Papers of interest to SIG-Metrics readers
Eugene Garfield
eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM
Wed May 2 13:44:42 EDT 2012
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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