in design. Today, enterprises face an important need of innovation, as they have to regularly propose new products or new services. Design is one of the key activities of enterprises to be innovative, but it is also one of the more difficult activities to manage and especially to appreciate its performance. There exists many tools to evaluate and manage performance in a variety of fields, but the design process is quite poor on this topic. Few tools are proposed to evaluate and manage the performance of the design activity. Some parts of this activity are more or less manageable, but one remains hardly controllable: the problem solving process. Two parts will be proposed in the article, a first one will propose a set of definitions: definition of the performance, of the enterprise organization, of the design activity and of the role of problem solving in this activity. A second one will focus on the ways to measure and manage the performance of problem solving in design by the proposal of criteria to evaluate it and by the proposal of a set of indicators that impact this performance. AUTHOR ADDRESS: N Maranzana, INSA Strasbourg Grad Sch Sci & Technol, Design Engn Lab LGECO, 24 Blvd Victoire, F-67084 Strasbourg, France -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Mining Temporal Patterns of Technical Term Usages in Bibliographical Data (Article, English) AUTHOR: Abe, H; Tsumoto, S SOURCE: INTELLIGENT INFORMATION PROCESSING V 340. 2010. p.130-138 SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, BERLIN SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOGRAPHIC* item_title KEYWORDS: Text Mining; Trend Detection; TF-IDF; Jaccard's Matching Coefficient; Temporal Clustering; Linear Regression ABSTRACT: In text mining framework, data-driven indices are used as importance indices of words and phrases. Although the values of these indices are influenced by usages of terms, many conventional emergent term detection methods did not treat these indices explicitly. In order to detect research keys in academic researches, we propose a method based on temporal patterns of technical terms by using several data-driven indices and their temporal clusters. The method consists of an automatic term extraction method in given documents, three importance indices from text mining studies, and temporal patterns based on results of temporal clustering. Then, we assign abstracted sense of the temporal patterns of the terms based on their linear trends of centroids. Empirical studies show that the three importance indices are applied to the titles of four annual conferences about data mining field as sets of documents. After extracting the temporal patterns of automatically extracted terms, we compared the emergent patterns and one of the keyword of this article between the four conferences. AUTHOR ADDRESS: H Abe, Shimane Univ, Dept Med Informat, Sch Med, 89-1 Enya Cho, Izumo, Shimane 6938501, Japan From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Sun May 13 13:56:27 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 17:56:27 +0000 Subject: Papers of interest to readers of SIG-Metrics Message-ID: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Accessibility and decay of web citations in five open access ISI journals (Article, English) AUTHOR: Saberi, MK; Abedi, H SOURCE: INTERNET RESEARCH 22 (2). 2012. p.234-247 EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED, BINGLEY SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNALS item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS: Internet research; Open access publishing; Web citation; Uniform resource locators; Accessibility; Decay; Online access; Electronic resources; Journals; Open access; Inter-computer links KEYWORDS+: UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATORS; INFORMATION-SCIENCE; INTERNET REFERENCES; COMMUNICATION; INFORMETRICS; EVOLUTION; BEHAVIOR; MEDLINE; LIFE; URLS ABSTRACT: Purpose - The aim of this paper is to scrutinize the accessibility and decay of web references (URLs) cited in five open access social sciences journals indexed by ISI. Design/methodology/approach - After acquiring all the papers published by these journals during 2002-2007, their web citations were extracted and analyzed from an accessibility point of view. Moreover, for initially missed citations complementary pathways such as using Internet Explorer and the Google search engine were employed. Findings - The study revealed that at first check 73 per cent of URLs are accessible, while 27 per cent have disappeared. It is notable that the rate of accessibility increased to 89 per cent and the rate of decay decreased to 11 per cent after using complementary pathways. The ".net" domain, with an availability of 96 per cent (a decay of 4 per cent) has the greatest stability and persistence among all domains, while the most stable file format is PDF, with an availability of 93 per cent (a decay of 7 per cent). Originality/value - Given the inevitable, destructive and progressing decay phenomenon in web citations, after estimating the extent of this decay for five journals using innovative and standard methods, this paper suggests recommendations for preventing it. The paper carries research value for web content providers, publishers, editors, authors and researchers. AUTHOR ADDRESS: MK Saberi, Islamic Azad Univ, Sci & Res Branch, Tehran, Iran -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A Comparison of Psychiatry and Internal Medicine: A Bibliometric Study (Article, English) AUTHOR: Stone, K; Whitham, EA; Ghaemi, SN SOURCE: ACADEMIC PSYCHIATRY 36 (2). MAR-APR 2012. p.129-132 AMER PSYCHIATRIC PUBLISHING, INC, ARLINGTON SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; BIBLIOMETR* item_title; ACAD* PSY* rwork; ACAD PSYCHIATR source_abbrev_20 KEYWORDS+: TRENDS; JOURNALS ABSTRACT: Objective: Psychiatric education needs to expose students to a broad range of topics. One resource for psychiatric education, both during initial training and in later continuing medical education, is the scientific literature, as published in psychiatric journals. The authors assessed current research trends in psychiatric journals, as compared with internal-medicine counterparts and examined their relevance to psychiatric education. Methods: The authors classified abstracts and original articles as biological or non-biological, based on methodology, from 2008 in Archives of General Psychiatry and The American Journal of Psychiatry, as compared with The Archives of Internal Medicine and Annals of Internal Medicine. Results: Biological and non-biological studies were similarly frequent in psychiatric journals (48.2% and 51.8%, respectively). Internal-medicine journals had a non-biological and epidemiological predominance (22.2% biological, 77.8% non-biological: epidemiological, 59.9%; reviews, 21.4%; clinical, 13.2%; other, 5.4%). Conclusion: Psychiatric journals publish more biological studies than internal-medicine journals. This tendency may influence psychiatric education and practice in a biological direction, with less attention to psychosocial or clinical approaches to psychiatry. AUTHOR ADDRESS: SN Ghaemi, Tufts Univ, Dept Psychiat, Med Ctr, Boston, MA 02111 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Diversification Strategy: Themes, Concepts and Relationships (Article, English) AUTHOR: Wang, CH; McLee, Y; Kuo, JH SOURCE: ECONOMICS AND FINANCE RESEARCH 4. 2011. p.163-168 INT ASSOC COMPUTER SCIENCE & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PRESS-IACSIT PRESS, SINGAPORE SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; SMALL H SCIENTOMETRICS 26:5 1993; WHITE HD J AM SOC INFORM SCI 32:163 1981; WHITE DH J AM SOC INFORM SCI 49:327 1998 KEYWORDS: citation; co-citation; diversification strategy; strategic conflict; performance; dynamic capability KEYWORDS+: INTELLECTUAL STRUCTURE; AUTHOR COCITATION; MANAGEMENT; CAPABILITIES ABSTRACT: To explore the intellectual structure of diversification strategy research in the last two decade, this study identified the most important publications and the most influential scholars as well as the correlations among these scholar's publications. In this study, bibliometric and social network analysis techniques are used to investigate the intellectual pillars of the diversification strategy literature. By analyzing 67,723 citations of 1,224 articles published in SSCI journal in diversification strategy area between 1990 and 2009, this study maps a knowledge network of diversification strategy studies. The results of the mapping can help identify the research direction of diversification strategy research and provide a valuable tool for researchers to access the literature in this area. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Mapping the intellectual Structure of Accounting Standards (Article, English) AUTHOR: Wang, CH; Lee, Y; Kuo, JH SOURCE: ECONOMICS AND FINANCE RESEARCH 4. 2011. p.169-174 INT ASSOC COMPUTER SCIENCE & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PRESS-IACSIT PRESS, SINGAPORE SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; SMALL H SCIENTOMETRICS 26:5 1993; WHITE HD J AM SOC INFORM SCI 32:163 1981; WHITE DH J AM SOC INFORM SCI 49:327 1998 KEYWORDS: citation; co-citation; accounting standards; IAS; GAAP KEYWORDS+: AUTHOR COCITATION; MANAGEMENT; FIELD ABSTRACT: The purpose of this paper is to map the intellectual structure of accounting standards and to investigate the key concepts, themes, and their relationships of accounting standards literature in the past two decade. In this study, bibliometric and social network analysis techniques are used to investigate the intellectual pillars of the accounting standards literature. By analyzing 26,273 citations of 1,510 articles published in SSCI journal in accounting standards area between 1990 and 2009. The results of the mapping can help identify the research direction of accounting standards research and provide a valuable tool for researchers to access the literature in this area. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Influence ratio: An alternate means to assess the relative influence of hospitality and tourism journals on research (Article, English) AUTHOR: McKercher, B SOURCE: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT 31 (3). SEP 2012. p.962-971 ELSEVIER SCI LTD, OXFORD SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNALS item_title KEYWORDS: Journal influence; Influence ratio; Citations; Bibliometrics KEYWORDS+: 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 less influential journals observed. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: B McKercher, Hong Kong Polytech Univ, Sch Hotel & Tourism Management, Kowloon, Hong Kong, Peoples R China -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Scientific publications in urology and nephrology journals from China: A 10-year analysis (Article, English) AUTHOR: Zhou, XM; Xing, CY; Xin, L; Hu, HZ; Li, LP; Fang, JC; Liu, ZY SOURCE: CUAJ-CANADIAN UROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL 6 (2). APR 2012. p.102-106 CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOC, OTTAWA SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNALS item_title KEYWORDS+: SPONSORED CLINICAL-RESEARCH; GASTROENTEROLOGY; TRIALS; ASIA ABSTRACT: Background: The scientific research in urology and nephrology of China has developed significantly. The present study was designed to analyze the outputs of publications in urology and nephrology journals from three regions of China: mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Methods: The numbers of articles, impact factors, citation reports and other indexes within this category between 2000 and 2009 were extracted for quantity and quality comparisons from PubMed and the ISI (Institute for Scientific Information-currently called the Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge) database. Results: There were 3100 articles from the mainland (36.5%), Taiwan (46.8%) and Hong Kong (16.7%), and the increasing trend in each region was significant (p < 0.001). The accumulated impact factor and total citation of Taiwan exceeded the other two regions, while the average impact factor and citation of Hong Kong was highest. There were differences between the three regions on the most popular journals. Interpretation: Although the quantity of articles in urology and nephrology from the mainland has exceeded Taiwan and Hong Kong since 2008, there is a considerable gap in the quality of articles between the mainland and the other two regions. AUTHOR ADDRESS: ZY Liu, Mil Med Coll 2, Dept Urol, Shanghai Changhai Hosp, 168 Changhai Rd, Shanghai 200433, Peoples R China -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Scientometric assessment of the progress of innovative