Papers of interest to Sig Metrics Readers
Eugene Garfield
eugene.garfield at THOMSONREUTERS.COM
Mon Sep 24 14:36:09 EDT 2012
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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: MUSCLE & NERVE 46 (3). SEP 2012. p.309-312
WILEY-BLACKWELL, HOBOKEN
SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E CAN MED ASSOC J 161:979 1999;
GARFIELD E rauth; IMPACT FACTOR* item_title;
MUSCLE NERVE source_abbrev_20;
GARFIELD E SCIENCE 122:108 1955;
EDITORIAL doctype
AUTHOR ADDRESS: D Burke, Univ Sydney, Dept Neurol, Royal Prince Alfred
Hosp, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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TITLE: BUILDING THE YOUTH MENTORING KNOWLEDGE BASE: PUBLISHING
TRENDS AND COAUTHORSHIP NETWORKS (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Blakeslee, JE; Keller, TE
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY 40 (7). SEP 2012.
p.845-859 WILEY-BLACKWELL, HOBOKEN
SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; MERTON RK rauth; PRICE DJD rauth;
SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973;
SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 50:799 1999;
KEYWORDS+: COMMUNITY; SCIENCE; PROGRAMS; BEHAVIOR; CREATION
ABSTRACT: Despite the long history and widespread popularity of
youth mentoring, only in the past two decades has an academic literature
emerged to support the development of program policies and practices.
This study examines knowledge development in the field of youth
mentoring, with special attention to trends in the number and nature of
articles published in peer-reviewed academic journals between 1990 and
2010. The analysis also represents this base of knowledge as a network of
articles interconnected by patterns of co-authorship. The co-authorship
network reveals a notable subset of scholars from several disciplines who
are publishing frequently and collaboratively on the topic of youth
mentoring. The existence of a core network of youth mentoring researchers
bodes well for continued growth of the literature providing theoretical
insight and empirical evidence on effective mentoring for youth.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: JE Blakeslee, Reg Res Inst, POB 751, Portland, OR 97201 USA
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TITLE: Using Google Scholar for journal impact factors and the h-
index in nationwide publishing assessments in academia - siren songs and
air-raid sirens (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Jacso, P
SOURCE: ONLINE INFORMATION REVIEW 36 (3). 2012. p.462-478
EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED, BINGLEY
SEARCH TERM(S):
GARFIELD E AM DOC 14:195 1963;
GARFIELD E BRIT MED J 313:411 1996;
GARFIELD E CAN MED ASSOC J 161:979 1999
KEYWORDS: User studies; Search engines; Periodicals; Information
retrieval
KEYWORDS+: CITATION COUNTS; RANKINGS; SCOPUS; INDICATORS; DATABASES;
SCIENCE; CONS; PROS; WEB
ABSTRACT: Purpose - Google Scholar has been increasingly used in
the past six to seven years as a highly efficient information source and
service by librarians and other information professionals. The problem is
when Google Scholar is touted and used as a bibliometric/scientometric
tool and resource in the assessment of the quantity (productivity) and
quality (impact) of research publications, in formal and informal ways,
for decisions related to tenure, promotion and grant applications of
individual researchers and research groups, as well as in journal
subscriptions and cancellations. This paper aims to examine this issue.
Design/methodology/approach - The paper discusses the use of Google
Scholar for journal impact factors and the h-index in nationwide
publishing assessments in academia. It focuses on the issues of access
and excess in Google Scholar: the innate limits of Google Scholar and
those imposed by its developers on the users.
Findings - The paper reveals that issues of access and excess in Google
Scholar prevent the researchers from doing appropriate content analysis
that the best librarians and other information professionals do
systematically to discover the pros and cons of databases. The excess
content grossly dilutes the originally worthy collection of scholarly
publications. The accuracy, reliability and reproducibility are essential
for realistic research assessment through the prism of the quantity
(publication counts) and quality (citation counts) of scholarly works.
Unfortunately the metadata created by Google Scholar is substandard,
neither reliable nor reproducible and it distorts the metric indicators
at the individual, corporate and journal levels.
