papers of possible interest to Sig Metrics readers

Eugene Garfield eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM
Mon Sep 17 18:30:05 EDT 2012


 TITLE:          Is the "impact factor" a valid measure of the impact of
                research published in Clinical Neurophysiology and Muscle & Nerve?
                (Editorial Material, English)
AUTHOR:         Burke, D; Phillips, LH II
SOURCE:         CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY 123 (9). SEP 2012. p.1687-1690
                ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD, CLARE

SEARCH TERM(S):  
                 GARFIELD E         SCIENCE               122:108   1955;
                 GARFIELD E         CAN MED ASSOC J       161:979   1999;
                 
AUTHOR ADDRESS: D Burke, Univ Sydney, Dept Neurol, Royal Prince Alfred
                Hosp, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

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TITLE:          SciMAT: A new science mapping analysis software tool
                (Article, English)
AUTHOR:         Cobo, MJ; Lopez-Herrera, AG; Herrera-Viedma, E; Herrera,
                F
SOURCE:         JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE
                AND TECHNOLOGY 63 (8). AUG 2012. p.1609-1630
                WILEY-BLACKWELL, HOBOKEN

SEARCH TERM(S):  GARFIELD E  rauth; CURRENT CONTENTS*  rwork;
                 HIRSCH JE          P NATL ACAD SCI USA   102:16569 2005;
                 KESSLER MM         AM DOC                 14:10    1963;
                 SMALL HG           SOC STUD SCI            7:139   1977;
                 SMALL H            J INF SCI              11:147   1985;
                 SMALL H            J AM SOC INFORM SCI    24:265   1973;
                 SMALL HG           INFORM PROCESS MANAG   13:277   1977;
                 SMALL H            SCIENTOMETRICS          7:391   1985;
                 SMALL H            J AM SOC INFORM SCI    50:799   1999;
                 WHITE HD           J AM SOC INFORM SCI    32:163   1981

KEYWORDS:       computer software applications; bibliographic software;
                bibliometrics
KEYWORDS+:       CO-WORD ANALYSIS; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; COCITATION
                ANALYSIS; NETWORKS; CITATION; VISUALIZATION; GEOGRAPHY;
                PATTERNS; INDEX; FIELD

ABSTRACT:       This article presents a new open-source software tool,
SciMAT, which performs science mapping analysis within a longitudinal
framework. It provides different modules that help the analyst to carry
out all the steps of the science mapping workflow. In addition, SciMAT
presents three key features that are remarkable in respect to other
science mapping software tools: (a) a powerful preprocessing module to
clean the raw bibliographical data, (b) the use of bibliometric measures
to study the impact of each studied element, and (c) a wizard to
configure the analysis.

AUTHOR ADDRESS: MJ Cobo, Univ Granada, Dept Comp Sci & Artificial
                Intelligence, CITIC UGR Res Ctr Informat & Commun Technol,
                E-18071 Granada, Spain

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TITLE:          Approaching the "reward triangle": General analysis of
                the presence of funding acknowledgments and "peer interactive
                communication" in scientific publications (Article, English)
AUTHOR:         Costas, R; van Leeuwen, TN
SOURCE:         JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE
                AND TECHNOLOGY 63 (8). AUG 2012. p.1647-1661
                WILEY-BLACKWELL, HOBOKEN

SEARCH TERM(S):  ARUNACHALAM S  rauth; GARFIELD E  rauth;
                 PRICE DJD  rauth

KEYWORDS:       bibliometrics; publications; citation analysis
KEYWORDS+:       SOCIAL-SCIENCES; COLLABORATION; AUTHORSHIP; PATTERNS;
                CITATION; 20TH-CENTURY; COOPERATION; HUMANITIES; ISSUES