pharmacy in Russia (Article, English) AUTHOR: Korzhavykh, EA SOURCE: RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF GENERAL CHEMISTRY 82 (3). MAR 2012. p.527-534 MAIK NAUKA/INTERPERIODICA/SPRINGER, NEW YORK SEARCH TERM(S): SCIENTOMETRIC* item_title ABSTRACT: The importance and potential of scientometric assessment of the progress of innovative pharmacy is discussed. Scientometric publications analyzing and forecasting new domestic drug R&D in historical perspective and in contemporary Russia are considered. The role of systemic informational analysis of science as a new methodic tool for research metrics is described. AUTHOR ADDRESS: EA Korzhavykh, Russian Univ Peoples Friendship, Ul Miklukho Maklaya 10-1, Moscow 117198, Russia -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Accesses versus citations: why you need to measure both to assess publication impact (Meeting Abstract, English) AUTHOR: Rees, T; Ayling-Rouse, K; Smith, S SOURCE: CURRENT MEDICAL RESEARCH AND OPINION 28 (SUPPL). APR 2012. p.S9-S10 INFORMA HEALTHCARE, LONDON SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION* item_title -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Journal impact factors benefit from the content of pharma- affiliated authors (Meeting Abstract, English) AUTHOR: Chipperfield, L; Richardson, M; Plume, A SOURCE: CURRENT MEDICAL RESEARCH AND OPINION 28 (SUPPL). APR 2012. p.S13 INFORMA HEALTHCARE, LONDON SEARCH TERM(S): IMPACT FACTOR* item_title; JOURNAL item_title -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Social media usage by medical journals: implications for publication planning (Meeting Abstract, English) AUTHOR: Mills, I; Gardner, K; English, M; Hoover, N; Smith, S; Youngren, K SOURCE: CURRENT MEDICAL RESEARCH AND OPINION 28 (SUPPL). APR 2012. p.S15 INFORMA HEALTHCARE, LONDON -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Evolution of the 'strength-of-voice factor': updated bibliometric to evaluate publication quality (Meeting Abstract, English) AUTHOR: Sesler, B; Bloom, J; Coffey, C; Nori, M SOURCE: CURRENT MEDICAL RESEARCH AND OPINION 28 (SUPPL). APR 2012. p.S17 INFORMA HEALTHCARE, LONDON SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Health economics and outcomes research in journals with a high impact factor (Meeting Abstract, English) AUTHOR: Hyatt, L; Petrig, S; Rossi, E SOURCE: CURRENT MEDICAL RESEARCH AND OPINION 28 (SUPPL). APR 2012. p.S17 INFORMA HEALTHCARE, LONDON -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Bibliometric Analysis of Advertising Endorser Research in Marketing (Article, English) AUTHOR: Wang, CC; Hu, WC SOURCE: E-BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMICS 3. 2011. p.102-106 INT ASSOC COMPUTER SCIENCE & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PRESS-IACSIT PRESS, SINGAPORE SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS: advertising endorser; literature review; bibliometrics; citation analysis; co-citation analysis; social network analysis KEYWORDS+: CELEBRITY ENDORSERS; PRODUCT TYPE; HYPOTHESIS; ATTRACTIVENESS; PERSPECTIVE; SCIENCE; WEB ABSTRACT: This study aims to identify the essential themes of advertising endorser research. By analyzing 1,801 citations of 39 advertising endorser articles published in marketing and advertising journals which listed in Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) in a twenty years period between 1990 and 2009, this study maps the intellectual structure of the research area. The results provide important insights on the development of advertising endorser research. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Recent development of the virtual community research: A citation and co-citation analysis (Article, English) AUTHOR: Wang, CC; Chiang, IP; Chuang, CF SOURCE: E-BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMICS 3. 2011. p.107-111 INT ASSOC COMPUTER SCIENCE & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PRESS-IACSIT PRESS, SINGAPORE SEARCH TERM(S): MACROBERTS MH rauth; CITATION item_title; CITATION ANALYS* item_title; CITATION* item_title; CO CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS: Virtual community; Bibliometrics; Citation analysis; Co- citation analysis ABSTRACT: This study aims to identify the recent development of virtual community research. By citation and co-citation of virtual community research articles in Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) between 1980 and 2009, this study maps the intellectual structure and development trend of virtual community research. The results provide important insights on the future directions of the field. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A Productivity Review Study on Theory of Reasoned Action Literature Using Bibliometric Methodology (Article, English) AUTHOR: Lin, HC; Wu, CL; Yang, JM SOURCE: MANAGEMENT AND SERVICE SCIENCE 8. 2011. p.38-42 INT ASSOC COMPUTER SCIENCE & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PRESS-IACSIT PRESS, SINGAPORE SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title KEYWORDS: Theory of Reasoned Action; Lotka's Law; Bibliometrics ABSTRACT: This study aimed to describe literature growth and author productivity using a bibliometric evaluation - Lotka's Law of the publication output associated with research on Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) during the 28-year period of 1982-2009. This study is a productivity review on the literature gleaned from SSCI database. The research indicated that the number of literature productions on IRA is still growing. The main research development country is the United States, and from the analysis of the distribution of language. English is the most popular language for IRA literature. The research results show that a relatively large percentage of authors (86.76%) contributed one article, which is a much higher percentage than the 60% found in Lotka's original data. According to the K-S test, the distribution of frequency indexes of author productivity match Lotka's law. ------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Citation Rates of Award-Winning ASCE Papers (Article, English) AUTHOR: Sen, R; Patel, P SOURCE: JOURNAL OF PROFESSIONAL ISSUES IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION AND PRACTICE 138 (2). APR 2012. p.107-113 ASCE-AMER SOC CIVIL ENGINEERS, RESTON SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; HAMILTON DP SCIENCE 251:25 1991; HAMILTON DP SCIENCE 250:1331 1990; CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title; GARFIELD E SCIENTIST 12:10 1998 KEYWORDS: ASCE; Citation; ISI; Uncitedness; Award ABSTRACT: Citation data is increasingly being used to assess quality and importance. By this criterion, a paper that is not cited is automatically assumed to lack both quality and significance. This paper examines the validity of this hypothesis by reviewing citation rates of award-winning ASCE papers over a 25-year period from 1978-2002. In the study, citation data for seven civil engineering subdisciplines were obtained from the Science Citation Index developed by the Thomson Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). The analysis showed that nearly 25% of the award-winning papers were never cited with over 30% cited just once. Citations were higher in subdisciplines that are science based and lower in those that are more applied or specialist. These findings indicate that although citations provide a quantitative measure of use, they are imperfect indicators of quality and significance. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000092. (C) 2012 American Society of Civil Engineers. AUTHOR ADDRESS: R Sen, Univ S Florida, Dept Civil & Environm Engn, Tampa, FL 33620 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The most cited works in epilepsy: Trends in the "Citation Classics" (Review, English) AUTHOR: Ibrahim, GM; Snead, OC III; Rutka, JT; Lozano, AM SOURCE: EPILEPSIA 53 (5). MAY 2012. p.765-770 WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 257:52 1987 KEYWORDS: Epilepsy; Citations; Citation Classics KEYWORDS+: EPIDEMIOLOGY ABSTRACT: The number of times that a published article is cited is one indicator of its scientific impact. An article is termed a Citation Classic once it has accumulated more than 400 citations. Trends in these highly cited works allow projection of future directions of high-impact research within a field. Herein, we identified 89 articles in the field of epilepsy published in 35 different journals that have been cited more than 400 times (citation range 4013,749). The journal that published the greatest number of Citation Classics was Epilepsia (9 articles with 656 mean citations per article). Laboratory studies constituted the fastest growing area of highly cited epilepsy research, whereas clinical studies showed a bimodal distribution in representation among Citation Classics. There were also considerably fewer epilepsy-specific Citation Classics compared to other disciplines. In this study, we find that the Citation Classics of epilepsy comprise a heterogeneous group of articles and that changes in the trends of these highly cited works represent the evolution of epilepsy research over time. The results of this study should inform the academic community and provide a guide of essential literature for scientists who are engaged in epilepsy research. AUTHOR ADDRESS: AM Lozano, Univ Toronto, Toronto Western Hosp, Div Neurosurg, 399 Bathurst St, Toronto M5G, ON, Canada -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Innovation research in India: A multidisciplinary literature review (Review, English) AUTHOR: Pillania, RK SOURCE: TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE 79 (4). MAY 2012. p.716-720 ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, NEW YORK SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth KEYWORDS: Innovations; India; Multidisciplinary; Bibliometric analysis; Literature review KEYWORDS+: RESEARCH-AND-DEVELOPMENT; COUNTRIES ABSTRACT: The purpose of this research work is to study the progress of research on innovations in India and to outline and identify the key disciplines, journals, articles and authors. For this, the author studied the existing literature from the various fields in which innovations in Indian research work has been published using ISI Web of Knowledge database. This paper finds that there is an increasing amount of research work on innovations in India and the bibliographical search resulted in three-hundred-ninety-eight documents and eight-hundred-eighty- eight authors: and were published in three-hundred-four different sources and classified in ninety-one multiple disciplines. The seven major disciplines and their underlying journals are business and economics, agriculture, public administration, education and educational research, psychology, plant sciences and social sciences other topics account for the majority of publications. The most prolific journals measured by the number of research papers published are Economic and Political Weekly, World Development, Harvard Business Review. Technology Forecasting and Social Change and Indian journal of Agricultural Economics. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. AUTHOR ADDRESS: RK Pillania, Management Dev Inst, Sukhrali 122001, Gurgaon, India -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Why Publish in National Journals? (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Grinberg, M; Solimene, MC; Barreto, MDC SOURCE: ARQUIVOS BRASILEIROS DE CARDIOLOGIA 98 (3). MAR 2012. p.E62-E63 ARQUIVOS BRASILEIROS CARDIOLOGIA, RIO DE JANEIRO SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNALS item_title; EDITORIAL doctype ABSTRACT: The reluctance of Brazilian authors to publish in Brazilian journals is historical and no longer justified. Currently, several Brazilian journals are indexed in international databases, of which English versions allow disclosure of our studies to foreign countries. The authors express their views on the importance of publishing in national journals and cite the example of the impact of publications from Instituto do Coracao- InCor- HC-FMUSP in the past two years. AUTHOR ADDRESS: MC Solimene, Rua Otavio Nebias 182,71 Paraiso, BR-04002011 Sao Paulo, Brazil -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Learning from open source software projects to improve scientific review (Review, English) AUTHOR: Ghosh, SS; Klein, A; Avants, B; Millman, KJ SOURCE: FRONTIERS IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE 6. APR 18 2012. p.NIL_1-NIL_11 FRONTIERS RES FOUND, LAUSANNE SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 122:108 1955 KEYWORDS: distributed peer review; code review systems; open source software development; post-publication peer review; reputation assessment; review quality KEYWORDS+: SCIENCE ABSTRACT: Peer-reviewed publications are the primary mechanism for sharing scientific results. The current peer-review process is, however, fraught with many problems that undermine the pace, validity, and credibility of science. We highlight five salient problems: (1) reviewers are expected to have comprehensive expertise; (2) reviewers do not have sufficient access to methods and materials to evaluate a study; (3) reviewers are neither identified nor acknowledged; (4) there is no measure of the quality of a review; and (5) reviews take a lot of time, and once submitted cannot evolve. We propose that these problems can be resolved by making the following changes to the review process. Distributing reviews to many reviewers would allow each reviewer to focus on portions of the article that reflect the reviewer's specialty or area of interest and place less of a burden on any one reviewer. Providing reviewers materials and methods to perform comprehensive evaluation would facilitate transparency, greater scrutiny, and replication of results. Acknowledging reviewers makes it possible to quantitatively assess reviewer contributions, which could be used to establish the impact of the reviewer in the scientific community. Quantifying review quality could help establish the importance of individual reviews and reviewers as well as the submitted article. Finally, we recommend expediting post- publication reviews and allowing for the dialog to continue and flourish in a dynamic and interactive manner. We argue that these solutions can be implemented by adapting existing features from open-source software management and social networking technologies. We propose a model of an open, interactive review system that quantifies the significance of articles, the quality of reviews, and the reputation of reviewers. AUTHOR ADDRESS: SS Ghosh, MIT, McGovern Inst Brain Res, 43 Vassar St,46-4033F MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Overview of the Health Informatics Research Field: A Bibliometric Approach (Article, English) AUTHOR: Liang, HN SOURCE: E-HEALTH 335. 2010. p.37-48 SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, BERLIN SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E J INFORM SCI 30:119 2004; GARFIELD E INFORM TECHNOL LIBR 22:183 2003 KEYWORDS: Health informatics; medical informatics; e-health; bibliometrics; literature review; research field; citation and co-citation analysis KEYWORDS+: DECISION-SUPPORT-SYSTEMS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; GENOMIC MEDICINE; KNOWLEDGE; SCIENCE; CARE; BIOINFORMATICS; CHALLENGES; EDUCATION; SOCIETY ABSTRACT: Health informatics is a relatively new research area. Over the last decade or so, research in health information has been growing at a very rapid rate, as evidenced by the large number of publications. While this growth has been beneficial to the field, it has also made understanding the scope of the field more difficult. Consequently, it is difficult to answer questions such as how the research field has evolved over time, what the landmark publications are, what impact these publications have had, and who are the most prolific and high impact researchers. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the research field of health informatics and, in doing so, attempt to answer some of the questions just mentioned. To this end, we make use of two bibliometric tools: HistCite and Cite Space H. Because these tools offer complementary bibliometric methods, their use together provides results that are more robust. In this paper, we report some general findings of our bibliometric analysis using these two tools. AUTHOR ADDRESS: HN Liang, Natl ICT Australia NICTA, Queensland Res Lab, Brisbane, Qld, Australia -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: In-citation or Citing to Incite Thought. The Autobiography of an Idea in Cioran's Cahiers (Article, French) AUTHOR: Minzetanu, A SOURCE: LITTERATURE (165). MAR 2012. p.49-61,116-117 LAROUSSE, PARIS SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title ABSTRACT: In-citation or Citing to Incite Thought. The Autobiography of an Idea in Cioran's Cahiers This article endeavours to understand the birth of an idea, the way it redefines itself and gains attention, through a reading of Cioran's Cahiers. The idea is more precisely to analyse the roles played by a number of citations in the genesis of the title De l'inconvenient d'etre ne ("On the inconvenience of having been born"). The point of departure is no longer really in inter-textuality but rather in the literary theories which understand citation as a "filter" in the interpretation of texts (Michel Charles) or in life as aesthetic conduct (Marielle Mace), and further even in the philosophies which look at the appearance and circulation of ideas, such as that of Pierre Pachet for whom literature is essentially the business of ideas, and that of Paul Audi who focuses on the becoming-an-author, on the way an idea is appropriated and lived. AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Minzetanu, Paris Ouest Nanterre La Def, Paris 10, France -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Making an impact: research, publications, and bibliometrics in the BJGP (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Jones, R; Green, E; Hull, C; Niesner, E; Schofield, P SOURCE: BRITISH JOURNAL OF GENERAL PRACTICE 62 (596). MAR 2012. p.157-159 ROYAL COLL GENERAL PRACTITIONERS, LONDON SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title; EDITORIAL doctype AUTHOR ADDRESS: R Jones, Royal Coll Gen Practitioners, 1 Bow Churchyard, London EC4M 9DQ, England -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Pre-residency Publication Rate Strongly Predicts Future Academic Radiology Potential (Article, English) AUTHOR: Rezek, I; McDonald, RJ; Kallmes, DF SOURCE: ACADEMIC RADIOLOGY 19 (5). MAY 2012. p.632-634 ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, NEW YORK SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005 KEYWORDS: Academic productivity; preresidency publications; h-index; NIH grants KEYWORDS+: SUCCESS; CHOICE; INDEX ABSTRACT: Rationale and Objectives: Radiology resident selection committees often favor candidates with strong academic potential. The aim of this study was to determine if preresidency academic productivity of current radiologists was predictive of subsequent of future academic performance. Materials and Methods: The academic productivity of all radiology residents trained between 1975 and 2005 at the authors' institution was assessed through identification of their publication histories, National Institutes of Health funding statuses, and Hirsch indexes (h-indexes). These metrics were correlated with numbers of publications generated prior to beginning radiology residency and grouped accordingly (group 0, none prior to residency; group 1, one publication; and group 2, more than one publication). Academic productivity metrics of the different groups were compared using one-way analysis of variance and chi(2) analysis. Spearman's p coefficient was used to evaluate correlations between the number of preresidency publications and subsequent productivity. Results: A cohort of 269 residents was included in this study. Group 0 comprised 182 of the 269 residents (68%), while groups 1 and 2 comprised 27(10%) and 60(22%) residents, respectively. Rates of subsequent publication, mean h-index, and National Institutes of Health funding statuses were significantly higher in group 2 compared to both groups 0 and 1 (P < .0001 for each metric). Preresidency publication volume was significantly correlated with future publication performance (p = 0.3977, P < .0001), mean h-index (p = 0.3086, P < .0001), and National Institutes of Health funding status (p = 0.4916, P < .0001). Conclusions: Radiology residency candidates with multiple publications are more likely to achieve future academic success compared to candidates with one or zero publications. AUTHOR ADDRESS: I Rezek, Mayo Clin, Coll Med, Dept Radiol, 200 1st St SW, Rochester, MN 55905 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: ANALYSIS OF REFERENCE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG RESEARCH PAPERS, BASED ON CITATION CONTEXT (Article, English) AUTHOR: Wang, WJ; Villavicencio, P; Watanabe, T SOURCE: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOLS 21 (2 SP ISS). APR 2012. p.NIL_65-NIL_88 WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD, SINGAPORE SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E NATURE 227:669 1970 KEYWORDS: Reference relationship; citation context; cue phrase; citation rhetorical pattern; citation type; citation network ABSTRACT: Many efforts have been successfully paid by researchers or developers to grasp efficiently the contents of related works with a view to making their investigations successfully, preparing their plans effectively or attaining their objectives smartly. Although the paper abstract prepared by authors themselves is one of the useful efforts in many cases the content is not always sufficient by them to know the features of objective, approach, method, experimental data, evaluation, etc. in comparison with other related works. In this paper, we focus on the text associated with citation to reveal reference relationships between papers in order to achieve an objective of analyzing the influence of related works. Citation indicates the connection between two papers. Also, the text associated with citation can reflect the contribution of scientific papers, expressions of authors' opinions or other researches and also can show the usage of the research to resolve problems. Our main discussion points in this paper are classification of reference relationship, extraction of text associated with citation and representation of reference relationship from a viewpoint of making the original features of our work clear. AUTHOR ADDRESS: WJ Wang, Nagoya Univ, Grad Sch Informat Sci, Dept Syst & Social Informat, Nagoya, Aichi 4648603, Japan -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A Small World of Citations? The Influence of Collaboration Networks on Citation Practices (Article, English) AUTHOR: Wallace, ML; Lariviere, V; Gingras, Y SOURCE: PLOS ONE 7 (3). MAR 7 2012. p.NIL_898-NIL_907 PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, SAN FRANCISCO SEARCH TERM(S): MACROBERTS MH rauth; CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS+: SELF-CITATIONS; SCIENCE; PATTERNS ABSTRACT: This paper examines the proximity of authors to those they cite using degrees of separation in a co-author network, essentially using collaboration networks to expand on the notion of self-citations. While the proportion of direct self-citations (including co-authors of both citing and cited papers) is relatively constant in time and across specialties in the natural sciences (10% of references) and the social sciences (20%), the same cannot be said for citations to authors who are members of the co-author network. Differences between fields and trends over time lie not only in the degree of co-authorship which defines the large-scale topology of the collaboration network, but also in the referencing practices within a given discipline, computed by defining a propensity to cite at a given distance within the collaboration network. Overall, there is little tendency to cite those nearby in the collaboration network, excluding direct self-citations. These results are interpreted in terms of small-scale structure, field-specific citation practices, and the value of local co-author networks for the production of knowledge and for the accumulation of symbolic capital. Given the various levels of integration between co-authors, our findings shed light on the question of the availability of 'arm's length' expert reviewers of grant applications and manuscripts. AUTHOR ADDRESS: ML Wallace, Univ Quebec, Ctr Interuniv Rech Sci & Technol, Montreal, PQ H3C 3P8, Canada From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Wed May 16 13:20:16 2012 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 13:20:16 -0400 Subject: Green and Gold OA percentage, growth and potential In-Reply-To: <4FB3D039.3030707@hanken.fi> Message-ID: On 2012-05-16, at 12:05 PM, Bo-Christer Bj?rk wrote: > [1] Hybrid OA is a failure...an uptake of 1-2% of eligible article and less > than 1 % of the global article volume. > > [2] Gold OA published in DOAJ registered journals has continued growing at > around 20 % per annum... The share of all SCOPUS or all ISI articles is also > rapidly rising and approaching 10 %. [1] is unquestionably true, for the reasons Bo-Christer has mentioned. For [2] it is important to note that what is growing at 20% per year is the number of Gold OA