Originality/value - The paper provides useful information on the use of
Google Scholar for journal impact factors and the h-index in academic
publishing.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: P Jacso, Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
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TITLE: Where you publish matters most: A multilevel analysis of
factors affecting citations of internet studies (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Peng, TQ; Zhu, JJH
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY 63 (9). SEP 2012. p.1789-1803
WILEY-BLACKWELL, HOBOKEN
SEARCH TERM(S): CAWKELL A* rauth; MERTON RK rauth;
CITATION* item_title;
MOED HF SCIENTOMETRICS 60:295 2004
KEYWORDS: Internet; bibliographic citations; hierarchical models
KEYWORDS+: SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION; JOURNALS; ARTICLE; SCIENCE;
IMPACT; AUTHOR; INDICATORS; PSYCHOLOGY; MODELS; ISSUES
ABSTRACT: This study explores the factors influencing citations to
Internet studies by assessing the relative explanatory power of three
perspectives: normative theory, the social constructivist approach, and a
natural growth mechanism. Using data on 7,700+ articles of Internet
studies published in 100+ Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)-listed
journals in 20002009, the study adopted a multilevel model to disentangle
the impact between article- and journal-level factors on citations. This
research strategy resulted in a number of both expected and surprising
findings. The primary determinants for citations are found to be journal-
level factors, accounting for 14% of the variances in citations of
Internet studies. The impact of some, if not all, article-level factors
on citations are moderated by journal-level factors. Internet studies,
like studies in other areas (e.g., management, demography, and ecology),
are cited more for rhetorical purposes, as suggested by the social
constructivist approach, rather than as a form of reward, as argued by
normative theory. The impact of time on citations varies across journals,
which creates a growing citation gap for Internet studies published in
journals with different characteristics.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: TQ Peng, Macau Univ Sci & Technol, Fac Humanities & Arts,
Taipa, Peoples R China
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TITLE: Author name disambiguation: What difference does it make
in author-based citation analysis? (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Strotmann, A; Zhao, DZ
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY 63 (9). SEP 2012. p.1820-1833
WILEY-BLACKWELL, HOBOKEN
SEARCH TERM(S): WHITE HD J AM SOC INFORM SCI 32:163 1981;
KEYWORDS: bibliometrics; co-citation analysis; citation analysis
KEYWORDS+: INFORMATION-SCIENCE; COCITATION; MEDLINE
ABSTRACT: In this article, we explore how strongly author name
disambiguation (AND) affects the results of an author-based citation
analysis study, and identify conditions under which the traditional
simplified approach of using surnames and first initials may suffice in
practice. We compare author citation ranking and cocitation mapping
results in the stem cell research field from 2004 to 2009 using two AND
approaches: the traditional simplified approach of using author surname
and first initial and a sophisticated algorithmic approach. We find that
the traditional approach leads to extremely distorted rankings and
substantially distorted mappings of authors in this field when based on
first- or all-author citation counting, whereas last-author-based
citation ranking and cocitation mapping both appear relatively immune to
the author name ambiguity problem. This is largely because Romanized
names of Chinese and Korean authors, who are very active in this field,
are extremely ambiguous, but few of these researchers consistently
publish as last authors in bylines. We conclude that a more earnest
effort is required to deal with the author name ambiguity problem in both
citation analysis and information retrieval, especially given the current
trend toward globalization. In the stem cell research field, in which
laboratory heads are traditionally listed as last authors in bylines,
last-author-based citation ranking and cocitation mapping using the
traditional approach to author name disambiguation may serve as a simple
workaround, but likely at the price of largely filtering out Chinese and
Korean contributions to the field as well as important contributions by
young researchers.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: A Strotmann, GESIS Leibniz Inst Social Sci, Unter
Sachsenhausen 6-8, D-50667 Cologne, Germany
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TITLE: A new approach for measuring the value of patents based
on structural indicators for ego patent citation networks (Article,
English)
AUTHOR: Hu, XJ; Rousseau, R; Chen, J
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY 63 (9). SEP 2012. p.1834-1842
WILEY-BLACKWELL, HOBOKEN
KEYWORDS: scientometrics; citation networks; knowledge management
KEYWORDS+: INNOVATIONS
ABSTRACT: Technology sectors differ in terms of technological
complexity. When studying technology and innovation through patent
analysis it is well known that similar amounts of technological knowledge
can produce different numbers of patented innovation as output. A new
multilayered approach to measure the technological value of patents based
on ego patent citation networks (PCNs) is developed in this study. The
results show that the structural indicators for the ego PCN developed in
this contribution can characterize groups of patents and, hence, in an
indirect way, the health of companies.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: XJ Hu, Zhejiang Univ, Med Informat Ctr, Sch Med, Hangzhou
310058, Zhejiang, Peoples R China
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TITLE: Nanotechnology research among some leading OIC member
states (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Bajwa, RS; Yaldram, K; Hussain, SS; Ahmed, T
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH 14 (9). SEP 2012.
p.NIL_115-NIL_124 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT
SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005
KEYWORDS: Nanoscience; Nanotechnology; Research output; OIC states;
Publications
KEYWORDS+: OUTPUT; INDEX
ABSTRACT: In this study we present an overview of the research
activities in nanotechnology for the period 2001-2011 for six selected
countries belonging to the Organization of Islamic cooperation (OIC). The
selection has been made based on the research output of these countries.
The countries are Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, and
Pakistan. The factors considered are the number of publications,
citations per paper, p-index, and collaborative research output. Iran
with 7,795 publications and an annual growth rate of 41 % leads the
group, followed by Turkey with 3,169 publications and an annual growth
rate of 29 %. Turkey however, has a much better citation per paper
(8.96), and p-index (63.34) as compared to Iran (4.59 and 54.36,
respectively). We can classify the six countries into two categories.
Those, that have a well coordinated national program in nanotechnology,
namely, Iran, Malaysia, and Saudi Arabia and those that do not have any
national program but are still showing a reasonable good activity in
nanotechnology namely Turkey, Egypt, and Pakistan. A brief account of the
initiatives taken by the six selected countries of OIC in the field of
nanotechnology is also presented.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: RS Bajwa, Preston Inst Nanosci & Technol PINSAT, St
7,H-8-4, Islamabad, Pakistan
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