Papers of possible interst to Sig Metrics readers
Eugene Garfield
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Tue Jan 1 16:54:20 EST 2013
TITLE: Management Accounting: A Bibliographic Study (Article,
English)
AUTHOR: Hesford, JW; Lee, SH; Van der Stede, WA; Young, SM
SOURCE: HANDBOOK OF MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING RESEARCH, VOL 1. 2007.
p.3-26 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM
SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOGRAPHIC* item_title
KEYWORDS+: CITATION ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE; INFORMATION; KNOWLEDGE;
JOURNALS; STRATEGY; NETWORK
ABSTRACT: The 20-year period from 1981 to 2000 was a period of
change for the field of management accounting. During this period new
topics were investigated, new journals came into existence, and different
research methods were emphasized. This chapter has two parts. The first
part charts the field. To do this we split the 20-year period into two
decades and then compare the kinds of topics studied, the research
methods used, and the source disciplines employed across 10 journals in
accounting and between decades. The second part focuses on the community
of accounting scholars, analyzing citations and social network measures
that reveal the links between, and influence of, individuals in
management accounting research.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: JW Hesford, Cornell Univ, Sch Hotel Adm, Ithaca, NY 14853
USA
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TITLE: Thinking inside the box? Intellectual structure of the
knowledge base of innovation research (1988-2008) (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Shafique, M
SOURCE: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL 34 (1). JAN 2013. p.62-93
WILEY-BLACKWELL, HOBOKEN
SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; MERTON RK rauth; PRICE DJD rauth;
GRIFFITH BC SCI STUD 4:339 1974;
MERTON RK SCIENCE 159:56 1968;
SMALL H SCI STUD 4:17 1974;
SMALL H J DOC 36:183 1980;
SMALL H J AM SOC INFORM SCI 24:265 1973;
SMALL HG SOC STUD SCI 8:327 1978;
WHITE HD J AM SOC INFORM SCI 32:163 1981;
GARFIELD E SCIENTOMETRICS 1:359 1979
KEYWORDS: innovation; multidisciplinarity; knowledge convergence;
absorptive capacity; creative capacity
KEYWORDS+: STRATEGIC-MANAGEMENT; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURES; CITATION/CO-
CITATION; COCITATION ANALYSIS; AUTHOR COCITATION; SCIENCE;
BIBLIOMETRICS; DOCUMENTS; MOVEMENTS; NETWORKS
ABSTRACT: Innovation is becoming increasingly popular as a concept
as well as a field of research. As a field, it has accumulated a
significant amount of scientific knowledge. Based on bibliometric data
from four major social science disciplineseconomics, sociology,
psychology, and managementthis study presents a global view of the field
by combining longitudinal and structural perspectives. It identifies
major research traditions in the field, determines the content and
disciplinary composition of each tradition, and maps the changes in the
intellectual structure of the field over time. The study suggests that
innovation research is becoming increasingly compartmentalized between
economics and management disciplines and each segment is becoming
increasingly self-contained. A strategy along with a framework is
suggested for making research contribution to the field. Copyright (c)
2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Shafique, United Nations Univ, UNU MERIT, Keizer Karelpl
19, NL-6211 TC Maastricht, Netherlands
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TITLE: A MULTIPARAMETER MODEL FOR LINK ANALYSIS OF CITATION
GRAPHS (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Bozzo, E; Fasino, D
SOURCE: ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS ON NUMERICAL ANALYSIS 39. 2012.
p.464-475 KENT STATE UNIVERSITY, KENT
SEARCH TERM(S): CITATION item_title; CITATION* item_title
KEYWORDS: link analysis; citation graph; random graph; Markov chain;
ranking
KEYWORDS+: PAGERANK ALGORITHM; GOOGLES PAGERANK; NETWORKS; WEB
ABSTRACT: We propose a family of Markov chain-based models for the
link analysis of scientific publications. The PageRank-style model and
the dummy paper model discussed in [Electron. Trans. Numer. Anal., 33
(2008), pp. 1-16] can be obtained by a particular choice of its
parameters. Since scientific publications can be ordered by the date of
publication it is natural to assume a triangular structure for the
adjacency matrix of the citation graph. This greatly simplifies the
updating of the ranking vector if new papers are added to the database.
