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Title: Scholarometer: A Social Framework for Analyzing Impact across Disciplines

Authors:

Kaur, J; Hoang, DT; Sun, XL; Possamai, L; JafariAsbagh, M; Patil, S;

Menczer, F

Author Full Names:

Kaur, Jasleen; Diep Thi Hoang; Sun, Xiaoling; Possamai, Lino;

JafariAsbagh, Mohsen; Patil, Snehal; Menczer, Filippo

Source:

PLOS ONE, 7 (9):10.1371/journal.pone.0043235 SEP 12 2012

Language:

English

Document Type:

Article

KeyWords Plus: INDEX

Abstract:

The use of quantitative metrics to gauge the impact of scholarly publications, authors, and disciplines is predicated on the availability of reliable usage and annotation data. Citation and download counts are widely available from digital libraries. However, current annotation systems rely on proprietary labels, refer to journals but not articles or authors, and are manually curated. To address these limitations, we propose a social framework based on crowdsourced annotations of scholars, designed to keep up with the rapidly evolving disciplinary and interdisciplinary landscape. We describe a system called Scholarometer, which provides a service to scholars by computing citation-based impact measures. This creates an incentive for users to provide disciplinary annotations of authors, which in turn can be used to compute disciplinary metrics. We first present the system architecture and several heuristics to deal with noisy bibliographic and annotation data. We report on dat!

a sharing and interactive visualization services enabled by Scholarometer. Usage statistics, illustrating the data collected and shared through the framework, suggest that the proposed crowdsourcing approach can be successful. Secondly, we illustrate how the disciplinary bibliometric indicators elicited by Scholarometer allow us to implement for the first time a universal impact measure proposed in the literature. Our evaluation suggests that this metric provides an effective means for comparing scholarly impact across disciplinary boundaries.

Reprint Address:

Indiana Univ, Sch Informat & Comp, Ctr Complex Networks & Syst Res, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA.

Addresses:

[Kaur, Jasleen; Diep Thi Hoang; Sun, Xiaoling; Possamai, Lino; JafariAsbagh, Mohsen; Patil, Snehal; Menczer, Filippo] Indiana Univ, Sch Informat & Comp, Ctr Complex Networks & Syst Res, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA

[Diep Thi Hoang] Vietnam Natl Univ, Univ Engn & Technol, Hanoi, Vietnam

[Sun, Xiaoling] Dalian Univ Technol, Dept Comp Sci & Technol, Dalian, Peoples R China

[Possamai, Lino] Univ Padua, Dept Pure & Appl Math, Padua, Italy

E-mail Address:

jakaur at indiana.edu

Funding Acknowledgement:

Hongfei Lin at Dalian University of Technology; China Scholarship Council; Massimo Marchiori at University of Padua; University of Bologna; Lilly Endowment; National Science Foundation [IIS-0811994]

Funding Text:

The authors acknowledge support from Hongfei Lin at Dalian University of Technology, the China Scholarship Council, Massimo Marchiori at University of Padua, the University of Bologna, the Lilly Endowment, and National Science Foundation (award IIS-0811994) for funding the computing infrastructure that hosts the Scholarometer service. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

Cited Reference Count:

24

  Publisher: PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 1160 BATTERY STREET, STE 100, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111 USA

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TITLE: Bibliometric Analysis of Particle Swarm Optimization
(PSO) Research 2000-2010 (Article, English)

AUTHOR: Hamadicharef, B

SOURCE: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE,
PT III 7004 (Pt III). 2011. p.404-411 SPRINGER-VERLAG
BERLIN, BERLIN

SEARCH TERM(S):  GARFIELD E JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 295:90 2006;
GARFIELD E SCIENCE 122:108 1955
KEYWORDS: Particle Swarm Optimization; bibliometric study; citations
KEYWORDS+: PUBLICATION

ABSTRACT: In the last decade, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) has
grown in popularity as one important method for optimization, compared to
recent Differential Evolution (DE) and Harmony Search (HS). In this paper
a bibliometric study is presented, carried out on the PSO research
literature from 2000 to 2010. The Thomson Reuters Web of Science (WoS)
was used to collect publication records and analyzed to identify
authorship, co-authorship, top journals, profile the distribution of
citations and references. The study also includes the use keyword co-
occurrence frequency from the articles' title, to help getting insights
into PSO research trends and fields of applications.