ABSTRACT:       Understanding the role of acknowledgments given by
researchers in their publications has been a recurrent challenge in the
bibliometric field, but relatively unexplored until now. This study
presents a general bibliometric analysis on the new funding
acknowledgment (FA) information available in the Web of Science. All
publications covered by the database in 2009 have been analyzed. The
presence and length of the FA text, as well as the presence of peer
interactive communication in the acknowledgments, are related to impact
indicators, distribution of papers by fields, countries of the authors,
and collaboration level of the papers. It is observed that publications
with FAs present a higher impact as compared with publications without
them. There are also differences across countries and disciplines in the
share of publications with FAs and the acknowledgment of peer interactive
communication. China is the country with the highest share of
publications acknowledging funding, while the presence of FAs in the
humanities and social sciences is very low compared to the more basic
disciplines. The presence of peer interactive communication in
acknowledgments can be linked to countries that have a strong scientific
tradition and are incorporated in scientific networks. Peer interactive
communication is also common in the fields of humanities and social
sciences and can be linked to lower levels of co-authorship. Observed
patterns are explained and topics of future research are proposed.

AUTHOR ADDRESS: R Costas, Leiden Univ, Ctr Sci & Technol Studies CWTS,
                Wassenaarseweg 62A, NL-2333 AL Leiden, Netherlands

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TITLE:          Applications of the generalized law of Benford to
                informetric data (Article, English)
AUTHOR:         Egghe, L; Guns, R
SOURCE:         JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE
                AND TECHNOLOGY 63 (8). AUG 2012. p.1662-1665
                WILEY-BLACKWELL, HOBOKEN

SEARCH TERM(S):  INFORMETRIC*  item_title; EGGHE L  primaryauthor,author

KEYWORDS:       informetrics; Zipf-s law
KEYWORDS+:       NUMBERS

ABSTRACT:       In a previous work (Egghe, 2011), the first author showed
that Benford's law (describing the logarithmic distribution of the
numbers 1, 2, ... , 9 as first digits of data in decimal form) is related
to the classical law of Zipf with exponent 1. The work of Campanario and
Coslado (2011), however, shows that Benford's law does not always fit
practical data in a statistical sense. In this article, we use a
generalization of Benford's law related to the general law of Zipf with
exponent beta?>?0. Using data from Campanario and Coslado, we apply
nonlinear least squares to determine the optimal beta and show that this
generalized law of Benford fits the data better than the classical law of
Benford.

AUTHOR ADDRESS: L Egghe, Univ Hasselt Uhasselt, Campus Diepenbeek, B-3590
                Diepenbeek, Belgium

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TITLE:          A Review of Citation Analysis Methodologies for
                Collection Management (Review, English)
AUTHOR:         Hoffmann, K; Doucette, L
SOURCE:         COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES 73 (4). JUL 2012. p.321-335
                ASSOC COLL RESEARCH LIBRARIES, CHICAGO

SEARCH TERM(S):  SMITH LC           LIBR TRENDS            30:83    1981;
                

KEYWORDS+:       INFORMATION USE; WUHAN-UNIVERSITY; PATTERNS; FACULTY;
                LIBRARY; THESES; PUBLICATIONS; REFERENCES; PHARMACY;
                JOURNALS

ABSTRACT:       While there is a considerable body of literature that
presents the results of citation analysis studies, most researchers do
not provide enough detail in their methodology to reproduce the study,
nor do they provide rationale for methodological decisions. In this
paper, we review the methodologies used in 34 recent articles that
present a "user study" citation analysis with a goal of informing
collection management. We describe major themes and outliers in the
methodologies and discuss factors that require careful thought and
analysis. We also provide a guide to considerations for citation analysis
studies, so that researchers can make informed decisions.

AUTHOR ADDRESS: K Hoffmann, Univ Western Ontario, DB Weldon Lib, London, ON
                N6A 3K7, Canada

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TITLE:          To Be or Not To Be Cited in Computer Science (Article,
                English)
AUTHOR:         De Sutter, B; Van den Oord, A
SOURCE:         COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM 55 (8). AUG 2012. p.69-75
                ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY, NEW YORK

SEARCH TERM(S):  HIRSCH JE          P NATL ACAD SCI USA   102:16569 2005;
                 CITED  item_title

KEYWORDS+:       GOOGLE SCHOLAR; ACCURACY; INDEXES

AUTHOR ADDRESS: B De Sutter, Univ Ghent, Comp Syst Lab, Dept Elect &
                Informat Syst, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium

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TITLE:          Highly Cited Works in Spine Surgery: The 100 Top-Cited
                Papers (Meeting Abstract, English)
AUTHOR:         Jadaan, M; Murphy, L; McCabe, J
SOURCE:         IRISH JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE 181 (SUPPL). SEP 2012.
                p.S159 SPRINGER LONDON LTD, LONDON

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TITLE:          Untitled (Editorial Material, English)
AUTHOR:         Kott, T
SOURCE:         PHYSICS TODAY 65 (8). AUG 2012. p.10 AMER INST PHYSICS,
                MELVILLE

SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE          P NATL ACAD SCI USA   102:16569 2005;
                 GARFIELD E         CAN MED ASSOC J       161:979   1999;
                 PHYS TODAY  source_abbrev_20; EDITORIAL  doctype

KEYWORDS+:       INDEX

AUTHOR ADDRESS: T Kott, Univ Maryland, College Pk, MD 20742 USA

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TITLE:          Top cited papers in Russian psychiatry (Article, Russian)
AUTHOR:         Trushchelev, SA
SOURCE:         ZHURNAL NEVROLOGII I PSIKHIATRII IMENI S S KORSAKOVA 112
                (5). 2012. p.118-122 IZDATELSTVO MEDITSINA, MOSCOW

SEARCH TERM(S):  MARSHAKOVA IV  rauth; CITED  item_title;
                 ZH NEVROL PSIKHIATR  source_abbrev_20

KEYWORDS:       citation; bibliometric; scientometrics; psychiatry

AUTHOR ADDRESS: SA Trushchelev, Moscow Sci Res Inst Psychiat, Moscow, Russia

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TITLE:          Comparative Study of Scientific Publications in Urology
                and Nephrology Journals Originating from USA, China and Japan (2001-2010)
                (Article, English)
AUTHOR:         Li, J; Gao, XH; Bian, Q; Guo, ZY; Mei, XB; Yu, G; Wu, H;
                Lai, XL; Chen, W
SOURCE:         PLOS ONE 7 (8). AUG 1 2012. p.NIL_665-NIL_672 PUBLIC
                LIBRARY SCIENCE, SAN FRANCISCO

SEARCH TERM(S):  JOURNALS  item_title

KEYWORDS+:       CHRONIC KIDNEY-DISEASE; UNITED-STATES; GASTROENTEROLOGY;
                HEPATOLOGY; BURDEN; EUROPE; IMPACT; SHARE

ABSTRACT:       Background: In the past decade, scientific research has
developed rapidly in China, but the growth seems to vary widely between
different disciplines. In this study, we aimed to compare the quantity
and quality of publications in urology and nephrology journals from USA,
China and Japan.

Methods: Journals listed in the "Urology and Nephrology" category of
Science Citation Index Expanded subject categories were included.
Scientific papers in these journals written by researchers from USA,
Japan and China were retrieved from the "PubMed" and "Web of Knowledge"
online databases.

Results: The annual number of total scientific articles increased
significantly from 2001 to 2010 in China, and has ranked second in the
world since 2006. In the field of urology and nephrology, the annual
number increased significantly from 2001 to 2010 in USA and China; but
not in Japan. The share of articles increased significantly over time in
China, decreased significantly in Japan, and remained unchanged in USA.
In 2010, USA contributed 32.17% of the total world output in urology and
nephrology field and ranked 1 st; Japan contributed 5.19% and ranked 5th;
China contributed 3.83% and ranked 9th. Publications from USA had the
highest accumulated IFs and the highest total citations of articles
(USA>Japan>China, p<0.001). No significant difference was found in
average IF among the three countries. USA published the most articles in
the top 10 urology and nephrology journals
(USA(35165)>Japan(6704)>China(2233), p<0.001). Researchers from USA
published more clinical trials and randomized controlled trials than
Japan and China (USA>Japan>China, p<0.001).

Conclusion: Although China has undergone significant increase in annual
number and percentage of scientific publication in urology and nephrology
journals in the past decade, it still lags far behind USA and Japan in
the field of urology and nephrology in terms of quantity and quality.