In addition by assuming that the citation graph can be modeled as a fixed
degree sequence random graph we can obtain an explicit estimation of the
behavior of the entries of the ranking vector.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: E Bozzo, Univ Udine, Dipartimento Matemat & Informat,
I-33100 Udine, Italy
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TITLE: REGULATION FOR THE SAKE OF APPEARANCE (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Samaha, AM
SOURCE: HARVARD LAW REVIEW 125 (7). MAY 2012. p.1563-1638
HARVARD LAW REV ASSOC, CAMBRIDGE
SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth; AM* BEH* SCI* rwork
KEYWORDS+: NEW-YORK-CITY; SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY; GUN-RELATED
HOMICIDE; BROKEN-WINDOWS; EXPRESSIVE THEORIES;
CONSTITUTIONAL-LAW; DEPOSIT INSURANCE; PUBLIC-OPINION;
CORRUPTION; DISORDER
ABSTRACT: Appearance is often given as a justification for
decisions, including government decisions, but the logic of appearance
arguments is not well theorized. This Article develops a framework for
understanding and evaluating appearance-based justifications for
government decisions. First, working definitions are offered to
distinguish appearance from reality. Next, certain relationships between
appearance and reality are singled out for attention. Sometimes reality
is insulated from appearance, sometimes appearance helps drive reality
over time, and sometimes appearance and reality collapse from the outset.
Finally, sets of normative questions are suggested based on the supposed
relationship between appearance and reality for a given situation. The
subjects of these normative questions include aesthetics, transparency
concerns, and the likelihood of a self-fulfilling prophecy. A closing
section applies these ideas to prominent debates over campaign finance
regulation and broken windows policing. Leading empirical studies are
examined and, throughout, the Article draws from scholarship in
philosophy, sociology, psychology, economics, and political science.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: AM Samaha, Univ Chicago, Sch Law, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
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TITLE: Status Configurations, Military Service and Higher
Education (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Wang, L; Elder, GH Jr; Spence, NJ
SOURCE: SOCIAL FORCES 91 (2). DEC 2012. p.397-421 OXFORD UNIV
PRESS INC, CARY
SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth
KEYWORDS+: ALL-VOLUNTEER FORCE; STATUS-INCONSISTENCY; LIFE-COURSE;
ATTAINMENT; MODELS; PROPENSITY; PATHWAYS; MOBILITY;
ENLIST; STRESS
ABSTRACT: The U.S. Armed Forces offer educational and training
benefits as incentives for service. This study investigates the influence
of status configurations on military enlistment and their link to greater
educational opportunity. Three statuses (socioeconomic status of origin,
cognitive ability and academic performance) have particular relevance for
life course options. We hypothesize that young men with inconsistent
statuses are more likely to enlist than men with consistent status
profiles, and that military service improves access to college for
certain configurations. Analyses of the National Longitudinal Study of
Adolescent Health (Add Health) show (1. that several status
configurations markedly increased the likelihood of military enlistment
and (2. within status configurations, recruits were generally more likely
to enroll in higher education than nonveterans, with associate degrees
being more likely.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: L Wang, Univ N Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27515 USA
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TITLE: REGULATION FOR THE SAKE OF APPEARANCE (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Samaha, AM
SOURCE: HARVARD LAW REVIEW 125 (7). MAY 2012. p.1563-1638
HARVARD LAW REV ASSOC, CAMBRIDGE
SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth; AM* BEH* SCI* rwork
KEYWORDS+: NEW-YORK-CITY; SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY; GUN-RELATED
HOMICIDE; BROKEN-WINDOWS; EXPRESSIVE THEORIES;
CONSTITUTIONAL-LAW; DEPOSIT INSURANCE; PUBLIC-OPINION;
CORRUPTION; DISORDER
ABSTRACT: Appearance is often given as a justification for
decisions, including government decisions, but the logic of appearance
arguments is not well theorized. This Article develops a framework for
understanding and evaluating appearance-based justifications for
government decisions. First, working definitions are offered to
distinguish appearance from reality. Next, certain relationships between
appearance and reality are singled out for attention. Sometimes reality
is insulated from appearance, sometimes appearance helps drive reality
over time, and sometimes appearance and reality collapse from the outset.
