Papers of interest to readers of SIG-Metrics
Eugene Garfield
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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