AUTHOR ADDRESS: J Li, Mil Med Coll 2, Changhai Hosp, Dept Nephrol,
                Shanghai, Peoples R China

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TITLE:          Multiple Authorship and Article Type in Journals of
                Urology across the Atlantic: Trends over the Past Six Decades (Article,
                English)
AUTHOR:         Hammad, FT; Shaban, S; Abu-Zidan, F
SOURCE:         MEDICAL PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE 21 (5). 2012. p.435-441
                KARGER, BASEL

SEARCH TERM(S):  JOURNALS  item_title

KEYWORDS:       Urology journals; Multiple authorship; Type of article
KEYWORDS+:       MEDICAL JOURNALS; PROSTATE-CANCER; TRIALS; PROLIFERATION;
                WRITE

ABSTRACT:       Objective: The aim of this research was to study the
trends in authorship and type of article in European and North American
journals of urology over the past 6 decades. Materials and Methods: Using
a self-developed Visual Basic program, the number of authors per article
and the type of article in four European journals (BJU International,
Current Opinion in Urology, European Urology and Urologia
Internationalis) and four North American journals (Journal of Urology,
Urologic Clinics of North America, Urology and World Journal of Urology)
were extracted from the PubMed website from January 1946 to October 2010,
and the number of authors per article in each year was calculated in all
the journals. Results: The average number of authors per article has
increased and the percentage of single-author articles has decreased in
both European and American journals. An increase in the number of authors
per article was observed mainly in original articles and case reports.
Since the early 1980s, there has also been a decreasing percentage of
published case reports and a general increase in the percentage of
letters to the editor and editorials. Conclusions: The multiple-
authorship trends observed in both European and North American urology
journals were similar and appeared to be mainly due to changes in
original articles and case reports. Copyright (c) 2012 S. Karger AG, Basel

AUTHOR ADDRESS: FT Hammad, United Arab Emirates Univ, Fac Med & Hlth Sci,
                Dept Surg, POB 17666, Al Ain, U Arab Emirates

 
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TITLE:          Some Geometric Properties of Slovak Poetry (Article,
                English)
AUTHOR:         Popescu, II; Cech, R; Altmann, G
SOURCE:         JOURNAL OF QUANTITATIVE LINGUISTICS 19 (2). 2012.
                p.121-131 ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD,
                ABINGDON

SEARCH TERM(S):  HIRSCH JE          P NATL ACAD SCI USA   102:16569 2005


ABSTRACT:       The article is focused on the analysis of the frequency
structure of texts. Specifically, a geometric characterization of the
rank-frequency sequence, which is determined by relationships among the
highest word frequency, a number of particular word forms in a text, and
the so-called h-point, is analysed. We observe that the geometric
characterization of the rank-frequency sequence correlates strongly with
the other frequency-based text property called the golden section of text
which seems to be a result of a universal mechanism controlling one's
language usage. These findings can be viewed as a result of self-
organization of text.

AUTHOR ADDRESS: II Popescu, Acad Romana, Bucharest, Romania

 
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TITLE:          A 10-year performance trajectory of top nutrition
                journals' impact factors (Article, English)
AUTHOR:         Jani, N; Keshteli, AH; Kabiri, P; Esmaillzadeh, A
SOURCE:         JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN MEDICAL SCIENCES 17 (2). FEB
                2012. p.128-132 ISFAHAN UNIV MED SCIENCES, ISFAHAN

SEARCH TERM(S):  
                 HIRSCH JE          P NATL ACAD SCI USA   102:16569 2005;
                 JOURNALS  item_title; IMPACT FACTOR*  item_title;
                 GARFIELD E         JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC   295:90    2006;
                 GARFIELD E         SCIENCE               122:108   1955

KEYWORDS:       Impact factor; nutrition and dietetics; total citation
KEYWORDS+:       INDEX