Finally, sets of normative questions are suggested based on the supposed
relationship between appearance and reality for a given situation. The
subjects of these normative questions include aesthetics, transparency
concerns, and the likelihood of a self-fulfilling prophecy. A closing
section applies these ideas to prominent debates over campaign finance
regulation and broken windows policing. Leading empirical studies are
examined and, throughout, the Article draws from scholarship in
philosophy, sociology, psychology, economics, and political science.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: AM Samaha, Univ Chicago, Sch Law, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
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TITLE: Status Configurations, Military Service and Higher
Education (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Wang, L; Elder, GH Jr; Spence, NJ
SOURCE: SOCIAL FORCES 91 (2). DEC 2012. p.397-421 OXFORD UNIV
PRESS INC, CARY
SEARCH TERM(S): MERTON RK rauth
KEYWORDS+: ALL-VOLUNTEER FORCE; STATUS-INCONSISTENCY; LIFE-COURSE;
ATTAINMENT; MODELS; PROPENSITY; PATHWAYS; MOBILITY;
ENLIST; STRESS
ABSTRACT: The U.S. Armed Forces offer educational and training
benefits as incentives for service. This study investigates the influence
of status configurations on military enlistment and their link to greater
educational opportunity. Three statuses (socioeconomic status of origin,
cognitive ability and academic performance) have particular relevance for
life course options. We hypothesize that young men with inconsistent
statuses are more likely to enlist than men with consistent status
profiles, and that military service improves access to college for
certain configurations. Analyses of the National Longitudinal Study of
Adolescent Health (Add Health) show (1. that several status
configurations markedly increased the likelihood of military enlistment
and (2. within status configurations, recruits were generally more likely
to enroll in higher education than nonveterans, with associate degrees
being more likely.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: L Wang, Univ N Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27515 USA
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TITLE: Towards a "Book Publishers Citation Reports". First
approach using the "Book Citation Index" (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Torres-Salinas, D; Robinson-Garcia, N;
Jimenez-Contreras, E; Lopez-Cozar, ED
SOURCE: REVISTA ESPANOLA DE DOCUMENTACION CIENTIFICA 35 (4).
2012. p.615-624 CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES
CIENTIFICAS, MADRID
SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; CITATION item_title;
CITATION* item_title
KEYWORDS: Books; monographs; Book Citation Index; citation analysis;
Thomson Reuters; rankings; Journal Citation Reports;
research evaluation; Social Sciences; Humanities;
publisher; scientific communication
ABSTRACT: The absence of books and book chapters in the Web of
Science Citation Indexes (SCI, SSCI and A& HCI) has always been
considered an important flaw but the Thomson Reuters ` Book Citation
Index' database was finally available in October of 2010 indexing 29,618
books and 379,082 book chapters. The Book Citation Index opens a new
window of opportunities for analyzing Humanities and Social Sciences from
a bibliometric point of view. The main objective of this article is to
analyze different impact indicators referred to the scientific publishers
included in the Book Citation Index for the Social Sciences and
Humanities fields during 2006-2011. This way we construct what we have
called the ` Book Publishers Citation Reports'. For this, we present a
total of 19 rankings according to the different disciplines in Humanities
& Arts and Social Sciences & Law with six indicators for scientific
publishers.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: D Torres-Salinas, Univ Navarra, CIMA, Grp Evaluac Ciencia &
Comunicac Cient EC3, E-31080 Pamplona, Spain
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TITLE: Impact and visibility of Revista Chilena de Cirugia after
its indexing on SciELO and ISI databases. Bibliometric analysis (Article,
Spanish)
AUTHOR: Cartes-Velasquez, R; Moraga, J; Aravena, P; Manterola, C
SOURCE: REVISTA CHILENA DE CIRUGIA 64 (6). DEC 2012. p.511-515
SOC CIRUJANOS CHILE, SANTIAGO
SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth; BIBLIOMETR* item_title
KEYWORDS: "Bibliometrics"[Mesh]; Bibliometric Analysis; "Surgical
Procedures; Operative"[Mesh]; "surgery" [Subheading];