articles, not the annual percentage of Gold OA articles as a percentage of the total number of articles published annually! At that rate, as noted by Yassine Gargouri in Richard Poynder's "Open Access By the Numbers" (Figure 6), Gold OA will not reach 100% till 2022 (or even 2029, by Springer's estimate) and it won't even reach the current percentage of Green OA (15% according to Bo-Christer) till 2015 (2018 according to Springer). Now about Green OA's growth rate: > [3] We haven't done much research concerning green OA but I have to note one > thing. It might certainly be true that mandates raise the level of > uploading from 15 % to say 60-70 % but what counts is not the number of > institutions or funders with mandates but what share of the total global > article volume their mandates cover. > > So the evidence seems to show that gold (excluding hybrid) is growing > quite rapidly, whereas I'm not aware of any research showing similar > growth rates for green in recent years. The evidence certainly does not show that gold is growing *rapidly* as a percentage of total annual articles, as just noted. It is growing exceedingly slowly, and the annual percentage green is still higher than the annual percentage gold. But it is also true that green is growing exceedingly slowly too -- when it is unmandated. What really makes a difference is mandating green. Then green OA jumps from 15% to 60-70% of total annual output within a year of adoption (of an *effective* mandate) and keeps climbing toward 100% thereafter. But that's as a percentage of a given mandating institution's total annual output. It is also true that the number of green OA mandates (let alone effective ones) is currently far too few, hence contributes little to overall OA growth as a percentage of total articles published per year by all institutions. Yet the implication is very clear: To radically accelerate OA growth, institutions and funders need to mandate green OA. And the mandate needs to be an effective one, the most effective green OA model being ID/OA (immediate-deposit/optional-access), which is the one being promoted by EnablingOpenScholarship (EOS), founded by Alma Swan and Bernard Rentier, who is chairman of the EOS Board and Rector of University of Liege, which adopted the ID/OA mandate and linked it to submitting papers for institutional performance review. (It was extended lately to U Lexembourg): http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/goal/2012-May/000525.html For the effectiveness of U Liege's ID/OA mandate, see: The Li?ge ORBi model: Mandatory policy without rights retention but linked to assessment procedures http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/853-.html and Integrating Institutional and Funder Open Access Mandates: Belgian Model http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/864-.html Stevan Harnad From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Wed May 16 15:39:40 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 19:39:40 +0000 Subject: Papers of possible interest to SIG Metrics Part 1 Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The exploration of knowledge networks through patent citations (Article, English) AUTHOR: Breschi, S; Cassi, L; Malerba, F SOURCE: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS: INNOVATION, GOVERNANCE AND THE INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT. 2006. p.278-310 EDWARD ELGAR PUBLISHING LTD, CHELTENHAM SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK P AM PHILOS SOC 105:470 1961; MERTON RK ISIS 79:606 1988; CITATION* item_title,keyword KEYWORDS: Innovation; Networks of knowledge; Technological positioning; Network analysis; Patents data KEYWORDS+: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; LOCALIZED KNOWLEDGE; SPILLOVERS; INVENTORS; MARKET; COMPETITION; INDICATORS; MOBILITY; SCIENCE ABSTRACT: The aim of this chapter is to discuss the methodological issues arising from the use of patent citation data as relational data and to provide an example of empirical analysis. In particular, we propose to use patent citation data to explore knowledge networks at the level of organizations, that is, companies and other institutions. We focus our analysis on two different types of network: citation and co- citation networks. We argue that the former type of network could map knowledge diffusion networks; the latter could map the technological space. Using this perspective, this chapter examines the main structural properties of the knowledge networks in semiconductor and computer industries. In order to capture the organization's position in both co- citation and direct patent citation networks, we calculate, for each sector, two different measures: the crowdedness of a company's position in the technological space and a measure of its status. These two measures allow us to map the position of any organization and to define a taxonomy of four different kinds of organizations: technological leaders, technological followers, brokers of new technologies and isolated organizations. The results of our analysis show differences between the semiconductor and computer sectors and the difference between European and non-European companies in terms of technological niches. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Change in Academic Coauthorship, 1953-2003 (Article, English) AUTHOR: O'Brien, TL SOURCE: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & HUMAN VALUES 37 (3). MAY 2012. p.210-234 SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC, THOUSAND OAKS SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth; ZUCKERMAN H rauth KEYWORDS: academic disciplines and traditions; development; other KEYWORDS+: SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTIVITY; COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH; POPULATION TURNOVER; INDIVIDUAL CHANGE; HOUSEHOLD LABOR; SEX-DIFFERENCES; SOCIAL-CHANGE; SCIENCE; AUTHORSHIP; PATTERNS ABSTRACT: Coauthored scholarship increased substantially across fields of science during the twentieth century, but it is unclear whether this growth reflects change in the behavior of individual scientists (i.e., career aging) or publishing differences between cohorts of researchers (i.e., cohort succession). I examine the publication records of an interdisciplinary sample of university scientists and find evidence of both career-aging and cohort-succession processes, although cohort differences are much more pronounced than individual changes. Specifically, scientists in this sample increased the percentage of their articles with coauthors by 0.63 percentage points annually. However, compared to those who received their PhDs between 1953 and 1962, scientists who entered the workforce between 1983 and 1991 coauthored approximately one third more of their early career articles (35.63 percentage points). Additionally, career-aging processes in coauthorship varied by PhD cohort, with earlier trained researchers increasing more rapidly. Overall, this article highlights cohort succession as a source of change in coauthorship, and underscores the importance of accounting for generational differences in studies of scientific careers. AUTHOR ADDRESS: TL O'Brien, 744 Ballantine Hall,1020 E Kirkwood Ave, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Publication Bias in the Anesthesiology Literature (Article, English) AUTHOR: De Oliveira, GS Jr; Chang, R; Kendall, MC; Fitzgerald, PC; McCarthy, RJ SOURCE: ANESTHESIA AND ANALGESIA 114 (5). MAY 2012. p.1042-1048 LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS, PHILADELPHIA SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 295:90 2006 KEYWORDS+: 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. (Anesth Analg 2012;114:1042-8) AUTHOR ADDRESS: RJ McCarthy, NW Mem Hosp, Dept Anesthesiol, 251 E Huro St,F5-704, Chicago, IL 60611 US -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Labeling and Cumulative Disadvantage: The Impact of Formal Police Intervention on Life Chances and Crime During Emerging Adulthood (Article, English) AUTHOR: Lopes, G; Krohn, MD; Lizotte, AJ; Schmidt, NM; Vasquez, BE; Bernburg, JG SOURCE: CRIME & DELINQUENCY 58 (3). MAY 2012. p.456-488 SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC, THOUSAND OAKS SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK SCIENCE 159:56 1968 KEYWORDS: labeling theory; life course; police intervention; cumulative disadvantage; transition to adulthood KEYWORDS+: INTERACTIONIST THEORY; REFLECTED APPRAISALS; MENTAL- DISORDERS; LABOR-MARKET; DELINQUENCY; ADOLESCENCE; INVOLVEMENT; EMPLOYMENT; CRIMINOLOGY; REJECTION ABSTRACT: Research in labeling theory has been revived recently, particularly in relation to the effect of labeling on critical noncriminal outcomes that potentially exacerbate involvement in crime. This study partakes in that revitalization by examining direct and indirect effects of police intervention in the lives of adolescents who were followed into their 30s. The authors find that early police intervention is indirectly related to drug use at the ages of 29 to 31, as well as unemployment and welfare receipt. Given that such effects were found some 15 years after the labeling event, on criminal and noncriminal outcomes, and after controlling for intraindividual factors, the authors conclude that the labeling perspective is still relevant within a developmental framework. AUTHOR ADDRESS: G Lopes, SUNY Albany, Sch Criminal Justice, 135 Western Ave,Draper Hall 306, Albany, NY 12222 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Identifying the "Players" in Sports Analytics Research (Article, English) AUTHOR: Coleman, BJ SOURCE: INTERFACES 42 (2). MAR-APR 2012. p.109-118 INFORMS, HANOVER SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005 KEYWORDS: recreation; sports ABSTRACT: Despite a sports analytics research history that goes back more than 50 years and a recent dramatic rise in the level of scholarly interest in sports analytics, no prior research has attempted to identify its scope, scale, and growth in terms of the body of published refereed articles in the literature. Prior research has also not identified the "players" in the field: the journals and institutions that most commonly publish sports analytics research and are most commonly cited. To answer these questions, I examined 140 journals in operations research, statistics, applied mathematics, and applied economics, and identified 1,146 articles that address the application of analytics in sports. The results provide a picture of the size and nature of sports analytics research and its purveyors, and offer some perspective on the parameters of the field. AUTHOR ADDRESS: BJ Coleman, Univ N Florida, Coggin Coll Business, Dept Management, Jacksonville, FL 32224 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: MAX WEBER IN THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY: A CASE OF CIRCULATING KNOWLEDGE (Article, English) AUTHOR: Rijks, M SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES 48 (1). WIN 2012. p.55-63 WILEY-BLACKWELL, MALDEN SEARCH TERM(S): JOURNAL item_title KEYWORDS+: CAPITALISM; HISTORY ABSTRACT: By the middle of the 1970s, a Max Weber revival commenced in American sociology. Almost 75 percent of the articles on Weber in the American Journal of Sociology published in the past six decades appeared in the 1970s and 1980s. The Weber revival in American sociology is a phenomenon observed in leading literature. New translations and publications are frequently indicated reasons for the renewed interest in Weber. Without dismissing this factor, it is not an entirely satisfactory explanation. This article accounts for the Weber revival in a new way. Taking the American Journal of Sociology as a case study, I argue that the Weber revival was a case of circulating knowledge. Certain historically set issues led to a reorientation of Weber, which meant that knowledge about Weber was moved, extended, and transformed. AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Rijks, Royal Netherlands Acad Arts & Sci, Huygens ING, Dutch Hist Sci Web Ctr, Amsterdam, Netherlands -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Gender Balance and Institutions in Local Government - Examples from Rural Norway (Article, English) AUTHOR: Bjorna, H SOURCE: LEX LOCALIS-JOURNAL OF LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT 10 (2). APR 2012. p.129-152 INST LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT PUBLIC PROCUREMENT MARIBOR, MARIBOR SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth KEYWORDS: women representation; representation policies; informal institutions; formal institutions; local democracy; Norway KEYWORDS+: REPRESENTATION; WOMEN ABSTRACT: While steps are taken to increase women's representation in politics, it can