ABSTRACT:       Background and Aim: This study was performed to evaluate
the impact factors (IFs) and total citations of ISI-indexed nutrition
journals in a 10-year period from 1999 to 2008 in order to assess the
quality of nutrition journals. Materials and Methods: For this
retrospective study, the IF and total citation data from 1998 to 2008
were collected through Journal Citation Reports of Thomson Scientific
Corporation Web of Knowledge. We selected five highly cited journals in
the "nutrition and dietetics" category for our analysis. These journals
include Annual Reviews in Nutrition (ANNU REV NUTR), American Journal of
Clinical Nutrition (AJCN), Progress in Lipid Research (PROG LIPID RES),
Journal of Nutrition (J NUTR), and International Journal of Obesity (INT
J OBESITY Results: All five selected journals were ranked as one of the
top ten "nutrition and dietetics" journals between 1999 and 2008 in ISI
database. Most of selected journals' IF had an upward trend during the 10-
year period with fluctuation in some cases. AJCN consistently received
the greatest number of total citations during the study period, although
its IF was not the highest among the five journals studied. Conclusion:
The IF illustrated changes in relative rankings of five highly cited
journals included in the "nutrition and dietetics" category of the Web of
Knowledge. Rank according to the absolute number of citations received,
however, did not correlate with rank according to IF.

AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Esmaillzadeh, Isfahan Univ Med Sci, Sch Nutr & Food Sci,
                Dept Community Nutr, Food Secur Res Ctr, POB 81745,
                Esfahan, Iran

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TITLE:          The influence of Iranian scientific journals in
                disseminating medical information (Article, English)
AUTHOR:         Aminpour, F
SOURCE:         JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN MEDICAL SCIENCES 17 (2). FEB
                2012. p.171-175 ISFAHAN UNIV MED SCIENCES, ISFAHAN

SEARCH TERM(S):  JOURNALS  item_title

KEYWORDS:       Bibliographic databases; biomedical research; information
                dissemination; knowledge management; periodicals

ABSTRACT:       Background: Scientific journals are the most credible and
updated information resources for valid information in the various fields
of science and technology. The present study investigates the status of
Iranian scientific journals in disseminating medical information to the
world of science. Materials and Methods: Total 163 Iranian medical
journals accredited by national medical journals commission of Iranian
ministry of health and medical education were evaluated through a cross-
sectional study. The results were represented in descriptive statistics
in the form of table and chart. Results: The study showed that 89.6% of
Iranian medical journals were covered by regional information databases.
Web of Science database indexed 22 (13.5%) Iranian journals in the field
of medical science. Only six (6.7%) journals were indexed by Medline.
Fifty-eight (35.6%) journals were in English, 102 (62.6%) in Persian, and
three (1.8%) were bilingual which published their articles both in
Persian and English languages. The highest Impact factor belonged to
Iranian Journal of Allergy Asthma and Immunology. Conclusions: Improving
scientific credibility of Iranian scholarly journals and their influence
in disseminating medical information calls for a precise scientific and
executive administration in publishing standards and also in the quality
of content.

AUTHOR ADDRESS: F Aminpour, Univ Tehran Med Sci, Dept Hlth Informat
                Management, Sch Hlth Management & Informat Sci, Tehran, Iran

 
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TITLE:          Publication trends of neurology articles in a biomedical
                journal from India (Article, English)
AUTHOR:         Kumar, KVSH; Aravinda, K
SOURCE:         ANNALS OF INDIAN ACADEMY OF NEUROLOGY 15 (3). JUL-SEP
                2012. p.170-174 MEDKNOW PUBLICATIONS, MUMBAI

SEARCH TERM(S):  JOURNAL  item_title

KEYWORDS:       Biomedical journals; India; neurology; publication trends;
                research productivity
KEYWORDS+:       RESEARCH OUTPUT