Chile
KEYWORDS+: JOURNALS
ABSTRACT: Impact and visibility of Revista Chilena de Cirugia after
its indexing on SciELO and ISI databases. Bibliometric analysis
Aim: To characterize the international visibility and impact of Revista
Chilena de Cirugia (RCC) after its indexing on SciELO (2006) and ISI
(2009) databases. Methods: Search on WOK platform of Thomson-Reuters for
IST citations to RCC articles in the pre-indexing (1992-2005), SciELO
indexing (2006-2008) and ISI indexing (2009-2011) periods. Analyzed
variables were: total number and anual average of cites to RCC, RCC
articles cited and ISI citer articles to RCC; authors, journals and
institutions who cite RCC and its international or national origin, and
triennial cites. Results: Anual average of ISI cites for pre-indexing,
SciELO indexing and ISI indexing periods were 16.9; 58.3 y 164.7,
respectively; meanwhile the international origin of articles that cite
RCC in the authors-institutions/publication level for each period were
8.6%/32.4%; 8.5%/38.3%; and 25.8%/33.6%, respectively; triennial cites
for each period were 3, 12 and 34. Publications with more cites to RCC
were Rev Med Chile, RCC, World J Surg and Cir Esp, meanwhile in authors-
institutions level we saw a concentration on Universidad de Chile,
Pontificia Universidad Catolica and Universidad de La Frontera.
Conclusion: SciELO and ISI indexing has brougth an increase of its impact
(cites) and international visibility, although it persists a strong
endogamic citation pattern that should be fixed in order to achieve a
good international level
AUTHOR ADDRESS: C Manterola, Manuel Montt 112,Oficina 408, Temuco, Chile
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TITLE: Impact Factor: Should This Be a Criterion to Decide Which
Journal to Publish in? (Editorial Material, English)
AUTHOR: Lee, YH
SOURCE: MATERIALS EXPRESS 2 (1). MAR 2012. p.83-84 AMER
SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHERS, VALENCIA
SEARCH TERM(S): IMPACT FACTOR* item_title; JOURNAL item_title;
EDITORIAL doctype
AUTHOR ADDRESS: YH Lee, Sungkyunkwan Univ SKKU, Dept Phys, Dept Energy Sci,
Ctr Nanotubes & Nanostruct Composites, Seoul, South Korea
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TITLE: Peer review in a rapidly evolving publishing landscape
(Review, English)
AUTHOR: Hames, I
SOURCE: ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL PUBLISHING. 2012. p.15-52
CHANDOS PUBL, SAWSTON
SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth;
GARFIELD E JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC 295:90 2006
KEYWORDS: Peer review; scholarly publishing; manuscript management;
reviewers; blinded review; open review; editors;
editorial decision-making; post-publication review; peer-
review models; ethics; transparency
KEYWORDS+: PUBLICATION; SCIENCE; QUALITY; AUTHORS
ABSTRACT: Pre-publication peer review has long been recognised as a
cornerstone of scholarly publishing. Despite various criticisms and a
number of shortcomings, this scrutiny and critical assessment by experts
is still considered essential by many. This chapter describes the
realistic expectations of peer review and what constitutes good practice,
emphasising the important role of the editor. It also outlines the many
ways traditional peer review is being adapted, the new models that are
appearing, and the increasing emphasis on openness and transparency.
Various problems are addressed, including difficulties in finding
reviewers, the imbalance between publication output and participation in
peer review worldwide, the 'wastage' of reviews that accompanies the
often repeated submission of manuscripts to journal after journal after
rejection, and the increasing pressure on researchers not only to publish
but to publish in high-impact journals. All these are impacting the peer-
review processes of journals and editorial workload. The recent
innovation to concentrate only on the assessment of soundness of research
methodology and reporting pre-publication is receiving acceptance from
researchers keen to publish their work without undue delay, and is being
adopted by an increasing number of publishers. In this model, the
evaluation of interest, importance and potential impact is left for after
publication. The possibilities for post-publication review and evaluation
in an online world are many and varied, but there are also many
challenges. It is clear that, nearly three and a half centuries on from
the appearance of the first journals, the opportunities for innovation
and experimentation in peer review are greater than ever before.