often prove difficult to change patterns of recruitment and nomination to political positions. This article argues that not only formal regulation, but also informal institutions, like local norms, beliefs and values, history and traditional codes of conduct matter and should be taken into account in plans to achieve balanced gender representation. The article compares recruitment policies in rural municipalities in Norway. Case studies were conducted to identify factors affecting women's willingness to stand as candidates, the factors local political parties take into account when nominating candidates, and voting behaviour. The study suggests that local issues, such as religious traditions, distributional conflicts and desire for community representation, affect women representation. Representation policies in local governments are, in other words, not only affected by rules and values "from above", they must also be understood in a "bottom up" perspective, as the aggregated consequences of the rational behaviour of voters. AUTHOR ADDRESS: H Bjorna, Univ Tromso, Dept Sociol Polit Sci & Community Planning, HSL Fac, N-9037 Tromso, Norwa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: THE EFFECT OF ENGLISH-LANGUAGE RESTRICTION ON SYSTEMATIC REVIEW-BASED META-ANALYSES: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF EMPIRICAL STUDIES (Review, English) AUTHOR: Morrison, A; Polisena, J; Husereau, D; Moulton, K; Clark, M; Fiander, M; Mierzwinski-Urban, M; Clifford, T; Hutton, B; Rabb, D SOURCE: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT IN HEALTH CARE 28 (2). APR 2012. p.138-144 CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, NEW YORK SEARCH TERM(S): SCI WAT* rwork KEYWORDS: Language bias; Methodology; Meta-analyses; Conventional medicine KEYWORDS+: TRIALS; QUALITY; INTERVENTION; BIAS ABSTRACT: Objectives: The English language is generally perceived to be the universal language of science. However, the exclusive reliance on English-language studies may not represent all of the evidence. Excluding languages other than English (LOE) may introduce a language bias and lead to erroneous conclusions. Study Design and Setting: We conducted a comprehensive literature search using bibliographic databases and grey literature sources. Studies were eligible for inclusion if they measured the effect of excluding randomized controlled trials (RCTs) reported in LOE from systematic review-based meta-analyses (SR/MA) for one or more outcomes. Results: None of the included studies found major differences between summary treatment effects in English-language restricted meta-analyses and WE-inclusive meta-analyses. Findings differed about the methodological and reporting quality of trials reported in LOE. The precision of pooled estimates improved with the inclusion of LOE trials. Conclusions: Overall, we found no evidence of systematic bias from the use of language restrictions in systematic review-based meta-analyses in conventional medicine. Further research is needed to determine the impact of language restriction on systematic reviews in particular fields of medicine. AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Morrison, Canadian Agcy Drugs & Technol Hlth, Ottawa, ON, Canada -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Runaway events dominate the heavy tail of citation distributions (Article, English) AUTHOR: Golosovsky, M; Solomon, S SOURCE: EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL-SPECIAL TOPICS 205 (1). MAY 2012. p.303-311 SPRINGER HEIDELBERG, HEIDELBERG SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth; KEYWORDS+: POWER-LAW DISTRIBUTIONS; SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATION; NETWORKS; MARKET; ADVANTAGE; SYSTEMS; SCALES; PAPER; SIZE ABSTRACT: Statistical distributions with heavy tails are ubiquitous in natural and social phenomena. Since the entries in heavy tail have unproportional significance, the knowledge of its exact shape is very important. Citations of scientific papers form one of the best-known heavy tail distributions. Even in this case there is a considerable debate whether citation distribution follows the log-normal or power-law fit. The goal of our study is to solve this debate by measuring citation distribution for a very large and homogeneous data. We measured citation distribution for 418, 438 Physics papers published in 1980-1989 and cited by 2008. While the log-normal fit deviates too strong from the data, the discrete power-law function with the exponent gamma = 3.15 does better and fits 99.955% of the data. However, the extreme tail of the distribution deviates upward even from the power-law fit and exhibits a dramatic "runaway" behavior. The onset of the runaway regime is revealed macroscopically as the paper garners 1000-1500 citations, however the microscopic measurements of autocorrelation in citation rates are able to predict this behavior in advance. AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Golosovsky, Hebrew Univ Jerusalem, Racah Inst Phys, IL-91904 Jerusalem, Israel -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Impact Factor-a Useful Tool, but Not for All Purposes (Editorial Material, English) AUTHOR: Baethge, C SOURCE: DEUTSCHES ARZTEBLATT INTERNATIONAL 109 (15). APR 13 2012. p.267-269 DEUTSCHER AERZTE-VERLAG GMBH, COLOGNE SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; IMPACT FACTOR* AUTHOR ADDRESS: C Baethge, Deutsch Arzteblatt, Med Wissenschaftl Redakt, Ottostr 12, D-50859 Cologne, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Valuation of online social networks taking into account users' interconnectedness (Article, English) AUTHOR: Gneiser, M; Heidemann, J; Klier, M; Landherr, A; Probst, F SOURCE: INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND E-BUSINESS MANAGEMENT 10 (1 SP ISS). MAR 2012. p.61-84 SPRINGER HEIDELBERG, HEIDELBERG SEARCH TERM(S GARFIELD E CURR CONTENTS :5 1979 KEYWORDS: Online social networks; Economic valuation; Business case; Centrality measures; PageRank KEYWORDS+: CUSTOMER EQUITY; WEAK TIES; LOCK-IN; WEB; WORLD; PERFORMANCE; COMPETITION; SEARCH ABSTRACT: Online social networks have been gaining increasing economic importance in light of the rising number of their users. Numerous recent acquisitions priced at enormous amounts have illustrated this development and revealed the need for adequate business valuation models. The value of an online social network is largely determined by the value of its users, the relationships between these users, and the resulting network effects. Therefore, the interconnectedness of a user within the network has to be considered explicitly to get a reasonable estimate for its economic value. Established standard business valuation models, however, do not account for these aspects sufficiently. Thus, we propose an economic model for the valuation of online social networks, which takes into account the users' interconnectedness within the network. Furthermore, we analyze different centrality measures, which can be used to quantify users' interconnectedness in online social networks and propose a measure which is based on the PageRank-algorithm. Finally, the practical application of the model is illustrated by an example of the European online social network XING.com. AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Klier, Univ Innsbruck, Dept Informat Syst, Univ Str 15, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: The exploration of knowledge networks through patent citations (Article, English) AUTHOR: Breschi, S; Cassi, L; Malerba, F SOURCE: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS: INNOVATION, GOVERNANCE AND THE INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT. 2006. p.278-310 EDWARD ELGAR PUBLISHING LTD, CHELTENHAM SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth; CITATION* item_title KEYWORDS: Innovation; Networks of knowledge; Technological positioning; Network analysis; Patents data KEYWORDS+: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; LOCALIZED KNOWLEDGE; SPILLOVERS; INVENTORS; MARKET; COMPETITION; INDICATORS; MOBILITY; SCIENCE ABSTRACT: The aim of this chapter is to discuss the methodological issues arising from the use of patent citation data as relational data and to provide an example of empirical analysis. In particular, we propose to use patent citation data to explore knowledge networks at the level of organizations, that is, companies and other institutions. We focus our analysis on two different types of network: citation and co- citation networks. We argue that the former type of network could map knowledge diffusion networks; the latter could map the technological space. Using this perspective, this chapter examines the main structural properties of the knowledge networks in semiconductor and computer industries. In order to capture the organization's position in both co- citation and direct patent citation networks, we calculate, for each sector, two different measures: the crowdedness of a company's position in the technological space and a measure of its status. These two measures allow us to map the position of any organization and to define a taxonomy of four different kinds of organizations: technological leaders, technological followers, brokers of new technologies and isolated organizations. The results of our analysis show differences between the semiconductor and computer sectors and the difference between European and non-European companies in terms of technological nich -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Intellectual property rights for governance in and of innovation systems (Article, English) AUTHOR: Granstrand, O SOURCE: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS: INNOVATION, GOVERNANCE AND THE INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT. 2006. p.311-343 EDWARD ELGAR PUBLISHING LTD, CHELTENHAM SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth KEYWORDS: Technology; Governance; Intellectual Property; Innovation system; Licensing KEYWORDS+: PATENT PROTECTION; SCIENCE; REGIME; POLICY ABSTRACT: This chapter attempts to look at the role of IPRs in different innovation systems - national, sectoral, corporate, university and military systems - in a governance perspective. The rapid advent of the pro-IP era from the 1980s on, embedded in the gradual emergence of a new type of economy dominated by intellectual capital, has generally transformed and strengthened various IP regimes in these innovation systems, with an increasing use of patent and licensing oriented regimes. The availability of enforceable and valuable IPRs together with more large-scale R&D and complex new technologies, calling for more inter-firm technology collaborations and various forms of technology trade (through licences, small firms, services and so on) have fostered quasi-integrated corporate innovation systems. Seen in a governance perspective the IPR approach creates governance tools but also governance problems, but so do other approaches to incentivizing and coordinating innovative activities as well. A re-evaluation of various approaches is needed, focusing on both incentivizing and coordinating functions, for sustaining efficient and effective innovation systems -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Fractal Analysis of Knowledge Organization in Digital Library (Article, English) AUTHOR: Osinska, V SOURCE: NEW TRENDS IN QUALITIATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE METHODS IN LIBRARIES. 2012. p.17-23 WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD, SINGAPORE SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; CURRENT CONTENTS* rwork KEYWORDS: Fractal analysis; fractal dimension; visualization; classification scheme; knowledge mapping ABSTRACT: Visualization of the large-scale collections of information became one of the essential purpose in data analysis. The new methods of visualization are increasingly applied as a significant component in scientific research. Particularly qualitative nature of Infoviz studies (Information visualization) can be combined with quantitative character of digital libraries volumes. This paper describes and demonstrates the case of hierarchical structure visualization i.e. visual representation of both classification adopted by ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) digital library and classification universe. Given maps were processed by nonlinear graphical filters. Finally fractal dimension (FD) and derived techniques have used to analyze the patterns of clusters on the visualization maps. Quantification of output graphical representation by means of fractals makes possible to adjust visualization parameters as well as evaluate initial classification scheme and its dynamical characteristics. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Publishing Patterns and Authorship in the Scholarly Literature of Digital Object Identifiers: A Bibliometric Analysis (Article, English) AUTHOR: Ballard, DS SOURCE: NEW TRENDS IN QUALITIATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE METHODS IN LIBRARIES. 2012. p.209-211 WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD, SINGAPORE KEYWORDS: Literature; information; Digital Object Identifier(s); DOI; articles; library; science; research; digital KEYWORDS+: LIBRARIANS ABSTRACT: A Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is an alpha-numeric standard for the use of identifying intellectual property within computer networks and is a recent trend in the field of the publishing of scholarly articles. This study examines the publishing patterns in the scholarly literature of digital object identifier. The research includes core journals, professional affiliations, gender, and geographic locations. Additionally, the primary disciplines represented in the authorship of the DOI literature are observed. This paper was submitted in the LIS651 course, Introduction to Library and Information Science, during April 2007, as a partial requirement for a Master's degree in the School of Library and Information Science, at the University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Ten Years of Digital Divide Studies: Themes, concepts and relationships (Article, English) AUTHOR: Wang, CH; McLee, Y; Kuo, JH SOURCE: SOCIAL SCIENCE AND HUMANITY, PT ONE 5 (Pt 1). 2011. p.318-323 INT ASSOC COMPUTER SCIENCE & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PRESS-IACSIT PRESS, SINGAPORE SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; SMALL H SCIENTOMETRICS 26:5 1993; WHITE HD J AM SOC INFORM SCI 32:163 1981 KEYWORDS: citation; co-citation; digital divide; social network; ethnic bulling; diffusion innovation KEYWORDS+: INTELLECTUAL STRUCTURE; AUTHOR COCITATION; MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION; TECHNOLOGY; FIELD ABSTRACT: To explore the intellectual structure of digital divide research in the last decade, this study identified the most important publications and the most influential scholars as well as the correlations among these scholar's publications. In this study, bibliometric and social network analysis techniques are used to investigate the intellectual pillars of the digital divide literature. By analyzing 26,966 citations of 852 articles published in SSCI journal in digital divide area between 2000 and 2009, this study maps a knowledge network of digital divide studies. The results of the mapping can help identify the research direction of digital divide research and provide a valuable tool for researchers to access the literature in this area. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: A bibliometric primary study of bioinformatics research in China (Article, English) AUTHOR: Guo, YQ; Yu, F; Liu, AY SOURCE: ADVANCED RESEARCH ON MATERIAL ENGINEERING, CHEMISTRY AND BIOINFORMATICS, PTS 1 AND 2 (MECB 2011) 282-283 (Pt 1,2). 2011. p.417-420 TRANS TECH PUBLICATIONS LTD, STAFA-ZURICH KEYWORDS: bioinformatics; bibliometric; China ABSTRACT: From 1997 to 2009, altogether 48059 pieces of literature on bioinformatics are extracted in SCI-Expended. Amongst them, 2853 pieces could be attributed to Chinese scholars. With Note Express, software that manages documents, the 48059 pieces of literature in the past 13 years were sorted using bibliometrical method. The main aim is to compare and assess the practices of bioinformatics research in China. This study examined the growth of the bioinformatics literature, in the world. The rank list was given according to different country. China's total publication output comprises 2853 papers during the 13 years between 1997 and 2009 which was equivalent to 5.94% of the world output during the same period, and ranked the 4th. The year production and citations of papers on bioinformatics in 5 Asian countries and Taiwan district between 1997 and 2009 was compared. This study will provide general insights of bioinformatics research in China. AUTHOR ADDRESS: AY Liu, Jimei Univ, Coll Fisheries, Xiamen 361021, Peoples R China - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM Wed May 16 15:40:37 2012 From: eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM (Eugene Garfield) Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 19:40:37 +0000 Subject: papers of possible interest to Sig Metrics Part 2 Message-ID: TITLE: PAV: A novel model for ranking heterogeneous objects in bibliographic information networks (Article, English) AUTHOR: Deng, ZH; Lai, BY; Wang, ZH; Fang, GD SOURCE: EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS 39 (10). AUG 2012. p.9788-9796 PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, OXFORD SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005; BIBLIOGRAPHIC* item_title; GARFIELD E SCIENTIST 12:11 1998; GARFIELD E SCIENCE 178:471 1972 KEYWORDS: Bibliographic information networks; Link analysis; Ranking; Regular Markov chain KEYWORDS+: 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. AUTHOR ADDRESS: ZH Deng, Peking Univ, Key Lab Machine Percept, Minist Educ, Sch Elect Engn & Comp Sci, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: In for a Penny, in for a Pound. How Initial Moral Justifications Restrain Companies in the Pursuit of their Economic Interests (Article, German) AUTHOR: Schroder, M SOURCE: SOZIALE WELT-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR SOZIALWISSENSCHAFTLICHE FORSCHUNG UND PRAXIS 62 (4). 2011. p.333-349,421 NOMOS VERLAGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH & CO KG, BADEN-BADEN SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth ABSTRACT: Do people behave in accordance with moral norms because they want to or because they are forced to do so? This question is ultimately irresolvable, as the "real" motivations of individuals are hidden from scientific analysis. This article carves out the mechanism of "argumentative coercion" that circumvents this problem. The basic conception is that company managements publicly justify their actions by referring to widely accepted values and social norms. This might reflect real moral scruple, or they might only do so pro forma, to satisfy social demands. Regardless of this, such legitimations develop a momentum of their own. Justifications might simply have been made to immunize self- interested actions against a critical public. Nonetheless, they can be used to hold actors accountable to their initial promises. Thus, as our first case study tries to illustrate, the question of whether people act morally because they want to do so or because they are made to act morally loses some of its pertinence. Our second case study shows that argumentative coercion also exists because costs are incurred upon actors if these do not justify their actions with widely accepted social norms. This mechanism of "argumentative coercion" helps to explain how trade unions and works councils influence companies over which they cannot exert much formal power. AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Schroder, Harvard Univ, Ctr European Studies, 27 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Governing Science - A Discourse Analytic Study of the Science Council's Research Rating (Article, German) AUTHOR: Baier, C SOURCE: SOZIALE WELT-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR SOZIALWISSENSCHAFTLICHE FORSCHUNG UND PRAXIS 62 (4). 2011. p.371-390,421,422 NOMOS VERLAGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH & CO KG, BADEN-BADEN SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth KEYWORDS+: CONSTRUCTION ABSTRACT: The article presents findings from a discourse analysis of the German science council's research rating based on textual material published by the science council. The research rating is interpreted as a practice of governing science that aims at a systematic restructuring of scientist's and scientific organization's self-assessment and thereby engenders a new form of scientific self-regulation. In this process, new criteria of scientific quality are introduced, e.g. efficiency, differentiation, internationality and applicability of standardized measurement. The technology of the panopticon and procedures of normalization are employed in this new practice of government. While recent analyses indicate trends toward "academic capitalism" and the "entrepreneurial university", two complementary processes are emphasized here: Practices of calculation, accounting and economization can only be applied if science is subjected to normalization; universities can only act according to entrepreneurial rationality if they are endowed with agent-like qualities. AUTHOR ADDRESS: C Baier, Otto Friedrich Univ Bamberg, Lehrstuhl Soziol 2, Lichtenhaidestr 11, Bamberg, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Patent text mining and informetric-based patent technology morphological analysis: an empirical study (Article, English) AUTHOR: Xu, F; Leng, FH SOURCE: TECHNOLOGY ANALYSIS & STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT 24 (5). 2012. p.467-479 ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, ABINGDON SEARCH TERM(S): INFORMETRIC* item_title KEYWORDS: patent text mining; morphological analysis; factor analysis; clustering analysis; patent citation; conjoint analysis KEYWORDS+: CO-WORD ANALYSIS; INFORMATION; SCIENCE; TOOL ABSTRACT: Patent technology morphological analysis utilises the advantages of both patent information analysis and morphological analysis to provide more detailed information on current and future patent technology. Current patent technology morphological analysis methods are largely reliant on manual expertise in the construction of morphological boxes with few approaches to the evaluation of future morphological configurations. We developed a patent text mining and informetric-based patent technology morphological analysis technique. We defined the basic parameters of the morphological box as the factors in factor analysis, with a patent keywords matrix, and the clusters in clustering analysis with factor scores. Patent citation, year of patent registration, keyword frequency, and contributing factors were used to evaluate future morphological configurations. We used an empirical study of liquid crystal display wide viewing angle patents to validate our method. The Thomson Reuters Derwent Innovation Index was used to collect patent text datasets. Our study indicates that this method is feasible for the implementation of patent technology morphological analysis. Our method provides advantages in terms of cost and time reductions during morphological box construction and more flexible methods for evaluating morphological configurations. We discuss problems and possible development of our method in the last section. AUTHOR ADDRESS: F Xu, Inst Sci & Tech Informat China, Strategy Res Ctr, Fuxing Rd 15, Beijing 100038, Peoples R China -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Theorizing in sociology and social science: turning to the context of discovery (Article, English) AUTHOR: Swedberg, R SOURCE: THEORY AND SOCIETY 41 (1). JAN 2012. p.1-40 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth KEYWORDS: Theorizing; Theory; Context of discovery; Context of justification; Abduction KEYWORDS+: THEORY CONSTRUCTION; WORTH ABSTRACT: Since World War II methods have advanced very quickly in sociology and social science, while this has not been the case with theory. In this article I suggest that one way of beginning to close the gap between the two is to focus on theorizing rather than on theory. The place where theorizing can be used in the most effective way, I suggest, is in the context of discovery. What needs to be discussed are especially ways for how to develop theory before hypotheses are formulated and tested. To be successful in this, we need to assign an independent place to theorizing and also to develop some basic rules for how to theorize. An attempt is made to formulate such rules; it is also argued that theorizing can only be successful if it is done in close unison with observation in what is called a prestudy. Theorizing has turned into a skill when it is iterative, draws on intuitive ways of thinking, and goes beyond the basic rules for theorizing. AUTHOR ADDRESS: R Swedberg, Cornell Univ, Dept Sociol, Uris Hall 328, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Type of Evidence Behind Point-of-Care Clinical Information Products: A Bibliometric Analysis (Article, English) AUTHOR: Ketchum, AM; Saleh, AA; Jeong, K SOURCE: JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH 13 (1). JAN-MAR 2011. p.NIL_13-NIL_23 JOURNAL MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH, TORONTO