ABSTRACT:       Background: The details about the research productivity
in the neurology specialty from India is lacking. We analyzed the
publishing trends and the research productivity of neurology-related
articles in the Journal of the Association of Physicians of India (JAPI).
Materials and Methods: We carried the bibliometric analysis of articles
related to neurology specialty from JAPI published between 2000 and 2011.
Data were derived from the journals website and the articles were
analyzed for type (original article, case reports, etc.), disease
(infection, vascular, etc.), place, and timelines for publication.
Results: Out of total 2977 articles published, 256 articles belong to
neurology. Neurology contributed to 7--20 of the published articles per
year in JAPI. Case reports (52) constitute the majority type of articles
followed by Original Articles (20), Correspondence and Images (15 each).
Infections (27), structural disorders (19), cerebrovascular and
peripheral nervous system disorders (16 each) contribute the majority of
research articles in Neurology. Mumbai (15), Delhi (13), and Chennai (9)
are the top three contributors followed by Lucknow and Varanasi. All
types of articles took about 9--10 months for acceptance and another 4--5
months for publication. Letters to the Editor were published faster when
compared to other articles (P=0.0035). Conclusion: Neurology specialty
contributes an average 14 of articles per annum in JAPI. Infections,
vascular, structural, and peripheral nervous system disorders together
account for 80 of published literature with a small representation from
other diseases. Mumbai and Delhi are the leading contributors toward
research productivity in neurology.

AUTHOR ADDRESS: KVSH Kumar, Command Hosp, Dept Endocrinol, Lucknow 226002,
                Uttar Pradesh, India
 
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TITLE:          Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering Research in the Islamic
                Republic of Iran (Article, English)
AUTHOR:         Gheisari, Y; Baharvand, H; Nayernia, K; Vasei, M
SOURCE:         STEM CELL REVIEWS AND REPORTS 8 (3). SEP 2012. p.629-639
                HUMANA PRESS INC, TOTOWA

SEARCH TERM(S):  HIRSCH JE          P NATL ACAD SCI USA   102:16569 2005

KEYWORDS:       Stem cell research; Tissue engineering; Iran;
                Bibliometric analysis; Ethics
KEYWORDS+:       DOPAMINE-ASSOCIATED GENES; IN-VITRO DIFFERENTIATION;
                MUSTARD GAS KERATOPATHY; HEPATOCYTE-LIKE CELLS; BONE-
                MARROW; CARDIOMYOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MYOCARDIAL-
                INFARCTION; RETINOIC ACID; SPINAL-CORD; AUTOLOGOUS
                TRANSPLANTATION

ABSTRACT:       During the last few years, the Islamic republic of Iran
has consistently grown in nearly all scientific fields and achieved
considerable success in producing science and developing technology. The
Iranian government and scientific community have jointly started programs
to support the creation of new scientific opportunities and technology
platforms for research in the domain of stem cell and tissue engineering.
In addition, clinical translation of basic researches in the fields of
stem cell and regenerative medicine has been amongst the top priorities.
Interestingly, the public sector, media, and authorities are also
actively monitoring these attainments. In spite of this nationwide
interest, however, there is currently a dearth of analytical information
on these accomplishments. To address this issue, here we introduce the
key decisions made by the country's policy makers and also review some of
the Iranian researchers' publications in this field.

AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Vasei, Univ Tehran Med Sci, Shariati Hosp, Dept Pathol,
                Tehran, Iran

 
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TITLE:          PARADIGM SHIFTS IN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: A BIBLIOMETRIC
                AND SOCIAL NETWORK APPROACH (Article, English)
AUTHOR:         McMillan, GS; Casey, DL
SOURCE:         ADVANCES IN INDUSTRIAL AND LABOR RELATIONS, VOL 17 17.
                2010. p.207-255 EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD, BINGLEY

SEARCH TERM(S):   PRICE DJD  rauth;
                 SMALL H            J DOC                  36:183   1980;
                   
                 GARFIELD E         SCIENTOMETRICS          1:359   1979

KEYWORDS+:       INTELLECTUAL STRUCTURE; INVISIBLE-COLLEGES; FIELD

ABSTRACT:       The purpose of this paper is to examine the nature and
development of industrial relations as a field of study. This paper
employs bibliometric and social network analyses to examine the scholarly
work published in the top industrial relations journals over the past 40
years. By examining the citation and co-citation patterns at the journal
level and the article level, it is possible to empirically describe the
field of industrial relations in terms of its parameters and its
"paradigms" - the generally a greed on sets of research questions and
methodologies-at different time periods throughout its development. Our
findings illustrate that the intellectual base of the industrial
relations field has moved from a more traditional, applied labor
economics view of industrial relations to a broader "employment
relations" view of the field.

AUTHOR ADDRESS: GS McMillan, Penn State Univ, Abington, PA USA

 
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