AUTHOR ADDRESS: B Hamadicharef, Tiara, 1 Kim Seng Walk, Singapore 239403,
Singapore
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TITLE: The impact of impact factors (Editorial Material, English)
AUTHOR: Sadovsky, Y; Clifton, VL; Burton, GJ
SOURCE: PLACENTA 33 (10). OCT 2012. p.753 W B SAUNDERS CO LTD,
LONDON
SEARCH TERM(S): IMPACT FACTOR* item_title; EDITORIAL doctype
　
AUTHOR ADDRESS: Y Sadovsky, Magee Womens Res Inst, 204 Craft Ave,
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
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TITLE: Clinical Nursing Research Recognized by Thomson Reuters
with its First Impact Factor (Editorial Material, English)
AUTHOR: Cacchione, PZ
SOURCE: CLINICAL NURSING RESEARCH 21 (4). NOV 2012. p.387-389
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC, THOUSAND OAKS
SEARCH TERM(S):
GARFIELD E JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 295:90 2006;
EDITORIAL doctype
KEYWORDS+: JOURNALS
AUTHOR ADDRESS: PZ Cacchione, Univ Penn, Sch Nursing, 418 Curie Blvd,
Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
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TITLE: The evolution of scientific journal articles in the

periphery: a case study and analysis of the Raffles Bulletin of Zoology

from 1928 to 2008 (Article, English)

AUTHOR: Lin, H; Luyt, B

SOURCE: JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE 38 (5). OCT 2012.

p.407-422 SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, LONDON

SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth; JOURNAL item_title;

J INF SCI source_abbrev_20

KEYWORDS: domain-analytic approach; genre studies; information

organization and retrieval; move analysis; scientific

communication; social factors; scientific journals

KEYWORDS+: INFORMATION; GENRE

ABSTRACT: In order to analyse the development of a scientific

journal in the academic periphery, a case study of the Raffles Bulletin

of Zoology (RBZ), published in Singapore 1928-2008, was conducted. A

combination of quantitative and qualitative methods was deployed.

Quantitatively, statistics on various aspects of journal articles in RBZ

were collected and analysed. Qualitatively, schematic structures of

journal articles in the RBZ were coded and documented via Swales's move

analysis. It was found that the development of the RBZ could be divided

into three stages: a rudimentary period, transitional period and current

period. Various factors that shaped the evolution of RBZ for the past 80

years are discussed, including the social and political context of

Singapore, changes in scientific perspectives, the efforts of editors,

information organization and retrieval, as well as changing scientific

communities. It is argued that a longitudinal study of journal articles

in the academic periphery enhances our understanding of: (1) the adaptive

nature of knowledge production, organization, use and retrieval in

various knowledge domains; (2) the importance of understanding the

interplay between social factors in the scientific communication process;

and (3) the increasing demand for the provision of efficient and

effective information systems to meet the pressing need of information

organization and retrieval.

AUTHOR ADDRESS: H Lin, Nanyang Technol Univ, Wee Kim Wee Sch Commun &

Informat, Singapore, Singapore

ABSTRACT: Prior studies indicate that undesired consequences may

occur if knowledge cannot be effectively shared among members of a

project team. Nevertheless, there are few studies that explore the

knowledge-sharing (KS) mechanisms used and the contingency factors

affecting their application in the context of managing new product

development projects that encounter changes in project scope. Therefore,

in this research the principles of the contingency approach were adopted

in order to examine the KS mechanisms used and the contingency factors

affecting their use in this context via an in-depth case study. Three key

KS mechanisms and three contingency factors affecting their application

were identified based on the research results. The relationship between

the KS mechanisms and the contingency factors is formalized in five

propositions. Future research that examines the interrelationships among

these contingency factors and how they collectively influence KS

practices in similar contexts is encouraged.

AUTHOR ADDRESS: WT Wang, Natl Cheng Kung Univ, Dept Ind & Informat

Management, 1 Univ Rd, Tainan 70101, Taiwan

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TITLE: Combination of document structure and links for

multimedia object retrieval (Article, English)

AUTHOR: Aouadi, H; Torjmen-Khemakhem, M; Ben Jemaa, M

SOURCE: JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE 38 (5). OCT 2012.

p.442-458 SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, LONDON

SEARCH TERM(S): KESSLER MM AM DOC 14:10 1963;

SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973;

J INF SCI source_abbrev_20

KEYWORDS: context-based image retrieval; hierarchical structure;

link analysis; multimedia object; XML document

KEYWORDS+: WEB; SEARCH

ABSTRACT: In this paper, we are interested in XML multimedia

retrieval, the aim of which is to find relevant multimedia objects such

as images, audio and video through their context as document structure.

In context-based multimedia retrieval, the most common technique is based

on the text surrounding the image. However, such textual information can

be irrelevant to the image content. Therefore many works are oriented to

the use of alternative techniques to extend the image description, such

as the use of ontologies, relevance feedback, and user profiles. We

studied in our work the use of links between XML elements to improve

image retrieval. More precisely, we propose dividing the document into

regions through the document structure and image position. Then we weight

links between these regions according to their hierarchical positions, in

order to distinguish between links that are useful and those that are not

useful. We then apply an updated version of the HITS algorithm at the

region level, and compute a final image score by combining link scores

with initial image scores. Experiments were done on the INEX 2006 and

2007 multimedia tracks, and showed the potential of our method.

AUTHOR ADDRESS: H Aouadi, BP 1173, Sfax 3038, Tunisia

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TITLE: Can the impact factor measure the quality of research?

(Editorial Material, English)

AUTHOR: Hallberg, L

SOURCE: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF QUALITATIVE STUDIES ON HEALTH

AND WELL-BEING 7. 2012. p.NIL_1-NIL_2 CO-ACTION

PUBLISHING, JARFALLA


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