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TITLE: Citation, bibliometrics and quality: assessing impact and
usage (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Finch, A
SOURCE: ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL PUBLISHING. 2012. p.243-267
CHANDOS PUBL, SAWSTON
SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth;
GROSS PLK SCIENCE 66:385 1927;
HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005;
BIBLIOMETR* item_title; CITATION item_title;
CITATION* item_title;
GARFIELD E SCIENCE 122:108 1955
KEYWORDS: Research performance; Web of Science; Scopus; Google
Scholar; Impact Factor; EigenFactor; SJR; SNIP; Open
Access; early view; h-index; strategic journal development
KEYWORDS+: OPEN-ACCESS ARTICLES; H-INDEX; SCIENCE
ABSTRACT: This chapter details the various methods of evaluating
the impact of published research, with a particular focus on citations.
The chapter gives an overview of the difficulties of measuring research
impact and the solutions and controversies of citation analysis, then
goes on to look at the indices that record citations between articles and
the metrics that these data feed into. Also discussed are publishers'
approaches to improving journal impact, various recent developments in
citation analysis, such as the influences of early view and open access,
and author metrics.
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TITLE: Relating content to the user (Article, English)
AUTHOR: van Baren, J
SOURCE: ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL PUBLISHING. 2012. p.269-287
CHANDOS PUBL, SAWSTON
SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005
KEYWORDS: User experience; user-centred design; researcher workflow;
information-seeking behaviour; personalisation; text
mining; information extraction; data mining;
interoperability; APIs; CrossMark
KEYWORDS+: BIOLOGY
ABSTRACT: This chapter introduces User Experience and explains its
importance to the future of academic and professional publishing. The
latest insights into information-seeking behaviour of researchers are
presented along with their implications for information solutions. The
chapter proceeds to discuss various approaches to relate content to the
user including interactivity, personalisation, text mining, and
interoperability and workflow support. New challenges facing the industry
related to versioning and trust are described as well as proposed
initiatives to address them, such as the CrossMark service.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: J van Baren, Elsevier, User Ctr Design UCD Team, New York,
NY 10010 USA
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TITLE: Efficient Centrality Monitoring for Time-Evolving Graphs
(Article, English)
AUTHOR: Fujiwara, Y; Onizuka, M; Kitsuregawa, M
SOURCE: ADVANCES IN KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY AND DATA MINING, PT II
6635 (Pt 2). 2011. p.38-50 SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN,
BERLIN
SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth;
GARFIELD E SCIENCE 178:471 1972
KEYWORDS: Centrality; Graph mining; Time-evolving
ABSTRACT: The goal of this work is to identify the nodes that have
the smallest sum of distances to other nodes (the lowest closeness
centrality nodes) in graphs that evolve over time. Previous approaches to
this problem find the lowest centrality nodes efficiently at the expense
of exactness. The main motivation of this paper is to answer, in the
affirmative, the question, 'Is it possible to improve the search time
without sacrificing the exactness?'. Our solution is Sniper, a fast
search method for time-evolving graphs. Sniper is based on two ideas: (1)
It computes approximate centrality by reducing the original graph size
while guaranteeing the answer exactness, and (2) It terminates
unnecessary distance computations early when pruning unlikely nodes. The
experimental results show that Sniper can find the lowest centrality
nodes significantly faster than the previous approaches while it
guarantees answer exactness.