SEARCH TERM(S): MACROBERTS MH rauth; MORAVCSIK MJ rauth; BIBLIOMETR* item_title; GARFIELD E SCIENTOMETRICS 1:359 1979 KEYWORDS: Databases; Factual; Bibliometrics; Medical Informatics; Evidence-based Medicine KEYWORDS+: EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; SEEKING BEHAVIORS; CITATION ANALYSIS; QUESTIONS; PHYSICIANS; RESOURCES; UPTODATE; PEDIATRICIANS; DECISIONS; KNOWLEDGE ABSTRACT: Background: Point-of-care (POC) products are widely used as information reference tools in the clinical setting. Although usability, scope of coverage, ability to answer clinical questions, and impact on health outcomes have been studied, no comparative analysis of the characteristics of the references, the evidence for the content, in POC products is available. Objective: The objective of this study was to compare the type of evidence behind five POC clinical information products. Methods: This study is a comparative bibliometric analysis of references cited in monographs in POC products. Five commonly used products served as subjects for the study: ACP PIER, Clinical Evidence, DynaMed, FirstCONSULT, and UpToDate. The four clinical topics examined to identify content in the products were asthma, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and carbon monoxide poisoning. Four indicators were measured: distribution of citations, type of evidence, product currency, and citation overlap. The type of evidence was determined based primarily on the publication type found in the MEDLINE bibliographic record, as well as the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), both assigned by the US National Library of Medicine. MeSH is the controlled vocabulary used for indexing articles in MEDLINE/PubMed. Results: FirstCONSULT had the greatest proportion of references with higher levels of evidence publication types such as systematic review and randomized controlled trial (137/153, 89.5%), although it contained the lowest total number of references (153/2330, 6.6%). DynaMed had the largest total number of references (1131/2330, 48.5%) and the largest proportion of current (2007-2009) references (170/1131, 15%). The distribution of references cited for each topic varied between products. For example, asthma had the most references listed in DynaMed, Clinical Evidence, and FirstCONSULT, while hypertension had the most references in UpToDate and ACP PIER. An unexpected finding was that the rate of citation overlap was less than 1% for each topic across all five products. Conclusions: Differences between POC products are revealed by examining the references cited in the monographs themselves. Citation analysis extended to include key content indicators can be used to compare the evidence levels of the literature supporting the content found in POC products. AUTHOR ADDRESS: AM Ketchum, Univ Pittsburgh, Hlth Sci Lib Syst, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ TITLE: Research in orthopaedics from China has thrived over the last decade: A bibliometric analysis of publication activity (Article, English) AUTHOR: Cheng, T SOURCE: ORTHOPAEDICS & TRAUMATOLOGY-SURGERY & RESEARCH 98 (3). MAY 2012. p.253-258 ELSEVIER MASSON, MILANO KEYWORDS: Orthopaedics; China; Chinese; Research; Clinical trial KEYWORDS+: ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; BRACHIAL-PLEXUS INJURIES; 10- YEAR SURVEY; SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTION; REPLANTATION; ARTHROSCOPY; MEDICINE; JOURNALS; EFFICACY ABSTRACT: Introduction: Over the past decades, there have been great advances in orthopaedics in China. The purpose of this study was to investigate the orthopaedic research output in the three Chinese-speaking regions - the Mainland (ML), Hong Kong (HK), and Taiwan (TW). Hypothesis: We hypothesized that there was a positive trend in China orthopaedic research during the past decade and this regardless of the Chinese-speaking regions of origin. Materials and methods: Forty-nine orthopaedic journals were retrieved from the PubMed database and Science Citation Index Expanded. Articles from ML, TW, and HK in 2000 to 2009 were identified. The total number of articles, clinical trials, randomized controlled trials (RCTs), impact factors (IF), citations, and articles published in the top 10 orthopaedic journals were analyzed. Results: A total of 1878 published articles in 2000 to 2009 were broken down as follows: ML (607), TW (865), and HK (406). There was a significant increase in published articles for ML and TW from 2000 to 2009. The number of published articles from ML exceeded the total sum of articles from TW and HK in 2009. The accumulated IF of articles from TW (1751.91) was higher than that from ML (1054.67) and HK (708.25). TW had the highest average IF (2.025), followed by ML (1.902) and HK (1.862). The total citations of published articles in 2000 to 2009 from TW (4759) were higher than those for HK (2276) and ML (1751). The highest average citation of each article was from HK (5.784), followed by TW (5.720) and ML (3.051). TW published 339 articles in 10 high-impact journals, whereas ML and HK published 267 and 154 articles, respectively. Discussion: Chinese researchers in the field of orthopaedics have been more and more active in the global orthopaedic community during the past 10 years. ML seems to have caught up to HK and TW in respect to research output. Level of evidence: Level III. Systematic review of level II and level III studies. (c) 2012 Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. AUTHOR ADDRESS: T Cheng, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ, Sch Med, Shanghai Peoples Hosp 6, Dept Orthopaed Surg, 600 Yisan Rd, Shanghai 200233, Peoples R China -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Peter.Mutschke at GESIS.ORG Fri May 18 04:35:07 2012 From: Peter.Mutschke at GESIS.ORG (Mutschke, Peter) Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 08:35:07 +0000 Subject: CFP: First International Workshop on Science-Model- and Task-aware Search (SciMoTS) at TPDL 2012, September 27, in Pafos, Cyprus Message-ID: Dear All, you might be interested in this conference. Paper deadline is July 13. Regards, Peter == Call for Papers == First International Workshop on Science-Model- and Task-aware Search (SciMoTS) to be held as part of the 16th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL). September 27, 2012 in Pafos, Cyprus http://www.gesis.org/en/events/conferences/scimots/ === Aim of the Workshop === Retrieval evaluations such as TREC or CLEF have shown that simple text-based retrieval methods scale up very well but do not progress anymore: Traditional ad-hoc retrieval seems to have reached a high level of quality in terms of measures like precision and recall. Nevertheless digital libraries and especially scholarly information systems still face major retrieval challenges that are present since the early days of digital libraries: Vagueness between search and indexing terms, information overload by the amount and complexity of result sets, and the drawbacks of text based relevance rankings. Therefore we will focus on two new approaches to improve the retrieval process in digital library systems: Science models and task-based retrieval. Science models address issues in statistical modelling and mapping of structures and scholarly activities in scientific domains. Until now the outcome of bibliometric/scientometric research is rarely used to enhance retrieval processes in digital libraries although first approaches in this domain have shown that the use of science models can offer a variety of value-added effects for users. Advanced bibliometric as well as network models of the structure of scientific communities are especially promising to open up alternative access paths into a scientific digital library. While science models are related to the structure of the information space, task aware searching and browsing focus on the user and his/her search task. Search is a highly dynamic and interactive process where within each phase the user faces a new situation which may change the current information need - even more on long-term interactive search activities. A task-aware model for each search phase would reflect the particular information need in question to support the user on these long term tasks. The central research question for this workshop therefore is: How can models of science, in particular dynamic models mapping the evolution of science, and models of the long-term dynamics in scholarly, task-oriented searching be mutually interrelated in order to enhance retrieval quality? The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers from different domains, such as information retrieval, information seeking, science modelling, bibliometrics, scientometrics, network analysis, and digital libraries to move toward a deeper understanding of this research challenge. === Workshop Topics === To support the previously described goals the workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - IR for digital libraries and scientific information portals - IR for scientific domains, e.g. social sciences, life sciences etc. - Information Seeking Behaviour - Bibliometrics, citation analysis and network analysis for IR - Query expansion and relevance feedback approaches - Science Modelling (both formal & empirical) - Task based user modelling, interaction, and personalisation - (Long-term) Evaluation methods and test collection design - Collaborative information handling and information sharing - Classification, categorisation and clustering approaches - Information extraction (including topic detection, entity and relation extraction) - Recommendations based on explicit and implicit user feedback We especially invite descriptions of running projects and ongoing work. Papers that investigate multiple themes directly are especially welcome. === Types of Submissions === - Full Papers (6 to 8 pages): Full papers, describing advanced or completed work - Short Papers (4 pages): Position papers or work in progress - Poster and Demonstrations (2 pages): Poster and Presentation of systems or prototypes Submissions have to follow the Springer LNCS Author Guidelines (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) and should be submitted as PDF files to EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scimots2012). All submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Please be aware of the fact that at least one author per paper needs to register for the workshop and attend the workshop to present the work. In case of no-show the paper (even if accepted) will be deleted from the proceedings AND from the program. Printed proceedings will be distributed to all attendees. In addition, workshop proceedings will be deposited online in the CEUR workshop proceedings publication service (ISSN 1613-0073) - This way the proceedings will be permanently available and citable (digital persistent identifiers and long term preservation). === Important Dates === - Submissions: July 13, 2012 - Notification: August 10, 2012 - Camera Ready Contributions: August 24, 2012 - Workshop: September 27, 2012 in Cyprus === Organizers === Peter Mutschke, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany Philipp Schaer, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany Claus-Peter Klas, Distance University in Hagen, Germany Preben Hansen, SICS, Sweden Supported by Philipp Mayr, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany. Any questions regarding the workshop can be posted to scimots2012 at easychair.org - Please, feel free to contact us. Kind regards, Peter Mutschke -- Dep. Knowledge Technologies fort he Social Sciences GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8 D-50667 K?ln Tel.: +49(0)221 / 47694 -500 Mail: peter.mutschke at gesis.org www.gesis.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pmd8 at CORNELL.EDU Fri May 18 09:10:57 2012 From: pmd8 at CORNELL.EDU (Philip Davis) Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 09:10:57 -0400 Subject: The Black Market for Facebook =?windows-1252?Q?=93Likes=2C=94_?= and What It Means for Citations and Alt-Metrics Message-ID: The Black Market for Facebook ?Likes,? and What It Means for Citations and Alt-Metrics 18 May 2012 http://wp.me/pcvbl-6Hs Purchasing artificial trust and reputation on the Internet has never been easier or cheaper. What does this mean for metrics-based evaluations? From harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Mon May 21 17:27:42 2012 From: harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 17:27:42 -0400 Subject: Fwd: White House Petition Calling for Open Access Message-ID: Begin forwarded message: > From: David Prosser > Date: May 21, 2012 4:30:26 PM EDT > To: "Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)" > Subject: [GOAL] White House Petition Calling for Open Access > Reply-To: "Global Open Access List \(Successor of AmSci\)" > > > I'm sure that many of you will have already seen this - but a petition has been launched by access2research (http://access2research.org/) on the White House website calling for open access to US tax-payer funded research. It the petition reaches 25,000 signatories in 30 days it will get an official response from the US Administration. > > The petition is here: > > https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/require-free-access-over-internet-scientific-journal-articles-arising-taxpayer-funded-research/wDX82FLQ > > Anybody can sign - you don't have to be a US citizen. All you need to be is somebody who believes there should be more open access! Please sign. > > David > > > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL at eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dwojick at HUGHES.NET Mon May 21 18:36:03 2012 From: dwojick at HUGHES.NET (David Wojick) Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 18:36:03 -0400 Subject: Fwd: White House Petition Calling for Open Access In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I prefer providing public access via research reports, which the government already gets and owns. See my little essay: http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2012/01/06/my-argument-for-public-access-to-research-reports/ David Sent from my IPad On May 21, 2012, at 5:27 PM, Stevan Harnad wrote: > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: David Prosser >> Date: May 21, 2012 4:30:26 PM EDT >> To: "Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)" >> Subject: [GOAL] White House Petition Calling for Open Access >> Reply-To: "Global Open Access List \(Successor of AmSci\)" >> >> >> I'm sure that many of you will have already seen this - but a petition has been launched by access2research (http://access2research.org/) on the White House website calling for open access to US tax-payer funded research. It the petition reaches 25,000 signatories in 30 days it will get an official response from the US Administration. >> >> The petition is here: >> >> https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/require-free-access-over-internet-scientific-journal-articles-arising-taxpayer-funded-research/wDX82FLQ >> >> Anybody can sign - you don't have to be a US citizen. All you need to be is somebody who believes there should be more open access! Please sign. >> >> David >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> GOAL mailing list >> GOAL at eprints.org >> http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From info at VOSVIEWER.COM Thu May 24 04:56:31 2012 From: info at VOSVIEWER.COM (Nees Jan van Eck) Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 10:56:31 +0200 Subject: VOSviewer version 1.5.0 released Message-ID: Dear colleagues, A new version of the VOSviewer software for bibliometric mapping has been released. The software can be freely downloaded at www.vosviewer.com. The most important new feature is direct support for creating bibliometric maps based on Web of Science output files. With just a few mouse clicks, anyone with access to Web of Science can create: * co-citation maps of articles, journals, authors, and organizations; * bibliographic coupling maps of articles, journals, and authors; * co-occurrence maps of terms extracted from titles and abstracts of articles. As always, we very much welcome your feedback on this project. Best regards, Nees Jan van Eck Ludo Waltman ======================================================== Nees Jan van Eck PhD Head of ICT and data infrastructure Researcher Centre for Science and Technology Studies Leiden University P.O. Box 905 2300 AX Leiden The Netherlands Willem Einthoven Building, Room B5-35 Tel: +31 (0)71 527 6445 Fax: +31 (0)71 527 3911 E-mail: ecknjpvan at cwts.leidenuniv.nl Homepage: www.neesjanvaneck.nl VOSviewer: www.vosviewer.com ======================================================== From cbenito at INGENIO.UPV.ES Thu May 24 05:13:08 2012 From: cbenito at INGENIO.UPV.ES (Carlos Benito Amat) Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 09:13:08 +0000 Subject: VOSviewer version 1.5.0 released In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Thanks a lot, Nees and Ludo You're doing a very great work !! -- Carlos Benito Amat Institute of Innovation and Knowledge Management (INGENIO) Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) Edificio 8E - Camino de Vera, s/n 46022 - Valencia (Spain) Tel: +34 963 877 007 (ext. 78499) Fax: +34 963 877 991 El 24/05/12 10:56, "Nees Jan van Eck" escribi?: >Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): >http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html > >Dear colleagues, > >A new version of the VOSviewer software for bibliometric mapping has been >released. The software can be freely downloaded at www.vosviewer.com. > >The most important new feature is direct support for creating bibliometric >maps based on Web of Science output files. With just a few mouse clicks, >anyone with access to Web of Science can create: >* co-citation maps of articles, journals, authors, and organizations; >* bibliographic coupling maps of articles, journals, and authors; >* co-occurrence maps of terms extracted from titles and abstracts of >articles. > >As always, we very much welcome your feedback on this project. > >Best regards, > >Nees Jan van Eck >Ludo Waltman > >======================================================== >Nees Jan van Eck PhD >Head of ICT and data infrastructure >Researcher > >Centre for Science and Technology Studies >Leiden University >P.O. Box 905 >2300 AX Leiden >The Netherlands > >Willem Einthoven Building, Room B5-35 >Tel: +31 (0)71 527 6445 >Fax: +31 (0)71 527 3911 >E-mail: ecknjpvan at cwts.leidenuniv.nl >Homepage: www.neesjanvaneck.nl >VOSviewer: www.vosviewer.com >======================================================== > From umutal at HACETTEPE.EDU.TR Thu May 24 09:45:25 2012 From: umutal at HACETTEPE.EDU.TR (Umut AL) Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 16:45:25 +0300 Subject: Registrati=?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=8Bon_?= is open for the IMCW 2012 Conference on E-Science in Ankara Message-ID: Dear List Members: The "3rd International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World" organized by the Department of Information Management of Hacettepe University, will take place in Ankara, Turkey, from 19-21 September 2012. The symposium aims to bring together both researchers and practitioners to discuss the current information management issues, and present ideas, theories, approaches and methods to tackle them. The list of accepted papers and draft programme of the Symposium will be announced soon via Symposium web site (http://by2012.bilgiyonetimi.net/en/). The online registration is now open (http://by2012.bilgiyonetimi.net/en/registration/). We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Tony Hey, a distinguished scientist and corporate vice president of Microsoft Research since 2005, has accepted to deliver the plenary keynote speech of the Symposium entitled ?Fourth Paradigm - Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery?. Mr. Serkan Orcan, Deputy Director of the Turkish Academic Network and Information Center (ULAKBIM), will present the second keynote speech entitled ?E-Science and E-Infrastructures in Turkey?. Looking forward to meeting you in September in Ankara. Regards and best wishes. Ya?ar Tonta Chair of the Organizing Committee Hacettepe University Department of Information Management 06800 Beytepe, Ankara Tel: +90 (312) 297 82 04 Fax: +90 (312) 299 20 14 E-mail: tonta at hacettepe.edu.tr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gduzyol at HACETTEPE.EDU.TR Thu May 24 09:49:42 2012 From: gduzyol at HACETTEPE.EDU.TR (=?iso-8859-9?Q?G=FCleda_Do=F0an?=) Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 16:49:42 +0300 Subject: The online registration for "3rd International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World" is now open Message-ID: Dear List Members: The "3rd International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World" organized by the Department of Information Management of Hacettepe University, will take place in Ankara, Turkey, from 19-21 September 2012. The symposium aims to bring together both researchers and practitioners to discuss the current information management issues, and present ideas, theories, approaches and methods to tackle them. The list of accepted papers and draft programme of the Symposium will be announced soon via Symposium web site ( http://by2012.bilgiyonetimi.net/en/). The online registration is now open ( http://by2012.bilgiyonetimi.net/en/registration/). We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Tony Hey, a distinguished scientist and corporate vice president of Microsoft Research since 2005, has accepted to deliver the plenary keynote speech of the Symposium entitled "Fourth Paradigm - Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery". Mr. Serkan Orcan, Deputy Director of the Turkish Academic Network and Information Center (ULAKBIM), will present the second keynote speech entitled "E-Science and E-Infrastructures in Turkey". Looking forward to meeting you in September in Ankara. Regards and best wishes. Ya?ar Tonta Chair of the Organizing Committee Hacettepe University Department of Information Management 06800 Beytepe, Ankara Tel: +90 (312) 297 82 04 Fax: +90 (312) 299 20 14 E-mail: tonta at hacettepe.edu.tr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From isidro.aguillo at CCHS.CSIC.ES Wed May 30 05:04:02 2012 From: isidro.aguillo at CCHS.CSIC.ES (Isidro F. Aguillo) Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 11:04:02 +0200 Subject: New papers published in the ejournal Cybermetrics Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Due to circumstances out of our control, the url of the electronic journal has changed to http://cybermetrics.cindoc.csic.es/. Please update your records accordingly. There are two new papers that can be of your interest: Levene, M.; Fenner, T. & Bar-Ilan, J. (2012). A bibliometric index based on the complete list of cited Publications. Cybermetrics, 16(1):Paper 1 We propose a new index, the j-index, which is defined for an author as the sum of the square roots of the numbers of citations to each of the author?s publications. The idea behind the j-index it to remedy a drawback of the h-index - that the h-index does not take into account the full citation record of a researcher. The square root function is motivated by our desire to avoid the possible bias that may occur with a simple sum when an author has several very highly cited papers. We compare the j-index to the h-index, the g-index and the total citation count for three subject areas using several association measures. Our results indicate that that the association between the j-index and the other indices varies according to the subject area. One explanation of this variation may be due to the proportion of citations to publications of the researcher that are in the h-core. The j-index is not an h-index variant, and as such is intended to complement rather than necessarily replace the h-index and other bibliometric indicators, thus providing a more complete picture of a researcher?s achievements http://cybermetrics.cindoc.csic.es/articles/v16i1p1.html http://cybermetrics.cindoc.csic.es/articles/v16i1p1.pdf Moskovkin, V. M.; Delux, T. & Moskovkina, M. V. (2012). Comparative Analysis of University Publication Activity by Google Scholar (On Example of Leading Czech and Germany Universities). Cybermetrics, 16(1):Paper 2 With the help of the Google Scholar search engine, we have studied in detail the aggregated publication structure of the leading universities in the Czech Republic and Germany. We have also classified these structures and identified structural changes in them for German universities. These shifts have been observed in the Free University of Berlin and Humboldt University, and they all occurred within 5 years in the first decade of the 21st century when the major university publication activity moved from the sphere of medical research to the area of social sciences and humanities. Prospects for further research are in the comparative analysis of university publication activities with the help of Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar facilities. http://cybermetrics.cindoc.csic.es/articles/v16i1p2.html http://cybermetrics.cindoc.csic.es/articles/v16i1p2.pdf -- =============================== Isidro F. Aguillo, HonPhD The Cybermetrics Lab IPP-CCHS-CSIC Albasanz, 26-28 (3C1) 28037 Madrid. Spain isidro.aguillo @ cchs.csic.es ===============================