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TITLE: BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND ANALYTICS: FROM BIG DATA TO BIG
IMPACT (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Chen, HC; Chiang, RHL; Storey, VC
SOURCE: MIS QUARTERLY 36 (4). DEC 2012. p.1165-1188 SOC INFORM
MANAGE-MIS RES CENT, MINNEAPOLIS
SEARCH TERM(S): HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005
KEYWORDS: Business intelligence and analytics; big data analytics;
Web 2.0
KEYWORDS+: SOCIAL NETWORKS; DESIGN SCIENCE; SYSTEMS; MODELS; STATE;
WEB
ABSTRACT: Business intelligence and analytics (BI&A) has emerged as
an important area of study for both practitioners and researchers,
reflecting the magnitude and impact of data-related problems to be solved
in contemporary business organizations. This introduction to the MIS
Quarterly Special Issue on Business Intelligence Research first provides
a framework that identifies the evolution, applications, and emerging
research areas of BI&A. BI&A 1.0, BI&A 2.0, and BI&A 3.0 are defined and
described in terms of their key characteristics and capabilities. Current
research in BI&A is analyzed and challenges and opportunities associated
with BI&A research and education are identified. We also report a
bibliometric study of critical BI&A publications, researchers, and
research topics based on more than a decade of related academic and
industry publications. Finally, the six articles that comprise this
special issue are introduced and characterized in terms of the proposed
BI&A research framework.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: HC Chen, Univ Arizona, Eller Coll Management, Tucson, AZ
85721 USA
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TITLE: NETWORK-BASED MODELING AND ANALYSIS OF SYSTEMIC RISK IN
BANKING SYSTEMS (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Hu, DN; Zhao, JL; Hua, ZM; Wong, MCS
SOURCE: MIS QUARTERLY 36 (4). DEC 2012. p.1269-1291 SOC INFORM
MANAGE-MIS RES CENT, MINNEAPOLIS
SEARCH TERM(S):
GARFIELD E SCIENCE 178:471 1972
KEYWORDS: Systemic risk; contagious bank failures; business
intelligence; simulation
KEYWORDS+: SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE;
BANKRUPTCY PREDICTION; CONTAGION; EXPOSURES; SELECTION;
FAILURES; MARKETS; WORK
ABSTRACT: In the wake of the 2008 financial tsunami, existing
methods and tools for managing financial risk have been criticized for
weaknesses in monitoring and alleviating risks at the systemic level. A
2009 article in Nature suggested new approaches to modeling economic
meltdowns are needed to prevent future financial crises. However,
existing studies have not focused on analysis of systemic risk at the
individual bank level in a banking network, which is essential for
monitoring and mitigating contagious bank failures. To this end, we
develop a network approach to risk management (NARM) for modeling and
analyzing systemic risk in banking systems. NARM views banks as a network
linked through financial relationships. It incorporates network and
financial principles into a business intelligence (BI) algorithm to
analyze systemic risk attributed to each individual bank via simulations
based on real-world data from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Our research demonstrates the feasibility of modeling and analyzing
systemic risk at the individual bank level in a banking network using a
BI-based approach. In terms of business impact, NARM offers a new means
for predicting contagious bank failures and determining capital injection
priorities in the wake of financial crises. Our simulation study shows
that under significant market shocks, the interbank payment relationship
becomes more influential than the correlated bank portfolio relationship
in determining an individual bank's survival. These insights should help
financial regulators devise more effective policies and mechanisms to
prevent the collapse of a banking system. Further, NARM and the
simulation procedure driven by real-world data proposed in this study
have instructional value to similar research areas such as bank stress
testing, where time series data and business networks may be studied.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: DN Hu, Univ Zurich, Dept Informat, Zurich, Switzerland
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TITLE: Impact Versus Impact Factor: Revisiting a Classic Article
That Was Never Cited (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Schonberger, RB; Barash, PG
SOURCE: ANESTHESIA AND ANALGESIA 115 (6). DEC 2012. p.1286-1287
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS, PHILADELPHIA
AUTHOR ADDRESS: RB Schonberger, Yale Univ, Sch Med, Dept Anesthesiol, 333
Cedar St,TMP 3,POB 208051, New Haven, CT 06520 USA
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TITLE: Rapid understanding of scientific paper collections:
Integrating statistics, text analytics, and visualization (Article,
English)
AUTHOR: Dunne, C; Shneiderman, B; Gove, R; Klavans, J; Dorr, B
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY 63 (12). DEC 2012. p.2351-2369
WILEY-BLACKWELL, HOBOKEN
KEYWORDS: graphs; visualization (electronic); natural language
processing
KEYWORDS+: SEARCH; PERSPECTIVE; RELEVANCE
ABSTRACT: Keeping up with rapidly growing research fields,
especially when there are multiple interdisciplinary sources, requires
substantial effort for researchers, program managers, or venture capital
investors. Current theories and tools are directed at finding a paper or
website, not gaining an understanding of the key papers, authors,
controversies, and hypotheses. This report presents an effort to
integrate statistics, text analytics, and visualization in a multiple
coordinated window environment that supports exploration. Our prototype
system, Action Science Explorer (ASE), provides an environment for
demonstrating principles of coordination and conducting iterative
usability tests of them with interested and knowledgeable users. We
developed an understanding of the value of reference management,
statistics, citation text extraction, natural language summarization for
single and multiple documents, filters to interactively select key
papers, and network visualization to see citation patterns and identify
clusters. A three-phase usability study guided our revisions to ASE and
led us to improve the testing methods.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: R Gove, Booz Allen Hamilton, Arlington, VA 22203 USA
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TITLE: Science is all in the eye of the beholder: Keyword maps
in Google scholar citations (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Ortega, JL; Aguillo, IF
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY 63 (12). DEC 2012. p.2370-2377
WILEY-BLACKWELL, HOBOKEN
SEARCH TERM(S):
SMALL H SCIENTOMETRICS 8:321 1985;
CITATION* item_title
KEYWORDS: bibliometrics; webometrics
KEYWORDS+: COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; NETWORKS; TECHNOLOGY; CENTRALITY
ABSTRACT: This paper introduces a keyword map of the labels used by
the scientists registered in the Google Scholar Citations (GSC) database
from December 2011. In all, 15,000 random queries were formulated to GSC
to obtain a list of 26,682 registered users. From this list a network
graph of 6,660 labels was built and classified according to the Scopus
Subject Area classes. Results display a detailed label map of the most
used (>15 times) tags. The structural analysis shows that the core of the
network is occupied by computer sciencerelated disciplines that account
for the most used and shared labels. This core is surrounded by clusters
of disciplines related or close to computing such as Information
Sciences, Mathematics, or Bioinformatics. Classical areas such as
Chemistry and Physics are marginalized in the graph. It is suggested that
GSC would in the future be an accurate source to map Science because it
is based on the labels that scientists themselves use to describe their
own research activity.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: JL Ortega, CSIC, VICYT, Madrid, Spain
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TITLE: A new methodology for constructing a publication-level
classification system of science (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Waltman, L; van Eck, NJ
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY 63 (12). DEC 2012. p.2378-2392
WILEY-BLACKWELL, HOBOKEN
SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth;
GRIFFITH BC SCI STUD 4:339 1974;
SMALL H SCI STUD 4:17 1974;
SMALL H SCIENTOMETRICS 8:321 1985;
SMALL H SCIENTOMETRICS 7:391 1985;
GARFIELD E J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 54:400 2003
KEYWORDS: citation analysis; bibliometrics
KEYWORDS+: COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURES; MAPPING
SCIENCE; NETWORKS; CITATION; SPECIALTIES; COCITATIONS
ABSTRACT: Classifying journals or publications into research areas
is an essential element of many bibliometric analyses. Classification
usually takes place at the level of journals, where the Web of Science
subject categories are the most popular classification system. However,
journal-level classification systems have two important limitations: They
offer only a limited amount of detail, and they have difficulties with
multidisciplinary journals. To avoid these limitations, we introduce a
new methodology for constructing classification systems at the level of
individual publications. In the proposed methodology, publications are
clustered into research areas based on citation relations. The
methodology is able to deal with very large numbers of publications. We
present an application in which a classification system is produced that
includes almost 10 million publications. Based on an extensive analysis
of this classification system, we discuss the strengths and the
limitations of the proposed methodology. Important strengths are the
transparency and relative simplicity of the methodology and its fairly
modest computing and memory requirements. The main limitation of the
methodology is its exclusive reliance on direct citation relations
between publications. The accuracy of the methodology can probably be
increased by also taking into account other types of relationsfor
instance, based on bibliographic coupling.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: L Waltman, Leiden Univ, Ctr Sci & Technol Studies, Leiden,
Netherlands
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TITLE: Referencing patterns of individual researchers: Do top
scientists rely on more extensive information sources? (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Costas, R; van Leeuwen, TN; Bordons, M
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY 63 (12). DEC 2012. p.2433-2450
WILEY-BLACKWELL, HOBOKEN
SEARCH TERM(S): PRICE DJD rauth; ZUCKERMAN H rauth;
HIRSCH JE P NATL ACAD SCI USA 102:16569 2005;
SMALL HG SOC STUD SCI 8:327 1978;
ABT HA J AM SOC INF SCI TEC 53:1106 2002;
GARFIELD E SCIENCE 122:108 1955;
MOED HF SCIENTOMETRICS 60:295 2004
KEYWORDS: bibliometrics; citation analysis; information use
KEYWORDS+: BIBLIOMETRIC INDICATORS; CITATION PRACTICES; RESEARCH
OUTPUT; SCIENCE; IMPACT; ARTICLES; PUBLICATIONS; BEHAVIOR;
SCI; PERCENTAGE
ABSTRACT: This study presents an analysis of the use of
bibliographic references by individual scientists in three different
research areas. The number and type of references that scientists include
in their papers are analyzed, the relationship between the number of
references and different impact-based indicators is studied from a
multivariable perspective, and the referencing patterns of scientists are
related to individual factors such as their age and scientific
performance. Our results show inter-area differences in the number, type,
and age of references. Within each area, the number of references per
document increases with journal impact factor and paper length. Top-
performance scientists use in their papers a higher number of references,
which are more recent and more frequently covered by the Web of Science.
Veteran researchers tend to rely more on older literature and non-Web of
Science sources. The longer reference lists of top scientists can be
explained by their tendency to publish in high impact factor journals,
with stricter reference and reviewing requirements. Long reference lists
suggest a broader knowledge on the current literature in a field, which
is important to become a top scientist. From the perspective of the
handicap principle theory, the sustained use of a high number of
references in an author's oeuvre is a costly behavior that may indicate a
serious, comprehensive, and solid research capacity, but that only the
best researchers can afford. Boosting papers' citations by artificially
increasing the number of references does not seem a feasible strategy.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: R Costas, Leiden Univ, Ctr Sci & Technol Studies CWTS,
Wassenaarseweg 62A, NL-2333 AL Leiden, Netherlands
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TITLE: Conform and be funded (Editorial Material, English)
AUTHOR: Nicholson, JM; Ioannidis, JPA
SOURCE: NATURE 492 (7427). DEC 6 2012. p.34-36 NATURE PUBLISHING
GROUP, LONDON
SEARCH TERM(S): GARFIELD E rauth;
AUTHOR ADDRESS: JM Nicholson, Virginia Tech, Dept Biol Sci, Blacksburg, VA
24061 USA
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TITLE: Publication, citation and bibliometric assessment of
research (Article, English)
AUTHOR: Goldfinch, S; Yamamoto, K
SOURCE: PROMETHEUS ASSESSED?: RESEARCH MEASUREMENT, PEER REVIEW,
AND CITATION ANALYSIS. 2012. p.45-83 CHANDOS PUBL,
SAWSTON
SEARCH TERM(S): BIBLIOMETR* item_title; CITATION item_title;
CITATION* item_title
KEYWORDS: publication; bibliometrics; citation analysis; impact
factor; journal list; Excellence in Research Australia
ABSTRACT: This chapter examines bibliometric assessments of
research, including publication in general, journal lists and types of
citation analysis, including individual citations and impact factors. We
examine the central role of publication in research and the reasons for
this, before examining methods of ranking publications. We discuss the
benefits and limitations of citation analysis. The Excellence in Research
Australia framework is investigated.
AUTHOR ADDRESS: S Goldfinch, Univ Nottingham, Sch Business, Div Management,
Nottingham NG7 2RD, England
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